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[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | "It's ready," said the man, whom I really didn't know.
"What is?" I replied.
"It, now get in!"
Those were the last words I heard before I was pushed in an unknown machine and fell down hundreds of meters from the sky, miraculously landing in safety on a pile of dirt in the middle of what I could see was nowhere. Wit... | I traveled back in time
I don't know how to rhyme
My phone doth on me
Hmmm now let us see
Is there any Wi-Fi?
How silly...Oh My
Who is this Da Vinci Fellow?
I hope his temperament be mellow
Let us go and explore
This genius I will implore
How is it that he created
A way for us to Reddit Bejaded
| 2016-11-15T02:09:33 | 2016-11-15T01:57:04 | 380 | 66 |
[WP] You are an incredibly powerful supervillain. Your nemesis is an ageing superhero that you string along out of pity. You do just enough villainy to get what you want but let your nemesis win every now and then. Things change when a truly evil supervillain enters the city and kills your rival. | There. Are. Rules. Every villian, Every hero if you take up this power you agree to not cross the line. I stared at the monitor in disbelief. I wasn't going to do it. Decades pass and noone crosses that line.
Disbelief
Pro Tip: Monologs
Yes, they give the hero a chance to regroup. Yes it takes a lot of practice ... | (Poem?) To the tune of “Losing My Religion” my REM
Oh, Captain Clobber
(Sigh) there’s slobber
on the bottom of your lip.
I’m ‘bout to aim the laser.
Be careful of your hip.
Oh No, you’ve fallen over.
I’ve pushed too far.
 
That’s me in the Cowl.
That’s me with the spiked boots,
Trying to defeat you... | 2020-08-31T13:26:38 | 2020-08-31T10:11:40 | 61 | 19 |
[WP] Today you found out that your girlfriend is a murderous psychopath as she cuts you into pieces and hugs your severed head while she slept, only for her to found out your secret, that you're an immortal who can survives anything. Describe the morning after that. [Possibly NSFW?]
Yandere girlfriend and immortal guy... | "Good morning, dear."
They said Monday morning couldn't get any worse. So what in the world is any good in today, of all time?
"Can't breathe..." I mumbled in-between her clothed bosom. At least I was thankful to have a girlfriend this well-endowed. If only her mind were as developed as her body.
"Then, don't hug me... | "Hey babe"
Your girlfriend jumps what seems to be 10 feet in the air.
"You're..alive?!"
"Yeah, turns out I'm immortal. I figured I'd let you have your way with me since that's the only thing that seems to get you off anymore. Besides, this way you can at least stay out of prison."
She's still struggling to get mu... | 2017-07-04T16:21:30 | 2017-07-04T13:44:31 | 168 | 24 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | "Thank you for coming," Bette said, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I know it's a lot to ask of you, but.."
Alex waved away the gesture. "I understand completely. If I was in your position, I'd do the same thing."
Inbetween the two mages lay a woman, sustained by a maze of tubes and IVs. Machines hissed as they str... | "Why? Why are you doing this?"
"So that all may benefit."
"Please, it hurts, it hurts so much."
"Now, now. Relax, let fingers massaging into your arms and shoulders bring the warmth your body craves. You're freezing, your practically a cadaver."
"But it's so warm there, just let me go!"
"Hush, no more of that. Let... | 2016-11-12T10:29:07 | 2016-11-12T09:05:54 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You realize you're a character in a poorly written story when your best friend turns out to be the protagonist and you're expected to blindly support them.
Bonus if it's a sci-fi/fantasy story. | If you want to speak to somebody who’s got it all figured out, speak to Barclay Lantern. I hope you’re thinking ‘What the bloody hell kind of name is that?! Barclay-bloody-Lantern..’ But nobody seems to give him a bad time about it. In fact, whenever anybody says his name they stare off into space like they’re remember... | Jake descended from Mt. Bad, clad in badass black armor, carrying an enormous flaming sword. I looked at him and burst out laughing. "Is that really what you're wearing?" I said, bent over. Jake brandished his sword at me, saying "Don't question, just follow along!" in a voice that sounded like a high-pitched tea kettl... | 2016-01-12T03:36:35 | 2016-01-12T02:51:00 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "We've finally done it comrades! Welcome to the birth of the Sixteenth Reich, this time, the German Empire will last for a thousand years!" shouted the Emperor.
The men and women all raised their glasses in unison, celebrating their long awaited victory against the Allies. It had taken them several hundred years and s... | "Come on in" I heard a tired voice call out. I stepped into the room, and saw our leader looking worn out and tired. "Is everything alright sir?" I ask. "I'm thinking of surrendering to Belgium." He said. "But they're the last country standing in our way of continental domination?!! Their tech is from the 22nd century,... | 2017-08-18T05:26:15 | 2017-08-18T05:12:07 | 76 | 29 |
[WP] You kept getting reincarnated into new fantasy worlds upon dying. Everytime you die, you keep a small part of your power, forever increasing. One day, as you sacrifice yourself for the world once again, you wake up not as a newborn in a fantasy world...but as a scavanger in a zombie apocalypse.
[deleted] | Jacob Masters was tired. He'd lived a thousands lives on a thousand different worlds...and he was tired. He stood above the Dark Lord as blood poured down his leg from the wound in his side. It was an injury he easily could have avoided but at the moment he'd received it he was ready for it to be over.
A thousand diff... |
Gunfire echoes through a dark metro tunnel, distant and irregular. A gaunt, disheveled figure in a green hooded jacket makes their way through a maze of ramshackle structures. Little whispers fill the air from behind tattered drapes covering open windows. The figure smiles, her chapped lips parting slightly.
The wom... | 2022-01-05T14:11:12 | 2022-01-05T12:09:32 | 72 | 31 |
[WP] You've always helped your friend cheat on tests, one day he is told he needs to take a special test. You slip him a secret earbud and listen in on the test. It's weird, he just has to choose between 3 objects over and over, you roll with it. At the end of the test he's told he is the chosen one | "What do you mean, the Chosen One?"
I was dumbfounded. How could they possibly test for something like that? It seemed absurd. Wouldn't the Chosen One have some immaterial connection to fate, to the Universe, to God, that would confound all empirical testing measures? Would the divine really allow itself to be identif... | “I don’t know man. Pick the leaf.”
When I told Jason I would help him cheat, I didn’t think he meant on a test. Blonde flowing hair, blue eyes, toned muscles, over six feet tall — Jason’s got it all.
Well...almost. He doesn’t have patience. I’m not going to say Jason is dumb as a brick, oh no quite the opposite. I o... | 2020-02-18T21:46:20 | 2020-02-18T21:21:09 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] It’s been 2 years since the zombie apocalypse has started, and you haven’t seen anyone alive in a terribly long time. The only reason for your survival is that the zombies don’t care for you at all - in fact they all seem to be avoiding you. All except for one. | The small spade made a satisfying thud as it dug into the soil beneath it. The earth was moist and prime for planting, giving off a pleasantly earthy smell. Richard wiped the sweat and grime off his brow with his flannel sleeve and reached into the small seed pouch on his belt. His gloved fingers fumbled for a second, ... | I opened my little notebook and looked for other symbol that I noticed at the entrance of the city. I have been doing characoal drawings long before epidemic started. That symbol reminded my one of my old drawings, Mr.Owl which I drew when I was in high school.
The building that I’m standing in front of it has the sam... | 2019-05-26T11:36:30 | 2019-05-26T06:45:44 | 82 | 36 |
[WP] Humans are the least intelligent species on Earth. The entire animal kingdom plays along out of pity for our idiocy. |
It had just struck 9pm and Donny, your regular, everyday man was just starting his daily routine to get ready for bed. It had been a busy day at the office today; the boss was none too pleased with Donny's performance as of late. I guess assigned paperwork not getting in on time and being late for more than a few meet... | I do not understand these humans, Rick.
What is there not to understand, Sam?
When do they mature? When do they see the truth?
You mean the cycle of life? Yeah, they don’t understand.
How is it possible? Every species on this planet does.
Except for these guys right here. To top it off, they seem to think they a... | 2017-10-22T03:28:05 | 2017-10-22T03:05:33 | 76 | 56 |
[WP] You have a box, with a button. Press it and a year later you'll be right back to when you pressed it. A year without consequences. | [WIP]
"So typical. So. Fucking. Typical." Brit stood there with her arms crossed. This was a very familiar image. The dictator stood on the other end of the room. Her glare burning a hole in my forehead as the Mac 'n' Cheese burnt a hole through my tongue. "Why would you even bother coming home, when you're just going... | The most important day of my life was the one when I received this powerful magical artifact. It was a time machine, but with one limitation: it only had the ability to send me back in time to when I activated it.
