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jdsospq | jdso95l | [WP] Destroying 90% human population on earth, the aliens leave, assuming that society would crumble, and remaining 10% will just all fight for resources and eventually die out. They returned a thousand years later, expecting a cleansed planet, but were met with a nuclear strike from a satellite. | Life without death loses all meaning.
I didn't understand that as a child. Nor as a teenager, even whilst reluctantly learning about each of the previous extinction-level events that challenged life on earth--not only humanity--to overcome.
Long before the end of Ordovician over 440 million years ago, evolution of l... | Part 1
“We bombed them a thousand years ago, our grandfathers and mothers died to the ones there, though it was only in the hundreds range, we left roughly 10% of the population there, mostly elderly and children to assure they’d die out, and so we will return to this planet that we have called Terra-3 to collect the ... |
jw6hurp | jw5krdr | [WP] Each type of death has a unique type of Reaper. The Reapers of Drowning collects the souls of the drowned. The Reapers of Old Age collects those that have come to their natural end. Write a story about a Reaper for an unusual death finally having a soul to collect. | "Hm."
"Hm? What's that for?"
"You're the first person to have died like this in... I believe since the Ice Age?"
"Oh."
"Please excuse any confusion, it's been a while since I've had to do this. You see, every type of death gets a Reaper, and I have been a Reaper for this death for a long time. Many people have died... | [CW: Kids]
It showed up just in time to see the other boys running away. That was the way of young boys, it supposed. Everything was fun and games untill someone lost an eye, or worse...
In the corner of the school yard, where two brick walls met, lay the crumpled form of a boy, about the same age as those who had fl... |
kfvrozb | kfv9hqi | [WP] A criminal goes on a spree after being inspired by misheard song lyrics. | He'd not even made it 30 feet into the hamlet before he was stopped by its owner. By all measure, the standoff should have felt absurd to every observer: Him, a picture of strength and constitution, a good six foot tall, proud and confident in his every movement. And her?
Small, physically weak, a huddled mass within ... | “It’s time.” Wadramonomo thought pensively.
Wadramonomo always expected this, just not so soon. He sat atop the barstool, back facing the bar, staring intently toward the door. The room around him may as well not have existed. Nothing mattered anymore, after all; his life as he knew it was about to end.
“Are you alri... |
jy48dtj | jy44hqe | [WP] After a superhero destroyed your home and killed your family during a fight you swore you would have your vengeance and destroy the heroes once and for all. You may only be a rat but that is not going to stop you. | Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak Squeak, Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak. Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak. Squeak, Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak.
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... | As the fires of Super City continued to burn I explained my master plan. “Good. Good. They should come in droves!” I rubbed my rat hands together and wiggled my whiskers approvingly at the sight before me. My minions did well. Then I see it. A cloud of flying heroes.
“Now! Go forth my brothers! Fight! For nothing can... |
lowxq6d | lowjh29 | [WP] On the day of your 18th birthday, you pressed a button that gives you $10,000 for every day left in your life. You just checked your bank account: $1,000,000,043. | I'd been feeling really down due to my recent diagnosis of ALS. No point in going to university now. No money. No point getting a girlfriend or marriage when it was doomed before it started. No point to life.
I'd spent the morning just staring at the wall.
And then a mysterious man showed up at my door and said i... | "... Woah. Hold on. A billion... it actually worked? And a billion... divided by... 10000... screw this, I failed math anyways." I open up my phone to it's calculator. "A hundred thousand days... That's like..." I type another thing into the calculator. "245 years! Wow! How is that even... possible? And what should I d... |
lhuriw3 | lhulnz1 | [WP] Level 100 in the East is about the same a level 20 in the West… which is a shame for the level 52 sorceress who just severely underestimated you… | I sat at the bar; a local place called the Oasis. Cleverly named, given that the town of Yttri was in the middle of the Ghavwre Desert. The clay walls were carved with intricate designs of Myran style; an ancient tribe which, although they were wiped out, left very sophisticated writings and ruins.
I always loved loo... | Hana mutered another incantation, calling forth strong winds that blowed with the force of a typhoon. Daisy gulped, bracing herself while she literally rooted on the ground and her skin turned though and rough like the bark, protecting her of the scrapnel that arised by the spell of her rival.
The eastern sorceress c... |
l79581s | l78f13j | [WP] “One of us tells only the truth. “the other nothing but lies.” You kill the first guard and ask “Is he dead?” | I yelled at our ‘illustrious’ party leader to wait, but as usual the impatient knight was already in motion. By the time I was halfway through my warning, the severed head of one of the twin magical guardians had hit the ground.
“Well, is he dead?” the knight ‘leader’ asked the remaining guardian smugly.
I didn’t eve... | “That’s not how this works.” I say as I raise my spear at the adventurer’s neck.
The jerk killed Jerry. “You are under arrest for attacking a guard and for breaking the rules of the game.” I shift my target from the neck to the shoulder with the speed and strength of a raging river. Not to kill, but to pin down the c... |
j6q1fbx | j6pqpna | [WP] As the god of reincarnations, when neither Hell nor Heaven want a soul, it is your job to reincarnate it appropriately. One specific soul keeps coming back to you not so long after each reincarnation. After a while, you decide to investigate why the soul keeps coming back to you. | 99912672036.
Why did that number keep coming up? Every time I saw it, it would be marked:
* Heaven: Refused
* Hell: Denied Entry
It's not uncommon to see a number more than once; someone may need to be reincarnated a few times to become worthy of Heaven or Hell. But I had this number memorized. Sometimes they'd be b... | Ye gods and little catfish, not again!
This can’t be happening! I’ve done everything I could: sent them to the finest places, made sure they were born with everything they’d need to lead a long, fruitful life, nudged them to make the choices to finally, finally, have a certain path to one afterlife or the other.
... |
lczveij | lcz3kap | [WP] Once an hour, every hour, the richest person on earth dies. This continues indefinitely... | The bell tolls.
The hardest part was the timing.
You had to make sure that you transferred the money on the hour every hour.
I spent days working on the automatic transfer, setting up the plans for the prewritten wills needed for an operation like this.
As for people? It’s kind of crazy what desperate people wi... | Alarms rang out deep in an underground compound, while the many suited goons of it's owner rushed to action, quickly shuffling assets to defer the curse. A kilometer below the person in question writhed in their cryotube as doctors and everyone else rushed to their aid, trying things ranging from the cutting edge of sc... |
js1w4ow | js14uqp | [WP] All of the local mob bosses have gathered in one area. This could only mean one thing. Parent teacher conferences. | Brodrick “The Butcher” Maxwell stepped out of his towncar and eyed the crowd. It was parent-teacher conference day at Brightstone Elementary, and the parking lot was full of parents awkwardly milling about, clutching flyers in their hands or glancing irritably at their phones, looking up the times and room numbers for ... | Parent-teacher conference day was the only day you could see four black limos pull up in front of Brothers middle-school one after another. The men who emerged from them, dressed in tweed suits, tipped their hats to school resource officer Ackman as they went in the front door.
There was a fragile balance between the... |
ka6s6n3 | ka5squd | [WP] You are an immortal, having to deal with the rather troublesome rumour that your blood grants immortal life. However, what those after your blood don't know is that since you can't die, you are an excellent host to several deadly bacteria and viruses-all existing peacefully in your blood. | “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
“And why should we listen to you?”
“Okay.” He glanced at the ceiling. “It’s your funeral.”
“What did you say?”
“Don’t listen to him. Just do it.”
The blood made a hollow tinkling sound as it dripped and then splattered into a shallow bowl – a crimson fortune.
“How much do... | As an immortal deity, I have Seen Some Shit™. However, the most interesting thing (And also the most annoying) is that people got the idea that my blood could grant immortality. Thousands of people have come to me, begged for a drop, and then dropped dead as soon as they drank it. Since my body has to contain omnipoten... |
j6ad15u | j69r37e | [WP] Old mirrors were made with layer of silver. You, a vampire, spent centuries without seeing your reflection. Today, package with your first non-silver backed mirror arived. | One of the greatest cruelties that God cast upon his creation is that men must kill to survive. Be it flora or fauna, something must give way for them to proliferate. Men have learned to forgive themselves for this fault, invoking the authority of the creation itself by saying: "This is just the way things are. It is n... | “Guys! Guys! I did it!”
“What now, Valkonir” my best friends chimed together.
“I can see myself in this mirror! It is a marvel! No ghastly silver!”
“Valkonir, we went over this last week with my iPhone. Remember, you kept asking about the ‘handsome gentleman in the cloak’ in my pictures? Digital cameras don’t use si... |
jlaey19 | jlaa6h4 | [WP]"How did a mere peasant become the most powerful hero in the land? Sure you're immortal but that can't be all" "Well you'd be surprised how many artifacts will grant you ultimate power in exchange for your life." | "How did a mere peasant become the most powerful hero in the land? Sure you're immortal, but that can't be all!"
