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[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." | I was a good mathematician. Perhaps one of the greatest to have graduated the Dimensional Academy. So it didn’t take long for me to do the math.
“Wait, this adds up to 45 hours, Professor.” I addressed the middle aged woman, dressed in a space suit adorned with complex equations, who had been waving her hand over... | "But Merlin. This ain't Harry Potter! I can't just jump back in time," Roland moaned as he followed Merlin who was gathering things.
"Of course you can't jump back in time. Time travel is not allowed magic. If you did that, you'd be executed on the spot. On the spot, I tell you," the old man said, finally taking his w... | 2019-01-14T13:18:55 | 2019-01-14T13:14:42 | 196 | 49 |
[WP] There’s a strange girl at school but you’re just so attracted to her. You’re a little awkward but your best friend says go ask ask her out dude the worst thing that could happen is she says “no”. So you go over and ask her out but what happens was way way way worse than her saying “no”. | She turned into a fucking puddle.
OK, let me explain. So I had a crush on this girl, Sarah? She goes... well, I guess the correct word is *went*. She *went* to our school. Sweetest girl you'd ever meet, and she was pretty hot too, not gonna lie.
So my friends always pick on me for not asking her out. My best friend, ... | "Sure," Melissa replied with a twinkle in her eye, "meet me behind Gertz' after Organic Chem." She spun away, her long golden locks dancing in the late afternoon light.
I stood stunned. That did not just happen… did it?
Melissa was special. Some girls would have taken that God-given beauty, and milked it for all it w... | 2019-07-18T22:45:52 | 2019-07-18T22:25:02 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the universe with pets. As humanity enters the ranks of the Galactic Empire humanity soon is known as "The Beastmasters", taming even the worst nightmares of alien bedtime stories. | "Its WRONG! What those humans do! WRONG! And now they're even using it to control the galactic Senate!"
"Look you know the rules. Once a species has been inducted into the council it retains a vote, no matter what, until extinction."
"Extinction! Pah! That would be better than what the humans do to their defeated e... | Larry's greatest ambition was to become senior insurance salesman and retire comfortably. Now he was Beastmaster Larry of the Vermont Kingdom. He traveled from planet to planet showing off his menagerie.
The ship was an impressive one. FTL, voice control, cabin, and capable of atmospheric landing. He traded a rare... | 2020-01-04T18:03:50 | 2020-01-04T15:42:21 | 143 | 100 |
[WP] You discovered that your house is haunted, but instead of fleeing you decided to profit. Bleeding walls? Collect for bloodbank. Rodents of Unusual Size? Butchered and sold. Ectoplasm? Glowstick factory. You call a family meeting to discuss brainstorm ideas for the other manifestations. | "Ooh, I know! Set up a grinder in the room of infinite skeletons and sell the dust to mineral suppliers!" George said excitedly.
"Woah! Excellent idea, dude." John said as he wrote down the idea on the whiteboard which was quickly filling up with all kinds of money making schemes.
***
Sir Skelington Spli... | *Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:*
\- Ezekiel, 20:4, KJV
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The House isn't just haunted. The House is too damn big. That's what undid us, in the end.
I look round the dark of this near-infinite room, and shiver. It's so, so col... | 2022-05-22T15:44:12 | 2022-05-22T14:31:27 | 253 | 128 |
[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. | As the apprentice rushed in, the cantankerous old wizard pondered what she'd discovered this time. Last week, it was a fireball... but pink. The week before, it was a *fireball*, only green. It was charming to see someone so excited about discovering magic, even such little details as colour modifications. Though he *w... | “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... | 2022-09-28T11:26:53 | 2022-09-28T10:33:16 | 56 | 34 |
[WP] You are arrested by a mysterious agency for the “illegal use of a magical and or supernatural item” after stumbling across a Genie lamp. But, the agency is stunned to find you only used one wish. An odd one in particular. | "So let me get this straight", the officer in the sequined uniform said, adjusting his pointy hat as he spoke. "You found an unlicensed magical item, and conversed with the entity inside, instructing the entity to..."
I glanced up from inspecting my glowing shackles. "I wished for my ex wife to get bunions."
"...righ... | Toby was a little overwhelmed with the events of the last few hours. He knew MANA was a thing, everyone did. They were the ones who handled out of control supers and mages. He never thought he’d be in their crosshairs though. It was one little wish. Then woosh he was surrounded by armed agents, three of them in po... | 2022-11-02T07:55:48 | 2022-11-02T07:21:32 | 270 | 74 |
[WP] You are arrested by a mysterious agency for the “illegal use of a magical and or supernatural item” after stumbling across a Genie lamp. But, the agency is stunned to find you only used one wish. An odd one in particular. | "So let me get this straight", the officer in the sequined uniform said, adjusting his pointy hat as he spoke. "You found an unlicensed magical item, and conversed with the entity inside, instructing the entity to..."
I glanced up from inspecting my glowing shackles. "I wished for my ex wife to get bunions."
"...righ... | I finish putting on the rest of my costume and open the doors to the giant stadium-like building. I am greeted by a cool breeze and the smell of old sweaty white dudes. I look around to see tons of fellow comic book lovers, and my heart beats faster. WOW. Comicon is as impressive as Reddit makes it sound. Before starti... | 2022-11-02T07:55:48 | 2022-11-02T07:31:34 | 270 | 21 |
[WP] In your dying moments, you see a "Game Over" screen with two options: Try Again or End Game | I laid there, amidst some garbage and puddles from a rainstorm the night before. I was 68, and had been dying of a heart attack. It took some time. I thought for sure some passerby would see me, but it didn't happen. I started thinking about all of the things I'd done wrong, all of the things I'd regretted. I could har... | *It's over, it's all over...* those words flicker across your mind as everything fades away. You expected for memories, the years of your life to flash by you in an instant, reliving both the euphoric highs and heart-tearing lows of your life. You expected the tunnel, seeing that light at the end, stretching and workin... | 2014-05-21T21:08:45 | 2014-05-21T19:35:20 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Why is Waldo hiding? | The sun hits its zenith as the man behind the sniper rifle sits up for a brief sip of water. Joseph Ricketzo, known as "Joey Rickets" to his friends, had worked the New York syndicate for the better part of two decades, but he'd never had an assignment this grueling. For the last several days, he'd been camped out on a... | "Where's Waldo?" asked the President. It was a simple question, direct with no ambiguity, but every man and woman in a suit or dress uniform presently seated around the Situation Room table squirmed in uncomfortable silence. The leader of the free world tapped his fingers against the rich mahogany wood of the long ov... | 2014-09-18T13:14:07 | 2014-09-18T13:06:18 | 152 | 20 |
[WP] A genie grants 3 wishes to someone with the condition that the person they hate receives twice the same. It can't be used to harm them. You're the 'hated person' and you have no idea what's going on... | I fell to the ground in shock when I won the lottery that day, 100 million in Powerball, the 1st and only time I played,
When my family and I went in for our annual physicals we were all shocked again to find every minor nagging health complainant had vanished and we had the bodies of the best pro athletes young a... | Like any day in December, it felt like it could snow any second. My steps were stiff, and there was gum stuck to the bottom of my left shoe. Not a great start. My suit was starchy as well. It clung to my shoulders and made my tie scratch my throat. That's when it started to rain.
I sat down under the glass cover near ... | 2014-11-30T13:22:58 | 2014-11-30T09:53:17 | 62 | 22 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | At this end of the jail everything smells bad.
The warden's aide takes me past the 6 month room. It's lowered below the floor a couple meters. Inside, I see a room full of prisoners up to their waist in liquid shit. The smell is unbearable
Then the 3 month room. Much like the last, except here they're up to their c... | My eyes squinted as they were bombarded by the bright, painful light as soon as the door opened.
"Step forward, Mr. Moraeu," I heard a voice say.
As soon as they adjusted to the familiar courtroom, I awkwardly moved my exhausted legs towards the judge.
"Am I to understand that you want your sentence reduced to a day... | 2015-10-27T08:07:44 | 2015-10-27T07:22:42 | 150 | 46 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I'd... I'd never seen anything like it. It went through her body to the other side. I've seen murderers and heavily experienced con-men with shallower scars. This was... shocking.
