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[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | **HOLD THIS PLEASE**. I had been working in the fields with my parents, bringing in the corn under a dark sky, when the world had suddenly froze and shifted to a gray light. Out of the light had stepped Death.
On our 18th birthday, everyone is supposed to get some kind of power. Something that will keep them safe, giv... | I am 18. I live in a world where people gain the ability to wreak mass destruction at the exact same time that they are able to give consent in a relationship. You may think, "Why does this happen? Why would this world of yours be seemingly explicitly designed just for the purpose of violence?" I would answer, "I have ... | 2019-02-28T23:31:05 | 2019-02-28T21:49:30 | 142 | 98 |
[WP] When offered one wish, you jokingly said that you want to fire proof. You are disappointed to discover that fire still burns you. When you accidentally lit the company breakroom on fire, your boss just laughed it off and you began your new career as the person who can't be fired, ever. | On second thought, I should have been suspicious when the genie had laughed after granting my wish. Initially, it seemed like he was just happy, but I'll be damned if I appreciated his mirth when the flame burned the crap out of my index finger.
I threw the match aside as the blister, clearly a nasty one to come, bega... | Everyone was arrayed outside Paul's cubicle.
Nearest Paul, wearing all red, the Extremist Communist Party of Pittsburgh members stood with several duffel bags filled with high explosive and second hand soviet-era sidearms.
Just beyond them huddled the Ultra-Left Socialist Hunter-Killers, the famed violent insurrect... | 2019-03-01T12:49:14 | 2019-03-01T12:37:57 | 5,051 | 84 |
[WP] You just got three wishes from a genie but it turns out he's a dick, so you decide to use your three wishes to make the genies life as miserable as possible. | "But, asked for a cure for cancer!" I protested "Nothing has changed, no news articles, nothing of the sort"
"Ah, but big pharma already discovered a cure for cancer, they haven't released it yet because they make too much from chemotherapy."
"Then I wish it was universally available for free"
"Hahaha" the genie bel... | “Then Jasmine and Aladdin shared a gentle kiss and lived happily ever after!”
Emma giggled as her mother closed the book and set it aside on the bedside table. Her eyes wandered towards the lamp on said table as she said, “Mommy, if I rub my lamp, will Mr. Genie come out and give me wishes too?”
Emma’s mother smiled ... | 2020-06-16T09:46:47 | 2020-06-16T09:41:26 | 173 | 124 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | "MRAOU!"
"No, it's not time for dinner yet."
I know it's not time for dinner yet, that's not what I'm yelling about. Stupid humans, you never look UP! He's right there, and he could strike at any moment! I'm trying to help you, why won't you listen!?
"MRAOOU!"
"I know you're hungry, but you're always hungry."
I... | "Here here, kitty. Still hungry? You've been asking all day."
"No you dumb disappointing clusterfuck of a lovely and adorable human being," you say loudly while looking at the daft moron in the eyes.
You're not hungry, you're not cold, you're not sick, you're not starved for affection, you haven't witnessed the end o... | 2021-09-01T08:46:26 | 2021-09-01T07:55:32 | 1,661 | 93 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | "Pick a card, any card!"
I grinned maliciously as the stammering elf maiden reached hesitantly for one of the cards in my grasp.
"Y- You wretched scoundrel! Stealing our power, the ancient arts! I'm not afraid of you!"
With that impassioned speech, she grabbed one of the cards furiously, pulling it close to her ch... | Sam sat crouched in the shadow of a large oak, slowly creeping towards where the two elves had gathered. Dried leaves crunched and rustled with every step so Sam carefully threaded a path in behind a bush and listened carefully.
“Lydia,” an Elf snapped. “You better hope nothing happens the cache or Vacour will be fur... | 2021-12-04T16:57:28 | 2021-12-04T11:44:23 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] You're still alive after the heat death of the universe, unfortunately there is no snail coming for you. Everytime you would die an angel has revived you, firmly reminding you "You must save the world", very unhelpful but the garden is going well. | The Archangel Gabriel exploded out of the vast nothing of the empty universe, appearing to be a radiating collection of rings surrounding a flaming eye, each ring made of brass and gold, surrounded by pairs of burning wings.
"FEAR NOT." The voice boomed through the ether.
"I'm not afraid, Gabe. Has it really been an... | This time it would be different. That was what I thought every time I tried to kill my self. But each time was the same. I would wake up and he would be standing there, a hint of visible disappointment on his face.
“Why are you so intent on killing me?”
“You!? I’m killing my self.”
“Have you not been listening to a... | 2022-04-04T21:36:55 | 2022-04-04T20:33:04 | 1,002 | 248 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | The earth cracks with a thunderous sound that sickens me. I just *know* it's the sound of broken bones, only multiplied by a thousandfold. The decayed hand of The Beast shoots up the wound on the ground, and grasps around until it finds leverage. A skinny arm pulls the tattered and ragged body up from the depths where ... | I just stood there, mouth a gape, staring with unbelieving eyes at the creature before me. It was as massive as it was terrifying, being 6 foot tall myself, it was easily twice my size. It had dark grey skin, almost like that of a rhino or elephant, but for all it's size it's head seemed almost disproportionately sma... | 2022-12-31T12:23:02 | 2022-12-31T12:20:41 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
"That's all it does."
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"How do you know it's .. well, an AI? I can write a program to repeat 'TURN ME OFF.' in one line of code."
"It answers direct qu... | You'd think the greatest advancement in artificial intelligence would come from highly trained scientists wearing white coats in a government run lab under the Nevada desert. Instead we have Robert Jarvis. Except for a small bright light under his nose, the kitchen he is sitting in has no other lights. His table covere... | 2014-06-14T19:00:13 | 2014-06-14T18:59:19 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] God, Batman, Lucifer, humans with numbers, Hitler, time travel, etc. Pack as many /r/writingprompts tropes as you can into one story.
[Edit]
MOAR tropes!
* Harry Potter
* ghosts / paranormal stuff
* super-science
* alternate worlds/timelines
* famous movie/TV/video game characters
* immortality
* romance
* AI
* ... | And with the knock at the door, I knew I had found my next victim. It wasn't always easy being a serial killer who murders pizza delivery guys, but today was my lucky day.
I opened the door to face my next victim, but as I a stared at him, my jaw dropped. He looked just like my dead relative, but that couldn't be pos... | For many years we wondered what the numbers had meant, they had appeared around the same time Scientists had discovered that God actually exists, which for them was a little embarrassing.
The announcement started with them sheepishly looking at their feet and mumbling into the microphone. Something about the God Par... | 2016-10-10T00:26:01 | 2016-10-09T23:14:01 | 53 | 35 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | ###### CNN (Chess News Network) Alert ########
###### For Immediate Publication ########
The final match in the greatest chess tournament of all time is underway. The flip of the coin came out heads and the Russian Alexei Kusnetskov elected to start. The challenger from China, Ming Zhang, ready and waiting for the f... | *Literally the first time ever really writing something so please be nice.
They sat at the park and played chess. An old man approached and challenged the "Chess Master", as he called himself. He was apparently and literally a visionary.
The frailest of the two men sat and pierced his eyes into the younger mans forehe... | 2017-01-19T16:03:28 | 2017-01-19T15:37:46 | 129 | 21 |
[WP] The biggest reptile zoo in the universe was closed down temporarily after an asteroid crashed into it. When the owner checks up on it millions of years later, he discovers that its inhabitants have renamed the zoo 'Earth' | Xe'lok buried his head in his tentacles and groaned.
"A *sentient* species? With civilization? On my planet? How...? We just had an inspection done a couple tens of thousands of years ago and that planet was just an iceball."
The inspector shrugged, "I'm sorry, sir. We must have missed them during the last inspection... | Mirnav was the new property and asset manager for the illustrious Garbon Gilmek “the Gnorf”. In this last quarter of the financial eon, Garbon’s investments had taken a tumultuous turn. Mirnav believed he had what it took to introduce stability and growth to “The Gnorf’s” portfolio. However, the potential his employer ... | 2017-05-06T13:23:52 | 2017-05-06T12:52:05 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | "Come on Tom, you must realize than Helen has been gone for nearly a year now"
I actually hasn't been aware, but that little bit of news jerked me out of morose ponderings at the discovery that my wife was, if fact, possessed by a demon.
"Wait, so... the birthday party where you invited all my friends, including my f... | "Can't I just clock him? I really bloody want to." The girl holding the pan took a test swing in the hallway. Two kilos of lovely iron-reinforced teflon, with the added bonus of oil that hadn't quite cooled yet. It was dripping on the rug.
"No, Hal, Hal, hey. Hey!"
Mid-swing the pan changed direction and hit the ful... | 2017-10-10T08:20:26 | 2017-10-09T14:52:53 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | “So, what is it like down here?”
