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[WP] The world's most passive-aggressive, condescending firefighters are here to help.
Bonus points for an interesting emergency. | Dear Sir or Madam,
We regret to inform you that while you were away your Structure/ Vehicle/ Property/ Beloved Pet/ Loved One suffered severe and catastrophic damage or bodily harm as a result of combustion. The Townsville Fire Department responded to this event and did everything humanly possible to save lives and pr... | Neville popped his hot pocket into the microwave. Finally, after 5 long hours of his first day at work, it was lunch time.
"Bloody company can't even afford proper microwaves.." he grumbled under his breath as he turned the old fashioned dial to 1:20 and hit start. While his disappointing lunch spun meaningless circl... | 2014-09-04T18:38:09 | 2014-09-04T17:47:04 | 65 | 14 |
[WP] In a perfect utopia, you have just committed the first crime... | He didn't tell anyone. Didn't need to at first. The smell always wafted away before anyone noticed. But this time it lingered. This time he couldn't escape. "Was that you?"
"No"
"Okay"
It was a strange feeling. Like something that was completely alien, unthinkable. Truth was changed forever. | Blood pooled underneath the still body of her former lover. She looked up, a mixture of confusion, fear, and shock spanning the length of her face. "What did you *do*?" Her voice was low and hushed.
Her husband looked at the body and then back at his wife. His face was red and his chest heaved. He stared expressionle... | 2014-10-24T20:41:35 | 2014-10-24T20:05:08 | 64 | 15 |
[WP] In a perfect utopia, you have just committed the first crime... | It was finished. He laid atop a beautiful highrise penthouse, pool and all. Gazing upon the sunset, an android waiter brought him a drink, his favorite. The mysterious man looked to his side, to gaze at his perfect companion.
"I've done it." He smiled.
"The people of the world are in perfect bliss now thanks to you.... | Blood pooled underneath the still body of her former lover. She looked up, a mixture of confusion, fear, and shock spanning the length of her face. "What did you *do*?" Her voice was low and hushed.
Her husband looked at the body and then back at his wife. His face was red and his chest heaved. He stared expressionle... | 2014-10-24T20:18:46 | 2014-10-24T20:05:08 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] Immortality has been discovered. However, it only works on a small minority of the population and has no effect on the rest. Scientists are unsure why this occurs and there are no discernible patterns. Over hundreds of years this has led to distinct classes of humanity. | "Have you ever read Brave New World?" The voice sitting next to me chimes. "Yeah, I think it was, what year is it?" "2348, I think" "Yeah, I read that back when I got the immunity, it's about artificially created caste systems right?" My drink is empty, how long has that been like that? "Exactly, it's an eerie pa... | **Part ONE:**
I was the first Alpha. When the opportunity came to grow my avatar and “make the jump,” I gladly signed all the release forms. These experiments were semi-legal back then in 2042. Die-hard religious groups were against any form of “immortality-science” and tried mightily to stop it. They merely postponed... | 2015-06-01T02:20:36 | 2015-06-01T02:17:56 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You're sitting in a dull history lesson when you come to the realization that the detailed lesson continues through the past, into the present, and into the future. You decide to stay after class to talk to Mr. C, your weathered history teacher... | "It's all a pattern, see? History repeats itself through each, major paradigm a leading civilization goes through, the echoes of which grow greater the more we become globalized. See? Doesn't that make sense?"
"Mr. C, you were using specific names."
"Oh. I was?"
"Yeah. Who's George Bimes of the Democratic West... | There were one hundred and eighty seven awful things about my time in Kennedy High. I don't have time to name
them all, but number one was definitely Janine Smith's disappearance during freshman year, and not just because she was my girlfriend, but because, well… she was a person who existed and then one day, after gy... | 2016-04-29T06:21:36 | 2016-04-29T05:45:00 | 82 | 23 |
[WP] Legends tell of the Elder race who utilized strange "technologies" instead of magic. As hordes of brutal killers invade from the north, a young elf heads off to search for ancient ruins, looking for humans... | "Who goes there?"
"Dahalva, of the Ederwood."
"An Elfling, that speaks in human tongues?"
"An Elfling, that speaks in human ... tongues."
"Come forth."
"You are ..."
"A human. Yes, I know, a miracle I am sure."
"I was told you were all ... long gone."
"If by long gone you mean nearly exterminated by you and you... | Ayen Liakian, a young elf from Xyrdove, staggered into the cave. They had tried everything to defeat the northern orcs. Electrical, fire, and ice attacks could hold them off for a short time, but their greater numbers always prevailed and one by one the great elven cities were falling. The prophets had no more answers,... | 2017-01-06T19:17:30 | 2017-01-06T16:06:48 | 196 | 41 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | "Mr. Tiddles?" I said. "Is that you?"
And then I said, "Tiddles... how the hell can you talk?"
Tiddles said. "Listen, Steve. Firstly, the name's not Tiddles." He spat the word out with disgust. "It's Tyrone."
"But Tiddles, sorry, Tyrone, where have you been?"
"I've always been able to talk," Tyrone the talking dog ... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T09:11:49 | 249 | 152 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | "Well, it all started when I visited ole Londontown," Dex started to explain while I fitted on his old blue and grey striped sweater. I was still flabbergasted that the miniature dachshund was talking to me, but really, it was just a relief to see him again. "Man, I really missed this sweater. Your Grandmom really knew... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T15:08:06 | 249 | 60 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | To the Justice Unit, he was a mere has been. To us, however, he was a milestone in all of our lives. My father, Mega-Kill Sr., was his arch nemesis for decades. I remember when I was 17 or 16, my pops gave me his suit. He said to me; "Georgie, if you want to be a real villain, you gotta know how to fight a super." S... | "Put down everything and put up your hands! Make one move, and you die!"
Hothead Fawkes waves his pistol at the people in the bank, who all immediately drop what they're doing and put up their hands as told.
Chubby Shark, Hothead's partner, takes out a small handheld device.
"Sorry if you have an expensive phone, ... | 2017-04-13T06:12:53 | 2017-04-13T06:10:33 | 40 | 28 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | **So this got a little away from me and doesn't exactly follow the prompt but I already wrote it so I'm going to post it and you guys can read or not**
Rampage claws at his neck, the air, at nothing at all. Nothing to grab onto but still he claws desperately. His entire body convulses, legs kicking desperately against... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T06:36:56 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You're an astronaut on the International Space Station, and you watch in horror as the US fires the last nuclear warhead and ends the last remains of human civilization. You're left with just 3 other humans, with no hope of a supply restock. | Humanity, for all intents and purposes was extinct.
It was a foregone conclusion when I along with two others, Sam and Yuriy, witnessed the nuclear holocaust that obliterated every major city on Earth. Additionally, it shed radioactive particulates throughout the atmosphere, ensuring the fate of the “survivors”.
It... | Dear Diary,
For those of you reading this, stop laughing. Yes, I’m a forty - two year - old man. And *yes*, I am writing a diary. I had mommy issues, ok? Don’t ask. But seriously, if you think a grown - ass man starting his journal entries with “Dear Diary” is weird, you’re in for a joyride. Because trust me, my... | 2017-04-25T17:17:21 | 2017-04-25T12:29:42 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | It started as a small shadow on the ground that glistened and shimmered as it moved. Quickly it swelled, swirled.. pulsed. I was transfixed on the movement.
My shoulder had taken the brunt of the fall but my head had hit the ground with a loud crack. I was too dazed to move... all I could do was watch. The scene play... | "Tell me where it is!"
"I don't know! I don't know!", I cried as I got another kick in the gut, protected by nothing but the rope the chackled me with.
Apparently, the thing they want from me is a valuable jem hidden somewhere in my house. I thought the previous owner was shady, but who'd think he worked for mafia! ... | 2017-08-28T00:15:26 | 2017-08-27T22:41:33 | 111 | 56 |
[WP]The US Government finds a Stranger Things-esque alternate dimension full of deadly creatures. Then, they discover Oil there. | January 4th, 2028
Been in the muck for three weeks now. Jackson's been losing his shit, blaming me for everything from the translucent bats to the creepers upturning our tents in the middle of the night. We heard this was a dangerous place. Three teams lost already and we're the fourth. So far no one has died.
They a... | *"It shows up, we have no knowledge of why it’s there. The average human being is not worried about it because they don’t know it exists. We have no idea what it symmetrizes because it only appears to symmetrize itself."* --Eric Weinstein
***
“Are you sure about this, sir?” Milena asked. “We could do more testing, it... | 2017-10-28T08:12:59 | 2017-10-28T06:25:51 | 874 | 363 |
[WP] It was the first day in history that all babies born were female. Then it was the second, then the third, the fourth.. | "Mom, why can't I try out for the team?"
"Kylo, we've talked about this, it isn't safe."
