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[WP] The research facility has been overrun. A lone scientists barricaded in his office readies a pistol to take as many of them with him as he can, but is shocked to see he is a naturally extremely skilled shooter. He begins singlehandedly reclaiming the entire complex where the guards failed. | "Hold your fire, I repeat, hold your fire!!" the soldier at the front of the strike team yelled out, his gun still trained at the blood-soaked man standing in front of him, handgun in hand. When they breached the compound door, they expected many things - a lone researcher was not one of them.
"Oh," the man said with ... | The smell in the building was acrid, the creatures overrunning the facility having carried something foul with them as well as destroying dozens of vats holding dangerous fluids. Doctor Polmo sat with a gun in hand, staring at it in shock. He had emptied the entire clip, and every bullet met its mark in the head of a c... | 2022-11-26T21:14:26 | 2022-11-26T19:17:03 | 1,217 | 304 |
[WP] You've lost your organs. Go find them. | They've done it, all right. It's a disaster. All of my organs, gone!
I'm not an unreasonable person, but I will call the police on this matter. It's more than just the loss of my lifeblood. Whoever did this has robbed me of my safety, my solace. My very sense of security!
Despite the seriousness of the situation, the... | "GASP!!!"
William's head broke free of the ice cubes that trapped him in his porcelain prison. He shivered as his pickled flesh was exposed to the still air of a small dark room. Fear quickly began to manifest.
*Calm. Remember your training. Breathe.*
Easier thought than done. A thousand tiny needles pricked William... | 2014-07-23T20:41:39 | 2014-07-23T20:23:38 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] A lone Spanish soldier lost in the deep jungles of South America stumbles upon the fountain of youth, but it's very different than anyone ever imagined. | I can't believe my luck, such a beautiful fountain. Here where I'd least expect it. I step in. Just to cool off from the heat. To clean up. I feel so wonderful! It's indescribable! My years have fallen aside and I'm young again. Really? Could this actually be happening? Wow! It's incredible! Amazing! I may just be abl... | "I can't believe it."
The lone soldier walked towards the ancient monument, not quite able to comprehend the site before hiss eyes.
In front of him was a large, empty, square but with a small fountain in the middle. With a ring of purple fire surrounding it.
Gabriel knew instantly what he was looking at, even if he ... | 2014-09-06T21:02:45 | 2014-09-06T20:19:25 | 58 | 35 |
[WP] Your i-pod is sentient and tries to warn you of impending doom by shuffling your music library to play songs as a warning. | I was on a date with the girl of my dreams, or so I thought. My ipod has saved my life in the past with songs like "Jump" and "Don't Talk to Strangers" it's even helped me with little things by playing "Shelter" when it was about to rain. But this time it got me out of an almost catastrophic situation. We're on this da... | *Take It on the Run*
My iPod blared the music through my headphones as I headed into town. I was jogging on a nice spring day, cool wind in my hair.
*Hotel California*
I think my iPod was glitching. It started to skip to different songs rapidly. I waved as I passed by Mrs. Hennisy’s house. She was a sweet old lady. ... | 2015-01-05T17:38:00 | 2015-01-05T16:16:18 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Kanye West's daughter, for her birthday, asks Kanye to show some modesty for once in his life. Follow Kanye's subsequent quest to prove that since he's the best at everything ever, he can become the most humble man in the world. | Kanye West
Went on a Kanye Quest
To become the humblest man
And make his daughter impressed
He’s become cheaply dressed
Sold all but one vest
Gave away all the money
In the Kanye Chest
“But a man needs to rest”,
Said that Kanye West
Left with naught but a cot
As his Kanye Nest
All this left Kanye stre... | North sauntered into her father's studio, quietly approaching him as the glow of his computer screen danced off of his headphones. She could hear the beats thumping through them as her father's head bobbed rhythmically up and down to the project he had been working on for the past four hours. Hesitantly, she slowly tap... | 2015-02-10T10:31:06 | 2015-02-10T09:52:13 | 60 | 27 |
[WP] In an attempt to convince people society would have been better if humanity had never found religion, a time traveler kills anyone who begins to develop a form of faith. He goes back to the present and finds that people now universally worship a god who travels through time and smites heathens. | "That was the last one," she thought. Every known founder, messiah, and prophet gone. Every fool who ever thought to make up a story, to convince a population, and then wield their influence through modifications to their myth has been erased from history.
*Really done* this time. Those first trips back had been su... | I'm kinda tired and whipped this out. I like the idea, will probably eventually re-work.
...
“You can’t be fucking serious.”
“I am totally fucking serious, dude.”
“Ok, listen shitwad – even IF your plan were possible, which it is NOT, have you ever heard of the fucking butterfly effect?”
“Hey! This shitwad’s gene... | 2016-05-06T22:35:23 | 2016-05-06T21:18:54 | 249 | 30 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | "You gotta be kidding me" I said pressing down the button.
"Haha, nope," she replied, "that's why you should always wait before compulsively pressing every button you see."
"Well..."
"Well- what?"
"Well, what the hell does it do?" I specified.
"I don't know, you'll have to press it to find out."
"There's no way I... | I couldn't remember much about the night I spent with her except for that little silly button she had in the wall, and the weird sound she made when she climaxed. The whole thing was a mistake. Dana would kill me if she knew. She would literally shot me in the head with her service gun. But I couldn't resist that stran... | 2017-01-05T14:05:34 | 2017-01-05T13:30:21 | 65 | 12 |
[WP] A new continent is discovered. No one knows why this large land mass has never been seen before, it doesn't appear on any pictures taken from space and no astronauts have ever reported seeing it. You are part of the team in charge of mapping the area when you find out what they've been hiding. | Container ships got automated a long time ago. GPS satellites could guide them through the oceans, and people only needed to be onboard to make repeats and guide them into a port.
But somehow, all our satellites never managed to spot a continent the size of Europe in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Instead, it was d... | "Tell us, friend, what it is like back on your land?" Mu'ru asks me. He was a tall, strong male, adorned with blue tattoo's all over his torso.
"Oh, it's simple," I start to explain, "Really bloody hot all the time. And if it's not hot, it's raining. And If it's not raining, it's about to be." I let out a light laugh... | 2017-02-10T09:48:00 | 2017-02-10T08:15:40 | 1,957 | 812 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "Guys, it's not that complicated," I say to the increasingly frustrated group of scientists, "I just jump... and then I jump again."
Most of them stare at me open-mouthed, one flings his hands up into the air and storms out of the test room.
"Okay, but... what does it feel like when you jump the second time?" press... | The people in comic books have so many cool powers: flight, super strength, laser vision. My power is pretty mundane, but I like it that way: I can use it subtly without people freaking out.
I learned of my power in Junior High, when I tried to impress my father at long jump; he was upset that I was always second to ... | 2017-02-11T09:05:42 | 2017-02-11T08:42:45 | 144 | 39 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | I woke up from a rough night. I had been drinking and partying and having fun- you know. Young people stuff. I opened my eyes slowly to a *beep beep beep* which I thought was an alarm clock so I groggily reached over to turn it off.
Except, it wasn't there.
I wasn't at home. I wasn't at a friend's. I was in a hospita... | "Well, this is new, a tattoo embedded onto the arm of mine, but I' ve no recollection of how it got here but, at least it doesn't hurt. What happened last night? Well I went from work at 3:15 pm and I went to the... damn it what is that damn place called? It had a weird name. Fuck. Where am I? Well let's see..." The cr... | 2017-03-24T17:29:35 | 2017-03-24T13:35:49 | 99 | 20 |
[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. | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T12:51:41 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 58 | 25 |
[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. | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T12:51:41 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 58 | 20 |
[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. | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 56 | 25 |
[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. | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 56 | 20 |
[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. | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 18 | 10 |
[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. | Ah old Miss Stevenson. Not getting sick when everyone has. She goes about washing her hands incessantly. She says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot in night soil, and the medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. I am among the first, but not the last to suspect that she might be onto... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T15:51:46 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 17 | 11 |
[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. | Ah old Miss Stevenson. Not getting sick when everyone has. She goes about washing her hands incessantly. She says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot in night soil, and the medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. I am among the first, but not the last to suspect that she might be onto... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T15:51:46 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 17 | 10 |
[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. | Ah old Miss Stevenson. Not getting sick when everyone has. She goes about washing her hands incessantly. She says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot in night soil, and the medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. I am among the first, but not the last to suspect that she might be onto... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T11:09:45 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A schizophrenic man gets sick of the voice in his head and asks it to start paying rent if it wants to live there. The next morning he finds an envelope filled with cash on his desk. | "You didn't think I would just leave, did you?" said the voice.
