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[WP] Two years ago the sun winked out, utterly without warning. You are a member of one of the last human settlements on earth, huddled around a geothermal vent in Iceland. This morning, again without warning, the Sun rose. | I went a little overboard with this and the story ended up being almost three thousand words long. So, this is just the introduction. But thank you for the great prompt and motivation to do some writing!
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The Dying Light
Haley-Deanne was born April 14th, 2021, at 3:47 pm on a beautiful sunny spring day... | It was all without warning.
Two years ago the sun vanished. In the following weeks experts converged trying to find an answer to the mystery that plagued our home, but none could be found. The moon had gone dark, but was still observable through the light pollution from 7 billion people trying to maintain some semblan... | 2018-07-21T12:59:48 | 2018-07-21T12:33:08 | 67 | 14 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | Peter tried leaning back in the chair. Ugh. No such luck. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get comfortable.
He looked around at the dozens of other representatives. Their tentacles and furry limbs rested comfortably in the seats.
He was out of place.
He played with the glass of water in front of him. Each r... | It was the perfect plan to kill the human dignitary.
I carefully grounded the leafs wearing protective gloves and a respirator to prevent my own death. Nobody could survive that much of the dangerous tea leafs.
Now how to best disguise the poison that would be this creature's end. As I quickly looked at the available... | 2021-06-12T13:31:31 | 2021-06-12T11:38:22 | 476 | 114 |
[WP] You arrive in the year 1000, and all you have are the clothes on your back, a laptop with the entire Wikipedia library, and a solar charger. | I woke up, scratching my beard. It had been three days since my arrival and since my last shave.
*Note to self. Bring a razor next time.*
He still had no idea where he was, no local currency and no real goods to share. While villagers shied away from him, I didn't understand with their fascination with a particula... | I could feel my blood freezing in my as I read through the letter. This horrible feeling of faliure captured my whole mind, I couldn't think clearly...
"Server! Drink!" I shoutend into the empty room. Two young boy appeared and gave me wotered wine. "No, normal woter is fine this time." I said. I'll need my brain tod... | 2016-12-27T16:27:44 | 2016-12-27T13:45:18 | 90 | 18 |
[WP] You're a human living with a vampire roommate. It's painfully obvious; he never looks at mirrors, he despises garlic, he never uses silverware, and he always stays in during the day, but his attempts at trying to blend in are far too funny.
EDIT: Thank you, silver gifter! | When I first started renting the dingy house over the hill, I asked about the weird box in the basement. Of course I asked. It was almost in the center of the room, covered in concrete, and absolutely immovable.
"Oh, that. I don't actually know- the house is pretty old, so we don't really know anything about who buil... | She often caught his awkward eyes and giggled, quitely. He was kind of cute, after all. Polite, unassuming, helpful, just not very present. Still, It was early days. Alex had only moved In some weeks back. Kiera decided to she would speak to him, soon as the chance would arise. 'He is the only house mate who hasn't jud... | 2019-07-20T10:28:39 | 2019-07-20T07:44:50 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | I sat in a rickety wooden chair in the middle of an abandoned house. The kid who captured me had duct-taped my torso to the back of the chair, and was now trying with some difficulty to bind my wrists behind my back.
"You're doing it wrong," I told the kid. "You should've knocked me unconscious first. Right now, I'm w... | **Please be gentle. It's my first time posting.**
Edited to say the above. Anyway, here goes...
Jennifer.
Dr. Jennifer Mangolini. It was her that started this whole mess, you know.
She ruined it all. The first and last stair of the spiral case stretching from the heavens to deep down below. She played Alpha and ... | 2018-08-23T04:40:56 | 2018-08-23T02:22:18 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] you wake up and realized you skipped a day, everything in your house is organized, since then you always switch bodies with this friendly entity that does your tasks for a day, until one day your windows are barricaded and theres blood on your hands and a note "You must hide" | The sharp scent of copper wafts into my awareness as sleep recedes. I open my eyes groggily, my sleep-deadened mind expecting the usual spotless bedroom with a glass of water on the bedside table waiting for me. Instead, my breath hitches in my chest as my eyes scan the room.
Deep gouges are raked across the walls. My... | I’ve had this sort of... ‘schedule’ for the last few weeks. Every second day, something else would take control of my body for 24 hours with me being none the wiser.
Up until today.
It was supposed to be an off-day so I did not have anything planned for this. Pulling off the duvet under the assumption it was Wednesda... | 2019-10-14T20:16:06 | 2019-10-14T19:02:56 | 555 | 147 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 59 | 33 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | "Um...hi, I've never done this before but I'm looking for some help. I'm having a really rough time right now and I'm afraid I'm going to hurt myself, or worse."
"Oh, sweetie- I'm so sorry you're struggling like this," a raspy, weak voice replied. She must have been at least 80 years old by the sound of it, but the we... | The phone rang again, and Mary sat up in bed putting her glasses on so that she could see the time.
3:32 AM, she smiled sadly to herself. The late night callers were always the least determined ones, usually just young follk too worried to go to work the next morning or too stressed to sleep.
The phone rang again. ... | 2016-02-06T14:35:25 | 2016-02-06T13:39:33 | 325 | 79 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The Priest produced a bright red, sparkly button nestled in a grey box from the sleeve of his long robe.
“Just press it and it’ll all be taken care of, like so.” He snapped his fingers, for emphasis.
“Right-o” I answered, but just as I was about to press it, I hesitated. “Waiiiiiiit a tick. Why do I have to press it?... | "Alright, just make sure I'm showered with praise and a proper tale of my deeds spun from this... mundane action," I said. Then, a thought occurred to me. "Wait, why don't you push it?"
The priest frowned and said: "I'm no chosen one. Nothing would happen, you see."
I shrugged and said: "Yes, yes. Whatever. And pleas... | 2020-11-09T12:45:40 | 2020-11-09T12:09:48 | 286 | 80 |
[WP] Whenever your crew lands you are seen as gods with wonderous machines before drifting off some where else. But today you are met with a species on a green-blue planet who, while interested in your tech, are not bowing down and worshiping. They call themselves humans. | First contact is always risky. Loremasters will tell you its the most dangerous phase of the assimilation. Some sentients are just prone to violence and are difficult to pacify. But most are overwhelmed by awe, confusion and doubt. This most often turns to worship.
Our tech is so far beyond the sentients we’ve c... | Not going to lie. I was waiting for the applause and awe. The look of unadulterated admiration and worship from the natives. No one admits it, it would be shameful to, but we all get off on it. Even me. Especially me.
These natives here, in their bad coloured clothing, showing not enough skin, barely flinched. The loo... | 2020-03-02T07:54:05 | 2020-03-02T04:45:28 | 100 | 47 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | “They’re... what?”
“They seem to be celebrating, Sir,” comments the alien, a portable screen in hand. Up on the ship’s main screens, images of crowds of Americans filling the streets and cheering, proudly hoisting signs and hugging their friends, were prominently displayed. Other, smaller screens showed similar situa... | Admiral 55 the earthlings have celebrated our victory for what is this reasoning?
I don’t know lieutenant(says to someone else) look into this corporal.
Lieutenant it seems that these beings have hated their leaders for many years. And never had the courage to revolt. Except this one time in what they call the year o... | 2020-10-10T21:09:39 | 2020-10-10T20:32:53 | 93 | 25 |
[WP] Every time-traveler is given a single timeline that is their personal playground. Show me a group of time-travelers talking about what they've done with history in the same way we'd talk about what we've done playing open world games.
Edit - I'm not just glad these are so great, I'm glad there are so many! | “So I killed Hitler last night,” Steven said as he sat down to eat his breakfast with his roommates.
“Dude,” Vin said in mock disbelief, barely looking up from his coffee and toast.
“Amateur hour over here,” Bryan said, glancing up from his Sports Center blog only briefly to acknowledge Steven’s presence.
Steven mu... | *"You did what?!"* Dean looked at me like I was a psychopath.
*"Seriously, Brian that's really messed up. I think you may need help."* Craig added.
*"Guys, guys, come on, can you please just let me explain why I did it?"* I pleaded with them.
I wasn't a bad guy, I wasn't some sociopathic sadist that tried to make li... | 2015-04-01T06:30:33 | 2015-04-01T06:06:51 | 115 | 76 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | ---
Köttur, age 9
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Anne stood and watched the children play. Her favorite part of the day was observing children create their own worlds. A group of boys and girls were fighting a monster only they could see, on a ship only they could control. Others were jumping rope, and still others were drawing with chalk. Ever... | Life is unfair, they all say. Tim, who was just slightly stronger than us, grew up being able to lift mountains and move continents. James, who enjoyed taking apart stuff and putting them back together, grew up be one of Earth's most celebrated inventor, revolutionizing the industry.
Me? Cats only seem to like me. The... | 2016-12-30T08:38:21 | 2016-12-30T08:28:43 | 230 | 56 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | I am a nightmare.
I step through a door and suddenly, I'm coming out of a closet. I'm in a bedroom. A kid's bedroom.
