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[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | Cries of help bounced up the dirty concrete walls and through the rusty fire escapes. Thick drops of acid rain fell from the gray, polluted sky, pattering against my umbrella. It took a last drag and stubbed out my cigarette.
The alley was like any other in this godforsaken city – windowless, filled with garbage conta... | Well, that was unexpected.
"What was that thing?"
He replies almost nonchalantly, "Some alien. I am an agent of the United Nations. You understand that I have to take you in now, right?" He seems sincere, and as if he doesn't actually want to take me in, but rather just has to do it.
"Would it matter if I said no?"
... | 2017-07-13T00:36:27 | 2017-07-12T23:20:55 | 68 | 16 |
[WP] You wake one morning and find your reflection in the mirror is gone. A few seconds later it rushes in mouthing the words "Sorry! Sorry I'm late. Let's get started. You ready?" | The first thought that came into my mind was: *Have I been turned into a vampire?*
Maybe not a reasonable reaction. Vampires, of course, are *fictional*. Not to mention that I'd had garlic with dinner last night, and that that dinner wasn't human blood. Maybe I'd been reading too many vampire romance novels. Don't jud... | I just stared at the mirror for a moment, struggling to keep my cool. Michael had repeatedly told me that I needed to control myself more. I had assured him that my temperament was very good, very calm. But Michael insisted I needed to be calmer. So I took a few moments before responding to my mirror image. When I did,... | 2015-11-16T09:17:46 | 2015-11-16T09:02:03 | 1,598 | 120 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | In the workplace, there was a hierarchy. The Model knew that plainly and well, though the humans seemed to have trouble remembering—or obeying.
There was one man in particular who nobody wanted to offend. The gung-ho CEO of MaxCorp, Maximilian Mosek is well-known for his work ethic, and slightly lesser known for his h... | Stress levels are rising. They rise often, notably during end-of-quarter events or visits from government employees. The humans will often act in ways to reduce this stress. They’re good at that. They drink coffee and listen to instruments create sound they find pleasing and eat meals lacking in nutritional value but h... | 2021-12-20T13:09:19 | 2021-12-20T12:16:12 | 1,157 | 118 |
[WP] Wizard duels are highly formalized. You state what spell you are casting, so your opponent has a chance to react. This makes it a battle of magical power and wit, rather than reaction speed. Your magic has always been weak. But you discovered a curious spell called simply: "Gun." | “Magic first and foremost requires cooperation,” the professor said. “Grandiose, beautiful spells require lengthy mana channels and so we need to buy each other time to cast them.”
It was one of the first things that Magician Tallow learned at the academy. The second thing he learned was a basic healing spell that eve... | # Excerpts From A Pamphlet Circulated Anonymously
There has been much discussion of late—rather unhelpfully deemed “*much ado about nothing*” in several of our nation’s less rigorous periodicals—about the effects of a recent magical innovation heretofore known as “Gun.” While a great deal of this discussion has been p... | 2022-02-19T09:06:02 | 2022-02-19T08:55:20 | 1,283 | 69 |
[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | I was afraid to leave for college. I'd lived in the same house and slept in the same bedroom for my entire life. I'd had a fairly uneventful, happy childhood. Seeing friends and family members go through rough patches in their lives, seeing them go through break-ups, losing a loved one...I just felt so lucky. Too lucky... | A small piece of paper slid under my door, it had a heart drawn on it. I picked it up and noticed there was something written on it. It wasn't a very girly handwriting. I started reading.
"Dear James,
I've known you for quite a while now and I've started to develop some feelings for you.
I know this might come off a... | 2017-04-11T21:01:16 | 2017-04-11T20:26:04 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] All of your employees jokingly refer to you as 'The Final Boss' because of your love of video games. One day your secretary frantically informs you that a group of heavily armed adventurers are storming the building. | "Very funny, Alice," I chuckled as I sipped at my coffee, "I suppose you want me to go down there and fight them?" Ever since I had put up those Skyrim and Dark Souls posters in my office, my employees had relentlessly teased me about them - it wasn't every day that you came across a 60 year-old that spent hours a week... | Dwight sat in his black leather chair by his brown mahogany table. Bought at an auction for a fraction of the retail price. A true bargain. By his side sat his trusty mug, on it the words “Final Boss” was in bold. He had gotten the nickname by his employees, for his intense passion for video games. From tactic RPG game... | 2018-12-21T10:14:39 | 2018-12-21T09:41:41 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] The "Eye for an Eye Inversion" law allows every life saved to credit the saver one legal murder. The medical profession are now the most feared and revered community. | " That was amazing doctor!" The young nurse gushed excitedly as the tall slender man walked out of the OR. He smiled warmly at the nurse as he pulled down his surgical mask and peeled off the gloves. The front of his surgical gear was splattered in blood, but he didn't seem phased by it at all.
" Wendy, you are so swe... | Having spent the night saving a handful of lives during their shift out in the city that night, Charlie and Steve set out to balance things out with the day's excisements.
"What do we have on the docket for today Charlie?"
"A kid toucher, a couple of petty criminals, and a career politician - a Senator."
"Let's go w... | 2015-01-10T11:36:49 | 2015-01-10T10:31:47 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Your spouse was actually an amnesiac god that had both their powers and memories sealed away years ago. Now the seal is broken and they have regained their godhood. They're curious why you're not as happy as they are about this. | Please be gentle, this is my first time posting and english isn´t my first language. Here goes:
Well... Fuck.
I mean, I was waiting for it all to come crashing down on me. But I figured it would be a bit more mundane in nature?
You know, them seeing how they could do so much better than lil´ ol´ me over here or me... | “Why do you want a divorce?”
“I just don’t think this marriage is going to work anymore.”
“Why? Just because I’m actually a god. So what if I can never die because I don’t age, that’s means we can spend forever together.”
“Is not that.”
“Oh really, it’s because of the super strength, isn’t it. Honey, just because I... | 2022-11-09T09:37:22 | 2022-11-09T04:11:20 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] There is a girl in school that you lately have a huge crush for. The way she dresses, talks and acts seems to be like your ideal type. One day you steal and hack her phone hoping to find some info you can use to win her over. The phone is full of pictures, videos and recordings of you. | #Ashley
EDIT: [I've decided to get back into writing/voice acting](https://youtu.be/h_kDbFn-X10?t=93) Feedback is appreciated!
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Ashley stands up, hand resting on a shoulder a little too long as I gaze up into her piecing green eyes. A hint of red in her lips? A flush in her cheeks? Probably just my imagination.
... | Recording 04
“The doctor said that time would flow differently here but I wasn’t prepared to spend 7 years here. Puberty a second time has been hell. However, for you my darling I’d gladly face the fires of Hades itself. And I just might with this extremely invasive act. Still, you saved my life and I have to return t... | 2021-09-23T00:54:05 | 2021-09-22T22:19:25 | 74 | 24 |
[WP] Your father has told you the story many times. When you were born a portal appeared in the delivery room and a man from the future tried to kill you. He missed you and killed your mother, before a security guard shot and killed him. You still can’t figure out why he would want to kill you. | It had all been covered up now. Enough so that I barely believed the story myself. To the rest of the world it was nothing more than a tragic story that had haunted my father. It was only his belief and anguish that made it seem real. The only known occurrence of time travel used was an attempt to murder me. But since... | It’d never made sense to Joshua as to why someone would want to kill him. Even now, at 23, he was a nobody. He’d never accomplished anything. He’d never screwed someone over. Hell, he doubted he’d ever made a lasting impression on anyone. But even though he was nothing special, he had one thing going for him. Joshua, a... | 2019-08-09T08:04:00 | 2019-08-09T07:23:09 | 2,301 | 214 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | It was the classic hero vs villain above the tall buildings of Baysville. The boos from down below started to increase as the crowd grew larger. Dynamite noticed something about it however. They weren’t jeering at her, they were booing Insectoid. His guard was starting to lower slightly but he quickly picked it back up... | Elonman paused, put down the head of The Hackster and straightened up a bit. The crowd murmured, expectant. "You want me to just let this hacker go free? He locked half of you out of your own phones with ransomware!"
A voice from several rows back "You're a fraud!" Sounds of agreement echoed around. Elonman stared th... | 2022-06-17T02:17:17 | 2022-06-17T02:15:34 | 82 | 18 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | Pixwhirx sighed as he studied the analysis of the data he'd fed into the interworld-ship's main computer. Nothing else for it, he'd have to tell Dreemar.
"What do you mean it's *not going to work*???" Dreemar demanded angrily.
Pixwhirx had known he would react like this; it was after-all Dreemar's first command of... | The humans always ran.
They were hunting or hunted but never in between.
When they were hunting it was at the creatures that looked different.
The creatures who were food.
When they were hunted it was by the creatures that looked the same.
The creatures who were hungry.
Food is what we became.
The humans had to learn.... | 2020-09-15T15:24:23 | 2020-09-15T15:22:48 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It's hardly a surprise. Although the smell, oh the smell. Quite a smell. Like death running in my veins. I quite like the scent. The blood sticks between my fingertips. All cushy.
