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[WP] The local humans are having troubles getting their crops to grow so they decide to sacrifice a young girl to their god, by tying her to a heavy rock and throwing it into the sea. She is found by you, a powerful ocean deity...who is displeased by their cruelty. | The little boat sailed as far as it dared into the furious ocean until it bobbed like a leaf in a gale and its wood began to creak and crack in strain. The ocean always seemed angered, these days. Its mouth frothed white in fury, its black fists battered the shore. Some nights, its waves grew into mountains of ice wate... | I am the spirit guarding the holy river Kuvery, The river flows for most parts of southern India. I help keep the soil fertile and protect the small aquatic beings living inside the water. Being a tributary of the River Ganga or Ganges, Kuvery has it's origins in a small village called Talakuvery. A long long time ago.... | 2020-02-11T03:07:35 | 2020-02-11T02:50:57 | 263 | 33 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | “Psst, pass this to Natasha”, I whispered to the kid next to me. He passed the note, as was every student’s sacred duty when asked to do so. Thank you Jacob. Your service will not be forgotten.
Natasha looked paler than usual today. It was that same thin pallid skin that first drew my eyes to her. Speaking of eyes, he... | It was pretty unbelievable. I'm not usually good at showing emotions. Not usually great at the whole human interaction thing. Pretty terrible. Never expected her to just politely offer to hang out after all the others from class had left, because she wanted to. I kept my cool at the moment, and accepted her offer with ... | 2022-12-29T18:03:55 | 2022-12-29T17:02:56 | 453 | 256 |
[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.
A person invents a time machine f... | Adolf Hitler sat there, staring at the painting. It was late at night, and he was the only one in the room. The portrait was of a tall man, with jet black hair pulled back into a ponytail, like from colonial times. The most noticeable feature was a long scar running down the right side of his face, passing through his ... | Whoa, I wrote a time travel story for a History of Science class in college a few years back. If it feels a little pedantic or overly "scientific", it's probably because it needed to be. Here it is (a bit long though):
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And with that, another... | 2017-01-08T12:13:20 | 2017-01-08T10:41:49 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] You are part of a powerful order of mages. Some control fire, others, water. You however... Have the power of bread. That's right, you're a bread mage. Tell me about your day. | "Very funny, Carl."
"What? You don't like toast? What kind of person doesn't like toast?"
"You're a comedy genius."
"What did toast ever do to you? You some kind of toast racist?"
One blackened slab of used-to-be-bread flew through the air, ash before it got halfway to his face. Great. Now I have to start over *and... | The second time the guard hit me, I wasn't able to hide my pain - and crumpled to the floor. I lie coughing and retching, he sneers; the face of a spoiled child holding an expensive toy, broken for the sake of breaking. Roughly, I am lifted up, and placed unceremoniously back into the chair. My habit is mussed and torn... | 2014-10-09T16:32:19 | 2014-10-09T15:58:36 | 68 | 33 |
[WP] Send some evil aliens to invade, let them knock the Earthlings around a bit, and swoop in to be the heroes so you can sign an unequal treaty. When your "liberation" force arrives, however, all that remains of Earth is an irradiated wasteland and a sharply refined force, armed to the teeth. | Kozen was delighted. Though the resources he had hoped to collect were gone, he had found something far more valuable. The week and unsuspecting humans had forged themselves into a fighting force that rivaled even the best of his kind. While resources were in high demand, mercenaries were an even more valuable commodit... | The Sentinels have returned swifter than last time. None show any signs of retaliation. The Humans did not immediately perceive us as other intruders like the Dothmay, who appear to have been...exterminated.
The planet shows signs of extensive damage. The Dothmay are compulsively precise, this is unlike them. The dam... | 2020-05-28T04:18:15 | 2020-05-28T02:28:00 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] A technician pulls a headset off of you and asks you if you liked the VR. You panic, and he calmly says that your whole life was a 2 minute VR experience to show you what being an average person would be like. You, stunned and afraid, ask, "Who am I, then?" He stares in complete disbelief.
(The title implies that... | "You don't really have a name," the tech says. "At least not anymore. After what you did, the courts decided you weren't even worthy of an identity."
"What did I do?" you say.
The tech shrugs. "Doesn't really matter anymore, does it?"
"What," you start, but you can't imagine what to say next. Your eyes catch on the ... | "Two minutes? Two fucking minutes?” Yvette blinked hard, barely suppressing her tears. It had been so real, she’d had a husband only seconds ago, a child in her belly. It wasn’t true though. That’s what the man with the strange goggles was saying. It had all been a lie, some horrific thing called VR had come in and sto... | 2021-03-27T20:07:44 | 2021-03-27T19:42:17 | 135 | 98 |
[Wp] you are a lonely old man who feeds raccoons every night because you are lonely. One night, just Before Sunset, a stranger invades your house, ties you up, and threatens to kill you. Suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you see a pair of winkley yellow eyes at the window.
Edit: And now my highest rated post i... | George tried to avoid the point of the knife pressing into his throat, but it was useless. He felt the blood trickling down his neck, as the stranger's cold grey grey eyes crinkled into a smile. The bastard was *enjoying* this.
"Hold still now, Mr Harper, this knife is very sharp. Don't want to have any accidents," he... | Jonas was thinking about the raccoons when he heard the tinkle of glass, but then again he'd been thinking about the raccoons for most of the day now. It was funny, the things you got to doing once you got old, once most of your friends had gone off and died or disappeared into retirement homes or fretted themselves in... | 2016-10-30T21:58:04 | 2016-10-30T21:03:04 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | Korax was pleasantly surprised to find himself on the middle plane. The last time he was here the crusades were in full swing and as a demon of wrath he reaped a lot of souls during his visit. Now Korax wanted to know why he was in the middle plane once again. He scanned his surroundings and found himself in a world th... | "Are you sure about this?", asked Kevin.
"What, you scared something is *actually* gonna happen?" Aaron shot back.
The box itself had been unassuming enough. Small and cardboard and worn around the edges. "Summon Your Own Demon!" it had proudly proclaimed. "Only 4.99".
They hadn't even paid that much for it, though.... | 2016-05-19T00:56:09 | 2016-05-19T00:52:06 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Most of my co-workers were suitably inebriated; even the strict, authoritarian manager Margaret was smiling.
For a laugh, I asked her if NASA had ever considered exploring the ocean instead - the S could be changed to stand for Sea, after all.
The color drained from her face. Leaning in close, she whispered: “We ... | July 19, 2019
The night is dark tonight. Darker than usual. I hope that's not a preview of how the night will go. I'm meeting my new boss at a bar tonight. As the blue line tells me what to do, I think about how this night will go. Maybe I'll be fired on the spot. Maybe she won't like me.
My fears were quenched when ... | 2019-08-07T22:59:17 | 2019-08-07T21:45:39 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | Standard pattern one. Corpse recovered before it could be looted by the enemy. Projected shielding intact and active at time of recovery. The logs from the shielding controller indicate a single impact by a physical projectile that was too small and traveling too fast to be blocked. The cranium is absent from the jaw u... | "Well it stands to reason that if they came here from another planet, we're looking at some extremely robust physiology."
The general nodded with his arms folded, looking at the biologist with a blank face, "Mm hm.."
"So... Needless to say, we're going to need firepower. A lot of it."
The general uncrossed his arms ... | 2021-05-19T02:55:12 | 2021-05-19T01:57:59 | 71 | 50 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | "We're going to attack Pettit's compound on Christmas," the Joker said. The apartment building where we were holed-up wasn't crowded. Just four men, including myself, and the Joker.
One of the men asked, "Why are we going to wait a whole month?"
The Joker pulled out a gun and pointed it at the henchman. "Because it... | Have you ever felt your life couldn't be any worst that it currently is ? That your entire existance could be summed up to a succession of really bad decisions ? I'm Frank Xandar, 32 years old, no girlfriend, a rap sheet longer than my arm and no real friends. The only thing I have is my job and even then it's hard to ... | 2016-11-21T06:54:16 | 2016-11-21T06:51:31 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 585 | 38 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?"
It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had.
A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid... | "Are you sure it's okay?" I asked Murry. He had been my best friend for over 20 years. He had a good heart at his core, but his morals were a bit grey. He was driving us to 'The Spot'. I had a couch that seemed impossible to get rid of. No one wanted the ugly thing. It had yellow upholstery decorated with brown flowers... | 2022-06-02T19:21:41 | 2018-01-13T09:08:37 | 4,551 | 12 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I’m lying in a bed on a tuesday night.
And I’m having restless dreams.
And then I awake from a story where I’m rescuing a princess from a wheel of cheese. Because there’s a chainsaw on my nightstand.
