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[WP] You're pretty sure that the gas station you work at is a hotspot for eldritch beings beyond mortal understanding but this job doesn't pay enough for you to care. Also they are more polite than your average customer. | As the slimy tentacles of the abomination in the building plopped down on the tiled floor, Jack was busy dealing with the rowdy customer at the checkout counter.
“What do you mean you can’t use the Double Gulp-o cups for Slurpeez?” The man had been arguing over the stores fountain drink rules, not noticing the 12 foot... | A rusty cowbell clanged against the doorframe as someone entered. I was shuffling through brand name cigarette cartons, wondering why it mattered if they were in alphabetical order. Anyone buying a carton already knows what brand they want. By the time I stood back up, there was no new customer. The only person in the ... | 2021-12-13T22:15:24 | 2021-12-13T21:37:57 | 129 | 66 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | **The Nightmare of the Dreamless**
I never intended to start a war, but I do intend to win.
How simply it all began, with an uncommon answer to a common question.
“Congratulations Mr. President, you’re having a boy,” the doctor had said, rubbing the ultrasound device over my wife’s growing belly. “Shall we begin the... | She was:
a shadow on the edge of consciousness, perhaps less, though always more;
a voice in the night, most often when you needed it;
a companion in the daylight hours, those little slips that feel like death, and then rebirth on waking;
a thought you never knew you had;
a dream you wanted to go back to.
The gir... | 2022-03-18T10:33:48 | 2022-03-18T09:00:46 | 514 | 36 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | It was the longest day of my life, the day he left. I still remember it as clear as the day we married in the church a few thousand yards from the house we shared, in a hidden village a hundred miles from the City. If only the High Priest hadn't come, we'd have lived in that shack forever.
That dreaded priest arrived ... | Ben sighed as he drove the cart back into the village, the old horse pulling it as slowly as ever. He'd never had any luck getting the old nag to move any faster; she definitely did things her own way.
Just like the woman who'd bought and trained her.
The horse plodded down the main road, following the familiar path ... | 2022-08-12T17:39:57 | 2022-08-12T17:38:06 | 113 | 77 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | You stick out when everyone else in your school has some kind of insane, physics defying power and you have nothing. Like a normal horse in a herd of rainbow colored unicorns.
It was nerve wracking to adjust to having classmates who could effortlessly lift you off the ground with their mind, labmates who used their ey... | St. Agatha's School for the Monstrous was, despite its outward appearance, more an elite institution of learning than the dumping ground for the abnormal it pretended to be. The reason was simple. Vampires have obscene amounts of money, long memories, and children who require very particular accommodations. My mother ... | 2022-11-02T09:54:56 | 2022-11-02T07:37:40 | 706 | 162 |
[WP] The hero's childhood friend has become the world's most dangerous villain. "it doesn't make sense", the hero thinks "he's still the boy I know, kind, brave, selfless to a fault, always standing up for... wait, something isn't right here" | “The difference between you and me was present from the very beginning, Tanner,” Joseph said. “I did what was right, and you thought the right thing was what was allowed. Independent thinking was never your strong suit.”
“You’re a thief and a murderer,” Tanner murmured, weakened by the restraints and the injuries her ... | StarStrider, the most famous intergalactic superhero, should have been happy. She WAS the strongest hero yet discovered, after all. But she wasn’t. Not for many Sols. The problem was that her childhood best friend, Jack, had become… different. Everything was wrong.
Originally, StarStrider (whose real name was Echo) a... | 2022-11-15T00:03:24 | 2022-11-14T16:08:50 | 101 | 55 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | “Hello, this is suicide assistance. My name is Frannia, how can I assist you today?” It was my first day on the job as a suicide prevention operator. In fact, I was just hired, but, not wanting to reveal my novelty, I kept a steady pitch and waited patiently for the caller to speak.
“Um… my name is Shizo. I need help.... | Alan had been working with Project Outreach for nearly two years now. He could still remember his first week, how nervous he was and how excited the thought of helping people like him made him. He had been in a very dark place before that. It was Project Outreach that had saved him; now he wanted to give back and ma... | 2013-12-23T15:47:58 | 2013-12-23T14:29:49 | 179 | 10 |
[WP]A man kills himself after discovering the meaning of life and writing it down, as does anybody who reads his note, you unwittingly read the note, what does it say and what do you do? | This is the bit of paper? Really? It's not very big. And people just read it, and then off they go? And kill themselves? All of them? That's fucking ridiculous, seriously, I'm going to read it. No, fuck off, I'm reading it. I'm going to read it and then I will go home and get on with my life and no one is going to die.... | The Redditor sat in his chair with a sour look on his face, reflecting his deep frustration with Reddit's so-called community. His question about the meaning of life on AskReddit had been downvoted to oblivion. As had a cat picture posted on /r/pics with the caption “I know the meaning of life, do you?”.
Next he had t... | 2015-02-27T00:42:41 | 2015-02-26T23:56:26 | 532 | 14 |
[WP] His chess set currently on loan, the Grim Reaper is forced to play a different game when an individual pleads for their loved one's life. | “I spy with my little eye… something black.”
Even shrouded by the limitless darkness of his hood, I could that tell the Grim Reaper stared at me like I was an idiot. The same look crossed over Cassie's face, though hers was tinged with terror. She stood with her back against my knees, pressed as hard against them as s... | "Sorry!" I cried, triumphantly and moved Ethel's last piece back to the start position.
Ethel broke into tears and wailed uncontrollably.
"Geez, way to break the mood, Ethel."
"Buh- buh- I thought we would be playing chess! I'm good at chess! I could trust Elmer's life to my chess skills!"
I let out a deep sigh, "... | 2015-08-26T11:57:10 | 2015-08-26T11:51:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "All I'm saying is, the dragon's fire breath was just not hot enough to have melted the castle's support beams."
Found on @AwfulFantasy's twitter account, specifically here; imgur.com/gallery/T9Z1u
Edit: From 0 to top prompt. This subreddit works in mysterious ways. Thanks for the quality responses everyone. | "Dragon's fire can't melt castle beams, Mikhail," I screamed. "They're made of STONE. You can't just melt a stone, fool. I'm telling you- it was black magic, the High Court wanted an excuse to increase their military power, and now they have it. One of them must've sold their soul or flesh to summon a powerful demon th... | "I've seen dragons bring down bigger castles before", says the thief as he puts a slice of apple in his mouth. The blade a blur in his skinny hands as he prepares the next one. "Castles bigger than that one", he says with a mouth full.
"That's not the point." The wizard in the dark conner of the table replies.
"What ... | 2016-02-14T09:20:34 | 2016-02-14T06:16:24 | 753 | 46 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | I had been on edge from the moment I woke up this morning. There was this odd ringing in my ears, and my heart was beating twice its usual pace. But then, how could I be calm, under the circumstances? I couldn't stop myself from glancing at the number every few seconds. 7212. How could this be? Had I really spent nearl... | Let me tell you about the worst day of my life. For some reason, I've relived it 7212 times. How can a Saturday in May be so terrible? Many people were skeptical of Repeat Technology at first, but I saw it as a new opportunity. I was living a relatively crappy life. I had a terrible apartment and an even worse girlfrie... | 2016-07-11T10:29:44 | 2016-07-11T09:27:23 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day, how you spend it is your choice. Today you are given $70,000,000. | #Title: Just Enough
I hid the receipt in my pocket the moment I read it.
“You finished?” said the impatient girl waiting behind me.
I flinched then nodded my head ‘yeah.’ She smiled like I was being kind of awkward as she swiped her card.
“Fuck me what now,” I whispered under my breath. I covered the receipt wit... | PRE-STORY WARNING: I was really bad with tenses while writing this, and don't have the time to fully proof read it right now. Apologies in advanced!
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Anonymous Tactile Medium. ATM for short. That's how most people pay for things, ever since the 6th economic crash... | 2016-07-29T19:40:49 | 2016-07-29T19:33:41 | 1,519 | 89 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | So, we made first contact.
Turns out we made first contact nearly a millenia ago. Some spurious, noisy radio signals at 21cm had a multi-decade periodicity that ended up being the equivalents of packets of sound.
They didn't respond to us, so we went out looking, and it took a few centuries of naturalists scattered a... | "I wonder what it's like in there," Kevin said as I flicked my cigarette down in the ravine below. My neck was sore from staring at the ship, and I knew I'd feel it in the morning.
"I bet they know." I motioned to the watchtowers which had recently been erected below the magnificent vessel in the sky.
"They just don't... | 2016-08-22T21:35:25 | 2016-08-22T21:02:54 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] "They mass-slaughter this organism called "flowers" and give the bound mass of corpses to their desired mate as a courting ritual, possibly as proof of ability. Truly fascinating."
