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[WP] After you die, you reach purgatory to be seated in an audience of all human souls. God and Satan announce their retirement and are individually interviewing all humans present to choose their replacement. Most people want to replace God, you want to replace Satan. | Finally youve gotten to the front of the line. You were sick of standing next to those goth-emo-whatever wanna be satanists. When the black stone doors open before you and you enter the gloomy red hall, you think this place could really use a make over. It looks far too stereotypical even for the devil himself.
**"Hel... | "Let me get this straight."
"Ironic."
"You... actually *want* to be me?"
"Mhm."
He squints at me, his thick brows furrowed. His demonic shape doesn't intimidate me at all, rather, I'd like to have one like that myself. Maybe I'll have an extra set of eyes, who knows.
"...why!?"
He looks at me as if I'm crazy. I s... | 2021-03-31T15:57:25 | 2021-03-31T10:12:05 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | “This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM or 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable.”
I was stunned, a spoonful of ramen h... | "Why?" I had asked as the teacher finished reciting the Curfew.
Everyone in the room had turned to look at me as if I had gone insane. It only took a moment before I realized the mistake that I had made. In this town no one ever asked *why*. I knew about Curfew ever since I learned to speak. It was ingrained into my ... | 2018-04-18T11:27:41 | 2018-04-18T09:49:31 | 91 | 54 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | "Any questions or motions?" asked one of the chairmen. "Delegates who wish to speak please raise your placards now"
"NATO representatives, you have one minute"
His words were followed by a distinct, even comfortable, sound— that of a gavel beating against wood. There were dozens of people in the room, ranging from ... | First Contact. Metreidies Prime. To Ro Christian, looking over the precipice as if over the sweep of historical record, it was such an obvious honey pot.
“Temper your chrono-exceptionalism,” she whispered to herself. There were many other apt descriptors for her teacher, Andro Frafare--”flatulent”, “inebriated”, “... | 2020-07-09T07:08:48 | 2020-07-09T04:40:02 | 59 | 30 |
[WP] After a long and tedious process you were chosen to be the first ever human to test the new way of travel - the Teleport. All previous tests on objects and animals were very successful. Zero side effects. But after using the machine yourself you immediately notice a difference. | The light was bright. He closed his eyelids, but couldn't escape the blinding light. His eyelids probably weren't there, he scoffed.
He started blinking rapidly and heard the door hiss behind him, the humidity turning into fog as it fell into the room behind him. He was still blinking, the dark spots on his eyes made ... | I staggered out the teleportation pod, dazed and confused. Trying to maintain balance by grabbing the side of the pod, I look around at the wry faces of disgusted yet fascinated faces of the scientists who had worked on the project.
"W-What happened...?" I mutter, struggling to maintain form as my balance loosens once... | 2020-05-30T08:10:48 | 2020-05-30T02:57:11 | 201 | 131 |
[WP] Overnight Australia inexplicably and uncataclysmically moved and made landfall with California. A natural wall was made in the process. Overcome with terror the nation has appointed you a member of the newly formed "Spiderwatch" and your watch has just begun. | They use *“uncataclysmically”* as if to say, “*look, we get that this whole debacle sucks, but at least the earth isn’t ripped in half!”*
As if an entire continent shifting thousands of miles overnight is normal. Let me tell you: *it’s not normal!* Continents don’t just up and leave like an angry patron at an underst... | Hilariously, I’m Australian and have no intention of saving anyone. I kick back & wait for the giggles to ensue. I name all the huntsmans Fred and appoint them the front line in my scuttling army of eight legged friends.
Afterwards I crylaugh as I post a compilation video on YouTube of people completely losing th... | 2019-04-22T19:49:40 | 2019-04-22T18:12:51 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] The last thing you remember is the truck, then nothing but darkness surrounding you. “Welcome to the Afterlife,” the disembodied voice said. “Choose any story you’ve ever read and you will be transmigrated to that world in the peak of health.” | I stared into... nothing really. All it was, was a blank void of blackness, that seemed to host nothing but the voice announcing my death. It was kind of anti-climatic if I was being honest. One moment alive, next here without a transition or anything to get me accustomed to my surroundings. Speaking of which, I wasn't... | A recursion is a repeating loop.
“Gosh,” I said, “really?”
YES.
I thought of the books I had read. Depressingly they were all non-fiction. I named one.
INTERESTING CHOICE, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA.
I nodded.
ALRIGHT THEN. IF YOU WISH.
I didn’t really have a choice.
Then I felt the air, heard the birds, smelt the damp ... | 2022-08-20T03:24:58 | 2022-08-19T22:30:56 | 67 | 23 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | This carnival was shit. The clowns looked stupid, the animals were boring, and even the food was awful. I don’t like carnivals to begin with, even as a kid, but at least the food was always good. Hot and greasy, covered in sugar or butter. But this food was stale and rotten. Shit, just shit.
When my boyfriend, Matt, ... | "You must save the world from....The Darkness.", the old man said. What the hell is The Darkness? Jeezus. I just came into the bar to get a damn drink and this old guy, who looks like 100 or something, shows up beside me. "Dude, are you off your meds or something?" The old guy blinked, "No, I have no need for your Mort... | 2017-05-05T07:15:00 | 2017-05-05T07:05:07 | 40 | 20 |
[WP] When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon.
Have fun! :D | Her name was Asha. She was of the People, the proud few who lived on the hard land of stone and sky. Her hair was the color of the basalt that towered from the broken mesas, and her eyes were the turquoise of the jewelry that most of the People wore. She had come of age, and no partner had come. No one who could match ... | It's impossible to say that what we were doing that day was right. Falling in love was strictly against every law. A lot of people had denied the fact that love created the scars on our planet for years, but we couldn't anymore. So what was I here with her? We'd started liking one another, and we should have been separ... | 2015-12-03T12:28:24 | 2015-12-03T12:04:53 | 712 | 31 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | My father loads his rifle full of bullets. I asked him,"What are you doing dad?" "Well, my mug says number two, and James's mug says number one. I must be number one." He raises his rifle and fires. Killing his life long friend. He grabbed his mug from the table and saw it turn from #2 to #4569. My father laughed and s... | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 2017-06-11T08:09:34 | 222 | 42 |
[WP] You'd summoned the demon intending to sell your soul, so it came as a bit of a surprise when the demon refused, and offered you a soul instead. | There were two homeless people who regularly accosted me on my way to work. It was obnoxious, having to switch sides of the street on occasion to avoid the inevitable ten minute "conversation" where I was fed the same lie about how a "car broke down" or "my sister is waiting at a hotel for me I just need to make a call... | First ever submission!
“It’s mine” he mumbled under his breath.
Robert had never seen such a thing. It’s one thing to have the chance to meet a demon and strike a deal, it’s a whole other thing to see such a defeated soul. The demon can be described with one word – terror. He had curled horns that have been calcifyin... | 2022-09-01T14:17:56 | 2022-09-01T12:54:50 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | She was old, my sweet Halley. Twelve years - nine of which we'd spent together after I pulled her from a shelter. Her legs were failing, her kidneys likewise. She was going blind. I wanted nothing but to discover if she was still happy, or if it was time to let her die easily. It didn't go to my plan - quite.
"Al... | I knew I really couldn't afford the Intelect pill AND pay my rent that month, but the commercials made it seem so special and interesting. People hugging their pets, giggling at their smart wit, deepening that bond between them... It sounded to good to be true. Sadly, one pill was $500, so not everyone got to try. I ha... | 2017-02-23T07:07:51 | 2017-02-23T06:22:01 | 57 | 22 |
[WP] As one of the lonely few chosen, you take care of a world where everyone is always bedridden on VR, leading a successful "life." One day, while injecting food into people, you suddenly wake up on a hospital bed wearing a VR Headset, and a doctor saying "Whoops." | I drove the Remo into Cradle 18. Cradle 18 hosted 360 bodies, and was the oldest still in service. It was to be retired, 360 pods to be moved into the brand new 16,000 places Cradle 912. With brand new pods that didn't just maintain perfect muscle tone, perfect health, ideal environment and all the new safeguards, but ... | She is old
Wrinkled eyelid curtains
Let in tea-stained light
Through dusty windows
*Thank you*
She recognises me
And frowns
And although I do not know her
There is something of a mirror
And I see myself inside it
I see a thankless life ... | 2018-05-25T07:40:14 | 2018-05-25T06:10:01 | 60 | 33 |
[WP] Adrenaline is an evolutionary trait specific to Earth. When alien species are tired they sleep and not even a threat to their life will wake them. Which is why the pirates that boarded your spaceship are shocked to find you've not only jumped out of bed fully alert but are fighting back! | "Most aliens know, that humans have a hormone called adrenaline. In emergency situations their bodies get flooded with it, allowing them to reach the hysterical limit of their bodies.
