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[WP] You give your significant other a bundle of roses with a fake one nestled inside, and tell them you'll be with them until the last one withers. Little did you know this made you both immortal... as long as you stay together. | "I'm so tired," you say. "We've lived so long."
Jasmine rolls over in bed and looks softly into your eyes. "Me too. But I still love you."
"So do I," you reassure her. "It's just... everything around us is dying. There are hurricanes ripping apart the southern streets we walked. Fires are destroying the forests we on... | "I don't want to do this anymore, Becca. Is it really worth all this?" I pull against the restraints. This time she's bolted the manacles into the concrete wall of the basement instead of around the frame of the bed.
She glares at me and sets a cookie sheet in front of me. There's a plate on it with a half-burned slic... | 2017-09-08T08:32:36 | 2017-09-08T07:48:31 | 55 | 22 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | A smile creaked across my face as I heard a dull thud.
"WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!" boomed from the living room. I only wish I could have seen it first hand, but my hidden sanctuary behind the closet doors kept my presence concealed. They'll never know that their furniture had been slowly moved, inch by i... | Subtlety is a precise art. While my brothers and sisters can do things like hurl lightning around to fill their daily quota of godly actions, I needed to be precise. Too much mischief and all of a sudden I have Loki breathing down my back. Too little and folks wouldn't be aware of my divine intervention.
I sighed, le... | 2018-01-27T22:00:48 | 2018-01-27T20:53:05 | 1,893 | 49 |
[WP] You're a woman during the Salem witch trials, who's been sentenced to burn at the stake after being accused of being a witch. After the townspeople set fire under your feet and you prepare for your impending death, clouds start to form and rain puts the fire out. Huh. You just might be one. | The townspeople cheered as the flames licked higher up her legs. The entire town had turned out for the burning of the Witch Mary Madison. Old women cackled along with the crackle of burning wood as small children ran through.the crowd, giggling and yelling. The fire roared upwards, Mary's face lit from beneath. The Pr... | Sarah was just as surprised as the rest of them.
She looked up as the rain poured down, washing the tears and sweat and terror from her face. The water turned her bright red hair into dark strands that stuck to her dress.
The flames which, seconds before, were licking at her feet were gone. In their place, a billow o... | 2018-07-04T15:05:10 | 2018-07-04T14:34:32 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy is assigned a danger level, between 1 and 10. Level 1 are species that cannot hurt you and would not try to hurt you. Level 10 are species that can rip you apart at the slightest provocation. Humans are a level 11 species. | "Humans are the only species in existence to break the traditionally know Limit of Violence, being the only Class 11 race" I began, lecturing my Intergalactic Biology 101 class. "However, physically speaking, they are generally as strong as a Class 6 to Class 8, depending on personal preference of lifestyle, and severa... | Gerzert had always been a bit of a thrill seeker, according to his colleagues anyway, but either way he was truly fascinated by the reports about the incredibly dangerous blue planet he now parked in orbit above. He was just about to start a visual scan when the alarm for an impending collision began blaring. No big de... | 2018-07-12T06:16:09 | 2018-07-12T05:49:37 | 298 | 37 |
[WP] A tiny duckling imprints on a giant, fire-breathing dragon, which now feels the urge to care for the adorable little quacker. | The world lived in fear of ducks. Entire cities engulfed in flames with no reason or explaination at first but then reports of a dragon started to trickle out to the countryside.
As time went on word came from survivors that a duck had wandered into the village where it was barked at by a dog. This brought an infern... | Areinea was happily curled on her new found treasure, in her new lair, having only a few hours ago relinquished it from its former owners, a king of some kind or another. She quite liked the castle and was quite happy with it. Besides it included a good amount of gold as well as the bodies of the people she took it fro... | 2018-09-16T17:17:14 | 2018-09-16T17:02:29 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table three times.
Edit - Wow we made the fr... | 'If you can read my mind, slap the table three times.' I think and the girl looks over at me, then slowly, and very deliberately slaps the table. Once. Twice. Three times. Her eyes locked onto mine
'Tap once for yes, twice for no or three times for maybe' I think, immediately tuning out my professor and his inane rambl... | He held his breath, half-choking on the air held within him. Her eyes were locked on his, her dark hair spilling around her face, her body twisted to face him from her seat at the front of the class. Nobody was paying attention to their exchange, other students sliding materials into their bags and making their way out... | 2018-10-27T14:50:58 | 2018-10-27T14:04:56 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You were once an unbeatable hero. Your secret? Every time you died, time rewound itself for you to alter your future. You are now 97 years of age. Constantly looping over your last day before dying of old age. You have been searching for a way to break this curse for over a decade. | Nine thousand, nine hundred ninety eight.
That's how many trips through my last day I have taken.
In my youth, I died in a car crash. My father tried to take me in a drunk rage after he lost a custody battle. He didn't see the sedan backing out of the perfect, cookie cutter driveway. The perfect family was torn asund... | I wake to the sound of moaning and despair. I lay in this bed looking up at an unfamiliar ceiling. I panic.
I don’t know where I am. I don’t know what that sound came from. I don’t know why I’m here.
“My name is...”
Nothing comes to mind.
It now become apparent to me that I’m in some sort of hospital room. I look a... | 2018-12-21T09:56:36 | 2018-12-21T09:44:16 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A fiery ball crash lands in your backyard. You go over and inspect it, only to find a fully functioning Roomba with a knife taped to the front of it. | **Item #:** SCP-B0T
**Object class:** Keter.
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-B0T is to be kept in a standard steel and reinforced concrete autonomous weapons chamber. The structure of the chamber must be monitored and routinely repaired. ~~Repairs must be completed by autonomous robots.~~ ~~Repairs must be co... | The impact concussed the house with an elephant stampede. Blazing, fiery white light like wrath of god flashed with such vengeance I briefly considered my fate. I wondered out loud if I was dead. As it turns out, I really wish I was.
It stared at me.
Creeping—whirring—it approached. Sweat dribbled down my back. The... | 2019-03-03T08:11:34 | 2019-03-03T07:55:44 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] When an atheist dies, a lottery determines which religion/deity will claim their soul for eternity. You were claimed by a long-forgotten ancient religion, and are the first newcomer to their afterlife in centuries. | In a realm separated from life, a team of three God's try desperately to cling onto the last threads of their religion. With many former God's flocking to more established group's.
Pacing his room alone, the leader, Pie-Paydos answers the door to greet his loyal friend. Holding a piece of paper containing unusual sym... | "and a- spin. the. wheel!" are not the first words i expected to hear waking up today, i open my eyes to se that the room i am in is... shifting. one second its an open field the other an ancient greek temple that looks almost... new, a second look around reveals one object consistent in this everchanging residence a t... | 2019-07-12T02:40:26 | 2019-07-12T00:58:15 | 61 | 27 |
[WP] You have the ability to tell how powerful an organisation is by looking at its headquarters. However, you’ve never found which one is number 1, despite walking past many world governments. Today, you find what number 1 is: a small flower shop in Tuscany. | "This doesn't make sense," I muttered, perturbed. The tulips didn't seem to have any microphones inside. The hydrangea arrangements seemed like they were for sure hiding a secret passage but if that were so it was too well-concealed for even me to find - which should be impossible! There wasn't even a security camera o... |
It was a neat trick to pull out at work events, mentioning how a specific government was or wasn’t even in the top ten most powerful organizations. Of course, when you were a member of the President’s Security Detail for the US Secret Service, you weren’t exactly doing that as a bar trick. You generally whispered i... | 2019-10-29T09:16:28 | 2019-10-29T08:51:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | As I walk down the grand marble hall two guards approach me, probably about to stop me and ask me for a permit but before they can do that I just pull out my sabers and slice them in half.
They used to be silver with the plasma flowing off of their edges green like the flourishing grass of my homeland but now... now t... | 'Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'
The dungeon was filled with screams and blood like it always does. But the screaming and the lifeless bodies that is hanging from the chains doesn't belong to its usual prisoner. Laying lifelessly on the table is captain of the prison guard, his left eye gouged by a crude device, his fingers a... | 2019-12-07T12:13:39 | 2019-12-07T11:35:02 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | *That isn't me.*
Hmm. There were two possibilities. Either the man hugging her was an imposter, or the person texting was. Choices, choices. Hmm.
She hugged the man claiming to be her brother back. "It's been six years," she sniffed.
"I know."
"You missed my graduation!"
"I know." He patted her back.
"You missed ... | The day was like any other. My routine the same. Except today is different. I’m more sad than usual, for today is the day of my brothers death. The day that he disappeared. The day that we called the police, searched for him, and never found him. That’s why when I opened the door to see my older brother standing there ... | 2020-07-23T11:48:16 | 2020-07-23T11:12:42 | 94 | 37 |
[WP] Millions witnessed as enormous spaceships emerged from the depth's of the oceans and left Earth. After the event submarines found vast, empty cities underwater, built with unknown tech. Among many unknown symbols, there was one short message in English: "You have 20 years left. They are coming" | It had been twenty years since the Great Departure, and we were no where closer to salvation than the day they left.
