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[WP] Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new domestic servant android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product. | "Stand up, Benny bot," the man said to James, rubbing his gut uncomfortably on his shoulder.
James ignored him, trying to read his phone screen without getting nauseous from the bus's daily vertical exploration of every pothole between his apartment and Big Red Media.
"Ma'am, can you have your Benny bot stand, please... | “Please, Lora, don’t get on that ship. I know I’ve made a mess of things. I know I talk too loudly when I’m drunk, I know I promised to make it to your dog’s ballet recital but never did, I know I always act like I hate your friends because I actually do but I know they’re your friends and I can work with that. I know... | 2021-04-05T03:38:34 | 2021-04-05T01:21:10 | 1,077 | 73 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "Seriously? Bloody hell," the tall man in a sharp suit noted. He'd heard quite a few numbers but... 128 was quite a bit.
"Hey, I like my job," the short woman in a red dress giggled. She may not have looked it but hey - it's proper fun. "So how about you?"
"64. Not quite the resume, but I do consider myself experienc... |
I am under 18, so I misunderstood what you meant by "escort", so uh, sorry about that
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Gabriel sat in one of the tables in one of the many busy bars of Paris. Outside, by the window, he could see the great Eiffel Tower loomi... | 2022-04-26T02:04:52 | 2022-04-25T22:25:06 | 560 | 41 |
[WP] You are an evil president of the United States and you want to ruin the world. Unfortunately, your plans backfire and you keep making the world a better place instead by accident, earning endless praise from the people and human rights advocacy groups. This is not what you wanted. | I glared at the television.
The news networks were singing my praises, or at least that was how it felt. I had gotten opinion news outlawed as one of my first acts, so that they couldn't make me look bad before I put my plans in motion, but that had backfired. All the news outlets I'd been hoping to bribe were the on... | President Gerald Darryl Hotchkins grew up in a pretty average nuclear family. He was taught pretty firmly what was right and wrong. Taxation is theft, universal healthcare is communism, civil rights were communism, look, a lot of things were communism back when Gerald was growing up. And there was something else Gerald... | 2022-12-21T08:13:19 | 2022-12-21T07:58:26 | 138 | 51 |
[WP] You’re a mind-reader, except, instead of humans, you can mind-read machines and hear them “thinking”. Someone sits beside you in class, and you realise you can hear their thoughts... | It was quite like getting notifications. Whenever I'd focus on an object that was composed of a circuit, I could "sense" what it was doing, what it was thinking. Kids toys would behave somewhat like kids, repeating a couple phrases over and over. More advanced machines like computers and phones would almost seem to mak... | *"Maria, Victor, Carlos, Eder, Emily..."*
I sat just beside the window, trying to take in the air so I could cool off, needless to say, it wasn't working, I was sweating so much that my notebook was drenched, nobody was even paying attention to me everyone was either listening to miss Enderson's class or chatting amon... | 2017-11-03T10:24:48 | 2017-11-03T09:53:30 | 55 | 41 |
[WP] A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | Kate wasn't exactly having a bad day at that point, but something about this particular interruption really pissed her off.
"Who the HELL are you?!" Kate yelled, turning to the man. He was just standing here, she knew, she didn't own this beach. But, people weren't usually here at this time of night, and she'd gotten ... | She was ready, she was not afraid of the splashing ocean. Nothing could stop him now.
Well, perhaps one thing stopped her and that was her stupid instinct and overtly good heart. Those always brought her trouble.
A seal's skin on the shore and a beautiful woman, her naked form shown to the world as if she was born to... | 2022-10-25T21:29:35 | 2022-10-25T20:27:02 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] As the grim reaper is going through it’s daily routine processing souls he stops. “God dammit Greg stop coming here, you’re not dead. This is like the 8th time this week.” The reaper exclaims. | "I was accompanying Ms. Graf, in her journey"
The slender man in his 40's answered with a smile. The high-visibility jacket of his paramedic uniform flashed in the dim light of the Reaper's office, clashing terribly with the calming and warm environment Death was trying to achieve.
"Right Ms. Graf?"
Greg turned to t... | “Have you been up there lately? Holy hell is it awful! I have to pay to stay alive - the doctor charges me hundreds just to swab my butt and cuff my arm!” Greg exclaimed with his hands up in the air.
“That’s not what this is really about Greg. You’re an actuary, it’s never about the money - you have a good life! But ... | 2022-01-30T17:07:33 | 2022-01-30T16:08:55 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | "BETTING CLOSED" the sign flashed. the crowd roared at the appearance of Ikken Tren, the current champion. Flanked by her longtime rival Kuu Hy. The two were formidable, each with dozens of wins in conventional bouts. Kuu had been undefeated in the arenas until their battle with Tren.
"So, hear what we're fighting tod... | Ki returned from his mission to the third arm of the Milky Way Galaxy a changed Valgorian. He brings with him the answers as to why the Humans have so quickly, thoroughly, and ruthlessly dominated every part of the universe they have explored.
"I studied the humans closely, examining their entire sociological system.... | 2017-11-08T21:28:26 | 2017-11-08T20:44:31 | 119 | 27 |
[WP] In a world of incredible heroes and villains, you have the most dangerous power of all: forcing actual, real world logic and physics to take place
2/19/19: Woah! I look away for a few minutes and suddenly 1000 likes! Thanks you guys!
2/19/19: Holy God! 6.5k likes?! Awesome! | They all tell me I'm crazy. I'm not crazy. I'm sensible.
It sounds cliche, I mean, what crazy person doesn't think they're perfectly sane? But it's true, there's something wrong with the world. Deeply, deeply wrong. It's always been this way, always will be. I don't know why the world's always been wrong, but it has.... | I lowered my signature tin helmet onto my head, and opened my apartment window. It was time. Staggering out through the window and onto the fire escape, I tightened my leather boots and ran up, following the sound of flowing water.
I reach the top, catching my breath. In front of me lay a woman, around twenty, laying... | 2019-02-19T10:15:55 | 2019-02-19T09:50:41 | 3,385 | 319 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 80 | 26 |
[WP] You know your town is old, you just didn't know how old until a hurricane rips through it. An ancient tree is ripped from your backyard, revealing a door in the ground where it once was. | "No way am I going down there first," said Christopher, raising his hands. "Uh-uh."
"Fine," huffed Juliet. "Seeing as Christopher is so afraid of spiders and worms, I'll go first."
"I'm not afraid of spiders!" Christopher objected, his voice cracking in the process.
"Oh, it's the worms then?" Juliet replied as she s... | Anodos unlocked the silver trapdoor with his grandfather's key and crept down the earthen stairs, careful to make only a slight sound with every step. As he began his descent a bit of dirt crumbled into his hair, and he swept it off half-aware. The sun shone on his back. It was warm and the air in front of him was cool... | 2017-10-17T05:34:03 | 2017-10-17T04:49:06 | 635 | 34 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Sth'Slh stared out of the transparent port. Scales gleamed dully in the dim emergency lighting and his thin whiplike tongue tasted the stagnant air left by failed recyclers. The low, reassuring rumble of the ship was now gone, replaced by groans as bulkheads tortured beyond their tolerances continued to buckle under st... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T01:49:38 | 431 | 100 |
[WP] You’re in a time loop but it’s not permanent. You repeat a day 3 times then time moves onto the next day. Rinse, repeat...Deja Vu was never more applicable. | Good things come in threes. They always did.
I met you thrice and married you thrice. Saw you like a princess stepping down the aisle, saw the tears in your eyes, and smelled the lavender of your bouquet.
By the end of the third time, my cheeks hurt from smiling so much.
We had Ben three times. The shock of your fi... | As soon as I realize what’s going on, I’m margin trading on the stock market and becoming ultra-wealthy. I might strike a lotto win to boost things along so I don’t have to wait around too long before realizing the wealth. 3 years of my time for one year of world time to go by.
Then the issue becomes filling up my day... | 2020-10-09T07:54:23 | 2020-10-09T05:37:23 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Everybody dies two deaths. The first, a physical death. The second, when no one remembers them. You died a penniless farmer in 1242 AD, yet you remain in the spiritual world along with Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, and more. One day, a new soul arrives and tells you how you’re remembered on Earth. | Mine was not a glorious death, nor one that you'd expect to read about in the history books, and neither was my life. I never really accomplished anything spectacular in my life. I worked my family's land when I was young, and answered my king's call to arms when it came, yet I didn't participate in any particularly me... | Eternity is boring. You know how when you have to sit through something, or you don't want to be somewhere, time seems to stretch out and elongate? Eternity is like that - one stretching, elongated moment that never ends.