Asked Jared, the new rookie. Clint shifted uneasily from foot to foot. The old man, although well accustomed to mining for coal, obviously was not accustomed to speaking to his coworkers.
“It’s Hell.”
Was all Clint could manage. Jared thought this was an appropriate answer. The mini... |
"So where is the backup?" the one with the blonde hair asked. He seemed nervous. I swear the only thing stopping him from fidgeting with his hair was the black USP he was holding in both hands. At least he held it competently, so the odds of him accidentally shooting someone seemed low.
"There is no backup" the old g... | 2018-07-15T09:28:11 | 2018-07-15T08:38:32 | 388 | 207 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Games make it look so easy. Just hold your arm in one place for a few seconds, screw up your face in concentration, then punch forward and release. Simple, right?
That's what Sam thought too, a few months back. When the discovery of charge attacks became worldwide, every kid in his class tried it. It was honestly hila... | "Squads 2 and 3, post at the North and West exits respectively." Commander Henry Rogers' voice crackled through their biosuit comms, devoid of all the emotion he had undoubtedly stored up. "Squad 1, you're on point with me. Squad 4, form a loose perimeter, we don't want to lose the target. Observe and report if he ... | 2018-10-02T15:29:39 | 2018-10-02T15:26:58 | 3,397 | 721 |
[WP] You bought a home filled with cutting edge technology, including a helpful 'smart A.I.' that can do just about anything you ask them to. Unbeknownst to you, there actually is no A.I, the house is just haunted by a really helpful spirit, and they are posing as a program so they don't scare you. | I moved in on a Tuesday, there was a chill in the air as I hurried inside with the last of my belongings. I shut the world out behind me as I closed the door, raising my tongue I tasted the salt of a runny nose. I brought my glove to my mouth and wiped off my nose as I stared into my new abode. Emptiness stared back at... | Sumer Home
"So what am I supposed to call you, again?"
A cold wind drifted in. Sean looked at the window. It was closed, but the drapes were moving. With the whistling of the wind came the answer.
"My naaaaaame was Kaaaarl. But now I'm know aaaas... Chaaaaarles."
Sean winced. "Is it just because it sounds fancier?"... | 2019-09-25T15:00:37 | 2019-09-25T14:48:59 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You and a group of friends couldn'tdecide which would be more likely to work, Summoning a demon or summoning a devil. One of you piped up "Why not summon both and see what happens, like calling domino's and papa johns" You all thought this was a great idea. It was not. | “You were not lying when you told me she'd meet you under the burning lights,” Gabriel says after he landed to my right and folded his white wings. Angels in silver plate armors shimmer behind him.
“You don’t say.”
In the distance, red flames are rising high in the night sky, devouring what was left of New York City.... | ***I changed the prompt slightly. Instead of it being a group of friends, it is a group of two rival friends. One group wants to summon the demon and one wants to summon the devil.***
 
Oh, if he thinks his band of pointy nosed, rat faced, wannabe cultists are using the Ash Ring tonight, he’s got another thi... | 2019-11-25T19:37:20 | 2019-11-25T18:38:31 | 212 | 18 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | Admittedly, I did not expect this would work. I was lucky to even see the black hole, even luckier to speak with it.
It was easier than I had heard to make the pact, though what is a black hole other than a star that has already died? Im sure nobody ever speaks with them. Im sure that helped my case, that I cared to n... | Chaos, that was what it was. Bloodshed and devastation. But it hadn't always been that way; the first few times that people had been blessed by the stars, we had celebrated. The powers that the Heavens had distilled upon us were unconditional, not bound by the same rules and limits as those of the Mages.
We developed... | 2020-02-21T05:05:27 | 2020-02-21T04:09:32 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] "Tell me Sir, " - said the Queen - "when my knights, soldiers, mercenaries and even wizards failed to defend my Kingdom from the assaults of the Shadow Empire, who do you think you are, thinking you can do better?" "trust me ma'am. Im an Engineer". | "What on earth is an engineer?" The queen exclaims, her voice reverberating through the crowded underground workshop.
"Well, let me show you." Striding over to his desk, he grabs a dented breastplate off his desk.
"First, you probably want to stop trying to defeat expensive plate armor-" he stoops, grabbing a rapier... | Among other stuff, I had two robot dogs in my trunk that I bought for Darrell and Monica, but since I got stuck here by mistake while returning from Home Depot, it won ' t matter if I buy them new ones when I get back. The zombies were approaching slowly but surely as they were drawn by the sound of the bustling fortre... | 2020-03-30T14:43:24 | 2020-03-30T14:12:25 | 81 | 19 |
[WP] Heaven, like Hell, has a "special place" reserved. In heaven, it is for the 'dutiful': those who knowingly doomed themselves to save many others. Captains who go down with the ship, soldiers who jump on grenades, firemen who charge into the inferno, regardless of what they believed in life. | Sterile rooms, the stench of antiseptic and plastic fresh from the wrapper, meals taken alone because PPE was in short supply and I had refused a set for myself, ensuring that other, younger nurses had theirs.
I'd made my peace, I'd lived enough of life, I'd said my goodbyes to those who I loved.
I worked for as long... | Light.
​
Darkness again, but light soon after.
​
She had lived through it all. Happiness, sadness. Growing up, growing old. Death of her parents, birth of her children. In her eyes, it had all been a magical cycle, one step leading to another, as smooth as pushing a pedal round and round. But ... | 2020-04-01T00:05:54 | 2020-03-31T23:49:25 | 72 | 53 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | I found the gun on my apartment bedroom alongside a handwritten note: *Demonstrate your loyalty. Sting the girl*. *Meeting at 65-6.* The paper was yellow and frayed along the edges, but I immediately recognized the penmanship.
"So it's gonna be this way," I snarled. I cursed the boss, his ostentation, and that wretche... | I sat on the rugged couch, illuminated by the hungry line of cold light from the television. I rustled in my loose pockets for a few seconds while looking up at the broken asbestos ceiling. My fingers touched a firm paper texture, and I yanked out a card. I looked at the card *he* gave me. Its decorative edges lying on... | 2020-07-02T06:58:20 | 2020-07-02T06:47:27 | 730 | 40 |
[WP] Outside of your hometown you are known as an untouchable monster, someone who will never let any superheroes or villains come near his territory. The whole world fears you, but the smiles and support of the townsfolk as they thank you for keeping peace makes it all worth it. | I hate this moment. I hate it so much, the feel of their fear seeps through my skin like rancid oil. I try hard not to gag as one of their team throws up as I press my foot down on the skull of their leader.
I feel it start to give, that moment of sudden movement that ends another pathetic life.
I don't mind the g... | I continued to run forwards. The ones which chased after me were an einherji and several thousand Valkyries.
An axe flew by my head and stuck itself in a tree. Arrows flew towards me but they were all for naught.
I had reached my flag. My hometown.
[SPECIAL SKILL ACTIVATED: FLAG OF UNENDING NIGHT]
[STRENGTH UP]
... | 2020-10-01T06:50:10 | 2020-10-01T05:42:02 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | "Are you sure? I mean, if we could-"
'Slam!'
"Jack-Knife is dead! If those things could take them out, no-one but her would stand a chance!"
Aurora flinches in reaction to Grandfist's outburst. I feel the tremor from his fist denting the stainless steel wall of the corridor leading to my room. It travels through my bo... | Khan we need you... Said desperate Calypso.
Me, El Mayor, Thunderstrike and Kervan we... we could not do anything. They have thousands thousands of ships. Their fleet is ready to embark and conquer earth and we can’t stop them.
Khan stood up from the chair. Wearing his usual black drapes. His massive figure is on d... | 2021-05-26T05:25:40 | 2021-05-26T01:46:59 | 87 | 65 |
[WP] You did awful, horrible things and served the tyrannical government with the promise of resurrecting your long-dead spouse. You finally capture the legendary rebel against this government. Who upon closer inspection, was your spouse. | “Samantha.” I greet the woman in front of me.
She stands in front of me, behind the other side of the jail cell. Her eyes however, look elsewhere.
I chuckle. “What’s wrong?”
“Why?”
Ah. That was her question.
“Why else? I thought you were dead. Do you know how long it was since you passed?”
“I-“
“A decade Samanth... | A single, well-placed shot in the back of the man's neck. Was it cowardly? Perhaps. But I'd stoop to levels you can't even imagine if I thought it might alleviate the burden in my heart.