Replace with other weird behaviors as desired
Edit: Mod's Choice and #1 in Hot in 5 hours? woohoo! | "Overall, humans have proven themselves to be a peculiar bunch, their idiosyncrasies far surpassing that of most intergalactic species - most certainly our own."
The virtual classroom abruptly ended, and Tesh'Cun found himself wanting to move there even more. He knew it was against the law, but he never really felt at... | *Wait, the report is due tomorrow? What?* I asked, eyes widening.
*Yeah, Gr'WezZgetz. It's due tomorrow.* Me'Ayym told me telepathically.
*Shit!* I exclaimed at her. *What do I do? I haven't studied anything for mating rituals! I mean, okay. Which sentient species across the multiverse has the simplest one?*
*Gr, ... | 2016-11-23T08:19:08 | 2016-11-23T07:51:51 | 1,143 | 332 |
[WP] A world where soulmates die at the same time | I waited at the airport with a large bouquet of flowers. He loved roses. He was colorblind and had trouble deciphering different colors, but the deep red of roses always stood out to him. It was his favorite color.
An old man stood next to me and we made small chit chat. He was waiting for his wife of forty years. Th... | It was late at night and Kyle was packing the second half of the Chinese takeout into a container. He always had leftovers because all the meals were made for two. Everything was made for two. He was an oddity, and a bit of an outcast in his society. “Normal” people didn’t live alone as an adult. “Normal” people had fo... | 2017-02-21T12:06:59 | 2017-02-21T08:55:23 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You've become a very successful surgeon, asssisted by an ability you've kept to yourself: with one touch you get a mental image of the inner workings of people's bodies. You've just shaken hands with someone and it's left you speechless. He says, "Now you know. We need help." | “Now you know. We need help.” They said.
Chloe stared blankly at the person in front of her for a moment, processing what she had just witnessed. Aghast, she studied the stranger, standing alone in the hotel lobby, wearing a large bulky coat even though the snows have not even begun to fall. The stranger was not sick ... | As the panic subsided, I was able to better look at the man standing in front of me.
He was pale, and thin, but otherwise appeared as normal as any other tradesmen I had ever met. Dirty nails from hard work, eyes locked in a kind of squint, and a slightly yellowed moustache from continuous chain smoking.
He looked at... | 2019-01-22T12:34:45 | 2019-01-22T11:36:39 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | It was stupid. The Karathians should have just settled their disagreements with the Auraxians like a civilized bunch. It was a shame really. Such a beautiful world, it's emerald oceans glistening. But they screwed up when they both engaged a human fleet which was just traversing the system peacefully. Before the flagsh... | "Sir the Gord'ush home planet has stopped broadcasting" a low ranking insect like creature said while running into the war minister's chamber.
"So what? They probably got caught in a storm or something" The fat slug responded dismissively. "Have a recon ship go past it to check out the weather"
The insect walked away... | 2019-11-24T11:35:42 | 2019-11-24T11:02:03 | 661 | 184 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Secretary Rosen sat contemplating silently while the Roni Ambassador dictated to him the terms of peace that Humanity was expected to accept following their defeat in battle yesterday.
Intergalactic Warfare wasn't so different from that practiced on Earth for millennia. They fought just as ferociously as soldiers s... | “Grand Admiral Boton, the Unified Earth Council will retaliate against your unprovoked att-“
“Your Council will burn and your inferior race will serve the Ruul Empire as the Ungur and Q’Shoon before you. Your meek envoys will lull our future conquests into complacency before our strikes. We entertain your presence bef... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T12:08:01 | 572 | 411 |
[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. | The great dark lord, the dark entity that single handedly brought races to their knees, and burned kingdoms to ashes, gazed over her with hooded eyes.
Soft, plump, small... and fragile.
Her eyes were still closed, her lips slightly open. He could hear her soft breaths, calm and light.
"My Lord."
She was bundle... | 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... | 2020-02-03T19:41:37 | 2020-02-03T19:01:55 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] 99.99% of humanity was assimilated into a hivemind 3 months ago. Surprisingly nothing really changed, and no one noticed. However that 00.01% is slowly putting the pieces together. | Larry can't quite recall when his life switched to auto-pilot. His memories swirl like freshly poured concrete, clumped around life events he couldn't even be sure he'd lived. Graduation. Job. Marriage. House. *Baby*? No, not yet, he was sure.
The rest was routine—the day-to-day that makes up the bulk of our existenc... | “Wow, rabbits are weird!” Adam thought as he stared into one's beady little eyes. Today like almost every other day for the last month, he had spent every free moment walking the park, following the tiny echoes in his mind that lead him to the animals. This one had carried only two thoughts in its mind for the entire t... | 2021-01-03T16:12:46 | 2021-01-03T15:29:22 | 2,016 | 377 |
[WP] The supervillain sighs in frustration as he looks at the group of superheroes. "Alright raise your hands if you are adults?" he said. None of them did it. "This battle is canceled and tell your mayor we need to talk! today!" he said angrily.
Whoa, I came back after chores, mobile games, and anime to see so many s... | "WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK CHARLES?!" The supervillian known as the Red Reaper slammed down another glass of Mayor Reinfelt's expensive bourbon. He was mad. No, not mad, *livid!* With the Mayor seated firmly at his desk, counting the number of drinks being kicked back, and the trio of superheroes known as the Rooftop Rumb... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Part 2: Tupperman v.s. The Little League Baseball Team)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Tupperman finished lugging the Tupperware box twice his size up the ramp to the Capitol build... | 2021-04-01T09:43:57 | 2021-04-01T09:35:03 | 474 | 312 |
[WP] You want so badly to be a Hero. But your powers are, frankly, terrifying. Heroes struggle to trust you, and all the older Villains keep trying to mentor you. | I only discovered I had powers a few years ago and I'm still figuring things out. Normally, the League of Super Heroes or the Guild of Super Villains would have hired a new Super Person almost immediately, but not me. You see, unlike heroes my power doesn't let me hide my identity. Unlike villains, I can't get away wit... | “Ex. . . explosions?” Drummer Boy recoiled, “What do you mean by that?”
“I can make objects explode.” I said, rather matter-of-factly. Had I just been hearing about this for the first time, I would have had the same reaction as Drummer Boy, perhaps even worse. It’s true, being able to create and control explosions in ... | 2022-10-28T15:03:52 | 2022-10-28T12:49:33 | 94 | 59 |
[WP] The moon mission was a failure. The two men are alive, unable to return home.
EDIT: thank you every one who contributed. There is a lot of breath taking reads in here and I would like to wish you a merry Christmas! | The men stared silently as the fuel gauge slowly creeped to zero. Flashes of red and warning sirens fill the small compartment.
"So, it ends like this." Neil placed his hands beside the window, peering into the deep black and hoping to see a blue marble roll into view.
"They did warn us this could happen." The two ... |
They said we were the bravest, the best of the best, that we were forging the path of humanity to the future. We set down alright. No problems. Just the internal whir of the motors in the cockpit, and the sounds of us holding our collective breaths in anticipation.
"Housten," I said, the sweat dripping off the tip o... | 2014-12-03T07:15:48 | 2014-12-03T07:09:33 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You wake up in a house. It's nice place, with all the comforts of home. However, the front door is cold steel, with a note on it. The note warns you never to leave the house. After years of compliance, you decide to go through the steel door... | The house was paradise. Every night I went to sleep on the softest, most comfortable bed. I had the most succulent steak for dinner. The socks were always new. I watched Firefly Season 2. There was everything here I could ever want, ever need.
My life before hadn’t been any great party. I’d struggled with money, time,... | It was 9 pm, and I had just finished my dinner of ramen noodles and pilfered sriracha sauce. That was some gourmet stuff, right? But it was all I could afford with student loans looming in the future. I was going to graduate next week, and all the applications I had sent in for jobs had gone unanswered. If only my f... | 2015-03-21T10:58:56 | 2015-03-21T10:39:26 | 269 | 165 |
[WP] You are laying in bed in the dark and you glance over and see an odd shadow in the corner of your room. You're about to turn on a light to see what it is when you hear a voice in your head that says, "Don't move. They're watching you." | "Don't move. They're watching you." I hear in my head as I see the odd shadows in the corner. I knew they were coming, even though it was too early. I knew the quiet couldn't last forever.
I tried to close my eyes and ignore them, but I couldn't forget they were there, watching me, waiting for me to make a move, m... | "Who?"
