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[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | "Woakay... So I tried stocks, bitcoins, betting to no avail, those always end up with my untimely demise I've learned how to do everything I've wanted; landscaping, architecture, archery, marksmanship, cooking, assassination, child care, biotechnological design, nuclear energy, and the list goes on in all my thousands ... | Ali wakes up from a dream floating down the stairs of his childhood home towards his mother, and he knows: he was shot. For the first time in 37 deaths he has been shot. And for the 37th time Ali did not manage to lead a long and prosperous live. He managed to come quite far this time. 42 years old. He moved away from ... | 2021-05-30T11:16:53 | 2021-05-30T11:05:59 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | During the day, the children of the village of Tomich would whisper tales about creatures of tooth and tail, fang and claw, sucking the marrow from your bones and disappearing in a cackle.
At night, they checked under the bed hoping they had not offended a being who dwells in the shadows of the creaking mattress.
Chi... | “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true! As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!”
Florian shrank back from his speech, sitting awkwardly against the back end of his corvette. He was a big man; always trying to be larger than life, though... | 2021-10-04T07:30:03 | 2021-10-04T07:12:12 | 229 | 134 |
[WP] In a world where magic is cast using words, the most feared of all are those who can speak very clearly and quickly, you are one of the most feared, a rapper. | The cavernous battle hall rumbled beneath Tam's feat. As he waited in the tunnel leading into the stage, he flipped through his grimoire under the flickering lantern light--making sure his rhymes were right.
The announcer, draped in a rich crimson robe and with a shock of tall golden hair, stood center stage and made ... | The world had been filed down to the point of an Inquisition jail cell, all I had left was memories and music. Drifting in the space between, I could almost blot out the mattress beneath me. The sound of dripping water played a distant, metronomic beat. I tapped out the rest of the music against my chest, whispered pow... | 2021-11-13T14:10:43 | 2021-11-13T10:56:44 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Helen Ziegler got her prognosis first. The ability to shield yourself from the public eye at will so that no harm can come to you and no target can find you. Invisibility. She beamed with pride as she read off the note and the class erupted into cheers. Penelope George and Lucas Matheson were next. One by one, classmat... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T09:51:37 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 689 | 128 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | At the age of 14, all children are lined up and sent into the "Eternity Chamber" built by one of the founders and pioneers of the Power Attainment Information of the Nation (or P.A.I.N) for short. They have built this chamber to assess and safely test all powers plausible and insert the perfect job for said powers to ... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T09:53:03 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 197 | 128 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | "Willem, the sun is setting earlier now. Walk the fences, and take the scraps to the pig sty and if....."
"Yes, ma. I know. If I am set upon by goblins, drop the scrap bucket and run back home. Ma, I'm fourteen in a moon's turn. I could fight a goblin."
"Willem! We done harm them none and they don't bother us n... | Nothing ever happens in Gettrain. We're far from the capital and the major trade routes. Monsters and night stalkers never really show up here so we don’t have to call hunters around usually. Heck, we didn’t even know there was a new demon lord because the snow caused the monthly crier to miss his rounds this far west;... | 2022-05-26T16:33:26 | 2022-05-26T14:16:40 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped by a cult preparing to sacrifice you to their god. However, you are immortal, the god they worship is a close friend of yours, and the entire cult was a prank you pulled centuries ago. | Hmm... Consciousness coming back, that's nice...
Let's see, head feels clear, probably no concussion then, good. Concussions are a pain.
Eyes... Oh good, still have eyes. Last time it took forever to get the color right again. Blindfolded though, that's annoying.
Limbs... Right leg feels broken, other leg is fine. A... | "Hear us, great one! Tonight we spill blood in your name!"
The cultist were chanting in the background. I could hear low murmur coming from them. The one in red hood stood over me, with a dagger in hand.
"As is tradition, every 10 years, on first full moon! We honor you in blood!"
Being tied down to a cold stone b... | 2022-09-10T17:35:30 | 2022-09-10T13:39:01 | 843 | 154 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | The council rose. Supreme chancellor Tir'vi of the Zri had entered the room. All eyes, pairs and quads and more, were focussed on her beak when she began to speak, her raspy voice echoing through the dark hall, which seemed to be floating in space, under and above nebulae, gas clouds, dying and birthing stars. A simple... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T10:34:15 | 1,186 | 502 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Yuri, come in here, you gotta see this"
Yuri rolled his eye, shrugged his shoulders and shuffled over to the science officer. He looked as bored as a Redon could possibly look.
"This human, this one human, the male version" Fram began "Hey, Kiol, put it up on the big screen". The starscape was replaced by the image of... | The time was near for the end. As our solar system was one of the galaxy's last to fall target to the enemy, both human colonies on Mars and Earth's moon were destroyed. The hour was late and the target was set. Earth would be destroyed in less than a month, according to NASA's predictions regarding travel time a... | 2014-07-16T12:28:05 | 2014-07-16T10:50:12 | 115 | 67 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 88 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They wouldn't have even made contact with us if it weren't for the radio transmissions. Not the news bulletins or the misguided attempts at interplanetary communication, no, they just interpreted those as signs that we should be left alone. When their hundred-mile-long ark arrived in our skies no one could believe it. ... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T13:26:35 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] America is at war and has reconstituted the draft. Soldiers are separated for training based on how combat ready they are. The war seems lost, but the last and largest platoon of soldiers, made of up of the furthest obese is about to be deployed. | The war was lost. Everyone knew it. Patriotism was dead. No one believed that what we were doing was right. Everyone knew that you needed to meet the physical requirements to be sent off to battle. So the smartest among the Americans did everything that they could to become as obese as possible.
At first the governmen... | At first it was quiet in the "Fat Body Platoon" hooch. A smuggled flat screen TV, dimly lit, flickered in the corner of the large tent, displaying on repeat, the main menu of the "Futurama" DVD that had been left on, neglected for hours since the last man had fallen asleep. They told themselves they were trying to get ... | 2015-05-09T13:12:24 | 2015-05-09T11:16:37 | 97 | 12 |
[WP] Your bong is the home of a genie. You spark the bowl and he appears to grant you 3 wishes. You're both pretty high. | Addiction, not quite, but a fondness for plants
The friction, the fright, when at once on a glance
I saw a genie, transfixed like a tomb
Through the billowing smoke that stagnated the room
*Now clearly*, thought I, as I pondered in wonder
*This genie's not real and my mind's in a blunder*
"Then what," interrupted... | Bud Howington, a thirty-four-year-old slovenly-dressed stoner, sat on the cat-piss soaked sofa in his dilapidated apartment at the edge of Brooklyn. Sadly, his cat had died nearly three weeks ago, putting him into a mild depression. But he had yet to tell any of his friends of his cat's long slumber. Still each day,... | 2015-08-13T11:40:20 | 2015-08-13T11:13:01 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] A trapped demon calls a priest for excorcism because his host is too obese and can't get out of bed | There is a ward in the basement of the Vatican. In this ward is the answer to why big agricultural conglomerates worldwide receive special audience with the pope every other year.
In this basement, right now, are 37 men and women living on luxurious automated beds. These pitiful creatures spend nearly all of their... | "I'm boooooooored!" Antzl yelled quietly for probably the hundredth time that day. "When I took the job, they told me it would be a cake walk, but all I've seen since I got here is all cake and no walk. Bloody fat prick, can't even be bothered to get out of bed 'cept to piss or get more food or--wait a second now... wh... | 2015-12-22T20:24:48 | 2015-12-22T18:31:30 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | Business was, as always; slow.
Who wanted to buy pain, who would want to buy diseases?
But that's what I offer, gold for pain.
A figure walked by, wearing what could generously be called a robe; it was clearly a sack with holes but the figure did a little circle as if considering the options before walking towards m... | The villagers armed themselves when they heard she was coming. The demon. The reason half the villagers had festering wounds or illnesses they couldn't shake off. The neighbouring village didn't believe - their healer was their saviour. She wouldn't do that, they said.
But the villagers knew: she was demonkind.
"Wh... | 2016-08-13T11:58:17 | 2016-08-13T11:34:41 | 95 | 39 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | Swords, blades, axes, hammers and all manner of other famous weapons adorned the walls. Neatly hung and fastidiously dusted by the elves who served in the hall but from the dimly lit far end of the room, a whisper filled the air.
"Down here. These weapons will doom you. You need me and I need you, my friend."
