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[WP] A man can never be remembered. Each day he wakes up and nobody has any memory of him or his actions. Today he walks into the coffee shop and the lady behind the counter says "hello John..." | I've never been a remarkable man. It's been years since someone recognized me for myself, but that doesn't bother me much. I still get my fair share of conversation.
"John?"
Today it's the starbucks barista, apparently. She's looking at me, wide-eyed, with hurt and love and hope and desperation painted on her face i... | John stopped in his tracks, the blood drained from his face as he looked up to this unremarkable barista. Her eyes seemed locked on him, her name tag absent he couldn't begin to understand how suddenly this young lady could remember him, no one ever had. "I... how, did you..?" She giggled and winked at him "Sorry sir, ... | 2015-04-12T12:11:04 | 2015-04-12T09:02:43 | 24 | 14 |
[WP]You inherit the abilities and skill set of whatever video game character you last played. Tell the story of your discovery of this from the perspective of someone around you. Parents, roomates, etc. | "No! Damnit Jason, stop bringing needles home that you found off the street! You're not going to a new 'ability', you're going to get Hep-B."
"How do I know unless I try?"
This kid is driving me crazy. It was so cool at first. He just woke up one day after an all night game session and lightning was coming out of his... | "Morning, babe!" I said. "You're up already?"
"Uhh... is it morning?" he asked, bleary-eyed. "Ah crap, it's morning."
"You stayed up all night? Are you *that* irresponsible? You gotta get a grip, you can't just--"
"Yeah, listen. Look at this."
He made a little space on the kitchen counter--more dirty dishes than us... | 2022-05-24T13:04:12 | 2015-06-18T08:11:46 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | !!CALL ME BEFORE YOU READ THIS!!
10 years ago today, I got a package delivered to me. There wasn't a return address, and I didn't order anything. Perhaps foolishly, I opened it anyway.
Inside was a leather-bound book, and every page was blank, except the first page. The first page said "keep this book and read it ... | I awoke early that morning feeling like it was Christmas, the release of Apple’s newest highly limited edition product was today and I was one of the lucky 100 people who were randomly selected to receive one. I got ready hastily and ran out the door of my house to get into my car. I turned on the engine and pulled out... | 2016-05-05T07:56:19 | 2016-05-05T07:07:56 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] Everybody has the ability to bring another person back to life, at the cost of their own life. You are a suicidal celebrity who can't stay dead because of fans constantly sacrificing their lives to resurrect you. | Once again, the pain woke me. It hurt a lot to start breathing again. All my organs were resuming their function, and it was not a pleasant sensation.
I opened my eyes, trying to figure out were I was. An hospital room. What was it this time? Oh yes, pills. Lots of pills.
On my bedside, a handwritten note. I wait a... | The lights were so bright that they hurt my eyes.
I looked out into the crowd but the radiance of the lights just cast dark shadows on everyone's face. Anonymity, how I envied you.
"Everyone welcome singer-songwriter, Mitchell Ackermann!"
The dark bodies began clapping. I walked onto the stage and took my seat... | 2016-07-06T22:50:38 | 2016-07-06T22:39:32 | 259 | 27 |
[WP]When you die you find out heaven is real. Well actually all versions of heaven are real and you apply for them like colleges, you get denial letters and can transfer. You may not get into Catholic heaven, Mormon heaven, or Muslim heaven, but you may be a shoe in for Valhalla.
Friends and I were talking about this ... | “Heavens gates won’t up for me.”
He chuckled mirthlessly. Of all the things to linger in his head at a time like this, a line from Nickelback was what stuck. He didn’t even like them. But the line fit. He looked down at the letter in his hands with disgust and despair. He’d been rejected by Heaven. Not just rejected, ... | He awoke, coughing and sputtering as the inky back waters spit him up. Crawling on hands and knees inch by inch up the inclined beach, unsure of his surroundings and confused about how he got into that water, he continued upward till he fell face down on the warm sands.
Just moments ago he was sitting in his car...wa... | 2016-07-22T17:14:49 | 2016-07-22T17:14:19 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You have just let loose a string of vulgarities so potent that the patron saint of cursing has decided to personally pay you a visit to tell you to calm down. | It was a hot and humid day in Washington. My car had a dent and no note left behind. Traffic was awful. My boss bitching at me again. The phones ringing along with the awfully ineffective ceiling fan. Then along comes this absolute bitch. And I snapped.
The managers all looked at me with fear, slowly shuffling towards... | It's been 3 years since the sun went "Out of Phase". That's what the scientists called it... But I'm not a scientist. I'm not even a plumber. The only reason I'm in this darn crawl-space is because I don't want to die. . .
6 hours? Christ, it feels like I've been down in this steamy freaking mess for days. But someon... | 2016-07-23T09:26:45 | 2016-07-23T09:07:28 | 104 | 22 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat!" Mike yelled, slamming his fist on the table, causing the scattering of cans and bottles to rattle.
"Mike, I swear to god if you keep complaining about the election I'm going to stop coming out with you." Ca... | I never thought I would see her wearing a full body armor and wielding twin plasma machinegun as large as a motorcycle. Heck, I never imagined I would see her holding something larger than my dog.
Valiantly, she charged upon the hordes of gray six meter long worms, accurately evaporated their heads and hearts. But the... | 2016-12-22T03:07:08 | 2016-12-21T23:42:28 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] When you survive a near-death experience, you become immune to it. Survive a gun shot? Immune to bullets. Survive a plane crash? Can't be killed in plane crashes... | Very rarely did we ever have any repeat customers in the emergency room. Most survived their tragedy, whether it be a dangerous work environment or reckless driving, and then it didn't matter whether or not they continued these dangerous habits- who cared when they were immune?
We called him the stuntman, partly to p... | Near-death experiences are never fun. Ever. Remember that saying 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger?', yeah. I think its a little bit too literal for me now.
Let's go through the first 'incident' that caused me to hate near-death experiences.
I was shot during one of my hunting experiences with Pops, had to g... | 2017-05-02T20:39:05 | 2017-05-02T20:27:34 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | She looked pretty dislevelled. Rushed off her feet. Her hair was in a bun, sneakers on her feet and a - ahem - tasteful pink tracksuit that was decorated with stains and spills.
I stood in front of her, in my high heels, designer nylons, the perfect flick on my winged eyeliner. She hadn't even run foundation across he... | It was unbearably hot, but more in the Arizona mid summer sort of way. The receptionist shrugged and said the AC's out, usually it's not so bad. The smell of sulfur waited in the air, a lone fan blowing it this way and that. Turns out hell is mostly a bureaucracy. The line was ridiculously long. It was one of those "ta... | 2017-05-30T22:53:50 | 2017-05-30T17:55:53 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Thousands of years from now when humans are extinct and dolphins are the dominant species they discover a mosquito in amber with perfectly preserved human DNA. Dolphin scientists are able to recreate humans and decide to make a giant theme park where dolphins come to see real live humans. | You know, living in the park isn’t so bad. I have enough space, enough to eat. They let me hang out with a couple buddies in here too, so it’s not like I’m that lonely. I guess I’m not even sure what I’m complaining about right now – I mean I only have to perform 3 times a day, considering the rotation with the other h... |
Keglo dashed over the reef and soared through the water towards the entrance of his favorite theme park; Meltdown Park. It was there that an entire zoo full of creatures from the meltdown period had been resurrected and displayed in artificial captivities of what was once their natural atmosphere.
'Whoa, slow down y... | 2017-06-27T09:12:23 | 2017-06-27T04:28:32 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "Care for a drink?"
He is grinning at me with a cocky smile, one hand leaning on my table, one pointing towards the bar in the back of the cafe.
I smile at him but shake my head, motioning to the engagement ring on my finger. It's a cheap one- all me and John could afford after we had splurged on the 'Marriage' packa... | I pulled the black mask over my face and took a breath, making sure the holes for my nose weren't going to be an obstruction.
A snap at my left let me know that Jazz was ready too. I turn to face her and run through the plan with my hands. She signs that she's got it.
I prime the manual recharge laser gun and sprin... | 2017-09-20T09:38:24 | 2017-09-20T08:46:17 | 1,501 | 64 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "Salutations, Sport. I am Senior Officer Greg Dunning. I welcome you to the New York Police Department."