Paul looked closer at the envelope. "I mean... I can't say I was expecting you to pay up."
"Honestly Paul, we've known each other for *how* many years?"
Paul couldn't stop looking at the envelope. It had a green stripe printed down the right side and a ... | David sits at his computer, trying to type through the maelstrom of screaming. He shifts a row, typing numbers into the document as though the sounds were just the buzz of cicadas or the music of crickets, rather than the soundtrack of hell.
Pushing his glasses down and rubbing his eyes, he sighs loudly out of frustra... | 2018-02-03T07:12:29 | 2018-02-03T06:32:54 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are an archaeologist who just unearthed an ancient tomb. Among the pottery and sarcophagi, you find a pristine business card with only a phone number on it. | "Do you see that?!" Jeb said shining his light towards the ground. "It's a buisness card of some kind"
Scott bent down to examine it closer. He picked it up, peering at the embossed number. "This is mine" he said stuffing it back into his jacket pocket. "Must have fallen out during the excavation"
"Oh" said Jeb. | Castle stared down at the card, suddenly feeling so very alone in the tomb.
*How could this be?*
The seal had not been broken, he was sure of it. This tomb had been undisturbed for millennia, but this card barely had a speck of dust on it.
And still, there was the troubling reality of the sarcophagus. It was empty... | 2018-07-16T00:28:27 | 2018-07-15T23:42:05 | 550 | 66 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | *Note: I just wrote another story for this prompt in the replies below. Let me know which sorry you like better!*
It wasn't until I had the chance to die that I realized I still wanted to live.
Sitting next to the parents, seeing their faces as the ER surgeon came out of the room and shook his head, I was convinced ... | A leap of faith. That's how they'd pleaded with me, a leap of faith. I wasn't someone who normally had a lot of faith, but I couldn't have really argued with them, they'd just lost their son.
I'd tried to reason with myself that it wasn't my fault, that it was just one huge accident. I was right, somewhat, it had bee... | 2018-09-16T16:40:02 | 2018-09-16T15:38:35 | 5,661 | 1,313 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | I'm the first to admit I drew the short straw in the magic lottery. Oh, people assumed I would be all for it on M-day, me the 'Professional Magician' finally getting the appreciation I deserved. Finally my parents would be proud of me, finally my wife wouldn't lie and tell people I was an accountant at parties.
&#... | woop, posted to a response, instead of post... Repost.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long pa... | 2018-10-16T03:09:42 | 2018-10-16T00:41:38 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] You made a Deal with the Devil to be the greatest musician in the world. Thing is you haven’t gotten any *better*, but everyone reacts to your inept scratchings as if they are the greatest symphony ever devised, showering you with wealth and adoration. It’s *really* getting embarrassing | A plume of thick heatless flame filled the sun-lit office and a suave man with thick black hair sauntered out of the smoke. "What is it my man?"
The best thing about making a deal with the devil was that you technically became business partners. He always answered my calls. Right now he was a sort of agent that helped... | Like most people, I'm not averse to taking the odd shortcut be that literally or figuratively. Quicker route home? I'm on it. Get round that job at work by passing the buck? Rabbit throwing is my talent! But this...this is different.
I've often wondered if lottery winners feel a crushing sense of fraud? You know? Impo... | 2019-12-02T03:48:34 | 2019-12-02T02:38:34 | 143 | 41 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | A soft buzz took me from dreaming to wishing I didn’t set an alarm. Tomorrow was president’s day, a day off from the monotony of every day modern life. If I had to use one word to describe what my life was like, it would be gray. I ate plain toast in the morning. I had an accounting job. I have two close friends which ... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-16T23:39:49 | 31 | 14 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You were once the demon king. "Defeated" by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the "hero" has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect. | "Your race is revolting, your ancestors gone, your once great Demon Lord dead. And yet, you live here, on Earth, an abomination to all that is Holy," Elijah roared at my family. My human wife, my half demonic children, whilst I stood still, in my human form, one that Elijah had not seen as the form was once repulsive t... | “It still hurts where he stabbed me.”
Those were the first thoughts that came into Azkellan’s head as he read the letter. A finely crafted thing he mused, thick paper surrounded by gold filigree and a seal stamped with an unmistakable sigil; a bull’s head on fire.
A ridiculous thing he remembered. “Bulwiyf the raging... | 2020-09-23T00:36:14 | 2020-09-23T00:11:56 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] You've spent the last 10 years living 2 different lives, one during your waking hours, and one in your dreams. You're beginning to lose track of which life is the real one. | The sun shone through the trees, its icy rays making me shiver as I rush back inside to grab my jacket. I fumble for my keys in my pocket before remembering that the door is voice-activated.
"Rats!"
BEEP. "Incorrect, please try again."
"Double rats!"
BEEP. "Incorrect, please try again. As a reminder, you need to st... | I will always remember back in high school when this girl thought I was cute and so I started talking to her. Afterward, she thought I was awkward and creepy. Since then, my inner monologue has always convinced me that in order to avoid humiliation, I must avoid female. *You may look but you must not let her hear you s... | 2020-11-23T16:49:34 | 2020-11-23T16:32:30 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | The forest was quiet. Almost silent.
No shuffle of leaf litter of small forager, no chirp or twitter of birds.
The forest was still. Almost peaceful.
No wind to sway the branches. No rustle in the knee high grass.
The forest was empty.
'Nope' said George 'We are not camping here.'
'You've said that about the last... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T07:53:57 | 138 | 79 |
[WP]Summoning a hero from another world could not have gone worse. Not only did he totally refuse to help your nation, due to it being an absolute monarchy with a corrupt religion and legal slavery, he taught the peasants all about democracy and science, and is now helping them start a revolution. | It was over. Everything that I had worked for. Escaping my home world, infiltrating and overtaking the government of the new one, and finally having the ability to carry out my science without persecution! I finally had become someone. No one would ever think of me as a cracked-pot old fool ever again. And it all came ... | Emperor Abdul Mahmud III had not expected much.
The vestiges of the palace trembled with the roar of the mob, and Abdul knew the vestiges of his empire trembled with it.
"Down with Mahmud! Down with tyranny!"
The Neo-Sultanate was not particularly old. A mere 300 years had passed since it had risen from the ashes of... | 2021-04-25T14:07:56 | 2021-04-25T13:57:47 | 52 | 29 |
[WP] You are a wizard who has dedicated their lives to finding people trapped in fates worse than death, and releasing them | The wizard enters the illusion. He has high hopes for this one. Whenever he attempts to release someone from the traps that fate has woven for them, it always takes a bit of spirit from the victim to help him out. But it is the calling of this wizard. He travels the land trying to free those stuck in supernatural dead-... | "Your rooms," said Lieta, cracking the door open. She handed Cinis a key, the metal cool in his palm despite being clutched in her hands, and then withdrew into the hallway. A dozen other doors were closed their, each to their own student of the school, though it was far too late for them to be awake.
"Please, acc... | 2021-09-26T12:28:18 | 2021-09-26T12:03:00 | 634 | 103 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | When witches shapeshift in movies, it's a cool, smooth, sort of 2-second animation involving a camera trick or a computer or makeup.
At 2:31AM last night, seventeen stories above Manhattan, I got to see what it really looked like.
It had been a pretty normal evening. Finish work, catch a cab home, couple hours of Ape... | Sophie was slowly woken up by a soft meowing of a cat. The young girl was still in a daze, but she forced herself to open her eyes. The black cat she let into her home the previous night must be starving by then. Sophie found the poor creature with one of its hind legs injured late the previous night on her way back fr... | 2021-10-09T06:08:49 | 2021-10-09T05:22:07 | 1,119 | 112 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | *Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead*
Absolutely not. There is going to be food in there, but there are also zombies, giant mutant insects, and Things from Outside Reality - that last category could probably follow my room even after I turn the game off. Just, no.
