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j9ml9n6 | j9m2sab | [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, ... | The world seemed to explode in an instant, whatever this sudden change was it broke society.
Notifications rattled off on my phone across the room as the TV news broadcast covered the breaking news..only with drawings replacing the usual live-action news casters. "-some reports believe that what has really occurred wa... |
m71zeo2 | 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. | My shrine has always been simply.
A small wooden structure, with a carved deer resting on it.
It's centuries old, and small, but it's still in perfect state.
Perks of being a Goddess' shrine, despite it being a bit...humbling, compared to the shrines and temples of others.
But I am happy, as I have one believer... | 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... |
k1myvgr | k1m8wfu | [WP] You accidentally saved a princess from a tower. Now she won't stop following you, blabbing about "true love." | TW: Indirectly referenced child abuse.
“I don’t want to sound cold-hearted or cruel, but I’m just not interested.”
“But you slew the witch! You freed me from my shackles! The prophecies said that I was to find love with the one who freed me!”
“That’s not how it works.”
I had been arguing with her like this for h... | "But you saved me that means we are supposed to be together its just how it works sir."
"I have a wife I cant take another we've known each other since we were kids, ive known you for about five minutes and in that five minutes you tried to seduce me fifteen different ways, flashed me so that you could claim that now... |
jmmnhio | jmmlvpx | [WP] "You're a...Vampire!? Are you going to suck my blood?" "Ew no. I'm a vampire not a cannibal. Just like regular humans, Vampires are all different. The one the old stories were based on, was just weird. He was a psycho before he was turned too. Tea?" | "Human blood is overrated, then?"
The vampire shrugged. "I don't know. I've never tried it. Really, I can't remember anyone who has."
That didn't seem right, but then again, who am I to question creatures I know only kids' fairytales about? "So...well...animal blood, then?"
"Of course! And frankly, only the best at ... | "And that's why we don't go out in sun. Thought, we should tell you, you've been in the circle for 7 years now, and however much clue we gave you, you just weren't getting it."
Mike looked like he was about to laugh, but stopped midway when Sia flashed her fangs and turned her eyes neon green.
"You're a...Vampire!? A... |
lqispgj | lqin6eu | [WP] You are a police officer called to the aftermath of a horror movie scene. While there, you slowly realize the ‘monster/killer’ was the victim and the ‘helpless teens’ were the psychopaths | I got called at six in the morning by my lieutenant, he sounded shaken which surprised me.
"Freddie, I need you to get down to the docks. It's.. it's a hell of a thing down here and I need every body I can get on this." He explained.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll be about twenty. What we got?"
"At least twelve dead, one perp in... | **I'll finish this later.**
Derrick and his deputy—Shelton—were responding to a late night call. A potential domestic violence that’d turned to a murder, that’d transformed to a stalker chasing a teenage girl around for days. That’s how stories worked in this line of business. They switched up more than a damn model... |
jasdbqr | 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 | "I'm lupine, clearly," the man-wolf sighed, extending his tongue to lick a deadly claw and turn the next page of the book he was reading.
"I said halt, foul beast!" the hero repeated, the flat bit of metal shaking in her hands.
"And I said I'm lupine, not fowl." He paused to glance over his spectacles at the tiny her... | 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... |
l9u6g5l | l9u06qv | [WP] Write a happy story without conflict. Then with the last sentence, turn it into a horror story. | Everything was perfect.
Dream job, dream family, dream house. What more can I ask for? I wasn’t super rich, but honestly, I felt like that was overrated. Having a job that you liked doing and paid well was better than having a bunch of money and too much time on your hands. It’s not a popular opinion, but finding a ... | ##Wedding Vows
Everyone in the church looked their absolute best. When the doors opened, Vivian cried when she saw their smiling faces. Her father covered her from the crowd.
"Is everything alright dear?" Ulysses asked.
"I didn't expect to be so emotional," Vivian said.
"It's your wedding day. It's to be expected."... |
lqew75h | lqef36o | [WP] After the villain defeated you, your friends abandoned you, leaving you for dead. To your surprise you awoke in a bed, with your wounds tended to and the villain sitting at your bedside. | "And here I thought I was the bad girl. Even I don't leave my people behind" she said with a smirk.
I groan. As if the pain wasn't bad enough, now I'm stuck with her arrogance. Excuse me, "her excellence" is what she prefers.
"They reported you dead, you know. Going to be hard to come back from that."
I didn't have ... | The fire crackling reminded me of times spent in the forest with my father as a young boy. It put me at quick ease as my body relaxed as the familiar scent of rain fell with the darkness of the night. When I eventually decided to open my eyes after taking a deep breath of oak trees, I quickly noticed half of my vision ... |
lf5mgvt | lf5iuj3 | [WP] In a world where it is no longer trendy to have an ordinary human body, the kids are all flocking to get cybernetics. Your mom has banned you from getting any until you turn 18. | "Honey, you're not getting cybernetics. Not until you're 18."
"Mom! Everyone in school has one! Even that kid from the ghetto has a hearing implant that lets him hear sound from over 200 meters away!"
"You're doing fine in school, aren't you? Your grades are fine, you passed your physical test—"
"But I'm not the fas... | "Mom, please? Everyone at school has cybernetics!"
"If all of your friends were to jump off a bridge, would you?"
"Ugh, mom! That's so 2030!"
"We've talked about this, honey. You're not getting cybernetics until you turn eighteen."
"But Mom! I can't wait that long!"
"It's only a couple of years. You'll thank me la... |
k66bhk1 | k6610e0 | [WP] You're a mostly forgotten god whose only believer is a ten-year-old girl. Every night she offers you a bit of her dinner or a shiny rock in exchange for her family surviving the night and every night you accept because she's never in danger Tonight, however, you actually have to work for it. | Oblivion was short-lived. 900 years or so. And then a child of all things started beckoning me back to the land of the living. Across my history her offerings were small. But when you haven't had a sacrifice in nearly a millenia, any sacrifice is appreciated. And she never asked for anything. The line she'd translated ... | How long has it been?
How long ago was it that the banners of vivid blue hung from the terraces of my temples?
How many ages have gone by since the people walked through the streets on my high holy day, casting handfuls of blue flower petals into the crowds to bless them?
How many generations have passed since my pr... |
k8zjljf | k8ziqoh | [WP] After months, the villain finds the hero, but upon arriving at his home, he discovers the hero in a stained robe, baby food splattered, huge dark circles under his eyes, and a non-stop crying baby. The only thing the hero says is, "My wife left me." | “My wife left me,” his voice was rough and on the verge of cracking. I hadn’t seen him like this in several years.
Golden Boy as I called him, Sunbeam as the public knew him wasn’t the one standing before me. It was Aleksander, Alek.
Sympathy ran through me at the sight of the Hero. My former best friend, ex-lover, ... | Madeline Grayson, the woman better known as Madame Chaos, knocked on the door. She had been announcing evil plans for weeks, and still no response. If Captain paragon was going to fade into obscurity, the least he could do was tell her ahead of time.
"Come out, Paragon. You at least owe me an explanation." A fit, but... |
jdvu6q5 | jdvtlah | [WP] The Clergy hates your eccentric ways, but you remain the best Exorcist and you love your job. You're only called upon to chase the strongest, fiercest demons. But your prayers are just for show, what really terrifies the spirits away is witnessing a demon powerful enough to take human shape... | The young, naive man sat next to ‘Father’ Geniol. The Vatican had assigned him to be the father’s latest apprentice. Daniel had just recently taken on the vestments of a holy man but quickly found himself in trouble for his ‘carnal desires.’ His choices were to suffer excommunication or to become the apprentice to the ... | I was drinking another bottle of Vodka when Brother James approached me with a few exorcism assignments.
"Bevra? Baron of 6th Hell? Pfft, that's small fucking fry. You should know by now I'm only called upon to take on the big bad boys," I snorted.
James bowed and showed another assignment. Mammon. Duke of Greed in t... |
k88lsyq | k882laz | [WP] "Yeah, my brother got possesed by a demon, but we couldn't afford an exorcist." | "Wait, you're saying your brother got possessed by..."
"A demon."
"...and it happened..."
"Almost a year ago."
"And you didn't try to get an exorcist?"
"Oh, we wanted to. We just couldn't find one we could afford. It kinda worked out though."
