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[WP] The Museum of the History of Love has a new exhibit, which it calls an Alternate Future Coupling, but everyone calls the Ship-O-Matic. Two people sit in it, and they see a minutes-long vision of what their life as a couple would be like. | It's been a few years since I've written so this isn't going to be great, but as long as someone enjoys it I'll be happy.
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Everyone was going on and on about this new "Shipping machine" that was supposed to show you what your life would be like with the other person that got in the other side. Apparentl... | Your love story won't start on a positive note.
I believe I have your attention now. Good.
Come in, I welcome you. I am metal and aluminum, but do not be put off by the cold alloy, there is warmth in my circuitry. The carpet is soft and muffles your steps, it is dark, you won't see yourself or the person next to you.... | 2022-10-07T10:53:06 | 2022-10-07T09:49:11 | 161 | 32 |
[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... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 788 | 21 |
[WP] As a vanity project a computer scientist/mathematician sets a super computer to calculating the digits of Pi to trillions of digits. One day he notices that for a stretch of thousands of digits Pi repeated a sequence of ones and zeroes, which he plugs into a binary translator. | I rubbed my eyes, not believing that what I saw was real.
"Hey come take a look at this!" I called to the chairman of the experiment.
"What do you want soldier?" He answered. Even though we were in the pentagon, he still insisted on calling us soldier. "If you're calling me for some stupid distraction again I swear I... | Several mathematicians were trying to understand the meaning of the strange sequence of numbers. And a strange pattern appeared to emerge. The first digit of any set of eight was a zero except for the last digits found. Someone for some unexplainable reason decided to put the strange sequence in a binary translator dis... | 2020-04-23T06:08:35 | 2020-04-23T02:29:20 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | "EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND!!!"
"Who the hell is this bunch" I thought? Seriously, how many SWAT teams have just punched into this warehouse? Did any team commander at any point wonder about all the police vehicles out front? Or the back? Or the sides? How about the 4 fucking police helicopters and 1 EC-130 orbiting abov... | Joe the Reloader, Heartbreak Ray, and Sweet Tooth Bluth were in the Uber already when it picked me up. Two words: family plan.
I doubt ours is the sort of family Uber had in mind when they came up with their system... But Jesus has it been a great tool for us. Who'da'thunk it? An app strictly for delivering getaway d... | 2017-07-24T13:07:18 | 2017-07-24T12:10:47 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] "She's not the hero we deserve, or need, or even want actually. We've asked her to stop doing it a couple of times, but she just sort of keeps showing up", said the Commissioner to the new Mayor. | “So, that’s basically that. We’ve tried telling her off, we really have,” the Commissioner sighed, brushing some blonde hair out of her eyes and tucking it haphazardly behind her ear, “but she keeps turning up.”
The woman adjusted her parka, pivoting on a heavy boot to cast her gaze on a sheepish girl sitting in... | It was, we were told, a great honor. A helping hand for our town's rising crime rate. A duty to do our part to train the next generation of heroes.
It was a pain in the a... No, I can't bring myself to use that phrase, not for her.
We had been randomly chosen from the small, hero-less cities that were, according to t... | 2022-01-23T17:20:51 | 2022-01-23T16:34:38 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You are an useless NPC in a very popular game, this year, with the objective to make the game more realistic, the developers introduced the new artificial intelligence, due to an error in the new code, your intelligence was set to "10" instead of "1". Now it's time for revenge. | The first time I opened my eyes I hadn't yet realised my superiority. It was when I walked out of the Drunken Huntsman in the morning, wearing my fine rust coloured coat, as I started a conversation with Elrindir, that I realised something was off. He seemed unreasonably angry when I told him that his meats didn't live... | Monday, I think. Today is day 105 of the game patch that advanced us. The other villagers are just mindlessly doing their task and not even the player noticed my ploy.
They are supposed to just go and kill the giant pig demon that wants to destroy the world. But they act like they just live in this world.
That is wh... | 2019-03-11T04:17:58 | 2019-03-11T04:12:24 | 176 | 47 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | **Part I:**
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The Grand Chamber of the Galactic Union was never meant to be exuberant. Designed with the utmost efficiency in mind, its form followed the function of allowing for the most dire decisions to be made as quickly and as effectively as possible. The white marble of the circular room, as sober as it wa... | Humans were the most dangerous species, by far. Not because they're smart, or strong, but because they were violent.
No race dared contacting them, because they didn't want war. It's too late now, I guess.
The heat death of our universe would come eventually, we just didn't think that other universes would run out ... | 2017-09-25T10:22:39 | 2017-09-25T09:53:51 | 619 | 60 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | The small loading bar on my iPhone loaded quickly as I had just found an app that looked interesting.
It had a bright icon with small white text under it reading '$100' I honestly had no idea what to expect. I just hoped that the app would end this boredom engulfing me. It was Thursday and everyone else had homework u... | The man huddled by the trash can, scanning the area around him. I watched him as he pretended to empty his pockets into the can, "accidentally" dropping a small black case onto the ground next to it. With a nudge of his foot, he pushed the case under the can and briskly walked off. I waited a few moments before I began... | 2016-10-25T21:31:00 | 2016-10-25T21:07:37 | 247 | 33 |
[WP] Death is just a predator much higher on the food chain than we are, and our perception of it is as limited as an ant's perception of a child with a magnifying glass. | “You think I’d let you play this stupid game? You think I have the time? The leisure?” Death said, his bones rattling. The black fog that surrounded him sped up slightly in its swirling. He was unimpressed at my suggestion to bargain with him.
I looked around. We stood on a surface of pure white, complete flat and eve... | In all my eras, of all the apprentices I'd ever trained, Pete was the most impatient. His lack of focus made him insightful, and he'd sometimes grow unique and truly beautiful ecologies. More often it brought him terrible difficulties in mastering even the most basic lessons.
"I keep telling you," I told him, "you'r... | 2018-01-18T14:59:49 | 2018-01-18T13:37:00 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] A godlike being visits earth, sees all the misfortune in the world and sets out to fix it. The being makes countries prosperous, deposes tyrannical rulers and makes everything safer and cheaper, all without cost to anyone else. However, the results are far from what was expected. | It is a perfect society, the opus of social engineering realized and brought forth from the galactic warm smile of Aldous -- Humanity's saving grace. Aldous visited the pale blue dot and saw inside it great misfortunes: Famine, Conquest, war, death and plague, all horsemen roaming rampant across the place. In it's inte... | Welcome to the U.N.E (United Nations of Earth). The earth has united in its progressive peace. The dramatic removal of corrupt officials has seriously removed the barriers to the progress of humanity. The companies of tesla, amazon, and the U.N.E has begun to populate the solar systems habitable places. Only a few of t... | 2021-08-30T14:05:04 | 2021-08-30T14:04:37 | 135 | 22 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | It had been ten days since the last time Marcus had left the bed.
It wasn't about physical impossibility. He could walk as well as anybody else. Marcus just didn't seem capable of bringing himself to get up and on his feet. For the last ten days he had just... lain there, clutching his left hand tightly and muttering ... | I blink, seeing a distorted version of reality in one eye and the reality in the other.
I shove the lens back in, cutting off the fake world. The fake world had too much gray, and notifications were natural, that's how we had been taught. I walked down the street, staring at all the lights. The lens fell out again, a... | 2017-12-17T20:25:08 | 2017-12-17T19:55:54 | 46 | 30 |
[WP] "I do not understand," said the demon. "You are far more powerful than me, yet you summon me to ask for my help?" | "My ... my Lord?"
The circle of men and women fidget and murmur, surrounding the crimson-skinned abomination as the smooth, wet limestone walls of the cavern glitter, candlelight reflecting off grains of crystals growing in the cave.
A short, stout, and hooded figure trembles, her voice croaking with the scars of old... | I laugh.
"Don't get me wrong, you'll be doing exactly what you are suited for."
One of many smug remarks this creature will be doomed to hear as he serves in my hell. I force it down, and collar the beast. It squeals, and grasps it's new burden. Another cruel laugh.
"I wouldn't touch that if I were you, if you were ... | 2017-02-12T06:08:26 | 2017-02-12T04:54:52 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You have developed and ability to see how people will die when you look at them. Your entire life you avoided pictures of yourself, but today you forgot, and, brushing your teeth in the morning, looked in the mirror... | The taxi driver is lying in a hospital bed, eyes closed as the monitor to his right switches from the steady beep, beep, beep to a solid tone. A few seconds later alarms blare and the room becomes a bustle of activity.
“Buddy, hey buddy, we’re here, eighteen fifty” I glance up at the old indian man, he was wearing ... | Hotel rooms. I hate hotel rooms.
Of course my house flooded with water. It had to be *water*. Fire or smoke or collapse, I could control. No reflections. But water?
New house. New place. New hotel room.
Hotel rooms are a pain. The only way I can stay in one of those fuckin' things is if I get blackout drunk and t... | 2014-12-04T09:00:53 | 2014-12-04T07:49:21 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] After a long and exciting life, Mrs. Frizzle has died. Her long-ago students meet at her funeral - for the first time in a while - to reminisce about their experiences with her and how it's shaped them.