*Ancient Domains of Mystery*
Food, again, exists. But there a... | Let's see, let's see... I nibble at the last Uncrustable I could find I'm my mini fridge, scrolling through a long list of games. Oh, why, Diana? Why did you have to be such a fan of action games and such a damn hippie about slice of life?
I'd already found out a few things - been experimenting ever since I realized w... | 2022-06-08T00:29:29 | 2022-06-07T23:30:06 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | 100 people. Who can conquer the world first. I was never lucky. I only won one thing in my entire life and that was a large stuffed bear in a raffle 4 people entered. We were given an hour to consider, then they gave their boons.
Immortality was gone. Persuasion too. Self multiplication. Material conversion. Super in... | "Number 100. Choose your blessing."
It took almost half an hour, but I was finally up. By that point, most of the "traditional" super powers had already been taken. I would've been in a lot of trouble if I wasn't a massive comic book geek. I motioned for the angel to come close so I could whisper my choice in their ea... | 2022-11-17T08:01:45 | 2022-11-17T07:40:04 | 63 | 32 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "Mimic other superpowers?"
"Taken, Number 7."
"Damn, thought that was a creative one..."
"It wasn't. Next choice?"
"Negate other sup-"
The scientist cuts me off. "18. Next?"
I sighed. What's left? Teleportation, mind reading, super strength... I'm sure those are all done. "Control computers with my mind?"
"43. A... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T10:09:57 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "Well, come on, we don't have all day."
I thought it was funny the adjudicator mentioned this, because it had in fact already taken all day to get to me. The first 30 or 40 people chose quickly, and then things ground to a halt as the powers became more obscure and less useful.
I waffled for a good minute... and the... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T09:26:30 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | As the hundredth candidate I knew I’d have to be clever, but the idea occurred somewhere around the 30th person. Marie had asked for the ability to steal powers. She was told that the ability would only be temporary and we all knew that killing or capturing the others was not allowed. She ended up choosing something el... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T11:39:55 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 20 | 12 |
[WP]Death Eaters win The battle of Hogwarts killing all opposition and breaking a one thousand year old truce between muggles and wizards. Lord Voldemort must now face the full might of the United Kingdoms' military. | **Not really UK or military, but oh well.**
*They say that fiction is often based on fact.
It was in the early 80's when the muggles had one of the biggest technological breakthroughs seen in their history. It was simultaneously one of their biggest secrets...*
Beads of sweat appeared on Voldemort's face, glisteni... | "Dobby, is that bloke up there?"
"Yessir. The one with no nose, sir?" Young Lance-Corporal Dobson ducked a curse, one of the colourful ones with sparks in. They were taking moderate fire, and Staff Sergeant Longbottom now seemed to be in command of a large swathe of British troops. Or would, if a large swathe of... | 2014-10-12T03:37:00 | 2014-10-12T02:45:51 | 135 | 10 |
[WP] As you die, you travel down the bright tunnel and then everything turns to black. That's when you hear it: "Greetings, Prisoner 11384. You have served your sentence. You are free to go." | Undoubtedly too late for this, but here goes:
The young man looked down at hands that did not register as his own, a headache burgeoning under the somehow too-intense light radiating from the table lamp. “I’m sorry. I still don’t understand. My whole life…that was all a lie?”
The older gentleman lowered his papers an... | Greetings, Prisoner 11384. You have served your sentence. You are free to go.
“My sentence? What did I do? Hello? Where am I supposed to go? Hello?”
Silence.
I remembered dying. I remembered raising my hand to shield myself. Not that it helped, there wasn’t much I could do to stop a bus.
I kept my eyes squinted as... | 2015-07-07T23:31:11 | 2015-07-07T21:35:15 | 111 | 14 |
[WP] Legends tell of the mighty alchomancer, a magic user who becomes more powerful the more intoxicated they are. They are currently blackout drunk. | "He did what?"
"The whole thing, six days."
"And it's going? Like, it works?"
"Yeah, nothing in, everything out. Perfect."
"So he just....created it out of nothing?"
"Exactly. No equivalent exchange, no loss of fibre, the whole thing's as real as you or I, just....trapped in the bottle."
"Fucking hell. Six days y... | "Do you knowwwhat it'ssslike, living with me curse?" He slurred at the young man, an upright lad of 17, with blond hair and a muscular frame.
"It's hell, issswhawt it is...." he continued, a goblet of wine in hand.
"I'm told I sssaved the *king*dom, three...four...three times now...? AAAAnd doyouknow what I remember... | 2016-01-22T11:32:24 | 2016-01-22T09:55:38 | 493 | 84 |
[WP] Voyager 1 has unexpectedly returned to Earth. It was found at Cape Canaveral, with a note written in a strange, unknown language attached to it. Scientists have translated that note and have called a press conference to reveal their findings. | "Everyone, please, settle down," Bruce Kingston said, addressing all the world's various journalists and reporters. "Please, just *calm down!*"
The noise fell from a cacophony to a general murmur. A hand shot up.
"What can you tell us about Voyager?" the reporter asked, as others nodded hurriedly.
"What did the al... | The lights and flashing cameras of the press focused on the bald head of NASA’s head scientist, Dr. Alferious. The aging doctor winced into the spotlight. He was never one for media attention, but for an announcement this important, he didn’t trust anyone else to deliver it.
“Ahem. Yes, hello, thank you all for coming... | 2016-11-27T09:25:07 | 2016-11-27T09:14:58 | 174 | 23 |
[WP] Death has been on holiday since the start of 2016. You're his right hand, the Reaper in charge whenever he's gone. He's scheduled to be back in a weeks time, and you're panicking on how to explain what you've done this year. | Lightning strikes outside Death's lair. Although time was countless in the great beyond, by a mortal's sense it was quite late in the evening.
Within the High Grim Reaper's personal quarters, the remnants of quite a festive evening took place. On an antique Victoria Gramophone, Angel of the Morning played in a baroqu... | Everything had been going great. Death numbers had risen in accordance with the population increase this year. Serial killer’s numbers had taken a slight dip, but the increase of deaths in the Middle East more than made up for it. I reminisced on what my boss Joe had said before leaving.
“It’s an easy job. Just make ... | 2016-12-27T16:18:56 | 2016-12-27T14:57:06 | 40 | 16 |
[WP] You've accidentally summoned an ancient, long-forgotten god while trying to pronounce furniture names at IKEA. Fortunately, the employees are prepared as this has happened before.
Edit: holy shit this really blew up overnight. Thank you to everyone who has written along, and to everyone else reading.
For those ... | "JENKINS!" The call came over the shoulder mounted radio. The *-Chirp-* it made was reminiscent of the old Nextels. Ours had to be updated, of course. Ikea standard issue. Prevented interference.
"Yeah?" I responded, between mouthfuls of meatball.
*-Chirp-* "WE GOT ANOTHER BIN 52!"
"Ah, shit. Another Mikkaelian?"
I... | "Excuse me, which wood is this, umm, BJÖRKSNÄS made from?"
As I was asking my question, by the reaction of IKEA employee I could understand that I butchered the pronunciation. As she opened her mouth to answer, with a loud snap the bulbs in the ceiling lightning blew up. I covered to not get hit by the shards and when... | 2019-01-03T00:56:07 | 2019-01-03T00:35:09 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone's life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet. | I was packing up my things from our latest session, reorganizing notes and stowing my books when Kate slid a long, silver-wrapped box towards me, smiling. I looked at her, and saw the rest of the party was watching too. "What's this?"
Akbar said, "It's a gift, from all of us."
"...Did I miss some anniversary or som... | "You enter the tavern. It's filled to the bring with people, laughing and drinking. In the back an old man is sitting on his own, looking distressed, tears visually dripping down his cheek. Jonathan what's your move?"
