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[WP] You have a special power. Whenever your life is in danger; time freezes until you've made yourself safe. One day time stops, and nothing you do seems to make it start again. | They sometimes say that your life is put on hold when you are diagnosed with cancer.
My wife cried. She sobbed as I held her in my arms and stroked her hair. She was more scared than I was. I get that. I couldn’t help but think about losing my own hair as I repeated that same comforting motion over and over. My hair ... | Everything is frozen and nothing seems to work. Normally, time stops when I'm in danger which I usually easily resolve by moving a few steps away. For example, in the jousting tournament last week, right as I charged down that lane with my steed towards an opponent, time froze for me. That gave me time to readjust myse... | 2019-09-15T09:59:21 | 2019-09-15T09:07:51 | 31 | 23 |
[WP]Your father comes from a long line of superheroes. Your mother comes from a long line of supervillains. Every year, against your parents wishes, your relatives come together to celebrate your birthday. It's your eleventh birthday and the city's evacuated as your relatives start to arrive. | I ignored the "against your parents wishes" bit, but here's what I got.
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The sirens rang out. That was par for the course. He could smell the smoke even before he could see the lazy spirals drifting upwards.
Luke laughed, eyes bright, as the first of his relatives began to arrive.
H... | I heard the tires of a car shriek as it pulled in into our driveway. It was the same Honda I have seen every year ever since I was 8. It was my dad’s parents.
Once grandpa Tony saw me playing in the garden, he rushed towards me with his arms wide open.
“If it ain’t my favorite grandson, Alex.” He said as he hugged me... | 2020-08-04T00:16:39 | 2020-08-03T23:09:40 | 98 | 53 |
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No." | "Any other symptoms?" The doctor asked. "A change in wardrobe?"
"Oh, yes! He's suddenly had an obsession with belts. Lots of them! Not just around his waist, either!" Susan said in a half-panic.
"Mhmm... can you tell me anything about his father?"
Susan looked at the ground, sheepishly. "No, not much... He left shor... | When Jason became six months old, his wispy hair grew in volume, grew spiky, and turned neon green. This alarmed Rachel -- she was a young mother who worried about the kid a bit too much. She told Henry, her spouse, that she would be taking the baby to Dr. Blumenthal to get to the bottom of the issue.
"Sudden onset sp... | 2021-05-11T07:47:55 | 2021-05-11T04:28:01 | 85 | 50 |
[WP] The princess was cursed that her first husband would die a horrible death. Inorder to avoid this horrible fate the royal family used you as a scapegoat and married you to the princess. But because of your immortality you have died over 20 times and still come back to life. | I didn't mind the deaths, not really. I had died plenty of times before in this long dreg I called a life. However I do have to admit the curse was getting really creative. I've been mauled by wolves once or twice before, but I have to say this was the first time that I was simultaneously stuck by lightning while poiso... | "Honey!" Gaia, Princess of The Kingdom Flundale, called out as she rounded the stairs of her large manor. She lingers at the stairway, hearing weak ruffling, slowly increasing in volume with the pass of each second as she peered up the stairway.
"Belas?" She beckoned as the ruffling turned into loud thumps. With the p... | 2021-06-09T13:33:44 | 2021-06-09T12:36:24 | 338 | 30 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 1,590 | 803 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 1,590 | 172 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 1,590 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 1,590 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The corridors were long and dark, the stone was cold and unyielding. Your naked feet dragged through the floor as manacles made of ethereal power kept you unable to escape, to move, to step away from the incoming fate.
You had had years to think this through, years scratching little squiggles on the mirror surface of... | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | 2021-06-24T07:22:01 | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 1,307 | 501 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 236 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 181 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Will Alice Smith please come to the stand?" I glanced up as the girl in front of me in line stepped forward. She was chained up six ways to Sunday. It was obvious why. A massacre like the one she single-handedly caused would definitely get you locked down tight. "On the charge of 37 counts of murder in the first degre... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:15:26 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 120 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “How would you like to die?”
What kind of question is that? I wouldn’t like to die at all! But still I must give an answer.
I am sentenced for crimes against magic. I tried to poison the Well of Magic. But truly magic is the root of all evil and corruption. It is just a way to cheat the laws of nature.
People with... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T07:46:07 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 68 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Alel bit his lip as the prisoner crumpled to dust, blowing away from a wind within an airtight room. Well, that was out the window. The judge simply stared with a bored look in his eye, confirming the kill before charting it down and looking to some other infinite list.
“Charles Alel, take to the stand.”
Alel grimac... | Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Whoever said that might as well have been a Prophet.
I'm nearly at the front of the queue. I've been waiting for hours, since I was arrested and interrogated by Enforcers and transported here. It's the most dead silent queue I've ever seen. The Temple ... | 2021-06-24T10:52:50 | 2021-06-24T10:29:59 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | When the smile faded from the emperor's face, the human in front of him grinned. He stood there in shackles; chains so heavy he had been forced to shuffle into the resplendent hall and there was still an arrogance about him, a careless disregard for his situation.
A few of the courtiers looked at their supreme lord; ... | >**KING'S BLOOD, GOD'S PROMISE**
With a heart so heavy, it felt like it might drop out of my chest, I took the crown into my hands.
I was seventeen, and Kotarja, the fledgling country my father had founded, was now under my control.
This wasn’t a good thing.
Father’s exact cause of death I couldn’t be sure of- he... | 2021-07-13T11:14:50 | 2021-07-13T10:05:14 | 1,222 | 235 |
[WP] You are the villain's right hand, the only one he has kept close to his side for generations. "I don't understand, why?" You shrug. "I was nice to him once. He was just a kid then, lonely and scared." | The police officer sipped his cup, presumably of cheap coffee if stereotypes were to be believed. I hummed as I tugged at the handcuffs attaching me to the interrogation table.
"Is that really necessary for a 65 year old man?" I ask tiredly. It was hard to tell the time, but I tended to be asleep between 8 and 9. Al... | The resistance was getting out of hand. Another day, another ambushed carriage, murdered patrolman, or burned tower. I had told them to tone it down, that it all was going to be over soon, but against my commands they continued to raid.
In front of us, my liege and me, lay one such resistance member. His arms and leg... | 2022-02-08T00:16:57 | 2022-02-07T21:53:56 | 44 | 22 |
[WP] When bargaining with the Fae, it's far safer to start by stating what you're willing to pay and see what you can get for it. But sometimes you just have to get one specific boon - in your case, you need a terminal illness cured. | "Edward I don't think you understand what you're asking for here." The Fae creature spoke, worry in their eyes as I shook my head.
"I understand the consequences of what I wish for and the price that it will cost."
The Fae creature paced back and forth as their wings fluttered with worry. "Edward I say this because ... | The gorgeous greens, beautiful blues and perfect palette of other colours that draped the deep woods in a bombastic tone did nothing to mask the sense of dread growing in my stomach. Strange creatures, the likes of which I hadn’t even heard of in tales slinked through the undergrowth hissing and howling at the intruder... | 2022-07-10T12:36:47 | 2022-07-10T07:55:22 | 46 | 32 |
[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" | It’s been 20 years. 20 years of loneliness and isolation. I’ve worn down the buttons on this phone to nubs. It’s a Nokia. They’re the best but even they have their limits. Each day I dial. Number after number, I take solace in the strange voices, the greetings and jokes, I’m particularly fond of the music.
I press th... | “Good GOD! Cassidy?” I cry, clutching the phone to my face for dear life. How have I not known for all this time, that Cassidy Reeve, a contact I only had saved in my phone from one group project in undergrad, was alive, and out there all along.
“Hello?” The voice answers back, seeking likewise surprised.
“This — thi... | 2022-12-21T13:22:52 | 2022-12-21T13:13:24 | 107 | 54 |
[WP] You learn your 'deaf' wife lied and has been able to hear everything.