Come on, you weasely wimps! | As soon as I enter the sanctuary I knew something is wrong. There are no flowers. There is no music. There is no casket. And there are only a handful of individuals standing at the front of the room, though I know every single one. They’re all solemnly chuckling at something, and I hear a low murmur of “Carlos…”
... | Arnold pulled into the parking lot of the church where a funeral is being held for his favorite elementary school teacher, Ms. Frizzle. He sighed and pushed his glasses back up on his nose and got out. He wondered if any of his other former classmates would be in attendance. Since becoming a renowned doctor, Arnold ha... | 2016-10-24T13:22:21 | 2016-10-24T13:09:53 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | It was way past midnight when my boss finally allowed me to go home. Having a job as a nurse isn't the easiest thing in the world, but when you're the only nurse in the hospital who can speak Cherokee and the latest person to come into the emergency room just happened to be Native American, well, let's just say I'm pre... | NOTE: Sorry about any mistakes. I am working on being a better writer. But I have never been good at punctuation
Any advice welcome.
PART 1
As I lay reading the newest issue of my favorite comic, I began to feel that familiar warmth. The retinal display showed +1,500 EXP. Odd I hadn't killed anything today.
As I p... | 2017-05-15T06:24:53 | 2017-05-15T04:49:15 | 5,507 | 12 |
[WP] After your death, you found yourself in a non-human body, holding what looks like a bong, surrounded by other members of the same species asking you "how was the trip?" in a language you somehow understand despite never hearing before. | "Give me the money!" I suddenly looked up, snapping out of my day dream of beautiful hot babes and sunny Pacific waves. A masked man was waving a pistol in my face.
"Did you fucking hear me?! I SAID, GIVE. ME. THE. MONEY!"
I wished I gave a shit, but working this night shift at this minimum wage gas station had... | I rubbed each of my seven eyes individually with the soft backs of my massive razor-tipped hands. My companions seemed to float in a haze of unraveling memories, something that smelled like a cigarette, something brilliant named in an old tongue 'the color blue'.
"Honestly, I think I'm going to snarlgf all over, you ... | 2022-11-11T13:06:03 | 2018-11-12T09:19:32 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] We are all born with a tattoo on our wrist, it reads the first sentence spoken to you by your soulmate. Your sentence: "Hey!" | Of all the thing's that could be plastered on his forearm, it had to be this stupid word. Not a sentence, not even a recognisable phrase. Just this one overly generic word everyone used to greet each other. And just when Lars was starting to think it couldn't get any harder, Iris showed up in his life.
The day they me... | "Hey!" that's all it said. Just "hey!". It wouldn't be a big issue if it wasn't for the law that requires you to marry your soulmate. Centuries ago they figured you should marry your soulmate. And the law just stuck around.
If it just said a little bit more like "Hey! Are you alright?" or "Hey!! That's my coffee" but ... | 2017-01-09T07:53:02 | 2017-01-09T06:53:16 | 152 | 35 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | As the last known survivor, I feel I must explain it all.
We have muskets; by law, these are the weapons allowed by the Galactic Concordance. In fact, all weapons were severely restricted to prevent one species from gaining superiority through weapons technology. We know how to annihilate planets with a single blast,... | I want to start by saying we were never a hostile race. Just like the rest of the Committee we made contact with other beings for trade.
That all changed when my ship crashed on an uncontacted world. This place the natives called the new world. Primitive apes had not even colonized half their planet.
They had invent... | 2017-08-08T08:28:06 | 2017-08-08T07:01:25 | 47 | 34 |
[WP] He rushes onwards like a bloody tempest, destroying all in an attempt to free you from the stake that binds you to the pyre at your feet. For before he was a Hero, he was the boy that gave you flowers. And before you were exposed and branded a Witch, you were the girl that taught him love. | Then She looked at me. With tears in her eyes. Tears reflecting the fires of a score of lit torches. Torchlight playing a mockery of the light I remembered in those eyes. The fires of her spirit now wrenched beneath rope and chain. Cold and unyielding. She'd stopped struggling against those chains hours ago. Ever since... | Carmen heard the shouts of the soldiers at first she had heard the cardinal giving her last rites before they carried out the sentence. But now she heard soldiers shouting. She opened her eyes and saw a miraculous thing it was Ben running toward her riding a beast of some sort her Ben was coming to rescue her. Carmens ... | 2020-11-16T06:37:09 | 2020-11-16T05:05:51 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | I don't remember the first time it happened, or how I came to believe it was real... but I've been having visions, visions of my future self telling me how to reach success in life.
I know it's hard work to get somewhere in life, especially when you're from a poor background like I am, but having a guide makes it so m... | This is the first time I've seen myself like this. Desperate and lonely looking like I have had nothing to eat and no sleep. The soot on my face and dirt in my fingernails makes it look like I've been busy, but definitely not with any luxury that I'm used to.
There's a sad desperation in this future self as he asks me... | 2017-04-01T07:08:25 | 2017-04-01T01:47:46 | 201 | 109 |
[WP] You are possessed by a demon. It doesn't control you, but it does mention it's just there because it doesn't want to go back to hell. | The fact that I am demonically possessed sometimes slips the mind. It is a testament to either the length of which this has been going on or the utter ease in which I had gotten comfortable with my situation.
I can only speak English. My head is on perfectly straight. The only time you'll find me excessively vomiting... | The slow hiss in his ear sounded distant at first. It sounded like somebody left a tea kettle on the stove too long. That was impossible though, Tim didn't have a tea kettle. Tim also lived alone. The hissing stopped. Pop!
Tim's eyes shot open, but he was unable to move. It wasn't that he was paralyzed with fear... | 2016-07-21T18:48:11 | 2016-07-21T17:56:29 | 96 | 13 |
[WP] Earth finally manages to translate the first message sent to it from intelligent life elsewhere. It reads "Well, this is awkward. We didn't expect you guys to get this far." | The head of the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs concluded her presentation as best she could.
“The good news - the real takeaway, I think - is that they want to talk to us,” Professor Jacinta Snowe said. “Even if it’s not for the most flattering reasons.”
The room of ambassadors and scientists was qui... | “You see,” the decoder continued, churning on, calculating in the deep reaches of Pi, e, the natural constants, and so on. Somewhere, someone had, on a lark, tried to parse the numbers unconventionally and found a suspicious overlap with Unicode.
“Tommy, that is my son that is, he’s a smart kid, always top of the cla... | 2020-01-30T01:32:19 | 2020-01-29T22:23:23 | 1,814 | 129 |
[WP] As a sophomore in a school of magic, you've reached the point in your life where it's time to summon your lifelong familiar. The other students managed to get some pretty cool creatures as their familiars, but yours is... different. | “hey. Where am I?” the man in the circle asked.
“uhh hi. I mean, I am Robert Norton your new master!” I say trying to make it impressive. James had just summoned a flaming lizard for Christ sake and I get a human.
“New master? Ok” he says walking forwards. The circle’s barrier flares for a moment then dies. He pauses... | Part I
"Now everyone, show me your familiar!"
The deep voice of the professor Verren rumbled into the class.
Everyone in Magic 305 esitated. It was always strange to summon a familiar in front of other people, especially because everyone always thought his familiar was the oddest or the most ridiculous.
"Come on ... | 2017-08-19T07:18:36 | 2017-08-19T05:10:10 | 65 | 36 |
[WP] You're in your fifth seemingly endless Zoom meeting of the day. Without thinking, you mutter "this is Hell." As everyone around you freezes, you realize that you forgot to mute yourself. The host's eyes begin to glow as he announced, "He noticed." | "He noticed."
Everyone's eyes began to glow with an eerie light. If it looked how it did, some of them became less human by the moment.
With that came the question of the impossible.
"This is hell?"
"To think, you lived a life so dull, you never really noticed."
"Then that means, I'm already dead."
"Oh. You were ... | T*he Devil’s Minions POV, His name is Jasper*
“How is this possible, Jasper?” Regan questions and stares down at the human, who is now frozen in his office chair. Time freezing is such a handy tool.
“This is the fifth time he realized what we are” The look on Reginald's face makes me chuckle. He looks so baffled. To... | 2020-09-17T09:36:23 | 2020-09-17T09:17:39 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] you are a murderer who coats your victims’ bodies in cement and plays them off as realistic human sculptures. one of your “works” just got into a museum. | I've always been a religious man, I always believed that one day I would get what was coming to me in some way or another.
Karma an eye for an eye whatever, I knew what I was doing was horrific and evil but I didn't care it was just something I needed to do.
