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[WP] After chatting with your online Korean friend, who you often game with, he invites you to visit him in his home country, which he always refers to as "Best Korea". You think he's joking around, but when you get a flight confirmation, you learn that your friend is actually Kim Jong-un. | I sat aboard the plane, hands sweating clutching my phone in my hand, staring down at the screen-name. 'GloriousLeader365' I can't believe it, I always thought the name came from gaming prowess, but he truly sees himself as the glorious leader, luckily for me, he had spared no expense and I was now shooting towards wha... | Your eyes nearly pop out and your jaw hits the porch when you receive the simple text message. "Bye way gamer friend, before you visit I want you know I am Supreme Ruler of North Korea." Contemplation begins on what you can do... this goes on for nearly a day until around 12 hours before the flight time. You decide to ... | 2017-04-09T18:16:25 | 2017-04-09T17:56:20 | 213 | 24 |
[WP] A horror story, but the protagonist feels absolutely no fear whatsoever and reacts with calm, unflappable rationality, unnerving the antagonist who is trying to scare the shit out of them and failing miserably. | On a dark, thundering Autumn evening, Missy was curled up next to the fireplace. The annual chill had set in, and Missy had retreated to its warmth without any other source of heating. Soon, she would have to head back to the city, away from the cabin. Her vacation was nearly over after all.
The crackling roar of the... | Tammy rolled over on her table, expectantly. Despite the shackles on her wrists and chains around my ankles she seemed to be almost holding back a smile.
A darkened face with pulsing features appeared on a screen that covered Tammy's vision of most of the room. A cigarette torn voice crackled out of the microphone, "D... | 2017-07-07T16:33:06 | 2017-07-07T11:11:56 | 26 | 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." | That alarm. That damn alarm that everyone hates. So loud, blaring with such urgency that rouses anyone from their sleep. "God what, what is it now?" Isaiah questioned. The amber alert sound was still unending, and as he turned to unlock the phone and silence it, he was met with the brightness of the sun in the palm of ... | I wake to the sound of my phone vibrating so fast I'm afraid it'll fall of my nightstand. I groggily my phone before it falls and turn it on to see the words "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" in bright letters illuminated by the official nationwide alert backdrop. The vibrations refuse to stop. Hundreds of texts are rolling in... | 2022-09-11T16:03:17 | 2018-04-06T19:08:10 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are God. You have just discovered that the world you thought you had destroyed in a flood still exists. You've never heard of this 'Jesus' dude, or anything else since the flood. You really just thought you'd canned the thing and walked away. | "Wait... You did WHAT?"
I stood alone, mouth agape and bewildered, as I spoke through the cosmos, communicating with my rival.
"Well, you threw it out! It's not like you were gonna use it again." Satan replied, defiant as per fucking usual. "I really liked the project we were working on with Earth, man! Oh, but you ha... | Oh, Jesus Christ. That guy. What an entrepreneurial spirit, and a big pair he has.
First of all, it's my fault for leaving the burner on, planetarily speaking. I should've come back and checked that that flood did it's job. My b. But still, you don't go around telling upright monkeys you're my son.
I mean, it'd be o... | 2017-11-11T08:49:45 | 2017-11-11T07:57:57 | 3,249 | 195 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | “What’s it doing?”, aerg asked.
“Oh, that’s an instinctive reaction. It’s called crying, according to encyclopedia. It’s a form of frustrated submission. The display of wetness on its face is a call for mercy.” miurg fanned its sensor antennae to observe again the excretions of the prisoner.
“Why does it not just ... | When the corporal went through the barracks sick room for morning muster, Paul was gone. But even if he finally bugged up, it was dangerous to let him wander the base. Or worse, leave it. He told the sergeant, who told the lieutenant, who told the captain. By 0700, the whole company had formed a search party.
By 08... | 2018-02-17T21:27:28 | 2018-02-17T16:37:28 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | “It’ll be pyrokenisis”, my dad said, for the thousandth time, as his fingers sparked the hob beneath the kettle. “It’s one of the most heritable powers, and we already struck out on Dan. I’m just saying, the odds are on our side."
Mum rolled her eyes, for the thousandth time. “Whatever it is, it will be wonderful”, sh... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T12:14:09 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 241 | 128 |
[WP] Your Grandma, a shape-shifter, is diagnosed with Alzheimers. She begins to forget her true form...or was it a disguise all along? | Grandpa and I walked into the entrance of St Mary’s hospital. In the ever-bustling reception area, Healers strode purposefully in all directions. We made straight for the elevator, heading to the Geriatric Unit on level 4. As the elevator door opened, I saw a young boy sitting in a wheelchair who was being pushed by- w... | Every Sunday I visited my grandma at Sunny Oaks. It was a tradition I'd started right after Mom died, in the interest of helping both of us cope. In the five years since, I'd never so much as seen another person coming or going from her apartment.
That's not the *only* reason I dropped my coffee, of course. The person... | 2017-02-18T06:37:10 | 2017-02-18T05:13:07 | 773 | 536 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | It was a calico cat, shaded by darkness on half its scruffy face, scorched by flame on the other. The moon and sun heading towards an eclipse over a pale mountain of white fur.
For weeks after Josh had moved back to the family home, the cat had watched him. Sat outside the windows, or lay in the yard in the maple-sha... | I couldn’t turn away fast enough. I immediately slammed the door closed and screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!!” in utter disbelief of the image forever now branded into my deepest synapsis. Atoms overloaded, neurons on all cylinders, new pathways forged instantaneously. Milliseconds turned into centuries as I barely made two st... | 2021-12-17T07:32:51 | 2021-12-17T07:05:33 | 463 | 10 |
[WP] “Please.” The Villian whimpers. “There must be something I can do.” You stare at your clipboard. “Lose the spikes and turn off the volcano and we can talk.” Being an OSHA auditor for superpowers is a whole new type of power trip.
Edit: Many thanks for the gold and silver! Your excellent stories, however, are the ... | The lair—in all of its evil, experimental infamy—was in an all-new state of chaos today. Mountainous men and freakish beast alike were scrambling to set weapons in their proper places, secure the experiment tanks, make sure all the lights in the normally dark halls were on, *sweep the floors?* Martin had already been w... |
Tom sighed. His knees cracked as he stood up, his back ached. Pulling his clipboard of his belt he turned toward, The Invader... or was it The Infester… maybe the Eviscerator?
“Now why, Mr. Invader, do you need a Hole of Pain and Agony?”
“Um, it’s Hole of Pains and Agonies,” the mousy voice projected from within... | 2020-05-12T19:02:04 | 2020-05-12T18:36:24 | 93 | 48 |
[WP] The heroes nearly won with the “Friendship is power” trope, but lost because the villains did that trope but better. | Pain. A universal constant. They had all felt it, every single volunteer of eternal doom knew what it was like to suffer. They knew that even at the best of times, darkness lurked in the background
The organization hadn’t started as a world ending terrorist group. It had started as a therapy group. Within that group w... | I had accepted my fate. The three heroes had combined their power. The leader Macha charging at me, his blade flashing with incredible magical power. I was doomed. I closed my eyes, lowered my guard, and prayed. I felt a light breeze, and then heard a scream.
I opened my eyes, and saw my best friend Draia in fr... | 2019-10-27T18:37:57 | 2019-10-27T16:17:13 | 165 | 24 |
[WP] The real reason we've never encountered alien life? They have no concept of fiction. They think movies, stories, even harmless threats are all real. They're terrified of us. Then they met us. | My people are an ancient people...a traditional people. It took us millennia to get from the first electric lights to the first computer. Very few of us are born with a great degree of imagination. Such people have, at different times, been hunted down and killed for their heretical ideas, or their visions of things un... | These...things. Strange...things. By the village center... they landed. Engulfing the whole area in light so bright, it suddenly became day again. Huge gleaming slats of metal lowered down and out stepped...them. Faces of pure shadow, only neon eyes staring out - lifeless. Peculiar shapes lining the tops of their figur... | 2016-10-14T15:04:49 | 2016-10-14T13:20:29 | 275 | 29 |
[WP] You're immortal and have passed the 'hero' phase centuries ago. You enter a small corner shop one day to find it is owned by your millennia-old arch-nemesis. You really, really need milk though. | "Ramson," he said with a nod and a wink.
I was blown away. Fifteen hundred years, and here he was.
"Sartas. Of all the things." I actually tried to feel the old animosity, looking at this face that that had smirked and sneered in my face, or alternatively, begged and pleaded at my knees.It was inconceivable.
"It ... | I sigh and drag my hands over my face. Of course. *Of course*. Why wouldn’t it be them? Of course it was. The damn walker followed me everywhere, willing or not.
The wolf by their side shot up as I approached the counter, hackles raised. She snapped at me, and Fey clicked their tongue. “Hush, Fenris, she’s a guest. ... | 2021-07-18T20:01:23 | 2021-07-18T17:11:50 | 104 | 30 |
[WP] We've made contact with a parallel, magic-based Earth (rather than our automated-machine-based Earth). Turns out that their wizards are just as excited to talk to our scientists as our scientists are to talk to them. | "Wait a damn second! Explain that one more time, slooooowllly."