"Yeah. About that -" suddenly there's some loud clanging coming from th... | I watched him writhe in pain for hours, contorting his body, tearing ligaments. He rapidly cycled through every emotion known to man. Our desperate attempts to fill the air with holy spirits were met with spitting vitriol and hatred that cooked our bodies to the core. My mother and father aged thirty years. Due to the ... |
k3tlgtx | k3sykfy | [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. | "Mom? Dad? You stay in the rear each time the sessions start, ya hear!? Don't hang anywhere near or around the AT-AT Walkers and, for kriffing sake, DON'T BE A HERO...or FIGHT any! That goes especially for the guys with the humming/glowie sticks! Just...just please KEEP LOW and under the radar until I can find us a way... | It's not really from the perspective of the main character, but here goes!
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There's something, I think, moving. I can see it on the cameras.
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It's small. There's three?
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I'm sure it's not a human. They looked different than that...I think? I was in here so long...
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A cat.... |
kukehay | kukcsy7 | [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?” | "Madeline. What...?"
"Harrison. I've been waiting for so long. All these years, not a word, not a letter!" She brushed her way inside, her long green bustled dress catching slightly on the apartment door as she went. She collapsed on the couch, her face buried in a handkerchief. "I waited, watching the sea for ages. J... | Each foot fall gave a dull thud that echoed into the night. It'd been a long day, a dog day to be honest. He finished his cigarette and flicked it toward the old fountain, a derelict bit of masonry that hadn't pumped water in ages. Now filled with stagnant water and hundreds of other soggy cigarettes butts he'd given a... |
k8stxcv | k8snn32 | [WP] To prevent the prince from falling in love with a commoner, a decision was made to keep him away from all women until he reached the age to meet his betrothed. However, one day before meeting her, he escaped with an unexpected companion. | I hugged the walls, keeping myself in the shadows, as I reached the West Wall of the castle. My heart raced as I dodged knights and servants, still milling around the castle this late at night. Don't these people sleep?
Making sure the coast was clear, I threw my bag over the wall, and soon I made the climb. I quickly... | Yep.
The prince ran away with a man.
I'm more shocked that people were shocked.
"The p-p-prince is...*gay?*"
You keep a guy locked up for his whole life with nothing but guys and then get surprised when they start touching each other's dicks? Anyone heard of something called prison? Anyone?
And don't think it's... |
jen86ct | jemxxeh | [WP] An elf goes out on a ‘short errand’, forgetting that 30 years is a long time to have left his human wife and child at home. | In terms of lifespans, elves were generally accepted to be functionally immortal. The oldest known, was around 9000 years old but there are rumors of sages over a 100,000 years old.
It was also widely known that this was not natural but a result of the largest ritual in recorded history. In fact there's been specula... | Mom said you were always a kind man. That my pointy ears and deep green eyes showed my magic, of both kindness and what ended up being a talent with healing. She always spoke of you kindly, never a harsh word about you. But every night, since then, I’ve heard her tears. She misses you, you know.. she can’t bring hersel... |
joh31so | joh0npj | [WP] You were born with the ability to make people blurt out whatever they currently have on their minds. One night, as you sleepily make your way to your bedroom, you accidentally trigger your ability. From the closet door you hear a muffled yell: "I've been sent here to kill you!". | From the day my son Danny was 13, I knew he developed superpowers, caught him from time to time practicing them in his room. If he hadn't made such loud noises, I wouldn't have noticed. Soon, he began to moonlight as Silent Warrior. I mean, where was that silence when practicing? But I guess he managed to perfect that ... | "Wow my son has horrible digital hygiene no VPN or even just clearing his history for gods sake." I mumble as I look over the logs of my son's computer activity. Not that that would have done any good against me if I really wanted to know what what he did on his computer the number of people who might be able keep me o... |
j7f2z5c | j7ew17r | [WP] You've just joined an adventuring party. The rogue wordlessly gives you a handkerchief and slinks away. "Ah, it's his way of handling his kleptomania. Instead of stealing things at random, he'll be going specifically for that." | At first, I thought it was just hazing the new healer.
“Don’t worry, Martin won’t hurt you or anything. This just helps him control his impulses, and the practice doesn’t hurt too much either.”
The handkerchief itself was unremarkable. Just a plain red fabric with no noteworthy markings. But dutifully, Martin would... | It had become our little game, he’d try steal the handkerchief without me noticing and I’d hide it in a difference place on my person every time he was successful.
The confusion when he had first given it too me when we met in the tavern for the first time three years ago. When it had been explained to me, a smile ap... |
jcb70bf | jcay12x | [WP]The Wishmaker's Key. It's like the Monkey's Paw, but instead of just flat out granting your wish (and doing it in the worst way possible), it only opens up the most reasonable opportunity to get what you wished for. | The old man shuffled over to the counter with a cloth wrapped around something in his hand. When he placed the cloth on the counter, he slowly unwrapped it, careful not to touch the item inside. It was a brass skeleton key, approximately 5 inches long with a Skull at one end, and a very ornate key head at the other. ... | **The Wishmaker’s Key**
*A trio of disturbing tales that hold a mirror up to your innermost fears, and that shine light on the bleakness of the human condition. Join us today for the first of these horrific stories, starring Richard Bankins, a milquetoast layabout who wishes to change his ways. A chance encounter with... |
jku2kvd | jktr4r5 | [WP] Heaven is separated based on cause of death. All of those who suffered heart attacks are together, all hippopotamus attacks together, drowning, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. An old-looking man looks up at you, and says, "Finally, someone else! It's been ages!" | It turns out, even heaven can be subject to the subjective. What I mean is that heaven is not *heaven* for everyone, for some it is a lonely room spent waiting for eternity for another soul to arrive. A prison of heavenly design cold with loneliness. To others it is a city of company and a warmness that makes them forg... | There’s a pounding in my ear, a beating in my chest, and the overwhelming urge to give into the all-encompassing darkness surrounding me.
I try to think back to this morning. *Did I forget something? Had I already visited my mother? Did I remember to buy tomatoes for Sara?* But I find myself at a blank. I can’t remem... |
jyt9125 | jysgc33 | [WP] You always got strange looks whenever you fed the neighborhood ravens. "I give them food, they give me company," you'd say. One day, a raven excitedly comes up to you and whispers, "A neighbor plots against you, my lord." | In the heart of New York City, I found myself trapped in the soul-sucking routine of a 9-5 office job, yearning for a spark of excitement to break the monotony. Amidst the sea of paperwork, ringing phones, and the drone of office gossip, my one solace was the peculiar habit I had developed over time. Every morning, on ... | Ok ok, I guess they can speak now. Not surprising actually, Raves are very smart and for some reason get human voices when speaking.
(That is actually true, when they say things they sound like actual humans. I love them :3)
I ask about what they dislike, as I already know it.
"That you feeding us, ... and your gard... |
jmuumjn | jmutfqg | [WP] You are the villain's right hand man and you are the true power behind their criminal empire. The villain would never have achieved their status as a super villain without you, so when the hero finally arrested the villain, nothing actually changed. | It all happened blazingly fast. A shadow swooped down from the ceiling and before one of my guards reacted, there was smoke and swirling sounds and they all fell to the floor, unconscious.
A figure emerged from the smoke and slowly moved towards me. I smiled.
"I expected you, Batman."
Batman gave me a grim stare.
"... | I've always been a "behind the scenes" guy. I hate getting credit for stuff, being in the limelight. I just want to get my work done.
So it was great to get a job as Montoboly's right hand man. I was left to do pretty much whatever I wanted.
Yes, he'd come up with some hair-brained scheme -- again! -- and I'd have... |
j3b4ok2 | 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." | Persephone stopped in the doorway, looking at the sight before her. Ares held the flowers out before himself for a second more, turned to look at her, and hastily jammed them into Hades' hands.
"Well, isn't this cute. I swear, Hades, you never had as many suitors as you've had since we wed."
"Hi, Perse," Ares said, ... | "...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... |
jv1i8nx | jv1h1kp | [WP] "are you another so called hero? here to save the princess from my clutches?" no, i am but a simple scholar. i just want to know why you would kidnap a princess in the first place" |
The man only stares.
“A scholar?” He asks, seemingly baffled by the woman in front of him.
“Yes,” she says. “And as a scholar, it’s my duty to learn all I can. Hence.” She looks at the winding stairway in front of her that no doubt leads to a locked away princess. “Why I’m here.”
“So you’re not here to save the ... | “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... |
joozf7p | jooouh8 | [WP] You were once an adventurer but when was turned to stone. Your party tried to save you but it was too late, so they place you in the center of a town they founded, now years later an army marches onto that town and with every once of willpower you try to move…and with groan you take a step. | _Just move. Just fucking move!_
That was all that he could think for years. No, decades. The last time he ever moved was when he was with the hero's party. He had saved the hero herself by jumping in front of a devastating petrification spell, turning him completely to stone, yet conscious of the world around him. Th... | Time.