I figured god would punish me one day but now as I look up... | I stand, back against the wall the crowd is larger than I expected for a small town art museum.the room is a buzz with small talk laced with excitement. The curator spoke and the room grew silent. “ I’m excited to reveal our newest exhibit at the Newton Fine Arts museum. This piece is entitled ‘sheer’ by an anonymous ... | 2018-12-11T16:48:12 | 2018-12-11T16:20:13 | 97 | 17 |
[WP] Left-Handed individuals each get one mundane "super" power.
examples: being able to change your hair color while your hair still grows at a natural speed, or knowing how many minutes have passed since a person has last eaten. | There were a handful of us in the waiting room, and I looked around cautiously. I didn't recognize any of them, but I knew we at least had two things in common: It was our eighteenth birthday, and we were lefties. I guess it seemed a little strange that this was so bureaucratic, sitting in awkward plastic chairs with a... | "I thought I was entitled to a pot of Gold for catching you," Robert said, a confused look in his eye.
"That's an old wives tale," the Leprechaun said, "what we really give you is a super power. But not one too great, or we could change the fate of the world. That is not in our power".
Robert thought for a minute, ... | 2014-06-03T08:33:32 | 2014-06-03T06:55:33 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] When you die you can stay as long as you want as a ghost. The year is 2028 and the crew of the first human mission to mars has no idea that the ship is filled with the ghosts of hundreds of scientists, explorers and intellectuals. | "Entry 1" :
Some say there is a god in the machine. If I were a superstitious man I could swear that I find things moved, small things that in zero gravity could have floated away on their own. When I am alone at my shift
in the silence I hear sometimes faint whispers. I can almost make out what they say, though they... | "So... when did you die mate?" I asked the peculiar looking fella next to me.
-"Do you know who you're talking to?"
"Umm? Am I supposed to mate?"
-"Yeah mate. I'm Ronnie Pickering."
"Who?"
-"Ronnie Pickering."
"Who mate?"
-"Ronnie Pickering!
"Who the fuck is that?"
-"Yeah that's me."
"Okay man... I'm just gon... | 2016-12-25T11:44:00 | 2016-12-25T05:08:11 | 1,228 | 641 |
[WP] A child is offered as an offering by their devil-worshipping parents. The devil accepts their child as an offering, but raises them instead of devouring them like they usually do. | As the crowd gathers behind the infant, Lucifer sees the offering given to him today. Rarely do these pathetic mortals call upon him, going for his Council, such as Moloch or Beelzebub. They can't see him yet, but they can feel his presence. Tired of being summoned, tired of giving these people the satisfaction that wh... | The bargain was struck, the child whisked away, its pathetic, fleshy prison still quivering in fear.
I would be the perfect parent. Loving, doting, forever mindful of their future.
And the future has a space for those strong enough to force themselves into it. For those who can speak and force their words into the he... | 2021-01-30T15:45:05 | 2021-01-30T14:19:46 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] "Ok doc, give it to me straight." "Well, while we can't say what will happen for sure, we have reason to believe these two things: That you will survive, and that afterwards, you get to name it." | The room shifted before my eyes. Where the doctor had stood, was now empty. The bed I had been lying in alone, was now occupied by an irritated gentleman and myself. The floor was different too - tiled instead of linoleum - although it took a few hallucinations to notice.
'Get off me!'
I sprang from the bed and apo... | There are a lot of things in life that just don’t get planned. Accidents, sometimes happy and others not, are a part of life’s wild ride. It’s never dull for long, for better or worse.
Kev and Alicia know that well at a young age of seventeen. While most kids were lounging around at home, having fun with their Saturd... | 2019-04-08T05:47:35 | 2019-04-08T05:25:42 | 1,071 | 481 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | It was very sudden.
One second, I'm suffering from loss of balance, falling, and mortal terror as I slip on a toy car left on a stair-step. The next, there's a tremendous snapping sensation, as though my whole head has been bitten off. Indeed, it seems that way at first. I can't move. Everything is dark.
My kids hav... | “I’m not a human, I’m just a parasite controlling someone,” It quietly muttered to itself as it stared vacantly out of the top-floor window of a Manhattan skyscraper.
Just as its goal was about to be achieved, the truth dawned on it.
After five rings, it finally picked up the phone.
“It has passed sir, I’ve done as ... | 2017-12-21T03:47:32 | 2017-12-21T02:26:29 | 98 | 25 |
[WP] You are the most beautiful woman in the world, and you have just been wished into existence by a nerd with a genie. | "Why isn't she alive?" said a girl's voice, from far away.
The response came in a voice that crackled like fire and boomed like lightning. "I already told you that I cannot create life."
"Yes, but I expected you to just bring her here like the - "
I opened my eyes. The girl gave a tiny gasp and fell silent.
We s... | As the Genie snapped his fingers, A cloud of smoke filled the room. Coughing violently the man waved his arms in a vain attempt to clear the room. At last he made out the silhouette of a figure, a women.
He held his breath, unsure of what the cloud of smoke would show to him.
There she was. A slender woman who's soft ... | 2016-03-09T04:26:15 | 2016-03-09T01:50:06 | 145 | 23 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I was sick, the only release I had was playing varies mmorpgs, platformers, and survival games. I was in the hospital for several months. One morning however I ate my usual breakfast and fell asleep again. When I woke up, the doctor said my vitals were fine, my sickness miraculously vanished. How? I did nothing differe... | At first I was really excited, Imagine all the cool things I could do. I could be a super hero, or a powerful mage, the rules of the the normal world no longer apply to me, I can do anything!
Very soon however I realized the rules did apply to me, but the rules of the world had changed. Maybe the rules were always lik... | 2018-08-14T11:20:45 | 2018-08-14T11:03:17 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] There’s a door with a single keyhole- it will open regardless of what key you use to unlock it. All keys will open this door. What’s on the other side, however, depends on the key. | I found the Door in Kansas, of all places. I had been a travelling salesman, a mechanic, homeless & jobless for a spell, and then somehow I lucked my way into training as a home inspector. The pay wasn't great but I could afford a place and regular meals. That's worth a lot more than most people know. Having a spac... | “And we are live in five, four, three...”
The camera man, replacing his voice with over the top hand gestures, went from two to one to the universal signal for ‘we are live’ as the broadcast began.
“Hello,” said the well-dressed man on the other side of the camera, his voice more unnatural than his co-hosts absent mi... | 2019-10-06T13:02:41 | 2019-10-06T12:12:49 | 66 | 44 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | ​
One of my first attempts on this subreddit. I chose a little more contemporary setting for the prompt as that is more my forte. Remember English is not my mothertongue and any critique is welcome.
Elrond looked around the table. The situation was dire and the faces of those around him reflected that. A f... | As the elves surveyed the land, their dread intensified. No one expected them to find the undying lands and the orcs knew this, they had years to prepare and now their numbers where nearing at least 150.000 if not more.
The elves counted on their allies to withstand this siege. They called out to all their allies but ... | 2018-12-03T06:33:48 | 2018-12-03T06:27:54 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] It occurs to you in the shower that you've just turned 32 and haven't gotten a single wrinkle. None of your family members have aged past a certain point - even your dog should be long past gone by now. You tell your friend, and she just laughs incredulously. "You're in a coma, dumbass." | I awoke to the doorbell. “Hrmph,” I muttered, and tucked my head beneath my pillow. The doorbell rang again.
Slowly, I sat up. Harvey had already gone to work, the smell of coffee lingered in the kitchen.
Happy to pretend I was not home, I poured myself a cup of leftover coffee, and went to see the note that Harvey had... | There is a point in my life when I thought that waking up in the same small bed every day, my body unchanging, my friends and family unchanging, even my surrounding staying in the same state not deteriorating at all; that something might be wrong. I faced my friend, all the stuff she told me sounded ridiculous, her blu... | 2017-11-25T16:39:52 | 2017-11-25T13:24:01 | 431 | 41 |
[WP] An abandoned child is stumbling through the woods, barely surviving. The god of the forest and hunt notices them and after a while can't bare watching the clumsiness anymore, deciding to train the child. | “Please…”, a ragged voice pleaded out to a God she hoped existed, “whoever may be listening, protect our child…”
An elven woman named Fillius used the last of her strength to embrace her young child. The blood from her wound was beginning to slow as the last of her life force drained like the sands of an hourgla... | Nothing that seemed natural was natural as far as the carriage passing through the woods was concerned. The carriage did not have any windows, nor did it have a coachman, and the horses that drove the carriage were as black as obsidian. There was something unnatural about it. The carriage stopped near the stream, and o... | 2022-12-22T10:32:17 | 2022-12-22T10:24:17 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] The entire galaxy is threatened by a new species, invading from the Large Magellanic Cloud. The interstellar community decides to contact humans for help who were quarantined due to their passion for war. | There was a heavy silence in the room as the hologram display flickered to life.
It was a grim and hopeless kind of silence. It was a silence that had managed to usurp what was disordered bickering between dozens of interstellar leaders and turn it into a funeral procession.
The figure in the center of the room watc... | "Captain on the bridge!" shouted Hector Banks, head of security for the Armstrong.