"Yeah, but --"
"No. It's too dangerous."
With a flip of long, glossy hair, my child stomped away in a huff. I know there is heartbreak and incredible loneliness in that small heart. But my fear is too great, and our secret is... | ######[](#dropcap)
It's tempting to say it began five months ago, but in reality the problem actually began roughly nine months before that.
We now know it is the result of a widespread genetic mutation caused by a mosquito born STD. Think Zika, but with very different, far more widespread side effects.
For those p... | 2018-04-07T10:02:46 | 2018-04-07T08:19:47 | 181 | 112 |
[WP] Once upon a time, aliens sent a virulent poison to Earth in hopes of clearing the planet for their own habitation. Hundreds of years later, they're back, and shocked that we're not only alive, but actually are eating/drinking their poison en masse. | We were running out of time. Our constantly growing population had created such a need for resources that we were forced to look for a new home.
Our scouts found a primitive planet in a small system that seemed perfect for our needs. The only problem was that the planet was inhabited by a primitive race of bipedals. ... | The station had three bars, but only one that didn't have a depressive Hyperklaxonian smothering a grand piano and gurgling bad Billy Joel covers through the fluted valves at the top of its head. Avalon Karl had just bellied up to the darkest end of the brushed titanium bar and begun considering the rows of liquors (al... | 2018-05-16T23:31:55 | 2018-05-16T20:26:23 | 653 | 35 |
[WP] Instead of an angel and a demon sitting on your shoulders, one side sits a brash New Yorker and the other a posh British gentleman. Neither are necessarily good or evil, they just make passing comments on your day to day activities. | "Jolly good show, my good man," he said, sitting on the right of my shoulder and inhaling deeply from his pipe. "Positively smashing."
I'd been watching Stranger Things for the last couple hours, trying to block them out.
"What kinda trash is this?" the man on the left of my shoulder chimed, pacing up and down the l... | "Oh dear", said John.
"You fucked up" said Jack
They both nodded. It was the first time they had agreed in three days. Which didn't help me much, since my foot was still broken from the fall, and the big guy was still climbing down the fire escape. Maybe he would be as ungraceful as me when he jumped at the end?
"I ... | 2022-04-29T19:22:54 | 2018-07-02T16:02:32 | 4,745 | 122 |
[WP] In an alternate world, every individual is granted a superpower of their choice when they turn sixteen. There's only one problem - there can only ever be one person with a particular superpower, like superstrength. This has forced people to get .... creative. | Ok Bill, what do you wan't your power to be? The department of super powers and abilities representative asked. "flight?" I asked the man who simply said "taken"
"How about time travel?" "taken"
"the power to create money?" "taken"
After about an hour of asking for anything awesome I eventually started to lose ho... | The list was exhausting to look at. All these superpowers...
Russell had a clever friend, Frege, whose power referred to the superpowers. Being a computer scientist, Frege simply asked to, given a superpower, know if somebody had it. He was popular. He got favors from all sorts of other people who had more useful powe... | 2018-12-04T10:55:59 | 2018-12-04T10:21:17 | 61 | 12 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Frontiersman Lucian Xan's blood flowed freely down his brow until it met his jawline. It pooled on the tip of his chin and then dripped downward, unnoticed and unimportant. "How many are we looking at? I'm getting nothing but squid on the local."
Jack Studde snorted, "More than it's worth countin'." He gave a hapless ... | Quiet humming filled the command deck. Reverberating off the walls, it slowly wound through and around the otherwise silent chamber. Sad forlorn notes echoed into themselves, hauntly blending from each unto the next until decerning which came before and which after became impossible.
The room was frozen in time, bathe... | 2022-03-30T20:52:43 | 2019-02-01T00:08:24 | 2,124 | 12 |
[WP] A man accosts you in the street, and he claims he is you from the future. “Whatever you do, DO NOT fall in love with that girl!” the man warns. Distracted by the crazy man, you turn the corner and bump into someone. Its the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. Your eyes meet and she smiles.
Credit to this post... | Michael watched himself, and his other self converse from across the street. Time travel once, and you do it again. Watching history through the lens of whatever bias the historians had was far inferior to watching it through the lens of a cafe's window, slow jazz music playing in the background.
It was never worth i... | Calvin’s feet stopped dead in their tracks.
The woman in front of him pulled her hand up and moved a stray thread of pale blonde hair out of her face. After tucking it behind her ear, she stretched her hand out toward him, as if to initiate a handshake. “Sorry about that, I’m Angela.”
Her hand sat in the air for a... | 2020-02-04T10:18:37 | 2020-02-04T08:32:55 | 163 | 70 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | "Hey, Zero!" I heard it too late to dodge, the yellow-grey pain-flashes in my head igniting my vision as the barrage of punches rained down on me. I tried to accept it, let it pass as the infantile tantrum it was.
Melark stopped hitting me long enough to kick me, his acid laughter staining the air as I fell to the flo... | Another blow sent me sprawling onto the floor. I felt a drop come from my nose and saw the spot of red on the floor. My face burned from his fiery punch.
“Come on, loser,” Chantley shouted. “If you’re not going to show your power, I’ll force it out of you.”
“You’re not changing anything by doing this,” I said. “Just ... | 2020-02-26T06:21:03 | 2020-02-26T05:43:27 | 3,609 | 1,964 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | This is my first ever response to r/writing prompts after lurking for about 3 years. Please be kind:
“Here she comes, Anna the Raptureless!” Every day Dylan said the same thing as I walked into our overcrowded, overheated and under resourced classroom, in our run down inner city school. Not for the first time, I was g... | I always thought that the girl who'd punched me in the gut with just now had a power that hardly suited her.
To own a detailed sigil of was a sign of respect, prosperity; stronger sigils always signified that their bearers were wise, kind, or honourable or highly experienced in life.
And yet Leticia Norek, the sigi... | 2020-02-26T08:40:37 | 2020-02-26T08:34:28 | 40 | 25 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Brian pushed me against the wall, laughing his sickening cackle. He turned to his minions, who have the collective iq of a potato (though at least a potato can power a lightbulb).
"How much you wanna bet that dumbass doesn't have powers?" As numbers flooded the air with how much these damn rich kids were willing to b... | Even before the rapture, that's what we've grown to call the day the sky lit up like a god had laid fire to a rainbow, i had trouble fitting in. I never enjoyed the "normal" things kids were supposed to: sports, video games, comic books. I was always staring out the window. Looking for shapes in the clouds or stars. Wi... | 2020-02-26T09:22:10 | 2020-02-26T09:02:03 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone's always happy in your uncle's presence. As his favorite naphew, he invited you to go stargazing one night. "Well, it's been fun, but now it's time for me to go back. See you around kiddo." You thought he was joking, but you never saw him again. No one else seemed to remember him too. | "And that is Sagittarius," my uncle said while pointing up at the desert sky. "The center of this galaxy lies that way, with a giant black hole in the middle. Let your eyes adjust and you'll see the Milky Way."
I'd never been out to the desert before. Never really been anywhere far enough from the city lights to reall... | Life just went as usual after that, you went to school, played with friends did your homework. It was wired, someone who seemed like such a big part of your life just vanished but nothing seemed to change.
You yourself almost forgot about him untill a year later you need to get a tent for the boy scouts trip. You ask ... | 2021-11-22T10:07:05 | 2021-11-22T07:48:47 | 120 | 34 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | "You sure about that? I can handle myself well enough." I said as I pulled out my pistol and chambered a round.
"No, trust me, they aren't \*people\*, a weapon like that won't cut it, I've just gotta trick them into thinking I'm not here, and this place is an extrasensory dead zone for some reason, so they can't see ... | Snow always fucked up Julia's commute. As a nurse, she had to go in, regardless of the weather, and her all wheel drive car did just fine, but the other idiots always slowed things down. But she didn't work for four more days, so when she got home she was really looking forward to stripping off the scrubs, taking a cri... | 2022-12-05T10:30:15 | 2022-12-05T09:58:58 | 186 | 77 |
[WP] A suicidal person is robbed by someone at gunpoint. What happens? | "Your wallet and phone! C'mon, hurry!" The rag over the man's mouth muffled his voice, clasped in both hands was a revolver.
"No."
He stood there, staring at me for a moment. "What do you 'no'? You can't just say no, I'm robbing you!"
"Well, I did, what are you going to do about it?" I said with a shrug.
"I suppos... | I was walking towards the bridge. It was dark, but I didn't mind. In fact, I didn't even notice. I didn't notice much during that period of my life, only hunger, only thirst. And the pain. But that was secondary, it seemed to me that I had never known a world without it. Not for a long time, at least. Too long.
