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[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | "They've taken Newtonport," Allen told me as I stepped into the ancient machine. Already the southern continental factories were busily upgrading a new batch up to current tech. We had gotten these old knightsuits from the old warehouses they had been stored in centuries ago.
"Shit eating fuckers," I said, actually ... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T11:49:21 | 75 | 54 |
[WP] Instead of heaven and hell, when you die, you find yourself in a room with a six year old girl who invites you to join her tea party. It dawns on you, you're her imaginary friend. | [This is like 9 hours old and I should be sleeping right now but inspiration strikes when it's least welcome and I can't get my scenario out of my head]
It didn’t take long for Larry to figure out he was dead. Mostly because he remembered the, you know, dying part. A heart attack is painful, tell you what. He’d turned... | "Hi, what's your name?"
I looked around, I was not familiar with my surroundings. It looked like a child's room, but I didn't recognize WHO'S child it was. There was a little girl sitting at a small table with a tea set. On her left was a teddy bear, and on her right was a stuffed rabbit that looked a little worse ... | 2019-07-27T13:33:35 | 2019-07-27T11:08:41 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity discovers the reason aliens always seem to try and invade the United States. It turns out that the five pointed star is a symbol of unspeakable evil in galactic society. And the United States proudly displays fifty of them. | "What did you just say?"
"Sir, you heard correctly. A country on the planet 'earth' has that symbol deeply entrenched in their culture, and every specimen, from the everyman to the highest of their ranks pledges royalty to it."
"And you mean to tell me, that they display not just one, but FIFTY of them?"
"Yes, sir.... | By the dozenth attack, the lead Spaceologists of the United States had all but concluded that they were being targeted by the aliens.
"The attacks are endless," the Defense Secretary complained. Resources were strained. They had already conducted multiple drafts and were now edging close to having to find recruits am... | 2019-10-08T06:19:44 | 2019-10-08T06:04:33 | 209 | 111 |
[WP] You are corn. Human is nice. You like human. Human gives you good dirt and kills hungry bugs. Today, however, human betray you. Human slaughter your fellow corn and now is coming for you. | I can not see human but I know human is coming for me. Human has cared for me my whole life, why human do this? I can not run, I can not hide. Did I grow only to die? What is the meaning of this life? Why human now come to reap what human sow? I not see human, I not smell human...but I can hear human. I am all ears and... | The warmth of the blazing sun seeps into your fresh green leaves and the tassel of your stock. You love the feeling of the rays shining onto the rough texture of your corn husks and the way it feels after the human has just poured cool water onto your roots.
The water trickles through the dirt and soaks into each ind... | 2019-12-01T20:29:51 | 2019-12-01T18:08:23 | 316 | 140 |
[WP] The hero was blessed with the power to bring people back to life, resurecting their companions to keep up the fight against the dark lord. Which is why it’s odd that they brought you, the dark lord that they fought against back to life. | I felt cold. Everything was dark. I guess that was it then. The so-called heroes had won. My glorious reign would not bring peace. In a century or two the world would dissolve again into war and chaos. I saw a bright point, full of warmth. It pulled on my consciousness, and I let myself rise to it. Time to face my ... | "What the hell?" You think to yourself as you regain consciousness. "Wasn't I just killed?" You look around you and realize that the battle that claimed your life is still in full swing all around you. The hero, who bested you is chanting incantations causing colorful bursts of light to erupt from his palms. The spells... | 2019-12-26T12:53:07 | 2019-12-26T12:35:43 | 751 | 103 |
[WP] You perform your regular rituals for bed, and as your head hits the pillow, you succumb to the deepest sleep you've ever had. Filled with wondrous dreams, eons seem to pass. As you awake, you realise that your bed is surrounded by a transparent case, and you're being watched. | ‘’Be quiet now, its starting to wake.’’ Said the voice through the tannoy. ‘’Don’t make any sudden movements, give it a moment to acclimatize to its surroundings, there will be time enough for investigations and the like. Please, just observe for the moment.’’
As I heard these words, my eyes were still trying to part... | “La-ah-ah-a-ahhh” awakened me, as it did every morning, the delightful sound of my stepmother, singing me awake through song. A chorus of crows and blackbirds at the window, accompanied her, ever-so-slightly off key.
“Good morning, fairest Stepmother! And how are you, on this most beautiful of days?” I chirped.
As sh... | 2020-08-27T07:30:19 | 2020-08-27T04:29:39 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | I didn't bother struggling against my bonds as I was being slowly lowered towards the shark-laden acid pit. To an ordinary hero this would seem like the end, but not for me. It was just another day in the life of Lynchpin.
As predicted, the mechanism stopped, only for the head of the Syndicate, an eyepatch wearing gor... | "... And after I tie you to this post properly, I'll climb to the very top of the tower and attach the tube there. And then finally, I'll release the poison into the air!" I could feel his breath in my ear as he fumbled with the rope behind me. I assumed he said it in this fashion - into my ear in a low voice, from a p... | 2020-09-27T09:25:22 | 2020-09-27T08:55:39 | 1,121 | 394 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I stared at him, his words being weighed in my mind. I did not understand humor very well, but even so I was reasonably certain that he was not making a joke. With years of practice, I could now recognize the subtle body language and tones a person used when using humor. The newly crowned King Dervin was not joking.
"... | Thank you for your kindness and your wisdom, friend. You say you don't want a fancy tin king hat, but I can at least answer some of your questions. You wanted to know why I was wearing this old uniform. Well, it is a bit tattered, but it's because I'm a Royal Guardsman. 'Least I was. Maybe I'll be one again. Long as I ... | 2021-02-28T07:33:39 | 2021-02-28T05:41:56 | 65 | 40 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | "Fine work, Magnus." He told me, "Another masterpiece, as I would expect of you."