Due to the quite hostile nature of their home planet and their evolutionary path of almost not offensive and defensive means, but an un... | in the depth of space a single signal, sent from the center of the cosmos, begins a vibration
in the ensuing ripple of energy is the essence of being .......controlled by a force beyond comprehension
as the momentum builds a birth of awareness brings a release of sweat pouring from every possible location on the body... | 2021-01-27T05:41:06 | 2021-01-26T23:40:39 | 155 | 10 |
[WP] Ever since you turned 18, every day, without fail, one random person tackles you to the ground, covers you as if they're protecting you from something, inspects you to see if you're ok, lets you up, dusts you off, and walks off without another word. One day, you dodge one... | At my feet lay the crumpled figure of a defeated man. He looked just like anyone else on the street, a simple hoodie and jeans, but after 4 months of this torture I could see the difference. The slight bulge of elbow and knee pads, the simple shades and ballcap combo that made a face impossible to recognize, and the wr... | ... and then I immediately get shot in the head. Strangely, I did not die. I was still conscious but I couldn't see anything, I couldn't feel anything. Then, oddly, some text appeared in front of my eyes, it was in a strange and very alien language... but it started to make sense, it simply read: "Game over" and then a... | 2019-01-28T16:54:33 | 2019-01-28T16:17:37 | 2,452 | 161 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | The vWall in my apartment flickered to life, a flash immediately appearing to signal an emergency bulletin.
I stopped gumming my sandwich long enough to hit the mute button before that fucking baby President Burris started talking. They all looked like babies to me. It'd been long enough that I couldn't remember being... | My back aches. My knee’s gone funny somehow- I now use a cane to go about my day. Four legs to two legs to three legs. The good ol’ riddle. But the people around me, all puppy fat and doe eyes, they’ve gone the other way. Memories like grains of sand. I doubt there’s any thought left in those pretty little heads. Heh.
... | 2018-06-04T21:03:55 | 2018-06-04T20:51:56 | 1,108 | 45 |
[WP] Humanity has begun to explore the stars, but continually finds we are the most developed species, most alien species are still evolving. Suddenly, a message is transmitted to all human ships simultaneously, “WARDENS, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR DUTY?” The signal itself is not of human origin. | That's how I remember it, anyway. We'd spent decades preparing for the singularity. But as the years passed, it became clear we weren't on the "sudden intelligence explosion" timeline. 2030, 2045, 2099 -- it's 2130 now, if you can believe it. I've lived a long and healthy life (will be 155 in a few months, feel like 50... | “Wardens, do you not understand your duty?” The transmission of unknown origin broadcasted on all Star Cruisers from the 8th fleet coming back from a trade mission on the tribal planet 072/12. Slight panic broke out amongst Contact Officers trying to find out the source of the message and confirming the broadcast of th... | 2019-05-08T14:24:57 | 2019-05-08T14:21:07 | 90 | 22 |
[WP] An astronaut witnesses a thermonuclear war from space
"Glad that's not our planet!"
But seriously, s/he would be screwed. What now? | The world slowly turned beneath them, the slow beast lumbering through the day and night, through time and space.
Their line to mission control had been dead for hours at this point, and she and her fellow astronauts had been getting desperate. Tim was continually on the line, constantly trying, but never getting a r... | It was quite beautiful, really, the way that the mushroom clouds sprang up from bright flashes like a sped up version of their terrestrial counterparts. The clouds lingered, and the Earth was covered in thermonuclear fungi at every corner. Boston, Munich, Mombasa, Shanghai. Each and every city looked like something tha... | 2014-01-15T18:39:22 | 2014-01-15T18:18:15 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Since you were five you have been able to save and reload the world like a game, but people are starting to catch on and remeber thing from timelines that never even happened. Worse is, you have decided to kill everyone just to see what would happen. | It was simple. In five seconds, she would walk through the door. She'd walk away from me, toward the elevator. Fifteen steps, and then a thirty second pause while she waited for the elevator to reach our floor. I'd leave my room two seconds after the doors open, shouting for her to hold the door as it closes. I'd barel... | It was easier than I expected. Buy some guns, ammo, explosives, walk into Times Square. Point, squeeze, repeat, reload, repeat. Law enforcement arrived before the third minute; I caught a bullet in the shoulder as I ran inside the closet of the nearest store. Ok let's try this again...
...
Why am I still here...
..... | 2016-01-01T18:30:44 | 2016-01-01T13:45:19 | 72 | 17 |
[WP] The Earth's crust is actually almost paper-thin and there's nothing below it. Barely around ten to twenty feet of dirt. Geologists have known this for years, maybe even centuries, but for various reasons have told no one. This begs the question, what are the mine shafts and wells digging into? | “We don’t talk about it.” The old miner furrowed his brow, a look of flat refusal “If you’ve got any sense, college boy, neither will you.”
“No way I could change your mind?” I motioned the bartender, a middle-aged women with hard eyes and a petrified scowl. “Another for my friend here, and same for me.”
“I *aint* ye... | I think the most maddening thing about the thinness of our crust is not that it is so thin but that there truly is nothing down there.
From one end to the next it is 100% hollow. Not even oxygen or nitrogen or any other gasses, it's basically a perfect vacuum.
You may be wondering how it stays a secret but that's a... | 2019-11-05T16:26:47 | 2019-11-05T14:37:12 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] In an effort to ward off Death and live forever, you have created a safe room filled with all kind of talismans, good luck charms, and magic circles. It doesn't work: The Reaper found you anyway and you die just the same. Only, now neither of you can seem to get out past all the wards. | ***Part I: The Situation Looks Grim***
My mind raced through my checklist. Had I missed anything? The magic circles were all intact, the talismans were all in the right places, the doors and windows all had salt in front of them... nothing was out of place. I checked my watch for the umpteenth time that day. Sure ... | I knew I would die on my 38th birthday, but I wanted every last breath. I may not live forever, but it doesn't mean I have to give in without a fight. All the tricks my grandfather taught me though weren't enough to even slow him. I hid in my grandfather's cabin like he told me, but, on my 38th birthday, Death showed u... | 2016-12-30T20:54:07 | 2016-12-30T19:11:43 | 170 | 20 |
[WP] Humanity finally reaches the stars, and they quickly learn that every other race has had at least one god assisting them in their growth; Needless to say, the other races are horrified when they find out that humanity killed their god. | Every race had a god at their side, helping them, guiding them. Some through magic, others through technology. Each god had a touch of divinity that was their focus, shaped by the will of the race they guided. This was the stated laws of the universe given to us by every god and race we had encountered. Any race that l... | "So you did what again?" The purple moving octopus asked in disbelief. And I responded in kind, "We- I mean our ancestors, killed him." his exasperation was only matched by mine as he's been asking the same question for the last twenty minutes.
"Look dude, it's been almost three years since our species first made cont... | 2022-03-30T15:23:45 | 2022-03-30T14:04:33 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | When I first met the human, I thought he was going to attack me. He stuck his manipulator out and my first thought was that he was going to punch me. He instead took my hand firmly but with some lenience, and shook it lightly. He then spoke his name. It still goes through my mind on how strange it was, and how many var... | I stared at the human in disbelief as he scooped unrefined water out of the drill head and into a cup with a gloved hand
The asteroid water was splashing everywhere out of the mining device and was melting gooey holes into the invincible graphene sugar substrate of the ships floor. Without skipping a beat the human pu... | 2020-05-18T10:54:46 | 2020-05-18T07:43:35 | 808 | 546 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Adam stood ready to greet the other world’s scientists. His people had discovered their work years ago, the strange distortion glittering in the air a few feet off-shore on a southern beach. At first it was thought to be some natural effect - perhaps something caused by the sun refracting off the coral reef below. I... | The door slowly opened. News coverage at every corner, companies already sending out bland messages congratulating the team.
The Nullifiuer was built in 3.5 years and even longer planning it. Eric Dunce stood tall as the head of the team. His blonde hair waved in the wind. He tapped on the mic as the door opened.
I... | 2020-12-22T20:41:56 | 2020-12-22T17:03:39 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Da hell?"
When finals ended I had resolved to spend no moment of the weekend sober. One moment I had been sitting on the steps of my apartment building smoking a cigarette, fending off last night's hangover with a bottle of whiskey, and the next I was sitting in a small, darkened room.
"Where's my cig... FUCK!"
Hav... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T09:53:02 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 59 | 21 |
[WP] In a form of immortality, every time you die you are transported to 1 hour before your death to prevent it. Most deaths are easily avoided, but this one is proving quite a challenge... | Do you think four years of medical school and five years obtaining a Phd is difficult? Try doing it one hour at a time.
I've died countless times, mostly because I've been callous about the business of protecting my life. Accidents? No problem. Going head first into robberies, shootous and burning buildings? Pfft. Ev... | Every time I die, I become wiser. I have learned so much over these past few years. It has even become a tool for me, my own little experimentation device allowing me to take a risk or try something new and return to a point in time before the mistake was made. I thought I had learned everything I needed to know.
