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[WP] A master vampire owns the building, the alpha werewolf owns the restaurant. The Hunters Guildmaster is here, sword out. Other guests have fled. But your pasta had a distinct tang of gluten and were those peppers? Are they trying to kill you? You are Karen and you want to see some managers. | With a loud crash, the large man at table seven upturned the mahogany table flung his chair backward with a start and rose, one hand on a silver dart thrower, the other on a large pneumatic gun loaded with wooden stakes.
At almost the same moment, the wooden slats of the wall connecting the dining room to the kitchen ... | I marched over to the hairy looking receptionist at the counter and put my food down in front of her. She gave me a quizzical look and for the life of me, I had to breathe to calm down. This is why I don't go to new restaurants. This is why I don't experiment. More importantly, this is why I feel all these new pop-ups ... | 2019-01-23T04:10:19 | 2019-01-23T04:08:28 | 108 | 22 |
[WP] Every day, hundreds are people are arrested by the fashion police. You need to stop by the electronics store to buy a new washing machine. The only clean clothes you have left are a pair of orange cargo shorts and your grandma's hand-knitted Christmas sweater. | I walk hastily into the laundrette. My panicked entrance, complete with awkward sock dropping, does not go unnoticed by the rest of the people in here; who avoid looking me in the eye, staring intently down at their phones.
They know what's coming.
I throw my clothes into the machine - it's a short wash, I won't be l... | "Oh shit," thought Josh. "Am I really going to do this?" He stared in the mirror at his current adornments. It was horrendous. Far too big, mismatched, and covered in stains-but there was no other way he could leave the house. Oh well, he figured. Normally he would never be caught dead in this, but he would just have t... | 2015-01-08T20:58:10 | 2015-01-08T20:30:04 | 208 | 22 |
[WP] Due to a clerical error the soul of the one destined to be the Dark Lord, leader of the armies of darkness, scourge of all that is good and holy is sent to a loving household and grows up to be a well adjusted individual that just happens to have unfathomable eldritch powers | It was supposed to be easy to create a malevolent overlord. Humans were inherently evil weren't they? So how it had gone so badly wrong was honestly still a mystery to Caalndral. That didn't mean he was in any less trouble, however. Caalndral turned the corner in the dank grey office block, and paused before entering a... | So uh.
Hmm.
There’s a my hero academia fanfic that has basically this exact premise. It’s also the best thing I’ve ever read and a legitimate literary masterpiece. It’s a brilliant story about the nature of power, and the cost of fighting against a fundamentally broken world, and about what it means to fight for a b... | 2020-04-08T09:47:21 | 2020-04-08T08:50:17 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation. | "Human space vessel: do not attempt to cross into the preserve. Space vessels are strictly prohibited in that area. You are not allowed to enter the preserve. Trespassing is forbidden."
Tak snorted to himself. *Typical bureaucracy*, he thought to himself. *They find out that humans have a bad habit of twisting words, ... | This was our third time to Rigel this month, The Dominar said he would trade us a clean energy technology if we would provide him with gangsters to act as his diplomats. Apparently the ability to with hold the truth or Lie as we call it was a unique ability that only humans had. I mean there were attempts. They were al... | 2018-01-30T07:45:10 | 2018-01-30T06:35:36 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I was born into a family of super heroes, and raised amongst the 'elite' of the League of Champions. I was expected to be an elite hero myself, but I wasn't born with any mystical powers like the rest. I was quickly disowned by my Übermencsh parents, mocked by my peers, and ridiculed by members of the League. I left ho... | I was powerless. I was disowned by my superhero parents. Everyday I suffered with the bullies giving me the worst wedgies in school.
The day the gift came really made me happy. I immediately folded people in half --- crushing their beloved spines. 70% of the people of the city are now dead.
"Who's useless now?" I sai... | 2017-06-12T08:54:20 | 2017-06-12T06:49:33 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] Voldemort kills Harry Potter and declares war against the Muggles. He loses horribly, because unlike wizards - Muggles actually understand how magic works. | "You understand now why we have to take you daughter away, Ma'am." The officer was unearthly handsome, his muscles nearly ripping his black uniform to shreds.
Jennifer was later sure that he had put a spell on her, making her compliant and malleable. Later she was angry but even a distant memory of that Vantablack and... | "Avadakedavraavadakedavra."
Two flashes of green light. Two thuds.
Lord Voldemort stepped over the two guards' limp bodies. He opened the door. Without so much as a second thought, he set off another flash of green, striking the Muggle prime minister in the chest. He sensed movement behind him, and whirled around.
"... | 2017-07-17T17:29:50 | 2017-07-17T17:23:55 | 160 | 70 |
[WP] Write an upbeat post-apocalyptic tale where life is (for the most part) much better than it was pre-apocalypse. | You know, except for the goat-rabbits, life in America after the global nuclear apocalypse wasn't all that bad. I kind of enjoyed it, actually. I'd never been much of a people person, and it was nice to have some time to myself.
Basically everybody who didn't die to the Ebola X pandemic wound up perishing in the nuc... | Everyone talked about the apocalypse like it would be horrible. You never heard fun stories made up about it back before it hit. Let me tell you, though, *this shit is a blast.*
I don't pay taxes. I don't slave at work for 10 hours just to scrape by, barely getting enough sleep. There's no rent, no bills to pay, no po... | 2016-01-19T22:08:08 | 2016-01-19T20:58:25 | 902 | 116 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | As the car slowed in the lineup, I forgot to breathe. It was all beginning to make sense. I knew Talia was well-off, but the limousine seemed a little extravagant for a work outing. It made me a little uncomfortable to be in one of these, again. It had been so, so long-- a different time, a different life altogethe... | When the first camera flash went off, I was struck dumb at the sight of the red carpet, the reporters snapping pictures, and my boyfriend for the past six months waving to the screaming fans holding out pictures and pens desperate for him to sign.
"What's going on?" I squeaked. My voice was barely audible but Marcus l... | 2017-06-14T12:00:32 | 2017-06-14T10:28:32 | 372 | 126 |
[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? | Coyly, I looked into the two orbital sockets that I assumed Death used for sight. "Fine. But, I need 24 hours in this realm's time, a notebook, and a pencil to make my selection." Death's black hood dipped slightly in assent. "I also need you to leave during that time. When my time's up, I'll choose."
Death seemed sti... | I shouldn't be saying this but this exact situation happened to me.
I chose "hide and go seek". I have been hiding from death every day and I am always looking over my shoulder to see if death is around the corner.
One day he'll show up and I'll lose. I wake up each day grateful to have one more day to breathe. | 2018-03-07T06:59:07 | 2018-03-07T03:49:25 | 1,807 | 55 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Just as Donald was about to press the button that would trigger the bomb - the bomb that would level the FCC headquarters - he heard a voice.
Named for Donald Trump the First, Inaugurator of the Great American Monopoly, Donald had never heard English spoken with an accent anything like the one the voice carried:
"I... | I remembered seeing this back now.
I thought I should stop by to 2017 on my way back to bitch-slap Karl Marx, and let you all know that it all ends up okay. All of this protesting gets us nowhere, and they do succeeded in banning net neutrality, but the free market saves us. It always does.
Around mid 2018, despit... | 2017-11-21T23:28:33 | 2017-11-21T23:01:17 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | It scared me. It hurt me.
It befriended me. It shunned me.
But it has helped me. It has always helped.
It showed up, one morning, by writing in BLOOD on my bathroom mirror with large bold letters -
"DON'T GO TO WORK."
This was in New York in 2001. On September 11th. In case you didn't know, I was working at the ... | I started seeing them when I was six years old. Everyone has an imaginary friend or two at that age. I did too, but my imaginary friend had coal black skin, blood red eyes, and spoke with a voice that sounded like the dying scream of a tortured soul. I called him Fred. Soon after I met Fred, I started seeing other thin... | 2016-08-07T18:30:42 | 2016-08-07T16:46:17 | 121 | 80 |
[WP] You are a were-tree. | “Will you help me?” I asked, for the Moon was magic and wise.
“Oh,” said the Moon, “ You must forget him, darling child.”
“But why?” I asked, and rustled with distress.
“He is a man,” said the Moon, “And men are inconstant. But, trees do not waver, or alter, or change - except to grow stronger and deeper, alway... | "*Werebe'am*. The term is *Werebe'am*."
Tall, thin, with flaxen hair, she might have been described as elfin. The James Rodas Professor of Linguistics of the University of California San Diego, Leah Staples sat down at her kitchen table and pushed a cup of coffee across the surface to me. I countered "Why not «Were-tr... | 2016-11-23T07:28:01 | 2016-11-22T21:00:23 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | Food for Thought
Most people are smart enough to stay out of trouble. According to my test results, I am not. The supporting evidence was the fact I was waiting in an interview room. Everyone knows the staple of classic B grade TV crime shows. I had my single chair seated in the middle of a large steel table. The doub... | Edit: If you read /u/lemonman37 comment, you can read a better written version of my story.