I carefully examined the necklace. He had directed me to where I could find silver among common stone; I refined it so it could become this. The design of which, my own invention and intuition; it was much to His delight. Thin and frail ... | Frey woke up the morning with an excruciating pain in his head. On his 18th birthday of all days. But he ignored it. He spent a few minutes doing his hair, Golden in colour with two side burns down both sides of his head, finished off with a ponytail at the back. Once that was over, Frey moved over to do his uniform. I... | 2021-05-23T17:15:24 | 2021-05-23T16:46:53 | 83 | 10 |
[WP] On every planet, there is one being who is a living recorder for everything that happens. During the yearly recorder meeting, one always comes in emotionally drained. “Look. It’s the guy that has earth” | The doors opened and the joy drained from the room. The earth man was back and the drama he carried weighed heavy on the room. All the joyous reunions and regalling of hilarity and happy stories the collectors from the planets across the galaxy shared was put to a pause. The earth man slowly walked forward through t... | Luci walked in silently, and as they did, a hush fell over the room. Silently, and carefully, they went to the bar, shooed away the bartender, and started making themself a drink. One shot, two shots, three, four, at a certain point nobody counted. After shaking and pouring, the drink was a bright neon color. Luci d... | 2021-08-13T09:13:48 | 2021-08-13T08:56:37 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] To alien species, belief is everything. Once you’ve formed your beliefs, changing them is not possible. If you get confronted with overwhelming evidence that it is wrong, you simply die. The human ability to change opinions is terrifying.
[deleted] | "I don't understand. You say there are no laws preventing you from sharing technology or scientific data."
"Correct."
"But you still won't do so."
"Also correct. We do not wish to be responsible for the annihilation of a whole race!"
"Do you believe us to be that careless? That we would destroy ourselves so easily?... | Praxius knew, without even the smallest nagging doubt, that he would be around 10 minutes late this morning.
He had only slept for forty six days. He was positive that he was suffering from some kind of insomnia and was absolutely sure that this was causing him fatigue.
Today, he was entirely convinced that he was,... | 2022-05-24T11:13:05 | 2022-05-24T05:54:03 | 320 | 153 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | I didn’t understand why I was here. I hadn’t done anything wrong, at least to my knowledge. I was just a burgeoning magic student! People here had actually killed people! My main focus of study was figuring out ways to do “evil” acts without being evil, which I guess… may have been it. Like, how to do necromancy withou... | *Yeah, I got this all figured out*. Adam — known to the prison guards as inmate #2013 — could barely contain the smirk which corrupted his face. He’d festered his spiteful request for years; ever since the court sentenced him to death. Waiting in a line of condemned inmates, he was salivating to get to the front.
*The... | 2022-11-19T00:52:06 | 2022-11-18T22:15:56 | 71 | 36 |
[WP] You're a retired villain who now runs a 24-7 grocery store. One day a new hero decides to ambush you in your own store. | It was an ordinary day, quiet and unassuming, a quiet snowfall blanketing the city in precious quiet.
Right up until the moment that asshole showed up.
"Hey, grandpa!"
This was followed by a hurled I-beam (where did he even *get* one of those?) that was effortlessly dodged, and made quite a mess of the back part of ... | There was once a quiet, out of the way little grocery store on a streetcorner in the suburbs. It was close to closing time, but there was one family left buying some Icee cones for the road, as they were on a long trip and just passing through. A clerk named Benjamin watched as the Dad bought a Cola-flavored cone, the ... | 2022-12-20T06:37:44 | 2022-12-20T06:24:08 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | The world will remember me as a monster, but that's only because they haven't met true monsters yet...
In my world the "Great War" really was the war to end all wars. Humanity never wanted to experience a tragedy like that again. People say time lessens tragedies, but that's not true, time immortalizes them. The furt... | Jesus this is brilliant!
What if Adolf's life was a misery.. he, his family and his culture were under huge oppression from the Wasserman rule. By the year 2314 they controlled the media as far as the US - this one family dictated more than the Roman Empire ever dreamed of.. without breaking borders. It was all about ... | 2014-03-02T15:53:11 | 2014-03-02T15:40:41 | 169 | 16 |
[WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. | The phone was ringing. Screaming in agony.
Joseph blinked blearily past the pale fog of sleep in order to faintly discern the time. Two forty-five A.M. in soothing blue numerals. When is a phone call at 2:45 A.M. ever good news?
With a heavy sigh he grabbed his vibrating, screaming phone and hit accept. "What?" he as... | "What's going on, why is something materializing in the containment chamber?" asked Tom pounding the keys on his console. "The patient is gone and now there's something in there. An anomaly? Did we just fuck up the Einstein-Bose calculations?"
Sarah paused for a moment, looked at Tom, and looked back at her monitor... | 2014-07-24T07:49:52 | 2014-07-24T07:47:28 | 120 | 57 |
[WP] Year 2040, you are tasked with rebooting Harry Potter franchise. Write the first few paragraphs of "Harry Potter Begins".
For books, not movies. HP Begins will be book 1. | CHAPTER ONE
THE BOY WHO LIVED DANGEROUSLY
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they didn't take anyone's shit. They were the last people you'd expect to be on the bad side of the wizard mafia, because they just didn't fuck with that scene.
Mr. Dursley was the CEO of a firm calle... | "Evil exists in many forms, but so does good. The smallest of embers can create the largest blazes, but who ever said fire was a bad thing? Evil, much like the fire, takes only a little push to get started down that rocky path, yet with the right conditions, that same ember can become the savior of so many lost and col... | 2014-10-01T10:04:12 | 2014-10-01T09:45:36 | 107 | 15 |
[WP] Year 2040, you are tasked with rebooting Harry Potter franchise. Write the first few paragraphs of "Harry Potter Begins".