Yet ... | 2016-02-23T14:21:30 | 2016-02-23T14:02:24 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | Kai sat in the large auditorium. The busy bustle and rustle of many students rushing to fill their seats before class began to fill the once vacant hall. This class was unusual. Normally students would simply log in to their schools virtual database to be present. A holographic display of the student would then appear ... | “Yes Mr. Engels, something you wish to add?” The teacher, a massive blue goopy mass asked as it looked over the class.
“Well, humanity… we thought we were the most violent to be honest. Surely our nuclear weapons and our history…”
“Ah yes, I’ve had human students struggle with this concept quiet a few times.” The cre... | 2022-10-17T07:12:12 | 2022-10-17T05:24:08 | 117 | 86 |
[WP] You're mindlessly scrolling through random subreddits when you find a subreddit filled with photos of you at different hours of the day, explanations of all your activities, people discussing what life decisions you'll take. Confused, you notice a new post titled: "We've been found!" | Everyone has a moment where their stomach drops in fear. Mine was last week when I stumbled on a subreddit that I thought was about golden retrievers. The latest post was titled "This guy loves his dog" it had a golden retriever sitting next to a pair of legs. I thought the dog looked cute so I saved the post and kept ... |
Scroll scroll the reddit deeps see the pictures taken by creeps
See me both young and old on r/Rix-pics and if your not sold post my nudes be sure to get gold!
Scroll Scroll the reddit deeps gasp the pictures taken by creeps,
Oh what's the matter all these pictures left my mind in a splatter
Scroll scroll the ... | 2020-06-30T11:35:57 | 2020-06-30T09:04:49 | 86 | 30 |
[WP] "Any last words before I eternally claim your soul?" snarled the demon. Terrified, you stood there silently. You haven't said anything in 20 years, yet you still see the demon constantly hovering in the shadows, waiting. | There was a soft breeze as the sky started to show hints of pinkish orange. It was quiet, aside from the clinking of glass.
"I don't think I've been above ground during sundown before," Orika said, eyes fixated on the distant horizon.
"Really? It's almost always breathtaking, I remember from all my soul-claiming days... | I've been staying in this void silently for what feels like decades. Well, not *perfectly* silently, every now and then I'd make mouth noises unintentionally, but it seems that as long as I don't say any actual words I'm all good.
Originally I was just thinking of some cool last words, y'know. Something that this dem... | 2022-07-11T13:05:38 | 2022-07-11T11:36:03 | 100 | 18 |
[WP] After lulling other countries into a false sense of security, Canada finally makes its move to conquer the world. | They thought it was a joke. They thought it was a ruse. But the reality is that the warning signs had been there for a long, long time. A strange Facebook article here, a funny post on a sub Reddit there, a CBC newscaster that made the oddest of Freudian slips.
Canada, the world's first post-national country. Fully in... | The Canucks had finally done it - the whole world was addicted to maple syrup. How sweet it was!
Golden Rice in Beijing, Syri Curry in Mumbai, Maple Mousse in Italy (for hair), Syrup Sizzlers in Buenos Aires, and, of course, the American Pancake. The Canadian weapons appeared innocent, but became lethal in the enem... | 2017-01-17T15:56:25 | 2017-01-17T14:43:11 | 143 | 12 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | "So, you want my firstborn. The first child I carried and bore. The one over there. That's the price? I give him to you, and I get wealth and power?"
"YES."
"And what happens to him afterwards is none of my business or concern?"
"YES"
"Deal. Do I need to sign something?"
"BEHOLD. SIGN HERE. AT THE TERMINUS. ... | The stare in its eyes were palpable. As I raised the pen; secure in my grip. I saw a glistening ember formulate by the side of its lip, growing by the second and getting brighter the longer I stared. How many has it secured? What number would my spawn be in this carousel of abandonment that I have enthusiastically ente... | 2022-08-31T20:13:58 | 2022-08-31T17:45:32 | 134 | 13 |
[WP] The evil sorcerer laughs as he tosses another ball of dark energy at you. "Puny mortal," he sneers. "You are no match for a Dark Lord." 'Oh no, buddy," you snarl back. "I was a better Dark Lord than you'll ever be, and I will NOT be beaten by some two-bit necromancer." | This ball, I didn't dodge. Bored of the charade, I simply let it connect with my chest. I knew what the magic was meant to to. It should drain the life from me. But all it did was shatter the illusion. The human soldier form disintegrated, motes of light fading.
In its place I stood. A 7 foot tall being in thick black... | Of all the craters I have had the pleasure of inhabiting the one I was in then is by far the most aesthetically pleasing.
I sent a tremor through the floor.
The way the charred earth merges into the lighter ground like a flower that’s just bloomed is marvellous.
Maurice’s surprise cost him his guard as he stumbled on a... | 2021-02-27T10:25:44 | 2021-02-27T08:54:27 | 86 | 12 |
[WP] Jokingly you say to your friend "If either of us discover time travel, the first place we visit is this moment". The second those words leave your mouth what appears to be an older version of yourself rounds the corner, and he looks terrified. | I had to do a double take...was...was that me I was looking at? Before I could ponder any further, this cloned version of me spoke with a somewhat alarmed and disturbed tremor in his tone. He was wearing a tank top that looked like it'd seen better days. His face was speckled with smudges of dirt. He was bruised and he... | It was like a dejavú, for both of us.
The moment came, and yet it came again. Both of our future and our past colliding at this very moment.
A moment we both thought insignificant.
Those words leaving my mouth resonating as if for a moment I was not talking to James, but to the man with the fearful eyes.
I am him.
On t... | 2017-03-02T09:19:52 | 2017-03-02T08:11:06 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] To accelerate scientific advancement, the world agrees on a “decade of justified means“ - meaning, as long as you are producing results, you won't get punished for unethical behaviour when designing your experiments. | Year 1: Day 1
I knew when we started that it was wrong. All wrong. I knew the very instant that I signed the dotted line and leased the buildings, the lab space, the machines. When I cashed the check and transferred the money to the relevant accounts, I fought back my nausea. When they told me that I could do it, I ha... | The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few.
I've heard this phrase repeated, in every way imaginable, since I was a young child. An idea that has existed for ages but only really taken seriously in recent history.
It was an idea I really took to heart. Even as a child I would sacrifice my conveniences if i... | 2015-12-18T09:31:23 | 2015-12-18T08:36:09 | 74 | 34 |
[WP] It turns out that all birds share a common language and even have an official political voting process. One day, you find an injured bird and rescue it. You don’t know it, but it’s the leader of all the birds. Strange things around you start happening... | It observed him with cold eyes, one of its wings protruded at an awkward angle. Even as Reed’s shadow loomed over the raven it made no signs of distress, made no plea for its life. It did not cry out in anger at its alleged executioner. It simply observed his approach, an unmistakable intelligence flaring up behind its... | The corvids came first and scrackled and cracked
stone in their beak, stone against glass
"Away with you magpies!" broom in my hand,
"Away with you raven, get off of my land!"
Back I returned to the wren in the nest
Made of tissue and towel and all of the rest
I'd happily stumbled upon bird on my walk
Wounded an... | 2019-10-13T02:28:31 | 2019-10-13T02:09:41 | 342 | 118 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | “Hey Beth?” Greg asked leaning into the next cubicle.
“Yeah?” Beth replied, not looking up from her Sudoku puzzle.
“Why is Jerry screaming at the toaster?” Greg had tried to ignore it, but Jerry had been screaming and pointing at the toaster for the better part of an hour.
“You didn’t hear what it said to him?” Beth... | I hadn't slept well for the past few months. Not well at all. Foxes, you see, had moved into the neighbourhood and were no doubt rummaging through the trash cans in the alley below my apartment, during the nights. I know this because of the terrible howling that keeps me awake at night. I've been told it's only their m... | 2016-08-30T08:01:44 | 2016-08-30T07:55:48 | 2,598 | 320 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | It was quite strange actually.
The first number popped into view when I was about 12 years old. It was a solid 4 that looked like something straight out of Times New Roman font. That 4 I remember, hovered above a big scruffy looking man with a tattoo of a stripper on his left arm. I didn't think of it as much at the ... | "10" I said unconsciously.
My friend tore his eyes away from the girl walking past us down the hall and stared at me in surprise.
"A 10? Really?" He turns his gaze back to her. "Dude I'll admit she's a looker, but I'd say more of an 8. Not 10 material, but eh different stokes for different folks."
I wasn't listening ... | 2014-11-29T22:35:42 | 2014-11-29T15:22:56 | 200 | 24 |
[WP] The worst part about being shot in the head? The headache. The second worst part? Explaining to everyone why you can't die... | I didn't even feel it really, well not initially. The hot lead bursting through and out of my skull just felt like intense pressure behind my eyes. It's quite difficult to describe to others, after all there are very few people who have taken a bullet to the brain and retained consciousness.
