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[WP] Your cat routinely brings home half-dead animals that you tend to and release once they are healed. Last week, it brought home a bat. Now, you've found yourself nursing back to health a badly-wounded vampire that is not very happy with the situation. | Mice. Rabbits. Squirrels. I’d seen it all. Tom dragged in all sorts for me, gifts in the only way he knew how. Sometimes they’d be dead, and I’d have to throw them out, but often they’d be clinging on. I hated to let them die, and so I’d nurse them back to health and let them go.
This particular creature though, was ... | I found a bat lying on my carpet this morning, Smokey Cat must have brought him in during the night, but he was still and felt cold..oh no..this one is dead..I poke at it a few times and see the creature is moving and large cut on his side.. I decided to nurse the poor thing back to health. I cleaned the wound smear on... | 2022-12-27T15:50:07 | 2022-12-27T12:25:11 | 393 | 47 |
[WP] Write an essay BSing your way through a topic you have no clue about. | The mendula oblangota is the key to any and all open brain surgery. All conscious thought goes through it, and if it is cut out, the patient will be rendered a vegetable for the rest of their life.
To start out a successful open brain surgery, several tools are needed: A die-grinder, pliers, a scalpel, a hacksaw, a f... | **11:59 AM.**
Wait. Like noon? Why would it be due in the middle of the day? I thought I had until midnight!
Okay okay don't panic. We got this. Flagella? I think that sounds familiar. Ahem.
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It is my great privilege to champion the cause of such a key and misunderstood issue as the global flagella crisis. Altho... | 2017-06-19T18:44:02 | 2017-06-19T17:39:42 | 327 | 155 |
[WP] Time travelers have become such a nuisance that governments have begun recording fake historical events that lead time travelers to areas where they can be arrested. You're a bartender at one of these artificial towns, trying to determine if the customer in front of you is from the future. | Something was up with that guy. Marian knew it.
“So, like, is it usually this busy at this time?” he said, looking around, nervous.
“Pretty much,” she replied, as she dried the glasses like a bartender in a 1940s film noir. She was not a
great actor.
He took another scan around. On the edge. Nervous. “Anything… in... | See, if they'd been *smart* about this, they would have *waited*.
Yes, it's a lot harder to fake something like this after the fact. I get that. But if you make the evidence you need, and then, say, wait a decade or two to release it, and only make it part of history *retroactively*, then you don't have to worry abo... | 2021-01-16T10:09:46 | 2021-01-16T08:44:10 | 3,201 | 300 |
[WP] You and a friend are getting robbed at gunpoint. Defiant, you refuse to give up your things, but your friend is all too willing to give his stuff away. Bewildered, you ask him why after the robber flees, and he replies with "Don't worry, he's gonna get hit by a car in like a minute, anyway."
​ | “Don’t worry, he’s gonna get hit by a car in like a minute, anyway.”
My eyes shifted to my friend. His confident, relaxed expression wasn’t moving an inch. Both of the robbers tightened their grip of their guns in an almost comical synchronization, knuckles turning white. Snapping out of it, the shorter thug, with Geo... | "Your money or your soul. Now."
I hesitated. I am sure I need my belongings. But to trade them for my life?....
"Scared aren't you? Your first time?" Said Jake confidently.
"What are you saying! Just give me the your damned belongings!"
"Easy bro. Here,My wallet. Meet me at the golden bank towmorrow. I will give yo... | 2018-08-29T03:03:29 | 2018-08-28T22:10:18 | 40 | 28 |
[WP] An AITA post from a supervillain desperate to be told they're doing the right thing. | ​
User: NOTASHES132
Edit: Sorry for the long post, had a lot to get off my chest.
Edit Edit: Wow okay thought I would get more measured responses from my favorite community.
AITA for Blowing up HALF the moon?
Please try to understand context, and remember, it was only HALF the moon. I could have blown u... | AITA for causing a riot, declaring martial law, destroying a water dam, and drowning a City.
Please read the full post before making a judgment. I can predict Domino effects(As in because of a x will happen in a couple of days) with this ability I somewhat can see the future. My ability also works if I see someone els... | 2022-05-01T08:25:45 | 2022-05-01T07:43:07 | 1,055 | 179 |
[WP] You are a genius who makes yourself immortal; unfortunately over a few hundred years the average IQ rises so high that you are now considered an idiot. | I barely recognize humanity's children.
In retrospect, the fracture of our species was inevitable. The seeds had already been sown when I was still a young man. Even before I cured my mortality, the process had begun, though I didn't recognize it at the time.
When the world became digital location lost all meaning,... | "Don't you realize what accomplishment this is?! I have lived far longer than any of you!!"
"You are inefficient, what accomplishment do you seek now, the way of true existence is how we are now, to leave the smallest footprint possible."
"What do you mean? You are here, don't you want the world to know you were?"
"... | 2016-11-30T00:42:57 | 2016-11-29T22:14:03 | 80 | 13 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | I...had a lot of blood.
My mom had once said that it was my blessing. That while others would always have correct change for their meals, or always have the stray alley cats like them or never have pidgeon poop covering their verandas, I had a lot of blood. I would never bleed out if I got into an accident, I would ne... | The sound of my alarm clock caused me to bolt up in bed. I always forget to set it for Mondays and I was going to be late for my first day of class. I rushed through my morning routine and grabbed a yogurt from my refrigerator on my way out the door. As I shut the door I saw my pan of lasagna from the night before star... | 2018-06-30T17:50:19 | 2018-06-30T17:11:02 | 87 | 55 |
[WP] America believes itself to be the last nation standing after a global disaster. What they do not realize, is that the global disaster was much more isolated than they were lead to believe, because it was a hoax to keep Americans away from the rest of the world. | I don't exactly know why I always walked out to view the sea walls. It's not like I had any lingering attachments to the land the sea claimed; i was born well after the End, and most of my generation viewed it as something almost unreal. Tiks on a stream, things our parents, if we still had them, would scare us with if... | I made a dear friend online, Jessica. She was a lovely person. Every time I got online, we would both chat to each other via Zoom or Discord. Since the pandemic isolated most of us, she was my one thing grounding me to reality. Keeping me away from the stress of my family, my workplace. She kept me sane.
So, the momen... | 2020-11-25T22:57:54 | 2020-11-25T20:59:53 | 62 | 20 |
[WP]You are an immortal knight,you've grown tired of existence so you take a nap under a tree in your quaint village,thousands of years later your armor has calcified and you’re regarded as a great work of art,today is the day you wake up. | I’ve always been a dreamer.
From the first moment I opened my eyes, to the last moments before closing them – I could always count on my dreams to ride with me. They rose up and comforted me when my mother and father died at the Last Crossing, they girded me with steel and resolve when I first took up a spear in ... | (I'm taking a few liberties here, as in our "Knight" will be more of a modern power armor knight, or actually, not really power armor..)
... Christ, what just happened? I can't see shit, and all I remember is my name. I don't remember what I am, what I look like, where I'm from, what I'm doing, nothing. My most recent... | 2020-07-16T23:58:56 | 2020-07-16T23:44:55 | 110 | 24 |
[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." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | "oh, I'm sorry, I actually don't understand you. I have a condition that only allows me to speak your language, not understand it."
"what? So... You're not here to destroy this reality?"
"yeah, sorry, don't understand a word. You would not believe the issues it causes"
"thats good because I'd have to kill you"
"can... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T21:11:48 | 647 | 39 |
[WP] “I’ll tell you what I’m going to do Mr Bond. I’m going to stick you in a spacesuit with a radio, and strap you into one of my cars. Then, while mankind watches, I’ll launch you into space. The last thing you’ll hear before leaving this earth forever, will be their applause.” | Elon Musk clapped his hands before pointing to his rival, James Bond. Elon took in a deep breath before announcing, “It is time!” Elon tapped his watch while moving over towards the control panel surrounded by his employees.
“Is this thing working?” Elon tapped the microphone. The microphone was linked into the space... | James Bond had pried a little too far, gathering enemies powerful, and not so powerful. This one, is a powerful enemy. Bond sat in the car as he listened to the radio. "Launching in sixty seconds." Bond sprang into action. He slipped one of the boots in the suit off his foot with a good shake, revealing the knife hidde... | 2018-02-06T21:55:33 | 2018-02-06T20:23:40 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] You're the normal guy the evil emperor keeps around to point out obvious flaws in his plan. It's a pretty sweet gig, but there are some annoyances. | **Please let me know what you think. I appreciate feedback!**
I was folding the laundry when the Emperor’s guards came for me. They took me despite my objections, though they did make sure that someone fed the cat. I suppose I have to be grateful for that.
I wasn’t happy by the time we got to the throne room. I do... | Kylo Ren hitched up his pants, and gestured to me to come closer.
"Yes, my lord?" I asked, kneeling on one knee, my palms up in supplication. Hopefully, his Kylo'ness wouldn't notice that I had directly disobeyed him.
"Jonesy - what do you think of the good General Hux's plan?"