Sport entered the car without reply, waiting for Dunning to continue.
"You have officially been authorized by the State of New York to fully utilize the Department of Justice vocabulary package." Dunning started... | Governments across the ages have been searching for ways to control their populace, whether it be restrictions of liberties, or some of the more recent and perhaps more devious ideas. Conspiracy theorists didn’t seem like such nutjobs once the great facebook hack revealed that governments were manipulating the content ... | 2017-09-20T16:27:10 | 2017-09-20T12:16:11 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | St Peter drops his pen in surprise. “I’m sorry?”
I look back. “I said, I choose Hell.”
“Son, do you know what they do to you in Hell?” St Peter asked. “They beat you, and torment you, and burn you in anguish until the end of time.”
“How do you know?” I ask.
St Peter sits back in his chair. He looks down at his ... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:22:44 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 115 | 13 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | The woman in the gate couldn't believe her eyes. There was a young woman there. In Hell. By choice. And she looked at peace. How long has she seeing something like this? 1000 years? 10000? It was so unexpected that she forgot the protocol. She just stared.
The girl approached the desk with small steps, looking around ... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:21:04 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You have a special power. Whenever your life is in danger; time freezes until you've made yourself safe. One day time stops, and nothing you do seems to make it start again. | You take a deep breath and begin looking around. No oncoming cars, from the looks of it. They’re all stopped at the light. Odd… Usually time freezes in an intersection are a gimmie. You finish crossing the street, expecting the sounds of traffic to spur back to life.
Nothing.
You examine the insides of the nearby ve... | Everything is frozen and nothing seems to work. Normally, time stops when I'm in danger which I usually easily resolve by moving a few steps away. For example, in the jousting tournament last week, right as I charged down that lane with my steed towards an opponent, time froze for me. That gave me time to readjust myse... | 2019-09-15T11:03:30 | 2019-09-15T09:07:51 | 139 | 23 |
[WP] Spirit animals are real, but extremely secretive-- they are said to only appear in the most joyous times or in the darkest of hours. Except for geese. Geese do what they like. | Howard walked an ear reach and a step from the two girls in front of him. Their uniforms bore the same school emblem as the one on Howard's jacket breast.
They strode shoulder to shoulder, stopping occasionally to look back at him and giggle. The girl on the left had a jumper tied to her waist and her white shirt glea... | **HONK!!!**
"Whoa what was that?" Cathy said as her loud laughter was interrupted by an odd sound.
**HONK!!!**
"Sounds like an old car horn or something, I don't know" Tim said whilst peeking through the blinders from Cathy's room.
He scanned through what little opening the blinders offered. A car, a bike, maybe ev... | 2020-04-02T22:15:15 | 2020-04-02T20:26:44 | 160 | 14 |
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No." | I knew the child was special from the moment he was born. His mother was a strong and healthy woman, and neither her pregnancy nor her birth had any complications whatsoever. Despite this, the moment she held our son in her arms her heartrate fell to naught.
I was devastated, of course. Who wouldn't be? I did not see... | When Jason became six months old, his wispy hair grew in volume, grew spiky, and turned neon green. This alarmed Rachel -- she was a young mother who worried about the kid a bit too much. She told Henry, her spouse, that she would be taking the baby to Dr. Blumenthal to get to the bottom of the issue.
"Sudden onset sp... | 2021-05-11T05:55:27 | 2021-05-11T04:28:01 | 284 | 50 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | The corridors were long and dark, the stone was cold and unyielding. Your naked feet dragged through the floor as manacles made of ethereal power kept you unable to escape, to move, to step away from the incoming fate.
You had had years to think this through, years scratching little squiggles on the mirror surface of... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T07:22:01 | 5,663 | 1,307 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | You breathe. Slowly, softly, barely there. It's going to be your turn soon. Soon. Just one more in front of you.
"Garelea Ordenssen," the voice of the Judge calls, echoing through the cavernous waiting room full of intricately carved stone walls. The man in front of you takes a deep breath, displaying confidence.
Wi... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T08:08:07 | 1,590 | 22 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 74 | 23 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | # Foreword to the Poet's War, by John Burnett
The Terani send their poets to war. I know because I’ve fought them, and because I’ve read the collections of the men I thought I'd killed.
When I was young, a boy of eighteen, I went to the trenches of Tau Ceti. I brought along a million of my best friends, and shou... | >**KING'S BLOOD, GOD'S PROMISE**
With a heart so heavy, it felt like it might drop out of my chest, I took the crown into my hands.
I was seventeen, and Kotarja, the fledgling country my father had founded, was now under my control.
This wasn’t a good thing.
Father’s exact cause of death I couldn’t be sure of- he... | 2022-12-09T06:27:20 | 2021-07-13T10:05:14 | 1,513 | 235 |
[WP] You are a time-traveller to 10th century England. After applying some of your knowledge to aid the nearby townsfolk, the local lord has taken you into his confidence. One evening over cups of wine by the hearth, he requests that you explain to him how warfare has changed from his time to yours. | The Lord (a pleasant man named Charles) and I sat in surprisingly plush chairs, considering the time. We conversed about many things, small spoilers of scientific knowledge.
I described crop rotation to him over the bread and cheese we ate. I described to him the building blocks of our reality over the main course of ... | "*He is hard to tell: Are the... um, wrothful... lands*?"
"*Belligerents.*"
"*Yes, great thanks, are these belligerents strong nations or cravens?*"
The man in front of me was a barely literate rapist, an unrepentant murderer who ran his country like a mafia Don, and had multiple undiagnosed, untreated mental illnes... | 2021-10-09T22:18:30 | 2021-10-09T20:50:43 | 95 | 41 |
[WP] When bargaining with the Fae, it's far safer to start by stating what you're willing to pay and see what you can get for it. But sometimes you just have to get one specific boon - in your case, you need a terminal illness cured. | "So what do you want, human?"
"I want my grandson to be cured of his cancer."
The fae blinked at me. "That's a new one."
I blinked in my turn. "What, really? I would have thought you'd be asked it all the time."
"Most humans ask for themselves. Not others."
"Well, we do tend to be selfish when faced with a crisis.... | The gorgeous greens, beautiful blues and perfect palette of other colours that draped the deep woods in a bombastic tone did nothing to mask the sense of dread growing in my stomach. Strange creatures, the likes of which I hadn’t even heard of in tales slinked through the undergrowth hissing and howling at the intruder... | 2022-07-10T09:54:28 | 2022-07-10T07:55:22 | 66 | 32 |
[WP] Your job was to clean and repair the messes heroes and villains leave in the aftermath of their fights. It's not a glorious job, but you still took some pride in it. So when the media called you an over-glorified janitor, you took offense and decided to stop working. | Mayor Bowman stared out at the crowd of concerned citizens that had gathered in the convention center. Typically, town hall meetings could be held at one of the municipal buildings, as only a dozen or so people ever showed up to voice their opinions, even in a city the size of Metropolis. But this was something else. S... | In the distant future a person like me is a necessity. Starting in software engineering then leaping into hands on construction I found a niche and got rich, like so many who would help repair the many metropolises across the galaxy that "supers" and "baddies" would wreck in their cliche fights only to spare one anothe... | 2022-09-29T07:21:34 | 2022-09-29T00:35:31 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] As you're lying on your deathbed by yourself, your dog lies next to you, with his newly found ability that allows him to fully comprehend what you say to him. How does the conversation go? | “You can talk, huh?”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“When did that start?”
“I don’t know.”
“It doesn’t really matter, does it? I think I’m dying, Jack.”
“You do look a little bit different than usual.”
“I heard that sometimes, dogs eat their dead owners. Are you going to eat me?”
“I don’t know, maybe? Do you taste good?”
... | Me: You...you can understand me?
Boomer: You *can't* understand me??
Me: Not until now, no.
Boomer: Dude, I seriously thought we were on the same page this whole time.
Me: Nah man. I mean, I could tell when you needed to go outside or were hungry or something, but never like this.
Boomer: Yeah, I guess that makes ... | 2013-10-23T23:38:56 | 2013-10-23T22:55:44 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] As a person goes through his life, he is given three options at the end of each day, continue, restart day, or restart life. He has just lived through the worst day of his life. | What if you could restart your life, restart your day, or continue?
