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[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. | “Mwahahaha! Who wants more honey?!” I continued tossing jars of honey at the customers in the candy store, who were desperately trying to escape the sticky, gooey mess. I shook a yellow-striped fist at the obese kid scrambling towards his mobility scooter. “Honey is high in nutrients and is much healthier than sugar, f... | Part 1 of 2
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Pascal wrote as much. You're not certain what it was about, certainly something about God and faith. Not that it matters, the sentence stuck with you, and you agree. One shouldn't always look for reasoning, the absence of it explains so many things.... | hatabou_is_a_jojo | Ataraxidermist | 2024-09-23 09:34:55 | 2024-09-23 08:46:25 | 1,115 | 72 | loi0yjl | lohwwr9 | 1fnekwz | 1fnekwz |
[WP] Pluto is actually an ice prison, harbouring one of the most dangerous people in our part of the universe. You are on an exploratory mission and accidentally unleash it upon landing. | "So... How did you end up here?"
'I don't know, man! I was on the way to 65 RDE and appeared here. This isn't the city, is it?'
"Nope, pretty far from any cities. Let me check your inputs..."
'How about getting me down from here first?'
"Ah, right. You'll be easy pickings for the flyers up in that tree. Hang on."
... | Pouring up another coffee, I took a quick glance at the screens before me. They hadn’t changed in the nearly ten years I had manned this bunker. It was a bit of an uneventful ending to be honest, especially compared to all the others.
A shift in the Ktharval system had been full of life in the emergency bunker. Ten ye... | hatabou_is_a_jojo | Yorishie | 2024-04-21 03:10:13 | 2024-04-21 02:31:44 | 40 | 16 | null | l0jk3ko | 1c94lgv | 1c94lgv |
[WP] As a child, you dreamed of helping a wounded faerie. As an adult, they returned to repay the favour. | “This sucks.” I muttered as I stood at the pantry, eyeing the empty shelves by the light of my window. What can you cook with half a can of cornstarch and a quarter of a jar of peanut butter? I puzzled this as I walked back to the fridge and opened it to find the same things I found the last 3 times. A bit of milk in a... | \[Rhapsody: Hopes and Dreams\]
"This is such bullsh-" Craig's whining was interrupted by a sudden, chipper voice.
"Hi!" Craig spun his office chair to face the door. He hadn't heard it open, and it was still closed. But, a teenage girl with long, straight white hair stood in his office. She wore a crisp white ... | Lady-Radziwill | HSerrata | 2023-04-05 03:49:26 | 2023-04-04 20:50:36 | 203 | 37 | jf0di9e | jeythuh | 12bnooo | 12bnooo |
[WP] A medic saving a wounded soldier notices a supernatural being coming to take their soul. Out of options the medic punches it on the face, shocking the being. | For a medic who is a frail little girl, you are a bit shocked when you realize you have managed to punch what appeared to be a shadowy well-suited man with a tophat and a trenchcoat. The man seemed as surprised as you are, slowly walking backwards with his left hand on his cheek, like he was either offended or confused... | Mortar had impacted close by. We were first on scene. Triage at a mass casualty incident is all about logistics. Sort the nonviable (black) from viable (red, yellow, green).
Size up my scene and I go through my internal checklist. No time to let emotions cloud judgement. I have algorithms. I have skills. We have a fu... | Friendly_Anteater474 | sterfri99 | 2023-01-09 05:58:39 | 2023-01-09 05:42:14 | 22 | 12 | j3krbuf | j3kpq4x | 106qz1g | 106qz1g |
[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. | I felt the intrusion in my mind immediately
The tender tickle before the violent intrusion into my brain
I got ready to defend myself from my captor's attempt to "communicate" again.
I counted 200 meals since my last capture. Before my watch ran out of battery power I was being regularly fed at 8 Earth hour interva... | The Tower is a habitat created for human beings. It holds many floors of varying ecosystems due to human nature's trait of incredible adaptability, the species have created different forms of cultures and civilizations. To this species, the tower was their entire world, and anything beyond the walls was a being known ... | livebeta | Common-Scallion-3497 | 2023-12-29 09:38:30 | 2023-12-29 07:49:11 | 111 | 25 | kfe6t30 | kfdy3c0 | 18t93xa | 18t93xa |
[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. | I look at the Goddess on the imposing throne, and sigh.
"Don't sigh, dear mortal, for for your lifestyle, you have been chosen!
Despite dying, I am here to offer you whatever divine skills you desire, the love life of an Emperor, and the charms of a incubus!
Reincarnating in the world of your choosing, from this ... | A terrific injury was dealt. The swift nocking, pull, and release, all in one fluid motion as one single, deadly arrow was loosed. Time stood still as it's flight path revealed the certainty of the strike.
The flashing silver corkscrew-like arrow tip hit precisely where my armor was weakest, penetrating between my rib... | TheWanderingBook | jpreston2005 | 2024-07-23 15:41:48 | 2023-05-22 17:17:39 | 304 | 23 | mua44u5 | null | 1kvfnw4 | null |
[WP] "I should've been a hero instead of following my family's legacy" a villain sighed to himself while rescuing civillians trapped under the rubbles of destroyed buildings caused by the reckless and arrogant hero who's still telling the fakest story to his Twitch fans while striking poses | "I couldn't deal with the shame. Every holiday, nothing but "Oh Xavier, why do you embarrass yourself like those gaudy 'heroes'?" "Why don't you follow the family business? We do what must be done."
Well Ma, I'm sorry I want to have some money. A fucking *life.* Yeah, I get it. Without us, the heroes wouldn't have any... | After taking the 17:45 isekai express into this world, I'd been bringing the hurt like bus-kun himself. But I never let my methods get out, because frankly I didn't want the competition hurting themselves or others.
For example I once read a reddit story where someone claimed to use a stick of dynamite to blow a few... | XandertheWriter | technofiend | 2023-11-11 08:48:55 | 2023-07-14 21:05:47 | 63 | 13 | k8rgha4 | jrzhwmd | 17skc4e | 14zb4m1 |
[WP] God, demigod, guardian--Every time mankind finds you, during a different age, they give you a title representative of your otherworldly power. You aren't getting weaker, yet your title gets diluted each time until finally, a group of humans think you're just a homeless person who needs help. | I've been searching, waiting, trying to get my fishing hook back for 500 years. I've tracked it to the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice, but I cannot enter for now. I have other matters to attend to, like this security guard.
"I am not homeless you damned mortal, I am a god!"
"Miss, if you would please leave before... | *A whim. It was just a whim at first.*
***
Flitting across the cosmos from one rock to the next, all was still.
A swirly purple one. A little green one. A sandy red one. Alighting on a mostly blue one with wavy whites, she dangled her feet off the edge and into the void.
Cheek in palm, she bore a frown. Boredom re... | Aquamarine_ze_dragon | RouGui_ | 2023-02-19 01:53:06 | 2023-02-19 01:18:13 | 16 | 11 | null | j93vu9r | 115j1mh | 115j1mh |
[WP] in a post-apocalyptic world, you realize you have just been bitten by a zombie. The gravity of your situation begins to sink in when the insatiable hunger suddenly becomes overwhelming… | I remember a grassy hill with cold breezes. Running up it with other kids as one took a fall. We were scared and panicking for his bruises at the time but now it seems a distant blessing.
I remember years, decades of scavenging. Brutal days of hunger and getting the shits every few months for drinking the wrong water... | We are wired to survive. You know the odds aren't good, that the end is probably just a few days into the future. But you try, you try to hold on. No one seems to know where it came from, the most popular theory before most communications networks broke down was that it was a biological weapon. No one knew how somethin... | CyanideLock | Saint_Of_Silicon | 2024-07-15 01:38:39 | 2024-07-15 01:31:40 | 58 | 16 | ld87tdf | ld86tje | 1e3hjri | 1e3hjri |
[WP] “Why should I care what you think, dad? Humans only live for a hundred years if they’re lucky! Me and mom will be here for thousands!” | “Why should I care what you think, dad? Humans only live for a hundred years if they’re lucky! Me and mom will be here for thousands!”
The second the words left my lips I knew I'd made a mistake. My father had never been an emotional man, but I saw his screwed jaw relax into a frown, and then soften to nothing. He too... | *"Heroes!"* The booming voice of the titan of a man with glowing eyes seated on a golden throne startled us awake. *"I have summoned you here to ask that you save the world I watch over. The laws that bind gods are strict, and I may not lay a finger upon it to enact my will. Thus, I have selected five souls from a diff... | Writteninsanity | Jyx_The_Berzer_King | 2024-08-14 16:56:28 | 2023-02-27 08:21:07 | 381 | 87 | li3m8dz | null | 1es40qy | wgzbwh |
[WP] Every five years your island society must retreat into bunkers to avoid the month long flood. Out of boredom and rebellion, you surface to find no floodwaters at all. Just the face-less creatures. | “Complete remission?”
“Yes, Sir,” the AI droned.
“In 100% of the test subjects?”
“Yes, Sir.”
“Well, this is certainly unexpected. Double check the selection of terminal cancer patients as the test subjects for Bio-Weapon X. Were they all genuinely independent selections?”
“No anomalies found, Sir. All subjects wer... | I looked at the results, dumbstruck.
Seven tests and countless other minor examinations continued to confirm the fact.
The new virus (or should I call it an anti-virus?) was not the bioweapon I was expecting... it was a virus-killer that could kill cancer cells and prevent them from being generated. I had wanted a ... | BobDowling64 | Firm-Dependent-2367 | 2024-11-03 14:33:02 | 2024-11-03 13:53:55 | 256 | 55 | lv6l0si | lv6ehtn | 1giga2o | 1giga2o |
[WP] One's magical power is stored in a small object that must stay on the person at all times. Many duels and even fights consist of attempts to find this item | "Grok would like magic man to stop being weird about it."
The Barbarian orc stood proudly for having been stripped completely naked and locked in a cage along with the rest of his party. Phinius, the mage, shrugged.
"I'm not sure why I thought it would be bigger, I'm just a little disappointed is all."
The rogue, Ge... | "Mommy! Mommy! Look, it's him!" A young boy exclaimed as he tugged on the tattered hem of his mother's shirt and pointed to a disheveled, unkempt man who sauntered drunkenly down the road.
The child's mother turned her attention from a rickety, dirt caked vegetable stand and begrudgingly turned in the direction of he... | jpb103 | Excellent_Sorbet_985 | 2023-05-10 23:39:00 | 2023-05-10 23:33:19 | 17 | 10 | jjo75tk | jjo6dia | 13e3smi | 13e3smi |
[WP] After Earth was declared a galactic safe haven, anti-xenoterrestrial sentiment began to rise. You, a second generation immigrant from another planet, calmly walk down the street when a voice yells at you "Go back to Mars!" You snap back "I was born in Chicago!" | One thousand years ago, the holy knight Gareth of Deepwood, wielder of the Chrysanthemum Blade, leader of the Circle of the Sacred Sky, and the fated Seventh Son of the Seventh Son, laid the demon lord Roshanet low. As the blade was plunged deep into the fiend's chest, he issued forth Prophecy.
"Know you this, Childre... | "Man, ignore that motherfucker. C'mon."
It'd be different if it didn't happen every few days. But nonetheless, Sai followed Opie as he wandered further down the block. Through traffic, and eventually to a small restaurant. Sai hadn't eaten there, Opie constantly kept talking about it however.