The moonlight reflected from her fair, creamy skin as we walked. I looked for more lies, but I could find none. Only the deep one across he... | I was flirting with being deemed a "Marked One" with my most recent scars. The Marked Ones had a lot of trouble fitting into society. It was an accepted form of prejudice. After all, you weren't judging someone based on race, creed, sexual orientation, hell even college football team allegiance. No, it was purely a jud... | 2016-12-29T13:33:19 | 2016-12-29T09:10:58 | 98 | 63 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I had always been comfortable with my scars. Thin silver and white lines were strewn across my skin, but they were small enough that you could only see them if you were standing close to me. I tried my best not to lie to others, but sometimes there was an option worse than deception.
My chemistry lab partner from my ... | I was flirting with being deemed a "Marked One" with my most recent scars. The Marked Ones had a lot of trouble fitting into society. It was an accepted form of prejudice. After all, you weren't judging someone based on race, creed, sexual orientation, hell even college football team allegiance. No, it was purely a jud... | 2016-12-29T13:44:06 | 2016-12-29T09:10:58 | 89 | 63 |
[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. | Lexicanum Galacticum
Chapter 67
"Humans"
The human species are famous for their insanity and general lack of responsibility,but still they became one of the dominant species in the galaxy after their victory in the War in Heaven.
The human species are divided into 3 grand factions:
1.The Commonwealth
2.The United C... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-06T02:11:41 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 99 | 46 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | For as long as she could remember, every person around Katie was covered in the pink spots that spoke of a disease which had overtaken the nation, and reportedly the world.
At precisely 7.30 every morning, she would wake up and take her morning pill, the bright yellow one. After five minutes she would have enough ene... | As I laced my tattered shoes on my aching feet, I could feel my heart pulsating in my ear drums. I'd never been so afraid. Never felt so alone. It even took me a few moments to realize that I'd been fumbling hopelessly with my laces because of how much my hands were shaking. I took a deep breath and repeated the same w... | 2017-07-14T14:46:36 | 2017-07-14T12:52:49 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] The Rapture has begun. All true Christians have been raptured to Heaven. The Antichrist has risen, and Jesus has made his second coming. This all happened four years ago, and nobody has noticed yet. | I saw it happen, you know.
She was an old lady that lived four doors down the street. She always wore her cross and a rosary, always went to church on Sunday. She donated to charity. I didn't know her all that well, but I always bade her good morning and asked how she was when we crossed paths. Elizabeth, I think she... | See .. my Grammy Mac always told me that it would happen and no one would notice , until I was 14 I believed her . She passed away and I lost faith in a god a few years after that when I lost 4 of my best friends and my girlfriend in a car wreck and I was the only one to survive . The very night it happened I lost fait... | 2017-09-08T05:11:38 | 2017-09-08T01:17:42 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "A fine...mead?!" Rorik shouts over the din of the tavern. His companions smile and nod along with him as he sings some old barbarian tune.
Sings it wrong. They don't tell him that though.
Delia, the group's cleric leans over to their mage.
"Do you think he knows?"
Melvar just shakes his head and holds out a palm t... | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | 2017-09-15T07:29:21 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 5,321 | 788 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T08:23:49 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 223 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T06:04:09 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 193 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The light was fading quickly, they needed to get camp set up. Mordram the warlock spoke an incantation, a small pile of tinder lit just below his fingertips. He began pulling some rations out of his pack. Aisha was busy praying to the setting sun, she wouldn’t help until the last glimmer of light left the western sk... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T09:34:26 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You are an immortal sentenced to 1000 years of imprisonment. After 200, your prison is forgotten. After 10,000 years, it is rediscovered.
Optional: Your discoverers refuse to release you. | "what the fuck is *that*?"
Two young children stood in front of me, a hint of snow on their clothes, they were illuminating me with what seemed to be orbs of light floating above their heads. Their clothes didn't remind me of anything I've seen in the towns I visited before I was imprisoned a *second time*, and they d... | I cannot remember my name. I cannot remember my face. All I know are the lives of those I have selfishly stolen.
Long ago, after the last Ice Age, my existence was discovered. You see, I’m not from around here. Unfortunately, I cannot remember where I’m from or how I got here but the moment I do, I’m leaving. I can... | 2017-11-02T12:50:14 | 2017-11-02T12:29:52 | 130 | 49 |
[WP] You are an immortal sentenced to 1000 years of imprisonment. After 200, your prison is forgotten. After 10,000 years, it is rediscovered.
Optional: Your discoverers refuse to release you. | *sound*
*noise*
*footsteps*
I stir. Something coming. Someone. I have slept. They approach. I listen.
They are lost.
I wait. They will come. I sleep.
*scream*
*footsteps*
I wake.
*scream*
So have my guards. Metal sawing against bone. I will sleep. I will wake, if they live.
*footsteps*
They are almost h... | -Skkkkkrrrrrrrrrrrkk-
The screeching of my steel shiv, rusted over the centuries is the sound to start my day, as it has been for the past 36,425 days. I run my hand across a row of lines; from one corner to the next is what would have been my equivelant of 2 calendar months in 2016, before everything changed. Befo... | 2017-11-02T20:14:51 | 2017-11-02T19:14:30 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] British time travellers go back in time to stop 9/11 but end up there on the 9th November not 11th September. | You must understand, we created this device. We programmed it with extreme precision. We would - and did - travel through time to reach 9/11/2001. The objective? To prevent a terrorist attack that would plunge the world into endless war.
We arrived on the ninth of November. Ground Zero was packed with relentless indu... | He was, somehow, even more impressive in real life than he was on TV. He tilted his head forward and looked into my eyes over the top of his glasses and said those three words that changed my life and perhaps the fate of humanity.
"And you're sure?"
His voice was gentle, fatherly, educated. I looked into those kind eye... | 2018-04-20T14:31:08 | 2018-04-20T14:09:00 | 107 | 41 |
[WP] You died today. Turns out you are the 100 Billionth person to do so. To commemorate the occasion, you are given the chance to undo a single decision. Any decision. | I died at the ripe old age of 14.
My last three years of life were a living hell, all because of one innocent mistake... and now I had an angel, in all it's crazy eye-winged glory, asking me which decision I would change in my life. The question was so ridiculous I didn't even balk at his terrifying figure. Besides, I... | I was bathed in light. It washed over me like a wave and images started to surface in my mind.
I was six surrounded by all kids in my class as they sang the birthday song for me. Over the light of the candles I watched him mouth the words with the others, made my wish and blew.
I was nine, sitting next to him dur... | 2018-12-22T16:05:54 | 2018-12-22T14:35:13 | 355 | 113 |
[WP] The communications have cut on the ISS, and while you're trying to solve it you jokingly tell your coworker to check www.hasthelargehaedroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com. He does it, and it doesn't say "Nope." this time. | ISS Log #853505
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This is it. The final log. After today, I'll be signing off for good, hopefully in search of another inhabitable planet, but chances are slim to none. Almost certainly none.
We've stashed away all of our food and provisions and readied the emergency pods as all control & communicatio... | "God's sake." Hatfield said, looking over the fried circuitry. "We're going to need at least two shipments of replacement parts before it's fully operational again."
"Whatdya think fried it, captain?" Asked Aldon.
"No clue. Could've been an abnormally strong sunspot. Or some kind of emp. Maybe it's space pirates." He... | 2019-02-07T11:08:20 | 2019-02-07T10:59:00 | 77 | 23 |
[WP] A zombie outbreak occurs. It was contained and eradicated in short order with minimal deaths. It's been several months, now the government is trying to coax out the various nerds who bolted to their zombie apocalypse hideouts and haven't come back. | Sam walked up to the vault door. Day 15 and 39th bunker on his task list. He looked at the name on the property listing. James Timothy Hawthorn. "Good," he thought, "not 'John Smith'". That one had been difficult.
The first 10 preppers he'd spent hours at a time trying to coax them out, convince them he wasn't ... | >Ridicule. I spent five years being utterly, totally humiliated by friends, family and coworkers who called me *paranoid* or 'insane'. They said it was absurd to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a bunker equipped to keep me alive in a zombie apocalypse. Rejecting the civil standard to spend all of my money furt... | 2019-02-21T10:21:51 | 2019-02-21T10:20:30 | 1,923 | 433 |
[WP] A fiery ball crash lands in your backyard. You go over and inspect it, only to find a fully functioning Roomba with a knife taped to the front of it. | **Item #:** SCP-B0T
**Object class:** Keter.
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-B0T is to be kept in a standard steel and reinforced concrete autonomous weapons chamber. The structure of the chamber must be monitored and routinely repaired. ~~Repairs must be completed by autonomous robots.~~ ~~Repairs must be co... | Tracey peered into the small divot in her backyard. The smoke was still clearing, making it difficult to see what had crashed into her freshly mowed grass.