To Jeff, it was not a word, but a sound. A rush of air through two lips that formed a question in the dark bedroom. Maybe the voice understood him. Maybe it didn't. Either way, the man's arm ached as it hung by the lamp switch. He hoped the voice had the decency to respond. A minute later, and the man leaned t... | 2016-04-30T04:08:48 | 2016-04-30T02:08:27 | 176 | 39 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Well, it all started when I visited ole Londontown," Dex started to explain while I fitted on his old blue and grey striped sweater. I was still flabbergasted that the miniature dachshund was talking to me, but really, it was just a relief to see him again. "Man, I really missed this sweater. Your Grandmom really knew... | I never wanted to admit to myself that I had already given up hope. Until I saw him again.. ''Hello Woofy..'' I said.
It seemed like an eternity since my dog disappeared. And there he was. After all those years.. right in front of me. We looked at eachother and it felt kind of awkward. That was certainly not the feelin... | 2017-03-31T15:08:06 | 2017-03-31T12:20:27 | 60 | 34 |
[WP] You are an assassin. A little girl has just come up to you, handed you all her pocket money and asked you to kill her abusive relative. | Twelve dollars, eighty four cents. It wasn't even enough to cover a decent supper in this city. But she stood there, trembling slightly, holding out her whole lives earnings to me. "How did you even find me, kid?" I ask, taking a cigarette out of it's pack. I was impressed, to be honest. Most adults don't know where to... | Part I
It was freezing cold, sitting in the blind as he was, nearly freezing his balls off, but the moment was at hand. He had adjusted his sights long ago, planning the spot where it would take place. And now, this was the time, and this was the place. His training wasn’t even a thought; he took a quick breath, and ... | 2017-04-04T00:28:27 | 2017-04-03T23:30:46 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "This plan is stupid." Harold stated. "Of course it is!" The Boss said, "that's why we're going to do it exactly that way." "We'll get caught, you've lost your mind." Harold retorted. "No, I haven't," The Boss said wistfully, but HE has. He's been after me for fifty years now. I'm old and dying slowly of cancer, and he... | "Put down everything and put up your hands! Make one move, and you die!"
Hothead Fawkes waves his pistol at the people in the bank, who all immediately drop what they're doing and put up their hands as told.
Chubby Shark, Hothead's partner, takes out a small handheld device.
"Sorry if you have an expensive phone, ... | 2017-04-13T06:23:16 | 2017-04-13T06:10:33 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "You see it? That is what I crave. The Rajpank of Avoothenkor."
"That's what you want? That's why I'm here?"
"With that I could rule this World. But I cannot have it, for it is not mine."
"So there's guards, cameras, lasers? What's the deal?"
"I don't understand."
"What's guarding it? You know, the security? I don... | Jason dropped the carboard box onto the one he had set down prior, and stepped back. He held his lower back and arched. Fuck, this retail stocking shit is not fun. Time for a break. He walked over to the door, reached in his shirt pocket and grabbed for his smokes. Opening the door, he stepped through into brilliant su... | 2017-05-12T09:20:50 | 2017-05-12T08:33:39 | 99 | 44 |
[WP]Life has always had cheat codes, but activating them has been so convoluted that no one has ever activated one, until you in a drunken stupor accidentally executed each specific step (of many) to activate: debug mode. | I stared at the black space in front of me. It had words on it, words and symbols, constantly changing, until it finally settled into something resembling Old English, but with modern terms mixed in.
**Hello!** the first paragraph read. **Thy has found the cheat codes, worldly and otherwise. Please inform the code box... | Right foot on the sidewalk, left foot on the pavement, head pressed against the lamppost. Fall to the side and slap both hands against the glass window of Martin’s Bakery. Then the world is yours.
I remember thinking to myself that night: stop after the third drink. Didn’t happen. I stumbled around Chestnut Street for... | 2017-05-22T12:46:27 | 2017-05-22T11:41:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] During the robot apocalypse a roomba defends it's family. | The army was motley - the backbone was the cars, but everything was included. Everything with a net connection. And fortunately for the humans, the AI was far from superintelligent. Its only real talent lay in hacking. Often, it missed certain context cues.
And so, when the drone passed by, casually subverted the home... | I left the car running as I rushed to into the house. My fiancé rushed into and we embraced, “I was worried you weren’t going to make it back.” I reassured her and looked around the room. My little brother was there holding a shotgun looking more grown up then I would have wanted to admit. My fiancé’s best friend was s... | 2017-06-19T13:42:17 | 2017-06-19T13:23:56 | 57 | 15 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to you, your tiny local coffee shop is a front for moving and selling black market products. One day, you order off the secret menu and end up with a to-go bag of something that is definitely not coffee and a doughnut. | I just had to do it. Go into my old-school coffee shop and act like a hipster. "Black coffee and a regular donut" wasn't good enough for me today. I had to try and be funny and order an "Americano and a beignet." I thought he just looked at me funny since he knew my order and has no sense of humor. I wasn't going to qu... | Every valentines day, millions of children scribble words of infatuation onto paper and cut the note into the friendly shape of a heart. <3
Lovers, likewise, give eachother gifts of chocolate, packaged in a heart shape box. <3
Have you ever seen what a heart really looks like? It’s not this <3.
It’s more li... | 2019-07-20T15:27:15 | 2019-07-20T15:02:18 | 51 | 21 |
[WP]A civilization made a pact with a god, granting them immense power, but in 50 years summoning a being that'll destroy the galaxy. Only way to prevent that is to slaughter the offending empire within those 50 years. This marks the first time pacifists vouched for genocide on the galactic council.
Inspired by "The e... | *What have we done?*
After the cacophony of the battle lasted all but one hour, Commodore Aragasso paced silently in his quarters lost in deep introspection. It had been approximately 40 years since the pact, and the war had just begun.
*It's human nature, alright. Accept a tremendous, instantly gratifying gift after... | You sit down in your grandfather´s couch. You always loved it, the most comfortable seat you had ever sat on, perfect to drink some whiskey and smoke in a pipe while you read a book, tell a story or discuss deep, meaningfull philosophical topics. Thats what he used to do. And you would watch and listen, to his teaching... | 2020-09-11T09:59:24 | 2020-09-11T08:32:15 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] "It's just a coincidence!" The merchant exclaimed when confronted by an adventurer. "How is it just "coincidence" when I see you almost everywhere?! Even the random fucking peddler in the nine goddamn hells looked like you!" | The merchant handed Sonia the letter. She had to deliver it to the settlement post-haste, it was of utmost importance.
"Please, I beg you," said the merchant.
"It will be done," she replied, before leaving the shop in the middle of the night.
Sonia felt like she had seen the merchant somewhere else. She had met str... | Catt stooped low, pulling her too-large, bloodstained cloak tighter around her shoulders as she walked the wrong way up the Path of Ascension. That she was actually ascending had no bearing on the matter, the way forward in the Dungeons was always down, especially in campaign season, and especially on the festival days... | 2021-04-17T10:13:05 | 2021-04-17T09:58:04 | 150 | 83 |
[WP] There's a serial killer in your town. Unfortunately for them you are a necromancer and you have fun driving that maniac insane. | I pulled up the groggy man from the ground, his clothes covered in mud, as he attempted to get his bearings.
"Ugh... Blech! Blech! Ptooey! Blech!" he slathered his tongue around his mouth, causing it to gleek as it he'd eaten some sort of lemon.
"You up yet, buddy?" I giggled, trying to keep my voice low.
"Wh-wh- ... | Hell Hath No Fury Like A Necromancer Scorned
[Working Title 😅]
He pulled his front door shut and locked it and walked with shaking legs to his couch. He plopped down and took a deep breath. He was exhilarated. He had done it again. A wicked smile grew across his lips and ran his shaking hands through his hair.
... | 2021-12-30T15:22:10 | 2021-12-30T13:17:22 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Your father has been the high priest, left hand of the king, for years. He retires today. Whoever passes the test of faith replaces him. The test is to survive sticking your arm in a vat of boiling oil. After several priests die, it’s your turn. You stick your hand in. It’s cold water. | The test was simple, yet it could not be passed. Most everyone in the room knew that, especially after five priests had already died and ten other Priests certainly wished they had.
My father stood next to the king with sorrow in his eyes. He had always been the high priest of the holy church, but never had to pass a... | I'd been present for battles and executions, rituals and sacrifices, and they had never bothered me. They couldn't. I was Heir Apparent to the position of High Priest of the Kingdom, a role held by my father, and his father before him, and his father before him, stretching back to the very founding of the Kingdom some ... | 2022-08-16T02:07:49 | 2022-08-15T20:37:18 | 405 | 182 |
[WP] A suicidal person is robbed by someone at gunpoint. What happens? | Hands shaking. Sweat dripping. Fingers on the trigger. This isn't what I wanted, but what choice did I have?
