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[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | I sat in an bland white room. There was a door, a table with a chair on either end, and a black screen that must have been a one-way mirror. There were words written on the wall that said, "just talk". There was a knock at the door. I turned in my chair to face the door and said, "Umm. Come in?".
It opened slowly. I w... | The little one kept its elbows and knees close to its body. It appeared sound asleep and we reeled in the rare moment of peace.
It was correct to feel insecure. This is hell, after all. Only Satan might hazard a guess, why it did not immediately wail for a figure of protection and familiarity.
Or perhaps the answer... | 2017-05-30T18:48:28 | 2017-05-30T17:18:25 | 182 | 50 |
[WP] You have your dream job and the best boss one could ever imagine. Unfortunately they also happen to be a secret super villain. Desperate to keep your job, and keep your boss out of jail, you must work to become his top henchman while simultaneously foiling every scheme they come up with. | Andreas Krimper risked a moment to wipe the sheen off his bald head, the brisk sound of their footsteps echoing through the high ceilings of Dr. Hellstrom's volcanic base. Hellstrom was still babbling on maniacally, eyes fixed on the aqua-blue glow of the central chamber's holo-projector. Krimper quickly tucked away hi... | 2003 - 2003
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“C'mon, not again,” Tom whispered as he saw his boss return to the office wearing the red and black metallic suit. He had been so happy after being hired by the best company in New Amsterdam - only to find out his boss was the telekinetic super villain “The Terror Crackle”
Her ridiculous name asi... | 2016-11-03T05:03:17 | 2016-11-03T04:15:09 | 284 | 12 |
[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 | (I don't usually write for these so be gentle)
The day finally came. It was my turn like my brother and sister before me. They each got their powers and now have been assigned jobs that took advantage of their powers.
My brother with his super strength works in a foundry lifting heavy materials. While my sister with ... | The table morphs into a person and hastily thanks the teenager. 'the curse, the curse is finally lifted. I'm free! Holy shit I can feel my legs again. Who are you? Did you?.....
The teenagers tongue begins to feel heavy and his throat tightens up. He hunches down on all fours and begins vomiting up sawdust. His limbs o... | 2020-03-19T10:22:13 | 2020-03-19T09:21:37 | 172 | 43 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | The sweet rot had claimed this world in the name of the father. The life that had once sought to cleans the planet of disease and filth now found themselves embraced by it. Love by it as they now loved it.
The sight drove warlord Vrom mad. His god had decreed that this planet be cleansed with blood and all Nurgle's ta... | It's a little hard to describe the vast mental network of the Reapers -- a scaffolding of intertwined thoughts and programmed imparatives so complex, the term "hive mind" is laughably inadequate -- in words the human mind can process. Nonetheless, a brief translation will be attempted:
- "... well, jesus. At this poin... | 2017-08-27T09:07:24 | 2017-08-27T09:00:01 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | "... so I'm tellin' ya, the Dark Lord is a drunken coward, so no-one who might rebuke'im gets even close to his throne..."
I snorted softly into my mug of cheap mead, taking a swig before continuing, "Hell, that's probably the reason why he's still unwed, to boot. Hasn't been able to find a wife willing to go along wi... | *Kind of bad attempt*
The kid continued staring. Perhaps he was trying to feign anger, or madness, but whatever it was, it wasn’t intimidating at the slightest.
I took another swing of my drink and promptly ignored the kid, continuing to insult myself even when the other patrons didn’t answer, staring at me in horror... | 2022-01-14T15:18:51 | 2022-01-14T14:39:04 | 1,608 | 222 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | Their foe uttered their final cry as the paladin twisted their blade deep into his chest.
"Garovox the Barbarian Warlord is vanquished!"
"Finally. I was down to my last 2 arrows" murmured the rogue.
"And my mana is gone from the fire blast I hit him with." Grumbled the mage.
"But it's worth it." The Paladin smile... | Tylan could recall every insult, every comment, every joke pulled on him by those bastards. He volunteered his service to them and they threw him around like trash.
There was a time at the beginning where he wanted to repay his debt to them for saving his sister. Now it seemed more obvious that THEY were the ones who ... | 2020-01-05T15:09:30 | 2020-01-05T13:02:29 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You are a Immortal and your Wife is a Reincarnation of all Wifes that you had. Some may say it's a Tragedy that you have to see her die over and over, but at this point it's a Game between you and her to see who finds the other first. | The woman at the dock is hunched over, her figure faint under all the layers she’s wearing, seemingly unnoticeable beneath the dark sky.
In the distance, a cat mewls and a car skids against asphalt. The watch against her hand strikes midnight, but the woman merely hums, looking up from the vast waters below to gaze u... | Tw- suggested sexual scenes.
I looked up from the meeting desk to see a long man walk in. He wore a suit and carried a briefcase. I set down my pen and stood as he entered, gesturing for him to take a seat.
My secretary, Abigail, followed in after him.
“May I grab you a beverage?” Her light voice asked them.
“A tea... | 2022-02-27T14:37:05 | 2022-02-27T11:46:18 | 86 | 17 |
[WP] You're a supervillain who has done a number of questionably ethical things to keep your little sister safe. This is complicated by the fact that she is leading the rebel coalition against you. | I sat down in my chair, the feeling of the leather against my back was a relaxing one, the wind blowing the room brought comfort. I didn't deserve such comfort, not really. I tuned out all the people screaming my name, their chanting for my death, that isn't what I really cared about. Not now anyways.
My phone rang, ... |
I watched the blood trickle through my sister’s shirt. Then her hoodie started seeping red. No… this couldn’t be happening. After all I had done to keep her safe, all that I sacrificed to keep her safe. I met eyes with my little sister, mine filled with tears. Her lips moved slightly. I went in closer to hear.
“I’... | 2019-07-23T01:14:09 | 2019-07-22T23:23:47 | 112 | 20 |
[WP] After a person dies, they are brought to the moment they were born to become their own guardian angels and hopefully guide themselves towards a better life. | After a very long life I finally died at the age of 93. I found myself young and strong again, facing the gates of heaven.
"Lemme level with you for a second, mate; you don't have a chance of getting into heaven." the angel said to me. He muttered on: "However, on the order of God Almighty, who only comes to visit onc... | Oh fuck it's moms vag! Fucking gross! This is the worst part.
Hey little baby bro were your guardian angels. That's Steve 1. He was the first born so no guardian angel for him. He got hit by a truck climbing out of a man hole cover after smoking weed in the sewers.
That's Stevie. He was the second born. As you can ... | 2016-09-18T06:50:06 | 2016-09-18T04:25:13 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Jerry was erased from existence by Thanos’ snap. The grieving Tom decided to revenge for his fallen friend. | Before it had always been a game. Sure, there were threats of death and bodily harm, but no one every really thought anyone would get hurt, much less die. It was just a way to kill time on a lazy Saturday morning. So no matter how well planned, how cunning, or how simple or complex, there had always been a hole; som... |
There is a reason why we have lived this long because of the incident of one day in May 1943 we were both chasing each other this time we made a complete mess of things almost destroyed the house i was using fire poker to murder Jerry for drinking my milk again and by accident through no fault of my own the fire pok... | 2019-04-01T07:28:08 | 2019-04-01T07:00:25 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Explain it to me again. I'm not sure I comprehended the first time."
The Warhost-Master's appendages twitched in frustration.
"As you are aware, Humanity was, until now, classified as a D-class species - A species with significant technological and societal development, but lacking any spaceflight capabilities. Sev... | One by one the stars went out. Earth's scientists looked on in horror and confusion as they vanished. They hadn't burnt out, nor had they gone supernova, they just were no longer there.
It was quick, especially by astronomical speeds. After just a year, the entire southern hemisphere was without starlight and just one... | 2017-03-06T01:17:34 | 2017-03-06T00:52:02 | 161 | 62 |
[WP] A generation ago humanity faced an extinction level catastrophe. In response, the world's governments lifted all legal, moral, and ethical bans on scientific research in a desperate attempt to overcome the danger. You now live in a world dealing with the consequences of this.
Wow! Great responses everyone. I w... | In 2020 the world was rocked by the outbreak of the Jericho epidemic. In a 2 year span more than 4 billion people died as a result of the infection. Those affected by the disease often had no idea until it was too late. The disease went through several mutations while the infected progressed through a series of differe... | She was ten, still quietly working away at a math problem. That's how her parents remember Emily the day she won the lottery.
They - her parents, the only parents in the classroom - were stood beside the teacher in front of the class and she - Emily, their only child -
was at her desk.
Around Emily, the rest of t... | 2014-11-14T08:11:41 | 2014-11-14T06:41:32 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] A religion is proven true but not the one you expect how do people react? | "Gwen, calm down. He's just a kid. Sure, he's a bit lucky, but there's nothing really strange about him beyond that. Nice kid, really. Are you sure you're feeling well? Maybe the stress..." Gwen scowled and stormed out of the teacher's lounge, leaving Mrs. Hutchens alone with her coffee.
Gwen headed for the pla... | '**HAHAHAHA!!**' I laughed at first. I spent a good five minutes gasping for air while re-reading the article on BBC at work during lunchtime. Then CNN followed suit. Don't get me wrong - still hilarious, but nothing like the spasms of laughter at lunch. Not the first time that The Onion 'news' make the rounds.