For books, not movies. HP Begins will be book 1. | Harry awoke from a dead sleep with a burning pain in the center of his forehead. It was a pain he hadn’t felt in twenty years or more. Ginny stirred in her sleep next to him. Harry looked down at her and felt cold fear run through him. It had been so long and they were so happy now. They had suffered enough for mo... | "Evil exists in many forms, but so does good. The smallest of embers can create the largest blazes, but who ever said fire was a bad thing? Evil, much like the fire, takes only a little push to get started down that rocky path, yet with the right conditions, that same ember can become the savior of so many lost and col... | 2014-10-01T10:09:43 | 2014-10-01T09:45:36 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] Everybody has the ability to bring another person back to life, at the cost of their own life. You are a suicidal celebrity who can't stay dead because of fans constantly sacrificing their lives to resurrect you. | Once again, the pain woke me. It hurt a lot to start breathing again. All my organs were resuming their function, and it was not a pleasant sensation.
I opened my eyes, trying to figure out were I was. An hospital room. What was it this time? Oh yes, pills. Lots of pills.
On my bedside, a handwritten note. I wait a... | I won a Grammy yesterday, or so my manager told me - I didn't give a shit. I hung up on her, like I always do. With every award I win, every platinum record I release, every single that shoots straight to the top of the charts, I can only sink deeper into the darkness. Because praise brings fans, and fans adore you and... | 2016-07-06T22:50:38 | 2016-07-06T21:24:08 | 259 | 92 |
[WP] Gods become powerful from being worshiped; recently, some fictional characters are starting to rival the power of the gods. | Every once in a while, a mortal being can become stronger than any god or even gods combined. For gods thrive and grow stronger off being worshiped, and even a mortal being will grow powerful with enough praise.
On may 28th, 2016, the stage was set for the quickest rise in power the god world had ever seen. The all l... | "This isn't right." Thor grumbled lowly. He used to be worshiped by thousands. They paid respects to his immense power, prayed for safe passages through the storming seas, and praised his thunderous lightning. Images of Mjölnir hung around necks as magnificent pendants of faith screaming against the encroaching Christi... | 2016-10-03T12:07:24 | 2016-10-03T11:57:54 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] A woman makes a deal with the devil... but before signing, she actually reads the contract. She is the first to do so. | "And this next line, about my first born... what if I don't have kids?"
"Ah, well your dog will suffice, honestly." Satan shuffled uncomfortably in his leather executive chair. It was intended to look like human skin, but Helen could see the tag. 'Halloween Barn - Made in China'.
"Mr. Barks is not for sale." Helen ma... | I was alone and about to kill myself in my living room when I met the devil. He appeared with a smirk, saying how lucky I was to meet him, just in time.
'Just in time for what?' I asked, with the sharp razor still hanging above my wrist. The devil gave me a cold smile, and handed me a piece of paper with a gold founta... | 2016-10-14T04:16:58 | 2016-10-14T04:00:42 | 47 | 22 |
[WP]You find an old pocket watch on the floor and find that when you stop the clock you can stop and restart time. You get used to this for 1 year and when you are just walking around while you stopped time to steal some milk you see the impossible. You see somebody else walking. | I got lazy with it, I'll admit that. I never had any reason to believe I shouldn't.
It became a part of my daily life - my fingers constantly clutched the stopwatch in my pocket. I would thumb the clicker as a nervous habit, ready to stop time whenever anything went awry.
I became incredibly successful. People though... | 3,
2,
1.
"Stop," I muttered while leaning my back onto the grey wall; the hood of my maroon jacket aided in covering the upper half of my face as my fingers pulled the crown of the old pocket watch hidden within my grip.
As if on cue, everything around me stopped.
Looking around, the birds stayed still midflight;... | 2017-05-07T03:46:07 | 2017-05-07T03:45:33 | 157 | 29 |
[WP] Instead of having a guardian angel, you have a guardian Demon. His methods are often much more violent. But much more straight forward. | "I got to the building, and it was locked, and I thought, oh, that's it. I didn't show up for the interview on time, they're not even gonna give me a chance. So I pulled out my phone to rant to my boyfriend about it, when suddenly the manager came rushing toward the building, and she gives me this long story about how ... | “There is he is again. My little guardian, my dermal-boned savior, swooping in when I need him most.”
 
I thought to myself. Sarcastically.
 
“Oh good. You’re here too.”
 
He replied. Unreadably. As always.
 
As much as I hate talking about it, the thing is, Leo Trepp w... | 2017-06-13T05:44:52 | 2017-06-13T05:43:14 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "This is something," the hat mused, "something rather unusual."
My mind racing, I focused on everything I knew about the practical world of magic. Misdirection, slight of hand, proper rabbit care - every bit of knowledge that had gotten me to this hallowed seat at the front of The Great Hall.
"I can tell you have am... | "Hmm...? 'Please don't be Slytherin?' Very well, then. Gryffindor!" the Sorting Hat shouted as Harry Potter excitedly ambled down the stairs. His oblivious expression only further ignited my excitement.
"Pfttt. What's all this cacophony about? Sure, he's that voodoo 'Chosen One', but he doesn't have the ounce of the p... | 2017-06-25T15:07:52 | 2017-06-25T14:51:44 | 358 | 17 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | When you reach a certain age, you start to feel like you've seen everything. In my case, that means money launderers reborn as elephants and two-time murderers who ended up in fishbowls.
