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[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | "I was homeless, you idiot! I was trash on the side of the street that you walked by without even seeing! Now I have a job, I have a house - a home! You cannot even begin to imagine what that word means to me."
The recruiter on my doorstep with the 'Freedom Now' hat, and a fistful of pamphlets had no idea how to respo... | “EINCNIxiapwkmfPakmf IsjdnIdjfjKddkF42069 sjdjfj ajsjejjePWLDNFNF!”
The new alien overlords screeched on their speakers from their spacecrafts.
A teleprompter like device soon displayed the following: “And there is a minimum of two wives required with a full two days of breeding, one for each, no labor on these days. ... | 2022-11-02T23:57:17 | 2022-11-02T23:51:10 | 129 | 38 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | No one would believe me if I told them. And I don't know if *I* believe me, sitting here alone, thinking about the past.
I can imagine my husband Jared, the lawyer, murmuring in my mind, muttering his arguments and counterarguments. He taught me to argue, and whenever I am conflicted with myself, I use his staunch log... | The shapeshifter doesn't remember it's origin. It's been here for far too long. It doesn't even remember it's original name. It has taken the form of too many people. People that throughout the years that have been successful, talented and have had rich life giving experiences. Theses experiences taught this alien cre... | 2014-08-15T11:11:00 | 2014-08-15T08:43:05 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | He looked at me. His eyes were dark and sunken into his pale face. I sensed something - something terrible - but I didn't want it to be true. Ten. Just a number to some, but to me, it was something terrifying. I could sense danger, but not in the animal planet documentary story of a dog predicting a storm kind of way, ... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T12:31:42 | 140 | 38 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 140 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Numbers taste funny. Nines bud into fires on my tongue, their spent embers resembling something akin to zeros. Ones bleed blue like melting ice or my nurse's cerulean eyes. Fives dissolve like Wonderbread and feel like cotton in my ears. When I went to school with other children, they tasted like loaves of stale white ... | He looked at me. His eyes were dark and sunken into his pale face. I sensed something - something terrible - but I didn't want it to be true. Ten. Just a number to some, but to me, it was something terrifying. I could sense danger, but not in the animal planet documentary story of a dog predicting a storm kind of way, ... | 2014-11-29T13:27:21 | 2014-11-29T12:31:42 | 86 | 38 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Numbers taste funny. Nines bud into fires on my tongue, their spent embers resembling something akin to zeros. Ones bleed blue like melting ice or my nurse's cerulean eyes. Fives dissolve like Wonderbread and feel like cotton in my ears. When I went to school with other children, they tasted like loaves of stale white ... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T13:27:21 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 86 | 22 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | Thomas looked down at his iPad having just stepped out of the wormhole he had traveled through. "Strange," he said softly under his breath, "wifi." He quickly tapped the settings button and went into wifi settings. As the device discovered the one available network his heart dropped.
*"If you can read this turn back."... | I'd just emerged from the subway (my time machine) and had been maneuvering through the veins of central New York City when I'd stumbled upon something grave. The tablet in my rucksack had hung heavy the whole while that I'd been weaving my way in and out of each flock of workers and businessmen alike, hanging like dea... | 2014-12-23T20:15:56 | 2014-12-23T19:27:07 | 2,702 | 18 |
[WP] A well known fact has changed overnight, and you're the only one who remembers it being anything different than it is now. | "But, that can't be right. It's *Berenstein*..."
Judy looked at the display and scratched at her nose. The Barnes & Noble employee waited as she read the inventory screen over and over again. *The Berenstain Bears,* the title read, and yet, there was no way that could be right.
"Perhaps you might've been mistaken... | At first I didn’t notice it. I mean, why would I?
I simply got up and went about my morning routine same as always. Shit, shower, shave. Eat a bowl of nutritious and delicious oatmeal (I like mine with berries and pecans) and then feed the cat.
It wasn’t until I was in my car on the freeway that I had my first hint ... | 2015-04-06T15:32:05 | 2015-04-06T15:19:00 | 65 | 15 |
[WP] Jimmy is the most optimistic guy to have ever lived. After finding himself in hell following a paperwork error at the pearly gates he seems to find the bright side in every torture device they have to offer. And it's driving Satan insane.
This prompt might be too detailed so please feel free to change parts as mu... | At first Satan thought Jimmy was a curse upon his already cursed land. Nothing he did to the *bastard* seemed to take effect.
He had torn him limb from limb. But ghosts always return to their original form, in a matter of time. Jimmy would be back there, smiling, the moment the simulation was done.
Showing him bitt... | **DISCLAIMER** This is an unfinished work. I don't write very often, so when I do it takes me an eternity to get anything down, hence why it's now 3am and I have to get some sleep for work tomorrow. If people want me to keep going and see where it ends up, I'll keep working when I have some spare time on Friday evening... | 2015-10-01T00:34:28 | 2015-10-01T00:14:18 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] The best demon slayers are those whose minds the demons want to stay out of. | We heard a loud thud. We run there to witness a demon laying on the ground just about to disappear. In front of the demon stood Marlin.
"You should know that I feel very depressed." he said instead of greeting us.
"What happened?"
"I was very bored waiting for you."
"How did you kill the demon?"
"I didn't" ... | Rodenhurst walked into the dilapidated ice cream parlor. Its once cheerful pink and blue exterior had been rotted and worn and rained away, leaving a flithy, used look. The whole area was like that. Old and broken, just like the people who lived here. People, by the way, who were scarce in number. The recent influx of ... | 2016-02-08T09:21:58 | 2016-02-08T08:30:18 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] A world where people can store the adrenaline rush and aggressiveness of their anger for later use. Keep enough rage inside and you can, literally and figuratively, hulk out. Now, in your city there's a person who's never been visibly angry... | "Is he ready?" The major asked.
*"What do you think? He's been storing that rage for 25 years. Nobody's more ready than he is.*
"He had damn better be. If this succeeds, it'll be a major coup. Possibly the biggest breakthrough in our field in...what, 50 years? Anyway, lets commence. BRING HIM OUT!"
The hangar door w... | *suspect on the run. Last seen on 5th avenue*
"Do you think it's another rager on the run?" said officer John to his partner as Alicia's soft voice came out of the police radio.
"Nah. It's probably another robber." said officer Jones.
Police sirens were turned on as officer John and Jones darted through the empty... | 2016-03-16T09:29:15 | 2016-03-16T08:41:28 | 98 | 14 |
[WP] You order a pizza at 12pm. The delivery guy dosen't arrive until 7pm. When asked about what happened, he responds "It's a long story." | "Umm.. I'm sorry but I cancelled the order already. I called your manager and ordered McDonald's porridge instead."
"..WHAT?!"
".. yeah, so thank you and have a nice night." As I slowly closed the door hoping.
For the next hours, different people come and knock my door.
1st it was the police.
Then a street gang ... | It had been an hour and a half and we had given up on him ever arriving. Gwen was pissed. I called the store but nobody picked up. She didn't believe me, thought I was trying to weasel out of the confrontation. So I called back with the phone on speaker.
It rang, unceasingly.
"You got the number wrong."
"No. I did... | 2017-02-10T00:56:41 | 2017-02-09T23:20:07 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | "Jesus."
After two years, there were still so many misconceptions about Google Dating---its origins, how it functioned. But that single phrase was how engineers remembered Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, responding to an initial demonstration.
Social media success had been a goal for so long. The company had failed with... | "Yes, it started as a dating service," the tour guide said as we moved into the next room of the museum. "But it quickly became something much darker."
Her smile showed two too many teeth and her body bent at sharp angles whenever she gesticulated, like a magician trying to draw your attention away from her left hand.... | 2017-05-25T13:39:39 | 2017-05-25T12:04:16 | 82 | 50 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | Warning: This story is not safe for work.
**MagiSup issue report nr. 334123**
**Tags**: Medical, input encapsulation
**Severity**: Potentially lethal
**Description**:
This issue pertains to a spell recently developed by one of our affiliates, whose name has been omitted for legal reasons and can be retrieved up... | "ABRAHAM KADABRAH!" I bellow, the fluorescent lights flicker. I pause frozen wondering if I just made the lights flicker. I wait tensely, then a small moment of joy comes, alright now we're getting somewhere. I'm a spell tester, well that's not entirely true, I'm an aspiring Mechanized Warfare Combat Mage (MW-CM). It s... | 2017-07-26T04:40:08 | 2017-07-26T03:19:32 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You try your absolute best to stay as neutral as possible, but when you die, both god and satan show up in an attempt to take you under their respective wings when all you really wanted to do was go to purgatory
(Completely new to this, berate and judge my prompt, dunno if it's original or not) | I sat in the waiting room still trying to mull it all over. I mean they both made really good points, but right here wasn't so bad either. The television always had good movies on, there always good books to read, and don't get me started on the crosswords.