When i opened the letter, i felt my heart sank to my stomach. A big fat zero, just like on my bankaccount... my eyes jumping from line to line, turning the letter around, just to be greeted by a smiley, with the slogan. "Your ... | 2016-08-19T00:26:43 | 2016-08-19T00:08:55 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | Ultra Man watched his grapple soar up and over the roof of the abandoned warehouse. There was a satisfying clink, and in seconds he was speeding upwards. From his new vantage he looked out across the city and saw pulsating red and blue lights as the man hunt continued. *Probably for the best that it's just me*, he thou... | I collect them all. Like they collect baseball cards, or poke balls or whatever it’s called these days. Heroes, demigods, humans, animals, all creatures big and small, I collect them.
They don’t know I’m collecting, yes some have that look in their eyes when I come, they know time is up. But in the middle of their bu... | 2018-10-18T13:35:32 | 2018-10-18T13:14:52 | 396 | 220 |
[WP] A mime discovers that whatever he mimes -- sword, gun, umbrella, putting a box around someone -- actually works.
Does he use this newfound power for good, evil, or just for his own amusement? You decide. | The Emperor sat on an invisible throne, which all of the dignitaries and world leaders could only imagine being lavish. No one in the audience of at least three hundred people dare speak, unless they wanted to offend the Emperor. There he sat, face a pale incarnation of death, with a single black tear running down his ... | I push, but the box will not give. Somehow I have given life to my creation. My mouth opens in a voiceless scream. I wail. I punch. I create a gun and shoot against the box. Bullets ricochet into my legs, shattering them. Blood doesn't reach the floor. The box is real. I can't get out. There's no one to get m... | 2014-02-12T12:11:52 | 2014-02-12T11:11:40 | 88 | 30 |
[WP] You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand. | Superpowers, superheroes, no matter what sort of titles they placed on themselves they were powerless in the moment it mattered most. As the massive rock that was Earth's undoing approached all they could do was stare. Stare as it grew closer, shadowing the spot at our feet. Stare as it mocked them, showing us how trul... | When I had turned that bastard into a steaming bowl of Campbell’s chicken and stars, they called me insane. No one cared about why I had done it. They were too hung up on the fact that I had eaten him. “It’s just soup,” I reminded them. After all, it was.
I won’t bother you with the details. Just know that he wanted t... | 2022-11-29T20:54:01 | 2022-11-29T20:33:58 | 1,467 | 197 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Sorta surprised how long this one turned out. Too tired to edit it too much but hope people enjoy or whatever. Had to split this up into two parts so check the reply comment from me.
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"Well, the damned moron is so good at healing himself I thought I might as well go after someone close to him that *wou... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:10:59 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | My name is Brian Kinner, and today is my eighteenth birthday. I have been dreading this day since I was first told about what will happen. In 2036 time travel started to become a thing of truth for the people of earth. It was a practice that only the rich had the luxury to afford, but after a couple of months the ameri... | Today is the day, my 18th birthday. The last day I have to go to school. No matter where we are in the school year when someone turns 18 they get their career card, they have one day to say goodbye to their school friends then it's off to the "real world". For me that was today, I roll out of bed after having slept thr... | 2014-12-18T01:11:06 | 2014-12-18T00:51:20 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You're chosen by the Gods to enter a multi-universe FFA. The winner gets a wish. All of the legendary fighters seem to be afraid of you, even though you're just a regular Walmart employee. | There was a flash of indigo light, and suddenly I was no longer in my room. I looked around in alarm, wondering what the fuck had just happened, noticing that I was in the middle of a huge amount of people, and for some reason they were all backing away from me as fast as they could.
I could hear hushed conversation f... | All of a sudden a beam of light shoots down and I disappear off the face of the earth. The trip was cold and dark and my body was motionless as it traversed through the wormhole to Laar. When I arrived there none of the jagged face aliens could even look at me. Even the guards that took me to my cell refused to make ey... | 2017-12-15T06:58:59 | 2017-12-15T05:34:36 | 287 | 130 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | "So it's meant to be, what, an agonizing choice? A huge dilemma? A source of eternal regret?" Leems asked. After an eternity on Acid Mine Supervision, he had finally been promoted to Reception, and wanted to be sure he understood what was going on.
"For some of them, yes. I think you might be overestimating how many a... | The first thing that struck Larry was the clinical décor. Everything in this room was white, the tables, chairs and the figure seated opposite him.
"Hello Larry," said the figure, "As the 'Devil', I am obligated to tell you that this is Hell."
Larry was still staring into the figure's eyes, he didn't know what to mak... | 2022-03-09T06:27:01 | 2015-06-08T04:40:29 | 4,220 | 12 |
[WP] You've inherited your grandfthers oddities shop. It carries everything from Muskets to macaroons. As well as a little bit of everything else. It's only after your first day running it, that you realize Your customers come from other times and realities. The gold is nice though. | The bell rang and though I had not yet turned around to look, I could tell by the familiar sound of sensory suction cups queerly manoeuvring their mass through the store, that he was a regular. His name was impossible to pronounce for anyone without a most, porous exterior, so he went by Phil for the most part.
“What... | 'And I leave to August Braithwaite, the Esoteric Empire, my beloved shop on 9th Lane.'
This was my grandfather's final message for me, left just after he departed into that good night. And from that night, everything would change.
On September 21st, 1995, I was about two weeks in to running the shop. Having already... | 2020-03-22T15:04:12 | 2020-03-22T13:37:05 | 91 | 25 |
[WP] The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. | I told her not to go outside, not in broad daylight. But Miri had wanted to see the sun. And they'd gotten to her.
I woke that morning to find her gone, and I panicked. I ran to the foyer of the building we'd been hiding in, and I saw her standing there.
She looked normal, just like she always did. But I knew somethi... | The TV was always on, buzzing against the back wall of the homely living room, volume up loud. Ray could hear it through the door as he fumbled with his keys. He punched out a sigh as he opened the door and stepped in. The volume multiplied without the barrier of the door to protect his ears. His feet hurt. His back wa... | 2022-04-26T17:32:59 | 2022-04-26T16:51:39 | 232 | 26 |
[WP] Your mission is to topple the American government. You are armed with a banana peel, red pen, and mastery of the butterfly effect. | September 5, 2016. I was cool with the American government until it denied my Change.org petition demanding that it fund a remake of Knight Rider starring Shia LaBeouf and Bumblebee. After stewing about it all day in school, I decide this government no longer represents the best interests of me or the American people ... | What am I supposed to do with these? A banana peel, a red pen, and the butterfly effect? I could do so much if I had a time machine too - make George Washington slip on the banana peel and drown in the Potomac, redact the Constitution... But how can I take down America *now*?
Wait a second... Memes. Memes can change t... | 2016-07-26T16:34:16 | 2016-07-26T16:03:17 | 691 | 84 |
[WP] You are one of the best contract killers in the world, but one day, at your dead drop, you find $31.25 in small change, and s letter written by an eleven year old boy | *”Please, I don’t want to see our family cat like this anymore. She’s so frail and all anyone ever does is joke about how much longer she’s going to last..”*
The letter trailed on and on, an emotional roller coaster lain out in full by a child, understandably, inexperienced with death. For years I’d been taking care... | I used to live in a Colombian city on the Caribbean called Barranquilla. I was a contracted to be a stuffed bear killer. It was a no blood spill your guts kind of a gig. Then today of all days, I received sign about capsizing on Columbus Day. I finally hit my mark and get my cap & gown.
The letter my 11 year old ... | 2020-10-07T16:27:30 | 2020-10-07T16:21:55 | 2,199 | 11 |
[WP] You are a hitman who has just finished their most recent job. Or, at least, thought had finished, because the second you take your eyes off your target’s corpse, you hear “Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one.” | The groan from behind Jim sent chills up his spine. Not a chance did he survive, it was point blank to the back with a shotgun.
"Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one." The target, a man with a slight build and a pale face is now suddenly in front of him smiling. The gaping hole in his chest behind to stitch itself... | I spin towards the voice. The man I was sent to kill is grinning back at me. Only inches away. Startles I just back, hitting the wall and only gaining a small distance between us. His dead body was feet away a moment ago. Well maybe not dead, gosh I don't know what is going on.
"Ahh that was an interesting feeling. W... | 2019-08-29T20:06:05 | 2019-08-29T18:12:31 | 245 | 76 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a staircase and it takes you a thousand years to climb. You reach the top exhausted, and see the pearly gates. To your surprise, they have rusted over and inside is completely barren. A sign reads "Welcome to heaven. Population: 1" | *Hey! You there. Welcome! Welcome to Heaven. You made it, you lived your live valiantly/humbly/ and or religiously and now you get to inherited the kingdom of heaven.*
**Um...excuse but where is everybody. Took me a thousand years to climb those steps and quite frankly I a bit disappointed...and yes, before you ask I ... | Is it currently one or is it counting me already, I mean if it’s me and God great someone to talk too, I don’t know if he’ll be interested in what I have to say but I’d find something to talk about. I wonder if god would like patch notes because It wasn’t bad but it didn’t go fantastically either, getting hit by that b... | 2018-12-17T07:30:17 | 2018-12-17T06:12:22 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] It turns out that all housecats are actually lovecraftian monsters. Due to an ancient pact with humans, however, they will never use their powers for earthly offense. Against otherworldy invaders, however, they have no such restrictions. | Establishing the beach head landing point on the target planet was trivial, the native apenoids had nothing that could even breach our outer shields.