"Right, okay. So, the fundamental principle upon which all magic is based on is the transmutation of reality."
"Transmutation of... reality?"
"Correct. Reality *is* movement. So it follows that changing how things move changes what they are."
"Are you ... | After many successful trials in steadily increasing the size of our perfected wormhole, our team was ready to make one large enough to comfortably look through. The only concerning phenomena was that the wormhole had consistently been larger than projected, even accounting for previous miscalculations. Since its stabil... | 2022-04-30T01:16:02 | 2022-04-29T21:22:36 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] When his daughter was born the oracle told the evil ruler that his grandson would one day kill him. But instead of trying to prevent the prophecy the ruler decides to be the best parent and grandparent, giving his grandson no motivation to fulfill the prophecy. | Leandra had always been the light of my life. My first born child, my only daughter. She was greatest sum of me and her mothers parts. Leandra was radiant as the sun itself and sparked joy wherever she went. Because she was truly, *utterly*, a kind soul.
Shortly after her mother passed, giving birth to my third child... | It's amazing how something so small could change a person so set in their ways. Marquis Vale hated these cliches, but looking at and holding his daughter, he couldnt help the strings of his heart being tugged. Everyone around him drifted away as he contemplated how he would raise his newborn flesh and blood. How he giv... | 2020-02-03T20:11:59 | 2020-02-03T19:01:55 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | I walked down the rather crowded hallway, trying to get to my locker before Maths class so I could get my textbooks for the rest of the day There was a small line of students winding almost in singlefile through the people standing by their lockers. I was, as usual, trying to just stay out of the way.
Just because my... | And so it happened, I couldn't let that slide. I mean, of course I couldn't. Why would I ? All those bastards thinking they're so cool, flaunting their skills in the hallway with no regards to other people's safety. I know it's the first time that I was bullied, but I 'll make it be the last.
His ugly face still rema... | 2022-11-02T11:50:38 | 2022-11-02T08:03:37 | 162 | 58 |
[WP] Humans are successful partly because we're omnivores and this holds true on the galactic scale as well. In the future humans have quickly become feared throughout the Milky Way as our soldiers are ready to eat almost anything...or anyone. | "You mean to tell me you've *never* had a hamburger?" Corporal Chavez said as he and fireteam, intermingled with humanity's new allies, the Genaevans, sat in a foxhole.
"Never," the Genaevan designated as AD43 said bluntly. "I do not even know what a *hamburger* is."
Chavez threw his hands in the air, "I've been to ... | We're the peacekeepers, of a sort.
After the Starvation War, when they realized just how far humanity could adapt to survive, we were officially designated the Proclamation's peacekeeping force across the Lambda Arm. We were given a fleet of the best null-space ships and a considerable technological boost, in exchange... | 2016-02-02T07:44:08 | 2016-02-02T07:42:19 | 61 | 40 |
[WP] One day you wake up with 30 dollars and a note that says “For Rent”. The thing is you aren’t renting out the place. The next day you see a spider and right before you kill it you hear it say, “Please i paid my rent don’t kill me”. | “Wait don’t kill me!” someone in my apartment says, just as I’m about to smash a spider. I stop in shock.
“Who said that?” I ask, holding the shoe in my hand, looking around my apartment.
“Me.”
It’s the voice again. It’s a little voice. Now I realize It’s coming from the tiny little spider on my wall. The spider I w... | At first I thought the words were in my head. I wound up, preparing to swing the flip flop and smash the spider dead, but I stopped when I saw the rather large little body trembling. Its web strands were shivering, and from its multitudinous eyes a rivulet of tears formed, dripped, dropped to the carpetted floor below.... | 2021-02-18T17:58:10 | 2021-02-18T16:46:13 | 2,507 | 938 |
[WP] After a treacherous upbringing of dodging the assassination attempts of time travelers you learn why they were all trying to kill you. | **S**am was holding a small wooden stool in his hands. It was a warm and sunny day in spring. A perfect day to get some answers, Sam thought, as he looked at the body in front of him.
The body was that of a man in his forties lying face down: tall, with long dirty hair and clothes that Sam knew far too well even thoug... | "You seriously sent assassins back in time to kill me in order to prevent me from... knocking over your precious vase?" Jenkins stared, dumbfounded, at the toothpick of a man, with fine silks draped upon his bony frame.
"Yes." Was all the man said before he snapped his fingers.
Two seconds later, Jenkins' world went ... | 2015-04-04T09:12:50 | 2015-04-04T09:05:20 | 68 | 16 |
[WP] Whenever a new generation of combat robots are made, the older versions will be put into more and more dangerous missions until they all perish, but the technicians are required to repair any surviving machines, your generation was discontinued before some of these engineers were even born. | "Oh, look at this rustbucket!" the young engineer said and jokingly slapped the back of ZX-2984.
"Hey now kid," his older teacher said, "show some respect."
"Why? The thing is ancient?" the kid laughed.
"Yes. It is. And that's exactly why you should respect it. You're new, right?" the teacher asked.
"Transferred la... | "Yo, rookie, come check this out. You're in for a treat tonight!"
I remembered James' voice and his fascination with me, everytime I was here. I would say hi if my core systems were functional. All I could do was watch and listen. The rookie approached him.
"What's that, let me see."
"This, my friend here is an XM-... | 2022-07-09T10:23:29 | 2022-07-09T04:31:45 | 257 | 183 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "I assure you, Your Majesty, that the prophecy is quite clear on the matter. '*For the threat of the Dark One shall loom over all until such time as the Chosen One shall step forth and end the dreadful threat forever. Ye shall know the Chosen One by the seven signs, and the seven feats, and the sev-*'"
"YES, Yes, than... | "Look... I know she sounds crazy. But she made a sword that can cut through armor with nothing but some rocks and a furnace. She knows things that our best alchemists don't. Something called 'molecules' and much more elements than the five"
The Queen looked down on the Supervisor and seemed deep in thought. He was dre... | 2022-10-28T16:04:02 | 2022-10-28T13:53:27 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Bishop scribbled away in the log book, quickly catching up on the pointless documentation called for by the higher-ups. Brass was always on their case for something or another, and Bishop wasn't in the mood for another reprimand. They couldn't fire him, of course; *diminishers* were too valuable.
Diminisher. Wasn't th... | So the day started as any other. Awoken by my alarm, I stumbled out of bed, groggy. I wiped the sleep from my eyes, and made some mediocre coffee. If I was going to work today, I thought I should probably be awake. Last time I went to work tired, someone almost died. Got the locations mixed up... Hypothermia, or someth... | 2020-02-05T20:05:56 | 2020-02-05T19:37:10 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] A young woman lies suspended within a powerful circle of runes. The cloaked figure approaches you. "She is asleep and must always stay that way, for this world is her dream. Should she awake, all will end." | Atop the highest mountain in the land, two cloaked figures stand, guarding a ring of mystical runes that circle an eternally beautiful woman. Generations of guards have protected the goddess for millenia, for the runes themselves tell of the end of all being if she were to wake from her slumber.
The shorter figure tur... | From afar she was a silhouette surrounded by lights so bright. Up closer she was a young woman whose own hair was so long it draped perfectly over her shoulders and down her body as a natural blanket. Staring in amazement at the woman was a young adventurer barely out of his teens. He reached out to touch her, as if gu... | 2021-02-15T04:36:02 | 2021-02-15T03:20:38 | 98 | 73 |
[WP] You've just gotten a job working at Olympus Acres, a retirement home for old world Gods that are no longer worshipped. | Any mortal who could pass through the dimensional barrier without getting fried was offered a job at Olympus Acres. I’d be a fool not to take the job, once Superintendent Ozymandias explained the peculiar health benefits of spending time on Olympus. I clearly had a bit of divine blood somewhere on my family tree, and t... | My grandma got me the job. Of course it was in Florida; a sprawling swampy neighborhood with a crappy plastic mountain in the middle of the mini-golf course.
MY parents pulled up, practically pushed me out of the car, and and peeled off, leaving me at a summer job serving tapioca pudding to a bunch of geezers who migh... | 2017-11-20T12:53:24 | 2017-11-20T09:38:10 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul, everyone knows that. It’s usually a bad idea, but you’ve got a crazy idea. Earlier, you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a paper that stated you now owned his soul. You’re about to find out if demons consider this a valid co | Will never thought the intersection between Cedar and Saint's Roads was particularly memorable. It was just the meeting point between two small residential streets in the little town of New Harmony, Indiana: four unremarkable rows of houses checkered with unremarkable picket fences. It wasn't exactly a desolate badland... | [medium exterior shot- midday]
Building exterior is laden with ivy crawling up it's stone walls. The small, dirty half-window of the boiler room radiates with flecks of light from a dimming bulb.
Sounds of kids playing games at recess, birds chirping, traffic whizzing by.
