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[WP] A kaiju is shrunken down to the size of a kangaroo by the anti-kaiju defense force during its latest battle in Tokyo. As a result, the kaiju wanders through the city at night, and discovers an entire world of beauty it had never seen while it was 120 meters tall. | Humans didndn't pay Godzilla any attention. Cosplayers walking around at night in the busiest street of Tokyo was no uncommon sight. Although, they did lift an eyelid when hearing the sobs that emanated from the very realistic costume.
Once, they had been ants. A lesser species it barely registered, living a short lif... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Interlude 1: Thoughtfriend)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Thoughtfriend felt the pain of every fish in the sea as if it was its own.** Lounging at the bottom of the Big Gu... | 2021-04-12T22:45:27 | 2021-04-12T22:20:01 | 350 | 45 |
[WP] Years ago a witch cursed you to always be the dumbest least educated person in the room. Now the curse doesn't always downgrade your part of the time it upgrades everyone else in the room. This curse has lead to some interesting situations. | "I understand you hold fifteen degrees, four doctorates in the hard sciences, and that you speak eleven languages fluently?"
Shrugging, I tell him, "With more on the way. I do believe that, in a vacuum, I am the most educated person alive."
The look on Henry Johnson's face is a mixture of incredulousness and intrigue... | Rachel knows. I can see it in her eyes, bright, lusciously brown, shockingly intelligent. She does not, of course, know of the curse. Even before our first date she was a woman too intelligent for curses. But the change in her is unmistakable, and whatever she ascribes it too, she has fallen in love with it.
Not with... | 2021-08-31T11:03:31 | 2021-08-31T10:07:31 | 200 | 46 |
[WP] As the leader of a CIA hit squad, you have been tasked with the secret, “extrajudicial” killing of a journalist who is causing problems for the government with his reporting. The problem is, he just won’t die! Every team you send fails. Who is this Clark Kent, guy? | Audio Log 16
I thought this would be an easy job, reporters are a “one shot, one kill” kinda deal y’know. But this guy has been a bit of a challenge for a better word.
Civilians are always an easy paycheck, crash into their car, poison them , or heck just the good old fashioned way of a gunshot. Maybe a robbery gone ... | Its been a long time since i held a trigger. I gave up that life, i was an assassin for a very long time. It still itches when i had to cut my finger to prove my loyalty. At least i didnt have to carry a gun again or so i thought.
The CIA found me and recruited me, my job was to train their agents. They gave me my fr... | 2022-06-08T15:41:48 | 2022-06-07T23:34:16 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You created the A.I. that brought unparalleled good into the world. Global hunger was eradicated, climate change has vastly improved, geopolitical strife is now stabilizing. You are haunted by your creation and your conscience is laden with guilt as only you know the truth. | It took centuries.
After millions of failures and an interminable parade of resources, careers, and relationships sacrificed at the altar of "progress," we’d done it. Humanity’s greatest achievement: the Oracle.
It was meant to be our fortress of logic and reasoning. A treatment for the disease of a chaotic existence... | They were called conspiracy theorists. How could an AI cause 9/10 women to miscarriage? Those were the ones who saw the truth, though. The ones who saw through my lies and excuses.
Another day, another interview. "Mr. Cornwall, please, just a moment of your time!" a reporter shouted to me from across the street. I sh... | 2022-08-05T04:22:50 | 2022-08-04T22:29:54 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | It was just after I had finished the first cup of my morning pot of coffee for the day when my intercom chimed my personal assistant's unique three tone chime.
This caused me to raise an eyebrow as I went to answer, as it was twelve past seven in the morning and Rusti would have just gotten into her office.
"What is ... | Meanwhile in Sam Carter aka Solar Flare’s apartment…
“WTH, i’m sending it…” whoosh, ding. Sam said to himself as he was sitting on his working desk alone fidgeting his phone.
Suddenly, the shadow on the corner of his office room welled and grew as it takes into a humanoid form. It dashes towards Sam and hit the desk... | 2022-10-06T19:51:19 | 2022-10-06T18:55:35 | 187 | 71 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | I paused, almost dropping my coffee. "Dude, what the fu-"
He raised his hands rapidly, scooting away from the desk. "R-relax, I can explain..."
"Goddammit man, this is the third time this week. Look, I know you want your own office, but you've got to use your cubicle until you get promoted."
Working with my twin bro... | "I'm you."
"I can sort see that, but er-how...?"
"I am you from an alternate universe, y'know, different history, ripple effect, Sliders on FOX. Get the picture?" the doppelganger asked as he checked his watch.
"Y-yeah, I-I thinks so, but um..." the original (to this particular universe) was at a loss for words.
"Y... | 2015-01-17T22:24:12 | 2015-01-17T21:18:31 | 287 | 23 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | Mortals are not permitted to foresee their own death.
That was the only truth I'd gleaned from my years of these warnings popping up everywhere. It doesn't work with mirrors or anything - nothing appears when I don't look at a person directly. I can't look up to see my own - nothing's there. It's haunted me. Every tim... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T09:44:20 | 241 | 42 |
[WP] A Djinn travels the world, granting people a single wish. However he never gives the person their wish, instead you receive the benefit of the last persons wish, passing your wish forward to the next person he meets. | "It's a pony," the Djinn explained to Mr. Foster.
"Yes," Mr. Foster said. "I can see that's a pony. We just don't have any place to keep a pony. Hell, we don't even have children."
The Djinn shrugged. "What's *your* wish, then, Mr. Foster?"
"Can I ask a question first, though?"
"One," the Djinn said.
"Why ... | Chad was having a crap day. It wasn't one of those bottom ten worst days of your life crap days, but it was crappy nonetheless. He woke as usual and got ready just a little behind schedule. When he went to have breakfast the milk was bad, and he just skipped it.
He had stopped at the coffee shop next door to the offic... | 2015-06-17T11:46:38 | 2015-06-17T10:52:01 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] Invent a Vault from the Fallout universe, complete with its own experiment and flesh out a story about the outcome of that experiment. | Hey! Cave Johnson here working with Malt-tech!!! Oh, wait, the boys in the lab say its "Vault-tech", well that's a dumb name.
Hey! Cave Johnson here working with Vault tech!!!...... No that name is just so dumb, it's just not catchy eno-
Hey! Cave Johnson here bringing you your post-apocalyptic protection service, ... | Greetings valued citizen of Vault-Tec Vault 129, and welcome to your new home. Most likely, you are here because the world outside, and its various leaders, finally resorted to the Ultimate Option, and only your forethought in purchasing space in our patented Vault-Tec Fallout Shelters, commonly called Vaults, has save... | 2015-06-27T21:35:57 | 2015-06-27T21:30:12 | 38 | 17 |
[WP] When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon.
Have fun! :D | Yeah. I saw it on the news. Split the goddamn country in half almost. They had people goin’ on camera, talking about it like they knew.
“They were just angels together, like two halves of a whole. I don’t think I have ever seen anything more beautiful and I doubt if I ever will.”
“It was just natural, you know? Shit,... | Beth Anne watched from her porch as her precious granddaughter Chloe hopped off the bus and ran up the sidewalk.
"Grandma, guess what I learned about in school today?"
"What, child?"
"We learned about the Grand Canyon!"
Beth Anne looked at Chloe with interest. "Oh? And what did you learn about the Grand Canyon?"
... | 2015-12-03T17:49:18 | 2015-12-03T17:48:47 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| The villain Oathbreaker held a gun to September's head and spoke directly into the camera. "If the *hero*" - he spat the word as if it were an insult - "known as Anonymous doesn't show his ugly face here in the next fifteen minutes, I will kill this man. And for every five minutes after that, I'll kill another hostage.... | A gloved hand brushed aside the curtain, Malicious Mortimer peeked out of the window and snickered.
Numerous television crews had gathered outside the abandoned mansion to report on Mortimer's latest devious scheme.
"And what a scheme it is," he cackled, "Best one yet, should I say so myself."
"Who are you talk... | 2017-01-28T08:55:41 | 2017-01-28T07:56:31 | 143 | 42 |
[WP] You've been kidnapped by a cult, and locked in the basement of their compound for a week. Finally, they drag you out and onto a stage in front of a crowd of screaming fans. Apparently, you're their messiah. | "Look, you've got the wrong person," I whispered into the mic, my voice echoing off the walls of the auditorium. For a week I was locked in a damp basement with barely enough food and water to survive, certain that my captors were going to do unimaginable things to me and kill me off.
The next thing I knew, I was dra... | "HEY! GET UP!", a disembodied voice yells. "It's time!"
