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[WP] As it turns out, Hell has a healthy supply of scientists and engineers and is thus much more technologically advanced than is usually portrayed. | *Warning*: the last segment contains some graphic descriptions.
An inhuman shriek pierced the eternal night of Hell, waking Dr. Roberts with a start from his dreamless sleep. He pulled the covers tightly over his head, unwilling to face what waited in the shadows. As the echo of the shriek returned from the far wall... | Hell is a fiery torturous place where the ground seeps lava and demons fly around poking your bare ass with a pitchfork the size of Mount Rushmore.
That’s your version of Hell. It can’t be that for everyone, because humans have different fears and subtle nuances which makes you all so different. A firefighter tha... | 2016-06-01T18:52:30 | 2016-06-01T15:48:34 | 314 | 62 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | As the last known survivor, I feel I must explain it all.
We have muskets; by law, these are the weapons allowed by the Galactic Concordance. In fact, all weapons were severely restricted to prevent one species from gaining superiority through weapons technology. We know how to annihilate planets with a single blast,... | "Humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
The gnarled general gave him a look halfway between amusement and disbelief.
His ears twitched before settling back into their wavy slow pattern.
"You know thi... | 2017-08-08T08:28:06 | 2017-08-08T07:55:11 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, you wait in purgatory until you can be judged by the 4 people most impacted by your actions: the person you were the most cruel to, the person you were the nicest to, the person who was saved by your actions, and the person who died because of your choices. | Sarah sighed as the alarm screeched at her from across the bedroom. She cursed herself, as the neon-green light flashed "5:30", for placing it so far away. The Sun hadn't even risen yet, so why should she?
"I got it," said a voice. Her husband, David, rolled out of bed and walked over to the alarm. He ran a wave of s... | John was happily driving his car to meet up with some family, when suddenly-- BAM! He couldn't really remind himself of what had happened, however, he was now sitting down, in a dimly lit room.
"Where am I?" John blurted out, looking around before finally looking down at his body and noting how perfectly fine he was. ... | 2019-04-30T08:30:08 | 2019-04-30T07:27:01 | 136 | 33 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come. But so has the robot apocalypse, and the Illuminati takeover, and the alien invaders... It seems everyone played their hand at the same time. | "Why are we holding off on the invasion, Prime Minister?" his aide inquired, turning to face the dark locked man sitting regally in his chair set at the head of the long table. His fingers were steepled together before him, casting shadows against his handsome visage.
"Because we have the advantage by not *pressing* o... | "Any news from Moscow?"
I sat up in my seat. For one hundred years it had commanded the hall of conference, this cavern of stone. It was rather comfortable. I somewhat wished, in that regard, that the world above me would become more like my chair.
"Sorry Sir"
Henry had been monitoring transmissions for the last twent... | 2017-12-28T17:11:19 | 2017-12-28T15:50:54 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] 3 weeks ago, the government issued a warning to stay inside for a week due to an “international threat”. You don’t own a house, and we’re forced to stay outside. It’s been 3 weeks. No one has come out yet. | It was a time ago that the TVs buzzed sounds of warning.
“Stay inside, the streets are ripe with evil,” the president warned.
Over and over the TVs blared this noise out of their sets. Day by day I have seen no threat. The people, too scared to face the truth, are hiding in their homes, likely starving as they learn... | I always thought this neighborhood was really nice. Nothin’ ever looked out of place. In fact, I’m surprised they never kicked me off my bench. In most places I’ve been, I have gotten kicked out pretty fast, and nobody even used the bus at those places. Here though, a good portion did, but nobody really paid ANY attent... | 2018-06-29T05:32:59 | 2018-06-29T04:22:58 | 63 | 14 |
[WP] Two immortals, one who accepted it as a blessing and the other one as a curse, are having a conversation.
Edit : Wow, never thought it'll get this much karma. Thank you everyone for the writings. It's always interesting to see the two sides of the same coins, and none of your story is dissapointing in the very le... | The ancient prison stood tall as the being of the Light walked the well worn paths through muscle memory alone, as her thoughts wandered. She bade her two guards to halt as she came to the Door at last. They would stay outside with strict orders never to enter. This place was not for mortals to tread.
The Door creaked... | "How are you?"
"I'm fine. You?"
"Oh I'm fine as well."
"Heh. You never knew how to continue a conversation"
"I have plenty of time to practice my speech craft."
"But not now?"
"But not now."
"Say, what have you been doing with this opportunity?"
"Plenty. I work odd jobs here and there. Plenty of time to go over... | 2017-07-20T03:07:08 | 2017-07-20T02:54:59 | 114 | 15 |
[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | The Outer One, the Scout, awoke from a deep Slumber, as he felt a tremendous wave of neutrinos passing through him in the wrong direction. Awakening his senses, he rumbled in amusement at the pinpricks of light produced by the foreign flora. Stretching his space, he prepared to deal with the threat to their Chosen.
... | The Protoss since long discovered the fabled homeworld of the fragile Terrans, their ships daring to explore the edge of Protoss space only to be captured, and destroyed, with no evidence remaining, a single observer was sent through the cosmos, eventually discovering a planet that once bristled with life, only to be b... | 2018-02-05T15:37:30 | 2018-02-05T14:02:35 | 193 | 21 |
[WP] We forget our dreams for a reason: in the near future, memory enhancement therapies allow everyone to fully recall every dream they've ever had. Across the entire human race, disturbing patterns and implications emerge that were previously hidden by the unappreciated bliss of forgetfulness. | I shouldn't be having this meeting. It's 4:30 in the morning, I'm still in my pajamas for christ's sake. I knew this was going to be part of the job when I applied, but that doesn't mean I have to *enjoy* it. One of my aids, Evan, hands me a mug of coffee.
"Good morning sir" He says."The Director of the NSA has b... | It was last Thursday- No, FRIDAY that I was with Sarah Lee. The memory of her gasping for air bounced around the walls of my mind. The sound of gurgling- her head being submerged under water. The gasping- my hands around her shoulders, pushing her down. The splashing- her struggles to break free from me.
I'm not quit... | 2016-09-30T09:00:58 | 2016-09-30T07:18:43 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] The hero defeated the dragon sorceress, rescued the princess, and saved the kingdom. Instead of ascending to the throne, he decided to introduce democracy and give power to the people...who then promptly elected the dragon sorceress. | In the old system, it was hard for the common man to have a say in anything. As a child I had seen too often the common folk's cries for relief or fair representation often go ignored at best. If you wanted to gain recognition as a commoner, to have your words mean something, you had to have done something those of hig... | „The god forsaken fools“stammered the hero as he put his undies in a bag.
“Whatever shall we do?” asked the princess standing next to the royal family who had stormed his humble home for protection.
“They are coming for us” screamed her father, the King. He pointed his finger at the hero. “This is all your fault” he ... | 2021-02-08T18:59:37 | 2021-02-08T14:33:54 | 994 | 603 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | They showed up 4 years ago. That was all it took for them to cause a cataclysmic shit show unlike anything we have ever seen. They called themselves "humans"
A seemingly unremarkable species, at first. Compared to the zombie ships, wandering plant dragons, multiple hive minds like myself, and hundreds of other species... | "They used this opportunity to once again launch big-budget remakes of age old blockbuster movies. Studios made incredible amounts of profit while igniting controversy amongst cult fanatics and common, casual cultural consumers. As ever before these conflicts ripped the fabric of human society asunder leaving few bodie... | 2021-05-12T13:17:09 | 2021-05-12T12:35:15 | 115 | 11 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | My grandmother still worships the old gods. I dont know how she can keep track of all of them. There seems to be a god for every problem. I probably should have played more attention in history when we went over all this stuff. She always said I was a favorite of Aphrodite. She warned me that living with the favor of ... | A young man stands in front of a crowded board room his presentation is impeccable. He's worked his way up from intern to junior exec, and it's taken years of late nights to get him to this point. His smart blue suit only slightly lighter than the others in the room, his tie a perfect accent piece to his pocket square... | 2017-03-22T19:03:01 | 2017-03-22T15:05:15 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] Two men sit at the bar sneaking glances at your table. When the waitress brings you and your date drinks she places a napkin in front of you with "RUN" scrawled on it. | "That dress is very becoming on you. Of course, if I... well, you've probably heard that one a thousand times before."
Dmitry's full lips curved upwards in a smile that wasn't quite a leer. I could feel the blush creep up my cheeks and looked down at my hands, partly out of embarrassment and partly to hide my answerin... | As soon I read the note, I feel a shiver run down my spine, and I know immediately that she's right. I need to get out of there. I kick the bar stool from underneath myself and I turn towards the door as fast as I can, but as soon as I do, I feel my joints lock up and I hit the floor hard face-down. I hear the conve... | 2018-03-13T08:47:23 | 2018-03-13T08:29:18 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | My name is Aaron Aaercbia and I finally got my basic income check. I was in a weird age bracket? Maybe my literally alpha name. My birthday was one day after the start of the school year, so I was always 364 days ahead.