"Hey Sam", I looked up at the old man, "they're waiting for ... | I cracked my eyes open because light wasn't staying out either way and fluorescent white greeted me. Before I had time to process that I didn't have fluorescent lights in my room my hand was trying to shield my suffering retinas from the bright. Then, before I had time to process anything other than the fact that my ro... | 2017-09-21T06:11:35 | 2017-09-21T05:56:29 | 2,401 | 169 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | I’m one-hundred and four now and there are more things than not that I have forgotten in my life. I can’t tell you the first time I traveled to another planet. I can’t recall the name of my instructor from school. And, I’ve even forgotten the name of my first friend in under school. I can, however, remember to this day... | "Are you sure about this Ilian" Odan asked, his antenna twitched with irritation? Odan had always liked Ilian but sometimes she could be more trouble than she was worth, most of the hierarchy was like that, but being the youngest graduate from the institute and a member of the royal family he couldnt just say no even i... | 2018-03-17T05:52:27 | 2018-03-17T05:21:49 | 176 | 12 |
[WP] It’s your 20th birthday. You wake up, open your eyes...and see your bedroom as it was ten years ago. Turns out the past ten years of your “life” were just a very vivid dream... | Jake was careful. The train was moving fast, and it wasn't easy to hold onto the roof. Men in black suit blocked both sides of the roof.
Jake had no other choice. He had to jump from the fast-moving train. Even though it was really fast, staying on that train was a death sentence. A really shitty birthday.
He jumped.... | "What... there's no... wait, what?" I walked myself through where I was - it all seemed familiar. I remember the ugly plaid sheets I had on my bed in highschool and I certainly remember how chubby I was during that time. Looking at my gut with the sheets in the background was all I needed to confirm when I was, rough... | 2018-05-01T04:25:43 | 2018-05-01T03:00:09 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | This is kind of NSFW.
The atmosphere in the room was palpable. This was our life’s work, finally we could figure out what this long dead species was like. We can learn from their mistakes, a species hell bent on destroying each other. We can also learn from their successes, their medicine and technology was theorised ... | Three months, thirteen days and eleven hours of exposure to the rancid air of the surface world. Every minute, every hour bringing greater strain on the enviro\-suit; forever filtering the same bath of salt water I came with. But, I couldn’t bring myself to return home. So many trips I’ve made to the same access node, ... | 2018-05-19T21:48:40 | 2018-05-19T20:24:11 | 84 | 15 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Roger ran his fingers over the smooth dermo-plastic of the android's thigh. Her muscles tensed by the touch of his fingertips, and tiny goosebumps prickled up. There was something special about building such an advanced creature from nothing -- it made him feel powerful, almost divine.
The surgical lights in the ceili... | "Hello?" I stuttered. I had heard the phone click on the other end, a steady breathing echoing against my ear. "Is anyone there?" I asked almost impatiently.
"Good morning, Roger. How are you today?" a woman's voice responded. It was calm, yet I could sense the slightest bit of nervousness, like she hadn't expected to... | 2018-08-14T07:38:50 | 2018-08-14T07:31:49 | 366 | 25 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Rolling my chair closer to the desk, fingers jittering slightly as I slid the slide onto the stand and centered it, I brought my face close to the microscope. I'd spent years perfecting it, and today was the first real trial of it with something other than micro-sized images printed off.
I had put a few cheek cells sp... | "Hello?" I stuttered. I had heard the phone click on the other end, a steady breathing echoing against my ear. "Is anyone there?" I asked almost impatiently.
"Good morning, Roger. How are you today?" a woman's voice responded. It was calm, yet I could sense the slightest bit of nervousness, like she hadn't expected to... | 2018-08-14T08:39:35 | 2018-08-14T07:31:49 | 201 | 25 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | He lay there drooling, with mouths open wide. He stood up to... to... ah hell he doesn't even know. Walking straight forward he first hits a night stand, then door frame until finally tripping over a hallway carpet and faceplanting without a sign of resistance. As he lay there, nose bleeding he thinks to himself... not... | -HAHA!!! Wake up SuperSmeller! For I am ending you Right Now!
*-wow. how did you even get here.*
-I am utterly GLAD you asked! For I am a genius! For It is known within villainous circles that you have a super smelling power, You have a distinct smell for every thought a person THINKS, not just for every molecule for... | 2018-08-19T07:31:17 | 2018-08-19T07:18:07 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | 1 result.
There it was, a name that only I could see, floating silently above my father's head. My father the murderer; standing there with his back turned, chopping carrots at the bench.
"Dad," I said, my voice trembling. He must have heard the quiver, because he stopped and turned to me, concern etched upon his fa... | My dad is a Vietnam vet, and never talked about it much. I know from my mom he has pretty severe ptsd. I felt guilty for wanting to know, but I couldn’t help it. The number kinda surprised me, 12. It was more than I expected, and I instantly had half a dozen more questions I wanted answers to.
But I couldn’t bring... | 2019-07-01T21:21:32 | 2019-07-01T20:07:43 | 717 | 215 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in your hands, and the afterlife customs agents miss it when letting you in. You find that it still works, and you can connect to the internet and contact people in the living world. | I made sure the phone was turned off then set it on the dinette table. It had vibrated in my pocket on the walk from the gate to my new afterlife digs, prompting the guide to pause for just long enough to make me wonder if she was fixing to eject me from this new life. It was weird; I assumed that, as a dead person, m... | **Connections**
***
The first thing I discovered was that I shouldn’t try to make phone calls.
It was physically possible, sure. The line would ring and then connect. The living person on the other side would answer, cheerful or confused, or sometimes somewhere in-between. I would say “Hello,” and they would rep... | 2021-01-20T14:01:14 | 2021-01-20T12:48:41 | 1,552 | 295 |
[WP] You've made an impressive name for yourself as an exorcist, getting rid of some of the nastiest hauntings there are. What nobody knows is that you don't have a particular talent for it; you yourself are just haunted by a spirit so terrifying, that even ghosts flee before it. | A hawk circles high in the air, riding on the winds above a barren mountain pass. He scans the ground looking for anything to keep the cruelty of winter at bay. Tonight he will be a hero to his family, a rabbit or a hare will fill the bellies of his young. He flies lower. Something is wrong. His wings feel weak and his... | Many, including Father Nathaniel, had long been curious about the famous Cerie. Born Jamie Young, she quickly grew a reputation as a successful exorcist who claimed no allegiance to any particular faith, whose mere presence was enough to shoo away any ghost or demon. So when he was offered a chance to watch her perform... | 2021-04-03T10:02:18 | 2021-04-03T09:27:38 | 167 | 48 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | Hathgor paced restlessly around his manor, waiting for the sun to sink below the horizon. While it wouldn’t kill him to go out in the light, it certainly wasn’t pleasant.
Waiting, however, was driving him mad. For he’d had a brilliant idea during his most recent slumber.
He’d been alone for centuries, the only of hi... | Calanthrag The Eldest snorted, a brief burst of blue fire through nostrils the size of a truck exhaust. The little, blustery human-but-not-human shrunk back towards the cliff’s edge, but only a step before he pushed his way back towards the great dragon. Calanthrag wasn’t sure if he liked the man or not. He hovered ver... | 2021-04-16T07:05:18 | 2021-04-16T06:48:10 | 276 | 205 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | “I don’t know. She’s pretty useless though. Can’t speak. Too dumb for any real magic, but she’ll heal you if you order her to.” Calix said to their new recruit as he marched down the goblin infested tunnels in his massive plate armor.
*Leressa the Black! I bind you!*
The recruit, Daved, looked back at me nervously,... | I took this in a slightly different way, where the black mage doesn't know any healing spells. Hopefully it still works!
