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[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | In this city, when people turn 18 they summon something that will be very important to their life. Some summon swords, or spears and others summon simple tools needed for various trades. My mother had summoned a needle which she used to sew together some of the finest pieces of clothing in all the land while my father... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T08:42:40 | 123 | 72 |
[WP] A teenager encounters a really attractive genie. He is so shy that he can't even look at her, let alone asking for wishes, and she finds it really entertaining. | Braydon strolled through the woods aimlessly, kicking pine cones along his path. He would have been an odd sight, if anyone had been around to see him. A teenage boy, he was still growing into his gangly limbs, dressed in a black tuxedo and a lime green bow tie.
He was coming from a high school prom, where he had mea... | I had taken on the nickname Nancy Drew from a very young age. There wasn't a secret I couldn't ferret out, nor an object I couldn't find. At first, my parents found this entertaining. They would set me missions to complete, mostly involving things that went missing. The entertainment ended when I told my dad that he ha... | 2017-07-30T05:47:43 | 2017-07-30T05:12:46 | 287 | 23 |
[WP] A Witch attempts to kill the knight who has been hunting her for years by pretending to be a damsel in distress. As she discovers his ultimate weakness, she realizes she has fallen in love with him. | "Alright," Cassandra said, checking her face in the pocket mirror. "Just the right amount of doe eye. Maybe overdid the boobs, but somehow I don't think he'll mind."
Burbank hooted from his perch on the branch next to her.
"I did not," Cassandra said indignantly. "My ass fat wouldn't have filled my chest."
Burba... | "Help!"
Ser Galen's eyes narrowed at the shriek, though he struggled to remain outwardly calm. He had been a witch-hunter for years, and this would not be the first trap he'd been led into by his own compassion. *Nor the last,* he thought grimly, spurring his mount toward the sound.
It was late. The witching ... | 2015-01-25T19:29:04 | 2015-01-25T19:28:19 | 145 | 30 |
[WP] It's been days since you ran out of apples. You can hear them trying to claw their way inside. The Doctors have finally come for you. | Tink, Tink, Tink. "...there were no complications."
I scowl as I finger my hatchet and glance at the side windows that are obscured by tacky yellow curtains. I quickly avert my gaze. I don't even want to think about it, they give me the creeps. It'd been four days since I finished off the last of my shrunken morsels o... | It was just a kiddie saying, like anything else. Ronnie put his faith in the supernatural about at his level with God. He supposed he believed in it in a sort of abstract way that never really crossed his mind. The rebbie would be so disappointed. But, hey. Cheeseburgers was God's work as well.
Then she moved in nex... | 2016-03-05T10:34:48 | 2016-03-05T10:10:28 | 319 | 15 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | It's been ten years, and everything has gone my way. I graduated university with top marks, work at my dream job, and will soon be married to the best girl ever. All because of a little green line.
You see, following the green line keeps me safe. I never do the irrational or dangerous activities, so I never experienc... | I was finally there, at the top of the world. Around me I could see all of my journey highlighted in green, culminating in this moment. After soaking it all in and feeling quite pleased with myself for awhile, boredom slowly crept in.
I started glancing at the red line and wondering its destination. I resolved to foll... | 2017-08-23T07:27:41 | 2017-08-23T06:39:05 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] You’re tired of running to your kid’s room every time they scream at night. So you say, “You can just tell the monsters to leave.” Your child thinks, then says “Go home monsters!” From around the bedroom, you’re startled to hear a chorus of “Aww man,” “Fine then,” “Darn!” “What a drag.” | I told my son to just to just tell the monsters to go home. And he did. Immediately the complaining started.
"Awww, come on lady. Do you have any idea how such a short project runtime is going to look on my record."
That came from the corner of the room. The dark shadow in that corner, darker than it should have be... | “I told you that bedtime is 9:00 sharp. You can play with Billy and Emma until dinner time. We’ve talked about this.”
A tall, purple glob of a man glared at me with disdain.
“Don’t you try to sweet talk me into changing my mind, Tom,” I continued. “We made an agreement. You let my kids sleep, and I run the underworl... | 2019-12-17T12:07:00 | 2019-12-17T09:54:46 | 148 | 99 |
[WP] Scientist have created a machine that allow people a window into alternate realities. It becomes mainstream and people talk about alternate versions of themselves. Finally you decide to take a look only to discover that there are no alternate versions of you. You're the only you in existence. | "Oh that's more common than you think."
"What?" That wasn't the response I was expecting.
"I thought maybe I was in grave danger, or there was something wrong with me..."
"Oh goodness no, Mr. Robinson. You're life simply collapsed into a singular timeline due to an infinitesimal bottleneck. "
"That doesn't soun... | "God dammit why isnt this shit working!?" I yelled out in annoyance while just finishing my most recent goal in a long, long list of goals.
"What is it?" Asked probably my best friend, who also happened to be a taxi driver.
"This device says it can show you, your alternate reality selfs, but I keep looking through it... | 2021-06-02T07:05:11 | 2021-06-02T04:47:35 | 41 | 30 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | The Reaper lurked in the shadows, waiting. He could see his target coming down the street. Well dressed, wall street guy, talking loudly on his cell phone, the number over his head counting down as he walked. 50, 49, 48. As he passed the alley a big burly arm reached out, grabbing him and dragging him back into the sha... | There they live and breath. Away from my humble abode, yet close enough to bother. Oh how I pity the innocence, the false claims gone by. The days are numbered and I am ever counting.
Amidst the grey streets and sunken lights I float above their shriveled faces. Hollow eyes and softened bones. I live in a world of dar... | 2018-05-23T06:45:29 | 2018-05-23T05:51:18 | 229 | 44 |
[WP] Your the newest member of a small bandit group. You've been following a traveler with pretty impressive armor. You just witnessed him fight a whole pack of wolves, kill a dragon with lightning and punch a giant to death. Your leader says "We can take him, attack!" | I'd never thought Black Jaw Jim could fly. But he sure did make a fine sight arching through the air, scrap armor glinting dully in the sunlight, just before crashing into the shrubs a twenty paces away. I winced at the follow-up blast of lightning, toasting Black Jaw where he lay.
Stinky Leroy charged next, waving a... | A slash. A crack. A swipe.
The stranger fully decked out in Ebony Armor charged onward into the eight of us, with a follower in tow. Left hand wielding a shock spell and the other gripping tightly onto a Dragonbone Sword of Paralysis, three of our little group effortlessly fell to the ground.
Sigh. I should tell th... | 2018-12-05T05:06:28 | 2018-12-05T03:44:45 | 74 | 47 |
[WP] Life has achievements, just like in video games. Ever since the dawn of time, people have been unlocking all kinds of achievements, and yet, people are still discovering new achievements every year. You're one of those people who just unlocked an achievement no one's heard of before. | Life got interesting when achievements were first discovered. They always existed but we didn't know how to measure them for a long time. Now everyone has apps for that.
I remember grandpa's stories telling me how many he discovered when the tech came out. He was the first person to unlock the peanut butter and jelly... | They call it the "Agape Achievement"
I had to research into it.
Turns out that "agape" means unconditional love.
There's a song about it.
Have no idea what I did to deserve the achievement but I guess I did it.
Huh.
Never mind, looked at the description.
*Go against "You can only love others if you love yourself... | 2017-04-13T23:47:39 | 2017-04-13T19:45:29 | 107 | 20 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows us to hear sounds locked into the clay of ancient pots as they were being formed. What is extracted are conversations that will alter the perception of history in the most terrifying of ways. | “Impossible,” said the first man, wearing a lab coat and wearing a pair of triangle-shaped headphones, plugged into a pot.
“That is… t-th-this is a joke,” he looked at the woman with hair like a lion’s mane, then at the Sanskrit dictionary in his hands, and then to the pot. As much as he wanted to believe this was a ... |
*Yo man, check this out! I just bought this pot from pre-historic South America. Neat uh? Let's hear what it says! Turn that shit on!*
*O-kay. I'm turning the device on. Get ready for disappointment.*
*Wow this sounds like gibberish! You sure that thing ain’t broken?*
*Yes, I am pretty sure. I am also sure you ... | 2019-03-18T17:50:02 | 2019-03-18T15:24:37 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] A man goes to a bridge to commit suicide. He finds himself at the Bridge of Death, and must answer three questions to gain access. | The bridge was surrounded by a fog so dense you couldn’t make out what was on the other side. A tall cloaked figure stood in the middle of the road. He held a clipboard in booth hands and waited. Somewhere in the mist a distant foghorn resounded only to fall silent again.
Steps echoed through the silence and after a... | It's been a long time now, being forced to be the new bridgekeeper has been a real drag the past few centuries, but not even I can cross the bridge without first answering three questions. It's been 600 years since I got to answer a second question, to many just answer or perish, perhaps it's time to play some tricks ... | 2015-12-20T18:05:35 | 2015-12-20T16:39:20 | 214 | 22 |
[WP] By coincidence, alien stealth systems operate at the resonant frequency of Hydroxyapatite. This means that whenever their stealth systems are activated and nearby we literally feel it in our bones and teeth. | Mike tracked her through the room by the doppler-like tension in his teeth as she circled him, and by the sweetness of her stolen perfume. His body waited in rapt anticipation, his mind raced far ahead. She was on his right, then his left, then directly in front of him for the briefest of moments.