My hea... | 2014-02-14T16:55:12 | 2014-02-14T16:51:23 | 188 | 37 |
[WP] Humans are an intergalactic species, but also pacifist in their natural state. Earth is created in an attempt to create violent humans to face a new threat. | Even the very oldest species had agreed: the universe had never known a sentient spacefaring predator before. It was well known that predators, by their nature, could never develop advanced technology. Their basic biology just couldn’t support the idea. They were too violent, they had little ability to cooperate or act... | “Sargent Komklosky, you have been summoned to the grand council today to give a disposition on the current status of the Earth Project. At the end of the disposition it will be decided how much funding we shall keep channeling into overseeing of Earths affairs. It will also be determined if we can approach them and r... | 2014-08-11T08:14:28 | 2014-08-11T06:27:53 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocent story that could have been written for children. Then tell a different perspective on the same story that casts it in a totally different light.
Nothing in the original story should change - all that should change is the perspective on it. | Dear Santa,
I still can’t believe I got to meet you and your elf!
You said the cookies I made were your favorite, so I’ll make them again for you next year (I always knew you had a thing for sugar cookies). Mommy and Daddy said you forgot about us and would get us new ones when you could afford them, but I got to ... | It was a bright and clear day. The sun was shinning and there was even a slight breeze. The setting was a lively forrest and out of that forrest came Jack. Jack was no ordinary boy however, Jack was part boy part squirrel. Jack had puffy cheeks two large teeth that were more prominent than the others and had the furry ... | 2014-09-02T14:01:01 | 2014-09-02T11:03:26 | 334 | 45 |
[WP] Years ago a curse was cast that all people wearing costumes would turn into real versions of the costumes. This is now an annual, known and accepted phenomenon.
This would be best as a prompt closer to halloween but I didn't want to wait that long. | There were pros and cons, of course. Sure, he wished he'd dressed as a cowboy that fateful day, or a ninja--yeah, that would have been cool. But as it was, he'd found some benefits to his new condition. A lifetime job at Yankee Stadium selling concessions--he got to see every home game. He'd appeared in over a dozen te... | You’d think a curse that brought costumes to life would be some time during Halloween.
You’d be wrong. The big day was actually on February 8th, and people had been prepping for *months.*
It turns out, the higher the quality of your costume, the better your transformation. Which meant that the high-society folk livin... | 2015-06-04T06:25:08 | 2015-06-04T06:06:37 | 261 | 180 |
[WP] A man has lived his whole life sinfully, with the intent on going to hell and killing Satan. He has just died. | The hooded figure stood up, straightening his back. Stretching.
The rite had gone well enough, one million souls burned. An unfortunate but necessary byproduct of progress, he reasoned.
The outsider was noticed immediately, his arrival had annihilated an impressive swath of the Phlegethon in a riot of impossible ligh... | Craig zoomed through the black and white star-streaked hypertunnel, struggling to keep himself oriented head-first. "I'm coming for You now, fucker!" he screamed in triumph. "Time to grab your fucking ankles, bitch!" Craig let out a continuous yell, as he hurtled through the
*SLAM*
Craig opened his spirit-eyes, and k... | 2015-07-01T12:02:49 | 2015-07-01T10:21:08 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] An advanced alien civilization descends upon Earth, selects one human at random, briefly abducts and teaches him all the secrets of the universe. Upon his return, an interview is arranged. The first words out of his mouth are "I could shatter the bonds of human civilization in five words…" | The plaza was packed fill of people, crowded around the obelisk and sweeping columns of St. Peter's Basilica, where it was decided the man would reveal all that that alien's had told him. When he stepped up to the podium, a hush fell over the crowd, and indeed the entire world, where every person able watched the live ... | "...The future has already happened."
"Okay." Dr. Victoria Sellers said after a pregnant pause. "So what?"
Dwayne blinked. This revelation did not have the impact he expected.
"You look surprised. That seems odd, considering." Dr. Sellers smiled.
"Well, yes...everything is predetermined. That doesn't bother yo... | 2015-08-27T10:40:09 | 2015-08-27T10:26:47 | 64 | 27 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | PARIS (AP) Leaders from 42 countries gathered in the French capital Tuesday to thank the police detective who singlehandedly defeated the terrorist group known as ISIS.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau still seemed a little dazed from his ordeal in Syria, saying only "I do not know who zis ISIS person is, I am just glad ze ... | "Commander, we have it. We've taken the facility that houses ten - ten! - nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States! Can you believe it? Ten! With the fifteen suitcase nukes we've seized in the last three years since 2020, we can finally take the battle to them!"
"Yes, yes....this will show the world at ... | 2016-01-29T07:27:42 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 1,067 | 19 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | The dust settled, and a lone black boot came slowly into Major Thomson's view. Heaving a sigh, she raised herself up on her hands, only to be stopped by a swift kick to the ribs.
'Stay down,' came a voice in a thick South American accent, 'or we will strike you down'.
'W-Where am I?'
'You're in heaven, Ms. Thomso... | "Commander, we have it. We've taken the facility that houses ten - ten! - nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States! Can you believe it? Ten! With the fifteen suitcase nukes we've seized in the last three years since 2020, we can finally take the battle to them!"
"Yes, yes....this will show the world at ... | 2016-01-29T05:00:31 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 144 | 19 |
[WP] You stumble into an abandoned warehouse and find a room completely covered in dials marked with years. Each dial is labeled with a different species. You find the dial that's labeled "Human" with the dial turned to 122 years, the longest anyone has ever lived. You decide to tamper with it. | "What are the odds?"
She stood there staring at the dial. This single one amongst the manifold dials on all four walls surrounding her; this one held her. This one was labeled 'Human'.
"Worth a try." She cupped her hand on the dial and started to slowly wheel it toward the '999' marker. "Might as well max it out. We... |     "Millennia, child."
    Robert jumped, his hands retracting instinctively. He turned around and saw in the doorway standing a head above his own a bipedal fox walking towards him very much like a human. He could see in the dim lamplight golden... | 2016-11-14T20:33:21 | 2016-11-14T19:51:15 | 196 | 38 |
[WP] After humanity flees Earth, the planet's gods stay. You were the only one left behind and now the gods are obsessed with getting you to worship them. | "What about Thursday? We could hang out, see a movie, you could just slip in a few compliments. That's all they really add up to, anyway." Thor again. He's persistent, and nice enough in person, but he's like the rest of them.
"Ummm, I don't know, man. I'm already meeting Mithras for breakfast, one of those buddhas ... | The tides had swelled so large that they began to cast a shadow over my small home. They were immense and roiling, shaped as if they were trying to imitate hills, yet they never seemed to trespass the boundaries of my yard. The titanic swells were accompanied by a low, muffled moan.
I sat in a lawn chair in my front y... | 2017-01-27T19:11:28 | 2017-01-27T18:05:29 | 40 | 20 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | Today I woke up.
It was 7:38am,
When I looked at the clock.
I got ready for work.
I had eggs,
I ate them with a fork.
Work went alright,
and before I knew it,
It had turned to night.
At a reasonable hour I went to bed,
But not before brushing my teeth,
On my pillow I laid my head.
| Blazing with all the wrath of a young star, the afternoon sun fiercely beat upon the partially shaded buildings of Ricks & Wracks Bricklaying Co.. Said buildings had briefly experienced a complete lack of shade under the midday sun but such a time had already come to pass.
Stan was loading his company's finished p... | 2017-01-30T08:45:51 | 2017-01-30T08:28:51 | 287 | 76 |
[WP] It has been a year since your spouse mysteriously died. You are fidgeting with your wedding ring when a compartment opens and a note falls out. It starts, "My Love. If you are reading this, I must be dead..." | I still remember the day we exchanged rings. I asked Michelle if there was any reason why mine was thicker than hers, but yet lighter at the same time. She laughed it off, said that I was thinking too much, and threatened to leave me for her pet Maltese if I continued to pester her with stupid questions.
I responded ... | "My love, if you are reading this, then I must be dead..." the note began. Megan flipped it over and the other side. "You didn't know this, and probably still don't know, but I worked for an intergalactic syndicate that worked against the draconians, who are intent on invading Earth. Go to the backyard and dig three fe... | 2017-05-25T07:44:35 | 2017-05-25T07:43:47 | 2,091 | 265 |
[WP] To your surprise, a SWAT team breaks down your door, rushes inside, and surrounds you. Only, their backs are to you, guns trained on the doors and windows. The closest one whispers, "Here they come." | I was new at this, so I didn't expect this kind of treatment.
The sergeant lead the assault, driving the men himself. The team got there just in time. The men and women in the SWAT uniforms broke through the door (and even some windows) and surrounded me. I was in shock.
"Here they come."