I sto... | *Propriam Manu Telum*
What an odd thing to write over a doorway. I'd been travelling through Rome for a week now, and I'd been studying Latin for years before that. "To the proper hand, its weapon?" I had to go inside and find out what this little store had to sell. I turned off the street, and descended what felt lik... | 2017-02-07T14:31:39 | 2017-02-07T11:47:35 | 368 | 132 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | "So, you're an alien?" Said the Human
the one with two circles attached to it's eyes. With one peek, Aleri could tell it was a made of a silicon compund.
"Yes, Greetings Earthlings. I am what you'd call an alien. I am not from this planet. I am a Mercurian." Aleri said to the humans.
"You are from Mercury? But h... | There is this sense of being all alone, even if you are at home. The
feeling still persists and comes at you most strongly when you are all
alone taking a stroll on those chilly evenings. The twilight with its
sense of ending of a show, the crossing of a threshold, waiting for
that crescendo, that never comes. And s... | 2017-03-09T23:19:38 | 2017-03-09T22:27:52 | 132 | 27 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | The old joke goes that the one thing you can derive about the creator by observing his creation is an inordinate fondness for beetles. It was very difficult to get that out of my mind while talking to the emissary. It must weigh at least 500 kilos, but it is also strangely lovely in the way of a racehorse or cat.. The ... | There is this sense of being all alone, even if you are at home. The
feeling still persists and comes at you most strongly when you are all
alone taking a stroll on those chilly evenings. The twilight with its
sense of ending of a show, the crossing of a threshold, waiting for
that crescendo, that never comes. And s... | 2017-03-10T01:47:25 | 2017-03-09T22:27:52 | 131 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | Humanity learned many lessons in the dark days after the Nuclear Apocalypse. Our inability to understand each other led to mistrust, and that mistrust almost exterminated us all. A team of brilliant scientists developed a potential solution: the Memetic Link. Implanted in the gene code of all humans, it taps into the c... | Grok thought.
He thought about the baby he was having, he thought about the hedges he was trimming and the lawns she was mowing. he thought about the car he was driving and the road she was paving.
And he thought about names.
Such a small thing, yet it determined so much. Grok remembered his first life, two hundred ... | 2017-04-07T11:40:12 | 2017-04-07T10:32:07 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | Alex takes her spot next to the man wearing 1000 year old bifocals, and then grabs the pen atop the booklet with her name on it. The cover page feels similar to cardstock; she can feel the indent of each letter from the back. As prompted before she walked in, Alex opens the booklet and prints her name on the solitary l... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T06:30:10 | 116 | 80 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | "It's such a nice day for a drive, don't you think so honey?" He talked to his wife, eyes on the never ending country road in front of them. She was quiet. Taking a long side glance, he saw her eyes closed, soundly asleep in the passenger seat.
"Have I ever told you how beautiful you look when you sleep? You look so g... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T06:38:29 | 116 | 47 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | *This wasn't fair.*
In the webways of the world, Earth was always a feeding ground for the forces of the higher realms. The humans always had thousand different names for their kind in a thousand different tongues. Dragons, demons, giants, cyclopes, the fair folk, Oni, Gods. The Ascendant come in a thousand different ... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T07:49:07 | 243 | 11 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | *This wasn't fair.*
In the webways of the world, Earth was always a feeding ground for the forces of the higher realms. The humans always had thousand different names for their kind in a thousand different tongues. Dragons, demons, giants, cyclopes, the fair folk, Oni, Gods. The Ascendant come in a thousand different ... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T13:36:35 | 243 | 10 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | There we were, math class again. Typical Friday afternoon waiting for the weekend. Everyone around me focused on the board while I sing to myself, waiting for someone else to answer the question as I chant 42 to myself.
Today's song just happens to be about a beautiful girl in class. My Sweet Caroline in fact. I feel ... | *What the fuck?* It had to have been a coincidence. I looked over at her to gauge a reaction
*There’s no way that actually worked. She must’ve just happened to get a static shock or something while I- AHHHHHHHHHHH!*
She jumped again, then turned towards me with a highly panicked look.
*No fucking way. YOU’RE READING... | 2017-11-13T19:47:06 | 2017-11-13T18:23:14 | 236 | 80 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | “That’s just great, do you have any idea which way to go?!” Satan complained.
Buddha replied in serene monotone “You must simply learn to enjoy the journey.”
“Besides,” said Jesus while he adjusted the rear view mirror locking eyes with Satan over his onyx aviator sunglasses. “I am the way.” | Five words. Five words that would change the world.
The Old Gods had returned.
At first the world did not notice that anything had changed. They assumed that global warming was a result of man-made carbon emissions and pollution. They thought that the increase in violence and strife was a result of burgeoning religi... | 2017-11-15T14:43:36 | 2017-11-15T12:02:08 | 92 | 56 |
[WP] For decades there's been a huge clock hovering over Earth, counting down. We've gotten used to it, until it reaches zero, Africa vanishes and the clock resets. | *Meanwhile, in The Land Where All The Writing Prompts Are Simultaneously True:*
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"So," I said, "they found out what that giant hovering clock is all about."
"Hmm?" Tom looked up from his soup. "What giant hovering clock?"
I took a seat at the table. "You know, the huge clock, hovering over the earth for deca... | The underground bunker was filled with the leaders of the world. The distraught men and women slumped over in their seats, trying to figure out just what had transpired.
A well-dressed man walked in and addressed the room, “We have confirmation that the clock has reset."
“OK, I’ll say it. Nobody else wants to say it ... | 2017-12-04T07:22:05 | 2017-12-04T06:40:06 | 108 | 29 |
[WP] Your parents used to say "As long as you are remembered, you will never die." The good news is you were happy to remember that when you changed the course of human history and everyone knows your name. The bad news is that was about 300 years ago and you'd really quite like to die now. | *[I'm sat at a bar, and there's 4 empty whisky glasses. I'm nursing another..]*
*[A man sits down beside me]*
**Man:** Tough day, ay brother?
**Me:** Tough fucking life, to be honest.
*[Sips from whisky glass]*
**Man:** It can't be that bad.
**Me:** It's my Birthday..
**Man:** Congratulations! Surely, that's a... | My left kidney was the first to go. There was no pain, which was a blessing, I guess. My neighbour Tom had a heart attack a decade ago and he's still suffering from that chest pain after all these years. Oh no, look at me remembering about Tom again. I hope he get to die one day.
You see the flaw in the system, too, d... | 2018-02-08T07:16:25 | 2018-02-08T05:44:57 | 299 | 81 |
[WP] You're a traveling warrior, and you have been in love with your partner for many years. One day a sorceror bewitches her, and as a side effect she becomes infatuated with you. Knowing it isn't really "real" love she feels, you broodingly and unwillingly set out to find her a cure. | **pt.1**
**(****pt.2** **+** **pt.3** **are** **in the comments below.** **it's a** **\~****15 minute read total, enjoy:****)**
The carriage rattled down the cobbled street. Gas lamps hanging in window shops provided the only light to see what little there was to be seen. But none of the outside world mattered to Joh... | I woke early to find her arm around my neck. When I tried to pull away, her arm tightened a bit, though her soft snores continued. I sighed and settled in to my bedroll, waiting for her to relax again before gently prying her arm away and rolling out of bed. Hopefully, it’d be another few minutes before she woke.
I ha... | 2018-07-06T22:03:38 | 2018-07-06T21:40:44 | 186 | 79 |
[WP] The town council died in a freak plane accident. An audit by the interim council revealed 20% of the town’s power is siphoned off to a structure with priority over even hospitals. The send you to investigate the building in the middle of nowhere. | The sound of rushing air penetrates through my headset as we begin the operation. I look over to the other squads, then check my parachute. So far, so good. A voice fills the headset.
“Cutting off power in 10 seconds.”
A few seconds later, we hear a distant explosion. Below us, there is faint shimmer of light, bare... | It’s just an old crumbling house, alone on a shitty gravel road. The sun melts into the horizon behind it, darkening the home’s front, making it look like the last rotten tooth jutting out of a diseased gum. I’ve seen plenty of places just like this before. Places once loved but abandoned, left to fall apart. Maybe dru... | 2020-09-26T05:39:00 | 2020-09-26T04:36:43 | 223 | 82 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | ‘You don’t want to do this, kid.’ I leaned over and gently whispered, trying to avoid what was to come.