People like to think they know how they'll be reincarnated, but most of these jackasses are too stupid to notice the writing on the ... | Brutal world we live in, I tell you. I can't help but feel a slight pang of pity at the sight of the criminal I'd apprehended being strung up by his arms, his bones practically popping out of their sockets as they strain to support his body. He's a dodger, no doubt about it, but he's been apprehended for the wrong crim... | 2017-07-09T10:04:39 | 2017-07-09T09:43:14 | 387 | 192 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | "*I want you to find Leslie Ingham, Agent Sunday. She shot her children after finding out her husband had an affair. Drug user. She was sentenced to prison for life. Committed suicide three months into her sentence. Still has a lifetime to commit. You have thirty minutes.*"
Agent Sunday heard the end click of the tra... | I’m a bounty hunter. I’ve been around for about five hundred years to do my job, and sometimes I have to kill myself to acquire a stronger body when the one I’m given isn’t strong enough. You see, ‘round these parts, we don’t have a childhood anymore. Law done got rid of that years. Before I go on, let me ‘pologize for... | 2017-07-09T11:16:41 | 2017-07-09T10:45:08 | 79 | 20 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | The line behind Wes was growing as he sifted through pages of words on a computerized booth. Each word was followed by a price tag that reflected its complexity.
"Hurry. You, hurry, please," demanded a man in a custodian gear that stood behind him. "Go. Go." The numerous people in the queue all seemed to nod in agreem... | I pulled the black mask over my face and took a breath, making sure the holes for my nose weren't going to be an obstruction.
A snap at my left let me know that Jazz was ready too. I turn to face her and run through the plan with my hands. She signs that she's got it.
I prime the manual recharge laser gun and sprin... | 2017-09-20T09:17:27 | 2017-09-20T08:46:17 | 4,390 | 64 |
[WP] Four people are dancing in sync with each other. It's beautiful, and haunting, and totally impossible. You are watching traffic cams from Dubai, Italy, South Africa, and Peru. | "Johnson, take a look at this."
"What is it, Smith?"
"Look at these four. Across the world from each other, but all in sync. How is that possible?"
"This again? Look at their moves, Smith. Mostly your standard club stuff, but with subtle Spanish touches. It's just Despacito. Fucking song's everywhere."
"Oh." | Swiftly and gracefully her left leg stretches behind her as she dips forward; her arms bend forward slowly and surely as fingertips join as if in a prayer. The red dress flutters around her knees. I watch stunned from the inside of my air-conditioned car as the slender figure continues to twist and turn. Her face is ex... | 2017-10-06T20:57:46 | 2017-10-06T17:47:35 | 249 | 26 |
[WP] You wake up back in the year you start your freshman year of high school. Your body is your freshman body, but your mind recalls everything up until January 13, 2018. | Sam spent the months up to the first day of ninth grade in 2007 planning out everything he was going to do right this time.
He called a reporter and told them the 2008 presidential election would come down to Barack Obama and Joe Biden against John McCain and Sarah Palin, and that Obama would win. He said that the fir... | Tanya opened her eyes to darkness, a harsh sound she hadn't heard in years breaking the predawn silence into a staccato pulse which launched her out of bed. She stumbled across the room, her mind spinning, and she fumbled with the hello kitty clock which assaulted her ears. Once again in silence, confusion blossomed th... | 2018-01-13T20:18:14 | 2018-01-13T16:04:01 | 135 | 47 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | "Oh dear" I said to myself, looking at this tar coming from my finger.
"Ha! Well, proves that no human is exempt from sin."
I thought about what could have blackened my own blood, I don't remember anything that I could have caused, or done wrong.
"Oh" I remembered.
I went on far too many websites without my parent'... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T10:38:53 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | “Does everyone get to choose?”
The watchman’s heart was breaking looking at the tiny child, covered in scars. They shouldn’t *be* scarred like that, not here, whatever acts caused them must have been truly despicable.
“Everyone gets to choose, and none for an age have chosen that door.”
The child stops their shuffli... | I made a mistake in my life.
People called me good, history will be kind to me, I think. Much of it is undeserved, much of it is foolhardy faith from people who do not understand the ramifications of what I did.
I was a healer, a doctor of the Order of Asclepius. My hands worked as my brushes, the human body my canva... | 2018-08-13T08:39:02 | 2018-08-13T06:04:10 | 633 | 179 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | 'Well, it wasn't water that did it, but good, old fashioned lead. Turns out when you come from a planet without the necessary components for gunpowder, thus forcing you to create electrical weapons which coincidentally don't work quite as well in wetter Earth conditions, you don't develop defenses against bullets. Weir... | Well, that was the last one.
With these magic words, I put a bullet in the head of the last alien that tried to enslave us.
That was 50 years ago, we were abandoned, but we did not forget. The planet we're on right now was a place I once called home.
But now I call it my kingdom.
I remember the day news spread wor... | 2018-09-29T05:21:50 | 2018-09-29T04:12:14 | 656 | 186 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | “You’re fired.”
The words burned my ears as they turned red with embarrassment. Of course I didn’t need this job, but it really hits you right in the pride to be fired from a stupid office position. And for something as trivial as “taking too much time for lunch”, which I only did because some asshole caused a pile up... | People think they know what real power means. They think that because their parents gave them some high ranking job in a bank or a government office that they can just go around pushing over everybody. That’s where I come in. I like to think of myself as something of a modern age Robin Hood. Only if Robin Hood was a bi... | 2019-03-04T09:05:16 | 2019-03-04T08:37:41 | 133 | 21 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | I woke up this morning the way I usually do. Sprawled out on my pullout couch in my studio apartment to my alarm clock - coffee maker setting up a fresh brew. I crawled out of my bed, poured myself a bowl of Frute Chutes and started drinking my coffee. Afterwards, I went through the usual morning hygiene process, pulle... | People think they know what real power means. They think that because their parents gave them some high ranking job in a bank or a government office that they can just go around pushing over everybody. That’s where I come in. I like to think of myself as something of a modern age Robin Hood. Only if Robin Hood was a bi... | 2019-03-04T08:40:03 | 2019-03-04T08:37:41 | 48 | 21 |
[WP] Human products were laughed at for most of history, after all the Elves could imbue items with the raw magic of the woods, Dwarves were unrivalled masters at metalwork and even the Orcs had mastered durability and practicality. Then a little concept called the assembly line changed everything. | Once there was a man who made weapons. He was known all over the world for making the very best weapons that could be made.