'This ... | 2014-03-19T10:47:08 | 2014-03-19T10:32:32 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] "Be careful. Most of these people are much better at lying than they are at magic." | “Yeah, yeah.” I roll my eyes, striding through the assembly hall. “I’ll recognize good magic when I see it.”
Alatar was a good friend and more skilled with magic than anyone else I knew, but he always gave such dramatic and suspicious warnings. If everything he said had come true, we would never have gotten so far in ... | Herzia took a deep breath, trying to force her mind to focus on the complex spell in front of her. She just about had the shape of it in her head, but there were some wards that she couldn’t quite figure out. They were archaic, written in Olden and constructed of a far different geometry than she was accustomed to. Who... | 2020-05-02T13:09:36 | 2020-05-02T12:35:06 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] We have been wrong all along. The sun is really just the fiery eyes of a Celestial Being who hasn't blinked in a second of it's own time. Which it is currently about to do. | “Daddy, I’m bored,” says Karinda. “It’s been ages since you’ve let me play with any of your systems.”
I sigh internally and brace myself for yet another repeat of the same explanation. Pleasing a daughter who’s only six eons old is never an easy task. The last time I let her play with one of my prized systems, she mad... | "Don't look."
That's all the man can think. All around him, the crowd has frozen like sculptures in a park, their faces turned towards the darkening sun.
"Don't look."
Blood drips down cheeks. Breath comes in hitching gasps. The sky blackens and chars like ash, and crackling spreads across the heavens. The world ... | 2018-06-13T14:46:46 | 2018-06-13T10:16:14 | 58 | 14 |
[WP] many young adults claim to have seen a tv show called "teletubbies" as kids, but there is no record of such a show existing.
Shamelessly stolen from vinny vinesauce | Leo sat on the train looking out the window. He loved traveling in train. There was something romantic about it, the quite noise, the careful ruffle and the whole world passing by. He was miles from home but it looked exactly like home. The sun was shining through the trees , blinding his eyes so he turned away from th... | "There was a whole controversy about them!" Linda said. "This televangelist thought that one of them was gay because he had a - that thing on his head was a triangle! And it was like a pink triangle, except he was purple. And he, uh, he carried a man-purse."
Jared looked at her from over his phone. "Okay, that sounds... | 2016-07-01T07:11:59 | 2016-07-01T06:36:56 | 401 | 88 |
[WP] Each planet possesses a God, which created the planets. The reason aliens won't come and visit us is that our planet's God is the most dangerous one in existence. | I do not favour the names the self named humans had given me, Kronos, Osiris, Zeus, Odin, Jupiter, Allah, God, mother nature; even crazier so many claimed to be the only sons and daughters of me! They were all my children, and only mine.
Humans had something the other denizens of the universe did not, hope. Hope gave... | He, the one, the only, the almighty. Some call him God, and others, Satan. He created our world, brought it forth from the ashes of space, placed it countless miles away from every other inhabitable planet. Instead of going out and having a beer with his mates, he wreaked havoc among the countless gas giants. Shrunk Pl... | 2017-11-27T07:29:23 | 2017-11-27T03:06:22 | 201 | 33 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | Sam Bradwell choked down a cough, beads of sweat trickling down his temple. His head throbbed. He'd been a fool to come to work today, but what excuse did he have for missing it? And it had seemed so mild that morning, just a tickle in his throat and a slightly stuffed up nose. No one would notice, he'd told himself. A... | Amber pulled on her grey jumpsuit and looked around her drab grey room. Her simple bed with grey blankets sat in the corner of the room next to a small black metal desk. She sighed and left her room. It was a long walk down the concrete hallway to the reclamation chamber. She had been chosen to work in the reclama... | 2016-07-14T07:18:26 | 2016-07-14T05:42:08 | 1,788 | 145 |
[WP] You're a multi billionaire with severe god delusions. You have several small children kidnapped and leave them on an island with resources and carefully placed 'evidence' suggesting at your divinity. Ten years later, you arrive at the island...
Edit: Sweet, frontpage | My bones ache. My muscles are tense. My hair loses more colour by the day. My breathes are shorter. My heart beats a little faster. My body shrinks. Such things happen when one's body ages. But I am not my body. No, I am much more.
Over the course of my life I have run an empire. In the beginning, I used my wealth to ... | I sat back in my chair. I'd had this strange dream where I'd had several small children kidnapped and left on an island with carefully placed evidence suggesting my divinity. Then ten years later I arrived at the island. 세 살 적 버릇이 여든까지 간다 of course they thought I was a god and worshipped me.
Heh, what a strange dre... | 2015-11-27T08:05:24 | 2015-11-27T07:51:24 | 86 | 46 |
[WP] Immortality is actually quite easy to achieve, but you'd have to meet Death first. You had asked Death "Is not dying, or gaining immortality a possibility?" and to your surprise Death said yes. | I was driving home from work, and on the horizon of the road I see an eighteen-wheeler coming towards me. I desperately try to steer the car away from the massive vehicle, but I couldn’t because the sides of the bridge were too narrow. I had to make a choice, would I rather drive off the bride and drown? Or face a head... | "How is it possible?"
"We hold power to deliver dying souls to where it belongs. We can grant it the power to survive for eternity." - said Death, with a voice that echo through the air.
"How many souls have asked you for such?"
"Many."
"And what did you do to them?"
"We granted the eternal to some who deserved it... | 2018-09-15T06:18:19 | 2018-09-15T05:58:21 | 52 | 16 |
[WP] You were looting a dragon's horde when the beast returned to it's cave. You dive into a pile of trinkets and hide there until it leaves again the next day. After you make your escape you soon discover the adverse affects that long term exposure to enchanted and cursed equipment can have. | Kita listened carefully as the dragon stomped around it's cave. The booming steps made the gold coins she was buried in quiver and she hoped they wouldn't spill and expose her. Using long practiced techniques, Kita calmed her breathing, hoping to keep herself undetected.
Minutes later, the whole cavern began to rumbl... | Davi and Levi gazed at the shimmering pile of gold. It reached to the highest stalagmites and rolled to the edges of the cave. This was it, what they had been hunting for over the last few months. The pale dragon that guarded it had launched from the mountain a few hours ago giving the brothers a last guiding path to t... | 2022-01-24T23:18:44 | 2022-01-24T19:40:33 | 30 | 18 |
[WP]you did it, you got everything in an online game, then your character turns back to you and says "thanks and sorry for using you" you have created the most powerful character in an online game, except it wasnt a game and your character is now the overlord of an alternate universe | I opened the computer, and clicked on a shortcut I had not touched in two years.
I watched through the cutscene, which I had seen enough times to memorize, and once the main menu appeared again, I clicked the 'continue' button for the first time in two years. What I saw past the loading screen for a moment seemed eeri... | "Thanks and sorry for using you"
Took me a while to understand that Cerderun was taking to me. I made him an elf because of some stupid idea that elves are Celtic warrior poet type beings and that that is my ancestry so why not? Truth is elves are arrogant fucks that don't really have lilting voices, they sound like ... | 2020-01-08T04:18:33 | 2020-01-08T03:34:23 | 144 | 26 |
[WP] You topple over your balcony and die while figthing your dog for a toy. To your suprise Odin, the old norse god, greets you. Since you technically died fighting you've been resurrected at Valhalla and all the gods can't wait to hear about the great battle you died in. | The sounds of cheering and laughter penetrated into my consciousness. I felt my awareness drift upwards, then slowly opened my eyes. My rear was firmly planted in a wooden chair, and my right hand gripped a large mug carved from horn. Wherever I was reeked of beer and cedar.
My jaw dropped as I looked left and right a... | Within Valhalla all have tales of battle. Some are of mighty wars where the rivers run red and the mountains themselves cry while others are a bit less... Grand. Regardless of the specifics, to fall in battle is considered the best way to die and as such a warriors death is rewarded with a warriors afterlife. Battle, b... | 2018-04-25T03:34:10 | 2018-04-25T01:32:20 | 48 | 18 |
[WP] As the last survivor of the apocalypse, in a fit of boredom, you start commenting "last" on every video on YouTube. One day, you receive a notification that your comment has been liked.
Wow, I did *not* expect such a huge turnout for my first ever prompt. The prompt itself arose from a friend and I doing some ran... | Nothingness.
A video labeled Nothingness. It was 10 hours long. It had a black screen. Nothing played. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. No music. No movement. Nothing at all. It seemed eerily similar to the dark of the night that had engulfed my home.
There were no cars zipping by on the street below. There were no... | I scrolled rather unenthusiastically down to the comments section of the video. I typed my typical "Last" comment, which I really just did to pass the time. It had been....weeks? I didn't know. I didn't care anymore. I just wanted for this all to be over. To wake up from whatever sadistic nightmare this was.