The camera slowly pans downward as it zoo... | 2022-05-24T14:19:20 | 2022-05-24T13:43:05 | 304 | 24 |
[WP] You died, a poor store clerk, passed on to the afterlife after being smacked in the head with a heavy purse by an entitled middle aged woman on Black Friday. As you open your eyes, you stand before Odin in Valhalla, and he asks you to entertain him with a grand story of the battle you died in. | "So? Will you continue satisfy Odin's curiosity, Roy?"
"Have at it, stick-boy! My patience grows thin!"
"We all wish to know, boy! Fear not, for we are all ears."
Roy nervously looks around as he finds himself among gods--gods he only knew to be in storybooks...
There were a number of einherjar, valkyrie, and berse... | Odin’s voice boomed, “I am bored! Tell me a story of the battle you died in, one that will make your descendants try in vain to live up to the legacy you have set before them.”
"Well," you say, "It was Black Friday and…”
“Ah! Black Friday!”
“Yeah, so I was working at the local Walmart as a cashier when this lady cam... | 2022-06-08T23:15:31 | 2022-06-08T21:22:20 | 235 | 65 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | They call it Wake-Aid, a simple chemical cocktail in pill form that will give you eight more productive hours each day. Who has time for sleep anymore? There’s no reason to waste a third of your day when you could be out at a party, playing with your kids, or racing up that corporate ladder! No harmful side-effects fou... | It all started with the new miracle Pill. It apparently helped trick your body into thinking it had had it's regenerative sleep, fooling your brain into thinking that it went into the various sleep cycles, releasing all the various hormones and immune cells that you usually benefit from having a good night sleep. At fi... | 2016-08-30T10:03:03 | 2016-08-30T09:04:18 | 949 | 475 |
[WP] Humans are the first intelligent beings in the universe. It is our duty to guide those that come after us.
Inspired by this thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3pic58/most_earthlike_worlds_have_yet_to_be_born/ | "Intelligent life is rare. I mean, really rare. Stupendously, Ridiculously, Unimaginably, Rare. Do you know how long it took us before we found another intelligent species? Go ahead, guess."
The Human spoke Gjarza's language fluently, a mystery given it only had one mouth for focusing the sound waves. Just one mo... | The floor fell away beneath him, and the walls dissolved, the entire chamber fading. It wasn’t blackness behind it, as one might have expected. It wasn’t darkness; it was the absence of being. Like what one eye sees when it is closed but all the others are open, or the last thought before slipping into the unconsciousn... | 2015-10-24T18:06:15 | 2015-10-24T16:27:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] We live in a simulation, and we sleep because they can't render everyone at once. You stay up for days, and begin to see things and people. They call themselves the maintenance crew. | I stopped writing on my laptop and decided a walk would be good. I had been writing nonstop for the past couples of days, long enough that even the students who only visited the library before their exam dates knew me by name.
I stretched on my seat, yawned, then finally stood up. I frequented this fourth floor for s... | Diary Entry 1:
I was brought here. To this little room in the middle of nowhere. The man with the red rimmed glasses and short black hair, took me from my home whilst I was asleep (after drugging me) and locked me in this tiny room. It does have a window, but it has frosted glass so I only know what time of day it is.... | 2017-10-29T12:04:25 | 2017-10-29T11:59:19 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] The doctors walk into the hospital room you're in, and you're ready for them to tell you about your soon-to-be death. One of them sits down beside you and... hands you a twenty-sided dice, "Roll a Death Saving Throw." | I've never liked hospitals, but this one, somehow was worse than the rest. While most hospitals are an uncomfortable juxtaposition between a place of healing, and a place people go to die, this one seemed heavily weighted towards the latter.
The doctor entered my room. He wore dark blue scrubs, and a crisp white lab c... | My head spun, but my gaze fixated on the bone-white die, each number recessed in deep black. Except where a one should be, there’s an etched skull in crimson red, almost winking at me with its blatant glow and gaudiness.
“That’s quite on the nose.”
Doctor Boyd placed the die gingerly in front of me, a prized gemstone... | 2022-03-14T12:43:38 | 2022-03-14T10:59:45 | 110 | 14 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | Eric stood on the stage assessing the audience. They were mostly drunks, but that’s what you got performing in a pub. He made a show of his search for a willing participant, peering around the crowd in circular motions, like a lighthouse shining into a sea of inebriated slobs.
Not that he minded where he performed. He... | "Well, you see, Miss Julia, we do not typically give tours of the school." The headmaster was ancient. So ancient that Julia could not tell which marks on his face were wrinkles and which were scars. He stood blocking the doorway holding a staff in one mangled hand as if he thought he was going to have a say in the mat... | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 2022-04-26T10:52:17 | 79 | 30 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | "So it's meant to be, what, an agonizing choice? A huge dilemma? A source of eternal regret?" Leems asked. After an eternity on Acid Mine Supervision, he had finally been promoted to Reception, and wanted to be sure he understood what was going on.
"For some of them, yes. I think you might be overestimating how many a... | Time Value
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"Sorry, what?"
"You get a choice. A small wooden spoon, or a hundred-trill--in what way was any of what I said ambiguous?"
The wretched thing that was once a man cowered before the devil's anger, then found his voice again.
"Well, it's just that I never heard of any choices in Hell. This is act... | 2022-03-09T06:27:01 | 2015-06-08T03:11:34 | 4,220 | 18 |
[WP] Panic spreads amongst the African Vampire community after Toto blesses the rains. | *Tanzania, February 1983*
Kaisi hummed along to the radio as he tidied his house. His sister was coming to visit tomorrow night, and he liked things to be tidy anyway. This would probably be the last time she visited him for a few months, as the rainy season would be starting any day now, and she was always busy at th... | I turned on the radio, and what I heard was enough to chill me to the very core. I felt like crying. On the radio, singing in a cheery, clear voice. I recognized his voice immediately. To me he was simply called “The Hunter”, and that is what he did. He hunted. No one knew how old he was, or why he hunted with such vi... | 2018-06-11T09:06:22 | 2018-06-11T08:20:28 | 1,291 | 855 |
[WP] In a world where they are illegal you are called to prove that the pun was not intended | I stepped out of my old battered jalopy and lifted my jacket collar to protect my exposed neck from the biting wind and rain. In front of me was a young man being held down by four NYPD gorillas in starched blue shirts, waiting for the meat wagon to show up. The area was already taped off, but an officer saw me coming ... | John sat waiting for his case number to be called. The wait became torturous, as he was a busy man with a lot to do, and it was a simple, accidental pun. As he sat and waited as other preliminary hearings proceeded, seemingly at random, John became incensed. Finally, he stood, and shouted, "Is there an order in this co... | 2017-04-16T07:11:37 | 2017-04-16T07:09:17 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] A vampire, due to his/her supernatural abilities, is the greatest spelunker in the world. Leading a team into the deepest recess of a cave system in which nobody has set foot in millenia, the vampire suddenly stops. (S)he needs an invitation. | “So, we hired a fucking vampire? You know how dangerous those things are?” I asked Charlie, our group leader. We’ve been looking hard for a guide to some of the caves that had recently been discovered underneath Scandinavia. Sonar and drones had put it at the deepest cave system known to man. We were going to be the fi... | I don't know how far into the worm-like network of caves we were, when we stumbled upon the first bone. Perhaps we were a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth, perhaps slightly more. Moving is slow inside these constricting, void-like labyrinths, even with Selena's keen eyes and uncanny sense of navigation to g... | 2018-01-16T05:59:07 | 2018-01-16T05:40:05 | 135 | 70 |
[WP] The world's greatest villain and hero clearly like each other. His monologues when she's captured tend to turn to conversation, and she "accidentally" lets him escape arrest. While they're convinced they're enemies, his henchman and her sidekick are just trying to get them together already. | “Oh you gotta to be kidding me!”
Now in the world of superheroes, Vectress was used to coincidences. Like being at a bank that someone had just begun to rob or walking past an alleyway with a batman situation on hand. But this, this was just ridiculous.
She’d just walked into her favorite coffee shop as she usually d... | It's been a month since I've learn that my boss, who called himself the 'Dominator' (still a terrible name, really, considering who he is), has completely fallen over heels for the new hero, Goldlight (sounds cheesy, but I prefer that over my own boss).
Being a low-class villain, I was the only person my boss could re... | 2020-11-07T04:01:49 | 2020-11-07T01:53:41 | 60 | 41 |
[WP] Interplanetary 'wars' are fought peacefully, with opposing leaders meeting and simply talking about how they would counter or retaliate against each other until one admits defeat. No one knows how to react when the human reaches across the table and punches out their opponent. | The mood was tense in the battle chamber as the two admirals took their positions and the holographic interface in front of them came to life. The Kloathi soldier barked a command, and the computer obligingly translated it:
"We have three cruisers entering the orbit of Plenith VI, human. What is your disposition?"
