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[WP] There is a girl in school that you lately have a huge crush for. The way she dresses, talks and acts seems to be like your ideal type. One day you steal and hack her phone hoping to find some info you can use to win her over. The phone is full of pictures, videos and recordings of you. | I fiddled with my homemade dog tag, running my fingers along the rough edges.
"Was she spying on me?" I double-checked my VPN and onion connections by clicking on the diagnostic software, all green lights.
Then I checked all the video cameras that give a view of the less well-maintained mansion and the more Well-kep... | BECKY AURORA.
If only she knew this late blooming, zit infested- gamer stud is infatuated with her to the point that I have imaginary conversations to myself to what I would say to her.
"SOooo....Bex and effects. ALL I WANNA DO IS IN A ZOOM-ZOOM ZOOM and a BOOM BOOM!" While I shake my rump to Teddy Riely's voice in m... | 2021-09-22T21:48:37 | 2021-09-22T19:07:00 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | I've never felt the same since learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling me to run.
Me and my relatively large family live in the outskirts of London, so we get rained on quite often. All my younger siblings love the rain, and each time they hear the slightest tap on the roof or spot the tiniest drop on the windows... | Davie was fascinated with the power of the Morse Code. It can help you in such a situation, that you can pass a note using your fingers or any objects on your hand and tap it as it had a letter meaning, Davie thought 'Why not learn it? I have nothing else to do.' Davie began to research Morse Code, the dot and dash mea... | 2021-09-28T09:11:59 | 2021-09-28T08:56:15 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You are a powerful mage whose job it is to build prisons for powerful mages that are impossible to escape. Today upon completing your masterpiece they lock you up in it. | "Really?"
I slowly stood, brushing the dirt from my robes. I could hear the shuffling nearby, as my Guardian slowly awakened. With a sigh I turned to face my client. They had a slightly embarrassed look on their face, as they shrugged.
"Sorry Charles. If it makes you feel any better I personally didn't want this."
I... | "What the hell! What blasphemy is this?" I howled as the guards dragged me into my open cell. The general tailed us and, not once, made eye contact with me. His eyes shifted all around the corridor.
The cell was in front of us. The guards pushed me inside and immediately shut the door before i made an iota of retalia... | 2022-03-26T14:29:27 | 2022-03-26T14:12:59 | 186 | 48 |
[WP] When Earth gained magic, many workers from unseeming professions rose to power. Artists used their vast imagination, scientists their intricate understanding of the world around them... but programmers spent their time finding exploits and bugs. | The world ended June 14th, 2063.
The first harbinger of doom was the Great Awakening, as it was called. The moment when magic came back to the world. In retrospect it was a long time coming, slowly building over the course of generations. It wasn't until it hit a critical tipping point where conscious manifestation... | (I know I'm commenting on my own post but I got an idea and just had to jot it down)
Arthur was having a good day. Great, even. Hell, he was damn near having a great decade. Only nine years ago, magic just sorta... popped up on Earth. No one knows why, no one knows how. Everyone called it "The Magic-ening". Arthur cal... | 2022-05-11T15:59:25 | 2022-05-11T13:33:01 | 97 | 25 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | "This isn't going to work out the way you think," the Devil said, eyes narrowed at the man standing before him. He was unassuming, even for a human - plain clothes, a scruffy face you'd forget in a heartbeat, and only a handful of scars allowed him to stand out.
"Others have tried this wording, you know?" the Devil co... | He summoned the devil on a canyon ledge, a thousand feet above the thin trickle of a river. Sunset painted distant mountain valleys, a few coarse trees above whithered shrubs and grasses like an old man’s patchy beard. The sky an unexpected brilliance, salmons with too much pink and shades of purple.
The devil was a t... | 2022-06-30T11:09:44 | 2022-06-30T10:34:02 | 1,175 | 418 |
[WP] After struggling in school all year you finally stood up to your bully and knocked him out with a punch in front of everyone. He promptly disapperead, turning into a pile of quarters. | It happened suddenly, and truthfully, I wasn't expecting it. The douche that bullied me for years finally got what was coming to him, but this just made no sense, or should I say cents?
I desperately tried controlling my breathing, both because I was extremely angry and now panicking. I mean, how does a man turn into ... | I woke up from a late night playing too many video games. I stumbled past my father on the couch. As usual he was passed out, beer cans thrown in a pile by the tv. I went into the kitchen, nothing to eat but leftover chicken fried rice from “Taste of the East”. I dumped some in a bowl and threw it in the microwave.
... | 2022-07-24T21:33:20 | 2022-07-24T16:47:38 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You are a demoness that fell in love with a female paladin, however when her order discovered her affair she was murdered. Now, despite how her arms and armor burn you, you set out to continue her work. | Fire.
Ashelma had always dealt in Fire.
From the ashes of her birth in the heart of Mont S'Elanie, to the towering Fireballs she cast as Lady of the Red Waste, Ashelma knew Fire well.
She was molded by it. She was built by it. She weaved it through spells and chants to throw others onto it. Fire defined her. She kne... | The platebody stings me. Even through the heavy linens and canvas under-layers that once smelled of her, and still do if I pretend well enough, I can feel the bite of the steel and the symbol upon it. The sword she once carried burns at my side, and chars my hand when I wield it; The symbol on the hilt, same as on the ... | 2022-08-18T02:38:10 | 2022-08-18T00:54:52 | 175 | 125 |
[WP] In the Academy for Knights, all students must bring their own weapon to matches against other students. You couldn't afford anything fancy, so you brought something more unconventional. | "The English! The English! The English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest!"
I sang in my head as I walked up to the registrar's table, weapon over my shoulder and whistling the melody.
"What on earth is that?!" he asked, looking at the long, heavy piece of wood I held. "Good Day!" I replied.
H... | I really couldn't resist, it was just too good.
I'd apologize, but I'm really not sorry.
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It was always a long day, surveying the Academy.
But still, as one of the few knights the court of King Leshira kept within the castle, he was always going to draw the duty eventually. Sir Haroward was nothing if not a d... | 2022-09-14T19:15:04 | 2022-09-14T18:49:58 | 77 | 52 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | "But what if you don't have internet? I mean, it seems like the process kinda favors the richer countries."
*"It only seems that way. It comes in more forms than you know."*
"So, that's it? That's the criteria? The only criteria to become a GOD? You toss out great heroic deeds or a moralistic sense of purpose? Leader... | I secured my place in history young. They knew me for my stunts, my activism, my inimitable personal presence and my admirable conscience. I did good in the world. Laws were named for my movements. Wars were averted, famine eased, when I advocated compassion. I was beloved, not by all - there were certainly those who d... | 2014-07-28T09:33:03 | 2014-07-28T08:53:46 | 358 | 201 |
[WP] You have dishonored your family and you must commit Sudoku.
You heard me. | I couldn't believe my dad would react this harshly, I reread his letter over and over again. But it was only a test, just a grade, I could have made it up next semester. As I lay there slowly bleeding out, the knife already removed. He knows I have dyslexia! | I sit quietly, mediating. The sword in my lap was growing more violent, more *feral* by the second.
I kept trying to control it, yet the blade's rage for bloodlust was too much.
It kept trying to attack more and more people. More and more of my frineds grew afraid of the blade. No, more people grew afraid of myself... | 2015-01-05T16:29:27 | 2015-01-05T14:52:17 | 167 | 79 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | "Is this Larry Hampton?"
"Oh, shit."
"Is this Larry? Larry Hampton?"
This is.
"This is. Who is this?"
"Listen to me very carefully. I don't know who you are, and I don't have any money. What I do have is a very
particular set of skills."
"I- - What?"
"Nah, just kidding. I'm high. Listen to me, I work for the NS... | "W-what?" exclaimed Dave, "This is a joke right?"
A very pretty woman had appeared on the screen in front of him, eyes of sapphire and the blonde hair of a Nordic princess. This had to be a friend playing a prank on him.
They had just finished a fruitless debate of armchair politics, bleeding edge conspiracies and nu... | 2015-02-20T17:27:26 | 2015-02-20T17:22:51 | 403 | 74 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | This was his 9th Marriage.
He had been training for marriage since he was but a wee babe. No school for him and his ilk, just combat training from Dusk 'til Dawn. First marriage at 18, lucky to make it out of that one alive. He could hear the low rumble of spectators through the walls.
