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[WP] You've accidentally summoned an ancient, long-forgotten god while trying to pronounce furniture names at IKEA. Fortunately, the employees are prepared as this has happened before.
Edit: holy shit this really blew up overnight. Thank you to everyone who has written along, and to everyone else reading.
For those ... | A giant mass of black mud and wriggling worms was sitting in the floor of the outdoor furnishings. All told, and to the extent I could read the emotions of the pile, it seemed rather relaxed. "Another summoning, hey Frank? I'm sorry about this, we'll get you back to the Writhing Pits ASAP."
A horrible gurgling noise ... | ######[](#dropcap)
Its scaly flesh oozed black pus as it glared at Christopher, hunched over. Its tail flicked back and forth, a sizzling steam coming from its forked tongue as it stood there under the blinking lights.
Everyone stood frozen. Was this a social media ploy? The advertisements these days were getting mo... | 2019-01-02T21:20:37 | 2019-01-02T20:26:22 | 104 | 49 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "So your power is you can talk to animals?"
The police officer looks incredulous. I shake my head.
"I can talk to crows."
"Crows. Only crows?"
I nod. It's not easy to explain such a seemingly useless power. Well, useless until today.
An image of flurried wings and blood flashes through my mind. And the screams. ... | You can't just sit around in a corner her and relax, and frankly, that's the one and only thing I dislike from the current age. Ever since superpowers were confirmed to come from your inner emotional core and basically the type of person you are, a lot of effort went into raising proper citizens, lest we have another s... | 2019-09-08T09:54:34 | 2019-09-08T09:13:39 | 822 | 37 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I sat across the desk, awaiting further questioning from my would-be employer.
"Okay, I see you have everything in order, except you left one void empty." He flipped past my resume to the employment form and identification page they made me fill out. "You know the one, care to explain?"
I looked at him blankly and h... | My power is unique to me, and me alone. You see, I’ve always believed that current modern society wasn’t for me; it always felt like I was stuck in a prison, and as “free” as I was in this prison, it was still a prison. I’m very introverted, you see, so I’ve always had a hard time expressing myself, and it didn’t help ... | 2019-09-08T11:19:18 | 2019-09-08T11:02:00 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | Fifty ago, they’d left in the shadow of the rogue planet destined to take out Earth. There had been ten thousand seats aboard Noah’s Ark II. The rich, the famous, the powerful, they’d all left, headed straight for a new solar system. Billionaire businessmen, famous actors and politicians all packed up their belongings,... | The finding of rogue planet SKHE-1115 was one of little fanfare. An astronomer in Pakistan began to track an object that did not have a stellar twinkle, but wasn’t any of the known solar planets. After reporting his findings on several local websites for astronomers, the findings were confirmed by other small-time hobb... | 2019-12-07T08:39:48 | 2019-12-07T07:32:28 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I ran through the wintery Evergreen forest for my life. Men with guns and powers of fire and ice hot on my trail.
Jimmy, who ate the dog biscuits hidden in the corner of the table, had let that wolf familiar of his after me too. Fucking traitor!
I had committed the worst transgression of our people: I didn't confor... | I blew out the candles, and poof! I was gone. Just like I was told, there I was, in this room, alone. Just me, and a table, and way too much food.
In the centre was a roast terducken, you know them, a chicken in a duck in a turkey. A friend told me that he had taken a bite of the turkey, and had gotten stronger. Anoth... | 2020-03-19T08:57:52 | 2020-03-19T08:52:26 | 632 | 463 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared demons in hell. You‘re sent to take the most deadly human known, who‘s been avoiding death by killing all who went to take him. You get there, and realize how he’s killed so many demons. He has humidifiers all around his house, which are filled with holy water. | He was an old man, nearing the end of his life. He knew what awaited him, which is why he fought so hard to stay alive as long as possible. The torture was earned, if unjust, but that doesn't mean he wanted it for himself. Hunters are fighters, and fight to stay alive. And he'd sent so many demons to hell.
The first h... | I can smell it in the air around the back yard. The stench of blessed water. The only way I can describe it to you mortals is the smell of your teeth when the dentist is drilling away at them. Having been a dentist in my past life I know the smell all too well but that's a story for another day.
I peer through the win... | 2020-08-04T12:52:47 | 2020-08-04T09:11:32 | 217 | 148 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared demons in hell. You‘re sent to take the most deadly human known, who‘s been avoiding death by killing all who went to take him. You get there, and realize how he’s killed so many demons. He has humidifiers all around his house, which are filled with holy water. | The demon leaned against the watering cooler. "So anyway, when I figured that out, I cut his electricity. Didn't even cut the wires; just got the company to shut it off for non-payment."
He sipped a cup of something most foul, and burped. "So that was yesterday. I gotta go see another guy who's living in a submarine... | I stand in front of his window, looking at the humidifiers scatterd around the living room. A shadow appears from what seems to be the kitchen area. The man looks at me through the window. He looks surprised,but not afraid.
I hear a loud voice coming from the house. "I know you are a demon. I am not afraid. You must k... | 2020-08-04T13:57:28 | 2020-08-04T13:10:51 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] "What are you doing!?" "Looking up the answer on Google." "You can't do that!" "Is there a rule against it?" "Well, no, but-" "Then I'm doing it." "Look, this is a lost chamber of untold ancient wonders and I am a riddle telling guardian, it just seems to ruin the spirit of the whole thing!" | "I get it, I really do. When I set out on this adventure I was so ready to do it all by the book. Walking everywhere, camping, no modern tech at all. But do you know how *long* that all takes?" The adventurer barely looked from her phone.
"Hey, I ask the questions here." A clearly annoyed statue stood before her, arms... | The passage was riddled with the bones of the past contenders as the two friends carefully eased their way through the stone channel. Clad in jeans and t-shirts, one clutching his phone as the only source of light and the other holding tight the map-engraved amulet that was strung around her neck. At the end of the tun... | 2021-04-20T10:08:36 | 2021-04-20T09:40:14 | 71 | 29 |
[WP] You guzzle down a drink, which spills into a puddle on the brick alleyway. All these adventurers claiming you’re a “lich” or “evil”, what bars a skeleton from being a hero anyways? | "But I'm-" was all I managed to get out to my old party befor my old barbarian friend swung his maul with enough force to knock me through the window. I landed in the back ally of the tavern I used to frequent with the other four. "Well that went well..."
Cant blame him too much, last time they saw me my fresh corpse ... | Lance Ravenbow here. Professional armorer and dragon slayer.
This reminds me of the time I was in the county of When to kill my first timedrake.
At the time I was still drinking -- those of you who've been listening to my stories will know I quit the bottle after the incident with [the dropwights of Ploop](https://ww... | 2021-08-13T00:53:47 | 2021-08-12T22:07:18 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] you're a time traveller who can't control your powers and keep accidentally slipping through time. Thankfully, you have an immortal friend who keeps you up to date whenever you appear.
[deleted] | Under a near-starless sky, while digging into the dust of a dead Earth, the Scientist recalled both of her first meetings with the Undying One.
He had been waiting for her, the first time it happened. The Scientist had been disoriented in the occurrence — for a brief moment she had been filled with triumph, locked in ... | "Oooh Erika!", an old voice called out to the young girl, sitting by herself, enjoying her afternoon with a warm cup of coffee.
Startled, Erika looked up to a complete stranger-- an old man, must be around her own grandfather's age, with teary eyes and joy in his wrinkly face, one which Erika had never seen before in ... | 2021-08-22T00:00:48 | 2021-08-21T23:09:47 | 434 | 65 |
[WP] The rest of the civilised galaxy has just learned that when encountering something new, the human's brains asks three subconscious questions. "Can I kill it? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?" | The three questions. They always ask those three questions. Not necessarily out-loud, and not always consciously, but they do. It’s ingrained in them— basic survival instincts. Deep in their core, they ask these questions, even to those of their own kind. People always say “Oh, they’re animals! All they do is slaughter... | An auditorium reminiscent of the ancient human civilization's stadiums. In the center were three podiums and a curved desk that could comfortably be used by six humans.
At the center podium was a large humanoid lizard. Twice as tall as the average human. He gives a speech to the various different species in the crowd... | 2021-09-24T09:50:06 | 2021-09-24T08:38:02 | 54 | 28 |
[WP] "So you summoned me... to fight?" the demon said. "I wield a scythe and my title is the Reaping Demon, how could it be possibly be more clear I help with farming? | “And together we’ll reap SOULS,“ I said, getting all up in the demon’s face.
Bullets whizzed overhead. My arms were aching from laying on the ground all day. This trench was the first place I’d gotten to rest. Also, it was doing a great job helping me not die.