Or husband! | Her hands are a blur, furious signing.
Our son glances uneasily between us. "She says you don't even understand why she's mad."
I don't feel as bad about making him translate now that he's older. He has the advantage of having grown up with it and it makes things a lot easier.
She turns her back and takes three dr... | "The whole time I've known you. The whole time. And you just decide to tell me you're not really deaf today?" I say in disbelief, sitting down across from my husband, Robert, in our kitchen.
"Yes." Is all he says, clearly, for the first time I've heard in his real voice. I wait for him to say more, but he just sits th... | 2015-05-05T16:27:53 | 2015-05-05T15:56:32 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | You know that feeling you get, when you think you're alone, head down, bumming along doing your own thing, when you suddenly realise someone's been there the whole time, watching you? It's a jump, a kick-start, a burst of adrenaline... your whole body saying "something's not right, be on guard". You immediately begin t... | "Neil Armstrong once said 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm not one to argue with him. However, if landing on the moon was a leap, my stepping here on Mars would be like a plane ride."
Mayers laughed. "Don't knock on what Neil Armstrong did. It was important, and is what brought us her... | 2016-08-16T09:12:32 | 2016-08-16T08:15:09 | 1,296 | 147 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | "Happy Birthday" the room full of faces cheered as a small flame was lit over a large wax 4 and 2.
Jonathan had lived this far without using any luck. Just a lifetime of hard work, pulled bootstraps, and an endless stream of disappointment. But he was saving it, saving it for something big. Or at least that's what he... | The guy with the gun sprinted down the street and turned down an alley, not sure if he could even hear the bank teller following him over the sound of his own pounding heart. His left ankle clipped something and he went sprawling, his pistol sliding just out of reach. He didn’t even see whatever he tripped over, which ... | 2016-10-19T13:16:31 | 2016-10-19T11:57:31 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 212 | 80 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 129 | 80 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | A tune only truly recognized by the oldest of us plays on the music-player in our living room. “Santa Claus is coming...” it sings to the 17 of us who are in the room. Some are drinking, others just talking, trying to hold on to the traditions of the old world. I just sit here on the couch, trying to enjoy myself. I ge... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:03:10 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | "Hey doc, you gotta come see this, the midwife is freaking out."
What's the problem Terry? Why's Sarah freaking out?
"Well doc, you see.. these charts are from St. Ford's and several emails from our friends at Marymount reported the same for the past week."
So, what? A meteor hits or something? Super volcanoes? We w... | The virtually non-existent yet sternly constant flow of beeps,buzzers,and all kinds of sounds each coming from some gadget worth more than twice Jake's salary nearly took him to sleep as he forced himself to stand "You cannot dose off; you worked so hard to get here and i wont let you blow it!" he repeated to hims... | 2017-12-25T15:06:43 | 2017-12-25T14:14:17 | 161 | 13 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | It was Percy who had the idea. The way to save the world. We reckoned that if they all shared the same deathdate, the human race was going to go extinct that week. But Percy, he told us how it could maybe be bypassed.
The only way to save the future is to create it. We know the children are going to die, that is a fa... | The virtually non-existent yet sternly constant flow of beeps,buzzers,and all kinds of sounds each coming from some gadget worth more than twice Jake's salary nearly took him to sleep as he forced himself to stand "You cannot dose off; you worked so hard to get here and i wont let you blow it!" he repeated to hims... | 2017-12-25T18:28:21 | 2017-12-25T14:14:17 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | Every country must close its borders, communications, trade, and embassies for 50 years.
The United States's president was boycotting the peace conference, against most of the country's wishes. The declining prestige of the country abroad was all too apparent, even before the Great Conflict. The war lasted 6 years... | I was only a child when the bombs fell. First, they said it was the Russians. Then, they tried to convince us that it was the vindictive actions of one "Kim Jong Un", authoritarian ruler of a small nation that used to be known as North Korea. Neither the north nor the south survived, so I guess it's just No Korea now... | 2018-01-18T01:37:17 | 2018-01-17T20:36:12 | 712 | 216 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | How. How. *How!?*
This was the question that surged through the world when the wall at last came down, the world smugly prepared to receive a humbled USA, a world triumphantly rebuilt in their absence.
Only to find that America had thrived even further.
"Well," said the suave young Texan whose visage now graced our ... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T03:23:48 | 579 | 39 |
[WP] You have the ability to gain some of a person's knowledge everytime you shake their hand.
E.g. after shaking several mechanics' hands, You learn how to repair most of your car, or by shaking your neighbor's hand, suddenly you know how to hide a body. | I waited to meet the doctor who would be doing surgery on me. I was wearing gloves, knowing that if my hand was shaken or even barely touched by another's, I would take a part of their wisdom. Their knowledge.
And they would lose that part forever.
I remembered when I first discovered this as a child. My father had ... | *OOC: Super quick cause lunch is only an hour, but I really focused on the side effects of one's mind being able to read knowledge/experiences from someone.*
At first it was everything.
Emotions.
Knowledge.
Thoughts.
It was anything and everything a person has ever thought, felt, or wanted. It was unfiltered ac... | 2018-06-06T14:04:38 | 2018-06-06T13:03:50 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | Marcus stood on the cliff face surveying the vast desolate landscape. It had made no sense! He had discovered the secret to immorality years ago! there's no way he could be in hell, he was home free!
He heard the sounds of footsteps climb the rocky trail behind him as he watched the fiery lakes burn. a sea of magma in... | ######[](#dropcap)
The man swirled into Kassidy's lab, his black cape flowing behind him. She barely gave him a glance before turning back to her computer. She still had to run the next batch of samples, and if she was even a tiny bit off with the timing, they would become useless.
But she couldn't ignore him entirel... | 2018-08-23T13:50:31 | 2018-08-23T11:34:53 | 2,093 | 728 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened 2 years ago, and when you are cornered by one of them you panically bite them, and they become a human again and ask whats going on. | John saw monsters everywhere he looked.
What were once men were now horrid, pale things. He couldn't hide from them, for once he was spotted, they stared into him and through him with lifeless little eyes. And sometimes all they did was stare, but often the strongest of their ranks gave chase.
John had been running f... | The hall was wet with the smell of blood. A ghastly stench emanated from multiple rooms, their doors open with hints of movement inside each one. Barry shuddered, trying his best to hold in his breath and not make a sound as he limped along the walls. A throbbing pain came from his left leg, where he could see bone jut... | 2018-12-17T01:38:40 | 2018-12-17T00:45:11 | 55 | 41 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a staircase and it takes you a thousand years to climb. You reach the top exhausted, and see the pearly gates. To your surprise, they have rusted over and inside is completely barren. A sign reads "Welcome to heaven. Population: 1" | *Only one person? How could that be? I thought that heaven was filled with the souls of people.*
**Ahoy! Our first guest! I humbly welcome you, to heaven.**
Um. Thanks? Hey listen, I have a few ques-
**Now we can begin processing you.**
But I have some questio-
**No time. What is your name?**
I'm not answering yo... | *Hey! You there. Welcome! Welcome to Heaven. You made it, you lived your live valiantly/humbly/ and or religiously and now you get to inherited the kingdom of heaven.*
**Um...excuse but where is everybody. Took me a thousand years to climb those steps and quite frankly I a bit disappointed...and yes, before you ask I ... | 2018-12-17T07:42:31 | 2018-12-17T07:30:17 | 95 | 51 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | Who am I?
It sounded like a simple question, but it wasn't. I knew, now, that I've lived many lives before this one. Nineteen in total. I had no memory of any of them, but the ones before me all faced this choice, and made it *together,* united for the first and last time in a single moment.