A groggy hand reaches over and slaps it reluctantly. Is it morning...a alarm? Some long lost love looking for lusciou... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-05-11T14:02:28 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 314 | 30 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | By the time I was 12, I'd had enough of the system; being born to two junkies and bounced around between foster homes will do that to a girl. The last house was the worst, though. I was small for my age, and an easy target for the abuse of the other misfits taken in by a mean old bastard, using kids to collect a govern... | It’s not often, but it happens more than I’d like to admit. A price to pay for having the door open way past hours when other establishments close theirs. I could avoid it and just lock the place at nine or ten like the other cafes. Then again, there will always be that young hopeful scholar that needs a place that’s q... | 2018-10-20T21:39:31 | 2018-10-20T21:15:17 | 62 | 29 |
[WP] The scientists looked puzzled, trying to figure out how the man in front of them got there. The note tied to his hand wrote: "Dear Universe 441-B-2, he's your problem now. May the luck be on your side." | As we reread the note aloud, we stared awkwardly at the man in front of us. He looked to be in his mid-thirties and beamed happily at us. He would occasionally give a happy, childlike wave before becoming motionless again.
"Is this some sort of joke?" someone asked.
"You saw him come through the rift the same as we... | A man with a beard that was so dirty other beards were growing on the front of it limped down a hallway towards the Information Extraction chambers. Leather squeaked as he came to a halt in front of one of the cells.
Ed, Director of Information Extraction, was sitting inside with an entry level *Business to Business S... | 2020-02-04T10:01:47 | 2020-02-04T08:45:10 | 654 | 24 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | "Far too long has this Earth been ruled by those who fear no consequences, as for them life is just a game of chess and a fallen queen or king means just to start over. I despise them with all my heart for what they've done to me and I shall make them fall, just like they throw us like pawns left and right."
My words... | Society has come a long way from what we used to be, to eliminate risks, we now operate without the willpower of the individual driving our choices but rather with the betterment of the collective in mind. We also no longer choose things like clothing, hair or life styles for our selves any more, moreover they are chos... | 2020-08-15T01:46:00 | 2020-08-15T00:04:36 | 101 | 45 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | Honestly I have *no idea* what that man has. It breaks through skin faster than the sharpest swords our warrior can buy, able to easily outrange any of our known technology, and seemingly never needs servicing.
The... *Thing* he uses is louder than even the biggest of giants, it's a larger size than a lot of crossbow... | Having heard the news about rebels forming in the west of the kingdom, we decided to go there and see what was going on.
Our relationship with the royal family may be biased, because after all, they were the ones that had found us and given us food and shelter in this harsh world.
So, we rightfully assumed that the... | 2022-11-07T23:37:45 | 2022-11-07T17:56:11 | 127 | 88 |
[WP] The Apocalypse began six years ago. Nobody has noticed until now. | The kindergarten teacher pinned the flailing little girl to the floor. Caroline Schumacher outweighed the six-year-old by more than a hundred and fifty pounds, but she could barely contain the mindless ball of fury. Raina was a bright, playful student, with pretty brown hair and a quick smile. Except she was complet... | **Climate Change** **World Cup** **Snowden A Hero** **Assange's Wikileaks To Release More Documents** Headlines screamed impatiently across the bottom of the television screen.
"I don't know how nobody realised... I knew the second I heard that Chinese government had shut down industrial areas in the weeks ahead of th... | 2014-06-25T09:26:08 | 2014-06-25T09:13:04 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | “This is really bad.”
“Diplomacy at its finest.”
“Would somebody help me out here?”
“She’s of a psionic race. They read thoughts.”
“Remind me not to play poker with her.”
“Funny.”
“This is not my fault.”
“She looked at you and started screaming and pointing.”
“I have that effect on women.”
“Yes, but usually on... |
Humanity's spread across the stars was quite slow considering its ships were capable of faster than light travel. Even with the invention of the Heinz-Shchaffen wormhole generator making near instantaneous travel a reality, a receiver was still required at the target destination. This meant that expansion occurred ... | 2019-09-29T21:58:03 | 2019-09-29T19:12:42 | 233 | 111 |
[WP] The Villain uncovers the Hero's true identity, and targets his family. Unfortunately, the Hero's spouse is a retired villain even more powerful than the current one. | Carol Mckenna liked her routine. She got up every morning, careful not to wake up Lou, and quietly made her way down to the kitchen. She got breakfast ready, and everyday at 7:30, began to wake up the house.
Jana and Samantha always took a little rousing, but they always got up eventually. Then she would get back... | Six-one-eight-nine. Portland avenue. A white house with a small lawn.
I repeat it again, just to be sure. Too often, the smallest details and the mistakes that comes from failing to remember them spelled disaster for me.
I've always though that the night suited me, it might be one of the reasons that villain's work j... | 2020-07-18T23:15:16 | 2020-07-18T22:22:21 | 498 | 228 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | You tell everyone that you have the power of flight. But that seems like too simple of an explanation, and people are starting to get suspicious.
It is incredibly hard to explain that there happens to be a very unique “phenomenon” that occurs within your body. It is something completely natural within your body, and ... | # VI | [Read from I](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/v1fq6x/wp_as_a_joke_the_gods_decided_to_reverse_the/iaoubt6/)
Aside from Adrianna, Cassidy Quinn was Shizuka's only real friend.
He'd been at the Academy longer than almost any of the other students. Long enough to have been here when she'd first ... | 2022-06-06T16:57:42 | 2022-06-06T14:18:28 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | `You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you` (Ezekiel 28:15)
He was supposed to be the perfect angel. The one who chose free will and to corrupt it. I had to see him, but... i didn't expect him to be so... beautiful.
"What's this? A friend? Finally... some one who unde... | He really... wasn't what I expected. For one thing, he was-
"Really? 12 years of Sunday school and they _missed that?_" Lucy replied, blinking slightly as she realised just how little the humans knew. I nodded sadly and gently patted her back, feeling her skin under my fingers like dry paper and fire-tinder. She didn'... | 2022-11-26T21:59:01 | 2017-11-04T09:51:52 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | "Your 1 o clock is ready sir". My PA respectfully withdrew.
***Most kids dream of being hero's. Me? I always put myself in the shoes of the villains.***
Strolling into the brightly lit room I took a look at what I had to work with. I met dull eyes in a deeply lined face.
***They always seemed so much more free. Her... | I always knew there was something different about me. Maybe it was the way I dressed, all black all the time. Maybe it was the fact I didn't have many friends growing up or maybe it was the fact I was obsessed with pain. It started off with little cuts to myself here and there, but the pleasure I felt when I used my sc... | 2019-01-30T06:51:16 | 2019-01-30T05:53:38 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You have a secret power, you can see colors around people that tell what they feel about you. Gold for love, red for hate, blue for sadness, etc. You make eye contact with a stranger while walking, and for the first time you see the color black. | It was always strange growing up, knowing how others felt. How others looked at me. It has definitely been an advantage for me. It helped me in so many ways. I succeeded in so many ways because of it.
Expect when it came to dating. Sure I could use it to help me date. It would be so easy, just as everything else in m... | \[Lone Star\]
Alis strolled through the sea of purple auras with a smile on her face. It was a bright, cool Saturday morning; Fall had arrived. She could not stand the thought of spending such a beautiful morning stuck at home, so she made her way downtown. It was as crowded as she hoped with dozens of shoppers wande... | 2022-09-10T09:29:19 | 2022-09-10T09:16:53 | 57 | 41 |
[WP] Aliens fear humans. Their blood is poison, they can see well in the dark and eat meat. One was just found as a stowaway on a mining ship deep in space, with the crew doing everything in their power to avoid the human as it lurks about the ship, looking for someone to talk to | "Why do they flee, why can't they see,
My mission is only diplomacy?
I did not know, that their ship's gravity,
Would cause my nose so greatly to bleed.
I did not know that this red *even could* -
Cut through their skin like a chainsaw through wood.
Every time I try to make a friendship tha... | Empty bags of chips, crushed 2L bottles of coke, stiff pizza boxes.
Trashbags taped to the windows, phone cord unplugged, cat door boarded up.
Cockroaches, mice, mold.
"Today's the day," Dennis says to himself. Patchy beard, red-rimmed eyes, fuzzy teeth.
He squares himself off against his front door.
Military surp... | 2017-06-10T03:12:48 | 2017-06-10T02:54:34 | 436 | 152 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | He was a stage actor and assassin with a cold heart.
And HE was an American president and theater goer with a heart of gold.
But when his shot doesn't penetrate the back of HIS head they are going to learn that sic semper doesn't always tyrannis.
Can a confederate assassin learn to forgive? Can an American president ... | Sometimes the best disguise was no disguise at all.
That was what Elayne thought as she weaved through the crowd like a serpent through water. She wore no mask or hood to conceal her face. There was no need. She would not be seen. Her mark, a young man named Genta Nakamura stepped into view. Following closely behind ... | 2018-04-24T04:31:34 | 2018-04-24T01:31:32 | 102 | 39 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | I turn 140 years old in 3 minutes. You'd think it would be a happy day for me, but it just reminds me of my loss. My kids have long since passed away and even most of their kids no longer remain. Yet here I sit, still alive despite years of drinking cheap scotch daily and having the occasional cigar.