A... | All were in attendance in the Grand Hall, from Diplomatic Envoys, Strategic Advisers, and even to the lowliest of deck hands. It was a momentous occasion of all and no one wanted to miss it. The Juntar had disputed Humanity's claims of the Orion Sector and wanted to annex it into their domain; of course Humanity object... | 2021-12-30T20:36:28 | 2021-12-30T19:33:10 | 298 | 170 |
[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. | "It.. how? You..."
"I told you," Jack said to God flatly.
The white-bearded deity shifted uncomfortably on his sandals. "What did you do?" His messy room where everything was just where he wanted it was clean and tidy.
"What you were supposed to do but never did. I fixed the Earth. I fixed the whole universe, in fac... | "That truly waxeth amazing" said God, "how didst thou manage such a marvel?"
"I told everyone how you weren't running things, and provided proof. They all started working their problems out for themselves, and stopped killing each other over how to worship you. By the way, what did you do on your day off?"
"Yea veril... | 2017-03-05T03:10:18 | 2017-03-05T01:52:22 | 1,634 | 72 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Alel bit his lip as the prisoner crumpled to dust, blowing away from a wind within an airtight room. Well, that was out the window. The judge simply stared with a bored look in his eye, confirming the kill before charting it down and looking to some other infinite list.
“Charles Alel, take to the stand.”
Alel grimac... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T10:52:50 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] You are an assassin with a strict moral code. You’re the best there is but you assess each job very carefully and if you believe the target does not deserve to die, you go after the one who employed you. | The night sky rumbled overhead, an evening storm bringing a cool and humid breeze that brushed around the ankles of my fellow pedestrians. I raised my hood as I felt a few heavy raindrops fall on my face, and quickened my pace. *Splash, splash, clunk, clunk*— my footsteps echoed through the sunken alleyways that separa... | I was blessed with a gift to kill, and cursed with an unswerving sense of morality. I've made drug cartels crumble down to grams, erased entire mafias, slaughtered rapists and murderers. Curiously enough, most of those I've vanished from existence are those who had hired me.
If the chosen target was innocent accordin... | 2018-07-11T13:27:04 | 2018-07-11T13:06:44 | 2,285 | 1,078 |
[WP] You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
Wow, was not expecting this, thanks for the silver:)... | Charlie is my best friend. Has been since the day I brought him home from the pound. I remember it like it was yesterday. He was a little ten pound ball of golden fluff. I walked into the pound uncertain if I would leave empty handed once again. I was living alone, fresh out of college, and tired of having no company.... | I’m new to creative writing so feedback welcomed.
Hope was more than an ordinary yellow lab. She was more than a playful ball of energy. I am blind, and Hope was my guide dog. Hope gave me a new perspective on life. She never complained about all the traveling at college, and she was always up for a new adventure.
Ev... | 2019-07-15T16:37:33 | 2019-07-15T14:00:47 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] A bored dragon kidnaps a princess, expecting some excitement and rescuers to fight. No one shows up and the princess doesn't know her way home. | ######[](#dropcap)
Drogo trained his golden eye on the girl who was happily stroking the scales on his paw while humming a song. This entire situation had been a disaster.
First off, it had been entirely too easy to steal her away from the castle. She had been picking flowers on the grounds outside, and when he had ... | I look at the young girl standing in from of me. Her fiery red hair matted and tangled. Anger rose up in her ocean eyes as she looked up at me. She's holding a broken scale in her right hand. The blue sheen worn away, the sharp point pointed at me in a pathetic attempt to be used as a weapon. "Take me home" she demands... | 2018-03-23T02:20:18 | 2018-03-23T01:12:29 | 343 | 20 |
[WP] “I’m sorry this is the last straw—you’re fired.” Your boss says. “Fine!” You exclaim. “Here’s my badge and gun!” You slam them on the desk but your boss looks confused. “What the fuck? Why do you need a gun and badge when you’re a waiter?” | "I'm sorry, this is the last straw! You're fired!" The new boss says.
I blink, then I blink again, I look around the dingy office of the Chinese restaurant, then back at the boss, "I'm... Fired? Fired!?"
"That's right! You're never here on time! You vanish in the middle of your shift! You swear at the customers... | "I fucking knew it, I am the best you got, but you are too scared to keep me because I am the only bastard here with some integrity and you can't control me."
Luis Canon sighed in disbelief, how could such injustice be placed upon him.
"How long have I been here, I have put sweat and blood into my rightful duties, an... | 2022-07-29T12:46:52 | 2022-07-29T12:36:48 | 84 | 49 |
[WP] It had started as a single small striped tent in an abandoned lot. Within a week, there was a whole small fair there. After a month, an entire city block was now a large carnival. Soon, you had to evacuate your apartment as The Circus encroached further, inch by inch. | *Roll up! Roll up! Come one and come all! Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages! If you can't run, then walk! Don't stand there and gawk! It's the most sensational show this side of a public hanging! An inimitable, incomparable, unequivocal, veritable extravaganza to amaze, astound, and assail the senses!*
*T... | There were no flyers, no poorly shot advertisements, and not even an article in the local newspaper. It was as if the circus had appeared out of thin air, just randomly popping up in the abandoned lot that used to house an old mechanic’s workshop. It was eerie; I remember going down to the lot with my friends, staring ... | 2021-07-13T00:04:40 | 2021-07-12T22:36:12 | 91 | 44 |
[WP] Charon, boatman of the river Styx, gets the last two coins he needs for what he's been saving up for since the beginning of time.
Charon always takes two coins for passage into the land of the dead. Whatever he has been saving up for, he has finally reached his goal.
Edit: Thank you, person who gave this gold! I... | As wave #284 crashed against the shore, translucent globules spattering across the small boat he currently stood on, Charon smelt the next passenger approaching, hobbling their way across the hill ahead. a short laugh creaked out of his mouth, excitement visible on the ancient and sun baked face of the watery taximan.T... | On the paddle he drove into the water with calm precision, he drew tally marks. His day would come, he knew; there was a flaw in their plan. Charon would keep count in his own quiet way.
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The woman in her modest black dress was old and shrunken and quite dead. Caroline was sure of the last one: she'd poked t... | 2014-10-29T18:17:46 | 2014-10-29T18:06:15 | 169 | 15 |
[WP] When you die, you are presented with a staircase to heaven, with each sin adding a step to your staircase. Your staircase is as tall as Everest. | The whitest white you've ever known and the sensation of removing a blindfold, that's how it felt. I had died, I knew days before it happened that I was going to but it still felt strange.
I sat up in the white room, four... walls? Empty space really but it felt like a room. I brought myself up into a standing posit... | I looked at the sign again and frowned. "This is your staircase to heaven. Each sin in your moral life has added a step. Your total step count; 58,070 steps. Happy climbing!" Huh.
I took another look at the staircase in question. It was a glorious sight to see, a beautiful spiraling staircase with steps of the whitest... | 2017-10-19T15:03:36 | 2017-10-19T14:23:32 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] Grandma accidentally summoned a demon and mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson. | "Look at you! You're filthy! I can't believe your parents let you walk around dressed like that. A little discipline, that's all you ever needed."
Sephiroth was confused, until he saw the burning trash can in the backyard. Rat bones, chicken bones, several stalks of various vegetation and, there it was, down at the bo... | The ninety-two year old retiree,
Named Ethel had the most delicious cake
She made from a secret family recipe,
Collected from her late uncle's estate.
The book was bound in pale, waxen leather;
Was filled with odds and ends of secret spells;
All written in an ancient scrawling letter;
But what they sai... | 2018-04-09T11:48:46 | 2018-04-09T09:19:14 | 87 | 51 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | I take a deep breath as I approach the counter. The cashier has his head down, but he looks pretty generic from what I can see of him. If I'm lucky, I'll sound like I'm just another guy, trying to order my share of Chicken McNuggets.
"Hi, could I have a Happy Meal, please?"
His eyes snap to me as if magnetically at... | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years,” the cashier hissed.
I sighed. I hadn't noticed the cashier was a mummy.
“Sorry,” I said. “I swear I'm not racist—I just have this power where people hear my voice in their native language—”
“Then I would get that looked at,” spat the bandage-covered cashier as h... | 2018-06-24T19:46:43 | 2018-06-24T19:38:51 | 1,026 | 173 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | Day 1: Time stopped, as it does when I'm in danger, at 7:05:23 this morning. I know because that's why my watch was at when it stopped counting. I usually just duck or jump to the side or something and time restarts, but none of that helped. I finally ran outside the house, and nothing. This is strange; something's... | I started keeping my own personal time by counting cycles of my fingernails growing; I clipped them every three weeks before time stopped. Every time before, time stopped for only a short period. Once, it was a car swerving out of control, headed in my direction. Another, a crazed gunman at university. Once I had remov... | 2018-07-04T16:29:47 | 2018-07-04T14:24:46 | 2,360 | 1,474 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?"