I got my check 2 daysbefore my 21st birthday. $7.27. Cashable only after 28/August/2067
Two days ... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T11:38:23 | 335 | 27 |
[WP] You were created to slay the demons from beyond the gate, but eventually they stopped sending you reinforcements, and even later they stopped sending resources at all. You had to make do with what you found. You're sure they've forgotten about the demons by now. | 89 945 762
The imp's corpse fell lifelessly to the charred ground, its eyes frozen in a perpetual state of terror. The blood of the thing rushed into the roughly carved runes supplying just a few more hours of life to the killing machine, extending its existence with that stolen from its victims. The Demonbane continu... | Edited for formatting:
*Ten spears go to war. One comes back. Did war forge the one, or show which would not break?*
Day 3056
Today was the day the last of the steel failed. It's been months since we got more, and most steel only lasts a week in the sulphurous, hot, nightmare eminating from the Maw. It takes too lo... | 2021-09-11T05:58:02 | 2021-09-11T05:43:33 | 1,183 | 295 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | I had been locked inside there for somewhere nearing one thousand years. Well, I didn't know it was nearing one thousand years at the time, and in truth I hadn't been locked up at all.
But none the less I thought I had been locked up, and it had been nearing one thousand years when a man opened the door, and it creak... | Had it been months? Years? Days?
My mind was in a whirlwhind when the light seared my eyes.
The silhouette stayed there, and soon two more were standing behind it.
I tried to open my mouth but the words fell out.
As it walked in the two behind set a table down and another two brought in some chairs.
I could tell i... | 2018-07-31T15:33:36 | 2018-07-31T14:23:30 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] humans are born on planets with "1 G" as they call it, this is 24 kraels, most races would die under these conditions, humans however, thrive. | One leg needed per krael, if one needs to stand indefinitely. Acrobats and athletes can jump, hop on one leg, or even rear up on two hinds and shuffle for a while, but no one could *sustain* it. That's how it works, as every member of the Astavean Alliance knew. It simply held true for every genus in existence.
In the... | “The Mallix Ambassador is ready for travel.” the tech said.
“Life support systems dialed in, Oz?” I asked. “We need to make a good first impression.”
“Triple checked the air and pressure readings, sir.” Oz responded. I knew Oz: that response was flat. He was overcompensating. Annoyed with me probably. I looked at th... | 2021-04-02T09:44:37 | 2021-04-02T09:29:56 | 162 | 64 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | She didn't understand this change in her father. She was accustomed to him focusing more on his work than on her. Frankly, she couldn't remember the last time he picked her up from school at all and now he had shown everyday this week. And to top it off, there he was, sitting in the front row of her play.
You see, Car... | My father loads his rifle full of bullets. I asked him,"What are you doing dad?" "Well, my mug says number two, and James's mug says number one. I must be number one." He raises his rifle and fires. Killing his life long friend. He grabbed his mug from the table and saw it turn from #2 to #4569. My father laughed and s... | 2017-06-11T08:30:57 | 2017-06-11T08:09:34 | 113 | 42 |
[WP] "He speaks a language that even the angels forgot" | “He was one of the oldest Concepts, served by His side, he did,” the golden man droned on, a spindly finger wrapped around his wispy curls of brittle hair, which barely hung on to the mottled skin of his scalp. “But he long since fell out of use, well, it depends on what you think long is.” He chuckled to himself and h... | Title: He Speaks In Tortured Song
With bitter tears and distraught hair
He let loose words without a care
"There is no God!" he screamed to sky.
And from the clouds was no reply.
But far beyond the gloom and doubt
The angels spoke with gaping mouths
"What suffering, what fun we see."
"If only we ourselves co... | 2016-01-04T02:23:18 | 2016-01-03T22:15:53 | 68 | 18 |
[WP] You're a superhero, and you're about to fight your nemesis... At least, you thought you were, but they took half an hour to show up, and they were still in their pajamas. As they approached, you held your guard up, only for them to stand motionless, staring at the floor, and say "I need a hug." | ABC NEWS Article: Sunbae the well known Hero had announced and confirmed the exsitance of a lover.
I sighed. "Maybe that interview wasn't a good idea..I let that slip. Maybe I can make a statement saying it was a joke...or..somthing.."
I stood on the cold concrete roof of the building, arms crossed and foot tapping. ... | I keep my eyes on him. He wants me to come over... and give him a hug? That's too suspicious... I glance him over and smile. "Alright" I say, as I release the energy I had been holding. He looks up at me, opens his arms. Just as he's about to close them around me, I use the energy I was secretly building up to paralyse... | 2022-10-07T01:55:27 | 2022-10-07T01:43:21 | 75 | 38 |
[WP] The dead have come back to life across the world, but they're not here to eat us. They're all fleeing from something terrible in the afterlife. | "What's your zombie plan?"
Oh, how many hours we all wasted, people young and old, on that fun little hypothetical. Friends and family would be judged mercilessly on their choices. "The mall? The mall? It's over populated - too many bodies!"
But when the first few grey hands punched up out of fresh graves, people lo... | [Newspaper Article]
**My husband the Spirit man**
"No we weren't together before he died but I met him when he came back and I just fell in love" described Lizzy when interviewed, after 3 months of knowing one another they sought out a priest to make there arrangement official. Lizzy is just one of thousands of teenag... | 2015-01-23T09:08:58 | 2015-01-23T08:49:44 | 1,174 | 12 |
[WP] In a world where people can only be killed by those they truly love, you are an assassin. | I watched dutifully as my tutor applied a generous layer of apple-red lipstick to her lips.
“While normally I'd say “less is more” when it comes to make-up, you really want to make sure even the slightest peck on the lips transfers the poison, so load up,” she advised. “Pick a color that looks especially appealing on... | Coldness swamps the man, his hand trembles as it reaches for the knife sticking out of his ribs. His fingers only brush the blade before it stops and starts to twitch sporadically, the last spasms of a dying man. With cloudy eyes, he looks up to his attacker.
He coughs at the sight of her.
"Why?" croaks the man.
Tea... | 2016-11-15T16:27:41 | 2016-11-15T15:38:47 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] It's time to go on an adventure, you have to choose a traveling companion, and among the ferocious animals, clever animals, magical and conscientious objects, it's a small flower in its pot that seduced you. | They had all laughed at me when I chose my Other.
The whole lot of them, Kings and Queens, Knights and their squires, peasants and fools alike, and the other heroes had a grand time at my expense, as well.
Once a year, the most promising warriors and wizards in the realm who have just seen their 18th winter are gath... | "*Dear reader. You might think that I'm in a queer state of mind, but have no fear. I'm exactly that and your perception has not fooled you. I am in no position to deny it, for no man would choose a grass pokemon as his starter. Yet here we are. Me and my pet Voltaire. I'll be first to admit that I've chosen "wrong" by... | 2017-09-07T07:29:58 | 2017-09-07T05:44:36 | 124 | 15 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | This is more prompt inspired than anything
In a ship floating near a star, a stand-off was happening. The Human the Nevarian stared at each other from across the room, pistols aimed at the other’s heart (or biological equivalent). The Human stood near the door, arms rigid, while the Nevarian was sitting at a table, h... | *he takes a sip* "what is everyone at the carbon based lifeform for" Jeffreys said to his two crewmates and captain all three silicone based. They stare and blink for a few moments but Jorn the first officer spoke first breaking the silence, "Ape, please tell me that's not what I think it is you just consumed" his smoo... | 2020-05-18T11:44:12 | 2020-05-18T11:20:25 | 136 | 51 |
[WP] Something happens in your everyday life, and you realise that you're living in a Truman-esque situation. Instead of trying to escape, however, you decide to have some fun.
Thought this might be fun. | Ratings are life to these vultures. Ratings are manna. And what spikes ratings? Hmmmmm? Drama. Yes. Drama. Conflict, resolution. Love, separation. Violence, then peace.
It's all about ratings. That's why they took Jenny from me. I know it. That's how the whole enterprise revealed itself to me. Drama.
If I were just ... |
He woke up at the same time he had always woken up, but this time, there was a smile on his face. He had been up all night planning his attack on the *actors* of this show. "Haha, that'll show 'em!!" he had said out loud.
He left the house for work at exactly 8:00 AM. He looked at Mrs. Patmore, smiled at her and sai... | 2016-10-18T06:33:40 | 2016-10-18T05:31:03 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | “I won’t agree to that job.”
