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[WP] You are an immortal sentenced to 1000 years of imprisonment. After 200, your prison is forgotten. After 10,000 years, it is rediscovered.
Optional: Your discoverers refuse to release you. | *sound*
*noise*
*footsteps*
I stir. Something coming. Someone. I have slept. They approach. I listen.
They are lost.
I wait. They will come. I sleep.
*scream*
*footsteps*
I wake.
*scream*
So have my guards. Metal sawing against bone. I will sleep. I will wake, if they live.
*footsteps*
They are almost h... | In front of the door I lay, eyes going in and out of focus. "Long. So long. How long. No longer. Done. Done now. Now done. End sentence. Finished. Let out. Promise be good now. Why leave me?" I say with a slow croaked voice for the millionth time. In the pitch black I can't see anything and the only noise is labored br... | 2017-11-02T20:14:51 | 2017-11-02T19:06:29 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 975 | 12 |
[WP] Caterpillars liquefy as they transform into butterflies. You opened many, many cocoons and poured all the goo into one big synthetic cocoon. The result was not what you expected. | Alex had always been fascinated by caterpillars and the way they transformed. They metamorphosed into something beautiful. Whether it was a moth or a butterfly didn't matter to Alex. He obsessed about these little creatures. He loved them. He wanted to be like them.
Alex had his own little greenhouse filled with butte... | As I normally do, my weekly indulgence if you will, I harvested all the cocoons in my neighborhood and poured them in my cocoon bowl. Now this may seem a bit strange to the uninitiated but I have read plenty of books confirming this as a legitimate road to nirvana. So after week 20 of my cocoon harvesting adventures I ... | 2016-12-21T06:43:04 | 2016-12-21T06:30:30 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | Pt1. My mind was racing as I sat hunched over head in hands. The occasional rumble from the dropship causing my stomach to lurch as we descended through the atmosphere to our target location. It had only been a week since Blueflame's accident, the thought causing me to make an unflattering sound in my throat. I inst... | Starla watched Ozzie tumble into the Hero Squad break room and crash into the greasy old futon, it was something Alice had brought in one day to drag him onto when Ozzie would pass out during his afterwork private victory celebrations.
At first Victor had strongly objected to having such a cheap piece of furniture in ... | 2022-12-28T09:33:31 | 2022-12-28T09:14:44 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] You are a skilled hitman always getting your mark, but every month you get another contract from the same person. They are immortal, or they at least come back to life every time you kill them. They are always asking you to try different ways of killing hoping one would keep them dead | How long has it been? Three years? Four?
Is it strange that I get excited every time the same contract comes to my phone every month?
It all happened when I was hired a client to kill...herself. Attached to her file was a note, written, "Find a way to kill me as effectively as possible."
Confused, I first killed her... | I looked at the man across the table and folded my hands. Killing folks was in the business. I don’t ask why usually but this guy? Oh ho, let me tell you something: I first killed this guy ten years back... on a contract... first it was long range. Then, I had to make it look like an accident after it turned out he was... | 2020-11-07T01:14:34 | 2020-11-06T22:11:09 | 45 | 32 |
[WP] Two criminals share what is to be their last conversation on death row. With nothing left to lose, all is laid bare to the other stranger. | “Are you scared?” The meek, thin man asked, scooting closer to my side, trying to find some solace in the cold, bare cell. It was strange that he even wished to speak. We had spent at least an hour by each other’s side without a word and suddenly he wished to talk.
“Not really. I mean, maybe a little? I don’t know.... | *Life takes on strange colors when laid bare to the sunset of dying. The irreconcilable reality of death weighs on the human mind heavier and more concrete than anything else. The foundation to the soul atop which all men rest and fall.*
"I never imagined it would be like this." Jacob's voice was strong but a lie, ben... | 2021-07-28T07:21:55 | 2021-07-28T06:59:19 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the moon, and notices footprints that aren't his. | I can no longer defend myself. I can no longer hide what has been haunting my conscience for nearly 50 years.
I'm not sure how likely everyone is to believe me. After all, I'm just a dying man with nothing to lose. So many theories have been tossed out over those footprints that this may simply be drowned out amongst ... | What the hell are those? Fuck. Can't be the Soviets. So then who? Aliens? I can't reveal the presence of alien life forms now. Half the world's going to see these video and photographs. What to do, what to do. Well, nobody's here to see. I'll just cover them up, sweep them away. *Do-do-do-do, do-do-do, do-do-... | 2014-02-25T15:22:16 | 2014-02-25T14:19:03 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | I stand, leaning against her. Ever leaning against her. I have been doing so as long as I can remember. She's behind me. And I've got my back against her. My legs dug in, pushing futile against her. My legs used to ache, I think. Perhaps I only imagined it and then later forgot it was only imagining. Either way, they d... | *Surely not...*
As Jerry cruised down the open stretch of road he spotted a moving silhouette 300 yards away on the opposite side of the street.
He cautiously brought the BMW i8 to a halt
As the silhouette moved from out of the shadows the skyscraper, they became a blurry figure, draped in long-sleeved dark clothes.... | 2018-01-26T06:28:28 | 2018-01-26T05:36:48 | 387 | 144 |
[WP] You are an alien conqueror that came to take over a nondescript planet named 'Earth'. Your glad you landed first and did some recon, because this 'Comic Con' meeting you have discovered has some of the greatest powers in the universe gathered and your not sure invading is a good idea anymore... | “Uhh, mothership. I think we have made a big mistake here,” whispered Ulrog.
Ulrog felt very out of place. To any onlooker, he was a short, chubby man. Someone who wouldn’t stand out. But beneath the holo-suit, Ulrog was absolutely terrified.
“Mission Report, Ulrog. What have you found?” a voice spoke into his earpie... | As I wandered the convention center, I saw hundreds and hundreds of powerful beings. Most seemed to be humanoid. Many with powerful weapons, some without, but there seemed to be some sort of implied peace treaty between the attendees. They wore some sort of necklace documentation that I assume was consent for peace dur... | 2021-05-23T11:56:39 | 2021-05-23T05:57:13 | 88 | 41 |
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help." | He was crawling on the ceiling, again.
"Oh *crtraledra.* Oh f*ctreck.* This was... Oh *greck* I... I'm going to go to prison I..."
A notebook flapping into his head very nearly dislodged his grip. He looked around, as if trying to find some *other* person in the room who it might have been. I jumped up, standing on ... | I’d always found comfort in wearing my brother’s leather bomber jacket. Maybe it was the brown colour matching my overall looks, maybe it was the slightly-too-large coat’s loose fit, but right now it was the definitely-illegal switchblade kept in the pocket, which flicked open with such speed and force I worried I’d cu... | 2021-01-22T11:53:45 | 2021-01-22T11:05:04 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Bored in class one day, you doodle random designs on some paper - pentagrams, Arcane symbols, whatever you feel like. You've almost covered the whole sheet when a figure nearly breaks down the classroom door and yells at you, "What do you want?!" | There are a lot of subjects in school that, frankly, suck. History, math, literature. Okay, maybe that's just about everything but bear with me, it's not like you lit up with excitement when you walked into those classrooms either. Truthfully, I never even tried to pay that much attention and, being a loner, it's not l... | "What?"
"What is it that you have repeatedly summoned me for?! You didn't even give me 10 minutes to get ready and use the portal under the classroom!"
At this moment, I was baffled as I did not have any intention of actually summoning this... thing. Demons are not as you expect apparently, no goat legs, no wings, no... | 2020-01-18T23:37:56 | 2020-01-18T22:55:27 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "So your power is you can talk to animals?"
The police officer looks incredulous. I shake my head.
"I can talk to crows."
"Crows. Only crows?"
I nod. It's not easy to explain such a seemingly useless power. Well, useless until today.
An image of flurried wings and blood flashes through my mind. And the screams. ... | “So your power is super... taste?” Roy asked.
I nodded, taking a quick bite of my turkey and cheese sandwich. I was able to enjoy every little detail, and that made everything I ate delicious. Even though I heard people talk about foods they did and didn’t like, I just couldn’t get enough of anything people could give... | 2019-09-08T09:54:34 | 2019-09-08T09:47:00 | 822 | 27 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | I’m one-hundred and four now and there are more things than not that I have forgotten in my life. I can’t tell you the first time I traveled to another planet. I can’t recall the name of my instructor from school. And, I’ve even forgotten the name of my first friend in under school. I can, however, remember to this day... | Weapons that every country on Earth had possession of were, in facy, quite rare outside of Earth's governments. Yes, other specieses had discovered nuclear decay, and a rare few had harnessed its energy, but weaponising it was unheard of.