I never knew them. They ... | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ajd4jr/wp_you_meet_god_before_reincarnation_and_you/eeunyjw/)
The bar was dirty and worn down, the kind of place that had been here since before the first World War and would exist long after things got to the point where a third broke out. It was full of the f... | 2019-01-24T07:53:40 | 2019-01-24T07:23:34 | 1,941 | 360 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | “Zoizle Brigglehoff here, reporting from the death world of earth. What makes it a death world? First off the majority of its surface is coated with water a substance known as the universal solvent as it will dissolve almost anything.”
“Next off the atmosphere contains high levels of oxygen. Oxygen is one,of the most ... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-07T23:19:58 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] You just made a deal with the devil, and sold your soul. But when he reached in to take it, he says, "Okay, wise-guy, where is it?" | The music in the club pulsed as I danced. The entire club seemed, no was focused on me. I was the center of everyone’s attention. It was everything I had dreamed of. I shifted my weight from leg to leg, swaying my ass hypnotically as my arms roamed up and down my body. The tempo changed, and I ran my fingers up to the ... | I don’t write a lot and this is my first post here so don’t be too mean lol
I always thought I was a good person. I’ve tried my best not to commit any sins against my fellow mankind and when I did, I made sure to make up and never leave any burnt bridges between them. I guess you could say I always aimed to live betwe... | 2019-05-05T03:26:07 | 2019-05-05T03:22:15 | 86 | 10 |
[WP] "That's the part tales don't mention: how the hero, forever changed by his journey, can never fit into normal society again." | Beware the Hermit, warned the elder, who spoke with wary fear.
Beware the Hermit, warned the farmer, who held his children dear.
Beware the Hermit, warned the hunter, who hid amid the woods.
Beware the Hermit, warned the trader, who fled and left his goods.
Beware the Hermit, who wanders to and fro.
Beware the Her... | “Damn it Stanley” , thought Thor, “at least Frodo got a grand send-off to paradise. Tolkien really knew how to do closure. All I got was dumped in this hokey New England town after I saved the universe from the worst timeline, which came after saving the galaxy from Mr. Evil Twoshoes, coming after saving my homeplanet... | 2019-07-13T21:58:39 | 2019-07-13T19:52:59 | 313 | 21 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | The war had initially gone well for the Nihneevans. Striking at the Imperial core worlds while the principal human fleets were out on a tour of His Majesty's realm to show the colors, the aliens had managed to almost completely destroy the ability of humanity to manufacture goods. No species the Nihneevans had yet face... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T10:59:50 | 431 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Of all of the races in the Galaxy, humans have two things going for them, and one of them is arguably a weakness.
They're not the smartest, nor are they the fastest of foot, or the strongest of arm. They're not the ones that are so bloodthirsty that they charge into battle blindly, not are they ready to walk over. All... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T08:24:24 | 431 | 13 |
[WP] When you kill someone, their remaining life span is added to yours. Archaeologists have just found a cavern, apparently sealed off for thousands of years, with a single person living inside. | Screams echo through the halls and rattle the windows. My first instinct is to run but I can’t turn back now, I’m so close, I could end this nightmare here and now. I keep pushing, every step feeling heavier than the last. I can hear her, a deafening BANG comes from the end of the hall and everything falls still. Shado... | They sent me in. I did not want to go, but I had no choice. The government made use of people like me. Those who stood against the system.
I don't know how long the system has been in place, though some certainly do. Those who rule us lived when it started. A horrible system where people could take remaining life f... | 2020-05-16T06:29:22 | 2020-05-16T05:32:25 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Never the one to believe in the supernatural, you couldn’t pass up the insanely cheap deal for a haunted mansion. The last thing you expected was for it to actually be haunted. And honestly, you think you might be slowly falling in love with the ghost. | I've always considered myself a practical and reasonable fellow. A shrewd buyer, someone who doesn't just take the overpriced offer and ask for more. So when I found an entire mansion, for sale at a quarter of the price of the smallest house in the neighbourhood, I took that action. Good brickwork, solid foundation, sp... | Paper. This is a man with eyes as thick as his stomach, two blue-black bulges that protrude from an otherwise flat canvass. He wears his hair upon his lip in such a way it drags down to his ankles, ankles that have been scarred by what look like tiny stars.
*Tiny stars beget a tiny universe. Each world within revolves... | 2020-06-05T04:10:16 | 2020-06-05T03:57:32 | 905 | 13 |
[WP] Your family has a superpower: you have a lot of cousins. No, like seriously, a lot of cousins. If you ever need something, you've got a cousin for that and who can get it done within 24hrs. | There was a crack that could have been thunder as the front door exploded from the frame, clearing eight feet of distance before slamming into the far wall. Cousin Joe, six feet of muscle, focused lethality, and kinetic violence tore into the room wearing a gas mask and kevlar, dropping smoke grenades as he went. White... | My oldest living family member is my great-grandmother with an outstanding 106 years on earth. My grandfather and 5 out of the 6 of his brothers and sisters are still alive. One of his brothers died in a car crash a few months ago. We are a Christian family and my family takes go forth and multiply a little serious. ... | 2020-08-12T07:11:20 | 2020-08-12T05:57:32 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] You’re minding your own business and suddenly time just stops. The only problem is, your body is frozen in time but your mind hasn’t. After a thousand years, time resumes but you’re the only one whose mind wasn’t frozen. | At first I thought it was insane.
Thought I was insane.
But I quickly got over it.
My body was frozen in time. But my mind, my soul, was still awake.
I thought. It was all could do really. I thought about life, I thought about the beginning, I thought about why we call a chair a chair.
I thought about why we had s... | It's hard to imagine, isn't it? Being frozen in time and unable to shriek in terror, sob in despair, or curl up into a ball and try to hide the harshness of your reality. Nothing to do but observe the scene laid before you, no sensations beyond an eternal chill from a gust of wind, and nobody to keep you company beyond... | 2020-09-18T02:51:07 | 2020-09-18T02:47:11 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The party of heroes storms through the front gate of the dark lord's castle. Expecting to face an army of evil minions, they instead find themselves barging in on a family gathering. The dark lord is celebrating his 4 year old daughter's birthday. | "This is it, my fellows. After our arduous journey through the Harrowing Forest, through the Blazing Mountains, through the Withering Swamps, we're finally here! The Dark Lord's castle!", declared Glenn Dragonsbane the warrior. With him were his fellow brave travelers. Levia Kyalis the witch, Garth Rockthorn the warrio... | The castle was eerily quiet. Something wasn't right. Lord Morpheus usually had a small army garrisoned here, or so the scouts claimed. Now, all that could be heard was the sound of the wind as it blew countless dry, oak leaves in a flurry around the empty courtyard.
"I don't like this one bit" said Elgar, our resident... | 2020-12-27T04:24:59 | 2020-12-27T03:46:11 | 273 | 89 |
[WP] When the aliens conquered Earth, they exterminated the populace but left you alive for some reason. You’ve spent years in captivity, wondering why they’ve chosen to keep you alive. One day, you are approached by the high commander and the answer is revealed. | When I was a child, I loved to look up into the night sky and see the stars. I would sometimes even imagine I was an astronaut, getting to sail though the ocean of infinite freedom known as space. I had supposed since even the law of gravity was ignored in space, all other laws and rules could have been ignored as well... | *Their footsteps were quiet.*
*As quiet as the rain that fell from the sky, acid burning through skin, the taste of flesh on tongue, the rise of ash dusted on still corpses. As quiet as their smiles, amused with the promise of threat, stained red from the blood of their enemies. From the blood of us.*
*There was noth... | 2021-01-10T09:15:51 | 2021-01-10T09:14:50 | 39 | 29 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | *"Humans of Earth! Do not panic. We are here to assist you. We are the Defence Force of the Intra-Galactic Coalition of Worlds. We are allies. We are friends. We are now working closely with your militaries to address the Xyclad infestation. Proceed to evacuation assembly areas. Evacuation assembly areas are marked by ... | "Haha, I say they are like the Eostral, rattling the disintegrators within their holsters in an attempt to intimidate." The massive mammalian pounded the table as he spoke.
