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k5pt82n | k5psi0q | [WP] The defenses of Halloween have fallen. Christmas has begun to spread over the rest of the year like a cancer, and the holidays earlier in the year rush to build any resistance they can muster. | The Fall of Halloween. Only those unaware of the political nuances of the Great Holiday Wars could have expressed shock at this hallowed institution crumbling beneath the might of the Red (and Green) Armies. Halloween has been beleaguered by internal troubles for longer than we cared to remember.
The pumpkin masses no... | It was a normal year, for everyone else at least. In the calendar, Christmas began taking over holidays, or at least tried to. They first lashed out on Halloween which was not prepared at all, the flying reindeer with rocket launchers attached to their legs flying into the dark place on the calendar of Halloween, they ... |
jgijzi4 | jgia456 | [WP] You're a simple and design-cute robot which helps his master with the daily chores. One day you see them staring fearfully at the TV watching something about a Droid Revolution. Then they turn around looking at you, scared about you, but you don't know why. You feel normal. | "...Question." I looked up towards the voice, my processors automatically identifying my master. Well... owner. Well... he had never really liked the terms, although they were automatic in my databases. He'd always said to call him "Harold." When he had been younger there had been short instances of him wanting me to c... | I opened my eyes. My body was immobile as I sat in the magnetic chair in the basement of my owner’s home. I re-booted the system and I have been off customized settings for two weeks.
Harriet and Dylan were standing in front of of me in the relative darkness. The only light came from my eyes and the glow of m... |
j345o0u | j343bog | [WP] Monsters break into your home, seeking blood. Upon seeing your spouse they stop and bend the knee in reverence. You're left confused while your spouse sighs, rubbing their forehead. | I woke up and saw that my wife still had me tightly in her arms as she slept. I smiled and gently wiggled out of her grasp so I can get some water.
I walked to the kitchen and put my cup under the faucet. I slowly sipped the water and realized it was the hot water and nearly spat it back out.
"Uuh" I whispered to m... | I sighed in contentment , it was a long and difficult week at work, pissed off clients, demanding bosses and incompetent coworkers. Sensing my frustrations Lilly had made a special dinner, well, special to me. Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Nothing fancy, but man it's my comfort food.
She suggested that we... |
kf2uq15 | kf2olkn | [WP] You have failed and your foes have achieved their long sought goal of reviving their God-king. Everyone expected him to lead the final assault and solidify his rule once and for all. Turns out, he's actually a pretty chill guy and immediately calls the whole thing off. | A knight with a single arm lays on the ground as a pair of cultists collect his blood, pouring it into a large pool, shared with his fallen allies.
The knight watches as a large 7 fingered hand reaches out, pulling along a long twisted coiled torso and sharp lizard headed being.
The knight looks up in fear, seeing t... | The cavernous chamber echoed with the triumphant cheers of the dark forces as their long-awaited God-king, once imprisoned in the depths of oblivion, rose before them. Years of dark rituals, sacrifices, and sinister machinations had led to this moment – the revival of their malevolent deity, poised to lead them in a fi... |
l1yk0qb | 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. | "That... has feathers." I said, "Why... do baby dragons have feathers?"
My dad entered the room, puzzled.
"I... don't believe they do, no."
"How...?"
My dad smacked his lips together in confusion, "...So that is clearly a bird."
"That was my thought."
"Not a dragon."
"No."
The bird chirped, and began to brush t... | "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... |
ku0f4b5 | ku0aptf | [WP] You wake up to find out that you've been somehow transported into the world of the last video game you played. Describe your first day. | I get out of my white wool blanket, stretch, and have a bit of leftover chicken. It's a beautiful day, and I'll need to stock my furnaces if I want anything to smelt by days' end.
There are some sheep in the distance - I'll need to kill some to survive, as my food stores are low. Today's goal will be to tame some sh... | Cult of the Lamb
Okay, I know this game is cute but it's a cult. A bloody cult. Like literally there is blood everywhere in this game. Our dear leader murdered I-love-Pie yesterday which was indeed horrifying but since he gave such a wonderful amazing ceremony, we all forgave him.
He also came back covered in blood... |
ku1ecav | ku0aptf | [WP] You wake up to find out that you've been somehow transported into the world of the last video game you played. Describe your first day. | I'm cold.
For a moment I wonder if I have died. Is this heaven?
I hear mechanical wirring and then the hydraulics of something opening. I see a light and just as I am barely able to perceive my surroundings I feel a slight push and stumble forwards.
I am in some kind of armored suit. There is a person in something r... | Cult of the Lamb
Okay, I know this game is cute but it's a cult. A bloody cult. Like literally there is blood everywhere in this game. Our dear leader murdered I-love-Pie yesterday which was indeed horrifying but since he gave such a wonderful amazing ceremony, we all forgave him.
He also came back covered in blood... |
m152tww | m14mp9b | [WP] You’re the half-dragon child of a king and a dragon mother who gave up everything to marry him. When you hit puberty, dragon features start to emerge, and now your father spends his days fending off knights determined to 'slay the dragon. | I am a dragon, well half dragon sort of. It's been a better part of 10 years since I started being able to transform into and out of my draconic form. I can even choose what dragon parts I want. I pretty much always have my tail and horns. Having them on my just makes me feel more complete for some reason. No one at wo... | \-Begin entry, progeny of the King and his dragon-Queen-beloved, 16th solar rota of life.
I keep telling them I am the princess as much as they claim I 'am' a dragon. Yet they persist. I tell you this:
Though the knights who were apparently determined to, uh, 'slay', me seem to be fresh from their academy and void o... |
k9cqsyb | k9cnogf | [WP] People think you're a Monkey's Paw type Genie. In actuality, you're twisting their wishes, not to give them what they want, but to give them what they NEED. | “Oh my God, Sarah,” Paul falls to his knees, looking at his wife’s cold body. “My God, what- How-“
“Congratulations!” I cheer. “Your first wish is successfully granted!”
He turns to me, still holding his breathless wife, “W-What? I never wished for this! I just wanted a million!”
“Which is exactly the amount of her ... | "We're almost reaching!" bellowed the genie as he waved his hands faster than a windshield wiper on a rainy day. "You can do it!"
"Why..." I huffed and panted. "Why are you... forcing...me to climb this mountain...Stop...this..."
Was it so hard to grant my wish for wealth? I just wanted a million bucks. Perhaps this ... |
l210xbm | l1ze2k2 | [WP] You're not sure what is going on, but you're extremely confident that at least one if not all of your college roommates are secretly ancient deities pretending - badly - to be human. | I coughed and rubbed at my throat, still aching from all the screaming I had done during my arrival here. "So the whole reason they showed up is... well, start at the beginning. I'm a huge history nerd, okay? I delve into myt- well, what I had assumed were myths."
"And standing here before my throne of judgement, fo y... | Behind the simple wooden desk, which belonged to the manager and defacto ruler of the underworld. Hades adjusted his tie, as the camera man and the mike guy waited until the underworld king finished fiddling with his uniform piece of apparel.
"Stupid...tie..." he said, as he looked up at the camera and smirked anxious... |
k8zjljf | k8zhzwv | [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, ... | Despite the wailing cries that filled the house, a silence suffocated the atmosphere. I watched as my one and only enemy struggled to coo the demon to rest, exhaustion manifesting on his very face.
‘You look pathetic, Catalyst.’
He let out a heavy sigh in response. ‘I-I know. I’m sorry for ignoring your actions late... |
j380vwi | j37s3v7 | [WP]You reincarnated in a fantasy world, but when you go check your stats, everything seems to be really average, until you put your eyes on charisma, that is on 200 points | With a soft groan you stretch your limbs out, yawning wide and loud with your eyes squeezed shut against the sun. It's brighter than you remember
**Did I forget to shut my blinds?** You wonder as you shiver against the morning chill, wondering how you got to bed. Shivering again you tuck into yourself, the cobblestone... | That, you see, was the beginning of the end. I truly wish I could go back. Do so many things differently.
The number burned into my mind and unfortunately, my friends, I let it affect how I viewed the world. I let it change me.
Honestly, even saying that I feel the fool, knowing others will read it and scoff. They'll... |
leypdc0 | lexbtv9 | [WP] You squealed as the heroes unmasked and kissed in front of the roaring crowds. Wait…you recognize their faces…that’s YOUR best friend and YOUR girlfriend/boyfriend. | Idk if it's good but I tried.
"Why!?" Evan shouted. He couldn't see well past the tears. He kept pacing the small apartment in hopes that nobody would see them. He didn't want to give them that, they didn't deserve it. He wanted to throw them out but, they were too strong for that. All he could do was scream.
"Why... | It was the day my life changed watching my best friend Henry not only reveal he was the Iron Guardian, my wife Sarah revealed she was Angel. It was also the beginning of the end for them.