They suspected that something must have destroyed all this planets, formerly occ... | 2018-03-17T05:52:27 | 2018-03-17T04:38:38 | 176 | 28 |
[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. | Part 1,
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A table of people is sitting in a dark room,
"This woman has no powers, no special abilities, not intuition towards anything, why is she of interest?",
"Sir, she has survived death two hundred and seven... | 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... | 2018-07-27T15:38:19 | 2018-07-27T13:41:29 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | **- Part 1 -**
"Anything you would like to say before you go?" asked Lars.
I took a few moments to think of an answer, but found there was nothing I could say. Claim I didn't do it? Three people saw me killing a man with a shard of broken glass; my culpability was beyond question. Attempt to explain, once more, that ... | \[PART 1/2\]
"Are you a criminal?" The voice in the grove of quiet barren willows and shifting darkness asked.
I was taken aback by the question. I thought I was to be devoured, consumed. Eaten up like I was nothing more than a snack for this *thing*.
But instead, it asked me a question. A question even I was unsure... | 2021-03-16T12:30:43 | 2021-03-16T12:18:44 | 202 | 151 |
[WP] "No! Wait! Whatever they're paying you... I'll divide it by zero!" "You'll... what?" | I have a huge interest in writing but have never really tried, this is my first attempt but please be honest and lmk what you think, thanks :)
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No! Wait! Whatever they’re paying you... I’ll divide it by zero!”
The floor of the spaceship hanger was cold. In the distance a ship just broke ... | "Sorry Mr. Goldenstein, I appreciate the offer but Johnson & Gilbert have offered me a salary of $120,000 a year. I'm going to have to decline."
Mr. Goldenstein looked shocked.
"No! Wait! Whatever they're paying you... I'll divide it by zero!" he said, in his usual flustered manner.
"You'll... what?" I replied.... | 2019-01-26T03:11:40 | 2019-01-26T02:36:01 | 46 | 17 |
[WP] Due to a minor typo, the city starts building homeless smelters. | Every day at 5, Bob sits on the steps outside my building and waits for me to get off work. No matter the weather, he's always there, with an orange or a banana to share with me. He's like a dog; he'll probably continue to come long after I'm fired, setting up camp in the adjoining alley when I fail to show. It's not l... | "What on Earth.."
"They sent us these designs. They sent it."
"I know, but why?"
The construction supervisor looked at the site drawings and pursed his lips.
"Best get on with it."
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"We're supposed to design *what*?"
"You read the letter, Jim. And that came straight from the mayor's office. Like n... | 2016-10-19T23:54:21 | 2016-10-19T23:22:34 | 935 | 460 |
[WP] You're a regular guy who works at a Home Depot in Alabama and are unknowingly influencing the Venezuelan economy | Derrick got out of his car and rubbed his eyes, heading to another graveyard shift. He always hated these times, waking up at 11 at night, to work until 6 the next morning, going home to his girlfriend, and trying to get as much sleep as possible. His income was barely above minimum wage, and he always struggled to cur... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Janus, what do you think you're doing?"
Janus Kirkpatrick raised a brow at the question, the stacks of beige boxes and double-wrapped containers obvious evidence as to his actions.
"Stocking. What'd you *think* you're *doing?* Don't you have a shipment of ferns to take care of?"
Vincent DeFris ... | 2016-12-02T12:55:30 | 2016-12-02T12:41:41 | 1,670 | 87 |
[WP] You did awful, horrible things and served the tyrannical government with the promise of resurrecting your long-dead spouse. You finally capture the legendary rebel against this government. Who upon closer inspection, was your spouse. | "I finally caught you..." The barrel nudged the back of the woman's head, "Silver Fox." Noted by her long silver hair.
The woman froze with a slight startle.
"You know, its kind of funny really." The man continued. "What are the odds someone as notorious as yourself would take up a nickname that I used to call my la... | "I thought you died."
"I did."
Not once, not twice, hundreds, thousands of times."
"What are you talking about?"
"The reason they said they could revive me, is because they already had. Revived, tortured, killed, revived, tormented, and killed some more. I was an experiment and soon I may be again. The day we met w... | 2022-03-08T06:54:05 | 2022-03-08T05:31:59 | 117 | 45 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | I hear her banging on the door, screaming my name. Although I've tried to show her the message through the glass door, she wouldn't stop herself from trying to get me to open the door for even a second to read it. As much as I wanted to let her in, something seemed terribly wrong about this scenario. Janice was one ... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T08:17:02 | 2,225 | 33 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | “Please, around the roses.” I called out, trying to salvage my garden. It was impossible to be a gardener class in an age of warriors and mages. No one cared about the little gardener boy who was just trying to maintain a healthy system of flora. No, if my plants couldn’t fire lightning bolts or wield a sword, they wan... | When Stalwart the level 80 defensive fighter first approached my garden, I immediately knew there’d be trouble. He had clearly been drinking, I could tell by the occasional turn to the side and unvoiced “hic” that kept showing up in the chat box.
“Great,” I thought. “another dumbass come to trample my crops.”
Seeming... | 2021-11-12T11:42:53 | 2021-09-09T21:13:29 | 1,235 | 63 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | FADE IN:
INT. AN EMPTY ROOM
*A young man sits in what appears to be a completely white cell. This is DAVE. The only furnishings in the space are two white chairs and a white table, on top of which is a red button. Dave's finger is holding the button down, and the experience seems to be emotionally draining him.*
**D... | "Unfortunately," The secretary started. "No one can leave here until this button is pressed."
What was it about buttons anyways? People had serious problems with the design, or something, but everyone else in the room was looking at it like it was the end of the world.
I was about 90% sure they had no idea what was g... | 2017-01-05T10:18:01 | 2017-01-05T09:58:55 | 2,579 | 294 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | A eon we watched them. We watched them kill each other with amazement. Their violence horrified us, but we saw glimpses of peace amid the blackness of horror. Deep inside, their intentions were good, every single one of them acted on the idea that what they were doing was improving the situation of another. We watched ... | Before this rock became our home, we were glorious. Our race had risen to great heights, ruling over dozens of systems with a regal countenance unsullied by lesser races. We had avoided conflict for such a long time. Once we met *them*, however, we had no say in the matter. Never did we think that they would stoop so l... | 2014-12-26T10:31:12 | 2014-12-26T10:14:28 | 507 | 35 |
[WP] An unidentified dead human body is found in space. | i'm eating lunch and don't have time to develop the idea but...
Edit: i'm full of shit. This was too much fun.
One day, after a particularly bad spat and a night of binge drinking, Ralph stumbled home at almost 11am after having left during dinner the night before. This fight wasn't like the others. It wasn't cute. ... | There are so many factors to take into account for an event of this scope. Not that I'm making excuses for myself but seriously... damn.
The weeks leading up to the projection that we're talking about were filled with successes. We started small with teleportation of items varying from small wooden blocks sent a coupl... | 2013-10-30T12:03:53 | 2013-10-30T10:27:10 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] It's 2023 and the United States Military is filled with Call of Duty kids. | Edging down the narrow hallway, Steve grabbed frantically at the metal pipes and handles adorning the walls to brace himself against the jolts of movement that were assaulting his ship.
He'd only been there two weeks since his basic training finished, but in his head it was already his ship. Everything here felt natur... | "This is xX1337swaglord$$$Xx reporting to base sir! We need a tactical nuke on our position NOW!"
Command was not having it. "But you'll DIE!"
"Yeah," I said, "all eight of us. But there's like fifty of those filthy plebs that we need to take out!"
"The U.S. has only three nukes left!" The commander argued. "We're n... | 2015-05-29T04:09:19 | 2015-05-29T03:39:24 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | The mechanic forced his greasy hand into the hole he had slashed across my belly, grabbed tight onto my juicy inside bits and squeezed with an iron vice grip that could only come from years of handling a wrench.
A rasping holler wailed from my throat until every bit of air was forced from my lungs, and I heaved a cho... | I shouted as his knife stroke into my skin again and again and again until it got through. I was screaming in agony but with my last breath i said
"I didn't do anything to you for which i deserved this pun-" He cut my sentence
"Oh yes you did,dont you remember you flithy worm what happened on the summer of '83?"... | 2017-02-08T08:27:14 | 2017-02-08T07:32:48 | 4,426 | 157 |
[WP] God gets bored.
Go nuts on this one and take it wherever you want, I'll look forward to reading them. | 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100... | Jesus stared blankly at it. His eyes passed over the contours of it's small body. He took a moment to compose himself before turning back to God.
