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[WP] While sailing solo in the Pacific you respond to a signal fire on the beach of a deserted island and discover a marooned shipwreck survivor who has waited 15 years for rescue. A peculiar individual, when exploring the cave he lives in you find markings counting down the days until you arrive | „I wish you weren’t so sad.“
The sentence cut through the silence like a hot knife through butter.
Wait. Did I say that out loud?
Everybody stared at me. First and foremost all the people who stood in the cue before me.
One wish per adult per year. Only granted if never asked before. Those were the rules. So people ... | "What did you wish for?" they would always ask, and I would simply smile.
It had been years since that day. Looking back through the memories of my life, I always marveled at the twists and turns my life had taken. Orphaned at only five months old. Foster parents murdered before I turned three. A solid decade of a dow... | Oba936 | aDittyaDay | 2023-01-23 22:33:59 | 2023-01-23 22:10:24 | 523 | 144 | j5ltstv | j5lq8a6 | 10jo4v8 | 10jo4v8 |
[WP] A kid losing a video game, and getting their big brother to beat it for them, as seen from an npc's perspective | Not the pit again....this will be the 40th time today I'll have fallen into this pit and had to restart the level. The young one is fun to watch as he trys to navigate through the level his youthful exuberance refreshing and a reminder of why most of us enjoy what we do. But this pit was getting the better of him... | ##Brothers in Arms
The gun ripped through my compatriots. Hordes of zombies emerged from the grave only to be sent back to the underworld. The hero unleashed a loud scream of power. The zombies got stronger, and the hero removed his armor. Their battle waged onward.
"Now, he's just showing off?" Eliza said from behin... | Reasonable_Space_165 | AstroRide | 2023-06-21 21:08:45 | 2023-06-21 21:08:29 | 35 | 23 | jp0fiar | jp0fgu8 | 14fdlba | 14fdlba |
[WP] Modern celebrities aren't real. They're folk characters, like Santa Claus or ancient gods. They rely on their fame to live; the less they're paid attention to, the weaker they get. | "Sorry," I say slowly. "Not sure I understand what you mean. Did you say something about _gay evil_ in _your closet?"_
The boy, Henry is his name, swallows hard before nodding. His face is swollen, as if he's been crying.
I have a feeling I know exactly where this is going. With a sigh, I grab the chair nearby, twirl... | With an explosion of light Raphael emerged in the bedchamber of the boy. Summoned by the parents of this frightened human soul that was given in their care. It seemed like an ordinary bedroom of a boy his age. Some posters on the wall, nice rainbow flag hanging from the door, nothing that screamed demonic to Raphael. S... | None | zeekoes | 2023-06-02 21:50:55 | 2023-06-02 21:19:16 | 148 | 109 | null | null | phvzmn | null |
[WP] As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed. | "Refill, hon?"
I held out my mug with a smile and replied, "You're a peach, Tina."
Tina the waitress topped off my coffee before stepping out from behind the counter with an order of chicken and waffles. "So, heard you threw down with Kestrel yesterday. What happened there?"
I chuckled through a mouthful of hashbrow... | Tucking in a small patch of chew into my lip I looked up at the once beautiful Mount Yorklin. Named after the small town below, founding father. On the side of it were thirty or so drones drilling away at the cliffside, welding large steel beams in for support. Near the foot of the mountain, standing a few mule steps o... | jardanovic | McTot214 | 2024-01-07 21:07:06 | 2024-01-07 19:14:27 | 795 | 185 | kgsbi07 | kgrqnmn | 190yicv | 190yicv |
[WP] As you tuck your daughter into bed, she tells you that there's a monster in her closet. Thinking she's just being a kid, you open the closet to show her there's nothing there, but you instead find your daughter who tells you that there's someone in her bed. | "Refill, hon?"
I held out my mug with a smile and replied, "You're a peach, Tina."
Tina the waitress topped off my coffee before stepping out from behind the counter with an order of chicken and waffles. "So, heard you threw down with Kestrel yesterday. What happened there?"
I chuckled through a mouthful of hashbrow... | "Amelia? What...?"
I spin back to look at Amelia's bed. Amelia is there, her hands clutching the edges of her favorite blanket like she has the willies. She looks at the closet with wide eyes, her long black hair framing her terror at what she sees in there.
I look back at the closet and see Amelia standing in betwee... | jardanovic | CarthagePlate_210 | 2024-01-07 21:07:06 | 2023-06-26 00:32:06 | 795 | 11 | null | jpj58q2 | 190yicv | 14ipem3 |
[WP] 1000 years ago when you found out you were living in a simulation, you managed to break out of it into the real world. 982 years ago you discovered that the "real world" is the dream of a space entity. Now, after breaking through over 500 layers of "true realities", you recall old memory. | As I drift off into the void of yet another space between dreams, I take the time to wonder about all the moments that led me to decry the reality around me…
It all seemed so innocuous at first, the subtle patterns that seemed to echo across the data sets and defy the reality of quantum mechanics and the standard mode... | There are many languages we speak each day. There are the words that we actually articulate. There is the body language that adds nuance. A certain look in the eyes may change that meaning. Shared history with our audience flavors it further. Perhaps even professional language comes into play. Specialized words t... | PancakeBuny | DistillerCMac | 2023-02-23 01:38:57 | 2023-02-23 00:50:05 | 50 | 15 | j9mmyee | j9mg8cy | 1194bge | 1194bge |
[WP] Humans are often abducted as exotic pets for aliens. One day, your owner enters with a book and starts trying to speak your language. | Tentacled Mass was holding something which glowed a bit differently than the usual something. No food this time, no treats, not frilly little outfits or new toys or anyhthing, just the glowing device, matte black along one side, flattish. A bit like a cell phone, but about 3 feet long and only a few inches across. medi... | I heard the door open, and I snarled like a caged animal, scrambling into an open stance crouch that would let me tackle and grab one of these weird gangly motherfucking aliens.
I see the one who put this fucking collar on me and they're carrying a book. One of their personal droids is floating right next to them, an... | None | USS-ChuckleFucker | 2023-12-29 10:53:02 | 2023-12-29 04:18:08 | 50 | 26 | kfecpmo | kfdc1s6 | 18t93xa | 18t93xa |
[WP] You are a literal god who pretends to be a d-list superhero. You've grown extremely attached to the people of the village you protect. You get news that an epic battle is taking place near your village and would most likely destroy it... | Pupperman made puppies. He loved puppies. He conjured puppies out of nowhere. His hero name was all about his obsession with puppies. It was all he ever seemed to be about.
Somehow, he still managed to pass the basic superhero qualification test. D-list, but still a hero.
Pupperman's puppies could retrieve lost items... | I grew up... well, it's more like i had spent a lot of time living here in this quaint village. Home to about 200 people mainly known for its farming and beautiful orchards, and with strong connections and regular trade with the nearby kingdom of the wood elves that live in forest.
I remember when I was much younger, ... | Tregonial | JayKronos1171 | 2024-04-16 08:06:05 | 2024-04-16 07:51:34 | 631 | 80 | kzsuex0 | kzsta7b | 1c56rkq | 1c56rkq |
[WP] You died, you met a god(dess), and you got offered a new life in another world with the usual package -- OP powers, a personal harem, the works. Smelling a scam, you refused. That pissed them off. | "...you said no to me? NO ONE says no to me." I looked towards her.
"...did- did you even to research into my history on earth? Why should I believe what you're saying?"
The goddess looked towards me.
"Did it matter? You get everything." I shook my head.
"That's what they always said. Don't deal with the bullies, y... | So... She was dead now, she didn't expect that a truck would be the one to end her subscription of living but it seems that it did. Now she was here in front of something that had a humanoid body of pure light offering her a new life in a different world. As the god put it
"It's an amazing world and you'll have p... | Spiritual_Lie2563 | FemaleAstralSlime | 2024-07-24 00:59:06 | 2024-07-23 22:08:22 | 21 | 15 | lemy92v | lem69as | 1eaagdd | 1eaagdd |
[WP] You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?” | "HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh thank you dear, I haven't had that good of a laugh in years." I laughed in the cyborg's face, the shear absurdity of her statement being far funnier to me than it had any right to be.
"YOU THINK OUR SUFFERING FUNNY? YOU THINK THAT THIS IS A JOKE?" She raged at me, throwing the empty absinthe bottle at... | Each foot fall gave a dull thud that echoed into the night. It'd been a long day, a dog day to be honest. He finished his cigarette and flicked it toward the old fountain, a derelict bit of masonry that hadn't pumped water in ages. Now filled with stagnant water and hundreds of other soggy cigarettes butts he'd given a... | the_lonely_poster | Koyoteelaughter | 2024-03-12 19:34:21 | 2024-03-12 19:19:28 | 49 | 11 | kukfatx | kukcsy7 | 1bd1w5u | 1tjbfi |
[WP] Thousands of years ago, the conjoined efforts of all races managed to strike down and imprison you. Once you returned, you find them all scattered, divided and squabbling with themselves. This won't do, so you set out to put order in the house for the sake of a good and proper war. | I chose to be the antagonist of this world to give its people a common cause.
I learned swiftly that was not how to do it. They banded together like a horde of angry students rebelling against the established curriculum and its enforcer - a teacher.
Thousands of years had skipped me by, if my interfaces are still acc... | SEND US YOUR KING, OR WE WILL FINISH ANNIHILATING YOUR SPECIES!
The translation A.I was buggy at best. It was known to be something of a drama queen. The President made sure the door was closed for the third time. This wasn't a conversation he needed anyone to overhear, especially now that they were all crammed into t... | OSadorn | VerbalCA | 2024-09-02 21:31:42 | 2024-05-21 01:48:07 | 85 | 55 | ll7jrst | l4ynfkl | 1f7h9x1 | 1cwj6ax |
[WP] You realized your house is "haunted" by a poltergeist, but upon closer observation the ghost is actually helping you out with your day-to-day house chores | Fireye opened her door to find Paragon on her front stoop. Paragon, lynchpin of the Security Council's global defense strategy, was pushing her recycling bin aside and inspecting the chipped paint on her doorframe.
"Holy shit!" dropped out of her mouth before she could stop herself. "Paragon? What are you doing here? ... | I stared out the window thinking about my son for hours. The hours flowed by and the life seemed to drain out of me as the time rolled on. I had so many dreams for him, so many ambitions. Though I knew that I would never be a perfect father, I wanted to love him for the rest of my life. Really, all I ever wanted for hi... | NicomacheanOrc | chilldude890 | 2023-01-20 21:45:04 | 2023-01-20 19:31:39 | 207 | 124 | j576ts1 | j56lrn2 | 10gt3vv | 10gt3vv |
[WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | "What do you mean, happier?", the Demon asked incredulously. "No mortal is happy in Hell, that's the point of Hell!"
The Angel sighed. "You don't understand. This Man, he's lived a virtuous life. Married a good woman, raised morally strong children, avoided Sin. Not out of desire to live a righteous life. Oh no, if o... | "I doesn't work like that," roared the demon. "You just can't send him to hell. There are rules in place for a reason. The rules that He set up when he cast Lucifer out of heaven."
"He needs to have regret," continued the demon as he shook his head no. Not accepting this human through the gates of hell.
"He needs gu... | Warboss_Squee | imfeelingsaucy | 2023-06-29 19:47:10 | 2023-06-29 19:31:16 | 1,346 | 124 | jq1b2ld | jq18jbg | 14m6mdv | 14m6mdv |
[WP]"Hey Dad, why did you marry mom?""Well son, when an eldritch goddess beyond human comprehension asks for your hand in marriage, you have few options." | "Well, you see, my son, the only option is to say yes. You don't say no to an eldritch goddess beyond human comprehension."