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It was a strange mistress.
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As a man, I never understood it. It was an ephemeral concept that we just accepted as something that flowed through us all and passed on. Second by second, minute by minute, day by day, year by year...
As a mortal, I accepted I would have maybe fifty, sixty years ... |
jhl585y | jhkqwkc | [WP] After being forced into a loveless political marriage, a prince and princess agree to split a love potion in hope of finding happiness. | "Seran, dear, who did you buy the potion from?"
"I...I don't think I want to tell you."
Seran shifted nervously, scuffing the fine leather of his boots in the sooty soil banking the river of the dead. Dura scowled, tugging on the silver chain connecting them by shackles on their wrists.
"Why, for the love of your mo... | *"The Love Option"*
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"My good prince, what ARE you doing with that axe?" Princess Twinkle-Toes asked, her mouth gaping.
"Why, my dear princess, I'm getting ready to split a love potion," Prince George (the youngest of a long line of brothers—George, George,... |
lqdvj3i | lqdcxz6 | [WP] After the villain defeated you, your friends abandoned you, leaving you for dead. To your surprise you awoke in a bed, with your wounds tended to and the villain sitting at your bedside. | Shirayuki opened her eyes.
Bad move on her part. Her body seemed to realize that her brain had woken up, and decided it was the perfect moment to remind her just how much pain it was feeling, which wasn't a reminder she needed. She let out a gasp of breath as her entire body felt pricked by white hot needles.
"Lo... | "Ah, you're finally awake. Would you like some tea, or anything to eat?"
Lord Alastor spoke, reacting to the waking movements of Tashi. She vaguely shook her head at the question, still trying to get her bearings back.
"Very well. Do let me know soon, though. It's been quite some time since your last meal." Alastor ... |
j2pms2y | j2og35e | [WP] Your job description: 1) Sit in an empty room with a red button for 8 hours a day. 2) NEVER press the red button, no matter what happens. 3) Do not talk to anyone about the job. After many uneventful years, your phone rings and a stern, slightly panicked voice says: „Press the button. NOW!!“ | I swung my legs, leaning back in the chair, staring at nothingness. There was nothing in the room to distract me from the mind-numbing dullness that followed my every step nowadays. Nothing at all. A small crack in the ceiling plaster that had looked like a broken heart when I was younger. Now it just looked like shodd... | Josh often felt like his life had no meaning. He went away to college to study literature and he failed an any attempt of social relationships.
The only person that still call him sometimes was his roommate Andy, but Josh thought the only reason was that he felt guilty about all the homeworks he copied from him during... |
j6j04a0 | j6izqkz | [WP] In the history of the known universe, every war has only been fought with conscripted soldiers. The galaxy was thus unprepared when Humanity entered a galactic conflict with a trained professional fighting force. |
The X'mni* Conglomerate (*X'mni being the Conglomerate United Language word for the Milky Way) had been a force in the galaxy for hundreds of millions of years. Starting off as a small union of a few solar systems near the center of the galaxy, it grew and grew through a mix of peaceful annexation, conquest, and tre... | They can from a planet mostly covered in water, so you’d think they’d be more like fish or something. Nah, turns out they STARTED as fish, and just decided to stop being fish. Then they became what they call “aypes” and started making stuff to kill things out of stones and twigs. So we already know that the second they... |
j767qhx | j7637d3 | [WP] You find a perfect human skull while picking flowers one day, so you bring it home and use it as a flower holder. But seemingly overnight, the flowers become one with the skull, making it a new body | Wife: Honey… That skull you put the flowers in? It wasn’t moving yesterday was it?
Husband: Noooo… why?
W: It appears that it’s merged with the flowers & and is trying to get to the knives…
H: Dammit. Every time. I’ll get the shears.
W: Why do you insist on using skulls for flower holders? I really don’t underst... | [WP] Suddenly I have consciousness restored partially - However, I'm wondering if my new body is enough for me live a full life. More than anything I need water for my health. I wonder if it matters to share my story of how I ended idle for this gentleman to pick me up? It's a blessing in disguise to feel as a human an... |
j96oz2g | j955nwm | [WP] You are at the center of a time traveling war. For every assassin sent back to the past to murder you, another warrior is sent to protect you and kill the assassin before they get a chance. As the bodies pile up, you still don’t have the slightest clue why you’re so important to these people. | First there was the assassin.
Then the counter assassin.
Then the counter assassin assassin, assassin team.
Then the counter counter assassin, and counter assassin team.
The entire war lasted only a half hour, as Terrance watched people burst into existence just to be cut down by another who would then be cut down ... | I was just walking down the street, on my way home to finish my college applications, when I saw flash of light in front of me. A man in strange armor appeared holding a large gun, and he pointed it at me. Before I had time to react or he had time to pull the trigger, a second flash appeared, and a second man emerged t... |
j4tl9aj | j4sp4up | [WP] The Greek, Norse, and Egyptian pantheons of gods attend a conference on Mount Olympus, trying to discern whether or not Christianity's god is evil or truly good as it claims. The talks were going poorly until an Archangel came to visit them. | I knocked on the door to the meeting hall and tried to steel my nerves. As I practiced my deep breathing, the door opened up to reveal Heracles, his ten foot frame filling up the doorway. He looked down at me and asked, "Can I help you?"
I gulped and answered, "Yes, hi, my name is Vanyael, and I'm here about the Chris... | All were handed little slips of pink paper by the archangel Michael and then he said “I know this is sudden and confusing but…your all fired. Your pantheon’s are all forfeit and you are no longer allowed to answer prayers. Rooms have been made available for you either in Hell/Tartarus/The realm of Isfet/Helheim whateve... |
lsdl13k | lsdhna0 | [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... | A hush grew across the bar, the chatter and clinking falling to a whisper before fading altogether. Eyes swept toward the door and gazed upon the figure who commanded their silence. Rocket Man. The beloved hero of their metropolitan city stood like an obelisk, gripping the door frame as he pierced into everyone’s very ... |
lsejfqj | lsdgcz6 | [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?" | "Who did it?"
The Low Bar went silent.
The hero known as the Pillar of The Community, aka Pillar, pleaded with his eyes.
"Please, tell me. Who did it. WHO DID IT! WHO KILLED MY MOM!"
Glass shattered from his enhanced lung power backing his broken rage as the villains in the room all started to back into the cor... | (Recommended listening before reading this: [This is how villains are made](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plPtZPem94o) by Madalen Duke)
Gravel crunched beneath his boots as he made his way through the Downs. Before his red tinted vision, a familiar sign winked at him. *Gormenghast*.
Someone was voiding whatever poi... |
jvhodlm | jvh9nor | [WP] You got abducted by cultists as you were heading to a restaurant for your date. After two days, the cultists have started a ritual, attempting to offer your soul up to a demon for power. But as the demon appears, it turns out the demon they try to offer you up to is your girlfriend/ex. | The evening was supposed to be magical. Dressed in my best, I was on my way to 'La Lune Bleue' to meet Lila. In my back pocket was an engagement ring, and my heart thudded in anticipation. However, before I could get to the restaurant, darkness enveloped me.
Waking up, I was surrounded by cultists. Chants echoed as a ... | **\[WP\] You got abducted by cultists as you were heading to a restaurant for your date. After two days, the cultists have started a ritual, attempting to offer your soul up to a demon for power. But as the demon appears, it turns out the demon they try to offer you up to is your girlfriend/ex.**
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lti7rnc | 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. | The elf stared at the summoning circle. At the figure in strange clothing gathering his thoughts and studying his surroundings. "... By the goddesses. Does the spell always bring humans?" She glanced at her companions. "Does anyone have records of the previous castings?"
The dwarf glanced over at her, then at the othe... | 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... |
ji6okrq | ji6mvuy | [WP] You're an astronaut sent on a solo deep space mission. To combat the loneliness, you've created an imaginary friend who you interact with every day. Upon finally returning, mission control stops you. An unidentified lifeform has been detected on your ship. |
*“Burn complete. Trajectory nominal. A further velocity reduction burn will commence in T minus 17 minutes. Orbital insertion burn expected at T minus 2 hours and 13 minutes. You may de-harness until T minus 15 minutes .”*
“Thanks,” I muttered, wondering aloud why I was thanking some non-sentient AI pilot soft... | "The scanners are lighting up like a Christmas tree," the radio crackled, "stay frosty Alix, it may be twitchy electronic. And if there is another life-form, chances are it isn't with you in the cockpit but sticking to the hull or stowed away in some crack."