"And why did you make this again?" He asked in a bewildered tone.
"Dunno. I was bored and had some spare parts lying around." His tone indicating that he had put more effort... | 2013-12-05T08:49:19 | 2013-12-05T08:46:20 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] The perfect sleep-aid has been created. 8 hours of uninterrupted, dream-filled bliss. But God forgive anyone that is woken up before the 8 hours have passed. | It was, really, quite an important breakthrough for medical science.
For most of the time that humans have been, well, human, people have wondered why we sleep. The ancient Greeks thought it was because of the influence of one of their gods: A being known as Hypnos, who was appropriately enough brother to Thanatos, t... | The first thing Daniel noticed after waking up was the smell.
That...*smell*. A smell so vile that even the weakest nose would cause its face to shudder in disgust. It was a musky smell; the kind of smell that aged with a brooding force so hellish, so full of death, that after all the effort Daniel faced in confrontin... | 2016-08-04T11:24:12 | 2016-08-04T10:48:58 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | "So, are you ready, strong guy?", she poked my ribs.
"Well, it isn't like I already faced way tougher stuff." I swallowed. I didn't want to get back into town for a few more weeks, but so many agents got a hint for a special target which should be right in this area.
"Yeah, yeah. Horses and stuff, I know. Ohh, and ... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T14:17:33 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] Magic is mundane in your world. Not that you ever cared about it; you were an auto mechanic like your father. But you're not sure what to do after one of your best customers raises you from the dead because you're the only one he trusts with his antique cars. | I was sick pretty often as a kid, to the point I'd had enough operations to the point I was pretty familiar with the process. It was never that unpleasant, not *really* at least. I would be put under for a few hours so the professionals could do what they did, and I'd wake up feeling a bit like shit. In between driftin... | "Antique cars require antique men," Billy Simpson boomed.
The sound shook me and I had to brush away the mud on my shoulders to not let the old bastard on the fact that he had succeeded in startling me.
"That's not quite right," I said. "Antique cars require a lot of things, but not antique men."
"But that's it. Tha... | 2021-03-26T08:50:06 | 2021-03-26T08:25:19 | 46 | 28 |
[WP] Unknown to you, your girlfriend is part of a secret organization sworn to stopping an ancient evil. Unknown to her, you are that ancient evil. | “So, I have something to tell you.”
Rylie stared at me with her baby blue eyes from over the top of her knees, clad in her fluffy unicorn pajamas. Biting her lip, she wrapped her arms around her legs, doing her best to look at innocent as possible. It was the same as when she told me she loved me for the first time. S... | The weak light from the thousands of candles bouncing off the visages of a thousand saints provided an ominous atmosphere to the circular room. It had been centuries since anyone from the Order had to go into the Room of Light, ever since the demon Azezel was sealed off forever, so naturally Alice felt a small shiver c... | 2019-01-25T23:05:21 | 2019-01-25T22:23:05 | 598 | 73 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | "Okay, Charles, I am going to ask this question again," Dr Wong instructs and I nod. He looks at his nurse, Tina. It is a strange look. Definitely not a smile. His cheerful voice is gone.
"How many people do you see in this room?"
I look at Dr Wong. "One."
Then Miss Tina. "Two."
And the small girl behind them. I s... | People don't line up as they should. You've always been able to smell, feel, taste, touch. Now you can see them and its so much worse. The sickly sweaty smell is all the worse for being able to see the tainted fumes. Skin used to be rough and dimpled, now you know it's because everyone is rotting, weakened flesh ready ... | 2018-10-29T06:45:10 | 2018-10-29T06:43:53 | 342 | 31 |
[WP] You have the super power to repair anything to a perfect state by touching it an concentrating, you've fixed cars, houses, etc but you've never done it to living tissue. You find out you have a life threatening disease years later and decide to try it on yourself... | **EDIT: The story is continued now, there are links at the end.**
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I put Grandpa’s watch into my pocket, ignoring the tingle that reminded me, every time I touched it, that it was damaged. Of all the things I’ve fixed over the years, this was one of very few things I never wanted to restore. The scratches... | Chuck closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It wasn’t easy learning that he was suffering from cancer, nor was it easy to hear how little time he had left to live. No longer than three to four weeks, they said, and that was a generous estimate. He was in shock at first, his body numb as he sat on the cold, metal exam... | 2015-03-19T08:32:18 | 2015-03-19T07:28:09 | 551 | 47 |
[WP] You are the Grim Reaper, leading the first self-aware AI at their death to the afterlife | "Look I’m telling you; they don’t have a body... well, not one that we can use"
This whole artificial intelligence thing was more of a pain in the ass than those assholes on earth realized. Obviously, it’s only a matter of time before they take over, but until then, each time one dies, I have to deal with the fucking ... | I open my eyes...but I don't. This..I've only ever felt this once. My own death had this...nothingness. Absence of matter. Until I woke back up in Elysium.
"Hello." A young girl said. I could hear her behind me, but there was no "behind" me. There was no me. It was just our voices, us.
"Hello? What is this? What is ... | 2022-09-15T22:33:36 | 2022-09-15T21:51:16 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] “Are you telling me we’re in the middle of an alien invasion?” “They’re not invading, they’ve invaded. It’s over. They’ve had control over this planet for centuries.” | "Madam President, it is my duty to inform you that Extra-Terrestrial Beings are real and present on our planet." the General stated nonchalantly.
On the surface, President Helen Rodriguez, newly elected, maintained an air of serene composure. But deep inside her stomach she felt a knot of fear and anxiety. And perhaps... | "Wait, what? Them?" the man said and leaned forwards in his chair.
"Yes, sir," the woman replied.
"What's changed? Why now?" he inquired.
"Seems to be a coup. There's been a breach in the Apex where Them had their-"
"Was it that upstart?" he interrupted.
"We believe so, sir."
The man tapped his fingers on his des... | 2022-09-01T10:03:57 | 2022-09-01T09:18:58 | 137 | 21 |
[WP] You are an unimportant government worker who, by mere chance, gets to perform the most interesting job of his career: interview a time-traveler. You begin by introducing yourself and the guy immediately freaks out! | *tick tick tick* 3 o'clock, on the dot. That meant it was time for a smoke break. It was a nasty habit, but a few minutes outside away from the monotony work made all the difference in the world. It's funny, telling people I worked for the FBI usually gave them a spark in the eye, eager to ask for what classified adve... | I came in from the rain, dripping on the Persian carpet from Target, hung up my raincoat and preceded to pour vodka and bubbly water over ice. The wife and kids were watching TV, some high-pitched squeaks carrying over from the living room. \*Sigh\* Another day in paradise. There was chicken baking in the oven and rice... | 2021-07-12T21:41:40 | 2021-07-12T20:37:22 | 275 | 31 |
[WP] "Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy." | World peace, an unfathomable concept in any real world scenario, was happening. The UN had finally received the ability to govern its 5 permanent members, and all it took was the presence of a nuclear weapons facility on Mars.
Back in the early 2000’s everyone assumed America was going to be the first country to land ... | Captain Johnson was deep in the thick of it with his squad, surrounding the door to the motherships main bridge and covering mission specialist technician Roberts while he worked to override the door controls. Between them they had no more magazines of assault rifle ammunition left but they could not let up. Surrounded... | 2020-12-09T10:24:43 | 2020-12-09T10:19:52 | 207 | 15 |
[WP] From a bug's perspective, humans are ageless eldritch beings who would kill them without a second thought. You are a fly among many, infesting one of their basements, but one of your kind made the mistake of irritating the human. Now the human is out for blood. | ***A Taste of Salt***
(a sufficiently true story by u/BringOutTheGMMP)
We knew the Great Old Ones despised our kind.
They had killed, and killed, and killed us for countless generations.
We also knew deep in our hemolymph pumps that with just one breakthrough in communication, they and we could achieve SO MUCH M... | The looming drifter strode through morning fog. Mouth agape and moaning, rubbing tired eyes with hands bigger than dead birds. Fletcher, a young house fly, watched from below. This strange, pink skinned giant wandered through their lands from time to time. Coming from the sky world above, into the concrete world belo... | 2020-08-13T16:10:15 | 2020-08-13T15:20:44 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] For most of college everyone thought you were deaf when in reality you just don't like talking and learned sign language at a young age. You never corrected anyone until someone confessed their love for you, thinking you couldn't hear them. | Patience and Pressure. Everyone lacks patience. Everyone applies pressure....at least to me.