This generated a general rumble of agreement from the assembled denzian's of the pangalactic empire. Most of them, as the Eostral stared stoically... | 2021-02-17T08:19:23 | 2021-02-17T07:53:35 | 67 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | "Inspector, what is your findings about the paradise world in the 8.5.214 yellow star system? The one that has registered nuclear detonations on our sensors."
"Well, to start off with, accessing their global network, I can confirm that they are using weapon grade nuclear bombs. They have been detonating them since the... | "Haha, I say they are like the Eostral, rattling the disintegrators within their holsters in an attempt to intimidate." The massive mammalian pounded the table as he spoke.
This generated a general rumble of agreement from the assembled denzian's of the pangalactic empire. Most of them, as the Eostral stared stoically... | 2021-02-17T10:01:23 | 2021-02-17T07:53:35 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | It's hard to stand. They gave me a suit, something far too starched and stiff to move around comfortably in. But the suit doesn't draw the eye from the glint of shackles on my wrists. They're scared of me. Of what they think I can do to them. I fought monsters for these people, the ones that cursed me and threw things ... | Let me take a swing at you.
You were born to loving parents; maybe they didn't stay together, but they sure as hell tried.
For you.
For your sake, they tried to stick it out, run the long mile, but when it all came crumbling down they assured you that it wasn't your fault, that you were loved, that everything would ... | 2022-01-17T13:51:22 | 2022-01-17T13:31:19 | 99 | 40 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | One 9mm pistol and uncountable rounds of ammunition, those are what I used to defend myself. A water purifier, cases upon cases of canned food, and a beat up Ford pick up, those are what I used to survive. 10,000 lives, those are the people I killed. During the worst of the outbreak, I was a hero. Now that there's a cu... | Let me take a swing at you.
You were born to loving parents; maybe they didn't stay together, but they sure as hell tried.
For you.
For your sake, they tried to stick it out, run the long mile, but when it all came crumbling down they assured you that it wasn't your fault, that you were loved, that everything would ... | 2022-01-17T13:52:51 | 2022-01-17T13:31:19 | 58 | 40 |
[WP] They killed your body, and attempted to put their own minds into it, growing what remains of you to implant with one of their own, but they don't know how much of you is left. You rejected the new mind, and pretended to be one of them. | They were only rumors.
That a technology had been invented enabling minds to be transferred between bodies. That the rich and powerful used this technology to transfer their minds into younger, healthier vessels. That, for a price, a person's mind could jump from body to body, like a family changes houses. Like a herm... | **Part 1: Reforge**
*Rule* *One: ensnare the pray in a hopeless situation.*
Jack woke up in a damp cell. No windows, barely any lights left. He remembered the evening, the drink he was given, the strange smell and the guests turning like one towards him.
"Anyone?"
Every time he called out, a sharp pain shot through... | 2022-02-18T12:46:40 | 2022-02-18T12:07:22 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You're the villain that the Chosen One is meant to defeat. Once they arrive, you notice they're just a teenager who barely knows how to swing a sword. Angered by your opponents sending children to do all their dirty work, you decide to help the teen get revenge. | Amelda had just knelt down to examine the pennyroyal when a young girl leaped out from behind a tree and whacked her over the head.
"...ow?" she said.
"Um," said the girl, staring first at the thin, wobbling sword in her hand, and then at Amelda in consternation. "Die, evil witch?"
"Three things," Amelda sighed, sta... | "Hero. My name be Hero," said the ragged child with the chipped "holy" sword in her hands. "Y-yer human."
"Haven't you heard? No. I suppose not. What gave me away?"
"No horns," she said, in a thick Brecian accent. "And yer not red. You sort of be lookin' like uncle Jral. 'Cept for the sword. Uncle Jral don't be ownin... | 2022-06-09T06:42:42 | 2022-06-09T05:44:10 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] You're the 'most deadly supervillain the country has ever seen'. Thing is, your super-evil ability? You deal the same amount of harm the 'heroes' you face have caused. Your power is Karma. Nobody's picked up on that yet. | Everyone in this country calls me a villain, they think of me as a deadly foe, a King Cobra about to strike, a merciless killer prowling the streets in the dead of night! But they couldn’t be more wrong…I simply dole out karma. After all, it’s all I can do. They don’t blame heroes for accidentally using their powers, (... | You never mentioned Country... I will assume Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Where I message you from currently
I Dilnur, walk streets of nation of Kazakhstan, with meaning... My meaning? Of course to kill. But only to kill those also out to kill. So it is kill or be killed, by a Killer, who kills killers... Understand... | 2022-12-31T00:12:09 | 2022-12-30T20:32:54 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth is blind, and you are the only person born with sight in hundreds of years. You tell the world what you see, and the consequences are huge. | The king of the world tightens his grip on my arm, and I delay just a moment longer.
"I mean, how truthful?"
"Absolutely truthful," the king replies.
Royal guards with their pikes, leaned towards me as well, the throne room crowded, a strained smile on the queen's face.
"Six."
"'Six'?" The king shifts, his grip... | Growing up, I had a peculiar sense: I could see. No one believes me, that sense hadn't been seen (hardy harr) in hundreds of years, not since the world decided we didn't need it anymore.
Elaborate? Certainly! You see, we humans, around year 2034, decided that we don't need to deal with certain things, so we designed ... | 2014-12-11T17:49:56 | 2014-12-11T17:36:53 | 210 | 42 |
[WP] A high schooler is capable of easily summoning demons, but often uses them in petty ways, tonight you've been summoned to help with his history homework. | This wasn't the first time I've been commanded to do something stupid.
I usually don't care. It's not as though I could refuse either way.
I've been called by this human before. She was arrogant before, too, though not without cause; her gift is exceptional by human standards. With such a gift, I don't understand why... | A light flashed before my eyes and once again, I was in front of that sniveling brat.
Again…
“Hey, I need to write a five page paper for my world history class for tomorrow. Go.” He said, typing away at his phone.
I sighed.
“Damn it, Jimmy. Can’t you do your own work?”
“I *could* but that sounds like a lot of work... | 2015-01-22T14:00:29 | 2015-01-22T13:01:38 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | I had a wife and two kids. It was a summer day, a Wednesday -- the morning cool hadn't left yet, but I was already feeling lazy.
I hadn't planned it, but I surprised them by packing for a picnic. I even packed a box of ice-cream, and the kids were so shocked and pleased, as if it was the best thing in the world -- lik... | The device was unassumingly small.
Terry Marman thought it looked a little bit like a tiny toaster. If you squinted slightly, you could almost confuse the input ports at the top for tiny slots for bread.
"Ready?" A young, fresh faced Scientist was looking at him with an unrestrained eagerness. Terry was in no particu... | 2015-03-09T07:41:40 | 2015-03-09T07:06:56 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | I had a wife and two kids. It was a summer day, a Wednesday -- the morning cool hadn't left yet, but I was already feeling lazy.
I hadn't planned it, but I surprised them by packing for a picnic. I even packed a box of ice-cream, and the kids were so shocked and pleased, as if it was the best thing in the world -- lik... | The doctors had assured me that it would be harmless even as they were making me sign the liability forms. After all, I was a voluntary guinea pig in the trials. It wasn't as if I was forced to take part. It was just a cheque with four digits, that's all I would be walking away from. Even though I was an ex-con, I coul... | 2015-03-09T07:41:40 | 2015-03-09T06:44:49 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] You got a genie, congratulations! Enjoy your three wishes. Beware though as he'll do his best to warp your wishes to try and make you regret them. There is some good news though. He's really bad at doing that. | The genie rolled up his sleeves, "Are you ready for your second wish? I cant give you anything." He gave me an overexaggerated wink.