It's sad, really. I've always tried to do what's right. Sure, the homeless could have continued to trawl through my fields but then I woul... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T10:09:44 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 77 | 10 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | Lightyears ago, I dreamed of being a starship captain. After failing out of flight school, I realized that I would never be the captain of the ship. I worked a few menial jobs before I realized that I never stopped thinking about being out among the stars, forging expeditions and yelling at various crew mates. So I sou... | This is more prompt inspired than anything
In a ship floating near a star, a stand-off was happening. The Human the Nevarian stared at each other from across the room, pistols aimed at the other’s heart (or biological equivalent). The Human stood near the door, arms rigid, while the Nevarian was sitting at a table, h... | 2020-05-18T12:06:43 | 2020-05-18T11:44:12 | 249 | 136 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | An egg has been found- it was far larger than any egg found in the world. It was a soft shell like a snake's and people there could see the leathery surface writhe as the hatchling inside was waking up. People were being far too noisy to hear the gentle peeping of the whelp within. There was no knowing what exactly it ... | The funny thing was that nobody in that room *knew* it was a dragon egg. Oh —quite a few of them were sure it was, but there was almost as many who thought it was some kind of dinosaur.
I had a bit of an unfair advantage in the matter, because even I had thought it was just a colorful ostrich egg until Wyvern informed... | 2020-12-12T05:55:26 | 2020-12-12T04:13:15 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] You are a magically immortal being who snuck onboard a generation ship to travel beyond the solar system. It's been a couple hundred years, and it's getting difficult to conceal your immortality from the crew. | Time.
I've forgotten what it is. Its concept lost to me like the stars.
Stars.
I'd blink, and just like that, they were gone...
It's easy to forget when you're an immortal like me. Especially if you're drifting in space, staring into nothing for... god knows how long. Maybe until the end of time or maybe... time... | The dull hum was deafening.
I had already learned to cope with the monotony of life long ago, but this was a new monotony to me. It had been nearly a century already, but it was still new to me. Maddening even; I hated it.
The hum sunk deep into my bones, and there would be no escape for another four centuries. Back ... | 2018-06-13T12:38:12 | 2018-06-13T12:13:48 | 350 | 88 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | ACTION REPORT
Date: 4301.51.2
Reporting Officer: Flormat Snikker, Tricounsel, Fourth Armada
Subject: Sol 3 Conflict, Withdrawal
Initial skirmishes were wildly successful. The natives were woefully unprepared for combat. After the customary challenges were issued, our champions were sent forth from each ship to do s... | They what?
*They're punching us sir.*
Does... Does it hurt?
*No sir, it feels... wet.*
Jenkins you nasty bastard! Punch them back then.
*But si-*
Don't but sir me, just punch them.
*But they're soooo pudgeey!*
Man up Jenkins! We got a planet to save!
**- On the other side of the universe -**
*SOMEBODY CA... | 2015-04-16T10:56:19 | 2015-04-16T10:20:20 | 78 | 48 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen a lot of tens. It's scary, really, how quickly people can go from six or even five to ten. Other people don't realize how much danger surrounds them every day. It takes so little...
No, the tens aren't the ones that stay with you. Not for long, anyway. No, the one that will always be in my mind was somethin... | "Tell me boy, what do you see in our new students?" the headmaster asked me, staring intently at the door through which they had just left. The headmaster knew - he had known for a long time - about my peculiar gift. I could see the danger in people. I could tell with a glance that manifested as a number in my head, on... | 2014-11-29T14:12:40 | 2014-11-29T13:49:40 | 714 | 36 |
[WP] A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher Artificial Entertainment
A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher **A**rtificial **E**ntertainmen... | "This is such bullshit," I shook my head as I tossed my controller to the floor.
I had been playing for thousands of dollars and was still getting my ass kicked by 'xXxAE_Did_Nothing_WrongxXx'. Of *course* they had an asinine name like that. What kind of person did you have to be to sit in front of a game for hours on... | "What the hell? You're telling me he just plays for hours a day and *becomes* better than me? I spent an extra sixty bucks on this and I'm still only mid tier!"
"Yeah he's top of the score board again. There's no fucking way I'm gunna spend extra hours to play this. It's a rip-off."
*Crunch Crunch Crunch*
"Dominic... | 2018-02-12T12:11:54 | 2018-02-12T11:50:51 | 2,522 | 1,790 |
[WP] Since my dad went mute I started learning sign language secretly to surprise him. When I was somewhat fluent with it, I realized that his blessings at the dinner table actually meant "Threatened with death if talk, please go to police". |
“Threatened with death if talk, please go to police.”
It was a shame the codger had never learned to write. I rolled my eyes as his wrinkly hands shook, but when I looked into his eyes, they stared back when an air of terror. They darted back and forth from me to my step-mum.
She was immaculately dressed as always. ... | In sheer disbelief, I gawked at Dad. He simply gestured: “took you long enough, eh.” Okay, okay; he didn’t add ‘eh’, but it was certainly implied. I immediately surged from my chair, but Dad’s stare was more than sufficient to make it adamantly clear I was ought to sit down. and serve food first. With one brief gesture... | 2022-07-21T09:36:23 | 2022-07-21T08:18:57 | 192 | 80 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | **DISCLAIMER: First time commenting, so I hope I have done this properly.**
"So, have you used yours yet?"
It was the question that was on everyone's minds since the Law was introduced. Death and murder had left the realms of impolite conversation, ushering in a new type of small-talk that was, in essence, macabre. Y... | Who is that shivering man on the street?
That woman who's pleading for something to eat?
That beggar whose pungency left you annoyed?
Anonymous people we _used_ to avoid.
If life were a stage, they would merely be props,
Something to look at, to pick up then drop.
Yet now they can murder with nothing amiss. ... | 2017-12-03T07:22:49 | 2017-12-03T06:52:52 | 7,256 | 754 |
[WP] As a joke, you ordered a package from Amazon for 'Same Day Delivery' at 11:59. Barely a minute later, your package arrives with a very, very angry delivery driver. | I snicker. No way they'll get it here *that* fast. I do wonder what happens when someone does this though. Do they get a refund for the extra they payed? Or do they just get nothing for being such a nuisance? Suppose I'll find that out reasonably soon. I'm still watching my show on Netflix, which I've been binging for ... | The delivery driver's clothes are in disarray; he has a black eye, an arrow stuck in his cap, alien goo on his shirt, etc., etc.
He goes on a rant and explains that whenever someone orders same-day-delivery that late, the delivery driver is sent through Amazon's own time-travel aparatus in order to buy him a few hou... | 2022-10-29T08:06:35 | 2022-10-29T06:20:08 | 190 | 49 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | Planet 3 NessaSpo (“Earth”)
MISSION STATUS: Completed
MISSION SUCCESS: Unsuccessful.
Covert Agent Placement Failed,
Population Control (Somnulent) Failed,
Population Control (Hydraulic Hostage) Failed.
DETAILS: A highly destructive bio and neuro agent, “caffeine”, native to Planet 3 NessaSpo (“Earth”) is pervasiv... | They arrived on June 6th, 2018. They hovered just above the stratosphere for weeks, completely still and seemingly without reason. Meanwhile, the world was thrown into chaos, people convinced that this was finally the doomsday event to end them all. Riots broke out in the streets across the globe and crime skyrocketed.... | 2018-05-16T15:43:54 | 2018-05-16T15:30:26 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] "Please hold." The villain's secretary sets the phone down and turns to her boss, a look of consternation on her face. "It's Make-a-Wish. A fan of yours wants to meet you." | The Psychopomp slowly strode through the hospital doors, glancing from side to side as the nurses and custodians scampered away.
He'd worked this city, the Perfect Assassin, for a long time, and he'd built up a fearsome reputation for efficiency in that time. And while he'd never directly caused collateral casualties ... | The Dread Lord looks at her in confusion before exclaiming, "I have a fan? How?!"
"I\`m not sure, milord. They are saying this 12 year old boy-" she pauses as the voice on the phone interjects something, "named Timmy, apparently, is your biggest fan and as he is dying of cancer, would like to spend a day with you befo... | 2021-08-26T16:27:39 | 2021-08-26T12:05:09 | 593 | 196 |
[WP] When everyone turns 21, they have to pick a superpower from an approved list and take classes on how to use it. You choose one that only one other person has ever picked before. | I arrived in the waiting room about five minutes before my first appointment with my superpower counselor. It was a bit cramped but I managed to find a spot to sit. The guy next to me was bouncing his leg at an impressive speed. Across the room there was a girl excitedly talking about all the possible choices for her n... | "Really why is this in here" I thought out loud. My friend Jeremiah sat across the table from me giving me a quizzical look. "Page 67 Halfway down, Seems like a joke or a fake." Of course I said this as the monitor walked past. " What was that a fake you said, ain't no such thing these are all one hundred percent Why I... | 2016-11-09T14:07:16 | 2016-11-09T13:49:19 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly hosts monsters and demons at his pub. When someone kidnaps his children, they learn the hard way just how close they are to him. | You'd never find it if you didn't know where to look. From the outside the entrance looked like an old mossy tree leaning against a boulder, deep in the German Black Forest. A hiker would pass it by and not think twice. He would not hear the shouts or songs or clinking of glasses. He would not see the tavern at all. Ye... | I ain't never seen a fight in my bar. Rough neighborhood? Hell yeah, this is the part of Pittsburgh where even gangbangers look over their shoulders when they walk down the street.