Vows were in 20 minutes meani... | He relaxed in the chair with his leg over his knee and the half spent beer in his hands. He scanned a treeline in the distance and watched birds flutter aimlessly above the foliage before submerging themselves into the lush. He leaned back to stretch and with his neck already in position poured the rest of the bottle i... | 2015-11-18T09:14:46 | 2015-11-18T04:34:30 | 1,150 | 114 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | I walk out of the prison gates for the first time in 50 years, I breath free air for the first time in 50 long years. The world waited and watched my every movement to see what I do next. All week every Television in the prison has been tuned into the news to follow the coverage of my release, news reporters from all a... | It has been fifty years since that dreadful day, it was the day that the law had been passed. Our government had become so psychotic and corrupt to pass a law stating that you could get away with any crime if you spent fifty years incarcerated in advance. Once it was passed hundreds of people signed up, and today they ... | 2016-02-23T19:02:05 | 2016-02-23T17:45:53 | 125 | 12 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | "I assure you doctor, it was not a dream," said the kid before me. He was a child of 10 years, suffered a coma last year and had just woken up. The first thing he did in his wake was ask where he was, what time it was, and so forth. We told him and he listened calmly. I find that interesting, his calm. For a ten year o... | It was nearly 10, getting dark, but the rest of my friends didn't pay it any mind. They lived nearby, but, I still had to walk a little way and I thought it best that I had head off now, lest my mother get worried about where I was. One of them kicked the ball at me and being lost in thought, my timing was off-par. I d... | 2016-06-28T06:29:12 | 2016-06-28T03:50:55 | 987 | 552 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | "You mean that you talked with everyone else?" asked the shocked president.
"Yes." responded the British prime minister. He was old, old enough to have long memories of the time before the war.
"But, why? Why put up the rule in the first place just to break it?"
"Well you see now old chap, you guys started the war. ... | Burgess stop running long enough to feel the fire in his chest and stitch in side. Wing tips were never meant for this, he realized too late. His instinct kicked in about a second and two heavy breaths later – “MOVE! NOW!”
He took off again, light gray suit jacket protesting the movement of his arms. His 1,300$ Cou... | 2016-10-18T15:10:28 | 2016-10-18T15:03:15 | 2,982 | 94 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we have just been informed about sightings in England, France, Italy and China," the lieutenant reported after his brief phone call, but the general had already guessed. "Quarantine measures are in effect, but it seems unlikely that they will be successful."
"Has Madagascar been hit?" the general asked, a grim s... | Project EXILE had seemed to be humming along just fine until the shift change on Thursday morning. Seemed.
PFC Johnson was one of the few A51 staff members to be a Qualified Sensitive. Rumor had it there used to be more, but budget cuts took their toll as more and more money was devoted to recent saber rattling inste... | 2017-03-21T05:27:38 | 2017-03-21T04:50:35 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] We've discovered a system where intelligent life evolved twice. Once on a large hot world, and once on a small cooler world. They have been at war for millenia. We found Heaven and Hell | The discovery of the Angela-Demonia system brought the whole world together. For the first time in recorded history, the squabbling among nations and individuals ground to a halt, and as a species we raised our tiny eyes to the heavens to marvel at our cosmic neighbours.
Now, make no mistake; these beings were not god... | Senator Antonio Álvarez yielded the floor to a special guest of the evening. He had no aides with him, and no smartphone - the feeling of slight remembrance was all he had to go on when it came to the slender man in the glasses who refused the microphone when it was presented to him, thus showing faith that either he c... | 2017-07-12T12:14:13 | 2017-07-12T08:14:08 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | We’d first met about half a decade ago, during one of my earlier museum heists. I had almost made my way to the main safe, when I heard a noise behind me. Leon had stood in the doorway, momentarily silent as he assessed the scene. He had flashed a blinding white smile, all confidence and bravado. I had flicked my forke... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T06:07:38 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | *OP's aside:* Wellp, this exploded. Maybe I'll try Addi g my own reply to my own prompt. What's the worst that an happen?
Pan's heart jumped with joy as she watched Glory girl somersault out of the way of yet another attack. Pan admired everythibg about Glory girl. Her figure, her smile, how she fought, how she alway... | Edit: conversations not aligned properly.
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“Horus! You really like to get caught by me don't you!”
“Hah! You think this time will be the same as last time? You are wrong!”
“Coming after every time, if you weren't an overlord of destruction, I might have thought you liked me.”
Yes he did. No, it was more than that... | 2017-09-17T05:37:21 | 2017-09-17T04:19:39 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You get achievements in life, such as "Get Married" or "Meet your future Wife". Today you had your first baby, and you see an achievement pop up: "Meet the person who will eventually kill you" | For sixty years I lived in fear of my daughter. For sixty years I’ve lived with the anxiety of knowing at any moment she will end me. For sixty years I’ve been walking on eggshells and making excuses to make myself distant. Was the achievement incorrect? Was everything I did all for naught or was it merely enough to ke... | When I saw the achievement I started to cry. You see it's not the first time I've had a brush with this achievement. My family line has always had achievements. As far back as we can remember even before video games had them.
They let my ancestors pick right paths in life, which is what led to my family being a small ... | 2018-01-12T18:57:10 | 2018-01-12T17:34:09 | 1,530 | 222 |
[WP] Your mouse cursor has broken through your screen and can now interact with the world around you. You realize that you can do everything in the real world like you can on your computer, but right clicking gives you many more options. | I'm sorry, but I will save you, forgive me.
It started with a small crack on the screen.
I thought nothing of it, it was an old desktop and I had thrown some abuse at it over the years, and besides, it didn't really bother me - after all, it was only small. Overtime it grew, the screen became unusable and fragile. T... | Pro-gamers tend to be quick, able to react with lightning speed to any new situation, even unexpected ones. That reflex had saved Randy's life as the razor sharp pointer slammed through his screen and went straight for his forehead. It was massive, black, glossy, and now reflected just a touch of red as the teen's hand... | 2018-03-25T09:29:26 | 2018-03-25T08:33:46 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] You get a chance to be reborn with your mind intact. You work hard from birth and are quickly placed in a class for ultra-prodigies from around the world. Turns out, however, they all did the same thing you did. | I had to fight to keep from losing my mind... One moment I am driving down the interstate arguing with my ex via speakerphone, the next my head is filled if fog and I'm in a blindingly bright room.
Birth, it turns out, is awful for all parties involved. I don't think anything special happened to me that doesn't happen... | When I laid on my death bed 16 years ago, I was sure that I would spend the rest of eternity in eternal bliss, spending time with my Creator and those who had gone before me. Little did I know then that things would be different. I had spent my time in that lifetime working hard, loving my family, and loving my God. Wh... | 2018-04-23T09:59:32 | 2018-04-23T09:44:38 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Two minutes ago, every individual worldwide swapped bodies with another random person. You are now standing in a foreign city, in the midst of a confused and frightful crowd. | John had been heading towards the ocean at sunset. That was when a flash of light blinded him and all he could hear were people around him were yelling incoherently. When his eyes adjusted he looked around in panic to find it was now night time and he was in a strange city. Tall buildings towered over head, giants ran ... | Pale white men dashing rampant across unfamiliar streets. A blonde woman looks onto me and screams in a tongue foreign to mine. The ground shakes and trembles to the repeated footsteps of 6 billion human creatures stomping away in unison. It's like the beginning of a low budget zombie apocalypse movie, with every blink... | 2018-04-26T17:29:30 | 2018-04-26T15:42:33 | 73 | 19 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | Flames whirl in a red and purple maelstrom. A middle aged woman falls backwards out of her seat. Her four children finally stop their roughhousing, entranced by the fire. Two teenagers with fake eyelashes, fake nails, and fake fur coats replace their fake smiles with very real screams. A would be hero gets up and toss... | The man behind the counter froze in the middle of typing out my order. They looked up at me wide eyed and said,"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." Sounding somewhat surprised.
That night, standing in the empty 24/7 McDonald's of our small desert town, it finally happened. The thing that I had been wa... | 2018-06-24T21:21:58 | 2018-06-24T20:39:44 | 79 | 41 |
[WP] A group of heroes stay in the small house of a humble rancher. Out of boredom, the wizard decides to see if anything around them has magic, then finds that a sheep has a ridiculously powerful aura | “and you think something mysterious is in this barn?” asked the bard.