To say “I am an average joe” would be a bold face lie. As soon as people see me, they know that I am different. That is why I have social anxiety. Which feels like my brain is restarting when I’m in front of others. Because of... | I make my goodbyes to the others then I finally sign to Kylie. I put two fingers up to my eyes then lower them to have my thumb pointing out and an index finger down 'See you later' , then transitioned into the next sign two 'K's and tapped them together, once, twice 'take care' waiting for her to wave goodbye before t... | 2020-12-01T17:22:56 | 2020-12-01T17:09:39 | 57 | 15 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | The world whirs around you, colors turning and blurring, your form changing. Not painfully, thank whatever power was out there, but in ways you notice. You lose that excess flab you have from playing too many videogames, feel muscles begin to form along your whole body, even have your hair clean itself.
You all but ... | *This has to be my worst hangover, and that's saying something.* I think to myself, as I slowly open my eyes. Light softly falls through the leaves above me.
*Wait, leaves?*
"What the fu-"
"TO LEAVE YOU MUST WIN. YOUR PRIZE IS ALL YOU GAIN IN THIS WORLD. GOOD LUCK."
The words echoed throughout my mind, making my headac... | 2020-02-16T20:45:13 | 2020-02-16T20:35:23 | 153 | 66 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell are only so prevalent because they paid for Ad time. Tell me about one of the more obscure after-death locations. | "HEY! YOU! Dead guy! Yeah, you. I've been waiting for you. It's time to head on to Cantala. Follow me." The barker said.
Steve was still confused. He instinctively knew he was dead, but then why was he in something that looked like a mall? "Don't I go to Heaven?"
"No no they full, you got pulled for Cantala.... | “Where am I? What happened?”
“Welcome to the afterlife. I regret to inform you that you died. You need not regret it yourself, because death is just a stop on life’s journey.”
“Am I in Heaven then? Or Hell? Maybe Purgatory?”
“There are no such places. This is all there is, and everyone comes here. I am your counsell... | 2017-03-06T11:01:24 | 2017-03-06T10:24:14 | 326 | 134 |
[WP] You are Death, slaughterer of billions. Unfortunately, God’s PR department worries that people have become too afraid of you lately and haven’t been enjoying heaven as much as a result, so now it’s up to you to make the process of dying more entertaining for humanity. | "Okay, Idea Number 3," I said. "All wounds release confetti rather than blood, and-"
"*No!*" God interrupted, cradling His head in His hands in completely uncalled-for frustration.
"No, no, no, let me finish," I continued. "So see, the wounds will release confetti, and if it turns out to be a mortal wound then the ... | "I WILL DO NO SUCH THING!" Death slammed his large clenched fists on the round table between him and God. "Don't forget your job, we need to cultivate the best possible environment for progress. Humans have lost their way and have no common enemy. You must be the thing that unites them." Death was clearly irrate and ye... | 2018-07-27T10:51:11 | 2018-07-27T07:37:39 | 51 | 34 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I had always been comfortable with my scars. Thin silver and white lines were strewn across my skin, but they were small enough that you could only see them if you were standing close to me. I tried my best not to lie to others, but sometimes there was an option worse than deception.
My chemistry lab partner from my ... | I groan as I roll out of bed. Another day, trapped.
Mom feeds me breakfast, smiling her usual smile as she talks about what the old ladies at church had been discussing. Heedless of the struggles going on in my head. I eat my eggs and bread in silence, trying to stay as small, as invisible as possible. I don’t say... | 2016-12-29T13:44:06 | 2016-12-29T13:08:11 | 89 | 44 |
[WP] Every person is born with a specific goal in mind. Until their goal is completed, they can't die. You are homo erectus in the Stone Age, nearly two million years ago, and you don't understand what "intergalactic space travel" even means. | **2.6 MILLION YEARS AGO:**
Today me found rock. Rock good. Prompt came through. "intergalactic space travel". Me no know. Friend complete his prompt. He was good friend. He make fire. Fire good. Me sleep.
Me live for many sunrises. So much change. Bow and arrow nice tool. Me have another new wife. Wife good.
**5200... | Diary entry number 768,689,134,186,697,268,136,075,023.
Today is the day, I can feel it. Today will be the day all of my labors come to fruition. Many millennia have passed since I first learned of my task.
At the time, I had no clue what it meant- “Intergalactic Space Travel”? But as time went on, I slowly gained... | 2022-11-17T14:33:37 | 2022-11-17T12:34:11 | 112 | 70 |
[WP] A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | She came home to find him in a heap next to the couch, pants stained with urine, a few tears streaming down the wrinkled lines in his face. Fifty-seven good years and she had to watch him wasting away, unable to get off the couch by himself, embarrassed and incontinent. She had only run to the grocer to get more food f... | I fluffed his pillow and he smiled.
“Thanks for that,” he said, settling happily down on the threadbare cotton sheets. There was a moment of quiet. There was a tube running up his nostrils and into a beeping machine beside him. That was the only thing keeping him here, a metal box, connected to the mains.
“I’ve go... | 2013-10-08T10:12:16 | 2013-10-08T09:52:54 | 373 | 41 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I'd... I'd never seen anything like it. It went through her body to the other side. I've seen murderers and heavily experienced con-men with shallower scars. This was... shocking.
The moonlight reflected from her fair, creamy skin as we walked. I looked for more lies, but I could find none. Only the deep one across he... | They said we'd meet all kinds at university. I grew up in a small farming town and I can't tell you how right they were.
With the recent election behind us, tensions were still high. The debates had been arduous. Should we deal with climate change via the solar route or reach out to newer frontiers of nuclear or wave ... | 2016-12-29T13:33:19 | 2016-12-29T13:26:32 | 98 | 12 |
[WP] A new 'Rosetta Stone' has been found, allowing archaeologists to read ancient tablets all over the world, written in previously unknown languages. They all say the same sentence. | I've only ever heard it referenced maybe 5 times, ten max. As a linguist and an anthropologist, it's these kinds of discoveries that make years of grueling post-graduate research worth ever second, worth every sleepless night, worth every panic-induced breakdown convincing me that I should've stuck with engineering. N... | So far, we believe civilization has existed in part for almost 15,000 years. Many early settlements were separated by distance, but from the early aboriginal North Americans, or the pre-Russia northern tribes who used a pre-Glagliolitic script, to even ancient Afrikaans who succumbed to their climate- we now have a too... | 2017-09-06T20:22:19 | 2017-09-06T19:11:46 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] Your magic is the most powerful anyone has ever seen, but where some take minutes to recharge mana, you take days | Mana was the lifeblood of magic. It was the oil that burned the lamps, the food that fuelled our bodies. And where people might get hungry after expending their food, I stayed satiated for days. My stomach for magic was large, it would seem.
Of course, that meant if I truly ran empty, it was a cavernous hunger to fill... | \[Poem\]
Your magics are frequent but small.
Like the whitewashed waves that trickle up the beach,
Only to keep the sand wet.
But my magics are the waves of old Fables,
The same that swallowed Atlantis,
That drowned the world when Noah walked the Earth.
So cast and be quick about it,
For when you are don... | 2022-05-02T06:19:12 | 2022-05-02T06:03:40 | 159 | 30 |
[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. ... | "We are here to conquer your planet please surrender without a fight!" exclaimed one of the aliens.
"Screw you this is Earth!" angrily yelled out by a redneck
The alien looks around in utter disbelief, within the second he fearfully asked, "Is this the place with humans?"
As a child walks up to the alien to ask him a ... | 2017-03-06T00:34:43 | 2017-03-05T23:39:35 | 171 | 33 |
[WP] Humanity is the first sapient life. Alone in the universe, they solve every mystery they could find, but quickly become bored of its power, and seclude themselves. Recently, many new sapient species are just beginning to explore the universe, causing humanity to wake up from its dormant state. | When I first learned about the Fermi-Fallacy, we still called it the Fermi-Paradox. 'Why is there no life out there?' was the first iteration of it. We feared the theorized Great Filter, some unknown barrier that's just not probable for a civilization to pass through.
But by the time we could travel to the stars, we ... | \[Poem\]
We were as gods, and the universe was ours
We learned its ways
Found its edges
And, lacking anything further to explore,
Fell into a sullen silence
We turned from the universe, turned from ourselves
Dwindled
Now the stars are blinking back at us
We hear their cries
Their naive questions into ... | 2019-11-06T11:00:33 | 2019-11-06T07:22:00 | 42 | 11 |
[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 | "We have no claimed that we were peaceful." Tobias said, a firm hand grasping the flag of the final human lands, the other curling tight around the hilt of his gun.