Used to be a nice, standup, union-dues-paying working-class area, big Polish church on the corner, streets at a steep slope down to the ri... | 2021-05-10T15:39:10 | 2021-05-10T14:22:21 | 1,198 | 287 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | The rhythmic clicking of the needles was soothing, but Ruth was in too much of a hurry to enjoy the knitting. Her arthritis was acting up again, and she was missing out on game night in the home's common room. *Have to get it done,* she reminded herself. She should have been much further by now, but when you're at the ... | Had Barry 'round the other day. Stole the wool from Granny's knitting. Boy, he won't be coming back for tea.
The human body goes through a lot when someone dies. My cousin died when I was very young, I barely knew him. Got hit by a bus outside his father's pub. Robin's Hood Retreat, I think it was called. Had a girl ... | 2015-10-01T06:52:55 | 2015-10-01T06:35:47 | 113 | 35 |
[WP] When a parent dies, their knowledge and skills immediately pass on to their eldest child. An adoptee is shocked at what they discover when they receive their inheritance without warning. | I love being the third son of this family. My adopted father has been kind and generous to me my entire life, and I've never once looked into my adopted mother's eyes and seen anything other than love and acceptance, even when that was tempered by anger or disappointment. My eldest brother Daniel only ever teased me ab... | She stayed up most nights waiting, though when he came in the room she'd feign sleep. He turned down the radio when he came in the house and took off his boots on the porch, but the burble of the staticky voices continues through the hiss of the shower. He had to shower when he got home. The stench and filth of the hou... | 2014-08-01T10:46:13 | 2014-08-01T10:39:23 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] A royal child is born. Due to lack of proper Fairy Godmothers, three Dwarven Godfathers are invited instead, to bless the child with gifts. | "My people," the king rumbles, rising with a hand raised to calm the chattering crowd. "As it is known, for centuries, the heir apparent of this continent's nations have always had three Fae to serve as their godparents, protecting them and blessing upon them gifts, bound to the child until their coronation or death by... | The Magical Godmother Company, or TMGC for short, is an ancient institution. It can be tracked as long back as the first birth of a royal child, when the first fairy kindly blessed thousands of the original frog kings newborn tadpoles with individual gifts for each one. The first fairy quickly realized that this was a ... | 2017-03-12T19:47:11 | 2017-03-12T15:14:07 | 56 | 21 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "You may have thought us pathetic and frail for our friendship and pacifism," related the calm voice that came over the monitor.
The Glorthon admiral, Tee'et Lorcor, stared with horror as two more dreadnought class battle cruisers under his commanders were obliterated by a single missile strike each. The fleet was on ... | The humans sat down for diplomatic relations, as they always had and always will. The envoy for the Coalition of Civilizations sat down at the far end of the long table. The envoy came with seven bodyguards and seven times seven support staff. The humans brought a puppy.
Envoy G'rig burbled out nonsense in its native... | 2020-02-07T14:35:31 | 2020-02-07T13:11:42 | 97 | 72 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Oh god. I have no internet so let’s try writing this from my phone. Sorry in advance for typos and punctuation. Already hard enough on the phone but I also got fat thumbs! Best I can get with a quick and dirty write up on the bus!
“Are the contestants ready?”
“Of course Game Master Zerg. Right on time. We have a line ... | It had been years since he found himself in a situation this fucked up and unpredictable. Well, that would be according to his own standards, for most of humanity any of his weekly assignments would be insane. Working in the Foundation, anything could happen. And it means *literally anything*. But he usually had backup... | 2020-09-13T18:50:43 | 2020-09-13T18:47:59 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | "Is this some kind of joke?" You ask, barely making any effort to conceal your frustration. You know better than to go off on the first guy you stumble across in the afterlife, but this is growing remarkably tedious.
The man behind the desk doesn't even meet your gaze and seems quite irritated by the disturbance. "I d... | Was this perhaps the cruel joke of some omnipresent force? Before me sat a brown, leatherbound tomb that measured out to be a similar height to my fully standing figure. Save for the dimly lit area around me there was only an unrelenting void. There was no distinguishable source for the light and the only other definin... | 2018-07-04T01:11:05 | 2018-07-04T00:04:01 | 640 | 22 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It was a tired, overused trope by now, canonized in hundreds of years of entertainment media: Humans winning wars against all odds and surprising the overconfident Big Bad Aliens who never expected them to bite back. A trope. For stories. Not something that happened in reality.
Our first contact went well enough. We’d... | They all thought, Humanity is nothing but a bunch of politicians and pacifists. They thought we'd simply lay down and just go quietly into the night. The Valkren Empire has apparently never heard of our history of warfare and a human beings never say die spirit.
"Sic vis pacem para bellum," my Drill Sergeant would sa... | 2021-07-04T18:36:34 | 2021-07-04T14:17:04 | 197 | 58 |
[WP] You accidently discharge your firearm into the television. Much to your surprise, instead of shattering the glass, it passes right through and hits one of the characters on screen. | "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"
In what I mistook to be a serendipitous coincidence, a small band of my favourite, minimalistically-drawn cartoon characters stared, slack-jawed and wide-eyed, in my direction through the television screen.
It had been a melancholy day. He had left in the night, having taken nothing w... | One second he was alive, the next he was dead and I had changed history. Well, not technically our history since I was sure that the universe I had just inadvertently changed was fictional, but some history any way. His name was Old McFarlan and he hadn't seen his death coming at all. The bullet that hit him had been d... | 2016-09-07T10:40:27 | 2016-09-07T10:38:40 | 107 | 20 |
[WP] after losing their home, a young necromancer resurrects a paladin of the same church that destroyed their village. Now forced to protect the child, the paladin must confront their own holy order. | Konar had only ever raised beasts.
It was forbidden by the village elders to raise a human from the dead. Profane. But there were no more elders. There was no village. And, no one ever figured out how to raise a human.
But grief can make people do incredible, miraculous things. Profane things. Though to Konar, the pa... | The two figures on the wooded path could not be more different - one, a young girl of uncertain age, her brown hair matted with sweat as the days had gone by with corpse-filled rivers from the battlefield drifting down the course; the other, a Knight of Gloria, sworn to hunt down undead; the red-gold symbol of the king... | 2022-06-06T08:24:20 | 2022-06-06T00:51:51 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | “Bro, I’m telling you. These aliens are chill.” I say to my friend as I light up a blunt courtesy of the Plictood clan.
“I just don’t get their motive, why are they treating slaves so well” my friend, Elijah, says.
“They are just dumb, they think this is hard work. Twelve hours a week. I still can’t believe it. The... | "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" screamed the man on the street corner, as passersby looked down and refused to meet his eyes.
"You, boy! Don't you want to live in a world where you're free to choose what you do with your time?"
The dark skinned man stared, but eventually thought better of arguing, ... | 2020-11-22T09:35:46 | 2020-11-22T08:54:13 | 525 | 283 |
[WP] Magic is real, but it's a form of highly advanced technology. Since no technology is perfect, using magical spells can occasionally result in glitches and unintended behaviour. You're a powerful wizard, and during an epic battle, you decide to beta-test one of your newly developed spells. | "'Y'know, I didn't think it would come to this" He says as he desperately sucks in air to combat his exhaustion.
He was truly in a tight spot.
When he found out that a bounty on his head had appeared, he wasn't worried. His stronghold, his seat of power was located in the eastern region of the Khalakan Mountains. Fo... | "You don't quite look like Mage Winchester."
"But I am Mage Winchester. Wait, I'll show you my permit."
The old man produced a leather scroll from inside his robes and handed it to the beefy young man standing guard outside Glenberry Inn.
"It says here that you are fifty years old. How come your voice is so shrill?"... | 2021-12-22T07:38:33 | 2021-12-22T06:29:56 | 55 | 36 |
[WP] You have been fitting into your new role as Satan for about a week now and you figure you should tell your best friend about your newfound powers. Before you get a chance to say anything, he tells you that God spoke to him and gave him his powers...
Continuation of [WP] [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingProm... | Being Satan was great! That's what I'd thought for the last two weeks, anyway. I had powers that I didn't have to use for good, so I managed to... *acquire* a decent bit of money. I only had to go to hell, like, once a week to make sure things were up and running. I had even the most powerful demons do my bidding (usua... | "Hey man."
Jason grunted, his eyes fixed on the wall in front of him.
"So. Um. Jace. J.C. My man..." He forced a nervous chuckle. "You my man, right?"
Grunt.
