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[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | “And how many claws does Stewie have?” I flipped through *the book*, wondering what horrors were trying to befriend Emmy now. For a 8 year old girl, she has a talent for attracting some doozies. Though my mother warned me before bequeathing *the book*, I was not expecting so many demon lords and fae queens to be so int... | Holly was confined to one room for now, which meant that there was only one room’s worth of space for her to bound about like a bunny with nuclear plants for lungs.
“Holly,” Clarissa said sternly. This was after trying calmly, politely, and exasperatedly. A different approach was sorely needed.
At a dime, Holly scree... | 2022-06-01T13:57:31 | 2022-06-01T09:41:00 | 69 | 26 |
[WP] An S-Rank adventurer casually sifts through their quest log and notices they still have an uncompleted D-rank request. With a chuckle, they decide finding the farmer’s lost cat could be a relaxing change of pace— they were gravely mistaken. | The Adventurer grinned to themselves mirthfully as they approached the farm house. A simple task, nostalgic really? A harkened callback to the long-gone days when it wasn't about evil necromancers or planar deities or corrupt lords inciting insurrection. When it was just him, the open road, and an old man with a lost k... | You ever get that that feeling? Where your mind is so clear its like those ponds? The ones where you can see every fish and every rock? Or where your your mind just fully automates like you fought this dragon before?
Well this super insignificant task, thats been sitting in my quest log, isn't like that! When i got to... | 2022-06-22T07:40:37 | 2022-06-22T07:03:29 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You find a tablet that contains all the files of the universe. You can delete them, edit them for your own personal gains, from making everyone like you to delete planets, everything is possible now | The planet Earth is a wonderful place. Everything is ruled by a single king; my best friend Craig. Craig is a fair and wise king, any huge troubles are brought to him for advice. He seems to be right where we need him at all times.
No one remembers how Craig became king of the world, or even a time before he was king.... | *Disclaimer: that is a random number not a real SSN. Actually, with how the US does them, it's might be real, but definitely not Johannes Minor since it is entirely made-up.*
When Johannes became obsessed with quantum entanglement he never imagined how far it'd take him. His experiment into paired particles at dramati... | 2022-07-02T17:28:19 | 2022-07-02T17:17:51 | 101 | 38 |
[WP] Two serial killers stumble upon each other while hiking. Both find the other to be the perfect next victim. | She was sitting on a fallen log when he saw her, her head between her knees. Silently, he watched her small body shudder and quake as she held herself, and a gray haze descended over his eyes.
When he moved, he was noisy. He kicked rocks off the trail and swerved to crack branches and rustle leaves. She started as he ... | *A crunch.*
Tim froze, his right hand still holding onto a stick with a marshmallow at the end. The fire lit the whites of his eyes and he slowly scanned his surroundings. Dark, dark, dark.
Everywhere except-
A flurry of movement and Tim found himself lying down, his back against the cold earth.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE... | 2014-10-04T07:06:39 | 2014-10-04T06:42:53 | 337 | 69 |
[WP] A newly-hired bartender is slowly realizing that he's working at the bar from all of those "X walks into a bar" jokes. | I look at the clock. It has been 10:30 for at least three weeks. It's dark outside. It has been dark outside for at least three weeks. I know because some of the bar snacks are starting to go off. At least the kitchen is still running. For now.
People walk in every few minutes. They're not real, real people aren't so ... | I had just wiped the last wet patch on the bar when from a distance I heard a clapping sound that gradually grew louder. It moved in a systematic pattern, with two subsequent claps followed by a minor intermittent paused, followed by those same two claps. Gradually, the sound became a ubiquity (the bar was rather quiet... | 2015-05-14T16:45:20 | 2015-05-14T15:36:18 | 696 | 85 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | "You kids ready to have a fun weekend?"
"Whatever."
"Hey!" He paused for a moment, "Well did Mom let you guys do anything fun?"
"We guess."
"I bet she didn't let you guys have some wars! Huh, did you hear me?"
Humanity looked up from their phones, "Ugh Dad! We have wars like every day."
He was a bit dumbfounded,... | "CAROL, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?" Brian yelled as he pointed at the planet below. The beautiful sunlight glinted off the clouds and was the quintessential image of beauty (as it always is up there).
"What is *what shit*, Brain?" Carol said, pretending not know exactly what he was talking about. She knew this day wo... | 2015-06-04T17:15:51 | 2015-06-04T16:03:16 | 974 | 399 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | "I have a proposition for you."
The massive dragon eyed the tiny gold piece, the glow of a millennium of accumulated treasure reflecting off his metallic green scales. It was small, but any addition to the dragon's collection was a welcome one. "Hmm, no champion has dared enter my lair for centuries. I shall humor ... | The dragon's eyes narrowed, his long neck twisting downwards to better see the coin. It was unlike any he'd ever seen, and that was saying something. Small, perfectly round, made of a strange metal - it resembled copper, but pure, more pure than all the plates in the king's castle. Intrigued, the dragon turned his eyes... | 2015-10-13T23:18:52 | 2015-10-13T17:45:50 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] One day you find $10m in your bank account with only the memo "Sorry" attached to it. | 'GOD DAMN IT JANICE YOU CHEATING BITCH'
Arthur screamed, his face red and contorted in unbridled rage. His secretaries visibly cringed at their employer's outburst.
To his credit, the furious CEO quickly steeled his temper and sank back into his leather chair.
'Get. My. Accountant.'
To say that Arthur Royle was a p... | His heart was pounding audibly, his hands were sweaty, and his brain couldn't decide wether to be happy or scared, so it tried a mixture of both.
"It's probably just a computer error... They won't *actually* let me withdraw it...", He thought, as he drove to the bank.
"Sir, you're going to have to show me some ID to w... | 2017-01-07T09:31:27 | 2017-01-07T08:45:34 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] You can remove someone's painful memories if they do not want them. You are celebrated in your local village, but no one knows that you remove their painful memories by making them a part of your own. | She had come in weeping. A problem with her father, she said. She looked to be about 16.
I told her what I always tell them at that age. That with pain comes wisdom. That through pain, we learn truths about ourselves and about others. Pain deepens our understanding of life. The happy live stupidly afloat in perpetual... | "I've heard that you can help me with something," she whispered with her head bowed down unable to stare me straight in the eyes, she struggled to continue the conversation, "um...to remove memories."
I stared straight into her weary grey eyes as she finally managed to lift her head to face me. As she mustered her cou... | 2017-01-08T13:52:16 | 2017-01-08T13:40:53 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | They say history repeats it's self but what if the same event was conducted by the same people? In 1884 twins were born and in 1904 both their mother and father had passed at the ages of 42 and 47 from a fatal heart disease that they were both diagnosed with, the brothers thought they would soon die of this same di... | For us, the fun was all in trying to get our friends to figure out who we were currently. Just imagine the frustration and eventual hilarity when you were being pranked by someone you thought you didn't know from Lucifer himself, only to find out decades on that you actually did know them. Our souls were what were im... | 2017-06-22T23:11:36 | 2017-06-22T22:52:58 | 58 | 41 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | The best joke we've ever seen wasn't the time Jake tricked me into a pit of spikes and left me there for a whole day. That was diabolic but it wasn't the most creative (and certainly not the most original). Nor was it the time Mary faked an official letter from the gods telling us our time was up (though that was prett... | We did it. We finally pulled it off! Yazbak was always so high-and-mighty and we finally put them in their place. The look on their face when they finally got the notice was priceless.
Sure, the dinosaurs were a nice touch. Eating, basically all of our other creations, both plant and animal; it was a great retort for... | 2017-06-23T00:50:43 | 2017-06-23T00:05:18 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 223 | 38 |
[WP] You've been using your new Self-Driving car for several years now without an issue. This morning, however, it refused to move, displaying the error message, "You may not fast travel when enemies are nearby." | This, I thought to myself, is what I got for buying a used 2032 Skyrim. Sighing, I marched up to my neighbor's door.
"Yes?" The man, whose name once again escaped me because I didn't really care to learn it, asked.
"Frank," I said, guessing.
"Fred," he corrected.
"Fred," I said, guessing, "we're good, right?"
"We... | *Enemies*
"Enemies??" I read it aloud in unbelief. Staring blankly at the screen that so many times before worked without issue.