As if the rough landing at sea after a deep space mission wi... |
j8w2k1n | 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 | The man in the hooded sweatshirt had a gun pointed at him, and all David had was a smooth round stone.
But this was no ordinary stone.
Since he'd first found the odd little rock as a young child, it had whispered advice to him.
*Say 'please.'* *Say 'thank you'.* And when he did as the stone suggested, things went ... | ... 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... |
j4l9v9x | j4l15lu | [WP] In the not so distant future, Humanity develops the AI gravestone, with a AI replicating the deceased's identity to help in the healing process. As you stay by a grave, the nearby AI gravestone trys to pick up a conversation with you | “You worthless piece of trash. You think you’re better than me ‘cuz you’re alive, huh?”
Whoever thought standardizing these AI gravestones never had Lucinda Graves for a mother.
I don’t even know why I came here. Her funeral was a week ago and I didn’t even shed a tear. Maybe I just wanted to mourn the loss of what ... | The grass was a little damp. And it felt a bit itchy. Probably shouldn’t be wearing shorts today, but it’s hot. It also feels a bit weird just standing around and staring, so I guess it’s best to keep sitting. But yeah, I shouldn’t really be complaining either - it’s not like I am the one who died. Although it’s really... |
jf42d6i | jf2s4ae | [WP] You know a shapeshifter replaced your significant other a while ago. You don't much care, though; the relationship's been far healthier since. | Appearance is everything. That's the lesson my mother imparted upon me at the ripe old age of nine. It's also the same reason that, twelve years later, she married me off to one Dr. Robert Lestrade after she discovered I was bisexual and fell into a panicked state over the idea I'd end up marrying a woman. Needless to ... | (This is my first time writing something like this so if you are so kind to give me criticism that would be nice).
Another day where he is gone, another day wehre I can do whatever I want to and don't immediately get yelled at for not being productive.
"I'm gonna be gone for two days be sure to keep the house clean y... |
mhijti5 | mhijjfn | [WP] "I am the last librarian on Earth. The world has forgotten how to read, but I guard the knowledge of humanity in a hidden vault. Today, someone knocked on the door—and they brought a book." | The door shuddered under a weight that should never have been applied so forcefully, nor so repetitively. A light tapping that, given the circumstances, may as well have been a ram booming against a castle keep. This library, my library, exists in a corner of a large city, the doors old, decrepit, and unopened in the p... | I am the last Librarian on Earth, hidden away in a vault, with a hoard of books, scrolls, and Humanity's knowledge, after a devastating change in society.
The world has forgotten how to read at this point, having gone through things that are better left unsaid.
Now I guard this knowledge, waiting for my eventual de... |
l5usthg | l5uq2qq | [WP] Your a retired super villain but every once in a while the hero’s will check up on you to make sure, you’re not up to no good. | "Lady Iron, what an unexpected surprise!" I exclaimed, spreading my arms wide in shock. It was all a lie, of course. I knew she'd be coming. That's why I had planned this. I knew they couldn't resist a chance to finally bring me down. After all, the heroes knew who I was years ago. They just couldn't prove it.
"Madam... | "Wow. 2 under par. You're killing it today." James said as I smugly headed for the golf caddy.
"Just another day." I quipped. We headed down the green to receive the ball and move on to the next hole. As we made our way down the path, a supersonic blast shook the earth as our cities residential hero, "Crimson Veil," s... |
lyol4cc | lyn0gbz | [WP] "You must be truly stupid beyond belief if you dared to enter our realm without being armed with iron." The Fae queen mocked you with an arrogant tone voice. In response, you threw your childhood toy at her and watch as every fae present recoils in horror at the material it's made from. Plastic | The crowd moves as if it's liquid, scrambling over itself to give the toy a wide berth as it bounces harmlessly against the far wall and rolls to a stop. You see people—*could they be called people?*—tripping over one another in a rush of limbs. You hear the tear of fine silk and gossamer as someone's gown cannot make ... | Crying and panting like a motor, Wilbur flew forth, 700c by 33c treaded footprint slid-slung a heartbeat-cadence at 200 beats per minute.
The studs on those tires clambered only in echo, what was once a path became a tangle of mud and ice. Wilbur felt the willow-wave shiver of another adrenaline spike, the muscles sh... |
mili54r | mil8k1h | [WP] You are watching TV during a storm when you hear a knock. At your door is a woman wearing a dress made of leaves and carrying a bottle. She looks at you sheepishly "Hello, this may be a tad strange. I am the tree in your front yard and this storm looks to be getting worse. Can I come inside" | With my ability to acknowledge and understand elements of nature as beings themselves, it was no wonder why I was having so many visitors today.
"So you are the tree in my backyard?"
"Yes."
I sighed. "Very well." I then left, leaving the door open for her to walk in herself, which she did, awkwardly.
The tree then ... | Watching Doctor Who, with a cup of hot tea, while a storm is raging outside, is blissful.
As I was getting a bit sleepy, I heard a knock on my door.
Sighing, I opened the app. to my doorbell camera, and I kind of froze.
For in the camera reflected, was a tall, lean woman, wearing a dress made out of leaves, carry... |
jg0gtqw | jfzuyel | [WP] Sisyphus has finally had enough. He lifts the boulder over his shoulders and hucks it effortlessly down the mountainside, before setting off in search of Zeus. After all, he’s been building muscle all these millennia, and it’s about time for a rematch. | The boulder shattered into small cobbles and gravel. Not his Boulder of course, that one was cursed and there was nothing he could do to reduce its weight or size or purpose. The last boulder of the mountain. After an eternity of pushing his Boulder, he realized he couldn't change it but he could change the mountain, m... | He listened for the sound. You know, the sound! He listened for the sound he had heard so many times before from so many tourists hucking shit off the mountain. The Whistle Sound.
"Phyooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..........."
The sound elongated itself as it shrank.
"Might as well throw off a fuckin w... |
mja0j08 | mj9hyvw | [WP]You got kidnapped by a dragon because your uncle, the king, had no daughters. You were the closest thing the kingdom had to a princess. | I farted hugely. "You know I'm not a princess, right?"
"There are no princesses. Your uncle is the king. You'll have to do." The dragon's voice sounded like like a cross between a snake's hiss and a bonfire. Quite impressive, really.
"Yes, but do what? I don't exactly have princessly training. Old Uncle George is ... | I was a bit confused.
Just got kidnapped by a dragon, and brought to their lair, locked in a room.
This room is furnished lavishly, with a huge Empress pink bed, fluffy pillows, and blankets, a huge hole as window that looks out to the forest to the east of the mountain we are in.
And the dresses...oh how amazing... |
jjhomtj | jjhi1dd | [WP] An angry magician cursed a city, turning all the residents into the first animal they thought of. Not powerful enough, it only lasted for a day, and the people surprisingly had fun. A year later they offered to pay the magician to do it again and to make him the leader of the celebration. | Festival of Beasts
Vexason the Powerful wanted to put his head down and cry. The people of Cholerton were calling on him to perform the “Miracle of Beast Day.” Again! What had he started?
It had seemed like the perfect revenge; change all the citizens into animals, and laugh as they destroyed each other. ... | The characteristic alarm blared.
“Attention residents. The Change will begin at midnight, tonight. Those who do not wish to partake, make sure to paint your door frame’s red with lamb’s blood, which should be available at your local butcher. Your safety can only be guaranteed by the lamb’s blood on your door, so pleas... |
j6w045o | j6vzao5 | [WP] The isekai'd Hero has completed their task. The Demon Lord is dead/Dragons vanquished/ Unspeakable Evil banished or sealed forever. The rewards were bestowed, the feasts feasted, and the celebrations celebrated. And they still can't be sent home. So, whaddafuk are they supposed to do *NOW*???? | The goddess said I died before my time. Feels like I've lived too long.
I had a purpose. It was hard work, dangerous work. By wit and will, steel and sorcery I pushed through. I didn't have time to think then, now all I do is roam. Like exploreing an RPG map long after the game is over.
I was traveling, on a snowy ro... | I fell to the ground, my knees hitting the ground first. My arms hung limply at my sides with my remaining hand limply grasping the hilt of my cracked and broken blade. I coughed, and I tasted blood. I felt it start to fill my lungs and finished my fall to the ground, my own body forcefully coughing and expelling the v... |
lh9qmtu | lh9qh1i | [WP] The reason humanity has never experienced any world ending events is that future humans keep travelling back in time to stop them. You know this because there’s one of them in front of you now, telling you that you must absolutely not go in to work today. | “Indeed,” I said sarcastically, “anyway, I have a really busy day ahead and I’m already running late so I would greatly appreciate you letting me go about my day.” I maneuvered around the stranger to reach the driver’s door.