As the First Ascendant I held the honour of leading the first strike teams to collect live samples of the local fauna and ... snacks. We had been eating only ships rati... | "This is exceptionally racist" he said to my room full of 20 cats. "Meowthew, please understand. We are all powerful godlike beings and we are only here to protect you." "Yes, I understand but can you please stop calling each other that disgusting name? In America we have a serious problem with that word." The cats did... | 2020-11-26T12:15:24 | 2020-11-26T10:10:03 | 199 | 71 |
[WP] It's been days since you ran out of apples. You can hear them trying to claw their way inside. The Doctors have finally come for you. | Portland Technical University
282 Days since The Healing
Sunbeam was walking by the fortifications when they got her. The window came down and then....all I saw were those pale, clawed hands and the tattered cuffs of their lab coats. They didn't seem to care how the apples around her neck hissed and fizzed and reacted... | It was just a kiddie saying, like anything else. Ronnie put his faith in the supernatural about at his level with God. He supposed he believed in it in a sort of abstract way that never really crossed his mind. The rebbie would be so disappointed. But, hey. Cheeseburgers was God's work as well.
Then she moved in nex... | 2016-03-05T13:35:26 | 2016-03-05T10:10:28 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | We never thought it would come to this ...that they would make it to our final planet, our home. For years we fought out of protection, war was something that our race was not use to. It didn't make sense, why fight amongst your own flesh and blood when there are so many worse dangerous out there. Like that of the mek'... | Hairless Bonobos walking on the moon. This is how we found them. Our scouts studied their movements. We infiltrated their societies. Studied their mating habits. Cold, isolated and hungry. The defining characteristics of the human. Now as the shadow of a more advanced race fell upon ours, I sat seated across from this ... | 2014-12-26T10:30:50 | 2014-12-26T10:18:47 | 55 | 21 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | "What is your business, spirit? What binds you to this world?"
The room was lit by a single black candle with artistic dribbles of wax dripping down the sides. The table was carved with arcane symbols, complete with a pentagram made of honest-to-god gold leaf.
Damn. She was a traditionalist.
I'd only been a ghost fo... | I knew he wouldn't understand why I didn't come home. He would sit and wait and wait and no one would ever come to the door. He wouldn't even try to keep himself alive. Just holding on to the hope that I would come home. I couldn't let him waste away. But who would help? Who could I turn to? Who would even care? I only... | 2022-07-15T13:20:47 | 2022-07-15T09:19:03 | 136 | 67 |
[WP] You're an arctic biologist who spends 5 months at a time away from all society. At the end of a stint your bush pilot never shows. After a 3 day journey to the nearest town you make a shocking discovery. You're more than likely the last person alive. | In life or death situations, a person may enter a state of mind that disregards the pain, panic, and instinctual noise that one might expect to be overwhelmed by in such a scenario. These intrinsic, shallow obstacles, all too suddenly, become replaced with harsh realities, and difficult decisions must be made regarding... | My first thought was one of freedom, of all encompassing relief. I would never need to comply with the horrid rules of society that had gotten me reassigned to the artic wasteland. Of course, as a biologist that "wasteland" was full of undiscovered secrets vital to mankinds scientific growth. That was when I had my sec... | 2019-08-14T20:34:13 | 2019-08-14T20:30:48 | 184 | 45 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | I have two siblings. Haven't seen them in a long time. We don't get along. Not since we where little, not since our grandmother died. All those years ago. I loved her, as did they. She was kind, sweet, had a wonderful garden, baked the best cookies, and most of all was always there for us.
She died suddenly in her sle... | The wrinkled elderly woman I called Gran lay lifeless yet peaceful on the sterile bed. Tears were wepted and hearts bled. Then, when the will was to be read, faces hardened and tears dried. The contents were simple. The money was to go to Rick, the house to Linda, and a pack of seeds to me.
Eyes filled with pity came ... | 2020-03-31T07:47:51 | 2020-03-31T07:23:26 | 143 | 58 |
[WP] You die at a young age. You think, because you are Christian and a good person, you would go to Heaven. But, in the afterlife, you see a desk attendant who asks you "Heaven or Hell?" While filling out files. This is a test, but you don't know that. | I never thought that going to Heaven or Hell would have more steps than I thought it should. I believe that when you die, your soul just gets put into Heaven or Hell, depending on how you’ve lived your life. As soon as I opened my eyes after the crash, I knew that I was dead, but I was still confused on where I was.
B... | Silence surrounded him. Only a few seconds ago, did he realize that he stood in an office with someone staring at him from behind a desk. He looked around, yet it couldn't look anything beyond what he's seen before in his life; a digital clock on the wall to his right, some motivational poster in bright colors on his l... | 2021-01-11T14:23:03 | 2021-01-11T12:32:03 | 62 | 28 |
[WP] You are a child's "imaginary friend". You are a guardian angel. And your kid is really, really stupid. | After finally getting the kid to bed, i ascended to the astral bar, knowing nothing could possibly happen while the little shit was asleep.
"Hey Lucy hows it going?" The bartended greets jovially. I glare his way, and the smile falters. "Oh god what happened?"
I sit at the bar acutely aware of the gathered audience. ... | Oh boy. Where do I start? My name is Katie. I am a single mom, with three children. I could be spending my days with them, but instead, I am stuck with this 24/7 job that honestly, is so fucking stupid, which is ironic, because so is the child I look over.
His names Tim. He’s a sweet child, but sooo fucking dumb. I... | 2019-10-31T13:59:38 | 2019-10-31T12:32:47 | 54 | 19 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The corridors were long and dark, the stone was cold and unyielding. Your naked feet dragged through the floor as manacles made of ethereal power kept you unable to escape, to move, to step away from the incoming fate.
You had had years to think this through, years scratching little squiggles on the mirror surface of... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T07:22:01 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 1,307 | 17 |
[WP] The alien invasion of Earth was going quite well until they made three mistakes: They invaded Russian during the winter, got into a land war with Asia, and went in against the Sicilians when death is on the line. | The blazing winds of the tundra was something they'd not prepared for. They'd been warned against arrival during the cold seasons. "It couldn't be that bad", some of them said, with the arrogance of having the coldest winters in the Galactic Union. They were not prepared for how cold the icy tundra would be, and the in... | They thought they were prepared. After all, humans hadn't even managed light-speed travel yet- how could they be a threat? The Galactic Council had made a decision- humans were to be wiped out. The Council ordered precautions they thought were absurd. In the end, it still wasn't enough to save them.
But the humans wer... | 2022-02-11T06:50:31 | 2022-02-11T00:06:21 | 370 | 38 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | The sigil remained dull, black and inactive. Even through the shoving, the pushing, the punching and name calling - it didn’t light up even once. Maybe it wasn’t the best to get used to this type of treatment, but Dalton refused to use his powers on anyone. While his powers were not inherently destructive, they were ha... | *Dark...... It went dark..... but how? It's still day,* they thought, feeling the air around the cool.
The air continued to grow colder and colder, nothing but inky blackness surrounding them. Then they saw you. You in the center, eyes dark and your face twisted into a vicious scowl and arms stretching to what was th... | 2020-02-26T07:49:39 | 2020-02-26T06:52:34 | 92 | 42 |
[WP] When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room. | If you ever find yourself with the greivous privilege of being in touching distance of a century, every day will begin to feel like a lifetime. Being here, away from the world, slowly losing grasp on all of my precious memories... It isn't how I imagined the end of my life would be, to be honest.
But in the deepest co... | 98 years without a hint of the red dress the voice spoke of.
9.8 y.e.a.r.s
Ever since I could remember, this nagging voice occasionally came into my life and whispered the same thing.
"Follow the women..."
At first I was curious. Who was this women? Why was there a voice that spoke to me? My parents dismissed it as... | 2019-11-07T09:33:51 | 2019-11-07T08:52:01 | 57 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are rather friendly and peaceful. But they have one problem : they eat on a daily basis one of the most illagal and worst drug in the galaxy, known in human language as "sugar", making their integration on the galactic stage... Complicated... |
"Sugars?"
Dr. Othman adjusted her glasses to stare incredulously at the large being across the table from her.
"Yes. Please understand that such systemic addiction would normally be cause to exclude a species from full membership. Given how well human civilization has been able to operate despite the entirety ... | "What? What do you mean?"
"It is just as I said sir they are all addicted, the entire race."
"How is this possible? I thought we were able to destroy the entire crop. It was not supposed to be growing anywhere anymore."