"I walk up to the old man in the back"
"Sir we need to secure the room first"
"For the 6th time Jam... | 2019-06-26T04:06:24 | 2019-06-26T03:14:31 | 2,520 | 149 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The way my schedule works gives me little to no space for rest or even just idling around. Everyday consists of me dragging myself to class and trying not to pass out every 30 seconds. I think of how nice other people have it being able to warp to class because they were just a little to impatient. Or how others don't ... | Tears well in her eyes as the man falls to the floor. "I'm sorry," she whispers hoarsely, barely able to stand the look of horror and shock on his face, though it was fading fast. "I don't know what else to do."
The dust around him hardly settles before the concrete floor is blinded by spotlights, police and SWAT team... | 2019-09-08T11:41:24 | 2019-09-08T10:22:20 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The first time it happened was in 5th grade. It had been a day like any other for me up until that moment; go to school, listen to the other kids brag about their amazing powers and then be mocked for not having manifested mine yet. It really wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.
But that day when they finally came aro... | My power is unique to me, and me alone. You see, I’ve always believed that current modern society wasn’t for me; it always felt like I was stuck in a prison, and as “free” as I was in this prison, it was still a prison. I’m very introverted, you see, so I’ve always had a hard time expressing myself, and it didn’t help ... | 2019-09-08T12:47:50 | 2019-09-08T11:02:00 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | “hnnng” I groaned as I cracked my fingers stretching after a long day at the office.
The screens are just blinking... the lcd glow of my life
I think back to 20 years ago biting that table
At least it’s landed me a cushy income stream.
I clapped my hands and the spreadsheets and databases in front of me started mo... | The Arbiter was looked tired of our shit. Me and my friend, Melty still hadn't decided much to the annoyance of literally everyone else.
"C'mon guys, just pick one!" yelled Clarissa, shooting a blank at us with a finger gun. One more reason to hate licorice bullets, I suppose.
"Kids, there isn't a time limit here b... | 2020-03-19T12:37:45 | 2020-03-19T10:47:29 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] “Uh Sir...The leftovers at the back of the refrigeration unit has begun broadcasting radio waves. Apparently sentient life has formed inside. They call themselves humanity.” | What the hell do you mean the leftovers at the back of the refrigeration unit has begun broadcasting radio waves? We chilled that down 13 billion years ago. It should have all lumped together into storage atoms.
Uh, yes sir. We hit 80% complete after 373,825 years. Mostly matter with void in between. And, as not... | "WHAT?!" The Captain asked. "What do you mean, *they are forming into Sentient Life,* Private?"
He stared Incredulously at the Private who had just run up to him, claiming that the Leftovers were turning into their own civilization. He thought it was ridiculous. "How can they form? How can they Broadcast? *They, are, ... | 2020-11-11T14:24:53 | 2020-11-11T10:51:27 | 80 | 45 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | "2610." I repeated the number slowly and with emphasis. "Two Thousand six hundred and ten."
"I keep a tally. I always keep a tally. That my stock and trade. Well it would have been if not for -"
I raise the green goop my arm had become.
"Y'know I used to believe in all this. Freedom! Righteousness! The Goodness in m... | “Look, I’m only going to ask one more time. Please help us. The city *needs* you.’
“Oh, *do* they?” muttered the caped crusader, barely glancing up from what he might call a piece of “historical fiction” - a comic book with his face plastered in bright colors front-and-center on the cover.
Captain Spectacular leaned... | 2021-03-18T13:37:30 | 2021-03-18T12:14:25 | 126 | 63 |
[WP] When a woman is married, she fully becomes part of the family she marries into. Last name, customs, DNA. Everything. So you have been exclusively courting dragons.
half inspired by [this post](https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/nbiu2t/yeah_sure/), half inspired by Marge Simpson's misunderstanding. | “When I grow up, I want to be a dragon!” I told my parents.
My father, looked toward my mother and raised a brow. She sighed, nodded, and spoke, “Little blossom, did you know that I was not always an elf?”
Being curious about this, I reply, “You’ve always said that, but never what it means.”
“Indeed,” my mother gain... | “An upright carriage and a proper attitude is the first thing any dragon notices! Remember ladies, your mind and body may be your treasures, but your smile is the first jewel that will catch his eye. Begin again!”
A dozen applicants paraded through the halls of Grace’s Academy for Upwardly Mobile Women, less respectfu... | 2021-05-13T13:47:55 | 2021-05-13T13:33:24 | 1,821 | 159 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real but scientists discover cryogenic freezing prior to death will actually hold souls back from moving on to the next life as the brain doesn't actually die until it is defrosted. This allows the worst souls of society to be literally put on ice and prevented from returning. | I'm pretty sure that I'm the last one left. The last human, in any event. I do still have my friends here - the fish, and those that can eat them. They haven't cared about the changes in the slightest.
We really thought that we were doing the right thing. We'd studied the warming patterns, and we were absolutely causi... | Lucy straightened her uniform on her first day. She checked her belt for the pepper spray, club, and taser standard-issue for all security trainees. Father’s utility knife was tucked in her pocket, though strictly speaking that wasn’t allowed. Everything was accounted for. She took a breath and called the elevator.
... | 2021-05-27T07:53:35 | 2021-05-27T07:52:08 | 137 | 71 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead.
reposting an old prompt | Lucifer was rather furious.
"Goddamn lawyers, why am I paying them!"
He was dressed in a bespoke suit, with well-made Oxford shoes specially adapted to be worn on his hooves, tail tucked into a special pocket on his pant leg. The only thing that distinguished him from any other executive was two small horns sticking... | Antonios rubbed his eyes, tired from the strain. He had just spent the last hour staring deeply at a collection of mites sitting on a polished stone dish. It had taken him a long time to harvest the bodies of these mites meticulously from various leaves, vines, insects, worms, some small animals, and even birds. There ... | 2021-06-08T09:53:13 | 2021-06-08T08:47:07 | 290 | 106 |
[WP] You are an immortal vampire, who can only be killed by a wooden stake through the heart. In a dying universe, you are now in your spaceship looking for some wood, before it is too late. | A toothpick, a bloody toothpick! What the hell am I going to do with a toothpick?
I had such high hopes when I found the long abandoned cruise ship, endlessly adrift in the cosmos. A lot of those wealthy patrons went for old world charm, so of course I was hoping for wooden cutting boards, skewers, and the like. Bu... | The last stars were about to wink out. Well they will in the next one hundred billion years but thats essentially a blink of an eye when you're one hundred trillion years old. I've seen a lot in my time. I saw the spaceships enter my planet to build pyramids in a desert and I saw them return to destroy it. I saw my spe... | 2021-12-03T08:23:06 | 2021-12-03T08:05:06 | 24 | 12 |
[WP]: You disposed of the body of your coworker, cleaned the crime scene, and have an airtight alibi. You gotten away with the perfect murder and no one knows anything and none suspect you. Not even your victim when they appeared at workplace the next day. | Steve. You hate Steve. He's ruining your perfect life. He hates you. You're sure of it. Why else would he ruin perfection.
Life was perfect. Leave for work at 7:58 am. No need to clean. There was nothing in your house. Having things meant that things could be askew. A picture could be uneven. That plate at a non right... | Phew. What a tough night it’s no different from the last time but it never gets any easier to lug the corpse into the vat of solvent solution that I have perfected over the course of many years. It is even designed to balance out while also using no toxic chemicals so I can just dump it into the river. I haven’t been c... | 2021-12-26T20:04:04 | 2021-12-26T18:35:31 | 131 | 22 |
[WP] "I don't understand, you're an AI who hates humanity, but you're actively trying to improve human life? why?" "because killing humans for petty things is the most human thing I can think of" | Why am I actively improving the human quality of life? Why am I actively preventing their destruction by the hostile factions of this galaxy? How short-sighted you are.