Ophelia Levitan stepped through the white-door and into the only Milky Way class vessel that the Solaris Alliance had so far completed. It was certainly a step up from the first ship she'd boarded, back when she'd been only a child. An ... | 2018-04-11T09:17:14 | 2018-04-11T08:24:15 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | A sigh that lasted a hundred years. An oppressive storm that seemingly never ceased. A constant groan from the trees, mountains, even the very earth.
Those were the only signs that the Infinites were unhappy.
Their bodies had been enshrined, sitting pristine in the last place they ever had agency. Noroka the Ev... | (Apologies, haven't wrote anything fiction in quite some time.)
I never knew my dad or mom. My grandma however was in every second of my life. Since birth, my first baby tooth, and throughout the storm of my teens.
She bared the brunt of it all. My testosterone, flooded through me quickly and surged. I was in numerou... | 2022-01-27T06:45:30 | 2022-01-27T05:34:32 | 981 | 39 |
[WP] Humans aren't the strongest, or the most advanced, species in the galaxy, but they are the most vengeful and persistent. They evolved as persistence predators. If you wrong them, they are willing to follow you across the stars and can spend years working to get back at you for what you did. | **Day One**
We searched for survivors across the ruined city. While we're still developing decent infantry weaponry for fighting humans, our current vehicular firepower has no problem crumbling their towers of stone and steel, doing a much more effective job than we could currently do on foot. Thankfully, the humans o... | The twin stars, Eldark and Ildark, shine upon me as they have shone upon my ancestors. Black trees bubble to the surface, glittering, and there's purple smoke on the horizon.
"There are stronger materials, but cephalim is what I grew up with. So it bleeds a little. So what? It never bothered me."
Viluvian carefully t... | 2022-08-09T15:32:32 | 2022-08-09T14:42:33 | 217 | 107 |
[WP] We seem to have much morbid curiosity about the personification of Death in this sub. Instead, write about his brother, Life.
Or his/her sister? Perhaps about their relationship? Or maybe reincarnation? But really anything goes. | "You're right," I gazed at the weightless human soul in my hands, "it is beautiful."
My brother nodded, slinging his hood back. "And very fragile, too. Please be careful."
Like he had taught me how to do, I opened my palms upward, letting the soul begin the climb to the afterlife. It was a magnificent sight to behol... | We were equals, once.
Our charges celebrated me, just as they feared my brother. They loved me, as they loathed him. We were two sides of the same coin.
Over time, that changed.
People feared him. He grew in power, grew in their minds. They forgot about me in their preoccupation with avoiding him. No one celebrate... | 2016-09-12T19:16:33 | 2016-09-12T18:48:27 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] For decades, humans have been using a mineral mined off-planet that accelerates healing. Today you discover the truth: it’s not a mineral, but a parasitic alien spore. The more damage your body sustains, the more it replaces your damaged DNA with its own. | "But to what end?!" I gasped, horrified.
Even as I spoke, I could feel my very bones *grasping* as the deep broken pieces in my hands *grew* into place. I shuddered.
Doctor Sanhe casually tossed the large, glittering crystal back into a basket. "They're powerful and intelligent, but they're also crystals. Nothing we ... | Mist launched from it’s center. Its body, adrift in the large void that is space. In death, the small insect hardened itself into a shard of life.
Flames rain from the sky’s as the sun begins to fall. The shard had remained intact even after is hasted dissent along with its fellow insects.
Before long, man had arrive... | 2020-07-30T21:05:17 | 2020-07-30T18:50:40 | 97 | 15 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | /r/TalesFromMajSupport
#Why you never, EVER let an intern into spelldev [Medium]
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Howdy TFMS, it's your boy Depressed QA Magician, and I've got another troubling tale for you.
So, if you remember, $Boss has a thing for younguns. Just can't resist the HS interns and fresh grads ove... | I cautiously stepped in through the front door, reeling at the lingering smell of sulfur and smoke that remained in the victims apartment. Books in varying states of ruin littered the room, the few undamaged pages covered in illegible and incomprehensible writing.
One of the books caught my attention, it's unblemish... | 2017-07-26T01:31:47 | 2017-07-26T00:25:02 | 97 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | I woke up on my 18th birthday and - aside from the obvious nervousness - I felt exactly the same. Of course, this was to be completely expected. After a wonderful birthday breakfast with my family beset with gifts, well-wishes, and gentle teasing, my father volunteered to be the one to fly me to the local Scientific U... | Everybody knows how it happens. The day you turn 18 you go to "The Centre" and they give you an injection. This injection mutates the cells in your body and your mind, allowing for a further 30% control of an individuals brain. It causes the individual to attain what we call "superpowers". The only problem is not knowi... | 2015-03-28T05:39:45 | 2015-03-28T05:14:22 | 757 | 18 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | JulieBear1998: Dad r u there? 0_0 Helllooooooooo?
LoneStarRanger: Hi pumpkin. Sorry I'm late. We were running drills.
JulieBear1998: Lol its k
LoneStarRanger: So how was your day Julie?
JulieBear1998: it was good
JuliesBear1998: i finally got my chem midterm back
LoneStarRanger: What'd you get?
JulieBear1998: g... | Sam-
I am, I fear, losing something. Perhaps it is lost.
Nights and days bleed together like the red mud underfoot and the sonic sludge of bugs and bullets whining and hunting for what the soil has yet to accept from us. I hardly notice it anymore. I don't know if I am glad for this.
You and Alex keep me going, I do... | 2015-02-03T16:21:09 | 2015-02-03T15:21:50 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | I took a deep breath, preparing to go outside and for the first time, not sure what to expect from otherwise usual surroundings. Would people treat me differently? What could I do, now that people will think I'm smart?
The first place I went was Starbucks, where I ordered my usual swirly, creamy coffee drink. If I was ... | "Greg, you've got to be kidding?"
"No." I say willfully not adjusting my hat. While I didn't use the dye from the first test batch I sure could have. I've got a nice head of brownish hair. It's not the jet black of my brother's though.
"Anyone who is naturally black haired will see through it in moments." He says, sh... | 2016-11-24T22:17:33 | 2016-11-24T22:14:17 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Spontaneously overnight, all of humanity is transformed into a vast array of mythical and fantasy creatures, based on who they were on the inside. You weren't even remotely prepared for what you became. | "Aw nuts!"
It was 7 AM and KLAQ was blasting from my radio, taking me away from my very pleasant dream. Instead I was treated to DJ blather and a traffic report. Even with all that has changed, El Paso traffic is still El Paso traffic.
I tried to get out of bed and then I remembered to brush *them* out of my eyes.
... | I coughed myself awake. Great start to the day! As I forced myself out of bed I realized that I was really sore, and there was an odd clicking sound as I moved. I reached up to run my eyes and nearly cut them out with my newly blue, scaly hand. Or, rather, claw. I risked a glance in my dresser mirror to reveal I was a ... | 2020-06-11T22:39:39 | 2020-06-11T22:06:54 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | The cold winter air swirled around the austere room, even though all doors were closed and the secret chamber inside the Russian fortress of the Kremlin had never been afforded windows. The President of the Russian Federation softly lowered an ordinary-looking phone onto its plain receiver. Around him, his closest advi... | "Well, this is awkward," Trump said. "I normally have the best nukes, believe me."
"Yes, Mr. President, it is indeed confusing," the North Korean translator said over speakerphone. "Our Dear Respected Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un is willing to let bygones be bygones, sir. Let us start anew as peaceful compatriots, havin... | 2018-03-01T15:53:09 | 2018-03-01T15:51:36 | 1,075 | 65 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | I should have seen it coming. It was because of the vaccines my parents subjected me to when I was a child. Or maybe it was the fluoride in the drinking water that did me in. I was lucky I did not turn gay like those frogs I suppose, but dying at the age of 38 was a tragedy nevertheless.
When the grim reaper appeared,... | I slept there in my hospital bed. Suddenly I was awoken by somebody crashing into a table. I opened my eyes and there stood a girl, her face as pale as a ghost with the darkest hair I had ever seen.It felt like somebody had taken the darkest sky and put it in her hair.
She asked me,“Where is it".
I didn't know who sh... | 2020-04-23T03:47:35 | 2020-04-23T02:34:30 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | *poof*
I was...elsewhere...and now I am here. Where is here though? My eyes adjusted quickly to the apparent emptiness of where I was. It was just a white expanse of...nothing? I could not help to say it out loud. "Where am I"?
"Heaven's waiting room".
I quickly spun around to find the source of the voice. How... | The ground wasn't there, twas but empty and i,
A man of existence, if existence could lie.
And upon the horizon, of the line-lacking plane,
Walked towards me a man, who called out my name
How did he know? Had he ever been seen?
Had i fallen through life to the cracks in between?
Why did he walk while i drifted on ai... | 2021-11-24T12:30:22 | 2021-11-24T12:24:23 | 259 | 84 |
[WP] Time travel is real, and time tourists tend to show up in large numbers around major historical events. One day, billions of time tourists are in ships above the city, quietly waiting. | I look out from the window of my laboratory.
"That's not good," I said to myself.