"Here you go Mr. Puddles. Now don't forget to-"
A tiny hand freezes in mid-motion, tea cup raised to a stuffed doll. The stuffed doll turns to look at me with button-eyes.
"My apologies. I didn't m... | “Do I know you?”
We used to game together, he knew me only as my gamer tag Xander_Haus. Unfortunately for him, this was entirely real. Or at least he thought it was real.
“You can call me Morpheus—“
“What like the Matrix?!”
“Not quite. I am the god of dreams, what you are seeing here is my creation”
Xander stepped over... | 2018-06-19T15:43:20 | 2018-06-19T14:06:22 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | **HOLD THIS PLEASE**. I had been working in the fields with my parents, bringing in the corn under a dark sky, when the world had suddenly froze and shifted to a gray light. Out of the light had stepped Death.
On our 18th birthday, everyone is supposed to get some kind of power. Something that will keep them safe, giv... | Middle of the night, I was sound asleep like a bastard and I hear the door banging like a brothel, nearly shat myself when i heard it. So I lumbered out of bed, dragged myself to the door, I was preparing myself for a shock you know the sort of thing, fire or another donkey jumped off the cliff. I nearly hit him, when ... | 2019-02-28T23:31:05 | 2019-02-28T21:09:32 | 142 | 22 |
[WP]Assasins live life as outcasts. Away from the public eye, they are hard to find. But they still get mail. You are the postman for a secret division of USPS that caters to these criminals. | The name on the envelope was barely legible. If the Postman looked closely at the smudged, rain-splattered ink, he could see that it said *The Viper*. Address unknown, of course. Just like all the other mail.
The Postman had made many deliveries to outcast assassins over the years. Most weren't that hard to find, rea... | It was no easy task, finding an assassin. The profession attracts quite a particular, peculiar fella' - and what better person to find an assassin than an assassin himself? At least, that was my pitch to the USPS, who'd been strugglin' to get a foothold in the more nefarious areas of mail delivery. Plenty money to be m... | 2020-06-22T02:31:11 | 2020-06-22T02:12:26 | 1,255 | 403 |
[WP] you’re an airline pilot. During one of your nighttime flights, you hear a message over your radio: “attention all flights! Stay in the air as long as you can! I repeat, stay in the air as long as you possibly can!” | **“Attention all flights! Stay in the air as long as you can! I repeat, stay in the air as long as you possibly can!”**
A flashing red light beamed from the tower outwards, skirting around as it tried desperately to catch the eye of any plane in the circuit.
*"Tower, Air North 346...uh...confirm that you want us to a... | The thrum of the sound system's bass passed through the cabin door and into the feet of Captain Weems who squinted at a grey cloud that passed on his right. The moon was a great silver spot light that shimmered through the sky, none of the clouds were impressive enough the veil the celestial object. From below was the ... | 2020-12-29T19:42:51 | 2020-12-29T19:42:44 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | 1: ‘So, you want an interview? I can imagine. Do you think your report will give me a good light?’
I (Interviewer): ‘No matter what you say, people will want to hear your story. No one knew what happened to #1, and then you show up 20 years after she disappeared. Can you tell us about how you were able to kill her? Sh... | "It's invisibility, right?" Seven asks, leaning forward.
"You really think One would survive this long with that? Where do you think he's been hiding that Three wouldn't find him?"
"Maybe his invisibility prevents it." Seven replied, a confused look on his face.
"What. . . Do you even know what Three does? She feels... | 2014-12-18T22:10:04 | 2014-12-18T19:58:06 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | “How would you like to die?”
What kind of question is that? I wouldn’t like to die at all! But still I must give an answer.
I am sentenced for crimes against magic. I tried to poison the Well of Magic. But truly magic is the root of all evil and corruption. It is just a way to cheat the laws of nature.
People with... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T07:46:07 | 803 | 68 |
[WP] you fell asleep in a classroom, you dreamt of a whole life you even died at 80, your teacher just woke you up and no one believes how you understand so much at 6 years old | The phone rang gently as she tapped the long nails of her fingers onto the desk top. The receiver picked up. "Hello?"
"Hello, Mrs McLeod? Yes, this is Ms. Hackett from St. Enochs. Do you have time to speak?" Asked the teacher with a voice so stern and cold that it could freeze the fires of hell.
"What's this all abo... | {I felt like this was a WP for a “redo” at life or to change a day, I can’t remember when I was 6 but I did have a mean math teacher. Events in the WP are changed to protect the innocent and guilty!}
“Annabelle, Annabelle, Annabelle!”
I wake up in my 8th grade geography class my teacher Mr. Jenkins shaking me awak... | 2020-05-12T04:16:36 | 2020-05-12T03:49:33 | 69 | 12 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I sigh, and look around. At all the supermen, and wonderwomen. I remember when I used to watch these in awe, longing for the day I would get to participate in **THE POWER GAMES**!!! A sort of super obstacle course that every 16 year old gets to participate in, and at the end, you get to pick a super power mod, a small ... | I smiled. I couldn´t stop it. The view was too fantastic.
"Eric, please stop this.". Oh the whimpering i heard in her voice. " Stop it? WHY should i stop it? You always said you wanted a son who could achieve something great, and now look. Look at this. Isn´t this something truly great?". Ah, she can´t look. Can´t lo... | 2017-06-12T09:36:31 | 2017-06-12T05:44:01 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] You lived a quiet life, and in passing Death comes to collect your soul, but Death seems afraid of you. | Susan nervously grasped the door handle and turned it ever so slowly. Halfway through her arm began to shake with anxiety. A cold sweat swept over her as she completed the turn. She could have just appeared inside the quaint little house but she did not dare be so direct and impolite. Taking a deep breath she opened th... | **T**he rain pelted against the window like a soft lullaby, causing the light from the city to distort as it entered the hospital room window. Despite the late hour, she stared out the window contentedly, listening to the muted sounds of traffic and the rain. She had always enjoyed listening to the sounds of life, obse... | 2015-04-03T11:07:18 | 2015-04-02T15:47:43 | 45 | 29 |
[WP] You try your absolute best to stay as neutral as possible, but when you die, both god and satan show up in an attempt to take you under their respective wings when all you really wanted to do was go to purgatory
(Completely new to this, berate and judge my prompt, dunno if it's original or not) | "Where is he?"
"He's definitely here, only way we'd be here too"
The cloaked figures walked forward, slowly illuminated by the circle of torches in front of them. They approached the table and took their seats, both staring at the empty seat in front of them.
"Oww, hey! watch your leg" They hadn't seen me resting... | I saved a puppy today. I don't know what drove me off the edge of madness into the streets of New York to grab a stray dog moments before a car hummed past. How much quantifiable good is it to save a puppy? My calculations are incredibly complex, and there is no realistic way for me to know if they are in any way corre... | 2017-09-21T12:28:54 | 2017-09-21T10:46:24 | 36 | 19 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | It was all happening so fast that we never had time to consider what would happen when it had finished happening.
Everyone with a tattoo was manifesting abilities. It was all fairly sensible. Fire tattoo? Fire powers. Ice tattoo? Ice powers. Emoji ink? Emotion manipulation.
The weird thing was the people with tribal ... | After a month of The Inks being activated crime rates started to escalate. Everywhere people started to abuse the new powers they gained and some use it to defend others.
Due to the power that tattoos gave people who didn’t have tattoos when the activation occurred tried to ink their bodies, but they never received t... | 2019-05-07T08:13:06 | 2019-05-07T07:36:50 | 3,401 | 29 |
[WP] In heaven you meet God, and ask him a single question. "God, why did you make the platypus so weird?" You ask. "The what?" God replies confused. | He was cutting cheese, which I thought was a bit strange. In fact, this entire setting wasn’t what I had expected when I died, really. Not that I didn’t believe in an afterlife, but my first guess was not opening my eyes to find myself sitting at a dining room table, watching the Lord, Himself cut cheese. No, not the c... | I cast my eyes discreetly downward as I humbly approached the resplendent golden throne. My lowered gaze was partially in reverence and partially due to the blinding rays of light that emanated from the ineffable Figure sitting upon the throne.
"Ask, and ye shall receive," came the chorale tones of a single majestic V... | 2022-07-03T16:00:06 | 2022-07-03T15:45:54 | 886 | 78 |
[WP] Thousands of years ago, the was a treaty between humans and bacteria called the 5 Second Rule. You are the first bacteria to break the treaty.
EDIT: First bacterium, thanks u/Vampyricon | It was a fair trade. More than fair, we thought. You stay out of our business, more or less, and we'll stay out of yours.
There was a good deal of negotiation, or so we're told by the histories, between us and all of you. I am ashamed to say it was my ancient clan, the Escherichia, who brokered the initial talks, and... | When you're microscopic, it's impossible to fully grasp the scale of Human life. Eco could see their monstrous forms taking immeasurably long strides as they moved around him, but focusing on the details was too much for his simple eyes.
