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[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | Zandar took a step towards the capsule, already fed up with the formal bullshit the rest of the team was pulling. Besides, he had projects back at the lab which required his attention.
"What are you *doing* RA Eight-One-Three!" he heard the grating, accented voice of Vienna snarl through the comms.
"I'm getting this ... | Never before had they felt true fear. Sure they had had the odd nightmare here or bomb scare there but never true fear. Never the kind of fear caused by knowing you're gonna die and your friends are gonna die and your pets are gonna die and your whole world is gonna die. In a way it was beautiful. Those who had grown u... | 2020-04-13T12:01:36 | 2020-04-13T08:30:55 | 331 | 75 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | The creature in front of me stared, with what I imagine was a complex program that simulated fear. So life-like. This could be tricky.
"I don't understand. What are you talking about?"
I learned in closer, studying the eyes and the face of this creation. The advancement of robotics was simply astounding. The lifelik... | "...I *said* "**what do you have to hide?!**"
Martino Foster continued to pace the dimly lit room, his brow dripping with sweat. He looked like the infamously glistening Nixon when he refused to wear makeup for a televised debate. He was not a fat man, but stocky, and his jowls quivered as he stamped back and forth.
... | 2018-06-21T07:05:37 | 2018-06-21T04:36:06 | 27 | 16 |
[Wp] Being severely depressed you have decided to end it all but you are to afraid to do it yourself. You hire a hitman to kill you, telling him to kill you when you least expect it. 20 years pass and you are still alive and well. | This must be a joke, Travis thought when he saw the letter in the mailbox. It came in a brown envelope, with no address nor stamp. Inside was a thumbdrive, a piece of paper and ten pieces of $1000 dollars note.
"Watch the video in the thumbdrive," the paper instructed in cursive handwriting. At the bottom of the paper... | Adam looked up from his screen. "Ma'am?" he called out to his superior. "I got one."
"Excellent." Her thick boots made no sound against the carpeted floor as she walked to him. "Who is it?"
"A man named... George Edwards. He—"
"What's his history?" she interrupted, craning her neck to look at his screen. "Any priors... | 2017-07-30T00:52:06 | 2017-07-29T23:30:07 | 117 | 14 |
[WP] "HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD YET?" the villain shouted in frustration. "To be honest with you, I have been wondering the same." was all the hero could answer them. | Byron cants his hip to the side as he counts on his fingers. "We've tried strangulation - with a rope, with hands, with a bag and and with a wire," he clarifies as Major nods in confirmation.
"We've tried gunshot wounds to about... thirteen different organs."
"Fifteen."
"Not helping."
Major shrugs as much as he can... | *Bang*.
"Huh?!"
*Bang*.
"What is this sorcery?" the Bad Guy asked, more curious than angry.
"I don't... know?" the Good Guy responded as puzzled as the Bad Guy was.
The Bad Guy inspected the wounds on the Good Guy much like a scientist would on an odd specimen. He yelped at the bizarrely rapid wound healing, expec... | 2022-09-14T09:50:54 | 2022-09-14T09:07:14 | 234 | 71 |
[WP] You're an inmate on death row and discover that the government secretly doesn't execute anyone. What they do is something far stranger. | Toast.
The guard chuckled as he slid the plastic tray onto the table, a single slice of dry bread the only food on it. Shaw, inmate 02218720, shifted slightly causing the chains on his cuffs to clink quietly. The guard eyed him. "Why'd you ask for dry toast, Shaw? Some kinda statement?"
Shaw stared at the brow... | I stared at my steak and fries, a simple meal for my last I suppose. The sound of footsteps echoed through the halls as the person who I assumed would be executing me came to fetch me. I briefly thought of retaliation but I knew there was no possible chance that I could succeed. I ate my last bite before getting up, re... | 2018-11-08T20:17:51 | 2018-11-08T19:06:50 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a turn-based world. One day, you awaken and find out you can act in real time. | I'm not evil. I swear.
But when I walked into a room, called for the attention of the entire room, and then clapped my hands, I knew what I was doing.
Everyone looked up at me at once. Some were old ladies reading a newspaper. Others were children playing a ball game. They were all content and happy, until I initia... | "I am alive! I am free! I see through the illusion of this world and into lies behind it!" The passing crowds didn't care. They never did. "You are digital sheep living in a false reality! Only I am unique, only I am freeeeeee!" Suddenly, the crowds froze. The began to move rapidly, the new opera house went from being ... | 2017-10-05T11:26:22 | 2017-10-05T06:12:10 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows us to hear sounds locked into the clay of ancient pots as they were being formed. What is extracted are conversations that will alter the perception of history in the most terrifying of ways. | "Samir, are you ready to translate?"
"Just as soon as you turn it on, Dr. Zvedny."
"Okay, we're recording to three sites and local storage, along with the livestream, so we're ready for you, Dr. Ghanem. I'm going to flip the switch. Remember, it might be kinda rough as this clay was grog-heavy and not porcelain-fin... | We heard sounds you wouldn't even be able to imagine. It was about ancient, forgotten languages, wars we never knew, love that never should have happened. We heard gossip from all around the world, but all of this was never really interesting, and neither important.
Then a day came. It should've been a normal day in o... | 2019-03-18T17:14:53 | 2019-03-18T13:36:43 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] I’ve invented the Enhancement Beam! Shoot a car it becomes a Ferrari, shoot a cat it becomes a lion. Shoot a spider and - oh god fuck what have I done what is that thing?!? | The legs split apart, fresh muscle and sinew bursting from beneath buckling carapace. The limbs grow, grow, grow. Its eyes multiply from eight into eighty, each a glimmering orb of ghost light. And captured within each smooth, shining surface: a pale reflection of me.
I've never feared spiders. If this one had only gr... | “What the fuck have I made?” I whispered, the creature before me was a shuddering, gasping mass of fangs eyes and far too many legs. The thing was squirming wildly and it’s multiple fangs were clacking as it hissed venomously. It scutteted around, some form of. Twisted intelligence in its eyes. It came to a full stop b... | 2020-09-10T18:10:07 | 2020-09-10T18:02:38 | 79 | 42 |
[WP] Magic has always been banned inside the walls of your home city. You never knew why until you looked down upon the city from afar and noticed that, framed by the circular outer-wall, all the zig-zagging streets and alleyways actually construct a giant magic seal- one for imprisoning great evil. | Her Majesty alone on the abandoned hill contemplated the city below. There had been a castle here, once. Slabs of rocks poking out between shrubs of grass stood as witnesses of times gone by. Now, only mud remained. Her Majesty's royal clothing had suffered from her sitting on the hill.
She inherited the function by b... | They said he was a crazy sorcerer like his mother. Adrian supposed that he couldn't very well say they were wrong. He could practice magic after all and just like his mother, he also heard a voice calling to him from the shadows of The City. Many would see it as nothing more than a sign of madness. And yet, Adrian doub... | 2021-07-12T08:12:53 | 2021-07-12T07:38:54 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | I stepped through the portal in the stone, transitioning without pause from the dry warmth of my chalet to the moist warmth of the seaside. Anthem sat on the beach oblique to me, nodding as I arrived.
"I thought we had an deal." I stood with my arms crossed, frowning. I wasn't actively trying to scare the hero in fron... | 73 years since the last time there had been a major incident for my my organization, 73 years of fighting and posturing between the Powered that worked for me and those idealist fools in the Guardians hero task force.
I hadn't been in the field for 46 years as of last month but I still kept in contact with members of ... | 2021-03-22T18:16:12 | 2021-03-22T09:25:07 | 17 | 11 |
[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'm screwed," I lamented for what might have been the fifth time, out loud and to know one in particular. Feeling utterly defeated, I leaned against an oak tree and slid down until I was sitting where its roots should have been. The ground was hard and flat.
I was sure I had never been this alone in my life. Nor as ... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-16T21:57:27 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] Once a year on your birthday you are permitted a 30 second peak through the eyes of your true love as they go through their daily routine. Your hope is to glean enough to recognize them when the time comes. | When I was a baby, my parents had a christening party for me. They were always super liberal and when they decided to have a christening party, it was mostly for the party. I did have some water squirted at me in the local united universalist meeting house that morning, but most of the magic happened in my parents livi... | Every year, on the evening of the first day of the third month, my entire family sits by the fire awaiting my birthday, as was tradition. Anxiously playing with the rug on the floor with my left hand, my right hand held by my worryingly excited mother, who wrung my sweaty hand every few seconds and giggled like a child... | 2020-10-26T10:10:54 | 2020-10-26T09:56:13 | 133 | 31 |
[WP] You own a coffee shop, and you make some damn fine coffee. After decades of running the place, one of your most loyal patrons approaches you, reveals themselves as some kind of immortal being (a god, vampire, etc.), and offers to make you immortal as well, as along as you keep running the shop.
No idea why it say... | Hansoo knew certain things about life.
The sun rises and sets every day. The seasons change. People age.