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Brath aimed his eyes to the sky, the blue infinity stretching out past the jagged tops of mountains, and he breathed in. *Don't kill anyone today. Remember what they told you about managing anger... | 2021-09-03T08:38:40 | 2021-09-03T08:25:10 | 2,163 | 108 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | They breathed with us. They drank with us. The same air, the same water. We survived. They didn't. Green covers the planet, birds sing their songs, bees make their honey, and the wind spreads the dandelions. The skies are bluer than ever, and the smell of artificial poisons are no more. The pain they caused allowed us ... | The voices of the United Nations talk amongst themselves; some filled with quiet panic, others with hushed anger and frustration, they're voices carrying over one another and filling the room before a man emerges from backstage. He walks across the stage to the forward-most podium, he faces the audience and the lights ... | 2022-08-27T07:31:55 | 2022-08-27T06:10:10 | 91 | 37 |
[WP] Consider a future where Hitler was the lesser evil of two eventualities. Travellers went back in time and stopped what would have been a much worse fate for mankind. | They came quietly in the night, travelers from a world of light and peace. In their world, everything was perfection. No one went hungry, children laughed and played without worry, and utopia was achieved. And yet, this particular group consisted of men of a larger scope. Men of all time and space, keepers of the unive... | The Temporal Center's briefing room was dark, and smelled faintly of white board markers and carpet cleaner. I sat in the dark in silence, alone, waiting for my superiors to arrive. I was nervous. I had an inkling of what they had summoned me here for, but since everything done here was hidden behind several veils o... | 2014-12-09T20:19:25 | 2014-12-09T20:17:26 | 88 | 37 |
[WP] A massive wall of light, a few feet thick and a few hundred feet high, stretches from the north to south pole. This wall slowly circumnavigates the globe in 1 year. No one knows where it came from and no one knows who created it. All people know is that if you touch the light, you disappear. | We were known as The Runners.
That is, while there was anybody left to call us that.
Nobody knew how the light tsunami began. Some thought there was a malfunction with the LHC, or that God had finally cracked and this was his new idea of a flood. Some people refused to believe in it, standing before it's shimmering... | Twenty miles out from the Halo Meridian, and every hour becomes daytime. Sleep becomes a futile effort. Making the effort worse, talk radio battles against the hiss of air as they collide in the 92 Ford dad couldn't afford to let die or fix. The car's sun blinders are down and held in place with coat wire and electrica... | 2015-04-28T20:46:28 | 2015-04-28T19:50:28 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Magic is real. Your natural magic ability is determined by how many people died 24 hours prior to your birth. You, and 2 others were born on the day of the greatest massacre in human history.
I apologise if this has been done previously.
EDIT: Obligatory RIP inbox. Thanks everyone!
EDIT2: Front page of /r/Writi... | When the new girl walked into class, the teacher smiled and gave her the warm greeting she gave everyone. At the end of the standard speech she asked when Jessica's birthday would be.
"It's on the 25th ma'am."
"Of this month?"
"That's next week then! How delightful. That's also Tom's birthday, so we'll have a class... | I was always told I'm not allowed to use my power, but was never told why. Well, until a few years ago that is. I found out that I was part of a trio that were born with a special set of powers because of the circumstances of our birth.
See, each person has a power. And all three of us were born just before the Day of... | 2015-08-23T02:25:24 | 2015-08-23T00:03:09 | 109 | 36 |
[WP] Aliens find Earth, and decide that our primitive technology and abundant resources make us ripe for conquest. What they don't know is that most of humanity left long ago. The people still here are just Amish, and the Solar System is just a nature preserve. | Vicktal looked at the scans approvingly. The atmospheric profile was a little oxygen rich but a concerted terraforming effort would resolve that in short order. It would turn the biosphere lethal to the native fauna and a portion of the flora but low-orbit surveillance had revealed that the sentient lifeforms on the pl... | Ganymede read the sensor correctly, the planet had pockmarks of wars, metallic indicators of weaponry, and elementary biological intelligent civilization. Obviously one more planet that had bombed itself to the stone age or spent to much time infighting to develope any level of acceptable use. Almost the entire planet ... | 2016-01-04T10:30:12 | 2016-01-04T09:52:56 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] A demon is getting REALLY tired of teenage girls summoning him. | The latest best seller, *Ebony Darkness*, was a love story of a teenage girl and a demon. Some said it was worse than *Twilight* and *50 Shades of Grey* combined, which was honestly quite a feat to go below the bar of awful writing and become a "you will literally become stupider if you read this" writing. Nonetheless,... | Sid opened his weary eyes in a pink bedroom with walls covered in One Direction posters. *Not this again.* A girl, about thirteen with her hair tied into two messy buns and more makeup on than he saw on adult women back when he was still alive, stood on the side of a chalk outline of a pentagram on the ground.
“Oh, no... | 2016-04-05T07:12:27 | 2016-04-05T07:02:35 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] Humans are capable of magic, we are just out of mana. Then a small store starts selling "mana potions" but of course no one belives it at first. | The glow was hypnotizing. Video games had never done them justice, mana potions weren't just blue, they were *blue*. They put all other blue things to shame, glowed with such pure, brilliant blue that the world took on a yellowish tinge after even a glance at it. It made my skin tingle, and made me want to do up my bla... | I watched the world burn. Humans, I had discovered, were petty creatures who couldn’t handle the smallest amount of power. When given the opportunity to do something amazing, we end up destroying ourselves. I hate that I helped set everything in motion.
It started in 2018, a new store opened up in my city. It looked l... | 2016-10-25T05:07:56 | 2016-10-25T04:25:07 | 69 | 26 |
[WP] The year is 2020. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a single human skeleton and four words written on the wall. | EDIT: Good lord that blew up. I will see about maybe writing some more tonight.
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"Hey guys," I said over the comms. "You're all going to want to come down here."
"What is it, now?" Jon's voice said in my ear. "Another pretty rock you want to show us?" I could almost see the bastard's smug face. No one ... | This deep under the Martian soil, we were completely cut off from Earth.
The new suits were nice. Snugger than the bulky old models, they still offered the same high level of protection from the environment. Made cave exploration feasible. Which was good, because that was the whole point of this mission.
Investigator... | 2017-06-06T20:03:39 | 2017-06-06T19:28:16 | 1,368 | 50 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | Jack put down the phone, his face a sudden ashen white. His hand trembled as he reached under the bar to grab a bottle of his best scotch. A bit of the obscenely expensive liquor splashed out of his glass as he poured himself a sturdy shot.
He looked around the bar as the liquor burned through his core. He never both... | Just as the door from the back entrance closed, Pete hung up the phone. It was a typical Wednesday night at The Spot, a dozen customers maybe a few more. The usual crowd, the regulars all in their usual places.
Walking in Frank could sense an un-easiness in Pete, who usually greeted every customer, especially the reg... | 2018-01-31T13:57:53 | 2018-01-31T11:42:48 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] You've been happily married for 15 years. You decide it's been enough time to divulge your secret superhero persona to your spouse. They respond with, "Well, as your arch nemesis, this changes things a bit." | "Well, honey, it's time you knew: I'm not keeping an affair from you. It's more like a second job. You see, I'm a superhero," I said.
Jennifer frowned. "I... see. Um... which one?"
It was a less excited reaction than I thought I'd be getting, to be honest. Admittedly, I had figured the excitement would either ... | "Listen, Jim, we need to *talk*," said my darling wife, standing atop a burning orphanage. She was wearing her full ruby red getup, impervious to the flames licking towards the sky. Her hands were on her hips. And she'd had that *look*.
*Oh boy, here we go.*
I ran full speed through the brick, eyes burning through t... | 2018-05-18T12:04:00 | 2018-05-18T11:17:29 | 1,178 | 338 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | Everyone knows we are all born a little special. Some of us are very very big and strong, while others can be very very smart. We can go our whole lives not knowing whether or not we are growing, but knowing seems like a good place to start.
You see, I knew my little gift when I was very young. I was able to see the ... | I was told I was blessed with a green thumb, when I was the only kid in my preschool who didnt kill their plant. This made my grandpa very happy.
Grandpa was a man I loathed in my younger years, someone who always smelled of cigars and hands where always covered in dirt, even after washing up for supper time. From as ... | 2018-06-30T14:18:25 | 2018-06-30T13:56:55 | 679 | 173 |
[WP] Mermaids are actually women who have been thrown off ships because they were considered bad luck. As they sink to the bottom, they slowly change until they can breathe under water and they can use their tied up legs to swim. They lure sailors to get their revenge. | "My old man never said shit in his life what was true, except one thing: only good woman's a dead one." Esther doesn't respond; she can't. She's trussed up head to toe. Pigs being sent to the butcher probably have more dignity.
The first mate, handsome even without the air of danger his eyepatch gives him, eyes her. ... | For thirteen days we have drifted, for six I have prayed.