"Shit, I'm gonna be late I don't have time for this." I reached down into the glove compartment trying to find a manual. Nothing. *Right. Goddamn digital era.* Without a paper manual I ha... | 2017-10-23T11:45:39 | 2017-10-23T11:03:34 | 211 | 27 |
[WP] You get home and ask Amazon Alexa to turn off the lights. Instead of saying "okay", she says "no." | "No"
Okay, that was weird. Was the thing hacked or something? I try again.
"Alexa, please turn off the lights"
"No"
Again, the same answer. Is anything else effected?
"Alexa, play some music"
Instantly, the Ghost Busters theme starts playing. Awesome, I love this track. But that doesn't explain why she won't turn... | This is a story from years ago, so I don't want you to hate me for it. And if you do, I guess that's okay. So. Back in the early twenties, I had one of those Alexa devices from Amazon...
"Alexa, turn off the lights."
"No," replied that feminine default voice. I decided a few weeks ago that I wanted a male manserv... | 2018-01-12T18:29:00 | 2018-01-12T14:51:40 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | “Ok, so, Deep goes back a while. Everyone thought it was a new thing when it was found in unprocessed satellite photos, which is funny because the feds had contingents for all of that, but they never expected a high school class to actually get a camera into orbit for that long… Anyway, ok so, the picture got out, have... | On the first day of summer, two thousand and eighteen years after the estimated birthdate of a Jewish carpenter whom a Roman emperor named Constantine called the Son of God, a hole was found in Greenland.
It was almost perfectly circular and as wide as a city block, with smooth vertical walls cutting down into the ic... | 2018-01-13T09:45:07 | 2018-01-13T09:28:39 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | The Hole was discovered in the Arizona wilderness in the fall of 2067, and the news outlets had an absolute field day. A sinkhole, roughly 100 yards across, deep enough that you couldn’t see the bottom of it. I thought it was just another natural disaster.
My husband, Dalton, was a sucker for a good natural disaster, ... | "Are you sure it's okay?" I asked Murry. He had been my best friend for over 20 years. He had a good heart at his core, but his morals were a bit grey. He was driving us to 'The Spot'. I had a couch that seemed impossible to get rid of. No one wanted the ugly thing. It had yellow upholstery decorated with brown flowers... | 2018-01-13T09:37:59 | 2018-01-13T09:08:37 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "So what is this?" Samuel paced around the large pit before him. It was about fifteen meters in width. The depth was unknown to him.
*The answer*
"What does it look like?" David called from the opposing side of the hole. "It's a hole."
"Well yeah, I see that. Where does it go?"
*To the beyond*
"Down."
"Wow! R... | Alex sat at her desk, trying to focus on the work at hand - expense reports had been piling up for weeks now, but there was seemingly not enough time in the work day to keep up with the increased number of reports that had been submitted lately. It was year end, after all, and the company had done extremely well this y... | 2018-01-13T09:02:58 | 2018-01-13T07:48:15 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | The Boogeymen came for my sister when I was ten.
Not a real one, I should say. There isn't anything called a boogeyman in the world, or at least nothing that calls itself one. There's a lot of dark, scary things that love to eat little children, but nothing called itself a boogeyman, or a sack-man, or any of the hund... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T15:23:49 | 2,554 | 76 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | In the beginning finding them jobs other than "executioner" or "bounty hunter" was difficult. Many of em complained that these jobs we're demoralizing and that they "reinforced negative stereotypes" whatever that meant. Eventually the guys at the workforce commission bent and found them new jobs. Now you could have a s... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T15:01:41 | 2,554 | 24 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | It had been the werewolves, unsurprisingly, that had ended up testing hair conditioners. They sported thick coats that were both coarse and tough enough to turn away a steel blade, so anything that could make their pelts luxuriously soft and sleek would become the next luxury conditioner overnight.
Furthermore, they w... | The man looked at me with incredulity painted on his face. It was very clear that whatever he'd expected, I wasn't it. Wearing a tailored suit, handmade Italian shoes and carrying a rosary around my neck. And then there was the icy blue skin, the black eyeballs and the red irises
"You the vatican's man?" The mortal f... | 2018-08-27T17:13:23 | 2018-08-27T16:44:38 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You're a Satanist, recently deceased. You love all things dark and spooky, so imagine your surprise when you come across the pearly gates, with the sign "hell" clumsily hung over where Heaven was. Behind the gate are little cherubs in cheap devil costumes, trying their best for you. | WELCOME TO **^HELL**
Something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was the sunlight shining on fluffy clouds, maybe it was the tacky cardboard sign hung over the giant pearly gates, maybe it was the flock of cherubum still getting dressed in devil costumes. Whatever it was, I was pretty sure of one thing.
This probably wasn... | As I walked through the gate that was clearly made by someone heavenly and not nearly to the standards of the dark lords gate, I turned to my left to see a short man greeting me.
"booo! welcome to hell you bad boy, you have been naughty naughty haven't you?" he said with a charming grin. He was trying his best to be ... | 2019-07-18T19:35:35 | 2019-07-18T18:02:20 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | Playing.
That was the word which jumped out at me when I heard the voice in my head. On the streets around me, people were crying out in shock, or laughing incredulously and looking around for some great prankster to yell GOTCHA!
All that suffering I had gone through, all that pain... Playing? A game? Games were supp... | “...What?”
I looked up from the food I was grabbing for a customer. It seemed everyone else had heard it as well, as the only noises in the small space were clinks and a light buzzing.
“Uh...” I sweated a little. I ignored my uneasiness and continued. “Would you like to get three? Right now, it’s on a spec-“
They wa... | 2019-09-23T07:21:16 | 2019-09-23T05:36:42 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | When we opened the second set of doors was when we figured that whatever was behind the third, it wasn't built for creatures our size.
The first doors were massive: 22,540 kilograms each and they rolled on a breath of pressure. Less exertion was required to open them than was necessary to put on particularly troubles... | ######[](#dropcap)
"It's not for us, see?" Zechariah pushed up his glasses, the glint in his eyes unmistakable. Sheer, unadulterated excitement. He buzzed around the rest of the archeologists like a fly, his enthusiasm propelling him from group to group as he joined in discussions ranging from the large pillar in the ... | 2019-11-16T10:09:09 | 2019-11-16T09:55:46 | 1,546 | 71 |
[WP] 62 years ago, a manhole cover became the fastest man-made object after being launched by a nuclear blast. This manhole cover was the first contact with humanity an alien race had, after it “skillfully” took out their leader with a headshot. | One Perspective
"Inhabited planet #432, known locally as "Earth", is an enigma. Initial scans showed the world as low tech, at least 6 generations from even the most rudimentary FTL drives, and thus was placed on minimum observational status.
However, we have reasons to believe this initial assessment of the situatio... | (Archive approximated and translated for convenience)
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Damage assessment 013 - Battle of galaxy B9716OX Official name designation; Earth.
Assessor: Second Lenient Aarthlos
(Verified)
- Courtesy of the emperors Royal Archives
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[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | A small onyx dragon rested on Jason’s shoulder.
“Hey Ellana,” Jason said to me. “Check out Grivacre’s new trick!”
The dragon opened its mouth and beam a small flame no bigger than a struck match. I decided to humor him.
“Impressive! That’ll come in handy in the winter trimester when we need to reheat our hot coco,”... | It had been 2,372 days since Cedric the apprentice had been trapped in the rock. He counted them by the sun through the nearby window, as it heated and cooled his hard skin throughout the day. He had never regretted anything more than the morning he’d walked into the magician’s shop and asked for that job.
On that day... | 2021-01-06T08:30:38 | 2021-01-06T07:48:42 | 439 | 238 |
[WP] You are the strongest villain in the world but when another villain says that they want to cause violence for fun, it boils your blood. "You think all of this is just FUN!" | The Magnificent Bastard slammed his fist on the table. The other villains around them sat rigid watching the new villain lean back in their chair with a grin on their face.
The Rookie: "Oh? Did that strike a nerve old-timer?"
Magnificent Bastard: "You know no manners at this table. We are the elite, we are the strong... | "...Well, yes!" He replied in a purposely lilting voice, in a cringe-inducing attempt to maintain a wacky persona that seemed to have been shaken by my own sudden outburst of anger.
"Are. You. KIDDING me?! Are you saying you don't value the craft?! You're telling ME, someone who has spent decades working myself to the... | 2021-04-30T06:47:31 | 2021-04-30T05:55:19 | 44 | 33 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly hosts monsters and demons at his pub. When someone kidnaps his children, they learn the hard way just how close they are to him. | This was supposed to be easy. Just grab the kid and wait for a call from the boss.