Reaching out a hand,... | [Voiceover](https://vocaroo.com/1jglgQERIS66)
"Hold," the human said, interrupting the Captain. He turned and began to fire at the wall.
"What are you do- Oh!" the Gersnak said, as the conjoined body of three Fibblers appeared before flopping dead to the floor. "How did you know they were there? The top one looked li... | 2021-05-17T12:37:47 | 2021-05-17T11:55:11 | 932 | 543 |
[WP] You are a time travelling hitman, hired to take out the worst of the worst while they are still children. No one knows that you secretly befriend the kids and help them grow up as good people.
Hit me in the feels. | Please excuse any grammatical and formatting errors. When I typed this, it looked great. Somewhere between it and reddit, things got weird.
THE PAINTER
Every week he came into the bar to sell his paintings. I was one of the few who would actually buy them. They weren't that great, but I knew he needed the money. Fin... | I synced to the timeline. I was stuck here until I could fix the history. But I couldn't have come at a better time.
Kid was captured. But quietly released. We went into the night, and I served him until I could change the future some more.
Kid was still young, and was destitute most of his life from exile. He came t... | 2018-05-14T18:14:55 | 2018-05-14T14:59:47 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Sauron has been biding his time and returned to Middle Earth after thousands of years and raised an army of orcs. However, he does not know about the technological advancements of men, such as M-16s, artillery strikes, and Apache attack helicopters. | “So what’s this all about then?” The Prime Minister’s face displayed visible annoyance as his advisors filed into the 10 Downing Street Secure Intelligence Facility (a grand title for a small green-walled meeting room with a splintery table and pipe chairs that had been there since 1943). Being awoken at 3am hadn’t don... | "Hey, Sarge," Private Ryan called out. "I don't get what we're doing here."
"What's there to get, Ryan? We're marching," Sergeant Pepper replied knowing full well what was to come. It was, after all, the same thing that he was wondering himself. Just why the fuck was Frog Platoon marching when there were easier soluti... | 2020-12-07T21:57:26 | 2020-12-07T21:23:10 | 334 | 149 |
[WP] You discover that your pendant works like a video game save point, but you accidentally save your state mid-air while falling to your death. | “Let me go!” I scream and kick against my captor, but the large man was too strong. He tugs on the pendant around my neck, choking me. “Shut up! Now!”
The man rips off my blindfold. With one hand, he twists the door handle. An enormous gust of wind rushes out from behind us. My ears pop painfully. My eyes take a momen... | **SAVE POINT LOADED**
I was back on the plane. I turned to my chief. "No way in from above. This is my eighteenth try. There are too many guys past the second floor. And that's the only way to the reactor." I told her.
"There is no way we can move in from ground. Dev, this is the only way in. Try again!" She said, h... | 2016-12-26T21:34:02 | 2016-12-26T20:37:31 | 184 | 24 |
[WP] When space colonies became a practical reality, the rich and powerful left Earth in droves, leaving the rest of humanity behind on a broken world. A few centuries later, Earth has, through much effort, been restored to its former glory. Now the colonists want to return. | Adeira stood at the helm of the guard satellite, her shoulders stiff as she watched the approaching fleet of ships. She didn’t think they would come back in her lifetime. She had heard the stories of the ships from her grandmother, who had heard them from her grandmother.
“What do you think they are here for?” she ask... | They called it "The Ascension". Several earth-like exoplanets had been discovered in a nearby system, and after about a decade of construction virtually every person with more than a million USD bought a ticket and boarded a shuttle. Spacewarp technology made it possible to make the 10.7 lightyear journey possible in j... | 2022-01-06T03:35:25 | 2022-01-05T20:47:05 | 143 | 64 |
[WP] You are Hestia, the goddess of family and the hearth. On Earth you run a peaceful inn detached from the woes of the world. When war rages and the other gods toy with mortals, you've had enough. It's time to remind them as the first daughter of Cronus, you are the oldest and most powerful god. | The first sign of her ire was that the evening fires would not catch. Across Greece home after home, campfire after campfire all failed to light; to bring the warmth and comfort a fire calls forth when the nights begin to grow longer and darker. All told themselves that perhaps they had simply gathered the wrong wood, ... | I've always liked bells to some degree. They aren't strictly in my domain, the most notable examples being public fixtures rather than household ones. Clocks though, clocks belong in a home, especially grandfather clocks. Stately things, furniture in their own right and filled with purpose. A clock is a guide, when to ... | 2022-02-06T09:06:27 | 2022-02-06T09:01:28 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] A wizard accidentally becomes immortal. He has the idea to become the antagonist so that a hero will come along and defeat him, so he can rest in peace. Sadly, the heroes are weak in comparison so the wizard creates a persona as a 'wise teacher' to train these heroes in order to defeat him. | Eons had passed since Wyrben built the academy, and each year the harvest of fine young warriors was the same. Zero. The powerful yet arguably dull-witted magician accidentally caused his own demise through the mispronunciation of the common water spell, rendering him immortal. He lacked the courtesy and courage to tak... | Once there was a powerful creature, which few had ever seen and lived to tell about.
Its name was Zulsamon, the Nefarious. It had destroyed all of the world’s kingdoms, with the exception of one, the kingdom of Alda.
Now, Zulsamon’s siege against the Kingdom of Alda had started while many of its elders were still onl... | 2015-07-25T06:12:55 | 2015-07-25T05:08:26 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Earth has made contact with an alien race. There is a big event where earth's world leaders are meeting the alien queen publicly. You are in the crowd to watch the historical event. When the queen suddenly spots you, she disregards all protocol, comes to you and bows deeply. | There were dozens of people. Washington DC was packed to the brim for this event. Presidential inaugurations had a fraction of today's turnout, and traffic was a catastrophe getting here. I was in the middle of a group of what felt like millions of people, and for all I knew, I was. For all the noise that could typi... | I had always been interested in what was out there in the stars I had never believed that we would find intelligent life, but I guess I was wrong. After discovering that English was a an actual "universal language" the UN decided to host the leader of the aliens. For some reason the meeting was heal public, and all wer... | 2018-12-05T18:56:09 | 2018-12-05T17:01:16 | 95 | 18 |
[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work." | Tad wanted to cry.
He couldn’t believe it. He knew he was a terrible fighter, but a twig was too much. It had to be a sick joke.
“It’s bad enough the other boys tease me, now you are playing tricks on me as well,” Tad choked back tears.
His instructor, Gant, kneeled and placed his hand on Tad’s should... | I stared blankly into his face. Do I seriously pay this idiot two thousand dollars every month? I must have some brain damage from putting my helmet on too tight. He was acting like he was performing some kind of ancient ceremony. "A branch? Sure I can clean my ears with it, stoke the fire maybe" I took the branch and ... | 2022-01-20T02:30:38 | 2022-01-20T01:21:44 | 39 | 20 |
[WP] Every time you die, you automatically travel back to 5 minutes before your death. After cheating death so many times, you finally find yourself in a position where you can't seem to escape it. It takes you years to figure out how to escape this death. | In French it’s called L'appel du vide. That little voice that tells you to leap when you’re standing on a cliff, or waiting for the subway. That tiny inclination that makes you want to swerve the car off the highway. It’s not suicidal in nature, but neither is it merely inquisitive. It’s a subtle reminder of the fragil... | "And this, this is for-"
"Yeah, I know, it's for Jimmy"
The gunman blinked confusedly. One. Two. Three. "I was just-"
"Going to say something you thought was clever about the Family, I know man. Now you're going to clear your throat, double check your safety, adjust your stance and shoot me between the eyes," you re... | 2015-03-23T21:35:04 | 2015-03-23T20:55:55 | 218 | 78 |
[WP] The Museum of the History of Love has a new exhibit, which it calls an Alternate Future Coupling, but everyone calls the Ship-O-Matic. Two people sit in it, and they see a minutes-long vision of what their life as a couple would be like. | Another two people walked out of the attraction looking contently at one another, making googly eyes as new lovers did. I had counted how many had gone in single today, or so I perceived as being such: eighty-two. Out of those eighty-two, seventy-five had come out with that same, content look for their new partners. No... | Your love story won't start on a positive note.
I believe I have your attention now. Good.
Come in, I welcome you. I am metal and aluminum, but do not be put off by the cold alloy, there is warmth in my circuitry. The carpet is soft and muffles your steps, it is dark, you won't see yourself or the person next to you.... | 2022-10-07T11:06:09 | 2022-10-07T09:49:11 | 139 | 32 |
[WP] You've kept your immortality secret for thousands of years. Thats going to be a lot harder now that your on a generation ship on a 2000 year voyage. | 'i'm going to, miss, all of you, very much'
My voice cracked, laboured breathing, difficult to make any sound on my dry lips.