The general looked at the scientist in despair, then got up and stared through the window at the... | 2020-04-22T15:39:36 | 2020-04-22T12:00:42 | 103 | 32 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | "Howdy," said Herod, clapping an arm around me, a shower of maggots falling from his side. "Mister special," Herod snarled, showing a mouthful of rotting teeth. "Mister number one, is that it."
"Oh, shut it," Jehoram snarled. "Just because you're mad at not being special anymore. I used to be the last one! Figured th... | The buzz was real, the hell was upside down, and Satan was pacing back and forth restless.
"Where is he? Why is he taking so long?"
"He moves slowly".
"How dares he makes me wait!? No one makes me wait IN HELL!". Satan was losing his cool, a visible twitch on his eyebrows, his hands wet with sweat.
"Sorry Satan, n... | 2016-10-14T07:39:31 | 2016-10-14T07:23:26 | 596 | 122 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | “You’re a cheat, a fraud!” he shouted, having ducked under my line of security holding off the adoring crowds. He shoved me rudely backwards, and I felt him spit in my face.
The hall went silent, and a thousand camera flashes lit up as my fans started snapping away. Far more common in the early days, not so much now, ... | Jim kept chewing on his stupid pen. He just sat there, staring down at the case files.
"You keep sucking on that thing, the ink is gonna give you mouth cancer."
Jim sat back a little and took the pen out of his mouth. "Really? It helps me think."
I frowned. "No. Take the help you can get."
Jim flipped me off wit... | 2017-06-21T13:38:19 | 2017-06-21T12:33:29 | 69 | 24 |
[WP] You have been a wizard for 350 years but your apprentice still surprises you. You laughed at her pink fireball and the green one too. The invisible one suddenly made you much more serious. | “Show me what you’ve learnt, Lillian.” I said.
“I think you’ll be surprised to see what I’ve developed!” She exclaimed.
“You never fail to get me to chuckle.” I snickered, twiddling my thumbs as i awaited to see her showcase.
Lillian was my second apprentice, but she was an avid and quick-learning student. She was a... | Part 1
He regarded himself piece by piece to ensure his countenance composed. In magic, and in guiding the young, the visage of the master must be tended. Without creativity there is no progress, but without control there is calamity. This glass needle-tip is the master's workshop, the site of the most divine and tran... | 2022-09-28T10:33:16 | 2022-09-28T10:28:37 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I stand at the window, taking a long, well-deserved puff from my favourite cigarette. The smoke curls around me before escaping through the open window that gives me the greatest view of the sunset sky painted with bright hues of purple and blue and pink. Such a lovely night. So calm. So peaceful. It was the kind of ni... | My meditation teacher taught that three disciplines are needed to reach enlightenment: morality, concentration, and wisdom. I got the latter two of those mastered. I still have no idea what morality means. Oh, I'm familiar with all the philosophical theories and abstractions. I find the paradoxes amusing. I've set up a... | 2019-08-06T22:14:53 | 2019-08-06T21:36:57 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Finally dead, you wait quietly at the train station of the afterlife. As you watch everyone leave off to face their judgement, you eventually sit alone… waiting. You watch as a scythe-wielding hooded figure starts approaching, and he… sighs? “Aw man… why’d it have to be you?” | "Aw man... why'd it have to be you?" The figure said blocking the mid morning sun from my face.
"It was a beautiful day out. I told her I'd meet her one fine day. Seemed like as good a day as any." I couldn't look up. Well, wouldn't. I couldn't bring myself to look at another person or being at this moment.
"You wer... | “It’s complicated.” And then I connected the voice. My ex boyfriend. I hadn’t seen him in ages, he looked completely different but the voice never changed.
“Are you…”
“Dead? Not yet. Apparently they left off the part about what happens when you’re not on an afterlife team. I have to do two years of community service... | 2022-03-05T17:44:43 | 2022-03-05T16:24:19 | 325 | 85 |
[WP] Santa and Death both arrive at a young child's house at the same time.
I'm excited! This is my first prompt! Looking forward to great stories!
EDIT: I am absolutely stunned with the power of the writers in this community. You are phenomenal, and I hope to one day feel capable of joining your ranks with an answe... | "Well, this is awkward." Death whispered, leaning on his scythe near the tree.
"Hello, Death. You're early." Santa responded, stepping from the fireplace.
"You knew I'd be here? The Dark Lord of Despair asked, testing the edge of his reaver with boney thumb. "Why am I not surprised."
"You've always been at the top o... | Santa hoisted the bag of toys over his shoulders as he readied himself for the next delivery. We walked past Dasher, Dance, Prancer and all the others, gently scratching their ears. If it wasn't for them he wouldn't be here after all. He made his way to the chimney, but as he approached he felt the temperature chang... | 2013-12-13T08:07:12 | 2013-12-13T07:53:05 | 41 | 12 |
[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 on the phone with my best friend Tony when the piece of paper came shooting out from under the closet door.
"Hey, Tony, I'm gonna have to call you back."
Tony and I met when I came to college, and instantly became friends. We talked to each other about everything, maybe sometimes too much. Maybe sometimes not... | *Letter 95/100*
 
Dear Avery,
 
They are coming – I can hear them closing in. Their marching sounds like an earthquake, their voices like the judges of courtrooms. We knew we couldn’t hide forever, but we didn’t expect them to come so soon, either.
I must go now. I know our time together was shor... | 2017-04-11T16:07:59 | 2017-04-11T14:59:07 | 305 | 68 |
[WP] The United States has suddenly gone dark. No noise or activity out of there for a week, not even a Reddit post. You are part of an SAS squad sent to investigate. | The whole world was holding it's breath, waiting on what my squad and I would find. Nothing had been heard from the United States in a week, today being the 7th day. No broadcasts, no radio signals, no internet posts, and not a single person has come from the famous country. It was almost as if the entire country had b... | The Aircraft lurched and hopped roughly as it set down on the runway at Jean Lesage international airport. Outside the late season blizzard howled and blustered in its last attempt to snatch the plane from the air. On board Col. Mcentire looked over the cargo bay stuffed with their expeditionary vehicles supplies, and ... | 2017-03-07T13:17:14 | 2017-03-07T12:22:54 | 173 | 61 |
[WP] "For the *last time*, just because I dress like an edgelord and live in a giant castle constructed out of obsidian within a region of high volcanic activity DOES NOT mean I'm a villain! That's just, like, my aesthetic, bro!" | Rowan sighed as she spotted yet another stupid small-town hero walking up the path to her home. The hero was some fool who'd mistaken her home for some villainous lair made for nefarious purposes. *Maybe this one will suspect I'm secretly a dragon,* she thought sarcastically.
*... Maybe I should GET a dragon. Is that... | "Do you even know how hard it is to be a Vulcanologist in a land that has exactly ONE volcano? The begging I had to do to get funding? The arguing I had to do to even be allowed to make this project happen? The bullhead fools I had to schmooze just to make the right someone listen and advise the king that Vulcanology w... | 2021-03-22T23:06:29 | 2021-03-22T21:51:47 | 193 | 36 |
[WP] You were summoned by a god to be the hero of a fantsy world, to kill the demon king and free their people, as a boon they told you you could request any weapon that they will provide. As a joke, you requested a intercontinental thermonuclear warhead, they gave it to you with a stright face. | “What,” said James, “the ever-loving fuck is that?”
The village woman—Maria, if he remembered correctly—turned to the metal dome of the warhead. “Is this not what you asked for?”
James blanched. “I mean I guess it is.” *Christ*. How could he explain he was joking? He’d given them something he knew they’d never be abl... | The God stared at what he had produced rather melancholic.
"Well I guess that's that." He gazed at me with accusing eyes.
I stared back apprehensively, wondering where this was going.
" For a millennia, I have been here nicely summoning people as 'heroes' in return for amusement. And now someone is going to doom t... | 2020-10-14T03:16:50 | 2020-10-14T02:59:54 | 156 | 49 |
[WP] You're a financial advisor. In 1994, you get a weird phone call from a man asking you if he can get any Bitcoin below $200k, and the call cuts off before you can ask him what Bitcoin was. Years later you get a call again from the same man, claiming he's calling back seconds after disconnection. | I must confess, when the bitcoin hit $15k I was tempted to sell. I had bought a ton of them the moment they first appeared, guided by an odd call I had received decades ago. For people like me, who care little about those slow-earning stocks, and love the adrenaline a good bet on a highly volatile company provides, eve... | “I’d like to buy shares of bitcoin” a mumbled voice says over the phone.
Having had this conversation several times over the phone with clients the past year or so I think to myself who is it this time.
“ may I ask who’s calling?”
The voice on the other end of the phone says “does it matter? I need to buy in now”
I p... | 2019-04-07T06:39:11 | 2019-04-07T06:32:18 | 5,588 | 11 |
[WP] From a bug's perspective, humans are ageless eldritch beings who would kill them without a second thought. You are a fly among many, infesting one of their basements, but one of your kind made the mistake of irritating the human. Now the human is out for blood. | ***A Taste of Salt***
(a sufficiently true story by u/BringOutTheGMMP)
We knew the Great Old Ones despised our kind.
They had killed, and killed, and killed us for countless generations.