It seemed just a few ho... | **Saturday January 12 12:24am**
*this can't be happening. God what the hell.*
A series of expletives and theories bounced around my head as I sat in the back of the blackhawk helicopter, besides two burly SWAT operators covered in their deep black body armor and a solemn demeanor. An African American man in a crisp b... | 2017-06-28T10:09:35 | 2017-06-28T09:46:42 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | "It's not worth it," I heard.
I can hear my heart beat. My healthy, fully functional, 18 year old heart.
"Please don't do this." My brother, again.
My brother is in there. His heart is beating, but it can't be calm. Mine is a slow thumping noise.
"It won't fix anything. It won't." He referenes a debt that... | We stand at the precipice of the mountain, her wind bitten hands clasped in mine. She shivers, and I try to be strong. For the both of us.
We've made it. That's the main thing. All the suffering, all the pain, it doesn't matter. Not anymore. We've made it.
There's a lake of fire in front of us, but it offers no war... | 2018-02-25T08:15:55 | 2018-02-25T07:12:49 | 1,595 | 36 |
[WP] Thousands of years after modern humanity wiped itself out in a nuclear catastrophe, fantasy creatures along with humans reduced to medieval tech rule the earth. However space stations carrying the remnants of the modern world including cryogenically frozen humans have begun to fall to earth.
Idea came from watchi... | “Don’t touch it!”
I cringed my hand on reflex away from the white box. But I didn’t tear my eyes from it. From her. I could only see her face through the glass window. Her long hair was almost pure white, matching the color of her prison, and her face was deathly pale. Her eyes were closed, and her lips were slightly ... | Keaton tossed the cloth pouch in her hand, her mind swimming with the possibilities of what lay inside. It was all she could do to restrain herself from running to the Village Elders and informing them of her grand discovery. This was her moment, she wouldn't let some random passerby ruin this for her. She decided to t... | 2018-03-10T08:38:11 | 2018-03-10T08:25:01 | 102 | 11 |
[WP] You are a powerful being sent by God to unify the world under one flag. After long decades of attempting to peacefully bring people together, you realise - the world doesn't need a guiding hand, it needs an overpowering, apocalyptic threat to bring everyone together. This is your story. | Everything begins and ends with a sacrifice.
I had nothing left to give up. I had given these nameless, faceless people my everything - my love, my wealth, my time, my work and even my family. Nothing mattered to me but my mission - "Bring peace".
I thought it would be easy. I went around telling them about happines... | "War sells, kid. Remember that."
"But mama said-"
"Mama said nothing you need to remember except for 'clean your plate.' And that's only because you need to get while the gettin's good."
The kid hangs his head in embarrassment at being talked to this way. He needs to get over it. The universe doesn't care if it hurt... | 2018-07-12T04:02:10 | 2018-07-12T03:36:27 | 207 | 40 |
[WP]A brave knight hunts an infamous dragon, and local villagers spend days telling him not to pursue his quest, to no avail. Eventually, one villager gets fed up and says, "Look us and the lizard have a good thing going here. Don't ruin it." | "Tax season?!"
Sir Biglesby's eyes almost popped right out of his head as he whipped his visor back and glared at the cowering peasant. "What do you mean tax season?"
"Look," the scrawny man hastily gulped. "A big terrifying lizard does count as a 'natural disaster' and under Section 13, Subsection 3, Paragraph 3a, i... | /Town of Elderyn/
She was a heavyset woman with hair piled intricately on her head. Heavy jewelry clacked against her ample bustline and layered robes of purple and blue swayed delicately around her ankles. She had to stretch as she reached for the glass jar on the top shelf. It was filled with a crimson powder and th... | 2019-04-15T02:06:44 | 2019-04-15T01:13:52 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone in the world suddenly got superpowers overnight. People started throwing fireballs and flying as more and more humans discovered what their power was. You just recently discovered yours. You can quicksave and quickload. | I couldn’t get control of the wheel. It was whirling at a hundred miles per hour in seemingly random directions. I could hear Tara screaming. The eighteen wheeler in the opposite lane wasn’t going to stop in time. Tara went silent. I closed my eyes.
*reload*
“Do you think Amanda and Henry are going to like i... | Mirra focused on the wall in front of her. A single sheet of paper with the number 14 taking up most of the sheet was pinned to the wall.
"YES!" She cheered for herself, grabbed the sheet off the wall and tore it in half. Yesterday morning she scribbled the number on it and pinned it to the wall. Mirra realized that, ... | 2019-06-30T11:55:11 | 2019-06-30T11:24:08 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone in the world suddenly got superpowers overnight. People started throwing fireballs and flying as more and more humans discovered what their power was. You just recently discovered yours. You can quicksave and quickload. | It was complete chaos. Anarchy unfolded all around the world. That day really changed the perspective of human nature. Many people who even had the slightest desires abused their powers. They would rob banks, Flip cars, Burglarize and rape families in their own homes. There were a lot of deaths. Especially the first gr... | Mirra focused on the wall in front of her. A single sheet of paper with the number 14 taking up most of the sheet was pinned to the wall.
"YES!" She cheered for herself, grabbed the sheet off the wall and tore it in half. Yesterday morning she scribbled the number on it and pinned it to the wall. Mirra realized that, ... | 2019-06-30T11:55:25 | 2019-06-30T11:24:08 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | What the scans showed was impossible. Unheard of. Three potentially habitable planets in orbit around a single star. All within the acceptable temperature range, all with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Granted, the readings from the second planet had some anomalies we couldn't explain, but it was hard enough finding a sing... | Cycle 800080, loop 4:32. I don't know what it means. I don't even know how I know it. I'm so confused. Where am I? Who am I? Wait, where's my body? Is this a dream? It must be. I wake up, god knows where, without a body and I'm not freaking out. It must be a dream, yet it feels oddly real. Why can't I remember who I am... | 2019-08-13T16:12:59 | 2019-08-13T15:48:34 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | At a glance, it was a barren planet. Indistinguishable from billions of other planets in the Milky Way.
The first giveaway of something extraordinary was its radiation signature; way beyond the expected range for its class.
Closer inspection revealed ancient structures. Another civilization that burned itself out. St... | It had been twenty years since we had received the first communication from intelligent life. We knew we weren't alone, but, perhaps in our own hubris, we had assumed we were the most advanced. Interstellar communication, though, was something we wouldn't have even considered.
That message had changed the course of ... | 2019-08-13T16:22:41 | 2019-08-13T15:42:34 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | "The ritual was completed successfully, your majesty. The kingdom is saved!“
“You've done well, and bring honor to your House. Pray, when might I meet this man? This legendary warrior?"
"I regret to inform your majesty that he has... declined to present himself to you. Belligerence runs deep in him, it seems."
"I su... | The night was dark. The enemies where at our gates. Thousands of eons of war and bloodshed had lead up to this very moment.
What was left of our country’s scientist, generals and politicians had banded together. Cast aside previous political and social boundaries and banded together for a common cause. This was our hi... | 2020-11-10T19:13:31 | 2020-11-10T17:46:17 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | It’d been a full day of hiking to reach the precipice of this mountain and I was winded, breathing heavily, and sore from the climb. I left before first light and the sun had now passed mid-day. About 6 hours had passed and I needed to eat. It seemed foolish to stop and have a quick snack before entering the dragon’s l... | “Once again our crops burn, even as we speak we wait for their flames to be doused. Last year was a travesty, but a surplus in stock gave us ample time to slay the beast yet here I stand with bellows of smoke in my eyes to a crumbling kingdom! Once a great nation, its citizens the wealthiest in the land of Astharnia, a... | 2020-12-01T09:38:34 | 2020-12-01T06:36:28 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] "The Lord has foretold every nanosecond of existence. Every moment from the big bang to the second coming was decided before time itself by the will of heaven." The angel looks around, crystal eyes blinking in confusion. "Except this. We have no idea what the fuck this is." | I slowly but carefully put down the pen of my drawing tablet, with a click onto my desk.
The angel, leaned closer to my screen. I am not sure i would have described him as pure white, as much as he seemed to emit light. His wings were beams of pure sunlight, yet they moved just as wings should.
He looked closer at my... | In the light that burst through the clouds, an Angel descended upon the fountain in Hyde Park. The luminous, sparkling angel stood out in the dusk. Stood out from the other creatures of the night that readied themselves to fly in the night sky.
The Angel creased its perfect shimmering brow. It moved its head from one ... | 2020-12-20T07:20:54 | 2020-12-20T06:01:23 | 258 | 62 |
[WP] As a survivor during a zombie apocalypse, you're unwillingly being protected by a vampire coven because you're their only sustainable food source for miles around. | I am Hope.
That is, at least, what the vampires have decided to call me. I used to be Melanie, but it’s been years since anyone has called me that, so I just go by Hope now.