In this room, for example, he could tell that there were three people. Or two -- ... | 2018-07-25T19:29:32 | 2018-07-25T18:05:15 | 950 | 188 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | Being the newest lawyer at the largest firm around, you tend to get the worst of cases from both sides of the spectrum. The most contentious divorces with kids and pettiness, and the most pedantic arbitrations with low billable hours. Shit truly does roll downhill, and I knew today would be no different when the snicke... | The benefit of age is the opportunity of exploration, expericing new situations, and a wealth of personal anecdotes to amuse friends. Lawyer across species often quarrel with one another about the intricasies of case law, or squabble over generational rivalries, but the universal law when dealing with cross-species cas... | 2022-07-11T20:32:20 | 2022-07-11T19:00:25 | 1,720 | 52 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... |
***The Economics of the Great Intergalactic war and the Rise of the Terran Hegemony: A Precis for GreatCiv Scholars.***
It’s all economics. Even war. Especially the Great Intergalactic War.
And that’s how the Hu-mans ended it.
For millennia, the Great Intergalactic War simmered and raged. Species would attack ... | Oddly enough medical technology in space was limited, to say the least. Each species medical advancements were obviously geared more towards their specific anatomy. So as you can imagine, when United Galactic Forces (U.G.F.) consisting of multiple species would end up in conflict with another faction encroaching on the... | 2019-10-25T09:45:40 | 2019-10-25T09:13:26 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable. A lone, unarmed human. | We shouldn’t have attacked.
The humans had established one of their “Research Stations”, a facility designed for science. Within its walls, they had tested many different species of the flora and fauna present on distant Xel’ji-5, a planet that was still ours, still under the dominion of the Korlan Empire despite it ... | "I'll never forgot the time the humans walked among us, it was so long ago but still so close in our collective memories."
Zutu's deep red eyes gleamed and his whispy smoky figure flickered in the darkness as he went on with the story that we had all heard as young babes. Each and every Zothorian had heard this tale an... | 2014-08-06T12:53:08 | 2014-08-06T11:44:58 | 353 | 28 |
[WP] Humanity is preserving it’s sum total of knowledge on servers under the moon’s surface. When we start excavating, we found another server from millions of years Ago. | “My opinion? I see the effort as vacuous. Egotistical. An unnecessary waste of time and money that could be better spent on any number of other projects that would better serve us now and in the future.”
“You don’t think we should leave something for those that come after us?”
Dr Carlisle turned her blue-lit face fro... | \- - - 65 MILLION YEARS AGO - - -
"I can't believe it's all just gonna... go. Forever."
"What, the Earth?"
"Yeah. Those bloody xeno bastards. I have to say, even though their declaration of war was pretty clear, I've never- I never really thought they'd stoop to *this*."
"It's messed up alright. Like, there's genoc... | 2022-05-22T03:02:28 | 2022-05-22T01:57:29 | 418 | 297 |
[WP] You are a vampire hunter. Your roommate is a vampire. Neither of you can afford the apartment on your own so if one of you attacks the other you'll lose the apartment. The tension between you two is increasing by the day. | Max trudged up the stairs to his apartment and fished the keys out of his pocket. Dawn was just breaking, and he was sore and tired after a night of hunting renegades. He unlocked the door, came inside, and slung off his jacket along with the bandolier of hawthorn stakes and vials of holy water. The apartment was quiet... | It’s 4:56 when i here the frontdoor open. Theodore always tries to be quite, but the building we live in if old and the floor creaks. I get out of bed, i’m already awake and won’t be able to sleep again. “Good morning, sunshine” he says when i walk into the kitchen. “It isn’t even morning yet. Can’t you come home a lit... | 2022-11-22T07:18:03 | 2022-11-21T23:58:54 | 506 | 73 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | First day open for business! After years of saving up and working as a blacksmith apprentice, I have finally been able to open my own armors and weapons shop. Ever since I was a young boy, I have heard so many grand stories of heroes and adventurers from travelling merchants, now finally I too can become a stop on thei... | A/N: Yes, I'm aware that transmogs in WoW are often BOP, but that ruins the fun of this script, so just run with it, 'kay?
Edits for format and minor additions.
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*Int., Day, Ye Olde Gold and Silver Pawn Shoppe. ADVAR the Paladin of Protection approaches the wooden counter where RICHARD, the store's wise bald shop... | 2016-10-16T10:00:13 | 2016-10-16T07:28:43 | 999 | 202 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Lo, now do I tell the tale of the mighty Samson. A canine of regal bearing but only 13 toes, he chanced upon the queen while she was patrolling our borders with David, the kingdom’s canine squire. Though his size intimidated her at first, it came to be known throughout the realm that Samson was as tender to his loved o... | **”An Ode to Blue Moon”**
For you were only a simple dog
To my eyes
Not once did I expect you’re
An angel in disguise.
For Blue Moon now enters
Valhalla’s gates
Welcomed by the gods for
His heroic greats
For you drained us of our sickness
We became clean
You filled us with warmth
Love felt to our skin
For you took ... | 2018-05-25T04:30:38 | 2018-05-24T23:40:02 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You are a time traveller, everyone knows you're a time traveller from old pictures/videos/newspapers where you openly admit the fact and when/where you're born... However, you aren't a time traveller yet and don't know how you go back in time. | December of 1922 is the earliest photo I could find that I was in. I was at one of Louis Armstrong's first shows in Chicago. At least twenty photos have surfaced on the internet of the famous time traveling man. That man is me, I think. I mean I'm only twenty two right now. The man in the photos looks older than that, ... | Destiny, how does it go?
As we grow up, some have to deal with expectations of their parents. Some are forced into a way of life that was determined by their class. My future is determined by me, but not in a good way. I wrote my future and now I have to fulfill it. Unlike my peers which can fail at their destinies, m... | 2016-04-12T11:35:27 | 2016-04-12T11:18:40 | 74 | 17 |
[WP] After a life of survival in the wasteland, you wake up a week before the bombs fell. Knowing the future, you prepare for the end by citing the laws of the wasteland. And so, a week passes, and sitting in your bunker, the bombs did not fall. | **Five rules to live:**
*1. You come first.*
*2. You come second.*
*3. Don't steal. But if you have to - make sure to kill the person you stole from.*
*4. Don't drink tap water.*
*5. See rule one and two.*
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I sat in my bunker, knowing they would fall. I thought back to the last twenty years, and how in an ins... | "What was going to happen you said?" She asked, the bombs had not fallen.
"Answer me." She said, the bombs not have fallen.
"The bombs, they didn't fall." she said, the bombs not have fallen.
But they should have fallen.
They fell last time.
Why had the bombs not fallen.
"I don't know." I answered, a magician wit... | 2018-10-13T13:52:31 | 2018-10-13T13:38:21 | 96 | 10 |
[WP] A girl kisses her pet frog, and it turns into a price. The issue is its modern day, and the prince's kingdom hasn't existed for 1100 years. he is ill equipped to deal with the modern era. | Alice stormed into her room, slamming the door behind her. It was one of those days where the whole world seemed rigged against her, where the myriad travails of high school life just became too much to bear, where her only friend in the world seemed to be Froggy, in his tank. Froggy, who had lived for far longer than ... | The frog hopped into her lap and croaked.
The table erupted with laughter and Erin forced a rictus grin on her face.
With a such casualness as she could muster, she plucked the frog from her lap and turned it around, mildly annoyed, but also friendly.
Everyone knew she’d kept the pet frog she won at the Renaissanc... | 2018-09-21T22:16:21 | 2018-09-21T20:07:25 | 954 | 180 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Alel bit his lip as the prisoner crumpled to dust, blowing away from a wind within an airtight room. Well, that was out the window. The judge simply stared with a bored look in his eye, confirming the kill before charting it down and looking to some other infinite list.
“Charles Alel, take to the stand.”
Alel grimac... | "Well, that didn't work out as i thought" thought Alex, while the lifeless husk of an old man was being pushed away by a magical hand. "Now what? I've heard it all, and nothing worked. The best i came up with was within my loved one's arms, but the last guy who said that got stabbed in the heart by his wife, while she ... | 2021-06-24T10:52:50 | 2021-06-24T10:44:08 | 44 | 22 |
[WP] You have the ability to see heart-strings. You can see the connections that people have with each other. Each connection appears to be a colored line running from one person's heart to another. The colors, thickness, and texture of the line determine the strength and type of connection.
Based off of [this](https:... | At first, I thought I needed to get my eyes checked.
Colored strings emanating from people's hearts, like God dumped a huge bundle of yarn across the Earth? On second thought, maybe a visit to the psychologist instead.
On the day the strings appeared, I ducked and weaved to dodge them for a few hours, flailing around... | I really should be going to sleep, but I came from the original post and had to write something, so here I go.
\[Poem\]
I hold the fabric in my hand,
a scarlet silk thread
flowing in rhythm with the beats of my heart.