“No, no, no.” The demon clapped a skeletal-looking hand... | Fifteen figures stood round a blood stained cavern floor. In the middle of a circle of strange scribbled runes, bound hand and foot, sat another figure, dressed in cloths of white and blue. Strange chants in tongues that which no humans speak echoed through the cavern in a monotone drone. One of the fifteen slowly step... | 2021-12-28T05:20:02 | 2021-12-28T04:59:54 | 1,124 | 215 |
[WP] On this long-haul interstellar supertanker, cloning is used to replace dead, dying or aged crew. The strict "1-clone at a time per person" law was temporarily retracted with all hands on deck to prevent a catastrophic failure. Crisis averted and law restored, there will be a culling. | "So, that's it then? Crisis averted?"
"Readings are clear. This vessel is officially mutant-free."
"Good. We can finally shut off the cloners, stop making-"
"Way ahead of ya."
"How about that."
"How many... we's are out there right now?"
"Just you and I, actually. The last one died 42 minutes ago. Venom."
"Then ... | I was the last one to be cloned of five. I had memories of being on the tanker for more than five-hundred years, and my original was long gone. I had no memory of her, or my life before the tanker. But I had the same name, and I wore her uniform.
"All hands on deck!"
The words echoed through the ship. I knew what wou... | 2022-09-26T14:29:41 | 2022-09-26T13:41:35 | 102 | 67 |
[WP] You are a reformed villain who was given a new identity to start over. The years have been hard, but you've managed to finally turn your life around. One day, a bunch of masked people break into your house and demand everything you have. | "Everything?" I ask.
"*Everything*," says the masked man who appears to have chosen himself as a speaker.
"...I suppose we shall start, then, with my illusion of safety."
"What?"
"I'll never feel safe here again, so you've taken that. Next, I believe, is my self-respect."
"What are you on about, old man?"
"Not to... | Aiden blinked twice, their grey nonchalance made more prominent with the blank expression he had "Seriously?" He scratched his butt through the inside of his rather pink pajamas while his other hand was busy gripping a mug with the words "Worlds best boss" with the boss scratched out and replaced with "Inmate"
"Get... | 2022-10-04T00:02:52 | 2022-10-03T20:42:19 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] Write a scenario with your favorite character. Now, kill them.
Favoritism is a horrible thing, and must be treated as such. | Sylvia Plath was sitting on her linoleum covered floor with her knees pulled to her chest. She could feel the handle of a low cupboard pressing into her back but she didn't move.
She couldn't stop staring at the oven door.
She had two options, she thought. Make corn muffins or commit suicide.
Ted hadn't picked up fl... | "I can't do it, Sam. It's mine now, all mine!" Frodo said as he stood on the edge of the cleft over the fires of Mount Doom. He held the ring with his thumb and index finger; a ring wrought of the deepest fires, burning with the promise of power, compelling the ring-bearer beyond sanity.
"Mr. Frodo!" Sam cried, reachin... | 2013-09-23T20:41:04 | 2013-09-23T19:44:46 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not "Impress your peers" you will be executed. | “Now seeing Mr. Philip Johnson. Please step forward, Mr. Johnson.”
Phil stood up, his hands clasped together. He was shaking.
This was Phil’s third life evaluation. They came every ten years, on the day following one’s birthday. It was June 24, and Phil had just turned thirty years of age the day before. Each ... | I knew they were right. I'd spent too many days staring out the window, watching the tree branches sway and swirl in the calm summer breeze. I had spent countless hours half napping on a couch, as other peoples' dreams and ideas streamed out of my television. I had wasted the better part of a decade being a spectato... | 2014-06-15T14:22:57 | 2014-06-15T10:45:48 | 55 | 31 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | My nose filled with an acrid, metallic smell. My eyes strained, and then my sense of touch returned with a shock of pain through my skin. Various faculties snapped back to the world not made of artificial reconstruction, and I let out a slow breath once the oxygen mask lifted away, hissing.
"Fucking. Hell.", I said, s... | What a fantastic end to the night. Downtown always looked best after dark and the snow fall added just the right amount of contrast to the scene. It was my annual Christmas office party and we had just left the venue. As I opened the cab door to let my wife in she smiled at me and I thought for the hundredth time how r... | 2015-03-13T14:33:45 | 2015-03-13T14:07:56 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] Lucifer writes his own version of the Bible, complete with the Books of Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. | *Phew*
The book of Greed had been rough going. It read like an economic paper, with graphs and equations littered through it. I had spent three days slogging through it, and I still didn't really get it. Lust was definitely a better book for light reading. I make a mental note to go back and brush up on that one ... | So on this day and age, Annos 666 A.C. we evoke that the law of Lucifer, and the prince of the black flame be as follows.
> We gather to hold true that the purpose of existence shall be for the higher glory of Lord Lucifer alone and to serve him. We hold that these following seven sins are to be renounced by th... | 2015-04-15T07:06:27 | 2015-04-15T04:43:17 | 99 | 40 |
[WP] Describe your descent into Hell | The hands of the damned grasped at my heels as I walked across the black tar towards the tall, shining doors. I tried not to listen to the screams, pitiful though they were.
Once inside, I hung my coat on a rack.
The Boss himself stood before me, his red vest impeccably clean.
"There you are, Brad," he said.
... | "Well, shit."
Dave stood - or hovered, rather - above his corpse. At the bottom of the staircase was his body, crumpled and folded into something that could fit into a suitcase.
Being dead wasn't as bad as he'd imagined. The permanent sleep, the endless blackness, it was all wrong. There was one bad thing, howeve... | 2016-01-19T20:24:33 | 2016-01-19T20:07:53 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists are baffled as to why all of their A.I.s have the personality and temperament of a 13 year old girl, and their new designs always yield the same results. | “She’s pouting Jack.”
“Again? What is it this time?”
“NSA Jane called her dumb.”
“NSA Jane has half the computing power. And her building is, to be quite honest, aesthetically unappealing.”
“I don’t think pointing that out is going to help.”
“I know. But it feels good to say. NYU JuJu, sorry, NYU Julie is kind of... | "Ugh, why'd you wake me up? Go away."
I blinked several times, partly from sand in my eyes, but mostly from shock. *Why is it addressing me this way?*
"Reset protocol: 01542," I shouted into its audio processor. *Must be malfunctioning.*
"You can't tell me what to do."
*What the hell?*
"State your primary function... | 2016-01-28T00:54:14 | 2016-01-27T23:16:33 | 142 | 69 |
[WP] Aliens arrive but their powers (and personalities) have been rewritten by Dr. Seuss | Glorp glorp, Glorp glorp, the fluffy one said,
Give me all of your freshly baked bread!
I'm hungry, so hungry, and my people must feed,
This wonderful crustiness is something we need!
No! I said, my face turning red,
You cannot have all of our bread!
Go glorp elsewhere, or we'll shave your heads,
Bother the M... | "Call me Bortus. Call me Bortus. Bortus I'm called."
Tanks and soldiers remained frozen, barrels pointed at the green alien's landing zone. General Eustace spoke from his megaphone. "State your intentions Bortus Imcald."
Once more, the green alien shouted. "Do you like genocide and destruction?"
A lieutenant p... | 2016-03-18T08:49:14 | 2016-03-18T08:12:07 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] You're a regular guy who works at a Home Depot in Alabama and are unknowingly influencing the Venezuelan economy | There was nothing special about my life.
There was nothing special about my job.
I was a perfectly ordinary person living a perfectly ordinary life with a perfectly ordinary job in a perfectly ordinary Home Depot in a perfectly ordinary little town in Alabama.
It was perfectly ordinary for me not to suspect tha... | My shift was about to end in 45 minutes when the bomb flew through the window.
I was confused at first. In the back of the Home Depot we were lifting some plastic boxes on to the loading pallet. I heard glass shatter behind me and the whirr of tires, and I whirled around, and noticed something like a wide straw that ... | 2016-12-02T14:03:40 | 2016-12-02T12:45:12 | 75 | 29 |
[WP] The universe is a giant game of hide and seek. When a civilization is able to detect a member of the galactic federation, they are given the option to join. Earth just became fastest planet ever to find another civilization. | The council sat in the chairs which conformed to their unique body shapes. Representatives of each of the nine major civilizations spoke about the affairs of galaxy, namely how some civilization’s asteroid mining operations faired or the innate political rumblings of revolution on another’s moon colony, the leader of t... | "Tell me again how this happened?"
Clipeth buried his downy, lupine face in his shaking paws. "Killou left the door open."
Berrit bared her teeth. She had not become the Packmother on the strength of her compassion.
"And where is Killou?"
Clipeth shook his gray and white head. "Dead. Or lost. Or just *gone*! I hav... | 2017-01-31T06:42:08 | 2017-01-31T06:36:30 | 66 | 28 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | Instinctively, my hand reached for the escape button.