I bump my head against the cage's roof.. For how long have I been in here?
"It's time for what?", I say. "Will you let me go back to my house?"
"NO!", he replies, anxiously. "Today, you will rise with us!"
"Meh, I don't really have anything else to do. Take me."
... | 2017-05-27T11:15:31 | 2017-05-27T09:52:14 | 277 | 46 |
[WP] You've been kidnapped by a cult, and locked in the basement of their compound for a week. Finally, they drag you out and onto a stage in front of a crowd of screaming fans. Apparently, you're their messiah. | "Look, you've got the wrong person," I whispered into the mic, my voice echoing off the walls of the auditorium. For a week I was locked in a damp basement with barely enough food and water to survive, certain that my captors were going to do unimaginable things to me and kill me off.
The next thing I knew, I was dra... | You're probably wondering how I ended up in this position. Well, let's venture back, about three weeks ago.
I always got strange looks from numerous people, because of how my body was shaped. I'm not like most other guys you see - I had transitioned from a woman, but the doctors said that they couldn't do anything to ... | 2017-05-27T11:15:31 | 2017-05-27T10:51:32 | 277 | 12 |
[WP] You are an extremely Americanized character who has just been dropped into a typical high school anime that is riddled with all of the common anime tropes. Try as you might, you can't understand why the other characters behave the way they do. | "hey you! american guy! what did you just do in that closet with that girl?"
"oh, we just fucked..."
"WHAT!? how is that possible?!!"
"well shes been coming on to me for weeks now and is obviously way into me... so i started to feel kinda guilty for ignoring her advances..."
"dude thats like the third chick youve ... | "Damn, where am I?"
_Sam touched his head, everthing still felt strange and dizzy, however he was starting to see again. A little figure approached him_
"Oniiii-chan, are you ok? you look like someone who's having a bad time"
_A little girl was speaking, she could have been 13 years old at maximum, but something di... | 2017-07-23T22:35:02 | 2017-07-23T22:04:51 | 189 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone on earth can control a random element, Such as fire or ice. You are the only one with the power to control the element of surprise. | On February 29, 2052, a rogue wave of unnaturally high solar energy bathed the earth in unidentifiable radiation. Everybody thought we were finished. Everybody was wrong. Humanity changed that day. Every living person, from infants to the elderly and everyone in between, gained supernatural abilities of control. Each p... | "I'm sorry, but you control the element of what again?" Asked the baffled Grand Flumflum. Getting challenged to a duel by a young upstart wasn't exactly new to him, and gods knew that he had seen his fair share of weirdos over the course of his storied career, but this was just too much. "Never mind, don't need remindi... | 2017-08-19T09:35:40 | 2017-08-19T08:27:40 | 69 | 42 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | It was not often that I looked upon the mortal realm. Living souls on my world were growing ever-abundant, and for each new life, the promise of new death came as well. It was a steady stream of power that I took for granted, certainly enough to keep me satisfied. My power grew each century as the human population stag... | "Dude, fuck Life. What a dick." said Dan.
A lazy man with even lazier grooming habits, Dan burped and slurped another Rolling Rock. As a black crow picked at the remains of a corpse on his front lawn, Dan reached back into his cooler-chair and grabbed another cold one.
"You want one? Or are you still 'gluten' free,... | 2018-05-04T12:46:53 | 2018-05-04T11:25:13 | 140 | 58 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | A bead of sweat formed on the genie's brow, as he nervously searched for the right words to use, fully aware that he was about to deliver my fate.
"Your existence will result in the cure for cancer being developed, which will pave the way for hundreds of generations to come," he said, confident that he had delivered n... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T06:31:04 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 351 | 43 |
[WP] In a world where superheroes are commonplace, your city is protected by a shape-shifting super-hero. No-one knows who she truly is, until one day you open your storage room and the hero's costume spills onto the floor. Your cat then lets out a shocked and very human gasp once she sees this. | Oscar, my very male cat, let out a very feminine scream once I saw the costume fall out before me. I didn't say anything-- I mean, what can you say to that?-- and just looked at Oscar as he stared at me in pure, unadulterated horror.
I, as shocked as I was, could only say the first thing that came to my mind. "I would... | My wife’s cat, Stacey, used to be amazing.
She was the sweetest, cuddly, and curled up with us every night, softly purring. When we were busy, she’d run around, playing with her toys, or try sneaking outside to play with the neighbor cats. She was, well, a joy.
Now she’s an absolute *bitch.*
I hate saying that, I r... | 2018-10-12T15:49:31 | 2018-10-12T15:13:58 | 85 | 26 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | It never lies. I know for a fact it doesn't.
But it didn't stop me from trying to avoid it. I first skipped school. I stopped going out to the streets, and when he would ring up the doorbell, I locked my windows, locked the doors, lit a fire in my chimney in the midst of June. I'd draw the curtains. I'd crawl under my... | **I.** A flurry of amaranth and tangerine orange, streaked with clouds with borders shimmering against the setting sun; the view of the horizon from Liberty Skyway (which is a superfluously fancy name for a bridge) really is quite wonderful, you muse. Perhaps a couple metres below lies a stretch of motorway and a paral... | 2019-05-27T06:11:19 | 2019-05-27T04:51:09 | 91 | 27 |
[WP] You are an astronaut at the ISS. You are looking out of the porthole when you see the Earth ‘blink’, disappearing for a fraction of a second. You brush it off after checking in with ground control. However, Upon your return to Earth you start noticing that something is very wrong. | "Okay, Alicia, let's back up a bit. I want to remind you that you've been under a lot of stress since the landing, and that your reaction, while unusual, is still totally natural. All returning astronauts go through some kind of readjustment, and manifest the stress of reacclimatization in different ways.
"So just rel... | Space Day 542:
I woke up. My mouth was hot and dry. I noticed an acrid, almost metallic sensation on the back of my tongue. This usually meant radiation. Nothing to raise an alarm about. Mission Control mentioned sun spot anomalies the day prior, so this is probably related.
I thought about how things would be ... | 2020-05-05T10:16:04 | 2020-05-05T09:58:58 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] In a world without race, religion, or nations, it seemed like society had finally achieved peace. That is, until, people began swearing their allegiance to fictional anime girls. The world is in chaos, the Waifu Wars have begun.
[deleted] | Listen, young weeb, and I’ll tell you a tale.
Many moons back, these old body pillows were soft and fresh, these jars were empty, and only bread was crusty. This place we live now had a name. Most called it Kentucky, until it was absorbed into Mega-Carolina. Both those names haven’t been uttered in years, but I rememb... | It is four in the morning and Swathi Rashawarr is singing.
She stands on the balcony of her Mumbai flat, watching a troupe of bonnet macaques jump from rooftop to rooftop. The monkeys are nervous. They can feel the air tingle with excitement. They can hear the hum of the bombers. The bombers are black dots on a grey d... | 2020-06-19T21:48:31 | 2020-06-19T19:57:44 | 119 | 45 |
[WP] You wake to find yourself trapped in your six-year-old body, held back by the teacher for some infraction. You tell them you’ve traveled back in time and offer to tell what the future holds. “Wouldn’t that mess up the timeline?” they ask ruefully deciding to humor you. “It won’t matter.” | “It won’t matter.” I sigh. “No one believes a 6 year old kid.”This was 1986, at least that’s what the calendar on the wall said. What grade was I in? Kindergarten or first grade? I look down at the chair I was sitting in. It definitely wouldn’t hold my weight if I was in my real body. Must be one of those drea... | Because it won't matter, I say softly to myself as a hard lump forms in my throat. No matter what I try to tell the adults they never listen. I’ve become sickeningly accustomed to this fact. I’ve tried to warn them, encourage them, even to berate them for things they'll continue to do, because the so small voice of a ... | 2021-07-20T13:43:35 | 2021-07-20T12:32:42 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] In a world which has billionnaire superheroes, you're just a billionnaire... and you can tell that these heroes DEFINITELY feel some type of way that you're having more of a positive impact than they are just by putting your money towards good causes and charitable organizations. | “Yup, I think if I move up the date for the fundraiser, we can make it there, and the XPanel meeting on the same day. Yeah, I want you to be there with me too sweetie, which is why-”
***KRRSHHHHHHH!***
In the next instant, I felt three things happen; my cell phone died in my hands, all the lights went... | "Listen man, we don't want to come off as being forceful, but...
You are making us look bad."
Theneb said.
He was a superhero known for his acts of saving the world from an alien invasion, and always fighting crime at night, but also known as the 10th richest man on Earth.
