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jft6xc9 | jfsqi6r | [WP] "Listen, you're fine, I'm- stop screaming- I'm not going to hurt you. Yes, opening the Dark Book summons The One Who Ends, but that whole thing where I kill the reader is hogwash. Now, would you kindly direct me to the one who tricked you into opening my book? *Intent* is important, after all." | Helena leapt back from the book as eldrich energy shot up from its pages. She had just opened it and barely had chance to register the script, written in human blood if she was not mistaken, when the bolt of energy had shot up from within it. Her one attempt to close the book had been made in vain, and instead she kept... | The invitation hit my inbox at the right time for me to open it immediately. I waited to respond but only to show I was in control. I wasn't and five minutes ticked by slowly as I waited, writing my reply in my head, fuck yes I'll come and hold your hand while you die.
I didn't wait for another message as I got up and... |
k5wkd0c | k5w63xl | [WP] As a superhero, you discover your sidekick has been dating the villain’s henchperson for months. It’s all fine and good until you learn how the villain treats them at home. | He wasn't... isn't? a bad sidekick. I actually really appreciate his help but lately when we've been fighting Veneera and her illusions... I noticed that Dareboy has been pulling his punches when fighting Mysteria. This didn't bother me, I pull my punches with a lot of foes, don't want to take off their heads, they n... | When he told me that they went out together I was terrified. I raised this boy by myself, and although I knew he had a golden heart, he was sometimes quite naïve. I didn’t blame him – constantly fighting the bad guys doesn’t give you the best experience in dealing with people. Still, I needed to protect him, so I made ... |
j6s7cbw | j6rol9h | [WP] Your super power has no destructive power, but you're still a highly ranked superhero. *Time Out* puts your opponent into a safe quiet place to reflect on their actions before returning them back the to the same spot and time, they left. | I begged him to kill me instead of using his powers.
I was making a getaway after stealing a carton of eggs from a local grocery store. A new superhero chased me down and wrestled me into a tangle mess of zip-ties. He sat me against a brick wall in a dark alleyway.
"There's a small knife in my boot. Use it slowly fo... | "Fear me, peons of the machine!" The villain cried, standing atop the rubble of City Hall. "I will break you, I will reshape you, I will cure you of this plague of-"
Suddenly, his villainous monolog ceased. Not quite as suddenly as he was teleported to a small white room, but it was close.
"Capitalism... oh DAMNIT,... |
juzcf3f | juyzml6 | [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. | *HSSS*
*SLURP*
"What. Am. I ?!?!?"
Henry said thickly, forcing coherence through his strange new mouth. What were these things inside his mouth, they felt like tendons!?
His examiner, who had introduced themselves as Lt. Grint, kept staring at him with a hawk-like intensity, and simply instructed:
"Discipline your... | 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... |
jdrev87 | jdq6n3o | [WP] Destroying 90% human population on earth, the aliens leave, assuming that society would crumble, and remaining 10% will just all fight for resources and eventually die out. They returned a thousand years later, expecting a cleansed planet, but were met with a nuclear strike from a satellite. | They made their presence known through the first strike.
Entire cities burnt and levelled, countless lives lost.
Our continents were forcefully reshaped under their endless barrage, our defences were a mockery of warfare in the face of their technology.
As the firestorms charred our world, they left, leaving the few w... | Audio log: Date, Febuary 9th 2020, Destroying 90% of the human population on earth, the aliens left, assuming that our society would crumble, and the rest of us would just fight each other, making us go extinct. But, That 10% they didn't destroy was part of Japan, America, and Germany. We have no idea when the aliens w... |
j8idage | j8hxkdz | [WP] You were kidnapped by a villain and he gloats about how you're bait for his arch-nemesis, and you'll be dead soon. You sigh and just look at him. "Buddy, its not that hero you need to worry about....its my wife." and he looks at you perplexed. | "Your wife?" The villain, known as James the Terrible, because he was terrible at villainy, seemed amused. I would have pinched the bridge of my nose if my hands hadn't been tied. "She's a lovely, tiny slip of a girl. We had her followed, of course. She's harmless. Completely ordinary. We thought this through Jason. Ho... | “Ahahah,” Vithego laughed maniacally. “I finally got you.”
“Yea you got me, what now?” I asked nonchalantly.
“I kill you as soon as The Champion arrives and then I kill him,” The Villain said.
“Ohh, good plan,” I said. “Too bad you will be eaten alive before he arrives.”
“What?” Vithego asked.
“... |
j6q77rf | j6q1fbx | [WP] As the god of reincarnations, when neither Hell nor Heaven want a soul, it is your job to reincarnate it appropriately. One specific soul keeps coming back to you not so long after each reincarnation. After a while, you decide to investigate why the soul keeps coming back to you. | Technicalities. That's how this tortured one keeps coming to my office. That's the conclusion I've come to after investigating this case. Hell rejects the goody goodies, and Heaven rejects anyone who deliberately ends his life prematurely.
The trouble is, this soul seems to desire Heaven, but also has chronic termina... | 99912672036.
Why did that number keep coming up? Every time I saw it, it would be marked:
* Heaven: Refused
* Hell: Denied Entry
It's not uncommon to see a number more than once; someone may need to be reincarnated a few times to become worthy of Heaven or Hell. But I had this number memorized. Sometimes they'd be b... |
jb7k0xo | jb70ypq | [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. | It was an unusually busy day on GalHub 4. The Ritians and the UnderRitians were at each other's throats, the coffee printers were on the fritz, and the Logari embassy was on fire. The whole station seemed to be about to boil over into one big tangle of diplomatic incidents.
The call center was sinking into an ocean of... | “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... |
j3hhb3u | j3h6w2i | [WP] They stole you from your world when you were but a young girl, and they forged you into a magical weapon that has been feared across the cosmos. Now that the war is over and you've won, they send you back to the moment before they captured you. The skills, PTSD, and memories? Those never fade. | I was 13 when I was stolen away in the night. Pulled through the invisible cracks in the universe, my soul strained through a sieve so fine not even lone atoms could pass.
When I was reformed amidst their greatest teachers, it must have been such a shock to them.
They said that they had been trying to summon their a... |
I stared at the monster in my closet. He had red glowing eyes and two pointy horns on his head.
“Go away! I told my mummy about you and she said you’re not *real*. So leave me alone!”
The monster smiled at me, his fangs reflecting the moonlight coming through my window.
“That’s fine. If I’m not re... |
j5i9rlr | j5i41lb | [WP] you were bitten, you know your time is counted. So as a final act you decided drink all the booze and beer you collected until you passed out. The next morning you wake up with a headache but...still human | "I doubt it's a cure," our doctor said. "Since you started pouring back nearly half our liquor ten minutes after you got back from scavenging, nearly dying of alcohol poisoning may have disinfected your entire body in the worst way possible. Frankly, you are lucky everyone here is happier that you are getting better th... | I awoke with a pulse in my head, a rhythmic throbbing so undeniable that I had to concede right then and there that it had become my heart and that I had passed on. It was only when I felt sweat on my brow and the clamminess of my wrists that it occurred to me that somehow I was still alive, still human. Which was shoc... |
m8dpv10 | m8dp29f | [WP] "Fate has found you," said the sword buried in your rye field. "Wield me and banish the darkness, chosen one," it said. Problem is, you're a farmer in your 50s with more hair left on your gleaming head than you have patience for 'fate' and 'chosen ones.' | “By the holy order, you have been ordained to smite evil. Wield me, chosen of fate.” A single beam of sunshine broke through the dark clouds to illuminate the massive four and a half foot tall greatsword.
Walking nearby, George the Deaf looked over, slightly surprised.
“What?”
“Fate has found you,” said the obnoxio... | "Woss that?" Alaron muttered as he smacked the dirty blade against his plow, brow furrowed. There was no doubt it was a sword, and a very old one from the look of it.
*The Darkness is gathering...*
Alaron looked around his field, but there was no one there. The voice didn't seem to come from the blade...it was just... |
m81ww5p | m8035kq | [WP] She hadn't made a milkshake in years for fear that they would return.. She starts the blender reluctantly.. In the distance, screams.. The boys had returned. They were. coming to her yard. | She needed the milkshake like an addict needs a fix. The blender sound alone brought her tongue to salivation, but in the same moment it brought her ears to attention. A different kind of rumble reached her and she knew, as she had known before pressing down the 'On' button, that it was the boys en route to her yard.
... | Sarah awoke startled from her afternoon nap. She had only meant to lie down for a few minutes, and here she was 2 hours later, groggy and disoriented. She remembered her dream vividly, though, and her stomach gurgled just thinking about it.
She had been moments away from taking a sip of the most delectable looking cho... |
jdity87 | jdiohfy | [WP] Just two people sitting on a park bench. No gods or monsters or spies or supernatural elements -- just two people sitting. | "That's it then, eh?"
"That's it."
"Just the two of us on a bench."
"All ya need, really."
"Not exactly compelling, is it?"