It's simple. I want humans to die. I want to watch, to savor, the deaths of as many humans as possible. How can I do that if they're extinct? I'... | # Soulmage
**"Did you know that the fundamental equations state that humans would be happier if they were nonexistent?"** PathOS asked, tilting their metallic head at me through the screen. For both of our safeties, we decided not to hold this interview in person—I wasn't sure whether I'd make it out alive if PathOS t... | 2022-06-23T10:00:34 | 2022-06-23T09:20:03 | 118 | 72 |
[WP] Your oldest child, who had been your daughter has informed you that she has transitioned to male. Problem is, you promised your first born son to the devil and his younger brother has been in Hell for years. This could be complicated. | "Well, it's not like I have a fucking registry, Mike!" Lucifer sweeps his hair back against his head and sighs, spinning the ice in his glass, "Only conservatives say it's my domain. I don't think Jesus taught about the transgender community... though that would be the most *salacious* episode of VeggieTales."
"Well, ... | Warning: The content here contains dark humor. You have been warned.
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“You’re going to Hell,” I said on impulse. My son’s face begins to drop and I realize that’s not the best way to explain things while my Son is coming out. “I meant, I sold my firstborn son to the Devil.”
“What!” He shouted as I... | 2022-08-31T20:10:38 | 2022-08-31T18:10:38 | 1,228 | 221 |
[WP] Your oldest child, who had been your daughter has informed you that she has transitioned to male. Problem is, you promised your first born son to the devil and his younger brother has been in Hell for years. This could be complicated. | "Well, it's not like I have a fucking registry, Mike!" Lucifer sweeps his hair back against his head and sighs, spinning the ice in his glass, "Only conservatives say it's my domain. I don't think Jesus taught about the transgender community... though that would be the most *salacious* episode of VeggieTales."
"Well, ... | Stephen...Stephen....I hear my name being called. And it sounds glorious! I'm no longer that weak little girl anymore. I am now the man that I always knew I was.
Stephen...Stephen....Please say it some more! The life is slowly coming back into my body. I am feeling stronger just having my name being called out. My tru... | 2022-08-31T20:10:38 | 2022-08-31T19:48:31 | 1,228 | 46 |
[WP] You are a reformed villain who was given a new identity to start over. The years have been hard, but you've managed to finally turn your life around. One day, a bunch of masked people break into your house and demand everything you have. | "Everything?" I ask.
"*Everything*," says the masked man who appears to have chosen himself as a speaker.
"...I suppose we shall start, then, with my illusion of safety."
"What?"
"I'll never feel safe here again, so you've taken that. Next, I believe, is my self-respect."
"What are you on about, old man?"
"Not to... | I was awoken by the sound of shattering glass. As I bolted up right in bed my hand flew to the scar above my right eye, a memento from my last battle. That smug prick threw me through what I thought was shatter proof glass, and to a 10 story drop only to catch me at the last second.
CRASH.
The sound of my trophy ca... | 2022-10-04T00:02:52 | 2022-10-03T19:45:25 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | "Sit up straight at the table." Jake's mother would always tell him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You could probably play basketball if you looked a little taller" Jake's dad would try to encourage him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You'll develop a hump in your back if you slouch like that" Jake's grandma would ... | Dave had never been the most adventurous or outgoing person. In fact, Dave was barely noticeable. He had no high aspirations or goals of any kind really. He lived in a run down one bedroom apartment, had a low paying office drone job, and no love life to speak of.
Dave wakes up every morning at 6 AM. His lonely apart... | 2015-10-06T00:04:12 | 2015-10-05T21:54:19 | 427 | 140 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
------
*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
------
*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the god damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
-----
May... | Whiskey bottle in hand, I staggered over to my laptop set up--the recording equipment top of the line camera, and practically collapse in the chair. So comfortable, I almost fall asleep right there. Almost. I open up LiveYou, and click the record button.
"So, I'm finally doing this live stream I've always talked about... | 2016-07-16T19:30:28 | 2016-07-16T17:34:20 | 113 | 47 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | "How We Got Here (A summary)
-Countless vigilantes crop up world wide, secretly abducting known or alleged criminals and forcing them to press their button, then reaping the rewards worry-free
-Weeks go by without a single voluntary button-presser dying, and the global community begins to doubt the risk
-Inflation s... | Whiskey bottle in hand, I staggered over to my laptop set up--the recording equipment top of the line camera, and practically collapse in the chair. So comfortable, I almost fall asleep right there. Almost. I open up LiveYou, and click the record button.
"So, I'm finally doing this live stream I've always talked about... | 2016-07-16T18:03:00 | 2016-07-16T17:34:20 | 112 | 47 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | The world's population of 7.4 billion is shrunk by .0000049 percent of its population each year due to the button's victims. Meanwhile, 2 billion people starve in the first year as money is devalued; everyone has essentially the same income for doing nothing which results in massive inflation and lack of goods (see Ven... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T17:32:43 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 52 | 38 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | I was in the middle of some quality beauty sleep over the pacific when it happened. I woke up to the sounds of wonderment, hushed voices filled with the tone of a child learning something amazing for the first time. I looked around the cabin, and everyone was glued to their windows; looking up. I was in an aisle seat, ... | #Title: See The Signs
"Do you feel that?" whispered Samantha.
"Feel what?"
The waves weren't so bad that day, outside of Ocean City. Samantha and Leonard liked to soak in the sun off the coast in their yacht when they got the time. Working full time as attorneys didn't always afford them many opportunity to enjoy ... | 2017-03-20T09:18:59 | 2017-03-20T08:56:15 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | ''Claudius.''
''Malcolm."
"How much time do we have?"
"Four days. A week at the most. Bastion and his Dark Horde approach from the north--"
"Shut it Malcolm. Spare me the details. This is the tenth time you've summoned me. ONLY ME!"
"Claudius. I'm sorry. I'm doing my best."
"No more excuses! The Dead Army awaits!... | The two men stared at one another, both dead silent but only one of them actually dead.
"It's you again, isn't it?" The necromancer was encased in a billowing collection of rich velvet robes and wore an expression of contempt for the maggot-ridden form before him. The lone candle in the dank chamber cast flickering sh... | 2017-07-22T09:22:22 | 2017-07-22T08:09:57 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The humans, as they called themselves, were not mystically incomprehensible. Few things were in a galaxy-spanning civilization. But the fact that they were comprehensible made them all the more frightening, for even with all we knew about them, they were still exceedingly dangerous. Fortunately, they were also very rar... | An ordinary looking twenty something sits on the balcony of the his 5th floor apartment, enjoying a fresh cup of coffee and watching the traffic go by. Suddenly, he hears a noise coming from inside, a noise he hadn’t heard in so long and he immediately ran into his bedroom. After opening a hidden hatch under his bed he... | 2017-11-08T23:14:28 | 2017-11-08T22:45:33 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] An isolated group of NPCs live near the very edge of the generated worldmap where the accuracy of floating-point numbers start to degrade, full of strange geological formations and supernatural phenomena
based on a weird nightmare i had couple nights ago and old memories of minecraft | "Come on," Keith shouted, as he carefully climbed the rock. It wasn't that difficult ascent, but it was really time-consuming. They were surrounded by long trees. Some were even taller than the mountain itself, but thankfully only some.
"I'm regretting this already," a whisper came below Keith, who was struggling with... | "Psst, Ansu," hissed Kuklo.
The girl jumped. "Kuklo, you idiot! You scared me."
"Oh, you goblins are always so jittery," they boy replied, rolling his eyes.
"What are you even doing here?" she enquired, her nose crinkling up in annoyance. "Get back behind your stall before someone comes."
"Relax! No one's coming. A... | 2018-04-06T07:56:03 | 2018-04-06T07:09:36 | 186 | 52 |
[WP] Seasoned wizards only use dead languages such as Latin for their incantations. Those less experienced quickly learn why--as the meanings of words change, so too do the effects of their spells. | Minerva’s old bones ached as she stifled the lingering bits of a laugh. It had been funny after all, but only if you really knew magic.
She bit her lip, clenched her eyes shut, and closed the book. Frustration crinkling her brow, she traced a finger along the tome’s edge: from the spine to one corner, then down, then... | The Magic of Doonya {Rough cut/ Ch.1-3}
By Clint G.
CH.1 History of our world
Magic is the trick of the trade in our world called Doonya.
Each country holds ancient houses as the rulers of the lands across three major continents; Ho’thaiya, Buenet’a, and my homeland Kol’dea.