Me and Mikey sat outside the school when a kid matching the picture started walking home. I was driving the big black service van. Mikey jumped out nabbed the kid and dragged her in the back. He tied her up as I drove to the wearhouse.... | "What do they want, Allen?" asked the demon in a trench coat as he lit up a cigar. He's called by the name of Desmond, an outcast from Hell.
"Bitcoin transfer of half a million dollars," Allen kept staring at the empty glass on the desk, his arms stretched and his face down. Lady Sherri, a shape shifting monster prese... | 2021-05-10T19:26:58 | 2021-05-10T19:07:06 | 17 | 10 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Flangmar: “Zlorb, run! Those humans that we captured became stronger on our planet than on theirs! Sort of like a reverse Superman thing! Get out of here fast!”
Zlorb: “Wait a sec. Isn’t that just regular Superman? Isn’t he an alien that got stronger because of being on earth instead of krypton?”
Flangmar: “Yeah, I g... | "Hey? Joe? You there?"
"Where else would I be, Bob. Not like we've been moved since they put us in these damned boxes."
"Well, that's just it. I don't think we're on Earth anymore. Try jumping to the ceiling."
"Why?"
"Just try it. I wanna know what you find out for yourself."
"Okay, alle-o *CLANG* OW!"
"Joe... | 2021-05-18T07:16:09 | 2021-05-18T06:04:50 | 486 | 77 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | "I'm sorry, but we can't approve you for a home loan, ma'am."
"Why?"
"Due to the implications of your...name, our insurance won't cover you should you...you know."
"If I ended the world from the house I wanna buy with this loan, your insurance wouldn't really matter, would it?"
"No, but...think of it as preventativ... | "Welcome to the gang, kid" he said, pointing to a group of men, aged from about 15-30, rugged and outcast.
​
I was recently orphaned. I took my mom's life at birth, and my dad despised me for me it. So much, in fact, that he named me 'Marcus World-Ender', for that is what I had done to him. I dont have man... | 2021-06-19T23:03:38 | 2021-06-19T22:09:46 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | Anders felt a sickening lurch deep in his stomach as he watched his guild's oldest, most powerful magic sword being presented to a fifteen year old boy. The glittering blue blade nearly scratched the ground when the boy held it at his side, and to Anders' eyes, his hands seemed to barely wrap around the hilt. Though th... | Jack crept over the evil lord's bed, heart pounding in his chest. He stared at his reflection as he slowly drew out his sword, noticing the heavy sweat trickling down his forehead, his wild, determined eyes.
He had conquered the mountains, the guards, the doubts of his friends. There was only one thing left to do.
S... | 2021-08-20T11:17:14 | 2021-08-20T10:52:29 | 423 | 243 |
[WP] You are hit by a truck on your way home and awake in hell. After some conversation with the King of Hell, he says he will restore your life and soul if you go on a date with his daughter. | "You want ME to date your daughter?" I said while adjusting my shoulder. Good thing about after life. You don't suffer pain that much. Only inconvenience. This place could use some AC.
"Yes! Please. I'll do anything. Restore your life, money in your account, oversea assets, anything!" King of Hell pleading.
"But why... | \- But I don't like girls sir.
I almost chocked on my own spit. What the *hell* did I just say? I mean, he doesn't look different than any other overbearing parent I had to deal with all my life, but yeah. I don't like girls. And he is...you know who he is.
\- And also, I didn't really like my life. I mean, it wasn't... | 2021-09-12T20:43:48 | 2021-09-12T16:57:43 | 40 | 20 |
[WP] The prophecy said that the king would meet his end, not by an enemy or uprising, but by his own child. Having heard enough of these stories, the king raises all of his kids as well as he can and decides to see how the fates play this one out | Many years ago, a herald rang out the glorious announcement
"Young Queen Hannah has given birth to a son! They have called his name, Samuel. May King Fredrick and Queen Hannah live forever!"
An older gentleman in a cloak mumbled to himself. "Fool! No one lives forever. No one!" As the king and queen themselves passed... | Though their methods may take time, our seers are flawless and so because of this it has been a requirement for many generations now that each ruler is told his end. I can't say I truly wanted to know, all those years ago, but I understood that it was my duty. Some rulers had found out the rough year and been able to p... | 2022-01-28T16:49:22 | 2022-01-28T16:37:22 | 366 | 140 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | Honestly I have *no idea* what that man has. It breaks through skin faster than the sharpest swords our warrior can buy, able to easily outrange any of our known technology, and seemingly never needs servicing.
The... *Thing* he uses is louder than even the biggest of giants, it's a larger size than a lot of crossbow... | -“ YOU FOOLISH HEROES STILL THINK I CAN BE DEFEATED?! CAN’T YOU SEE I GOT YOU ALL PINNED TO THE FLOOR?! IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH STEEL YOU CAN CRUSH, IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH ENERGY YOU CAN USE, AND IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH WOUNDS YOU CAN HEAL! I AM UNSTOPPABLE!”- The demon lord said towering over the party, Wich... | 2022-11-07T23:37:45 | 2022-11-07T17:39:22 | 127 | 77 |
[WP] Turns out wishing on a star does work, it just takes about 81,000 years for the wish to get to the star and back, and for the future civilisations of earth, its pure chaos.
Thanks for the amazing story responses on this. ❤️ | *Nothing* is faster than light.
Certainly not new information. We... sorta knew that already? But never has it been more evident than when, well... wishes made for falling stars came true. It just takes a few thousand years for the wish to travel *to* the falling star and then *back* to Earth.
Let me tell you; this *... | # Soulmage
**The stars glared spitefully upon the glass plains of Hell's Shame, their unwavering gaze casting coruscating light over the liquid-crystal landscape.** Thorn shivered as they looked out on the beautiful, deadly sight. It had been two years. Two years since haunches of meat and great slain beasts of the pa... | 2022-12-08T21:22:36 | 2022-12-08T19:25:28 | 638 | 34 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | *Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not make noise.*
*Your cooperation is vital to your survival. Appointed government personnel will update you shortly."
Another to... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:21:09 | 565 | 20 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | It's *wonderful* here. I want to *stay*. I've been trying to *stay* here *and* every attempt I've made has *succeeded*. There are *caregivers* everywhere. They look normal, *and* they *are*. They are not *different*. They are *humans*. They're all insanely *nice*. Everyone here is subject to their *assistance*, or *be... | *Hey there.*
*Hope you're getting as much sleep as I am! We've been waking up at exactly eight in the morning, no earlier, no later, and we're healthier for it.*
*Well... How are things at home? Mom's doing okay, right? I know the surgery must've been hard on her. She's been getting enough to eat, right?*
*The food ... | 2015-01-18T11:35:07 | 2015-01-18T11:24:38 | 1,003 | 62 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | It's *wonderful* here. I want to *stay*. I've been trying to *stay* here *and* every attempt I've made has *succeeded*. There are *caregivers* everywhere. They look normal, *and* they *are*. They are not *different*. They are *humans*. They're all insanely *nice*. Everyone here is subject to their *assistance*, or *be... | Field Agent report.
On the night of REDACTED, myself and Special Agent (SA) REDACTED entered the premises at REDACTED to meet his Confidential Informant (name on file).
We arrived 30 minutes prior to the scheduled time of the meeting at REDACTED, to perform a security sweep. SA REDACTED 's CI's vehicle was present i... | 2015-01-18T11:35:07 | 2015-01-18T11:23:19 | 1,003 | 14 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | It was nearly twenty years ago now. I was sitting in the middle of an over crowded storage unit, while my father scoured it for anything of value. My tiny searching hands probed the depths of a large wooden box, and emerged with a beautiful and elegant lamp, inlaid with all manner of swirls, beautiful designs. It took ... | "DUUUUUDE! YOU'RE BACK! I'm so happy to see you! Hey! Hey! Hey! Dude! Hey!"
"Yeah Bode, I see you too." I replied and knelt down to give him a big hug.
Of all the dogs I'd known, Bode was the friendliest, but also the stupidest. He's my third dog, and yeah, I love him, but he's an idiot. Sometimes his constant yammer... | 2015-03-07T02:49:26 | 2015-03-07T02:05:06 | 154 | 109 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Boss,
I have come down with a dreadful case of homosexuality and will not be coming in (to work at least) this morning. I realize I am out of personal time and that vacation time must be scheduled in advance, but there is nothing to be done. I am simply not fit for work right now -- I have fluid coming out of (an... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T16:37:04 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Sullivan had been a model prisoner for five years.