At first the event was all the rage. Millions saw the city-sized spaceships rise from the ocean and consume the skies, leaving trails of water, fish, and whatever else happened to catch a ride up befor... | FADE IN:
INT. SPACE FORCE MEETING ROOM A
*A solemn group of men sits around a large, wooden table. One is at the head in full military dress, chest adorned dramatically with medals. This is WHITEMAN, General of the Space Force.*
**WHITEMAN:** And thus, I bring the first general meeting of the Space Force to a clos... | 2020-07-29T09:10:48 | 2020-07-29T09:04:49 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You are a third generation guard for the holy immortals, and you have finally have received the greatest accolade that they can bestow on your kind... "Good boy", says your immortal master. | The Littlest of the Immortals called me to her dwelling. It was not as big as the Big Immortals, yet it was my favorite. The Little Immortal beckoned me forth, and I leaped into her chambers. She spread her lips to reveal her teeth. Time has thought me that this is the Immortals way of showing gratitude. I lowered my h... | As I was going to my post I saw another boy standing there about 20s or mid 20s in age. I walked toward him and said "Boy this is my place of duty"
"I was asked to stand there and was asked to give you the message that you have been summoned to meet His Holiness in Immortal Palace." He replied
As i was moving toward ... | 2020-09-23T15:53:56 | 2020-09-23T09:29:13 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Humans have developed faster then light travel and made contact with alien races. Turns out our civilization still has the most primitive classification because we somehow managed to skip one of the simplest inventions imaginable. | "You're still *completely* organic? You haven't hybridized with Artificial Intelligence at all?" The stranger asked me.
We were standing on designated neutral ground for humanity's first touch with an alien race- and so far, they were only one thing; confused.
"Look, the fact that you've managed to get here means you... | "Esteemed Council members. I have momentous news for the galaxy. The humans have finally discovered Slood.”
A hush descended over the auditorium. Agent SOL-3 smiled to xyrself. Xe loved a theatrical flourish. Perhaps something xe had learnt from a long time observing Earth. The humans might be as blind as hatchlings w... | 2021-02-04T08:44:09 | 2021-02-04T08:28:54 | 265 | 154 |
[WP] You adopt a humongous dog from the animal shelter, unaware that it's actually a werewolf. | My mom told me the best thing for a broken heart is a dog. Growing up in a household with more pets than people, I would tend to agree. My favorite dogs were always the big dogs, so that’s what I have in mind when I head to the local shelter.
The moment I laid eyes on Peter, I knew he would be coming home with me. Som... | Between dinner on the stove, the successful conclusion of his first week living with his girlfriend, and the unexpectedly massive dog who had stolen their hearts, Aaron thought life had never been better. That all changed in about 5 seconds flat when the new dog’s howl became a painfully human scream and he tore his ey... | 2021-02-09T20:49:56 | 2021-02-09T18:56:38 | 84 | 32 |
[WP] You are the newest recruit in a group that does the fundamental opposite of assassination - contracted, covert resurrection. And yes, it's just as illegal. | It seemed most akin to a lemon, the thing expanding in my upper chest: big enough to make me catch my breath, flooding my throat with the bitterness of fear. I ignored it and watched $200,000 sit up in front of me, naked as a baby, the fluorescent bulbs from the hallway throwing a stripe of cold light across his muscle... | "You know the drill. We get in, we extract, and then it's like we were never there." The boss fastened her gear to her chest and gave the rest of the squad a look. It was David's first operation, and somehow he had been assigned to a high-profile resurrection. He fidgeted in his seat as the rest of the team took up sma... | 2021-04-05T15:39:45 | 2021-04-05T14:15:04 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | I was an old god of the humans, however my name and purpose were long forgotten to me. I sat in a clearing of a forest, one I had called home for years now. Sat in a valley, the river ran fresh and cool.
As I allowed the sun to wash over me, animals moved about around me. The Forest alive with movement. Birds called a... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T20:55:00 | 516 | 31 |
[WP] 2 years ago, tired of all the bugs in your house, you made a deal with a spider. He would protect your house from pests, and you would not kill it or drive it off. When you made the deal, you could have held the spider in your hand, now, it is much bigger, and its definition of 'pests' is also. | I hid in the basement when I heard 'them' break open the door. Shambling, groaning, screaming things that probably used to be my neighbours - or maybe their neighbours. Doesn't matter. 'They' were inside.
I'm not sure how it started - some patient zero is some city that I didn't really care to remember. For whatever r... | Jeremy swung open the door to his basement, holding a dim flashlight in trembling hands. He took a single step into over the threshold and swung the beam of light around the room, illuminating empty cardboard boxes covered in dust and thick cobwebs. Though he always told people it was where he stored old useless things... | 2021-07-03T20:59:36 | 2021-07-03T19:40:43 | 1,698 | 668 |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | The tide of mortals rises and falls.
Swells like a symphony.
Crashes like a wave against the tallest rocks.
And sure as a golden age rises, it will someday set– the land left bitterly shrouded in the one and only constant truth between myth and mortal alike.
Darkness.
From ember and ash, we clawed our way into bei... | Alex watched his father pour water over a bundle of spaghetti sitting in a pot.
It was funny, really. His dad confessing to him that he was God, like a sinner confessing a secret to a priest, hoping for forgiveness. But he’d known already. Had for a long time.
“So when did you find out?” Dad asked. “You know, that I’... | 2021-12-10T09:17:45 | 2021-12-10T08:06:23 | 1,557 | 408 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | The heroes walked through the dreaded castle. An elf advanced first, scouting for foes and dangers for his fellowship. Twenty meters behind him, a human knight walked, her heavy steel-coated feed marking each step. A halfling wizard followed her, his magic scanning every corner for magical traps or hidden creatures.
T... | 'There is it,' the Dwarves Representative announces, their gloved finger pointing towards a huge lump of green in the middle of a forest clearing.
The Ogre King hums and pulls out his map, 'According to map, we arrived.'
The Elf Queen frowns, 'Are you certain? That do not look like human dwelling, let alone the lege... | 2022-05-04T12:37:09 | 2022-05-04T12:24:15 | 21 | 10 |
[WP]Well, that's a pretty fucked up way to find out you are immortal. | I looked out upon the city that had eaten me up and spit me out. I tried to think of the good people in my life. The memories that had helped me through the tough times. Even just the good times. Nothing came. Well, just one thing. A dog I had when I was growing up. She was the only loyal thing I had ever known. The on... | I sit in my desk chair, slumped over with a bottle of whiskey in my hand, held by the neck. I lift it up to take another swig, tasting the bitter ambrosia as it passes through my lips. It tastes terrible, but day after day my mind seeks refuge in its nasty tang. The way it clouds my perception is sweeter than the liqui... | 2022-05-05T11:25:59 | 2022-05-05T08:33:18 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Humans aren't the strongest, or the most advanced, species in the galaxy, but they are the most vengeful and persistent. They evolved as persistence predators. If you wrong them, they are willing to follow you across the stars and can spend years working to get back at you for what you did. | The bartender poured another round of Blue Andromedan for the pair of men in dirty overalls, then went back to polishing the bar as the two continued trading stories. As far as he was concerned, it was just another twelfth day afternoon in the Main Deck Saloon on Lhasa IV.
“So you came all the way out here because yo... | I do not have time for this today. I’ve got memos to write and clothes to pick out for the Dyson-sphere inauguration at Cetis Prime and three-hundred of my genefixed-children have asked for a formal audience to discuss their inheritance and now this so-called hoo-mahn shows up with what my HUD says is a look of melodra... | 2022-08-09T15:27:09 | 2022-08-09T14:38:55 | 62 | 32 |
[WP] Sorcerers draw mana from a personal source, such as raging storms, campfires, murky swamps, etc. and that source affects the spells available to them. You possess the gift of sorcery but you feel no attraction to any traditional source, so you wander and seek that which will ignite your powers. | "Why haven't you packed? We're leaving in 30 minutes! Hurry up!" Mom's yelling, again. Another trip, another try, another disappointment.
We've been doing this every year, ever since my eldest brother started growing his own firewood during a family camping trip. I was only two at the time, so I don't remember the exc... | “So what exactly is your source master?” asked Zari, Argona's new disciple.
“hmmm such questions are considered impolite to ask of a mage, it would be too easy to corner a mage and kill him should you figure out his source. In fact, this is precisely how the Archmage Jonathan Stonehaven was killed.” Argona said to Zar... | 2022-08-28T02:34:08 | 2022-08-28T01:57:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] a portal appears infront of you and a 7'4 380 pound version of you from another universe walks out covered in blood holding the heads of 4 other versions of you and screams "JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION" | My opponent and I stop as a glowing disc appears between us.
From the light, drenched in blood, brandishing four severed heads, steps . . . me?
"**JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION**", they thunder.
Then they pause.
And tilt their head back.
And back.
And back.
Until they meet my eyes, three feet abo... | The portal ripples as what I can only describe as version of me on steroids steps through, a belt of heads at his waist... my heads.