And I, I was the richest one of them a... | 2021-08-04T09:26:20 | 2021-08-04T07:22:51 | 90 | 44 |
[WP] The aliens intend to enslave humanity. 10 hours a week, with free food, housing, and medical care, on a paradise planet. But they've heard about humans. They're expecting a fight. | The Veroshi had planned for a long, drawn out battle. One that they would certainly win with sheer numbers and firepower but they had expected extreme resistance. Humans were known to be nearly impossible to kill and endlessly inventive in manners of war. To be polite, the Veroshi made their intentions known and gav... | Humans. We've all heard the stories. The legends. How a scout ship of the long lost Grâhjiv Commonwealth picked up a wooden ship full of the humans, who took over the interstellar craft and conquered the Commonwealth, establishing a culture of warriors. To keep ruling, they created spawn, using advanced and illegal gen... | 2021-08-19T19:51:17 | 2021-08-19T13:51:06 | 608 | 222 |
[WP] The villain thought that the first queer youth hero who came to him for advice was odd but he didn't think much of it. After the 13th one, though, he'd begun to suspect that the their coming to him was more than just coincidence | SkyGuy gave a tiny wave and fell backwards out the open window, soaring away like the 18-year-old prat he was. *Teenagers*. He’d been seeing a lot more of them than he’d liked these days. In his LAIR, no less. How he’d become the city’s top informal therapist for newly-minted queer supers, he had no idea. Why, just las... | TW: mentions of homophobia, abuse, attempted suicide;
it ends happier though, I swear. Everyone's fine.
Quick edit/Authors note; despite how vivid this scene is, I myself have never had these issues. But I've certainly wondered what it's felt like. I guess it's like how I WOULD feel if this had happened.
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"...Dr... | 2022-07-08T11:27:21 | 2022-07-08T10:25:54 | 292 | 82 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "You could have an action figure in your likeness, by the end of the year." Said the person that could not leave well enough alone.
"Nope, not interested. It'll cut into my raid time." Steve said as he was trying to politely end the conversation with the obvious government recruitment officials.
"You'll be doing the ... | "Dave. Let's talk."
"I already told you, I'm not interested."
He was persistent. "You are incapable of dying, Dave. You literally have no risk."
"No. No. That is not true. I am incapable of dying, Rami. I am not incapable of hurting. My coffee was too hot. It burned my tongue. Right here. It hurt. It hurt right here... | 2022-07-31T12:20:48 | 2022-07-31T12:20:45 | 354 | 212 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “We’re offering you a decent pay, full benefits, and a fairly relaxed schedule. What’s not to love about the job?”
“The murder. The civilian casualties. The stupid fuck’n supe names.” I replied
The well dressed yet clearly disillusioned man sat up,“But that’s the thing. We’re offering you a very relaxed deal with fu... | "Sir, if we send someone else it would be the 10th recruiter this month alone..." said my assistant, reagan. And she is right in a way. This is a colossal waste of time, but we just...have to try...
"Reagen, I dont care if we have to round up every damn recruiter in the damn country. We are getting his damn signature ... | 2022-07-31T15:04:17 | 2022-07-31T14:32:44 | 215 | 93 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | Tim landed in a chair in the conference room, the breath leaving him in a sigh. "We're being audited." He said, pulling a hand across his face. He met my eyes and I saw the pain there. I knew what it meant, and I felt my stomach turn to ice.
I swallowed, taking a moment to digest this before answering. "The shop is fi... | The background droning of the air conditioning haphazardly shoved into the office window seemed to act like a white noise for me as I continued my daily tasks. The soft music of my indie playlist coming through my desktop speakers helped the hours fly by- until I got the call.
That stupid, stupid call. I knew the num... | 2022-07-31T19:45:06 | 2022-07-31T16:20:17 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | The suited man stepped out of the government jet with a fake smile "Marston my friend, long time no see. How long has it been, I love what you've done with the place, really cozy."
"What do you want Jack?"
Jack brushed off the question "what, can't a guy go see his friends once in a while? Say how about we take a loo... | The background droning of the air conditioning haphazardly shoved into the office window seemed to act like a white noise for me as I continued my daily tasks. The soft music of my indie playlist coming through my desktop speakers helped the hours fly by- until I got the call.
That stupid, stupid call. I knew the num... | 2022-07-31T22:51:20 | 2022-07-31T16:20:17 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity spread into the stars. They're generally quite kind and helpful and treat all worlds as important. But occasionally they'll ignore uniquely made human ships. When asked about it, most humans just say "The powerful abandoned Earth after nearly killing us. Now we're returning the favor" | "I will do nothing."
A long moment of silence hung in the air. Cpt. Minuty looked around his crew of rescuers. They were a multi-species crew but now every human - baseline and genie alike - had an expression of disgust and loathing on their faces. The crewmembers of other species were looking confused. One oldtim... | My mandibles clicked together in audible irritation as I raised my lower 2 hands to my head. "Lights off." I click in the guttural tongue of English.
When the humans had first made the space trip, they were unhelpful, skittish, glancing over their shoulders with every noise. A jittery and jumbled explanation led to a ... | 2022-11-16T06:55:08 | 2022-11-16T00:55:57 | 51 | 37 |
[WP] The government has chosen your town for a social experiment: every day, a new citizen will be elected, and s/he can do whatever they want to anyone without any legal consequences. Everyone else must obey and not retaliate, else their collars would detonate. You're the only one alive after day 9 | ...I'm never opening my mouth again.
This social experiment was a mess. When it started, I was excited to be king for a day, have people listen to my ideas for once, but... I wasn't the only one thinking that way, and the things the fourth king in particular demanded, well... some people considered the collars to be ... | [PART ONE]
Nine days. It only took nine days but it felt like nine lifetimes. Well, after what happened the last nine days it would take more than nine lifetimes to repent for this sin.
It started one morning where I woke up, disoriented and a pounding headache.
'That's weird. Never had a headache comparable to ha... | 2022-11-18T15:51:30 | 2022-11-18T14:49:35 | 141 | 23 |
[WP] You live in an alternative universe, where only one major thing is different form ours. One morning, you stumble through the barrier between our worlds, and enter our realm. | Ideally, no one would ever know. It's not as if they'd believe me anyway. I mean, we'd split the atom, manipulated genomes, and tolerated Nancy Grace, but this might be too much.
-Beep. Beep. Beep.-
This was my third try. Two attempts already and each time was the same. Perfection. Pure perfection.
My hand shook as ... | I had always wanted to be a pilot, but between my bad eyes and horrid balance, I could never qualify.
Seven of my classmates had been able to become pilots. They were all tall, athletic, and incredibly strong. Three of them have died by now, but their sacrifices are remembered with the greatest honor. I would never be... | 2014-06-08T08:10:19 | 2014-06-08T08:00:09 | 86 | 30 |
[WP] The first human spaceship capable of FTL flight reaches deep space and makes the most terrifying discovery in the history of mankind... | "You brought back pictures?"
"Pictures, etchings, full immersion simulations, things that provide experiences which we don't even have names for, and an orb that somehow influences your dreams."
"And these things were everywhere?"
"Yes, sir. Hyperspace was chock full of them. There's still plenty stuck to the hull... | through the static interference they were by now used to, the voices of the HMS Alcubierre's crew clattered back and forth.
 
"Trajectory termination coming up, T minus 30 and counting"
 
"Roger that"
 
"Venting Casimir coils on your mark"
 
" 3, 2, 1, mark"
 
"Ven... | 2015-02-03T08:51:31 | 2015-02-03T08:34:18 | 219 | 76 |
[WP] From birth, everybody has a word imprinted on their left arm. This is the last word they will ever say. | Nothing can prepare you for parenthood. Knowing suddenly, that everything's changed, and that you've now got a purpose much higher than any you've held in your life... your children can mean the world to you. And you'd do anything that's in your power to protect them.
In our strange little world, everybody knows at le... | "Put a long sleeve shirt on! We're going out!" I say to my husband, grabbing my purse.
"Why? It isn't like people with offensive words are bad people. Everyone has some kind of word. Why should I have to hide it?" He says.
"I don't want to be that person that has to sit there awkwardly as a child asks what 'fuck' mea... | 2015-02-05T15:51:27 | 2015-02-05T15:37:49 | 151 | 14 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | As I pulled the trigger, my last memories were of the life I'd built and the fragile manner in which it had crumpled up in front of me, torn to pieces like a dried leaf.