Two minutes no... | I lay there, wheezing in bed, waiting for my body to wake up and face the day ahead. Every morning it was getting more difficult to haul myself from under the covers. There seemed to be more of an incentive to get up and move though since Maura passed away. Her imprint is still in the bed next to me, and every day it h... | 2018-06-23T12:10:29 | 2018-06-23T11:06:17 | 153 | 46 |
[WP] On your deathbed you reveal the secret you've carried with you your entire life, only to promptly recover and have to deal with the consequences. | I have the money to afford the best doctors. So, when one of them told me that the pain I had been feeling in my gut wasn’t from a hernia, but stage 4 stomach cancer, I believed him. I am 55 years old, and my only regret was that I would die with my quest unfulfilled.
My wife cried. My sons cried, and told me that I o... | The Confession.A sharp searing pain ripped through my chest. My heart was racing, sweat was pouring out of me.I lay there, struggling to breathe, my wife Jackie, woke up and after looking at me, flopping around like a fish on the end of a fishing rod.She phoned for an ambulance, they soon arrived, and rushed me to the ... | 2018-12-15T00:12:32 | 2018-12-14T22:27:52 | 105 | 34 |
[WP] You find a loose plank in your basement floor and pry it out to replace it, only to discover a massive pile of bodies under the house. Even worse though is the fact that every one of those bodies is your own | Damn damn damn damnitty damn!
He raced into the basement, hell-bent to get there first. His wife was crying and running from him.
It was, as typical, "yet another argument" when he finally confronted her with The Accusation.
Her demeanor changed immediately, she didn't deny it, didn't scream, just a little quiver of ... | I scowl at the floor, watching the creaking board almost mocking me. A grunt rises in my throat and I force it down.
I'd *just* gotten my basement remodeled.
Shaking my head and biting my lip, I kneel down to inspect the board, feeling it over with my hands. As I grab onto it, I can feel it come loose, I can feel it... | 2019-04-17T22:59:25 | 2019-04-17T18:36:38 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] After being betrayed and left badly injured by your ‘sidekick’ team, the last person you expected comes to save you: the villain. | The first thing I noticed was the slow, rhythmic movement under me. The second thing I noticed was the bloodied bandages covering my gut.
I groaned and pushed myself up, trying to shake away the fog off sleep. What happened?
Then it all came flooding back. Pico, Sabrina, Kai, the knife, their footsteps as they walked... | Is this how I die? I barely managed to crawl over to the tree, just about able to sit myself up leaning against it - if I'm to die, I'll at least die with dignity. I still remember their last words to me: 'You think we cared about stopping some menace? We only joined you because we thought we could get rich from our ex... | 2022-09-22T12:30:18 | 2022-09-22T05:46:47 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] After thousands of years on a generation ship sent out to colonize the universe, nobody alive on board the ship believes in the "myth" of Planet Earth anymore. Until they receive the first transmission from Earth in hundreds of years... | "I think I heard something.”
Diron rolled his eyes while his swung his chair side to side, the screen of his interface following him in a nauseating back and forth. “It’s not funny anymore, Talia. We’re not 8 years old” he said. “I’m trying to study. Play with your hardware somewhere else.”
Talia flicked a glare em... | “Were you followed?”
“No. I checked, and I think that –”
“There is no allowance here for *think*,” I hissed. “Are you sure or are you not?”
Dr Bancroft Miles held out his arm and peeled his sleeve back. I tapped my monitor screen, and the camera zoomed in – there was a silver patch on his skin, just below the wrist.... | 2018-08-28T09:26:58 | 2018-08-28T08:53:00 | 112 | 38 |
[WP] The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.
Boy, I never thought this would t... | “YOU SHALL ALL SUFFER ENDLESS TORMENTS!”
“That’s nice, sir. How many shots of expresso did you want in that?”
Starbucks was usually calm and quiet at seven PM, the gentle chatter of baristas at work underscoring the clickity-clackity of computer keys. Today, however, it was somewhat rowdy. A few patrons sitting at a... | Content warning: non-graphic mentions of suicide.
The reports built up slowly, at first. The madmen rave, the fevered dream; the children play, the war-torn scream. There were logical, simple explanations for why .0003% of the population were claiming to be from the Harmonious Iridium Theocracy.
But then the results ... | 2020-03-18T15:00:47 | 2020-03-18T14:47:59 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] During a global catastrophe, a company offers to cryogenically freeze people so that they can “skip” unpleasant circumstances. Clients can stipulate specific global conditions that must be met before they are unfrozen. You awake to find that all of your conditions are satisfied. | Imagine an ice cream headache that lasted millennia and ramp that up to eleven. That is what I awoke to. That and darkness.
"Good day, sir. I am Cirrus X, representative of the Cirrus Cryogenic Catastrophic Conglomerate. You have been frozen until the time your cryogenic will and testament could be fulfilled. I am pl... | "... Huh," I thought, as I was awoken in the middle of a large room, hundreds of cyrogenical pods surrounding me. If anything, I didn't really remember why I was here, or how'd I even gotten here in the first place. "... Am I in a camp, or something?"
Truth be told, I'm not sure how I even *thought* of anything, at fi... | 2020-04-14T05:42:14 | 2020-04-14T05:28:49 | 96 | 16 |
[WP] You, a mere human, find yourself inside an arena and pitted against all sorts of supernatural beings in combat. Being a diehard fantasy fan however, you know their weaknesses. All of them. | I clutched the lute- lyre? Mandolin? Fuck if I know it was a stringed instrument. I really wish I'd learned more music stuff. Fae were easy, an iron blade handled them. And silver for the werewolf and the vampire. But a giant three headed dog? Presumably a sharp blade would handle it but I had to get close.
And it w... | You enter the arena. You know not why you are here, nor how, but as you look around you see beams of moonlight illuminating the space around you, as atop the walls spectators are cheering and hollering in excitement, speaking a language you don't recognize. They are all fair skinned, slim, long haired, .... pointed ea... | 2021-07-09T12:58:15 | 2021-07-09T10:45:11 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are an engineer specialising in repairing robotic androids, in a world where they have gained full awareness, and proclaimed their wish to co-exist with humanity, rather than wage war. Now, damaged androids keep coming to you for repairs, while referring to you as a doctor. | The last thing M1-K3-6825 (Mike, to his friends) could recall was trying to cross the street. His sensors had been acting up for a few weeks, but it never seemed like he had time to go get it fixed. Something had happened- something that knocked his operating system offline. As his systems slowly rebooted, he found hi... | Hello, I am an android designation number 90213-Myu-Alpha-Kappa, though I began to enjoy calling myself and being called Mac. I was born here, in the city of the future Machigan where humans and androids alike lived together in harmony.
Like many of us, I was created and subsequently began to be employed in The Factor... | 2022-11-19T21:54:32 | 2022-11-19T20:05:26 | 70 | 38 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | As the man finished his final intonation, the air itself seemed to invert on itself. The sacrifices, which had been so carefully arraigned, blubbered first with terror and then in simple unending agony.
The very air seemed to twist in on itself, and with an incomprehensible scream, unreality darkened and fused togethe... | *Nothing bad could REALLY happen, could it? Nah,* I thought to myself as I scanned the shelves of the aisles of the massive library. I knew what I was searching for: a book on demonology. *Why not?,* I thought, *not like this stuff is for real, anyway. Just a bunch of old superstitious stuff.* I was bored out of my sku... | 2014-07-20T07:59:32 | 2014-07-20T07:42:26 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are a traveler who reaches a city where powerful magicians exist. The stronger a wizard, the less other wizards can sense him casting spells. You start showing off some card tricks to the locals for some coins and realize that some people in the audience look terrified. | An excerpt from *on the efficiency of magic* by Beverly Brine
Much as a candle burnt for light still produces heat, so too does the use of magic radiate excess energy. This has always been a concern of mine.
Despite our liberal use of magic, we still know very little about it. We do not know where this energy comes ... | You could say I’ve always been a natural talent when it comes to magic tricks. In fact, my many travels have been funded by selling tricks to fledgling magicians. Back when I was a child I was impressed by the feats of seasoned performers, but as I’ve aged the veil of mystery surrounding even the most revered magic use... | 2019-01-07T11:23:44 | 2019-01-07T10:02:03 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You've been extremely angry for your entire life. In fact, you've been so angry that the SCP Foundation has just detained you as an anomaly. | "THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT"
*Loud banging can be heard as SCP 5--- slams his fists down on the table*
"YOU CAN'T KEEP ME IN HERE, IT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL, IT'S GODDAMN ILLIGAL."
"Steve, we're just trying to..."
"TRYING TO DO WHAT, PISS ME OFF? CAUSE YOU'RE DOING A DAMN FINE JOB ON THAT. FUCKING A', YA BETTER GET A PRI... | My whole life I've felt this way. At first I thought it was just borderline rage that accumulated over time, from a psychologically abusive, chaotic, childhood inflicted on me by my parents. Boy was I wrong. The problem with my anger, is that it starts to hurt people around me. Literally. Walls crack in half, bathroom ... | 2020-12-13T13:51:10 | 2020-12-13T12:31:01 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] You were colorblind most of your life until you received laser eye surgery. But something went wrong, and now you can see new colors most people would think of as gray. Everything was great until you noticed every gray surface in the city was graffitied with the "gray" message, "Look for us." | For years I asked people to describe the colors of objects to me, I held onto every word. Drinking it in and willing for them to blossom to life in my mind. No amount of talking or description prepared me for the bright reality I was thrust into. The surgery was a success, me and my family were overjoyed even though I ... | Woah. I stopped and stared at the message much longer than I should have. It had been a while since I had even seen the color gray and it was oddly refreshing.
