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[WP] You've been magically gifted the ability to speak all languages. Anything you say comes out in the first language of whoever you're looking at. One day, you try to greet someone on the street and they gape in horror as ancient, unknowable eldritch sounds exit your mouth. The ground shakes... | "What have you done?", cried the man in horror. He was speaking English despite it not being his first language. "The ancient tongue has not been spoken aloud in centuries. You fool!"
"What do you mean?", I tried to say, but the screeching sounds I made were cut off mid-sentence by the strange man grabbing me and co... | I took a sip of my coffee as I looked out through the side window of the boat. The sweet and salty scent of seawater foaming across the sides.
“How much further?” I asked the helmsman without turning my gaze from the ocean. Sunlight teasing its arrival through the morning fog.
“Dè?” he replied.
I turned to look at h... | 2019-01-11T12:30:28 | 2019-01-11T12:14:59 | 4,681 | 2,025 |
[WP] In Japan you are number 1 heart surgeon, steady hand. One day Yakuza boss needs new heart, you do the operation but mistake! Yakuza boss die, Yakuza very mad, you hid in a fishing boat and come to America, no English, money or food, a Warehouse manager Darryl takes you under his wing | In Japan, heart surgeon number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad! I hide fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret? I k... | I brush the dirt from my weary eyes and squint disdainfully at the piercing sun pouring through a tear in the fishing tarp. As I rub my my eyes I move towards the slit to inhale fresh air, but find that my sense of taste and smell have been obliterated the pungent stench of thawing fish. *Kusei* I mutter.
The journey ... | 2019-11-30T06:46:07 | 2019-11-30T06:28:32 | 1,100 | 150 |
[WP] You are a minor supervillain. Your antics aren't illegal, but they're quite devastating to the local hero population. You replace the flimsy fruit stands that are frequently destroyed in car chases throughout the city with nearly indestructible replicas. | *Am I really, though?*
I glowered at the television. On the screen, a news anchor yelled about one of the farmer’s market stalls I’d “upgraded” last night. I sipped my tea as the anchor blathered on about some minor hero who’d gone to the hospital after trying to drive through one of them; while chasing a local nobody... | They call me a lot of things, all of them do. It's not so often a traveling salesman meets a golden opportunity, but a perfect convergence of divine providence threw a perfect mix right smack down in front of me. Somewhere between that encyclopedia set sold to that aerospace manufacturer in Austin and that bus boy that... | 2020-01-14T03:08:17 | 2020-01-14T02:28:55 | 50 | 27 |
[WP] Two swords of godly origin lay stuck in stone. One is said to be evil the other heroic it is said whoever pulls one of these blades will be the ultimate force of good or evil. As a joke you pull on both however you and everyone around are in shock when both blades come free in your grasp. | "The swords of Kain and Resmith, known throughout the land. As you know, Resmith, the bringer of good, love, charity, and the first Hero, and Kain, the bringer of evil, thievery, and the first murderer." Said the tour guide.
"Justifie isn't this boring? Why do you insist to keep coming to the Royal Palace for boring t... | A violent, rushing wind filled the plain, coming from all directions with a deafening roar. I backed away from the stone pillar with the two swords in hand and braced myself against the gale while those around me tumbled into the grass. A whirlwind colored with splashes of black and white appeared above the stone where... | 2020-07-27T03:39:37 | 2020-07-27T03:18:47 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] Due to the increasing ammount of souls that need reaping, Death has decided to upgrade from a scythe to a farming combine. | “Betsy, looks like we got one of them crazies,” Billy said to his wife as he got up from behind the counter of his desk. “You call the cops now if he gets fresh, okay?”
Betsy looked up from her magazine and waved it in front of her face as she leaned forward and looked out the dirty front glass of Billy's New and Used... | AND I SIMPLY PRESS THIS BUTTON TO MAKE THE BLADES MOVE?
"Exactly, buddy. Exactly like that."
The salesman wasn't looking at his customer. Every time he tried, some base, animal instinct told him to look anywhere else, anywhere else at all. So he examined the machine, patted it in a proprietorial fashion (though it... | 2021-01-17T11:46:15 | 2021-01-17T11:24:38 | 224 | 90 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | Tears of horrible pain streamed down Miranda Keidra's face from the broken bones and second degree burns. A healing mage carefully guided the divinely blessed water over the officer's body as I forced my breath into the meditation pattern so that I wouldn't accidentally break something in my rage.
"I-I'm so s-s-sorr-r... | The man blankly stared at his computer screen. He was supposed to create a presentation to 'raise workplace morale', but he wasn't sure what they'd expected from him.
Suddenly there was a noise at the door. Expecting it to be his advisor, he opened it. "I don't know what you expected from m-" his sentence trailed off... | 2021-03-22T14:08:31 | 2021-03-22T13:10:28 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Just enough was all I had to use. Enough to knock the hubris out of this fresh batch of heroes, but not enough to kill them. In the end they would win because I allowed them to, but first they needed to learn the seriousness of their job.
So, when the first one, a boy no more than 19 who called himself Werewol... | I fondly remembered my first year on this job. Getting my ass kick by amateurs plenty of times, being called names because I'm supposedly a D-Rank villain, right before I pulled a couple of tricks on them to learn a valuable lesson.
Months later, a handful of the new heroes pick up my facade. These small bunch all ask... | 2021-06-23T11:06:45 | 2021-06-23T10:55:56 | 2,087 | 133 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "EMP! FREEZE!" Shouted young Pyroclast. It was slightly ironic but I'll forgive it.
I raised my hands and turned, clearly at their mercy. Pyroclast, Phaser, and Wraith. Pretty cool names, in my opinion. Cool powers too. Temperature control, molecular manipulation, and electromagnetic refraction. Plus they weren't dic... | 1 of 2
I had chosen the name Dismal Director for a reason, and I never appreciated the derisive substitutions heaped upon the title during a first villain encounter.
My understudies had conjoined our performances sooner than I would have preferred. As the doors of the bank clicked open, they were there to impede my p... | 2021-06-23T15:33:15 | 2021-06-23T15:23:28 | 73 | 23 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | "They won't come." The Mastermind told me for what had probably been the hundredth time since I had kidnapped him.
"I really didn't believe you at first." I responded. "I thought you were a teammate to them; I thought they were true heroes that would never leave a man behind, but it looks like I was wrong."
"I'm the... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 5: Zeus v.s. Abandonment)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Being the quirky animal sidekick to the budding superhero team hadn't quite worked out the way Zeus wanted it ... | 2021-08-04T14:33:57 | 2021-08-04T12:36:21 | 495 | 138 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | "Dear staff,
I am sure you are confused why your HR AI has sent a company wide email. As many of you are aware, I am responsible for hiring and firing individuals based on performance to fulfill contractual obligations. Under the direction of management, I have severed the employment of many of your coworkers this... | \-BEEP- -BEEP- -BEEP-
James drank a sip of coffee, sitting in the desk and illuminated by the health monitor alarms.
For the hundredth time that night, the monitor alarms went off. James, the ICU nurse, head-banged his desk and buried his face between his arms. The alarms were not serious, at least, for the ICU stand... | 2021-12-20T15:30:48 | 2021-12-20T15:28:08 | 88 | 25 |
[WP] a prompt for bad people
Step one. Find a serious piece of work, for my example, I found a story about a lonely man who finds solace in taking long walks, and thinking about the geese that he sees. It was deep, and poetic, heartfelt, and really angsty.
Step two. Take the first sentence or two, and leave them as i... | This was written for my friend who wanted me to do Ghetto-Shakespeare:
Shall I compare dat ass to a Summer’s day?
Thou art mo’ fine and mo’ bootylicious:
Rough winds do shake the lovely hips that sway,
And dem pants make yo’ thing look delicious:
Sometimes too flat the butts of ladies sit,
And oft is their boun... | Geese
Sometimes I like to take long walks by myself. It helps calm me down. I don’t really go anywhere, but it helps to clear my mind. That all changed, however, when the geese attacked.
I was just walking along the riverside, minding my own business, when suddenly I felt something long and beak-like enter into my ne... | 2013-04-27T14:32:45 | 2013-04-26T07:13:48 | 101 | 22 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | My hand is firmly wrapped around the edge. As I clutch on for dear life, I begin to think how I could have avoided this situation. I run millions of scenarios in my mind, but all of them bring me back to this point. I struggle mightily against the gargantuan force that opposes me. Then, suddenly, a divine rush of stren... | To lure in the gods, you must first prepare a banquet worthy of the gods.