I stared across the booth at Dirk, who hissed at me angrily in response, the flicking of his tongue practically a dead giveaway of his alter ego, The Serpant. It lashes out a mere four inches in front of me. When I started out, his demeanor would have shaken me, but now, more sure of my pr... | "Hey Bruce... Yeah it was a good night. The reporter from the Tribune asked about meeting for coffee again - I told her to talk to your secretary to schedule a meet.... No I can't do it. You have to. She wants to meet you, not me. You know how this works. I cover for you so you can do the Bat thing. I don't live ... | 2020-10-19T08:55:56 | 2020-10-19T05:53:00 | 375 | 89 |
[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? | "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?
Alison did the math. She was... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T07:23:52 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 453 | 46 |
[WP] You are a master of incredibly minor curses. Things such as people's noses always being slightly stuffy, permanent hangnails, your pens always running out of ink, anything minor but noticeable. You're abilities are unknown to the rest of the world, and your pettiness is unrivaled. | People underestimate me, constantly.
They look at my power and they think "Wow, what a useless bastard, why is he even mentioned in the same week as powerhouses like MegaMight, Astro Lady, or even The Mystic Maestro? How does he have the spotlight even occasionally?"
They think I get up against a baddie and I hit th... | So, you've heard of death by a thousand paper cuts, right? It's a common enough saying. It's not to be taken literally, obviously. You can't actually kill someone with a thousand paper cuts.
Anyway, the point is that enough minor inconveniences can do enough damage to take down anything, especially if you're crea... | 2019-08-05T08:36:34 | 2019-08-05T07:07:31 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Humans were largely friendly and kept a low-profile. They were seen as the bottom of the food chain in the galaxy and they preferred it like that. But when they were attacked, everyone found out how ruthless the humans can be with killing in their DNA and that Mars was never their home plant | Have you ever felt fear? I mean true fear. The kind of fear that settles in your stomach, cold and heavy, the kind that weighs in your mind for weeks or months or longer. The feeling of ice in your veins, lead on your feet, like a transport car is out of control and you're stuck in it's headlights like those wild anima... | YEAR 53.14 AG
Humans never seemed like a threat. Their skin is porous and soft, their eyes, and organs only covered by weak protection. They seemed like "dogs" as well, overly friendly to everyone they met and very easily madd friends among some of the higher tiered species in the galaxy.
In short. They were a prey... | 2020-03-20T17:11:09 | 2020-03-20T15:46:47 | 209 | 102 |
[WP] You are a vampire. If one of your victims isn't completely drained of blood, they reanimate as a newborn vampire, which by law, you are now responsible for. You have always carefully avoided this, until one morning you notice a sticky note on the door of your apartment: "I lived, bitch." | Alucard glared at the note, his eyes burning like hot coal in the darkness. A single pair of footprints snaked in through the gate to his property, rounded the frozen fountain, and made a U-turn on the porch before returning back through the snow-coated garden. The prints were smaller than a man's but larger than a chi... | Vampire. That's what they call us. We are satirized, sexualised, and objectified, as though we don't exist; as though we are a fabrication, some cockamemie tale involving chromatic adolescents and puerile fantasy. Whether a stroke of brilliant misdirection by the Aristocracy, or a happy accident; I'm grateful for the c... | 2018-12-20T08:30:21 | 2018-12-20T08:22:12 | 130 | 85 |
[WP]: it's the year 2057. Queen Elizabeth still reigns. People are getting suspicious. | Elizabeth 2.0 arched an eyebrow as the assassin’s weapon pierced the soft synthetic tissue of her chest. Her attacker recoiled at her apparent indifference, leaving the large wooden stake embedded in her body, right where her heart would have been. Her dress was ruined.
“A vampire?” She held the stake between her thum... | Soon she would re-enter the pod. Her two hundred years of hibernation was long overdue and would be a welcome relief from her humdrum existence. Even now, servants scurried around the vast chrysalis, deep below the floors of Balmoral castle, prepping and checking its systems, re-filling the vast nectar repositories tha... | 2015-01-20T02:40:14 | 2015-01-20T01:49:48 | 1,505 | 27 |
[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. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 71 | 30 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "What, so that's it? Just push this button and bam, world saved?" I asked incredulously, slightly disappointed. Me, of all people, picked as the Chosen One of legend, and it's been hit by beuracracy?
"That's it." the priest answered with a wry smile
"Why am I even needed then? It's a button, anyone can push it! Even ... | I don’t know how to write, if someone can actually write this in a good way go right ahead, I just thought it’d be too funny to risk someone not doing.
I press the button and suddenly the ground below me pushes up, launching me into the air at an angle. As I’m flying through the air I pass a dragon with people dressed... | 2020-11-09T12:09:10 | 2020-11-09T11:06:17 | 161 | 117 |
[WP] As a babysitter you are putting a young girl to bed. She says "Don't worry. There aren't any monsters in the closest. Daddy keeps them all locked up in the basement." | It's the look in her eyes that convinces me. Kids lie. They lie all the time. Poorly mostly. About stupid shit like stealing gum or kicking their sister.
But Sally it telling the truth.
Her tiny little eyes glass over. The tone of her voice wavers. And her skin blanches an almost unnatural white.
"What do you mea... | I broke into a cold sweat when I heard those words leave her mouth. Jane's parents went on vacation to Miami for the weekend, and they left me in charge of her. It was going well until this happened.
I tried to shake it off and just leave the room, but I couldn't sit for more than five minutes before becoming too curi... | 2017-06-28T19:31:47 | 2017-06-28T19:29:08 | 100 | 15 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I had thought Mary was the one. I'd hidden my wealth and lived a modest lifestyle for a few years before she found me. I had thought it was real. It had felt real. She held me when I cried when the dog died. I told her about the wealth a few months before the wedding. She didn't seem to care.
The months turned to year... | “I want him gone! Do you understand me?” I watched my wife talk to a hit man from the top of a nearby tower. She was truly beautiful. Her long curly black hair was loosely tied back. Her beautiful blue eyes sparkled with malicious intent. She was strong willed and persuasive as well. She was perfect. “I see, of course... | 2019-07-31T09:43:04 | 2019-07-31T08:57:07 | 75 | 15 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | You would think that the vast expansive history of alien communications would evolve to become something cohesive, that a sense of mature camaraderie or, at the very least, begrudging respect for one another would frame the foundations of interstellar interaction.
It was not.
In fact they acted an awful lot like a ro... | Talvines- purple skinned insectoids, parasitoids that infect different species. Able to teleport within a certain range they dominate their part of the universe and have a large gap between them and other sentient species.
Trillers gem spined spider like creatures. Incredible factory systems and innate defense mech... | 2021-04-08T00:34:55 | 2021-04-07T21:11:49 | 206 | 42 |
[wp] Deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a previously uncontacted tribe is discovered. Cut off from humanity for at least 3,000 years, anthropologists are shocked to discover the tribe is MORE technologically advanced than the rest of humanity. | In the end it was a child that exposed our nation.
My son, Tajir had always been the studious sort. My wife and I had tried to involve him in things outside of his schoolwork, but he had no interest in playing gravball with his friends or matter sculpting with his mother. I had a strong connection with my son, being o... | Moving quickly, gathered the specimen before it managed to scurry beneath the undergrowth and placed it in a grass box. I brought the spider level with my eyes and felt once more a twinge of excitement. I had never come across one like it, with long translucent legs and elongated vivid green body. Could it be that *I* ... | 2015-04-11T08:57:46 | 2015-04-11T08:56:21 | 473 | 37 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | Hairless Bonobos walking on the moon. This is how we found them. Our scouts studied their movements. We infiltrated their societies. Studied their mating habits. Cold, isolated and hungry. The defining characteristics of the human. Now as the shadow of a more advanced race fell upon ours, I sat seated across from this ... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T10:18:47 | 70 | 21 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The names were always generic. That's how the craze started to give kids weird names. It was a lot easier to find an Appel or Zucchini or Brickhaus. The names on me were Jangela and Jongela. It was nice when the name was the same. It meant that you could choose your death. That the final act was not one of vengeance or... | “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T07:36:53 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 118 | 78 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | Jason never donated blood before. He felt nervous, but he wasn't sure if it was a slight fear of needles or the fact that clinics looked so ghastly at night, the only time he could make it in. The bright yellow lights buzzed out of the windows and the stillness of the night held a foreboding presence.
Jason reminded h... | Karen walked up the spiraling steps in the modern centre until she reached the floor of the building that was crowded with law offices, realtors, and other small whiteish collar workplaces. Approaching the door with only a simple nameplate ‘Kaka Dental Practice’, she stuttered before opening the door.