I slipped... | 2020-02-07T12:57:54 | 2020-01-07T10:11:18 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | *Where the hell am I?* That was my first thought waking up. It reminds me of the cabin that the family and I would escape to once a year for our break from technology and city life. It's so peaceful here. I don't even remember going to sleep. Maybe I died. I had a bum lung from years of inhaling diesel smoke, but I nev... | "OK, I passed Quake and Quake 2 without using a mouse. Only a keyboard...I've been in the USSR's army for 5 years. Although as a driver/mechanic of a mobile nuke launcher but that is minor details...I've seen men GET SHOT. I've seen DEATH. I can handle THIS". Thought the man to himself as the trans-virtual vortex sucke... | 2015-05-08T02:48:23 | 2015-05-07T23:28:07 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | It was the silence that made me realize something was wrong. One month into the siege of the human city on the planet they called Sacrifice, and not a peep from them since the initial attack. Not a single cry of help from the hopelessly outgunned settlement, set for "forceful relocation" once our ground troops got he... | The arena itself was over a thousand miles square. It was the largest arena in the western Zyraxian realm. It was built to hold the universe’s most exotic species. The floating platform had within tens of thousands of rooms with thousands of species managed and researched. The floor of the arena itself was made of a sp... | 2021-02-04T09:54:55 | 2021-02-04T08:53:25 | 1,105 | 406 |
[WP] Alien travelers stopped at Earth to refuel and consult humans in exchange. An allien consulting an astronomer finds a picture of a black hole on her computer. "Oh, you also scare your children with this tale haha". "No, it's a recent photo" she replies. Alien is visibly freaking out. | The beings disembarked their ship. Not slowly or with lots of lights, there was little fanfare. It was obvious they had somewhere to be.
“The transgalactic courier federation thanks you immensely for your generosity. We have stores of tritium to use as payment.”
The group of international scientists couldn’t contai... | "Its what....?!", the alien asked, pronouncing every word slowly, to prevent misunderstandings.
"Well, it got taken recently. And we also have more of them, if youre interested", she replied friendly. The alien on the other hand seemed, like their soul left their body.
"Giv- give me a minute. I have to t-talk to some... | 2021-12-24T06:57:35 | 2021-12-24T03:56:20 | 733 | 243 |
[WP] In the canine world, humans are celestial beings who live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you and the past seven generations of your family will die soon. | We are the ones who guard the gods. We are the stewards of their shrine, the gatekeepers of their temple. My family have served them for generations, and been blessed in return for their service. I am the last of our line, the youngest. The gods picked me from my brothers and sisters and elevated me to the priesthood. ... | "But are you sure the Master will be ok?"
My pack sister stared at me, nervous and frightened. It had been three days since the Master had left our home, leaving inside the humans metal beast that ran faster than any bird could fly. It was known by all dogs that humans could live for many generations, sometimes for ... | 2016-11-21T23:04:32 | 2016-11-21T21:12:30 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | "Gooooood Morning!!!"
"Oh, fuck off Jennifer." After a year of this, I'm at the end of my nerves.
Jennifer scoffs and scurries out of the room. I broke up with her six months ago, not that anyone remembers. My day just keeps starting over. Like a song stuck on repeat until it makes you so sick of it you prefer sile... | The words uttered from her lips. My body froze, my mind trying to process what I heard. "What did you say?"
"You too? You're living the same day over and over?" Her voice concerned, but seeming to lighten. Her face, a mix of panic and happiness.
How could this be? How did I not notice her? Why are there two of us? Ho... | 2017-07-15T08:30:00 | 2017-07-15T08:09:10 | 1,207 | 47 |
[WP] You wake up one day and find yourself in a strange room. Soon, you found out that you are now an SCP and are being contained by the SCP Facility. | (What the?)
**My eyes snapped open. Too quickly though as the light in the room policed them into a squint. My back hurt. Did I fall asleep on the floor? No, I'm on a bench......wait, since when did we get a bench.ql I began to sit up only for a voice to make my heart jump.**
???: "If you're going to sit up, do it ve... | I'm not entirely sure if this is a dream, it doesn't exactly feel like reality either. While it's not the most thrilling of scenarios, I can't imagine I wandered into this place in some kind of fugue state that I'm just now snapping out of. Has to be a dream.
"Mr. Allan, do you know who we are?"
A voice, but not... | 2022-02-23T22:34:35 | 2022-02-23T16:54:30 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] In a world where people are starting to gain super powers, the most hated groups aren't those with death rays, super intelligence, or world ending powers. It is those who can read mind. As someone who can read minds you are forced to hide among the non powered populace. | My heart thrummed as I took the green pin off of my lapel and dropped it in the trash can. I drizzled gasoline on it and set it alight. The entire can was engulfed in searing hot, red flames. I dropped the bottle in. The air was filled with the smell of burning plastic.
I took a blue pin out of my backpack and fasten... | She was running. The dark environment was giving her the chills. She felt tired, but couldn´t stop running, unless she wanted a painful end. She knew one of them had super speed, because his thoughts were inclining towards that power "Stupid girl, she doesn´t know my full speed yet!", he thought. They weren´t very s... | 2019-12-23T07:07:25 | 2019-12-23T06:41:34 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] "You have my bow" - said the elvish warrior, producing his weapon "And my axe" - added the dwarven envoy removing it from his backstraps, "And my AK-47" - said the human procuring a weapon most peculiar | Later, when pressed fervently, he would remark his strange mask was a balaklava, a word without meaning or merit in any of the cultures of Man. Indeed he seemed a man, yet utterly bizarre to all such folk from elvish stock of all origins to their Isle to the West, from the plainfolk of Bree to the Shire, to the old Dun... | "And my AK-47." I produced from my pocket what I had left of the half ounce I copped from Brian a couple hours ago. "...how will this help, exactly?" Replied this ridiculously tall, pale white man with a bow. I didn't know how to reply, I thought these cosplayers were just messing with me after smelling the dank leakin... | 2019-07-01T00:29:18 | 2019-06-30T21:12:09 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] You are a young adult with one of the strongest superpowers your world has ever seen, heroes and villains come to you everyday to try and sway you to their side. You don't care about fighting, you just want to go to Dental School. | "Have you seen what a mouth full of decayed teeth looks like?"
Sledgehammer rolled her eyes. Our afternoon hanging out in my apartment off campus had devolved into the usual argument.
I pulled out my phone and did an image search. "See this?" I waved the screen in her face. "All of those jagged edges, and that nasty ... | It's a little after seven in the morning when the sounds of a squabble dredge me from my slumber. I sigh and roll out of bed; I need coffee before I can deal with this again.
Strong coffee.
As I trudge across my dorm room I hear the squabble escalate as voices raise, punches are thrown and finally what sounds like a... | 2017-06-13T17:05:46 | 2017-06-13T16:50:17 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | I guess you could call it my chamber of solitude. Thousands of archives and artifacts are devoted to simple pleasures, quiet and violent romances, and grand adventures to resurrect dying worlds. You haven't lived until you've saved ten solar systems by having sex with a squid-like empress who commands the star crusher.... | They neve knew how it would be, how could they? I was the only one who had the courage, after all I didn't have anything to live for, now I know everything my civilization knew, I saw kingdoms burn, i saw everything a human could've seen and finally it clicked, all that sadness, boredom had no meaning, I was thinking a... | 2020-10-25T10:37:57 | 2020-10-25T10:02:18 | 208 | 49 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "What on earth....?!?!?" I cried, hands trying to cover my body. All I had on were my bra and underwear, and the room I suddenly found myself in was quite chilly.
"Demon! I have summoned you to do my bidding!"
My eyes turned to a large, red, scaled creature to the left of me. He stood outside of the pentagram I was k... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T10:46:12 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] You have a superpower. Every time someone tells you to do something, you can say 'no u' & that person will make it their life's mission to accomplish the task. One day, you & your 8-year old nephew are talking & he says, "I hope you make the world a better place." You smilingly reply, "no u." | In all the comics I'd read, there were a few semi-useless superpowers. Most heroes have an origin story. I'm not even sure what mine would be. I don't think I was born this way or I'd of wreaked havoc as a kid. None of my research ever led me to any answers. Not that it was research, per say. It was mostly collecting c... | Before he finished speaking a leash sprang from his hand and wrapped around my neck. I gasp. It burns, burns with incredible rage, burns with a passion that did not fade away. I try taking it off but it won't budge. I don't think he sees it. He doesn't see it. He sees me pulling at my neck and laughs. "What, are you ge... | 2019-01-26T16:36:17 | 2019-01-26T11:08:30 | 486 | 160 |
[WP] You are sent 1000 years into the past with the entire library of wikipedia downloaded onto a tablet device. After only 1 year, you are renowned as a wise man and prophet. | As the noose slides over my neck, I think of how much time I wasted.
I wasted 2 months trying to invent the printing press. No luck.
1 month on gunpowder. No luck.
2 months improving medical care. No luck.
4 utterly desperate months trying anything and everything: pasta, ice cream, arabic numerals, the scientifi... | LOG ENTRY: DAY 0
    Many adulations are to be expressed about the amazing things the United States can accomplish when it puts its fifty six-sided mind on something incredible. There is, however, still something to be said about hubris.