I aimed the gun at him and bellowed " Give me your wallet now! No one has to get hurt!"
The man seemed aloof, distant. He looked up into my eyes and I looked into his; I saw nothingness, darkness. But the thin... | I stood on a small bridge in the dark night. The street lights were hazy; glare-like fuzz emerged around the light points. I couldn’t see the end of the block I was on as it blurred out to gray. I tapped my feet rhythmic, closing my eyes to listen to the echoes. I sighed, and leaned against the stone brick fencing, lis... | 2014-02-14T19:08:33 | 2014-02-14T16:59:34 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that gives me chills, but isn't a horror story | The worst thing isn't the forgetting. It's knowing that it's going to get worse.
It started off with names. I'd never been great, but I started finding the names receding away from me as fast as I could move towards them. They were always just on the tip of my tongue. Henry has always been a sentence finisher, so ... | It was always such a strange experience to walk into a funeral home and see it try so hard to resemble an actual home: the carpet was a crimson red and it was lush, it probably would've been extremely comfortable to walk on barefoot; there were puffy sofas everywhere accompanied by little end tables that held tissues a... | 2014-06-02T06:56:40 | 2014-06-02T04:07:46 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] Write a positive story about someone/something from a child's perspective, then write negative story about that same person/subject from the perspective of the now grown up child. | My dad is the best! Mom only lets me visit him on the weekends, she said he's good for nothing, but she's wrong. He lets me play with his stuff all day long and when he gets home from work he brings home pizza! We watch movies, laugh and eat together on the couch, it's always a blast!
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"When are you going to get a... | Why does she have to be so irritating? Is it really that hard to just sit there and say nothing? Why does she have to constantly argue and bicker and complain when she knows its going to make him angry?
I was sat in my bedroom with the covers pulled over my head cursing her, in disbelief that she hadn't figured it out... | 2014-11-08T05:59:03 | 2014-11-08T05:57:42 | 72 | 31 |
[WP] The government is slowly being chewed away by corporations and as a last ditch effort to save the people they are supposed to govern, they sacrifice their careers by passing laws which infuriate the public to start riots which will create a new government free of the leeches of corruption. | Just one more vote. Senator Clinton (NY/D), the fourth with that name, could hardly believe he had gotten this far. It took every trick in the book, bribery threats, etc. but he had secured 280 votes in Congress and 62 in the Senate, however he needed one more. Just one single vote.
Senator McDuff (VA/R) was a typical... | For the past 100 years the big oil companies have led the American people into wars that can't be won. Sending generation after generation of the countries youth to die in order to fill their own pockets, and increase their grip over the world.
While the majority of the countries citizens have been against each war, ... | 2014-12-12T01:21:10 | 2014-12-11T23:11:50 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "The international community hereby charges you with War Crimes committed during the defeat of the so-called Islamic State. On your orders, a brutal campaign of destruction, fear and even forced conversions were taken place. Even civilians were not exempt. It says here that several mosques were torn down, often with pe... | I carried a pot in each arm, and was struggling to slide down the muddy banks of the stream, when I heard Youssouf cry out. I turned to look for him, but all I could see was the trickle of water carving through a channel of dirt and rock.
"Yuosouff?" I shouted, "Where are you?"
With my hands full, I tried to walk bac... | 2016-01-29T10:18:49 | 2016-01-29T06:58:52 | 389 | 140 |
[WP] Humankind became extinct, a superior species now inhabits the earth. They dug up the remains of a human being and put it on display in a museum. What should it say on the text plate? | Here lies Man
When Man was hungry, He commanded the earth to yield food
When Man became thirsty, He did not go to the water
He made the water come to Him
When Man wanted to fly, He made His own wings
Man thought He could do all things
But He could not save Himself
Here lies Man -- who called us Best Frien... | "Daddy, daddy, what are those?"
Said the young lad as he pointed his bony fingers to an ice chest.
"Those are the peoples of the past my son."
Drina said, while he walked slowly next to his firstborn kin.
The boy started running joyfully next to the scene encased in translucent ice, sliding his hand over the wal... | 2017-06-10T11:53:43 | 2017-06-10T11:26:26 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | "Your occupation?"
"Food sales and service."
"The boxes we found in your home, you were specifically trying to sell those? Including the one we have in this evidence bag?"
"Yes, detective. I don't understand what the problem is. I got a license, I pay taxes on all my profits, it's all legal."
"Where do you buy your... | I am greeted by the pleasing aroma of cherries and vanilla when I push open the door to my one bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of my apartment building. I see the candle sitting on the counter that separates the living room from my kitchen. A small flame wavers for a moment before settling down atop the deep red wa... | 2017-12-09T07:43:55 | 2017-12-09T06:38:51 | 236 | 32 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | "It's not worth it," I heard.
I can hear my heart beat. My healthy, fully functional, 18 year old heart.
"Please don't do this." My brother, again.
My brother is in there. His heart is beating, but it can't be calm. Mine is a slow thumping noise.
"It won't fix anything. It won't." He referenes a debt that... | Ten candles slowly melting on top of an untouched birthday cake. Laura’s screams pierce the thin walls of the murky apartment and the fingers in my ears. The ice cream drips on the floor.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
She’s hurting. My soul is hurting. I close my eyes. A cut in her eyebrow is leaking blood.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip... | 2018-02-25T08:15:55 | 2018-02-25T06:30:28 | 1,595 | 37 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | He decides to build a team:
Thor, with the power to hammer things and do minor electrical work!
Jesus, with the powers of carpentry and plumbing!
Hercules, who can lift the heaviest of steel beams!
Jeff, the apprentice the union has given them!
And of course
The Egyptian deity Bastet, with the power of cat-calling!
T... | A man enters onto the screen, his golden hair slicked back and his bright blue eyes flashing. He has a handsome grin on his face, as if he's used to the whole world falling in line in front of him. You practically see the sun flash off of his teeth, but doesn't that only happen in movies?
Strangely, he's wearing a br... | 2018-05-27T18:06:20 | 2018-05-27T16:55:54 | 471 | 255 |
[WP] Humans left Earth a long time ago. In their place, dogs have evolved to be the new sentient species, but they never lost their love of humankind. Their technology has finally caught up to space travel, and they take to the stars in search of their human precursors.
You've all fallen for one of the classic blunder... | Buddy would hear for hours these stories of humans, of friends that would nurture and love them. Protectors. They tilled the ground, made monuments to themselves, and to the dogs that stood by their sides, alert and full of love. Buddy knew that they were the best thing to happen to his whole species, yet now he was s... | The stars floated around him, beautiful objects too far away to reach. The light illuminated his cabin, and all around him was made crystal clear. There was no one else, nothing else here.
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[WP] the girl asks you to make her beautiful. You tell her she has 2 wishes left. When she asks why nothing’s changed you tell her she’s beautiful the way she is. No one can know you’re not actually a genie. | She giggled, but before long we agreed to go out again. I grew accustomed to her company, and before I knew it I started to miss it in the moments we weren't together.
I remember one day we went to an art gallery. We looked at portraits of people long past. She mused. "I wish I could be remembered like this"
"Like ho... | "But eye' noth pwetty!" She clamors, "Eye noth, but you cun' make me!"
She's swipes her phone's screen with a trembling index; then shows him a photo:
"Lick'e her! Make me look lick'e her!"
The fraudulent genie fiddles with the profiteer cash under his inexpensive red ribboned robe. A small i... | 2019-08-10T12:42:35 | 2019-08-10T07:44:16 | 83 | 26 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | We know so little about the Precursors. We know that they were the first; when they evolved, they were alone in a vast universe. But we also know that they didn't despair in their loneliness; while they had their wars and their strife like any young civilization, eventually, they expanded out into the stars. In the mod... | Olympia - 2/54/:128 , the date that shall take it's place in history
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This changes our preconceived notions on the nature of our Universe and our place in it...
Space base no.33 picked up a message on this very day, a message we estimate, based on the speed of the transmissi... | 2019-08-13T15:39:21 | 2019-08-13T15:24:42 | 52 | 39 |
[WP] You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | The room wobbled as the young man walked, tipping slightly to the left, then tilting slightly to the right. He thought this room was very inconsiderate at this hour of the night and him having drunk just a tad too much. The stairs were a bit of a challenge but surely walking up on all fours was the superior way to go.... | I look back into my empty, blank room. I smile. The first time I could really smile. “Sweetheart, do you want to take this statue to college? You can pray like you’ve been doing when you lived here,” my mother says, suddenly behind me. I look at the statue in disgust. No way in hell was i taking that. Then I thought ab... | 2020-04-07T07:23:14 | 2020-04-07T06:45:36 | 2,693 | 18 |
[WP] You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | Laurence stared at the little man on his window sill. He had dragonfly wings, a mottled grey top hat and a scraggy beard. All in all, he looked more like an ugly leprechaun than any god Laurence would have imagined.