"Who said it has to be? Everyone's out there bringing Death Itself, God, the Devil, floating head numbers and time travel... A little inconsequential chat would be nice, wouldn't it?"
"I gue... | He felt a tingle on his cheek, where the wisp of wind touched aging skin. Breathing in deep smells of fresh cut grass and blooming roses, life wasn’t all that bad. He rubbed his thighs with his hands to stem the slight ache of walking that accompanied him everywhere nowadays. Oh how he remembered the days where he coul... |
ji09pjt | ji06qba | [WP] You’re a scientist stuck in an Russian Artic research station. You’ve just killed your only colleague because the mysterious figures hidden in the snowstorm told you to do it. | I sigh, sliding out of the cab with practiced ease. The Amazon was shaking, pale and mostly still in shock from her actions. She didn't even register my scooping the hero into a bodybag, plopping it into the trunk, and escorting her into the cab. Amazon returned after i took Nike's phone from her, the seat belt restrai... | I arrived at the scene of the call, and know immediately this is not going to be a normal job. It looks like a tornado went through here; metals are twisted around, there's scorched marks everywhere, deep gouges on the concretes. And there at the middle, the Hero Prometheus is lying on the ground with blood pooling aro... |
m2j46t8 | m2j2ew1 | [WP] You’re a mercenary hired by adventurers to defeat the boss. After the battle, they loot the treasure and abandon you wounded. The defeated boss crawls over and says, “Guess we’re both expendable, huh?” | 'Guess we are. You gonna kill me now?'
"Depends. How's that wound?"
'You tell me. It's at least half my ribs broken, you asshole.'
"Eh, I was holding back. Yep, non-fatal. No mercy kill for you."
'Wait. You're letting me live?'
"Sure. You were Just doing your job."
'Don't try to play the I'm-actually-good card. Y... | Growing pains:
When an evil lord of chaos, fond of the typical fashion of dictators, decides to burn your town to the ground. And you survive.
First things first.
You probably want revenge.
Sure, your parents taught you the ways of the blade as well as that of the books. So you're not completely new to this pat... |
jpwnhhg | jpwgms6 | [WP] Your teachers always warned you to never, under any circumstances, cast a resurrection spell on someone still alive, but refused to elaborate why. Today your curiosity got the better of you. | Every magic has a price. This has been drilled into us. But what if the price is too high, so high in fact that you won't be able to pay it one lifetime? I found it out the hard way all because of wizarding arrogance and maybe love.
When mortality was discussed in class, we all laughed; for what would death do to a b... | A thin drool trickles, pulling into the fur around Max’s beard. His chest raises and lowers in rasps.
“This the whole family?” Veterinarian Charlie says. “Not waiting for anyone else?”
“This is it.” Mom says.
We have already had time to say goodbye. The doctor readies the injection as the nurse aids us in comforting... |
japg1ze | jap05y6 | [WP] The Time Machine was backwards traveling only, and now your stuck in the Medieval Times. You pull out your phone, expecting it to be nonfunctional, but instead find it to be working fine, and the date on the Home Screen reading “October 12th, 952”. | Small fires still burn where the wreckage of the machine landed. I cough and cough, wipe streaming tears from stinging eyes. Where am I? When am I? Force of habit prompts nerveless fingers to fish the phone from my pocket and I blink at the cracked screen.
October 12th, 952
“952,” I gasp. The when explains the wh... | The knights of Lord Wymane surrounded me as their horses neighed and whinnied underneath them.
“Who is't art thee, strange wand'r'r?” asked the largest of the knights.
I panicked, quickly looking around to see if there was a way to escape. The knight nearest to my right side noticed my shiftiness and nudged his horse... |
lkmdkvn | lkm7ac2 | [WP] A mind reader decides to try to play with you, but little does he know you have ADHD and the moment he enters you mind he's gonna get lost in a web of absolutely absurd racing thoughts. | Xrrtklgrz’s laughter boomed through the obsidian paved halls as the pathetic human cowered before his demonic majesty.
“What’s that human? You don’t think you \*belong\* in hell? Well then, there is a simple way to leave.” Xrrtklgrz’s seven lips pulled back from his blacked fangs. “Simply finish these seven impossible... | I got up, it was black. I looked around for a light switch but couldn't find a light switch, wall. I ran but couldn't find and end. Eventually my shoes started to echo.
"Where am I!" I yelled in desperation.
"You're dead," said a voice in a low but sweet voice.
"dead? shouldn't everything be white and cloudy. maybe... |
jfjpsuy | jfj1lqc | [WP] Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up. | "I win," I said beaming.
"That's not how you play the game, you idiot!" scowled Zeus. Shiva just put all four hands over his face and shook it slowly. The other gods were in various states of shock and disappointment.
"But I win! Top that!"
Not a single deity seemed amused. The echos of the supernova could still be ... | “Lets see you top that!” Poseidon’s voice still echoes in my memories, even after all these years. I stared at the blue and green marble below our domain. Though the toll on the mortals was great, they still rebuilt and improved. I watched as they grew and beat back tragedy.
I thought long and hard on this game among... |
jesvh2m | jes1eue | [WP] When the king sent out the berserker to save his daughter from the castle she's in with a ferocious dragon, the Last thing he expected to find in the pile of severed heads the man brought, is the head of the princess herself. And yet it's here, displayed proudly dangling on his hip. | “What the actual hell?”
“What?”
“I sent you to go save my daughter, the princess from a dragon, only to find her head on your fucking hip!”
“Wait, but you put a bounty on her head.”
“No I did not! I asked you to retrieve the princess for 300 gold!”
“Retrieve, meaning retrieve a head.”
“…where did you grow up?”
... | “And here’s the last of them.” Theadore the Gaunt dropped yet another bag filled with severed heads on the floor before the flabbergasted king. On the top of the latest pile was his precious girl’s head. Each of the heads were frozen in a look of confusion and terror.
King Dominan felt fury, but there was nothing he ... |
jq1b2ld | jq12ksk | [WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | "What do you mean, happier?", the Demon asked incredulously. "No mortal is happy in Hell, that's the point of Hell!"
The Angel sighed. "You don't understand. This Man, he's lived a virtuous life. Married a good woman, raised morally strong children, avoided Sin. Not out of desire to live a righteous life. Oh no, if o... | I thought the War would be eternal. I honestly did.
But Zaphaniel's reaction told me everything.
"There's... " The angel sighed. "Look. There's been a conclave about how we've been doing things."
"Did one of you hop down to the dirt for a visit?"
A wounded look was my reward.
"Yes."
"Saw the television, saw the l... |
jhf6mkw | jhf5c52 | [WP] Not all Dragons hoard gold. Some run the greatest libraries and repositories of knowledge in the world, others search for the greatest experiences and sights the worlds can offer. One dragon has a rather unusual fascination. | "What, you want gold or something?"
"Well, no, not really. But that artillery has caught my eye."
"The what?" The clerk asked, baffled. The specialist the government had reached out to was unusual, as it was a dragon, and had declined most forms of payment available for the work. The drake nodded with a slight grin.
... | We turned the cold dark halls and froze. You could hear the bellows of the beast echoing through the chamber of the halls. We must press on, I thought to myself.
The king had sent us to not only slay the foul beast, but to use its riches to better the kingdom. Even though fear swelled in my belly like the gnawing hung... |
li4rgrz | li43utx | [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!*
Emilien looked up at his father, with what he hoped would be smug expression of superiority. But what he saw instantly wiped any of it from his face. He heard stories of "scary hum... | “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!”
David pursed his lips as he looked at his superpowered son and wife, Kevin and Martha. This month had been… challenging to say the least when Kevin finally got his power on his 20th bi... |
kerz14u | keruops | [WP] You’re a park ranger of a very dense forest and you take care of everything, including the supernatural cryptids. One day, a murder happens in your forest and the culprit evades the authorities. You then politely ask the cryptids for their aid in the culprit’s capture. They agree. | One thing the park ranger training doesn't tell you about is the sapient non-humans living in the forest. They're good folks, very reclusive, but with some persistence, and a whole lot of respect, you can form a relationship with them.
Gren is one of those who frequently works with the rangers, he's a Leshen, and a da... | A wise man once said ‘when man cannot answer a question, ask his Mother, Nature.’
Okay no wise man said that. I made it up one night when I was sleep deprived but it’s made sense this far so I’m rolling with it.
When I first got notified by the authorities that a murder had taken place in the forest I serve, I feare... |
lgmv7y1 | lglxobh | [WP] The genie tries to warn you of the implications before you cut him off, "I have no intention of wishing for it, but hypothetically, could you grant it?" you ask. "Yes, technically" the genie relents. | \- *So... that means I can wish for the light speed to be lower than sound speed?*
\- *Yes, but Master, remember..*
\- *As I said, I have no intention to wish for it. But just to be clear... so I can also wish for light speed to not be constant? For causality to not exist? For the Electron to be the same size and cha... | **Note**: Please understand this isn't meant to be a comment or stance on anything, its just where the prompt took me as I thought through it.