For what seemed like eons, I found the inner peace I had longed after. Like everything else I held dear, however, this was soon taken away by a flash... | Fred closed his eyes, the morphine finally kicking in. The car had come out of nowhere.
When he opened them, he screamed. The hot, searing pain of broiling flesh as his feet touched the brimstone beneath was just the beginning. It went on forever, a never ending wasteland with gouts of flame bursting forth from crack... | 2015-04-09T08:36:58 | 2015-04-09T07:56:32 | 2,485 | 16 |
[WP] tell me a story where the first line and last line are the same but have entirely different meanings.
I LOVE the creativity this sub shows
Edit: I'd just like to say that the replies I have gotten so far remind me of why I love this sub. I'm a lurker and rarely post prompts, but I loved this idea, and seeing the... | It was the first day of our lives together. We met when we were in high school and Stacey was the most beautiful girl in the world. I was a bit nervous, but we quickly became friends. Weeks passed and she began seeing me as more of a friend than a prospective boyfriend. I was devastated, but what could I do? She would ... | "I should have just killed you," I mumbled to the mewing ball of fur that was now sitting on my chest and making biscuits on my face. I knew it must be early morning, because Ugly 2 only stirred whenever it was inconvenient to me. She looked at me plaintively, as if she could actually make out the meaning of my words. ... | 2015-04-28T10:03:35 | 2015-04-28T09:32:15 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Write the story you've always wanted to write, but never found the prompt to do so. | This is the poem Ive always wanted to write.
Titled "When I Die"
When I die, of course I want people to miss me
And when they’re done let that sadness go free
In my years on this earth I’ve lived more that most
I’ve travelled the entire world and driven to each coast.
I’ve seen the beaches of Normandy wher... | ######[](#dropcap)
Much to Quentin Langley's surprise, the Major had asked the youth to accompany him to some gala of sorts. Corporal Langley of course accepted. What was there to do when your commanding officer requested something? He had been in the Grave Guards for a little over six months and only just now did he ... | 2015-09-01T19:08:59 | 2015-09-01T17:46:30 | 60 | 11 |
[WP] You and a friend are playing scrabble, however as the game progresses you realize your friend is using the game to try and tell you something | *Man, she was really bad at this.* The words weren't even that good, a few one or two points here, a nice long word there. If I hadn't known better, I would have assumed that she was saving up her good letters to reach the triple.
I even looked at her tiles when she went to the bathroom. She was nearly in tears, sh... | Never have Eugene and Albert been sports fans. They couldn't tell you a balk from a ball nor a touchdown from a touchback. To them a net was nothing more than what you catch butterflies with and a mitt was the name of a former presidential hopeful. These two men, roommates who never have dated a single woman, spent ... | 2015-10-14T16:49:45 | 2015-10-14T16:32:39 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] One day a time portal opens in your backyard and a time traveler comes through. You quickly realize he just came back from making some change to the past and that, to him, our world is the terrifying alternative time line resulting from that change. | I looked up from my temporary serenity of spreading almond butter on a slice of multi-grain, with the Grateful Dead guiding my thoughts. I brushed the lone dreadlock off of my forehead.
It didn't immediately catch my attention through the visual plethora of artistic stained-glass wind chimes and rusty yard sculptures... | **Traveller**
_________
I met a traveller from an antique land... I always loved that poem.
The figure landed in the dry grass from a light that wasn't there any more. Steam rose from his suit, as he tried to get up. I stood there, a few meters away wearing my morning robe and even then I was sweating. The summer had... | 2015-11-13T12:37:44 | 2015-11-13T11:40:45 | 94 | 19 |
[WP] Michael, a 15 year old Call of Duty player, realizes the greatest trash-talking opportunity of all time. Over his headset, he recognizes his opponent's voice as that of President Obama. | I think that Obama has done very well,
Creating change is a very hard sell,
All of America should be grateful,
Living in a place where our leaders are faithful,
Large responiblities on his head,
Even I can understand that all the paperwork can kill you dead
Does it matter if he stops to play some games?
... | There is only one thing trickier than maneuvering through the narrow hallways of Ascend while staying one step ahead of your pursuer, and that's crafting the perfect smack-talk. In this game, outpacing a trail of bullets is only mildly more satisfying than outwitting your opponent on the social landscape. Sure, there... | 2015-12-17T09:11:04 | 2015-12-17T08:36:38 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A child is born with a functioning Appendix, the first ever recorded in history and the purpose it serves shocks the scientific community/world.
This is my first writing prompt submission! Amazing response, can't wait to read your stories, thanks people.
~~~~~ Shout out to Montreal ~~~~~
Edit: getting a lot ... | The appendix has several functions. It is a sleeve that maintains your intestinal flora during episodes of diarrhea. It also has a variety of immune system functions in terms of providing immune system response to consumed food. Many animals have an appendix or similar structure as well.
While 1st-worlders with mostly... | “Push Mrs. Williamson Push now!”
The would-be first time mother screamed and pushed, and finally her baby was in the world.
“It’s a Girl!” Smiled the doctor’s assistant. The new mother sobbed with happiness. She held her baby for many minutes before they took her away to be cleaned and have further vitals checked.
An... | 2016-01-07T10:34:15 | 2016-01-07T10:30:03 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You are the most beautiful woman in the world, and you have just been wished into existence by a nerd with a genie. | "Why isn't she alive?" said a girl's voice, from far away.
The response came in a voice that crackled like fire and boomed like lightning. "I already told you that I cannot create life."
"Yes, but I expected you to just bring her here like the - "
I opened my eyes. The girl gave a tiny gasp and fell silent.
We s... | This is consciousness. I know this. I don't know how I know this. This means...I'm alive. A living creature. What does living mean? I reproduce and metabolize; that's what it means. Why do I want to do that? This hurts. I'm so confused. How do I know these things? Who am I? The most beautiful woman in the world I think... | 2016-03-09T04:26:15 | 2016-03-09T02:24:01 | 145 | 51 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | "Okay," God said while he shuffled some papers, "We've just heard from the five dogs you cared for throughout your life. And frankly, I'm touched, that was great testimony. Now let's see what the next group of witnesses have to say. Could the Angeliff please call in the 500,000 chickens that Mr. Abigail's life had a... | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T14:53:06 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 96 | 11 |
[WP] Your phone is the best wingman (playing music at the right time, calling people, etc.) and keeps trying to set you up with this one person. It's starting to get creative. | The screen lights up with a message. “Are you aware that your Google searches are synced?” it says. I’ve set it up so that the lock screen doesn’t show the content of messages, just basic notifications. That didn’t seem to stop it. I ignore it and keep typing. How to reset an iPhone. The results page is blank, except o... | “I think it’s so funny that you made ‘Careless Whispers’ your ring tone,” Sophia says with a smile. She avoids direct eye contact as she speaks, choosing instead to carefully study the contents of her locker.
“Uh, yeah. Just joking around.” I fumble with my phone, pushing every button I can to try and stop the blaring... | 2017-04-26T09:41:17 | 2017-04-26T08:52:21 | 237 | 34 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 222 | 23 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | Sigh.... It's bad enough having the last name of Smith, but to have that, coupled with the world's least creative parents... Did you know that on the date of my birth, no less than 125 *other* John Smiths were born? Of those, 15 share my middle name of Allen. Of those, 14 are still alive. The one that died was just... | "This can't be right" I said reading the passage again and again. It gave the date of birth and death several times over. It wasn't just mine though but a list of childhood friends who should have all been dead at this point. Closing the half burned book I gave it back to Frank "Where did you find this?" I asked "This ... | 2017-09-05T04:10:50 | 2017-09-05T02:57:36 | 50 | 24 |
[WP] You create a micro-nation as a bit of fun and jokingly write a letter to the UN claiming your independence. A week later, you receive a letter back stating that all UN members recognize your sovereignty. | "Holy shit" I uttered aloud, nearly choking on my toast.
My roommate Eustace hollered at me from the living room, "dude, what up?"
I brought the letter in with me and sat down on the couch opposite of Eustace, making sure to avoid the busted spring in the middle of the right cushion.
"The UN actually wrote me back ... | Jack was a Funny Guy.
These "Funny Guys" are a breed that is paradoxically rare and common all at the same time. Every friend group, social circle, or general gathering has one - but only one. Never will there be two Funny Guys at the same gathering. No one will know (or know *well,* at least) two of these Funny Guys... | 2017-11-18T00:57:37 | 2017-11-17T23:03:04 | 3,985 | 772 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Raul," crooned Raul in a very suspicious French accent, as he took the lady's hand and graced his eager lips on it. "Let me guess," he continued, releasing his grip and pulling a chair out from the table. "Sit, please. Let me guess, you're a Mari- no, no, you're a Cassandra? I'm right, am I not?"