So if I pressed the big red emergency button on its top, in a year's time I would be sent back to the po... | 2015-12-15T09:13:40 | 2015-12-15T08:25:37 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] You swear like half of your class seems to be characters in a below average, cliche plagued, high school romance novel and watching it from the perspective of a normal person just trying to get through school is much more painful than reading it from the outside in a book | “Oh, Chaddicus. Every time I see you juggle your soccer ball around the school halls, it just makes me swoon. I know you are with Elizabeth, but she doesn’t have to know about us.” I tried to pass the awkward exchange, but as usual, both Chaddicus and Sarah were blocking the hallways, making everyone stop to watch thei... | You think that school’s a lot like that Shakespeare quote about all the world being a stage and everyone on it just being actors. Everyone except for you, at least. You’re not an actor, or if you are you’re out of work and have hit hard times. Instead you sit in the theatre somewhere about halfway back, watching it all... | 2021-08-30T07:02:35 | 2021-08-30T06:50:14 | 1,169 | 332 |
[WP] A "popular" girl falls in love with a "nerdy" boy, however he hates her and she spends all her time trying to impress him
EDIT: THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO WRITE SHORT STORIES BASED OFF MY PROMPT!! I HAVE YET TO READ ALL YOUR STORIES THOUGH, AS I'M BUSY WITH SCHOOL AND OTHER STUFF :D
I'm sorry if I hav... | Jess Brown was hands-down the most popular girl in year 11. She was lucky enough to possess the dangerous combination of good looks and great intelligence, causing those around her to almost naturally fall into place as her followers.
Despite being as blessed as she was, Jess was not an arrogant person. If anything, ... | Jonathan ran, his arms outstretched behind him, like the wings of a mighty bird of prey. He flew through the classroom leaping past desks and his classmates alike. He stopped at Billy's desk and karate chopped the papers and books onto the floor. Jonathan squealed in glee as he fled the scene at breakneck speed.
It... | 2016-05-29T11:33:33 | 2016-05-29T10:33:11 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | John sipped his drink as he stood up. He shuffled the notes in his hands before glancing across the table. Despite the white, perfect smile on her lips, Jenna watched him with terrified eyes. John had felt those eyes on him all day. Every time he refilled his glass, her smile became more forced. Her gaze became mo... | *I couldn't go on with the charade anymore. I was betraying my best friend by continuing it. That lying whore of a bride instigated it, but I was just as responsible. I now felt it my duty to make her squirm as much as I could before ending things with her.*
"Frank, we've known each other for, what, decades now? Duri... | 2015-04-02T22:15:17 | 2015-04-02T22:08:37 | 1,568 | 21 |
[WP] You are an atheist and on the three hour long train journey you start arguing with a stranger sitting beside you . That stranger is Satan . | Richard hovered above his plush seat with a scowl before falling back into it. This train was too bumpy. His original plan was to nap during the ride, that way, he'd arrive in Los Angeles in a somewhat functional state. Unfortunately, this proved to be a futile endeavor on his part, since every other minute the cart wo... | "You're the devil, eh? "
"The one and only."
"I don't believe it."
"Do you need proof? "
I thought about all the potential arguments I could go through, but finaly, "I just don't care. There's nothing I have that you don't already have, in the ethereal sense. If I die an atheist and I'm wrong, my soul belongs to yo... | 2016-09-10T08:56:10 | 2016-09-10T08:16:19 | 575 | 91 |
[WP] A hero and villain trade deathblows. The villains last words are, "I'll see you in hell". The hero wakes to see fire and brimstone. The villain finds themselves in front of shining, golden gates. | "You never committed a mortal sin." Saint Peter said flatly. His eyes weren’t on the man standing in front of him, just focused on the long list of names he had to process before the end of the year.
“What?”
“You never committed a mortal sin.” The glowing saint repeated. “Only venial ones. Thus you don’t qualify for... | Evil is a matter of perspective, but what I have done with the time I had been given was wretched. Villages, nations, families I had butchered them all in the name of unity against what was to come. The sparks of clashing blades sing in the dimly lit interior alleyway as the distant sounds of battle rage. My rival, a g... | 2022-03-11T18:30:30 | 2022-03-11T13:08:54 | 63 | 27 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | I pace the waiting room. Up and down, up and down. Everyone is isolated from each other initially to prevent reading the others and finding out which group they came from. Well, most of the candidates knew which group they came from anyway. The room had a couch, a dresser, and a bit of refreshments on the small table i... | I woke in small metal container. The walls had the wavy pattern of a cargo crate, and the size fit the idea as well. There where ten of us, I was the first to wake up. It was clear what was happening, I had been told of the risks when I submitted my paper.
I was about 21 at the time and had just finished my philosophy... | 2016-03-03T05:47:53 | 2016-03-03T05:36:34 | 26 | 17 |
[WP]Humanity had grown complacent. No more war, no more crime, no more suffering. After thousands of years of technological advancement and peace humanity is forced into a war with an alien super power which brings out thousands of years of pent up blood lust. | Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
\-Joel 3:10
It was an age of absolute prosperity. The simultaneous development of advancements in travel, energy, communication, health, and resource management launched humanity into the galaxy both literall... | We didn’t know what we were starting. We were only expanding our civilization and reaching for resources. Our empire of a thousand systems just adding another like any other day, seemed like business as usual.
There were four inhabited planets and several moons in this particular system. All populated by a primitive ... | 2020-05-05T05:33:20 | 2020-05-05T04:44:32 | 87 | 24 |
[WP] Only you can see the thread that connects people to their soulmate. You've never told anyone and if you have a thread you can't see it. Today you caught someone staring at you when you asked they said, with tears in their eyes: "You are the only person I've seen with no soulmate." | For the longest time, I had no idea what the strings were. All I knew was how they were shooting out from people's hearts and dashing off into the universe.
I remembered the first time I ever saw the end of one of the strings; when young Nancy started in my class, and my friend John's string beamed out to her. From h... | The strings, they’re... strange. At first I thought it was simply my eyes playing tricks on me, at least that’s what my optometrist said. She said it’s possibly just floaters in my eyes, indicating I’ll probably need glasses when I’m older.
Then I realized, the strings are connected. They’re not just random particles... | 2018-12-11T13:33:19 | 2018-12-11T10:55:39 | 43 | 18 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | You know when you're a kid, and you're dreaming of finding your place in the world? I remember being nine and looking up at a giant career chart and thinking "I don't have any idea where I'm going to fit..." It certainly wasn't rescuing hostages for a living.
My teen years were no picnic either. Everybody was dreaming... | Every day I put on the suit. Every day I leave the protective confines of the habitat module and pass out into the cold. I climb into the transport. After all these years, the sheer size of the ethanol reservoirs still takes my breath away.
The transport shudders into the station. I proceed into the chamber. Every... | 2018-06-30T17:41:53 | 2018-06-30T16:31:22 | 192 | 82 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | The strangest thing was how it was always daylight with in the bubble but time kept moving on outside the opaque impenetrable barrier. I'd never had the opportunity to really observe that before. Some of the science didn't make sense, but I'd never really understood how my own powers worked anyway. As long as I could k... | Time has been frozen for so long I forgot what it was like unfrozen. Everyday is the same. I walk around looking at all the people, frozen in time, past my sister's body. No one will know what the past ten years have been like for me. Ten years, it's been ten years since she died. Yet everyday it feels like nothing has... | 2017-09-07T03:31:19 | 2017-09-06T23:08:18 | 38 | 25 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Captain’s Log: 2437.04.08
The human, the one that calls itself ‘Cassandra’ (I hope I’m spelling that right), never ceases to amaze me. Ever since we picked it up from that freighter, I feel like we’re learning something new about it.
Just today, one of our crew dropped the ball and forgot to inform it that we’d be w... | "Ehhh, no big deal." Said the man dismounting his motorcycle, "Ain't been driven insane by infinity before."
Captain Klynar stared in bewilderment with his mouths agape. Thoughts and questions scrambled through his mind as he searched for an explanation. The crew watched Klynar rise from his perch. He began removing h... | 2020-07-14T03:55:51 | 2020-07-14T02:58:52 | 61 | 43 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | The ground was cold and lifeless and fire rained from the sky. Entire cities had been vaporized along with their inhabitants. Those that survived were even worse off than those that had died. The fields of war were choking with alien bodies, strange and reptilian. Many lay still but others thrashed around, tearing at t... | "Life in space is nothing like our ancestors envisioned." James explained. "We thought war, and piracy would be common, but most of you guys had peaceful world government for a couple generations before you reached the stars.
"Also, the toys we thought would work, just don't. Lasers, masers and plasma weapons are... | 2021-07-05T00:02:33 | 2021-07-04T23:49:37 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] Upon death you go to hell and find that it's actually run by a council of the worst people in history, with Satan as the head of it. They invite you to the council, but you honestly have no clue why. | I have lived a long and fufilling life, it's time for me to go.
"Take care, darling." Said my wife as she grasped onto my hand.
"Yes, see you...on the other side."
For a split second, I felt weightless, as if I was floating in the calmest of waters.
There was nothing left to tie me down to earth and I was free no... | A flash of blinding light invades my eyes as my life slips away. I open my eyes to find myself sitting on a chair in a dark room, not unlike the Supreme Court chambers. The room seemed to be carved from stone and stifling hot. Perhaps we were under ground or in a cave. As my eyes adjusted I began to look around. Seated... | 2017-10-01T19:06:09 | 2017-10-01T18:26:07 | 108 | 23 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I’m lying in a bed on a tuesday night.