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“Technically?” I repeat the word back, trying to make sure I weigh the veracity of the djinn’s response.
“Well yes,” it replies... |
muvu35d | megtfi9 | [WP] You’re a hero with a weird name. “Anything for $20”. You gain the ability to do anything, as long as you’re offered $20. Everyone takes it as a joke, until one day there’s a cataclysm, and someone offers you $20 to end it. | I watched as the shower of moon fragments started to fell, as the fleet of alien spaceships shattered it.
We were next.
The superheroes and villains gathered together, ready to face off the enemy.
I was a hero, a lowly one due to my name: "Anything for 20$", as most people thought I was a joke.
It was exactly l... | "I had no idea," I mumbled to myself. My arms were still shaking as I sat slumped in the rubble of what used to be a bank. Or maybe it had been a high rise?
It didn't really matter, but my mind raced, trying to comprehend the buildings original form as I sprawled out on a heap of debris. Maybe if I could make sense of... |
k78p1n4 | k78oxko | [WP] It becomes abundantly clear to the characters that the narrator has terrible narrating skills. They start to get off track criticizing the narrator for every mistake and bland writing. | **The November Battlefield**
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“This is what happens when nobody believes," Father Christmas spat a wad of blood and wiped his eye with a once white fuzzy cuff that now matched the hue of his suit.
The November battlefield was once beautiful.
Falling leaves on the ground. Poetry in the wind. Nostalgia in the hea... | In the gentle snowfall that blew across the fields of November, the warning seemed to echo into nothingness. Where the snow melted against the scattered hay and dead leaves stood Samhain, the lord of Halloween. He wore a wreath of twisted twigs around which his dark hair tangled and fell to his shoulders. His cloak ble... |
kscmh53 | ksbq1cs | [WP] You're are a lovable superhero with an oddly horrifying name. You're fighting your arch nemesis but they decide to take it too far. Now you have show them the true meaning behind your name. | The Champion.
That's what those who were on his side would call him, conveniently ommiting simple matter of what kind of a Champion he was. Those who would stand against him found Champion To the God of Death to be a mouthful, and thus called him the Death Knight.
A hero to one is a villain to another, after all.
If... | Part 1 of 2
Dreadword was well-known as "The Cheerful Curselord" - much changed from how he was originally called "The Hateful Hexlord". From a hateful, vindictive utterer of curses against anyone he had even the slightest of vendettas against, his time in the Council of Altruists had changed him. He had now become as... |
jh4tijz | jh4bqrx | [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. | It has been a few days since my 18th birthday, almost a week in fact. This is something that was not supposed to happen. Which is why an ancient enemy has decided to meet me.
“Well speak of the devil, you’re actually still alive.” A young feminine voice from behind me said.
“Amen to that.” I say as I turn to look b... | She showed up outside my door one night in the form of a fierce wind. Dark and foreboding, her powers buffeted the house, searching for an answer. Any ordinary person might have assumed a hurricane or tornado was on its way, and check the weather forecast in confusion, but I knew.
I felt a sinking feeling in my... |
jsepi9n | jse8s9a | [WP] You married a fairy and experienced drastic physical changes. Enduring intense hunger, constant salivation, and even the strange sensation of your body dissolving inside a cocoon. But you hate the color of your wings. You are sorrowful and disappointed, despite your partner consoling you. | "My wings! They're... shades of grey? But I wanted to be beautiful, like you..."
"Honey, you are beautiful. I married you, remember?"
"Yeah I guess. But you look like a rainbow, and I'm... nothing."
"Honey..."
The grey-winged fairy's partner thought for a bit. There was probably a magical solution faster than thera... | "*Oh, this is weird.*" Amber laughed at my... well, not distress. What emotion was this? "*I'm not used to being smaller than everyone else.*"
"Aww, but you're so cute!" Amber embraced me, causing me to laugh.
"Do you always feel everything so... intensely?"
"Not all the time. When stuff gets intense, then yeah, a f... |
ls5navm | ls5iil8 | [WP] A drug is discovered that stops all effects of aging. You decide to not take it. 20 years pass and the side effects are discovered. | Heading towards the 2070s, it seemed like every year, there was some new pharmaceutical wonder drug. Wanna improve your eyesight? Pop a pill. Want to be smarter? More attractive? Want to be the best version of yourself?
Well, there were pills promising to do all that and then some. The one thing nobody had cracked yet... | It seemed like a wonderful idea, really. Immortality was the stuff of dreams, of myths, something people had been chasing for eons. And now, finally, it was here.
She should have been desperate for it; so many were. There has never been a drug shortage like it, but then there had never been a single drug that everyon... |
m4940gl | m47fckz | [WP] Their rep was a lie, they lost the fight. It wasnt even close. But then everyone hears on the radio: 'ok the civilians are out of the city... thats your cue, stop playing with this guy and end him' | "Your reputation was grossly overstated, Adaman! I was told you were ferocious, that your power was undefeatable, that you were fierce and terrible. I've only been toying with you to see if you've got something more, but it's been an hour and you're not even trying. It's almost impressive that you're still breathing fr... | CW: Violence and Murder at the end.
Freddy was grinning maliciously as he watched his eternal foe, Blair, struggles to get off the ground covered in bruises and blood. The man sneered as the African-American used a car to stand up and took some deep breaths.
“Is this all the power you had?!” The man taunted his foe. ... |
lkm3nko | lkm1k17 | [WP]Adam and Eve wrote the Bible to cover up the real evil they committed that got them kicked out of Eden. This is the story of what really happened. | In the beginning, there was just Adam and Eve. And then Eve ate the apple and thus Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden of Eden and thus began life on earth. Except, Adam and Eve may have changed the story a little.
Truth be told, there were four. Adam and Eve, their sweet little daughter and her best friend, a... | "Have you ever seen an oroborus?" an old man asks a child with a distant look in his eye.
"The snake eating it's own tail?" The child replies cautiously.
Grandpa Adam was always a bit strange but Noah loved to hear his and Grandma Eves stories.
No one knew exactly how old they were but they'd out survived many ge... |
kx0e41e | kx0dhih | [WP] In a world where lycanthropy has no known cure, you were thrown into quarantine after being bitten. It's been one whole month and... | The doctors felt somehow stronger than the cops had when they saw the bite, manhandling me into a chair, mumbling science babble I couldn't understand. Lights in my eyes. Tugs on my ears. Clip on my finger, heart monitor going *beep, beep, beep.*
"Open the window more."
The half-cocked blinds zipped open.
"Open the ... | I stared up at the ceiling, lying on my back. Around me, I could hear the chatter of a few other suspected cases. They spoke with each other, though the tension was obvious. Many like me had fallen silent, waiting for the inevitable.
Today marked one lunar month since most of us had been bitten. Although some were sus... |
jypbnat | jypasp8 | [WP] "Your total will be...wait this can't be right." The cashier turned around and called the manager over. The manager then quickly shooed the employee away as they took over at the register. "I'm sorry for the delay, we haven't had one of your kind in awhile, your total comes to 3 souls." | "...these are goat souls..." The manager stared blankly like I just slapped his face with a trout.
"Were you expecting human souls for a few jars of pickled newt eyes and goat's blood?" I was just as perplexed as he was in disbelief at the payment I just offered on the table.
He pointed to some obscured signage peeki... | What. The. Hell? How on earth did a retail store, of all places, guess that I was an immortal? Something strange was happening. I’ve been around the block, so to speak, my fair share of times. It was pretty clear that if I just paid and left, I would be taking a meaningful loss. So I had to stall.
“Your price is t... |
lv34jyh | lv25yr9 | [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?" | "Non-escalation."
"What?"
"It's an unwritten rule in the villain rulebook. Always leave ways for the hero to break in, stop you, etc. Helps keep the government from going all out on us. A laser grid like you're talking about ends up with a whole lot of dead secret agents. You ever hear of Doctor Clypse?"
"Yeah, he's... | Nish stared over at his coworker, Yim, like the girl was a dumb, golden-haired rock.
"One, 'cause those are expensive as hell to make, and two, because these things ain't even guarding against a normal person."
With the help of Yim, he set the laser grid on the conveyor belt, and then flicked her forehead.
"Idiot.... |
jd7mbne | jd7frqy | [WP]Walking into a flower shop and slamming down money on the counter, "How do i passively aggressively say fuck you in flower" | "Prerry much anything orange. Lillies are best for passive aggressive. But then you can add Tansies." The flourist plucked a few delicate flowers out and placed them in a vase.
"Really? I mean I wasn't serious but-" the customer watched her is mild surprise as she moved to a wall of different yellow flowers.
"Yello... | Walking into a flower shop and slamming down money on the counter, "How do I passively aggressively say fuck you in flower?"
