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[WP] The demon lord has conquered the land, and five heroes have been summoned to depose him. The heroes journey towards the demon lord--to discover that he's built a thriving economy, public healthcare, and the land is more prosperous than it has ever been. | "Look, I know what you're all thinking. I'm thinking it too. But, bottom line, we were brought here to do a job."
"Yes, yes we were. I think we can all agree on that. But- and here, I think, is where we diverge- what, *exactly*, is the job we were brought here to do?"
"To kill the demon lord!"
"Those are the wor... | “Oh hush, Dessa,” Dante cooed, his delicate fingers wiping the sides of his lute with a cloth. The tavern bustled around them with a strange anticipation.
“I won’t hush, ya dainty, I think we’ve got to leave tonight.” The female dwarf at the table was gripping her beer, knuckles white.
The aarakocra next to her pla... | 2021-01-28T10:01:35 | 2021-01-28T08:44:11 | 491 | 36 |
[WP] Civilization has fallen and you have the most important job of all, keeping the Netflix Servers online for the survivors. | "I'm trying, I'm trying!"
Toby ran the DNS Lookup again. Nothing. Everything was working fine. The IP addresses were redirecting like they should, there was no reason why –
"Where's Fargo!? I can't watch Fargo!"
"Fargo was only on the UK Netflix", Toby replied, as a third voice came from the speakers.
"Is there any... | I am Liberty, her skin long ago greened
For a nation stalled by the prospect of constant vigilance.
I am Chichen Itza, whose relics proclaim a once proud people
Sauntering on wide promenades, tasting pineapples and ripe tomatoes
Offered by beaded vendors with pushcarts,
Who did not sense the coming conquistadors.
... | 2015-10-28T10:16:12 | 2015-10-28T10:09:23 | 195 | 20 |
[WP] Aliens have come across one of the Pioneer spacecrafts and have tried using the map to trace it back to its origin. However, there is some debate on whether or not this is the right solar system, as the plaque shows 9 planets, but this one only has 8 according to the inhabitants of the 3rd plan
([Plaque](https:/... | ENTERING STANDARD SPACE IN 60 SECONDS
Admiral Kayhill looked anxiously across the screens on the bridge. He didn’t like this at all. Instead of the flood of information about the exit pointing showing he was presented with darkness on the screens.
The Fifth fleet were responding to the strangest call Kayhill had eve... | "It's not right. It can't be."
Unit Five looked around worriedly. All around him, hundreds of alien life forms were bustling along, each a single instrument in the orchestral cacophony of chaos. He admired the lights and technology around them - not bad, for how recent their recorded history was.
Unit Four chomped do... | 2019-10-14T06:52:35 | 2019-10-14T05:19:31 | 862 | 464 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | Coming home at eight p.m., the first thing I did was help myself to a cup of joe and read today's paper. Mornings never left me enough time for that simple pleasure, even though I lived by myself. Somehow, all my time seemed to be spent at work, with work, or for work. Funny, that.
The beans must have been getting ol... | Weird, I thought. I knew my cable box could turn on my TV for Weather Warnings, but I never thought it would actually happen.
A scratching sound is coming from the TV. No, not a scratching. It's a whisper.
"please, please" it says. A young woman's voice? Maybe a child. Hard to say, it's so low. I turn the volume up ... | 2016-08-10T07:19:14 | 2016-08-10T07:18:16 | 485 | 59 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Erryn relished the moment. There was something cathartic in holding between his tendrils the terms of surrender, in knowing that you hold the only hope for a dying race. In that moment, he held the power of life and death for the fifteen billion humans on the planet below, as well as the one who sat across the table fr... | Drifting endlessly and peacefully through this void, I gazed upon the great blue sphere. Its skies swirling with white ink. The low rumbling of our ship had my brethren in a deep sleep.
A great white plain, frozen and still, is where we made our temporary home. A small elderly woman made her way out of that dark and s... | 2020-02-07T14:00:31 | 2020-02-07T12:50:43 | 106 | 41 |
[WP]As you sit in a dark room filled with armed scarred men, and sit at a table with a shark tank in the middle, all while scratching your cat with your robotic hand, you begin to think you might have... accidentally... become a super villain. | Felix purred quietly in my lap as I ran my prosthetic hand through his fur. Despite the odd twitch of the mechanics, my old friend seemed to welcome the feeling. At either side of me stood hired mercenaries, acting as my body guards. One of them coughed, the abrasive sound waking the cat. He nimbly jumped down from my ... | Mr. Snuffles was lying comfortable on my lap, purring like a madman. I had gotten him from a little kid, he gave it willingly to me. He must have. I looked upon my grand room, I had recently refurbished it, I chose a dark style, it was quite fitting. My grandmother was nice enough to donate her old shark tank, good ol'... | 2017-04-04T14:54:15 | 2017-04-04T12:44:09 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] "BE NOT AFRAID" said the multi-eyed, feather-winged being. "Sir, this is a Wendy's" sighed the baggy-eyed, tired cashier. | The first thing James noticed wasn't the wings covered in a purple-tinted flame. Nor was it the fact that the man was 7 feet tall, with several more eyes than should be normal. No, the first thing James noticed was the way he carried himself, the way he entered the establishment and made his way straight to James. Jame... | "Be not afraid!" said the multi-eyed, feather-winged being.
"Sir, this is a Wendy's" sighed the baggy-eyed, tired cashier.
"*Cawaak!"* screeched the being, shaking the steel tipped spear it held in one wing at the cashier. "I see you shake in fear, oh naked one! Let thy kingdom of Wind-ees perish and burn. Let thy as... | 2021-12-27T05:16:34 | 2021-12-27T04:27:31 | 1,079 | 97 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | Saying that religious belief is what brought humanity to a near end, a near end where The Falling occured wouldn't exactly be correct to say. It took until 2085, fifteen years after the instantaneous, near apocolypse that left Earth's population at just over seven billion to find the only possible explanation as to why... | Everything had changed. Ninety percent of the world dead in an instant. No more like Ninety Nine point nine nine nine.
The survivors were shell shocked, no-one could understand at first why WE were spared. We had nothing in common, no shared race or sex or background or even country. Just a few thousand of us left... | 2016-10-22T02:36:52 | 2016-10-22T01:56:06 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | "That's...not quite what I expected."
15 years. For such a long wait, this was a little...underwhelming, to say the least.
"You sure doc? Steve doesn't have any other powers?"
"We're sure, Mr. Lang."
I leaned back on my chair with my eyes closed, relaxing my muscles as I let the truth sink in. After a couple o... | Lucky number seven baby! First they called us crazy for having her take crossfit 7 months in. Then they said we were boarding insane when we switched her to an all soylent diet at 2 years. Now here we are. All six kids had moderately impressive, but still underwhelming superpowers by our standards.
Lucky number seven ... | 2017-07-07T22:57:46 | 2017-07-07T22:33:29 | 743 | 180 |
[WP] You wake up in a destroyed underground lab after 5,000 years of cryogenic stasis. When you reach the surface, you find that the race that replaced humans views you as a hyperintelligent and highly dangerous Eldritch Abomination. | What shocked me most of all was the silence. What was once my home, New York City the bustling center of the city that never sleeps, now is just... nothing. I was escorted through the streets by the... things.
I thought back to when I woke up, and about 30 or so were looking at me with their eye, at least I think the... | Even when made by 6 limbs, a gesture of warding against evil is strangely recognisable across species boundaries. 'They must consider me some kind of eldritch abomination', I thought, 'how strange'. After 5000 years of cryosleep, I would have expected a different reaction to the one I get every time someone sees me fi... | 2018-10-31T14:59:39 | 2018-10-31T12:43:55 | 53 | 31 |
[WP] The aliens who captured you have determined that the fate of mankind will depend on the outcome of a competition that will pit you against one of their champions. They sit you in front of a board and explain the rules of their traditional game. You're shocked to recognize the rules: it's chess! | "-so those are the rules. The game takes place on an 8x8 board and the pieces are initially arranged in the position you see on screen now. As this is a traditional game, both teams will be awarded 90 of your minutes to play the first 40 moves, and 30 additional minutes to complete the game. Each side also will receive... | I hold my mouth half open and try not to inhale out of my mouth so that I force some drool down the side of my chin. The aliens have just told me that if I lose this game in front of me, they will wipe out our entire species. I try to look as dumb as possible so that they will not realize that I play chess almost every... | 2022-11-12T22:56:11 | 2022-11-12T18:14:03 | 255 | 84 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | “Well, now that is remarkable….”
I opened my eyes, coated in blood, to see my murderer standing in the doorway. He seemed even taller now that I was slumped into the fetal position in the corner of the small room he had kept me in for the last three days. He had his left arm wrapped around a tall, pale skinned woman; ... | Blood dripped down my chin in viscous globs, thick and gooey. It felt like someone had set a bomb off in my head.
The man who called himself Galfond wheeled back with the golf club, going for another swing. A driver. It landed with an ear-splitting clunk.
"Ah!" I shrieked. "Why are you doing this?"