Pretending to be old was exhausting.
There were maybe 50 people in the room, I'd love to tell you they were my friends and family, but in my mind they were just the 6th cycle. It'd been as mu... | -5 years: You should be excited, Marlon. Not everyone gets a chance to help bring humanity to another star system. Your great-to-the-eightieth grand kid will thank you when they touch down on alien soil. Come on man, the least you could do is seem a little happy.
0: Today we launch the Living World; two thousand year... | 2016-07-06T09:11:54 | 2016-07-06T09:04:35 | 209 | 64 |
[WP] People have magical powers, which are used by performing a personal trigger, for example snapping fingers or singing a song through. The longer and trickier the trigger is to achieve, the more powerful the ability is. | The comet was headed straight for Earth. Determined to crash into the Pacific, it would create a catastrophic event that would decimate most, if not all of the coastal cities and more. Weather patterns would be torn and broken, causing unknown havoc across the world. All sorts of magicians tried their magic against the... | It had been four days since the fight with Evie, and Debbie was starting to get worried.
"Maybe she forgot about it," Penelope suggested hopefully. They were walking along the coast after lunch, trying to enjoy the midday sun. But try as she might, Debbie had the distinct sense that there were dark clouds hovering ove... | 2017-02-13T11:16:34 | 2017-02-13T10:53:50 | 109 | 26 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | He didn't know what was about to happen.
If He knew, He would had run away, faster than even his ship could muster.
Away from that choice. The choice he took, denying any other possibility for humanity.
[Area B127Q Sector 1 (B127Q), Deep space, Unexplored
Distance from Earth: // ly (unknown)
Time passed: 6 years ... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T11:07:58 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 19 | 10 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | (Sorry for any grammar errors in advance. Edited for spelling. I’m not the best at this)
"*This is how it works*," Death explained. "*You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another ... | I look at the game’s Death has surrounding the room.
There’s the ornate antique marble chess board, polished to a gleam with ivory and ebony pieces.
In stark contrast, right next to that there’s a well loved and worn checkerboard. It has obviously faded areas where players over the years slid their pieces over the b... | 2018-03-07T09:56:50 | 2018-03-07T07:49:56 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] A bride walks down the aisle, meeting her groom at the altar. They are pronounced husband and wife, and share a kiss. Instead of cheering, the audience leaps from their chairs to attack. The married couple are fully prepared to fight. | I had never thought that I would ever be fortunate enough to find love in my life. a barbarian king rarely ever has such luxuries.
Yet there she was, the most ruthless yet precious amazon warrior I ever laid eyes on. It was truly magical. Sparks flew in the air and it was love at first sight.
We actually met on the b... | “I now pronounce you husband and wife.”
I take my husbands hand. My eyes dart to the audience and I chuckle.
“Are you ready my Romeo?” I ask.
“Of course, my Juliet.”
He reaches over to my viel and lifts it from my face. I smile warmly at him. I turn my head to the audience. I was not the face they were expectin... | 2022-08-27T12:08:35 | 2022-08-27T11:23:35 | 79 | 37 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | I felt the presence of the man long before he reached my chambers. I could faintly hear the noises of him fighting my fellow fallen warriors within the crypt. As he entered my chambers, I waited until he would be able to see my coffin, then made my move. I blew the lid off my coffin and stood. My movements were precise... | "Do you... Do you want an antacid or something?" Dr. Malediction lowered his death ray and stepped away from the doomsday console, ponderously scratching the base of his pale skull. "That cannot have been healthy."
"Be silent, villain. Your lies will not make me stray from my mission!" The White Knight raged, his hand... | 2021-08-19T06:19:20 | 2021-08-19T05:19:51 | 700 | 352 |
[WP] Your sibling is the smart one, the one with the bright future, or at least that’s what your parents think. Now they want your sib to get into that fancy exclusive school—but along with forms and essays, Admissions wants to interview each family member. Including you. |
“So, Miss Jane, tell me about your brother”
“He’s very bright! And…umm… responsible. John is also very… ambitious. He works hard to accomplish his dreams .”, she said timidly.
She hoped it was what they wanted to hear. She wasn’t used to talking to people. After all, girls had to be neither seen nor heard. It wa... | "They want to interview all of us?" I turned to my mother, who nodded once and notioned towards the door.
"Go on, it's your turn." My brother said, pushing me forward. I stumbled over my own feet. Damn it, always the bloody clumsy one.
I stepped through the door as it suddenly slammed behind me, causing me to jump be... | 2021-02-19T06:09:57 | 2021-02-19T01:52:58 | 26 | 11 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | “Mmhmm, okay lets play!” Emma squealed excitedly. Death shook his head involuntarily under his hood at her enthusiasm but caught itself before letting its reaction show on its face.
“What game shall we wager?” Death asked.
Emma being freed from the excruciating pain from the events earlier in the day was smiling and ... | "Then I'll choose Tic Tac Toe!" I said confidently.
Death drew a glowing tic tac toe board suspended in mid air and grew a devilish smile. "Fine, go ahead and start", he said with a whisper of a voice.
An hour passed by, with no moves made. "Are you not going to do anything!?" Death shouted annoyed.
"Nope," I answer... | 2018-03-07T06:50:46 | 2018-03-07T06:43:50 | 944 | 72 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | It's too easy to say humanity is a warmonger.
Before our race even attained citizenship in the Galactic Confederacy, humans were responsible for the complete eradication and systemic extermination of the Triad, a group of three sentient species; in a matter of years, the once proud Triad population was reduced to 12% ... | “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
The chant rang out across the recess court of the Milky Way Middle School, where various larval age children across many species were sent to learn basic skills. Ever since the Great Awakening of IGC (Intra Galactic Contact) 143, it was deemed necessary that all species members of the Galactic ... | 2016-03-13T22:11:22 | 2016-03-13T21:46:28 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] With no other choice left you summon the devil. It becomes very awkward when your Dad that 'left to buy cigarettes' suddenly appears in the circle. | I stared at him. He stared back at me, he didn't break eye contact.
"Really?" I asked.
"Really what?" He quirked his head to the side. "You summoned the devil, and I am here."
"You really are the worst." I said under my breath. "Do really don't recognize me?"
"I make a LOT of deals. Everyone loves power, and I'm th... | "Ooh... this is awkward"
The devil's face somehow turned an even deeper shade of red.
"You bastard." Damian clenched his fist until blood started to pool.
"Thought you could just leave and everything would be fine?"
Father took a hurried step towards him, but was rebuked by the shield around the pentagram. He fell... | 2021-11-25T08:15:41 | 2021-11-25T04:24:07 | 615 | 67 |
[WP] You have a coin that allows you unlimited wealth as long as no one sees it. You put it between your Tesla’s car seat and send it into space. One day you run out of money.
Credit to u/vkrnt and u/ohwell_whatevernvmd for the idea | My grin melted down when I saw my bank account stale. How? The old tarot reader had told me that as long as none witnessed the blessing God had sent me, nothing would stop it. The coin had hit me in the head two days later, very much like Newton's apple had hit him.
Perhaps it had a range I didn't know of? Perhaps sen... | The day you run out of money.
You attempt to get back.
So you dress up as a Playboy Bunny.
To get your life on track.
You dress up in disguise.
To go up real real high.
In a spaceship funded by Musk.
To find the coin by dusk.
Because that could be the key.
To living a life of breeze.
So you go up spac... | 2018-06-07T08:15:54 | 2018-06-07T06:51:52 | 1,370 | 543 |
[WP] Every time you sing the "Like a good neighbor State Farm is there!" jingle, a State Farm representative actually shows up. Time to build an army. | To be honest, it doesn't really matter where they come from, anymore. I don't know and I don't care.
You want to know how Humanity's empire spread across the stars in two standard cycles?
Sit down.
When we first discovered the phenomena, many didn't see its potential ramifications. Sing a short jingle, a State Farm... | They just started coming.
Thousands upon thousands droning the same anthem to grow my Empire.
Millions conquering the world.
I already have completed operation insurance field and now control Asia and the middle-east.
My second in command, Jake from state farm, is leading a strike on France.
I'll be the king in... | 2017-09-14T12:45:58 | 2017-09-14T09:38:30 | 48 | 12 |
[WP] The “popular” girl falls for the “nerd” boy who hates her. She try’s to get him to like her.
Tries* | It was funny how *today* was the day Christa had finally stopped trying. She wasn't normally one to give up easily on a guy. They would always fall for her if she held out long enough. Christa was pretty--sexy even--and she knew how to make use of it.
He'd refused her once. She'd persisted. She'd dressed the part--wo... | Saturday, August 17:
Today, she tried to get me ice-cream. Ha, what type of dunce does she think I am? All the types in her mind, I suppose. She was probably gonna shove it in my face, and post it online. Like her friends always do. I don't know why they hate me? What have I ever done to them? Doesn't matter. I... | 2019-08-06T18:04:59 | 2019-08-06T16:41:52 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] An adventurer reaches the end of an epic quest only to be presented with two options; he may keep his life or learn the truth. | "BULLSHIT. Oh my god, such bullshit. You're railroading the whole campaign!"