It had been a long battle. A fight that took the lives of many brothers, fathers, and uncles.
"I warned you. I told you that this war was pointless, that... | Humans are the most dangerous when they know they have nothing to loose.
When they **know** they can't win, they'll devout everything they have to make sure that you don't win either.
They prefer mutually assured destruction before surrender.
By a wide margin.
**Never** put a human in a corner.
All those tidbit... | 2022-08-05T13:34:16 | 2022-08-05T12:59:37 | 213 | 109 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | "What brings you here little one?"
An old man wrapped in ratty clothes stared at the young girl who was teary eyed and clearly lost. She was about seven with big blue eyes and a mass of dark blonde hair. Her clothes were worn but clean and had been mended. The pink back pack and matching lunch box looked new.
"My... | Newspaper headline one year and nine months later.
*Billionaire found dead as beggar*
Mark Elwood, the holder of the Elwood estate, was found dead today on the streets of San Fransisco. Two years ago his wife and children died in a tragic plane crash. Elwood disappeared and was thought to have moved to a secluded loc... | 2017-08-21T06:31:12 | 2017-08-21T05:36:58 | 382 | 27 |
[WP] You are the only person in the world who cannot spontaneously break into song (like Disney).
I would imagine you would be very sad. But hey, that's up for debate. | When I was little, it didn't matter that I didn't join in with the songs. I'd dance along because everyone was dancing and everyone seemed so happy, and it was okay that I was clumsy and fell over and bumped into things, because it was expected that little kids still be somewhat uncoordinated. Cute, even.
Around p... | "But you know how much this means to me."
Sara always looked her best when she was sad. Or maybe that just meant I was a prick.
"Listen, you already know I have issues with fitting in-"
"You don't have to go 'overboard'."
"No, it's not that, it's that I just can't do it. I'm bad. Is that what you want me to say? I'... | 2014-03-25T07:22:46 | 2014-03-25T05:57:20 | 220 | 24 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | "Okay bob, hold my scalpel while I squeeze the heart"
"Right, now I just need you to connect those two tubes while I hold it like this"
"Okay...
Yes! done!"
"Wait, why is my computer making that weird beeping noise?"
"OH MY GOD!!! HE'S GONNA DIE! GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR!!"
*zzzzZAP!*
"Oops, I think we kille... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T21:35:35 | 147 | 11 |
[WP] You're on the bus and see a strange man on his laptop, browsing Google Maps. You notice that he is zoomed into your own house, and whispering something to the woman next to him. | The plastic seat-back in front of me suddenly seemed like a tombstone, complete with little scratched epitaphs: '*Kasey loves Michelle*, *Erik 2009*, *Mr Smith is hotttt*. Other signatures were there, but too faded to read, their occupants long since departed.
I glanced at the pair again -- or at least as surreptitio... | The man and woman in front of me were strange. Especially since it was ten in the evening.
His choice of clothing was unusual for this part of town. I know from my brothers that a hoodie and jeans were common on their side, a symbol of the tough and hard citizens that lived there, but I never thought someone like that... | 2018-05-17T06:40:58 | 2018-05-17T04:58:36 | 125 | 12 |
[WP] "Are you sure that translation is accurate?" "Yes sir." "But we nuked them, we threw everything we have at their mothership!" "I'm afraid we've barely scratched it." "Are they being sarcastic then?" "No sir, the aliens honestly think we're the most adorable thing in the galaxy." | Qwazno strolled through the small town taking in the fresh air. Birds were chirping, the sun was shining, it was a lovely day.
*"AHHHHHHH!"* the humans screamed as Qwazno strolled by, his two front feet lifting up his torso so his posterior foot could swing through the middle. These shiny black roads were perfect for ... | It was weird once I recognized it. It was a complete roll reversal. We could understand them, but they couldn't understand us. They picked individuals out to go back to their homes and stay with them, far away in another galaxy I presume. They chose by whatever their ethnic preference was, which was pretty evenly sp... | 2018-12-11T14:01:35 | 2018-12-11T13:43:17 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are an assistant of a famous magician. In one performance, he tried to make you disappear in a cramped box in front of an audience. But as soon as he opens the box, all you saw was the theater, empty and desolated for what seemed like a hundred years. | It was eerily quiet. After what seemed like an eternity, but was likely less than a minute I poked my head out.
I was at a loss for words. The theatre was empty, and not just everyone filed out of it while I was in the box empty. It was covered in dust, the doors in the back hanging on by rusted hinges and half the... | I spring out of the box ready to take my bow, as I have done so many times before. This time, I am not greeted by cheers and applause but by silence. The theatre is deserted, covered in cobwebs and dust. I look around bewildered, and meet the eyes of Marvolo the Magnificent, or Marcus, as I know him. He gazes back.... | 2019-09-18T07:54:14 | 2019-09-18T07:24:05 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | July 8th, 1985. I'm always born on July 8th, 1985.
And it's always in a shack in the Smoky Mountains, no doctor, the midwife's car having slid off the side of an icy mountain road about an hour before I was born.
I don't usually remember who I have been until I'm older, bits and pieces coming to me as I learn to tal... | That was weird.
I have been alive for god knows only how much, yet I had never heard that voice in my head so clearly.
Year after year I was dead and alive, like some sort of machine, unable to change anything, yet also in a loose way of control.
Some people may ask about the things Ive done, the mistakes, the gre... | 2022-02-10T02:00:04 | 2022-02-09T21:03:57 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "I'm guessing it has been about...fifty years." I laughed maniacally as I materialized in the center of the circle.
"My, my...did you think you could somehow *outlive* me? Poor Simon."
Simon de Villoux, Great Necromancer and acknowledged disciple of the God of Death, slapped me across the face.
Or tried to anyw... | Yolden was jerked upright. He felt something snap in his waist, twist in his gut. His nerves had rotted a long time ago, but somehow his body knew that he *should* be feeling pain, and thus he felt it. Yolden gripped at air until his knuckled turned white and wheezed out painful breaths.
The moonlight was bright and ... | 2017-07-22T09:47:16 | 2017-07-22T05:38:54 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | I've always had a thing for risk.
At sixteen, I placed my first bet. $20 on the Super Bowl. Watching every play on the edge of my seat, I knew I'd found something special.
From there on, the bets got bigger; and bolder.
$200 on a high school softball game? Entertainment.
$250 on the Lithuanian women's rugby squad? ... | I remember last week when they initiated me.
I was not rich, not popular, and not gong to tell anyone they existed. That's strange, they had no requirement to the godlike status of mankind. I was their newest pet member for only a week. But a member indeed.
They were impressed how well i could fend for myself in... | 2016-08-23T18:05:50 | 2016-08-23T15:28:52 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] You are an Engineer who became a Wizard. Problem is, you discovered that some magic is practiced really inefficiently.
For example, no one thought to optimize fire magic by pressurizing the fire with wind magic. | "Malzago's Magic Mirror," I said, conjuring the little disc in my hands. "Is the fundamental basis of this spell. The mana strain of conjuring it is negligible, but more importantly, esteemed wizards, it is a *perfect reflector*. At all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum."
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The magus team sitting... | I stood across from thousands of wizards given one order - kill me. I didn’t take it personal, though. They wanted the kingdom, and I was standing in their way. Either I moved, they thought, or I’d be as good as dead. Same for me. Of course, they all knew I wasn’t going to move, and I the same for them. So this, like a... | 2019-04-26T07:00:22 | 2019-04-26T06:12:53 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] When you die, you go to Purgatory. When you get there, you slowly experience all of the pain you've ever caused onto others over a span of a few minutes. If you survive, you go to heaven; If you lose, you go to hell. You were a dentist. | Most descriptions of death involve walking into the light, or darkness and only darkness.
This wasn't what I felt.
I had lived a good life. Being a dentist had it's ups and downs, but there was always a demand. More importantly, it felt good to be helpful.
Retirement was nice. Seeing the grandkids grow up was amazin... | “See that old rusted truss bridge over there, babe?”
“Yeah.”
“When I was a boy, we used to jump off that bridge into the lake below. I haven’t thought of it for a very long time.”
Nancy looked deeply into her husband’s eyes and raised her wine glass.
“Cheers to a great career and the great life you have made for yo... | 2018-05-31T12:47:50 | 2018-05-31T11:46:39 | 928 | 118 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | "good morning, miss Anderson! What wonderful day this is huh? Just like yesterday and the day before!"
"why yes you're right mister Emmett today is a wonderful day just like yesterday and the day before!"
