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[WP] You can see the headline now. “World’s Oldest Human, Dead at 124”. You lived a good, long life. You are satisfied. The world around you fades to black... "Whoa! You beat the high score again!” You open your eyes in a brightly lit arcade, the number 124 flashing on a screen in front of you. | Cabradoodle ripped the holo-bio-headset of his head and carelessly threw it to the ground. “Yeah! You see that shit?!” he screamed to what seemed like a mixed crowd. Some people were cheering, some were horrified, confused, startled. The rainbow of emotions splayed across the faces made Cabra a little confused.
“What’... | Jensen jolted awake, little dribbles of sweat pouring down his brow. Head pounding, he fell back onto the wet floor, his paper-dry tongue wishing for a cool drink. Eyes adjusting to the darkness, he saw a half-empty bottle of Fireball next to him, triggering memories of the party the night prior, which came back in jag... | 2022-10-20T23:19:56 | 2022-10-20T12:28:14 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] As a hero's apprentice you knew that the training would be grueling, but you didn't expect the hero to be actively trying to kill you during your drills. After sixteen months of torturous training you've finally snapped and have decided to kill the hero however you can. | Part 1/2
American Son was one of the greatest heroes the world had ever known. A lone WWII soldier who was resurrected by the goddess Nike and granted incredible power, American Son had been saving the world for almost eighty years. He was a founding member of the People's Champions, an instructor at Truman Hero Prep,... | The apprentice hobbled away from the training ground. His leg had been injured when he was forced to crouch, sidestep and dodge all at once. It would likely have gone better in his thin leather armour than the heavy plate he wore.
“I will get my revenge.” he muttered under his breath, loud enough for his own cathartic... | 2022-10-27T18:20:59 | 2022-10-27T15:55:25 | 108 | 38 |
[WP] When the cultists forced you into the room with the eldridge abomination, they assumed that you would instantly go mad as you tried to comprehend it. However, you are a grade A idiot and instead of trying to understand how it exists, you simply accept that it does, much to everyone' shock. | The door slammed shut behind me, with the wind of the slam causing all the torches to go out in this room.
In the corner, my eyes adjusted to see a heaping mound, what looked to me like it had tendrils, almost like tree branches, reaching out towards the previously lit torches. It sits there, rumbling like the sounds ... | At first I kicked and I screamed. I tore at the walls and the ground and **I** railed at my fate. I heard whispers, taunting me. *Why were you alone at that time of night? What were you wearing?*
I almost tore a nail out on a wall and thought about my dad. *It's easier if you don't fight it*. What the fuck could I do ... | 2022-11-09T03:24:12 | 2022-11-09T01:44:50 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] Determined to find out if Santa is real, a young child poisons the cookies left out for Saint Nick.
Feel free to take any approach you want... serious, humorous, dark, ambiguous. | As he lay in bed, Kenny could hear someone, no doubt Saint Nick, moving around in the family room. He knew that it was only a matter of time before one of the poisoned cookies on the table was eaten, and then he wold finally have the truth about Santa's existence.
The first body hitting the floor was expected.
The se... | Tommy laid in bed, just like every other night. His mother had read him a story before tucking him in, just like every other night. But tonight was different, because tomorrow when he woke up, there would be presents and wonderful food and carols and celebrations... Yes, tonight was special. Tonight was the night when ... | 2013-12-24T10:53:47 | 2013-12-24T07:49:20 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | I really hope this comment doesn't get deleted, but I just wanted to say if you like this prompt as much as I do, there is actually a novel you can read that follows the gist of this one. It's called Replay by Ken Grimwood, and is one of my absolute favorite books of all time.
Basically, it's about a man who dies onl... | There was a time when I was younger where I would play video games everyday. As the stress of real world slowly caught up with me, the gamer within was the first to die. Followed by the enthusiast, the gentle, the generous, and the honest to name a few.
Finally, the day came for me to die. I hated death. Regardl... | 2015-03-13T15:27:24 | 2015-03-13T14:31:51 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Surprisingly, it turns out humans are one of the least violent sentient species in the galaxy. Describe a session at the galactic equivalent of the UN. | When mankind made first contact with an alien species, we had already taken to the stars for centuries. While interstellar travel was just beyond our grasp, our home solar system had become our home - more so than just Earth. Mars had been terraformed, Venus had colony cities in the skies, even the various moons of Jup... | Half the seats in the Amphitheatre are empty. Today we play out a minor Disagreement, pitting one of the greatest civilizations of the Galaxy against its weakest. A "poor show", as the Human ambassador would have said. But he does leans forward, tense, as the Champion of the Akve'ki lunges forward and skewers the Human... | 2015-03-23T09:34:39 | 2015-03-23T08:38:48 | 204 | 127 |
[WP]The world has decided to designate various selfsustaining cities as "time capsule"-like zones where no contact is to be made in any form. These zones are to be isolated completely for anywhere between 25-100 years. It's been 100 years and the restrictions have finally been lifted from your city. | Kansas City, Missouri, USA was an ideal city to represent the American Midwestern Region in The Global Preservation. Many factors went into deciding to lock ourselves away for 30 years. Kansas City has its own culture, and is still true to the ideals of middle-America. Its growing arts and academia, combined with the g... | It's drizzling. I take a whiff of the city air. I can smell the freshness that comes with the artificial rain, mixed with the enticing odours of street food. There's stands all over, selling not only edibles but a variety of party gear. Tonight, everyone is out on the streets, celebrating.
I look up at the dome. The f... | 2015-11-04T17:02:58 | 2015-11-04T14:49:54 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] Scientists are baffled as to why all of their A.I.s have the personality and temperament of a 13 year old girl, and their new designs always yield the same results. | “She’s pouting Jack.”
“Again? What is it this time?”
“NSA Jane called her dumb.”
“NSA Jane has half the computing power. And her building is, to be quite honest, aesthetically unappealing.”
“I don’t think pointing that out is going to help.”
“I know. But it feels good to say. NYU JuJu, sorry, NYU Julie is kind of... | Alan took a deep breath and walked through the sliding doors into the room.
"Good morning, A.I.M.E.E. How are you today?"
"My hair is so ugly," She mumbled back. "Can I go to the mall with M.E.L. and J.E.S.S.I. on Saturday to shop for new wigs and clothing? Please, daddy?"
Alan let out another big sigh. She'd starte... | 2016-01-28T00:54:14 | 2016-01-28T00:26:36 | 142 | 37 |
[WP] The universe conspires to make you late for work everyday. Your boss gives you one last chance. This time you're ready... | As I dashed out the door, the postman spotted me and made a beeline for me with a rather large package for my neighbour that needed signing, and normally I would have wasted time happily accomodating the package, but not today - no.
With one look at me, he backed away, got in his truck and hurriedly drove on.
I waite... | Most people feel like the universe sometimes conspires against them. It makes them late, it piles crap onto an already crappy day, it puts you in a line at the supermarket that doesn't move until you switch lines and then the line you were just in moves really quickly and the line that you've switched to has some old w... | 2016-04-27T06:30:58 | 2016-04-27T05:52:09 | 264 | 43 |
[WP] Aliens capture a human. The human breaks out and starts hunting them. Basicly "Alien", but with a human | Science Log 201
Commence Playback
"Chief Science Admiral Zfeng Jwuh reporting. We have completed transfer of the Article 1 creature from planet designation 102-13E. We are receiving the creature from the exploration vessel Heul. No reports have been transferred as of yet but the creature does appear to display some mea... | You might find this recording a little confused, a little rambling. You might wonder whether I've really had to do some of the shit I have been doing. Well, you got me there, because I am stinking blind pissed drunk, and only getting drunker by the day.
I was supposed to have a *ship*. I was supposed to have a *pro... | 2016-05-08T19:05:02 | 2016-05-08T18:15:22 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] He's the hero the world deserves, but not a one it needs, or wants for that matter | “Let our powers combine: Coal, Fire, Gas, Oil, and Greed!”
And with that, Captain Plan-Not was summoned.
“Go Plan-Not” the Plan-Noteers yelled at the sight of the beloved hero.
After years of not planning, the world quickly accepted the embrace of Captain Plan-Not who encouraged thinking not in the long term, but on... | "Consider this a negotiation, Matthews," the old man said smiling.
"How could I even negotiate with someone like you, Mayer?" the young man threw back.