I looked up at Ga... | 2017-02-08T09:41:30 | 2017-02-08T09:10:38 | 300 | 85 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | "In Act 1, scene 3 of Macbeth, we are finally introduced to our main character. This is shown through various supernatural elements..."
Professor Yates continued with his lecture as I doodled chibi dinosaurs and Harry Potter stick figures in the margins of my notebook. Stifling a yawn, I jotted down a quick synopsis o... | “François, are you with us?” I hear the Mrs. Thomas say through the gargled crackling of the classroom speakers. I immediately snap out of my daydream and reply:
“Yes Madame”
“You need to pay more attention to class, or else you’ll fall behind.” again the speakers crackle. They really need to replace those things.
“... | 2017-11-13T20:08:12 | 2017-11-13T20:03:10 | 401 | 37 |
[WP] Aliens had been invited to their human coworker's wedding. They are both scared yet amazed by the human wedding traditions. "What are the weddings even like on your planets?" asked the concerned human. "For starters, we don't make our friends and siblings our temporary slaves..." said one. | "Human teeth are formidable weapons," Quetzlim^4 spoke quietly, its hexagonal eyes illuminated by the holographic slide show. "They can rip flesh from bone, pierce the toughest of hides, and are commonly augmented with metallic armour to arrange them in an optimal biting pattern. However, when pursuing peaceful relatio... | A persistent hum, punctuated by gusts of laughter, hung in the air. Myglev, a resident of planet Zohr, and his compatriot/coworker Zev sat at a table placed in the middle of the rows of tables under the tent that had been put up for this very occasion--a wedding. The guests, bar the aliens, were a fairly ordinary weddi... | 2021-08-20T05:08:53 | 2021-08-20T04:45:04 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] Donald Trump is a fictional satirical character (a la Stephen Colbert). The dedicated actor playing him is getting increasingly desperate for someone to get the joke. | "I just don't get it... I just don't get it..."
Donald was pacing now, as Andrew, his aide, watched. Andrew didn't dare interrupt the man while he was thinking. Not for fear of reprisal, but out of respect of a genius and his process.
"Andrew," Trump said, breaking from his pacing to plead with the man many years his... | Marc Antonio "Donald Trump" Smith was an artist who truly dedicated himself to his work.
24 long years ago he had constructed his greatest role whilst a young idealistic improv actor in Brooklyn.
When working at a large hotel chain for his second job, he encountered the CEO and owner of the hotel, Ronald Dumpt.
The... | 2015-07-22T09:56:57 | 2015-07-22T09:43:39 | 887 | 31 |
[WP] Your elf girlfriend is having a breakdown because it now just hit her that she will outlive you and your children. | Vilani was hysterical about this. Her graceful cheeks were streaking with tears and her thin lips were shaking so badly you’d think if was February. My heart sank as I saw this distress ruin the mirth we once had. She just stood there in the middle of grocery isle struggling to breath. My arms curled around her, and I ... | I passed by a door when I stopped. There was something off. There was someone there, near the bed, and I could have sworn it made a noise. Backtracking, I noticed a blonde woman sitting on the edge of the bed with her hands over her face. And I heard her made the noise again, she hucked in air.
"What is it my love?" I... | 2022-12-27T02:35:36 | 2022-12-26T23:24:44 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Another day another dollar," Bob Saget whispers to himself after a long night of shooting his latest motion picture: Horror Directly Following Late Night Movie Shoots.
"You be safe now! Don't want any sort of horror scenario happening to you on the way home!" chuckles the director.
"What the fuck did I tell you ab... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T07:10:06 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] “Dad, why aren’t we allowed to go outside?” your daughter asks one day. But she already knows. There is no outside anymore. | "Dad, why aren't we allowed to go outside?"
*My baby girl. So sweet. So innocent.* My eyes welled with tears. I had imagined this day for years, before Marie and I had even met, much less talked about kids. I always saw her little hand wrapped around my finger as we walked, my towering figure acting as a deterrent fro... | It had, like most things, seemed like a good idea at the time.
"Dad?"
I watched the glimmering, glittering patch of sky, the only light left in a vast expanse of perfect black. Stars were born, winking out moments later in flashes of blue-shifted supernova glare. Spiral arms of galaxies whipping around, flicking glit... | 2018-03-11T20:49:18 | 2018-03-11T20:32:59 | 130 | 29 |
[WP] you discover that one of the nurses treating your terminal cancer is an angel of death and she is trying to kill you. Instead of reporting her you decide to subtlety evade her attempts to kill you just to see her reaction when she comes to work each day and you are still alive
Edit: The response to this has been ... | This didn't end up with the 'evading' part. But i wanted to write this anyhow.
I've seen Death in my time on this Earth.
I've seen Death as he collected his due from the fallen that I felled for him on the battlefield.
I've seen Death standing peacefully and patiently on the periphery as I tried in vain to sta... | My eyes were shut, but I could feel her hand tampering with my morphine and felt her increasing my dosage. I was trying my best to resist a smirk as she didn't know that I was still awake.
When I was confident she exited my room, I lowered it back to its normal level and fell into a deep satisfying slumber.
I woke u... | 2018-06-22T08:17:06 | 2018-06-22T07:12:02 | 20 | 15 |
[WP]: A caterpillar has no idea it will become a butterfly, it simply has instincts that commands to start building a coccoon. In a similar fashion, you have no idea why you are compelled to start digging this really, really deep hole, but it feels verry important. | It takes a while before I find the perfect spot. It's quite a hike from where our camp was, but I made better time alone and without all the extra crap in my bag weighing me down. All I've brought with me are our water bottles and shovels. I start with mine, since I'm more used to its heft in my hand.
I begin to dig.... | “Marius, stop this!
Please!”
Half whispered memories floated by. My Wife was shouting at me again. People were gathering at the edges of my vision, whispering and pointing. They came and went, and so did the minutes, the hours, the days.
It didn’t matter. They didn’t understand. The ground had such wonders to show ... | 2018-10-10T08:32:59 | 2018-10-10T08:12:19 | 874 | 150 |
[WP] Science and Magic are merely opposite sides to which the pendulum of time swings. It has leaned for the past few centuries towards the Laws of Science but even now it begins to return ever faster back towards the Laws of Magic. | F=ma, right? Force is mass times acceleration. We've known that for hundreds of years. High schoolers can recite that in their sleep. So why didn't that damn cup fall off the table?
I had just finished breakfast and was cleaning up when I accidentally backhanded a half-empty cup of coffee. It skittered across the few ... | The rain fell upwards when the first witch was born in Borage. Two midwives helped Rella into the world, pulling her forth with slipping hands. Outside the window that rattled with her mother's cries, drops of rain slid towards the roof. The epidural failed to work, and the screams reached a crescendo.
Rella grew li... | 2016-08-12T08:03:01 | 2016-08-12T06:38:20 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] Spontaneously overnight, all of humanity is transformed into a vast array of mythical and fantasy creatures, based on who they were on the inside. You weren't even remotely prepared for what you became. |
I was never a nice person before the change. And afterwards I… was still a prick. I admit it. I don’t like people. And that didn’t change when all of humanity became everything written out in every Fantasy book ever written. Night owls became vampires and werewolves, kindly grandmothers and spritely children change... | I coughed myself awake. Great start to the day! As I forced myself out of bed I realized that I was really sore, and there was an odd clicking sound as I moved. I reached up to run my eyes and nearly cut them out with my newly blue, scaly hand. Or, rather, claw. I risked a glance in my dresser mirror to reveal I was a ... | 2020-06-11T23:27:45 | 2020-06-11T22:06:54 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | I had finally done it. My finest achievement sat in front of me, glistening in the florescent lights of my workshop. I put on the suit and typed in "1 year +" into the controller on my wrist. With a bright flash of light and a loud *pop* I felt myself being ripped out of time. It was a strange sensation and is very har... | "You know, since causality stopped," he continued. "I know computers have been useless and the news has been hard to get, but mate, it's the end of the freaking world! Miscellaneous items seem to be running backwards in time at random. Planes falling out of the sky, random implosions, explosions, objects being created ... | 2016-06-30T09:07:18 | 2016-06-30T08:36:56 | 1,773 | 174 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Unjustly" I said, as loudly and clearly as I could.
The presiding justice was an elderly man - probably in his late 80s, maybe even older. He blinked at me with steel grey eyes that despite his advanced age were as sharp and penetrating as any I had encountered.
"Unjustly." he replied, curtly. "Yes. You heard me co... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T07:50:17 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 457 | 66 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | *Right this way, Mr. Muller*
"Right where?"
*Right here, follow my voice*
I'm not sure where I am. My last memory is getting in my car. I must have had an accident. I feel warm, safe and soft. Is this what painkillers feel like? No wonder everyone and their grandmother is addicted to them.