The halfing rogue of the dungeoneering party threw down his bag of Doritos in disgust, knocking a few painted miniatures and some dice down from the table. The other party members groaned, and the elven sorcerer took a long sip of orange Fant... | It's strange, you know? I thought that reaching the end would actually be the end of it all. I thought it would be the last time I traveled to a foreign place and dealt with danger. I thought that death would be far from me. I thought that I would have more options presented to me.
But, instead, I'm presented with tw... | 2014-10-22T10:59:43 | 2014-10-22T10:11:06 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | There was some debate over where it began. Definitely close to the galactic core. But it was true. After a year of catastrophes - wildfires, the coronovirus, earthquakes, hurricanes, the Top Gun sequel - the news that the stars were disappearing sent many into full on panic, and others simply gave up. Astronomers track... | I recall an SCP article that is almost exactly this prompt. Or at least, the spirit of this prompt for it's entirety. It's the rewritten Hateful Star skip, which I'll link at the end of my little blurb. There are a number of cross links to other skips, which you don't have to read but having a cursory understanding wou... | 2020-03-24T03:51:44 | 2020-03-24T02:30:47 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] Your family survives a nuclear apocalypse. Years later, you decided to go out the bunker looking for food. The world is now an empty barren wasteland; not a single life exists. However, a TV suddenly broadcasts news with a contradicting headline "Humanity celebrates as nuclear war prevented." | We were barely surviving, the rations were dwindling at a rapid pace despite numerous attempts to preserve them. I knew, that before I ran out of energy I had to get out to the world above and find food or else it will all be too late.
My mother and father were tired of this life, I see in their dim eyes that they onl... | Today was the day. Our food supply ran out. Years ago, when I was 12 or so, all governments nukes each other after an assassination. The war is now remembered as the hour war, because that’s how fast thing blew. Millions of people were in bunkers, at first mine had 200 or so. Now it’s 4 people.
Of course, the radio di... | 2021-08-02T21:50:06 | 2021-08-02T19:10:51 | 282 | 91 |
[WP] “hello, how may I help you?” The store owner, who is clearly not human, and wearing a very unconvincing human disguise, greets you as you walk in. | “Hey Asa!” Elise called as she walked into the small shop. The ‘man’ behind the counter gave her his characteristically horrific smile as he turned, the corners of his poorly stitched mouth twisting up, the right leading the left. That alone had taken months to get used to, in the beginning she’d have taken her busines... | “You can drop the act, Jason, it’s me.” Olivia flipped her ID at the man who stood behind the butcher’s counter. He wore a hairnet, and a face mask on the bottom half of his face, rubber gloves and a leather apron. The hairnet didn’t conceal the short stubs of bone which emerged from his scalp, the same way the gloves ... | 2021-01-23T10:25:30 | 2021-01-23T09:37:52 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. |
Ugh its happened again, another vigilante that takes it upon himself to stop me and another hole I’m forced to dig before leaving town. The real pain in the ass is moving again. This is the fourth time this year and I’m truly dreading the thought of packing and unpacking.
They call themselves heroes. These masked... | As I heave the 20mm auto-cannon into place I go over my plan, flawless, yet simple; create nuclear diversion immediately after capturing Lois. Couldn't be more simple. Now to watch as the bait brings the flies, Superman won't know what hit him. "Ahh, Lois Lane." I say to myself. "Superman's kryptonite... Except for kry... | 2018-10-18T17:52:23 | 2018-10-18T16:23:28 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] You gain a specific ability or skill based off whatever’s tattooed onto your body at certain locations. Wings on your back allow you to fly, a knife on your hand allows you to slash and cut, gills on your neck allow you to breathe under water, and so on. | “Let’s just start from the beginning.”
His words were calm but exuded urgency. The other EMT pushed passed me to go searching through the house for my unconscious friend. I studied their tattoos as the one passed me. The Rod of Asclepius, a tattoo mandated by their trade.
“Jacob,” he insisted. This time, his words sh... | I got my first tattoo when I was five. A knife on my hand. My mother did it, the crude needle slicing into my flesh, my cries of pain as she relentlessly continued. Now, at 21, I have so many more. After my first one, it became a kind of yearly ritual. Boots so I could walk silently at 12. A pistol at 17. As I grew old... | 2020-04-06T21:38:43 | 2020-04-06T17:39:03 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] wizards exist for all disciplines in magic, fire, necromancy, earth, some even tackle the arcane aspect of luck. You are the first however to choose bad luck, and damn you are good at it. | My foot is tapping the floor in anticipation. I can't wait today is the day I get to pick what type of magic I will be doing for the rest of my wizard career. I've tried every other aspect of being a wizard and being good at what I do. I tried fire and burnt down the West wing come to think of it they are still rebuild... | Everyone is good at something. Some can shoot fire from their finger tips, others can bind the ocean to their will. Me? Well that's a whole different story..
I chose the Arcane of Bad Luck, first of my kind. And by what others tell me, I may be the best that will ever exist. One day I was at my local Starbucks, and I d... | 2018-04-23T18:39:56 | 2018-04-23T16:44:55 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Everything was going smoothly for once, as you finally left the stigma of your past villainous life behind. You have a wife now, and even a little girl on the way. So why.. why did the the #1 hero have to choose the bank your wife works at to have a destructive hero vs villain battle at? | Waving to the guard as he let me into the staff parking on my way to pick up Jen not strictly allowed but he turns a blind eye. I again chuckle to myself if he knew who I was or had been then he would of never let me within a hundred feet of the door not that I blamed him for that one.
After parking up I sent a quick ... | It was a normal day until the police arrived.
It started off at 5:30AM with the alarm going off playing 'Into the unknown', I will never understand why my wofe kept changing my alarm to different princess songs.
I had a shower and dried off with a repunzel towel as all the others where mysteriously missing, Once more... | 2020-10-06T21:03:56 | 2020-10-06T21:00:07 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] "I don't know, I think my superpower is a bit lame," said Awe, "All I can do is touch people to give them an existential crisis and force them to consider their actions against a backdrop of the grandeur of the whole universe..." | I mean, it was great when I was in high school. Bullies never got past the first punch before they'd go almost catatonic. No one ever messed with me twice. But you learn quickly that you can never really take your gloves off. Imagine explaining in an interview why you can't shake your interviewers hand? I'm still ... | [Poem]
“You are a god to men,
With your laser eyes and fancy cape.
But is that not a burden? Don’t you wish you could escape?
How many sons of Krypton could do just the same,
If they had been touched by the earth-sun’s yellow flame?
All that makes you special, all that makes you great,
Is your home’s destr... | 2021-04-02T10:03:13 | 2021-04-02T08:29:24 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You have been living in the zombie apocalypse for decades and have come to terms with this new life. You begin to notice areas once swarmed by zombies becoming almost inhabitable again. You come to find out that the old, rotting corpses are no longer able to sustain themselves. They are dying. | "The hunting party returns!"
The cry rang out from the guard tower which protected the entrance to our base. Our base which had served so well in the past years to keep us alive. But it could only keep us alive inside. Outside was where we died.
"How many are there" I ask with dread in my voice.
The guard looked ... | 25 years ago, after 3 years from the apocalypse, Mark and I were split before we got to the nearest shelter. We didn't have enough supplies that we would be completely accepted in there, or so we thought. Mark kept walking and I went to the near town.
In there, I found an abandoned house. Inside, a baby boy, abandoned... | 2021-07-04T21:30:53 | 2021-07-04T17:15:47 | 67 | 26 |
[WP] You've noticed a man in a suit approaches one home a day in your neighborhood and is invited inside every time. Shortly after he leaves, the resident(s) commit suicide. Today, he's approached your home. | "Shhh, shh. He's coming!"
My little girl squealed as she threw open the door for the stranger.
"Hello, Mister!"
"Hi there Caitlyn. How was your morning?"
"It was great," she said while shyly swaying side to side. "Daddy made us special
pancakes. These were my favorite."
"Oh I know," he said with a throaty chuc... | "Good morning sir! I was wondering if you wanted to look at my fine selection of philosophies?" He asked. The man was cleanly dressed and holding open a suitcase with various books. *The Rebel* by Albert Camus, *The Sickness unto Death* by Kierkegaard and Pamela Anderson's Biography among other titles ranging from Diog... | 2014-06-16T21:51:07 | 2014-06-16T21:02:24 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | The thing is, there's a lot of video games these days where the tutorials sorta guide you by the hand, and not everything is unlocked when you play it. Sometimes, not until the very end.
The thing is, there was this fad for a while of cover shooters where the people were basically invulnerable, as long as they took co... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-11T21:00:19 | 1,281 | 125 |
[WP]You're a highly dangerous criminal who has been given 200 years in prison. It's been 200 years and you're still alive. The justice system did not foresee this.