The vampires call my name as my cage passes in the darkness. I can see their eyes peering from the shadows, glinting unnaturally in the... | Gertie braced herself for the vampiric embrace—the piercing of fangs into her arms. She always thought that they would prefer the neck, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Hers? Throwing herself into vampires, because at least they, unlike zombies, could think before they eat. Them? Drinking from the arms... | 2021-11-06T12:38:49 | 2021-11-06T11:55:44 | 233 | 110 |
[WP] Turns out the devil is quite sweet to children and charge less when children make deals with him | My first time writing since I was a kid. Be gentle.
--
Charlie frantically looked between the Open book and the pattern he drew on the floor, worried that the door could open at any time.
Hearing footsteps, he paniced, realized that it was now or never, and lit the last candle.
A scalding heat, a flashing light, ... | "Morning, love!" I open my eyes to see Urrick.
"Am I ungrounded yet?" I mumble.
Urrick chuckles. "Yes. Lucifer decided you've been punished enough. You're ok now." He kisses my cheek and I proceed to get myself out of bed. Before I can do anything else, however, I find myself being summoned.
I'm in a child's bedroom... | 2022-12-09T07:00:21 | 2022-12-09T04:45:52 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] The villains finally managed to defeat the league of heroes. But unbeknownst to them the league did not exist, primarily, to fight them, but to keep an even bigger threat in check: you. And you are about to demonstrate to the villains what happens when there is no one around to stop you. | I sat calmly, watching the wards on the floor flaring and dimming with power. Another day, another fight, it would seem. I looked around my prison vault, bored and hungry. Normally I'd been fed by now, it must be a big fight for the Heroes to be so distracted.
Suddenly the runes just winked out.
"Well, isn't that in... | The defeat was national news within minutes, international by the end of the hour. The villains had finally managed to work together and bring down the big league heroes that guided the world towards a grander future and now even the small heroes were being swatted like bugs. It was difficult to watch as the newsfeed c... | 2022-12-09T10:19:39 | 2022-12-09T09:37:15 | 323 | 126 |
[WP] A lone Spanish soldier lost in the deep jungles of South America stumbles upon the fountain of youth, but it's very different than anyone ever imagined. | I can't believe my luck, such a beautiful fountain. Here where I'd least expect it. I step in. Just to cool off from the heat. To clean up. I feel so wonderful! It's indescribable! My years have fallen aside and I'm young again. Really? Could this actually be happening? Wow! It's incredible! Amazing! I may just be abl... | Noise.
Faint. Off in the distance, noise. Well, it was not like there was an absence of noise, the endless numbers of fauna that surrounded him swathed him in a constant wash of noise. It was this noise, however, that was not of nature. Repeditive, like a cricket, yet much slower than the ones he was used to hearing ... | 2014-09-06T21:02:45 | 2014-09-06T20:32:59 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] "Please come with me. You are suspected of being involved in a murder. As victim." | **Reading Comprehension**
"I'm sorry?" I asked the policeman.
"I said, please come with me. You are suspected of being involved in a murder as the victim."
"You do realize you're talking to me."
The policeman pulled up his pants so they covered more of his belly, then spoke slowly, as if I was dumb.
"Yes... | The doorbell rang, its familiar melody drifting into my ears as I lay on the couch. As I sit up straight, my body moans, its painful muscles protesting the sudden motion. I couldn't remember doing anything physically exhausting yesterday. My sleepy, incoherent thoughts are interrupted as the melody rings again. Groggil... | 2015-09-17T05:25:58 | 2015-09-17T04:46:12 | 88 | 27 |
[WP] Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. You can't change back until you discover what this skill is. You've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried. | It had been six months. Janney had tried everything she could think of to test this body's skill. As far as she could tell, it had terrible muscle memory, was not athletic, and was, in fact, completely uncoordinated. She had played every video game, tried crossword puzzles and Sudoku. The body killed plants. Anim... | 6 months. That’s how long James had been trapped in this old man’s body. Every waking moment was spent methodically searching through the cluttered house, trying to find any clue as to what modicum of talent the old bastard possessed. It wasn’t singing — these lungs had long since closed up from years of smoking, evide... | 2016-09-26T08:33:17 | 2016-09-26T08:24:47 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | Just got a short one I thought I'd share.
I pressed the button down confidently, its smooth surface becoming rigid as it locked into place, steel manacles locked around my hand to hold it in place. The door that I entered in had disappeared as I walked
In. But another door appeared as I pressed the button.
The lady n... | I couldn't remember much about the night I spent with her except for that little silly button she had in the wall, and the weird sound she made when she climaxed. The whole thing was a mistake. Dana would kill me if she knew. She would literally shot me in the head with her service gun. But I couldn't resist that stran... | 2017-01-05T13:49:11 | 2017-01-05T13:30:21 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You own a magical camera that is similar to a thermal camera, but instead of heat it shows you value. A ring glows as bright as the sun while a piece of plastic wrapping is almost invisible. You have been careful never to look at a person with it for your whole life. | I found it at a thrift store years ago, this small little camera that has changed my life. At first I wasn't sure what to make of the bright lights I saw in it, but slowly came to realize they showed the value of things.
It wasn't always monetary, sometimes it was value in a current situation, or value in the future.... | Mary's fingers were wrapped tightly on the baseball bat, her brown eyes red with tears. She stood atop John, who was sitting still on his leather couch, eyeing the bat in Mary's hand.
"I want you to leave this place," said Mary. "Right now, you lying bastard."
John shifted in his sofa, his silk suit rubbing against... | 2017-01-15T10:16:08 | 2017-01-15T10:13:14 | 199 | 54 |
[WP] 'I can freely enter this hollowed ground,' the demon said to the archbishop in horror. 'What have you done?!' | ######[](#dropcap)
Kreffing, Tormenter of the 63rd Sub-Level of Hell (not to mention Gnasher of Teeth, Bringer of Nightmares, etc.), paused at the entrance to the sacred burial ground, and reflected on the unfortunate nature of the night's business.
It was not that he wanted to be here, of course. A demon would never... | They gave me Lucifer's blessing when I was only thirteen years old. I was standing there with blood dripping from my hands, my eyes reflecting the fires on the other side of the portal. The body of my uncle laid at my feet. I tossed the dagger onto the floor. It landed with a clattering on the concrete.
"We have to g... | 2017-03-14T18:02:19 | 2017-03-14T17:37:54 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] A socially awkward man finds an old lamp that turns out to contain a genie. The man would feel bad ordering the genie around, and instead attempts to befriend him. This softens the genie's heart, and he keeps bending more and more rules for the man out of gratitude. | "What a great day, right?"
Jinn paused. "Yes, no one has ever taken me to a water park." At first, Jinn hated the place. After spending millennia in a desert, it seemed wrong to use so much water for *fun*. But one ride on the log flume changed his mind.
"I wish we had milk shakes to top it all off." Jinn cringed... |
Daryl was not trying to make a scene. He was just looking through the various trinkets that had been put out for the garage sale, that was all. He did not want to be the cause of any hullabaloo. All he wanted was to pick through the jewelry, in case he ever had a woman he wanted to give some to; to look over the stac... | 2017-08-24T15:39:46 | 2017-08-24T15:08:39 | 813 | 81 |
[WP] You are a mage. You can learn spells based on things you research. You usually use things like fire or being able to fly, but you just found a book titled Fundamentals of Quantum Physics. | The text was full of contradiction and impossibility, but the promise of its power was just too tantalizing. The ability to walk through walls? Being in two places at once? It was exciting beyond anything I’d read before, and it had just fallen out of the sky.
“Behold, the arch-Schrödinger,” said my cat, making a mock... | It's certainly been an interesting year for young apprentice Abergine. It all started with that weird book he found near a cave. Abergine thought as he slowly made his way into a flash back. He couldn't make sense of the thing so he went to master Aven for help because he knew he can trust him.
"Give me that thing" He... | 2017-12-31T02:02:41 | 2017-12-30T23:11:14 | 313 | 57 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | “So what happened last night?”
The question snapped him out of his racing thoughts, the elation that he can basically construct reality as he sees fit within the Dwarven community still fresh in his body.
“You lost a buncha’ gold betting on fights, Orwin, you shit gambler.”
That was not entirely true, bu... | Libash was fishing. He loved to fish, even if other dwarfs would make fun of him for it. In the dwarven society many jobs were considered useless, but fishering work was considered one of the most. At least he did his job well, purging the life out of lakes and rivers in moments. He was able to feed the fortress for ce... | 2017-12-31T08:11:53 | 2017-12-31T07:55:00 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | "Magni, I think I'm on to something." said Wendel.
"And what is that?" replied Magni.
"Now hear me out, if you don't drink any alcohol the night bef--"
"Not drink any alcohol!?"
"Right, listen. You know how you can remember what you did this morning, aye?"
"Well, of course I can!"