After the shot screams ra... | A bang shook the restaurant while I fell backwards out of my chair. I had figured it would go this way, my being so far behind on the money I owe and all. Guess he had to make an example if me, but damn I never figured the shark would have a .44 tucked in that pinstripe suit of his. Tacky piece of shit even had i... | 2018-11-25T20:16:15 | 2018-11-25T20:14:26 | 104 | 13 |
[WP] When you had died, your Grim Reaper had been none other than your grandmother, whom you hated more than anyone else. When it’s your turn to become a Grim Reaper, you are told it’s soul of the person you hurt the most in your lifetime. Your heartbreaks a little at seeing your daughter. | When I died, I thought that would be the end of the vitriol in my heart. Unfortunately, those feeling seemed to stick like an oil sheen, refusing to go away no matter how much I scrubbed away at it.
It was once filled with hatred for my grandmother. A woman who compared, and put me down at every opportunity. Now, it w... |
Musings after
She was beautiful. She smelled of nectarines and poppy, rabbits and warm fields.
My aspiration in life when it came to my daughter had always been that I wanted to look back in my old age, and have those fleeting memories of every step with that angel, from her first in life, to the first of the aisl... | 2022-03-05T12:24:13 | 2022-03-05T08:53:52 | 133 | 38 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | “Can I be clear about this gentlemen? I have in front of me a paper trail stretching back nearly two years of every email, call and memo I have sent out discussing my worries about the state of this facility's chrono-shielding.”
Dr Harriet Landen’s deceptively calm words fill the boardroom, washing over the faces of t... | "Oh, so you don't think a biological monstrosity running around is your fault?!"
Tensions were high. A woman in a white lab coat glared at her opponent. With the front splattered with drying blood, and a crazed look in her eye, she seemed to be on the verge of snapping. Opposite her, a man in a dark suit crossed his a... | 2022-05-09T12:52:09 | 2022-05-09T11:07:14 | 371 | 136 |
[WP]: it's illegal to capture wild humans into domestic possession, as they are undomesticated and not fit to be kept as pets. Your abductors do not care. | The greenish one - bigger, rounder, and - Larry thought - a bit more melancholy than the reddish one, gestured towards the sloping house.
"Me?" said Larry. "Is that...mine?"
But the alien simply stomped its heavy, crusted foot and pointed even more firmly towards the house. Larry got the idea.
The house was about th... | There is light trickling in through a small hole but no matter how i try to position myself i still can't get a good look. The wood is itchy and prickles my skin. I'm so uncomfortable; all cramped up. As i try to shuffle around there is a sudden bang above my head. I jump and my heart starts pounding.
'Don't do tha... | 2016-08-31T07:21:05 | 2016-08-31T07:14:44 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Napoleon and Hitler were born 129 years apart, came into power 129 years apart, and invaded Russia 129 years apart. It is now 2070. You've been reincarnated and rose to power for the third time. Russia is looking very tempting.
Edit: Holy cow. There are some seriously awesome stories here. Thank you so much :) | The young Caliph sat in his tower, surveying his kingdom stretching well beyond the horizon in every direction. It had been considered impossible, what he had done to bring the entire Islamic nation together. Powerful men had tried to unify the chosen for thousands of years, only to be corrupted by their own unworthine... | 'Vladimir.' I breathe into the mic. Finally. After weeks of sorties at the front lines, he contacts me.
'Swin'ya, come. It is time we settle this. I await you at Chernobyl,' And the line goes dead. The challenge. The insult. I smile.
3 days later I watch the forces arrayed in the fields outside the ruined city of C... | 2016-02-17T13:53:46 | 2016-02-17T12:59:35 | 90 | 21 |
[WP] You die in a tragic accident. While sitting on a bench in purgatory, Mr/Mrs.Death approaches you and says, "Pick a game, any game, and if you are the victor, I'll send you back to the day before the accident." | "Tic tac toe"
WHAT?
"I choose tic tac toe"
SIGH
With a flourish a desk, a dry erase board and a marker appeared before them. With a slight gesture of death's bony hand a perfect 3 by 3 grid appeared in the center of the board.
Fred placed his circle in the middle of the board. Death placed an X in a corner. After... | _"Yeah, so sometimes I give second-chances. Do-over, you know? So how about we play a game and you win, I'll take you back to yesterday."_
I was bored and didn't really believe him. A big puffy zit protruded from the stubble on his chin. He was wearing a gray heather t-shirt and charcoal jeans, his hair slicked ... | 2014-02-18T09:55:41 | 2014-02-18T09:49:36 | 83 | 10 |
[WP] You are the world's greatest detective. With your near superhuman intellect, you have never failed to solve a case before. But one day, you finally meet your match: a criminal so unbelievably stupid that you cannot possibly comprehend and predict what he's going to do next. | It was maddening. *Infuriating.* How could you possibly see that coming? Weeks of setting an elaborate trap, involving plotting every escape route down to the weak bricks in the fucking wall, men hidden in every crack, crevice and cavity you could find. It was the perfect setup. Have him come in for the great diamond, ... | I grow tired of your games, Edward.
Are you so blinded by your own arrogance that you hadn't noticed I predicted your every move?
My age may be catching up to me,
But over the years, you've grown more sloppy.
Answer me this: Was it worth it?
The traps, the challenges, the bodies you've buried, was it worth it?
M... | 2018-06-04T05:08:39 | 2018-06-04T03:53:31 | 69 | 12 |
[WP] Yesterday, you knocked over a salt shaker in Texas. Today, you bought a newspaper in Fiji. Tomorrow, the chain of events you set in motion will stop a bank robbery in France. You are the master of the butterfly effect. | Lee sat down for breakfast in his usual spot at the airport lounge. Thoughts of the pictures he'd seen on his wife's phone last night raced through Lee's head. He fidgeted with the metalic wings over his left breast pocket trying not to let his sadness, his anger show. A waiter stopped to take Lee's order.
"I'll have ... | Chaos theory, or the Butterfly Effect is familiar with everyone. Everyone of us know that a butterfly flapping in Texas could create a violent storm in Brazil. To create dramatic stuff, it is easy.
But with trillions of butterfly flapping wings endlessly across the world, the force will anull eachother in a chaotic sw... | 2022-04-24T07:43:50 | 2022-04-24T06:37:48 | 53 | 15 |
[WP] Tell us the story of a nuclear war on earth, as told by the astronauts on the International Space Station. | I turned on the radio and floated over to the window, watching the giant sphere of blue, green, and grey slowly turn. The silence was clingy, disgusting, almost palpable. I wanted it gone. After a few seconds her voice buzzed through the static.
“Bill?”
“I’m here, Cath.”
“The command has already briefed you, right?”... | Day 12: I finished another chapter of the book I'm reading, at this point, I feel confident that I know who the killer is (I mean, it has to be the florist, right?). Also, I never thought I'd say this but seeing the earth from space has almost lost its allure at his point, like how you're no longer amazed when looking ... | 2017-08-18T10:03:04 | 2017-08-18T09:28:30 | 101 | 19 |
[WP] Ever since you received your letter for Hogwarts you've been curious about all the different spells there are. You've just bought your first wand and the first spell you try is what you believe to be rather humorous. "AbraCadabra". Nobody told you this spell was banned. For obvious reasons. | "Abra Cadabra -" Joey started saying with a giggle, waving his wand in Mr Ollivander's shop.
Mr Ollivander swept up from the corner of the shop, his silvery eyes huge with fright.
"What are you doing, boy?" he whispered. "Speaking the name of that spell?"
Joey stashed away his wand hastily, feeling rather frightened... | I opened up the spell book, itching and excited to try out my first ever magical spell. My little feet squirmed in my new blue Ravenclaw uniform socks. I'd never done a spell before. I read through the names. Athena, my pet owl, hooted, channeling my excitement, or perhaps trepidation.
How should I approach this? I ... | 2016-12-01T22:21:57 | 2016-12-01T19:46:27 | 1,995 | 84 |
[WP] It has become a law to hibernate during the winter with the help of a machine, but there is a glitch, and you wake up halfway through winter and find the reason why the government made hibernation manditory
Edit: Wow this got more popular than I expected it would | The first part of hibernation prep is the worst: packing up your house. Dust covers go over everything - couches, counters, beds. Everything gets switched off, bar the freezers. The fridge gets emptied prior to the big sleep and pets get taken to the pet-sitter facility.
I hate saying goodbye to my cat, Marlon. I hat... | "Time to go to sleep" announced the loudspeakers.
It was a cold and dark evening. Winter was approaching.
Pat Rick was sitting in his incubation tube at the National Sleeping Facility in Detroit. Millions of incubation tubes were around him. The building was enormous; a 100 story tall facility that was 40 miles wide... | 2015-01-25T13:52:12 | 2015-01-25T13:42:33 | 804 | 78 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | I wake up to the buzzing of my phone. Without opening my eyes, I reach over to silence it. *Just five more minutes*.
As I lay in bed, my mind starts putting together the pieces of last night’s events. I had been polishing an antique vase I had inherited from my great aunt Evelyn when all the air in my living room sudd... | I slammed my hands down behind my DM screen. "Dammit, Bobby. You can't do that."