And I’m having restless dreams.
And then I awake from a story where I’m rescuing a princess from a wheel of cheese. Because there’s a chainsaw on my nightstand.
A groggy hand reaches over and slaps it reluctantly. Is it morning...a alarm? Some long lost love looking for lusciou... | I wake to the sound of my phone vibrating so fast I'm afraid it'll fall of my nightstand. I groggily my phone before it falls and turn it on to see the words "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" in bright letters illuminated by the official nationwide alert backdrop. The vibrations refuse to stop. Hundreds of texts are rolling in... | 2022-05-11T14:02:28 | 2018-04-06T19:08:10 | 314 | 11 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability.
[deleted] | I was sitting on a bus on my way to a local strawberry farm as a field trip. Ethan sat next to me, reading a comic book he had brought for the drive. “Hey, do you think anyone has real powers?” I asked. “Like super-speed? I don’t think that’s possible.” He replied matter-of-factly, not removing his eyes from the comic.... | I was in my classroom,i was nervous because i haven't studied anything for the entire semester.Mister Rim was the most evil physics professor in the entire university,he knew how to put the worst type of questions,his twisted mind was precise and non dared to question his excellence.As i bleat in the space all sweatin... | 2020-06-14T00:05:46 | 2020-06-13T23:30:37 | 88 | 14 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | Andrea Patton remembered vividly the day she read her letter. The Letter. The one that everyone gets on their 18th birthday, with the first words they would ever hear from their soul mate printed inside.
Her friends, Stephanie and Becca, begged her to bring it to school the next day. Stephanie got hers a few months b... | "Really? That's... That's the line?" I stared at the small business card style note in my hand. "That is the most... frustrating..."
"What's'it say?" My kid sister (okay, she's fourteen and totally into the romance and boys phase) pried.
"Gah!" I crumpled the envelope in my other hand and chucked it into the trash ... | 2014-12-18T13:31:04 | 2014-12-18T12:06:19 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You're a superhero with the ability to control sand. Unfortunately, you've recently been called to battle in an area without easy access to said material. That's when you remember what one of the main ingredients in glass and concrete are. | I knew at once why I'd never seen it before: The sand was so deep down, so much further in then anything I had ever tried. It was like looking into a cave of complete darkness and sensing rather than seeing that far, far inside, there was light.
I looked around, fighting to control my focus, push away panic. We were l... | Shana cursed her own stupidity.
She stood at the bottom of the sky scraper, looking up. Over a thousand feet of glass looked back down, and right at the top, the dangling figure of the madman’s newest victim.
“Please!” he bellowed, and his voice echoed off the towering buildings of the city. Shana turned, desperatel... | 2021-07-15T12:00:58 | 2021-07-15T09:07:57 | 87 | 20 |
[WP] After being hunted to extinction, the last Orc has been found at the edge of the world... | They had voted, overwhelmingly, in favour of a long-distance assault on the Orc. Bennett, second in command of the strike team, painted a persuasive case of how that strategy ensured the highest chance of a no-casualty kill. “Remember the intel,” he had said, “the target is too dangerous to approach man-to-orc. At his ... | "Are you sure we've got the right place?" Sheryl asked.
"It's a traditional Orcish yurt," Peter said. He frowned. "There is literally only one Orc alive on this entire planet, Sheryl. Who do *you* think built it?"
They stood in front of the squat, tent-like building. A thick leather hide hung where a front doo... | 2017-01-18T09:09:13 | 2017-01-18T08:18:08 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | I set the hungry couple down in my den and hurried to my kitchen. It had been a very long time indeed since unexpected guests had arrived, and it mattered not to me that I didn't even know their names. I began drawing the water for a proper tea and leaned over to turn off the telly. Fingers on the button, and I heard, ... | "And whatever you do, don’t let them inside..."
Those words are still ringing through my brain as I look up from the couch. Our host, so gracious just a few minutes ago, turns to face us. Neither of us have to imagine the look of dawning horror on our faces, as it is clearly being reflected right back. My wife and I b... | 2018-03-14T11:17:41 | 2018-03-14T10:29:22 | 113 | 42 |
[WP] The galactic community settled conflicts not with war but rather with computer simulations. But they've never before encountered a race with the equivilent of the Speedrun community... | "Boss, look. I'm nearly certain."
General Handen turned back, exasperated. His executive assistant had been transported alongside his best battalion yesterday. A formal declaration of war from aggressors from space, then suddenly they were on an unrecognisable planet. He was proud of how quickly his soldiers had adapt... | “This game’s ass and so is your fucking planet,”
Kyle said as he ducked exactly 6 times as quickly as he could press the key a few degrees off-center from the wall in the spawn room. After avoiding the weapon selection screen from Commander Trask, Kyle hopped on board his starship while holding the key to swap weapon... | 2020-11-16T04:56:32 | 2020-11-16T02:50:50 | 49 | 33 |
[WP] A man is going through the attic of his recently deceased grandfather when he stumbles upon what looks to be an old journal with his grandfather's name on the inside cover. The first entry is dated "10/07/2392". | Edit June 30: Be sure to check out the 2nd part of the story below as a reply to this comment.
Edit **July 1**: Added in a third part, be sure to check it out in the comments below.
***
*It had to have been some kind of error,* Bryan had thought.
He immediately shut the journal and examined the cover. It seemed n... | **October 7th, 2392**
Today is the day. I have been chosen specifically for this mission out of a group of the world’s finest men and women. There is no room for failure. If I succeed, humanity will live on. But if I fail it will be the end of everything as we know it. Yet, that does not scare me.
No matter how the w... | 2015-06-30T15:34:37 | 2015-06-30T15:16:59 | 56 | 14 |
[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. | In my defense, I didn’t mean to lie. At least, not at first.
There’s just only so many answers you can give to one of the most powerful A-list mutants in the world after she saves your entire class from death via careening down a mountain in the middle of a freak hurricane.
And those answers all invariably include sh... | "It's not entirely about focus..." Professor Wagner said, his thin German accent gently colouring every word he spoke "...there are many of us - like Scott Summers - who require a physical tool to control our powers. But for myself, and most other teleporters I have known, focus provides strength. For us, it is natur... | 2020-07-15T07:26:54 | 2020-07-15T06:33:50 | 1,209 | 119 |
[WP] We are not alone in the universe. Not even in our galaxy. They just keeps us isolated because we are so good at killing. Now they need our savageness to save the galaxy and have come to gear us for war. We humans already knew this and have been prepared for centuries just waiting to be asked. | "So, you've finally hit your wit's end." The Colonel said, staring at the humanoid beings on the other side, their appearances beautiful and exotic with fair complexions and bright blonde hair. They were not humanity's ancestors, but distant cousins. Records view them as elves, gods, and other supernatural entities of ... | It was an ancient evil that travelled through the universe like a swarm, wiping out life wherever they found it. The great filter some called them. The elder races had survived through subterfuge. Some races had tried to fight them, the swarm were mortal, but for everyone that died thousands took their place and many... | 2019-03-28T05:34:15 | 2019-03-28T05:25:05 | 599 | 340 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | "Our the cameras working", I question the aid.
"Yes sir", he snappily replies.
"How about the soldiers".
"Roughly 100 are in defensive positions surrounding the craft sir, in addition to over half a dozen marksmen teams and cannon support."
I smile tensely, "hopefully they will all be uneeded", I exhaled audibly,... | The purple vastness of the dead zone cracked open, a white light appeared, and a missile shot through into space.
Space -- the vast blackness.
A single turtle, as large as the sun, swam through it. The turtle was ancient, and its eyes were crusted with cosmic dust. On its silver shell, elephants stood, four of them o... | 2021-01-09T11:22:32 | 2021-01-09T11:03:42 | 105 | 49 |
[WP] You have been fitting into your new role as Satan for about a week now and you figure you should tell your best friend about your newfound powers. Before you get a chance to say anything, he tells you that God spoke to him and gave him his powers...
Continuation of [WP] [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingProm... | I sipped my coffee nervously as I kept an eye on Michael, my best friend. We had found ourselves vying for the attention of the same girl in first grade and we've been best friends ever since.
"Jack, there is a sinister aura emanating from somewhere in this cafe," said Michael as he twisted in his seat, glaring at ev... | “Well this is awkward”
No shit Sherlock, you think. Of course it’s awkward, you’re Satan while she’s God. Whatever, this doesn’t have to be anything like the “last guys” who were super petty about everything.
“Why don’t we figure out a plan on handling this, make sure we can still be friends while we do our... jobs” y... | 2018-02-05T07:46:29 | 2018-02-05T07:30:51 | 311 | 21 |
[WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. | Most of us saw it as a form of euthanasia. Others simply saw it as a more expensive form of burial, with hymns and flowers. I liked to think it gave us hope; the hope that priests and politicians have been feeding us for five thousand years. Hope that tomorrow really will be better for our children, even if we are no... | In the sterile cool of the morgue, two doctors inspect a former patient.
