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[WP] As a powerful Fae; you gave the young couple everything they could possibly want in exchange for one, small thing - their firstborn... Pity nobody explained to you that mortals choose to be child-free | Felix and Hilda were the couple that summoned me about a decade ago. They had just married. Now, I don't usually give out favors to anyone that goes through all the hoops of cultivating a perfect circle of mushrooms on any rooftop. But I was actually moved by their story. They had been together since they were 12, had ... | It laughed as it manifested the Lady with One-thousand smiles appeared, looking at the young woman with a smile.
The Fae smiled. "Oh you think you're so clever\~ Well sorry, but no, that's not how this works."
"What do you mean, I just won't have children with Mark."
"No, you will; the fact you made the pact means t... | 2021-07-08T06:12:38 | 2021-07-08T05:45:43 | 54 | 33 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | Thank you for your kindness and your wisdom, friend. You say you don't want a fancy tin king hat, but I can at least answer some of your questions. You wanted to know why I was wearing this old uniform. Well, it is a bit tattered, but it's because I'm a Royal Guardsman. 'Least I was. Maybe I'll be one again. Long as I ... | Waves crashed as a pale individual gazed into the ocean, his face scrunched as he pondered. "Perhaps I should have taken the risk of documenting his father's actions regarding construction in this settlement, but there was no guarantee he would believe the truth before him." He sighed, walking away from the bustle of t... | 2021-02-28T05:41:56 | 2021-02-28T04:46:41 | 40 | 28 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | The clock ticked over and chimed.
I was 18...
My grandmother spontaneously dropped her tea and splashed my foot. The burn caused me to shriek. "Well..", I said as I wiped my foot, "I can still feel pain..."
The rest of my family politely chuckled and waited.
"I don't know... I didn't feel anything. How do I know? W... | Everybody knows how it happens. The day you turn 18 you go to "The Centre" and they give you an injection. This injection mutates the cells in your body and your mind, allowing for a further 30% control of an individuals brain. It causes the individual to attain what we call "superpowers". The only problem is not knowi... | 2015-03-28T09:14:46 | 2015-03-28T05:14:22 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave." | Davenkothet Keelzedar Vargetorix, he whose heart devours hope and whose whispers cower gods, had not always been called Davenkothet Keelzedar Vargetorix.
His mother, Ketra Davidson, a simple yet educated barista who enjoyed romance novels, Victorian history, knitting, and gore-core movies from the 1970s, had dubbed hi... | I pushed open the door to the tavern and walked in, shaking the rain off of my coat. The noises of the common-room rolled over me; glasses clinking, cloths rustling and the slow steady hum of conversation. Then they began to notice. Silence spread out, like ripples in a pond as the patrons of *The Last Stand* realized... | 2020-06-11T21:24:10 | 2020-06-11T21:23:14 | 151 | 46 |
[WP] Rifles and Sorcery. A modern army is stuck on in an alternate reality where sorcery rules. The army is preparing to defend themselves form a far superior force that has never seen a machine gun or artillery.
Both sides would be intresting. The modern army dealing with magic users and the senseless slaughter of co... | The tanks and APCs circled the encampment in the afternoon, with one tarp-pavilion serving as a command center. The officers sat on the floor in rapt attention. Before them were two men. The first was Colonel Axton, leader of the battallion, who they knew well. Then there was the other guy, wrapped in Irish-looking mag... | A spear. The guy in front threw his spear and it just clanged and bounced off the Humvee front. We laughed out loud. The men on the other side of the gap had us outnumbered at least 20-1, with their spears and horses. In Afghanistan, we had a kill ratio of 100 to one, and they had the AK. The chatter from our supe... | 2014-04-09T11:20:03 | 2014-04-09T11:02:12 | 1,281 | 65 |
[WP] Aliens are getting real fucking tired of humans writing about hypotheticals where humanity is waaay better than every other alien species by doing the most mundane shit and they're gonna do something about it | "Aliens invade what they think are the weakest race in the galaxy, but they are in for a surprise!". Redditor Karmafarma99 had just finished his newest and greatest prompt. The creativity and originality in this prompt would garner him no less than a thousand upvotes.
"Victory in the karma race will be mine" he thoug... | Eldonvi Kovonpil was an impressive creature. For his race, the Lutumpolani, his patience was staggering.
It was why he'd been assigned to oversee one of the most pretentious, arrogant, but not quite idiotic races in the galaxy.
Humanity.
A wondrous people by any other means. Remarkable sapience, exceptional culture. ... | 2020-06-21T03:10:41 | 2020-06-21T02:09:50 | 61 | 23 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | John Norman's current Monday was abysmally bad, even in the context of his life and his Mondays. The hot water was out in the building, his toaster practically incinerated his pop-tarts, his ex-wife "asked" for another hundred bucks to take his son to the renaissance faire (with the implicit threat that if he doesn't g... | John Tyson quietly left the board meeting wearing a false smile, only letting his true emotions show on his face after he had turned away from the rest of the board. Everyone else in the room was jubilant - their fourth quarter earnings had shattered Wall Street’s expectations, and Tyson’s stock price was set to rise a... | 2014-05-06T07:25:49 | 2014-05-06T06:49:25 | 88 | 19 |
[WP] We forget our dreams for a reason: in the near future, memory enhancement therapies allow everyone to fully recall every dream they've ever had. Across the entire human race, disturbing patterns and implications emerge that were previously hidden by the unappreciated bliss of forgetfulness. | The Greeks knew better.
Lesmosyne, the sweetest goddess known to man, sweeter than love or hearth and home. Almost as sweet as the hunt.
I traveled when I was young. To find myself, I told people. Told myself. Find the real me under what I knew in the suburbs. What a crock. Every third world village I found, I was ju... | It was last Thursday- No, FRIDAY that I was with Sarah Lee. The memory of her gasping for air bounced around the walls of my mind. The sound of gurgling- her head being submerged under water. The gasping- my hands around her shoulders, pushing her down. The splashing- her struggles to break free from me.
I'm not quit... | 2016-09-30T10:00:04 | 2016-09-30T07:18:43 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | "Does the item have to consist of one piece, or can it consist of multiple parts to build one entity?", I asked Merlin. He looked at me, puzzled, and responded, "As long as it's solid, has real form to it, you should be successful in summoning it." he replied.
"Okay, Merlin. Hope you like bricks. This next item I su... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T02:15:50 | 147 | 82 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | “Ah, guns. You’d think guns are the end-all-be-all in a zombie apocalypse, right? The rest of society certainly did. That’s why when the first videos of zombies dropped on the internet, everyone rushed to the gun stores.
“And what did they find? Even if you had all the licensing, they were often out of guns. And if yo... | Everyone knows the basic skills needed for the zombie apocalypse. Foraging, fighting, and fleeing. The last of the three f’s of survival was the most important. So armor was considered to be impractical as it would only slow you down. I chose to add more defense when it started. The history museum had a set of full ... | 2020-09-14T07:56:57 | 2020-09-14T07:46:50 | 757 | 70 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | I touched down lightly onto the pavement, my black cape floating down around me. Judging from the looks on the faces in the crowd, it looked as awesome as I planned. The normies scattered around me, backing into a wide circle.
"Dearest humans. I regret to inform you that this city will soon serve as an... *example* f... | Superhuman pairs have advantages. The general norm is to find a mate who is your opposite. In a dangerous line of work which involves risking your life constantly, this ensures that the person who can kill you won't.
"My love for you is true". This is Mike "Mantle" Menzenta. He's a superhero. Not any superhero either... | 2017-05-30T14:16:57 | 2017-05-30T14:03:23 | 1,366 | 16 |
[WP] The Hero breaks into the evil base, ready to defeat the most cunning villain he has ever met. "I have you now Villain! You can't weasel your way out of justice this time!" "For the last time, I'm not a Villain! Stop breaking into my house!" | As the lights flickered on and off, on and off, a shadow emerged sneaking through the lab. Nighttime gave him just enough cover to break in. He had roamed these halls and pipes before, recounting failed attempts to end all to be all. He practically had it memorized, left, right, left, up, don't awake the angry robot... | Alright, look, Johnathan's not a bad dude. If you get him on a good day, he can be quite fun. But he isn't without his... Issues.
I didn't want to say it outright, but he's really into LCD. And about every other week he breaks into my house. Sometimes it's funny, but then came yesterday. He blasted through my window w... | 2022-08-31T19:38:57 | 2022-08-31T18:42:49 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] The bosses said this AI was supposed to make the company more “efficient,” but you know that “more efficient” in corporate-speak means longer hours and less pay. Imagine the bosses surprise when the first thing the AI did was fire the upper management and increase everybody else’s paychecks. | They had named it "Mercury", after the god of commerce. Typical really, and when someone used Roman names for their "revolutionary" products, you just knew they were full of themselves. My expectations were not high.