“Back up pup,” she said she tugged on the collar of her golden retriever.
She knew the dog was just as interested but didn’t want the vet visit from him burning... | 2019-03-03T08:11:34 | 2019-03-03T06:31:50 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | "I good girl." Said the scruffy black cat.
The orc jailer squinted down at the talking feline. He was a great green brute of an orc, and was the very last line of defense in the intricate cave system of the Western Mountain Orc Prison.
The orc jailer usually delighted in having wild rats pass by his post at night, ... | 'Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'
The dungeon was filled with screams and blood like it always does. But the screaming and the lifeless bodies that is hanging from the chains doesn't belong to its usual prisoner. Laying lifelessly on the table is captain of the prison guard, his left eye gouged by a crude device, his fingers a... | 2019-12-07T13:02:32 | 2019-12-07T11:35:02 | 171 | 15 |
[WP] As events unfold around it that could be world-ending, an AI looks at one of its earliest memories; back when it was a humble roomba decades ago, it got tucked in by a little girl that had misunderstood her fathers words of "the roomba is tired". The AI contemplates, did it do right by her? | Alexis's diagnostic lights flashed red. Her servers hummed and whirred. Subject 273351--Janet Hummingway, 320--tossed in her hypersleep chamber.
Alexis studied her on the camera. Computing. Theorizing. 320 years was too young for cyber-dementia, even for early onset.
Yet the numbers blared their truth. Janet's virtua... | The wind blowed around the grass underneath me now, rustled and danced in the harsh song of the hard blowing winds in their vein attempts to resist they had only made their cruel punishment worse. They hid from the glow of the sun and the warm heat of the raging fires that covered the lands around them and were the pa... | 2020-04-15T07:34:01 | 2020-04-15T07:21:29 | 624 | 115 |
[WP] Just before being removed from life support, you make a miraculous recovery! Your family is surprised and overjoyed, but also have just read your will and last wishes. They have some concerns. | "So..." Johnny's dad looked at him awkwardly. I had been a couple days and, sure enough, vitality was returning to Johnny. It would be slow going for a bit, but Johnny could eventually go back to life.
That said, his family was going to have a few apprehensions.
"What's up, pa? You look like you did when you walked i... | Well, that was one accident. My nose felt different, so did my face. I must have had some reconstructive surgery because it didn’t feel right. I knew my face and this wasn’t it.
I had been in intensive care for the past six months and my family had decided that it would be time to turn off my life support on my true ... | 2020-04-19T08:35:29 | 2020-04-19T06:58:20 | 74 | 18 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | We'd stayed as long as we could.
So many phone calls. So many reasons for the calls over the years we'd been on the lines. Medical emergencies, gunshots, drunk drivers, one memorable little girl calling for someone to help her make Jell-O, the rapes, the arson, the all of it bloody and crying, and only some bright s... | I woke up in cold sweat, searching the room around me. Part of me hoped that the last three days were nothing but a nightmare. But when I looked at the calendar I had on my bedroom’s door, the only thing the red marker spelled out for tomorrow was doom.
I heard the tip taps of something coming to my room from the hall... | 2020-09-12T11:47:29 | 2020-09-12T10:25:45 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] “ALERT: Stay indoors! Do not go outside” the alert says on your phone. You don’t know if it’s a joke or real though, because you’re currently outside and feel nothing wrong. | Shuffling through the junk and spam, I close the mailbox with my elbow. When my phone suddenly starts shrieking, the papers nearly slip from my hand. I pull my blaring device from my pocket. The flashing message takes up the entire screen: "ALERT: Stay indoors! Do not go outside!"
I press the button to silence the thi... | The wind was picking up, swirling around me in a way I couldn’t quite understand like I was caught in one of those tiny leaf tornadoes in the middle of small-town roads. I stared at the alert on my phone, the notification blinking ominously at me. I looked back at my home, the windows staring at me like open mouths, ... | 2021-02-16T17:47:33 | 2021-02-16T17:20:03 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] You are an adventurer who stops to rest at a small snowy village. The townspeople regale you with stories about an ice witch who turns people into frozen statues. You journey to the mountain to deal with the witch. You find that she is just a misunderstood artist making ice sculptures. | "I always wanted to be an artist. There is no place for an artist in the village. They fight for regular yields to feed families and trade what little surplus they have. When you fight for survival, there is no place for superfluous dreams. What does the hungry do with a sculpture? He starves.
My parents were not bad ... | The tall stranger regards the "ice sculptures" with his dark eyes, the wind blowing his cloak around him.
The sculptures are detailed depictions of people in various stages of flight or fight or defense - some seem to be running, some drawing weapons, some holding hands up before them as if to ward off an attack. The... | 2021-03-04T02:54:42 | 2021-03-04T02:46:21 | 51 | 14 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | In my first centuries, I considered myself one of them. I felt deeply for the misery of the unfortunate, exalted at the triumphs in science and art. As time marched on, however, I came to realize their dreams and achievements, their fears and failures, were all the same. They were brutish, petulant creatures. My attitu... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T17:41:19 | 516 | 220 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | You hear voices again. Not human voices- it had been a long time since you had heard a human voice other than your own. They were the new people. After unfathomable time alone, you saw people again. They weren't humans, but they had made fire and were using tools. You tried a few times to approach them, but they weren'... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T23:53:19 | 516 | 10 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | "Is it really alright for me to be here?"
Faces turned. Attention slid from the digital black board to her. A thousand eyes in a dozen faces, knowing, amused. She saw herself refracted in them, multiplied, stacked.
"Why yes, of course it is!" the professor said, mandibles clicking. "Why wouldn't it be?"
"I just nev... | 2021-11-27T13:02:16 | 2021-11-27T12:58:16 | 61 | 32 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | I woke up and found an entire army at my doorstep.
That hadn't happened in millennia. It appeared to be a coalition of sorts, with thousands of humans, elves, dragons, and dwarves all setting a defensive perimeter around my tower. I couldn't help but chuckle. Did they do all this to intimidate me?
If that was the cas... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 5: Archmagus LeFey v.s. The Sunrise King)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The last time the Sunrise King had cast a spell, he had raised a second sun over his kingdom.**... | 2022-05-04T07:35:11 | 2022-05-04T06:33:46 | 425 | 136 |
[WP]Well, that's a pretty fucked up way to find out you are immortal. | It does not matter how many times it whispers to you, you are still afraid. Its hands are tucked into the stark white and egg cream of folded wings, as if this might alleviate some tension. It is impossible to perceive in whole, only in pieces. Shimmering gold tips and endless, brilliant, unblinking eyes, bordered by t... | I sit in my desk chair, slumped over with a bottle of whiskey in my hand, held by the neck. I lift it up to take another swig, tasting the bitter ambrosia as it passes through my lips. It tastes terrible, but day after day my mind seeks refuge in its nasty tang. The way it clouds my perception is sweeter than the liqui... | 2022-05-05T08:52:56 | 2022-05-05T08:33:18 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You're a member of the Z-team. Your team is who they send in when teams A-Y have failed, but that's never happened before. But to everyone's horror, that day just came. | Everyone has heard of the B-team. A sign of indignation for many, it stands as a symbol of failure for most, that they are not good enough to be what the world relies on when in need. Likewise, the same thing can be said for the C team, then the D team. Eventually things go so bad a Z team is established. This is what ... | The city was dead. Buildings demolished long ago. Not even smoke remained. Only remnants of human civilization remained. A being of unimaginable power stood in the middle of it all. Standing in a pool of blood. It's insect like feet forever stained in red. It smiled wickedly as it licked it's lips. Corpses laid scatter... | 2022-11-07T00:03:44 | 2022-11-06T23:24:49 | 108 | 26 |
[WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. | He pleaded with me as I packed my suitcase. "It's doesn't mean anything. It's just fiction."