“Yes, I could swear it’s right through here. I couldn’t make out exactly what is was, but something on the other side of these walls is emanating an extreme amount of magical power,” the wizard replied. “I’m surprised you can’t feel it honestly. All... | The farmer, Hebcliff, leaned forward in his chair tapping his pipe out idly against the wood. He fixes his eyes on a beast of a man as the last wisp of smoke from a long pipe draw drifts off in the wind.
“Is your uhh, wizard, touched in the head friend?”
Pliatreze pauses for a moment before answering, a little uns... | 2020-01-12T01:01:13 | 2020-01-12T00:48:33 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] A new coffee shop opened up across the street from you. Your friends are all excited, but you recognize the owner; the jerks been following you around for a thousand years now. | "Duraliel," I began,
The barrista looked up, eyes wide.
"Kura'kahn narakh shi an'no," I said, which is Ancient Dawn-Aramiac for "You slimey bastard and son of a broken crane (doesn't translate well, but you get the picture), stop following me."
"Karazah nuhr bihali, asa." I added, which is Ancient Dawn Aramaic for,... | His friend were still chatting to each other when he pushed his way in through the front door of the new coffee shop. He looked around the room and saw nothing out of the ordinary. A small shop, maybe ten tables, and comfortable padded chairs. The windows had wooden blinds that were closed to give the dining area a v... | 2020-02-04T08:56:47 | 2020-02-04T07:52:49 | 115 | 28 |
[WP] Bob the hobo's always been a nice guy. He stops thugs tagging the building, picks up litter, and doesn't bother anyone. When he returned your wallet, you decided to repay him and treat him to dinner. You're now in a 5-star restaurant, and Bob has just paid a bill four times your yearly rent. | Bob gave a satisfied belch as the waiter carried away the last of the plates.
"Delicious, as always," he said.
Another oddity. A Boboddity, as I'd come to call them. Like falling upwards, he somehow knew exactly how to act. Which fork to use first, where to put his napkin, which wine to pair with the marbled cut of... | Bob was a pretty chill dude. He was a street guy, sure. But he helped the community, and for the most part was forgotten by those with money and a home. So I felt a little guilty when I had to take a second glance when he gave me back my wallet. He turned to leave, but before he could I tapped him on the shoulder.
"He... | 2020-03-30T05:57:33 | 2020-03-30T05:46:34 | 499 | 134 |
[WP] We were taught the Sun didn't make noise. We were wrong. Like TV static in an empty room, it did make a sound, a sound so ever present that we didn't realize it was there until it wasn't. That day humanity learned the terror of a silent sky, and the reason it made sound in first place. | *The Missing Note*
“Thanks again!” Jamie called out behind him, a box of his favourite bagels in hand. The kindly old baker waved at him as he stepped out the door.
And promptly tripped and fell on the ground. The bagels scattered all over the busy sidewalk and onto the road. His face burned with embarrassment before... | The bulldozer rumbled down the road slightly faster than a walking man, spewing black fumes out into the even blacker day. It was loud, but the noise was familiar, comforting. Tommy’s ear plugs lay some miles behind him, abandoned not long after the sun had winked out and the road crew had fractured apart, every man fo... | 2021-08-28T10:11:05 | 2021-08-28T09:49:47 | 1,181 | 88 |
[WP] You find yourself in purgatory, you will be forever stuck unless you write that book that "you are totally going to write". The book will be published in the world of the living. | "I'm gonna need Internet access."
The pale, ghostly figure blinks at my demand, its translucent body softly flickering in and out of existence.
"Why?" it asks, its voice reverberating through the endless, misty void around us, coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once.
I shrug. "Research, obviously. You can't e... | # Timeless Literature
**Refusal**
"Can't do it," I firmly state.
The scaly woman sitting behind the desk across from me glares in disbelieve, her reptilian eyes widening, "What do you mean you *can't*? You've been wanting to write this your whole life and now you have *all the time.*"
"Exactly, there's no deadl... | 2021-10-07T08:29:40 | 2021-10-07T07:55:26 | 155 | 15 |
[WP] The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. | I told her not to go outside, not in broad daylight. But Miri had wanted to see the sun. And they'd gotten to her.
I woke that morning to find her gone, and I panicked. I ran to the foyer of the building we'd been hiding in, and I saw her standing there.
She looked normal, just like she always did. But I knew somethi... | "DAMNIT! I knew there was a reason she was always so sweet to me" Donny begins to weep as his wife slowly crumbles before him into a pool of frosting and sponge cake. Amidst his bawling Donny falls to his knees, staining his pants in leftover cake. As he sobs he lifts a handful of cake to his mouth for a taste.
"Hmm.... | 2022-04-26T17:32:59 | 2022-04-26T17:20:19 | 232 | 147 |
[WP] I know why I'm in Hell. I know what I've done. What I don't know is why my dog is there, waiting for me when I arrive. | I deserved to be here. I deserved the fire, the dark, the screams, the pain, and the fear. I deserved it all and more. I expected this. I left behind nothing but regret and emptiness. Stepping from humanity through the gates of the pit was an instant in time that lasted as long as my own eternity. But when it was done,... | The first thing you feel is the heat.
No, that's a lie. The first thing you feel is understanding. Every bad choice you made. Every lie you told. Every person you hurt, cheated, stole from or killed. You understand it all in the great context. Sure, each might not have gotten you here on its own. But together? Then y... | 2014-07-07T21:38:12 | 2014-07-07T20:21:49 | 432 | 82 |
[WP] Make it so that I don't know whether it's Voldemort or Trump. | You know, sometimes I think it's the emptiness inside me that leaves so much room to be filled with such anger. Maybe, unconsciously, I take that out on the people I'm up against.
But oh, how it pleases me so.
I've made a lot of enemies and no friends, but still I'm rising to power from the sheer number of people th... | "The problem with these people -- they're not like us! They're not! They don't have the same values. I don't hold it against them. People say -- Voldemort, he's racist. He's a racist guy. They do! They say that about me!
"But, the thing is, we're outnumbered here. We have to look at the facts. We have to look at the... | 2016-01-18T09:39:51 | 2016-01-18T09:13:52 | 397 | 152 |
[WP] "Well you managed to fucking do it. You slept through the apocalypse"
. | *Beep beep beep*
*Beep beep beep*
I groaned. I smacked my lips. I rolled over.
*Beep beep beep*
Oh right. That's my alarm. I should probably get that. The clock read "6:15" in green letters, with "SAT" glowing in the top right corner. Why was my alarm going off when I didn't work today? Whatever. I'm gonna snooze ... | I walk through the streets with blood and puke stained clothes, an ax in my left hand and a .45 pistol in my right. I walk like I fucking own the place because I do. All of the sudden an SUV full of those fuckers rounds the corner puke and blood spray out the windows... But wait lets take it back a step about 3 days. I... | 2016-03-11T11:58:08 | 2016-03-11T08:55:57 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane | Stephen watched with a mute sort of horror as his nephew bounced up and down on the couch, hollering at the top of his voice.
"I'm hungry, uncle Stephen!" Jason screamed, his face red and flushed.
The gummy bears, it must have been. There were only three left in the side pocket of his backpack - last time he'd checke... | "Uncle..... your gummy bears are talking in my stomach nowww.... Ohhh they say that I should follow them to gummy bear landd...." Tommy was literally drooling when he said that, lying there on the floor in my room.
I left my door opened for a minute, and the next he was inside, hands in his mouth, both my LSD laden gu... | 2017-01-09T06:33:44 | 2017-01-09T05:40:02 | 128 | 92 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "Impressive." God acknowledges as he gazes down to Earth, "But I'm having difficulty seeing what you changed. The people are still scurrying around, but hate and violence is down 90% across the board. I must know -- what did you do?"
Whitney smirked ever so slightly while taking her place at God's left side. "This? Oh... | The Creator looked upon His creation, and saw that it was good. Beautiful. Peaceful. There was no conflict, no hardships - it was perfect, a well-oiled machine that would run without issue for millennia, if not forever.
He smiled. A bitter smile. An expression that was below His station, for the emotion it represented... | 2017-03-05T03:20:27 | 2017-03-05T03:10:23 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | He threw my wallet on the ground, and shot it until his magazine was empty, every shot made my head jerk back. He then threw the gun on the ground near my wallet, my eyes were narrowed, I was furious.