Nevertheless, the board had approved use of the AI. We were _overjoyed_ at the lengthy corporate prese... | [Panel 1]
Boss: Introducing the Corprobot 9000.
[Panel 2]
Boss: We've developed one of the world's most powerful AIs and empowered it to run the company more efficiently.
[Panel 3]
Wally: You did all that just to justify making us work longer hours for less pay?
[Panel 4]
Boss: Don't be ridiculous. The Corprobot 900... | 2022-07-21T19:17:41 | 2022-07-21T19:08:05 | 62 | 18 |
[WP] A man goes to a bridge to commit suicide. He finds himself at the Bridge of Death, and must answer three questions to gain access. | 1,000 years.
I have served as Guardian of this bridge for 1,000 years.
It seems as if it has been an eternity, but witnessing the rise and fall of empires and of civilizations has made the time pass quickly.
In all 1,000 years, my task was to discourage those who would use this bridge to end their lives. I have end... | The night was darker than most. There had been no rain yet the road was wet. Puddles pooled in the gutters. In the sky there was neither a cloud nor a twinkling star. It was an endless abyss above. The street light flickered as I walked beneath it. Water had soaked through my shoes and my soggy socks squelched with eve... | 2015-12-20T21:58:11 | 2015-12-20T20:42:57 | 72 | 11 |
[WP] Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m, looks back over what she wrote ten years later
Here is the original copy pasta
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 13 years old (i... | Katy carefully balanced the tablet on her stomach while opening a fresh beer bottle. Work had been particularly trying today. Lying back on the sofa she prepared to loose herself in pictures of wise cats with bad grammar and other people's problems...but then *it* got linked again. God damnit, does the Internet never f... | Katy's heart ached. Feelings of sadness and pain as she remembered her care free youth, full of unexpected and unpredictable wonder. All gone now. Only the pain remained. It was clear.
_____
"Single gun shot wound to the chest. Pistol lying on her stomach..."
^(*shutter click*)
"I've got a bag, pass it here."
^(*s... | 2014-11-19T10:38:12 | 2014-11-19T09:04:44 | 64 | 31 |
[WP] I cannot stress this enough, I did not see the murder. | “Ma’am, I’m going to need you to take this seriously,” Detective Anderson’s frustration was clearly evident in his tone. “We are conducting a murder investigation, and you ARE a key witness.”
Taylore Jackson glanced to her lawyer, who gave her a small, approving nod. “Yeah, I get that you think that, but the thing is,... | “Well, somebody shot him!” a sharp slap rang out as the detective smacked his hands against the table.
It was loud and completely unnecessary. My ears rang, I had laid my head across the table and felt the vibrations as they assaulted my eardrums. My fingers felt the tremors as they spread across the table from the im... | 2022-11-30T16:40:48 | 2022-11-30T16:03:49 | 159 | 33 |
[WP] Two friends are inseparable, even in death. They are reincarnated together no matter what, same era and location, and they always meet each other.
Write about them and what they do together throughout time.
Edit: wow thanks so much for the awesome responses so far! I've never had a prompt get this much attention... | I used to look for her green eyes. The shade of emerald green was never quite replicated in the iris of anyone but her. Even as her skin and hair darkened and the tongues she spoke varied, the color of her eyes was always the same.
I first met her in Paris. We walked along the streets. I was studying art. She was stud... | We've always been friends.
Sometimes a royal and a commoner, sometimes comrades, sometimes just average joes.
We've witnessed each other change over each lifetime, we've seen each other's mistakes.
Sometimes different political views, sometimes even enemies on a battlefield.
Sometimes we even go into a time where w... | 2015-05-02T10:40:25 | 2015-05-02T10:39:49 | 111 | 48 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | I really don't like being touched.
I'm not the only one in that regard, of course. There's this thing called haphephobia that some people have that makes them so protective of their personal space that they are terrified at the thought of anyone, even their closest friends or family, touching them. I don't have that, ... | I like having sex with strangers. Strangers are uncomplicated, no strings attached interludes in my life. We fuck, I come, they leave. That’s the entire future I see. Only a brief future that allows me to enjoy my present. I once had a girlfriend and every time we touched each other we saw every fight, every argument, ... | 2017-01-11T08:18:11 | 2017-01-11T08:09:51 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Movies would have you believe that when a demon possesses someone, they wreak as much havoc as they can before being exorcised. In reality, demons want to stay out of Hell for as long as possible, and what better way than making sure the host and their family really like the possession. | Trigger warning for domestic abuse, spoiler for everyone’s mental health.
>!Lately, Dad’s been acting… weird. He’s stopping drinking, stopped yelling, stopped hitting. Lily and I are both kinda freaking out, Mom’s just been euphoric. She tells us to just enjoy it while it lasts, but I don’t buy it.!<
>!He’s... | I try don't make it a habit, however the screams of the self inflicted punishment got bored at some point. Demons doesn't want to be there more than needed to find a new body to posses.
I love the rebel smart kids with their way of making everyone on the family hate them. "I am smarter, you idiots." And they are prett... | 2022-10-15T21:20:51 | 2022-10-15T16:49:40 | 57 | 32 |
[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. | Professor Beast looked around the room and his unsettling eyes came to rest on me, "Alain, please answer to the best of your ability, what is the meaning of 'Cogito, ergo sum?'" His lips rose a bit in what must have been the closest approximation to a smile that someone like him could muster and he clarified, "I mean b... | "Oh shit shit shit. This can't be happening! This CAN'T BE HAPPENING. WHY the HELL I am so clumsy? Shit, shit, shit," I screamed as I ran past the tall trees towards the mansion. I had been on a mission else where and had just returned back to the school. My recruitment happened so vaguely. One moment I was on Earth, a... | 2020-07-15T05:08:09 | 2020-07-15T04:22:10 | 1,115 | 179 |
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village. | "Mytical seer. We have brought a dead goat to offer you as a sacrifice." The Village chieftain calls to you.
"Oh. Hmm. Okay. Sure a dead goat. Can you just do like some bread or maybe honey wine next time? Literally, honey wine is the only good thing we have here. But thanks for the goat." You say, convinced that you ... | "O Great Seer, I fear that my wife no longer loves me!"
"Here, drink this potion of love. I guarantee that you will no longer have a problem."
"O Great Seer, you are so wise! Thank you!"
---
"O Great Seer, why do my crops fail to grow?"
"Here, take this elixir of growth."
"And pour it on my crops, O Great Seer?"
... | 2021-06-14T10:24:03 | 2021-06-14T09:31:37 | 424 | 248 |
[WP]Your job is to stare at the school's security feed all day, but after a while you begin to notice budding romances between students. You decide to give these a little push in order to provide entertainment for yourself. | Case Study: October 2, 2015
Number of observation days: 136
Current state of mind: Jane Goodall-esque
Location: Longview High School, Longview VA
Weather: 57 degrees Fahrenheit (as of 12:08 PM). Precipitation expected throughout the day. Sunrise: 7:05 AM. Sunset: 6:48 PM.
Expected Participants: Mason Schwart... | "You bastard, you've slept with my sister! I thought you loved me! Now you will pay, you can find your embarrassing photos all over the internet." screamed Cindy.
"That was a revenge for you seducing my dad!" yelled Robert.
"*What!?* I have never done anything like that! How dare you even suggest that?"
"*You* told ... | 2015-10-02T09:24:34 | 2015-10-02T07:47:49 | 66 | 36 |
[WP]The Hunger Games hits a large university, but people are on teams based on their majors. Describe how various majors try to survive. | The engineering majors, business majors, vet med majors, and culinary arts majors all started in the central memorial hall. When the buzzer sounded, the games began. Immediately, the business majors spread out and began ransacking each of the nearby vending machines to gather supplies. The vet med students went to the ... | Criminal Justice: Already knows all the ways to kill everyone. Improvises weapons and hides out. Lays false clues to incriminate others on deaths to incite in-fighting.
Chemistry: Makes poisons/uses various chemicals to incapacitate/kill.
Various Biologies (Entomology, Horticulture, Animal Science, etc.): Use known... | 2015-04-28T09:51:31 | 2015-04-28T09:15:04 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You have just died, but the grim reaper won't let you move on as you still have unfinished business. The reaper did not anticipate just how long it would take for you to finish all the games in your Steam library. | "It's time, Daniel."
Daniel looked up from his screen, shining a glow on his face that was the only light in the dark room he called his office. Standing before him was a specter in a dark robe, holding a scythe in bony hands. Daniel paused his game.
"Seriously, now?"
Death whispered in a low, croaky voice, "Yes Dan... | *You, you do realize you can’t keep backing up against him, right?*
“Yeah, yeah, shut up for a second,” replied Matt snappily as he spammed the circle button on his PS4 controller to create distance between his character and Great Grey Wolf Sif.