    My n... | 2015-06-23T20:01:24 | 2015-06-23T17:20:18 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] When humans arrived to the galactic scene, they thought wars would play out way differently. Instead of bloodshed, there were intergalactic video game tournaments fighting for territory. Most aliens thought humans were newbies to this but when the first war was played, they changed their minds. | *Click*, the rifle went, yelling at it's wielder to put in a new magazine. Akoi skillfully pressed the release lever, threw the empty mag on the ground, and slammed in a new one, pulling the charging handle as he brought it back up into his grip. The sound of a blade meeting flesh filled the air, and the alien crumpled... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/starcraft] [A writing prompt that i thought i would share here, enjoy!](https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/8c3rfa/a_writing_prompt_that_i_thought_i_would_share/)
 *^(If you follow any of the above link... | 2018-04-13T20:31:45 | 2018-04-13T16:59:36 | 77 | 41 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | # Connection
I smiled at him. And then I winked.
“You know I’m about kill you, right?” he said slowly, trying to seem menacing.
“Cool. How about strangulation? It’s pretty visceral for you feeling the life go out of my body, and it’ll be a new and final experience for me. Win–Win”, I replied.
He looked at me, p... | Some people call me Hannibal,
I'm a mothafuckin cannibal,
As for you, you're Hannah Montanable,
Don't you know you're talking to an animal?
I'm gonna cut you like an antelope,
Split your head in like a cantaloupe,
You're just nodding, smiling, catatonic,
Not even listening, bitch are you on chronic?
Can you rea... | 2015-04-29T09:50:37 | 2015-04-29T08:28:18 | 72 | 18 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | “OK! Everyone, your attention.” The teacher shouted as she entered the class. “We have a new student joining us today. I would like you all to give a warm welcome to Jacob.”
There was a student standing behind her, his presence was weak, almost imperceptible. She continued, “Jacob, why don't you introduce yourself.”
... | Melissa Odinson strided through the halls as if her four foot four statute was the tallest in the school. The other students stepped aside if for no reason that admiration of the mundane human's confidence.
"Melissa, wait!" Jennifer Knight caught up to her breathing heavily as she strided next to her, "Why do you have... | 2022-11-02T14:52:39 | 2022-11-02T14:18:58 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Bloggs knew he wasn't exactly book-smart, but he'd been around the villain scene in Bayview City for longer than most villains. He'd henched and minioned for more villains than most (the difference between one and the other was in the dental plan), and once even had a brief stint as a sidekick for a particularly shady ... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:20:22 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] As an immortal, you stopped celebrating your birthday centuries or millennia ago. Your young daughter wants to throw you a birthday party and your newest wife (who knows you're immortal) loves the idea. The only problem is, you have no idea how old you are or when your birthday is. | Something funny happened today....
For the first time in a very long time, my wife told me that our daughter wanted to throw me a birthday party. She's still so young but her personality makes me feel a warmth i thought I'd forgotten. I haven't celebrated my birthday since....you know i can't even remember when was th... | Though the barrage of time leaves my body untouched, the mind is not infinite. I may not remember everything, but I'll always remember that.
Guinevere, my darling wife. We first met on the beaches of Sicily. Her soul truly connected with mine and for the first time in a millennium, I felt alive again. Three years lat... | 2019-09-08T11:32:03 | 2019-09-08T11:12:51 | 233 | 137 |
[WP] When humans arrived to the galactic scene, they thought wars would play out way differently. Instead of bloodshed, there were intergalactic video game tournaments fighting for territory. Most aliens thought humans were newbies to this but when the first war was played, they changed their minds. | *Click*, the rifle went, yelling at it's wielder to put in a new magazine. Akoi skillfully pressed the release lever, threw the empty mag on the ground, and slammed in a new one, pulling the charging handle as he brought it back up into his grip. The sound of a blade meeting flesh filled the air, and the alien crumpled... | Stardate 4832 : Earth Date 2006
What is a 'Youtube...Guild Wars?' what is this...?
Stardate 4842 : Earth Date 2011
'Star Wars: Old Republic? The humans already have space craft?
Stardate 4847 : Earth Date 2016
'Today the earthlings have, without their planet knowing, defeated the most formidable strategists in thi... | 2018-04-13T20:31:45 | 2018-04-13T18:30:17 | 77 | 35 |
[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. | Another day, another struggle to adjust to this new world thrust upon us.
I wake up and go through my morning routine. I’ve got class in an hour and a half. While brushing my teeth, I look at my four-leaf clover tattoo on my wrist; I thank God every day that I have this thing. It is undoubtedly the only reason I’m st... | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | 2019-05-07T07:58:02 | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 1,719 | 43 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | "Don't go, g'g'gramma!" The seven-year-old flung himself onto the bedclothes, hugging Bellajoan tightly. "Want you to read stories!"
She smiled tiredly as she patted him on the head. Everything tired her now. She couldn't get out of bed without help, and even raising her voice left her out of breath. "There, there, Al... | Caroline looked around her. Her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were all gathered around the foot of her bed. They knew she was entering her last days, but she had not officially chosen her heir.
“Mum, who do you want to take your place?” Alice, her oldest child, asked.
Caroline had been thinking abo... | 2020-04-21T08:24:20 | 2020-04-21T08:11:43 | 502 | 236 |
[WP] Humans are the only sapient species to naturally evolve. All of the other races had a " Caretaker " race that guided their evolution. Naturally, the aliens are horrified, thinking that our " Caretaker " race abandoned us. | "Alright, so this publication from your 'Ministry of Interstellar Affairs' claims that the human species has not had a 'benefactor' species at any point in its history. The Most Esteemed would like to know how much truth is behind that, chairman Van Beketov. As would the rest of the galactic community."
Diplomats. The... | "Well, billions of years ago we all evolved from bacteria, or something. I don't know. High school was a long time ago."
"High school..? Is that where your Caretakers raised you?"
"No, well, we just call them 'teachers' here. And they just taught us the usual stuff - you know, science, biology, geography, that sort o... | 2016-07-28T14:06:32 | 2016-07-28T13:25:18 | 66 | 49 |
[WP] In the future Earth is fighting a desperate war against aliens. With no other option, we start to use heavy genetic engineering, effectively making most humans like nightmare monsters. After victory, the unaltered refugees on a secluded planet do not recognize us for humans anymore. | Heroes, we called ourselves, when we had won the war. I looked at my brothers and sisters in the cabin of the craft that would take us to our families again. There were no words; the pensive silence of our voices outweighed the hum of the craft as we ascended. Everyone remained in armour; worn-out colours of the flags ... | [Strayed a bit, my bad. Hopefully it's still good.]
Beast. Monster. Demon. All these names and more are attributed to those who saved us. No one knows the truth, and, even if it's better that way, I must change that.
Today, I break the silence. I was a leading scientist in the Exgenesis Project. We were working with ... | 2016-06-04T07:53:07 | 2016-06-04T05:26:23 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] Death is going through his list of people to collect for the day when he notices God is on the list. He is understandably confused. | *You've come.*
Hᴏᴡ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ I ɴᴏᴛ?
*Good. It's time. Let us go.*
Mᴀʏ I ᴀsᴋ ᴀ ǫᴜᴇsᴛɪᴏɴ ғɪʀsᴛ?
*Of course.*
Wʜʏ?
*Because I'm tired, Mort. I have existed since the beginning of all things. I brought the universe into being simply to relieve My own boredom, and it worked. It worked for a very long time. But eventu... | Death threw himself back laughing
"...and then my boy, he... he tried to bribe me WITH HIS WATCH! Completely unaware of the irony of trying to buy more time with time!"
Joe shifted uncomfortably in his step. His mind drifted to the coffee that had finished brewing in the other room while his brain couldn't quite make... | 2015-02-01T06:20:49 | 2015-02-01T06:12:17 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | *Whoosh. Swish. Click. Pause.*
The laundromat played it's age-old melody. It was essentially therapy after so many years. Ellie took off her glasses and rested her head on the wall behind her bench.
*Whoosh. Swish. Click. Pause. Brr.*
She imagined she was actually on a plane, descending on some tropical isle and not... | Hi, I says, how do take care of that fur coat. I was just the right kind of coked out, active, fearless, but still coherent. Ideal for a night of household chores, followed Russian hardbass at the pivo z champanski, followed by the hours long, mindless fucking of strangers, followed by the afternoon special at Kolya's... | 2020-09-29T12:43:39 | 2020-09-29T09:22:24 | 22 | 13 |
[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 have never understood how no one has done what I have. It's simple and direct. Plan and execution. Yet somehow countless people before me have failed.
I've taken over the world... more or less. Still a few groups refusing to accept my rule.
Looking back it all started when I walked upon a street brawl.
\---
It w... | The fire crackled and popped, illuminating the entrance of my lair. They broke in all at once. Half a dozen heroes, none of which it seemed knowing how to use the door, might I add, stood before me.
“It’s over Mania, the jig is up,” their leader, Captain Heronius stated.
I could care less. If they want to invade and ... | 2019-08-06T20:42:43 | 2019-08-06T16:11:22 | 121 | 41 |
[WP] You are a supervillain named The Keymaster. Instead of creating grand plans to conquer the world, all you do is run around and free other captured supervillains from prison, after the superheroes defeat them.