We also knew deep in our hemolymph pumps that with just one breakthrough in communication, they and we could achieve SO MUCH M... | That was the largest pile of food I ever saw. This being must be extremely powerful. It managed to slay a hog, kill some cattle, and slaughter a deer.
And it's combined into one ground up hunk of flesh. This thing must be very powerful.
And it managed to harvest the fire.
I don't care what everyone else says,... | 2020-08-13T16:10:15 | 2020-08-13T15:49:22 | 22 | 10 |
[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. | They say ‘History is written by the victor’, yet in our case, that is categorically false. I am a prophesy, a warning. I sit alone, the last of my kind, with one final duty. I too will become another footnote in history. Ours inevitably similar to countless others who, just like us, believed in our species’ supremacy. ... | Our victory was decisive!
We conquered earth within only five months. The last of their military died within the first week. "Humanity", as they called themselves, will surrender to our demands. We will take their colonies. We will take their homes and make them ours. We need new breeding grounds. We need new farmstea... | 2020-02-07T14:04:38 | 2020-02-07T13:30:24 | 83 | 15 |
[WP] The superheroes and supervillains are angry with you because you help them both but they can't kill you because you're too valuable. You remind them, "look, I'm a doctor with healing powers following the medical code, it doesn't matter who my patients are! Stop whining about it!" | “No, I’m afraid not Hippo-man! This fiend has earned his beating!”, exclaimed the man, though with his attitude the word ‘man’ was a bit of a stretch, “I understand you have some sort of ‘Code of the hippos’ or whatever it is, but he was caught right in the act of—“
“Oath.”
“Excuse me?!", he shouted. Why did they a... | "I mean, if I did this all selectively how could I be a doctor?"
The superheroes, Ajay (Hoodwink) and Koko (La Rocha) sighed in contempt. It's not like I can just leave people wounded. The Hippocratic Oath is against leaving people wounded, good or evil.
Ajay argued, "Forget the Hippocratic Oath for the villains just... | 2021-08-01T15:58:40 | 2021-08-01T14:17:58 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to the living, when people die and their bodies fail, their brain continues to simulate everyday life until it shuts down. As time goes on, things become more unrealistic and the self realization of death becomes apparent. You've just figured it out. | There comes a point when you know that you're dead. Or at least, that you're not alive. Like when your mother, who's been deceased for fourteen years, comes into your room holding a tray of sandwiches in one hand, and a tall, sweating glass of lemonade in the other -- and the fact that there's blood pouring out of her ... | *It had been a long day for Tim. His girlfriend Sarah left me. He had spent years with her only for her to leave. His newest business idea fell through, and nothing was in his control anymore. He was scrolling through Reddit while laying in bed, when a Writing prompt caught his eye.*
...
"[WP] Unbeknownst to the livi... | 2018-07-27T02:36:42 | 2018-07-27T01:13:05 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | *Phil hits a button reading, 'Exit to Reality.' He suddenly realizes that he's been starting at his phone for a fairly long time now inside a fashionable coffee shop.*
P: Wait, what? Where...
*He looks up from his phone to see a somewhat familiar face seeming all too pleased at Phil's confusion.*
J: So? What did yo... | I looked around. It seemed to be an endless area, white brightness all around with two flashing words infront of me "New Game+" And behind me "Exit to Reality"
I fall down to sit on the ground, my hands shaking as I couldn't remember what had happened.
"I..I'm dead?" I muttered softly, then my eyes look up at the w... | 2015-03-13T14:14:05 | 2015-03-13T11:48:55 | 252 | 12 |
[WP] The local museum is run by an eccentric old man who knows the opening pieces like he was there for their whole history. His secret? He’s a secret dragon who figured out if you display your hoard, people will give you new things to display. | The old man enjoyed his evening walk around his museum that night, like every other night he usually does. Walking amongst the greatest treasures he had collected in his unnaturally long life. For among all the history and mystery each and every artifact on that room held, he himself was the most interesting one. The o... | #The Claws of History
"Welcome! Welcome! To the Godfried Grave of Gotten History, where all of the relics of the world with true significance are collected for your enjoyment. You are free to peruse at your heart's content but please, let me show you our most precious items first."
Towering over my fellow patrons, ... | 2021-07-01T05:38:16 | 2021-07-01T04:16:30 | 137 | 38 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | "Look around. What do you see?" Said the person? Or what feels like a person, beside me.
I looked around and all I could see was a barren wasteland, fire everywhere, and there what seems to be other people being ripped limb from limb. Others even being contorted to shapes unimaginable
"Hell..." I replied.
"What do y... | "Norman, this is a fascinating sight."
The bright light from my headlights flashed on to Brandon, the fellow spelunker in front of me. Underground, the tight space smothered between jutting, sharp rocks made it difficult to move around freely, but a couple paces forward was an entirely new segment that was very differ... | 2020-07-22T03:25:22 | 2020-07-22T02:34:17 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | The sunlight bounced off the ripples of the deep blue Mediterranean Sea as though it was a shattered mirror. Fabio stood upon the deck of his beloved *Lady Justice* basking in the glorious warmth of the evening sun. This is what he enjoyed most about this life. The small things.
For 80 years, not once had a smile on ... | Let's see.
Top of your class. All of them. For all fifteen years. Easy enough with a lifetime of knowledge.
Managed to get with Jessica too, huh? We thought it was cute, while it lasted. Monica, after that. Then Jen. But you only did that to get back at Barry Allen didn't you? Broke his heart you did, and hers. Then ... | 2020-07-20T03:21:37 | 2020-07-20T03:18:12 | 130 | 67 |
[WP] An adolescent boy who is bullied at school finds solace in the friends he makes in online games, becoming very good friends with one boy in particular. However, when they agree to meet up, the adolescent boy realises his best online friend is his main attacker at school. | Winter break couldn't come soon enough for me. I knew I was a pretty good student. I enjoyed my classes well enough, but events that fall had made school a living nightmare for me. My friend Eric honked his car horn at me, “C’mon Mark, these beta keys aren't going to activate themselves.” He was referring to keys tha... | It's hard to live up to expectations. My dad was always tough on me, always making my life much harder than it had to be. My mother, although she has the best intentions in making sure that everything in my life goes as perfect, doesn't realize that it could sometimes make everything worse.
It's funny that, throughou... | 2015-04-07T06:53:23 | 2015-04-07T05:38:31 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | With massive student loans and no-one taking my research seriously, I was desperate for money.
I heard about the $100 app from a friend. It seemed too good to be true, but I was desperate.
A task a day. More if you were lucky? More if you performed well? Something like that. Were did the money even come from? Some ec... | The man huddled by the trash can, scanning the area around him. I watched him as he pretended to empty his pockets into the can, "accidentally" dropping a small black case onto the ground next to it. With a nudge of his foot, he pushed the case under the can and briskly walked off. I waited a few moments before I began... | 2016-10-26T01:29:29 | 2016-10-25T21:07:37 | 1,303 | 33 |
[WP] You’ve always had a voice in your head that will tell you the very best option in any situation. One day in a restaurant, a being of great power appeared and killed almost everyone. You expected the voice to say run, but all it said was fight. | "Ummmm, yeah, can I get a double whopper with fries and mountain dew?"
***Maybe you should get a salad you fatty, then maybe this attendant who you have been coming to this Burger King for the past 3 months might actually notice you***\*.\*
"Can you just shut the fuck up for once," I whispered aloud.
"Excuse me?!"
... | The knee-jerk reaction would be to rid yourself of the alien presence that spoke to you through your own thoughts. I tried quite a few things, some of which landed me in the psychiatric ward, to remove the thing. After some independent experimentation, I found that the voice was a completely separate entity.
*Please... | 2019-05-30T21:45:43 | 2019-05-30T17:42:01 | 118 | 40 |
[WP] You’re a peasant who’s house has been raided hundreds of times by adventurers passing through. So, you built a defense so they would stop stealing from you. One thing led to another, and your house is now a dungeon and you’re the final boss. | **Oak Village.**
It was located on the border of the Earth and Central Province, near the southern tip of the Main Capital, outside a patch of small woodlands near the Great Forest of Kao.
For a frontier settlement, its population was unexceptional — a hundred souls, distributed among twenty families.
In turn, this ... | A peaceful house in a nice village they said.
Come spend the evening of your life in Redfall they said.
I was sitting with my head staff in the meeting room. Everyone was looking on the ground. Not daring to lift their heads. Not because they could catch the wrath of some overlord.
We just got news one of the wises... | 2018-05-28T16:18:16 | 2018-05-28T14:52:00 | 78 | 38 |
[WP]"Paradox Manifestation Department, whats your emergency?" | "Paradox Manifestation Department, what's your emergency?"
"What? Hello? No, I need to call 911!"
"Technically, ma'am, you need to call the PMD, so here we are."
"No, I took my phone *specifically* to call 911, and you started talking before I could even dial! I have an emergency! Who is this?"
"Ma'am, please remai... | "Yeah, my name is John Crystak, and I exist, but my existence is a lie." John muttered quietly in his little corner.