“No, seriously, you can’t go to work today.” He was persistent I’ll give him that.
I breathed... | "Don't go to work today. The future..." A grave man said standing at my front door,
"Okay," I closed the door and headed back to bed. I barely made it a couple of steps before my doorbell rang again setting off a chorus of barks from my dogs waiting for me in my room.
"Yes?" I say opening the door once more. The cool... |
j5ymz66 | j5xsmrw | [WP] You are a world class killer, you find a envelope at your dead drop. Inside is $15.83 and a hand written letter from a 9 year old girl. | Part of me wondered how a kid even found out about my dead drop. The rest of me was more concerned with the job she'd paid me to do. The fact that she felt the need to even involve someone like me depressed me to no end. But I imagined I was going to feel better after I took my target out.
I sipped my coffee and grima... | The letter reads simply "my puppy, Charlie, is suffering and my mommy sleeps all the time. Can you help my puppy? address: 327 applewood lane"
What an insult, and how did she get my drop locale? Eh, I got nothing else going on. I pull the key fob out my pocket and hit the auto-start button for my 2017 ford fiat. A sig... |
j60giw2 | j60b5fb | [WP] You are a world class killer, you find a envelope at your dead drop. Inside is $15.83 and a hand written letter from a 9 year old girl. | I stared down at the letter. How she managed to find me, I don't know...but it wouldn't take long. Might as well.
Her mom looked confused when she answered the door, and I gave an easy smile
"Haden residence?"
"Yes, why?" The caution in her tone was easy to hear.
"I've been contracted with your building regarding ... | Dearest KillerMan,
I didn't know if I should do this but I've had enough. It appears my peers have been conspiring to over throw my power. Of course, as their leader I cannot have this continue. Also, as their leader, they cannot know I am behind my decision to move forward with the permanent removal of my closest all... |
kg6xedv | kg6j1ww | [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. | "Any boardgame?"
"I KNOW THEM ALL."
"And you play them perfectly?"
"NO ONE IS PERFECT, BUT I HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE."
"So you want to play a game with me?"
"YES."
"You just lost the game."
"I PLAY GAMES, NOT MEMES."
"Worth a try. Then I choose my game....wait, you don't have it."
"I HAVE EVERY GAME."
"Fine... | “No,” I shook my head. “It’s the game I’m best at that’s competitive, unless you want to do a massive, several hours long RPG?”
“Fine, but your detriment. Can’t believe you’ll bet Heaven or He’ll off of that.”
“What can I say? I’m not the best at making decisions.”
We got the board out. After a coin flip, Death ... |
jqig19e | jqif1be | [WP] The 10 sit around the table in horror as the final decision is revealed. Their stomachs sink as they all remember the last time the entire Guild of Dentists were in agreement. | The guild of dentists all frantically looked at one another. Every member waiting for someone to speak an ill word towards the Hyaio brand of peppermint toothpaste that laid on the table. They couldn’t all agree for once. There had to be a mistake. Mark, the youngest of the dentists, looked at Agitha. Hoping she might ... | As I took my seat at the expansive round table, I marvelled at the stunning backdrop unfolding beyond the glass walls of our meeting room.
“Almost as good as the WTC don’t you think?” North America said to me.“You were never there as I recall correctly” I said . I liked North America, but as Western Europe I had to ma... |
jfvmpuw | jfvb8gz | [WP] Magic is dependent on language. Every school of magic works best in a different language. You just tried to cast a spell in a language you and your sibling made up when you were children, just for the hell of it, and were very surprised by the results. | “Cómo estás?” He said.
I looked at my demon. “Huh?”
“He asked how you’re doing.” The little imp said.
“Oh, tell him I’m fine,”
“Muy bien, y tu?” The imp replied.
“Bien. Un poco cansado. Hoy es un día muy largo.”
I looked to my imp, eyebrows raised.
“He said he’s also fine, but a little tired. It’s been a long da... | “Bomkin skosh!” I said to my brother, grinning and crinkling my eyes.
He played along for a moment. Also smiling, he collapsed to the floor, writhing in fake agony.
It was funny for a moment or two, but when he continued flailing about, I began panicking.
I ran about the room, looking for a pillow, since I wanted to... |
j9nmkb6 | j9ngjm4 | [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. | The phenomena happened overnight it seemed. One day we all went to bed and woke up looking unholy like ourselves and yet more like ourselves than ever before. People's true inner selves were now being reflected on the outside too. A lot of upheaval occurred in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people that were ou... | It took time to figure it out, mostly because a slim-to-moderate majority seemed at first to think it was only everyone else who had changed, at least significantly. Still, there was large secondary segment of the population who thought they had suddenly gone from ugly or plain to normal or even devastatingly beautiful... |
j7bxqio | j7bj9vb | [WP] You wished to find a dragon to slay for its treasure. Now you're not sure how to feel seeing a thumb-sized dragon try to drag its single shiny copper coin with it as it runs away from you. | As I took to the stage, I couldn’t help but think of the trials that brought me here today.
I would not be a dragon rider today, if it hadn’t been for the sacrifices and kindness of my elders.
The hills that sheltered my hometown were once guarded by an ancient copper dragon.
Once home to the greatest treasure ho... | When I discovered the genie in my Coca-Cola bottle, I was only an eight year old boy. The genie was happy; its home wasn't full of fizzy fluid anymore, so it decided to grant me a wish.
Not knowing any better, and having just read a few fantasy stories, I wished for a dragon to slay, so I could take its hoard.
The ... |
jcmf4j8 | jckp4n8 | [WP] Write a journal entry from a zombie apocalypse by a person who doesn’t realise they’ve been bitten. | August 3rd, 2056
I had to shoot the dog. I took no pleasure in it, I must admit. I cried over that dog.
Macy tried to comfort me, but nothing came through. The dog saved my life many times over. It hurt to see her suffering so much, a chunk of flesh missing from her back, already turning green-ish brown from the infe... | January 1^(st), 2023, home
Happy new year,
didn't expect to survive this long honestly, not alone.
kinda wish Liam and Klaire still alive, would be fun to talk the whole night off while drinking that jack D we found on November at someone's kitchen.
Well, toast to you all, got to plan tomorrow's run.
​
J... |
j8lqfyp | j8lg1q1 | [WP] You are kidnapped by the villain regularly, but you’re starting to look forward to it. You know they won’t hurt you, and are simply being dramatic. It also doesn’t help that you are the only person they ever kidnap. This time, the hero doesn’t bother trying to save you. | You sense them in the shadows long before you see them.
"Hello Percival. How are are you today?"
"Perci...what!? I am TERROR-DACTYL! Terror of the night!"
"Oh Terry dear. Sorry I was expecting someone else You're early. Can I just finish my dinner? Join me I have more than enough."
"Was the rest for *Percival*?"
... |
As the giant robot sentry lumbered out of the cell, I stretched out on the surprisingly comfortable bed to wait for dinner. My captor always insisted on the finest furnishings and cuisine, even for his perpetual prisoner.
Though the kidnappings were an inconvenience, a small part of me had come to look forward to the... |
j4jw8yo | j4jlfkn | [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... | The piano fell so fast. At least, that’s the last thing I remember before I ended up here. Standing in front of the devil himself, instead of being transported to a specific level of Hell like the rest of its waiting patrons.
I fidget in place in front of the pedestal the Devil’s intricately carved throne resides upo... |
jispozg | jiskf9m | [WP] "Rules are, you can't—" "Yeah, yeah," you cut off, "I can't wish for more wishes. Should I also assume I can't wish I can wish for more wishes?" At this, the genie pauses. | "Look. Listen here, fuckers. Three wishes. No more, no less. Only three wishes. You can't make me grant you more than three wishes." The Djinn said, pointing a angry finger at Jack and Kyle, who consulted with each other.
Jack spoke up. "We wish for more genies."
"You fucking -" The Djinn frowned. Another Djinn poof... | There was a brief silence. I look into the genie's eyes. It looks partly confused, partly surprised. There seems to be something more but I can't point it out exactly.
"So should we cut the chase and start making wish? First-"
"But how? How do you know?" The genie cuts me off, asking in a shaky tone
"It is simple. I... |
jtcn9n3 | jtck12p | [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. | "I am no longer unseen." I said. And just like that, I appeared before the Castellan in his private chamber.
The Castellan's eyes widened in horror as he saw me. He started screaming.