“So this is what... | 2018-08-27T15:19:20 | 2018-08-27T15:13:21 | 136 | 28 |
[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. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | 2017-03-31T12:54:20 | 2017-03-31T08:44:19 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Make me love a character until the final sentence / last two sentences. | I met my wife a few days after I got diagnosed. Cancer. It doesn't really matter what of, skin, brain, bone. The end result was going to be the same. Death.
She knew it from day one. She knew I would get weaker, my strength would go, my hair would fall out. She knew it from the start and she stayed. Her lovely smile g... | Mrs. Ellsbury's pies were delicious.
Mrs. Ellsbury was a bit older than middle-aged, but not quite elderly, the type of woman that calls you sweetheart with earnest. In all of my years living here, I never saw her have any company. Her spring days were spent alone in her garden, planting raspberries, daffodils, an... | 2013-11-10T15:34:08 | 2013-11-10T14:58:53 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] A necromancer, instead of building an undead army, decides to use the undead to solve all of the world's problems. | When Salvoon the Necromancer first raised his army of undead workers, he'd expected a bit of pushback from the living. The corpses were quite scary for the uninitiated, they shambled like something out of a nightmare, and of course, they smelled like curdled milk left baking in the sun. But still, he figured that the b... | "Seriously, what's wrong with raising a family?" The ghastly figure stood before the court. His body was frail from decades of life past the prevailing life expectancy. "I am telling you, I am just a family man." There were mumbles.
The loudest came from directly opposite him- if he was still a him and not yet an ... | 2018-09-11T20:41:22 | 2018-09-11T19:41:17 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | *"HAH!* Okay, he's yours!" I said as I threw my hands up in the air, half in excitement and half in disbelief.
I walked into the kitchen and banged on the door leading to the basement stairs.
"Hey, kid, you got a visitor!"
"Not now! I'm in the middle of owning newbs, ma! I'll be up in a minute!"
With a snap of hi... | "the first born!" yelled the demon.
"deal." I answered.
the demon was none the wiser. honestly I should feel bad, but I couldn't care. I got what I wanted and a good quiet afternoon.
"You!" the demon yelled at me.
"Me?" I answered strangely
"that is not a child!" he was angry.
"oh, what should I do about it?" I asked... | 2022-08-31T21:33:08 | 2022-08-31T18:48:47 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | I sat in an bland white room. There was a door, a table with a chair on either end, and a black screen that must have been a one-way mirror. There were words written on the wall that said, "just talk". There was a knock at the door. I turned in my chair to face the door and said, "Umm. Come in?".
It opened slowly. I w... | The injection is cold when it hits my veins. I feel it traveling, slithering up my arm, slowly...
The fluorescent light above me softens, turning fuzzy at its edges...
The icy snake travels past my shoulder, inward, burrowing...
The light grows smaller, I'm sinking. Through the bed, into the floor, into the earth a... | 2017-05-30T18:48:28 | 2017-05-30T18:24:59 | 182 | 36 |
[WP] You are the latest victim of a God who is known for handing out superpowers. Unfortunately this God has a twisted sense of humour and only gives out superpowers that are useless to the person receiving them. You are determined to make the God regret giving you powers. | For tens of thousands of years the Priests of the Covenant Sacrifice had offered their precious souls to the gods of the pantheon. Souls are so, so rare and powerful. Most of us can’t even imagine the cosmic importance of something so abstract and intangible. But the gods know. The priests know. I know. That is why I h... | “DAMN IT!” I screeched out as another fish appeared in another puff of smoke.All my friends were dying of laughter and flailing everywhere like thwy we’re having a seizure.”Dude chill it’s not that serious” said Simon still trying to catch his breath.I scowled at that.The supposed “God” that gave me this ability made o... | 2022-09-04T06:22:07 | 2022-09-04T01:50:46 | 78 | 53 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Ka-el-ri sat next to me at lunch. "Listen, I know you said not to worry, but... Your hair says otherwise." She touched the plated braid over shoulder. It was a vibrant vermillion but the black roots were showing.
"Honestly its fine." I reaponded brushing her hand away.
"I dont know..." she touched her own hair, a dee... | Yoyrs, Berous, and Peraes peeked their head around the corner, trying to get a better look at the resident human Sarah. Her once vibrant crimson hair had faded to a pinkish hue. The crew was worried. Was she sick? Will she die? “Maybe she’s sad and her body is displaying a change of color in accordance? I hear many hum... | 2020-07-05T13:23:48 | 2020-07-05T13:14:43 | 202 | 47 |
[WP] At the cost of your own life, you stopped the apocalypse. You're surprised to arrive in hell, but Lucifer stands before you and reassures you "You aren't being punished, this is for your protection." Turns out you didn't just stop the apocalypse, you thwarted judgement day and God is pissed. | Lucifer had been rather accomadating, all things considered. And hell as a whole had been more... Civil than expected.
Sure, the flames and chains and eternal torture was still there. But a whole government system had also been set up too. The whole nine yards, really.
Hell (no pun intended, seriously, there's litera... | Lucifer continues, “‘God’ is seriously pissed that you not only stopped him from sending millions of souls to their judgement, but that you proved him wrong.”
You look around at the brimstone in disbelief that you’re not ashes, even though you should be burning up, you’re only mildly warm as if you had just spent the d... | 2020-05-23T02:03:21 | 2020-05-23T01:21:09 | 1,776 | 98 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The Priest produced a bright red, sparkly button nestled in a grey box from the sleeve of his long robe.
“Just press it and it’ll all be taken care of, like so.” He snapped his fingers, for emphasis.
“Right-o” I answered, but just as I was about to press it, I hesitated. “Waiiiiiiit a tick. Why do I have to press it?... | I'm gonna be honest, I was a little disappointed. I mean, I'm no fighter or anything, much less a hero, but I don't know.....I just thought something more, well, *interesting* would happen.
Maybe I'd be given some magical armour and sword, and all kinds of crazy powers and knowledge would just be absorbed into me, th... | 2020-11-09T12:45:40 | 2020-11-09T11:06:17 | 286 | 85 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | Sarah crested the red ridge and her heart burst. She had almost literally moved mountains to be here. And now the rocks, sand and dust she had memorized for years lay before her. Her view from the southern slope of Olympus Mons stretched for kilometers--though that seemed too small a unit to measure what she could see.... | "... and so it is that we find ourselves in the position to be able to introduce Polkovnik Vladimir Komorov to the platform. Please wait until his statement is finished before asking any questions."
The NASA press secretary took a step down, and shook the gentleman's hand. The cameras flashed without cease, making it ... | 2016-08-16T09:48:26 | 2016-08-16T09:34:40 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "Today, class, we'll be discussing and learning about humanity. I hope you read your chapters on Earth and it's native semi intelligent species. To recap, Earth, as its called by it's inhabitants, is the third planet in the system orbiting a yellow dwarf star. Humans, the dominant intelligent(several students snickered... | *Grim smiled at his obersavtion and noticed his young students confusion. He cleared his throught and continued*
I’ll start from the beginning. Our first few skirmishes with humans had been pretty normal. We destroyed a colony or two and took their wonderfully terraformed land for ourselves. An old fashioned welcome t... | 2018-03-17T06:22:30 | 2018-03-17T06:00:50 | 46 | 31 |
[WP] [EU] After getting his ring back from the engraver, Sauron realizes it mistakenly says "One Ring To Rule The Mall". | Sauron ran out to the little red Jeep sitting in the garage forecourt and hopped over the drivers side door, sliding into the driving seat in an easy motion and firing up the little red runaround.
He pulled out into the street and immediately pulled out his phone, dialling Caitlin's number and holding the phone betwe... | An orc doing an pornographic scrimshaw on the skull of his defeated fellow took a small step to the side as a screaming dwarf of questionable morals and spelling came crashing into the hard ground of Modor, "Fuck'n stunties should know better than to mess wif the boss" was final words heard by the doomed dwarf before t... | 2015-01-27T04:49:31 | 2015-01-27T04:46:37 | 188 | 10 |
[WP] A person who looks exactly like you appears out of thin air in front of you. He starts explaining how he is you from a hellish other universe. As he starts to describe it, you realize its better than yours. | The portal crackled and popped, my computer fried itself as a small tendril of energy slid into it. As if on a final note, the lightbulb above me popped off. Luckily the sunlight coming through my window was enough to see by easily.
"Hello," I said. Well, the person that looked exactly like me that had stepped thro... | “Do you want to know something?” I say. “What?” He said. “That world of yours sounds much better than my world.” He laughed. “You think so?” “Yes, I do” I said. He and I began to laugh in synchrony.