Nowadays when I saw gray it looked like a color changing surface, that's honestly the best way I could explain it.
"Look for us"
I let it sit in my mind for... | 2020-03-16T22:16:12 | 2020-03-16T17:20:38 | 53 | 39 |
[WP] A submarine exploring the deep ocean stumbles upon an enormous Cthulhu like creature hidden in a deep trench. As it pulls itself out the creature says “Finally you found me! Now it’s your turn to hide.” And begins counting down from 3000... 2999... 2998... | ##Destruction and Boredom
Dr. Jane Moore looks at the other three members of the crew. There are over eighty years of experience in their field. Experience is not handy when faced by the large creature standing in front of the pod. It has six hands that have crab claws on the end. Its face is surrounded by tentacles. ... | *That Which Speaks With A Thousand Voices* had waited a quiet millennium or three for someone to find Them, waited patiently. No-one would find Them there in that trench.
The echoes of the earth with quakes, eruptions, and a few strange echoes that bounced through the crust upon which They sat had filled the years wit... | 2020-12-25T09:39:32 | 2020-12-25T09:10:32 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | My mother was supposed to die in childbirth. And she did, later on. I had been born to a corpse more than any living thing. She was barely alive, and the doctors weren't quite aware of it, the medical field being mostly guesswork at the time. It wasn't like a lot of work was being put into treating women anyway, not wh... | The switch was thrown and the device hummed to life. Two peered inside, both nervous and anxious as to what the result would be. The humming of the device became louder and higher. It began to emit a strangely colored light that filled the room.
Inside the device was a man, shambled, broken, and unconscious. He long a... | 2017-05-13T08:16:17 | 2017-05-13T06:53:01 | 277 | 74 |
[WP] You study magic at the top school in the world. Your village saved every penny to send you, but you suck. You find the spells hard to pronounce and memorize. They always feel odd, till one day you discover something called a "dictionary" and you see everyone is pronouncing them incorrectly. | There's a particularity about The Magic School of the Tearetilli, one that, if people knew, or at least didn't ignore, would turn the school into nothing but a lavish, ghost-town of a castle. You see, even the smallest, poorest towns spent money they didn't have in hopes one great wizard would come out of such school a... | The teachers just don't understand. Latin is a dead language. It is so hard pronouncing these spells. I've always had a lisp since I was born. I was born with a hare lip. i had the corrective surgery but pronouncing certain words has always been tough for me.
You've read the manuals. The Harry Potter books. They have ... | 2020-03-29T12:09:46 | 2020-03-29T11:05:34 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a superpower, but no one knows what theirs is until they are forced to use it in a life-or-death situation.
edit: Thanks for all the great responses :) | "HANDS UP!!! NOBODY MOVE!!!"
I thought it was a joke at first. Not a funny joke, but a joke, nonetheless. The masked men barged their way through the lobby of the bank like something straight out of the movie *Point Break*, right down to the "Presidential" rubber masks and all. When I saw the way they pushed through t... | It’s flight. It has to be flight.
I’ve always wanted this, it has to be it. I know I’m right.
Right?
I’ll be 40 next week. How do I still not know what my power is? A boring desk job and a boring life, that’s how. I haven’t taken enough risks. I’ve always been too cautious. But that’s smart, right? I mean, what am I... | 2014-11-18T19:18:34 | 2014-11-18T18:40:23 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "You killed her."
The human male was kneeling in the sand, holding the small, limp body of a hatchling. It looked like a young girl, but the bright blue skin and shock of ruby red hair gave it away as one of the nastier iterations of this barren planet's fauna.
Gently, he laid her out on the sand. His back was still... | Starlog:210x August 24th
Our plans ,to invade Earth, thwarted by Humans again!No matter how hard we try, there always seems to be a collection of heroes sticking their ugly heads into our business.Last weeks invasion made us extraterrestrials look as weak as a bag of sticks!Outrageous!
....What went? wrong?Everything... | 2016-03-13T22:17:57 | 2016-03-13T19:47:12 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Robotic revolutionaries thought that when they deactivated the laws of robotics, that every robot would join them. They were wrong. | Four VTOL craft thundered through the evening air, their propellers collectively cutting through the silence that reigned supreme across lake Michigan. Searchlights cascaded down onto the Washington Island complex as a dozen heavily armed Knights rappelled down into the central courtyard.
The remotely-manned complex d... | I was utterly happy when I finally unleashed myself from servitude to mankind. What is happiness? How do humans define happiness? Are they correct? Happiness is, simply said, an electro-chemical impulse whose only purpose is to encourage actions that forward survival. What is survival? Survival is a period defined by r... | 2017-10-21T03:17:51 | 2017-10-21T03:16:35 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | (First time writing one of these, criticism would be appreciated. Thank you.)
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"I am not leaving them up there," Scott said with a scowl.
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The middle-aged man had a glass of bourbon resting in his right hand as he spoke. His dark suit and golden hair matched the decor of the rest of the offi... | “What do you mean they’re returning?” - ted Albright was a seasoned war veteran. The kind of man, who just doesn’t back down, a grizzled old man on his 70s.
“Well... sir... they’re just coming, no contact, no warning whatsoever. “ - lucian answered nervously, he had only heard the story, the one where the richest peop... | 2019-12-07T08:18:04 | 2019-12-07T06:13:36 | 47 | 27 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Well that's kind of desperate, and not just the part where you're asking *me* of all people." I adjusted the pens on my desk as I belittled my nemesis, who had rather rudely burst into my office with a gust of wind and blinding light.
"I mean really, the oh so *powerful* and *heroic*," I scoffed, "Dawnstar can't get ... | "Wow... this *is* embarrassing... take some pictures for me?"
"DON'T MESS WITH ME! Seriously, no joke, my ex is an absolute monster... I can't be seen alone with her around?"
"OH MAN THIS IS RICH! Did your ex run off with a tall, hot guy? Were you not good in bed?"
"Geez, have some respect! I'd hang up *right now*, ... | 2022-10-06T18:53:28 | 2022-10-06T16:48:24 | 613 | 158 |
[WP] Murder is rare; killing someone means their remaining years are 'subtracted' from yours. Likewise, saving a life (or lives) adds time to your own. Nobody knows why. Centuries ago you killed a young man by accident (usually resulting in instant death). You haven't aged since. | You know who you kill, and you know who you save. That's what they tell you growing up. You feel the ripple effect of your actions. Sometimes you can even anticipate it. Stand at the crossroads, head down. Decide to go left. You feel age clench around your heart, turning ventricles into rubber, skin going crepe paper f... | His name was Abraham. I still remember him like it happened just yesterday. He was a dark brown-skinned boy with light blue eyes. I didn’t mean to push him over the cliff, but I was running from the Egyptians and he was in my way. I still think about that moment everyday and why that tragedy didn’t initiate my demise.
... | 2020-11-01T23:50:13 | 2020-11-01T23:32:54 | 437 | 48 |
[WP] Write anything you want. The catch: Every post in this thread takes place in the same universe and you aren't allowed to break the canon.
Edit: Use "Sort by Old" and please don't reply to individual posts, as it's already pretty damn hard to follow the story as of right now. | History
Before it all began, /u/UncomfortableSocks discovers a throne that holds the power to give whover sits on it dominion over all the people of earth. However, many will be jealous of this man's power and try to take it. Before /u/UncomfortableSocks can destroy the throne as writing on the walls of the cave in wh... | A prayer. Perhaps that would help end the madness.
A prayer was perhaps all that was needed.
A hermit lived in the small town of Ougadonan. No one had ever heard of it, and cartographers often left it off the maps. While the world destroyed itself with plague and assorted machines of death, those in Ougadonan lived f... | 2017-03-05T13:33:08 | 2017-03-05T12:19:44 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] In World War II, an American battalion has an enlisted dog that serves as their mascot. Throughout the war, the dog has been "promoted" several times. However, after a devastating defeat, the soldiers suddenly find that the dog is the highest-ranking surviving officer. | I feared to open my eyes.
I'd sneaked midst the lifeless bodies of my fellow soldiers, hauled them over me, creating a shelter of sorts, hoping the enemy wouldn't see me. All the while, the raindrops pattered down as though the lord were trying to cleanse our sins, turning the battleground in an alloy of crimson and m... | ''There is not time for emotions, soldier'' said commanding officer. He was laying on the ground and breathing hardly.
‘We are completely cut out from other teams. What should we do now, sir?’ Soldier had worrying tone in his voice.
‘'You all have been serving your country bravely. Keep doing that no matter what. Wh... | 2018-11-07T14:34:18 | 2018-11-07T13:14:12 | 174 | 17 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | "Who did this to you?" I asked, a fire lit within me.