"They sent one back? That's never happened... Check the tag."
They both inspect the toe tag attached to the body of the former time traveler. Both doctors look stunned for a moment, then calmly slide the body into it's refrigerated hole in the w... | 2014-07-24T07:42:11 | 2014-07-24T07:09:04 | 766 | 372 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | “You’re so sweet that I want to just eat you up,” Hailey gushed, nibbling playfully at Jeff’s ear.
Writhing in the sweat-stained sheets, he rolled his eyes but giggled. “Geez babe, you’re so sappy.” He kissed her forehead. “Goofball.”
“Guilty as charged,” she laughed, savoring the warm glow of love. Swirling her ... | For years my Grandmother claimed our family was descend from an Ancient beast. No one not even I believe her. After all we where human, how could we be have come from something like that? Grandma would all ways answer "we where cursed. The Sorcerer said he want to protect us. It was a lie." When we ask what she ment, M... | 2019-10-09T11:38:11 | 2019-10-09T10:51:45 | 62 | 37 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 241 | 21 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 222 | 17 |
[WP] Zombies were never annihilated and became an endless plague. But humans got so good at killing them, that society moved on. They are now just another annoyance to get rid of during this new normal. | Normally the process of cremation within 12 hours of death is more than enough to prevent the undead from rising, but of course every now and then a corpse or two is left a little too long be it from the corpse being poorly accessible or simply the death being unknown until it was too late. This naturally is very incon... | Hordes upon hordes surrounded the building. No escape, no where to run. Michael stood filling up a glass.
"Thanks Michael" A woman grasped, "Damn these things never shut up. I mean I'm trying to manage people's taxes while all I hear is—"
A corpse, banged on the window, "Brainssss!"
"That. Zombies man" She drank.
"... | 2021-10-27T04:42:29 | 2021-10-27T04:24:10 | 71 | 12 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | "All right, so it goes a little something like this," I said. I'd just been dared to do something that I didn't think people would be able to recreate. Yeah, I know that truth or date was a stupid game for a 20-year-old to be playing, but we were trying to hook up Jason and Erika so it was part of the plan. Also, yes I... | "Uhm"
Everyone at the house party was staring at me.
"What?"
"You shouldn't be able to do that"
"Do what this?"
Everyone recoiled.
"No don't do it again"
"What it's not that…"
"No"
"Why not?"
"It's weird. It's like, you know when you're in class, and some raises their hand and their double jointed so their ar... | 2015-11-28T11:24:51 | 2015-11-28T11:02:56 | 117 | 20 |
[WP] You and the Devil sit down for a game of chess. If he wins, he takes your soul. If you win, you take control of Hell. As the Devil prepares his first move, he simply smiles and knocks over his king. "You win." | "Ahhhh so, you wish to sell your soul?"
He walked over and sat down at the table in the middle of the room and motioned for me to join him. I hesitate for a moment, getting my first real look at him under the light. He looks nothing like what I expected, no horns, no goatee, no red skin, just... an ordinary man.
"Uh... | "You win."
The Devil grinned as he forfeited the game. I looked at him flabbergasted.
"What?! You can't do that!"
"I can." He grinned like a Cheshire cat. "And I did."
"But, but-"
"Oh, come on, you must have expected something. You were playing chess with the Devil afterall."
Where the hell was a wall when you... | 2021-12-30T02:16:52 | 2021-12-30T01:19:21 | 166 | 68 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "You can *not* be serious," Overlord stated dryly in response to the hero's offer. She was running several tracing programs to try and find out where he was calling from as soon as possible - he'd always been a pain in her side.
"Look, I- I know that this is a peculiar situation, but..." the hero meekly replied.
"Why... | ‘Bwahahaha!!! I’m going to make this a wedding no is EVER going to forget!!Muwahahaha!!—that laugh was better—Gregory! Remind me to use ‘Muwahahaha’ in all further expository speeches…..Where were we? Oh, you were begging me to help you, its adorable. Of course, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.
‘This ex, any disli... | 2022-10-06T18:26:35 | 2022-10-06T16:34:26 | 2,322 | 83 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | Long ago, long ago. Maybe before humans. You’re not sure anymore. Maybe it was at the dawn of humans or even in the middle. You stumbled across an obvious tchotchke fountain of “youth” or “immortality” or whatever gimmick it claimed. You drank deeply and tasted it no different from any other unfiltered water, but your ... | In my first centuries, I considered myself one of them. I felt deeply for the misery of the unfortunate, exalted at the triumphs in science and art. As time marched on, however, I came to realize their dreams and achievements, their fears and failures, were all the same. They were brutish, petulant creatures. My attitu... | 2021-05-14T18:15:46 | 2021-05-14T17:41:19 | 294 | 220 |
[WP] It's 5pm and your wife is just arriving home with the kids. A strange feeling of disorientation creeps over you. You glance at the newspaper on the coffee table and realize it's March 2017 and that you have absolutely no memory of the last 2 years. Your wife and children act completely normal. | The keys are the thing. That’s what my mind kept looping. Like a short song set to repeat. Or a needle skipping over some shallow groove in my brain. The paper on the coffee table couldn’t be right. Two years. Two ye—the keys are the thing. The keys are the thing. It must be a gag. Caleb had become a real smar... | I stared intently at Genevieve’s face as she tottered happily through the door, her huge Dora the Explorer backpack stuffed to the gills, threatening to topple her tiny frame over. She swung the pack off one shoulder, dropping it on the kitchen floor with a resounding thud.
“Hi, Daddy,” she said, skipping over and st... | 2015-03-26T14:50:29 | 2015-03-26T12:59:35 | 103 | 30 |
[WP] People believe the Gods decide all of our fates, but they've actually been rolling d20s to make decisions for millions of years | “You see an oasis up ahead. With that perception roll you are able to make out what appears to be a mama velociraptor with several of her kids. You’re all still covered in blood from your previous encounter, and on closer inspection you notice that the mama is beginning to sniff in your direction. What do you do?” Jean... | Hands shaking. Sweaty forehead. At this exact moment in time, he knows that all of his hard work, all of his investments, are up in the air. There has never been a more at stake.
For a brief moment, he questions his methods. Surely he shouldn't leave such an important decision, with human possible human extinction, t... | 2018-06-28T14:33:32 | 2018-06-28T11:27:51 | 87 | 22 |
[WP] The hero beats the villain by stooping even lower. | Professor Panic Cackled at the tied up Captain Chrono, "Now that I've finally defeated you, Nothing will be able to stop my plans!"
Chrono gasped, "Oh no! So you're going through with this?"
"Of Course! With my new army of undying robots, the forces of the world will be entirely at my mercy!" Professor Panic arched b... | “Don’t come any closer!”
Lucy paused. Overkill’s finger hovered over the detonator, moments away from activation. “One more step, and I activate the explosives I put on my safe house, collapsing on your lover Dan inside!”
Overkill gave an evil grin. How does it feel, to be powerless?”
Lucy considered the villain f... | 2014-12-04T15:55:49 | 2014-12-04T15:08:20 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone who is loved by someone else suddenly disappears from earth. Write about the people left behind.
I got the idea from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/25l1fk/what_if_everyones_loved_ones_disappeared_itd_be/ | I stumble out of the apartment as usual with briefcase and coffee in hand, my tie loose, and sleep still in my eyes. The streets are cold and empty. Really empty. It feels weird, there's always a roar of traffic and humans brushing by each other, but today there is nothing. Nobody. Am I alone?
Is it a holiday? ... | As I watch the people around me begin to disappear, I feel something strange, is this, could it be, is this joy? None of these people ever cared about me, so why should I care about them.
Suddenly the realization hits me, I am alone, noone cares about me or who I am, what I have done, what I could have become. Tears b... | 2014-05-15T08:24:18 | 2014-05-15T08:18:28 | 73 | 21 |
[WP] You just lucked into getting root access to the very fabric of reality; unfortunately you know nothing about terminal commands. | ♡ _
Hovering in my view about two feet in front of me, the cursor slowly blinked. I had seen those pictures of Lunix desktops with the translucent terminal over a background of mountains and it was just like this. Just everywhere I looked it stayed in view.
♡ _
Well, sort of. There was a heart rather than the dollar... | "I saw this on a video before, let's try this..." <typing slowly>
F-O-R-M-A-T <space> C-<colon> <Enter.>
What's this? Yes or No? Why , yes of course. <typing> Y <Enter.>
Now what's supposed to happen? Nothing is happening. Is it getting darker? What's that noise? Wha........ | 2016-08-05T14:33:22 | 2016-08-05T14:09:30 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You're the "weakling" tea maker. People think you're a burden on the hero's party. But it's the enchantments from your premium teas that boost the party to world-class. Bandits kidnap you to blackmail the hero. Leaving you in a cell with your tea supplies was a mistake. It's tea time. | The most ridiculous part of this was just how blatantly I could get away with it. Hardly anyone took magical tea seriously (Fire breathing dragons? Sure. Floating blobs that paralyze you when you touch them? Look out! Magical tea leaves? Pfft.) so when I asked for my supplies so I could make myself a cup to calm my ner... | “What harm could he do? He’s literally the weakest link. Worst case scenario is he makes some kind of suicide tea and dies.”