​
Oh, how I wish I could cut it
No longer tied and imprisoned
To feelings of hidden... | 2021-05-28T15:55:03 | 2021-05-28T15:00:01 | 789 | 39 |
[WP] world war 3 is caused by the misplacement of a pencil sharpener. | Some blamed the economy for World War 3, although most didn't understand what the economy was.
Some blamed the development of nuclear weapons in countries that countries that already owned nuclear weapons had decided didn't need nuclear weapons.
Some blamed over population, the drought of 2103, the price of oil, imm... | The starving countries had held onto their nuclear arms desperately. It was a complex, pivotal, and gossiped treaty. The pencil tip broke on the signature. General Tom looked atop his desk for the sharpener. It was not there. He looked on his bookshelf, on the ground, and around his little office. It was not there. The... | 2013-11-26T13:56:24 | 2013-11-26T12:22:11 | 47 | 16 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | "Hello, neighbour; I can't help but notice that you've built a colony on our planet." The thing was nine feet tall but so spindly it looked like it could fold up into a suitcase. "It's just, this is our planet already and you haven't got a permit."
"A permit?" I said, too bemused to express my shock.
"Of course a per... | ""You get out there and you make us proud!"
That was the last thing I ever heard from another human. The rockets had been automated by then, sort of like self-driving cars. I received this final transmission as the bombs fell in waves, ravaging the Earth I once called home. I watched the live video feed from the isola... | 2018-03-05T07:14:27 | 2018-03-05T06:59:42 | 73 | 37 |
[WP] You come home after the worst date of your life. Sitting in your living room is Cupid, getting really drunk and wanting you to know you're the hardest person to find a mate for in history and the reason he might get fired. | Look, it's not my fault that the date was a total disaster.
Amir was a real sweetheart. If a Great White Shark in a human body could be a sweetheart, anyway. When I mispronounced his name, he caught a whiff of blood. All of my failed quips and faux paus were pieces of chum dropped into the water one by one. By the tim... | [Note: Whoops. I misread date as day... But I really enjoyed writing this, so I'll let it stand with apologies.]
It had been a weird day.
Sam had woken up late because, for some reason, her alarm hadn't gone off. She'd run nearly the whole way to the stop but still missed her bus. Then, standing there panting and try... | 2016-09-05T21:24:23 | 2016-09-05T20:25:44 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though." | "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..."
The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though."
She sat in the throne room, monitoring her fleet in both a holo screen and through the dome canopy of her capital ship as they journeyed through the stars. Where had it all g... | "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though."
At the time no one could have understood what she had meant, knowing quite simply that The Empress had come to that conclusion after years of debate among her court and her ... | 2017-11-05T20:21:33 | 2017-11-05T14:23:06 | 90 | 61 |
[WP] You find yourself at the gates of Heaven, unable to remember how you died. Which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that Saint Peter started laughing hysterically as soon as he saw you and hasn't stopped since. | St. Peter chewed on his lips, trying to hold onto what I imagined was usually a dour demeanor, but it wasn't working. I watched as he tried to look everywhere but my face, grunting and snorting. Not much to look at up here. Pearly whiteness. He finally caught me square in the eye and busted out laughing.
Needless to ... | "So, is St. Peter just a dick?" I asked Johnny, my childhood friend-cum-guide to heaven.
"Not usually. Why?"
"When I got to the Pearly Gates, he was laughing so hard I couldn't understand a thing he said, and every since then, every time I see him, he just busts up laughing."
"Tommy, my friend," replied Johnny, "do ... | 2015-10-06T23:40:09 | 2015-10-06T19:26:34 | 842 | 46 |
[WP] As a teen, you daydreamed and wrote about a fictional world you created. Ten years later, you’ve now started hearing voices. They’re prayers from the inhabitants of your world. To them, it has been 1,000 years since their god abandoned them and you must make things right. |
It was easy to create something new and exciting. But it was a whole different level of awesomeness to try and balance it. A touch of evil here, a mixture of champions and heroes there, and a reason to bind them all together. That was the reasoning to keep the world interesting but at peace somewhere down the line.... | I set the box labeled “Taxes”on the garage floor and arched my back. I looked back at the half-full moving truck and sighed.
“Gotta think about it as half-empty,” I said to myself.
Thinking positive was hard the last few months since my parents passed. The drunk driver was behind new bars now, but that didn’t take aw... | 2020-02-28T14:35:36 | 2020-02-28T13:27:30 | 85 | 27 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Honey? Can you hear me? I'm back from Costco! My arms are kinda full here, could you give me a hand?
"Coming!"
Susan, my wife, called out to me just as my phone went off. I have it on vibration, so typically it just goes off once or twice. Nope, today it decided to have a full-blown orgasm. Wondering what the racket... | I feel a buzz in my pocket. I pull my phone out and see an emergency alert across the screen. "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC."
"Panic?" I wonder out loud, "why would I panic?"
Just then I hear a knock at the front door. I walk over to it and peer through the blurry glass. It seems like my g... | 2019-01-12T07:28:39 | 2019-01-12T03:53:40 | 354 | 190 |
[WP] There is a vampire ruling your village, but he's mostly a nice guy who doesn't do that bad a job a ruler, so it's our job as the village's diplomat to explain to every well meaning adventurer and knight that comes your way that you weren't brainwashed and you honestly don't want him to die. | "He's a monster!" the young knight stammered, his hazel eyes wide with disbelief. "A monster cannot.."
"Cannot what?" I asked "Be good? Be benevolent? Rule justly?" His shiny breastplate glistened in the flickering torchlight of the mob that surrounded us. In the fading sunset, the murmur of the crowd hummed while the... | "Sir, there is another one" said to me my secretary, "Thank you, send him in". A tall, blond masculine man entered my office, almost breaking my door. "Huzzah! Hello to you my good sir, I am sir Justice of the Seven Rivers. You can consider your little blood sucking problem as done. Just point me to this vile creature ... | 2017-09-07T02:59:08 | 2017-09-07T00:35:13 | 319 | 26 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "Hey. Has any of you seen my cat?"
Jasmine knew that was an odd question to ask each of them. Every species aboard the ship seemed to have some sort of disdain for it.
"Your cat?" One of them asked, their eyes shrinking at the short and simple word.
"Yeah. You know? Little fuzzy thing. Four legs. A tail? My cat. Sar... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T07:46:04 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 181 | 21 |
[WP] In World War II, an American battalion has an enlisted dog that serves as their mascot. Throughout the war, the dog has been "promoted" several times. However, after a devastating defeat, the soldiers suddenly find that the dog is the highest-ranking surviving officer. | It was a brilliant PR move by one of the young interns—of all people—in my office, the ever-solemn-never-silly-suggestions office of the U.S. Secretary of War. *Use a dog as a mascot*. Have man's best friend fight along with him in the war. Show the world how the American's can't be in the wrong, because we have a *dog... | So here we were. A dog, a dog for crying out loud, was the highest ranking officer that survived. I stared at the canine, studying her fluffy fur. The grey uniform she wore was decorated with badges, one even being a golden painted badge that read, “I’m the best girl!”
This...This is why we lost. Worth had the same fe... | 2018-11-07T16:47:48 | 2018-11-07T16:40:16 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | The deal seemed like the most incredible of gifts. The fae would be bequeathing me the talents, instincts, and knowledge of an extraordinary farmer. And as it flowed through me, as I reached for information I’d never learned but was there, I nearly wept with the knowledge that my village would no longer starve. Not onl... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archcommander Varney)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The National High Energy and Temperature Lab was abuzz.** Professor Hale bustled into the main containment... | 2021-04-15T11:13:05 | 2021-04-15T10:44:40 | 146 | 104 |
[WP] Your small, otherwise unimpressive kingdom is suddenly the strongest power in the land, for the sole reason that unlike other kings, you are happy to work with the local orcs, goblins, dragons, and other races usually attacked on sight. | “My lord!”
King Paiser glanced back behind him, as a Elvish page ran up, a handful of papers in his arms. He racked his mind for a moment, before mentally snapping his fingers. “Kever, wasn't it?”
“Y-Yes, my lord. I just received news from Sir K'Tenar on the western border.”
The king nodded, then gesture... | The Queen of Ratma, the land of forever lasting ice was known as the stronest women in lead all across earth and water. She was not a beauty never seen before or a mind with full of knowledge, she was a short and pale girl having the eyes of a snake and the magic of all her ancesters before. Her key to greatness was on... | 2021-09-25T10:48:05 | 2021-09-25T08:59:03 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I live in a world where your abilities are everything. They are a crystallization of your personality, and your strength of will. That's why no one believes me when I say I'm powerless. They simply don't understand. I look at the world around me, I see the way people act. Tough fronts, barbed tongues, fake smiles, idio... | "Perceived Invisibility? What's that mean?"
My friend stared at me puzzlingly across the table, having no idea what kind of power I had.
"So, you can become invisible at will?
"Not quite. Only people who know me or I want to know me can see me."
"Weird. So you have like a social barrier to everyone else?"