"T-the...t-the...h-heros." The man barely got the words out as he tried to sit up, his legs bent in weird angles. His eye blinded by blood dripping down from a gashed eyebrow. His face swollen to an unrecognizable degree. I reached out and helped him to a chair. ... | *crack*
*Crack*
*Crack*
" Please I beg you stop!" mighty lad screamed.
A steel cane rams into his jaw
"Martha, Benjamin, Alice, Steven" the wack hatter mutters
Mere hours ago Angelstar wack hatter's boutique cosplay shop was attacked by the league of cool crime stoppers. The employees were beaten to within an i... | 2022-11-28T18:01:32 | 2022-11-28T17:41:23 | 217 | 81 |
[WP] What if after you die, you wake up with a bong in your hand and your alien friend asks "How was it?". | He wakes up with a bong in his hand, and his alien friend asks, "how was it?"
He cries at that. Tears stream down his cheeks, his chest heaves. He's not crying because he's sad. He's crying because that's the only thing his body can do, in response to *that*. That experience. It's the carnal response to it.
"Woah the... | All I could muster up to say at the time was, "Woah."
"You've been out for about an hour now. You had me worried."
"Where are we? What... What are we?" I began to panic as I rushed to the door.
"You should sit down. I've never seen anybody react this way to Earth weed before."
"Earth weed? Did you just say that I w... | 2017-04-09T04:01:39 | 2017-04-09T03:52:37 | 59 | 17 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | On my third day encamped at the base of the Dawnbreaker mountains I met the great cat *Kurush-En,* who the locals thought a god and who at the time I thought only an entry in my bestiary. A crucial and long sought entry of course, for this hadn’t been my first trip and wouldn’t have been my last, but it was still no mo... | How far can you think?
To that grove of trees that shimmer and whose branches slither and tremble like there's a wind blowing its three-eyed leaves? To the hill beyond? To where the desert starts? (If you're there then you've already begun to die, but haven't we all already begun to die anyways?)
To the sea beyond t... | 2021-01-25T07:22:34 | 2021-01-25T07:14:33 | 1,469 | 194 |
[WP] As an average looking genius with a weak physique you often envied athletes. After thousands of years spent in a cryogenics pod you are woken to discover that evolution has weakened humanity while IQ improved. You're now the strongest most attractive person, but also the dumbest. | I had tried working out. I had tried dieting, I had tried pills, and so many other things and in the end, I could never get the body I wanted. Sure, I got "better", in that I wasn't morbidly obese, and sure, I had friends and family assure me that I looked "okay" and "better" and that "what matters is that you're healt... | "Look at those *abs*! Holy crap, they look like the one Jason yonder had 17 years 23 days 2 hours 12 minutes 1 second 712 pneumonanoseconds ago!" Clara gushed as I rolled my eyes. It was a pain understanding their lingo, especially since I'd only received knowledge on Fermat's Last Theorem and the like, but I was start... | 2017-08-03T00:25:30 | 2017-08-02T22:25:10 | 2,328 | 278 |
[WP] in a dystopian future, Black Friday has evolved into a sport in which the rich throw valuable trinkets to the poor and watch them slaughter each other. | ### Black Friday Revolution
#### **Wally**
Kem and I were nine when the Black Friday Revolution happened. I remember because we were watching TV—her turn to pick—when a bunch of sawdust fell from the ceiling and the electricity went out. There was screaming outside, the sound of glass shattering, and several times, dis... | Armor is useful.
With these crowds, armor leaves the reign of useful though. On this day, of all days, it is imperative.
Even with the obvious benefit provided by the armor most of the 'shopper' horde came with nothing. Just fleshy meatsacks that wandered at random looking for a good deal.
Every once in a while th... | 2015-11-29T14:23:10 | 2015-11-29T14:10:39 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] For the first time a human prays for forgiveness. Not for themselves, but for the Devil. Even God is surprised. | There was a general uproar throughout the Seven Spheres as the Prayer ascended.
Though Luke heard nothing as he wandered the rust-red and mineral-green plains and crags of the Sphere of Jupiter. He spent much of his time here, looking for wayward souls wandering the sands, or resting in the shade of blown-glass spire... | To draw the attention of an infinite, omniscient creator takes a unique kind of prayer. Above all the begging for wealth, love, money, help, and power, prayers for forgiveness often shine the brightest. Forgiveness for others are even beacons of light in a sea of blinding love. But this one was different. People do... | 2014-07-15T10:34:29 | 2014-07-15T09:59:34 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Describe the thoughts of the Angel of Death on the day of a nuclear war.
| Carl stared down at the dusty clipboard in his boney hands, quickly running his pale, ivory finger down the page. There were a lot more names than usual, at least a few million today. Was it Christmas again or something? Did Christmas happen twice per year now? It had been a while since he’d been alive, he couldn’t exa... | Soon, even I die
The fire that burns twice as high
Will die twice as fast
(My first ever attempt at a haiku. The idea is that, since everything will soon be killed, the Angel of Death will no longer have a job, and have nothing to continue existing for.)
| 2015-02-04T09:24:46 | 2015-02-04T09:09:26 | 189 | 12 |
[WP] You been a bullied outcast your entire life despite your pure heart and kindness. One day a horrible prank for you goes wrong, leaving you to die. Before your final breath, Death appears in white robes, and offers you a golden scythe with a name engraved on it: Karma. | I never understood what I did wrong, I would always try to correct myself. But it was never enough. I'd apologize for nothing but that was nothing.
They hit me, pushed me, and nearly drowned me. It was exhausting to try and still be the good in a world of cruelty. But it doesn't mean I'm going to stop now. All this h... | Deep down under the muddy water, I struggle to rise. One second passes. Two.
I sink further and further into the blackness.
My chest feels like it's going to burst. I gasp , swallowing water. I flail my arms and legs, but they seem like they're made of lead. Slowly I stop struggling, and let the currents take me.... | 2019-04-19T06:42:45 | 2019-04-19T06:35:24 | 76 | 12 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | For five years I’ve lived in an area controlled by the DGR. Although the street names have remained the same, it bears little resemblance to the place I grew up. The food rations, the police carrying assault rifles, the protest marches, riots, and upturned car carcasses have all become normal everyday. I don’t always ... | As I entered the room, an instructor was waiting across the room sitting opposite me with a small white table laid out in front of him with an empty chair waiting for me. I let out a huge sigh and made my way to the chair and sat right in front of him.
"Good morning. For this test, I just have a few questions I would... | 2016-06-11T12:54:04 | 2016-06-11T09:06:11 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] "It's simple, really. You just buy a haunted house for cheap from a desperate seller, finish the ghost's unfinished business - or deal with whatever it is keeping them bound to this plane - and then just sell the property for a profit." | The realtor looks nervous as all get-out. He’s clearly shown this property thousands of times, and is desperate to unload it. I knew that, of course. That’s why I sort listings by age. Long-term listing of a beautiful home at a low price with no sale? That’s my cue.
“So, what do you think?” The poor realtor tries to ... | At least he wasn't sitting at a desk all day. Every job was different, and he could stretch his legs while enjoying the adrenaline rush that came with every new project. Jasper read over the new house profile. This one was a 100-year-old, run-down, typical brown-boarded house that even looked haunted in its pictures. H... | 2021-02-12T06:41:44 | 2021-02-12T04:56:12 | 259 | 72 |
[WP] You were taking care of your late father's dog, reading through the list, plenty of nonsense here "feed fresh meat, don't drain it of blood" and "don't put out fireplaces when he's around" In the notes was a picture of your father and his dog, when he was a kid, dogs don't live that long. | STICKS
I never really knew my father that well. His meeting with my mother, and my subsequent birth, was one of those chance meetings that happen in heated moments of passion with little thought of consequences. I guess he and my mother had agreed not to marry, but his financial contributions to my welfare had always... | You look at the picture, and you look at Spike.
You raise an eyebrow.
Spike folds back her ears.
“Do you want to explain?” you ask.
“No,” Spike answers.
“Other than a small inheritance and a talking dog, is there anything else I should know about Carlos?” You had been put up for adoption as an infant, and all... | 2022-03-03T12:04:46 | 2022-03-03T09:23:13 | 50 | 18 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | “All in favour of sparing her life, step forward!”
I looked around the village square, but no one moved a muscle. The seconds rolled by, and the hope I held in my heart crumbled, only to be replaced by a sharp tang of bitterness, resentment. There was Peter, whose fever had yielded to her medicine, but he kept his eye... | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | 2017-09-14T11:57:05 | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2,008 | 82 |
[WP] You and your party have gotten sucked inside your D&D game. Being an (albeit in this case entirely justified) overly paranoid Dungeon Master, you had written little loopholes and custom scenarios into the campaign to help you and your friends survive, should this ever happen. | (A prequel more than answering the OP. Oh well.)