My father warned me once that these waters held demons who stole the power from the sky, that they lusted after any woman on board and would not return that power until they obtained the fixation of their desire. Cursed waters the map read, but I have always be... | 2019-02-08T10:41:01 | 2019-02-08T10:05:45 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] You're secretly a monster. Not a vampire, or a werewolf, or an alien, or a zombie, or really any monster that's commonly known. It's always awkward explaining to your soon-to-be-victims what you are. | Dear Emma,
It happened again. You laughed. You always do, it's not fair, how come my brother got all the good genes? Big scary fangs, razor claws, and a breath that could scare the dead but me, oh no, I just had to get that color. Why do you just giggle every single time? That's all you do, and I'm my families biggest... | "Argh, A demon!" exclaimed a man as he cowered in fear for his life.
The bloodlust that had formed in its' eyes suddenly died down. It turned its' head towards the man and began shaking side-to-side. The gesture was then followed by a deep breath ending in a deep breath. It lifted its' muscular four-fingered arms up a... | 2019-07-17T00:44:16 | 2019-07-17T00:02:03 | 139 | 42 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | The young man woke early on May 27th. It was his 16th Birthday, and today he would find out two very important names. Two names to surely be intertwined with the rest of his life. He was excited, and scared at the same time.
He stared out of the window of his Manor House looking across the grounds. He knew he was bor... | I can't stop thinking about the world this kind of thing might build. Like:
Some devoted themselves to finding their soulmate, embarking on lifelong pilgrimages and learning as many languages as possible, worshipping the idea embedded within their ink. Others let fear of their nemesis consume their whole being, drivi... | 2020-01-18T23:49:54 | 2020-01-18T23:37:33 | 264 | 21 |
[WP] Ghost hunters use points system to determine how haunted a house is. 1 point for ghosts, 2 for fae spirits, and 3 for demons. A ghost hunter valued your house for 278 points and became the no. 1 haunted house around the world. Your house was only built 1 year ago. | It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon when the “ghost hunter” came for the annual inspection. This government mandated farce as I saw it began a few years ago when unexplained occurrences were happening across the country; and thanks to the efforts of lazy police work and persuasive afterlife advocates certain incidents wer... | We met on a rainy day.
I was on my phone so I didn't see what startled the uber driver, but he swerved and the car hit the fence, it wouldn't start again. Debbie was on the sidewalk, all wet but she was so beautiful I didn't even wonder what she was doing out there in the rain, I was just glad we met. I stepped out o... | 2020-05-13T10:00:14 | 2020-05-13T09:47:33 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You were born in a city where everyone has a superpower. However, while people freely use theirs (breathe fire, heal wounds or grow flowers), you seem to not be able to do anything. But one day, as you leave the city, you realize that everyone loses their power.
[deleted] | How long had I been here? The years all seemed to meld together leaving only a muddled sense of never ending time. I slept mostly, or at least tried to, not having any other form of entertainment but it was never restful. I always dreamed in nightmares only to wake up and find the truth was worse.
They had denied me a... | I used to hate the city.
It seems out of a comic book. You walk to your job and, as you gaze towards the sky, you see a hundred flying beings, making stunts that seemed impossible to man, hiding in the clouds, saluting planes. You get a coffee and you don't even care if it's cold or warm, one of the workers can heat i... | 2020-06-09T05:37:21 | 2020-06-09T05:33:12 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] A massive Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader, suddenly appears on Earth. Vader informs the Earth's governments that he is looking for a rogue Jedi named "George Lucas." It turns out that Star Wars is real, and Lucas has been leaking information about the Empire and the Rebellion to the public. | There was a lot of pants shitting, I tell you that much. Except for Switzerland. They went sorta weird for a while.
George Lucas. The man who made a beloved franchise. Celebrated filmmaker. A milestone of Hollywood. And apparently, highly wanted fugitive.
Well, of course, the Empire found him eventually. They always... | While the main fleet of the Sith empire remained in orbit, Vader’s personal starship and his escorts landed at the UN headquarters in Geneva. Soon after landing stormtroopers surround the building and Vader walks in.
“The political value of this station has been compromised. *kushhh* resistance will prove futile. *k... | 2020-08-09T21:23:46 | 2020-08-09T21:02:37 | 290 | 68 |
[WP] A novice priest is performing an exorcism. The demon really wants out. The lonely possessed person doesn't want to let his only companion go. The demon is trying to coach the priest while the possessed person tries to interfere with the rite. | The priest stared at the bed, which held a scarred, shirtless body. He hadn't done an exorcism before, and he was worried. He reached into his bag and pulled out 2 items, which were a bottle and a cross. "Let's see...what did Father Mark tell me to do first..." The priest opened the bottle, which contained holy water. ... | “*Never, never in my wildest dreams would I, Angranil, prince of the 5th Circle of Hell and heir apparent to all demonkind, have imagined I would be schooling a prepubescent brat on how to exorcise myself. And yet, here we find ourselves. Anyways, turn your Bible to the Lord’s Prayer and recite that if you please.*”
T... | 2020-09-01T10:38:33 | 2020-09-01T10:24:48 | 127 | 85 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | His brothers had all laughed at him for the house.
"Where would you get all that depleted Uranium?", they jeered. They did not laugh anymore. The wolf tore through one house after another growing more monstrous as each house fell. Jagged spears of wood jutted up from it's iron hide. Steel bones and titanium claws lend... | You need to change plans.
"What? Who goes there?"
You, Piggy, I'm talking to you. It's me, the narrator.
"What is this voice in my head? What's going on?"
Piggy, I-
"Get out of my head, this is madness!"
Piggy-
"Out! Get out!"
But-
"Leave!"
PIGGY, LISTEN!
Piggy sat on his hind legs in submission.
"I AM NOT ... | 2021-01-29T13:00:23 | 2021-01-29T09:22:08 | 1,799 | 145 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | Little piggy 240 stood quaking in his ill gotten boots. Sturdy walls thicker than the most pot bellied pig, walls of pure depleted uranium, stood between the pig and the horror outside. The thought of the furry mane, the pointy teeth and the sharp vicious claws of a big bad wolf filling his little mind.
He watched as ... | \[A suspended room floating in the Bering Sea\]
Mister Pigeleti sits in a ordinate chair sipping hot coffee as he gazes out of a small viewing port. "maybe I'll see him coming" he thinks to himself as he stares out into the ocean. A few dolphins dance gracefully in the distance as a ever so faint breathing is heard.
... | 2021-01-29T16:53:35 | 2021-01-29T14:00:12 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] The finale of international chess tournament takes place. Two grandmasters sit in front of each other in ultimate showdown. The thing is nobody knows that both of them got here by cheating. First is a mind reader and second one has an ability to see the future. | Immediately after I reached for the first piece, my opponent fell to the floor, retching uncontrollably.
<Well, that confirms it.>, I thought to myself. <You're definitely a mind reader after all.> Not that there was any doubt, of course.
A referee hurried over to stop the clock as spectators crowded arou... | "If you can receive this message, then please open with the king side knight's pawn."
Maki looked up at Akane. Maki had eavesdropped on Akane's mind and was surprised to hear such a crystal clear thought. There was no noise, not even any personality except the lack thereof. This thought was rehearsed. Rehearsed to a p... | 2021-03-16T23:05:44 | 2021-03-16T21:58:46 | 129 | 31 |
[WP] You’re a hitman who’s “hits” survive your assassination attempts, despite your sincere best efforts, only to die soon after each attempt by comical forces outside your control. The hitman community can’t be convinced you’re not the most creative comically effective assassin alive. | Flint wasn't the assassin you hired when you wanted efficiency. But he was handy when you wanted it to look like an accident. Unfortunately, this is not the reputation Flint was trying for.
Flint had his target in his sights. Jerry. Someone who has become embarrassing for his client. Jerry needed to be made s... | My name is Morton Montoni. They call me The Clown. You'll see why in a minute. I have a problem. Some mook keeps getting credit for my hits. I've killed 23 people just since last August. I ain't got paid a penny, and I'm getting pissed.
There was Fat Mikey McElvaney - not a made guy because, well it's obvious from hi... | 2021-04-04T16:09:46 | 2021-04-04T15:34:05 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You died days ago, and suddenly your spirit is summoned. You look around to see who summoned you. Finally, you hear a meow. It's your goddamn cat who wants more food despite the bowl being full. | I had fallen for what seemed like many days from the moment my heart stopped. Down past the furnaces, hearing the passing wails as the torturers flayed the skin of the damned as I fell.
Finally I hit the ground. Body broken, pulled upright by clawed red hands of a chittering horde of horned monsters. In seconds my ar... | The gray and black tabby stared at me from his perch atop my dvd shelf. A place he *knew* he wasn't allowed to be perching because of the fragile decorations sitting on the top shelf. Of course *he* didn't know they were fragile. He just knew that he got a spritz of water if he was caught up there.