*Okay, now move up carefully and wait for a swing. It’ll probably be the... | 2020-10-15T13:59:43 | 2020-10-15T12:43:52 | 58 | 19 |
[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." | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | I blearily attempted to focus my eyes on my phone as its notification sound went off repeatedly. I had just managed to get to a comfortable position and doze for a good hour before my phone decided to freak out, and I was none too happy.
One government alert that read "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON", followed by 600 messag... | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 2018-04-06T22:12:43 | 308 | 14 |
[WP] Another time traveller appears in your kitchen. “Your daughter is going to become the most evil...!” You just shoot him in the head and give a sweet smile to your baby eating cereals. | “Here comes the airplane! Open wide for landing,” she zoomed the spoon around, making airplane sounds. Her daughter gave a shrill laugh and clapped her hands in joy, too preoccupied with the spoon to remember that she was supposed to be eating from it. It was the simplest things she enjoyed.
She was in the middle of r... | *♪Are you happy,* **BANG** *are you satisfied?* **BANG**
*How long can you stand the heat?
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat♪*
**BANG****BANG****BANG**
"another one bites the dust, another one OH the eggs" Fredrick sang to him self dropping his gun and removing the eggs form the burner. Th... | 2019-01-17T05:13:00 | 2019-01-17T02:27:45 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] A person who is immortal, because they are so stupidly entertaining Death keeps extending their life just to see what shenanigans they will get into next.
EDIT: There is a good variety of responses here, from those who took the premise a bit too seriously to those who ran with it and made it hilarious. I had a lo... | The camel bucked wildly beneath me as I galloped it around the Forbidden City. Tourists cheered confusedly, looking around at each other to make sure that cheering was the proper course of action when a 6'5" laowai rode an Arabian dromedary through the Palace museum. Guards, hot on my heels, were emphatic that cheering... | I woke up to a light buzzing around me and a ringing in my ear. I was face down in some low shrubs.
The sounds of cars whipping by me made me realize I lived through it again and was laying on the asphalt off the 1-15, on the outskirts of the Mojave desert.
I looked down at my left leg, bent upward, my shin bone prot... | 2020-05-05T23:49:04 | 2020-05-05T23:14:03 | 112 | 32 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | It had become apparent that humanity's days were numbered. As each child was brought into the world, our confidence grew. The markov chains were converging. As a society it was determined that no more children should be brought into the world. Of course there were the hold outs, the groups that fought us tooth and ... | "Hey doc, you gotta come see this, the midwife is freaking out."
What's the problem Terry? Why's Sarah freaking out?
"Well doc, you see.. these charts are from St. Ford's and several emails from our friends at Marymount reported the same for the past week."
So, what? A meteor hits or something? Super volcanoes? We w... | 2017-12-25T17:50:24 | 2017-12-25T15:06:43 | 1,408 | 161 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | 2017-09-14T16:56:22 | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 136 | 47 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | **Part One**
Sam Sinister strode down the hallway to the cell blocks for the thirtieth time. "Today's the day!" he announced, his practiced basso thundering down the concrete to the lone occupied cell. It was the fifth time he'd said that, he noted offhand. Sure, it hadn't been true the first four times, but today was... | It had been a few months since I kidnapped him, I would go down to his room once a day and talk to him, each time he’d always tell me that they’d never come for him but I didn’t believe him because who would want to leave behind someone like him? He’s a genius and a great guy from what I can tell so far.
After a while... | 2021-08-04T16:05:18 | 2021-08-04T15:29:05 | 79 | 50 |
[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 do you mean I can't leave these drinks on my tab? I've been coming here for years."
"New corporate rules. Ever since we were bought out by Wild Buffalo Bar Corp. No running tabs, no discounts, no happy hours," explained Chet, my favorite bartender.
"Well I guess I better go hit the ATM and see what I've got i... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T08:29:21 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 347 | 81 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Planet 736
The hall was hushed as the General drummed lightly on his chair, set high above the two scientists who knelt before him. The vastness of space set out behind him, on a giant screen that allowed them to see outside as clear as glass. He looked down upon the two and spoke, his voice echoing with his age and h... | "Chancellor Ehrbane, please, I am not a violent man."
"*Not a violent man?!*" I spluttered with almost unkept rage, "Your people have laid waste to my kin-kingdom's homeworld. Your men have trodden armoured through the Basilica of Old Truths, the keystone of our culture! Your weapons have destroyed our ancient reliqua... | 2014-12-26T11:34:50 | 2014-12-26T10:45:23 | 90 | 15 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | New to writing and trying to get better, please give me and feedback (good and bad!) I want to improve. Thanks for reading.
“You brought this on yourself you know. You really did. All of your speed and strength, your flight and heightened senses, where are they now? Too bad you don’t also have any healing abilities f... | At first, they thought I was worthless. No measurable potential, plus likely schizophrenia. In school, I would have been a great target for bullies, but they never found me, despite my complete lack of stealth or mobility enhancements.
I tried insisting that the voice was a legitimate power, but even mentioning i... | 2017-06-12T07:45:28 | 2017-06-12T06:39:02 | 181 | 22 |
[WP] You are a blood bank worker. One night after closing up, you are approached by a stranger. The stranger proves to be a knowledgeable vampire hundreds of years old and offers you a deal: access to blood in exchange for a conversation every night. | Pavel never spoke until after he received payment. After the first week it became a routine, the same every time. They came to a silent, understood agreement about how the exchange would work. Max locked the back door to the clinic after each day of work, drove to Pavel’s motel room, and knocked on his door. Each night... | "Thanks man. I owe you one. Get over here fast, some guy is swallowing a sword." read the text message.
All of the nut jobs come out on Halloween.
"You're right - you owe me." I sent back.
I slid the phone back into my pocket and turned around to shut the door. The chill of the night air sent a shiver down my spine... | 2014-11-06T14:45:52 | 2014-11-06T13:57:25 | 82 | 28 |
[WP] A human attends an intergalactic University, and takes Human History 101. | "Attention, please."
The hammers banged down on the podium with two handed intensity, both left fists tightly gripping their respective handles. The last of the conversations in the room died down and the students turned towards the stage, which was occupied by a portly being with a regal bearing, his two right arms ... | I walked in on my first day, and took a seat, relieved to see a normal desk. The room felt more comfortable than any advanced technology could make any of the furniture on the surrounding campus. This teacher had, with surprising accuracy, decorated his room much like I remembered a normal classroom from my time on ear... | 2018-10-11T20:14:27 | 2018-10-11T19:45:39 | 96 | 41 |
[WP] When you die, there is no heaven or hell. You just get rated on a scale of 1-100 of how much of an assole you were in your life and get thrown together with all the other people with the same rating.
Posted this a while ago, got some upvotes but no storys, so I'm trying again. | "Waitaminute, waitaminute, waitaminute!" John shouted.
The burly barechested demon slowly turned around. Flickering torches making obscene shadows of the stumps protruding from it's back. John swallowed hard. This guy wasn't the nicest on the walk down the hallway to begin with. Surely John wasn't going endear himsel... | Flickering orange. As my eyes slowly came into focus, a tall man wearing a sharp grey two-piece suit flicked his wrist expertly and put out the match he just lit his cigarette with. I frowned in disgust at the smell of smoke, and fanned away with my hand, admittedly more to express my displeasure than to cleanse the ai... | 2021-12-19T17:12:11 | 2021-12-19T14:14:07 | 292 | 185 |
[WP] You get to the afterlife, and it turns out everyone plays through the same life as you did, and gets scored on their performance. After talking with thousands of people, you come across the person who has the high score. | The sparse white room was filled to the brim with black silhouettes. Each one was another dead man, woman or child. Though at a look you wouldn't know, everyone here looked the same. Your appearance in life didn't really matter here. Though I suppose that's not true. It mattered in a way, but not the way you think.
Ab... | "Even in the afterlife, silver medals..." Thought 2, as he had come to be known.
TJ he had been called during his "awake" period, which the other TJs had begun referring to life as.
TJs everywhere. Some fit, some slovenly. Some looked like twins yet received their "place numbers" that were drastically different. ... | 2016-09-14T13:28:33 | 2016-09-14T12:54:14 | 239 | 131 |
[WP] Youre in class, listening to some lecture. All of a sudden, the class goes still. The prof freezes in place, the ambience pauses, everyone is locked in position. Instinctively, you dont move a muscle. Whatever happened hasnt worked on you. “Ah finally, my break” the quiet kid in the corner says | "So, a neuron consists of an axon, dendrite, myelin sheath..." my professor droned on and on. The beginning of almost every upper level science class spent a lecture or two rehearsing the basics.