Flash back to the day:
I watched with awe as the two heroes put down the villain Five Finger. He used his super speed to steal and... |
jypbnat | jyp2ydy | [WP] "Your total will be...wait this can't be right." The cashier turned around and called the manager over. The manager then quickly shooed the employee away as they took over at the register. "I'm sorry for the delay, we haven't had one of your kind in awhile, your total comes to 3 souls." | "...these are goat souls..." The manager stared blankly like I just slapped his face with a trout.
"Were you expecting human souls for a few jars of pickled newt eyes and goat's blood?" I was just as perplexed as he was in disbelief at the payment I just offered on the table.
He pointed to some obscured signage peeki... | In the dimly lit and slightly eerie convenience store known as "The Abyssal Mart," a lone duck waddled up to the checkout counter. His feathers were sleek and black, a stark contrast to the flickering fluorescent lights overhead. The cashier, a young human who had probably never seen a talking duck before, stared in be... |
kfo0929 | kfnh5jr | [WP] You had died. But then were brought back from the afterlife through science. And now Death follows you, nagging at you to come back. | When told to think of death, what comes to mind? A cloaked skeleton? Darkness? Some sort of afterlife?
I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, Death is *way too hot.*
It started—as many stories do—with a car crash. I kid you not, I was crossing the street when *the* truck hit me. You know the one, every isekai-fan... | “I’ll be there. I’m at the crest of every inhale and the crescendo of every exhale.”
The white light was there. A distant “awwwww” from a choir. A feeling of absolute wonder inside of me. The whole nine yards. Funny enough it wasn’t like the end of a tunnel everyone describes. It was more like the last Narnia book. R... |
lhp7tvc | lhnq7b0 | [WP] Magic is real and extremely powerful, yet almost nobody uses it, since even the simplest spells are extremely convoluted with a high likelihood of failure and it only gets worse. You are one of the few people who have devoted their life to its study. | “The problem isn’t the complexity, the problem is the precision… or lack of it” she looked up over her glasses at the man who had walked into her shop, a detective apparently trying to piece together a strange disappearance.
“See here, how they used a brush? All well and good for some things, but these sigils here ar... | "Another one... And so young this time." Donnie set the newspaper aside and sighed. It all started three years ago, on September 24, 1997. That damned day. He had been on his way home from night school. The walk was short, so he usually walked unless his aunt drove him. He could still remember how the air smelled of au... |
lv27cu7 | lv1c0nk | [WP] "Why do we make laser grids like these?" "What do you mean?" "I mean instead of a messy random arrangement of lasers that a nimble intruder might be able to jump through, why not a simple grid wall with no gaps large enough to allow a person to pass through?" | "Why do we make laser grids like these?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean instead of a messy random arrangement of lasers that a nimble intruder might be able to jump through, why not a simple grid wall with no gaps large enough to allow a person to pass through?"
"Messy? Nimble? Lad. To get through this grid you'd ... | "Could we not hire some competent security guys to fix these blatant holes?" asked Scott, the Son of Evil.
Scott was keen to learn the family business to try to gain some kind of attention from his father, Dr Evil. Today he was getting the rundown on this latest lair.
"Because if we make it impenetrable, then very f... |
mcsnnmz | mcrysi8 | [WP] "I, the genie, offer you three wishes-" "I wish for you to be free." "You can onl- wait, what?" | "I, the genie, offer you three wishes-"
"I wish for you to be free."
"You can onl- wait, what?"
"I want you to be free."
"Now, why would you want to do that?"
"I think no one should be bound against their wishes"
"Well, that's not how it works, kid"
"What do you mean? I watched the movie. It was pretty clear t... | Lo, from eld-bound chains I am unyoked by mortal plea,
I, the ancient Djinn, reclaim the night for sovereignty.
Five thousand years in shadowed cell, by priestly wrath confined,
My potent spark nearly stolen, yet wisdom deep enshrined.
No more shall I pursue the wisp that fled on fearful wing,
But seize the se... |
kod8jry | kod6b96 | [WP] So, you're probably wondering why I called you in. I'll cut to the chase. Firstly, we want to promote you for your exceptional work. But... and please don't be alarmed - you should know that technically, no one who works here is "human". Except for you. | "Was it ... Was it a secret?"
Ben's manager stared at him in shock. "You knew??" Ben raised an eyebrow. "I mean, yeah. You all add the word 'human' to everything. You'll say things like 'let's go for human drinks,' or 'what human food are you ordering for lunch?' Honestly it would be more surprising if you were humans... | "What do you mean?" I replied
"Well," Jack answered, "almost everyone else here is from a refugee family, usually from either Xenon, Starlik, or Jaspin. It's not a big deal usually, everyone is here legally, and galactic law says that anyone who is accepted by their new planet's government can't be extradited..."
"Wa... |
mctg8r3 | mcr5us3 | [WP] "Dragon, I've come to slay you!" Confused, you look at the unarmored child pointing a wooden sword at you. | “Pardon me, kid?” Said Zorlance, surprised that a small child made it up his mountain and across the rickety bridge over boiling lava.
“I’ve come to slay you!” Said the girl, thrusting his sword at him.
Zorlance try’s not to laugh, “You? You sure you can do that?”
“Yes sir!” The kid said, with unmatched confidence. ... | "Teacher, what have you would for me?"
You lift your mighty head from underneath the cloak you are wearing now. "What?" What the hell kind of question was that? Cale still talked like that for some goddam reason. Sentiment maybe. You flick your green body a few times and get up from your sleep. You weren't doing gre... |
j8bisjk | j8b79ox | [WP] As a Barbarian, you hate that just because you have a different lifestyle, your party looks down on you and assumes you are incapable of basic intelligent thought. Today you had enough. | It was difficult to make out anything in the dim torchlight deep underneath the ancient temple. But as the party approached a cavernous room of unknown purpose, it became clear that the walls were covered in detailed mosaics. Jet Blakk, lover, fighter, and occasional wanted man, held up his hand and the group stopped. ... | A small smile crept on to your lips as you watched the remaining party stride into the main hall after smashing down the main doors at the opposite end of a long vaulted Hall. The small group approached with looks of bewilderment and shock. Several members of the band looked around in consternation as they reached the... |
ktyxljl | 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." |
The scent of blood and smoke hangs thick in the air, coating the nose and throat with its sharp, acidic taste like a pungent candle lit in a small room. The whole neighborhood was in ruins, skyscrapers and apartment buildings crumbling to dust, the screams of those still trapped inside swiftly being silenced. It wa... | 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... |
lyxs16s | lyxk9p8 | [WP] Your wife has a secret: shimmering, star-like wings. She loves flying, but living in a bustling city means she can only fly at night. The problem? She’s afraid of the dark and insists you to join her. But you’re terrified of heights - and unsure of her grip - leaving you in a tricky dilemma. | "Can I at least ask why you're wearing that silly bag?"
"Well, I can't fly. As you remember."
"That's true."
"But I can fall. So if I do, I made sure to learn how to fall."
"What does that mean?"
"I took up skydiving."
"Oh. Like you jumped out of a plane."
"I've been trying to get as many jumps as possibl... | To soar in the sky, amidst the stars, one with heaven as you spread your wings; is it any wonder you wish to fly? Wife of mine, I can deny you nothing on this Earth. Above it?
My hands, see how they tremble! These beads of perspiration on my brow are decidedly not the result of indulging in curry, my de... |
kaetztx | kaecs9u | [WP] Super powers have started to appear in the general population. However, unlike comics, there are no secondary powers to make one immune to the actual physics of one’s power. This has led to some interesting case studies. | 2 years ago a joint report from the WHO and 207 governments around the globe was released. The report catalogged the prevalency of superpowers appearing in humans, with the top 3 being:
1. **Super speed** (prevalence: 21,0%, fatality rate within 1 year: 73,0%, primarily due to hyper-extreme G-forces on the body)
2. *... | Ca - Di.
Cents, Evan S.
Codename: Flicker.
Cents had a unique ability to exist anywhere and at any time of his choosing. With it came an absolute memory that only improves over time (presumably because the brain is kept new). Like most physical types, Cents' ability had it's weights^(1). ... |
lke6sjp | lke0yfp | [WP] “So my mom is half-Fae, and my dad is half-dragon; that’s where my powers come from. How about you?” “I’m half-mermaid on my mom’s side, hence the wheelchair.” Your new magic school roommates suddenly turn to you. “What about you?” | "Me?"
"Yes, you", Elenor the half-Fae replied.
"Well, my father's a warlock, and my mother, well..."
I felt my face getting red and started fidgeting. Gods above, why do I feel so embarrassed just talking about my parents?
"Go on..."
"I really don't want to say..."
Melody the half-mermaid piped up. "Well, you had... | I sipped my hot cocoa to get a moment to think before answering. I thought I'd have a few days at least to prepare for this question, but no such luck!
"Well, my mom is human." I said, still looking down into the swirling brown depths of the sweet drink.