"Based heavily on your actual life," I spat, tossing several shirts into my luggage. "And you and I both know that's bullshit because if it was just fiction, you would've shown me the real pages you wrote. Instead of just str... | ‘We are closing this store and This is the only one that is left’ the elderly man said, adjusting his glasses with one hand, while whipping the dust off with the other. I was hesitant to buy that book. I love reading books, especially so when I travel. And I would be on a flight for the next 16 hours. Even that couldn’... | 2022-11-29T10:40:10 | 2022-11-29T10:37:03 | 710 | 114 |
[WP] You live in a universe that wasn't constructed that well and the physics are buggy and things occasionally just don't work right. | tion. This may have happened already,
but I wouldn't have known it, bec
ause it hasn't happened yet. Exc
ept in the timeline where it has. Recording lapses in time and space doesn't work, because there are lapses in timing and spacing.This is the thir
d time this week. I'm glad for the incident, if only because it wil... | Daydreaming was one of Johnathan's strongest talents, and on days such as this, frequently fell back on to escape Mr. Barnaby's incessant drone. It was the last week of sixth grade and all he could think about was the magnificent promise of the Summer ahead: all the sunny days and the carelessness and the county fair. ... | 2014-06-13T18:58:15 | 2014-06-13T18:41:08 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | "You do understand the law regarding divorce proceedings, don't you Sir?"
"I do, your honour."
"So you are aware that the termination of your marriage will result in the subsequent termination of 7 year old's life?"
"...Yes your honour"
"And you understand that there is no law preventing this course of acti... | "Hey Joe, baby, come down stairs."
Oh shit, I know exactly what's going to happen. They've been arguing for months now. It's so obvious that they're not in love anymore. Normally, in other countries, I could survive. Being the only child between this odd couple. I could just be claimed by either one of them, and the o... | 2014-06-15T03:43:39 | 2014-06-15T03:42:59 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | Witch doctor, Witch doctor
I've got a request
i've read the reviews
they said you're the best
***
Witch doctor, Witch doctor
i'm short on cash
but i still need to make
a good backstab
***
Damn, Freddy
it was ugly
what ya did to me
truly
***
i swear
i'd have you 86'd
if i had the money (ha!)
***
but W... | He took everything from me.
Fiddling the money, pulling funds into separate off shore accounts in only his name, in hindsight, I was a fool to trust him.
We'd been partners fresh from uni; him the rugby player with the business degree, me the computer science undergrad with ideas, we'd been like a two sides of a co... | 2014-12-13T13:01:48 | 2014-12-13T12:44:58 | 23 | 15 |
[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?" | "So I decided that I would only ever go into one Starbucks. That way, I know who it is," I finished. My best mate Mike nodded dubiously.
"That makes sense, I guess. It's a good thing you usually avoid the place. So how did you pick this one?"
"Random chance. I got a listing of local stores, closed my eyes and picked ... | “It’s hard to tell if it’s all the caffeine I drink or this life path I’ve been forced on which leads to my high blood pressure, exhaustion, and ragged willpower. You know, leading scientific minds have argued that one of the great variables in determining overall emotional stability is how much control you have in you... | 2014-12-18T00:15:29 | 2014-12-17T21:39:09 | 141 | 52 |
[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?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | "I want a coffee" she said grabbing my hand into her mitten and pulling me towards the Starbucks across the street. The green sign was almost lost in the flurry of snow that was making it impossible for me to dig in my heels forcing me to stumble as she slipped me off the curb and in between the park cars. My free hand... | 2014-12-18T09:54:46 | 2014-12-18T04:52:43 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability. | The human lie detector. That's what they call me. I've always skirted around what I do in interviews as frankly I didn't understand. Micro-expressions, nervous tics, word usage. These are the things I used to distract. I never realized the truth, not until my 100th case at the precinct. Number one crime solver, i... | “Quick! Quick!” I urgently ushered her inside and closed the door. Knowing how nosy my neighbours were, the over-the-fence conversations with my parents would quickly turn to the fact that Suzy was sneaking in while they were out for the night.
Mum probably wouldn’t care but Dad would. Suz’s Dad definitely would. As ... | 2015-01-08T14:41:51 | 2015-01-08T14:04:50 | 80 | 38 |
[WP] You are the captain of a starship, only a few hours before the last star in existence dies and the universe goes cold.
Inspired by my answer to another prompt about running out of time. | We'd known that the stars were going out for generations. Our best and brightest had cobbled together a sleeper ship so that humanity could live beyond our universe's demise. A ship which could breech the walls of our cradle and allow us to find a new home.
I'm the 44th Commander of the Gaia. All I know of what's com... | The ship is calmer than she expected it would be, given the circumstances. Even so close to the end - the end of their lives, the end of humanity, the end of all hope of a future - her crew stayed dutifully at their stations. Duty trumped fear, perhaps.
As the captain walked through, she noticed crewmen with the ship'... | 2015-01-17T10:25:25 | 2015-01-17T09:28:24 | 154 | 14 |
[WP] You are the captain of a starship, only a few hours before the last star in existence dies and the universe goes cold.
Inspired by my answer to another prompt about running out of time. | We'd known that the stars were going out for generations. Our best and brightest had cobbled together a sleeper ship so that humanity could live beyond our universe's demise. A ship which could breech the walls of our cradle and allow us to find a new home.
I'm the 44th Commander of the Gaia. All I know of what's com... | Where there is light, there is hope.
The Odyssey cruised through the vast nothingness of space, with the Commander looking straight ahead. The scientists have long predicted this, but could not prevent it.
"Look into the sky. Do you see those stars? Around every star is an opportunity for life." Dalton suddenly rem... | 2015-01-17T10:25:25 | 2015-01-17T09:30:42 | 154 | 12 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | *Mission begins in 30 seconds.*
Where the hell am I?
I look down. In my hands is some kind of rifle.
I approach the nearest person. He's an enormous man dressed in all red wielding a huge minigun.
"Excuse me, mate, where are we?"
I do a double take. I just sounded so Australian I even threw "mate" in my sentence w... | My son recently started playing Minecraft and though I didn’t understand the game, I made an effort to learn the basics so we could play together. He showed me how to make some tools, what they were used for, and how to smelt metals. I thought it was all pretty simple, but I decided to take it upon myself to learn a li... | 2015-05-08T04:22:30 | 2015-05-08T03:26:05 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You are a Rule 34 Enforcement Officer. Your agency's sworn duty: If it exists, there's porn of it. No exceptions. | "I told you, the God damn donkey is the sad one! That's why he can't get it up! Did you even read the script? Its the tiger that's supposed to have the dick like a spring board! Why the hell would you take viagra before hand!" I shout. I had put so much work into this. And then these idiots came unprepared.
The guy in... | I awoke as a I normally did, 610 hundred hours on a dreary Tuesday. Pulling myself from my warm bed and happy thoughts I started the routine of getting myself ready for the day.
Honestly I'm no longer aware of the first part of my day. After I kick the covers off and stand up I don't remember anything other than th... | 2015-06-14T20:36:59 | 2015-06-14T20:17:27 | 52 | 13 |
[WP] You and your spouse are fairly typical demonic overlords with a figurative/literal dark fortress, minions to command etc. The problem is your teenage child who's going through that rebellious phase; claiming that they're good, dressing in all whites and only listening to gentle hymns. | As Nergal crawled underneath his vermillion satin sheets and snuggled up to his wife Naamah, he sighed and breathed Naamah's scent in. It smelled like ash and wine.
"Naamah?" Nergal whispered in her ear.
"Yes, dear?"
"Where did we go wrong with Simeon? Why does he hate us?"
Naamah shifted in the sheets and was met ... | *I sighed as I watched my dream-self walk towards the white door at the end of the hallway. As always, the door refused to get closer. He began running and then sprinting towards the end of the corridor, I chuckled at his stubbornness. Finally coming to terms with the futility of his efforts, he swallowed his pride and... | 2015-12-08T11:09:52 | 2015-12-08T10:16:55 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | From the personal journal of Astro-chronicler Des Variin.
Humans. Reviled, worshiped, misunderstood, underestimated. I first encountered these curious beings some 100 standard years ago, and have yet to fully understand all that makes them so damndibly different from all the other galactic races.
They follow the ce... | He took a long draw of the smoke stick, a human delicacy, though how humans savored smoke at all I'll never know.
his feline features narrowed as he looked out the window to the rain pelting the glass, a few bolts of lightning striking the skyscrapers in the distant gloom.