The supposed villain lay on the ground before me, clutching his chest as he knew he'd soon succumb to his mortal wounds. I paused before answering, carefully considering the consequences of potentially rev... | I spread the mixture of egg, ham, and cheese over the bread, freshly pulled from the oven. I place the soggy bread onto my rock, the flames licking my fingers. A faint crackling fills my abode as I grasp a handful of tea leaves, dropping them into my kettle.
“Lavender, please.” Artifact Gold says.
I oblige, as keepin... |
k497ycl | k486ups | [WP] You have just been hired as the janitor at an academy of magic. This is of course the most prestigious role in the entire academy. As you are required to have extensive knowledge on everything magical in order to handle any contaminants, mutants, demons, etc. | "Janitor. Could you come to the Demonology classroom?"
"What happened now Mrs. Avery?" I say into the earpiece I was given when I was hired.
"Well. I was showing the students interested in dark magic how to summon a demon and I accidentally summoned one of the most powerful demons. They're now demanding a sacrifice o... | The were-vine throttled and squirmed, trying to pull off base. Most of the students this morning on the younger side scurried near the walls of the courtyard. The sandstone blocks offered no refuge as the heavy steps of Mr. Black echoed, distracting the were-vine.
"Why didn't you throw the hot lime?" Black looked at ... |
j3wfryo | j3wb3ma | [WP] "Hold me" she pleaded. "I know you don't like me, you even tried to kill me.... but please hold me". I didn't like her but no one deserved this. So I held her close for a long time. | The math I had to do on the battlefield wasn’t much different from the one I used to teach.
Ruptured lung, no pulse. Sub 1% chance of resuscitation. The fact that he’d told me jokes in my first week in the barracks didn’t factor into the problem I was solving – saving lives. I stepped over the body and scanned the se... | The darkness of the night crept in as the light from my final spell faded away, leaving the men who stood between us and the exit laying on the ground. She stood a few feet in front of me, her eyes wide, as her hand slowly lifted to her stomach. Blood welled as I looked at her, chills running through my body.
"Oh, bo... |
jxkytia | 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. | "Andrew, we need to talk"
And that's it. I knew this day would come. I look in Angela's eyes and I see it. Again. Pity.
"You want to break up with me."
Being able to stop time, among other things, gives you time to think.
Her eyes widen. I can almost feel her guilt. She is, after all a good person.
"I... Plea... | Biting cold as my heat is radiated out. No air to breathe. Almost unable to move, stuck in molasses of air that refuses to yield. I push my fist toward Grim's face, feeling as air enters the pores in the skin of my knuckles, and vacuum drags my elbow backwards. A bit more. Just a little. I'm light-headed from lack of o... |
jqut3np | jquhy1i | [WP] Upon meeting your boyfriend’s family for the first time, you find yourself facing two problems: One, you learn your boyfriend comes from a long line of exceptionally powerful sorcerers. Two, he has three very, VERY protective older sisters, and they want to see if you’re worthy of him. | “You know…before you he was in love with a girl from his previous school…La Merna? Ever heard of it…?”
“…N-No I haven’t.”
“Good. La Merna is filled with petty rich assholes, only reason he went there was because of his ability of seeing beyond the veil. He isn’t like us, we have more…psychical powers as his is more i... | [Poem]
So glad we've met as well,
Let's all sit down and chat a spell,
You see we're all witches,
So we don't take kindly,
To girls who come here, that are bitches.
Our brother is the best,
So now you'll take our test,
Or we'll tell him what you always have feared,
We'll sit him down slow, and speak in his ear,
... |
l1ynaib | l1y21gi | [WP] Every dragon rider gets a dragon egg to hatch upon their initiation to the guild. When your egg hatched, Your dragon came out a bit... Different. | *crack!* Another swiggly line apeared on the pristine white shell. Erik couldn’t wait any longer! As his father and his grandfather before him he too would now become a dragon rider! He tried to get even closer to the egg but he practically already had his nose pressed up against it. Papa Gill grinned at him from the o... | "Come on, Faith! Take the egg, it's hatching!" said her enthuiastic friend claudia. Faith sighed as she heard the egg hatch. With a shaking hand, she called Master Edward to let him know the news. "Remember, this dragon will define your dragon riding spot, Fai Dear." he said softly. "I'll be right over"
Master Edw... |
jp0fiar | jp0b7my | [WP] A kid losing a video game, and getting their big brother to beat it for them, as seen from an npc's perspective | Not the pit again....this will be the 40th time today I'll have fallen into this pit and had to restart the level. The young one is fun to watch as he trys to navigate through the level his youthful exuberance refreshing and a reminder of why most of us enjoy what we do. But this pit was getting the better of him... | The foolish adventurer steps up once more, but this time executes a series of moves incomprehensible to the sane mind. After he sidesteps to the left and dashes forward, he suddenly sinks into the ground.
I blink, and in that slight moment, the adventurer had somehow managed to get his legs pointing straight towards ... |
jh0p6si | jh0itzk | [WP] “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made alo-“ “Dude, we desecrated a major archaeological site and half of our team died for the promise of treasure that wasn’t even here!” | A puff of dust floated up from its thousand-year slumber as James lifted the lid, fingers finding purchase under the stone engravings. There was nothing inside. “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made alo-“
“Dude, we desecrated a major archaeological site and half of our team died for the promise of treasure ... | It all started when John found the map. I pushed him and my friends to try and find the treasure described because I tought I could make a fortune.
The first one to die was Marcus. We were trying to enter the archaeological site indicated on the map, and while we were figuring out how to get inside of the temple witho... |
ja3yw91 | ja3n3b0 | [WP] You are one of the few people in the world who has powers. You have the ability to literally slap the stupid out of someone. You are desperately trying to break into the Whitehouse to stop the president from starting a new prohibition era. | "Sir, you can't come through he-"
**\*Slap\***
"You raise a very good argument. Please, come through," the security guard said as he grasped his red cheek where I just slapped him.
I walked down the corridor of the White House with determination in my eyes, my goal simple.
To slap the President of the United States... | Finally, I can see the doors, as I desperately control my breath to not alert the armed guard, walking past my hiding place. The cord extends noiselessly, just as it had done in my garage, and I’m lowered to the floor, which likely cost more than my life. One foot on the ground, rebalance, both feet down, unhook the co... |
jareftc | jarcegj | [WP]"Halt, foul beast! You shall threaten this town no longer!" Yelled the hero, drawing their blade, an ancient artefact that glowed and became razor sharp in the presence of evil.. except it wasn't only not glowing, but dulled as the hero pointed it at the 8' tall man-wolf huddled in the corner | The Wolfman shook cowardly and let out a soft whimper, and Sir Arnold paused..a look of confusion crossing over his face. The townsfolk behind Arnold gasped as he stepped closer to it, lowering the sword ever so slightly. Surely, this had to be the foul beast that had been eating their goats and ravaging their far... | Wolf Man: What?! But I didn't do anything!
Hero: Not you! The evil spirit hiding under you!
A shadow bursts from the floor underneath the wolf man, sending him tumbling into the lower floor where he fell into a table filled with food. The chef was not impressed, for the food was supposed to be taken to the waiting fo... |
lon40b4 | lomrvs3 | [WP] You pretend to be a small-time villain. At most, you annoy the local supers but your crimes never hurt anyone. To you it's all good fun. Things change when a truly sadistic super villain invades your turf and murders a few of the supers. No one has seen the extent of your true powers until now. | Memories are a strange thing. Entirely real for the individual, as rock solid as we desire to make them, yet incredibly fluid as well. Influenced as much by our own whims and wants as by anything that actually happened, even events that occur right in front of us.
Seeing the excuses people would make for forgetting th... | When I arrived, I saw a pool of blood. Not where someone had died, but a full sized pool, like a water park you’d take your kids to. How many people died for that? And in the middle was the cause of it all, swimming in the middle, laughing.
He turned as I walked closer to him, though for a moment, then recognized me.
... |
ksfklxw | ksfkhu7 | [WP] Your spouse tries to murder you by pushing you off of a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean. Just as you believe you have drowned, you suddenly wake up underwater among merpeople. They resuscitated you by turning you into a merperson. | It was pain that awoke me. Not the burning of my lungs, but sharp lines on my neck. It was a cold pain, mixed with the horrific feeling of my skin flapping and floating. I sucked in a heavy breath, moaning at a fresh wave of sensation passing through the slices.
I felt something wrap around my arms, sucking at the ski... | "Hey Miranda, how was the party?"
"It was good Tom, real good, say, it's real quiet out here tonight isn't it?"
"Yeah, almost everybody is inside in the party, or asleep in their rooms."
"So it's just us out here huh?"
"Oh I like the way this is going."
"Not for long."