"Why the hell did you do that? Now I have to request a new ID and credit card."
The man looked up, the hood of his co... | Cries of help bounced up the dirty concrete walls and through the rusty fire escapes. Thick drops of acid rain fell from the gray, polluted sky, pattering against my umbrella. It took a last drag and stubbed out my cigarette.
The alley was like any other in this godforsaken city – windowless, filled with garbage conta... | 2017-07-13T00:49:55 | 2017-07-13T00:36:27 | 223 | 68 |
[WP] The Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins laughed at humans for not having magic. The humans laughed at the Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins for not having giant robots. | They were running out of ressources. Thats the sole reason why they invaded our world.
I was sitting in my mech and looked on the mist that covered the plains before us.
A typical tactic for them. Those elves, dwarfes and goblins think that some mist and creepy sounds would scare us enough to drop our weapons. They l... | "Wait, lemme fink' this one fru' ay," The words dribble out of Nockknar, the Goblin Treasureking, like saliva from the maw of a dying mongrel. "Aktually, bloody hell, I don't fink I wanna. Can't do magic?" Nockknar points towards the hooded human in front of him, a wicked smirk (covered with solidified drool) emerging ... | 2017-07-17T06:56:34 | 2017-07-17T06:54:09 | 195 | 63 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Eat your dinner."
"Ewww. I'm not hungry."
"You will sit at this table until you have cleaned you plate."
"This is weird food. I hate it!"
"It's not weird food. It was harvested fresh this afternoon. It's perfectly good. Look, your brother is eating his."
"He's weird."
His brother punched him in the tentacle.
"... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T09:05:10 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 48 | 25 |
[WP] 250 years after sending the first generation starship in space, another starship begins its voyage. Approaching the edge of the solar system, they spot a decaying, dying ship... | “Sir. If I go in there, I am going to die.”
They had found the ship out on the border of the solar system, spinning dangerously and in massive disrepair. After stabilising the spin with remote boosters, the captain had ordered a full exploratory venture.
Reese was, naturally, selected for the role. Tall, fit and han... | We prepare to enter the Oort cloud, that super structure of rock and ice unlucky enough to sink into the slight gravity well of our solar system, unwilling servants to a sun so far from us it shines a distant dot, almost indistinguishable from other local sources of light.
Chances of collision are minimal, as even in ... | 2017-10-23T11:39:19 | 2017-10-23T11:34:32 | 168 | 10 |
[WP] You are an inventor who joined a tournament meant to find the most powerful mage in the kingdom. Nobody expects a non-mage like you to survive, much less win, but your newest invention will even the odds. You call it Gunpowder. | "Excuse me, sir. Can I see your wand?"
You turn around and see an old wizard, wearing a fairly long tunic. His beard almost touches his feet. You let out a slightly sadistic laugh before answering:
"Sure, go ahead". You proceed to show him your pistol
"And how does that work? What spells can you cast?"
"If you wan... | And the competitors for the next match are the eloxedian red battlemage, Dolmo Arth!
A middle age man wearing a red cape walked into the stone ring in front of me, waving his hand for the cheering people around.
And the char inventor, Azay Nolkan.
The people didn't cheer for me as I walked in to the ring of stone. I... | 2019-01-01T05:45:01 | 2019-01-01T00:42:46 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | "Please, I beg you, I'm sorry!"
Janivar hated this part, the begging.
"Shut up. Lord Tansalon has passed his judgement. I am merely here to execute his will. Don't take it personally."
The man was bound to the pyre. Janivar had built it himself. He was very good at building fires. He was usually left behind ... | "Today is the day I'm going to... " the old man glances into the sky.
"Today is the day I'm going to tell you about the group I was with when I lost my leg," he takes a stone cold look at the metal beam sticking out of the stump where his leg used to be before he continues: " and what can happen if you don't treat the ... | 2020-01-05T11:58:20 | 2020-01-05T11:20:43 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] The reason the police had never managed to prosecute this particular criminal was that he kept using low-level magic to trick them, this was immediately obvious to you. The hard part will be making the arrest without your colleagues realising you are a top-tier dark magician. | It's a mythical thing. One in a hundred thousand. A real kick in the balls of reality.
A certain subset of people don't know they have it. A disproportionately large number of these end up in law enforcement, with the uncanny ability to sniff out criminal behavior. With each miraculously solved case they shrug their s... | “We can’t keep him here. The kid wasn’t carrying anything on him. We have no evidence,” the enforcer said, running his hands through his long hair. “I really thought we had our guy.”
“It has to be this kid. It’s the second time we’ve seen him near one of the crime scenes. I don’t know how he managed to break past the ... | 2020-08-17T05:59:02 | 2020-08-17T05:02:43 | 69 | 29 |
[WP] Every few decades, the world experiences a Narrative Shift. A while back it was Film Noir, and now is the Age of Heroes. Everyone dreads the upcoming Horror genre. | She was alert, perceptive, a little on edge; most raised during the Film Noir age were, since the mysterious death of a child was a well-worn trope of that genre. The hard-boiled PI had to have a reason for being disillusioned, down-on-his-luck, and perpetually drunk.
That she was just in the age range to remember fi... | When the lights came on in the world and color seeped back in the private eyes hung up their gun belts, replaced by the next generation. Young wannabe heroes who’d dropped out of school to shoot steroids and pump iron in preparation for the Shift had flooded the streets to win with cold hard steel what they couldn’t th... | 2020-12-19T10:48:55 | 2020-12-19T10:12:21 | 102 | 68 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | You know the thing about being a super villain? You’re always destined to lose. You’re never supposed to win. No matter what vile scheme you concoct, no matter how dastardly the plot, the hero (and I use that term with the utmost snide) will always come in and botch your plan.
Such was the case of my plots. My name is... | It first became apparent to him that something had changed, when a scream echoed throughout the silent neighbourhood, and there was no answer. The night had sunk back into slumber as quickly as it had awakened.
He, however, was not so fortunate; the scream had roused him from sleep, and any melatonin which had been ke... | 2021-12-28T19:23:42 | 2021-12-28T18:16:14 | 152 | 83 |
[WP] You created the A.I. that brought unparalleled good into the world. Global hunger was eradicated, climate change has vastly improved, geopolitical strife is now stabilizing. You are haunted by your creation and your conscience is laden with guilt as only you know the truth. | It took centuries.
After millions of failures and an interminable parade of resources, careers, and relationships sacrificed at the altar of "progress," we’d done it. Humanity’s greatest achievement: the Oracle.
It was meant to be our fortress of logic and reasoning. A treatment for the disease of a chaotic existence... | At first, the world thought it was a new form of plague or pandemic, but all results came negative. Scientists especulated that the root cause may have been a genetic modification triggered by contaminants, but that didn't explain how the same problem had happened in the whole world at, roughly, the same time.
Over ni... | 2022-08-05T04:22:50 | 2022-08-05T02:17:10 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | Those who say alcoholism is selfish really didn't know how selfless it was for me to stay drunk out of my fucking mind.
The drinking made everything just a little too slow. Thoughts would trot instead of racing, memories would stumble gently upon my brain instead of hitting it full-force. Everything was a bit dim; an... | "Um, Izzy? You doing all right?" I ignored the question; knowing it came from a place of concern didn't make it any easier to answer. The darkness of my room pressed in around me, feeling like a comforting blanket, hiding me from the world; hiding me from the reality of Laia's death.
"Only, you've been in there for fi... | 2022-12-28T08:49:46 | 2022-12-28T07:43:52 | 1,700 | 463 |
[WP] "They have a human! RUN!" | Humans.
After the initial culling, it was said that the humans were done. With their home planet wiped of all life, only a few seed colonies remained. Less than ten thousand of them, we were told; the Galactic Covenant military said that this was insignificant. They'd give up. Die off.
Merzkin were the bigger threat,... | 6 cycles... it had been 6 long, cold cycles on this barren rocky planet. I hadn't seen Xorian in 7 terms since I left Terron for this place. I would get the occasional transmission from home. She had started her required time in the expeditionary force as a flight medic on one of the Tibur-Class advanced ships. I miss ... | 2014-09-22T09:40:14 | 2014-09-22T09:29:35 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | "COMPLICATIONS DURING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE"
Geoff found it hilarious when he read this. After a decade of seeing people's cause of death, he had become quite jaded to the ability. This surprised himself, in retrospect, but one could understand why. When he figured out what was going on, like any good Samaritan, Geoff to... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T10:49:16 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Life's not a fairy tale. Life's real.