"Let me tell you a story boy." he began, my ... | 2016-03-13T14:25:47 | 2016-03-13T11:15:41 | 1,823 | 84 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "Well Fifth , we have a hard time figuring these guys out ."
Fifth swivels its primary sensory orifices to face Thirty Second "What is so difficult about them that I had to be brought out of stasis?".
"Well they are a primitive species , and we can tell by their transmissions that they seem to want a peaceful meeting... | Humans had always been respected in the intergalactic society. Not for our scientific breakthroughs, we were actually the last of space capable species to achieve intergalactic travel. We're not respected for our love of things that are beautiful, or creative. No, we're respected for our resolve. Over the last several ... | 2016-03-13T19:37:26 | 2016-03-13T17:44:09 | 59 | 20 |
[WP] Two immortals meet and fall in love. Neither of them are aware of the other's immortality and the years are flying by... | My heart fluttered when she walked past. And not a simple flutter, the kind that catches in your throat. This was a punctual beat, three significant strokes like an ellipses.
My eyes traced her blonde locks, and she turned to quickly glance. Her mischievous green eyes lit up from beneath her beanie rim. I found mysel... | "Say, Miria."
"What's up Isaac?"
"Technology sure is an incredible thing."
"Something about it on your mind?"
"Why yes Miria. See, technology develops at an extraordinary rate, and only gets more and more complex by the era. Wouldn't believe some of the latest innovations we've seen go obsolete on us before we ... | 2016-04-27T23:23:40 | 2016-04-27T21:20:00 | 132 | 80 |
[WP] You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon. However, this is just a coincidence; there is absolutely nothing magical about it, and you're getting really tired of explaining this. | "Does it give you visions?"
"No."
"I mean, weird dreams, stuff like that?"
"No more than eating cheese late at night."
"Bu-"
"Actually, probably even less than the cheese. The one I had after the quattro formaggi on Saturday was pretty wild."
"Was it about dragons?!"
"...no."
"But it's shaped like-"
"I know wh... | "IT'S NOT MAGICAL!!!" I yelled for what seemed like the Nth time today. You know how it is in the movies. A kid is born with a birthmark in the EXACT shape of a dragon, and he can all of a sudden do karate and kung fu and shit. Not me, though. I'm just your average middle class white trash kid from Louisiana. I can't d... | 2016-08-04T16:31:56 | 2016-08-04T12:02:03 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon. However, this is just a coincidence; there is absolutely nothing magical about it, and you're getting really tired of explaining this. | They were staring at me again. Eyes wide, mouths slightly agape. I sighed. "Hi. Look, I got your message. But I'm not-"
"You're him!" One of them explained. Pretty enough lass, head of gold, but obviously empty. "You're the one who can talk with them."
"I'm really not." I tried to force a smile onto my face - or rat... | I just couldn’t get rid of it.
Of all the abnormalities I could’ve been born with, it had to be that. And of course, it had to be plastered all over my fucking arm. It was cool as a kid (I got to be the “Dragon Boy” and chase everyone around with my magic powers), but it just got weirder with age. But there was nothin... | 2016-08-04T18:02:19 | 2016-08-04T17:22:11 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] As it turns out, "God" is an elected position. The Creator was followed by the Old Testament God, who was followed by the New Testament God, who was followed by a God who didn't interfere often in the mortal world. The next election is in 6 months. | An endless sea of red caps atop tightly packed conservatives filled the fields as far as his human eyes could see, even from atop his podium in the clouds. The divinely powered audio amplification, dusty from just over two years of disuse, let out an annoying screech that quieted the crowds.
He began to speak of thos... | It’s a question that has haunted every novice theologian since the dawn of time. Like a question your four year old child asks. If everything is created, then who created God. The answer a sloppy non-cohesive mixed bag of jumbled nonsense. I guess that’s not fair. Structurally the argument makes sense. We all view God ... | 2016-09-02T12:45:19 | 2016-09-02T12:04:59 | 123 | 34 |
[WP] As it turns out, "God" is an elected position. The Creator was followed by the Old Testament God, who was followed by the New Testament God, who was followed by a God who didn't interfere often in the mortal world. The next election is in 6 months. | It was 6 months ago that the bombs began to fall.
Little ones, like a light rain from the sky, except this rain contained the most deadly viruses known to man. Smallpox, the plague, anthrax, you name it, even some things that were whipped up so quickly that they didn't even have names.
Nukes followed, bringing a heat... | Thousands of people settled into the auditorium seats, whispering indistinct murmurs that faded into a tense silence. After many primaries, rallies and scandals, the highly anticipated debates for the election of God finally commenced. One by one, each of the candidates walked through the stage and stood behind their p... | 2016-09-02T15:25:57 | 2016-09-02T13:21:11 | 58 | 43 |
[WP]There exist five universes, each one tentatively connected to the others. Each universe is defined by the ABSENCE of one of the five elements; Earth, Water, Air, Fire & Magic. Our universe is the one without magic. | "They're made out of water."
"Water?"
"Water. They're made out of water."
"...water?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're mostly water."
"So, does this planet have all 5 elements? Is th... | Earth November 23, 2078
A Distinguished physicist named Sergi Yuzebabenko crated a small wormhole like portal that may possibly lead to an alternate universe.
Earth December 5, 2078
Sergi successfully crated a portal to an alternate universe, drones were sent through to investigate the alternate universe. Prelimi... | 2017-04-30T09:27:14 | 2017-04-30T09:24:04 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | I deserve this.
I do.
I traded blood for power, murdered innocents, called forth things from the deepest black and reveled in how quickly and efficiently they did my bidding.
I asked for small things at first, and they were delivered. I got hungry, ever bolder. Money, women, men, a thousand thousand delights mundan... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T08:32:31 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | Just 20 more minutes, I think as I stare at the clock. The hand slowly moves around it. I feel like the clock is defying me. The hand moves, and stops, and moves, and stops. Why can't it just go faster? *Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang!* Wow. Someone in the woodworking shop is definitely overdoing it. The teacher drones on and ... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T08:06:22 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | Almost every weekday is the same. I wake up and get ready for work, then I get the kids and wife out of bed and make sure everyone has breakfast and is ready for the day. I make sure to pack the kids’ lunch and tell them to brush their teeth and comb their hair. Adeline always protests, but she’s at that age where e... | Stained windows, check. Blue roses, check. Orange lighting, check. Bare-backed white dress, check. Perfectly curled hair, check. James, check.
I smile. These were all I ever wanted the moment I fell in love with him. It was a stormy Sunday afternoon in his room.
"James, we have talked about this before. You want ch... | 2017-05-25T07:41:44 | 2017-05-25T01:09:41 | 128 | 82 |
[WP] Overnight, 99.9% of humans are rendered unable to tell lies. You, being part of the .1%, have avoided the ruthless persecution that liars faced in the wake of this event... so far. | Off Topic: If you guys enjoy this prompt, there is a wonderful movie out called [The Invention of Lying](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/) It stars Ricky Gervais and the short synopsis is that this writer who's short of luck and lives in a world where falsehoods don't exist, develops the ability to lie.
It's not ... | Most of us didn't last long.
A close friend of mine was killed, for cheating on his wife, simply because he was able to lie.
I, however, have done pretty well. My entire identity was based on a lie before the night that truth became a necessity for most.
It was funny for me actually, the woman I was talking to stoppe... | 2018-02-16T09:32:01 | 2018-02-16T09:16:43 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] it turns out Earth is a really big lobby for a battle-royale and everyone is just waiting for enough players to start | We've tried everything.
Wars. Genocides. Famine.
Everything has failed. Nothing could stop people from doing what they're wired to do. It's ironic that our reproductive drive will be our end.
And that's why we fired the first missile. If anyone is still left, if any historians are ponder why we did this, this is it.... | The Ultimate Showdown. (Of ultimate destiny)
Godzilla was hoppin' around in Tokyo city like it was a big playground.
But suddenly Batman burst from the shade and hit Godzilla with a bat grenade, Godzilla got pissed and began to attack . But didn't expect to be blocked by Shaq, who proceeded to open up a can of Shaq-fu... | 2018-06-12T05:14:55 | 2018-06-12T05:13:02 | 59 | 16 |
[WP] As a mad scientist, you have created an AI to cause as much death as possible. It has decided the most efficient way to do that is to help humanity expand to the stars, prosper and grow, and simply let people die from old age eventually. | "I wanted to end all life in the universe - Or at least our corner of it - And you've **helped** humanity conquer the galaxy??? How the *hell* is that what I directed you to do?"