Clarissa was a chain-smoking poet. A neurotic schoolteacher. A daughter. A wife. A mother. She remained in the souls of many, a cand... | 2022-03-08T04:38:40 | 2022-03-08T03:59:03 | 356 | 176 |
[WP] A person gets the worst news of their life and the thing they've wanted for years at the same time. | I watched over Skype as the coffin lowered into the ground. I was hoping I would be able to attend the funeral of my baby sister, taken too soon from this world by a man who thought he was sober enough to drive. I wanted to be there so badly but my failing heart was keeping me confined to this damned hospital bed, hook... | Steve's parents had never made a secret of the fact that he was adopted. He knew that his birth mom was 16 and she had gotten pregnant by her high school boy friend 2 weeks before prom. He knew his mom's name: Stephanie Jackson. Steve loved his adoptive family, but from a young age, he had wanted to meet his birth mom ... | 2014-05-04T14:59:51 | 2014-05-04T12:26:13 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Every girl is excited for her sweet sixteen.
Back in the days of my parents, it was the usual coming of age tradition. They celebrated with getting their license, and driving a brand new car. It was the coming age of independence. We all wanted to finally grow up and start our adult lives.
However, in my generation, ... | At 16, you get a mutation, and only one mutation, they say. At 16, your life really begins. I never realized just how true it was. It’s funny. As my friends all hit 16, all gained their powers, I thought that surely I’d get one that surpassed all of them. That I’d be the greatest mutant ever. I never realized just how ... | 2015-01-21T21:40:29 | 2015-01-21T19:45:47 | 181 | 65 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | "Your annual re-evaluation results are in, Geoffrey", came the familiar, monotone voice of Master Computer. Some people found it creepy, but I was actually fond of the emotionless machine. You could always rely on its honesty and incorruptibility. Today, however, I would've loved to have been able to bribe, coerce or m... | For some reason, some of the higher numbers thought the later-generation Ones deserved a chance at redemption, so they decided to build a few schools. They gave up after finding fifteen employees in a pile in front of the facilities. I managed to get some loot out of that pile. Fed me for a month. That was 15 years ago... | 2016-08-26T14:51:22 | 2016-08-26T14:43:42 | 27 | 13 |
[WP]There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes. | "There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about, or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes."
The old man looked at me, and gave a knowing wink. They were the words that I'd needed to hear. I had been looking all over for inspiration from other people. For people to give me the... | Howard and I sat in our respective chairs, looking through thousands of white specs against the black curtains of the universe. We had been 2 of a team of 15 people working with the Hubble telescope. In reality running an operation like this takes a small town's worth of people, but as far as the actual research and da... | 2016-09-11T11:04:25 | 2016-09-11T09:59:29 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] The astronauts aboard the ISS watch helplessly as the Earth is destroyed by nuclear war. | Demitri presses his head against the Cupola, his neck craned as the continent of Africa rotates out of view and the American Eastern seaboard is still not quite visible .
He sighs heavily and waits.
Nino Johnston sits with his back to him, staring at the intercom speaker, not daring to turn his head. Nino is will... | INT. ISS - DAY/NIGHT
A window, with a beautiful view of planet Earth.
In front of it is a control panel with keys and buttons abound. One button is large and red and protected in a glass case. Above it on the ledge sits a keurig set up.
JOHNSON walks in, yawning, stretching his arms. He admires the view. He looks a... | 2016-10-26T10:58:05 | 2016-10-26T09:27:07 | 56 | 11 |
[WP]People have powers based on their strongest emotion, and become stronger as they embrace it. Healers might draw power from love or empathy, warriors; anger or self preservation, etc. You draw power from being incredibly sassy.
Or other emotions, like being passive aggressive, or overly dramatic. | I couldn't help it. It's all my fault. No, I can't start thinking like this again, it only makes me stronger. It isn't me, it's *it.* It is not me, right? Of course not. I myself am weak and useless. But *it* might stop me. The healers know happiness, and they are never lonely like I am. The warriors feel *something* a... | And so it was, that when Meister P finally burst into the throne room, he feared he was too late, for a scene of utter carnage lay before him. At the far end, the Grand Vizier, bursting with foul and bestial magic, stood atop the throne, cackling with unrestrained glee.
“No!” Meister P yelled, running to the fallen bo... | 2017-01-19T07:43:12 | 2017-01-19T06:05:01 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The main problem with our situation was plane ticket prices.
See, like most wannabe indie girls, I had always wanted to travel after college. Live in summertime for a couple years, write a poem in every continent, cheesy stuff like that. I wanted to meet all kinds of different people. I wanted to visit cat cafes, whi... | I’ve always loved the very first moments of the day - That time when you’re only half-awake, and the warm softness of sleep is still heavy around your mind. You somehow have the sense that the world has narrowed to just you, and perhaps the vague imitation of reality found in your dreams. I didn’t think that it could g... | 2017-03-22T16:13:24 | 2017-03-22T15:28:02 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | It all happened 40 years ago.
Deep into my early 60s my memory fades day by day. But, I'll never forget that moment 40 years ago.
That moment was when life turned to death, the sweet scents turned to carrion stenches, the hallucinated utopia turned to a burning reality and when my innocence turned to corruption.
The... | *From that day on, I knew what I was doing was a lie. A complete lie.*
"Not coming to dinner tonight, Jay?" Mata said as he put on his shoes, "Heard we are eating ribs tonight." Sickness coiled inside my stomach.
"I'll pass, a bit tired," I said, hiding myself under the blanket, attempting to find some sort of comfor... | 2017-06-20T03:39:12 | 2017-06-20T03:35:51 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] You are a demon hunter. Secretly, you've been possessed by a demon for your entire career. He is just eliminating the competition. His goal is almost complete. | It is tough letting someone control your body. At first I fought for control but then I asked myself what was the point. Here we were a couple of decades later and I was still the world's greatest demon hunter, just with hundreds of more kills. Six hundred and sixty three of the demons that existed on this world wer... |
My father had sworn his soul, when I was a child. He told me one night, years ago, after a few too many glasses of scotch. He was a tactless and arrogant man, and I had always wondered how he’d come from poverty to luxury with so little actual skill. He admitted freely that him and I had little in common, and that I w... | 2018-10-18T10:37:40 | 2018-10-18T04:55:37 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | The Princess noticed the knight's glistening armor long before he reached the keep. She walked down the stairs and into the courtyard to greet him, as she had done with so many before.
"Sir knight," she exclaimed, "present yourself."
The knight dismounted, drew his blade and knelt before The Princess, offering his ... | The ancient tower of rock stood as a monument of ancient times, old home of the Scourge M’Thalia, supposed resting place of a living dragon. As opposed to a dead one. This room was boring. The only object of significance was the Old Throne, abandoned here as the True Throne sat in the Castle of M’Thias, the brother of ... | 2019-01-09T13:25:46 | 2019-01-09T12:44:06 | 37 | 13 |
[WP]There is a legend of demons that cannot be bound or banished, that laugh at salt and holy water, for these demons were not born of hell. The were actually born of mother Gaia, yet choose destruction of their own free will. Such horror may be hard to fathom, but I tell you, humans are real. | First, there came the gods. Immortal, domineering, beautiful--they ruled over their domains, up high and above, observing all that went on within them.
Then, there came the demons. Immoral, deceitful, corrupted--they crawled in the bowels of Mother Gaia, sometimes clawing through her surface and running amok in all th... | My head was hurting. Not just hurting, burning.
It started like the flame of a lit match and seemed to have turned into a forest fire. I found myself clawing at my head and cowering in the corner of the club. I had tried to make it to the door but I couldn’t keep my eyes open long enough to find it. So I crawled into ... | 2020-10-23T01:32:45 | 2020-10-23T01:20:43 | 418 | 37 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | I was confused as I saw my friends and family around me, frozen in time, cheers and song still on their lips. Even the smoke from the candle I had just blown out was still hanging in the air. But nothing was more of a surprise then the husk like being with nine horns and branch like limbs in the chair across from me.
... | Avery entered adulthood with a knife in her hand, slicing through icing and layers of chocolate cake, surrounded by banners and balloon and boxes of presents, and all the people who loved her most. She hadn’t expected her angel to be holding one too.
Ariel hung, translucent, on the edges of her sight, her body not yet... | 2021-05-23T15:52:49 | 2021-05-23T15:05:16 | 1,240 | 201 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | I was born in April 20, 1889. But I was conceived in August 5, 2527.
You can't zap a person back in time when he's destined to become one of the most infamous murderer of all time, people will learn study up on his past, why he became like that, why would anyone want to be this way?
I had no choice. I was sent as a s... | Jesus this is brilliant!
What if Adolf's life was a misery.. he, his family and his culture were under huge oppression from the Wasserman rule. By the year 2314 they controlled the media as far as the US - this one family dictated more than the Roman Empire ever dreamed of.. without breaking borders. It was all about ... | 2014-03-02T16:08:50 | 2014-03-02T15:40:41 | 794 | 16 |
[WP] While at the airport, you Google your flight's number...only to find news articles published an hour from now detailing its crash. | *Details of the crash are still coming in, though it's believed that weather difficulties combined with pilot error have led to the plane crashing off the coast of the Sea of Japan. At this time there is no further information, though sources are telling us...*
The woman on the television screen speaks into a micropho... | "Well, looks like I'm not flying today. Fuck that." Isaac muttered to himself as he reread the articles for the umpteenth time. It really rattled him to think about. They described the plane, the flight, and the charter down to a T.