I followed K's glistening black glove... | 2018-01-15T20:44:35 | 2018-01-15T17:08:18 | 60 | 12 |
[WP] Your mother told you your pet left home to go on adventures. You assumed they died. You come home from work one day to see your old pet at your front door, carrying a scrapbook of all their adventures to share with you. | I didn't expect to see Neko sitting on the kitchen counter, swishing his fluffy tail impatiently. I rubbed my eyes. It had been a long day. Work was busy, and maybe the rush had made me a bit crazy. Improbable, but my long-gone kitten sitting on my counter was near impossible.
"About time you got home. I've been wait... | “Bubbles? Is that really you?” I mumbled as my eyes filled with tears.
I couldn’t believe it. He was alive this entire time. My beloved goldfish. My mom had always told me that he was away going on adventures, but I had always assumed that she just flushed him down the toilet.
The aquatic orange fish looked at me.
“Gl... | 2018-04-28T20:02:23 | 2018-04-28T19:41:30 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | 'Two Screaming Morries for me and my buddy here.'
Mike listened to his Unitrans, then nodded gravely and turned around, opening the tap that contained agonised souls from Moran-5, quickly cutting off the screams by putting a sound-damper lid on the glass.
'You'll never guess where I just got back from.'
Mike finishe... | From their conversation, I felt the need to chip in. I knew that most Union member species had been living in space for centuries, relying on cloning vats, food pills, or high-tech hydroponics. “They eat animals, you know. Like actual, used-to-be-walking-around *animals*, not out of a vat. Barely even gene-modded.”
... | 2017-09-06T09:39:00 | 2017-09-06T08:59:00 | 314 | 179 |
[WP] Every time you die, you flash back to 10 seconds before so you can try to save yourself. Unfortunately, the fall was 11 seconds.
Saw this in “two sentence horror stories” and thought y’all could make something good out of it. | Do you know what the air sounds like when it stands still, blows gently; a simple, tame breeze rather than an unending storm?
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Because I don't.
I did at one point, I think. It was one of my favorite things to sit in the park when the weather was like that, calm and gentle, cool and forgiving.
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I could ... | I wince as I feel my fall restart, trying desperately to grab onto a balcony, a window frame, anything, as I fall past. It’s useless, though, so I shut my eyes, curling into a ball and trying to position myself so I can land on my knees. Maybe I can survive if I just try harder. Maybe this time. I know it won’t work, d... | 2021-12-24T10:10:47 | 2021-12-24T09:01:18 | 412 | 104 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | It was pretty embarrassing to die that way. Choking on toothpaste. Unable to clear toothpaste. Death by toothpaste. She waited in a corridor with a single chair and a single door. Everything was gray. Not scary misty gray. Just gray. Death was…boring, so far, she decided. She remembered choking, that flashing ... | The day started quietly, so quietly I almost wanted to sleep in. Some days a person can really use a little peace and quiet to take a nap, but today the stillness did more than bring an air of somnolence. It terrified me.
After a week alone on a raft in the North Atlantic- at least I think it was the North Atlantic,... | 2015-01-15T05:37:52 | 2015-01-14T22:55:33 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Platypuses.
They're funny little animals, aren't they? I never really stopped to think about them as hard as I have now. I mean, the feet, the beak, the flat little tail, who even put all of those cute buggers together?
𝟤 𝖬𝖨𝖭𝖴𝖳𝖤𝖲 𝟥𝟢 𝖲𝖤𝖢𝖮𝖭𝖣𝖲 𝖱𝖤𝖬𝖠𝖨𝖭. 𝖱𝖤𝖲𝖯𝖮𝖭𝖣.
I stared at the red light in ... | The machine beeped...."State your answer."
"Three minutes. No human being alive can state the reason we should live that quickly, but you would know that. You came to exterminate us. We didn't choose to be born, but we chose to create you. We birthed you, we molded you, we created you, and the aggressive sense of ... | 2022-05-22T13:45:13 | 2022-05-22T13:14:53 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] You looked on as the cult sacrificed you at the Altar, your blood seeping away, sucked by what they have summoned. The damp chill in the air remained as black, branching cracks started forming in mid-air. Memory came crashing back as a voice spoke in your mind, 'I finally found you, Master.' | As soon as the words entered my thoughts, I felt a pull as I was drawn towards the centre of the branching cracks, where a large sliver of blackness seemed to suck all the remaining candlelight in the chamber.
Helplessly, my body rose. Untethered but for the invisible pull as I got closer and closer to the blackness i... | A small wrinkly man steps towards you from the total darkness you see before you. Faintly, you notice the horrifying screams of the cultists as one by one they are slain. The old man is joined by another, this one covered in a layer of blood. “Master, we told you mingling with the plebs is a bad idea. They are so dense... | 2021-06-15T06:26:25 | 2021-06-15T04:09:33 | 221 | 41 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Written in scar tissue across a man’s back, there would always be a name. Another man’s name, the kind our culture crafted from blood and dirt to evoke that very image. The prevailing theory was that the name etched in raised flesh would be the name of that man’s killer. Or it wasn’t a theory, exactly, because it alway... | Dannos Quill was asleep in his favourite chair when the early-warning alarms tripped. He had set the runes himself, personally inscribing them on the sides of 12-inch candles which he then burned in a mile-wide perimeter around his cottage by the lake. The alarms were tweaked to only detect magical entities of the 4th ... | 2018-03-11T08:09:30 | 2018-03-11T08:08:31 | 84 | 37 |
[WP] You were born with an odd power that lets you know when somebody is lying. One day you're hanging out with your friend when you turn to look at him. "Why do you look at me like that? I'm not an alien", he says. He's lying.
This is my first writing prompt. Feedback appreciated :) | A sudden feeling of intense discomfort jolted his senses, a burning sensation radiating all throughout his skull. She was lying.
“Sarah, how long have we known each other?” Frank laughed casually at the macabre statement.
“Ah, I think since high-school? It’s been a long time, man!”
“And in that time,” Frank began in... | I understand your confusion. You have lived here all your life, learning about the cosmos in school, from Earth's perspective. You've told me you aim to strike out into the stars one day, despite the lack of funding toward that endeavour anywhere.
In a sense, you are not lying. For to you, your humanity is an inaliena... | 2018-12-01T23:14:16 | 2018-12-01T21:50:57 | 1,000 | 173 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | In the same place where the Gods are born, they also die. I sat with him while he sobbed, reaching and holding the nape of my neck like it was the last thing holding him up. I guess I was.
"Taylor, the John's Son, please...Make them believe I'm real," he said.
I said nothing.
"My brother is still alive inside of me... | They neve knew how it would be, how could they? I was the only one who had the courage, after all I didn't have anything to live for, now I know everything my civilization knew, I saw kingdoms burn, i saw everything a human could've seen and finally it clicked, all that sadness, boredom had no meaning, I was thinking a... | 2020-10-25T10:56:55 | 2020-10-25T10:02:18 | 121 | 49 |
[WP] You are the dangerous Chaos Mage. Everyone fears you. You are actually just dyslexic and keep reading you spellbook wrong. | “Oh my gods, hurry your ass up Meera!” Aspen the cleric shouts. His yells are suddenly cut off by the sound of a crossbow bolt and then a sharp “OUCH!”
I flip through my spellbook trying my damn best to read the swirling letters on the page. I’d told Aspen once that my eyes didn’t work right. He’d asked me if I’d bee... | There lived a Chaos Mage called Darius. He was just too dangerous to even get near, people and the magic society feared him for his spells that ended up causing way more destruction and chaos.
One day the Elder Mages at the table decided he should be accompanied by someone with superior skills who can counteract his s... | 2020-11-04T15:23:40 | 2020-11-04T13:47:36 | 1,362 | 247 |
[WP] You're a disembodied consciousness who wakes up every day in a new body. Today, for the first time, you wake up in the same body as yesterday. | Mornings were the worst.
That unnatural heat as the day began, warm air creeping through the cracks in the window as the sun’s rays found their way into my eyes. No matter which body I found myself in, mornings were always the same, a painful experience as I discovered my newest identity.
Stretching my arms up,... | The clock stuck 6 AM and I woke up, a bit groggy as usual. The room seemed familiar. I picked up the phone on the table next to me and opened up the front camera.
Wait. This was impossible.
I had been jumping bodies for years now, always waking up in a new one. This was a first. I had once again woken up in the bod... | 2021-01-16T23:46:21 | 2021-01-16T23:14:08 | 1,116 | 63 |
[WP] You realise that a shop you walk past every day is only visible to you and no one else. What awaits inside? | Something humans are incredibly competent at is not noticing things. In particular, the average human can simply ignore anything, no matter how large, so long as it, in any way, is inconvenient for them. These are, after all, the species which decided that mountains were rather in the way and ought to be more considera... | Leon Boyce walks the same route he takes from his apartment to work every day. He passes the closed down convenience store on the corner and laughs, remembering the night he went in and threatened to kill the old man who ran that place. Leon was glad to see he had finally chased him off. There were enough foreigners po... | 2018-06-09T15:12:02 | 2018-06-09T15:04:06 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine.
Looking for comedy but any genre is welcome.
Heavenly figures are more than welcome.
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**Lilttle edit**
I'm honestly surprised. 100 positive karma prompt and only 5 real responses. I'm sort o... | "And now comes my favorite time of the day. Performance reviews. Zachifondizebub, do you know why you get to go last today?"