But not everyone believed this. Other smiths believed him and his weapons to be a joke, for he could never make weapons as well as they could. Despite their protests however, the man's reputation... | Chancellor Gurbidiod didn't like being woken up. She didnt like that her servants would disrespect her so, for no news was important enough to deny the leader of the republic the opportunity to adorn herself with her gems and trinkets. She took some time, although less than normal due to the urgency. She even neglected... | 2019-05-17T11:42:47 | 2019-05-17T10:36:43 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | When you die, it as if you are waking from a beautiful, restful sleep. The light is gentle, the shadows are long and there is an easy silence hanging in the air. Many stretch, like they did on those lazy Sunday mornings – reaching out to feel the pulling of muscle, the breath filling their lungs – signs that they exist... | "Are you ready?"
I had always expected the physical representation of Death to be carrying a big scythe around in black robes, or to be a devil of some sorts, or some sort gauntish figure. And yet, the entity standing in front of me calimng to be the reaper was wearing khaki pants and a blue polo.
"I'm sorry?" I sai... | 2019-07-10T12:19:29 | 2019-07-10T11:49:23 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You have a special power. Whenever your life is in danger; time freezes until you've made yourself safe. One day time stops, and nothing you do seems to make it start again. | It's like death is afraid of me or something. I had the warning signs of death painted on me around the time I became a grandfather. The bald head with few strands along the sides (that too grey), the aching in the knees, the ever narrowing choices of food. I had those too. But I welcomed them. I am not afraid of death... | Everything is frozen and nothing seems to work. Normally, time stops when I'm in danger which I usually easily resolve by moving a few steps away. For example, in the jousting tournament last week, right as I charged down that lane with my steed towards an opponent, time froze for me. That gave me time to readjust myse... | 2019-09-15T13:00:39 | 2019-09-15T09:07:51 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] In a world filled with magic, your family is scorned for generations for wasting time with science. Your mother was a botanist. Your father, a biologist. Mages touch-heal. You developed steam locomotion when mages teleport. Your family has never trusted magic. One day, the magic stops working. | I want to tell you that no one died. Or at least very few. That, when all the mana in the world dried unexpectedly up - as if a great sponge had fallen in a lake - that I held out the fruits of science, and they all took from my palm and nourished themselves.
I want to tell you that.
But I can't.
I want to tell you,... | Since I’d just gotten home from work at the supermarket, and my parents were busy with the work they did from home, I was the one unlucky enough to open the front door when the rapid, demanding knocks sounded. Curious, and more than a little worried since our neighbors usually wanted nothing to do with us, I walked qui... | 2021-04-07T08:01:44 | 2021-04-07T07:53:52 | 202 | 103 |
[WP] Science finally found the secret to immortality, but it included treatments that only took hold in newborns. Now the last mortal humans are approaching the ends of their lives. | **The Last Funeral**
Preachers, rabbis, monks, and nuns,
Miles of hearses and twenty-one guns,
Billions and billions of mourning ones.
Here lies our beloved Seth.
​
But hardly a one of them knew the deceased.
And no one is crying; they've set out a feast.
They've come here to witness that newly slain... | I don’t remember my childhood. But then again, none of *us* do.
It was a problem discovered long before immortality- when humans just started to touch their lower two hundred years of age. Back then, with primitive age tech, that was as far as we thought humans would go. Because that’s when the mind started running o... | 2021-06-07T22:44:17 | 2021-06-07T21:30:33 | 476 | 218 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 1,590 | 181 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 803 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 236 | 172 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 172 | 23 |
[WP] The hero beats the villain by stooping even lower. | We had been at it for what seemed like hours. You can only fight for so long before the pain starts to set in. Sweat streamed down into my eyes, blinding me. I pull back to wipe my face, but, sensing weakness, he advances forward to try and complete the knockout. I just barely managed to survive.
I could tell I wa... | The Baron leaned against the balcony railing, considering the sunrise. He always made a point of witnessing the dawn. Every day was a new hope, a new opportunity, and he would never allow himself to forget it. But today, all that optimistic theory was actually true. Today was the day that his plans would come to fr... | 2014-12-04T12:41:34 | 2014-12-04T11:59:23 | 694 | 143 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | Oh yes. I definitely remember, every single detail. He was wearing a red and silver striped tie, for example. How could I ever forget that day? I walked into his office as number 21,458. When I left, I had his number 1.
Quite a frenzy it set off, you know? At first, people didn't even know it was me. I remember the fi... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T11:07:40 | 451 | 300 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 243 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 63 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Guilt, shame, and horror would only begin to describe the things humanity felt when we were hit with the news. The Aliens didn't mince their words.
In short, we were considered the scum of the universe. Deliberately left out to rot, to self destruct, because we had shown a capacity for violence, cruelty, and atrocity... | Not all humans were warriors. Not all of them invented machines and chemicals that brought death. This human was my friend.