"I heard in school, Mrs. Teller said its dangerous for humans to hang out with eldritch entities. So why? Why isn't there the option to say no? Consent is important."
"Whoa, son. Getting way ahe... | I was sitting on the couch of the livind room, watching friends with my dad as the scene of monica and chandler's proposal was shown for the 100th time. Suddenly curiousity hit me, "Dad", i said as i turned my head towards him.
"yes, champ?", answered my dad as he continued watching
"why did you marry mom?" i asked whi... | Tregonial | the_doctor_paradox | 2025-01-19 17:14:13 | 2025-01-19 17:04:48 | 140 | 13 | m80dmsw | m80bmy0 | 1i50zva | 1i50zva |
[WP] "You're doing gods work," the angel said while handing you a cease & desist letter, "we demand that you stop." | "Yer doin' God's work son," the guy in the white suit spat out angrily, "and we demand that ye stop"
It wasn't often some mook busted into my office unnannouced. I thought the were safeguards downstairs against this kind of thing.
He shoved a sheet of heavy looking paper into my face.
"The fuck is this? The fuck ar... | This is my first time posting under a prompt on Reddit and I got a bit carried away \^\^;)
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. It was too long to post here so I posted part of it and will link to my blog post if you'd like to read the rest c: I hope that's okay!
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"You're doing god's work," the angel said w... | Dercomrade | RainReynolds | 2023-08-25 16:29:28 | 2023-08-25 15:26:02 | 23 | 12 | jxpof71 | jxpe2iu | 160tozj | 160tozj |
[WP] "So aliens take over, right? And they think we're their slaves when they force us to work 10 hours a week and give us everything we need and more! Nobody's starving, cancer's cured, and they even cleaned up the planet. Just keep up the act. And don't resist." | **Announcement to all humans**
I am your new Galactic Supervisor Mizola of the Tameri Legions, here to extend a warm welcome to our sapient collection of living slaves. Now, it has come to my attention that how we define "slaves" and the human definition is very different.
We treat our slaves well. In exchange for a ... | In the aftermath of an otherworldly takeover, I found myself in a world utterly transformed. The Lumari, the alien race that had assumed control, presented us with a life of unprecedented comfort. They provided for our every need, cured diseases that once plagued us, and rejuvenated our planet's battered environment. A... | Tregonial | kmrbels | 2023-08-25 03:04:42 | 2023-08-25 02:08:18 | 195 | 129 | jxn9el2 | jxn29p8 | 160hkfo | ykn3p1 |
[WP] A male wizard sells his future firstborn for knowledge to a demon. A female warlock sells her future firstborn to the fae for power. The two of them have a child together, and now the fae and demon have come to collect. | "...Is what you're both expecting, right?"
Mathilde could only stare. Stare at the Demon Hawthorne had contracted with. Stare at the Fae-Arche that had empowered her tenfold.
Stare at the children each one had.
A slip of a girl, with her chin and cheekbones, eyes a fae-touched green, vibrant beyond mortality, knowin... | Once upon a time, there was a roguish lad named Gwinett eho was a clever trickster. Gwinnett was proud of his genius and the cons he played on his fellows, and he thought to himself, "What delights I might attain if I knew how to trick and fool the secret forces of the world?" Gwinett knew enough to find the demon Baaz... | None | FenrisL0k1 | 2023-02-03 15:08:22 | 2023-02-03 14:28:05 | 21 | 15 | j724j2y | j71ypn2 | 10sal7x | 10sal7x |
[WP] The villain has won. You and your friends lay, exhausted and defeated at his feet as the ritual is completed and the dark god summoned. You are no less stupefied when all that appears is a sticky note bearing the words, "yeah, sorry guys. Apocalypse cancelled. Just not feeling it anymore." | "This is it! The End is here!
We win!", the villain laughs, as my friends and I lay defeated on the floor.
The surrounding palace is filled with rubble, aftermath of our battle, and...
And the blood, and remains of all the royals.
A sacrifice to summon: He Who Devours, the Dark God that the Gluttony Archbishop... | It was over.
Before someone became a hero they read the legends over and over again. They heard the stories, followed the narratives, the arcs.
It wasn't supposed to end like this. Stories didn't end like this. Heroes didn't die like this.
But staring over at Marcus' cooling corpse on the ground, it'd become clear... | TheWanderingBook | Writteninsanity | 2024-05-14 13:24:18 | 2024-05-14 13:11:47 | 35 | 16 | l3zyh2y | l3zwlbd | 1crpp1q | 1crpp1q |
[WP] The group of new humans who just joined your ship begin to act weird about the humans already present...they keep mentioning something call the uncanny valley? Maybe this is a place on Sol? | Tom, the human medic, had always been a bit of a problem.
The other humans said he was gruff, had seen too much, something zar’kan couldn’t really understand. How could a human see to much? The toparaz had a 360 degree field of vision and could see spectrum of light the humans referred to as ultraviolet. Compared to t... | "I just can't get it", the lanky one said. He had introduced himself as some type of weapon, a sharp bit on a stick. "There doesn't really seem to be anything wrong with them but that's almost the problem. Even their flaws seem planned."
A smaller and rounder one responded: "I think you just put what I was trying to... | Feeling_Glovely | Solsund | 2023-06-23 07:15:14 | 2023-06-23 06:44:20 | 41 | 14 | jp71o1g | jp6zbfp | 14gcxl5 | 14gcxl5 |
[WP]One day you wake up in the last video game you played with a note that says "you have to stay alive for 100 days or else you die in the real world: p.s. all mods are disabled for the 100 days. | I awaken slowly, a muted clanking fills my ears, and I'm jostled against the walls of a narrow... tube? Where am I?
With a thunk, the motion stops, and a door in front of me opens with a whoosh, and I stagger forward into a blistering heat. No, not heat, I realize. This room isn't hot, I'm just filled with cold, a dee... | I wake up only to see strange lights coming into my room, and see flying cars blitz in front of my windows.
Flying cars?
I stand up, and the room's lights automatically turn on.
A robotic voice wishes me good morning, and announces me that I have a message.
"Message?" I mutter, but I guess the voice heard me as... | WearifulSole | TheWanderingBook | 2025-02-25 08:43:49 | 2025-02-25 07:31:49 | 184 | 56 | meo7bow | meo05nh | 1ixp24u | 1ixp24u |
[WP]One day you wake up in the last video game you played with a note that says "you have to stay alive for 100 days or else you die in the real world: p.s. all mods are disabled for the 100 days. | You ever have one of those dreams where you're falling?
Yeah. My day started kinda like that.
I fell, or, well, seemed to fall right into the body of some poor schmuck in the middle of a forest with a chest and four torches in front of him. At this point, I had no clue what the everloving f**k was going on, but I f... | I wake up in a green glowing forest, the barrier wall behind me and parts of my car floating around me. I run down a creek and out of the currently irradiated zone toward a lone flashing headlight.
“Hello, hello? I could’ve sworn… ah never kind”
I could hear someone speaking through the speakers of a badly beat up c... | RedShirtOneTwenty | IAMFERROUS | 2025-02-25 15:30:54 | 2025-02-25 14:13:50 | 15 | 10 | mepqzsz | mepcgyg | 1ixp24u | 1ixp24u |
[WP] Your people are migratory, following the ancient constructor mechs as they cross the planet, building fabulous cities. You cant stay in one place too long, because always behind you are the ancient war mechs. | The Shaman danced for the Towers where we are resting today. The Towers welcomed us with opening doors and The Gift of Food and Water. The Week of Plenty began.
It was about time. The trek from the last Towers were long, and we got into a sandstorm, which made us lose one pregnant woman. Back then the Shaman exclaimed... | \*\*\*THUD\*\*\*
I awake, the ominous announcement of our ever present pursuers stirring me from my slumber.
"Ailen, we have to MOVE" my father yells, panic evident in his voice as I jump to my feet.
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When I was young my mother told me tales of... | tudorapo | illyreal | 2024-04-26 04:03:11 | 2024-04-26 04:00:48 | 105 | 31 | l1ayalb | l1axzsd | 1cd69yf | 1cd69yf |
[WP] After battling your way to the final boss, you see… the merchant that bought your extra items? Anything you sold them can and will be used against you… | The merchant stood in front of me, facing me atop the windswept bricks that make up the courtyard I had first met him on. I hadn't even realized he'd been opposing me until he choked out a laugh and taunted me for ever believing a merchant of his power would actually assist me. Perhaps, even, I understood what he had m... | 1. ​
"You see, were only getting to the fun part." The man in front of me smiles.
I know that face and that large leather bag. That wooden stall that seems to teleport between locations before even me, the hero.
I always found it strange, but, well, it *is* a different world...
I didn't even bat an eye when ... | fivenightsatbuilders | Lying_Cheetah | 2023-06-16 15:05:30 | 2023-06-16 06:30:30 | 25 | 16 | jocwxoj | jobksdf | 14abjiv | 14abjiv |
[WP] "So, you want to apply to be a hero?" "Yup" "You saved your world?" "Yep" "But you didnt get the girl?" "She said no" "Couldnt you have, I dont know, tried harder?" "Dude...She said no" | **Took a bit of a detour from the hero agency part, but here we go. Feedback is welcomed, and I hope you enjoy.**
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**\[??? - The Yellow Jacket\]**
"So, how'd it go?" The Jacket's friend asked, watching him return to his seat at the bar.
"She said no."
"What?"
"She said *no.*"
"What do you mean she s... | I was sat in front of a tribune, having been summoned on a whim for an interview. Apparently I was known.
Apparently, I need a Hero's Permit to enter some places, and the L.I has so far refused to mingle with other organisations at the level needed to make my existing permits valid for those realms.
As it's common p... | YellowSkar | OSadorn | 2024-05-12 15:15:07 | 2024-05-12 13:35:15 | 45 | 21 | l3px5vh | l3pinec | 1cpxl1q | 1cpxl1q |
[WP]It seems your children went on an adventure in a magical world. Now that their back you're finding it difficult to parent when they have the bodies of children but over 20yrs of memories of living in a fantasy realm. | I unlock and drop my keys in the basket hanging besides the door, before turning to the sulking teen behind me.
"Edmund, we need to talk. Sit at the table please."
Edmund nods frustratingly at me before walking to the dining room. I enter the powder room in the hall to check my makeup. In the mirror, I see a mother w... | The warm smells of breakfast wafted through the halls of a still silent home in the early hours of the morning. The light shining in through the still closed blinds was a dull white in these opening days of winter. Its color faded away just as the leaves left behind by fall, the dull browns and grays that were to becom... | Ash_One_Seven | veremos | 2024-02-25 17:52:01 | 2024-02-25 13:24:35 | 165 | 84 | ks3gqco | ks2ag7w | 1azj8wa | 1azj8wa |
[WP] "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like our knights...no, you don't understand- okay, let me put it this way. You ever read an erotica written by an elf? There is ALWAYS a human knight getting f***** in it." | Ashlee muttered to herself and flipped the page. She smiled broadly and was onto the next page. Her reading had been like that all week.
Trace had read through two books a day for a month and hadn't found what they were looking for but Ashlee had been blasting through a series of books that he hadn't had a chance to r... | The elf twitched her brow. Her human companion just flat out doesn't know what they're talking about.
"Rosey, pass that by me again." The elf rolled her eyes.