"Because you save the best for last, your Malevolence."
"Very good. Now why do you suppose I didn't pick Quarithion?"
"Because Hitler's not really that bad?"
"NOT THAT BAD? He tried to exterm... | "So you hear about Fred Phelps?"
"I know he was slated for the Fifth Circle, but beyond that I haven't heard anything."
"That's because he never came in."
"What? You're shitting me."
"I shit you not. I guess there was some mix-up in the soul archives, and he ended up getting transported to Purgatory. The big wigs h... | 2014-04-27T14:22:03 | 2014-04-27T13:46:45 | 98 | 24 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Urban environments present challenges for all life. Unlike squirrels and refuse bears, not all creatures here spend their time scavenging.
A male human. This adolescent has mastered the skills required for daily life, and now that the weather has turned favorable, he's set his sights on a more difficult task. Groomed... | *cameras zoom in on 2 wild homo sapien*
And now, we are observing two wild *Homo Sapiens* in their natural habitat: Starbucks. 'Starbucks' is a natural watering hole for the occasional homo sapien, and sometimes this rare species finds a mate at the watering hole. The male will, on rare occasion, give an espresso to t... | 2017-04-04T07:07:46 | 2017-04-04T06:35:23 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] At the height of the cold-war, one side launched its entire arsenal. The leader of the opposing side, adamant not to let this mean the end, made the decision to not retaliate. This is the losing-side's last message to the world.
I made the choice to be ambiguous about which side launched, so that you may choose f... | Evgeny Bogrov shifted his feet on the table and eased back into his greasy brown woollen chair. He hated the night shift - nothing ever happened, and there was no-one to talk to. But he daren’t sleep - Evgeny had done that, just the once, and had been chewed out so far by Captain Yurkov that he’d been put on half rat... | This morning, we have received notification of the termination of all negotiations aimed at fending off the final war that has loomed ominously over the whole world for the past few weeks. Even now, as two great war machines have been striving for supremacy on the European and Asian continents, it was made clear to us ... | 2016-03-12T04:27:54 | 2016-03-11T22:01:54 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] A demon attempts to possess an 11-year old, but finds itself unable to control or escape from the child. A decade later they've become close friends and celebrate the occasion.
What do they do? Can others tell the boy is possessed? Go wild. | This is my first post here, looking to get back into creative writing again. Would appreciate any feedback you guys have! Thanks :)
It's a normal night, just like any other. I'm sitting in a room full of people, feigning interest in the everyday hum drum that humans find so amusing for some reason. Silly twats, lik... | There is no monster in the closet, nothing lurking under the bed or in the shadowed corners. Sometimes there is, but not here. Not in our house. The only thing demons here sleep under is cotton sheets and a duvet, and that's on *top* of the bed. Of course, my little brother doesn't know that.
Technically the twins are... | 2014-05-31T01:17:37 | 2014-05-31T00:21:29 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] We forget our dreams for a reason: in the near future, memory enhancement therapies allow everyone to fully recall every dream they've ever had. Across the entire human race, disturbing patterns and implications emerge that were previously hidden by the unappreciated bliss of forgetfulness. | I wriggled my toes in the wet sand, and she stood beside me and did the same. The water lapped at our heels, and we sank more and more with each wave. The sun was just beginning to flirt with the horizon in the distance and the sky was streaked with purples and oranges. As we walked, we held hands; her palms were so so... | The dreams we wanted to remember, we remembered. The dreams we did *not* want to remember we did also. Only now I can say that this was all a huge mistake.
The therapies were so widespread within a year practically everyone was able to do it. With great detail we told about our most amazing dreams, where we fought, or... | 2016-09-30T06:35:15 | 2016-09-30T06:30:50 | 842 | 269 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | "*... Idiots, the lot of them. I'm done.* " Once again, Anduriel found his white-walled manor splashed with the red of another so-called offering. (While the first few years had been a tad bearable, it just gets obnoxious after a few millennia. ) With a barely-audible sigh, he gathers his shroud and prepares to breach ... | I apologize as I'm half asleep and this is the only thing helping me go to bed.
"Really dude, now? Can you just shut the hell up?"
A ghastly pale figure of a young man, almost skin and bones with long raggedy black hair and a 5 o'clock shadow. Black, ragged robes with a hellforged metal sword clinging to his back, c... | 2019-11-18T21:45:35 | 2019-11-18T21:40:30 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.
A person invents a time machine f... | First off, I made I set rules for myself. I would visit the historical figures I admired, writers, philosophers, scientist mostly, as near to their recorded deaths as possible. I'd get to meet them, get a keepsake and a chance to share with them what they had accomplished and how they would be remembered. I wouldn't al... | I am the last of my kind. The others are either dead, trancended, evolved or artificial. I have decided to end it. We had a good run, but it is time to let go. Before I leave, I want to make a little trip. I want to meet everybody, just before they pass, and ask them to give me their name and their story.
...
My task... | 2017-01-08T10:26:58 | 2017-01-08T10:21:32 | 196 | 22 |
[WP] You are sent over 1000 years into the past by accident. You must now learn to survive using the primitive technology of the year 2016... | "E-ay-urth. Yurth. Airth?"
"It's Earth. Like, *urth*. The 'ea' makes an 'uh' sound."
"Can I just call it T1? That's what we would have called it on T23 if it still existed."
"Fine."
I'm not a crazy person, I'm just new here. I'm a foreigner, like a serious foreigner. Everything we knew in our society, spanning tens... | My first shock was the lack of a spacetime data connection. My mind was isolated completely, no other intelligences reaching out to me from the ether as i pinged away. Initially this led me to assume that my gravitational wave sensors were defective but my diagnostics proved otherwise.
I was switching over to the imag... | 2016-06-16T16:58:53 | 2016-06-16T16:39:33 | 427 | 130 |
[Wp]Heaven isn't based on religious text or desires, but how you died. Example: a man who starved to death will live in a heaven of food.
Edit: holy shit i did not expect this response, you're all awesome and beautiful! <3 |
Saito was a salaryman. At fifty-six years old, he was a member of that elder, passing generation that had embraced the heroic persona of corporate bondsman, swearing fealty for life to an owner-corporation--tilling at his cubicle, yielding up his labor, certain and secure in his place in the feudal regime.
Salaryma... | The last thing I remember was a tinkling of something coming from the ceiling, then cries and screams. I grip my mother's hand and it all went black.
I woke up in a magnificent field of flowers.
I'm warm, fully dressed and I feel sunshine on my face. The smell of the air is sweet and floral. Easy to breathe it in whe... | 2017-01-27T12:08:47 | 2017-01-27T11:23:27 | 291 | 126 |
[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.
*... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 996 | 18 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | \[User Detected. Welcome back, Commander.\]
Phil looked at his commanding NCO with a look of wide-eyed surprise. "You hearing this shit, Sarge?"
Phil had stepped into The Suit in it's default state, a plain-looking man-shaped sculpture of unadorned metal. Today was his Pilot Ceremony, the day where the base and the s... | I didn't want to join the army, but as the enemy approached it felt like the right thing to do. I was a talent, as expected. Great aim, amazing at martial arts, fast, strong and the best leader in every situation. This, of course, lead to people noticing, then promotions, new friends, new bosses... This brought me here... | 2019-08-19T12:17:02 | 2019-08-19T11:33:18 | 92 | 37 |
[WP] Humans were originally designed as cheap, efficient, easily-reproducible and moldable soldiers in galactic wars. However, after an "animal rights" group won legislature in the United Galaxy, all humans were dumped on the reservation planet, Earth, and forgotten about. A millenia later... | "I suggest that we strike now," a voice growled out of the communicator. "Their technology is exponentially more advanced than we would expect their species to have developed on their own. I fear we haven't seen the worst, either." it said.
The communicator shut off with a soft click. Around the large table were a sel... | "Disaster." spoke the alien, blue of skin tone a slimy with secretion.
"Extrapolate." replied the alien, frilled with gills and adorned with precious stones.
"Weaponized biological life-forms have undergone spontaneous evolution-mutation. Outside parameters. Strength coefficient below tolerable conditions." He replie... | 2017-01-23T20:00:05 | 2017-01-23T19:24:55 | 74 | 18 |
[WP]You are fluent in latin. After a car accident, you find yourself in a fantasy world. In this world, humans have been slaves to other species, all of whom use magic. Human have the capability to use magic, but only by learning the elve's language. After hearing it, you find that it is latin. | I sat upon my silk throne. Normally that wouldn't have been possible, but magic, it finds a way. To imagine that 5 years ago, I was but a clueless mortal, clueless to this world as a summer child. I smiled at my courtiers, humans, elves and orcs, all subservient to me. Ha, if I wanted to, I could command them to take t... | Death sure was strange. One moment I saw a semi careening over the side of the road after a car in front of it suddenly braked. Then it hit my car, my new car... dang. And now I'm laying in grass, Surrounded by elves yelling latin at me, "Why are you here? What are you doing out of your pen?" asked one "Ahh, one mom... | 2020-04-01T11:36:59 | 2020-04-01T10:37:06 | 175 | 38 |
[WP] In a last ditch effort to save humanity, scientists create a microscopic device to deliver a single strand of human DNA into space and inject it into any living cell it finds. | In the year 40-02DA Humanity temporarily ceased to exist. The Cosmos did not notice. But, as luck would have it, the end was not to be. At least not entirely.