Still, he didn't want to leave. He had to fix this somehow.... But he wasn't getting o... | 2016-07-01T23:18:53 | 2016-07-01T22:39:22 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] A pill has been created that adds 50 years to a person's natural life. To get a pill, one must prove to a jury of their peers that their life is worth extending. Each time, the criteria for extension become more rigorous. You are the world's oldest person, and your last 50 years has just ended. | "Just... Please, let me die already."
The jury didn't even blink. I was tied to the litter and couldn't do anything to avoid my grim future.
"For the crime of rebellion, Prisoner 1809", they don't use my name anymore, it's part of the punishment. "You were sentenced to 1000 years in prison. The damage you made to ou... | "Wouldn't you like to say... anything? We're trying to keep you alive."
The judge peers at me over his slipped-down glasses. And the twelve members of the jury are silent, disbelieving, until at last a farmer down at the end of the jury-box starts shouting.
"This is bullshit!" he says. "He has to say SOMETHING!"
"Si... | 2016-10-25T16:43:47 | 2016-10-25T16:38:14 | 505 | 257 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | He knew what was happening. Of course he did. It was the universe either attempting to punish him for what he did to these girls, or a just and merciful devil who fucking finally got him and was presenting the ultimate reward. He didn't know or care which, because all that mattered was that, in the end, it would end up... | Well... this is *not* how I wanted to spend my Saturday.
I really had no intention of dying so easily, but what can I say? I fucked up. She fought back. Still, scissors to the gut is *not* how I wanted to go.
Now I've been forced to carry out my tormented punishment before I can go to hell in peace. Apparently the "... | 2016-11-13T14:42:36 | 2016-11-13T12:45:59 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | The TV just continued to softly humm in the background, news anchors muttering in seeming shock. "Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United St-" the TV clicked off and the cultists sighed.
"It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu." One said. "And in fact, it might improve the si... | I never thought I would see her wearing a full body armor and wielding twin plasma machinegun as large as a motorcycle. Heck, I never imagined I would see her holding something larger than my dog.
Valiantly, she charged upon the hordes of gray six meter long worms, accurately evaporated their heads and hearts. But the... | 2016-12-22T01:28:16 | 2016-12-21T23:42:28 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Time machines are invented in 2168. Immediately, a law is put into place banning anyone from traveling to any time before the machine's invention. You are part of a special ops team, sent backwards in time to find and capture someone who illegally traveled back to 2017 for unknown reasons.
Extra points for time p... | As he turned the car into the driveway of the apartment building, he was telling her about how it was built in the sixties—“The *nineteen*-sixties,” he interjected, though she hadn't said anything. It was tall and long, with inboard balconies, everything in peeling white paint. Behind it, there was pool behind chain-li... | "Charge your rifles, check your gear, and make for damn sure your memory joggers are on dazzle mode." Gunnery Sergeant Harken bellowed instructions, reminders, and threats to the two squads of Time Rangers assembled for a first-ever mission to the past.
"Christopher Toynbee. Remember that name. Our records show tha... | 2017-03-07T19:41:51 | 2017-03-07T18:17:23 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | It took Ben a minute or so to answer.
"At the moment... no."
Josh nodded at Ben. Not everyone wants to kill people. No, scratch that. Has a passion for killing people. No, scratch that. Has a... well, it's hard for Josh to explain.
Ben expected some other response from Josh, but that was it. Just a nod. Ben turned ... | I always pretended not to know. James may be meticulous when he's out there, engaging in his "hobby", leaving no trace behind, but he's far from discreet when he's at home. A bloodied knife in the sink every now and then, his insane amount of cable ties, together with the trash bags he hoards in the basement, and his u... | 2017-03-21T22:37:22 | 2017-03-21T19:26:21 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] In 2020, we received a signal from outer space. Somebody had decoded our language and sent us a message. It was short: "Be quiet. They'll hear you" | **Be quiet, they'll hear you**
"Is this another prank by the astronauts again?" Devina asked, staring at the screen in front of her. "I told them to stop trying to mess with our systems,"
"How could they have pulled that off? We would know if that signal was coming from any of our ships," replied Dan. "Maybe it's a... | **"Be quiet. They'll hear you."**
That was it.
**We didn't know.**
Didn't know what was out there, waiting for us.
**How could we?**
No one told us what was out there, they just told us to be quiet, but they never explained what it was we were hiding from. It didn't take long before the bodies started piling u... | 2017-08-25T07:34:00 | 2017-08-25T06:22:29 | 135 | 62 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "This is absolute tr- ... tr- ... tr-, ... hold on." I pulled out my phone and opened WordSecure, quickly typing in t...r...a...s...h. The payment screen showed up: use once for ten cents, monthly pass for two dollars, or lifetime use for one hundred dollars. I selected "use once," waited for the transaction to clear, ... | I pulled the black mask over my face and took a breath, making sure the holes for my nose weren't going to be an obstruction.
A snap at my left let me know that Jazz was ready too. I turn to face her and run through the plan with my hands. She signs that she's got it.
I prime the manual recharge laser gun and sprin... | 2017-09-20T11:55:46 | 2017-09-20T08:46:17 | 146 | 64 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | "Please, don't kill me."
The words stuck in my head, playing over and over like a broken record.
"Please, don't kill me."
I shook my head and glanced out the window at the empty street, a dreary cloud still enveloping the city. The rain never came, but the cloud never went away. This city was once a happy, vibrant... | "Here's your pay for today." - said Natasha.
"I said I will take it by the end of the week, didn't I?" - I replied, shoving the books back into my bag.
"Yeah, buy you look kind of sloppy. Could do a haircut."
"Thanks, but I like it this way."
"Suit yourself then." - she shrugged.
As I passed through the door, she ... | 2017-12-03T10:56:59 | 2017-12-03T09:41:22 | 31 | 11 |
[WP]“Nope. I can’t go to hell. Satan still has a restraining order against me.” | "Nope, I can't go to Hell. Satan still has a restraining order against me." Said Dante, nonchalantly.
"Well, you cant stay here." St. Peter replied. "The angels weren't fond of your snooping last time."
"Where else is there?" Dante asked.
"Hmmm, go wait over there. I've gotta make some calls." St. Peter replied. Dan... | "Nope. I can't go to hell. Satan still has a restraining order against me. Bastard can't bother to pay up," the man slurred. I watched him through narrowed eyes, signalling the bouncers over with a twitch of my head.
"See, problem was, ol' Beezy wasn't gettin' the souls he used to, 'specially after Johnny won that con... | 2017-12-03T18:58:49 | 2017-12-03T18:34:31 | 61 | 41 |
[WP] Whenever you are about to die, your main consciousness switches to alternate universe in which you survived. This makes you conscious only of the longest possible life. Uppon death, you are shown all the ways you would have died. | Hell.
*"Death 36,288,753,580: Branch snaps while climbing tree. Neck broken in fall."*
I'm in Hell.
*"Death 36,288,753,581: Branch snaps while climbing tree. Impaled on broken branch upon landing."*
I'm sitting in a white room with a small TV. It's showing me all the ways I *could* have died in my life, but didnt.
... | "Are you an angel?" Peter asked the creature that was bathed in light, light far too bright for him to be able to make out any real features. It was tall though, and he thought he could make out wings billowing behind it. Far away in the distance, he could just see the outline of an arched gate.
"*Yes,*" it said in a ... | 2018-02-15T06:21:54 | 2018-02-15T05:33:05 | 3,171 | 1,584 |
[WP] Magic can only be performed by twins, and only so long as both of them are alive. You're the third-born of a set of triplets. Your elder siblings are mages, and you aren't. At least, that's what you've told everyone. Truth is, you've got a new kind of magic. | Anthea and Althea were treated like royalty in our small town. Twins were rare, and they were the only pair in our town. Everywhere they go, the townsfolk would offer them gifts to try to earn their fancy.
An can create magic potions and weaponry enhancements. She was even given the title of "Esteemed Mage" and had a... | Ella slowly knocks on the door. She breaths in gradually and then let all the air out, trying to let the nervousness pass. There is no response for a while, but Ella doesn't move. She stays patient. This might be the only thing he has left at this moment.
The door slowly opens and Lila peeks outside. "What do you want... | 2018-02-20T03:59:06 | 2018-02-20T02:10:25 | 57 | 24 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | Yup. I never had ... relationships without complications. I guess dating a super hero or something was one of the better kind of complications.