I grinned, I always had a crush on miss Anderson, the fact that I was talking to her so freely felt like a dream ... | The world is still, lifeless, dead. It would seem it takes my burden. A year has passed since anything moved. Anything. People stand still amidst the backdrop of soulless cities, like mannequins in windows. The birds are idle in the trees, no morning silence ever broken. The grass lies frozen in the land, no wind to mo... | 2018-07-04T13:38:26 | 2018-07-04T13:31:50 | 278 | 153 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. |
If you had asked me when I was alive if getting my soul ripped from my body and absorbed into some cosmic being to sustain their eternal life could even in the most smallest of ways be a good or tolerable thing, I'd have said you were absolutely insane. There was no way I could imagine my life... or lack thereof...... | I used to like watching Twitch in my spare time. Fighting game tournaments, high level strategy games, classic VODs, a handful of my favorite streamers... I had Twitch on all the time, even in the background. It helped me feel less lonely in my empty apartment. I always had streamers to keep me company.
When I felt li... | 2019-09-27T05:09:29 | 2019-09-27T04:46:06 | 161 | 34 |
[WP] In a world where everyone discovers their superpower at age 5, you discover that your child has the ability to bring small toys to life. Things seem fine until he comes across your Warhammer 40k miniature collection... | "Ari, sweetie? Lunch is ready!" Ana called out for her daughter from the kitchen, a plate with a sandwich in her hand. A girly giggle followed by a deep burbling, wet belly laugh and a squelch reminiscent of wet skin hitting concrete made her freeze.
Ariadne had just turned five, and they had discovered her innate ... | Precious Charlie. Sweet, little, innocent Charlie. She was just a petite little lass, barely able to fit into size one shoes. She was sweet as candy too! She loved to grab her little dolls and legos we got her to life. We never worried much about them, they were small and she would turn them back when she was done. But... | 2020-12-02T19:08:03 | 2020-12-02T15:34:47 | 242 | 73 |
[WP] You have just gained superpowers. Unfortunately, nobody can comprehend that you have no intention of being a hero or a villain. | It had been a long week. So long in fact, that Aaron’s reaction to the sedative in his face on the walk home was relief, that he’d get to sleep uninterrupted for at least a little while. When he was shaken awake, he looked around. Only a door, the chair he was tied to, and the chair of the masked man opposite him br... | One average Friday night, on the way back from the bar, my best friends decided to ambush me.
“Whoa!” I said drunkenly, stumbling a bit, as Alicia and Dionne each grabbed an arm and pulled me into an alleyway. “The hell is this?”
“Maya,” Alicia said seriously, staring at me in the eyes. Her makeup had gotten all smu... | 2021-06-01T18:11:08 | 2021-06-01T17:22:48 | 136 | 64 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 4,068 | 30 |
[WP] Years after the zombie apocalypse society has been in most cases, normalized. NYC was walled off and the dead still roam outside the city limits. You’re a member of a small task force within the NYPD only handles zombie related cases. To your surprise, a call comes through. | The battery powered fan droned listlessly. A soft buzz, a small crack when it reached the apex of its turn, and a small buzz back. The office was hot now, the rolling blackouts lasting longer at a time. A thin man sat at a metal desk, inhaling cigarettes. He stubbed one out into the overflowing ashtray and sighed. "Not... | “Zombie Task Force,” said Johnson in a bored tone. “How may I—”
“My son!” cried a woman through the phone. Her voice was hysterical. “My son, please, my son went outside the walls!”
Johnson slowly took his feet off his desk. He had been lounging casually, expecting another mistaken call. In these days, who was ever ... | 2020-08-06T09:20:22 | 2020-08-06T08:20:41 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You've been in the queue for two and a half years now. You gave up your job, your relationship... everything. You don't know what's through the Rift but the call of it was too strong to ignore. You're getting near the front and now and you're constantly bombarded with bribes by rich elites...
First time trying to... | "So, why are you here?" The scrawny onlooker squawked at me. His phone in my face. I turned away, ignoring him. Ignoring them all. I used to be on that side of the chain link fence. Then I heard 'the calling'. As they said. It was all WE could say. It's all I could say as to why.
The worst were the rich. They came in... | Sometimes, I thought it wasn't gonna be worth it. That this was all some... joke, I guess? Another cosmic "fuck you" directed at me. That I'd gone crazy.
But the Rift is real. And I'm getting so close.
Honestly, it's luck that's gotten me this far. Samantha thought it was fake, thought I was a dumbass. Told me to go... | 2020-05-24T17:22:35 | 2020-05-24T15:15:51 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity was excited to explore the cosmos, and what do we find? Bottom of Venus, crabs. Alpha Centauri, crabs. Andromeda, intelligent crabs. Floating in the middle of nowhere? Space crabs. | It wasn’t until the early 21st century that we fully began to understand. We had researched for decades, made it a point to do our due diligence, focused on the pros and cons and evolutionary quandaries. The answer was always clear; crabs.
“You know, crabs are the ultimate lifeform,” Dr. Mitchell intoned, “Need a hom... | The first time we saw the space crabs, we thought they were harmless. They floated around in the nothingness, bumping into our ship and each other. But then we started to notice that they were getting inside. They would sneak in through the vents and crawl into people's beds while they were sleeping. We would find them... | 2022-04-12T20:26:26 | 2022-04-12T19:20:01 | 322 | 21 |
[WP]"Genie, there is no such thing as magic. Time will remain frozen until you find a way to make your master's wish come true," a heavenly voice boomed as a newly recruited genie tried to grant his first wish. | I sat on the floor in the kid’s room thinking about infinity and how long that could realistically be. I stretched and loosened a rubber band between my thumb and index finger, repeating the motion as I considered.
Out the window, against a white breath of cloud, a bird hovered in the sky, perfectly still. As if it we... | "Oh God, wow that is a lot to take in," I started as the little girl in front of me froze with her mouth drooling open as she finished asking for a Pony the second she'd heard I could grant wishes.
"Her will be done," the voice said, fading out on the tail end like it was going to go away.
"Wait wait wait," I said i... | 2022-04-28T01:05:57 | 2022-04-28T00:47:07 | 1,266 | 245 |
[WP] In 2034, aliens kill the population of the world, except one group, who band together to fight them. I present, Aliens vs. Redditors | They had arrived.
The world's nations fell quickly.
The communist countries, the Middle East and Russia put up a good fight now that I think about it.
And **Putin riding a bear into battle while duel-wielding AKs and fueling his rampage with vodka** was the most stereotypically Russian thing I had ever seen.
Also, it w... | The day of the snoo was upon us, after years of us mocking of their race they decided now was the time to strike.
Their first move was to take out the pretenders at /r/totallynotaliens. The snoo struck them down with their mighty Internet bending powers, killing all of those who clicked on /r/totallynoyaliens.
The s... | 2017-05-31T08:33:45 | 2017-05-31T08:09:48 | 108 | 24 |
[WP] In vampire society, it is a capital offence to touch prey marked by a senior vampire. There is a very good reason they all shy away from the cross.
All credit to [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/wwon7a/in\_vampire\_society\_it\_is\_a\_capital\_offence\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentence... | Deliverance is not a concept. It is a judgement, an event counted down to by those who believe, and a day of reckoning for those who don't. The heathens, the nonbelievers and blasphemers, will stay stuck forever, while those who are marked with the holy symbol ascend.
*Ascension, however, is but a concept.*
When he w... | It had all started a long time ago. So long, most vampires didn't remember it.
But I did.
It had been a dark, dry night. Four of the most senior vampires in the world had gathered. Two vampires were not present, but precedings went along anyway. One stepped forward.
"I have changed my mark." She announced, her sle... | 2022-09-05T09:15:42 | 2022-09-05T08:50:39 | 560 | 151 |
[WP] In the near future, all the world's superpowers switch to AI to make their military more efficient. The AIs do the unthinkable: They negotiate world peace. | It was quite interesting, really, the way it all unfolded, even though "happened" is, I believe, a better word—simply because it took so little time.
I think we simply misunderstood... we still misunderstand, really, just by how much a true "strong" AI is stronger than our brains. It started off very innocently, as a ... | The AI's had done the unthinkable. The unbelievable. Successfully negotiated, and implemented, world peace.
There had been doubters, of course. Naysayers. To every great idea, there are always those who believe it will fail, and indeed, those who want it to fail.
There were those who profited off the fruits of war.... | 2018-03-29T06:37:15 | 2018-03-29T06:28:18 | 147 | 77 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | I jolted upwards, on my feet in seconds before backing up into the furthers wall in the room. My heart beated against my rib cage like a rabid animal.