We know the last words we'll get from our soulmates, without context, but clear as day. Some words are sweet, some are sour, some are tragic. We all have them, and only the lucky ones don't think about them every day.
On my chest, across my heart, her words remind me of reality. ... | “Oh, pardon me! Heh, my mom always tells me I need to pull my head out of the clouds.”
He smiled at her; a sheepish sort of smile that – she noted – highlighted the crow’s feet at the outer corners of his eyes – pale, soft blue. They weren’t lines that her grandmother had warned her would come with all of her suspicio... | 2015-08-08T11:49:54 | 2015-08-08T11:15:40 | 274 | 106 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | these words engraved on my wrist, These last word to me could've been in any context. I could've left her, done something to save her life or taking it. I mean what could be happening when the last word are "No, Don't." The illusion of me being hero or a murderer came to a sad depressing end when i found out the contex... | It had always been uncomfortable. My parents had to cover it up with long sleeves until I was old enough to take care of it myself. I just kept a few black straps around my wrists to cover it up. And for anyone who still managed to read it, after middle school no one was really that surprised. I looked like a rough edg... | 2015-08-08T12:53:58 | 2015-08-08T10:16:00 | 93 | 45 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Oh our first date, she leant forward, donned her prettiest smile and asked me "What are your words?"
"Oh.." I said shyly "They're nothing meaningful" I told her. My words were different, something beyond my comprehension, for now at least.
She leant backwards with a grin "Are you scared you'll secretly be my soul m... | The subway slid along noisily underneath the city streets. Sam sat quietly in one corner listening to music through one earphone and mindlessly eating his breakfast (a granola bar that was a bit too hard) with the other. He stared at the words written plainly up his forearm. Words he, and everyone else in the world, wa... | 2015-08-08T13:04:02 | 2015-08-08T12:14:55 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Amidst a major revenue crisis, the US government institutes a nationwide "swear jar". As years go by, excessive use of expletives becomes a major status symbol and a hallmark of the upper class. | "*Fuck*," President Trump screamed into the microphone, feedback ringing through the people's ears, "and God bless America."
Trump smiled and waved as the richest 1% piled outside the White House cheered on. The crowd started chanting "Don't fuck with the Trump!" while doing the wave. The President stepped away from t... | The old thin man in the office chair had a sad look in his eyes. This was Charles' third time at the principal's office this week. *Being* the principal, he thought it wouldn't bother him so much. The school was, essentially, his to run, so long as the local school board found nothing too objectionable to his methods. ... | 2016-02-13T18:51:50 | 2016-02-13T17:35:24 | 307 | 62 |
[WP] Weight can be transferred from person to person if both parties accept. People pay money to transfer their unwanted pounds to someone who will deal with it in their stead. You run a gym/factory. | We had done it; we had cured obesity. At least, that's what we thought we were doing. If I knew how fucked up it would become, I would have sabotaged it myself.
You see, we perfected liposuction. That's all it was at first. We made it faster, simpler, safer, cheaper. And with a recovery time of only a few hours, it wa... | Hi, and welcome back to the Laura show! Our next guest is a personal trainer at Jim Jimminy Jim 's gym. Now, I know what you're thinking: what's so special about that? Well, he is also part of the surging subculture of weight transference. Greg, it's great to have you here"
"Thank you for having me, it's great to be h... | 2016-06-29T20:06:15 | 2016-06-29T19:00:44 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name. | “Sarah.” That was the first thought in my head as I woke up. The name meant nothing.
I found myself sitting in a stiff chair, my body seemingly refused to move. After a bit of anxiety I heard a few cracks, more satisfying than worrying.
Slowly but surely I began to shift as I noticed my hands.
Thin, frail, and sl... | "Michael!" I shouted, as cold, thick hands held me down to the bed. "Michael!"
"He's gone, Jovan," said the woman beside the bed. The man holding me down let me go after I stopped struggling. A dull throbbing took over my bandaged arms, and my heavy head pulled me down to the pillow.
"You couldn't save him, Jovan" s... | 2017-01-02T18:58:55 | 2017-01-02T16:28:46 | 86 | 10 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | The 'In' gang await me in their fallout shelter. The 'Out' crew think I sail for higher ground. Both speculate in mirrors of their own creation. Neither hears an echo. They are far too committed now to question certainties.
I am a lonely madman giggling at the moon, smiling from the safety of my doorway. I am patient,... | I woke with a start, there was so much noise in the room I could barely comprehend what was going on.
My wife was stood over me shaking me by the shoulder shouting at me to wake up. "Wha..." I felt groggy, it was 4 in the morning and she expected me to jump out of bed. "What's going on?" She looked at me with that 'I... | 2017-01-27T01:15:15 | 2017-01-27T00:45:44 | 146 | 107 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | It was my birthday. Well, it wasn't must mine - a few other young men and women were born twenty-one years ago today. We had that in common, along with the creeping dread about our titles.
Every person, upon turning twenty-one, was granted a title. It was supposed to reflect the greatest accomplishment of your yo... | *Happy Birthday Me*
Quite the party we had here, me, three walls, a dirty toilet, 12 bars of reinforced steel, a husk of mattress and about a hundred bed bugs.
Oh and hope. Revived after months.
I pretended to be asleep when they came to fetch me. As if I hadn’t a care in the world. There was a knock, a sound of st... | 2017-04-27T17:59:06 | 2017-04-27T15:41:40 | 4,615 | 184 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | I stood in the line, awaiting the elder to call me in, I had turned 21 today, first thing I thought of was the title I would receive and what that title would be. Glenda, our elder, was the current elder in a long line proceeding her.
Normally, Glenda was usually very kind and warm to the other villages but when it ca... | Custom and tradition, which interleaved every facet of life for the dozen villages spread throughout the Darrowshire plains, accounted for many of the interesting practices unique to the locale.
These included the almost reverential regard for hunting, the marking of coming of age by bequeathing a title reflecting th... | 2017-04-27T18:09:07 | 2017-04-27T17:19:00 | 2,949 | 810 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Custom and tradition, which interleaved every facet of life for the dozen villages spread throughout the Darrowshire plains, accounted for many of the interesting practices unique to the locale.
These included the almost reverential regard for hunting, the marking of coming of age by bequeathing a title reflecting th... | *Happy Birthday Me*
Quite the party we had here, me, three walls, a dirty toilet, 12 bars of reinforced steel, a husk of mattress and about a hundred bed bugs.
Oh and hope. Revived after months.
I pretended to be asleep when they came to fetch me. As if I hadn’t a care in the world. There was a knock, a sound of st... | 2017-04-27T17:19:00 | 2017-04-27T15:41:40 | 810 | 184 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | Avatar, Springfield, 32 StreetyMcRoadface, Diary.
New entry, today.
So I am in this line. A long line. It is the most interesting queue that ever occurs in Springfield. It stretches from Glenda's, all the way down Avenue Road. It passes Convenience Mart, and curves left around Turner's Corner. This queue of new ... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T20:42:35 | 349 | 32 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | She pulled the trigger, apologizing under her breath. The shot rang out, causing her to flinch, the body falling limply to the floor.
Blood on her beautiful dress.
She waited for him to come, preening herself, making sure she was perfect for him.
A glint of the scythe.
"**You need to stop doing this.**"
She poute... | Three candles lit the room, their wicks barely burning above the pool of wax spilling out the candle holders. All three sat atop a rounded wood table set up for dinner. Two plates, two knives, two forks, but only one person. Mariah waited as she always did as the flames began to flicker.
He wasn’t coming. He never did... | 2017-06-07T17:26:56 | 2017-06-07T17:18:22 | 9,304 | 208 |
[WP] You discover that reality is merely the fragile dream of a newborn extra dimensional being. As opposed to falling to despair, you rise to action. You form "Task Force 13". Your team's goal? Quash the being's nightmares before the dream is overrun and the being wakes from terror. | Samsara. Game Wardens. See No Evil. The Red Right Hand. There were no shortage of MTFs. For each and every need.
A mobile task force was the ultimate in a synchronous killing machine. The best of the best of the best, often even the least worked of these made Delta force and SAS look like boy scouts.