Bobby gave me a slow lizard blink I had grown to loathe. "It's my wish. Perfectly legal." He rolled a 20 on his d-20 because of course the gods themselves decided to hate on me in this moment. "I don't even have to stick around for it. I'... | 2022-07-11T09:41:02 | 2022-07-11T08:37:59 | 425 | 128 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | Oh, here we go again. The pale, skinny, tattooed, creep behind the counter was freaking out, whispering, shaking, stammering, "nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." So, of course I had to screw with him a little. "Well, obviously you don't get out much." "Now, how about my Big Mac, or do I talk loud... | "Hey thanks, I hope you have a good afternoon"
The swirling void took me by surprise, really. The crimson red eyes of the cashier, not so much. I'd seen it before, I thought. Glimpses and glances, really; bad punctuation as a coda to the overbearing sentence of ordering a Whopper.
"We don't sssserve Whoppers," she ... | 2018-06-24T21:27:25 | 2018-06-24T21:01:01 | 165 | 20 |
[WP] You have the power to change the age of anything you touch. You try to change the age of your sleeping partner as a prank since they know of your power. But it doesn't seem to work, no matter how hard you try. Your partner wakes up and says "Gods don't age dear." | She touched his sleeping brow and closed her eyes, searching within herself for the gift. She imagined the wheels of time turning for her touch, dialing back the clock and reversing the damage it had done. Something was wrong, she could feel her power attempting to alter her partner's age but it was almost like there w... | "oh... honey... you're up!!! I, I don't know what you're talking about. NIGHT!!!!!!"
I try to cocoon myself in the sheets... Sadly Janet has been taking Pilate classes lately and they showed. I settled for ducking under covers.
"It's ok sweetie, Who do you think gave you that little trick to begin with. Honey? I ... | 2018-11-13T14:04:38 | 2018-11-13T10:38:48 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 69 | 17 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | “…And we check in now with Paul Johnson, who remembers what it was like before The Break. Paul?”
Paul gulped, never liking the limelight. “Yes, Eric, I remember when we tricked the Americans.”
“Even if we tricked them, they were stupid enough to fall for it!” Eric laughed, and the studio audience did too.
“Americ... | The Great Treaty, is what we all knew it as. The events of World War 3 had left the world in shambles, with nuclear wastelands, deadlines from chemical attacks, and new weaponized diseases running rampant. The remaining nations gathered in what was once Switzerland and decreed that their countries needed to rebuild. Ev... | 2016-10-18T23:13:18 | 2016-10-18T19:17:04 | 53 | 14 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As I sat in the dark holding room, my only companions a security camera programmed to turn left and right on a ten second cycle and a cold metal table I was now handcuffed to, I continued my replaying of the events in my head. Better to keep things straight for when the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine starts.
I'd just ha... | "You made me drop my drink." The girl's shoes were wet, covered in the drink I'd accidentally knocked out of her hands. "What're you gonna do about it?" Her voice was low, menacing, almost a hiss, and that was when I realised who it was and my eyes went wide. An apology wouldn't cut it, not with her. Even if I bought h... | 2020-02-26T10:43:17 | 2020-02-26T09:25:14 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] It's the year 2278. The Holy Empire of Boston, The New Republic of Philadelphia, and The United Burrows of New New York are at the brink of war. Diplomats from each nation are meeting to negotiate peace. You are the translator. | Pope Belichick walked into the room and the temperature dropped.
People pretend not to notice him whenever he appears in these meetings, they shuffle papers and check their watches, but everybody is aware of his presence, you can tell because the room always goes silent upon his entrance. He was adorned in normal Ho... | "You brought a fucking translator?"
Bloomberg the ninth gave his characteristic smile that did nothing but infuriate the Boston scientist.
"I can't believe this, Bloomberg, are you insulting *our* use of English, have you even..." The Philadelphian president paused suddenly, his face red. "What am I even doing, it'... | 2017-01-12T19:18:21 | 2017-01-12T18:48:10 | 998 | 85 |
[WP] What’s more horrifying than a biblically accurate angel shouting “FEAR NOT”? A modernized angel whispering to you “Be very afraid…” | Amelia had learned to ignore their presence. From an early age she had seen them, almost always at the corners of her eyes. Floating eyes, rings of swirling flames, wings that unfolded from themselves in impossible geometric patterns. Well, ignoring them was't exactly what she did, not always. Her mother had called the... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 2: Mare v.s. Tamulu)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [this story](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mmzrng/wp_angels_are_thought_to_be_beautif... | 2022-01-29T07:49:38 | 2022-01-29T07:30:10 | 130 | 15 |
[WP] You are your best friend both run highly successful companies. To fight the boredom of the eight hours you pretend to work, you’ve both hired corporate spies to steal “classified information” from the other. You may have lost the last several games, but you have a good feeling about this one. | It's a pretty simple game. It started out as kind of a joke between Sohil and I, from back when we were both in business school. We learned about corporate espionage in class, and I leaned over and whispered that I was going to steal all of his secrets; he replied: "not if I steal yours first."
Fast forward twenty yea... | Ocean's Eleven ain't got shit on us.
That's what I said when we got out of the van and started this, now nearly two hundred feet in the air I have changed my mind.
I don't remember anyone crying and nearly shitting themselves in Ocean's Eleven.
I suppose the sentiment is still true though.
There are five of us. I'v... | 2016-08-25T08:45:12 | 2016-08-25T08:05:40 | 206 | 47 |
[WP] In a world where everyone discovers their superpower at age 5, you discover that your child has the ability to bring small toys to life. Things seem fine until he comes across your Warhammer 40k miniature collection... | I have loved Charlie from the moment I set my eyes on her. She's beautiful in every way, a light that guides me through the most difficult of times in my life. However, she is also a child, so when I realised I hadn't heard her stomping around the house in a few minutes I went to check in.
I grew concerned when her b... | Precious Charlie. Sweet, little, innocent Charlie. She was just a petite little lass, barely able to fit into size one shoes. She was sweet as candy too! She loved to grab her little dolls and legos we got her to life. We never worried much about them, they were small and she would turn them back when she was done. But... | 2020-12-02T18:29:04 | 2020-12-02T15:34:47 | 2,038 | 73 |
[WP] A genie offers a man three wishes. After hearing his wish, the genie straight up refuses to grant it. | "So, what do you want? Riches? Peace on earth? To stop being a virgin? Don't be shy, I've seen it all."
Jack rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Then he blinked for a few moments. Then he decided that he was hallucinating and that everything was going to come back to normal.
It didn't. He was surely hallucinating. Perhaps ... | "No."
"It's my wish. Do it."
"No. I can not. I will not."
"And why not?"
"Because I don't wish to die you fool. Why would I take my own life?"
"Because I control the ring and I demand it. I can't have someone else come along and undo what I've accomplished."
"What you've accomplished little man? Without me you'd ... | 2015-03-15T20:08:42 | 2015-03-15T20:03:10 | 69 | 15 |
[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. | 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... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T15:01:41 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | Officer Jennifer tilted her gaze upward incredulously. "Is this a serious filing?"
"Completely serious."
She sighed, and Officer Jennifer rubbed the bridge of her nose in irritation. "Sir, the Sanctioned Termination Act is, of course, your right to pursue..."
"Yes. Yes it is." The boy in the red hat grinned. "I have... | Different people come here and get their permit.
Young people, old people hell yesterday a kid was here.
I've been working in the central city department for 2 years now, have seen tons of faces familiar and unfamiliar some are even regulars...
But what I didn't know was that today would be different, today would mar... | 2019-07-09T10:00:39 | 2019-07-09T08:57:47 | 238 | 47 |
[WP] For every 10 lives you save, you get an extra life for yourself, shown as a number visible only to you on your wrist. Waking up with bad hangover after a particularly rowdy night, you look at your arm through blurry eyes to see the faintly glowing number: 700,000,000. | “I can’t believe you’ve done this,” Parker said as he stared at the monitor over my shoulder.
It’s only been three days since—in what I thought was a great act of charity—donated half of my extra lives. In all honesty, I can’t even remember how I’d earned them in the first place. I had a vague recollection of walking... | *Ugh, this headache. What happened? Why does it smell like burnt hair? Okay, well, guess I should start cleaning up, get these bottles in the recycling. But first, gotta get my eyes to focus.*
*Why is my arm so blue? There's too many zeroes. Stupid eyes messing with me still. Wait, no, that's right. What am I going to... | 2019-08-28T09:38:23 | 2019-08-28T09:32:36 | 2,116 | 473 |
[WP]”You were picked to do this job for one reason only: you’re the least qualified person for the job we could find.” |     It’s like winning the lottery, really. The first person to drive in a flying car! Me! And I don’t even own a car! It’s fine, though, because the automated driver does most of the things; I just have to tell it where I want to go. Which is good, because they don’t let drive any mo... | I stand before a crowd and they cheer and chant, calling out my name like some sort of rock star. Someone big. It's thrilling, my heart races with excitement and my body shivers with the tingling of coursing adrenaline.