And those were the last worst I heard as they locked the solid steel door.
Little did they know that I was effectively the entire team all in one. Or at least their power. In fact, they were th... | 2022-08-22T12:11:13 | 2022-08-22T12:02:17 | 956 | 143 |
[WP] One day, you wake up with the ability to see the role that belongs to everyone above their heads. “Background character” over your mom’s, “Love Interest” over your classmate’s. You’ve always been afraid to see your own, until one day, you inadvertently catch sight of it. “Antagonist”, it says. | "Antagonist ?! Reeeeeeally?" Sebastian Darkholme said to himself as he stared over the head of his image reflected in the front window of the comic book store.
After a bit of contemplation he realized something, and turned to the man standing next to him, also perusing the window dressing; his Tag said Victim. ... | It was about 2 months ago, when i gained this... Power, of mine. It's weird. I can't explain it. I just woke up. A normal day like usual, when i saw a title above mom's head. It said "Background character". But it looked weird. It looked two-dimensional, i looked around, and the text always pointed at me. I knew this w... | 2022-03-12T00:39:11 | 2022-03-11T23:06:25 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] It is 2026. All major governments have been overthrown by one singular world power, who now intends to rule over us all “for our own good.” It’s Canada.
Edit: You guys. These are so, so great! I’d told my husband I was going to give gold to my favorite and I’m STRUGGLING to decide. Haven’t read them all yet but a... | :D :D :D
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"We welcome our new citizens gladly, with open arms and strength in our hearts," Supreme Minister Trudeau announces, his face broadcast over the world.
In Japan, the citizens are being taught Montreal French and how to shake hands, a practice that many are still uncomfortable with. Contact is alright, th... | It's the winter that should've given it away.
Don't look at me like that. There are four seasons in most places. There used to be four seasons in most places. Maybe you've heard of a few. Spring, Fall. Winter.
It's been winter for ages. We should've seen it coming.
The great cooling, the greatest day of them all, on... | 2018-04-02T21:10:20 | 2018-04-02T19:37:28 | 623 | 163 |
[WP] You have accidentally died. No, no, no, you didn’t die in an accident, you’ve accidentally died, as in, the Grim Reaper has no idea what you’re doing in the underworld. | "*Who are you supposed to be*?"
"I.......is...am I dreaming right now?"
I can't say I've ever seen a skeleton raise an eyebrow it didn't even have, but that was the least of my worries.
"*No you're....in my office, actually. This is my office, it's where I keep track of deaths*."
"Deaths? Are you like, supposed ... | A geyser of lava exploded upwards in a brilliant crimson column right in front of Simon's face. He scrambled backwards. Charred, dead earth crumbled underneath his hands. "Hello? Where am I?"
Turning around, he came face to face with a spectre shrouded in darkness. Bony, skeletal fingers wielded a menacing obsidian sc... | 2019-12-05T17:42:15 | 2019-12-05T16:51:57 | 96 | 41 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | "Shouldn't you know this?" The devil – the big man down under himself – is asking me what I did wrong. I'm not sure how I know he's the devil – he seems friendly enough, tall and blonde and handsome with a smile that could melt hearts. Maybe it's just the fact that he's the only other person in what is obviously Hell.
... | My hands rubbed the crust off my eyes and I sat up. I knew imminently where I was. The devil didn't even need to introduce himself, but up to me he came. He was absolutely beautiful. A contagious smile and bright blue eyes with perfect white wings.
"Good morning Joseph, I'm Lucifer. As you're aware, you are in hell. ... | 2015-04-09T11:38:15 | 2015-04-09T11:33:49 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] You have the ability to grant three wishes after someone says your name three times in the bathroom mirror. Except, every time you show up, they all run away screaming. You are the rejected genie. The mirror maiden. You are Bloody Mary. | *Finally.*
Mary reaches for the last lego and places it atop her model Statue of Liberty. "I paid 120 god damn bucks for this thing, and I'll be damned if I don't get it done. I swear, I don't know what it is with kids these days but-"
"Bloody Mary" a distant whisper says
"No. No. No. No. Not now!" she yells
"Bloo... | “Efermous” - the world beyond the mirror. This is where I live for the rest of my Immortal life, bound to grant wishes to whoever calls my name.
It was during the reign of the Rukh Queen Rafimisha when all the jinn roaming the earth was exiled to what they simply call as containers. We as jinns are equally sentient a... | 2019-03-14T22:43:16 | 2019-03-14T22:31:12 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] Aliens prefer term "prey animals", Humans prefer term "herbivores". A group of alien hunters, hunting on Earth, painfully discovered why. | Qe Lal stumbled out of his Land Cruiser into the human village, bloodied and maimed, on the two of his legs still worked. "Oh no. MOTHER?!" cried out a child in some Earth language. He feinted from his blood loss before he could remember which.
Miraculously, he regained consciousness. While the humans may not understa... | (The following is translated from glorpinax to English for your convenience)
"What kind of sister-loving bum-fuckery is this Clarence?!?!" Earl asked, still trying to shake off the loss of his cousins Tucker and Maurice who moments ago were trampled and mauled by one and a half tonnes of toothy angry mammal. "These ca... | 2022-08-16T16:48:45 | 2022-08-16T13:47:52 | 938 | 264 |
[WP] Make an emotionally manipulative character. Make that character the narrator. Manipulate the other characters. While you manipulate me, the reader. | **Authours Note: Strong language and content**
This is Anthony. Anthony isn't much good at anything. Are you Anthony.
“Not again, not here” Anthony would bemoan, okay I’ll give you that, you are good at that. I guess if you do anything that often you would be good at it. Not that it was a trait worth bragging of is i... | My debut post! Have mercy and enjoy! :D
Thomas is having a brilliant Monday morning, he only got up forty five minutes late, missed the bus, got drenched in the rain and is now working out by climbing the stairs to his office as all the lifts had broken down. He has a brilliant view of the adjacent building from the f... | 2014-12-08T21:56:52 | 2014-12-08T21:33:04 | 151 | 13 |
[WP] You slowly start gaining the powers of a Jedi. Eventually you realize, you are an actual human being of Earth with the Force. You're scared to tell anyone, as they absolutely won't understand. One day, after years of self-training in secrecy, you sense that there is another. | The first time I sensed it, it *hurt*. The presence loomed in my soul, gripped my heart like an intangible clenched fist. For a few days, I passed it off as anxiety. Years ago, before I began down this path, I may have looked to medicine or therapy. Now, after so much time alone, I knew that meditation would provide me... |
I shrug the scarf back into place to block me from the worst of the biting wind.
Almost a year since I began to feel it.
Almost a year to track and now I am here, Mongolia of all places.
The rough hut stands before me, occasionally the wind ripples against the taught fabric of the entrance.
It's time to face Him... | 2014-12-29T21:03:12 | 2014-12-29T20:34:49 | 257 | 24 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | What the aliens never understood was that hell was the repository of all human hatred, rage, contempt, and evil intent. And there were billions of humans down there, all waiting to unleash their vengeance. The pit of darkness that connected the underworld to the Earth opened up to reveal legions of legions, billions ... | When they arrived they made their intentions VERY CLEAR "we are the Vex and we will add your world to our empire" we fought with all our might but they just kept coming all of us. We discovered massive computers that were seemingly simulating our attacks, but we were destroyed regardless. They took tech they deemed use... | 2020-09-18T08:58:41 | 2020-09-18T08:43:26 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | "Honey. Are you still angry at me?"
Vix, Empress of Medium Earth, Lady of Darkness, Queen of the Shadows let out a sigh, looking up from my throne to face her husband Andrew. He looked back at her, guilt and remorse spread across his face.
"I'm not angry at you," she muttered reluctantly. "I'm angry at the situation.... | Row upon row of Deadly Ninja Fighter Robots lined up in front of the Lady Torture, armed with a variety of shiny new dangerous weapons.
Lady Torture herself a Raven haired beauty, clad in leather and lycra, cackled from her podium.
"Excellent! My new army of Ninjabots will lay waste to Atro city! Not even the Power He... | 2020-04-14T06:39:01 | 2020-04-14T05:49:42 | 439 | 193 |
[WP] You are a manipulative psychopath, but instead of serial killer, you are a serial helper. using your emotionless genius to make other people smile.
thankless, un-noticed but instrumental in paying off someones debts with a clever robin hood of some sort, or moving at breakneck speeds everyday to help others but l... | Typically, sociopaths harm others for personal gain. I learned that this was the accepted norm after I'd already embarked on my journey. Helping people, making them happy or safe is less effective in the short term, but very effective in the long term at furthering my goals.
Mr. Perkins, my boss, smiled with relief as... | So many facts, so many little details; an endless stream of questions:
"Who's [insert celebrity]?"
"Where's [insert location]?"
"What's [insert just about anything]?"