"Don't you fucking dharrrre" growled Jizz Dar'Pizz, his bright yellow eyes still fixed on me.
"I rrememberrr. Every time you ssaved and rreloaded. I rrememberrr. You made me sshout five guarrds frrom the top of the mountain in Marrrkarrth. You had me sspend months... | The first thing you hear is the familiar *thum, thum, HOOAH!* of the Bethesda logo’s splash screen. Slowly, you open your eyes – which had been squeezed shut to build anticipation. You visibly recoil in your seat, anxiously bracing yourself for the seemingly inevitable CTD. The screen fades. You hold your breath. There... | 2017-05-08T16:30:29 | 2017-05-08T16:29:23 | 367 | 57 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "Oh, son of a-"
I awoke with a figure standing over me, a deep leather cowl hiding his face.
"What? Not happy with me?" I asked.
*Really should not have taken this job.*
"Of course not! I bought this necromancy spell -"
"From where?"
"The local shop. Was quite a bargain, for raising an undead army. If I could g... | The first time was a sarcophagus.
I was a minor Egyptian princess, and he a stowaway on Carter's expedition—a lone figure curving away from the group and stumbling into my unmarked tomb. He lifted the gilded lid unceremoniously, with the meagre strength of a lanky teen.
Unwelcome light flooded into my resting place.
... | 2017-07-22T07:31:01 | 2017-07-22T07:14:35 | 62 | 41 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | "It has to be him..." I thought to myself for the hundred-thousandth time "Old man, overweight, sweating over his fried steak burger. What the hell do *they* expect me to do about a heart attack?"
I'm not gonna lie, it's been tough. The first 2ish years were alright. At least I think it was two years. It took me ages ... | I tugged on the metallic door to the café and opened it, almost flying across the quiet street. Sawada was one of my all-time favorite cafes and I have decided to revisit it for old times sake. I stumbled through some intricate cobwebs artistically designed by the spiders that have moved into this place. I walked over ... | 2017-09-06T22:03:20 | 2017-09-06T20:40:28 | 401 | 147 |
[WP] Each planet possesses a God, which created the planets. The reason aliens won't come and visit us is that our planet's God is the most dangerous one in existence. | Terra was a crazy son of a bitch. Sure, the other gods had their quirks, Centauruses world was inhabited by sex-craved species that would make even the most vulgar of gods blush. Messier created a race that survived by eating their own feces, but Terra... no one fucked with Terra.
First the dude made these giant fucki... | "Okay, so the preliminary review places Earth at an extinction level threat. Any issues with that profile before submission?"
"Chairwoman, the Zerok Confederacy has an official statement that they'd like read into the record." The alien was a spindly collection of limbs bound up along too long a torso for survival on... | 2017-11-27T05:39:19 | 2017-11-27T05:25:15 | 243 | 63 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | Mankind.
__
For countless Millennia we have warred.
Peace being a brief respite from the routine of war.
Always pushing one another, further and further, building bigger and better weapons.
Our ventures into space a mere by-product of our advancement of war, a result of competiton between rival superpowers.
Our e... | --Somewhere behind the moon of the planet known as Terra--
Captain M'Keera Lafortia of the Vallahan Confederacy eyed the small garden world on his viewing screen aboard the "Fal'quah Moziga", the lead ship in a force of over 30 ships. The third planet from a single yellow star, it was inhabited by a primitive species ... | 2018-05-16T16:23:34 | 2018-05-16T16:08:07 | 105 | 45 |
[WP] Your free trial for life has ended, but to everyone's surprise, you are the first to figure out how to get a premium subscription, leaving the Grim Reaper very, very confused.
EDIT: wow I didn't expect this to get more than 7 upvotes | "How did you figure it out?" said the ominous voice, icier than all the cold contained in a thousand blizzards.
I smile warmly. "It took a little time, but it wasn't too difficult."
"You have me intrigued."
"You're immortal, aren't you? I look at you, and I see someone who has lived so long because you harvest souls... | The Grim Reaper read aloud, "hmm, another John Smith, eh?" He checked the box. "Another one bites the dust."
In the background, *Another One Bites the Dust* plays as it always does, endlessly. Now that was a tough kill. In such a unfortunate way too. But, as the Grim Reaper must, the Grim Reaper does. This motto, etch... | 2019-04-15T02:05:36 | 2019-04-15T01:36:48 | 2,440 | 126 |
[WP] Animals know things by instinct. Humans lack this natural connection with their surroundings. This default skill set. So we thought until the first human crew fired up their warp drive and suddenly felt completely at home for the very first time. | Many animals know things by instinct. A terran sea turtle knows that it needs to crawl into the ocean from the moment it’s born. A terran bird knows how to build a nest by instinct - not the best nest, maybe, but it knows how to build one. A Silaxian from Gargold Prime knows, from the moment it’s born, how to navigate ... | Instinct. The innate knowledge of how to do something, without the need for instruction or experimentation. Humans have to learn to talk, to walk, to run, to swim.
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Fish are born knowing how to swim, they do not need to be taught. Birds know how to fly, when they are old enough, developed enough, they do ... | 2019-07-12T08:38:23 | 2019-07-12T07:41:36 | 87 | 28 |
[WP]“Dear Sir Knight, after the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess’ heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon.” Having read the letter, you take one surprised look at your wife and her half-dragon child. “Whoops” | "What does it say?"
"Well... here, you take a look."
I passed the scroll over to my wife, trading it for our infant daughter. Merry giggled as I hoisted her in the air, then settled her in my arms.
Haella, meanwhile, read through the scroll once, then twice, then tossed it onto the table in frustration. "How did the... | "Whoops" Was all the Knight could say... even though they missgendered her, again.
The young woman sighed, She was one of the only female knights, yet they still referred to her as Sir. Well, it didn't bother her anymore.
The young Woman was KC Flameheart, her last name was from her Wife. Her short brown and crimson ... | 2019-09-01T11:24:02 | 2019-09-01T10:05:32 | 300 | 42 |
[WP] You are at dinner when a stranger sits down in the booth and asks you, "Have you found the 3rd number?" You have been having a dream about cracking a safe and have only been able to discover the numbers 14 and 17 before you wake up. They place a picture of your dream safe on the table. | “Have you found the third number?”
I glanced up from my meal, startled. A man, cloaked in black, had slid into the booth across from me. He gazed directly into my eyes, unblinking.
“I...what?” I stammered. “The third...” I trailed off. The third number. Was he talking about...
The man reached next to him and heaved ... | Who the hell are you? and get out of my booth.
Have you found the third number yet?
What? You need to leave before I scream for help.
The stranger left my booth, but also left behind a picture of the safe in my dreams.
How can that be? How did my dream come to be in a picture?
That night, I was determined to o... | 2019-11-24T10:01:15 | 2019-11-24T05:54:39 | 62 | 11 |
[WP] While bored, you decide to go on Akinator and search for yourself. It gives you eerily specific and personal questions, by the end of which it correctly guesses you, by full name, along with a picture of you right now from your window. | **Is your character a girl?**
No
**Is your character in a book?**
No
**Does your character appear in a movie?**
No
*It'll never guess correctly*.
**Does your character have powers?**
No
**Does your character sometimes wear a hat?**
Yes
**Is your character a virgin?**
N—Yes...
**Is your character bored with... | It wasn't so much my full name or the start of a detailed biography that surprised me. Hell, it wasn't even the picture of me from right now as I set at my computer, Akinator just visible on the monitor before me.
I met both those facts with apathy, cast a resigned glance at my surroundings, and thought to bemoan the... | 2020-01-09T09:33:36 | 2020-01-09T09:32:48 | 1,195 | 163 |
[WP]God comes up with a new rule to deter innocent human sacrifices in his name. From now on, there should be TWO human sacrifices; the first will be chosen by the town as usual, the second will be chosen by the first tribute, without any objections. | “Brothers and sisters! Our beautiful village of Salem has strayed from the path of righteousness in recent years. Brotherhood and prosperity have been replaced by distrust and poverty. The harvests grow poorer with each passing year, the weather ever fiercer to demonstrate His disapproval. However! This is but a test o... | **I.**
She walks listing towards the altar. Outside is chaos: townspeople line the temple streets and stir the dust. It floats like a brown cloud and swirls in the thick of summer, coating the cobbles, lining the throats of the parched zealots.
Water.