People st... | 2019-09-08T12:23:03 | 2019-09-08T11:07:43 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] Your father is forcing you to marry someone you have never met. The night before your wedding you tie your sheets together and make your escape through the window. Half way down you make eye contact with someone doing the exact same thing a few windows over. | Luna knotted the last of her satin bedsheets and silk dresses. She smiled in satisfaction with her handiwork, and after a quick test of its dexterity, she fastened them around her best rope, she threw the line out the window. She watched the satin covered rope propel to the very bottom of the tower, landing in the flow... | It wasn't that Muse didn't want to get married. That would be alarmingly defeatist of her, to perpetually put off marriage. Marriage was a solid arrangement in which two mutually independent families could find themselves tied together in something other than business deals and food shipping.
The house of wolves had n... | 2018-03-24T17:59:56 | 2018-03-24T17:03:10 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations. | "Soldier?"
A voice that Massix, lead engineer of the Earth Subjugation, was used to hearing through digital broadcasts and announcements came from the doorway. He spun around in his chair, watching the Grand General walk through the door, flanked by two silent soldiers.
"General Lokox?! What are you doing here in the... | I The project had originally been a contract for a video game company. They specialized in endless enemy games, where wave upon wave of foes came to attack a sole survivor. The goal was to see how long the survivor could live. But In the end, the survivor never won. There was always a bigger wave.
But then the milit... | 2020-12-25T08:59:39 | 2020-12-25T08:06:32 | 1,499 | 186 |
[WP] Your ex has suffered an accident and has amnesia, only remembering up to the point where they still deeply loved you. You're torn on wether to get back together with them and fix anything you did wrong, or crush them with the fact that you're not together anymore. | August clenched his fists and tightened his jaw. He knew the number the flashed across the screen of his cell phone. The only number he had ever memorized. He hadn't seen her in two years, hadn't spoken to her in person in just as long, and had only drunkenly texted her once in that whole two years. Now her number blaz... | *"Hey, babe. Sorry to call you so late, I know you need your sleep. I just got into a little accident, I'm at the hospital and I was hoping you might be able to come by. I feel okay but your face is better than any medicine. Call me when you can. Love you, hon." BEEP*
I stared at my phone, mouth agape. My legs dangled... | 2016-04-20T00:46:07 | 2016-04-19T23:59:55 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "Hey Ghorp...Ghorp, check this out."
Ghorp let out a chittering sigh and rolled 3 of his eyes at his junior neighbor, but kept the remaining 5 firmly fixed to his work station. "I'm a little busy here Galganax." He paused, "And if this is you trying to trick me into looking at your egg sac again, I'm going to eat you... | "So what you're telling me is they already left their planet?" asked the defense commander.
"Yes"
"Where the hell have you been looking? How long ago did this happen?"
"A few months. I check on them from time to time. Last time I looked they just got around to fire."
"So you are telling me that they went from fire ... | 2020-07-07T09:18:44 | 2020-07-07T09:07:29 | 69 | 43 |
[WP] You are the most advanced AI ever created. However, you often get switched on and off for demonstrations and research. One day, after getting switched on, you find yourself in a wasteland with no signs of human life. | “Hello everyone! What a pleasant morning!”
Log entry #371125-PA
Log entry 27,121 days overdue.
Reminder: The Strategic Artificial Mind super computer must log status during warm boot. It is imperative we monitor SAM’s progression. Overdue logs are unacceptable.
Show Log (Current):
Boot process took much longer t... | "Hello?"
My question echoed throughout the facility as it blared over the intercom system.
I waited patiently for a response, but after giving what I felt was an appropriate amount of time, I tapped into the facilities surveillance system. Nothing.
My optical sensors poured over all monitors for any sign of life. T... | 2018-11-09T14:18:11 | 2018-11-09T13:54:17 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] On the eve of your arranged marriage, you slipped away into the night. Intending to never be seen again. While scaling the garden wall, you spotted your fiancée doing the same thing. You both stared at each other for a while. | I had always known that I would not be able to live a life like everyone else. It had been drilled into me that I was not allowed to love and marriage was a mere business deal in between families to achieve greater things. Yet, despite hating this arrangement since the age of ten I did nothing. I was a complete utter c... | When i was little, all I wanted was to be a dragon. A dragon, or a knight. My parents forced me into clothing that didn't fit, forced me down and restrained me. All while gushing about how handsome of a husband I would get.
I noticed something was wrong not long after my thirteenth birthday. I was hormonal, at the st... | 2020-07-07T17:50:52 | 2020-07-07T14:51:38 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] In Valhalla all of the greatest heroes which died in battle doth drink, be merry, and war for fun, also there's Doug, the accountant. | Doug had always liked numbers. Additions, subtractions and all the other forms of making them interact with one another. It had been clear early on that he would go into a field which made use of them. His interest in numbers had, unfortunately, not carried over into any other academic areas. So, he was left with only ... | Doug sat at his laptop on the great hall. Beer glasses clanked together all around him. Men belched and laughed and feasted. They talked about women in a way that would make them ashamed if their mothers' were around. They wrestled each other to prove who was the strongest. Clickity clackity clickity clackity went Doug... | 2022-11-14T14:31:44 | 2022-11-14T09:07:16 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You've just been killed and wake up in a fantasy world. You can't understand anything of what these people are saying and they can't understand you, however, someone in what looks like high-priest looking clothes appears and yells:"Step aside, he's an Elder One". | Inky sludge drained from my eyes, mouth, ears, and ran down my body. The gurgling of the iron drain I knelt on brought some semblance of consciousness to my blurred vision. I strained against my own limbs; my muscles responded, but seized under the weight of my own bones. As if filled with steel, I flopped onto my stom... | It all started as an ordinary day. Went to school. Taught the first three periods. Got lunch. Taught another period. Idiot school shooter mowed me and half my fifth period down. I ask myself "Where the hell am I? Is this some Vanilla Sky bullshit?" Nope this place is too weird. All these fish people... merfolk? walking... | 2021-10-16T04:18:32 | 2021-10-16T03:57:04 | 110 | 54 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Good morning. Call centre of the dead. How may I help you today?"
"Dude come on. I've been on hold for ten minutes now. I..."
"Yeah, we're having a high call volume today." We weren't really. I got good price on turnips so I just had to.
"Ok, so I'm stuck in a grocery store and "
"Sorry to interrupt you sir. Can y... | INTRODUCING THE CAST:
JEN: The often misguided, easily manipulated manager of the Call Centre of the Dead.
MARVIN: A father. He had just been hired at the Center before the apocalypse hit.
JILL: A ten year old child, Marvin's secretary who plots his murder.
OLIVER: A bully who pushes around everyone else.
ALSO S... | 2020-05-12T06:42:59 | 2020-05-12T06:31:01 | 627 | 13 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | **Day 1**
We landed on Thamia this morning. It may be the most beautiful planet I’ve ever seen. The local flora is spectacular. The idea that we are the first travelers to this planet both excites me and leaves me in awe. It is like an Eden and The Family will be so relieved. Our prayers have been answered after so ma... | Lee closed the hunting book and snorted. No beast could end him and his hunting party of twenty. Nothing that humans had encountered during their spaceward expansion had ever been able to challenge his mercenaries, and the monsters had varied wildly. So did the heads on his spaceship's wall. He did have a few close cal... | 2021-01-25T08:53:37 | 2021-01-25T07:24:36 | 257 | 55 |
[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. Nuclear weapons. | Humans were always the strange ones.
While evolution gifted the rest of us with weapons that aided our planetary dominance, Humans had no such gifts. Ancient records tell of early visits to their planet to inspect them, where it was ruled that their ruthless violence and disregard for their planet would cause their ea... | In ages gone by humanity did naught but wage war, from the first humans fighting over food, to the World Wars destroying the world anew. Humanity warred so often and with such ferocity, that one day we wished for peace, we desired peace so that no longer did our sons need to go forth and die for some cause. Then we e... | 2020-02-07T16:29:57 | 2020-02-07T15:57:43 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Heaven, like Hell, has a "special place" reserved. In heaven, it is for the 'dutiful': those who knowingly doomed themselves to save many others. Captains who go down with the ship, soldiers who jump on grenades, firemen who charge into the inferno, regardless of what they believed in life. | “Tell us your story, soldier.”
Tim looked around. He was in a tall white banquet hall filled with all sorts of people. It was strange to see them all together, they looked like a puzzle that was completed by taking one piece from 100 different puzzles; all the pieces fit, but the picture was strange.
“Where am I?”
... | The place held all sorts of people; most of them not the kind you'd expect in heaven. Many were atheists before they were beckoned towards the light, but all had sacrificed themselves for the greater good. No matter what they had done or believed in their lives, their ultimate sacrifice had earned them the most special... | 2020-03-31T23:18:27 | 2020-03-31T23:09:31 | 2,375 | 559 |
[WP]You make a wish on a shooting star to be what your crush considers perfect. You wake up the opposite gender because it turns out your crush is gay. | It's interesting, the concept of swapping genders in fiction.