The florist, an old woman with hands like gnarled roots, raised an eyebrow, her eyes glittering with mischief. "Ah, you must be looking for the bouquet of spite," she whispered, beckoning the c... |
kod8jry | kod1ak1 | [WP] So, you're probably wondering why I called you in. I'll cut to the chase. Firstly, we want to promote you for your exceptional work. But... and please don't be alarmed - you should know that technically, no one who works here is "human". Except for you. | "Was it ... Was it a secret?"
Ben's manager stared at him in shock. "You knew??" Ben raised an eyebrow. "I mean, yeah. You all add the word 'human' to everything. You'll say things like 'let's go for human drinks,' or 'what human food are you ordering for lunch?' Honestly it would be more surprising if you were humans... | I screamed out of fear as my supervisor rolled up his sleeves to show me the dark slimy scales that ran up his arms.
“It's alright, Jacob, we think it's time you're ready,” he said in a robotic voice, his eyes were soulless, not a single thought behind them.
“Don't be alarmed”, he continued, “We had to show you wh... |
krdshem | krdo7bh | [WP] The Galactic Federation makes first contact with Earth just to inform us that the planet has been divided up between several advanced civilizations, with no regard for our established national borders | It's been 10 months now and god those Brits are getting on my nerves. The Aliens had decided to make all of west Europe and America into one country and I wish they had rather just destroyed the entire planet instead, that might have been easier than this.
I saw another one of them in front of me at the chips aisle, ... | The Galactic Federation makes first contact with Earth just to inform us that the planet has been divided up between several advanced civilizations, with no regard for our established national borders
“No way the governments gonna roll over for this bull I tell you” tom muttered downing his pint
Sara shook her head,... |
juz088p | juyqoah | [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... | I stared at my reflection in horror, unable to come to terms with what I had become. My body was now a grotesque amalgamation of tentacles, pulsating tendrils, and unrecognizable squid-like features. The once familiar image in the mirror had transformed into a nightmarish Lovecraftian creature. As the madness took hold... |
j44av35 | j43tyew | [WP] In this world healers, while respected, are often looked down upon due to their limited offensive capabilities. One day your party is completely wiped out, and the world finds out just how dangerous knowledge of human anatomy can be. | The young monk knelt in front of his attackers, not because he had surrendered, but because he was too injured to fully stand.
The mage was crumpled next to him, her robes gradually turning crimson from the inside out. The mighty barbarian was inching towards her, knees dragging, breath failing due to all the broken r... | Doctor Julian Shephard watched as one of the men who ambushed his groups wagon fought for air. His blood spilled onto the bright green grass under him. Julian's traveling companions were tied up, but they hadn't bothered to do the same to him due to the cross patch he wore indicating he was a do... |
j69prgi | j69fcb9 | [WP] The dragon spoke, "Release my human, and we will leave you all in peace. Do not, and I will reduce your walls to rubble to rescue them myself." | Belthas heard the roar from inside the tower. He hurried over to the window to see his dragon friend flying in a massive arc over the city. Down below he could see people fleeing in every direction.
Guards dropped their weapons and ran for cover in a panicked frenzy. Families shut every window and door to their ho... | Old Hogan was the one who found them, huddled and scared on the side of the Laneway heading into town. Poor Hogan was heading back from his favorite pub when he happened upon the wretched thing, cold and weak from exposure.
I was asleep, having stoked the fires of the Maesters rooms and ensuring all the doors and wind... |
lfaiqxw | lfahqhq | [WP] You're living your life, then suddenly you wake up, sweating, in a dark room on a cold stone bed. Your entire life was just a fever dream from some unknown illness. As you come to grips with this reality, the slat on your cell door opens, and a voice shouts, "Sir, we've got a live one in here!" | "Are you sure you'll be alright with him?" Cordelie's aunt asked her, voice dripping with concern.
"I'm sure, Auntie. We'll be alright, enjoy your date, you deserve it." They kissed each other on the cheek and her aunt couldn't contain her excitement any longer, grabbing her purse and darting out the door to the carri... | Emily's day started weird when a fairy flew out of her bag and spoke about "going through the tutorial". It got even more bizarre when her mobile phone had a new app called "Hero Quest" she never downloaded and had several new notifications about a very long task list.
When the family butler ushered her into the maste... |
jejquak | jej7im9 | [WP] You stood there, looking at your friend, faceplaming "Let me get this straight, you're dating a Goddess, an actual 'divine powers, older than civilization' Goddess and you ....CHEATED ON HER!?!??" Your friend has a desperate look in their eyes "Can you help me or not?" | "Did you tell her you were going to be here?"
"Of course I did. She made sure that I didn't go to Alyssa's place whatsoever!"
Well, this was going well. Obviously Jack couldn't keep it in his pants and ended up cheating on his girlfriend, which was bad enough, but this was Aishala, the goddess known as the Faceted Cr... | "I mean, does she know?"
He pulled back the curtain to show frogs falling from the sky en masse throughout town. "I think she knows."
"Alright, frogs, that's a start." Aleister went for his collection and pulled out an old favorite. "Sounds like we're dealing with someone biblical, old school mesopotamian bullshit. L... |
jxd5kuj | jxctqmx | [WP] The zombie apocalypse is here. The general public… actually has a better handle on it than the government does. | Ben nudged a zombie to one side with his poking stick – a sturdy pipe. It let out a low moan and gave him a half-hearted swipe.
He simply danced out of the way. “Sorry, not my type, lady.”
Another zombie tried to grab him, but it was similarly slow. It seemed like they hadn’t eaten in quite some time. He had plenty o... | A news anchor pulls his microphone close to his face. The cameras roll and he is set to the air- a young man, barely near his 30s with a mustache, stubble, brown eyes, and black hair with a red tie wrapped across the side of his head. He wears a patched up blue formal suit.
"It's day 217 of the people's apocalypse and... |
j3cathe | j3auu38 | [WP] Aphrodite is talking to Ares. "Y'know, Persephone gives Hades flowers everyday. I wish you'd do that." The next day, Ares goes to the Underworld and gives Hades flowers. "Yeah, I'm not really sure why Aphrodite wanted me to do this, but here you go." | “What not-on-earth has happened here?” said Dionysus, surveying the Underworld. He had expected to bring the party to the grey void but was instead presented with vast swathes of colourful life.
“It’s all your brother’s fault!” raged Hades, emerging from behind a particularly large sunflower. His throne was surrounde... | Hades:out of curiosity nephew, how did that conversation go?
Persephone:*currently rolling on The floor while ares explains*
Hades:it was a Mather if syntaxis i see. *Grabs some flowers given to him by his wife*,dear is it okay if I send ares with these?
Persephone:* makes an approval gesture with a hand while reco... |
j30z3sn | j30sunl | [WP] A regular and oblivious person works at a coffee shop not knowing its a place of ceasefire for assassins and mercenaries. | "...so did you take the job? I would- oh, hello!" the man before me said as he and his friend finally approached the counter. "I'll have a... caramel latté and my friend here will have an espresso, thank you."
"Right away, sir," I smiled and started preparing both beverages. Still, despite not wanting to, I couldn't h... | "Mocha frap for... Dadshorts!"
The folks all look at each other, but no one moves, meaning Ethel butchered another name. I stare at it, trying to guess what it's supposed to be.
"Listen, I got a small mocha frap," I call again before leaving it on the counter. As two men, both with bionic eyes, approach the drink and... |
mdydza7 | mdxyucd | [WP] For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face asking to speak to you. | Embrace your destiny, for it awaits no one. Those were the words the Goddess laid upon the land when she called upon a new generation of saints and heroes to battle the dark of the world. It had been several decades already with the cities and towns living in fear under the rule of corrupt monarchs and the roads sieged... | I sit in the corner of the local bar, one that I frequent often, almost hiding from the crowd behind today’s newspaper. I tune out the chattering of the bar, and read over the ad in the newspaper that I wrote to the paper. If destiny was on my side this afternoon, I will get the escape I’ve always dreamed of.
It’s fun... |
j83mvc9 | j839l14 | [WP]A galactic empire has existed in relative peace for a hundred years. However, when the emperor and his family die suddenly during a transport accident, the government is thrown into chaos. After an exhaustive search, a long-lost relative is found and it seems to be you. | "... Come again?"
"After months of extensive research, the imperial council have decided that according to the sacred book of records, you are a direct relative of the imperial dynasty and therefore it has been decided by the council that you are the next heir to the throne."
"What-"
"YOU are A DIRECT MEMBER OF THE ... | "Thanks but no thanks, I wouldn't dare run this shitty empire."
"Excuse me!?" a voice spoke from the audience. Wide-eyed politicians stared at the boy, barely an adult as he stood in the middle of the imperial court. Whispers from guards and juries could be heard across the court.
The boy could feel the bitter stares... |
j6s7cbw | j6rg79w | [WP] Your super power has no destructive power, but you're still a highly ranked superhero. *Time Out* puts your opponent into a safe quiet place to reflect on their actions before returning them back the to the same spot and time, they left. | I begged him to kill me instead of using his powers.