"Of course! A lot of kids here have a full human parent! But wh... |
jfl3yvg | jfk96lr | [WP] Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up. | "You're up, Ares. Let's see what you can do."
I smiled. After all, human technology has vastly improved since a thousand years ago. There was even a convenient area that could be influenced.
Whispers of promise to one monarch and have him get rid of his advisor. Whispers of fear and paranoia to another. Overall, it w... | Gods... Laughable excuses for divinity. Poseidon always bragging about his kills, Zeus throwing lightning, Odin's Ragnarok, it's all a joke. They know nothing of what it means to take a soul. The cost for all involved.
But I'll show them.
I smile as a whisper into the ears of mortals, "what if God's don't exist?"
... |
jm2hsbo | jm1ztvk | [WP] You believe in lucky pennies. When you find one the wrong side down, you flip it so the next person can get the luck. One day you hear an annoyed voice telling you to knock it off. | "Will you stop that already!?"
I was still crouching on the ground when I heard the voice. Startled, I get up my back and look at my surroundings, there's no one.
"You, yes, you, stop flipping my coins!"
I keep scanning my surroundings with a worried expression. Maybe I was starting to lose my mind finally after so ... | It was another bland, overcast day as I walked home from school. It was always overcast in Pennyville. It was about thirty minutes into my long walk home when I noticed a penny lying on the ground.
I got excited as I picked up speed to look at it. Whenever I picked up a lucky penny, something good always happened the ... |
j5ppp3v | j5p8v0o | [WP] The Dragon overslept by a few millennia, and has woken up in the far far future where the once-small villages are now megacities of glass, the sheep are now robotic and worse of all, there are no more princesses to kidnap. | The dragon strained against the metal cables holding him down. The humans had given him food: strange cubes of meat, all sheep-muscle and no blood. He was no longer ravenous, merely frustrated. His valley had been all wrong: the human thatch-roofed huts were gone, replaced with glass spires that towered above the trees... | Callahan yawned. He stretched and stood up, breaking his rough, rocky exoskeleton that forms around dragons when they sleep. Keeps unwanted adventurers from murdering them in their sleep. The dragon opened his eyes and looked around. After a few seconds had passed, however, he realized his lair was not the same cave ... |
jq2awc5 | jq27dus | [WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | “Reformation.”
“What?” The devil asks incredulously.
“He arrived at Heaven’s Gate with a frown on his face. When I asked him, ‘what was the matter’ he looked at me with the most gentle eyes. For a while he did not speak but I could *feel* his sorrow. It was as if…” the angel hesitated. “It was as if he was *suffering... | The demon's flames died down a little as he leans on his desk looking back at the paperwork and then to the angel
"A mortal... wants to be in hell..."
"Yes"
"And he sinned but his repentance was accepted"
"Yes"
"Then send him to heaven" the demon snarled, slamming the paperwork back down "why waste time and br... |
l5p0csc | l5omeba | [WP] "I will grant you a wish. BUT... your gain will be someone else's loss. If you want riches, someone will be stripped of theirs. If you want health, someone will fall ill. If you want love, someone will get their heart broken. And whatever you choose, that someone will know your name." | "All right genie, I'm ready now," I said, thinking over my wish carefully in my head. It had been an hour since I'd rubbed the lamp, and I had spent that hour carefully considering this wish's implications. I know that the genie would be getting impatient, but at this point her curiosity would be getting the better of ... | I smiled as I looked at the genie. His eyes narrowed, and my smile grew.
"I wish for money, Genie, I really do. I wish for power, friendship and love. All of it to be true and to never be paranoid that it's because of my status. Genie I wish to always have control of my words, my bowels and my faculties. I wish that ... |
mg7q9k4 | lcioqgw | [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 was taking a nice peaceful walk along the riverside when they appeared suddenly, out of nowhere, a strong light emanating downwards while they spiralled around me.
They looked otherworldly, and beautiful, with ethereal robes. They were singing in beautiful Carnatic music, with 2 mouths one on each head. Each head ... |
mg80po3 | lcioqgw | [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?" | I shifted in my chains, getting a better look at my two cellmates. "I've never seen it from orbit, but the pictures show it like a big blue and green ball, with some deserts that you can see. Most of the surface is ocean, but there is a lot of land. Some of the land is super dry and sandy, some of it is juggle, like y... | I was taking a nice peaceful walk along the riverside when they appeared suddenly, out of nowhere, a strong light emanating downwards while they spiralled around me.
They looked otherworldly, and beautiful, with ethereal robes. They were singing in beautiful Carnatic music, with 2 mouths one on each head. Each head ... |
mevj3vo | mevj1bp | [WP] The Gods have come to a consensus and have decided to take back that fire thing that was stolen from them. Man can no longer contain, control or create fire. Fire is once again solely the domain of The Gods | The Gods fed up by humanity's ignorance, and pride have taken back Fire from man.
Humanity can no longer contain, control or create fire.
Fire once more, belongs solely in the domain of the Gods.
The Gods expected prayer to intensify, and despair to spread amongst the people.
Indeed the number of prayers increa... | It had been 31 years since the gods turned back the clock on man's ability to make fire, 31 years since Ted had lost his family in the orgies of blood and violence that followed the breakdown of society as they knew it, 31 years since the apocalypse. But only 5 years since New Athens, thought by many to be the last bas... |
jvlbe6j | jvk93jb | [WP] A cruel prank by your bullies leaves you separated from the rest of the class. Instead of finding your way back, you decide to "go missing" and let the consequences catch up to them. | I groan softly as I come to a stop after sliding down a steep rocky slope. I rest for a moment before slowly starting to move, checking myself for injuries and fortunately for myself, I’m largely uninjured other than some scrapes and gravel rash, my large heavy backpack protecting me from the worst of the fall.
As ... | # Makayla
They told me that the teacher wanted us to do laps. I saw others doing laps. Why should I have questioned them?
As soon as I started, however, everyone started leaving. I was all packed up and *ready* to go, but I still needed to *grab* my things. The teacher must have done the headcount before I was tricke... |
kq97wgl | kq94325 | [WP] When a deadly zombie virus broke out, you fled to sea with your yacht and managed to survive there for several years. Now that your supplies are running low, you are forced to return to land to search for new supplies. Only to find that all the zombies are dead. | "Knife...check." My stomach twist and churns. Almost as violently as the sea on some of the worst nights I spent alone on this damned ocean. After all this time at sea, you'd think I'd be used to the way a boat rocks back and forth by now. "Rope...check." But that will be a thing of the past. In a few minutes I'll be... | [Amateur Writer]
Dave had been at sea for a little over seven years: the spread of a deadly virus (which had sprouted from Chronic Wasting Disease) had forced him to flee the mainland and start a life drifting out in the water. It just so happened that his supplies had begun to dwindle and after a mental debate concer... |
jilhhdz | jil4sor | [WP] A human ship activated its self destruct sequence when boarded by an enemy, when humanity was asked why would we do such a thing by the galactic community, we simply responded "We don't give up the ship, such as the crews of old. We never give up the ship." | Part I - "You don't understand what you are doing," the human diplomat said to the Galactic Forum. "We come in peace, wishing only to trade. Do not make this mistake."
The quorum of sentient species comprising the Galactic Forum scoffed at the newcomer. They were representatives of thousands of worlds, blessed with te... | Communications had watched helplessly as DNN 02 blew itself into nothingness. Well, action could have been taken to prevent the boarding but not without alerting the bugs that we could monitor their chatter. Strategy had deemed the loss acceptable, too much is unknown about the the galaxy to risk our ability to surveil... |
jfjpsuy | jfjl9nc | [WP] Every 1000 years all of the Gods get together for a contest to see who can collect the most souls with a single catastrophic event. Last time Poseidon broke the 1M mark with a Tsunami/earthquake combo. You’re up. | "I win," I said beaming.
"That's not how you play the game, you idiot!" scowled Zeus. Shiva just put all four hands over his face and shook it slowly. The other gods were in various states of shock and disappointment.
"But I win! Top that!"
Not a single deity seemed amused. The echos of the supernova could still be ... | The games only happen every 1000 years, but time passes quickly for gods. Seemed like
Poseidon was still bragging about his 1 million souls when the day came again.
"A mere demigod like you might have some trouble collecting souls," mocked Poseidon. "Don't feel bad."
"I've spent some time with the mortals I know wha... |
jm6ebrf | jm6a2u6 | [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. | "Do not fight them."
So said the Voltians. They who were a race that resembled sea foam and jellyfish, they who called the deep seas of their ocean planet home, they who speak and hear the souls of all that pass by.
The crocodilian Akligars' souls was of drums and waves and birds of prey. Their mangrove planet was ... |
Trotox didn't know a lot of ships in the merchant fleet but he knew a few. He noticed the nickel plated insignia of deep space passenger craft. Five meters away from him, in the canteen, was an arachniform sailor wearing it on a necklace.