While his tears never surfaced, the utter despair melted away his soul. Time stopped. Fractured and broken, his heart burned. Everything he knew and everything he thought he knew had disappeared in a heartbeat. Words from others fell deafly on him. He... | When you're asleep it's like a dream. A man walks up to you, it's usually a man. Smart shirt, smart shoes, terrible hair. Always the terrible hair.
I'll say hello, he says it back. He's asks the same three things every time. Continue? Restart? Reboot?
Now. I've told him not to offer me reboot. I don't like the fact ... | 2014-07-17T19:17:02 | 2014-07-17T19:07:07 | 23 | 11 |
[WP]An old hag has cursed you with immortality.Wondering how that is supposed to be a curse you started enjoying your life. Now you are floating in the void after the heat death of the universe thinking about the past. | The hardest part of being immortal was the first few thousand millennium spent with a mind that was still more or less on par with your average human. Having to experience the rise of fall of nations, races, groups, species even, is simply not something the mind given us at birth is made to cope with. The hag thought o... | You might suspect that immortality would spare you the complications of old age, but you’d be wrong. Here I am, long after everything else, and my memory has gone to hell. I’m not sure if I have a body anymore, but I have a vague and pervading sense of pain where my body should be. A bit of phantom limb syndrome, excep... | 2014-11-23T10:20:27 | 2014-11-23T09:24:57 | 173 | 30 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 243 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Do you know what humans are? They are a small, bipedal creature trapped on a resource starved planet. Evolutionists would call this a typical case of a species made ruthless through internal competition. Not once in their entire existence had there been peace. Their 'civilization' began by throwing stones at 'Philistin... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T12:10:42 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 130 | 10 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | They had a moral code. A set of rules written in stone that they were bound to follow. Somehow though they were able to ignore it and not really care. They understood that they should live in a sustainable fashion. They even celebrated those among them who did. They just as a species didn't. They lived much like the vi... | "Chancellor Ehrbane, please, I am not a violent man."
"*Not a violent man?!*" I spluttered with almost unkept rage, "Your people have laid waste to my kin-kingdom's homeworld. Your men have trodden armoured through the Basilica of Old Truths, the keystone of our culture! Your weapons have destroyed our ancient reliqua... | 2014-12-26T11:25:21 | 2014-12-26T10:45:23 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] As teens, you and your best friend make a marriage pact. Years later, you discover they've been sabotaging all of your relationships to have you for themselves. | You were always there for me. We were inseparable; the same.
Batman and Robin, Bert and Ernie, they used every name.
You moved next-door when I was eight,
we didn't get along.
You were Holmes to my Moriarty,
the right to my wrong.
I was a bit of a bully. I'm not proud but it's true.
I had everyone afrai... | I never thought that at 28 I'd be single again. I took a sip of coffee and leaned back against my chair, waiting for the conference call to beep in. Being able to work from home was great, I could work in PJ's or sweat pants and my boss would never know. I started purging all the spam from my e-mails when I noticed ... | 2015-05-02T12:37:02 | 2015-05-02T12:03:39 | 198 | 41 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | I placed my hand on the box but nothing came to mind. Being sober sucked, I wish I had some weed; The crazy shit that I could then come up with if I was
high.
That was when the box became slightly more heavy. I opened it and sweet stank shot through my nostrils. My eyes lit up, it was a solid brick the dankest pot I... | When travelling to the past, it is inevitable that one loses some part of one's self. You arrival comes not with ceremony, but a great feeling of loss, a cold lack of sensation as your mind is separated from Soul. Of course one still is one’s Soul — by merely being first one must thus be the origin — but such reasons d... | 2016-11-28T03:04:15 | 2016-11-28T00:49:38 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | I hadn't thought about Death for a long time the day I led my granddaughter straight into his arms. I was annoyed with Abby. Impatient. She wanted a very particular type of ice-cream. One she'd had in Toulouse with her parents. "We're in New York," I told her. "So you'd better settle for a New York ice-cream, missy." S... | Who knew that failing at killing yourself could get boring? I tried floating off into space twice and just woke up years later at sea, twice. Always would wind back up in one piece after any kind of accident. Discovered euphoric highs and impressive trips trying to overdose. Why did I want to be immortal again?
I don'... | 2017-03-07T03:03:41 | 2017-03-06T23:01:19 | 139 | 31 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Conviction parties were tradition, so friends and family could come and see as your life was essentially laid out for you. Sometimes the word was a good one. Other times it was more dubious. But nothing was ever set in stone.
Every person's Conviction meant something to them. It meant something to the people they met ... | Something happened in the past... A curse on all humanity, yet still a blessing. Every human now, on their eighteenth birthday at noon, magically knows their purpose in life. It's not a secret for just them, though: it takes the place almost of a tattoo, leaving no way to hide your destiny. My mother's word was "Banker... | 2017-03-16T05:01:30 | 2017-03-16T04:18:55 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Gods draw power the more their names are spoken and the more followers they attract. Old gods starve and live off brief mentions from historians. Recently, however, the Egyptian god Kek has become very confused by his massive resurgence of followers from 4chan and reddit. | "Get a load of this Kek!" Anubis joked.
"You're getting quite popular right now!" The wolf headed god joked.
"In fact, your godly name royalties are coming in by the thousands!" Anubis handed Kek a scroll.
"Who is this 'Four Chan'? Why is this 'Four Chan' person saying my name in such high regards?" He questioned to... | "Top Kek!" The high priest cried, and his cry was echoed by a thousand tongues.
The old man smiled. It was not long ago that he had been nearly alone, simply another withered voice preaching forgotten verses on the streets of Cairo. Now, his congregation flooded into the streets, and with good reason. Many had come o... | 2017-06-20T21:50:59 | 2017-06-20T21:30:33 | 112 | 30 |
[WP] Lying in bed with your significant other and feeling the rhythmic kicks of your unborn child, you recognize the pattern as Morse code. | At first it we just thought the baby did its regular punching/kicking routine as it always did on early Sunday mornings. It (we still dont know the gender so to us the baby will be an "it" before it's born) rarely kicked any other times which was kind of weird when you thought about it. Nevertheless, my wife and I enjo... | Dave tip-toed to bed giving his wet footsteps a disdainful stare. He turned to Lana. Her eyes could have burned holes through the pages of 'Hypnobirthing and Timeless Secrets of Natural Birth'. She had no time to review his wet foot problem.
"You know dear I'm just glad that they finally gave me some time off." he ... | 2017-06-25T23:47:08 | 2017-06-25T18:03:52 | 59 | 36 |
[WP] You're a sniper hitman who's been hired to take out a target. When you get to the top of the building, you notice at least a dozen other snipers aiming at the same person. | He had competition. It was an open contract but still he was amazed by the mass of other snipers aiming at the president. He knew some as colleagues. Robert was sitting on a balcony on the other side already focused on the street below. Since he met Mary at Starbucks an hour ago his spider sense was tickling.
The amat... | I had been a hit man ever since I had left the army, the days of Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq were over and the days of London, New York, and Berlin had began. Back in the Army we didn't worry when we saw another sniper, but a career change had seen this change, I had always suspected there was a second sniper making ... | 2017-09-13T00:52:08 | 2017-09-12T23:03:54 | 144 | 83 |
[WP] The dragon looked down at the dwarf in perplexment. Many had come before to steal its treasure, to take its life, but no one had ever said that they would voluntarily add coin to his hoard. "So explain this investing to me again." | "It's mutually beneficial, think of me as a business partner and my gold as seed money"
"Seed money? I don't follow. Why do I need a partner when I can simply take your gold?"
The dwarf sighed, getting tired of having to explain basic economics to the dragon. "Well before you get any ideas, I don't have any gold on m... | The dwarf twirled the tip of his greying moustache, his mouth twisting into a sly smirk. The chamber-spanning azure dragon studied the intruder with indecipherable, golden feral eyes, even as it stood curled over its own hoard.
"Why, this venture is simple to understand: You're a dragon who has protected such a vast a... | 2019-02-17T07:28:44 | 2019-02-17T07:05:55 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | **Part 1**
"Oho, if it isn't *Black Magma*!! What brings you to my nefarious lair?!", I crowed.