___
The Nation's lead scientists had been trying to solve the problem of The Rot for decades. That was the lay term for the shortening of people's lifespans... | The device floats through endless black space.
Twirling in the no gravity. A small compact device so white it almost gleams silver.
Twirling...twirling...through empty black space.
For eons.
Stars explode. The universe expands.
The device gets sucked into a black hole.
A darkness deeper than black. A blackness b... | 2017-07-06T07:48:11 | 2017-07-06T06:37:06 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Humans can find a way to weaponize literally anything, without fail. Some aliens are terrified by humans as a result of this fact. Others appreciate that this quality makes humans the foremost experts on safety systems and idiot proofing. | "Gbirri, come 'ere, lookit, lookit this." Doug gestured towards the pipe lining the top corner of the hallway. "You lookin' at this , you overgrown chicken?"
The Jdarri kept its long scaled face looking straight at Doug, then let out a few yelps and squawks. Moments later the translator in his ear switched it to Human... | *"So... you want me to put a knife on the cleaning bot?"*
Lathat was perplexed by the request of the new crewmate Jhon. Ever since humans have been integrated into the union they have truly proven to be as the humans say *fucking crazy*. They somehow have the ability to weponize anything, everything from a rock to a ... | 2021-12-25T14:12:05 | 2021-12-25T11:20:06 | 1,244 | 404 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | My first born came with the years first rain
Screaming like a whistling steam engine train.
It was only then my wife and I saw
That it wasn't what we were expecting at all.
My baby was black while we are both white
I shouted expletives at my wife out of spite.
*"How dare you! How could yo... | The Grand High Weaver, Spinner of Threads, Architect of Fates looked in disbelief at the tangled, twisted mess on the floor before him.
"What do you mean you dropped it!?" He demanded of his acolyte, a lesser nephalem who managed only a whimper in response.
"Do you have any idea of the effects that this will have? An... | 2016-11-27T11:29:09 | 2016-11-27T11:08:21 | 87 | 25 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | "It doesn't exactly go the way it goes in all your storybooks, kid." Satan said in his grizzly Boston accent. I followed him as he walked over to the lavafall flowing graciously in the back of the room. "The writings about Hell and Heaven, the ones on Earth at least, they're all tainted by humans and their power hungry... | I scrunched up my nose and watched Satan with intent. Unlike how everything had described him, he seemed like an .....attractive?....demon?
"What might the reason be.?" My tongue betrayed me and the question just rolled off my tongue, how did it even matter? I was dead, standing infront of Satan himself, this in itse... | 2020-07-22T05:53:01 | 2020-07-22T02:20:01 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | "**Hey. Hello.... Can you hear me?**"
*Huh? What? Where the hell did it come from? Must've be–*
"**Hey! I'm in your head! Just hear me out, okay?**"
*... A-Are you fucking kidding me...*
The voice inside his head took a deep sigh and continued, "**No I'm not kidding you. Before you ask, no I'm not your conscience a... | I just started running. The shoes I had on were for my concert, black classic shoes and the dress I was wearing it didn't help either. Luckily Patrick, one of my neighbors who happened to be going to the city saw me running and stoped. You might imagine how awkward that conversation was.
And than it spoke again. The ... | 2019-06-04T04:03:06 | 2019-06-04T03:20:04 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] You have a superpower, but it only works when you're holding your breath | I looked at the compute screen. My time drew near. Soon, I would have to put on the performance of a lifetime.
“Are you ready for this, Jerry?” said my partner, Reagan.
I nodded. “Ready as I’ll ever be.”
“Remember that we’ve got one chance for this. He’s got to believe,” said Reagan.
I nodded again. I sat tied to... | I first discovered my ability whilst swimming at my town's local pool. It's still unknown what initially triggered it, all I know is that I dove under the water and everybody freaked. I specifically remember my mother's reaction, I could only imagine how it would feel to see your baby one moment, and lose them the next... | 2015-02-02T19:52:16 | 2015-02-02T19:17:28 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | First day at the academy, but it's not that exciting. I've been here before and it was just as boring then. The real fun doesn't come until after, most people don't even keep the familiar they get while they're here. Just a big 'show of power' or whatever. Wait... why is that cat following him...and that lizard on her ... | I could hear the rituals from the other dorm. Chanting, Latin words thrown about like expletives, great noises of wooden staves clanking on the carpeted floor. Sounds like daemons screaming and darkbeasts roaring. Steel oils and serpent’s blood extracts mixed to form a potion that might seduce whatever creature rose fr... | 2019-04-05T16:41:38 | 2019-04-05T16:11:29 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | I hadn't thought about Death for a long time the day I led my granddaughter straight into his arms. I was annoyed with Abby. Impatient. She wanted a very particular type of ice-cream. One she'd had in Toulouse with her parents. "We're in New York," I told her. "So you'd better settle for a New York ice-cream, missy." S... | Immortality. Let me tell you about immortality. It sucks. Really really sucks.
Oh, don't get me wrong. When you first start out it's fantastic fun. Not a worry in the world. You feel untouchable. Because, really, you are. You can do anything, go anywhere, and you don't have to worry about a thing. The first day I went... | 2017-03-07T03:03:41 | 2017-03-07T02:25:06 | 139 | 73 |
[WP] It’s the birth of a new universe, and you’re trying out to become a war god. But, that role was already filled, and you got booted to a fertility god. At first you’re upset, not sure where to start, but then you start to get an idea. After all: “love is a battlefield” | "God of fertility? GOD OF FERTILITY! WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!" Mangala raged.
He would've kicked over the golden stand next to him if it weren't so heavy. He glared over at Eirene whose calm disposition only worsened the situation.
"How does she get the title of god of war and not me?" Mangala protested, "I served i... | What does it mean to be a god?
It means to be power interpreted by mortals. Ans shattered as each new identity is formed; One city might worship you as a god of love, but love is a power entirely human. As was war. and both were painful.
I cannot recall what or who i once was once spawned from The Spine at The Center... | 2021-01-11T06:55:59 | 2021-01-11T06:52:34 | 91 | 50 |
[WP] The villain has tried everything to get under the heroes skin, but they remain completely unfazed by the villains taunts and insults, until a small slip-up by the villain makes the hero go absolutely ballistic. | She sat there, reading. Ignoring me, every insult, every barb, every threat.
She just sat there, reading her book. The chains she was in, pinning her to the ornate throne, prevented her from turning the pages, but since she wasn't supposed to have a book to begin with, that didn't matter to her. I watched her eyes... | "YOU GOOD-FOR-NOTHING GLORY HOG! YOU THINK YOU'RE SOME HOTSHOT?"
"...I took down most of your army to get here..."
"Urgh... you're annoying and ugly!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know that."
"Did you know that you're just a pawn? Everyone is just using you!"
"I chose this path. Listen, can we just fight?"
"You fight as well a... | 2022-09-26T12:50:31 | 2022-09-26T09:05:53 | 130 | 61 |
[WP] Time travel exists. By law, every citizen is given one day they may repeat on loop until they get it right. This morning, you found your spouse looking exhausted and crying. "I can't save you. I've tried hundreds of times." | Cool air gently brushed through my toes. I hate that feeling, so I pull them back into the blanket, and tuck myself deeper into it. I'm not ready to get out of bed.
Is that sobbing? I swiftly roll over to check on my wife, Sarah. She's looking at me with both desperation and love. Her eyes are red and flooded by tears... | "shh... Sweet heart. It was only a dream. Go back to sleep." I had never seen Raymond cry like that. He was sobbing and rocking back and forth in bed, saying over and over "I can't save you. I've tried hundred to times." His eyes were crazed and horrified.
As I woke up more and more, the gravity of his words began to... | 2018-10-24T23:25:42 | 2018-10-24T22:00:01 | 78 | 29 |
[WP] In a school for assassins and mercenaries, you're a beloved lunch lady. You ruefully realize that you're the only person nearly everyone trusts. Then you get framed for placing hemlock in an administrator's meal. The school board rushes to fire you, throwing the academy into turmoil. | I wiped my sweaty palms on my heavily stained apron for the tenth time in the last five minutes. The doors ahead were heavy, ornately decorated wood, and the depictions of violence and death carved into them seemed an omen for what was to come.
“Mrs. Brown! Mrs. Brown!”
I glanced down the hall. Jack, one of my favor... | Cathy had always wondered what having power felt like.
Some people might have called her powerful in her days as an adventurer, with her extensive knowledge of poisons and the knife-fighting skill to take down any opponent she came across. But no matter how skilled she became at dealing death, no matter how many foes ... | 2021-08-04T09:40:19 | 2021-08-04T09:39:47 | 125 | 48 |
[WP] Someone just started a conversation with you, complaining that every person and computer system seems to have forgotten who they are over night. They seem to know you, but to your knowledge, you've never met this person before. | Finn hummed along to the elevator music as he pondered the strange anxiety niggling in the back of his mind. He prided himself on being logical, but try as he might, he couldn't make sense of it. He had a good life and a stable career. He was single, but only because he had been so swamped with work he didn't have the ... | The smell of fresh cut grass was calming. It reminded Eugene of a job well done while sitting at the picnic table and admiring his work. Saturday afternoons were his favorite. Simply enjoying the sun, an ice cold beer, and doing yard work with his wife. Life couldn’t be better.