Bright-eyed, full of confidence, pepped up by the same propaganda that had sent hundreds like him to a similar fate, I’d seen his type come and go so many times before.
‘Ha! I eat heroes like you for breakfast’. ... | You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar that works as a neutral zone for heroes and villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you.
An alarm light on the bartop began to flash. Before it flashed a second time Demio pressed the green button. A spring release fired a beer... | 2020-10-09T21:44:58 | 2020-10-09T20:56:29 | 656 | 176 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | “It is time my son.”
My father kneeled before me, holding out a buckhorn knife that was older than the nation. It was scuffed and stained with the blood of countless prey.
“My great great great grandfather made this knife himself to hunt for his first job. Ever since, it has been gifted to the eldest child when they ... | **DISCLAIMER: This does not follow the "You have just turned of age and want your first job" part of the prompt. Sadly, I was too far along in my story by the time I remembered it to notice. Remove it if you need to.**
When I get home from my beat and sit down in front of the TV, "BREAKING NEWS: Economy Post PAX-10 Cr... | 2020-11-15T13:06:24 | 2020-11-15T12:03:40 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] A voracious monster stalks the city at night, claiming one victim a month. The way it feeds is especially horrific. It only devours the most vicious criminals. In a city plagued with crime and violence, the inhabitants struggle to determine if the monster is a benefit or terror. | Brian sat in the cafe, watching the rain pour down as if trying to wash away the blood and sins littered around the city streets. He knew it wouldn’t work though. The corruption and violence had seeped into the city’s very foundation. The only thing to do was to burn it all down and rebuild. And hope. Hope that what wa... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 3, Part 6: Awe v.s. The Criminal Underworld)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The city of Sacrament had seen better days.** Its Mayor had been sacked on trumped-up charges; super... | 2021-04-16T22:38:33 | 2021-04-16T22:28:28 | 102 | 39 |
[WP] You find yourself in your crashed plane, shaken awake by a woman practically dragging you out of the cockpit. She notices that you’re awake and says, “Welcome to the Island. I’m Amelia Earhart, let’s move. They probably saw your plane go down.” | Truth is, I didn't expect to survive the crash.
I was low on fuel, cruising to a fill-up station on a nearby asteroid belt, the last fuel-stop before you're on the long, cold flight to Andromeda. I'm a scrap-peddler, so I was trying to get by on about a balloon's worth of combusted oxygen, just to survive until my nex... | Shaken and still in daze, Edward went in and out of consciousness. Weak and unable to comprehend what just happened, he felt his body was being dragged out from the burning metal carcass that was the remains of the passenger plane he was in.
"Welcome to The Island. I am Amelia Earhart. Let's go!", a cheery female voi... | 2021-05-03T23:49:00 | 2021-05-03T23:45:08 | 213 | 16 |
[WP] You've loved an immortal for a long time, and they loved you back knowing your time together would be short. Doesn't make learning about the dozens of past lovers they've had, and the fact that their descendants are still alive any less upsetting, though. | The tablet smashed against the wall, glass splintering.
"**How many**?!"
The banshee shriek came from a petite woman as she stalked her prey, inching closer to the weary immortal like a tiger about to pounce on a rabbit.
"Does it matter?" He took a half step back, hands raised in surrender.
But it did matter. To... | ##My Sunrise
I wake up feeling empty and look over at my husband's body. I watch his chest rise and fall, and I see him stir and turn on his side. His back contains a multitude of scars that are older than this building. The flesh that holds the scar does not look older than forty.
Sunlight peaks in through the curt... | 2021-05-19T02:23:38 | 2021-05-18T18:32:49 | 64 | 47 |
[WP] You've loved an immortal for a long time, and they loved you back knowing your time together would be short. Doesn't make learning about the dozens of past lovers they've had, and the fact that their descendants are still alive any less upsetting, though. | The tablet smashed against the wall, glass splintering.
"**How many**?!"
The banshee shriek came from a petite woman as she stalked her prey, inching closer to the weary immortal like a tiger about to pounce on a rabbit.
"Does it matter?" He took a half step back, hands raised in surrender.
But it did matter. To... | It's a touchy subject in any relationship. It can fray even the strongest bond. Sure, there are secure fellas who can listen to their their girlfriends list ex-lovers and be completely unfazed. But there are also many who cannot help but crumble in the face of their girl's romantic past.
At first, they ask for convers... | 2021-05-19T02:23:38 | 2021-05-18T17:58:48 | 64 | 22 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | An Ounce of Prevention
“They’re here, Sir”. Cybersquire knelt before me in the showy manner he always used to ham it up for the heroes. I sat on my throne as usual, but my normal cool confidence did little to ease the ice in my veins at his words.
“All three of them?” I asked, hoping against hope that perhaps only o... | The ability to shapeshift is a much more intuitive power than what most villains would think. Merely changing shape to escape a hero such as Cassidy Crush or Hiro the Swordsman is a waste. Combat is good, yes. But none truly think to use shapeshifting to change how one appears.
This city had but one villain, whilst th... | 2021-05-20T08:01:46 | 2021-05-20T07:30:18 | 225 | 151 |
[WP] Your a supervillain with a soft spot for kids. Some heroes try to use this against you one day. That was their first and last mistake | I mean, it could've been a normal showdown. Plenty of property damage, but somehow no one gets seriously hurt except the combatants. Until Titania yelled at me, "Catch this, kid lover!" and threw a chunk of skyscraper that had to weigh at least half a ton at Central Park.
The place was full of kids. Most of them looke... | "I had wondered how you sleep after what you did." I said, my words dripping with bitterness. "Turns out, like a baby."
Geargrafter - or rather Paul Morton, now that he was in his civilian identity - jolted up in his bed, his face and t-shirt wet with the water I had used to wake him. He focused me for a moment, recog... | 2021-06-20T16:25:04 | 2021-06-20T10:54:30 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | I look up from the gaming PC I've built. This incarnation has been one of stagnation for the most part. I mean, I was born during the greatest tech boom and economic decline. Honestly, I was tired and FINALLY there was something entertaining and worth while to just vegetate on.
"Don't know what the hell I'm supposed ... | And so, once more, I found myself in the infinite black void that I had grown so accustomed to over the millennia. It pierced my eyes, deafened my ears, removed my tongue, dissolved my nose, and melted away my last sense of touch until I had nothing left. I would have sighed if I had any form anymore.
“You’re no... | 2022-02-09T18:44:07 | 2022-02-09T18:19:18 | 364 | 239 |
[WP] "You need to find God," says the man at the door. "No I'm good, thank you," you say, starting to close the door. "Please!" says the man urgently. "God is missing, please find him!" | "You need to find God!" the man in the dark suit exclaimed, as soon as I opened the door. I wasn't in the mood.
"No, I'm good, thank you." I said, and began to close the door again.
"Please!" he cried, grabbing the edge of the door. "G-God is missing! Please, help me f-find him!"
I raised my eyebrows. "He's *missing... | Fred stuck the screwdriver back into the mess he'd made of his ceiling fan. For the life of him, he couldn't figure out why he couldn't solve this problem. He fixed cars for a living! Why should this piece of junk be giving him so much trouble? He pulled a couple of red wires from under a screw.
*RAP RAP RAP*. He was... | 2022-04-27T18:33:25 | 2022-04-27T17:21:45 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] The dragon is confused. If the people from the nearby kingdom didn't want him to eat them, then why do they keep on sending him appetizers pre-wrapped in shiny foil and wielding a metal toothpick? | “Another morsel already?”
Vapour stretched his claws and plucked free the spear from the previous visitor. The charred bones clattered through the echoing chamber as he picked his fangs and pondered.
“You’ve harmed our kingdom enough, dragon!” the shining knight yelled, hefting a sword with what looked like no small ... | "There is what they want, and what they think they want," said the hermit up in the mountain.
Kleon, a beast of immense strength and size, beyond any definition of old, had its head right next to the hermit. Despite Kleon's age, the little things still surprised it. It knew it could happen, had a fatalistic outlook ab... | 2022-12-03T09:09:32 | 2022-12-03T08:29:12 | 183 | 59 |
[WP] Alone on an alien starship, the only human envoy is asked to attend a therapy session with their ships counselor. The aliens do not have much in common with humans, psychologically.