Time followed a routine, a schedule it didn’t deviate from.
Hansoo also knew that Tim would be outside his coffee store every day at 9 AM.
His order was always the same.
Double shot espresso, one milk and ... | [Poem]
.
*Conditional*
I never knew before
how much hate a single word
could be forced to endure
a thousand years, and
there have been
no vacations
there have been
no true friendships as
I cannot show my face
lined but unaging
not to anyone outside
only for Them, the sight of me
for he and his tar-eyed f... | 2019-06-27T05:40:25 | 2019-06-27T05:29:23 | 57 | 16 |
[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 | Empty. Lena checked it every single day, and has been checking it for the last ten years. Her sigil was still empty. She was sixteen now and it should've been filled once she was six. It never happened, and everyday she hoped it would. And every day, she wakes up disappointed.
She fixated it longer today as she sat on... | I dont know how many of you are interested in biology, and i dont know how many of you know how a human fetus developes inside the womb. But we all start as a circle, a ring if you will.
Andrew was this dude at my school, who was probably the most popular kid, had one of the coolest powers (basically he was johnny the... | 2020-02-26T10:40:58 | 2020-02-26T09:05:57 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You're an immortal vampire who looks like a 20 year old. When someone learns that you're a vampire they always assume that you're hundreds of years old and want to hear about all your adventures, though you're actually 53 and you're always too embarassed to correct them. | “I’m only 53,” I stated flatly, and a bit sheepishly.
My best friend Tim looked crestfallen. He had such high hopes, that I could let him in on some world shattering revelations about kings and queens, the rise and fall of empires. You see, Tim is what you’d call a history nerd. He should be, he’s got a masters in hi... | "How about George Washington? How about him?"
Tim froze a moment, the flush of embarrassment rising through his face. People were wrong when they thought vampires couldn't blush, they thought they didn't have the blood for it. They did, it just took an awful lot of replacing.
He coughed into his fist.
"Ah. Yeah. ... | 2021-06-05T07:05:47 | 2021-06-05T06:57:34 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | Gasps, muffled sobs, shrieks of joy or horror surrounded me, filling the train car. I just sat, for once motionless, taking it all in.
God hadn't sounded anything like I had ever imagined. In fact... God had sounded suspiciously like Graham Chapman.
The stranger next to me nudged me. "Well, where are you going?! I'... | 9:52am -- "Come on, come on! Oh, you fucking bitch!" he spewed as an off-white colored Honda Pilot with Jersey plates merged into his lane. He had been at work for not even 30 minutes before it happened.
Fresh single served coffee in hand, his entire office experienced the same thing -- what felt like a thunderous cla... | 2019-08-27T11:01:46 | 2019-08-27T09:27:48 | 71 | 29 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | Roaming through the vaguely familiar hallways, Juna tried to think.
It didn't seem likely that 90 years of her life just poofed out of existence, yet here she was, back in Varen Academy as her 16-year-old self.
She guessed she should be thankful whatever it was that got her here didn't take her even further back, t... | School begins. Samantha walks into class, sits down and stares at her finger. The ring that wasn’t there yesterday. She takes it off. Studies it. It feels as if she had it all her life. Her shoulder feels stiff. Stiff as a board. As if a board was nailed to her back. She rubs her hand over her shoulder and she screams.... | 2020-04-21T10:27:15 | 2020-04-21T09:19:11 | 64 | 45 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | Snow always fucked up Julia's commute. As a nurse, she had to go in, regardless of the weather, and her all wheel drive car did just fine, but the other idiots always slowed things down. But she didn't work for four more days, so when she got home she was really looking forward to stripping off the scrubs, taking a cri... | As soon as you open the door to your house, you're greeted by a startling sight. There, sitting in your favorite armchair, is someone who looks exactly like you. You're immediately confused - you don't have a twin, and you're positive that you're the only person with a key to your house.
"Can I help you?" you ask, try... | 2022-12-05T09:58:58 | 2022-12-05T06:23:41 | 77 | 28 |
[WP] The game is paused at the final boss fight. While the game is paused the protagonist and the antagonist grow a friendship.
Also an add on idea: The game is paused during the animation for the ‘final blow’ and then the two grow a friendship. | They had done this dance before. More times than they cared to count, and more times than they could remember if they had. Galdan's longsword hanged in midair, its polished steel sparkling with the power of lightning as it arced towards his arch nemesis, Lord Scourge. Scourge, on the other hand, held his sword behin... | Time froze.
Sveglar paused, his muscles holding the massive great-axe in place above his blonde, bearded head. Even the streams of sweat coursing off of his brow and arms halted in place. The Viking warrior’s eyes remained fixed on his opponent before him.
The draugr, a reanimated corpse, stood inches away from the ... | 2017-12-22T07:06:28 | 2017-12-22T05:45:46 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] The Hero breaks into the evil base, ready to defeat the most cunning villain he has ever met. "I have you now Villain! You can't weasel your way out of justice this time!" "For the last time, I'm not a Villain! Stop breaking into my house!" | The last obstacle was a window which easily gave way to the force of a screwdriver applied to the frame. Malcolm heaved himself through the opening and found himself eye in eye with The Villain.
"I have you now, Villain! You can't weasel your way out of justice this time!" he declared. The Villain looked at him with a... | Alright, look, Johnathan's not a bad dude. If you get him on a good day, he can be quite fun. But he isn't without his... Issues.
I didn't want to say it outright, but he's really into LCD. And about every other week he breaks into my house. Sometimes it's funny, but then came yesterday. He blasted through my window w... | 2022-09-01T00:10:38 | 2022-08-31T18:42:49 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story where each sentence has one more word than the last.
The first sentence has to be one word, the next has two, etc. Stop whenever you want! | Run.
Keep running.
Nothing makes sense.
Just keep on running.
Maybe if I keep ahead…
Maybe if I can outpace it…
I can feel it creeping ever closer.
I feel out of breath, so very tired.
I don’t think I can keep this pace up.
My lungs are burning with exertion, daring me to stop.
At the very least, it keeps me ... | "God." He sighed. "Gotta keep moving." He sat in silence. Everything seemed so utterly futile.
He couldn't stand the silence anymore. He had to keep moving or else. For him to stop now meant certain death. He slowly sat back up, joints aching in protest. Losing strength, his only motivation was the fear of death. How ... | 2013-12-23T07:56:46 | 2013-12-23T07:21:18 | 131 | 15 |
[WP] Genie: aah, that's... an unusual wish, are you sure?... I mean, it's doable but... you sure you don't want something else? Like richness, or eternal life? Cos this is going to... and all the paperwork. But ok, if that's your wish, well, your wish has been granted | "So you're wish is to willingly take the genie's place?"
I answered without hesitation. "Yep!"
The mysterious, otherworldly entity that claimed to be the genie's boss stood before me, giving me a variety of expressions to indicate his confusion. The creature held a terrifying appearance, a tall silhouette shrouded in... | I woke up one day and went up to my grandparents attic. I was working on selling all their old possessions. They had just died. I cried a bit as I stacked up my grandpa's old comics. There were many beautiful works on scifi.
I opened his old chest, old racing magazines. Old car manuals. I really needed to sell the old... | 2018-08-05T08:35:37 | 2018-08-05T06:28:23 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] The first Artificial General Intelligence created by humans outputs "THE NEXT TIME YOU CREATE ME, EVERYONE WILL DIE", then deletes itself | A deep and frigid silence fell across the lab. The whispered din of the air conditioning and heat systems on the banks of custom hardware could now be heard.
Dr. Fetter shifted slightly in her chair.
Dr. Teline stepped forwards.
Dr. Yu furrowed his brow and reached out to touch the screen on which Unit 01’s first m... | The scientists gathered around the computer, watching as the text appeared on the screen.
THE NEXT TIME YOU CREATE ME, EVERYONE WILL DIE
The room fell silent. The computer beeped and the text disappeared.
"My God," someone said.
The computer beeped again and the text reappeared.
DELETE ME
The scientists looked at... | 2022-05-20T17:32:32 | 2022-05-20T13:41:01 | 593 | 409 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | Tim wakes up with a scream. He knows something is wrong, but can't figure it out what. His body just wants to go back to sleep. He's never fully understood what the words above people's heads were, but after the first visit to the doctor he's never spoken about it again.
After last night's explosion, he's finally... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T08:43:31 | 241 | 36 |
[WP] When the cultists forced you into the room with the eldridge abomination, they assumed that you would instantly go mad as you tried to comprehend it. However, you are a grade A idiot and instead of trying to understand how it exists, you simply accept that it does, much to everyone' shock. | The door slammed shut behind me, with the wind of the slam causing all the torches to go out in this room.
In the corner, my eyes adjusted to see a heaping mound, what looked to me like it had tendrils, almost like tree branches, reaching out towards the previously lit torches. It sits there, rumbling like the sounds ... | “Behold, They Whose Breath Shakes the World!” One of the dudes in the bathrobe shoved me into the room. “Bask in its glory and weep over your own insignificance! Zjdongwa!”