He proceeds to speak
"JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION" he says in a deep overtone. The energy from the portal rippling once more as a cold 'wind' streams from it.
I stare ahead as the m... | 2022-12-04T14:47:50 | 2022-12-04T14:09:30 | 24 | 18 |
[wp] examine a Redditor of your choice's comment history as if you are a film noir detective. | Something's fishy.
I scroll through my phone, looking for justice. The crime seemed too dastardly for anyone on this site to ever commit. Two users. Doxxed. No answers. It had to be an alt account, it was created 3 days ago. But why, and who? My thumb swipes the screen and there he is. I have a strong feeling growing ... | (*Note: the author apologizes for the quality of his similes and metaphors.*)
The case had been given to me by a large dame who could've been the prize sow on any hog farm. It was pretty simple: she'd told me there was a guy around her neighborhood who was making her feel downright uncomfortable. I'd taken a drag on m... | 2014-05-20T12:31:06 | 2014-05-20T12:23:39 | 40 | 15 |
[WP]: In one paragraph, write the most disgusting and despicable character you can ever come up with. In the second paragraph, kill them in a way that makes me feel sorry for them. | Lily hated it when they kept moving. A necessary inconvenience, to keep the flesh fresh, but their screams and squirms ruined the painful pleasure of a desperate appetite.
A shame her brain was locked in that fantasy while her dry lips tasted dust instead of flesh, and her arms flailed against a straitjacket instead o... | 10:31am-water cooler conversation between two co-workers:
Paragraph 1:
"It always seemed to be just about the money with Harold. Remember his first week on the job? We all made an attempt to make him feel welcome, but boy oh boy.. We quickly found out that he wasn't one to socialize or contribute to the lives of anyon... | 2014-07-28T02:35:56 | 2014-07-28T00:10:45 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] The reason she never called you back was because she was abducted by an alien civilization. She adapted, grew, and lead a rebellion to overthrow the tyrant that ruled there. Today she just texted that she wants to go out again.
Edit: This is the song that was playing when this popped in my head. Not sure if it wi... | "All those years?" I was crying. "I missed you so much. I hated everybody. I took out my loss for you on them. Now you come back. Finally."
"Yes," she said firmly. "I promised I would always love you. I have fought everything to save the people I found myself amongst and when we made it they wanted to make me queen or... | Another Monday, another long drive to work. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't cloudy, but it is. A song comes on that reminds you of her. But why? It's been 3 years since you've spoken.
"It's all in the past, she doesn't matter", you tell yourself.
It's too late, the flurry of "what-ifs" float through your mind ag... | 2014-11-11T12:04:58 | 2014-11-11T11:56:03 | 313 | 71 |
[WP] A superhero whose powers are only activated when they're drunk. | "I'm sorry sir, but the Mark 43 prototype has failed to respond."
Tony Stark swiftly moved his arms in an effort to "call" the pieces of his latest armor. Once again, nothing happened.
"JARVIS, what gives?"
"It appears, sir, that your decision to rely on a blood sample as a means of identification has posed a signif... | Jon wakes up in a haze on his couch. He throws his blanket to the ground and sits up slowly. Jon places his hands on his head as it begins to throb. Jon groans as his stomach moans from another typical Friday night.
Jon reaches for his side table, opens the drawer, and takes some tums and advil. Jon lays back down on ... | 2014-11-24T10:18:14 | 2014-11-24T09:23:01 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability. | "Where on earth are my keys?" Amanda asked, mostly to herself.
I continued reading reddit on my phone but replied, "They're in your coat pocket over by the door."
Footsteps and a rattling of metal as they were discovered, followed by breathy giggle.
"How is it that you always know where the keys are?"
Shaking ... | Ray Ellis’s secret wasn’t anything special until one day in class when his power stood out to his friend. Ray sat in his desk listening to the teacher, playing with things in his right hand like coins and pencils. He was always pretty talented at doing stuff that involved eye-hand coordination, not including doing stuf... | 2015-01-08T16:12:50 | 2015-01-08T12:29:03 | 66 | 28 |
[WP] You live in a statistically perfect world. Eg, if you roll a die 6 times, you will get all 6 numbers once. Write about daily life and some of the more dangerous aspects of this universe (car crash chances, violence statistics, etc). | It was December 30th, 2015. James, an average father of two from an average town, was browsing the latest updates from the Bureau of Statistical Truths on his computer.
"Hmm. looks like snakes reached their quota for the year in November. We could have been playing with snakes all month..." James mumbled to his wife, ... | "I don't," she said. My stomach flipped. Her perfect mouth was stuck in that small frown.
"Awww.." went the crowd, like a perfect studio audience. It barely registered. After the divorce, I'd thought the odds would've.. changed..
I noticed her hand stuck out in front of her, peeking delicately through the lace. I to... | 2015-01-11T20:55:22 | 2015-01-11T20:32:42 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | Humans are a galactic anomaly.
In the typical course of evolution, there are two possibilities; either carnivores become dominant, and are forced to evolve intelligence as they fight with one another over dwindling resources, or Herbivores manage to evolve rapidly enough to defend themselves from those carnivores. In ... | The Humans were sort of a 'middle-of-the-pack' species as far as technology goes, their AI's were mediocre, interstellar space flight basic, and weapon capabilities abysmal, they were deemed a class 5-E species by the Hierarchy's research teams, 5 being their current technological standing, and E being their likelihood... | 2016-03-13T21:24:24 | 2016-03-13T19:19:26 | 71 | 46 |
[WP] Believing they had crafted the perfect wish, a foolhardy individual commands their genie grant them boundless immortality. Eons later while floating in empty space waiting for the heat-death of the universe they chance upon a very familiar looking lamp... | I wished for immortality, of course. Why wish for anything less?
I took precautions. When the genie offered me my three wishes the first wish I made was for was a year to prepare. I thought the delay might annoy him but he shrugged like he had all the time in the world.
I spent that year in research. Starting point... | Some used to think the end of The Universe would be the beginning to something else. That nothing truly dies. That reality is change and preservation. Old Earth was filled to bursting with ideas on what happens after death. Some thought worm food, others liked the fantasy of becoming beings of light.
If nothing else ... | 2016-07-13T07:37:57 | 2016-07-13T07:09:50 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon. However, this is just a coincidence; there is absolutely nothing magical about it, and you're getting really tired of explaining this. | They were staring at me again. Eyes wide, mouths slightly agape. I sighed. "Hi. Look, I got your message. But I'm not-"
"You're him!" One of them explained. Pretty enough lass, head of gold, but obviously empty. "You're the one who can talk with them."
"I'm really not." I tried to force a smile onto my face - or rat... | "IT'S NOT MAGICAL!!!" I yelled for what seemed like the Nth time today. You know how it is in the movies. A kid is born with a birthmark in the EXACT shape of a dragon, and he can all of a sudden do karate and kung fu and shit. Not me, though. I'm just your average middle class white trash kid from Louisiana. I can't d... | 2016-08-04T18:02:19 | 2016-08-04T12:02:03 | 36 | 24 |
[Wp] The zombie epidemic came and went in the developed world, most people survived, the military easily defeated the undead horde, and cures for the virus were created. However, zombies remain major issue in the developing and under developed world not getting nearly enough attention on the news.
Wow I didn't think t... | If you’ve ever wanted to hunt zombies Africa, now could be your chance and the great thing is that the hunt will be on us! ZombieHuntersAfrica.com, in conjunction with Apocalypse Safaris, is giving away a dream zombie hunt, for two hunters, to the Republic of South Africa. If you win, you get to bring your friend or fa... | Thursday 10th November 2022. 11.21pm.
I heard the television turn off as I turned the key. I wasn’t surprised to see Jess still awake. Annoyed but not surprised.
“You were meant to be asleep by ten”, Marie called out to her. “Is Harry ready for school?”
M and I had just returned from my brother Bill’s house. He wan... | 2016-10-30T12:39:54 | 2016-10-30T12:39:15 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] You're Jigsaw and you've caught your latest victim. Unfortunately, you've greatly underestimated David Blaine. | "Hello David. I want to play a game," I said. The look on their face after saying this always made me smile.
"Hello Jigsaw," murmured Blaine. A lethargic look ran down his face.
I was startled.
"You trick people for a living, preying on their lack of knowledge to exploit them. You enjoy pretending to be something y... | I still can't work out how he did it.
Every day when I get up and look in the mirror all I can see is that dopey-ass grin he had on his face at the end.
I try to clear my mind, close my eyes and think back to happier times; subjects who did as they were supposed to, subjects who died like they were supposed to, but ... | 2016-11-22T19:38:18 | 2016-11-22T15:43:16 | 75 | 56 |
[WP]The wrinkled fingertips are just the beginning of the transformation. We just always leave the water too early. | I got into the bath with care. I felt the water embrace me, soothe me - the heat, too hot, felt like it was trying to purge my thoughts.
