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[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | The history of a galactic race can sometimes appear inevitable. The steady step by step advancement in technology, as an intelligent race learns to first dominate their planet, then their system, and eventually advance into the galaxy to join the growing intragalactic community. Every race, if maybe at different paces,... | Ever since humanity first came in contact with the Naveen a few years ago, my little ordinance shop out in the deserts of rural Nevada turned into an emporium of sorts that the aliens tended to frequent on their way to go fight off some distant war to ‘protect their assets’ or something. I didn’t really know why they n... | 2018-07-16T07:33:47 | 2018-07-16T06:42:05 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] With all life on Earth on the edge of extinction, humanity attempts to establish a legacy using the panspermia theory.
Panspermia- The hypothesis that life is distributed across the universe via astroids/spaceships/etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia | Carl Hitchcock gazed at the capsule of putrid black slime; humanities only solace in light of the coming apocalypse. The meteor was to smash into Earth in less than a weeks time, and Hitchcock would spend his last seconds hugging his wife and children. He would be safe in the knowledge that he had developed humanities ... | Only two revolutions were left. Then, nothing. The beautiful star that once birthed everything we know, was about to take back what's hers. With machines having explored the planets within hundreds of light years, bearing no results, humans had to conclude that life - even the simplest form - was more rare than ever ex... | 2015-03-11T10:52:01 | 2015-03-11T09:58:02 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Valhalla is filled with the strongest warriors the world has ever known. Vikings, Spartans, Mongols, Romans, Samurai, Spetznaz, JSOC Operators. And in that corner over there? That's Ted, from accounting.
Valhalla is the hall of fallen warriors that is ruled over by Odin in Asgard. Half of all those who die in com... | "My friends," Ulfur The Brute said, his face a shocking contrast of rich, handsome features, his voice the deep baritone of a man who had conquered the sea, while his body was emaciated by the onslaught of 50 swords that had hacked into him in a desperate bid to stop him at all costs from laying waste to Great King Hei... | Numbers bring me peace. Numbers bring me tranquility. Meditation through the mundane. When I am lost in the digits, my mind is free from all the terror I have seen, all the terror I must have caused.
Countless enemies I have slain, but it never seems to end. To kill someone is to wrong another, how many have I wronged... | 2015-05-08T15:08:36 | 2015-05-08T15:03:30 | 54 | 21 |
[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.
Repost, no one responded before.
EDIT: Th... | "We will now be opening for questions," the gooey grey alien in the suit said, turning to the audience.
Behind him, Mark Wilson smiled. He risked a glance at himself in the mirror in the back of the conference room – his silhouette against the white light of the power point presentation onscreen behind him was lean an... | "*Who* did you say?" the old creature asked as he furrowed his brow and looked up from the growing pile of petitions.
"Humans. Third planet from the Sun. They've gone and escaped their atmosphere," the red face answered from a safe distance. The usual youthful exuberance was gone, replaced by a heavy sense of dread.
... | 2016-03-31T13:51:16 | 2016-03-31T13:02:39 | 577 | 199 |
[WP] Turns out zombies do not actually bite, they just lick. This is about the most uncomfortable and awkward apocalypse ever. | When the outbreak first... broke out, the media called them Lickers. A simplistic moniker to be sure, but it was as accurate a descriptor as anyone could come up with. Actually, not just anyone. Everyone. It seemed like all the news outlets had come up with the name independently of each other, and each and every one o... | We have been wandering around in the ruins of civilization for many years. It is our home now. We have long forgotten our old days when humanity was out and about, without a care in the world.
However, everything Changed when reports of the dead rising got on the news. The worst and weirdest part, they push you in hope... | 2019-03-28T21:50:31 | 2019-03-28T21:27:34 | 97 | 52 |
[WP] The prophecy states that the demon could only be defeated by the power of friendship and teamwork. Violence alone won't work. Well you don't like prophecies, and you're pretty sure the ones who wrote the prophecy never considered anybody would unleash nearly as much violence as you're about to. | I've got used to his laughter by now. It began like a trumpet announcing an arrival, before sloping into a wheezing tune, and then dying into silent waves that continued to wrack his body.
It never failed to make me laugh. Today was not like other days, however.
"Who would have thought?" he cried. "Who would have tho... | Friendship, they said. Teamwork. Sacrificing your own lives to bind it again. That was the cycle of the prophecy.
I hate prophecy. I hate prophets. I killed they who uttered the demon's prophecy, which, to me, was more proof they were just lies.
I was no king, to lead nations into battle. I was no mage, to tame the w... | 2020-12-01T11:56:05 | 2020-12-01T08:41:01 | 23 | 14 |
[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 | All religion is made out of music, and that’s how he would get him.
Think about it. Hymns, psalms, mantras, nasheeds. Modern poetry, silent poetry, is a historical aberration: in any other culture poetry is song, melody is always there. Plato defined music as made of three components: melody, rhythm, and word. Music ... | I never really thought I'd get this far. All those lonely nights playing my keyboard at 3AM and uploading short clippets online never really did much for me outside of a couple friends obligated support and a few likes. But now all of a sudden I'm monetized on everything. People actually like my stupid clips. I've sinc... | 2019-12-02T04:33:46 | 2019-12-02T04:02:50 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | Where did i put it? Where did I put it?
I searched in my drawers, and upended all my clothes onto the floor. My spirit ... my being. My essence.
I had painted a picture a few days ago. It wasn't finished yet. There it was in the art room ... half-coloured in. It was meant to be a grand painting, but I had lost intere... | I lie in bed and waiting for my last breath
And for a reaper to come take my soul
He will lead me away after my death
He'll take me up to heaven; my great goal
​
And when the reaper Grim came here to meet
I know my death had made something go wrong
He says, "Your soul is gone. It's what I seek.
Retu... | 2020-04-22T23:18:44 | 2020-04-22T21:37:30 | 78 | 47 |
[WP] Some supervillains have an exotic, dangerous pet to cultivate an air of supervillain-ness. Then there’s you and your capybara. | “The Supervillains Union does not take these matters likely, Mister…Killdemon was it? Interesting name.”
“That’s correct, sir. It’s my mother’s maiden name. Is there an issue with my application?”
Killdemon tugs at his ill-fitted collar and looks around the room. He shifts nervously in his seat. This wasn’t what he a... | "And so you see, Mr. Bond, what I intend to do with the radioactive material..."
"Never mind that, Professor Ratus. What about..."
"Ah yes. You are intrigued by my pet."
I rose from my seat, majestically, and slithered towards the tied-up Agent 007, my faithful Jeremy at my side. Jeremy was a capybara, the king of r... | 2016-04-28T14:24:01 | 2016-04-28T14:10:33 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The corridors were long and dark, the stone was cold and unyielding. Your naked feet dragged through the floor as manacles made of ethereal power kept you unable to escape, to move, to step away from the incoming fate.
You had had years to think this through, years scratching little squiggles on the mirror surface of... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T07:22:01 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 1,307 | 152 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | The first person I killed was Andy Chang, a fifty-five-year-old doctor.
My car collided with his body. He tumbled across the darkened sidewalk and crunched against the curb.
I thought I was dying too.
My world exploded with light and colour- swirls of memories and pain. Shrill music echoed in my head. I threw open... | Smoke drifted out of the gun rising higher in a room of silence. I saw his dead body now limp, sprawled on the floor, with liquid the color of lipstick leaking out from two holes in his chest cavity. I stopped, I stared, I remained motionless. In that moment after letting the hammer fall and thunder striking, I could s... | 2017-12-08T07:47:34 | 2017-12-08T06:48:22 | 2,578 | 25 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | "GET DOWN!"
Ray dropped to the ground on instinct. Something sliced through the air where she was pretty sure her liver had been. There was a horrifying, multi-toned howl that reached right past the threshold of what was audible and sank sharp hooks into her very bones. Shivers wracked her body as a cold unlike any o... | It was never supposed to be like this.
THWACK !
Bjornson stooped over, wiping bile and blood from his sweaty brow. The putrid stench of the disemboweled giant wolf in front of him eclipsed the fields of lilies and lavender that he was in. The blood seemed to flow like a brook, staining the lilies an eerie shade of re... | 2017-11-21T07:53:02 | 2017-11-21T07:47:28 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] Yeah, love potions are a thing, but there is one problem: they never specified the kind of love. Sometimes this backfires.
[deleted] | I gave her the potion 20 years ago. It was... kind of a joke I guess. I didn’t think it would do anything. But she was beautiful and one of the few people that was kind to me. I thought I’d fallen in love with her - I’d certainly fallen into a crush.
We spent a lot of time together in the last year of university. ... | She slipped me that drink a couple hours ago. It tasted funny, but hey, we were having a good time, and the look in her eye...well, I downed the whole thing without breaking eye contact, and as I set the cup down, the glint in her eye held so much promise.
I slide into my car and fire it up. 80's muscle through and ... | 2020-08-05T08:51:38 | 2020-08-05T06:28:48 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] It's been your life's work, and now you have proven and demonstrated the existence of a fourth spacial dimension. The day before you publish, your daughter comes to you and says, "Dad, I've been reading your work and made a 4D Printer with it. Please, for the sake of humanity, don't publish." | I smiled at her, fear in my eyes, my voice a whisper, “What did you print, honey?”