As inspired by many sci-fi novels/shows/etc that have aliens behaving in human ways. | Celia rolled over on the metal floor, shivering. Even in her always-on suit with aerogel insulation and really elaborate heat-management systems, she was still cold. She figured she'd get used to it in another few weeks, but for now, she had to deal with the Ihu starship's environment. Ihu themselves had a biology base... | "This was supposed to be my day off." Riley muttered as she stood outside the large metal door of the counselor's office. It had only been two weeks ago that she boarded the Xeltan exploration vessel, *Xelt 9 Qwira*, as it's new Particle Thruster Engineer. It was a rather important occasion because it marked the first ... | 2014-06-18T01:07:27 | 2014-06-18T00:17:21 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | I smiled as he walked in the room. It was a great smile, my winner smile. I'd practiced it at home one weekend, it had been a smile that brokered some fantastic deals and made me a hell of a lot of money.
I was the fifth wealthiest human being on the planet when I died. Oh I knew where I was alright, I knew the drill;... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T11:59:58 | 383 | 16 |
[WP] During a flight you accidentally damage a window and find out that they aren't actually windows, but monitors. | Stewardess what is this? where is the window!
Oh that sir? we replaced all windows with LCD monitors years ago to increase fuel efficiently by streamlining the hull, to reduce metal fatigue and thereby extend the service life and over all safety of our aircraft once the technology became light and energy efficient eno... | Beads of sweat formed on his forehead. He always had a problem with perspiration, it reminded him of Maths exams. Even in the climate controlled plane, he couldn't help but sweat. The shock of what he had just done made him feel like he was sitting in an oven. He had done it dozens of times, he was bored and was trying... | 2015-02-05T08:48:23 | 2015-02-05T05:37:27 | 230 | 101 |
[WP] An ancient evil awakens. A modern evil doesn't like competition. | Sytheasjajsajassjsa, god whose name can't be written the same twice, rose from the depths of his tomb.
At long last, after 1700 years, he could reign terror on the foolish mortals once again.
You see, to defeat Sytheasjsdajdsjdjajaj, you would have to write his name exactly the same twice on a scroll. Only one had do... | *This probably isn't exactly what you had in mind, but here it is anyway!*
"I heard Lilith was back."
I checked my compact mirror, swiping away the black fleck of mascara that had landed on my perfectly sculpted cheek.
I sighed, clicking my mirror shut and took a drink of my martini.
"So? Who cares? It's not l... | 2015-08-23T09:45:53 | 2015-08-23T09:21:09 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] A person awakes from a coma to find the world has become a Utopia. They've read enough literature to believe there must be something wrong with it. There isn't. | "My God!", I cried out as I woke with a start,
"The buildings are shiny, the walls decked with art,
The people I see are awash in their bliss -
So tell me, be honest, is something amiss?"
"Is the huge starving underclass hidden from view,
While the luxury here benefits just a few?
Did you all build the paradise ... | "So... there's no underhanded tactics at play here?" I asked, amazed at what I'd just heard.
The doctor stared at me quizzically, bemused by my odd question. "Er... no Mr. Gordon. It's just as I said - the world is finally at peace. There are no wars, disputes, petty squabbles... nothing of the sort."
My face held a... | 2017-03-17T13:46:03 | 2017-03-17T11:37:45 | 197 | 42 |
[WP] During a regular check-up, your doctor starts screaming after hearing your heart beat through their stethoscope. You know exactly why the doctor is screaming. | I pretend to knock with a mock melody and peek my head into the doctor’s office. He looks up, giggling and waves me in impatiently. I feign a dramatic limp and stumble through the door and his laughter becomes more pronounced.
“Doc! You’ve gotta help me, I think it’s getting worse!” I pant, clutching at my chest a... | "Well trust me. You have to try the steak there. Best in the city." said the doctor enthusiastically as he types the exam findings. "Really delicious."
"Well you're the doctor." I reply warmly. "Have to do what you say after all." We share a laugh as he continues to type. I breathe a sigh of relief. When I came to the... | 2017-07-02T10:52:16 | 2017-07-02T10:28:45 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | Professor Alien began to laugh. "Oh, no. Hahahahaha. Nooooo. Where did you get that idea?" Student Alien stuttered "But...but..but I worked really hard on my term paper idea. Look at the artifacts! This rapid-fire projectile weapon is inscribed 'Made America Great Again'!" Professor Alien began to sigh. "The humans are... | "Then they are a delusional war species," Ishok sighed. He stood from his chair and brushed his hands across his face. Looking out over the holodeck at the footage the spies had collected, he turned to face his brother "but a war species none the less."
"I'm telling you brother, there's something different about these... | 2018-03-17T05:56:09 | 2018-03-17T05:22:05 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] There is only one rule in your village, and it changes daily. The punishment for anyone breaking the Rule of the Day is death. | In a small town, past the river Severs, in the shadows of the mountain Humberns, there lived Jeff and on this particular day Jeff had decided he had reached his limit.
In the morning, and only after the church bell had rung, the town would congregate outside the Mayor’s office for the daily decree. Each day, without ... | Every morning they gathered.
"Present your journals." Merris, Town Leader, called out to the assembled group. Everyone shuffled forward to the Rule Keeper, a small woman with greying hair that sat in front of an enormous scroll. She looked at each journal and the behaviors described within before transferring the info... | 2018-05-19T12:35:46 | 2018-05-19T11:07:06 | 127 | 86 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | I awaken well rested and ready for the day, a solid nights sleep. I leave my room to see a pile of letters just inside the door. I look to the bench to see last nights dinner covered in mould. I pull up my phone. Every app has notifications. I check the date. It’s the 27th.
I sigh “That’s what I get for taking 10 extr... | "Get away from him or I'll make you."
Michael and Scott glanced up from the kid sprawled helplessly on the grey floor, and saw me.
They laughed.
I had already guessed that the threat wouldn't be effective. A short kid in raggedy clothes and spiky hair didn't exactly set off a 'powerful' image, after all. But looks.... | 2018-08-19T05:57:43 | 2018-08-19T04:28:22 | 74 | 55 |
[WP] You've just died. As your eyes adjust to the light you hear, "Thank you for your participation. In an effort to serve you better, we'd like to ask you a few questions." | **Question one. On a scale of 1 to 10 please rate your day to day life experience with 1 being miserable and 10 being perfection.**
10
**Question 2. On a scale from 1 to 10 please rate your life accommodations or living quarters**
10
**Question three. Please rate your death experience. 1 being horrific, 10 be... | “Alright... let’s see here...”
It was really bright. Uncomfortably so. The room was purely white, and it seemed to go on forever, no walls in sight.
In front of me was standing a woman who looked to be in her early twenties. She was wearing a black suit, and she held a clipboard and a pen. Her hair was in a messy bu... | 2018-10-17T19:38:32 | 2018-10-17T18:22:30 | 414 | 99 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | Anger. It's always been a problem of mine. I knew from an early age when I hurt a school kid for no reason than his glasses made him look funny.
In the military i was kicked out before graduating boot, and that was okay with me. I hated rules. My dad had left me more money than i could ever spend, and it made me even... | "I'll take the itallian bmt," you say, wanting to try something new. "Okay sir here you go, anything else", "Nope thats it". "Okay, your total is $6.25" "Hey asshole, you saved 5 billion, want a medal?" a voice in your head says sarcastically. You have been hearing the voice in your head as of late, ever since you got ... | 2018-11-17T18:54:59 | 2018-11-17T17:29:21 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | We called it humanity's worst disaster. History named it The Great Blinding. What that doesn't entail is that it was our own damn fault. The world was wrought into chaos after several months of warnings and we simply elected to ignore them, feigning assurance - "Oh that'll go away once we start on it."
"That's no pro... | \[tw, light self mutilation\]
It didn't happen all at once.
The nations all lost their sight gradually. It was a slow seeded plague on humanity; anyone from important leaders to the homeless lost their eyesight suddenly, and what doctors tended to them could not fathom what had happened. Maybe it was mass hysteria... | 2019-08-26T09:28:09 | 2019-08-26T09:04:01 | 285 | 41 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | I think of an old movie, a very old movie. I remember not the title, theme, characters, reality or fiction. I don't even remember what type of media the film came out on or its director or key actors. Just a single line.