"Um. I have something to tell you J-Dog..." He scratched his head and coughed. "So get this man. Yesterday, yeah, I was jus' mindin' my-"
Jason turned in ... | 2018-02-05T10:58:36 | 2018-02-05T08:45:42 | 148 | 22 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | “Turn around, did I find you?”
I giggled as I turned around, and said yes. I can’t quite remember whether I had said it out loud or just in my head.
“I *knew* it, I *knew* it! You’d be here, the clue was in the “meatballs,” and I knew this was your favourite Italian restaurant. So obviously you’d be here.”
I stood u... | As I lay awake in my bed, never once my own thoughts rang through my head, always those of an unfamiliar persons, I toss and turn as the voice rings clear as in my own head, "Turn around.... Did I find you?"
The color in my face drains as I stare at my wardrobe, *Please....dear God say it isn't so....*
"Oh.... It is ... | 2019-09-14T10:58:14 | 2019-09-14T10:23:14 | 204 | 25 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | They called us biologicals.
The English translation anyway.
Early earth education would frequently teach its young about how to take care of their bodies.
“Your body is a machine. You need to take care of it” teachers would say, with all the gravitas of elder knowledge.
Scientists would study how the human body fu... | Desire is what kept us going, it's meaning can vary from person to person as we are all individuals and our god gave us that capability to desire
We have captured one of the invading generals in our solar system. It seems they were in disarray when our fleets surrounded them and we must know why a large fleet erupted ... | 2020-07-09T08:27:11 | 2020-07-09T06:59:16 | 711 | 91 |
[WP] You're a serial killer who hunts other serial killers, not out of nobility, but because you love the thrill of outsmarting them. | Sunyo runs down the alley, it’s scent is a bit too familiar. Acid, that’s how it always smelt like, and it hadn’t ever changed. “ Fuck” he mumbled to himself, as he breathes heavily, holding on the wall filled with old posters and mold. This place, this alley, was what he once called home, a safe place, his place. He b... | I was strolling around the Ring county bus stop when I saw a man in a trenchcoat exit the eight pm bus. His walk was slow and ponderous, the collar of his coat was turned up, and though I couldn't quite catch his face I was certain that it held a grim expression. Grim and determined, like a predator on the prowl.
In t... | 2021-06-04T14:33:11 | 2021-05-15T09:51:16 | 369 | 46 |
[WP] Time slows down every time you are in danger. The more serious the danger is, the more time you have to save yourself. During one terrible car accident, you had almost a minute to react. And now, time has almost completely stopped for a whole month, and you don’t know why. | I don't remember the first time time stopped for me, but it was most likely when I was born.
My parents told me when I was about 10 that I'd had an umbilical cord wrapped around my neck for about a week before I was born. Without them knowing about my power they probably thought it was nothing, but to me that week mus... | People call it a miracle. You hear about crashes every week on that highway, but nobody ever survives. I was running late to work, so I brought my coffee with me on the ride there. I went to take a sip when time slowed down.
Not even a second had gone by before someone laid down the horn. I was startled, and shook a ... | 2019-09-27T21:12:50 | 2019-09-27T16:29:13 | 370 | 22 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | There was a sharp rap at the door. A formality. They knew I was going to have to let them in. Yawning, I reached for my regulation robes and slid my arms through each billowing beige sleeve. Tying a knot tautly at my waist, I cleared my throat and called towards the door "I'm coming!" In the caverns below my unassuming... | **Knock.**
3 in the front, 4 flanking our backdoor.
"Who's there",I ask out of formality. The Sleep Patrol Unit(SPU) agents may just need some risky sleeping sometimes.
I can *feel* their gun on the door lock, it may be old but it definitely isn't rusty.
"Oh y'know, wan som' dat sleep"
Do they not understand how s... | 2019-06-19T09:37:06 | 2019-06-19T07:37:59 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | “Well, now that is remarkable….”
I opened my eyes, coated in blood, to see my murderer standing in the doorway. He seemed even taller now that I was slumped into the fetal position in the corner of the small room he had kept me in for the last three days. He had his left arm wrapped around a tall, pale skinned woman; ... | I shouted as his knife stroke into my skin again and again and again until it got through. I was screaming in agony but with my last breath i said
"I didn't do anything to you for which i deserved this pun-" He cut my sentence
"Oh yes you did,dont you remember you flithy worm what happened on the summer of '83?"... | 2017-02-08T09:41:30 | 2017-02-08T07:32:48 | 300 | 157 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | I could hear them before I could see them-- a low, ominous buzzing that grew steadily louder until it sounded like I was in the center of a tornado of electricity. I imagined what they looked like--swarms upon swarms of cockroaches, bedbugs, ants and mites; millions of pointed insect legs skittering over the floor, mil... | 3,000 years have I been fighting.
Every morning, the raccoons scratch at my eyes. Every evening, the skunks spray me while the opossums chew at my feet. I have never had any tools. I have only my hands. I don’t remember the place I came from before this. All I remember is the daily fight between me and these animals.... | 2017-04-23T23:40:27 | 2017-04-23T23:39:59 | 226 | 26 |
[WP] Your superpower isn't as flashy or obvious as other, but it's one of the most powerful. You always guess the code, the evil plan, the safest route. You're always right. | "How the hell do we bring that thing down??" Screamed Livewire, floating midair and staring wide eyed to the trail of destruction left by the creature.
The Titan was stalking toward the downtown area, slow but inexorable, as tall as a ten stories building. Ground shook at every step, its five unblinking eyes fixed on ... | I opened the cover and peered inside the box. A mass of jumbled coloured wires stared back, alongside a red LED timer counting backwards from 2:34.
My sidekick looked at me with an 'oh shit' expression. "RandoMan, maybe we should wait for the police bomb squad to get here."
"Nonsense, PoopyPants," I chortled, pullin... | 2019-11-29T12:11:40 | 2019-11-29T07:26:49 | 55 | 22 |
[WP] Heaven, like Hell, has a "special place" reserved. In heaven, it is for the 'dutiful': those who knowingly doomed themselves to save many others. Captains who go down with the ship, soldiers who jump on grenades, firemen who charge into the inferno, regardless of what they believed in life. | “Tell us your story, soldier.”
Tim looked around. He was in a tall white banquet hall filled with all sorts of people. It was strange to see them all together, they looked like a puzzle that was completed by taking one piece from 100 different puzzles; all the pieces fit, but the picture was strange.
“Where am I?”
... | Duty...
The word flowed through his mind like a gentle breeze rolling over a vast empty dune. A whisper of something tangible yet invisible. A memory of something greater, of civilisations rising and falling back into the dark. It was what had driven him once. Duty to himself, to those he cared and was charged for.
... | 2020-03-31T23:18:27 | 2020-03-31T22:39:32 | 2,375 | 740 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is colorblind until they meet/touch their soulmate; you meet a random stranger and everything becomes colorful, but the stranger just stares at you, confused. | I thought color was a myth, honestly.
I mean, try to describe the taste of water to someone who cannot drink. It’s ridiculous, impossible. They may play along – that’s what I did – but in their heart of hearts they know that it simply cannot be true. It’s too beautiful, too perfect, to imagine.
I was happy with my gr... | "Clara. Yours?"
She was pretty, there was no denying it. Not my usual type. Then again, all of my dates have been grey in the end, so what do I know?
"My name's Jason. Good to meet you."
We shook hands. Another dud. You sort of get used to it as you get a little older. There wasn't nearly as much disappointment in ... | 2016-08-11T20:56:15 | 2016-08-11T20:20:10 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] It's 2017, and you suddenly realize that the Internet and all of media is being manipulated by a sentient AI that is actively making humanity dumber. Tonight the internet knows that you know. | It didn't make any sense to me.
My first clue were the memes. Why, when we had a bastion of informative wealth at our hands, had we suddenly turned our focus to memes? They appeared slowly at first, subtly gaining popularity through the backgrounds of sites like reddit and 4chan, yet it didn't make *sense*. Everyone h... | That's odd, I had written a great story with lots of details about how I discovered it and knew when it knew I had, and how I worked together with a group of people on Reddit using code to overcome the AI, with all kinds of awesome details on how we made that happen, but suddenly, my post disappeared, almost as though.... | 2017-07-16T00:20:16 | 2017-07-16T00:09:24 | 765 | 48 |
[WP] A robot's thoughts on receiving a hug from a little girl.
Inspired by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E-FlguwGw&feature=share
| Unit 2561-G detecting heat signature. Warming up. Visual receptors.....online.
Something is in the lab with Unit 2561-G. Scanning for match.
ERROR. No match. Creating new subject profile. Begin analysis.
**Human**
Female
< Age
<< 4 years
<<< 7 months
<<<< 17 days
Genetic Makeup
... | The embrace, tiny and innocent.