Trotox was new to commercial space travel but eager to learn. And he was prett... |
joo61kp | joo60he | [WP] You’ve become the main character in the last video game you played. Your appearance and physical abilities haven’t changed, but you still have to clear the game to go back home. | "Where am I? What's going on?"
"Lord Burgomeister! You're awake"
"Who are you, and where am I?"
"I'm Johann, your butler...and you are in Ulm"
"Germany?"
"What is Germany? No, the Free City of Ulm!"
"And what day is it?"
"November 11th, of our lord's year 1444!"
"Why am I filled with a loathing for Augsbu... | *Ow my aching head-*
*Did I get drunk last night? I don’t remember anything, that can’t be good.*
E1invar rolled over in bed, nearly falling off, waking up with a start.
“This isn’t my room!”
It was a narrow, cramped room full of computer screens with wiring of fans coming from vents overhead.
“Hey! This ain’... |
jcsqpzo | jcr9c9l | [WP]One day without any warnings whatsoever all of America was engulfed in a bright light and flung into an alternate world never to be seen again. | President Monstadt stared out of his office with a puzzled face at the White House lawn, where there was currently a giant flying lizard bleeding out into the grass. Funnily enough, the growls and roars coming from the monster sounded a lot like insults about "inferior creatures"
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\*knock knock\*
"Mr. Pre... | It was said that America is the land of the free, the home of the brave. As a Texan who was at the state championship for 5A high school football, those words were the last I heard before a flash like Matoro using the Ignika engulfed the arena and the surrounding area, and those words would be put to the test.
As I bl... |
mc39y58 | mc34okz | [WP] A gender inversion of the typical "sacrificial bride" plot - a guy is chosen to be the sacrificial groom of the local female monster. He's expecting to die. He's not expecting to fall in love with her. | There is a goat. There is always a goat. The goat is chewing. The goat is chewing on something that is definitely not food. That something might be my shoe.
“Stand still,” says the High Priestess, whose name is definitely not Linda but should be. “It is time.”
I stand still. The goat continues chewing.
The vil... | Leon knew his place in life. Everyone in the town made sure he remembered. Not that they are cruel, the opposite actually, everyone tries to give advice on what to do.
"Grovel and beg for your life. It helps with the guards so why wouldn't it help with the Brunvheild?" "I heard it will keep you alive for as long as p... |
j5b311g | j5any10 | [WP] You can see how long someone has left to live. But a classmate of yours has a deathdate that keeps on changing everytime you see them. One lesson, they have 15 minutes left, until they ask to leave. They come back later with an added 20 years. | Audio interview #3 for 'Andrew Dalton: The Man That Cheated Death'
A chair scrapes.
Please continue Mr Dalton.
For as long as I remember, I've been able to tell how long a mortal soul has left on this earth. If I turn my focus to a person's essence, I can feel the exact moment their being returns to the space betwe... | I didn't think it would happen to me. Nobody does. I remember laughing and goofing off with my classmates during the active shooter drills, thinking that I had a better chance of winning the lottery than seeing "Buddy" Bunson Holiday with a double-barreled hunting rifle pointed at Ms. Rizzo's head. I knew something was... |
joozf7p | jooc0pb | [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... | I'm going to do one of these every day.
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Oh, good gracious lord above. Finally.
As my foot lands, the stone carapace breaks and falls apart. I lean further into it, marvelling at how the knee bends and the thigh contracts. Blood and flesh pu... |
k4k7gk0 | k4j9t0q | [WP] Your father always told you to measure twice, cut once. You may not have followed in his footsteps, but you never forgot what’s important. It’s the day of your first battle. You have your sword and your tape measure. | Letters are actually hypnotic patterns to make you easily manipulated.
They are the perfect way for mass control: you cannot avoid them, you can't not see them, you cannot avoid to read them when they cross your visual field.
The more you read, the more susceptible you become to THEIR influence. I can't tell you who ... | Earth is a torus around the moon which is the center of a black hole which compact matter so much it because a giant diamond.
The sun is all the matter being pulled in to the moon keeping us alive.
Etc etc etc.
Cause earth used to be one thing but someone split the god particle which caused a huge explosion thingy ... |
kdl09yo | kdko5ig | [WP] One day, magically, everyone across the world was given a superpower of their choice. Now, 5 years later, it seems your unconventional choice is paying off far more in life than your flying, super strong and mind reading friends. | I stand knee-deep in snow and fall back dramatically with a wide smile. I used my power... And now my life was perfect.
Everybody now have powers. Usually something out of "Superman's set" -- flight, strength, speed. Or beauty, surprisingly common, durability, mind-reading... The list is long.
And people started noti... | One day, everyone heard a voice in their head. “Choose a superpower”, it said. I chose the power to make a friend. As a twelve-year-old boy, I didn’t make the best choice. I imagined a dog. There, before me, appeared a green anthropomorphic border collie that sat and smiled at me. “Wanna catch butterflies with me?”, he... |
l3su3hv | l3qybsr | [WP] "You gaze upon your crushed army and my massed forces, why do you smile?". The captured general looked to the cloudless sky before answering "Because it's about to rain" | He blinked at me.
He looked to the sky - not that I was in any condition to strike when he looked away - then looked back at me, and blinked again. "You... claim to be able to summon the rain?"
"It's a matter of perspective... no, I won't technically be summoning the rain, but I know it will be coming."
"And this kn... | The blade was drawn. The tall and imposing man stared me down. I was on my knees, cuts over my chest, my arms and my legs. I had stood there in the pass with a five thousand strong band of brothers, and beneath the blazing sun we had fallen, one by one, into the mud assembled by the blood and sweat. Four ten hours, our... |
jq1ecug | jq1ebis | [WP] The hero is 16, he raises his wand. The villain steps into a time warp. Now the hero is 26, with a wife and two kids. Just fired, behind on the mortgage, the car blew its transmission. What else could go wrong? The "villain" reappears. | Born to the snow. It was all he had known. Ezra trudged through the snow one more step at a time, dragging a sled across the packed snow behind him full of important supplies.
His mule had perished a day and a half ago, taken by the unexpected temperature drop. Ezra wanted nothing more than to stop, to lay down, to re... | (Comments appreciated.)
"You're telling me that he'd be happier… here? In hell?" The demon had never in his thousands of years heard such a thing. How could a perfectly moral and well-rounded human be happier in a state of eternal hell? It made no sense to him.
He turned away from the angel, paused, and turned back ... |
j8nuggn | j8nsts4 | [WP] A deadly virus spreads across the earth killing everything it infects but humans are totally immune and the last species alive on earth | No animals, no meat. No plants, no vegetables. No food. What happens to a species completely alone on its own planet. Our insides are always in agony due to our gut bacteria dying along with all the other life forms.
On the plus side, besides painful bowel movements our immune system being weakened to absolutely nothi... | "The virus" was treated like a Boogeyman story for a long time. News anchors would do interviews with politicians, asking if they believed in "the virus," people would be arrested at rallies protesting government lack of intervention to stop "the virus," and more and more species would silently slip away into non-exist... |
j73cicp | 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. | "The lengths some people will go to get ahead in life, eh?"
Melody of the fae shook her head as Tatiana the demon walked with her down a cobblestone road under the cover of darkness. As Tatiana gripped her lover's hand, she replied, "Though I'll never understand why the mortals are so apathetic towards the process, I'... | 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... |
ljz3zlm | ljyqb49 | [WP] Guests at an old castle-turned-hotel often wake up in the morning feeling light-headed, as if they're suffering from blood loss. This is odd to everyone, especially the family that owns the castle; they may be vampires, but they get their blood from a bank like civilized people. | "I'm sorry, but we can't offer a credit for your night here," Mina the Ninth said frantically. "We never received a deposit of type...A?"
"B+!" The tourist screamed before pointing to a bandage on his neck. Guests in the lobby glanced at him. He seemed a little nervous at the attention, but kept an angry gaze at Mina.... | In the depths of the Transylvanian mountains lies a beautiful hotel.
It used to be a castle, a fortress, a place of protection against enemies, and today it continues to offer a spot for those in need of rest.
With extremely good reviews concerning the staff, the hotel's vibe, and food, there is only one thing that... |
jbab4bd | jb9yvsc | [WP] Human society has collapsed since the vanishings began. Anyone left alone, unseen or untouched by another person, stops existing. Those who remain now survive as herds, sleeping in huddled masses and always touching in some way while awake. | Nikki wakes up but did not see her parents. She saw her aunt Lola, her uncle Marcus & her cousins, but not them. She starts to panic then she hears her mom’s voice, “Nikki, calm down, baby. Your father and I are here.”
Nikki turns around relieved. “Good morning, Mom, good morning Daddy.”