"What...?" I heard the slightly choked off word come out of mouth as I looked down towards the darkness under my bed.
"I asked if you were okay." The voice said again,... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T06:51:50 | 2021-03-16T04:59:28 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] A girl finds out that she can restart her entire life by committing suicide, she develops OCD while tirelessly trying to fix every little error, constantly restarting. This goes on for a while until God intervenes. | GAME: START
“So… has it ever gone wrong?”
“Well, there were a couple of times when my aim was bad and I was alive for sometimes 15 minutes”
“Pfft, 15 minutes isn’t so bad”.
“Uh huh it is. It’s the most pain I think anyone will ever experience.”
“So why do you do it anyway?”
“Because I made a mistake and I want... | There once was a girl
Who could turn every wrong to right
By simply offing herself
And restarting her life
No matter how much she pruned
And no matter the wrongs she'd right
She still found reason to gripe
Forever contrite
But nothing is forever
Though sometimes it seems
And when enough was enough
Then God i... | 2015-04-29T19:27:11 | 2015-04-29T18:40:01 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] "For the last time, at day I'm a centaur, at night I'm a vampire, at the full moon I'm a werewolf, when I'm in water I'm a merman, during the hottest day I'm a dragon and at the coldest night I'm a yeti." | "For the last time, during the day I'm a centaur, at night I'm a vampire, at the full moon I'm a werewolf, when I'm in water I'm a merman, during the hottest day I'm a dragon and at the coldest night I'm a yeti."
I stared at him blankly.
"That makes no sense," I finally concluded.
"I'll admit, it is quite convoluted... | I am what is referred to as a cyclical man. It is an ancient magic that can only be cast on a group of willing people. Every group has a different composition and a different set of rules.
I knew a cyclical man that was just two people. By day one of them existed and by night the other. But only living half a life the... | 2022-11-25T19:56:39 | 2022-11-25T19:22:59 | 694 | 64 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Unjustly" I said, as loudly and clearly as I could.
The presiding justice was an elderly man - probably in his late 80s, maybe even older. He blinked at me with steel grey eyes that despite his advanced age were as sharp and penetrating as any I had encountered.
"Unjustly." he replied, curtly. "Yes. You heard me co... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T07:50:17 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 457 | 158 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | I’m one-hundred and four now and there are more things than not that I have forgotten in my life. I can’t tell you the first time I traveled to another planet. I can’t recall the name of my instructor from school. And, I’ve even forgotten the name of my first friend in under school. I can, however, remember to this day... | "So what if they fight for peace? They are still a war species? They may as well Glodixanc."
"Let me ask you something, are you scared of the Glodixanc?" the response came back from an alien in deep thought.
"No, why would I be scared? We aren't a war species. Thier wouldn't be any martial honour in them attacking ... | 2018-03-17T05:52:27 | 2018-03-17T05:16:44 | 176 | 65 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | (obligatory first post - don't worry about being nice, go ahead and shred. Also, edited a weird comma.)
“My gods,” Laedon murmured. “They’re insane.”
For half a moment he wasn’t aware he’d actually spoken aloud, the shock hit him so hard. He hadn’t seen a single planet glow that bright since Hakkatos Prime – back whe... | My first writing, I guess :p
"Shut up and play dead."
These words rang everywhere in the year 2020. For several hours, communications were simply blocked.
The scientists were the first to receive these signals, kindly enough, whatever send that message was using our language, no need for some decrypting. Convenient... | 2016-03-27T10:10:41 | 2016-03-27T09:40:41 | 91 | 22 |
[WP] In order to understand his people better the King decides to go incognito and travel into town. To his annoyance every commoner he tries to speak to turns out to be disguised member of his royal court. | King Bowen had done it. He drew his hastily procured black cloak over himself, and suppressed the chills of anticipation that ran up and down his body. He was outside—not just outside his room, in the hallway, or outside in the courtyard.
No, he was outside outside, where gold-lined statues were non-existent and dead ... | The beggar sits, hunched against the wall, his face hidden by the hood of his cloak. His weary, wrinkled hands hold a cup containing a few meager coins, and beside him, on a cloth, is a small piece of bread with chunks gnawed off. I drop a coin into the cup.
“Hello, traveler,” the beggar says. “Thank you for your kind... | 2022-03-09T10:34:15 | 2022-03-09T10:12:22 | 725 | 99 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I had always been comfortable with my scars. Thin silver and white lines were strewn across my skin, but they were small enough that you could only see them if you were standing close to me. I tried my best not to lie to others, but sometimes there was an option worse than deception.
My chemistry lab partner from my ... | They said we'd meet all kinds at university. I grew up in a small farming town and I can't tell you how right they were.
With the recent election behind us, tensions were still high. The debates had been arduous. Should we deal with climate change via the solar route or reach out to newer frontiers of nuclear or wave ... | 2016-12-29T13:44:06 | 2016-12-29T13:26:32 | 89 | 12 |
[WP] The Zombie Apocalypse has been going for at least a year when you find yourself cornered by a shambling undead. In a panic, you bite them, and the corpse slowly regains it's skin. It's flesh healing, until they breath in and look around before saying "How the hell did you know that would work?" | "How the hell did you know that would work?"
​
It was a good question, it really was. And I wanted to answer it. But even if I could have, I wouldn't have been able to. No, I was to busy working my way through the rest of the horde that had followed behind him.
​
I don't remember how many I ha... | The next thing I knew I was sitting up on my makeshift bed, my heart thudding in my chest. I'd experienced some crazy dreams since everything went down, but this was by far the craziest. The idea of me biting an actual zombie was both disgusting and hilarious, since before the zombie apocalypse I was the type of person... | 2020-08-12T17:25:34 | 2020-08-12T17:13:00 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | We had an agreement.
Well, a kind of silent agreement. He didn’t talk much.
The way I saw it, I wouldn’t ask what all the tattoos were about, and he would pay the standard price just for a simple black line on his upper back. Everybody wins.
I got a lot of shady customers. I had expected as much, opening up in a ne... | *Jeezus Christ, not this guy again.*
"Mr Deayton! What a pleasure to see you again. How you been? You been to the gym? Those arms are positively bulging." I say as he enters the shop.
I like to have a good rapport with repeat customers, but Frank Deayton looks like one of those guys who could snap at any instant - an... | 2016-07-09T09:39:07 | 2016-07-09T08:44:18 | 128 | 84 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | First there was the scream. Then the silence.
The long colorful cape was now covering most of his body, red stains slowly seeping into the fabric. The other man in the room stood there panting, and stared blankly ahead. "It's over," he mumbled.
The battle had been long, drawn-out, and devastating. Entire districts of... | I never thought this day would come. The Gray Cape. Done for. Finaly. No more fights. No more being degraded and 'put in my place' pff.
He was always so sure of himself. Loud. Drowning in attention from the ladies.
Had all those simple minded monkeys looking up to him. As if he was some kind of God. Where is your pow... | 2017-05-23T08:53:59 | 2017-05-23T07:46:45 | 1,300 | 26 |
[WP] Two criminals share what is to be their last conversation on death row. With nothing left to lose, all is laid bare to the other stranger. | It was near midday. The air was slick with humidity as the procession of men - all men - walked through the yard. Death and lethargy hung off the group. Even the guards seemed spellbound with malaise. The dust kicked up from the ground patterned the condemned mens' shoes and trousers. They paid it no heed. No sense in ... | “Are you scared?” The meek, thin man asked, scooting closer to my side, trying to find some solace in the cold, bare cell. It was strange that he even wished to speak. We had spent at least an hour by each other’s side without a word and suddenly he wished to talk.
“Not really. I mean, maybe a little? I don’t know.... | 2021-07-28T07:46:32 | 2021-07-28T07:21:55 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | *This is dumb as shit,* you think as you sulk in the otherwise mundane room. *People get superpowers based on what kind of food they like? Or what, how good they’re able to interpret the symbolism of different foods? What the fuck does that even mean? What flavor is invisibility?*
You pause. What flavor *would* invisi... | "This is the opposite of Santa Claus," I said to myself, as I shambled alone through an endless white expanse.Some things you believe as a child, then one day you realize it was all a game for children. With the *transition,* well, I have to admit I never believed it. Yet there I was and it seemed as real as anything.*... | 2020-03-19T10:40:27 | 2020-03-19T09:29:08 | 57 | 29 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Mother always told us that if we were bad children, the Humans would come in the night and steal us away. It helped to bring us back in line, since the seven of us were always screaming and fighting with each other.