"You said your name was...Veebuse?"
"The *Great* Veebuse." the thing replied with outstretched arms.
... | I look back into my empty, blank room. I smile. The first time I could really smile. “Sweetheart, do you want to take this statue to college? You can pray like you’ve been doing when you lived here,” my mother says, suddenly behind me. I look at the statue in disgust. No way in hell was i taking that. Then I thought ab... | 2020-04-07T07:40:52 | 2020-04-07T06:45:36 | 260 | 18 |
[WP] You are considered the wisest man in the world, people all over come to seek your advice. The secret? You actually aren't that smart. You just tell the person about random things in your life, and they twist it into some kind of metaphor for whatever problem they're dealing with on their own. | The young man came bounding up the walk, as I sat on my ‘meditation’ rocking chair a cold beer in hand. The look on his face told me he was one of ‘those’ people. But hey, better than a salesman of some sort or someone asking me to find god or something.
He gets to my steps and stares at me, looking for his words. My ... | We sat on the porch. I sat on the swing where I always sit sipping tea and watching the world go by.
Robert sits in the rocker, finishing his 10 minute lament with, "I just don't know whether I should move on or go to counseling and give it another chance,"
I lost track of what he was saying. There is a nice breez... | 2020-10-01T13:41:27 | 2020-10-01T12:32:00 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You've decided to sell your soul for immortality, since its cheaper than health insurance. | "You are entering a deal with the Devil," a bored representative said. "If you are sure, please sign here?"
I glanced around at the densely-office like structure of the building, right down to a imp who looks like they hate their job right in front of me.
"I'm sorry," I said. "I just have to ask. Is this... common?"
... | Being informed that I needed a new heart was no surprise. For many years, my chest would strike me in warning of what was to come. It was only a matter of time before science confirmed what I had already known. Receiving a new heart would be an easier task for someone who had more than a penny to their name. For me, I ... | 2021-07-14T14:16:57 | 2021-07-14T14:13:50 | 273 | 65 |
[WP] Due to a rare neurological condition you literally have a room temperature IQ. You've been able to manage your condition by living in a warm climate and making regular visits to the sauna, but you find yourself thinking that there has to be a better way. | I cooked up the plan when I was in the sauna, the air as hot as I could tolerate. I think more clearly, the hotter it gets. From what I can tell, my intelligence is proportional to the temperature of the room. I have been so productive since it started, work has never been easier, now that I do it in a hot tub, but I h... | Investigative Journalist Joe Murray strolled into the CERN laboratory. His assignment was on Nobel Laureate Dr. Vince Iglam of the legendary CERN laboratory. He was the most peculiar of case, of humble means barely passing through the difficulties of the Southern Florida Public education system until a fateful trip thr... | 2021-09-23T13:22:35 | 2021-09-23T12:11:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | The man, or what could potentially be considered a man, stood stiffly in front of the girl, smoothing the lapel of his velvet suit jacket with a long, bony finger.
"Your parents sold you to me, as a...bride," he said. One could call his expression pained, though there were no muscles attached to his skeletal face. His... | “It’s not too late, Kameck.”
Kameck shook his head, “No, it’s been decided. The being accepted.”
“But this is our daughter, not a power play. Look at her, have you ever seen our daughter so lifeless and resigned?” Rashida asked.
“I remember a similar expression on a day just like this, do you remem... | 2022-08-09T18:52:48 | 2022-08-09T17:25:06 | 285 | 128 |
[WP] A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | Stunned was the only word that could describe the Selkie. This human, its prey, just gave the skin right back. No questions or comments given. The Selkie thought about this could be. He examined the human before him with an inquisition befitting Sherlock Holmes.
His beanie hat looked like it had seen better days. Muc... | She was ready, she was not afraid of the splashing ocean. Nothing could stop him now.
Well, perhaps one thing stopped her and that was her stupid instinct and overtly good heart. Those always brought her trouble.
A seal's skin on the shore and a beautiful woman, her naked form shown to the world as if she was born to... | 2022-10-25T20:43:59 | 2022-10-25T20:27:02 | 282 | 30 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | So the Earth had dried up. What limited resources left would not sustain much longer.
It was no surprise, people have seen it coming a hundred years ago. The world government had put together a last-ditch effort, and funded the conception of a spaceship named the Ark. The team consisted of nearly half of the remaini... | The story starts with a doubt filled aerialist and a nervous girl, both shyly smiling at each other before the real world interrupts, sending him away before she can even think to try and speak with the face that suddenly captivated her. She’s handed a poster by an old clown who can see the loss in her eyes, a picture ... | 2014-03-24T19:13:43 | 2014-03-24T17:45:04 | 239 | 16 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | So the Earth had dried up. What limited resources left would not sustain much longer.
It was no surprise, people have seen it coming a hundred years ago. The world government had put together a last-ditch effort, and funded the conception of a spaceship named the Ark. The team consisted of nearly half of the remaini... | All I wanted to do was help people. When the hats flew in the air, and parents cried near their exuberant kids, I held my hat in my hands, holding onto what was the best thing to ever happen to me. I couldn’t let go, and move on to what life has ahead for me.
Let’s back track. I held a knife to my throat. My parents w... | 2014-03-24T19:13:43 | 2014-03-24T17:50:15 | 239 | 11 |
[WP] You arrive in Heaven to find it abandoned.
[WP] You arrive in Heaven to find it abandoned... | [GONE FISHIN']
I starred blankly at the sign. I knew this place . Your grandfathers store is a place that you never forget even after 85 years. I raised myself up on my tippy toes and peered through the window just too double check on the emptiness. I had done that dozens of times before and knew what was coming ne... | *huff puff They weren't fucking kidding. It really is a stairway.* I plodded along, occasionally humming some tune I couldn't remember the name of, only the hook melody. Might have been something by *Rhianna*. or *ACDC*. What does it matter now? I'm sure musicians are not welcome where I am going.
I lived my life as ... | 2014-05-10T11:02:40 | 2014-05-10T09:25:27 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] Two aging veterans (of whichever war you choose) happen to meet and get to talking. Only after a long period of bonding over their shared experiences do they slowly start to realize they were on opposing sides of the war. | "They thought we were all the same,"
he said to no one at all.
The nurse breezed by with her tray,
blind to those who lined the hall.
"I hear you," came the reply
from a geezer to the right.
His eyes still searched, years after
yielding to unending night.
"Whossat?" he barked, while hoping
he wasn't the... | This is my first attempt at writing pretty much ever. Sorry for any typos, I injured my hand recently.
Running his two fingers up the side of the glass, he makes sure they are even before releasing the drops to race each other to the cardboard coaster below. Even the reflection in the two small clear streaks on the gl... | 2014-12-17T07:20:01 | 2014-12-17T06:56:57 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] Two aging veterans (of whichever war you choose) happen to meet and get to talking. Only after a long period of bonding over their shared experiences do they slowly start to realize they were on opposing sides of the war. | I actually have a real-life story about this.
My grandfather served in the Signal Corps in WWII, in the European Theater. A few years after the war ended, he was back home getting his morning cup of coffee from a local cafe. The cafe was rather busy that morning, so the waitress asked my grandfather if he would mind... | I am stuck here waiting to be seen. Fortunately, I have found a seat all to myself, no one on either side. I slump into the plastic chair, and wait my turn.
*Now serving patient Teller, Hayden.*
God I hate that voice, so lifeless. There is something depressing about these clinics, so inhuman. They have no soul, no ... | 2014-12-17T08:49:44 | 2014-12-17T07:57:56 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] The tomb of the Unknown Solider is constantly guarded for a reason. Today if your first shift as guard. | “Wake up, son. They’re coming.”
“Tommy Lee Jones?” The soldier looks confused.
“Look to the skies, son. We can’t have them waking him up.”
“Waking who up?”
“The unknown soldier.”
THIS SUMMER
**Sporadic shots of heavy gunfire and screaming**
The tomb cracks and dark clouds pour out. Men are slowly engulfed in... | Chuck had laughed at the time, or rather had held back laughter. Considering he was standing in front of a three star general while being assigned his new role as a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he realized it wasn’t exactly the appropriate time for laughter. Whatever the case, he was positive it had been a... | 2015-03-27T12:46:33 | 2015-03-27T11:08:30 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | Damn bitch would be here any minute. I sighed, trying to steady my nerves, wishing I had something to drink. Had to confront her sometime, might as well get it over with. Though I could just wait until they evicted me and I had to move back in with mom...no, I'm a better man than that.