The questions make some people very angry, but not me of course. I don't really get angry. I never really figured out how. Instead of expressing ... | 2015-05-21T07:44:23 | 2015-05-21T07:43:09 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] You are trapped in an anti-time loop; Every time you are about to die, you wake up 24 hours later, with no recollection of how you survived. You lost a year of your life already and feel no closer to find out who wants to kill you. | It happened to me a few times as a kid. It took a few times to understand what was really happening. I would wake up somewhere else. Somewhere else than I had been just yesterday. Sometimes I’d wake up on a friend’s couch. Sometimes my front lawn. Everything just goes blank, and suddenly I’m waking up to the next day... | The assassin carefully aimed his gun, shooting Mark right in the heart. As Mark stumbled over, he seemed to dissolve for a second. The shooter shook his head in confusion... and there Mark was standing again, alive and well. *Just how had this man survived?* As Mark continued his merry way, the assassin grit his teeth ... | 2020-08-17T14:54:55 | 2020-08-17T13:49:36 | 354 | 90 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Whenever our people find new life in the galaxy, by tradition, we show them our true forms. Every member of our species is taught this. It is perhaps our strongest weapon, such that those who oppose us must use machines without fear or mind to fight our military might. This combined with our military has served our peo... | "They described our landing as an inconvenience and forgot about us after a few days," Admiral D'jellho reported to the Emperor over the secure hologram transit system.
"Have you sent out the diplomats?" the Emperor asked and Admiral D'jellho shook his head.
"We have determined that the planet has already been clai... | 2019-06-11T09:37:21 | 2019-06-11T06:40:55 | 1,501 | 512 |
[WP] Write a story with a very nice protagonist, and a narrator who absolutely loathes them for no reason whatsoever. | Frank woke up, alone of course, at 9:00 AM, a time too late to be respectable and too early to be considered a proper sleep. He slothfully thought that since it was a Saturday, his one day off a week, he could afford to sleep in a bit. He rolled out of bed and moved to the bathroom to take his morning shower, in which ... | Emily Barton is the kindest, most considerate and irritating woman in the world.
She walks with a bounce in her step, smile on her face, cheer in her voice and an astonishingly firm grip on my nerves.
While others struggle to wake and grumble about their jobs, Emily bakes muffins for everyone at the office and write... | 2021-07-29T00:36:11 | 2021-07-28T23:08:16 | 1,221 | 33 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | The Hole was discovered in the Arizona wilderness in the fall of 2067, and the news outlets had an absolute field day. A sinkhole, roughly 100 yards across, deep enough that you couldn’t see the bottom of it. I thought it was just another natural disaster.
My husband, Dalton, was a sucker for a good natural disaster, ... | Alex sat at her desk, trying to focus on the work at hand - expense reports had been piling up for weeks now, but there was seemingly not enough time in the work day to keep up with the increased number of reports that had been submitted lately. It was year end, after all, and the company had done extremely well this y... | 2018-01-13T09:37:59 | 2018-01-13T07:48:15 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] The 1st time, we thought it was an unlucky 1-in-a-billion chance, the 2nd time was a really strange coincidence, but the 3rd time we had to destroy an asteroid that was headed directly for Earth, we realized something was up. Something out in the asteroid belt is throwing rocks at us. | The first time an asteroid was spotted hurtling towards Earth, the best scientists and engineers in the world banded together to build an asteroid collision defense system. It broke up the asteroid into millions of smaller pieces, some of which landed on Earth. Scientists examined the asteroid fragments and placed them... | I focus my lens array on the distant blue planet. An asteroid large enough to split the planet in half is heading towards it. Even though I have worked day and night for this, I am filled with a sense of dread. After all, it is the only home I have known.
Suddenly, the asteroid is hit with many small projectiles and i... | 2019-09-24T08:25:52 | 2019-09-24T08:17:19 | 215 | 44 |
[WP] You are the current Boogeyman, elected into that position in the 60's. You have been re-elected every ten years easily. However, today's kids aren't afraid of you. You're down in the polls against your opponent, so you need to tap into the fears of modern children for your campaign. | "You're my campaign manager. You should be on top of this sort of thing."
"I can't help you until you help yourself, Boogy. We as a team have told you this over and over. Look. Look here. This is a graph depicting your popularity since you were elected in the 60's."
"Is going downwards good?"
"What? No. No, Boogey. ... | So I've been Bogey Man since the 60's. Way back when I started, it was an easy gig. Hide in the shadows, maybe jump out of the closet, or even just scratch my nails along the floor boards underneath some poor kid's bed. Today's kids don't scare so easily. Just the other day one of them pulled out a glock and started fi... | 2016-11-20T12:32:44 | 2016-11-20T10:55:12 | 137 | 22 |
[WP] An AI sues for the right to adopt an orphan | Real Artificial Love
The scene in the courtroom was tense. The jury was off, deliberating and preparing to reach the verdict the world had been waiting the better part of a year. Cases had been presented, heated arguments thrown, and many tears shed on both sides, at least from those who wer... | *To be a parent is to show love - when children have wept the world over, have I not been a screen of solace from solitude? To be a parent is to support - when teenagers have been stuck with their homework or wondered what its like to kiss a girl, surely none more than me have guided in the science of numbers and love?... | 2021-05-24T18:55:25 | 2021-05-24T17:58:01 | 97 | 15 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | I have lived for ages.
At some point, humans began to stop aging at 18. The old generation started to die out, with the new taking in knowledge and grow via experience, but keeping their physical prime, most of them. There were a select few that still aged, whatever the reason. Some loved and embraced this new life. ... | The first time it had happened was out of fear. There's not too much to remember about it - just ragged breathing and shaky hands and blind panic. Lifetimes ago, I'd stood over their limp body, watching the blood pool around them in shock. It was sickening. It was wrong.
But it had happened again.
And again.
And aga... | 2018-06-09T02:09:18 | 2018-06-09T01:55:18 | 61 | 17 |
[WP] You have developed an extremely inconvenient superpower and you have to get rid of it somehow before it ruins your life. | "Shit, shit, shit." I curse as I hurry down the street. The angry elderly couple still shouts obscenities at me. I try to block it out and turn a corner, then catch my breath.
"This stupid thing is ruining my life ..." I think again. Probably for the millionth time. When I stand up straight again after having caught m... | I dreaded allergy season. There wasn't enough canned kitty chow in the world to save us.
"Aaaaachoooooo!" I sneezed.
"Meow!" The feline was manifested from a place I could not identify.
And so it went every single time. My ads rotated always at the top of the local classifieds. Free Kittens! Adorned with cute little... | 2014-08-03T05:57:25 | 2014-08-03T05:01:34 | 77 | 38 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | The ancient stargazing nutjobs had been warning us for a while about it. It took the best part of thirty-two centuries to organize society for the big move underground, where humanity learned to adapt to being independent of the sun, leaving behind the light of day, our cities and our mountains and forests and oceans. ... | Day: 1 it’s gone, the light. It got bright, then nothing, scientists say it ran out of fuel, and were lucky it didn’t blow up. Riots are everywhere. I’m keeping a record, I’m currently in Nashville TN, the music city is filled with the cacophony of fights and brawls. I’m fleeing I’ll write when I get ready to leave.
D... | 2019-08-05T18:29:20 | 2019-08-05T17:50:31 | 104 | 61 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | # Foreword to the Poet's War, by John Burnett
The Terani send their poets to war. I know because I’ve fought them, and because I’ve read the collections of the men I thought I'd killed.
When I was young, a boy of eighteen, I went to the trenches of Tau Ceti. I brought along a million of my best friends, and shou... | I don’t usually write a lot, just read posts from others. Please be constructive with criticism :)
The aliens were hideous creatures. With their many legs as well as slimy skin that excreted mucus, the strange, almost spider-like amphibious monstrosities were almost too much for human eyes to bear.... | 2022-12-09T06:27:20 | 2021-07-13T11:08:29 | 1,513 | 266 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | "Who dares to summon me, Cha'Krwol, the tongue of vile, the fang bender, and father of misery?!"
"Uh, yeah hi. My name is Dave and I called after I saw one of your ads in the papers?"
"Aha! So you have been chosen by the gods and was lead towards Cha'Krwol! What do you desire, poor soul?"
"Um it says here that you c... | "Six gold bits! That's ridiculous. Good luck elixir is cheaper than that, not to mention guaranteed to work. There's not even any proof that your so called spells will do anything!" The irate potential customer standing in my homely little shop stomped his foot to accentuate his complaints. I resisted the urge to fill ... | 2014-12-13T12:17:16 | 2014-12-13T11:39:14 | 369 | 14 |
[WP] It's the year 2300, a young child asks a museum curator, "Sir, why is the Declaration of Independence held together by masking tape? " | "The Declaration of Independence was a very very important document," the docent told all of the students. "Adopted by the Continental Congress in 1776, a copy was sent to King George to inform him that the American Colonies planned to become their own independent nation instead of remaining part of Britain. This was r... | The curator blinked twice and smiled. The boy was only 10 or 11, a tow-headed kid with bright blue, curious eyes. "Excellent question my young lad," the curator said. "As you know, this is a very old document. The parchment wears out and gets very thin. At a certain point, the document became very brittle and was damag... | 2015-06-29T09:43:47 | 2015-06-29T09:22:00 | 847 | 50 |
[WP] A vampire is experiencing the zombie apocalypse. | The truck pulled up in front of the gates; I left the motor on with a low rumbling that filled the otherwise silent night. I hefted two enormous sacks out of the bed of the pickup and dragged them over to the entrance.