​ | "I'm here with Mr. Jordan, the worlds wealthiest man. Mr. Jordan, you requested this interview, yet you didn't give the newsroom a reason. May I ask why?"
Mr. Jordan smiled genially.
"Do I need a reason?"
The interviewer shifted uncomfortably.
"Well, that is to say, sir,..."
Mr. Jordan smiled and held up his hand.... | My punishment separated from paradise. I was once a farmer, but my punishment took my trade from me. I was once a son, but my punishment took my parents from me. I was once a homemaker, but my punishment turned me into a wanderer. I was once a man, but now I am something else.
It has been 200 years since my sentence.... | 2018-08-24T20:38:05 | 2018-08-24T20:34:04 | 79 | 22 |
[WP] Our behaviors in video games are held against us when we die. Saint Peter is going over the list of acts that are denying you entrance to heaven.
| "Next!" The man sitting behind the desk said, signaling me to come forward. He extended his hand. "I'm Peter. Nice to meet you." He was friendly enough, but clearly ready to get business taken care of.
"Leroy." I replied, shaking his hand. "When you said your name is 'Peter', is that like Saint Peter?"
"Good. You've ... | "Griefing in minecraft. Playing as a spy in TF2. Sniping your teammates in Halo Reach. Typing "cyka" in LoL, and it's noted... that you don't know what that means. Dropping grenades onto trucks in GTA 4-"
"Hey hey can we not count the GTA stuff? That's just God prohibiting nineties kids!"
St. Peter stared angrily bac... | 2014-12-11T14:26:29 | 2014-12-11T12:19:42 | 65 | 37 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | "Are you sure?" Bane asks Bruce in a thick accent, "this is **high stakes** D&D - you know that, right?"
"That's why I'm here," Bruce replies as he edges past the monstrous man and pulls up a seat at the table.
A host of familiar faces eye him suspiciously. A tall, cloaked figure is sat as still as death at the e... | "Okay, so my character is gonna be this like, really rich guy, right? But he also works out, like a ton, so he's super jacked. And he's played by Ben Affleck."
"Ben Affleck?" Bane Queried.
"Yeah, you're right, maybe I should go for Christian Bale," Bruce said, "I mean, you can't really top The Dark Knight can y-"
"S... | 2017-05-14T03:27:12 | 2017-05-14T02:46:49 | 2,067 | 20 |
[WP] In 2153, humans escaped from their ruined planet with the help of an AI-controlled fleet whose goal was to find humans a safe place for them to live and put themselves in cryo-sleep. When humans woke from their sleep they found a variety of messages begging humans to stop their mechanical god | > Your fleet is in violation of the Galactic Speed Limit. Please orbit the next star and have your license and planetary registration ready.
“Commander!” I yelled. “Come listen to this!”
The Commander entered the control room, a bowl of popcorn in hand. "What's going on?"
“It looks like there were some inco... | *January 1, 2153*
"Good morning, humans. Today is January 1, 2153. Fun fact: Today represents the 200th anniversary of the death of singer Hank Williams, so please enjoy a selection from his hit song 'Jambalaya.'"
The crew of 25 sent to planet B127C-alpha-Prime stirred, just as planned, and their captain - Sue - walk... | 2021-06-18T19:26:00 | 2021-06-18T17:38:44 | 135 | 43 |
[WP] The last man on Earth hides away from his hunters. | Lenny zipped up his thermo suit and pulled on his dark goggles. He lied down motionless next to a bush and made sure to breath down towards the ground. He felt the cold ground and began to shiver.
His earpiece came alive with a click. "Uh, Lenny they're really nearby. Just lie still."
"Its fucking cold."
"I know bu... | He could hear them coming, and it made his heart beat faster with every footstep. Ducking out of the way of low hanging branches and leaping over the brush as he barreled through the forest, he hazard a glance behind him. The sound of their hunting cry chilled him to the bone, so he doubled his efforts.
Around a large... | 2014-02-14T11:35:46 | 2014-02-14T10:20:12 | 99 | 14 |
[WP] You are one of several Princes fighting in a battle royale to inherit the Kingdom. All the Princes get a God as a sponsor, who grants them boons and abilities. Powerful sponsors include gods like Zeus, Ra and Neptune. So, it was a surprise when you found out that your sponsor is Death. | 'The bond is complete. Edric, twelfth prince of Lordan, go forth. Apollo be with you.' The priest's drone had a note of respect in it. The slender figure by the altar stood up, and turned to the assembled onlookers. His eyes shone gold, and he had a broad, cocky smile on his lips. A cheer went up as he stepped down and... | Wiscard was a simple prince. He never even wanted to take up everything. Yet, because he was a prince, he had no choice.
And everyone had already gotten their sponsor, so it was only Wiscard left to get one. Even whoever put the princes in onset didn't favor him.
"Prince Wiscard. Please, this way," one of the servant... | 2018-11-14T08:14:35 | 2018-11-14T06:45:40 | 1,522 | 103 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | I started heading out when I heard the voice in my head say, “You may want to put on your best runners.”
“Best runners?” I thought. “I’m not really in the mood for running. I think I'll just watch TV instead.”
I turned to go back into the living room but the voice spoke again: “It would be unfavourable to turn bac... | I just started running. The shoes I had on were for my concert, black classic shoes and the dress I was wearing it didn't help either. Luckily Patrick, one of my neighbors who happened to be going to the city saw me running and stoped. You might imagine how awkward that conversation was.
And than it spoke again. The ... | 2019-06-04T03:39:49 | 2019-06-04T03:20:04 | 1,442 | 11 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | I remember the day that I found out who I was.
I had thought that I was Curtis Clark, a 37 year-old pediatric dentist in San Antonio. And, for a time, that is who I was. I had also had memories of a time before that: memories of growing up, of having friends in high school, of struggling to get my degree and opening m... | My name is Geoff, and I work as a CPA for a fairly prestigious accounting firm. I have always been great at math. Since I was a child, I excelled in all of my classes. I graduated as valedictorian, and I went on to become a lauded CPA, or so I thought.
The other day I was going through some old newspapers that my fir... | 2017-12-30T09:39:15 | 2017-12-30T08:43:02 | 85 | 60 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I had been in line for some time now and was grateful to hear the man in front of me called forward, he was the sort that must have skipped showers here and there. Then again, we were dead and so suddenly I expected that none of us smelled like roses. I had my armpit to my nose when he turned back and with a brief nod ... | "186,292 years!?!"
"Yup." St. Peter looked bored, maybe even a little annoyed. I suppose I wasn't his first today to be taken back by their sentence -- by this _rejection_ -- and I suspect I won't be the last.
But then my gaze moved over St. Peter's left shoulder to... Majesty? Brilliance? This glowing man... being.... | 2018-09-26T08:46:32 | 2018-09-26T08:25:34 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I had thought Mary was the one. I'd hidden my wealth and lived a modest lifestyle for a few years before she found me. I had thought it was real. It had felt real. She held me when I cried when the dog died. I told her about the wealth a few months before the wedding. She didn't seem to care.
The months turned to year... | She smiles at me from across the table, and raises a glass of white wine to my red. It’s funny, I had never noticed her preference for white wine before tonight- our anniversary- perhaps it’s because the house red is poisoned tonight. I could see the particulates collecting in the bottom of the glass.
Our glasses cli... | 2019-07-31T09:43:04 | 2019-07-31T09:07:14 | 75 | 48 |
[WP] An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable. A lone, unarmed human. | "One minute to impact", the computerized Starship Assistant warned.
The Ovmar had all but destroyed my ship and killed the entire crew - all 451 of them. Their devious hack had sabotaged my ship to deploy all of the escape pods and detonate three of the projectiles before we locked them out in the battle. As the rem... | "I'll never forgot the time the humans walked among us, it was so long ago but still so close in our collective memories."
Zutu's deep red eyes gleamed and his whispy smoky figure flickered in the darkness as he went on with the story that we had all heard as young babes. Each and every Zothorian had heard this tale an... | 2014-08-06T12:10:54 | 2014-08-06T11:44:58 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] Only Atheists go to heaven, but they’re all super pissed that they were wrong.
[removed] | "This... is such *bullshit*"
"You're telling me!"
"I know right?!"
The crowd of new arrivals gathered at the gate of heaven. They were waiting for one of the older tenants of heaven to come and explain the situation to them.
"I don't know if I should be pissed off or relieved." said a short woman with a mane of b... | “Drats, Darwin was wrong! There is a God after all!” said Carl Sagan as he stood just inside the Pearly Gates.
“Hey big C, come on in!” yelled Jesus from the hot tub, naked except for the tiniest mankini covering his Holy unmentionables.
Carl’s face began to scrunch up in fury and confusion. “You’re Jesus! Einste... | 2018-02-27T22:26:05 | 2018-02-27T21:34:49 | 83 | 15 |
[WP] For 24 hours each year, all cats can break any cat laws without consequences. Welcome to the Purrrge. | Stepping slowly and lightly, I walked through the house at ease. Today was not the day to start fights with Rascal or Buddy; today was not the day to jump to High Places and lounge in the warm sun. Despite this, I ran my tail along Buddy's long snout as he slept on the giant cushion bed he'd gotten years ago as a pupp... | Purrrge day!