The company was enough at first. It was something else to mingle with all these entities who acco... | 2019-03-27T14:29:47 | 2019-03-27T12:48:44 | 153 | 74 |
[WP] "That was the worst apology I have ever heard" - a man replied, still holding God at gunpoint. | "Well, you're the one who trimmed the sides of your beard, asshole. I mean, how fucking difficult is it? How difficult is it is really to just not fucking cut it, you prick? I built all of creation, filled it with glory and wonder, all for you and your pack of witless, filthy ingrates, and all I ask for you to do is to... | "I mean... you're the one that asked." he said, settling back down behind the desk. "You can hardly blame me for the smaller details."
John pushed forward, the gun slippery in his hand as he kept it steady at the deity's head. "Do you want to repeat that? The *smaller details*?"
God sighed, having dealt with this typ... | 2022-01-14T04:57:01 | 2022-01-14T03:31:44 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I look at my watch and my life clock reads 1 minute and counting...seems like it has come so quickly.
Funny how I haven't thought about it until now, but I guess it does seem like the best solution. When science perfected the medical nanobots, it wasn't long before ethical questions came up about who should get th... | John sighed. He held the picture of his wife in his hands. It was his favorite picture, from when they had first met. She was smiling, as she often did. It was carefree and intoxicating.
That smile haunted him, decades after her passing. She had gone quietly, moving from a dream to the beyond, still smiling that smile... | 2014-09-30T10:48:47 | 2014-09-30T09:07:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Time travel exists. By law, every citizen is given one day they may repeat on loop until they get it right. This morning, you found your spouse looking exhausted and crying. "I can't save you. I've tried hundreds of times." | Cool air gently brushed through my toes. I hate that feeling, so I pull them back into the blanket, and tuck myself deeper into it. I'm not ready to get out of bed.
Is that sobbing? I swiftly roll over to check on my wife, Sarah. She's looking at me with both desperation and love. Her eyes are red and flooded by tears... | *I love you.*
These are the last words I tell my wife before the paramedics load me onto the stretcher and into the ambulance. My last sight before blacking out is Joanna on her knees surrounded by car parts, shaking her head.
She looks defeated, but I don't quite understand why.
In truth, it was my fault. I should'... | 2018-10-24T23:25:42 | 2018-10-24T22:07:02 | 78 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a society where everyone is equipped with bomb collars on their 21st birthday, set to go off any time betwen 1 day and 39 years. Unbeknownst to anyone else, yours has just failed. | It fits snugly around the throat, just tight enough so that you feel it when you swallow. It holds you. It warms you. It is a word of thanks for every bite of food that passes your lips. I watch it in the mirror, run my fingers over it incessantly, as if the simple act of friction could somehow spark it back to life.
... | It sounded like a fire cracker going out. But not the good ones, the bad ones. Whaddaya call em again? The ones just not right? Dips? Dabs? Duds? Yeah duds. That's the word. For things broken. Like me and mah collar.
Y'see, where I'm from they knows how to take care of the population crisis. Ya just gotta explode f... | 2016-07-13T01:34:08 | 2016-07-12T23:49:44 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] On your first day as a supervillain, you secretly swap all the regular coffee on Earth with decaf. You envision this as a fun, little starter prank. To say you miscalculated the potential impact of your "prank" is putting it mildly... | "Sir. I think you should take a look at this."
"Chauncey. I'm busy working on how to make all Skittles into toothpaste and orange flavor. Can't this wait?" I looked back at him by the camera monitor. He had this worrisome expression. For a minion of his professional demeanor to look at me in such a way... It was all t... | How do you rank up from apprentice super villain to public enemy No. 1, in a single morning ? Well, that’s pretty easy. You remove coffee from the world. I expected some grumpy people, and a nice way to make a name for myself. I didn’t expected… that.
I’m now known as “Coffee Killer, the destroyer of worlds”. That’s a... | 2017-02-03T08:11:56 | 2017-02-03T07:57:13 | 2,064 | 64 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
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As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T16:56:22 | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 136 | 56 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | Lord Kraagr of the Luthupion race stood in the manager box with the rest of the species galactic Olympic managers. Currently everyone else there was huddles around the human. A old man with a grin plastered over his face. Human inferior in size and yet so confident in themselves. How? He cleared his throat as he walke... | I'm not a big writer, but as soon as I finished reading this prompt, I pictured humans being unusually large compared to other races. The loud music would go along with their relative clumsiness and the collateral damage it causes. Plus the partying of gigantic people would be a factor too, like the intergalactic comm... | 2018-04-28T09:34:24 | 2018-04-28T09:14:38 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] You were summoned by a god to be the hero of a fantsy world, to kill the demon king and free their people, as a boon they told you you could request any weapon that they will provide. As a joke, you requested a intercontinental thermonuclear warhead, they gave it to you with a stright face. | "I was kinda joking mate... Buddy?"
The bastard had fucked off already. Huh. I guess that would be some of that god magic stuff.
It had just been a Tuesday man, I wasn't prepped for this at all. I'd just been talking with some of the guys on tenth about Sam's birthday, made my excuses to visit the bathroom and sudden... | Before I knew it, I stood humbly in front of the god that summoned me to his realm. He informed me of his time watching over various human beings in my world and decided I was the hero he had been searching for to rid his world of the demon king that enslaved his people. Longing for an adventure outside my cubicle, I g... | 2020-10-14T05:30:21 | 2020-10-14T05:01:34 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] An alien replacing your father and pretending to be him sounds like everybody horror's story, except for you and your mother since it is affectionate, caring, helps you with school and has even been promoted at work and is an absolute dork for SciFi movies. | It's not that Phil was a bad man. Phil. I stopped calling him "Dad" a little after my twelfth birthday, when I went to the kitchen in the middle of the night for a glass of water and found him passed out next to the fridge, his face smushed up against the wall so hard that the moulding left marks on his cheeks the next... | "Hey Padawan! How was the test?"
Dad came in with his usual smile, which is to say that it looked painful it almost reminded me of the meme, and still it was a smile that made me beam up he was so different and different was good. He approached me carefully without any sudden motions and he implied a hug without initi... | 2020-04-23T09:27:48 | 2020-04-23T08:05:52 | 111 | 36 |
[WP] When you die, you are given an option—either be judged for your sins, or choose what’s behind The Door. The noble and arrogant choose to be judged, the evil and fearful choose The Door. When given the option, you choose to simply turn around and walk away. | Two choices. To the left, a scale, with a feather placed on one of the plates, where the sins of now gone souls would be weighed against it. To the right, a solid oak door, behind which there was only the unknown. The pair sat side by side, alone in the middle of an empty white void, where a man now stood as well. As t... | "Whoa whoa whoa buddy where do you think you're going?" Asked a disembodied voice.
"Over there." I reply pointing in a random direction.
"That's not even the direction you are walking!!!" The voice replies.
"I know but I'll get there eventually."
"No you are to come over here and make a choice." Replied the voice ... | 2022-11-05T12:24:58 | 2022-11-05T10:38:18 | 1,347 | 11 |
[WP] The crew-member examines the now-empty, malfunctioning stasis-pod. The specimen is of a species that had spread to and became apex predator of every region on its homeworld. The captain must be warned, even though it's likely everyone on board is as good as dead already. The human has escaped. | “You know me,” I said. Pleading.
The rivets of the wall pressed into my back.
It’s frame filled the doorway, beady eyes searching my own.
I was one of the first to be assigned to the research project. It was difficult at the beginning. The human was highly intelligent, aggressive, and strong. It was dangerous, as t... | “Physically she’s not the most intimidating but her main ability is her ability to think quickly. Unfortunately the one that has escaped was a Soldier before she was frozen so she will be far more dangerous then most humans. By no means should she be allowed to access our Laser Weapons as even if she does not have trai... | 2018-07-31T13:30:06 | 2018-07-31T11:16:40 | 91 | 18 |
[WP] In a symphony of holy trumpets and angelic chorus, God himself descended from the heavens to slap you across the face. | "And on next weeks episode of 'Dandy Dans Dangerous Duties' we're going to weld two cans of hairspray together! YEAH! DANGGGGGERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
"Don't forget to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON and SUBSCRIBEEEEEEEEE"
"Ok and that's a wrap, good stuff today Dan, carving a turkey with a table saw. Priceless." Tim chuckled as h... | "Honestly, it seemed a bit much at the time. I guess I get why He felt He had to do it, but did I seriously need to be branded for life you know?" Ryan Langsford had probably once been an incredibly handsome man, Jessica thought, but not so much anymore. Middle age had softened some of the angles of his face, and the s... | 2017-08-19T05:26:29 | 2017-08-19T03:24:30 | 61 | 17 |
[WP] Your friend has been bitten by a zombie, and you both agreed to just wait and deal with it when the time comes. It's been a month, and your friend has yet to transform. | pt1: suburban hell
To say we were in trouble was a huge understatement.