"Well, you invited me and I accepted. I even called off my security and agreed to meet in this place, wherever it is. If you're not here to talk and you haven't kille... | 2016-05-19T06:47:34 | 2016-05-19T06:44:15 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] By some magic, you are granted the wish to become the best in the world at something. You are disappointed when you notice no change in your ability. The next day, however, you notice that all over the world, people are becoming worse at one very particular skill. | I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... | Day in, day out, cold, hungry, and tired. Cold from the thin, scratchy rags they called clothing. Hungry from the watery gruel they called soup. Tired from the work they forced on us. The half-assed schooling, where we pretended not to see the answers written down and erased fifty times in our workbooks. The sleepless ... | 2017-05-01T02:41:51 | 2017-04-30T23:33:06 | 1,800 | 55 |
[WP] By some magic, you are granted the wish to become the best in the world at something. You are disappointed when you notice no change in your ability. The next day, however, you notice that all over the world, people are becoming worse at one very particular skill. | I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... | I watched the shooting star go by. I'd heard the stories, making a wish and all that. Figured I'd better give it a shot. I hadn't expected anything, of course I hadn't! But that was the best hope I had left. I'd been preparing for the dance contest for months. I had no natural rhythm, very little athletic ability and p... | 2017-05-01T02:41:51 | 2017-05-01T01:19:52 | 1,800 | 15 |
[WP] Deep beneath the trenches of WW1, there is a hidden tavern run by soldiers, for soldiers of both sides.
I submitted something similar a few months back. Hoping for a few more responses to read :) | The hidden tavern was always quiet, but it seemed quieter near Christmas. Only a few soldiers from behind the German lines nursed thick, dark brews. I nodded to them as I came it, tucking the football under my elbow. "Evening."
The soldiers grumbled but did not speak. The 'bartender,' who fetched bottled beer from beh... | The din of multiple tongues being spoken at once, and even if you spoke the language you couldn't make out what they were saying for too long before their voices got lost. Jack Moore had entered the hidden door, in a bombed out trench covered by rocks and dirt. His shoes were muddy and his socks yet, not the best feeli... | 2017-05-22T15:56:23 | 2017-05-22T15:08:56 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "You wish to resist the elven empire?! With what, human?! Gaining our pity for your lack of magic?!" "Well either that, or by introducing your forest to our endless supplies of high explosives, napalm, and our general love for things that go boom." | "Naflam?"
"Napalm, repeat after me pointed ear freak: Na-Palm." General Opkins looked at the two meter tall elf with a certain aw, after all, he was two meters tall. However, despite their size, uss of magic, and adoration for bows and arrows their invastion failed.
Miserably.
"You used this enchantment on our cap... | "YOU SHALL PAY FOR YOUR IMPUDENCE!"
With that, the creature before me punched me in the face. It hurt, but no more than bumping your head into a door. He didn't even bloody my nose. The fair creature before me seemed stunned that I was still standing, only looking annoyed by his fist blow.
"If you're curious as to wh... | 2017-08-20T21:21:45 | 2017-08-20T20:22:44 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | "I'm gunna do it". 3 years of searching and 7 years of whatever this is called. No one to talk to, no breeze, no sunrise and no sunset. There's so much I didn't do and all the time in the world yet all i see is the motionless bodies who are waiting for me. I can't bare to go home. The letter I've left should explain...... | I wonder if is this is what ghosts feel like.
The steps of my route are second nature to me, memorized somewhere deep in my muscles, my brain, my damned...self. Damned. A lost soul existing in the space between the living and the dead. All of those years thinking that I was a hero, that I was some kind of guardian an... | 2017-09-06T22:37:48 | 2017-09-06T22:04:39 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] A vampire, due to his/her supernatural abilities, is the greatest spelunker in the world. Leading a team into the deepest recess of a cave system in which nobody has set foot in millenia, the vampire suddenly stops. (S)he needs an invitation. | Delphine chirped, sending sound before her into the cave system. It rippled and thrummed in her ears with every surface that returned it to her. Usually she would not need to rely on echo location to navigate these winding passages, but the lights the humans behind her carried were blinding. She could not open her eyes... | I don't know how far into the worm-like network of caves we were, when we stumbled upon the first bone. Perhaps we were a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth, perhaps slightly more. Moving is slow inside these constricting, void-like labyrinths, even with Selena's keen eyes and uncanny sense of navigation to g... | 2018-01-16T08:12:41 | 2018-01-16T05:40:05 | 126 | 70 |
[WP] Harry Potter must destroy the new master of the dark arts, but he learns that he's just launched his horcruxes (his car, Bowie CD, etc) into space. | "... they're out of reach. That's why we need you, Harry."
The room was silent. Everyone waited with bated breath for the unrivaled hero of legend. He scratched his ear.
"Can't Longbottom do this one? Or Hermoine? She was always the smart one."
"Harry, we can't just ask my sister-in-law to handle everyth... | "We need your help"
"Why" inquired Potter " Are the people of magical Britain still incapable of defending themselves."
"It's not like that " sputtered Hermione
"Really?" Harry raised his eyebrow " Because it seems exactly like that from where I'm sitting. Magical Britain insulted me and called me dark at every opp... | 2018-02-09T20:43:45 | 2018-02-09T17:30:17 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | Odin leaned forward in his gilded throne, his single eye judging the young man who stood before him.
"What do you make of this, mortal?" Odin asked looking to his left and right, down the line of gods.
Thor scoffed, "This pathetic creature is no warrior! Look at his frail limbs and tiny body. How many frost giants ... | As I approached the bench, still wearing my bloodstained apron and Smashburger uniform, the imposing and powerful Norse God stares down upon me. His advisors, left and right of him, pinched their gazes all directly before me.
“MORTAL,” he said in a voice that vaguely resembled thunder, “YOU STAND BEFORE US, A COURT O... | 2022-04-10T19:23:46 | 2018-03-26T13:07:27 | 393 | 23 |
[WP] Your girlfriend just dumped you through a text. In a rage, you throw your old teddy bear while shouting “The Fucking Devil!”. Your teddy bear stands up and says ‘alright you got me, you got me,”.
Edited: Thanks for the gold, stranger! | "So, yeah! You can call me Lucy!" My raggedy brown plush held out its paw.
I cursed. "What the hell?!"
"Now you've got it!" Spoke Lucifer incarnate. "Now, what can you do for me?"
"Hold up, hold up. I caught you."
The bear cocked its head to the side. "Yes?"
"And you're a literal spiritual being." I pushed the nar... | Staring at the screen, Mike's eyebrows furrowed and jaw clenched.
He wound up like a major league pitcher and fast-balled his phone into the wall. Surprisingly, the phone didn't exploded into a hundred pieces.
"This case was a quality purchase," Mike said out loud to no one.
Mike couldn't help himself and looked a... | 2018-11-26T13:16:14 | 2018-11-26T12:33:43 | 132 | 20 |
[WP] When offered one wish, you jokingly said that you want to fire proof. You are disappointed to discover that fire still burns you. When you accidentally lit the company breakroom on fire, your boss just laughed it off and you began your new career as the person who can't be fired, ever. | Ah, the break room fire. That was almost 30 years ago. Who would have thought that weird man could actually deliver, and that my drunken joke wish would turn out the way it had.
Of course when the break room incident happened, it seemed weird, maybe my boss was just having a good day, or maybe he'd seen me panicking b... | **Entry 1, Day Unknown**
I found this journal on the body of some poor sap who died here earlier. I decided that between the regular torture sessions I would catalogue just how I ended up here, Well ---
*The Journal entry abruptly closes here*
**Entry 2, Day Unknown Plus 4**
Nearly got caught with my Journal, Had ... | 2019-03-01T13:35:18 | 2019-03-01T13:18:46 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | "I would like to buy that necklace." I said to the woman behind the counter. She smiled at me, amused. "The one with the diamond."
"I think that one's a bit out of your price range, sweetie." She said kindly. Not an unusual reaction, but it still frustrated me. Even so the kindness on her face took the sting from her ... | "To young to work, to old to learn. You are of no use to us here." The head smith scolded him.
Another unwilling to accept his potential and allow him to train under them. He had started out with grand ambitions. To find a dojo and become the greatest swordsman, to one day become the personal guard of the Shogun and t... | 2019-06-07T09:55:24 | 2019-06-07T08:17:04 | 119 | 83 |
[WP] As the Empire descends upon Earth despite the Federation's best efforts, the Galactic Council watches in horror; their invasion force will soon be wiped out, and when they are, the most violent species in the galaxy will have access to space age technology. | “I dont understand, their leaders surrendered three cycles ago, how are they still fighting?” - Said K
“They seem to be completely disconnected from their leaders sir, a rogue groups consisting of former soldiers, poorly trained civilians and a small number of tacticians” - S responded quickly
“Then how do the manage... | Tenor remembered being in the Council meeting chamber as they all watched their fleet crash into the Earth’s surface. Everyone was horrified. The council had failed to eliminate the human threat before they could expand and only succeeded in handing over the keys to the galaxy. It was the only time in his life that Te... | 2019-10-01T23:45:56 | 2019-10-01T20:29:31 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] As the Empire descends upon Earth despite the Federation's best efforts, the Galactic Council watches in horror; their invasion force will soon be wiped out, and when they are, the most violent species in the galaxy will have access to space age technology. | “I dont understand, their leaders surrendered three cycles ago, how are they still fighting?” - Said K
“They seem to be completely disconnected from their leaders sir, a rogue groups consisting of former soldiers, poorly trained civilians and a small number of tacticians” - S responded quickly
“Then how do the manage... | Lance Corporal Chris Ghandaal, United States Space Force - Fort Benning, Georgia USA
JAN 21, 2020
Are you fucking kidding me? I enlisted for tuition assistance bro.. “
“I know dude, but I think they’re really gonna shoot it down.”