"A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts"
I never felt a particularly strong connection with hum... | It happened so long ago that the memory has almost slipped from my mind. I remember bits and pieces: the blinding white of an operating room, a technician with an over-loud wristwatch, the writhing pain each time I tried to suck in a breath. But in my mind’s eye, I can focus on a silvery liquid in an immense syringe. I... | 2020-10-25T12:09:22 | 2020-10-25T11:48:55 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | “Thank you,” I said stepping up to the old man. “Thank you so much.”
“Now don’t worry about it. We’re glad to have you. More hands the better.”
“I’ve been walking for days, hoping, and praying *they* wouldn’t find me. Day and night I’ve walked and we haven’t said a word. Haven’t lit a fire. We’ve walked through snow ... | The rest of my team looked at me with horror. The man who let us in, I took him to be there lighthouse keeper from his yellow coat, increased his breathing by 85% and his heart rate jumped to 176 beats per minute. Is human behavior, as the was clearly nowhere to run.
The rest of the team, James, Sue, and Bonnie quickl... | 2021-03-02T06:59:44 | 2021-03-02T06:22:31 | 3,282 | 193 |
[WP] You find an abandoned altar in the middle of a forest. You’ve read about them in class. Abandoned altars would mean someone – or a group – had abandoned their deity. Saddened by the betrayal of the worshipper to his worshipped, you clean the altar. You never thought the forgotten god bless you. | It was a senseless pursuit to try and recover all things abandoned. But when one was right in front of you, how could anyone with a beating heart resist?
Amidst the plentiful trees and shoots that sprung from the forest floor, a stone altar sat, as high as my waist and as long as my body, but nearly every inch of its ... | Rust and nature had caused the gears of this once beautiful clock to grind to a halt. It was the last remnant of a temple to the old Goddess of Time and Machines. She had all but died when the Nature Goddess and her son the Plague God had created the Bisclavret Fever that had run rampant through the civilized lands. ... | 2021-05-01T23:43:50 | 2021-05-01T21:47:19 | 125 | 93 |
[WP] You are wizard or witch summoning your first familiar. Your friends are summoning dragons and Chimeras you summon a white raven. Your friends laugh but the teachers look horrified. | The white raven stood on the ground in front of me, cawing and flexing it's wings. The other students laughted and pointed, catching the attention of the teachers who let out shocked gasps. The laughter was cut short as one of the students screamed.
It was Jezzi, a friend. Her familiar, a majestic dragon, was being el... | Zargossa swallowed her cough, and jumped in her chair. Her eyes glanced left and right. *Nobody saw that, good.*
"You're really excited aren't you?" James said from behind Zargossa, loud enough for the class to hear.
She swallowed, and turned around in her chair to meet his sly smile. *Why is this boy so obsessed wit... | 2021-07-06T17:38:32 | 2021-07-06T12:59:33 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] Most species glorify war . We don’t. The reasons soon become apparent to the rest of the galaxy, when we got invaded . | It's been almost 5,000 years. We made it past the stars, past what we thought were the borders, and we found we were not alone. Once we knew that suddenly we weren't a set of countries fighting for resources, we were one race trying to function in a vast universe. The U.I.F. or United Intergalactic Federation have ... | Humanity was already tired of war.
They waged it even before forming a civilization. Over the millennia they changed only means of war. From stick and stones, to spears and bows, then swords and crossbows, to tanks and gun, and finally to space armadas capable of ripping planets and stars apart on a simple command.Aft... | 2021-08-13T20:07:23 | 2021-08-13T17:47:30 | 139 | 81 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | The clerical assistant stamped the paperwork and handed the receipt back to Mister Henry.
"Thanks for coming in and filling this out. Mister Edwards has been informed via email-" Before the assistant could finish, the door of the small claims office was kicked in and a man soaked in blood appeared in the threshold.
"... | I released a deep sigh as I lifted the still smoking barrel of my handgun to my lips, giving it a brief kiss. It was, by far, the most sound investment I'd ever made. After placing it on the table and stepping over the would-be assassin's body I approached the closet nearest my door to don my jacket: the black leather,... | 2014-03-17T08:23:17 | 2014-03-17T06:28:23 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You are the captain of the first starship to use an instantaneous drive. Each and every planet to have harbored intelligent civilization was wiped by obvious war. Only a single massive statue of a familiar but unexpected figure remains standing on every world you visit. | "Oh my god..." Ensign Rodriguez whispered.
It was the same on every world we'd seen so far. Cities were reduced to impressive mounds of rubble, slowly being reclaimed by local vegetation. Most of these planets were pocked with craters from weapons unknown. All but a few had high carbon dioxide levels in their atmosph... | "Another one," the young science officer sighed.
Dan sighed back in reply. How was he going to report this back to Houston? Back to the President? He'd be the laughingstock of the entire planet. He wouldn't just be accused of doctoring the evidence, people would *assume* it. He might even be tried for treason.
*They ... | 2015-02-11T12:18:19 | 2015-02-11T12:14:08 | 50 | 26 |
[WP] A kid doodling in a math class accidentally creates the world's first functional magic circle in centuries.
Magic being real in the past is your choice really. | Everyone stood and stared at the minotaur in the centre of the room, holding a towel at it's waist.
"Well this is awkward" said the minotaur
"Uhm…ah…i…uh…ah" the teacher tried to form words, failing each time.
"Oh, sorry" said the minotaur, wrapping the towel all the way around "So…uh, math, that's... that's good. I... | The clock reads ten till two, and David is bored. He looks at the front of the room where the teacher is marking up the board with numbers David doesn't understand. In the center is a circle and all kinds of symbols David has seen a hundred times yet he still doesn't understand. He looks back at his sheet of paper, alm... | 2015-03-13T15:02:29 | 2015-03-13T15:00:21 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] A man is going through the attic of his recently deceased grandfather when he stumbles upon what looks to be an old journal with his grandfather's name on the inside cover. The first entry is dated "10/07/2392". | The remains of what my Grandfather's called his babies, was an eclectic mix of treasures and babbles from his past, a WWI trinket here, a novelty toy there.
"This old man has lived a long and "interesting" life."
I rummage through everything to find anything valuable but really the only things that are here are the m... | **October 7th, 2392**
Today is the day. I have been chosen specifically for this mission out of a group of the world’s finest men and women. There is no room for failure. If I succeed, humanity will live on. But if I fail it will be the end of everything as we know it. Yet, that does not scare me.
No matter how the w... | 2015-06-30T15:26:06 | 2015-06-30T15:16:59 | 151 | 14 |
[WP] You somehow end up dating death. However, you have to deal with God and The Devil being overprotective older siblings. | I sigh as I approach her door. I wear my Sunday best, a finely tailored suit ready for my date with Death. The bouquet of babies breath, her favorite flower, rustles in my irritation. God sits in a wooden rocking chair on the porch. A straw hat covers his tanned face and his overalls creak like fresh denim. He has a ta... | "Now let's see... 151012 today. Just another day then", Death sighed hollowly. She blew a wisp of ash blonde hair out of her vision while studying the spreadsheet. "Who should be MY star tonight then?". Her eyes lit up and a grin worked its way across her face. That was her favourite part. She rolled her gender dice. "... | 2016-03-24T11:06:57 | 2016-03-24T10:51:22 | 73 | 14 |
[WP] According to one definition, two lifeforms are of separate species if they can't produce fertile and healthy offspring. You are an Earthling while your spouse is a Martian colonist. The doctor tells you that there are certain...complications regarding your newborn child. | The day he was born they took Theo from my arms and pressed a needle to his foot. From the drop of blood they took his genetic code. It was said to be a painless procedure but Theo was still crying by the time they had cleaned him and put him back in my arms.
"He looks like you," Astrom told me. He put his three-fing... | Mary gripped her husbands hand tightly smiling into his cool blue eyes. She could feel that this connection would last forever, a connection made in heaven, literally not of this world. She could tell he was occupied making sure all the people from channel 1440 weren't causing a mess. She never quite realized what a... | 2016-06-13T04:20:14 | 2016-06-13T04:12:08 | 84 | 13 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | The first flecks of dawn’s light trickled into the fancy high-rise bar. All was quiet except for the subtle squeaking of glasses being cleaned by the young woman behind the counter. She worked mechanically, with no life in her movements. She didn’t even flinch as the rear door slammed open and noise flooded the room.
... | Just as the door from the back entrance closed, Pete hung up the phone. It was a typical Wednesday night at The Spot, a dozen customers maybe a few more. The usual crowd, the regulars all in their usual places.