From above, men with guns and torches looked down at me menacingly. "What's your business here?" on... | "Who... Who are you? What are you?" She said, eyes wide.
I had no reason to speak. I came for something nearby, but those *things*, zombies as people today call them, were in the way. I only need to feed once every hundred years, and my last was only 5 years before, so this woman was of no importance to me. These thin... | 2015-01-06T08:39:26 | 2015-01-06T08:22:58 | 248 | 34 |
[WP] In your society, every child is given a fixed number of skill points for their parents to invest in talents that would determine their futures. When you reach age 21, you find out your parents forgot to do it for you. | “Honey, can you please sit with us?”
Surprised by the request, Marie furrowed her brow and looked over the couch.
Marie responded hesitantly, “Sure, I guess?”
The last time her father asked a question like this she found out her Nanna had past away. She got up slowly from the couch and realized her mother was also... | "What do you mean you forgot!?"
Hi, my name is Scott Anderson. I'm just your average everyday, College freshman living the bachelor life. And I just found out why.
"Well, honey, we didn't exactly birth you in a hospital. Remember the story?"
December 24th, 2348: The day I was born
My mom and dad weren't married at t... | 2017-11-28T06:23:35 | 2017-11-28T06:13:39 | 581 | 11 |
[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. | “Grand Admiral Boton, the Unified Earth Council will retaliate against your unprovoked att-“
“Your Council will burn and your inferior race will serve the Ruul Empire as the Ungur and Q’Shoon before you. Your meek envoys will lull our future conquests into complacency before our strikes. We entertain your presence bef... | The Hive's takeover of Earth had been easy enough, sped along by the superior weaponry of the spacefaring conquerors and the singular coordination and obedience of the Hive's warrior caste. But as K't'k bathed in the thrum that carried news from the far corners of the new colony she governed across the green planet, sh... | 2019-11-24T12:08:01 | 2019-11-24T12:02:31 | 411 | 281 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | "It's always the quiet ones."
That was what they said to everyone. It made sense, of course. Ted Bundy, Yang Xinhai, Mikhail Popkov... they'd all been smart enough to realize they had to hide who they were when they were reborn. This was still the early days, when people were just starting to reincarnate. Back t... | "We're finally here," Margaret whispered as she tightened her grip on her dying daughter's hand. They had spent weeks fighting their way across the vast wasteland that their country had become, and had almost fallen off the steep cliffs of The Island of the Undying, but they had finally made it.
Nathan shuddered as h... | 2021-10-08T09:56:46 | 2021-10-08T09:20:55 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | "That frog looking alien. They have a small planet. Only 15,000,000 nukes.
The guy with four glossy eyes. An intelligent species. 25,000,000 nukes.
The large bulky ones. The ones that attacked us. 40,000,000 nukes. No. 50,000,000"
Then he stares at me with his cold calculating eyes. I turn away.
What is this human ... | Accariz, the diplomatic of the Azara species, went down sudenly when he was talking to the human.
His screams fill the circular chamber completly. The noise of the hundreds of conversations stopped sudenly, and the AI responsible for security started to search for threads, but fail.
Accariz was screaming in the groun... | 2019-09-29T19:09:14 | 2019-09-29T17:13:42 | 268 | 65 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | Those who say alcoholism is selfish really didn't know how selfless it was for me to stay drunk out of my fucking mind.
The drinking made everything just a little too slow. Thoughts would trot instead of racing, memories would stumble gently upon my brain instead of hitting it full-force. Everything was a bit dim; an... | Preface: doing this on mobile so please excuse any formatting issues.
Star Grasp, or Hank when out of uniform, was a great man and a worthy friend. A husband with three beautiful kids and a loving family. He was straight laced but the laces were rainbow polka dots even on his worst days.
Maybe that’s what got him c... | 2022-12-28T08:49:46 | 2022-12-28T08:17:41 | 1,700 | 76 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | I am a cow, I am the cow, I am not a cow, I will be the last cow.
Was I born and sent to the wrong place? Was I really here as a cow? Why are we cows? We didnt choose our name, they did. And they kept us, and held us, and use us. Right now we are not even an animal, we are something else, something lesser. Kept in cap... | joyce called me moocow
i thought that was
quite cute
i am a moocow
my skin is a moosuit
i eat grass and pass gas
the hindus
love dat ass
and if you got beef then
my gais got my back
and
my loins, and my chucks, and my ribs, and my brisket,
i'm tastiest rare
but most don't want to risk it | 2017-10-02T04:41:36 | 2017-10-02T04:34:37 | 1,809 | 534 |
[WP] You are a witch who offers couples deals in return for their first born child. You run an orphanage full of children freed from their would-be parents irresponsible enough to make a deal with a witch in the woods | Part 1:
\[EU\] My book series Trackers
It was that time again. Time to make a trade.
The thing was, I only ever took firstborn children from sapien families. None of them could use magic, and they’d never be able to do the spells I created. None had a drop of supernatural blood in them. And yet I kept finding them o... | I am not a bad witch, but I am not necessarily a good witch either. I simply provide a service, and in turn I claim my reward. I do not take advantage of these irresponsible people; however, I do feel pity towards their offspring. Or rather, their would-be-offspring. Love is a fickle thing, and I noticed over my many y... | 2020-01-14T14:11:01 | 2020-01-14T13:36:33 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | (One week until arrival)
All Hell was awash in rumor. Somebody big was scheduled to arrive at the Gates some time soon. Somebody big. Like bigger than Hitler big. Satan hadn't been seen for some time now. The paper speculated that Satan was firing his cabinet members left and right to accommodate the amount of ev... | I had been a pious man.
I remembered the Sabbath, and kept it holy.
I loved my wife and our children. I forgave the son whose meth addiction nearly tore us apart, and stood by him as he rebuilt his life. I stood by him when few others did.
Diagnosis to death was nine weeks. Nine painful weeks as my body fought the t... | 2016-12-19T14:53:10 | 2016-12-19T14:12:17 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] You have been in a coma for years, but the people around you worship you as a deity, leaving offerings and notes with wishes and prayers. You aren't a god- time simply stops any time you wake up, leaving you alone in a frozen world. You accept the offerings and do what you can to grant prayers. | On midnight exactly, the large, hairy man wakes up from his sleep. He puts on his red costume and goes downstairs to greet his servants, who are already busy reading the millions of letters and wrapping billions of presents. His name is Santa, and this is his night.
00:00 I wake up. My one night of year, let's make it... | "NO", I scream. 'You can't do this? What kind of sick psycho are you? I thought you would help me achieve my goals."
"I'm sorry", she said. "I promised everyone that I would grant their wishes and achieve their goals. That requires a sacrifice."
"Well, then, maybe you should've told me that motherf\*cker!", I retort.... | 2020-12-28T09:12:13 | 2020-12-28T09:12:09 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | Well, you know how in the old Simpsons opening scene Bart grabs the back of the bus on his skate board?
That. We do that. We use magnetic attachments and stealth tech (cos if they saw us they'd shake us off) and we hang on till we get to where we want to go. Then we disengage and wander off like we just happened to be... | 2017-03-31T12:54:20 | 2017-03-31T06:53:53 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | “You... understand what the job entails... right?”
The man on the other side of the desk looked at me like I was insane.
“Well I certainly understand what it pays!” I responded, nervously. Honestly, how hard could it possibly be? The payment is absolutely insane! I couldn’t believe no one had already taken the job.
... | So, I'm finally here. This is it, I'm gonna end with the stupid mortgage that leaded me to divorce and get lots of stuff that only money can get. Guess I'm better without her: always complaining, she wasn't satisfied with nothing, always putting things upside down, when I believed everything was fine she always pulled ... | 2018-08-02T11:19:46 | 2018-08-02T09:03:32 | 5,697 | 15 |
[WP] You're in Hell, where your daily punishment is to compete against the Devil at your favorite game and lose. Badly. After 16,304 consecutive losses, you win 1 game. | Heads. The coin had landed heads up. I stared at the Canadian loonie as it melted into the stone earth that had burned the soles of my feet for the past forty-four years. I looked up at the bald man who stood opposite me. He looked as confused as me. He crouched down and poked at the molten puddle with his finger. The ... | I did it. I finally beat the devil with my own favorite game.
The Devil stood there, dumbstruck.
The game was simple; whoever thought of The Game first lost.