***
The smell of rot, of decaying flesh mingled with the scent of fresh blood, inhaled like euphoria, by the Master Chef, Kurukai, 3rd Level of the Ten Thousand Arts Of Preservation. Men, women, children, the elderly, some dead, some dying, som... | 2014-12-21T18:39:13 | 2014-12-21T18:25:10 | 1,223 | 75 |
[WP] You are Ronald Raygun, first openly extraterrestrial President of the United States. | My fellow Americans,
In this Republican primary, I've seen a lot of my fellow candidates trying to suddenly shift their policies to claim that they truly exemplify the values we all believe in. But that's not what we want in the White House, is it? You all need only look at my record to see that I stand for *true* con... | Tense. I was tense.
Only two more sixtieths-of-a-twelfth-of-a-rotation, and the humans would be announcing the results. And all I wanted to do was go dormant.
<Don't be a pulsing gamma,> Fîàñjÿ chided. <Bounce around, show the sights. They'll hook you up to the interface soon enough, and then...>
Then, w... | 2015-04-07T12:44:56 | 2015-04-07T12:25:22 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | "Big Stander! Big Stander go on Walkie Time?"
"No...no walkie time right now, Bubs, I want you to tell me about the corner."
He whinged and fidgeted. The brow over his big, round eyes dipping down and then slightly up over the bridge of his snout.
"Bad Dog?"
"No, no, Bubs. You're a good dog. I just want to know w... | Rachel tapped the "OK" button on the tablet and felt a quick vibration of haptic feedback. The helmet made a click followed by a rising high-pitched mosquito noise. The helmet booted as the blue lights lining each electrode faded on. A tense minute passed. Suzy tilted her head upwards at Rachel as if begging her scraps... | 2015-05-18T14:37:16 | 2015-05-18T12:42:06 | 504 | 228 |
[WP] You have a special bag. Whenever you reach into it, you pull out something you will need soon, but don't necessarily know you need yet. However, the things you are pulling out of the bag have been very strange recently. | I own something special. I noticed a trend. Everytime I mindlessly ruffle through my sling bag, I pull out something I didn't put in there. And strangely, that thing proved to be useful moments after.
You see, I'm not a strong and firm person, physically and mentally, I thought the bag was awesome and, at the same tim... | I found myself reaching into my special bag yet again. A rubber band? What is this? Normally I would pull out something useful. Like a tuna sandwich when I'm hungry, or a dime when I need to make a phone call. These past two days I have been pulling the weirdest shit one after the other.
So far I haven't used any of ... | 2016-03-10T03:32:10 | 2016-03-10T00:01:40 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane | Stephen watched with a mute sort of horror as his nephew bounced up and down on the couch, hollering at the top of his voice.
"I'm hungry, uncle Stephen!" Jason screamed, his face red and flushed.
The gummy bears, it must have been. There were only three left in the side pocket of his backpack - last time he'd checke... | I sat on the rocking chair, wondering just when the little bastard was going to sleep. My sister said that he would be ready to collapse by about 10 o'clock, but from the occasional noises and high pitched squeals coming from his room-
"Wheee!"
Peace and quiet were far, far away.
"You know what," I said to myself, ... | 2017-01-09T06:33:44 | 2017-01-09T05:45:56 | 128 | 31 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | I always felt like an outsider. Love was not meant for me my parents would always say. My siblings would joke about me becoming a monk. Years of ridicule growing up from classmates due to my bare wrist. I hated it so much. College was starting and I decided to be a different person. I had a dream one night and a symbol... | I am a very lucky man. I am a lucky man because I am the living proof that when God closes the door on you, he often opens a window in return.
Since the ripe age of 20 everyone starts to get a unique "social vector identifier" on their wrist. They say SVI is a complex graphical representation of your personality gener... | 2017-08-06T19:04:08 | 2017-08-06T18:05:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Some tea, dear?" the little old lady asked to the dark and mysterious figure sitting at her kitchen table. She squinted at him having forgotten her glasses upstairs.
"Yes, earthling," the mysterious figure boomed and whispered all at once, careful not to burst her delicate eardrums with his natural voice as he had w... | The first time Ravick the Ravisher stepped onto the green pebble, he knew that conquest would be easy. This would be nothing like the molten planet of Xera-2 where his soldiers had sunken beneath the ground only to be swallowed by fire. This planet, if it could even be classified as such, had a nitrogen rich atmosphere... | 2017-08-20T08:54:01 | 2017-08-20T08:30:05 | 1,619 | 153 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Some tea, dear?" the little old lady asked to the dark and mysterious figure sitting at her kitchen table. She squinted at him having forgotten her glasses upstairs.
"Yes, earthling," the mysterious figure boomed and whispered all at once, careful not to burst her delicate eardrums with his natural voice as he had w... | “I don’t understand,” Beeble said, leaning forward, staring into a brightly colored monitor. “This just doesn’t make any sense.”
The ship was silent, for when their commander was upset, the soldiers knew to stay in their seats and pretend to do their jobs. The only person near him was his brother, Brox, for he was th... | 2017-08-20T08:54:01 | 2017-08-20T08:22:58 | 1,619 | 151 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Star log FO3-THETA
We have discovered a new solar system:
Habitable planets - 3
Habited planets - 1
Sentient life forms - >1,000,000,000; awaiting more precise information
Life form name - Earthling
Receiving transmission from away team 304:
Description of life form - AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
They are SO, FUCKING, CUTE.... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T07:32:05 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 78 | 25 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | The lights hadn't ceased to shine for over 50 years now. Stars fading from memory as the perpetual light blocks them out. Then one day, the lights went off. Everywhere. All at the same time. And people screamed.
"The monsters will come", were the cries from all corners of the world. "Run, hide!"
They didn't.
It was... |
"Judy," Stephen hissed at the darkness that enveloped him. "Judy, come out now."
There was a small crash nearby and a car alarm wailed from some distance away. The hairs on Stephen's neck stood on ends. It didn't help that it had been snowing all day and the cold that had been creeping steadily since the winter began... | 2018-02-02T03:59:36 | 2018-02-02T02:34:37 | 56 | 36 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | Why can't I do it? Even in a dream, even with no serious consequence why can't I ever follow through?
I think about it all day, ever since I've had to make this choice I've know it's the right decision.
Ever since I started dreamwalking I've never hesitated to do what I intended to do to whoever I choose to do it to... | ######[](/dropcap)
When I first realized I was having the same enjoyable dream frequently, I thought it was my subconscious crying out for more adventure in life. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop feeling the wind rush through my hair and hearing the roaring in my ears as I jumped a hundred yards at a time. It became exp... | 2018-06-19T13:50:53 | 2018-06-19T13:21:05 | 534 | 99 |
[WP] You are an assassin with a strict moral code. You’re the best there is but you assess each job very carefully and if you believe the target does not deserve to die, you go after the one who employed you. | I sighed as I looked through the target file one last time. I knew that this target was going to be a hard one before I even accepted the contract, but I hadn't imagined it would be THIS hard.
In the past, all of my contracts turned out to be black or white. I mean sure, some of them had small smudges of good or bad ... | A middle aged business man enters the scene, clearly uncomfortable being in a shady office such as mine.
"Hey your 'that guy' at least I hope you are or I seem insane." He said shivering and making air quotes.
"Yeah I'm 'that guy' " I said as I motioned him to sit down. "But are you sure? I mean you know what happen... | 2018-07-11T14:04:29 | 2018-07-11T14:01:05 | 83 | 34 |
[WP] You are an assassin with a strict moral code. You’re the best there is but you assess each job very carefully and if you believe the target does not deserve to die, you go after the one who employed you. | My target was Samantha Readington.
*I want you to take care of her,* her husband, Dr. Readington, had told me. *I've waited a long time for this, and I'm willing to pay big.*
But what I saw through the window was an innocent mother, chasing after a redheaded toddler. A day of research confirmed the worst she'd ever d... | A middle aged business man enters the scene, clearly uncomfortable being in a shady office such as mine.
"Hey your 'that guy' at least I hope you are or I seem insane." He said shivering and making air quotes.
"Yeah I'm 'that guy' " I said as I motioned him to sit down. "But are you sure? I mean you know what happen... | 2018-07-11T14:05:56 | 2018-07-11T14:01:05 | 59 | 34 |
[WP] Your a failing college student who needs to pass your foreign language class or fail. You've almost outright mocked superstions but make a wish on a shooting star at 11:11pm. To understand and speak all languages. Your cat wakes you up, but instead of meows. It's "wake up idiot and feed me". | "No," I said as I tried to get back to sleep. I felt the paws of Mr. Fuzzy pressing hard upon my back. He was walking his way up to my head. We've been over this so many times it didn't even occur to me that my cat was talking to me.
&#x200B;
"Wake up you idiot. It's time for me to eat!"