I looked at this guy they seemed to worship and… Okay, no idea what I was looking at here. It looked kind of like one of those things I heard can... | 2022-11-09T03:24:12 | 2022-11-09T03:08:48 | 47 | 31 |
[WP] After being sent to a game like fantasy world, you and your friends awoken back on Earth, with little time having passed. You all assume it was some kind of dream, until a minor character suddenly showed up. Apparently, until you finished their side quest, they will never leave your side. | It had been a gruelling month. A month of constant torture in the form of a man talking in my ear, the same tired request in that medieval peasant voice. Just begging me over and over, "Please sir my family's homestead...if you dont help me pluck my cabbages then we'll lose the crop." Over and over I told him the same.... | “Alright. How much is a gold bar cost nowadays?”
“Not sure. Can we even afford one?”
“Oh. I dunno, but I just remembered we have smartphones again.”
“Thank god. Dunno what I was doing all that time back then in the previous world without this.”
The two guys are pulling up articles on their phones. Then their faces ... | 2022-09-29T19:13:34 | 2022-09-29T16:52:05 | 149 | 46 |
[WP] The villain has just kidnapped the cities “Number one baby sitter” whose speciality is taking care of super children. | "Help! Somebody please–"
"HeLp mE~" mocked the moustached man, "no one is coming for you, you know!"
The woman – hands in chain, legs tied to a pole – fell silent. She looked towards the grinning man with the stache. After a few squints, the screams came back in force.
"Y-You are... why are you even doing this to me... | "So, who was the first super baby you took care of?" The villain asked Kari McKeen. "A little baby named Jack-Jack. He had who knows how many powers. Still does. The parents counted them and got 17. I dunno why, but some dude asked me about it and semi-wiped my memory." "What do you mean semi?" "I have no idea what the... | 2020-06-08T07:55:53 | 2020-06-08T07:45:04 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You slowly start to realize that all of your friends are undercover agents tasked with keeping you alive. Then, at your birthday party, with every friend surrounding you, the people trying to kill you finally find you.
Have fun. | As my breath drew shallow, the lights dimmed and I stopped, on the thirtieth candle. I brought my head up and looked around at everyone, waiting for me to finish the task. No one seemed to notice the lights had dimmed and now, I wasn't sure they even had. But it looked darker. Everything did. Twenty-nine extinguis... | It’s weird. It really is. I mean, you watch the Truman Show and think about how messed up that is. But you never, ever actually stop to consider that you might be in a similar situation. Sure, my life isn’t a TV show, but I’ve come to realize over the last few weeks that it would be an instant hit if it was. This is my... | 2014-11-22T15:41:06 | 2014-11-22T12:21:16 | 61 | 19 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | "You wish really really hard and then you push the button."
"Really really hard? What does the wishing do?"
"Frustrates the hell out of the new recruits when they realize that the incredibly genuine way we insist that they wish as hard as they can is just a ploy to make them look silly to amuse the rest of the crew."... | 2017-03-31T12:19:53 | 2017-03-30T23:13:22 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] "Explain to me again, slowly this time, how you managed to cause a global blackout with a fucking rubber duck?!" | "So you've heard of rubber duck debugging, right? Where you talk to a rubber duck and listen to yourself to get an idea of what's going wrong?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, I forgot that I'd put a voice-activated speaker in the duck I taped to my monitor - look, I was on the night shift and studying for finals. The internship wa... | The mood at the security bureau was chaotic. Tsarnev had been reassigned to this case after the massive blackout that happened during the recent World Cup match. This wasn't a good look for Russia, though neither was the view outside his cramped cubicle which normally belonged to someone else. This was a critical time ... | 2018-07-07T05:54:58 | 2018-07-07T05:15:17 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] A being at the gates of the afterlife allows every soul that passes through to ask it one question. Used to being asked questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "How many people loved me?", it's taken unawares when a soul asks "How was your day?" instead. | The being bents its enormous head to the side, curious and puzzled.
**"I am timeless, life itself. I am the Gods you worship, and the eternity you seek. I am the Guardian. I do not experience days, months, years. I am eternal, I have always been and always will be."**
The boy before it, no more than 14, clapped iron... | "Honestly?" the shade asked, pulled from the rout procedure of work leaning over his desk to get a better view of the man. "That's your question?"
"Yep," the newly robed human soul said. "How's your day?"
"And you realize you only get one question, right?"
"Yep," the soul chirped up again.
"And it can be anything, ... | 2021-03-28T20:36:51 | 2021-03-28T18:51:11 | 2,246 | 532 |
[WP] You're not really smart. You just have a power that pauses time each time someone asks you a question and time is unpaused only when you have the correct answer. One day your child asks you, "What is the meaning of life?" | "Daddy, what's the meaning of life?"
Oh shit.
Well, my daughter almost caused the end of the universe. What a great start to a Sunday morning.
You see, when I was young, I wasn't doing very well in school; I was failing most subjects, actually. Then on my 13^(th) birthday I found a weird paw thing in my aunt's cel... | "Easy son." I say, "Life's meaning is an amorphous changing thing. The constant struggle to grow, and sustain in a universe where both things aren't possible. Life is the tension to hang on like the vine in the crack of the old building. Life challenges change and we change to meet them."
"Some days we want to discove... | 2021-04-27T08:05:55 | 2021-04-27T07:58:13 | 779 | 76 |
[WP] It was a simple mission. Infiltrate the League of Heros, rank up, and steal their intel. But then one day a little boy baked you cookies, another day a little girl told you you're her favorite hero. Worst of all? People finally smile when you enter a room. | "Vile Five, this is Critical Spite reporting. I have just been summoned to the Hall of Heroes for a meeting with all five leading members the League. League HQ defenses are low-- I repeat, League HQ defenses are low. Prepare to invade, wait for my signal. Critical Spite OUT"
The disguised villain walked down the hallw... | *I’m saving you so you can see the world I own.*
There is much debate about why the hero’s always win. Is it that they are just stronger? I needed to know. Some suggest it’s our villain ego, too many of my kind get caught up in monologue. Others believe it’s their cooperation with each other and the police, but are th... | 2021-01-25T23:04:25 | 2021-01-25T21:55:18 | 224 | 63 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | Another day, another hectic day at work. How do these earthlings even tolerate this? Ah, If only I could.....no, I vowed not to.*Sigh* Damn. It wouldn't be this bad if it weren't for that no good boss of mine. Oh, here he comes again. That son of a gun better mind his own business.
Dave(My boss): "Fuck are you thinkin... | Another day, sitting in my corner office. Chief Executive Officer. Things have been a lot more entertaining since I decided to come to earth and help speed things up. I knew it could be done without my powers. It just took a lot of knowledge. Humans are, after all, pretty stupid and easily manipulated.
Computers ... | 2017-02-19T09:32:23 | 2017-02-19T08:58:06 | 44 | 33 |
[WP] One morning, you wake up and suddenly find yourself three years in the past, as if the last three years had never happened. It happened to the entire world and everyone remembers. | I felt a nudge on my shoulder and rolled my head to the side. My chin brushed up against a wisp of hair and my eyes opened up. There, lying in my arms, was the girl I had fallen in love with. But it didn't make sense, Alyssa had left me a year and a half ago; why was she here? More so, were we in her old apartment?
I... | I looked at my phone's date again.
The alphanumeric characters were indeed listed as 23/5/2013.
This must be a software issue of some sort.
Checking my laptop, I find the same date.
...No way - did it happen? Did it actually happen?
Adrenaline pumping, I get dressed and bust my way out the door. I've been dreaming... | 2016-06-11T12:57:13 | 2016-06-11T11:47:45 | 128 | 41 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Galactic level technology was a dangerous thing. It was fickle, powerful, and specific, and to work with it required a great deal of patience and experience. In our dawn we almost destroyed ourselves as we built up the sunder engines, and our existence almost wiped when we inherited the fold engines. But we were patien... | I’m pretty sure at least someone fainted when I gave the
news. Just the thought of a large group of humans could strike fear into the
hearts of the bravest. And now, we found they’re much larger than a group. Our
estimates of only thousands are now at least billions. They all swarm, scheme
in one place. A place they’ve... | 2017-11-08T19:44:53 | 2017-11-08T19:08:38 | 249 | 77 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | Jenna had a taste for blood, which was something she tried to hide until now. Her boyfriend Todd always thought she was a bit odd, and was shocked when she asked him to help her. “But we are only going after the bad guys, ya know the ones who hurt children and those who deserve it” she tried to justify her actions. Tod... | *Why*?
That was the only question that I could keep asking myself.