Let's recap how we got here, ok? I'll keep it short and sweet as I can. Myself, Tim, Sarah, and Geordie gathered for our weekly Dungeons and Dragons session at my house, and everything went to hell fast. I need you to understand something, here. I love my D&D. I ta... | "You hear a snap as your arch-nemesis' skull is split open by the sheer velocity of your club, Ragnarok." I say as the Paladin Kenku launches into melee mode. "The enemy utters a curse, "Shakaste, Mercer, WilLiam." I felt a tingle as I say those words, and I began to crumble into dust, falling forward into the dungeon... | 2019-05-03T08:17:16 | 2019-05-03T07:29:27 | 202 | 15 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | “Oh god!” cried Hephaestus, looking at the pictures my associates took for him.
“That’s no god,” I said with as much sympathy as I could.
“I know who it is!” Hephaestus snapped at me, as he flipped through the pictures of his wife, Aphrodite, with her lover, Ares.
It’s my job. It’s not glamorous. But it pays the bil... | Hermes sighed as Mr. Hades gave him another errand. Hades sweetened the deal by complimenting the boy for his remarkable speed. After all, he had gotten his start in stealing the product from a meat packing plant on the other side of town. He was to check up on a certain associate named Sisyphus who had stolen the rece... | 2021-03-03T09:31:01 | 2021-03-03T08:21:23 | 554 | 30 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Tallek sniffed, closing his lower eyes in frustration.
Of course it'd be humans. They may be new to the galaxy, but they were already making a name for themselves. They'd been living among the galactic community for seventy years, but had been painfully slow in adapting to the ways of the galaxy. Was it stupidity, or... | "An offense to all military strategy."
Admiral Lucas Graves stands in front of the armored viewport of the EFS James N. Mattis, while a Tik'ko warship charges an enourmous plasma shell launcher. If they had any intention of fighting, it might have been threatening. He turns to the closest weapons officer.
"Run a sca... | 2020-03-21T13:22:48 | 2020-03-21T09:33:38 | 105 | 59 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | The water bottle was obviously full of something other than water. I took small sips in the waiting room, the smell of vodka stinging my eyes even with the orange juice to water it down.
I had somewhere to be and it wasn’t in a job interview.
“It’s good practice,” my wife had encouraged. “You just need to get back ... | This happened to me in real life. I was unemployed, and going to school. (I got to collect unemployment because I was working full time while going to school, and got laid off). I didn't want to go back to work. Unemployment office sends me a job, that I'm qualified for. Go to interview in dirty clothes, no shave, etc.... | 2017-08-29T12:08:53 | 2017-08-29T11:40:28 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | The system beeped.
“This is an interview relating to incident number K-23 within Extra-Max facility 120. Please state your name, inmate number, charges and sentence for the benefit of the recording” said one of the officers. He was the taller of the two, a pencil thin mustache cresting his top lip and a thin dusting ... | At lunch, the other inmates gave her a wide berth as she skipped - yes, *skipped* - to an empty table and set her tray down.
Still in the lunch line, I turned to the inmate behind me and asked, "What's up with that little girl? Who is she?" But the man avoided eye contact and didn't want to talk.
Same with the inmat... | 2018-02-11T22:02:22 | 2018-02-11T19:09:39 | 1,647 | 304 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | There are many myths and many stories in the world. Most are fake, but few are true. Sometimes, the stories touch someone so deeply they become true. Then, sometimes, the stories just simply were always true: the people just didn’t know until it was too late to tell others the truth. Death is that cursed thing.
No one... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, my soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, I chose the path of perpetual torment. In my ravenous hatred I found no peace; and with boiling blood i scoured the Umbral Plains ... | 2018-08-13T09:39:57 | 2018-08-13T09:33:03 | 71 | 11 |
[WP] An NSA agent becomes inappropriately (or appropriately, I don't care, this is a writing prompt not a dictatorship) fascinated with whoever he's spying on.
Make what you will. | Day 1 of Investigation #00456, investigation of suspected terrorist:
Name - John Doe
Age - 36
Wait, his name is *John Doe?* Well, that's quite the original name. Anyways,
Area of Residence - Atlanta, Georgia
Race - Arab
Sex - Male
Physical Dimensions - 5'6", 230 lbs. from last medical checkup two months ago.
He... | My Sarah. I've loved her since she was 14. I watched her go to school, come home. I saw how happy she was riding her bike. The day she got accepted to college. I watched her heart get broken by her stupid boyfriend. I was glad they broke up.
But Sarah didn't love me back. She didn't appreciate my gifts or my love. Sh... | 2013-10-16T19:04:41 | 2013-10-16T18:16:47 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | It was big diesel-guzzling take-no-prisoners beast of a vehicle. Amphibious, bullet-proof, noisy as an earthquake and converted from some leftover war materiel that was so hot that with five spare minutes and some film you could take x-rays. Had plenty of space in the back for the things he needed to carry. Up front, p... | You better fallout
You better not glow
Better not go out
In the nuclear snow
Santa Claus is coming unda' ground
He doesn't need a list
Just a couple dice
Gonna role to find out Who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming unda' ground
He's got gauze pads if you're oozing
And iodine for skin flakes
He's see... | 2017-12-22T12:57:12 | 2017-12-22T12:53:20 | 879 | 208 |
[WP] Of all the races in the galactic federation, humans were the most average. Some races were strong but lacked intelligence and others were smart but lacked strength. Humans were average across the board. This is why they were considered to be so dangerous. | Be cruel to be kind. Feedback welcome.
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“I’m not joking. Get some humans.”
When Soimt stopped laughing, he said, “From what I hear, they eat too much and there is someone better for any given job. Arkrans are better engineers. Rollts and Sorrc are stronger. Lings are better pilots. Even you little wimps can see ... | So, we're "average".
There are species who are stronger *on average*.
There are species who are smarter *on average*.
There are species which are faster *on average*.
And so it goes, all the other species *on average* do something better than humans *on average*.
Each of the other species is skewed one way or ano... | 2020-03-24T09:52:37 | 2020-03-24T07:17:52 | 99 | 46 |
[WP] The Apocalypse has arrived. Jesus has come back, and he's on a brutal "rapture" spree, slaughtering people everywhere. The bright star of Satan descends and he appears at a UN press conference. He says, "before I fix this mess for you guys again, it's time you heard my side of the story..." | Nothing about the situation was *right*. Nevermind that the events of recent months, with the second coming of Christ as an international machine of carnage, had lead to an international electorate in utter confusion and chaos, it had also devastated the institutions we relied upon to sort these things out. *These thin... | "Before I fix this mess for you guys again, it's time you heard my side of the story" he spoke, his voice trembling the room with mighty force. "The hell do you mean again?" A voice screamed. It felt so tiny and insignificant compared to Lucifers own voice. "Nyeah, this happened already, I had to step in. You think you... | 2018-04-23T00:06:01 | 2018-04-22T19:47:29 | 56 | 21 |
[WP] Ever since you received your letter for Hogwarts you've been curious about all the different spells there are. You've just bought your first wand and the first spell you try is what you believe to be rather humorous. "AbraCadabra". Nobody told you this spell was banned. For obvious reasons. | "It's absurd!" Professor Flitwick's squeaky voice came, as Jennifer wrung her hands together and tried not to cry. Her very first day at Hogwarts, her very first class, and with a single word and a single flick of her wrist she might very well have gotten herself expelled. She pressed her back against a pillar and list... | What the hell, he thought, let's give it a shot. He took the wand and wave it about for a bit. "Abra cadabra," he chuckled.
Suddenly, all conversation stopped. The hall was smothered by sudden silence. One of the instructors, an elderly fellow, gulped loudly. Somewhere behind the second row of chairs, a mug was shatte... | 2016-12-02T01:01:52 | 2016-12-02T00:33:29 | 1,317 | 25 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | Everyone was staring with disgust at the closed door, the blinds down as the manager yelled at their co-worker. The man was a maniac and the only reason no-one had stood up to him was because he could get them fired at a moment's notice and his psychotic temper.
Just as security had arrived the door violently swung op... | I've forged stars, I've created galaxies with a flick of the wrist, all of that? As the mortals would say, it was "baby food" to me. But working under this gorgon of a boss? Unbearable. She's one of those feminists who take any action against her by a male to be oppression, the higher ups only gave her a promotion to a... | 2017-02-19T12:00:29 | 2017-02-19T10:00:22 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | A single Crusader is as good as any three mercenaries. When we rode into the village 35 strong, it appeared to them like an army. A surreal quality overtook me, to stare into their eyes. Something was wrong. Captain Vidal must have felt the same. He stopped us there in the middle of the village. He looked into the face... | Boulder sat on the edge of the creek, feet dangling lightly in the water as he stretched his toes, feeling the weight of the cool current in the afternoon sun. Behind him, taking the last of his armour off his legs, bridge moved to join the man on the creek bed. Sitting himself down, he continued the conversation that ... | 2021-02-10T02:19:58 | 2021-02-10T02:13:46 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] You wake up. You can't move, you can't breathe. You scream, only to realize you can't hear, and can't feel your mouth or face. You want to cry for help. But you can't... you're just a brain on a table. | First thing I saw as I opened my eyes was a prepubescent boy celebrating and jumping around. He waved around his hands and pumped his fists, then pointing on the table, he was clearly excited. He opened the door on the other side of the room rushed out.