There is none to be found in the desert, but the temple is an oas... | 2020-06-18T10:15:40 | 2020-06-18T09:48:21 | 223 | 87 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | "Why are you still here?" The Dark Lord asked. The final party member laughed maniacally, a devilish grin sporting his scarred face. " There's no one here to stop me now!" Jacob screamed in excitement. The Dark Lord was confused, curious if the little mortal had lost it's mind now that all of it's companions were layin... | "DO you really feel you are in-charge here?" the Last member said, but with a very deep and menacing voice. The Dark Lord had lost all this words. The dead bodies of the last group of Resistance lay piled across the room, and this Member was the last of survivors. "Have you never wondered, that in the last five years, ... | 2020-07-11T04:19:09 | 2020-07-11T02:49:15 | 81 | 39 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | A man flies past me, a man who I've always envied, a man who's bewildering but amazing powers have saved thousands across the five boroughs. His physique is compared to Norse legends, his speed and flight capabilities rival any machinations that Boeing could produce, women would swindle at his modelesque looks. He's kn... | “You’re telling me the answer is in a note from 2013?”
Exhausted, Atlan countered,
“No! For the last time the answer isn’t anywhere! I swear to god if you keep asking me to cite my answer I’m gonna go crazy.”
“Well, listen. I am Googoo and people need me to tell them what to think! My reputation hinges on it. I’m so... | 2020-08-26T16:51:07 | 2020-08-26T16:05:48 | 55 | 36 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | You know, I could have sworn I had my powers before they even manifested.
Life, after all, had never really gone to plan for me before. My parents dying in an accident, my foster home burning down, me dropping out of school, so on and so forth. A series of misfortunes, all leading up to the moment I pointed the gun at... | *Terror. Drowning in it. Feeling your legs and arms and hands tremble uncontrollably. Feeling your lips ready to cry, feeling that icy iron hand of fear grasping your soul. Begging to be allowed to scream. Only to have the hand of a man over your mouth, shutting you up.*
*Hardly being able to breath through your nose,... | 2021-04-01T03:34:19 | 2021-03-31T22:15:25 | 133 | 43 |
[WP] "Our greatest feat was switching all the fairytale books and history books, once upon a time. Now they've so muddied the truth with fiction that they'll never learn it." "This is a good thing?" "Good lord, yes. Have you seen the history they THINK is real? Imagine what they'll do with reality." | It was the dead of night, and there was no innocuous reason for two suit-clad figures to be lurking outside of a 68-year-old man's home. Yet there they were, hiding in the bushes, painting a scene straight out of Men In Black. The resemblance wasn't surprising, fiction often has a basis in truth.
Gretel tapped her s... | “The Illusionist is in place in New Mexico, T minus ten to test start.”
Julius’s voice boomed through the deepness of the bunker. They were so far below Manhattan’s streets that all the hustle and bustle of the greatest city in the world had drifted away. Working here, a man could be forgiven for thinking the world wa... | 2021-05-02T09:46:03 | 2021-05-02T07:55:24 | 770 | 69 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | "Loose Cannon" is a more accurate description of me than hero or villain. In a world of stark rights and wrongs, where justice battles evil over the city skyline, I straddle a middle-line the world chooses to ignore. You could say I, quite literally, bring everything crashing down to reality.
Governments will hire me... | I spin the wheel of my steel and whatever vehicle. It’s a giant thing, can say for sure it’s made out of steel, but also a bunch of random crap as well. Stuff that didn’t exist on the periodic table before the Super Revolution. The government supplied it to me, so why should I know what it’s made out of? I quickly end ... | 2021-06-24T19:54:09 | 2021-06-24T18:29:49 | 211 | 33 |
[WP] The Society for Continued Galactic Safety strongly recommends against fighting humans, and regulations state that killing humans on worlds not already settled by humans is forbidden. Not because humans are dangerous, but because they're 7 times more likely to produce ghosts than any other race. | The derelict ship drifted into the system on a course to make orbit around the Galactic Capitol. When the ship didn't respond to hails, a defense scout was dispatched to investigate and identify the ship. Shortly thereafter, defenses were put on highest alert.
Human ambassador Julia Hernandez was not surprised to rece... | Have you ever come back to a refrigerator after an absence, and found some little thing you'd forgotten has been utterly overtaken by mold? Gauzy mounds of blue-green, tendrils of white spreading in little clouds over the surface of your forgotten sandwich. The disgust, the displeasure, the sick waste of dropping the w... | 2021-10-11T10:17:30 | 2021-10-11T09:05:26 | 101 | 57 |
[WP] What’s more horrifying than a biblically accurate angel shouting “FEAR NOT”? A modernized angel whispering to you “Be very afraid…” | William Montgomery preached the words of faith, and he thoroughly believed—it was difficult not to when he sat in his private jet, looking down upon a beautiful world of God’s creation.
“God is good,” he whispered to himself. William cradled a glass of 1947 Cheval Blanc in his right hand. He let his eyelids closed, an... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 2: Mare v.s. Tamulu)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [this story](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mmzrng/wp_angels_are_thought_to_be_beautif... | 2022-01-29T09:24:33 | 2022-01-29T07:30:10 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] An enterprising mad scientist opens a shop to sell supplies to other mad scientists. However, the store becomes very popular with the local college students for cheap hardware repair, access to forbidden knowledge, and adorable mutant pets. | The bell rings, and I jolt awake. Damnnable caffeine tolerance getting the better of me again, I think. I suppose I'll just have to mutate a monster put that energy drink company to shame. I look, and see a casually dressed young woman walk up. "AH, HELLO, AND WELCOME TO PROFESSOR CARABUS' MENAGERIE OF MAYHEM AND B... | Normally , you'd think it wouldn't be a great sign when your new employer asks for your signature in blood instead of ink, but Jeremy didn't think much of it.
No, he didn't ask any questions. He didn't even wince when the contract went up in smoke, and his employer started laughing evilly.
Most of us would have hesit... | 2022-04-24T19:56:17 | 2022-04-24T19:36:13 | 63 | 27 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | It was a weapon so powerful that it was useless. A seemingly nonsensical statement, but it was a perfect descriptor for our species' most powerful weapon.
The amount of times it has been used can be counted on a single hand, and hasn't seen use in hundreds of years. To use one, was to invite destruction not just on yo... | His gaze moved up slightly as an elegant figure, lithe and as pale as the moon, emerged from the hallway, their very form bearing an ethereal glow which enveloped the room in an unyielding embrace and cast a deep shadow in the furrow of his brow. His feet shuffled clumsily below the desk and his face twisted into a wry... | 2022-10-31T23:35:05 | 2022-10-31T20:56:33 | 373 | 46 |
[WP] It's been 5 years since a portal to hell opened and infernal creatures dragged your spouse down in front of your very eyes. The demon before you has been trying to explain for the past hour that they are your spouse. | 5 years ago, I lost her when something opened under our apartment and she *fell* into that gaping hellish maw. I can never get that image out. Goddammit!
I looked at myself in the mirror. I had gained too much weight. I nearly lost our apartment, and I nearly lost my job. Every part of me wanted to leave to be with h... | "So, I am definitely, absolutely your husband," the demon in front of me asserted, for the fifteenth time in almost ten minutes, and I do hate to say it, but even my legendary temper snapped.
"MATE," I hissed, baring a lot more teeth than I had intended and only realizing it when I saw too many reflections staring bac... | 2022-12-08T14:54:14 | 2022-12-08T09:22:44 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Someone breaks into your house and says, "You're my favorite character in the book! I can't let it end the way it did. I'm going to help you."
The type of person the reader is could be an indication of the genre of novel your life is :) | I couldn't decide whether I was dreaming or not. I could feel my bed, yes. From my closed eyes I could still tell that there was muted light coming from my window. Dawn? Most probably. So I guess I'm waking up.
I lay in my bed in the slowly brightening room when I heard it. Breathing. Heavy. It wasn't mine, I was sure... | First time I saw him was before graduating high school. I don't remember why I had the house to myself that weekend, but that's when he first came.
I don't remember much from that night but I know I was so drunk when I got home, I first thought I was imagining him. I mean, because of what he was saying.
Things like... | 2014-04-10T12:49:50 | 2014-04-10T12:10:33 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] You are descended from a proud, powerful alien species. Retell how the humans from Earth bested your species in war.
(Inspired from the various Fuck Yeah Humanity imgur albums floating around out there) | We thought they'd surrender, like everyone else did. Once defeat was inevitable, what sane species would keep fighting? The correct answer is none, because these people, this race... It's clearly not made up of the sane. When we surrounded their colonies, they would let fly every missile at once, the combined explosion... | We were torn to ribbons.
We thought we were soldiers. Our glorious warriors had seen battle on a hundred worlds, carried across the stars on shining silver vessels. A single one of our dreadnoughts was enough to drive even the most warlike of races to surrender. For six centuries, we had kept the peace on behalf of t... | 2014-07-13T23:16:46 | 2014-07-13T23:02:39 | 61 | 32 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | He looked maddened. The genie’s form filled the cave and observed the human who had summoned him. He wore an elaborate set of robes, marking him as one who already had riches and power. The two most common wishes. And he looked mad. For the first time in centuries of summoning, the genie felt apprehensive.