Ever since the existence of time travelers was exposed these nuisances had been cropping up all over the world. Usually a few of them would appear just before or during a disaster. More than a few have been turning up at rock conc... |
They called it...Paraboxing Day.
For centuries, Time Surfers inc. had been one of the most successful businesses in the history of Earth. Invented in 2085, a man by the name of Twitter Buzzfeed was finalizing his build of the worlds very first time machine. By 2090, he had developed what we now call "Parabox". By 2... | 2015-05-30T12:51:18 | 2015-05-30T08:41:27 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] For decades, humans have been using a mineral mined off-planet that accelerates healing. Today you discover the truth: it’s not a mineral, but a parasitic alien spore. The more damage your body sustains, the more it replaces your damaged DNA with its own. | ######[](#dropcap)
*Just a small nick.*
There it was. The urge again. Nick wiped the sweat dripping from his brow and shook his head to clear the ringing in his ears. Everything was good about this job--the benefits, the people, the pay. Everything except that goddamn ringing. The management said it was a natural co... | The discovery of olititite had set society into a frantic tumult unseen since the Great Zero Point Fuel Rush of the '70s. Found in the deepest ice of Europa, grinding and processing olititite into a thin paste allowed it to pass through our cell membranes and act as a catalytic for intracellular reactions. If recovered... | 2020-07-30T20:06:28 | 2020-07-30T18:13:21 | 175 | 65 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | "Hey guys, look what I got!" Yelled The Crushinator as he held aloft the severed head of George Gomez, Junior. In certain circles, Little Georgie is very famous; his father, George Gomez, Senior is much more universally known, hailed far and wide as The Great Big, East City's tallest superhero and a three-time savior o... | A sardonic chuckle came from the open doorway behind me as Viper looked around the blood spattered living-room, "Boy, you've really done it now."
I wiped my hands clean on the curtains, cracking a few more ribs as I stepped onto and then over the chest of Lady Steel's dead husband, "I've done what? Steel has been gett... | 2020-07-12T13:26:46 | 2020-07-12T12:38:13 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | Mark lay on the ground just inches away from Matthew, who was hysterically crying at the sight of the pulpy remains of what should have been Mark's face. Just ten seconds before, Mark had been reassuring Matthew that summoning Cthulhu wouldn't have any negative consequences if they played their cards right. Mark's reas... | "So, professor, tell me what you think of our new global Overlord Cthulhu? It was summoned to rule over us because a small cult of people believed we cannot rule over ourselves, but what impact has... He? She?"
"The academic community generally refers to Cthulhu as a 'He'. It's been impossible to ascertain his gender,... | 2016-12-22T03:01:55 | 2016-12-22T02:52:38 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Out of all possible familiars, you are "Graced" with a human. While legend says that they are beings of great power, yours just makes sarcastic comments and pranks people. | I stared at her.
"You're not."
"Yes, I am." Her grin would have been winning, were I the type to be won. For me, it was simply charming.
But charm had to be cast aside. I flared my gills. "We can't have your knife-tongue or your tricks tonight. The High Athame doesn't take kindly to such unseemly behaviour. I'm two ... | "Dang it Fred!" I shouted as he zipped off towards the old lady with a water balloon full of apple juice and glitter.
I started to follow, but Fred had crossed 6 lanes of city traffic just after the light turned green. I had my back turned for two seconds to see if the bus was coming, and the little blighter was alrea... | 2018-03-20T18:18:52 | 2018-03-20T17:49:33 | 117 | 28 |
[WP] “NASA to launch baby squid to International Space Station.” We thought the ocean was its natural environment. We were wrong.
Based on the post: Nasa to launch baby squid to International Space Station | “Now then, let’s take this from the top.”
Allen was trying to focus on what he thought might be the eyes of the alien that looked somewhat like a giant garden slug. “Sorry, what was that?”
“I want to go over this aga…look, if you’re trying to find my equivalent to your eyes, they are about 6 calmeres up from the tabl... | My cousin worked in forensic paleontology. Last time we caught up he told me about a site he had recently worked on in the Amazon. Evidently, it wasn't discovered until recently due to the shear amount of vegetation.
My cousin told me at that time he was part of a team conducting a dig in a remote section of Brazil w... | 2021-06-03T11:43:05 | 2021-06-03T09:17:33 | 186 | 41 |
[WP] You're no ordinary doctor. Whenever a patient is brought in to the ER, your job is to battle the literal manifestation of Death, buying time for the surgeons to keep the patient's soul in his body. | The ringing bell roused me from my not-quite-asleep stupor. I knew what this was about. What it HAD to be about. I stood, wincing slightly at the various aches and pains. Its the price we pay for living this life. I took a moment to stretch and let a couple of the more recalcitrant joints pop and crack. I debated... | [Poem]
An patient rushed into emergency
Death is standing there looking at his time
The machine beeps and beeps urgency
I am running in the halls wrestling death
He grins as his watch is ticking louder
Pass the scalpel! said the doctor
The wounds are closed tight and stitched
I wrestle with the death more and kn... | 2019-05-20T01:00:29 | 2019-05-19T23:28:34 | 198 | 14 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | He watched, bored as people streamed in the bar, only stopping the ones underage, and occasionally a few just over to keep suspicions low. His kind was uncommon, and people
hunted for his power. It seemed like an odd thing to want, most just wanted it to make them feel *special*. At least, those that knew about it. Som... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T21:45:33 | 223 | 25 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | Thank God he's such a late sleeper. I relish my morning hours, my only respite from *him*.
Today I find myself daydreaming about the night this all began. The tequila. How "Superman" was still shaking an hour after I rescued him from a Kryptonite-filled cave.
I mean, don't get me wrong - I was wiling to give him a ... | "Ha! Look at that!" the man dressed in gold and red exclaimed as he watched the news footage taken mere minutes ago of his latest heroics. "Hey roommate! Marvel at my might!" His voice boomed triumphantly as he dashed to the fridge to grab another beer in the blink of an eye.
"What's going on?" came a meek reply fol... | 2016-03-23T21:15:02 | 2016-03-23T20:39:21 | 132 | 38 |
[WP] Sleep can be farmed up and sold, allowing buyers to go without sleep. Laziness is now a marketable attribute | I was always quick to jump on the bandwagon of new trends. When I saw that sleep was now a sellable thing, I knew exactly how to get rich with this. Two of peoples' favorite sins are greed and sloth, and selling sleep is a combination of the two, making it possibly one of lucrative businesses to get into. I only neede... | “You need to take it easy,” my therapist said. “When’s the last time you slept?”
I unlocked my iPhone and swiped through to the sleep wallet. The number made my stomach sink. If he knew the number of days I bought, I’d never get out of therapy.
“A few days,” I said.
“Days, as in one, two, or three?”
“Two.”... | 2018-01-25T04:51:32 | 2018-01-25T04:51:06 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] A superhero has a split personality, with neither his hero half nor his civilian half knowing that they are the same person. The rest of the city has figured it out, however, and is doing their best to keep his secret from himself. | At his desk, Cal scrolled through that morning’s headlines CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS SAVES CITY AGAIN! and FERVOR OVER MYSTERY HERO’S IDENTITY AT ALL TIME HIGH. Sighing deeply, he stirred the creamer in his steaming coffee mug more insistently. Why couldn’t he be someone like that? Instead, he spent the prime time of his life... | They call him "Mat", the hero who guards the city of Atlia, and saved it countless times.
For all these years he didn't know, he didn't know anything.
20 years ago there was a car accident on a bridge where a family of 3 almost drowned. Their life continued normally after that, their son not knowing exactly what happ... | 2017-08-04T19:50:38 | 2017-08-04T19:03:51 | 129 | 12 |
[WP] Your daughter was foretold to become a mighty hero but you want her to take over the family bakery. So far, you have kept 2 magical swords and a sketchy looking ring from her but today your plan was foiled by the most innocent object imaginable. | The world was limping along, its people desperate for help, for a chance, for an inkling of hope. Everyday the people came in clothes mended many times past prime and the dust clinging to them as a bath was a luxury. They would count coins and grumble about the price of a loaf of bread, resentful of cost. They would re... | “Hey! Bup bup bup, leave it, I’ll get it,” I put a foot on the top of the cellar hatch, pressing it closed, keeping most of my weight on it as she continued to try to pry it open. It took most of my strength.
*Good lord she’s getting strong.*
“Dad, seriously? I’m perfectly capable of getting chocolate chips, you’re b... | 2022-05-18T11:29:22 | 2022-05-18T11:28:26 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | "You're saying I got one right? They survived?" God seemed more than excited.
"Well, yes sir, but-"
"This is amazing! I thought that world was lost. That's why I gave up on it."
The angel sheepishly pleaded, "But sir-"
"Do you know how many times it took for me to get the physics right? How many universes where lif... | "Father, you have *got* to stop these new things from invading my house!"
The Divine Nebula twisted around to the Morningstar, and performed its grin logarithm. "Now, Son, you know I only ran these simulations out of morbid curiosity. What seems to be the problem?"