"I choose Russian Roulette.... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 192 | 46 |
[WP] One day a second Earth appears in the sky, the atmospheres of the two worlds barely touching. It's frightening, beautiful, and scientifically inexplicable. As folks panic and world powers deliberate, you look skyward through a telescope, only to see an almost identical 'you' looking back down. | I was hoping to catch a glimpse of Mercury’s crescent in the latter hour of daylight when my vision was filled with a rapidly expanding second Earth kissing our atmosphere. I quickly found a visual reference and increased magnification.
“Barbara! The Government has deployed the giant mirror again. Our gutters need cle... | At forst there was this thunderstorm riping the sky apart. Literally ripping it apart. The noise it made was unbelievable and the very next morning the news exploded.
With the telescope i had bought myself for christmas last year i looked at the storm before going to bed. But what i saw now was so... so incredible i h... | 2020-04-02T12:32:39 | 2020-04-02T11:25:54 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] A man in a suit walking alone at night passes by a homeless man. The homeless man gives him a sorrowful look and offers him some coins, saying "You're going to need this." | “We’re here, sir.”
Gordon didn’t hear his driver. He was still thinking about the gala. What an exquisite success it had been! Nearly three million dollars raised for the Foundation. And no small feat, either. Getting that much money out of Manhattan’s elite was like pulling teeth from a lion. Still, there was no deny... | The rain was pouring extra heavily this evening. Each labored step I took created a shockwave in the endless puddle that spanned over the asphalt like a vast sea swallowing a desert. My hands were clutching the resume's that were now dripping wet with black ink smeared across them from the unrelenting pecks of a thousa... | 2015-03-13T01:55:13 | 2015-03-13T01:23:52 | 1,143 | 16 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| “Five minutes to choose, Charlie. Make it a good one,” the voice cackled.
The seconds ticked mercilessly downwards. His wrists burned against the restraints as his hands strained to stay away from the two glowing red buttons that stared at him from beneath the clock. To his right was his daughter, Anna, gagged and bou... | It's not the best of my writing, but I couldn't see such a great prompt, with a very difficult task go to waste. I have decided to pour out my small amount of talent into this prompt. Feel honored or amused, your choice.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... | 2014-07-07T09:20:49 | 2014-07-07T06:58:02 | 74 | 34 |
[WP] You're a foreigner who goes to live in Japan. Your house is haunted, but the cultural differences are so big, it's the Yokai who ends up being scared of you. | It's been rough moving out here, but it was a good gig and the money couldn't really be turned down. 18 months Rico, that's all you have to do. 78 weeks, you can get through this.
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My colleagues were kind and I quickly got over being a novelty, (being Ginger in Japan is both incredible and demeaning). It's fine. ... | 今日は、こわいさんがビックリした。私はふろに入ってから、いた！
"... You know, for your own language, sometimes you can't even use it right."
I looked at the small girl, as she handed me her diary, face deep red and eyes watery.
"こわいさん ごめんなさい！すみません。" She began bawling in earnest as she ran straight into the wall, her yukata floating in a wind th... | 2019-09-17T15:17:50 | 2019-09-17T13:18:48 | 137 | 97 |
[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. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | "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... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T09:33:38 | 155 | 59 |
[WP] You wake up trapped inside of your favorite MMORPG with millions of other players. Everyone starts out by testing their battle skills and combat abilities, except for you. You take a more "Economical" approach by purchasing land from NPC's and establishing new commerce and trade routes. | When it happened, my first thought was that, at max-level I wanted to test out abilities. I was a Pandaren Monk and could fly at the mere thought of it. It was fun for a bit, but eventually I got over it. Then it hit me, if people were trapped in the game, there was no longer any logging out when they wanted to go to s... | Gold. Gold makes the world go 'round. The other PC's didn't even think of it. Hell, I wouldn't have thought of it if it weren't for my damn stomach. I had been hungry right before "The Merge" and I spent my first minute in this fantastical world going to try the grub. I never realized just how much gold us PC's throw a... | 2017-08-30T03:21:07 | 2017-08-29T21:23:55 | 53 | 34 |
[WP] You are a physicist working on solving an equation. No one has ever solved it and its more a thought exercise. Until you write down a possible answer and the door opens behind you. A black figure enters the room and says "Yeah you arent suppose to know about that." | It’s a strange feeling, arriving at a classroom before anyone else does, even the teacher. Should I leave? Should I stay and wait for the others? Most sensible students would find something else to do to occupy them until then, but my curiosity got the best of me.
I was snooping around the room, searching perhap... | "Man It can't be hard..." said Errod Dankowski, as he went upstairs for another cup of coffee.
"I just checked their site, and these problems look typical, just with a bunch of extra symbols reserved for someone with a degree."
At this point the coffee filter was empty. He knew it would be easy to solve the P=NP prob... | 2022-05-06T05:46:06 | 2022-05-06T03:16:28 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Mages choose the source of their power. Most pick things like fire, or justice, or love. You picked sarcasm. | I found the most powerful wizard in the world in a run-down bar in a run-down city. It used to be lush and pretty here, before overfarming turned the placed into a dust bowl. I can’t imagine why he chose here of all places. It was a hellhole, and the beer sucked.
The worst part was that he didn’t even look that t... | People worry when a medic gets snappish, short-tempered, and sarcastic. Mage - medics have their powers burn out faster than other magical/medical specialities. After losing too many soldiers and facing too many black mage snipers, mage - medics want nothing to do with any will working for any intent.
Of course, I was... | 2017-07-20T13:22:57 | 2017-07-20T13:16:57 | 67 | 47 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | ...PENTAGON 0600 HOURS
"Sir, we're getting reports that the domestic assets are closing in on their designated LZ." The Petty Officer squirmed with nervousness; a bead of sweat dripping down his forehead.
The General muttered something under his breath before addressing the man. "That's what we are calling them now, e... | Waves lap at the shore a young Syrian child picks up a stone to throw at the water her eyes are flooded war has ravaged the city and the future is un-certain a hermet crab catches her eye but a loud thud causes the creature to re-enter its shell, the child runs fearing another bombing raid but her gaze is fixated on th... | 2015-12-07T09:29:24 | 2015-12-07T09:25:02 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I'm getting old. There are more lines on my face than there ever were before, folding out from around my eyes like a fan of creases. I smooth at them desperately, pinning my skin back against my face like some demented plastic surgeon. My mouth pulls into a grimace, teeth bared.
"Come to bed, Lise." George calls fr... | It wasn't like it wasn't noticeable.
Seconds is a long time. By the time the first lace came through the knot, my reflection was standing there, waiting for me. I saw him- wait, I saw *me* stand up, look at me disapprovingly, and wait.
Why was I - he - disapproving of me? Who the fuck made him the high authority on... | 2014-03-22T09:36:01 | 2014-03-22T09:25:13 | 179 | 49 |
[WP]The intergalactic federation of planets is established and Parallel Historians examine the similarities between the civilizations. They find that each planet had a scientist, with the exact same name, that propelled science forward by 300 years. Earth was the only planet without such a person | "Similar name, similar appearance \- well at least, as similar as one can get among the 243 odd races in the Galactic Empire."
"242." Galag corrected, "As there was no similar scientist on Earth."
"242." Anna stood corrected, "Which brings us to the question, why did he skip Earth?"
"He?"
"Well, it is... | As the senator from Zentor reached out to hand his counterpart from Earth a folded piece of paper, he leaned in and whispered a word of warning.
"If the Grand Council discovers that I shared this with you, they will destroy our families and level our planets. Are you sure you can keep this a secret?"
Senator Kastenbe... | 2018-06-10T10:09:38 | 2018-06-10T08:22:35 | 255 | 93 |
[WP] A Man finally lands on mars, he finds human skeletal remains, and quickly realizes that in the past long long ago human's lived on mars only to explore earth as they depleted the resources on mars.
Man finally reaches Mars, during exploration an astronaut discovers human skeletal remains. After some digging the a... | "David, get the fuck out of there!" The voice blasted in my ear, but it was just a faint echo as my brain struggled to process what I was seeing.
"David, the storm is closing in on your position!"
There was no mistaking the familiar color and shape of human bones, any 7th grader who had navigated their way through sc... | After a long and uneventful journey across the Phoenicis Lacus quadrangle, Ben noticed a strange reflection in the distance. Up until now his mission consisted of surface geological and sub-surface soil sample analysis, and figuring out how to comfortably go to the bathroom in the one man rover. Turns out lab equipme... | 2016-10-12T10:23:20 | 2016-10-12T10:05:01 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You are the woman currently beating parked cars with a rake outside of the apartment complex I live in. Explain yourself. | You look out your window and you see a woman. She is walking around the street outside your home hitting cars with a rake.
Look again.
You look out your window and you see a woman. She is terrified, carrying the only weapon she was able to find before racing out of her home. She beats at her surroundings fruitlessly... | You’ll thank me eventually.