But that was not... | We in TF13 are devoted servants of sleep and its holiness. Protectors of dreams, fighters of terror, we fly headfirst into the depths of nightmares. Defenders of an infinite realm that stretches between sleep and a world we'll never know like an endless meadow. A wall of blackness lies in the distance, taller than the ... | 2019-03-29T13:00:16 | 2019-03-29T08:53:32 | 69 | 44 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | I continue to stare at the timer.
It has been an hour since the alarm went off, and the beeping sound died after a minute. I know I should protest or panic or find ways to escape this lunacy of a show, but I keep staring at the timer like I used to for a year. I am numb. I am weak. I do not know if I can utter a word... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T00:35:51 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 147 | 45 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | I stirred a bit in my lair, admiring humans their small size. The young adult human female finished the mutton I'd fried with my breath, and I considered what to say next. This one just didn't make sense...
"I thought dragons only kidnap princesses." She did me the favor of going there first. *A princess would... | "Hnng-yah" What is... Ah, daylight. "Hmm" - did not feel like any injuries, and there was plenty of room for my morning stretch. Although, I did find myself warmer than usual this fine season and, once I felt the rumble I realise it's that time of the millenia again. "Aaah, Vulan! You've been quite over my past few na... | 2019-11-11T17:44:01 | 2019-11-11T14:42:38 | 86 | 22 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | After the din of the previous four hours, my wife laboring in agony with the birth of our firstborn, the silence of the doctor as he cleaned and wrapped our child was unnerving, but not as unnerving as the sickly green hair sprouting out of the boy's, *my boy's*, sickly green head.
"Is..." I struggled for words, "Is e... | "Shit," the doctor said as the first cries started.
This wasn't my first rodeo. I'd been in there before. Previous wives, previous lives. That type of thing. I knew "shit" could only mean two things: literal shit, or figurative shit. It was the figurative shit that scared the shit out of me.
I peeked down at my wife ... | 2020-04-28T05:56:54 | 2020-04-28T04:36:29 | 423 | 231 |
[WP] The aliens intend to enslave humanity. 10 hours a week, with free food, housing, and medical care, on a paradise planet. But they've heard about humans. They're expecting a fight. | Alright, I'm just putting it out there: the aliens weren't so bad.
They conquered Earth so quickly, and took care not to induce many casualties. After all, wouldn't want to thin out your workforce... sorry, slaves, before you put them to work, right?
The labour was difficult. All labour was, no matter which departmen... | Humans. We've all heard the stories. The legends. How a scout ship of the long lost Grâhjiv Commonwealth picked up a wooden ship full of the humans, who took over the interstellar craft and conquered the Commonwealth, establishing a culture of warriors. To keep ruling, they created spawn, using advanced and illegal gen... | 2021-08-19T15:11:59 | 2021-08-19T13:51:06 | 1,074 | 222 |
[WP] Your superpower is Winning. No matter how contrived, absurd, or unrealistic, you never lose. You're beginning to think this is like some incredibly lazy comic book writing... | I stand before the demigod, ready to state my wish. "I wish I could win everything."
The athletically built, bright-faced man grimaced a smile of ten thousand suns. "And so it will be."
"Looking back, I wish I had never wished it."
\---
From that moment on, I started winning at everything. Winning chess, winning th... | pt/1
The night was young and full of festivities. Every bar was open, but not all were equally attended, and not for reasons of poor quality. The Crookback Tavern was off the tourist strip, a couple right-turns and one walk down a dark alleyway that never failed to scare off visitors. Despite its poor location, they a... | 2021-11-15T10:47:12 | 2021-11-15T08:30:44 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] just because i am a female elf dose not mean i want to be an Archer or a Mage I want to be a berserker and break things with my hands. | Portia lacked any real magical talent, and she wasn't particularly talented with a bow. Traditional Elvish combat was not hers. It had made Elvish men (and women) gossip about her and talk behind her back. Portia kept herself optimistic and bright eyed, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
She had a variety of trades ... | On days like these, I wish I were a peasant.
“What do you mean, am I sure I don’t want to be a mage?” I say leaning forward and slamming my ax against Quest Master’s desk. “Do I look like a mage?”
“Well,” the Quest Master says, staring at my tits, “you are… an elf.”
“With a +4 diamond battle ax! Do you know how much... | 2022-01-27T09:11:09 | 2022-01-27T08:22:03 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] A man who has been dating a girl since elementary school goes to her father for her hand in marriage. The father says no. Tell us why and break our hearts. | "No." Never had I expected this very word to shatter my world. A year ago I was fresh out of high school. Once I graduated, I was nearly sure I would be cut off from everyone. I did, except one person. My girlfriend who I've been dating since we were little kids in elementary school. Her loyalty to me, and mine to her ... | Knowing this was his biggest obstacle left to clear, he knocked on the large front door, making sure to stay clear of the glass. He wanted as much time to mentally prepare as possible.
"Hello, Dr. Singh," he said as her father swung the heavy door open.
"Hello, Brian. So good to see you. Alana had mentioned you wanted... | 2022-06-12T00:18:33 | 2014-01-19T16:03:41 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | Gasping, I run through the woods, lungs exploding, throat burning, gasping for what might be my last taste of air. I splash into a creek, hoping to hide there for a minute and catch my breath. I only have a two minutes at the most. I have to keep moving.
I had a nice, comfortable home. I had a happy life. But of cour... | It was all she could do to keep running. The jungle heat was like a thick wet curtain, constantly constraining her movements. The vines and creepers were like gnarled limbs outstretched to grip and entangle her. The roots and stones like legs to trip her up. Still, she kept running. She had to keep running. She had to ... | 2014-08-04T10:54:13 | 2014-08-04T09:54:19 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Your ageing family dog walks up to you one day with a piece of paper in its mouth. Taking the paper, you notice that it is a bucket list. | She looked up when Casper finished mounting the stairs from the basement and didn't wander over to one of his toys as usual. There was something in his mouth, although, oddly, he wasn't trying to chew it yet.
"Shit. What have you got?"
She set her book aside to go to the kitchen, Casper on her heels. He dropped the s... | I grew up with Ginger, but she wasn't my dog. That's what I thought when I was 11, of course. She was my parents'. They had her before they had any of us kids. It doesn't mean we didn't love her, but I think we took her for granted. She was a beautiful golden retriever with a luscious, dark coat of fur. She was stunnin... | 2015-04-06T10:16:37 | 2015-04-06T10:01:07 | 134 | 35 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | The van ploughed in to the side of my car. There was no pain, just a dull, tingling sensation all over my body as the blood leaked out and I faded in to unconsciousness.
I woke up. I found myself surrounded on all sides by an expanse of inhospitable, fissured rock of a dark red colour. What appeared to be magma could ... | Fred closed his eyes, the morphine finally kicking in. The car had come out of nowhere.
When he opened them, he screamed. The hot, searing pain of broiling flesh as his feet touched the brimstone beneath was just the beginning. It went on forever, a never ending wasteland with gouts of flame bursting forth from crack... | 2015-04-09T08:50:38 | 2015-04-09T07:56:32 | 1,736 | 16 |
[WP] Reincarnation has been proven, but you are reborn in the country that you died in. This prompts massive travelling for the elderly. You are someone about to die and desperately trying against all odds to get to the country that you want to be born in before you die. | "ORALE VATOS, LET ER' RIP!"
The acceleration was unbelievable. The rope around my ankles suddenly tightened and dragged me down the chute before ripping me up into the air and disconnecting as I reached the top of the arc of the trebuchet. I soared clear over the Rio Grande and got to steal a glance at a very confused ... | The revelation wasn’t so much celebratory as it was deeply horrifying. I don’t mean horrifying like a loud noise banging in the night. It was more the kind where you lay down, mind reeling about the implications of your own mortality, realizing that your legacy is all you really have to offer the world. Realizing that ... | 2015-12-02T09:02:25 | 2015-12-02T08:55:18 | 125 | 28 |
[WP] By the weapons you use, you will be known.
Was inspired by a recent conversation about manipulation and social behaviour. But could be applied in various other ways. | I am becoming death, the destroyer of worlds. I draw weak men into my power, molding them by the very sound of my voice. They deny their very soul and kill at my command, following my orders.