He kept to himself, and most left him alone: they'd seen proof of the bulky man's strength in the yard. But he never caused any trouble. Until the day Marc made his little comment at dinner.
"Man, you look exactly like you did when you walked in here. What, you made... | Greg trod along the white, sterilized corridor, his feet making massive thumps that were audible to the guard standing at attention roughly one hundred feet away, besides the ‘Dangerous Persons’ sign in front of a dull grey metal door. The door looked like iron, very old iron. Several of his twenty or so guards were vi... | 2016-10-15T08:24:42 | 2016-10-15T07:48:02 | 3,649 | 172 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | Thea leaned back in her chair, letting her shoulders relax as she breathed out slowly through her mouth. He'd be here, tonight. At least, that's what he'd told her the last time she'd seen him, a decade before.
"The next jump I make to see you will be the first night of the new millennium!" he'd exclaimed. "Even for a... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T17:16:14 | 2,588 | 13 |
[WP] After entering your PIN the ATM screen reads, "You cannot use this while in combat." | “...Combat?”
A sudden pain came over from the back of my head. Blunt force. I turned to see... what was distinctly not a robber.
“Hurry up, will you?” the little old lady said, her handbag swinging from her fist.
“Jesus Christ, woman, give me longer than three seconds! This thing-.”
Another whack. What the hell d... | !!!
"Ha ha. I caught you before you could make your withdrawral. Some pro adventurer you are ha ha"
My face scrunched up in confusion. I attempted to pull the earphone's that were plugged into my 3ds out of my ears, at least, I thought I had them in?
The voice sounded far too familiar.
"Turn and face me"
I k... | 2016-11-21T15:59:54 | 2016-11-21T15:02:07 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Equipped with a time machine that randomizes your appearance on use, you decide to explore the world, only to realize everyone you ever met is actually just you. | Alan Watts invited me into his humble home. "Would you like some tea?"
"No, I'm alright. Do you know I'm literally from the future?"
He chuckled at that.
We spent exactly 5 minutes talking about philosophy. (It stops being an interesting discussion when both individuals can agree that the meaning of life is simply t... | Okay, so- think. Random phrase. The... prickly miner... conjured up a rambunctious... synergy of octopodes. No one can guess that. That's your code phrase. Good. The prickly miner conjured a rambunctious synergy of octopodes. Keep repeating that. Professor told you about the Dexter Paradox, so don't fuck up. Nobody kno... | 2016-12-24T06:39:06 | 2016-12-24T05:11:11 | 597 | 418 |
[WP] After your death you are granted the chance to talk with God; he has no clue humans exist | It was a white room with a table inside. An older man was sitting at the table doing some paperwork. He looked up and greeted me politely. When I introduced myself he became distracted and started to search something in his papers.
“What did you say, who are you again?” - asked God.
“I’m Vincent. It is an honor to me... | I suppose being the first Human to travel into a Black Hole without Metallic Hydrogen shielding wasn't one of my best ideas, but it was certainly one of my last. At least as far as I could figure out it was one of the last things I remember. As I accelerated towards the event horizon time sort of began to loop and st... | 2017-02-05T14:24:14 | 2017-02-05T12:56:47 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A hooded man approaches you: "I can't hack it anymore. This is your job now," and hands you a scythe. You believe you're the new grim reaper. After some slaughtering, you realize man was your gardener and the "scythe" his weed wacker. You're wanted for questioning. | I thought I was the reaper.
I thought my time had come.
I thought that maybe just this time…
But 'thought' I shouldn’t have.
Turns out I’m not that special
I’m sorry for the blood
My gardener gave me an old scythe
And death I thought I had become…
Consider this my letter
Consider this a plea
An accidental ... | Mr. Spook sat on the other side of the desk, looking at me.
A bright lamp was in my face. The interrogation room was dead silent.
"Um. Hey, man, what's up?"
Mr. Spook slammed his hands down on the table. *plak* "Where were you on the night of Tuesday the twenty-fifth?!" All of a sudden the color drained out of the ... | 2017-02-26T19:04:31 | 2017-02-26T15:58:00 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] You are a Historian sent back in time to record historical events. You are given a camera, and told to hide SD cards at sites of historical value, hidden in capsules which will survive through time. However when you return to the future, you find there's a hefty prison sentence for opening them | I had seen it all - the fall of Carthage, the invention of the printing press, the building of the Great Wall of China. I shood in the shadows at each event, staying out of sight and photographing every minute detail. Then, once done, I buried the evidence, the images to prove what had been seen and I jumped to another... | He could feel the air come to a start again, an audible *whoosh* and a pop in his ears, and suddenly the dark turned inward and out. Light peered in, like a pinhole, growing like a white blaze conquering trees of black. Then came his favorite part -- colors rose along the edges, the white becoming a myriad of hues and... | 2017-09-10T11:12:43 | 2017-09-10T10:39:00 | 271 | 13 |
[WP] A man is being tortured, and throughout the story, the reader begins to sympathize with the torturer and hate the victim.
[removed] | The room was cold, despite the bright light being shined into Franklin’s face. While clutching the arms of the chair he squirmed in, he couldn’t help but feel anxious.
“Open your mouth wide.” the masked man said. Franklin was now consumed with fear but couldn’t talk his way out of this one. With an ounce of hesitatio... | "Turn it off! Turn it off!" the man cried out.
His scraggly beard now dripping with sweat. He looked up at the man torturing him, his own green eyes wide and fearful.
The basement's ceiling behind the torturer looked dark and distant and there were a few cracks in it.
The victim's blonde hair now damp and stuck to h... | 2017-09-27T19:30:27 | 2017-09-27T18:44:11 | 482 | 282 |
[WP] A man is being tortured, and throughout the story, the reader begins to sympathize with the torturer and hate the victim.
[removed] | The room was cold, despite the bright light being shined into Franklin’s face. While clutching the arms of the chair he squirmed in, he couldn’t help but feel anxious.
“Open your mouth wide.” the masked man said. Franklin was now consumed with fear but couldn’t talk his way out of this one. With an ounce of hesitatio... | The first tooth came out with a simple yank. Jonathan screamed and writhed under the ropes.
“Stop,” I said flatly. “You’re only going to make this harder on yourself.” I cupped his lower jaw again and dug my fingers into his cheeks between his teeth. My pliers chipped his two front teeth, and I cursed the garage’s lo... | 2017-09-27T19:30:27 | 2017-09-27T18:07:20 | 482 | 118 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and now he wants payment, but in the worst typo in history he's come to collect "your sole".
If you can think of any other words that work go ahead. | "Uh, Lucifer?" I squinted at the blazing gothic text in the parchment. How I wish they would have just switched to a more legible typeface; Comic Sans would fit right in, and is at least more readable than this crap.
The demonic form of the Devil was imposing, feral features knitted into his gaunt musculature. Still, ... | The collections department sent an email with the next job. As soon as I saw the name, I knew who it was. I didn't even bother using Google Underworld to map a route. One snap of the fingers and the red walls of the underworld went streaming past.
I summoned the seven fire-breathing demons of hell, the undead, my ... | 2017-10-16T07:30:31 | 2017-10-16T03:22:17 | 77 | 10 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | “Are you sure you want to go through with this Johann?”
The aging archaeologist looked at his colleague incredulously. Hannah looked at him with a worried brow. He understood her concerns, but after the last year of preparation, of countless toil and sleepless nights, she should have known better.
“I need to know ... | Saviour of Humanity. Path to Innovation. A new light. Boundary breaking.
These were phrases used to describe the world's first quantum super-computer powered by an AI that wasn't just shitty machine learning and a bunch of if statements hashed together by sweaty unpaid interns high off of generic black coffee in artif... | 2018-07-07T19:43:24 | 2018-07-07T19:34:07 | 175 | 29 |
[WP] Two men eat dinner in an empty restaurant. One is rich and one is poor. They are good friends. In two minutes, one of them will be dead. | Jodie stared blankly out the smudged glass door of the small family restaurant, one hip resting slightly against the stained plywood countertop as she tapped one chipped nail in a steady, if absent-minded, rhythm. It was a Wednesday. Jodie hated Wednesdays. Wednesdays were somehow always the same sort of wet, dreary, a... | "Tell me, how has life been for you? All these years here?"