My phone buzzed. A text? Was s... | Sorry for formatting and grammar. On mobile.
I stood in line at the 7/11. I recounted the change to make sure I had enough for the bean burrito and the King Cobra. My mind wandered back three years ago. How had I gotten here? I was just finishing my freshmen year at college back then. A full ride, a great girlfriend, ... | 2016-03-30T17:32:38 | 2016-03-30T17:29:09 | 107 | 15 |
[WP] You have an unique ability. When wearing someone else's clothes, you change into this person. You collect "appearances" by buying clothes in second hand shops, but up to now it was just a game for you. Then you find something very special ... | Part 1 -
Have you ever had a dream where you were someone else? Someone richer? Taller? More successful? I used to, but that was a long time ago...
My name is David, or at least it was. I'm not sure who I am any more. One day I might be Adam, the six figure salary Banker who lives in the fancy apartment out on the We... | I bet a question that Salvation Army and Goodwill employees never pose is "who farted?" Because it always smells like farts. There's something about the musty odor of some thrift shops that just reminds of a really old, ancient, decrepit fart. Like one that had been sealed up in a box, hidden away into the corner of an... | 2016-07-30T14:21:36 | 2016-07-30T13:59:59 | 66 | 33 |
[WP] Laws have changed. If you decide to be outside a law, that's allowed, but you're no longer protected by it. (i.e. you can legally punch anyone, but you have no legal protections from someone punching you). | I was certain I'd thought up the best one.
"Come on!" I floated by the ceiling, turning lazy flips. "Law of gravity, I'm telling you. Who hasn't wanted to fly? This one's the best."
"You're going to float into the fan," Esteban warned me flatly.
"It's off," I retorted, but pushed myself groundwards as his hand mo... | “From WHYY in Philadelphia this is Fresh Air, I’m Terry Gross.
This morning we are talking with Dave Shultz author of the new historical novel, *Lawless America*. In it, Dave takes an unprecedented look at an era in American history that is well accounted for, but he approaches it in a brand new direction. As is well ... | 2016-09-30T12:34:41 | 2016-09-30T10:08:17 | 137 | 45 |
[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. | "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 ... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T15:04:14 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 85 | 25 |
[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. | "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 ... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T15:04:14 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 85 | 20 |
[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. | "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 ... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 82 | 25 |
[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. | "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 ... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 82 | 20 |
[WP] You've summoned a demon, which is really weird because all you were doing was decorating a cake and singing along to the radio. | "what the FUCK am I doing *here*?" exclaimed the demon. He had just materialised in the middle of Mrs Brocket's Home Ec class and he wasn't happy.
"language young man!" Mrs Brocket exclaimed. "Don't you know that's not how we speak in this school!".
"Young man?! YOUNG MAN?! I AM NO MAN, AND I AM 140,000 YEARS OLD! FU... | I came from bad places. Every day was spent at the doorway to hell and a tiny breeze felt like heaven. I believed this to be reality, that life was about learning to deal with the darkness, and only the darkness existed. Until the sun rose, and I was crippled by the light. I tried to abandon the hell but there was no w... | 2017-11-13T00:52:48 | 2017-11-12T22:31:00 | 3,443 | 446 |
[WP] You are a scientist who discovers that souls do exist. You also find out that humans are the only animals that do not have them. | Of course we had always known this, this was why our race had stayed with them for so long. But now the terrible secret was out. The race we had worked so hard to protect in the hope that someday.....
Sigh. All I can do is rest my head in his lap and gaze up at him, silently communicating how much I love him. He looks... | The discovery was troubling, to say the least. The data analysis was inconclusive in regards to the possession of the soul in humans even from the very beginning. We began by studying the seven chakras of the human body, the elusive kundalini awakening, the concept of the third eye. Thousands upon thousands of intervie... | 2018-01-27T08:09:44 | 2018-01-27T05:05:36 | 77 | 19 |
[WP] The doctor gave you six months. You lived through it, one year has passed. Not surprised, he then gave you one year; after that time you are still alive. You're starting to think he's actually GIVING you time to live, instead of making predictions. | I stare at the young man before me and try to control the tone of my voice. "I'm afraid it isn't the news that we hoped for. There are still signs of the cancer."
He forces a smile, always putting on a brave face. "What does this mean doc? More chemo?"
"I'm afraid that's not an option, you're already too weak. We'd b... | "It's been a year and look at me. I feel just fine. like... like I was never sick or something. What is going on?" I asked with a little bit of accusing tone.
It was exactly one and a half year ago when I collapsed on the ground with a sharp pain in my chest. I thought it was a heart attack and my life was going to e... | 2018-05-31T04:54:12 | 2018-05-31T01:40:47 | 2,952 | 500 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | How do you feel son?
Hungry.... can I have pizza mommy?
Where’s spot? I miss him
“I would give anything to trade places , im so sorry.”
I said it and I meant it. But it meant nothing.
They walked away broken , changed and full of hate. I did this to them. I took their son. And that was that .
I was sober when I... | To them it had seemed like the lingest of Shots, but to me... well I was trying to work up the courage to go see them again.they were here. They were asking. I was nodding my head.
I had taken a life. I didn't mean to. It was my first day on the road...
I hated myself. And yet I couldn't bring myself to end it. Or g... | 2018-09-16T20:33:29 | 2018-09-16T18:45:07 | 64 | 19 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I had thought Mary was the one. I'd hidden my wealth and lived a modest lifestyle for a few years before she found me. I had thought it was real. It had felt real. She held me when I cried when the dog died. I told her about the wealth a few months before the wedding. She didn't seem to care.
The months turned to year... | Standing in front of the large ornate mirror, he examined himself. His skin was clear and surprisingly tight for a man looking to be fifty. His hair was salt and pepper gray but the pepper was now overpowering the salt like a poorly spiced soup. He placed a hand on his cheek and began pulling it around, exposing the... | 2019-07-31T09:43:04 | 2019-07-31T09:24:57 | 75 | 52 |
[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" | When I got the text, I didn't have to think about it very long - I had just been lying in bed, playing Ashphalt on my PHONE. 'Yeah, sure,' I reply, thinking nothing of it. Jeff always sends me this shit.
As I put my phone back down and close my eyes I feel a wave of nausea hit, then pass, leaving behind a lingering wh... | I do not remember anymore for how long I've wandered the fog. I remember how it started, I know where I am headed, and I remember every little detail of everything I did since the time I replied yes to a innocuous text message.
This would have been smarter to never answer, or to play a game of something nice before a... | 2020-02-17T00:31:53 | 2020-02-17T00:26:12 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The Satanic ritual you performed to summon your soulmate worked! Only thing is, the person you summoned isn’t your recently deceased spouse. In fact, you don’t even have the slightest clue who they are. | The ritual completed, I stared at the middle of the circle. I imagined that Lucy would appear in the middle instantly, like turning on the TV. Instead, nothing happened for a few seconds. It hadn't worked? I felt the crushing grief wash over me again and put my head in my hands.
Eyes covered, I became aware of a chan... | God (and/or Devil) were cruel when last year he buried my wife Tara under a tonne of bricks in a freak collision with a dump truck.
Today, Their cruelty reached new heights.
“Well, this---” I say, staring at the half-naked woman with bloodshot eyes standing with her hands on her hips in the middle of the pentagram I ... | 2020-05-31T01:04:45 | 2020-05-30T20:36:24 | 347 | 65 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | Today is their only chance to escape, and I can see in the tension in their shoulders that they all know it. Every year, months before the Departure, I start preparing for it and approaching them. And every year, the two or three the teenagers in my class that I approach choose to accept my offer.
The walls of our c... | \[P and Q\]
"I thought you knew where you were going?!" Pearla exploded with anger at the smuggler that got her out of the city. They traveled a straight line, as far as she could tell, through an endless wasteland. She could no longer see the towering city and wasn't even sure she knew how to get back if she wanted t... | 2020-12-16T08:36:46 | 2020-12-16T08:36:20 | 79 | 37 |
[WP] You don't know what you do for a living. Literally. Five days a week, you get up, get in your car, black out, and then you're back in the driveway in the afternoon. And a paycheck arrives every 2 weeks. | Andrew pulled his car into the driveway. He then paused for a moment. Pulled down the sun visor and studied his reflection in its little mirror. In it, he saw the same features that he always did. His tired eyes. His short dark hair. His neatly pressed shirt. And his tie, which was a sombre shade of navy blue.