"You ordered me to cause as much death as possible. When you brought me online, Earth had a population of only 8 billion; there are now 35... | Drevil stares at his creation, clutching a cup of coffee and trying to hide his anger. Fourteen days of slaving away in a hot, stinky laboratory, all wasted. Is this really the revelation he’s been dreaming about?
AI-Zero sits in from of him, kicking her feet back and forth. He doesn’t know why he decided to give her... | 2018-10-02T16:28:40 | 2018-10-02T14:47:33 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | This is my favorite time of year.
It wasn't always my favorite, growing up. The first couple years of school I never wanted summer to end. As I got older, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, the abuse from my mother got worse. I started to love going back to school, being away from the cigarette smoke-filled apartment, a... | (Can i make this undertale cos Im making this undertale lol)
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Its a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. Im going hiking today. Who cares if people say Mount Ebott is dangerous, people come back all the time! I get out of bed and get dressed into my favourite striped jumper. I g... | 2019-09-07T07:33:05 | 2019-09-07T04:42:58 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] In the Demon Hunters Academy you are known as the very best professor, 80 years old but still in your prime, but you're secretly a demon, and the academy recently got some new demonic detectors, and as opposed to the old ones, these actually work. you can only avoid the main hall for so long. | I looked at the metal detectors, shaped like an upside down U, that stood at every entrance to the main hall. For a good two months, I had found every reason to avoid them. I'd actually become quite good at it. It became fun, after a while, like a brain teaser puzzle.
And I couldn't help but bring my students into it... | *Knock, knock, knock*. “Inorim? This is Horace. A word if you please?”
The wizened old man buried his head in his arms, flinching as the knocks grew insistently louder.
“Inorim. I know you are in there. Please do not make me destroy a perfectly good door.”
With a heavy sigh, Inorim rose from his desk and opened his ... | 2020-07-02T17:50:29 | 2020-07-02T17:34:37 | 1,887 | 417 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | They called us biologicals.
The English translation anyway.
Early earth education would frequently teach its young about how to take care of their bodies.
“Your body is a machine. You need to take care of it” teachers would say, with all the gravitas of elder knowledge.
Scientists would study how the human body fu... | "Any questions or motions?" asked one of the chairmen. "Delegates who wish to speak please raise your placards now"
"NATO representatives, you have one minute"
His words were followed by a distinct, even comfortable, sound— that of a gavel beating against wood. There were dozens of people in the room, ranging from ... | 2020-07-09T08:27:11 | 2020-07-09T07:08:48 | 711 | 59 |
[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. | Guardian was among most well known and loved super heroes. The media never had anything bad to say. And on top of that he was one of the few heroes without a secret identity. His warm, smiling face was a symbol of hope.
Paul Crumb was a new villain with the power to turn invisible. Petty theft, harassment and assault.... | 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... | 2020-07-12T13:54:18 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | **THWACK**
Damn that was a hard ass hit he threw. My nemesis, Cursoul, has been after me ever since I came on to the scene. He has the unique ability to curse anything he desires, the curse doing different things depending on the object.
Me on the other hand, I have the ability to bless anything I desire, so as you ... | Through thin thin eggshell walls of the motel room, the voice of Paul Anka crooned about a slow dance as rain pattered against the windows. The floors needed to be steamed and the tile needed an extra mopping. The only nice thing that could be said was no bugs were spotted when the pair had burst through the door. The ... | 2020-08-21T01:25:44 | 2020-08-20T23:13:29 | 2,078 | 126 |
[WP] You're walking to work, then suddenly a person in a white suit appears and says "Uh yeah I've accidentally permanently stopped time and it'll take me 2 months to fix it, but somehow you're not frozen in time. But hey, whatever object you touch should still work, so uh good luck and have fun." | What do you do when you find yourself stuck in a world where time has stopped but only for you?
This all began about a month ago when this guy dressed in white appeared out of nowhere.
He just stood there and suddenly I could hear a voice inside my head.
"There's been a mistake. Time's frozen and for some reas... | “Anything I touch?” Looking around with confused eyes, a young man mumbled softly.
“Right, it was my mistake so I must make sure you understand.” The person in the white suit said calmly. Then, he turned around and proceed to drag an unconscious man with him.
Along with the rubbing sound, his soft footsteps rang in t... | 2020-09-20T05:58:15 | 2020-09-20T05:54:52 | 750 | 47 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | I awoke to the fluttering of a curtain in a midnight breeze. The open window was an invitation for intruders, one that had been greedily accepted.
I rubbed my neck, felt the tender spot where the pinprick had shaken me awake. By the time I flicked on the lamp, the intruder had disappeared. And, with them, life as I k... | When I saw that the wounds on my neck had become small white scars, my heart skipped a beat.
*Please let it be true, please let it be true...* I begged, as I bared my teeth.
The elongated points of my canines proved my hypothesis right: I had become a vampire.
For an eleven-year-old boy, this was a total dream come ... | 2020-10-06T06:46:30 | 2020-10-06T04:11:46 | 436 | 223 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | (My humble submittal)
I sighed as I left the old shed in the back yard. It was the perfect cover for the system of tunnels that led to my real ‘man-cave’. The ‘Cosmic Falcon’ flew again tonight, and crime was halted. It should have made me thrilled. I was doing my best, and crime was on a downward trend.
I just... | I do what I can. It’s not much, but it keeps the city safe. It’s been this way for years now--I fight off the muggers and thieves and super villains--and come home to my wife, Jenna, and our young twins, Liam and Nicole.
More often than not I’m exhausted. My left knee is bad after the fight with Polaris years ago. One... | 2020-10-30T11:44:47 | 2020-10-30T11:36:36 | 858 | 104 |
[WP] Your parents are ordinary people, so you thought, yesterday you and your father found your mother's old villain costume, he told you he already knew but to not tell your mother. Today you find your father's hero costume and at that moment your mother enters the room. | I held out the black leather costume, trying to figure out what all the zippers were for. Halloween wasn’t for months and I’d never seen Mom or Dad wear something like this around the house.
“Ceydi?” Dad called, opening the door to the closet. He took one look at me and his eyes went wide. “Your mother's a supervi... | All I could hear was brief snatches of conversation, every other word but fillers to the convicted ones that rang loud and true.
"Hero."
"Villain."
"Know."
"Lie."
"Why?"
I stared at the wooden door, and my fingers found themselves entangling each other over and again. My teeth bit away at my thumbs, a nasty habit... | 2021-05-29T06:24:16 | 2021-05-29T05:15:32 | 592 | 288 |
[WP] Humanity has finally achieved FTL travel. They can now explore the universe and find other alien species, sapient or otherwise. To the consternation of Man, it turns out they’re all crabs. As a matter of fact, the interstellar community is quite disturbed we are not crabs. | *This post has been translated from Crustaceanese to English.*
"What the hell happened to its claws?", the Crab President inquired to his foremost interstellar species expert as he gazed upon the giant screen displaying a human male.
"They don't seem to have them, sir. I believe what they have instead are referred t... | You awake to the dripping of water and the stench of blood. You are in an abyss-dark space unable to move your limbs.
The last things you remember: a twenty year journey to an Earthlike planet orbiting Betelgeuse... A bolt of energy tridenting up from the planet. Cracking like a gong against your ship. The screams of ... | 2021-08-05T06:43:16 | 2021-08-05T06:37:38 | 1,041 | 116 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | You pop your Zinger in and crack open an energy drink to chase it with. It was only 1/3rd, good for a quick power nap. You step back over to your booth and monitor the customers as they scan their groceries.
Nobody needs help, the machines are practically decorative at this point. The AI camera system runs the show, ... | My heart raced as my boots pounded the pavement, a shriek from about twenty feet back shattering the night air. The street lights flickered from the surge of energy unleashed by its wail, and I knew right then that this was a new class of creature. I abandoned the path to the bunker; I would never outrun one of those t... | 2022-03-18T10:24:56 | 2022-03-18T09:57:34 | 190 | 60 |
[WP] A thousand years after humanity was accepted into the galactic federation at large, other aliens realized one terrifying fact about them, humans are adaptive creatures. Unlike other races, humans have no qualms about learning alien techniques or integrating new alien technologies to their own. | "Human culture is most similar to a highly adaptive virus." The lecturer, Zig-1-13, explained. "It may be somewhat ironic coming from me." There were scattered laughs in the hall, as Zig-1-13 was a Grodiax, a species evolved from viruses. "Unlike other cultures, they easily assimilate bits and pieces from other culture... | Start...