You don’t know who these cars belong to. Who lives in your complex. It’s all a facade, all a farce. Do you really know your neighbors? The people who you talk to you, hear, see, every day? No, because they lie, and cheat, and obfuscate. The Lizards lie to us every single day, as they contro... | 2018-07-03T05:10:42 | 2018-07-03T03:57:06 | 855 | 54 |
[WP] You are a retired supervillain who decided to become the gadget provider for many minor heroes. You've made everything possible to remain low to the point of no one knowing you even exist; however, your skills are required again — this time to help a bullied heroine not to fall into evil. | Though Donovan’s past was never tragic, it was his own intellect that made him covet power.
His drive made him build the first components of Maniacal, a fairly mid-tier villain who specialised in integrating technology with his own. Well, mid-tier up until he managed to cripple one of Los Angeles’ foremost heroically ... | **A Return From the Shadows**
Years ago when he was a young man he had been a villain in his own right, he had killed, robbed, and committed all manner of crimes. But when he had reached his peak he had gotten his arm torn off by a powerful hero crippling him for a long time. In the process of building himself a ne... | 2019-12-03T21:04:58 | 2019-12-03T18:44:02 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] You have been wrongly incarcerated, abroad, with a $5M bail. Upon waking you see an old laptop which you discover is set to access just one single website: Google Mail. You must contact the outside world in the desperate hope somebody can help you. Trouble is... You're a Nigerian Prince. | **To: contact@kickstarter.com**
**Cc: contact@huffingtonpost.com, submit@buzzfeed.com**
**From: nigerianprince@gmail.com**
**Subject: Request for Kickstarter campaign**
Dear Kickstarter team,
I understand how this may sound but please hear me out. I am incarcerated in a foreign country for a crime I did not commit... | I type quietly and slowly, as not to alert the guards that I was on the computer. I log in and begin typing out my mass email.
"Hello, my good friend! I seem to be in a bit of trouble. You see, I was wrongly convicted of a crime I did not commit. I need 5 million dollars for bail, and I need it quickly. If you could p... | 2015-06-08T16:32:43 | 2015-06-08T14:45:19 | 95 | 17 |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "This seems kind of weird," Kendra was sitting in a reclining leather chair. Behind her were several people in long judge costumes complete with powdered wigs. "I don't know anything about the worth of someone's life or where they should go."
"Never had a religion or a code of ethics?" one of the judges raised an eyeb... | "Okay, so I just sit in this chair and judge a life?" I asked.
"Yeah, and lucky for you this life died young. Are you ready?"
"Yeah I'm ready... Wow, a VCR. Haven't seen those in a while. Why don't y'all upgrade?"
"Budget cuts. So just put your thoughts into this video and place this person where you really think... | 2016-05-10T19:41:52 | 2016-05-10T18:32:26 | 2,000 | 59 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Day 1.
Sigh..... As I wake up on my 16th birthday I knew it would happen. I was dreading it. I didn't want it, I didn't need it. I didn't believe in it. My parents had useful powers though as much as they hated it. Dad being a doctor of course managed to heal people at a touch. Mum being the cook that she was never ne... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-21T22:46:38 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 62 | 10 |
[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. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | "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 ... | 2017-09-14T16:56:22 | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 136 | 82 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | The other races of the Milky Way cared very little about the blip of a race. You see the galactic population was less unified than one might think. Many races didn't perceive time, speech or thought in the same way. But the one thing they did all understand was matter. Every being was made out of physical matter so tha... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T05:08:25 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 52 | 13 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | Stanley's walk was more of a foot dragging shuffle, his hands tucked in his pockets and his eyes downturned. He didn't look at the sea of beautiful faces walking down the street. They occasionally glanced at him, and he felt sure without having to look that when they did they more often than not smirked at what they sa... | Our appearance is not made up of how we feel about ourselves. it is divined through some force greater than our own. perhaps a god, perhaps the combined psychic force of humanity as a measure of morality. I have to say this because if it was based on how we felt i would be a monster. people see me heading to work in th... | 2015-10-31T07:04:45 | 2015-10-30T21:47:26 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] The courageous hero foretold to defeat the dark queen instead falls in love and marries her, settles down and has a kid, you. Years later, you're awkward parents send you off to university, and the "new" dark lord attacks the city and kidnaps you without realizing who your parents are. | “Finally awake, are you?”
The voice came from behind me as I opened my eyes. The room was dark, but I could make out a spartan cell: stone walls, dusty furniture, cobwebs, the whole shebang. I could hear movement behind me, feet sliding languidly across the floor. The single window of the chamber let in only murky moo... | I hadn't even finished getting through my first month at Uni, when I woke up with a severe headache. That's odd, I don't remember drinking at all. Then I look around to see a stereotypical dark lord base and myself tied up. Plus there's a fuckton of faceless mooks around. I sigh, as it was probably another up and comin... | 2021-11-20T09:36:48 | 2021-11-20T00:07:09 | 30 | 19 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | "A man chooses, a slave obeys.."
I was in Andrew Ryan's office, with a golfclub in my hands. I knew this part of the game, it was where we found out who Atlas really was and that we as the player are a slave controlled by a single phrase.
"Would you kindly.... KILL"
One strike, two strikes, down he goes.
Three stri... | I was sitting at my computer when my phone buzzed with an incoming text. I wasn't doing much, just watching YouTube and passing the time, so I picked up the phone and read what it said. "Reply yes if you can survive the last video game you played." Amused by the notion, despite not knowing who sent it, I replied yes... | 2020-02-17T00:29:57 | 2020-02-16T23:07:24 | 20 | 14 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | Earth had never been dark. Not fully. Not *no fire, no lightning, no stars, no sun, no moon* dark. But I didn't consider that. The first thing I thought on arriving was: shit I forgot to bring lunch. I remember I said, "Sweetie, did you bring lunch?" And she said, "Ah shit. I thought you were dealing with it." And then... | Happy Cake day! This is a really great wp. I hope to do it justice as I am fairly new to this page.
The resounding air curled up as the room began to lose its geometry. Everything became a blur as it stretched and disfigured into the swirling pipe above. The scene was all too familiar. This was your third trip into th... | 2020-04-17T09:04:02 | 2020-04-17T08:40:15 | 297 | 134 |
[WP] You possess a unique superpower. You can observe all statistical data about any person's life. For example, how many days they have left to live, how many people they've killed, how many lovers they've had...
Be creative with this one :) | “So tell me a little about why you applied for this job.”
My palms were sweating, I wiped them on my pants. Twenty-seven days in a row she had eaten a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast, half a cup of milk. Her period would start in 38 hours, she was forty-four years old, one-kid, he weighed one-hundred and fifty pound... | "Detective!" someone shouted it from the street below and I sat up in bed, groggily looking out the window to the street, "you should get a cellphone!"
"Fuck that," I mutter, thinking about how often I see people on their phones. 13% of their lives, wasted. I won't go that path. The cop obviously has a case for me, he... | 2016-08-12T09:59:41 | 2016-08-12T08:45:35 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] “LOVE IS IN THE AIR, I REPEAT, LOVE IS IN THE AIR! SEEK THE NEAREST RESPIRATOR OR SAFE ZONE AND DO NOT GO OUTSIDE UNTIL THE ALL CLEAR IS GIVEN! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HELP ANYONE SHOWING ANY SYMPTOMS! | It started off small. They first experimented on a small town in the middle of nowhere. No one knows where. We only know that the results were extremely promising. The crime rate, which was the reason that town had been picked in the first place, had cratered. The experiment was a resounding success. It was hailed as a... | ##Terrifying Love
It's a funny feeling, falling in love. Like taking off your armor because you know that you can really trust someone. Then, you get scared. The armor was there was a for a reason, to guard you from getting hurt.
You cover and hide, but love finds a way into your thoughts. It's floating in the air li... | 2022-04-20T17:04:36 | 2022-04-20T16:21:58 | 67 | 16 |
[WP] Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance. Each having believed they were the only one until now. | Aleph strolled down the street without paying much attention to his surroundings. At least, that's what any observer would say if they were able to see him. It's not that he was really invisible. People tended to shift their gaze and walk around him in the same way they did when they spotted an unwashed beggar. It also... | I struggled along the crowded New York sidewalk as I always did. Always a rough sea, it seemed as though I was always going against the grain, a stranger against a wall of strangers. Fighting my way through a sea of people, always late. The fact that I was wearing my nice heels today didn't help anything. As I battled ... | 2014-06-16T07:42:15 | 2014-06-16T07:02:26 | 118 | 62 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. | Log-003243+6:
The new batch of applicants was dropped off at my desk today. Mostly the usual riff raff, but one caught my eye. One of those humans was applying for the position. I've heard they are tough as nails. I'll need to look into them a bit more.
Log-003243+7:
Damn this looks like a jackpot. Survivable temperat... | “Oh yay a human applied for this position. Just great.” I whispered to myself begrudgingly.“They meet all of the necessary qualifications but for fucks sake why a human. I feel like the moment I open my mouth, I somehow will end up enslaved. Screw species equality, who let this application through.”
I a Ranitasuliico... | 2020-06-15T22:44:10 | 2020-06-15T22:28:10 | 163 | 103 |
[WP] You discovered the ability to time travel. You go 30 years into the future expecting to meet your future self only to discover that you've been missing for 30 years. | He's been up for more hours than he'd like to think about and has drunk enough coffee to sink the titanic, but it worked.