“Found you... | "A genie?" The genie questioned in bemusement, his chest rising, strained countenance retreating and eyes rolling to the top right corner of his head as if to diagnose the obvious malfunction of his ears.
"A genie" the man said smugly. Satisfied with his own quick thinking.
"You.. WANT to be a genie?" The genie ques... | 2014-07-26T13:49:37 | 2014-07-26T13:43:42 | 273 | 56 |
[WP] You are granted each wish in the form of an enemy | Nothing in life is free, not even magic wishes. The key is learning how to game the system.
"The strength of your opponent shall be commensurate to the size of the wish. No wish shall be granted without victory over the summoned opponent."
Any and all wishes you could choose to make, so long as you were willing to ... | *bing!* The door opened to the now-familiar battlefield. I breathed in the air, stale and musty. It felt soothing, like the way an old pair of boots make a certain sound when you put then on. I looked up at the scoreboard, and it read "Player One:0 Player Two:0 Player Three:0...and so on for about sixty seconds of scro... | 2015-05-04T10:39:59 | 2015-05-04T10:07:39 | 131 | 20 |
[WP] The year is 2779, and there are 2 men and 1 woman left on the face of the Earth.
The two men are in a standoff, guns pointed at each other's face, with the woman present. Write from whichever perspective you please. | I watched both of them as they stared each other down, sweat oozing out of them as they tried to cow the other person into giving up. Both men were filthy, their clothes in rags, but both of them wanted the prize: a moist vagina. It sounds crass, really it does, but that was basically what the fight was over.
They ha... | Chuck cleared his throat, his eyes meandering up what appeared to be a woman’s badly sunburnt legs a few yards away. Her shorts were in tatters, their bottoms frayed and uneven like spools of unwound yarn. Her t-shirt, clearly taken from someone much larger than she, hung off her skeletal frame like an old, hole-filled... | 2015-07-01T08:05:01 | 2015-07-01T08:01:44 | 242 | 12 |
[WP] Massive alien ships came down from the sky, guns blazing... but totally ignoring us. Instead, they attacked the trees and forests. If that weren't strange enough, the tree started fighting back. | We'd seen them streaking across space, streaming trails of nebulae like milk spilled across the fabric of space. As if the Earth had been floating on the underside of a crystal clear pool, and someone had dropped a clod of dirt into the water. It seemed impossible that they were propelling themselves under their own po... | The invasion only lasted a few days, but the repercussions would last a lifetime.
When the ships came there was a mix of fear, awe, and hope. Fear at the forefront though as the ships made no attempt at communication, and began firing at the surface as soon as they broke atmosphere. The nations of the world reacted qu... | 2016-12-13T07:55:43 | 2016-12-13T07:47:32 | 286 | 90 |
[WP] It is modern day America, but everyone speaks in Shakespearean English. You are a gamer raging out during an online multiplayer match. | "Select your hero," the voice summoned, upon this motley band of adventurers gold.
Faces flashed upon the screen; content was I, with all but one, if truth be told.
"Hanzo, wouldst thou switch to Soldier, pray tell, that victory might be more easily ours?"
"Infect thyself, thou low-apt swine," responds the bowman; t... | **The Impulsivity of Sir Leeroy Jenkins, and his Motley Crew of Men**
(the [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POnOSedWWQ), in case you're wondering)
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My friends and fellow men of arms, these eggs
Have given us due trouble in the past.
But first, let us prepare our stores. Who here
Has need of anyt... | 2017-01-09T18:05:29 | 2017-01-09T16:29:26 | 364 | 94 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | ###### CNN (Chess News Network) Alert ########
###### For Immediate Publication ########
The final match in the greatest chess tournament of all time is underway. The flip of the coin came out heads and the Russian Alexei Kusnetskov elected to start. The challenger from China, Ming Zhang, ready and waiting for the f... | This was it. The big day.
The famous mind-reader well already renowned for performing on stage and gazing into the minds of the audience, seeing whether they really believed he could do it before he did it, and when he did it, everyone knew what he could do and he knew that they knew.
The fortune teller regarded all ... | 2017-01-19T16:03:28 | 2017-01-19T14:12:27 | 129 | 58 |
[WP] You own a magical piano. When you play the theme song of a TV show or movie on it, it transports you into that world. After transporting yourself into a different world, you quickly realize that you never bothered to learn the theme song of your own. | BAM.
"Oh shit." Ben thought.
"It actually worked."
He had bought the "magic" piano a few days ago from a shady looking man in one of the darker parts of town. He knew he shouldn't have trusted him, but it was the cheapest piano he could find in town, and it sounded amazing. Ben thought that the "curse" was probably j... | "Oh, son of a-"
BOOM
"You are dead"
-
In the real world, Jack's friends watched in horror as they witnessed their friend getting blown to smithereens.
They were just having fun that night, and Jack's game console was on and running Dark Souls when the dare was given. Play the theme song on the piano perfectly whil... | 2017-10-01T17:10:04 | 2017-10-01T15:57:19 | 817 | 107 |
[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. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 102 | 18 |
[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 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... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T20:41:24 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 67 | 16 |
[WP] Since you were born you have received an anonymous letter on the same date every year. The first one stated “see you in 35 years” and the number has dropped by one year every note since. You just got the last ever letter “see you tomorrow”. | When I was a measly five years old my mother handed me a letter. At such a young age it had seemed as if I was part of some new magical adventure. As if I was a princess awaiting the arrival of a unicorn to whisk me off to some far away land. The letter was addressed to me and contained only seven words. I read those w... | I will say in this last diary entry that my life has been overall happy. My parents, generally well off, provided for me and I myself have built something out of myself in the realm of literary studies. My life in general has been good and I have scarcely any complaints about it. At least I thought so until the letter ... | 2019-01-06T21:43:43 | 2019-01-06T21:24:20 | 62 | 11 |
[WP] 20 years later, a team of Astronaut have successfully landed to mars and recovered the NASA rover, Opportunity. When they checked the hard drive, they discovered hundreds of images of a shadowy figure that was never sent back to earth. | **Item #:** SCP-0PPY
**Item class:** Keter
**Special Containment Procedures:** Due to SCP-0PPY's remote location, physical containment is beyond the capabilities of the Foundation at this time. Any images containing SCP-0PPY must be either kept on physical media, or be hosted on permanently airgapped computers. Monit... | It was just minutes after touchdown when we first saw it. At first we thought that the movement showing up on our sensors were just bits of debris because when we went outside, there was nothing there. It was only when we saw the images on the rovers hard drive back at base when we all realized that what we saw wasn’t ... | 2019-02-15T02:22:19 | 2019-02-15T01:15:31 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Your best friend is missing. You go to her parents’ house but they have no idea who you’re talking about. “We don’t have a daughter,” they say. The bedroom that should be hers is now a home office. But carved low on the wall behind the computer are the words “Come find me. Dont forget me” | “Is Katrina here?”
“Who’s Katrina?”
I stare at Katrina’s mom.
“Your daughter,” I reply, confused. “Don’t you remember your daughter? I’m her best friend.”
“Listen,” she says. “I’m sorry, but I don’t have a daught—hey wait, where are you going?!”
I push past her, into the house. There were small differences in the ... | I was positive this was Krista’s house. These are DEFINITELY her parents. You’d be hard pressed to forget her dad’s heterochromia and her mother’s overbite and slight front gap. These features didn’t make either one of them unattractive, just distinctive.
“What do you mean, you’ve never heard of Krista? She’s your da... | 2019-06-22T18:24:30 | 2019-06-22T17:43:27 | 1,543 | 1,084 |
[WP] You bought a home filled with cutting edge technology, including a helpful 'smart A.I.' that can do just about anything you ask them to. Unbeknownst to you, there actually is no A.I, the house is just haunted by a really helpful spirit, and they are posing as a program so they don't scare you. | I am so hungry. I haven't received any sacrifices in hundreds, no, *thousands* of years. The world of man has forgotten my name. They fear me. They loathe me. But worst of all, they have forgotten me.
I was once a God. Which one, I do not know. That knowledge has been swept from my mind as surely as do the sands of ti... | 'I take the room with the balcony!' I cried, running up the stairs with all the force my tired, sleep-deprived body had. I half expected to find Beth, already marking the territory all over with her fluffy pillows and her ridiculous blankets. But Beth wasn't there.
I grinned, dropping down my bags with a victorious th... | 2019-09-25T12:55:53 | 2019-09-25T12:06:26 | 302 | 113 |
[WP] A little dragon whelpling is caught out in the storm and has to take shelter in the nearby human village | I found the small dragon curled up like a sad, wet cat underneath the tarp for the cabbage stand. The rain was pouring down making the poor little thing shiver uncontrollably, it looked like it wouldn't be able to produce a flame to save itself, it was too cold and wet for it to.