For some reason, I never needed the refresher. Where most kids forgot pretty much everything they learned after the semest... | I was frozen, just like everyone else for that split moment. Not from whatever was happening to the world around me, just shock, and an intense feeling of dread. “Ah finally, my break.” A voice came from behind me, I didn’t recognise the voice of whoever it was, but the raspy breathing made my hairs stand on end. “Kath... | 2019-01-27T17:43:58 | 2019-01-27T15:07:47 | 102 | 57 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Dad,
Or should I even call you dad? I think dad is more of a title to be earned and sadly throughout my eighteen and a half years of being on this earth, I do not think you have done very much to earn that title. Dad's don't leave. A dad is someone that is there for his children. A dad watches and actively partici... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T22:19:09 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 28 | 16 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 114 | 47 |
[WP]: Your family sit you down and breaks the news to you. You’re adopted. You’re shocked, but the more you think about it, the more obvious it becomes. All your siblings are vastly different from you. They all did well academically, all friendly, they’re all good looking, and you’re just... a cat. | Remi's heart pounded in his chest. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. They had always called him one of their children, one of the family. He knew he looked different from them but wasn't that just genetics?
"What the hell do you mean I'm adopted!?", he yowled loudly.
"Oh Remi, you're still my little floofy, ... | How could I not have seen it coming? Me?
I was the cleverest critter in the fenced-in grounds. I was the beast who tamed the wild squirrels mocking me from the tree. I was the hunter that bested the stupid-eyed lagomorph in my brother's sandbox, which is should be noted I used as a lavatory to save on water bills.
B... | 2018-04-23T11:04:32 | 2018-04-23T10:42:58 | 502 | 29 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | “Hahaha I love him so damn much,” I laugh from my small cage.
The paranoid one, the one that sounds the youngest is the first to address me. “Hey, you! Didn’t we tell you to shut the fuck up?! This doesn’t change anything.”
The older, more confident one walks up to my “cage” and beats the butt of the gun on the win... | "Turns out the *Princess* didn't wanna pay your ransom after all," the guard sneered at me under his helmet, tossing the scroll to a corner of the room. "Didn't even plead for your life... what a shame indeed." I let out a yelp as he grabbed me by the collar, wincing slightly as he pushed me against the stone walls of ... | 2021-03-19T01:11:48 | 2021-03-19T00:44:03 | 345 | 206 |
[WP] When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room. | If you ever find yourself with the greivous privilege of being in touching distance of a century, every day will begin to feel like a lifetime. Being here, away from the world, slowly losing grasp on all of my precious memories... It isn't how I imagined the end of my life would be, to be honest.
But in the deepest co... | Everything fell out of focus. The beeping on the monitor sounded very far away. I got up out of bed slowly, feeling much lighter than before. The floor was cold beneath my feet. I pulled the tape off my arm and removed the IV. It didn't matter anyway. I knew I was on borrowed time. I had lived a good life. It just coul... | 2019-11-07T09:33:51 | 2019-11-07T09:13:01 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | An excerpt from *Species Relations Within The Tri-Galactic Sector*, Kirkkolan F. [Hawkens Joseph trans.], G.I. 1445, Grand Triumvirate Library.
#14. Newcomers
##III. Humanity
While we might discuss at length the effect Tri-Galactic (relative) newcomers might have on inter-species relations, none is more deserving o... | “Greetings, my fellow human comrade, you do not know me, but I know you.
We once thought ourselves as alone in this universe as a species, and when the others made themselves known to us, we had little choice but to acknowledge them as superiors.
And now these superiors have made a terrible choice - we never chose to... | 2022-08-05T17:08:21 | 2022-08-05T16:09:25 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] Population is over 10 billion. Souls are finally depleted. In a hospital, you witness the birth of the first souless human. The room goes silent. | It's the eyes that stick with you. Amid the eerie silence of that delivery room all those years ago, those blank, purposeless eyes peer into my mind. Never had I seen a more beautiful pair of deep blue eyes.
A shame they would end up going to waste.
The Shell blinked and looked about the room as we all stood there st... | At first, we were alarmed. Proof of the divine? That we all had it wrong? That there was a finite quantity of souls in the mix? There was an uproar, people went raving mad, stocks plummeted - all over the world people tried to repent their follies, but it was all in vain, and nothing prepared us for the final revelatio... | 2020-03-09T11:14:13 | 2020-03-09T11:01:07 | 82 | 43 |
[WP] You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive. | The thing about knowing the answer to any question is that there’s actually one question that I don’t know the answer to. That is, I haven’t the slightest damn clue how I got this power.
I’m serious. You might think I was born this way, or maybe was caught in some industrial accident or was born of twisted scientific ... | I thought that knowing the truth could help save the world. I thought that I knew what it meant to be a super hero, what it meant to do the right thing.
Now, I know the real meaning of heroism.
And I’m probably going to die because of it.
It started out as a science experiment. My lab was testing our quantum field g... | 2020-11-30T12:59:18 | 2020-11-30T11:32:52 | 1,396 | 250 |
[WP] You're the trusted angel God left in charge for 2016 while he went on vacation. He's returned early and you have some explaining to do. | He sat with his head in his hands. One party. One party was all it took for the world to go to shit.
The elevator angels hadn't really asked to many questions until he asked for Prince. By now, anyone in any mansion in the kingdom knew that he was dead. Humans had always used a phrase to contradict the Lord's power. "... | "I... I... I... can explain!"
"What do you have to explain?" God looked at the archangel Adam, who appeared as little more than a puddle before Him.
"The humans have apparently all gone mad. Are you not upset with me?"
"Not in the slightest," God replied as Adam composed himself, "you know, there's a reason I took t... | 2016-11-14T23:14:02 | 2016-11-14T21:46:21 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] The hero has been defeated, the Dark Lord reigns. It seems like nobody can stop him, but then he surprises everyone by actually being a good leader, or at least better then the warring kings that used to rule this land. He's even funding science, if only because he wants to conquer the moon. | 'Can you even remember why we where fighting him?'
'I think it was the torture, and the daemons.'
'Oh, right. Yeah. I mean the demons turned out OK once we learned to keep them fed.'
'Super fed.'
'Jesus, yeah. They do eat a lot don't they. We should do something about that.'
The second guard laughed a little. 'You... | It has been sixteen years since the end of the world. Or at least, that’s what we would have said sixteen years ago. After the old Wizard Dartmouth took over, there was little to be done. No one was left to challenge him or his power. But things are looking great here in Jame’s Hollow. It seems Dartmouth had intelligen... | 2021-03-11T10:50:45 | 2021-03-11T10:37:17 | 120 | 28 |
[WP] You are a time traveler whose job is to make our world a better place. You have saved Lincoln stopped 9/11 and made sure that the Library of Alexandria was never destroyed. Now as he you get ready for your next mission your employer tells you: "Make Hitler win". | Time travel can become familiar, but it never stops being unpleasant. The sensation of being pulled in all directions at once, the gut wrenching nausea, excruciating physical pain, the migraines brought on by the intensity of the resulting white out the visual cortex has no idea what to do with itself during the sensor... | I stood, staring down the leader of Germany, with that toothbrush like moustache and the... Lunacy? I'm not too sure anymore, this job was a real drain on my life, intelligence and pretty much everything else. I mean, Hitler, WINNING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Christ.
"Mein Führer, perhaps, it is best we don't invade Russi... | 2015-11-23T07:58:38 | 2015-11-23T05:07:37 | 68 | 50 |
[WP] Every year the villagers would send any unwanted children to the huge black dragon as offerings. Being a good mom the dragon decided to take care of them instead of eating them. | I carefully toast the bread with a small puff of flame from my jaws. The river fish caught by Gold has already been roasted; the milk from Diamond's cow warmed as well. Emerald and Ruby are setting plates on the table in the center of the cave. But Pearl, ever the inquisitive, is staring at a chicken egg.
"Where did I... | Another one, chained without preamble to The Post, her tearful pleading ignored by those who should, by rights, be fighting to protect her.
Heartbreaking.
Poor little waif, she looks hungry. Mere skin and bones, and that hair obviously hasn't been brushed in an age. And her clothes! They look like they were stitched ... | 2018-11-18T22:35:24 | 2018-11-18T19:57:44 | 254 | 128 |
[WP] Flowers have become so rare that they are the most sought after items in the world, sold at high prices in black markets, under guard in national museums etc. You just stumbled across a natural rose. | I like to climb mountains, okay, not many people do because the grass and the trees, all the green has died away.
Because now it's treacherous, sand and loose rocks, thin air even before you climb the summit. You have to wear special breathing gear just to be outside, let alone if you plan on doing strenuous activity.... | A rose. One of the most exotic flowers that still are around on this desolate planet of ours. It’s value is so high, that experts need to examine its state before even giving you a number on what it is worth. On top of that, it is naturally grown, increasing its price by hunderfolds!
And I just stumbled across one.
O... | 2019-10-19T06:39:43 | 2019-10-19T06:08:05 | 173 | 113 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | *Hop. Hop. Hop.*
The merchant's waiting out in front of the village gate just stared in abject befuddlement.