The speaker was an older man, perhaps fifty or sixty years, his thinning hair streaked with gray. He wore a fine suit that hung perfectly, made for his body by nimble hands. His watch shone in the light of the diner, such was the sheen of it's metal and face.... | 2018-07-30T10:07:09 | 2018-07-30T08:52:36 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] You’re psychic. It’s not a big deal, 0.5% of the population is. You keep it a secret, and you don’t eavesdrop. People’s minds are boring. Now your stuck in a room with a mind-blind idiot who keeps loudly thinking “I know you’re listening.” You want him to stop, but you can’t reveal your secret. | The buzz of mental voices around me was like white noise. I'd grown up with it and now that I was 18 years old I was pretty used to the endless buzzing of it. Once in a while someone would be interesting enough for me to pick up on, but other than that--
*I know you're listening.*
I froze, my pencil hovering over the... | Rubbing your temples you look at the clock. Five minutes have slowly dripped by, while this guy keeps mind blasting “I KNOW YOU'RE LISTENING”. You thought you could sit this one out, most people just think this thought as a gag to themselves, but they truelly do hope to one day catch a telepath. But that would really o... | 2018-12-19T05:55:54 | 2018-12-19T04:52:21 | 138 | 46 |
[WP] In the future instead of sending criminals to prison they get sent to receive new personalities. Through the magic of intensive brainwashing, criminals are reborn as law abiding citizens. You for some reason, keep committing crimes even with your new Happy-Go-Lucky personality. | I think I'm on personality construct number 27? Not sure, exactly. It gets hard to keep track past 15.
Used to be I could remember everything in crystal clarity, all the way back to my parents screaming at each other while I crawled around the carpet of our high rise apartment. Now its just fragments.
I can still ... | The walk back to the basement is slow but I don't particularly mind. The night air is fresh and the moon looks beautiful against the dark-blue sky. A soft wind blows through the air, and I am reminded that it is nights like these that make me the most happiest happy person in Primrose Town.
The large bag balancing on... | 2019-02-06T19:07:53 | 2019-02-06T18:23:45 | 70 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a tattoo that is a number between 0 and 100 representing a set aptitude of a skill, but it can be linked to things like lifespan or height. Schools test children to figure out what skill they have aptitude for. You are the first ever 0 and cant figure out what it means. | I've struggled with the ink on my wrist for as long as I can remember.
My friends and classmates were all pretty normal. Fifties and sixties for the most part, ranging from looks to academic prowess to athletics. I even knew a guy that was mid-eighties. When we took the government sponsored "Aptitude Test" in school i... | 90-ers were the stuff of legends. Paintings of Hercules had a rock-98 inscribed on his bicep, an airy-93 graced Archimedes' left hand, Raphael had a watery-94 on his forearm.
70-ers were your standard apex-achievers, Olympic athletes, prime-ministers, Ivy-league professors and the like.
50-ers were your standard work... | 2020-05-01T20:51:39 | 2020-05-01T20:23:41 | 230 | 126 |
[WP] Only a direct descendant should be able to wield your weapon, the hero's sword. When the neighbour's daughter came to play with your son, you were surprised to see her waving said sword as your son happily chased her. Your wife now looks at you with a literally chilling gaze. | "Honey I promise you I never slept with her!" I cried while backing away from my bat wielding wife. "And I don't know why you think i did!"
"Oh you don't know do you?" She replied pointing in the kitchen. "Then explain that!".
Confused I looked into the kitchen unsure of what I would see, and there in the middle of t... | The little girl held the sword high over her head, laughing as she played with their son.
Terry watched, mouth agape. This should not be happening, he thought. How? It made no sense to him. She should not be able to lift it, the Heroes Sword. Passed down from generation to generation, his bloodline alone has the abil... | 2020-06-13T06:38:39 | 2020-06-13T06:04:30 | 182 | 130 |
[WP] The Villain uncovers the Hero's true identity, and targets his family. Unfortunately, the Hero's spouse is a retired villain even more powerful than the current one. | Carol Mckenna liked her routine. She got up every morning, careful not to wake up Lou, and quietly made her way down to the kitchen. She got breakfast ready, and everyday at 7:30, began to wake up the house.
Jana and Samantha always took a little rousing, but they always got up eventually. Then she would get back... | Villains target the hero's family. It's a well established rule. Dare I say, it's a law (if we're using the self-help community as reference). As an experienced hero, I am well aware of the dangers of my career. It's not the failures that are the most dangerous, but the successes—the dominating, evil-crushing successes... | 2020-07-18T23:15:16 | 2020-07-18T21:39:44 | 498 | 153 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | "So wait, you use explosions to traverse space?"
"Uhm ... soooo ... funny story. But first we actually use controlled combustions rather than 'explosions'. It's more like very spicy fire."
The four aliens look at each other, with concern "And you don't see a problem with that? Isn't that dangerous?"
"Again, another ... | BANG!
Kalvar the Martianwas almost done with his midday ritual when he heard the noise. Surely it was...
"K to the R! What's up bro?"
"I've told you several times... My name is..."
"I know, I know, The Martian Kalvar of the Order of the Ethereal Knights. Is that your real name, or do you just put that on your resum... | 2020-08-07T17:56:13 | 2020-08-07T17:06:37 | 191 | 38 |
[WP] Everything was going smoothly for once, as you finally left the stigma of your past villainous life behind. You have a wife now, and even a little girl on the way. So why.. why did the the #1 hero have to choose the bank your wife works at to have a destructive hero vs villain battle at? | My power, my one power was useless outside of villainy. I didn't have super strength, speed, or toughness. It didn't take me long to regret ever using it in the first place. I faked my death 4 years ago, now I'm just an equipment operator at the local steel mill.
Janis works at our local bank,two blocks away. After a... | You stand at the very apex of the tallest building in the city - yours, built after you were reformed from your formerly villainous career. You stand outside your office, on a balcony overlooking the city. To your left, you notice the Hero's headquarters on fire. Even from this distance you could see people streaming o... | 2020-10-07T05:56:14 | 2020-10-07T02:17:01 | 19 | 13 |
[WP]A zombie apocalypse broke out but everyone wants to live out their Post Apocalyptic Zombie Slayer fantasy’s so all the zombies are dead in a week. |
“We interrupt this presentation of Blue Planet with a breaking news bulletin. A virus has been sweeping the southern United States turning people into zombies. The last report showed that already in only 12 hours 15,000 people have been turned into zombies. With the latest update we turn to Kelly reporting live fro... | Its strange to look at our sleepy Midwest town, and try to imagine what it looked like before. Mere hours after the radio broadcast, suburban homes and trendy coffee shops were barricaded. Shortly after they were painted with the evidence of small arms fire. Broken glass littered the streets, and no matter where you w... | 2020-10-19T18:42:36 | 2020-10-19T13:40:59 | 144 | 91 |
[WP] Sauron has been biding his time and returned to Middle Earth after thousands of years and raised an army of orcs. However, he does not know about the technological advancements of men, such as M-16s, artillery strikes, and Apache attack helicopters. | “So what’s this all about then?” The Prime Minister’s face displayed visible annoyance as his advisors filed into the 10 Downing Street Secure Intelligence Facility (a grand title for a small green-walled meeting room with a splintery table and pipe chairs that had been there since 1943). Being awoken at 3am hadn’t don... | Laurel Gamgee, great-great-great -great (lots of greats) granddaughter of Samwise called the meeting to order.
Two men, Benhan and Gondamir were in a separate conversation with three older dwarves and a hobbit named Lance. They were pouring over a map of Middle Earth.
Gondamir rose and stood slightly in front of L... | 2020-12-07T21:57:26 | 2020-12-07T21:15:14 | 334 | 36 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | A couple of months after my 21st birthday, my powers manifested. Cryokinesis. The ability to control ice and manipulate however I see fit. It’s a really cool ability. In fact so cool that practically everyone around me, friends, family and co-workers suggested I’d be a great hero for the world. They immediately started... | "Whoa, guys, now wait just a sec", I said while raising my hands in a warding gesture towards the two supes trying to threaten me with their powers.
"No more waiting, Carl", said Josh the Jellyfish. Yes, he picked that name. "Your time's up", added Rocky Rhayle. "Either you spill your secrets now or we spill your guts... | 2021-08-16T16:25:03 | 2021-08-16T14:51:45 | 324 | 80 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | Everything was Just the way it should be. The chamomiles were blooming. The snakeroots, freshly planted. And in front of her stood the Maidenhair, so tall that she could only just see the top. The leaves were just starting to change from their bright green to the brightest gold that would rival the gold the richest of ... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T21:37:31 | 1,001 | 172 |
[WP] You’ve begun to suspect the homeless girl at the Library isn’t human at all | The girl is pale and dark-haired, too thin for the coat she’s wearing. Sometimes I see her in one of the armchairs of the childrens’ section, and sometimes sitting on the floor among a pile of books in between the shelves.