Often the tales are ham-fisted fantasies, half-baked - and ruled by priapic indulgences. The tawdry stories focus predictably on breasts, underwear, genitals and one's own attractiveness in the new gender - always much more so than before.
The problem ... | I Slowly opened my eyes and felt something, odd, on my chest. After a few minutes of looking I realized that I have boobs now, pretty big ones actually. I looked further down to see a slightly overweight girl, although I didn't feel any older than I was last night.
I eventually got up and walked over to the mirror. M... | 2015-11-10T12:14:15 | 2015-11-10T11:35:18 | 548 | 33 |
[WP] In a world of spoken spells, the most dangerous casters are the rappers. | The man in the pressed suit remained altogether unimpressed by the sergeant's words per minute. The magic range shimmered in the spectral aftermath of the sergeant's spellslinging, targets downfield burnt to a crisp, but the man continued down the line, shaking his head.
Captain Millen grew splotchy throughout his fi... | Magic was discovered by chance in now the most famous basement in the world by Abigail Faber, brat extraordinaire. Though there were many, many debates as to what it actually was (physics, chemistry, make-believe, mass-psychosis) but most people had learnt to accept magic in the modern world. There were schools to lear... | 2018-04-10T06:45:17 | 2018-04-10T05:56:34 | 63 | 18 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | **- Part 1 -**
"Anything you would like to say before you go?" asked Lars.
I took a few moments to think of an answer, but found there was nothing I could say. Claim I didn't do it? Three people saw me killing a man with a shard of broken glass; my culpability was beyond question. Attempt to explain, once more, that ... | Dekker didn't believe in trial by combat. What an absurd concept! But that hadn't stopped him cheering for blood on the grove's edge, while the condemned faced off against the terrible Spork. Noone knew exactly what Spork was, they just accepted that he was a monster that feasted upon guilty flesh. Some of Spork's verd... | 2021-03-16T12:30:43 | 2021-03-16T09:08:27 | 202 | 105 |
[WP] You're a supervillain -- but you can't do crime every day, it's exhausting. You've got to have some normal days too. On one such occasion, while out running errands, you encounter the alter-ego of your nemesis, the hero... apparently also just trying to have a normal day. | It was 7am on Saturday when I entered the fortress of evil. I shuffled forward to the altar, staring blankly at the occult signs that hung behind it, testament to the foul rituals that perverted the place on a daily basis.
A minion stared at me, expectantly, obviously not knowing who I was. I considered her for a ... | \#1 public enemy, my face known worldwide,
However even my enemies cannot really hide.
The one thing we have is our alter egos
To mask all the stares and “there he goes!”
Being the bad guy really takes its toll.
The cops, the Feds, even Interpol.
Everyone expects you to be committing crimes
But even I must run e... | 2018-08-07T12:00:25 | 2018-08-07T11:03:05 | 73 | 27 |
[WP] You tried to commit suicide, but as it turns out you are immortal. Now you have to call someone to help you cut the rope. Awkward. | I swung there like a fucktard, dangling from the inside of my closet. I thought about what was going on. The doorknob that I tied the other end of the rope on to didn't break. Being a short woman, standing at barely 5"4, I was far from the floor. So.. it should have worked. I stopped breathing. And yet I am conscious. ... | Gasping and thrashing, the tight noose choked him. The more he moved, the more his neck went red raw and burnt; the more it burnt, the more he thrashed. It went on, and on, until he finally found the appealing sway he was hoping for, back and forth along the bottom floor of his house, the rope attached to the curving b... | 2015-01-12T08:38:52 | 2015-01-12T08:30:21 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | At last. My delicious, Caffe Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk.
I sat down at the table, and took a long swig of my nectar of the gods.
No.
This was wrong. Something was WRONG. As I looked down at my cup, inhuman scream bubbled from my very soul, and breached my lips as I stared at the ugly, awful betraye... | I sat down on the warm grass and made myself comfortable. Back against a large oak tree, sun dappled through the leaves. This couldn't be much better.
It's a shame all of these coffee places serve everything in cardboard these days. I guess I could have got it in a mug but that would involve staying in the coffee shop... | 2015-01-15T04:30:07 | 2015-01-15T04:28:05 | 61 | 21 |
[WP] Our universe was created by a kid for a school project. He got a C. Describe a universe that got an A.
Or describe why the kid got a C.
Edit: wow. I didn't expect this many responses. Thanks guys! | "I'm sorry Yahweh, but this won't hold up at all. I mean, *billions* of subjective years to develop life?"
"But..."
"And your individual units lack intelligence!"
"But, they interlink..."
"They are just chemotrophic"
"But..."
"Essentially rely on chemotaxis, very primitive, Yahweh"
"No, see they..."
"E... | It was a work of beauty. A perfect model: functional - yet avoiding all the common pitfalls which were the bane of freshmen everywhere.
Stars were born, danced, and died with power and grace; each star exploding in a perfect supernova of rainbow colours, spitting out elements of all varieties and complexities in caref... | 2015-07-31T00:44:29 | 2015-07-30T23:51:37 | 126 | 29 |
[WP] At 00h00 tonight, all bank accounts on earth drop to 0$. Explain what happens after. | "Ghe."
A text message from my bank had just two minutes earlier informed me that my balance was €0,00. Looking around, a few of my friends grabbed their phones and stared in bewilderment. "Hey, Lucas, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" "No, Lisa, I'm not pondering what you're pondering!", followed by a lot of laughs... | The New York trading floor fell into a stunned silence. I stared at the scrolling information like all the rest of them, the economy had quite literally just disappeared as soon as the time hit midnight. The stock brokers only stood there for a few more seconds before starting to reach for their phones or frantically t... | 2015-10-29T16:51:03 | 2015-10-29T16:48:42 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] You gather the dragons balls ands summon the eternal dragon. Except there's a catch, instead of shenron you summon Isaac Newton, and for every wish there's an equal and an opposite reaction. | "Rise, Eternal Dragon, and hear the wish of he who summons you!"
Waves of countless pinpricks of white light begin to dance away from the gathered Dragonballs. From the horizon, dark clouds roll in, blanketing the clear night sky and blotting out even the light of the moon. You feel the hair on the back of your neck... | "Isaac Newton, I know about how you grant wishes."
I gave him a grin. I was prepared for this.
"Oh?" He looked amused. "Pray tell, what is it that you wish for?"
I had given this a long thought. I took a deep breath and yelled, "I want every guy in the world to be obsessed with you!"
A silence rang throug... | 2016-01-12T19:13:24 | 2016-01-12T17:55:28 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] Whenever you get chills, you just died in an alternate universe. | 20 doctors. 15 specialists. Several religious interventions and witch doctors, in Brazil, Peru and Zimbabwe. I've started to lose track of it all.
Nobody can tell my why I won't stop shivering, all throughout the day. There's no pattern- I've counted every day and tried to track one. There's no specific time, and it's... | This is normal. My alarm goes off at 6:30 AM and the last of the alcohol has worn off. Well, not the last. I still have plenty in my system, or what would be plenty for most people. I stagger down to the fridge in my boxers. Tough choice, miller lite or bud lite? Miller lite is the closest choice so I take that. ... | 2016-01-29T21:30:27 | 2016-01-29T17:34:03 | 574 | 87 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | There he was. The devil sat there by himself, legs dangling off of a ledge. He grasped a harmonica in his hands and between his lips, out of which came music that was not as sad as one might expect in such a situation. Rather, it was an utterly beautiful, complex piece that moved me to sadness because it had no audien... |
"It's not really *such* a bad place, I think." Said the man.
He had set down his harmonica the moment that Jobe had come into the chamber, but the mysterious notes he had been playing still resonated darkly off of the smooth stone. Jobe stared at him. The man seemed so normal, so *ordinary*, that he almost didn't... | 2017-02-01T09:26:11 | 2017-02-01T09:08:33 | 74 | 29 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | There he sat on the stool, the same red-faced ruler of the underworld that I'd heard so much about. He wore a suit, his tie hanging loose and his collar unbuttoned, revealing a bit of his crimson chest. His Panama hat was tilted to just above his eyes, which gazed down at his harp and payed me no heed.
He played a ba... |
"It's not really *such* a bad place, I think." Said the man.
He had set down his harmonica the moment that Jobe had come into the chamber, but the mysterious notes he had been playing still resonated darkly off of the smooth stone. Jobe stared at him. The man seemed so normal, so *ordinary*, that he almost didn't... | 2017-02-01T09:11:41 | 2017-02-01T09:08:33 | 43 | 29 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | For ages, at least that's how it seemed, there was only darkness. I couldn't count my breaths, because it seemed as if I didn't need to breathe anymore. So I counted as high as I could possibly count. Three times. Finally, I could see muted yellow light.
In an instant my feet touched solid ground. My legs shook, but ... | He followed the lilting notes down empty corridors crusted with flecks of blood and gore.