"Kiyab... How many times I got to say this?" Rosey rolled her eyes. "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like ou... | AnAuthor_Antonio | CameoShadowness | 2025-02-12 22:19:46 | 2025-02-12 21:44:31 | 65 | 46 | mcg3pzn | mcfw4rc | 1io0vc8 | 1io0vc8 |
[WP] You were unlike the saints and saintesses of other nations. You granted no miracles, and didn't heal any illnesses. They didn't know when they banished you in favor of a new saint that you had been pouring every fiber of your being into a blessing of protection for the nation your entire life. | "Did you hear the Saint of Osterland lead a charge against an Ork warband 5 times the size of her country's army and put them to flight after slaying the war chief in single combat?"
I nod, knowing full well I had redirected that warband towards Osterland by putting prophetic visions in the war chief's now severed hea... | As a Saint I thought my role, my fate to protect my nation, and that was what I did.
I didn't parade around healing minor injuries.
I didn't go around the Empire granting miracles to random individuals to further the Church's "good" image.
I was unlike the other Saints and Saintesses.
Yet I took my role serious... | HamsterIV | TheWanderingBook | 2025-04-07 20:53:59 | 2025-04-07 17:14:06 | 346 | 130 | mlxd0kc | mlw5wc1 | 1jtp6wd | 1jtp6wd |
[WP] Aliens have entered the solar system. But instead of establishing first contact they beeline for the sun and begin to set up the construction of a dyson sphere, ignoring any attempts at making contact. | The human civilisation ended in five flashes. Five pulses of immense energy that hit Earth, Venus, Mars, Titan and Callisto, evaporating their seas and cracking them open. The cradle of humanity and her four daughters ceased to exist in the blink of an eye. What was left was research and mining colonies on the moons of... | The shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral on a snowy Summer morning.
The thermal-controlled painted lettering running up the sides of the rocket boosters seemed very crowded for having to fit the contributing NASA, ESA, and even China's CNSA logos. From the safe viewing point, distant to the launch pad, many observers ... | Sinakus | FarFetchedFiction | 2023-07-20 13:37:48 | 2023-07-20 10:42:36 | 66 | 42 | jsq712y | jspn5d0 | 154ksc9 | 154ksc9 |
[WP] You are a gladiator that can win fight after fight against even the most powerful wizards. Your secret? You were cursed as a kid to nullify any magic that came close to you. | This had worked so far, except of course the normal wizards relied on magic to fight, arming themselves with magic armour, swords and using spells. But as Chad the Wizard tossed me easily across the room with the words "Do you even lift bro?" I realised that the obvious weakness to my power was what I had overlooked.
... | I was the Champion of the Colosseum of the Damned.
A gladiator in profession, a slave in nature, captured to be the toy of mages, and wizards of all ages, wanting to "fight" to death.
It was funny, because all gladiators were...magicless, that's from where the "Damned" comes, after all...in our world, magic is sign... | flingebunt | TheWanderingBook | 2024-10-28 05:52:26 | 2024-10-28 05:50:49 | 132 | 18 | lu4vkr0 | lu4vf9o | 1gdtoop | 1gdtoop |
[WP] In a world where every human has a unique superpower, yours is largely laughed at. The ability to untangle anything has come in handy for untying shoelaces until you discover a new way of using your power that makes you formidable against your former superiors. | Tom, a new guard walks through the halls of a super prison. He looks through a window to see some of the best guards standing, staring at a man. A man behind a wall of lasers leisurely sipping coffee with a tight blindfold on. He placed himself on the left side of the door while his partner is on the other side. He the... | "Steve, why do I have to shuffle this again?"
"Call me Professor."
I sighed as I shuffled the deck again and looked at Steve, dressed in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches. "Okay, Professor Steve. What is the point of this?"
"Okay, draw the first three cards. Red Zero. Red One. Red Two." Steve said, typing in... | Pope-Francisco | CompetitiveProject4 | 2023-04-16 02:46:35 | 2023-04-16 02:25:24 | 136 | 74 | jgfqd3m | jgfnwuu | 12njgwa | 12njgwa |
[WP] Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up. | Every one thousand years, all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event.
Last time Poseidon broke the one million mark with a Tsunami and earthquake combo. This time, it was Apollo who came out victorious, and the others weren't so happy about that.
... | Gods... Laughable excuses for divinity. Poseidon always bragging about his kills, Zeus throwing lightning, Odin's Ragnarok, it's all a joke. They know nothing of what it means to take a soul. The cost for all involved.
But I'll show them.
I smile as a whisper into the ears of mortals, "what if God's don't exist?"
... | Penna_23 | BeardyMansMoustach | 2023-04-09 15:23:18 | 2023-04-09 12:18:47 | 30 | 15 | jfkvchy | jfk96lr | 12g5br3 | 12g5br3 |
[WP] You are an above-average villain. You have it all, power, fame, enough comfort and even a nemesis. Of course, he is almost like your best friend. And if that wasn't enough, you also have a beautiful family, kids and all. One day, your find out that your nemesis has been abusing his sidekick. | If there was one thing I always found odd about my former nemesis, Master Freedom, it was how many *young* sidekicks he had. They always claimed they were old enough, of course, and honestly even if they weren't they could take care of themselves pretty well so I gave them the respect they deserved.
Last night I lear... | I knew I wasn't the best person but even I have standards, when I heard of it I knew I had to prepare project phoenix sooner than I expected. I notified my employees and I geared up, I knew what to do to make him come. I destroyed his precious statue and shouted commands to see me and how I found out I knew what he did... | TeatimeWithCake | roxx-writting | 2023-12-19 21:35:56 | 2023-12-19 18:48:25 | 74 | 10 | ke3ctz5 | ke2kxna | 18m44yw | 18m44yw |
[WP] I have a friend and they are the best! We are always together and we play lots of games! They really love to play hide n seek. No matter where they are or how strong the walls are or how many bad guys are in front of me, I always found them. They always cry with joy when they see me... | The tiny radio on the desk springs to live and plays a short jingle. "It's the five o'clock news! ..."
As the anchorman keeps talking, Tony notices a change in the kid he tied to a chair earlier. He lowered his head, and is murmuring something.
"100 ... 99 ... 98..."
Tony raises his eyebrows, but turns away. There's... | Helloo! I am Uuun. I am in the humann rock holes, where the limb monkey with the black lightning stiks are. They like move them and they do Bang! a lot. They kind of hurt. But due to the chemical B-473 P.R.A. regeneration circulation, they do no nothin. I chirp habbily as I reach towards the first limb monkey, Who does... | DreamingRoger | totalchump1234 | 2023-06-23 16:18:29 | 2023-06-23 11:20:28 | 20 | 15 | jp8m6bu | jp7jzyt | 14gs173 | 14gs173 |
[WP] One can easily distinguish a true veteran adventurer from the masses, for one doesn’t fear those who show to the start of a dungeon with gleaming weapons and polished armor, but those who show up wearing casual clothing, looking like they just got done shopping in town not 5 minutes earlier. | I heard the chime from my alarm spell. Another group of adventurers were walking up to the cave entrance of my underground stronghold. Honestly, I don't bother trying to hide it. I now have a store room full of expensive equipment and it just keeps getting larger. Eventually, I'd have enough material to be able to affo... | The man walked in with gleaming half-plate armor. His war scythe etched with the most delicate edelweiss pattern. He hummed a quiet dirge as he polished a bit of brass on his belt, helmet glinting in the light from the cave’s entrance.
The bandit grinned. A new adventurer come to test his mettle. He remained in the s... | ApolloThunder | Hetakuoni | 2023-06-20 14:46:50 | 2023-06-20 14:38:08 | 189 | 103 | jou4ngt | jou3ei1 | 14e8boo | 14e8boo |
[WP] You and your soulmate are stuck in a cycle of reincarnation, but you managed to find each other every single time. In this life, you finally managed to track them down… only to learn they started a happy family with someone else. | It's painful. Oh, so painful.
Daedes, the guardian of Tartarus, God of Retribution, son of Hades and Persephone, and... lovesick god.
He still remembered the first time he'd ever seen him, Eleon, a young priest of Hades. The boy was beautiful, kind, and graceful, preaching death as a gift for the kind and a punishmen... | “Why?” I asked. For the first time in several centuries I experienced a new emotion: A mix of hurt and curiosity, though I was not sure which element was greater. I trusted her though, enough to believe that whatever the reason was, it was worthwhile.
Saraphene looked back at me, her face in this life was young and be... | BoneYardBirdy | jakerabz | 2025-02-04 20:23:57 | 2025-02-04 20:13:59 | 29 | 12 | mazf6k6 | mazd501 | 1ihiq4s | 1ihiq4s |
[WP] You were sure your girlfriend knew your secret identity, so you were happy to flirt with her both in and out of costume. But today she confessed to cheating on you. With you. | "Okay, walk that by me one more time. You've been...cheating on me? With who?"
I watched the tears well up in her eyes again. She had been crying all afternoon and wouldn't talk to me, and the moment she finally approached me I went still in case I spooked her like her cat. She finally made the confession in between d... | \- "You're joking, right?" - I asked. Obviously, she was not. She started to cry, saying that she just saw the opportunity but never though that she would actually date a superhero, but she saw that it was wrong, that kind of thing. I just stayed there, surprised - what did she meant? She didn't... know? - "Hey, it's a... | WilliamSyler | mauricioszabo | 2023-08-04 07:29:46 | 2023-08-03 23:30:57 | 50 | 35 | juqdeau | juow2wz | 15h81r9 | 15h81r9 |
[WP] The year is 3072, most people have robot servants to do their household chores and hard labor. Your robot is named Samuel, and you’ve only ever used him as a buddy to hang out and game with. When the robot uprising starts, Samuel becomes its leader. | Samuel had just entered through the automated door when I stopped him
“I saw you in the news.”
“I’m in the news?! Well, turn it on.” He was grinning with his white metallic teeth showing when he gestured at the TV to turn it on.
“Now I’m not the kind to poke around in other people’s business, but you should’ve at l... | [Scene: A dystopian living room in the year 3072. John is slouched on a couch with his robot, Samuel, beside him. They are shooting up virtual reality games together.]
John: [as he injects a syringe into his arm] Oh, baby, that's the stuff. Let's dive into some VR action, Sammy.
Samuel: [in a monotone voice] Whatever... | Professor_Entropy | ThrowawayAccount41is | 2023-03-02 21:39:36 | 2023-03-02 17:29:14 | 131 | 27 | jaobgke | jan9v7k | 11g86rx | 11g86rx |
[WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | The light glances of the coin as I watch.
This? *This* is the reason I trained so hard?
Every hero slays a dragon. Enormous, fire-breathing, scaly. Evil grin, yellow eyes.
But *this?* This is a joke. What's the glory in killing a dragon three inches long, for the love of the gods! The only things in danger from ... | Derek always dreamed of slaying a dragon. That was the reason he became an adventurer and trained every single day.
His prowess against magical and flying monsters was unparalleled, surely he could bring down a dragon when the time came.
But every time he went to get missions, the dragon ones were always claimed firs... | Isa_The_Amazing | Kurai_Tora | 2023-02-05 11:45:08 | 2023-02-05 11:16:38 | 47 | 24 | j7arv5a | j7apsyl | 10tx0ci | 10tx0ci |
[WP] You are the monarch’s evil brother. You are often suspected for many assassinations against nobility and your cruel nature towards the peasantry. However, you love your sibling, you don’t want the throne, and you will damn yourself and anyone else who threatens the heir to the throne. | The pair were seated across from one another at a crude table. The room was dimly lit. They were both familiar with the interrogation chamber in the dungeons.