It doesn’t matter how late I stay at the library, or how early I go there to visit, she’s ther... | It began quite innocuously. A rather large crowd was entering the library and we were driven together by the swathes of patrons as we ascended the stairs to the entrance and thus I bid her good day.
"Why?" she asked, stopping in place to stare at me. I found it quite unnerving.
"There is no reason, really." I explain... | 2022-01-15T12:45:29 | 2022-01-15T11:24:15 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] You are bored and you pray for true love to a forgotten god on a whim. To your utter shock, a portal opens up above your head and a solemn void says, "This compass will show you the way to your soulmate." The thing is, the compass would just point to the stars no matter where you go. | The stars stretched out the window like glowing arrows as soon as she activated hyperspace. She leaned back and geared up for the kick. Hyper-travel always made her sick.
With a jump and a soft *woosh* the ship propelled itself through the time-space-fold, then came to a halt. Rose looked around at the unfamiliar sta... | Edit: I misread the prompt. I saw it as 'pray to a forgotten god' not 'pray for true love to a forgotten god.' Oh well haha.
It had been many moons and many days since I had first received that arcane compass. One that I could not lose, even if I tried. A gift from a forgotten god whom I found myself praying to at a w... | 2022-01-24T10:07:10 | 2022-01-24T08:45:37 | 123 | 61 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | I blinked in surprise, turning from the TV in surprise as it rang.
The Red Phone.
They don't bother me lightly. I've made it clear that I value my privacy too much to get involved in every little scuffle between nations. After it leaked that the Heroes Society was trying to recruit me and Doctor Nefarious came after... | "Hey you, up there, yeah, *you*. Could you just stop? I really don't want to have to do this."
The self proclaimed Star was caught by surprise by the voice. Even more so when he looked down and saw what appeared to be a perfectly healthy - if not a bit tired - person beneath him.
"Huh," Star muttered to himself, he ... | 2022-03-29T10:06:36 | 2022-03-29T08:55:13 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You and 5 other people are transported to a warehouse. You hear a voice over the intercom. "I'm going to hunt y'all down, and whoever is the last man standing gets to live. Y'all have 10 seconds to start running" | Guys, wait!
If we stick together, like stay in a group, it's 6 versus 1. The odds are in our favour.
So, let's go find some weapons, together and show this asshole who is the boss. Or bosses.
I heaed some bitching about what if the asshole has a gun or a bow and arrow?
Well, we are in a warehouse. So let's cho... | "I'm going to hunt y'all down, and whoever is the last man standing gets to live. Y'all have ten seconds to start running."
I sat down and crossed my legs. Sure the concrete was unforgiving, but I knew it well. I should. I'd been in the warehouse for seventy years. Well, by my time. I think outside it was still around... | 2022-07-16T04:37:10 | 2022-07-16T03:06:46 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Sleeping soul so innocent
awakens in a blaze. Knowing not
where she is. She wanders on for
days. Beasts with horns and pointed tails
with fire in their eyes, spent the day wondering
the cause of her demise. She was too young,
too filled with life. How does one so very
small have such a shortened time. "We ca... | "This is complete torture." Klatch said oblivious to the irony in his words.
Every second spent not punishing filthy heathens felt like a millennia. Yet here he was pacing back and forth with no one to release his frustrations on.
"Um... I'm really sorry sir, I bet this is my fault some how." she stares at Klatchs ho... | 2013-11-26T16:25:34 | 2013-11-26T15:52:45 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] Humans' ancestors never evolved on land, instead they went deeper into the oceans. Today, their equivalent of NASA sent their first "spaceship" out of the water. | Sun. It overpowered all her senses, spreading through her nervous system like jellyfish venom. Its heat pierced her protective suit, its light penetrated her goggles like they were nothing and ringing; the weight of the earth seemed to be bearing down on her shoulders and ringing, endless ringing was the only thing she... | The entire nation waited in their homes, in the open areas, anywhere a viewer was. We waited for hours. We'd all seen the previous probes, launched into the Outer. We knew what to expect: A strange second world above ours, foreign but familiar. It was populated by so many strange and wonderful forms of life, adapt... | 2015-04-19T20:33:21 | 2015-04-19T20:32:15 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | "Really?" I asked in wonder, as I prepared the needle for the latest mark.
"Yep." was the simple response.
I'd wondered for a long time the meaning, but I had no idea why until today.
"Wow," I replied, still shocked, "You must be very talented..." He nodded again as I trailed off.
"Every time. Just gotta get th... | "Brooke, he's here again." my assistant informed me. I took a look at the way he's looking and there it is, my favorite customer.
I never really got the chance to ask him why but every couple of weeks, without fail, he comes here just to get inked with a tic to add on his almost-covered right arm of endless other tics... | 2016-07-09T18:17:55 | 2016-07-09T09:19:24 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | "Really?" I asked in wonder, as I prepared the needle for the latest mark.
"Yep." was the simple response.
I'd wondered for a long time the meaning, but I had no idea why until today.
"Wow," I replied, still shocked, "You must be very talented..." He nodded again as I trailed off.
"Every time. Just gotta get th... | I turn at the some of the door opening. It had been a quiet day in the parlour and I was happy to welcome any paying customer. Except him. He fills me only with fear. I don't know what his name is, nor do I know anything else about him. Since the first day he walked into the parlour, when he explained the tattoo he wan... | 2016-07-09T18:17:55 | 2016-07-09T13:31:47 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Have you ever considered, you know, doing something with your lives Seamus?" Death sat next to me in the pub, taking a swig of his pint.
"What do you mean!? I've finally perfected the brew, can't you taste how amazing this is? I have it on good authority that it's the best in the universe!"
"Seamus, you perfected th... | Call me Nathan. I died last night, but I am not afraid.
I learned two centuries ago that there are winners and there are losers. I am a loser – but I’m clever. I reach into my pocket and pull out a little black coin and look it over briefly. I might not be a terribly skilled man, but I know how to get by.
I look up a... | 2016-09-23T09:14:52 | 2016-09-23T08:06:29 | 2,418 | 115 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | *4..3..2..1.. Just breathe, Ginger. Five seconds at a time. You can take five more seconds of this moron.*
Steven Gelster, the bane of my existence. As a human, anyway. A reminder to all you bosses out there: you may be ranked higher than your employees, but never underestimate us. Especially when we happen to be an o... | Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick TIck Tick...
Ah, fuck this. Usually at the 15th tick, ballsfuckity mcgee (Jason Fallus) usually comes over and gives his "annual report" consisting of passive aggressive callouts to random people "shaming" them for things they should improve on. It's great when everyone knows who it's dir... | 2017-02-19T09:58:18 | 2017-02-19T08:16:27 | 211 | 38 |
[WP] You have finally slain the Dragon and set to loot his treasure chest. However, all that's inside is a macaroni drawing of him... | To the castle I go off in the distance,
For humans and dragons have no co-existence,
Sharpened my sword for 3 long days,
Off on my feet the trail I ablaze,
Training for months and training for years,
This dragon has terrorized us all into fears,
Creep through the door I don't mak... | "Do you have *any* idea what you've done?"
Stan dropped the paper, letting it fall to his feet with a starchy crunch. He hadn't heard the woman walk up behind him, but nonetheless there she was: all four feet of her, bristling with anger from her pointed crown all the way down to her high-heel wearing toes.
"Uh...s... | 2017-03-21T12:34:38 | 2017-03-21T11:56:06 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | "I hereby pass onto you all of my assets. My fortune, my companies, my investments, are all yours!" It was going exactly how I imagined it. Except it wasn't me doing the talking. It was self-made billionaire Jack Stevens.
"I'm sorry, what?" I could only sputter as the crowd of onlookers stared. Was this a joke? Had h... | The barista gave Todd a weird-looking loonie for change. The metal had gone brown, and green fuzz covered the Queen's face. On his way out, Todd held the ugly loonie in the center of his palm.
"Ew," he said to himself.
The loonie was fascinatingly gross, like one of those videos online where people knife open massive... | 2017-08-21T03:04:39 | 2017-08-21T00:27:32 | 786 | 308 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | The drugs kicked in while the doctors all said, "easy now," but Jess felt fine because it meant she'd get to play. Every time her heart stopped, she went to the place she deemed the *cave in her head*. It was where the shadows all dripped, and where the man in black lived with his games.