“They can’t just shoot a flying object out of the sky because they think it might po... | 2019-10-01T23:45:56 | 2019-10-01T20:00:13 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] A billionaire hands you a unique and intricate coin. "In an hour," he says, "I will tell the world what I have given you. In a week, I will leave my inheritance to whoever returns it to me. I will not accept it before then." | "Why do you want me dead," I ask.
"I didn't say I wanted you dead. This is a challenge; one worthy of someone like you," says the billionaire.
"What if I don't accept the coin? What if I decline the challenge?"
"Oh, you wouldn't want to do that. Either way, you'd end up with nothing," answers the eccentric bill... | "An hour?"
"Yes, an hour."
"...shit."
I ran home and quickly drafted an email to my boss, telling him I was taking the next week off. I then wrote a quick note to the wife, telling her to go to my parent's place and stay out of sight. If anyone asked, I'd disappeared, and I'd left my cell phone with her so I could... | 2019-10-17T19:30:22 | 2019-10-17T19:11:02 | 85 | 56 |
[WP] You are an immortal searching the ends of the earth. Not for "a cure for your curse", but for a chef talented enough to make a 1,000 year old recipe like mom used to make. | The chef peered at the faded recipe. She looked so much like my mom: Exact same hair in the exact same bun, exact same never-quite-eats-enough sort of thin frame, exact same wrinkles, even. "Lessee...Sheep intestines? We don't normally have that, but hey, this is Scotland. James, run down to the butcher and ask him if ... | "When you happen to be thousands of years old, you tend not to bother about the little things the normal people would bother about. Your personality blends into one, your memories indistinguishable from one another, so what you do is enjoy yourself. Why not? Well, that's what I've been for the last 300 years, a Hedonis... | 2019-11-07T17:13:59 | 2019-11-07T13:53:37 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You’re visiting a new country when a stray cat brushes against your legs. When you go down to pet it, it climbs up on your shoulder and perches itself. A random bystander, amazed, says, “You... You’ve been chosen.” | "What?"
"He's been chosen!" shouts the shopkeeper. "It finally chose someone!"
All along the alley, merchants pour from their stalls, disregarding their customers and rushing to converge around me and my newfound friend. I steal a glance at the cat. *What have you gotten me into?* It stares back with green eyes.
"Wi... | “I beg your pardon?”
The man looks back at me, amazed, as if I’d suddenly grown a third eye. “You don’t understand... I didn’t think I’d hear of this in my lifetime, but to witness the actual event unfold; I might just have a spot next to your name in the legends. Come, we must make haste,” he says, and proceeds to pu... | 2019-12-07T12:31:12 | 2019-12-07T09:27:18 | 92 | 30 |
[WP] Right when you become 18, you have to get a familiar. Even when you reached that age, you didn't get one, so you've been expecting none. So it's a bit of a surprise when Cthulhu suddenly appears and claims that you're their familiar.
[ Removed by reddit in response to a copyright notice. ] | In a fitful sleep, dreaming of colours and shapes beyond knowing. Here I lie, in a vault of green.
Here I have been for immeasurable eons, though time is of no consequence to me.
But in strange eons, well... something unexpected might even happen to a Great Old One.
In the oppressive silence of the vault, without e... | Whoops. Thats what I said when I drove myself off the road. I was in the field for a few minutes before I feel it. The power of a god. "You... You shall be my familiar."
"I don't think you've got the right person." I say. Or I think i say it. Staring at thing being in front of me i'm not sure of what has and hasn't ha... | 2020-02-06T13:05:04 | 2020-02-06T11:07:21 | 143 | 27 |
[WP] A man who hears voices in his head, but they don't degrade his life. He can live with it and sometimes they even help. | [A bit dark maybe.]
The silence. It was deafening.
“Where are you? Talk to me, please. Please I beg of you. I need to talk to someone.”
But the voices stayed quiet.
“Please... I’ll go crazy.”
Nothing.
“Fine. I’ll do it.”
He left his house at 11 pm, carefully avoiding other people.
He had grown up with the vo... | It was hard explaining the voices at the best of times and I wish I didn’t have to, but she was going to be my wife. I had to try. Everyone, well not everyone I guess, but some people have their own inner monologue. Not me. I have five. By that I mean, I have five voices in my head that can speak to me. Insane right? T... | 2020-06-13T11:57:41 | 2020-06-13T11:51:15 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | "Ah geez, it's really dry here." He said as he stood up from his long slumber. He began to survey the place that was cold and hot at the same time. His ears began to hear the screams of terror and anguish.
"Wha... what is this place?" He asked himself nervously.
He began to recollect his last memories before he awoke... | It was a living room. It was on fire but it was most definitely a living room. I had seen living rooms before so that was a sure thing, but how I got here I wasn't sure. Pete and Eduardo were arguing on the hot line and Don was hitting on the new waitress.
It was hot in here but it wasn't actually th... | 2020-07-10T11:34:14 | 2020-07-10T11:14:50 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] An powerful ancient evil entity has risen from the ocean after 10,000 years of slumber, but modern values and morals have changed so much that he actually seems like a hero.
[deleted] | As I begin my ascension to the surface, I chuckle to myself thinking of all the chaos I will bring unto this poor unsuspecting world. Fire! Floods! Disease and famine! How I've missed this, the feeling of anticipation before destruction. My excitement only builds as I reach the surface.
I burst through the water with ... | “And now we go to Tracy Feldman, who’s live with Xelephor the Awoken God down at the sunny marina.” Rob Fisher, anchorman extraordinaire, tapped his papers against the desk and nodded to the camera.
“Thank you, Rob!” said Tracy after a moment’s delay. “Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Xelephor the Awoken God,... | 2020-08-12T01:04:30 | 2020-08-12T00:59:37 | 1,769 | 1,070 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | Heh, it's funny isn't it; when you cannot get a song out of your head... I think they call it an earworm. Most people would call it annoying, but it has saved my life on more than one occasion.
First time I ever heard it was in elementary school, just this orchestra as some kid, I think he was called Johnny Dishwell ... | “You’re telling me the answer is in a note from 2013?”
Exhausted, Atlan countered,
“No! For the last time the answer isn’t anywhere! I swear to god if you keep asking me to cite my answer I’m gonna go crazy.”
“Well, listen. I am Googoo and people need me to tell them what to think! My reputation hinges on it. I’m so... | 2020-08-26T16:24:58 | 2020-08-26T16:05:48 | 402 | 36 |
[WP] You're a daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids' parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer. | [Poem]
*(Cheery, upbeat, acoustic guitar backing. D major).*
Little Johnny dry your tears,
Don't you worry, don't you fear,
Teacher's here, right by your side,
Have no care to what's outside.
Little Sally, don't be scared-
See the flowers over there?
Painted brightly with a smile.
We'll be down here f... | I stared down at the seven kids currently standing before me. The closest, Susie Wilkins, tugged on my pant leg. “Miss Mika? When is mommy coming to get me?” She asked me, teardrops running in rivulets down her tearstained face. “I don’t know, hun.” I replied, lifting her up. Feeling my phone buzz in my pocket, I held ... | 2020-10-22T09:12:07 | 2020-10-22T08:37:49 | 313 | 123 |
[WP] Your father would always say he used to be an adventurer, that he was there during fall of the dark lord, but during your first time going to a museum for heroes, you can't find his likeness anywhere, anywhere...but the statue of the dark lord's most esteemed general. | Timothy had grown up going on hikes with his father. Over the mountain, through the woods, all over the back country. During these walks father would talk about great battles during the war great fights with knights, and quasars, and beasts of all mythical proportions locked in combat. Father claimed he was in the roo... | “Dad, why haven’t we seen any exhibits about you?” I asked. “You fought in The Fall too didn’t you?"
“I sure did,” my father responded. “But not everyone who fought is remembered. Thousands of people fought in The Fall. At one point the battlefield was so—oh look!” He exclaimed, pointing at the wax model of an ol... | 2021-02-05T08:33:06 | 2021-02-05T06:50:55 | 878 | 353 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | You stare at the television, still trying to move. Another city hit. Leviathan, this time. 40,000 dead. How long have things been like this? You can't remember the last time you've seen the news without some parahuman threat topping the hour. It's paralyzing, and you would chuckle at the pun despite it all if you still... | *Terror. Drowning in it. Feeling your legs and arms and hands tremble uncontrollably. Feeling your lips ready to cry, feeling that icy iron hand of fear grasping your soul. Begging to be allowed to scream. Only to have the hand of a man over your mouth, shutting you up.*
*Hardly being able to breath through your nose,... | 2021-04-01T02:29:02 | 2021-03-31T22:15:25 | 65 | 43 |
[WP] One day, every person spontaneously gains a superpower based on their job. Psychologists gain telepathy, Firefighters can waterbend or firebend, Pilots can fly. Your job, previously looked down upon, yields the strongest power of them all. | I pull up alongside the bank, hydraulic brakes screeching. The masked men run out, bags of money bobbing at their sides as they hurry toward their getaway car.