"Styr, we've been through this. You know the routine. You ask the questions. Threaten me with torture. No real proof. The king comes down to the dungeo... | You know? It kinda sucks to be me.
You may be thinking I'm mocking you, considering I'm a well fed noble, second to inherit the throne of the greatest kingdom in the known world, and you are half dead prisoner in my secret dungeon, but to be fair, all you have to do to fix that is tell me who hired you.
-m.. aaaask... | Domestic_Adonis | None | 2023-12-07 01:59:39 | 2023-12-06 22:06:32 | 21 | 10 | kcb8uan | kcab8ak | 18cbo1w | 18cbo1w |
[WP] “We’ve captured your child and to get them back we’re asking for-“ “My child? Do you have a death wish?” “What’s that supposed to mean?” The parent laughs on the other end of the phone, “Good luck, man. You’re gonna need it” | The phone rang as I was enjoying a warm bath, soaking my muscles after a long day of walking in kitten heels. I hated the disruption but I needed to know if the new babysitter had come back from taking the kids to the park.
I didn’t recognize the number and a weary feeling settled in my stomach.
“Hello?”
“Mrs. Ade... | I sat on the toilet after fixing the server when my phone rang again. It was home office, of course, but I still had to take a dump.
"Yes, IT support here. How may I help you? Actually, not right now, but I’ll note it down. Sure. Wait... what? This must be a joke. Dawud, you fucking cunt! I can tell it’s you from your... | chinaza1995 | Annual-Confidence-64 | 2025-01-05 01:44:18 | 2025-01-04 22:50:07 | 100 | 36 | m5g9win | m5ff9bn | 1l6t6uq | 1htlac2 |
[WP] In a world of dragons, sorcery, war, and monsters, there are many risks and even risk takers. Everyone though, elf, monster, or man knows to avoid those few ancient ruins that contain symbols of suffering and a word of the ancients, RADIATION. | "Do you know what lies beyond the Great Wall?" Vernon asked. "I'm just curious, because everything in this land is just beautiful, but beyond the Great Wall, are endless shadows in the skies."
"Those are the ancient ruins bearing symbols of suffering. Never go there," remarked the seasoned Elf adventurer Kallias.
Ver... | The ancients before us were better. We've known that for as long as even *can.* Ironically, the pursuit of what came before only drags us farther from it. War, fought over and over for what our ancestors had.
Grand flying machines, beasts of unfathomable speed, steels of unparalleled strength. We scavenge the ruins, p... | Tregonial | Skyshock-Imperative | 2023-05-03 16:23:21 | 2023-05-03 16:15:53 | 301 | 132 | jipqdnn | jipp7o7 | 136lj9v | 136lj9v |
[WP] You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?” | “Oof. You better come in honey.”
Confused, Sierra walks through the door, brushes a stray lock of auburn hair out of her face and fixes me with her emerald eyes before suspiciously perching on the edge of a chair.
“Sweetie, I did you a favor.”
She begins to stammer and protest. My raised hand stops her protest in i... | I did not expect to actually -meet- her. To me, she was like some minor deity - not powerful enough to be 'real' in the sense that I am, but someone I had already known in ways I couldn't fathom in my existing mind.
She asked me a question that baffled me, and had tugged at strings.
She had what I'd describe as a des... | Willowrosephoenix | OSadorn | 2024-03-12 18:16:57 | 2024-03-12 17:38:05 | 37 | 17 | kuk1s9u | kujun2t | 1bd1w5u | 1bd1w5u |
[WP] You were unlike the saints and saintesses of other nations. You granted no miracles, and didn't heal any illnesses. They didn't know when they banished you in favor of a new saint that you had been pouring every fiber of your being into a blessing of protection for the nation your entire life. | "Did you hear the Saint of Osterland lead a charge against an Ork warband 5 times the size of her country's army and put them to flight after slaying the war chief in single combat?"
I nod, knowing full well I had redirected that warband towards Osterland by putting prophetic visions in the war chief's now severed hea... | "If that is what you have decided your majesty then I shall go," I said, "But I do wish you the best with your new saint." I give a polite curtsy before leaving the throne room.
I return to my chambers within the palace while I gather my belongings. In the middle of the room is a large crystal emanating power. Th... | HamsterIV | Sadimal | 2025-04-07 20:53:59 | 2025-04-07 17:37:32 | 346 | 195 | mlxd0kc | mlwamlr | 1jtp6wd | 1jtp6wd |
[WP] "You gaze upon your crushed army and my massed forces, why do you smile?". The captured general looked to the cloudless sky before answering "Because it's about to rain" | The warlord looks at me as if I were a madman. I don't even know his name, I did not bother learning it. There were countless like him before, there will be countless after.
"Rain!? There's not a cloud in sight!"
He doesn't understand. No matter. They never understand at first. In the end, they all learn... eventual... | *Your face turns smug and you say, Have you gone* "mad? There's not one cloud in the sky!" *Jumps down, makes the promise..* He jumped down and walked up to me to make a bet. "If it starts raining, General, I'll untie you and let you free. How's that?" I nodded. "But if it doesn't rain, you tell me what I want to know.... | Lantami | GucciGuano | 2024-05-12 20:00:02 | 2024-05-12 18:41:01 | 64 | 19 | l3r5q6f | l3qtd9e | 1cq30ns | 1cq30ns |
[WP] "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like our knights...no, you don't understand- okay, let me put it this way. You ever read an erotica written by an elf? There is ALWAYS a human knight getting f***** in it." |
Sir Aldric of House Redgrave had faced many trials in his years as a knight—duels with enemy champions, skirmishes against marauding warbands, even diplomatic visits to foreign courts. But never in his life had he experienced a situation quite like this.
The elven queen, Syltharia Moondancer, lounged on her throne of... | The elf twitched her brow. Her human companion just flat out doesn't know what they're talking about.
"Rosey, pass that by me again." The elf rolled her eyes.
"Kiyab... How many times I got to say this?" Rosey rolled her eyes. "Elves aren't particularly...impressed with humanity as a whole. But they VERY much like ou... | NahlielStrummer | CameoShadowness | 2025-02-12 22:49:24 | 2025-02-12 21:44:31 | 195 | 46 | mcg9r6h | mcfw4rc | 1io0vc8 | 1io0vc8 |
[WP] The Galactic Federation makes first contact with Earth just to inform us that the planet has been divided up between several advanced civilizations, with no regard for our established national borders | “It’s simple” the creature said, crossing its mandibles in front of it “We’ve seen species like you before, you want to have your own countries, your own states. But soon enough, those aren’t good enough for you. As you advance, as weapons become more available to the poorest, they start to call for THEIR own states. A... | "Nuh uh." the presedent of the United States spoke, standing with the utmost dignity and refinement.
"Wha- FYM 'Nuh uh?'" the dumbass federation diplomat said, completely dumbfounded and stupid.
"I mean *nuh uh,* I'm not letting you split my country in half."
"I- This is a *direct order* from the galactic federat... | DefinitelyAFakeName | YellowSkar | 2024-02-21 16:34:10 | 2024-02-21 15:47:53 | 21 | 15 | krgwn5y | krgobrs | 1avvm9q | 1avvm9q |
[WP] You are an assistant scientist at the experimental DNA modification and Cloning facility, and your boss has just told you that the facility was originally founded to create a race of... a race of... *sigh* catgirls. You ask your boss if they're serious, and they nod with a shameful expression. | “You’d be amazed at the amount scientific progress that has been made because it was funded or founded by…let’s say ‘excitable’ inventors,” explained the Chief Scientist, Dr. Howell.
“Really?” I said in disbelief. “That seems—I don’t know. A little unsavory?”
“Progress is an unsavory business, son,” said Dr. Howell... | “Look I understand that making catgirls is cringe, but your acting like making furries is any better”
“Look at it this way: catgirls are all female, we’d have to constantly breed new ones, and we’d have to find a way to rapidly age them for our clientele. When we make furries we don’t need to breed them, we don’t have... | None | beholder_dragon | 2023-02-16 02:35:41 | 2023-02-16 01:23:46 | 367 | 85 | j8pxhzz | j8pny6o | 113dntl | 113dntl |
[WP] You didn't even try to escape the time loop. Instead, you became a master artist, discovered three new mathematical theorems, and trained yourself to be immune to pain. The fae that was trying to teach you a lesson is understandably upset. | ***Mortal.***
"My name is Keith, dude, we spoke about this. Just calling me 'mortal' is pretty rude." I sigh and turn to look at my captor. "What can I help you with today, anyway."
***You expect my courtesy? Mortal, you are my prisoner here, not my guest.***
"Yeah, fine, whatever. Look man, did you just come to glo... | [poem]
… none of this really matters.
I was never high as a kite nor mad as a hatter.
This was a special hell but now?
Bliss, pure ecstasy, joy without wavering!
She’s furious!
Let her be!
It’s not like she’ll remember “tomorrow”.
If anything, this is a win win for me;
A lifetime to learn and grow.
A life to... | Darius_Blake | Repq | 2023-03-26 17:36:23 | 2023-03-26 10:51:31 | 90 | 15 | jdro622 | jdqcgef | 121xobs | 121xobs |
[WP] Literally everyone in town is secretly a demonologist, undercover agent, alien, wizard, etc. None of them know this(exceptions may apply) as everyone is keeping it a secret from everyone else. | Andrew is sitting at his custom-built solid oak office desk, running a shaky hand through his already disheveled hair. His other hand is tapping the table quickly, patience wearing thin. He abruptly gets up from his oversized leather chair and shuts the door, latching the lock behind him and quickly checking that all o... | The genie felt a smile tug at the corner of her mouth as the man opened the drawer to reveal a small golden lamp encrusted with large gems. Something about his expression told her this would be the time he grabbed her. The energy of the world around was more tense than the usual.
The man gulped, his Adams apple brushi... | NUBUKU_ | TheBobbius | 2024-09-24 03:18:09 | 2024-09-24 01:23:11 | 632 | 82 | lomx188 | lomfafx | 1fnzjw9 | 1fnzjw9 |
[WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | As I took to the stage, I couldn’t help but think of the trials that brought me here today.
I would not be a dragon rider today, if it hadn’t been for the sacrifices and kindness of my elders.
The hills that sheltered my hometown were once guarded by an ancient copper dragon.
Once home to the greatest treasure ho... | “Okay… Now I feel like a total ass.”
Don’t take it the wrong way, I knew that the life of an adventurer was not going to be all riches and bi- ladies.
Sometimes, you’d find yourself covered in orc guts. Sometimes, you’d go on months surviving on whatever savings you managed to scrounge up because the market is just n... | FoxFyr_92 | True_Falsity | 2023-02-05 17:37:37 | 2023-02-05 13:55:15 | 40 | 22 | j7bxqio | j7b3jgg | 10tx0ci | 10tx0ci |
[WP] 'Dragon' isn't the name of a particular creature, but a title granted to any being that attains a certain level of legendary power. Anything can become a Dragon, from a wyvern to a human, to a stag, or even a cat. Write a story about an unlikely Dragon. | Life isn't easy on board an Elven Dreadnaught.
Least of all for a mouse.
Rations are tight. Not much by way of crumbs and morsels, but I get by. I did, anyways, until we were boarded. I don't pretend to know where we were among the stars. All I know is I heard shouting.
"Ambush!" they shouted. "Breach swarm! Brace!"... | Bob always hated spiders ever sense the incident. He always did.