I think back to that meeting, where a group of men and women sat me down and looked at me with seri... | 2017-12-21T09:51:17 | 2017-12-21T09:20:09 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] Humans blood gets darker the more evil we do. One day you are suspected of murder, they draw your blood to test if you are truely a murderer. You blood is a clear white. You realize that you can get a way with almost everything now, seeing as to how you actually did commit the murder. | "She did it, damn it!" Detective Patel shouted, slamming his fists down on the cheap plywood desk, causing computers and coworkers alike to jump.
"Hey, Nikhil, calm down," his partner, Sergei Kordev warned him in his thick Ukrainian accent. "Claire submit blood. It clear. She did not do it."
Nikhil jabbed a finger at... | Charles whistled as he looked through the stolen wallet in his hand. The number of cards this person had plus cash was staggering. The idiot even had his pin number scratched into the front of the card. It would not take long to safely empty out this person's life savings. Cautiously, Charles took a small knife and sla... | 2018-04-30T11:00:01 | 2018-04-30T10:13:30 | 380 | 78 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | I leaned back in my chair. The room they'd put us in was spacious, and I couldn't even find any of the cameras. Of the ten of us awaiting the test, only three were standing, all of them pacing back and forth.
"I can't believe I actually made it," the girl sitting across from me said.
"Someone must have liked your vid... | I woke in small metal container. The walls had the wavy pattern of a cargo crate, and the size fit the idea as well. There where ten of us, I was the first to wake up. It was clear what was happening, I had been told of the risks when I submitted my paper.
I was about 21 at the time and had just finished my philosophy... | 2016-03-03T06:35:14 | 2016-03-03T05:36:34 | 151 | 17 |
[WP] Instead of wolves, bears were the domesticated and now known as “man’s best friend.” | **Language Warning, I suppose**
You ever have one of those things, where when you see it, or hear it, or smell it, it just sets you off? You start seeing red and your body trembles with rage?
Well, when I heard that fucking growling from my front yard again, I knew I had found ‘my thing.’
“Honey!” I screamed. “That ... | If you're reading this, I'm off to hike that mountain.
I don't know where to start but let's give it a shot.
His name was Malcolm.
Malcolm came down from that mountain. The highest mountain of Montana.
He found me.
I was a ten-year-old fishing with my father and my grandfather.
He was a baby at the time but h... | 2018-02-22T18:03:49 | 2018-02-22T17:38:59 | 194 | 26 |
[WP] You were the "big bad"; after being "killed" by the hero, you decided to change your life. You opened a hospital and dedicated your life to healing the sick; but today the hero just walked in with their very ill child. You are one hell of a doctor though. | Laughing is a great way of relieving stress. I laughed all the time in my old job. I had it down to an art. I hearty unrestrained cackle with the enthusiasm to make hardened warriors shudder. It was just me and my hatred against the world. Letting my emotions go felt good, and just laughing at everything. Every threat,... | One decision,
Just one,
Made with precision,
And yet none,
See, I used to be king,
Now I’m not,
That’s just the thing,
I like it a lot,
I was an overlord,
I was unbeatable,
But i got very bored,
It was untreatable,
So I left,
Let them think,
My death,
Against him in the rink,
And now here he stands,
Ey... | 2019-02-12T10:17:47 | 2019-02-12T08:26:35 | 123 | 46 |
[WP] The largest amount of declassified CIA documents to have ever been released at once just occurred today. You are one of many journalists clamoring for a good story. You find one file with a big red "CLASSIFIED" still stamped across the front. In smaller black lettering "To be released: 2268." | Jimmy couldn't sleep. He sat alone in his studio apartment, staring at a bundle of papers on the table. Some kind of infomercial blared from the TV. He picked up the bundle and read it again, just to be sure.
He remembered the way that strange man had smiled when he handed Jimmy the papers. Jimmy had been digging thr... | File in hand, I made my way to the CIA's archival liaison officer. The woman looks harried by repeated requests of nagging newsmen, and greets me with a haggard, fake smile.
"Excuse me ma'am, but I found this file that I believe was mistakenly filtered with the unclassified files."
The woman's face blanches as she n... | 2014-08-19T06:47:48 | 2014-08-19T04:56:19 | 49 | 26 |
[WP] You are a food critic that can immediately identify all the ingredients used in the food after just one bite. Because of your negative reviews, many people dislike you. You are tasting a famous restaurant's steak. But after a bite, you identify that one of the ingredients is cyanide. | Malthus Sorenson, food critic, dabbed at his mouth lightly, pondering the meal he'd just finished at the trendy Chateau DeVries. On reflection, he concluded it was likely to become much less trendy, once his review was published.
The critic was exacting, but fair. He felt his nigh-superhuman sense of taste, that could... | Juicy, tender, crispy on the edges. The cooking is a perfect medium rare, its shades of red layered like a great crimson mesa. Yet, this steak tastes like shit. You pause. You don't need special powers to devine this. These fucking retards didn't realize that cyanide is very, very bitter. You feel its effects immediate... | 2018-10-04T07:39:04 | 2018-10-04T06:57:14 | 439 | 11 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | He knew the Tombs were off-limits. Many adventurers have been rumoured to descend into them, never to return. He didn't care. Young, brash, overly eager, he was willing to risk it all so he'd finally prove himself; so he'd earn the respect he desperately craved. When he finally stood before the colossal metal entrance,... | "Year?" I ask, stupidly. I am still trying to process the strangeness of the metal man moving, wondering if he somehow ignited the eerie lights or if he is possessed of some form of magicka. Having assumed that he was some sort of golem acting at another's command, the idea that he would (a) speak and (b) use that spee... | 2022-12-19T14:03:08 | 2022-12-19T13:30:41 | 236 | 63 |
[WP] Your girlfriend wants you to meet her dad. You get a sinking feeling in your stomach when she brings you to the cemetery, only as she leads you to a crypt and you go down into the stone depths, there you find a massive library and a skeleton, seated by a fireplace, reading a book. | It rained that day. A week ago Sam was looking out the window, more aloof and cold than Erin was used to. “It’s my dad’s birthday next week,” Sam offered in a sigh, “It’s…really hard. I wanted you to meet him but…”
Erin took her hand with an understanding smile, “I’d love to go. Especially if it’s so hard for you. I’d... | "Of course," he let out with a sigh. "I should have known."
"I never meant to hurt you. Please understand that. But you needed to know."
Life had not been the same for quite some time. He had felt it. He had known. The knowing had just been so far buried beneath this normalized reality that it had been easy to dismis... | 2022-03-04T21:04:33 | 2022-03-04T20:05:41 | 116 | 45 |
[WP] You've always known that you're a psychopath. One day, bored out of your mind, you take an online "How Psychopathic Are You?" quiz & to your surprise, you get a meagre score of 7%. Now, you're on a quest to find & make the creator of the quiz, DreamGirl779 pay for the scam they're running. | Bullshit.
What a ripoff.
I wasted twenty minutes of life for this.
My last kill was almost a month back and I could feel the bloodlust calling out to me.
I knew what I had to do.
***
I looked at the address. It was quite unexpected really. It was a regular suburban neighborhood. There was a damn gmc truck in ... | "Don't ask questions, Charlie. If I could do it myself, I would, but I need you to find out where this person is," Greg placed a printed copy of a sketchy looking website on his coffee table, highlighting the content creator.
I looked at the paper and back at him incredulously for a moment, sitting on his L shaped cou... | 2020-04-12T09:34:20 | 2020-04-12T09:25:21 | 1,377 | 236 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | **“You want a blade that can hold… magic?”** You asked.
You thought she was joking, making fun of your work. Magic was for stories and legends. Nobody *really* believed in it.
Your cousin Thom said he’d met a wizard once, but Thom said a lot of things.
“Yes. It must hold magic,” she said, one hand on her hip. There... | As I was walking on the street that leads to the castle with two special guards at my side, I began to question my summon. Was I in some kind of trouble, or this is about the rebellion in the lands of my late father? Even then what would I be of help? I was just a Nord, trying to find my way in the Imperial City by doi... | 2020-08-05T08:15:28 | 2020-08-05T07:18:06 | 427 | 32 |
[WP] When you were young, you encountered a witch who promised you immortality in exchange for your firstborn child. You accepted, and used all of your time trying to think of a way to bypass her deal, when finally you came up with an easy loophole that has enraged the witch. You adopted a child. | I'm an aspiring lawyer. Less succinctly, I've had the life-long ambition to be a lawyer--ever since I was a young boy and for the extent of my extended youth--and all I've managed to do was flunk the bar four times and dig myself into a formidable heap of debt.
All that aside, I learned some things along the way. Tha... | "I don't get the issue here, you said you wanted my firstborn child. This child was the first and was born. It ticks both those boxes, now can you take the firstborn because I think it just made a first boom boom in its pants." The man uttered, holding out the child in disgust, looking at it like it was some disfigured... | 2020-03-10T05:28:12 | 2020-03-10T05:16:35 | 2,041 | 54 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | **“You want a blade that can hold… magic?”** You asked.
You thought she was joking, making fun of your work. Magic was for stories and legends. Nobody *really* believed in it.