Miranda shoved Tom off the back of the shi... |
jhx8zx2 | jhx6vvx | [WP] A noble sentenced to die is allowed to choose their execution method. They ask to die in honourable combat against the king's knights, armed with a wooden sword while the knights have real weapons. It's been 24 hours since the execution started and the king is running out of knights. | The king stared in horror as the man he sentenced to death a full day ago pulled out the splintered remains of his wooden sword from the throat yet another noble knight sent to dispatch him. He didn't quite realize the prisoner's preferred method of execution - honourable combat against his finest knights - would prove... | Duke Horatio gripped his broken wooden sword and stepped into the coliseum arena, his heart steeled and prepared for this very day back when he started plotting to kill the old tyrant and paved the way for the unfavourite crippled prince onto the throne.
There was no denying it, everything he did for his nation to kil... |
kzd43j5 | kzcrcc4 | [WP] You are a dragon. The other dragons despise you, because they say you have no read hoard. You always change your shape to look like a man, and you are a guild master of an adventurer’s guild. The other dragons are WRONG. This guild, these people, THEY are your hoard. | "Hi mom! Im in the ER again, they made me write to you. Dont worry nothing serious, i just had a bit of a crash. The food is good, the bed is nice and comfy, im getting used to it. Dont cry again please, im still in the millions. xoxo"
I finished the text and locked my phone getting ready to bed. I was laying down ful... | *Three*
I’ll look back at this moment when I’m older and describe it as ‘happening is slow motion’, but it doesn’t. It’s fast. And scary.
*Two*
I couldn’t tell where he pulled the gun from, maybe his waistband? But I’m not sure now and I’ll never be. There’s a swish. Is it from the metal moving so quickly or the ru... |
ll8lls8 | ll89ls6 | [WP][TT] In the present life, you are what you eat. But when you die, it turns out you have to battle what you've eaten throughout your life to gain access to the afterlife. You remember, with a sinking feeling, that adventurous trip you took in Australia. | **Part 1 of 2**
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Fear radiated through Jaq’s body. She had no idea what they wanted. *What do kidnappers do?*
She didn’t want to answer the question. Her legs, which were tied in criss-cross, were cramping. She shifted in a fruitless effort to ease the pain. In doing so, she realized she f... | It's a large van, plenty of room to do some damage. One of Karen's captors sits near her, pointing with his thumb.
"Guess she thinks she's some kind of kung fu master with that blindfold on--"
In an instant, a bare foot slaps against his jaw. The slender man's skin ripples like a loose sheet on a bed. Pure horror pai... |
lsdl13k | lsd1agu | [WP] The hero, normally jovial and humorous in their interactions, steps into a watering hole for villains, shaking with rage, tears running down their face, and with as much patience and calm as they can muster, simply asks "Who did it?" | I sat at the bar in the speakeasy, nursing my drink and a headache. The light show this morning hadn’t done me any favors, nor had the earthquake that followed. While no one claimed responsibility for the crime spree, the celebratory laughter from the back booth suggested the likely culprits. I glanced in their directi... | I was relatively new to the supervillain business, a villain with the power to control water called La Siene. Now don’t go judging me, villainy pays well. Well it does as long as you aren’t in Paris. The Hero Ghost has built a whole network of heroes and informants to protect Paris from the Legion. Even the birds fough... |
jvvzs3k | jvvo950 | [WP] The witch begs your forgiveness for cursing you as a baby; she was young and hot-headed, and would you like her to undo the curse? You aren't sure what to say as this is the first you've heard about any of this. | I’m not even sure if I have the correct address or found the correct person. It has been so many years ago since I was this young and hot-headed teenage witch. Now, much older, wiser, and less reckless, I had travelled far and wide to find the young man I had cursed in a fit of rage.
It wasn’t even the boy’s fault, hi... | The journal my mother had hidden in the attic, mildewed and falling apart, had stuck out like a nail in an old board as I was cleaning out her old house. I hadn't spoken to her in years, yet here she was, laid out page by page. She wasn't a good mother, some might have called her a witch, others a naturopath, some othe... |
juj5qet | juig22p | [WP] You're standing at the altar, about to get married to your beautiful fiancée. When suddenly the king of demons bursts through the door of the room, which naturally causes panic. You tried to warn everyone that inviting your sibling to the wedding would mean trouble, but they kept insisting. | "David, you've got to handle this" I whispered" You promised we'd be safe!"
It's really hard being brother to David the Demon-Slayer. I've been kidnapped, tied-up, beat-up and left for dead. It took me months to regain my strength and Julia was there to nurse me through the worst of it.
I've never been jealous of ... | *"Sorry I Am Late. The Transrealm Substation Is Only Running One Line Today, "* He said in a voice that simultaneously sounded of the screams of one thousand damned souls and the thunder of a mountain storm.
"Paz, bro, turn off your Hell voice. You are in the mortal realms"
"Oh, sorry about that." Said Pazuzu, King o... |
jknjz25 | jknh9gi | [WP] Humans have a reputation amongst the other sapient races. Not just for being ambitious and adaptable, but also for being monstrously disgusting. Most view them as lumbering hives of parasites, diseases, dead skin cells and bacteria. They are biological weapons; children of pestilence. | The Bleaching is what's known as a convergent civilizational development cornerstone. At some point, between phase one and phase two, a young sapient species will grow past their biological roots and transcend to a form that typically shares the shape and function of their evolved vessels, with none of the drawbacks or... | A horror arrived on my homeworld today. From my window, I watched them stumble out of their ship, so sleek and silver, all rounded edges and mirrored surfaces, now so juxtaposed from the creatures residing within. At first, I thought them beautiful. They had bulbous, radiant helms that shone in the light of our sun, st... |
kbg8t7u | kbfjqq9 | [WP] Nuclear weapons have been banned for so long in the a galactic community that most aliens think they’re just fairytales. Imagine their surprise when they see humans using them in a war. | The congress was in tense debate. Polaris-5, a mining colony on the fringes of human space, had fallen into the hands of alien invaders a few hours ago. “This is the correct time to invoke article 62” declared the president “to defeat these aliens, we must ensure that atomic flame is cast upon them without prejudice, o... | In a household of little green men, the TV played a broadcast of Earth. The son and daughter sat on the floor in front of the flat screen TV, legs crossed. "Mom", said the girl, "Do Earthlings know that we watch them?" "No, honey", said the mother walking in. "A war has broken out", said the announcer. A giant missile ... |
jbham3g | jbfqf96 | [WP] You are 1 out of 50 people who participated in a human trial study for an "intelligence serum" that was supposed to boost IQ and other various intellectual parts of your brain. You are the only one who hasn't gone insane. | "How do you feel?"
"Normal?"
"Really? just normal?"
"Okay. Well, no, but."
Impatient clipboard-tapping urged me to continue.
"I mean, I keep taking shape-rotation tests and doing well, but I was already decent at those. I guess the math problems are a little easier now."
"And... the questions at the end?"
"Yeah,... | They said our IQ would go up. It did.
Then they all went insane. All at once
Me? I’m the last one left. There are guards all over the place. They came into my room and were halfway through dragging me out into the hallway when I asked what they were doing. Then they let go.
It turns out everyone else simply started ... |
k81hj3z | k816lrg | [WP] “Mom…Dad…I’m…” “Gay? We know sweetheart. And we still love yo—-“ “No I’m—“ “Trans too? Oh don’t worry dear we always kind of knew…” “No for the love of god I’ve been turned into a vampire!!” | "Relax, honey, we're not entirely surprised..."
"You're not surprised? I'm a vampire! I suck blood! I burn under the sun! I'm a monster! And you're not surprised?"
"Your 1st cousin Trevor was bitten by a werewolf. Your 2nd Aunt Hazel married a skinwalker. Your 3rd Uncle Robert works for an eldritch god and was turned... | The mom looks down, letting her mouth close slowly as she stops talking. The dad is no quicker to react, he knows better than to say anything else without thinking first, the last few exchanges were certainly evidence of that.
The mom takes a deep breath and approaches her child, "Dear? Can you please show me where yo... |
jqyqj1g | jqxx7v2 | [WP] You’ve been bitten by a Zombie. You’ve already said tearful goodbyes to your loved ones as they leave you behind. The bite should make you turn in twenty minutes, so you sit down on a bench and wait… two hours later you’re still sitting there. | "No, come this way you stupid- Stop it! No! We're not eating that guy!" The zombie who was wandering in my direction abruptly got yanked backwards. It got pulled by its hair, which was already strange, but weirder still was... that nothing was there to pull it. The hair just seemed to get pulled, and the zombie obeyed ... | Zombies shuffle through the park, completely oblivious to my existence. And yet somehow – I haven’t turned. Could I be immune? Is that a thing? I’ve just had the most heartbreaking farewell with loved ones, friends, family, ex-colleagues… I’m ready for the inevitable. Why won’t death come? Why am I still me?
Maybe all... |
j8p1dnv | j8ohlcw | [WP] You’re rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a “D” on your report about the Aztecs and Incas. Not just because you’re certain she doesn’t like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - you were LITERALLY there. | Mr. Templeton blinked once, then again, and finally he shook his head as if waking from a dream. I was prepared to give him a moment to accept what he was seeing - the way my face shifted to its original form as my eyes glowed - but he recovered quickly and said a single word.
"No."