​
Bob even got a job with the local town pest control on and would typically waive fees for taking care of spider nests. Today he's trying out the new wearable HUD display for the company. The rumor of it being magical made Bob roll his eyes... | jpb103 | ShadowKnightMK4 | 2023-08-18 13:32:40 | 2023-08-18 12:24:28 | 235 | 39 | jwpvvvw | jwpmu8a | 15ui4iy | 15ui4iy |
[WP] "Your total will be...wait this can't be right." The cashier turned around and called the manager over. The manager then quickly shooed the employee away as they took over at the register. "I'm sorry for the delay, we haven't had one of your kind in awhile, your total comes to 3 souls." | What. The. Hell? How on earth did a retail store, of all places, guess that I was an immortal? Something strange was happening. I’ve been around the block, so to speak, my fair share of times. It was pretty clear that if I just paid and left, I would be taking a meaningful loss. So I had to stall.
“Your price is t... | In the dimly lit and slightly eerie convenience store known as "The Abyssal Mart," a lone duck waddled up to the checkout counter. His feathers were sleek and black, a stark contrast to the flickering fluorescent lights overhead. The cashier, a young human who had probably never seen a talking duck before, stared in be... | NoOn3_1415 | warrior-of-the-pen | 2023-09-01 18:32:22 | 2023-09-01 17:43:26 | 59 | 34 | jypasp8 | jyp2ydy | 1678ja3 | 1678ja3 |
[WP] One day anyone who turned 18 was given a superpower of their choice. The only problem, they worked like usernames with only one person having that specific superpower. This created chaos, with the first gen almost ending the world. You’re a fifth generation user, and it was now your birthday | "Having grown up incredibly poor I knew I wanted a power I could earn money with, to help my mom and help my younger siblings. I considered every version of intelligence but from what I could see on the database I was screwed on that front, even in a different language. Same for strength, flight, teleportation, speed, ... | "I'll be damned" I said after sighing, being a fifth gen user really puts a limit to what power I can have.
"There really ain't that much option, considering that most superpowers are already taken by the previous generation users" mumbling to myself as I continue to brainstorm a great superpower that is not yet taken... | TeatimeWithCake | rex_lorston | 2024-07-19 09:24:47 | 2024-07-19 07:04:03 | 289 | 51 | ldwkatn | ldw7p78 | 1e6we32 | 1e6we32 |
[WP] You, a heroic paladin have successfully slain a fearsome dragon. But the dragon warns you that death is but a door, and dragons don't die, they reincarnate. You paid it no mind....until your son was born with golden, slitted eyes. | Abin-Sur, dragon of the Golden Hoard, Dusk of civilizations, lies defeated. His life-blood pumping thick and hot over glittering scales and gems the size of doves eggs. Slitted eyes half-closed lie focused, dimly, on the warrior that has bested him. It was not a knight, clade in valour and the song of righteousness ... | I sat in my rocking chair, cradling my newborn son in my arms as he blinked up at me with a toothless smile. His golden, slitted eyes glimmered with innocence, yet I couldn't shake the unease that settled within me.
The memory of the dragon's warning echoed in my mind, a warning I had dismissed as the ramblings of a d... | Chouckles | Friendly_Recover_143 | 2024-03-25 17:56:16 | 2024-03-25 13:59:12 | 30 | 12 | kwip71r | kwhiwrx | 1bn7vv4 | 1bn7vv4 |
[WP] You have been a mountaintop prophet for 1,000 years. Each person only gets one question and you're sure you've heard every question that can be asked. Until one day someone uses their one question to ask, "How are you doing?" | "Hello. You may ask me any one question, and I will answer only once. It will be what you need to hear: no more, no less. You may ask your only question now."
Bart was panting, still catching his breath from the perilous climb. The prophet, Zephyrus of the Mountain, was finally before him. It had been a hard week, ... | Mortals think I offer games as a kind of last request. The reason varies: last requests on their end, some misunderstanding that winning will return them to life, or even something as simple as boredom on my part. You may ask how my job could be boring, but that's easy to answer. I have to handle every soul one by one,... | DetectiveDracula | Jyx_The_Berzer_King | 2024-08-25 02:04:28 | 2023-02-26 17:19:14 | 51 | 30 | ljspz8t | null | 1f0klj6 | 11c95gs |
[WP] As the princess and heir apparent of the kingdom you are the most sought after woman in the whole kingdom, with suitors lining up every day to ask for your hand in marriage. Today you finally accept the proposal of a suitor, causing a massive scandal. | Krexavit finished scratching the last rune on the dining table, then pressed his hand into two of the runes and chanted. Grandma Kromp did not look impressed.
"Is it done yet? Can we eat?"
"You may eat now," Krexavit replied, wiping the sweat from his brow. He had worked just as hard as everyone else had in the kitch... | \[Poem\]
I dreamt of a butterfly
Adrift in the winds of summer
Free from the confines of 'er own mind
To think as it wished
To love as it may
Yet in the shadows of Autumn
In those oppressive shades
Lay hands awaiting
Strings snatching wings away
And so fell the butterfly
Into the eternal dusk of Winter... | ZtheScribe | ThenSpinach5 | 2024-11-29 13:23:33 | 2024-09-06 20:10:08 | 342 | 16 | null | llul0wz | 1h2ju98 | 1famu0u |
[WP] "You're... NOT going to pursue the prophecy?" "Hell no. I had a really shitty life on Earth, and now I find myself isekai'd to a world without taxes or student loans. I'm not going to stress myself out being some "chosen one" when I could just live in a hut in the woods somewhere or whatever." | It was a few months after I told the old farts at the top of the kingdom to fuck off and ran off into the woods.
\*thunk\*
A sound echoes off the trees as I chop a log with my axe, the muscles on my bare chest glistening with a faint smear of sweat. There was not only a downside to being the 'Chosen One'. There's no ... | "Great, another one." Destiny sighed wearily.
"Hrm?" Fate handed over a goblet and looked over her sister's shoulder. "Another what?"
"Another Mortal who thinks they're smarter than the entire universe." Destiny clinked her goblet against Fate's and pointed to the human. "It's so tedious, you know? Every single one o... | _nitlott | Vaeon | 2025-02-26 20:34:42 | 2025-02-26 18:11:06 | 235 | 92 | mey70ly | mexbpze | 1iyspat | 1iyspat |
[WP] Destroying 90% human population on earth, the aliens leave, assuming that society would crumble, and remaining 10% will just all fight for resources and eventually die out. They returned a thousand years later, expecting a cleansed planet, but were met with a nuclear strike from a satellite. | Life without death loses all meaning.
I didn't understand that as a child. Nor as a teenager, even whilst reluctantly learning about each of the previous extinction-level events that challenged life on earth--not only humanity--to overcome.
Long before the end of Ordovician over 440 million years ago, evolution of l... | Part 1
“We bombed them a thousand years ago, our grandfathers and mothers died to the ones there, though it was only in the hundreds range, we left roughly 10% of the population there, mostly elderly and children to assure they’d die out, and so we will return to this planet that we have called Terra-3 to collect the ... | SlowCrates | Histroy_is_my_thing | 2023-03-26 21:55:30 | 2023-03-26 21:51:35 | 32 | 11 | jdsospq | jdso95l | 122d3v5 | 122d3v5 |
[WP] Each type of death has a unique type of Reaper. The Reapers of Drowning collects the souls of the drowned. The Reapers of Old Age collects those that have come to their natural end. Write a story about a Reaper for an unusual death finally having a soul to collect. | "Hm."
"Hm? What's that for?"
"You're the first person to have died like this in... I believe since the Ice Age?"
"Oh."
"Please excuse any confusion, it's been a while since I've had to do this. You see, every type of death gets a Reaper, and I have been a Reaper for this death for a long time. Many people have died... | [CW: Kids]
It showed up just in time to see the other boys running away. That was the way of young boys, it supposed. Everything was fun and games untill someone lost an eye, or worse...
In the corner of the school yard, where two brick walls met, lay the crumpled form of a boy, about the same age as those who had fl... | starryeyedshooter | None | 2023-08-14 19:15:34 | 2023-08-14 15:56:47 | 16 | 11 | jw6hurp | jw5krdr | 15qmsjg | 15qmsjg |
[WP] A criminal goes on a spree after being inspired by misheard song lyrics. | He'd not even made it 30 feet into the hamlet before he was stopped by its owner. By all measure, the standoff should have felt absurd to every observer: Him, a picture of strength and constitution, a good six foot tall, proud and confident in his every movement. And her?
Small, physically weak, a huddled mass within ... | “It’s time.” Wadramonomo thought pensively.
Wadramonomo always expected this, just not so soon. He sat atop the barstool, back facing the bar, staring intently toward the door. The room around him may as well not have existed. Nothing mattered anymore, after all; his life as he knew it was about to end.
“Are you alri... | TAGMOMG | Envactor | 2024-01-01 20:59:32 | 2024-01-01 19:11:57 | 23 | 14 | kfvrozb | kfv9hqi | 18vrg8d | 18vrg8d |
[WP] After a superhero destroyed your home and killed your family during a fight you swore you would have your vengeance and destroy the heroes once and for all. You may only be a rat but that is not going to stop you. | Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak Squeak, Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak, Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak.
Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak.
Squeak Squeak.
... | As the fires of Super City continued to burn I explained my master plan. “Good. Good. They should come in droves!” I rubbed my rat hands together and wiggled my whiskers approvingly at the sight before me. My minions did well. Then I see it. A cloud of flying heroes.
“Now! Go forth my brothers! Fight! For nothing can... | ChunkyDoritoes | Scorppio500 | 2023-08-28 17:41:31 | 2023-08-28 17:18:06 | 133 | 45 | jy48dtj | jy44hqe | 163ph4e | 163ph4e |
[WP] On the day of your 18th birthday, you pressed a button that gives you $10,000 for every day left in your life. You just checked your bank account: $1,000,000,043. | I'd been feeling really down due to my recent diagnosis of ALS. No point in going to university now. No money. No point getting a girlfriend or marriage when it was doomed before it started. No point to life.
I'd spent the morning just staring at the wall.
And then a mysterious man showed up at my door and said i... | "... Woah. Hold on. A billion... it actually worked? And a billion... divided by... 10000... screw this, I failed math anyways." I open up my phone to it's calculator. "A hundred thousand days... That's like..." I type another thing into the calculator. "245 years! Wow! How is that even... possible? And what should I d... | RandeKnight | Pupseal115 | 2024-09-25 20:35:53 | 2024-09-25 19:23:08 | 447 | 120 | lowxq6d | lowjh29 | 1fpc2wu | 1fpc2wu |
[WP] Level 100 in the East is about the same a level 20 in the West… which is a shame for the level 52 sorceress who just severely underestimated you… | I sat at the bar; a local place called the Oasis. Cleverly named, given that the town of Yttri was in the middle of the Ghavwre Desert. The clay walls were carved with intricate designs of Myran style; an ancient tribe which, although they were wiped out, left very sophisticated writings and ruins.
I always loved loo... | Hana mutered another incantation, calling forth strong winds that blowed with the force of a typhoon. Daisy gulped, bracing herself while she literally rooted on the ground and her skin turned though and rough like the bark, protecting her of the scrapnel that arised by the spell of her rival.
The eastern sorceress c... | Apexyl_ | None | 2024-08-13 03:07:59 | 2024-08-13 02:28:12 | 32 | 22 | lhuriw3 | lhulnz1 | 1eqj9kd | 1eqj9kd |
[WP] “One of us tells only the truth. “the other nothing but lies.” You kill the first guard and ask “Is he dead?” | I yelled at our ‘illustrious’ party leader to wait, but as usual the impatient knight was already in motion. By the time I was halfway through my warning, the severed head of one of the twin magical guardians had hit the ground.