And while she'd never ... | MrArgetlahm | Jamaican_Dynamite | 2024-10-29 03:21:09 | 2023-06-01 02:12:19 | 1,041 | 211 | luakww3 | jmfanvl | 1gejm6t | 13x018u |
[WP] Once an hour, every hour, the richest person on earth dies. This continues indefinitely... | I sat out on the porch, looking out at my garden, the richest man in the world.
Nowadays of course, being the richest man came with a very short life expectancy. At least I knew that while my wife and children would be well cared for after my death, they would be significantly less rich than me -- comfortable, but not... | “Durva aunty! Tarun is fighting with the boys and isn’t giving the ball,” said one of the three little kids who had come to call Durva.
“What!” Durva was stirring dal in a large cauldron in the common kitchen where many other men and women performed their duties. She dropped the long stirrer and knowing that someone w... | AmberCheesecake | randomhemant | 2024-07-13 14:57:51 | 2024-07-13 14:34:59 | 133 | 17 | null | lczttgx | ax72vw | 1e276ci |
[WP] You squealed as the heroes unmasked and kissed in front of the roaring crowds. Wait…you recognize their faces…that’s YOUR best friend and YOUR girlfriend/boyfriend. | A heavy feeling of creeping, cold numbness settled into my core as I stared at the screen, scrolling frame-by-frame through the video. The video, currently going viral on almost every social media network, was a close-up of Paragon, the Strongest Man in the World, savoir of the city many times over, lifting his helmet ... | It was the day my life changed watching my best friend Henry not only reveal he was the Iron Guardian, my wife Sarah revealed she was Angel. It was also the beginning of the end for them.
Flash back to the day:
I watched with awe as the two heroes put down the villain Five Finger. He used his super speed to steal and... | Randomcommenter550 | Phenoix512 | 2024-07-25 20:13:53 | 2024-07-25 20:06:34 | 53 | 37 | lexd8f7 | lexbtv9 | 1eb9o1b | 1eb9o1b |
[WP] You have lost count of how many time travelers have come to kill you. You don't know why they came and at this point you don't care. You will become what they fear simply out of spite. | It rained when the first one arrived all those years ago, and it rained now, as I stood over another. Over the body of a once so worthy killer sent from somewhere beyond my timeline. I guess it said something about me that I paid more mind to the rain than the bleeding man on the ground, but I had learned to stop belie... | I was innocent once. Naïve, really, but isn’t naïveté born from innocence?
Well, no matter. It wasn’t a familiar feeling anymore.
My home was the valley forest where I’d first opened my eyes under a starry sky and a full moon. I waited in one of my caves, watching as the scouts darted through the trees. They were cl... | GrunkleStanwhich | littlepillowcase | 2023-07-13 16:35:25 | 2023-07-13 15:40:37 | 144 | 40 | jrtl0p2 | jrtcy9x | 14ykuqu | 14ykuqu |
[WP] Believing it'd teach you humility, your fellow gods cast you down in a temp exile to live a life as a human before returning. Unfortunately, you return bitter, resentful, and having learned the opposites of what they intended. You lead an army of mortals in a revolution, and you're winning... | “These are not terms of peace,” spat Jovios. “This would be surrender.”
Resting the quill down on the scarred mahogany table I leant back in my chair, watching as the deity’s face contorted and frowned reading and re-reading the short length of parchment presented to him. “Call it what you will, it is an end to this c... | "This God is dead!" You shout from the steps of Heaven's visitor center, "and we have killed him!"
Down below, the fifty-strong crowd of college freshmen cheer, and roar, and spit coffee-rich loogies up to the bloody body of the building's greeter God. One of the freshmen has carried an empty turtle shell with them, a... | DiligentFox | FarFetchedFiction | 2023-01-30 08:41:40 | 2023-01-30 08:27:18 | 67 | 28 | j6h9gns | j6h8gah | 10ov6w8 | 10ov6w8 |
[WP] Write a futuristic story taking place in 2017 as told from the perspective of someone from the 60s | "You can see them too?" Candace said, with a slight gasp.
Gary blinked. That was a new one. Much more common were excuses like "But they're only staying for a few days!" -- even though Gary didn't bother enforcing a lease's occupancy rules unless his tenant had already had guests staying for more than two weeks.
"Yo... | Martha's husband used to deal with the rentals, and she liked it much better that way. But since he had so unfairly died before she did, it was now her responsibility to tend to both the properties and the tenants.
Now, Martha had always known that she isn't exactly "good with people." She had been told by everyone th... | SilasCrane | midnight_medusa | 2023-02-10 19:55:06 | 2023-02-10 19:14:49 | 88 | 50 | null | null | 10yrulf | 10yrulf |
[WP] As an assistant to a human emmisary to an Elven kingdom, you caused a diplomatic incident on the first day of the job by chuckling at a funeral for an Elven princess, who was said to have been "taken from us before her time, at the young age of 574 years" | Later that day, sitting on the floor of our cell, I couldn't stop wondering.
"Sir... why did you start laughing so hard?" I asked the head emissary I was supposed to assist.
He was next to me, he turned his head, his eyes looked like empty sockets.
"Well, that was a first for me."
"A first... you mean what they... | "What was that?"
"What was what?"
Pace watched as the emissary palmed her forehead in thought. She sat up, took a sip of wine, and looked at him before slowly dissecting the issue..
"I feel like I don't need to go over the obvious differences in cultures at this stage of our time together. So I'll get right to it. W... | sirlupash | Jamaican_Dynamite | 2023-02-15 03:30:13 | 2023-02-15 00:31:04 | 97 | 65 | j8lbir8 | j8kov84 | 112iryu | 112iryu |
[WP] "Why do we make laser grids like these?" "What do you mean?" "I mean instead of a messy random arrangement of lasers that a nimble intruder might be able to jump through, why not a simple grid wall with no gaps large enough to allow a person to pass through?" | "Why do we make laser grids like these?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean instead of a messy random arrangement of lasers that a nimble intruder might be able to jump through, why not a simple grid wall with no gaps large enough to allow a person to pass through?"
"Messy? Nimble? Lad. To get through this grid you'd ... | \[Zero Insight\]
"Why do we make laser grids like these?" Mateo asked. He was freshly certified and assisting Lou in finishing up an installation for his first job. Watching, and handing over tools didn't require a lot of thinking and he searched for questions to make conversation with the older man.
"What do you ... | Ishidan01 | HSerrata | 2024-11-02 19:03:56 | 2024-11-02 17:56:42 | 592 | 99 | lv27cu7 | lv1umq7 | 1ghye6q | 1ghye6q |
[WP] Your fairy godmother is very strange. She dresses in black and red, never takes off her mask, and uses scary magic. However, she genuinely does love you and teaches you what she knows. | "Good morning, Godmother!" the boy cheered as he entered the living room. "What have you got there?"
"𝚃𝙷𝙴-𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃-𝙾𝙵-𝙰-𝙳𝙴𝙴𝚁," Godmother clicked back. Much like her movement, each word was said in a burst of speed sometimes hard to understand, but undeniably efficient.
"Oh, neat!" the boy said excitedly. ... | 11711
1C'mon little Fairy Princess," Daddy yelled, "This is our new home!" And he pulled open the bad doors of the small moving van.
"There's nothing 'New,' about it." Mommy grumbled as she unbuckled and helped Ashley out of the van.
"Hey how many people get to inherit a 1600's manor in Ireland?" Daddy playfully repl... | SirPiecemaker | deadlandsMarshal | 2023-04-23 19:10:36 | 2023-04-23 18:24:14 | 150 | 31 | jhfecax | jhf7kr5 | 12w9v9j | 12w9v9j |
[WP] As a Barbarian, you hate that just because you have a different lifestyle, your party looks down on you and assumes you are incapable of basic intelligent thought. Today you had enough. | *"Ah, I see that Loktarr had an eventful evening"*
The statement from Sullivan had the party following his gaze to the three battered, bruised and groaning individuals currently hanging by thier ankles from the Inn's gatehouse. Peering into the early-morning gloom of the stable, they found their token-barbarian, Lokta... | A small smile crept on to your lips as you watched the remaining party stride into the main hall after smashing down the main doors at the opposite end of a long vaulted Hall. The small group approached with looks of bewilderment and shock. Several members of the band looked around in consternation as they reached the... | grudthak | sepukio | 2023-02-13 02:01:20 | 2023-02-13 00:50:48 | 78 | 19 | j8bguxt | j8b79ox | 110gt0h | 110gt0h |
[WP] As a Barbarian, you hate that just because you have a different lifestyle, your party looks down on you and assumes you are incapable of basic intelligent thought. Today you had enough. | Trisra, the Elven Wizard made a joke. "The instructions are so simple that even Bonan could do it," she giggled. The fighter, Thomas was laughing with her, and they were both looking over at Bonan.
Bonan shook his head. "I may not be as smart as Trisra, but I'm hardly an idiot. And what are you laughing at, Thomas? Yo... | A small smile crept on to your lips as you watched the remaining party stride into the main hall after smashing down the main doors at the opposite end of a long vaulted Hall. The small group approached with looks of bewilderment and shock. Several members of the band looked around in consternation as they reached the... | delphi367 | sepukio | 2023-02-13 02:18:38 | 2023-02-13 00:50:48 | 50 | 19 | j8bjcez | j8b79ox | 110gt0h | 110gt0h |
[WP] Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“ | Easiest job in the world.
David knew he had the easiest job in the world - all he had to do was sit in a room for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. It was practically free money! Of course, there was one condition.
Do not press the red button. It was what his supervisor told him when he started working here, what his wor... | “I’m sorry, but I’m not allowed to.”
“The fate of the world is at stake!” The voice sounds honest enough, but then I’m a terrible judge of character. Maybe I can get some information out of this guy.
“Then give me your badge number.”
“Nine eight five three six eight eleven decka one!” came the anxious response.
“Se... | JoeyJoeySiwa | Matthew-IP-7 | 2023-01-03 02:19:27 | 2023-01-02 20:04:44 | 16 | 10 | null | j2o761r | 101bwam | 101bwam |
[WP] A man finds a genie's bottle, complete with a real live genie. Instead of blindly asking for wishes, he first asks politely for the genies advice on what to wish for. | The prop room of the studio was cluttered, dusty, and dimly lit; not the expected place for anything magical to happen. Several of the lights in the back corner were out, making it hard to see finer details like the labels on the props. The film studio’s new assistant prop handler, a man in his late twenties, was in th... | "Three wishes." Said the genie. Or being. Or thing. I'm not sure what it actually is. It looks vaguely humanoid, but then again not really. I can't tell at all, it is like looking at mist and trying to make a shape out of it.
"Are you a genie?" I could feel my voice crack trying to speak out the words.
"I have been ... | zero_the_ghostdog | FaythKnight | 2023-01-29 09:20:07 | 2023-01-29 09:11:29 | 37 | 23 | j6cdod0 | j6cd22n | 10nlru3 | 10nlru3 |
[WP] As it turns out, this dragon had never killed anyone before, nor did it plan to, it was frightened and acted in self-defence. Now the party will have to figure out what to do with the hyperventilating beast while the cleric revives the murderhobo fighter | The barbarians blood was dripping from the tail of the beast now cowering in the corner
“He literally just impaled himself running at it didn’t he “ piped up the ranger “ it didn’t even move at all , was he expecting it to swing its tail around to defend itself or something?”