He sighs, as though the weight of the things I've set in motion already pulled at him. So soon, and it's as if understands how truly powerless he is. This has been weeks in the making, and he knows by now that the only way... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T07:51:01 | 1,144 | 47 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | I shifted my weight from one foot to the other, the dark brown boots slipping slightly on the mottle, glossy marble flooring. The dark cloak and hood were, I admit, a bit unoriginal, but I never really cared that much about that. The see through red fabric was an original touch, at least in my mind. It covered my face,... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T08:27:33 | 129 | 12 |
[WP] You just made a deal with the devil, and sold your soul. But when he reached in to take it, he says, "Okay, wise-guy, where is it?" | John lay quietly on the hospital bed, surrounded by the sounds of a mechanical life; beeps of computers, hisses of pressurized gasses.
His visitor sat on the edge of the bed, staring into his eyes. John looked patiently back. They had sat like this for five minutes, neither saying a word.
“I don’t understand why.... | I don’t write a lot and this is my first post here so don’t be too mean lol
I always thought I was a good person. I’ve tried my best not to commit any sins against my fellow mankind and when I did, I made sure to make up and never leave any burnt bridges between them. I guess you could say I always aimed to live betwe... | 2019-05-05T06:23:12 | 2019-05-05T03:22:15 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | "Please leave us alone" they said. "don't force us to use our strongest weapons". "save your species" they cried.
We laughed. Their perspective on warfare was that a bigger gun is always a stronger gun, and that might have held some truth, if their kinetic weaponry would be able to deal any damage at all to our energy... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2019-12-19T07:46:24 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] The great zombie outbreak started 2 years ago. You now find yourself trapped in a corner by a zombie, when you do the unthinkable and bite it first. It suddenly drops to the floor, grows it’s skin back and asks what’s going on. | “What the hell?” His voice spoke before mine. I tried to stagger back, running into the corner of a fence I’d been pushed up against. A crispy, fleshy taste lingered on my tongue. I licked my sleeve in an attempt to wipe it off... to no avail.
My best friend of twenty-something years stood in front of me. The dark gre... | I was always calm and collected when it came to zombies. Okay not *always*. Of course when the first outbreak started 2 years ago I panicked... but shortly after, it became second nature. These monsters needed to be put down and I needed to survive. The math was easy.
After the outbreak I stuck tight with my friend C... | 2020-02-18T19:02:33 | 2020-02-18T15:43:06 | 212 | 71 |
[WP] When the aliens conquered Earth, they exterminated the populace but left you alive for some reason. You’ve spent years in captivity, wondering why they’ve chosen to keep you alive. One day, you are approached by the high commander and the answer is revealed. | *They gathered around my glass cage with their holographic notebooks. My living room is furnished from Rooms-to-go in shades of beige. Someone selected an equally neutral wardrobe for me from the Gap. I've been in here exactly 8 years, 9 months, and 2 days according to the calendars they keep supplying me with photos ... | Life without definition is madness. The walls of my prison where pure white, no definite junctions for the walls; no clear beginning or end. Time meant nothing without the sun's patterns to guide my internal clock, and though I could not see out of my room, I knew a window would not alleviate the problem. Wherever I wa... | 2021-01-10T09:18:10 | 2021-01-10T08:53:12 | 147 | 83 |
[WP] Your sibling was murdered a month ago and as their closest living relative, you buried them last week. Now, going through all their effects, you come across an old walkie-talkie that you used as kids after lights out. Nostalgia makes you turn it on, and say their old call sign. They answer. | Charlie looks down at the little box in the attic, an aching in his heart. Scrawled across the lid in a child's handwriting were the words "Charlie's and Ben's Treasure Box!!!". He traced the outline of the words longingly, tears forming in his eyes.
*Oh Ben, why did they have to take you before your time.*
The stead... | ##Find My Killer, Over
Marcus opens the box in the attic and sadness carried by a wave of memories washes over him. The first item that draws his eye is the Gameboy that he used to watch his brother play. They were supposed to share, but his brother hogged it using the power of age. Next to the Gameboy, he finds a sma... | 2021-03-25T19:43:19 | 2021-03-25T19:37:16 | 86 | 43 |
[WP] Angels are thought to be beautiful, while demons are thought to be vile and disgusting. However the truth is Angels are extremely scary, while demons are beautiful and elegant creatures. | I'd never felt anything more beautiful than the blood pounding in my veins. Never heard anything more beautiful than the subtly sibilant susurrations of her voice. Never seen anything more beautiful than the scarlet sheen of her skin, scales that only stood out when the moonlight hit them just right.
She was all of th... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 2, Part 4: All the Forces of Heaven and Hell v.s. My Teenage Daughter)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**It's unclear whether angels and demons predate organized religion.** Some ... | 2021-04-08T10:17:19 | 2021-04-08T07:49:36 | 85 | 56 |
[WP] A man sues God because his insurance company won't pay for the damages done to his house in a storm. To his complete surprise and Horror, God actually shows up.
I don't know whether to make this a WP or EU tag since this is based on a movie starring Billy Connolly.
In the movie, BC's character loses his boat in ... | "Please place your hand on the bible and raise your right hand."
The smirk. Everything about Him was magnificent, obviously, that was just sort of His bag. But especially the smirk. Utterly without malice or condescension, it was as though that one facial expression reflected all the irony that had ever been, or ... | Thick gray clouds serenely rolled by with an occasional clap of thunder. The storm had come and gone over the course of a night, but what a night it was to behold. Wind and floods washed out houses and businesses. Farms devastated, roads ruined, and lives extinguished. As a new day broke, survivors began to emerge out ... | 2014-11-30T10:27:01 | 2014-11-30T09:51:31 | 230 | 23 |
[WP] You're a scientist studying bacterial colonies. One day, you look under the microscope to observe strange shapes that, on a closer look, resemble letters. The bacteria are greeting you and have a message for you. | At first I thought it was mere coincidence that they formed shapes that were so nearly letters, then they started becoming more solid, less hazy, more sure.... They bacteria were forming letters and numbers, slowly deciphering the language, I would make corrections as necessary so that I could understand them. Then the... | Let me tell you the story of how space bacteria saved my career. I had been working hard at getting my PhD for a little over two years at this point. Unlike most people who liked to work from 9 to 5, I preferred to get in early at 7 and work until 3. Get in early, get out early, right? Well, strange things happen early... | 2017-01-01T15:41:20 | 2017-01-01T15:38:52 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Well, I can cross that off of the metaphorical list. --Died when having sexual intercourse-- Best death yet. Oh well, life 70 will be my 'Cure cancer year' I could of done it in life 69, but come on! If you are that sexually well endowed and it's life 69, you can't not have shit tons of sex!
Note to self: *Stop say... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T12:23:12 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | “You live like this?” The burgler asked, gently waking me up.
I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. “Yeah.”
She walked across the room and started rummaging through my dresser. Casually dropping socks and some receipts on the floor. I wasn’t sure why the receipts were in there, I hadn’t bought anything in ye... | "You live like this?"
Well, yeah, I motherfuckin' do, and thanks for the reminder. Somehow I'd forgotten I was living in a one-room shithole with a five-year-old. I'm sorry my cleaning don't live up to your standards; I'm a little fuckin' busy between my kid and my two god damn jobs. Especially the one with that assho... | 2017-08-21T16:13:59 | 2017-08-21T13:18:08 | 275 | 45 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Eternity. Immortality. Forever.
They had no clue what these words truly meant. To see these pathetic creatures spreading their message of dreamless peace across the galaxy is an insult to all of existence. They called themselves Reapers. Their ships moved faster than any imperial or chaos ship by magnitudes, their we... | Joran saddled the horse and rode out into the forest behind Freegate. The leaves this time of the year flaunted their citrus-colored wardrobe. The autumn air smelled musty of earth and decomposing vegetation.
Soon he noticed movement in one of the bushes, the orange tail of a woodland fox slipped into the undergrowth... | 2017-08-27T08:33:00 | 2017-08-27T07:55:27 | 335 | 130 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | "No."
The bipedal feline looked aback. "You don't even know what I was going to say!"