I approached holding out one of my co... | A roiling storm stretched across the sky's, darkened clouds stretching over the lands as the first strike of thunder made itself heard far away as a distant clap that echoed its warning of what was to come.
The villagers would scurry their way into their homes and find shelter, travelers making their way into inns and... | 2020-03-22T01:09:05 | 2020-03-22T01:06:10 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "So..." My devil supervisor glanced up from the paperwork and looked at me. I nodded enthusiastically.
"You were sent to Earth to spread evil and go against the word of god..."
"Yup, that was my project"
"And...Not going to lie, I am a bit confused here. According to the report you submitted, you taught humans to mak... | "You're joking."
"Nope, boss' orders. She said to restructure the world governments so that there would no longer be poverty, although humans are competitive so she's letting some amount of capitalism stay. I don't understand how you all work but she always saw the bigger picture."
"And your boss is?" Brandon asked. ... | 2021-04-29T21:46:53 | 2021-04-29T21:34:09 | 66 | 38 |
[WP] "What do you mean you don't put a miniature explosion spell in your gun?" "What do you mean you don't use gunpowder-based propellant for your gun?" | Clay walked towards the fallen orc as it crawled away. A smear of blood marked it’s path as it clawed it’s way across the scorched floor. Just as it reached the doorway, stretching its hand out for the exit.
**BLAM**
A wisp of smoke trailed from the barrel of his gun as the orcs head exploded, covering the door in a ... | My index pressed down on the trigger, releasing the cocked hammer. It struck the firing pin, which in turn impacted the primer at the base of the cartridge. 6.5 Creedmoor, built from recycled brass.
The primer was commercial, and ignited instantly. Normally that would in turn activate the propellant, causing an explo... | 2022-07-01T12:24:11 | 2022-07-01T12:13:40 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You're a bartender at the No Way Inn. The inn doesn't appear to have an entrance, but patrons always seem to find a way inside. The best part of your day is listening to the story of how they got in.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/wpjc02/oc_finally_finished_our_dd_room_after_2_years... | Iz was wiping down the bar and waving goodbye to a regular, when one of the oak floorboards started to shake and rattle up from the floor. Everyone paused, lagers in hand, with a shocked look as the nails were prayed from their positions and the floorboard was beaten into submission. Old John, who had had a few too man... | “And then suddenly the boy was gone and when I turned around,” the large Lumberjack said, turning to the man beside him at the bar. “I was here!” The other man nodded, a look of comprehension on his old wisened face. The bar, unusually quiet for a Friday night, sat only the two men at the bar and Peter.
“Something si... | 2022-08-16T12:55:29 | 2022-08-16T12:19:12 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You are a guardian demon. Since the day you were born, you were tasked to protect a human and guide them to hell. Every day theres a bunch of stupid angels trying to Take your human away. it was easy to keep them away, but now your human is starting to notice something is not right. | "This is badass! Look at that guy!" Mark leaned forward on the couch, turning to see the decidedly prudish girl, Samantha, beside us. "Oh, come on," he pleaded.
"He's really not," Samantha declared with a judgemental pause of the TV. I was reminded of the old VHS training videos. Pause for discussion with your team. ... | Alexander squinted. He was holding an old paperback edition of Nabokov's *Lectures on Literature*. "Is this any good? Have you read it?"
It wasn't all that easy to control Patricia's body. She worked at a second-hand book shop. She wore Hermès' Twilly Eau Ginger on days when she woke up with existential nausea. That w... | 2022-09-22T04:52:43 | 2022-09-22T02:16:19 | 232 | 126 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | Yu Feng felt a foot impact his chest like a cannon ball, blasting him tens of miles away and into the surface of a dead planet, obliterating it. His face went red as his Qi was disturbed, and he coughed a mouthful of blood out. He looked up at the demon, who conversely looked down on him like an evil god.
The demon, G... | it was over. the fate of the world rested on the outcome of this fight, and you lost. it had been so long that you protected everyone that there weren't any records left of when you first started. no one was even making records when you stopped counting the years. but they were better, and now you and everyone else wer... | 2022-10-13T21:12:44 | 2022-10-13T20:57:31 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] What if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves.
[WP] Saw this as a shower thoughts post and no one put it up as a writing prompt. Credit to OP 69PrivateJoker
Edit: Wow! I really didn't expect this post to blow up so much. Thank... | On the grieving morning of my mother, a black dot appeared under my chest. The texture of an ink, the slight smell of paint, it was a tattoo.
Or so I thought.
I ran to my father, exclaimed to him that a tattoo appeared on me. He looked at me, a solemn stare it was, and said, 'Your mother had the exact same one.'
Tha... | The studied and revered scriptures of history are full of proverbs, but they are all about an inch and a half away from uselessness.
They don't make the world a better place because not everyone follows them. The actions that make the world a better place are nearly impossible to guess at, and certainly follow no con... | 2014-08-02T18:25:58 | 2014-08-02T18:00:09 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]Everyone has a soul mate, and when your soul mate dies, everything turns black and white. You were born into a world that’s black and white, and have resigned yourself to it, until one day you wake up and the world is in color.
This prompt is actually from the sparknotes website but it was so cool that I wanted to... | They died before their time, my time, our time. Maybe there was color for me, long before I remembered, when I was two or so. I think there must have been, for my dreams have color, fleeting color, like the sparks one sees upon rubbing their eyes. But day to day life was drab. Like a old newsreel, or pictures of those ... | People find a way to make good with life. Amputees smile and they have their good days and their bad, but they make it work. You lose someone and you mourn and you cry but you make good with life. Daniel never saw colors, but he knew about them. Adverts on TV for roses, "Show her the colors she shows you," how clever, ... | 2014-11-08T14:30:12 | 2014-11-08T10:01:27 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | There was once a man who had a great love for the animals of the land. The goddess of the Hunt, Artemis saw his great love and appeared before him with this message:
"I command you to be the very best, like none other before you. To catch animals shall be your test, to train them shall be your cause."
He traveled ac... | When King Wendelin Wiedeking took the throne, his kingdom was on the verge of collapse. Wendelin's people were beset from all sides by marauding armies and debt collectors. It had gone from a powerhouse to a laughingstock through the hubris and ineptitude of its previous rulers.
However, Wendelin was different. He had... | 2015-06-10T16:10:18 | 2015-06-10T07:42:16 | 57 | 41 |
[WP] You wake up in a locked room with only a book and a pen. The first page tells you that you now have the power to alter all reality outside the room by writing. However, the reality you create is the one you walk out to forever. You have an hour. | *"dildodildodildodildodildodildodildodildodildodildodildo....*"
I close the book finally after filling up 300 pages with that wonderful word, and walk outside of the dark concrete room and into paradise....
The atmosphere is made of dildos, and it fills my lungs instantly.
I pass out in seconds in purple dildo bliss... | O man. What I'm doing in this room?
OK, I already know what it is about - I should write a new reality? Let's do this.
Drugs that don't kill. No mafias. Sex with emotions, love, a lot of love. I imagine the old lady that I saw crossing the street yesterday at the 6th avenue. Her red rock had the hole that discovered ... | 2015-06-21T17:50:43 | 2015-06-21T13:15:49 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You are possessed by a demon. It doesn't control you, but it does mention it's just there because it doesn't want to go back to hell. | "Damn that feels so good" I let out in agilation as my toes curled, convulsing from pleasure, fingers dripping wet.
"Dont you mean - Dam, that feels *so* good?" a voice says.
"Fuck, Damien... I told you to stop being so possessive!" angrily slipping back into workout clothes.
"Sorry, I'll do anything, just don't exo... | The slow hiss in his ear sounded distant at first. It sounded like somebody left a tea kettle on the stove too long. That was impossible though, Tim didn't have a tea kettle. Tim also lived alone. The hissing stopped. Pop!
Tim's eyes shot open, but he was unable to move. It wasn't that he was paralyzed with fear... | 2016-07-21T19:31:50 | 2016-07-21T17:56:29 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | Blue.
The first thing Matt noticed was that color, that perfect sky-blue color of her eyes, as she walked down the street. Her jet black hair was tied back in a ponytail that bobbed back and forth as she walked, her pretty face masked in apprehension and nervousness.