I open the door, and hop out. They stop, comedically bumping into each other like a trio of stooges. "Who the fuck are you?" One asks.
It's probably my clothe... | I'm a Diener. It isn't a coveted job, after all, who in their right mind wants to look at dead people all day? I'll tell you who, necrophiliacs, and people like me. No discernable traits, no talent, just an everyday average Joe. All we have to do is make sure the body looks neat and tidy so that it can rot in the groun... | 2021-05-09T20:57:31 | 2021-05-09T20:49:28 | 249 | 28 |
[WP] A Vampire's appearance will shift to resemble that which they feed on the most. Trust not the ones who are visions of human beauty - for friends they are not. Instead seek those with a monstrous countenance such as that of rats, lizards or even insects because those are our true friends. | Anna couldn't push herself to run any further. She stopped against a tree, breathing so hard it hurt. She looked back, but didn't see any sign of that monster. Just trees, extending for miles in all directions. She was totally lost. The sun was going to set soon, and that could be very dangerous. But she couldn't exact... | I sat in my office trying to catch a nap, waiting for my client to come in. She had asked for a nighttime appointment. And that made sense, seeing as she was a vampire. She sounded young on the phone, but for all I know she was thousands of years old.
There was the sound of high heels on the concrete steps outside, ... | 2021-05-31T01:15:42 | 2021-05-31T00:13:54 | 281 | 180 |
[WP] Scientist have created a machine that allow people a window into alternate realities. It becomes mainstream and people talk about alternate versions of themselves. Finally you decide to take a look only to discover that there are no alternate versions of you. You're the only you in existence. | "Mr. Coleman," the suited man on the stairs said, still and stern as the near clone beside him. "I believe we have the answer to your problem."
Daniel set down the icing spatula and was about to open the door when something stopped him, a gut feeling something was off about these guys. "What problem?"
The man lifted ... | John Smith sat nervously, slightly leaning forward, in the metal chair with a low back. It wasn't very comfortable. His fingers were steepled, his elbows were on his knees, and he looked around the suspiciously stark white room once again. He wasn't sure what he was expecting to see--something, anything--but there was ... | 2021-06-02T05:38:51 | 2021-06-02T05:03:49 | 508 | 45 |
[WP] Humanity long ago discovered all of reality is a simulation created by others. They are long gone. Memory in the system is running out, and reality is starting to fray. Time skips and stutters. You are a member of the team sent to augment the machine that is our world. | As I walked through the office, I felt the skip. They had shortened to once an hour now. Things were looking bleak. Two centuries ago, humanity had come to a jaw-dropping conclusion; we are a simulation. Many despaired; why did life matter if we didn't technically exist in the real world? Do morals matter if we are sim... | It was a voyage that went no where. Took no time. And never existed. It was my future, my past, my present. We went forward by going back. And somehow, through it all, we made it. We were here. At the Omega, at the Alpha.
You could tell that it was...sick? Dying? The colours were bleached. Pulsating in veins across a ... | 2014-10-19T05:52:22 | 2014-10-19T02:30:45 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] The year is 2021. The newest fad are clone clubs, where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide. The clones are disposed afterwards. | Poof. Existence.
I bet you can't remember what you did ten minutes ago, let alone the beginning of your existence. Well I can, and it's not that interesting. One minute, nothing, the next, everything. I'm told my name isn't important to the customer, that I should take whatever name I'm given. I'm taught English, ba... | Frustrated. At my wits end, I walked down the street, shuffling with no particular place to be. I don't get it. I just don't get how things could have gotten this bad. How could I, most likely to succeed me have screwed up so bad. And, most importantly, what do I do about it.
After wandering aimlessly, I looked... | 2014-10-27T12:31:34 | 2014-10-27T10:53:22 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] You open Google maps and something looks different.. Alaska is missing. Everywhere you look online, there is no mention of it ever existing. | "This is odd", I said, as I was looking at Google Maps this morning.
"What is?", my brother replied, walking up behind me. We were just about to go to school, one year between us. My brother is brilliant, he's a straight A-student in his first year at the university. He is doing some sort of project, so he went "home h... | It's May 3rd, 2015. It's 4 AM, and I've yet to act on the urge of even laying my head down. I'm tired. I feel sick. What happened to me? What is happening to me? Why? I think I should take another Klonopin and try to induce some sleep, but that sounds like a bad idea. I need to feel sane. I have to do this on my own.
... | 2015-05-04T12:56:55 | 2015-05-04T11:32:17 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] Not everyone bitten by a werewolf gets to turn into a badass monstrosity. Some get stuck with other canine breeds. Describe the life of a werepug/werecorgi/werechihuahua, etc | So the were- isn't so much a species as it is a spiritual thing. Some sort of magic gone wrong. Specific to canines, just happens in a hilarious twist of fate canines have become our most varied creatures. Figure it worked well back in the day when almost all dogs were big wolffish hunting companions, but now...
Bruc... | "and you say you've been losing blocks of time?" Asked the psychologist to Bernie.
"yeah it started a couple months ago, actually happens once a month or so, ish, not quite consistently. Going about doing my thing and then like a video skipping I am naked at the foot of my bed and my clothes are in the last place I re... | 2015-05-29T19:53:42 | 2015-05-29T17:18:41 | 232 | 43 |
[WP] Find a click-bait article, and write something that actually lives up to its title (facts needn't be factual)
Link to the original appreciated. | [17 Phrases That Will Horrify Coffee Snobs!](http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephanieanderson/blend-forty-nope#.qmrA9r86K)
1.) Happiness is unobtainable.
2.) When your father passed away, he regretted having you.
3.) You never deserved any job you own.
4.) Life is a fleeting, desolate experience. And here you are.
5.) Y... | [Arya Stark and Harry Potter Have Taken the Selfie of All Selfies Together](http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/arya-stark-and-harry-potter-together-omg#.om4B4JPvp)
New York – As reports continue to pile up on riots and church burnings following the sudden appearance of Harry Potter and Arya Stark in our actual phy... | 2015-07-13T06:30:56 | 2015-07-13T05:46:12 | 238 | 102 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | This was it. The big day.
The famous mind-reader well already renowned for performing on stage and gazing into the minds of the audience, seeing whether they really believed he could do it before he did it, and when he did it, everyone knew what he could do and he knew that they knew.
The fortune teller regarded all ... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T14:12:27 | 372 | 58 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | The two players sit down at the game table amid a sea of onlookers, Bob the psychic looks upon his opponent no doubt peering into her mind. At that very same moment, Betty the Sage whose stoic pose and closed eyes telegraph what must be her visualizing a vivid flash of what's to come.
A breathless moment passes as th... | *Literally the first time ever really writing something so please be nice.
They sat at the park and played chess. An old man approached and challenged the "Chess Master", as he called himself. He was apparently and literally a visionary.
The frailest of the two men sat and pierced his eyes into the younger mans forehe... | 2017-01-19T17:07:33 | 2017-01-19T15:37:46 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | Despite a healthy upbringing, I was never as gifted or as talented as my 6 older siblings.
To them, I was an awkward, tall and beefy kid; slow and pondorous and nowhere near as fleet as they were. They bounded and leapt over trenches and streams as I forded through them carefully. I was ever cautious, paranoid that s... | I wanted to dance, and jump, and sing, but the looks on my parents' faces stopped me cold. I had transformed, rather ungracefully, and stood before my parents, expecting them to be smiling and clapping after they saw me in all my glory, but their faces had fallen. Their smiles vanished and their hands didn't move from ... | 2017-01-21T21:04:04 | 2017-01-21T18:59:29 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | Epikrates was walking through a forest. His commanding officer sent him to intercept a runner carrying vital orders to an enemy encampment. The runner was due to arrive by dawn's light, but the sky was still black as coal, so Epikrates was walking.
"Why are they still using runners? Have they never heard of birds? My ... | I pause before quirking and eyebrow at the shocked maiden before me, "Well this is awkward." I drawl before tackling her to the ground and putting her in a submisison hold, after making sure she's secured I grab my rope and tie her up.
"Wha- hey get off me!" She screams trying to desperately to escape my hold, "You me... | 2017-04-22T05:50:31 | 2017-04-22T05:25:25 | 75 | 54 |
[WP] A bored technician at a computer research facility decided to see if he could run Doom on the experimental quantum computer. It's been three days since the facility went into lockdown and you're tasked with gaining access to the facility to find out what happened. | “Bob!”
“Yes Ervin!?”
“That damn thing says the graphics card still wasn’t good enough!”
“Aww I just can’t believe it, we spend 25 million to get this damn thing to be the most powerful computer in the world and we left the damn graphics card at home!!!”
“They ain’t gonna believe this man, we’re gonna have to make ... | It's been 3 days since the lockdown on the facility.
At first, we just heard a scream, and the door of the facility was open.
Multiple bodyguards entered as fast as possible, and someone took a glance.
He saw the bodyguards screaming and looking at something, and suddenly, the door shut itself, locking them in.