“ sigh , intelligence was never his str... | *Good job karkzak, not even a century old and you've gargantuanly messed up.* the dragon thought to himself as he hugs his body with his large wings and holding his head with both paws trying to calm down.
*not only you've killed an adventurer, but done so infront of their group.* The dragon peeks behind him to look a... | Omnizoom | non_ex_nihilio_4297 | 2023-02-23 23:06:05 | 2023-02-23 19:58:48 | 135 | 31 | j9r0mbu | j9q6kho | 119yeev | 119yeev |
[WP] as you bring a sample of your crops to the temple of the harvest god, you and everyone nearby suddenly hear a telepathic childlike voice "um, I'm not sure how to tell you this, but your god kind of died..." | "I accidentally blurted out that their god kinda died!" The small boy fidgeted on a throne far too tall for him. "Do I still follow my script?"
"Keep going, little one," I nudged him to face the shimmering pool of water which reflected the worried looks of farmers in the temple of their harvest god. "Your people bear ... | Antigone had always been a loyal servant to the gods. It was her job as a woman. She was supposed to wait. To serve. To be pretty and perfect and patient.
She had been.
She HAD been.
Then they brought her brother back, or at least his body, and left it to rot in the fields outside the walls. She’s lost both brothers... | Tregonial | Writteninsanity | 2024-05-11 13:19:38 | 2024-05-11 13:13:54 | 290 | 121 | l3kkvwf | l3kk5g3 | 1cpesqk | 1cpesqk |
[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. | "Can I have weekends and vacations, then?"
"No! Those are the best part! Why would you get that?"
"It's objectively less time."
"But objectively more value. You're getting out of doing dishes every day and taking them to school."
The warlock and the wizard leaned cringed as they watched the demon and the fae try to... | 'So it's agreed, I shall have possession of the child and when they pass you can claim their immortal soul to do with as you please.' The tall pale elf-like entity said.
'So it shall be.' Growled the massive hulking demon, before the pentagram erupted in flames; the smell of sulfur and brimstone filling the air as they... | Eager_Question | Gravitus95 | 2023-02-03 21:05:06 | 2023-02-03 18:14:24 | 34 | 13 | j73omra | j72xq07 | 10sal7x | 10sal7x |
[WP] You're the first test subject for an experimental super soldier serum. You are told the truth only after you transform into something not quite human anymore. | I was wrong.
My body felt fundamentally wrong. I don’t know what they did, but it wasn’t what I signed up for. I was supposed to be here for a few blood tests, some small genetic research for some gene abnormality I had. I thought they were giving me some local anesthetic.
Whatever they had done to me was strange. I... | It was my weekly check-in. I didn't mind. I had won the lottery.
Neuron-degenerative diseases are the worst way to go you can imagine. I had volunteered for every accursed experimental treatment on offer.
I kind of expected that to kill me *faster*.. which, at the time, that counted as an upside.
I got Lucky. I ... | Mindless_Company_833 | Izeinwinter | 2023-08-06 00:59:02 | 2023-08-06 00:43:42 | 64 | 35 | juz088p | juyy9yd | 15j8mzq | 15j8mzq |
[WP] You are at the center of a time traveling war. For every assassin sent back to the past to murder you, another warrior is sent to protect you and kill the assassin before they get a chance. As the bodies pile up, you still don’t have the slightest clue why you’re so important to these people. | Australia fought a war against Emus. And lost.
Modena, Italy, stole a bucket from neighboring town Bologna, and the War of the Oaken Bucket commenced.
Britain decided to go to war with Spain in retaliation for Spanish guards cutting off British ship Captain Jenkins' ear. Eight years after the inciting incident.
I ha... | Walking down the street has never been so dangerous.
Or getting groceries.
Or literally just watching T.V.
For me at least.
Standing outside a bar, not even tipsy and waiting for an uber to pick me up, I hear the oh-so-familiar rush of the wind.
A man emerges from nowhere, blade raised and eyes fierce. He look... | SHolmesSkittle | CorgiOtter | 2023-02-19 07:56:55 | 2023-02-19 04:07:02 | 555 | 91 | j951b94 | j94gem7 | 115zvws | 115zvws |
[WP] You are the supervillain known for having a proper work ethic such as giving incredible health insurance witg dental, days off, vacation, sick time, the whole package because one of your former grunts swapped sides for better pay. Now the good guy is wondering why everyone's switching sides | With the physiques of professional body builders, underwear models, and beauty pageant winners, you would think these super-powered morons in masks and capes would at least have the common courtesy to use the office door rather than smashing through the ceiling. I had just finished the final authorization of my employe... | "They always said tell you, 'Don't drink the Kool-Aid.' Except you already did it, at least if you drink tap water. Yeah, you do exactly as I say. What is that, you ask?!"
"You work for me, here at Aeolus Wind Power. You can call me Mr. A., A.K.A. Jacob Aeolus, genius nanotech innovator and to some, a villain." ... | Charvale | SGTSTARS | 2024-02-20 10:52:51 | 2024-02-20 08:32:00 | 27 | 14 | kr9y1u7 | kr9mer8 | 1av4s01 | 1av4s01 |
[WP] Not only did your best friend find out you're a vampire, but he/she wants you to turn them. You try your best to explain the less obvious downsides to this curse. | I pinched the brow of my nose, letting out the loudest sigh I had in a good twenty years. "Jane, I- I can't even begin to explain what's wrong with being a vampire."
"Because there's nothing wrong with being a vampire! It's awesome!" Jane shouted like a child.
"No, it's not 'awesome' it's torture. Do you know the l... | I had tried to explain, I really had. Eric was simply too enamored with the version of vampires he'd seen in fiction books and movies. The idea that vampires were immortal beings with power and control is common in this age of Homo Sapiens, but wasn't always. The old stories, the movies, those were much more accurate. ... | Capital_Fix5011 | kindanormle | 2023-08-22 16:44:27 | 2023-08-22 16:44:02 | 75 | 28 | jxajlfy | jxajj1m | 15y435t | 15y435t |
[WP] A villain nurses their loss in a quiet diner when an equally tired person enters, and orders a coffee in a very familiar voice. | Pro: Really Good Person, Con: Really Likes Coffee
In hindsight, I probably should have confirmed that I knew the person that sounded familiar, then I should have made sure I had a good relationship with this person I know, it’s a rather short list it wouldn’t have taken long.
But with great effort I stood up ... | 'hey Bruce'
'hey jay'
'tough day?'
'don't you know it'
'sorry about the sharks'
'don't bother, it's all part of the job. How's your Nana?'
'uhm,there are good days, but they're getting less and less'
'must be tough on harley, with this and the kids'
'she doesn't complain, the gem that she is'
'hmm........ Hey... | Holaris | vigneswara | 2023-01-17 13:24:48 | 2023-01-17 11:11:03 | 20 | 14 | j4pys60 | j4pm2gc | 10dvvkn | 10dvvkn |
[WP] The ship was a sitting duck, the pilot AI core had been destroyed, the ship cannot be piloted manually, you look at the last spare core in front of you, it's covered in notes "priorities set up wrong, do not use" "training failed" "Persistent delusional personality" "send to lab for study" | I barely have time to read the warning labels on the cargo crate, saying this machine intelligence is faulty. Regardless of its condition, its better than the one that just got fried by a targeted EMP. I sprint through the halls of our ship carrying this 40lb Persona Core as fast as I can, the emergency lights glowing ... | "Well I'm fucked any way. May as well give you a try."
_Compatible BIOS firmware detected._
I'm the last human in the ship. Possibly the last human in the Universe. And I'm dying.
_Bootstrap procedure initialising._
We were intercepted by the enemy. Alien hive monsters set on exterminating all other sapient species... | GodKingChrist | joalheagney | 2023-02-10 15:02:17 | 2023-02-10 12:05:55 | 762 | 305 | null | j7yxtpc | 10yox47 | 10yox47 |
[WP] You encounter a group of 3 genies, and they each grant you one wish. One genie will grant your wish exactly as stated. One genie will ensure it's cast exactly how you want. The final genie will twist it to ruin as much as possible. But you have no idea which genie is which. | Okay, I thought to myself, let's reduce this puzzle down to its basic elements. Three genies, let's call them "Good Genie," "Lawful Genie" and "Bad Genie" As long as I'm careful with my wording, Lawful Genie will still give me what I want. I have two good infinitely powerful wishes, and one potentially life ruining tra... | "This is going to hurt."
In front of the three genies, I slapped myself, smashed my head against a brick wall, slammed my hand in a door, and threw myself onto the ground.
I then asked the genies, "What did I just do?"
The first genie said, "Well, you slapped yourself, smashed your head against that brick wall, sla... | Bob_Squob | dunununubatman | 2023-02-02 09:02:03 | 2023-02-02 07:22:20 | 212 | 158 | j6w73e1 | j6vztfj | 10rfikb | 10rfikb |
[WP]You work as a valet for a high-class casino. You've got licenses to operate a variety of different vehicles and a story for how you got each one. Lately, a wealthy patron has been bringing increasingly ridiculous vehicles, trying to find one you don't have a license for. | The roar of the engine was quiet at first, barely perceptible above the typical din of a Friday night in Vegas. Still, it could be heard and soon grew louder than even the most dedicated loudmouth who insisted on speaking with the manager when his “system” wiped him out at the blackjack table for the twentieth time.
B... | As a valet at one of the most luxurious casinos in town, I've seen my fair share of exotic and expensive cars. Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentleys, you name it, I've driven it. I took pride in the fact that I had licenses to operate every single one of them, and I had a story for how I acquired each license.
It all start... | shadowlarx | Alpine_Vagine | 2023-03-17 06:29:16 | 2023-03-16 21:22:34 | 16 | 12 | jcjb7b3 | jchgsa1 | 11spxyb | 11spxyb |
[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 stood behind my dimly lit bar, in the process of racking up a round of drinks that my patrons were about to order. The bar was nothing special, just a simple hole-in-the-wall for the villains of the city to decompress and converse, but it was mine. My days of active villainy are long behind me, with stories of clas... | The attack on the Dome Galla was the biggest news going around town. Everyone heard of what happened. The annual Dome Galla event hosted by Dome Industries was bombed, and attacked by what looked like mercs. Everyone was talking about it at the Cell, but no one had any idea who it was that orchestrated it. I was just y... | MereMorta1 | DeckerDelgado94 | 2024-10-18 05:05:09 | 2024-10-18 01:52:55 | 20 | 15 | lshdqqg | lsgnzxt | 1g5kua3 | 1g5kua3 |
[WP] You're a character in a video game and you recently died. As such, you went through the respawn process and came back to life, but you saw something as you were respawning - something that makes you want to never die again. | Death is cheap, they said.
This is a land of no consequence. Where nobody stays dead for long. In fact, some have been known to kill themselves to respawn than to trudge back to town the long way. The men and women worshipped as heroes, granted far greater autonomy than most, made it a game to die and kill others in t... | A community-theatre production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." You didn't know they had theatres in Valhalla, let alone wistful depictions of mid-century Americana.
The stage manager sidles up to you, wringing his cap in his hands. "Well, what did you think?"
Don't say it was hamfisted. Don't say it was hamfisted. "... | Tregonial | JWORX_531 | 2024-10-31 18:44:39 | 2024-10-31 18:20:17 | 107 | 31 | luqlqsj | luqh33f | 1ggjcxq | 1ggjcxq |
[WP] "Look," said the demon. "This is the 13th time you've summoned me to sell your soul. My boss wants to know where you're getting all these souls." | "Look," said the demon. "This is the 13th time you've summoned me to sell your soul. My boss wants to know where you're getting all these souls."