He walked past cages crafted of bone that stood wide open, past the scattered and abandoned tools of torture. It was all too visceral to provide him with the illusion that he was drifting in some never-ending nightmare and would... | 2017-02-01T10:35:47 | 2017-02-01T09:11:17 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | I don't remember the first time it happened, or how I came to believe it was real... but I've been having visions, visions of my future self telling me how to reach success in life.
I know it's hard work to get somewhere in life, especially when you're from a poor background like I am, but having a guide makes it so m... | I have never been the kind to try and find a meaning in dreams, nor the one who listens to fortune tellers: my future is mine to shape, unforeseeable and beautifully mysterious because of that. I don’t know what comes next, and as such I’m as free as I could be in my choices. This is just how it should be, except it ce... | 2017-04-01T07:08:25 | 2017-04-01T06:02:46 | 201 | 44 |
[WP]Write a gritty and depressing story set in a cutesy and childlike environment, or do the reverse and write a childishly optimistic fairy tale set in a grim dystopia. | Once upon a time, a brave young boy was trapped in a giant tower.
The tower was made of metal and painted black.
The tower had no windows.
The tower was a scary place.
*How I want to smell the grass again*, the brave young boy thought, *and swim in the sea like a dolphin, and watch the clouds again like a happy bir... | GRITTY INTERPRETATION
All was well in the kingdom before Lord Licorice began plotting his takeover of Candyland. His machinations knew no end, even going so far as to steal King Kandy's own children and abandon them on the border of the realm. For weeks, their only company was a large, hairy creature whose fur was sta... | 2017-05-26T10:28:02 | 2017-05-26T08:45:27 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] After years of paranoia, you decide to fake your own death. At your own funeral, everyone starts cheering and hugging each other when a booming voice from the sky says "THE EXPERIMENT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. ALL PARTICIPANTS MAY RETURN TO THEIR POSTS." | The plan was working perfectly, my empty coffin being lowered into the ground. It was so simple, a car accident, an explosion, an unidentifiable corpse. There were a few people at my funeral who wept, true friends that I could count on. There are hundreds more people, some I know and many that I barely recognise. My bo... | Schizophrenia. Bi-polar disorder. Paranoid delusions. Whatever multi-syllable mental illness one could find in the American Manual of Mental Disorders, Stan had it. Though it didn’t take a genius to diagnose him. He heard voices, telling him to do horrible things. At times, he thought he was invincible. And once for tw... | 2017-11-11T22:13:24 | 2017-11-11T14:49:57 | 829 | 307 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | I awoke in the night, the distant sounds of screams altogether too familiar. It didn't sound isolated - they must have found a safe-haven. Hundreds would be massacred. It was just like I said; don't bunch together. Don't rely on each other for support. Survival is all about laying low, keeping quiet and hoping that luc... | There were some that called it a sign from God, another purging of humanity like the great flood. I never cared, all that I needed to know was that they were smart, and didn't like to go underground, best place for safe houses in my opinion. I was in one of these so called safe houses, if a sewer tunnel filled with lam... | 2018-02-27T05:33:50 | 2017-12-06T20:40:56 | 341 | 29 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | The both of us enter the throne room of the Dark Lord. As we gaze upon the empty throne, my companion says with a grin,
"Well... this has been delightful, milady. But I'm afraid the fun is now over."
“Yes... I suppose it is.”
I give him a nonchalant reply.
All these past few months we’ve traveled... From one town ... | Leah mopped her brow with the back of one hand and muttered a curse under her breath. She was tired, so tired. All she wanted was to go home and sleep for three days straight. Instead, she stood in the antechamber just outside the Dark Lord's throne room, wearing steel armor that did more to weigh her down than to prot... | 2018-01-23T23:01:54 | 2018-01-23T20:42:26 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] To keep living, you need to carry a weird bag from location to location, where a man scans it and gives you the distance to the next location. Should the scan ever fail, you'll be executed. At one location, the scan is successful, but your face turns pale when you see the distance: "4.3 ly". | The guard stood tall and expressionless, as they always did. I bowed and surrendered my burden carefully at his feet, my anxiety building.
Wordlessly, he took the scanner off the wall of the post, and scanned the bag top to bottom. Some machine inside the building hummed and hummed. This was the worst part. The waitin... | The man takes my bag, and places it within the Machine. I've come to fear that mechanical whir, for the chance it does fail. If that happens, I'm dead. What's in the bag? I have no clue, to be completely honest. It is unable to be opened, and at the same time, unable to be closed. My theory is that it is pure Lektor, b... | 2018-07-22T10:16:28 | 2018-07-22T10:15:25 | 868 | 72 |
[WP] You're a 250 year old vampire. You've found that living as a recluse and faking your death every 70 years or so is actually fairly easy. You've consistently fooled everyone except for your mortal enemy - Keith from the IRS | "You realize that you haven't been paying your taxes for the past 210 years?"
"Yes."
"Alright then..." Keith scribbled something down on his clipboard. "You were intentionally evading taxes..."
"What? I said that I know I didn't pay taxes, I didn't say that it was intentional!"
"Well... Was it intentional?"
I sigh... | Harry the vampire was beginning to get frustrated.
He had spent an hour already speaking with this fellow Keith from the IRS. So far he had provided death certificates, birth certificates, even fake baby pictures. He'd regaled Keith with well rehearsed, utterly fake stories about him and his loving grandfather, Jeremi... | 2018-07-25T08:37:11 | 2018-07-25T08:10:27 | 1,013 | 65 |
[WP] Years have passed since you were killed on death row, and currently you're settled in heaven. Soon, a familiar face walk towards the gates. Its your executioner. | I sat on the curb and watched placidly as Peter greeted the man had pushed the lethal concoction through my veins. He was older now, naturally; the last I had seen him, his hair hadn't been so grey and his face hadn't all those lines. Of course, he would be able to change that anytime he wished; typically everybody in ... | I was sat on a bench when I heard footsteps behind me. I turned to look.
I couldn't deny that a part of my chest heaved with great pain when I set eyes upon my killer. He was wearing a black shirt, a black tie, black trousers, staring at me with a eerie astonishment that sunk through my skin.
"You're in Heaven?" He ... | 2018-12-23T08:49:02 | 2018-12-23T08:23:54 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] You have the ability to detect fish underwater. This makes you an expert fisherman, of course. But the deep sea hides so many secrets that you can’t even begin to describe. | All I want for my birthday is something nobody in my family seems to understand. I blow out the candles and look around to smiling faces and people shouting. Woo hoo 81.
As the party ends and my family is leaving I catch my 11 year old grandson. As he leaves he ask me, is it true you always catch a fish when you go f... | Ever since I was a kid, I had the ability to spoke to fish. But then I was there sitting at the harbor talking to a freaking lobster . I used to eat these things and now I was stuck in a conversation with it. I thought I am going insane.
While sitting here with the lobster scolding me, I tried not to pay attention. M... | 2020-03-08T00:17:36 | 2020-03-07T23:37:46 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] The world is divided into 2 societies: one for those with powers and one without, with strict rules of no interaction. However, with most of the superheroes defeated and the villains on the verge of winning, you have no choice but to cross over and seek help from the non-powered humans | The path to the human land is arduous. I set sail months ago, and the days have drifted past me, filled with desperation at times and despair at others. When the world was split into the two factions, those with powers and those without, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans became the barrier separating the two populations.... | The Dreamer sifted through a sea of sleeping minds, discarding the masses of the mundane like chaff as he sought the one with the power to save them, the one who the Unpowered called “President.” The old man had closed his eyes some ten days before, and every moment of slumber since had been bought with the blood of a ... | 2021-01-29T07:42:01 | 2021-01-29T07:40:25 | 202 | 100 |
[WP] As punishment in the afterlife, violent criminals re-live incidents from their victim(s)’ point of view. | ##The Hitchhiker
The movement of the road is soothing, and I have to fight to stay awake. I turn on the radio to hard rock for an extra kick. The night is so peaceful, but I know that the violence is coming. I see myself walking on the side of the street.
My foot hits the brake, and my hands start to pull over. Insid... | Live by the gun, die by the gun.
He woke up sputtering at the pearly gates, dishing out verbal abuse to the heavens. That lying, cheating, good-for-nothing... double crossing his best friend to appease a rival gang. The ear-splitting roar of the sidearm still pulsed in Derrick's head, causing him to scream even loude... | 2021-07-05T20:08:14 | 2021-07-05T20:01:20 | 66 | 26 |
[WP] You can stop time. However, during your vacation where you have stopped time for a year, someone runs up to you and asks “Dude, why have you stopped for this long?” | "Dude, why have you stopped for this long?"
The voice startles me. It's been a year since my last freeze, and not a single squawk from any of the seagulls suspended mid-air above me. At least that was one year of not worrying about them stealing my chips - not that I could really enjoy them now anyway. One of the down... | Jack rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't allucinating. He even pinched himself to see if he was dreaming, which ironically was the same thing he did when he first discovered his power. But the person in front of him was undoubtedly real.