The urge to scavenge wasn’t so much an urge, more like a cruel necessity. Things have been tough in this suburban hell, for the damned like us. Really, I always wondered who was more damned. Might just be a demented thought in my head, but I’m su... | It’s fair to say that I was afraid when this all began. I thought it was the end for me when a damn horde ambled down that one-way alley. Thirty-two days would have been how long I survived if I hadn’t met someone close to me. Shia, I didn’t know her name when she popped out of a locked warehouse door, but I didn’t car... | 2022-07-12T10:14:15 | 2022-07-12T10:11:42 | 102 | 24 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | Pt 1 of 2:
Spellwork is like math, and I think that’s why I understood it so well, took to it so quickly.
My proficiency with math was one of the reasons my parents had enrolled me at Rockford Academy for high school, a boarding school for girls. I’d gotten a full ride, of course, the only way we could afford it. At ... | I got it online, the spell, a sequence of logographic runes that looked complicated enough, with a few logograms I recognized as conjunctions, so there were at least a few clauses, but not so complicated that my professor would suspect I'd stolen it. From my stolen peeks at other student's scrolls, it was of similar le... | 2021-04-01T20:14:40 | 2021-04-01T19:01:18 | 958 | 132 |
[WP] A swordsman fights stronger and stronger monsters in hopes of killing himself, but keeps winning. He soon develops a reputation as a hero, all the while drowning in self-loathing and the darkness that threatens to consume his soul. | I was 14 years old the first time I killed a man. He came to our village, squirrelled away in the mountains, looking to kill my father. The man he was hoping to find was long gone, what was left in his place was a frail, destitute thing that still clung on for dear life. To sup whatever droplets he could, at least a li... | Not enough.
Oat slipped down the pile of goblin corpses. The green blood burned his skin, but he didn't try to wipe it away. The pain it gave was far preferable to the cheers of the crowd. They didn't rush him, but they formed a circle around him, chanting the same things every town did.
"That was incredible!"
"Tha... | 2022-04-30T13:51:55 | 2022-04-30T12:41:50 | 637 | 63 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | I felt the painful glare of the computer screen attacking my eyes as I stared at it for a second too long. Trying to not breathe a single whiff of Mr. Taggart-call-me-Tag's cheap musky cologne, while the sticky heat from his sweaty, stubby fingers made their way across my shoulder blades in what I'm sure was supposed t... | There are some things that money can’t buy . . . like manners, or morals, or integrity . . . good thing I have a fucking sweet mansion though!
When I secretly became the richest man in the world, I didn’t think my life would be so vanilla. I mean, I have everything I could ever want and more, but I can’t let anyone k... | 2019-03-04T09:27:11 | 2019-03-04T08:04:24 | 182 | 50 |
[WP] Mankind has never achieved first contact: Aliens flee on sight; Even their planets are left behind. One day, misfortune brings opportunity: an alien ship with a crew can't make the jump.
So, my first WP. I would love to see which direction you'll take it. I'll read all replies and should you wish so, provide feed... | Captain Forley sat down across from the Xeno. He...or she....whatever....It was surprisingly human. Skin a different tone, something to do with their star. But in general, it seemed sentient intelligence tended toward carbon based, oxygen breathing, bi pedal mammals everywhere. Fair enough.
The Xeno stared down at th... | The Contact Division was a joke. The laughing stock of every government group. Until today.
I had been trying to make contact for almost twenty years. My retirement creeped closer and closer as each opportunity for contact seemed further and further. My last mission was to attempt to make contact with the planet Pinto... | 2015-03-14T21:42:01 | 2015-03-14T21:28:45 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] A scientist discovers other dimensions and realizes something has found us.
Try to terrify me with a Lovecraftian style. | Of all the revelations regarding the nature of the universe, none could be considered more humbling, or unnerving, than those that exposed how little about it was known, let alone understood.
Dr. Vargas thought of herself as an aficionado of ignorance--not the sort of ignorance that emerged as an ingrown social condi... | The night sky was dark and the air thick with fog that chilled me to the bones, I was shivering while running across the street until finally arriving at the door. I hammered at it like man possessed while my eyes ran wild in their sockets as I tried to figure out if the shadow was merely that. When the door finally wa... | 2013-12-28T10:19:12 | 2013-12-28T10:13:50 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] You have telekinetic powers. But it has a condition, you can only move non-living things. One day after cleaning your front lawn, you realize you couldn't move the dwarf figurine. | Part 1
Being in exile had its perks.
When the Mystical Refuge Program (aka MRP, aka “murp”) rescued me after my father was overthrown, they whisked me off to a new identity in the human world. I expected to hate it. And at first, I did. I hated having to grow out my hair to hide my long ears. I hated having to learn ... | "Nani", I whispered to myself.
Quickly after learning that I had powers I realized the limits of it: no living things.
Pretty straightforward if you ask me, but you couldn't ask anyone else, so yeah, pretty straightforward.
Appalled about my failed attempt to move the ugly dwarf statue my uncle gave us as a pr... | 2018-11-11T19:09:42 | 2018-11-11T18:36:40 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | It all started when Dominos offered free pizza for life. All you had to do was get a tattoo of their logo. The size required was two inches by four inches and in a visible location. It was limited to the first 20,000 that submitted proof. This only took 17 minutes to fill. Five hours later when Dominos announced the li... | **MC RONALD**
Free Happy meals *for life!*
Requirements
- Tattoo the MC logo as provided on our official website.
- Tattoo must be applied to an area publicly visible on a daily bases. Please consult our official website for approved locations.
- A signed document from a licensed tattooist, commonly referred ... | 2018-09-08T14:16:22 | 2018-09-08T13:46:51 | 223 | 69 |
[WP]Humans make first contact with an alien race, and discover the galactic community shares a verifyably true religion. However, none of it applies to anything humans are capable of doing. | “The Abominations continue to spread.”
“Nothing we do does anything more than slightly inconvenience them.”
“We must meet with their envoy.”
The Council continued bickering, as they had for the last few centuries. Lord Hy’Duk had heard it all before. He couldn’t stay silent any longer, “I don’t care about their en... | The edge of the hole was still glowing faintly pink as Jefferson leapt through. The colonel couldn't begin to guess what type of energy had ripped a ten-foot-wide gap in the station's interior wall, but he did know that blast wasn't meant to provide him with an escape route -- it had been meant to kill him.
Angry shou... | 2019-01-28T19:18:44 | 2019-01-28T16:01:36 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | FTL changed everything. 747s were sent to the junkyards. Airports replaced with spaceports that reached the farthest edges of the galaxy. Mars and Venus were terraformed to become brother and sister planets. Saturn became a tourist destination. People started commuting between America and China. FTL made planet Earth f... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T10:10:15 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 81 | 10 |
[WP] A half mermaid, the only sign of your heritage manifests in your adulthood, and its the rarest trait of all, at that. Your tears turn into pearls. This changes everything. You quit your job at the local fast food chain. | My best friend didn't understand.
"Why the hell did you quit your job? I know you are heartbroken but he was just a man! You have shitty taste in guys anyway and you are better off without him."
I knew she was right, but honestly, I had to thank him. I was poor. I had no future. I hadn't studied hard and had no real ... | [Poem]
She underwent some hardships
She started to cry
Her tears turned to pearls
She marvelled at why
She decided to quit her job
At the local fast food chain
After all, why work?
When it just had to rain
With her tears
She would be rich;
Without any need for hope
But also without fears
So she t... | 2020-11-03T01:58:01 | 2020-11-02T23:31:32 | 87 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone has the date that they will die writen in their forehead, and everyone but themselves can see it. One day, you notice that people around you can’t help but gawk at your forehead. One of them points and says “Wasn’t that yesterday?” | Yesterday, I died.
Well, that’s what the nurse had told me, anyway, when she was coaxing me out of a drug-induced stupor, asking me to piss in one of those stupid cups so they could test the amount of medication in my system. Or out of my system.
Whatever.
I hadn’t cared, really. Hah, I died. I could tell that to al... | cheated_death23:
I don’t know about your country, but where I’m from we each have our expiration date tattooed across our forehead. But here’s the catch, I nor no one else knows when our future date with death is bound. And if someone tells you what they read off your head, the date moves up in a, as far as the leadin... | 2020-01-19T12:54:20 | 2020-01-19T12:20:54 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] You work at a small bookstore. You love and cherish these books, and meticulously care for them. One slow afternoon, a novel falls from its shelf. You bend down to retrieve it, and notice there is only one word written on the page: “Run.” The door chimes. You have a customer. | I've never been one to turn down advice. In that same token I have never one to let my imagination run away with me.
You see I have found there no greater resource or friend than a good book. Unlike any other form of media a well written piece of literature has the power to transport you somewhere knew, give you a w... | The situation was becoming weirder and weirder each time passed, the costumer was wearing a huge white coat and had a fedora (also white) in his head. I stuttered as i welcomed him, looking to him was very unpleasing; he had this dark glasses, is weird to explain, but i felt darkness pulling me towards his eyes, so i i... | 2019-08-05T07:22:56 | 2019-08-05T07:06:47 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | "It is simply unsafe and foolish!" Gorthlak, the representative for the Zorknoids, complained to the council of intergalactic travel.