The man gave the demon a skeptical look.
"I'm a holy man, people ask me to save their soul all the time, so I do, and then put them into this."
He held out a vial filled w... | [Poem]
The demon met up with the fae,
And wondered how things went this way.
He gave the fae a look so cold,
He thought that it would freeze the whole hellworld.
The fae, bemused, gave out a laugh,
“So you have caught upon my tracks!
I’ll tell you, but it’s at a price:
One jar of souls you’ve stored so nice.”
... | Sleeperdown | Thetotallyrandom | 2023-03-05 00:45:57 | 2023-03-04 23:57:34 | 2,511 | 40 | jaydg4c | jay78qb | 11idvy3 | 11idvy3 |
[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. | 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... | I stared long into closet Isla's face, my heart thudding in my chest. A doppelganger? Skinshifter? A young kelpie? Flickers of evil smiles, bleeding wounds, and miserable death invaded my mind: James missing half his torso after a scared woman revealed herself as a nosferatu and made contact with a disintegration spell... | McTot214 | MasterV3ga | 2024-01-07 19:14:27 | 2023-06-25 23:09:00 | 185 | 20 | kgrqnmn | jpiv1ow | 190yicv | 14ipem3 |
[WP] Humans didn’t evolve, they were made as a warrior caste for another species. When they didn’t work out their creators dumped them on earth with no tech, now that they have discovered warp travel… | “Wait, how can you speak my language, Captain Tou of the Aegarum Grappler 6 asked , the stun of the last few hours beginning to fade a little.
"Well, your language is quite primitive and hardly took us a minute to decipher its usage," it responded. Its words came forth in a strange amalgamation of ethereal tones, acco... | "King Reythir," Dr. Molicun bowed "I present to you, the ultimate warrior. A being with incredible stamina. And a mind capable of adapting to almost any situation!"
"Hmm," the Grenshin King mused, scaled fingers perched upon his chin. "Doesn't look like much. And what are those things on its chest?"
"I call them 'ni... | johnn667 | SentientBarghest | 2023-06-23 13:34:11 | 2023-06-23 08:12:17 | 122 | 66 | null | jp75r49 | null | 14gqmi1 |
[WP] A mark on your forehead identifies the god you must worship to stay alive, usually by joining its local church or temple. Your mark is unknown, meaning an old, forgotten god sponsored you. To survive, you must either find an old temple to worship at, or do the arduous task of building a new one | I saw it every time we entered the city.
My family’s work required a split living arrangement; nine months on one coast, three on the other. It was there every time we drove into the city of our single-season home.
It was nothing more than a cluster of stones at first, that would barely change in the time I was ther... | What was it, 16 years ago when this all began? Alright, so basically I was minding my own business, fishing & smoking on a boat in the Jove Lake.
I had about 3 catches & hoped for a 4th, all of a sudden, I got a big tug on my line! I reeled that shit in super hard! But that fucker wouldn’t let me drag him upon the dir... | Asteroth6 | Pope-Francisco | 2023-03-23 08:38:52 | 2023-03-23 01:52:09 | 23 | 16 | jdbxjnc | null | 11ylcm8 | 11ylcm8 |
[WP] "God can come have coffee with me if he's really interested." You said, shutting the door on some irritating guys with pamphlets. The very next day, God taps lightly on your door, to have a coffee. | "So you're not Rob Benedict?"
"No, I'm not. I came as something familiar to you because seeing my true form has been known to cause some people to lose their sanity."
"Right, and you're here because...?"
"I'm here because you extended the invitation to me for coffee."
"When the hell did I do that?" I asked as I let... | "Hello?"
"Oh hey, Deaf Bard. It's me."
"Heyyyyyy...?"
"...God."
"..."
"Yeah, remember yesterday? The asshole jerkwads with the pamphlets?"
"I---"
"I know, terrible, right? But I was juuust happening a-by, and caught a bit of the convo, so."
"Wait, do---"
"And I get it, I get it. To be fair, they kinda slipped... | ClearCasket | THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ | 2023-03-21 02:11:30 | 2023-03-20 23:40:58 | 81 | 11 | jd17jvi | null | 11wsrfi | 11wsrfi |
[WP] Your father always told you to measure twice, cut once. You may not have followed in his footsteps, but you never forgot what’s important. It’s the day of your first battle. You have your sword and your tape measure. | How many times you hear people stressing about how the general population isn't as stupid as it seems? How often do you find yourself annoyed, hearing again and again that "no, people aren't this bad, you're so cynical..."? But you know you're right. You have to be right. There's no other explanation, isn't it? I mean,... | Earth is a torus around the moon which is the center of a black hole which compact matter so much it because a giant diamond.
The sun is all the matter being pulled in to the moon keeping us alive.
Etc etc etc.
Cause earth used to be one thing but someone split the god particle which caused a huge explosion thingy ... | _BlueFire_ | Krystami | 2023-10-12 08:12:05 | 2023-10-12 08:04:54 | 64 | 10 | k4jabx1 | null | 176092m | 176092m |
[WP] A dragon has stolen the sheep from the nearby village, and as such, the villagers assume all their sheep have been eaten. They want you, a knight, to take revenge on the dragon for them. However, when you meet the dragon, you find they took the sheep for a very different reason… | I freeze as I walk over the crest of the valley of the dragon. Before me lies the large grassy meadows and hills I've heard about the lair. I expected that part. What I didn't expect was all the little white, fluffy creatures freckled throughout the valley. Sheep. Hundreds of them. Not just the lot stolen from the vill... | Thank you to u/Street-Cost-1779 for the idea about mental synapses.
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***Test Log: Magic-4432-AF-42***
*Date:* >!22/04/2048!<
*Classification level: Four. Current level: Zero (general public).*
*Personnel: Dr. Hildew.*
***Test Description:***
Given the report by the Orion Interstellar Confederacy about magi... | Murlock_Holmes | Nomyad777 | 2024-08-05 22:03:44 | 2023-04-21 01:28:12 | 77 | 17 | lgof4hq | null | 1ekqu4i | null |
[WP] Knowing the hero would call upon the power of friendship to win against them, the villain simply killed all the hero's friends. What he didn't expect is what the power of grief looked like. | "What was it, you said?" Lacaia the sorceress mused as she closed her fist, prompting the mystical forces at her command to crush Gerhardt's spine to snap and cave his chest. The armsman looked to Biric pleadingly for but an instant before his eyes and head rolled back. "'I play the song of my heart. It is written by t... | # The Present
​
Balthazar cackled as The Prime Merlinian looked on in horror. Defeated, smoking in the side of a building, he had no choice but to see his friends get butchered mercilessly by Balthazar's hounds. A grotesque description of the severed heads of his fellow superhero and non-superhero friends line... | MasterV3ga | WraithLord2322 | 2023-04-21 17:30:03 | 2023-04-21 15:04:07 | 93 | 54 | jh63qcn | jh5hlmv | 12u2q5q | 12u2q5q |
[WP] You used to be a powerful and feared supervillain, now retired and set for life. Now, there's a 20-something at your door begging you to teach them to control their rare power since it's the same as yours. They even know your villain name. | I really didn't want to get up out of bed, but the incessant ringing of my doorbell was a good motivator to seize the day and curse the fool who felt the need to wake me up at five in the morning.
I plucked my robe off of the mountain of clothes sitting in the corner of my room as well as a pair of mustard stained swe... | Another trail of smoke drifted up to the ceiling, joining the rest of the smog in the room. I took a final drag of my pipe, breathing, feeling the thick, herby air fill my lungs before breathing it back out as if a poison. I didn't much enjoy such niceties in my youth, always insisted that they would "stunt my athletic... | Love_Is_Blue | GrunkleStanwhich | 2023-02-01 05:32:44 | 2023-02-01 04:48:48 | 107 | 75 | j6qqpzq | j6qm7bw | 10qf3t6 | 10qf3t6 |
[WP] It's been 6 years since the zombie apocalypse started, thousands die weekly, but society hasn't changed much. Your local news tracks zombie migration. An armored school bus picks kids up every morning. Your local walmart just installed a fancy new bio-scanner. And you still need to go to work. | Ragers, shamblers, crazies, and normies.
That's just what we call the customers. Zombies are just zombies. All the cool parts of a zombie apocalypse from the movies have been woefully absent, and all that remains is more of the same. I stood still for my scan before putting on my blue vest to start the day.
My regist... | *"The New Normal"*
​
The zombies roam, the death tolls rise,
But life goes on, with no surprise.
Society unchanged, but oh so strange,
A new normal, in a world deranged.
​
The local news tracks their migration,
An armored bus, a daily station.
For kids to learn, in safer zones,
Away from the und... | rancidtuna | Federal_Penalty5832 | 2023-01-23 18:02:42 | 2023-01-23 06:43:44 | 43 | 27 | j5kmj6o | j5ily6h | 10izz91 | 10izz91 |
[WP] In a world where eyes truly are the windows to the soul, most people wear masks to hide their true nature. Today, you’ve just met someone who dispenses with masks - And whose eyes look like dark, bottomless voids. | Nothing.
That's all he could see when he shook his hand.
Darkness. Cold. A blank slate. A veil was lifted and nothing was there. And Owen knew he knew that he'd seen it.
The eyes were the window to the soul. And with every interaction, you could see every intention someone could have. For good or bad, or worse. And ... |
Clara was someone who preferred to blend into crowds. To
follow the group. She didn’t like standing out. This was why she was so
panicked when she noticed she wasn’t wearing her mask. She had gone to work
like that. Commuted like that. And she hadn’t noticed? Everyone could have seen
what she was thinking ab... | Jamaican_Dynamite | Signal_Poet5111 | 2023-04-04 22:41:53 | 2023-04-04 21:34:33 | 32 | 13 | jez9ewh | jeyzywh | 12bqlp6 | 12bqlp6 |
[WP] Lucifer never fell from Heaven. He's still just as holy as any other archangel. He's just God's lawyer, and nobody likes lawyers. | Marvin Brist groaned as he pushed himself up from the ground. The surface was warm – far warmer than the hospital bed he’d been lying in for weeks now. It took him a moment to realize his body no longer ached and his skin was healthier.
“What? Where am I?” He touched his face to find most of his wrinkles had disappear... | "You know, I still font get how that stupid rumor stuck..."
He began to St. Peter again.
"Imagine how the humans must feel, at least if they get mistaken for having gone to prison, they can cite paperwork, but NNNOOOOO!" He went off again, pouring a glass of liquer again, despite the fact he was supposed to quit.
"... | ShikakuZetsumei | Iamnoobmeme | 2024-08-14 03:04:35 | 2024-08-14 02:11:57 | 52 | 18 | li0l1md | li0d3ho | 1erm8zi | 1erm8zi |
[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. | When I was 20, I discovered that I had a super power. Took that long to work it out, because it was just *weird*. When I slapped people, they changed their mind on the horrible ideas they had about things. I know, I know, doesn't make sense. Why do you think it took so long for me to figure it out? I wasn't too violent... | Wow, what a beautiful day it is in Washington DC. What could possibly happen today? If given the ability to slap anyone, knowing the rarity of the ability, I would seize it with responsibility, as with great power comes great responsibility. Hearing the news of the absurdity of prohibition, I decided it was time to sla... | Thisnameistrashy | adjammas48 | 2023-02-26 20:02:30 | 2023-02-26 18:33:49 | 57 | 14 | ja4iquo | ja45bfy | 11cjeo9 | 11cjeo9 |
[WP] You are a bartender in a fantasy tavern. Different races have vastly different tolerances for alcohol, so you need to make your drinks have different potencies depending on who you are serving. You just unknowingly served a shot meant for an orc to a changeling disguised as an orc. | I love my job.