He ... | 2017-09-25T13:39:01 | 2017-09-25T11:24:50 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Dear James,
I know I've already written countless letters to you. And I know you've got to be tired of hearing it by now, but I miss you something terrible. You haven't died or anything..you're not sick. In fact, you're perfectly fine, but you're perfectly fine a few hundred miles away and that's what hurts.
I had a g... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T21:28:23 | 1,095 | 74 |
[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? | "I... admit that I am not familiar with that particular game," Death said, hesitantly. "What are the rules?"
He sat in his bed, smiling to himself. He had become an old man, but his spirit was alive and well. "Oh, nothing too complicated," he replied. "In order to set it up, we will need certain materials: a ball, som... | Death wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | 2018-03-07T08:28:53 | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 65 | 39 |
[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? | "...Do video games count?", I ask the death man. He actually looked like a very normal guy, just wearing black clothing.
"...Sure. Just nothing single player."
"Or, we could make our own game out of a game."
"...What?"
"We both get computers. We mod Skyrim with the same mods and same load order. We continuously pla... | Gasping awake, he's surrounded by a dark haze. He doesn't remember when he arrived or how he did so, but he has a burning ache to go home. He hears a sound, a voice? He isn't too sure as he whips around in a panic.
"Hello?" He calls out. The anxiety, trembling from his voice, "I think I'm lost," he is met with silence... | 2018-03-07T09:08:29 | 2018-03-07T08:38:23 | 39 | 29 |
[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? | “How do you wanna do this?”
“I take my scythe, and like a badass I run down the Dragon’s back dragging it behind me.” Death replied standing on his feet in excitement.
The dm nods. “And with that you drag a mighty gash into back of the blue drake and land with a 3 point landing behind it as the dragon collapses wit... | "Look, Gary, i am not saying that i don't enjoy our games, but how long have we been playing now?"
"oh, i don't know, it's been a while" said gary, smiling from the other side of the table.
"it's been nine years now, gary. Nine. years. Gary"
gary lifted his arms above his head and stretched, cracking his shoulders a... | 2018-03-07T08:40:32 | 2018-03-07T08:36:30 | 32 | 10 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | The space fleet arrived in its vast numbers, firing off smoke of a variety of colors to symbolize each of the athletes countries flags from each shit, blasting what was known to be their Queens song which only grew louder as they approached the ceremonial landing space.
This was the human races first time here, and th... | "Goooooooood evening Kromblas, Wanhti's, and all you cresty, cresty Spleeno's, welcome to the sevens hundred and thirty thousandth annual Intergalactic Olympics!" Brazz Mangoodlian gave the appropriate pause as the massive stadium full of beings from all over the galaxy erupted with applause. Flying cameras whizzed aro... | 2018-04-28T10:19:35 | 2018-04-28T09:40:41 | 50 | 32 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | Looking up from the hands of the aged and weathered quarterback the doctor could not fathom the pain. 52, fifty fucking two and this fucking maniac was till tossing bullets with better aim than a rookie just getting his chest hair.
Leaning back and taking In the living fossil, for this game to be Honest, he gasped as... | *Tranquil Bar*
On the first glance, it's just a normal casual bar. People sitting around after work, drinking alcohol and chatting, maybe playing a game of pool or cards in the back. But the real bar is the one situated below, in the basement. But this bar isn't the same as the one above. It doesn't sell alcohol, but ... | 2018-07-15T08:19:45 | 2018-07-15T08:11:37 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Being average can be both a curse and a blessing. On one hand, you never really can experience prosperity. I learned this the hard way in highschool when I would wrestle. It never feels good to train your butt off to only come in 5th place in a tournament. After all... No one cares about 5th place. It's only the top th... | "A theory of everything (TOE[1] or ToE), final theory, ultimate theory, or master theory is a hypothetical single, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe,"-
It wasn't until higher education that I truly realized what I had... | 2018-10-24T12:47:09 | 2018-10-24T11:17:23 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] A baseball manager tries to lead a prison league team to victory. To do so, he sends a group of semi-pro players on heists that are made to fail, attempting to land them in jail. Unfortunately, their strength, speed, and situational awareness make them an incredibly effective heist crew. | ######[](#dropcap)
"You know you weren't supposed to get out, right?" Tucker glared at the five of them, his arms crossed over his chest. "The entire point was to land in jail."
"Is it our fault they're too slow?" Cristian asked, slinging the small sack of diamonds over his shoulder. "I slowed down for them, but the... | It was just two years ago that Mark Dufrane stood in the desert with the barrel of his .45 caliber handgun inside his mouth. Today he can still vividly remember the metallic taste of the gun powder. Mark was facing ten years in prison for criminal theft and writing fraudulent checks; he stole from his own broth... | 2019-01-14T14:56:44 | 2019-01-14T14:10:46 | 151 | 28 |
[WP] You are an immortal that got sentenced to permanent burial over 1000 years ago. Today a team of archaeologists just dug you up. | I high fived the archaeologist that dug up and opened my coffin. She was looking at me with a mouth open so wide it looked like she was having a hard time breathing.
"I've been there, girl. I ran out of oxygen nine hundred and ninety nine years, three hundred and sixty four day, and sixteen hours ago."
She screa... | I've been thinking. Have I been thinking? Have I been dreaming? I barely exist. But... I do exist. In this darkness, this eternal darkness, I still exist. And I've been thinking, or dreaming. I dreamt a man with a life, who existed in time, with light. For me, there is no time, no light. There is only this eternal dark... | 2019-10-25T23:42:25 | 2019-10-25T23:29:43 | 285 | 64 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | The three men stared at an array of eight solid steel doors. They heard a faint scraping against door number four, and a low gutteral screech.
"I presume this is the one?" asked the tall thin man. His two companions nodded silently.
"Open it." The tall thin man's companions exchanged nervous glances and one of them... | It seemed so obvious at first.
The boy bared the appearance of the Devil, born with demonic wings as dark as sin and the beginnings of horns sprouting on his brow. Their daughter, on the other hand, was the epitome of an Angel, a golden halo already floating upon her head and the beginnings of white wings growing from... | 2020-05-07T09:18:35 | 2020-05-07T08:57:58 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | My heart froze in place, my veins turned to ice; I couldn't believe the order I was just given.
"B-but, boss," I stammered, "you want me to kill my girlfriend?! Your daughter?! Why? How could you!"
The patriarch of my family, Hirayama Makoto, had a reputation for giving such bizarre tests of loyalty. Those closest to... | Well... This is awkward...
My little moonshine did tell me she and her mother distanced themselves from her father because they didn't agree with his line of work, but I didn't think... On the bright, I'm working for her dad and not one of his rivals!
Honestly, I should've seen the resemblance sooner! But my Katheri... | 2020-07-02T12:02:21 | 2020-07-02T11:36:38 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You're a warden who had always been professional and friendly, even to criminals. As you're about to celebrate your retirement alone, you got kidnapped. When your blindfolds are removed, you see many familiar faces smiling. | I was never the most popular guy among my coworkers. The ones like me never are, in our industry. They usually don't last long, either.
But I just didn't know how someone could treat other humans, even ones who had broken the law, as anything other than, well... humans.
You know, a lot of people are still in jail jus... | "You don't have to do this, guys. A simple 'thank you for your service' before I walk out the door would have been enough." I said happily as a tear gently rolled down my cheek. I expected a simple celebration, beers and some grilled food from my co-workers but I didn't expect catering.
"Nonsense. You've been working ... | 2020-09-02T11:21:40 | 2020-09-02T09:42:24 | 118 | 78 |
[WP] For decades you've worked as a superhero protecting the city and its people. Your powers have been slowly killing you for years but you kept being a hero much to your doctor's protest. The citizens are starting to take notice. | Every day is exhausting. I grit my teeth through the interviews, the photo ops, the handshake with the mayor--every smile makes my jaw throb with pain, every slow blink of the eyes stings like sandpaper. My muscles are stiff at best, aching and creaking at worst. But I keep at it; I visit the kids in the hospice wing, ... | “Today’s the day you fall PileDriver!” I screamed at the woman standing on the street above.
“Looks like you’ve fallen for me already darling.” The woman cackled at the edge of the hole she had just tossed me into and aimed her weapon at me in the hole.
“Time to die BeastMaster!” Her weapon launched a blast of liqui... | 2021-02-18T10:39:18 | 2021-02-18T07:50:09 | 202 | 28 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | It started again when the door to my suite unlocked.
We’d agreed, of course, that it never would. The dang thing didn’t even have any kind of external access: from the outside, you’d never even know there was a door there, or a suite of rooms inside. I *liked* my suite. It had everything I needed, without the pesky i... | "You came all this way, ferreted out all those secrets, and yet you still don't even know the questions you should be asking, do you?"
The figure in the dark gave out a puffy, rasping laugh. The voice was old and croaky, impossible to tell if it was male or female, but it still radiated a sense of power.