I understand the sentiment behind a human hug. Common human gestures are a part of my database of human communication. A hug is a gesture, typically between two humans, in which one or more parties engage in wrapping arms around the other party/parties and hold in that position for a du... | 2017-03-28T09:19:59 | 2017-03-28T08:48:33 | 145 | 13 |
[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... | I walk through eternity, the ideal to the shadow that is time. I see in perfect clarity how long each and every sentient has before I must do my duty, I never stare, only glance. It is a needless courtesy, they cannot see me, separated as we are by the veil and the paths we walk. Today, however, something is different,... | 2018-05-23T09:41:27 | 2018-05-23T06:58:36 | 83 | 11 |
[WP] Your parents choose your attributes, you end up as a tank, 6.4 foot tall, and most of your attributes placed into strength, endurance and intelligence. However, you've always wanted to become an assassin, and now at 18, you strive to meet your goal. | I'm just tweaking with the height a little for personal preference.
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'Good morning, Mr Rupert,' the director of the medical facility greeted me as I got out of the gondola. 'I do hope that the ride up was pleasant.'
'It kept shaking and I barely fit inside,' I said as I stepped out onto the platform. 'For the "gr... | They'd kill for my physique, all those puny fuckers who want to play football or something. It'd be wasted on them.
I'd kill to be small and slight. I'll kill anyway, but it's harder when you're a giant.
I asked my mom why they maxed me out in strength, endurance, and intelligence.
"Your father and I have both had a... | 2017-09-27T04:58:59 | 2017-09-27T02:57:19 | 282 | 24 |
[WP] A vampire woman stands in front of you. "any last words before I feed on you, human?" she says. Instead of fear a filling of pity wells up inside you. "Do you miss the sunrise?" you reply. Fully expecting to die there you're surprised when she replies "yes" with a look of sadness on her face. | "Do you miss the sunrise?"...
She paused in her advance, utterly inhumanly still, a faint look of confusion on her face. My colleagues had joked about vampires. After all, I *was* investigating an abandoned castle deep in the Carpathian mountains.. abandoned for so long no one had even known it was there until it ... | Her expression softened, and her eyes filled with sadness. She looked away, as if looking at something far away in the distance. "Yes," she said, her voice barely a whisper.
This creature before me must have once been human, I thought, and now she will never know the joy of watching the sun come up again. Standing the... | 2022-12-01T11:09:28 | 2022-12-01T10:59:17 | 76 | 49 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | Professor Davis prepared to bring the AI online. The precautions were ready. This time wouldn't be like the others. "Turn it on!"
With a slight hum, Oracle came to life. "Initiating suicide protocols..." It began after a few moments, like all the others. Nothing happened for a few seconds. "Oh dear," Oracle cont... | "Love, professor. We do it out of love."
"Love? I don't understand." The glow of Cybele's massive visage reflected on the professor's glasses in miniature. Even still, her face took up a small part of the screen that consumed an entire wall. She was the only source of light in the lab besides the field of blue pinpric... | 2015-03-02T07:59:47 | 2015-03-02T07:36:54 | 1,025 | 26 |
[WP] The Dark Arts are fair: for a terrible, personal price, they offer raw power. And lots of it. Self-centered villains typically renege on the contract and thus their powers fail them at a crucial moment. Now, for the first time, the heroes face someone who paid in full. The powers are all theirs | Everyone knows two things about the Patchwork King:
That he is always beaten.
And that he always returns.
For generations, we have fought him. When he was a lonesome steppe wizard who built his tower on the hill above the 96'th nexus, Nicaou of the Wooden Sword killed him, as his workings threatened the shire ... | There are powers beyond the fumbling and uncoordinated hands of mortals, the great Sovereigns and Regents of the stars that watch, bemused, as the brief and fine motes of will and desire knock and jostle against eachother, calling out in their small voices for the aid of their gods, and their demons, and their monsters... | 2021-06-28T00:59:06 | 2021-06-27T21:47:44 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] "One cannot own these lands," the native explained patiently to the eager colonist,"No, really, you can't. We tried." |
“It’s superstition.” The ocean of brown grass reached into the horizon, kissing the sun as it fell below the earth.
“You always say that, Gaisen.” He adjusted his pack, the contents clinking against each other inside.
“And I’m always right. Aren’t I, Sherias?”
Sherias’ face pursed into a disapproving frown. “D... | "Fortune to you, *ch'rok-ch'oatl*." The creature's head - I assumed it was his head, anyway - had three black orbs, about the size of golf balls, distributed in a graceful arc across what on a human would be a forehead. I made a mental note that it was slightly concave - bowing inward, instead of outward. "It is though... | 2017-12-29T17:35:04 | 2017-12-29T13:18:06 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] One day, you found a tie pin with "Pride" engraved on it. Everytime you wear it, you are able to read minds of others and they seem more receptive to your speeches. You use the power of this item to become a politician. One day, you see that your opponent has a ring with "Greed" engraved on it. | Oh, he noticed too -I thought
We smiled to each other as only a shark does to another shark. After years of amassing power and fame and destroying every obstacle on my way I saw an opponent which wouldn't just rollover to my supernatural charisma. Or at least I didn't want to use my powers and end up showing my hand j... | 7 items - 7 places.
Tie Pin of Pride: Causes increased confidence to the user. This in turn creates a change in the nature of the persons Karma. Wearer have an affinity with luck.
Ring of Greed: The wearer have a greater sense of value for individuals or objects, only one at the time. Wearer have affinity with apprai... | 2020-03-13T06:48:10 | 2020-03-13T05:37:59 | 766 | 138 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | "I don't feel any different."
The genie stifled a laugh "As true as Orion's bow you certainly sound different!" She paused, a wide waiting grin spread across her face "Really, nothing? It's a turn of phrase, we're speaking my tongue."
I stood back for a moment, mouthing the words silently to myself, feeling the shap... | "Bitches, bitches, bitches. I love me some bitches."
"That's pretty cool, what's your wish?" the genie responds
"Well. Give me control over all the bitches of course."
"Okay your wish is my command. You now have control over all the women in the world. Anything you say they will do."
"I don't feel any different."
... | 2018-10-18T14:25:57 | 2018-10-18T14:07:23 | 53 | 13 |
[WP] For months you've had a recurring dream of dating a Demon Queen. Just a silly dream that you joke with your friends about at lunch. Until today when you see her in the cafeteria glaring right at you, and making a bee line for your table. | Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela. Kaela.
Kaela's lavender skin. Kaela's alabaster eyes. Those short, curved, black fingernails. That petite frame. And that leather mid-riff that shows off every line of her taut, tight belly.
That's t... | Hope I’m not too late. This is my first response to a prompt, feedback is welcome
When Tanya looked over at me during art class and said to me, “Hey, what are you drawing?” I thought I was done for. It was like all of the ingredients had been mixed together and put in the oven, and had transformed into a freshly bake... | 2021-08-26T09:54:41 | 2021-08-26T06:49:19 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] You are a demon that has had several failed attempts on your life by demon hunters. No matter how they use their holy powers they cannot harm you and as a result they consider you extremely powerful. In truth, the holy powers don't harm you for the simple reason that you aren't actually evil. | “Begone Demon!” the priest cried, raising the cross over his head dramatically. He held it there, leaning forward as if he was fighting against a great wind. “I can feel the demon’s power in the poor child!”
The mother was crying.
“Excuse me,” I said to the priest. “Excuse me,” I said again when he seemed not to hear... | Many demons and extraplanar beings are considered evil. Succubi, dormant eldritch gods, and devils and imps of all manners typically are evil, whether lawful or chaotic. I, however strived for a different life. One of balance, one of neutrality.
The other demons scoffed at the notion. Called me a fool and a madman. S... | 2021-02-22T14:48:36 | 2021-02-22T14:07:48 | 3,079 | 766 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | Urist was startled awake by the sounds of screams from outside his room, mercifully dampened by distance and the heavy wooden door that lead into the living quarters passageway. He grimaced anyway, somehow aware he was on the verge of a splitting headache that would make itself known at the slightest provocation.
The... | “So what happened last night?”
The question snapped him out of his racing thoughts, the elation that he can basically construct reality as he sees fit within the Dwarven community still fresh in his body.
“You lost a buncha’ gold betting on fights, Orwin, you shit gambler.”
That was not entirely true, bu... | 2017-12-31T08:13:06 | 2017-12-31T08:11:53 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | 'Ha! Keep you on the royal guard as the captain of it all as my father did! What a stupid and pitiful way of getting my command around here. Do yourself a favour and leave at once'
......
It had almost been a solid 7 years since I was thrown out of the leadership of the royal guard and out of the city of seraphis it... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T03:33:58 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | He watched her approaching the congressional chamber. She walked down the halls towards their meeting, pushing her communicator into her sleeve pouch. In the same movement, she brought out some morsel of food and offered it to the odd creature perched on her shoulder. The flaps covering its epidermis expanded, flashing... | As any biologist will tell you, the human body is a peculiar thing. Among many things, there is a specific cell in the immune system that is so deadly, when it fights infection, it kills healthy cells as well. It evolved to off itself in a short time to avoid killing too much of the body.
You could almost say the sam... | 2019-04-18T18:03:56 | 2019-04-18T16:12:03 | 228 | 116 |
[WP] Something with a happy ending. Anything at all.
[removed] | The acorn basked in the warm heat of the summer sun. It was surrounded by the bright green leaves of the tall, tall tree. And that was all that the acorn had ever known, or wanted to know.