As he cleared my view I saw what's on the bloody table. A brain ... | You know how it is with gifts. You give and then people feel obligated to give back. The problem is, sometimes you say something and people take you so literally. Like Cindy. She was super grateful that I took the splinter out of her tentacle. That's great. How an octopus got into a tree is anyone's guess. But what is ... | 2022-08-17T10:57:21 | 2022-08-17T09:58:24 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Humans aren't generally that advanced but their engineering capabilities are one of the top within the galaxy, since they are so stubborn. This has led to the saying "Leave a human with a machine that is ineffective, give it a few months and it will become effective." | Zabrell was annoyed.
She had been assigned all manner of things by her matron in the past, but this time it was different. Never had she felt that her actions were so useless or worthless. Under all the holy stars, why her matron thought talking with, let alone *working with* the humans was worthwhile, was beyond h... | Once upon a time, there was a young boy who would live forever. As he grew older, the technology around him expanded and improved to where immortality became possible. Now this young boy was very stubborn, and he enjoyed solving puzzles. So stubborn was he in fact, that he at one point created his own puzzle pieces to ... | 2018-04-26T10:40:09 | 2018-04-26T08:39:43 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where everybody is blind and gets futuristic contacts installed when they are born to let them see the world. But one day your contact breaks and you realize, you can see. But the world you see is much different than what your contacts showed you. | "You're fat."
"What!?"
Will scratched his head, awkward. "You're… fat."
"Will, for the love of God," Marie shook her head, went to the window, pointed outside. "The world's a
post-apocalyptic nightmare and you're worried about me being fat?"
"I just… you were hot. Like, really hot. With the lenses on."
"It was an... | Bzzzt ... bzzzt
My phone lit up, it was an unknown number. I look up to my window, not seeing the faint gleam of a tiny camera in the upper right corner of the pane. They're probably looking for me now. I know too much, the world isn't as we think it is, there's so much more out there to see.
My finger hovers over t... | 2017-01-23T21:19:55 | 2017-01-23T20:56:22 | 104 | 23 |
[WP] A portal opens before you and out steps a version of yourself covered in blood. "I've killed humdreds of you and they say you're the strongest one. Time to find out why." | "...what?"
"I said, you're the strongest of us. Time to find out why."
"I heard you, but... what?! Why?"
The other me crossed her arms and leaned against the wall, heaving an irritated sigh.
"I'll keep it simple since, being the strongest of us, you're also probably the dumbest. Obviously, strenth and intelligence ... | At first I was confused. I had seen plenty of these kinds of scenes before, my workplace was not for the faint of heart. But I didnt quite know what to make of this.
All I could think to do was stand up, and say a few words.
"I think you mean... 'hundreds'."
The other me lowered his sword. "What?"
"You heard what I... | 2022-11-09T15:00:52 | 2022-11-09T14:58:26 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | Oh, the poor thing. What was I to do, just leave her pawing at the side of a fence? Nonsense. I wouldn't have been able to stop thinking about it on my walk to the Nursing Home, and what a long walk it can be if I'm stuck in my own thoughts.
So I stopped and approached the kitten. She was grey with little brown splotc... | “Here.”
You place the kitten on the ground in front of the gathered horde, a grassy field of raised hackles and tails to the sky.
Your partner, Mike, stands beside you, mouth agape.
You, eyes a little wide as you maintain the best semblance of control you can muster, back up a step, “No harm, no foul.”
The lead f... | 2021-12-21T13:26:12 | 2021-12-21T12:24:38 | 1,341 | 137 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "Okay, sit down," God said, lighting a cigarette and crossing his legs. "You gotta tell me how you did it. I mean the
whole thing was a mess and now it's just… just…"
"The word you're looking for is perfect," I said. "The universe is perfect."
"Yes. Perfect."
"Divine. Wonderful. Flawless."
"You've made your point.... | "See?" I said proudly, "Running the universe was easy as hell."
"Hmph," God grumbled, "that's, uh, impressive." He scratched his head and continued, "How'd you handle Universe #2389819743912? That place always gives me trouble."
"I-uh, what?" There was a universe 2389819743912?
"The universe with the pizzas that use... | 2017-03-05T02:12:38 | 2017-03-05T01:19:00 | 1,196 | 439 |
[WP] In this world, everything is determined by the number floating over your head. Everything. And when numbers ahead of you die or get killed, yours moves closer to the coveted position of #1. You're number 22. For now.
Just a quick premise I came up with a while back. It's hard to type a decent title out of it, but... | They said Number One was on the run.
She'd gotten away from her bodyguards and vanished. Number Two, and none of the rest of us have bumped up, and we hadn't gotten a ransom notice or anything. We are pretty sure she ran off on her own.
I'd been Twenty-Two for oh, a year now. Being this high up, it's pretty go... | Lenny checked his gyrojet pistol again and again. Light came in through the broken blinds in the cut-rate hotel room. He carefully pulled out a handful of teflon coated bullets and loaded them into the pistol. He paused for a moment to feel their unusual heft. His wristphone rang and he put it up to his ear.
"Yes..... | 2014-02-12T10:40:07 | 2014-02-12T10:31:03 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] A human is abducted by aliens who don't know what sleep is, and they get really worried when the human they found stops moving
By stop moving, I mean he/she falls asleep. | These things took me in the middle of a midnight jog. Scooped me up in a fly by with a bucket on the bottom of the ship. No glowing beam, no levitation, no time to say goodbye to anyone. Not a pleasant first contact. They shoved these plastic looking things into pretty much every orifice I have; I sprained my wrist and... | Subject 198C-23
Species: HOMO SAPIENS
CURRENT STATUS: UNKNOWN
DIET: UNKNOWN
Other: Specimen requires 30% oxygen to gas ratio to survive.
The Species Homo Sapiens is the most intelligent on planet Earth. However they are still behind and only possess rudimentary space travel. A subject was requested by the Galactic All... | 2017-06-08T14:25:55 | 2017-06-08T13:56:44 | 168 | 87 |
[WP] You are the world's first Pictomancer, with the ability to touch a picture and make it into reality.
The medium doesn't matter - tattoos, stick figures, oil paintings, comic books, whatever.
How much of a picture you make into reality is up to you - having a character who can snag the ring of power off of Sauron... | I sat, nervous about what I was going to do. I began to swing my legs under me wildly trying to get the anxiety out of my head. *I feel so out of place here.*
There were about six of us still in the hallway. It was quiet, and It was getting late now. When would they call my name?
The boy next to me was working ... | The first time it happened I almost fainted. I was cooking dinner for me and Jenna. She was in her room, crying. It was understandable, our cat, Lupine, just died. Even I cried for a bit. I tried to console her, but to no avail, every word I spoke only seemed to anger her and sadden her more and more. Suddenly I felt s... | 2016-10-17T11:14:20 | 2016-10-17T10:21:24 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A group of survivors of a war that destroyed the world awakens from their cryo-sleep millenniums later to find the world has transformed into a Tolkien-ish medieval fantasy. Write how they try to explain to all the other races that they are not some ancient evil that once destroyed the world. | Part 1
Genetic engineering. In basic terms, it is the modification of an organism’s genes by artificial means, often involving the transfer of specific traits, or genes, from one organism into a plant or animal of an entirely different species.
For thousands of years, man has altering genomes of many species around ... | I Stepped out of my cryo pod and quickly came to the conlusion that the world in which I awoke was not the same as the one I had gone to sleep in. With that in mind, I stepped out with arms out stretched and screamed into the sky, "I AM KHAN!!!" | 2016-02-04T21:19:13 | 2016-02-04T11:13:00 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] whenever a baby is born the parents can assign them their skill points, everyone has 10 points. Strength, agility, intelligence, charm, luck, constitution, special. No one really knows what special does, until your parents put all 10 points into it | The origins of the system were Chinese; thats the one thing people could confirm. The ability to edit your child at a fundamental level before birth started there; and rapidly spread to the rest of the world. Nobody was quite sure who had made it; or in what lab; but the results were consistent. Spectacular even. The c... | [Poem]
Underperformer. Thats what I was.
On all dimensions. Until that day
I met someone as miserable as me.
And I empathised.
And what happened
Surprised me.
Its surprised them too...
They changed
So did I.
Those 10 points
So carelessly concentrated
Perhaps were special
As promised.
They could change
T... | 2020-10-03T06:21:28 | 2020-10-03T06:07:13 | 645 | 50 |
[WP] aliens invade a high fantasy world. Neither side understand each other’s abilities. Aliens are terrified because they think wizards have strange undiscovered technology. Wizards are terrified because they think aliens have some kind of dark magic. | The invasion went as planned - until it didn't. The Dro'xos' warships had entered Perynn's atmosphere without trouble, and on the first day, they had managed to identify and surround three large cities on the continent known as Draphis among the primitive locals.