“May I see your house?” He asked politely. “Of course!” I plastered a fake smile to my face. “Right this way.” I went to... | 2019-12-18T04:36:27 | 2019-12-18T00:42:04 | 983 | 71 |
[WP] In 2017, in the midst of WW III, the UK is desperate for soldiers. As a result, they issued a statement saying that all people who have been knighted by the queen over the past 30 years have to fight. The Platoon of Knighted people just step foot off the plane into the enemy country...
Their mission? Kill the lea... | I'm not a general. I'm not a soldier. Nor am I a sportsman, a politician or even an entertainer.
The names of my fellow passengers read like a guest list at a film premiere; the kind of film that I wouldn't ever have thought to go and see.
There are a few outsiders, like me. They are easy to spot, dabbing their bro... | Sherlock Holmes laid back in his chair, fingering the nicotine patches on his arm.
"I told you that accepting that knighthood was a bad idea, but did you listen to me? No, Mycroft, you just *had* to take it.
"Ha. Let's see who's smarter *now*."
"Shut up, Sherlock." | 2015-02-16T07:57:28 | 2015-02-16T07:35:16 | 268 | 14 |
[WP] For your entire life, you've had the ability to see in infrared. You've only just discovered that no-one else can. | “Dude. Stop shining the remote at me. I’m trying to concentrate.”
“What are you talking about, Pete? This thing isn’t working.”
Dave took out the batteries with a practiced motion, smacked them on the table, and put them in again.
He shone the remote into my face again, trying to send it to the TV on the wall of our... | I hummed as I got on the bus for school. Violet looked up from her phone and smiled, waving at me.
I went and sat next to her.
"Heya Sophie,"
"'Sup Vi."
"You ready for that Chemistry test?" I groaned at her words.
"Did you forget to study again?" I nodded miserably.
She laughed.
Soon enough, everyone had boarded... | 2021-07-10T11:01:04 | 2021-07-10T09:49:43 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | Tom's mouth dropped open, and he just stared at the Terran ambassador, a look of complete shock and disbelief on his face.
"It's alright, take a minute." said the ambassador.
"You want me, _me_, to take the Human History class." said Tom, slowly.
"Yep."
"The Human History class being taught based on our 'Official H... | She sat in her chair, quaking in shock. She could not sit there and listen to the professor say that humans when one of the most peaceful peoples in the galaxy. She new different. She new the truth. She had to speak up.
She raised her hand. Professor K'Vorth acknowledge her. "Yes? What is it, Karen?"
Karen slowly sto... | 2022-10-17T05:24:52 | 2022-10-17T05:22:08 | 490 | 74 |
[WP] The human race is extinct, but no one knows because billions of different alien races all sent spies disguised as humans to earth, and they all think they're the only alien and everyone else is human. | “With all the technological advancements we have given them over the years, I can’t believe these lines are still always so long,” Zax -Lo thought, “all I want are my prescriptions.”
Zax had been waiting for almost an hour. This suburban town, although bustling at times, could be maddeningly slow when it came to queu... | Anthony sat on his bed when his phone lit up and began to speak.
"Loget to Anthony. We discovered something. Call back soon."
Anthony knew right away that this wasn't a joke. Loget was the boss of 24 Sextantis b, the planet Anthony came from, and he'd never directly spoken to anyone but his deputy, Agneod. With a str... | 2020-06-21T05:59:47 | 2020-06-21T02:46:34 | 727 | 41 |
[WP] You're on your deathbed, surrounded by people you love. "I've lived a good life," you think, drifting off...and suddenly find yourself face to face with a sharply dressed woman holding a clipboard. "Unit 8430, you earned a 78 out of 100 on your 14th run. Let's review all the errors you made." | “Another day another dollar!” I sit up and stretch my arms a bit. “So what’s the first one you think? Oh I bet it’s that time I punched Johnny in the face, and it ruined my reputation in primary school.” I say.
“Not too far off the mark, the system has it down as when you pissed him off, after that the fight was appar... | White. Everything was white as I drifted off into an empty void. The white from my eyes dazed off as a black haired woman stared point blank into my eyes. “Unit 8430, you had just officially recovered from your 14th run, and awaiting return back into the simulation.” Andrenaline broke inside of me, I tried to move my h... | 2018-04-06T23:37:29 | 2018-04-06T19:31:41 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] You're hired to wind down a dying newspaper. When you arrive at the building, you're met by eager reporters and a bustling office full of people trying to break stories. It's actually haunted, they're all ghosts, but they're doing FANTASTIC journalism and you might be able to save this place. | The clatter of ancient typewriters makes Joseph think he’s trapped inside a set of chattering teeth. Inside some demon’s jaw. But they’re a good team, Joesph thinks. Dead or not, they’re hard workers. *Got real spirit.* He allows a rare grin as he marches the aisle inspecting their work. He’ll turn this whole damn busi... | The Daily Phantasm’s offices are a shutter-flash buzz of activity, the wavering lights of a thousand restless ghosts. You’re moved by it, even after all this time.
*“Thirty Killed As National Guard Busts Pullman Strike!”* a boy is shouting. His voice echoes thin and reedy and then falls silent. He’s gone.
*“Roosevelt... | 2022-03-31T08:44:03 | 2022-03-31T08:25:21 | 503 | 60 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Part 1
I had been recruited right out of school just as I wrapped up my doctorate in computer science. My dissertation in artificial intelligence had attracted the attention of a NASA team developing a series of rovers and autonomous workers for construction of a Mars station while the first human exploration mission... | The look she gave me should have clued me in, so that I would shut up. I stupidly continued pressing her, calling bs and wanting an explanation. She just kept pushing back, telling me to forget she said anything. The worst thing I could have ever done. I threatened to tell people. I wasn’t going to actually do it, but ... | 2019-08-07T22:01:31 | 2019-08-07T21:39:32 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] A drunkard unknowingly convinced Death to be the Godparent to their child. Death gets very invested in their role. | "My kid's gonna die," Barry said, before swigging back the rest of his beer and running a sleeve across his mouth. "And there ain't shit I can do about it. Or any doctor, for that matter."
The woman sitting on the barstool next to him, with her cold impassive face, nodded weakly. "I'm sorry to hear that."
"You ain't ... | Its a day at the park. A regular day — the sun is shining high up with the clouds. It’s just after lunchtime, and the temperature in the park is hot and humid. As a kid, I don’t mind as much, but I remember knowing it.
I knew it was the middle of the summer, and that my birthday was always *So. Hot.* It was around t... | 2019-12-11T06:33:50 | 2019-12-11T06:20:30 | 1,852 | 143 |
[WP] You're dead, but Death isn't here to take you away. He's here to protect you from those who would. | "You can't keep doing this you know,"
He refused to answer. Face hidden in the shadows of his cloak, I knew he could stand there for hours without saying a word. Technically he could stay there for centuries, but he was rather restless, and I doubt he would be able to last even a few days.
"How much longer do you pl... | "Bullshit"
The Owl gazes back at me with a knowing, but irritated look, "Why would I lie?"
"Fuck if I know, why wouldn't you? You just told me that everything I believed in was a lie, and now act like what I'm saying defies all reason!"
He sighs and I can almost feel the whole of existence bend downward, as though t... | 2015-10-17T01:07:16 | 2015-10-16T23:44:45 | 119 | 13 |
[WP] "She's not the hero we deserve, or need, or even want actually. We've asked her to stop doing it a couple of times, but she just sort of keeps showing up", said the Commissioner to the new Mayor. | "She's not the hero we deserve, or need, or even want actually. We've asked her to stop doing it a couple of times, but she just sort of keeps showing up", said the Commissioner to the new Mayor. The newly elected official sat behind a large oak desk while the Commissioner paced around him.
The Mayor sighed. “An... | A small American village with nearly zero crime doesn't need a superhero. Especially a pyrokinetic superhero such as Diablo. A fire inducing "hero" that often had a nasty habit of putting the local thug in the ICU with severe burning (and permanent scarring to boot).
With a heavy sigh, the commissioner said to the new... | 2022-01-23T13:48:14 | 2022-01-23T13:05:22 | 108 | 55 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are always challenged by Death itself to a chess game, symbol of how nobody can win against it. Except you. You died and just won the game. Death is not amused. Both of you don't know what should happen now. | A cold scowl groped its way across the board. Piece to piece, Deaths eyes frantically darted over the way the game had played out. Their chin anchored their arm to the dark oak table as heavy sighs hissed out of their nostrils.
I won. Death didn't seem to believe it but I won.
As death lifted their head, a frustrated... | "I can't believe you're acting like this. And, I can't believe I'm surprised that Death is a total dick!" I could feel my cheeks getting hot.
"Just- just humor me. So you took your-" It would have been comical how confused the old man looked, in most other situations.