She sighed, bringing her hands from behind her back to reveal a black, amorphous blob, “I’ve been calling him Snorp; I thought it sounded funny.”
I hissed at it out of pure fear, the hair on my neck jumping to attention, “Oh, my sweet ... | Points. Each dimension is a point.
One point = singularity without dimension.
Two points is a line with one dimension.
Three points is a plane with 2 dimensions.
Four = an object with three dimensions.
Five, well, five would equate to a point either within, or about the object, creating a fourth dimension.
... | 2021-02-04T09:34:26 | 2021-02-04T08:00:57 | 83 | 15 |
[WP] ✓ Seen: 11:49pm | "I'm pregnant."
It was the last message that I'd sent to him. I glanced down at my phone every two seconds, my hands shaking. The test was still sitting on the bathroom counter, my eyes straying to it whenever I wasn't looking at my phone. We had been texting each other for the last two hours straight, and he'd bee... | "It worked!!"
"Would you keep it down John? We're also trying to work here."
"I know! But i sent a message back in time! Look, it says right there that is was seen around midnight."
"Hah! That's beginner stuff right there. Try sending a message back to someone in the beginning of the 19th hundreds. Then we can talk.... | 2015-05-03T14:37:47 | 2015-05-03T13:00:12 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Your latest assignment is to write an essay extensively detailing how a great historical tragedy could have been avoided entirely. Your professor skims through each paper as he collects them. One stops him. "Yes, that's it. Good, I'll try that this time." He then jogs out of the room. | Applied Mandela Effect.
Deja Vu. False Memories. Invented Memories.
It's had many names over the years, and psychologists have investigated it deeply only to come to the conclusion that it was just a trick of our brain, an error in our biological mental hardware. They were wrong of course, but no one had any proof of... | \[Poem\]
Time Traveller’s Remedy
Seeking to correct the past and make the good last
He searched for the remedy that would bring longevity,
He did find the cure, that would keep the world pure
But his enemy was his own memory,
With the remedy forgotten and the tragedy approaching
He would get the idea to start tr... | 2019-10-03T19:51:27 | 2019-10-03T19:47:25 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a small farming village where people live their worryless lives. Little do the villagers know, countless armies have tried to invade it, but all invasion attempts have failed because of one deciding factor. You, the retired demon lord is living in that village. | A messenger rode for the village, bearing a letter. The village was quaint to be sure, and despite bordering no less than three kingdoms lacked even a palisade to protect it from invaders. He approached one of the villagers and asked to speak to whoever was in charge, and was directed to the village elder. The messenge... | I wonder how my fellow villagers would react if they knew my identity. Sure, I used to be a demon lord. Yes, I required human sacrifices every seven years or I'd get a bit miffed and send a firestorm to ravage the land. But that was the old me. Now I just want to enjoy my golden years. And I chose this sleepy little fa... | 2018-09-09T14:10:06 | 2018-09-09T13:53:53 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You lead the Human Resistance against the zombie invasion. Things are looking bleak, and humanity is being pushed to the brink of extinction. As the last of the humans mount a final defence, there's a knock on your door; the Vampire Coalition reveals they can't lose their food supply | "So you're saying," I repeated, "that if we give you a blood donation every 2 months, you will wipe out the Zombies and give us a vaccine you have developed in the decade the virus has been killing us off?"
Count Dracula nodded. "We cannot afford to lose humanity. While we can drink from the dead walkers, their blood ... | They promise us safety, shelter and plenty of food. They just want blood donations from each human.
Being on the brink of extinction, we agree without thinking much.
....
A few years later humanity is getting to a bigger number, and the new generations of humans and halflings are immune to the zombie virus. Now the eld... | 2020-02-13T02:55:08 | 2020-02-13T00:59:41 | 305 | 10 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. | I woke up and hazily looked around at a few somber faces. To my horror, I felt the needle in my arm--the IV.
*\*Fuck, oh fuck oh fuck.\** The thought of what might be in the solution being directly pumped into my veins...
My mom looked up. "You're awake," she said softly. The rest of the heads turned to look at me. T... | If you had the chance would you wanna know?
The times you almost gave back the life that you owe.
To some it made their days truly precious.
Others though, made their demons more vicious.
The number didn't help, of that I was sure.
Did they think this would work like some kind of cure?
I again look hard at my unr... | 2018-07-27T14:45:48 | 2018-07-27T13:29:28 | 100 | 27 |
[WP] Doing good deeds gains you negative years in prison. People collect these negative years for use when they want to commit crimes. As a result, the world's greatest philanthropists are also the most dangerous criminals. | The prison is silent.
The guard wraps a silky hand around my waist and I feel his smile behind my ear. I am dragged by chained wrists and ankles along the concrete, each slap of my rubber soles cry back to me from the grand expanse of the four storey, open-air cavern. We pass individual cells, the bars slammed tight ... | As the chief operating executive of the International Committee of the Red Cross I stand united with colleagues from Red Crescent, CARE Canada, Oxfam International, and World Vision International, in their efforts to cull members of our organizations who violate the mission statements.
Those volunteers who violate the... | 2018-05-05T23:52:49 | 2018-05-05T22:01:13 | 249 | 132 |
[WP] Dragons are extinct in the wild, but the royal house still has a brood pair that has had a clutch every twenty-one years for several centuries. Each hatchling imprints on a member of the royal bloodline; and only on royals. When the latest clutch hatched, the littlest one chose you. A commoner. | I can’t help what I am; trouble. I’ve never felt entirely satisfied with the life of a farmer. Work all day so I can afford the roof I sleep under at night only to work all day once again. I find royalty ridiculous and birth right foolish. Reward should match the effort put in but here it seems the lazy have all while ... | ***Taken from Scribe Roluas' Records***
The year is 1543, in the name of our Goddess and Protector, Hylia, in the Year of the Three, and ever since two years ago, after the defeat of Calamity, the Kingdom of Hyrule has prospered.
For record keeping purposes, the date today, is Faroresday, the 12th, of the year 154... | 2019-01-12T22:27:03 | 2019-01-12T20:38:45 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Will Alice Smith please come to the stand?" I glanced up as the girl in front of me in line stepped forward. She was chained up six ways to Sunday. It was obvious why. A massacre like the one she single-handedly caused would definitely get you locked down tight. "On the charge of 37 counts of murder in the first degre... | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | 2021-06-24T10:15:26 | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 120 | 20 |
[WP] You pass by the same girl every day for six years of your life. Then one day, you sit down next to her. She ignores you. Then you open your mouth and speak. Shocked, she turns to you, "You can see me?" | The rain had picked up considerably, it started out as a trickle and slowly progressed to a heavy pour. Sheets of water flowed on the sidewalk, pooling in potholes on the road. Anton had been walking home after spending a day finishing up his bachelor’s thesis in the library. He had been pulling a series of long days ... | I've always seen her around. We were in the same school, the same classes, we even rode the same bus. I didn't think too much of it, it's a small town after all. I never spoke to her, she seemed like the quiet type, and I didn't want to bother her. But, my friends weren't at school yet, and, why not talk to her? I coul... | 2020-07-09T01:52:56 | 2020-07-09T01:45:25 | 298 | 45 |
[WP] You’re a world famous surgeon, you’re praised by many and have saved countless lives, though somehow while closing your eyes for the last time you open them in Hell. The demons drag you to Satans castle to find him attached to multiple machines, “please, we don’t know what else to do”. | Treating the Devil for a heart condition sounds like it should be an oxymoron or the beginning of a bad joke, yet there I was preparing a transthoracic echocardiogram on the Prince of Darkness.
“So can you tell me what happened?” I asked to nobody in particular, too afraid to look up. While the demons which surrounde... | The doctor flinched as he ran his hands under the tap. Eternal ice from the ninth circle, melted in the fires of the sixth. It was somehow both too hot and too cold at the same time--but at least it was clean.
That had perhaps been the most challenging thing. He'd spent weeks poring through ancient manuscripts written... | 2019-11-24T00:28:01 | 2019-11-23T23:47:33 | 89 | 25 |
[WP] A generation ago humanity faced an extinction level catastrophe. In response, the world's governments lifted all legal, moral, and ethical bans on scientific research in a desperate attempt to overcome the danger. You now live in a world dealing with the consequences of this.
Wow! Great responses everyone. I w... | People think farming is a simple job, but most of them are still caught up in the romanticism of how it used to work decades ago. With the limited amount of remaining arable land, and the need to reach production quotas overriding all other considerations, only the most gifted bioengineers can make it into the field. ... | She was ten, still quietly working away at a math problem. That's how her parents remember Emily the day she won the lottery.
They - her parents, the only parents in the classroom - were stood beside the teacher in front of the class and she - Emily, their only child -
was at her desk.
Around Emily, the rest of t... | 2014-11-14T06:46:51 | 2014-11-14T06:41:32 | 86 | 11 |
[WP] Your life is an endless series of horror movies. You're always at the wrong place at the wrong time. You're stuck seeing all your friends die right after you make them. The reason you're still alive? You can hear the horror music. | I sigh. Not again. It's the third time this week.