*Mr. Muller, you're not i... | Was this perhaps the cruel joke of some omnipresent force? Before me sat a brown, leatherbound tomb that measured out to be a similar height to my fully standing figure. Save for the dimly lit area around me there was only an unrelenting void. There was no distinguishable source for the light and the only other definin... | 2018-07-04T01:42:55 | 2018-07-04T00:04:01 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | As I tossed the last can of generic, cheap beer I had left to my name, I sobbed. I’m not an alcoholic, but my girlfriend of 5 years was cheating on me and alcohol was the last thing holding reality at bay. Now that was gone too. Jenny and I had met in college and I thought that we had a great thing going on. There had ... | Her head was against the wall. Today was falling apart. She lost her girlfriend in the cruelest way possible: a thirteen second voicemail clearly recorded at a party. A voicemail that awful girl clearly hadn't meant to send. Her head hurt. She was all cried out and had exhausted her Taylor Swift playlist.
If that was... | 2016-03-30T17:17:24 | 2016-03-30T16:54:04 | 108 | 12 |
[WP] Nuclear war ensued before either God or Devil could begin Armageddon the old-fashioned way. Mankind is just... gone. Now an angel bumps into a demon in the wastes left behind, both wondering what they're supposed to do now... | I switched out an angel and a demon for God and Satan. Sorry for changing the prompt!
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God looked around at the devastation. All gone, before he could even pass judgement on a single one of them. His greatest creation. His greatest mistake.
"'All part of your plan', eh?" a horned figure said behind hi... | "Well...what do you want to do now.? The humans are gone, most of the flora and all of the fauna. all that's left is rubble, and these-- roaches." He spit the last word out with disdain. The same contempt he had felt for humans now transferred to one of the only leftover species. Roaches weren't as fun to toy wit... | 2020-05-11T00:20:25 | 2020-05-10T22:01:07 | 426 | 18 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Have you ever considered, you know, doing something with your lives Seamus?" Death sat next to me in the pub, taking a swig of his pint.
"What do you mean!? I've finally perfected the brew, can't you taste how amazing this is? I have it on good authority that it's the best in the universe!"
"Seamus, you perfected th... | "Call it" Death said, the coin twirling between his bony fingers.
"Do we really need to keep going through this charade?" I asked.
How long had it been now? 500 lives? The first time I went through, I expected reincarnation, but life... or I guess Death, was not so kind. I got to relive life from the point I cho... | 2016-09-23T09:14:52 | 2016-09-23T08:47:36 | 2,418 | 15 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | "I good girl." Said the scruffy black cat.
The orc jailer squinted down at the talking feline. He was a great green brute of an orc, and was the very last line of defense in the intricate cave system of the Western Mountain Orc Prison.
The orc jailer usually delighted in having wild rats pass by his post at night, ... | "You can't do this. When the king hears what you've done to his men."
"The king will hear it from me when I return. You had one job, keep my friends safe. Half of them are dead, and the other half are gone."
Some hero I turned out to be. Summoned to this strange land, told I was there to save the kingdom. It wasn't s... | 2019-12-07T13:02:32 | 2019-12-07T11:42:39 | 171 | 38 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | Lance Ravenbow here. Professional armorer and dragon slayer.
This reminds me of a time in my younger days when the people of the town of Quinnsmere hired me to kill the Woebegone Dragon. I was a young man then, given to anger, flights of fancy, and a romantic streak a mile wide. If I'd done my research, if I'd paid at... | *February 28, 2021*
Okay, one of the things I wished for was her. That didn't mean I wanted her to kill her husband to make it happen. I'm blameless! This isn't what I asked for.
Even though all of us worked in the same office (had worked together for the last ten years, I'd watched the two of them meet and marry), a... | 2021-08-06T12:27:37 | 2021-08-06T10:23:04 | 51 | 34 |
[WP] Almost giving up on love, you are set up for a blind date. Upon meeting up, you notice your date is literally blind. They ask for your name and you faintly say "Medusa" | "... Medusa," she said, almost in a whisper.
"Oh, you're a gorgon? Medusa's a beautiful name; is it a traditional one?"
Medusa blinked. Once. Twice. That was not the response she was expecting. "You're not... freaked out?"
Ethan shrugged. "Freaked out? Nah, my best friend growing up was a lamia. My school was pretty... | 22:36
He's late.
You silently curse Sthenno and Euryale, at least they could have picked someone punctual for the blind date.
You take a sip of your gin and tonic, now watered down. But I guess they are right, they have the same power as me, and nevertheless, they live happy and fulfilling lives, and yet me, the you... | 2020-08-27T07:54:40 | 2020-08-27T07:16:22 | 386 | 99 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | "I asked you to hold on a minute," she grumbles, tugging off the last black thigh-length boot. "Ugh, I swear, these things didn't use to be so hard to get off."
"You, um, that's--"
"Yes." She sighs. "I know, I should have told you sooner, but, I mean, you're so ... nice. I didn't want to break your heart to realize y... | "The fuck, Alice?" I shouted, nearly tripping over my own feet trying to back out of the room.
She straightened up quickly, dropping the weapons that were in her hands. "I, uh, I-"
"You know what, *dear*? I don't want to fucking hear it." I pointed at the suit that lay pooled around her feet. "You've nearly killed th... | 2020-10-30T12:06:53 | 2020-10-30T12:04:44 | 117 | 39 |
[WP] Necromancy is a new field of magic. You recently graduated as one of the few degreed necromancers in the country, You are currently helping search and rescue find bodies after an earthquake. Biomancers have it easy finding the living. There are so many dead. So many. | Hundreds of dark shapes came into my vision, fading in all at once. The shapes floated loosely above countless piles of rubble and up into the air above. Other bits of shapes stayed close to their buried bodies. Markers, if all else failed they were markers to find the deceased. They helped me see what I needed to see,... | 'So you choose to major in necromancy?' The admission clerk says with eyes void of life.
'Yes!', Me a naive 18-somthing excitedly exclaim.
How foolish.
Nercromancy was introduced as a course in universities only 2 years ago and as you would imagine, got alot of interest and traction into a promising field.
However... | 2022-06-18T01:14:40 | 2022-06-18T00:53:16 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has always thought itself very smart for figuring out how to ride a giant explosion into space. Turns out there's a much easier way and the rest of the galaxy thinks we're insane. | Iria tapped a few keys with her her follicle strands, calling up the ship's AI. After a few seconds, the plodding processor summoned a projection of the user interface. It was a Nehn, like her, one of the more widespread races in this galactic cluster. She asked, "Why are we going to investigate the Sol system? The hum... | *Patent 52894-14A*
Name: *Trebuchet Mark II*
Date Filed: *15th of October, 1482 (Earth Time)*
Description: *A trebuchet capable of firing a 9500 kg projectile over 300 000 meters. The projectile is accelerated in a circular motion by a lever attached to a weight. The weight is accelerated by an electromagnetic field... | 2019-01-21T08:06:56 | 2019-01-21T05:47:56 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | "So...ya. That's basically it. You flub up the ritual, you get this." I paced around the circle they had drawn on the floor with...crayons? Maybe chalk? In any case, nothing professional. "I mean, did you guys even try? Have you ever seen a pentagram before? Pentagrams have five points, eh? This here," I gestured towar... | The sounds of Billy Joel was replaced as a foul smell filled my nose.
"Dammit, I need to fix- Oh."
I was surrounded by a ring of hooded occultists.
The disappointment in the air was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal.
I stood in the circle, calculator in one hand and pen in the other, as the hoodies started muttering ... | 2016-02-02T19:06:24 | 2016-02-02T18:16:53 | 53 | 13 |
[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest." | I walk into the guild. These people seem shocked, I believe I’m here for the same reason as any one else, I want to go on one of the ‘quests’. From what I hear if I am to complete one of these, I can obtain gold. I like gold very much. It’s shiny and cool and people like to come to my den when I have gold and we fight ... | Us dragons don't make much money these a days. Ever since the famed battle of Urug-tral where dragons were defeated at the hands of wealthy tree-slayers, we've been unable to get our wings off the ground. Not in the same way, anyway. We get by. And it's not like we did not avenge our fallen. Indeed as history shows, th... | 2020-06-08T14:32:09 | 2020-06-08T13:46:59 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] After abducting one of the 'humans', scientists believed they were a prey species with no drive. The specimen captured was the picture of subservience, doing anything asked of it once the translators were active. And 'subservient' was all the military needed to hear. | Commander Xlantor stared down once more at the specimen. It seemed passive enough. Sitting there in its enclosure scratching undecipherable squiggles onto the surface. The squiggles weren’t in any standard universal language he recognized. It looked up,at him and once again flashed its teeth and let out a series of sho... | 'They're not a threat, arch-major.'
'Intelligence, actuators, creativity--they lean heavily on symbionts for digestion and development, yes, but that isn't the worst. Put enough of that together and you know what can happen!'
'Khalligaern, I asked it to shine my boots politely, and it did. It even put in effort and w... | 2021-02-24T22:01:58 | 2021-02-24T21:12:57 | 356 | 241 |
[WP] She signed up to be in the army to avoid an arranged marriage. On her wedding day, she smiled at the shock of her parents and the fiance she didn't want when soldiers come to the church to draft her. "We apologize for ruining this day but she's coming with us," said the soldier to her father. | Jennifer feigned a smile. She was running out of time.