"What do you mean, no? I assure ... | The paper landed on my desk with an ominous slap. A red 'D' glared up at me from the title page, followed by several paragraphs of scathing comments.
After class, I immediately marched up to Ms. Chen's desk, fists balled at my sides. She didn't even glance up from the stacks of papers she was logging into the grade bo... |
k3glpgp | k3gg4fc | [WP] "Sooo... Do you have claws?" Nope. "What about night vision?" Uh-uh. "Not even like, poison or something?" No. "Then how in the cosmos did you humans survive on Earth for so long?!" | I shrug.
"Beats me. I mean, we aren't exactly sure ourselves. There's like, three theories that try to explain it."
By the confused look on the alien's face I figure out that they want me to explain.
"So, there's the Tools and Fire theory. That we were first to figure out how to make and use wooden and stone tools... | "In video game term: we have really really weird stats."
The confusion yet curiosity told me to continue
"We have are insane at socialising. It often enough takes the wheel so to say. Or control. Wird saying sorry for that."
I waved my hands away.
"Anyways, that allows us to even bond with *inanimate objects*. That... |
ltzw7yc | ltzm6an | [WP] "You have misunderstood the lore, hunter. It is neither crucifix, nor rosary, nor holy water, nor any other trapping of faith, but faith ITSELF that is anathema to my kind. And yours has proven to be. . . insufficient." | Dust floated around the rafters of the abandoned building, seeming trapped in the beams of moonlight between the shadows. My breathing was too quick, not quite panting, barely holding back the panic I felt. Panic mixed with curiosity and excitement. The feeling of walking into an exam you hadn't prepared for, in a clas... | "Someone has misunderstood something here. But it is not me." I said as I unleashed another volley of my shotgun in the leg of this accursed being.
It let out a grunt of pain, as the members were sent flying backward once again. I threw the weapon, its bullet now extended and took my handgun, aiming and shooting at it... |
jmjemxo | jmimrll | [WP] In a world where the consequences of murdering someone is them coming back the next day completely fine, you accidentally shot your best friend with a gun. The next day, you and your friend have an awkward conversation in an elevator. | "Hey, so, uh... Don't take it the wrong way."
"I-I was gonna' say. I'm sorry."
"I mean, I'm fine now."
"Right. But I didn't mean to do it. Honest."
"Look you shot me. Now, I'm not doubting your mental capacity or anything."
"I know, I'm so sorry."
"What'd I say at the beginning?"
"Always treat it like it's loade... | Elevator music had to be the most absolutely painful thing to listen to and of course, it was in the one space where you couldn't escape it. The standard 'wood' plank walls with mirrors from the waist up. This was allegedly to make the place to feel bigger but today it just made it so one couldn't escape looking at a p... |
jdzse2a | jdzjl49 | [WP] As a lich, you have survived for millennia by not drawing anyone' attention as you life a quiet, peaceful life in your very remote manor. Then one day a deity appears before you and says, "Look, we've run out of villains for the heroes to fight, so stop lazing about and do something evil NOW!" | The secret to longevity, is not dying. Or in my case, half-baked dying. Somehow magic related to death has somehow become associated with evil. I can't say I understand why. All magic is a tool, I simply have chosen to... well not *live* on, but stick around I guess. That was always my plan. One lifetime simply isn't e... | <Poem>
I was a wizard when I was alive
Oh, back then I was only five
Now I live a quiet life
Hardly ever having strife
This man he comes fuming at my door
He claims to be a deity I should adore
Without a single word of plea
He starts screaming at me
We've run out of villians for the heroes to fi... |
jx076cv | jx00jdp | [WP] "Everyone can become a billionaire within a month", or so I was told. You decide to let a clairvoyant superintelligence pilot your body for a month. As it takes the most optimal path to make you a billionaire, you watch hopelessly in horror. | I was skeptical of the advertisement, for it sounded too good to be true, yet too curious not to take a pamphlet and dial the number.
Everyone can become a billionaire within a month! Call now to find out how!" The pamphlet had said in a big brazen gold font that splashed all over a rich red background. "100% success ... | We will begin with the referendum on *you*. You are between eighteen and thirty-four years old. You are of average height and average build. In the evenings, with what free time you have, you amuse yourself with small distractions, little bits of electronic of ephemera that flicker back and forth before your eyes. Perh... |
j4jw8yo | j4jjlos | [WP] You died and were sent to hell, but instead of getting escorted down to a specific level of hell, you're escorted straight to the Devil himself who looks mildly horrified while holding the file of your life in his hands. | "You don't look surprised to be here."
You stare at your feet, offering no reply. What else is there left to say, at this point?
"You know what most people get wrong about the afterlife?" The devil asks as he closes your file. "They think they don't have any choice in the matter. That there's some kind of great cosmi... | A smile breaks across the devil's face, cracking the dried and scaling skin along his decrepid flesh. "oh my. oh my indeed." he looks at the young man before him, almost a child, chained, bleeding and on his knees. "now what could cause a poor boy like you to skin a man?" the devil corrects himself, "Sorry... 8 people.... |
j3beowo | j3axrmy | [WP] Aphrodite is talking to Ares. "Y'know, Persephone gives Hades flowers everyday. I wish you'd do that." The next day, Ares goes to the Underworld and gives Hades flowers. "Yeah, I'm not really sure why Aphrodite wanted me to do this, but here you go." | Sitting comfortably on his throne, Hades gazed at the dark form approaching him. The sound of clumsy footsteps and absence of accompanying guards was familiar to him. His nephew, the God of War, the son of Zeus, Ares had come to the Underworld.
Ares waved excitedly, "Hello uncle Hades and aunt Persephone!"
With the p... | "...th-thank you." Wetness rolls down his cheek. Hades twirls away and places the flowers on an end table. Hermes, Ares's escort, awkwardly glances between the two and hops off the couch, backing into the hallway. He pauses, eyeing a gilded dracon bone displayed over the grand ebony doors, but shakes his head and conti... |
juz088p | 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. | 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... | # 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... |
mazf6k6 | mazampl | [WP] You and your soulmate are stuck in a cycle of reincarnation, but you managed to find each other every single time. In this life, you finally managed to track them down… only to learn they started a happy family with someone else. | It's painful. Oh, so painful.
Daedes, the guardian of Tartarus, God of Retribution, son of Hades and Persephone, and... lovesick god.
He still remembered the first time he'd ever seen him, Eleon, a young priest of Hades. The boy was beautiful, kind, and graceful, preaching death as a gift for the kind and a punishmen... | It had finally happened, one of them had finally broken.
He should have been surprised, but the truth is that he always knew it would be her.
When she had the idea, he followed her and did everything he could to see her dream come true.
But power comes with responsibilities, and she sought the ultimate power in exis... |
jk74azu | jk72m7c | [WP] "Attention Employees: Management at Grocery-Love will no longer be accepting 'rivers of lava', 'hordes of demons', or 'confronted by a Horseman' as a late excuse. We're all living through the apocalypse and have to think of the team first." | I massage my temples because this. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous. This conversation shouldn't even be happening.
"Look, Ken," I breathe into the phone, in a tone of voice my District Manager has never heard before, "I understand the store policy. What I'm saying is: it's simple fucking math, dude. Why you gonna pay to keep ... | Manager Tom brushed the cinders off his clothes, irate. "Lily! You're *supposed* to be guarding the door! A demon got in!
"Lily looked up from her phone. "But I'm in the middle of a gaaame!" Seeing Tom's frown, she whined "I'm on breeakk."
The doorbell jingled, and in came customers. They were haggard and draped in... |
jhqx8uw | jhoyzyd | [WP] You’re an elf who has been awarded a scholarship for one of the most prestigious schools of magic in all of the realms! The… Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Wait, what? | "... and which elf is widely regarded as introducing humanity to lightning magica? Yes, you in the third row"
"Was it Bengeldien? Or Ben Franklin as the humans called him."
"Exactly, his choice was widely regarded by the elven community as wildly irresponsible but by the time word got back to the council he..."
The ... | “No, thank you. Come back later.” A boy said as I entered my new dorm. “We don’t want the racket right now.”
“Huh?” I asked.
“The beds don’t need to be done, yet.” The same boy responded. “Go! We’re working and don’t need the beds changed yet!”
“I’m not a maid.” I replied coldly, bristling.
“Huh?” The boy responded... |
jxaokjl | jxajj1m | [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. | “You can never walk on consecrated ground.”
“I haven’t stepped into a church since I was 15. And besides, I’m an Atheist, I don’t believe in their supposed God and His ‘powers’.”
“You don’t, but they do.”
“Come again?”
“Belief is *power*, my ignorant friend. Just because you don’t believe something does not make it... | 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. ... |
jhxiylu | jhxhm4w | [WP] A noble sentenced to die is allowed to choose their execution method. They ask to die in honourable combat against the king's knights, armed with a wooden sword while the knights have real weapons. It's been 24 hours since the execution started and the king is running out of knights. | It was a horror.