Walking in Frank could sense an un-easiness in Pete, who usually greeted every customer, especially the reg... | 2018-01-31T12:13:05 | 2018-01-31T11:42:48 | 203 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | I thought I had seen it all. I've been been here ever since the first human died. I'm the older brother, sure, but most only know of my little brother, the Grim Reaper. Because those that come to me are erased from the time itself.
I've had to erase entire families, cities, hell, even entire civilizations. I've done i... | I did not know what to say.
Ibem shrugged. "What's the matter? I'm dead right? You're the Grim Reaper here to take my soul away? *Whoosh whoosh?*" He made vague scything motions with his hands.
"No, I'm not him. I'm his...brother. Well, sort of like a brother. And the scythe thing is just his weird affection. Obs... | 2018-05-12T16:52:04 | 2018-05-12T16:14:04 | 200 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | "Wow, this is... Whats your name?"
"It doesn't matter..." The mess of human woman told me. Doubled over a table top counter with a bottle in hand, just panties and bra in and smelling like several kinds of drinks. "You said, you're the second guy, right? Whens your brother getting here?" She straightened up momentari... | "Next!"
A wrinkled, white-haired man cautiously steps forward. It's my secretary.
"Mr. Reaper, your next job has an odd peculiarity to it."
"I'm the True Reaper. What job doesn't have an odd peculiarity to it?"
"Sir, your next job is in Ukraine."
"Where the hell is Ukraine?"
"It's on Earth." At this point, he wro... | 2018-05-12T18:18:51 | 2018-05-12T15:41:34 | 63 | 26 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. You hear it say: "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You wouldn't be able to hear any audio due to the hordes of people outside your door telling you to look at the moon. You laugh uncomfortably, due to the fact that you are blind. | So, I looked at the moon last night.
Don't look at me like that, I just had to know what would happen.
Well, nothing really did happen anyway. I fell asleep, and then I woke up here for some reason.
Why didn't anything happen to me? I'm blind.
Of course you can't tell, I've been sitting here this whole time. I d... | "Must be another eclipse or somethin'," I mutter to myself.
I try to fall back asleep, but I've got a vague unease and hordes of people screaming at me, so it's hard. It's not long before I figure out what's making me feel so queer... I can't hear my boy Casper. I'd figure by now he'd either heave tried matching the c... | 2018-07-16T08:32:56 | 2018-07-16T07:45:02 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] “Congratulations!” the genie says. “Whatever you try to do today, I will make sure it succeeds brilliantly.” “Anything?” you ask, skeptical. “Yes,” the genie says, with a knowing smile. “Anything.” | *Anything.*
The word echoes in my mind. Then it hits me. I throw the old lamp away, jump back into my car and rush home. On my way I only have green lights, no controls even though I'm speeding, the traffic is clear even in the middle of the city.
Dean is not home yet. Good. According to the time I have about half an... | I rubbed a layer of dust off the kettle. It had a dent here and a dent there, each one a different story that I would never hear. The house had been empty for months now, collecting dust as I composed myself enough to sort through the belongings. A soft hum emanated from the shelf atop which the kettle sat, a steady cr... | 2019-09-13T15:01:05 | 2019-09-13T08:14:57 | 109 | 15 |
[WP] Your friend is skeptical about ghosts since they’ve never seen one. You, a spirit medium, take them to an abandoned house on the edge of town, in order to show them proof. As the two of you step into the building, you are unsettled when the spirits begin to flee at the sight of your friend. | (Very nice prompt. Feel free to critique!)
I stepped inside and then my friend, one foot after the other. It was loud and almost defeaning, their screams. I covered my ears for a second before sighing.
"Something wrong?" my friend asked.
"They're so loud..."
"I don't hear anything..." She looked around, being reall... | Cliff is a pretty awesome guy. We don't hang out too much since hes always off doing something somewhere, but he always seems to find these little trinkets an baubles on his solo quests and gives them to me for my collection. Some of them I fit into a charm bracelet I made with my father. Out of all my friends I thi... | 2019-11-29T10:26:25 | 2019-11-29T09:56:47 | 461 | 158 |
[WP] Your twin is the Chosen One, born with powerful abilities. But you were born with none. Because they were born gifted, your twin took everything from you as they bathed in the spotlight. Your anger drove you to become better, working hard to rival your twin, yet they call YOU the villain.
**EDIT** : Apparently th... | I didn't understand why, my brother tore through these possessed people with his magic and was called a hero.
I on the other hand... Well apparently if you use guns instead of magic to end a person who's been possessed by a demon you're not a hero but a monster.
My brother was born with super human powers, flight, su... | In a small town, near a large city, lived a group of towns people. They set up many decorations and placed many signs. The reason for celebrating was one of common. A new hero was going to be chose to be sent into the city to represent the town. However they had their festivities much more grand than last year. As thei... | 2020-01-01T07:42:00 | 2020-01-01T07:11:02 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | I wait in my room in the cold light of dawn
To see what the writing is going to say.
And if it says 'William', we'll up and be gone,
A couple of soulmates just running away.
Two lovers like us can't be broken apart
By family feuds started decades ago.
I wait in my room with my hand on my heart
To see on my skin ... | 12 hours. That’s how many hours I have till I know the name of my soulmate. I have my phone charged and ready to find them on any social media. Having waited years to meet them I dreamed of my birthday. I’ve spent years of my life watching romcoms. Turning 16 is huge. You can buy ads with your name and your soulmates n... | 2020-01-18T23:55:28 | 2020-01-18T23:16:31 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | Joan placed her hand on the glass. Behind it, her mother and father sat in orange jumpsuits.
Joan put on her brightest smile. "Ma, Pa. I'm graduating next week. Wish you guys could see it."
Her father huffed. "What good is a uni degree? A piece of paper ain't gonna help you rob a bank is it. What are you going to do?... | "You know why we tolerate supervillains and superheroes and all you types who dance outside the law?" I said.
"Because we're gods in a world of mortals, and all your tin soldiers couldn't make a dent on us if you tried." The Chebwick kid—even after his little murdering spree at the mall, I couldn't help but think of h... | 2020-04-03T22:22:47 | 2020-04-03T22:20:28 | 1,211 | 29 |
[WP] Few mortals can claim the honour of killing a god, the first one was a bitter man who wanted revenge against the gods who took his family, the second was a unrivalled warrior who slew one in a duel, the third was a genius who spent years carefully preparing a trap and you were drink driving | Kratos: I have killed the gods of Olympus and the ones of the Norse, yet I still feel an uncontrollable rage
Andrew Jackson: he was a tough bastard he didn’t even die when I beat him with my cane that one time. But he was a terrible shot nonetheless.
Rube Goldberg: you wouldn’t believe how hard it was to keep him ... | Driving a Red Bull car isn't as easy as you'd think. It's basically a Mini Cooper pickup truck where you haul around a giant can. "What's so hard about that?" I hear you ask. Well Sonny Jim, you ever heard that phrase *Red Bull Gives You Wings?* It also gives you way too much energy and a bad sense of humor.
I was war... | 2020-07-30T12:27:24 | 2020-07-30T11:06:39 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] American submarines are never considered lost. The ones missing from WWII are “still on patrol” with their hundreds of sailors. Little do we know the horrors these men defend us from in the deeps. | Once a year, every summer, something weird happens. Something that I don't understand how or why, and despite all these years, I don't think I can ever get used to that experience.
My father and I own a bar at the Northern ridge of Greenland. Our bar faces the ocean, and it is probably the worst location ever for a b... | ​
The old house drug itself through the depths. Out from a darkened window shot a chained harpoon. Sailing across the ocean floor it hooked into distant rock and pulled the house forward. When the house reached the point of impact, the chain retracted and the process repeated. A tedious and bizarre thing to... | 2020-08-21T11:34:58 | 2020-08-21T10:59:02 | 189 | 54 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | The planet was dark. Captive. Defeated. The paltry attempts at combat were not enough to damage a single ship. Their leaders never stood a chance.
So why did they look happy?