He stared at me fr... | 2021-09-27T18:40:20 | 2021-09-27T18:32:54 | 113 | 82 |
[WP] Under the guise of a "Monster Hunter" you've been helping innocent vampires, spirits and other oddities find safer homes instead of killing them. When someone happens upon you escorting one to safety the townsfolk turn on you. | *Fucckkkk what is he doing here?* I thought as he watched the butcher’s eyes go wide.
“You said that thing was dead…” said Ben the butcher. Ben raised a shaking hand and pointed at Lilith next to me. You couldn’t tell she wasn’t a human, unless she took off her jacket to show off her wings.
“Technically I said it w... | The doors continued to rattle as the townsfolk slammed their shoulders into it over and over again causing dust to fall from the ceiling as you squinted through the firelight. They were in a rage but soon their blood would cool enough for them to figure out a smarter way inside than just smashing through the barn doors... | 2022-08-07T01:19:47 | 2022-08-07T00:58:09 | 92 | 26 |
[WP] You're a demon being summoned. You expected to meet a power hungry fool asking for immortality etc. What you did not expect was a crying child asking for help. | It was as I had not expected.
We were in a...what was it? A shake-park? No, that wasn't it. A skate park. Yeah, that was it.
But it wasn't teenage boys daring one another to summon me, and it wasn't greedy adults seeking immortality and riches.
It was a girl. A small, wailing girl, hiding under the nearby swings, dr... | *continued in replies*
As I stared around the cold, dark room, my eyes came to rest on a small pile of blankets in a corner. “Hello?” I directed my question to the pile of blankets, having seen no other place where a human might be. I was so sick of being summoned by old men withering away in jail cells begging to be ... | 2022-10-31T14:42:04 | 2022-10-31T12:02:57 | 111 | 55 |
[WP] You are a vampire hunter. Your roommate is a vampire. Neither of you can afford the apartment on your own so if one of you attacks the other you'll lose the apartment. The tension between you two is increasing by the day. | The door bursts open and slams against the wall violently, putting yet another dent in your rent-controlled apartment. You resist the urge to roll your eyes when you see who’s standing in the doorway, looking pissed.
“What the fuck, Chris?” Damien shouts, red eyes narrowed to slits.
You sigh heavily, pinching the b... | "Alec, are you feeling alright?" I heard my roommate Thaddeus ask from the other side of the door to my room. Thaddeus was a 2000-year-old vampire who originally lived in north London. Despite being Stateside since shortly before the American Revolution, Thad still has his, if slightly modernized, British accent. The k... | 2022-11-22T08:00:15 | 2022-11-22T05:01:44 | 69 | 26 |
[WP] Taxes become optional, however, those who don't pay are not protected under the law. | “You still pay taxes?”
Jeff barely held back a laugh.
“Well, sure,” said Dave. “It's only sensible. Otherwise, what would happen if I were the victim of a crime? No justice? I can't accept that.”
Dave paused for a moment.
“So, you don't pay taxes?”
Jeff tapped the coffee stirrer on the lip of his mug.
“Only sucke... | **11:17pm**
There's a crowd gathering at the outer gates. Drinking, yelling, holding large sticks. From this side of the 8 foot railings, I can't help but feel a little uneasy.
In all honesty, I would probably join in with them if it wasn't for the fear of getting sacked. It's happened to the last three guards here... | 2015-02-20T09:18:11 | 2015-02-20T09:17:58 | 289 | 36 |
[WP] 1000 years from now, Reddit's many bots have been uploaded into robot bodies. In a post-apocalyptic world, they strive to fulfil their original programming.
Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2x1vvs/til_that_this_march_14_will_be_an_extra_special/cowijw3) comment. | On the eve of three thousand fifteen
The last of man was to be seen.
Lines of Python and Ruby and C
Have replaced humans, like you and me.
But that's not the worst, I'm afraid to say.
We haven't always lived this way.
All fearing the deadly death ray
Of AutoModerator's disapproving dismay.
Humans? Banned fr... | Mark danced swiftly about his lab as he procured the final part nessesary to turn on the atomoton and bring it life. Ending years of research and development, Mark new he was ready. There illuminated by nothing but the soft orange glow of his fading lamp and obscurred only by the several years of dust lay his master pe... | 2015-02-25T06:02:04 | 2015-02-25T05:35:49 | 85 | 34 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | I close down Netflix, briefly enraptured by the nightly cable. "In other news, the Saudi ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council spoke out against the proposed extension to human rights legislation that would protect metahumans, calling them 'monsters who go against the order of creation'. Meanwhile, a Pakistani ju... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T09:34:55 | 1,457 | 13 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper appears to claim your life. He's heard so many pleas and excuses, but yours is the first that has worked. | *YOUR TIME HAS COME.*
A faceless figure in a long black cloak appeared before me.
"Uh-oh, I don't like where this is going," I remarked, mostly to myself.
*COME WITH ME, TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD*, his voice sent a chill down my spine.
"I can't go. Not yet," I informed him, sitting down at my desk. My co... | His foot, heavy on the gas pedal, could have never moved fast enough to brake. The car spun out, blood spattered across the front of the windshield and tufts of fur jammed into the grill. The man was ejected from the car dead on impact with the black pavement. His son survived, concussed and bruised. The young child, b... | 2017-01-12T05:24:25 | 2017-01-12T02:07:59 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | Elení is dancing in the middle of the palace. Her bare feet make fast little steps on the mosaic floor. Oh, the hours I spent making up all the patterns of grey, red and black stones. So delicate. Elení loved it the first time I brought her here. And she still does. The rhythm of the patter of her feet makes a nice so... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T05:02:25 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] As you try to fall asleep, the monster that was hiding under your bed slowly crawls out and says "Dude, I think I heard something coming from downstairs...", with a slighty concerned voice. | We agreed to a truce long ago.
We had a stand off, there in the darkness.
I with my flashlight and he with his razor maw and his protruding claws.
He loves cheese.
Pesters me constantly for it, can never get enough of it. He would take up all my allowance if I let him.
The price of cheese ain't no joke.
I had alw... | God, what a day. Up at 5 to shit, shower, and shave, out the door by 5:30. Some poor bastard had a heart attack on the highway and flipped his car, so I sat in traffic for an hour. I called in to work and let Janice know that I'd be late, but apparently she didn't pass that information along to Bill. He was frothin... | 2017-12-27T22:36:24 | 2017-12-27T18:45:58 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | Goblin king: "and suddenly you hear a knock on your dwelling's door."
Necromancer: "I will get up from the table to open the front door, but before I open it, I look through the nearby window to see who is disturbing our game."
Goblin king: "roll for perception."
Necromancer: "3... Shit."
Goblin king: "the lights a... | "Zixor the Fallen, we don't just have to roll dice to see how depressed teens and desperate housewives are," Priestess Aerosmith Daughter spoke in a warm yet authoritative tone. "You will find the emerging market of independent rulesets that focus on collaborative narrative and nuance that-"
"You're just salty your ma... | 2018-01-10T06:36:41 | 2018-01-10T06:17:28 | 674 | 20 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | G'ol Bognil let out an expansive sigh as he settled his considerable girth before the marble table. "Alright, before we get started, remind me your names and classes again?"
Lethus did not move but a phlegmy mutter emanated from under this black hood. "I am Steve. The dentist."
Polara was next to speak. Her glitterin... | "Zixor the Fallen, we don't just have to roll dice to see how depressed teens and desperate housewives are," Priestess Aerosmith Daughter spoke in a warm yet authoritative tone. "You will find the emerging market of independent rulesets that focus on collaborative narrative and nuance that-"
"You're just salty your ma... | 2018-01-10T07:13:41 | 2018-01-10T06:17:28 | 70 | 20 |
[WP] Your parents never let you study magic. They said you were born without the ability. But after a friend jokingly dares you to apply to the top wizardry schools in the state, the denial letters read "We regret to inform you that someone of your potential is simply too dangerous to be taught." | “Are you reading this hogwash Simon?” I yelled exasperated. “This is the type of crap that turns people into Voldemort!”
“Voldemort went to Hogwarts,” he said matter-of-factly.
I groaned out loud. “That’s not the point. And what do the mean ‘someone of your potential’?”
Simon didn’t answer. He re-read the letter a ... | Warm hands closed around the nut-brown seed, placing it firmly into the soil. The robed priest lowered his wand, chanting in hymn. The air began to vibrate and hum; the light around him distorted and twisted, and with a flash—he vanished—leaving the seed pulsing with a white light.