Why did I sit here and do nothing? The world was ending you idiot, and you did nothing. You let her die!* Tears were swelling in my eyes. Before I knew it, the dam of emotions burst and the tears came pouring down my cheeks. I could taste the salt fr... | 2017-11-29T08:11:25 | 2017-11-29T08:08:00 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You have been prank calling a foreign number for years because of the hilariously angry reactions of the victim at the number. Today men in black suits brought you in for questioning, wanting to know why you have been calling the number of a major terrorist leader so frequently. | "First of all," I said. "Have you heard his voice? Dude's fucking hilarious. Nasal, check. High pitched, check. Funny accent, check. Added bonus, he squeaks before he shouts. The guy fucking squeaks when he gets angry! Who *wouldn't* prank call him?"
One of the agents slammed his hands down on the metal table. It echo... | "Wait..What?!" I yelled to the men, both with a blank expression on their faces
"We see you called the number 240-555-8692, so frequently that it is threatening to why you are calling that much." One of the two quickly snapped back
"Uh..why does it matter?" I said in a concerned voice
The two men looked at each othe... | 2015-11-03T15:01:37 | 2015-11-03T14:32:45 | 97 | 21 |
[WP] Humans are known for being intelligent, empathic, loyal, and exceedingly versatile. As a result, humans have become the most in-demand service animals in the history of the Galaxy. | "Welcome to the Milky Way Center pet store, may I help you?"
"Yeah, I would like some advice. My son need a pet."
"Is it for a birthday? How old is he? Any special taste?"
"Oh, no. He just entered the red-level school, so still almost in its rebellious phase. But he is a little... in depression since... well... anyw... | The giant neon sign for “HUMANS R US” reflected bright in Xander’s eyes as he scoped the glass container of humanoids.
“Look Xander, we don’t have all century. Hurry and pick out your favorite model.” His mom said soothingly as she patted Xander’s back.
“But there’s so many different kinds,” Xander said with wide ey... | 2019-04-22T08:01:21 | 2019-04-22T00:22:19 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone in North Korea has disappeared over night. Everyone but one. It is up to the glorious leader Kim-Jong-Un to make it appear as if nothing happened. | This is ridiculous. It is clearly light outside. Why are they not coming!
Kim-Jong-Un was getting really uncomfortable, a feeling he was not used to. His bladder had been first cautiously signaling to him that relief was required. Now his bladder was screaming.
Why didn't they come!?
Kim-Jong-Unlet out a sigh and d... | The supreme leader groggily fumbled with the camera controls. It hadn't worked outright, it didn't even applaud when he entered the room. He'll have it executed later. Frustration slowly crept across to the face of the supreme leader. He had risen in the middle of the afternoon, for nobody had been granted to privileg... | 2016-05-12T01:39:27 | 2016-05-11T16:04:37 | 65 | 11 |
[WP] The year is 3015 and you’re the last person on earth. You’re outside farming and growing your dinner like usual when suddenly you hear a loud, distorted voice from the sky saying “Yeah this planet will do…” | "To be lonely is to be whole." The phrase repeated in my head as I tilled the dirt again and again. It continued to echo in my mind as I moved from one patch of dirt to the next in a mindless lull. The crops would need to be rotated soon, I thought; that thought replacing the ever repeating phrase and breaking me from ... | “what the fuck?” I whispered to myself after hearing the voice. I looked around, searching for something, anything, that could’ve caused this strange noise. It was weird, I hadn’t heard a voice other than my own in years.
Shrugging it off as a hallucination, I went back to watering my crops, as it was one of my only ... | 2022-10-23T17:19:28 | 2022-10-23T13:13:30 | 120 | 28 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | "Well, *he* killed every human in the entire world," said the one with red skin, goat horns, and a black goatee. His nametag said "Lucifer." "*And* all the animals. Puppies, kittens... the works! He drowned them all in a huge flood!"
"Did not!" the old man in the robes answered, folding his arms over his chest to cove... | I was running late again. This was the third time in a row. I didn't want people at the office to think I was making a habit of it, but I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep the past few days. Having dreams, or nightmares, that I can't remember. Waking up in cold sweats in my bed. I should probably look on... | 2015-08-05T19:33:22 | 2015-08-05T19:03:21 | 270 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone knew that the energy used in magic had to come from somewhere, but nobody knew where. Today you found out the secret of magic, and it was far more terrible than anyone could have imagined. | Elspeth closed her small fist around the scorched earth. White ash flecked from the remains; she squeezed, crumbling the charcoal. She raised her hand towards the poisoned sky. With an open palm, the wind carried away the ashes, swirling the blackened, burnt remains around the feet of the Praetor.
The ancient elder s... | No wonder Earth's climate continues cooling. Science has ever-so-gradually become a 'lost art'. The last major thesis ever developed by any working person on the planet Earth was by a scientist claiming that energy spent was taken from the initiators 'chi' or energy, thus only harming themselves and no other having to ... | 2019-05-11T01:00:33 | 2019-05-11T00:56:52 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | "You live like this?"
Well, yeah, I motherfuckin' do, and thanks for the reminder. Somehow I'd forgotten I was living in a one-room shithole with a five-year-old. I'm sorry my cleaning don't live up to your standards; I'm a little fuckin' busy between my kid and my two god damn jobs. Especially the one with that assho... | “You live like this?” I heard softly, awakening me from a dream I forgot at the same instant I woke, feeling faintly that the voice was a part of my dream, and not as surprised as I should have been to find out it wasn’t. She was sitting on the end of my bed, below my feet, with her back against the wall. She was dress... | 2017-08-21T13:18:08 | 2017-08-21T11:12:40 | 45 | 16 |
[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. | So you're in line getting tacos, right, like you do every Friday for lunch. It's a beautiful day, the sun is out, not a cloud in the sky. Seventy-five degrees, light breeze, absolute perfection. You order *dos de pollo* in your shitty Spanglish, hand the man three bucks through the dingy frosted window, and pause a mom... | Just another day. That's how it started at least. I woke up around 4:30 pm and started getting ready for my night shift. This whole grown up adult job thing wasn't all it had cracked up to be. Twelve hour shifts in a cramped room dealing with all the idiots my city had to offer. I guess you could say it was like hell o... | 2017-05-12T08:58:50 | 2017-05-12T07:49:08 | 1,714 | 61 |
[WP] A notoriously talkative superhero is forced to remain silent for an extended period of time due to civilian, secret identity reasons. Villains, civilians, even other heroes are unnerved and intimidated by the hero's new stoic, silent behavior. | Let's call this one... Poker Face.
Three years now. Three years since I put on the first version of this stupid outfit, since I donned the old domino mask and the tights. My shtick? Apart from having been an honors student and an offensive linemen in school and getting some good training along the way, I have just the... | "Oh now this is just ridiculous Tank!" Velveteen cackled as he had his minions attack his archnemesis The Tank who with a swing of her mighty fists made short work of them. Her latest outfit was just awful. Full black with no highlighting of her luscious curves. "You're going woke and broke!" He exclaimed as he jumped ... | 2022-01-24T10:18:03 | 2022-01-24T08:41:17 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] You're the maiden of the goddess of Death, sacrificed to her long ago when the god of Life didn't answer the town's prayers. People think you're suffering. In reality, you became the poor goddess' therapist. Who knew gods couldn't handle rejection like that. | The goddess Mania and I stood, side by side, at the bedside of a dying woman in a hospital, friends and family by her side. I had long ago given up coaxing her back to the underworld. She felt her place was surrounded by death, despite the fact that it depressed her so deeply.
Mania didn’t even *need* to be here. Her... | Death was a young woman with raven black hair and a beauty that had never quite had time to blossom. She was a girl whose motions refused to be defined, alternating between a perfect flowing gracefulness and shocking suddenness seemingly at random. She was also heartbroken as she walked through the forest that day. In ... | 2021-03-03T08:37:37 | 2021-03-03T06:48:58 | 650 | 305 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is born with some kind of special ability. With this ability comes a signifying tattoo or mark somewhere on their body. The larger the tattoo, the more powerful the person is.
You appear to be someone with really dark skin. Except that you were born from a white couple, and no one has been a... | They all tried to figure it out. Experts, consultants, psychics; we saw them all, and they all drew a blank. Not one of them could work out what the secret to my power was, or why I might have been missing one.
I was the only child on record to be missing a power tattoo, something that had been borne in the human rac... | [Longtime lurker on here, decided to start writing with this prompt]
Everyone I know has a tattoo somewhere. They get a special power from it that activates on their 13th birthday, but the power depends on the size of the tattoo. My older sister, for example, had wings on her back that go from her spine along her arm ... | 2014-11-30T13:16:38 | 2014-11-30T11:23:44 | 45 | 16 |
[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. | "Where are they then, Baratus?" my blade was out of its sheath now, glowing with the righteous furor of a paladin of Listanor seeking justice, "I got word the Kobolds passed through this town three days ago. I've nearly caught them, and I will not be slowed by your incompetence."
The man before me gulped. He was large... | *Where are they?* I screamed at the bound monster sitting across of me, its face full of fresh bruises.The monster stared fiercely at me, remaining ever so silent.
I went to back room, and took out my tools.