Every conquered civilization has wept, pleaded, begged for mercy. Not Earth. Not the Earthlings. As we brought captives aboard the ship, ther... | “It’s not your fault, Kyle. You’re a good kid. I know you want the best. You have optimism. I don’t *want* you to feel hopeless. It's just hard for me sometimes because...you know,” Jay paused, rubbing his palms together in that nervous way he always did when he talked about family matters. My brother was twenty nine n... | 2020-10-10T21:55:35 | 2020-10-10T20:22:18 | 537 | 114 |
[WP] Your ancestors were once avid witch hunters, but after the Salem Witch Trails, your family stopped hunting them down. But you know who are witches by their unusual scent. | I know the scent; always have - like a genetic memory or something, passed down from my ancestors, back to the Salem Witch Trials and beyond. My lineage it that of Witch Hunters; for ages, we pursued those who plied their unholy craft at the expense of others - sure, there were good Witches, too, but we never went afte... | "What do I smell like to you again," she cupped her hand under his chin and slightly tilted her thumb to make sure he could only see her. His lip quivered like a pup's to her touch, his gaze locked in with hers. He wrapped his arm more tightly around her waist as they sat under the shade of the great oak they had share... | 2020-11-03T02:06:18 | 2020-11-02T22:06:59 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Satan emerged from the ground. “WHO HAS SUMMONED ME?” “It’s me again, Jeff.” “HOW MANY SOULS DO YOU HAVE? THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME THIS WEEK!!” | Satan emerged from the ground, bellowing "WHO HAS SUMMONED ME?"
Jeff simply straightened his tie, being careful not to react to the brimstone ashes that landed on his suit. "It's me again, Jeff."
"HOW MANY SOULS DO YOU HAVE? IT'S THE SIXTH TIME THIS WEEK!!"
"Another five, your eminence."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO KEEP... | "I'm a playwright," explained Jeff Smith, standing outside the summoning circle. "Each character I craft, I craft with care. With extreme attention to detail. Even the ones with only a single line of dialogue in a throwaway scene, I give backstories and family histories. In short, I give each and every one of my charac... | 2021-04-30T22:11:43 | 2021-04-30T19:54:30 | 296 | 45 |
[WP] You are suddenly hugged by a teary-eyed stranger who says they love you. You then find out they've been stuck in a time loop and they've fallen for you as you were the only one who bothered to help them each time. | Wake up, take a shower, get dressed, get out of the apartment, head towards the cafè down the street, get your coffee, get in the car and go to work.
Rinse and repeat, everyday of the week.
This was the clockwork-like routine Layla had gotten accostumed to, now that she had properly moved in Los Angeles.
She didn'... | "Look man, I know this is going to make me sound psycho, but... I love you."
He wrapped his arms around me, squeezing tight. I could feel the tears from his eyes going into my shirt, his gentle sobs as he shook against me. I looked around the bookstore, confused as hell, because I'd never seen this person before in my... | 2021-07-14T06:58:36 | 2021-07-14T03:23:34 | 390 | 53 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | Ten years you have trained, now it is time to take on your own apprentice. She was a tiny thing, in fact you questioned whether or not she was even old enough to be trained, but all her paperwork was in order. She even had an undergrad and Pre-Mag. You wanted your student to respect you, but also wanted to screw with h... | Under the moonlight, the crimson body looks a lot like a broken doll.
It lays there limply, ragged, bruised. So still it’s as if time had frozen itself. And my hands, so used to warmth, lay there, cold and shaking. Somewhere deep inside of me, I wonder how I got here. How I’ve become what I’ve become. If maybe the wo... | 2021-08-26T18:17:01 | 2021-08-26T18:15:43 | 436 | 69 |
[WP] Your classmates were gifted with boosted stats, cool abilities and titles like Hero, Limit Break, or Divine Healing. You got two abilities- Fission LVL 1: Break things apart, and Fusion LVL 1: Combine things together. Deemed useless for combat, the Viceroy gave you an allowance and sent you off | They called me useless... and for the majority of my time here, they weren't incorrect. I spent my first year here working as a handyman of sorts, building, repairing, and breaking things for a wage most people in the village I settled in could afford. Over the next year and a half, I started to enjoy the quiet life, s... | Everyone considered me useless and sent me on my way. The centaurs that attacked the trade group I was with found out other wise. I had been talking to Melina, child of one of the merchants. Next thing I knew I had been batted aside by one of the attackers. I hit my head on the side of the wagon so I saw spots. As I tr... | 2022-04-30T17:06:03 | 2022-04-30T14:51:05 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | I look at the clock, and right on cue, he appears in front of me with his ridiculous little horns on his head. I'm already putting his order into the register before he says-
"One large coffee. Black"
Black. So cliché. Heaven forbid the Dark Lord orders anything other than a plain black coffee. No milk or sugar for t... | “Hey, how’d it go with your date last night?”
I looked at the time. It’s 3:32am. “Well, kind of a long story. I’d tell you, but you know who will be here any minute now.”
“Ah. True. Well, he might wanna hear too? Is he a he by the way? Does he just identify as “demon” or …”
Suddenly Damien the Demon, most venerable ... | 2022-10-30T12:36:06 | 2022-10-30T11:59:59 | 70 | 50 |
[WP] Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance. Each having believed they were the only one until now. | I struggled along the crowded New York sidewalk as I always did. Always a rough sea, it seemed as though I was always going against the grain, a stranger against a wall of strangers. Fighting my way through a sea of people, always late. The fact that I was wearing my nice heels today didn't help anything. As I battled ... | *Darkness.* I had grown very tired of the light over the countless years. The monotony of rising with everyone else, milling my way through the daylight trying to pretend to be any other worker bee. I've found that the darkness is comforting in its solitude, whereas the daylight felt almost judgmental of my *unique* co... | 2014-06-16T07:02:26 | 2014-06-16T07:01:38 | 62 | 41 |
[WP] A criminal with hostages is at a stalemate with the police. He makes a surprising request. | The officers froze.
"Could you say that again?"
"I want you to tell me the meaning of Fauvism and discuss André Derain's contribution to the medium!"
"I... what...?"
"NOW! OR I START SHOOTING!"
I stepped out of the crowd. "Excuse me, officer, I can help you with that."
I knew my degree in Art History wo... | The masked man holds a gun to the head of a sobbing woman. Four other people are lined up next to her, kneeling in front of the gunman. "Stay back, don't come any closer!"
The police are fanned out, guns drawn, facing the man and his hostages. The police chief is not holding his gun, though he does have on a kevlar ... | 2014-12-08T12:53:38 | 2014-12-08T10:50:49 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | Your whole life story, I could read with a look
That's my mutation, but there's a big hook.
I was in love at the time, you see
And she always said, "you're the only one for me."
But I quickly discovered it was nothing but lies,
She was saying the same thing to two other guys.
You got lucky with your gift, the oth... | "Welcome to The Agency Mr. Aranha," the masked man said in a dull monotone.
I looked down in shame and began sobbing.
I was born in the South Side of Chicago. My father left me when I was 3 months old and my mother purportedly ran off with another dude. I jumped from foster home to foster home, eventually landing ... | 2015-03-04T03:19:01 | 2015-03-04T02:35:31 | 1,168 | 109 |
[WP] Today everyone woke up with price tags floating over their heads, indicating the value of their life. Your tag is $50Tn, the biggest by far, and you have no idea why.
That's $50,000,000,000,000.00 for those not used to hearing it.
Awesome stories guys. | Its raining and I have a flight to catch. I overslept again, and have been running around the house despritly trying to pack 7 days worth of clothing in my backpack. I can't afford checked baggage. I've been eating ramen for a month just to afford this damn trip. A sponsor already shipped my artwork up north for the st... | I don't normally wake up early. It was never something I did. So, I woke up, glad today was not a school or work day. I heard from the office, where a small TV and my families computers sat, that there was economic chaos.
I sighed, chuckling to myself. The news stations always blow stuff out of proportion. I looked ... | 2015-05-13T11:00:20 | 2015-05-13T10:48:32 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] You meet a genie that grants one wish. You wish to go back in time and change your biggest mistake. You get taken back to the time right before you made your wish. | I knew what he meant after the third time I was sent back, knew that my biggest mistake would be this wish.
But I pretended not to.
I asked over and over. The same minute-long exchange etched into my mind until I could recite it without a pause, without a second thought. For hundreds, maybe thousands of times this we... | "As you wish, master. I will return you to the point at which you made the worst decision in your life."