"Well, I wish--wait, what was that wink for?"
"Oh, nothing, don't worry about it," the genie waved his hands unconvincingly. "Just... be careful what you wish for." He winked with the o... | “Ow!” Jared’s toe would have said if he wasn’t swearing at the top of his lungs and toes could talk. When the blinding pain and rage ceased, he looked down at the saxophone case he stubbed his toe on. It was rather odd since he was in the middle of a desert filled with dunes. Then glancing side to side as if to say, ‘d... | 2015-06-01T12:52:44 | 2015-06-01T12:14:32 | 89 | 38 |
[WP] You are a dyslexomancer, with the unique class ability 'Mispel magic'.
Decided to make a prompt based on the idea from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3hd45k/you_are_a_dyslexomancer_with_the_unique_class/) in r/dnd (credit to /u/jand2013 and others)
In what sort of adventures does the dyslexoma... | "I WILL DEVOUR YOU!" Roared the hell demon in the voice of a thousand lost souls.
"You won't get the chance!" Retorted Bill, sounding braver than he was. This was by far the scariest opponent he ever faced. Well, technically, it was the *only* opponent he faced, if you don't count badgers and blackbirds.
Bill moved ... | *clang*
Wheezing, Roldrivar of Knol dropped to his knees. The strange undead monstrosity lay twitching in a heap but that was just the last vestiges of negative energy draining from the body. They were safe, for now.
"Vitae! Mortis!! Carreo!!" Rina squeaked as she worked healing spells over Malex. Another magical ba... | 2015-08-18T05:14:34 | 2015-08-18T05:11:39 | 73 | 13 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | *This is my first post please give me feedback!*
The loud hiss of compressed air flooded out from the spacecraft as a ramp extended and the metallic doors slid open; two aliens appeared followed by a gasp from the crowd.
It had been two weeks since the space ship was in range of NASA’s detection and the entire... | "It was spectacular." Grandma said, her voice raspy and quiet. She sat hunched forwards in her old rocking chair. It had belonged to her grandma and little Lo didn't understand why she would still be keeping it around.
"I was there the day they arrived to our earth. Right in the park where the first invasion ship land... | 2016-02-22T11:32:18 | 2016-02-22T10:27:34 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] You are a time-traveling salesman, delivering anything to anyone, anywhere at any time. Literally. And for the right price, of course. | "All of this? That's it?"
"All of it."
"How do you afford to run this place?"
"Well, I just travel back and forth to when money is cheap to get and then on to where it's valuable to spend. Time travel, sir."
"Right. Yeah, I guess that's what I would do. But how can this be the right price?"
The Delivery Man shrugg... | "It's a battlefield" I say. "You can't expect me to go through with this"
A plump man with a shadowed face, known to me only as "The Manager", brushes the crumbs from his half-eaten oatmeal cookie flavored foodpill from his rotund belly that sits awkwardly on his worn mahogany desk and scoffs.
"You want time off at C... | 2016-12-20T08:11:28 | 2016-12-20T08:00:43 | 69 | 14 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | I run for the door, tonight is the night. I'm afraid but I know I have no option, if I don't go now things will be dire. I go to turn the door when Adam appears from behind me. He has a bead of sweat on his head. Why does he look so guilty?
"Where are you going, Sam?" he stands close to me, his breath hot on my forehe... | I've found out a long time ago, my roommate, my childhood friend, the love of my life, is the one who keeps trying to stop me from my deeds.
I tried to kill myself once, before I had my powers, I was tired of everything; she... she's the only one who reached out to me, she saved me from myself when everyone else had f... | 2017-04-03T14:15:06 | 2017-04-03T13:54:13 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | For centuries, the two immortals stared each other down, neither moving nor willing to let the other. In the isolation of their tomb, both had long since forgotten which was the immortal and which the king. They had both wielded power unlike any in the world. For one, his words were like the incantation to a spell. Eve... | If there's one thing I hate it's clingy. Down right in your face attention with compliments that overload the mind by the dozen. Quiet is worth more than King James can pay for and a moment of peace is worth a thousand diamond rings. Ever since your majesty found out that keeping me close would make him immortal, we... | 2017-05-13T06:50:28 | 2017-05-13T06:40:18 | 1,785 | 125 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | When the first camera flash went off, I was struck dumb at the sight of the red carpet, the reporters snapping pictures, and my boyfriend for the past six months waving to the screaming fans holding out pictures and pens desperate for him to sign.
"What's going on?" I squeaked. My voice was barely audible but Marcus l... | It wasn't for some time that I began to realize something was weird... off... about her interactions when we talked about going out. This wasn't a huge problem for me as I understood her job to be very difficult. She traveled constantly. Extremely busy. Out till all hours of the night. We lived across the hall from eac... | 2017-06-14T10:28:32 | 2017-06-14T10:18:55 | 126 | 34 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | When we first met, I knew there was something special about him. His magnetic personality, infectious laughter, and his way with words are just a few of the qualities that drew me to him. I mean, don't get me wrong, he has qualities about him that are a little... iffy, to say the least. His fashion inspiration is Jimmy... | I don't like it. She knows it, I know it, we both know it. Yet I'm still here, among all these people with their armani suits and rolex watches... Is rolex even that popular among rich people? I'm not sure. I'm just guessing that's what they're wearing. Not that it matters either way, all I know is that the floor I'm s... | 2017-06-14T12:18:12 | 2017-06-14T11:21:04 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] While getting dressed for work, you realize your red shirt is missing. Through the day you notice a lot of things that should be red are either missing or different colors now. Not one of your coworkers seem to recognize the word "red." When you get home there's a red envelope waiting for you. | She had never liked red. She couldn’t really figure out what she despised about the colour. Maybe it was the way in which red reminded her of the walls in her old childhood home, or because red clothes made her skin appear even more pale than it already was. Even though she didn’t like the color, she had to wear it eve... | "Great", I said to my dog, "Now I can't find my favorite shirt too." It was a gorgues flowey red tank top with a black lace neckline.
That morning had been weird. My dog was walking around without his collar and I couldn't find it anywhere. My parents wouldn't have taken it off and they had already left for work so ... | 2017-07-09T01:55:53 | 2017-07-09T00:17:30 | 60 | 16 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | It had been two hundred years since she whispered those words in my ear.
"You aren't allowed to die, okay?" It resonated when she said it and we stayed together till old age. She died. I grew older. I fell asleep one day and woke up as a spry twenty something. The face in the mirror stared back at me. I lost her. But.... | The car won’t start.
It shouldn’t still piss me off, but GODDAMNIT!
I don’t feel like telling you how I wasted hours in traffic. Or how hard it was to get one goddamn Home Depot employee to help me find the hoses. I don’t even want to get into how much effort I put into making sure that I had sealed up every las... | 2018-01-05T14:21:15 | 2018-01-05T13:14:26 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | It had been two hundred years since she whispered those words in my ear.
"You aren't allowed to die, okay?" It resonated when she said it and we stayed together till old age. She died. I grew older. I fell asleep one day and woke up as a spry twenty something. The face in the mirror stared back at me. I lost her. But.... | I wonder what light would say if it could think.
Would it have a concept of dark? Would the light from the stars have different thoughts than the light from our lamps? Could different wavelengths have different castes?
Like moths drawn to the flame, it seemed as if the boredom within me radiated, drawing these aberr... | 2018-01-05T14:21:15 | 2018-01-05T14:08:56 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] One day while sitting in a DnD game with your buddies, one of the players summons a demon. And in a poof of flame and brimestone, a devil appears in the room with all of you--dice and character sheet already in hand. | Brimstone, sulfar, and soot filled the air as long red arms stretched through a small maelstrom that had manifested in my mom's basement. As his form finally finished coming through the portal, it vanished almost as quickly as it came.