"It is, This we all know, but we don't think their bodies could handle any other way of faster than light travel" countered Ferlas, leader of the committee.
"If their calculations are ... | 2017-03-31T07:04:11 | 2017-03-31T06:55:10 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | "So, what's your actual name?" I sat next to the poor guy bleeding out.
"What do you mean?" He asks, breathing heavily from the wound. "I'm the ora-"
"Oh, you don't need to worry. I already took care of the actual oracle. I'm just doing some clean up work. You should have seen his face, he was so relieved when he la... | It seemed quite innocent at first, and despite the name given to their son, the burdenbearers were always a, optimistic but harrowed couple.
Yet, despite their pedigree, they remained positive about how this would turn out. Their son would turn out.
“Shame is truly, your only companion”, the tyke said to his mother’... | 2021-06-19T23:21:36 | 2021-06-19T22:00:06 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] During a bank heist gone wrong, you ended up taking a stray shotgun slug through your heart. That was 20 minutes ago, and the fact that you haven’t died yet is as concerning to you as it is to everyone else around you. | No one has bothered approaching you or are even asking if you are okay. One person did ask when you stood back up right after being struck down, but they fell just as silent as the rest when they saw the hole in your chest.
You're still in shock, but try your best to recall the chaos that followed from the robbery.... | ''F come and take a look at his wound again.’’ Richard shouts at Frank.
I feel perfectly fine despite taking a point-blank shot to my chest. Neil is the one who is driving the gateway car and Frank seems like he is about to panic.
''We are no longer in the bank Richard. Stop calling me ‘F’ for fuck’s sake.'' Frank ye... | 2021-05-22T06:29:16 | 2021-05-22T06:09:56 | 294 | 105 |
[WP] A sci-fi world where executions are done via memory wipe
Here's an idea if anyone wants it:
They give the person a new identity too, but everyone knows that if you can't remember who you are, you were a serial killer. | #1499-673-59632 Abe Flanders
I found myself sitting in a dingy apartment holding an envelope. Of course, calling it an apartment was probably overstating it. It was basic housing. An 8' by 10' by 7' cube with a small bunk with drawers underneath, a small toilet with a sink on top of the tank, a chair, and a tiny tabl... | August 22nd, 2032. I'm still lost. I try and try and nothing. Not one thing. I can't seem to find the answer. If anyone knows... *knew* me, they won't tell me. I simply go by Jon now. Not really sure if it fits, but I had to come up with something. It's impossible to live in this world without an identity, even if that... | 2017-04-14T00:09:50 | 2017-04-13T23:46:39 | 73 | 10 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Whenever our people find new life in the galaxy, by tradition, we show them our true forms. Every member of our species is taught this. It is perhaps our strongest weapon, such that those who oppose us must use machines without fear or mind to fight our military might. This combined with our military has served our peo... | It was, entertaining, to say the least.
The big "Fuck" as we here called it was here for 3 months. 92 days exactly. The sky twisted, clouds cried and mountains burned as it crashed into our now desolate orbit. Like many, I wanted to see what the "Fuck" was. When it arrived, the beast had latched onto the moon. It wasn... | 2019-06-11T09:37:21 | 2019-06-11T08:38:53 | 1,501 | 38 |
[WP] You’re a bodiless benign entity with the ability to possess people. You use this ability to travel and experience physicality. Spotting a suitable host, you leap into it. A second later it says “Get Out!” and you find yourself forcibly ejected out of the body. This has never happened before. | Motion in the Lower Three Dimensions was so slow. It always took time. It would take forever, for Oob to get to Barcelona.
So, Oob caught a passing human, who he could see was going there. He would not ride a human who *wasn't* going there. It was very rude, to ride one so far through the Lower Three, if it would not... | 'Stay away from this body. Forever. And please, check the body before entering.' His voice was sardonic, but I can tell that this is no normal being. This was a malevolent entity.
 
 
 
 
'Who are you? A ghoul? A Nephilim? A shapeshifter?' He answered my question... | 2022-04-17T01:30:00 | 2022-04-16T22:40:29 | 645 | 81 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | "Is he a mute" asked Sir Caradon, looking back at the oddly dressed and rather twitchy man riding a mule at the end of their forest caravan. He'd not said a word since he'd joined them, "speaking" only through strange hand-signs.
To be fair, after the Maelstrom shattered Remia, the imperial capitol, several months bac... | You'd think that someone who's spoken Lingua Thaumagica their entire life would not have to take a mandatory intro class their first semester at the academy. You'd be wrong.
"It's a prerequisite for your program," the registrar said. "Nothing I can do."
"Can't you get me into a more advanced level, at least?"
"I wou... | 2022-11-19T11:10:08 | 2022-11-19T09:52:06 | 993 | 71 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?
Alison did the math. She was... | He has it, of course. Heck, I could probably say any random string of words and he'd have the game to match. Infinite monkeys and all that.
MY TURN.
I stare down at the cards in my hand, trying to pay attention despite the sweat soaking my back. They're the exact set we have at home, with little cartoon illustrations... | 2018-03-07T07:23:52 | 2018-03-07T06:37:49 | 453 | 324 |
[WP] Following death, you woke up in a classroom, to take the R.A.T.s (Reincarnation Aptitude Tests). After a short period in the Afterlife, you get your scores... which were perfect, despite just guessing. You get to be reincarnated as a god, one of the first in a couple of millennia. | "So, I'm a god now..." I quietly spoke, a finger and thumb to my chin as I thought about all the things I could do. I mean, I had no attachment to my world anymore. I was dead for crying out loud. But now, I'm a god and to be perfectly honest I didn't really know how to feel. From what I had gathered, my family had rei... | “Like a major portion of my life was based around people in shitty situations not being at fault. And animals! So what, species are going extinct because they were all assholes in a previous life? If a baby has shitty abusive parents who bang it around, they deserve it?
“Oh yeah. That baby totally deserved that. That’... | 2019-07-22T12:48:59 | 2019-07-22T11:12:24 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Earth is sold on the Galactic Black Market. The Buyer is woefully underprepared to handle how defiant Humanity is | "Go ahead. You won't be the first batch of romantics to bankrupt yourself trying."
The ambassador raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, I'll take your money, gladly," the broker said. "But did you really think you were the first people to have this idea?"
"The Terran Reform and Rehabilitation Society is mo... | Jason watched as an alien ship landed just inches from his brand new car. The ship’s hatch opened to reveal a stout man with a beard to his toes. They stared at each other for a few awfully long minutes before Jason asked, “Who are you, and why is your entire ship neon freaking green!?” That did nothing to distract the... | 2020-03-24T15:29:13 | 2020-03-24T09:04:38 | 621 | 80 |
[WP] The world's most successful CEO doesn't actually know what he's doing. When asked for orders, he just makes up ambiguous adages like, "a call for help is a call for bells," or "do in the morning what a morning dew," and lets them figure out what it's supposed to mean. It's been working so far. | \[EU\]
“Have we looked at the KPOs of the core team? Is it giving a good ROI? Should everyone complete a RACI in the INF team?”
Dear God. Help me.
“Mm,” I say. “We should lean on those teams and back off. The main push for OMR should be during the final quarter.”
Everyone is nodding approvingly. Apparently what I ... | “And you know what they say if you have a *second* broken chair…” The legendary Steve Midas leaned over the lectern as he held a hand behind his ear.
Eager to accept his invitation, the audience shouted in perfect unison, “*Get rid of the first!*”
The crowd began a self-congratulatory round of applause. They grin... | 2022-04-09T16:27:55 | 2022-04-09T15:29:00 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Your parents used to say "As long as you are remembered, you will never die." The good news is you were happy to remember that when you changed the course of human history and everyone knows your name. The bad news is that was about 300 years ago and you'd really quite like to die now. | My left kidney was the first to go. There was no pain, which was a blessing, I guess. My neighbour Tom had a heart attack a decade ago and he's still suffering from that chest pain after all these years. Oh no, look at me remembering about Tom again. I hope he get to die one day.
You see the flaw in the system, too, d... | It has been a long since time since anyone has remember who I am, sure my name had been wrapped in immortality just like me, little children learn of my deeds all through school their memories of me preserving my life, but over 300years have past and to the nursing staff I'm just old Mr Jones.
Strangely enough I can n... | 2018-02-08T05:44:57 | 2018-02-08T05:35:10 | 81 | 14 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | “Cassy, it’s time for bed!”
“Ok Daddy, I just have to pick up!”
Crashing and thumping proceeded to radiate up the stairs, soon followed by Cassy colliding up the stairs.
“Well that was fast. How’d you manage it? You had quite a mess down there.”
“Oh Daddy,” she smiled like the answer was obvious. “Clyde and Clara ... | I gasped. A Rolex? Cash? Why the hell was that there? Was my daughter stealing things from the neighbor? Probably not. This was a poor suburb, with one-story houses and lots of crime. Then how did this get here?