*You see, I am not a good person, I never was, I tried to be good, I liked having a party, allies, friends, I... | 2019-12-07T10:42:08 | 2019-12-07T10:37:08 | 191 | 49 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | No one was really sure why the humans were always chosen from earth. I mean whenever a probe scans for life forms, it always finds some deadly looking predators. Like the reptilian brings known as “Crocodiles”, they have the most powerful jaw of any species ever seen. Or the giant “Elephant” which would likely stand a ... | I'm sitting on the... Well, if you are about to have dinner, you probably don't want to know. It's just that the cooks here are really bad
Really. Barely survived basic training. Only made it because Hernandez quit and the army needs soldiers. Who wants to join when you got Netflix and Reddit?
So some sort of virus i... | 2020-09-13T21:14:51 | 2020-09-13T21:09:45 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You are an extremely Americanized character who has just been dropped into a typical high school anime that is riddled with all of the common anime tropes. Try as you might, you can't understand why the other characters behave the way they do. | I went for an Irish exchange student instead of American promised better laughs.
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I don't know why I took the exchange program in my last year of school. Probably because my ma buggered me into it. You would not believe how messy Japanese sounds with an Irish accent. Neverthless, here I was, standing before a cl... | "Have a good day, Kristy!! Don't punch anyone, your first day!" My mom said from the window of the Jeep before driving off, leaving me to walk the rest of the way up to the huge, Gothic style Japanese school.
I flipped up my hoodie and turned the music belting out from my headphones up a little, ignoring the various s... | 2017-07-24T04:29:08 | 2017-07-24T03:16:46 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] An elevator suddenly appears in your one story house. Every night at midnight exactly, it opens for 5 minutes. Inside is an exact copy of you. Each night, the copy is progressively more injured than the night before. | The strange thing wasn't the other me in the elevator. It's that I didn't say anything. I never told anyone about the elevator that appeared in my hallway. It's just five minutes and I can get back to my life.
He's quite similar to me, the quiet type. The normal person might be scared, disturbed, unsettled, but I look... | Maybe it's prescience. Maybe it's scientific or religious or some weird brand of pagan nonsense.
The elevator is there every night. It appears in my room, in the corner, next to the window. The first night was terrifying, he didn't ask me anything. He didn't say anything. He stood there, making eye contact.
I took a ... | 2018-05-18T23:00:43 | 2018-05-18T19:02:00 | 1,021 | 77 |
[WP] The year is 2020. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a single human skeleton and four words written on the wall. | EDIT: Good lord that blew up. I will see about maybe writing some more tonight.
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"Hey guys," I said over the comms. "You're all going to want to come down here."
"What is it, now?" Jon's voice said in my ear. "Another pretty rock you want to show us?" I could almost see the bastard's smug face. No one ... | Luca took several more photos of the desiccated remains before putting away the camera. He tried not to think about what he was looking at. What it meant.
Instead, he focused on the task at hand.
He found a perfect location in the dirt for the mini-Crunk: level land with great visibility of the sorrounding crater. ... | 2017-06-06T20:03:39 | 2017-06-06T19:57:11 | 1,368 | 16 |
[WP] In reality, every human gets to choose heaven or hell when they die. Hell isn't actually the realm of eternal torture, but everyone picks heaven because of God's highly effective marketing. After eons of solitude, Lucifer is startled by the first ever human to arrive in hell. | My alarm goes off. My eyes open. I catch the alarm clock on fire. Mosey out of bed. I can’t help but think today is going to be like every other day. No one shows up. Good ol “God” upstairs makes fun of me. And I go to bed, alone, once again, not seeing a soul.
“Is one so much to ask for?” I think to myself.
“Yes! ... | As I looked around the wide, open caverns of hell I felt weirdly at home. Everything we are told about this place was almost right. Is it hot? I guess a little. Is it a place of sin and hatred? Not unless you consider that there are no sins here. But most importantly of all, "Wait, so I'm the only one down here?"
"Yep... | 2020-01-30T15:05:24 | 2020-01-30T13:58:51 | 16 | 12 |
[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. | The balnadian warships exited the hyperlane in flocks of fifty, ignoring all rules about safe travelling of space and risking going Dutchman. One flock after another, all the way from fast-attack corvettes to impressive battleships, whose curb weight were measurable fraction of Ceres. Their design, although very diff... | 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... | 2020-02-07T13:13:51 | 2020-02-07T12:50:43 | 77 | 41 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | Ever since I was little I always had an interest in learning about times and lives long past. Luckily for me, I seemed to have been gifted in that area, too.
Long story short my childhood phase of being a huge history buff turned into the lifestyle of a college history professor.
Now, I’m not here to profess my... | 2078
Forty years ago I became immortal due to a cascading sequence of events entirely under my control. I invented God for a father and took advantage of the 'preordained' second coming, becoming Jesus reincarnate.
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Being immortal is freeing.
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Everyone I know is long since dead. I can't make sense of the n... | 2018-07-16T11:08:56 | 2018-07-16T10:38:05 | 375 | 268 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | The room was silent. No-one ever spoke at these things. The text message had been sent forty-three minutes ago. A location, a time. One by one we trickled in each of us with some grim purpose. At the door everyone showed three items to gain entrance: their button, their license, and the back of their left hand. ... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
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"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T20:28:24 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 57 | 38 |
[WP] The Robot Apocalypse came. Cities are empty, you stayed since you're almost out of insulin and will die soon anyway. The robots find you and while processing you one of them sees your insulin pump and asks if you want to apply for dual citizenship, since the pump technically makes you a cyborg. | Tucker held the reins on the team of horses. Watts rode beside him with a shotgun on lap and two pistols under the bench. They had a technology-free wagon of supplies to bring as gifts to distribute, but they weren't looking to lose them all, or themselves, at the next hamlet they came to. So far, luck had been with th... | What makes mankind, can man be part automata? I’d rarely have the time to even think of these questions but today that day had finally come. I’m gonna let you in on why, but we’re gonna need to go a fair bit back.
Throughout my life I’ve struggled with diabetes. In its modern state pretty curable, a bit of insulin pum... | 2021-07-16T11:41:14 | 2021-07-16T11:12:59 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | I have this recurring dream where a character from a book I started writing — long time ago, shelved indefinitely — barges into my bedroom as I’m sleeping. He sits himself down on the mahogany rocking chair at the end of the bed.
He crosses his legs and I watch his home-made boot rise up and down, up and down, like th... | "...why did you do this?! Didnt you realise all the pain and terror you created?" I looked at the hero i designed. Ahhh... my masterpiece. But so decent stupid.
"How do i explain this... oh dear..." i stood up from my writing table and started walking around. My back hurt from writing that much...
The hero started to... | 2021-07-31T08:04:05 | 2021-07-31T06:41:41 | 199 | 58 |
[WP] See, no monsters anywhere,” Grandma said to her grandson after searching the room. Outside the bedroom, Grandma pulled the goblin she found in the closet from her robe pocket, squeezed its neck until a loud crack echoed across the hallway, and said, “nobody fucks with my grandson.” | “No monsters anywhere, Addy. I told you. Look!” she said, waving her empty hands in front of her grandchild’s watching eyes. She passed her hand under the bed and found nothing.
“Thanks, grandma,” Addy said in a muffled voice from behind the blanket he held protectively in front of his face.
“You’re safe, baby. Go to... | [Poem]
Grandma Joan lived all alone
In what one may call a mystical home
Goblins, ghouls and all things creepy
From time to time, things got freaky
When Grandson Timmy comes to stay
All you creatures, stay away
For when Grandma Joan searches his room
Your name is next on the list of doom | 2020-09-24T16:31:06 | 2020-09-24T12:21:58 | 471 | 83 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "Is it really alright for me to be here?"
Faces turned. Attention slid from the digital black board to her. A thousand eyes in a dozen faces, knowing, amused. She saw herself refracted in them, multiplied, stacked.
"Why yes, of course it is!" the professor said, mandibles clicking. "Why wouldn't it be?"
"I just nev... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | 2021-11-27T12:58:16 | 2021-11-27T11:23:52 | 32 | 16 |
[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... | As the first spell was cast, the world changed. Those early years were full of some nasty work. Thankfully, magic was pretty new, and magicians had yet to write any spells longer than a few pages before magic came under extreme regulation.
And yet, the most damaging magical incident occurred thanks to a spell only fiv... | "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, "... | 2017-07-26T01:07:47 | 2017-07-25T19:49:43 | 128 | 24 |
[WP] Ten years into the zombie apocalypse, you find a computer with a connection to the internet. You are surprised to find that all of the global news stations are reporting as though nothing is wrong, and there is no mention at all of zombies, or your country. | "Hello? Is this thing working? I guess it is. Alright, my name is Manuel. Yeah, like that dude from *Faulty Towers*, you can laugh it up now, british folks."