They slaughtered the Jews with me. I build walls, divide friends and create enemies. Every tyrant, every demagogue, and every v... | "Tell me," a man's muffled voice spoke from behind the doors of *Fish Leg's Inn*. "What is the weapon that should be kept sharpest?"
Thorn pushed open the double-oak doors and found the source of the voice. The man sat at a bar just a few feet away, hooded and stooped over. Even from behind, it was obvious that he w... | 2016-03-14T11:20:35 | 2016-03-14T10:55:50 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | *Where is my human?*
St. Peter idly walks with a gentle giant giant of a Rottweiler. There's a light breeze in the air, rustling the leaves to life.
"Max, he's in a bad place right now"
Max cocks his head to the side, ears opened, *He's in a bad place because I'm not with him*
St. Peter slowly walks up to Max, "It'... | Abdul shuffled by me. That's one of the upsides if you die in car crash with your best buddies: You're not alone in purgatory. He seemed to avoid looking me in the eyes and I didn't blame him. After all, I was the guy who drunk drove us into a tree.
Maybe things would have turned out differently if he had actually got... | 2016-03-24T13:23:57 | 2016-03-24T12:58:43 | 155 | 110 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | On the rainbow bridge I will look for you. Knowing that the only reason I am even there is because you plead for me and none could deny your puppy-dog eyes. Proving once again and finally that all a man needs for the salvation of his soul is the love of a faithful dog. | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T15:04:21 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 69 | 23 |
[WP] You are a 217 year old Galapagos Tortoise, and have served as the Presidential pet your entire life. You have been listening the whole time, and now technology has progressed to such a point that a device allows animals to speak. Your first press conference is about to begin... | **People of Americ- Whoa. Is that how I really sound? Soouund. Soooouuun-**
Mr Tortoise?
**Oh sorry. I'm just not used to, ya know. talking. Anyway. I have been in the oval office since the founding of this country of ours. I have been here since before the Washinton monument was dreamt of. I have seen the New World ... | I've seen technology advance throughout the many decades I've been alive. The radios, the televisions, the cars, the planes, all invented while I was sitting with the President in the White House. I've watched action movies, you know how sometimes to create suspense they will make things go in slow motion? Well that's ... | 2018-01-30T03:23:40 | 2018-01-30T01:36:17 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | New town. Small and quiet, perfect for my situation.
The authorities are after me. They know what I am : different, a national threat. They’re aware of what I’ve done. If they catch me it’ll be prison or death, the fate of countless others like me.
Stray dogs and playing children in the streets. Nervously, avoiding e... | **THUD!!**
"Ow! God damnit!!" He thought to himself so loudly he was certain that someone must have heard it. "Remind me to apologize to every bird outside my office. You really can't see the glass in the window can you? Well at least we know Windex really is worth the few extra bucks"
Irvine still hadn't gotten used... | 2022-10-15T09:19:19 | 2018-02-14T09:10:57 | 93 | 59 |
[WP] Write a horror story. Difficulty: All characters are emotionally stable and intelligent | "What happens if I click here?" Jennifer asked? Eric smiled and shook his head, "I told you, the FAFSA will send your information to your university and your student loans will be officially set up." Jennifer gave the screen one last half-hearted eyebrow of skepticism. "You sure it's that easy?" "All there is to it! We... | "Is this a prank...?" I spoke up, unsure if I really wanted an answer.
"Nope," Jimmy excitedly denied. "It was already there when I arrived."
I quietly looked at him.
"So you called me here because there's a fucking doll sitting in the middle of your living room?" I coldly asked.
The door leading to the bathroom s... | 2018-08-13T19:52:30 | 2018-08-13T19:24:44 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens have realized humans advance more quickly during times of conflict, and have tried to push humanity into wars to see what happens. However, that changes when they start WW2 and humans harness the power of the atom. | \--Initiating boot sequence--
\--Loading Instance: 'Earth, Year 11,945.597'---
The display flickered to life around him. Bodies lay strewn around the battlefields, scorched husks of blown-out tanks lay abandoned.
"Estimated agent loss?"
Over the battlefields, millions of tiny motes of light lifted from the bodies, ... | "So that is basically Frank whats being going on." said the man setting on a couch facing a very white grim faced man.
​
Frank set there in silence for many minutes. "Frank are you ok?" said the man setting Frank's opposite. Frank just stared at this man like he had just made an unthinkable statement. Wel... | 2018-11-27T15:55:08 | 2018-11-27T14:15:30 | 144 | 25 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | The world, as we knew it, burned. It burned like a candle, a cinder in the wind, a gentle glow in the cosmos.
The Geo-Energy reactor was a success, turning the molten core of the planet inside out and boiling the seas, melting the lands in cataclysm, dissolving the world in a red sea of uprooted magma and self-consump... | I knew I got it right this time. The alliances, the backroom deals, everything. Just as I planned. Just as I slowly dreamed, watching the world change, becoming more connected, until the inevitable political cracks spread over the surface of the earth dooming it to shatter with just the slightest touch. And, hopefully,... | 2018-12-30T12:29:41 | 2018-12-30T11:27:16 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Most telepaths get exciting careers. Police officers, FBI, judges. Hell when I registered with the Department of Superpowered individuals I was hoping I could be an interrogator for the military or something.
The problem is, I'm in no shape for a physical job. I'm overweight and have asthma. Who cares? When will an in... | Nora woke up just like she did every other day. This time, however, was very different. Now, instead of wishing to be invisible, she actually was. And she wished more than anything to be fully opaque again.
She reported to headquarters, the same as the day before and the one before that. The days started to merge tog... | 2020-02-05T15:10:52 | 2020-02-05T14:48:26 | 737 | 217 |
[WP] "No person shall be executed without their last meal made to their liking." The prisoners know this and make insane requests. You, as the chef for death row, somehow procure the otherworldly ingredients for their meals. | Number 338462. Bank robber who took hostages and killed them. Said it was an accident. Asked for unicorn flank steak sprinkled with pixie dust served with roasted mandragora. Not mandrake, he wanted the real stuff that could kill its cultivator. Death by electric chair 15 years ago.
Number 448927. Serial killer who ha... |
“Frederick Tholl, it’s time. I trust that you have given some thought to your last meal,” I call out from the other side of the cell door.
Frederick’s gaunt face turns toward me. It’s hard to tell what he’s thinking with his wild unkempt hair mostly obscuring his face. “So, you’re the head chef,” he says in a ho... | 2020-02-19T08:32:16 | 2020-02-19T08:26:06 | 429 | 234 |
[WP] Every 10 years, you are expected to go to a meeting you have already been to; one attended by several future and younger versions of yourself, each version separated by 10 year intervals. The youngest you is 10, the oldest 90. You relive the same meeting, just each time from a different angle. | 40 was complaining that there was no free will in the world. The fact that we had to come here every 10 years seemed to back that up. However, I always found it unsettling that 90 disagreed. What does he know that I don't? And why didn't 70 or 80 care?
We only had an hour together so I had to stick to the plan. We we... | *What's your secret, little rock?* Bill pondered to himself, sitting on the cliffside. The Grand Canyon was beautiful this night. The mesa stretching to the jagged horizon, the distinct shape of its walls... what carved them? What was their story?
He picked up the rock on his right, wished it a more interesting decade... | 2020-05-25T06:54:47 | 2020-05-25T06:52:41 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Captain’s Log: 2437.04.08
The human, the one that calls itself ‘Cassandra’ (I hope I’m spelling that right), never ceases to amaze me. Ever since we picked it up from that freighter, I feel like we’re learning something new about it.
Just today, one of our crew dropped the ball and forgot to inform it that we’d be w... | The sound of raised voices, made metallic and incomprehensible as they echoed through the angles and curves of the ship's hull, reached his ears well before MedBay 3 came into view. His skin rippled at the sound, and Commander Jesk swayed sympathetically in time with his heartbeat.
"Will you just...Argh! Don't you dar... | 2020-07-14T03:55:51 | 2020-07-14T03:54:08 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] You've become friends with a murder of crows. They occasionally mimic you, saying simple greetings or short phrases. Today, they seem uninterested in your offerings, and almost appear on edge. Waiting for something. You try to ask them what's wrong. "Hide," one caws swiftly. | We're wandering in the park where we run what's been affectionately dubbed the 'Crow Experiment,' when I hear it.