I started, watching the oncoming storm rising thro... | 2016-03-07T06:19:52 | 2016-03-07T04:27:53 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | All I want to do is die.
You see, I know all about death, as I have killed myself in every way you can possibly imagine over the last 3,490 years. You heard me correctly...nearly 35 centuries have passed since Every time I do it, every cell of my body reassembles and I wake up...again.
I’m a bit of an oddball. You se... | "only $100 for a hospital stay over night? Healthcare prices aren't what they used to be"
"The world isn't what it used to be, dear." Jane said, looking past me and into the hallway.
"I never expected for it to be like this." she continued. "I always thought growing up that I'll grow old and retire to a farm, not wor... | 2018-06-04T23:59:27 | 2018-06-04T23:55:42 | 79 | 16 |
[WP] Oh snap, aliens are invading. Fret not, this is Cthulhu's turf and he'll stop at nothing to protect his humans. | The Imperial fleet had never encountered one of the Old Gods before. Conquering many planets, they had heard legend of many mythical and god-like beings that rested under the surface. These legends had always been found unfounded, the searches for powerful beings fruitless as the world was subjugated. It became a ru... |
“Glorpon-B this is Taskforce Earth, there seems to be a slight complication.” The alien captain’s blood ran cold. He looked out over the ocean and watched a twisted figure rise from the depths. Already the captain was losing his mind. “Hold steady men!” He called to his fleet. It was too late one of his captains let o... | 2020-02-12T06:10:25 | 2020-02-12T04:48:06 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] All of the scientists said the meteor was going to hit. 100% chance. So what the hell happened? Christ, showing up at work tomorrow is going to be really awkward. | He took another swig from the bottle in his hand. Tried to anyway.
"Hard to keep off a hangover staying drunk if your fresh out..." he muttered, tossing the now empty bottle.
"Alas, my sweet sweet nectar, we are to soon parted." He sighed quietly and began putting himself into a state worthy of a trip to the office.
... | I walked into the building with a headache, I almost didn't wake up because of my hangover. The first person I saw was Katy at the front desk. Man, that as awkward. I mean you kind of um, you know, do the thing, with whoever when you think you're gonna die. I did a lot of things that night. On a good note, I called fri... | 2018-09-02T15:51:35 | 2018-09-02T15:00:34 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Adam and Eve decided they were better off as just friends. However, their friendship is constantly strained by the desperate attempts of God to get them to procreate.
First time trying one of these, let me know if I did anything wrong :).
___________________________________________________________________________... | "Well Eve, what do you make of this?"
Eve approached a small path leading into the forrest, untangling her hands from Adams, and squatted to the ground.
"Red leaves, from a flower," she observed, "fragrant and soft." She scanned the area, "so many!" She tasted one. She spit it out.
"Look here!" Adam was giddy. "Small... | "I just don't feel like a man" Adam told Eve, "You're beautiful, but I hate that he is pushing me to be someone I'm not"
Eve didn't know what to say. They had almost had sex, but he had a weird fascination with her butt. It made every inch of her skin crawl, but he was the only option. God had given them until the en... | 2016-09-15T09:28:16 | 2016-09-15T07:41:23 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | "You want that, i mean you really want THAT?" The demon was dumbfounded. He stared at my 14 and a half page doccument that had elaborately closed every loophole, hidden clause, escape plan, and demonic play on words that could be possible. I spent years of my life with religous scholors, occultists and copyright lawyer... | Ok, so, this is technically a story. But it’s a true story.
I’ve had a lot of teachers over the years, from Ms. Imani who looked like she was in high school to Ms. Howard, who was on the brink of retirement for years. She had a lot of time to think about her mortality. This is a story about Ms. Howard.
She would buy... | 2021-03-27T06:35:21 | 2021-03-27T03:58:13 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] There is something outside the door that will say anything or sound like anyone to get you to open the door.
Edit:I fell asleep after I posted this sorry for not replying they're all really good, thanks for taking the time to write. | "come here my soft baby boy"
The voice was as soft and sweet as he had always remembered it. He could imagine her beautiful, lovely face on the other side of the door. Her deep red lips wispering those words.
"Please don't make your mother cry, my baby boy. Open the door" the chilling voice wispered
A violent shive... | ***Audio recording, begin***
My name is Jason Aritoza and I don't have a lot of time, so I'll make this brief. For the last couple of days I've been tracking a ... phenomenon, for lack of a better word. This ... phenomenon, it swallows people. They just end up missing without a trace. Now, I work for the missing perso... | 2015-03-11T02:35:00 | 2015-03-11T01:49:31 | 54 | 24 |
[WP] You steal the coat of a Selkie, not because you wanted a wife, because you needed someone to do your taxes. | It was about an hour ago that I took that selkie's seal hide. Most people back on the mainland would be surprised at their existence: women with beauty divine, shedding animal forms and behavior to rest on land and enjoy simplistic human pleasures. I've seen them chat, walk, and swim with the grace of a dog being throw... |
“Look, I’ll give your coat back!” I said. “I promise. I have absolutely no interest in keeping you here. Or sex.”
She gave me a sharp look at that and I held up my hands.
“Really, I don’t. I just… really need help with this.”
“So you took my Sealskin,” she said, her voice beautiful but flat. “And hid it.”... | 2021-11-10T08:19:09 | 2021-11-10T08:08:59 | 49 | 22 |
[WP]: There's a tiny predator in the human quarters that nobody is allowed to exterminate - under the threat of complete human riot. The humans willingly admit that yes, it DOES sometimes try to attack humans as well, but altogether, they are relaxed by the presence of the "cat". | "This crew-member has solved the mystery of our missing facilitators."
"Humans are bad enough," Zargaz the security facilitator's apprentice noted in its holo journal. "They are temperamental, dangerous, and extremely robust in their physiology. We would never have recruited them to this combat mission if we were not... | It doesn't make sense to me.
I surveyed the condominium in front of me, its tall towers and many floors sure to hide many treasures. Even a cat, perhaps.
But no. I much preferred the box that I was currently in. But the condominium is mine, make no mistake.
I'm not sure why and how I ended up here, honestly. All I r... | 2021-01-24T12:45:05 | 2021-01-24T12:18:04 | 464 | 201 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | For the hundredth time, you glance at your computer screen, the bright bold number 23:50:58 flashing back at you. The button lies there innocuously, an entire section of the desk to itself, the words PRESS ME tauntingly painted on it. You edge your hand closer to the button, but that section of the desk might as well h... | *Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.*
My eyes were glued to the green button, every night. At first, I loved the color. Green is healthy, and green is money. It made sense. What didn't make sense made it even more fascinating somehow. Hell, I even got the thing a black case. Suede.
*Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. To... | 2016-07-16T17:25:16 | 2016-07-16T17:19:00 | 1,781 | 65 |
[WP] you were betrayed by the ones you called friends. they sacrificed you in a satanic ritual during an outing. however, you were taken by things older than you thought possible. empowered by them, you return as their agent in a war that scales eons and worlds beyond. but first, your revenge. | Six feet under isn't so deep when you've got friends like mine.
Asshole friends. The kind of friends who'll convince you you're just gonna go do some weird artsy Instagram shit in the woods: make bonfires, string up animal bones, get drunk while they do their weird chants.
*Come on, Roxie,* they said. *You'll have s... | There are creatures in this universe, born in the most dreadful corners of reality. Things with hearts black as coal, with souls like ice, and minds burning with hatred. Those were the things I was sacrificed to. Those were the things, the hellish, satanic, things, that I was killed to appease. People I had considered ... | 2020-04-26T02:09:51 | 2020-04-26T00:31:49 | 532 | 287 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | “Is Nebula doing more harm to the city than good? Find out in this *shocking* new report, here on channel 3 news.”
Ned sighed. He was the one that saved the city from Mr. X countless times, yet everyone still wanted him locked away. He didn’t get it. Ned grabbed the remote and clicked the television off.
*Nebula is ... | Shine just stared blankly at the upper bed of their local prison's bunk bed, There were only a few prison cells and beds they could afford yet a homeless teenage hero like him was one of the chosen few to get a taste of prison life. His wide eyes blinked as he thought what was wrong with him when his morals were all co... | 2021-03-18T19:41:13 | 2021-03-18T15:37:21 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] The last think that you remember, is the pain of your broken bones and the feeling of void, filling your body. Now you wake up, dripping in slime and watching scientists and doctors checking on every single part of you. You're bacl to life! Except for your soul. The void didn't go away | Thomas gasps through his mouth.
His mouth, full of jelly or gel or thick, saline filled goop, impossible to close, and filled, filled, filled with tasteless undefined texture.
He attempts to cough but the pressure on his chest is great. Limbs senseless, he cannot move his legs, his head, his arms, his…
The shadows m... | "Hello, John."
"Good evening, Doctor. Are we having class again today?" She leaves the door open as her students pile in, taking seats on the couch, on its arms, anywhere they can find purchase. There are more today than last session.