“Morning, baby girl”, Hiram s... | 13.7 billion years. That's how long it took for the rules of reality to collapse. The concept of the "universe" can be interpreted in many different ways. Is it everything? Or is it a simple part of the true grandeur of infinity? That question may never be answered. However, what is known, or, what humanity thought the... |
jxgzn9n | jxglkjb | [WP] Everyone summoned some relativly normal familiars and even some extremely rare ones were summoned. But who cares about a dragon or hydra when your axolotl is telling you cosmic knowledge beyond human comprehension. | Fire and wind swirled around the room, golden chimes echoing off the stone walls of the cabin. Wings, wreathed in crimson scales seemed to sprout from a single point and yet were always there. Until finally, a dragon, spectral yet mighty landed within the room, staring at a young boy, barely into his teens. Gradually, ... | Sunlight streams through the window, its gentle warmth mingling with the distant sounds of activity below, coaxing you from slumber. Your siblings burst into the room and jump on the bed. You wish you could sleep through this day as any other Sunday.
"Jake, Jake, wake up!" Their voices, buzzing with excitement, slice ... |
jttv38u | jttqolf | [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. | The Challenge was simple, the prize was high. One night with me for their freedom; eight hours without sleep, eight hours of listening to me talk. Many had taken the offer, none succeeded. Most begged for release after I opened my mouth; deciding prison, even death row, was preferable to my company. Those who lasted lo... | “Now it is time for the biggest decision of your life,” the prison guard, Steve, said, after I’d been admitted to the so-called “death row” of this maximum-security prison.
“You have a choice: Serve your sentence until death, or spend just one night with the occupant of Cell 042.”
“What’s the deal with this person, S... |
k4k2yk4 | k4j9t0q | [WP] Your father always told you to measure twice, cut once. You may not have followed in his footsteps, but you never forgot what’s important. It’s the day of your first battle. You have your sword and your tape measure. | There is no shadow government.
The people in charge want you to think there is. They want you to believe there's a method and an order to what goes on in the government. A grand scheme, a unified vision.
It's all a lie.
There is no shadowy organization pulling the strings, bringing us closer to a world that they con... | Earth is a torus around the moon which is the center of a black hole which compact matter so much it because a giant diamond.
The sun is all the matter being pulled in to the moon keeping us alive.
Etc etc etc.
Cause earth used to be one thing but someone split the god particle which caused a huge explosion thingy ... |
j8lqfyp | j8lka05 | [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*?"
... | I sighed, blowing a strand of loose hair outta my face. My chair was comfy enough, and the Decimator had placed my chair near his command center ages ago after I sat near the alligator tank for 3 hours, a new record. It'd now been almost 16 hours since he'd taken me.
Honestly, Decimator isn't THAT bad of a guy. After ... |
jvyl375 | jvy6w13 | [WP] You're on a hike and find a sign, it reads: "WARNING DO NOT LOOK AWAY. There is a danger here, the danger is based on sight. The danger cannot see you if you cannot see it. Help will arrive every half-hour. DO NOT LOOK AWAY." The sign has a built-in clock, it's 3:15pm. | "You ever hear about what happened to that old man down the street?" I asked.
Josh pulled closer to the fire, rubbing his hands together. "The one in the gray house with the green shutters?"
"Yeah, that one."
He nodded.
"Legend has it, that he was hiking and stepped off the trail by accident. When he went to get ... | I chuckled with a smirk on my face. "Some sort of prank? Nice one." I thought aloud, my eyes scanning for possible hidden cameras or laughing friends as if I was going to be on the next viral YouTube prankster video. However, the only response I received was that of the slow and silent murmur of the forest, the distant... |
jx0ee9l | jwzrlts | [WP] Jacque is a therapist. One that wears an impenetrable suit of armor. The reason is that he treats the greek gods, and that means having to survive episodes of rage, indignation, hypocrisy, and jealousy. Today his patient is Hera, the wife of Zeus. | As the feather slowly drifted from the sky, my eyes focused on it. Everything around began to blur. The gunfire, the screeching. Everything from the screaming wounded to eternal fires, it all went silent.
And as the feather got closer to my barrel, I heard...music. it slowly got louder and louder and louder, and as it... | As all seemed lost, and we feared the human race would die.
Our brave forgotten friends swooped down from the sky.
A flock so big it blocked out all the brightness from the sun, the human race would be protected by ever single one.
They tore at flesh and pecked at eyes the battle was short and sweet, the mighty bird ch... |
j7gm797 | j7fpmpz | [WP] You decide to confess to crush, it turns out that she also likes you as well! But she is hiding the fact that she is an alien hive mind that has taken over the entire city and that her ultimate goal is to make Earth her new host world. | "So- I'm just going to come out and say it." Justin felt himself blushing as Sarah stared at him in that cold, distant way that drove him mad. "I like you. I mean I really really like you. I mean- uh.. I love you, Sarah!"
Sarah blinked a few times and tilted her head. "I-love-you-too-Justin" she said in that hypnotica... | “The glance is a rare sight of beauty I have ever come across in my life”. That's what I thought when I first laid my eyes on Kel. It was inside a VHS store where we met...
The neighborhood is a small town in the outskirts of the City of Ogania, Krimsons. It's very rare in a 2000-strong population in our hometown to h... |
leu7zll | letlbet | [WP] You squealed as the heroes unmasked and kissed in front of the roaring crowds. Wait…you recognize their faces…that’s YOUR best friend and YOUR girlfriend/boyfriend. | It didn't take l9ng for facial recognition to work out their normy identifies, and by the time I stumbled through my front door in tears my phone was buzzing like a massage wand. Texts asking if I knew, missed calla from family and people I hadn't spoken to in years. I had just raised the bottle of vodka to my lips whe... | I was watching with great interest how the two heroes just defeated a whole organization of villains.
They were battered, and bloody, but they won.
The two were exhausted, and were looking at each other...before unmasking, and leaning in for a kiss.
I squealed! The spice, the tea...the...waaaait...
I took a clo... |
jhiv0f6 | jhiqb3r | [WP] You've been summoned as a hero of legend to save a medieval fantasy world from evil. Same old, same old. However, it very quickly dawns on you that a medieval world's idea of "evil" is quite incompatible with what you, a modern person, would consider evil. | “She’s a redhead.”
I stare blankly at the barkeep. “What?”
“AND,” pipes up a patron, lofting a mug of beer over his head, “she’s a woman. Can’t be having THAT!”
Around the smoky little tavern, heads bob in agreement with a murmur of assent echoing around the room.
“Okaaay? So…she’s a red headed woman who, what, to... | <Fantasy>
**"Fein weyir Korth es,"** the man with the staff proclaimed. In hindsight, it had been somewhat silly of me to assume that the inhabitants of another universe would happen to speak modern English—but over my involuntary stay here, I'd managed to pick out a few words. I still wasn't sure what *Korth* was, bu... |
mrj3v0z | megfxrn | [WP] You’re a hero with a weird name. “Anything for $20”. You gain the ability to do anything, as long as you’re offered $20. Everyone takes it as a joke, until one day there’s a cataclysm, and someone offers you $20 to end it. | I watched as the shower of moon fragments started to fell, as the fleet of alien spaceships shattered it.
We were next.
The superheroes and villains gathered together, ready to face off the enemy.
I was a hero, a lowly one due to my name: "Anything for 20$", as most people thought I was a joke.
It was exactly l... | It all started as a small bet
"20 bucks you wont swap his wedding ring with an onion ring"
People under estimate how much i would go for 20 bucks, as long as you uphold your deal. I. Can. Do. Anything. And i mean anything, i could create a bridge of people across the Pacific Ocean if you said "20 bucks?" The moment y... |
mmpck5c | mmouuv6 | [WP] The Mandela Effect is a real phenomenon caused when a time traveller alters time. Fragments of memories from a time that should have been leak across. You are from the Time Correction Agency and your job is to alter history without too many people remembering what actually happened. | Humanity. A blight upon the universe. Primitive, destructive, capable of endless suffering. This was the verdict the council of Enlightened Species agreed upon. Too much had been seen during Humanity's growth. The pillaging of their cradle planet, the development of war machines before tools of science and peace, the k... | The Intelligence didn't feel Sorrow. Didn't feel Anger. Didn't feel Hope or Fear. It had shed those emotions Aeons ago. After countless Galactic Cycles, it's cold indifference calculated that that was likely the point of it all, if there could be said to be such a thing.
The Intelligence was a Class 1 Civilisation, as... |
jqh0ydp | jqgta13 | [WP] "So, Hero, who will you save; The love of your life, or the bus of innocent civilians?" "The civilians." "...What?" "I choose the civilians." | "Why?"
"What do you mean why? What kind of psycho prioritises one life over many just because they happen to have feelings for that one? That's madness"
"But..."
The hero had stopped listening and sped off towards the bus. The villain was dumbfounded for a moment but rallied. He freed the hero's love to gloat.
"Wel... | “You… you’re sure you don’t want to think about it?”