Besides the fact that I love people, being a bartender has its perks.
Like getting to know so many different races, places, and stories...for free.
One thing that's a bit hard, and proves to be a great filter for becoming a licensed bartender is drink potency.
After all, a dwarf and half-ling, a ... | "What do you not check IDs here?" The conciliator spat. "This is looking like a class L felony and with everything else you have going on? You'll be lucky if all you lose is your license." The small humming stones that had been flashing along your keys finally slowed and the sudden silence collapsed whatever illusions ... | TheWanderingBook | Much_Board2710 | 2024-08-16 03:32:27 | 2024-08-15 23:52:22 | 19 | 11 | miqur93 | libq54v | 1jffhdm | 1et4ctg |
[WP] Every human the dragon of the forest has interacted with has tried to kill it for one reason or another. So it has no idea what to do when a child walks up to it asks if it wants to play. | The dragon's eyes lingered on the diminutive form of the child, gazing down from its perch upon one of the limbs of the tallest tree of the forest, the life essence from which its scaly guardian drew forth from. Though smaller than the legendary brethren from the mountains and oceans, those same legends created fear a... | I stared down at the small creature, it held a little ball and babbled incoherently; all the others had been mush larger with sharp sticks, wearing shiny metal, and much more aggressive. This one? This was puny and unarmed, it turned to me and tossed the ball at my talons and babbled something, I'd never understood hum... | None | Cutecake141 | 2023-10-14 04:31:18 | 2023-10-14 03:58:05 | 167 | 25 | k4sxyys | k4sumxh | 177g0xj | 177g0xj |
[WP] when you were 16 years old, in the late 18th century, you contracted a severe case of yellow fever. When you got the fever, your family sealed you in their family mausoleum for centuries. Unfortunately, this was the moment you found out you were immortal… | So, turns out I am *in* fact a super.
Which I've never, ever wanted at *all*.
I only find this out because my *half*-siblings followed me home.
Then as I'm about to walk up the pathway to my home, I turn on heel and stare them down.
Mom didn't raise me to be weak.
"What?" I ask the tallest of the group--she looks fa... | Another day of school finally came to an end as I hurried to the parking lot, eager to get home. As I step inside the house, I finally notice them. There they were, six teenagers who looked vaguely familiar, all hanging out in my living room, as if though they always lived here. "What the hell?" Was all I could say, wh... | Zerodaylight-1 | K-popHarryPotterLuvr | 2024-08-04 02:26:26 | 2024-08-04 00:33:43 | 48 | 21 | lge86la | lgdrrf0 | 1ejdwqr | 1ejdwqr |
[WP] Lilith has been summoned by many in the past. Women who want babies, Men who want riches and fame. But never a child. Looking through the child's memories, it's clear to see why he summoned the mother of demons | Lilith could smell the room into which she had been summoned before she could see it. It stank: of cat urine, of spilled beer, of cold, stale cigarette ash. She blinked the afterimages from the lake of fire from her sight and shifted her weight, looking around to see what fraternity basement or divorcée trailer she had... | Suddenly, a short but fat man entered the room with a beer can in his hand, clearly drunk.
"Come here, Otto." He said gesturing to the 4 year old boy in front of me.
He then saw me.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?! Get out of my house RIGHT NOW! Otto, come here, quick!
The child ran to me and grabbed my dress. He was s... | CharlotteIdyllwild | None | 2024-08-09 03:39:00 | 2024-08-08 20:06:10 | 167 | 83 | lh7zxy5 | lh5wle2 | 1enf82c | 1enf82c |
[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. | 'I am about to meet Lucifer. Satan. The Devil.'
Those words resounded in my head as I was led down the hotel hallway dressed in my birthday - and deathday - suit. The only thing I had on me was the belt still hanging around my neck.
Two guards flanked me on either side, humanoid creatures dressed in suits and carryin... | The devil himself knows that the pages in your files are written by those who were recognized as the winners.
As the matches were struck, each file, each word on each page was written at the behest of another.
Living in a world filled with good doing bad against good and with bad being kind to good, is not something ... | JohnStoneTypes | Takeyouonajourney9 | 2023-01-16 06:39:42 | 2023-01-16 05:08:03 | 82 | 47 | j4k1gtb | j4jse1u | 10d2vy0 | 10d2vy0 |
[WP]The Wishmaker's Key. It's like the Monkey's Paw, but instead of just flat out granting your wish (and doing it in the worst way possible), it only opens up the most reasonable opportunity to get what you wished for. | There were a lot of rumoured ways to have your wildest dreams, all with just enough truth to them to spark hope in the lost. Wishing stars asked for nothing but a keen eye and pure heart. Genies needed nothing more than careful wording. Birthdays offered everyone the same opportunity every year.
Whispered wished offe... | **The Wishmaker’s Key**
*A trio of disturbing tales that hold a mirror up to your innermost fears, and that shine light on the bleakness of the human condition. Join us today for the first of these horrific stories, starring Richard Bankins, a milquetoast layabout who wishes to change his ways. A chance encounter with... | Writteninsanity | Rupertfroggington | 2023-03-15 15:54:16 | 2023-03-15 15:23:26 | 94 | 68 | jcb2xg9 | jcay12x | 11rvdum | 11rvdum |
[WP] "Dragon, I've come to slay you!" Confused, you look at the unarmored child pointing a wooden sword at you. | It was odd. No one had come to speak with me in 30 years, and now there was a small elf child pointing a sword at me. He was grinning ear to ear and clearly playing.
I lowered my huge head to make eye contact, "Hello, little one. How did you come here?"
The child pointed at the entrance, "I followed the melted snow! ... | "Teacher, what have you would for me?"
You lift your mighty head from underneath the cloak you are wearing now. "What?" What the hell kind of question was that? Cale still talked like that for some goddam reason. Sentiment maybe. You flick your green body a few times and get up from your sleep. You weren't doing gre... | BoneYardBirdy | Flywheel977 | 2025-02-14 18:43:57 | 2025-02-14 16:38:20 | 128 | 10 | mcrvlzy | mcr5us3 | 1ipa2px | 1ipa2px |
[WP] You are an eldritch god living in a mortal body. However, you and a friend got mugged, and now they want to know why your blood is black and how you could just walk off being stabbed in the throat. | That bastard cut my throat. Morak-Arrkh had slept deep inside the void that kept him imprisoned for over a millennia. Only to be awoken by a pair of thugs brandishing a knife and threatening to cut his throat. And they did. He couldn’t believe any human would be suicidal enough to attack an Eldritch god, one of death a... | It happened a long time ago, when your world was young. You were a gleam in the eye of a protozoa, and I was the darkness across the solar dish.
I fed deep on the thoughts and dreams of disparate stars and planets. I was content, happy as you can understand it.
But I touched the minds of greater beings, older, larger... | None | Averander | 2023-08-16 23:23:12 | 2023-08-16 21:24:23 | 27 | 13 | null | jwhm045 | 15sr3s0 | 15sr3s0 |
[WP] For the last year, you've been enjoying the life of adventure and heroism in a fantasy world that you've always dreamed of. That is, until the healer in your party accidentally removed a perception curse that's been with you since the day of your summoning. | When asked to name things they associate with Halflings most people would say “Healthy eater” first and “Good-natured” second. But “Adventurous” wouldn’t be one of those things. That is unless one would be friends with a particular Halfling named Jilly, who was not only an adventurer but also one of the bravest and luc... | Twas a merry day, and a merrier night
The tavern was lively, the people packed tight
Sarah my healer, my friend, stood stock still
Never afraid, I the hero, gave the crowd their fill
​
The dragon oh mighty, stood not a chance
Though the dragon's flame hungrily licked at my stance
I raised thy blade and he... | None | procrastinating_eggs | 2023-05-16 11:38:20 | 2023-05-16 04:05:35 | 21 | 15 | jkcpvuy | jkbqpx7 | 13ica1i | 13ica1i |
[WP] You were once the Lord Lich, but after finding love you faked your death to settle down as a farmer. With your minions you can plow and sow many fields, after many years and burying your lover you’ve come to peace with the world and just in time for the heroes have finally found you. | The rose bushes were blooming. Flowers opened slowly with the passing days, revealing red hearts and soft petals. A floral fragrance settled over the garden, covering the faint scent of sweet decay.
Ariel was sitting on his porch, watching the sun rise when they came.
One of the many distant figures harvesting the ... | As I stare at the monument I erected in memory of my beloved child, the memories of our time together flow incessantly - from the moment I found her during the siege of Lunateron, to our flight to the land of Chrom, the twenty-five years I spent raising her as her own - and I can't help but lament that she does not des... | driftea | Hatoreesuu | 2023-06-24 11:35:53 | 2023-06-24 11:17:55 | 379 | 90 | jpc685e | jpc4pll | 14hitwn | 14hitwn |
[WP] You bought a house for insanely cheap, only to find it haunted by an ancient horror. After years of stubborn conflict, you have declared a truce to jointly battle a far greater evil: the local HOA. | My high heels clicked loudly against stone tiles as I threw open the first door to the cellar I marched down the hallway. Blood oozed down the walls, but I ignored it. You would think that the All Seeing Horror of the Beyond could come up with a better way to scare me than illusionary blood. You would also be wrong, ap... | Ten years of pranking each other had led up to this.
At first, it had started with ill intent. Spirit wanted me out, and I wanted Spirit out. But then it became more fun, just to see how we could catch each other off guard. And now, I was in front of Spirit, asking him for help.
“The HOA wants to make me remove that ... | NekrounRose | Nomyad777 | 2023-02-28 01:54:34 | 2023-02-27 19:37:56 | 199 | 100 | jaapwq6 | ja961fy | 11di59m | 11di59m |
[WP] A tyrant emperor, bored out of his mind because he has already conquered every planet in the galaxy, has the brilliant idea of deconquering all the planets just so he can conquer them again. The rebellion is extremely angry and confused by this. | “I can not in good conscience, keep up the loss of life and materials it took to hold the worlds I conquered. I hereby withdraw my empire back to its borders that I inherited from my father. Don’t be foolish and make me wish to return.” The screen displaying the message that just played on over 200 worlds turned off. T... | The rebellion didn't know at first, being an decentralised anarcho-collective, who was bankrolling them. It tended to the dropped from the town forum agendas in favour how their newly won rights would be utilised.
As they approached the end game the revelation that they were played from the outset and those expected r... | ManEmperorOfGod | None | 2023-04-03 00:56:19 | 2023-04-02 22:07:57 | 143 | 13 | jeqao8d | null | 129ofkn | 129ofkn |
[WP] "are you another so called hero? here to save the princess from my clutches?" no, i am but a simple scholar. i just want to know why you would kidnap a princess in the first place" | The Dreadlord clutched his mace tightly as the doors of his hall opened slowly yet steadily. He prepared himself to meet the foolish hero who would dare rescue the princess from captivity. Footsteps echoed through the room as in walked-
\- an aged man wearing a robe, spectacles and carrying a bag filled with scrolls.