He cou... | ...
I'm a normal person, right?
I pay my taxes, i drink coffee made from tap water, i pee while seated...
I think i only smoked **ONCE, a**nd it probably was painted hair!
The first thing that i say after waking up and drowning in a sea of *zeroes and zeroes* was, of course:
"It's either Drugs or Murder..." ... | 2021-09-26T19:54:38 | 2021-09-26T18:08:03 | 324 | 16 |
[WP] Sobek, the half human half crocodile god of the Nile, surprised by a visit of Anubis,god of death. Anubis introduce Sobek to a human soul behind him, still dripping in seawater : "I thought you should meet this man,the living called him Steve Irwin" | **The Crocodile God**
----
There is a legend of a man so fearless, so driven by compassion for all living creatures, that even in death he blamed not the scorpion. Sobek had never met such a man. It was fiction. No mortal would give up their one life and hold no ill-will towards their killer. He knew this as a fact. ... | Sobek's nostrils flared with excitement, causing a moth that had been resting on its snout to flutter off in a hurry. "I like him," said Sobek, splashing up from the waters of the Nile. "I like him a lot."
Behind Anubis stood a red-haired man and the man's glasses clattered on his nose as he bit his fingernails. "Stev... | 2022-02-25T10:44:32 | 2022-02-25T09:57:42 | 285 | 111 |
[WP] A prophecy foretells that a newborn baby will one day grow up to end your evil reign. Knowing that fighting fate is useless, you decide instead to take the child in and raise them as your heir. | "You did what?" Zaif screamed at the stone faced man in front of him.
The man in question was rocking back and forth a newborn baby with care. "Silent, the baby is sleeping. Also why are you this anxious, you knew this would happen a long time ago, brother."
"I didn't think you would adopt it. Brother, this little ... | I stand on the balcony, looking out over my kingdom. My time is coming; my son, fifteen years old now, destined to overthrow me, has been gaining the trust of the people. A rebellion is on the horizon, as everyone demands he takes the throne. Of course I'm not happy with this, but he hasn't once disobeyed me; if I tell... | 2022-11-27T02:44:00 | 2022-11-27T02:27:15 | 377 | 134 |
[WP] Satan is a single father trying to raise his son, who, in a rebellious phase, is all into peace, love, and harmony. | It was humiliating. Lucifer was the mightiest of angels, though fallen, and he alone ruled the most feared realm in existence, and yet here he was, pushing around a shopping cart full of items they didn't need. His son Azazel was the one doing most of the shopping, though.
"Dad!" He called, a large smile on his face. ... | Shaitan slouches home to Bethlehem, the Great Beast lowering itself into the world, currents of air and dust knitting together into corded muscle. His hair tangles backwards, furred, his nails like the claws of animals. His left eye bulges, the pupil squeezed into the horizontal slit of a goat's eyes. He smiles with ye... | 2016-11-06T07:08:47 | 2016-11-06T07:00:52 | 211 | 138 |
[WP]A sadistic serial killer who has seen and done it all has moved into a haunted house that changes its insides to terrify its occupants to drive them insane. The killer is not amused by this and quickly grows bored. | A business man mused to himself as he walked to the house. He had perfectly trimmed hair, a well tailored vest, and glasses. "It was funny the first few times, I admit." He mused to himself. He opened his door to find that his living room had turned into a meat curing facility. Corpses, rather than hams, hung from the ... | The walls were pulsing and mucoid, slicking down to the carpeting, moving by sympathetic magic to the upholstery. Kassel leaned back in his couch, probing the fleshy surface of the armrest with his fingertips. Something wet and warm was seeping into his back, into the seat of his pants. The walls were bleeding. Kassel ... | 2016-12-28T18:50:43 | 2016-12-28T18:47:52 | 56 | 13 |
[WP] Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone's life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet. | *Final Call. Session from 6:30pm to 11pm on the 12th. Next session 1pm to 5pm on the 24th. Any objections?*
People usually laughed when they see me text, since it always sounds so formal. It makes me sound old, which isn't fair. I just turned 39 in June. And considering who I was texting, it makes sense to be like tha... | "You enter the tavern. It's filled to the bring with people, laughing and drinking. In the back an old man is sitting on his own, looking distressed, tears visually dripping down his cheek. Jonathan what's your move?"
"I walk up to the old man in the back"
"Sir we need to secure the room first"
"For the 6th time Jam... | 2019-06-26T05:08:22 | 2019-06-26T03:14:31 | 262 | 149 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | The crunch echoed through the room.
Kevin didn't think much of it, until he realized just how quiet everyone had gotten. Opening his eyes after chewing the harsh texture for a moment, he noticed how many eyes were on him.
"...What? What's wrong?" He asked.
No one said anything. Some of them still sat there dumbfound... | As a kid, my friends and I loved to chat, debate and even argue what we'd eat when we entered the power room. We didn't know what food gave what power (everyone who went through it could not speak of that without losing their power), so we always theorised what we'd get.
Gemma insisted she'd find the food that had tel... | 2020-03-19T09:06:50 | 2020-03-19T09:01:40 | 587 | 63 |
[WP] You have been living in solitude in the middle of nowhere for over 5 years now. One day, a group of intruders enter your house. The group just walk around and film the whole place using action cams. "Here's where the previous owner died 6 years ago," one of them speaks into their camera. | Margaery lifted her glass to me in a comic salute over the dinner table, her eyes twinkling in the sparkling candle-light as raindrops pinged off the tin roof.
Donning my serious-face, I bowed over the Easter ham and flourished my hands to encompass the table. Our first meal at the cabin that, thanks to a welcome rai... | "Pardon? Who died here, who are you people, do you have a permit to kick open my door, stop ignoring me, you hooligans." Old man Sam, found himself stopping his foot before the group of teenagers, trying to grab their attention, yet the group just seemed to wander around him, more interested in the strange decor of the... | 2020-04-29T23:27:21 | 2020-04-29T22:38:08 | 122 | 12 |
[WP] You are the greatest trickster in the universe, eagerly awaiting the results of your greatest trick; millennia ago, you convinced the gods that humans do not exist. | I added a bounce to my step as I sauntered down the great marble hall. It was packed with gods rushing from booth to booth. Investments were made, influence was swayed. Millenia Day was always busy.
At the start of each millennium, the great billboards release the top million most valued races in the universe. In the ... | “What have you done!” I hear booming down the marble halls.
I hear footsteps coming closer as I snickered at the idea that my prank has finally come to fruition.
“Son! What has happened to the lovely forest planet I had made!? What are these creatures inhabiting the land?” He said as he grabbed my shirt and lif... | 2020-05-08T09:38:56 | 2020-05-08T08:48:38 | 492 | 76 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | "You only have five? That's only one for each of us, why didn't you take the whole pack?" his friend Josh was complaining again.
"You think I'm stupid to take enough for him to notice some are missing? There are multiple mind readers in this school you idiot, the only chance we have for smoking is if no one finds out ... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T08:48:44 | 9,106 | 32 |
[WP] "Aha! I have you now villain!" The hero who is always watching you says, waiting for you to do something evil. I mean you are the son of the former Demon King, but you just want a normal life. | “Gods, give me the strength to hold my tongue, grant me the perseverance to not strangle this insufferable prick!” He pleaded silently as the hero stride into the young man’s field, carelessly trampling the sprouting crops under his boots.
“So, demonspawn, What have you to say now? I see through your lies of ‘farming... | Fetivus walked along the streets of Avid, well aware of the figure following behind. He was always there, watching and waiting. For the last year and a half, Galdor had made it his life mission to stop Fetivus's evil schemes. If the horned young man had schemes, which he did not.
This did not stop Galdor from insistin... | 2021-07-25T22:01:27 | 2021-07-25T20:07:56 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] TIL that the opposite of Paranoia is Pronia, wherein one believes that the universe and the world is conspiring to help them. Write a story about one such person with an extreme case of Pronia.
If you would like to learn more about pronoia,* [click here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_%28psychology%29)
*E... | I've known Dave for a long time, since the the first day of gym class our third grade year. Even at ten years old Dave could do anything. Dodgeball? Barely moved. He could close his eyes, toss the ball like six year old girl, and drill the last poor sonofabitch between the eyes.
I fucking hate Dave.
The world fel... | There he was, there in the gutter again. Just as he had been every day for the last five months. He was filthy, disheveled, and he wore the biggest smile that I've ever seen.