Leo gave his friend a knowing stare. Setting his lunch tray down in a less crowded area of the cafeteria. "Really? The University's about to host a self defense course for extra credit and I just so happen to be the only living thin... | The vast darkness of the streets surrounded Kal as he shuffled quickly towards his destination. Each movement travelled through his body in waves of pain and weakness. He knew his destination. He just hoped he wasn’t too late. Above him was more darkness. The three moons obscured by the gases wheezing from his planet. ... | 2018-03-19T04:14:01 | 2018-03-18T17:28:36 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone at superhero school bullied you and your twin sister over your weak superpowers. You told nobody that you both actually have hyper intelligence courtesy of your supervillain parents. It's graduation day and also the time to make mommy and daddy proud.
Assume that they protect themselves from telepathic p... | This is it, the fruit of years of pain and humiliation has finally ripened and will soon be picked. I stood up at the sound of my name and walked up to the podium. From behind the lectern, I turned to face the crowd, my fellow pupils, my tormentors.
“I am honoured to be speaking to you all tonight as a graduate from... | I walk up to the podium, slowly at first my nervousness getting to me. I can feel my face burning red as everyone watches me. Some are anticipating a speech that will knock them off their feet, while others are jeering at me. I slowly look backwards, seeing my sister with my family giving a big thumbs up.
Althou... | 2018-05-12T23:04:52 | 2018-05-12T20:16:12 | 425 | 109 |
[WP] It's the year 2100. All humans are raised by machines from birth, and have never met their families. When a person turns 18, they must pick a country to live in. There is one catch: You must pass the tests put forth by that country. | They told us to choose carefully as we were not able to reverse our choices. But the catch was that only gave us the attributes of the countries but not the names. We had to pick out several we liked and then the computer would introduce us.
I just finished picking mine. I chose the following building stones:
- Is a ... | *(First-time participant, still pretty new to the sub overall, and I only just started writing again after a long hiatus. Be gentle. <3)*
"You could always just go with Yankee. They never test on anything except loyalty," Shannon said, bowing slightly over the top of Alexa's head.
She was always a tall kid, but sh... | 2018-06-19T18:43:09 | 2018-06-19T16:39:41 | 66 | 12 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | Today’s the day. I turn 21. Sure, it’s a special day because it’s my birthday. But that’s not all. I get my sustenance cash check (SUCC, for short) in the mail today. It’s a special system the government set up to provide money for our life. Certain questions are brought up whenever this program is mentioned: for insta... | I stared at the check, completely baffled. All the genetic testing had come through clean as a whistle. The only option was employment or lottery.
“Work smarter, not harder.” I thought as I strolled into the gas station. A fountain soda, candy bar, and a combo meal later left me with one dollar for a single lottery ti... | 2019-04-24T15:04:14 | 2019-04-24T14:45:53 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] With the advent of memory-sharing technology comes a new profession: Adventurer for Hire. You scour the world for incredible memories and sell them to the highest bidder to experience as their own. | Sweat pours down your brow as you dig another piton into the stony face of the cliff.
Your muscles ache and your stomach growls with protest, but you hook up your rope and keep on climbing. Because you've been imbued with purpose, and that village won't save itself.
It's a Class Two world, with a rural population. Th... | The machine hummed, the face mask of the helmet shimmered with constantly changing light. The figure wearing the helmet sat back in a chair, their legs and arms twitched as lights traveled up the from the base of the machine to the helmet. A flat screen above the chair showed a video, a beautiful vista of mountains a... | 2019-05-11T11:58:37 | 2019-05-11T11:07:03 | 895 | 27 |
[WP] “What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen out there?” The new-recruit ask, looking out into the vast spacial abyss. The question catches you off guard, as you look around at the mostly destroyed and failing ship, drifting endlessly through space. You take a long breath in, “...Humans.” | “You actually saw one?” Elkin asked rigidly, his eye-stalks swaying as he turned sharply to Grontz.
Grontz nodded. “Mm. About two weeks ago.”
Elkin turned back to the viewport, through which they could see the ancient, derelict flagship drifting along. “What happened? What did they do? How did you survive?”
Grontz c... | I took a long breath in, weighing the answers in my head before deciding and offering an unexpected one.
"...Humans," I said, returning my attention back to the stars.
I heard the recruit gasp in surprise before laughing as he thought on what I said. I allowed him the brevity. Sometimes, it is usually best for one ... | 2019-12-09T07:57:24 | 2019-12-09T07:17:24 | 87 | 62 |
[WP] For generations now, a young woman has happily served a family as a their maid. The accept and appreciate that she's a vampire. | Eight year old Jonathan watched the maid curiously as she went about her regular duties. Today was laundry day, so after finishing cleaning up from breakfast, she was wandering the manor, gathering up all the dirty clothes. Each room she entered, she pulled the lever outside the door to automatically close the blinds... | "Mom! Dad? I brought my boyfriend home!" Kasey Wolkenson rapped the old doorknocker again.
The boyfriend in question was a shy blonde kid in a navy blue hoodie who was nervously adjusting his hair. Nervous sparks of magic crackled around his fingernails and he put them up to his mouth to get the sparks to stop. "You'r... | 2020-05-09T18:56:02 | 2020-05-09T18:37:22 | 64 | 34 |
[WP] An horror story where it gets progressively clearer that the writer is the psycho, not the other person. | “My mother always told me that a young woman should be careful out there. There were bad guys, watching and waiting to hurt innocent women. When I was young I assumed these bad guys were like villains in the story books, taking princesses off to a dark tower. The big bad wolf in the scary forest.
I'm older now. Ther... | He woke up covered in the slimy sweat that stuck a body to covers. He shuddered, and pulled himself up to sit on the edge of the mattress that lay directly on the floor. He cradled his head in his hands and breathed in and out.
Down the hall he heard a muffled cry, and he rose unsteady but determined and creaked open... | 2020-06-11T05:50:36 | 2020-06-11T05:46:34 | 781 | 148 |
[WP] Two ancient lamps accidentally rub against each other, summoning two very confused genies who have to figure out how they are going to reconcile their new dual roles as both master and servant. | "I don't know how this has happened, but I think I know the solution."
"Oh? What do you think?"
"We cannot either go first, as that would violate the master/servant relationship that we are bound to. So we must both wish and respond in time."
"Then we must wish for the same thing, so that we may begin and end at t... | N.b., First post. Mobile. Some creative license.
1980 - UK.
Two genies awoke next to each other in a drug-filled haze. Their lamps clinking against each other like chains.
‘It’s been so long since I’ve seen another of our kind. Days blend into nights. Dark and lonely.’ Martin muttered gloomily.
‘I share your angst,... | 2020-06-23T02:15:10 | 2020-06-23T01:53:54 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] A cult captured you and successfully sacrificed your girlfriend to bring their evil deity into the world. What no one knew, however, was that the sacrificed soul became the core of their summoned Dark Goddess. | After your girlfriend comes out of the darkness, shadows coil around her in a cloak of darkness. They present you to her as her first meal in physical form.
"Sorry," the dark goddess smiles, "I'm vegan now. Human meat has been nothing but killer on my thighs." She leans down and gives you a peck on the cheek and the c... | The weekend at his uncle's cabin came straight out of a nightmare for Roth and Suzanne. Almost it still could have been a dream. Soft footsteps brought him to a daze before something pressed over his head.
Panic was still fresh on his mind when he woke again another place. It was a cellar lit with candles and draped ... | 2020-10-06T10:51:14 | 2020-10-06T07:33:56 | 56 | 34 |
[WP] A religion is proven true but not the one you expect how do people react? | And we'll be back with more news on the finding of flight 370 right after this short commercial break. Wait what's that?
Ladies and gentlemen we have some breaking news here that is nothing short of extraordinary. Nicolas Cage has just revealed that he actually is god.
Eyewitness reports state that Cage was raising m... | OK, I'll try this writing prompt thing out over my lunch break. If I'm doing this wrong let me know.