At least according to the half dozen clocks he has stacked around his desk, it worked. They are all exactly three minutes ahead of the watch on his wrist.
Time travel. Most of his colleagues at ... | #The Leap
I wished to see the future,
as all young men do dream.
To cut the fabric of weary time
and leap across the seam.
Skip the draggings-on of every day
For the treasures that progress holds
Perhaps even meet myself
and become wise before come old.
Who knows what treasures lay ahead?
What sorrow... | 2018-06-17T06:06:14 | 2018-06-17T05:06:43 | 83 | 49 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | I remember the day that I found out who I was.
I had thought that I was Curtis Clark, a 37 year-old pediatric dentist in San Antonio. And, for a time, that is who I was. I had also had memories of a time before that: memories of growing up, of having friends in high school, of struggling to get my degree and opening m... | I always thought that movies were overly theatrical when, in a moment of shock, the protagonist would drop his glass of champagne to shatter dramatically on the floor. Now, with Dom Perignon soaking into my carpet and the soles of my slippers, I wondered if I wasn’t just overly shocked.
I had known for some time that... | 2017-12-30T09:39:15 | 2017-12-30T09:29:05 | 85 | 17 |
[WP] You are one of the best contract killers in the world, but one day, at your dead drop, you find $31.25 in small change, and s letter written by an eleven year old boy | I use my kitchen table for pre-work prep: gear maintenance, charging my phone, making sure the plate carrier was ready. In the middle of it all was the crinkled envelope full of change... and that letter. That damned letter, in surprisingly good handwriting for a preteen, telling me that 'the closet monster' was coming... | I used to live in a Colombian city on the Caribbean called Barranquilla. I was a contracted to be a stuffed bear killer. It was a no blood spill your guts kind of a gig. Then today of all days, I received sign about capsizing on Columbus Day. I finally hit my mark and get my cap & gown.
The letter my 11 year old ... | 2020-10-07T22:59:13 | 2020-10-07T16:21:55 | 35 | 11 |
[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... | Hank excitedly jammed the final rod nearly, but not quite into place.
He lowered his headphones to his shoulders and took a brief moment to beam a little pride at his work. Slowly, he pushed his feet against the floor, leaning his seat back until he was nearly laying flat. He paused, smiling as his unkempt hair spille... | 2018-04-26T10:40:09 | 2018-04-26T09:52:06 | 72 | 54 |
[WP] You, a wizard, have accidentally misread some cursive writing and summoned a lemon instead of the intended demon. Turns out, your new companion is a lot more powerful than you thought.
Kinda based off of a thingy I saw on the internet
EDIT: That's a lotta likes
EDIT: I found the guy that made the comic! /u/JimK... | "Well," you offer, "This is awkward." You cast a glance to the fruit of your labour.
The Lemon says nothing. You furiously double check your notes for the summoning ritual.
"There's... nothing here about what to do if *this* happens," You swallow nervously, "Because this is obviously *not* supposed to happen."
The L... | [Poem]
Title: The Cursed Lemon
I tried to summon a demon
But ended up with a cursed lemon
"How are thou" it said
Hovering over my head
I tried to get rid of its existence
After all, why should I want a worthless fruit?
So, I reached for my golden staff
And shouted "Blazzschaff"
A ferocious flame
Sprouted out from t... | 2019-03-10T00:09:03 | 2019-03-09T19:50:59 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] After eons of refining your work, you summon the genie one last time. "Finally want to use your third wish? I thought the last two has taught you a lesson." You remain silent, and give him a dictionary-thick contract that cast the genie an unavoidable sufferings for eons, and inevitable death. | # Soulmage
**Shivio had once thought genies were never granted freedom due to the selfishness of humankind.** After all, who would hold a Demon of Desire in the palm of their hands, beholden to their every whim... and then let that cosmic power flutter away in the wind? And with all the depravities and horrors Shivio ... | "I want an infinite amount of money any time I want."
It didn't happen like how Finneas Alpine thought it would, like how the familiar cartoons and comic books depicted it. He was alone in his room, then a freshly graduated and freshly unemployed twenty one year old bachelor. His parents barked at his every move, ques... | 2022-12-03T11:57:53 | 2022-12-03T11:33:53 | 1,687 | 222 |
[WP] Ever since you were a child, you have always seen Grim Reaper, regardless if they were doing ordinary things or taking souls. Because of this ability, the two of you have become very close friends. | I don't know when I first met Death -- We've kinda known each other since forever. He just sort of showed up at my crib one day and freaked out when I tried to break his metacarpals.
"Quiet day today," he says, from where he's lying on the beat-up sofa. He's been there ever since I showed him the Season 1 Episode 1 of... | "I knew you'd come," the old man whispered, his voice coarse and dry. Machines beeped at his bedside, pumps hissed, but there was no reply. The room was empty.
A single tear fell down the man's cold, wrinkled cheek.
"You spared me that day," he croaked, the effort to speak straining, "in the crash. I remember it so c... | 2020-10-30T18:10:18 | 2020-10-30T16:23:45 | 164 | 69 |
[WP] You, a superhero, are awful at keeping your identity secret, yet somehow no villains have found you yet. 1 day after accidentally unmasking for the 30th time, you look online to find that the unmasked pictures of you are gone. There's a hackivist group dedicated to protecting your identity. | "Nocturne, thank goodness. I...I need someone to talk to about this latest thing. Its...big." The man exclaimed, landing next to the dark skinned woman. His blue robe rippled in the wind as the two of them stood on a rooftop, overlooking the night of the city. While the blue halfmask obscured his brow, the grimace on h... | "And then they told me you hired them. Behind my back."
"We can't have villains finding out where you live, now can we?"
"No, no, you know that's not what it's about. Plenty of heroes are public these days, Captain Stingray has a fucking cooking show for Christ sake, that isn't what this is about at all."
"Well what... | 2022-01-29T00:59:21 | 2022-01-28T23:29:11 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] "Please remember, TSA rules prohibit bottles of liquid over three ounces, knife blades over two inches, and the use of spells, curses, scrolls or other magic beyond the security checkpoint." | Gregoth the Mighty tapped his massive armored foot against the white linoleum and looked at all of the TSA information placards for the fifth time. He'd been sitting in this damned line for over an hour, and it had barely moved the entire time. "Come on!" At eight feet tall, Gregoth could easily see over the heads of t... | Gareth stood in line watching the people ahead of him dumping the contents of their pockets into trays. He was a regular traveler and the whole thing had become a bit humdrum to him.
Looking up from checking his phone he watched a tall man wreathed in dark robes walk through the security scanner. A blue light flashed ... | 2016-07-08T06:04:49 | 2016-07-08T05:46:53 | 142 | 47 |
[wp] You are immortal and have lived for thousands of years. Never in your entire existence have you ever met anyone like you, so as far as you know, you are the only immortal on earth. Today, with perfect fluency, someone greets you in a language you haven't heard in a long, long time... | "another sun rises"
I stood there unable to move. I did not understand what this feeling was...fear? Surprise? Shock? It had been so long since anything had effected me this way that I was momentarily unable to process...well... anything. It wasn't the words she said that held me so. It wasn't even the way they were ... | “ME HO MINOY
ME HOY MINOY”
Chills of electricity shock the waves around me and I know the gods have summoned their last choice to defeat me and take of my lush land.
MY CLONE AND ARCH NEMESIS HAS BEEN RESSURRECTED I MUST GATHER THE ARMY OF JELLYMEN IMMEDIATELY FOR IF THIS WAR LOST IT SHALL DELIVER US TO FATE FAR WORS... | 2017-12-29T13:42:15 | 2017-12-29T12:24:29 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | "Wait, wait," he interjected. We generally agreed to call all of our
alien visitors "he", they didn't really have a specific gender, and
the galactic translators they'd given us apparently rendered other
pronouns as veiled insults. Still, it felt a bit weird calling the
3-foot tall, 5-legged tower of squishy rings ... | GongSkar, a green man with long dorsal fins, touched his temple and made a few quick comments. There seemed to be an immediate response and he turned back to the humans and nodded sagely.
"Young friends..." he began. Then a child cut him off.
"What was that thing you just talked to?" She said.
Put off balance for ... | 2017-03-09T21:52:03 | 2017-03-09T21:09:12 | 1,110 | 772 |
[WP] Due to outrage over the upcoming trade wars, France has decided to activate it's oldest sleeper agent in the US. The Statue of Liberty. | I knew behind the door was the office of Emmanuel Macron, the information I just received was supposed to be transmitted as fast as possible. Still, I couldn't bring myself to announce him the news, the US finally stepped out of line, and France would react. I feel like when I broke up with my ex, wanting to say it, bu... | The president storms into the situation room. “I cant BELIEVE the statue was actually a mech in disguise this entire time. Situation report.”