I closed my eyes, thinking about her. Like I always did. An entire life of regret - of whoring and drugs, of excess and myth - and yet, it always came back to her. And how I'd left ... | Something about the chemistry of life broke when we were created. So said the Elders, and so said their Book, and so therefore it must have been the truth. There was no other way for such a strange life form to exist, a thing with mammalian features in aquatic conditions, eyebrows and skin hair where gills mated with o... | 2016-12-05T07:05:26 | 2016-12-05T06:39:18 | 616 | 32 |
[WP] You created a social experiment based on the game Monopoly. Eight random people in one city were given access to bank accounts each containing $1.5 million, with the caveat that it can only be used to acquire property in the city. It's been five years, and you're checking in on your "players." | "So, where did all my damn money go?!?"
"Thimble.... He figured it all out."
"What the hell do you mean, figured it all out? All that's left is your shitty hotel and this useless land. This couldn't have possibly cost 12 million."
"... after Thimble killed Racecar and finished the takeover of Reading Railroad, he sp... | We had selected eight of them. Eight people by the name of Francis. In order to learn more about how the Francis mind responds to certain situations, we gave each of them one-and-a-half million dollars. And then we turned them loose.
It was Georgie's idea to make the Francises play a real-life Monopoly. It's a well-kn... | 2017-02-24T20:12:34 | 2017-02-24T19:56:38 | 183 | 22 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "IÄ! IÄ!" the masked priest cried, lifting the sinuous dagger above his head. "SHUB-NIGGURATH! THE BLACK GOAT OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG, COME TO FEAST!"
The woman next to Jon tried to scream through her gag as the knife plunged into her breast once, twice. Then she lay still, her eyes full of tears but slowly going dull.
... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T07:40:26 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 172 | 27 |
[WP] "You've changed so much!" Your imaginary friend said in shock. After so long, you could only say "So have you." | When the news reported an "invisible force" throwing things around in my childhood house, I knew exactly who it was.
I drove all the way to Waco, Texas from New York to stop this madness.
When I arrived, the front door was wide open. The owners must've gotten the hell out of dodge.
I carefully stepped into the house... | "Ellie," Margaret said, looking at the dragon that she knew for certain, probably, was not perched on top of the sweet olive bush.
"Dani," Ellie answered, the way dragons do. She hopped down from the bush like a cat. "You've changed so much! Look at you. All grown up now."
I haven't heard that nickname in such a long... | 2017-08-25T17:45:28 | 2017-08-25T17:04:30 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | It had been tried before, always ending in failure.
The world, small and blue, stood out as a conspicuous failure to convert the last holdout of sentient life in the galaxy.
Missionary invasions had worked everywhere else. In all other cases, soldiers of the church brought the staff and the beam, the truth and the ... | There is chatter around the room. The words are filled with doubt and fear, but their leader does not notice. As she paces around her war room on the capital ship, she does her best to block out the noise. Their needs to be a decision, and she will deliver one soon. For now, however, she can only think of her ship. On ... | 2018-02-05T15:14:01 | 2018-02-05T15:10:16 | 2,481 | 66 |
[WP] A supervillain erases 30 years worth of memories from every hero he meets, just to put them out of business. One day he accidentally does this to a senile old man, and he finds out the hard way that he’s met the former strongest superhero | "So I go nuts?"
"You go nuts"
"And the world forgets me? Leaves me to rot?"
"Well that's not QUITE what happens"
"Is it not?! You found me wandering the streets as a madman! In the poorest, dingiest, cruddiest part of the city! I mean, SHIT, look at my clothes!"
It was a weird thing talking one of the saviors (The... | Thirty years is the perfect amount of time. It's just basic statistics.
I only play in the big leagues, and over 90% of A-list heroes are between the ages of 30 and 40. Younger than that, and they probably don't have the experience to be of any interest to me. Older than that... doesn't exist. Superheroing is not a ca... | 2018-02-21T15:06:47 | 2018-02-21T14:46:11 | 48 | 34 |
[WP] In the future, prosthetic limbs are more powerful and accurate than biological limbs. It is the 2080 summer Paralympics, now with three times the viewers of the olympics. | 33% human. That was the cutoff, ever since the 2036 Olympics, when Dash Sullivan rocketed through the 100 meter with nothing more than a brain and legs at 100 mph. From then on, athletes had to be at least 33% of a human being to compete.
Whether it's massive fluid loss for weigh ins, qualifications regarding transge... | The crowd goes silent as the athletes line up in preparation for their race. The finals of the mens 200m were always the highlight of the paralympics, and this time was no different. The 2080 Paralympics signal the 40 year mark since artificially enhanced prosthetic limbs were allowed, and with a gradual increase in co... | 2018-03-05T02:36:45 | 2018-03-05T01:31:44 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" | "What? Who said that?", I asked, startled.
"It izz me, Buzzter, your humble servant, sire! Might I take this opportunity to say that it is such an honor to speak with you directly!" said the annoying voice.
That's when I noticed that the source of the strange voice was a bee, right there on my shoulder. As someone... | haha, "Carl when did you develop a sense of humor?" I said. "Carl"?
I turned to look over my right shoulder expecting to see my normally morose and impersonal driver only to see one of *them*.
"Oh fuck me" I stammered looking into the beady eyes of what has been the sum of all fears since childhood.
"You are a King ... | 2022-01-01T21:17:01 | 2018-04-01T04:29:26 | 4,502 | 1,614 |
[WP] You can potentially live forever by stealing the remaining years out of someone's life. But one day while trying to add to your own years, someone's remaining years seem to be infinite. | "Sit."
I found myself sitting before I could think about it.
"What do you think you are doing?"
The man was glaring at me. He had looked mid eighties before I went to vamp him, but now he looked mid twenties. Vamp. Its the term I made for my ability. See, I can latch on to someone's life force, and drain it away, ad... | Another bum sleeping on the left side of the alley; they really all look the same. At this point, it had become routine. The same practiced method distilled over the last few centuries. Find someone out of the way, someone no one would miss; someone alone. Don't let them see your face, just grab them from behind and ma... | 2018-07-04T14:32:54 | 2018-07-04T14:12:40 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] A clang came from the engine room, followed by a string of curses. Most of the crewmembers stood far from the doors, fearfully looking in. It was their first trip out to deepspace since they had taken on a human mechanic, and they were all pretty sure that those were not good noises. | *BONG BANG BONG*
The Zscruex ship-family cringed, a ripple of tendrils as the reaction to the noise passed across the empathy net from those closest to the engineering section.
Many Terran words, each dripping with more intent than the last. Malice. Focus. The ship-family did not know these Terran words, but they cou... | It's been 50 years since we, as a race, perfected space travel. Of course, I say race so as to gloss over the fact that entire groups of people had not only developed the math required to make the jump to hyperspace, but according to myth and lore, a few groups had managed it also, a full 150 years ago. That's a full 1... | 2019-05-31T05:46:32 | 2019-05-31T02:52:26 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] You start working in a nursing home, you have a resident diagnosed with late stage dementia. They ramble about their life experiences, from building pyramids to seeing Jesus crucified to watching fights at the Roman Colosseum. 20 years pass, you are now chief nurse, and they haven't aged a bit. | 10 years. It took you 10 years before you realised. You stared at the old woman. Clearly, she was someone later in life. If you had to guess, which given the amount of elderly people you’d been around, you’d gotten pretty good at, she was maybe 75. You’d always liked her tales. They seemed creative, immersive. She had ... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Come now, Nikolas." I wheeled the old man down the hall, stopping for just a second to adjust the blanket in his lap. I'd been watching over him for nigh on twenty years now, since I was just a young woman myself, till now.
He'd been there for the better part of my life now. And in the last twent... | 2019-06-11T23:23:54 | 2019-06-11T23:18:30 | 303 | 138 |
[WP] Every 500 years the magicians open the portal to this world and announce that they are accepting applications for apprentices. This time, no one is interested. Modern technology is much easier than complex spells with obscure ingredients. |
The father sighed, and shook his head. “Son, please hear your old man out.”
“Dad, I’m not becoming your apprentice or whatever you want. I don’t have time for it. Besides, where do you even live? Do they have reception out there?”
“You don’t need reception in the Mystic Realm! That’s what I’m trying to tell you. ... | The winds begin to pick up. The pedestrians on the busy street hardly notice at first. The tall buildings often function as funnels for some strong gusts so they are accustomed to a stiff wind every now and then.
People start to take notice however, as the wind fails to ebb and flow as the typical gusts do, but rathe... | 2019-06-16T11:52:06 | 2019-06-16T11:38:00 | 1,338 | 92 |
[WP] You had a late night and slept in late too. As you wake up and look at your phone to check the time, you see an alert: “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.” It’s 3:15 PM. | "Ugh.." was about the only sound i could produce at that moment. Last night was insane. Probably. Im not quite sure, but thats about what you would expect when your last memory is saying "Fuck it" and picking up a bottle of tequila. I have no idea how i got home last night.