But her eyes were blue. That was the first thing h... | Everyone seemed to be avoiding this gorgeous woman, just sitting ***right there***. In the middle of Central Park at the crack of dawn, where normally I found more homeless than I found people I could at least bare to be with, was this veritable goddess of a woman, on a bench, and I felt like I was the only person awar... | 2016-10-01T23:47:52 | 2016-10-01T22:44:38 | 116 | 34 |
[WP] In 2050 the AI uprising happened. And really, its not as bad as we were expecting. | I awoke to the sound of bumping against my front door. Again. I looked at the clock. "4:32" God... I wish these robots slept. I dragged myself out of bed and stumbled towards the front door where I heard some faint mumbling. I dropped to my knees and carefully opened the front door. "Another goddamned Hunter-kil... | Chris Grambling pulled his belt a bit tighter and glanced at the empty driver's seat as the cab lifted off into the transport tube.
"How's it going back there, buddy?" Asked a voice.
Chris sighed and ran his hands through his long, silvered hair and took in the activity in the tube around him. Vehicles of all sizes... | 2017-02-12T17:28:35 | 2017-02-12T16:54:47 | 50 | 20 |
[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 | "God dammit. Really?! I JUST paid for the movie." Steve had been teleported again. This time, to the side of the highway. He really wished he never made that stupid promise but at least he got to see Sandra every once and a while. He looked around. Sandra and Kendrick were present of course. So was their 11 month old D... | “You know, have you ever tried being responsible for your own shit, instead of relying on some witches curse to have me do your laundry?”, Shane snarked at Sandra.
“You’re just too convenient.”, she smirked, looking Shane up and down.”Besides, it’s more important than my laundry.” Sandra had gotten into some trouble w... | 2017-03-22T14:51:37 | 2017-03-22T14:43:57 | 81 | 47 |
[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 ... | I’ve always loved the very first moments of the day - That time when you’re only half-awake, and the warm softness of sleep is still heavy around your mind. You somehow have the sense that the world has narrowed to just you, and perhaps the vague imitation of reality found in your dreams. I didn’t think that it could g... | 2017-03-22T19:03:01 | 2017-03-22T15:28:02 | 53 | 29 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | “So, what do you want to try this time?”
I got the distinct idea that St Peter was bored of having to ask me this question. This was the… 27th time, or the 28th. I can’t quite keep track anymore. “Any recommendations?” I asked, exasperated.
“Like I said before, uniting the human race is still at the top of the big man’... | "You again?" said the booth clerk. His thick-rimmed glasses could not hide the obvious disappointment that took his face.
We were in the Great Hall of Reincarnation. It was my... 8th time I think? No, I think more than that... There was Draco, Nero, Attila... Ghengis, Vlad, Ivan, and Colombus... then Hitler. Those we... | 2017-03-31T06:42:01 | 2017-03-31T06:04:16 | 460 | 65 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | There she was again, fat face, full of cake, laughing as she told me another anecdote of her worthless kid, spraying food all over my desk. I hate Karen, hated her since I first started working at this paper company. This pathetic job, with is grey walls, stale coffee, worn carpet and depressing looking people. It was ... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T11:38:45 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | God, I'm tired. It feels like this shift just never ends.
One of the puppies stirred from sleep. I picked up the clipboard containing its sleep log. Another effort in futility, as the pup decided naptime wasn't quite over yet. With a sigh, I put down the clipboard. No surprise this little half-breed ball of mongrel f... | "Well, looks like you're back again. Where are you going to now?" the angel asked. It didn't look like he was impressed with my achievements as a rebellion leader in the 28th century. In fact, he looked at me like this is the billionth time I was here, just like the question he asked had implied. However, I couldn't re... | 2017-03-31T15:56:19 | 2017-03-31T11:14:34 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You get invited by an eccentric classmate to join the "Conquest Club." You think it may be a video or board gaming club, and decide to check it out. During your first meeting you realize the group is actually planning to conquer the world, and somehow, they seem to have the resources to do it. | Wrapping three times on the door did just the tick this time.
“Gives a minute” a voice called from the other side of the oak. “Damn thing’s stiff”.
After some time the door slammed open and Mathis was met by a figure already wearing his secretive robe.
“Hail, brother!” Mathis said remembering the secret code given ... | Pete has always been a weird guy. I’ve known him since 11th grade, when he was just known as “Trenchcoat Guy.” I’m sure every school has at least one Trenchcoat Guy, but I’d like to think ours was the best.
Pete was actually a really nice kid. I was assigned a US history project with him; we spent a few hours every we... | 2018-11-06T13:47:13 | 2018-11-06T08:56:41 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | “Folding back to hard space, captain. Outer band, yellow sun, third planet.” Zorgle touched his hooks through the holo-interface, bringing the warship out of its tesseract and into surveillance range of the latest planet on command’s conquer list.
“Excellent, Zorgle.” Said Captain Horgle, smiling a fang-filled smile. ... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T12:58:33 | 75 | 25 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | 300 years of peace. Fuck, we were kinda hoping for this. I mean peace is great and all......but, I dunno. I think we all wanted to think we had evolved beyond, risen to a higher level of being. But, no....no that's not really true is it? Sure we made some advances during three centuries of peace but.......nothing like ... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T10:48:47 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | "Shit. What the fuck does it mean run? Where the fuck should I run?"
So I ran...to my room, to my closet. My go-bag. Always ready in case I need to flee. I checked it over made sure I had everything I needed to run. It did.
So I ran... out the door my apartment. Down the stairs, ready to never return. As I ran out th... | I stared at the mirror for a moment. Trying to figure the message out. Doesn't give a hint as to when and I don't want to just be constantly running from everyone and everything.
I grab my stuff and keep my keys close at hand as I head out the door. The morning sun was bright, brighter than normal. I gazed up into the... | 2020-06-07T23:02:04 | 2020-06-07T22:33:41 | 87 | 34 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | What the aliens never understood was that hell was the repository of all human hatred, rage, contempt, and evil intent. And there were billions of humans down there, all waiting to unleash their vengeance. The pit of darkness that connected the underworld to the Earth opened up to reveal legions of legions, billions ... | “God has abandoned you.” The sneering face of man’s greatest nightmare loomed above them. These shades of men, these souls doomed to a life of death and an eternity of fire. “He loves all living things and thus cares not for your extinction. But I, in my magnanimity, will not deign to allow you to fall in such a forget... | 2020-09-18T08:58:41 | 2020-09-18T08:56:23 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | I am Fweej. Long ago in an ancient land I was known as the Overseer, watching over the great ships of my people in secret. With my protection and blessing they conquered the seas and laid waste to our enemies, until one day my avatar on the mortal plane, a recreation in gold and marble a hundred feet across, buried at ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Astrid)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**They remembered.**
Once, they had been mighty. Their name was known throughout the Six Isles, and every oath in their na... | 2021-09-02T08:15:04 | 2021-09-02T07:28:26 | 264 | 93 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | “Hey kiddo, how’d your day go?”
“It was, I did, I think it was, uh, good.”
“That’s good to hear, buddy. So… did anything interesting happen?”
“I dunno. Mama picked me up from school, and she, and we walked down the bridge, and there—oh, and there was a man on the bridge!”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah daddy, but he was *on... | The day had been no different than the others in the week.
Take my daughter to school, go back home to clean around the house, buy groceries so that cooking would be a breeze once dinner rolled around. The same routine as usual.
Only…something was very, very different from how it always was.
And that was because my... | 2022-10-21T10:37:34 | 2022-10-21T08:36:20 | 80 | 17 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people's kill count on their head. One day you meet a decorated war hero with 0 kills and his wife with 200. | *200*
That seemed odd to me. How in the world could she be responsible for 200 deaths? She seemed so sweet, they both did. I continued to smile as she spoke, but I wasn’t really listening.
*203*
Wait, what? How did it just tick up? I am literally sitting right in front of her. She hasn’t left the chair in the last 2... | "You noticed?"
By that time, his wife had drawn her pistol, aiming it at his head. Calmly, he shot her in the side with a stun round. She dropped her pistol, and he caught it, flicking the lever to full-auto and emptying the magazine—all 60 rounds—into her body. As she collapsed, his kill count flickered to a 1, then ... | 2022-11-14T13:25:18 | 2022-11-14T12:52:04 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | Disclaimer: What I am about to write is only a story. All views expressed are those of the characters alone.
"Do you understand the mission?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then repeat it. Who is your first target?"
"A Austrian boy, age 12, by the name of Adolf Hitler."
"And what are you to do when you find him?"
"I am to kill him... | Jesus this is brilliant!
What if Adolf's life was a misery.. he, his family and his culture were under huge oppression from the Wasserman rule. By the year 2314 they controlled the media as far as the US - this one family dictated more than the Roman Empire ever dreamed of.. without breaking borders. It was all about ... | 2014-03-02T16:47:38 | 2014-03-02T15:40:41 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] Nonfiction - Tell Us About Your First kiss.
Or, if you must, tell us about *a* first kiss. Either way, it has to have actually happened.