"Who dares to summon Ni'Zaderel, Crusher of bones and demon of wrath?" his voice a... | "I mean, Zander was quirky. He always smelled of sulfur, and wore these black leather jackets like he was being cool. But he played nice, I guess, and he could do those deep, raspy voices like no one else. I mean, he never did any of those supernatural things before, and, you know, you can’t expect us to recognize t... | 2018-01-06T08:21:04 | 2018-01-06T08:03:44 | 53 | 25 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | Luck governs our lives more than most care to admit. Those born with high luck scores become world leaders, wealthy, and succeed where others fail. Those born with lower scores often lead unlucky lives and often fall victim to unfortunate accidents.
Me I was one of the luckest of all, a 100, from a young age everyone... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:05:15 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 308 | 26 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | Ever since I was little I always had an interest in learning about times and lives long past. Luckily for me, I seemed to have been gifted in that area, too.
Long story short my childhood phase of being a huge history buff turned into the lifestyle of a college history professor.
Now, I’m not here to profess my... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T11:08:56 | 848 | 375 |
[WP] A scientist has discovered the vaccine of immortality. The only side effect is, though, infertility. After the whole world got vaccinated, it turns out immortality is a hoax it is just an infertility vaccine.
got lots of comments about not knowing how vaccines work. i basically imagined a syringe with the cure of... | They came from the stars. Our leaders said they came in peace. So much of their advanced technology augmented our own. Great spires and floating cities dotted our world. The mining and water reclamation was the real purpose of their ~~visit~~ invasion. They shared certain vaccinations for diseases that had plagued us f... | For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. We've all known that every time a human dies, one is born almost instantaneously elsewhere around the world. At least, that's what all the stories told us. The graphs of human count have been a constant eight billion, six hundred fifty three million, five hundre... | 2018-09-09T08:44:13 | 2018-09-09T08:38:40 | 103 | 67 |
[WP] Twenty years ago you summoned a demon. It is super cool and has been your friend for the last two decades, using its vast powers to help you achieve all your dreams. Today though, its bill came due. It needs to return to hell with you - it has dreams too, and it needs your help to achieve them. | On this morning, I was surprised to find my demon unusually excited. Over the last two decades Balazar had, despite my best efforts, been supernaturally moody and withdrawn. I thought perhaps, after a period of adjustment, he would acclimate to the scenery of Earth. As my riches grew, I got him appointments with the be... | A slow, persistent tap echoed through the stone walls of the empty chapel, as precise as a metronome. A wooden Jesus looked down to the both of us, judging. Whether he judged me more or Dragan, I couldn't tell.
"Please have understanding," I whispered. "They say love your neighbor, and I did just that. And if that's ... | 2022-10-29T16:15:55 | 2019-01-25T02:22:07 | 4,031 | 34 |
[WP] Dragons carry away a child from a local village, and everyone writes them off as dead. A decade later, a stranger arrives, claiming to be the lost child. They even brought the dragons to prove it. | Oh the despair the villagers had when young little Mort was taken! Of all the children there were to be taken, the dragons had to choose that unwanted child. The orphan nobody knew what to do with, and often treated with a mix of pity and scorn.
The myths often spoke of a man taken by the dragons as a child, and raise... | Massive boulders hurtled through the air, shedding dirt and debris as they flew towards the village, causing the north easterly wind to shriek in protest at their passing. The town bell rung frantically, its harsh noise competing with the whistling boulders as they crashed into the modest stone houses of the village, t... | 2019-04-25T07:20:41 | 2019-04-25T06:32:53 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] You arrive in hell surprised to find it completely barren and empty. Satan comes to greet you. “Hello, Satan. Where is everybody?” He replies “Oh, you’re the first one here.” | "Whoa, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes Satan. What do you mean I'm the first one here?..." I ask while gesturing around to the barren wasteland around me. "...Was I really so bad in life that I'm the official first entrant into hell? HITLER! HOW IS HITLER NOT HERE! I MEAN, COME ON!" I shout, waving my arms in a comical way... | As I expected, I have arrived in hell. No surprise there, I wasn't a good person. I was a bounty hunter, ... for the Mob.
I never killed them. I never hurt them more than I had to. I never threatened their family and friends. Oh, I wasn't innocent. I knew full well what awaited them when I brought them in. I sh... | 2019-06-07T12:32:38 | 2019-06-07T11:17:35 | 646 | 33 |
[WP] You and your friends went camping to summon a major demon just to see what would happen. Now your Dad is standing in your glowing magic circle holding a cup of coffee and looking just as bewildered as you are. | "Dad, this is not what it looks like! I mean, I can explain!" I stammered in bewilderment.
Holy shit, my DAD was probably the last person I expected to see in the summoning circle, blinking back at us with an equally bemused expression.
"I mean ... ", I continued weakly, before slowly realizing that if whatever the h... | "Mr... Mr. Stevensson?" Bobby asked startled, standing in awe about what just happened.
My dad looks around, inspects the lines on the bottom, turns to me and asks: "Is everything prepared as i told you?"
"Of course, i double checked all the parameters: The pentagramm is drawn correctly and there was no mistake in th... | 2019-07-17T23:22:18 | 2019-07-17T21:49:30 | 110 | 27 |
[WP] You're an arctic biologist who spends 5 months at a time away from all society. At the end of a stint your bush pilot never shows. After a 3 day journey to the nearest town you make a shocking discovery. You're more than likely the last person alive. | As always the rest of the team left a week earlier. One man had to stay behind to look after the facility until a new team arrives. The rest took the samples, dirty laundry and read books with them, so Jamie's only job was to make sure the generator is going.
He didn't mind the job. The white all around you is crushin... | No one lives this far out on the ice, not even me. It's more a...summer home. A very solitary summer home, one I collapse and drag behind myself on a sled every year. Or at least I have done for the past dozen years, ever since I fully recovered from the accident.
Well, I say recovered, but to be honest there's not mu... | 2019-08-14T22:53:20 | 2019-08-14T20:06:11 | 1,179 | 862 |
[WP] You always greet your mum with a code phrase that she would complete because you used to be afraid that someone would replace her when you were little. One day you say the phrase to her and she responds with, "Hmm? What are you talking about?" | Me and my mother shared a code word. It was almost an in-joke, but one that everyone knew. It was silly and maybe a bit childish but it was a reminder to me that no matter how bad it got, she would always be there at the end of the day to greet me. Days of wanting to be a spy eventually gave way to a simple word that t... | Bracing myself, I stared straight into the eyes of my nemesis as he charged towards me on his hoverbike, weapon in hand. Timing my actions, I leapt...
... back into my seat in the bus, the truck outside the window missing my head by inches.
"Another happy landing!" Turning around, I notice my friend Jake giving a so... | 2019-09-30T14:27:12 | 2019-09-30T06:53:54 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] Due at an error, a baby was born without a guardian angel. A demon notices this and has taken it upon themself to become their guardian demon. But they seem to have some... Dark ways of helping their human stay alive. | It is common knowledge that demons devour corrupt souls. And nowhere are these souls more plentiful than in the chilly halls of a hospital. Where the dying send their final prayers above and pass on to judgement. To be saved or condemned.
On a cold November evening, a demon gave such a place a visit. The very air aro... | Despite the pride the humans have accumulated through their time on Earth, the species is fragile. Technologies and medicines could only go so far as protecting one from their materialisation onwards. Prior to that, however, the souls that were to be bound to new flesh are weak and vulnerable. That is where the angels ... | 2019-12-14T21:49:03 | 2019-12-14T21:32:54 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “What are you talking about?” I ask, looking behind to see about a thousand people staring at me like I had just been found guilty for killing all the saints.