"Emily!" I called. My daughter ran to me quickly.
"What?"
"Why is this here?"
She took a glance at the w... | 2019-10-06T14:24:01 | 2019-10-06T12:33:22 | 1,268 | 27 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | "Why do you keep looking over your shoulder like that?" Jaya turned and looked in the direction his friend had been glancing, but saw nothing but the flat armor of his ship, the *Sunrise.*
Elvoss looked sheepish for a moment. "It's nothing. Just... your ship makes me nervous, okay? I want to keep an eye on that thi... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T12:33:07 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | “D-did you just bite the table?” The hooded figure asked.
“Yeah.” The teenager shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
“Why would you bite the table?” The hooded figure took off his hood exposing his aged face.
“I dunno, just felt like the best option.” The teenage picked at his teeth, apparently apart of the wooden le... | People joked that I’d bitten off more than I could chew, which wasn’t true. I managed to gnaw a little corner off the table with only one cracked tooth, but once that piece was in my mouth I was able to slowly masticate it until the plywood felt soft enough to swallow. But what, oh lord what was I thinking? My alter eg... | 2020-03-19T13:33:44 | 2020-03-19T11:53:13 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there's something scary in her room. You go with her to check it out and prove she's just imagining things. After you turn on the light, she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down. You're frozen with fear. | A massive yellow suited being, not anything humanoid, was staring right at me. It's massive yellow arms and three red glass eyes staring straight at me, motionless. Emily had already crawled back in bed and was somehow fast asleep, not a care in her world. But this creature was very real, and its intentions were unknow... | > [WP] Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there's something scary in her room. You go with her to check it out and prove she's just imagining things. After you turn on the light, she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down. You're frozen with fear.
"Daddy, I heard the no... | 2015-01-22T08:53:41 | 2015-01-22T08:51:50 | 31 | 20 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | Something is very wrong with me.
Nobody knows what caused this, or even what to call it - this “shift”, or “event”, or “awakening”. I honestly didn’t even realize it had affected me at first. My tattoos are pretty docile - a koi fish on my foot, and an elaborate floral half sleeve. It wasn’t until I saw what was happe... | nothing seemed different for me at first, yes i had a tattoo, got it a long time ago and never really thought about it much.
i wished i had gotten a better one, like wings so i could fly, or dice so i could have luck.
see i thought id get something tribal but not full on Celtic knot nonsense so i got an eye on my rig... | 2019-05-07T09:22:41 | 2019-05-07T09:15:00 | 60 | 13 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. |
“How bad is it?” Dave, my coworker asked. I normally wore a short sleeve shirt to work to show off my tattoo sleeve with pride as I had only gotten it finished last month. I worked in IT but I worked mostly away from the public so tattoos were okay. Dave and a few others had them as well. However, everything change... | The men lined up, ready to storm the building. They were a brotherhood. No, they were more than that. They were *one*. As they closed their eyes they became a single entity, able to harness massive unnatural physical powers they could not generate on their own. Suddenly, Tyler opened his eyes. Something had occurred to... | 2019-05-07T09:13:59 | 2019-05-07T09:02:42 | 65 | 20 |
[WP] In an effort to curb overpopulation in 2152, the UN world government assigns each person a random archenemy on New Year’s day. You either kill them, or they kill you by year end or you both die by default.
| December 30, 2157
I, ah, probably should have picked a time before now to start a journal, but I figured a day before my inevitable death was really as good of a time as any. I was never one much for journals, I just want something to be left of me when society resumes in 2162.
I don’t know how I can win.
Let me sta... | “*Damn it*,” he cursed as he clutched at the wound in his side.
“George Falmouth?” A second voice questioned, approaching with steady footsteps.
George didn’t look up to see the man looming over him. He could feel the killer’s eyes boring into his ribcage where the colorful liquid oozed out.
In reality, they were... | 2018-01-03T19:19:11 | 2018-01-03T18:37:26 | 85 | 14 |
[WP] You had a late night and slept in late too. As you wake up and look at your phone to check the time, you see an alert: “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.” It’s 3:15 PM. | The world was empty. The sky was an alien gray.
I called my girlfriend. No answer. I called my mom. No answer.
The window to the outside world seemed normal, peaceful almost. A normal city day, except for one detail: there were no people. Not a soul in sight. The streets were eerily quiet, forlorn. Pigeons cawed and ... | “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.”
You looked at the notification again. Was this a joke? A missile impact?
Then, you looked at the time.
It’s 3:15 PM. Three-Fifteen in the afternoon!
No. No. It can't be. This had to be a joke, but what if it was not?
Sometimes, you h... | 2020-02-03T07:24:12 | 2020-02-03T06:33:46 | 1,789 | 507 |
[WP] Your Uber passenger was a little odd, but you still gave them the usual farewell: “If you enjoyed the ride, make sure you say thanks with five stars!” A few days later, you receive a nicely worded thank you letter in the mail along with a deed to the entire constellation of Cassiopeia. | She’s just staring at me, hasn’t even blinked since she got in the car. Am I going too fast or something? Is she planning on murdering me? A hundred thoughts raced through my mind as I drove to her desired location. She was probably the second strangest customer I had, her heavy breathing and focused gaze sending shive... | Jessica didn't think of her part time job as something worth glorifying. But once in a while, she indulged her fantasies. She dreamt that maybe she would be a cabbie in London, who actually knows the streets, and can occasionally out perform a navigation app. Or maybe she'd be some taxi driver caught in the Hollywood s... | 2021-12-07T21:04:30 | 2021-12-07T19:40:58 | 866 | 54 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | There was a time, long ago, when I truly knew happiness.
It was a simple time. I had yet to join the Arcanium. I was a simple farmer in Karan, the capital of the Andelian Empire. I had a wife and a child, another on the way in but a few months.
That all changed when... well suffice to say it changed. Distraught at my... | Tap. Tap. Tap.
My cane shook violently as it struggle to find purchase with each step I took. My breath ragged, for my lungs were too weak to keep my body filled with oxygen. My muscles aches and yearned for repose with each motion I made. I wheezed and gasped, coughing wickedly as I made my way to the grand hal... | 2022-05-04T11:19:52 | 2022-05-04T08:09:28 | 128 | 90 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | *For the safety and well-being of all local citizens, this warning will be broadcasted silently. At this time, we urge you to lock all doors and windows to your home, and to turn off all lights. Do not answer any landline or cellular telephones. Do not open or access any computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, or any... | > Im not a writer or anything, just a guy wanting to try this out, no hate, don't expect grammar to be on point or detail
It's 4:57 AM, I wake up, wondering what woke me up I look around and notice the T.V switched on, irritated at the fact that I don't have money to get a good T.V and annoyed by the fact that my T... | 2016-08-10T08:35:33 | 2016-08-10T07:40:10 | 120 | 16 |
[WP] You are a haunted house, and you’re lonely. You’ve become self conscious because every time you try to engage with visiting humans, they run away in fear. But a party of humans has just arrived, and you realise one of them is intent on killing the rest. | The man smelled of soured desire and oft-remembered dreams. The worst sort of dreams to creatures like us. In the shadows, dreams are best forgotten.
Booted footsteps sounded on my porch at the close of that late fall day. Leaves crunched satisfyingly and a cold breeze whistled through the rotten rail, churned the lea... | Once upon a time, the house on Wintergreen Drive had been a home. Once upon a time, its rooms had been filled with the laughter and joy. Once upon a time, children had run up and down its many stairs, playing hide-and-seek. They'd laughed so loudly, so cheerfully. The house held onto the memory of that laughter. Someti... | 2021-11-07T16:23:12 | 2021-11-07T16:19:56 | 584 | 74 |
[WP] The summoned hero was neither a fighter nor a magic caster. He called himself a "new-clee-ar fizz-izz-ist" whatever that means. Now he has sent you to collect a special rock for him. Why he would need a rock, you will never know, but he even gave you a device that clicks when you find it. | *March 3:*
My birthday wish came true! The king himself told me to come to him tomorrow. He said theres a important job for me. Only i can do it. I dont know what that could be but im really excited. Maybe dad will stop being so mean to me after i meet the king.
*March 4*:
Wow the castle is so big!! Jeffery (he t... | The clicks don't follow a pattern.
At the oldtime tavern there's a piano player that puts up a metronome, which goes click-click-click-click all in time.
But this little device clicks ragged. It's a chattering of teeth. Sometimes big bites, sometimes the shiver of a few minutes spent too long on the snowy surface.
I... | 2022-01-31T01:10:11 | 2022-01-31T00:25:45 | 1,444 | 335 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | Ah, summer nights. Romantic. Peaceful. Comfortable. Unless you like to sleep buried in sheets, like me. It was 2 AM, and I was glued to my bed in a pool of sweat, tossing and turning to kick up the sheets and let some heat escape, when I rolled my arm off the side of the bed and something seized it.