From the beginning, I knew that some humans were artists. Some built bridges and buildings. Some explored caves. We were told all about them by our scientists. The ones who studied other ... | 2014-12-26T13:25:59 | 2014-12-26T12:46:34 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | They had a moral code. A set of rules written in stone that they were bound to follow. Somehow though they were able to ignore it and not really care. They understood that they should live in a sustainable fashion. They even celebrated those among them who did. They just as a species didn't. They lived much like the vi... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T11:25:21 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You have died, and in the afterlife have learned that each ghost may interfere on Earth only once while in eternity. Today is the day you have decided it's time. | Death has taught me a lot about parenting. A lot that I wish I knew back when I was still alive raising Rebecca. I was always so careful! I always had one eye on her, making sure she didn't choke on anything, or run through the rain and catch a cold, or fall down and get scrapes. I realize now that I was one of those h... | "Don't do this! It's a waste!"
"No life is a waste Nikki."
"I didn't mean that, I meant just save it for something better!"
"There is nothing better."
"That's not true! This is so lame! You're like the kid that uses their wish to go to disney."
I smiled. Nikki had only been 15 when she lost her battle with cance... | 2015-01-08T13:08:19 | 2015-01-08T12:44:59 | 349 | 143 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | I write now to document. Bare with me. I was no scholar in my future life.
The army camped outside the city came with the Red Wizard. Merlin saw it coming. So is his power. His Blue Ball lets him see. That's why he brought me. Bastard.
When I arrived a week ago there was no warning. Just the feeling of wood against ... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T00:13:11 | 147 | 72 |
[WP] you're a serial killer who is unknowingly on a date with another serial killer. You go back to their place and things get... interesting. | "Would you like some wine?" Jenny asked, already making her way over to the island in the middle of the kitchen. "I've got Merlot and Moscato. Which would you like?"
James glanced up to see her brandishing two bottles.
"Never really been a fan of wine. Mind if I try both?"
The woman narrowed her eyes, but smiled aft... | Benjamin smiled quietly to himself as he tightened his arm around Jenny.
The desperation for companionship came off this girl in waves: it had been almost too easy, tonight. He'd have liked a bit more of a challenge.
"Would you like a drink?" she asked as they stepped inside the apartment.
He sank into the couch a... | 2016-12-15T12:39:07 | 2016-12-15T12:01:26 | 73 | 50 |
[WP] At 16, everyone chooses a word which will take away their immortality. You have just found the last dictionary.
Edit: Wow! Uh... not really sure what to say here other than your stories were all amazing! I loved reading each and every one of them! | I starred at the flashing letters on the screen. "CHOOSE YOUR WORD" it said in large red font. This decision should have been a rather intimidating one to make, but I had a secret weapon. I had found a wonderful book full of unique and bizarre words, I studied it for weeks for this very moment. All I needed to do was t... | I deeply apologize to whoever finds this letter and actually manages to read it. I have hesitated to write at all from fear of being misunderstood, and many pieces of this writing may not make sense or be used in the way they were designed to be used as I am not familiar with the origins of this way of sharing ideas an... | 2017-01-11T21:05:07 | 2017-01-11T20:42:42 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Children are invisible until their 13th birthday. Today, it is your viewing day. Friends and family gather around to watch as you pop into the visible spectrum. | We stared at the ticking clock. Five more seconds.
Tick. Pranks on our neighbors would get a lot harder. Tick. So would sneaking into R rated movies. Tick. Can't pay Maxine ten bucks to swap with me for math tests anymore. Tick. Guess it's time to go straight and stop shoplifting. Tick. The faces around me contorted ... | I hardly could control my arm movements as I stood in front of the mirror. I was wearing the new dinner jacket that my dad had bought me for this very day. I pulled my sleeve up to check the time for the fourth time. My heart was pounding in my chest and I sucked in air. Ten minutes. I remembered very well the day when... | 2017-10-22T16:01:05 | 2017-10-22T12:49:08 | 212 | 31 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | *Jingle Bells crackled from Santa's digital radio... The quality restored as he neared the shelter*
The portly, red faced man whipped his undead reindeer (yes the post apocalyptic world brought with it crippling decay to even the high deities such as Santa) with the sheer force of a thousand winters. **crack** **crack... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T15:09:43 | 77 | 50 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | Santa ran through the list again. It was his shortest one yet. The nuclear blast had swept away most of humanity, and with it, the childlike sense of wonder and imagination that would compel one to write a letter to Santa. Mrs. Clause appeared at the door holding two steaming mugs of cocoa.
"Honey," sighed Santa, fold... | FADE IN:
EXT. NORTH POLE - NIGHT
SANTA looks at his magically short list. ELVES in gas masks are packing up the minimally loaded sleigh. 5 Reindeer stand idle. The northern lights glow a faint dark green and red.
SANTA:
One thousand, two hundred and nine total. That’s 32 more people than last year.
Santa runs ... | 2017-12-22T16:13:10 | 2017-12-22T16:00:31 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | ' they're... they... oh. Is that a-a... mule?...'
It's easy to forgive Jake, the millenial inner-city kid who's only seen a cow on a soymilk carton. Not so easy to forgive Jake the West Point graduate and Marine recon company commander. He's sitting in his Fox IV submersible hovercraft, 12 miles off the coast of what ... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T02:34:57 | 579 | 42 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | John saved enough money for the last 45 years to go live in one of the last cities that still existed near the frontier of the United States.
It was now time to actually go there, although it was still 8 months until the official event in which the US would open his doors to the world, and viceversa.
At the time ... | **6th April, 2037 - HMAS *Maryborough*, Somewhere off the coast of Australia**
"So, the yanks bought it?"
The speaker leans heavily against the rail, staring at the smouldering coastline. A deck above, overstressed rotor blades whine slowly, cooling in the ocean breeze.