The man had been caught on some unspecified charges. My nobles wanted him to die. I suspect pure xenophobia as the reason- the man was a foreigner after all.
I? The King in but name, a mere spectator, a puppet in the hands of my nobles.
As a saving grace, my prime minister did allow the man to choos... | I stood there before the king and his coucil, smiling knowing the words that had left my mouth. I imagined the smirk I had was great and noticeable, for all I could see at this angle was glares of anger, disbelief and shock. From all these nobles in this large wooden room.
A voice shouted from the front, which was... |
jm1vyyu | jm1vrjn | [WP] There's a forest that people say resembles the ocean. A forest where the land slopes endlessly deeper but the tops of the trees do not. Animals, plantlife... they're said to get stranger the further in one goes. | We sail along the canopy, our boats skimming through the thinnest branches. The ways are marked and we watch the sun and stars lest we lose our path and fly out into the trackless depths.
I'm sketching a leaf I plucked from the wind. It's larger than my two hands together, and covered in a fine soft fuzz. Something ha... | There's no mistaking the Ocean's Rainforest when I reach the land that borders it. Here, the lands sink into depths beyond what my eyes can see, sloping endlessly deeper while all that is visible to the naked eye are lush, evergreen crowns of the imposing trees that stand taller and taller as the land dives down.
The ... |
j6k15sm | j6jbm65 | [WP] You formed a contract with an adventurer that allows them to summon you in their time of need. You haven’t been summoned for years, almost forgetting about the contract until suddenly you’re summoned into the palace where your beloved adventurer is on his knees with a sword to his neck. | Magic doesn't exist. There's no such thing as summoning portals, elves, pixies, or supernatural contracts.
At least, that's what the doctors told me. They chalked it up to a dream, or some sort of subconscious hallucination when I hit my head. But then, they also told me that I was extremely lucky, and that peo... | White enveloped me blinding and deafening me to all. When suddenly shapes appeared all around. My eyes blinked furious trying to clear the lingering brightness from my sockets. The shapes became crystal clear. A plethora of well dressed men and women and a large stone room. Beautiful purple banners hung from the ceilin... |
jd1ycac | jd13fqe | [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. | “I swear if it’s those Mormons again..”
I open the door to a radiant woman standing there peacefully, almost angelic and cloaked in white.
“Oh. Hello.” It’s hard to hide my surprise.
“So I heard you wanted to talk?” She said, her voice like a symphony. “I brought the coffee.”
She materialized two mugs of coffee i... | There was a "tat-tat" sound on the door. I rushed over, wondering who the surprise visitor could be, but all that was on my porch was a package of coffee. The label said Veronica Coffee Co. I looked down the drive to see if I could catch a glimpse of my mysterious benefactor, but it appeared as if they'd rushed away be... |
jcl5acm | jcklx5s | [WP] what the general expected from "religious assistance" was shipments of donated supplies, some medics and maybe a priest to preform last rites and funerals... not fifty warpriests each with a thousand holy warriors eager to kill and die for the glory of their god. | Watching as the warships unload what had to have been thousands upon thousands of pissed warriors injected with various doses of "God's blood", his most trusted officer stands behind him. Not saying a word as they continue to offload, dozens of warpriests form up and make their way over to where the general and his off... | Thirty battalions all in all said Argon. I see, said General Heim. Send the wounded from the river battle to camp Aleina, some clerics should come there soon, and fix them up. We'll need reinforcements from the citadel. Of those thirty J'nee battalions. Eight are reported to be closing in on Megida, we've only two batt... |
jx8fk98 | jx89gpl | [WP] You're immortal. But instead of secrecy or God status, you decided to become an urban legend by working at a random gas station for hundreds of years. | It started as a joke. That’s all it was, I just thought it would be funny if I stuck it out here for a few decades, see if anyone notices. It stopped being a joke the first time I got shot.
It wasn’t anything really, the gunner just wanted cash, apparently they took offense to how relaxed I was. I tell you, the look o... | Today is August 21st, 2023. I Am Jeffery. I work at Sunoco Gas Station. I am supposed to make sure the shelves are stocked, all potential customers are happy, and make money for Sunoco Gas Station.
It is late at night. Sometimes, customers become unruly at this time. There is a bar close by, and at this time of night... |
jnttnqc | jnrbnnz | [WP] For 10 long years war has raged while the Galactic Committee held a tight leash on the humans; stating "We do things a certain way". Now, with the enemy closing in, the leash comes off. | The representative from the Coalition of Human Controlled Planets (CoHCP) had, for the last three months, had been attending by proxy. Specifically a cardboard cutout of himself holding a sign which read "humans will do what must be done." At first it was thought to have been a publicity stunt, that Representative Mars... | One of the last stories mama told me before I was sold to the Ammius Family was that of the Death Knell. She told me that even though we humans were small, weak-minded, and fragile compared to the rest of the members of the Galactic Committee, we knew the sound of our Death Knell from birth. And once you heard it, ther... |
j6w73e1 | j6w0h02 | [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... | Things change, he would often say. Rarely in a good way, often unsatisfactory, but that's how it goes.
Ron had many sayings, most of which Alex ignored, except that one, somehow. Now that Ron was dead, she would give anything to hear them again.
She had seen sickness tear the love of her life apart, putting an end to... |
j3u2q7x | j3tvxbo | [WP] A millennium ago, only the wealthiest were allowed to board the ship, allowed to escape this dying planet into space. In their absence the world healed and humanity built a new utopia. Now, the ulta-rich have returned and want to reap the benefits of the new world. | “What?” Asked Lucy as she stared at the radio that had just produced the worst message she had ever had. The rich that left the planet all those years ago were coming back. Lucy glanced up at the worlds six leaders and saw the most powerful one, Cosmic, massaging her temples. Cosmic had been there when the rich left, a... | Like hollow, sunken eyes, the barrels of weapons flared at each other. The stand off was tense. On one side, a group returning to reclaim a throne they thought was theirs. They had come screaming down from orbit, ready to take control once more, even through force. Yet, those facing them stood for their newfound freedo... |
jaczimb | jacyum6 | [WP] "One drip of this poison is enough to kill a whale." The scientist points towards a table, but the beaker isn't there. Instead a silly coffee cup shaped like a beaker sits. You lower the not coffee cup from your mouth. Tastes like lemon-lime. | Not bad for a deadly poison is about all I could think before my consciousness began to slip away. I vaguely remembered the doctor running to catch me as the ground rushed to do the same and then nothing.
I opened my eyes to see the beaker shattered in front of me. It’s contests spilled and already beginning to dry. ... | Authors note: I tried something different, a bit darker, hope you like it!
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*Three days ago - The oceanic life research facility (OLRF) - Mariana Trench division, Indonesia.*
“Fascinating,” Amelia said.
“What’s that?” Daniel asked sipping his coffee, his earbuds in his ears like always... |
lba5a5p | lb948yi | [WP] "Let me make this perfectly clear. You are not saving my daughter from a dragon. She IS a dragon. You are going to protect her and keep her company until she learns how to control her magic." | Sam had read about isekai novels before, where a chosen few are whisked off to fantastic worlds, given epic quests, and become heroes in that foreign land. The most classic, of course, was to save a princess who had been abducted by a dragon, for which the brave knight would be rewarded by the princess's hand in marria... | Audrey was close to being the strongest. She had studied under archmage and blademaster both. She had slain troll and ogre. Conquered ruins old and towers dread.
Before her stood a tiny little girl in red and Audrey gripped her sword hard to hide her trembling. For she was merely close to being the strongest .. human... |
jxdvbn1 | jxctqmx | [WP] The zombie apocalypse is here. The general public… actually has a better handle on it than the government does. | When the outbreak first began in the US, many of us assumed the worst to come and soon the Walking Dead or The Last of Us would become a reality. Most expected the first to fall would be the major cities and a quick end of order in society as a whole.
This shared opinion grew even more so as the military failed to con... | 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... |
ldwkatn | ldwbw6t | [WP] One day anyone who turned 18 was given a superpower of their choice. The only problem, they worked like usernames with only one person having that specific superpower. This created chaos, with the first gen almost ending the world. You’re a fifth generation user, and it was now your birthday | "Having grown up incredibly poor I knew I wanted a power I could earn money with, to help my mom and help my younger siblings. I considered every version of intelligence but from what I could see on the database I was screwed on that front, even in a different language. Same for strength, flight, teleportation, speed, ... | Getting a superpower may seem cool, but by the time my generation came of age it was much different than you would expect. When the gift of superpowers first arrived there were no instructions, people just suddenly started exhibiting amazing abilities. A few things became clear early on, 1 - every superpower had been... |
k7atj5a | k7a2fha | [WP] You know, Butler, I heard that the mansion is haunted by a ghost. That's quite silly, sir. I've worked here for 228 years, and I've never seen a single ghost in the mansion. | Charles paused mid-sip of his cup of Earl Grey. “Pardon?”
Butler did not smile—he never did—but he gave his version of a smile, a slight curling upward of the right corner of his mouth and the tiniest crinkle beside his eyes. “I’ve never seen a ghost throughout my entire tenure, sir.”