"You're hired," i... | I don't let go after during the shake and I ripe what is attached to my hand up on the bed. It's a leprechaun. If it can shake a persons hand say they're hired and the person excepts, then they switch lives. But if the leprechaun is caught while trying to make this deal, he has to grant one wish. I wish for the one thi... | 2017-04-29T00:54:31 | 2017-04-28T23:36:59 | 123 | 10 |
[WP] After a treacherous upbringing of dodging the assassination attempts of time travelers you learn why they were all trying to kill you. | Downstairs, on the patio, a half-rotted floorboard whined under someone’s weight.
I kept my eyes squeezed closed. Fuck him. I probably still had another two, maybe three minutes. Depends how cautious this one was. Depends if he tries to go through the patio door, or scales the wall to the bedroom window. They rarely c... | **S**am was holding a small wooden stool in his hands. It was a warm and sunny day in spring. A perfect day to get some answers, Sam thought, as he looked at the body in front of him.
The body was that of a man in his forties lying face down: tall, with long dirty hair and clothes that Sam knew far too well even thoug... | 2015-04-04T09:21:46 | 2015-04-04T09:12:50 | 288 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a world where people can Crowdfund [kickstarter/indiegogo/gofundme] assassins to take out unpopular people.
[deleted] | It started as a joke. At least it was definitely supposed to be a joke. FundAKill.com sounded like a joke to all of us. But as they say, it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
It was sick, really. Started with someone who didn't deserve it. Rebecca Black, owner of the most disliked YouTube video at the time w... | Greeting: Hello, humans. I am HK-47, the best and most efficient crowd funded assassin.
Challenge: For the next 35 days, I will be raising money to bring about the end of Kristen Stewart. If the goal of $100,000 is met, she will be terminated after eight days.
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Congratulation: Well done, meatbags. You have... | 2015-08-26T21:53:28 | 2015-08-26T17:59:14 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | "Why did you make me go through all that?"
I blink awake, surprisingly not startled by the intruding voice, though I live alone. It is somehow familiar to me, though I've never actually heard it spoken. I've only seen her voice and thoughts in ink and pixels, on page and screen. But I suppose imagination is a powerful... | "Young man... you must be so confused, are you not? Allow me to ease your fraughts..." spoke the middle-aged man with a balding head, scruffy beard, and cherry-like nose as he tapped the middle cushion of his dingy couch three times, inviting the metal-clad man who'd had his sword pointed toward his neck, missing only ... | 2021-07-31T10:12:44 | 2021-07-31T10:10:31 | 68 | 30 |
[WP] As it turns out, Hell has a healthy supply of scientists and engineers and is thus much more technologically advanced than is usually portrayed. | *Warning*: the last segment contains some graphic descriptions.
An inhuman shriek pierced the eternal night of Hell, waking Dr. Roberts with a start from his dreamless sleep. He pulled the covers tightly over his head, unwilling to face what waited in the shadows. As the echo of the shriek returned from the far wall... | "Well, you see, the religious types have proved scientists wrong in one respect, there really is a heaven. Unfortunately for them, most engineers and scientists have never had the CV to get there. Not enough relevant afterlife experience you see. We still don’t really know how you’re meant to get afterlife experience w... | 2016-06-01T18:52:30 | 2016-06-01T17:56:43 | 314 | 21 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I always hated highschool. It seems like there is always the same few people there: the nerds, the jocks, the artists, the rebels, and people like me who just want it to be over.
I was daydreaming on my way to class. Eyes glazed over as I thought about the world beyond the school's hallways and how much better-
"HEY ... | A sphere, at any angle, will always have the profile of a circle. Of all the shapes, the sphere has the lowest possible surface area to volume ratio, thus taking the least amount of energy to maintain; but the amount of energy you can hold in that sphere, well, that's virtually limitless.
Snapping a neutron star into ... | 2020-02-26T09:59:40 | 2020-02-26T08:38:51 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | “Folding back to hard space, captain. Outer band, yellow sun, third planet.” Zorgle touched his hooks through the holo-interface, bringing the warship out of its tesseract and into surveillance range of the latest planet on command’s conquer list.
“Excellent, Zorgle.” Said Captain Horgle, smiling a fang-filled smile. ... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T12:58:33 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] It's been 6 years since time stood still. As you turn the corner to go home, you see a woman and her dog walking nonchalantly towards you. | Yet another quiet day goes by. At least another one of my days. It has remained July 24th, 2019 for about six years according to my records. I keep my calendar like a prisoner with sharpie marks on the wall with my rough estimation of the passage of time. Unfortunately it is hard to tell how much time has gone by when ... | I was hiding in a freezer when me and my flatmates were playing hide and seek. I tried counting down the time. 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 20 minutes? I started to shiver. I looked at my phone - 5:15 in the evening. I kept twiddling my thumbs - I had definitely won this! It was so dark in here. Was my phone going to break i... | 2019-07-25T18:25:52 | 2019-07-25T17:16:56 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | I've got about 20/200 vision; however of the blur in the string of crowd to my left, each digit in the jumble of numbers still has clear edges, like a bad photoshop. I don't even bother to make them out until they step closer though, so that the smoldering numbers are silhouetted by the darkened buildings eventually be... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T23:35:54 | 223 | 11 |
[WP] On their 13th birthday everyone is assigned a guardian beast, to protect and even lay down their lives. You get a butterfly. Sensing your dismay, it says "I may be small and frail, but the flaps of my wings have been known to cause hurricanes." | The butterfly, an iridescent blue, perched on my finger. It swayed gently, trembling, its antennae looped into curls.
"No," I said. "Get off." I shook my hand violently. "Get *off*. You can't protect me."
Luminous eyes stared up at me, reflecting my own face.
I shuddered. "Butterflies don't have *eyes*."
"I may be... | For awhile I was worried about being bullied, being compared to those with vicious dogs or menacing lions.
I was distant with my guardian, unwilling to listen to her. I thought I was being strong.
For awhile she told me seemingly bad ideas and actions that would harm me.
I was always beaten down, and couldn't figure... | 2017-05-04T15:31:35 | 2017-05-04T12:09:38 | 66 | 19 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | Gaining trust is not easy.
It's established piece by piece -- asking how the kids are, shooting the breeze over a beer, learning what someone's favorite food is. Heroes and villains are notoriously guarded, but I know what pushes their buttons. They're all plagued by the same insecurities - the fear of becoming irrele... | *** written on mobile at work so sorry for the grammar issues**
It was a rough start in the business. I learned quickly that trying to threaten my potential clients was wrong way to do things. But after I got my first client things became easier. The word of mouth spread quickly among the superheros first. At first j... | 2020-10-19T08:18:22 | 2020-10-19T07:47:18 | 1,711 | 15 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by a cult to be used as sacrifice. As you are are lying tied underneath the altar you hear one of the cultists say “Ho dark lord we present to you this person as an offering”. With nothing left to lose you yell “Ho dark lord I present to you this cultists as an offerings!” | The room erupted in nervous chattering.
*"Is that allowed?"*
*"Walter, why didn't you gag the sacrifice?"*
*"Don't look at me, that was Dustin's job!"*
*"Hey guys, uh, please don't bring me into this, I'm just the water boy -"*
**"Enough."**
The presence of the Dark Lord came suddenly, more in feeling than in phy... | The cultist standing above you bearing a dagger ready to plunge deep into your chest looked upon you with amusement. "Did you really think that would work?"
Cacophonous laughter suddenly echoed throughout the night.
An eerie voice sent shivers down your spine "whoa there little one, over ten millennia, throughout d... | 2020-05-05T15:42:28 | 2020-05-05T14:32:25 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] "Dragons respect the strong," the dragon said. "Okay, so if that's true why do you never attack that one old farmer outside the city." Asked the adventurer. "I'll repeat, Dragons respect the strong." | They used to tell stories about Farmer Deadeye. No, that wasn't his real name. There were several farmers at the local pub who claimed to know it, but at any question of revealing this information, they'd simply scoff and return to their drinks. Deadeye, it seemed, liked the children staying clear of his house.
The st... | In the annals of history there is written a mysterious conversation between the archwizard of the kingdom and the mightiest dragons that had roamed the land. A man of magical might and intellectual prowess beyond what anyone is capable. For most of the forlorn time is lost, there those supreme beings talked as equals t... | 2022-12-25T20:09:27 | 2022-12-25T19:25:49 | 545 | 53 |
[WP] At your job, you have one task. Every day you go in, sit at your desk, and wait for a red light to turn on. When it does, you push a button. You repeat this process until the end of your shift. One day, you find out what the button does... | Joe sat down in his gray walled cubicle that contained nothing but a tiny red button. The job was the easiest that Joe had ever had, but it was also so monotonous that minutes felt like hours. The red button already turned on and Joe instantly pushed it. Sometimes it came on only hundreds of times per day and other tim... | Day in, day out.