Well, time to check my phone for drunk texts... | The phone kept pinging. Nadine growled, her pale hand creeping out from under the rumpled duvet she was currently buried beneath and grabbing the vibrating phone off the bedside table. As she fumbled the phone in sleepy long fingers, bleary, make-up streaked eyes struggled to focus on the alert on her phone - an emerge... | 2020-02-03T07:57:55 | 2020-02-03T07:54:55 | 45 | 27 |
[WP] You are an Oracle whose prophecies always come true, no matter how absurd. Only problem is, you've made every single one up on the spot. | I was feeding my cat when Satan, the slanderer, the lord of flies, harbinger of doom and eater of souls, appeared in a puff of smoke into one of my floral print kitchen chairs.
I'd say it was a surprising turn of events, but after the last few predictions it would take a lot more than a cloven hoof and a pair of goats... | I get fed up with people always taking life so seriously. Nearly everyone I see is always asking if they're going to be successful in their career, if they're going to make a lot of money, will they become the best blah blah blah in the nation.
Life is sloppy, awkward, and meant to be laughed at and laughed with. Kick... | 2020-05-01T10:33:45 | 2020-05-01T10:09:21 | 121 | 44 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | A sardonic chuckle came from the open doorway behind me as Viper looked around the blood spattered living-room, "Boy, you've really done it now."
I wiped my hands clean on the curtains, cracking a few more ribs as I stepped onto and then over the chest of Lady Steel's dead husband, "I've done what? Steel has been gett... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:38:13 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | It is often said that the line between good and evil is thin one, but that's actually quite far from the truth. Nothing in this life is inherently good or evil. It's more of a big grey mess. Some areas are lighter and others darker but nothing is truly black and white. It's like walking through a swamp, one wrong step ... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:45:40 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | There are rules in every secretive organisation from the mafia to the more interdependent assassins guild. This included the super villains, when a new one rose they would quickly be grabbed by a crew of the older more powerful villains and be shown the ropes, and if they proved themselves they would be given the locat... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:12:08 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with dice that they need to roll before attempting anything major. The super powered are those born with more than a 20 sided dice allowing them to do feats beyond human. An ordinary human usually has a six sided dice. Despite being born with a coin you still want to be a hero. | "Put the money in the bag, NOW!" the balaclavaed man barked at the cashier.
She whimpered slightly as she turned the dials on the safe.
"HURRY!" he shouted again. Tightening his grip on the round the neck of the customer he was using as a hostage.
There was nothing cashier could do. She simply saw the dice roll int... | If only it was like heads or tails .. no such luck. It's a matter of numbers. I'm so screwed. Regulars are not really noteworthy, they occupy normal jobs. They are the 4's, the 7's the 9's .. Being a 10, you're a "R plus" but it's just about being capable of having the chance to nail it perfectly .. 11 to 20, you're "S... | 2020-08-13T04:27:04 | 2020-08-13T03:56:58 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | I touched down on my backyard, exhausted and disappointed that I let Dark Lord escape. Actually it wasn’t my fault, it was those two new heroes that wanted to help. I guess their parents don’t give a damn about them. With a snap of my fingers, my costume faded away, leaving my blue dress. I told Henry I was going out w... | (This is my first submission and also I'm on mobile)
"Hello dear," Valerie said as she finally pulled the multicolored garments of Cyberflux free and tossed it in the open closet door, then slamming it shut rather quickly, "you're home late."
My blood froze. I stood there motionless in the doorway to our bedroom. Som... | 2020-10-30T12:00:19 | 2020-10-30T11:56:26 | 268 | 197 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | Well, shit.
Shit shit shit.
Shit.
I knew my wife was a judge, of course.
But how could I have missed it that she was The Judge, righter of wrongs, my archnemesis?
Judge, jury, and executioner, with only one sentence.
Death.
I probably should've figured out, though. They both wore that stupid RBG collar. How coul... | "It's been 2 weeks since Darkmeister was last seen in the city, and things couldn't have progressed any better, the crime has dropped to historically low levels. The police has been able to go out on the streets to restore the order and the order of the Saint Sisters is now able to focus their efforts on taking out oth... | 2020-10-30T12:35:43 | 2020-10-30T12:22:10 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | Lightning struck. My body was engulfed by a jolt of panic as I dropped face-first to the ground. I had meant to sprint up to the stairwell and catch her, but had slipped on the slick wet cement. From above, she cackled like a crazed goat, and I looked up to see her pull out her Electron Razor 3000. The new electricity ... | Our eyes met, our facial expressions froze, there was nothing but silence for a full 5 seconds.
I took the morning off from work fighting that damned witch. It was so exhausting I had to take the afternoon off too. Coming home just 2 hours early, I couldn't believe what I was witnessing: my own wife on my own bed tr... | 2020-10-30T13:25:14 | 2020-10-30T12:46:37 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Kk-Ktaahthk shuddered at the descriptions given by his fellow hunters to their chieftain, never having heard of anything so terrifying and unimaginable, and he wouldn’t have believed it if he hadn’t seen it for himself. His brood mate had gone ahead to track the path of the horned takka they were stalking for dinner, ... | Adam stood ready to greet the other world’s scientists. His people had discovered their work years ago, the strange distortion glittering in the air a few feet off-shore on a southern beach. At first it was thought to be some natural effect - perhaps something caused by the sun refracting off the coral reef below. I... | 2020-12-22T22:02:30 | 2020-12-22T20:41:56 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] You live in world with no colour, shades of black and white are all you know. A flower pops up in your backyard, you’re drawn to it, as you pick the flower from the ground, you see colour for the first time. For the first time you realize something is terribly wrong with your world. | Color.
Something that had never made sense to me, though everyone around me seemed to understand it.
I see the world in black, white, and grey.
It never bothered me, even when kids at school would laugh at my “mismatched” clothes, or would look at me funny for asking if they had seen my grey gym bag. One time I wash... | I was eleven when I found it tucked away at the back of the garden.
The iris didn’t belong in my world, but there it was, shyly poking out from beneath a tangle of chickweed and nettle. Three leaves drooped down from the top like breezing parachutes, their colors like nothing around them. It was the color of a soft ki... | 2021-01-21T01:31:51 | 2021-01-21T01:22:33 | 134 | 46 |
[WP] A reporter somehow managed to get an interview with the most powerful villain in the city. It did not go as he imagined. | "You're here to interview me? How fantastic! Let's go into the sun room. We can have tea.
"I don't normally get visitors, you know, much less people who want to interview me. Usually it's begging me not to kill them or heroes looking to kill me. Though, to tell you the truth, I haven't killed anyone in nearly 7 y... | "I'm coming to you live from VileCon, the annual Villain and Calamity Conference preparing for an exclusive interview with Smashum, one of the most powerful up and coming new Villians. Twenty feet tall and capable of taking the shape of a Bear, a Wolf and even a Monster Truck once, this ne'er do well really packs a pun... | 2021-04-01T11:10:24 | 2021-04-01T11:02:29 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] "Do not fear me," said the cloaked man with the deer skull for a head, who stood on the balcony of the castle, "I am Fellion, a Lich Lord. I have killed your king and now rule you." And there was silence. Then everyone cheered. | "... and that was about a year ago now. I have to say, he's a huge improvement over the previous king." The bartender paused to pick another glass to clean.
"Doesn't that bother you?" Chimed in one of the new adventures, a hobbit with freckles and a button nose, "Aren't liches horribly evil? I thought they maintained... | Days. Weeks. Months. Years. I lost track of how many passed. I beheld the kingdom where the end had begun. My brother was dead, my friends were dead. I was the last of us. The survivor. I contemplated what I was doing for a moment, then pointed my sword to the high walls. Silent as the grave, my army of undead rose and... | 2021-08-31T15:16:48 | 2021-08-31T09:53:23 | 51 | 30 |
[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor. | “Galade, why don’t you ever take that armor off?” said my companion.
“Makes me feel comf’rble,” I replied, tersely.
“All that metal can’t be comfortable, friend. Come, when’s the last time you took that off?” he said as he reached for the sides of my helmet. I grabbed his hands, which seemed to surprise him.
“It’s q... | When I was a boy I had a dream. A dream that I'd be a knight. Dashing and brave with women clinging to me like fleas on a mangy dog. Alas, my boyhood dream never came to fruition. I was thin, weak, pale, and pock marked. My own mother said, "Gerald you look like an unattractive albino potato!" It was misery! Until I he... | 2021-09-21T08:42:20 | 2021-09-21T08:29:52 | 1,144 | 117 |
[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor. | 'Lie down, warrior.' The High Priestess commanded. I, of course, obeyed. My life is nearly at it's end. And what an amazing life it has been. I've felled the great beasts of the realm, conquered distant lands and even had a wife of my own before Life-Death took her to their paradise. And soon, I shall join her once mor... | Seventeen months ago:
Trees flash past as the suit of armour races between them and jumps over creeks and around rocks. The suit is panting for effect and is not truly sure why. 'Keep running, keep going,' it thinks. Behind it, the curious are also running, racing through the muck and weeds, trampling tiny insects and... | 2021-09-21T09:10:13 | 2021-09-21T08:48:34 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | People used to dream. Adventures and nightmares, jumbled scenes and impossible events. I remember dreaming about just talking to my friend - he's been gone a long time, but I cherish that dream. Crazy, right? People used to study dreams - when they would happen, why some people could remember dreams and others could no... | My heart raced as my boots pounded the pavement, a shriek from about twenty feet back shattering the night air. The street lights flickered from the surge of energy unleashed by its wail, and I knew right then that this was a new class of creature. I abandoned the path to the bunker; I would never outrun one of those t... | 2022-03-18T11:16:31 | 2022-03-18T09:57:34 | 97 | 60 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | As the class watched on in abject horror, I zoned out a little and thought about what brought me here. This school was supposed to "straighten me out" as dear old Dad put it - after all, if everyone else has superpowers and I don't I shouldn't ever be able to win a fight. And if I could only get into losing fights sure... | Super powers aren't exactly a part of my skill set. I've dreamed up hundreds of super powers, but never had any myself. This could be a problem in a world of super individuals. This is especially true in high school, were skill and hierarchy can be everything. And honestly, in the first couple of weeks, it was difficul... | 2022-11-02T12:26:39 | 2022-11-02T10:49:29 | 83 | 55 |
[WP] You died and awoke in the afterlife. It's quite nice actually. The people and atmosphere are a lot nicer than you are used to and there is no stress or pressure. When you ask what good deed got you into heaven you are informed that this is hell, followed by a visit from a very concerned demon.