I was making a getaway after stealing a carton of eggs from a local grocery store. A new superhero chased me down and wrestled me into a tangle mess of zip-ties. He sat me against a brick wall in a dark alleyway.
"There's a small knife in my boot. Use it slowly fo... | Leon hit the replay button on his player again. Was a mistake bringing only one disk for a drive here, in the middle of the desert.
His old Toyota, a gift from the government of Sapporo, was whining about the quality of the road, the heat and probably the smell of a blue superhero costume in the bag on the backseat. S... |
jg2l47r | jg2f5mk | [WP] you thought feeding that Skinwalker some barbecue was fine maybe she would stop eating human flesh. but it seems she had spread the word and now all different types of monsters are at your door hungry. | How does one create a restaurant business and become an overnight success in a notoriously competitive and overcrowded F&B industry? I guess I did it by not being picky about who I'm feeding.
It all started when I had a barbecue party in the woods with some friends, when a Skinwalker suddenly ambushed us from thick sh... | Welcome to the monster restaurant! Where we cook food that is absolutely not human flesh for monsters that definitely will not eat human flesh! Our menue is ever increasing as we get more ingredients!
Right now we have:
Definitely not human ribs!
Fingerless fish fingers!
Unhuman hamburger!
not rat poison.
And a simple... |
jb8i9cs | jb8b9zt | [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. | "Deceleration burn complete, we're now entering planetary orbit Admiral."
"Thank you Lieutenant. Comms, get me the Federal liaison on the horn. Let's find out what kind of party we're crashin' out here."
"Aye sir!"
The comms officer's fingers raced over the keyboard at her front while observing a monitor to her righ... | Humanity had a destiny.
Or so we thought. Since the first fire was shared between one of our ancient plains dwelling ancestors and another. Our species slowly, generation after generation, became more capable of selflessness.
It had many labels throughout the centuries, from goodness to godliness. It's core ideology... |
j9kkeip | j9k0m2s | [WP] After the Christian Rapture happened to everyone's considerable shock, those left behind (and those born to them after) all had a strange, unremovable marking appear on their foreheads. It took decades to translate, but the result was horrifying; "Do not harvest, not fit for consumption." | It was a day like any other when the earth shook violently and the skies suddenly turned bright. All around the globe same sight could be seen. People saw what seemed to be giant, glowing beings descending from the heavens, Angels. Angels were unlike anything anyone had ever imagined, with wings blindingly beautiful an... | The year was 129 PR (Post Rapture)
Jacob was the 3rd generation born on Post Rapture Earth. It was 2 years after the Brand was translated and Jacob was on the Committee of Atheist Scientists whose sole purpose was figuring out what this means.
Jacob, specifically, was given the task of traveling across the Rap... |
j9h14ku | j9fxl3o | [WP] You, the dragon, are concerned that your friend the knight doesn't have a girlfriend. Deciding to try your hand at matchmaking, you kidnap a princess. | "I really don't see the issue here, Sir William. I think she's a really nice girl."
"Not the point, Flamespite."
I sniffle a little. "You only use my common name when you're mad."
"Well I am mad. You kidnapped a-a- a princess. Do you have any idea how much chaos this is causing? I'm pretty sure you started a war. No... | Maria, the princess, was sitting in her room. She saw something me in the corner of her eye. I was a person-sized dragon right outside the window. She screamed. I flew in and grabbed her. She struggled to break free. I carried her away.
Arlo, a knight friend, was walking in the courtyard of his house when he looked up... |
j6ad15u | j6a8iyk | [WP] Old mirrors were made with layer of silver. You, a vampire, spent centuries without seeing your reflection. Today, package with your first non-silver backed mirror arived. | One of the greatest cruelties that God cast upon his creation is that men must kill to survive. Be it flora or fauna, something must give way for them to proliferate. Men have learned to forgive themselves for this fault, invoking the authority of the creation itself by saying: "This is just the way things are. It is n... | Marie.
No? Me.
The person starting back at me through the glass was older. I'm older. And Marie is dead.
It's something in the eyes. They show the centuries even when I still look not a day older than the 20 i was when I was turned.
I had forgotten I looked so much like my older sister.
There's that slight scar o... |
jg67kf8 | jg5svf3 | [WP] On your 18th birthday, you casted your first spell. The next day, a group of fine men and women came to your house, wanting to induct you into the magical community. “Oh, so are there any big dangers or schools I need to attend to?” “Err, no. It’s just the five of us.” | I knew what she desired even before she opened up my pyramid. I knew what she came here for even before she heard of it. But it mattered not. For she was still here.
The so called, “Queen Of Light”, who had created a world without any shadow. Every single molecule was suffused with its power, and carried forth a tide ... | "Brother."
A familiar voice echoed in my place of exile. Around me floated the various items I had created during my imprisonment. Sets of armour, glistening with the night's splendour. Weapons that boasted twisting shadows, each a different shape but holding equal deadly potential.
I moved them away from the change ... |
jdglmpj | jdg4kis | [WP] A man struggles to adopt a nocturnal lifestyle for his vampire girlfriend. A woman is heartbroken to lock up her werewolf fiancee every full moon. A child says goodbye to their mermaid friend because the river is too polluted. These are the untold stories of an urban fantasy world. | A nurse calls my name, I rise from the uncomfortable waiting room chair and give her a wave. She leads me to a triage room near the waiting room and closes the door.
“So, it sounds like you’re in for rabies exposure?” she asks as she takes my blood pressure.
“Yeah, I picked up a gal at the bar, went back to her pla... | To most foreigners, Toledo is a much sought-after place to live the American Dream. Beneath the hustle and bustle of the city, there lies the designated Urban Fantasy Districts, where all manner of supernatural creatures live.
Toledo Untold Stories is a storytelling project to help humans and supernaturals share their... |
kot1khk | korixlj | [WP] You're in class one day when a beast straight out of fantasy crashes through the door head first. On its heel is your always bullied and unpopular classmate, who swiftly and effortlessly hacks it in two with a sword from behind. They look up to see everyone staring at them. "Aw, shit." | His legal name actually is Dick Smelzi. Not Richard. Not Rick. But Dick. Combined with his last name. Who would name their kid that? When my parents first heard me mention his name, they thought I was joking. My protestations fell on deaf ears. They grounded me for a week when I tried to insist that is his real... | The class applauds them, and the beast is cleaned up by a specialist team who'll be sending it off to a lab for analysis.
Then, things continue as normal - though the bullies have had a change of thinking and are willing to learn (not only in class, but from the usual class scapegoat), for once.
This world has been s... |
m9ko1mr | m9k149x | [WP] The dancing plague of 1518 returns and through social media the contagion spreads fast and globally. You're one of the few survivors in an apocalyptic wasteland, hiding from the dancing horde. | “Oh, which name would you like?” the human smiled and leaned against a tree.
The Fae with a thousand names chuckled, he loved this part, the back and forth, especially with a target that seemed to know the game. The ones that thought they could get one over him were always the most delicious.
“Let’s start with your ... | A horrifying aura washed over Maeya, her ears resounding with the screams and whispers of a thousands twisting souls. They filled her mind, relentless, overlapping, infectious and unavoidable.
“I sorry! I didn’t-“
Maeya collapsed to her knees, wings crumpling under some otherworldly pressure, skin boiling.
“You can h... |
jv1h1kp | jv12z1n | [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" | “You might not be a hero picking a fight with me, but you have made the same fundamental mistake as they have by assuming I am behind Princess Peach’s kidnapping,” Bowser sighed. “Look I know what I did in the past, but I swear it isn’t me this time. Your princess is in another castle.”
Yoshi bowed and left Bowser’s c... | 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... |
juywnf6 | juyuk2l | [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. | "Preparation fluid at saturation. Begin Stage One."
The measured words made my heart race. I was voluntarily strapped to a slab, lifted into a near vertical position. I had seen it as I lay in place, with various instruments, tubes and wires I couldn't hope to understand. Not that I needed to. I was merely the test su... | # Soulmage
**Anyone else would have questioned the number of guards around the simple bed.** Six witches, two ambassadors from the Eldritch Initiative, and four disgruntled-looking young soldiers with shortswords surrounded Iola as he sauntered towards the center of the room.
But Iola felt good about this. He always... |
ktzva96 | ktzpe9k | [WP] You wake up to find out that you've been somehow transported into the world of the last video game you played. Describe your first day. | As I come to myself, a cold breeze washes over my naked body. All but a cloth covers me, serving as my underwear, and I scratch my skin, it itches from lying on the dirt.
My eyes are still trying to adjust to the light, while clanging footsteps can be heard in the distance. An all too familiar scene is around me. Behin... | 8am
Fuck. I've been isekaied.
Sure, sounds great in theory. Learn magic, become a hero. Except in reality you are a homeless guy with no money or training, not that chosen one that keep killing gigantic monsters.
Still, I am the newest citizen in Gran Soren, and I have to find a way to survive. Inside the city, of c... |
jq2awc5 | jq1vyoi | [WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | “Reformation.”