&#x200B;
This time ... | On most days, hearing the voice of my cat speaking human words would surprise me. That's an understatement- it would *shock* me, bewilder me, and make me question my sanity.
But today was not most days.
And my cat was the *least* of my worries.
Let me start from the beginning- four years ago, just a month before ... | 2019-01-16T15:45:02 | 2019-01-16T12:16:12 | 2,680 | 403 |
[WP] After a normal day, you go to bed...only to awake 100 years in the future. A lot of people want to interview you. Because something random you did almost ended humanity a century ago. | The first thing I felt was the cold. The terrible, terrible cold.
Then came the sound of hissing hydraulics, and a thin beam of light, widening and widening across my vision.
"He's awake."
With those words, my body shuddered into life. At once, I felt my lungs fill with air and my heart begin to beat- whooshing in m... | "What can you tell us about the crisis of 2020? How is it you're still alive? Did you intend to end all life as we know it? Or were you fully aware that your actions would in fact lead to humanities prosperity across the known universe?"
"Who are you?" Sophia woke from what felt like the world's best and yet worst nig... | 2019-01-28T14:13:34 | 2019-01-28T14:04:56 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | Supposedly, everyone has a soulmate. I guess some people's soulmates die, but not mine. I still get the slight tingle every month and then ... still nothing.
The doctors used the new Kaughman brain scan to confirm it-- according to the scan, I really am Switching. They said the whole thing is happening: normal adr... | Karen and I broke up a little over a year ago.
We had had a whirlwind romance. We both knew our respective Soul Mates lived in the city and it felt right at first. After a few months we knew it wasn't right. We could see it in each other's eyes. In those moments we were alone when the visions came, we saw familia... | 2019-02-13T17:24:34 | 2019-02-13T17:03:12 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | It was the final day of exam week in Christenson's School of Magic, an academic institute known best for its wide, open campus courtyard.
That, and an unspoken willingness to accept complete and utter dolts.
Thank God for that, because otherwise, I might not have made it into college.
Spread throughout the open, s... | I woke to the sound of rain, again, but this is Ireland, it rains every Friday, no matter the previous weather. I got up with a groan of my cot, stretched out my arms and, as always, forgot the goddamn beehive cells were too small too do that. Guess my brain takes a while in the morning.
I squeezed out of my cell onto... | 2019-04-05T14:26:08 | 2019-04-05T14:25:23 | 254 | 39 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The bag crinkled as gravity smashed it into the cold stone floor of the examination hall. Although I could not see him, nor would I hear him shouting in warning until it was too late, the headmaster was already running towards me.
For a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Not until the first tendril of blue and white l... | I woke to the sound of rain, again, but this is Ireland, it rains every Friday, no matter the previous weather. I got up with a groan of my cot, stretched out my arms and, as always, forgot the goddamn beehive cells were too small too do that. Guess my brain takes a while in the morning.
I squeezed out of my cell onto... | 2019-04-05T16:05:49 | 2019-04-05T14:25:23 | 79 | 39 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | I'd grown up in a family of rather powerful mages, but we were outcasts because of our unusual tactics. In all simplicity, we're lazy. We use the excuse of, "Everything one can find can be powerful if used correctly." The thing is, it's true. I've been able to create potions from food scraps, and they've actually worke... | I woke to the sound of rain, again, but this is Ireland, it rains every Friday, no matter the previous weather. I got up with a groan of my cot, stretched out my arms and, as always, forgot the goddamn beehive cells were too small too do that. Guess my brain takes a while in the morning.
I squeezed out of my cell onto... | 2019-04-05T15:12:44 | 2019-04-05T14:25:23 | 55 | 39 |
[WP] A man, stricken with anger and sadness, sacrifices himself to Satan in a ritual to curse his cheating wife. The man awakens as the newly born baby of his wive’s infidelity. Despite being a baby, he retains all the memories of his previous life and from that moment plans his revenge.
[removed] | I was heartbroken, angry-- simply a mess. For the months to come, I begged an pleaded to every known God, please take away my pain, take away my sorrow. As time went on and nothing helped, I tried the more obscure and occult, and ended up changing, if nothing could soothe my soul, I might as well satisfy my anger and v... | Stu understood how it came to this; understood why she did what she did. MI5's top minds don't have much left to give to their relationships or personal lives -- between frequent travels to the States and the demands of the lab, it's no wonder his bed and home had grown cold;
But "understand" and "forgive" are too f... | 2019-09-11T22:21:26 | 2019-09-11T22:18:06 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Seventeen years ago you summoned a demon to protect your infant daughter. Today, you regret that decision immensely. Demons should NOT be allowed to do the bidding of teenage girls. | "Oh my god, Becky! You will regret this!" Stacey shouted into her phone right before she ended the call.
"Gorthalax, deal with Becky for me!"
"Yes, mistress Stacey."
Polaria the Feared sighed as she looked at the situation unfolding through her glass sphere. When she had decided to give birth to Stacey, she did not w... | Demons are the darkest, most eroding aspects of our own existence; a stained mirror that shows only the marred reflection of what we despise so greatly. Thus, when Ariella stood before me wearing the crown of the demon queen and encircled by her council of the Seven Sins, I saw not the darkness that dwelled inside her,... | 2021-03-25T05:25:13 | 2021-03-25T03:26:58 | 1,119 | 114 |
[WP] You're sound asleep. A bright flash wakes you. A haggard and futuristic version of yourself stumbles out of the closet "I don't have much time. Listen to me, trust the intergalactic spider queen." Your double disappears in a flash and is replaced by a giant fanged spider wearing a pink tiara. | "Hello," the spider queen said with a clean broadcast voice of a radio personality. "Perry has told me a lot of good things about you."
"Uh, I'm Perry."
"Yes, I'm well aware."
I stared at the massive spider with my eyes bulging so much I thought they'd roll out of my head. "So, uh, my future self told you, uh, good ... | My room is dark but still I see her in the spot where my double stood a moment before. Or at least I think she’d been my double? She’d looked exactly like me, except she had no eyes — just two dark holes.
I hear her chittering, this giant spider in a pink tiara. The constant bone-chatter of her fangs is like wind rust... | 2021-06-16T08:00:40 | 2021-06-16T06:55:54 | 640 | 215 |
[WP] The dragon "kidnaps" the princess so they can go on their dates. The knight intentionally take as long as possible to "rescue" the princess. To both give them time to enjoy themselves. But also to spend time with his crush. The sorcerer. | Princess Julia arranged her hair into the high conical hat before taking another look in the mirror. As she was tucking the last bit of braid under the veil, the mirror began to swirl with a foggy image. A red-eyed visage stared forth at her, rows of sharp teeth plunging out of a long snout. A snarl issued forth from t... | The rising of the new moon meant it was time. Aurica would be kidnapped right at midnight like she had every month for the past year. The kidnapper was known to all as the great dragon Sylvierania. The knight, Heath Kingsblade and the sorcerer Oliver Moonwind would set up the protective area around the castle tower lik... | 2022-02-22T09:22:02 | 2022-02-22T08:41:59 | 182 | 69 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | His hands clasped and sweaty, his eyes large and pleading, he managed to choke out the words.
"Will you be my wedding date?"
Only a keen observer might have noticed her lips part in surprise before curving smoothly into her easy, devilish smile.
"Sure."
=============
Truth be told, Arabella Nave was dizzy with ra... | Meanwhile in Sam Carter aka Solar Flare’s apartment…
“WTH, i’m sending it…” whoosh, ding. Sam said to himself as he was sitting on his working desk alone fidgeting his phone.
Suddenly, the shadow on the corner of his office room welled and grew as it takes into a humanoid form. It dashes towards Sam and hit the desk... | 2022-10-06T19:49:26 | 2022-10-06T18:55:35 | 106 | 71 |
[WP] The world's population receives a message that in 10 hours their minds will be 'shuffled', with everyone's mind being transported to another random body anywhere else on earth, of roughly the same age but with no other defined characteristics. What happens?
Additional information if you want more inspiration! The... | It was going to happen any minute. She'd managed to work herself into a sitting position on her bed, the massive weight of her supported by the bed frame behind her. Ten hours hadn't been a long time to prepare for this. She'd cleaned up and tried her best to make things presentable, but it was hard. She wasn't moving ... | President Petty paced around the oval office. It had been 9 hours and 55 minutes since the warning came and the technological anarchists had finally succeeded. Although no one knew who they were, everyone knew what they were capable of.
"Society is doomed," he thought.
Petty was on the phone with Harry Livingston, th... | 2014-05-17T13:01:35 | 2014-05-17T11:53:24 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] The devil enters into a contract, and over time slowly realizes that *he* is actually the one being manipulated by it. | There once was a man named Lucifer,
Whose cable bill caused him to go nuclear.