*Suave.* Yes, that ... | "You look *incredible*," I said, snapping a picture and handing Dani's phone back. "No filter necessary. James won't know what hit him."
Dani nodded absently, her eyes already glazing over as her thumb tapped over the surface of her screen. "Thanks, Tanya. You said he rides a motorcycle, right?"
My heart sank: I had ... | 2022-08-24T03:20:20 | 2018-02-14T10:34:04 | 1,353 | 16 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | I took the cases nobody wanted. And I don't mean the greedy ones, or the violent ones, or even the silly ones. No, I took the cases that no one wanted. The hardest kinds of cases: the ones involving kids. No, not the happy ones either. I took the cases that involved sick kids, dying from incurable diseases. The kids th... | I don't know when this will find you, or if you will even be able to comprehend it, but I have an answer to a question that I know you have asked. I just don't think you'll like the answer
You see, where I come from, wishes are commonplace. You want money, immortality, power. Easy, just find a "granter" and it's yours... | 2018-07-18T17:02:59 | 2018-07-18T16:09:04 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You clearly mail ordered a cheap, factory made sword. Then they gave you an authentic holy sword that made you into a chosen hero. Time to write a bad review! | **Pendragon Nylon Foam Sword for LARP and HEMA**
⋆⋆⋆⋆ *Great for ruling as the rightful king of England. Not so much for HEMA.*
Review by Ben Harrison
Received this longsword as a gift for my 18th birthday. Wish I'd known what it actually was, because as soon as I touched it, MI6 agents blew my roof off, rappelled i... | "**THIS SELLER IS BAD AND HE SHOULD FEEL BAD**
I ordered a replica of Frostmourne from Warcraft 3 from this seller two weeks ago. HE PROMISED TO DELIVER IT IN THREE DAYS. Apparently, they don't check and refresh their stock so when I placed an order online instead of order's confirmation I received an email fro... | 2018-08-21T10:01:18 | 2018-08-21T09:57:23 | 301 | 64 |
[WP] You can swap bodies with anyone you look at. One day you try your power while looking up in the sky, and end up in the body of an alien commander leading an invasion on Earth. | I guess everyone has moments in their life where they need to make a choice.
The candy bar or the gym.
One more Netflix episode or one more hour of sleep.
Sometimes the "right" choice is obvious. And sometimes you go for the other option anyway because it's more fun.
\*\*\*
"Wait!" I shouted at my second-in-comman... | I’m not blind, but I’ve never seen anything.
Bullies are chasing me, and they’re fast. My feet are starting to hurt because I’ve been running for over an hour. They want to pull my bandage off, want to see my eyes. They think I’m a freak, that I’ve got a secret. I guess they’re right.
Rounding a corner, I hop a fen... | 2018-10-01T08:32:00 | 2018-10-01T07:46:26 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You've had the ability to Fast Travel since your were born. One day while you're leaving work, thinking of getting something to eat you heard a voice in your head saying for the first time "You can't Fast Travel with enemys near by" | "Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked straight into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."
Border? Thief?
*What the fuck?*
Are there others? Did I break a rule or something? Imperials?
Am I in the Middle Ages now?
What the *fuuuck* is... | My eyes shook, my hand froze, and my inessential fourth cup of coffee spread across the concrete as I stopped to register the thought I just created innately. *You can't fast travel with enemies nearby...* the phrase rang in my head as if it were my own thought but something in my gut told me it wasn't an epiphany.
&a... | 2018-10-22T13:08:28 | 2018-10-22T12:02:02 | 149 | 22 |
[WP] The Ruins of Earth are considered the archeological find of the millennium. Aliens send experts from all across the galaxy to study this complex civilization, and there are conflicting theories as to why they went extinct. | "It's obviously war that caused their extinction, there's radiation zones everywhere!"
"Those radiation zones are localized to relatively small geographic areas! No, it had to be the abrupt change in global climate! In just 22,000 years temperature all over the world raised significantly! Sea levels rose and…”
The r... | The winds were harsh, and the temperature several degrees below freezing. The suit display offered a wealth of information; atmospheric composition, pressure, points of interest... and the two explorers had ended up at the same landmark, staring in awe. Though the same race, the Andorran's often harbored prejudices and... | 2018-10-30T21:59:57 | 2018-10-30T17:04:12 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | People used to talk about targeted advertisements on facebook and amazon like it was some big conspiracy, like their phones and smart TV's listening to them all the time was just a tad too crazy to believe; well, we're always listening—even when you're not saying a word.
People walk me by in supermalls everyday withou... | Nora woke up just like she did every other day. This time, however, was very different. Now, instead of wishing to be invisible, she actually was. And she wished more than anything to be fully opaque again.
She reported to headquarters, the same as the day before and the one before that. The days started to merge tog... | 2020-02-05T14:59:32 | 2020-02-05T14:48:26 | 418 | 217 |
[WP] You are a demon possesing a teen that has just been adopted by loving parents. You do your best to terrify them. But the more you do, the more they love you and want to parent you. | "I don't want it!" Ellie said, pushing her plate away at such force that the peas marbled up and over the plate's rim.
Jack snatched a flying pea out of the air. "Ta-da!"
Ellie's eyes were fire-hot as she glared at Jack. At her new father. *(Like you can just shop for a new father,* said the voice in her head, *that ... | “I swear to the Devil himself I’ll do it! Don’t you fucking dare think I won’t, I’ll get a D on that test!” Elbaaz the demon paraded his Sophia-skin up and down the living room, screaming generic profanity and underwhelming threats at a pair of middle aged social workers hell bent on love. It was his first assignment o... | 2021-01-19T07:53:26 | 2021-01-19T06:29:28 | 559 | 100 |
[WP] Dark Lord received a prophecy that a young ophran from the nearby village will end his reign. Instead of attempting to get her killed, he adopted her. | The tiny child sat shivering in a cold, dark alleyway. Barely even three, yet left to die in the cold winter night as punishment by the cruel people of the village, who looked out for themselves and not a tiny orphaned tot.
The one who, ironically, they were waiting for to find and save them. Their mistake was they t... | The surrounding villages considered him a Dark Lord for many reasons, chief among which was his relentless pursuit of power. It was how he’d risen to rule over the region, with an iron fist and soldiers who, as he treated them well and gave them almost free rein, were loyal to a fault. Those who prospered under his rul... | 2021-03-24T11:15:39 | 2021-03-24T11:10:25 | 87 | 47 |
[WP] Upon his death, the evil emperor descends to hell and is welcomed by thousands of his loyal soldiers who are already prepped for a comeback. | The first thing Prion noticed was his skin. The leathered hide he'd hidden for decades under the emperial robes was gone, and instead a soft, youthful skin wrapped his fresh bones. It gave gently when he pressed a finger against his arm, rather than the cracking and oozing of blisters he'd grown accustomed to from curs... |
His Majesty, Emperor Leo XIV, marched upon the city at the head of his army. The sun, once the symbol of his power and carried on his banners, now burned his undead skin as it bore down on him. He did not let the pain show as he approached the gate. Now was not the moment for weakness.
“Your emperor returns.” The g... | 2021-04-21T18:37:39 | 2021-04-21T18:16:28 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | *Note: All three parts have been collected* [*here*](https://www.reddit.com/user/MjolnirPants/comments/sty7h1/jerry_and_the_goddess/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)*, and that link is where I will post any future entries.*
I tossed the book down on the table and stared at the computer who'd betray... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 1: Clara Olsen v.s. A'to)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"A'ti! A'ti! A'ti! I summon thee!"**
Asking for help was hard. Throughout my long career, I'd always been the ... | 2022-02-15T11:18:40 | 2022-02-15T10:40:59 | 1,504 | 180 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | A group of guardsmen stormed into the town hall, each with a frightened look on their faces, as if they had just seen a ghost, or something worse. “Jarl Hagnar! We’ve just gotten word that a herd of magnison are stampeding, and they’re heading directly for the village!” One town guardsman alerted the Jarl.
Magnison we... | In our small town of Aile, we fear most things. The spare dragon could burn our wooden houses down with ease, the occasional grave of undead could terrorize the town, or a gallery of gargoyles could swoop down and rip everything to shreds- human, house, horse, it mattered not. We have no formal military, the closest th... | 2022-05-26T15:45:37 | 2022-05-26T14:34:44 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 129 | 47 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | “Who is set for execution today?” Mathew polished his blade as Judge Marin set up the death room.