... | Edit: I realized I botched Heather near the end and swapped her to Harold. I corrected those parts, so the three ladies have dinner together.
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"Excuse me... Could you repeat that?!" I cleaned my ears out in bewilderment, waiting for more.
"Nay, dear villainess. I'm not here to fight your horde of knights and vari... | SirPiecemaker | ChloeWrites | 2023-08-06 16:25:21 | 2023-08-06 13:55:42 | 84 | 49 | jv1nz8g | jv12z1n | 15jnrjx | 15jnrjx |
[WP] You're the adoptive father of an Angel and Demon. You found out that your Demon child was kidnapped by a religious group. You arrive at their church only to find your Angel child consoling her Demon brother as dead cultists are littlered around the church and the leader terrified in a corner. | I always told them to stay away from churches. They’re no good, I said. They’re dangerous. The people inside aren’t safe. If you see a church, walk the other way. Stained glass is beautiful because it’s a warning.
And yet despite having repeated myself for over fifteen years, a church is where I find them.
There’s ... | Marcus leapt out of his truck, leaving the sirens blaring and the car door wide open. He sprinted up the church steps with his heavy pack slung over one shoulder. On a regular day, it would slow him down, but it was not a regular day. They had his son.
He swung open the church doors, hoping against hope that he had m... | teawithmochi | immapunchayobuns | 2023-08-04 17:48:06 | 2023-08-04 17:14:28 | 76 | 49 | jusfrdm | jusabvt | 15ht8vp | 15ht8vp |
[WP] "You thought I liked you?! Is that why you kept wearing those tight outfits and tilting my chin up with your sword and doing that villainous murmur thing in my ear?? Are you crazy?! What the hell do you mean enemies to lovers?! You burnt down my entire village, I'm trying to kill you!!" | "You thought I would come to *like* you?" Evan exclaimed. "Is that why you kept wearing those tight outfits and tilting my chin up with your claws and doing that villainous murmur thing in my ear?"
Aithne blinked several times, the look of exhilaration that she had worn during their brief battle vanishing from her fac... | After years and years of battling him, I did not expect to hear those words when I had finally won. I've spent the last fifteen years trying to exact my revenge for what he did to my people. I was only a teenager when he came to my village and slaughtered everyone and burned it all to the ground. I can remember watchin... | MuffleFirs | Sybarite984 | 2024-04-14 16:52:18 | 2024-04-14 16:38:04 | 322 | 35 | kzjz3tx | kzjwqb8 | 1c3w69h | 1c3w69h |
[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 ... | "How?" Asked Tom, real name Azcapal and ancient beyond any definition of old, masquerading as a student in a class about South American history.
"I'm a history teacher, I cannot condone invention, only hard facts and astute deductions made from said facts," replied miss Naeger, the teacher. Middle aged, cold character... | SOdhner | Ataraxidermist | 2023-02-15 22:39:07 | 2023-02-15 18:07:13 | 1,019 | 428 | j8p1dnv | j8nuuwi | 1131988 | 1131988 |
[WP] You're a mostly forgotten god whose only believer is a ten-year-old girl. Every night she offers you a bit of her dinner or a shiny rock in exchange for her family surviving the night and every night you accept because she's never in danger Tonight, however, you actually have to work for it. | Forgotten by the masses, there is only one who is worthy of my loyalty. In my weakened state, she shared what little food she had. Where my den had been robbed, she brought me new treasures to hold. Her selfless nature, a blessing upon those in her presence. With such care, I have grown stronger.
Still connected to ... | It wasn't hard to do as a god. It was just terrifying that I actually had to do it.
The beast didn't know any better. It was a winter storm and it broke in to stay warm. The beast was that of a father carrying his babies. The mother was long lost in the snow and beast was desperate.
Hearing the screams shot my anxiet... | cm_renee | CameoShadowness | 2023-10-23 19:07:14 | 2023-10-23 18:58:57 | 105 | 37 | k6578jq | k655ujs | 17eo460 | 17eo460 |
[WP] You always got strange looks whenever you fed the neighborhood ravens. "I give them food, they give me company," you'd say. One day, a raven excitedly comes up to you and whispers, "A neighbor plots against you, my lord." | In the heart of New York City, I found myself trapped in the soul-sucking routine of a 9-5 office job, yearning for a spark of excitement to break the monotony. Amidst the sea of paperwork, ringing phones, and the drone of office gossip, my one solace was the peculiar habit I had developed over time. Every morning, on ... | What is so great about feeding ravens, you ask me? You trouble my decidedly bird-brained interests and question my inclination to sanity. You have already passed me on as a somewhat stoic intrusion on your otherwise nominal ‘human’ fantasy of what it means to truly live well with your surroundings. You hound a million ... | cj12327 | Novel_Ad1561 | 2023-09-02 14:31:30 | 2023-09-02 10:39:55 | 94 | 21 | jyt9125 | jysi0xf | 167njgm | 167njgm |
[WP] You're walking down a dark forest path when suddenly. A deer comes into view. Yet something seems completely wrong. It's just standing there, it seems to have human looking teeth and eyes and other body features that shouldn't belong. You turn and see on a trunk "It is not a deer" | It was supposed to be a quick walk through the forest. A shortcut. But the forest, it would seem, had other plans. No other reason to explain why at that exact moment, the deer would walk onto the path.
Except deer isn't the right word. It was... wrong. I saw the teeth at first - they were human, exposed, and grinning... | I saw failure. I saw the students turn to each other for comfort, the teachers talking amongst themselves. Their hushed discussions so nearly audible that the groups of students slowly gravitated closer and closer to them.
Whys and hows and what can I dos were asked by the groups.
There's nothing to be done, the teac... | SirPiecemaker | DeneilYeong | 2023-01-14 16:16:28 | 2023-01-14 15:41:08 | 177 | 82 | j4brksi | j4bme24 | 10bnq6c | 10bnq6c |
[WP] Your superpower isn’t anything special. You can make stuff disappear behind your back then pull it back out again. When a friend at a party asks you to do it to them it sounds like a great laugh. But when you pull them back out they look older, disheveled, and are frantic to be sent back. | “You mean … I’ve been sending objects to the future?”
Alex had returned looking quite ragged, and nearly passed out. We had urgently asked everyone else to leave while I attended to him.
“Yes!” Alex replied, “and after you sent me, I’ve been in contact with others. Or … will be in contact with them … oh, it’s all so... | "Are you sure? This isn't our scene. Wouldn't you much rather play Mario Kart in your parents basement?" I exclaim while my knee moves as quickly as my heart is beating. I feel myself sink deeper in the passenger seat of Darren's Accord. "Dude, just chill. Don't you think we're too old to be doing that every weekend. J... | SilverSneakers | SmittyThee1 | 2023-01-26 07:56:04 | 2023-01-26 02:30:37 | 346 | 98 | j5xrd46 | j5ws3sk | 10lcgjs | 10lcgjs |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night, your arm hangs over the side of your bed. It’s pitch black & your room is shrouded in deep shadow. Something unseen seizes your hand. You grasp it tightly, knowing that first impressions are important & a firm, confident handshake establishes dominance. | You're still groggy from being woken, but you remember your father's advice. "Son," he used to say, "a firm handshake makes a good first impression. Whether it's a business deal or after a good fight, it's a sign of respect!". His chest would always swell with pride at those words. Your throat tightens for a moment fro... | "I always liked confidence," a deep voice said from beneath the bed.
Through the haze of waking up, it hit me that there really was a stranger underneath me gripping my hand. "Who are you?" I said groggily, keeping my hand firmly entrenched in his.
"It doesn't matter who I am, only that I'm here. It's a rather specia... | Christylian | armageddon_20xx | 2023-02-26 01:35:40 | 2023-02-26 01:03:28 | 293 | 38 | ja14bd3 | ja10an4 | 11bvx53 | 11bvx53 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a fantasy world. After a week in jail for (YOUR CHOICE), your true punishment has come. Death by the Dragon's flame. One by one, you watch men be scorched. It is finally your turn. The dragon reaches its head down, but instead of death, you get a warm lick on the forehead. | Has it really been a week already? I could still feel the dripping of the kings blood from my hands after all this time, even in the countless chains that held me trapped to these walls. I could hear the screaming still, or perhaps that’s coming from outside. The sound of men being burned by a dragon in the court yard ... | Well, they'd locked me up. Truth be told, I landed in their dungeon in record time. You see I'm a transmigrator, a man from another world. That world wasn't Earth though. No, I came from a world called Orth. Earth was the world I came from originally.
You see, this wasn't my first transmigration. The gods for some rea... | TheSingingFoxy | Koyoteelaughter | 2023-01-09 21:58:01 | 2023-01-09 20:02:47 | 18 | 13 | j3o01js | j3ngzl3 | 1072uob | 1072uob |
[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!” | "Well, yes. But Mark promised he'd lead us to the real treasure."
"You named the demon, MARK? What is wrong with you?"
The demon growled. "Jeez. I'm right here."
"Well he told me his name, and I just couldn't pronounce it. We agreed on Mark."
Rebecca sighed. "My fucking god, you're insane. It's obvious that the str... | Edward glared with rage. His leader Roger took a
tentative half step back. Roger saw Edwards face get that angery once before. The king that faced Edwards wrath that time had been in the stockades by the end of the night. Seeing that face now made Roger realize he was now quickly running out of options if he wanted ... | TA_Account_12 | LeadingJudgment2 | 2023-04-20 15:18:49 | 2023-04-20 15:00:20 | 30 | 19 | jh0u6zf | jh0rdu1 | 12svegk | 12svegk |
[WP] Your family member has been abducted and replaced by an alien who is really bad at their job of pretending to be them. However, you don't complain because the alien is still a vast improvement over the original | I don't flinch anymore when I hear you come home from work. I don't have to worry about our money anymore because, instead of turning on the latest game and swearing at how you heard this team or that team was a sure bet, you just switch on the news and watch it quietly, intently. You don't drink anymore. Maybe your sp... | “Ricky, what the hell are you doing?” I yelled in frustration. The alien, a crude replica of the brother I once knew, stared back at me as he picked each onion up, one by one, and dropped them on the supermarket floor.
“Who is Ricky?” the alien replied.
“I can’t believe this, IGDOS gave me a Replaceable that can’t ev... | Smileyfax | TheMamaSloth | 2023-03-04 18:07:35 | 2023-03-04 16:59:44 | 186 | 75 | jawtzse | jawk0g9 | 11hxyqk | 11hxyqk |
[WP] First contact is established between aliens and humanity. And it turns out that all other intelligent species are, for lack of a better term, Kaiju. Being at the bare minimum over 300 meters in height and having a variety of supernatural abilities on top of advanced technology. | It came as a surprise to all of us, all 7 billion of us, to find out on one fateful day that Earth was really just a grave.
It turns out, that all of earth's greatest peaks, and deepest valleys, were all marks left by the Oethers, every time they came to bury their dead. The grand canyon? Everest? Even the oceans, as ... | It was a Friday night, bitingly cold for March. Every year you'd hear about the record lows and highs, the staying power the summer heat would have across the world with the rising oceans and melting ice caps. Earth's history had been divided up into two points, before and after meeting the real stars of the universe.