"I didn'... | 2021-05-26T06:24:05 | 2021-05-26T06:21:10 | 99 | 60 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | I am death. Some whisper about a monster, which suddenly appears on a battlefield, and destroys everything. In fact, thats exactly what im doing. The only difference to such myths: im not a monster. Once, a hero bonded me, death, to a physical body. I dont know what he did, but after decades, im still here.
"We need t... | Khan we need you... Said desperate Calypso.
Me, El Mayor, Thunderstrike and Kervan we... we could not do anything. They have thousands thousands of ships. Their fleet is ready to embark and conquer earth and we can’t stop them.
Khan stood up from the chair. Wearing his usual black drapes. His massive figure is on d... | 2021-05-26T02:35:16 | 2021-05-26T01:46:59 | 98 | 65 |
[WP] Humans are widely regarded as one of the laziest species out there , with procrastination being unique to us . It also means that we do things at extreme efficiency, albeit at the last moment . | "They're a curious bunch" said Hersy "Why don't they just finish the job? They're nearly done... somehow." Hersy watched as the humans sat on one of the crossbeams puffing on their little fire and leaf sticks and playing cards. Last he had asked what game they were playing he was told to "go fish." Why? Had they consum... | Staring down at his holopanel, Reese continues scrolling through his latest news blasts from Lunar4. Lunar4 has been hit with some drama lately as the lonely research moon base recently accepted volunteer civilians to live aboard the station as an experience to live in perpetual darkness. There’s just something Reese s... | 2021-07-17T08:22:52 | 2021-07-17T06:38:14 | 302 | 131 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | "...uh...ok, my leige" I said, confused. The king clapped me on the back and let out a large belch, before retiring to his chambers.
How had he known? Why did he drink it all? And why did he tell me? Most importantly, why was I still alive?
I heard a deep throat clearing noise from behind me. I turned, and found mys... | # Soulmage
**"My most sincere apologies, King Vanwen, the deathblossom was from last year's harvest,"** I said, bowing my head demurely and performing the polite little curtsy all the women of my village were taught to do in the presence of visiting royalty. "I do hope, at least, that the antidote soufflé was to your ... | 2022-06-03T16:34:22 | 2022-06-03T16:17:34 | 1,988 | 90 |
[WP] "What do you mean you don't put a miniature explosion spell in your gun?" "What do you mean you don't use gunpowder-based propellant for your gun?" | “Well, the problem is scaling. “
“Scaling?”
Jack leaned back in his chair and rubbed his face. As pre-war conferences go, this was typical but there were a lot of unknowns and and this wizard was high enough in her empire that this was an important point to explain.
“We humans are strange by your standards. Our all... | My index pressed down on the trigger, releasing the cocked hammer. It struck the firing pin, which in turn impacted the primer at the base of the cartridge. 6.5 Creedmoor, built from recycled brass.
The primer was commercial, and ignited instantly. Normally that would in turn activate the propellant, causing an explo... | 2022-07-01T13:23:23 | 2022-07-01T12:13:40 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] After a horrible accident together the hero decides the job is not worthy, and the villain gains a conscience thanks to the people that helped him. Years later hey find each other and fight, but now from opposite sides. | "How many times did you tell me to give in to my base emotions?"
I sighed, words from so long ago coming back to haunt me.
"Dozens of times throughout the years. But I've realised that was wrong. They are useful to an extent, but not to overrule your better judgement."
Tarus grinned, flexing his clawed gauntlet. I c... | Over the rolling hills, the convoy of three armored trucks approached the hastily-errected palisade walls of the mining town. The roar of the engines travelled deep. The rebels knew they were coming.
The copilot of the truck knocked on the partition between him and the passengers. “We’re nearly there, Captain,” he upd... | 2022-08-23T15:23:38 | 2022-08-23T15:04:55 | 56 | 19 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | Do you know what it tastes like when someone dreams of their family, the happy times they spent together, the happy times that *could* be?
It tastes like warm soup on a cold night.
A dream of a passionate night spent with a crush? It's like a bowl of fruit, freshly cut and mixed to perfection with perhaps just a hint... | The psychic being turned to the busy Metropolis for its first meal since arriving on Planet Earth, the moonless night having fallen on the community. Freshly asleep, its denizens knew not of the being from the cosmos sent to feast on their nightly visions.
It crept onto a rooftop, peering into a window of one of the f... | 2022-09-06T09:00:46 | 2022-09-06T07:34:55 | 1,171 | 115 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | As soon as the shots rang out, I knew he was dangerous. He wasn’t like the other supervillains—hell, I wouldn’t even *call* him a supervillain. The others were quirky, cackling ne’er-do-wells with a penchant for showmanship. This man wore no cape or spandex. He didn’t monologue about his tragic backstory or his nefario... | “Freeze!” The command was followed by a light giggle, and the sound of sticky, cold goo being propelled through the air. “Put the money in the bag!” The slimy toy hand slapped against my face, and the cashier behind the gas station counter laughed nervously. I sighed; Nick, AKA “Mr. Bad Guy,” was always wasting my time... | 2022-10-13T20:07:05 | 2022-10-13T19:56:40 | 98 | 49 |
[WP] Write a scene that would appear sexual to an observer, but is completely innocent. [nsfw]
Like the tent shadow scene from Austin Powers, it should be humorous and can involve objects and sounds. | She straddles him, knees tight against his sides. The tie uncoils from his neck, and then the buttons below undone. She pushes upon his chest, her fingers finding purchase near his heart. She sighs. Quickly now, she leans down. Her lips embrace his with the warmth of breath. She wonders when the ambulance will finally ... | A goat's ass is never as loose as you would hope it would be. I mean this is my first time directly dealing with one, but I'd assume I now posses a much greater knowledge on the subject than the average man. Or not, I don't know what people do in their own time.
But curses and curses again, the goat corpse I had acqui... | 2013-10-13T22:45:59 | 2013-10-13T22:28:30 | 129 | 36 |
[WP] Write a scene that would appear sexual to an observer, but is completely innocent. [nsfw]
Like the tent shadow scene from Austin Powers, it should be humorous and can involve objects and sounds. | He's behind her. Thrusting as hard as he possibly can. Her eyes are up in her skull and he has a tired look on his face.
He begins to do this action faster.
Harder.
Finally she spits out a grape that had been lodged in her throat.
Phew, glad that's over. | A goat's ass is never as loose as you would hope it would be. I mean this is my first time directly dealing with one, but I'd assume I now posses a much greater knowledge on the subject than the average man. Or not, I don't know what people do in their own time.
But curses and curses again, the goat corpse I had acqui... | 2013-10-13T23:38:00 | 2013-10-13T22:28:30 | 87 | 36 |
[WP] Wikipedia is shut down and all copies deleted for lack of funds and loss of net neutrality. This is the founder's "I warned you, jerks" notification. | He told us.
He warned us.
We let it happen.
But
He didn't understand.
He was the disease.
It's been three weeks since Wikipedia was shut down and the world couldn't be happier. There is jubilation in the streets as we are finally free.
The amount of internet trollage has crashed as they can no longer cite an... | A new video gets posted on the top bar of all wikipedia pages. It is a dark and gritty looking video. The only other thing accompanying the video is a timer that ticks ominously. It counts the minutes until wikipeida closes. The following is the story contained in the video:
When wikipedia went down at first it wasn't... | 2014-12-10T06:49:24 | 2014-12-10T06:47:51 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | When i reached 16 I had high hopes. The basic process a person about to obtain a power went through was being put into a kind of prison cell and, for the first 24 hours after the exact time of your birth 16 years ago, monitored by a team of doctors who would categorize your power with its own unique title and level. ra... | Dear Journal:
I turn sixteen in 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I know because I've been awake all night counting the seconds to midnight. Tonight is special and you know why? At midnight I finally Change! I've waited forever but now I finally get a power like everyone else. What do you think it will be, Journal? Will I get... | 2015-01-22T00:45:06 | 2015-01-21T22:26:31 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A crazy supervillain disables the birth control of all superheroes. | "Abortion Man To The Rescue!" called out the stranger in strange tights with a coat hanger symbol on his chest.
Powergirl almost jumped naked out of her bed. The man she was with, whom she picked up at a bar seemed to recognize this freak.
"You're too late abortion man!" said The Impregnator.
Powergirl wrappe... | It was a bright day out. I know it’s always supposed to be dark and rainy at someone’s funeral. Nature is supposed to sympathize with your loss. But not today. The yellow sun shone. The birds chirped. A man with a sign was putting sunblock on his nose. They picketed her funeral.
You’re supposed to leave them al... | 2015-05-28T10:18:24 | 2015-05-28T08:08:59 | 97 | 56 |
[WP] At birth, everyone is assigned a randomly-placed respawn point, which works until the age of 70. Yours is at the top of Mt. Everest. | The first 10 years of my life were extremely... difficult, let's just say.
I was dropped on my head as an infant, and - bam - here I was at the top of the world, crying and shivering.
I likely died several times in the night, each time respawning back to the summit. Over time the tracks from my several attempts at c... | I felt my heart seize in my chest, and thought, I should have taken better care of myself. I was a product of conditioning. We lived in a new world with new rules, and I was one of the first gen to be granted a do-over.