The priest continued through the rehearsed lines almost hiding the boredom behind his words. Jennifer couldn't decide if the elder's slow pace was preferable. "If any should-"
Jennifer eagerly looked towards the door to the church which had just opened. She sighe... | "She's coming with us", I regret to say
and be guilty of ruining this day.
The hand that would've held a wedding band
now poised to wield a sword and stand
with brothers in arms on field of battle
, saved the fate of farmstead chattel.
A mother's tears, a father's scowl
could scarce be hidden by the... | 2021-03-25T10:48:46 | 2021-03-25T09:42:02 | 209 | 90 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | "How many have we lost so far?" Growled General Barkler, as he stared at the great blue orb sitting in space. He had been ordered to fetch this world and its spoils, but it was not coming easily. It may as well be inside the neighbor's fence.
"The tally is in the tens of millions, sir. But it's worse than that." The f... | The beings reviled themselves to be what we all fear, everyone saw the end of the human race, end of our world, a world war, this is how they scare the other aliens, humans are the violent creatures of the galaxy, so, we are used to the destruction of our species, as it has happened twice already.
“Look now! See what ... | 2019-06-11T09:05:18 | 2019-06-11T08:24:52 | 216 | 26 |
[WP] At the turn of the 23rd century, knowledge can be accessed the way Neo learned kung-fu, however, the vast majority of people only read super-hero comics and watch family feud. You just stumbled upon a largely unused file titled "philosophy". | In the year 2239 popular fiction was viewed as tawdry and vulgar -- just as it had been for the past 500 years. Philosophy and 'proper' literature opposed popular fiction and were viewed as both more interesting and informative -- it's only that nobody read them. Though 'opposed' is not the right word, here. Philosophy... | This is only my second response ever, and my first got downvoted, so here we go!
Mom! Do you know what puh-hil-osophy is?”
She didn’t respond, she must be watching family feud.
Mom always said not to learn new things without telling anyone, but I’m Eight now and I can do what I want.
I sit down, and load in the m... | 2018-12-15T22:18:33 | 2018-12-15T22:06:11 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] All your life you slaved in the mines, hauling the black rocks to your master. You hear the masters mad laugh, "Ho Ho Ho!", he demands more rocks.
Wonder what he does with them all, but best not asking, or he will call you 'naughty' and punish you. | Claus gave a hearty chuckle as he slammed the cage door shut in my face, and a chorus of giggling reindeer answered him. Behind them, I could see the faces of the elves staring helpless from their frosty workshop windows. None of them dared speak up against Santa's oppression; they were only one step up from those of u... | "Psst. PSST. Sugarplum, are you fuckin ready? Today's the d-" Peppermint tries to say before the elves hear the grumble and squeaks of the rafters above them, indicating that the fat giant is on his way down for the daily inspection. "Hooo^oooo Hooo^oooo Hooo^oooo , what the fuck do we have here?" his bellows shake the... | 2015-12-16T13:28:14 | 2015-12-16T11:25:27 | 674 | 14 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | "Contact in 3...2...1...grounded."
Mirai felt the deck push against him through his magboots. He was already suited up and ready to disembark. Mist began to form as warmer air flooded into the airlock. His eyes flickered across the script from his helmet HUD: mostly green but with a few orange lines of warning. *Nothi... | It’s a cool day on Raambina. About 98 kelvin, according to the forecast. On days of this temperature, most residents like the idea of staying inside. The good news for them is that every inhabitant of Raambina lives inside a facility designed to keep things about 200 degrees warmer.
“It’s too damn cold.”
“Speak ... | 2020-03-05T23:04:25 | 2020-03-05T22:43:21 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] The evil Emperor has discovered that a child has been born who is destined to end his rule and bring peace to the realm. He secretly arranges to send his best agents to the child's home - not to kill the child, but to ensure that the child's destiny is fulfilled. | "You are certain of this?" The Evil Emperor gazed down into the milky eyes of his court wizard, staring into them to ensure he was being told the truth. The wizard, hunched over from old age and the past few hours spent studying the star charts before him, did not gaze away. "Absolutely, my lord. In a week's time, no m... | First time at trying this, but this prompt intrigued me.
All my life i hate hated politics. All these greedy businesses bribing their way past laws and creating loop holes just to line their own pockets, not caring about who or what they destroyed. Finally it got to a breaking point where people had had enough. Roits ... | 2019-05-26T23:43:39 | 2019-05-26T21:48:14 | 168 | 10 |
[WP] When humans got to space, we learned very quickly that precious minerals weren’t so precious when there were entire asteroids made of the stuff. You saw the REAL market, and sell something only Earth has that everyone wants: Shrubberies. | "Welcome to *Ericaceae Station!"* Lena said, cheerfully, as the Zolodai ambassador lumbered onto the main concourse of the large trading station in orbit around Luna.
The Zolodai lowered his shaggy-furred head so it was level with Lena's. She reached up and gently scratched the sort fur on the sides of the sloth-like... | Shruberries are the most precious species on the universe, they are only observed on earth, something about it's unique characteristics pleases any species, it's color and shape are still a mystery, somehow the plant is capable of adapting itself to the environment even after harvested, until it uses all it's energy an... | 2022-09-03T16:43:24 | 2022-09-03T13:25:30 | 72 | 10 |
[WP] Nuclear Weapons don't actually exist. You are to brief the president-elect on this fact.
Nuclear Weapons don't actually exist. The WWII bombing of Japan was a cover up. You are to brief the president-elect on this fact. Good luck! | "**Bullshit!**"
"I assure you, Mr. President, I'm being entirely-"
"That's *bullshit*, Jack, and you know it! My father was posted at Los Alamos, for Chrissakes! My grandather could watch the mushroom clouds from his goddamn *porch*!"
I sighed. I knew this was going to be difficult.
"Okay, sir. *Okay*. There is suc... | "John. Five minutes." Eddy says from the door.
Eddy's been secret service since I stepped foot in the white house nine years ago. Granted that time I came in via the tunnels and the small rail system. Like a child's train at a park. This time I came through the front door.
I can hear the president-elect chatting away... | 2015-03-18T18:49:21 | 2015-03-18T18:49:07 | 915 | 114 |
[WP] Your twin is the Chosen One, born with powerful abilities. But you were born with none. Because they were born gifted, your twin took everything from you as they bathed in the spotlight. Your anger drove you to become better, working hard to rival your twin, yet they call YOU the villain.
**EDIT** : Apparently th... | From the titbits I’ve been granted over the years or overheard being described to Harald, my birth must have been hilarious to watch and not be a part of.
When the mother of the “Chosen One” goes into labour and gives birth, no one has any idea what to do when after popping one child out, she carries on with labour an... | **"A frisbee! A fucking frisbee!"**
I overturn another table sending accounting documents flying. "I go to the park to throw a frisbee to myself and suddenly I am being yelled at like I just launched a nuke!" I sigh and roll the nearest chair over and collapse into it."Next thing that I hear, that 'crack team' of his ... | 2020-01-01T07:12:48 | 2020-01-01T06:40:36 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The day after donating blood, you receive a phone call at work. "We need you to see a specialist immediately. There's a police escort waiting outside. Go NOW." | You hadn't finished stirring the sugar into the gross brew that was more a suggestion towards coffee than coffee itself when the phone rang. You looked at the caller ID skeptically. It was a number that you couldn't remember, but the right area code. You pick up the phone and start the spiel that had been drilled into ... | Lily squealed in excitement - she would see the president *in person* today. Not only that, she was personally invited by the Mayor himself to the PR event organised by her local blood donation camp.
She hopped all the way to the limo waiting for her downstairs - The two cops who'd accompany her frisked and cleared he... | 2015-03-17T09:42:03 | 2015-03-17T09:24:13 | 74 | 55 |
[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... | We thought getting rid of them would bring a stable peace to the World.
After all... Americans started the war. They were the main Military power on Earth. Without them in the picture, we wouldn't see a need to fight one another anymore. Real issues like Global Warming could finally be dealt with.
We expected World P... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T00:24:00 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 254 | 34 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | Alex quivered at the sight of it. The Suit. One of the most unique body armors ever, and given to his regiment for further testing after its last user perished in battle. The military had sent an entire division to retrieve it, and that mission had been classified as well. Alex only knew about it since he was one of th... | All in all, The Suit was masterfully built. Layer upon layer it was designed to be anything the user ever wanted. But each time someone stepped into The Suit, it always responded with "Not original user, booting basic mode."
Of course that's why The Suit was set at Ft. Bragg for the recruit to try it out before moving... | 2019-08-19T13:55:35 | 2019-08-19T12:49:18 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | The students filed into the room slowly, some clearly uncomfortable in the more modern clothing that had, for the moment, replaced the tradition student robes. The front of the room was dominated by a stack of crates, each containing a small chicken, in varying levels of calm.
"Silence," the professor began, gesturing... | Magic schools demand miracles and the assignments are a real pain. What's worse? The professors are all old coots in long frocks.