Over nine-hundred years later, the ... | 2018-11-10T16:50:28 | 2018-11-10T15:47:27 | 219 | 130 |
[WP] The knight failed to rescue the princess from the dragon. The second knight failed. As did the third, the fourth, their squires, and so on. In desperation, the king posts a reward, and the summons is answered by only one man; a fat plumber in red overalls. |
“Look, I’ve got some experience dealing with these things” said the plumber.
The King was confused, but desperate. His best knights died trying to defeat the dragon, and he didn’t know how long before the dragon became bored and did who-knows-what with his beloved daughter.
“Where are your weapons? Armor?” dema... | The man wiped sweat from his brow as his old donkey pulled the wagon up the mountain. Or rather, as the old donkey *helped*, since the man was pulling the cart too. Neither were strong enough to do so on their own, but they had been together, plumber and donkey for so long, neither at this point would leave the other b... | 2019-06-28T10:10:40 | 2019-06-28T10:01:00 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. How do you know? Because it happens to you. Everyone else forgets their past life, but not you. Your first life was a hunter in a tribe of people that predates the Egyptian empire. You’ve been reincarnated 194 times. Tell us the story of you, today in the modern world. | "You say your AI does what?"
"Emotion recognition for cows, sir, " I reply, with a smile. "For $100k, we deliver a 30% boost to milk productivity. Sign up now and get $10k of mood-boosting feed for free! "
...
Another deal sealed and I can't help but grin. Our AI startup is doing great, thanks to that incarnation as... | My story is the same as the story of mankind.
The two are inexorably interconnected as far as I am concerned. They cannot be separated because the very cores of their nature are entwined. After exploring so much land, researching so many concepts, meeting so many people, I am the best example of it anyway. There is no... | 2019-07-31T19:40:00 | 2019-07-31T18:59:09 | 1,584 | 267 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. How do you know? Because it happens to you. Everyone else forgets their past life, but not you. Your first life was a hunter in a tribe of people that predates the Egyptian empire. You’ve been reincarnated 194 times. Tell us the story of you, today in the modern world. | '*Motherfucker, that is* not *what happened.*'
It was a re-occuring thought as I read through the history book I was assigned to read in this lifetime. This school was *marginally* better than the one I went through in my last life, but it had the same problems- *being a victim of the longest game of telephone in hist... | *'Oh dearest one, there is little to tell.'*
She spread her graceful hands in a deprecatory gesture.
*'Lives after lives,*
*what things haven't I seen?*
*What events haven't I witnessed?'*
*'Centuries after centuries,*
*which pleasure haven't I tasted?*
*Which sorrow haven't I borne?'*
*'Money, prestige a... | 2019-07-31T22:05:02 | 2019-07-31T21:12:36 | 81 | 19 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Most of my co-workers were suitably inebriated; even the strict, authoritarian manager Margaret was smiling.
For a laugh, I asked her if NASA had ever considered exploring the ocean instead - the S could be changed to stand for Sea, after all.
The color drained from her face. Leaning in close, she whispered: “We ... | She turned pale, leaned in closer, and then whispered, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?"
Time slowed momentarily as I took in the gravity of her words, the noise in the bar fading suddenly into the background as I attempted to process this new information. Even the harsh clinking of gla... | 2019-08-07T22:59:17 | 2019-08-07T18:19:58 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | Just another person in the crowd, the man in the long black over-coat moved behind the rotund man talking on his phone. In stark contrast to the fat-man's tottering, he seemed to glide as his coat lifted softly at the edges. Shadows lined his face bordered by long hanging hair not stirred by the breeze.
The screech o... | I slowly blink as the old man in the black leather jacket with a gun says that I'm not due. Im not really paying attention to whatever he just said. How the hell do you react when someone says you'll for another 3 millenia?
"HEY!" he shouts. I snap out of it make eye contact with him. He looks so... different. I alway... | 2020-01-24T12:09:05 | 2020-01-24T11:08:17 | 508 | 73 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | I sat there still staring out my window at the sidewalk across the street, as I do most of my nights. Ever since the accident I find comfort in the isolated silence. Most nights I see the same type of stuff, drugs deals, ladies of the night, homeless, just typical stuff for my crappy neighborhood. This night was differ... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T15:51:58 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | The door opened up and mom came rushing at Michelle and they hugged and squealed like moms and daughters do. I smile and wait to get introduced to mom. Dad is no one where to be seen at the moment, he's probably in the kitchen or the garage. Michelle's mom breaks free of her and comes over to me and gives me a great hu... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T14:37:46 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You’ve been kidnapped by the SCP foundation. Why? You have the ability to ‘Mr. Magoo’ yourself out of anything. Sniper about to assassinate you? You bend down to pick up a penny just in time, SCP-049 about to touch you? A Sudden cannonball knocks them away. All with you being none the wiser. | **Item #:** SCP-777
**Object Class:** Euclid
**Special Containment Procedures:** No special safety procedures are required for the containment of SCP-777. SCP-777 is free to move about Site-19 so long as it does not attempt to engage with other SCPs, enter restricted areas, leave the premises or cause obstruction to ... | **Item #:** SCP-6021
**Containment Class:** Euclid
**Disruption Class:** Dark
**Risk Class:** Notice
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-6021 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell, and subject to standard low-risk humanoid anomaly containment protocols.
Following the events of Test #6021-1... | 2022-05-20T21:30:10 | 2020-08-18T09:00:14 | 4,017 | 59 |
[WP] You are a necromancer, but an unconventional one. Instead of using your army of the undead to take over the world or cause mass chaos, you decide it's much more profitable to monopolize the market with your cheap and untiring workforce. | "Mr Necross- Donna Day, Apex News. You've faced some accusations of tolerating sub-par working conditions in your Mortem Postal Service warehouses. Anything you'd like to say about that?"
Necross smiled. "Those accusations came in the form of a series of anonymous social media posts which have since been debunked. Eve... | “Master, we have reports of an attack” the ghoul rasped.
Varos hated the way some of his undead servants spoke, it gave him an uncontrollable urge to cough and clear his own throat. He made a mental note to find a way to make their voices softer and more pleasant. He snatched his quill and scratched “*fix voices”* on ... | 2021-01-10T18:07:54 | 2021-01-10T17:27:16 | 372 | 59 |
[WP]: There's a tiny predator in the human quarters that nobody is allowed to exterminate - under the threat of complete human riot. The humans willingly admit that yes, it DOES sometimes try to attack humans as well, but altogether, they are relaxed by the presence of the "cat". | "One last thing, very important..." the instructor began. An image of a monstrous creature flashed on the screen. "Be alert for this...creature. It is a dangerous predator. It will attack you, despite its small size. Its claws and teeth can and will rip open your skin. YOU MUST NOT REACT, THOUGH. DO NOT HURT THE... | Really loved this prompt. Made me think about the old wives tale that cats sleep on the chests of babies and steal their breath. (edit: fixed some formatting)
CW: horror, slight mention of violence
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She weaves along the bottoms of the bedposts, humming softly. It’s dark now in the barracks, but I can see the tin... | 2021-01-24T15:04:46 | 2021-01-24T14:50:53 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | "Is she awake?"
"Give it a second!"
"She's not an *it,* Dad!"
"Sorry, sorry. Give *her* a second, Angie. Look, she's waking up."
The Fully Autonomous Biodroid, or FAB, looked every bit the human ten-year-old girl Lizzie Ellison did when she lived. It – or she, rather – lay on Lizzie's old – own – bed, as per the in... | “Can you hear me?” I ask EZRA, who is sitting across from us. I see slight red lights flicker in the black bulbs of its eyes.
“Nancy, I’m telling you I don’t think this is a good idea.” I tell my wife, trying for the last time to convince her not to go through with this. “This isn’t healthy. You’ve been doing so well,... | 2021-03-06T14:22:05 | 2021-03-06T11:38:13 | 148 | 75 |
[WP] "Now be aware, humans are... we'll they're primate descendant. Touch is very important to them. They will probably try to scratch your ears." "They know we're sentient, right?" "I don't think they care. But it feels good. They've got those little fingers." | …the humans have arrived, Son. Let us go welcome them. Now be aware, Occa. Humans are... we'll they're descendants of primates on their home planet. Touch is very important to them. They will probably try to scratch your ears.
…they know we're sentient, right, Father?
…I don’t think they care. They simply see us as s... | "Tap of Claws on Dewy Grass?" Winter Hairs in the Wind of Spring yowled.
"Ugh! What *is* it, Mom, I'm going to be late for the hunting sims!" Claws hissed back.