"Of course. But, I think if you ... | Libash was fishing. He loved to fish, even if other dwarfs would make fun of him for it. In the dwarven society many jobs were considered useless, but fishering work was considered one of the most. At least he did his job well, purging the life out of lakes and rivers in moments. He was able to feed the fortress for ce... | 2017-12-31T08:17:48 | 2017-12-31T07:55:00 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | Since before *homo sapiens* diverged from our hominid ancestors, we have been social creatures. Our languages have many words for the people who, though not-us, are like us. Brother. Sister. Father. Mother. Family. Friends.
When we looked at the stars (They look so much like our own, you know...) we thought "surely...... | I could hear static crackling in the control room ahead as I stumbled down the ship's corridor. The tiny lights above were as bright as suns, and they danced in slow, nauseating circles. I fell to my knees and vomited, my body jerking violently as I expelled a green liquid, a mix of bio nutrients from Cryo, onto the la... | 2018-01-05T10:23:26 | 2018-01-05T06:00:59 | 81 | 12 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | "Mr. Quinn, we know you're in there!" Hollered the voice on the other side of the door. There was more pounding.
"Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm not doing it."
More pounding. "Mr. Quinn, you killed our daughter, just make it right!" A second voice, a woman's voice yelled.
"No. Fuck off before I call the police!" I ... | To them it had seemed like the lingest of Shots, but to me... well I was trying to work up the courage to go see them again.they were here. They were asking. I was nodding my head.
I had taken a life. I didn't mean to. It was my first day on the road...
I hated myself. And yet I couldn't bring myself to end it. Or g... | 2018-09-16T18:47:29 | 2018-09-16T18:45:07 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] For your 10th birthday you received vr goggles. You tried them, thought they were dumb and went on with your life. Its only now, decades later looking back, you dont actually remember ever removing them. | My life was over.
My wife left me.
My boss fired me (and then hired my ex as his 'personal' assistant.)
My kids only cared for what I'd get them for Christmas.
I had nothing left. This world sucked. Who would ever want to live in it?
I remembered a time long ago when I was happy. The game world. I'd be tr... | The thought came unbidden. But there it was, lodged in between the intangible folds of his mind. He ignored it at first, yet the trembling of his rattling bones, and the fast, steady thrumming of his heart spoke of an ever-settled fear.
He was twenty now. It'd been ten years since he'd put on the goggles. Ten years of... | 2018-12-23T06:41:21 | 2018-12-23T06:04:41 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] Immortal monsters of legend have returned after lying dormant for thousands of years. However, the legends were made before guns were a thing, and the "immortal" thing was kind of overblown. | The problem with ancient languages is that many words don't really translate well into modern language. In some cases there's just no modern word that fits, or in some cases there may be several potential translations, all with slightly different meanings. Aside from that, there's the nuance of the word given the rest... | "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
"Wow. True vampires really are immortal. Fascinating." The Salesman said as he raised the power, raising the temperature into the chamber to a nice toasty 3,000 Celsius. The screaming continued as they continued to try finding a way to properly give a death sentence to the p... | 2019-03-20T19:52:25 | 2019-03-20T18:25:35 | 396 | 275 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | "Hey, you. You're finally awake." My vision adjusts to a similar sight. A man, with bright blue eyes, piercing and deep, like the sea. His hair is golden and long, flowing like wheat in a breeze. Is he talking to me?
"You were trying to cross the border right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and th... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T17:04:19 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 816 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | A slash. Metal glints in the sun. Pain, burning pain as I am killed, again and again.
In a way I am fortunate. The last game I played was Sekiro, in which you canonically cannot die. But now I understand why immortality is called a curse.
I die over and over and over, but with each death I learn a little more.
Time ... | *This has to be my worst hangover, and that's saying something.* I think to myself, as I slowly open my eyes. Light softly falls through the leaves above me.
*Wait, leaves?*
"What the fu-"
"TO LEAVE YOU MUST WIN. YOUR PRIZE IS ALL YOU GAIN IN THIS WORLD. GOOD LUCK."
The words echoed throughout my mind, making my headac... | 2020-02-16T20:44:02 | 2020-02-16T20:35:23 | 244 | 66 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | "A man chooses, a slave obeys.."
I was in Andrew Ryan's office, with a golfclub in my hands. I knew this part of the game, it was where we found out who Atlas really was and that we as the player are a slave controlled by a single phrase.
"Would you kindly.... KILL"
One strike, two strikes, down he goes.
Three stri... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-17T00:29:57 | 31 | 20 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | You look down it your phone, and upon it is a notification, "Huh, weird email. who even uses yahoo mail anymore?" you say to yourself.
As you look at the text, you realize that the background is a mosaic of moving gears, flashing lights, and bubbling tubes.
You are given a choice, either be transported into the game ... | I was sitting at my computer when my phone buzzed with an incoming text. I wasn't doing much, just watching YouTube and passing the time, so I picked up the phone and read what it said. "Reply yes if you can survive the last video game you played." Amused by the notion, despite not knowing who sent it, I replied yes... | 2020-02-16T23:15:41 | 2020-02-16T23:07:24 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 155 | 18 |
[WP] In the year 2179, 10 years after the discovery that we are, in fact, living in a simulation, a group of scientists manages to send a message, "Hello," to the Simulation Host through a newly discovered protocol. Amused by the scientists' greeting, the Host turns up the evolution parameter 10x. | **Day 1:**
\> Alert
\>>Query “Alert”
\>Anomalous data pattern detected from simulation.
\>>Query “data”
\>Localized transformation of universe background radiation.
\>>Display anomalous background radiation visually.
\>” H E L L O”
\>>
\>> Calculate probability of coin... |
We call it The AntiProphetic Message. Instead of God sending a message to us, we sent a message to God. We live in a simulation. Coding being sustained by the computing power of some electrical circuits. How massive the circuit is we have no idea. Anything capable of sustaining the intelligence of the entire human r... | 2020-03-25T13:09:26 | 2020-03-25T11:47:00 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] In your village, every child is tested to see where their magical abilities lie. Your parents discover that yours is with insects. Your village thinks that your abilities are the weakest of them all, but now that you're in your full power you are the strongest. | She sat on the hill, watching the clouds drift by. There was quiet chattering nearby but it wasn't other humans. No, it was bugs. She was able to hear them...communicate with them. Honestly, they were her only company. As a child, she was tested to see what kind of magic she had. Hers was over bugs.
It creeped everyon... | “Have you ever felt a nest of spiders burst in your throat, slowly making their way down your throat until they pick and pull at your organs. I hear it’s meant to be painful, at least that’s what I hear. In fairness, I never get a proper answer when I ask. Usually, all they say is. Ah, please make it stop. That sounds ... | 2020-05-23T07:14:53 | 2020-05-23T06:26:26 | 62 | 38 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | "What's paradise to you?"
It's always the first question I ask whenever someone inevitably shows up at my doorstep, cloaked and shrouded with dark cloth and lengthy shadows.
It's a reasonable question. For many of those that live in these monolithic cities of stone and steam, with every need provided and every want... | The girl found me sipping champagne at my usual haunt. Must have been about eighteen. Pretty, at least in a dimpled way. Whole life ahead of her. Always made me sad when someone young wanted to leave paradise. Old people I couldn't care less about. Sorry, I know that makes me sound like an asshole, but if old people wa... | 2020-12-16T06:28:41 | 2020-12-16T06:13:43 | 1,727 | 792 |
[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. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | I was walking through a dense forest. At first glance, it looked normal, but closer up I could tell something was off. The leaves were too green, too bright, in odd shapes. The wood was too dark, and for some reason slightly blue. The grass was... soft. It was almost fuzzy.
This place clearly wasn't Earth. It was a pl... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T08:43:08 | 138 | 75 |
[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. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | Much like Johnny Depp in the 2000s, the sky was overcast. Morose and grey, with just a hint of precipitation, behind which lurked a vague threat that could result in anything from a sudden deluge, to a violent storm of thunder, screaming winds, and flying debris. Like breaking up with your psycho ex all over again. Chr... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T08:39:48 | 138 | 25 |
[WP]"I am sorry, you cannot wait for your wife here. I am afraid she has already been sent to hell" said the angel with sorrow in its voice. "I understand" replied calmly the soul. "I am just going to borrow this" the soul added, before grabbing an angelic blade and jumping down the clouds. | "I understand. And my grandfather?" The man asked. His skin was a pale white color with a military-style buzzcut. It's as if he'd been wrapped in clothes or armor for nearly his entire life.
"I'm sorry, he had not accepted the Lord either." The 9ft tall multi-eyed being replied. "He did not accept the Son. You're... | I'm very tired.
I had a long and fulfilling life. As the local priest of my native village, I dedicated myself to help all the weak and unlucky of the world.