... | lkwai | DeneilYeong | 2023-03-11 20:44:35 | 2023-03-11 19:05:18 | 446 | 178 | jbujdf8 | jbu5lrx | 11op7sd | 11op7sd |
[WP] You're the first test subject for an experimental super soldier serum. You are told the truth only after you transform into something not quite human anymore. | I was wrong.
My body felt fundamentally wrong. I don’t know what they did, but it wasn’t what I signed up for. I was supposed to be here for a few blood tests, some small genetic research for some gene abnormality I had. I thought they were giving me some local anesthetic.
Whatever they had done to me was strange. I... | The warm western wind sneaks into the apartment through an open window. The curtains, which The Soldier only now notices are not made of cloth but taped together newspapers, crinkle and threaten to tear apart.
The Doctor tells him that the procedure is complete. They are not at the military base like The Soldier imag... | Mindless_Company_833 | ApprehensivePen | 2023-08-06 00:59:02 | 2023-08-06 00:54:21 | 64 | 22 | juz088p | juyzml6 | 15j8mzq | 15j8mzq |
[WP] Turns out that Hell has no fire, torture, or frozen wastelands to endure. The only actual punishment is having to spend an eternity with the other assorted jerks that ended up there as well. | (GARCIN, INEZ, and ESTELLE enters, accompanied by the VALET, and glances around)
GARCIN: So here we are?
VALET: Yes, Mr. Garcin.
GARCIN: And this is what it looks like?
VALET: Yes.
GARCIN: Ikea furniture, I observe... Well, well, I dare say one gets used to it in time.
VALET: Some do, some don't.
GARCIN: Are all... | I was a good person. That's what I told myself, anyway. I never lied, or killed anyone. Well, ok, I used the company copier to print some stuff off, but everyone did that. I might have lost my temper once or twice, but I never hurt anyone. Not really. I was a *good guy*. I paid taxes, and donated to charity. I mowed my... | SMJ01 | I_Arman | 2023-08-28 07:30:57 | 2023-08-28 05:16:56 | 77 | 48 | jy2949m | jy1ynnx | 1638ce8 | 1638ce8 |
[WP] "Chess? I've been around since before humans invented the concept of games, so a game as old as chess would be be in my favour without a doubt. I would advice you to choose again, and pick something you're familiar with." Death said as they presented every board and video game ever created. | "Chess," I said again.
His cold gaze sought mine, but I was busy rifling through the boxes to find the set. I thought it would be a nice, shiny glass case with fancy figurines. But, nah. Just cheap plastic. I blew some dust off the box, to the side so I wouldn't bother the bony figure in the robes across from me. I gu... | "Very well Lord Death" I responded to respect his title.
I looked at all of them carefully. The amount of games humans have created over the centuries was truly mind boggling. Older games from centuries ago covered in layers dust, compared to the newer games shining in the gleam of torchlit flames neatly organized alo... | Tyreaus | LordNightFang | 2024-01-04 02:39:32 | 2024-01-03 22:53:36 | 162 | 112 | kg81xt8 | kg71u6a | 18xsoh8 | 18xsoh8 |
[WP] "Good wish, you still have three wishes." A lightbulb goes off in my head. "So, you're saying if I make a selfless wish like that one, it doesn't count?" The genie visibly relaxes, as if I was the first person to connect the dots. "Yes, exactly." | “That seems easy to exploit. What if I wish for my parents to become incredibly wealthy?” I asked, trying to figure out a loophole to this rule. The genie sighed, their earlier optimism about me fading. I had probably made myself look bad, but in all honesty, I was only curious. I didn’t have any grand plan to exploit ... | It’s been a hot minute since someone found a genie. Not since Yousseff Al Salahadina Ayoube used the power of a genie to unite Syria and drive out the occupying Crusaders.
Two thousand years later, I found one. I’m no one special. Not an archeologist digging through old ruins, or a soldier stumbling onto somethi... | sadnesslaughs | Sir-Planks-Alot | 2023-10-06 14:23:17 | 2023-10-06 14:15:22 | 1,115 | 199 | k3px7k2 | k3pvzoa | 171bsrm | 171bsrm |
[WP] Humans are the proverbial "Sleeping Giant," and thus make remarkably good deterrents. A common tactic of the Galactic Federation is to simply call in a human warship, such as the USS "Fuck Around and, FindOut," and simply let it sit nearby. Peace Talks happen within the week. | Times of peace are best cherished when they come. Likewise, fought for when they are lost.
Peace was maintained in many ways when it brought itself to the galaxy at large. Diplomacy was the favorite of any relatively advanced species; they had learned through great effort what sorts of terrible things happen to th... | “Zorvax and Xalaxites are getting into it again in Sector 37AZ,” Zorba said while checking reports on his monitor.
“That’s what like fourth time this week?” Yulok asked scratching one of his heads with his middle tentacle.
“Fifth actually,” Zorba said looking over the reports.
“Is it time?” Yulok asked. “Should we c... | AuriExarch | Nellthe | 2023-03-06 23:15:27 | 2023-03-06 22:31:23 | 908 | 259 | jb771k5 | jb70ypq | 11keke0 | 11keke0 |
[WP] Humans are the proverbial "Sleeping Giant," and thus make remarkably good deterrents. A common tactic of the Galactic Federation is to simply call in a human warship, such as the USS "Fuck Around and, FindOut," and simply let it sit nearby. Peace Talks happen within the week. | The Sciophen were an enemy that seemed without end. Hivemind insectoids of the planet of Kelendatho, defending 'their' territories with a rush of bodies that all were perfectly happy to dispose of for the 'greater good' of their hive. So bad was fighting these things that the Galactic Council simply made it law that al... | “Zorvax and Xalaxites are getting into it again in Sector 37AZ,” Zorba said while checking reports on his monitor.
“That’s what like fourth time this week?” Yulok asked scratching one of his heads with his middle tentacle.
“Fifth actually,” Zorba said looking over the reports.
“Is it time?” Yulok asked. “Should we c... | Githka | Nellthe | 2023-03-07 00:25:38 | 2023-03-06 22:31:23 | 400 | 259 | jb7glqc | jb70ypq | 11keke0 | 11keke0 |
[WP] You've been summoned as a hero of legend to save a medieval fantasy world from evil. Same old, same old. However, it very quickly dawns on you that a medieval world's idea of "evil" is quite incompatible with what you, a modern person, would consider evil. | “She’s a redhead.”
I stare blankly at the barkeep. “What?”
“AND,” pipes up a patron, lofting a mug of beer over his head, “she’s a woman. Can’t be having THAT!”
Around the smoky little tavern, heads bob in agreement with a murmur of assent echoing around the room.
“Okaaay? So…she’s a red headed woman who, what, to... | The night has come, the torches are lit, the crowd is chanting.
"Smite the wicked, bless the pure of heart."
The circle has been drawn with the entrails of animals, the stench is magnified by the heat, the miasma whirls as the voices get louder.
"Hunt the shadows, deliver us from evil."
The old man stood in the mid... | ladyeclectic79 | Ataraxidermist | 2023-04-24 14:34:09 | 2023-04-24 14:01:29 | 820 | 262 | jhiv0f6 | jhiqft3 | 12xda29 | 12xda29 |
[WP] You, the God of War, are on a rampage across a battlefield. As you face down a terrified army, a small chihuahua charges out from them, and does its' best attempt at a howl at you. | I had almost finished the last of the army, covered in blood and out of breath. Inhabiting a mortals body was worse than just doing it in my own. I walked slowly to the last man standing and raised my blade ready to end his suffering.
He throws a small creature at me in desperation. It was fluffy almost like Cerberus... | *What a pitiful excuse for an army.*
Bodies lay scattered about the grassy plane, torn asunder by my might. Mortal men are but wheat to my scythe when they are foolish enough to draw my ire.
*Their rotting corpses would make for a prodigious crop in the coming spring,* I mused.
Lost in my thoughts I no longer felt t... | Doodles4_Life | TheCatMeows13 | 2023-01-19 00:20:32 | 2023-01-19 00:13:46 | 42 | 25 | j4xrx3j | j4xqxwh | 10fkadm | 10fkadm |
[WP] "Rules are, you can't—" "Yeah, yeah," you cut off, "I can't wish for more wishes. Should I also assume I can't wish I can wish for more wishes?" At this, the genie pauses. | "....yyyyyyyyyyes. Yes, you should definitely assume that," says the genie, nervously.
"...you seem quite nervous about it."
"It, um, it's in the rules *now*."
"But it wasn't in the rules when I originally summoned you, was it?"
"..."
"I wish that, in any genie-human interaction, the rules that apply are the rules... | There was a brief silence. I look into the genie's eyes. It looks partly confused, partly surprised. There seems to be something more but I can't point it out exactly.
"So should we cut the chase and start making wish? First-"
"But how? How do you know?" The genie cuts me off, asking in a shaky tone
"It is simple. I... | CCC_037 | ultradolp | 2023-05-04 04:49:47 | 2023-05-04 04:34:49 | 381 | 104 | jisltyv | jiskf9m | 1376bhd | 1376bhd |
[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. | My head curls to the side. I don't know him now. Maybe in the womb, something growing, something I felt I knew. The cloak of ignorance let me feel like I loved him with no doubt.
But his eyes are all too familiar, and I can smell fire on his breath. Yellow slitted eyes and scales across his chest. Yes, I've met him be... | The chase was over, the battle was done, the heroic paladin blade was driven into the heart of the accursed dragon. No more shall the neighboring lands fear the retribution of the foul beast for it was humanity victory that laid to rest thee.
"This isn't... the last you'll see... of me, Human" The dragon coughed out... | Western_Client123 | Echomusingdragon5377 | 2024-03-25 11:14:53 | 2024-03-25 09:36:41 | 142 | 41 | kwgxn43 | kwgov32 | 1bn7vv4 | 1bn7vv4 |
[WP] The timer dings, the door releases. Finally! After 20 years cut off from the world, will reality match the multitude of scenarios I’ve played out in my mind? Will the surface be livable? One thing is for sure, this Y2K bunker delivered as promised and kept me alive. | Absolute power corrupts absolutely is what some far off priest and mages tell their king when they hear of me. While it is true that power does tend to corrupt people that is not always the case. Take me for example a humble Dragonborn. I am the most powerful arch mage that has ever existed. Even those in the age of ar... | What is power without some tension? After all if you don't want to stay like everyone else you have to compromise on something. This is where the "power generators" come in play. The government does not want you to know, but there are two types of people. Those who live and those who prey on living. In order to become ... | Raw_Venus | None | 2024-03-12 02:23:47 | 2024-03-11 22:20:51 | 39 | 28 | kugrk4u | null | 1bcet9d | 1juwfep |
[WP] 5 years ago, you accidentally ran over a poor school student with your truck. You've carried the guilt all that time until one day, that very student knocks on your door, awoken from their coma. Rather than being angry, they thank you for inspiring their bestselling fantasy series | "AARRGGHH!!" i awoke with a scream, memories of last night flood through my mind. Of being cornered by Night Master, some new, upstart vigilante trying to make a name for himself. Of Night Master beating the crap out of me and not stopping, even when i'm curled up and not fighting back.
I try to sit up, but every part... | Jill Ryerson beamed at me from my doorstep, a copy of "Stodgey and the Mushroom Stone" in one hand and a pair of crutches in the other.