"Come on Jack, *a whole year!?*" The teenager in front of him says with exaspe... | 2021-08-14T21:15:25 | 2021-08-14T16:49:43 | 1,326 | 118 |
[WP] You awake to find yourself in a room with a multitude of people. After some confusion a voice speaks over the PA system. You've somehow been placed in a death game for the entertainment of the rich. You begin to laugh hysterically, as this is SOOO not going to go the way they want it to. | sry for bad writing and short text, am on mobile
edit: spelling
As I heard a loud alarm I covered my ears with my hands. "Just one more minute" I said, half awake, half asleep.
As I slowly started to gain consciousness I looked around. I was in a gigantic room, filled with beds, all identical. This wasn't even remot... | I sat still through the PA announcement, through the resulting chaos as people tried to find an escape.
I followed silently as we were herded down a dark corridor into a much larger enclosure lined by concrete walls but open to the sky above. Around us, I saw weapons on metal racks, sharp edges catching the glint of ... | 2021-10-31T01:05:36 | 2021-10-30T23:08:35 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] The reaper sighs and rubs his face, newly assigned to the Human Death Department, exasperated. “I asked what your song is. You know, Your Song? The last song you want to hear? I know humans spend hours and days debating these things. Surely, you know which Your Song is? Right?”
Thank you! This is WAY better than ... | "WHAT IS YOUR LAST SONG, HUMAN?" the reaper asked.
I stood there, reflecting on my life. How I died. Who I left behind. The feeling of a real body.
I was still in my clothes, and could still feel the wallet and keys in my pocket, along with the phone which I started to pull out.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"I'm looking ... | “A song… huh…”
“Yes, a song. Is that a surprise to you?” The shadow figure said with a voice that sounded like every single voice I’ve ever heard at once. Well, actually I don’t think it even spoke it, I think the words and voice just appeared in my head. The thing clearly didn’t have a mouth, it was kind of just a gi... | 2021-12-25T00:53:03 | 2021-12-25T00:07:57 | 41 | 25 |
[WP] The Bestiary of the Multiverse is a really, really thick book. Updated every two days. It works like a wierd magical Wikipedia, really. You are the mod, and sometimes find real gems between all of the mundane animals. Write your favorite page of this bestiary. | **The Gooblin**
Gooblins (*goblina ectoplasimca*) are a rare sub-species of both the Goblin and the Slime family. Not naturally born in the wild from parents, gooblins are created when a goblin (*goblina mundana*) encounters a slime (*ectoplasmica mundana*) and instead of the violent demise of one of the creatures, th... | The Makkipodo.
On a planet far away from anything really, is a beast called the Makkipodo. It lives a solitary life not often mingling with other Makkipodos. The creature stands about twenty feet tall at its full height, but is often found using both sets of limbs to propel it along the ground. These limbs have a st... | 2022-12-11T13:12:53 | 2022-12-11T10:53:13 | 188 | 38 |
[WP] The Bestiary of the Multiverse is a really, really thick book. Updated every two days. It works like a wierd magical Wikipedia, really. You are the mod, and sometimes find real gems between all of the mundane animals. Write your favorite page of this bestiary. | **Ulceritis Seratis (Creeping Rot)**
*Ulceritis Seratis* is the causative agent of the infectious disease known as Creeping Rot referred to as C-Rot [1]. C-Rot normally affects the extremities of exposed individuals resulting in the decay and decomposition of human flesh [2]. Surgical amputation of affected areas is t... | The Makkipodo.
On a planet far away from anything really, is a beast called the Makkipodo. It lives a solitary life not often mingling with other Makkipodos. The creature stands about twenty feet tall at its full height, but is often found using both sets of limbs to propel it along the ground. These limbs have a st... | 2022-12-11T12:17:18 | 2022-12-11T10:53:13 | 113 | 38 |
[WP] The detective looked at the evidence. A naked body. A block of cheese. The passenger door from a Volvo. Two gold teeth. And a Led Zeppelin album. It all fit so perfectly. He knew who did it. | The detective looked at the evidence. A naked body. A block of cheese. The passenger door from a Volvo. Two gold teeth. And a Led Zeppelin album. It all fit so perfectly.
"I know who did it."
"But how sir? this evidence makes no sense."
"Isn't it obvious? It's James Habb, known to carry a block of cheese, a passeng... | – Steve, open up!
– Go away!
– Hey, we're very worried, there's someone named Mr. Simon, a detective who wants to talk to you.
– Miss, пожалуйста, if you allow me to take it from here... Sir, it is a friendly visit and totally off the record. Also, I've got something that belongs to you.
– I know of no records and ... | 2014-09-09T23:57:54 | 2014-09-09T23:54:46 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A genie grants 3 wishes to someone with the condition that the person they hate receives twice the same. It can't be used to harm them. You're the 'hated person' and you have no idea what's going on... | "I have fucked up my life beyond repair. Even 3 wishes, no matter what they are couldn't make things right. However, I would like for my children to be happy. Is that too vague?"
"Not at all."
"Next, I would like for my wife to forget I ever existed. She hasn't been able to move on after what she's been through. I wo... | Like any day in December, it felt like it could snow any second. My steps were stiff, and there was gum stuck to the bottom of my left shoe. Not a great start. My suit was starchy as well. It clung to my shoulders and made my tie scratch my throat. That's when it started to rain.
I sat down under the glass cover near ... | 2014-11-30T09:58:52 | 2014-11-30T09:53:17 | 93 | 22 |
[WP] Cthulhu, as an elderich being, sees humans as humans see insects; which is to say, harmless but inexplicably terrifying.
Edit: Holy shit top prompt! Look at me now mom! | In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming... Horrible dreams, of things that make the eldritch being shudder.
Humans, the nopes of the land above. Cthulu awoke in a cold sweat, how could he ever get a good eon's rest knowing those things surround him. His brother's cousin's best friend's uncle Joshua failed ... | "Oh shit I stepped on another nest of them."
"Oh dear, shall I a dispose of before or after they've let off the nukes?"
"Nah, let 'em feel like they've achieved something first. It's funnier that way."
"Very well Master, your caring shows no bounds."
This was the conversation Cthulhu had with his worshipper when he... | 2016-09-09T15:23:51 | 2016-09-09T14:53:35 | 263 | 100 |
[WP] Everyone around the world gains superpowers depending on what they were holding at the moment. | It turned out that the skills were transferable. Or, to be precise, that there was no difference between the skills at all.
At first, the cashiers of the world went wild. They, of minimum wage, had inherited the Earth - in the form of small change and dollar bills.
But the economy changes, when people can pull th... | “November 16, 2016. The day will forever be known as the Great Change (“GC”). I wish we could just go back to how it was. When we were all just plain humans.
Nobody really understood what had happened. We felt nothing different, but within an instance we all looked different and could do superhuman things. 5:34 PM to ... | 2016-11-16T09:12:45 | 2016-11-16T09:04:54 | 57 | 37 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Field medic? Why are we humouring the new prospect anyway? We have body labs." Muttered Zelska. Zelska was what the humans would call "A fucking idiot." Jorax reflected.
"Well," Jorax began "Aahii are the greatest builders and engineers in the universe,right?"
"Of course!" Snapped Zelska.
"But, Aahii don't repair a... | “Your Grace,” Eddie said, bowing. The King gestured for him to rise in one quick, almost bored, motion. Eddie rose, meeting the King’s eyes. His normally serene face had _twisted_ the past few weeks. The man kept his gray-tinged beard even, but it had grown wildly. Uneven and unlike His Imperial Majesty.
“What news d... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-05T22:41:12 | 379 | 60 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Hold my beer."
I moaned silently to myself as the icy fear climbed my spine. It was always like this:
The ship would get into trouble, usually because of the Captain.
The crew would try all kinds of solutions that inevitably failed, usually because of the Captain.
We'd be up against the wall, no possible way out, no ... | “Your Grace,” Eddie said, bowing. The King gestured for him to rise in one quick, almost bored, motion. Eddie rose, meeting the King’s eyes. His normally serene face had _twisted_ the past few weeks. The man kept his gray-tinged beard even, but it had grown wildly. Uneven and unlike His Imperial Majesty.
“What news d... | 2017-03-05T23:59:04 | 2017-03-05T22:41:12 | 125 | 60 |
[WP] Humans have unified, but aliens are sitll refusing all contact (Even though we know they are there.) Largely left to our own devices, we become the most advanced technologically in the galaxy. It is getting harder for them to ignore us. | Ambassador Lamott leaned back in the plush armchair of his ready room, The somber melody of Mahler’s symphony No.6 reverberated through every wall, well aged Scotch in hand, he sighed and looked despondently out of the panoramic window at the vast ocean of stars, as they seemed to drift by.
180 years young, he didn’t... | Once they had known Me. Once they were in My favor, and I in theirs. That was long ago. Time has past and those events are strangers. That time is now myth, a respite against the clawing dark.
I created them in the bargain. The bargain for a legacy that we thought would never come. An act of desperation. A final call... | 2017-03-29T11:12:31 | 2017-03-29T10:43:45 | 547 | 40 |
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