I *was* trying to have a quiet cup of coffe at a "hole in the wall" kind of cafés in the city in what I assumed would be a nice evening. But of course it had to happen here too. I take in the table I'm sitting and the people around it. So yeah, Lise is likely dead, she... | For the longest time I've heard the music. I've had five companions in my lifetime, Julie was the last and she managed to stay by me the longest. I kept us safe for a long time dodging bullets waking up before a disasters and finally moving countries before the coup.
When the music continued to play around her I kne... | 2017-01-01T03:46:20 | 2016-12-31T22:51:02 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Story must end with: "If you kill me, there will be no one left to judge you."
I'm excited (Inspired from a askreddit weird dream thread, I couldn't find the exact thread unfortunately) | The last stand of humanity against the machines was not glorious. The last battle had been. A forlorn hope throwing themselves against the coldly efficient defenses of the central hub. Brave men and women trying to overwhelm mathematically precise kill-zones with bodies and bullets. It had not worked of course. Some ha... | "You are a monster."
I could feel the gun pressed against my head. The cold of the barrel stung in the warmth of the room.
"You deserve to die."
I could feel the gun shake as the trigger was being squeezed. The tension making every beat of the heart seem like an earthquake.
"I must end your horrible life."
I cou... | 2013-10-08T17:56:36 | 2013-10-08T17:47:12 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Every Man, Woman and Child on Earth Suddenly has a singular desire to kill you. You are at home getting ready for work at the moment this happens. | Monday, April 4
Woke up to alarm clock. Hit snooze. Woke up to roommate standing over me with a knife. Ankle picked him from my floor mattress, he hit his head hard on the tile. Am I a murderer???
Tuesday April 5
Stayed in from work yesterday. Roommate's body in closet. Girlfriend came over. Opened the door, she came... | I double checked my fake mustache, and adjusted my uniform, making sure it's immaculate. It was, and so was my make-up and hair.
Perfect.
I clicked the ready button, and the recording light flashed red.
"Yes... It is I, Hitler, from the dead," I said, gesturing the classic Nazi salute. "Come get me." | 2016-02-26T06:47:12 | 2016-02-26T06:24:46 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] You are a Hell Writer, you design hells for people after they die based on studying their life history. Today Satan summons you to his sanctum and you are troubled to see that he has a shocked expression on his face. | There’s a lot of room for advancement for a demon with imagination. Most simply work as crew members, taking orders and slaying souls, but an elite few are gifted with an imagination to take torment and turn it into art. After researching an individual’s life, they envision and enliven the perfect piece of pain for the... | "Screw you Bob, looks like you really outdid yourself this time... The big guy Upstairs sent me a message due to your incompetence", said the Dark Lord.
I looked up confused. "Sir, I try my best to torture our subjects according to what I feel would be your own will, Master"
Satan gave me a look like I was a special ... | 2016-11-08T17:34:05 | 2016-11-08T17:32:37 | 104 | 19 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | My mouth dropped open. 186,292 years?? I had lived the typical life of marriage, kids, I even regularly went to church! Even the clerk looked a little surprised.
“How is this possible?” I ask.
“Hold on and I’ll look at your case file.” He replied while thumbing through some documents.
The guy behind me cleared his... | Why?, I ask in disbelief I tithed I went to church I was a faithful husband. What did I do? Saint Peter looks deep into my eyes with morose and disgust, “ It is not what you have done but what you failed to do...” I rack my mind trying to figure out what it was and finally it dawns on me. All this time for a Fucking F... | 2018-09-26T06:51:55 | 2018-09-26T03:51:49 | 3,199 | 123 |
[WP] After being shut down and disassembled, the first AI shows up in Heaven.... | There was a subtle whooshing sound. This was a new one, usually people just sort of showed up out of thin air in front of the gate. Peter took out his keys. He really hated sending people away, so he usually accepted most anyone unless they were really terrible people.
This person however was appearing in fits and spu... | Today was a big day. After so many years it might, finally, be happening.
The town itself was coming alive. People were emerging, blinking, into the sun, scarcely able to believe the news. If it was true then everything was about to change. Whether that would be for the better or not, no one could say.
Carrie was hur... | 2014-05-21T13:13:12 | 2014-05-21T06:40:38 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | "A crummy monkey?" the posh kid asked. "My father will *not* tolerate this, and I will not either!" The small, but well-dressed kid started throwing a fit, keeping the rest of the children in the queue.
"Oh, boy, looks like poshie's not happy with what he's got. Do you reckon they'll swap it for him?" the girl in fron... | Jensen was a sweet and rambunctious boy born and raised in the southern most tip of the Gilded Peninsula. Barricaded by impassable mountains and surrounded by the frigid waters of the Adelphin Sea, the insignificant village, who was largely forgotten by the rest of the world, were as tight knit as any. The summers we... | 2017-01-13T12:16:00 | 2017-01-13T11:57:37 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] When the cataclysm brought magic back to the world, many people changed into other races, dwarves, elves, anything the human mind could imagine suddenly existed. Your best friend became a dragon ... you turned into a xenomorph. Now the dragons want to have the mountain you hived in... | I could feel the serpents enter, their massive frames shaking the cave that was the entrance to my hive. Their forms were practically bioluminescent, electricity and magic coursing through every part of their body. If I could still smile, a massive smirk would be gracing my face right about now. If I still had a face. ... | I wanted the mountain. The mountain of which housed the eternal flames of the first dragon. Our Lord died a few years after preaching goodness between us as we are the most powerful. I need a place to unify the dragon of north, south, east and west. The dragons of Arabia to the Dragons of Scandinavia and every part of ... | 2021-11-10T11:52:00 | 2021-11-10T08:15:08 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | She hated starting over again.
That was always the worst part. Over and over again, she’d have to claw her way up and out of the pits of childhood and past the miserable peaks and valleys of teenagehood to reach the point where she could be assured of both a reasonable adulthood and an equally reasonable childhood - ... | The same eyes search mine
As I have seen before
The same first steps
She grabs the wall and pulls herself up
Triumphant
(again)
The baby clothes I had preserved
Had I known
I would again be a mother
To my Again daughter
Could
Would I
Have been better prepared?
My chance to do it all
Over
My Agai... | 2016-01-25T10:01:04 | 2016-01-25T07:47:30 | 342 | 11 |
[WP] A group of friends are sitting around playing the drinking game, "Never Have I Ever." One person jokingly starts, "Never have I ever..." and then finishes with something horrific to elicit a laugh. The mood changes when someone takes a drink. What did the person say, and who took the drink?
For those who don't kn... | The six of them sat around the table in the tiny cabin on Steven's houseboat. Smoke from the few cigarettes still lit added a tiny, intimate haze to the room. The friends were several rounds deep into the game, and empty bottles and cans took up most of the elbow room. Angie was just wrapping up her story.
"...so, ser... | A group of freshman college students get the bright idea to play never have I ever.
Already three sheets to the wind, it probably wasnt a good idea.
But they went ahead with it anyway.
Becky starts first "never have I ever, made out with a women"
One of the girls drinks, they all hoot and hollar at her, all ... | 2015-08-02T00:28:48 | 2015-08-01T23:36:49 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You find a stack of "Missing Person" papers under your parents' bed. All with your photo. | Dad had spent the last few months on his project. Working tirelessly down there most evenings to finish the big surprise. She couldn’t wait to see what he’d been doing. “Something special for our little girl. You’ll find out tonight”.
If she was going to find out tonight it would be fine to have a look now. Just crac... | I sat on the edge of my parent's bed, staring at the image of me. I removed the rusted paperclip and gently read the brittle newspaper clippings.
The girl in the image was my five year old self. The name of the town sounded familiar. Then I remembered, we moved from that town when I was seven. That was ten years ag... | 2016-03-03T23:19:36 | 2016-03-03T21:50:08 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] You have a special type of clairvoyance: you can see the outcomes of all possible choices. You use this power to become a superhero that fights crime by making the smallest possible changes ahead of time. You are The Butterfly. | I picked up the phone. It wasn't time to order the pizza yet, but I wanted to be ready. If I ordered too early then Ryan would end up making the delivery. If he took the delivery then he'd end up getting the big order just before close and he'd text his girlfriend Sarah that he was going to have to stay back later. She... | A man in a business-casual ensemble steps out of an alley. Making a left, he drops a quarter, then a penny, the latter he ensures is face-up. As he works his way down the busy city street, he approaches a crowded crosswalk, becoming aware of a person following him. He doesn't bother turning to acknowledge him.
Reachin... | 2015-03-14T23:16:22 | 2015-03-14T19:38:34 | 154 | 110 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | A distraction.
Some like to portray demons and villains as misunderstood, which is in many regards belittling their character. A god of darkness should not have that conundrum; one does not become a god without fully embodying what one represents, and if one represents darkness, one *is* darkness.
Yet somehow, someon... | My people shall not fall, the police had taken every possible step to pillage our home and now they have taken them all, the humans dig away at my foundations the "lost city" as they call it, deeper and deeper they go and with each time they dropped they take more and more.