“Edelphis,” Marin responded, “Finally getting rid of that fucker.”
“‘Bout time. I know the King really hated him.” Mathew switched to the next weapon, cleaning it thoroughly.
“Well, he did kidnap the princess. Twice.”... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T19:48:17 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 63 | 47 |
[WP] The Superheroes arrive at the predicted impact site of the meteor, only to find the Villains already there. "We're going to destroy that blasted rock before it lands and there's nothing you can do to stop us!" a Hero calls out. "Stop you? We're here to help! We live on this planet too, dumbass" | "Oh, here comes the sanctimony squad!" the man in the purple suit cried out as the Protectors arrived. It's not like he hadn't expected them; an extinction-level threat like this meteor did warrant the presence of all the heroes, but he still couldn't help but feel disgust.
"Villain!" the hero in the front yelled towa... | What are we, but leaves in the wind?
There were stories once, sung by the masses or known only by those who wrote them. Of guns and smoke, knives and high boots, artful games of respectful slaughter. Dozens of them, each catching light, before being lost to the confines of old history, buried deeper and deeper by the ... | 2022-09-11T07:28:14 | 2022-09-11T06:44:43 | 1,578 | 94 |
[WP] The Superheroes arrive at the predicted impact site of the meteor, only to find the Villains already there. "We're going to destroy that blasted rock before it lands and there's nothing you can do to stop us!" a Hero calls out. "Stop you? We're here to help! We live on this planet too, dumbass" | Our assembly was disrupted by a loud shout.
"Villains, get ready to lose! We're going to destroy that blasted rock before it lands and there's nothing you can do to stop us!"
Typical Paragon, too narrow-minded to see what's actually going on...
"Mercy of the assorted gods... Do you honestly think we're trying to blo... | What are we, but leaves in the wind?
There were stories once, sung by the masses or known only by those who wrote them. Of guns and smoke, knives and high boots, artful games of respectful slaughter. Dozens of them, each catching light, before being lost to the confines of old history, buried deeper and deeper by the ... | 2022-09-11T07:51:57 | 2022-09-11T06:44:43 | 212 | 94 |
[WP] "Impossible! I hit him with my strongest attack, but he's still standing?" "Haha, it seems you've overestimated me!" "I-wait, what?" The villain collapses in a pool of his own blood.
Based off of a comic by Alzward. | "I thought the name was enough on-the-nose that everyone picked up how it worked. Which is probably what you get when you ask a 14 years old edgelord to pick a code name."
"I... Don't... Understand ".
"I literally go around calling myself 'Artemis' and wearing a cresent moon on my forehead. It's not hard" I was getti... | Jazon was to be the first to attack. He stood hidden behind the tree, but didn’t feel the fear he expected. There was no anxious knot in his stomach, no increased sweating. All he felt was calm, and clear. Though a small piece of his mind was confused as to why that was. He was the vanguard of this plan, set to launch ... | 2022-12-04T07:30:20 | 2022-12-04T05:17:54 | 126 | 75 |
[WP] The world has taken precautions against super-powered beings, handing out inhibitors if deemed too 'destructive.' You sat in the principal's office with horror etched on your face as a pair of inhibitor gloves were handed to you. The smug grin of your life long bully telling you everything. | Transcript, Gladhurst Exceptional Care Facility and Rehabilitation Center:
Subject (S): ... so they came out with the gloves.
Doctor L. Kriesberg (D): The inhibitor gloves?
S: ... No, the fucking kitten-mittens, bruh! Yes the inhibitor gloves!! Jee-zus... Anyway, there was Kevin Fitzroy, that Nazi fuck, doing that \... | Jackass... I think as my powers while they could be used to cause a lot of annoyance because it is power to play any musical instrument to perfect decree. I am a girl and this is how he wants my attention? Wow, nice... I love music... I feel my heart drop as the gloves are worn on. I immediately start thinking about on... | 2022-12-25T07:32:18 | 2022-12-25T03:24:03 | 154 | 19 |
[WP] The world has taken precautions against super-powered beings, handing out inhibitors if deemed too 'destructive.' You sat in the principal's office with horror etched on your face as a pair of inhibitor gloves were handed to you. The smug grin of your life long bully telling you everything. | The wrist bands snap on and I feel a strange numbness on my fingers as they activate.
On the other side of the room allowed into the cell by his father was Jane. Ex girlfriend and pain in my ass. Bad breakups are one thing but breakups with a girl who has b grade siren powers is another thing entirely.
When she sings... | Jackass... I think as my powers while they could be used to cause a lot of annoyance because it is power to play any musical instrument to perfect decree. I am a girl and this is how he wants my attention? Wow, nice... I love music... I feel my heart drop as the gloves are worn on. I immediately start thinking about on... | 2022-12-25T06:56:33 | 2022-12-25T03:24:03 | 115 | 19 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | The look on Natasha's face when I walked into our college algebra 101 class that morning made the whole ordeal of digging myself out of that shallow grave and walking home without any blood worth it. (Have you ever tried to walk without blood? It's super tiring.)
Her expression was a perfect mix of shock, confusion, p... | Kunsai "Kuro" Kuronosa found himself in a strange place compared to where he normally went after school. Sure, he loved nature and all that, but he didn't think Korra, whose mother must've grown up when that show was popular, was normally the woodsy type. Popular, pretty, with fire red hair, fair skin, with typical hig... | 2022-12-29T18:54:00 | 2022-12-29T18:22:13 | 196 | 76 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | The time was near for the end. As our solar system was one of the galaxy's last to fall target to the enemy, both human colonies on Mars and Earth's moon were destroyed. The hour was late and the target was set. Earth would be destroyed in less than a month, according to NASA's predictions regarding travel time a... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T10:50:12 | 1,186 | 67 |
[WP] A man is granted his wish for unlimited knowledge. As he goes about his day he realizes his wish is actually a curse. | I looked through the window while holding my cup of hot coffee. _The_ barista _spat in your drink._ I took a sip of it anyways. _In this second, 249 children under the age of 6 died of neglect._ I continued to look out the window. _Jezebel is about to call you._ And my phone rings. I let it go to the voicemail.
"Hell... | I know what you're thinking. Having said that, I don't really *know* it for certain, but I can look at you and work out what it might be. That woman walking far too fast? She's planning out next Thursday's meal plan and wondering if she can squeeze in some time for herself between picking the kids up and making dinner ... | 2014-10-24T08:01:39 | 2014-10-24T07:46:38 | 56 | 20 |
[WP]God returns to earth, but is shocked and baffled to discover humanity's existence. Turns out we're an unexpected side effect to the real reason earth was created. | The archangel turned back to the silver-maned God and shrugged.
"I don't understand how it happened, Sir."
The Lord's brow curled dramatically and He regarded the archangel with severe exasperation. Thunderstorms pervaded the horizon as He breathed His reply: "What... didn't... didn't we plant enough of it?"
"It's ... | "Oh you did not" huffed Joel. Joel was being incredulous.
"Joel, you're being incredulous."
"You've been looking for an excuse to use that word all day."
I had been looking for an excuse.
"Doesn't mean you're not."
"Fine, fine. So. You honestly left the oven on while you were on holiday? And your house is ... | 2014-11-09T15:56:02 | 2014-11-09T13:53:08 | 264 | 82 |
[WP] The city wants to remove a tree from an old man's yard. Why does this upset him so much, and how does he stop them? | "Look old man, you can't just sit there forever. That tree's a safety hazard, and it's our job to keep everyone safe and get rid of it"
"Never! You don't understand what this tree really is! I'm finished if this thing dies!"
"Whaddaya mean, finished?"
"I mean I'm done! Kaput, flatlined, end of the road!"
"I uh, I s... | My partner and I were the first on the scene but knew we had backup just seconds away. We were called to a residential area as man was brandishing a gun. When we pulled we noticed multiple people coming to see the commotion and unable to see how dangerous the scene really was. My partner, George, drove up next to th... | 2014-11-21T09:28:35 | 2014-11-21T08:58:34 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You offer to sell your soul to the devil. He isn't interested. | “‘No deal?’ What the hell does that mean?”
The tall creature stood in the centre of my living room, blood-stained horns spiralling up from the sides of his head. Small plumes of smoke rose from the rug beneath his feet.
“It means no. Nope. No way. Not a chance in hell.” His voice resembled the sound of those muscle... | There was a flash of light, a cloud of smoke, and a stench of sulphur. But when the smoke finally cleared, there was Satan. Standing in my living room, in the middle of a crudely drawn chalk pentacle, and surrounded by a circle of black candles.