***
The announcement came exactly a week ago. I'm still not sure how to react, like everyone else in my life. I'm a little jealous of my Dad's commitment to his old God. He called me up late last night to exchange th... | 2014-03-19T11:14:23 | 2014-03-19T10:43:22 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | I secured my place in history young. They knew me for my stunts, my activism, my inimitable personal presence and my admirable conscience. I did good in the world. Laws were named for my movements. Wars were averted, famine eased, when I advocated compassion. I was beloved, not by all - there were certainly those who d... | I take a deep breath and look at the mirror one last time; everything needed to be perfect. My hair is pulled up with at least twenty bobby pins and cemented in place with two full cans of hairspray. I’m wearing my favorite dress; it is short and light purple with a sash. I’m wearing purple high heels to top the outfit... | 2014-07-28T08:53:46 | 2014-07-28T08:43:48 | 201 | 110 |
[WP]You do something entirely normal. Hundreds of years later, it has been turned into a festival that is celebrated nationwide. However, it has been distorted into something far different than you intended. | 'And so, we gather together to remember the Great Purging of 2014! Where our prophet did rid the world of such evil and disgusting documents which were tainting his mind!' The vicar yelled from the pulpit, as the fire raged behind him.
'*HE SAVED US FROM SUCH FILTH*' the crowd roared, their torches blazing.
'In honou... | "The 124th Annual Fishing Festival is really going to be something fantastic Norm."
"Oh yeah Cliff, the host nation is truly going all out."
"The rumor is that they have a 8 billion dollar fireworks display for the closing ceremony. That is more than the GDP of several nations Norm."
"All for the celebration of the ... | 2014-09-02T10:49:24 | 2014-09-02T10:43:53 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] A jobless computer programmer, while hacking at home one night, discovers a port to the Unirnet, an computer network made for a series of interconnected planets who have not yet discovered mankind. | From the moment that the connection was made, the entity known as "WhyteHaute" was struck by one thought above all others: This was taking *entirely* too long.
It was probably the fault of some old, neglected server in the back corner of an office in which the letters "IT" were only used to reference a Tim Curry film.... | There was a final roar as the massive gray dragon came down with a thud, dust clouding where the wings now lay, never to move again. Lydia gave him a look that was as sour as ever, though that sort of was how she always looked. He considered shouting her off a cliff again like he had a few times, but what was the point... | 2014-12-01T10:44:43 | 2014-12-01T10:30:09 | 1,351 | 28 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor." | When I opened my bedroom door, a familiar darkness bled throughout the room and I knew He was there waiting.
He was quiet and still and stood in the far left corner, coldly illuminated by the white glow of the moon. And a cruel trick of the light mocked him by making it seem like there was a halo hanging over his h... | The first conversation I had with the devil was almost two hundred years ago. *You should know I'm the Prince of Lies,* he'd said. *But if we have a contract, I'll hold up my end of the deal. If I've signed it, I'm stuck to it.* He shrugged. *Rules.*
*Sounds too easy. And it's my soul,* I'd said.
He chuckled. ... | 2015-05-12T14:27:29 | 2015-05-12T13:43:25 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] You become your child self again for a day with your current mindset, but if you do anything differently, you life will morph around that difference and fast forward you to your current time with the changes.
your* life will morph | My eyes opened to the window with the heavy paint, looking out at the old oak tree. It waved at me in the wind, and the sun brought color out into its bright red and yellow leaves. As the air shifted, many took flight, letting loose a few to the free fall, as branches shifted. Breathing was easy as I lay there, still, ... | It's the last day of school before highschool and its all fun. Schools, across the nation, partake in the great tradition of foam and caramels, not necessarily in that order. All of my class mates are running around, covering each others in foam. I've gotten some on me, but since I have no major grudges with anyone I'v... | 2015-09-25T10:02:52 | 2015-09-25T08:14:27 | 66 | 19 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | I'm so hungry...
I tried eating the green things, but i was still hungry. But there wasnt any more green things.
So i tried eating the brown stuff underneath. It didn't taste good, though. It made me thirsty...
So i walked around until I found some funny tasting water. So i drank and drank until there wasn't any mo... | Water...I needed water. A sip of water, a drop of water, anything to resuscitate my dying mouth. The sun hissed at me as I trudged down the sidewalk, pressuring me to get out of its sight. I made a silent promise to never stay outside for so long again, if only it would spare me this once and allow me to quench my thir... | 2016-06-25T03:01:03 | 2016-06-25T01:42:27 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | I was alone when it happened. I was always alone when things changed around me. The world and I where never in sync. I strolled through life as an observer. A person who just looked at others living their lives through a hole in a fence. Never really there, just watching.
But it seems that even an observer is forced ... | Who would have thought we’d all be alone.
There was a man from South Africa and one from New Zealand. There were women, Christian and a Muslim. The rest of the group was just as mixed up as the first few. But each of us were the remainder of our heritage.
I never thought I’d be in a situation like this. They were a... | 2016-10-22T01:17:53 | 2016-10-22T00:43:55 | 219 | 67 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | The man had a scraggly, unkempt beard. He wore a dirty t-shirt and ripped jeans. A typical poor kid, looking to escape his dreary, painful reality. And the only way to do that was to come to me.
"Hey, man," he stammered, his eyes nervously darting back and forth. "Can you hook me up with- you know- those pills?"
"Don... | A million stars perforated the pure black night sky as the shining white full moon stood in the middle of heavens likes an impatient actor demanding an audience’s attention. Grayscale buildings of brick and stone curved along the black pavement of the roads, creating a maze that we call our city. Standing in a secluded... | 2016-11-22T07:29:33 | 2016-11-22T05:44:30 | 212 | 21 |
[WP] When the Statue of Liberty was sent to America from France, the box was labeled "some assembly required." In well over a century, no one ever noticed the other label that said "batteries not included." Until today, that is. | They were huge, the things, each at least a ton
The battery designs from nineteen oh one
And as they were placed the crowd gathered near
To discuss every rumor, to stare and to leer
But nothing lit up or moved or exploded
For after these years, the wires had corroded
| Maxwell was alone on the staircase. He looked behind him and saw the crowds, waiting silent. He looked ahead and saw the small battery slot, capable of fitting a single AAA battery. He looked back at the crowd. He saw his manager, urging him to hurry up. Maxwell didn't see that pretentious cock up here on the staircase... | 2017-02-23T17:55:18 | 2017-02-23T16:23:20 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | Crimson. Crimson paints the surrounding floor. The light in his eyes begin to flicker as he struggles to regain his stance. With every breath, he shook. With every step, he trembled.
She sneers, "Is this it? The grandiose Lionheart reduced to nothing in just a few hits! Hah!"
She barrels towards the staggering knig... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T02:13:56 | 58 | 21 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | “I AM HERE TO SLAY YOU, GOD OF THE FOREST!” The puny human shouts up to me, brandishing a ridiculously large sword decorated with jewels.
“How do you even swing that thing?” I ask, picking the remains of an elk out of my tooth with a particularly pointy tree I found.
“WITH JUSTICE!” He shouted, flicking his floppy bl... | And yet again... I heard the footsteps coming up the stairs to the temple, and a manly voice yelling. "Show yourself! Your time has come, it's time for you to die!"
Sitting at my throne with my lizard-like dogs (dizards? lizogs? I've yet to name them, looks like komodo dragons but bigger, more agile. Smarter.) and pett... | 2018-05-19T04:57:04 | 2018-05-19T03:44:12 | 103 | 42 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | When I was 17 or so there was lots of hype about 'unlocking the secrets of immortality' something about dna or oxidation or something. I didn't really pay much attention. After all, how many 'health facts' lasted so much as a year before being changed for whatever reason? How many 'wonder drugs' that amounted to so muc... | *"I wish I knew what I know now, when i was younger." - Rod Stewart*
Civilization is strange. Always tinkering with things. Hell, some jackass had to give himself small-pox just to cure small pox. This was long ago of course, but it stands to reason, people just can't leave well enough alone.
So, when Harold found h... | 2018-06-04T21:32:48 | 2018-06-04T21:07:17 | 57 | 25 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | I slowly lifted the satin duvet off my frail body. I reoriented my body so that I was sitting on the edge of my bed. Upon peeking at my weak knees and thin translucent skin on my legs, I began to cry. I traced my blue thick veins with my eyes and was struck with the nightmare that was currently my life—I am aging.