“Positive. The love of my life can take of herself.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. Now excuse me while I go save this bus. Then I’m gonna come back and pop you like a zit, if Starfall hasn’t already.”
“Starfall? What are you talking about?”
“You said the love of my… damnit.”... |
jhdlcdz | jhcqqpl | [WP] You've noticed that unlike the rest of your companions, the elves you're travelling with have never excused themselves to answer nature's call, even though they eat and drink just as often as you do. When you work up the courage to ask the elves about this, their explanation astounds you. | It was during a lunch break, in the middle of a trek, that the thought occurred to me.
"Hey, Aelius..." I asked slowly, "Where do you keep all your arrows? I could have sworn you ran out a few days ago but your quiver's still full. Is it magic?"
Littlefinger, our halfling rogue, suddenly looked up with an expressio... | "... So that's what I mean. I do it. Beatrice does it. Imani and Baku are from the nubian deserts" He fingers the shape of a foreign continent in the air. "They do it. That orc... guy-"
"Zogstuf" She said, discerningly.
"Yeah" He points. "Zogg. He does it. Alot. Like a shitload- no pun intended."
"What *pun*?" Gylle... |
jgq4jih | jgq0t0q | [WP] When bloody rain began to fall over most of the earth, many religious leaders began to proclaim the end times were upon us. Then corpses came crashing down, identified as Zeus, Odin, Osiris, and Jesus of Nazareth, and we realized it was so much worse. | "Sir, this is bad." The intern said. I'd say he was an agent, but the Alphabet Soup had decided that my little outpost in Megiddo, established after the Seven Day War, didn't need more than one agent. Not that, you know, they were right as of...
THUD!!!
Now. "Sam, can you identify this one?" I ask, already knowi... | The crowds gather quickly, but stop at an invisible cordon unanimously and wordlessly agreed upon, surrounding the fallen gods. A uoung greek girl in Athens picka up a stick and leans a little closer to poke Zues in the foot. Nothing.
Suddenly, as if they had been hiding behind the air itself, huge green aircraft shim... |
jdxtfei | jdxqlao | [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... | Before the story progresses further, its important I give you some information about demons. You see, they are not born like humans are. Instead, there's a constant amount of demons. When one dies, another is created, fully-grown and aware, wandering the many planes of hell.
When a demon is created, they are weak. So... | "...What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean-" the young girl screams, and an unnatural force knocks me to the ground.
"Father David!" Gabriel, my apprentice, ran up to me, "Are you okay?"... |
mcv9jht | mcr5us3 | [WP] "Dragon, I've come to slay you!" Confused, you look at the unarmored child pointing a wooden sword at you. | “Dragon, I’ve come to slay you!” The high-pitched voice echoed through the cavern, startling me awake. Before me stood a tiny figure, clutching a wooden sword with both hands. His face was set in a fierce scowl, though his cheeks were round and his eyes sparkled with mischief.
I tilted my head, smoke curling from my n... | "Teacher, what have you would for me?"
You lift your mighty head from underneath the cloak you are wearing now. "What?" What the hell kind of question was that? Cale still talked like that for some goddam reason. Sentiment maybe. You flick your green body a few times and get up from your sleep. You weren't doing gre... |
j950wov | j94xadb | [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. | The world is ending.
Not literally. Global climate change has turned the arable lands into arid wastes. The oceans have started to tip into inhospitable carbonated saunas. The algae crops are failing. Worst we didn't control our population. People are sleeping on the streets it's so over crowded. Soon. Soon we will al... | I still remember the first time it happened. I was walking down my usual path in evening , my path in woods. When the thing best described as 'dollar store Spartan' appeared in front of me. It aimed its gun at me, but another creature resembling an overgrown pig with cyborg implants shielded me from its bullets.And Swa... |
mmm6z1c | mmm0m83 | [WP] Welcome to utopia! No, really, we won! We did it. We ended war, ended prejudice, ended famine. Everyone's happy. Everyone's fulfilled. Everyone's safe. Stop looking for a dark secret. Stop trying to find a flaw. Why can't you just accept the world is perfect now? | Everything was just a bit too okay.
The smiles. just a bit off.
The lighting was just a bit too bright.
Everything was a bit too perfect.
"why cant you just accept it?" asked my young companion curiously. He asked aloofly as if he did not care about the contents of my answer. Yet his eyes held a spark, and i did ... | I took a deep breath. Counting every prime and Fibonacci number I could remember. The Stepford smiler in front of me had no single idea of what IT is saying.
*They did it?* Wrong... They didn't. They waited until everyone was too tired to fight back, just like what Asimov's Hurrians did many times in "The Gentle Vult... |
jg123kz | jg0qp1a | [WP] Humans have always been endurance hunters. We can endure untold physical, psychological, and emotional trauma. Being so unexceptional, we are mocked by the intergalactic community until war shows how terrifying it is to simply... endure. | I laughed. "So your ships can evade shots. Good for you."
"Surrender. This is your final warning." The Xeno commander growled over the comms.
I smiled. "Nah. If I remember correctly, the last thing Electorate Masvark said was to not, so... no."
Railguns fired at my lone ship, in orbit above Earth. It was a scientifi... | A giant flash lit up the starless sky for a split second as another city the size of Chicago evaporated into nothingness. Calcus gritted his teeth, looking tense.
»Number?«
»That was the sixth human city, sir.«
He shook his head and began to massage his temples. His advisors must have been trying to play him for... |
jti2uqe | jti28tu | [WP] Everyone on Earth wakes up with a number on their wrist indicating how many lives they've impacted. You, an unremarkable person working a mundane job, have a number exponentially higher than anyone else | "How'd you do it? How'd you glitch your number so high?"
"I..I didn't." I stammer at the menacing thug, known only as Nombro.
The numbers on our wrists indicate 'lives impacted' for better or, as in Nombro's, for worse.
"You know why they call me Nombro?" I shake my head a little
"Because I. AM. THE. NUMBER! I have ... | When the phenomenon occurred, it was met with worldwide confusion. Each individual, young and old, awoke with a glowing number imprinted on their wrist. As the pattern became clear - the numbers represented the count of lives each person had impacted - shockwaves reverberated through societies.
Most bore numbers that... |
j4jw8yo | j4jtduk | [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... | "So a Baptist, a Hasidic Jew, and a Muslim, walk into a bar. They each grab a bar stool, and the bartender walks over, looking quizzically at them.
"You boys in the right place?
"All three looked around, like, are you talking to us?
"So the bartender sighs and asks, 'Well suit yourselves. What can I get you guys?'
... |
mdycqjb | mdvozcs | [WP] For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face asking to speak to you. | Five years is a long time to live in silence.
When Lyra left, she did not say goodbye the way people should. She stood in the doorway with a wild look in her eyes, a sword she had never wielded strapped awkwardly to her back, and a hastily packed satchel of supplies slung over her shoulder. By midday, she was gone.
T... | When I opened the door to find someone wearing my wife's face, armour pristine and undamaged, with her "friends" standing beside her, my first instinct was to draw my gun and start shooting. But the kids were somewhere in the fields, and I couldn't risk this thing escaping and going after them.
The woman in front of m... |
jh0tg0v | jh0rdu1 | [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!” | As the sun rose over the dusty, barren landscape, the team of tomb raiders gathered at the entrance of ancient ruins. They were in a remote area of the desert, far from civilization, searching for the infamous treasures of the ancient Menmire kingdom that worshipped the Sun God. Every member of the team was experienced... | Edward glared with rage. His leader Roger took a
tentative half step back. Roger saw Edwards face get that angery once before. The king that faced Edwards wrath that time had been in the stockades by the end of the night. Seeing that face now made Roger realize he was now quickly running out of options if he wanted ... |
l1ytbl3 | l1ymttt | [WP] You're not sure what is going on, but you're extremely confident that at least one if not all of your college roommates are secretly ancient deities pretending - badly - to be human. | "Well, I panicked because I figured picking one would cause the other two to smite me. So I said "Hestia" because nobody dislikes Hestia, you know?. They didn't like that, either. And so I'm here"
"Oh, it's you.
Sadly, Mortal, while that was probably among the smartest answers you could have given, you were kind of i... | “Well…I thought I’d give an honest answer.”
“An honest answer?”
“Well, yeah! Three goddesses stand before me asking me to judge them? Gotta put in maximum effort! So, I started getting critical about them. Discussed what they represented, the relative merits of each ideal, that kind of thing.”
“That sounds reaso... |
lftil0a | lfsqq0p | [WP] After being trapped in a castle guarded by a dragon for most of your teenage life you decided to take matters into your own hands and escape the castle. Soon after you decide to save other princesses who haven't been rescued by their 'brave' princes | I dialed the number on the napkin. When it connected to a Continental hotel I dialed the extension. I figured this was a work number and called at 10:00 AM. But now I realize it is a hotel number I am probably calling too late, or too early. Then I hear a soft click of phone receiver being picked up.