“And—and you’ve worked here for ... | \*Note, the narrator of great age and Mr. Butler are separate characters because I misread the prompt and typed the whole thing out before I realized.
Mr. Butler laughed. For context, the Count had hired Mr. Butler after a member of the "casual servants", one Gerald O. Verdos, lost his unfortunate battle with Cancer, ... |
j3h7cjh | j3h21lz | [WP] "Sure, it'll only cost you your soul" you used to jokingly say whenever you did something for free. everyone always got a laugh out of it, and so did you! until the first soul showed up in your living room with a very, very tired looking reaper. | Death looked tired. Oddly enough, this was the first thought Ed had, staring at the robed figure in his doorway. Darkened circles lined empty sockets, resembling smudges of ash on Death's high, bleached cheek bones.
"Can...I help you?" Ed inquired. Standing at a modest 5 foot eight, jeans and a t-shirt, coffee in ha... | Another soul had slipped through Daniel’s letterbox during the early apricot morning, before he’d woken. This particular soul was a puddle of purple oil that had splashed onto his hallway’s faux-wood laminate.
Daniel took a out a brand new sponge from the cupboard beneath the sink, then held it softly above the soul; ... |
j8vyej3 | j8vy61n | [WP] you got a magic rock as a kid that was meant to teach you the "magic words" of please and thank you by reminding you whenever it's appropriate. Now though it's begun to recommend whole paragraphs whenever you're in a sticky situation. The best part is following it's advice always works out best | “May I have ice cream, **please**?”
“**Thank you** for helping to tie my shoes, Mrs. Baxter.”
“The answer is **144**.”
“George Washington was born on **February 11, 1732**.”
“I don’t know, Tommy. We **definitely shouldn’t play on the train tracks**.”
“His name is, **Buster**.”
“You’re so nice to me. I **like ... | ... I remember when this stone just radiated in my pocket, when I forgot to be thankful for the blessings I've received, all the way through my childhood.
Now I can't remember the last time I've had a conversation at a bar, without the suspecious feeling that every word I utter, is not my own.
I might be paranoid, but... |
jhmnsrc | 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." | "...what's so dangerous about a horse?"
"Do you have four legs?"
"What?"
"Do you have four legs, and a tail, and a hankering for speed?"
"No! No, I don't!"
"And you're sure of that?"
"Yes!"
"If you read a horse, then you *won't* be. You'll try to gallop, eat some delicious-looking grass. You'll lose bowel contro... | 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 ... |
jm682dd | jm62tlo | [WP] The alien leaders can hear the past of a species like it's music. The Slyth sound like hyms and peaceful chanting, the Goraz sound of drums and whistling. The newest discovered species are the humans and all that can be heard is grinding gears and screaming... Soo much screaming. | Screaming.
It was all I heard at first.
Then, it finally finished processing- It wasn't just screaming. The screams were a chorus, backed by the steady drumbeat of grinding gears and gunfire. Above the harmony of screams rose a melody of crackling flames and tears.
The gears, the gunfire- They progressed through pai... | Greetings, all members of the Galaxy Federation, we of the Hessian Delegation are sending this message to warn you of the newly discovered space-faring species called humans.
To give you a brief background, Hessian leaders can hear the past of a species like it's music. The Slyth sound like hyms and peaceful chanting,... |
k6etfsz | k6ebpw9 | [WP] A man tells a group of terrified kids around a campfire a ghost story, that took place in the same forest. Suddenly, the ghost from the story appears, slightly annoyed and trying to explain things from their perspective. | “Henry spent hours looking for his little sister, desperate to find her. But to no avail. Some say that she was kidnapped by an escaped criminal. Others say that the woods themselves took her. But what everyone agrees on is this: Even now, decades later, Henry haunts these woods in search of her. Howling for the little... | By the time Tibo had sweat enough everybody looked around and truly wonder:
*Is this guy serious?*
They were not expecting such dramatic and violent tale.
And worst of all it was set up in the same place they were just camping for their long weekend.
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Likankabur exploded in laughter and finished a wh... |
j9kkeip | j9kdk09 | [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... | Everyone remembered it like it was yesterday. Christmas, 1999. The more technophobic branches of society were busy fearing Y2K. Some apocalyptic events due to a computer bug.
Everyone wished they were that lucky. A quick death via the Walmart version of Skynet. What a time to be alive.
But no. Instead, the apocalypse... |
j4k4nj7 | j4jolgk | [WP] the normally non-violent hero loads a single bullet into their antique long unused revolver and prepares a shot. "if you kill me you'll be just like me!" the villain exclaims. the hero is unconvinced. | _bang_
"Why do they keep trying to pull that shit?"
_"Dunno Sidekick Boy."_
"I mean it's not like there's any sort of true equivalence. You only shoot supervillians. And only the ones that kill civilians. They shoot _EVERYBODY_."
Gun Man just shrugs and pops the spent shell from his gun.
"I mean it hasn't worked ... | The click of the revolver, the roar of the bullet's flight. A soft noise of blood spattering the wall.the villain gasped in disbelief at his chest, his trachea now with a fatal hole within, as he exhaled, and he hit the floor with a thud. The young girl glared at them. "You... You had the audacity to say that after eve... |
jb6gvvh | jb5zkuj | [WP] The lottery is a secret plot to catch time travellers. You have just been detained despite winning by pure luck. | "You thought you could get away with it, huh?!" he spit in my face. The man was wearing completely tinted sunglasses and leather gloves. His face, an uncomfortable amount of inches from my own, moved away, letting the bright ceiling light pierce my retinas.
I thought the knock on my door was going to be one of those T... | The world is a harsh place. We prize everyone based on their talents and successes. Those who simply can do more, can do better, and can continue despite the obstacles--those ones rise to the top. They're the ones people view as the "greatest," or the "best." Money, fame, sex--whatever they want, they'll get it one way... |
mcksrtd | mckpemr | [WP] "GO AWAY!" bellowed the dragon to the man currently pinned beneath one of their paws. "I've done NOTHING WRONG!" "You lie! You've slain dozens of noble knights over the centuries-" "In self-defense, because YOU ALL KEEP TRYING TO KILL ME!!!" | "You burned my village first, motherfucker!" I said, loosening my tattered clothes to reveal the remnants of the burn traveling down from my shoulders to my chest.
"Eww. Stop stripping—"
"That's not the point! You burned my skin. Look at it!"
The dragon squinted his eyes. "Really? That's it? My children suffer more ... | Zorlance held the knight beneath his claws, his head poking out between two of his toes while everything below was being crushed.
“What…?”
“You keep trying to kill me! One day I’m minding my own God damn business over here and some asshole breaks in and starts trying to stab me, so I kill him because HES TRYING TO KI... |
kg8w50o | kg8pl8m | [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. | There was no game in the history of existence that Death did not know, nor any game He had ever lost. It was no wonder that the Reaper spoke with such utter surety and confidence.
Perhaps such confidence was earned.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps the Angel of Death was currently hopping on a single bony foot, while clutching ... | "Okay...."
I thought hard as to what could help me win against Death. It was until then I realized: we had to play a game that relied PURELY on luck or probability. One where the skills of the player is NOT some factor.
The bony gaze of Death looked at me, knowing that I really had no chance.
"Well, thought of somet... |
j8j6e9y | j8j237y | [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. | I was trying to nap while this schmuck continued to monolog. It has been an hour already how long was he going to go on about it?
"Soon enough, you will bring Metal Man to me! Bwahahaha!"
I winced, and then looked at the guy.
"First, did you just actually say 'bwahaha'? That's supposed to be an evil laugh, not a wor... | "**RICHARD!!! WHERE ARE YOU THIS INSTANT!?!"** my wife bellowed out, judging by the booming and earth-shattering volume of her voice at that instant, to say that she was livid wouldn't be too descriptive in detailing how furious she was at that moment. I looked at my old foe and said with caution, with a little hint of... |
j53kttr | j53hbu9 | [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... | All falling apart.
Declan could see it all falling apart. It was supposed to be different here, quiet, an unassuming way to be educated and contained. Hell, he hadn't had a fit in years, even before he'd arrived at Heuward Academics. And now it was all falling apart.
*"Hello, young'un. You would join our Academy?"*
... | Mimic
I'm not looking for a complex life, but that's really hard when life wants to make you complex. Mutants are rare in this society. Only about 1 in every 100,000 has some kind of abnormality about them. Some developed flight, super strength, telekinesis, etc. Simple things you know? My odds were slim, but I w... |
j2nq30v | j2n4i6l | [WP] „It‘s not what it looks like!“, your girlfriend shouts with panic in her voice, after you walked in on her in the bathroom and stare in shock at the remaining upper half of her body. Her lower half has turned into some sparkling goo that is slowly running down the drain. | Daniel sighed, heavily, as he watched his girlfriend dissolving in the bathtub. Her attempts at explaining the situation away had turned into incomprehensible gurgling almost immediately, as her sudden panic accelerated her condition, and she became an increasingly amorphous mass of sparkling jelly.