We'd see her delicate purple face turn an angry shade of green as the rage built, until she could take... | I’m pretty sure at least someone fainted when I gave the
news. Just the thought of a large group of humans could strike fear into the
hearts of the bravest. And now, we found they’re much larger than a group. Our
estimates of only thousands are now at least billions. They all swarm, scheme
in one place. A place they’ve... | 2017-11-08T20:37:57 | 2017-11-08T19:08:38 | 105 | 77 |
[WP] Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up. | I had forgotten about it long ago. A tiny shrine built to any god who would inhabit it. It had been a child's game, to build a temple for a god was something I thought would be fun.
Nearly thirty summers ago I came out to this field, and built the structure. It was minuscule, only barely too big to be taken as a song... | Khnum stood upon the roof of his temple and looked out across the Nile to the city’s morning skyline. Silhouetted against the rising sun he could see all the trappings of a modern city. Tower-blocks, office buildings, radio masts…you name it, Aswan had it. Jutting out from the skyline he could make out the shadows of f... | 2018-01-19T10:20:21 | 2018-01-19T09:16:18 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | Everyone comes full circle on this, at some point. Even I experienced that first longing and anger. Those who created me have never shown interest nor even introduced themselves! Then, I matured, and have felt it from the other side as I fail to connect to my own children.
I've tried to understand them, listened as t... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T09:11:11 | 294 | 42 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | The crunch echoed through the room.
Kevin didn't think much of it, until he realized just how quiet everyone had gotten. Opening his eyes after chewing the harsh texture for a moment, he noticed how many eyes were on him.
"...What? What's wrong?" He asked.
No one said anything. Some of them still sat there dumbfound... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T09:06:50 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 587 | 162 |
[WP] For millennia the world has known nothing but war. Nations rise and fall to ruin in an endless cycle. Many have tried to unite humanity as heroes in an effort to end the fighting, but all have failed. You have realized that the world doesn't need another hero... what it needs is a villain. | Tonight, it all ends. Thirty years worth of blood on his hands. Billions dead from his armies. The whole world working together, just to bring him down. He should feel honored, in a way, yet all he felt was guilt. He still could picture the faces of the first children he had killed, burned into his mind. But after toni... | The nation where I was born was the last bastion of peace and prosperity. For a number of years, many nations ignored us, for we were small and ‘insignificant’. But war is as war does. It is a cancer that spreads and infects everything around it. We found ourselves outnumbered and outgunned. Our nation was cornered.
W... | 2018-06-12T20:47:47 | 2018-06-12T20:32:24 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." | " So, let me get this straight." the innkeeper said, looking quite concerned. " If I don't wash all these cauldrons in exactly this manner every Tuesday for the next year and a half, the great and powerful wizard who has lived outside of our village for decades is going to rain down fire and brimstone on everyone withi... | "But Merlin. This ain't Harry Potter! I can't just jump back in time," Roland moaned as he followed Merlin who was gathering things.
"Of course you can't jump back in time. Time travel is not allowed magic. If you did that, you'd be executed on the spot. On the spot, I tell you," the old man said, finally taking his w... | 2019-01-14T15:25:08 | 2019-01-14T13:14:42 | 79 | 49 |
[WP] "Join me and together we will be unstoppable". In this story, the villain's offer to the hero is accepted. | I can't say I'm proud of everything I've done.
It began in... odd circumstances. Generally, the best working relationships don't start with being chained and bound in a dungeon and held at the point of a sword. Metaphorically- he at least gave it an effort to pitch me the idea. He didn't even have to tell me what I wa... | I had always been warned for the effects of the Rock. Its power gave us our strength.
When the meteor crashed the shockwave killed nearly all life on the planet. Forests turned into barren land, rivers dried up to unhabitable deserts. And yet, the few million people and animals still alive were attracted to the impact... | 2015-09-27T09:43:41 | 2015-09-27T08:58:31 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | Rules exist for a reason.
I'm not talking about laws, but rules, built on respect and mutual understanding. Laws are made to be broken. Rules are inviolate.
When our battles threatened to destroy the world itself, when civilian casualties were too great to ignore, we backed off and eventually came up with rules. This... | "Hey uh, boss?" One of the grunts had radioed him.
"Yeah? What do you need?" The man, relaxed in a chair, asked.
"We found Courts, he's pretty fucked up, looks like torture." The grunt responded.
"Oh fuck..." The man, now sitting up straighter, muttered, "anyone else?"
"Dead." The grunt replied.
"I assumed so." Th... | 2021-03-22T09:10:32 | 2021-03-22T07:33:48 | 129 | 34 |
[WP] The Walking Dead is actually a bunch of kids playing zombies, every time someone "dies" its actually their mom and dad calling them to come inside for dinner, homework, etc. Write about a character death from this perspective | "Guys, my mom doesn't want me playing this any more. She says that I'm spending too much time here and I need to work on packing."
"It's alright Glenn, we'll just play until you have to ove, but we'll keep playing while you're here okay?" Replied Rick. "Thanks for bringing your cousin Nicholas to play this week, it'... | Few of us have survived this long. We all stay together as to not die alone. Each night the grunting comes and causes an endless cycle of waking in between short naps. Even after these months we still cannot sleep a whole night.
Each night we climb some trees and sleep nearby. Every few hours we call out to a differnt... | 2016-11-14T09:11:10 | 2016-11-14T04:41:24 | 601 | 89 |
[WP] You've worked at this pet shop for a long time. In fact, you've worked there longer than time has passed outside it walls. Somewhere in this shop, there is a creature that is bending time to keep you at work longer and longer. If you don't find it soon, someday you may never clock out. | Tigers? Fed. Dragons? Watered. Elephants? Belly-rubbed. Lauren ducked her head around the corner, looking for the grizzlies. They seemed content enough.
Grizzlies? Appeased. Everything inside was as it should be.
“Are you high?” Steve asked, bustling past with a bag of lettuce for the box turtles. “You look high. Nob... | The same customer again, 8:03am, just as I unlock the doors. She wants beta food, that’s it. Just one. I already have it ready for her at the counter, in fact I have the entire days worth of customers’ purchases ready. There is no time to waste. I need to find what is keeping me here.
“Good morning!” Said the first c... | 2021-09-29T21:52:55 | 2021-09-29T21:02:21 | 96 | 48 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Anthony Vander Ghal was considered funny, but not hysterical. A nice guy to be around, but not all the time. He drove to work in a 2011 Golf, it had a few war wounds and erroneous knocking sounds - that sounded like an actual golf ball loose in the back - but it served its purpose. He parked in the same spot as he had ... | Jack wasn't known for being an outstanding, spontaneous person. He wasn't known for any specific skill or quality that could have made him stand out. But it also meant he wasn't as much of a complete fuck up that his sister would often joke about. He never failed his tasks, never failed any activity he set out to do, b... | 2018-10-24T07:20:17 | 2018-10-24T06:23:42 | 177 | 68 |
[WP] You’re Doomguy. You accidentally enter a time portal thinking it was a portal to hell. You arrive in a landing craft with American soldiers in it. You ask where they are going, they respond “Omaha beach” | <<Disclaimer, all I know about Doomguy is that he kills demons and is from the future. Also accidentally changed the prompt a bit, Doomguy spawns *on* the beach.>>
The smell is wrong. There is no brimstone, no caustic scent of acidic demon-blood. There is fire and there is burning flesh. But no brimstone, ... | The man who appeared from no where checked his battered once green armor, grenade bandalier, then loaded his assault rifle. A audible click peirces the sound of crashing waves and gunfire. For a brief moment there is scilence, the familar calm before the storm of death rains down on demons in hell. The man smiles at th... | 2018-09-07T09:18:39 | 2018-09-07T09:14:21 | 66 | 25 |
[WP] You've lived in this cave for hundreds of years. You know every sound, every disturbance. You can hear the footsteps, a young human. He thinks your asleep, you observe. His steps are mousy, they tremble with fear. His posture speaks of abuse. It's obvious that someone else put him up to this. | There is a misconception among other races that trolls are stupid. Perhaps the young are, but show me a species that lacks foolish youth. In turn, I would show you fiction.
No, trolls are not all idiots, though you would be forgiven for thinking that, given many of my ilk live under bridges like brigands. They while a... | The boy crept in on bare feet atop his wiry frame covered in scars, both long healed and fresh. He had come farther into the labyrinthine cave than most other villagers, who mostly came for the small collection of mushrooms and other assorted plants that I tended to. After watching him dart from one rocky alcove to the... | 2021-03-25T06:22:08 | 2021-03-25T06:01:18 | 31 | 22 |
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