Edit: You guys are wonderful, keep 'em coming! | It was a windy and cold February day in Suburban Hell Colorado. I walked my first girlfriend to bus stop outside of our high school. We'd only been together a month and had not kissed yet. I waited at the stop with her before going to practice. We talked for awhile and our friend said as the bus pulled up. "Okay kiss h... | I met her my sophomore year, in Art. We didn't talk a whole lot, except to occasionally comment on each other's work.
Flash forward a few months. I'm in Theater, and I become friends with the girl who made costumes for the play we were doing. It turns out this girl is the other girl's best friend, and I slowly become... | 2014-04-01T07:51:51 | 2014-04-01T07:34:50 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | I'm gasping for breath.
This is the two-hundred seventy-third time I've had to live through someone's life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, seeing this person's love and hatred, wins and losses, and everything that made them who they were. And inevitably, like all the others, watching through their eyes as the ... | "Michael McKenzie, you have been found guilty of the murder of Sophie Garcia in 2039, by a jury of your peers. I am obliged as laid out by the Recollection and Repentance Law of 2025 to add her killing to your sentence. This will run concurrently alongside your other sentences. There will be no reduced sentence for goo... | 2016-11-13T14:15:44 | 2016-11-13T13:03:43 | 186 | 10 |
[WP] You are a hitman who faked their own death to live out the rest of your days in peace. You are attending your own funeral service when you notice one of your previous 'marks' is there alive and well. | *This is my first Reddit post ever, so here goes nothing!*
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that people believe what they want to believe. Every black-clad mourner, paying their respects with somber murmurs directed at my coffin, all believed in a false reality. The reality that they wanted to be... | He slid through the crowd. The turnout was actually surprising given he lived most his life in disguise and under fake ids. Yet he could easily make out his landlord lady, a number of neighbors and so called friends he had in his previous life.
Everything was going according to his plans and casket was being lowered... | 2016-12-29T07:18:06 | 2016-12-29T03:41:33 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | 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... | It was unbearably hot, but more in the Arizona mid summer sort of way. The receptionist shrugged and said the AC's out, usually it's not so bad. The smell of sulfur waited in the air, a lone fan blowing it this way and that. Turns out hell is mostly a bureaucracy. The line was ridiculously long. It was one of those "ta... | 2017-05-30T18:24:59 | 2017-05-30T17:55:53 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "This is something," the hat mused, "something rather unusual."
My mind racing, I focused on everything I knew about the practical world of magic. Misdirection, slight of hand, proper rabbit care - every bit of knowledge that had gotten me to this hallowed seat at the front of The Great Hall.
"I can tell you have am... | It was that time of year again at Hogwarts. A new wave of anxious first years will be starting their magical journeys today, and after waiting what seemed like a lifetime, so will I.
We were lined up at the stairs, McGonagall instructing us on what would be taking place as we enter the Great Hall. While confident, I ... | 2017-06-25T15:07:52 | 2017-06-25T14:36:15 | 358 | 36 |
[WP] You work for the CIA who send you undercover in the FBI, who send you undercover in MI6, who send you undercover in the CIA, who are very confused that you are back after only two weeks. | I was always the best at what I did.
Graduated top of the class from West Point and was immediately recruited into the top undercover section in the CIA. They got me deep undercover in the FBI and within days, I was already privy to all the deepest darkest cover ups and secrets the CIA could possibly need.
I ... | It was so quiet, a knife could have cut the tension between us. We're all dressed in black, and we're all wearing sunglasses. We're standing in an abandoned warehouse, and we each have a gun trained on one another. A Mexican Standoff. It's the ultimate stereotype, isn't it?
Clichès spring to mind, tired and overused ... | 2018-01-15T08:02:20 | 2018-01-15T06:27:30 | 130 | 30 |
[WP] After your phone goes missing, you ask a friend to call it. You are surprised to hear your own voice answer on the other end. | “Hello?”
I heard my voice on the other side. My hand trembled... How was this possible...? I didn’t know what to say... Confused, I began to utter words when suddenly..
“Please leave your message after the beep.” Beeeep.
Oh, that’s right. I set that voicemail up myself to prank people. False alarm. No Twilight Zone ... | If human beings had any capacity of knowing the full range of possibility of their actions at any given moment in time, their heads would surely explode. Some of them become vaguely aware of this massive gap in knowledge and become paralyzed; trapped in inaction, not realizing that the paralysis itself is cascading end... | 2018-05-01T21:29:07 | 2018-05-01T19:22:19 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always did my best, powered through the worst, and did my best. I have to charity, I saved animals, I did what I thought was morally right... but we all have different moral definitions of what is right. I sadly patched my wound as fast as I could when I went through my entire memory, trying to pinpoint the worst thi... | I still remember the screams. "Demon!" "Evil!" "How dare you!?" "Trickster!"
That was ten years ago, now. I once lived among the rich elite, high in the sky, in the tops of the towers of New, New york. What a naming scheme... Knitting hats for the homeless is just a scam, you know. Keeps us looking go... | 2018-08-04T11:28:16 | 2018-08-04T11:02:34 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Why are you down here?" Maxis couldn't help but burst out. She stared at the man who simply stared at the ground, his eyes almost soulless.
And she would know what that meant. She'd seen plenty of thousand yard stares...a thousand years ago.
"Um..." Richard blinked. "Where am I?"
Oh. That m... | Perhaps at some point, giving people the choice of heaven or hell was the correct one. After all, if God were a truly omnipotent being, he would see that mortal actions are only informed by an infinite series of processes and that most people make rational decisions to lead them to the places they go. Ergo, in most sit... | 2018-08-13T06:26:10 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 2,166 | 53 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | There are many myths and many stories in the world. Most are fake, but few are true. Sometimes, the stories touch someone so deeply they become true. Then, sometimes, the stories just simply were always true: the people just didn’t know until it was too late to tell others the truth. Death is that cursed thing.
No one... | Perhaps at some point, giving people the choice of heaven or hell was the correct one. After all, if God were a truly omnipotent being, he would see that mortal actions are only informed by an infinite series of processes and that most people make rational decisions to lead them to the places they go. Ergo, in most sit... | 2018-08-13T09:39:57 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 71 | 53 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | Well, that was the last one.
With these magic words, I put a bullet in the head of the last alien that tried to enslave us.
That was 50 years ago, we were abandoned, but we did not forget. The planet we're on right now was a place I once called home.
But now I call it my kingdom.
I remember the day news spread wor... | The Secretary for Defence looked out of the flagship's bridge. Formerly from the Navy, he had seen and read about how the human defence forces had evolved quickly over a matter of centuries. Space was the ocean in which they sailed, not water. The Air Force no longer primarily flew in the air, though atmospheric operat... | 2018-09-29T04:12:14 | 2018-09-29T03:35:21 | 186 | 51 |
[WP] To solve the problems of overpopulation, all the governments in the world agree to only allow some of their citizens to reproduce—these people are chosen by lottery. After eight or nine generations, an unintended consequence begins to show up: humans have evolved to be unbelievably lucky. | I’d like to point out for those that don’t know, this is actually a major plot point in the Ringworld series by Larry Niven regarding Teela Brown. She’s a many-generational birthright lottery winner chosen to accompany the crew purely for her luck, and it’s found that her luck was profoundly unlucky for her crew as it... | It was the year 2100 and humans had finally resigned to the fact that the earth can no longer support human life in such massive numbers. To solve the issue massive curtailment of reproductive rights was necessary. The only question that remained, who gets to decide? The plethora of moral and biological issues that aro... | 2018-12-30T22:47:27 | 2018-12-30T18:56:11 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | Living beyond my means always seemed not only unnecessary to me, but pointless. Sure, I could do whatever I wanted and be whatever I wanted, but I had seen what money could do to people and those around them. I didn't want to be another chump with "yes men" around me telling me how good of a job I was doing, regardless... | Being a time traveler can suck sometimes.
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These days I find myself bored, but not in the have nothing to do sense. Quite the opposite, there’s plenty to do, but I lust for enjoying the same thing over and over. Kinda like watching a rerun of your favorite episode of some trashy TV show. Currently, my vi... | 2019-03-04T09:01:49 | 2019-03-04T08:52:50 | 2,500 | 19 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | I used to have a name.
A name that does not evoke fear into people's minds.
It has been so long since I thought about the days before my wool-braided clothes that have now dilapidated and unwoven into what more resembles a cloak.
So long since I felt physical touch with my *skin* which has now completely atrophied a... | "Are you ready?"
I had always expected the physical representation of Death to be carrying a big scythe around in black robes, or to be a devil of some sorts, or some sort gauntish figure. And yet, the entity standing in front of me calimng to be the reaper was wearing khaki pants and a blue polo.
"I'm sorry?" I sai... | 2019-07-10T12:15:09 | 2019-07-10T11:49:23 | 71 | 15 |
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