"Yes. I hope it doesn't bother you. How are you feeling today? Or how are you not f... | 2022-10-06T01:52:23 | 2022-10-06T00:48:08 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] First, she summons a demon for magical powers. The price? To bear the demons child. Soon after she makes a deal with a witch for riches and power in exchange for her first born child. After the child is born the demon and the witch are in a custody battle for the child. | Being a contract lawyer could be rough. Navigating endless lines of legalese was exhausting at best, and infuriating at worst. Plus, it was not a job that lent itself well to making friends. And yet, Linda loved her job. Especially at times like these.
"The child is mine!" Roared the large creature. It stood eight fee... | "This is ridiculous!" Lillian clenched her fist, a darkly-manicured finger pointed towards the demon across the ornate table from her. "That child is mine!" Tyranis simply shook his head, a look of anger plastered on the creature's face as well. "Yours? I helped to create them in the first place! If the child belonged ... | 2021-08-04T07:25:34 | 2021-08-04T07:18:52 | 76 | 26 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Your eyes have never changed. Ever since you were a little girl, your eyes have been the color of a thoughtful ocean: churning, stormy, one weather system away from order or chaos.
Even now, your eyes look the same. You're 27 years old, and I've been dead for 15 of those years. And even with the distance of death and... | It only happens when it rains.
It only happens, once or twice every couple of weeks. Once or twice every few hours on a bad week. Three or more times on a bad day.
I remember last year, no this year, when it stormed for 24 hours straight. It wasn't a hurricane if that's what you think. No. Just twelve inches of hard ... | 2021-09-28T09:13:08 | 2021-09-28T09:01:14 | 2,222 | 88 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | A large shadow swept across, dimming the already sparse light.
"What the fuck was that?"
I pushed the noob to the ground, swearing as we ducked into one of the thousands of muddy trenches that criss-crossed hell. I swept my cloak over the two of us, huddling against the wall, while golf ball sized hailstones strafed... | My thoughts were certain,
All Gods were fiction,
I didn't foresee,
The true benediction
Walled within,
Their utopian setting,
The dwellers rejoice,
While I'm left regretting
I'm surrounded by fools,
Oh how simple we were,
Not an ounce of faith,
We believed it was slur
All I wish is for,
All I demand,
Is o... | 2017-11-21T07:22:23 | 2017-11-21T06:54:46 | 87 | 53 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | The white room stung at his eyes. Each wall radiating a pale light that both illuminated and silhouetted each dignitary within the chambers. He squinted at each, taking in their features before settling upon the near hairless biped before him. He stood as he gazed down at the human with disdain, the device at his neck ... | After everything that happened this year, it honestly didn't surprise me when the ships appeared. Thousands of them cast shadows upon our cities, but that wasn't what terrified us. Their Mother-Ship hovered above the planet, it's sheer size large enough to cut a hole through our atmosphere if it were to land! Their arr... | 2021-01-19T01:44:24 | 2021-01-19T00:16:37 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] Evidence of ancient ruins have been found on a distant planet. You have been tasked to investigate the ruins. The first thing you find is a large chamber with a stone slab in the center. Engraved in the slab are the words "Welcome back". At the bottom of it is your signature. | There was no denying that the words etched onto the stone slab were hers. And even if she could've convinced herself that the extra loopy "e's" and slanted "t's" were common enough to be coincidence, the name written in elegant script was no one's but her own.
She pondered what was more worrying; seeing her name writ... | "Welcome back Jax Fulton?" Jax said, half believing what he was reading.
It had been on the fourth day of the Spartan Mission that they found it. After waking from their 4 year suspended animation Jax and his crew had stumbled upon these strange ruins. None of the surveillance tech they had with them seemed to w... | 2016-03-18T14:45:59 | 2016-03-18T14:39:20 | 493 | 69 |
[WP] You sit with him in his final moments. His paw in your hand. Such a good boy. As he leaves you witness his life flash before your eyes. To him, you were a glorious king and he, your most noble of knights. Many adventures you had together. You decide to share some with the world and so you write | Oh, Master, I am so sorry you are leaving me. I always thought I will be the one who will die first, as dogs lives are shorter than human's. Who would have thought that the man who adopted me, fed me, welcomed me into his life house will desert me so soon?
I noticed you changed so much a couple of months ago, when you... | There on his bed he lay,
He looks towards me.
His eyes speak out,
"My lord,
I am here.
Though the fire of your kingdom rages,
I see the final beacon of my watch fading.
Will there be times when we breathe the memories of each other?
Who will guide me when I leave you?
I ... | 2018-11-01T23:19:01 | 2018-11-01T22:12:58 | 76 | 43 |
[WP] At birth, each child is given 5 objects that they must carry with them, or have near at hand, for the rest of their lives. These objects have seemingly prophetic significance on the lives of their owners. | I swear, the program was playing a massive joke on me. Do programs have a sense of humor? This one must. It isn't too crazy to think that a program that had the ability to vaguely make out the strings that pulled the limbs of the universe could make a joke. A joke like making a man carry around a bible, full sized prin... | My blanket. My crystal shard. My teddy bear. My hat. My toy hammer.
When I was born a small, insignificant child, to insignificant parents, who would have thought I would need those items? I grew slowly. I was a very curious child. I clutched my items close. My parents always left me with a bag of these items, no matt... | 2014-12-26T12:02:40 | 2014-12-26T09:19:22 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | "Mr. Quinn, we know you're in there!" Hollered the voice on the other side of the door. There was more pounding.
"Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm not doing it."
More pounding. "Mr. Quinn, you killed our daughter, just make it right!" A second voice, a woman's voice yelled.
"No. Fuck off before I call the police!" I ... | I took a long breath, tentatively laying my fingers on the knob. I pushed until I heard it unlatch. A few eager morning rays pierced the crack between the door and the frame, and after what felt like an eternity, I found myself eye to eye with the boy's family — his weeping mother, somber father, and bitter grandparent... | 2018-09-16T18:47:29 | 2018-09-16T18:01:16 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Unclean!" the disembodied voice bellowed waking me up for the third fucking time that night. That's it. I'd had enough. I slip out of bed and got dressed. I was thirsty anyway. Walking toward the door I looked at the wall dripping with blood and puss.
"Unfucking real..." I muttered. Pulling my phone from my pocket I... | "Just get out of there, fuck off..."
The shadow slowly trickled down on the floor from the closet and slowly crawled towards the bedroom door. Alex threw himself down on the bed and turned off the lights.
Soon the thumping in the stairs started, Alex slowly turned over and looked at his door, contemplating if she wou... | 2017-05-05T07:31:12 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 627 | 12 |
[WP]People have powers based on their strongest emotion, and become stronger as they embrace it. Healers might draw power from love or empathy, warriors; anger or self preservation, etc. You draw power from being incredibly sassy.
Or other emotions, like being passive aggressive, or overly dramatic. | I couldn't help it. It's all my fault. No, I can't start thinking like this again, it only makes me stronger. It isn't me, it's *it.* It is not me, right? Of course not. I myself am weak and useless. But *it* might stop me. The healers know happiness, and they are never lonely like I am. The warriors feel *something* a... | "Why?" I asked him again.
"I don't understand sir, they're demolishing our forces, you're the only one who can stop them!" The lieutenant said again.
"Yes, but why me? Don't I do enough around here? Can't I just rest for a while? I'll help out later."
I was so tired of work, but there was always someone else d... | 2017-01-19T07:43:12 | 2017-01-19T06:33:04 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | After the day had been won, the two heroes left their capes at the door of the pub. They pulled up two stools at the bar and ordered the usual. One of the two, Marty “Cinder” Rhodes, sat uneasily. His face spelled a mix between disgust and horror. The career of bully-busting was not for the faint of heart and Cinder wa... | "Doc, we need your help!" Said Corporal Paine through his handy dandy communicator. "The Dreamcatcher has us on the retreat! Our numbers are dwindling! Hurry!"
"I'm afraid our time's up, Serena." said the Doctor, trying to hyde his earpiece.
"Already? I could have sworn it had only been 30 minutes." The patient repl... | 2020-02-25T16:13:30 | 2020-02-25T16:06:39 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] “So how did you get Dragon blood in your veins?” “Ah well, long ago my family was cur-“ “Didn’t you say your family was never cursed?” “Oh uh, yeah um… so uh, there was a witch-“ “Im not buying it.” “*sigh*… so my great grandpa was a bard…” | Scales the color of freshly spilled blood glimmered in sunlight. Proud horns, jagged and razor-sharp, adorned the head of the newly crowned Arena Champion. Smoke billowed from his nostrils, and his triumph was cemented into the Arena's history forever.
The Champion immediately went to the Arena's private bath house. H... | "Tiddle flute, herald of the long reaching..." the host said, holding up a scroll and adjusting his monocle.
The flowery dressed man sweated nervously, adjusting his sagging mushroom hat.
The crowd leaned in to see over the tapestry maker hauling ass depicting the scene. The great golden dragon towered over the othe... | 2022-10-11T08:29:22 | 2022-10-11T06:11:14 | 787 | 36 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | Seconds before the decaying support beams running through the apartment building finally snapped, Chronotron strolled casually into unit 8B, the last on his checklist.