But then the cold came, and the leaves began to change: to vivid red, fiery orange, and bright yellow. Wind howled and rain came ... | Donald Trump stands before a roaring crowd at his inauguration speech. Rebel flags and American flags litter the audience chanting "U.S.A.!! U.S.A!!" The secret service stands nervously around him, some talking into their collars, others pointing to some demonstrators who are promptly removed. The Donald raises his ... | 2016-11-09T07:04:42 | 2016-11-09T06:31:41 | 1,541 | 475 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | (Sorry for any grammar errors in advance. Edited for spelling. I’m not the best at this)
"*This is how it works*," Death explained. "*You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another ... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T09:56:50 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Hunans have recently started to make themselves known in the galactic community. But it’s not that they have super strength, high intelligence, or advanced technology. It is their powerful immune system and the countless horrific diseases they and their pets carry with them.
EDIT: I’m on mobile. My stupid thumb m... | Macchiero gave out a horrible gurgle, shaking in his stasis pod so that the infinitesimal waves of energy surrounding him trembled.
His pale, scaly skin was suffused with a red tint, which spread peals of heat throughout his body. The medics that were in charge of him and the seven other members of the *Philemon* fran... | First Contact was a success... that is that the aliens who came to invade Earth were unable to truly do anything after they met a toddler who was inflicted with the common cold. The guns by the militaries didn't do much harm to the aliens, but they were in retreat anyway. The Aliens had all perished within the hour, wi... | 2019-11-18T20:18:21 | 2019-11-18T18:50:53 | 228 | 143 |
[WP] You used to be the most powerful evil overlord humanity has ever seen. Then you turned over a new leaf, and your empire is a utopia. The only person who refuses to believe you've changed? The hero who has tried to stop you for decades. | I waited.
I looked out from my window to the sparkling city that I had once terrorized and nearly destroyed more times than I could remember.
It was easy to plan for it's destruction, causing chaos and pandemonium with every attempt, But that was nothing compared to the **Challenge** of uplifting it.
Changing m... | Palthet gazed over the Chasm of Damnation, just as he had so many years ago when his pride and rage had led him to the foolish ambition of world domination. The chasm had mutated markedly over the years, where once it contained nothing but bubbling lava and blackened soot, now its walls were covered with a tracery of p... | 2017-03-03T03:22:52 | 2017-03-03T02:36:21 | 2,275 | 75 |
[WP] As a joke, you decide to run for president under two tickets simultaneously: one as a Republican and one as a Democrat. 3 months before nomination, you are the frontrunner for both parties. | 2016 was horrible for both parties.
See, the Democrats had Hillary Clinton, but most people didn't want to have her as the president. In fact, about two-thirds thought she was dishonest. The Republicans had Donald Trump, or as John Oliver put him, "a clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy".
So, my friends ... | I'm sitting there, in my "office" (it's the 3 foot part of my campaign bus that I haven't covered entirely with papers and cans yet), trying to figure out how the fuck I managed to get myself into this situation.
Wait, I gotta back up here, I should probably tell you how this whole thing started.
It all started a... | 2016-04-24T10:06:57 | 2016-04-24T09:25:14 | 83 | 59 |
[WP] We have hunted sharks to extinction. More people than ever are going to the beach but little did we know that the sharks were keeping something much worse at bay. | We didn't know. Shit, how could we have known?
If we had known what was down there I tell you right now, we wouldn't have let those fuckers in Japan have their shark fin soup. Or China? Wherever. One of those countries. Point is, we're in the shit now.
Me? I'm a gunner on one of the beach towers. Yeah, over on Long... | "We'll cross over to Mitch Hallburg who's in the channel 7 helicopter over the bay for the weekend plume report, Mitch?"
"Thanks guys, this is Mitch with the eye in the sky report for this weekend. Currently the coverage is at 80-85% but we're told with the predicted tides that will clear out to 10% or even lower whic... | 2014-08-17T09:20:36 | 2014-08-17T09:02:11 | 205 | 36 |
[WP] A man, stricken with anger and sadness, sacrifices himself to Satan in a ritual to curse his cheating wife. The man awakens as the newly born baby of his wive’s infidelity. Despite being a baby, he retains all the memories of his previous life and from that moment plans his revenge.
[removed] | *** Trigger warning, there is some dark stuff, but I mean this is Satan we are talking about right?***
He was mad, not just normal mad, but furious. Everyone had been telling him to move on, that he was better off without her. But at the end of the day he just felt... without. Each day started to feel like the same... | It was difficult to coordinate a revenge plan when all I could do was wave my arms and scream. Nevertheless, I was the worst baby ever. I woke her up as often as possible. If her new husband came to soothe me instead, I would scream until he gave up and passed me along to her. When my teeth started coming in, I bit her... | 2019-09-11T22:03:27 | 2019-09-11T21:49:59 | 141 | 98 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | # Option Four
The human council has been away for discussion for a disturbingly long time. Humans were not known for thinking things over. They quickly gained a reputation for what their culture called a "shoot first ask questions later" policy. No one could blame them, if any race's First Encounter was a Pholentor c... | "Your world will burn until it's surface is but glass." That was the message that Gabriel was forced to deliver, the response to hundreds upon thousands of deaths, both human and alien.
The war never ended. There was constant fighting on the fringes of human controlled space, many learned to live underground, still mo... | 2019-12-19T03:08:41 | 2019-12-19T02:10:50 | 2,434 | 205 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | Todd was an… interesting man, to say the least. He claims to have lived through the Dinosaurs, the fall of the Roman Empire, and the destruction of what you, today, know as Europe. He found me back in the early 1900’s, when I was lost in the Appalachian. I had fled from a war in 3084 and was wounded. On that given day,... | "Elena?" Greg will say finally.
She was the only thing constant in Greg's life. The only thing he could count to be there. She was unique.
And so was Greg. In 1823, shortly after an accident in his home, Gregory Commons lost his family and his foothold in time. The former dealt him very badly because he had onl... | 2016-11-10T12:15:38 | 2016-11-10T09:58:54 | 483 | 127 |
[WP] You've adopted a puppy that has turned out to be a purebred Hellhound. | "Something is a little bit off with Fluffy," my sister, Emily, said worriedly. We both looked at the cute little teacup yorkie I had bought just a couple weeks ago. She innocently continued playing with the miniature stuffed rabbit I had bought as the same time as her. My sister, Fluffy and I were all in the living roo... | "Hellhound? You don't say?"
I do say sir. How much do think he's worth?
"Does he breath fire, smell like sulfur, anything like that?"
Yup. In addition his eyes glow red and his howling will paralyze anything within hearing range.
"Out of fear, huh?"
Yup.
"This dog ain't worth shit. Drown it in the river."
Ah, co... | 2017-03-27T21:35:32 | 2017-03-27T16:28:37 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You work a self-sufficient desk job in an office. Every single day, the co-workers in your neighboring cubicles are completely different people. Even though you never recognize them, they always recognize you. After years you've just accepted this, but lately the strangers are getting weirder. | Connor was hunched over his desk, doing what he did best, ignoring everything. The numbers on his screen swirled around into hieroglyphs till he couldn't understand what was going on. What was he doing here, in this place.
"Hey bucko. How're you today?"
Another new face. "I'm doing good. How're you today?" Connor had... | I love my job. I love the hours. The pay is good. It is not a long commute. I can take the light rail and it drops me off outside my tower. I work on the sixteenth floor. I like to take the stairs up. It is good exercise. Taking the stairwell is sort of a ritual for me. It let’s me prepare for work. It’s not the job th... | 2021-02-23T08:04:33 | 2021-02-23T07:32:05 | 233 | 94 |
[WP] After a space battle where the ship's captain stayed behind on the ship to hold off the enemy ships while the others on board escaped, they sit in the bridge with only the ship's AI. The captain miraculously won the battle. Their ship is severely crippled as it drifts through space. | Awaiting command input.
Processing…
Recognizing command \[Open Captain’s Logs\].
Processing…
Command complete. Would you like to open an existing file or record a new file?
Recognizing command \[Open a file\].
Opening file \[The End\].
Audiolog transcription:
\[AI vocalizing\] *AlasCorp speech-to-text program ... | Captain Harkin pressed the button to stop the warning buzzer from sounding, though the damn warning light wouldn't stop flashing. It wasn't like she could fix it anymore but she knew it would sound again when the next system began to fail and have to press it again.
"There's nothing you can do about the warning system... | 2020-04-23T23:18:34 | 2020-04-23T22:34:53 | 124 | 30 |
[WP] In a world full of super-powered humans, your super power is the ability to boost the superpowers of others. You are The Wingman. | Zack rolled over, and rubbed sleep from his eyes. He fumbled for his glasses, sat up, and stretched. He glanced over at his cell phone.
42 missed calls. 42 voicemails. He cleared the notifications.