"Mr. Johnson, your spell is rather...rather..." Professor Pulsifer huffed, proving the point.
"Yes, sir?" Godfrey Johnson, sophomore, answered.
"Well, it's a rather crude spell. It, uh, i... | 2021-04-02T01:22:24 | 2021-04-02T00:02:18 | 302 | 96 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | Jen gnawed her lip as she stared through the lens. Jase hadn't covered it with his thumb, which was unusual. Even more unusual, he was actually carrying groceries, a couple of big paper bags of them, one in each arm.
 
"Please let me in, Jennifer," he said. "Things will be different."
 
He'd ha... | I feel a buzz in my pocket. I pull my phone out and see an emergency alert across the screen. "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC."
"Panic?" I wonder out loud, "why would I panic?"
Just then I hear a knock at the front door. I walk over to it and peer through the blurry glass. It seems like my g... | 2019-01-12T04:58:53 | 2019-01-12T03:53:40 | 8,403 | 190 |
[WP] A hero and a villain are both perfectly aware of each other's secret identities. they never reveal those identities because they are the only 2 competent employees at their shared day job, and neither wants the full burden of work if the other no-shows. | They sighed as they sat across from each other in their cubicles. Their eyes just barely peered over the dividers that separated them.
“Hey, Tim.”
“How was your weekend Chia.”
“It was alright, just had some personal things to deal with, but I got through it.”
“Same.”
It was the sa... | *Oh no, oh shit, oh fuck.* I think to myself, each one panicking more than the last. This would ruin everything, my life would collapse around me. I could see it there, my newly budding love life would be decimated. I would never see my family again. *Oh God, my dog. What would happen to my dog!?*
Standing here looki... | 2022-10-18T02:38:23 | 2022-10-17T16:35:57 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] An alien general is baffled that their state of the art stealth ships equiped with every signal blocking and camouflage technology their species has to offer keep getting destroyed, at the same time humans discover the ability to see the colour red is apparently extremely rare | Warning lights flashed and sirens blared as 7 K-class cruisers popped into existence, their cloaks already enabled. Captain Sel remained seated as the General glared on.
"What is with all this noise?" He grumbled.
"Another sabotage attempt? Are you never going to learn?"
The past 2 years had been rife with these ... | Damn I hate the military, at least what I managed to know of it in my 5 weeks here.
The damn war started just as we graduated, yeah I know just as I thought Im a free citizen those assholes got me. "Its a great opprtunity of serving your country!" yeah grandpa but the problem is that I run 2000m in like 12 mins and ev... | 2019-10-18T09:15:01 | 2019-10-18T08:46:20 | 78 | 19 |
[WP] Mankind went extinct in a cataclysm, you, however, discover that you're immortal as a result. ages later you are approached by the animals that evolved to have human-level intelligence. | It’s always been there. We call it the Teller. Apparently it was here from our beginning and while not a god or something with infinite power it just exists. It has taught us so much and while some have tried to control it and even destroy it, it persists. We aren’t even the first to evolve on this planet apparently th... | I'd been on the summit for more years than I could count before they came. I didn't recognize them straight off, but they recognized me. When I entered the city this group called home, I understood why. They led me straight to a large building with tall doors. I didn't have to duck to pass through them, which I soon le... | 2018-02-22T22:01:34 | 2018-02-22T20:16:59 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] You have a power. Everyone thinks this power is completely lame. They are wrong. | Cement walls. No windows. A single dim bulb swings a slow circle at the center of the ceiling. Shadows rise and fall like waves.
Maggie sits in a metal folding chair below the lightbulb. No table. Her fingers bite into the skin of her thighs as she tugs nervously on her blue jeans.
Finally someone comes in. Two peopl... | It was half past eight, almost time for the prime minister to get lunch, well before his guards were expecting. I waited patiently for the little man to step through the thick mahogany doors. Here he comes! I centered my scope just below the man's thick toupee and squeezed the life out him. I methodically put away my e... | 2016-05-28T06:38:22 | 2016-05-28T04:29:18 | 82 | 10 |
[WP] You're a "skin walker" and an old one. After spending a lifetime in a skin, it must be laid to rest, and while most of your kind long for the complexity of being human, you prefer to bask in their wonder and witness their lives as their pets. | This was going to be the fourth time **HUMAN** would watch me die. Each death has been more or less the same.
I am laying, frail and weakened, on a cold metal slab in an office. **HUMAN** is crying quietly, whispering kind words in my ear, smoothing over my pelt with unabashed love. In a few minutes, another **HUMAN*... | A simple cat, just doing whatever and people not caring. Of course, there’s more method to my madness in this form. Some nights, I chase off a burglar, then use shattered vases and muddy prints to make it seem like a simple thud scared off the intruder. Some days, comforting the family, whether it be distracting the ch... | 2021-11-10T10:18:18 | 2021-11-10T05:55:04 | 133 | 93 |
[WP] The year is 2050, Queen Elizabeth is still on the throne. The public is growing suspicious, wondering why she is immortal. | “So you’re saying you found it.”
“I told you I would. I just needed to get close enough to her. I found out why she’s still alive, and trust me, it’s gonna be the story of our careers Jack. I guarantee it’s going to be front page news.”
“So you have the footage! Send it to me. I need to verify it. Imagine it Sam. Us,... | And at the heart of London, a detective by the name of Ramza Holmes decided to take on the case. He spent the next months of his life digging through the archives as well as interviewing courtiers who once served in the palace.
Eventually, he discovered that at the beginning of the 66th year of her reign, the Queen ob... | 2022-09-08T11:09:47 | 2019-06-27T18:58:39 | 387 | 37 |
[WP] You're immortal, but the procedure that made you so also created an evil doppelgänger. After centuries of conflict, using any means necessary to subvert each other's plans, neither of you are sure which one of you is the evil one, or if either of you were ever supposed to be evil at all. | "You fucking douche!"
"Calm yourself you blabbering imbecile"
Everything about him pissed me off.
"Obviously you have no intentions of a peaceful negotiation."
That stupid, fake accent. His condescending tone in everything he says. I dragged my bloodied leg closer to him.
"Look who's talking about peaceful! Yo... | This time we had done it, the council was going to give us both an ear full for this. Our battle had destroyed a whole city block this time, both of us evenly matched in strength and wit we had come to a draw as always. Panting, bloody, numb, we fell to the ground neither of us having the will to stand. Immortality suc... | 2016-11-29T09:00:10 | 2016-11-29T08:15:27 | 27 | 12 |
[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... | Jeeeeeesus, check out that pathetic 'Mario' on the other side of the road. Running, jumping, and 'Wa-hoooo-ing' like a madman as he makes his way down the street... what an amateur.
I don't mean to brag, it's just that I kinda lucked out when the super power lottery was being handed out. By my count there are a couple... | I messed up and I knew it. Here I was standing before a giant wall of fog, knowing that I was expected and at the same time underprepared. Looking around I didn’t see any messages or runes that would get me some backup - I had to go alone.
It was dark out. There was an argument, an errant pea thrown from my plate dur... | 2020-01-05T14:51:34 | 2019-08-11T21:37:25 | 1,516 | 40 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | What would a mortal do, if a bunch of ants gathered up in its room and started doing weird things to get their attention? I wondered. Because, that's what I was going through at the moment. I was born before this universe, born in the fiery embers of an old and long forgotten plane of existence. Being made purely of en... | \-There is just too much light in here
\-I believe that low living forms call it sun Sir- exclaimed Delius my young 6th dimensional dragon and assistant
\-I know what it is called, I have created some of those damn things you imbecile!....Although I think I destroyed a couple of those too because of how annoying that... | 2019-11-18T19:07:50 | 2019-11-18T14:27:46 | 324 | 67 |
[WP] You used to be the most powerful evil overlord humanity has ever seen. Then you turned over a new leaf, and your empire is a utopia. The only person who refuses to believe you've changed? The hero who has tried to stop you for decades. | I broke through the doors to his office. His back was to me. He still wore a cape, but now one of white and gold instead of black and red. He turned slowly, unsurprised, it seemed, at my violent intrusion. He gazed at my face and smiled.
"In a way," Emperor Streedle said, "I'm shocked it took you this long to come fin... | "Hello friend," I say with a soft smile. The wrinkles across my lips crawl together as I do.
"Hello," Lawrence replies. He looks all around himself instead of at me. The autumn wind blew leaves off their homes, a few nestling in the hidey-hole between his feet. His thick brown leather jacket covered his face partiall... | 2017-03-03T01:36:53 | 2017-03-03T00:35:34 | 708 | 238 |
[WP] There's a good reason that savage and terrifying monsters live in bedrooms of small children. The children need protecting. | Silence permeated the room and darkness loomed. Peter's nightlight pathetically attempted to quell the darkness but it failed. Peter heard the sound he dreaded the most out of all.
The quiet squeak of the door hinge followed by the not so quiet footsteps of his disgusting uncle.
"Hey, sport."
He whispered. His voice... | Claws and teeth that scratch and screech live underneath your bed.