Countless starving children were housed and fed in my home. Many ill and wounded were taken care of and sent to more modern facilities to get taken care of.... | 2021-04-07T09:33:13 | 2021-04-07T08:42:00 | 270 | 109 |
[WP] A depressed hero sits alone, gazing at a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings entailing his past battles and rise to fame, which all seem meaningless now as he considers retirement, he hears a knock at the door and finds his arch-nemesis, with a pack of beer and the goal of changing his mind. | *"Who is this Kaptain?"*
*"Villains Weeping, Kaptain Sweeping"*
*"No need to fear - friendly suburb Kap is here!"*
William Cooper sat slumped against the wall; the cold concrete floor (who needed carpets when you're either spending most of your time punching bad guys or in a hospital bed?) chilled his bare skin as h... | FADE IN:
INT. A DARK LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT
*A man sits slumped in an armchair, dishevelled and unkempt. This is MICHAEL. He is shrouded by shadows, but the amber liquid in his hanging right arm shines.*
*There are three rapt knocks on the door. Michael barely moves an inch.*
**MICHAEL:** Bug off.
**VOICE (O.S.)**... | 2021-05-14T06:01:58 | 2021-05-14T03:32:59 | 90 | 32 |
[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 two times. | I let out a deep sigh, “not another one” I say in my mind.
She stares at me in confusion, “don’t ask.” I say, “quick question, how long have you been reading my mind for?”
“A few days..” I hear in my mind.
“Alright good, then your still safe. Listen, I like that we can have this connection, but I highly advise never... | You have become conscious of your actions but you can't stop thinking about the connection. She is smilling and enjoying going over your expressions and thoughts. You are contemplating how is it possible. She is giggling over your thought process. You haven't been near to her anytime before. You have never talked to he... | 2021-09-07T00:50:17 | 2021-09-06T23:08:48 | 210 | 27 |
[WP] your sense of direction has always been bad, to the point of being a running joke among your friends, but after 28 hours of stumbling through an ikea store you realise that it isn't your navigation skills that's preventing you from finding the exit... | I didn't realize something was wrong until I looked at the time. It had to be a mistake. According to my phone, I had been in the store for more than a day.
That couldn't be true, though. I remembered eating a few meatballs, and even taking a nap on a display couch, but, if I had been in here for that long, surely so... | Being locked into a large box store is nearly impossible. Due to fire regulations and just the sheer number of fire exits, I should have been golden once I found one. From memory, there was at least one or two on each side of the large Swedish box store that I found myself in.
I mean, maybe it was odd for the first c... | 2022-11-08T09:02:18 | 2022-11-08T08:56:25 | 130 | 68 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "Okay fine waste your one wish." said the djinn with no small amount of exasperation, and with that his eyes rolled far into the back of his skull, his hands raised to the sky, then with a melodramatic burst of coloured smoke popped into existence... an ornate urn.
"What the hell's that?" said a very shocked Tom.
"Well... | 'Yes, I'm a Genie'
'Like, really a Genie?'
'Yes'
'Like, a full-blown wish-granting genie?'
'Yes, would you like to make your first wish?'
James Hollin, being thirteen, was a little bit naive about the the world and his place in it.
He was a flip-flopper, a vacillator, an individual who wasn't sure of what he wa... | 2014-06-05T08:29:11 | 2014-06-05T08:03:25 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] A super-villain attacks Comic Con, assuming it's a summit of the worlds most powerful super-heroes plotting against him. | "Surrender to me now or meet your end," I announced to Superman, whose abs looked rather fake. He was much shorter than I'd imagined. And a bit more... rotund.
"Dude! Come over here. This guy refuses to go meta." Batman joined him, his mask was rather fabric-y; he snorted in derision.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Go... | “You there, Zombie! You there!”
The creature looks at me with its vacant eyes, blood dripping over its T-shirt - “I eat Twilight Girls.” Haven't the foggiest what that sentence means.
“Where in this festival is the largest gathering? Where do the most of these fools congregate?”
It lifts its lame arm and shakes ... | 2014-10-04T12:36:28 | 2014-10-04T12:03:33 | 57 | 11 |
[WP] Write a superhero whose superpower only makes sense after you read the story twice. | ZAAAAP!
"...this is never going to work." Marble Man stepped down from the white platform.
Marvelous Woman, leader of the Protection League, met him at the control console. "It *has* to work." Her red, white, and blue shiny bodysuit glistened in the blinking lights of the control panel.
"It's a failure, Marv. It doe... | I stretched to warm myself up. I was getting old, a little tighter and a little less elastic than the days of my youth. Too many beatings, too many kicks to the head and brawls in darkened alleys. One of these days, I told myself, you’re going to have to give it up. I tried to steer my thoughts away from the negative, ... | 2014-12-07T11:42:10 | 2014-12-07T09:39:16 | 143 | 16 |
[WP] your crazy, possessive ex girlfriend was abducted by aliens. She has clawed her way up to the position of the Empress of the Galaxy. Now she wants you back.
You can either go with tyrannical and hated ruler or with enlightened, popular, (but still possessive and crazy) absolutist. Or something in between.
I am m... | I had to pick up Kevin from daycare.
That's what I keep telling myself. That's what I told the large grey thing that was staring at me, chirping odd sounds, many so high they made my head pound. It doesn't understand me, as far as I can tell, but it definitely registers my distress. Not hard to do, as I'm sure I ... | A small ship unfolded itself with insect like legs jutting out from a central sphere dropping it suddenly before its internal gravimetrics held it in place. The legs shifted downwards as if in anticipation of the landing it was about to make. With no visible engine or reaction mass, it fluttered down landing on grass w... | 2014-12-29T09:12:25 | 2014-12-29T09:11:11 | 64 | 12 |
[WP][TT] Seven words of power were entrusted to the ancient kings. Only the first four have ever been used. | "The first one was you"
*"I was the first...what?"*
"No you foolish boy. Y. U. - Yu was the first word of the Seven. It was one of the ancient Chinese kings who found out that saying this word could infuse him with power. It wasn't unlimited power, obviously, or else we'd know his name today. He was completely forgo... | The catacombs were dark and dank, as they had doubtlessly been back when the Seven first ruled the earth. And just like when the Seven first hid away the Power, it was up to a two-bit royal bastard to undo the seals.
Each seal was special, and very simple. If it weren't for the fact that I could still hear the barking... | 2015-07-02T12:41:12 | 2015-07-02T11:56:02 | 70 | 11 |
[WP] Your girlfriend/boyfriend has invited you to their family reunion. They are are all secretly monsters. You know what they are. They don't know you know. | ”Don’t worry, babe,” Victor says, touching my arm.
“But what if they don’t like me?”
“Hey, what’s not to like?” he says, and slams the lion head door knocker a few times.
Well, where do I even start? I’ve never been the chitchatting type, and family reunions are so far from my cup of tea that it might as well be cof... | Filthy degenerate sewer scums. They thought they got me good, but they didn't know I was the one who got them. "Come join our Thanksgiving dinner, sweetie! My family will be cool with that!" she said. Of course! Of course! How kind of you freaking man-eating monster to invite a lonely guy without family member or close... | 2016-11-18T22:07:58 | 2016-11-18T20:37:53 | 87 | 48 |
[WP] Death has been on holiday since the start of 2016. You're his right hand, the Reaper in charge whenever he's gone. He's scheduled to be back in a weeks time, and you're panicking on how to explain what you've done this year. | Lightning strikes outside Death's lair. Although time was countless in the great beyond, by a mortal's sense it was quite late in the evening.
Within the High Grim Reaper's personal quarters, the remnants of quite a festive evening took place. On an antique Victoria Gramophone, Angel of the Morning played in a baroqu... | It was a cold and dark New Year's Eve. I sat in a basement with my two friends who were reminising about the dreadful year that was about to end, the raw stench of mildew filled the air and a cool draft from under the door ensured my cold soul would never warm up. I new he was coming, and the task that was appointed t... | 2016-12-27T16:18:56 | 2016-12-27T12:10:10 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] You are a normal average person but you happen to have many supervillain friends. This is awkward when heroes keep trying to rescue you. | "NEVER FEAR CITIZEN, I SHALL SAV-..."
"Really dude?! Really we're gonna do this again? Getting sick of your shit Awesome Dude, this is the 3rd time this week."