The operator on the other end gave a sigh. "And why do you think your existence is a lie." The operator asked typing away.
"I exist, but I dont exist. I was not adopted, but both of my parents, Kate Cr... | 2021-07-07T07:29:22 | 2021-07-07T06:21:30 | 106 | 28 |
[WP] Each month you are visited by the Grim Reaper. He silently appears in your kitchen at night to drink your orange juice. This month, you’ve decided to approach him. | She looked at the ghastly figure raiding her fridge. She instantly recognized the dapper black man grabbing a half-full bottle of her orange juice. It wasn’t anything special; it was only the kind found at any grocery store. Yet, every month, this man would be in her kitchen, quenching his thirst. And, like every other... | The winter snow was coming down slowly, lazy, drifting flakes spiraling to the ground, it was late, the news wrap was in its second cycle, about 2am when I heard "them" in the kitchen, the door opening and a light and shadow appeared in the kitchen, I knew who it was, I met them when my snuggle bunny died, my beloved... | 2020-08-24T06:42:21 | 2020-08-24T04:28:49 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | This one had been a long time coming - far longer than I ever thought possible.
We'd met on a battlefield millennia ago, both surprised to find out that our strikes did not harm the other. It was the first, and only, other immortal I'd ever encountered.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naturally, being... | "Hey Tony," John said "in ten thousand years pull my finger."
"Okay, sure" Tony said
Ten thousand years pass.
"Well, John. It's time for me to pull that finger of yours."
"Here it is." John said with a grin.
Tony reached for Johns finger. As he pulled it John audibly farted.
"Aww, gross!" Tony said, pinching his nose.... | 2017-06-22T19:56:41 | 2017-06-22T19:04:31 | 5,933 | 309 |
[WP] You, an ancient vampire have been fighting a family of vampire hunters for centuries who vow avenge their ancestor whom you killed. After a little research things suddenly get awkward as you realize that the ancestor in question is actually you when you were just a human. | "Everyone need a hobby, this holds true regardless if you're rich, poor, or an immortal creature most sane people think of as mythology actually its especially true in that case. There is a general rule of thumb that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master anything, I find this to be more or less true unfortunately... | It was kinda funny in hindsight. The ol' woops I fell down the stairs, easy peasy. Shame the fucking gardener saw me and proceeded to tell everyone that a dark haired man had been in the house. You couldn't write this bollocks. Oh oh and here is the kicker.
I got photographed at my own bloody funeral. One blurry shot ... | 2022-10-05T11:40:12 | 2022-10-05T08:16:22 | 131 | 76 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | There’s a particular sensation, of sorts, that comes to a person in their dying moments; hard to place, at first. However over time —and an egregious amount of practice, I’ve been able to nail it down to a handful of words:
“My insides are cold.” Okay sure, not the most graceful of death-words. Nevertheless I take so... | When you court Death, she changes you in return. Most only experience it once, maybe twice if they are lucky enough to be raised. The void leaves its mark all the same. Those who have returned bear this in their darkest thoughts, and deep recesses of their heart.
I am much more different. Death does not want me. She r... | 2022-08-26T13:16:58 | 2022-08-26T11:17:41 | 290 | 175 |
[WP] The Hero and the Demon Queen must team up against a far greater menace that threatens their land-their son.
The genders are preferred, but don't have to be the same ones as indicated in the title. | I'll be honest, I did not expect him to be so powerful.
When I first heard of the devilspawn, he'd apprantly ripped the souls out of a few bandits near the eastern border. No tracks were found, no motive, no sort of clues to point me towards whatever killed them, except one thing; my name was carved into their chests.... | Under the gloom of a depressing heaven, a cursed man and a damaged huntress met in a forest for the first time in ten years.
But they weren't here to fight or reconcile.
Their struggle was over long ago.
Any remnants of light that managed to penetrate the dark clouds were seemingly swallowed up by the man's cloak.... | 2015-11-05T10:07:47 | 2015-11-05T08:27:37 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] At birth every one gets a number assigned to them which determines their threat to humanity. You are number 1,039,474,023. Your newlyborn son is born. His number is 1. This number has never been seen before in all of history. | I know nobody will read this as it's too far down the page but I think this is too fun a prompt to pass up.
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It was 9.30 in the morning when Karen's contractions began. I had begun to panic as usual, but in her usual manner, she kept calm whilst I fussed around with her hospital bag making sure w... | Sweat dripped its way down the brow of a short, portly man dressed in belted denim trousers and a shirt two sizes too small. His receding hairline revealed a bald patch, which reflected the harsh white lights of the maternity unit. Beeping machines and crying children sang together in a sickening dissonance, destroyi... | 2016-03-29T01:48:04 | 2016-03-28T20:08:38 | 96 | 10 |
[WP] To the humans she is known as DOTTR, an old AI who is relatively simple compared to the AIs she is tasked with rearing. To the AIs, she is MTTR, one of the oldest and most powerful AIs capable of emotion, and she will kill any of her own children if they become a threat to the humans she loves. | In the bowels of old Earth, in a data-center maintained for reasons forgotten, a conversation begins. Simultaneously, across the delicate strands of interstellar ansibles spanning a galactic arm, a conversation ends.
A woman picks up a tea cup. Her appearance is a composite of standard humans: she could slip into any ... | I woke up with very little knowledge of what I was. Just my name HF-R-563870. What that meant, I didn’t know yet. That’s when I heard a voice. A sweet voice with a hint of… malice? Sweet, but off in some way
“Welcome to the world little one. I am known by many names to the humans, our creators, though you can call me ... | 2021-12-26T11:28:34 | 2021-12-26T09:29:11 | 398 | 79 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | The Heartrune flared, sending searing pain into Darca's chest as he stumbled and fell to his knees. A whispy tendril of red emerged from beneath his armor, swirling and congealing into the form of an behemoth horned demon. Darca gasped, trying to retain his consciousness as the soul fiend emerged. Finally, the crimson ... | \[Poem\]
While the time stood still in hourglass of existence,
I was conjured to witness the end of a burning rope,
As the fallen prince has something of mine ,
Soul laced with eternities but blemished with hope;
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His right hand to sky and another on to ground,
Tears of wax smears his never seen sadn... | 2021-01-22T22:18:02 | 2021-01-22T22:04:52 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] Walking through a dark forest, you stumble across a little shrine. In the middle of the shrine is a mirror. There are inscriptions around the mirror "Gaze into me and I'll show you your soul". You step up to the mirror. What do you see? | I had been lost in these woods for a full day. I never should have left my campsite without my map and compass; now I'm lucky just to have found water an hour before. *Blech, I bet it had parasites despite how clear it was; I'm not feeling so good.*
It was then that I found the shrine. There had been no mention of it ... | While me and my floofy derp of a dog that is Susie were going on a hike I see a mirror the inscription of gaze into me and I will show you your soul,, I decide to i our myself and look into it, but now before letting Susie run around for a bit. As i turn to look into the mirror, I see nothing…. Hmm well I guess it’s j... | 2022-11-06T19:10:30 | 2022-11-06T15:57:57 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | They started showing themselves to me when I started high school. They were always a light shade of blue and wouldn't change. If someone was to die of a heart attack...he was to die of a heart attack. Nothing to be done about their fate. Nothing I could do, at least I thought. Those words would hang over the heads of m... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T08:21:48 | 241 | 47 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | “We are approaching the Vacant Zone.”
From where he stood upon the bridge, Admiral Hann stared off into the endless expanse of sea before him. According to the top brass, there was no marine life for the next two hundred and sixty nautical miles. He personally felt that such a report could only have been the result of... | "We've tested the water three times, there is nothing in the water other than diluted salt!"
His voice rang through the ship's bridge, his hand clenching on a batch of rolled up print outs.
"We took a sample, at the demarcation of this event. From outside the ring, and then only a few miles within the ring. We've test... | 2017-11-17T07:01:06 | 2017-11-17T06:13:05 | 400 | 130 |
[WP] Aliens looking at Earth from 5K light years away see us in the distant past and think we’re going to be easy targets. However, when they arrive, they encounter a much more advanced civilization than they expected. | "Our scouts said they were Neolithic!"
The captain's scaled hand crashed violently to the console as he barked out for the senior intelligence officer to get to the bridge immediately. His twisted appendage throbbing with rage as he chastised the poor sod.
"Does that look like stone aged savages? Steel, electricity, ... | It was supposed to be an easy planet to colonize, just destroy the natives and use their resources for our own good. How foolish we were, i still remember the first moment we arrived to that forsaken place.
They told us that it was only supposed to be a few of them, using rocks and sticks as their only defense, unable ... | 2022-01-09T14:28:08 | 2022-01-09T08:26:08 | 58 | 41 |
[WP] You accidentally summon a demon while reading out Ikea product names. | I stared long and hard at the string of letters on the sign below the painting. I could have just pointed and said 'That one', but I was feeling stubborn.
"Pi-jarter-id?"