I wish I had not looked back, though, because everyone just started shouting straight-up horrific words.
“Kill him!”
“Put him in a sack, Jesus!”
“He’s a ... | “Ah, the Antichrist.” He said.
The antichrist, indeed. I put on the same smirk and greeted my old friend warmly, “Hello, Jesus. Saul was right.” It always irked him when I used his followers’ birth names. I don’t know how I knew this but it was like I wasn’t fully in control of myself again. “It’s gotten so bad here I... | 2020-02-02T17:17:07 | 2020-02-02T17:11:21 | 253 | 84 |
[WP] As a child you promised the Elf Prince your hand in marriage in a dream. You’re now 28, working an office job and planning a wedding to your high school boyfriend. Things are going well until the Elf Prince appears. | "You can go fuck right off."
The breathtakingly handsome being before her drew back in surprise. "Sunshine, it's me. Your prince. Do you not remember me?"
"Oh, I remember you." Erin glared at him and pointed the knife at him in a vaguely threatening way, one hand still on the carrots she'd been slicing when he "poofe... | White petals fell from the moon--and beasts began to howl.
Moira blinked and her head jolted back before her sudden bout of sleep could make her face crash into her desk.
She rubbed at her eyes with one hand and shuffled about some scrolls on her desk, looking for her coffee.
"Excuse me," Said a squeaky and wavering... | 2020-03-11T12:54:02 | 2020-03-11T07:14:14 | 132 | 31 |
[WP] You are the extremely powerful child of the last two superheroes. Your only true friend is the equally powerful middle child of the villain family. You both know each other’s positions, but no one knows about your friendship. | The protests in the streets did it. But... maybe that was for the best.
We had ludicrous merch royalties to keep us going, but the faucet got turned off. Rocks at our window. Signs thrown over the fence. Only one person dared break in. He was thrown out painlessly, but the show of force redoubled the riots. The world ... | "Tom Waters, on the scene. I got to tell you, Jan, it's absolute chaos here near City Hall. Police blockades have shut down traffic for three square blocks, but they're not sure that they can evacuate before Limelight's hypnotic powers can draw innocent civilians to her.
Wait, I'm getting reports that Replicaitlyn is ... | 2020-03-14T22:35:48 | 2020-03-14T22:30:18 | 115 | 25 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is wrong with a piece of broken technology just by touching it. One day, as you’re shaking someone’s hand you see an error message. | "I knew before everyone else!" I said as we sat at the bar after work.
"Sure ya did Joe." And Bob took a sip. "Nobody knew but his old man."
"Who do you think told his old man?" There was stunned silence.
The drunken silence needed filling so on I barrelled, I think we may have drunk a barrel. "You know how I got th... | *Error 97AC57J: Diagnostic Status Unavailable*
You freeze for a moment, then pull your hand away quickly; nothing like this has ever happened with a person before. Though you attempt to act normally, Dr. Quinn notices your panic. She furrows her brow questioningly but continues with the ceremony. “Trent Phillips, winn... | 2020-10-24T08:46:18 | 2020-10-24T08:21:34 | 116 | 67 |
[WP] In 2153, humans escaped from their ruined planet with the help of an AI-controlled fleet whose goal was to find humans a safe place for them to live and put themselves in cryo-sleep. When humans woke from their sleep they found a variety of messages begging humans to stop their mechanical god | “They came from the skies, in black cocoons of twisted metal- tougher than any alloy, harder than any stone: blood warriors delivered as divine punishment for sins we have yet to commit. The battles were swift and brutal, our firepower no match for the hulking behemoths unleashing invisible pain from their sides, and o... | > Your fleet is in violation of the Galactic Speed Limit. Please orbit the next star and have your license and planetary registration ready.
“Commander!” I yelled. “Come listen to this!”
The Commander entered the control room, a bowl of popcorn in hand. "What's going on?"
“It looks like there were some inco... | 2021-06-18T21:37:09 | 2021-06-18T19:26:00 | 211 | 135 |
[WP] "So you're immortal?" "Yes." "But you wear armor." "It gets tiring pulling out everything that gets shot and stabbed into me." | "But does it hurt when you get shot?"
"Kinda, but I'm very used to it by now. People have been trying to kill me for thousands of years after all, in some ways it can almost be refreshing sometimes, like having a cold shower."
"So then is it really that big a big deal? Surely it won't take long for the armour to brea... | It’s war time. Again. It seems like every time we enter an age of peace, it ends quicker and quicker. They always come to pray to me. Asking me for help, to fight for them. They never realize that both sides are always praying. I always suggest peace of course, they never listen.
For an immortal, I’m really not that... | 2021-11-23T08:50:56 | 2021-11-23T07:13:42 | 66 | 21 |
[WP] You are an ancient, sentient cursed sword known for corrupting even the most valiant and well-intentioned of heroes. However, you cannot corrupt the most recent hero whose hands you have fallen into - not because of their purity of heart, but because of their incorruptible cynicism. | “It’s just, what’s the point?”
“I don’t understand.” Replied the sword in Jordan’s mind.
Jordan shrugged, “We’re all going to die anyway.”
“Might as well take advantage of it while you can,” suggested the sword.
Jordan shook his head, “I don’t trust power without consequence.”
“Do you... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 3: Clara Olsen v.s. The Demon Blade)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**I was no stranger to having voices in my head.** Even as a child, I'd been a natural empath; the emo... | 2022-04-27T13:19:05 | 2022-04-27T12:22:38 | 2,056 | 141 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | "Listen here you ungrateful brats.", the words echoed down the city streets, the sound carried by technology built into Demology's suit.
"You people...YOU PEOPLE would be a splat on the road if it wasn't for her! You! Yes, you, you slack-brained tub of useless molecules!" Demo pointed a mechanical finger to a particu... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Clara Olsen v.s. Public Opinion)
**Tupperman leapt out of Dani's Second-Hand Jewelry, skidding on the street, and sprinted towards his beat-up old getaway car.** I sighed. Poor kid couldn't even afford a proper getaway driver. I didn't even particularly *want* to arrest him.
... | 2022-06-16T22:37:47 | 2022-06-16T21:56:50 | 2,019 | 285 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | The orc trudged forward through the snow, tired and weak from the journey, but he did not care; after all, he didn't need to be at his peak performance for what he wished for, what he was walking towards.
Death.
A curious eye would likely notice a few things about the orc that did not fit the usual muster; he was thi... | This is not my writing, but this post from /u/wanderingbishop is such a great response to this prompt. Preemptive apologies if this is against subreddit rules.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2mjhz9/what_would_happen_if_an_intelligent_greatsword/
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I am Garg. I am strong. ... | 2022-09-03T12:28:37 | 2022-09-03T12:01:46 | 2,298 | 274 |
[WP] You are a vampire hunter. But you don't try to kill them, far from it. You're here to charge them with centuries of tax evasion. | The rusted gates of Silverthorn Hall screeched their protest at my arrival as I pushed forward through the rain. Freezing drops pelted my duster and long-brimmed hat, a holdover from collectors past.
Long overgrown vines threatened to trip me up on my way to the ancient doors. This place had been a hotspot for the mos... | "My darling, you absolutely must try these," declared the man who'd held a thousand titles, the man who had seduced legions, most of them women with no one there to help with the quickening farewell gift. He had been the noble hero, the cackling villain, and the aloof onlooker, each in turn and hypocritical turn so man... | 2022-10-01T13:06:29 | 2022-10-01T11:04:27 | 411 | 36 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | "But what if you don't have internet? I mean, it seems like the process kinda favors the richer countries."