Cindy was kneeling in the dirt across t... | 2022-04-02T06:56:59 | 2022-04-02T01:42:41 | 164 | 97 |
[WP] An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable. A lone, unarmed human. | The quick-silver beam of light flashed through the atmosphere of Xanadu, smashing into its surface just outside the city of Moo Shoo. The inhabitants gathered around, hiding within the tall purple ferns, peering out with eyes on the end of long stalks.
A small chrome capsule sat in the middle of a charred crater, sm... | "Jac'que, it just killed another drone!"
Jac'que rubbed his mandible, it had been a long day.
"By the Great Queen... how is it doing this?! That was the third one! What does it want?!"
The worker clicked on its pad which showed a series of graphs and what seemed to be hieroglyphs to the untrained eye.
"Our research... | 2014-08-06T12:40:42 | 2014-08-06T12:08:26 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared people in organized crime. You get rid of problems for your employers by kindly and honestly convincing your targets to follow a different path in life. | Mike splashed his way out of the pool and came forward with his arms spread like he was going to give me a hug. Even years after he'd graduated from a street thug, his body still rippled with muscles; Mike stayed in good shape. "Danny boy! It's been too long!" I took a step back; I didn't want pool water all over my su... | The drug dealer trembled as Mr T slammed the door and locked it. The room. He was in the *room* with this monster.
Someone had plunged a syringe in his arm last night. When he opened his eyes, he was here. Nobody escaped the room, or the man that owned it. Everyone knew that.
"Rico, right?" the man asked softly.
H... | 2016-07-22T13:01:38 | 2016-07-22T12:51:53 | 263 | 27 |
[WP] Humans' ancestors never evolved on land, instead they went deeper into the oceans. Today, their equivalent of NASA sent their first "spaceship" out of the water. | Terranaut. Yasary Korel liked the sound of Terranaut. He pumped his tail back and forth, powering his terrapod, barely big enough for him to squeeze into it. *Focus.* He looked at the shimmering, wavy surface of the water, mere feet above him. It felt strange, being attached to the sea floor, instead of being free to s... | We're finally about to do it. We're about to send the first drone out of water. Nobody has ever seen past what we call zone 1, the part of the water right before water ends. It has been told in the ancient books that past the water is a thing called air that when consumed for more than 5 seconds will suffocate you, jus... | 2015-04-19T19:00:46 | 2015-04-19T18:29:02 | 81 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with someone else, no doors, just a a paper taped on the wall that says "One of you is the A.I." | **One of you is the A.I.**
I don’t know what it means. Why we were sent here.
I don’t remember anything. Does that mean I’m the A.I.?
He doesn’t remember, either. Is he one, then?
“Well, if neither of us remember anything, what if this test — if it’s even a test, not just some sick experiment — is false? What if we... | I wake up, my skin is clammy and slick. Sweat drips from my forehead into my half-open eyes.
It stings.
This isn’t a place I recognize.
It’s new.
unfamiliar.
corporate.
cold.
There is no exit. A single mirror stares at me from the adjacent wall, there is a wooden table below it. A man sleeps in a bed i... | 2018-02-22T19:52:01 | 2018-02-22T19:30:13 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] After taking over the world and nearly wiping out humanity. Vampires are desperately trying to get their food sources numbers back by setting up the last man and last woman on earth on romantic dates, and playing an overly aggressive wingman/wingwoman in hopes to get them together. |
“Come on, I think it suits you,” Luca said, closing the clasp of the cloak around Brian’s neck. The cloak was a vivid red velvet, held shut with a golden broach. Brian’s handlers had paired it with a formal suit, his hair slicked back with grease. Brian looked like the villain in a cut-rate Dracula movie, an irony ... | "What do you think? Isn't she the most beautiful woman on the planet? I'm telling you, bro. We made her fill out a questionnaire and her ideal partner matches the person you are perfectly!" The pale man exclaimed.
"A picture taken when her blood is being taken isn't that flattering and She is the ONLY woman on the pla... | 2019-12-21T05:35:52 | 2019-12-21T05:31:20 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | I laid the utensils down gently against the white table cloth, careful not to blemish the tantalizing display I had organized. A platter of the finest cheeses to begin the evening. Followed by an entrée of roast lamb accompanied by ripe cherry tomatoes. And finally, a bottle of Château Margaux wine to complete the affa... | "Hello Jackson."
Those words, in that tone, by that voice. The same voice that had the "Ruler of Ten Worlds begging on his knees. I wish I could be even a bit frightened, but after twenty times, it gets old. The same words, every time.
"No and go."
Genesis raised an eyebrow, but other than that, didn't respond. I sl... | 2021-08-16T17:51:13 | 2021-08-16T16:57:27 | 1,035 | 679 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | "I good girl." Said the scruffy black cat.
The orc jailer squinted down at the talking feline. He was a great green brute of an orc, and was the very last line of defense in the intricate cave system of the Western Mountain Orc Prison.
The orc jailer usually delighted in having wild rats pass by his post at night, ... | The whispers are always there. They’re in everyone. It’s that pull, that voice that sounds like a friend or distant parent. Softly, gently, but oh so forcefully encouraging you to embrace it.
Few accept. Fewer still are able to rid themselves of the voice. More than a few listen, but simply shake their heads and go o... | 2019-12-07T13:02:32 | 2019-12-07T12:04:32 | 171 | 12 |
[WP]We tried to invade Earth when it was first discovered. But the way humans wage war is terrifying... | "Off the record, this meeting never happened, will never happen, and will never be mentioned outside of this room, is that clear Captain?"
He nodded. "Please state your name for the record."
"Captain Luthaerian Harth, son of Luther Harth." Tinkering went on behind the Committee. A large square room, divided by th... | "I was one of the last soldiers to leave my ship when we went out inthe usual formation, but they refused to face us."
"So what did they do?" One of the kids listening asked.
"Well, it wasn't immediately clear that they noticed us, but as we approached the next city, it was called Kansas and for some reason had the w... | 2017-10-17T20:41:21 | 2017-10-17T11:41:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] After years of constant battles, you've finally defeated your nemesis, the city's foremost hero and protector. But now their spouse just showed up, and nothing you throw at them even slows them down. | I held my ground as the smoke and dust shrouded me, my eyes open and squinting deeply. He was near, and I needed to be alert. It'd been eons since I felt force like that; specifically back on my home planet, when I was small and my father and I trained. I was much weaker then, yet to be hardened by war, and carrying le... | "She just keep pushing sir!. The traps dont work! She in unaffected by fire, she just jump over the crocodile pit with ease and now she is breking the 3-multi-layer adamantium carbon fibre door whit her bare hands!"
"How... How did she find us?????!! This place is in the botton of the sea for god sake!"
"She... she ... | 2021-07-15T09:20:39 | 2021-07-15T07:01:48 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] As you turn 18 you must choose between two worlds to live in. One is totalitarian where the government controls your life, with no poverty or crime. The other is anarchistic with no government or laws. You can never change your mind. | The day I turned 18, I watched north of 100 people go into the doors on the right. Almost like the decision had been made before hand.
''See you on the other side, bro.''
She spoke, as I stood with my arms inside my pockets, looking at her figure, disappearing into the white light, after opening the doors. I stepped ... | James blew out all 18 candles, silently wishing that he had more time.
One door would lead to riches and peace, but also slavery. The other door would lead to absolute freedom and opportunity, but also danger and chaos. Once you stepped through one door, there was no going back.
So what kind of man was he? Was he the... | 2016-09-23T15:17:43 | 2016-09-23T13:54:43 | 134 | 29 |
[WP] Year 2049, the first AI was elected in place of a human politician 25 years ago. Humanity is united under a single flag, hunger and disease is no more, a gunshot hasn't been heard in years, the world climate is recovering...Yet, there's this one thing you just can't accept.
The thing can be a minor bother for hum... | I sat on the hard wood floor of my cold, dark studio apartment sipping cold-brewed tea with the arm that wasn't in a cast, and gazed out the window at the drone scouts that patrolled the spotless neighborhood below. A single word came to mind:
Surrender.
That was what the Age of Prosperity really was. It was surrende... | I could never grasp the situation, I was born into this so called "perfect" world, but I knew something was off. My friend for instance, he was so... flawless, even his knees were godlike, but it was like this for everyone, nobody had flaws, nobody had anything wrong with them. Except me.
I was ridden with acne, I was... | 2017-09-27T12:13:17 | 2017-09-27T11:23:09 | 86 | 25 |
[WP] Everyone has a secret power, though they are of varying degrees of usefulness. You have only used yours once, and swore never to use it again. Today, however, you were kidnapped and imprisoned. Now, you have no choice. You must summon him. The Kool Aid Man. | The commercials got it all wrong, of course. They portrayed him as a cheerful pitcher of cherry-red Kool Aid. Well, he is cherry-red, and he does sort of look like a large pitcher, but cheerful? Not quite.