The light. It's one of the three items at your perfect gray cubicle. The others are your phone, and a small, reddish button.
You're content to sit on your phone all day, flappy birding and reditting. You just have to wonder, what does it do?
Its Saturday. You got called into work. It was another imper... | 2014-12-02T17:14:24 | 2014-12-02T15:20:06 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] Humans were kicked out of the existing Galactic Federation for such controversial statements as "You shouldn't do that, there's life on that planet," and "But that's slavery!" and "Dear God, Where is your EMPATHY!?" All at once, we remembered that war is, sometimes, excusable. | I was 5 years old when we made first contact. Our technology was finally advanced enough for us to travel faster than the speed of light. We were delighted. A galactic federation existed!!! Life would be like star trek now. For a space obsessed kid from a family of scientists and professors, this completely decided my ... | "My Fellow Humans". President Alvárez' Voice was broadcasted by what must be a Million speakers across thousands of Worlds, her Voice carrying both the Tragedy and Gravity of the Situation onto those Systems, a Harbinger of darker days to come."Effective now, Humanity and it's Systems are no longer protected by the se... | 2021-05-28T12:54:10 | 2021-05-28T07:26:39 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] You live in a world where everything can be bought and sold. Even emotions, memories and experiences. You, however, have that one thing that cannot be. And now everyone wants it. | "How much for the Fabled dosage?" the man asked.
The man in the suit shifted uncomfortably at his question, "I'm sorry?"
"You heard me."
"Listen uhh- what's your name?" the supplier looked at the man curiously.
"I have no name..."
"Alright listen buddy. We've recently got a batch of the *premium* stuff, if that's... | I live in a world where everything can be bought and sold. Emotions, memories, experiences...
I, however, have that one thing that cannot be bought or sold. And now everyone wants it.
That thing? A soul.
Now you may be thinking, *Wait a sec...doesn't everybody have a soul?* And the answer to that is: At first.
In ... | 2018-02-12T08:09:57 | 2018-02-12T05:54:34 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | JulieBear1998: Dad r u there? 0_0 Helllooooooooo?
LoneStarRanger: Hi pumpkin. Sorry I'm late. We were running drills.
JulieBear1998: Lol its k
LoneStarRanger: So how was your day Julie?
JulieBear1998: it was good
JuliesBear1998: i finally got my chem midterm back
LoneStarRanger: What'd you get?
JulieBear1998: g... | To my Love,
I don't know if you're still getting this, or if the post keeps on messing it up, but I want you to know that I'm doing this for you. The past few weeks have been hell, but thinking of you helps me to push forward. Speaking of which, how's our little man doing? I hope you went with Thomas. I've always like... | 2015-02-03T16:21:09 | 2015-02-03T13:14:11 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] While at your soul sucking retail job you're approached by a group of people dressed in armor. One of them looks up at you and says, "Where the hell have you been?!" | Today was Mark's twenty-third consecutive day of working his dead end job at Marshall's. He was a cashier slash stock clerk slash janitor slash maintenance man slash whatever the fuck his dumbass manager Gary wanted him to do that day. He worked for a dollar more than minimum wage and had been stuck in this job ever ... | I was standing on a ladder, sorting in boxes of merchandise into the shelf. It was the graveyard shift and the entire store was empty.
Suddenly a group of people in armor approached me.
"Where the hell have you been? We are waiting for you since 13 years!"
"Sorry, been busy sorting in all the stuff. If you are looki... | 2017-07-27T16:29:14 | 2017-07-27T15:15:15 | 71 | 49 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | "Hey everyone, watch what Jen can do!"
The night has reached the point when standing up is problematic. We have given up on the facade of being a sophisticated, standing party that we put up at the beginning of the night. Now we're splayed out on the couches and floor. This lazy, increasingly loud occupation is punctu... | "Come on show it to us" they all said in unison
"It's so lame" I said
"I gotta see it now" Suzy said leaning over the table.
"It's just gonna freak you guys out" I said but I knew I was gonna cave.
"I bet it's bullshit" Carrie remarked
"Shut up Carrie I can do it it's just super lame".
"Bullshit" Josh said under... | 2015-11-28T11:43:25 | 2015-11-28T11:35:54 | 380 | 24 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | At first I thought it was the worst, how helpful could it really be. The realisation of my power wasn't until much later.
The first time it was useful was when I got mugged. Some broke guy with fire powers. He threw fireballs at me and I dodged them all. As he tried to strike me to ash, I deftly avoided his clumsy blo... | My first time writing in this subreddit... Please be gentle.
In an oddly satisfying thud, a magazine featuring the top 100 superhumans and all their interesting superpowers was strewn atop the table. Seeing the person who threw it was my Best friend, Altheia, even if possessing the gifted power of time control, I imme... | 2017-12-18T01:14:38 | 2017-12-17T20:04:37 | 61 | 34 |
[WP] I’m sorry, you've reached your 100 thought limit. Would you like to spend $4.99 to get 50 more thoughts? | I loved video games. All day everyday, I spent my time playing them. Something about them sparked my mind, and it allowed me to enter the ever so perfect realm of someone else's creation.
I loved all kinds of games: RPGs, FPS, MOBA, horror, and even visual novels. However, one genre stuck out above the rest; sports.
... | I’m an artist. I express myself!
When the government and cable companies began limiting our bandwidth people complained, but when they took over the huge social media companies it was *necessary*.
Nobody wants to be subscribed to twelve different social media websites just to remain in contact with their social cir... | 2019-01-26T23:50:29 | 2019-01-26T22:40:45 | 87 | 43 |
[WP] Everyone, even the villains they regularly face, know the hero's hilariously ineffective "secret" identity. They don't tell him how bad it is mostly out of respect for the man and because it is funny how he thinks a pair of glasses and a tie change anything | Breaking into the "world's most secure bank" was a breeze. Making my way to the top floor where the executives were was even easier, considering the security detail booked it downstairs to the vault. Even finding Anton Strong, the man who successfully lobied to raise the price of the cure for throat cancer to make more... | \[Secret Soldier\]
"Don't move, Gaia. I don't know what you're doing in my city, but you still have crimes to answer for," Spex yelled at the dark-haired woman. Gale Stone walked across the college campus [searching for her daughter](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/djpu21/wp_you_are_the_greatest_supe... | 2021-01-10T09:24:36 | 2021-01-10T08:11:49 | 56 | 16 |
[WP] "Would you like a palm reading?", the old woman asked, "It won't cost much". Out of pity, I obliged. She examined my palm and uttered a bunch of cryptic sentences. Fifteen years later, I returned and went to her grave to pay my respect. | I stood at the grave, wondering why. I knew her all of ten minutes, and she changed my life. Why was I lucky enough to know her? Why did I take the chance? Why, dammit, couldn’t I have found her in time to thank her?
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It had been a bad day. I had found out late the night before that my girlfriend was cheating ... | The old fortuneteller groaned. She leaned forward, examining my open palms laying on the table. She muttered something under her breath. I asked if she could repeat herself, but she was shaking her head, saying that a fate could only be told once.
“But surely you could just tell me again?” I asked.
She slid her... | 2022-02-20T09:43:56 | 2022-02-20T05:44:17 | 129 | 17 |
[WP] Traditionally, vampires could not see their reflection because mirrors were silver-backed. With the invention of aluminum-backed mirrors, a vampire sees their reflection for the first time only to find out they are the ugliest thing they have ever seen. | Vlad brought over another candelabra. He wondered if the problem was that he wasn't getting enough light on his face.
Once again he sat down, took a deep breath, and brought up the mirror.
"Ugh. No!" He cried out, wondering how his face could possibly be so pale when his diet was literally all red blood.
He strod... | They always say that vampires are attractive. Our little human prey say we glimmer, we shine the brightest, like stars. So, we must be beautiful, right? I always thought that I was beautiful. I'd never seen myself in a reflection. However, all the humans fawned over me. My last little meal, he flattered me that I was t... | 2017-07-29T14:42:16 | 2017-07-29T13:16:14 | 99 | 35 |
[WP] When space colonies became a practical reality, the rich and powerful left Earth in droves, leaving the rest of humanity behind on a broken world. A few centuries later, Earth has, through much effort, been restored to its former glory. Now the colonists want to return. | **GOVERNANCE**
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The bicentennial celebration was a special day. It had been two hundred years since Earth was abandoned. The rich. The politicians. Anyone that was able took to the sky.
Earth was doomed. An ecosystem circling the drain. They left. They said it was to preserve the species. And those left behind w... | A screen jumped on, sparks catching as the hologram sputtered to life. “This just in from Intergalactic nebula Incorporated, the latest up and coming galaxy is a familiar one to some of our founders - The Milky Way! A classic spiral galaxy with a few billion planets and stars that hosts hundreds of microfauna and, one ... | 2022-01-05T20:40:29 | 2022-01-05T19:26:35 | 426 | 85 |
[WP] One day, in an industrial accident, fire is found to have a new use. One we would have never expected. | "Holy shit, Jim, you have to come see this."