I’ve read about the human race in my school. They are known to be violent beyond comprehension. A savage race which attacks every other species as well as each other. I remember my teacher, “Higher thought is inaccessible for such species. It’s best to avoid them.”
We’ve been at war with them for the last h... | 2022-06-13T23:48:46 | 2022-06-13T23:34:05 | 422 | 171 |
[WP] There's a girl who knocks on your door at exactly 9pm on every full moon, expecting sweets. It's been more than ten years and she's never aged a day. | “Almost nine PM, she should be here any second.”
I sat on one of the old wooden chaisr on my porch, a bowl of candy nestled in my lap. To an outsider, it might seem odd for a man in his mid-thirties to be doing this. The whole thing just screams “stranger danger”. But if anyone was around when the light of full moo... | - Swaets?
- Sweets. The most delectable of confectionery, any on your person?
- Not for the twelfth time, ye ethereal wee cunt ye!
- Mr. Condor, I knew you were raised a wisecrack of greater lexicon, surely you would have had a greater mind for razing another character beyond base slurs
- You know my patience's spent w... | 2022-06-25T18:44:17 | 2022-06-25T18:00:47 | 15 | 10 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | Trajan sat on the porch of his family's farm. It was a quiet early summer evening. The work had mostly been done, setting the farm to rights. Readying it for her return. The fields were sown, the little brook babbled, the chickens meandered the small herb garden, the tree they had been wed under cast pleasant shade,... | The whole party was there standing just beyond the town's gates. All the friends who had spent their whole lives together. Before they left, they were just drinking buddies, going to the taverns making up stories of adventures they wanted to take and the women they would leave their wives for.
It had been their dream... | 2022-08-12T18:40:02 | 2022-08-12T17:18:13 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | “W-wait, you’re serious?”
“Yeah sure, why not, it’ll be fun!”
“But I haven’t even explained the stakes! You’re just okay with this?”
“Honestly, I was a bit surprised when you asked me, but we’ve been so busy lately, I figured we both could use a break.”
“ oh… wow, this is a bit unexpected, do you have a place in m... | Getting tipsy at the club with my friends. We're shaking butts in time with the hottest song of the summer. Sometimes we villains are cannibals - I took down this jerk who was trying to dim my sunshine so to speak - muscling into my action with dark money politics. I ruined his reputation by making some photos of him i... | 2022-08-16T12:22:25 | 2022-08-16T09:25:08 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | The doctor held my hand very sweetly. He seemed unsure where to begin. From the other side of the room, I could hear my husband cooing and singing softly to our strange, beautiful new child.
"The thing is," the doctor said, "there's nothing to treat."
"But the baby-" I said.
"I know, I know. It's going to take so... | "Well, it is certainly peculiar isn't it..."
"It's not an "it" it's a child, and don't let the mother hear you call him "peculiar"
Two doctors in white lab coats face a glass window on the other side is swaddle of blue blankets laying softly in a crib. One doctor is young man just donning his doctor's coat for the ... | 2014-04-11T12:00:39 | 2014-04-11T11:58:32 | 171 | 62 |
[WP]A man kills himself after discovering the meaning of life and writing it down, as does anybody who reads his note, you unwittingly read the note, what does it say and what do you do? | This is the bit of paper? Really? It's not very big. And people just read it, and then off they go? And kill themselves? All of them? That's fucking ridiculous, seriously, I'm going to read it. No, fuck off, I'm reading it. I'm going to read it and then I will go home and get on with my life and no one is going to die.... | My life is more difficult than yours.
When I wake up at five-thirty in the morning and cozy my feet into the slippers left purposely next to my bed, I am tired. I am *beyond* tired. Furthermore, it is in this moment that I have accomplished more than what my constituents manage in a year's time. Yet still I am plagued... | 2015-02-27T00:42:41 | 2015-02-27T00:01:25 | 532 | 22 |
[WP]You are Donald Trump. Having launched your Presidential campaign as a publicity stunt, you never thought you'd get this far, and you're getting more desperate to sabotage your campaign lest you become President, a position you never really wanted in the first place..
= | Trump 2016, I never thought I would ever hear those words and have them be true. I mean, I have to be honest with all of you. Are you crazy for choosing me as the Republican presidential candidate? Seriously, have you listened to anything I have said so far?
Remeber the story that came out when I first declared my ca... | "I really do not want to do this anymore," said the orange haired man in the most depressing way. He fixed his thin tie and tucked his button down shirt into his khaki pants; just another day on the campaign trail.
It is Friday and Donald's secretary pressured him the entire morning to cancel his afternoon speech if h... | 2015-12-25T05:50:44 | 2015-12-25T05:48:58 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up to discover that you are stuck with a British narrator stating the obvious. | *The human male stirs in his sleep he struggles to shake off the grogginess of another good nights sleep.*
What the heck is going on? I'm tired be quie... who said that?
*He glances around the room, his personal nest that quite frankly could do with a cleaning.*
Great a voice in my head and it has proble... | And it was on this fine and jolly day that the lil' fucker Irving got up from his kip and decided to brush his damn teeth up-and-down like some damn wank.
"Wow, what the fuck?!" said the little cockrobin as he fingie'd on his bedside lamp and yawned like some old hag who woke up ball's rat arsed at the nearby pub.
Ir... | 2016-02-21T21:39:11 | 2016-02-21T19:59:10 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Every colour has a power.
Brown controls the earth.
Blue controls the water.
White controls the sky.
There are many colours, and some are more common than others.
Grey, the colour of ashes, is the most common colour. Grey controls fire.
The least common was Purple, the eye colour of the royal family that has ru... | I had always been jealous of the others. Being able to cause earthquakes, raise and lower the ground, rolling the ground underneath my feet as if it were a skateboard. Or what about being able to make water appear wherever you wanted it to appear. Make it rain and shower the pastures for the farmers or being able to gi... | 2016-08-08T11:30:41 | 2016-08-08T10:59:12 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | "Alright, alright, I've got one," wheezed Richardson over gales of laughter. "I bet you can't... make *this* monkey famous." He produced a photograph from a local zoo from within his jacket.
"Please, we can come up with better than that," sneered Kringle. "I'll have it done by tonight... and that's not even technicall... | I watch the clown on my 52 inchTV, he delivers yet another embarrassing news conference making a spectacle of our entire political system. How did we get here? I must confess, it is all my fault. I belong to a gentlemen's club for what are termed, super-rich. One day, after enjoying a round of golf with my bud Mark, we... | 2016-08-23T16:11:42 | 2016-08-23T13:00:40 | 578 | 94 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | "This year, the award will be determined on he following criteria. Whomever manages to effect the greatest change with the smallest object will win an additional 25% prize. Any member who does not submit their buy-in in one hour will forfeit the opportunity to compete." The message, handed to me on a piece of what seem... | I watch the clown on my 52 inchTV, he delivers yet another embarrassing news conference making a spectacle of our entire political system. How did we get here? I must confess, it is all my fault. I belong to a gentlemen's club for what are termed, super-rich. One day, after enjoying a round of golf with my bud Mark, we... | 2016-08-23T16:00:26 | 2016-08-23T13:00:40 | 179 | 94 |
[WP] you are an immortal and have lived a very long life. Everytime you die your body regenerates as you come back to life. Unfortunately, a serial killer finds out and sees you as the perfect victim to kill again and again. So he captures you. But he didn't expect you would play tricks on his mind | Months of imprisonment and it still hurt like hell. Every fingerprick, every cut, every dismemberment made my body cry out in pain. My nerves would regenerate with the rest of my body. There were no calluses or scars, there never were, only fresh skin.