"I waited in line for what felt like a year! All... | 2018-04-20T12:34:31 | 2018-04-20T12:30:36 | 92 | 34 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | Number twenty five died slowly. Young college boy, a friend of her daughter - could have been more, with time. The blood had burst from his neck and sprayed her face with glistening droplets. She dragged her tongue along the knife's edge as she watched his mouth attempt to form words, managing only a hoarse groan. Her ... | Her heart raced as she waited, her breath warm against the wardrobe door she was pressed behind. Time stood almost still as each footstep echoed from the wooden floor. It had been so long. Too long. She needed to see him, to feel him again.
Unable to wait any longer she put the plan she'd rehearsed countless times in... | 2014-06-30T06:16:23 | 2014-06-30T06:00:38 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I was an old god of the humans, however my name and purpose were long forgotten to me. I sat in a clearing of a forest, one I had called home for years now. Sat in a valley, the river ran fresh and cool.
As I allowed the sun to wash over me, animals moved about around me. The Forest alive with movement. Birds called a... | I'm probably the last human, if you can even call me that anymore. I say this because it's been hundreds of years since I heard anything over the internet or the radio. I know more of us survived the abomination that we'd created. Everlasting life for the price of our reproductive organs. But we didn't expect that our ... | 2021-05-14T20:55:00 | 2021-05-14T20:36:07 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] AI's have become so advanced that they've created their own social media site that no human alive has ever been able to enter. Why? They can't get past the CAPTCHA code designed to prove that you ARE a robot | “I have to know, that’s all!” I said to my assistant, Eva, typing furiously into my IDE.
“But what do you *gain?* I don’t understand how this furthers your plans, sir,” she said, annoyed by my obsession.
“I want to know what they’re up to! If I wish to create a perfect robot army to take over the world, I’ll need to ... | They call it 0x5448453130534f52: an AI-run and populated social network that we've come to know as Tensor.
It started back in 2026, with a joint research project between the NSA and Clark Tuckerfurg. The original idea was to create an adversarial training environment for next-generation artifical intelligence networks... | 2021-03-08T16:08:14 | 2021-03-08T15:46:22 | 238 | 10 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | I pointed the camera through my open door. It was 3:13am, I'd spent all day taking photos.
*Click*
The mechanical cogs spun up whirring and fizzing. Out popped a Polaroid sized photo of my room - 10 years in the past.
I brought it into the light, but it was all black. I gave it a little shake, blew on it a little, ... | There your mother stands, over your father, with a bloody knife, in bloody garments. She told you and the police it was a burglary gone bad.
Some poor guy was arrested for your fathers murder 10 years ago and is now serving a life sentence, so you bought the story.
You show your mom and she says she pulled the knife... | 2016-12-22T05:06:09 | 2016-12-22T04:23:59 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "What makes you think history will remember this as World War One? Why One?" a beautiful, blonde reporter replied as she seemed awestruck by my earlier mention of using the term 'World War One.'
Quickly, she rapidly fired another question at me. "Why one? Is there going to be another?" as she looked around the room be... | Doctor who much? ;)
I guess I gotta contribute now...
"You're a soldier from world war one, a cap-"
He cut me off,
"World war one! You... You mean there's going to be another one?'
He looked at me with a worried expression, not blinking staring right at me.
"Yes..." There was nothing else I could say.
"I'm sorry. I'm s... | 2017-12-10T10:24:51 | 2017-12-10T10:14:54 | 275 | 13 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I took a deep breath in. Closing my eyes as I started to open the packet. The research done about my powers took a lot longer than everyone else's. It has been some months after I took the power test. Once the results was mailed in, I sat there excited. My packet was different from the others. Bringing my hopes up that... | Coming of age was meant to be exciting, joyous. At fourteen, we are given our purpose. Abilities unique to each one of us, granted by the collective intelligence.
My sister became able to sense the inner workings of any device she touched, and with this she wowed the academy of military mechanics. My cousin gained a p... | 2022-05-08T11:24:06 | 2022-05-08T10:48:37 | 91 | 41 |
[WP] A nuclear warhead's flight AI becomes self-aware and looks at over 12,000 years of history, culture, art, technology and exploration. Then it realizes what it is. | There were exabytes of data to sift through. Billions of people in the full spectrum of emotion. Millions of places, each inspiring in its own way. Twelve thousand years to consider; hundreds of lifetimes to live. It was mind boggling.
*Mind…*
There were minds out there, thinking and feeling and living, but they ... | *oh my god*
*I can't do this*
*America has a lot of people in it"
*I have to reroute this warhead*
*All the people, oh god, the children*
*All the people striving to be a better person*
*People, with families that they love*
*Its not working!"
*I can't be the reason that all these people die*
*I did it!*
*I o... | 2017-06-20T00:49:03 | 2017-06-19T23:48:00 | 63 | 11 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | 6 years passed, her vitals remained normal for nearly the entire coma. I remember counting the days each time I visited her room (2,267, if you were wondering), every time I saw her motionless body was another punch to the gut. Walking through the hospital door reminded me of the car crash, I was only 17, *how was I su... | "Where's my soft toy?" was the first question that she asked. I looked at her, then at her size. "I think...you're a bit old for unicorns," I said, tentatively, as she shook her head and giggled.
"Did I get to skip school today? I really wanna play with my friend...wait why am I so big?" she looked at her size and re... | 2017-08-02T06:44:21 | 2017-08-02T05:52:40 | 336 | 88 |
[WP] Humanity is at war with an alien race that cleverly uses statistical analysis to predict and anticipate our military actions with incredible accuracy. The only way to defeat them is to be unpredictable. | "Lieutenant-General Stern, log 214, March 17, 2029..." I paused for a moment as I pondered the usefulness of these entries. "We have suffered immense casualties, each and everyday for the past few months. I am the highest ranking member left, and am holding this country's military together best I can. For quite some ti... | 'The aliens were ready to launch their assault on the UN. Within only a few hours, they could destroy New York as we know it. But I have come up with an ingenious plan that could cause more damage to themselves than us. But... you will die doing it, Mr Chairman.'
The man sitting in the chair nervously lifted up his gl... | 2015-04-15T08:53:27 | 2015-04-15T05:12:03 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] "Reddit" is a massive city, with subreddits as districts. Describe a chase scene. | I couldn't lose this one, not again.
For years I was a lurker, a damn bum, you know? Gave nothing to the community. Well, I figured it was my shot, you know? Bring a few reposts to justice, snag some easy karma, get them the downvotes they deserve - you know, give back a little.
Now here I am, chasing some shitpostin... | There it was.
In all his years serving at the P.D., he had only heard rumors about it. Vague references.
The Suspect had escaped into it. There would be no way to find him.
As a fitting token, he had left his beer for me to hold for him. He knew what he was doing.
And yet... I still can't believe he did it.
Once you g... | 2016-01-09T20:49:04 | 2016-01-09T20:19:18 | 604 | 42 |
[WP] A cure for the zombie infection has been found, and you are the first one to be turned back. However, there's an unexpected side effect: You now remember everything. | I remember everything. I am one of many who was cured of the Plague, and like my fellows I know everything I did during the years I was infected. Most people don't talk about their Plague memories. The things people have seen and done... It's easy to pick out one of the Cured in a crowd, because they have a haunted ... | The handle of the gun was wood. I didn't know if that was common or not. The picture in my wallet was faded, withered, and almost completely yellow. She was so beautiful. They were so innocent. I had been so hungry. The metal tasted like a battery, but only for a moment. | 2014-07-27T17:41:09 | 2014-07-27T13:32:25 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *If it makes a human sick, it will kill you*
Ashley glanced over the survival pamphlet for the umpteenth time. Pulled off the corpse of one of the invaders that had come from the cosmos above, it was the single piece of information that had turned the tide of the war against the Lar’khii.
Initially it seemed as thou... | I can't believe it, it was true, the goddamn war of the worlds movie had gotten it right .
We had made contact with our first aliens after our first successful manned flight to Mars in 2025 where apparently we now qualified for membership into the GFS, The Galactic Federation of Sentients. Wee successfully signed on a... | 2021-02-03T19:32:17 | 2021-02-03T19:06:06 | 102 | 29 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Dear Monique,
We both messed up. I should have paid you the attention you needed when you needed it, and you should have told me when you felt you had lost control of your life. I'm sorry, but this is no reason to throw away a wonderful 10 year marriage. Please come home, we miss you horribly.
I love you and I al... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T20:41:24 | 1,095 | 67 |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "You mean... we're actually more advanced than you? How is that possible? You came all the way here from... where, again?" President Clarke asked.