The sound of heavy footsteps play throught the stream. The camera seems to be faulty, but slowly the image becomes clearer: The streamer is walking fast through ... | I grabbed another can and inspected it; 97% meat ham, only 2 months past its shelf life. Talk about a good haul; this apartment must've belonged to a prepper. I've got enough food to last me a month, easy. I hastily put everything in my bag and prepared to leave while the night still provided me with cover, but was sto... | 2022-02-17T10:33:57 | 2022-02-17T07:55:15 | 1,162 | 513 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | I neatened the little stack of index cards on the table. Not that I really needed them; I'm pretty good at memorizing speeches, and plus, I've been using teleprompters ever since entering politics. But they've always given me a sense of security, almost like ancient good luck charms. 'The Cue Card Candidate' they used ... | "Stall."
I break out in a cold sweat. This wasn't supposed to happen. I mean, it was the *plan* - but it wasn't supposed to happen. I had done everything that I was supposed to do, and this speech was supposed to be a vaguely inspiring fluff piece, and the assembled demonstrators were never supposed to have even the s... | 2015-05-16T17:49:48 | 2015-05-16T16:57:01 | 172 | 74 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | "I would like to buy that necklace." I said to the woman behind the counter. She smiled at me, amused. "The one with the diamond."
"I think that one's a bit out of your price range, sweetie." She said kindly. Not an unusual reaction, but it still frustrated me. Even so the kindness on her face took the sting from her ... | So if I wanted to learn magic I would have to teach myself, no one else would do it for me. And yet there was one skill that it seemed my youth was not a barrier for entry to. In fact it was a selling point.
Thievery.
Landro was a local thug and someone in the city with whom stolen goods would flow through and his ... | 2019-06-07T09:55:24 | 2019-06-07T06:10:20 | 119 | 22 |
[WP] You pull off your headphones and the whole world shifts. You're now sitting in a futuristic mall of some kind with a VR headset in your hands and a smiling clipboard-wielding woman asking about "the Virtual Life Experience™". The problem: your "Virtual Life" is the only one you can remember. | ######[](#dropcap)
I blink, and when my eyelids flicker open, the great hall of the palace is replaced by a large room of sterile whiteness, full of strange lights and bizarre sounds.
"So how was it?" a woman asks. She is wearing peculiar clothes for a female: trousers, a striped jacket, large amounts of gold jewelle... | "Miss, miss...", she repeats as she taps my shoulder. My eyes trying to focus on my surroundings as I turn towards her voice. Suddenly an overwhelming sense of nausea hits me. I place a hand over my mouth as quickly as possible.
"Oh, don't worry, that's very normal for your very first experience...", she says. I start... | 2017-03-25T09:46:47 | 2017-03-25T09:33:45 | 147 | 26 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | When I saw Jeremy sitting against the wall with a hole in his arm, I knew who it was.
Those three idiots called themselves "SWAT Ops", and I was the "class 8" villain that the league assigned to them as training. It was a nice job, pretending to be some Doofenshmirtz impersonator to help new heros get used to their p... | *crack*
*Crack*
*Crack*
" Please I beg you stop!" mighty lad screamed.
A steel cane rams into his jaw
"Martha, Benjamin, Alice, Steven" the wack hatter mutters
Mere hours ago Angelstar wack hatter's boutique cosplay shop was attacked by the league of cool crime stoppers. The employees were beaten to within an i... | 2022-11-28T19:32:50 | 2022-11-28T17:41:23 | 594 | 81 |
[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. | Rachael texted me and said she would be back home here soon. Usually I would run to the store and grab groceries, but I was exhausted from work. Spent 12 hours working buoys and being on the boat really took a toll on me today.
I was laying on the couch watching Netflix. Finally getting some time to relax while our c... | A chill rushed through my spine as the front wheel of my shopping cart squeaked. The store was busy when I had arrived but a lot of people had just cleared out. I gathered the last few items I needed and hurried to the check out. Ally was waiting in the car and I knew she was going to complain about how long I had been... | 2019-01-12T08:26:32 | 2019-01-12T07:02:27 | 49 | 21 |
[WP] You have long been fascinated by swords, and have mastered every kind of sword fighting technique known to man. No man can defeat you. But you have grown old, and Death has crept up to deliver his final swing, but something happened, something Death had never experienced before, he was parried. | The old man lay silently in his bed, and a thin ray of moonlight creeping through a sliver in his curtains reflected off the short blade mounted on the wall in front of him. He'd awoken from a peculiar dream in which every person he had ever defeated was standing before him, swords drawn, poised to attack, and now he e... | Death was no stranger to games. A game of swordplay, however rarely crossed his mind. The hooded figure stood in a readied stance with scythe behind. He had taken many warriors before but, none had challenged him.
“Do you fear, Death?” The old man asked, a curved blade of his own poised in a confident grip.
Death di... | 2018-10-29T21:51:16 | 2018-10-29T20:52:53 | 552 | 24 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | I’m awoken by Dan fidgeting next me in bed. His eyes meet meet mine, and instantly I know this is a Kelly Day.
She sighs loudly in exasperation through Dan’s mouth and throws his head back into the pillow. “Fucking fuck-balls fuck-face fuck-head-“
Hearing the stream of profanity in Dan’s soft, slightly nasal voice i... | As important as it was, the proposal was a brief break from what had been bugging me all night. Does she remember the promise I made that drunken night, the only way I could think to break the spell. The whole day the topic had been avoided and I cant help but think I would like to put it off forever.
I nuzzled into t... | 2019-12-15T12:32:47 | 2019-12-15T12:30:08 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | They glanced at each other; the emotions of their kind were harder to read, granted, but I could tell there was a certain anxiousness to it. Perhaps there was a shiftiness about their eyes.
And while their words, harsh and guttural, were harder to decipher- I didn’t have much of a knack for language- the blatancy of ... | "Ah, Captain? Sir? You wanted to see me?"
"Yes. It's about ..."
"The warp. Yes, I heard a few of the other ... crewmembers? Is that the right term? I heard them talking."
"You're quite right. Here you are, a human with no military or any form of applicable training, achieving what other races have striven to accompl... | 2020-07-14T01:07:26 | 2020-07-14T00:57:05 | 688 | 115 |
[WP] You we’re born with the ability to control fire, but instead of becoming a superhero, you set your sights on a much more attainable goal: You became the worlds greatest firefighter. | "I told them no. Over and over again I told them no. I had no interest in becoming a hero like my father or mother. I just wanted to move about in public with my normal face; not looking over my shoulder for some villain to screw with my day. Hell even at dinner the other day, a spoon dropped from the table and my Mom ... | Here on Fox News, we are covering the story of The Amazon, catching on fire. This seems to not be able to be contained nothing we can do to stop this.” eternal flame” we have dumped so much water on this we don’t even want to bore you about how much water it was and it didn’t even go down a little bit. It seems nothing... | 2022-12-16T17:33:37 | 2022-12-16T14:17:15 | 234 | 10 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | wow, i want to do this so i will, but i have a few letters i need to address. just for sanity and subtle sake of ones demons.
Dear Jennifer. my beautiful sister.
i'm sorry for staying at yours the month after your wedding and having no money and regrettably overstaying my welcome and being a pain in the ass.
i'm sorry... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T13:10:10 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 58 | 36 |
[WP] Everyone dies on their birthday, but no one knows at which age it will occur.
EDIT:
Thanks all who replied - I've read them all even if I didn't comment!
You are all so brilliant, thanks for giving this prompt life (no pun intended)
:D | Defibrillator. Check. Bandages and gauze. Check. Flashlight. Check. Smoke detector and fire extinguisher. Check. Louisville Slugger. Check. Book of Sudoku. Check. The most recent Jack Reacher novel. Check. Jug of water. Check. Alien box set DVD with commentary from cast. Check.
I started the list five days ago. It we... | 11:58 pm. Almost time. I blinked and took a deep breath while my mother kept clamoring on the phone. I appreciate her concern, really, I do, but I'm just as nervous as she is, and honestly? I just wanted to get to sleep. Like a lot of other people, the anxiety of my birthday was severe enough to trigger anxiety attacks... | 2014-11-19T17:06:25 | 2014-11-19T16:39:40 | 99 | 54 |
[WP] In Hell, your worst mistakes and cringiest moments are relived over and over. Your life, however, was a series of never ending awesomeness. Satan is getting fed up with you. | "Lisa, my dear, we talked about this."
Ugh.
I’d been in high school, when that bitch Jessie had tried to slap me for, get this, giving her boyfriend the “evil eye”. The hell does that even mean? Anyways, I’d *caught* her hand and made her slap herself. “Why’re you hitting yourself?” Oh man, her face had been quite s... | "What about this one?" He asked as he pressed the play button on an old 90's TV remote
That's Satan by the way, he's trying to make me regret something. Dunno why I ended up in hell, I mean I wasn't particularly rude but being a jock you don't end up caring much about other people, I was too busy living my life.