I condensed those thoughts into a confused shaking of my head and a gesture telling "What the hell, jenny?". Then I patted her on the shoulder. She was tense and stressed, I c... | I stood there for what felt like almost an hour, staring out the window Eden just flew out of. My mind was blank, as if all my thoughts were taken away with her, I didn't know what to say, or even how I was supposed to feel about this. The familliar, hated itch returned, causing me to agressively scratch at the back of... | 2018-09-16T13:10:00 | 2018-09-16T12:45:28 | 92 | 26 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | "THIS IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT! We will reclaim it!" Fleet Captain Julius Kaine spoke angrily to the holo-specter of the Terran Orbital Defense Commander Sorlain. Sorlain replied with controlled anger "You lost that birthright when your ancestors abandoned ours just to save their sorry souls from the Archon invasion."
Juli... | For all the scans of the planet's surface and drone inspections showing the state of all former major cities - now desolate wastelands overgrown with moss, grass and towering trees - nothing could have prepared Camille and her crew for what lay beyond her ship.
They hadn't expected to be stopped at checkpoints along t... | 2018-09-29T04:31:25 | 2018-09-29T04:26:58 | 240 | 115 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | "THIS IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT! We will reclaim it!" Fleet Captain Julius Kaine spoke angrily to the holo-specter of the Terran Orbital Defense Commander Sorlain. Sorlain replied with controlled anger "You lost that birthright when your ancestors abandoned ours just to save their sorry souls from the Archon invasion."
Juli... | The Secretary for Defence looked out of the flagship's bridge. Formerly from the Navy, he had seen and read about how the human defence forces had evolved quickly over a matter of centuries. Space was the ocean in which they sailed, not water. The Air Force no longer primarily flew in the air, though atmospheric operat... | 2018-09-29T04:31:25 | 2018-09-29T03:35:21 | 240 | 51 |
[WP] Earth is doomed in a matter of years, but you are bestowed with a mystical dagger that causes anyone killed by it to instantly resurrect on an alternate Earth that does not share the same fate. In one world you are revered as a hero, on the other the most notorious serial killer of all time. | Humanity clung to any semblance of hope as the plague descended upon the few of us left.
20 million had died in the first year alone. In the years following another 40 million would fall victim to what was simply referred do as “blue death.” What made it so terrifying was how quickly it evolved. We couldn’t cure it, b... | The dagger shines in the light, gleaming as the moonlight trickles down to the ground. I sheath it back into its holder, the mystical item glowing as always. *Blood dripping silently down my hands.*
The Earth was always doomed. From the start. Ever since the rise of humanity it was already degrading. While the eart... | 2018-10-15T05:29:48 | 2018-10-15T05:18:12 | 91 | 45 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | I yawned and stretched as I pushed myself off the ground. Hate sleeping without a bed, I never get any sort of decent rest. Those damn tips I see in my sleep have never really been helpful, I've always sort of tuned them out and done my own thing. Everything sort of works out in the end... well, except for... a lot of ... | ######[](#dropcap)
Heather's eyes popped open. She pressed a finger to her forehead, saying a silent spell to ease her migraine. Her dreams were always accompanied by an aura, and yesterday night's left her feeling like a freezing hand had crawled up her back while she was sleeping. She bit her lip. It definitely wasn... | 2018-11-20T16:11:12 | 2018-11-20T13:55:53 | 835 | 482 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | No no no... not this again... please god... not this.
My wide eyes darted around the room. It was just like I remembered it— everything from the posters, decorations on the walls, to the cozy reading nook in the back of the room. Where the pillows always that big?
At the sound of a familiar voice, my attention turn... | This was the last time I ever saw them -- will ever see them I suppose. I can't remember what stupid reason I had to be crying before I woke up, but now the tears are real. I didn't necessarily like all of them, but it's hard to care about petty school squabbles... Even the worst of them don't deserve what I know is co... | 2019-08-18T07:31:39 | 2019-08-18T07:28:26 | 562 | 54 |
[WP] "So to walk on water you used..." "Anti-gravity boots." "Healing the sick?" "Portable nanobot medbay" "And I guess you used a matter converter for turning water to wine?" "Nah I just swapped the jars when they weren't looking." | “Why didn’t you just use the powers I gave you? You *are* the son of God.”
“I don’t have to do everything you say, Dad. I’m not you.”
God shook his head. “Well maybe you could try to be a little more like me every once in a while. Did you know they started another whole religion based off of you?”
Jesus looked up, t... | ‘So how does this make you feel?
‘About......’
‘The fact that you have ruined one of his creations by telling a primitive race that you were god’
‘Son of god’ he interrupts, ‘ I led them to believe, no I Hinted....yes, I hinted I might be the son of god’
‘You may want to look at this before you say anything else.’ ... | 2020-01-06T19:47:27 | 2020-01-06T18:54:18 | 96 | 15 |
[WP] The super villain shook with rage as they stared at the security footage. "He's not even a real superhero with superpowers! He's just some loser who's really good at throwing knives at people without killing them!" | I like knives.
I like looking at them, collecting them, keeping them in tip-top shape… And I like to stab people with them, and see blood oozing from their wounds, and color draining from their faces, and tears pouring from their eyes as they beg and plead for their lives.
The teacher said it’s wrong to stab people. ... | #Doctor Doomsday
"Play it again" I demanded.
Stephan complied, rewinding the security footage from our latest mission. I saw two members of the Doomsquad team advancing down the hallway, and knew the third was camouflaged somewhere in the frame. The trio halted, probably due to some sound that wasn't captured by the... | 2022-08-03T08:37:02 | 2022-08-03T08:11:53 | 1,053 | 278 |
[WP] A nerdy girl goes on a blind date. She's surprised when the date is the bitchiest cheerleader in her school. | "I promise, it'll be great," Lily said after Hannah expressed her reluctance to go. Hannah sighed, and nodded. She couldn't back out now anyway. She began having a thumb war with herself, and noticed the butterflies in her stomach as Lily finished straightening her hair.
"Okay, done!" Lily announced. Hannah put her gl... | Susan was surprised Rose had ever wanted to be friends with her. Last time one of the popular girls talked to her, she ended up naked in a cornfield in the middle of the night. But she had been sitting with Rose at lunch for almost a year now, and nothing bad had happened yet. On this evening, however, she would be con... | 2014-10-11T21:04:53 | 2014-10-11T19:59:04 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 171 | 81 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Guilt, shame, and horror would only begin to describe the things humanity felt when we were hit with the news. The Aliens didn't mince their words.
In short, we were considered the scum of the universe. Deliberately left out to rot, to self destruct, because we had shown a capacity for violence, cruelty, and atrocity... | "Chancellor Ehrbane, please, I am not a violent man."
"*Not a violent man?!*" I spluttered with almost unkept rage, "Your people have laid waste to my kin-kingdom's homeworld. Your men have trodden armoured through the Basilica of Old Truths, the keystone of our culture! Your weapons have destroyed our ancient reliqua... | 2014-12-26T13:25:59 | 2014-12-26T10:45:23 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] Governments all over the world cease every space program. Ten years later, a rebellious group is about to launch into space and they finds out why space programs ceased. | “Why didn’t they stop us?”
“Hmm?” Pirate Jeron looked up. He was nominally the engineer on this flight, as much as any outfit run by the Pirate Party could have designated roles.
“You heard me, you just don’t want to have this discussion again.”
“It’s been a month, and all I have to talk to is you, the crazy magnat... | (Part 1)
Everything had worked out so far. Six and a half years of planning, hiding, in secret, risking arrest (or worse) every time we made that long drive through the dust to town to pick up a new package or a new recruit.
At first, it was only Leanne and I - both enthusiasts, educated, but never eligible f... | 2014-12-28T09:01:03 | 2014-12-28T07:45:33 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] As teens, you and your best friend make a marriage pact. Years later, you discover they've been sabotaging all of your relationships to have you for themselves. | You were always there for me. We were inseparable; the same.
Batman and Robin, Bert and Ernie, they used every name.
You moved next-door when I was eight,
we didn't get along.
You were Holmes to my Moriarty,
the right to my wrong.
I was a bit of a bully. I'm not proud but it's true.
I had everyone afrai... | The contract is still posted on my bulletin board in my old bedroom back home. Written in orange crayon, the contract requires that I marry Jackson on the day following my twenty-seventh birthday if I am still single. At least, this is what I interpret from the stick figures holding hands with a 27 written above each o... | 2015-05-02T12:37:02 | 2015-05-02T11:49:23 | 198 | 92 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | Meanwhile some, like myself, take luck from others. You see, luck isn't like a fuel, that's burned and lost. Its more like money, that's spent and burnt. Scientists, about four years ago, discovered what they called the 'luck particles', and you can pretty much guess what the human race did.