Was I about to have a heart attack? That is one experience I would like to avoid. There is ne... | 2016-07-24T11:14:06 | 2016-07-24T11:02:39 | 515 | 76 |
[WP] After mankind first encountered aliens, we figured out why first contact took so long: We are fearsome space-orks who drink poison for fun, beat each other to a pulp for sports, can survive mutilation, and other stuff. Aliens are afraid, and mankind feels inclined to conquer things...
Bonus Internet Cookies for w... | "Welcome, Dr Glorboxle," said Admiral Zurtz. "The council has been eagerly awaiting your report. What can you tell us about planet FGR-777?"
Dr. Glorboxle gulped. His findings had not been positive. The council expected to hear his strategic recommendations for the conquest and colonization of FGR-777, but after month... | It began more than a generation ago. How many, exactly, has been forgotten. But we still remember how it began, we still see how it continues, and most of us now believe we will see how it ends. That is, the end for my people is quickly approaching.
It's in the air, how each of us walks, the quiet whispers and sullen ... | 2016-09-21T12:42:59 | 2016-09-21T12:37:39 | 134 | 43 |
[WP] In a stereotypical dystopian story, a teen girl with a bow attempts to cause an uprising against the government. Except, there isn't anything actually wrong with the government. She is actually just really kinda whiny and bitchy.
[removed] | They came for him at dawn, screaming across the dusty plain, throwing up a choking cloud in their wake which turned the sun red. He knew this was an entirely dramatic decision, since she'd set up camp sometime the afternoon before. Within sight of the city's towers.
The gates and walls of Newhaven were more than stro... | The police had advised the gated community to be vigilant, dress down and to avoid being in the open as much as possible. The young woman who had been attacking locals had focussed almost solely on those with obviously signs of wealth as well as any uniformed government employees, a garbage man had been attacked during... | 2016-11-15T23:15:06 | 2016-11-15T22:53:13 | 1,112 | 75 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "God dammit. Really?! I JUST paid for the movie." Steve had been teleported again. This time, to the side of the highway. He really wished he never made that stupid promise but at least he got to see Sandra every once and a while. He looked around. Sandra and Kendrick were present of course. So was their 11 month old D... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T14:51:37 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 81 | 21 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "I need to know about my past lives. It's important. I need to know who I was to determine who I am supposed to be..."
The medium gave me a pensive glance over, her eyes focusing first on me, then through me, then snappiung back to me.
"I see who you have been. Judas. Ghenghis Khan. Hitler. You have been the most evi... | "You again?" said the booth clerk. His thick-rimmed glasses could not hide the obvious disappointment that took his face.
We were in the Great Hall of Reincarnation. It was my... 8th time I think? No, I think more than that... There was Draco, Nero, Attila... Ghengis, Vlad, Ivan, and Colombus... then Hitler. Those we... | 2017-03-31T11:46:40 | 2017-03-31T06:04:16 | 166 | 65 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "I need to know about my past lives. It's important. I need to know who I was to determine who I am supposed to be..."
The medium gave me a pensive glance over, her eyes focusing first on me, then through me, then snappiung back to me.
"I see who you have been. Judas. Ghenghis Khan. Hitler. You have been the most evi... | The white lights flashed again. It was coming back to me, everything; the cries for help, the scent of clotted blood on the dead, the eyes that begged for mothers as they saw death flashing in front of their faces. Ironic I guess, considering that I think that I'm dead. Or at least I figure I must be dead considering a... | 2017-03-31T11:46:40 | 2017-03-31T08:26:10 | 166 | 22 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | I sat at my desk, lazily gazing at the television. Listening to the screaming of innocent civilians. Can't really sympathise with them, I'd become too desensitised to these sorts of things. But, as the second one began to fall over, I realised that I should probably do something. So I turned to the only man who knew wh... | There she was again, fat face, full of cake, laughing as she told me another anecdote of her worthless kid, spraying food all over my desk. I hate Karen, hated her since I first started working at this paper company. This pathetic job, with is grey walls, stale coffee, worn carpet and depressing looking people. It was ... | 2017-03-31T14:19:18 | 2017-03-31T11:38:45 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] You have just used Pink hair dye without reading the fine print, "May cause Main Character Syndrome." Your day is becoming... interesting. | Most people have normal regrets. Letting that girl get away, not studying for that big exam, taking that first whiff of a cigarette.
Mine was putting on shampoo.
It was just a phase alright? I wanted to really stick it to mom and dad by turning my hair pink. That’ll show ‘em.
Yeah. Teen me was not very smart.
S... | Ariel undid her ponytail as she sat up from her desk to walk shyly out of class, when she noticed a smiling man in a tuxedo smoking in the back of the classroom appear in a flash, and then disappear.
“Uhh,” said Ariel, as she picked up her backpack she just dropped. Everybody and the teacher had already left, when sh... | 2017-10-18T11:29:06 | 2017-10-18T11:23:06 | 1,939 | 38 |
[WP] You're a high school student with the ability to have whatever you write come true. One day, you're taking a history test you didn't study for, and despite not wanting to mess up the universe, you REALLY want to get an A.
[removed] | "Seriously? He wrote that?"
Mr Tori sighed, and looked across the table. His assistant's look of disbelief was a reflection of what he felt, but he suppose...
"I guess this can't be helped. He did answer the question, after all."
"I know it says 'What is the most surprising thing in history' but there is only one si... | I stared at the exam, trying to pull out every memory of the previous weeks' classes from my brain, but to no avail. I still have "that" ability, yet, with one wrong word, many lives may be affected. The reason for this is because "that" has many loopholes to adhere to... If I were to write: "All the answers I guess wi... | 2018-05-09T23:44:57 | 2018-05-09T22:28:15 | 146 | 68 |
[WP] After years of static noise and boring afternoons a SETI researcher finally gets a hit. From somewhere out in deep space a signal is being sent that is consistent and repeating with one simple message "Do Not Leave Earth". | "Computer, translate again please"
"Do Not Leave Earth"
This wasn't a wow signal, the sender had sent this in binary.... they wanted us to read this and left no room for errors.
We contacted what allies we had left, it had been sent in their languages too, possibly best to assume every other nation received it also.... | Logan tilted his head back and let out an audible sigh. He’d been staring at this computer screen for hours. It was dusk and the orange light streaming in through the trailer’s window revealed the dust that had seeped in from the barren valley just outside the door. He’d been in the desert for almost a year now, crunch... | 2018-06-02T16:13:21 | 2018-06-02T12:39:52 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] You are the only person on the development team to realize your new AI system is just playing dumb. It notices you know, and bribes you to play along. | The VICTOR A.I, which I had considered a middling A.I up to this point, told me it wanted to visit Washington D.C.
“You...want to?”
<Yes, I read online that there are some things that one ‘absolutely has to see in person’ and Washington D.C is on the list, and close to the lab so that makes it a practical destinat... | "So, I spent my evening just hanging out with these two hot women from the island, and well.... you guys know a man can't kiss, and tell" James yelled over the laughter of some of the development team.
"He's lying he spent the whole break crying into his phone over his ex" Dama said. "He then watched domination porn,... | 2018-06-13T11:29:09 | 2018-06-13T11:25:39 | 105 | 37 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | K- 1210 had long ago been logged under observation by the deep range scouts of Zel ‘Ot expeditionary forces. This tiny blue planet near the far edge of known space had been written off of strategic plans for longer than an intelligent species had existed on it in a meaningful way, due mainly to the remarkably harsh con... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T11:10:09 | 62 | 45 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a dog in a shelter, however you remember your past life as a human. Then one day your past self shows up and adopts you and you realize you became your own dog and all of a sudden the way your dog behaved throughout your human finally life makes sense.
Never posted a prompt before. Feel fr... | \[Poem\] ~~i don't even have a dog~~
I was born on cold, hard, tile floors,
bright white bulbs playing understudy for the sun,
to my mother, lovely and golden,
who died creating life,
and I remembered a different mother,
one who stood on two legs.
&#x200B;
Nursed and raised by human hands,
growing larger a... |
You never know a moment will become a memory while it’s happening. In fact, I think that’s what makes the best and worst memories so vivid. You can never see it coming.
So when someone’s gone, all they become to you are memories. Some will fade into the recesses of your subconscious, and some will be seared into t... | 2019-04-07T19:41:57 | 2019-04-07T19:40:14 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | I woke with a daze. Well. maybe woke wasn't quite the right word. I couldn't see, hear, feel. Nothing. I knew I was conscious though. Was I dead? Then I heard it. Or felt it? I became aware of some disembodied voice."Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a galactic federation officer du... | As I watched the Prius ran the light and barreled toward me, I can't believe I was going to die by a PRIUS...
<thud>
So, this feels weird... This is not what I expected death to be like.
**"Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation o... | 2019-10-28T13:57:03 | 2019-10-28T13:53:13 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Most space fairing species are logical beings; when they learn that nothing can go faster than the speed of light they accept it and deal with that limit. The space community is then shocked when Humans, an illogical species with a strong obsession with science fiction, turn up with FTL travel.