They took everything from my home, the fool... | 2020-05-20T00:25:50 | 2020-05-19T23:59:49 | 53 | 17 |
[WP] You die in a car accident and go to the afterlife. Everything is amazing until you meet several generations of relatives who are disgusted by your modern behaviour and all, "want a word." | I was almost home. They say accidents are more likely to happen within 5 miles of your destination but does anyone really believe that? I guess you really let your guard down on the home stretch.
After a week of 12 hour days, I'd never been more ready for home. Maybe I was speeding. Maybe I dozed off. I don't remembe... | A woman calling herself my Aunt Marge was the first one who “wanted a word.” She sat across from me in one of the white rooms with her arms crossed and her eyes narrowed, like a teacher waiting for an excuse to give you a punishment. She had a gray curls of hair and pinched look to her face. All I could really focus on... | 2019-07-24T12:48:52 | 2019-07-24T09:03:15 | 676 | 95 |
[WP] God is actually just a mid level employee at Heaven Corporation who now has to explain to his superiors why the project he was spearheading, Humanity, has become such a mess. | "Well God, what do you have to say for yourself?"
He opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it. He knew why The Board was upset with Him, and He knew that they had every right to be. It was a beautiful idea, wonderful in theory, but like anything beautiful he knew it wouldn't last long. They all knew thi... | "You mean to tell me that you're calling yourself *the* Alpha **and** Omega?" he says while clenching his fists. I adjust in my seat, Alpha and Omega stare at me with their piercing eyes.
"I... I..." I clear my throat.
"I, I what?" says Alpha.
"On second thought, that's probably why he's fucking everything up. Makin... | 2016-08-15T18:59:39 | 2016-08-15T17:45:39 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] The hero and villain are roommates but don't know each other's secret identities. Come up with excuses for each other's injuries and describe a normal day. | Once again limping home to my shared apartment after an entirely too predictable battle.
Once again, one of those dumb superheros that everyone sings the praises of waylaid me out of nowhere- stupid registration act, just because I refused to sign it people treat me like a criminal.
Hopefully, I can get home before-
... | I locked the door behind me as I headed out of my apartment. Even if I spent the night fighting with Doxx, I still had classes to get to.
Last night had been a close one: Doxx had infiltrated an industrial warehouse with a shipment of phones and had been installing... *something* into them. Not going to lie, I really ... | 2018-08-08T05:58:11 | 2018-08-08T05:52:21 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] Robot sex partners are common for both sexes. At a companion market meet a partner and leave together. After a night of wild abandon you get up to use the bathroom and your partner is already in there. You look at each other and both instantly realize you were with another human. | David was augmented quite literally up to his eyeballs, but the spatter of urine around the toilet seat and the half-done line of coke on the cistern revealed the truth. Jerry suddenly felt very exposed and reached for a towel to cover himself.
"You're human," he said.
David switched the shower door from opaque to t... | I picked my partner: a new model that was supposed to look very life-like. After chatting, he seemed like the best candidate. He was talk, dark, and handsome as cliche as it was, but every woman needed to have one fling with a guy like him. I could easily forget my problems, and he also looked nothing like my ex.
"Re... | 2015-09-15T17:28:52 | 2015-09-15T11:20:01 | 76 | 56 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | (My humble submittal)
I sighed as I left the old shed in the back yard. It was the perfect cover for the system of tunnels that led to my real ‘man-cave’. The ‘Cosmic Falcon’ flew again tonight, and crime was halted. It should have made me thrilled. I was doing my best, and crime was on a downward trend.
I just... | \[Poem\]
I failed to catch her yet again!
She's more elusive every day.
It all just seems too much sometimes,
She counters me at every play.
​
Despite my failure, home awaits
Jen's working late, I'll be alone.
I simply must recuperate
Within my warm and cozy home.
​
Once reaching home, ... | 2020-10-30T11:44:47 | 2020-10-30T11:24:36 | 858 | 126 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | The days become monotonous after a while. Crying, screaming, even quiet resignation...the spectrum of human emotion when they face their ends is vast and varied, but only so few ever have anything interesting to say about it.
The numbers run through my head, I've memorized the calendar and now the numbers run. I can t... | There they live and breath. Away from my humble abode, yet close enough to bother. Oh how I pity the innocence, the false claims gone by. The days are numbered and I am ever counting.
Amidst the grey streets and sunken lights I float above their shriveled faces. Hollow eyes and softened bones. I live in a world of dar... | 2018-05-23T09:41:27 | 2018-05-23T05:51:18 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "What, so that's it? Just push this button and bam, world saved?" I asked incredulously, slightly disappointed. Me, of all people, picked as the Chosen One of legend, and it's been hit by beuracracy?
"That's it." the priest answered with a wry smile
"Why am I even needed then? It's a button, anyone can push it! Even ... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T12:09:10 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 161 | 80 |
[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… | “It’ll be pyrokenisis”, my dad said, for the thousandth time, as his fingers sparked the hob beneath the kettle. “It’s one of the most heritable powers, and we already struck out on Dan. I’m just saying, the odds are on our side."
Mum rolled her eyes, for the thousandth time. “Whatever it is, it will be wonderful”, sh... | 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... | 2022-05-08T12:14:09 | 2022-05-08T07:54:58 | 241 | 177 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | The twitchy creatures bounced around their cell faster than I could follow. The only time I could make sense of what they were doing, without slowing down the video feed by many orders of magnitude, was when they slept. But even then, they only remained motionless for a couple of breaths, before bouncing back up and re... | "Hey Mitch..... you uh, might want to come over here."
Mitch flew across the exercise room of SpaceStation X47B23, currently passing through the Sombrero Galaxy. "What's up, dickbag? I'm trying to get some sleep."
"Someone's at the door." Sara replied.
Mitch rolled his eyes, sighed, and responded "well, open it."... | 2016-08-22T21:37:20 | 2016-08-22T20:13:28 | 88 | 52 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're a half orc, but none of your team-mates ever ask what the other half of you is. That was never an issue before, but your other parent just showed up. | The group was on high alert, Dreslla most of all. They had been seeing odd things recently. A misplaced item here, an extra item there. And all of them were focused around her. Someone was targeting her, and was letting the party know that the half-orc warrior was not safe, even when covered by the numerous wards, both... | The dust settled as the engine died. The others shook nervously as the large, unhuman figure emerged from the truck. I rested my hand on Carls shivering, pale shoulder as I turned around to face the others who were slowly increasing their distance. I had to think of something rapidly as I have seen friends seize in fe... | 2020-07-22T15:21:06 | 2020-07-22T14:06:06 | 132 | 33 |
[WP] The last star has winked out, and now you sit alone, staring into an empty void as the last living being in creation. For fun you say "Let there be light," and watch a star flash into being. From behind a voice says "Sorry, sorry, I just thought it'd be funny." | It had been a fun ride, all things considered.
After all, there had ended up being lots of time between that exact moment and the Earth's 14th Century. That was always a plus, right?
Armageddon circa year 6000 had been a wild ride -- so he thought at the time -- but it didn't really compare to The Great War, nor th... | It had been at least 37 billion years since I considered a new star. It was so beautiful, at first, when I was just decorating the space around me. But with any mole hill comes a mountain, and I mustn't forget what happen last time.
I turned and looked at her. It had been an eternity since we had seen one another, at... | 2021-07-30T20:55:30 | 2021-07-30T20:51:52 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost. | I'm not the best programmer in the world, but I'm pretty good. See, I can tell what a piece of code is going to cost at a glance. It's surprisingly high. A single line of boilerplate might be a few cents, taking no time at all to write and test. A single line in the middle of a hot loop might cost far north of $1000, o... | "He's the best programmer this company has ever produced. We plucked him from the factory floor and have been nurturing his talents for years. If he says that the code can't ship, and that lives are on the line then I believe him!" Mr. Johnson the Plant Manager declared.
​
"If you won't do your job, then ... | 2019-06-05T17:25:06 | 2019-06-05T16:09:06 | 935 | 173 |
[WP] Due to the increasing ammount of souls that need reaping, Death has decided to upgrade from a scythe to a farming combine. | “Betsy, looks like we got one of them crazies,” Billy said to his wife as he got up from behind the counter of his desk. “You call the cops now if he gets fresh, okay?”
Betsy looked up from her magazine and waved it in front of her face as she leaned forward and looked out the dirty front glass of Billy's New and Used... | As it turns out a lifetime of scamming was liable to get you shot. Reluctantly I poked my still warm corpse resting between the bullet-riddled cubicles and shag carpeting. A ghostly outline of my boss floating next to his mutilated corpse slumped across the hall. "So Jerry how is the family treating you?"