“Well, is he dead?” the knight ‘leader’ asked the remaining guardian smugly.
I didn’t eve... | “That’s not how this works.” I say as I raise my spear at the adventurer’s neck.
The jerk killed Jerry. “You are under arrest for attacking a guard and for breaking the rules of the game.” I shift my target from the neck to the shoulder with the speed and strength of a raging river. Not to kill, but to pin down the c... | nPMarley | Repq | 2024-06-05 18:14:16 | 2024-06-05 15:48:01 | 84 | 25 | l79581s | l78f13j | 1d8sbnm | 1d8sbnm |
[WP] As the god of reincarnations, when neither Hell nor Heaven want a soul, it is your job to reincarnate it appropriately. One specific soul keeps coming back to you not so long after each reincarnation. After a while, you decide to investigate why the soul keeps coming back to you. | 99912672036.
Why did that number keep coming up? Every time I saw it, it would be marked:
* Heaven: Refused
* Hell: Denied Entry
It's not uncommon to see a number more than once; someone may need to be reincarnated a few times to become worthy of Heaven or Hell. But I had this number memorized. Sometimes they'd be b... | Ye gods and little catfish, not again!
This can’t be happening! I’ve done everything I could: sent them to the finest places, made sure they were born with everything they’d need to lead a long, fruitful life, nudged them to make the choices to finally, finally, have a certain path to one afterlife or the other.
... | insertcaffeine | this-is-not-relevant | 2023-02-01 02:04:14 | 2023-02-01 00:46:12 | 34 | 23 | j6q1fbx | j6pqpna | 10q4wxq | 10q4wxq |
[WP] Once an hour, every hour, the richest person on earth dies. This continues indefinitely... | The bell tolls.
The hardest part was the timing.
You had to make sure that you transferred the money on the hour every hour.
I spent days working on the automatic transfer, setting up the plans for the prewritten wills needed for an operation like this.
As for people? It’s kind of crazy what desperate people wi... | Alarms rang out deep in an underground compound, while the many suited goons of it's owner rushed to action, quickly shuffling assets to defer the curse. A kilometer below the person in question writhed in their cryotube as doctors and everyone else rushed to their aid, trying things ranging from the cutting edge of sc... | TheSciFanGuy | Green__lightning | 2024-07-13 14:45:05 | 2024-07-13 11:08:38 | 797 | 34 | lczveij | lcz3kap | 1e276ci | 1e276ci |
[WP] All of the local mob bosses have gathered in one area. This could only mean one thing. Parent teacher conferences. | Brodrick “The Butcher” Maxwell stepped out of his towncar and eyed the crowd. It was parent-teacher conference day at Brightstone Elementary, and the parking lot was full of parents awkwardly milling about, clutching flyers in their hands or glancing irritably at their phones, looking up the times and room numbers for ... | Parent-teacher conference day was the only day you could see four black limos pull up in front of Brothers middle-school one after another. The men who emerged from them, dressed in tweed suits, tipped their hats to school resource officer Ackman as they went in the front door.
There was a fragile balance between the... | Innominaut | armageddon_20xx | 2023-07-15 11:00:58 | 2023-07-15 05:10:05 | 56 | 38 | js1w4ow | js14uqp | 14zz2j8 | 14zz2j8 |
[WP] You are an immortal, having to deal with the rather troublesome rumour that your blood grants immortal life. However, what those after your blood don't know is that since you can't die, you are an excellent host to several deadly bacteria and viruses-all existing peacefully in your blood. | “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
“And why should we listen to you?”
“Okay.” He glanced at the ceiling. “It’s your funeral.”
“What did you say?”
“Don’t listen to him. Just do it.”
The blood made a hollow tinkling sound as it dripped and then splattered into a shallow bowl – a crimson fortune.
“How much do... | As an immortal deity, I have Seen Some Shit™. However, the most interesting thing (And also the most annoying) is that people got the idea that my blood could grant immortality. Thousands of people have come to me, begged for a drop, and then dropped dead as soon as they drank it. Since my body has to contain omnipoten... | feelinglikecleo | ReaperInTraining | 2023-11-21 18:03:18 | 2023-11-21 14:20:48 | 18 | 11 | ka6s6n3 | ka5squd | 1804g85 | 1804g85 |
[WP] Old mirrors were made with layer of silver. You, a vampire, spent centuries without seeing your reflection. Today, package with your first non-silver backed mirror arived. | One of the greatest cruelties that God cast upon his creation is that men must kill to survive. Be it flora or fauna, something must give way for them to proliferate. Men have learned to forgive themselves for this fault, invoking the authority of the creation itself by saying: "This is just the way things are. It is n... | “Guys! Guys! I did it!”
“What now, Valkonir” my best friends chimed together.
“I can see myself in this mirror! It is a marvel! No ghastly silver!”
“Valkonir, we went over this last week with my iPhone. Remember, you kept asking about the ‘handsome gentleman in the cloak’ in my pictures? Digital cameras don’t use si... | TheNeonRobot | Llonkrednaxela | 2023-01-28 22:18:57 | 2023-01-28 19:45:06 | 78 | 47 | j6ad15u | j69r37e | 10nbk4p | 10nbk4p |
[WP]"How did a mere peasant become the most powerful hero in the land? Sure you're immortal but that can't be all" "Well you'd be surprised how many artifacts will grant you ultimate power in exchange for your life." | "How did a mere peasant become the most powerful hero in the land? Sure you're immortal, but that can't be all!"
The supposed villain lay on the ground before me, clutching his chest as he knew he'd soon succumb to his mortal wounds. I paused before answering, carefully considering the consequences of potentially rev... | I spread the mixture of egg, ham, and cheese over the bread, freshly pulled from the oven. I place the soggy bread onto my rock, the flames licking my fingers. A faint crackling fills my abode as I grasp a handful of tea leaves, dropping them into my kettle.
“Lavender, please.” Artifact Gold says.
I oblige, as keepin... | Classified0 | None | 2023-05-23 13:37:28 | 2023-05-23 13:00:56 | 191 | 58 | jlaey19 | jlaa6h4 | 13pm1ij | 13pm1ij |
[WP] You have just been hired as the janitor at an academy of magic. This is of course the most prestigious role in the entire academy. As you are required to have extensive knowledge on everything magical in order to handle any contaminants, mutants, demons, etc. | "Janitor. Could you come to the Demonology classroom?"
"What happened now Mrs. Avery?" I say into the earpiece I was given when I was hired.
"Well. I was showing the students interested in dark magic how to summon a demon and I accidentally summoned one of the most powerful demons. They're now demanding a sacrifice o... | The were-vine throttled and squirmed, trying to pull off base. Most of the students this morning on the younger side scurried near the walls of the courtyard. The sandstone blocks offered no refuge as the heavy steps of Mr. Black echoed, distracting the were-vine.
"Why didn't you throw the hot lime?" Black looked at ... | Real_Ad8070 | mcnastyjoel | 2023-10-10 10:27:27 | 2023-10-10 03:16:08 | 35 | 10 | k497ycl | k486ups | 1748cbz | 1748cbz |
[WP] "Hold me" she pleaded. "I know you don't like me, you even tried to kill me.... but please hold me". I didn't like her but no one deserved this. So I held her close for a long time. | The math I had to do on the battlefield wasn’t much different from the one I used to teach.
Ruptured lung, no pulse. Sub 1% chance of resuscitation. The fact that he’d told me jokes in my first week in the barracks didn’t factor into the problem I was solving – saving lives. I stepped over the body and scanned the se... | The darkness of the night crept in as the light from my final spell faded away, leaving the men who stood between us and the exit laying on the ground. She stood a few feet in front of me, her eyes wide, as her hand slowly lifted to her stomach. Blood welled as I looked at her, chills running through my body.
"Oh, bo... | XcessiveSmash | Mythic_Writing | 2023-01-11 15:19:22 | 2023-01-11 14:48:02 | 382 | 47 | j3wfryo | j3wb3ma | 1092mzc | 1092mzc |
[WP] In a world of superpowers, you're believed to be powerless, but you actually possess the unprecedented ability to stop time. However, you would much rather have everyone continue to think that you're powerless. | "Andrew, we need to talk"
And that's it. I knew this day would come. I look in Angela's eyes and I see it. Again. Pity.
"You want to break up with me."
Being able to stop time, among other things, gives you time to think.
Her eyes widen. I can almost feel her guilt. She is, after all a good person.
"I... Plea... | Biting cold as my heat is radiated out. No air to breathe. Almost unable to move, stuck in molasses of air that refuses to yield. I push my fist toward Grim's face, feeling as air enters the pores in the skin of my knuckles, and vacuum drags my elbow backwards. A bit more. Just a little. I'm light-headed from lack of o... | klodmoris | sharfpang | 2023-08-24 17:46:50 | 2023-08-24 15:49:32 | 38 | 25 | jxkytia | jxkftr5 | 15zq7dp | 15zq7dp |
[WP] Upon meeting your boyfriend’s family for the first time, you find yourself facing two problems: One, you learn your boyfriend comes from a long line of exceptionally powerful sorcerers. Two, he has three very, VERY protective older sisters, and they want to see if you’re worthy of him. | “You know…before you he was in love with a girl from his previous school…La Merna? Ever heard of it…?”
“…N-No I haven’t.”
“Good. La Merna is filled with petty rich assholes, only reason he went there was because of his ability of seeing beyond the veil. He isn’t like us, we have more…psychical powers as his is more i... | [Poem]
So glad we've met as well,
Let's all sit down and chat a spell,
You see we're all witches,
So we don't take kindly,
To girls who come here, that are bitches.
Our brother is the best,
So now you'll take our test,
Or we'll tell him what you always have feared,
We'll sit him down slow, and speak in his ear,
... | Mermaid_Pincer965 | None | 2023-07-06 05:40:19 | 2023-07-06 03:44:14 | 27 | 16 | jqut3np | jquhy1i | 14rwgki | 14rwgki |
[WP] Every dragon rider gets a dragon egg to hatch upon their initiation to the guild. When your egg hatched, Your dragon came out a bit... Different. | *crack!* Another swiggly line apeared on the pristine white shell. Erik couldn’t wait any longer! As his father and his grandfather before him he too would now become a dragon rider! He tried to get even closer to the egg but he practically already had his nose pressed up against it. Papa Gill grinned at him from the o... | "Come on, Faith! Take the egg, it's hatching!" said her enthuiastic friend claudia. Faith sighed as she heard the egg hatch. With a shaking hand, she called Master Edward to let him know the news. "Remember, this dragon will define your dragon riding spot, Fai Dear." he said softly. "I'll be right over"
Master Edw... | Actual_Confusion_517 | Dark_musicalFairy | 2024-04-30 16:39:17 | 2024-04-30 14:38:24 | 23 | 13 | l1ynaib | l1y21gi | 1cggtbb | 1cggtbb |
[WP] A kid losing a video game, and getting their big brother to beat it for them, as seen from an npc's perspective | Not the pit again....this will be the 40th time today I'll have fallen into this pit and had to restart the level. The young one is fun to watch as he trys to navigate through the level his youthful exuberance refreshing and a reminder of why most of us enjoy what we do. But this pit was getting the better of him... | The foolish adventurer steps up once more, but this time executes a series of moves incomprehensible to the sane mind. After he sidesteps to the left and dashes forward, he suddenly sinks into the ground.