Or if one doesn't then in the closet a snarl is heard instead.
And chikker chaks or snikker snaks that come from down the hall.
Will never peek beneath your covers to bother you at all.
But in the night when things of fright are creeping and a c... | 2017-04-25T22:36:48 | 2017-04-25T22:33:05 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | "They're dead? ...... All of them?"
"Yes... yes ma'am" Bill replies back, struggling to meet my eye. It looks like he's been crying again. Oh sweet Bill, you're in the wrong line of work.
"Explain to me again how this happened..." I try to keep my tone neutral yet supportive. He still sees me as some authoritati... | "There. Fixed that bug, now to track down why the growth spell causes spontaneous shrinkage on Tuesday Nights."
Tom worked at Imagination Technologies, one of several companies to transition from computer software to magic. He was originally hired as a software engineer many years back. He muttered under his breath, "... | 2017-07-26T00:37:23 | 2017-07-25T19:49:43 | 129 | 24 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | # Connection
I smiled at him. And then I winked.
“You know I’m about kill you, right?” he said slowly, trying to seem menacing.
“Cool. How about strangulation? It’s pretty visceral for you feeling the life go out of my body, and it’ll be a new and final experience for me. Win–Win”, I replied.
He looked at me, p... | He look onward, past the trees. His shoulders heaved with every breath, deep and long. Hunched legs supported his massive frame as he squatted on the dry dirt. You could almost feel sorry for him, if you knew the sort of life he'd led, and lack of facilities he had to guide him.
I looked at him in a somber way. He... | 2015-04-29T09:50:37 | 2015-04-29T08:25:51 | 72 | 31 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | *"Is it true you can only see three basic colors?"* the alien being asked.
"Just about. Our eyes have three major primary colors perceived by the cones in our eyes, and most of the colors we perceive on what we call the visible spectrum are a mix of Yellow, Red, and Blue."
*"So, how do you communicate with the Ghoos... | I stared blankly for a second....
"The Dungeon Dimension creatures?"
"Yes, the *Things.* They are the colour octarine but if you can't see that...*"*
"Ah. Yes, modern theory suggests they can only be seen by those with the *talent,* and we have no such humans left. In any case, the few records of those creatures we ... | 2018-12-04T11:03:56 | 2018-12-04T11:02:30 | 7,659 | 82 |
[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 the last one left, Foxtrot?" I hear just after the door dings open. Gruff voice, but femenine all the same. Gotta be June, she's the only one who comes this close to closing time.
As I push my way out of the back, smile wide and apron twirling merrily, I see none other than June "Crow" Ubiquity standing by the fr... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T22:22:49 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | I killed the love of my life humanely. No one would argue with that. Slit her throat then squeezed her hand in the most comforting manner, as she slid down to the floor. She didn't even try to talk, not that she could have done -- not with my hand over her mouth -- but I could see clearly in her big blue eyes that she ... | Society was broken up into blocs. Since individual skill was easily determined based by point allocation, and point allocation was something you could easily access, things became caste like.
It wasn't so bad as caste systems you might expect; after all, belonging to a given caste was voluntary, and indeed, people bei... | 2018-09-12T08:22:13 | 2018-09-12T08:04:08 | 249 | 108 |
[WP] Salt is known to be able to repel or even contain evil spirits. As companies start to drain the Dead sea of salt to sell as a novelty, they unwillingly unleash a spirit that the Dead sea was meant to contain.
From TwoSentenceHorror | "You improbably dense motherfucker!"
There is a certain feeling you get from being cursed out someone so impressive as Merlin; even at the ripe old age of 1002 his beard flowed imposingly to the floor and his eyes flashed with untold magics.
"You complete and total cretin! It's a wonder the air isn't rushing to fill ... | "Angelica, pull the trigger..."
A man's body dropped and it immediately began to sink into the black and white ceramic floor. He squirmed in pain, trying to cover the wound in his head as the ground swallowed him. Soon, he was just bits of greasy hair which stuck out from the tiles. The girl, teary eyed, dropped the ... | 2022-05-05T02:50:48 | 2022-05-05T01:41:47 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] The villains finally managed to defeat the league of heroes. But unbeknownst to them the league did not exist, primarily, to fight them, but to keep an even bigger threat in check: you. And you are about to demonstrate to the villains what happens when there is no one around to stop you. | Sitting on my balcony overlooking the lake a new day had finally come. As the sun rose on me crunching softly on my eggs and toast, I felt the tendrils of her power slowly fade and dissipate into the wind. I had yearned for this moment yet all I could feel was a bittersweet sadness, a sudden loneliness with her pres... | These idiots thought that I was actually working with them to defeat the heroes. That we were allies. Teammates. Compadres. Nah, bro. You were all working for me. I was manipulating you into doing my dirty work for me. I'm like Sherlock Holmes. Wait, no, he was the detective. Who am I thinking of? I dunno. Some famous ... | 2022-12-09T13:41:06 | 2022-12-09T12:52:32 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | An injustice, they said. It wasn't right. Take some money, my sister insisted. But that was her gift. Stay at the house with me, my brother pleaded. But that was his gift. The seeds. That was my gift. My inheritance.
My siblings couldn't believe Nana could be so cruel. They had always thought I was her favorite. I was... | There was a need for comfort, a deep, perhaps never-ending one. I've always thought the passing of a loved one should be celebrated and not grieved over, that the joy of having shared time and experiences together should override all sorts of sadness. After all, death comes to us all, and tear-tarnished faces wouldn't ... | 2020-03-31T08:33:48 | 2020-03-31T06:42:11 | 2,886 | 808 |
[WP] You are what mankind believes to be the Devil. However, there are three things that they've got all wrong: 1) Everyone goes to Heaven, no matter what they do in life. 2) You're the only one who's ever escaped Heaven. 3) Heaven is absolutely fucked. | “So I get to heaven?”
They always ask this. Never, “Oh wow, there exists an existence beyond this world, how amazing!”. Never, “Oh Satan… I really love what you’ve done with your horns.”
To be fair, they’d occasionally comment on how they expected Satan to be taller. I’m a goat walking on his hind legs. Have you ev... | Many people think that heaven is all sorts of awesome. And why wouldn’t they? I mean, it’s 73 degrees all the time. Your pillow is always cool and the buffet serves all the greats. What they never tell you is that everyone is there. No matter how messed up they were on earth. All the horrible atrocities they committed ... | 2017-09-29T18:23:23 | 2017-09-29T17:55:44 | 2,403 | 78 |
[WP] A creature that eats emotions met you, and was horrified when it tasted your chronic depression. Today marks its 24th attempt to cure you with seasoning.
Edit: Holy Crap, I was not expecting this kind of response. I'm blown away, y'all. You rock! | A rustle of bushes. She's here.
I sigh, resigned. "Hello, Jackie." My name for her. One she insisted on, really.
"Hi, cutie. How goes things?"
I smile reluctantly. "Fine."
I can't see it, but I can feel her pouting. "Come ooon, that's not true. You still taste... funny."
"What does that mean, anyway?"
"Funny. Y'k... | Footsteps echo in an empty street. A cold wind blows through, almost visible as it snakes past closed businesses and grabs at debris.
Moonlight illuminates the person's shadow. It eclipses street lights, casting dark nothingness against the gray mundane of asphalt. They pull out a phone, wince at the screen's brightn... | 2018-06-15T21:29:27 | 2018-06-15T20:24:47 | 1,089 | 124 |
[WP] You lived an average boring life and die of old age. You find yourself before the grim reaper. They have a shocked expression on there skeletal face. “No, this can’t be right. You weren’t supposed to die” they say. “What I died before my time” you ask. “No you were not EVER supposed to die”.
I thought of this in ... | The grim’s face was sallow, devoid of eyes, ears, and the other necessary body features. Except for a mouth, it had a mouth. Rattling breath and cracking, dry lips. I shivered.
“Guess the church wasn’t completely accurate, huh?.” I said nervously, scratching my neck. The situation was definitely insane, but I had expec... | Eh, life's boring.
I had my time, and the adventures were fun, but after a while it just fell into the same cycle. I had a wife, kids, a job, just like any other guy, and ended up dying happily with my family by my side. Except....
"What do you mean I wasn't supposed to die?" I was standing next to none other than th... | 2021-08-17T19:47:13 | 2021-08-17T19:27:20 | 133 | 77 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | Sleep! You want it I got it! Since the prohibition started I’ve been making a killing on shut-eye. It’s only fair if the government is making a killing on 24/7 productivity. Quick nap, afternoon siesta, even overnight stays, I do it all. When you’ve been downing wakey tablets like the dickens, a little sleep is better ... | "Man, Halloween isn't for another three months. Get the hell outta here."
"I heard you got the good sleep, friendziki," the guy in the Cyber-Reaper costume says.
"You heard wrong," I tell him, and wave. The door clamps shut.