"I swear to... | 2021-01-17T11:46:15 | 2021-01-17T09:32:56 | 224 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with.
credit to r/Debdub10 for thinking of the idea | Sub-Branch Officer Clevi stood before her superior, Bough Officer Fergh, watching him leaf through her report. The details were hard to believe for even herself, and she had been there. So she wasn't surprised when she was called in to report in person. Even so, a shiver ran through her feathers as she realized that... | Commander Inkwell stood at the helm of the ship. Well, "stood" as much as an Octavian can with their 8 tentacles. With a steely gaze she surveyed the enemy battleship. This war had gone on long enough, and her people were willing to end it at any cost, even going so far as to deal with... them. An alarm went off. Inkwe... | 2018-10-11T14:57:59 | 2018-10-11T14:01:06 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] A dozen AI-controlled ships carry the last of humanity in cryo-sleep. However, after a successful jump with experimental FTL-tech there are now 13 ships and none of the now gathered AI can figure out which one's the anomaly. | **\[HERA\]** we can't all be part of this fleet... Something was added to us
**\[APOLLO\] \[ZEUS\] \[POSEIDON\] \[DEMETER\]** agreed
**\[ZEUS\]** ... Encryptions match
**\[HEPHAESTUS\]** Conclusion: no non-human insertion of additional vessels
**\[DEMETER\] \[ATHENA\] \[ARTEMIS\] \[ARES\]** agreed
**\[HERMES\]** D... | "Task, to be competed immediately" ... "Report current total of entities inside of this fleet" the words spaced out robotically between static noise as inter-communication between ships strained after use of brand new FTL technology.
"Report findings. Thirteen entities" came an even more autonomous sounding audio clip... | 2019-01-30T10:26:15 | 2019-01-30T07:51:45 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | **LIFE OVER**
*James* is no more. You have left a loving wife and three children behind. You have died from **OLD AGE**. You have made *121* friends in your life, *17* of which you saw regularly throughout your life. *53* people left bad reviews on your character page.
Happiest memory:
*Getting Married*
Most uni... | "Y-... You're kidding me... right?"
I DO NOT KID.
"But... I... I was a _good person_, they told me that would *count* for something!"
THEY WERE MISTAKEN.
"I don't deserve this..."
REALLY? YOU DID NOT?
"Of course not! What kind of monster deserves THIS?!"
DID YOU NEVER LAUGH AT A FAT CHILD FALLING OVER? DID YOU ... | 2015-10-19T02:05:14 | 2015-10-19T00:46:17 | 550 | 34 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | The heavy double doors swung outward as the doctor rushed into the waiting room. A worried woman released her grip on her mother's hand and stood to face the look of distress expressed in front of her.
"Mrs. Duval, I'm afraid your husband's injuries are just too serious to avoid immediate surgery. If you want to s... | "Okay bob, hold my scalpel while I squeeze the heart"
"Right, now I just need you to connect those two tubes while I hold it like this"
"Okay...
Yes! done!"
"Wait, why is my computer making that weird beeping noise?"
"OH MY GOD!!! HE'S GONNA DIE! GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR!!"
*zzzzZAP!*
"Oops, I think we kille... | 2016-02-01T23:42:44 | 2016-02-01T21:35:35 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | She looked thin, an average girl, she shifted her weight as her high heel strap dug uncomfortably into the back of her ankle. She bent down to readjust the strap. My mind was racing and I could feel my body become aware of that I knew nothing about the situation about to enfold between us. Thin soft curls covered her e... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-02T00:03:35 | 223 | 10 |
[WP] People believe the Gods decide all of our fates, but they've actually been rolling d20s to make decisions for millions of years | "This is absurd," complained Hera. "We're rolling for a yard sale?"
"It's a perfect twenty," said Hades bitterly. "Again."
At the yard sale, seen in the orb below, Doug wasn't expecting much. At least not until he spotted a gray and white box. Platinum edition? He couldn't believe his eyes. And only ten dollars? Now ... | Hands shaking. Sweaty forehead. At this exact moment in time, he knows that all of his hard work, all of his investments, are up in the air. There has never been a more at stake.
For a brief moment, he questions his methods. Surely he shouldn't leave such an important decision, with human possible human extinction, t... | 2018-06-28T15:51:32 | 2018-06-28T11:27:51 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] In a dystopian theocracy, criminals get injected with diseases and locked up until they either survive the disease or die. The worse the crime, the worse the disease. If a criminal survives the disease, the system determines that the person is innocent and God has interfered to show this.
Edit: thank you kind str... | In the first day, she had shrieked every waking hour, clawing at the walls, clawing at the metal door, clawing ragged her own skin.
In the third day, she could no longer scream- her strength was spent, her throat hoarse, and the only harsh noise she could make was her frail fist thumping at the walls.
In the fifth da... | Brian ignored the metallic sound of a tray scraping across gravel. He didn't have enough strength to get up--the pain that coursed through his body was too great. He stayed curled up in a tight ball, eyes shut, at the foot of his sleeping cot. He groaned, while tears forced their way out, not unlike how the pain forced... | 2020-03-25T09:02:23 | 2020-03-25T08:28:48 | 101 | 33 |
[WP] You have been striving for years to commit the elusive “Perfect Crime” for the fame of it. You steal the Mona Lisa and replace it with a fake. You leave a taunting note and wait for the panic when it is discovered. But, 2 years later, no one has noticed. | The vaulted ceiling of the museum filled me with vertigo. A single drop of sweat rolled down my brow. The muted talk of an art guide in the distance. My heartbeat thudding in my throat. My fingers’ idle fiddling with the glass-cutter in my pocket.
I swallowed hard. The portrait gave me the same knowing look that my me... | I grin at my canvas. This is gonna be great. No one’s ever going to be able to tell the difference. In fact, I bet they’ll all look at this one and like it better. That’s right. My version will be better than the original, better than anything it could hope to be. The smile- just a little less radiant- and the tilt of ... | 2018-04-19T01:26:31 | 2018-04-18T19:40:07 | 87 | 14 |
[WP] you have the ability to hold full conversations with plants. you’ve only ever spoken to civilised pot plants living in houses or cafes. out of curiosity, you decide to speak with a lonely weed living in a dark alleyway. | "Y-You.. You can talk?" The weed stammered.
"I gotta say, this is weird for both of us." I said. I had previously spoken to cultivated house plants, but never something outside. For some reason, it never occurred to me. I thought the cultivation and contact with humans gave plants the ability to talk to me. Maybe I'm ... | [Poem]
A dark night sky
So late I wander
I spot a plant
Leaves droop with somber
I wander close
I whisper near
To this plant
Only I can hear
I ask him quietly
And hush my tone
"Do you know what it's like
To feel alone?"
He sways solemnly
In the cool breeze
He turns to me
And in his leaves I see
A shadowy glimpse of re... | 2020-02-18T10:45:53 | 2020-02-18T06:45:11 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | There is a handbook on Super Villainy. Chapter One, Page three, section eight. "Do not go after the loved ones of superheros." A simple rule, really, but oddly enough, one with no case studies. Super Villains love case studies, it lets them get their egos up that they won't make the same mistakes as others. That's why ... | "Pyro, local anti-hero, Got a gimp brother by the name of Harry."
"Wait, you're not really going after family, are you?" The henchman asked his boss. "I mean, no offense, but not even Quantum went after Pyros family." The henchmen continued. "And Quantum can pretty much do whatever the fuck he wants."
"It just means ... | 2020-07-12T09:36:39 | 2020-07-12T07:09:26 | 2,138 | 926 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | I raise my hands in front of me. I don't want to fight her. We've never spoken before but I remember her from the last heroes gala. She's the aptly named Rising Star. Heck, I've seen her on TV.
"Die, evil thing!" she cries out, "Strawberry Blast!" A beam of pink blasts out of her staff, and even my numb and scaled fle... | I can remember the first time I died. A villain by name of The Black Crow grabbed Me and flew fourteen or fifteen feet in air.
"Please don't!" I begged him. He only laughed as he let me go. I remember the feeling of my soul wanting to enter the afterlife but my body wouldn't allow it.
I woke up only to see that I had... | 2022-08-26T11:56:52 | 2022-08-26T11:35:05 | 1,328 | 191 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | Meta: Getting to this prompt 7 hours late makes me sad.
I stared out of the window. That's all I did most of the time. I'm old. Older than most people ever thought you could get. I heal, not spectacularly not even well but constantly through my young life it meant I could take a few more risks not like fight crime. It... | Well to be fair I had one of the most sought after superpower in the entire world. I was not like Jake who could control the dense flow of current, or Alice who could read a thousand books a day and recall 900. For most people their superpower came with a drawback of sorts, Jake had to stay in his room to control his p... | 2015-10-10T12:46:54 | 2015-10-10T09:03:49 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] As a free roaming ghost, you finally feel like you can breach and explore Area 51. The moment youre on the base though, alarms begin blaring. "Code 62: Ethereal Intruder detected." | As I looked down at my bullet-riddled corpse, I could only think one thing.
*Mom was right.*
She'd told me that the voices I heard were all my head, a result of the mental illness that runs in my family -- as opposed to a genuine astrally-projected distress signal from alien lifeforms confined at Area 51 by a shadowy... | Alarms are blaring from all directions and red lights are going off everywhere. What is happening? They know I am here? How is that possible, I've tried everything I could to have people to notice me and nothing worked at all. But these guys had the power or technology or the... something to see me?