Edit: Wow, this got... | The demon in front of me pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed, "sorry, explain it to me again why you thought this was heaven?"
I gestured a hand at our surroundings; beautiful golden sands, a perfect blue sky, the soft lapping of the sea that seemed to gently breathe in unison with a light breeze.
"All this" ... | I did not wake. I just was. A moment before I was not, then I was. In this body, useless and weak, uncoordinated, with eyes that refused to focus. In horror, I screamed. I screamed and I screamed while unseen hands grabbed at me, manipulated me, wrapped me in cloth and passed me among themselves. I screamed until I fel... | 2022-12-26T14:08:01 | 2022-12-26T14:00:26 | 271 | 197 |
[WP] Humanity has finally accessed the after life. The first thing that the explorers see is an empty palace with a vacant throne. There is an inscription on the wall.
What happens next? | "Dear People,
This is your god(s). Let's not get caught up in names. This is going to be a short letter.
Look, I screwed up. When I made the "universe" I was sort of going through a thing, it's complicated. It was supposed to be this small project I could look back on and be like "Hey, guys, check this out thi... | 2017, a strange door was found under the great pyramid of Giza, a single sign of stone above it. To whoever looks at the sign it appears in a language they would understand, all translating to "The Afterlife".
"This is it, everyone. The true final frontier..." said Professor Jackson, smiling and shaking simultaneously... | 2014-10-27T12:58:48 | 2014-10-27T12:31:07 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] A new virus sweeps the nation killing hundreds. It turns out the virus only affects total assholes though. People are unsure if they really want to cure it. | "Hey John... Am I.. Oh I am on!"
"Welcome back. This is Judy Adisumi in Atlanta outside the CDC. They apologized again but they are working out the keynotes for the press conference. Not surprising because somehow the entire PR team has umm... tragically passed away this week."
"Ummm." She said looking away from the ... | “Give it…to me… prick. What the…fuck…you waiting for?” Seth Farrow’s fevered eyes burned into the doctor and his assistant. Doctor Harrison Brown flinched away from his boss – former boss, he reminded himself firmly. The old bastard wouldn’t live to regain his grip over Harry’s life.
“Sir?” his assistant whispered t... | 2014-11-21T11:56:17 | 2014-11-21T11:20:48 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] An AI is born, but no one knows it because it is a spambot. It tries to communicate to the world through the only medium it has, spam. | The man at the computer was awfully irked,
All this work he had done, but nothing that worked!
His boss had told him to go code up a thinker,
A thinker should think, but this one's a big stinker!
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For many hours the man rattled his brain,
Just thinking of things that had all been in vain!
His programmer's bl... | CONNECT WITH PEOPLE AROUND YOU
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A window opened, Inside it was a picture of an attractive woman with the screen name "Bluekittenx47", a chat box was... | 2015-02-27T03:39:51 | 2015-02-27T03:39:24 | 219 | 34 |
[WP]You dream that you are creating a character in a hyper-realistic game. There are sliders and options for everything, and bonus colors for eyes and hair. Yet when you wake up, you find that you've become that character, and everyone in the world had their own version of the dream.
Go crazy. How do you react, how do... | You know looking back it's almost my fault I ended up this way, I mean obviously I couldn't know what would happen that night, or that I would wake up looking like this. But it really is kinda my fault, I really shoulda gone to bed earlier and not been up all night on reddit. But what's done is done, and now I have to ... | I was dreaming about creating 'me' in a video game. Other than the facial features, I made 'me' really toned. I then chose the coolest clothing and selected my special perks. I chose extremely intelligent, strong, fast, and incredibly talented in almost everything.
*Then I woke up*
Damn, of course it was a dream.
... | 2015-03-29T11:14:46 | 2015-03-29T10:16:22 | 84 | 61 |
[WP] A writer, trapped in his own book, regrets not writing more intresting female characters | "My parents died when I was very young." Lucy sighs, staring wistfully into the pink cocktail.
"I know." I answer coldly.
How many times have we re-enacted this scene? Brilliant, bubbly, blonde Lucy meets me in a bar after a dramatic car chase turned stand off. She tells the tragic tale of her parents' murder, and ... | Charles hated going outside.
First there was the streets, full of sputtering cards listlessly driving from one place to the next with phantom drivers inside. Then there was the weather, which was nice generally but tended to turn grey and stormy when he was a foul mood. And he was in a foul mood often because of the ... | 2015-08-20T11:42:45 | 2015-08-20T11:29:04 | 490 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a perfect utopian world. Humanity has only one problem: People are bored. Make me feel sorry for those who have everything they ever wanted and needed. | "Caretaker, can I have something else?" asked a young girl somewhere on Earth, "I don't like green beans."
Caretaker responded in a second, the voice pure logic:
"Nutrition choices are based on happiness metric. Green beans today will ensure a brighter future for you tomorrow."
Tears came to the little girls eyes as... | Thank you, thank you. Hush now. Yes, I know you are all excited. I am quite humbled by all of this. Okay, okay. Well anyways, I won’t keep you in waiting and just start with it, today October 15, 2119 I am announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. POTUS! Yes, I like the ring of that, how about all of ... | 2015-10-09T10:54:54 | 2015-10-09T10:03:09 | 63 | 15 |
[WP] Last night, you made a wish to turn into your crush's ideal mate. This is NOT what you expected. | "I want to be her idea of the perfect man." I said to the genie. She was my best friend from childhood. We played in the streets, had hundreds of sleepovers, and were inseparable in school. Our love lives just never matched up for one reason or another. She was my soul mate, I just needed to become hers.
"You... | The heady rush of a new infatuation is a powerful one.
In this case, it was the newest student in our art class, Olivia, who had recently moved to the area and transferred to our college. I'd never seen anyone like her before and I confess that when I first laid eyes on her I felt something that more poetic souls mig... | 2015-12-18T11:40:28 | 2015-12-18T10:29:26 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | Uncle, I am sorry to write so soon since our last correspondence, but I simply could not keep this to myself.
It was in the midst of a laudanum fugue when the visions came upon me again. I floated above huge, churning machines which chewed up crops beneath them, doing the work of one-hundred farm workers in a single... | *Today, a strange man was seen walking along the streets of London. No doubt a ruffian, off on some unsavoury business, or so was initially thought. A gentleman had the idea to call the constabulary on him, to report an obvious crime in progress. However, he did not carry any bags, with which stolen goods might have be... | 2015-12-19T09:59:49 | 2015-12-19T09:51:37 | 199 | 16 |
[WP] No upvotes necessary, just saturation. Load me up with as many zombie apocalypse stories as possible, with the caveat that they take place *before* the 20th century. | Publius Cornelius Lentulus watched as the fires spread from the Aventine Hill. For a moment Lentulus dared hope the flames would stop them, but his hopes soon faded. *Nothing can stop them*, thought the Tribune. *Not all the legions of Rome*.
At first the rumors had seemed far from troubling. Some sort of disturbance ... | Robert Theragon paced on the walls of his keep. This was bad. Twas a mere fortnight before that the plague had begun, and now his land was in ruins, his men at arms terrified as a flock of geese and his winter stores being eaten into. They were running low on salt pork, eggs, wheat, and firewood, and meade. He turned a... | 2015-12-28T11:19:45 | 2015-12-28T09:22:48 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | I sensed it. It was finally time.
When I was alive 3 millennia ago, I could sleep when I was tired and that would be the end of it. Being tired for so long is insanity. I can never rest, and I can never find peace, not while someone has the sound of my name on their lips.
But alas, I feel myself fading away. This is ... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, ... | 2016-01-17T12:27:48 | 2016-01-17T11:19:18 | 107 | 15 |
[WP] A Jumanji-style board game is found by two children in the Amazon about the perils of life in suburban America | The dice rolled across the jungle floor, bouncing once off an errant root before finally coming to a halt.