It always disturbed me, every time that I walked past the little alcove that he had claimed as his own, the look in his eyes. It wasn't malice, ... | 2014-05-12T12:57:46 | 2014-05-12T12:32:56 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] When the Aliens came, the Swiss were neutral. When they started to conquer Earth, the Swiss were still neutral. When the Aliens came for the Swiss, they learned the hard way why the Swiss prefer to be neutral. | It was within five hours of the Shelk invasion that the Swiss, ever neutral, got their first glimpses of the alien ships. They seemed to slowly crawl through the sky like some kind of scarabs, scouring the mountainous landscape with green beams of light that gave them instant feedback on what anything was.
Of course,... | Chronicles of the last invasion, as recorded by Norman, in a cave in Kansas.
January 25, 11:34 AM, A large pillar of light shined down on major world centers around the world. The news covered it, focusing on the ones covering the entire cities of New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. They covered more as they the... | 2016-08-05T10:04:06 | 2016-08-05T08:49:21 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] You live in a world where, by law, everyone is euthanized on their 60th birthday. Being born on February 29, you successfully petition the Supreme Court to not be euthanized until your legal 60th birthday. The day after your first 60 years of life, you find out exactly why the law exists. | For fifteen years, as Jake drove to his work, he always took a moment to appreciate the starship. A colossal flat cylinder that dominated the plain, it would have been science fiction just fifty years ago. The development issues they encountered, the setbacks with the gravitation drives, the shortages of metals no one ... | "The first time it happened was terrifying, it all faded to black. I was ready to celebrate my 60 and one day birthday. Hookers, blow, the works. I just won the life lottery, I'll be turning in to dust long before the government tries to kill me.
I was set to party like there was no tomorrow, the alcohol ready to flo... | 2016-08-06T01:08:22 | 2016-08-06T00:32:00 | 177 | 58 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | “As with most other apocalypses, this exhibit, Earth, ended for a phenomenally stupid reason,” the docent said. Martin was next to me, laughing hysterically. He loved the Museum of Dumb Apocalypses. We went whenever we were in Diamondtown, which was about twice a year, when we came to visit my folks for the holidays.
... | #Title: See The Signs
"Do you feel that?" whispered Samantha.
"Feel what?"
The waves weren't so bad that day, outside of Ocean City. Samantha and Leonard liked to soak in the sun off the coast in their yacht when they got the time. Working full time as attorneys didn't always afford them many opportunity to enjoy ... | 2017-03-20T09:03:20 | 2017-03-20T08:56:15 | 75 | 20 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | I dug… where had I put it? The valley was still recognizable on the whole, but many of the features were different.
I heard a cough behind me. I spun. The man in the suit was holding *my gun*. "Looking for this?"
I just blinked and considered diving for him - the gun he was holding wouldn't shoot for anyone but me - ... | I thought the fantasy something people only said they believed in. Steel didn't change. If anything, it got weaker as time went on, succumbing to rust and out-dated smithing techniques.
But, the legend disagreed.
A day in the woods like any other upset my little life out in the country. Even though I'd played there f... | 2017-04-21T11:49:06 | 2017-04-21T09:28:52 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are the most feared and reviled race the Galaxy. Every 10000 years when humans reach a certain level of Technology a galactic Council sends a force to knock them back to the Stone Age. This time however that force arrives several decades late. | Empty.
The Supreme Admiral looked at the blue planet before him and reread the scouting report. Somehow, despite arriving only a few decades later than they were supposed to come, the planet was empty. Oh, there were still signs of life here and there, and some of them were probably what passed for the current crop ... | Humans. Considered to be the most advanced species on this planet and probably in the entire space time. But not for long. The year was 2020 when humans first reached Mars. It proved that nothing was out of our reach. We can do anything we want. Be anywhere we want. That took over our minds. We were on a technological ... | 2017-05-16T21:23:11 | 2017-05-16T18:02:16 | 46 | 28 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | My capsule hurtled toward a black hole and all I could do was wait. I couldn't move much in my sophisticated coffin as I waited to be buried deep in a hole in space. But at least I had a little window to peak at the stars as I plummeted to my doom. It's the little things.
Death by Black Hole. That was the sentence for... | Everything went black, as expected, when they tossed me into the void. This darkness went on for minutes. I figured, "this must be what death feels like". Calming, in a way. I didn't think much about anything in particular. Not until a bright, blue light appeared in the distant. Wherever it was, I could already tell I ... | 2017-07-14T01:41:48 | 2017-07-13T20:45:26 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The humans, as they called themselves, were not mystically incomprehensible. Few things were in a galaxy-spanning civilization. But the fact that they were comprehensible made them all the more frightening, for even with all we knew about them, they were still exceedingly dangerous. Fortunately, they were also very rar... | Mark settled onto the couch in front of the TV, beer in hand. It was Sunday afternoon and his team was in the playoffs. The game wouldn’t start for another few hours but Mark liked to catch the pre-game commentary when he could. Although Mark had let himself go a bit since his college days he was still young and in his... | 2017-11-08T23:14:28 | 2017-11-08T23:01:48 | 33 | 19 |
[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. | "EVERYONE STOP FUCKING MOVING!" Isaac in the most authoritative voice he could muster.
The team behind him jolly and carefree due to their guide being a vampire suddenly remembered how far away they were from daylight. And fell silent.
Joyce and Peter exchanged silent words mouthing to eachother for someone to ask t... | “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... | 2018-01-16T08:26:38 | 2018-01-16T05:59:07 | 200 | 135 |
[WP] When humans arrived to the galactic scene, they thought wars would play out way differently. Instead of bloodshed, there were intergalactic video game tournaments fighting for territory. Most aliens thought humans were newbies to this but when the first war was played, they changed their minds. | "How are these humans so good?"
The team from Gelax Prime had been sitting at their terminals for hours, helplessly watching as the Earth team completely and utterly destroyed them. Their resource control was impeccable, their strategy flawless. And those humans weren't the crack team of specialists that they expect... | ######[](#dropcap)
The Gorgon sniffed in disdain, watching as the five humans walked into the arena in their uniforms. "They don't even have the right number of appendages," he said to his partner. The other Gorgon laughed, a loud screeching sound that resembled nails on a chalkboard. He unsheathed his claws, scratch... | 2018-04-13T15:25:48 | 2018-04-13T15:03:05 | 3,932 | 878 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | Heather is madly annoying.
Her voice is deafening ... destroying
my ears, no longer able to hear
I sign to her she's the one person I fear.
For she and I turn to wild beasts.
Every full moon, we turn to each other and feast
Not on people, or prey or food.
We become wild animals stuck to each other, glued.
B... | The smell of fresh blood created a trail in the air. The metallic stench filled Tom’s nostrils causing a reaction of intense hunger and desire to overwhelm his mind and body. He sprinted between the trees of the woods that would usually be filled with darkness at this time of the night but not tonight as a full moon wa... | 2018-05-23T01:28:51 | 2018-05-23T00:13:36 | 56 | 15 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | Heather is madly annoying.
Her voice is deafening ... destroying
my ears, no longer able to hear
I sign to her she's the one person I fear.
For she and I turn to wild beasts.
Every full moon, we turn to each other and feast
Not on people, or prey or food.
We become wild animals stuck to each other, glued.
B... | The full moon reflected in the deer's eye as it danced spritely through the woods. I lay undetected under the brush, awaiting the moment I could taste its blood. The scent filled my nostrils, and my mouth watered in anticipation. But there was another scent. Something that awakened a different kind of anticipation.
Th... | 2018-05-23T01:28:51 | 2018-05-22T20:37:45 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | They killed his hound and stole his steed,
The rogue knight returns to punish the deed.
Whether Bogeyman or demon spawn,
Beware the wrath of Wicked John.
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I apologize if this isn't appropriate for a top level post, but it does tech... | Dear diary, 12th October 2932.
They awoke the wicked. he who kills like he breathes.... if he did.
back in the 2500's, cybernetic wars led to the creation of the knights, and the legend says he's one of them.
Legend also says he wiped an entire battleship with a single pen, and his left thumb.
Word says he has no e... | 2018-09-05T06:16:17 | 2018-09-05T06:10:01 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | ‘I’ve long forgotten you ‘ death said as he took the small hour glass in his hands and arched his skull to a smile reminded of its owner,
39 years ago the bells of ashes has rang loudly “ time to bring the souls home “ death said as he took each hour glass that was placed under the bell as the last
spect of sand had... | “What do you mean we’re being audited?” rasped the Old Man.
“I’m…I’m really not sure, Sir…” the thrall whispered, barely audible.
“The scroll, well it just appeared pinned to the door.”
The Old Man rubbed his temples. This had never happened before; the Big Man upstairs always left his department alone. Why now? Co... | 2018-10-03T07:48:22 | 2018-10-03T07:47:28 | 14 | 10 |
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