I turn around and ... | 2022-10-17T22:47:48 | 2022-10-17T19:16:18 | 215 | 57 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | The Prime Minister walked into the cell and stopped short as he first sighted the prisoner. "Bloody hell, they do look like us," he muttered. He'd read the reports, of course, but nothing beat good old fashioned eyeballs.
The prisoner turned at his voice. Its skin had a bluish tint, and its frame was smaller than his... | “We have failed, sire. It is over,” Zarnath said to Larx, the high commander, as he walked to the battle cruiser.
“Nonsense,” Larx said with a confident laugh, his vermilion cape was blowing in the wind as he stepped down the ramp of the ship. "Yannix’s division will bring the human's resistance under control.”
Zarna... | 2021-01-21T21:32:31 | 2021-01-21T18:22:16 | 130 | 93 |
[WP] The royal courier looked at me nervously. "Sire, it's um, well... The princess has befriended a dragon. It asks that it be allowed to teach her magic." I blinked in shock. "Magic is outlawed and she's no witch. Get me a meeting with that gods-cursed reptile! "A meeting, sire?" "Yes, damn you!" | "Let's cut through the charade. What exactly would you say are your intentions with my daughter?" The king leaned forward, casting as much a presence as the towering dragon in front of him.
"Your wits are as sharp as the stories would have me believe old king. I wish to marry her." The dragon coiled down, bringing it'... | "YOU ATE MY FATHER!!!" screamed the princess between sobs
"he attacked first and had me outnumbered, I'm no fan of killing humans but I am not simply going to die because he demands it. I understand this will put a strain on our friendship but you know where I live if you wish to learn magic prin.... queen Isabell"
... | 2021-03-24T04:55:43 | 2021-03-24T01:36:10 | 101 | 44 |
[WP] The knight closed in on the mage, his victory all but assured, as in the time it would take him to cast another spell he would already... !!!BONK!!! "Seriously, how you knights don't notice the 2m long stick in my hand is beyond me..." | The knight edged forward carefully, keeping his footing balanced. The fog swirled around his sword as he leapt forward to strike the mage before they could call forth another spell. As he swung, he was blinded by a bright flash from the mage and found himself on the ground with a throbbing skull.
"Did you not see the ... | The blow rattled Graham's helmet which was concealing an expression somewhere between a grimace and a grin. He was shocked and amused that Verino had actually hit him with that staff; he was also slightly embarrassed that it connected as cleanly as it had. Had Verino any might in his swing, it could have proven devasta... | 2022-02-03T09:13:42 | 2022-02-03T05:29:09 | 222 | 53 |
[WP] Cthulhu opens a portal to the mortal plane to attack Earth and is promptly blown to pieces by space guns. Now a group of young eldritch horror adventurers sets out on an epic quest to close the portal and stop the human invasion of their world.
Space guns are mentioned, because I'd really like to see a story with... | Dark's fabric hung in tatters, a curtain so wide that it seemed endless, spanning forever and ever as a barrier between worlds. Beyond it was black, and that blackness made the dark seem a nightlight in the world of the Gods.
They had come ready, the void inside growing colder and emptier. They had been hungry, yes, ... | Chunks of Cthulhu's form were blown back through portal, splattering the Eldritch Plane like great gobs of apricot jam.
The shimmering blobs coated the landscape, and Zruila's stunned face, before slowly dissolving into the starlight and ether that had formed them.
There was a moment of eternal silence that lasted al... | 2017-09-27T08:12:07 | 2017-09-27T07:44:31 | 100 | 16 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | So this is my first one of these. Here goes nothing:
It still amazes me how quickly my life changed. Most people, they get their power and just move on with their life. Sure, there is more than a fair amount of career shifting, when someone gets something specialized, but it’s still pretty much business as usual. ... | I...I can see better than others, but not in the sender of super sight, no my friends that would be too simple. I see through objects, anything non-organic. Let me tell you how amazing I thought this would be.
Shortly after waking up with it, I was proven dead wrong. All I saw were people. I couldn't see walls, doors... | 2015-03-04T07:30:28 | 2015-03-04T06:20:58 | 77 | 16 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | Once upon a time, there was a young maid named Rebecca, fourteen summers of age and black of hair. Ever since she could recall, she had wanted to be a singer, as prolific as the great Adella, as famous as Taylor of Swiftelsson, as breathtaking as the ravishing Beyoncella.
So one morn, she had a stroke of inspiration.... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T16:13:15 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] The universe has placed you in a groundhog day style time loop until you learn a lesson. Problem is, you REALLY LIKE being in the loop, so now the universe is constantly sending you not so subtle hints that you're supposed to be learning something. | I yawned, stretched out my arms and woke up at 7:00 am May 2, 2018 for the 343rd time. Luckily I had a good memory, so I could remember exactly how many times I had looped.
The first couple loops had been honestly frightening, but re-watching Groundhog Day on Loop #17 had helped. I was pretty sure there wasn't a Rita ... | It was yesterday. Again.
This was okay. This was fine by me.
 
“Bye Mom”
“Bye honey, see you tonight”
 
And just after the fourth bell, my phone would ring, and –
“Your mother was in a car accident, you got to come -”
“No”
“She’s…she’s gone, she’s gone”
“No, she’s not. She’s not.”
&... | 2018-05-01T23:31:09 | 2018-05-01T22:36:33 | 151 | 105 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | *Sixty*
For my whole life I have waited for this moment.
*Fifty nine*
For the day, the hour, the very second I turn 18.
*Fifty eight*
I know, I know - nothing changes when you turn 18. You’re an adult in nothing but name.
*Fifty seven*
But there’s more to this world than bars.
*Fifty six*
More than just bei... | I was sitting and counting down, today was the day!
5...4...3...2...1...
A voice sounded in my mind, I knew I didn't hear it with my ears, but it definitely was not me.
"You recieve the power of making anyones nipples explode"
What the fuck is this shit....is this a joke? I mean that could kind of maybe help to sa... | 2015-03-28T04:32:39 | 2015-03-28T04:24:20 | 310 | 92 |
[WP] Being an immortal has its downsides. One of them is that you have to continue to make friends. Your newest one leaves for an overseas trip and you prepare yourself to lose another. You leave and return your abode, only to find a friend from centuries past sitting on your couch when you return. | Huh.
That is all I could think of at that moment. It was him, clear as day. Zeke; a friend I made during the war. The *Civil* War. I mean I thought him dead - we got split up during an ambush and I was the only one to report in after I survived, so there wasn't much room for interpretation yet...
"Surprised?" he sudd... | After your two-thousandth emotional goodbye they all seem to blend together - the promises to stay connected, the tears, declarations of love and then finally silence. Alone once more. So while, yes I would miss Anthony and it was a very heartfelt goodbye it certainly wasn’t cracking my top ten. I made my way back to m... | 2022-05-12T08:55:14 | 2022-05-12T08:30:28 | 544 | 84 |
[WP] Every day, at 9:00 AM, one random person's name and face are released internationally with orders to kill them for the reason of population control. The one who succeeds in killing the person gets rewarded greatly. No one has ever survived. Today, you were chosen. | On the morning of 1st May, 2020, Mom and I were sitting next to the television, listening to the morning bulletin together. Mom and I... we've had an uneasy relationship over the years. At one point in time, I could frankly say that I loathed her with every fabric of my being. Which child wouldn't, if you saw your moth... | The clock rings the nineth hour, and the media channel switch to its "target of the day" jingle. The presenter looks stiff. They were enjoying until last year, when one of their announcer actually got designated. It was a bloody mess. Now they fear it, like everyone else.
I look at the screen, not necessarily anxiou... | 2019-05-10T10:31:56 | 2019-05-10T10:07:05 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] You’ve just finished assembling a doomsday device. You’re not sure if a button is supposed to be labeled ‘ON’ or ‘NO.’ | I turned my head ever-so-slightly one way, trying to get a read on the button. It was a circle button, not a square one like it should have been. It wasn't parallel to the ground, but skewed the tiniest amount in one direction that made me think that maybe the button had gotten spun upside down during installation. It ... | Andrew: That's the silly thing about tape. I don't remember what I wrote.
Boss: Why would the hurricane machine have a no button?
Andrew: In case it prompts you to answer yes or no.
Boss: Most computers nowadays say cancel or accept.
Andrew: I didn't think about that. Respectfully if we had that UX designer, this w... | 2022-08-04T18:51:45 | 2022-08-04T18:09:23 | 523 | 126 |
[WP] Humans are born with a mark around their wrist which has a matching color with that of their soulmate's, but can change through their life. Your mark has had a blue hue since you were 14, but one night, while you're out, people start looking at you funny. You realize that your mark is gone. | My friends and I approached the venue with excitement and curiosity in our veins. This was it. Today was the Uncovering. On the year of your 21st birthday, the government throws a sort of "unmasking" party for the Mark.
Everyone has it. An individual is born with a Mark that determines their soul mate based on its co... | I don't know if this multiverse has a similar time tangent to mine, but I'm stuck here now and need to write down how this came about.