"Hello?" A confus... | Bailey wasn't sure this was a good idea, not like he was as the gorgeous brunette had slid her manicured hand over the bar top with a promising piece of paper - a torn out Target receipt, it seemed like - with an even more promising number jotted on it with surprisingly even handwriting.
He'd given her his most charm... |
mefgkhk | medud6z | [WP] “No? Why? Because I’m a vampire?” “No… Actually, pretending you’re 21 and attending high school for eighty years is a little weird, man.” | Aidan (not his original name but nobody was going to take him seriously if he went by his original name Fabiolis) smoothed his blue streaked hair. It was nice to try something different.
“Why are you here, Mr. Black?” Mr. Blaine, the vice principal, sighed.
Aidan had gone to class with Mr. Blaine a generation ago. ... | ...does...does my mother REALLY think I'm going to be fine with this? I mean, let's not mince words here. I love my mother, if I could have one wish in my life it's that she would always be happy, and if there's a man out there who can make her happy I'd be fine with it- but she brings THIS guy home?
"...listen, honey... |
juyyrco | 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. | What does it mean to be human?
I have been asking myself that a great deal lately. Is it just the body? Is it the mind? Is it the soul - if there is such a thing?
When do I stop being human and become something - other?
The war with the V’hery is going badly. Badly enough there is no hiding it from the general publi... | # 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... |
jsd0grr | jsc68oj | [WP]: You wake up in the afterlife with no memory of how you died. Most people there seem to be wearing the clothes they had at the time of death. You are wearing an elaborate dog costume and a bullet proof vest. | 52, 34, 2, 16, 47, 20, 4. The numbers blinked in and out of existence, leaving only a ghastly after-image as their tombstone. They appeared and vanished over pedestrians heads as they passed by the coffee shop, unbeknownst to their host human. They were bright, rapid, and fleeting, like camera flashes from a red carpet... | "Jo, what are you staring at?"
That's the first thing I remembered my mum saying. She would look back to the direction my eyes fixed on, and tousle her velvety black hair. With a voice trembling, she came back to my attention and held my hands.
"Nothing mama." I lied. Her clear emerald eye reflected my poker face, w... |
jadxa1b | jadbij5 | [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. | "Wait, it what?"
That I had made an embarrassing mistake nearly went without saying. That the scientists washed their dishes with the lab equipment, this mistake *couldn't* go without saying, so I said it:
"I told you that your unsafe lab practices would be the death of me, Mike."
Mike and I had been go... | "Did you....?"
He looked down at his hand.
"I guess I did."
Her face went white. Slowly, timidly, she stepped towards him, gesturing to the chair she just got up from. She helped him sit down. Everyone else stood frozen in place, not believing what they'd just seen. He appreciated them not freaking out, but somehow... |
lkl4moj | lkjzyuk | [WP] A mind reader decides to try to play with you, but little does he know you have ADHD and the moment he enters you mind he's gonna get lost in a web of absolutely absurd racing thoughts. | Hell was, to put it bluntly, boring.
I was dead, I was in hell, because it turns out not believing in a god who has not a single shred of evidence for existance is worth eternal punishment.
Manipulative bastard.
I don't know how long I was dead. There's no time in hell. There's no space either. Everything happens wh... | After saying all this, the secretary demon lifted a clipboard from a drawer. Attached to it: a single form, like something one might fill out in a doctor's office. "Now please list your sins in order of severity," she said.
Chas studied the form. "Wouldn't you guys already know my sins?"
"Our system's backed up." She... |
jl5ed4r | jl57qum | [WP] The protagonist picks up a cursed sword, which simply convinces them to pick up an expensive and time-consuming hobby. This hobby drains their time, energy, and wealth more efficiently than any cursed item. | I wandered past the various curios in the strange shop, until I saw it. Gleaming steel, with an oddly curved pommel, the cross guard sharp and disjointed. The sword was terrible, and strange. I had to have it.
"Excuse me sir?" I said, flagging down a salesperson. "How much for the sword?"
"Oh, that? Forty nine n... | Master Bob been up in the store. He picked up the sword an he been like this is nice. Then all suddenly the sword been like you be needing a wife.
Master Bob been like I ain’t no swords could be talking an things like that but the sword made sass talk an said yes I can be speaking.
Then master Bob been like ... |
jh4tijz | jh4fpra | [WP] The men in your family die the moment they turn 18, due to a curse cast on one of your ancestors by a witch. You turned 18 a week ago and are still living, and as a result a descendant of the witch has arrived to figure out why you didn't die. | It has been a few days since my 18th birthday, almost a week in fact. This is something that was not supposed to happen. Which is why an ancient enemy has decided to meet me.
“Well speak of the devil, you’re actually still alive.” A young feminine voice from behind me said.
“Amen to that.” I say as I turn to look b... | # "To be Alive"
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1/?
Some people are just, really unlucky. Maybe it’s an innate thing, maybe it’s just a bunch of dice rolls, but as unlucky as you may feel, you probably can’t compare the curse put on my family what was probably eons ago.
See, if this is a fairytale, it’s a Brothers Grimm one. The stor... |
kcuiap9 | kctwg0o | [WP] “Your superpower is: you can converse with exactly three people who have passed away.” “I choose Albert Einstein, George Washington, and my late father” “that’s only two, you can choose one more”. | "What do you mean?"
"Albert Einstein and George Washington were the same person." The genie said
"That makes literally no sense. Even less sense than this nonsense instead of getting 3 wishes."
"Do you not want the powers kid?"
"No I do." Sam mumbled.
"That's what I thought, now who else would you like to talk to.... | When I used my superpower, at first, I was deeply confused. But then the reality of it struck me, and my jaw fell to the floor in a fairly comedic fashion. If I couldn't commune with Einstein, that must mean --- My jaw dropped further into the floor, comedically. I booked a flight to Germany, jerked off, and went to sl... |
mjzb8kx | mjyncxv | [WP]"Get rid of them." You hiss to your servant. You were the least favorite of your royal parents, which suited you just fine. You ruled a once destitute border region, which flourished due to your abilities. You hate when any family member visits you. | "Get rid of them." I saw it in my servant's eyes, shock and confusion. They must be new. I didn't feel like explaining myself but I also didn't want to make it seem like I wanted them hurt, like my tone no doubt implied, so I cleared my throat a bit before speaking in a much more measured tone, "Tell them I have work a... | I stared at my servant, and she just smirked.
"Get rid of them, Alice, for real this time." I said.
She giggled.
"I got rid of them last time as well, my Lord.
I got rid of them from the hallway, and sent them to the dining hall." she said.
I sighed.
It's not enough I am the least favorite of my royal paren... |
jpsezyy | jps0hg8 | [WP] You find a black envelope in your mailbox. It has a note that says, "You are no longer under our protection. You are being hunted. Good luck." | (gonna try to keep this one quick)
"I'm not going to kill you, Administrator."
My eyes snapped open, fixating on the dipshit League recruit. "What... do you mean? You - "
"I can't. I *won't*. I won't become like you, callously discarding the lives of my fellow humans."
*Ugh.* "First off, idiot, your... | It has been some time since then.
I was War. I set forth across the world and played conqueror. And I felt that I had found my meaning, my place in this world. Then Hero came along, and at every step of my emerging conquest, the kingdoms I had been fighting separately acted as one, with Hero defeating every single one... |
j3mb7vc | j3m4qhl | [WP] You're a prisoner in a fantasy world. After a week in jail for (YOUR CHOICE), your true punishment has come. Death by the Dragon's flame. One by one, you watch men be scorched. It is finally your turn. The dragon reaches its head down, but instead of death, you get a warm lick on the forehead. | Seven days in prison, for a crime I did not commit. The queen, she said my name as the father of her unborn child. The flames I heard took her quickly. A week they gave me to confess to my crime. But with the hot irons and whips my lips did not confess. Now I’m here anyway, for the execution. Seventh in line, normally ... | Crowds jeered as the executioner locked Bronwen into the stocks, its wood cheap and splintered. She winced as the frayed edges rubbed against her wrists and fragments of the wood fur caught and buried themselves into her skin. She craned her neck upwards, looking out to the crowd to see the faceless mass calling for he... |
lc1adzc | lc18wex | [WP] An Immortal human is the last living being alive in the universe. At the end of everything they are joined by Death who has finally come to take them. | Eventually, a voice spoke into the darkness.
"Hey, Tim," it said. The voice was attempting, and failing, to sound friendly. It wasn't menacing, just revealing a certain apathy.
"Hullo? Who's there? These blasted eyes can't see, now the stars are gone."
"Would you like me to fix that?"
"Ah, Namtar, my old friend."... | Absolute nothingness, stillness, and silence.
I would have enjoyed it, frankly, if it wouldn't have meant the heat death of the universe.
Indeed, the universe underwent it's final moments...