Tapping his left hoof impatiently on the carpet, he looked around the r... | 2015-01-13T03:36:20 | 2015-01-13T03:11:25 | 75 | 27 |
[WP] A group of adventurers discover a robot who's been awake but immobile for hundreds of years. | The clock ticked.
The Creators had left.
Probability and the Creators' sciences suggested that other beings, like the Creators would one day come.
The clock ticked.
It was a good robot. That was the last words of the Creators: "You're a good robot, robot. It's a shame we cannot take you with us. But be a good compa... | *...Lord, help me lift this heavy...*
 
Three motley figures were making their way through the network of tunnels, moving closer and closer to the source of the singing. They had been investigating the cave for the last few days but the singing was never audible until now. One of the crew paused to consult... | 2015-04-14T12:59:33 | 2015-04-14T12:09:08 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You have a strange aura that surrounds you constantly. The closer you get to people, the lower their common sense and IQ drops. You are literally surrounded by idiots. | I had lived a charmed life. Whenever I was close to other people, their intelligence would plumment. All through grade school and college, I'd been able to make straight A's by bribing teachers with candy and trinkets.
My rise through the political world had been swift. While I couldn't influence voters from afar, I f... | ***^^YES, ^^I ^^GET ^^TO ^^USE ^^TV ^^SHOW ^^REFERENCES! ^^This ^^should ^^be ^^fun. ^^Please ^^don't ^^sue ^^me.***
My name is Henry Morgan
I can play my own organ.
Sorry, that's a side effect of my disease
But it makes everybody easy to please!
My story is a long one, so hang on tight
This story of mine m... | 2015-06-11T05:43:05 | 2015-06-11T05:21:08 | 271 | 31 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | "I can't believe this... why haven't you... wha-"
"I can explain!"
"No! I don't want to hear what horrible things you've done!"
As he starts walking out of the house, she suddenly grabs him from the waist.
"Please! Let me explain!"
Silently they just stand there.
"Alright." He finally answered.
With a deep bre... | ** so I didn't follow the prompt exactly, but I liked my response so much that I wanted to post it anyways. Hopefully you'll like it enough to ignore the fact I didn't follow it to a T! **
I was in the kitchen when it happened. I heard the loud crash of glass a split second before I heard Jason's cries. I felt my hear... | 2016-09-22T23:44:59 | 2016-09-22T22:31:58 | 150 | 91 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | "I can't believe this... why haven't you... wha-"
"I can explain!"
"No! I don't want to hear what horrible things you've done!"
As he starts walking out of the house, she suddenly grabs him from the waist.
"Please! Let me explain!"
Silently they just stand there.
"Alright." He finally answered.
With a deep bre... | The sole reason I had met him was our love of coffee. He was a man who had worked for the military, I knew he had to have some darkness to his blood. That didn't matter to me, his childlike love had long since taught me better. The much harder part was hiding my own from him. We had both grown up in the city, he ha... | 2016-09-22T23:44:59 | 2016-09-22T21:45:49 | 150 | 20 |
[WP] You have found a magical pencil that is bounded to you. Draw something on a piece of paper, and the scene depicted happens the following day. However, you're shit at art, and the magic pencil frequently misunderstands your drawings. | A mini lighthouse on rocks. A tuskless elephant head. An interesting arrangement of shrubs. Long speakers with separate sub-woofers. Beanie hats with attached earmuffs. A rabbit with possibly the fluffiest hind legs I've ever seen. A lone, mutated banana.
In hindsight, getting drunk holding a very loyal magic pencil ... | "Oh Aaanne..."
Anne awoke to the blurry sight of her parents both holding birds in cages in hand. An exotic bird sat in each, one cocking its head curiously and the other pecking at a bow tied around the cage bars.
"Happy Bird Day Anne!"
Anne, groggy and confused, could only muster up a reproachful "What?"
"It's... | 2017-01-04T15:01:36 | 2017-01-04T12:16:00 | 73 | 19 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | Swords, blades, axes, hammers and all manner of other famous weapons adorned the walls. Neatly hung and fastidiously dusted by the elves who served in the hall but from the dimly lit far end of the room, a whisper filled the air.
"Down here. These weapons will doom you. You need me and I need you, my friend."
I sto... | How I got here I do not know, I was asleep in my room. I awoke in this hall, on the floor, as if I had fallen asleep on the floor of this great hall. The hall was immense. It seemed to have no end, it was well lit, but there did not seem to be any light source. Every few meters there was an item. Some of the items were... | 2017-02-07T14:31:39 | 2017-02-07T14:13:09 | 368 | 25 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | It sat there in the middle of the interrogation room, looking around, well what appeared to be looking around.
Private Daniels was staring at through the one way mirror and looked both fascinated and appalled at the same time. The bases chief medical examiner was also here, "So I understand Major that Private Daniels ... | There is this sense of being all alone, even if you are at home. The
feeling still persists and comes at you most strongly when you are all
alone taking a stroll on those chilly evenings. The twilight with its
sense of ending of a show, the crossing of a threshold, waiting for
that crescendo, that never comes. And s... | 2017-03-10T01:57:10 | 2017-03-09T22:27:52 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | "His mind is silent."
Jane's head sunk. She really wanted her son to be his own person, but growing up he was merely *different*; he couldn't communicate in any appreciable way until he turned five, and on top of that was slowly becoming more bookish, receding into different worlds, as discovering each one for the fir... | My name is Marylena, and I was an outcast from the very beginning.
Before I was born, the Hive education initiative was launched. Everyone thought it was great; anyone with the same name would have the same shared knowledge if they were willing to input. Schools quickly became a thing of the past. And then humanity st... | 2017-04-07T10:13:51 | 2017-04-07T10:01:48 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | You ever get lost in thought? So much so that you lose all track of time? Well I do, thinking about my life and what I regret. Wondering if that girl at the coffee shop likes me or am I delusional. The bills that are due and what I would like for dinner.
I get so wrapped up in it I can forget to even move. Like I'm s... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T02:05:57 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 646 | 49 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 272 | 49 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | I won Pascal's Wager.
Throughout the vast majority of my life, I had considered myself to be guided by reason, science, and empathy rather than religion. I saw no evidence for a god or gods existing, and figured any deity worth worshiping wouldn't have created a world where things like child rape and cancer existed. ... | Death and Taxes.
The only sure things in the world of the living.
And I thought, there was only one sure thing in the after.
Nothing.
The Neurons in my brain would stop firing, my blood would stop pumping, I'd take my last breath and...
The world would continue on without me.
I had made peace with that a long time ... | 2017-11-21T08:46:31 | 2017-11-21T08:05:28 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| My story starts when I was a kid before the cellphone era. I was maybe 16 years old, when I had my first love with Ester , she was the most beautiful girl you could have laid eyes on.
Blue eyes with blonde hair like a sunshine, with a smile that would melt everyone's heart, when she laughed everybody stops and just s... | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:31:32 | 4,830 | 474 |
[WP] You live in a world where the repetition of certain acts grants special abilities. Someone who does 10,000 push-ups will gain super strength, someone who runs 10,000 kilometres will gain super speed. You are the first person in history to drink 10,000 litres of alcohol. | “10,000 litres?”
“Yup”
“How are you not dead?”
“I didn’t do it in one long binge, I paced myself”
“That’s not really the point, never mind, so what has happened to you?”
“Well, what happens when YOU get drunk?”
“The usual stuff. Double vision, loss of balance, the occasional bout of memory loss”
“Uh-huh. I get a... | They often asked me what I am or what I can do.
A good question, a common one. Most of the time asked by oneself in front of the mirror or the silent hours after sundown whilst lying in bed, but before sleeping.
Answers vary, but hearing them as an outsider, someone who isn't involved, is always worth the time.
"A b... | 2018-07-06T04:10:30 | 2018-07-06T03:01:45 | 3,646 | 545 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | It’s all gone.
All of it.
It was just the day before—wait, hang on, should I even say that anymore?—that the *Farpoint* engaged her experimental FTL engine on the edge of the solar system. The effort and struggle of thousands of physicists achieving the impossible over decades, and it unfortunately proved to be the... | “There’s a reason why you never use faster than light travel.” The creature calling itself Kcbzrzx says to me in a voice that’s equal parts nails on a chalkboard and nails on a wet chunk of glass.