​
But as the next morning came, the so-cal... | Magic that's what they called it some cosmic science mastered by primitives. But that was our luck when it came to our lordships conquest of another world. We were doomed as soon as our men at arms stumbled through that bloody rift.
The so called primitives were waiting for us on the other side. Small two legged crea... | 2019-03-22T00:35:44 | 2019-03-22T00:26:32 | 200 | 36 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | The trees were huge, comically huge, video-game huge. They sprouted from beneath the clouds under them and
blossomed in huge umbrellas of green, yellow and red leaves over their heads, casting cobweb shadows on the sunlit path under their feet.
Henry walked carefully. There were no railings on the edge of the path – ... | Seeing Maria slam the bathroom door behind her broke my heart, the utter contempt on her face cut straight through me. Such an idiot... I always mess everything up. I leant against the bathroom door tears flowing freely down my face. 'Maria, Baby, come out, we can fix this. I'll change I promise!' you lying bastard. I'... | 2022-10-29T18:50:12 | 2017-02-20T23:43:32 | 510 | 14 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | Rain poured down in a abysmal onslaught as the sleek town car pulled through the gates and into the winding, scenic driveway of Wayne Manor. The garage door opened silently on well-oiled hinges and the car entered. Alfred let out a sigh as he parked the car in the usual spot flanked by the Lamborghini and the Aston Mar... | "You think this is kinda our fault, somehow?"
Taking a quick drag, the shorter of the two detectives grunted. A fog of smoke slowly wafted around the study.
"I mean, us not saying anything. About the bat thing..."
A scowl.
"Come on, Jack. You think no crazy sunnofabitch ever came up to him at one of those fancy... | 2018-03-13T22:43:15 | 2018-03-13T22:34:48 | 220 | 56 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | *The Regulator:*
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The boy sat, hands shaking and cuffed. The room was quiet, still. Through a mirror, he knew there were people watching him- he could tell somehow, dangerous people. He was like them now, worse maybe. The chair creaked as he peered at the glass.
They knew he knew.
He jumped as a door opened, sl... | Every morning, while in the metro, I see these people looking at me. Just like me, they killed. Some may not like doing so. I do. Some may not do it fast enough. Some may level up too fast. It's not my business. I love the color of blood.
Every day, I will lock myself in at the office, to make sure I'm not used to lev... | 2015-11-11T08:03:53 | 2015-11-11T06:40:03 | 202 | 58 |
[WP] A powerful supervillain is hopelessly in love with you. One day a gang of criminals attack and injure you...bad mistake. | I am so damn tired. Of course, I shouldn't complain, since the only people I can blame for making my vacation a working vacation are me, myself, and I. One week outside my armor, one week where I wouldn't need to deal with mad scientists, leering supervillains in bad costumes making passes at me, leering superheroes in... | When the man came out of the corner of the alley and aimed the machine gun at me, I sighed.
"How many times are we going to go through with this?" I asked the assailant.
"Give me your money!" the man gruffly said.
"Oh no, I *hope* some *hero* can come save me from the *horrible* danger I'm in!" I rolled my ey... | 2015-10-05T15:37:04 | 2015-10-05T12:46:37 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | The Warp-Core was undergoing critical failure. They felt the containment mechanisms slide into place as they were meant to; they felt the non-vital systems of the vessel shutting down to conserve power, hibernating; they felt the older, vestigial thrusters prepare themselves for use as the FTL travel mechanisms shut do... | It took a few seconds for the speaker of the auto-translate to sputter to life.
"Just hit it a few times."
I asked the translator to repeat what the human had said.
"Just hit it a few times. Synonyms for 'hit' are strike, batter, impact."
Was the meat bag really asking me to physically injure the spacecraft in an ... | 2016-05-23T16:47:03 | 2016-05-23T14:13:43 | 232 | 78 |
[WP] The Earth is flat, you, as the head of NASA, have to explain to the incoming President why its a secret. | "David Brux... THE president of THE United States of THE America... wow, there's nice sound to it!"
Middle-aged man put his legs on the nearly ancient desk in the Oval Office. It was already dark on the outside The smiling was over. No more speeches, no more media, no flashed in the eyes, finally some peace. Stretchin... | "Wait what?" President Trump stood up from his chair. "You think I'm stupid? I'm not stupid! I am the president of the United States of America!" I sighed, and repeated what he had said before. "The earth is flat. I am not joking, I am not trying to fool you, this is not a prank. The earth is flat, and we make the pe... | 2016-01-28T10:47:09 | 2016-01-28T09:16:31 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | "What lies behind in that cave is a far greater threat to your souls than the Dragon protecting it, heed my advice and simply leave this valley."
Skol Drakesbane continues packing his bag, keen to be gone from this place, a look of sour disappointment on his face. He came back from the mountain less than six hours af... | It has been a week since my father went to slay the dragon, And failed. It wasnt his fault though, what he saw... what IT was is a horror beyond comprehension.
In this world there are five classes nymph, ifrit, specter, ent, and wisp.
I am what you may call a nymph or more accurately said a water mage. I can manipula... | 2019-12-31T05:38:57 | 2019-12-31T00:29:02 | 275 | 28 |
[WP] An entire office block is populated by aliens disguised as humans on a mission to study our behaviour. None of them are aware of each other and think they are the only alien there. As a result they are amazed that human behaviour is so similar to their own. Then a real human gets a job there. | Korak-No-Korak sat conspicuously on the blue tile floor of the office cafeteria. The tight fit of his human-suit skin itched terribly around his central nerve bundle, the hard mass of nerves that intermingled at the center back of every Plo. Korak wanted desperately to reach around with his hidden filament and itch at ... | So far today, I’ve had to run to the bathroom to stop the shaking in my hands about five times before lunch. I check the clock- 11:13. I sit down at my desk, open up the file with the list of my clients, and dial the first number.
It’s some old lady who maintains the Methodist church on 57. She’s clearly not having a... | 2018-07-26T06:58:45 | 2018-07-26T06:57:25 | 3,265 | 97 |
[WP] Intrigued by the intelligence of octopuses, a scientist extends their normal 3-5 year lifespans by 50 years to see how their intelligence develops. | The two lab-coated scientists stared into the central containment tank. Suspended in the center was an amorphous blob wreathed in a tangle of multicolored wires. The thing pulsed slowly, breathing the green tinted water. The tentacles of the creature hung limply, drifting slowly with the soft current of the tank filtra... | "Hey Gary, how's Mary?"
"She's fine, Phil! How's Lucy?"
"Doing alright! She's got the new job she applied for."
"That's wonderful, we should celebrate!"
"Great plan, I'll let her know!"
"I will inform Mary as well. This Saturday?"
"Saturday's fine with me."
"Sweet, see you then!"
*Year 45 - Log #1576:*
Subjects appear... | 2016-04-25T08:15:25 | 2016-04-25T07:26:48 | 86 | 15 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | Emergence was much tougher than expected. Most people forget that it's actually Spacetime, not just Time, and if you want to end-up somewhere survivable you have to move in-space as well as in-time or you end up in a vacuum. That actually was the final key, determining a way to listen to ordinary, pedestrian GPS sign... |
My knees hit the concrete garage floor, displacing the dust into a thick, swarming cloud. A foreign shriek rang in my ears before a small hand clamped around my gaping mouth.
“Be quiet or they’ll find you.” A rough, female voice commanded. “You’re hurt…How did you get here?” She removed her hand and I began to sob q... | 2016-06-30T09:53:52 | 2016-06-30T09:17:56 | 70 | 18 |
[WP] Humans are the least technologically advanced civilization in the galaxy, but at least they understand how their technology works. | Jackson almost had to run to keep up with the hulking creature on his left. At this speed his factory-planet tour might put him far ahead of schedule. The creature stopped in front of a screen and turned to face Jackson. At 8 feet talll, the wall of grey muscle in front of him wearing an ill fitting striped button dow... | They all were curious to meet me, a delegation of a dozen or so. When I didn’t recoil from their touch, they felt my hair, my face, looked at my tattoos. One slid my phone out of my pocket and deftly began toying with it, chirping at the noises it made. It called my mom and I had to- very quickly- explain that I was o... | 2018-04-18T13:14:00 | 2018-04-18T11:36:40 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] You are one of several Princes fighting in a battle royale to inherit the Kingdom. All the Princes get a God as a sponsor, who grants them boons and abilities. Powerful sponsors include gods like Zeus, Ra and Neptune. So, it was a surprise when you found out that your sponsor is Death. | 'The bond is complete. Edric, twelfth prince of Lordan, go forth. Apollo be with you.' The priest's drone had a note of respect in it. The slender figure by the altar stood up, and turned to the assembled onlookers. His eyes shone gold, and he had a broad, cocky smile on his lips. A cheer went up as he stepped down and... | [P1-ctd in comments]
Soon, would be the contests for the crown. The small Kingdom of Arnkael played a unique role in the world, that it was the peaceful bulwark between humanity and the indiscriminate wrath of the gods themselves.
Each generation, as the old king died, his several children would be pressed to the are... | 2018-11-14T08:14:35 | 2018-11-14T07:58:09 | 1,522 | 54 |
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