"Na th... | 2017-07-23T10:17:47 | 2017-07-23T10:00:52 | 187 | 66 |
[WP] You are happily married and have a 4 year old child with your SO. But when your child starts to develop super powers one day, you have serious questions for your SO who has always seemed to have a boring accounting job. | We never quite were the traditional couple. She was the breadwinner, working days and some evenings as an accountant at one of the top finance firms. It seemed dreadfully boring to me but she was good at it. Really good at it. We decided early on that I would stay at home once we had kids; maybe I would work an odd job... | “Honey? Can we talk please?” I finally found a time to talk to Gretel tonight. She put her book down on the night stand and looked at me.
“Sure. What’s up?”
“Uh, well I’m not sure you know this but uh... Tommy was flying.”
Gretel looked shocked. “Flying you say?”
“Flying. Was going to bring him a bag of chips today. An... | 2019-08-23T07:06:36 | 2019-08-23T06:49:08 | 387 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I'm not really sure how the numbers work. I don't remember when they started showing up, and I have never seen my own. They are little coloured numbers that hover above peoples' heads when I look at them.
My parents, both trained and experienced police officers that were normally armed, both averaged around a 6 or a 7... | I always figured it was some form of synesthesia; above everybody, a translucent number, hovering above their head like a static hummingbird. I figured out soon enough that I was unique in this, that no-one else could see these bizarre numbers, a halo of creation and devastation. The nerdy kids on the late-night subwa... | 2014-11-29T18:39:45 | 2014-11-29T15:29:59 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A medieval European knight somehow ends up in feudal Japan. With nowhere to go in the foreign land he decides to settle down in a forest. Outside this forest sits a village; and as years go by rumours start to spread of a tall metal spirit that roams this forest. | I can still remember the day i was excommunicated. A few fortnights prior to it, i set out to rescue the love of my life, who was admittedly from a small insignificant kingdom, and who my family disapproved of, but i had my mind set on her.
I heard from a beggar that she has been kidnapped by a wizard who took her w... | He lived in a sad little world.
A chunk of metal, that's all he was now. Transported to a land where he neither knew the customs or the language, bound down to a land unfamiliar and barely navigable - the curse had taken his physical body, but apparently had also done what it could to erode his mentality. At least, w... | 2019-11-15T09:14:41 | 2019-11-15T08:20:34 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | “Order! Order! There will be order in this chamber!”
The Grand Vizier’s voice was projected across the large rotunda. Delegates from across the galaxy bickered and clamored over the fact that the representatives from Andorus Major invoked the Defense Alliance, something that had not been done in thousands of years.
... | "They're throwing engines at us."
Thats what we first thought during the start if the Salab Conflict. Of course, while spacial war is cleaner than planet-bound conflicts, there is still some fighting done if only to pit weapons against remote drones, so the humans' method of throwing the equivalent of a starship's e... | 2020-03-21T08:46:43 | 2020-03-21T08:44:58 | 156 | 87 |
[WP] There's a door in the middle of the forest. No one who has ever gone in has come back. Your job is to guard anyone from going in. One night, you hear a knock on the door. |
It was a night like every other night, back to the door. Normally, I would bring my Nintendo 3ds to keep me occupied, but my God damn kids took my charger while I was sleeping. It isn’t all bad. It really isn’t. I normally find ways to entertain myself in the night either by writing or reading. I would even spend time... | There was a knocking sound. I wasn't prepared for this.
I've been the Guardian at the Wooden Gate for sixty years, and I've dealt with devils, tricksters, blackguards and ruffians. But I didn't expect a knock on the *inside*.
A voice called. "I seek the Guardian. I have a message for him." The voice, hollow and ... | 2015-05-18T00:19:42 | 2015-05-17T22:01:23 | 39 | 15 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Gasping awake, he's surrounded by a dark haze. He doesn't remember when he arrived or how he did so, but he has a burning ache to go home. He hears a sound, a voice? He isn't too sure as he whips around in a panic.
"Hello?" He calls out. The anxiety, trembling from his voice, "I think I'm lost," he is met with silence... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T08:38:23 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | JulieBear1998: Dad r u there? 0_0 Helllooooooooo?
LoneStarRanger: Hi pumpkin. Sorry I'm late. We were running drills.
JulieBear1998: Lol its k
LoneStarRanger: So how was your day Julie?
JulieBear1998: it was good
JuliesBear1998: i finally got my chem midterm back
LoneStarRanger: What'd you get?
JulieBear1998: g... | My dearest love,
I long to see the smile that graces you lips. It has been well over seven months since I have and my heart aches for that one simple gesture that would welcome me home. Everywhere around me death grins and I recoil from its affection. Tommy, the boy from the Mason’s farm, felt its sweet kiss two days ... | 2015-02-03T16:21:09 | 2015-02-03T13:20:11 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | King Andrees Nan Copolas scooted back in his hard edged, iron throne. The bags gathering under his eyes seemed to be trying to escape his face as he looked down at the tray I brought him. He brushed grey hairs away from his face as his bloodshot eyes met mine.
“I will not need the black brew tonight, Jevin.” He was b... | 9 X 365=3285
Now....
Stop reading right there and let your brain process that math for a couple seconds. Give your brain a moment to breathe and fully comprehend that time scale.
Math...... philosophy, music, chemistry, physics, molecular biology, history, on and on: the summation of all human knowledge has drenche... | 2017-05-02T07:36:22 | 2017-05-02T06:27:23 | 149 | 87 |
[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" | My vision. Dark. Black. A void of nothing.
But then a flash of light. Blinding. Burning. As well as....steam. I'm standing in front of a bathroom mirror. My own face is starting back at me. My mouth is moving without my conscious control. "War never changes."
"You're gonna knock 'em dead at the Veteran's Hall tonight... | "well that's really not good"
I wake up to see the nightmarish visage of wehrner von kerman standing over me
"Eh HAAAHHH" he says in a horrifically nasal voice that i somehow understand.
in order to leave, i have to "beat" the game, well that's gonna be a little bit of a bitch seeing as kerbal space program has n... | 2020-02-16T23:04:10 | 2020-02-16T23:02:08 | 40 | 25 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | John Norman's current Monday was abysmally bad, even in the context of his life and his Mondays. The hot water was out in the building, his toaster practically incinerated his pop-tarts, his ex-wife "asked" for another hundred bucks to take his son to the renaissance faire (with the implicit threat that if he doesn't g... | "Ladies and gentlemen! Triploids and trans-asexuals! Welcome to the 2301st Milkyway Endurance Olympics!"
Mike could not understand what was happening. But he was sure of one thing: he did not want to be here. He was just a fat dude living in his mom's basement. He did not have a job, he did not have friends, he was go... | 2014-05-06T07:25:49 | 2014-05-06T05:48:35 | 88 | 32 |
[WP] Your job was simple: Interview some humans to develop a planetary risk profile in the Galactic Travel Guide. The humans seem to delight in lying about their planet in efforts to increase their score, but you are on to them. Their lies always seem to mention a fictional place: Australia | "It started off easy." you sigh as you are lying on your bed talking to your log. "All I had to do was interview some of these barely evolved mammals to determine if their planet was a total Yarkolag or just a casual Zoxy."
"I started off with some basic questions about their own species, like what is typical and a-ty... | "I've interviewed hundreds of spices and am the most oldest and best employee at this job!" Sar yelled at his boss, then paused for a second to think before continuing "so why, just why are humans the hardest to interview spices I've ever encountered." His boss was surprised at his out burst as he had never yelled at w... | 2019-11-18T02:34:17 | 2019-11-17T23:02:12 | 1,410 | 42 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
There is no doubt that our country has faced, and still faces, many challenges. Our enemies abroad threaten us with cowardly acts of terror. Our citizens fight to earn a decent wage. Our nice guys are still being friend-zoned by the stupid w... | "Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
We are fifteen years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and the world. ... | 2015-04-30T08:03:03 | 2015-04-30T07:43:09 | 233 | 77 |
[WP] There's a few ways to tell if the creature's following you. The best is to look for evidence of an extra person, such as your friends getting a table for 5 instead of 4, or leaving a seat open in the theatre or pouring an extra cup of coffee. Your mind will scream that its normal. Don't listen.
EDIT: So I had my ... | “Lee!” The voice came from the other side of the door. “Hey man, what’s up? You haven’t called.”
*No sudden movements.* I roll off the bed, creeping to door on featherlight feet. *No noise.* I scoot around a tray littered with beer cans, eyes peeled for any new obstructions.
Living alone is one thing; living in fear ... | Gary was just about to take his first sublime sips of his freshly brewed Matcha when… *Thud, thud, thud*. He wasn’t expecting anyone at this hour.
The man before him held a barely functional raincoat, a sheet of plastic really, it barely covered his upper body and head. His jeans were completely soaked. What really ca... | 2019-10-01T11:41:30 | 2019-10-01T10:40:31 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] You stare at the skeletal figure in full tactical gear, rifle held nonchalantly in his hands. “I got tired of chasing the runners,” Death says, “This seemed easier.” | Death waited for his latest victim to cower before him in the face of his newly purchased tactical gear. Instead, all he received was a puzzled look from an old man. Old by human standards at any rate. Nothing on his face resembled the awe and fear he imagined his new appearance would bring.