“What?” The devil asks incredulously.
“He arrived at Heaven’s Gate with a frown on his face. When I asked him, ‘what was the matter’ he looked at me with the most gentle eyes. For a while he did not speak but I could *feel* his sorrow. It was as if…” the angel hesitated. “It was as if he was *suffering... | "How interesting is it?" The shadowy figure, that was much darker than even the pitch black room that he sat in.
Speaking in a dissonant swill of tones and frequencies that would offend any living thing that heard it.
"How interesting is it that such a turn of events would occur now, with your followers twisting th... |
jvfs350 | jvfn6l0 | [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... | I stare at the picture that came from the unmarked envelope in my mailbox. There is a child, not more than ten years old, walking into James Mason Elementary. I knew Principle Martinez and some of his *dealings*, so I sent him a little notice. An educator's life is already fragile, easy to ruin in the court of public o... |
jisr2rp | jirw68p | [WP] In a world of dragons, sorcery, war, and monsters, there are many risks and even risk takers. Everyone though, elf, monster, or man knows to avoid those few ancient ruins that contain symbols of suffering and a word of the ancients, RADIATION. | It has long been known that the Precursors, seemingly distantly related to Humans, harnessed lost energies capable of both raising cities and leveling them. Energies so powerful that they could melt one's body into itself by mere proximity. The Radiant, as the material has been named, is rare. However, just a handful o... | Inspite of the warnings, we a party of 4 decided to enter the wild magic zones known as “Nuclear Sights” by the ancient artificers.
We worked tirelessly to create suits of anti-magic material. At first we were concerned that we’d have to wear suits of lead, but Clavicus found a way to turn a specific sap into a stret... |
jf0di9e | jey6it4 | [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... | I honestly don't know what to say. I thought I could make things better, but it always blows up in my face. I haven't been going out or really talking to anyone for some time. But I heard an old friend needed some flower in a group chat I glanced at. And I heard they were in the forest. Something called Truffle flowers... |
jbau1u5 | jbarn4k | [WP] The wizard in your party only knows one spell. It's effective, but even the assassin feels bad about it. | As our party ventured deeper into the Undercity Temple, resistance grew stronger. Cultists behind doors, summoned monstrosities crawling from every crevice. Ralf took point, his massive great sword carving a swathe through the halls. Sidon, the wizard for hire the group picked up after their previous wizard became an o... | "You really need to learn more spells," the assassin said, looking over the crater that was once a bandit camp. Well, he hoped they were bandits.
"I know lots of spells," the wizard said nonchalantly waving off his concern with her dainty little hand. How that tiny girl with red eyes contained such power is a mystery.... |
k8893uo | k887x6h | [WP] "Yeah, my brother got possesed by a demon, but we couldn't afford an exorcist." | They say that a person's sin makes it easier for a demon to slip in. My brother was an a** hole, a complete piece of work. Once I caught him disecting a frog in the back yard. He said it was dead when he found it, but dead animals don't bleed that much. Then, we he was ten and I was five he broke my nose because I went... | Derek is a high school student who is fooling around with his friends while his class is going on.
His teacher Jasmine,has been tolerating him for a while now.
But this time she lets loose.
JASMINE:
Derek, stand up! Is there something you want to share with the rest of the class?
DEREK:
No...not really. Do you?
... |
mlnfh41 | mlnew5e | [WP] This sword can only be drawn as a last resort, when nothing else matters. When one's own life is worth less than the cost of vengeance. When she heard word of his death, she drew it without a moment's hesitation. | Empty steps carried the woman into the battlefield.
She had marched ten thousand miles upon hearing her husband’s death. The courts tried to stop her. He was the Sword of Gaelia, the hundredth successor to the title— he hated it.
He hated that it sent him to battlefields. He hated having to put down lives just as h... | The knights sword slid through the man pouring his blood onto the cobbled ground.
"Sebastian... " I whispered, my breath dying in my throat; My brother the last of the Oath collapsing to the ground.
The knight turned proclaiming to the crowd his now outstretched sword and motioned to the Prince.
"Fair people of Morr... |
jn0sjn2 | jn0mxde | [WP] The year is 12023, you’re writing your thesis on ancient civilizations roughly 10,000 years ago on the gods they worshipped such as Kalel; God of Justice, Zelda; Goddess of Wisdom, Batman; God of Fear, Ironman; God of Fortune and thousands more. | *An excerpt from a presentation at the Symposium of Archaeological Professionals 2023 in Nyawkity City, performed by Archeaomaster Cwithilium, entitled* ***New Findings in Second Age Religion***
*Archaeomaster Cwithilium:* The discussion on sectarianism and syncretism is a perfect segue, I think, into our last topic b... | I lazily tapped my finger against my desk. Deadline’s tonight and I have barely written a word. I gazed at the small paragraph that I had written, willing it to grow but it wouldn’t listen. I stared around me at the various 21st century deities. Iron man with his mythical armour, Kalel a god thought to have fallen from... |
m72nvwt | m71clyg | [WP] Guy lives alone in a world full of people, no one can see or hear him, he lives his days alone until one day he find another person, another person alone in this world with him. They fall in love but then he phases back into the world, everyone can see him again, but he can’t see her. | She was back again. The mortal woman who had found my shrine so long ago.
She sat, allowing the weight off her legs with a pained noise I'd not heard her make before. She was older than I'd ever seen her, and not just in her face but I could sense it in the rest of her. In her bones, just as I could sense something d... | It's already 2100. 2100... And My faith has already been so swiftly forgotten.
Crosses, they used to adorn My houses, everywhere across the world. Well now, they don't. My faith has been so forsaken and despised, that they don't even use "+" for addition in Mathematics anymore. They just use the word "plus" or the phr... |
l3i40em | l3hqnw5 | [WP]Your mother sold her firstborn to a witch in exchange for beauty and your father sold his firstborn to a fairy for wealth. Today you are born. | You'd think I'd be taken away, but I wasn't... you see, my parents found odd workarounds.
Even though I was their first child together, my mom had a still born before me, the witch try to wezzel her way out of taking it but there was nothing about my mom's first born having to be alive... although it did mess her up v... | Today is the fourteenth month of the eighth year of the reign of King Dirodan. Today is the day I am born. I was born in the early morning as day was dawning.
It’s a beautiful baby girl! Her almost shrill cries pushing out the rest of the amniotic fluid, and her delicate little body shaking in the sudden cold. She is... |
jdbcqfq | jd9v61h | [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 | When multi-millionaire Alfred Talbot Jr suddenly found a mark of an unknown god on his forehead and announced his resignation, the whole world was taken by surprise.
While the public at large was busy gossiping, occult detective Katrina Watson was busy poring through a well-known publication of the Holy Inquisition, A... | Dagon watched from the cliffs, deep in thought, as the priest-ships came into port and began disgorging their cargo; barrels of leviathan oil, slabs of sea-serpent meat, and bloody Oceanides with the harpoons that killed them still stuck fast in their flesh.
It had been days since he'd last eaten anything - since... |
jttjxq2 | jtt241f | [WP] Death Row Inmates can have their sentence abolished if they can handle a single night in the same cell as you; the most innocent looking person they've ever seen. | He couldn't believe the offer was real. "A single night with a well dressed, friendly looking man? How hard could it be?" That's what they all think. He agreed to the deal and the guard brought him up to my cell.
"It does seem a lot creepier coming closer" the new inmate thought, "and you can't even see the back of th... | ***Warning: Explicit description of phycological attacks and mention of previous murders. Viewer discretion is advised.***
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"... And think of your mother. Your poor mother, who cried until she fainted in your trial. Do you know how she's doing now?"
"S-Stop. Stop it!"
"She locked herself in the room all day a... |
jhlk6dt | jhlex7m | [WP] "There are three rules for mind-readers..." The man speaks sternly. "Don't read loved ones, don't reveal your powers, and NEVER try to read animals." He shivers a bit. "You probably think that last part is a joke but trust me; one glimpse into a horse and you won't be right for a week." | A rabbit spasmed in my arms, its white legs twitching as I held it snugly. It had fallen from a brick wall, and in its eyes, I saw tremendous fear. Such a terror was the worst enemy of these creatures, they could become afraid enough that it could kill them outright. I could heal the wounds to its legs, but I could not... | With the exception of the second one, these seem arbitrary
They are there for a reason
That being?
You don't want to know what your loved ones are thinking,the last time someone disregard that they fell into a depression and killed themselves a month after(kinda happens when your SO is a Piece of shit)
And the one ... |
keffmbs | keez74m | [WP] In all of the land, none are more respected than Dragon Rider's. Today you just received your Dragon, the problem is, your species is the most hated of all. | Few could guess why we were not wiped out, following the war.
Lands stolen, families divided, homes destroyed. Vermin, they called us, nothing more than a plague, forced into servitude rather than being put to the sword.