"Oh yes. Contrition, shame, repentance...if we... | 2018-01-18T02:24:06 | 2018-01-18T01:28:33 | 210 | 18 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | Well, this may be the ump-tenth time I've "kidnapped" the Princess. Every time she gets saved she plays the victim, swoons for her "hero" and goes home with a smile, plotting her next kidnapping in hopes of finally returning here for good. Honestly, she's crazy.
I feel bad for the guy, he's hard working, steady job,... | Jives tried to warn me. He said that there was something off about Hilde when I first brought her back here to the castle, but I didn't want to listen. What was it that drove me to her? Lust? Her perfect form? Her exquisite face?
Doesn't matter now anyways. Didn't even get to apologize to Jives before she killed him... | 2018-02-09T05:44:16 | 2018-02-09T05:37:27 | 61 | 18 |
[WP] You invited people to your mansion without telling them they would be part of a killing game, the doors are locked, no way to escape until there is only one, problem is: the mansion is really nice and no one really wants to leave | NOW I'M REALLY ANGRY! This despairingly perfect plot has completely gone to waste! 16 ultimate students. One locked mansion. SEVERAL tempting motives. All of it's gone to waste! Look at them! They'd rather spend the rest of their lives in here! This is NOT what I was setting up for!
....I know! My next motive....in or... | It was a devil's deal, but we all knew it coming in...
The sunsets really are amazing though.
There's a breeze gently breathing out over the sea as the sunset, nearly touching the mountains towards the west. It's not late enough in the season yet, but it was pointed out to us, every sunset was a little further north ... | 2018-09-02T16:27:43 | 2018-09-02T15:36:19 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] You disagree with most of your co-workers and peers. You hate toothpaste. You are the 10th Dentist. | "Plaque is just a biofilm on teeth, you can take it off with soap and water. Try Johnson's baby shampoo," I explained at a party. Several glances of disgust shot towards me.
"Doesn't that taste... disgusting?"
"You can still eat oranges after and not hate yourself," I expanded.
Several people nodded in agreement, bu... | Sitting alone in the dark gnawing at the corner of my desk, my assistant quietly enters as not to alarm me, as I'll quickly run to the woods like a scared deer. She lays the day's itinerary, newest magazines from the dental quarterlies, and yet another survey. I do not cease my gnawing as I've almost reached the jui... | 2018-12-28T06:57:15 | 2018-12-28T06:07:08 | 583 | 242 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | “This time will work”, you think to yourself. You decided, quite against your better instincts, to date someone more your speed. Perhaps more importantly, someone who provides a reason for those do-gooder bastards to think twice before attacking. The anti-heroine MissStep.
Dinner had been going... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T08:00:25 | 129 | 14 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | It wasn't the first time my date had vanished while sitting across from me. No, not that she got up and left or even threw her drink in my face-I would prefer that at this point-actually vanishing in thin air. I just let my forehead thunk loudly on the covered table knowing she was outside in the arms of Nishva. Like v... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T08:29:02 | 129 | 10 |
[WP] The Earth is a long running TV show that was supposed to end in 2012 with the Mayan apocalypse, but has been kept running due to its popularity. It's going downhill fast. | "The Mayan apocalypse plot line was a little forced, sure, but you *cannot* argue that this show shouldn't have ended with the 2012 season!" Prozien shouted.
"I know, I know," Neemek replied. "But there have been some good moments in the 10 seasons since."
"Pfft, really? We're in reruns! Sure, I believed it when adva... | In 18 dimensional space, two complex entities moved towards each other in a complex way. Well, as much as such concepts of 'moving' and 'towards' have meaning to us when happening in 18 dimensions. Especially considering that 2.7 of those dimensions are time (I told you this was complex). The first entity transmitted i... | 2019-07-13T06:40:23 | 2019-07-13T06:37:03 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] “Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me. It’s not your fault.” He spoke with a gentle tone but he was pissed, not at the hero, but at the gods who send kids and teens to fight him. | After so long, after so many people, you would think you'd get used to the sight of blood. To the sound of someone crying in pain. It doesn't get any easier though. Especially when it's like this.
The child gasped and coughed again, her fingers feebly trying to pull at the piece of rebar that protruded from her chest.... | 'Bright… too bright… wait.'
A wicked grin split across Lazarus’ face and his crumpled, broken form started to twist back to its original shape. His skull snapped and mended itself as he was raised into the air. Lazarus could feel it, rather quickly his power was returning to him. Flesh and skin stretched down across t... | 2019-07-26T07:52:50 | 2019-07-26T07:52:03 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Only a human could be this mad. For millions of years the Galactic Federation of The Milkyway (GFM for short) had known about nuclear power but since it was not abundant outside of Earth we never thought to use it as a power source. Instead we had just propelled our solar energy techniques to be able to create power ou... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2019-12-19T05:25:06 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] “I bet my soul,” you say confidently. “If you win, you take my soul. If I win, you give me something just as valuable.” You go on to win the bet, only to be granted a single $1 bill. | [Poem]
A single dollar won
Wagered against my soul
Everything I've lived for
Worked for
Died for
On the face of a single dollar bill
Every night I spent alone
Awake and scared
Frustrated
Angry
Seething with contempt
Worth a single dollar
Every moment spent in lo... | I didn’t understand this at first. Was this some sort of joke?!