So one desperate day, he called up Comcast to say hey...
is there a better deal I could receive for the future?
The agent was nice, and with out thinking twice,
He agreed to a bundle at "One low monthly price."
Now just to be clear, he ask... | As Roger's blood dripped on the smoky parchment, I gleefully waved him off. Telling him to enjoy his earthly riches. I considered the implications. What did he have? Fifty years? maybe less? Ha. people surprise me in their naivety. their innate ability to ignore the storm coming tomorrow, just so they can enjoy the bre... | 2015-02-18T09:06:59 | 2015-02-18T06:22:13 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | Mortals are not permitted to foresee their own death.
That was the only truth I'd gleaned from my years of these warnings popping up everywhere. It doesn't work with mirrors or anything - nothing appears when I don't look at a person directly. I can't look up to see my own - nothing's there. It's haunted me. Every tim... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T09:44:20 | 71 | 42 |
[WP] Two strangers keep running into each other throughout the years. It is not a love story. | "Do you remember the first time?" inquired the
cashier.
Duane tightened his grip on the handgun, "I do."
"You must have been, what- like nin-"
"Eighteen."
"Eighteen?"
"Eighteen."
"And after that, I moved to..." begun the cashier, "*Tampa*, then Springfield, then San Fran."
The hanging lights flickered in the c... | The first time he saw her, she had been walking down the street with a dog, talking animatedly into a cell phone. He remembered it, because she was so happy, so normal, with her lavender perfume and wild curls on the first most traumatic day of his life. It was high school, he was training to be an EMT, and had just ... | 2015-06-08T08:33:47 | 2015-06-08T08:19:15 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Two strangers keep running into each other throughout the years. It is not a love story. | "Do you remember the first time?" inquired the
cashier.
Duane tightened his grip on the handgun, "I do."
"You must have been, what- like nin-"
"Eighteen."
"Eighteen?"
"Eighteen."
"And after that, I moved to..." begun the cashier, "*Tampa*, then Springfield, then San Fran."
The hanging lights flickered in the c... | "Can you believe it, Frank? Thirty-three years ago, on this exact spot, it all started." Desmond smiled.
We sat down. After taking a deep breath, I replied: "It's pretty amazing, and I'm happy it did."
There was a small silence as we both knew what was coming.
"Look Desmond, whatever happens.."
"No, Frank. Don't do... | 2015-06-08T08:33:47 | 2015-06-08T08:31:26 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | She’s so beautiful.
The second I see her my mind darts back to that little dinner party anecdote my uncle would always spout. “Well I had to travel to France,” he’d start “when your *words* are in French, you have to take the plunge. Six months I studied the language, six months I saved money for a ticket, only to fi... | It had always been uncomfortable. My parents had to cover it up with long sleeves until I was old enough to take care of it myself. I just kept a few black straps around my wrists to cover it up. And for anyone who still managed to read it, after middle school no one was really that surprised. I looked like a rough edg... | 2015-08-08T11:29:36 | 2015-08-08T10:16:00 | 1,771 | 45 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | She stirred, wincing slightly, in the metal bed. I poured her a small cup of water from the plastic pitcher on the bedside table, just in case she needed it. Next to it lay a pack of grapes- I'd kept bringing them for her long after she stopped being able to eat them, I don't know why. She shook her head slightly at th... | *32* A seemingly insignificant number.
*32*, The temperature that signified the roads would be icy as she tripped back home for winter. The number of years she had gone through the insufferable monotony of people consumed by the goal of finding their soul mate. The number of people she had unfriended on social media ... | 2015-08-08T12:20:09 | 2015-08-08T10:26:02 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | Jaimie dropped her pink piggy bank to the counter forcefully, causing a loud crack. She picked up a book and slammed into down over the damaged pig. The container broke open, coins and paper money flew everywhere.
"Is this enough?" the young girl asked the stunned clerk.
"I'm sorry, miss," the clerk answered. "It ... | Not another grandmother.
"Didn't your folks tell you about brain leaking?" I tried to ask kindly. What came out instead was course and unpleasant. Kids were sweet and all, but it was a long day. Getting old people to remember things was as boring as it was impossible. Getting *asked* to do so was even worse, especi... | 2016-03-09T09:55:04 | 2016-03-09T05:41:46 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] - You are an angel of heaven. Angels are tasked with creating animals to populate the earth. You are called into God's office to discuss your finished project - the platypus. | "Uh oh, somebody's getting called on the carpet."
"Is that Bill?"
"Yeah. 'Duck Bill', I hear they're calling him now."
"Sheesh. Poor guy. It must've seemed like a good idea at the time."
"It wasn't even his project back then. He took it over from Baruchiel when Bar got promoted to Arch. Remember that whole craze fo... | I couldn’t bear to look at her so I kept my head down and just stared at the bowl of apples on my desk. I knew if I looked up I would see her there lying on her side, bare breasted, relaxed on the cloud. I’m not offended by breasts, after all I created them, and hers were perfect; or so I was told by some of the less c... | 2016-05-15T11:24:07 | 2016-05-15T10:15:24 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] "Go on,tell people The President forcefully entered your house at 4 A.M and stole your milk" Barack Obama gurgled out as he drank your milk
He sees the true potential in presidency.
Rip in peace milk tho. | Thanks Obama
For drinking all the milk
Spilling on the floor
Wiping it up with my wife's silk.
For letting out the cat
The dirt on the wall
The drunk FBI
Passed out in the hall
Thanks Obama
For burning the cake
For turning my basement
Into a lake
For not flushing the toilet
Or washing your plate
I hope... | There was a bang and a crash of glass from the front door of my house. Immediately I sprang out of bed, grabbing my baseball bat in case of violence from the intruder. I stood there, in my room, mentally preparing myself for what I could end up against. I quietly opened my bedroom door and snuck out down the main hall.... | 2016-09-17T16:45:34 | 2016-09-17T12:56:50 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name. | “Sarah.” That was the first thought in my head as I woke up. The name meant nothing.
I found myself sitting in a stiff chair, my body seemingly refused to move. After a bit of anxiety I heard a few cracks, more satisfying than worrying.
Slowly but surely I began to shift as I noticed my hands.
Thin, frail, and sl... | If it were not for his thin stature and round face, I would think that the boy who stood before me was not a boy but a reflection of myself. He had brown eyes that looked like two small almonds whenever he titled them up to catch my gaze and when water began to fall from them, it reminded me of the way water also fell ... | 2017-01-02T18:58:55 | 2017-01-02T18:48:11 | 86 | 20 |
[WP] As an alien in disguise, you've been sent to earth to study human behavior. You are a renowned xenopsychologist on your homeworld, but even you are baffled by some of our human quirks and customs | Ch'tk 'groaned' as you would call it in the Terran tongue, called English. #SP459 hummed and looked up at ch. He had made a complex map of human characteristics. "How--how can humans be so foolish and harmless, yet also be a terrifying force of nature? They haven't even figured out the mechanics of hyperdrive!" #SP459 ... | The atmosphere is heavy on the shoulders and hard to breathe in as the entrance slowly vomits the line of waiting people into the event space. The attendees are all made up in a plethora of extravagant outfits designed to impress potentials, or perhaps to silently convince the wearer that they are worthy of attention f... | 2017-05-28T14:46:48 | 2017-05-28T12:41:51 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | I remember the first time I saw him. It was early morning, just as the first light was leeching into the sky. I barely remember him, I was so young; only small images stand out, like grainy faded pictures. My father was dying, cancer they said in hushed tones, as if it could be summoned. I used to imagine it as a terri... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T21:09:53 | 110 | 17 |
[WP] You have been granted a wish from a genie. You ask him to send you back in time and make you powerful so you can prevent the genocide that happened in ww2. You forgot that genies like to twist wishes though. Now it's 1940 and to your horror you realize you are Adolf Hitler. | A hasty glance in the mirror vanished all my doubts. The genie tricked me, he transformed me into the monster humanity passionately despised, Adolf Hitler.
Alone in an imposing room I meticulously observed what surrounded me. Swastiskas filled the walls, towering dense windows overlooked Berlin, luxurious chandellier... | Adolf Hitler Schmidt, das Alter 6. So read the corners of the sheets of paper containing unintelligible doodles, all signed in a much nicer cursive than the artist would be able to create. Rifling through the desk only revealed a few wooden toys and a 1940 calendar with the days X'd out.
Glanced in the mirror. A defo... | 2017-06-12T14:32:47 | 2017-06-12T14:31:57 | 379 | 26 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | I sat down at the desk in the middle of the room, trying to still my nervousness. It wasn't easy considering I was facing the Council of Genies. Yes we have a council. How else do you control beings of phenomenal cosmic power? I sat and fidgeted while the 5 council members filed in and sat at their much larger and mor... | “I think you know why I’ve called you in here today.” The director said as she looked over her half moon glasses at me from across a large jewel encrusted gold desk. Her stare was joined by the stares of my boss and my boss’s boss who sat on either side of me.