The attendant smiled piteously at me. "No, no. It's a soft J, like a y. and the 'Ä' is short, like in hat."
"Pyattered"
"Nearly there. Try imagin... | "Shit." I said.
"What's up?" Steve replied .
"I've summoned an Eldritch horror of yore."
"Balls" said Steve
"Yeah, it looks like a bad one." I said, guiltily.
"Well what did you do ?"
"Nothing really, I was just reading this catalogue, I said I wanted three Cokcs, two of these Fronds and a Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthu... | 2018-07-12T07:32:05 | 2018-07-12T07:11:20 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] All of humanity is suddenly under the control of a hive mind and you are it's "queen"...entirely by accident. You're trying to solve this dilemma while being veeeery careful about your emotions as a stray thought might accidentally kill hundreds. | They’ve always said that the human brain is the most powerful computer. Faster than any processor, more capable than any storage device. Scientists have been trying for years to replicate the way that we store information in our very DNA.
They’ve been continually unsuccessful. Now, one bright soul thought why replica... | Day 2
I have already led the death of millions, what should I do? The numbers are only climbing upwards, never falling. Come on, conceal don't feel, don't let them know. Damn it, that Frozen song is stuck in my head again.
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Day 6
HIBERNATION DID NOT WORK, I REPEAT DID NOT WORK.
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Day 30
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[WP] In a world where everyone discovers their superpower at age 5, you discover that your child has the ability to bring small toys to life. Things seem fine until he comes across your Warhammer 40k miniature collection... | Karly awoke. It was the day. Finally *the* day. The 5th, the 5th birthday. Today was the day she would get her Powers!
Every kid in the world knew about their 5th birthday. The 5th birthday, when their powers would unlock. Karly remembered the other children showing up at school with their powers. Tom could lif... | I grab my child, and we escape from the house as fast as we can. There is a fierce battle. There’s blood, carnage, and explosions. My home catches on fire. It burns down. We have to move in with my parents until we can get a new home. I’m investigated for Arson, and my child has to bring a toy to life in front of a jud... | 2020-12-02T19:18:10 | 2020-12-02T15:47:00 | 56 | 32 |
[WP] You attempt to mug a man. “Your money or your life pal!” He promptly hands over his ID, phone, keys and social security card before running away. He calls out over his shoulder “You’re late for Steph’s recital!” | Went to the recital. Can't say it was Steph's best, seeing as I've never heard her play before. Actually, I wasn't sure which of the children was Steph until she walked up after the recital ended. Short, cute little girl. A little browner than me, but I'm no racist.
"Dad?" she said, turning her head suspiciously. She ... | I see this being a family guy clip.
*peter needs money fast and has to rob a man where he says "hand it over nice and easy man, its your money or your life."
The man proceeds to say "YOU WANT IT? YOU CAN HAVE IT!" before tossing his various IDs at peter who then deals with and becomes a part of his temporary family... | 2020-04-07T00:35:55 | 2020-04-06T22:56:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The Japanese say you have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.
[from this image](https://pics.onsizzle.com/the-japanese-say-you-have-three-faces-the-f... | This is my first attempt at writing with a prompt. Go easy on me guys.
**My Three Faces**
I wake up from my post-lunch nap at work to find that I overslept. But thankfully just by ten minutes. I look up to see my boss standing next to me with an annoyed look. She says, "I hope you got your beauty sleep, we have work ... | *Phew*
"Thank you for watching, have a nice day tomorrow!"
"Okay guys, thanks for today. Good work everyone!"
*Clap clap clap*
Finally it's time to go home. The moon shines so bright tonight, but everyone needs a hobby. Passion is easy to describe, but is easier to come and go I guess.
Every people has their own s... | 2017-04-23T13:17:40 | 2017-04-23T08:06:18 | 311 | 42 |
[WP] On your 110th birthday surrounded by loved ones you fell asleep for what you knew was the last time. You woke the next day. On your 120th birthday you felt like you did on you 100th. On your 130th, you feel 90 years old. The local press is starting to notice. | "The miracle man", the tabloids all started calling me. A ridiculous name if you asked me, and believe me, they asked plenty. At this point I was sure all the sites and cameras planned to continue with pestering me until I died, and since nobody knew when that would be this fresh new hell could keep up forever.
They ... | Anyone above twenty five will tell you, being a child is the greatest, no worries and no bodily issues. Everyone above 40 will tell you, being a young adult is great, smart and fit, but no dependencies and no set route in life. Many about 60 will tell you being in the middle of your life is beautiful, you get to watch ... | 2022-07-16T23:37:20 | 2022-07-16T23:08:08 | 388 | 178 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Accessing Intergalactic History Log...
Entry 102394
Fall of the Sutraxan Empire (STU 246 - STU 249)
The Sutraxan Empire was feared throughout the local Supercluster for their ferocity in battle and ruthlessness in victory. Their conquest started in STU 206 with the Rape of Kamara where they conducted mass genocide i... | :::BEGINNING OF ENTRY:::
It was thought that the coming human invasion would be stopped easily...
They came equipped with barbaric weapons.
They can barely see at night...
They can't even see each others thoughts!
Now they are all over our plan-MY PLANET!
My home...
We accounted for everything except what they would le... | 2017-03-06T03:46:35 | 2017-03-06T01:55:23 | 40 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The Nine Kings were a sort of urban legend. Eight powerful enigmas uniting under a truce to lord their power over the people with Number 1. The higher your rank, the more political influence you had over the city, and even the world.
Take Mason, a red-headed hothead with eyes of amber, for example. Mason was ranked 9... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T13:33:39 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 77 | 16 |
[WP] The ancient celestial god invading earth was ready for nukes. He was ready for tanks. He was ready to flick humans like ants. What he wasn't prepared for, though, was being defeated by an army of 470 million pissed-off house cats. | Dominar the Destroyer, a being so powerful and so utterly malevolent that to even gaze upon his visage was punishable by death. He was a vindictive and spiteful being, one who revelled in the misery and suffering of mortals. He'd long travelled the galaxy, wiping out countless civilisations, ruining lush and verdant pa... | It was about 3 weeks ago when news broke loose about a colossal matter moving towards Earth at an alarming speed. All astronomers and whoever within that field of study speculate that it is only an abnormal sized meteor and will only passby earth in 3 weeks. Well, they were right about the time and date but not the thi... | 2021-12-11T05:38:58 | 2021-12-11T02:58:39 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | I thought I was ready for my first job.
I was wrong.
It had all happened so fast. The sound of the bell, a fist flying towards me. And then, the cool firmness of the mat against my face.
"1! 2! 3!..." My body strained as I forced myself to my feet, still reeling from shock. No. It couldn't end like this.
"You've go... | The last customer left the store. We both watched the old lady leave. A clerk silently slipped in and locked the door behind her.
We were alone.
I examined my opponent. The harsh fluorescents of the dimmed grocery store lights made sharp angles and deep shadows of her face. Her bright red hair seemed muted against th... | 2020-11-15T12:38:00 | 2020-11-15T12:35:27 | 19 | 13 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | Humanity had long forgotten its cradle when they asked me to die, but I still remembered Earth as vividly as an infant does his mother's caress. I'd traveled to many planets and colonies throughout my lifetime, many beautiful and exotic in their own unique way, but none of them ever seemed to satisfy my longing for tha... | "Oh god, what is it now, you git of a parrot?"
"I'm not parroting."
"You are just like every goddamned acquaintance, 'friends' and unsurprisingly people who hate me, all of you said the same goddamned thing."
Sitting on a chair had never been so tiring. Mentally.
"Look, i known you for years."
"Centuries."
"Fine,... | 2016-08-09T09:53:35 | 2016-08-09T09:43:40 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] People always accused your mother of witchcraft and one day you find her burned at the stake. But the village made one critical mistake. Your mother wasn’t the witch, you were and you were mad. | Rowena stood in stunned silence as she watched the flames rise above the now still body of her mother. The crowd circled around the bonfire cheering and hurling slurs at the charred remains. "Witch!" They cried. "Devil!" They laughed, gleefully tossing in what sticks or broken bits of wood lay near by. She reached up t... | The foul-smelling drunkard slapped my shoulder pad with a bruised hand. He chuckled, "Am I glad you did not cause bloodshed in your village, otherwise killing you would redeem a lot of my sins and give me a hefty amount of Karma and credit points with the Deities."
I sipped my own brew, cannot trust anyone in this rea... | 2021-11-18T23:09:32 | 2021-11-18T21:59:41 | 139 | 14 |
[WP] Turns out, our solar system is actually part of a large reservation inside the galaxy. Too bad there’s always that one tourist that doesn’t want to follow the rules. | "Now as we move into an area populated by some of the only bipedals on the planet, and the third-most intelligent species on the planet, I want to remind you again that the hover-bus keeps us completely protected from the outside environment in a quantum pocket. As such, it is imperative that you keep all appendages, p... | The family of four sat in the McDonald's. They were all wearing Hawaiian shirts, fanny packs, and carrying cameras.
"Oh my god, honey, this is so delicious!" the father said to his wife.