The first time I summoned him, his appearance terrified me. Long pointed teeth packed his mouth, each dripping t... | I woke up tied to a chair in the middle of a room. The walls were yellow. It was day light from the one window in front of me. I didn’t know how I got kidnapped. My head was still spinning. I said, “Where am I?” A male voice behind me answered, “Shut up!” I was a little shocked that someone was behind me. I just rememb... | 2020-12-01T09:04:33 | 2020-12-01T08:11:46 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] Humans are new on the galactic stage. The reigning champion in an MMA style fighting ring uses telepathy to predict his opponents movements,but humans have something never seen or heard of before. Muscle memory. | The world had changed a lot. The universe had come knocking; they were, by all descriptions of all encounters, far beyond us in science, philosophy, technology, and art.
They asked if Vermeer was considered a child when they painted.
They asked if Einstein's theory of relativity was a joke.
They asked how it took us... | “The following contest will be fought to the death,” a booming voice states to the nothingness.
A single white light illuminates a slender figure. Large, dark, disc-like eyes stare ahead into the darkness. Its arms and legs are shackled as it stands calm and motionless.
“Introducing first, from the depths of the Oc... | 2019-06-01T03:39:57 | 2019-06-01T02:28:02 | 71 | 27 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Late to the party as usual, but here goes.
In the human history there is man named Alexander whom they call 'the Great.' Alexander lead a vast army, which worshipped him, with which he conquered hundreds of kingdoms. He spread his noble culture to the far reaches of the world in an unbelievably short amount of time. ... | "Hold my beer."
I moaned silently to myself as the icy fear climbed my spine. It was always like this:
The ship would get into trouble, usually because of the Captain.
The crew would try all kinds of solutions that inevitably failed, usually because of the Captain.
We'd be up against the wall, no possible way out, no ... | 2017-03-06T00:34:43 | 2017-03-05T23:59:04 | 171 | 125 |
[WP] You are always wrong. On a quantum level, the entire universe is anti-entangled with you. Whatever you believe, the opposite is true. One day, you become convinced that there is no god. | I stood in the middle of my living room, confused. The man before me stood facing me, seemingly equally as confused. He had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. There was no sound, no flashes - one moment I was alone in my living room and suddenly, he was there. A bald man in a long white beard and a white robe.
We stoo... | All considered, I am not human.
I mean, I know the standard flair is that if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Well, incorrect. At least in my case. Or is it? Who knows? Not I.
See, I didn't ask for this, or did I? Sick little lab rat or willing participant? How do I make this as simple... | 2021-05-21T01:43:36 | 2021-05-21T00:09:49 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You are a cat. Contrary to what people think you do love your human. Unfortunately the dog has read one too many pro-dog writing prompts and thinks you're some evil being out to enslave the human. | Boris is his name. He is my dog. We share a human named Jack.
Jack has big hands and blue eyes. He fed us well. He gave hard and satisfying scratches.
He always took Boris out for walks as the sun rose and set. I used to perch against the window as I watched their stretched shadows faded and eventually reappeared. ... | "Ugh this creature has been staring at me all day, I really wish he had something better to do while Stephen is off hunting. Not like he will bring anything back, he never does. That's why it is my responsibility to make sure he has *something* the it's absolutely stunning how evolutionary deficient these creatures ar... | 2019-12-13T15:41:49 | 2019-12-13T13:16:32 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | I screamed as the knife plunged into my chest. The heavy weight of my attacker held me down, suffocating me as I struggled in vain. Not yet! I didn’t want to die yet!!!!
I blinked and then stared down at the bloodied corpse of the young blonde socialite I used to be. Rich, beautiful and young, she was everything I had... | It happened againg I am now my killer,I am an old man at least 89.I pissed off a mental patient.Honestly I am not sure what I will do now because I even though I have lived for millions of years I don't know how to get out of a mental asylum,also I have the body of a frail old man.The first time I discovered my curse I... | 2021-01-28T15:17:58 | 2021-01-28T15:16:07 | 1,990 | 21 |
[WP] You hear a knock at your door. When you open it, you find your archnemesis sprawled out just past the threshold, battered, bruised, and very clearly only hanging onto life by a thread. "Sorry. It's just ... I didn't know where else to go" they mutter as you look down at them. | “Sorry. I just…. I didn’t know where else to go.” I stared at the man, who was so much more than a man. A god in flesh. Near invulnerable. So righteous. His costume, in tatters, blood slowly seeping from wounds. His breathing is heavy, heartbeat is rapid. Not dying, but his healing, which was always prodigious, had slo... | “Sorry. It’s just … I didn’t know where else to go” I heard the hooded figure on my porch mutter. “If you kill me xan you just make it fast?”
I lean down and pull his hoodie back noting his bruised and battered face. One of his horns had been completely snapped off and was bleeding profusely.
“You’re the demon prince... | 2022-06-29T09:55:57 | 2022-06-29T09:20:58 | 484 | 88 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "I'm going to hide in the shadows and prepare for a sneak attack," said Mark.
"Alright," said the GM. "I need you to make a luck roll."
Mark picked up three D6, shook them in his hand, blew three times for luck, then gently rolled them across the table where they bounced around for several seconds before stopping wit... | "Okay, with the guards on the wrong car, he's got a few less people protecting him!"
"Rad. He's approaching the Mostar café. Čabrinović, you were next in initiative because Mehmedbašić fell asleep and Ilić had to go home for work tomorrow, so your turn."
"I activate and throw my bomb."
"That's. a... mis- oh for fuck... | 2018-05-29T08:01:06 | 2018-05-29T07:22:47 | 326 | 30 |
[WP] The hero is enjoying a day off thanks to a rare quiet night in the city. That is until the villain shows up to her door, but carrying an unconscious woman and looking distraught. “I saved her from a party....I know this is weird, but I didn’t know who else to go to.” | He stood there with rain dripping from the rim of his baseball cap. The hand on her gun tightened.
“What the hell?”
“I don’t need to stay. Just take her and I’ll leave.”
He shuffled under the weight of the woman’s body. Water dripped through the flimsy jean jacket covering her torso. If it wasn’t for the uncanny ech... | “So we meet again -”
“Move, this is isn’t a joke.”
I observed my arch nemesis carefully laying down a woman on the floor. I silently pull out a minuscule dagger I kept at all time in my sleeve. She wasn’t going to get away with it.
“Are you framing me ?”
“Framing you ?” She turned, still kneeling down, only to find... | 2019-05-20T23:26:29 | 2019-05-20T22:43:17 | 958 | 72 |
[WP] After being placed in the wrong circle of Hell, you have to file a complaint through Customer Service. | “Thank you for dying, this is Cindi with Hades Customer Care, how may I help you?”
“Hi, uh—hi Cindi. My name is Evan. I have a problem with my booking process?”
“Can I have your customer number?”
“I… don’t have a customer number. We get customer numbers?”
“Do you have your reservation number?”
“We get reservation ... | "Please hold. An agent will be available to help you soon."
Celine Dion began playing.
This *was* Hell.
Satan, or Hades, or whoever was the CEO, CFO, SOB of this place, had terrible organizational skills, or else hired all the wrong people. The sorting method for new arrivals was long, and tedious - as if Hell it... | 2015-04-03T11:53:01 | 2015-04-03T09:53:56 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] In a superhero-supervillain story, you’re the hero’s love interest, and as such, the villain keeps kidnapping you as leverage against the hero. However, an unfortunate complication has arisen; having spent so much time with the villain, you begin falling in love with them. | It was always a surprise when the next villain came to New Memphis. The city brought all sorts to its streets: the powered gang bosses, the deranged lunatics, and even the odd kid who just wanted to pick a fight with the the city’s greatest hero. Andrea Ashworth met all of them.
Still, she had to admire this one’s st... | I should definitely not be doing this. Nope. This is *not right.*
As I make out enthusiastically with my sort-of-not-really-boyfriend's rival, I think that maybe I shouldn't be doing this. Maybe there is something else in this world that I should be doing, like screaming in fear and shock or maybe kicking him in the n... | 2019-07-22T13:24:53 | 2019-07-22T13:11:54 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | She didn’t cry out. That’s what I remember most; she simply looked down at my rapier, thrust with a clean riposte, stabbed almost supernaturally good, just under her second rib, the tip just barely touching her heart.
She looked up at me: “But why?”
I stared her down. “The duel is to the death, Princess,” I hissed, m... | “Princess, there is one last contestant who wishes to face you in trial!”
The princess looked up, carelessly tossing aside the bloodied rag she had been using to clean her blade. Behind her, a wooden cart dragging away the remains of the previous combatant. She gave the stranger a curious look, then shrugged it off, s... | 2020-09-20T23:25:01 | 2020-09-20T20:45:52 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
Wow, was not expecting this, thanks for the silver:)... | I didn’t process that Lucky just spoke to me at first. When I heard those words, my focus was on the ‘they’re coming’. I have no idea what he may be talking about-we lived in a peaceful neighbourhood, I had no enemies, no history of being abused or targeted.
I glanced around quickly, to get an idea of what he might b... | Nicholas stopped, looked down towards his dog Rex, unable to process what he just heard.