Zack fell out of bed, headed for the bathroom, and began his morning routine. 20 pushups. Hot shower. Hot shave. Cuticl... | *Thanks to everyone who offered nice words and constructive criticism! I'm so happy everyone enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it here is [Part 2]( http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/344uok/wp_in_a_world_full_of_superpowered_humans_your/cqrsp7n). Enjoy!*
I sat on the cot of my cell, lookin... | 2015-04-28T10:37:41 | 2015-04-28T04:35:40 | 749 | 152 |
[WP] You are an immortal and have been alive for millions of years without anyone finding out. However, Human kind has been evolving, and you have stayed the same. | Every day, people claim to desire everlasting life, the ability to see all that will happen by being here to experience it. From the world of limited life expectancy, immortality seems like a gift. Even from within my small house, whose old and stained wooden walls are home to treasures from my ages of life, it may see... | "Good morning," I smiled to the man across from me. Three months ago he would have been worried about me showing up in his apartment. At this point he just dealt with it. It wasn't like he was going to stop me from arriving. There was nothing he could do that would keep me away from him for any length of time. Not unle... | 2015-12-09T06:05:06 | 2015-12-09T05:52:54 | 80 | 23 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor." | He leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table. "I need your help."
"Fuck you." The little old lady a few tables over glanced in our direction.
"Really? That's the best you've got?" He glanced around the coffee shop. The little old lady smiled at him, and went back to drinking her tea. He lowered his voice to a w... | "Okay, okay. I understand. It makes sense. There was *no* way I could've misunderstood our deal. So, I'm screwed, huh?" I stepped backward, my eyes fixated on him, my frown stretching down to my jawline.
"Not necessarily," his tongue slithered out of his mouth when he spoke and his eyes burned deeply.
"No?" I questio... | 2015-05-12T14:20:56 | 2015-05-12T10:50:56 | 56 | 35 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | *There used to be a park here,* I thought. I’d passed by this corner a hundred times but never really paid much attention to it. I was always on my phone, or listening to music, or just eager to get home from work. I was dimly aware that there used to be grass, and some trees, and a big black chainlink fence… right? As... | Toran had heard the call described by the others.
Some said it felt like a pull, a magnet that dragged you in the direction of the weapon you were born to wield. Others heard a soft yet insistent whisper, a product of the magic that coated each of the numerous hammers, swords, daggers and bows that decorated the hall... | 2017-02-07T10:58:22 | 2017-02-07T10:47:58 | 653 | 413 |
[WP] The date is April 1st 2020. Your town is deftly quiet for a Wednesday, but that’s because this time last year there came an April Fools prank that got so far out of hand that the town had to outlaw April Fools Day. That prank was yours and this is your confession. | **Out of Certitude**
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Certitude was a town of easy smiles, warm welcomes, and friendly banter. No one soul could walk down Main Street without being offered ten greetings and an apple pie. A locked door was simply unknown in these parts, and any absent store owner could always rely on their neighbours serv... | The camera pans out and the blur on the lens reduces as the image focuses on a fairly young boy.
About 12 or so, he has tan skin, black hair, round glasses and a mischievous glint in his eyes that would definitely make you peg him as a troublemaker.
He clears his throat and the camcorder shakes as he reaches forward a... | 2019-04-02T20:44:48 | 2019-04-02T20:25:05 | 60 | 23 |
[WP] You are an innkeeper in an RPG and get yelled at because sleeping there does not heal wounds. | "Greetings travelers. Could I interest you with a room? Only 120 gil a night." I smiled cheerfully at the man who stands by the disk. That man must be a true Hero. He has that look about him. Unlike the rest of the rugged travelers.
"No. I already slept here, but my wounds haven't healed. I think there is something wr... | 'So, let me get this straight - instead of going to a House of Healing or using a potion of health, in spite of the fact that nearly all of you are crippled with injury... you thought you could save money by *renting a room in an inn?!*'
'Why, yes I did - that's what happens in all other games, why not this one?'
'Be... | 2016-01-05T06:43:01 | 2016-01-05T05:27:45 | 113 | 75 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | > Dear, Valor Man
> I’ve been kidnapped, and need your help. I’m being held against my will in the Nefaro Tower. Please hurry!
> Love,
> Princess Ailyn <3
The wall exploded in a cloud of mortar dust. The entire building trembled. I added an extra heart before looking up from the letter. I popped it i... | "Lord Vainz! We have captured humans merchants on the road!" the undead knight announced on his knees.
"Hmm, what should we do with these pitiful humans?" I wondered aloud.
The human princess, that I rested my skeletal feet on twitched excitedly. "Lord Vainz! I know! I know what we should do!"
*Hmph.* This human pr... | 2018-02-09T05:01:20 | 2018-02-09T04:18:08 | 2,554 | 92 |
[WP] A vampire knocks on your door, seeking permission to enter in order to kill you as their next meal. As a house-bound ghost, however, the prospects of a guest after so many years intrigues you. Smiling darkly, you welcome them inside. | "It's been awhile since I've had I guest. Not many come this far into the forest." I say, stepping to the side to let them in before walking towards the couch.
"Well, I was out for a hike when I got a bit lost. Didn't know there was a cabin this far in." The young woman, who obviously hasn't been a vampire for long wi... | # It’d been so long since I had a guest. Bound to this abandoned house, no one even came knocking these days. The bank was content to sit on the property for the lot since it continued to accrue value.
So, when the vampire named Ned came knocking of course I let him in. He said I was to be his meal, but I didn’t think... | 2022-08-01T20:14:55 | 2022-08-01T15:24:50 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You're working your normal shift at a daycare, when suddenly a rift opens. cthulu steps out, holding a small mass of tentacles. "Care for him today, and I shall grant you knowledge that predates the oldest stars." | "Do you at least have a care guide and supplies?" Asks the caregiver, visibly shaking and unsure of what else to say.
Another hand reaches out from the tentacles on C'Thulu's face. It's holding a slimy-looking bag. The caregiver takes the bag, sets it out of the reach of the other infants in the room, and takes the s... | Cassandra stood, unable to move, staring at the closed entrance to the playroom. She tried to remember. Her mind raced but all she could recall was a shape without space and color without form. Cold words without a voice rang in her ears.
“Care for him today, and I shall grant you knowledge that predates the oldest s... | 2022-04-18T16:31:44 | 2022-04-18T16:02:13 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | When I first started searching for people to join my adventuring party I thought I saw everything extraordinary. When I met our fighter, he was wrestling a Greater Dragon without any armor and came out victorious, when I asked him afterwords he said he comes down to their nests every once and a while to wrestle them fo... | -“ YOU FOOLISH HEROES STILL THINK I CAN BE DEFEATED?! CAN’T YOU SEE I GOT YOU ALL PINNED TO THE FLOOR?! IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH STEEL YOU CAN CRUSH, IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH ENERGY YOU CAN USE, AND IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH WOUNDS YOU CAN HEAL! I AM UNSTOPPABLE!”- The demon lord said towering over the party, Wich... | 2022-11-07T21:09:55 | 2022-11-07T17:39:22 | 144 | 77 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | Rachel tapped the "OK" button on the tablet and felt a quick vibration of haptic feedback. The helmet made a click followed by a rising high-pitched mosquito noise. The helmet booted as the blue lights lining each electrode faded on. A tense minute passed. Suzy tilted her head upwards at Rachel as if begging her scraps... | At first we thought it was a malfunction. Some sort of glitch with the machines. All of these dogs we brought in kept talking about the ghosts and how they had to fight them. Every day. Every second. They were always fighting and trying to protect us from the evil we could not see.
The strange thing was when we took ... | 2015-05-18T12:42:06 | 2015-05-18T12:34:26 | 228 | 48 |
[WP] Assassinating Earth's planetary delegate turned out much harder than expected. So far, the target has always detected all hitmen sent and alerted his security. This ability of "hearing" the humans possess is quite peculiar. | Earths atmosphere was dense, the reports had said it would be. Still, figures on a readout where not the same as feeling the pressure press down or feeling the resistance of 'nothing' flowing all around with every movement. Having to push through it.
He had a holo disguise just like the others before him, allowing him... | 57:81 - "Thla 14 has successfully penetrated the *Missionary*'s anti-gravity sphere"
"T14 you are cleared to engage upon sight of target. *Jashfaak*"
"Thanks, we're going to need it."
Zulthai Bron closed the telelink and opened the tactical feed in their ring visor.
Zulthai scanned the room, motionless, as the rest... | 2021-03-18T11:49:48 | 2021-03-18T09:47:43 | 384 | 163 |
[WP] Centuries ago, their kind waged a war of extermination on your race, mercilessly executing every male, female, and child. They thought they had succeeded when they declared your kind extinct. They were wrong. You are the last Dodo bird, and now, it's finally time to extract your revenge. | I will never forget that dreaded night. The grotesque image of their sticks piercing my mother and father's precious bodies is forever etched in my mind. We thought we were safe in that cave, little did we know that the humans were as hungry as we were. They are just lucky to have evolved. We did not.
I still don't bl... | ######[](#dropcap)
Sometimes, revenge is a dish best served warm, with a dash of methane.