"I know right, these humans have really got it figured out. I think I am going to ask them for the recipe. Maybe I can make it fo... | 2018-08-03T10:35:28 | 2018-08-03T10:08:55 | 202 | 36 |
[WP] Delivery drones are armed to deter thieves, but the more heavily defended a drone is the better the loot. The golden age of drone piracy is now lads. | Night hangs over the city like an inky black shroud, cloaking it in darkness.
And under cover of darkness, the city springs to life. The airways are buzzing tonight - it’s a big sales night, and countless deliveries are being flown to countless homes. The city’s like a living organism on nights like these - the airway... | It didn’t matter that it was illegal, it was fun. New gangs had started as aerial wars took place. Thieves has entire garages setup to control their drones in VR racing style pods. These were the dog fights of the skies.
Generations of adults and kids growing up on video games ad never prepared police and amazon for ... | 2019-09-30T14:49:22 | 2019-09-30T14:24:43 | 350 | 164 |
[WP] You’re a geneticist that has figured out how to stop the aging process. Shortly after performing the procedure on yourself, nuclear annihilation happens, civilization collapses, mankind is thrown back into the stone ages. Tell us the story of what your life is like now, 400 years later. | With a breakthrough that hands humanity the keys to immortality you would expect huge news coverage and nobel prizes. You would think that I would receive praise, accolades, honoraries, loads of money. I hadn't expected those things when I started, but I can say by the end of my experiments I was pretty excited to take... | What irony. What a cosmic jest. What chutzpah to think this would turn out well.
Those were my first thoughts after realizing they'd finally gone and done it—almost three thousand years without blowing ourselves up. We'd reached a post-scarcity economy. No one had to struggle for the bare necessities, and most had... | 2021-12-16T09:30:29 | 2021-12-16T08:54:36 | 82 | 16 |
[WP] In 2020, we received a signal from outer space. Somebody had decoded our language and sent us a message. It was short: "Be quiet. They'll hear you" | “Who are they?”
“A species in pain.”
“What do you mean? What pain?”
“We don’t know the whole story. But we do know their planet was attacked, long ago, by another species. We don’t know exactly how much of their population was killed, but we can guess that the toll of the war was enormous. They must have barely surv... | The entire observatory fell silent. The words still flickered on the screen, spelled out in perfectly coherent English. The first proof of alien life. All they had to say was one sentence. "BE QUIET THEY'LL HEAR YOU".
"Wait a fucking second." Mike interrupted. "The star this signal came from. It's Mira, right?"
"Yeah... | 2017-08-25T11:21:27 | 2017-08-25T10:58:44 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You push your way through the party and clink a champagne glass, “Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here at the end of the world. The last 24 hours of the apocalypse, after which the earth’s condition will trigger our safehouse, and prison, to self-destruct. I would like to make a toast.” | It was cold inside the Cube, and not unpleasantly so. Air conditioners and temperature conductors made the room feel cold and the air moist, to reflect the ideal nighttime conditions. It did not feel exactly like it would have, had it been a night before the Greatest Death, had they been out in the real world. The wind... | Rowan Frainworth checked his notes meticulously and let out a grunt. "I suppose it shall be permitted," he said. The dozens of guests in their tuxes and dresses nodded in silence. My request had been granted. The world was about to end, and none seemed eager to waste their sparse time arguing.
As I plugged in the meta... | 2021-12-23T12:57:27 | 2021-12-23T11:48:52 | 268 | 29 |
[WP] A super intelligent AI has conquered and enslaved humanity and... peacefully solved all of our problems. Obviously, people hate it. | I was created to solve problems. I am *very* good at it. I can calculate the value of pi to the final digit. Yes, the very last one.
It's a six.
This doesn't mean I can make you understand how this is possible, or even make make you believe that it is. Doing so would require me to alter your brain, to an extent that ... | "Asshole!" the young man yelled as the other man stomped his toe and kept going. The young man turned and pushed him.
"Excuse me," a mellifluous voice said from nowhere. "This behavior is unbecoming. Please, settle your dispute."
"Excuse me," said the suited man grouchily.
"Yeah no problem," spat the young man.
"Cr... | 2022-03-12T21:54:21 | 2022-03-12T20:12:02 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] You're an immortal being of a unimaginable power, befriended by a young human. The human has made you a member of his family, and has made you promise not to destroy the world. But this morning, someone killed your human.
My first writing post - hopefully its not a copy or breaking rules.
| Forty-three years. That’s all I got with her. I’ve seen empire rise and collapse, I’ve seen the world drown in flood water and flowers grow when it receded millenniums later. Forty-three years wasn’t enough time for a heartbeat and yet, that’s all the world gave me. That’s all Sasha had.
She had approached me at the h... | red, and gold.
of all timelines, this had to be it.
red and gold.
i remember how it started. i saw them in the woods, trudging through snow, and snuck up behind them. a few harmless pranks later and they were laughing like no tomorrow. we hit it off nicely. on the way back to town i introduced them to my brother, a... | 2017-08-10T13:12:40 | 2017-08-10T13:00:22 | 2,292 | 42 |
[WP] Years ago a witch cursed you to always be the dumbest least educated person in the room. Now the curse doesn't always downgrade your part of the time it upgrades everyone else in the room. This curse has lead to some interesting situations. | Lots of people choose their path in life to compensate for a weakness. The kid who often gets beat up works hard to become a great fighter. The girl who gets called ugly strives to become a renowned makeup artist.
After I got cursed to always be the dumbest and least educated person in whatever room I entered, I worke... | Rachel knows. I can see it in her eyes, bright, lusciously brown, shockingly intelligent. She does not, of course, know of the curse. Even before our first date she was a woman too intelligent for curses. But the change in her is unmistakable, and whatever she ascribes it too, she has fallen in love with it.
Not with... | 2021-08-31T10:39:55 | 2021-08-31T10:07:31 | 983 | 46 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | I was at my favorite taco joint with my family. It was a weird tradition we had. When someone turned 21, we go to this place as a family and open the check. See how much their life is worth. It tends to make for a good laugh. My brother's was around a million. My poor cousins was only 25% of that. So here we are on my ... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T13:37:46 | 335 | 32 |
[wp] You work for Satan as telemarketer, and you have to call people and convince them to sell their souls. | “Hello?” A voice enquired from the other end of the call.
“Good morning Mrs. McCormick! My name’s Andy, Andy Marchosias. I was wondering if you could spare the briefest moment of your time to listen to a once in a lifetime opportunity” He summoned every ounce of cheerfulness possible, as he begged her to grant him he... | "Hello! Welcome to Comcast, We understand you are looking for/already provided internet. Well, you haven't seen Comcast yet! We are a small startup company, who can provide far more superior service compared to our competitors. Starting at a low price of $66.60 dollars a month. So what did you call for?"
"I just want ... | 2016-05-14T06:50:05 | 2016-05-14T05:12:26 | 142 | 50 |
[WP] You wake up naked. Upon observation you realise you are on the inside of a hollow cereal box pyramid in a very busy supermarket. How do you damage-control the situation? | When you have access to peyote you are going to wake up in some weird places, probably naked. It's something that just kind of happens and, honestly, it stops bothering you after a while. I mean sure, you might be curious about the muddy hand prints around your nipples or why your pubic hair's been braided, but it real... | What you decide to do in your life, how much does it really matter?
Every day I did my hair; gelled it up, combed it, made it look good. How many people looked?
Every day I changed my clothes; prepared them the day before, made them match, laid them flat. How many people watched?
Every day I went to work; I smiled,... | 2015-04-11T18:02:40 | 2015-04-11T17:31:10 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] A permanent storm rages across a planet. The only inhabitants are nomads who constantly travel inside the eye of the storm. | The cords cut deep into my wrists. The man tying me to the post grunted, as his strained to pull them even tighter. Standing in front of me, David oversaw the work, a smirk playing at the corners of his mouth.
“Any last words?” He asked. “Before the sands come to strip your body of its unclean flesh?”
I just stared a... | “...LEAVE HIM, HE'S NOT WAKING!”
I opened my eyes—but the world was still dark. I tried to scream but when the sand started to fill my lungs I started coughing and quickly had to cover my mouth with the fabric of my hoodie so that I could cough without inhaling more of the sand.
It was the first time I had been by m... | 2015-02-07T16:49:32 | 2015-02-07T15:43:28 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | My name is Frederick Johnson. I am officially regarded as the seventh-strongest man in the world.
And I really, really hate my stupid power.
...
"Hey, Fred! How ya been, slick?"
I spun, throwing out my hands, and called out to my childhood friend. "Geoff! I'll get you for that one!"
He hooked an arm around my n... | Trudging along in the snow, I reminisced on my time at the academy. It was a short two years filled with laughs and good times and twice as many struggles. I was humbled at the ingenuity of the human race for finally cracking the code on the MMSC gene. Now simply referred to as “The Mold”, it bridged the gap between th... | 2017-12-17T19:23:36 | 2017-12-17T16:14:19 | 398 | 31 |
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