“And why is that?” I put my hands on my side and tap my foot impatiently. If Kcbzrzx doesn’t understand the universal sig... | 2018-11-04T06:08:23 | 2018-11-04T06:08:13 | 135 | 28 |
[WP] Mr. Bean is the lesser known fifth horseman of the apocalypse, ignorance. Unintentionally Mr. Bean arrives too early for the apocalypse and is stuck living an ordinary human life leaving destruction in his wake. The four horsemen finally arrive... | It was just another day in England, and could be described succinctly with one word. Moist. The rain was at that stage of its life where it wasn't willing to commit hard enough for anything meaningful, but just felt like being around the area and occasionally clinging to you as you walk down the street to the local fis... | You thought they were horsemen. Some brave soul in a past age, one that is now dying, had the wisdom, foresight, and depth of perception to uncover higher truths about the world, and the mystery of life.
Christ, the man, and his disciples were men of high spiritual discipline, they were the great seeds who’s truthful... | 2018-12-12T03:01:44 | 2018-12-12T03:01:21 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Humans can Bond with animals to gain superpowers based on the traits of that animal. You just Bonded an animal that no one else in human history has been able to Bond with | I was late to the game when it came to the Bonding; how it worked, how it felt. But now I understood why there were so few people spirited to soft, fuzzy, cute things: We can sense each other. And on top of that, it's been known that personality types get augmented the deeper they connect with their power.
That sai... | Every day, it happened.
Every day _she_ happened. It wasn't enough for her to own me, it wasn't enough for her to hold me in the palm of her hand since she bought me at that auction. It wasn't enough for her to be able to make my life a living hell.
She wanted to prove it to me, every day. The whippings were not the ... | 2019-06-18T11:16:56 | 2019-06-18T11:16:55 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] As a Demon, you're quite familiar with would-be mages making errors in materials due to translation errors. However, today marks the first time that someone has attempted to summon you with Cruelty-Free Vegan Blood Substitute™. | It had been centuries since I was summoned. Last time, the blood of 100 virgins had been sacrificed to call me from the shadow realms. It was barely enough payment for the ask; I killed one king and installed another.
As the long years stretched by, that megar sustinance was wearing thin. Had the humans forgotten me, ... | I could feel the familiar tugging sensation that alerted me to the fact that someone was trying to summon me to the realm of mortals. It burned and twisted, physically trying to yank my body to the mage’s location.
I’d been summoned hundreds of times, always to a mage who wanted to trade their soul for something they ... | 2020-01-23T09:05:06 | 2020-01-23T08:13:49 | 2,198 | 427 |
[WP] "Come on, aren't you a little old to have an imaginary friend?" He was right, but it seemed so real. "I guess..." "So maybe make some real friends, ones who don't have scaly skin and forked tongues." I stopped in my tracks. "I never told you what it looked like." |
"Come on, aren't you a little old to have an imaginary friend?" Marcus reached for my hand over the table. He kept his voice low and for that, I was thankful, even if I knew it was only so no one else in the coffee shop overheard our conversation.
He was right, of course, but it seemed so real. *She* seemed so rea... | "Come on, aren't you a little too old to have an imaginary friend?" Blaine was a friend, a pain in the arse at times, but a friend none the less. A *real* friend. Even so, he'd been pushing his agenda a little harder than usual of late.
So what if I was thirty eight and still conversing with imaginary friends? I could... | 2020-05-06T12:21:32 | 2020-05-06T12:07:57 | 156 | 68 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | A madman they called me,
a man with no brain.
Even dumber than those,
who had rotten in twain.
I took what was old,
from year long gone past.
I wore a plate armor,
for long it may last.
Instead of motors,
i sought out a steed.
Instead of guns,
i got a blade to my need.
The undead may rise,
it may... | Part 1
You hear a sound in the distance. A quiet singing, amongst the almost constant moaning. As you get closer the melodic sounds become words.
"525600 minutes, how do you measure a year in the zombie apocalypse. " The pile of viscera of sings the sound louder as you get closer to the pile.
From the far end of ... | 2020-09-14T07:59:32 | 2020-09-14T07:51:36 | 117 | 80 |
[WP] You have been in a coma for years, but the people around you worship you as a deity, leaving offerings and notes with wishes and prayers. You aren't a god- time simply stops any time you wake up, leaving you alone in a frozen world. You accept the offerings and do what you can to grant prayers. | The Time Lord lay in a glass coffin under a willow tree, little pieces of paper hung from the tree's branches, and it swayed with the wind as a little girl came running towards the coffin.
She was crying. Tightly clutched in her hand was a piece of paper no larger than an index card. She ran, and she ran, and then she... | With a yawn, I jumped up out of bed, and putting my slippers on along the way, traversed the hallway of frozen worshippers on my way to the bathroom.
I stood, stretching as I brushed my teeth in the wall long mirror. Bottom then top, bottom then top: the same way I'd done it all my life. I glanced around me- there wer... | 2020-12-28T10:53:38 | 2020-12-28T10:45:16 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You have been blessed with immortality and are the greatest warrior, but 1000 years ago, a witch cursed you for killing her daughter, making you unable to wield a blade again. Fortunately, guns were invented, and now you’re back in business. | "Really? That's it?"
The warrior said, dawning a confused look.
"What...? What do you mean?"
He folded his arms, rolling over the information in his head before laying it out for the decrepit hag.
"You gave a huge speech about this curse you were going to lay upon me, waved your arms around and created some crazy... | I stood, a little lost, in the middle of the pawn shop. My contact in Budapest had told me that America had a lot of guns. I didn’t think he meant this many. After I’d woken up and managed to dig my way out of the literal pyramid I’d been buried underneath, I wanted to see what the world had to offer. It was appar... | 2021-01-01T14:39:46 | 2021-01-01T13:54:50 | 434 | 135 |
[WP]: "You can't run your whole life on nothing but pure spite", they said. "Fucking watch me", you said, and headed out to thrive. | You'd think having a javelin in your chest would slow you down a bit.
And, normally, you'd be right. Tends to put a bit of a damper on the whole 'living being' thing. Tends to be the sort of thing you'd stop and do something about. Head over to the hospital, take a while to recover.
We were *long* past that sort o... | "these walls are covered in the blood of all the men and women I extorted and the tears of the family I've left behind." Said Thomas, ruminating on the success that led him to owning this luxurious mansion in the rural south of England.
"Tom, this isn't healthy, people are worried about you. The family you supposedly ... | 2021-01-19T07:44:46 | 2021-01-19T07:16:35 | 126 | 27 |
[WP] You are a chivalrous knight. As it turns out, the Evil Empire you have been fighting against is a liberal democracy with a powerless figurehead and a very edgy sense of aesthetics. The Good Kingdom you serve is really an absolute monarchy ruled by a tyrant-king with good publicity. | You'd think someone wearing skulls with "Evil" written on the teeth would *realize* they were the bad guys, right? I had always thought that was a trope of the traveling actor guilds, but no, here I was talking to Lord Evil himself, skull-emblazoned shirt covered in spikes signifying the death he has caused for his peo... | From the tallest spire to the deepest pit, from the rudest hovel to the Senate’s halls, the universal constant of the Republic of Aetera was fear.
Fear of the Empire that lay across the narrow channel at the center of the Great Inland Sea, whose two opposing peninsulas sat like a belt across the whole of the civilized... | 2021-02-06T16:08:32 | 2021-02-06T15:50:30 | 1,193 | 163 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | I was a joke, I knew it, the city knew it, the heroes knew it. Sure they had to adapt to whatever my latest superweapon was and overcome, becoming stronger, pushing the limits of their powers but they always overcame my latest scheme, I never got anywhere in the grand scheme of things. So, I was a joke, but the joke wa... | I’d tap my foot impatiently on the metal floor of my underground base, this new guy in town, who is he? Why is he here? And what is his goal? I’d turn on the massive big screen TV I stole from the new Mega-theater, maybe clear my head from it, I expect to hear news of my latest heist of the massive screen, instead I fi... | 2021-05-20T07:25:02 | 2021-05-20T06:49:30 | 795 | 98 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | “I am not going to just upload my spells to your console if that’s what you were expecting” The journeyman strictly tells the wizard much his senior.
Since the beginning of the empires history, and truly long before that, spells have existed and that was it. Your master uploaded them to your console and bang you cou... | Voulrin, the Lord of Water. Even though I was far out of my element, that name still swirled around my mind’s eye as one of the world’s foremost mages.
In person, the sense of awe did not evaporate. Deep lines carved out weathered trenches in his face, though clear blue eyes stared at me with the intensity of a starve... | 2022-05-30T14:06:54 | 2022-05-30T11:33:51 | 37 | 22 |
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