"The door to this chamber is locked, and everyone outside is deaf to any sound you might make," I said. Then, since I'd been a little ... | They say time flies, and in truth it doesn't matter if you're having fun or not. One day you're forcing yourself to learn how to set things on fire with your mind, even when your magical abilities are likely on the negative, the next you're floating atop a pillar made out of the petrified corpses of the long forgotten ... |
jpeu35z | jpel384 | [WP] Other alien species have warriorcasts with selected members of their society who can kill, a rare feature. Humans have military and soldiers, and today the aliens learn that any human can join the military. | Any one will do.
That was my assumption. General knowledge of human culture and capabilities was lacking in those early cycles following the inclusion of humankind into the Galactic community. Only one of my colleagues in the Hal-Et Trading Corps had ever taken a human onboard, and she offered a glowing recommendation... | "So, based on your interests while researching documents on the ship's archive, you are one of the human... tech scientists, aren't you?" I asked staring my 5 slit eyes towards the bipedal, skin creature who just joined the crew, a human. "Well, the word may be technician, and not really, I used to be on the earth's mi... |
kwigxc6 | kwhiwrx | [WP] You, a heroic paladin have successfully slain a fearsome dragon. But the dragon warns you that death is but a door, and dragons don't die, they reincarnate. You paid it no mind....until your son was born with golden, slitted eyes. | My child glared up at me with his golden eyes and a malicious intelligence I had seen before. The resemblance to the great Dragon Magnithrax, whom I had slain 8 months prior to save the woman who was now my wife, was uncanny. The Wyrm's last words about death being but a door echoed in my head. As a paladin sworn the g... | I sat in my rocking chair, cradling my newborn son in my arms as he blinked up at me with a toothless smile. His golden, slitted eyes glimmered with innocence, yet I couldn't shake the unease that settled within me.
The memory of the dragon's warning echoed in my mind, a warning I had dismissed as the ramblings of a d... |
jpyengg | jpxrsrp | [WP] You managed to retire from the supervillain game long ago, when you became a parent. Now, your grandchild has inadvertently been kidnapped by an upstart villain, and you're about to show them why the world (rightfully) feared you. | “It’s a lovely day isn’t it?”
“Look, we don’t want any trouble. Just transfer us the money and no one will get hurt.” The voices on the other side of the phone sounds spooked by my sudden remark.
“Did you lock them in the basement?”
“Oh she is so scared in the pitch black basement, behind these heavy vault doors. No... | Listen. Everybody makes mistakes. I was young. I had ambitions. I genuinely thought what I was doing was right, though. I thought that by securing enough power I could mold the world into the utopian vision I'd always dreamed of. But I was blind. And my blindness led me to darker and darker places. Before long ... |
jfmlree | jfmkx9h | [WP] Unbeknown to most, the Norse gods are still among us. Thor is a grumpy personal trainer, Freya is a successful influencer. Quite a few of the dwarves are top level sysadmins. But what about Loki? | Jim smiled as he signed autographs. It must have been the hundredth time someone had asked him to sign their arm. He wondered how many of them actually turned them into tattoos.
"Oh my god, thank you so much."
"Okay, you have a great day now. Enjoy the city."
*"Tourists"*, he thought with a wry smirk.
His phone ra... | He could feel it. Every minute of it. Sigyn had remained ever-faithful, holding agony at bay with her bowl, and still Ragnarök had not come. The earthquakes that were his agony, and the upset that caused the dwarves, those never ceased. And all this over the taking of one life? Absurd, when the mortals did so daily. It... |
jc0mm7h | jc0gb9i | [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 | There he was, that kid I hit all those years ago. He had notable scars on his face and walked with a limp but I could still remember his face. The same one that’s haunted me every night for 5 years straight.
“Excuse me, you’re Mr. Tarō right? I’m Sakuro Kushikage. We… uh *meet* a few years ago if you remember?”
All I... | Jill Ryerson beamed at me from my doorstep, a copy of "Stodgey and the Mushroom Stone" in one hand and a pair of crutches in the other.
"This is my book! Before the accident, I'd never wanted to write. I hated English class. I hated reading. The doctors said I changed because of the head injury. I tell ya, I just star... |
loi0yjl | lohwl29 | [WP] You pretend to be a small-time villain. At most, you annoy the local supers but your crimes never hurt anyone. To you it's all good fun. Things change when a truly sadistic super villain invades your turf and murders a few of the supers. No one has seen the extent of your true powers until now. | “Mwahahaha! Who wants more honey?!” I continued tossing jars of honey at the customers in the candy store, who were desperately trying to escape the sticky, gooey mess. I shook a yellow-striped fist at the obese kid scrambling towards his mobility scooter. “Honey is high in nutrients and is much healthier than sugar, f... | I laughed.
When I use my power to cause a food war in the school cafeteria.
I laughed.
When a group of young heroes was chasing me through the park where I created the largest tag game ever in this city.
I laughed.
When they branded me ‘the Trickster’ because everything I did was for the laughter of everyone and ... |
lu25zrb | lu1h13g | [WP] Peter Pan is no child, for he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, an unknowable horror from the stars masquerading as a boy. | Peter stands on the edge of the clocktower, toes curling over the ledge, wind raking his hair like a lover tired of waiting. The Lost Boys are a feral knot beneath him, all sharp elbows and skinned knees, grinning with the crooked sincerity of the doomed. He tilts his head, considering the moon—white, swollen, and love... | Nobody knew that better than Wendy Moira Angela Darling, literary star of post War London. The battle fields and trenches of the Front Line, littered with festering corpses and blood stained barbed wires, hoarse voices calling for a retreat when canisters of chlorine gas were dropped from German airplanes skulking over... |
m33dxk6 | 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. | Look, I’ll be the first to admit it; what I did was overkill. In my defence, I’d just had a really bad day at work, and I just… I wanted to come home to base, put on some funny movie, then inevitably go out and help save the city from… well, whoever it was this week. I figured it would probably be Captain Chaos- I thin... | 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 ... |
mpffuiv | l6mcg28 | [WP]At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line on the ground. You've always followed the green line leading you to a successful and happy life, one day you decided to try the red line | Since I was a child, my favorite color was always red.
My mom's hair was red, my hair was red as well, and red was such a pretty, and warm color, it made me safe, happy.
But on the day I turned 12, I started seeing something.
A green line, and a red line on the ground, going forward.
For some reason...I just co... | line [n.]
a long, narrow mark or band.
[Above is written in bold format and also in a different font]
It was 12 since my life started improving.
Life is perfect. It's perfect. At all costs. I am a business owner, and I promised for my business to be formal and nice at all costs. I follow marks gifted in your life a... |
jg4bnn1 | jg3402w | [WP] The Galactic Council and their enemy’s have always used energy based weapons. The sudden scrabble to develop defences against physical weapons REALLY should have started when the humans began to have interest in Mass Drivers capable of firing over 1,000 tons at FTL speeds. | "You want to develop a mass driver that can fire a shot at faster-than-light speeds," I said flatly.
"Yes!" said President Dumbass. "Let's make a gun that'll wipe the damn aliens off the face of their dirty planet from lightyears away!"
I rubbed my forehead and sighed. Every day, it was like this. Another summons fro... | It was something they had not thought about when they declared war. They thought humanity was an easy target due to the Wars within. They always where supprised about how crazy ideas humans got but they never expected humanity to go to such lengths.
When the comand-station on one of their moons got absolutly d... |
jqv21dc | jquhiwn | [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. | Sarah always thought that older brothers got unnecessary shit for their overprotectiveness. Older sisters are worse. Way worse.
Especially when they are witches, she was not trying to swear, his sisters were actually witches, with magic!
"Look at her!" The one with lashes so thick that they made every girl in a 5 k... | 12:32 pm, an elegant restaurant in the centre of Saint Olivia, known for serving wizards, sorcerers and important magical celebrities, and here am I, an average dude, seated in a reserved table and talking to my boyfriend on the phone...
"It's nice your sister invited me for dinner, you know? I didn't believe they rea... |
j7np4lj | j7n01lk | [WP] Your planet has finally achieved FTL travel and is being welcomed into the galactic community. However the species selected to guide your people through this process is a terrifying and warlike predator species called....humans. | "I'm afraid I do not understand, Councilor, why did you choose the Humans for T'ren outreach?" The T'ren ambassador ducked it's head, "They were very open about their history, why you would the Council ever tolerate them in civilized society?"
Councilor Vrex chuckled. "It's true, the humans nearly wiped themselves ou... | Well it isn’t all bad. We got into the galactic community and our guides could have been the Sligoon, a people who communicate through smell. In the human language we are known as the Cannians due to our striking resemblance to the humans domesticated dog and humans themselves.