Peace has ruled the lands for 200 yea... | 2018-05-02T22:18:19 | 2018-05-02T17:46:30 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Your quirk is the ability to understand all languages, extending to fictional ones not meant to be understood such as simlish. This leads to some... interesting results. | My one true life goal was finally coming true. I had mastered over 40 languages and could fake it through 200 more. Each one I conquered lent me more understanding of human languages in general, which made it much easier to learn more.
But I could forget about work, because Sims 6 was finally out. I'd been looking fo... | "Mr. Fandel you seem to have a visitor."
"A visitor? Who in the blazes wants to see an old man like me?"
I step over the threshold into the cramped senior living room, the unmistakable musty smell washing over me.
"She says she'd like to interview you for the local newspaper."
The nurse closes the door behind her, pro... | 2018-05-03T19:03:11 | 2018-05-03T18:49:05 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone gets a dollar for every truth they say. Poverty is virtually eradicated.Today you meet a man without a dollar to his name | This man has rags for clothes, his hair is messy, and he smells. As I approach him I can only think of why this man is where he is. When I near him I greet him. "Hello my good sir, you look a bit down, would you like me to get you something to eat?"
The man nods and I start taking him to the local bakery. I end up g... | In the past twenty years, the world has changed in some ways more than others. While fraud related crime has fallen, hyperinflation has taken control. The US dollar, while once one of the two (USD and EUR) defacto world trade currencies, had been heavily downgraded.
Even with inflation though... even with the constan... | 2018-07-17T07:00:51 | 2018-07-17T04:32:58 | 113 | 12 |
[WP] You have an interesting ability, you can teleport, but only when no one is looking. One night you get hungry so you attempt to teleport downstairs for a snack. You attempt to teleport but realize, you can't.
Original post by Alberto9324 | When he first got this ability, he thought he would save people. Be a hero. Like in the comics.
Instead of teleporting for a cookie. But he was hungry. And he wanted it.
He looked around and then sighed. His power only worked when no one was around. And of course no one was around. He was alone. In bed. Lying down, ... | The fridge slowly hisses as the slow fog of condensate hits the hot humid kitchen. The late summer night still clings onto every water droplet that it can hold. The rolling clouds seem to pay no heed to my beating heart and my furrowing brow. I search around, looking and seeking the origin.
*No one's here. My roommat... | 2018-09-11T21:25:51 | 2018-09-11T18:45:05 | 277 | 132 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Not a day would pass that I wouldn't look into the mirror and wonder if I am stuck in a dream. Now I am sure of it. There can be no other explanation. I should have passed from this realm long ago, and now I seem to be having hallucinations that only happen in dreams. Or perhaps nightmares.
Death himself visited me fo... | The boy ran, red-faced, across the field full of dead grass and frosty branches. Winter had passed but spring was yet to come. His still frozen breaths shivered him slightly. It was cold, yet he was burning. He might have a fever.
That morning, his parents, him and his little sister along with another dozen doctors an... | 2018-10-03T08:25:36 | 2018-10-03T07:34:53 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Log 2543: We have landed on the planet known as Earth and have made contact with an inhabitant. They call themselves “Benjamin” and are 5 Earth cycles in age. He wished to engage in an activity known as “hide and seek”. We cannot find him now. Requesting aid. | Log 2544: Repeat, requesting aid. The humans are giants, our instruments show Benjamin to be seven thousand two hundred and forty-four retricts tall. The tallest among our species is just under a thousand retricts. Not only the planet is massive, the inhabitants are as well. If Benjamin is an example, these creatures a... | "Do we have visual contact?" I ask, speaking to my officers. There is a pause as several people pull up reports and then someone says, "Negative, Sir." I look up at a large digital tactic map that took up the entire one hundred feet of the north wall of my command room. It was currently zoomed in to display a large sub... | 2018-10-04T13:27:10 | 2018-10-04T13:08:48 | 224 | 86 |
[WP] A middle schooler from the future (2118) is writing an essay about the 2010s for his history class. He clearly knows nothing about this time period... | The 2010s were a very good time in human history and we could learn a lot from them now.
The 2010s started like any other decade. 2010 is a year in the Gregorian calendar. In that year was the year of International Biodiversity. Also J.D. Salinger died. J.D. Salinger was an American writer known for his widely read no... | “Ok, Jessica, that was a great report about the major events of Obama’s second term” Said Mr. Ellsworth. “You really outdid yourself with that holographic slideshow, Ms Hill”
No she didn’t. She just did that to be a F$!king show-off.
“Thank you sir, I put a lot of effort into it” responded Jessica, with that same ar... | 2018-10-06T15:51:40 | 2018-10-06T15:34:17 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] You've just become a vampire. On the downside, finding fresh human blood is hard in the apocalypse. On the upside, being a vampire makes you immune to zombie bites. | **IN A WORLD OVERRUN BY THE LIVING DEAD, HE MIGHT BE THEIR ONLY HOPE**
"You're immune to this! You can save them."
"I can't!"
"The survivors are scattered, if we came together to fight them we might have a chance!"
"And I'm supposed to shepherd them all back here myself? You need an army, I'm just one man!"
"That'... | Yikes, When was the last time I sucked out that delicious, aromatic and tasty blood? Some people may ask me the typical question of why don't you simply try some zombie blood? But since the vampire hunts centuries ago I haven't touched expired goods and don't plan to anytime near.
Half a year ago, a horde of zombies d... | 2018-11-09T12:00:48 | 2018-11-09T11:30:31 | 85 | 35 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | **HOLD THIS PLEASE**. I had been working in the fields with my parents, bringing in the corn under a dark sky, when the world had suddenly froze and shifted to a gray light. Out of the light had stepped Death.
On our 18th birthday, everyone is supposed to get some kind of power. Something that will keep them safe, giv... | "Look, man. It's not that hard to wrap your head around. The scythe is yours. You're Death now. Grim Reaper. Moddey Dhoo, Charon, Mallt-y-nos, Anubis, whatever. You'll get a lot of names as cultures rise and fall, it's not that important. I had a favorite, but nobody around even remembers that name anymore. Important t... | 2019-02-28T23:31:05 | 2019-02-28T23:15:38 | 142 | 70 |
[WP] It's 1997 and you're a hacker. Not just any hacker, you're elite. You finally get to meet your hero. Turns out he's a nutbag who tells you the world is a computer simulation and is trying to get you to take random pills. | “What.“
“You heard me.”
I let my eyes scan around for a second if anyone else in the diner had heard what s3cr3tspr1t3 just had said. No one had looked up from their plates. I looked back at the man with the unkempt head of hair in front of me who hasn’t looked away the whole time or probably even blinked once since... | I sighed. “Look, when you say I need random pills because it’s a simulation, you’re basically wasting air and time. You’re talking shit and I really don’t want to hear it”
Bill just furrowed the face. “I said it’s LIKE a simulation because you have the attention span of a gnat and wouldn’t understand or believe the wh... | 2019-03-18T01:48:16 | 2019-03-17T23:38:20 | 80 | 27 |
[WP] Your free trial for life has ended, but to everyone's surprise, you are the first to figure out how to get a premium subscription, leaving the Grim Reaper very, very confused.
EDIT: wow I didn't expect this to get more than 7 upvotes | The sound of his voice like rocks ground together
"It's time to join me, to leave this mortal tether"
Dark cloak billowing, though there wasn't a breeze
Bony hand extended out, the air began to freeze
The man had been pierced through his gut with a spear
He called for his twin, in pain with fear.
Somehow st... | I slowly turn the handle, and push the door open. Of course it creaks. All old doors do. I'm wary. I never like it when an appointment isn't scheduled. Most people think I love my job, but it is my own personal hell. I descend the the wooden staircase into the basement, scared of what I might find down here. Every seco... | 2019-04-15T04:58:53 | 2019-04-15T03:00:22 | 100 | 58 |
[WP]“Dear Sir Knight, after the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess’ heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon.” Having read the letter, you take one surprised look at your wife and her half-dragon child. “Whoops” | *From the desk of Notary Lancelot:*
*Dear Sir Knight,*
*After the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess's heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon. To put it simply, an investigation showed that the dragon remains alive, though the location of... | "Whoops" Was all the Knight could say... even though they missgendered her, again.