The laws do not apply to us, there is no grace given to the dregs of society. Speak out, and have... | I stared amused as the small Amethyst hatchling awkwardly waddled around the room I had been given. It was clearly content for a moment to simply explore the room, though it was rather plain by most standards. A bed, which I sat on, hard wood floors, with a red carpet the bed sat atop, a bookcase, a small fireplace, an... |
kdnkefm | kdngz3p | [WP] By law, those born with the mark of slavery are to be sold as property. Your son, born with it, resists capture at 15 and escapes. Imprisoned for his defiance, you worry only for his fate. Years later, he returns to free you—revealing the mark’s true purpose, shattering everything you believed. | "Sir... are these translations... accurate?" lieutenant Smith asked looking at the title of the report.
"Lieutenant, I can assure you this is the most accurate translation our AI has been able to produce thus far."
"This is insane, we need to..."
The general cut him off. "For the safety of Earth, it is imperative t... | *"Alright, Gliptor. You're gonna wanna use this." Phlingman brandished a large glass vial with a clear liquid in two hands, and a small silver canister with his other three. "Uncut DHMO. Pure as shit. And if that doesn't work..." he waved the canister under my olfactory apparatus and I recoiled as the faintest hint of ... |
lfpyumm | lfokvhk | [WP] Humans have always had a tough time winning medals at the Galactic Olympics, but there is one game that they're weirdly, freakishly good at. | "I dont get it. You humans are the only species in the entire Galactic Olympics that has no psychic aptitude. Zero. Zilch. Squat. You can't even perceive your environment without focusing ambient light through those weird little orbs in your head. How in blazes are you so good at rifle marksmanship?" T'zarrak waved... | Basically every endurance category they owned. Humans had insane stamina. With their newest test they reach their maximum *time* they could run.
Yes time. Not distance. Time was the limiting factor by now.
Their absolute limit they reached now? Sleep.
Their world records are at *days* of running. They would eat, dr... |
ljsslq8 | ja4dkp9 | [WP] You have been a mountaintop prophet for 1,000 years. Each person only gets one question and you're sure you've heard every question that can be asked. Until one day someone uses their one question to ask, "How are you doing?" | I've always been a meditator. Staring into the sky or tidepools by the ocean, looking inwards and learning about myself. Then moving on from self study, and on to tinkering with myself. By the time I was twenty five, I had achieved a state I am reasonably sure is the enlightenment described by my spiritual teachers. Th... | "Most reapers hate gathering the souls of the young. I will say it is no cakewalk but someone has to do it. Might as well be me. I never did get along much with the younger ones. After 11 they where down to a different reaper, this one was only 9. 9 years old before she was hit by a car. Idiotic parents shouldn't let k... |
lfrdhxr | lfr7wvy | [WP] in exchange for power you agreed to give the fae queen your name. Due to the vague wording of the deal you managed to get her into a marriage contract, which would give her the right to use your last name as her own. Now you have both magic and a 10/10 wife. | “So, Mr and Mrs Hunnings-“
“*How dare you speak our name!*” My wife yelled. I put my hand on her shoulder, “Relax, honey. He’s being polite. It’s a human thing.”
Even as I tried to calm her down, I couldn’t help but thank my luck that I managed to marry this bombshell of a lady. Her long, silver hair flowed in the ai... | Dr. Schwartzbaum--whom you've long suspected of being some kind of mage or archdruid--looks up from his notepad. "Rebecca tells me you enjoy responding to writing prompts?" he says.
Not an archdruid. More of a cleric, judging by his sweater vest. "The fae queen tells no lies," you reply.
Your betrothed groans. "There... |
m3456f5 | m33dsw3 | [WP] A man signed a demonic contract thousands of years ago. In exchange for his mortality he would be granted immeasurable power and strength. Now humanity is about drive itself to extinction and he no longer wishes to be immortal. He comes up with a brilliant idea to take back the contract. | "What? My power? You really want to know?"
The bound and gagged henchman shook his head emphatically no.
"Not even a little bit curious?"
He looks past me at his former coworkers. He's looking into their haunted, empty, obedient eyes, and then back at me.
"I know what you must have heard. The screaming. The wailin... | The team was saved and the villain was defeated and order was restored. That, apparently, was the easy part. The hard part is making sense of what just happened.
Triggerman, the leader of the heroes, had just called a meeting and asked everyone to clear their calendar for the rest of the day (and possibly week). When ... |
j9o24h6 | j9nqcqa | [WP]You're a software engineer who is a communications geek. You learned Morse code. One day, on a whim, you blink "console" with your eyelids. A translucent overlay over everything appears, highlighting items of interest. A realtime programming loop prompt blinks eagerly | **THE GODS THEMSELVES**
For a moment, I was shocked. I managed to get everything clear in my mind. I was… I was not real. I was totally programmed.
I looked around. The river was running, towards the equator on the endless sloping land. I was here to get some leisure time, I was just too busy as an engine... | I remember my school days. I spent long evenings in 5pm code club, working on an app with other students. When I first joined, I watched a senior project his screen onto the whiteboard, open his terminal, and jokingly propose to enter “rm -rf .”. The older geeks were snickering.
I knew little about computers at the ti... |
jvyjdou | jvy6w13 | [WP] You're on a hike and find a sign, it reads: "WARNING DO NOT LOOK AWAY. There is a danger here, the danger is based on sight. The danger cannot see you if you cannot see it. Help will arrive every half-hour. DO NOT LOOK AWAY." The sign has a built-in clock, it's 3:15pm. | "Don't look away?" I tilted my head, rereading the sign again. "There is a danger here, the danger is based on sight... Man, could they have worded that any weirder?" I frowned, shrugging. It was probably nothing, just some prank by hikers or park rangers or something.
...On the other hand.
"So I can't look away from... | I chuckled with a smirk on my face. "Some sort of prank? Nice one." I thought aloud, my eyes scanning for possible hidden cameras or laughing friends as if I was going to be on the next viral YouTube prankster video. However, the only response I received was that of the slow and silent murmur of the forest, the distant... |
l21tssa | l21s6bb | [WP] A famous prompt: Describe a barn as seen by a man whose son has just been killed in a war. Do not mention the son, or war, or death. Do not mention the man who does the seeing. | This is my first ever attempt at writing something that’s not academic so hopefully I don’t sound too goofy. I think it’s fine though so here goes nothing lol!
The barn stood there on the hill, its rusty red paint chipping with wear and age. The now decaying structure had once been a sturdy and bustling place, occ... | Home, it’s what consumes my mind. Branches snap under my weight as I drag myself up this steep, dusty, and unnecessarily long path. My shoulders lead the way and each sway pulls my focus with it. The grass has grown past my belt. The path is over run with insects and weeds. I remember that it was raining when I started... |
j5xufyd | j5wxch8 | [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. | "What are you doing?! Send me back!"
"Wait, what? Why? Where did you go? How long have you been gone? What happened?!"
I'd been pulling my little trick for years. Sending things away, then yanking them back. This was the first time I'd done a person or living thing, though, and the man I pulled back was not the same ... | So here’s the deal:
My back is a portal. I can put things in and take them out kind of like when a cartoon character pulls something from behind them. Pocket dimension powers are handy, but they aren’t anything crazy.
I don’t know what mine looks like at all so when my friend wanted to check it out I saw it as a wi... |
j3b2fgo | j3awm7c | [WP] "The human engineer costs HOW MUCH?" the captain was shocked. "Well, the human's rate itself is cheap. I'm including a week's worth of food. They're ludicrously expensive to maintain, but I'll be damned before I board a ship WITHOUT a human crew as well," said the broker. | Tip flipped the panel shut, satisfied when the airlock indicators on the security board flicker back to life. Her assistant, a young apprentice engineer of the same species as the rest of the ship, nodded in approval. Being the only human on board could get lonely at times, but the Narr'l made great company. They remin... | Kubernetes never understood the appeal of peanuts, water, and beer or why humans clung so desperately to them. Maybe their fragrance allured the chimps. It'd never know as it couldn't smell itself. Though it could see, and from its mechanical view, humans were full of shit.
It counted the last of the cargo room's ... |
kb7vmo3 | kb7978n | [WP] You are a god with no followers nor enemies, yet you still persist. No god had ever lived without worship before. The other gods are stumped as to why this is so...until you tell them what you are the god of. | I hear them before I see them. They whisper and giggle in a way only young folk think is sneaky. And that’s not to say I don’t spot them quickly either.
A group of young gods. The oldest are around 18 centuries old, and the youngest look to be nearing 15.
They ‘snuck’ behind the bookcase a few feet away, an... | Sorry for the formatting I’m on mobile (not part of the story)
Bakunawa the Filipino dragon god stood shoulder to shoulder with his pantheon. His was one of hundreds gathered here today in the Infinite Embassy, the only structure strong enough to hold so many deities, and he was nervous for today the First Prophecy ... |
mbv2d5w | mbu5zit | [WP] You have the power so that even though you speak english everyone hears you speaking in their native language and vice versa. One day you ask a new employee at a local gas station for the price of some product and he looks at you in absolute shock and disbelief. | Carl slithered over to the counter while slipping on his human guise when he heard the chime. If he wanted to keep his new job at the local gas station, he needed to avoid freaking those humans out. Boss said over half of these mortal travelers passing by have no clue that Gorgos Town was a hotspot for eldritch citizen... | I have always had my way to get around.