He opened his mouth to protest, then shut it knowing my reply already. I don't know how else to explain it to him so it ends up getting pretty loud when he wo... | "Hey, Ultra Man, this is the sixth time you save me this week, don't you think that I would be dead already if I were in constant danger from The Bastard League?" his words half filled with sarcasm. " But, they are super villains, I can not help but worry about a man living so close to them." answered Ultra Man as he s... | 2017-05-28T08:21:14 | 2017-05-28T06:41:27 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] As a sophomore in a school of magic, you've reached the point in your life where it's time to summon your lifelong familiar. The other students managed to get some pretty cool creatures as their familiars, but yours is... different. | *Souls are the desire to will, the source of irrevocable change. Therefore only those with souls can summon, to connect with the existence of another living being.*
A familiar is inevitably suited to the magus who summons it. The preparation of a catalyst, for those who believed it would help, was only at best a gentl... | "A Chihuahua! I still can't believe it was a Chihuahua! I thought you'd somehow brought off the finest prank of the year." John threw his head back and laughed uproariously, joined in his revelry by the rest of Arthur's closest friends around the table. They had been helped along by a good deal of cheap alcohol, but Ar... | 2017-08-19T04:21:38 | 2017-08-19T01:47:22 | 152 | 57 |
[WP] You are on a time travelers game show. To play the game, you travel back and change important moments in history, being awarded points for the difficulty and overall impact of the change. You just broke the high score. | When I stepped back through the portal, every face in the studio audience was ashen. The announcer looked sick. The giant smile I had on my face faded. Until that moment, I thought I'd done a pretty good job.
I turned around and looked on the screen behind me, which was used to show everyone what the consequences o... | As the assistants pulled him out from the alternate universe he had just created, Adam emerged to face an entire stadium of applauding fans. He knew that helping the Roman Empire invent tanks would be a cool concept, but he never would have imagined it was worth the applause. His train of thought was interrupted by the... | 2017-11-17T07:18:46 | 2017-11-17T06:25:41 | 140 | 89 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | My dad left me when I was six, it's always been a controversial topic to bring up, it made other people uncomfortable, but mostly me, whenever I spoke to psychologists or therapists, it always had to be mentioned. I'm fifty-six now, and it still kills me to think about it, but I have a family of my own, with two kids, ... | The door jiggled. It was a sound that any homeowner immediately recognizes, and has an immediate tightening of the bowels when they know that no guests have been invited. I got up from my soft and plush love seat. The by-product of 2 decades of use by my sisters and mother.
The jiggling continued for 15 more seconds ... | 2017-11-19T16:34:26 | 2017-11-19T16:28:57 | 452 | 176 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | Received Messages from Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:04pm
We've run out of milk, I've gone to get some more from the shop. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:30pm
The shop was sold out of milk, I'm trying the other store. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 5:02pm
The other shop was sold out too, the guy told ... | The door jiggled. It was a sound that any homeowner immediately recognizes, and has an immediate tightening of the bowels when they know that no guests have been invited. I got up from my soft and plush love seat. The by-product of 2 decades of use by my sisters and mother.
The jiggling continued for 15 more seconds ... | 2017-11-19T17:49:04 | 2017-11-19T16:28:57 | 276 | 176 |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. | "What is this?" I asked as I made my way down the aisle.
It was a normal theater, in fact it looked just like the one that I used to visit all the time with my wife, but something was... different. There were five other people in the room, all seated nearly as far apart as possible. Something prickled in the back of ... | It had already been explained to me by the closest incarnation to me; I was dead. He told me to keep quiet during the movie, but at first I didn’t understand. I just dumbly ask how I died. I saw him, well me, try to subdue a laugh as it was explained to me how they’d all watched me choke out on the tiny chicken bone I’... | 2022-05-10T21:37:24 | 2017-11-23T07:04:33 | 1,154 | 117 |
[wp] Your an exterminator called to get rid of an anthill. Upon arrival, you go up to the anthill only to see that the ants haven’t built an anthill, but instead a small castle complete with a tiny moat and ballistas that shoot toothpicks. | "This is the aftermath. They did not receive the queen's instruction to retreat. They fought to the last ant."
I walked around what remained of the outpost. 30,000 dead. All killed by a gas attack. They put up a valiamt defense for sure.
"That is their crest."
I took a closer look at the words below it: Resist and b... | “Ants of the 401st battalion assemble! For generations we have claimed these lands as our own. This mighty fortress a testament to the impregnable spirit of our people. No enemies has ever, nor will ever breach our defenses. But to ensure this remains true we must all stand together as one unshakable barrier. The creat... | 2018-01-18T21:22:36 | 2018-01-18T20:57:21 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... |
Like the bells of fate, my doorbell rang just before I was about to take a sip of my delicious, aromatic tea.
"What the *hell*," I grumbled miserably, setting down my copy of *Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian* that I was re-reading for the fifth time.
I opened the door, and my heart just about leapt out of my che... |
“Don’t.” He said.
It was the boy inside those pages. I knew it within a heartbeat’s glance. It was not the black hair nor the beautiful face that gave it away. Not even the eyes — though truly do they mirror the night sky in hell. No. I must say it was the anxiety and urgency stretching itself like shadows from whe... | 2019-05-20T05:03:41 | 2019-05-20T03:57:31 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are at heaven's doors. Angels and God debated if you can come in because you have committed no sins during your lifetime, but you have the highest kill assists they ever saw. | ‘Hey! I loved Grandma and I was only six! I didn't know her insulin would go bad if it was left out! I've felt guilty for that ever since I realized it.’
‘Agreed, case shall be stricken from the record, moving on.’ The brilliant shining light, God spoke.
John could look into the light without it hurting, but still c... | “So do we let him in?” God looked around at his council of glowing angels. They all shrugged and some found other places to look to avoid his piercing gaze.
“Michael your my chief advisor! Tell me you have an idea of what we can do.”
Michael the firstborn son of God and creation looks up at God and shakes his head.
... | 2019-07-09T09:31:22 | 2019-07-09T09:10:38 | 457 | 165 |
[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 forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute.
It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau... | “Shapeshifting?”
Alex’s eyebrows migrated towards his hairline and his forkload of pie paused mid-way to his lips. He studied his date across the table as she shifted in her seat and examined her immaculate nails.
“I knew you were sensitive about your ability but I have to say I expected far worse”
Emma tucked a c... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T08:30:00 | 4,320 | 2,511 |
[WP] In the late 2040s, a supernova killed humanity so suddenly that Death simply gave up on processing them all. Centuries later, aliens are extremely weirded out when they contact an entire starfaring society entirely comprised of ghosts. | We will all die in twenty years. All of us. The planet, the trees, the birds. Even the one you love, who smiles at you as you glance sideways at her.
All of us will explode in the light of a single dying star.
But don't fret.
Most planets leave behind nothing but a black eye of hydrogen, burning itself out into obl... | Humanity as Daryl knew it disappeared in an instant. It had gone on long enough, some higher deity had decided, and by some cosmic happening that Daryl didn't even pretend to understand, the human race was over. Adiós. Hasta la vista, babies, Daryl chuckled, quoting his favorite human actor.
That left Daryl, the seve... | 2019-12-16T12:18:49 | 2019-12-16T11:49:54 | 1,757 | 360 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I'm nobody's fool.
Tell me to go left, I go right. Offer me what's behind door number 1, you better believe I'm opening door number 2.
Take me to a small room and show me a table covered in food?
Oh, I know what's up.
The food is trash, a diversion.
It's the table. That's the good stuff.
Under the duck l'orange, ... | I blew out the candles, and poof! I was gone. Just like I was told, there I was, in this room, alone. Just me, and a table, and way too much food.
In the centre was a roast terducken, you know them, a chicken in a duck in a turkey. A friend told me that he had taken a bite of the turkey, and had gotten stronger. Anoth... | 2020-03-19T08:53:04 | 2020-03-19T08:52:26 | 791 | 463 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Through the years the great coming of age feast was always looked forward to by everyone. Every power was known due to having being tried at least once and due to variety of different cultures. The people all knew very well what they know they will get before hand. Some families pick a food that is their traditional ch... | As a kid, my friends and I loved to chat, debate and even argue what we'd eat when we entered the power room. We didn't know what food gave what power (everyone who went through it could not speak of that without losing their power), so we always theorised what we'd get.
Gemma insisted she'd find the food that had tel... | 2020-03-19T10:28:48 | 2020-03-19T09:01:40 | 103 | 63 |
[WP] You are the greatest trickster in the universe, eagerly awaiting the results of your greatest trick; millennia ago, you convinced the gods that humans do not exist. | I added a bounce to my step as I sauntered down the great marble hall. It was packed with gods rushing from booth to booth. Investments were made, influence was swayed. Millenia Day was always busy.
At the start of each millennium, the great billboards release the top million most valued races in the universe. In the ... | I am Anyoki. I was there when the first act of misdirection was used, when some starving animal stole from another. I was there when chameleons learned to blend in, tricking predators. I was there when animals evolved to have spots on the back of their heads, that would look like eyes, to trick the hunters. I have many... | 2020-05-08T09:38:56 | 2020-05-08T09:29:28 | 492 | 52 |
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