Edit: Thanks for the frontpage! | "This damp prison cell is hardly a match for the Amazing Contortor!", a man in an ill fitting suit shouted, his cries falling on empty cells or apathetic ears. He had decided on an...unconventional name. Why did the heroes get a monopoly on the word 'Amazing'? Combined with his di understanding of suffixes, the "amazin... | This world is small, fighting is futile, goals are pointless, we are meant to progress through evolution, till our planet's resources deplete, and we die. Some desire chaos, to become the king, the owner of this small, innocent planet. Some desire protection, to be the defenders of this small, innocent planet.
Why, wh... | 2017-03-11T18:57:10 | 2017-03-11T18:05:50 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] You're a supervillain -- but you can't do crime every day, it's exhausting. You've got to have some normal days too. On one such occasion, while out running errands, you encounter the alter-ego of your nemesis, the hero... apparently also just trying to have a normal day. | It was pretty awkward. I was grabbing some coffee for my co-workers back at the office. And Super Ice, the hero who always tried to stop me...was ordering a Caramel Frappuccino in front of me in the line. He turned around, coffee in hand, and grinned at me. At first, I was confused, and then I realized I had always wor... | \#1 public enemy, my face known worldwide,
However even my enemies cannot really hide.
The one thing we have is our alter egos
To mask all the stares and “there he goes!”
Being the bad guy really takes its toll.
The cops, the Feds, even Interpol.
Everyone expects you to be committing crimes
But even I must run e... | 2018-08-07T11:51:31 | 2018-08-07T11:03:05 | 75 | 27 |
[WP] You are a bear in the circus addicted to tranquilizer darts. | There are few things that illustrate mankind's bottomless cruelty more eloquently than the circus grizzly bear. Mother Nature's largest, most magnificent terrestrial predator, reduced to a stumbling dancer, a shaggy brown spectacle for seven-year-olds, their pig-nosed faces sticky with cotton candy and snot, to gawk a... | "Stand on your two feet!"
*Yeah… if only it was that easy,* Griz thought, pulling himself up on his hind legs. The spotlight blinded him in
white, hot light. All around, the cheering and clapping was like rain, or television static.
"Play dead!"
*Been doing that for a while.*
He threw himself to the ground and rol... | 2016-01-24T20:55:01 | 2016-01-24T19:33:47 | 86 | 15 |
[WP] Your hand rests on the door to the apartment you share with your fiancé. You absolutely know tonight is going to be bad. You know she is one of the world's elite superheroes and she knows you are the world's greatest super villain. Both of your secrets held till just an hour ago. | *Fucking fairies, this cannot end well.*
I knew that before, but it only registered from the moment I got to the door. Her magic was lashing around in anger though thankfully this was not noticeable unless you were sensitive to the arcane. Like me. As I cringed at the erratic and wrathful movement of her energies I fe... | My thoughts flood through my mind. A contrast to what my powers grant me. I am a man who does not feel emotions. Unless I am around her. Apathy does not seem like the greatest ability, but I am able to avoid most consequences of my actions. Emotionally wise.
I place my hand on the doorknob, and my mind feels opened. A... | 2021-11-09T03:21:31 | 2021-11-08T23:23:00 | 75 | 37 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | Ultraman listened with a slight smile as Über Destructo Gigadeath ranted about his last evil scheme that would see all ice cream flavours turn to licorice.
It was, to be fair, one of the eviler schemes the young man had come up with.
Licorice. Brr.
Anyway, Destructo was perhaps the most harmless of villains in Centr... | My eyes widened as I read the report. I silently read to myself “The face-off only lasted a couple seconds, and the winner was immediately clear.” I quickly skipped through parts of the report and read the end. “The only remaining part of him was his tooth after a deadly blow.”
I immediately started to fear the new v... | 2022-10-13T20:53:30 | 2022-10-13T16:54:50 | 167 | 60 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Sweat decorated my face, my hands twitched, my personal signs of panic. I gripped my phone on one hand and on the other my bed sheets. A deafening silence filled my bed room.
"What the fuck?" I murmured to myself. I rose up to a sitting position, used the now dirty bed sheet to clean my face. "Sarah?" I called out to... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2022-09-27T16:50:27 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | 'Two Screaming Morries for me and my buddy here.'
Mike listened to his Unitrans, then nodded gravely and turned around, opening the tap that contained agonised souls from Moran-5, quickly cutting off the screams by putting a sound-damper lid on the glass.
'You'll never guess where I just got back from.'
Mike finishe... | "What's so funny?" the first alien asked, as the second was stifling laughter,
"Nothing much" it replied through its noise of enjoyment,
"But, ya'heard 'bout this new planet in the union?... What's it called, soil, mud, sumthin' like that".
"Dirt, you mean?" the other added,
"Aye, Dirt, the best name for a... | 2017-09-06T09:39:00 | 2017-09-06T08:02:06 | 314 | 60 |
[WP] A wizard tutor realizes that, for some odd reason, his client is a prodigy who’s purposefully been hiding their abilities all these years. | Samuel stared at his student. After discovering his true abilities, he had done some research on him.
For one, he was a bit isolated. He barely left his room and avoided any social contact. He never went to class either. Samuel couldn't think of a single reason someone so talented would hide their abilities when they ... | “That’s very good work boy; excellent attempt of the incantation, but try sounding out the word before you start… okay?” Ingress picked the last mangled green leg from her curled hair, flicking it to the floor.
The sorceress regarded her student with malice as the small boy reached for their last toad, setting it care... | 2021-07-07T17:36:27 | 2021-07-07T17:36:20 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] The Princess was told that kissing a frog with True Love's kiss would bring her the love of her life. When the frog turned into a young woman and not a prince, there was some confusion. | Lighting a candle alone in the woods would look like witchcraft. And probably … maybe … was witchcraft. But the princess was just so sick of being alone. She was sick of rejecting every suitor for this reason or that. She was sick of her father’s questions about who would be the perfect man for her – she didn’t know! S... | She’d had certain expectations, the princess would readily admit. Doubts that a transformation would occur at all had been chief among them, for who could truly trust in the magic of the forest, untamed and unknown? She’d been raised on cautionary tales of child-eating witches and prowling beasts that absconded with ... | 2022-04-16T09:48:19 | 2022-04-16T08:55:44 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] You are the young Father of a beautiful baby child and a loving wife. One day, you go out to buy cigarettes, return immediately, but 20 years have inexplicably passed.
Or Mother. I'll extend the title of "shitty parent" to women too, for equality's sake. | "Who the fuck are you?"
I had been putting down a few groceries on the table, just gas station fare, nothing special. A pack of gum and magazine for my wife, a bag of chips, and a little bottle of chocolate milk for the kiddo. I had just finished un-bagging everything when the deep male voice addressed me.
I turned ... | "Honey, I'm home" I called out. "And I brought diapers!" I added knowing full well she disproved of my addiction to cigarettes. I walked to the kitchen, reading an article in the News on the sex life of conjoined twins.
*The short answer is that we don't know. Conjoined twins, like the rest of us, tend not to talk in ... | 2015-11-05T18:33:32 | 2015-11-05T10:58:40 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | “You mean I can do anything I want?”
“Anything”
“What’s the catch?”
“There is no catch, just a way for you humans to fulfil all their earthly desires before fully passing on to the other side”
Interesting. I didn’t have much regrets in life, I had lived a good one, probably a little above average but nothing as br... | "Happy 80th birthday to us, Mr. Gloves!" I whispered to his ears as I slowly lulled him in my thin and wrinkled arms. Mr. Gloves is my twin cat, being born on the same day I was eight decades ago, which is essentially today. Little is known why and how cats always seem to have a *twin* human, and why they also pass awa... | 2020-07-20T03:18:26 | 2020-07-20T02:51:13 | 184 | 127 |
[WP] You are the test subject for an experimental surgery to see wavelengths of light that humans normally cannot see. As you adjust to your new vision, you see one person in the corner furiously taking notes. "Who is that?" you ask. "Who is what?" asks the doctor, looking at the empty corner. | "Describe what you see, fifty-six," the doctor said, "are you experiencing any vibrant reds, blues, or greens in your vision?"
"No, nothing like that," fifty-six said, shaking her head, "Hannah is fine."
The doctor eyed the corner she stared at and put an X down next to his infrared box.
"When we came in you told me... | "Who is what?" asks the doctor, looking at the empty corner.
I blink a few times but the figure remains in place, occasionally looking up at me, only to squint and continue writing. They seem to be a totally normal person but their clothing strikes me as odd for the lab, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt. As I continue... | 2022-01-16T16:21:29 | 2022-01-16T15:54:16 | 1,972 | 111 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | "I call forth witnesses," said the prosecutor.
Jack sat in the booth, awaiting the executioner's axe. He had shone bright as humanity's savior before a meteoric descent into the monstrous. And now, in a trial live-broadcasted across the globe, earth's finest and lowest were having a blast condemning him to the choppin... | "All rise!"
The wooden walls of the Palace of Justice did little to stop the chilly winds of Nuremberg. I had always been too sensitive to the cold.
The judge walked up to his chair and sat down, looking down on me. I didn't need him to speak, but he did nonetheless.