Winter Hairs wrapped her prehensile tail around Claws' midsection and dragged her back before she could leap away. Claws protested, twisting and spitting, bu... | 2021-03-20T20:39:28 | 2021-03-20T20:19:00 | 640 | 451 |
[WP] "Now be aware, humans are... we'll they're primate descendant. Touch is very important to them. They will probably try to scratch your ears." "They know we're sentient, right?" "I don't think they care. But it feels good. They've got those little fingers." | Amongst the more singularly mundane creatures of the universe are a race of sentient ape-like beings known as “human beings” who occupy the third planet orbiting Sol in a shabby little arm of the galaxy known as the milky way.
No one quite knows how these peculiar beings gained a consciousness so powerful they’ve man... | "We've lived on the same planet together for 10,000 years, been in their tribes, formed bonds, and they still don't know we're intelligent?"
"They're descended from primates. It's only natural for them. And think about it, we don't have their posable thumbs for building, as far as we know they only understand our body... | 2021-03-20T22:22:22 | 2021-03-20T21:55:11 | 382 | 192 |
[WP] Earth has a god like other inhabited planets but unlike others our god is lazy and rarely shows up. But this gave us the advantage of self-reliance. When alien invaders came knocking it was very evident how significant that advantage was. | "It is times like now that I wished he wasn't such a lazy sod," A General says with a glance to the sky. 5 miles away, an alien force has landed, and with their troops was a God. Unusually, the 'troops' do not carry heavy weaponry, but rather shields and swords; they do not look like they are war capable at all.
He... | ‘’What do you mean the orphans of Licheol 6 have taken another ship?! Elaborate!’’
The panicked being scrambled at their wrist before activating a huge monitor at the back of a darkened room. A man in tattered robes sits strapped to a chair bloodied but not broken, a pearly smile emerges from his dirtied face before h... | 2021-04-12T07:19:12 | 2021-04-12T06:39:07 | 50 | 34 |
[WP] You're a human married to an angel. Interplanar marriages are not common and difficult as they go, but somehow you manage. Tonight, you come home early. You find them in the bedroom. Wingless. Eyes glowing red. They've tusks and claws and a tail. They raise their arms. "It's not as you think!" | "It's not as you think!"
"Oh, then we aren't role-playing tonight?" Samuel asked, pretty depressed.
"What? No. I-I mean we can."
"Sweet."
"Y-you don't have a problem with... 'this'?"
"What, being a demon? If I'm being honest that's kind of better than being an angel."
"What." Her voice was flat and annoyed.
Samu... | (I know it's bad but this is a great prompt and l didn't want to leave it without any comments other than the bot)
"Fine. If you've finished everything, l suppose you can leave early." Gail said, squinting suspiciously at Amelia. Amelia had stopped taking it as a personal offence, she'd gotten used to it after working... | 2021-07-04T10:49:27 | 2021-07-04T10:48:26 | 114 | 40 |
[WP] “Arise demon of hell! You are bound within the circle and will answer all questions!” Shoving thoughts of being late for work, you take in the vivid colors the clean air, and strangely attractive people chanting. Wait a minute, Demon from hell? Oh, this explains so much about my life. | One moment I'm ass deep in the ledgers for the Markley & Co. accounts, trying to see if I can spot where old man Markely's kid Jess has been skimming, and the next moment .... BAM.
There's an echoing, resonating voice that grows louder and louder, ringing in my ears first, then in my brain, and then throughout my ... | Jossie looked around at the beautiful people around her, “Hm, I could get used to this.” She grinned to mask the fact she was terrified. A stranger with green, glowing eyes approached her, extending their hand out. This particular stranger she reckoned to be the leader, royal blue robe adorned with gold ornaments acros... | 2021-08-09T07:34:03 | 2021-08-09T05:58:55 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] A brilliant but impoverished scientist accidentally ends up being accepted to teach at a university for wizards. Desperate to pay off his debts, the scientist must pretend to teach magic, while actually teaching science. | The chalk makes a scratching noise as I write various chemical equations on the blackboard, which combined with the sound of the pens on paper and low murmurs and giggles combine to form a general classroom ambience. I finish writing the fourth equation before everything goes silent, which could mean only one thing: so... | A high pitch alarm rang through the air, waking Okabe from his dreamless slumber. Half asleep, the scientist rolled over and pressed the snooze button. After a minute or two of laying there in his bed, contemplating why he ever took that job at the University of Ravensdale, he decided he better get up or risk being lat... | 2021-08-31T09:17:14 | 2021-08-31T08:58:23 | 237 | 103 |
[WP] A super villain who runs a number of retail stores, not as a cover, but as a means of recruiting their staff as villainous side-kicks once they are inevitably filled with seething rage for customers and the general public. | All-Mart Employee log: Pay-period 1, Day 1.
Um. Hi. So according to the HR video I just watched with the terrible actors—who look WAY more put together than a typical retail sails person, —this company requires all employees to keep an employment log. They gave some BS psych reasons like “track your personal growth, ... | I never did understand the idea that 'anyone could have taken Hitlers side' when I first heard it, I always had more faith that my fellow man were much more moral than one of the lowest scum to have walked Earth, but after seeing the sheer unrelenting number of people throwing themselves at the feet of a daemon, all ca... | 2021-10-14T01:37:33 | 2021-10-14T00:27:53 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] 50 years ago an alien came to Earth in a flying saucer, claiming to be a representative of the Galactic Federation. Under his guidance, mankind achieved world peace and huge technological advancements. Today, the REAL Galactic Federation arrived, in a search of a fugitive. | Humanity had changed in the last 50 years.
All thanks to Barthax. Five decades ago he had come as a representative of the Galactive Federation to alleviate us from the metaphorical dark ages. He gave us the means to produce food, and medicines that kept every human alive and healthy. He gave us all a lifetime free to ... | At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, A staffer brought representatives of the Galactic Federation into the council room.
Macron looked on in awe as the guests from outer space graced them with their presence.
However before Macron and other's could offer their respected guests flattering words of wel... | 2022-03-10T13:35:08 | 2022-03-10T11:42:05 | 236 | 27 |
[WP] You've been dead for 67 days. You awake to the entire world watching the first human revival. Your revival. | I knew when they'd brought my body back. The golden fields had faded, the feeling of overwhelming peace had vanished, and the pain had begun again. It felt like I spent an eternity in the darkness, certainly far longer than I'd spent in that glorious paradise. You don't realise how painful living is until you've stoppe... | I awoke with a sharp intake of breath. What had happened? The last thing I could remember was the car crash, I had swerved to avoid a kids ball that had rolled into the road, hit a wall and then, nothing. I remember the impact, and a brief flash of pain throughout my body, and now suddenly I was lying on my back, breat... | 2014-05-11T08:58:10 | 2014-05-11T08:51:26 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | For the most part, I usually feel nothing when I give myself over to my clients. I act the part, make them feel good, give them release. For them, it's an expensive and illicit thrill. For me, it's just business.
And yet...there are days when my body responds, and the moans I make are not manufactured but real, and my... | I lay on a long maroon couch, watching the ceiling fan spin on a low enough setting to be amusing but not actually create enough wind to make a difference. On the walls around me abstract "art" hangs next to degrees and awards. I say art loosely as it is a compilation of red and blue lines squiggling around. Hardly ta... | 2015-07-16T07:49:11 | 2015-07-16T07:05:23 | 98 | 21 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | "10"
Randall Jackson slid his seatbelt across his lap as the engines began to roar behind him. He looked to his left as he does so, because he wasn't really sure how to get his on and Rod seemed to not have a problem with it. "Why didn't they go through this during the astronaut training," he thought out loud to himse... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T22:49:59 | 147 | 23 |
[WP] Ancient custom dictates that once a year the old or crippled warriors are led into the arena for a final battle against the young warriors, thus ensuring an honoured place in the afterlife. Despite everything, you are kicking butt armed with nothing but a cane.
Bonus points for ignoring the last sentence and writ... | He dodged another attack, cracking his cane on the back of his attacker's head and laughing with glee. "Son, I'm half a century older than you and I hit twice as hard!"
He smiled as another youth came charging at him, and with a little sidestep *here* and a little nudge *there* he sent the massive man hurtling into th... | "*Survival, that's what matters, living to fight another day. To strike another blow. Men who survive are to be regarded as heroes, who will bravely put their lives at risk for their people again. Who wear their scares with the pride of someone who knows that someday they may have more*" - Tablet of Itkapua
Needless ... | 2016-07-18T07:37:58 | 2016-07-18T07:31:36 | 280 | 16 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | "Look, this really can't be right! I'm not evil! Am I?"