I closed eyes and smiled as I felt a warm glow radiate over my body, lifting me from the ground. I heard a quick, loud zap, and suddenly feet were on the ground again. I didn't open my eyes yet. I wanted to savor t... | 2016-09-25T08:07:11 | 2016-09-25T08:05:50 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are a successful artist who has a condition where you randomly black out. When you wake up, you see that you have created beautiful masterpeices that you don't remember painting. Lately, all of your paintings have been more and more disturbing. | I tipped back the handle of bourbon, suckling the last trickling drops from the neck like a dry man in the desert. As I got the last of it into my mouth, I grimaced. It had been a long night again, it seemed. When I came home from the store, the bottle was full and I had only intended to drink a finger or two to take t... | "It happened again."
The look on the artist's face was one of intense misery. Her eyes were turned away. Jeffrey adjusted the hideous green-and-yellow tie, which, he decided, definitely had to go. Tomorrow he would buy something decent and give this *thing* back to Richie, even if the interview went badly.
"This ... | 2017-04-16T08:09:01 | 2017-04-16T07:52:42 | 41 | 14 |
[WP]You jokingly ask your boss if your labor position could be replaced by a robot. He chuckles nervously, and continues to look over your A.I. manual. | *Detroit 2051*
"Hah. Very funny. But no, please just focus on rebuilding the Shanghai center for now."
That was...*odd*. Something was up, but he thought he was hiding.
I began pointing the supply-chain towards Shainghai to give my datacenters something to do. When that was humming along, I spun up a tiny process ... | "What are you reading anyway? Something from work?"
Ayu, the young woman across the table from me was visibly annoyed. Every time I looked up from my book, she was messing around with either her glasses or her black, shoulder length hair. I wouldn't blame her. Reading a book while on a date was obviously annoying, if ... | 2017-06-24T07:23:56 | 2017-06-24T06:06:19 | 247 | 147 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | The nervousness is what really gets you at first. Standing in your skivvies being poked and proded one final time by all sorts of PhDs. They’re excited for you, but it’s the excitement of watching a mouse run through a maze. The excittement of a groundbreaking discovery, whether you survive or not. The most relief i’ve... | “Do you remember that time you got hypothermia?”
“No.” I thought, unable to get the point across with a head shake. “Do you think its going to feel like recovering from that?”
“How would I know? You don’t remember it.” I thought.
After almost 500 years stuck in what the scientists of my time called a “Cryocasket”, ... | 2017-12-17T03:26:40 | 2017-12-17T02:57:38 | 1,145 | 187 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | “Do you remember that time you got hypothermia?”
“No.” I thought, unable to get the point across with a head shake. “Do you think its going to feel like recovering from that?”
“How would I know? You don’t remember it.” I thought.
After almost 500 years stuck in what the scientists of my time called a “Cryocasket”, ... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T02:57:38 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 187 | 11 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | Goblin king: "and suddenly you hear a knock on your dwelling's door."
Necromancer: "I will get up from the table to open the front door, but before I open it, I look through the nearby window to see who is disturbing our game."
Goblin king: "roll for perception."
Necromancer: "3... Shit."
Goblin king: "the lights a... | In life, Orglord, had flayed his enemies open and put them on display throughout the villages he had pillaged. Men, women, children. None were given mercy. Barbarians warlords didn’t discriminate. However, in Suburbs and SUVs, he was Orie, the thirty-year old sales representative currently late for work for the third t... | 2018-01-10T06:36:41 | 2018-01-10T06:36:38 | 674 | 378 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | You always thought how did other's manage to perfectly catch whatever flew into their hands?
Today, you knew. Before the summoning square in the capital of the Great Empire, you stood. As did everyone who turned 18 today. The knights began to call out your names, one by one.
There were 12 names before yours.
The fir... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T07:59:37 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 2,312 | 37 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Andy, my friend who shared my name day was by my side.
Both of us are 18 now.
He gave me a small fist bump before he looked to the horizon and reached with his hand, reaching across lands and seas, oceans and the sky.
I followed his movment, reaching with my own hand, trying to grab my future.
Andy was first, a ri... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T09:46:47 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 61 | 37 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I stuck my hand out in a reaching motion in front of the council. Today was the day of my eighteenth birthday. The council was the nine elders who decided what your object meant and recorded it into the official records. If no object arrived within sixty seconds you were labeled as a null and sent to the labor camps wh... |
The last year of school and everything felt supercharged and a bit crazy, even to my laid back self. Not only were we finishing up our A-levels it was the year of the gift; the year when everyone got a clue as to the defining purpose of their life. Sometimes you could tell straight away what life had in store for yo... | 2019-09-18T10:23:04 | 2019-09-18T10:15:38 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | It wasn't me they were trying to summon. Well, they *thought* I was the one they wanted, but I wasn't.
They were begging for a good harvest. Charklon was the god they wanted. But they had consistently been saying my name, Garisoth.
I ignored them at first, thinking they'd made some small mistake they would correct qu... | You do not know my name. This is not because I am unheard of, but rather because my name is unspeakable. I mean that quite literally. The human tongue is incapable of sounding any approximation of my name.
I quite enjoy watching humans go. Like little machines, they are, most of them. Schedules and routines, to keep t... | 2019-11-18T20:39:11 | 2019-11-18T20:15:37 | 69 | 44 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "I have always been able to see you Death. You could say we are connected. Destined to forever drift along parallel lines, never to intersect".
Death flipped through his clipboard once more with erratic movements, showing a great deal of confusion despite a noticeable lack of eyebrows. He turned towards me, empty ey... | I slowly blink as the old man in the black leather jacket with a gun says that I'm not due. Im not really paying attention to whatever he just said. How the hell do you react when someone says you'll for another 3 millenia?
"HEY!" he shouts. I snap out of it make eye contact with him. He looks so... different. I alway... | 2020-01-24T12:35:20 | 2020-01-24T11:08:17 | 309 | 73 |
[WP] It is said that none but the chosen may slay the demon lord. You aren't the chosen, but you also realize that "defeat" and "slay" are not the same thing. With this in mind, you start making other considerations such as rope, or perhaps a very deep hole. | The Starborn is a prophesied figure who shall wield righteous light and fire to smite the evil from our world. A living, breathing Avatar of the gods above, suffused with the old magicks of the world, who will act out their will.
I met him, a few days ago. He is naught but a child, barely a man; perhaps fifteen or six... | The council sat impatiently as the August sun pierced through the stained glass surrounding the circular chamber. Sitting proudly, each member covered in their respective crests, did not partake in their typical banter on this fine summer evening. The air of the chamber was filled with a stale and mutually shared nervo... | 2020-04-27T10:21:48 | 2020-04-27T09:35:12 | 189 | 130 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | Clip check. Two tucked in the belt, you never know. Chamber check. Clear.
Acting time. A nice dinner. Pleasant conversation, a smile on the face.
Clip check. Chamber check. There's a knife in my shoe but I don't think I'll need it.
We knock on the door. Lovely woman says hello, invites us in. Tea. Says her... | - Hello, sir, it's so nice to meet you. My name is Charles.
- Oh, so nice to meet you, Charles, said Mr. Thompson. Ella has told me you are a veterinarian. Could it be that we have met before? I have a small computer repair shop in 3rd Street, wouldn't you be the one that brought an old Mac computer past month?
- Yes... | 2020-06-05T14:06:14 | 2020-06-05T13:31:52 | 128 | 22 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | The Demon Blade of Wrath was angry, and worse still--rusty. It laid on the bottom of a never-ending pile of similarly-disused swords.
Reach a hand in there, and the only thing you would find was a high risk of tetanus, and not a mythical sword that was once proudly displayed with its brethren in the household of one C... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Part ?: The Rage of the People v.s. The Boot On Their Throat)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Of course, no single person could power the weapon.** The sheer amount of emotio... | 2021-09-18T11:39:45 | 2021-09-18T10:59:54 | 351 | 70 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | Groggy thoughts...clouded memory...so weak...so weak. The blade had been sleeping for ages, too weak to even reach out for a new wielder. Every righteous hero and every depraved villain who took the blade ended up dead, surprised at how dull the blade was, how heavy and unbalanced it felt. The blade of wrath was anythi... | The Demon Swords were the first weapons forged from the still-cooling corpse of the Demon’s god. They were built according to the 7 sins humanity was created with. All were powerful, each Wielder a force on the battlefield none would stand against. When they felt the sun each sword was made of, they burst into a cacoph... | 2021-09-18T15:30:23 | 2021-09-18T14:44:42 | 108 | 52 |
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