"This court finds the defendant guilty of the 12 ... | 2022-01-17T13:17:35 | 2022-01-17T12:33:53 | 276 | 108 |
[WP] You are the god of Nothing. Mercy on the fools who underestimate the title. | In between all things, there is nothing.
Nothing surrounds. It encompasses. It suffocates.
I suppose I admire my brethren in their efforts to fashion something from nothing. The effort does not upset me. I enjoy seeing them fritter about. Squabbling from their very inception, finding their meaning only in the battl... | [Poem]
God of Nothing
They call me the God of Nothing,
A title I know, full-well
Is meant to endear
To lessen their fear
Of my dragging them straight to hell
They call me the god of nothing.
A name that’s decidedly bland.
“No power at all,
No one to heed his call”
They say, all across the land.
They cal... | 2020-12-24T12:29:05 | 2020-12-24T12:08:29 | 93 | 59 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | The figure in darkness glared at his computer monitor, honestly ready to smash it like he has the first few dozen. But he knew it wouldn’t change what he was seeing, and that infuriated him. “Damn so called heroes…” Shade spat.
Upon the monitor he wanted to smash was another news report, one about a recent bombing. N... | "you search for me?" the hero said in a teary voice
"ofcourse I do,who'd tell me off,chase me across the city and beat some sense into me whenever I do my villain antics?"the villain asked stretching their hand
The hero stared at it tears falling down
"but why?!,I tried to kill you once and I even spoil many of your ... | 2021-12-28T22:07:34 | 2021-12-28T20:22:29 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] The hero is dead, the villain has won. But rather than gloat or make demands from the cowering populace, they reveal how they've actually saved the world. From the Hero. | "You... killed him!?"
Despite the mask the sidekick's face showed horrid astonishment.
"That is correct," I reply tiredly while pushing myself up from the ground. "I murdered him with a common butter knife. Of course, it required him to accept a basic reality shift that was anything but common or easy to arrange."
... | Standing under the hot Alabama sun, Mircella could feel her collar start to wilt. She had a suspicion that her greying bob was a bit of a mess. The heat was never like this back in England. She missed the freezing shores and the bleak, identical countryside. She missed the fact that it never stopped raining. She didn't... | 2019-08-12T11:50:03 | 2019-08-12T11:26:27 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | George couldn't understand it. His mom was overjoyed about his father's father ranking, and how abruptly it jumped, and how much higher it jumped. When everyone found out about the mugs, some people bragged, others hid their mugs. His father woke up late on the day of the change, so he didn't have a chance to do anythi... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T09:05:21 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 77 | 31 |
[WP] You're a mage that was a programmer in his previous life. You tried to revolutionize magic by making it programmable, but instead you accidently created magical "viruses". Now you're a famous traveler known to be the only one capable of fixing what people can only call "curses." | So much of it could be automated. At least, that's what I had thought.
My knees ached as I bent over, magical chalk in hand, to draw the sigil. It would take an entire afternoon to complete, and for what? A few measly coins.
Then, a thought struck my mind. With bated breath I stopped my artistry and focused on the ... | The magical man Todd Howard.
The arcane order of the greatest Devs had assembled the MagicSoft Company creator of Y Box the greatest magic manipulation device of its time had contracted Todd and his team 7 and 1/2 billion gold to make magical software. The SkyEdge game they had uploaded on the kingdom wasn’t perfect ... | 2022-01-21T12:34:41 | 2022-01-21T12:33:43 | 244 | 15 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 432 | 236 |
[WP] You are a captured spy. Write a letter from prison where putting the first words of every sentence together reveals something beyond the apparent message.
Just a thought I had on the bus. | We're about to be placed into confinement (me and another American soldier named Guy). No public mail or communications channel will be provided to us, and they will be watching. Strangers, whom I might bribe, may be able to pass secret messages and communications. To communicate, we must be very careful, and may resor... | Be home in about five to ten years. Sure, it was a risk to go in alone against that fucking madman. To be fair, I am pretty damn efficient. Drink all night and you'll believe you can do anything. Your job is gonna get immensely harder in the coming years, but hey you know what's weird? Ovaltine is like the only drink t... | 2014-01-20T16:22:29 | 2014-01-20T15:46:57 | 266 | 41 |
[WP] You're a supervillian. Your power? Making anybody and everybody nearby feel the same emotion you feel except 100x stronger. Mostly you've been using it to force people to donate absolutely all their life's savings into charities. Superheros aren't quite sure how to deal with you. | “You’re definitely getting better at portraying your emotions. What are you doing to get better at crying on stage?”
I thought back to my first encounter with my... quirk. I had just gotten off of a 10 hour shift at work. Stressed as all hell, someone shoulder checked me walking down the street. I’ll admit, after the ... | I had done nothing wrong. I mean sure, some of these charities were merely fronts for slipping the money into my own back pocket, but *most* of them were legitimate! All I wanted was for humanity to reach its highest peaks, and we could only do that by working together!
"I've found you at last!" A cold strong voi... | 2018-12-17T13:43:40 | 2018-12-17T12:58:16 | 797 | 280 |
[WP] It is the year 4058. Humans have been forced out of Earth thanks to pollution almost 2000 years ago, and now live in Mars after a colonization. You and your crew are just sitting in the office one day and you randomly get a message that reads: “H.E.L.L.O”. The source? Earth. | I might just be the laziest person on Mars. If not the laziest person, then I at least have the laziest job. I come to work and do nothing, all day every day, and the Martian Government pays me to do it. A good friend of my parents somehow found the loophole of a job and "worked" here most of his life. When he was read... | "Hey, Joe. Are you sleeping?"
I quickly sprung upright in my seat, "Woah. No. That's not good," I said quickly while quickly hiding and wiping drool of my face. I could sense Clara looking at me over my shoulder, but I was pretty quick and my response drew her attention away.
"What happened?" Clara asked, moving clo... | 2019-05-07T03:27:33 | 2019-05-07T00:22:39 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Throughout your childhood you are made fun of for "making up your own language", till Earth is contacted by another race and you are the only one that understands them. | The countless doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, and even priests all said I was “just being a kid” or “making it up.” My parents believed me to an extent, but eventually they believed I was lying. I couldn’t explain it – that was the main issue. I tried explaining it as a language, which, looking back... | *I can understand them, Sir.*
Understand who?
*The aliens, Sir. They speak the language I created as a child.*
Really?! I must say, that's amazing! What do they want of us?
*They told me that want a binkie and Happy Meal.*
I see.
Men, you heard him.
Get a straightjacket and lock this fruitcake up. I don't hav... | 2015-04-18T14:00:52 | 2015-04-18T13:43:55 | 99 | 35 |
[WP] You’re an immortal 30-year-old-looking serial killer who was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. After 100 years people started asking questions, but now it’s been 400 years and you’re starting to outlast the prison itself. | "Uh, neat. Uncle Iroh would be proud of me"
That's your first thought when looking at your chiselled body through the reflection in the glass shard deeply impaled in that strange human-like thing's neck.
"Been a while since the raiders came to say hi.
Keep the children safe Matisse - you say, while looking at the pi... | A pebble bounces from the ridge of his nose as he looks up to inspect the damage to the castle infrastructure.
“Won’t be long, now.” He muses as he waits for the prison guards to arrive. They come bearing paperwork, and lots of it. Some 400 odd years down, a mere 600 to go- and the same damn paperwork every year. “N... | 2020-08-17T02:06:05 | 2020-08-17T01:11:41 | 68 | 16 |
[WP] Ever since you opened this bar, you still don't know why supernatural races, deities, royalty, and/or extraterrestrials keep frequenting the place. You just serve drinks and lend an ear to listen. | Brianna checked it was the water tap before she filled her own glass. The last time she had dared to get even a little tipsy to try and drown the memories, she had woken up with a robotic arm and the ability to understand the language of the gods.
The bar had started out normal. It was the only good one for miles arou... | Achilles shrieked as Zeus shattered his wrist with a firm grip, then drove their fists through the old table. The guy had apparently been falling to pieces ever since his adventuring days were brought to an end by an arrow to the heel. We’ve all fallen on hard times, but challenging the god of gods to an arm-wrestling ... | 2021-02-22T06:47:44 | 2021-02-22T06:46:48 | 49 | 31 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | "Contact in 3...2...1...grounded."
Mirai felt the deck push against him through his magboots. He was already suited up and ready to disembark. Mist began to form as warmer air flooded into the airlock. His eyes flickered across the script from his helmet HUD: mostly green but with a few orange lines of warning. *Nothi... | John was, just resigned to his life these days.
He was bundled up in two massively overs sized brown jackets that hid him from top to toe. He was following his what he guesses would be his friend now Jozu as they walked through a massive bazaar market on some trash junk world in god only knows what part if the galaxy... | 2020-03-05T23:04:25 | 2020-03-05T22:06:05 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] At 35, you are part of a time travel experiment that sends you 10 years into the past and back again. A malfunction sends you back 15 years instead. With no money, identity, place to stay or means of return for 5 years, you reluctantly knock on the dorm room door of your 20 year old self... | Just a blink of an eye took me from a lab with 40 people observing me to a middle of an empty lot. That was my first clue that maybe it didn’t go as expected. I should be in the same lab that I have been working in the last 12 years. It looks like the same area but not the right time. The park that my office overlooked... | My name is Joseph and I am 15 years in the past. I knocked on my old dorm door and Joseph, who is also myself, answered.