"This is my book! Before the accident, I'd never wanted to write. I hated English class. I hated reading. The doctors said I changed because of the head injury. I tell ya, I just star... | Thanatofobia | armageddon_20xx | 2025-01-11 19:16:06 | 2023-03-13 03:09:53 | 560 | 24 | m6mcl4l | jc0gb9i | 1hz0cf3 | 11pue97 |
[WP] On an interstellar cruise of 200 years the 1st class passengers have cryosleep. 2nd class have to serve the 1st but also have cryosleep. You are a born 3rd class passenger, your grandparents boarded decades ago. You find a secret deck with lots of mysterious cryo passengers never seen before… | Nothing goes to waste.
Not when the habitation module is churning out nutrient paste and O2 at twice its capacity. Honestly, you'd think Interstellar Pleasure Corps would design for an increase in population. Whatever. Questioning the founders isn't my job.
Fixing their fuckups is.
A kid I recognize runs in my dire... | I set my tray between Ma, who was already munching her French fries, and pa, who was still cutting Tom’s chicken nuggets into little bite sized chunks.
I forked my food from one side of the tray to the other, hoping they wouldn’t comment on my lack of appetite. I hadn’t had my first smoke of the day, and back in those... | jpb103 | None | 2023-05-23 22:01:48 | 2023-05-23 18:27:11 | 570 | 45 | null | null | 13pvkfk | 13pvkfk |
[WP] Your sibling, your parents' favorite child, died prematurely. They are inconsolable. They've barely even paid attention to you. Now, during the funeral, they forgot your name - again. It's your turn to 'say a few words', so you do. | Very dark clouds corrupted the sky at my "Sister's" funeral. At least that is what they made me call her. Siblings by definition are children who share at least one of the same parents; I share zero.
From the very beginning of my life it was set in stone that my sister was the favorite child. She had a very distinct m... | Twins - known for having unbreakable bonds.
When Adam and I were babies, lots of people assumed we were actually identical. Of course, with boy and girl twins, that assumption can only go on for so long... Especially when your family has ideas of what "a man's place" in the world is vs "a woman's place."
I'm five min... | kyvorra | xylophonesRus | 2024-05-10 14:25:09 | 2024-05-10 13:41:16 | 161 | 109 | l3fp9tq | l3fia02 | 1coi8d4 | 1coi8d4 |
[WP] You had the perfect dirt to blackmail them and sent them an anonymous threat. Instead of money, you receive a photograph of your child entering their school. | A promise is a promise.
Talkers make threats. I've never been much of a talker. I make promises. I don't think Governor McCullah understood that when he responded the way he did. Typical for a political dirtbag to threaten harm upon a child.
"I know," my daughter, Penny, says as I slap the picture down on the dinner... | Dear Mr. Michaels,
We both know that isn't your real name, but understand that I do have that information on you and I could bring this whole operation down on your head at any time. Your last three years tracking secrets in my country will be completely useless if you're caught right now.
Attached is a set of docu... | jpb103 | Writteninsanity | 2023-08-09 13:15:30 | 2023-08-09 13:08:14 | 118 | 73 | jvfs350 | jvfr4p8 | 15m8o3z | 15m8o3z |
[WP]As a nerd,you always got bullied by a classmate.After a few years,your appearance became more appealing and masculine.You went on a blind date and were surprised to find out that your bully was your date, and she happened to be shy and didn't recognise you.You decided to go along with the date. | I waited before the restaurant.
I have a blind date here, and I am really curious whom I shall meet, as my colleagues she's "perfect" for me.
As I waited, someone tapped me on the shoulder.
"Hi...Are you Dan?", she asked.
She was this petite woman, shyly glancing at me, fidgeting.
I froze.
I recognized her.... | The king clothed himself in his finest silk garments. He did not enjoy such careless spending, but it was considered in bad taste to come before a dragon in ordinary wear. Pricier still was it to move the dragon's belongings beneath the castle, just a handful of days before the lair was cleared of the manyfold shelves ... | TheWanderingBook | HunterDarmagegon | 2024-05-24 10:31:32 | 2023-12-02 21:04:01 | 56 | 21 | l5g9x5w | kbq8hbp | 1czh86n | 188jeot |
[WP] Goofy and Mickey Mouse wake up to find themselves in a Tarantino movie. | I stretched lazily as I made my rounds around the restaurant, inspecting if all was in order. The night was warm and I had a fair amount of pep in my step when suddenly, I heard something - a noise, just from around the corner. A scratching of a sort, like a swarm of rats running through a wall. I placed my hand on my ... | It's been a month since I have been working as a night guard in the Pizzaplex. It's not really my dream job, but it helps pay the bills. Hell, the pay is a bit higher because the place provides a variety of entertainment venues for the kids and adults alike, from restaurants and stalls providing delicious food and drin... | SirPiecemaker | 73ff94 | 2023-08-30 07:56:31 | 2023-08-30 07:23:32 | 387 | 103 | null | jycfgid | 13xbgq7 | 16546qp |
[WP] “Why should I care what you think, dad? Humans only live for a hundred years if they’re lucky! Me and mom will be here for thousands!” | *"Heroes!"* The booming voice of the titan of a man with glowing eyes seated on a golden throne startled us awake. *"I have summoned you here to ask that you save the world I watch over. The laws that bind gods are strict, and I may not lay a finger upon it to enact my will. Thus, I have selected five souls from a diff... | “But…you could’ve been *anything*.”
They stared at me, 4 sets of eyes widened with shock or squired in confusion. 4 sets of furrowed brows.
“I don’t *want* to be anything else.”
“Well, I just thought—“ said Kenzie.
Rob cut in “I mean we all have *those* days, and you have the opportunity—“
I cut them off with... | Jyx_The_Berzer_King | SmolFaerieBoi | 2023-02-27 08:21:07 | 2023-02-27 07:30:27 | 87 | 54 | null | null | 6sbzos | savbcw |
[WP] America now follows other countries in requiring 1year mandatory service upon turning 18, except it is working retail instead of going to war. A young teen just started his draft where he would have to man the stations on Black Friday. | Car headlights hit against mucky storefront windows and broke into blinding points of starlight that Jeremy had to squint to see past. He stood thirty feet from the automatic doors, which were still locked at the frame. Didn't make it any safer. Jeremy's whole body was tense, and goosebumps rose the hair on his forearm... | They told me there would be a great silence, and then a great rumble. I had spent the first portion of my time as a new-hire learning war stories from orientation videos. Where an elderly man with a crooked neck and a popeye body spoke in word salad.
“When you’re out there just remember that not only are you serving... | velabas | None | 2024-03-23 04:34:34 | 2024-03-23 03:22:54 | 19 | 11 | kw5mdi4 | kw5dzxx | 1blhp5e | 1blhp5e |
[WP] Your fairy godmother isn't a wise old woman or cute and small with wings. She's dressed in a business suit, holding a briefcase and coffee cup, and has a very no-nonsense attitude. | The car radio played cheery pop music while tears streamed down Finn's cheeks. All criticisms he had heard before: he had a phony smile, he was stiff and wooden, he had emotionless eyes. That's the second role he had lost to that terrible actor Andrew. He pounded the steering wheel.
 ... | Miranda's hair tickled her shoulders and left weeping willow-like shadows in the reflection of her coffee. Another interview tossed because of a stupid question. Just because she didn't have a great tale of "the customer is always right" shouldn't mean she's disqualified to be a manager at Starbucks. She sipped her cof... | None | WritersofRohan17 | 2023-01-06 00:12:27 | 2023-01-05 23:23:28 | 45 | 31 | null | j34chzf | 10498q8 | 10498q8 |
[WP] An entire city was wiped off the map by a disaster that took 100,000 lives. They were then all reincarnated in a fantasy realm as various species, with full memories intact. Yes: This is the story of a City-Wide Isekai. | Through wisps of snow and over jagged rock, the traveler pushed on. Coming to a rest at an overhang, the lone man kicked a few sticks into a pile, and with a deep breath, blew into his outstretched palm. Sparks and a wave of heat eminated from his palm and strike the sticks, igniting with a soft *phwoom*, casting soft ... | It is opening night.
In the center of the fair a dragon cranes his long neck high above the rides, lets moonlight slide over his scales like a jug of milk being poured. Master, a humanoid bug in top hat and red waistcoat, standing by the dragon’s clawed feet, laughs and slaps his six hands together and says, “Let ther... | pharodae | Rupertfroggington | 2023-01-31 16:47:18 | 2023-01-31 15:06:03 | 202 | 61 | j6nn289 | j6n75c9 | 10pyb4o | 10pyb4o |
[WP] The men in your family die the moment they turn 18, due to a curse cast on one of your ancestors by a witch. You turned 18 a week ago and are still living, and as a result a descendant of the witch has arrived to figure out why you didn't die. | The witch looked around my room for a while after I had let her in. Then, around my house. After a while, she turned to me. “Where is he?”
“Where is who?” I asked.
“The boy who lives here!” she demanded.
“There is no boy who lives here,” I said. “There’s only me.”
The witch pulled a book from her satchel, skimming... | # "To be Alive"
​
1/?
Some people are just, really unlucky. Maybe it’s an innate thing, maybe it’s just a bunch of dice rolls, but as unlucky as you may feel, you probably can’t compare the curse put on my family what was probably eons ago.
See, if this is a fairytale, it’s a Brothers Grimm one. The stor... | morpherthewolf | Evelyn_Of_Iris | 2023-04-21 17:32:45 | 2023-04-21 09:01:36 | 49 | 12 | jh644oc | jh4fpra | 12te9f1 | 12te9f1 |
[WP] 10 years after the virus, you emerge from your bunker after finally finding a cure for it. In the mean time, everyone on earth has been infected and healed. Many died, but humanity survived. You smell a putrid smell everywhere. Why is water so disgusting? You ask. What do you mean? They say. | Wrong. The smell was... wrong. It bit into his nose, as If something toxic had been dumped into that lake once.
Yet, life thrived there. Fish swam, frogs jumped around and a couple small animals could be seen drinking from it. All the tests he could quickly do on the water sample came back clean. Despite that, he hadn... | "I did it, we have the cure. Yipeeeee", the kid named Ash, now an apparent man jumped in excitement as he rushed out of the bunker.
He reached the first man he saw across the street, dressed shabbily and told him how he had found the "cure" for the Zona virus.
"Do you see stars?", the man asked
"It's day time dude."... | DingoOfTheWicked | haardshah | 2025-02-26 00:51:49 | 2025-02-25 17:15:11 | 77 | 56 | mesyf5c | meqcnsj | 1ixya4b | 1ixya4b |
[WP] "I do not normally condone enacting justice against the living on behalf of the dead, but that is by choice, not rule, and since this particular situation struck a chord in me, I'm willing to make an exception for you" | “Put it back.”
Ultimate’s words almost could not be heard the first time he spoke them: the crowd that had formed around he and his nemesis chattered too loudly.
“What did you just say to me, Boy Scout?” Devastation was still adjusting to running into the hero in such a place.
“Put. It. Back. Lonny.”
“You can’t be... | Stay calm, Lithoman told himself. You can convince this motherfucker to let go of the dog. He pulled up another stone sword out of the earth and grabbed it. Levelling the blade at his arch nemesis he repeated himself once more.
“Let go of the dog Dreadful!”
The villain held the dog up at his leash and the creature ... | DuckLordOfTheSith | zeekoes | 2023-05-13 03:51:34 | 2023-05-12 20:53:36 | 207 | 102 | jjyk9ky | null | 13fuk2e | 17kj8vb |
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