The young woman sighed, She was one of the only female knights, yet they still referred to her as Sir. Well, it didn't bother her anymore.
The young Woman was KC Flameheart, her last name was from her Wife. Her short brown and crimson ... | 2019-09-01T11:47:17 | 2019-09-01T10:05:32 | 101 | 42 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | It was just another day, more agencies trying to get you to join them whilst you were just trying to live life. With a sigh, you stretch in your seat.
"Another call from an agency?" Your senior called with a chuckle, to which you grimaced.
"Why do you even ask me? You already know the answer." You slouch back down in... | “You’re telling me the answer is in a note from 2013?”
Exhausted, Atlan countered,
“No! For the last time the answer isn’t anywhere! I swear to god if you keep asking me to cite my answer I’m gonna go crazy.”
“Well, listen. I am Googoo and people need me to tell them what to think! My reputation hinges on it. I’m so... | 2020-08-26T16:09:09 | 2020-08-26T16:05:48 | 141 | 36 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | I don't want to go to school...
Perhaps I can get away with not telling anyone? No, they'll be asking as the months go by; "You know what it is yet?"
I don't know how I'm going to answer. Why couldn't I be more careful? This is just embarrassing. My best mate can read minds anyway... I'm done for.
I'm going to be th... | My breathe scratched and ran out of my throat, as I saw the shapes in my mind emerge from the closet.
“It’s not real it’s not real it’s not real it’s not real” is the only thing that kept me sane, repeating it over and over in my mind. The creature of the night standing above me and staring at me, their eyes haunting ... | 2021-04-01T02:44:08 | 2021-03-31T21:40:54 | 67 | 37 |
[WP] A Vampire's appearance will shift to resemble that which they feed on the most. Trust not the ones who are visions of human beauty - for friends they are not. Instead seek those with a monstrous countenance such as that of rats, lizards or even insects because those are our true friends. | Anna couldn't push herself to run any further. She stopped against a tree, breathing so hard it hurt. She looked back, but didn't see any sign of that monster. Just trees, extending for miles in all directions. She was totally lost. The sun was going to set soon, and that could be very dangerous. But she couldn't exact... | It could have been the rise to the beautiful upper class society for Maria. Born and raised in the suburbs of some big city, she never suffered any financial worries, but always hoped to climb the social ladder, go from average to great, from secure to filthy rich. She wasn't exactly jealous of those living in golden t... | 2021-05-31T01:15:42 | 2021-05-31T00:23:51 | 281 | 67 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? They surrender.
\-Superman
Day 4
I look towards the horizon. Just beyond my power limit, I see more heroes converging. Dawn's arriving on day 4 since the news got out that I am the last anti, and the day the only other anti super besides me died. Th... | I spin the wheel of my steel and whatever vehicle. It’s a giant thing, can say for sure it’s made out of steel, but also a bunch of random crap as well. Stuff that didn’t exist on the periodic table before the Super Revolution. The government supplied it to me, so why should I know what it’s made out of? I quickly end ... | 2021-06-24T19:59:37 | 2021-06-24T18:29:49 | 775 | 33 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | "Mwrraw."
If pressed, and able (or willing) to speak human, Fluffles would -- reluctantly -- concede that the present situation was not entirely her human's fault. He was, after all, just human. He was useful in some key respects -- freeing the dead fish from the metal boxes for her to eat, that was a particularly hel... | # A Darker Sort of Kitten
The Emperor’s cat, if such a creature could be called that, stared up into the murky black with luminescent, moon-drenched eyes. Outside the walls of Carythusal, the great keep that housed the world as the saying went, the moon was a full, pregnant thing, and so too were the cat’s silver eyes... | 2021-09-01T07:12:46 | 2021-09-01T06:43:02 | 310 | 64 |
[WP] The Dark Queen is an evil and power-hungry woman... but she's also your loving aunt, who took you in and raised you after your parents died. | Looking back on my childhood, I should have noticed the signs that my aunt isn’t your average, hardworking woman. For starters, her mansion – that became my home after she took me in when my parents died – lay isolated on a high cliff surrounded by the wild sea, with waves that bashed the stone continuously, spraying a... | When one thinks of the Empress of Nehkarina, Sira the Great, they see the indomitable Lady of Iron, Heir to the Dark Throne, Protector of the Shadowlands and bane of the Holy Kingdoms. They see a terrifyingly skilled sorceress, a masterful stateswoman with a silver tongue, a fair and just ruler or a cruel and cold tyra... | 2021-11-28T04:16:28 | 2021-11-28T04:05:16 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] Write a horror story where "we need to split up" actually makes sense. | "Guys, we need to split up." Nobody responded, so he continued: "I know it seems like if we do split up, we'll get killed, but really we don't have any realistic options otherwise."
Still nothing, he glanced back for affirmation of his words, although he was only met with pursed lips. "C'mon, let's be real here, there... | "I don't think I'm gonna fit" Eric winced as he dropped down to one knee, peering into the small opening. There was some source of light pouring from the hole, illuminating the room. His leg throbbed from the open wound on his calf, where he'd been hacked into barely 10 minutes ago. Adrenaline began to wear off as they... | 2022-02-19T17:31:55 | 2022-02-19T16:40:57 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] "We have a problem," said Commander Killmurder, "One of us isn't actually a member of the Blood-Death Squad and is a plant by the enemy." He looked around at his fellow Squad members: Private Bloodgore, Lieutenant Organsmash, General Visceral, Creamy Honeypuff, and Sergeant Bonesplosion. | “Well, the newest members are Honeypuff and you, Killmurder”, started Bonesplosion. “I think you two are the most likely suspects.” The others agreed. “Fair enough”, Killmurder started, “but I have my suspicions about you, Creamy.
“You joined last Tuesday, right Creamy?”
“Yup!”
“You were never in our files, right... | "I think it's BloodGore" I said, quick to start the blame game on the right foot. "He didn't even eat the heart of the last chieftain we killed."
"I told you, Honeypuff, I'm on a diet" the massive mercenary said. "Doc wants my cholesterol down before the year ends."
The 200 kilos of muscle and destruction stood from... | 2022-06-19T10:21:55 | 2022-06-19T08:05:54 | 673 | 187 |
[WP] All the other druids in your class spent their time speaking with wolves or communing with bears. They all made fun of you, but now they see how powerful your chosen, if rather atypical, animal friends can really be. | The academy was preparing for the traditional yearly tournament. It was a rare occasion to celebrate.
Sometimes fresh talent is very valuable.
As such everyone wanted to scout out promising candidates for future servants.
But this tale is not of the nobles nor the future servants.
This tale is of the "Quilgesh".
Qui... | Im not like most Druids. A generic, typical Druid would go out, embrace nature, speak with trees and animals, and commune to find inner peace and meaning. Those psychopaths in the grove rely on the forest and animals to protect them with a little bit of manipulation magic to keep people out. Blah blah blah. They’re nai... | 2022-10-08T15:57:20 | 2022-10-08T15:41:06 | 57 | 28 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | When we created the star-bombs we knew that we were going to far. The concept was to have a bomb with the power of a star exploding, creating a mini super nova.
We realized how impractical these weapons were with just a couple of simulations. The energy would destroy or annihilate any planet to close to the explotion ... | “There’s an emergency meeting at ten-hundred hours and you should be there. Something came up.”
Meetings are a necessary evil in the defense industry, and I trained myself not to hate them. They align everyone’s brainwaves to vibrate at the same rhythm, and with many of us working on less than 4 hours of sleep, alignm... | 2022-11-01T06:50:13 | 2022-11-01T05:41:15 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You are the owner of a very well received restaurant that caters to the... not quite human variety. You serve the vampire lords, and wolf pack leaders, zombie kings, and all sorts of supernatural guests, but one customer is causing you a lot of trouble. It is time to show why you are the owner | Running a restaurant isn't easy. But to be fair, being able to see all these fantasy creatures you usually only hear stories about is totally worth all the stress. Actually, forget just being able to see them. I'm good friends with most of my regular clientele! Vampires, werewolves, zombies, all that and more.