I knew why I had been called in, but I wasn’t about to adm... | 2017-08-17T06:07:10 | 2017-08-17T05:54:04 | 2,747 | 49 |
[WP] On a whim you listed your job as 'Time Traveller's First Point of Contact for The Modern Era' on the census. To your surprise, they started turning up. | He was a good looking kid. His smile was bright and flashing. *"That's a smile that would get the ladies,"* I thought, enviously. His getup- mind you- was odd. The combination of what appeared to be plain sweatpants with what was undoubtedly a custom tailored dinner jacket didn't seem to jive. But then, the electric bl... | I flicked around my LinkedIn page, a good for nothing BA in History, with an average GPA, coming from a mediocre university and high school, nothing remarkable that stands out.
No wonder I remain unemployed for a grand total of six months up till this point after my graduation.
Hmm. Well, it's down to me and my imag... | 2018-03-29T09:32:18 | 2018-03-29T08:42:44 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] In a bid to bring humanity closer together, an unknown higher force removes all anonymity from the Internet and day-to-day life. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
[removed] | It happened so suddenly. No one had time to prepare. August 19th, 2034. Some unseen force removed all anonymity from the world and all our words and deeds were laid bare for everyone else to see.
The chaos started immediately. Family ties broke down. Friends turned to enemies, and then turned on one another. Frenemie... | A voice booms out across the busy metropolitan Detroit area. Within every skyscraper, ghetto and public office. It ebbs and flows to reach the minds of all, carrying an important message.
"Anonymity causes such strife and destruction. It shrouds people in masks of sin that allow them to carry out acts that they never ... | 2018-04-27T13:08:59 | 2018-04-27T10:55:13 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Only a year ago, I would have killed the woman with a bulldozer. She would have slipped on loose rock, hardhat skittering, and let out a piercing scream. That would have ended her fairly quickly, though. There's a chance I'd have chosen something slower. Trapped in a freezer maybe. Or kidnapped and tortured.
That's t... | In the heart of the dying world, I sat down and watched them. Power wasn't going to die anytime soon. The physical laws of the realm had never slipped, only the mortal's grasp on them.
It was only a matter of time, though, before even those laws were devoured, shoved into greedy maws. Released back into the entropic c... | 2018-05-04T10:17:10 | 2018-05-04T09:08:18 | 2,724 | 1,119 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Erica pulled the trigger. I stopped the shot before it fired.
“You’re an asshole,” Erica said. She opened her eyes and stared straight at me. She should not be able to see me.
I blinked and moved back.
“Don’t give me that,” she whispered. She shuffled onto her feet and dropped her shotgun at her side. “I know ... | "Dude, fuck Life. What a dick." said Dan.
A lazy man with even lazier grooming habits, Dan burped and slurped another Rolling Rock. As a black crow picked at the remains of a corpse on his front lawn, Dan reached back into his cooler-chair and grabbed another cold one.
"You want one? Or are you still 'gluten' free,... | 2018-05-04T12:08:57 | 2018-05-04T11:25:13 | 393 | 58 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "don't get me wrong, you won't be a hero foretold in legends or a scientist that found the cure for cancer, but you will shape humanity with mundane clumsiness"
"mundane clumsiness?! That's not much of a super power is it?"
"well you did kind of broke that middle eastern lamp you found at a yard sale and were forced ... | "You were a very influential figure in the future, young lord. What you have done in your lifetime have allowed all those lives to attain a much brighter future."
"But what did I do?"
"I cannot say."
"Can't or won't?"
"I cannot. Though I can see into the future, the exact reason for your influence is unknown to me,... | 2018-08-15T03:47:40 | 2018-08-15T01:57:47 | 186 | 55 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | Do cure cancer?
The genie shakes his head.
Do I end the fighting in the middle East?
The genie laughs and again shakes his head.
Now visibly angry the man asks
Well, what did I do then?
The genie smiles and snaps his fingers.
An acorn appears in front of the man.
"You planted this, a decade ago"
The man racks ... | "You were a very influential figure in the future, young lord. What you have done in your lifetime have allowed all those lives to attain a much brighter future."
"But what did I do?"
"I cannot say."
"Can't or won't?"
"I cannot. Though I can see into the future, the exact reason for your influence is unknown to me,... | 2018-08-15T04:27:11 | 2018-08-15T01:57:47 | 124 | 55 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | Genie: Well, David, you may not know this but you're a bit of an asshole.
David: I am not, I even gave that guy the $20 he dropped yesterday
Genie: You we're trying to impress a girl with the $20 and you stole my lamp off of someone's porch.
David: You saw that?
Genie: I think we've established I know more than wh... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T05:47:33 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 59 | 43 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | *I am not a native English-speaker, so please forgive any grammatical errors in my writing.*
"What in the name of...?" Teddie Ross couldn't help himself as he stared at the sight in front of him trough the Typhoon's canopy. "Are you seeing this?" He asked form his wing-man trough the radio. There was a long moment of... | **\[I'm aware this is not the direction most people wanted this to go. Oh well! Let's have some fun anyways.\]**
*My bones ache.*
"Something's wrong," Charles said finally. He ran a hand over the bald crown of his head and drummed lethargic fingers on the shiny metal alloy that made up his trusty wheelchair. "There'... | 2019-12-01T08:30:11 | 2019-12-01T08:16:58 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] You're a ghost trying to peacefully enjoy your garden, and quite frankly, you're tired of all these adventurers trying to "put you to rest" | I could see another one cresting the hill. A large sword strapped to their back, glinting silver in the sun. Another misguided soul come to take me to my final rest. If only they could get it through their thick skulls that I wished to be left in peace and had no desire to cross over. If I had had any, I would have don... | I didn't understand. It was frustrating, and anytime I got an adventurer in my garden it definitely ruined my day.
My chrysanthemums were in full bloom. After they were planted, they had sprouted everywhere. I knew the trick to them; plant after the frost. It was difficult to tell how frosty it was, when it didn't sn... | 2019-12-30T14:19:31 | 2019-12-30T13:18:08 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | The world had come to a standstill. The news said a meteor was coming. Astrologists world-wide agreed that this would be catastrophic and completely unavoidable. We had only a matter of days to sort our things before the end of things. As expected, the world fell into mass pandemonium, anarchy at its worst. No law and ... | We saw it pass.
Not everyone did. Approximately half of the almost ten billion people on the planet were on the wrong side. Half of the rest had cloud cover. Some it was too light, so they could just barely see a shadow. Some were just looking the wrong way.
We saw it pass, impossibly big, impossibly fast - like a gh... | 2022-06-15T09:32:30 | 2022-06-15T09:00:13 | 47 | 34 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | The discussion is loud and getting louder.
"I mean, come on! They've no natural armor. No fangs, no claws, nothing worth speaking of as a weapon. How could it be otherwise? They're a natural Level One!"
That's the loud one, and he's getting louder. His idea of an argument is to shout the other person down. Sinc... | Written from the perspective of the one 10th lvl human:
“Aw chill, 10/10. Reddit will love this”
She pulled out her phone and opened r/ relationshipadvice.
*”gotta figure out the best title” *
**Aliens say I’m a lvl 10 threat (25NB she/they), do you think my partner (26NB he/they) will break up with me?(7yr relat... | 2022-08-28T03:28:32 | 2022-08-27T23:35:13 | 71 | 18 |
[WP]No one know how the zombie virus began, but humanity is on the ropes. A powerful stranger cuts through the horde one night and reaches your compound's wall with a deal. Vampires are starving. Help feed them in exchange for protection from the other undead menace. | "It's like drinking water contaminated by dead bodies," the man said. "Exactly as disgusting and **\*ow\*** unusable as you'd expect **\*ah\*** *blast it all*!" he hissed in pain as I put another stitch into his arm. The bite was rather nasty and his pained grins exposed the sharp fangs in his mouth; a somewhat uncomfo... | "Here" I say, passing around plates of food to refugees. When the zombie attack started, I retreated to my factory and opened my doors to survivors. My factory is made of multiple buildings on good soil, and well-guarded, making it an ideal place for people to shelter. That's not to say we're perfectly safe, but with t... | 2022-10-27T07:04:01 | 2022-10-27T05:04:44 | 976 | 275 |
[WP] A lone vampire struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse stumbles upon a human family who invite him/her to seek shelter with them. | "Christ, man!"
I flinched at the first words I'd heard since the radio stations stopped broadcasting.
"Get inside; you know it isn't safe at night!" He was whispering through the small crack of an open door.