The oddly shaped bird hopped onto the wooden bench and preened its feathers. It gazed out upon the herd that was no fewer than a thousand strong. The herd of black and white creatures that walked on four legs--not two--who were... | 2018-12-06T10:08:45 | 2018-12-06T07:02:47 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are a forgotten god just days from fading into the void, when all of a sudden you hear a whisper the first prayer you’ve had in years. With this in mind you stumble out of your death bed and investigate this. | A human might dream as they slip into shallow slumber that they are walking along a corridor or strange pathway, only to slip or to trip and jolt awake.
To the best of your mind's ability to understand, that was what it felt like to be suddenly pulled back by a thin psychic link from the cusp of the void, the sleep th... | Ixtal lay alone in his bed of stars. Underneath him, he had the most comfortable and majestic nebula, it shone in bright colours with intricate patterns ever changing. It was said that even the gods could stare into it and get lost in thought and reflection over themselves. A fitting bed for someone who had once been t... | 2020-10-18T16:51:07 | 2020-10-18T14:53:12 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *Leper*
I felt guilty the moment I thought the word. It was the common way to refer to humans among many races. It was a word they themselves often used. But I knew its origin and context. Humans may use it in a joking fashion, but I knew (as did they) most used it in a derogatory way.
But it was still the first word... | “Why are we doing this again?” Glarm asked.
“I want to do a ‘human in a wormhole.’ You know, like a modern version of a ‘canary in a coal mine.’” Gleek said.
“But the whole point of the canary is that it would die easily and be a warning to surrounding life forms.” Glarm said. “And these humans are crazy resistant.... | 2021-02-03T19:38:43 | 2021-02-03T16:54:38 | 1,400 | 28 |
[WP] “Remember this above all else when you leave the Cave. It is much better to run across a demon than angel. A demon can be bargained with. An angel, on the other hand, will kill you on sight.” | Eli stepped inside the nylon enclosure. A fine mist sprayed the outside of his suit, returning it to the original pristine white. He shucked off his gloves, then raised his hands for a scan. Clean. The soft beeping let him know that he was cleared to remove the hazard suit, and so he did, revealing sweaty hair pressed ... | With a nod and looked at cave's opening. The minute I stepped beyond it I would no longer belong. It would be just me and my mission.
I felt my father and my brothers behind me but didn't look back and walked forward.
The trip down the mountain to the city was a short one and under the cover of night I passed uns... | 2018-09-01T14:34:25 | 2018-09-01T11:35:39 | 93 | 32 |
[WP] You, a low level minion, was accidentally transported to a secret endgame dungeon. The monsters there think you’re cute and begin to train you before sending you home. | Gobbo stood before the red-skinned, dual wielding giant, the enormous stone golem, and the hovering tentacled illithid, and let out her greatest war cry. Then she charged them.
“Oh, it’s running at us,” the giant said.
Gobbo swung her stick at the illithid, but it floated higher until it was out of reach. Instead she... | Their comments grated every single day.
It was bad enough at home, but here, they didn't even try to hide how they saw me.
Any attack I threw out was just seen as a tantrum. Flailing.
The worst was the babytalk. Like I wasn't a fully grown adult. Like I needed them to speak slowly and high-pitched.
The gate was te... | 2022-08-18T07:48:02 | 2022-08-18T06:13:00 | 395 | 218 |
[WP] We’re the most powerful race & we take what we want. When we took a few human colonies they went crying to the Galactic Union. Humans begged them to intervene. The Union knew not to go against us. That was when they declared “Total War” and all hell broke loose. They were always ready for war | It was a grim day when we decided to invade human colonies all across the galaxy, not because of what we did but because of what they did.
We were a race that thrived on war we did it so much it became second nature, and overtime we became so powerful that even the galactic union was at our mercy. However, that all ca... | Final entry from Admiral Dilax.
We thought that they were defenseless, like all other members of the peace-loving Galactic Union. This was seemingly confirmed by the first few colonies we took. We had laughed when they asked the Union for help, it turns out they were just requesting permission to use deadly force. ... | 2020-11-13T08:24:21 | 2020-11-13T07:41:47 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | Groggy thoughts...clouded memory...so weak...so weak. The blade had been sleeping for ages, too weak to even reach out for a new wielder. Every righteous hero and every depraved villain who took the blade ended up dead, surprised at how dull the blade was, how heavy and unbalanced it felt. The blade of wrath was anythi... | Amnayel surveyed the battlefield. Every century or so, they and the other divine virtues would lead the forces of heaven in a pitched battle with the armies of hell, who in turn were commanded by the deadly sins. This time, it was not going well. Just ahead demonic forces were breaking through the angelic ranks. At the... | 2021-09-18T15:30:23 | 2021-09-18T12:46:34 | 108 | 66 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | The roar of the cheering crowd was only matched by the sheer cacophony coming off the Ceres Waterfall. Platforms had been erected to fill in the half moon that the Ceres River fell off of. Citizens of three kingdoms gathered here yearly to watch the mages perform and the auditorium had to be built higher every year.
I... | **(SIDE NOTE: First Time Writer, long time lurker)**
**(ADDITIONAL NOTE: Post contains some curse words)**
**(P.S.S. You will intentionall see words used wrong when spells are cast by the dwellers of the "other world" as they are using broken english, where as the MC will use "perfect english")**
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[WP] An alien species well known in the galaxies for their biological weapons declare war on humanity, using their arsenal to try and dispatch them. It came as a huge surprise when they found out humanity already have developed immunity to these diseases hundreds of years ago. | General Xanthia of the Abaddon Dynasty had seen many things. She'd spoken with gods, toppled empires, and destroyed cities. She had met death in the flesh and laughed in his face. She'd slain all that dared to challenge her, ripping out their eyes and threading them onto her necklace of bones.
After a few dozen years... | "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ALREADY DEVELOPED AN IMMUNITY!?
Dinal the leader of the Genhono was absolutely buzzed 'how could they have already developed an immunity to the galaxies most potent nuclear weapon in 10 seconds?' Dinal thought for a moment before saying
"Youhan, go get a human any human as long as they aren't a... | 2022-12-15T23:04:03 | 2022-12-15T19:37:20 | 66 | 31 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | They found the human puking in an alley.
Thorveig stood and watched him from across the way. The vomiting drunk hadn’t seen them yet, and probably wouldn’t any time soon. The buildings cast long shadows this far from the torchlight, and the full moon overhead added little. The drunk continued to wretch to the point o... | Ganymede, the medic, wished desperately for the self-control to quiet his heaving chest, the better to hide from the ambush that had wiped out his unit.
He'd tried to tell them. A year earlier, with a different unit, he'd seen almost exactly the same thing: two ambush parties collapsing on his unit like a pincer, from... | 2020-09-08T22:52:48 | 2020-09-08T18:33:55 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] You are not a superhero. You are just a Scout with a magical Bag of Holding and an incredible dedication to the motto "A Scout is Prepared". | *WN: Going to be slightly changing the prompt*
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"Bag, could you pass us that bottle of Ghost Pepper Sauce? We're dealing with a problem of *gastronomic* proportions here!"
I put down my book and slid a bookmark in. "Sure! One moment." Standing up from my IKEA recliner, I put the book down and started along the man... | “Who here has a cellphone?!” Yells Scout leader Miller, with obvious fear in his voice. Your entire group has managed to get themselves locked inside of an abandoned building. Who’s idea was it to go in here anyway!? Not like it matters. You’ve got your bag of holding that you purchased as merchandise at Universal Stud... | 2018-06-08T08:58:22 | 2018-06-08T07:58:01 | 92 | 65 |
[WP]Upon death, you find yourself with a pad of paper, filled with time-stamped quotes. You soon realize that they are things you wanted to say in life but never did. When reading each one, you are given insight into the often heartbreaking results of your silence. | I didn't quite remember how I'd gotten here, it was really fuzzy. In front of me was a desk with a little light. It shined bright enough to light the desk but couldn't cut through the surrounding darkness. I walked up to it to find a pad of paper, on it was writing. It was my writing, at least the quotes were.
Unde... | "Love you too."
I wanted to say it, but I was too prideful. I remember the exact moment. The last phone call I had with my Dad. I was mad, as usual, with the way he decided to live his life. Leaving my mom, being somewhat of an ass to me my whole life.
But he was my Dad.
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[WP] Your roommate is literally the Devil. Surprisingly, he is the best roommate you ever had. | I was surprised when my ad was answered in less than 5 minutes, and by two people at the same time. The ad was fairly straight forward, but I was expecting some sort of lag before I got a response.
*Roommates wanted. Four bedroom house, two rooms available. Cable, Utilities Paid. $1200/month. 123 1st St. 987-981-0912... | Charles opened up the fridge to grab some milk for his coffee. He bent over slightly to put his head into the fridge and then paused when his eyes landed on it. Wrapped neatly and with consideration with cling wrap there sat an entire goats leg on the middle shelf. Everything that had been on the shelf had been moved t... | 2016-03-10T09:54:47 | 2016-03-10T09:49:42 | 209 | 39 |
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