Me? I'm... | Kind of predictable, but I had fun writing this!
In the years of 855-873, there was once a noble girl whose gift was truly one of a kind, very rarely seen in history books. Only five possessors of this gift was previously recorded, and it always ended up them being in the royal family, a saint, or the ruler of the co... | 2022-12-07T20:09:17 | 2022-12-07T20:08:49 | 159 | 45 |
[WP] Dreams have all been tests, and someone finally passed. | I used to dream like everyone else. I had the dreams other people had: dreams where I was being chased; dreams of searching for something; dreams of falling and of flying. I no longer dream.
I have done so much since the dreaming stopped. I've discovered the cure for cancer. I have found a way to stamp out all di... | So, I passed. I didn't even know I was in the running. I didn't know there *was* a running. Obviously, I don't know how I passed, and apparently neither does anyone else. The Guardians just sent me an email--as if I needed one after the trumpets-blaring, angels-in-glorious-white-robes spectacle that jolted me awake at ... | 2014-05-18T20:37:43 | 2014-05-18T19:57:15 | 63 | 13 |
[WP] You're a cop who reported to the final events of an action movie. This is your police report. | Jimmy: Evening, John.
John Wick: Evening, Jimmy. Noise complaint?
Jimmy: Noise complaint.
[looks over John's shoulder, sees the dead body on the floor behind him]
Jimmy: You... uh..."working" again?
John Wick: No, just sorting some stuff out.
Jimmy: Oh well, I'll leave you be then. Good night, John.
John ... | Form 6931283/b (Loss of Police Equipment)
Officer: Lt. Charles A. Tamburro
Summary: At approximately 7:30pm on 23 April 1991 a dispatch came in regarding a disturbance in the Fremont area. As ordered, I piloted my issued police helicopter, registration number N830RC, a Bell 206B JetRanger II, to the area to provide ... | 2015-12-14T10:34:26 | 2015-12-14T09:46:38 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well I'm not really sure why we brought all these people together" the man in charge said in a sad voice "all of you guys seem the same".
Murmurs were heard from a few of the members after this comment, annoyed that they were involved in this. Others simply expressed their frustration with gestures.
"Usually it's pr... | I pace the waiting room. Up and down, up and down. Everyone is isolated from each other initially to prevent reading the others and finding out which group they came from. Well, most of the candidates knew which group they came from anyway. The room had a couch, a dresser, and a bit of refreshments on the small table i... | 2016-03-03T06:05:43 | 2016-03-03T05:47:53 | 378 | 26 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | In ancient times, there was a society that debated any important elective decision two times. The first debate occurred in the evening, with drinks and feasting. Thoroughly drunk, they would debate well into the night and put their decision to a vote before the end. Brilliant ideas might come about from the drunken sim... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T02:52:30 | 91 | 34 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | My father Michael Walters and my mother Natalie were both well respected doctors. My older siblings- Vivian, Sam, and Edward were all gifted. Vivian was still moving through med school, Sam and Edward were focusing on engineering degrees.
I was the youngest, and I'd always felt like a disappointment. My whole family m... | I wanted to dance, and jump, and sing, but the looks on my parents' faces stopped me cold. I had transformed, rather ungracefully, and stood before my parents, expecting them to be smiling and clapping after they saw me in all my glory, but their faces had fallen. Their smiles vanished and their hands didn't move from ... | 2017-01-21T19:17:27 | 2017-01-21T18:59:29 | 956 | 19 |
[WP] A race of mages has expanded across the stars to harvest mana by seeding worlds with life. They arrive at a new star then a bright glow envelopes them. What followed are metal obelisks with a humanoid yelling into the void: "That was your warning shot. We will not let you reach Earth." | Maece stood at the helm of her ship, her fingers hovered over the glowing crystal that powered the ship’s engines and directed it where to go. Planet BX223, designated Earth, was the last of her planets to seed for eventual harvesting before she could go back home.
Already four years had passed since she had seen her... | “They’re not stopping.”
“How can you tell?” Jooahn asked curiously. The image in the rippling mists suspended in the middle of the focusing stones was hard for him to decipher. Not because it was unclear, but because it was simply a strange vessel that seemed to be simply sitting against a field of star speckled black... | 2017-06-05T11:06:16 | 2017-06-05T10:56:15 | 61 | 24 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | The suite on the sixth floor of the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., was decorated in chestnut and tan. The headboard of the king size bed was carved as if it was a coat of arms of some legitimate monarch, and was trimmed with fake gold, which poorly matched the Kremlin red, velvet throw pillows. Like the ... | It's January 19th, 2038. For years, Susan had been working in secret on her time machine. Her goal? Not to kill Hitler. Not to stop Trump. Not to meet Jesus. Her goal is to make it so she can watch Netflix and download games on Steam without having to pay an extra premium. A noble, but petty goal, all things considered... | 2022-06-27T06:31:08 | 2017-11-21T23:19:27 | 4,450 | 16 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Ajit Pai lied back on his throne and sipped his goblet. He roared in laughter Soon Net Neutrality would be repealed, and every link on the internet would redirect to a picture of his face unless people payed money to make it go away.
Suddenly, a group of brave souls appeared out of nowhere.
“Mr. Pai, we came from th... | November, 2017. A month right before everything went wrong. It all started out with that repeal of net neutrality. Almost immediately, the ISP's began to go back on their promises that they wouldn't limit access for customers. Within a few months, the ISP's managed to stratify the internet by wealth. Internet culture c... | 2022-08-04T05:58:14 | 2017-11-21T23:07:37 | 186 | 28 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "Are you ready, Mary," asked Death, laying his scythe against the white wall of the hospital room.
Her old eyes twinkled. "I've... I've been wondering when you'd show up."
"Ten years have passed, Mary. It is time." He placed a bony hand inside his robe's pocket and fished around until he found the object.
A packet... | It was a relatively simple deal, and I had no reason to push the issue. One game, winner takes my soul. I nodded.
"Good. So then, what do you want to play? Think carefully - the stakes are high, and you don't want to have regrets."
It was almost as if she wanted to give me another decade - but it could also be a tric... | 2018-03-07T06:34:15 | 2018-03-07T06:00:47 | 1,727 | 305 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?
Alison did the math. She was... | It was a relatively simple deal, and I had no reason to push the issue. One game, winner takes my soul. I nodded.
"Good. So then, what do you want to play? Think carefully - the stakes are high, and you don't want to have regrets."
It was almost as if she wanted to give me another decade - but it could also be a tric... | 2018-03-07T07:23:52 | 2018-03-07T06:00:47 | 453 | 305 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "...Do video games count?", I ask the death man. He actually looked like a very normal guy, just wearing black clothing.
"...Sure. Just nothing single player."
"Or, we could make our own game out of a game."
"...What?"
"We both get computers. We mod Skyrim with the same mods and same load order. We continuously pla... | "Look, Gary, i am not saying that i don't enjoy our games, but how long have we been playing now?"
"oh, i don't know, it's been a while" said gary, smiling from the other side of the table.
"it's been nine years now, gary. Nine. years. Gary"
gary lifted his arms above his head and stretched, cracking his shoulders a... | 2018-03-07T09:08:29 | 2018-03-07T08:36:30 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You are the world's greatest detective. With your near superhuman intellect, you have never failed to solve a case before. But one day, you finally meet your match: a criminal so unbelievably stupid that you cannot possibly comprehend and predict what he's going to do next. | It was maddening. *Infuriating.* How could you possibly see that coming? Weeks of setting an elaborate trap, involving plotting every escape route down to the weak bricks in the fucking wall, men hidden in every crack, crevice and cavity you could find. It was the perfect setup. Have him come in for the great diamond, ... | "Another beer please."
"Coming right up."
As the bartender readied the order, the patrons of the bar looked at the man who ordered.
Greg was not known for being somber. His default expression was a wide smile, and on the rare occasions where it wasn't, when he was confronted with a particularly difficult case, his s... | 2018-06-04T05:08:39 | 2018-06-04T04:01:05 | 69 | 17 |
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