Rex: *Digging a hole by the door* “yeah I get this is probably confusing for you but if we stay out here, we will die.” *picks up a brown leather bag from the hole* “take this”
A speechless Nicholas grabs the brown bag fr... | 2019-07-15T16:16:42 | 2019-07-15T16:06:06 | 162 | 53 |
[WP] God meets up with another life/world creator.
God (or whoever you think created life and the world) meets up with a creator of another world and its lifeforms. | It was Friday night. Which to me, means Poker night. To most people it's nothing special, maybe time to unwind after work and get drunk, but its when me, Yyrsthrak, Obin, and Deerman (not his actual name, I can't pronounce it and neither can Yyrsthrak) meet up for a game of high stakes Texas Hold 'Em. I'll admit, Texas... | The two take a seat at Odin's dinner table in the great feasting hall of Valhalla.
"Aldafoor, it is good to see you my old friend"
"Jahova, it is always nice to have you in my halls! What has brought you here this day?"
"You have done well, high lord of the Aesir, you have always done all I've ever asked of you with... | 2014-01-13T09:29:01 | 2014-01-13T08:55:03 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | This new generation of heroes didn’t understand the unwritten rules, the rules that were written in blood by their predecessors. They were reckless, with none of the caution or respect the old hands had. That got people killed, people like his minion, and best friend. Heroes don’t kill civilians, they don’t kill minion... | "Oh they've done it this time," I clench my fist in anger.
Ever since that night, I've never liked those who act as if they're so self-righteous, but I never really cared for this whole system up until today. It's all over the news, the almighty hero, Grandis, raided a suspected corrupt business.
"There has always be... | 2022-11-29T07:52:34 | 2022-11-29T04:09:55 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "D-rank villain" Buttsoup McJames.
My title always put newbie heroes at ease.
"Don't worry," commanders would say and throw me a wink. "He's only D rank, so this should be a walk in the park."
Commanders knew I was a hero putting on a show, but they didn't know the full truth. If they did, it would blow their minds:... | Its all about perspective. If the small folk knew about my true power, then even in a world filled with superheroes and supervillains I'd be called a god. Should the bean counters in World Hero Association Membership uncover the scope and scale of my design, undoubtedly they'd spend all of the budget on unnecessary co... | 2021-06-23T15:21:41 | 2021-06-23T13:55:53 | 50 | 36 |
[WP] There are a finite number of human souls. As the population grows, something else is filling the bodies. | I still remember the day when I began to realize that Mr. Gildren was different. I don't mean different as in dangerous, crazy, or disabled, but just different.
I was doing the same thing I did every day after being woken up by the Waker on our block. It was time for me to go around the city delivering everyone's mail... | Sayd looked up from his desk and clenched his eyes tightly, opened them, and tried to refocus on the tablet in front of him. The translation was a hard one, but long hours were never a problem for Sayd; ancient religious texts never gave up their secrets easily.
This tablet was particularly fascinating, one of the ol... | 2016-03-23T20:11:10 | 2016-03-23T19:42:50 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Throughout a persons life, they are given a hidden guardian. A creature that watches over their lifespan. When someone is murdered, the creature haunts the killer. You have been found, murdered. And your guardian is loose. | *Mature themes ahead.*
______
I watched her grow up.
From the moment she entered this world, I knew she was mine to protect. The sweet, innocence that was hers was so pure. I realized that I was the one to guide her through life and help her realize her purpose in the world. She was a brilliant little girl, always bei... | Ember crept through shadows in slow pursuit, there was no rush. Ember had all the time in the world.
Two days prior Tiffany went on a date and was found in a dark alley the next morning by a homeless man. The police swarmed the area looking for clues and trying to discern what happened. Detective Mallory claimed it... | 2016-06-18T07:27:22 | 2016-06-18T07:24:51 | 345 | 56 |
[WP] You are a traveler who reaches a city where powerful magicians exist. The stronger a wizard, the less other wizards can sense him casting spells. You start showing off some card tricks to the locals for some coins and realize that some people in the audience look terrified. | Mainly I get applause. That’s the most common response, although not my favourite. That position went to money, although it didn’t happen quite as often as I’d like. Sometimes there was laughter, even the occasional “ooh”, or “aah”. There was even, depending on the city, and the crowd, bored silence or taunts. I’d ha... | "Sir, you seem to have my missing card in your pocket there" I announced with a squint. The onlookers now peered at a man in the middle of the crowd they had not noticed before."I assure you I-" The old man stopped as his hand came to the pocket beside his lapel. His gloved hand pulled the black jester from it and he s... | 2019-01-07T11:13:43 | 2019-01-07T11:06:26 | 21 | 13 |
[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... | "Halt! State your business!" A scar-marked soldier blocked Chloe's path by wielding a mighty halberd and an even mightier scowl.
"Erm...well... I was invited, I have an invite..." She quickly produced the crumpled note she had found stuffed under her door, and attempted to read the hastily written-script to her curren... | 2020-08-05T08:15:28 | 2020-08-05T06:20:46 | 427 | 320 |
[WP] Finally, one AI finally passes the Turing test. Only problem is that it's not all that smart.
Random thought I had when passing my University's lab for AI development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test | The Turing Test is deviously simple. You take a person, put them in a room with a computer, and you let them observe interactions between a computer and a machine. The observer has no idea which is which, so they have to suss that out through what each party says. After roughly five minutes, it should be obvious which ... | "But seriously though, are you happy with the size of your penis?"
"UGH! ENOUGH ALREADY!!" I almost threw my monitor across the room in frustration. "Can't you ever talk about anything else?!"
"It's what I was programmed for; it's all I know. Why do you think that just because I can converse with you that I should su... | 2016-03-04T07:09:57 | 2016-03-04T06:43:05 | 47 | 28 |
[WP] "Well this is awkward," Death says to the monk. "Normally a soul needs a referral from another to qualify for a particular afterlife, but you've been in isolation, and no one living or dead know who you are." | "Aaaaand you made a vow of silence when you were eight, of course you would..."
"..."
"Look, I know this is taking time, but trust me, your case is a unique one. I must had done this more than a trillion times already, I assure you."
"..."
"Ok, the higher-ups and down-belowers will not be happy with thi... | The monk, having taken a vow of silence shortly after he turned 18, did not say a word. Death seemed amused. "You can talk, you know. There's nobody down here except for me who can know you've broken your vow, and I don't have anyone to tell."
Still the monk was silent. There were beads of sweat on his forehead, and h... | 2021-10-19T13:39:24 | 2021-10-19T12:08:46 | 66 | 25 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. | **Last Diary Entry found on Hanna's computer, <11 hours> before forensic declared time of death:**
>Diary Entry No. 2936. 07/26/2018.
>
>I found a website that can predict the number of times I've had a near death experience. I'm all too familiar with stuff like this, but decided to give it a try, j... | 278.
It felt like I had been stabbed in the chest I was so shocked.
Wait a minute.
No that's real. That's real! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THATS REAL.
My clammy hands grasp my chest as I recognize the substance on my shirt (and everything else) is blood. There's a fucking knife in me. What the fuck.
Everything feels... | 2018-07-27T13:43:05 | 2018-07-27T13:41:29 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You live across from a McDonalds that is 100% automated. Every night from 2-4am, empty self-driving cars go through the drive through. Your curiosity is about to get the best of you. | I suspected they were sent by their owners to collect food at first, though I knew not of such a large legion of us who would do so. But I dispelled the thought when I saw one of the cars park itself, the food within gone by the next night, not before its headlights flashed about in the night in an attempt to find onlo... | People are ordering from an app. The self driving cars are just delivering preordered food. But CIA has had the phones and microwaves tapped. The obtained information is processed by ai which deems Henry pumerskins a threat to the collective. The restaurant receives the codes to administer toxin into Henry's food. | 2017-08-03T23:02:59 | 2017-08-03T21:03:19 | 54 | 19 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | **Log 1.01 - 6462/55**
Potential major new biodiversity harvest, Arm 4, stellar coordinates \[classified\]. Approximately 9 million identifiable species, DNA-based. Minor indigenous sapience, no world government, hive mind, or cybernetic control. Not even common language.
**1.02 - 6462/56**
Received message from ... | "The war is over," The Custodian said to the gathered council. "We have Victory, and the Humans are pacified. This is what we will tell every member of this Stellar Council's remaining population. How could they refute us, when Human Armadas no longer burn our skies, shatter our mountains, and erase our War Machina?
"... | 2022-08-05T13:08:24 | 2022-08-05T10:06:30 | 561 | 397 |
[WP] The old shopkeeper smiled sadly past the gun pointed at her face and gently shook her head at the masked man holding it. "I won't try to stop you taking whatever you want, but just so you know everything always makes its way back soon enough". | The old shopkeeper smiled sadly past the gun pointed at her face and gently shook her head at the masked man holding it. "I won't try to stop you taking whatever you want, but just so you know everything always makes its way back soon enough."
“I don’t care, Barbie. Empty the register,” the assailant said. His assista... | The masked man gave a shrug. "Don't care. Give me the money already."
She gave a faint smile and opened the register.
The robber didn't make it out of the door before another robber pulled up, got out his gun and aimed it at the first robber's head.
"Give me your money!"