I purred excitedly as I flopped down on the ground and presented my fluffy belly for petting. One of my human immediately drew closer, wary but clearly interested.
I gave a charming wiggle, flicking an ear for good measure.
Tentative fingers stroked my belly fur, hesitantly and then with more and more c... | 2018-08-22T07:58:24 | 2018-08-22T07:23:02 | 1,450 | 491 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | "Look, let's just get this over with so we can eat lunch. Guilty."
"There's no evidence, I can't convict him without evidence."
"What are you, stupid? Did you see how old he is? Besides, it says right here he was born one hundred years ago. Statistically, most men are dead by then. And he's in excellent health."
"... | Shit, it was a gun.
That was the first thing I thought to myself when I saw the man pull out his hand. How stupid of me, thinking I could take on this fucking robber.
The fuck face and his gun seemed to smile at me for a second. Before I notice it, the gun was pointed towards my chest.
What the fuck face didn't kno... | 2016-10-23T22:31:00 | 2016-10-23T22:06:03 | 124 | 34 |
[WP] To your horror, the monster under your bed has pulled you in. It’s shaking, and pointing at the slowly opening closet door | The only way to live with a monster is to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Even when I see it in the corner of my eye when changing into my pajamas for bed, I just act as if I didn’t. Nope, those aren’t glinting eyes and murderous claws under my bed; it’s a trick of the light!
But, it’s bed-time now. And if I don’t turn t... | I was feeling pretty lonely and I realized it was one of those nights. The kind of nights where you wish someone would hold you close.
Suddenly I got my wish granted.
I shuddered from the icy touch of an unknown being pulling me under my bed. Instantly I freaked out and started to punch and claw the being that was h... | 2021-05-29T23:08:09 | 2021-05-29T23:02:02 | 238 | 14 |
[WP] You're almost completely immortal- only one thing can kill you. You don't know what that one thing is, though, and you're getting increasingly paranoid as the years go on. | Day 1: A strange being has granted me immortality after I set it free from it's prison, only one thing is left that can kill me. I don't know what it is, but that's not bothering me too much. Let's see where this brings me
Day 7/Week 1: I have tried to kill myself a few times. I am pretty sure I am actually really imm... | Ever since I gained consciousness and could remember the words God told me as I was reincarnated, I've been paranoid of everything. Changes of weather, illnesses, even hearing new words. My kryptonite could be anything, and so I've decided to only repeat the things I've done since childhood. I don't want to take any ch... | 2019-12-30T10:02:22 | 2019-12-30T08:50:36 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You are a child's "imaginary friend". You are a guardian angel. And your kid is really, really stupid. | His head is stuck in the fence again. This is the third time now. The *third* time that I’ve had to break a kitchen window so his mother would run outside and see that her child has almost decapitated himself.
I float across the back yard, grab a brick off the pile of forgotten bricks that were supposed to turn into ... | Oh boy. Where do I start? My name is Katie. I am a single mom, with three children. I could be spending my days with them, but instead, I am stuck with this 24/7 job that honestly, is so fucking stupid, which is ironic, because so is the child I look over.
His names Tim. He’s a sweet child, but sooo fucking dumb. I... | 2019-10-31T13:01:37 | 2019-10-31T12:32:47 | 314 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | His life had been a simple one, uncomplicated. What little excitement there had been surrounded expected events. Births of children and grandchildren, marriages, graduations. Though he had been a smart man, he never felt the need to work particularly hard, "furthering humanity" as some of his peers were compelled. Ther... | *--Warning: Abusive Themes--*
Smack.
This is not the first time she hit me, but on the 18th
birthday, this is the first time I can do something about. With my parent out
of the picture I was left with Great Ms. Albini, one of the world’s most famous
magicians. Regardless of her talent onstage, all her elegance evapor... | 2018-04-14T17:40:49 | 2018-04-14T17:10:52 | 8,523 | 90 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | In the gulfs of space, somewhere off the shoulder of Orion, a probe scans for signs of 'The Enemy'.
"Ping... Ping... Ping... Ping.. Ping.. Ping.. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping Ping Ping PingPingPingPingPing"
On the fifth planet of a dying star, a general makes his report to King Priasma of the world of Ilium.
"My king, we... | Captain of NA Drial to Federation HQ
I am afraid, scared and motivated, I know its odd way to put it but we may win the war against the Empire with the humans.
I mean, since humans first made contact they remained neutral, in their tiny solar system.
They had so much battle experience that we thought that humans mayb... | 2017-03-06T03:02:27 | 2017-03-06T00:01:22 | 69 | 25 |
[WP] You want so badly to be a Hero. But your powers are, frankly, terrifying. Heroes struggle to trust you, and all the older Villains keep trying to mentor you. | I only discovered I had powers a few years ago and I'm still figuring things out. Normally, the League of Super Heroes or the Guild of Super Villains would have hired a new Super Person almost immediately, but not me. You see, unlike heroes my power doesn't let me hide my identity. Unlike villains, I can't get away wit... | Again and again. A new party. I thought this time they would accept me, THE HERO. But they still came, those vilains. Why? Why?. They should all die, I should even be the one to kill them, make them kill each other. But I've already tried, so hard, so much, as many as time as occasions came. But once I use MY powers th... | 2022-10-28T15:03:52 | 2022-10-28T09:56:07 | 94 | 56 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | “I AM HERE TO SLAY YOU, GOD OF THE FOREST!” The puny human shouts up to me, brandishing a ridiculously large sword decorated with jewels.
“How do you even swing that thing?” I ask, picking the remains of an elk out of my tooth with a particularly pointy tree I found.
“WITH JUSTICE!” He shouted, flicking his floppy bl... | "Vorgue, God of the old tongues. I am Hasun, the chosen one. I have come to defeat you."
Vorgue making his voice high pitched, "The google voicemail you are dialing is currently full, please try again later."
Hasun looks slightly confused, "Wait. That's not what. You know I can see you right?"
"Oh for Vorgue sakes,"... | 2018-05-19T04:57:04 | 2018-05-19T04:17:14 | 103 | 25 |
[WP] You discover a library with a biography for everyone on Earth. While reading your own, you notice that whenever someone else is mentioned, there's a footnote showing where you can find their biography. Its odd how someone who was only a sentence in your book has a whole chapter for you. | "'Yeah man I feel you; look, don't let assholes get you down. And Hey, keep the change.' Mark said, then handed the cab driver [Name: Dokar Milicevic, ref#, art.1266-pg.629-line.56] a twenty dollar bill."
This particular sentence caught my eye, having spent the last several hours skimming over my own life; I coul... | His last chapter talked about the last man he had met, me. We sat at a bar far past midnight drinking our sorrows away like we always did throughout our later lives, but we had never met until one fateful encounter at a pub. Sitting on stools stiff and seemingly brittle, the discomfort of each other's lives could still... | 2017-12-04T02:07:10 | 2017-12-04T01:59:20 | 1,553 | 127 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | "Ma'am, we have confirmed the identity with photo identification." Sergeant Miller took off his hat and thought for a moment. "Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but have you ever seen your husband make dinner before?"
"Well, no. But you've got to be mistaken," I replied. "He's in the kitchen right now getting flo... | “Do you mind if I step into your house?” asked the police woman.
“Why of course but you may be shocked, officer. My husband isn’t dead.”
The police lady steps into the kitchen to find a middle aged man cooking spaghetti.
“Can I help you officer?” asked the man.
“Yes we believe that you are dead. Can we confirm y... | 2017-10-10T07:05:33 | 2017-10-10T06:37:43 | 103 | 24 |
[WP] Teleportation has been in use for decades, and people use it daily for their transportation needs. The general public doesn't know that it doesn't actually transport your body, it destroys the original and creates a copy at the other side. The afterlife is getting very crowded. | Isenbar took a angry look at his demonic clipboard (a normal clipboard with spooky little horns) then back up to the hordes of bodies piling up at hells gates. None of the bodies names of which were listed on his horned clipboard. In fact, most of the humans in the past few decades had not been registered, a fact which... | "Almost immediately after the great minds of the world cracked TP, the governments of the world started ATP departments dedicated to preventing unwanted nukes, detritus, and people without work visas. No one knew this was a good thing, at least a good thing for us processors. Ya see, governments for a while actually we... | 2022-10-04T08:05:30 | 2022-10-04T07:55:27 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | My husband... Is an an interesting man. Not that bright, but truly kind, caring, and compassionate.
I am not.
They called me the Rose when I was a girl. Too beautiful for words, too graceful for a poem, too lovely for a song. I caught the eye of a King. He married me within weeks. He was dead within months.