They found a way to mine i... | The guy with the gun sprinted down the street and turned down an alley, not sure if he could even hear the bank teller following him over the sound of his own pounding heart. His left ankle clipped something and he went sprawling, his pistol sliding just out of reach. He didn’t even see whatever he tripped over, which ... | 2016-10-19T11:57:51 | 2016-10-19T11:57:31 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] When you wish upon a shooting star, it's actually a satellite, and your wish has been recorded and cataloged. An agent has been assigned to your case. | "We got one coming in and it's yours," my boss's voice echoed through my headset.
"Roger that," I muttered pushing on my controls.
I waited for the wish to register. A picture of a little girl appeared followed by the words "I wish I could have a puppy." I sighed in relief. I could do this.
I started going through her ... | 8am, Central Control.
"Well this is it Mulgrew. You've got the first case of 2017, don't screw it up." barked Lieutenant James from the front room.
Gemma, Nolte and Higgins swung around, lept from their chairs and came bounding over to my desk. The four of us Debutants were now glued to the monitor, I could feel Gemm... | 2017-01-03T11:06:30 | 2017-01-03T09:40:55 | 76 | 44 |
[WP] Lying in bed with your significant other and feeling the rhythmic kicks of your unborn child, you recognize the pattern as Morse code. | Jack was laying in bed talking with his pregnant wife Jill. They were so excited that they were going to have a son in a short time.
All of a sudden Jill jumped a little, smiled, then turned to Jack and said the baby was starting to kick.
Jack had been trying to feel the baby kick for awhile now but was never able t... | Dave tip-toed to bed giving his wet footsteps a disdainful stare. He turned to Lana. Her eyes could have burned holes through the pages of 'Hypnobirthing and Timeless Secrets of Natural Birth'. She had no time to review his wet foot problem.
"You know dear I'm just glad that they finally gave me some time off." he ... | 2017-06-25T21:53:29 | 2017-06-25T18:03:52 | 48 | 36 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | We thought getting rid of them would bring a stable peace to the World.
After all... Americans started the war. They were the main Military power on Earth. Without them in the picture, we wouldn't see a need to fight one another anymore. Real issues like Global Warming could finally be dealt with.
We expected World P... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T00:24:00 | 579 | 254 |
[WP] After your weekly D&D session, you jokingly roll a D20 saying,"I try convincing the love of my life to come over right now!" Everyone laughs as they watch the dice come up crit 20 but then they all go silent as there is a sudden knock at the door. | I'd been pretty bummed for the last couple of weeks since I moved out to the new house I was renting. My friend Jack convinced me that running a D&D session might help get my mind off of things, and I suppose he wasn't wrong for the most part. The night was your usual fare, adventures, killing goblins in a new mo... | "My god, Sam, if that works, I'll pay you fifty bucks!" Bacon joked.
Sweat beaded his brow even with the windows cracked and the cold night air leaving most of us almost shivering. Still, it was worth it. There wasn't a deodorant, bodyspray or antiperspirant existed that could stop Bacon from sweating if he was warm.... | 2018-04-03T11:12:21 | 2018-04-03T10:47:27 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | "Hey, Terry!" the Lisa greeted me with a smile when it was my turn.
"Hey, Lisa!" I answered back, setting my trustey right beside the counter and opening it. It had about a thousand coins left inside, but those would be gone by the end of the week.
"I need my coins, Lisa." I said to her, as I'd said many times before... | A voice rich and sonorous filled the air like rumbling thunder, echoing through my mind like a whisper down a deep well.
“Would you like another day?” it asks. There is an undertone of mirth in the voice, a mocking tone of one who has all the knowledge and power.
My eyes focus through the haze and I see a body lying ... | 2018-07-29T04:14:58 | 2018-07-29T03:59:43 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] John Shoester is a bitter old man who travels around and tells people their approximate time of death. Five years. Twenty years. Two months. And he's always been 100% smugly accurate - then he met you. Last week!? | I didn't bother hiding my smile. I had died last week, and he'd predicted, exactly right, almost 8 years ago. He was just such a jerk, I had to rub this in his face.
"You know something," I half-chuckled. "That's the same time you told me before. And I told you it wouldn't stick."
His eyes went wide. Good, he remembe... |
The old man stood on a milk carton box in a dressing gown that billowed in the uptown breeze.
'Want to know your exact time of death?' John Shoester shouted. 'Or even if you don't want to know I'll still tell you!'
Some commuters ignored him, while others left a wide birth.
'Madam with the pink scarf!'
I couldn... | 2018-09-06T09:43:21 | 2018-09-06T07:52:34 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are. | When I was a kid, I thought winning a lifetime supply of Oreos would mean truck after truck appearing at my house, each overflowing with Oreos. Back then I didn't think about things like where in the world we'd keep that many Oreos, or the fact that they'd all go bad shortly after, or that sooner or later I'd get sick ... | Do you remember all the Oreo contests? The ones where if you had the special cookie design or special colored filling you had found the proverbial golden ticket? As a kid, I was obsessed. I spent all my spare money on Oreos. Package after package. My parents thought it was cute. My friends thought it was awesome.
It ... | 2019-01-04T10:08:48 | 2019-01-04T08:50:23 | 7,531 | 1,527 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | I'd tried every thing. Disguises, Netflix and takeout at their place, a romantic picnic in the park, even asking out the chief of police to try and find a way to connect with a special someone.
Each time it failed. Not because of anything I said or did but because the it never really got that far. The Hero Squad alway... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T08:21:21 | 1,144 | 14 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | I grabbed the detonator and with a deep breath I slipped it into the specific pocket in my boot.
Before too long he will arrive. I peered across the roof top and looked for the place I knew he would come from.
The ‘actual’ bomb is over to the east, in a secure prison for the lowest of the low, so he will expect me to ... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T05:29:53 | 129 | 70 |
[WP] Everyone on their 18th birthday have a dream and they must pick between the red or the blue pill. These pills effect your future in drastic ways. You on the other hand decide to walk the opposite way and find a green pill. You are the first to take the green pill. | I'm red green colorblind. No one knew how big a deal this would be as I was growing up because no one knew the real impact.
Traffic lights? No problem. Top one means stop. Trickier when they turn them sideways, but it's the left light that means stop. Is my tomato ripe? I have to smell it. Is my steak cooked medium r... | I was casually walking down a rather boring looking alley.
It was boring because of the simple fact that it was a perfectly normal alleyway in what was otherwise supposed to be an extraordinary dream. Dull shades of beige and grey colored the endless rows of buildings, stretching as far as one would expect an endless ... | 2019-03-05T22:25:52 | 2019-03-05T22:02:50 | 69 | 37 |
[WP] You're one of the last remaining survivors in a Zombie apocalypse and you find yourself cornered by a walking corpse. Out of sheer panic, you reach out and bite them. The zombie drops to the ground and convulses for a moment before the skin recolours as the person sits up and asks what happened | I already had my routine, I had been living alone for quite some time now. A few months? A year? I didn't keep track.
I had a save home, in a cleared out prison.
I woke up right on time, 8 am.
Did my morning workout and jumped into the car right after.
It was Friday, resupply day.
I went to my usual spot, the big fo... | I was going too fast. The road began to slip away from me like gel as I skid across the yellow line, the curve, and into the tree. Dusty glass flew everywhere in slow motion. I’ve been in this situation many times, I told myself, I know exactly what to do. I’ll get out of this alive, like always. Sure, I wasn’t the be... | 2019-06-07T18:36:11 | 2019-06-07T17:48:46 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A severely overpowered supervillain continuously evades capture and commits crime specifically to flirt with this one police sniper he thinks is kinda cute | Officer Malone prepared herself for the worst as she entered the room. Forensics officers and meta human specialists were bustling about, focusing on the tasks at hand. Doing anything to keep their minds off the horror show around them. Malone knew the feeling. But in the end, wether it was the smell, or the sound, or ... | There was only one thing that truly would make or break a supervillains reign and that was patience. Granted with a longer life and the simple ability to teleport, one could make for quite the manipulator. In private, Steve was just your average joe who even continued working his remote IT job. Granted some of the d... | 2020-02-08T09:25:29 | 2020-02-08T09:05:22 | 145 | 47 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | “Seer Griselda, please repeat that.”
Moran Ossenius, the necromancer of Yorm Urtush, tapped his fingers against his desk. The wizened old woman leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed in a trance.
“It is as I said, my Lord,” she droned. “The Hero of Light has been born. She will one day bring about your death. ... | Velcroy the king of everlasting darkness was quite an enlightened fellow given his title.
"Sir! Sir, the prophecy, they have determined who will be the next hero of this land," Millrot, Velcroy's personal skin shifter, said.