Onl... | *"I wish I knew what I know now, when i was younger." - Rod Stewart*
Civilization is strange. Always tinkering with things. Hell, some jackass had to give himself small-pox just to cure small pox. This was long ago of course, but it stands to reason, people just can't leave well enough alone.
So, when Harold found h... | 2018-06-04T21:44:29 | 2018-06-04T21:07:17 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | You know, there have always been rumors on side\-effects and how EverLife squashed anyone trying to do any kind of study on them. Not really surprising seeing how rich they all got, and how every single politician's life depended on EverLife's continued existence.
The first two generations didn't really show it that m... | "Even today, the exact mechanics of the ∆S314 therapy is still unknown. In fact, until the introduction of the ∆S314 therapy, the debate about the exact process of aging seemed to be one of the few things that is immortal. ∆S314 didn't really provide a conclusion for the debate \- it just provided the tired and jaded ... | 2018-06-05T00:30:12 | 2018-06-04T22:53:53 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | You know, there have always been rumors on side\-effects and how EverLife squashed anyone trying to do any kind of study on them. Not really surprising seeing how rich they all got, and how every single politician's life depended on EverLife's continued existence.
The first two generations didn't really show it that m... | "only $100 for a hospital stay over night? Healthcare prices aren't what they used to be"
"The world isn't what it used to be, dear." Jane said, looking past me and into the hallway.
"I never expected for it to be like this." she continued. "I always thought growing up that I'll grow old and retire to a farm, not wor... | 2018-06-05T00:30:12 | 2018-06-04T23:55:42 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | I looked up at him; a pair of black eyes met mine – a look of fear and hostility in those eyes. I was taken aback.
I learnt about my gift from a very early age; surprisingly enough I never faced any suspicion. “You’re a polyglot, Sammy”, said my uncle wryly. But he never questioned how I came to be one. And it may sou... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:53:23 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | Why did have to be like this?
Why couldnt I make it in time?
Why did they HAVE to get her?
I asked myself over and over why, but the answers eluded me. It's been 3 days since the world went to shit, with those THINGS everywhere. It started somewhere rural, some secret agency, people say. But that doesn't matter.
I had... |
((Some mild violence and dark themes, kinda new to this so I hope I did it right))
I had always been a zombie buff, everything Walking Dead and Max Brooks I was all over it. Little did I know the real zombie Apocalypse was just around the corner and it…the books the TV shows don’t prepare you for of being real for ... | 2018-09-06T19:24:58 | 2018-09-06T15:42:34 | 140 | 23 |
[WP] Your whole life you were misdiagnosed as colour blind, when in reality you could see colours no-one else could. You see art differently, the sunset and sunrise differently. A rainbow to you is out of this world. One day you go to visit the Mona Lisa. You see something no-else does... | "There's a sun over there," I said pointing at the top left corner.
"You see a sun?" the tour guide asked with incredulity. We'd been in the Louvre for the past 3 hours with the Mona Lisa being the final stop of our tour.
"I'm serious," I said moving a bit closer. He was not the first and would not be the last to... | **Selim**
The headmaster was particularly fond of culture awareness and therefore had dragged his greased-handed students to the Louvres Museum, possessed by an unwavering enthusiasm rivaled only by the teenagers mild interest in decrepit statues and paintings titties.
Most of them were setting foot in a museum for t... | 2019-01-29T04:04:20 | 2019-01-29T04:01:52 | 516 | 68 |
[WP] Every 10,000 years God eliminates mankind and starts everything over. Last time he started with Adam and Eve. This time he starts with two new people. The only problem is some how you didn’t die and you watched everything reset and you’ve kept your memories. You shouldn’t exist so you don’t age | #“You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Well you know what they say: if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I guess that's why God decided to reset mankind and start over with two ... | It was a cruel twist of fate that eliminated everybody from existence except for a pair of horny neanderthals and me. But, apparently, that's just the way things go. Every 10,000 years, the invisible dude up above - God, for brevity - hits F5 and boom, back to the prehistoric era we go.
"F5?" Motherfucker. These Ludd... | 2019-09-16T09:15:43 | 2019-09-16T07:44:47 | 2,096 | 577 |
[WP] The Evil Overlord infiltrates the hero's party as a new member. The hero's party realizes this, but they instead pretend not to and pamper him with love and acceptance.
I humbly hope this is simple enough that you can come up with many world ideas c: | Evil as dark as night. Pain as deep as the ocean. A mind as fractured as a stained-glass window fallen from it's holy heights.
Such things could not be fixed with mere love and acceptance. With hugs and kind words. With friendship.
No. Such things could only fester and grow, demanding to be fed as they consumed and... | I'd slipped up one too many times. It probably started when I yelled "Kill the old hag!" after that librarian refused to give us the promised reward simply because we returned a day later than requested. Or maybe it was that time where I got so into the interrogation that I subconsciously started torturing that bandit ... | 2019-11-02T13:28:38 | 2019-11-02T12:50:56 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] The owner of a small store that sells cursed items with terrible costs beyond the price tag, is shocked that a customer comes in almost every day to buy a new item. | The shop owner folded his skeleton-like hands as the sound of the bell indicated that another unsuspecting victim had entered the store.
“Welcome stranger,” he said from out under his black robes, trying to make his voice as spooky as possible. “Before you begin browsing my array of fantastical items, let me warn you ... | "Hello again!" A voice rang out as the clear chime of the doorbell echoed through the shop.
Light streamed in golden beams through a haze of never-settling dust, the tiny wisps swirling about as the figure moved through the doorway. He moved with the bounce of someone who was happy with their purpose, a wide smile sh... | 2019-11-09T22:05:58 | 2019-11-09T21:43:41 | 345 | 77 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | The Man of the North:
A person that everyone knows. The other immortal beings were present in some cultures, but the man was known by everyone.
His speed, unmatched, he could circle the world faster than everyone.
His generosity, so pure, everyone was struck with happiness at the mention of his name.
His looks, unm... | "Master, we are running out of time!” the young boy said.
He had been appointed as The Man’s newest apprentice. Even though the boy was the youngest apprentice The Man had ever appointed, he showed promise from the age of three – already showing signs of *the craft*. By age six, he had somehow mastered more of the a... | 2020-04-19T08:34:41 | 2020-04-19T08:21:50 | 85 | 38 |
[WP] The dead cannot speak. That's why you've decided to become their lawyer. Today is your first case and your client just entered the courtroom. | She's in a clear plastic box because no one really felt comfortable holding a skull. You never minded, after all, it was your long time summer job during law school, working in a morgue, that developed your ability to talk to the dead in the first place.
You open your notes, ready for this.
\-Mrs. Elizabeth Breyers, ... | Hair sticks out the side of his ears like bundles of straw. Liver spots crater his smooth head and thick reading glasses rest at the tip of his nose. He looks tired and disinterested in everyone in the room. He doesn’t recognize me despite us meeting before.
“Please Rise! The honorable Judge Brudair.”
The silence is... | 2020-05-28T09:12:19 | 2020-05-28T08:13:44 | 79 | 13 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | Thomas Telluride slowly opened his eyes. He was unsure where he was or how he got there. All he knew was that he was surrounded by darkness at the moment. He cleared his throat to speak.
"H... hello?" He said unable to keep the nervousness from his voice. As he spoke a spotlight clicked on over him, illuminating his b... | Everyone has an origin story. From the highest to the lowest, to those with no powers to near gods.
I was a short, malnourished, and plain small-time thief in a dying industrial town in a small East European country. I could dig through memories, but used it to find where marks hid money, phones and jewelry. No one t... | 2021-03-22T09:48:56 | 2021-03-22T09:30:23 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Shelia opened her eyes to see that instead of her heart, it was a forearm impaled on Gore's thin blade. But she was even more appalled to find that the arm belonged to Nightmare, the man she had been fighting before Gore arrived soaked in blood. She tried to make sense of the idea that an incompetent and super-tough ba... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T17:18:18 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | I should have known, i wasnt like them, i didnt even look like them. They call me their baby, but they dont seem to understand me. They are hairless and i have fur all over my body. They walk on two legs and i on four. I should have know, that all this time, i wasnt one of them. The only thing left for me is to hump th... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T09:09:26 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 203 | 16 |
[WP] Satan repents and wants to re-enter Heaven as Lucifer. God however, has a caveat. To prove his reform, Satan must resist an extremely tempting opportunity to sin. | I repeated “Why did you bring me here?”