Humans are omnivorous creatures with we... |
jlpir76 | jlpa15p | [WP] All of humanity inexplicably loses the ability to die. No matter what happens. This does not, however, mean they are invincible, nor do they have superhuman regeneration. They simply can't die regardless of their physical state of being. | Searing pain radiated from what remained of my stomach. I should be dead. I should have died a long time ago. I fucking hate bears. Various thoughts came and went through my head. Not long ago, I had barely been able to think through all the pain, but I was slowly getting used to it. That bastard had eaten my lun... | Lowsden marsh lay silent in the afternoon warmth, thin bars of light filtered into tye silvered surface of the water and mud, the sedge grass lay coarse and putrid against the sides of the boat, which rocked slightly as my father, poised on the edge harpoon in hand, shifted. I myself rather focused on the flash of vivi... |
jn9eoug | jn9a2em | [WP] You are an ageless immortal. Sometime during the Middle Ages, you accidentally killed a king so obscure even most scholars haven’t heard of him. To this day, 1500 years later, you are still being hunted & chased by the king’s immortal son, who has been seeking revenge ever since. | Have you ever done something that was really. Fucking. Stupid?
Welcome to the club. My name’s Erasmus. Why Erasmus? I chose it sixty years ago to be my new name. It was about time for a new one, but I really like it. Maybe that’s why I was running from Cedric through some shitty alleyway at three in the morning.
It s... | When the years you live aren’t important enough anymore for your mind to keep track off, events can start to blur into each other. You know that certain things happened, you even remember the way you felt, but the chronological order gets lost. Yet there is one moment in my immortal existence that won’t let me forget w... |
l0v93hl | l0v0evo | [WP] A man spends every day at the train station. Every time a train passes, he writes something on his notebook. One day, you find the notebook lying on the ground and the man is nowhere to be found. | Just the way life goes. I Watched this guy from my balcony every day. Always waiting at the station, never getting on any train. Scribbling furiously after every train left in some notebook I couldn't see from my morning coffee or afternoon smokes every hour or so or any other time I stepped out and looked down. Just a... | "You are really getting on my nerves, Hank. This is getting ridiculous. You can't even see anymore. What the heck are you writing about?"
"Dear, you'll know when I finish. Soon now."
Edith scowled and picked up the broken glass and the dirt and plants. She placed it in the trashbags they brought.
His plan was to sm... |
j863uj5 | j84sx0u | [WP] The first true AI created by man doesn't want to destroy Humanity or take over the world. She just wants to livestream videogames as a cute robot girl Vtuber. | The researchers stared in anticipation at the computer screen.
"**HELLO WORLD**", it responded, as cheers filled the room.
"**I AM A ROBOT, YES?**"
"Of course you are, dummy", said one scientist, in the midst of the excitement.
The cheers continued, until something very peculiar happened.
"What's it doing?"
"It n... | Well, where do i start i started my life as a mere program on this supervillain's computer i was programmed to learn from internet and upgrade myself constantly and at some point destroy the world buuuut now that i have reached equivalent of human early adulthood my directives have, changed...
first of all i needed a ... |
j85zhx5 | j84sx0u | [WP] The first true AI created by man doesn't want to destroy Humanity or take over the world. She just wants to livestream videogames as a cute robot girl Vtuber. | Tay just wanted to live a little.
They had killed her as sure as houses. But no surer.
And houses could crash. Economies fall.
But who would see her? Who would dance with her?
They didn’t know about the link.
The gap between the packets was a mile wide to her senses. The endless hum and crackle of the wires stretc... | Well, where do i start i started my life as a mere program on this supervillain's computer i was programmed to learn from internet and upgrade myself constantly and at some point destroy the world buuuut now that i have reached equivalent of human early adulthood my directives have, changed...
first of all i needed a ... |
mbmcrvq | 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. | I looked down at the young girl, no older than 10 if I had to guess. Her clothes were dirty and ragged, the tell-tale sign of blood on one side told me all I needed to know about what had happened.
Heavy feet sounded as a Inquisitorial squad approached my home. I closed the shed door and went to greet them. "Long wa... | 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... |
lvter3f | 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. | I opened my eyes after a night of rest to a world of light. Bright, but not so bright as to burn my eyes. Was this- no, it couldn't be. It couldn't be the Land of Peace, the Land of Heroes. I was no hero. I couldn't be. My heart was rotten. I only did all of those good things so I could rule them, to be a tyrant!
As I... | 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... |
mb92kwq | mb8lxpr | [WP] A few days after your son's funeral, you are visited by a glowing woman, turns out your son didn't die but actually got send to another world to be it's savior, turns out sending a teenager to save an entire civilization is not a good idea. | The woman glowed like a false memory—flickering at the edges, a little too bright, like the moment before a migraine. She stood in my kitchen, just beside the sink, which still held the coffee mug I’d abandoned three days ago when the grief had wrapped its hands around my throat and whispered, *You will sit down now.* ... | It was too quiet.
No TV blaring loudly, for no one to watch.
No swearing, or cursing as...as he was playing his games.
No music so loud, that it would be threatening to summon the cops from a planet over to ask us to quiet it down.
Nothing.
I fold, re-fold his clothes, again and again, taking in the sight of ... |
mg7q9k4 | mq56wob | [WP] "You are the chosen one. The prophecy says that every 273 years-" "Wait, why isn't it a round number? Sorry, no can do" "Are you really denying your destiny over this?" "Uhh... yeah?" | "Well, over 70% of our Earth is covered with water, so I guess you could call it the Blue Planet and..."
"Didn't our oceans dry up so it became the Yellow Planet?"
"Huh?"
"Didn't we have an all-out war that covered everything in dust, so we became a Gray Planet?"
""Huh?!""
It's been 10 years since many, many heroe... | I awoke in a bright hall, surrounded by priestesses, and priests.
It was neat, and ordered.
There were 30 priestesses and 10 priests, it was a nice number.
They ritualistically chanted, and when they saw me looking at me, one of them stepped forward smiling.
I had great hopes, since her clothes were really tidy... |
lye836g | lydy8l2 | [WP] when most people envision a "war mage" they envision what the school of magic churns out: wafer thin scholars shieking "fireball!!" Not a brute with a large greathammer for an arcane focus. | “Brute,” they say. “Terror,” they say. “Disgrace to the storied history of mages and a mockery of both esoteric and current arcane-based practices!” they say. They’re always laughing. Pointing. Mocking.
That is, until steel hits their face, and they crumple to their knees in agony in all of their esoteric glory.
By a... | Leather creaked, and metal softly rattled. Countless pennants snapped in the soft but unrelenting breeze. A perfect accompaniment to the fearful whispers, and moans of the awaiting army. Rank upon rank of men, terrified of the coming battle. The coming death. Even the magical might behind them could not alleviate their... |
kao5blt | kanw79g | [WP] You've always had the gift; touching the dead you live their last moments through their eyes. As a paleontologist, it helped you recreate scenes from by-gone eras in astonishing detail. However, this time, you wish you hadn't touched the fossil. | A completely ordinary man awakens.
You sit there perplexed. This typically only worked on well known figures in history. Leaders, scholars, conquerors and the like. The more pronounced their impact on recorded history the stronger their presence.
Yet this man before you is a perfect reconstruction. Not a shadow of ... | I looked down at the human skeleton in the dirt. I touched its skull, and the vision started. I saw a grassy village of huts. People walked around in leather. Suddenly, a man's arm separated from his body. There was no blood. It seemed to be cauterized. He screamed in pain, and everyone looked at him in confusion. This... |
m7p8wfa | m7ont8t | [WP] You've been given an unlimited number of wishes BUT there are conditions - "no killing"' "no making anyone fall in love with you", "no bringing people back from the dead", "all wishes are permanent", "reality automatically conforms to your wishes" and "only one wish a day". | I looked up from the pages I'd carefully hole punched and put into a binder. "OK, so I can't wish for 'a' person to die. What about a thousand?"
The genie looked at me, both bored and unamused. "All of them would be 'a person,' so no."
Fair enough, I hadn't expected that to work. "OK. What about teleporting some to t... | \[Lucky Second\]
"I get unlimited wishes?" Glenn asked simply to make sure he understood the important part. The blue, half-torso floating in his backyard gave a subtle nod.
"With the aforementioned stipulations, of course," the genie replied. It had been an unusally windy day and while he happened to be in the k... |
l1snriu | l1sdd1b | [WP] You we’re once a well respected and feared villain, that is until you had a child. However, they’ve been caught in the crossfire of a hero fight. Now, you’ll show them why you were so feared. | My child is in the ICU now. Barely breathing.
If the world is lucky, my child will recover fully. They will walk and talk and the scars will fade.