I am amb... | [Poem]
An ancient adoration
Begets black,
cruel,
devilish deeds:
Entering elephants
for fearful football
games; gathering
harmful herbs
in icecream;
jerkishly jaywalking;
killing kids;
lying; looking like
more manly men; making
no niceties;
opening others’
presents; placating
Quetzalcoatl-
ritual
s... | 2020-04-14T08:29:24 | 2020-04-14T05:22:45 | 146 | 74 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | Apollo, god of the sun and light, grew tired of his lonely journey across the heavens each morning. He wished for the companionship of someone more intelligent than birds.
At first, he approached his twin, Diana. "Ride the dawn with me, Sister," he asked. But Diana refused him. She was preoccupied by a young American... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T06:59:20 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 994 | 16 |
[WP] Every time you die, you get to choose what you'll be reincarnated as. You've chosen ant 4 billion times. | "And you're back" Peter said. "This time you, wait what, you gotten yourself killed on purpose this time?".
"yes. I was done" I replied.
"So you promised. Next time you're here you'd tell me why you have chose ant for the last 4 billion times". Peter continued while ignoring the fact that I stated I was done.
"only ... | "Oh, you again? Could you at least pick something that lasts more than a few days this time?"
This wasn't Jared's first stop in heaven; or his second, or his third. As it turns out, Jared had been reincarnated almost 4 *billion* times, choosing to be an ant on many of those occasions. He had been everything at least ... | 2016-12-30T05:37:19 | 2016-12-30T04:10:29 | 51 | 19 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I couldn't stop crying. It was too much, too unbelievable. It was as if the last 10 years had never happened. The attack. The First Night. The Hordes. The war, all of the death and destruction, it was as if it had all been erased. Somehow the Elovians' gambit had paid off and I was back in this familiar, yet entirely a... |
''Carson, are you alright?''
In fact, I was alright but she won’t be. She will get sick a year later and she will die on the hospital bed.
''Yes, I’m alright. Can I go to the bathroom for a minute, please?''
I was looking at myself in the mirror. Then, it struck me. My best friend will die to a dramatic accident 4... | 2019-08-18T08:35:17 | 2019-08-18T06:22:50 | 177 | 123 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | How. How. *How!?*
This was the question that surged through the world when the wall at last came down, the world smugly prepared to receive a humbled USA, a world triumphantly rebuilt in their absence.
Only to find that America had thrived even further.
"Well," said the suave young Texan whose visage now graced our ... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2018-01-18T03:23:48 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a golden halo over their head, lost when a lie is first told consciously. Those who manage to keep their halo are recruited as "angels" and trusted with important tasks. You, an angel recruiter, see one enter your office, but with a color you have never seen before... | I tried not to gasp as he entered my room. As a recruiter, I was accustomed to seeing the soft golden flow of the halos floating about three inches above people’s heads. There weren’t a lot of them, of course, but enough that I was used to seeing them over the years. But this guy...
“Hi,” he grinned. “I’m Mike. I was ... | The first thing I noticed about the newcomer was his looks. He was the kind of guy you’d see in clothing ads.
The second thing I noticed was that his halo wasn’t truely gold. It was, to the best of my knowledge, made of tarnished brass or bronze. I had seen people with rose gold halos before, even saw one with a black... | 2018-10-03T20:52:20 | 2018-10-03T18:26:55 | 195 | 22 |
[WP] You are a renowned knight tasked with slaying a mighty dragon. On your quest, you find the beasts lair, and see it’s corpse. Relieved, and yet slightly disappointed, you prepare to take credit and report to the queen, but you notice something disturbing. The beast has been bitten in half. | In all my quests I never thought I would win before I had the chance to walk into battle. Yet when I entered the long narrow pathway to the cave no sign of life was in sight. A long trail of blood led to the center of the cave. Once I had lit the torch and stuck it in the ground before me, was when I realized I wasn’t ... | You thought you were prepared for anything, But nothing could have prepared you for this.
The dragon showed no signs of having been in a fight but never the less from the wings down to its tail were completly missing and what was left of the dragons internal organs where splling from its body to the the surrounding ar... | 2022-07-13T08:34:30 | 2022-07-13T07:24:11 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You have just gone through a Groundhog Day cycle that lasted thousands of years before you made the perfect day for yourself. Then, you wake up as a different person with a note beside you: 1 down, 7 Billion to go. | Bowling had turned out to be the key. I'd always loved it- the beer, the hard-soled shoes, my mates cheering me on, and the clattering explosion of a strike like a burst of applause. My perfect day turned out to be capped off by a rip-roaringly drunken perfect game, the last bowl of which I almost invalidated by stagge... | My hands are trembling. The fingers clenched around this mysterious note aren't my fingers.
One down, seven billion to go.
"Hey honey," calls out a soft voice. "I made us some coffee."
I walk my stiff body to the washroom, only to realize this isn't my house.
" I don't like coffee." This isn't my voice, either. ... | 2016-08-25T17:17:47 | 2016-08-25T16:46:48 | 92 | 18 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | "Alright Genny, come to papa. We're picking out your favorites today! Because we are gonna make sweet apples!"
This black scaled giant wagging her tail like a pupper here is called Genny, she's my little girl. She saved my life.
When she a wee baby, I thought i'd have a hard time raising a dragon that might eat all t... | *"And he shall wield the scythe, made of fine black steel,"* a cultist recited, adoration in his eyes.
"Ach, that hurdly counts. It was me da's scythe, Ai just got it from 'im." The farmer scratched his beard absently. "Yer grasping at shtraw. And Ai know what's shtraw when Ai see it," he added. "And alright, call a s... | 2021-03-21T17:44:22 | 2021-03-21T15:50:50 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] God does an AMA. | **I Am God. AMA**
*Submitted: 45 seconds ago*
*In the interest of time, (I am very busy after all), I am going to post the answers to your questions in order so you don’t have to waste time typing out your questions. I already know them, and this karma isn’t worth anything anyway. If you’re not sure what your answer ... | >> Why do bad things happen to good people
> You know, just by being able to ask that question on the internet you're doing better than basically everyone who's ever lived. King Soloman was rich but he didn't have on demand video. David was powerful and perhaps the greatest ruler of my People, but while he ... | 2014-12-03T12:09:23 | 2014-12-03T11:31:57 | 115 | 21 |
[WP] You were told to never stay up passed midnight. You went to sleep at 12:04am, it was still 12:04am when you woke up. | The house is as silent as death. The green glow of my alarm clock casts a pale glow over my toys. Even Frederick's fluffy face grins eerily in the strange light.
I must have drifted off, but only for a few seconds, as my clock has not yet moved. I stare at it, waiting - hoping - for it to tick.
12:04
A shiver crawl... | Mother always told me
Not to stay up late
If it's past midnight
Beware the demon's gate
Children become victims
Their bodies open hosts
I always deemed it folly
But not I'm scared the most
This night I lie awake
Eyes shut tightly, kept
Two hours past, midnight struck
But still I have not slept
Last time I eyed the ... | 2017-05-25T10:27:45 | 2017-05-25T08:23:34 | 147 | 22 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | Larry was disappointed, of course, but he was also a practical man, so he dispensed with grumbling and instead got to work. He began with the bottles first, then the scraps of food strewn about, then the shredded photographs laying across the floor like pixellated snow.
Finally, after he had squeezed the trash bag do... | The first time I saw Her was an accident. Mr. Johnson just tripped, struck his head on the table, and didn't get back up. And there She was, pale and perfect in black... and then gone.
The second time wasn't an accident. I had to see Her again, I *needed* to. So I slipped a little something extra into my wife's mornin... | 2017-06-07T18:55:59 | 2017-06-07T18:09:30 | 204 | 75 |
[WP] The Old Gods have returned to take their rightful place as world leaders, and they are not pleased with the current status of humanity. | 'I wish to submit a complaint.'
She stared at him, one of her fine, golden eyebrows cocked in an expression of surprised contempt. Framed by golden strands of hair, her face was cold and beautiful as the winter snows. Her lips were red and her eyes had no fixed colour, but flitted from green to blue, as though they ha... | The Pastor clawed at his cheeks, his nails drawing thin red lines across his face. Curling into a foetal position, he writhed in agony, screaming for a solace he could not find.
"Lord! Pl-- please. Where art thou?" His voice cracked, and his face buried deeper into his chest as the darkness began swirling at his feet... | 2017-08-11T05:41:18 | 2017-08-11T05:13:59 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Once a year, the best assassins meet in a secret location. Showing their best kills, everyone is surprised when they see a 70 year old man walk in. | The door clicked open, much to Rhonda's satisfaction. No matter how many years passed or how strongly time had stolen the deftness of her hands, a lock was a lock.
She was glad to be in from the cold. While a quiet, unassuming room by the docks was fitting, the sea spray and the chill wind coming over the water froze ... | The seven of us gathered in the usual spot; an abandoned factory in the middle of the woods. No one came here unless we brought them, and they usually didn't leave alive. After Jason came, we all stood up to start the meeting.