Your cousin Thom said he’d met a wizard once, but Thom said a lot of things.
“Yes. It must hold magic,” she said, one hand on her hip. There... | I've often dreamed of the inside of the castle. It's parapets, and swooping buttresses all aglow in the moonlight. Though business is usually attended to before nightfall'; it's not uncommon to be summoned after dark. It's not usually a good thing though.
I'm nervous and not a little tired after working the forge all ... | 2020-08-05T08:15:28 | 2020-08-05T05:58:28 | 427 | 159 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | The following transcription was recorded on July 27th, 2672 at approximately 11:43PM before Admiral Alabaster led the suicide charge in sector X34 against the still unidentified invading ship that entered our orbit approximately one week prior.
All lives were lost.
----
>I want to make something very clear to yo... | I sat watching the news, petting my cat, Harry.
"A civil war has broken out in South Sudan once again, with estimated deaths in the 100 thousands. Around 500,000 child soldiers- Breaking news: a massive object has entered the atmosphere. Scientists cannot recognize any part of it. The government-"
I perked up my head,... | 2019-06-11T06:04:46 | 2019-06-11T05:53:12 | 1,817 | 99 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | A man flies past me, a man who I've always envied, a man who's bewildering but amazing powers have saved thousands across the five boroughs. His physique is compared to Norse legends, his speed and flight capabilities rival any machinations that Boeing could produce, women would swindle at his modelesque looks. He's kn... | [Poem] when the music is just right,
You know they’re about to fight,
When you hear a twirling sound,
Watch out a clue has been found,
When someone gets slapped,
And you hear the word smack,
When you hear epic music playing,
You know a boss is gonna need slaying. | 2020-08-26T16:51:07 | 2020-08-26T15:29:05 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I had thought Mary was the one. I'd hidden my wealth and lived a modest lifestyle for a few years before she found me. I had thought it was real. It had felt real. She held me when I cried when the dog died. I told her about the wealth a few months before the wedding. She didn't seem to care.
The months turned to year... | “Again? Son, you’ve got to stop letting this woman do this. One day I may be unable to restore your body”.
“I know dad, but when she’s not having an episode she’s an amazing woman. Kind, generous, and loving, it’s just this dark side of hers that she can’t control. I refuse to tell her either, I’d hate for her to suff... | 2019-07-31T09:43:04 | 2019-07-31T08:07:34 | 75 | 56 |
[WP] Sorcerers draw mana from a personal source, such as raging storms, campfires, murky swamps, etc. and that source affects the spells available to them. You possess the gift of sorcery but you feel no attraction to any traditional source, so you wander and seek that which will ignite your powers. | The boy thought his trouble had ended when the two men threw him out onto the Academy doorsteps. However, unbeknownst to him, the trouble had only just begun.
The world was cruel to those without magic; and even worse to those who had the mark of mana and could not be settled into the academies of the great lords of f... | It's been years now, driving across the country with my cat and my van. Years of seeking out the thing that would make everything click for me- that's how they describe it, anyways. A 'click'. Like the final puzzle piece falling into place.
I started out at 18. I'm 25 now. Seven years. Seven years of part time retai... | 2022-08-27T18:52:57 | 2022-08-27T15:49:29 | 190 | 104 |
[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. | Being the only human bartender in town brought with it a lot of complications. Monsters, demons, goblins, ghouls, and a whole host of other creatures would swagger in looking for trouble. They all thought that since he was a human he could be taken advantage of, threatened, maimed, or otherwise swindled out of product.... | “And I’m gonna rip his cock off!”
The gang was all here.
Through tears and rage I gaze upon my ugly batch of friends/patrons. Wild, dark, some with horns and others with too many of the same limb.
It is 7:48pm and my son has been missing for approximately 5 hours and 28 minutes. After flipping our apartment upsid... | 2021-05-10T16:15:46 | 2021-05-10T13:31:14 | 199 | 96 |
[WP] A time-travelling historian is sent back to pose as a scholar in the Library of Alexandria in order to copy the scrolls before their destruction. Nobody expected the historian would be the one to burn down the library after discovering a hidden truth for themselves. | The machine, a pot-bellied chrome thing like an oversized camp stove. It shudders, shrieks, seems to spin upwards and sideways – both ways at once, while somehow staying rooted in place. Then, a crack, a rush of wind, and an absence. They feel the absence in the room and in themselves.
Shaking his head slowly, the Col... | It took me many years to gain the trust of the Time Travelling Ethics Board. They enforced their rules rather inflexibly: few were allowed to go back beyond the day when time travel was first created.
Because it is the greatest invention in the history of humankind, the Board, with the help of professional ethicists,... | 2017-02-10T06:11:35 | 2017-02-09T22:02:37 | 50 | 27 |
[WP] You're a police officer in a horror movie, but actually competent. | The scent in the patrol car was an exotic mix of chemical cleaner, stale farts, and Mexican food. My partner, Stanley, was tapping her hand on the passenger window in time with the rhythm of the rain.
"You know...", she said, nursing her coffee cup, "the biggest cop killer is heart disease. All that grease is gonna ta... | I carefully weighed the situation. The monster *whatever it was* had long since fled. Confronted with someone armed, who knew how to fight, it had decided it had drunk enough blood this harvest. Wasn’t a match for officer Duke. *clever boy* I think to myself.
*what to do about this mess?*. Three dead cheerleaders and... | 2018-11-08T20:35:45 | 2018-11-08T20:00:44 | 3,260 | 16 |
[WP] After you die, you find out that reincarnation is real, however, there is an error and your memories are still intact upon reincarnation. | Aristotle believed that the fetus was ensouled after 40 days - for male embryos, that is. Female ones took 90 days. Ha ha, funny, right? The things people used to believe. Stoicism believed the baby was only ensouled at birth, upon exposure to the outside air. Christians, of course, would have you believe that ensoulme... | I have watched her a lot since I found her again, but I promise myself this will be the last time.
She is 40 years older than me but she is still as beautiful as the day we met. She stands outside her house waving her arms as if she is conducting an orchestra. There is a van in her drive and two men are unloading fur... | 2016-07-19T03:08:40 | 2016-07-19T02:25:40 | 18 | 13 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | I stared at the vampire in front of me. I should have been scared. I was looking at a creature that could kill me with little effort. But I wasn't. I was more annoyed than anything.
"Why aren't you scared?" he asked, his eyes gleaming. "I'm a vampire— I could kill you!"
"So could literally every other human, you'... | Why would I be scared of death ? I've been dead before... Twice... I'm totally over it. Actually you should be scared, taking on a former special forces operator that has nothing to lose... You can strike me, but I'll have my revenge... You know what they say about revenge. You better be ready to dig two graves... I'... | 2022-06-08T05:59:41 | 2022-06-08T05:05:56 | 67 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is given a prophecy at the instant of their birth. For most people, it is a short, cryptic sentence. Kings and Presidents often get a whole paragraph. Your daughter is four days old, and the Oracle is still scribbling furiously. | One hundred and six hours. The Oracle stayed hunched over her desk four sunrises and five sunsets before finally laying her quill to rest for the first and final time.
The moment the ink was dry, she sent it to us by messenger boy. He came at the crest of night, pounding like a madman at the door. I was up because Zi... | "Please, just a glance, Scribe."
She waved her hand at me, shooing me from her desk. The baby cried, my wife rocked her slowly in her arms and hummed gently. The scribe's apprentice ran in with a fresh bottle of ink and set it and a small stack of parchment on the desk. It was tradition that only the four of us be all... | 2017-12-30T18:13:26 | 2017-12-30T17:44:05 | 107 | 25 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Ironically, it was the skill and money brought to bear fighting the new uniform requirements that led to the revelation, or at least the public admission, of their existence. Stranger things, and more ironic things have happened, I suppose. I hope you'll forgive me if I cannot think of any.
The Clinton's fought this ... | Donald Trump stood up in the podium, annoyed at the last minute change of uniform. His usual Columbian suit now lay abandoned on the floor of his hotel suite, he wasn't planning on going back to the room at all afterwards, especially not with that dead hooker in the bathroom. He didn't bother to listen to the guy that ... | 2016-09-19T19:30:21 | 2016-09-19T18:37:32 | 94 | 35 |
[WP]Abducted humans have, so far, all displayed the same internal organ structure common throughout the galaxy with only one exception. Every one of them has a Glarnak parasite beating inside their chest. They even think it's necessary for life. | "Well, that does explain the penis."
"What!?"
"Get your mind out of the gutter and think for a moment."
"Oh, I see. That does explain the penis. Weird. The penis allows for a closer deposit of the genetic material from one to the other while the Glarnak spore is in its most vulnerable state. That is genius. But I am... | Stranger even, is that they believe this so much that if removed, their Quazinc Responder will halt all bodily functions and send their Essence on. It's as if the QR has tricked their Essence to think it is of this plane. Furthermore, there are ruling classes currently in power that have obtained knowledge to revolutio... | 2019-07-10T02:48:33 | 2019-07-10T02:19:54 | 45 | 32 |
[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. | I was 7 years old when I caught the common cold. I still don't remember what life was like before it. That's my power, by the way, any disease I get stays. I had to stay in one of those completely sterilized rooms for most of my life.