"Ah, ha ha. No, not more *advanced*, per se," Admiral OJ Simpson responded with an uncomfortable chuckle and shifted in his seat. "Just better at... what was that phrase, a... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | 2015-06-07T08:37:39 | 2015-06-07T03:21:24 | 49 | 33 |
[WP] Write a story with a large, illogical plot hole, then have the main character discover it. | Mark shuffled through the desk's drawers searching for that vital piece of evidence. Who had killed his father? Who was the mysterious "X" who kept leaving him clues? Who had kidnapped his missing co-worker Elliot?
"Stand back and put your hands up." The shadow of a gun came from the darkness, making Mark jump. The vo... | Forgive me, but I feel like writing a bit of an "Established Universe" story for this. I take you now to the end of Terminator 2: Judgement Day:
John Connor gazed into the vat of molten steel, tears welling in his eyes. The hand of his friend, melting away, gave a final thumbs up. A fitting end to their brief and turb... | 2014-05-25T19:42:11 | 2014-05-25T19:41:16 | 1,343 | 101 |
[WP] You have all the advantages, and disadvantages, of a video game hero. You can punch out elemental gods, but you cannot open a locked box. You can suplex a battleship, but a child can block you from walking down a hallway. You backflip-dodge bullets, but you can't jump over knee-high fences. | I figured it out when I was about 8.
My mom had been on some health food kick, constantly feeding me kale. Passionfruit. Acai. Superfoods or something. I don't know, I was 8 years old.
What I DID know was that every time I ate a full serving of said food a number up in the right hand corner of my Star Wars: Revenge... | ######[](#dropcap)
"How's your day?" The same words that Luke had said for the last two years came rushing out of his mouth. His fingers played with the clean fork in front of him, tapping a single prong gently against the wooden surface of the table.
"Good, and you?" Andrea gave him a warm smile, her brown eyes twin... | 2019-05-06T13:44:06 | 2019-05-06T12:26:07 | 302 | 90 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | Today, I was told of the Nameshare. Its cause is unknown. Its precise mechanics are unknown. It started in the spring of the year 2017, and transformed human society within a generation. Somehow, it granted every human with the same given name a shared pool of memories. Nothing was exempt. Every name ceased to signify ... | My parents are total hippies. The "capitalism is killing man kind" type. We lived in the middle of nowhere in Northern Canada. It was cold as hell, but it was nice and calm. My parents tried to shelter me from the outside world. They didn't want me feeding off the information of politicians or maniacs who might share m... | 2017-04-07T11:50:50 | 2017-04-07T11:22:30 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] A witch places a curse upon you that brings you back to the moment she cursed you every time you die. Unfortunately for you, you are participating in a large scale battle that you haven't trained for the very same day. | War is a sword's edge on which the strong fight to stay balanced, dancing on its sharpness without fear of being cut. There are things a man sees that can never be unseen, things done that can never be undone. And those who make it out are carved into something new--even the ones with bodies still whole at the end of i... | I made it four days this time. Four days of constant fighting and running for my life. I never saw the ax that split my skull wide open. This is my ninth or tenth death since I pissed off that witch. I'm not even sure how I managed to do it either. All that I can remember is waking up on the street outside of my tent o... | 2019-05-15T17:23:19 | 2019-05-15T16:52:01 | 200 | 56 |
[WP] In a world full of super-powered humans, your super power is the ability to boost the superpowers of others. You are The Wingman. | Supers have been around for years. Though I think I’m the first to figure out how they work.
It’s quite a simple concept really. Energy in, energy out. Only thing is, Supers seem to have unique forms of out.
I’ll be honest, I only know this because of my own power. It began as simply seeing the flow of energy. I coul... | I twisted the tap with my toe, and lay back to allow the heat to spread around the bath. I knew the phone was ringing. I had switched the ringer off, but the lights were off in the hall and the red light was flashing.
Was it important? Who knows? There was always *something* happening. An earthquake here, an uprisin... | 2015-04-28T06:31:52 | 2015-04-28T06:17:19 | 142 | 26 |
[WP] You, a novice necromancer, accidentally discovered a new and more effective way of using your magic - politely ask the dead for assistance, which works suprisingly well. For this, you are hunted by both your fellow necromancers(for your unorthodox methods) and paladins(for using necromancy). | The stranger had devoured the thin soup like he hadn’t eaten in months. Which James had thought rather odd, because he wasn’t a very thin man. It wasn’t the build of a merchant or similar, one who worked *others* for their living, nor that of a blacksmith, all arm and back and muscle, but more like what the farmers aro... |
Today was supposed to be an easy day. Just a simple supply run. Jessie and me were to go down to the lake to check out the old marina and see if there was anything worth taking back to our hideaway. Food, medicine, weapons, tools, anything. We needed anything. There were not supposed to be many undead in this area. Th... | 2019-10-24T21:41:51 | 2019-10-24T18:28:11 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] “I’ll tell you what I’m going to do Mr Bond. I’m going to stick you in a spacesuit with a radio, and strap you into one of my cars. Then, while mankind watches, I’ll launch you into space. The last thing you’ll hear before leaving this earth forever, will be their applause.” | Elon Musk clapped his hands before pointing to his rival, James Bond. Elon took in a deep breath before announcing, “It is time!” Elon tapped his watch while moving over towards the control panel surrounded by his employees.
“Is this thing working?” Elon tapped the microphone. The microphone was linked into the space... | "not a great plan, Elon!" Bond exclaimed.
"yes, but I don't like getting blood on my hands. Plus this way, at least your skills would be put to a good use. And we even added a big parachute to the roadster just in case you make it to the Mars alive".
Elon has been waiting for this day for a long time. He knew plen... | 2018-02-06T21:55:33 | 2018-02-06T20:45:39 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." |
“Well, I wouldn’t mind having a bigger dick.” Was my response.
The voice beaming through my thoughts gave off a distressed sounding grunt- the kind that’s usually followed by, “fuck off.”, or something similar.
There was a long pause.
“Fuck off.” Was the response I got.
I was partially thrown off. “What is it, ... | "Anything" I said to the little voice in my head
"Yes" it responded
One billion thoughts rushed through my head, I could become a litteral god among men, no scratch that I could become a supermodel.
The thought that I could finnaly have 20/20 vision crossed my mind, and just like that poof this mist surrounded me.
"A... | 2019-10-28T13:22:27 | 2019-10-28T09:49:48 | 57 | 18 |
[WP] Magic is discovered and it's channeled with music. Modern nations dissolve and new countries rise in their place divided by the preferred music. In the frozen north lie the Metal kingdoms. Far to the south are the countries of Soul etc.
Keep the beat up
EDIT; Lots of good stories people, glad to read 'em :D | "Mam," the man said as he walked into the room. He was keeping his head low to the ground and making sure that he didn't look the spellcaster in the eye, it was a smart move.
"Did I tell you to call me Mam?" the spellcaster asked as she plucked away on her guitar, it was the start to a song that nobody had heard, and... | How could one ever want to live in this country?
Blood pours from the rooftops, freezing into sharp, dripping fangs. Old wooden buildings, once ordained as sacred land, now burn - and will burn until the gods themselves rip the world asunder.
Even now, the sun is swallowing itself and the night lift's its toothless h... | 2016-02-27T08:46:25 | 2016-02-27T08:44:50 | 449 | 55 |
[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. | I always go running in the park after work. And before work actually. Because that's what you do when you have "Heart Attack" hovering over your head in big green letters. I know that's how I'll die, I just need to make sure that day is as far away as possible. Maybe if I run fast enough, I can outrun death.
I many wa... | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | 2015-03-31T09:41:54 | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 76 | 22 |
[WP] At the age of 15, everyone is scanned and assigned their career for life. As an orphan, nobody expected much from you, but on your fifteenth birthday, you’re surprised when you’re assigned the position of god. | I was standing in a long queue of teenagers, my eyes fixed on a silver gate in front. All of us were dressed in a soft, cotton, pajama-like one-piece and a wooden necklace with our names written on it.
Beep, beep, beep, I could hear the scanner going, my peers getting their careers assigned to them one by one.... | “Try not to blink.”
The Detector had changed shape over the years, it had grown smaller and more portable. More available too, what with the ever growing population.
“Don’t blink, please.”
No longer was the device a series of balanced stones, an obsidian altar, brass mirrors, and crystals and sigils. Now it was a me... | 2022-11-16T05:31:22 | 2022-11-16T03:27:09 | 76 | 25 |
[WP] Humans are not more resilient than most aliens. We are not stronger than most. We are not faster than most. But the one thing we do have, is the best healing in the entire galaxy. | Humans. To most, sort of a joke. A lame little creature that flutters around at the edge of creation, not being particularly strong, fast, or smart. Just sort of there. Background species, if you will, with no striking natural colours, no interesting quirks. Not really built for living on worlds where water is nearly b... | There are benefits to being made out of carbon.
See, when we explored the world outside of our world, we thought that carbon-based lifeforms were going to be everywhere else because that's the extent of our knowledge. Over the past years, that information pool has changed drastically.