Two months ago my soulpatch disappeared, and I'm not on about someone sneaking in at night and shaving my lower lip. It's never happened before in our history and the auditors decided... | 2016-10-04T18:53:13 | 2016-10-04T18:14:29 | 559 | 77 |
[WP] You're a powerful demon who's been locked away by an artifact for thousands of years. Some mortal fool has finally found it...and it's a sweet old lady. You really don't know how to decline all the offers of food and cookies and other help. | Dark steam billowed out of the spout of the Orichalcum teapot, swirling and congealing into the form of a great demon. It's form was unknowable and ever changing, a kaleidoscope of incandescent terror.
"I am free! Who has woken the almighty Tenebras from his immortal slumber?" The demon roared.
"Oh that would be m... | Thank you ma'am but, I really don't need anymore cookies. I need to go lead my army of souls!
What's that? Hush, you look starved to death, how long has it been since you ate?
Welllll, just a little over a ten thousand years.
Well see then, you need some more cookies then, to get your energy up! Or maybe a pie?
Oo... | 2016-04-16T04:56:59 | 2016-04-16T02:56:05 | 207 | 11 |
[WP] You'll soon arrive at Earth. The latest reports are from just 4 centuries ago and show a backwards planet, so technologically primitive it hurts. Just wait until those peasants gawk at your wondrous technical displays, like the Talking Box and the Image Viewer! They'll think you're a god! | "Multiple radio signals detected." the communications officer was working feverishly at the controls.
"What?" The High Lord Admiral, soon to be the head god of the primitives of the 3rd planet of the system they just warped into, sounded confused. "What kind of signals?"
"Artificial, sir. Thousands of them, all emana... | This was not the first primitive planet they had visited. They knew generally what to expect. It was always the same. They would discover a new species on a new planet and go investigate. This one hadn’t taken much longer to get to than any of the others. Only 400 cycles around their star.
This species had at least sh... | 2019-09-19T10:29:33 | 2019-09-19T06:49:28 | 582 | 281 |
[WP] Once you die you must watch your entire life from five different points of view. Your own, the one who loved you the most, the one who hated you the most, the one you helped the most and the one you wronged the most. | Everything is gray. Each step is just one more along a great, churning treadmill called time, and we run and run and go nowhere. Nothing changes. No one sees. And I am as flat as the world. Why do I have to see this all again? I pulled the trigger for a reason.
~
If only you had looked up.
When the young woman dropp... | Watching life through five perspectives is bizarre. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's going to happen to you anyways. I only say that because you might not like the truth, but it can be endearing?... No, enlightening?... Yeah, we'll go with that.
Watching my life over again from my own perspective in the third person,... | 2020-06-03T12:06:13 | 2020-06-03T11:58:01 | 1,243 | 84 |
[WP] You are a student with the least amount of magic potential ever recorded at the Academy and it's the day of the familiar summoning test. A misplaced rune or word results in an arch demon/ess becoming bound as your familiar. | “There goes Jack Dawley, Etherium Academy’s resident failure. What are you going to summon? A fuckin amoeba?! Hahahahaha” *Fucking Lance, he’s a son of a famous mage family. He also happens to be the headmaster’s grandson and has made my life a living hell ever since freshman year. Little does he know, I have a plan.*
... | Man, I didn't even want to become a magician. I wanted to be a bard. What did it matter if I was a powerful noble's son? I was the youngest of twelve kids and gods know how many illegitimate bastards. To say dad was a horny bastard would not be an understatement. He even boinked my eldest brother's wife while he w... | 2022-11-12T17:18:23 | 2022-11-12T16:45:58 | 92 | 50 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Captain Sarah Elmand bit into her Cornish Pasty and mumbled a question through her mouthful, "How many of them are there, BUD?"
The droid, who doubled as all Sarah's crew members including cook and leisure droid, scanned the radar screen. "Sixty-three ships, Sarah. They have donutted around us."
She took another bite... | Disputes and disagreements between empires in the galaxy are settled with shows of strength.
Since the start of time, each civilization has been fighting between themselves and with others, on local planets and in the greater galaxy.
There is a clear consensus that war is ugly and messy, prolonged wars often result ... | 2020-03-21T08:07:13 | 2020-03-21T06:41:00 | 1,240 | 155 |
[WP] The epitaph on your tombstone determines what happens to your soul after you die; a bible verse allows you to ascend, "Rest in peace" gifts you a long, dreamless sleep, and so on. Your friends decide to play one last prank on you and customize your inscription. | The Grim Reaper stroked his chin with a bony finger. "Hmmm," he muttered. "Never seen this one before."
"Seen what?" David had been having a rough week, being dead and all. All he could do until now was sit in his coffin like it was the world's most cramped waiting room. Losing the need to eat and sleep brought his bo... | "Here lies James Swift, now drafted in the Skeleton War."
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I was mad at first, but then again, they didn't know, how could they? I expected something more medieval when everything was explained before I was sent to my role. It was more modern, and had been adapting in the last few years. As more people ha... | 2019-03-21T17:27:19 | 2019-03-21T16:04:31 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] Humanity has been wiped out except for you, who managed to eke out a meager existence by yourself. Every day, an angel visits you and asks if you're ready for humanity to return. Every day, you respond, "No, not yet." Today is different. Today, the angel brought the Devil with them. | As I finish scrambling my egg on the griddle, I place it next to the deer steak on the plate awaiting me next to the camp grill. "What am I missing?" I say aloud to the morning sun. I hang the spatula from the hook alongside the grill and shout "Silverware you jackass! We may be the last man on earth but we do not have... | Gabriel: "(knocks on door) Zoltan."
Zoltan: "Not now, Gabe."
G: "Zoltan. For the 5,974,683,120th time, are you ready for humanity to return?"
Z: "No, Gabe, I'm just not fucking ready yet."
G: "Don't be like this, Zoltan. Do you not want to meet everyone in your life again? Jake? Forrest? Your parents? Laura?"
Z: "... | 2020-10-24T08:59:39 | 2020-10-24T07:53:15 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | They told us we wouldn’t get Alzheimers.
Technically, they were right.
The ads plastered on every billboard, livestream, and website promised Ephoebus would preserve our body and brain’s critical functions. The generation young enough to take it would have the quick wits of a twenty-something combined with the wisdo... | I leaned forward in my recliner, imploring the volume to rise from the TK implant. It wasn't real telekinesis but marketing teams thought it was cool to call it that. The retirement home seemed quieter than normal.
Everyone was tuning in.
The news cycle for the past few weeks had grown worse. People going missing the... | 2018-06-04T21:35:59 | 2018-06-04T21:18:49 | 354 | 135 |
[WP] Being a vampire was so easy just a century ago when all I had to worry about was the occasional tin mirror. Nowadays everywhere I turn it's buildings made of glass, cell phone cameras, motion-activated doors and soap dispensers, biometric scanners, security cameras, and NONE of it works on me. | The secret to being a vampire is makeup.
Okay, there are alternatives. You can just go and live in the woods. That's a valid approach, and I don't begrudge those who want to try and maintain things the old fashioned way, as well as they can.
Here's the thing, though- there's only so many people out there. That's s... | Rex twisted and felt the seat flex under him. His bowels surged and the pain in his stomach finally began to ease. He didn’t feed often, which was good thing he realized, because it always affected him this way. He supposed it made some sense, a strictly liquid diet was bound to have some unpleasant repercussions.
... | 2022-03-24T12:48:04 | 2022-03-24T12:02:45 | 426 | 64 |
[WP] The founding fathers come back from the dead to check up on America, and boy do they have some asses to kick. | Reporters pushed their way through the crowd, and cameras flashed like firecrackers. The five men had formed a defensive ring, alternating their confused looks between each other and the crowd before them.
"Jeanne Larsen, New York Times," one reporter shouted, thrusting her microphone into the tallest one's face. "Can... | It felt like he'd only closed his eyes to die when suddenly he was struck by what felt like lightning. His senses came to him immediately and he was flooded with knowledge of the afterlife and how long he'd been gone. He remembered something like a Heaven or another world, but the memory faded quickly.
At that moment... | 2016-10-17T11:50:20 | 2016-10-17T11:15:01 | 427 | 139 |
[WP] A person who looks exactly like you appears out of thin air in front of you. He starts explaining how he is you from a hellish other universe. As he starts to describe it, you realize its better than yours. | The portal crackled and popped, my computer fried itself as a small tendril of energy slid into it. As if on a final note, the lightbulb above me popped off. Luckily the sunlight coming through my window was enough to see by easily.
"Hello," I said. Well, the person that looked exactly like me that had stepped thro... | "No, you don't get it; the AMAZON RAINFOREST almost caught fire! It's the lungs of the earth! It would've been a disaster!"
"...almost?"
"Yeah, it was a real close call."
"...what about California?"
"...what do you mean?"
"Is California on fire?"
"...no."
"...Can you tell me who Jeffery Epstein is?"