We were standing in an endless field, the tall grass swayed softly. The mountains in the distance were painted on the horizon like hasty watercolors. The breeze felt cool on my bare skin. Felt. I could feel again.
“I have a decision to make.” He started walking and I follo... | **The Last Temptation of Lucifer**
I talked to God from time to time.
Now was one of those times.
"I'm outdoors, man. Can I stay with you a couple of days maybe?"
God lit an unfiltered Camel with an old Zippo and took a deep drag.
He gave me the God's eye then let the smoke out slowl... | 2015-05-06T09:52:19 | 2015-05-06T06:42:34 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] The evacuation of Earth is complete. You decide to do one final fly over of the world to see the monuments deserted. However, you slowly realize something about them that no one ever has. | The evacuation was complete. No one knew the reason why things had spiraled out of control so quickly. No one could find the cause for it all, but it seemed that only humans were affected. The details of the horror are best left for the future. None of that mattered now, in this moment. Humanity was leaving Earth to it... | The Great Colossus of Rhodes, towering a hundred feet in the air astride over the Harbor of the great cities of Lalyssos, Kamiros and Lindos. With one eye fixed over the east, and the other to the west, it watched over Rhodes as its guardian protector, professing the might and glory of this ancient site of maritime co... | 2016-05-12T08:28:01 | 2016-05-12T07:53:03 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] The monster under your bed is of the firm belief that he is protecting you from your teddy bear. | Sometimes I exist but mostly I don't. I exist in short bursts of time when I am observed, or perceived to exist. This doesn't bother me much as I just seem to wink from one moment of consciousness to the other. I don't notice my unconsciousness, I mean who does?
"There are no monsters under your bed, Sylvia," the ... | “*That thing is … unnatural.*” The voice, deep and dark, growled out.
Lil Suzy sat in her bed. A dim night light illuminated the room in a soft, warm glow. Next to her sat Mr. Teddy, her bedside companion; a furry stuffed bear. Beneath Suzy, beneath Mr. Teddy, beneath her comfy blankets and sturdy bed, a great monster... | 2017-03-22T06:57:19 | 2017-03-22T06:35:14 | 62 | 46 |
[WP] You just slammed the bombshelter doors behind you with the news of confirmed nuclear strikes, and your family is banging on the doors. You are glad you managed to keep them out. | I slumped down with my back against the door as the maglocks slid into place and secured it. Against my back I could feel a slight drumming, vibrations as my wife slammed her fists into the bunker door. I reached up and hit the switch beside the door and the power in the bunker came on. Lights. Air. The security monito... | Joe ran his fingers over the plastic compact disc cases that had been packed with perfect efficiency into the blue milk crate. The civil defense sirens had finally outlived their novelty and become an annoyance on this, their brief "this is not a drill" heyday. Beside the milk crate on a surplus military cot Joe's phon... | 2017-08-16T08:26:48 | 2017-08-16T08:03:38 | 64 | 16 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Some tea, dear?" the little old lady asked to the dark and mysterious figure sitting at her kitchen table. She squinted at him having forgotten her glasses upstairs.
"Yes, earthling," the mysterious figure boomed and whispered all at once, careful not to burst her delicate eardrums with his natural voice as he had w... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T08:54:01 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 1,619 | 25 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. |
"Judy," Stephen hissed at the darkness that enveloped him. "Judy, come out now."
There was a small crash nearby and a car alarm wailed from some distance away. The hairs on Stephen's neck stood on ends. It didn't help that it had been snowing all day and the cold that had been creeping steadily since the winter began... | The stars that night were alive in a scattered glow, pulsing with light, but cold, and far behind the grey clouds. She saw them looking down at her. Her arm trembled from gooseflesh. She had never seen the stars before. The dark had never been so black.
Something was wrong. She closed the door. The shadows fell long ... | 2018-02-02T02:34:37 | 2018-02-01T22:34:56 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | (On mobile, sorry if formatting is wonky)
Total War. Rakleth pondered this new term. Was not war always in totality? To crush the enemy's military underfoot and seize their civilian population and worlds for your own use? The humans, negotiators and pacifists, had such strange terms. Rakleth scratched his carapace... | The selected representative of the United Earth, Amy Sliskin, stood before the Council Of Space Faring Species, reading from a prepared speech. “I am here today representing the United Earth to notify this council that that Ratilkin Empire is preparing for war against us.”
An envoy from the Empire stood across from Am... | 2018-12-14T22:13:23 | 2018-12-14T17:52:57 | 820 | 488 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The bag crinkled as gravity smashed it into the cold stone floor of the examination hall. Although I could not see him, nor would I hear him shouting in warning until it was too late, the headmaster was already running towards me.
For a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Not until the first tendril of blue and white l... | When a mage first starts their training for summoning familiars, the instructors make it very clear about the dangers of under-preparation. They told us about the chemistry that had to be understood, the laws of physics and the laws of dimensional energy, the dangerous demons and spirits that mages attract because of n... | 2019-04-05T16:05:49 | 2019-04-05T15:18:09 | 79 | 25 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | The day the url released, millions of people flocked to the churches, hoping to cleanse themselves of their sins.
And the rest of us.
Well we know there’s no escaping what’s coming to us.
Oh you killed someone? Well the fbi knows about it now. They monitor the damn site like crazy. And ever since the damn develope... | "No. That's not right."
Daniel's brow furrows, he lets out a big huff while scanning the page for a link to the live chat. "This is ridiculous," he thought, "everyone's a critic."
RING!
Daniel looks across the room at a green rotary telephone. He knows who's calling. Sweat beads form on his forehead, he wipes his cl... | 2020-02-29T23:30:10 | 2020-02-29T22:58:06 | 110 | 25 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | I'm used to being left out of the loop on things.
It's not surprising. I don't really read the news or follow popular media, so all sorts of shit can happen that I never know about. It can be nice not dealing with all that drama--though when I'm at school and everyone is in on some trend or change in schedule or whate... | The entire world was shocked at the mere idea of the website. I suppose we all knew that you could find anything on the internet... But we certainly didn't expect *this*. People everywhere were mortified by their ratings on the website, horrified at the simple thought that they may spend an eternity in such a place a... | 2020-02-29T23:07:04 | 2020-02-29T22:46:57 | 92 | 43 |
[WP] You have been in an online relationship with someone for several years. They claim to be from outer space and sometimes you hear odd languages and sounds in the background. You take it as a joke... until your first meeting is in an empty cornfield with a giant light that appears in the sky. | "I didn't think you'd show up" she said as she slowly descended from above.
I laughed and rolled my eyes..."This is the most elaborate practical joke I've ever seen. You're really going with this alien thing huh"
"Oh honey, I *really* am an alien. You thought I was joking?"
"So when you told me you've never heard of... | [Hebic] Where's Nerubian?
[Snowie] said he had plans with his girlfriend
[Hebic] ugh
[Snowie] no for real they're meeting up tonight for the first time irl it's so romantic <3
[Nohealonlytank] Wait Neru said they were meeting irl?
[Sheepzilla] lol get some
[Snowie] Yeah lol
[Nohealonlytank] wtf
[Snow... | 2020-11-18T21:30:23 | 2020-11-18T19:47:40 | 48 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone jokes that you'll be haunted by spirits for building your tea shop on sacred ground. But at night you actually serve the undead spirits and calm the restless. | I shut the door, lock it. Flip the Open sign to Closed.
“They gone?” One of them asks from the back wall.
“They’re gone,” I say, watching my last customer walk down the path and into the night.
I walk back across the tea shop. They are coming in now, through the back, with their slow, patient strides across my tiled... | ##Morbid Café Melodrama
I turn the lights off in the store, and I pull the black-out curtains over the glass door. Living customers frequently tell me that it is a unique aesthetic choice. Some customers have speculated that illegal activities must be occurring inside. That would be much simpler.
I pull out my flashl... | 2021-03-10T18:00:27 | 2021-03-10T16:51:03 | 1,778 | 43 |
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