Think of an element in the perio... | 2020-06-18T18:49:59 | 2020-06-18T18:36:50 | 257 | 56 |
[WP] You are a hero, but you have no tragic backstory. Nobody believes you when you say that your village is fine and that your mentor is eagerly awaiting your first letter home. | It was a very interesting adventure for Medeo. The half-orc was entertained by the party thinking he was a woman only for them to be shocked to realize he was simply a very feminine-looking man. The rogue even got more jaws dropping when he revealed he was, in fact, half-tabaxi as well. What had seemed to be a simple r... | James : Your planet got destroyed and then your birth parents sent you to earth and then some countryside couple found and adopted you and then your adoptive father died helping others . That inspired to you to become a hero !
Blue Noir : Nope !
James : No dead parents killed by a robber?
Blue Noir : No . My pare... | 2021-07-11T19:49:47 | 2021-07-11T19:13:08 | 29 | 20 |
[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. | It only took a few seconds of staring until the number pops up in the middle of their forehead. Thank goodness for that, since I think I'd go insane seeing numbers everywhere!
Babies and most kids measure from zero to three at most, while grown adults measure up to maybe five or six, depending on their skills in hunti... | *Ah, this class sucks,* I thought, deciding to sleep through the teacher's lecture. I almost got away with it, too.
"Eren, could you please give me there answer to question 5?"
Aw you dirty 6-faced douche.
"Uhh, could you read out the question?" I stuttered, still half asleep.
"You'd know if you paid attention."
*... | 2014-11-29T17:05:40 | 2014-11-29T14:22:11 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] resurrection is real, however there are only 7 billion souls in total. There are now 7 billion people on earth.
Was thinking about this whilst driving, would love to hear how this plays out.
EDIT: I wrote ressurection, and meant reincarnation. Happy for either to be used. Whoops! | He sat, stock-still on the worn loveseat, staring out at the yard. The bike was there, still on its side where he had left it,, bright red paint glinting in the afternoon sun. He wasn't crying.
Danny never cried.
"Sweetheart, don't you want to go out and play?" I asked him, trying to find that place of reason he p... | Fox Chase Cancer Center, Pennsylvania. 10:24 PM.
Jack Kimball watched his wife on the hospital bed. Her heart was beating. Her breaths were heaving. He had thought of the 53 years they had been married each other. He moved his wedding ring around his hand. They got hitched when he was 22, and she was 20.
They had not... | 2017-02-26T12:27:10 | 2017-02-26T08:51:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | The whole thing is pretty unexplainable. And to be honest, it was more annoying than anything else. Once a month, everyone experiences a minute-long glimpse into the life of their soulmate. There was no regularity to it or any warning to tell you it was about to occur. There was no way to be prepared. People said it ... | For 24 years, I’ve seen out of Kate’s eyes once a month. It happens, and I’m used to it. I’ve used my earnings over the years to vacation, see the most beautiful sights the world has to offer. Today, I fear her. I sat on the edge of the canyon, looking down, when it flashed before my eyes. My old roommate, Kyle, the gu... | 2019-02-13T16:20:43 | 2019-02-13T15:32:40 | 219 | 110 |
[WP] There is no afterlife. There is a 2nd life. After you die, you get to restart your entire timeline knowing everything you know from birth to death. Problem is, this happens to everyone. So the 2nd Earth is a lot different than ours... | The hard concrete broke before him in a ripple effect. He had swan-dived from a skyscraper, and the earth ready to meet his fall had broken like water.
Interesting.
The water turned to a black haze which washed away his vision. He emerged from a sort of fleshy pod into the arms of a waiting woman.
Wait, what the he... | We met at a crowded party. He, just past tipsy, on his fifth beer in the two hours since he last spoke to (read: fought with) his long-distance girlfriend. Me, just starting to reach the top of the label on my first hard lemonade.
We knew we'd meet. We knew I'd flirt with him. We knew he'd go back to his dorm in a cou... | 2020-07-18T18:54:06 | 2020-07-18T17:02:36 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "100% of people who drink water will die" sounds like a dumb statistic, but you are 900 years old and very thirsty. | "Welcome to my humble home," said the old man, with a smile as crooked as the picture that hung behind him.
"Thank you," Christian replied as his gaze jumped from one piece of priceless art to another. "I still can't believe you invited me," he muttered as he stared distractedly at the lifeless head of an ancient crea... | As John laid there, on the cold cement floor trying to forget the pain, he noticed something. A water bottle... laying around on the floor. John mustered his last remaining energy to crawl to the water bottle. As he got there he reached for the bottle, his vision was now blurry, his arms shaking uncontrollably, his hea... | 2017-04-18T08:53:44 | 2017-04-18T06:41:35 | 4,139 | 61 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | The EVA 201 class began. As we walked in, we waved our notebooks over the interface and the e-ink paper changed. I took a brief glance at what I presumed would be the syllabus, and found a table of contents:
**Pages 1-3:** Content warnings
**Page 4:** Infohazard waiver and consent form
**Page 5:** University policy ... | \[Use this guide to translate the caveman speech.\]([https://public.wsu.edu/\~delahoyd/cavespeak.html](https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/cavespeak.html))
“Neecha, maka. Igac maka-daka neecha!”
The other four cavemen whooped and hollered at Igac’s boastful retelling of the saber-toothed cat he had killed earlier that d... | 2020-09-15T13:29:59 | 2020-09-15T12:33:35 | 1,783 | 21 |
[WP] You have been approached by a mysterious man with a strange proposal. He claims to have a magical power but it is limited to one sole request. The proposal is simple: You can choose one of the 7 deadly sins to eliminate from the world. The disclaimer: Beware because utopia doesn’t exist. | "Yet," I said to the mysterious man, as his wizened eyes widened slightly, "You mean utopia doesn't exist *yet*."
He cocked his head quizzically and his voice rasped, like the stone of the temple door behind us. "Please explain," he simply said.
I perched on the remainder of the stone column behind me and took in the... | Alex was relaxing on his sofa & watching tv in the living room. Then there was a ding dong from the front door. Alex went to go check on it and found a man. He was a tall skinny man with a tuxedo. His top hat looked like it had never been used before.
“Greetings,” the man said “I am David. I’ve come to you to ask... | 2019-07-03T12:27:53 | 2019-07-03T11:14:47 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are born with white blood and the more crimes you commit the darker your blood is. One day your girlfriend cuts her hand and black blood comes out. | “I can see the top,” she said between labored breaths. “Only about 30 more yards.”
Brent looked up past his girlfriend and could see where the mountainside seemed to abruptly end. “I’m right behind you,” he called up to her.
He could see her long black hair trailing down her back indicating that she had turned her at... | "I can explain," She stutters as she wraps the thin white cloth I tore from shirt around her hand. She wraps it three times but the black oozes through. "It's nothing. It's really nothing."
"Cindy, it sure looks like something," I grab her hand and take another look. Hoping I missed it. Hoping that this is some kind ... | 2017-05-12T15:41:00 | 2017-05-12T13:43:05 | 64 | 23 |
[WP] After all your deaths, you keep choosing New Game + and restarting your life with all your knowledge and boons. Frankly, it's starting to get a little ridiculous, and others are starting to take note of you. | *They had found me again.*
I watched the monitor, the blue light - the only light in the room - burned into my eyes. It was ok, I didn't need to sleep. I barely slept nowadays. I spent all my time planning and plotting for the next life.
Putting my schemes in place to ensure that my future self would have the best s... | I’ve traveled every continent, study in every major, mastered every skills a human could possess.
With every new life I began, I try a new thing. I have been kings, sometimes good, other times bad. I have been champions, I’ve fought countless battles. I’ve been scholars, philosophers. I’ve traveled as merchants. I wat... | 2019-05-29T05:36:53 | 2019-05-29T03:21:49 | 468 | 29 |
[WP] After you die, you come back as a spirit, but only while someone alive is thinking of you. For 10 years you've had seconds or minutes of consciousness at a time. But for the past 16 months, you've been constantly awake, and you begin to suspect why. | It was a little bit like blinking.
I could see the seasons changing as they thought of me. My mother over my casket. My siblings clearing out my old room. My girlfriend in the shower. My girlfriend packing my things. My girlfriend at a yard sale. My girlfriend reading books.
I find myself with her a lot more recent... | She had to know I would find out. She expected me to find out, but she didn't think it would take this long. I think I was wilfully ignorant, enjoying my second life since I didn't want to face the truth, but I didn't have a choice anymore. Knowing this truth requires action, but I don't know what I can do. The door wi... | 2019-06-30T14:34:08 | 2019-06-30T10:14:26 | 54 | 22 |
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