*She's sick. She's... | “It’s not what it looks like!” Beth said with panic in her voice.
Her upper body was propped on the edge of the tub and from her rib cage down things got vague, she looked like she had melted and by the time her distorted form reached the bottom of the tub it was clear and completely liquid. There was a thin layer of ... |
m49ccqo | m49a5s4 | [WP] When the apocalypse came and society collapsed most peoples' lives went to hell. Not yours though. You have never felt better and are thriving in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, much to the surprise of everyone you meet. | "Day 9467: January 7th 2050
A busy, busy day again. I'm only an hour outside of the Kingwood Sanctuary. My cart is loaded up with fresh supplies for the Conway family. The Houston Sanctuary sent along a big prize for the big wedding coming up. The first new generation are finally getting hitched and I'm here to see it... | "Hail Satan." Said Martain as he walked by, and you nod with a smile.
"Hail Satan." Said Gina as she worked her way down the road on her makeshift crutches, and you nod to her with a kind smile.
The people of Cribbsville all file into your church as the bell strikes midnight, and you take the pulpit to administer you... |
j9ml9n6 | j9mktrd | [WP] It finally happened. Through means not yet known, everyone's physical beauty reflects their innermost selves; the kind but portly girl is now an absolute bombshell, the asshole CEO is now hideous, and so on. Nothing prepared you for what you came face to face with in the mirror, though. | "Hey, punk! Whatcha lookin at?" I glanced over at the people who, I suppose, were trying to harass me. I hadn't been looking at them, as a matter of fact. Didn't even know who they were. But now looking at them... hmm. The Shift hadn't been kind to them. There was little doubt that before it they were horrible people, ... | When the news started rolling in, my first instinct was to text my friend Austin and ask if he was pranking me. He once managed to trick me into thinking I'd pulled a Rip van Winkle and woke up in the year 7003, so there's not much that I think is outside his skill level when it comes to pranks. In response, he texted ... |
jdxmrzo | jdxayy3 | [WP] The Elven Kingdoms call their old allies the Humans for aid. Expecting medieval armies, they get a modern 21st century one instead. | "...it has been a few thousand years," the desperate letter continued, "but I hope that this time you might send me aid."
Ashcroft, the most senior surviving elf, and the only living elf to have ever visited the humans on earth, paused his etchings on the stone-paper tablet. He wanted to say more, to express the gravi... | Mankind does not remember history well. Lots have been lost, lessons not learned and opportunities wasted. But one was never forgotten, never lost.
So when an alarm went off in a small nondescript building somewhere in Africa it immediately was noticed and acted upon.
​
A tall man with steel grey hair was wat... |
jodl1ci | jod73du | [WP] You're a boy who has watched as, once a year, your father and all the men in the world disappear for a day. Your mother always assures you that everyone is alright, but you're terrified because, this year, you legally become an adult. | Dad set his hand on my shoulder reassuringly. His sunburnt face creased in a familiar relaxed grin. I looked nervously into his eyes, once the same denim shade as mine, now a little faded.
It was still a jolt to find my gaze on a level with his. In my imagination, Dad still towered, a six foot giant with powerful hand... | ***11:30 pm day before day of yearly rest***
I was really scared. I couldn't sleep. This was the day, the day all men disappear. Everyone told me it was alright, no one gets hurt when they disappear. Dad even told me he it felt like the sleep he could have had when he disappears. Mom said she'd save my favorite food a... |
j7badzr | j7a72he | [WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | The heavily armoured man sat down at the bar with a heavy sigh.
"Ale," he commanded simply. The bartender, knowing his disposition just from the tone, obliged.
"Rough day?" he asked and started pointlessly polishing a wooden mug.
"A rumour of a dragon that turned out..." the warrior sighed. "Wasn't what I was expect... | "Hey Lili, got a present for you," I said to the woman who ran my favourite tavern as I sat down. I deposited the little nuisance into her outstretched hand and it hissed at me. Ungrateful thing.
"A... what is it?" She asked, peering down at it.
"*That*," I said flatly, "is the dragon of the Northern Mountain that L... |
ku1ap5p | ktxnso6 | [WP] You, a side character, watch in horror as the MC forgives and doesn't kill the main villain, who murdered your friends and family, saying, "If I killed them, then I'd be just like them." | No.
All of the thoughts in my head, all of the feelings in my heart, and all of the scars along my body coalesce into one definitive word as I stood back and saw Brandon lower his gun.
“If I kill you,” the moron continued, although my blood was pounding too hard to fully hear, “I’ll be just like you. No, you need to ... | Shelia chuckled softly to herself, shoulders gently shaking.
Bran, his hand low and open in supplication was staring at her. His last words echoed in the plush club room. The male still grasping his other forearm, tears in his eyes stopped in confusion. Not once in thirty years had Guile's club had an echo.
Guile s... |
jtcbktc | jtc7j6e | [WP] A hero's work never ends. You became a litch out of necessity. The next hero would not be summoned for another thousand years and you were old. You planned to stay around long enough to pass the safety of the world on to the next. | Every one, at least once, has considered life to be tiring. A never ending crusade against a force you know nothing about. Some days you are so tired that breathing becomes hard and you think, wouldn't it be better if you went to sleep and never woke up.
Those people who choose the never-ending sleep have a choice. T... | Everyone thinks the prophecy will happen in their times, I met at least eight other adventures that said they were the 'hero'. I was sure I was the hero for an embarrassing amount of time. It wasn't me. I learned that the hard way when I died for the second time. This was when my god told me to stop my delusions and th... |
kfnpdd6 | kfn830d | [WP] They said that you could never save the kingdom, that you would fail and die miserably, because you were not the prophesized hero. And when you returned after saving the realm on your own, instead of welcoming you as a hero the king banished you, as it was not your place to save them. | I tilled the soil for what felt like the fourth time this. Then the rake broke on me. My last one. I didn't have enough money to buy a replacement. I had enough- I simply threw the now useless rake on the ground in anger and stormed back into the house.
About 50 years ago, I took up the Holy Blade of Maelmasi to save ... | "What?!" I shouted at the top of my lungs as my words echoed through the great hall, I traced back a few steps as I tried to process the words said by the king.
"You were never meant to save us! It was never prophesized!" The king pointed at me with a boney finger as he looked down at me from his high throne. The two ... |
m6n3ika | m6m01kh | [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 | Oh God oh no oh no oh no—what the hell did I *do*? What did I do? Last thing I remember I was juggling flaming bowling pins at the mayor’s re-election gala—pure art, pure chaos, no harm! Nobody even got *singed*! Then some bright neon blur tackled me into the dessert table. Face full of tiramisu. Felt like a human frei... | "Do you remember his name?" The man in black asked, his hands drooped to his sides, stained in my blood.
It took a while to regain my breath, my hands trembling against wound. It was deep.
"Of course you wouldn't. He was just another pawn for you -"
"If I had to guess," I interrupted, steadying my voice. "Is this pe... |
j3c03tt | 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. | "*Three* times a day!?" exclaimed Turreea, extending and retracting her claws to show her surprise.
"That's three times a Terran Imperium Standard Day. About six times a Confederacy Standard Cyclic Day," explained the broker, a raan by the name of Poru-ka. He pulled out a datascreen. "Your ship does have the cargo ... | 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 ... |
k9qtvxp | k9pxcb0 | [WP] Write something using only dialogue. Don't even say who is saying what, make the reader figure that out. | I pulled up to the gate and pressed the buzzer to be let in, not waiting long since they were expecting me. Once it opened I pulled up the driveway and parked, taking a second to pull the mirror down and fix my hair. Getting out, I adjusted my shirt after the long drive. I grabbed my bag and sifted through the contents... | "Who the hell do you think you are to be walking up to us without bowing and groveling beneath me"
"I'm sorry it's just that you looked so incomplete with me I mean how could you walk around with only seven members don't you think that eight would be better especially if I was the eighth"
"AND WHO THE HELL EVEN ARE Y... |
jouo1w3 | jou72fa | [WP] One can easily distinguish a true veteran adventurer from the masses, for one doesn’t fear those who show to the start of a dungeon with gleaming weapons and polished armor, but those who show up wearing casual clothing, looking like they just got done shopping in town not 5 minutes earlier. | "Is that a carpenters hammer?"