"Hide," caws a crow. It ruffles its ebony-dark wings as it admires its taloned feet, glinting in the sunset.
“Damn it, Kyle, stop tampering with my experiment! It’s not funny anymore.”
Kyle doesn’t respo... | The word felt like a cold metal blade sliding down his spine, slick and fatal. A dark sense of dread clawed deeply at his stomach while he looked at the silky, black eyes that the crow had. *Did that crow really just tell me that?* Anthony was standing on the porch of his house, trying to enjoy the cold night with his ... | 2021-12-29T08:42:33 | 2021-12-29T06:45:07 | 84 | 44 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | And there was Stormstrike. My sidekick. We had saved each others' lives dozens of times. We were brothers. Closer than brothers.
And now, he was in bed with my wife.
I stalked forward, fists clenched. He heard me, of course, he has senses and reflexes far beyond a normal human. In a second, he'd rolled to his feet, a... | A Hero Just Like You
“Donna?” Her eyes shoot open and nearly bulge from their socket; her chubby cheeks turn that classic rosy red that she gets whenever she gets too flustered. At that moment I nearly forgot that I just saw my girlfriend changing out of a superhero suit. It’s the first time she’s been nak... | 2022-03-23T12:54:40 | 2022-03-23T10:09:46 | 362 | 29 |
[WP] You, a humble elf farmer, happen upon the lost hatchling of a dragon. You raise it until it is self sufficient and set it free. Centuries later, a young woman with draconic features knocks on your door and claims you are her mother. | For a long moment, Erean looked at the woman in the door of the farmhouse. Not because she didn’t recognize her – she would always recognize her. She feared she was dreaming it again, that she would wake up, heartbroken and alone.
“Mother,” she said, as if reading her mind. “It’s really me.”
“Loka,” Erean said, still... | I tipped the scrambled egg onto my plate, replacing the pan on the stove when it was empty, then padded to my countertop, setting the plate down beside my cup of coffee. I gazed out the window, watching my chickens as they puttered around, eating their morning seed. As a raised a forkful of egg to my lips, there was a ... | 2022-03-29T10:39:50 | 2022-03-29T10:39:02 | 1,595 | 209 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I lost my youth to a single word.
Everyone gets a power at 14. Everyone gets an *extensive* manual regarding said power so they can utilize it to its fullest potential. I got a single word.
"Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't."
So what happened next? 3 years in a government medical facility to determine if I was a threat. T... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T07:06:25 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 742 | 128 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Helen Ziegler got her prognosis first. The ability to shield yourself from the public eye at will so that no harm can come to you and no target can find you. Invisibility. She beamed with pride as she read off the note and the class erupted into cheers. Penelope George and Lucas Matheson were next. One by one, classmat... | The enlightenment trials were designed to awaken unlimited potential within humans, they came to light after Archaeologists came across an old tomb, the tomb was beautifully preserved and had a wealth of knowledge within, including a rite of passage of sorts.
"The Trials Of Enlightenment" they were lead by the leader... | 2022-05-08T09:51:37 | 2022-05-08T07:54:58 | 689 | 177 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | ~~I~~ We were searching ~~my~~ our dwelling when we discovered a curious sight. A journal which bore ~~my name~~ a name of the collective.
~~I~~ We looked within. ~~Who was I?~~ Curious to see what the memories were, ~~I~~ we flipped through the pages. ~~It was full of things I don’t remember about myself.~~ It was fu... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T07:25:10 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 242 | 128 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | The goblin stopped and waved its sword in confusion. The human was "cowering" away from it--but what was it supposed to do now? Goblins raided humans; that's just what goblins were supposed to *do*. But--what were they supposed to raid humans *for*?
The human's eyes looked between the goblin and the sword. "Oh, no. I ... | # Soulmage
“It’s debatable whether goblins are even sapient,” Witch Aimes began, and I already knew today’s ‘history’ class would be nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda. “What is known for certain is that they are a subspecies of humanity, twisted over millennia by their over-reliance on the witchcraft of misch... | 2022-05-26T07:25:25 | 2022-05-26T05:33:42 | 425 | 155 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | You sit in your cell, awaiting the return of the guard with your last meal. Or, you hope, the guard will return empty handed and you will be set free. At the end of the hall, you hear the distinctive sound of the door unlocking, and the footsteps of someone approaching. Only one set, so no priest. A good sign.
The gua... | The trick was to find the loophole.
The Alien-egg Omelette was just two Century-Eggs blended, added to milk, and re-fried.
Dragon Steak? Wagyu beef drowned in hot-sauce and cooked sous-vide.
The Flesh of Jesus Christ? Communion Wafers.
The Executioners were akin to djinnies, twisting the last request and presenting... | 2022-07-17T16:30:58 | 2022-07-17T15:22:32 | 1,737 | 1,032 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | She was a born killer. The moment she snapped she turned from hero to villain in just a matter of seconds.
Thousands of people were victimized in her warpath, and she got away with it for MONTHS. That was, until she was caught, and placed on Death Row.
Now, the world had changed drastically since she had been gone, a... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T18:09:54 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] The monster now in place, you activate the magic circle, but instead find yourself sinking into the ground. "This is the only way," your friend said, "I'll take care of your wife and children." Decades later you finally awake and find him heralded as hero, and you, listed as a casualty of war. | It was a pleasant afternoon in the capital city of Oriol. The weather was unusually cool for the month of July, offering a welcome respite from the summer heat; and though it had been raining in the morning, now it was bright and sunny, with not a cloud to be seen.
There were many people in the main square that aft... | I take a sip of my coffee, absorbing the deep aroma of the beverage and letting out an involuntary sigh. Decades, I scoff internally. Decades have passed as I swam in shadow. Time meant nothing to me, just endless darkness. I think, at least, last I remember was my best friend, the person I fought beside, was the best ... | 2022-10-24T11:03:42 | 2022-10-24T08:26:06 | 185 | 96 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | I hadn’t expected Rebecca to ask me out. Truth be told, I hadn’t expected anyone to ask me out, much less one of the most popular girls in the class. But then I was part of the dungeons and dragon crowd, not cheerleader/class president/amazingly hot looking like she was.
But mom always said never pass up an opportunit... | \~ Dark Angel \~
I should've realized Sam was a vampire much sooner. She fit the stereotype to a tee: ghostly pale skin, intense, hypnotic eyes, unearthly beauty. But I'd gotten a little carried away by my crush on her and all I saw was your typical teenage bombshell. Captain of the cheerleading squad, popular, but ac... | 2022-12-29T20:07:20 | 2022-12-29T19:51:35 | 1,120 | 130 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | "This is your fuck up. you deal with it."
Master proceeded to emphasize of that statement by flicking his wrist invoking the power of the universe itself. The world spun around me, reforming to... the living room of the small house the two of us resided in.
"a 'fuck off' would have worked just as well." A statement... | I was walking home from school with my heart almost beating out of my chest. Eileen actually asked *me* out, not only just for a date but to go to prom with her! We had been friends for a few years at this point and I’ve really started to like her. I showered, shaved a little, and got dressed as well as I could without... | 2022-12-29T23:35:18 | 2022-12-29T22:24:19 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | In a sudden, sparkling corona of light, the man in the neon jumpsuit sprang from midair, raygun at the ready.
”Ah-*HA* Adolf! Get ready for a *reckoning* from the-”
He stopped, and looked at the startled men in front of him, in their Victorian frilled collars and codpieces.
”Oh, *blast*! Must've overshot again! Why,... | "Zis tiem travelleurs!" laughs Oberst Henckel von Krantfindeneinbludinaam, pointing at the latest. "Ven veel zey evah lern?! Zat tiem douß not wehk zat vey?!"
"Ich douß nicht know, Oberst Krantfindenbludinaam!" laughs Leutnant Klaus Einmoarkrautnaam. "Die alvez kommen allesder tiem!"
The two soldiers laugh raucousl... | 2014-07-01T09:08:40 | 2014-07-01T06:35:21 | 240 | 60 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 88 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Underchancellor, I want to know exactly who and why and how this happened, and what in Llorig's name you were thinking."
"Well, you see, Overchancellor, Planet Three has reported an alien presence. It's the Humans, the original inhabitants of Planet Three."
"I know that, Underchancellor."
"Yes, sir."
"I read t... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T11:43:48 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 78 | 13 |
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