They pitied me, at first, the poor cripple who could never have a normal life. Or ... | They didn't respect me. Never did. They laughed as I pointed, laughing that my power was useless, that no one would ever respect me.
But, over the years, I've realized something. I've realized that without this thing, Laser Beam Man won't have the strength to fight crime. Super Strength Woman won't even be able to lif... | 2015-04-12T23:15:04 | 2015-04-12T17:51:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You’re a child psychologist and, to your horror, you discover that your patients all have the same imaginary friend. | Laurie Mathers knew that the closed study door was Daniel's way of saying that he wanted to be left alone. But he had been so restless, so unsettled ever since he returned from work this evening, that Laurie figured it would be better to be safe than sorry. People always thought that child psychologists had it easy, bu... | "So go over it one more time."
The psychologist drummed her fingers on her knees, frowning, "Look. I told you two everything already. I'm sure you don't believe me either."
Williams took another gulp of his coffee as he examined a nearby shelf of knickknacks, "Oh I wouldn't say we don't believe you Miss Colins, we ju... | 2017-10-05T18:23:38 | 2017-10-05T14:00:49 | 2,996 | 825 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | One moment, I was sitting in my room watching Youtube; the next, I was standing next to a massive banquet table in a circular room with nine other kids my age, looking just as confused as I was. The table had dozens of dishes on it, filled with more food than any buffet I had ever visited.
“Welcome, ladies and gentlem... | "You took a bite out of what!" Your mom yelled when she found out. "I thought I raised you better than that!. . ."
"Mo. . ." You tried in vain
"You could have had super strength by eating the spinach or flight with pork. But noooo you had to be a smart ass and bite the damn table. Should have known you would end up ... | 2020-03-19T08:27:31 | 2020-03-19T08:15:56 | 4,121 | 330 |
[WP] Due to an accident during your childhood, you stopped aging physically and became immortal. After a few years, it's clear that it would be difficult to hide that fact from your friends so you left without saying goodbye. Ridden with guilt, you paid them a visit when they are now old. | It's a lot easier to find out where people lived now. I still remembered having to write down addresses and meticulously planning how to get somewhere. But now, you can save so much time.
I stood at the doorstep of one Pierce Briggs. I found out that he's moved a couple of times in and around the world, including a cu... | "Hello Darius."
"Trevor? How? You... you haven't aged a bit."
"I know, that's why I left. It's not easy to hide. But I felt like I owed you an explanation."
"The others..."
"Departed, I know. Sorry."
Trevor took a seat at the dying man's bed. The evening was well-advanced, the full moon hidden by black clouds. The... | 2021-09-12T10:47:30 | 2021-09-12T09:50:26 | 1,370 | 178 |
[WP] Voldemort kills Harry Potter and declares war against the Muggles. He loses horribly, because unlike wizards - Muggles actually understand how magic works. | Voldemort watched the strange procession approach from his throne.
He somewhat regretted claiming Hyde Park as his base of operations. Sure, it was a large open space that gave him room to construct the elaborate throne he had fantasized about since he was a boy at Hogwarts. But it also meant people could just strol... | The death eaters struck the "muggle" world entirely without warning. Deaths were high, but no worse than other terrorist attacks. They too had casualties, and that's what allowed us to ultimately turn the tide against them.
Magic, it seemed, was real. Our physicists examined the effects of various spells and incantati... | 2017-07-17T19:55:02 | 2017-07-17T18:06:51 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] Aliens threaten the entire Earth with apocalypse unless one specific person is surrendered. Write from that guy's perspective. | Howard stood still and looked up at the sky. It was dark out, save for a slight silver glow atop the cylindrical object that seemed to mirror the light of the moon.
“I ain’t surrendering to no Mexican,” he said.
“They aren’t Mexican, Howard. They’re aliens. They’re going to destroy the planet if you don’t help us h... | Do you think you know the people around you? I mean, truly know them?
Do you look at them and think to yourself, with utter confidence, that they'll look out for you, no matter what? Of course you don't. You don't think that, do you?
You do know deep down that if it came down to it, they'd push you aside in a se... | 2014-01-31T07:10:06 | 2014-01-31T05:43:50 | 60 | 11 |
[WP] The dragon is terrorizing the kingdom again and like before you're summoned before the king. "I thought you said you slayed the dragon!" "Slayed? Oh boy, I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding your highness. I said I got the dragon laid, not slayed." | "Excuse me?" said the king, blushing. "Did you say. . ?"
It was a puritanical kingdom. Primal urges were repressed and rarely spoken about. They were certainly never spoken about in the court, before the king as he sat in his throne.
"Laid," I repeated.
The courtiers gasped and blushed. The women fanned themselves. ... | I might be imagining it but it suddenly seems dead quiet in the, I want to say, throne room.
‘Yeah’, I continue, just being polite, ‘yeah, he was pretty pent up. Me and the boys thought it made perfect sense so we took him out.
…
…oh sorry, yeah. We took him out, *Your Majesty*.’
It’s definitely gone quiet in here.... | 2022-01-12T14:46:37 | 2022-01-12T14:40:34 | 276 | 75 |
[WP] While doing your daily business, you're suddenly teleported to a new world to see someone in unusual attire crying, "I can't believe I got another common!" You look to the right to see twenty copies of yourself | "**Wait wait wait!**" I screamed desperately. I've played enough gacha games to know what happens to commons.
The horned demon looked at me, "Yes?"
"I'm not just *any* common, I'm a *SUPER* common."
"Your friend over there already tried that." He pointed at a copy of me wearing a beige shirt and khakis.
He waved s... | It was a long day, and I spend my last hours awake mindlessly browsing videos on Youtube. Seeing how late it's gotten, I turn off the computer and go to bed.
I don't usually dream. As a matter of fact, the amount of dreams I ended up remembering in the morning in the last six months can probably be counted on just one... | 2022-07-28T03:45:39 | 2022-07-28T03:27:14 | 26 | 15 |
[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... | "So does this feel cold mostly?", he asked.
"At first, yes. But you'll soon be unconscious, and those five hundred years will seem instantaneous", the researcher responded in a soft, comforting tone.
"Great, I'm absolutely excited!", he proclaimed.
"Ok. Once I start this experiment, there is no going bac... | 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... | 2017-12-17T03:58:19 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] You're death. You stop time to bring each individual soul to the afterlife, because no one dies at exactly the same time. You meet with the next soul, only to find two standing there. And now, you're terrified. | "Your coin," Charon said expectantly, holding out her hand in the customary way.
"I have two," The human in front of her demurred. "I was asked to go ahead. My, uh, friend'll be here shortly."
"Very well," Charon replied.
The human man dropped two coins into Charon's hand. The second the coins made contact, time st... |
“Name.”
The duo look at each other, unsure of the question they’re being asked.
“Umm… pardon me?” The man dressed in full medieval armor says, voice echoing in his helmet while he stares at the deep purple robed figure in front of him.
“I said I need your name.” The robed figure doesn’t even glance up at the men a... | 2022-05-21T03:29:33 | 2022-05-20T21:08:47 | 59 | 36 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | "What the FUCK!" the scream of horror that broke from my lips echoed from the walls of the lab. The bodies of six attendants lay scattered in pieces about the room, blood pouring from haphazard wounds. As my brain struggled to accept what I was seeing, I took a shaky breath and leaned out of the machine. Raising my eye... | The vibrations inside the box slowly subsided as the chronoton field collapsed. I had been staring at the unpainted plywood door of the capsule for exactly nineteen seconds in my time, feeling nothing more intense than that of holding an electric toothbrush. I unstrapped the entirely unnecessary harness holding me firm... | 2018-08-01T07:13:02 | 2018-08-01T06:00:53 | 1,585 | 53 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | It is nice to be king. Maybe it would be better if everyone wasn't trying to kill me, but things could be much worse. I have a nice apartment, a beautiful girlfriend, some good money, and really what more does a man need to be happy? I suppose love, but we are in love, and honestly, no one else thinks she is beautiful,... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T13:27:32 | 996 | 19 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 68 | 21 |
[WP] They say Terran time is the hardest prison time you can do. You’ve done time all over the galaxy and never really believed it - until today, when you were caught robbing a liquor store in a human territory called Mississippi. | I'm a hard braxl—my species' genders don't really have a good translation in most galactic languages—and I consider this more or less a lifestyle. And so long as you avoid the handful of system confederations that impose the death penalty, you can keep it that way. It's exciting, and that's important to me. Anarchic. S... | It's the smell. To be honest, humans just smell bad. And then combine that with large numbers in a confined area for 23 standard hours of a Terran day, it just gets worse. The stories are true. I have been locked up or confined at least a hundred times. And hear I am, in the toughest prison system in the galaxy! No way... | 2019-05-11T08:39:24 | 2019-05-11T07:51:17 | 197 | 18 |
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