Bob smiled. "Keen eyes, dear leader," he said. "I couldn't find my sword so I borrowed this from my neighbor." Garrick the Stern looked Bob up and down. "*This* is what you choose to wear into the cursed mines?" he said, gesturing to Bobs common attire. Bob shrugged. "I had a piano recit... | Jessie sat on the rafters, gazing out at the massive crowd that had gathered in town for the annual Adventurers' Fair. It was a long journey from the city to her father's little town, all just to visit her father, Alfred, and her good friend James. Alas, dad was busy coordinating the event, so he had asked his god to a... |
m72nvwt | m727cnu | [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... | She stumbled across my shrine while fleeing through the woods from acolytes of another god. I felt her fear and her need as she stumbled blindly through the forest, after a moment of thought I flared my divinity ever so slightly to catch her attention. Feeling the divinity the turned towards my shrine and sprinted to h... |
juu8ic1 | juu80qc | [WP] as a hitman you worked for all sorts of clients. Politicians, royalty, business folks. Today a child clutching their piggy bank approaces you, tears in their eyes 'I'm being hurt real bad and you can make bad people disappear, right?' | On video, you always saw people doing pro-bono work. Taking jobs that they thought would improve the reputation of the firm for free. It was a quick way to pull at the heart strings, and I was sure it happened in real life too, I'd just never seen it.
In my line of work, things were the other way around, The only way ... | Lucia hadn't expected it, when he felt his own hand grabbed by a smaller one. He turned around quickly, realizing that it was a small child, teary-eyed and not very tall.
"What do you want?" Lucia asked, confused.
The child, his voice a whisper, asked, "Are you the person who can make bad people disappear?" He held ... |
mbmbg1n | mbm6fif | [WP] You're a 50+ year old woman who has found the cure for wrinkles, and you've just evaded the tenth attempt on your life by a dermatologist. | "Please. D-don't let them take me". The girl in front of my stuttered quietly.
I stare at her then nod.
"Follow me, quickly."
We head behind my house to the shed. I quickly open it, but before we can do anything else, a shot ricochets of the metal door frame.
"HALT! GIVE US THE WRETCH," bellows an Inquistor.
I pu... | No.
Absolutely not.
It is much too early in the day for this, and besides, I have cabbages to worry about. The soil in the back garden—yes, the one near the fence, not the one near the oak tree where the soil is fickle and prone to moods—has been stubbornly uncooperative, and now, here, now, this—
A girl. No—**a wit... |
mbmez0m | mbm6fif | [WP] You're a 50+ year old woman who has found the cure for wrinkles, and you've just evaded the tenth attempt on your life by a dermatologist. | "P-please. Don't let them take me..." The witch, a young girl, pleads as she hides in my shed.
I see the fear in her eyes as I hear the armored footsteps of the inquisition approach. My heart thumps. They don't take heretics lightly nor one that shields them from their hold.
But then, I've never taken kindly to t... | No.
Absolutely not.
It is much too early in the day for this, and besides, I have cabbages to worry about. The soil in the back garden—yes, the one near the fence, not the one near the oak tree where the soil is fickle and prone to moods—has been stubbornly uncooperative, and now, here, now, this—
A girl. No—**a wit... |
kukfatx | kujun2t | [WP] You open the door and see a woman you recognise immediately: she’s the lead character of a novel you wrote years ago. And abandoned halfway. “Why did you forsake me?” | "HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh thank you dear, I haven't had that good of a laugh in years." I laughed in the cyborg's face, the shear absurdity of her statement being far funnier to me than it had any right to be.
"YOU THINK OUR SUFFERING FUNNY? YOU THINK THAT THIS IS A JOKE?" She raged at me, throwing the empty absinthe bottle at... | I did not expect to actually -meet- her. To me, she was like some minor deity - not powerful enough to be 'real' in the sense that I am, but someone I had already known in ways I couldn't fathom in my existing mind.
She asked me a question that baffled me, and had tugged at strings.
She had what I'd describe as a des... |
mwnnalm | llvg8q5 | [WP] As the princess and heir apparent of the kingdom you are the most sought after woman in the whole kingdom, with suitors lining up every day to ask for your hand in marriage. Today you finally accept the proposal of a suitor, causing a massive scandal. | It was once again...Thanksgiving.
Our family was renowned across the universe, for birthing the strongest magicians of all fields...yet they didn't know something.
During holidays...when the entire family gathers, we compete in a different way one might expect.
Those who mastered fire spells make the perfect roas... | The king of the eighteen kingdoms had fallen. That's right eighteen. Seven of them were won in wars and the other were won by diplomacy. There were no immediate heirs in his bloodline. The king was an only child, and only had one child, a daughter he rarely saw. Her mother passed away while she was quite young and the ... |
lvs0m2s | lvptbjp | [WP] Inside you were rotten. But you've made the masses love you. Pretending to be the noblest of heroes was the easiest way to gain power. Finally, as your rule becomes absolute, you prepare to unleash your true self and begin your reign of terror... and then you die and end up in Heaven. | You know what I didn't expect to see when I died?
Saint Peter.
More bizarrely (and more disturbingly), Saint Peter with a shit-eating grin.
Part of me was elated of course. A bigger part of me was confused and suspecting some sort of trick.
"Why am I here?"
"Well." - Saint Peter fished some sort of card from his p... | Finally, the time had come to reveal myself. After all the waiting, the planning and the scheming, all events had converged in my favour. The masses I manipulated for so long were now all ready for my final step.
Sheep, all of them. Ignorant to the truth of this world, unaware of the dangers lurking beneath my façad... |
k3trytu | k3soyg4 | [WP] You’re a mimic. You were disguised as a clock when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You’ve actually managed to enjoy your live ever since as furniture in a small, local tavern. When some ruffians decide to rob the now elderly adventurer however, you finally reveal yourself. | Everything was dark. I heard my dad's voice. He sounded dazed. "What happened?" he asked, woozy.
I tried to open my eyes. Slowly I found the right muscles and a flood of sunlight assaulted me. My eyes eventually recovered and I could see my dad standing nearby, rubbing his head and breathing heavily through his nose.... | Okay I’ve never done one of these before but I’m itching to write and I couldn’t help trying this out. I’m just a hobby writer so don’t get too upset about any mistakes, I didn’t bother to reread this haha
Edit: very minor Genshin Impact spoilers
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I stood in the middle of a forest, blinking at the three older men an... |
jhf6mkw | jheunyi | [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.
... | This dragon was colored red, with lavender scales on her belly. Her name was Meredith, and she wasn't too big, nor too small. However, her ant farms within her lair were huge. Some even took up half the length of the walls! Meredith was very interested in looking at and taking care of different kinds of ants. Said ants... |
ln1fc0l | mwm7hc1 | [WP] As someone with stage 4 terminal cancer, you've long come to terms with your own inevitable death. Now, the world is ending in 7 days, and you have to help your loved ones accept their impending doom. | Theo glanced at the consol in front of him, then looked back at his supervisor. "I mean, if someone told me I'd get crazy benefits and all I had to do was push a button at 3:00 PM, I'd probably think they were high or something. So, I think I can believe anything at this point."
"No, you can't." The supervisor sighed.... | "Alright. You are paid 1000$ an hour, full benefits, full international accommodations of all types, and more.
All you have to do is push 1 button, at a specific time, once a day.", the lady said.
"If I have to push it only once a day, how am I paid?
Pushing a button at a specific time hardly qualifies as working... |
j4124hr | j40e6oa | [WP] Your little sister wakes you up and says that she thinks there's a monster in the house. The tall creature with glowing eyes, horns, and claws right by her looks just as terrified, and agrees. | I squint my eyes at my sister. She's clutching her pet demon's hand so hard that if he was made of flesh it would be bruising. She stares at me with wide eyes. I move my gaze to the pet demon. I'm not an expert on demon faces (the glowing eyes and huge teeth tend to throw me off), but he doesn't look happy either.
I t... | My parents are away for the weekend, leaving me in charge of my 8-year-old sister, Candace.
You might think this is a bummer, but if I make it through without incident, guess who will be the new owner of a slightly used and slightly running 2001 Pontiac Aztek? This guy.
Tonight went off without a hitch, with one hou... |
l27eyo1 | l26xiwf | [WP] You are a lich who retired from villainy long ago and took up teaching at a magical school. Today someone made the mistake of threatening your students. | 'Retiring from Villainy' implies that I was a villain professionally, and decided not to be a villain anymore.
That is not what happened.
I forced the government to allow the 'abhorrent, vile magics' as a force to be reckoned with, but also to be understood. It is no greater of a crime than learning evocation or ench... | "Ms. Keening?" A soft voice echos from outside of the classroom breaking Isadora's concentration as she grades the latest class assignments.
As Isadora looks up from the piles of papers and reports strewn across her desk she notices Alonius, one of her students enter the room, a large bruise across his cheek. "Ah, A... |
j6ngkrc | j6n4x5x | [WP] Facing an imminent collision, a highly intelligent AI decides to crash a bus full of passengers to save the life of one young man. No one knows why. | De-Drug-Dealing Dracula Deconstructed, an op-ed by John Jameson Jr.
Thirty-one. The current number of low-life scum removed from the streets by the vigilante known only as Throat Bite. No one has seen this valiant hero in action. Even his handiwork caught on cctv only shows his victims. This mysterious figure is makin... | Journal entry : 31/01/23
When I first saw it, I was mightily confused. There it was, my latest victim's photo in the newspaper. But that itself wouldn't be confusing, No, it was the headline accompanying it that got me confounded- "The Nocturnal Blood Demon". They have attributed a series of my latest target's deaths ... |
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