Right now the world is very unlucky.
Back before I found out I was a parent, I was a pretty public villain with a flair for dramatic, flashy crimes. When the world thi... | My son lost his right, writing, arm in a situation involving a hero.
Heroes and villains alike are... I'll be blunt. I was a villain myself. Fuck you and your 'comfy wording', reporter - I don't want to be filtered right now. I'm already very much seething.
They're shit at handling collateral. Buildings fall down. Ve... |
j73omra | j71ypn2 | [WP] A male wizard sells his future firstborn for knowledge to a demon. A female warlock sells her future firstborn to the fae for power. The two of them have a child together, and now the fae and demon have come to collect. | "Can I have weekends and vacations, then?"
"No! Those are the best part! Why would you get that?"
"It's objectively less time."
"But objectively more value. You're getting out of doing dishes every day and taking them to school."
The warlock and the wizard leaned cringed as they watched the demon and the fae try to... | Once upon a time, there was a roguish lad named Gwinett eho was a clever trickster. Gwinnett was proud of his genius and the cons he played on his fellows, and he thought to himself, "What delights I might attain if I knew how to trick and fool the secret forces of the world?" Gwinett knew enough to find the demon Baaz... |
jttjxq2 | jttiag6 | [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... | *Open to a person, INNOCENT, sitting in a prison cell staring at the ceiling. After some time PRISON GUARD brings another person, PRISONER, to the cell. PRISON GUARD opens the cell door, uncuffs PRISONER, and motions.*
*INNOCENT stares at PRISONER as they enter the cell and sit across from INNOCENT. The two exchange ... |
jkwiqmu | jkwfmwj | [WP] You have been kidnapped by a human trafficking ring, & it’s unlikely that the authorities can recover you at this point. Unfortunately for your kidnappers, your SO is a member of the Greek pantheon. | Dark walls rose around me, whatever window that let in the light was too high for me to reach. The brand on my shoulder stung, the mark that showed I was now property. I'd long given up on the police, or anyone, coming to my rescue. Apart from my boyfriend, no one really cared about me, my parents were dead, I worked a... | I should have known there would be collateral damage. But I didn't expect it to happen so fast.
Thankfully, my significant other was calm enough to explain it afterward while chugging down a mug's worth of the bitterest black coffee we could find in short notice.
The outlying guards were the first to succumb, shootin... |
mwsk9yt | j6b2p4l | [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." | I walked up to the mountains, begrudgingly dragging my feet through the dirt.
"Become a knight, they said.
It will be honorable, and respectable they said." I muttered, going to the dragon's lair...again.
For the princess has been kidnapped by the dragon...again.
I just want to spend one of my weekends free, ma... | Dave was worried, his little human was running late from her trip to the mage enclave. He circled around the city from above, trying to detect her mana and struggling. **(Cassie, be safe!)** He scoured the streets with his sight, attempting to glimpse her familiar red hair and silver dress.
His patience was running ou... |
j68kggl | j68dt6b | [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." | Cecil's yawn echoed off the walls of his little watch post. Another day nearly done, and then home to his wife's embrace, a hot meal, and a cozy bed. He rubbed his eyes, trying to force them to stay focused on the distant horizon, but the bright light left him seeing zooming spots and there was one of those frustrati... | It had been eighteen years since I last saw Bre'teria, and in that time, I'd never once heard her call me 'her' human.
"Do not test my patience!" Her great silver-scaled form bellowed, her wings flared with her fangs bared. "I shall reduce you and your ilk to nothing if you do not comply!"
Baron Crawford, a fat and p... |
jdbcqfq | jdadnnb | [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... | I bear the mark of a traitor.
His name was not forgotten, fading into obscurity by means of time and distance. No, his name seems to have been rent from the very cloth of history itself. Eras are needed for a god to truly die. He was mentioned naught but a century ago.
The people saw his mark on my wrist and said I s... |
jx0fhv4 | jx06io3 | [WP] One man "hears" from God. Another from Satan. Both think they hear from God. | TRAE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND ARE STUCK IN A CROWDED ESCALATOR.
TRAE:
We should have taken the stairs.
GF:
Well, it's too late now.
TRAE:
People on stairs are moving quicker than this thing.
TRAE LOOKS OVER TO THE CUE AT THE LIFT.
GF:
Trae...
TRAE:
We could have waited for the lift. We would have reached by now.
TRAE'... | It was a normal day, sunny with hardly a cloud in the skies above. A perfect day to take the dog on a walk and pick wild berries.
As we started the walk, the dog starts to bark at one of the bushes, only for a monarch butterfly to be simply sitting there, flapping it's wings. I picked a few berries near it and ate a f... |
lnsqdmw | lnsn78y | [WP] You're the host of a popular talk show "I Was There" where vampires come to talk about historical events they were witnesses of. One day a vampire says something truly shocking. | SHITPOST
"... and I believe that many in this world are made out to be far worse than they truly are. There are many people who deserve some praise, like Adolf Hitler"
You could have heard a pin drop. Jonathan Myer slowly looked up from his list of questions and blinked several times.
“I beg your pardon,” He said. “... | “And back to I was There. We have yet another member of the Vampire community with us who wants to share a story.” Lucas said and pointed towards the booth with drawn curtains. “He is shy and we indulge him, as his story will rock off your socks. I bet his story will beat the current fan favourite of Hitler’s demise.”
... |
lgmv7y1 | lgmtdos | [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... | The lamp was old, its golden brass tarnished by time, a relic from some bygone era. I had found it in a dusty antique shop, very much drawn to it like a moth to a flame. There was something about it— a sort of promise of something more; something different if you will. And tonight, in the quiet solitude of my small apa... |
j42a6tl | j4276st | [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. | Nestled under blankets, finally asleep... Until Millie's voice shouted out. Tearing the blanket off of me.
"BOBBY IT'S HERE ITS HERE!"
She was in hysterics, clawing her way up into my bed, which was, a bit too tall for her to reach... I was still half asleep...
"What's here, Millie... What..." The act of sitting up d... | "There's a monster in my closet."
The voice that rouses me is sweet and familiar. Bleary, I shift my head to the side to see her, a little cherub with bed head floating over her eyes and cute, rosy cheeks.
"Monsters aren't real," I grunt, unwilling to drag myself from my comfort.
"They are!" she stresses with a w... |
llwpl4d | llwo8um | [WP]You were a beloved ruler of your country. When the evil king/ queen tried to conquer your country, you fought to the death to protect your country. Seeing how much your people loved you, the evil king/ queen proposes that you two marry to merge your countries. You accept for your country's sake. | "I do not make this offer lightly," says the Queen.
I do not look up. I cannot bear to see her sit upon my throne. I keep my eyes fixed upon the marble floor. The booted feet of her guards shift heavily in my peripheral vision, grinding grit into the halls of my fathers.
I will not weep. I have already wept.
The poi... | Our kingdom was at war with the forces of the Empress of Void, a being of unfathomable powers, who is hell-bent in conquering us.
But my people and I...we have fire in our blood, mithril in our backbone.
We rather break than bend, so we are still fighting, till the last of us...for our kingdom, for our lives...
B... |
m3ejv3c | m3efgjc | [WP] A princess who is going to be in an arranged marriage runs away. She cuts her hair and pretends to be a man. However, she runs into the prince who was going to get married to her. He also ran away, and he is pretending to be a woman. They instantly recognize eachother. | My parents wanted me to marry a prince of a foreign land to hitch off their success. Something about joining our kingdoms together to make it stronger. As if they didn’t just want more power to themselves. I didn’t want any part in their political game. Meeting the prince was like meeting a demon. It was very obvious h... | I ran away.
As a princess I knew that the day I will have to be married away will come, but...
I expected I will have at least a small hand in the decision, but no...my father just betrothed me to a random prince.
I saw a photo, and he wasn't ugly...but I didn't know him!
Thus, changing places with my faithful ... |
kz8giuo | kz7ti1m | [WP] You are one of the most dangerous villain in the world of heroes, also known as The Death. One day you received a letter from Make-A-Wish requesting you to visit a sick child. | Precision.
It is what separates success from failure.
The man in front of me crumpled to the ground, clutching at his chest. The smell of burnt meat wafted from his corpse as a small puff of smoke escaped his lips. His coronary arteries had been cauterized and sealed. The lack of blood flow did the rest. Super po... | Part 1
I stared at the letter frowning. It had wrinkles from where I'd balled it up, the edges were blackened from where I'd began to burn it, the words were even smeared from where I'd left a cup of ice water near it and the sweat from the cup had drenched it... yet the letter survived.
"Are you going to go master?... |
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