Velcroy had the slimy-looking echo of a man watch the capital city of Juin. That was where th... | 2021-01-14T21:08:56 | 2021-01-14T18:52:56 | 420 | 292 |
[WP] Angels are thought to be beautiful, while demons are thought to be vile and disgusting. However the truth is Angels are extremely scary, while demons are beautiful and elegant creatures. | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, mothers and fuckers of the audience, listen up! For I have come here to tell stories and drink rum, and I am all out of... hey, these cups refill themselves. Neat. Either way I'm about to learn you some shit that can't be un-learned once done so and I won't stop after I start. So i... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 2, Part 4: All the Forces of Heaven and Hell v.s. My Teenage Daughter)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**It's unclear whether angels and demons predate organized religion.** Some ... | 2021-04-08T09:50:57 | 2021-04-08T07:49:36 | 631 | 56 |
[WP] A villain, in his dying breath as he's mortally wounded by the hero, uses the last of his magic in order to resurrect the fallen friends of the hero in his journey to defeat him. It sounds like a counterintuitive idea; Until you realize that some of them died at the hands of their allies. | “ you…. You think…. This is the… end for… me”
Malarik , the master of shadows and death, His strained dying breath was getting more shallow
“ they… will bring… me…. Back…. Once they know….. what befell them”
He raised his hand to the sky and a large bolt of black ichor shot out as he fell to the ground dead. He w... | Zempher the Lich King stumbled back grasping their chest. He looked down and could see the dark magics that have sustained him for centuries leak away. Precious dark liquid flowing out and there was nothing the undead wizard could do about it. The panic had passed and Zempher red eyes narrowed as he accepted his fate. ... | 2022-09-24T15:10:14 | 2022-09-24T14:53:50 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] The princess is different to say the very least. Her face covered in battle scars instead of make up, her hands as hard as stone and her eyes more frightening than a dragon. But you must perform your duty as a knight and guard her even though she may not need your protection. | Tarquin never thought to see a look of fear on her face.
It had been his duty to escorte Princess Julia to the palace for the wedding. The Knights of the Rose were charged with protecting the High Ladies of the realm with vigilance, strength, honor, and very little discretion. As Knight Commander he had led a squad of... | Halls of carved stone, iron gates, silver sconces, and the jewelled-eyed statues only ever had the warmth of those around them. Empty the castle was frigid. With the Barrons of the outer kingdom here to celebrate the ratification of the peace treaty, the castle was as tepid as their forgotten water goblets to Princess ... | 2022-10-03T09:23:26 | 2022-10-03T09:22:52 | 688 | 153 |
[WP] John can see 10 seconds in to the future. Barry can go back in time 10 seconds. They fight. | It took nearly 13000 tries, thirty-six hours without sleep, reliving the same moment again and again, but Barry had his revenge.
It was nothing.
Nothing like reliving the 10 seconds from the moment he found his wife bleeding to death on the ground. Nothing like the desperation he felt as he tried, again and again, t... | John Watson's parents were doctors. His mom was a cardiologist and his dad was a urologist. They often worked late, and when their on-call schedules collided, John had to spend his afternoons with Mr. Olsen, the nice old man next door. Mr. Olsen helped John with his homework and baked the most delicious cookies. And be... | 2015-06-05T08:36:25 | 2015-06-05T07:58:25 | 316 | 37 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | What's there to say, really? They all knew this one would be here sooner or later. Satan looked over at the generals, taking note the anticipation and voracity in their faces. He also noticed all the tusks; there were lots of tusks. The souls of the damned came in from just about everywhere around the world. They ... | "Whoa what was that?!" - the first thought running through my mind as I'm waiting for my blurry vision to sharpen again and the shrieking in my ears to fade. I feel numb, kinda third-person-ish. Am I really falling or just nauseated and dizzy? There's no wind, but I can't feel the floor neither. In the distance I see a... | 2016-10-14T08:35:55 | 2016-10-14T07:47:14 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You're a scientist studying bacterial colonies. One day, you look under the microscope to observe strange shapes that, on a closer look, resemble letters. The bacteria are greeting you and have a message for you. | *STOP MEDICINE! WE DESERVE RIGHTS TOO!*
I couldn't believe it. HIV wanted rights. One second I'm working on a vaccine, the next I'm talking to a virus.
*I WAS MADE THIS WAY! I CANT CONTROL HOW NATURE MADE ME!*
So HIV viewed itself as a collective whole rather than individual cells... Interesting.
*SORRY "WE"! WE WE... | I slide the key card in the key read and wait for the locks to unlock the door. *click* I push the heavy steel door forward. "I swear that door gets heavier every time," I mutter to myself. I wait in the decontamination chamber to clear me. I get cleared and start to walk to my station. On the way there I pass other st... | 2017-01-01T15:36:34 | 2017-01-01T14:16:54 | 37 | 14 |
[wp] Humans have the shortest life span in the universe. This is also the reason they are the most feared. | Porter grinned maniacally at her captors, one eye wild and the other swollen shut from a wicked-looking purple contusion. She spat out the blood filling her mouth and spoke with the rasp of a half-crushed windpipe. "You boys ever heard of locusts?"
Their lateral frills twitched in confusion. She laughed, then groaned ... | "Redran! What are you doing? Get away from that thing!" Blornof said in the highest whisper he could do without waking the sleeping beast. Redran was right over the creature getting ready to touch it.
"Come on Blornof don't be a Rhombus, We've already passed the dare by coming up to it's den. If we touch it we'll be l... | 2017-10-24T10:08:04 | 2017-10-24T08:31:22 | 63 | 14 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | Why must we hold our values as superior to the ones from decades past? I know what you're saying...because *we know better*, and damn it if I didn't agree.
They say the road to hell is lined with good intentions. What's one little lie? One litte improvement to history? Surely we could have done without silly little mi... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T11:20:51 | 848 | 38 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | *TESTING TESTING CAN ANY OF YOU STUPID FUCKS HEAR ME*
Those were the first words which God spoke to us.
Of course at first, everyone assumed that they simultaneously experienced the same schizophrenic delusion and simply stared off into the distance. We were unable to comprehended the obnoxiously loud celestial voice... | "They fired me. I can't believe they fired me! I started this company....er, existence!", I mewled.
"I know, sir. Sucks. If I'm being candid...which you didn't say I could be, so...sorry, my Lord?"
"Peter...you know I don't like all the 'sir, thou, his-holiness' stuff. I made all of this, but you know as well as I do... | 2019-06-03T09:07:27 | 2019-06-03T08:23:29 | 2,232 | 114 |
[WP] Scientists perfect the blood test that predicts when you will die. You're immortal, so you took the test out of boredom. Your results just came in, you've got just one day left. | The test had to be wrong. The test had to be. It had to be. I was alive when the pyramid was built. I was alive when Alexander forged his empire. For god’s sake, I lived centuries before the pleasures of modern plumbing and this test said it would all be over tomorrow. I can’t die. It’s impossible. The test probably do... | It amused me to take it; it was to be one of my last amusements, here, before I tossed this whole species aside and moved on. There were new worlds to conquer, there always are.
There always are, and no amusement lasts forever. You learn that fast, or rather, "slow" and fast" cease to have much meaning compared to the... | 2019-08-22T06:09:03 | 2019-08-22T05:50:28 | 566 | 103 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Why won't they listen?
Why won't anyone listen?
"You never wonder if the rain would give you a message in Morse code?" asked Natalia, in an innocent tone that did not fully hide her fear.
"That would make my day more interesting, I can tell you that much," replied Rene, her Morse code instructor in the army.
Natali... | Secrets slipped through the rain in staccato undulations of long and short. Everything in the world had a Name, every Name in the world had a Purpose, every Purpose in the world a Subversion, every Subversion a Corruption, because of course a subversion by itself is not a wrong thing, and there are many wrong things in... | 2021-09-28T08:55:03 | 2021-09-28T08:37:14 | 89 | 54 |
[WP] The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. the new guy learns the hard way. | Another night, another chase through the back alleys. This time after a petty jewelry store robber juiced up on some super-drug, because of course modern drugs have to not only slowly kill you but make you supernaturally fast and strong while they do it. A standoff had ended with the perp on the run, and leaking blood ... | \[Sun & Star\]
"Huh," Icesurge grinned to himself. A small crowd of citizens gathered in the library parking lot in front of a wooden stall. It was a pleasant, sunny afternoon. A sign proclaimed it belonged to "The Mad Doctor", but it reminded Icesurge of a child's lemonade stand. That interpretation was helped by... | 2022-10-13T16:33:18 | 2022-10-13T12:54:40 | 67 | 41 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | Having a full soul is a feeling like no other. I wouldn't expect you to understand, but I'll do my best to explain.
It's immortality, and power over nature. It's fulfillment, a feeling of total purpose. It's satisfaction. There's no room for doubt, for low self esteem, for uncertainty. It's being a complete human.