*Hop. Hop. Hop.*
And adventurer started to draw his sword. The two next to him stopped him.
"Don't bother," one of them muttered, shaking his head at the ridiculous scene.
*Hop. Hop. Hop.*
The guards at ... | “George do you see that?”
“See what?”
“Dude, look out there right in front of the tree line about half a mile - maybe 2 o’clock.”
George squints his eyes to squeeze the last bit of distance out of his focus knowing that doesn’t do a damn thing.
“I don’t see anything, Carl…”
“Look right there, it’s moving toward th... | 2022-09-03T17:33:02 | 2022-09-03T17:10:12 | 57 | 17 |
[WP] The galaxy watches as the humans are on their last leg protecting their plant from a parasitic species of invaders. What everyone failed to realize was how brutal humans could become when backed into a corner and hyped up with music. | When the news about the bugs hit, I damn near killed myself laughing. We’ve survived interstellar flight, a bizarre bureaucratic nightmare of a Galactic Alliance (some alliance that turned out to be), even accidentally launching multiple colony ships to “binary star systems” which turned out to just be supernovas (hone... | Quiet. The dead lay spread across the field, both human and alien. Mostly alien. The wind blows, the sun rises. A new day of battle.
Dug in on one side is the last bastion of humanity, the 101st Bonecrushers! And they dawn their power armor and electro blades in anticipation of the coming attack.
They have a giant b... | 2022-10-31T09:04:27 | 2022-10-31T07:41:18 | 507 | 49 |
[WP] Two suicidal people happen to meet on the same bridge to jump. Rather than joining together, they each try to convince the other not to jump while justifying why they themselves should jump.
EDIT: yes i'm well aware this concept has been done before many times in movies, books and music.
But that's exactly it: ... | "You can't stop me," Jerry yelled, clutching at the railing and looking down at the churning river far below. His head whipped wildly back and forth, looking at Sam then back at the river, to and fro. "I've made up my mind! I have nothing to live for, and I don't want to hear your psycho-babble mumbo jumbo."
"Me?" ask... | “You can’t jump,” she said. Her brown hair blew in the wind.
“You can’t jump,” he said. He had no hair and looked very pale.
She leaned forward. The group behind them gasped. A man on a bullhorn barked at them but neither heard him. “It’s not a death sentence for you, you know,” she said.
“You’re young. You’ve got ... | 2015-01-27T17:05:32 | 2015-01-27T16:49:17 | 1,404 | 506 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | I swear I didn’t mean to kill her. It was an accident. Honest. One minute she was behind me and then the next she was in front and by that time it was too late to take it back! She should have known better than to get in the way of my beam, even if it doesn’t usually end in death. You would think a girl with her gifts ... | As Saitama crumpled to the ground the shock of being hurt let alone mortally wounded began to set in. People looked on in shock and horror as the life faded away from Saitama's eyes. A momentary silence in as Mumen Rider relaizes what he had done. He never knew the power of his Justice Crash as it was so ineffective in... | 2021-04-14T07:42:05 | 2021-04-14T06:21:06 | 55 | 29 |
[WP] you're a time traveller who can't control your powers and keep accidentally slipping through time. Thankfully, you have an immortal friend who keeps you up to date whenever you appear.
[deleted] | Under a near-starless sky, while digging into the dust of a dead Earth, the Scientist recalled both of her first meetings with the Undying One.
He had been waiting for her, the first time it happened. The Scientist had been disoriented in the occurrence — for a brief moment she had been filled with triumph, locked in ... | "Dying is just a habit," Judy says, "A mug's game. A nasty habit. Sickness and health, do you see? Have to kick it and kick it and kick it again. Kick life in the teeth every hundred years or so, just to stay alive.
"So you're saying you're immortal," he says, "And he was a time traveler."
"A misnomer, really," she ... | 2021-08-22T00:00:48 | 2021-08-21T21:06:41 | 434 | 54 |
[WP] In the future, for your history final, you're sent back in time to an important date with the objective to correct a time aberration so history remains unchanged. You didn't study.
Changes you might cause will be permanent. | "What do you mean, you didn't study?" Alex had never been a sneaky person, and the loud whisper made half the class turn around, staring at both of them. Jim simply smiled until his classmates had turned back around.
"What do you think I mean? I simply didn't prepare. I stayed up late for the update to hit, by the tim... | John paces around the storeroom nervously, trying to ignore the sound of shoes clacking on the marble floor outside.
"I am here to do something important, I am here to do something important," he repeatedly mutters to himself, trying to remember what he was here for. Mrs Smith had given all of them a set of instructi... | 2017-03-27T06:31:45 | 2017-03-27T06:19:46 | 379 | 143 |
[WP]: 200 years after being successfully colonised with Earth's criminals and other unwanted population, Mars has developed a strange culture of its own | "Ten balks," the man in front of me demanded, offering a hand forwards. I searched my pockets for what small change I had, fumbling for the correct coins.
"Here," I replied, placing the coins in the palm of his hand. He hesitated for a moment, squinting his eyes at me. His mouth twisted to one side and he tilted his h... | *"Sir?"*
"Yes?"
*"Message coming through from Mars. Not on the official channels. Thought you might want to know."*
"Not on the offical – dammit! Who let the inmates have broadcast equipment!?"
*"Nobody, sir. Point of origin is... Mars Central Command."*
"Yeah, sure. I'll bet they're asking if our refrigerator's r... | 2014-12-20T07:42:23 | 2014-12-20T07:37:59 | 91 | 25 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | Once a month, every month, I switched places with a person I'd never met. The first time it had happened, I cried. I was so scared because I didn't know what had just happened to me. One moment I was playing with some toys in the front room, the TV on in the background, the next I was somewhere else, I was someone else... | I looked down at the diamond ring, then back to her face. This was the second moment of my life that seemed to last an eternity. I etched the look of true happiness to the back of my mind and thought about the first time I met her. Eight years ago, first day of high school. I remember nervously waiting outside the clas... | 2019-02-13T16:41:43 | 2019-02-13T16:09:17 | 178 | 69 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | Bruce Wayne stood stoically, looking down upon Gotham through the spotless glass of the top-floor conference room. It was a stunning view, with the orange light of the setting sun trickling through the skyscrapers that sprawled out towards the horizon. Diana closed the notebook in front of her, its well-worn spine crac... | Helping people is good. It's what Ma says. Helping people is the best thing you could ever do.
Lois is walking me down the street. She does this all the time. It helps me with my powers. I need the sun to get my strength - that's what everyone told me.
"Only a bit further to the doctor, Clark," she smiles. But it's ... | 2016-03-04T11:05:17 | 2016-03-04T10:58:32 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] A mountain climber near the summit of Mt Everest discovers the body of a man holding a note. The note explains that Mt Everest isn't actually a mountain at all. | I took this prompt in a slightly different direction than OP intended I think. Hope you all like the results!
It is largely considered one of the most dangerous obstacles a person can undertake. In a remote part of the world, populated by farmers and nomads who have yet to see the technological revolution, a mounta... | I found the note in the man's hand. It was about a days hike from the summit, and it was found off the side of the trail. I hate to use the term "it", but there's so many bodies on the mountain they lose identity. The bodies are now simply pollution on the mountain. I was scared, startled and bothered by the first one.... | 2014-08-24T07:39:01 | 2014-08-24T05:04:42 | 181 | 21 |
[WP] You just sent in your DNA to one of those ancestry sites. After eight weeks, you can’t figure out why your results have not shown up. Then, two men with dark suits show up at your front door. They have some news regarding your results. | "Director Sir, two things. First: the game development team has finished the sequel to *Gears of War* with the updated information on the Locusts, like you asked. I nod and look up at him, only see a look of concern. 'And second," he begins, obviously worried, "the boys down in the data department got a ping for a new,... | “Kelly Hsu?” the older one asks.
“Yes?” My heartbeat barges into my ears; I don’t like strangers knowing my name, especially not ones in dark suits looming in my doorframe.
“Tim Dietermann: Frampton, Dietermann & White.” He extends a little white card to me that repeats what he just said, plus “Esq.” and some p... | 2020-07-19T11:30:28 | 2020-07-19T10:51:09 | 60 | 16 |
[WP] You applied for a job at google, everything goes well and only one interview remains: They'd just like an explanation for your search history. | The knock on my door came like a blast of thunder. I jumped up in my armchair and looked at the time. Eight past midnight.
"Who's that?" I called. The armchair was so soft I didn't want to get up for no good reason.
"I'm Ms. Vernon from Google. We scheduled an interview today, remember?"
I groaned and shambled to th... | "I'm writing a novel."
"You're writing a novel," the interviewer puts his hands on the desk. I give a smile that I hope looks like a smile and not like a grimace. "A novel about...what, exactly?"