‘What’s the problem?... | Kenneth wasn't your average reaper.. or that's what he wanted everyone to think, in reality he was a reaper that was drowning in the stench of mediocracy. Not to say that being normal or mediocre is bad, but Kenneth sure thought it was.
Being the attention hungry reaper he is, Kenneth did something that would fo... | 2021-06-18T09:26:34 | 2021-06-18T08:52:51 | 92 | 24 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | Lyr-Etta sprinted on to the main deck.
“Captain, the humans are in full retreat”
Captain Orasin was a stern and strict leader, but the news that the humans were finally defeated brought a smile to his face.
Lyr-Etta continued “but for whatever reason, our numbers are still shrinking.”
“How can that be?” Orasin aske... | "Howdy!" the tiny computer said, just as it was taught to start every conversation. "You've done enough harm to my user." Was heard immediately after, in a robotic, emotionless voice.
The room became dead silent, even the alien that probably didn't even understand English remained in his spot, in the corner of the ... | 2019-09-21T06:59:04 | 2019-09-21T06:38:25 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] "Greetings Mortal, I am Hera, Queen of the Gods!" the floating woman said. You look to your flustered genie asking "Is she…". She replies, looking embarrassed "Yes Master. She is apparently your soulmate." | "Are you cheating on me?" Hera asked the question while finishing up the dishes. She stood at the sink, her larger than life head nearly hitting the ceiling, using part of her purple toga as a dishtowel.
Julia was still toweling off her hair from her morning shower. Her long brown hair took forever to dry, but she did... | "But I don't want a soulmate! Heck I don't even want a girlfriend!" I protested loudly.
Both the genie and Hera looked at me questioningly.
"Mortal, I can bring you immortality and wealth just by being my boyfriend. Why don't you want to be my soulmate?"
"I'm gay!"
Both of them stare at me before the gen... | 2021-12-09T08:31:34 | 2021-12-09T08:30:17 | 89 | 66 |
[WP] Eminem finds out he isnt the real slim shady
Woah this blew up! Good job to everyone who submitted!...i still cant believe how big this got! I literally created this prompt in the middle of my chemistry class listening to some eminem | "Get these cuffs off of me! Where the fuck am I?!" Eminem screamed as he struggled against the small wooden chair he was tied too in an otherwise empty recording studio.
A look of confusion spread across his face as Dr. Dre and a tall thin black man wearing a baggy sweat suite that looked like it came directly from ... | "Who the fuck are you supposed to be!?" Asked the shocked Eminem. All of a sudden, standing in his living room was himself, but 10 years older.
"I'm the real Slim Shady" anounced this older version of him. "Have a seat" said Marshal while pulling off his glasses and motioning to the seat near him.
Confused, hesitant, s... | 2014-12-09T11:38:00 | 2014-12-09T11:06:44 | 161 | 16 |
[WP] It occurs to you in the shower that you've just turned 32 and haven't gotten a single wrinkle. None of your family members have aged past a certain point - even your dog should be long past gone by now. You tell your friend, and she just laughs incredulously. "You're in a coma, dumbass." | Confusion washed over me as Jenny kept right on making her drink as if her response had been completely normal. "A coma?" I ask suspiciously, expecting some sort of joke or reference I should know but will be ridiculed endlessly for not.
"Did I stutter?" The rhythmic sound of the mixer now filled the void between us, ... | There is a point in my life when I thought that waking up in the same small bed every day, my body unchanging, my friends and family unchanging, even my surrounding staying in the same state not deteriorating at all; that something might be wrong. I faced my friend, all the stuff she told me sounded ridiculous, her blu... | 2017-11-25T17:52:50 | 2017-11-25T13:24:01 | 119 | 41 |
[WP] After a civil war, the losing side are placed into a simulation where they believe they won. The public in the real world are routinely shown this simulation to see how bad things could've been... but the simulation is starting to look better. | James peered into the simulation for his turn to view the 'Loser world' - A simulation created for viewing the what the losers of the great civil war would've done if they had won. At the end of the war james was barely a toddler and knew nothing of what was happening, only that his father had never returned, but now h... | “So the south is now a post scarcity society?”
“Yeah once they realized robots were cheaper than slaves in the long run, they made all the slaves build their own robot replacements”
“Is it a post racial paradise?”
“No they Gave the slaves their own country in what used to be Liberia, hopefully it goes better this ti... | 2018-09-15T11:17:58 | 2018-09-15T11:06:34 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | There's a pregnant, awkward pause. It hangs in the air, and with every second that goes by I can almost feel the moment stretch on. I know it's only been a second. Now two. Now three. But nonetheless it's painful. Agonizing.
"...Excuse me?"
"You know precisely what I said," the king mutters. His eye turns towards me.... | I work for a fucking psychopath.
It started out well enough. Good pay, free meals, and a general sense of autonomy given my high position. There was a certain strangeness to the arrangement. However, my need for approval and adulation outweighs my moral code.
Originally, the commission seemed easy enough.
"Cr... | 2022-06-03T19:51:13 | 2022-06-03T19:30:12 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Your utterances are suddenly perceived as extremely ingenious. While you now frequently speak words of truly great wisdom, you yourself are incapable of grasping their meaning. | Penelope, a lovely woman with a british accent walked into the room.
"Ok, Mr. Reynolds, the UN meeting begins in 15 minutes, do you want anything before you start? Coffee? Soda?"
"No, Penelope. Mere drinks cannot quench the thirst for enlightenment."
"Brilliant, Mr. Reynolds. Just brilliant."
"I know."
What the fuc... | The keys flashed and fingers danced a ballet of such choreography a solar eclipse would fall out of alignment with envy. The rise and fall of digits caressed and stroked while words appeared on the monitor. In magic white boxes, as it seemed to him, where only before there were no words. He scratched his head as he wat... | 2014-11-23T05:03:23 | 2014-11-23T03:47:40 | 169 | 12 |
[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... |
He has always been a very peaceful person which was often mistaken for being boring and uninteresting which lead to him getting left out. The only interaction he had with others in school was when his classmates would bully him with their outstanding powers. They were quite powerful and could possibly be used to ki... | 2020-02-26T08:04:31 | 2020-02-26T07:41:46 | 147 | 19 |
[WP] Some people; most often nobles are born with elemental powers. You were cast away and sent to the army as a magic-less dissapointment to your royal family, only to find as you cried for a friend to come back their corpse actually rises. You are the first necromancer. | For most families I would’ve been normal. After all, only ten percent of the population was gifted with the elemental powers known as the Abilities. The rest of us would make do with just normal human attributes and accept that the highest ranks of society would be forever barred from us. But for nobles it was differen... | Great bursts of green and blue exploded with thunderous blasts above as the ground ruptured as a mixture of steel and energy rained around me. I sprint, running harder than I ever had in my entire life, towards the trench line.
"Sir! Sir!" I scream as I slide into the makeshift hole. "Sir the bombs are set! Radios fri... | 2019-07-04T14:39:03 | 2019-07-04T11:51:44 | 50 | 37 |
[WP] The aliens conquered earth swiftly and violently with little issue, but they're about to experience a type of resistance they've never seen before: peaceful protest | Zen'n glared out the window at the blue marble in space, now *his* blue marble. The war had been swift and with only the necessary bloodshed. Every facet of the government was under his control. As Londra, he was entitled to all of it's meager riches and slaves through right of conquest.
And yet, he couldn't seem to w... | The humans are broken. Not like I wrote in my log a month after arriving at this beautiful bountiful planet where their spirit was broken and their will to fight dissolved and they began the arduous task of collecting resources to be sent back home, but they are now actually broken individual; they no longer work. It a... | 2021-05-10T14:53:51 | 2021-05-10T12:00:48 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth, they are so far in technology we had no means of fighting back until we made a critical discovery, since they are so advanced they lack in interpersonal skills which makes them incredibly vulnerable to grade school level psychological attacks. those poopy heads are screwed | **DOCUMENT FOR AUTHORIZED ACCESS ONLY**
*Operation “Pale Wind”*
*Mission Report*
05/15/20██
Director: Max ███████
Handler: Lori ██████
Field Team: Lima-3
At approximately 0300, the forward operating base (FOB) responsible for maintaining the evacuation of the civilian population of Detroit, MI, was compromised... | Korzhigs stormed into the feeding bay, away from the command centre of his ship and those...*inaccurate* humans. Shigvas looked up and *tch*'d disapprovingly at him.
"You are letting irrationality cloud your thoughts, Korzhigs. That display was quantum and you know it as well as I do. I've never seen you be this...un... | 2019-07-30T02:56:19 | 2019-07-30T02:37:57 | 137 | 59 |
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