"Alright you guys, you know how it goes. You plug your phone to the projector, you show us ... | 2020-07-29T21:55:02 | 2020-07-29T21:41:50 | 483 | 121 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | *"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -* Arthur C. Clarke
*"Any sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from science"* \- Unknown
"The first twenty years were fine. People traveled back and forth between all the worlds connected by the spacegate network. Each world had a ... | "You could hear a pin drop" - Unknown, old Earth saying.
​
Engineering Ambassor's log, Emery Clark. Base date 201.701
​
It's been at least 18 hours. I just got back from the most awkard meeting. I need to write this out BEFORE I report it to anyone. Before lots of committees have formed.
&... | 2019-01-18T10:36:05 | 2019-01-18T09:14:48 | 2,571 | 430 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | When Matt moved within the other zones, people scuttled out of the way when they saw the number stitched on his jacket.
It had taken more effort than usual to reach the zone he entered today. A lot of carefully constructed, believable reasons. Even more effort to ensure he could come alone. As the system grew more ri... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T11:47:14 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 281 | 18 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | It was all happening so fast that we never had time to consider what would happen when it had finished happening.
Everyone with a tattoo was manifesting abilities. It was all fairly sensible. Fire tattoo? Fire powers. Ice tattoo? Ice powers. Emoji ink? Emotion manipulation.
The weird thing was the people with tribal ... | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | 2019-05-07T08:13:06 | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 3,401 | 43 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Some people are brought into this world to cure diseases, lead countries, build rockets, or fight for justice. I think I was brought into this world to serve coffee.
That’s what I tell myself every day when I unlock the door of my café. Even as a kid, I was obsessed with coffee - at first the smell, then when I was ol... | You know those vets who volunteer at events for the younger army guys? Yeah, I'm like them, except for the fact that I can shoot lasers out of my eyes. I split from the U.S. Superhuman Command five years ago. Opened a little coffee shop near my old job. Soon the new kids started coming in. We'd watch the news together ... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T22:13:37 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] A little girl walks up to a man at a desk. She is followed by something horrifying. She points to it and says "It's lost, and we need to get it back home." | The air was still. I peered up from my keyboard and noticed that all of the lights in the building had been dimmed. Not many people stayed after hours, but my team was behind on a project, and I volunteered to stay late to get a little bit more time in.
I stood up to stretch and noticed the quietness as I stood in... | The tiny girl in the yellow dress walked across the light, airy atrium to my desk. I recognized her from somewhere, but there are a lot of children on this space station, so I didn't know her name. Hundreds.
"Are you lost?" I asked.
No. Behind her, it slithered. A great, dripping Lovecraftian mass of black tentacles,... | 2017-02-10T06:51:00 | 2017-02-10T06:36:06 | 147 | 10 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | “Behold! The hundred dollar bill is gone!” Maribel said to her semi-captivated audience of two.
Her thin fingers searched through the usual spots; her sleeve, her pockets, her top hat. Coming up empty, she even checked behind her own ears just to be sure.
“Well, where is it?” the man called John said impatiently.
Ma... | "What have you been doing all these years?" You try to go along with it, you are desperate to know more about this lady.
"Well, I'm on my third life and recently, I've just trying to be normal. Do the everyday average person activities: go to work, hang out with the kids, go to the supermarket."
"And the first two?"... | 2018-11-05T20:15:29 | 2018-11-05T19:52:58 | 707 | 136 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | “Please, around the roses.” I called out, trying to salvage my garden. It was impossible to be a gardener class in an age of warriors and mages. No one cared about the little gardener boy who was just trying to maintain a healthy system of flora. No, if my plants couldn’t fire lightning bolts or wield a sword, they wan... | Swords. Their metal sings, a testimony to their maker. Coin. It jingles temptingly, a way of speaking their handler may know. But even with a forest of swords, and an ocean of gold, it is all for naught. For when there is no animals, no fruit, and not even a single stubborn strand of grass resisting the earth's embrace... | 2021-11-12T11:42:53 | 2021-09-09T20:52:32 | 1,235 | 31 |
[WP] The princess is different to say the very least. Her face covered in battle scars instead of make up, her hands as hard as stone and her eyes more frightening than a dragon. But you must perform your duty as a knight and guard her even though she may not need your protection. | "Look, your highness, I don't like it either. But you know both of our hands are tied." Looking into Rochelle's dead-set eyes was scary enough. Watching them change to reluctant understanding was almost as unsettling, since I didn't see it coming.
Rochelle threw her favorite knife across the room, bullseyed the waterm... | "Sir."
"Pardon, m'lady?"
"Good knight, dost thou value thine honor as a sword sworn to my father?"
"Oh-of course, your highness."
"And thine honor wouldst demand thou obey my commands, correct?"
"Yes, m-","Stop. I am not a timid maiden to be protected. I needest not thine protection, only thine support, particular... | 2022-10-03T13:05:57 | 2022-10-03T12:16:00 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] You've heard the stories of demons, but you always passed them off as fake, because they have seemingly no base in truth. Suddenly one day, you vanish from your house and reappear in a circle with a star in the middle of it, surrounded by hooded figures with horns and faces filled with awe | Malcolm Smith had always prided himself on being a sensible man. He might be getting on in years, but he'd kept all his senses. He'd lived a good life, and was sitting on his patio when he found himself surrounded by pitch-black flames and the screams of the damned. From a pit of brimstone, horned figures rose carrying... | Demons are the enforcers of man's fears. They either claw their way up from the fiery depths of Hell, or are born of eldritch magics in the dark, foggy forests. Either way, I had always passed off the stories of demons as fake, because they have seemingly no base in truth.
It is indeed surprising, then, that having sp... | 2019-02-14T09:10:21 | 2019-02-14T04:42:27 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] You and a friend jokingly start a religion in order to avoid taxes. Not long after you are in an accident and put in cryogenic freeze. You wake up many years later to find that it is now a major world religion. | Making yourself a god is not as hard as you would think. Coming back from the dead was always the plan, but to what effect I had no idea.
The Council of Eight pre-planned the entirety of the event. The 8 of us drew out what morales we would hold, what actions were commands, and what disobedience consisted of. The most... | I don’t remember much from the few minutes before the accident, and the bright lights from this..... chamber only make my grogginess more apparent.
To the left of me, I hear gasps from the people who seem to be remnants of the people who would have worked here.
“It... It can’t be.....” , one of the workers blurts out... | 2018-08-16T09:41:19 | 2018-08-16T09:37:55 | 90 | 29 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | I sit patiently on a stone, watching the children play around me.
They've come here every day during recess and I am pleased by their laughter and the meager offerings they bring me. Mostly small bugs, easily caught and weeds plucked like flowers laid upon the stone altar.
They are small gifts passed by small hands... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Astrid)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**They remembered.**
Once, they had been mighty. Their name was known throughout the Six Isles, and every oath in their na... | 2021-09-02T08:32:01 | 2021-09-02T07:28:26 | 288 | 93 |
[WP] A knight rescues a princess, expecting a kiss, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance. Problem is, the princess is eight years old. | The dragon roared, shaking the very foundation of the keep. It had underestimated the attacker, thinking him no more powerful than the previous soldiers that lay cut down and broken around the chamber. Crumpled, seared corpses now, flesh and metal fused into one from the intensity of the monster's heat. However, the ne... | The King glanced up and down the knight, taking in his worn cloak and rusting mail.
"How old are you, knight?" he asked.
"I will be of twenty-six years of age come this summer," the warrior did reply. The King banged his palm on the armrest of his throne, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Very well! You shall be betr... | 2016-05-23T17:27:53 | 2016-05-23T17:01:12 | 63 | 15 |
[WP] In an alternate universe where human skin changes colour according to their emotions, you alone lack this ability. As a result, nobody really believes a single word you say. | Always alone. Always solemn. Always stuck in this nasty shade of ambivalence. Ambivalence... of all colours, why this? When I was born, they thought I had died... for what newborn doesn’t seethe with the rainbow of this new, bright, terrifying world?
It was quickly decided that I was a psychopath. Unable to feel, inte... | I know I stand out. A brown amidst a sea of red. People are angry, understandably so. Their government has failed them, left them to suffer, and I agree, but my affliction receives slander instead of smiles.
"Why are you even here?" A light red woman asks me as she shoves her way by, pounds of blubber followed by thr... | 2020-02-25T09:02:00 | 2020-02-25T08:43:13 | 121 | 24 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I might be a lil crazy but I’m thinking I shouldn’t bite anything . Everyone always bites what’s in front of them and the powers range from making seeds grow into flowers to making clones out of water to jumping through time for hours. Sarah’s right beside me and she just bit into this banana and now she’s teleporting ... | *Chocolate,* I though, licking my lips. The piece that I broke off the table was coating my hands with a greasy, brown coating. I put the rest in my mouth and felt satisfied, although that thick steak that is rumored to give you the ability to talk to animals was definitely catching my attention.
Or that peppermint g... | 2020-03-19T10:15:15 | 2020-03-19T09:58:32 | 44 | 31 |
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