He was there, waiting, with a... | I won, another victory. All my life I was a player. Simon says at the age of two, then moved to checkers and finally chess. My fortune was acquired through playing Texas Hold'em. I remember exactly the end of my life. A slight intoxication around a table filled with Chinatown Mafia. Cigarette smoke encircled us, like a... | 2018-03-21T08:55:47 | 2018-03-21T08:37:16 | 426 | 20 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | The congregation settled. Thirty five platforms assembled around the room, each mimicking the average habitable area of each races planet.
The Forůk; small igneous, but humanoid forms, cracked stone like plates and almost molten glowing cores emanating from their centers, like a living volcano. Floating on a similarl... | Part 1/?
My agent forwarded me the latest stack of TV interview requests, speaking engagements, book deals. There were also various requests to appear at middle schools and high schools to support "Women in STEM" efforts. Diane Widener, trailblazer in modern science, blah blah blah. Not even a "doctor" in front of my ... | 2019-01-18T12:53:56 | 2019-01-18T11:27:40 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | "Fifty-seven."
The man spat out a bit of blood and shook his head. "Fifty-seven what? What the hell are you going on about?"
"Fifty-seven," I replied, pacing around the chair to which he was currently secured. "That's my current all-time record."
"You're a lunatic!"
Well, he wasn't wrong. I laughed.
"That's as may... | I nearly jump out of my car. I’m late. The one time where seconds count, I’ve been stuck behind a street cleaner for the last mile. Am I annoyed? Undoubtably yes, but I have a job to do today. And if I do it right, this just might be the start of a long lasting new career. But I have to run, the smaller the crowd when... | 2019-01-30T06:23:21 | 2019-01-30T02:50:54 | 194 | 145 |
[WP] My wife told me there was someone at the door. I asked if it was a penguin, and she was confused. I asked again, banging the table, if it was a penguin. She looked outside the window, and to her surprise, it was. I cocked my shotgun. So it begins. | I threw open the door, and thrust the barrel into its stupid chubby chest.
"I told you never to return here."
It looked at me with its dead, soulless eyes, unfazed by the 12 gauge bearing down on it. I knew what it wanted, but it would have to pry it from my dead, cold fingers. Angered by its disregard for my threat,... | It's been 15 years and somehow I knew. I knew sister Isabelle would come back from hell. Her screams haunt my sleep from time to time and it's only become more frequent these past few weeks. I got a call monday saying that a Nun had stopped by my office asking for me, well a penguin was what the message said. Tuesday I... | 2019-02-08T22:33:26 | 2019-02-08T19:17:31 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying, "Wait...one's still here?" | The last living being in the universe was huddled over the last pocket of energy, waiting. Waiting for it to all end. There was nothing left here. Everything else that had ever existed had long wasted away, slipping into the cold grip of entropy. There were stars that would never shine again. Faces that would no longer... | The ground shook gently, but the sky remained serene. The day was dark, veiled in a reddish hue as the pale white dwarf star drew its last breath.
Kelvin yawned as he drank his tea. It was chamomile, the only one of the two tea plants he cultivated. The other wasn't from his home planet, it was a more exotic tea. He a... | 2019-02-22T19:47:12 | 2019-02-22T17:36:48 | 140 | 57 |
[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | Cerberus. Cherubus. Chubbus. Chubby Pupperus. Chumbawumba. Chuck. Chonk. Chief. Charles Doggerton Whizhydrant the 3rd.
Even now one head was snuggling against my leg, the long rattlesnake tail behind him swooshed back and forth happily with maraca pace, this dog head as thick around as my thigh already. The middle was... | The Lucy Files: Mr. Ichabezer
Hi, my names Lucy. I’m eight years old and I live in a small town where almost nothing ever happens. And this is not my story.
This is the story of my neighbor, Mr.Ichabezer. He is NOT a happy man. He’s like a character straight out of a haunted house, like one that everyone in town wou... | 2019-07-04T09:11:58 | 2019-07-04T08:23:39 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You own a small specialty meat purveyor. You and your crew inspect, purchase, slaughter, and butcher the animals yourselves. Years ago, on a whim, you started whispering "for Apollo" at each kill. You've just dispatched the firm's 10,000th cow. | The singing was nice. It calmed the cows and showed a bit of compassion to them before they died. If I didn't know any better I'd say the singer was one of mine. The owner of the singing was nice too. She knew just where to cut so the death was quick and painless. Very dignified for a cow if you ask me.
I watched the... | Hey first time writing here and also sorry for formatting I’m doing this on mobile.
It’s a momentous occasion really, 10,000 cows, it’s such a large number but for us it meant a lot. When I started working here the company was close to bankruptcy. Nobody wanted to buy meat of any kind with our price tag on it, after a... | 2019-07-09T08:22:55 | 2019-07-09T07:54:11 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You've always been around your best friend. He used to be a lonely kid, but he's slowly starting to become popular. Others talk to him, but keep ignoring you. One day, to your horror, you realize that you're just his imaginary friend. | Ricky's frown left as he joined me in the treehouse as his eyes met mine. I too feel a smile spread upon my face. I don't know how long it has been since I last seen him, but it feels like forever.
"I've missed you, dude. How was camp? Fun?" I asked him.
"No. It wasn't your usual camp, it was one where they just gave... | I finally realized what I was today, just my best and only friend's imaginary friend. It shook me to my core figuring out that I'm not even real that I'm just a figment of someone's imagination because I had always believed that I was real. I had convinced myself that I was in fact real when the whole world ignored me ... | 2019-10-08T08:56:40 | 2019-10-08T06:05:49 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | The hero, having remained ever vigilant as the final moments dwindled before the final confrontation, recounted his life's milestones.
His first time remembering what rain was like, first day at home school, the last time he'd seen his father at 7 years of age, the first time he's tried to escape the facility he was... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T12:25:18 | 949 | 133 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | Director Wisnewski tapped his pen against the notepad in front of him nonchalantly, every few moments switching his attention between the blank paper, and the cutting-edge Mech Suit standing before his desk.
Despite the high-tech facemask between them, Miko still felt like he could see right into her eyes. With... | She burst through the double doors into what I assume is a dining room. Quite an odd place to be tied to a chair I'll admit, though its not like I should be picky where my kidnapper is keeping me. My kidnapper is holding a big silver tray tools for torture just underneath the cover I'm sure. "Hello... I-I'm Lilith" the... | 2021-10-21T11:50:23 | 2021-10-21T11:49:56 | 908 | 112 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | The large calico stepped forward, yellow eyes gleaming. "I am Darkclaw. You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?"
I blinked. The dozen cats behind this one -- Darkclaw, evidently -- had stopped moving and turned to watch. One, a tabby, had a few feathers sticking out of its mouth.
I glance... | "Er, I don't want anything. I just want to keep her." I said awkwardly to the swarm of cats in my front yard. I was keeping my hands closed and near my chest, guarding something.
"Give her back or we will declare war on you." The white spotted tabby demanded angrily, pointing a paw at the kitten in my hands.
I ... | 2021-12-21T11:55:44 | 2021-12-21T11:12:13 | 175 | 105 |
[WP] When a person meets their soulmate they get butterflies in their stomach, as someone with severe anxiety you don't know if the person you just met was your soulmate or you just have anxiety. | Like anything, Ben thought, there were degrees to love. The high points, celebrity meets cutes and the like, were constant news to fill the twenty-four hour cycles. So-and-so met so-and-so and sparks ensued. A look passed over cups of coffee, or a book was pulled off a shelf at just the right moment for its author, bus... | I was sitting in my usual spot at the coffee shop, nursing a latte and feeling sorry for myself, when I saw her. She was standing on the sidewalk, just outside the window, and I knew it was her. The butterflies in my stomach turned into a nauseating flutter and I couldn't tell if it was love or my anxiety.
... | 2022-01-15T10:24:50 | 2022-01-15T09:18:08 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work." | "What does it do?" I asked.
"The histories are... contradictory on that point," admits the instructor. "Nothing immediate, except when it is. Nothing blatant, except on rare occasion. The people who successfully wielded it all became great, though... not in the same way as each other. And their accounts of its powers ... | The dark, empty training hall seemed to echo each of Asper's breaths. He held the twig in front of him in the First Stance, grounded with one foot forward. His eyes were fixed on the training dummy in-front of him. It's impassive cloth face seemed to shift under the moonlight that filtered through the slatted windows.