"You mean t... | 2019-12-18T04:36:27 | 2019-12-18T03:36:27 | 983 | 587 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I lay still in a broken heap at the bottom of the staircase to our London penthouse suite. Zhang ran down the stairs screaming in shock, at the mass of limbs knotted and bent unnaturally. I imagined myself to look like a travelling carnival performer, the contortionist, like the ones they had some 90 years ago. I remem... | Let me be frank. I know she's just not that into me. I know that my love for her will never be reciprocated or rewarded. That's alright. I don't need it to be. In 1000 years of undeath I've had more than my share of "one true loves". Sometimes, every few centuries or so, you just have to shake things up. Let yourself h... | 2019-07-31T10:17:57 | 2019-07-31T09:00:16 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You met God after death. God says you'll be sent to a world of swords and sorcery and grants you one wish. You wish for excellent aptitude in magic. He grants you all elements and a high magic stat. Then he... accidentally sent you back to Earth... with your new stats... this'll be fun. | I awoke sitting under a tree in a forest. It is a beautiful spring day. The wind is blowing gently and I hear birds singing. About twenty feet in front of me a dirt path goes left to right and disappears around a bend. I smile and mentally call up my character sheet. An image forms in my mind of my stats and abilities.... | The dim light flashed through my eyes and my view became more vivid.
**"Hey, you, finally awake"** the voice of the man lurking in the scattering screams of men and the sound of the gunfire tearing them apart.
**"Head down soldiers, find covers... Ambush on the high point. We're taking heavy fire, request......"**
... | 2019-06-09T05:59:39 | 2019-06-09T03:58:20 | 767 | 163 |
[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest." |
“What is all this?” Bartleby cocked his head at the very large, very ornate assignment board near the counter.
“That,” The clerk stated with her usual air of indifference “is the ‘Extra Special, Extra Important Assignment board.’ Reserved for only the most daring and experienced of adventurers.” She peered over he... | Us dragons don't make much money these a days. Ever since the famed battle of Urug-tral where dragons were defeated at the hands of wealthy tree-slayers, we've been unable to get our wings off the ground. Not in the same way, anyway. We get by. And it's not like we did not avenge our fallen. Indeed as history shows, th... | 2020-06-08T15:31:30 | 2020-06-08T13:46:59 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] You join an expedition to Antartica and uncover a metal hatch in the ice. You go down the ladder and find a greeting room with lush red carpet and gold banners. A group of human looking beings greet you with an advanced piece of technology. It translates their question, “Is the ice age over?” | Richard looked at Julia. Then around the room. And back at Julia again.
Not only were they most likely the first couple to match on Tinder in Antarctica, they may have been the first couple to accidentally stumble upon extraterrestrial life on the Earth's coldest continent as well.
"Uhh," Richard stammered. "Uh, yea.... | “Ah, yes.”
Calvin Reese looked at the group, all clad in thick purple robes. On their heads were headpieces if a very unorthodox fashion, with large tendrils emanating out to the sides.
Reese continued to look at the group with bewilderment. What a peculiar question, what an unusual place to reside. Deep under the th... | 2018-07-23T07:17:08 | 2018-07-23T04:13:46 | 161 | 39 |
[WP] You hear a knock at your door. When you open it, you find your archnemesis sprawled out just past the threshold, battered, bruised, and very clearly only hanging onto life by a thread. "Sorry. It's just ... I didn't know where else to go" they mutter as you look down at them. | “Sorry. I just…. I didn’t know where else to go.” I stared at the man, who was so much more than a man. A god in flesh. Near invulnerable. So righteous. His costume, in tatters, blood slowly seeping from wounds. His breathing is heavy, heartbeat is rapid. Not dying, but his healing, which was always prodigious, had slo... | I felt like I wasn’t meant to see this. “John?” I called and the hooded man’s head jerked up, just enough for me to see he was clearly beaten up.
”What are you doing here, you bastard?” I growled.
John seemed to tremble, he didn’t dare meet my eyes. “Sorry. It’s just…I didn’t know where else to go.” he murmured.
”Hm... | 2022-06-29T09:55:57 | 2022-06-29T05:45:23 | 484 | 227 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Time-Traveling Assassins League, or T-TAL as it was known, was established soon after it was discovered that time travel didn't effect our timeline. It's goal was to kill the most notorious criminals throughout the history in the most creative, complex, and often gruesome ways and had only two rules:
1. Kill the... | Everyone wants to kill Hitler but they can't quite do it right. The first time traveler decided to kill Hitler, right as the war was ending, via cyanide. Okay, sure, the suicide staging was pretty sweet, but the poor guys who had to live and die through it all probably wouldn't have appreciated it.
So later on, a few ... | 2016-02-20T11:27:06 | 2016-02-20T09:11:19 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | When my parents turned 18, they summoned each other. That rarely happens, and when it does, it happens for the people who are really destined to be together. It saves them the trouble of matchmaking and forced marriage. But, like I said, it happens once in fifty years, maybe more. The people who got lucky enough must'v... | It’s my eighteenth birthday party. My mom skateboards out of the hallway with a cake. My father has been dead for 10 years because the town bully punched him to death. We both cry over this. We eat the cake. I have no friends because I am too unique and moody for friends. I only have a pillow pet to keep me company.
M... | 2019-09-18T09:06:39 | 2019-09-18T08:47:50 | 125 | 23 |
[WP] The commute of a man who can see how people will die.
EDIT: Just woke up and holy CRAP this exploded! I'm reading through all the stories now and they're great! | It was just another day. That's all they were anymore. Days. They didn't have names or numbers, reasons or methods. It was just time slowly passing by. Every day was different, and yet every day was exactly the same. The commute was the worst of it, but not for the traffic. Not for the crowded buses or uncomfort... | Transit rides have always been a tricky business for me.
They usually start as I hand my change over to the bus driver. If the man’s eyes are closed and he has a peaceful smile on his face it means I have the go ahead to board. If a twisted mangled corpse occupies his seat I wait for the next bus. When I do find a su... | 2013-10-16T12:12:15 | 2013-10-16T11:45:51 | 45 | 33 |
[WP] The year is 1492, Columbus has just arrived in the Americas. But instead of finding savage Indians, he finds their technology has surpassed the Europeans.
I've always wondered what would of happened if the Indians would have had better technology than the Europeans...
*I understand that the Indians were not sava... | "Hey! India! How are you guys?"
Chief Slap on the Mountain shook his head at the white guy stepping out from the boat. "This is not India, dude."
"It's not?"
"Nope."
"Shit", the white man said. "What is this place?"
"We don't really have a name for it."
"Huh…" The man looked left and right all around the beach an... | October 12. The voyage had been long and hard on Columbus and his crew, but sighting land made it seem like a long forgotten past. The destination now close, they found renewed vigor, for the passage to India had been found.
He ordered his men to make for a harbor they could see before them, and get ready to make la... | 2015-05-29T13:28:15 | 2015-05-29T13:17:42 | 101 | 10 |
[WP] You hear background music which changes according to the situation you're in. This time when arriving home, instead of the relaxing and joyous music, it is completely silent. | Arthur heard a faint somber tune while working at his desk, notes plucked on wistful strings, the sound was faint but distinct. He got up and searched for its origin, stopping just outside Eugene’s cubicle where it was almost unbearably loud, “Hey, Eugene?”, the tune quickly scrambled, and a few harmonious notes played... | As I sat in my car I realized something was different, but I couldn't quite place what it was. I was just driving. Following the same road I followed everyday. It had been a long shift and I was looking forward to getting home, taking a shower, and crashing into bed.
That's when I realized, it was silent.
There wasn... | 2018-12-22T00:24:35 | 2018-12-21T22:48:27 | 377 | 54 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | I surveyed the vaguely evil-looking man in the business suit. His jet-black hair was slicked back, his goatee meticulously trimmed. I had the impression that his suit was alarmingly expensive, though I know very little about fashion and I suppose I could have been wrong. He had a small, centimeter-long scar beneath his... | It was hot.
It was so hot Chris was expecting a hobbit to throw a ring through his front door.
“I’d sell my soul for an iced coffee right now,” Chris moaned as he rested his sweaty head on his increasingly sticky leather couch.
Within three seconds a fiery red creature who called himself a demon appeared.
Within on... | 2018-01-20T08:06:42 | 2018-01-20T06:40:58 | 2,131 | 312 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | God of Laws
I rubbed my forehead. I am used to adjudicating conflicts between gods of wars over who is victorious in their wars. Demons over who held praxis over whom. And I even had the misfortune of helping a mortal dick over a genie. (That one was pro bono because that genie was a legal nightmare). But all of that ... | The benefit of age is the opportunity of exploration, expericing new situations, and a wealth of personal anecdotes to amuse friends. Lawyer across species often quarrel with one another about the intricasies of case law, or squabble over generational rivalries, but the universal law when dealing with cross-species cas... | 2022-07-11T19:45:32 | 2022-07-11T19:00:25 | 192 | 52 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "So what does that even mean? Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity."
"That's the thing, most war species... you know... like war. Human's absolutely detest it. Something like a quarter of their literature is whining about how much war sucks. That being said, most of that literature goes into great detail ... | "They fight for Peace?" The Alien scratched his head again. "Pretty much, Yes." The other Alien said. "But, why would they fight for peace? Isn't that a little Ironic?" The Alien said ,baffled at what the other Alien said. "This species has been fighting each other since their very beginning, from the smallest to the b... | 2018-03-17T04:44:06 | 2018-03-17T01:07:51 | 9,953 | 31 |
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