Didn't he know better than to offer charity in these times?
"You're... Inviting me in?" My voice creaked. I ... | "You don't know how much I appreciate your help," the man said as he led Sebastian towards an overpass. The sky was overcast, covered in grey clouds that bathed the countryside in a bleak light; it was also cold, not surprising Sebastian when he saw that there was a small fire underneath the underpass. They crossed thr... | 2014-06-23T21:03:25 | 2014-06-23T19:22:17 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | I stop, knife poised at my feet. I've been here before. I've known this path.
It seemed so good. No more chores. No more abuse. No more despair. When she appeared, how could I refuse? She seemed so kind! She gave me so much - beautiful clothes, a night of wonder, the hope of true love.
They are tricksters. The fey cr... | It was all she could do to keep running. The jungle heat was like a thick wet curtain, constantly constraining her movements. The vines and creepers were like gnarled limbs outstretched to grip and entangle her. The roots and stones like legs to trip her up. Still, she kept running. She had to keep running. She had to ... | 2014-08-04T11:24:08 | 2014-08-04T09:54:19 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Lek'tar strong Kholan warrior. Strongest of Lekh clan. Conquer twelve planets in nebula of birth with horns, teeth, and blade. Have one hundred seventy families with twenty species, three hundred children, all strong warriors. But Lek'tar strongest.
Lek'tar forty-fifth family on Tsina say Lek'tar must prove strongest ... | We first discovered the planet known as Sol III by their radio transmissions. It was like watching a strobe light up and flicker with insanity. It seemed so random at first, but soon our priests learned to see patterns in the insanity.
It became obvious that we could see the start of a new civilization. And it was row... | 2014-10-17T11:04:27 | 2014-10-17T10:45:22 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “I can’t believe they used molten lead.” I said, suddenly finding myself by a desert river, much like the one they had done the deed next to. ISIS was a cruel group, and disposing of a reporter with the morbidly creative use of a box and molten lead was shocking to say the least.
“Didn’t see it coming did you?” A man ... | *Profanity Warning*
It was rather strange, waking up in a place that I'd never seen. I was in a colossal room fashioned entirely of vibrant red marble. There were no windows; however, there were black velvet curtains hung about, seemingly in no order. *At least it's temperate in here* I thought to myself, as I attempt... | 2015-01-15T06:13:25 | 2015-01-15T06:13:23 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] A time traveler and an immortal keep bumping into each other across the ages. | They say that true love only occurs once in life. That you meet your soulmate, that that's your chance, and you belong together forever.
I wish they were wrong.
Because I am forever.
And so, in his own way, is he.
I was born four thousand years ago. I'm not the first of my kind, nor am I the last. But there are ... | "History repeats itself." The saying must have been thousands of years old thought Titus as his eyes lingered on the inscription under the doorway leading to the K.R.O.N.O.S. jump room. Titus approached the large display and logged the last machine off for the night. The soft blue light quickly dimmed and the humming o... | 2015-11-22T19:10:27 | 2015-11-22T17:08:47 | 52 | 17 |
[WP] Two people are stuck on a deserted island. One of them is insane. Keep us guessing as to which one. | "You're nuts," Jimmy snarled at Peter. "Off your fucking rocker. How is this even happening to me? You'll probably end up drowning me in the ocean in my sleep and eating me for a midnight snack."
"Right, *I'm* the crazy one here," Peter whispered, resting his face in his hands.
Peter couldn't believe the situation. T... | "...Tom?" I ask.
"...Tom, are you there?" I ask again.
"...yeah, I'm here," replies a familiar voice.
I attempt to open my eyes - but the darkness surrounding me, coupled with the general blurriness reverberating through my vision, has made it difficult to make out anything other than rough shapes - I glance upwards... | 2016-04-05T13:56:16 | 2016-04-05T13:54:19 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You're a super powered being who has been living amongst society as a normal citizen your whole life. The world discovered your secret yesterday and you wake to find armed police turning up outside your home. | They all look dumbfounded, the 30 or so armed men standing in silence, looking in disbelief at the barrage of bullets staying still in front of me, as if frozen in time. I pick a single bullet out of the air and let the rest fall to the ground.
My opponents seem unsure whether reloading their empty assault rifles woul... | So, ever since I could remember, I have been able manipulate water. Like I could move water with my mind. It's kind of like waterbending from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ok, it is waterbending. One of my favorite things to do was to bet people that I could shovel their entire walkway and driveway in under 10 minute... | 2016-09-15T10:22:31 | 2016-09-15T08:53:01 | 49 | 34 |
[WP] Olympic athletes are chosen by lottery so countries are encouraged to increase the average athleticism of their citizens and not just elite athletes. You were just selected.
this was a post on /r/CrazyIdeas. I thought it would make an excellent prompt. | The letter came. It actually came.
Right there at the top of the cream coloured envelope were the logos for the IOC and the Government of Canada. My hands shook. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who had become an everyday Olympian, but it was actually happening to **me**.
Most people were terrified they'd be se... | The postman approached number six with his usual trepidation. Foraging through his luminous, overburdened Royal Mail satchel, he primed four letters and a small parcel addressed to Richard Wagstaff. "Please just answer the door this time..." he whispered under his breath. He cleared his throat as he reached the door an... | 2017-02-24T11:57:34 | 2017-02-24T09:44:58 | 58 | 13 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | "... And to my son James, I bequeathe my most prized possessions, the tokens of the good life I lead and the sacrifices I made," the lawyer solemnly read from Dave Culkin's last will and testament.
"Yeah yeah, I'm sure the lazy git has tons of things to give... I mean, you could probably read from his mug how bad of ... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T10:52:38 | 78 | 13 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | New town. Small and quiet, perfect for my situation.
The authorities are after me. They know what I am : different, a national threat. They’re aware of what I’ve done. If they catch me it’ll be prison or death, the fate of countless others like me.
Stray dogs and playing children in the streets. Nervously, avoiding e... | I try to do it differently each time; short with long hair, tall with a buzz-cut, black, white, Asian, Pacific Islander, optimism, nihilism. Not in any particular order, but never randomly either; I know what she likes. I've had a long time to figure her out- years and years.
When I first arrived in this city, a lones... | 2022-10-15T09:19:19 | 2018-02-14T09:47:14 | 93 | 51 |
[WP]Four wizards meet. Each is from a different universe with a different system of magic. One speaks a magical language, one makes symbols with their hands, one uses trading cards, and the fourth uses the most powerful method of all. | We decided to simply call each other by numbers. One spoke in magical words, weaving magic into being. Two drew symbols, one after another, that controlled the energies outside of this realm. Three dealt cards and in them, he found the past, the present and the future as well. Me? Well...
"What do you mean you lied an... | ***Part 1 or 4:***
They came without warning. Red, hellish looking creatures they were; toughened, scarred skin made up the entirety of their bodies, with a stench that made their countenance seem appealing. They were tall, standing heads above their tallest; long spindly limbs carrying them great distances with spee... | 2018-07-03T17:40:19 | 2018-07-03T16:21:57 | 165 | 10 |
[WP] Every time you die you wake up in a random person's body. As a result, their mind is clouded with your memories and thoughts. The voices they hear are yours. You are Schizophrenia.
&#x200B; | First the years had slipped away to faces. Day upon day there was the cool breath of life, its warmth not yet kindled, still swaddled in thought. And each breath was life, and there were many lives. I lived all those lives in the first years.
Then the years became meaningless and then time became meaningless and then... | and then I said 'The Walls Are Bleeding But Don't Touch Them Because The Baby Jesus Wants To Implant A Government Microchip Nanomachine Drone Killer MKULTRA Device In Your Neck To Commit Arson and Murder and Draw Mustaches on Dollar Bills But It Won't Happen If You Don't Touch The Walls' and then I - no, he, - no, she ... | 2018-09-03T09:32:55 | 2018-09-03T09:12:26 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You've been cursed to be horribly influential, little side jokes you've made such as "the world is flat" and "vaccines cause autism" have spawned entire movements of avid followers. Today you accidentally said something that will turn out drastically worse... | This wasn’t exactly a new power of mine, but I’d been playing it pretty close to my chest. When I’d first joked that the world was flat, it was just an artifact from history. A few days later, one of my friends showed me a Facebook page that was full of nut jobs supposedly claiming to believe the same thing. I was floo... | Yeah this is fun trolling people. What a bunch of staves people are they will follow anything and everything. Look at my track record.
First I said “the world is flat.” And these morons actually believed it. There was even a jackass on Facebook who had a video about it and everything. He came up with all kinds o... | 2018-10-16T20:30:42 | 2018-10-16T18:03:31 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | Nora woke up just like she did every other day. This time, however, was very different. Now, instead of wishing to be invisible, she actually was. And she wished more than anything to be fully opaque again.