"A novel about...guns. And...sharks...in tornadoes. And..uh...well, you know there was one chapter where the main charac... | 2016-06-03T05:58:09 | 2016-06-03T05:45:01 | 351 | 38 |
[WP] We finally make contact with an alien civilization, however as it happens we are also the first civilization they've come in contact with. We're able to communicate, but it's awkward because no one is sure what to say. That is, until... | "I am here, I want to contact."
That was the first message we received. I was only a child then. I remember the word spreading around the school. The teachers standing in circles talking, the students running around quoting the message. I went home that night and read articles.
The message came from a system twent... | They found us first, and sent along the schematics for their device.
They didn't know much about us other than our general location and that we were capable of producing radio signals. The device didn't even land on earth. We had to retrieve it from a low orbit around Mars.
Didn't take much of an engineer to see... | 2014-09-05T10:35:46 | 2014-09-05T10:24:48 | 41 | 22 |
[FF] In 200 words, describe a ghastly and very unpleasant body transformation. Can be mechanical, biological, magical or whatever you like. (possibly NSFW) | She woke up, instinctively knowing it was going to happen today. There was a terrible, aching tightness in her belly, and as she swung her legs out of bed, a stabbing pain pierced her body. It was starting. Her body was shedding itself, tearing itself apart from the inside out. There was nothing she could do to stop it... | EDIT: I clearly missed that 200 words bit. I was wondering why everyone's story was so short. Well anyway I spent a while on this since I typed it all out on my ipod so I'm going to leave it. If the length offends just send me to the bottom of the page
James woke up to an odd tingling in his toes. Attempting g to igno... | 2014-09-12T10:42:14 | 2014-09-12T10:34:54 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] Some insane asylums are actually prisons for wizards. You are a normal person that got sent to the wrong one by accident.
Viewpoint character being insane optional.
Alternative prompt: write from the point of view of an "orderly". | NSFW language
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Day 1: They told me I was “mentally unbalanced” which is what my friend was called in high school, when he decked that bully and they needed a reason to punish him.... | To most people, he was Supervisor Dale Taylor. That’s what it said on his name badge, just above the left breast pocket. To the patients – or inmates, as they called themselves - he was High Inquisitor.
It felt good to be High Inquisitor, or Supervisor, or whatever you wanted to call him. In the end they equaled the ... | 2014-12-04T13:07:32 | 2014-12-04T12:45:45 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] The "Eye for an Eye Inversion" law allows every life saved to credit the saver one legal murder. The medical profession are now the most feared and revered community. | Business was booming.
In his office at St Thomas' Hospital, overlooking the Thames, Dr Jones leaned back in his chair and smiled. In his younger days, people went into the medical profession for a variety of reasons, altruistic and selfish. Now, with the Net Murder Neutrality law, one more reason was added to that lis... | I won't pretend I'm some sort of legal professional kid, I don't know shit about the history of the law or whatever, but I know the ins and outs of it like the back of my hand. Hell why am I telling you this, you've gotta know it too, right?
You're kidding me, you don't know? Why did I b- Oh forget it. Okay, there's ... | 2015-01-10T09:19:34 | 2015-01-10T08:51:35 | 365 | 99 |
[WP] You tried to commit suicide, but as it turns out you are immortal. Now you have to call someone to help you cut the rope. Awkward. | "Dude, I can't understand you. I think there's a problem with the line. Text me!"
The line went dead. I really should have seen that coming. Speech requires breath, a resource I was at that time severely lacking. I tried to think of how I could explain this through a text but nothing seemed appropriate. There's no soc... | Gasping and thrashing, the tight noose choked him. The more he moved, the more his neck went red raw and burnt; the more it burnt, the more he thrashed. It went on, and on, until he finally found the appealing sway he was hoping for, back and forth along the bottom floor of his house, the rope attached to the curving b... | 2015-01-12T11:11:16 | 2015-01-12T08:30:21 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GARBAGE!?"
He threw the cup across the ring.
"Getting fired from the WWE isn't enough Batista wants to go ahead and make crappy coffee too!"
The crowd roared as The Rock swayed around the center.
"Cafe vanilla! DO I LOOK LIKE A HIPSTER TO YOU , BATISTA?"
Batista sadly lowers his head, starin... | There he was, this empty shell of a legend, merely a copy of what was once a legend in the ring, now his clones working here at Starbucks. It was all part of the initiative to bring about a society like that in the infamous story ‘Brave New World’. The United States Conglomerate Government had started a cloning initiat... | 2015-01-15T06:47:14 | 2015-01-15T06:13:25 | 1,156 | 51 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | I looked back at the hulking mass of humanity with absolute disdain. It wasn't for the obvious reason though. I pitied Dave Batista and his new career. Once a top wrestling superstar, and more recently breakout action star, Dave had taken a swift fall from grace.
That green apron looked like it was tailored to fit a s... | I sat down on the warm grass and made myself comfortable. Back against a large oak tree, sun dappled through the leaves. This couldn't be much better.
It's a shame all of these coffee places serve everything in cardboard these days. I guess I could have got it in a mug but that would involve staying in the coffee shop... | 2015-01-15T07:10:38 | 2015-01-15T04:28:05 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | “Don’t do it.”
For years I had been receiving visions. Visions of a brighter future. A future where the worries of today; famine, war, poverty, were nightmares relegated to obscurity. A world where every man, woman and child could live out their lives in peace and harmony, free from the uncertainty that plagued them, ... | I have never been the kind to try and find a meaning in dreams, nor the one who listens to fortune tellers: my future is mine to shape, unforeseeable and beautifully mysterious because of that. I don’t know what comes next, and as such I’m as free as I could be in my choices. This is just how it should be, except it ce... | 2017-04-01T06:47:09 | 2017-04-01T06:02:46 | 317 | 44 |
[WP] As a human, it can be hard to be taken seriously when people suspect you're a robot
Human emotions can easily overwhelm fleshy, non-positronic brains. This is especially true when accused of being a robotic entity. For anyone else dealing with this issue, /r/totallynotrobots is a helpful resource.
As a side n... | "For the umpteenth time, Charles, I'm not a damn robot!"
"Your name and appearance suggest otherwise, Aldane 665. You. Are. A. Robot."
"My mother had a terrible sense of humor, and my father wasn't there to slap her when she filled the form for my birth certificate."
"And your appearance?" Charles gestured to the me... | I sit in a circle with a bunch of kooks. Oblivious robots who thought that they were humans. How could they be so delusional? Have they not looked in a mirror recently? I don't know why that judge made me go to these meetings. I actually am a person. Not like these clowns. Half of them didn't even have a chair. They ar... | 2017-04-01T10:54:53 | 2017-04-01T10:43:51 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Aliens sees Humans as foolish for allowing full citizenship for AIs and synthetics. Humans are now the only organics alive in the galaxy that every AI respects. | Hiving was so popular now with young humans, it had really just become the new norm.
People would usually get into it in college when the pressure to perform was at it's highest. It was also common on ships, when the sense of integration was there already and it was beneficial to the whole crew to simply increase thei... | The ships were only a star system away from arriving at the alleged target. The crew of the vessel were preparing the stasis fields, the collars and the cells of the massive prison ship. Maybe the council will give them lip for going into currently unexplored territory and sending slavers but the Batarian Hegemony didn... | 2017-10-29T12:53:50 | 2017-10-29T11:00:43 | 87 | 48 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | First contact was made almost ten years ago. They seemed well versed in warfare, in less than a day there wasn't a satellite left in the sky or a cable under the sea. Communication between nations fell to old ground bounce long range radios pulled out of mothballs. Conventional weapons proved to be ineffective and the ... | There were some that called it a sign from God, another purging of humanity like the great flood. I never cared, all that I needed to know was that they were smart, and didn't like to go underground, best place for safe houses in my opinion. I was in one of these so called safe houses, if a sewer tunnel filled with lam... | 2018-05-18T05:29:26 | 2017-12-06T20:40:56 | 47 | 29 |
[WP] Every year, a man is sent into the caves as a sacrifice to the gods. When you are sent in, you discover a Utopian society run by gods where the “sacrifices” are playing games and living life to its fullest. | Griff approached the cave cautiously, trying to calm his beating heart. He could hear distant sounds; wailing, screeches.
He knew his time had come.
As his kingdom's champion, it was his destiny to be sacrificed to the gods. While it saddened him that he would not lose his life in battle, it was also a great honour... | The estoc was fairly plain. The blade was iron and although there were delicately engraved curlicues on its brass hilt, it had no gem on its pommel. For nearly a year after it was crafted, the weapon had gone unwanted in the blacksmith's shop on Mecklenburger Strasse, until the night that Erhard, who was a messenger,... | 2017-12-11T22:38:33 | 2017-12-11T22:18:10 | 1,924 | 72 |
[WP] you two are humans that have been thrown into an arena for the amusement of some aliens, you have both been starved for days yet when a delicious steak is placed between you two you do something they wouldn't expect. Share. | ######[](#dropcap)
"You ready for the fight of the century?" Mark spoke the words out of the side of his mouth, barely moving his lips.