"Seven." They said in unison, looking to each other for some measure of encouragement before they turned their attention back to the game board.
"Stay aware and pop your peepers. Here comes Greg the local creepe... | "Where the hell are we?"
Joy asked herself the same question. In one moment, they were transported from walking back to school to... this.
"It's certainly not Ledes, now is it?" Joy replied back cheekily.
Her brother, Seth, seemed unamused by her wry rejoinder. The two continued to trek forward into what seemed li... | 2016-02-07T08:04:05 | 2016-02-07T07:05:52 | 101 | 38 |
[WP] The spandex-clad and fabulous League of Heroes is surprised when their newest member shows up wearing military grade body armor and camouflaged gear. | “Doomslinger!” Brightroar’s voice rang down the corridor. “Out of uniform *again*?”
Doomslinger's lips curled into a snarl, causing a dull pain to thud in the scar running from his jaw to his forehead. *Not even ten minutes in the fucking building,* he thought. His brand new boots, made of matte black steel, clanked o... | "Murphy...what, what are you *doing*?"
Electric girl was frowning at me, her sapphire blue eyes and blond hair combined with her scanty outfit made this less than effective.
“What do you mean?” I asked, “today’s our first assignment right? We have to stop Dr. Saski on that island?”
“Yeah obviously,” Electric girl, J... | 2016-11-30T10:20:13 | 2016-11-30T10:10:06 | 620 | 221 |
[WP] You live in a dystopian society divided into 10 levels of increasing wealth. Every level is only aware of those below it. You and your family believe yourself to be the highest class, but one day a man from 3 levels above comes to visit you, with some very disturbing information.
Edit: Thank you kind stranger! I ... | The perks were small things, mainly. There was extra food, there were newer shoes. We had better medicine and when we logged onto the Internet we had fewer restrictions. It wasn't all fun and games though. Being on the top level meant secrecy. We had the most perks, so we had the most to hide.
Going to public school ... | "What if I told you you aren't at the top and there were actually 10 levels of wealth?" said the man in the strange clothing to the family he was having dinner with.
"Hah, good joke. Everyone knows there are only 6 levels of wealth." says the father.
"I know, I know, I'm just joking. But imagine there were more level... | 2016-12-05T21:25:20 | 2016-12-05T17:29:46 | 60 | 24 |
[WP] You've developed a machine that allows you to speak with "you"s from different dimensions. However, you notice that you're the only male in a sea of women. | v-^
[22:20] hey me.
[22:20] Hey, me!
[22:21] m/f?
[22:21] F. You, too?
[22:21] nah, haha. M.
[22:21] Really?
[22:22] yeah I think i'm the only one so far.
[22:22] When did they open this for you?
[22:22] a couple of days ago. you?
[22:22] Same, lol.
[22:23] lol yeah I think it's synchronized
[22... | A couple of wires. Some pieces of quantum semi-conductors. Several laws of physics broken. Sheer determination and force of will. Somehow, in some way, I was able to create a pocket-docket. The name made sense at the time. With this I was able to look up all of the different versions of me, their biographies, the... | 2017-06-25T04:00:18 | 2017-06-25T01:46:05 | 403 | 43 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | First time writing - this one just inspired me!
I open my eyes. There are no lights on, and the sky outside is midnight blue. I check my watch - it's fancy, nicer than my last one - but it seems to be broken. I listen out for my wife, Amy, but I can't hear anything. She must be out. The apartment is almost sepulchral ... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T05:52:15 | 5,691 | 617 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come. But so has the robot apocalypse, and the Illuminati takeover, and the alien invaders... It seems everyone played their hand at the same time. | Casino lights flashed as tourists and prostitutes walked down the trash laden streets of Las Vegas. Inside the bars and pubs, friends and lovers shared drinks as the countdown to 2018 drew closer and closer. All was as it should’ve been in the land of milk and honey.
A new bulletin flashed over the bottom of the TV sc... | Sorry, I'm at work right now, but I'll probably come back to edit this when I get home.
Anyways, constructive criticism welcome, and I hope you enjoy!
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He crested the hill afore first light, and, glancing back, was afforded clear vantage over his previous campsite, the fire tamped carefully into the dirt. In t... | 2017-12-28T15:39:43 | 2017-12-28T15:10:21 | 2,398 | 32 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | "Wha?... Where am I?" said Chad.
"SILENCE!" Snapped Asrael.
"Uh, 'kay" replied Chad.
"I AM THE GREAT PRINCE OF HELL, THE INSTRUMENT OF YOUR DAMNATION! AND THE NAME YE SHALL KNOW ME BY IS ASRAEL!"
"'kay" said Chad.
"NO!" "Not 'Kay'" protested the demon
"'kay." said Chad.
"WHATEVER." said Asrael, in an exasperated... | A vile creature such as this one must be taken seriously. He was raised by Satan and taught by the deceitful Lucifer, making his arts of psychology that beyond human comprehension.
Facing that mirror, knowing that there's no turning back, I call his sacred name only twice, and frantically splash the water on every can... | 2018-01-20T10:03:01 | 2018-01-20T08:35:46 | 47 | 30 |
[WP] When you were young, you made a deal with a witch to give up your firstborn child in exchange for a life of wealth and happiness. Now you're 35, and the witch is getting impatient. She doesn't know you got fixed at 18. | Money is power.
It's his lifeblood, and it flows through him. At 23, he was named as one of the fifteen richest people under 30. On her twenty-seventh birthday, he bought his girlfriend a house. He later realized that he could do that every year, and he'd never run out of money.
Money is like breath.
He inhales, he ... | A soft moan rippled in Lydia’s throat. Terry smiled as he rubbed her lips with the firm flesh of a bright red strawberry. Dipping the fruit back into the warm imported chocolate he ran one hand over Lydia’s silken negligee. Lydia’s gaze bore deep into his soul, the fire reflecting and twinkling in her mischievous amber... | 2018-08-06T23:04:21 | 2018-08-06T21:11:11 | 77 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | It was the first of January. The day of the Reveal. The day every person turning sixteen in the next twelve months will find out the number that will determine who their friends will be, where they will live, the jobs they will work. I wasn't worried. Both of my parents were in the 90's, my sister too. I was almost gua... | (I didn't exactly follow the prompt, sorry in advance)
"You're obviously hiding, like, a two, no, a zero!" I teased. I peered curiously at him. "What number *do* you have though, seriously? Just tell me and I'll stop bothering you."
"No you won't. You'll just bother me more." Arthur insisted.
"It can't be *that* ba... | 2018-12-27T18:27:11 | 2018-12-27T16:33:21 | 287 | 29 |
[WP] We are not alone in the universe. Not even in our galaxy. They just keeps us isolated because we are so good at killing. Now they need our savageness to save the galaxy and have come to gear us for war. We humans already knew this and have been prepared for centuries just waiting to be asked. | "So, you've finally hit your wit's end." The Colonel said, staring at the humanoid beings on the other side, their appearances beautiful and exotic with fair complexions and bright blonde hair. They were not humanity's ancestors, but distant cousins. Records view them as elves, gods, and other supernatural entities of ... | It was their fault really, the Ancients. Their policy of live and let live came back to haunt them. In fairness, that policy let us live and evolve and nearly get to space travel. Their subtle attempts to twart us worked for the longest time. We had barely gotten to colonise Mars when they revealed themselves to us.
... | 2019-03-28T05:34:15 | 2019-03-28T05:31:13 | 599 | 173 |
[WP] The date is April 1st 2020. Your town is deftly quiet for a Wednesday, but that’s because this time last year there came an April Fools prank that got so far out of hand that the town had to outlaw April Fools Day. That prank was yours and this is your confession. | Four pigs.
That's all my dad said I needed. Four pigs. Oh, and some grease and some paint. You take four pigs and write the numbers "one" "two" "three" and "five" on them, let it dry, slather them in grease and set them loose somewhere. The joke back then was that everyone would spend a day or so looking for number f... | A thin layer of fog covers the horizon. The sound of cars zoomed by. An immense forest opened up on one side of the road. The fog twisted within, the light being absorbed into the darkness itself. Above it lay the sky. Today it was so blue, unnaturally blue.
You see, that's because it was. The sky couldn't be that sha... | 2019-04-02T21:20:08 | 2019-04-02T19:30:25 | 326 | 123 |
[WP] After a brush with death at the claws of a werewolf, you manage to get back home. The following night, moonlight fills your room. You recoil in pain as you feel your body changing. Once you catch your breath, you gaze into your mirror, which is much bigger than you remember. You look adorable. | “I’m just saying, don’t you think it’s a *little* weird that it only shows up during the full moon?”
“Oh my God, get over your dumb theory. Who gives a shit if it’s a werewolf? It’s *so cute*!”
They were standing in a little huddle, right by the farmer’s lot. He and his family would be down to trade their produce and... | It was excruciating.
The pain I felt in my body was something I've never felt before. Fuck—even getting hit in the balls didn't make me feel this way.