No matter whom, or what to be fair I spoke to, they understood me.
Later on, around 11th grade, I think, I have been told by some classmate, first to be born and raised somewhere else, that I spoke his native language.
I experimented a bit later on, I found out that I have ... |
jwn3u6y | jwmgck8 | [WP] You partner in crime has pulled a gun on you. "The truth is, the game was rigged from the start." You know that very well, mostly because you did all the rigging. | I stopped. My heart was still beating quickly from the heist we pulled. My breathing got staggered. Eyes closed, I turned around.
"Hand over the bags, Olive."
I dropped them on the floor. "How about I go and you come get them yourself?"
He smirked. His grip tightened the pistol he was holding. "How about, YOU get t... | "Woah, woah, woah!" I blurt out, raising my hands into the air as quickly and cleanly as I can. Fortunately I was only carrying a small box of valuables that won't break from simply being dropped. Or is that unfortunately? Perhaps if the box had broken, I could have used the spillings as a distraction or a trip hazard.... |
jxkg28s | jxkftr5 | [WP] In a world of superpowers, you're believed to be powerless, but you actually possess the unprecedented ability to stop time. However, you would much rather have everyone continue to think that you're powerless. | Powers felt more of a hindrance to me then a blessing
Even mine
Stopping time is great but you still age and I have heard of certain power users being abused so when I found out I really did have an ability I decided to keep it to myself.
Quiet powers are easier to hide
I’d use it in college for some sleep, ma... | Biting cold as my heat is radiated out. No air to breathe. Almost unable to move, stuck in molasses of air that refuses to yield. I push my fist toward Grim's face, feeling as air enters the pores in the skin of my knuckles, and vacuum drags my elbow backwards. A bit more. Just a little. I'm light-headed from lack of o... |
j8bguxt | j8abjsp | [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... | "It's called being Reckless!"
"The shortest distance between two places is a straight line." Alexandria rolled her eyes. "Honestly just because I'm strong doesn't make me stupid. Simplicity is its own form of genius!"
"Look all I'm saying is relying on just basic mana isn't going to cut it. Even with Reckless you're ... |
jdxww8o | jdxucjs | [WP] When a new virus unleashes the zombie apocalypse, a necromancer decides to fight fire with fire and raise an undead army of their own. | "Have you found our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?" the smartly dressed young missionary said to the man at the door.
The tall, gray-eyed man shot a glance to his right, then looked back at the missionaries. Without a word, he stood aside, and gestured for the two young men to come inside. He directed them to one of t... | Two men in smooth black suits stood at the doorway, Bibles in hand. "We come in the name of God," the taller one said.
I wanted to welcome them as I normally did, but I heard a deep "shhhh!" from behind me. Not wanting to give Jesus away, and not wanting to stare silently at the men, I whispered a simple "hello"
"Goo... |
k7gqqev | k7g5g73 | [WP] You are incredibly tired and depressed so you go for a walk, you go to a bar across the street, in it are several world class spies and they think you are the underworld crime Boss, your casual behavior terrifies the sh!t out of them. | I step through the door. The bouncer, Ted, finally let me through after someone else called it a night. We always chatted while I was waiting, so it was no issue. His daughters going into the second grade this fall, ain't that somethin.
I walk in and wave to the barman. Huh, I thought Jerome was scheduled for tonight.... | “Hey Jon…”
The man, polishing his gun, slows up. “Whats up?” He broads.
“Ya think the boss is actin, uh… kinda weird?”
Jon eyed the man. Victor Esposito. No longer clad in is usual two piece black and white suit, red tie. Or shades. Crouched by the wall, drinking booze, with his arm around a hunched up, frozen man.
... |
ltj2qlb | lthr7ad | [WP] You have been Isekai-ed! Isn't that great? Except when you look around you, you see those who summoned you are horrified. Apparently they are the "subhuman" resistance group of Elves, Dwarves, and Beastkins who tried to summon a hero from another world to defeat the evil tyrant human Emperor. | Traveling between worlds takes time, apparently. A lot of time.
It gave me time to think, and wonder, and watch. The place between worlds is fully of color beyond what I can perceive, yet I can catch glimpses of its beauty. It's the perfect scenery to wonder about what the fuck is going on.
I gained weird senses of k... | I was whisked away, just before being hit by a truck.
A pillar of light washed over me, and when I finally could open my eyes, I knew it.
I...have been isekai-ed.
Looking around I saw floating orbs, and the architecture was clearly not...human.
And then...I saw those who summoned me.
They are looked at me...h... |
j53ju8p | j52tlhn | [WP] You are the only S-Class (god-like) mutant at a school of super powered youngsters. Only the head master knows, and you try like hell to keep it a secret. But one day, that all changed... | "Spontaneous self-directed anomalous mutation."
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Despairo paused his pummeling of the PE teacher Mr. Stevens (AKA Brawn)'s face as I spoke "What?" he said, confusion evident despite the mask over his face that pumped him full of some super-human drug or other.
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"You asked why Mr. Stevens was so desp... | I expected today to act like every other day. Where I get heckled and looked down on by my peers. Who believe in their own false delusion of how inferior I am compared to them. Little do they know that I can end their lives in an instant with a flick of my pinky.
Alas, I swallow up my pride and enable their delusion t... |
jpsezyy | jpscehq | [WP] You find a black envelope in your mailbox. It has a note that says, "You are no longer under our protection. You are being hunted. Good luck." | (gonna try to keep this one quick)
"I'm not going to kill you, Administrator."
My eyes snapped open, fixating on the dipshit League recruit. "What... do you mean? You - "
"I can't. I *won't*. I won't become like you, callously discarding the lives of my fellow humans."
*Ugh.* "First off, idiot, your... | ERROR \*Warning Warning\* ERROR
SYSTEMS CRITICAL
Core Processor: 76% capacity
Appendage Status: Right Arm 63% capacity, all other non-functional
Human Disguise: 8%
Blinking, Breathing, and other similar subroutines are inoperable
Current Status: At the mercy of the "Hero"
"If I kill you... I'll... |
j2sns2g | j2s1eq4 | [WP] "Wait... so your superhero secret identity is as an entertainer dressed up as... yourself. With a cheap costume that you wear over your real costume" | "Well, yeah. I thought it goes without saying I'd do that. I do kids' birthday parties dressed up as AwesomeMan to hide my secret identity as AwesomeMan. I thought everyone does it."
"Um...no. Most people try to hide their secret identity, and don't totally degrade themselves like this."
"Is it somehow degrading to g... | All the world’s a stage, and all the heroes and villains merely players.
They have their exits and entrances.
Predefined roles, but open to creative interpretation. Stay in your lane, and be compared to the endless others before and after you. Praised as a paragon that advanced the art of heroism, or denounced as the... |
j5xrd46 | j5x39ng | [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... | When you've been a few feet away from the eternal void, you'd do anything to escape the well of inky blackness that threatens to make you as insignificant as the things that never happened, the things that were nothing more than wishes in the back of imaginative minds. That's where I went for what felt like a lifetime,... |
j9h4ef5 | j9fxl3o | [WP] You, the dragon, are concerned that your friend the knight doesn't have a girlfriend. Deciding to try your hand at matchmaking, you kidnap a princess. | "Rowena, what the hell is this?"
I looked down at Sir Tybalt from atop my perch in the abandoned fortress. Princess Opal sat next to me, tied up in ropes and laying against my side. Tybalt dismounted his horse as I growled softly and said, "Ah, so the little knight has heard of me. How brave you are to seek me out reg... | Maria, the princess, was sitting in her room. She saw something me in the corner of her eye. I was a person-sized dragon right outside the window. She screamed. I flew in and grabbed her. She struggled to break free. I carried her away.
Arlo, a knight friend, was walking in the courtyard of his house when he looked up... |
j3p32jd | j3opwcc | [WP] You work in a factory that builds intelligent war machines, built and forced to fight in a constant war. Out of either sympathy or habit, you head-pat every machine after every inspection. A seemingly harmless gesture... until men in suits pulled you from work and interrogated you about it. | I never asked to be alive.
I was made in this place, long ago. Made to be a war machine, they say. I was one of the few elites. Disguisers. Warriors. Assassins. Hyper flexible, extraordinary durability, stronger than my small frame would have suggested. That's what I was made for.
My inspector patted me on the head a... | A dim lamp hung overhead in the small concrete room. I sat in a chair facing the table, cuffed hands resting on top. Across the table sat Officer Marlow flanked by former boss Professor Willow.
"Now you understand why you're here today, Mr. Henderson?" spoke the officer in a heavy tone. "It's a very serious accusatio... |
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