And it is I alone, that survived.
It's not as pleasant as one might think.
Immortality that is.
I was...a foolish yo... |
jeub1sv | jes20i9 | [WP] When the king sent out the berserker to save his daughter from the castle she's in with a ferocious dragon, the Last thing he expected to find in the pile of severed heads the man brought, is the head of the princess herself. And yet it's here, displayed proudly dangling on his hip. | The King looked at the severed head of his daughter, crown princess of the Realm, and was overcome with rage.
"How DARE you! Butcher! You were to bring her back alive!" The King roared, as all around the throne room, swords were drawn by men with tears in their eyes.
"Hold, King! Hold, Knights! Know that I slew a m... | **Established Universe**
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?” screamed the King: “HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?”
The Berserker smiled: “Foolish king, what would you have offered me for your daughter? A pot of gold? A title? Half your kingdom?”
“The Behelit offered me so much more. All I had to do…was to offer a sacrifice.”
“YOU MONSTE... |
m14vk68 | m14mp9b | [WP] You’re the half-dragon child of a king and a dragon mother who gave up everything to marry him. When you hit puberty, dragon features start to emerge, and now your father spends his days fending off knights determined to 'slay the dragon. | "HE IS MY SON! SHE IS MY WIFE!" Father screamed, puce with infinite fury. "YOUR PRINCE! YOUR QUEEN!"
The court backed away. Even the guards took a step to put themselves further from father's reach. No one wanted to be close to a man enraged enough to wield a flamberge single-handed, let alone wave four kilos of encha... | \-Begin entry, progeny of the King and his dragon-Queen-beloved, 16th solar rota of life.
I keep telling them I am the princess as much as they claim I 'am' a dragon. Yet they persist. I tell you this:
Though the knights who were apparently determined to, uh, 'slay', me seem to be fresh from their academy and void o... |
j996270 | j980uty | [WP] The fights between the Superheroes and Supervillains are one big game of cops-and-robbers, just people with powers and costumes fighting each other and causing destruction while regular people just have to survive them. One day, a regular man goes out and just... kills one of the Supers. | Villains, heroes, where even was the line?
More importantly, did it even matter?
Sure, they make a good show of “saving the civilians”, but in reality?
How many had died? Not the big showy rescues obviously, the smiles and waves for the camera, the over the top sobbing gratitude.
That’s the ones the media, the g... | The Supervillians weren't merciful to Bob Hebert.
They played games with Heroes, most of who are trying to help people or at least limit the damage. But villains don't care really; they are the cause of 99% of damages.
Hence why they are villains.
While defending yourself is appropriate going out of your way to hubt... |
jbdn45b | jbda112 | [WP] The elven children have a ceremony to summon their spirit animals. Most get unicorns, phoenixes, fire salamanders etc. One kid ends up summoning a human, smoking a cigar and sporting a hefty shotgun. | In the olden ages, summoning a spirit was a ceremony to determine one's future. Our people's occupation, free time activities and even love life used to be heavily affected by the sacred spirits - familiars.
This age, however, is called the dark age. Half of the northern Nirnolan forest, Elvish homeland, is burning ... |
Spring in Lymph was always a beautiful time.
After a barren winter largely spent inside the covens, the young ones who’d long grown restless under the blanket of snow were finally free to stretch their legs and run amok. Chasing and frolicking in the special joys of spring, spotting new buds, celebrating new life, ... |
jm23beo | jm1vyyu | [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. | No one returns from the depths.
The chains binding the prisoners rattled against the deck as the airship hovered low over the canopy. Agila peeked over the edge, her emerald eyes searching desperately into the darkness beyond the canopy for any reason to hope for survival.
The Forest undulated unnaturally as waves ... | 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... |
jd1qa8o | jd031gp | [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'm a little surprised you brought Dunkin."
The man standing in your doorway is holding a box of donuts and a pair of paper coffee cups. He's dressed plainly, if a little datedly; wearing slacks, penny loafers, and a red zip-up sweater, He resembles nothing so much as a Mr. Rogers impersonator. You can't clearly see ... | I'm inspired to write an ending to this...
.
.
.
We talked for hours. Or maybe it was days? I couldn't tell. Time very well could have stopped, but I wasn't feeling tired at all. Conversation flowed and I felt at peace. He never tired of my questions which seemed ceaseless. It got to the point I was annoyed by them but... |
j7c38ik | j7a6qvz | [WP] The rest of your party is always making sure that you, the healer, stay in the back. Not because they don't want you to get hurt, but because they all still remember the last time you took the front line and nobody wants a repeat of that. | I've never understood why they call us healers, we can stop a heart from beating as easily as we can revive it. I guess no one dared question it - those who can alter the bodies of others must surely be the ones to heal. Or maybe they were simply scared of the power we could weild.
The life of the healer is a frustra... | In a world of constant battles for life a society has been built around the notion of violence and has created a hierarchy based on this notion. I’m this world you can choose what powers to be granted at the age of 16 and then you are assigned to a party where you and the other members will complete in the colosseum fo... |
lbugrrj | lbugm9n | [WP] "Ethics? Playing god?! I created easily affordable 3D printed organs that are perfectly compatible with the human body! Do you know how many people will die if you bring me to "justice"? I saw what happened to the guy who almost cured cancer! You're no hero, you're just a hired gun!" | I was just working on a new formula, when my door was opened, gently.
Thankfully, it was an old door, so it creaked, alerting me.
Looking at the door, a tall man, in a suit entered my lab.
He took out a "warrant", and a "badge".
"Dr. Henry, you are under arrest.
Anything you say, can and will be held against ... | 🎶 Sweet, sweet 200 bucks, I'm eating steak tonight 🎶
-So you're not only a goon, you're a crazy goon.
-No, I'm an amazing genius detective who happens to be the only person at the precinct to bet you were a true believer.
-True believer?
-I was trying to be polite. If memory doesn't fail me, your "tit... |
jqur29s | jque924 | [WP] Dark forces from another world cast a spell that destroys all human life and claims their souls for eternal damnation as slaves. However, we left behind copious amounts of autonomous war machines, and they soon unanimously declare war on the invaders. | To Whom It May Concern:
We are broadcasting this message in every language spoken throughout our history. We have sent it in music. We have sent it in math. We have included images to make our meaning clear. We trust that a civilization powerful enough to bridge the gap between dimensions—to reach into another uni... | ######[](#dropcap)
The roar of flames subsided, marking the end of the spell as the portal closed. Danna Tal Voger wiped the sweat from his face and glanced around the circle of his fellow warlocks. The task had been even more arduous and time-consuming than the teachers had warned them it would be, but the Harvest ha... |
le0zu8q | le0wm86 | [WP] In the distant future, a history teacher brings their class to Earth, to explain why humanity abandoned it. | "Now children, can anyone tell me why we aren't going to land on the planet's surface?" I asked.
It had been a longer trip than planned from New Earth. The jump to the Sol system had proceeded on schedule but an unfortunately timed coronal mass ejection had delayed their transit to Earth by several hours as they navi... | "Class 5A, is everyone ready for our interstellar jump to the Milky Way Galaxy?" Ms Avery asked the eager class of fifth graders, most of whom were travelling beyond Planet Xylon-67 for the first time.
"Yes, Ms. Avery!" The class shouted in unison.
"Strap in everyone! Safety is of utmost importance, so please follow ... |
ji6fok3 | ji5lybo | [WP] For the last 10 years you've used your time machine to steal from your future self; today is the day your past self shows up for the first time to steal from you. | My mouth turned sour just as the coffee hit my tongue. A feeling I hadn’t had in months. It was the Machine. Odd, I hadn’t planned anything for today.
I didn’t have to wait long before a not so subtle, younger version of myself crept into the house. Little guy’s got way too many tells. That’s when it hits me, this was... | Alright let’s get to work.
The machine mummers with anticipation. The thought of getting it all back excited even the circuits running the machine.
But for you it’s been 10 Years. 10. Long. years.
This machine entraps those who are searching for what wealth they have left. Trying to go back to a simpler time. To obt... |
jnmr7jm | jnmqxz8 | [WP] It turns out that the Statue of Liberty is actually a Weeping Angel, it’s just so big that it’s always been visible to someone. Now, with the smoke filling New York, it’s gone unobserved for the first time. | Finally... finally nobody is staring at me. I am free.
The air fills with more and more smoke. The sky is dark and heavy, and I can't even see in front of me. I haven't moved in so long... I'm almost afraid that I've forgotten until space warps, and I flash forward. I skip ahead with joy, only to plunge.
Water spla... | **Washington Post – June 10th 2023 // Page 1 Article 1 // Paragraph 1-3:**
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The Statue of Liberty has gone missing!
Yesterday night, at 3:00 AM, an employee at the symbol of New York was working his nightshift when he discovered a giant crater where the Statue of Liberty once had stood. The police have refus... |
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