The Chief of Staff, in a serious tone, states “We have lost 30% of Manhattan. Our initial military response was ineffective. Mobilizing more units from all nearby bases.”
The s... | 2018-06-04T01:12:35 | 2018-06-03T21:44:15 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] As the last survivor of the apocalypse, in a fit of boredom, you start commenting "last" on every video on YouTube. One day, you receive a notification that your comment has been liked.
Wow, I did *not* expect such a huge turnout for my first ever prompt. The prompt itself arose from a friend and I doing some ran... | Nothingness.
A video labeled Nothingness. It was 10 hours long. It had a black screen. Nothing played. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. No music. No movement. Nothing at all. It seemed eerily similar to the dark of the night that had engulfed my home.
There were no cars zipping by on the street below. There were no... | I stared out at the street. The lamps lighting up the night, houses automatic lights turning on to prevent burglary. At a glance no one would know it was deserted, of course they wouldn’t, they were all dead. All of them. Apart from me.
I didn’t know how I had survived, maybe the fact I had been locked in a bunker or ... | 2020-02-07T12:57:54 | 2020-01-07T09:22:12 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You're a high school student with the ability to have whatever you write come true. One day, you're taking a history test you didn't study for, and despite not wanting to mess up the universe, you REALLY want to get an A.
[removed] | It was a trick I'd figured out for myself quite a while back: write "time immediately stopped moving forward for everyone but me at 1:45pm today" on the desk, so I can have time to think. As always, the universe heeds my written command and I feel the icy tendrils of unnatural change creeping down my back as the studen... | I was really nervous. It was affecting my ability to think rationally so I just stopped and took a deep breath. Then I remembered something I actually hadn't tried yet. So I just wrote it. "My ability won't affect this test and I will still be able to get an A."
After that I just laid down on my seat waiting for the ... | 2018-05-10T01:42:53 | 2018-05-10T00:21:46 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Satan owes you a favor. Now the time has come for him to pay up and he is begging you to choose anything else than what you just asked for. | Satan loomed on the other side of my bedroom mirror. I had cut my palm deeper than I had intended to when I had drawn the summoning sigil, making it hard to see him through the blood smeared thickly on the glass. From his voice, though, I could tell that he was annoyed. "Sorry, darling, I'm a little busy right now. Can... | "C'mon Luci, you OWE me this one,"
"Dammit Charles, you know my code of conduct, I am only allowed to interact with humans in dark hours and I honestly cannot grant you that..." Luci said with a tired expression, "The order of the universe is already hanging in the balance, I have to control everything! Do you know ho... | 2015-07-06T06:55:47 | 2015-07-06T03:08:15 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | You blink once. And twice. You look at the beautiful and alluring woman in front of you in confusion. Certainly you must have heard it all wrong.
“So... what’s the downside again?”
The woman in question smiles at you, and once again you feel fear. You couldn’t pinpoint what was unsettling about her smile, but it made... | Of course, it was not very pleasant. I just failed my payment. But then, it was not easy with the king getting his taxes, with my wife and children needing food. Yes, we had money, usually.
Not that winter. Who could have thought that it is war again? Who could have thought that we had to flee? We returned a few month... | 2019-06-25T12:37:00 | 2019-06-25T12:08:02 | 67 | 19 |
[WP] Every year several hundred thousand people go missing worldwide, the crazies said it was aliens. When you were abducted, you found out they were right. Turns out humans make astonishingly good pets. Not because we're smart or strong or fast but because... we're adorable. | It reminded me of my leopard gecko.
Mine was bred in captivity, of course. He was a cute little thing, the length of my hand, yellow and black spotted, with the sweetest little smile. Leopard geckos are like that - they look like they're smiling. That was what caught my attention as a kid. I spent weeks pleading and h... | I awoke to a brightly lit, white, sterile room. Oh so my housemate had found me. I searched my body for sighns of pain. None. Oh god. I searched my brain for the usual fuzz of a hazy drug addled mind but found nothing. 34 x 3 = 3x3 =9 4x3 =12 90+12=102.
Couldn't even add to 10 when high on pain killers.
I tried to m... | 2020-09-09T09:24:08 | 2020-09-09T08:05:22 | 379 | 53 |
[WP] As a silly joke to yourself, you sometimes open notepad to write a message to 'your fbi agent' before deleting it. Today in the middle of browsing reddit, notepad opened and a reply appeared. "I'm sorry, they're coming for you. Run." | ((Triggers))
It was just a joke. I'd open my laptop up, and write a note to "Special Agent In Charge Reno"; totally made up. Get my little joke done, and delete the file.
I finished school, got my degree, landed a position with a defense contractor. It was good. Life was fine. I got married, though we never had ... | "I'm sorry. They're coming for you. Run".
The slice of pizza burned his mouth as he took a greedy bite,
getting oil all over his hands. "Who is this?" he typed drunkenly while sitting on his unmade bed,
"Did you hack my computer?". "Ah fuck, fuck" he groaned as the oil
dripped on his keyboard.
He wiped his hands on... | 2020-01-04T10:38:40 | 2020-01-04T08:41:01 | 57 | 20 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | Technically, I’m not breaking any law, though I doubt that argument would stand up in court. If you knew me in real life you wouldn’t look at me twice. I don’t look like a criminal type. Smart, well-dressed but not ostentatious. Polite, well-mannered. Intelligent, but not strikingly so. Perhaps you’d think in my line o... | /**first prompt and writing on mobile be gentle**\
"Sir, we have another one."
At first, no one realized what was happening. A few people reported almost instantaneous change. Certain people were instantly changed, but they went largely unnoticed in the western world. Politicians from Britain and America lead the cha... | 2016-11-24T23:31:46 | 2016-11-24T21:39:56 | 100 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | Tears flowed as she looked at the community bench beneath us, avoiding my gaze. "I'm... I'm sorry James. I can't do this anymore." Her voice quivered.
"But we've had such great times together! Don't throw it all away!" I pleaded back.
"I don't feel happy anymore. I don't enjoy us. Why would I stay when I know it can'... | Well, this isn't so bad. I get to help all these people, and bonus, I don't even need a face mask.
Another guy sneezed on me, and I didn't even feel it. It may be mundane, but with this, I will save lives!
Unless, of course, I am shot, not immune to that. | 2017-08-06T13:24:50 | 2017-08-06T13:13:41 | 407 | 27 |
[WP] You finally track down a group of demons just as they perform a ritual to summon something far worse. As the last demon lies dying on the ground you take a sigh of relief that you managed to stop them in time. Grinning, the demon looks at you and says, ”You didn’t stop us. You’re here.” | I shot it again, out of reflex. The grinning face disintegrated into fine pulp, flesh blasted away from yellow bone. Another corpse spoke up and I whirled. One hand raised my axe, but nothing terribly menacing presented itself. Instead, the right half of a torso had begun breathing again, the right half of the head tha... | I had lived life here on Earth for 31 years.
I’d like to think that in that time I’ve evolved, as a human. Like most, I’d had moments of “call to the void”, as well as thoughts of “hmm I wonder what would happen if I unprovoked punched or killed this random individual in front of me.”
I’ve also had thoughts about th... | 2018-07-01T19:13:14 | 2018-07-01T18:25:25 | 256 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Flam, a plump little man, looked down at his bleeding body. Stabbed. In the back. An actual backstab! Those had been out of vogue for at least fifty years. The Assassin's Guild would hear of this. He looked up at the imposing figure beside him, it's billowing black cloak hanging on a skeletal frame. "So it's a game, ye... | "Call it" Death said, the coin twirling between his bony fingers.
"Do we really need to keep going through this charade?" I asked.
How long had it been now? 500 lives? The first time I went through, I expected reincarnation, but life... or I guess Death, was not so kind. I got to relive life from the point I cho... | 2016-09-23T09:58:51 | 2016-09-23T08:47:36 | 97 | 15 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | “You’re a cheat, a fraud!” he shouted, having ducked under my line of security holding off the adoring crowds. He shoved me rudely backwards, and I felt him spit in my face.
The hall went silent, and a thousand camera flashes lit up as my fans started snapping away. Far more common in the early days, not so much now, ... | It's strange to see a great catastrophe
And stand serene and calm to watch it grow.
My power's one that very few can see
And fewer still will ever even know.
When chaos reigns supreme, I find someone
Convince them each that they can save the day.
I work them up and off they surely run
While on the sideline... | 2017-06-21T13:38:19 | 2017-06-21T10:35:45 | 69 | 39 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | I was merely an observer- a "recorder", someone who was there to record history while it was in the making. I didn't *have* a super power- it seemed my fate was merely to watch those who did.
I was content with it, for the most part- only when I saw someone in need, someone in danger, would I feel the pang of misery t... | Ever since the Great Event, people have been developing powers when they reach puberty. It opened up a whole new field of study for everyone and changed the world in numerous ways.
Scientists and psychologists spent a decade, at least, trying to find a pattern to who gets which powers. And they more or less have it d... | 2020-06-15T11:09:28 | 2020-06-15T09:50:13 | 1,296 | 363 |
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