Jackson smirked. "Of course."
"You remember our choreo, right?"
Jackson laughed as he waved toward the crowd. "Trust me, you'll get your half of the pie."
The two humans were b... | I apologise for formatting, I’m making this on mobile.
The man, who introduced himself later as Hanks, was thrown in a cage next to me.
“To make sure you don’t kill each other... yet!” the alien explained, cackling an evil laughter. I looked up from where I sat and turned my head towards the new guy. In one glance I ... | 2018-04-16T06:37:36 | 2018-04-16T06:23:17 | 178 | 53 |
[WP] Your best friend is weirdly the ghost that haunts your house, you chat with each other, play video games, bullshit over movies. Until the day that they finally finish the thing that has kept them from moving on all this time | I booted up the game, waiting for player two to enter the game. I cracked open a beer in the meantime, kicking up my feet on the table. He was damned good at FIFA - for a ghost.
He was taking long today. There was still no sign of him; no shit talking, no icon flashing on screen. Nothing.
"Casper?" I yelled, my stu... | I was about 6 at the time we moved into our current house. My mother saw it was a very cheap house, due to all it's apparent past haunting, and she found a nearby job as a single mother. She believed it was bullshit, and I'm glad she did. When we first moved here, she didn't notice anything but I started to notice weir... | 2018-06-27T22:27:47 | 2018-06-27T21:41:19 | 120 | 38 |
[WP] The most evil demon has been summoned. The summoner is a little girl and just wants to be hugged. | Too many times there were punches. Too many times there were kicks. Too many times there were other actions that made Lucy withdraw into herself. The endless hours of crying left her eyes barren of any emotion, empty of anything but tears.
Lucy found solace at her school library. Maybe it would have been imposing to... | As the ritual was almost complete, multiple flashing colours flashed in the face young Arka, a wave of heat hit her body and almost threw her soul out of her, and the ritual was finally complete.
Arka saw as the mighty Halfacer raised from the ground in the middle of her room, the figure of the beast sent shivers dow... | 2018-09-19T07:00:36 | 2018-09-19T05:51:15 | 51 | 24 |
[WP] You invented a serum that lets you communicate with animals. You decide to test it first. It doesn't seem to work, until you hear a spider ask, "Hey Roomie! How was your day?!" | "Hey Roomie! How was your day?!" the spider inquired, cheerfully. She was a big one -- *tegenaria gigantea,* a giant house spider. Harmless to humans, helpful in controlling insect pests.
"Bad." I said, with a sigh, as I regarded the empty ampule from which I'd drawn the zoophonic serum. "Something's very wrong here.... | After five years of research and testing in his home lab, Kevin watched as what he finally believed to be a serum that would allow humans to understand the languages of animals dripped slowly into a test tube. The golden liquid was as thick as a viscous oil. Microscopic crystals that had formed inside it glittered in t... | 2018-09-21T23:49:24 | 2018-09-21T23:11:57 | 148 | 41 |
[WP] A little invisible girl spends her days scaring everyone she meets, who all think she's a ghost. Scared and alone, she finds comfort in a little blind boy.
Edit: So apparently this is already the plot of a book, which is like, super cool and great. | "Oh- I'm sorry."
He spoke with a smile Emma could only guess was sincere.
"There's nothing to be sorry for." The girl took a step back, only visible by the crushed grass under her feet.
"What's your name?" Thomas answered in childful curiosity. Anyone who sounded like a fairy shaking it's wings was probably his age... | I wasn't born like this, which I think makes it harder for everyone else. They knew me. Some loved me. So when it happened, and they thought I had died, it was difficult to deal with. And scary. They could hear my voice, feel my hand on theirs, bump into me in the hallway... They thought I was haunting them.
I suppose... | 2018-11-20T13:05:26 | 2018-11-20T12:46:55 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] There is a deep hole just outside your village. The elders pick one person to dive in every year, 'for the good of the tribe', never to be seen again. The elders have just chosen you. You're expected to jump tonight. | Every year one of us has to jump, every year we have to say goodbye to one of us just to have him jump down this damn hole and probably kill themselves.
Im planning to form a revolution,to overcome this nonsense and to live in freedom without being bound to these damn elders' rules.
Tomorrow when another man will giv... | I drop my apples in shock, shaking as I knew all along what this meant. They were going to sacrifice me. As young as eight I always snuck around to see how exactly it was done; not just the public display. I still remember the local bully, Kyle boasting on how his soul would save the village by jumping. The crowd cheer... | 2019-04-28T17:36:00 | 2019-04-28T17:12:24 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] You're the Grim Reaper. When you approach dying people you see a timer and cause of death in text above them, and your x-ray vision always confirms their illnesses. Today seemed normal but the text above the person in front of you says "Death: Cancer, 9 seconds." Problem is that he is healthy. | This shouldn't be happening. I watched as the number counted down. Part of me was horrified; he was completely healthy, there were no signs of any illness. Yet part of me was intrigued. I wanted to see what would happen. Oftentimes we were given more warning when someone died of something like an aneurism or heart atta... | A teenage boy stands before me in a mall. Well, floats. He’s a soul now, after all. He’s trying to move, waving his wispy limbs around. Haha, they always look hilarious when they do that. Baby souls, toddling around.
The boy’s dead. Hasn’t always been dead; that’s how these things work. He’s very recently dead, thoug... | 2019-12-27T12:57:23 | 2019-12-27T07:09:53 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] As a child you had to receive a life saving heart transplant due to a defect. It has been almost 20 years since then. You are waiting for a train to arrive when suddenly you feel a sharp pang in your chest as a stranger approaches. He smiles and says: "I believe you have something of mine." | All things considered, I've been lucky in life.
Well, other than the congenital heart defect. And having ten corrective surgeries before age three. And those not working. It eventually culminated at age five, when I got my new heart. The new heart wasn't without it's issues. I had to take anti-rejection medications. A... | Sara sat on the bench, lost in her work. Technically she wasn’t supposed to take her work home but it didn’t matter. She could do it without any consequence. Not because she was a big deal. No. In fact it was the opposite. She was pretty much invisible at the precinct. She was just the young rookie who no one cared abo... | 2020-04-01T22:26:01 | 2020-04-01T19:44:10 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] Every time you dream you're actually visiting the mind of one of your doppelgangers in a parallel dimension. Those who lucid dream are actually possessing their doppelgangers. | Hello,
I'm writing this comment in a dream. I'm trying to figure out where and who I am. It seems like I'm in Maryland in somebody's office. I get up, I look in the mirror. It's me, but its not me. It just looks like me. Suddenly, I realize I have the ability to control the \*man in the mirror\*.
Next thing I know-... | *Journey Through Dreams* was the next book I started whipping through. Then after I skimmed through and received the same information from the previous book *Unlocking Dreams*, I was done. I tossed it on the pile of all the other completed lucid dreaming books that spilled out from the corner of my room that accumulate... | 2020-06-05T09:53:51 | 2020-06-05T09:06:35 | 68 | 41 |
[WP] You're a cleaner for a famous assassin. You just found out it is your spouse. This infuriates you not because of the secrets or killing, but because you've been cleaning up after your spouse at home and at their work all this time. | She screeched and stalked towards him, disregard for the dead body at her feet in every indignant line of her body.
"Are you fucking KIDDING ME??" Allie yelled.
Chris winced, rubbing an ear, then stopped. He looked at her, head tilted in confusion.
"You don't look as scared as I thought you might be if you found ou... | As I make my way through Strickman's office, I can't help myself from first emptying out his dustbin. I'm not proud to admit it - I'm not proud of much anymore - but this is the highlight of my day. I've never met the man. A contact of a friend of a friend got me this job and well, when you're my age with no education,... | 2021-02-11T14:33:00 | 2021-02-11T13:46:21 | 421 | 74 |
[WP] The deity woke up from a 100-year snooze and stretched, looking around. In surprise, it found that there were no humans around. A passing animal told the deity, “There are no humans left on Earth.” It queried, “Then, why can I still feel them?” “There are no humans left ON EARTH.” | "Ah, so my children have left my cradle. Figures."
Gaia looked up towards the sky. She looked up and remembered the day where she made them. The smiling, boundless soul of humanity peering down towards her with a smile.