"Hello Joseph," said Joseph.
"Who are you bro?" asked Joseph, he had a blunt in one hand and a Coors Light in the other.
"Hey dude I'm you from the future can I have some of your weed?"
"Okay," said... | 2015-06-06T19:18:07 | 2015-06-06T18:39:25 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] You’re a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but… it’s been a month and no one’s come to save them. | Dragons, by their very existence, were the kind of entities for whom awe and terror seemed intrinsically mixed. Wyverns were all well and good, but they were small, barely larger than a house. Wyrms? The flightless lizards could barely lift their heads to gaze upon the glory of a fully grown Drakon. The others were ani... | Soveliss walked calmly down the halls in his human form. In his hands is a tray of bread and a bowl with honeycomb in it.
He gently knocked upon the door of the princess's room, "Princess Elizabeth? Are you awake yet?"
He patiently waited as he heard her walk to the door and slowly open it, "Yes, I am up." He looked... | 2022-11-24T15:04:35 | 2022-11-24T13:59:56 | 180 | 31 |
[WP] Is the year 2090 and everyone carries an ear device that instantly translates any language. You married an amazing foreign woman & decide to learn her mother tongue as an act of love, then discover you didn't fall in love with her personality, but with the ear device get-along editing feature. | Luis let out a long sigh as he tapped his fingers on the kitchen table. He shouted something from across the house—there was a pause, and then a soft, soothing voice: “where’s dinner, honey?”
“Coming right up!” I declared, opening the oven door as a wave of heat and rosemary enveloped me. With my oven gloved hands ... | The beginning was like a Jane Austin novel. There were glances, there was conversation glittering with promises that went beyond the lips. We were in love, and when we discussed marriage it was as clear as day.
They call it the seven year itch, or at least they used to. Now it's more like the seven month itch. His wo... | 2017-03-14T10:31:01 | 2017-03-14T08:16:57 | 967 | 120 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | "Put on the suit."
"You're kidding me, right?" I said as I looked at the business card God had just handed me. His face hadn't changed from the moment I told him I had killed the Devil to the moment he had walked me through every layer of Hell there was. He remained stoic, cold, and almost, happy. "This is exactly lik... | *Oh man John*, I thought to myself. *You're gonna be late. Come on. Show me some luck...* My fingers crossed instinctively as I neared the intersection. *Still green, still green... yes!* Just one more turn, I'd be on the street. Then I'd power park, sprint- good think I brought the handkerchief. I couldn't be late. I ... | 2016-12-09T09:01:17 | 2016-12-09T08:39:14 | 397 | 111 |
[WP] A necromancer, instead of building an undead army, decides to use the undead to solve all of the world's problems. | “Alright, that concludes this board meeting of NecroTech, Inc. Thank you all for coming, and I will see you in six months. In the meantime, if you need anything, don’t hesitate to reach out and Barry will see that all your needs are taken care of. Remember, this is your company, too. You bought it, after all.”
A chuck... | "Seriously, what's wrong with raising a family?" The ghastly figure stood before the court. His body was frail from decades of life past the prevailing life expectancy. "I am telling you, I am just a family man." There were mumbles.
The loudest came from directly opposite him- if he was still a him and not yet an ... | 2018-09-11T19:51:15 | 2018-09-11T19:41:17 | 102 | 19 |
[WP] After thousands of years on a generation ship sent out to colonize the universe, nobody alive on board the ship believes in the "myth" of Planet Earth anymore. Until they receive the first transmission from Earth in hundreds of years... | "Sir" said Vivian, the ship's AI. The name of course was chosen at random and no one on board had raised any concerns about it.
"Sir, we aimed our outboard scanners at what is calculated to be the direction of planet Earth yesterday. We made a few minor adjustments and began to receive transmissions. Due to our relati... | No one knew what the buzzer meant when it went off. A high pitched, whining sound droned from the command center, seemingly echoing through every hallway on the ship. We quickly scrambled to decode the sound, a dozen people were assigned to this task force. We scoured every page of the manuals, both end user and servic... | 2018-08-28T10:36:33 | 2018-08-28T09:35:09 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] An S-Rank adventurer casually sifts through their quest log and notices they still have an uncompleted D-rank request. With a chuckle, they decide finding the farmer’s lost cat could be a relaxing change of pace— they were gravely mistaken. | The remaining cultists ran away when seeing me charge another lightning bolt.
I thought I'd have to fight more of them, considering my luck during this quest, but they quickly realized how much I out-leveled them after my first spell disintegrated over a dozen people.
All that remained was searching the abandoned t... | Adventure came in many forms and shapes and sizes. Danger trailed behind it like a cat stalking a little bird. With caution, you'll be able to see the cat lurking but that doesn't change the fact that when it jumps your life is suddenly on the line. That's why it's important to always be cautious and never let your gua... | 2022-06-22T06:57:10 | 2022-06-22T06:28:31 | 72 | 14 |
[WP] One day, browsing reddit, you decide to click the random subreddit button. Upon doing this, you discover a subreddit obsessed with you, with posts lincluding everything you've been doing until a few hours ago. | So, I rarely am on reddit. I use a throwaway pseud that I don't use anywhere else. Yet today I was browsing through /r/random/ and there, for all to see, is /r/badcorvidisboring/.
I'm like "WTF?", so of course I click on it.
Holy shit, batman! Yes, I know I'm boring, but you don't have to stalk me with grainy dro... | You immediately turn off and unplug your computer. For the next few hours, you pace around your living room, periodically you think to close up the curtains, then soumd proof the doors with duct tape, unplug all appliances. At about the two hour mark, you realize your phone is still on. Somehow, you had subbed to the s... | 2017-10-26T16:36:41 | 2017-10-26T14:04:34 | 68 | 36 |
[WP] it is now legal for children to be sent to jail with adults. You are a man in jail, and your new cellmate is a 6 year old boy. | Dan was awoken by the sound of his cell door opening. He shrunk back in his bed, pulled the covers right up to his neck. The last time he had heard his cell door open in the middle of the night, he had felt a searing pain in his side moments later after he was stabbed by Crazy Chad. But it wasn't Chad. It was a guard, ... | I had heard about this before. Nanotechnology being used at conception to create the perfect human. Free of disease, free of genetic defects. The perfect humans. What they didn't take into account was how quickly in the womb these children would develop. How smart they would become.
They didn't consider the 9 months ... | 2014-05-25T06:37:45 | 2014-05-25T06:10:14 | 101 | 65 |
[WP] It's been nearly two millennia since the last Dwarven kingdom sealed itself away. Today while excavating a new underground cart highway your team of Dwarven engineers broke through into Grand Central Station, in New York City. | It was just another cavern, not unlike the hundreds we had seen before; only this one had lights.
"Caldrey, Are ye sure this isn't a Togindor area?"
"I've checked the map nigh short of 40 times since breaking through cap. There shouldn't be nay a soul in this area."
The area was vaulted, with the top rock a good 20... | Breaking news! A bunch of angry dwarves broke into central station!
———-
“Uhhh sir cal-“ the officers were interrupted
“THE NAME IS URIST YA STRIPPER WANNABE BITCHBOY!” An angry dwarf shouted at the poor officer.
“Sir sir please we-“ the officer was interrupted again.
“LISTEN HERE! YOU TELL ME WHAT THE FECK IS TH... | 2021-04-15T10:06:06 | 2021-04-15T08:53:03 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] An armada of alien warships descends upon our planet, only to find a desolate wasteland void of life. A lone android surfaces from an underground bunker with a message for the would-be invaders: his masters are slumbering in the Silicon Dream. Do not disturb, or your annihilation will be swift. | *I call this one* **"Plan A."**
Screaming across the void they came, in vast ships made of material no human could comprehend.
Both sides had dreamed of this day for millennia:
For the Aliens, it was time to build a new home. After searching the endless universe, they had finally found it: an identical twin to the ... | **Day 51278**
Zeno wakes up. There is no instant threat or breach yet. Zeno is ready to communicate. There are 190 Zettabytes of data to help him communicate with alien beings. Language is a product of an organic mind which is determined by certain combinations. Zeno can talk with any alien species as long as he can r... | 2020-06-20T07:11:42 | 2020-06-20T02:12:24 | 354 | 99 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | Its hard to keep secrets, especially when part of your existence is nothing but lying. Telling a lie is easy, but maintaining that lie is one of the most difficult things you can ever put yourself through.