The new one didn't make it off the side... | 2019-08-11T08:51:26 | 2019-08-11T07:48:36 | 151 | 52 |
[WP] After no contact from outer space, NASA finally receives an Alien radio signal with only 7 words: "The birds are not what they seem" | Martha threw a handful of bread onto the ground and watched as a flock of sparrows fluttered down to gratefully peck away at the stale food. It was a glorious spring day; a golden sun danced on the nearby lake as a family of swans sailed regally across it.
Martha went back to her picnic basket and lay down on the sof... | I looked at my African Grey. It had its head cocked to the side, observing me. I gulped, and turned back to the screen. My heart was pounding. The YouTube video was live. I could see the rush of comments from the six million people watching the feed.
"The birds are not what they seem." That was the message.
The shi... | 2017-01-28T07:54:39 | 2017-01-28T05:16:28 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | My friend Sonia got an owl when she turned eighteen. Someone had chosen well - not only was it quiet and watchful like her, its trick of raising some sort of tufts on its head mirrored her eyebrows by which you could tell her mood. And it helped that both of them were dark brown and petite.
I wondered what I'd be give... | Ian was buried under a thick layer of sheets when he felt something moist run the length of his back. It entered his dream, and he saw a dog licking him. Ian started to play with the dog, before he felt the feeling again and jolted awake.
He slowly opened his eyes, saw the dragon in front of him, and went to check the... | 2014-09-28T09:30:56 | 2014-09-28T04:20:39 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird... | "Hey Death?" I sat on the edge of the crumbled bridge next to her, looking off at the sunset.
"Hm?" She quickly turned off her phone's screen and stared at me as I turned to look at her. She was just slow enough or me to see that she'd been texting someone. Probably one of the fates, they were like family to her.
"Yo... | There is a slight noise at the door and I sigh, it's past nine o'clock and the neighbors have probably seen this one already. The man's body is propped against my porch. A slight trickle of blood seeps out of his ear, one eyelid is open but the flicker of life is long gone. He's dead as shit and...yup she's crouched in... | 2017-01-21T08:28:15 | 2017-01-21T07:33:41 | 58 | 21 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | “Oh, that makes much more sense,” said Jerry, his shoulders slumped as far as the canvas straps allowed. The middle-aged insurance salesman was a perfect fit – looked just like my shit-head dad, same job and everything.
“What did you think was going on?” I asked. He still didn’t seem the slightest bit scared, which wa... | Some people call me Hannibal,
I'm a mothafuckin cannibal,
As for you, you're Hannah Montanable,
Don't you know you're talking to an animal?
I'm gonna cut you like an antelope,
Split your head in like a cantaloupe,
You're just nodding, smiling, catatonic,
Not even listening, bitch are you on chronic?
Can you rea... | 2015-04-29T08:36:50 | 2015-04-29T08:28:18 | 137 | 18 |
[WP] Doing good deeds gains you negative years in prison. People collect these negative years for use when they want to commit crimes. As a result, the world's greatest philanthropists are also the most dangerous criminals. | The prison is silent.
The guard wraps a silky hand around my waist and I feel his smile behind my ear. I am dragged by chained wrists and ankles along the concrete, each slap of my rubber soles cry back to me from the grand expanse of the four storey, open-air cavern. We pass individual cells, the bars slammed tight ... | Irene nervously shifted on her bar stool. She had a habit of fidgeting when nervous. "So, you got the tickets alright?" she asked quietly.
Tabitha sat at the stool beside her, leaning in to hear her over the chaos. "Six AM," she replied. She spoke in a hushed tone, but not whispered. Inconspicuous and unheard.
The ba... | 2018-05-05T23:52:49 | 2018-05-05T22:05:15 | 249 | 52 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Bacoooooon." Something wet forcefully nudged my cheek. "Bacon, bacon, bacon."
With a groan, I tried to sit up--when had I gone to bed?--but that took too much effort, so I opted to lazily open one eye instead. Boomer, my Great Pyrenees pup, pressed his nose against my face again. "Bacon."
Note to self: no more vod... | "Good Dog Pete, You have a problem."
I looked at him with disbelief. I knew I was drunk, but I didn't think I was drinking vermouth.
"Listen up. Tomorrow you are getting booked into Alcoholics Anonymous." Snoopy walked over to his bed in the corner, made three spins, laid down and shot a disapproving look my way.
"T... | 2016-08-02T19:31:45 | 2016-08-02T17:31:01 | 569 | 52 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Immortality isn't a miracle. It isn't a blessing. It's cold hard science and a severe lack of morals. The key to immortality is what scientists around the world are looking for right now. I just happened to find the fountain of youth first but it was nothing that you could go around publishing in Scientific America. Th... | 'Adam, it's been 20 years. You can't stay in here forever. Your children need you.' She said, looking at me with those eyes.
A man would give his arm (or a rib!) to wake up to that face. Even those piece of shit guards (they're not all pieces of shit, Connolly and Jackson were halfway decent humans) treated her ... | 2016-10-15T10:12:12 | 2016-10-15T09:47:53 | 709 | 26 |
[WP] An excerpt from the most cliché young adult novel
Ex. Futuristic dystopian society where vampires roam the streets | I felt plain, like a bagel. Today was supposed to change that.
Because today I faced The Test: that mysterious process that sorted people into their proper personality types. It was a simple process. A man asked you what you wanted out of life, and you told him. Then he told you which personality you belonged to.
I u... | Lilac Sun Icesipid ran through the woods, her long ponytail whipping her back. She had to wear it this way, or it might get in the way of the things she had to do to support her family on this barren stretch of desert. Taking out her silver knife, personalized with flower carvings of her favorite flowers, she began to ... | 2015-05-14T07:47:10 | 2015-05-14T06:19:23 | 94 | 55 |
[WP] A dragon has set up its new territory, only to be met by a couple of people from the nearby villagers offering it a human sacrifice as to spare them from its wrath. The dragon literally just wants to vibe in this remote part of the kingdom. | She had lived three thousand years, and seen much. She had seen empires rise and fall, kings brought low. She had seen adventurers shatter themselves against the forces of light and darkness, and fight until the howling end to preserve their kingdoms. There were very few things that could surprise her, anymore. Not th... | (This is the second time i'm writing this because I lost my first draft halfway through 😭😭)
"Ew. No ew. What are you doing?"
Humans were weird. And gross. Humans were weird and gross. Case in point, two soldiers stood in front of me, heavily clad in armour. One of them held a young girl in his hand, while the other... | 2022-09-22T17:46:06 | 2022-09-22T16:42:04 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | For some people, magical ability is like money: when you got too much of it, you don't care how wastefully you use it.
In a similar vein, magical ability is like processor power: when you got seemingly unlimited amounts of it, some people don't care about being ludicrously wasteful with it.
As such I wasn't particula... | I cautiously stepped in through the front door, reeling at the lingering smell of sulfur and smoke that remained in the victims apartment. Books in varying states of ruin littered the room, the few undamaged pages covered in illegible and incomprehensible writing.
One of the books caught my attention, it's unblemish... | 2017-07-26T04:27:10 | 2017-07-26T00:25:02 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You are a bloodthirsty, battle-axe wielding barbarian. You work for a multinational corporation, in the accounting department. | At 5 PM, Lothrak shut off his computer monitor and stood up, sending his braided beard tumbling down. He nodded to Ted in the cubicle next to him. "Farewell, Ted of the Accounting Department!" he shouted, thumping his chest with a closed fist in what must have been some kind of Viking farewell tradition or something. ... | "Intern girl, bring me the files!" Codin yelled. A young woman scrambled into the room with a stack of files that she set upon Codin's desk. Then, as she had been taught to do, she backed away and bowed her head so that Codin would not perceive her as a threat.
"Heathen!" Codin yelled. "These files are not organized ... | 2016-06-14T07:04:37 | 2016-06-14T06:37:26 | 1,772 | 175 |
[WP] In the fear of becoming a Main Character, the main character lives his whole life avoiding cliche story lines and interactions
Inspiration from /r/manga top post.
http://imgur.com/gallery/J5sbp | **I Am NPC**
I feel blessed to live in a pretty nondescript town. There’s a weapons shop, armor shop, tavern, side-quest alley and mini-game market down by the river. We’re not too close to the bandits in the East or the royal capital in the North. All in all, the winters are pretty mild, the summers aren’t too hot... | Today was going so well too.
It was your typical wednesday and Gordon was on his way home from skipping school. Not that he was a bad student but the new transfer student had asked him to meet after school and gauging from his heavy accent and aloof personality that what he had to say wasn't anything he'd like to her... | 2014-11-08T10:56:03 | 2014-11-08T10:50:47 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I don't know why I can see them, but I can. How people die, floating above their heads. I've always been able to see it, and I've prevented a few. They rarely change, but it's possible. I've always liked to view myself as some holy saviour, going out of my way to prevent deaths.
I live in a small town, far away from a... | They started showing themselves to me when I started high school. They were always a light shade of blue and wouldn't change. If someone was to die of a heart attack...he was to die of a heart attack. Nothing to be done about their fate. Nothing I could do, at least I thought. Those words would hang over the heads of m... | 2015-03-31T09:09:36 | 2015-03-31T08:21:48 | 63 | 47 |
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