I turn around and almost jump out of my skin. *He's in here*. Chilling at my table. "Wha-Bu-... | 2019-06-19T07:40:56 | 2019-06-19T07:22:51 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Your father used to be a supervillain who faked his death in order to be with his family, but hid that from you in order to keep you safe. Unfortunately you look almost exactly like him, and this is in fact how you came to find out about his past in the first place | “You look just fucking like him,” my mother said every night as I tucked her into beer soaked sheets, her words slurring like the world’s most alcoholic bedtime lullaby.
“Sorry,” I’d reply the first few times, a routine that only stopped once she’d gotten in the habit of chucking the bedside ashtray at my head. Cert... | “Did you hear that?” *silence*
“Hey...Evan, wake UP! Do you hear that?”
Muffled sounds creeped up the stairway and lingered in our bedroom. A scrape. Filing back and forth.
*silence*
Scrape, scrape, sawing. “An animal?” he murmurs.
If so, that little bugger is destroying our siding.
I slide out of bed. A curio... | 2020-07-16T15:17:28 | 2020-07-16T11:13:42 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 62 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are one of if not the only species in the galaxy who can heal their wounds naturally. Your alien friend is learning this for the first time after they accidentally hurt you
Apologies for the wordy title | "Well shit, Greg. Your knee's fucked up." Said the Fpirt apocethary. "No way in hell can any of my potions fix that."
I sat up on the bed and took a look at my knee. It had one big cut across it, plus some minor bruising.
"What do you mean doc? I just tripped over your flimpk hose, it's nothing serious."
The Fpir... | nd"Thomas!" Hinx panicked as he ran over. "Thomas! Say something! Say anything!!"
"Owwww..." Tom breathed as he laid still in the dirt. "This could have gone better..."
"I swear that the photon cannon was set to 'Stun'!" Hinx continued.
"Never point a gun at something you don't intend on shooting, remember?" Tom exp... | 2017-05-11T02:26:03 | 2017-05-10T22:40:13 | 139 | 94 |
[WP] After discovering you have a plethora of special abilities, ranging from control over electricity to breathing underwater, the FBI captures you for experiments. However, you only let them capture you, and frequently enjoy messing with the staff when they actually try to experiment on you. | I woke up in my holding cell, the warm sweat of yesterday's "make the subject sleep on a hot plate" test still soaking my shirt. Honestly, these "experiments" are just getting ridiculous. This stopped being funny ages ago. Sure, I can leave by punching a hole in the wall, but where's the fun in that? I'm still sticking... | "Paul had to go home as well, that makes three today," Steven said.
"So we've had three different people today shit themselves, is that what you're telling me," Andrew asked, growing more angry, "it was that damn sub shop, their cold cuts must have been spoiled."
*"Eheheheh...right, 'cold cuts,'" I thought, "they do ... | 2017-07-02T23:13:17 | 2017-07-02T19:12:44 | 1,345 | 230 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | “I don’t know how else to explain it,” said Kevin. “I just jump, then jump again.”
The man in the flannel shirt wrote in his notebook.
“And you’ve always been able to do this?” he asked.
“Yes Dr.Norbert,” Kevin replied through a yawn. “I’ve been double jumping as long as I’ve been jumping.”
Dr. Norbert’s opening qu... | The people in comic books have so many cool powers: flight, super strength, laser vision. My power is pretty mundane, but I like it that way: I can use it subtly without people freaking out.
I learned of my power in Junior High, when I tried to impress my father at long jump; he was upset that I was always second to ... | 2017-02-11T09:03:43 | 2017-02-11T08:42:45 | 614 | 39 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Mleep rose from his slumber. Today would be the day that this planet fell to the mighty wrath of mleep. Mleep was a hero, a soldier and a magnificent lover, the later being proved by countless sighs of tender pleasure. Mleep had been sent to earth by his overlords to do one thing. He knew what he had to do and he revel... | Not with a bang, but with a whimper
It has been thirteen years since the aliens invaded. Well I say invaded, they just parked a space ship in the ocean and sank a few ship. And they're not actually aliens they're just humans who somehow ended up in a distant galaxy a long time ago. They're kinda dickish about the whol... | 2016-02-22T10:30:41 | 2016-02-22T08:33:57 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Lo, now do I tell the tale of the mighty Samson. A canine of regal bearing but only 13 toes, he chanced upon the queen while she was patrolling our borders with David, the kingdom’s canine squire. Though his size intimidated her at first, it came to be known throughout the realm that Samson was as tender to his loved o... | An unnamed cow walks into Valhalla. He sees the 60 billion other animals killed by humans in the last year waiting for him. "Hey, join the party! " "Welcome to Valhalla!" they all say.
Another friendly cow comes forward to talk to him. "Word of advice, watch out for the dragon Alduin. He flies around eating us whe... | 2018-05-25T04:30:38 | 2018-05-25T02:31:56 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] The city's most effective hero doesn't have powers. He is just a simple therapist who joined the hero business after seeing one of his patients killed on the news. | In the dark recesses of the Mega City Bay Tri-State Area were a group of hooligans with green mohawks and wearing leather jackets, so that everyone would know how edgy and hardcore they were. They were engaged in their favorite pastime: spray painting penises on the wall of a public library.
"Dude, look how hairy I ma... | Everyone has a story. Be it heroes, villains, everybody is merely the sum of a series of more or less fortunate events.
Most people are stuck in their lives, and no matter how much you try and beat some sense into them, sometimes they just won't change, because they simply do not believe they can.
That's were I... | 2022-05-27T11:50:59 | 2022-05-27T11:06:24 | 37 | 22 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | The pounding has slowed to a minor thump, replaced in it with a constant ring. Blow after blow had left my vision blurry and bloody, and it's starting to get harder to breathe; my nose may have been broken a few punches back. People's insecurities are laughable at times but it looks like I'll never be able to laugh aft... | When the rapture happened there was a pretty big uproar. Anarchy, riots the whole shebang. People were scared, and they should've been. But then after, they started to get used to it. Then people started being born with weird birthmarks, and usually developed powers based on that mark. Most had constellations. My frien... | 2020-02-26T08:04:31 | 2020-02-26T07:44:57 | 147 | 91 |
[WP] A village was attacked by a dragon. All the townsfolk ran screaming, except one. The one stepped forward, faced the dragon, and said "Omg, you're so cute, like, how tall are you?" | The stream of flame sputtered a little before coming to a complete halt. The dragon coughed a little, sending puffs of smoke and other nasty fumes out in clouds. He had to look around for a few seconds before seeing the young, red headed woman standing in front of him. She was practically between his front two legs; he... | “ELLA NO” the scream from Ella’s parents poking their head up from the basement of their house could not be heard over the sound of the people running scared, and damaged buildings crumbling down around the town.
Ella stood looking up at the massive dragon as it peered down looking at her with a big grin of glee on he... | 2021-01-18T15:43:03 | 2021-01-18T13:38:36 | 41 | 30 |
[WP] In your world, friendship is literally magic. However, your bond must be true. Magic is bluer the more friends you have, and it's also stronger. Your cousin is the second strongest sorcerer alive. The strongest? You, with red magic and an absolute hatred for everyone you've ever met. | I've often thought, that Ambition, must be fuelled by contempt. After all, desires don't rise from nothing. You start off young, and carefree, and the more you are wronged by people - the more people take advantage of you - the more you strive to be better than them.
And it's a self-perpetuating loop. The more contemp... | A demonic fire is what they called it. Bright red flicks danced around Aoran’s frame as he stood on the corner, waiting for the bus. People passing by gave him a wide berth, no one else dared to wait at the same spot, afraid of even coming close to the immense red aura that illuminated him.
“Fucking amateurs can’t... | 2020-10-03T17:00:22 | 2020-10-03T16:43:54 | 2,430 | 198 |
[WP] It turns out, hell is not a eternal damnation of fire, but instead a sort of boot camp where you confront your sins, fears, and demons, to work toward deliverance. Except for the worst, serial killers, cannibals, cult leaders, they go to a hotel to be executed painfully, you are the manager. | So you might be wondering why there is a large, gleaming white hotel in the middle of hell. Its adjacent to Lucifer's Palace, but larger of course. Lucy is all business and no need to have his home be any larger than necessary.
The Hotel is a workplace. Inside you find gleaming marble, angelic choirs and of cours... | The buzzer sounded, alerting the room that their fresh inmates from purgatory were being marched in. Societies most evil: the mass murders, the flesh eaters, and the cult leaders - all arrived in whatever they were last wearing upon their death. Some with bloodied shawls or ponchos, and others their holier than though ... | 2021-12-13T08:20:54 | 2021-12-13T06:50:19 | 434 | 79 |
[WP] Humanity has always thought itself very smart for figuring out how to ride a giant explosion into space. Turns out there's a much easier way and the rest of the galaxy thinks we're insane. | The Federation Cruiser sat in orbit around Earth, waiting for the human emissaries to arrive. One each of the tripartite Federation counsel - a Trylixian, a Loloth, and a Hiddrell, each waited in the grand reception hall, eager to begin negotiations.