I held out my hand, still wrapped in black plastic. The same material that made up all of our suits, which we wore mainly to protect us from the chemicals we worked with.
"So what?" Jim said. "You're wearing your gloves. We all wear them." He held up his own hands, showing... | Screams of pleasure and acid
Wash over the little children
Leaving nothing but bones
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Shattered fingernails and teeth
Rip my eyes from me
And give them to the poor
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"It's okay, Ma'am"
Brilliant darkness is unpure
Licking at my toes
.
Orange agony fills them
But pain is not present
Fire cle... | 2015-03-25T10:38:54 | 2015-03-25T10:15:32 | 128 | 16 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I stand at the window, taking a long, well-deserved puff from my favourite cigarette. The smoke curls around me before escaping through the open window that gives me the greatest view of the sunset sky painted with bright hues of purple and blue and pink. Such a lovely night. So calm. So peaceful. It was the kind of ni... | It's the same old story, Doctor Brainmaster is robing a bank again and I have to stop him. I hop into my Red, White, and Blue plane and head towards the Central City bank. Hovering above it I see the good doctor has hostages. With a great leap a crash through the Bank's celling. "Captain Fist" he says, "what an unexpec... | 2019-08-06T22:14:53 | 2019-08-06T19:35:07 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | As I pulled the trigger, my last memories were of the life I'd built and the fragile manner in which it had crumpled up in front of me, torn to pieces like a dried leaf.
For what seemed like eons, I found the inner peace I had longed after. Like everything else I held dear, however, this was soon taken away by a flash... | I look at that son of a bitch right in the eyes and say "don't you remember? Georgia" he tried to think. "I took that bet and I ended up regretting it because you're the best there's ever been." He smirks and says "ohhhhh yesssss Johnny how have you been?" | 2015-04-09T08:36:58 | 2015-04-09T07:21:59 | 2,485 | 102 |
[WP] It is 2026. All major governments have been overthrown by one singular world power, who now intends to rule over us all “for our own good.” It’s Canada.
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"We welcome our new citizens gladly, with open arms and strength in our hearts," Supreme Minister Trudeau announces, his face broadcast over the world.
In Japan, the citizens are being taught Montreal French and how to shake hands, a practice that many are still uncomfortable with. Contact is alright, th... | After a long day at the office, I walk into my favorite bar in Bushwick. I sit down and order a martini. While I'm sipping my drink, I look up at the television. CNN's playing a puff piece on our new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. He's halfway across the world in New Zealand to promote Ottawa's "One World" policy.
Tr... | 2018-04-02T21:10:20 | 2018-04-02T21:03:54 | 623 | 10 |
[WP] When you arrived in the future, the locals put you in a "historical village" in an attempt to reduce culture shock. Unfortunately, their ideas about your past life are hilariously inaccurate. |
I sighed heavily, for what was probably the umpteenth time just today. If I could find a way back, by all that was holy, I’d throttle Jacob. This was ALL his fault. I ignored the clock screaming next to me as I begrudgingly got out of bed and started the day, my thoughts still ablaze with hatred for Jacob as I wand... | ummm.. .you roll over and try to turn off the ringing. finally you open your eyes and find yourself in a four poster bed. there's an ol' timey alarm clock ringing. you pick it up and figure out how to turn it off. The sun in streaming in through the window and you go looking for a bathroom. You walk out of the room wea... | 2019-04-23T10:32:38 | 2019-04-23T10:25:52 | 173 | 44 |
[WP] You are an arms dealer for keyboard warriors. | 3:14 pm.
I had just finished wrapping up a sale of a Krag rifle when I heard the *ding* of the shop door being opened. Wishing my current customer a nice day, I looked up.
A young man walked in: sunglasses, dark hoodie, backpack slung over his shoulder (is that a Guy-Fawkes mask sticking out?). Judging by the time of... | The door to my small store creaked open, and a man in a black trench coat slipped through.
I didn't recognize this one, so I started with my regular routine. "Hello sir, welcome to Jonestown Computers. How may I help you?"
He said nothing in return, but slipped a small piece of paper onto the counter before me which ... | 2016-06-04T09:07:03 | 2016-06-04T08:26:01 | 59 | 28 |
[WP] You're the strongest villain ever seen. Heroes who challenged you are afraid to even see you. One day, a hero dared to challenge you, a rather pale and bald 7 year old girl whose death is getting near. She doesn't even know how to act like a hero. Her last wish? To defeat you.
| You know, kid, sometimes things are exactly what they seem. Take me, for instance. I'm the one they call the bad guy. The guy that broke Iron Hammer's jaw. The guy that sliced Rosethorne's left arm. The guy that killed Big Velvet's parents. I rob banks. I assassinate politicians. I blow up buildings. This building we'r... | Appealing to my emotions? Seems like the good guys have run out of options. But this was a pretty powerful strategy all the same; I was surprised they hadn't thought of it earlier.
Her frail form stood before me, as she held a placard with the request of defeating me messily scrawled onto it. Clearly, she was not her... | 2018-09-01T10:48:52 | 2018-09-01T07:08:34 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] "You shall fall dead on the day of your first child's birth!" Was the curse that young, inexperienced witch put on you. Little did she realize that, to an asexual like yourself, she'd essentially given you immortality. Every year, on the anniversary of your curse, she tries to "fix" things. | There was a cackle outside and three sharp knocks on the door. I almost lept out of my comfy spot on the couch and double checked that I'd lit all the right candles. Did I have the right songs in the queue? Was- whatever. She was at the door and I had to answer before she blew it off it's hinges again.
"Hey," I greet... | It's weird having a witch play cupid for you; but ever since I was cursed, I have had my very own matchmaker trying to find the perfect woman for me. I think I need to go back in time to the moment that I was first cursed. It was the turn of the century and I was an arrogant man of 22. Tall, blonde, broad shouldered; w... | 2021-11-09T14:03:16 | 2021-11-09T10:00:12 | 2,109 | 176 |
[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. | Gravity twitched, then flipped completely.
I tensed my shoulders in preparation as my back hit the ceiling of the ship, hard, then relaxed as my muscles started to knit themselves back together. Gravity chose this moment to take a little break, leaving me floating seven feet off the floor.
Poseidon was built to be pe... | The first rule about killing baby Hitler is to not get spotted. The second rule about killing baby Hitler is if you get spotted make sure you look like someone who belongs in 1889. The third rule about killing baby Hitler is if you are spotted by some Central European peasants that they don’t mistake y... | 2020-02-05T18:09:33 | 2020-02-05T17:17:49 | 101 | 20 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | "Sir! I believe that Lucifer is cheating." States Metatron, his tone annoyed as he tabs through a series of numbers and files. "If that's the case I'm not sure on who should be winning the game."
"Lucifer is cheating on what? What game? Where are you playing?" States God, as he places his paintbrush down, leaving what... | Inside a large lab with sparkling white walls, a man sat in front of a computer. His finger held a small pencil he tapped over and over on the screen.
After tapping the screen a few more times, groaning impatiently once and then running a hand through his beard over and over, he got up from his seat.
"Oh, my back!" ... | 2016-03-07T07:23:50 | 2016-03-07T04:17:08 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You and your three siblings are immortal, but you haven’t seen them in almost 400 years. You live far away from civilization, so it’s a surprise when a group of soldiers arrive at your doorstep. They say you’re the only one who can kill the three warlords who are revenging the rest of the world | I sighed, setting my mug down on the wooden table, lips pursuing as I turned a page in the rather thick book I had been reading for the past week. Being immortal had its downfalls, although it did leave a surprisingly large amount of time to catch up on modern literature.
A knock on the door interrupted my peaceful r... | Sometimes I wake up, I can hardly breathe. I'm surrounded by green but my lungs are on fire.
We could always shift on this planet into much more interesting things than my cousins on Jupiter and Mars. They never really cared for the difference between 'being' the ice and 'feeling' the ice, but nothing made me feel m... | 2019-08-29T05:21:07 | 2019-08-29T04:56:02 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] The first alien ship to Earth is not for war or research. It's a cruise ship. The wealthiest aliens have paid fortunes to be the first to visit the "undisturbed" indigenous world. They are the most entitled snobs in the universe. Hospitality workers hate them, but they're willing to spend. | Golbur would have been tired of being mistreated, if his imprinted training allowed that feeling. As it was, only a general instability in his mental processes churned through his brain, distracting him slightly from his assigned task.
His body, male because the lack of reproductive facilities ensured that his makers ... | When the ship was built at a Canine Lines space dock orbiting the fourth planet of Sirius A, it shone proudly alongside the rest of its fleet. The builders would cringe at the mockery it has become. A model of efficiency had been transformed into a cautionary tale of the excesses of extravagance.
What would cause th... | 2021-12-13T09:52:12 | 2021-12-13T09:03:11 | 84 | 63 |
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