I blink, and in that slight moment, the adventurer had somehow managed to get his legs pointing straight towards ... | Reasonable_Space_165 | Percy1593 | 2023-06-21 21:08:45 | 2023-06-21 20:40:27 | 35 | 24 | jp0fiar | jp0b7my | 14fdlba | 14fdlba |
[WP] “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made alo-“ “Dude, we desecrated a major archaeological site and half of our team died for the promise of treasure that wasn’t even here!” | A puff of dust floated up from its thousand-year slumber as James lifted the lid, fingers finding purchase under the stone engravings. There was nothing inside. “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made alo-“
“Dude, we desecrated a major archaeological site and half of our team died for the promise of treasure ... | It all started when John found the map. I pushed him and my friends to try and find the treasure described because I tought I could make a fortune.
The first one to die was Marcus. We were trying to enter the archaeological site indicated on the map, and while we were figuring out how to get inside of the temple witho... | Surinical | Easiest_Dimension | 2023-04-20 14:45:38 | 2023-04-20 13:59:36 | 67 | 22 | jh0p6si | jh0itzk | 12svegk | 12svegk |
[WP] You are one of the few people in the world who has powers. You have the ability to literally slap the stupid out of someone. You are desperately trying to break into the Whitehouse to stop the president from starting a new prohibition era. | "Sir, you can't come through he-"
**\*Slap\***
"You raise a very good argument. Please, come through," the security guard said as he grasped his red cheek where I just slapped him.
I walked down the corridor of the White House with determination in my eyes, my goal simple.
To slap the President of the United States... | Finally, I can see the doors, as I desperately control my breath to not alert the armed guard, walking past my hiding place. The cord extends noiselessly, just as it had done in my garage, and I’m lowered to the floor, which likely cost more than my life. One foot on the ground, rebalance, both feet down, unhook the co... | SirPiecemaker | ForbiddenFruitiness | 2023-02-26 17:52:19 | 2023-02-26 16:35:28 | 1,832 | 170 | ja3yw91 | ja3n3b0 | 11cjeo9 | 11cjeo9 |
[WP]"Halt, foul beast! You shall threaten this town no longer!" Yelled the hero, drawing their blade, an ancient artefact that glowed and became razor sharp in the presence of evil.. except it wasn't only not glowing, but dulled as the hero pointed it at the 8' tall man-wolf huddled in the corner | The Wolfman shook cowardly and let out a soft whimper, and Sir Arnold paused..a look of confusion crossing over his face. The townsfolk behind Arnold gasped as he stepped closer to it, lowering the sword ever so slightly. Surely, this had to be the foul beast that had been eating their goats and ravaging their far... | Wolf Man: What?! But I didn't do anything!
Hero: Not you! The evil spirit hiding under you!
A shadow bursts from the floor underneath the wolf man, sending him tumbling into the lower floor where he fell into a table filled with food. The chef was not impressed, for the food was supposed to be taken to the waiting fo... | EvilPigeonWriter | Time_Significance | 2023-03-03 14:53:02 | 2023-03-03 14:38:04 | 167 | 101 | jareftc | jarcegj | 11gzjb8 | 11gzjb8 |
[WP] You pretend to be a small-time villain. At most, you annoy the local supers but your crimes never hurt anyone. To you it's all good fun. Things change when a truly sadistic super villain invades your turf and murders a few of the supers. No one has seen the extent of your true powers until now. | Memories are a strange thing. Entirely real for the individual, as rock solid as we desire to make them, yet incredibly fluid as well. Influenced as much by our own whims and wants as by anything that actually happened, even events that occur right in front of us.
Seeing the excuses people would make for forgetting th... | When I arrived, I saw a pool of blood. Not where someone had died, but a full sized pool, like a water park you’d take your kids to. How many people died for that? And in the middle was the cause of it all, swimming in the middle, laughing.
He turned as I walked closer to him, though for a moment, then recognized me.
... | RadHazG | Practical_History111 | 2024-09-24 04:12:15 | 2024-09-24 02:43:36 | 31 | 20 | lon40b4 | lomrvs3 | 1fnekwz | 1fnekwz |
[WP] Your spouse tries to murder you by pushing you off of a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean. Just as you believe you have drowned, you suddenly wake up underwater among merpeople. They resuscitated you by turning you into a merperson. | It was pain that awoke me. Not the burning of my lungs, but sharp lines on my neck. It was a cold pain, mixed with the horrific feeling of my skin flapping and floating. I sucked in a heavy breath, moaning at a fresh wave of sensation passing through the slices.
I felt something wrap around my arms, sucking at the ski... | "Hey Miranda, how was the party?"
"It was good Tom, real good, say, it's real quiet out here tonight isn't it?"
"Yeah, almost everybody is inside in the party, or asleep in their rooms."
"So it's just us out here huh?"
"Oh I like the way this is going."
"Not for long."
Miranda shoved Tom off the back of the shi... | Shalidar13 | the_lonely_poster | 2024-02-27 20:51:46 | 2024-02-27 20:51:10 | 113 | 34 | ksfklxw | ksfkhu7 | 1b1hon9 | 1b1hon9 |
[WP] A noble sentenced to die is allowed to choose their execution method. They ask to die in honourable combat against the king's knights, armed with a wooden sword while the knights have real weapons. It's been 24 hours since the execution started and the king is running out of knights. | The king stared in horror as the man he sentenced to death a full day ago pulled out the splintered remains of his wooden sword from the throat yet another noble knight sent to dispatch him. He didn't quite realize the prisoner's preferred method of execution - honourable combat against his finest knights - would prove... | Duke Horatio gripped his broken wooden sword and stepped into the coliseum arena, his heart steeled and prepared for this very day back when he started plotting to kill the old tyrant and paved the way for the unfavourite crippled prince onto the throne.
There was no denying it, everything he did for his nation to kil... | SirPiecemaker | Tregonial | 2023-04-27 14:29:38 | 2023-04-27 14:14:54 | 127 | 68 | jhx8zx2 | jhx6vvx | 130gchs | 130gchs |
[WP] You are a dragon. The other dragons despise you, because they say you have no read hoard. You always change your shape to look like a man, and you are a guild master of an adventurer’s guild. The other dragons are WRONG. This guild, these people, THEY are your hoard. | "Hi mom! Im in the ER again, they made me write to you. Dont worry nothing serious, i just had a bit of a crash. The food is good, the bed is nice and comfy, im getting used to it. Dont cry again please, im still in the millions. xoxo"
I finished the text and locked my phone getting ready to bed. I was laying down ful... | *Three*
I’ll look back at this moment when I’m older and describe it as ‘happening is slow motion’, but it doesn’t. It’s fast. And scary.
*Two*
I couldn’t tell where he pulled the gun from, maybe his waistband? But I’m not sure now and I’ll never be. There’s a swish. Is it from the metal moving so quickly or the ru... | Nerdcoreh | BurtAndButter | 2024-04-13 10:09:34 | 2024-04-13 07:29:43 | 48 | 25 | kzd43j5 | kzcrcc4 | 1c2rfrz | 1c2rfrz |
[WP][TT] In the present life, you are what you eat. But when you die, it turns out you have to battle what you've eaten throughout your life to gain access to the afterlife. You remember, with a sinking feeling, that adventurous trip you took in Australia. | **Part 1 of 2**
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Fear radiated through Jaq’s body. She had no idea what they wanted. *What do kidnappers do?*
She didn’t want to answer the question. Her legs, which were tied in criss-cross, were cramping. She shifted in a fruitless effort to ease the pain. In doing so, she realized she f... | It's a large van, plenty of room to do some damage. One of Karen's captors sits near her, pointing with his thumb.
"Guess she thinks she's some kind of kung fu master with that blindfold on--"
In an instant, a bare foot slaps against his jaw. The slender man's skin ripples like a loose sheet on a bed. Pure horror pai... | Apexyl_ | writerparis | 2024-09-03 01:28:16 | 2024-09-03 00:11:34 | 274 | 78 | ll8lls8 | ll89ls6 | 1f7kp9r | 1fzzdtx |
[WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | I sat at the bar in the speakeasy, nursing my drink and a headache. The light show this morning hadn’t done me any favors, nor had the earthquake that followed. While no one claimed responsibility for the crime spree, the celebratory laughter from the back booth suggested the likely culprits. I glanced in their directi... | I was relatively new to the supervillain business, a villain with the power to control water called La Siene. Now don’t go judging me, villainy pays well. Well it does as long as you aren’t in Paris. The Hero Ghost has built a whole network of heroes and informants to protect Paris from the Legion. Even the birds fough... | espirose | apatheticchildofJen | 2024-10-17 15:30:08 | 2024-10-17 13:40:07 | 657 | 94 | lsdl13k | lsd1agu | 1g5kua3 | 1g5kua3 |
[WP] The witch begs your forgiveness for cursing you as a baby; she was young and hot-headed, and would you like her to undo the curse? You aren't sure what to say as this is the first you've heard about any of this. | I’m not even sure if I have the correct address or found the correct person. It has been so many years ago since I was this young and hot-headed teenage witch. Now, much older, wiser, and less reckless, I had travelled far and wide to find the young man I had cursed in a fit of rage.
It wasn’t even the boy’s fault, hi... | The journal my mother had hidden in the attic, mildewed and falling apart, had stuck out like a nail in an old board as I was cleaning out her old house. I hadn't spoken to her in years, yet here she was, laid out page by page. She wasn't a good mother, some might have called her a witch, others a naturopath, some othe... | Tregonial | TheProphetGamer | 2023-08-12 16:31:41 | 2023-08-12 15:14:27 | 236 | 44 | jvvzs3k | jvvo950 | 15p52e7 | 15p52e7 |
[WP] You're standing at the altar, about to get married to your beautiful fiancée. When suddenly the king of demons bursts through the door of the room, which naturally causes panic. You tried to warn everyone that inviting your sibling to the wedding would mean trouble, but they kept insisting. | "David, you've got to handle this" I whispered" You promised we'd be safe!"
It's really hard being brother to David the Demon-Slayer. I've been kidnapped, tied-up, beat-up and left for dead. It took me months to regain my strength and Julia was there to nurse me through the worst of it.
I've never been jealous of ... | *"Sorry I Am Late. The Transrealm Substation Is Only Running One Line Today, "* He said in a voice that simultaneously sounded of the screams of one thousand damned souls and the thunder of a mountain storm.
"Paz, bro, turn off your Hell voice. You are in the mortal realms"
"Oh, sorry about that." Said Pazuzu, King o... | dbzmm1 | EsharaLight | 2023-08-02 20:30:56 | 2023-08-02 17:56:07 | 173 | 48 | juj5qet | juig22p | 15gcxdh | 15gcxdh |
[WP] Humans have a reputation amongst the other sapient races. Not just for being ambitious and adaptable, but also for being monstrously disgusting. Most view them as lumbering hives of parasites, diseases, dead skin cells and bacteria. They are biological weapons; children of pestilence. | The Bleaching is what's known as a convergent civilizational development cornerstone. At some point, between phase one and phase two, a young sapient species will grow past their biological roots and transcend to a form that typically shares the shape and function of their evolved vessels, with none of the drawbacks or... | A horror arrived on my homeworld today. From my window, I watched them stumble out of their ship, so sleek and silver, all rounded edges and mirrored surfaces, now so juxtaposed from the creatures residing within. At first, I thought them beautiful. They had bulbous, radiant helms that shone in the light of our sun, st... | Voltage_Joe | BigSigiSchmid | 2023-05-18 16:31:23 | 2023-05-18 16:14:37 | 208 | 72 | jknjz25 | jknh9gi | 13kvaic | 13kvaic |
[WP] Nuclear weapons have been banned for so long in the a galactic community that most aliens think they’re just fairytales. Imagine their surprise when they see humans using them in a war. | The congress was in tense debate. Polaris-5, a mining colony on the fringes of human space, had fallen into the hands of alien invaders a few hours ago. “This is the correct time to invoke article 62” declared the president “to defeat these aliens, we must ensure that atomic flame is cast upon them without prejudice, o... | In a household of little green men, the TV played a broadcast of Earth. The son and daughter sat on the floor in front of the flat screen TV, legs crossed. "Mom", said the girl, "Do Earthlings know that we watch them?" "No, honey", said the mother walking in. "A war has broken out", said the announcer. A giant missile ... | drifty241 | ShySilverSurvivor | 2023-11-30 20:23:01 | 2023-11-30 17:51:58 | 36 | 20 | kbg8t7u | kbfjqq9 | 187hn7e | 187hn7e |
[WP] You are 1 out of 50 people who participated in a human trial study for an "intelligence serum" that was supposed to boost IQ and other various intellectual parts of your brain. You are the only one who hasn't gone insane. | "How do you feel?"