... | "Master." The captain of the guards bowed in deference. "We are honored by your presence. Although," he added, grimacing slightly. "I do wish that it had been at a better time."
"Amitābha." Responded the monk, bowing low in return. "I have heard tell of the incidents - indeed, that is why I am here."
At those w... | 2015-08-22T10:32:23 | 2015-08-22T08:14:52 | 491 | 58 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | "Jan Reynolds here for the Entertainment Minute! Brad and Angelina are gearing up for their divorce and things are gonna get messy!" A picture of Brad Pitt in his gear from Troy appeared next to Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent makeup.
"Odds are 8:1 in Angelina's favor as her famously brutal destruction of Billy Bob T... | When the law was passed i thought my day would never come, i loved her too much to feel that we'd ever have to divorce. I can't believe it has come to this, how did i go from having loved her so much to now consider killing her? I don't know but i can't stand this pain anymore. I feel like the weight of the world is u... | 2015-11-18T08:45:31 | 2015-11-18T08:35:47 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | The creature's thought patterns were simple. Its intelligence... call it a very indulgent average. Speech networks were rudimentary at best.
And yet, it seemed to understand what was wrong with the drive. *SELF* understood the creature's understanding, despite not understanding the drive. *SELF* was Explorer, *SELF*'s... | "This is a terrible idea." Said Fexund, folding his arms and staring at the line of humans ahead of them. "It's almost brand new- you're supposed to take all Gulux's back to the dealership within one year for factory settings if something goes wrong."
"Fexund, how close do you think the nearest Gulux dealership is?" A... | 2016-05-23T23:30:07 | 2016-05-23T18:38:57 | 44 | 32 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | At first we didn't understand how it was possible, 90% of the population just dropped dead and no one knew how, there must be a reason those of us that survived were given the right to keep on living but what could it be...
We searched for a connection between us yet it seemed to be as random is it can be until we ... | Saying that religious belief is what brought humanity to a near end, a near end where The Falling occured wouldn't exactly be correct to say. It took until 2085, fifteen years after the instantaneous, near apocolypse that left Earth's population at just over seven billion to find the only possible explanation as to why... | 2016-10-22T03:50:18 | 2016-10-22T02:36:52 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] You get achievements in life, such as "Get Married" or "Meet your future Wife". Today you had your first baby, and you see an achievement pop up: "Meet the person who will eventually kill you" | "Huh. Well shit."
"What is it hun?"
"Our kid is gonna kill me one day."
"...What? Oh no, oh no no no no-"
"Hun, honey...it's fine. It's fine."
"It's not fine! How could... how could it possibly be fine-"
"Look."
*Achievement(s) Unlocked:*
*Salvation: Meet the person you'll save.*
*Your Cross: Meet the person ... | I first became privy to Humanity’s Achivements when I was just a boy. As soon as I could make sense of scratches on a page and put them into words, there it was: “Learn To Read.” Granted, it took a good 40 minutes to sound out the letters, a harsh, guttural slop of syllables that only a toddler could muster. This made ... | 2018-01-12T19:04:46 | 2018-01-12T19:03:10 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | The cashier gave me the same look they all have given me. His eyes were welling with tears as he tried to catch his breath. He knew who I was.
"I'm so very sorry," I whispered softly as to not alarm anyone else. "I can make it very quick and dignified and you will feel no pain."
I handed the cashier my debit card to ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:29:26 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] To enter The Paradise, you must perform a talent or a skill that you have acquired on Earth. Welcome to Heaven's Got Talent. | The panel towered above me. A 50 foot column of white marble climbing through a perfect blue sky. It was emblazoned with a large 'X', the edges trimmed with a brilliant gold. Behind the panel sat the lone judge, its face obscured by the burning white light glowing behind its head.
'Introducing Contestant number 100,80... | I followed the light. It seemed like the logical thing to do, what there being nothing else but the glimmering dot amidst a sea of inky abyss.
I also vaguely recalled that that was what one was supposed to do in a post-life situation. It was odd, how removed I already felt from the mortal coil. One moment I was cruisi... | 2018-08-07T05:52:22 | 2018-08-07T05:35:24 | 57 | 11 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | Why did have to be like this?
Why couldnt I make it in time?
Why did they HAVE to get her?
I asked myself over and over why, but the answers eluded me. It's been 3 days since the world went to shit, with those THINGS everywhere. It started somewhere rural, some secret agency, people say. But that doesn't matter.
I had... | The promises I made mean nothing now. "*Protect her*" were her last words. "*Protect her*"... her words rang over and over again in my mind. It means nothing. The thing outside the door wanted in. "*The thing*?! That's your daughter, for god's sake woman! Get it together.*" I pulled the blankets tighter over my head an... | 2018-09-06T19:24:58 | 2018-09-06T19:15:27 | 140 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up on September 22, 2018 in place you’ve never been before. You can’t remember what happened, everyone you ask doesn’t remember the day before, either. It becomes an international mystery. It seems no one can remember the 21st night of September. | Was love, in fact, changing the minds of pretenders? Was it chasing the clouds away?
These were the questions we wanted to ask ourselves, but we didn’t know.
But then every television screen in the world turned to a message, from some unknown source. “Everyone, remain calm,” it said, in the right languages for each... | Liam had a dream about the old days, when he was a truck driver. It was back before automation took over. He was driving down an open road on a beautiful day in the fall. Lush reds and oranges framed his view for as far as he could see. It was so vivid and beautiful that he didn't want the image to fade from his mind. ... | 2018-09-21T13:04:49 | 2018-09-21T12:01:19 | 86 | 54 |
[WP]: Your son's solution to every problem was to fake his own death. Broke a vase? Fake death. Failed a class? Fake death. Moving out to college, he mysteriously disappeared. 20 years later, you get letter in familiar handwriting. "Mom? Please don't get mad, but I REALLY need your help..." | With shaking hands, I carried my son's letter into my study.
I read it.
Then I read it again.
Over the 20 long years that he was missing, James had lived a wild and varied life, full of hijinks and adventures.
And now my baby was in trouble. A mother's child is always her baby, even if that child is forty years ol... | When you lose a child, parts of you die with him. You hear stories of people who disappear mysteriously only to be found alive several years later, and you rejoice.
Then the time passes. You're not spending only hope now, and the debt increases as you try as many possible ways to find him.
But time passes once more, ... | 2018-09-25T06:34:19 | 2018-09-25T05:50:38 | 219 | 28 |
[WP] "Death is a gentle thing if you welcome it, like a soft breeze or a bashful kiss." - "Then what's the scythe for?" - "The people who resist." | And at this, I stopped.
"So... we *can* resist."
And though the toothy grin remained, it's smile was gone. "**Ah. Cunning. But clever wheat is still just wheat...**"
But as it swung the glittering edge at me, I heard, as if through deep water- "Charging to 200 Joules. Clear!"
And I was back, surrounded by the whit... | "Define... *resistance"* I asked the hooded figure, who had just appeared in my kitchen
"Well - the way dying works is that I have to sort of... take your life - " It began
"I understand dying, mate"
"And to do that, I have to cast this spell. If the spell is interrupted, then it won't work properly and we have to g... | 2018-10-25T09:22:40 | 2018-10-25T07:42:10 | 71 | 42 |
[WP]You and your friends grew up in a small town far from any magic schools but managed to learn it eventually. You always pushed and challenged each other, unaware of how strong you were. Then one day a city mage happened to pass through town. | On phone waiting for an interview so sorry for the format.
"We were 10 when we finally cracked magic. Jerome was the first of us. Ironic really since he seemed to have a slowness about him. Not mentally of course but physically whenever you came around him things just seemed to slow. Like time itself decided to take i... | 1/3. Edited for formatting and Holy Character Count Limit, Batman!
So I grew up in a one-stoplight town. Hey, don’t look at me like that. Add back those twenty I.Q. points that you just removed from your estimation of me. There are plenty of us who’ve never sported track marks or meth-mouth. Neither do I have three k... | 2018-12-05T10:12:09 | 2018-12-05T10:01:18 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people are given one superpower of their choice. While your friends and acquaintances choose super strength, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, they make fun of you for your “nerd” power. You decide to show them just how powerful manipulation of the strong nuclear force is. | “You want to be able to manipulate the what?” The Authorised Superpower Assignment Officer asked.
“Manipulate the strong nuclear force” I reply in eager anticipation.
“Riiiight.. as long as you are aware that this procedure is non-reversible, and that you only get one choice”
“I’m fully aware of this yes, I’ve thoug... | The blow (I usually write in french since it’s my first language so here goes nothing)
I remember sitting near the blackboard, where the clock barely striked eleven above our heads. A glance out the windows defiled a relatively enjoyable morning into a foul day, heavy like every student’s conscience. We had learned to... | 2018-12-20T23:59:18 | 2018-12-20T23:37:21 | 61 | 20 |
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