Humanity was like to be a powerful ally for the Federation and it w... | The primates that inhabit the Earth, thought to be sentient and conscious, bear the ridicule of the galaxy. Visiting space at the cost of pricey metals and exorbitant resources? Absolutely ludicrous. What about those who have tried the universal method of visiting space? They are shunned and told never to do it again. ... | 2019-01-21T06:11:50 | 2019-01-21T04:49:32 | 256 | 38 |
[WP] you have discovered that after you do a good deed for someone, an hour later, something bad happens to them (splinter, divorce, death, etc), you finally decide to stop helping anyone for good. This counts as a good deed done to everyone and everything | A monk told me about Karma and causality, once; how good deeds can lead to good effects, and bad ones to bad effects, that kind of thing.
“But what if something gets broken?,” I asked. “Can there ever be, like, a glitch in the system? A... disproportionate response to someone who’s been really, really bad and maybe ti... | Wanna hear a story?
Imagine being that guy who breaks something every time he tries to help someone move apartments.
Now imagine being that guy, but accidentally repeatedly stabbing someone while giving them CPR.
NOW imagine being that guy for literally everyone everywhere.
Mama........I done messed up.
I'm not e... | 2019-12-26T01:53:48 | 2019-12-26T00:14:22 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] An alcoholic, a photographer, and a hit man sit next to each other at a bar. The three get into a debate about the perfect shot. | The three men sat at the counter, as they waited for their drinks. One disheveled and unshaven, the other neatly dressed, and the last as colorful as the neon sign outside, in stark contrast with the rest. They sat quietly until the colorful man spoke up.
"I do enjoy a good shot, don't you?", he said out loud, to no ... | "Well..." The photographer started, "I guess the shot has to be a pretty clean one. Solid and appreciable, but gets heads turning at them."
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The Hitman nodded accordingly, but quickly followed up with a remark of his own. "I agree completely with you, a shot has to be clean, otherwise it'll just get mess... | 2022-06-11T05:36:06 | 2022-06-11T03:12:18 | 1,469 | 256 |
[WP] Humanity is at war with an alien race that cleverly uses statistical analysis to predict and anticipate our military actions with incredible accuracy. The only way to defeat them is to be unpredictable. | “Buckets.”
“I’m sorry, what was that?” Questioned Fleet Commander Pail.
I again spoke up, “We wear buckets on our heads.”
The room went dead silent as none of those in charge could discern my level of seriousness. Seated around a table on the tenth floor of the World Defense Fleet HQ were dozens of the highest ra... | The germans were deafeated within hours and europe fell just days later.
Russias winter only stopped them for a few weeks and the chinese numbers dwindled rapidly in the ongoing war.
That was the point when the United States of America started an all out offensive and reminded the universe why they were feared in bat... | 2015-04-15T10:44:26 | 2015-04-15T09:21:49 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | continued straight from the prompt...
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Now... Luckily I'm a redditor, and things like being summoned against your will into an unknown world/situation are a common topic so I had thought through this scenario before. Otherwise I would appear quite confused at my situation and not at all in control of the situation.... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T10:38:10 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 427 | 10 |
[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself | I stumbled into the offices of Dr. Ringwald, a friend of mine, as a patient. The years of therapy were taking a toll on me. Even on the streets, I was conscious of the secret eyes of the Black Crow scrutinizing me.
What's the Black Crow you ask? Even I don't remember. Some caped crusader told me about it a long way ba... | "You ok, Doc?"
I rubbed my temples with a groan, the flesh wound tight and rigid as the pink matter within.
"I'm fine," I said with a weak grin.
Having dumped a secret upon me as if a nuclear warhead upon an unsuspecting nation, my patient seemed relieved, and I, the opposite.
Ignorance truly was bliss, and I misse... | 2021-05-08T07:49:23 | 2021-05-08T05:29:09 | 559 | 65 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | Some people call me a magic user. Others a wizard. I’ve even been called a “temperamental bitch with powers”. I say I’m just a sucker with student loans.
My brothers, they’re the lucky ones. One was naturally good with this shit, aced everything, got scholarships, paid even to go to magic school. The other was blessed... | When the Sisters entered the dungeon, they were surprised to see Sari sitting on the throne beside the Wind Queen. On her lap was a very small dog, asleep in a small ball. Sari was stroking the black and white fur almost mindlessly, her eyes red from crying.
The eldest sister, Hashisha, held her sword out, tip facing... | 2019-09-26T09:52:27 | 2019-09-26T09:08:50 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | A sharp knock on the door nearly sent me out of my skin.
With a precision and urgency only possible when under extreme duress, books snapped shut, candles flickered out, and typically overlooked trinkets went flying into opposite corners of the room in complete silence with a rapid set of gestures. I hadn't even heard... | "OK, so what you're telling me is ur gonna have to wear a frilly dress even though they make you dysphoric, pretend that ur dating me, and convince ur homophobic, conservative mom that im a good partner for the prince of hell?" Texted Tissues, sitting on his bed while texting Trophy, who was at the mall buying a... | 2022-10-09T00:07:13 | 2022-10-08T20:49:21 | 1,037 | 16 |
[WP] You have died and gone to hell, but it's not what you expect. You wake up naked in a field with nothing but trees around you... it turns out that hell is an early access survival game. | “Don’t come any closer.”
I stopped. There really wasn’t much of an alternative; I was limping, bleeding so heavily I was light headed and squishing with every movement, and had what sure seemed like a weapon pointed at me. It didn’t *look* like a weapon, but he waved it around like one. Blocky, almost pixelated; but e... | A blinding white light and unbearable pressure followed by an earth shattering darkness.
My world seemed to writhe and convulse around me, it felt as though God himself had flicked whatever internal gyroscope that held my sense of direction and sent me falling.
Falling.
With a jarring suddenness I stopped. I slowly... | 2017-04-20T20:52:41 | 2017-04-20T20:16:30 | 1,200 | 45 |
[WP] You are a dark sorcerer who is best friends with a king. Due to the lack of competent heirs, the king gives you his daughter's hand in marriage. However, jealous knights have spread the rumor that you kidnapped the princess. Now every knight in the kingdom is after you. | *The Dark Sorceror's Bride*
"Gnirrlahgn!" I snarled. The ground cracked open under the latest knight's feet, bathing him in green flame, as long arms wrapped around his feet. With a surprised cry, he was dragged into the underworld, and the portal snapped shut.
"Bless you, Grissom," my bride-to-be said, as she poppe... | Balthazar held his staff aloft, the gemstones in the orb rattled around in their glass confines.
Some words mumbled, some words said, their order jumbled... "Drats!" the dark wizard said.
The blonde woman behind him crossed her arms impatiently, "It's just a creaky door, what does it matter?"
"I bothers me," t... | 2018-02-13T14:13:06 | 2018-02-13T13:11:13 | 73 | 11 |
[WP] On the day you were going to propose to your girlfriend, your future self comes back in time to convince you not to. While at the same time, your future wife comes back in time to tell her past self to do anything to keep the two of you together.
I love these prompts, but I haven't had time to really read any of ... | I fiddled with the ring in my pocket, the case hadn't been big enough to let me take it with me up in the hot air balloon. She was staring off the side, looking down at the ground below us. Everything seemed so small from up here, like nothing mattered but her.
Suddenly there was a brilliant flash in the middle of the... | Today marks the 4th year of my relationship with jordan, the love of my life. I sit at the outdoor patio of my go to bar. Slowly drinking my beer and taking a good drag of my stoagie. Just as I put the butt to tray I feel eyes on the back of my head. A grizzled old man sits next to me, two shots of bulleit in hand.
"H... | 2015-10-15T15:06:28 | 2015-10-15T14:30:29 | 32 | 21 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | I blink rapidly, trying to clear my head.
Where am I? Last thing I remember was... a text message? Some sort of joke or prank of some kind. Something to do with a video game.
Images flashed in my head: a beautiful woman on horse back. A violent battle. A silver bird skull.
The woman, I was trying to find her. I *h... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-17T00:38:53 | 31 | 16 |
[WP]Humanity was accused by the galactic council of committing a crime against another species. The ancient rules stated that the brighter and the stupidest individuals should be appointed to plead on behalf of the accused species. The elders couldn’t believe when both humans made the same argument. | "Why are we the ones going into the galactic council? It wasn't our fault that someone had finally pissed off and offended some alien!" As was said by a middle aged man, rubbing his shaggy hair and dropping flakes into his ill adjusted brown suit.
"Because it is our duty as human beings to represent our species in a p... | My heart raced as I stepped out onto the galactic courtroom floor. Hundreds of strange and powerful alien species sat within the arena, their eyes transfixed on the two of us; a male and a female, both human. We stood side by side before the truth-seeking Orb, a creature of pure wisdom that had been designed to sense u... | 2022-12-02T23:47:59 | 2022-12-02T21:15:00 | 60 | 12 |
[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... | My coffee shop was nice. Designs chosen from pictures of a mid-50s shop I once saw mixed with a little western. Booths on either side along the walls, with tables occupying the center. It was a night-time hobby of mine to keep me busy during my later years. The wife and I, God rest her soul, always wanted to open up a ... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T23:09:29 | 31 | 17 |
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