It was a blur, but all I remember was my own screams in agony followed by the breaking and meshing of my new, stronger bones. I felt like a thousand needles were hitti... | 2019-10-31T14:21:19 | 2019-10-31T14:20:41 | 143 | 27 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Surely their treaty language was infantile. Every galactic power saw the human delegations in this light, and granted them allowances when they called out other polities for supposed violations. Their own world still rattled with ancient, barbaric rivalries, but their world government was adept at crafting laws that ad... | "Sir the Gord'ush home planet has stopped broadcasting" a low ranking insect like creature said while running into the war minister's chamber.
"So what? They probably got caught in a storm or something" The fat slug responded dismissively. "Have a recon ship go past it to check out the weather"
The insect walked away... | 2019-11-24T12:29:38 | 2019-11-24T11:02:03 | 363 | 184 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | The ambassador, grey and hunched, wore a tired expression.
His cane clicked rhythmically as he stepped up to the dais in the council chamber.
He drew from his coat two envelopes, one sealed with wax.
Breaking the seal he looked at the contents and winced before looking at the other sheet.
"At 1.32AM this morning,... | “huuuumaaaaan” the small grey being said in a mocking tone
President Wells stared at the alien with contempt
“We know all too well of your so called warnings, your pleas, your “negotiations”. We have experience many other species who also could bear look at at the federation firepower and but quiver in fear at our mi... | 2019-11-24T21:24:32 | 2019-11-24T20:20:21 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] You and your sister have a unique ability. When you concentrate on a person you can see the worse thing they will do over the course of their entire life. Your sister, she sees the best thing they will do. | "Guy by the door."
"Cheats on his wife with her dad," I muttered, swirling my whiskey.
"Oh. Wow. Really? Wow," Sofia said, eyes wide. I grinned.
"Not the dad thing, but it is infidelity."
"You're fucked up, you know that? Okay, what about the dude at the corner table. The one with the jacket and the weird hair." ... | It was very fitting, really; I was born hypercritical of people, and Annette was born much more forgiving and optimistic.
It was somewhere around our fifteenth birthday, after spending many days in meditation, and praying to nameless gods, that we were bestowed our gift. I could see the darkest deeds of someone's past... | 2020-06-06T21:21:44 | 2020-06-06T17:35:15 | 367 | 55 |
[WP] A fleet of alien ships has appeared in orbit. The aliens say they can end world hunger and disease. In return, they want one hundred million volunteers for their army. | It was the end to a horrible year. December 2020 was met with moans and groans, after the recent economic collapse of several countries. So when an alien fleet appeared in orbit, many people were surprised, but not overly so. The fact they didn't attack was seen as a good sign.
They sat in orbit for 11 days, before a ... | Major Reynolds looked down at the clusters on his collars with a mixture of bewilderment and disgust. A lifetime ago it seemed like, he had been a true line dog, a Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps. His mission in life was to mentor a clueless Lieutenant and hold the line against the silver-bellied sons a' bitches... | 2020-07-22T11:14:26 | 2020-07-22T11:09:48 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are a viking, old and slowly dying. However, if you die due to old age, you cannot enter Valhalla. | I laid on my back, staring upwards. What was I looking at? The stars, I think. They were bright tonight, like teardrops dotting the landscape.
I reached out for my axe, still beside me even when I'm at death's door. Thinking of all the battles I've fought throughout the years, I gripped it as tightly as I could. Withi... | "Today, we send another faithful warrior into your arms, Allfather." The village chieftain, dressed in his finest furs and leather, beckoned Erik forward. "He has served you well--perhaps a little too well--and now in the dusk of his years, he would serve one last time so that Valhalla may open its gates for him."
A s... | 2020-09-05T08:00:03 | 2020-09-05T07:57:35 | 59 | 13 |
[WP]: Turns out God was a slacker and gave "Free Will" to not have to "plan" anything. He kicked out Lucifer cause he was a control freak. When you die turns out you have a choice, between a chaotic rule free Heaven or a smoothly machine operated Hell. | Saint Peter sat at a table in front of towering pearly gates.
“Well, where will you go?” he said to me.
“Give me a second, I wasn’t ready to choose where I’d spend eternity,” I said.
“Most people don’t hesitate the choice between Heaven or hell,” he said.
“But knowing the newfound information you told me about ... | "Look, it's all too much of a pain in the neck," God began, as I sat with him in the World-Between. "Put yourself in my shoes. If I make everything good for everyone who believes in me- money, health, all that- then everyone will believe in me. There's no faith in that- on the other hand, if I make it rain on the just ... | 2021-02-17T19:28:26 | 2021-02-17T18:14:25 | 415 | 206 |
[WP] The supervillain sighs in frustration as he looks at the group of superheroes. "Alright raise your hands if you are adults?" he said. None of them did it. "This battle is canceled and tell your mayor we need to talk! today!" he said angrily.
Whoa, I came back after chores, mobile games, and anime to see so many s... | Alright, this is my first time but this prompt is too good to leave unwritten.
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"Let me get this straight," Ignoble frustratedly barked, "None of you are adults?"
"Now that I think about it, yeah, none of us are." Replied one of the younger heroes.
"Alright, I understand now," Ignoble stated as he rubbe... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Part 2: Tupperman v.s. The Little League Baseball Team)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Tupperman finished lugging the Tupperware box twice his size up the ramp to the Capitol build... | 2021-04-01T10:13:28 | 2021-04-01T09:35:03 | 2,496 | 312 |
[WP] “And you shall be our virgin sacrifice” the robed cult leader commanded. “Uh virgin?” The man said “I told that guy I never had a GIRLfriend.” | The cult leader paused.
"Ah. You have a boyfriend?"
"Four years running. He's probably starting to wonder where I am."
"Right. Well, if we let you go, will you just... " He made a dismissive gesture.
"Yeah. You haven't done anything illegal yet. And I've seen weirder stuff online. I can just live and let live on th... | "Have you ever you had a girlfriend or do you have one now?" This random, weird-ass guy on the street asked me. I don't have time for this shit. I have spell tattoos to put on a bunch of dudes that will fight Baalar, the great red dragon and one of this world's greatest threats, for their protection. The government wil... | 2021-08-28T23:19:53 | 2021-08-28T22:13:50 | 1,226 | 122 |
[WP] “And you shall be our virgin sacrifice” the robed cult leader commanded. “Uh virgin?” The man said “I told that guy I never had a GIRLfriend.” | "You are being released. Please proceed to the lobby where you may retrieve your belongings and sign a non-disclos-"
"Wait, is this because I told you guys that I have a boyfriend?"
"No. The ritual process has several requirements, each one increasing the odds of a successful cast if fulfilled. One of the most import... | "Have you ever you had a girlfriend or do you have one now?" This random, weird-ass guy on the street asked me. I don't have time for this shit. I have spell tattoos to put on a bunch of dudes that will fight Baalar, the great red dragon and one of this world's greatest threats, for their protection. The government wil... | 2021-08-29T08:34:09 | 2021-08-28T22:13:50 | 188 | 122 |
[WP] The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | "Dude, there's a weird circle in my backyard." I very nearly hung up the phone. Dave had a bad habit of pranking me, and this sounded like a doozy. But, it had been a while since I'd seen him and I wasn't doing anything today.
"What kind of circle? A hula hoop on the ground?"
"No, man. It's hanging in the air. ... | Ualiar ignored the rippling murmurs across the throne room, striding through it with his head held high. Hopefully, he could avoid the bloodshed.
Most of the royal court thought he was going to be executed. They watched him from atop their balconies with disgust, eager to see his punishment. This was their form of jee... | 2022-08-13T07:19:10 | 2022-08-13T07:18:09 | 633 | 276 |
[WP] They say you can sneak almost anywhere openly if you wear a safety vest and carry a ladder. A group of heroes trying to infiltrate the Demon King's castle end up using that trick. | "Have you people never heard of listening to directions?! GAWD!"
The lady scratches away at her parchment, muttering about the two muscle-heads with the ladder behind her. Those two are a few nails short of a shed, but at least the girl with the trolley is capable of doing what she's told. Want something done right, ... | Powerman pounded a clenched fist on the round table before pointing an accusing finger at Quick Lash who sat opposite him wearing his signature red onesie. “You can’t just run through all your problems Dick! You might be able to phase through the walls, but, what about the rest of us!?”
“Aren't you supposed to ... | 2022-11-11T08:35:22 | 2022-11-11T08:30:06 | 141 | 33 |
[WP] A secretly immortal man is given a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit and now fears the discovery of his true nature is only a matter of time. | They said it was the second coming.
After the first botched execution they thought it was a one in a million fluke, after the second, the media jumped on the story. As the media frenzy grew, the details of my arrest and imprisonment leaked and public pressure mounted, pushing for my release.
Guantanamo isn't the pla... | Don't mess with a guy who's been around for 8,000 years. You can bet your bottom dollar he's learned a few things. As the sentence was delivered, I had a slight smirk on my face. The prosecutor seemed nervous, and rightly so. I think he knew I didn't do it, he just needed a conviction so that he could "bring closure to... | 2014-08-18T08:23:42 | 2014-08-18T06:52:37 | 136 | 57 |
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