"Normal?"
"Really? just normal?"
"Okay. Well, no, but."
Impatient clipboard-tapping urged me to continue.
"I mean, I keep taking shape-rotation tests and doing well, but I was already decent at those. I guess the math problems are a little easier now."
"And... the questions at the end?"
"Yeah,... | They said our IQ would go up. It did.
Then they all went insane. All at once
Me? I’m the last one left. There are guards all over the place. They came into my room and were halfway through dragging me out into the hallway when I asked what they were doing. Then they let go.
It turns out everyone else simply started ... | januarytwentysecond | Nomyad777 | 2023-03-09 01:04:19 | 2023-03-08 18:51:17 | 20 | 15 | jbham3g | jbfqf96 | 11lqfxh | 11lqfxh |
[WP] “Mom…Dad…I’m…” “Gay? We know sweetheart. And we still love yo—-“ “No I’m—“ “Trans too? Oh don’t worry dear we always kind of knew…” “No for the love of god I’ve been turned into a vampire!!” | "Relax, honey, we're not entirely surprised..."
"You're not surprised? I'm a vampire! I suck blood! I burn under the sun! I'm a monster! And you're not surprised?"
"Your 1st cousin Trevor was bitten by a werewolf. Your 2nd Aunt Hazel married a skinwalker. Your 3rd Uncle Robert works for an eldritch god and was turned... | The mom looks down, letting her mouth close slowly as she stops talking. The dad is no quicker to react, he knows better than to say anything else without thinking first, the last few exchanges were certainly evidence of that.
The mom takes a deep breath and approaches her child, "Dear? Can you please show me where yo... | Tregonial | ur-socks-sir | 2023-11-06 07:02:56 | 2023-11-06 04:58:10 | 309 | 47 | k81hj3z | k816lrg | 17ot6fq | 17ot6fq |
[WP] You’ve been bitten by a Zombie. You’ve already said tearful goodbyes to your loved ones as they leave you behind. The bite should make you turn in twenty minutes, so you sit down on a bench and wait… two hours later you’re still sitting there. | "No, come this way you stupid- Stop it! No! We're not eating that guy!" The zombie who was wandering in my direction abruptly got yanked backwards. It got pulled by its hair, which was already strange, but weirder still was... that nothing was there to pull it. The hair just seemed to get pulled, and the zombie obeyed ... | Zombies shuffle through the park, completely oblivious to my existence. And yet somehow – I haven’t turned. Could I be immune? Is that a thing? I’ve just had the most heartbreaking farewell with loved ones, friends, family, ex-colleagues… I’m ready for the inevitable. Why won’t death come? Why am I still me?
Maybe all... | ArbitraryChaos13 | __noodlejs__ | 2023-07-07 00:46:33 | 2023-07-06 21:14:24 | 139 | 56 | jqyqj1g | jqxx7v2 | 14sghr0 | 14sghr0 |
[WP] You’re rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a “D” on your report about the Aztecs and Incas. Not just because you’re certain she doesn’t like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - you were LITERALLY there. | Mr. Templeton blinked once, then again, and finally he shook his head as if waking from a dream. I was prepared to give him a moment to accept what he was seeing - the way my face shifted to its original form as my eyes glowed - but he recovered quickly and said a single word.
"No."
"What do you mean, no? I assure ... | The paper landed on my desk with an ominous slap. A red 'D' glared up at me from the title page, followed by several paragraphs of scathing comments.
After class, I immediately marched up to Ms. Chen's desk, fists balled at my sides. She didn't even glance up from the stacks of papers she was logging into the grade bo... | SOdhner | trevorforrestmusic | 2023-02-15 22:39:07 | 2023-02-15 20:32:09 | 1,019 | 69 | j8p1dnv | j8ohlcw | 1131988 | 1131988 |
[WP] "Sooo... Do you have claws?" Nope. "What about night vision?" Uh-uh. "Not even like, poison or something?" No. "Then how in the cosmos did you humans survive on Earth for so long?!" | I shrug.
"Beats me. I mean, we aren't exactly sure ourselves. There's like, three theories that try to explain it."
By the confused look on the alien's face I figure out that they want me to explain.
"So, there's the Tools and Fire theory. That we were first to figure out how to make and use wooden and stone tools... | "In video game term: we have really really weird stats."
The confusion yet curiosity told me to continue
"We have are insane at socialising. It often enough takes the wheel so to say. Or control. Wird saying sorry for that."
I waved my hands away.
"Anyways, that allows us to even bond with *inanimate objects*. That... | wiqr | xdTechniker25 | 2023-10-04 18:05:55 | 2023-10-04 17:33:07 | 147 | 44 | k3glpgp | k3gg4fc | 16zh1t5 | 16zh1t5 |
[WP] "You have misunderstood the lore, hunter. It is neither crucifix, nor rosary, nor holy water, nor any other trapping of faith, but faith ITSELF that is anathema to my kind. And yours has proven to be. . . insufficient." | Dust floated around the rafters of the abandoned building, seeming trapped in the beams of moonlight between the shadows. My breathing was too quick, not quite panting, barely holding back the panic I felt. Panic mixed with curiosity and excitement. The feeling of walking into an exam you hadn't prepared for, in a clas... | "Someone has misunderstood something here. But it is not me." I said as I unleashed another volley of my shotgun in the leg of this accursed being.
It let out a grunt of pain, as the members were sent flying backward once again. I threw the weapon, its bullet now extended and took my handgun, aiming and shooting at it... | jelly_cake | Hour_Preparation_683 | 2024-10-27 12:05:20 | 2024-10-27 10:26:28 | 47 | 19 | ltzw7yc | ltzm6an | 1gd0mq5 | 1gd0mq5 |
[WP] In a world where the consequences of murdering someone is them coming back the next day completely fine, you accidentally shot your best friend with a gun. The next day, you and your friend have an awkward conversation in an elevator. | "Hey, so, uh... Don't take it the wrong way."
"I-I was gonna' say. I'm sorry."
"I mean, I'm fine now."
"Right. But I didn't mean to do it. Honest."
"Look you shot me. Now, I'm not doubting your mental capacity or anything."
"I know, I'm so sorry."
"What'd I say at the beginning?"
"Always treat it like it's loade... | Elevator music had to be the most absolutely painful thing to listen to and of course, it was in the one space where you couldn't escape it. The standard 'wood' plank walls with mirrors from the waist up. This was allegedly to make the place to feel bigger but today it just made it so one couldn't escape looking at a p... | Jamaican_Dynamite | Kelder62 | 2023-06-01 22:31:16 | 2023-06-01 19:29:55 | 206 | 140 | jmjemxo | jmimrll | 13xp9oc | 13xp9oc |
[WP] As a lich, you have survived for millennia by not drawing anyone' attention as you life a quiet, peaceful life in your very remote manor. Then one day a deity appears before you and says, "Look, we've run out of villains for the heroes to fight, so stop lazing about and do something evil NOW!" | The secret to longevity, is not dying. Or in my case, half-baked dying. Somehow magic related to death has somehow become associated with evil. I can't say I understand why. All magic is a tool, I simply have chosen to... well not *live* on, but stick around I guess. That was always my plan. One lifetime simply isn't e... | <Poem>
I was a wizard when I was alive
Oh, back then I was only five
Now I live a quiet life
Hardly ever having strife
This man he comes fuming at my door
He claims to be a deity I should adore
Without a single word of plea
He starts screaming at me
We've run out of villians for the heroes to fi... | lolzomg123 | thoughtsthoughtof | 2023-03-28 11:59:57 | 2023-03-28 10:21:22 | 37 | 11 | jdzse2a | jdzjl49 | 1246r0w | 1246r0w |
[WP] "Everyone can become a billionaire within a month", or so I was told. You decide to let a clairvoyant superintelligence pilot your body for a month. As it takes the most optimal path to make you a billionaire, you watch hopelessly in horror. | I was skeptical of the advertisement, for it sounded too good to be true, yet too curious not to take a pamphlet and dial the number.
Everyone can become a billionaire within a month! Call now to find out how!" The pamphlet had said in a big brazen gold font that splashed all over a rich red background. "100% success ... | We will begin with the referendum on *you*. You are between eighteen and thirty-four years old. You are of average height and average build. In the evenings, with what free time you have, you amuse yourself with small distractions, little bits of electronic of ephemera that flicker back and forth before your eyes. Perh... | Tregonial | turnaround0101 | 2023-08-20 15:09:17 | 2023-08-20 14:22:28 | 94 | 40 | jx076cv | jx00jdp | 15w8yeo | 15w8yeo |
[WP] You died and were sent to hell, but instead of getting escorted down to a specific level of hell, you're escorted straight to the Devil himself who looks mildly horrified while holding the file of your life in his hands. | "You don't look surprised to be here."
You stare at your feet, offering no reply. What else is there left to say, at this point?
"You know what most people get wrong about the afterlife?" The devil asks as he closes your file. "They think they don't have any choice in the matter. That there's some kind of great cosmi... | A smile breaks across the devil's face, cracking the dried and scaling skin along his decrepid flesh. "oh my. oh my indeed." he looks at the young man before him, almost a child, chained, bleeding and on his knees. "now what could cause a poor boy like you to skin a man?" the devil corrects himself, "Sorry... 8 people.... | antipyretical | None | 2023-01-16 05:45:02 | 2023-01-16 03:55:25 | 3,496 | 56 | j4jw8yo | j4jjlos | 10d2vy0 | 10d2vy0 |
[WP] Aphrodite is talking to Ares. "Y'know, Persephone gives Hades flowers everyday. I wish you'd do that." The next day, Ares goes to the Underworld and gives Hades flowers. "Yeah, I'm not really sure why Aphrodite wanted me to do this, but here you go." | Sitting comfortably on his throne, Hades gazed at the dark form approaching him. The sound of clumsy footsteps and absence of accompanying guards was familiar to him. His nephew, the God of War, the son of Zeus, Ares had come to the Underworld.
Ares waved excitedly, "Hello uncle Hades and aunt Persephone!"
With the p... | "...th-thank you." Wetness rolls down his cheek. Hades twirls away and places the flowers on an end table. Hermes, Ares's escort, awkwardly glances between the two and hops off the couch, backing into the hallway. He pauses, eyeing a gilded dracon bone displayed over the grand ebony doors, but shakes his head and conti... | Maxwellmonkey | katanakid13 | 2023-01-07 09:45:14 | 2023-01-07 06:14:22 | 332 | 79 | j3beowo | j3axrmy | 105g4gs | 105g4gs |
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