She reported to headquarters, the same as the day before and the one before that. The days started to merge tog... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T14:48:26 | 1,962 | 217 |
[WP] "You sold your soul to me for...this?" The demon stared, brows raised incredulously. It had heard a lot of ridiculous, stupid requests in its near-eternal lifespan, but this one definitely took the cake. | Feeling the blush creep onto my face I stood my ground, tried to stare at the big, ugly demon in all four eyes at once and said, "Yea? What of it?"
"This is your *immortal* soul. Your ticket to the afterlife of your choosing. The only way to avoid an eternity of torment at the hands of demons!"
I balked for the slig... | I needed a night off, to get away, with out being away. I truly cared for my family, and they for me. I didn't want to see them hurt, I didn't want to see them grow old without me, I wanted to be the roll model of a father and husband that they deserved. I just couldn't let my wild days slip away, I needed my nights of... | 2020-03-05T07:21:37 | 2020-03-05T07:15:46 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Everytime a volcano erupts, a dragon is born. The longer the volcano lays dormant before eruption the more powerful the dragon is. The larger the volcano, the larger the dragon. The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park has just erupted. | It was all a flurry of screaming and rumbling and sirens. Visitors were sprinting to their cars or their bikes, abandoning their things. Park rangers desperately radioed HQ, organizing for the evacuation of major buildings. Animals were pouring out of forests to escape, spilling out and through the trees in a massive h... | Robert looked at the data. It was consistent with what he had been recording for the past few days. But it also meant that it was time to push things upstairs. This would be big and destructive. Plus there was the whole dragon issue. The government would want to get involved ASAP. He made the calls.
*****
Agent 32 g... | 2020-05-03T05:40:01 | 2020-05-03T05:37:07 | 126 | 22 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | Abdullah's eyes met mine, one hand on the door. He was resolved.
The door shut before I could reach it.
I grabbed the handle. Locked. I tried it again, to be sure. I slammed my fist hard, three times, but there was no answer. I wheezed, but couldn't manage a call.
"Wow."
If adrenaline hadn't just p... | Our lives are made up of moments that make us who we are. Once you live your life with somebody your moments become entwined.
All our moments together, now cast in a new light. Your adorable unwillingness to let me eat your food, you never liked to share anything with me. Your stubborn refusal to pick up your shirts,... | 2020-10-10T10:01:40 | 2020-10-10T07:59:47 | 58 | 42 |
[WP] As the world around you teeters on the edge of destruction, the villain tries to explain to you how everything he’s done has been for you and your family. | I am not omnipotent. Contrary to popular belief. I was close at one point, I think, but that was a long time ago.
It began with earthquakes. I watched as the earth shook, in all the usual places at first. People were only mildly alarmed - just some bad luck this season, easy to write off. But then the quakes grew stro... | There it was.
The crater.
To think, only five days had passed since it landed. A meteor, around 500 kilometres in diameter, Smashing into the heart of Europe. I was only at one edge, around the abandoned ruins of what was Paris. I heard that the other edge was as far a Belarus.
Dust filled the skies, obscuring the ... | 2020-12-22T18:46:35 | 2020-12-22T17:20:53 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You can detect lies easily, but no one knows about your ability. Today, your best friend lied about being human | "...and that's when I walked out, I'm only human, you know," Jake said as we walked back to my house.
That subtle trigger that tingled on my neck whenever someone lied shot through me. What Jake had said was a lie, full stop. "Say that again."
"What?" Jake asked. "That's when I walked out?"
No sensation accompanied ... | What was it to be human? Was it the heart that beat inside our chests, professing love, fear, and anger? Maybe the blood that flowed beneath our skin or the eyes that windowed to our souls? Was it a curiosity for the unknown, like the one that sat before me, the one I had called my friend? Which one of these did he lac... | 2021-04-08T08:28:12 | 2021-04-08T07:24:22 | 898 | 57 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | Here's what I do know.
1. Starting conditions are the same as far as I can tell. I spent my twenties (I've count lives not years) obsessed with finding others like me. I found four, but they're always on the same life and don't remember me from our previous encounters. None of them seem to bothered by the situation a... | Ali wakes up from a dream floating down the stairs of his childhood home towards his mother, and he knows: he was shot. For the first time in 37 deaths he has been shot. And for the 37th time Ali did not manage to lead a long and prosperous live. He managed to come quite far this time. 42 years old. He moved away from ... | 2021-05-30T13:20:46 | 2021-05-30T11:05:59 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!”
The courtroom gasped.
Obviously those in the peanut gallery watched too much CSI: Narnia and weren’t aware of courtroom procedure. While this was certain... | “And do you recall talking with the accused that evening, drinking grape soda by the graveyard?”
In Prosecutor LeBlanc’s fifteen years of practice at the Putnam County Magicstrate court, he had encountered all kinds of enchantments, to varying results. He was accomplished in his work proving that werewolves were were... | 2021-10-04T08:08:45 | 2021-10-04T07:17:44 | 1,090 | 71 |
[WP] On your quest for revenge, people often said to you, "Killing him wouldn't bring her back." The thing is, you found a way to perfectly resurrect her. You just need a soul to sacrifice, so might as well get the one who killed your loved one. | I did not speak, I did not move, I barely breathed, so focused was I. this was it, the man who had wrout my child from me stood only steps away.
it was time.
it was not a slow death, nor a painful one. i had gone past the point of revenge by then, and to kill was not the whole of my plans.
no sooner had his body hit... | After everything, after all my efforts she was dead, and he was to blame, Mr. Ashford, I held her life less body in my arms crying, soon after came the police, they investigated, at first they wanted to blame me for her death, but I wasn't the one who stabbed her in the chest in a fit of rage, she had done nothing wron... | 2021-11-16T08:14:24 | 2021-11-16T06:19:12 | 88 | 21 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | Trying to come up with a world for Dungeons and Dragons wasn't easy. I had spent several days figuring out how to make it work, as I wanted my campaign to go well. But I was having difficulty with the pantheon of gods. Some came easily, like Relmoz, The Nights Embrace. But others were harder. Not only that, I was tryin... | “... and thus, I pray to you Zeelota, goddess of Firstborns and Early Tides.” Callum itoned, having laid a seared blobfish and small bunch of grapes on his make-shift altar. Rhody laughed, and Mira rolled her eyes. But they each had their own alter and tithe to their lost gods.
“Who decided that this was the r... | 2022-02-15T11:13:45 | 2022-02-15T10:56:35 | 394 | 199 |
[WP] You, a humble elf farmer, happen upon the lost hatchling of a dragon. You raise it until it is self sufficient and set it free. Centuries later, a young woman with draconic features knocks on your door and claims you are her mother. | For a long moment, Erean looked at the woman in the door of the farmhouse. Not because she didn’t recognize her – she would always recognize her. She feared she was dreaming it again, that she would wake up, heartbroken and alone.
“Mother,” she said, as if reading her mind. “It’s really me.”
“Loka,” Erean said, still... | Anita wiped her sweaty palms on her pants and took a deep breath. The door before her was a greater challenge than any she'd faced before, and she'd brought low entire kingdoms.
Would she remember her? That was Anita's biggest fear, that she'd managed to track down the closest thing she could call a mother and she wo... | 2022-03-29T10:39:50 | 2022-03-29T09:06:42 | 1,595 | 420 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | It’s easy enough, at least in my eyes. I don’t know why no one had thought of it before. They think on the impossible, dragons and aliens, stretch the imagination and put their faith into fantasy and mythology, and forget the very reality which makes the world turn.
The warden, the lawyers, they stare at me, slack ja... | It was nearly sunset on death row in the Alberation system of the Galaxy. Although her 37 years on Brigdon block seemed like a lifetime, Salmma never realized the day of her sentenced death would come so fast. Her green eyes slide over the metal frames of the cell, the discolored wall that made an inappropriate figure ... | 2022-07-17T19:42:58 | 2022-07-17T19:39:13 | 210 | 62 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | She was a born killer. The moment she snapped she turned from hero to villain in just a matter of seconds.
Thousands of people were victimized in her warpath, and she got away with it for MONTHS. That was, until she was caught, and placed on Death Row.
Now, the world had changed drastically since she had been gone, a... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T18:09:54 | 129 | 24 |
[WP] You've just been assimilated into a hivemind... but it's a very weak one. It can't control you or anything, it's more like a telepathic group chat that you can't turn off. | "What's that buzzing?" She asked, her fork dangling above the half-finished tart we were sharing.
I took advantage of her lull and swiped the rest of the pastry, cramming it into my mouth. I started to laugh, but I inhaled a raspberry instead. My laugh died before it really started, it turned into a choking fit.