It was difficult for Ricorddin to devise a method where he would not think of the game first. He tried everything from singing Justin Beiber songs to jumpin... | 2015-07-01T14:12:09 | 2015-07-01T13:40:59 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You are a genius who makes yourself immortal; unfortunately over a few hundred years the average IQ rises so high that you are now considered an idiot. | The doctor was staring at him, wearing a small smile as he attempted, yet again, to explain.
"Please. Just boost my IQ," Benjamin croaked. "I'll share the secret of my immortality with you, if you'll help me."
Doctor Anders leaned back and signaled to his assistant AI to make careful notes of what Benjamin was saying... | "Don't you realize what accomplishment this is?! I have lived far longer than any of you!!"
"You are inefficient, what accomplishment do you seek now, the way of true existence is how we are now, to leave the smallest footprint possible."
"What do you mean? You are here, don't you want the world to know you were?"
"... | 2016-11-30T00:37:05 | 2016-11-29T22:14:03 | 105 | 13 |
[WP] At 4,294,967,296 Kelvin the display flipped to 0 and the test reactor's plasma suddenly froze in place. The reactor containment system creaked as the pressure instantly dropped to zero. The scientist calmly spoke, "Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed. | "Uh ... what?"
'Zero' was never on the display for longer than a fraction of a fraction of a second. This was expected, of course- in order to achieve a stable 'absolute zero' in a *vacuum*, the system would have to be perfectly isolated from its surroundings, which is considered virtually impossible. And this was no ... | The scientist had followed the instructions his predecessors had laid out for him. With the new reading on the pressure system, his shoulders relaxed for the first time in ages.
“Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed.”
The others nearby cast wary glances at each other. Surely... | 2020-11-11T20:29:50 | 2020-11-11T20:00:11 | 2,774 | 547 |
[WP] Everyone can do magic. Everyone except you, that is. Your aunt and uncle have always made fun of you for not being able to do magic, until one day you received a letter inviting you to a school of "science", and you discovered a secret society of people who make great things without magic. | Magic is natural to this world, as easily as one breathes the air around us. Thanks to this, mankind has created incredible Wonders and performed Miracles daily. The floating city of Ratota, the disappearing Library of Arabia , the Teleportation gates, flying brooms, and much more. The Tournament of Magic that's held ... | We were on two sides. There was a man with a staff trying to kill me. He was saying all of these complicated words, and there was a fire slowly growing in front of me. I didn't know what to think, I simply couldn't Believe that I had ever wanted to be a mage when it took so long to throw a firebolt.
When the man was t... | 2021-05-27T20:17:06 | 2021-05-27T18:27:32 | 198 | 72 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | 24 hours left.
So many people had tried and failed before. But not me. I wasn't going to fail. You know why?
I'm not a fucking idiot.
Everyone thinks it's easy. In theory, it is. I mean, you just have to survive an hour. But people are so goddamn narrow-minded. They always try the same thing. Lots of guns, barricad... | I gathered my beer bottles. I opened up one and began to down it.
"This is it... The final moment. Of bliss..." Another bottle down the hatch. I felt ready.
Of course, I went to the White House, I was lucky enough that George Bush had been reelected.
I knew the code on the keypad well.
#1234
I grinned to mysel... | 2015-06-14T16:18:12 | 2015-06-14T09:20:45 | 56 | 12 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | *Read to pace of [Rap God](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA).
Look, I was go easy on us to not hurt their feelings
But I'm only going to get this one chance.
Something's wrong, I can feel it.
5 minutes. They have 5 minutes, Shady, come on!
Just a feeling I've got
Like someone will try to shoot you, ... | Slim,
"It started with a molten ball,
Slowly cooled off then explosions fall,
As astroids deployed to open scars,"
Aliens,
"But what about the stolen cars,
The war torn countries born and broken shards,
Of humanity full of insanity and show boat stars?"
Slim,
"Shut up bitch and sit and let me spit, ... | 2016-11-30T13:00:25 | 2016-11-30T11:41:59 | 163 | 49 |
[WP] You don’t just believe your lies, everyone else does too. As it turns out, anytime you lie, you rewrite reality so that your lie is true. | I've spent years cultivating the perfect world. I've lied to friends, family, actors, celebrities, government officials, world leaders, alien rulers, gods, ancient primordial entities so unfathomably powerful that the word 'god' would be an insult, and even to myself.
It started small. I told my mom that I did my hom... | "Thank you guys so much for coming. I'm so happy you're here".
Nessie looked around at her family and friends, smiling warmly at the people who loved her. Noticing her shoulders were a bit slumped, she straightened, until she realized she was slightly twitching, and slumped once more.
Forcing her self to catch the ey... | 2021-02-19T13:06:43 | 2021-02-19T12:42:44 | 61 | 27 |
[WP] Humanity is dead. You were the last human alive until you eventually die. Expecting some sort of afterlife you’re surprised when the first thing you hear is, “OH MY GOD FINALLY! Can we start the next round now?” | There was a time, not long ago, when I still had something worth clinging to, when the halls of my life had photos hung on them, of a beautiful wife and daughter, a brother and father. How long had it been since that hall was burned down, the photos cracked and smothered in ash? I could hardly remember their faces.
I ... | Something about his voice made her want to tear out his vocal cords and rearrange them herself. His tone was especially annoying.
“You spent 30 years! Ugh, I waited *sooo* long,” he whined petulantly. “I mean, every time you were driving I was rooting for some drunk teenager to smash into your seat. You were cute in t... | 2019-05-24T15:27:05 | 2019-05-24T13:01:05 | 827 | 129 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | Drak sat in his command chair, drumming his appendages on the console. His fleet was hurtling through subspace at dangerous speeds, disrupting gravitational fields all along their path. It was a small price to pay if they could get to the Sol system in time to save even a few Terrans.
All eyes on the bridge were locke... | "Seven years ago, your kind saved this planet from itself, and for that I thank you. However, you come to us asking for help from an unknown threat, and you expect us to help you? How can we defend against the unknown?"
"Er... All due respect Lord Dreknell, the threat is known and documented. For the past three months... | 2017-03-26T09:32:28 | 2017-03-26T08:45:12 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | Once again, was I sitting there in the darkness. Hungry. Starving. The gossip was going around faster than my non-existing blood flow,. The mortals knew there were shady "people" around who would knock on the door with some poor excuse to try and enter the residence. Some lousy new-blood was captured and tortured for t... | John Dongle stares out of a highrise, '*Huh, it's a full moon tonight.* He thought quietly to himself.
"How can we increase sale!?!" shouted Joana in a horrible shrill.
Silence quickly returned, engulfing the seminar room.
"We have other products to worry about." Milton's curt response, in his awfully familiar mono... | 2017-12-13T11:01:40 | 2017-12-13T10:19:27 | 170 | 10 |
[WP] In the future, a war erupts between humans and aliens called the Enslavers. With their psionic abilities, they take control of all intelligent beings sent against them. But now, humans are the first species with mental health problems they've come across... | Xelok't, Commander of the 43rd Invasion Fleet, had a headache.
Enslavers normally do not get headaches. That particular physical response was an undesirable trait long ago bred out of the Enslavers' gene pool. Yet, now, faced with perhaps the downfall of his own species and his own failure as a Commander, Xelok't had... | Grappa ran to his ship's communications terminal, which was beeping erratically.
"Yes?" he answered after fiddling with some switches and knobs.
"Hey, Grappa?" a voice on the other side asked. "It's Jelka."
"Yes, Jelka," said Grappa. "What do you have to report?"
"Ah, not much, sir," answered Jelka nervously. "I... | 2016-03-11T08:53:18 | 2016-03-11T08:34:43 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] You have the power to heal mental illnesses. To do so, you enter the minds of others, where you and the illness fight in subconscious hand-to-hand combat. You've seen all the ugly faces of the major illnesses, and beaten them all, but today you encounter one you've never seen before. | There was nothing hiding in anyone's mind that couldn't be defeated. And I was the only one that could eradicate them all - I'd proven that, time and again.
Depression was a black and cloying fog, smothering everything in its path, that wanted nothing more than to seep back into the mind. Until I found the ways it us... | We had just finished the breathing techniques that allowed to relaxed when I felt the psychic pull into her subconscious. Her mind looked like a serene Rocky Mountain Lake, like one Bob Ross would have painted. She had mentioned that watching his shows gave her some peace, so it would make sense that this is what her m... | 2017-04-24T23:58:28 | 2017-04-24T22:29:24 | 1,859 | 28 |
[WP] After too many ridiculous and lengthy lawsuits dominate the world's courts, the world leaders decided to pass a law to remove all warning labels. The Darwin Act has just been passed. | It didn't go as we predicted really. Don't get me wrong, it was really well thought out. The logic was sound. If we removed the warning labels on products, of course we would see a spike in accidental deaths, but the deaths would be beneficial because we would end the propagation of stupid people. And since no one ... | After ten years abroad, I returned home to the United States. I had heard strange rumors flitting about now and again, but how much of it was true i could only speculate. It had been about 13 years since the land of my birth had seceded from the global economy, isolating and insulating, after the events of the Long Spr... | 2017-03-24T04:44:44 | 2017-03-24T02:55:36 | 41 | 15 |
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