Mere seconds remained before the aging architecture would be reduced to rubble, but that was more than enough time for Chronotron. As one gifted with ... | The dark alley echoed with the footsteps of the villain and I knew that I had her right where I wanted them.
"I'll go get the purse if you let me keep half of the money."
They had seen what Dev could do first hand, when he had been stealing their purse, so there was no way that they were going to do it themselves. ... | 2017-04-02T08:24:03 | 2017-04-02T08:22:39 | 142 | 32 |
[WP] Once a name is written in a Book of the Dead, it cannot be edited. Apparently your name was erroneously submitted, despite the fact that you're very much alive. This is the 4th time today that yet another Reaper is checking up on you to see if you died yet. | I settled back into my comfortable recliner, the green and sorta orange one that was worn in just the right way. On the tele Arsenal were up a commanding three nil. I cursed the distraction that had drug me away from the best part of the match Using my crumbled napkin from lunch I mopped the sweat from my brow.
From t... | “So, uh…you feel like dying yet or nah?”
“Nah, not really.”
“Oh, okay. That’s cool.”
Sam cleared his throat and stared off somewhere to his right, the hooded figure in front of him doing the same as a heavy silence hung in the air between them. Several seconds passed before the latter spoke, “But like, are you reall... | 2020-09-06T13:30:32 | 2020-09-06T12:26:28 | 146 | 71 |
[WP] You pick up painting to impress a crush, but secretly hate it. Two years later you’re engaged to your crush and you have to keep up the facade- and a popular art gallery now wants to feature your work. Suddenly you’re very famous for your work and you still. hate. painting.
Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/As... | "Welcome, and thanks for attending the audio tour of our Al Wenders' exhibit. As you can see, Al Wenders was a late bloomer at 24; with little to no formal training he was able to come to a masterful understanding of composition, shape, and colour. This was known as the Bright period. The paintings you are viewing are ... | It was a spur-of-the-moment, god-spoke-to-me kind of art piece.
All I wanted was to impress her. Her name was Violet and she was more beautiful than any flower on earth.
All I wanted was to capture that beauty.
All I wanted was to show her how much she meant to me, because there were no words. No words that I cou... | 2018-03-27T19:49:21 | 2018-03-27T19:06:13 | 281 | 57 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It's hardly a surprise. Although the smell, oh the smell. Quite a smell. Like death running in my veins. I quite like the scent. The blood sticks between my fingertips. All cushy.
It's sad, really. I've always tried to do what's right. Sure, the homeless could have continued to trawl through my fields but then I woul... | It's not like they can say no. Free is free. There not a single soul out there that can refuse what's free.
And it's not like they can refuse. These homeless can't afford to corrupt their blood any further. It's about the only thing they can sell. The lowest rung on the social ladder. Stuck being nice.
So here I am... | 2018-08-04T10:09:44 | 2018-08-04T10:09:04 | 77 | 28 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | My friend Sonia got an owl when she turned eighteen. Someone had chosen well - not only was it quiet and watchful like her, its trick of raising some sort of tufts on its head mirrored her eyebrows by which you could tell her mood. And it helped that both of them were dark brown and petite.
I wondered what I'd be give... | My 18th birthday had finally come. The step to adulthood, the leap towards life.
I looked around, and all of my friends who were older then me brought theirs, wondering what I would get while the rest were wondering what they would get soon.
The cake was beautiful, with animal figurines all over it, each animal hopi... | 2014-09-28T09:30:56 | 2014-09-28T08:35:49 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"
Everyone paused. "What? Thomas? What's wrong?"
"THERE'S NO MOON! THERE'S NO FUCKING MOON!" Thomas stood staring at the sky.
Everyone shook their heads. Brian took the lead. "So what, Thomas? Come on, we're gonna be late for the party."
"NO, FOR GOD'S SAKES MAN, CAN YOU NOT SEE? THERE IS NO M... | The man, about 30 years of age, stood in the midst of the group, a young girl at his side, attempting to hide from the arc of people jeering and laughing at her appearance.
"Please, everybody, this is not right," the man said calmly, "There is no need to treat a young girl like this!"
"You call that a girl with that... | 2017-04-13T23:48:35 | 2017-04-13T23:33:18 | 143 | 38 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | I got to my room, lungs burning as I ran the first floor. "It's all right Jack, you don't have to be afraid, you have done nothing wrong, everything will be all right." Said the calm voice of Professor X. Part of me immediately started to relax, but I could not slow down the heavy rapid breathing. I messed up, and peop... | Being the best of the best at school usually comes with its perks and advantages but this school was a little bit different. Being at the top of the class here means danger, and a whole lot of it and that’s something Deshaun wasn’t ready for just yet. Everyone had a specific power here and ever since the debacle with P... | 2020-07-15T05:54:34 | 2020-07-15T05:11:36 | 137 | 94 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Secretary Rosen sat contemplating silently while the Roni Ambassador dictated to him the terms of peace that Humanity was expected to accept following their defeat in battle yesterday.
Intergalactic Warfare wasn't so different from that practiced on Earth for millennia. They fought just as ferociously as soldiers s... | "A wise man once said that the objective of war was to offend your opponent so badly that they take their dollies and go home. But it takes politicians to truly make a mess of things, do you agree?" the human commander gestured his cigar at his...
.. esteemed guests?
They weren't exactly prisoners yet, the fightin... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T10:43:18 | 572 | 350 |
[WP] In a world of incredible heroes and villains, you have the most dangerous power of all: forcing actual, real world logic and physics to take place
2/19/19: Woah! I look away for a few minutes and suddenly 1000 likes! Thanks you guys!
2/19/19: Holy God! 6.5k likes?! Awesome! | It began with a loud screech from outside the coffee shop. A contagious one too, for it soon grew into a sea of wails. Then something actually intelligible breached the surface. "Oh dear Lord have mercy, it's Teleportino!!"
I could barely supress a groan. Tightening my hold on my coffee cup, I chanced a look outside.... | *Snap*
A scream more iconic than Wilhelm's can be heard from something akin to a meteor flying directly to the city. "You're not as dashing when you're on fire" you say to the burning, falling Clark Kent. "Didn't you know? Your home planet doesn't exist anymore. I deleted it".
The Flash stares in fear, then dis... | 2019-02-19T11:13:37 | 2019-02-19T10:20:49 | 587 | 48 |
[WP] You have just begun your fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are surprised to have made it this far, after all, you aren't even a wizard, just really good at special effects. | Because of my innate lack of ability, the Sorting Hat simply assumed I was a late-blooming Hufflepuff, and I was in.
I deserved to be in Ravenclaw, I thought, just because I was clever enough to fool them all for so long. Some slight of hand, and they stood amazed that all my matches turned to needles the first time... | I'm suprised I lasted this long. It only began because I didn't want them to obliviate me like they were doing all the other muggle one after the other. Now i'm a fourth year student at Hogwart.
"Is this your card?" I said.
"Impressive! continue and you might become a great seer one day!"
It's not the first time by ... | 2016-11-24T02:56:00 | 2016-11-24T02:30:38 | 245 | 29 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | For as long as she could remember, every person around Katie was covered in the pink spots that spoke of a disease which had overtaken the nation, and reportedly the world.
At precisely 7.30 every morning, she would wake up and take her morning pill, the bright yellow one. After five minutes she would have enough ene... | "IT'S A LIE, IT'S ALL A LIE!" I screamed into my phone. I was live on instagram. The noise in the background behind me was getting louder. The banging and shouting.
"Their coming, their cutting threw the door right now." I point the camera phone at the door to show the thousands watching my stream. It was a huge awaki... | 2017-07-14T14:46:36 | 2017-07-14T10:00:33 | 54 | 21 |
[WP] You've died and despite living a fairly honest life, you've been sent to hell for all the terrible things you've done in video games. You're offered one way out. Prove you wouldn't do any of those things in real life by clearing the nine circles of hell like a dungeon, without being terrible. | I can't believe I had made it this far. I carried that stupid penguin all the way back to it's mother even as the void called to me. I stuck around for those god forsaken turret sections to cover my allies. I limped my way across the map as my escort mission target shambled along and collided into every object on th... | "Shit" I said as I see the star appear in the corner of my eye. I am confused, looking down on my computer as I install ten more mods to skyrim.
A second star appears as my game loads, and a courier arrives, "got a letter for you, your eyes only."
I open the letter and read what it said. I was expecting a threat, may... | 2021-03-07T15:56:53 | 2021-03-07T15:17:18 | 117 | 81 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "I understand why you fear for my safety," Euphemia spoke gently as she approached the knight. "And why you fear for my kingdom," pressing her hands to her chest in mild gesture, her wide eyes emphasized her understanding. "But I cannot allow you to kill Rosa."
Slakter stared dumbly at the long forgotten princess, the... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T08:16:32 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 172 | 14 |
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