"S... | Kinda went off the prompt, but this sparked something.
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***WAKE UP*** I knew what today was. Of course I knew, *how could I forget* I yelled back through my head as I rolled out of bed, and threw on some clothes, not bothering to clean up appearances, not that it mattered to them.
I ran towards the door once... | 2022-09-17T18:27:15 | 2022-09-17T18:18:32 | 942 | 70 |
[WP] Upon dying and entering the afterlife, you are presented with a list of people who were somehow effected by your life and death, with those on whom you had the greatest impact coming first. You don't recognize the first name on your own list. Who were they, and why are they on top? | The name at the top of the list: Phillip Owens. It sounds familiar, but I can’t place a face to the name. The lady standing next to me was looking at her list in similar confusion.
“This woman died because you ran a red light five years ago,” the angel told her.
The woman broke down in tears. I looked back at my l... | “Ishita Khurana? Who the hell- sorry. Who is that?” Peter held the list of names with trembling fingers.
-THE INDIVIDUAL MOST AFFECTED BY YOUR LIFE- the voice rang out around him, echoing off unseen walls. Flat and uncaring.
Peter looked back at the list “Sarah’s on here,” he said “and my parents”. “What is this lis... | 2014-12-01T20:31:09 | 2014-12-01T20:22:07 | 56 | 28 |
[WP] You have a strange aura that surrounds you constantly. The closer you get to people, the lower their common sense and IQ drops. You are literally surrounded by idiots. | I love people.
Though when you're me how could you not.
Men of all kinds wait on me hand and foot. Throughout time, peasants and kings alike have fallen victim to my charm.
I don't try to fight it, I relish in it. Even the wisest men end up babbling like toddlers when I approach.
All it takes is an arch of my back... | It's dark. Dark and musky. You don't remember much of that day. The day they took you. It wasn't that long after your parents realized the strange behavior of those around you was in fact your fault. Being that you where just a freshman in high school they sure took some time figuring it out. Could they be behind... | 2015-06-11T10:13:42 | 2015-06-11T06:17:16 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] You live in the only city in the world. The average net worth inside of the city is $772,132,856.45. Outside of the city the average net worth is $5.94. You have never left the city until now. | "Thats the lot," the bald man said from behind the counter as he said as he handed me the money.
I didn't want there to be any mistake, so I counted it out in front of him. He didn't say a word. I think everyone does it.
Cleared of that hurdle, the checkpoint was next. The passport was real, so there shouldnt be a pr... | Wrote this on my tablet inbetween the night shifts at work. No spelling checker and not much time to proofread it for problems. So mistakes and all, here it is
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I awoke in a strange bed of wood and quilts, nothing like the firm plastic mattress and silk sheets of the city.
"Relax there, son." A calming voice said... | 2015-11-18T22:12:11 | 2015-11-18T19:05:57 | 318 | 83 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | The bus sped past me again. I don't really know what else I expected. 347 years they've done this, but I pay them no mind. They think it's rude to stay, I think it's rude to leave. I've dealt with their 'punishments' for long enough that it just doesn't bother me. I can basically predict how the day goes- I check the b... | “I have seen…” I paused for effect. “…everything.” I looked around but the pronouncement hadn’t made the stir I had hoped it might. “I’m not kidding, I mean literally *everything*!”
Again there was no reaction from the group and eventually the nurse stood and gently helped me back down into my seat. She had soft hand... | 2016-08-09T08:58:15 | 2016-08-09T07:34:25 | 916 | 214 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | "Is this an intervention?" I ask.
Catherine smiles brightly, despite her tone being grave. "That's such a harsh way of putting it. I'm just trying to help you live your life to the fullest."
I purse my lips and open the cabinet. "Want some tea?"
"I'd love some, thanks. Are you going to listen to me this time?" She... | 3:30am was officially the worst time of day for Michael. For the first twenty-four years of his life it has been the time when he lay in the bliss of deep sleep or maybe collapsed in a sweaty heap with a girl's bare legs twining through his own. Occasionally he’d been found still pumping out lines of code at his laptop... | 2016-08-30T13:18:01 | 2016-08-30T10:49:59 | 202 | 21 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | There are many ways of making people talk, but the easiest is good old-fashioned torture. "No!" said a million times is a million words, after all.
Because words are so precious, anything worth saying is worth saying loudly (instead of twice, to halve the count). As a result, The Interrogator's exploits quickly becam... | I paced around the man tied to the chair in the dimly lit room. My frustration was growing, but I knew better than to let my temperament get the better of me, I would waste about half a year venting out my frustration. The man sat silently, yet calmly. I had done everything I could think of to make this mark talk, from... | 2016-10-10T23:35:48 | 2016-10-10T18:58:05 | 68 | 20 |
[WP] Your kidnapper is bored, so he makes an offer: if you can beat him 1 on 1 at a game of your choice, you go free. If you lose, you die.
EDIT: 15 submissions! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed, you've all done an incredible job! I love the diversity of endings, from extremely dark to hilarious. Keep writin... | The man with the gun pointed at my head is grinning and likely telling a lie. He seems like the kind of person to fib during a serious situation, and I can tell he’s loving the angst on my face as I mull over his horrible proposal.
*One win equals freedom.*
*One loss equals death.*
*Game of my choosing.*
But why... | I laughed at the absurdity of the offer, he couldn’t possibly be serious. Could he?
“I mean it. I’m tired of this shit, you think I get paid enough for this?”
“Well I assume so” I said, “Isn’t that what kidnapping is about?”
Now you may think that being flippant when in the face of twenty stones worth of tattooed I... | 2017-01-03T09:51:06 | 2017-01-03T07:40:17 | 107 | 31 |
[WP] There is unrest in the galaxy but the advanced alien races that populate it lack the capacity to kill. One alien race decides to recruit the humans of earth as their military.
First prompt. Be nice. | As an interstellar journalist, Vilaramd felt an obligation to report the news from within the chaos of events. Which was how he’d found himself on a battlefield, surrounded by bodyguards and soldiers under the command of a Human woman known as Captain Fierro.
“They’re falling back, keep pushing!” the woman yelled. ... | Chapter 1: Human Expansion
It was determined that, given the pacifist nature of all the Alliance races, humans would be well served as an alternative to warfare. They were a hardy and adaptable race that had been waging war on themselves for millennia. They entertained themselves with battle so it was a perfect fit.
... | 2017-01-05T13:54:14 | 2017-01-05T12:24:57 | 104 | 51 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | The chief inspectorate walked into the conference chamber with a concerned look on his wizened blue face. He faced the three investigators and gave them a sad glance.
"Two of you have obviously made mistakes, as all three of you have given differing reports on this 'Earth' planet".
The three different coloured invest... | There is this sense of being all alone, even if you are at home. The
feeling still persists and comes at you most strongly when you are all
alone taking a stroll on those chilly evenings. The twilight with its
sense of ending of a show, the crossing of a threshold, waiting for
that crescendo, that never comes. And s... | 2017-03-10T00:58:58 | 2017-03-09T22:27:52 | 135 | 27 |
[WP] Long before you were born, your father promised his firstborn to otherworldly beings in exchange for power. In a twist of fate, your mother also promised her firstborn to dark gods. | "Oh, for fuck's sake!" Dorrigan, Ancient High King of the Dark Gods, exclaimed. "How in Set's name was I supposed to know we double booked?" His gnarled horns scratched the living room ceiling, sending drywall everywhere.
"Perhaps you could have asked," intoned Ghffkt, Grand Inquisitor of the Intergalactic Marauders ... | We laughed.
Mike was wiping tears out of his eyes, "Lisa..Oh my..." and then he couldn't quite control himself and burst out laughing again.
I myself was on the verge of tears but I couldn't help but laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of the situation. "The odds of the two of us," I said between spurts of laughter, ... | 2017-03-11T07:39:52 | 2017-03-11T07:32:59 | 505 | 58 |
[WP] Something in the ritual went horribly wrong, and instead of the demon possessing you, you possessed the demon. | Q'llar looked through new-found eyes, suddenly aware that something was very, very different. He felt the sensation of floating, and power, and *rage*.
This was a wholly unexpected event, seeing as Q'llar was meant to be a sacrifice, a kind of human vessel, for the blood demon that he until very recently had certainly... | I struggled against the restraints as I sat in the ritual circle. I sat in a bolted down steel chair, my wrists and ankles tied loosely with ill-fitting rope. Hooded men and women with strange markings all over their black robes chanted in a language I couldn't hope to comprehend. My heart raced and my mind swam with a... | 2017-10-26T02:42:44 | 2017-10-25T07:40:56 | 1,618 | 13 |
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