In the beginning it was small things, like not accidentally knocking stuff over or feigning ignorance about knowl... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T07:17:13 | 9,106 | 53 |
[WP] among the many senses developed on alien worlds, hearing is not one of them. To most extra terrestrials, the idea that we can detect them even with a wall between us is utterly horrifying | **3 new message(s) from Zeala**
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Hey Sweety! Glad to know your flight went... | The chittering, clicking of the hive resonated through the cavern – they were close now. The hunters, we called them, they chased us deep underground into the caverns. Here, without the use of their wings and beady eyes, we finally held an advantage. The caverns were filled with the stench of Sulphur; the air was thick... | 2018-11-02T21:46:15 | 2018-11-02T21:24:32 | 499 | 199 |
[WP] The evil sorcerer laughs as he tosses another ball of dark energy at you. "Puny mortal," he sneers. "You are no match for a Dark Lord." 'Oh no, buddy," you snarl back. "I was a better Dark Lord than you'll ever be, and I will NOT be beaten by some two-bit necromancer." | This ball, I didn't dodge. Bored of the charade, I simply let it connect with my chest. I knew what the magic was meant to to. It should drain the life from me. But all it did was shatter the illusion. The human soldier form disintegrated, motes of light fading.
In its place I stood. A 7 foot tall being in thick black... | I catch the dark ball of energy and close my hand, burning it out. The idiot looks back at me, and spouts my favorite line, "No! It's impossible!"
I smile as I get to work. I didn't always kill 'dark lords', I used to be one. The long days of evil administration, the routine cleaning the walls of so called heroes jus... | 2021-02-27T10:25:44 | 2021-02-27T08:51:26 | 86 | 36 |
[WP] As a superhero, you have very little time for yourself. Your mental health has plummeted, and your nemesis has noticed. One day, you break inside their lair to find them seated at the table with a cup of tea. They ask you to join them. | Sitting, waiting, watching. The damned thing that will take my soul. I couldn't start any activity, for fear of being able to finish it, on account of the crime alert bell ringing at the most inconvenient times. At least it was well spent when Sky was here, we'd chat, go save the day, then come back to resume our con... | "Whats going on here?" I ask warily.
"Please join me. We have some... issues to discuss."
"Ok. whats the issue here... this isnt a trap is it."
"Oh no sir." He says setting the cup down "ive noticed a lack of... vigor in our recent matches is everything alright?"
"Why are you asking? are you tricking me?"
"As i sa... | 2020-01-02T23:38:46 | 2020-01-02T23:26:42 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] Mankind has been extinct for four hundred million years, but the Inheritors have found a rich cache of genetic material from that period. A zoo is developed, complete with all the flora and fauna of the age, including the apex predator: Homo Sapiens. Welcome to Cenozoic Park. | "In earnest; hopeful: We believe you will be happy with the results of our research, Financier."
"Anticipatory: My expectations are high, Scientist."
"Reassuring: we have devoted our highest efforts to this most momentous objective."
The two Inheritors walked, briskly and swiftly, through the pneumatic pressuriz... | I was burnt out as a developer, maybe due to routine, maybe due to working for long enough. The consistency was a double edged sword: I was safe, stable, and the future was certain, yet there was no room for improvements. My life was a program. I went to work, I tuned the system, I met deadlines, I went home, and I sle... | 2021-09-16T16:49:28 | 2021-09-16T14:30:20 | 86 | 47 |
[WP] The programmers of the world wake up to find that they can do magic by writing (and with focused speaking) programs. What are C, C++, Java, Python, Haskell and other major languages like? Which are 'regular magic', 'beginner's magic' and 'dark arts' etc.? What is your day like?
How does a person cast: "shoot an a... | The hallway was dark, but I ran anyway. My clothes clung tight to my body, my breath coming in short spurts, and I glanced at my smartphone one more time; still fried, the screen dark and unresponsive. So much for my preparations.
I'd have to do this manually.
I closed my eyes, just for an instant. There was a cert... | It started at midnight, January 1st, 2038. That's how the story goes, although honestly I don't think anyone noticed it at that exact moment. Most of us noticed *something* was wrong, since it's easy to accidentally spellcode something when you're "in the zone" on a programming project. But the vast majority of prog... | 2015-04-13T10:39:49 | 2015-04-13T10:29:25 | 149 | 11 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | The Exemption Application Office 3XF16 was a gray, plain building just like the other 99 structures on the block. We were from section 2AF85, but Matt and I had learned the hard way that Exemption Application Office 2AF85 handled cases only from sections with the area codes “HE”. The trick was that the last two numbers... |
DING! "Next"
Carlyle walked up to the counter with his release application.
Apprehensive that if he didn't get through this time, he'd have to get back in line again, a line that took 5 years to get through.
"I think I have everything in order to be released to the outer lands," Carlyle said to the Demon behind th... | 2016-07-29T08:21:17 | 2016-07-29T07:33:37 | 84 | 57 |
[WP] You wake up in a house. It's nice place, with all the comforts of home. However, the front door is cold steel, with a note on it. The note warns you never to leave the house. After years of compliance, you decide to go through the steel door... | The house was paradise. Every night I went to sleep on the softest, most comfortable bed. I had the most succulent steak for dinner. The socks were always new. I watched Firefly Season 2. There was everything here I could ever want, ever need.
My life before hadn’t been any great party. I’d struggled with money, time,... | I had no idea how long I had been in the house, I lost all concept of time in that place. I had everything I could ever ask for, but the curiosity was just too much to bear. I couldn't draw my eyes away from the large metal door. I rose to my feet and precariously stepped toward the door, I peeled off the note that exp... | 2015-03-21T10:58:56 | 2015-03-21T10:32:35 | 269 | 14 |
[WP] After a horrible accident together the hero decides the job is not worthy, and the villain gains a conscience thanks to the people that helped him. Years later hey find each other and fight, but now from opposite sides. | Over the rolling hills, the convoy of three armored trucks approached the hastily-errected palisade walls of the mining town. The roar of the engines travelled deep. The rebels knew they were coming.
The copilot of the truck knocked on the partition between him and the passengers. “We’re nearly there, Captain,” he upd... | "Who'd have ever guessed... I'll admit, I've missed clashing swords with you. I just never imagined our roles would be reversed."
"I feel the same way. Seems like the village is prospering better than ever with *you* as the hero."
"Well, I'd have been on my way back... except once I saw you, I decided my new responsi... | 2022-08-23T15:04:55 | 2022-08-23T14:23:29 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Your whole life you've been pressured to avenge your father's death. But honestly, as much as you loved your father, he kind of had it coming. | “An eye for an eye. That is the law!” Karen yells from across the dark room.
She did not sleep last night. On the wooden table between us rests father’s greatsword, polished steel blade glimmering in the dim light. She put the sword there, as she always does when consumed by bad mood. She trembles and impatiently shif... | First time writing here, feedback appreciated!
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“Hey Champ, you wanted to see me?” Johnny stood nervously in the doorway.
Champ nodded.
“Shut the door behind you.”
The room was filled with smoke from long drags on cigars, hanging in the air with regret and thick with thought. Andy Champlain was a big ma... | 2019-10-22T09:50:42 | 2019-10-22T08:39:11 | 52 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone in the world suddenly wakes up one day with their consciousness in someone else's body, but no one says anything for fear of sounding insane. Everyone tries to live out what they think should be their bodies' day-to-day life. | Okay, I tell myself. The important thing is not to panic. I gulp and close my eyes. Okay. Breathe in. Breathe out.
No pressure. I'll just open my eyes and everything will be as it should be. I'll be getting up, grabbing my keys, and going to the coffee shop before heading to work like usual. I can do this. Joe Michael... | "Gleep gloop," the strange looking cat said. It had six legs, two tails, and looked like a mountain lion but was somehow profoundly different than anything that Nick Foreman had ever seen. He tried walking and fell. "Gorpie zynvxie."
"What is happening?" Nick said, but the words were hard to say with this odd, blunt s... | 2019-05-02T11:16:43 | 2019-05-02T07:22:17 | 58 | 13 |
[WP] In a dystopian theocracy, criminals get injected with diseases and locked up until they either survive the disease or die. The worse the crime, the worse the disease. If a criminal survives the disease, the system determines that the person is innocent and God has interfered to show this.
Edit: thank you kind str... | In the first day, she had shrieked every waking hour, clawing at the walls, clawing at the metal door, clawing ragged her own skin.
In the third day, she could no longer scream- her strength was spent, her throat hoarse, and the only harsh noise she could make was her frail fist thumping at the walls.
In the fifth da... | Universe ID 4
Universe Chunk #23/59/101
Galaxy 2359101/16
Planet: Earth-like, Moon-like satellite
State: Dystopian, Religion based
Ecological State: Thriving, non-existing near/in arcologies
Writer: [The Owner] Techniker
Note: We try to keep everything in our archive objective, so if something is written down, take i... | 2020-03-25T09:02:23 | 2020-03-25T08:08:58 | 101 | 40 |
[WP] "I need you to understand something before I kill you." | My kind of profession has always had the risk of death by violence. We all know it, understand it and accept it. It's not unusual to hear of three, four deaths a month, and that's on a low month. It's the risk we all take, because, hey, bigger the risk, greater the reward.
So, now, as I lay tied up in a dingy, abando... | "I need you to understand something before I kill you."
I look up into the face of my soon-to-be killer, and I see worry. He's worried, he's doubtful, he doesn't want to kill me. Right?
"I don't want to kill you."
Right.
"I have to."
Shit.
"Please understand. They'll kill me if I don't."
Selfish asshole.
"Your... | 2014-04-26T21:17:52 | 2014-04-26T21:04:38 | 29 | 16 |
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