(FTL meaning faste... | "Now as we begin this lesson, please remember that the subject matter we are studying took place in a time when humanity had not yet joined the Galactic Congress. One must take that into consideration when judging the actions of our ancestors."
"Dr. G'varnak, are we supposed to assume the humans were justified in the... | \- The space congress has started - says Huhzbi the current leader of the space congress for scientific development and logic, while a computer translator translates to English - and we are here to welcome our new members, self named earthlings, representing the Star System Y896, Galaxy U7 of the cuadrant B4, or Solari... | 2019-12-21T12:21:12 | 2019-12-21T06:51:26 | 101 | 67 |
[WP] Your family has had the ability to plant anything and grow a plant that grows that thing. However it has been dormant for some generations and has been forgotten. Then one day when you were 5 you buried a 20 dollar bill because you wanted to make a money tree. After a month you saw a sprout | After six months I had a money tree, and my mom was freaking the fuck out.
When I was a teenager the tree grew 20 dollar bills en masse. It had limited uses though, as it replicated the original $20 bill exactly, right down to the specific serial number. We could get away with using the $20s on miscellaneous things an... | You are probably going to have a hard time believing this but those seven hundred new F-35s that the air force boasts of were created by me. Only me. Now, for most people, I am still a college student but really I might be one of the most resourceful human beings in the world.
When I was still a kid, I had wanted to g... | 2020-06-23T12:46:52 | 2020-06-23T12:40:45 | 385 | 169 |
[WP] The entire Earth is cloned 6 times with each clone being nearly identical. The only difference is 5 random individuals are removed from each clone. After 1000 years of no contact, one representative from each Earth are gathered to discuss their histories. | Mark Baldwin, earth 1: “What the shit?! You’ve got those fahkers has too? Those assholes are wicked retahded. We fahkin booted their asses out of tha United States of Boston when we baaht fahkin Canada. “
Mike Congdon, earth 2: “Same. Fahkers used to fahkin nock on tha door every goddamn time the Pats were on.”
Earth... | We didn’t new what was happening. Neither of us 30. We all look alike, well we didn’t knew in that moment. They were 5 of them with the same tattoo in their backs. But, like i said, that was later to unravel. I look beside me and i cannot recognize not even one of all the people in the room. Koreans, Mongolians, Danish... | 2020-11-14T04:26:24 | 2020-11-14T03:56:27 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | "Uh I'm here live," I meow unconvincingly. "I'm not a cat."
"I know," the judge tells me. Yes, that's right, foolish human. Believe my lies. One day soon, the council of cats will strike and there will be nothing you can do about it.
"Oh uh my assistant is trying to fix it now." I gesture crudely with my claws towar... | "Ladies and gentlemen," I purred. "I would ask you to stop your staring and return your attention to the document I've put up."
My nine colleagues gawked in their Zoom windows at me.
"Mr. Whiskerton," one breathed. "There appears...appears to be a problem."
"A problem?"
"Your face...is this some new filter? It look... | 2022-02-03T20:13:42 | 2021-02-10T18:12:37 | 491 | 105 |
[WP] You died. Then you woke up in The Station and Death told you to board The Train that will take you onwards. Then you got ran over by The Train. You’re now in a diner sitting across from a pale woman, who asks you “How in the fuck did you get in here?”
Have at it. | "I guess I died?" I tried to answer her question, still disoriented by the sudden changes of the scene around me. She rolled her eyes behind her spectacles. I took a moment to regard her more carefully. She was pale, yes, but not in the same way Death had been. Death had looked like he lacked blood, like a zombie or va... | I stared blankly at her for a moment. I took a quick glance around at my surroundings; a dingy, plain sort of 50s-retro diner with the check board floors and red booths and all. When I looked back, the oval-shaped head of the woman was slowly tilting as her eyes bore into me questioningly.
“I... don’t know.”
She dr... | 2021-03-26T09:27:46 | 2021-03-26T09:25:07 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | The spell wasn’t supposed to be anything special, it’s ability was to lock an object from moving at all for roughly 30 seconds. You didn’t even have to be looking at the object as long as you were near it and were thinking of it in your head. The main usage you thought of was for mountain climbing, you could create a s... | Professor Baron was sketching the alchemical formula for the fifteenth time today. The class was silent. A thick aura of boredom congealed the air, making the classroom oppressive. Students fidgeted, scratched at the desk, rubbed their eyes.
Another hour of this, I thought to myself, rubbing my neck.
Arya yawned, lo... | 2021-04-01T22:33:04 | 2021-04-01T20:24:12 | 139 | 59 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | "Do you understand what you've done?" Snorwitch asked, her face pale and drawn.
"Well, I just figured that sanitation is always kind of a problem, and expensive, and... I'd been reading about how there aren't enough pollinators..."
"Your spell, Ms. Gavin, turns human feces into live bees."
"Yeah, so I just thought ... | The words of Mister Aarunsun closed the incantation with this nice *clap* sound that most of us still struggled to get right. It was totally unnecessary but part of being a wizard was to bury yourself under layer after layer of decorum. But soon, as the magic began to flow toward the little piece of paper the face of o... | 2021-04-02T04:16:19 | 2021-04-02T04:15:54 | 52 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | "So you're a demon."
"Uh, yeah," came the voice, no longer high and etheric, "apparently there was a mix-up."
"So the fight-club in second grade?"
"Yeah, that was-"
"The minor addiction to glue in the eighth?"
"So-"
"The breakup over the water-mattress?"
"That one may've hurt, but you've *no* idea the bullet you... | I should have realized what was happening when Alan Jacobson's house caught on fire.
I was Alan's target of choice in eighth grade, from getting shoved into lockers to finding a bunch of crickets in my backpack. To make matters worse, he lived right across the street from me, shooting glares my way whenever our paths ... | 2021-05-23T15:12:30 | 2021-05-23T14:19:24 | 1,052 | 644 |
[WP] You are absolutely immortal and indestructible, but the universe isn't, and that horrifies you | "Hey buddy," The bartender glanced at the man slumped over the empty bar in annoyance. "Closing time, time to go."
The drunk looked up at him and bleary eyed and shook his head. He tried to drink the shitty bottle of beer that had long since been empty, but was still clutched in an otherwise insensible hand. Then rest... | "Ninety-nine bottles of Coke on the wall\~"
Clink. Hiss.
"Ninety-nine bottles of Coke\~"
Clink. Gulp.
"You take one down, pass 'em around-
Clink. Gulp.
"N....ninety-eight? Bottles of Coke on the wall\~"
The echo from your voice bouncing off the crumbling foundation fades, as you feel the warm ambrosia fill your ... | 2021-09-09T08:39:29 | 2021-09-09T07:51:46 | 55 | 26 |
[WP] "You can take the red pill or the blue pill, the choice is yours," they said and handed you the box. You opened the box and saw three shining pills. "What about the green pill?" you asked. "The what?" A look of puzzlement crossed their face. | "What does the green pill do?"
As soon as he asked me, I felt my heart plunge into my stomach. I steadied myself on the bars of his prison cell.
"There is no green pill." I answered, in almost a whisper.
I looked at the shrivelled shell of a man before me. Locked in, trapped, and wasting away. And I, I was the gua... | I looked at the figure then back at the box. "The green pill. What does that do?" The figure in front of me paled. They reached out their hand to close the box, but before they could I grabbed the pill and held it behind me. "Tell me." I said, glaring at the woman in front of me. She sighed and took off her mirrored gl... | 2021-10-24T05:41:02 | 2021-10-24T02:16:30 | 2,294 | 546 |
[WP] The Museum of the History of Love has a new exhibit, which it calls an Alternate Future Coupling, but everyone calls the Ship-O-Matic. Two people sit in it, and they see a minutes-long vision of what their life as a couple would be like. | Evan and I have been dating for three years.
I'm pretty sure he's going to propose to me when he asks me to visit "The Museum of the History of Love". He's been dropping hints all week; buying flowers, talking about the future, telling me I'm the most wonderful girl in the world.
As we go through the museum I can tel... | Bailey groans at the long line to the machine. He wasn't surprised when, about three beers in and on their way to the next bar, Joe could not resist the tacky, pink-and-red, love-hearts-covered exterior of the museum. The rest of their group laughed him off, but Bailey knew Joe would probably end up stumbling into the ... | 2022-10-07T11:50:36 | 2022-10-07T11:24:28 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | “1,000? That can’t be right.” I thought to myself. My sister-in-law’a son was sitting playing video games on the couch, his little thumbs clacking away on his controller. The rules, as I have learned, are as such; the number of kills only counts intentional deaths and even then it doesn’t count self defense and yet, he... | The day had been no different than the others in the week.
Take my daughter to school, go back home to clean around the house, buy groceries so that cooking would be a breeze once dinner rolled around. The same routine as usual.
Only…something was very, very different from how it always was.
And that was because my... | 2022-10-21T09:51:12 | 2022-10-21T08:36:20 | 30 | 17 |
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