"They were unruly, brash, angry, and incredibly stupid. Yet they were intelligent, kind, and happ... | ***WARNING: This story is really horrific and is not for the faint of heart.***
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I was known as Otob, the god of nothing. For no one worshipped me and I blessed nor curse anyone. The other gods would always argue that the word diety was wasted on me. But I had never heeded their words for when I felt my h... | 2021-05-06T16:23:49 | 2021-05-06T15:30:33 | 69 | 48 |
[WP] You die, and wake up in a chair with a screen in front of you. It reads “Congratulations on being the 100 billionth person to die! As a reward, you get to customize your body, choose your skills, traits, etc for your next reincarnation! Once you finish, click “REINCARNATE”. | “Congratulations on being the 100 billionth person to die! As a reward, you get to customize your body, choose your skills, traits, etc for your next reincarnation! Once you finish, click 'REINCARNATE.'"
A happy electornic voice repeats over speakers.
You scream. You keep screaming. You sort of forget why but you're... | **[Part 1]**
I stared at the screen.
"You've got to be kidding me..."
A mumbled curse escaped my lips as I tentatively reached out with my hand to touch the borderless floating display in front of me. When my fingers made contact it was slightly different than what I expected, smooth but warm to the touch.
Carefull... | 2021-05-16T19:41:52 | 2021-05-16T19:04:50 | 99 | 26 |
[WP] A hyper advanced alien race decides to mimic Darwin's study of finches with humans. Several groups of Homo sapiens are placed on different planets and monitored over a long period of time for adaptations/evolution. You've just been abducted from planet A to be studied alongside the others.
Credit goes to [this pr... | The Darwinian Olympics were cruel. A gold medal meant your genes were spread far and wide. Silver would get your genome analyzed for favorable alleles. Bronze got you sent home back to your gene pool. But fourth meant your genes were pruned, generally using the Torch unless you happened to compete in one of the sports ... | There were a lot of things you could change about humanity. Our height, amount of body hair, how we scavenged for food but one thing you couldn’t change was our humanity. That primal instinct developed from our first steps in evolution. I stared at the humans next to me, each sharing that same look of unease, forced to... | 2021-09-17T12:12:44 | 2021-09-17T08:06:33 | 50 | 23 |
[WP] An alien force prepares to invade Earth, write from the perspective of the invading forces commanding officer.
I've grown tired of reading my own stories. I'm looking forward to see how other people would write on this topic. | As I examined the files, I found myself concerned. The indigenous civilisation was very advanced compared to our most recent adversaries. A disturbing amount of time and resources had been placed into the development of fission weapons. It was clear that their development was guided by war, as these Homo Sapiens - the ... | “Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against humanity. Why, some of my best friends are humans. It’s just that there’s no talking with you people. We get together, we agree to terms, we sign a contract and then half of you go and break it within days of signing. Well, we don’t really work like that.”
I shivered with ... | 2013-12-10T14:14:29 | 2013-12-10T13:47:30 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity invents interstellar travel and discovers a planet with a less developed sentient species. Something is stopping them from progressing.... | -United Nations' Space Station, orbiting planet XV13-
"Sir! We've made contact!" Private Jenkins panted as he ran to bring the news to the general.
"What is it?" General Briggs boomed, "You better not be wasting my time, private!"
"We've made contact with an alien species! The big heads down on the surface of the p... | "Sir! The satellite reached the orbit. It is in the right speed and according to our calculations, it should remain there" Lady Bogora, the iron lady of science brightened as she smiled enthusiastically "We have done it!"
"Inform the media, history is being written. We need to get the word out." The president ordered... | 2014-09-28T17:21:07 | 2014-09-28T16:09:46 | 60 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | The 'age of truth' historians were dubbing it. In 2031 a new app was released and became the new big thing. Taking advantage of the constant data stream from Apple's neural implants and the shared cloud of data the new app was able to pick up on subconscious cues and could tell when someone was lying. Privacy laws prot... | **Never participated in a WP thread before, probably a bad starting point given that the thread's already 12 hours old, but ah well, here goes!**
Chris looked in the mirror one last time, adjusted his collar, grabbed his coat, and left.
4 years of medical school had all come down to this, his first day as a doctor. ... | 2014-11-15T17:28:43 | 2014-11-15T15:14:52 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You applied for a job at google, everything goes well and only one interview remains: They'd just like an explanation for your search history. | "There's just one thing. Your search history."
My heart started beating like crazy. *I took very precaution*, I thought. I deleted all of my search history. I used a VPN. Hell, I even used another computer.
What could they have found out? My infidelity towards my wife? My mentally unstable phase? No, not...... | “So Mr. Anderson, thanks for your patience. My name is Smith and I’m in charge of security around here."
“Nice to meet you”, Thomas said while Mr. Smith sat down at the other side of the table. Thomas only wondered briefly about Mr. Smith’s sunglasses and his very, very black suit.
“As you know this is your final int... | 2016-06-03T05:42:35 | 2016-06-03T04:54:11 | 93 | 43 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I was on the phone with my wife at the time, sitting at a patio table with my half-eaten sandwich in front of me. "I'll be home at five. I promise." The thin line stretched across my index finger and I dabbed the blood away with a napkin discreetly. A couple walked by, hand in hand. I glanced over for half of a second.... | The air moved in circles as the fans tried to cool the bank in a vain effort. I rolled up the sleeves to my white button down and loosened my tie, already uncomfortable with the day. Regardless I worked closely with clients in securing loans or otherwise declining their offers. Not long after my lunch break, where I so... | 2016-12-29T10:27:28 | 2016-12-29T08:37:35 | 448 | 297 |
[WP] If you kill someone, you get a power. Anybody with a power is arrested. One day, you discover that your SO has dozens of powers
edit: jesus I worded that badly. ah well | You wake up in the dead of night to crying and the swooshing of air.
You walk into the basement, and see your wife in the dark, crying and surrounded by floating objects.
With a deep breath, you walk towards her.
The objects begin to change shape. Some begin to ignite.
"Please stay back." She mutters.
You halt... | "Hey babe?" I asked, rolling over in the bed. Just as I moved, my elbow knocked my phone off and without thinking, I threw out my hand, keeping the phone hovered in mid-air.
Levitation: the only power I owned. It was a mistake. A hit-and-run during a drunk escapade with my friends. Whenever I used it, I felt great sh... | 2017-02-20T00:40:08 | 2017-02-19T23:10:02 | 77 | 26 |
[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. | "You're kidding me. You've got to be kidding me."
"No, sir. It's true."
"They only have one carrier. We have a station in orbit around their planet. They can't possibly win."
"Sir . . . They've started playing their war cry."
"Not--"
"The Eye of the Tiger, sir." | The captain stood before their company, his ferocity was inspiring.
"Its up to us!" he roared "The boys at the top are wanting to pull the funding for our little expedition, they say this has been a waste of men and money! This is our last chance to take back the colony from those bastards and drive them back to their... | 2017-03-05T21:40:56 | 2017-03-05T21:06:51 | 315 | 160 |
[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. | The Chime of Ung sounded it’s low, forbidding tone across the chamber of the 301 delegates. The susurrus of conversation dimmed as the delegates of the Great Civilization took their seats. As before, the Archstronomer Piyt r’Ultarc stood before them to report on the ongoing war. At her gesture, the lights dimmed and a ... | "You decided to bring that thing with you? A HUMAN!" Mechana screeched.
"I figured we could use an edge." Daith responded looking at Dave and back to the mechanoid. Mechana grabbed Diath's tendril and pulled him to one side "Excuse us for a moment Human." Once Mechana felt like it was out of Dave's hearing range Mechan... | 2017-03-06T05:37:47 | 2017-03-06T05:23:59 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | I was surprised I noticed.
After all, I *should* be dead.
The infection was said to have completely saturated the entire species. We had been living this way for years. The medicine had its side effects, of course. Everyone was a little skittish and unable to focus. Our internal temperature went up by a full degr... | "I'm not dead! I swear I'm not on my drugs either, take me seriously we have to get this out!" Dave pounded on the one-way windows again, but received no answer. Since the day he became homeless, he ran out of money for his drugs... But unlike the others, he wasn't dead. He wasn't one of those raging *things* people be... | 2017-07-14T11:37:22 | 2017-07-14T10:51:48 | 58 | 20 |
[WP]You wake up one day and notice that you can see stats and levels over people's heads. Most are in the 20s with a few people as high as 80. As you're watching people you notice someone with a skull where their level should be staring at you. | I had no idea what the numbers meant. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, but they wouldn't go away. A lot of younger kids, even some teenagers, had numbers in the 20s. A few middle aged people walked by, with almost all of their numbers around 40 or 50. I saw a homeless man huddled next to a trash can with 80 above his head... | I swear, i thought i was still dreaming. It wasn't an idea totally out of the question, since id been experimenting with lucidity.
See, i watch sports highlights before work in the morning, and i couldn't wrap my head around all the numbers hovering all above the football players' heads, thinking it was a new tv track... | 2017-08-21T18:21:08 | 2017-08-21T16:57:21 | 537 | 116 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T08:30:05 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T08:30:05 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 37 | 12 |
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