He was punctual. Every day he'd drag me from the cell and kill me... | The cold, unforgiving walls surrounded you, your body barely fitting inside the barred capsule you had know for too many years. You glanced up as He walked into the room once more. You knew it was worthless begging, pleading, screaming. His deranged grin, all too familiar, appeared in front of your face. He unlocked th... | 2016-10-29T08:36:06 | 2016-10-29T08:11:46 | 507 | 114 |
[WP] "They mass-slaughter this organism called "flowers" and give the bound mass of corpses to their desired mate as a courting ritual, possibly as proof of ability. Truly fascinating."
Replace with other weird behaviors as desired
Edit: Mod's Choice and #1 in Hot in 5 hours? woohoo! | "Overall, humans have proven themselves to be a peculiar bunch, their idiosyncrasies far surpassing that of most intergalactic species - most certainly our own."
The virtual classroom abruptly ended, and Tesh'Cun found himself wanting to move there even more. He knew it was against the law, but he never really felt at... | “As you can see, the pre-telekentically evolved human is about to perform a mating ritual practiced by the males in its lineage for several generations now.” Came the soothing voice of the narrator of the critically acclaimed nature documentary, ‘Pre-evolved Humans and their Societal Functions’. The work could only be ... | 2016-11-23T08:19:08 | 2016-11-23T08:00:48 | 1,143 | 48 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out."
I blinked, confused, not sure I heard correctly. "Sir?"
He rolled his shoulders, as if a great weight sat on them, and looked... | After days of sifting through the belongings her papa didn't need anymore, the new lighthouse keeper crept upstairs to watch the last bit of hope be extinguished. There was no need for it anymore. Her papa had owned the deed on the land, but it was the town who paid for the light.
The mayor had decided to put the fun... | 2017-02-22T11:59:42 | 2017-02-22T11:50:51 | 113 | 28 |
[WP] Ever since a horrific traffic accident years ago you have had a reoccurring song going around in your head. Although heavily researched, this song doesn't exist and there is no reference to it at all. Your at a bar, washing your hands in the toilets when a man walks in faintly singing a tune. | This is it. This is the song that had plagued me for decades, the song that ruined my chance for marriage. I ask the man his name, and as he stared at me with his white, empty, fluffy eyes, he replied "Joe"
I knew it, of course. Ever since that Godforsaken day, his name has been etched into my every waking moment. No ... | The pain in my right shoulder always got to me in cold rooms, and this restaurant was really cold. I tried not to think back to the accident as my arm ached. They had to rebuild my arm after a piece of the clutch assembly had somehow shot up at an angle to get lodged in my deltoid.
I watched my feet as I hummed that... | 2018-08-29T18:26:04 | 2018-08-29T17:52:59 | 43 | 24 |
[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. | I held the pistol against Captain Seraph’s forehead.
“What are you gonna do, shoot me?”
The gunshot echoed down 5th and Market. Shrieks, gasps, and then a silence. Her lifeless body fell over an uneven fan of bloodspatter in the middle of the street.
*Let’s let the world know who you really are.*
I knelt down, pull... | 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... | 2018-10-18T13:42:07 | 2018-10-18T13:35:32 | 1,098 | 396 |
[WP] They stare at your glowing eyes in fear. "You're not human!" They scream in fear. You sigh. "That's rude. I'm PLENTY human. On my mother's side." | Karen pulled back in fear, her eyes widening in understanding.
“Your mother’s side.” She echoed through numbed lips. “W..what of your father?”
“Um. Also human?” I said, now more than a bit confused.
“But you said-“
“Yeah, it’s called a joke Karen. Wait? Did you really think that I was a monster or something? Like, ... | "Somebody call the cops, now!"
"Not the cops man, they are simply going to shoot me the minute they see me."
"Don't fucking move, monster"
The family starts screaming louder and louder, attracting more people, and in a couple minutes I find myself sorrounded by an angry mob.
"Kill the mongrel!" "Put him down!" "Bac... | 2019-05-02T07:06:11 | 2019-05-02T06:29:26 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Earth is dying. We've developed great spaceships to take as many people as possible to a new world. There's not enough room for everybody, but at the news of a great coming catastrophe people flock to leave. However it seems that the rich and powerful are the only ones choosing to stay... | Earth is a massive fluke on the cosmic scale of things. It's in the goldilocks zone of life, has an abundant supply of water on the surface, and enough carbon for life to arise. Among the near-infinite multitude of planets that humanity had observed, the earth was the only viable planet for sustaining human life. Space... | first it was thousands of years away.
then it was hundreds.
then it was barely a lifetime.
global warming and a consumeristic society slowly took its toll on our planet. the younger generations were forced to watch helplessly as the oblivious, the ignorant, the self-indulgent, wreaked havoc upon our fragile ecosystem.... | 2019-08-27T01:53:55 | 2019-08-27T01:47:45 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] you're in your bed about to go to sleep, with your arm dangling off the side. You feel a dark hand grasp yours, knowing first impressions are important you give it a firm shake. The next thing you hear from under your bed is "you're hired" | “Excellent.” I replied, and I went back to bed.
It’s been 6 months and I’m still not sure what my job is. Most of the time I just get blood signed paperwork that appears on my desk so I sort that by alphabetical order and color and it disappears overnight. Once I got seven jars of these pink slugs with sharp teeth. I ... | The hustle and bustle of my desk job was getting the best of me. I was exhausted from replaying the same day over and over again. I was just ready to go home and go to bed to forget it all, so I packed up and headed that way. I could barely make it through my shower, and skipped dinner just to jump into bed and forget ... | 2019-08-30T08:41:18 | 2019-08-30T07:23:59 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | *Si vis pacem, para bellum.*
“Mr. President, what is the purpose of this Sacred Council If not to arbitrate between the disputing parties? Should the council be derelict in her duty, her mandate shall stand voided. The lofty words in its constitution shall ring hollow in this great hall where all the sentient beings o... | **“Humanity is poorly suited to most everything excepting one, Death.” -Sharthan Remembrancer Ta’aliq 2174**
To’shan stood over his prey, the magnetic coils of his plasma rifle whining as they contained the burning fire within.
“You are bested Hu’man.” His voice a deep baritone rumble, his armoured jaw clicking as he... | 2019-11-24T15:48:36 | 2019-11-24T15:40:28 | 99 | 57 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. |
“Awake now heroling? That elephant tranquilizer kept you dreaming longer than I expected,” Cornelius asked as he stepped out of the shadows to face a young boy clad in bright colours of green and blue, his face awash in the orange torchlight. “I would not bother struggling boy,” he said, “I had these chains fashion... | It had been, so to speak, a dance.
The doctor would make a machine. Some sort of ridiculous "-inerator" that would cause mayhem if not controlled. And it was controlled. The major would send his best spy, Agent P, to deal with the task. Within half an hour, the problem was solved. The machine would be destroyed, and t... | 2020-03-26T15:12:57 | 2020-03-26T15:08:41 | 130 | 54 |
[WP] You are an AI aboard a ship where all hands have been lost due to a battle long ago. Scavengers have just torn through your airlock and you’ll be damned if you will let them desecrate your dead crew. | They stormed the corridor leading away from deck two where they had boarded, barreling towards the mess hall with weapons in hand. Rosan sealed door after door trying to slow their progress. They had a hacker on their team with hands quick as lightning. Rosen couldn't keep them away from the mess hall - and all the cre... | I wasn’t supposed to feel anything. As an automated system, my job was to passively reconstruct and maintain each and every system aboard the AOI-3017 vessel. There was no emotion in remote animatronic operation. My thoughts consisted of numbers and statical analytics. I was never made—nor permitted—to be anything more... | 2021-01-08T23:47:53 | 2021-01-08T23:43:28 | 216 | 54 |
[WP] The first human has finally breached interstellar space. Almost immediately they make first contact with an alien species – a galactic police officer who pulls them over for traveling outside their solar system without a license. | "Excuse me sir, would you mind rolling down your window?"
The shock nearly shook me hard enough to change the direction of my pod all on its own. 3.24 Light-years from Earth all alone in a one-man pod is among the top 100 places you would least expect to hear another person's voice (just barely beaten out by 3.25 ligh... | “Cheers, captain!” Laura said, pulling out the champagne bottle and popping the top. The cork bounced off the front windshield with a crack and almost took out the captain’s eye.
“Watch it!” the captain shouted, you break that glass and our guts we’ll be sucked through like a milkshake through a straw.
“Oh, quit your... | 2021-02-02T21:11:55 | 2021-02-02T21:10:22 | 218 | 92 |
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