*"It only seems that way. It comes in more forms than you know."*
"So, that's it? That's the criteria? The only criteria to become a GOD? You toss out great heroic deeds or a moralistic sense of purpose? Leader... | I looked down at my corpse, blood seeping from the gunshot wound on to the latest arms shipment report.
I looked back up at the well dressed man "so what you're saying is... You had me killed because you liked me?" That was certainly... Novel...
"Well," he said, looking sheepish "not exactly. Did anyone really like ... | 2014-07-28T09:33:03 | 2014-07-28T09:20:32 | 358 | 103 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | It started on a pretty small scale. Things we never noticed until we looked back. The odd animal abandoning their young. Small increases in crime rates. That kind of thing. Simple stuff, seeming like normal variations to the vast majority of people.
But things grew more blatant as time passed. There were reports of ne... | "Master." The captain of the guards bowed in deference. "We are honored by your presence. Although," he added, grimacing slightly. "I do wish that it had been at a better time."
"Amitābha." Responded the monk, bowing low in return. "I have heard tell of the incidents - indeed, that is why I am here."
At those w... | 2022-11-18T03:59:06 | 2015-08-22T08:14:52 | 602 | 58 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | It's not like we couldn't have guessed it was coming.
*"The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered."*
I mean, the shock had come earlier. I'm not sure what the most surprising part of it was though. That we were able to detect 'people' with no souls, that souls exist i... | "There will be no afterlife for these men. No second chances, no means to right regrets. Only the void awaits these poor...soulless."
The abbot watched the men down in the courtyard wearily, the moonlight reflecting on his glasses, a pair of small crescent moons of their own.
I cleared my throat. "Does it pay to have... | 2015-08-22T11:07:56 | 2015-08-22T09:40:34 | 109 | 44 |
[WP] "I mean, there's seven BILLION of them down there," says God as He taps His omnipotent foot impatiently, "how have they not figured it out yet?" | Tick-tock-tick-tock. God stared at the clock on the wall. Day after day he watched the clock. It was the only thing that kept him sane. After thousands of years of watching Man and seeing how little progress they have made, watching the clock was the only thing that kept him sane. The clock struck midnight and God dec... | I used to pretend my eyes were lasers. Sitting on the school bus, staring out the window cutting the trees in half as they blurred in and out of focus.
I used to pretend I could fly. Would zoom around the yard, arms spread like a bird, waiting for some profound realization to lift me above the ground.
I used to talk ... | 2016-08-26T09:22:03 | 2016-08-26T08:38:21 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | "You mean that you talked with everyone else?" asked the shocked president.
"Yes." responded the British prime minister. He was old, old enough to have long memories of the time before the war.
"But, why? Why put up the rule in the first place just to break it?"
"Well you see now old chap, you guys started the war. ... | Lying underneath the broken husks of countries, some semblance of government had remained. And together, in their wisdom, the greats had decided that - to avoid any further conflicts, which could prove even more disastrous - each country should isolate itself from its neighbours. That way, even if some internal crisis ... | 2016-10-18T15:10:28 | 2016-10-18T14:31:05 | 2,982 | 158 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | Everyone in the U.S. tuned in to watch one of the three major nationally syndicated TV news programs. Fifty years ago, the WWIII Isolation Armistice required all international travel and trade to cease, the internet to be walled, and all long distance communication to be deactivated.
The only broadcast communications... | (first one. Please give criticisms)
Silence permeated the room, the tinted windows held back the sunlight as the meeting began. For the first time in 50 years one man had left the bounteous lands of America and stepped on the floating island that was the United Nations.
"So I guess you're wondering how this all cam... | 2016-10-18T18:32:40 | 2016-10-18T18:23:35 | 252 | 62 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... | "Sir, we just got triple Aurhorization for a Level 0 Incursion. Call this number form this phone, and pray that his demands aren't too high."
Axel Gundersson III was handed the authorization codes, signed by the current President Winfrey and three of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the head of NASA. He frowned... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T02:18:07 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | Once we had been the most powerful heroic duo the world had ever seen, Lady Justice and Judgement. She always thought those names were silly, but I was the one who thought that we needed strong heroic sounding names when we first started out. In revenge, she was the one who got to pick our catch phrase, "And Justice fo... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T03:50:34 | 5,127 | 16 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | Kenn wasn't adverse to killing people. That came with the job. Sometimes, you just had to do what was necessary to survive. That's what human nature was right? People have been killing each other for centuries. Who can honestly say they're surprised when the first thing superhumans do is start killing each other? That'... | Once we had been the most powerful heroic duo the world had ever seen, Lady Justice and Judgement. She always thought those names were silly, but I was the one who thought that we needed strong heroic sounding names when we first started out. In revenge, she was the one who got to pick our catch phrase, "And Justice fo... | 2017-09-17T05:11:57 | 2017-09-17T03:50:34 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] You realize you have the ability to change the fabric of reality by editing Wikipedia pages. | "This is it Mark!"
"What do you mean Jim?"
Jim sat at his computer, furiously typing away.
"I'm finally gonna do it Mark."
"Do what?"
"You'll see."
Jim's typing speed increased and he hunched over, bringing his eyes mere centimeters from the screen. His hands moved at the speed of lightning over the keyboard and mo... | The Priest sat at his computer, taciturn and solemn. The blue light reflected off his glasses and cast an eery glow around the room, illuminating the carvings and symbols that adorned his face. It was quiet outside, and he enjoyed the peace that the night time gave him, the wonder and the mystery of the dark secrets up... | 2017-12-17T12:09:03 | 2017-12-17T09:34:50 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] you are yourself, on Christmas Day, reading this on reddit, you are told that you are loved and accepted for who you are, and to have a happy holiday season, and a great new year!
EDIT: oh my god, this post accounts for 50% of my karma, it’s also the first reddit gold I’ve ever gotten, thank you so much reddit, t... | As I finished reading the meta writing prompt I was filled with a small feeling of warmth. A relatively bad time of year for me made a little brighter by random people online and the mods that backed up their choice to share a little good during their day.
"Merry Christmas, guys. Or happy holidays. Either way, at the ... | "Is it Christmas?", I asked myself. The sludge-like snow on the ground obscures my sense of time, or even season. The last 20 or 90 months have been covered in ice, it seems. And a blizzard has been forming in my head for years. I've salted the streets in preparation for my upcoming travels into the unknown depths of m... | 2017-12-24T23:41:28 | 2017-12-24T23:09:32 | 353 | 19 |
[WP] Whenever someone reaches 18, they are given a sealed envelope with their last words inside. You just received yours and opened it, reading the words: "I always knew you were going to kill me." | *I always knew you were going to kill me.* The words rang once more in Arthur’s mind. It was a daily ritual. Someone he knew wanted him dead, and he would find out who. Was it Martha from Marketing? Or Gerald from Accounting? Arthur wasn’t entirely sure, but he would never let his guard down.
Ever since he was 18 and... | "So, what did your letter say?" a quick question was asked other side of the room. It was Jack whose birthday was recently, so everyone was bugging him; what were his last words? It was a thing that always gained gossip. Many students made up the words to seem more popular, such as *'Leave without me, else we all are g... | 2018-02-19T09:32:14 | 2018-02-19T08:51:05 | 199 | 15 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | As I sit here, scrolling through the unending feed, I can't help but wonder if what's going on around us is the same thing. Anti-aging this, prolonged life that. It seems like it's continuous.
When I was a kid, I could never understand why reading and watching the news was so important. Now, as I approach my 86th year... | *"I wish I knew what I know now, when i was younger." - Rod Stewart*
Civilization is strange. Always tinkering with things. Hell, some jackass had to give himself small-pox just to cure small pox. This was long ago of course, but it stands to reason, people just can't leave well enough alone.
So, when Harold found h... | 2018-06-04T22:20:25 | 2018-06-04T21:07:17 | 63 | 25 |
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