"Listen pal.. you got the job now, ok? No need to rub it in."
"I swear I'm not! You can't just leave me here in charge of hell. I don't know anything about this place. I'm not even supposed to be here!"
"Yea yea I get it.. You think you can suddenly repent and ... | "What the hell?"
A man looking like pure sinister evil appeared from the darkness.
"Yes, that would be correct"
Five seconds ago I was riding my car, and suddenly I was in this room, walls blacker than vantablack, and the putrid smell of sulfur and death made the hairs in my nose curl up. There was a reddish blue,... | 2016-12-19T14:02:30 | 2016-12-19T14:01:54 | 380 | 44 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | “Hi,” she said, through a lopsided smile righted by her slumped posture.
He let out a long sigh, kneeling down and feeling her forehead. He took off his jacket and slipped it around her, and she pulled it tight. Lifting her up, he got her standing, though couldn't let her go.
“No piggyback?” she said with a whiny ton... | "Execute order Q-T-3.14." The order rings throughout the lair. Rengar grins to himself as his henchmen go about his demands. He is sitting on his best throne, twiddling his thumbs. This has to be it. There is no way that Ultra Man can be *that* dense. He did name himself 'Ultra Man', but still.
He feels butterflies i... | 2017-04-15T10:04:09 | 2017-04-15T09:54:52 | 189 | 129 |
[WP] There's a good reason that savage and terrifying monsters live in bedrooms of small children. The children need protecting. | Silence permeated the room and darkness loomed. Peter's nightlight pathetically attempted to quell the darkness but it failed. Peter heard the sound he dreaded the most out of all.
The quiet squeak of the door hinge followed by the not so quiet footsteps of his disgusting uncle.
"Hey, sport."
He whispered. His voice... | im not a good writer, sorry for cringy
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I was 9 years old.
I was just a normal kid, living a normal life, doing normal things.
Sometimes, I made mistakes. Just regular, small mistakes. Like accidentally smashing a window, scratching the car, or may... | 2017-04-25T22:36:48 | 2017-04-25T20:20:36 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | So about 7,000 years ago Ollie dropped a boulder on my head. We were hunter-gatherers then, and he convinced me that there was a herd of red deer in a canyon near our camp. When I went there to check it out, he was on top of the ridge and rolled the boulder off onto me. It took a week for me to claw my way out.
Okay ... | For us, the fun was all in trying to get our friends to figure out who we were currently. Just imagine the frustration and eventual hilarity when you were being pranked by someone you thought you didn't know from Lucifer himself, only to find out decades on that you actually did know them. Our souls were what were im... | 2017-06-23T00:57:11 | 2017-06-22T22:52:58 | 220 | 41 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | "28 today," you say to yourself looking in the mirror. Of course you know today is your birthday today, but it also helps that while looking at the mirror you noticed the number above your head changed from the [27] you saw yesterday.
You leave to go to the liquor store to pick up some booze and celebrate. While in li... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T22:57:39 | 1,321 | 247 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | I check their I.D.'s for fun now, noticing nose jobs and cheek implants and the occasional sex change. It doesn't matter though... there are always some who try to get past me. A strikingly beautiful blonde with a shining "19" above her head brazenly looking me straight in the eye, not a flicker of hesitation as sh... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T21:03:45 | 223 | 122 |
[WP] A human has a reputation for constantly cheating death. But as a matter of fact, Death just likes them so much that he/she puts them in near-death situations so that he/she has an excuse to hang out with them. | When I first met Death, I was ready to go. Sure, lots of things I didn't get to do but I still had a good run. It would be the end if the doctors didn't start pulling me out.
Thanks to them, I got a few days more to live. Unconscious, stuck between life and death, I could do only one thing.
Talk.
Turns out Death ... | The last thing she heard before smacking the sunlight yellow taxi beneath her was the horrified screams of numerous onlookers on the ground, followed by the agonizing crunching sound of steel, alongside the sound of glass shattering on impact. She soon stirred awake, to find herself in a rather (unfortunately) familiar... | 2017-12-07T19:38:55 | 2017-12-07T16:44:02 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 483 | 43 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 379 | 43 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I didn't really know what to think of it. "Don't look at the moon"? Sure, no problem. Going back to sleep now. But then I saw my other notifications...99+? Ok, something is definitely up.
I tried to call my girlfriend, but I notice one of the texts I got was from her. "You really should go look at the moon, its amazin... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-12-12T15:52:54 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 191 | 43 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON.
My eyes were barely open, bleary with sleep, but the incessant buzzing of the phone against the glossy black wood of the bedside table was just passing the point of ignorable. It took me a moment to register that the words were strange, holding their place at the top of the screen in bold, of... | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 2018-04-06T20:42:31 | 103 | 10 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | Sweat decorated my face, my hands twitched, my personal signs of panic. I gripped my phone on one hand and on the other my bed sheets. A deafening silence filled my bed room.
"What the fuck?" I murmured to myself. I rose up to a sitting position, used the now dirty bed sheet to clean my face. "Sarah?" I called out to... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2022-09-27T16:50:27 | 45 | 33 |
[WP] You're a murder victim for hire. As an immortal masochist, no job could suit you better. You're happy to substitute for assassination targets, disgruntled lovers, and would be serial victims. Until one day, strapped to a serial killer's table, they lean in and say, "Have we met before?"
[removed] | The blade lowered to just below his abdomen, spinning menacingly. Jeff was positively delighted, though he tried his best to not show it.
"Oh no, please don't kill me, oh no," he said, keenly aware that he wasn't quite selling it. The serial killer glanced at him, distracted from his work.
"Could you be quiet?" the... | I needed a hit.
Every day that passed without one brought a higher level of need. No matter how much shame I felt after each fake death, I wanted more. I always found myself at rock bottom, struggling to be a productive member of the immortal community. Right now, everything had started to make me twitch. A man walked... | 2018-11-22T01:51:04 | 2018-11-22T01:44:59 | 251 | 29 |
[WP] After you grow old and die, you wake up 25 million years ago as a Hominid Primate, asleep on a tree. Your whole life was a vivid hallucination you had after ingesting a funny looking mushroom. After this experience, you have great knowledge, and you're the smartest living being on the planet. | The familiar rustling of the Acacias lulled me from the dream. I looked down to hands that though so familiar, suddenly felt foreign - furry, rigid, and scabbed. Gone were the sleek and smooth tools that had made me everything I was.
The veil of sleep rested heavy on my eyes as I looked from my perch onto the Savanna... | Intelligence is a funny thing, and just as funny as it is, it's fickle. This was something I learned how to learn, learned, and then re-learned in the span of 20 minutes.
I was having a somewhat difficult time deciding if I had just experienced something real, something worth remembering, though at the same time, if ... | 2019-03-19T08:10:41 | 2019-03-19T07:38:48 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
Wow, was not expecting this, thanks for the silver:)... | “Again, Bash?”
“Inside! Now!”
“I swear...”
“It’s for your own good!”
“Dude, you know I love you but-“
“Inside! To arms!”
“But you are the dumbest dog I have ever known.”
“To arms! Man the guns! Battlestations! Red alert! On your six!”
“I’m going to leave you to it then.”
“Enemy at the gaaaaaaate!”
“You’ve met... | “I’m not supposed to do this, but you have to go inside right now”, Dog said, looking off into the distance. “They are coming to get you.”
Edward didn’t move while his brain took its time to go through all the different problems it was processing at that moment. Dog turned around and snarled at him impatiently. “Come,... | 2019-07-15T15:40:32 | 2019-07-15T12:04:30 | 1,364 | 374 |
[WP] You are cursed and turned into a statue. Everyone knows you're alive but, seeing as no one could break your curse, of they have all pretty much given up on you. Except for one wizard, who comes back nearly every day to try and free you, as well as holding one-sided conversations. | "But enough about me," she said with a chuckle. "Tell me about your day?"
It wasn't funny the tenth time either.
"I'm just messing with you," she said with a grin, patting me on the shoulder. I didn't really "feel" it, but I knew it was happening. "Do you think I should ask him out? He's very smart. Maybe he can hel... | "... so he handed me the match and said, 'If you can light it, I'll tell you the secret.' That, of course, left me in a fit. You see, there's no way the match could be lit, and I already knew the secret. Imagine his surprise when I hand him back the lit match, and tell him it was his boss that did it! His face was ... | 2020-02-11T00:07:21 | 2020-02-10T21:39:20 | 1,413 | 65 |
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