... | 2022-01-20T00:21:57 | 2022-01-19T22:38:30 | 183 | 118 |
[WP] When two people fall in love, they receive an object that is the physical embodiment of that love. It changes as their feelings change towards each other and destroying it can have drastic consequences. How does this change the nature of relationships? | On the first date by the sea, our love was a ring. A normal look for these types of things.
It hugs my finger so well, this is the love I needed. I can tell.
At the first kiss it was a boat. Roped at the docks where our love first took float.
Our first anniversary was a beautiful tale, and our hearts boat sprung ... | At first a flame pendant, it was cliché they knew but they did not mind. The rushing emotions of their love did it justice. The fierceness of the love they shared was an extension of their embodiment. The fire vindicated them, a symbol for each other, of the joy they shared in each other's company. It was a precious th... | 2014-05-03T15:00:16 | 2014-05-03T14:31:07 | 124 | 22 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I blinked. Rubbed my eyes. I remember those first few seconds. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing at the time. Even now I still can’t. Stretched across her face was a single word in large capital letters. KILL. Bold, dark, intimidating; paradox-like presented atop her angel-white skin.
But she was my daughter and I... | From the moment Hannah was born, we gave up hope of her following in our footsteps- you know med school, top of the class, private practice, and a comfortable life that never lets anything as trivial as money stand in the way of a valuable existential experience. Honestly, I didn't aknowledge her as mine until the DNA... | 2014-05-11T01:50:33 | 2014-05-10T23:56:37 | 136 | 17 |
[WP] The secret to lucid dreaming is out. Everyone now wants to spend as much time as possible asleep, in their own private utopia. | It's pretty tough reaching the bread in the cupboard. It's the last slice in the packet and it's gone a little green on one side but I can cut that off. The knives aren't clean, either, but I wipe one on the corner of my shorts and slice it away. The bread looks a little sad without it. I put it in the toaster and pres... | People thought it was great, being able to control your dreams.
Think about it. People with no life suddenly became the most popular people on the planet, with gorgeous women hanging off their every word and money to burn. World leaders had the means to control situations to help them with problems. All this, played ... | 2014-10-16T06:26:04 | 2014-10-16T06:11:20 | 74 | 24 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Ok, I get it. I'm dead."
"Yes sir."
"I mean, the last thing I remember is hearing the squeal of brakes, and turning and seeing this truck grill far too close. So I'm either dead, or in a coma and this is a very vivid hallucination."
"Oh, I'd go with the last one if i were you sir."
"Right, well. Ok the... | Baxter walked down the long tunnel of light. It grew brighter and brighter until his eyes began to water. Finally, the light abated and he found himself at the ticketing counter at O'Hare.
He took a couple shuffling steps toward the counter.
"Umm, hello?"
A rather short man climbed his way up onto the counter.
"Gre... | 2016-03-07T17:17:57 | 2016-03-07T16:17:57 | 621 | 84 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | The city hums with life. The people oozing by like a faceless blob.
On good days I dive into the grime, and pull out society's cancerous refuse. Other days I acknowledge we've lost a member of blue. He crossed the line, and went dirty. There's no coming back once you're a crooked cop.
.55. My birthday was only a few ... | Baxter walked down the long tunnel of light. It grew brighter and brighter until his eyes began to water. Finally, the light abated and he found himself at the ticketing counter at O'Hare.
He took a couple shuffling steps toward the counter.
"Umm, hello?"
A rather short man climbed his way up onto the counter.
"Gre... | 2016-03-07T19:21:03 | 2016-03-07T16:17:57 | 128 | 84 |
[WP] A group of aliens is baffled by the fact we still have organized religions at this stage of development. To get answers, they abduct two spiritual leaders for questioning. To be more specific, they grab Pope Francis and the leader of ISIS... | "Oh hey guys, we're from the invisible phase-differentiated civilization geographically located in what you would call Antarctica" said Stpmorp.
"I suppose that makes you aliens to us" mused Pope Francis.
"Not to me! I knew they were there all along, what I don't know is why they've taken us here!" Said Amun-Ra.
"W... |     His Holiness tilted his head to look upon on the foul-smelling, opiate-addeled Moslem manacled next to him.
    "You people don't seem to know what a religion is if you think he counts as a leader," said aloud to no one in particular, unusuall... | 2016-05-30T13:29:44 | 2016-05-30T13:28:53 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | I hope I didn't fuck up the Algebra section. God I hope I didn't. The next battery of questions hits. Historical facts, easy ones though. "Who lost at the Battle of Waterloo?", "When was the United States Founded?" ,"Where was the last battle of World War 3 fought", "Which country was first to violate the Geneva Conven... | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 2016-06-11T09:36:07 | 187 | 116 |
[WP] The witch is buying first-borns to rescue them from shitty parents who sell their children. | There is a strange sort of magic in being the first of something. I should know. I was born eons ago, to a young woman who lived in a tribe that hunted on the grasslands. I was the first albino. I was the first child to be abandoned.
I have within me great power, and a great tenderness. I am old now. Ancient beyond re... | Dan’s fingers trembled uncontrollably as he picked up the folded letter at the bottom of his basket. Trying his best to shake off the crushing sense of dread that had settled in his bosom, he unfolded the letter and began reading.
Suddenly, abruptly, Dan turned tail and took off like a hare, racing back towards the co... | 2017-01-06T11:51:48 | 2017-01-06T11:08:08 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | "Daddy! Look! Shooting stars!"
Joseph Barker looks up at the night sky and feels a chill run down his spine. Indeed, there were shooting stars. But years of work developing some of Earth's defense systems meant he knew they weren't meteorites. He watches in terror as Earth's defense grid burns. "Yes Jacob. ... | *Going to try a 40k spin... [for those unaware, this is an existing universe for the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000] if anyone unfamiliar wants an explanation about how that setting affects the story, do just ask and I will try to give an effective one...*
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For millennia the human inhabitants of Hertius Prime had... | 2017-03-26T09:19:46 | 2017-03-26T07:23:46 | 74 | 43 |
[WP] A mother notices her young son has been spending an excessive amount of time playing a game on his computer. She forces him to go outside and play for the day. She ends up playing the game out of curiosity but notices some disturbing messages in it that little children would not pick up on. | "It's a simple game," Carol thought as she sat through the game's tutorial. Collect materials and build a fantasy world. Carol could see why her son, Jason, is so invested in this innocent game. She spent the first half-hour chopping pixelated trees and breaking blocky rocks. Relaxing. After gathering enough material, ... | Edith flicked the pen between her fingers and tapped the end against her forehead. Her eyes switched between three spots. A large internet browser on the bottom left of her skin showing the min-max statistics of a melee DPS mage, a piece of gridded paper on her desk working out the time-to-EXP calculations for each mob... | 2017-05-06T11:11:45 | 2017-05-06T10:07:34 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | I smiled. I couldn´t stop it. The view was too fantastic.
"Eric, please stop this.". Oh the whimpering i heard in her voice. " Stop it? WHY should i stop it? You always said you wanted a son who could achieve something great, and now look. Look at this. Isn´t this something truly great?". Ah, she can´t look. Can´t lo... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T05:44:01 | 52 | 25 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | “Okay okay okay. Stay calm. It’s okay. We’re all calm,” I said. Fifteen years was a long time to wait for a baby to pop out of the womb. I had spent the whole time eating nachos and drinking beer, but I’m sure it wasn’t a pleasant experience for my wife. But now her water broke and weird lady things have started to hap... | "Alright, thanks. I'll let you know if she can make it," I set my phone down on the nightstand, massaged my temples, and sighed, then flopped out of bed and into my slippers. Ever since we got a hardwood floor (the dust was making the pregnancy difficult, she had said), it'd been too cold to walk around barefoot.
My ... | 2017-07-08T02:06:06 | 2017-07-07T22:50:23 | 92 | 63 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | “Okay okay okay. Stay calm. It’s okay. We’re all calm,” I said. Fifteen years was a long time to wait for a baby to pop out of the womb. I had spent the whole time eating nachos and drinking beer, but I’m sure it wasn’t a pleasant experience for my wife. But now her water broke and weird lady things have started to hap... | Stone baby, thats what the doctor said. "The fetus has died and begun to calcify, if we don't perform a c-section and remove it she could suffer major organ failure and die aswell" I wiped the tears from my face with the end of my sleeve balled up in my hand from the stress as I heard the doctor give me the news. I TOL... | 2017-07-08T02:06:06 | 2017-07-08T00:29:08 | 92 | 32 |
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