I looked down at an all too common treasury note. I made more breathing at work then this. What made this all particularly more interesting was the way this devilish man glared at me, all the while smirking after I won. We had spent hours playing this ga... | 2020-02-05T13:51:18 | 2020-02-05T10:30:52 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Leaving a rooftop party at night, you take the elevator to the ground floor. Stepping out, you find it is now broad daylight, a week later, and you have hundreds of missed calls and texts. Even more strangely, the city streets are empty, silent and devoid of life. | The doctors called them "absent seizures." Basically, my brain would have a small seizure. To an outside observer, I would look like I was just staring into space for some amount of time. I myself would have no memory of the lapse, and it would give me some "retrograde amnesia", and my brain would fill in these gaps wi... | From the party he’d never wanted to attend to the too long and much too lonely elevator ride down to the parking garage, Michael had already counted tonight as one of the worst nights of his life. That was even before the doors opened onto a parking lot empty of every car but his and a city that had never slept so sile... | 2021-02-07T10:05:03 | 2021-02-07T09:44:07 | 212 | 93 |
[WP] Turns out you are the 'chosen one' to defeat the forces of evil. Only, instead of being a teenager you are a 42 year old parent of 3 kids, you've seen some sh*t and you have zero f*cks left to give. | "You shot him in the face!" screamed the 19-year-old girl who just HAD to come with me.
"What did I say in the last fight," I asked bluntly.
"That the next bad guy idiot who gave a long speech was getting shot in the face," she said glumly. "You were supposed to use the sword of power."
"This sword," I gestured to ... | The last sob died away, and only a blissful silence remained. A broad smile stretching across her face, she tiptoed out the room, shutting the door behind her with the smallest click of latches. Yawning, she stretched hugely and was about to slump onto the sofa in the living room for a quick twenty winks when the doorb... | 2021-03-05T12:52:26 | 2021-03-05T10:51:12 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] The Demon Lord and the Holy Goddess are so bored of the hero cycle that they change the genre of their world from adventure fantasy to romantic comedy spontaneously, with some very weird side effects. Your life just made an abrupt left turn. | My job used to be simple. I did honest work. Fight, Die, Respawn.
Boss of a mid-tier dungeon used to be a sweet gig, relatively speaking. Sure, I would get dismembered just about every hero cycle; take a dirt nap for 10 years or so. But that's still 90 years mostly to myself; summoning back minions, rebuilding, etc. M... | They always used to say that love is an adventure, oh what a joke that was. They also used to take me seriously before the recent turn of events. I, the hero, had to change my whole closet of spandex costumes from viscose to leathery in order to accommodate. Just imagine being a world-famous adventurer slash superhero ... | 2021-05-27T08:51:12 | 2021-05-27T08:20:59 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] Due to your mixed heritage and a terrible stroke of luck, you have found yourself as the chosen one for 20 different cultures. | Wars were often fought on bloodied battlefields, with the discordant soundscape of all too human agony pitted against each other under the whir of weapons and machines. But they were also often fought in a room such as this one, filled with well-dressed dignitaries sowing and watering the seeds of conflict.
"*Osbert N... | "Next!" I shout at the long line winding out my front door, sorting through the notes I have been taking to find a fresh page to write on. To say that some of the characters in line were 'colorful' would be an understatement.
I looked up at the next person in line, who looked as if he had been carved out of the side o... | 2021-07-05T11:35:31 | 2021-07-05T11:26:22 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] You're a retired adventurer who now works as a local guard for a small village. No one in the village knows that you were an adventurer. One day, an old friend comes to visit you. | "It was huge, mate! I'll tell you, huge! We were doomed!"
The pushed slightly the townsfolk that was grabbing his arm while yelling that. The villager, he thought, had felt the full body armor under his cloak, because he backed away immediately. He had no intentions of harming anyone, but he understood the reaction.
... | It was dusk, and my shift was coming to an end. I watched in the flickering torchlight as my replacement sauntered over.
"Tive." He called, nodding.
"You're uncharacteristically early, old man." I said, smiling.
"Old? I am barely older than you."
"Yes. Still old. Did the missus kick you out?"
"That she did. Forgo... | 2021-11-30T06:42:45 | 2021-11-30T06:25:46 | 193 | 138 |
[WP] You're the villain that the Chosen One is meant to defeat. Once they arrive, you notice they're just a teenager who barely knows how to swing a sword. Angered by your opponents sending children to do all their dirty work, you decide to help the teen get revenge. | \[Ended up being a little sideways to the prompt, but I like the way it turned out, so...\]
"You're all they have left?" It circled the human child, scales rippling with echoes from a millennia of nightmares. Each footfall turned the forest floor to soot and coal. "The best they have to offer?"
Over the centuries it ... | "What the fuck is this? WHAT, THE, ACTUAL, FUCK, IS, THIS?" I roared.
"I'm the man who is going to kill you, Evil mage!" The boy retorted, waving his metal toothpick in an attempt to be menacing.
"Man? There's more hair in my arsecrack than on your chin, boy! You can't be more than what, twelve?"
"I'm thirteen!"
"O... | 2022-06-09T03:43:11 | 2022-06-09T00:16:35 | 92 | 46 |
[WP] As a villain henchman, the number 1 rule you're always taught is to never outshine the boss. However, during a small bank heist, you accidentally kill your boss' arch nemesis, and the legion of superheroes now see YOU as their ultimate threat. | In a world of superpowers, there are those who abuse them - the villains - and those that use them for good - the heroes. A simple enough concept of good vs evil, where judgement is rendered by those who have the power to decide what is good and what is bad.
But the world is never that clear. That's why I joined Revo... | *I was just trying to protect him..*
Under the weight of early mornings, safety drills, weapons proficiency, endurance training–
Following what I’d learned after all these years by his hand.
Everything happened so fast. One moment, we were executing our mission flawlessly, everyone seemed to be cooperating just fi... | 2022-12-10T13:22:31 | 2022-12-10T12:34:35 | 62 | 43 |
[WP] You never thought the rumours about the Witch in the apartament above were true. But the girl siting in a broomstick outside your window seems very real. And she needs your help. | I sat there looking out the window at the young lady. The one sitting on a broom. 3 stories above the ground.
She just politely tapped the glass again.
I considered not opening the window, but this was the first interesting thing in a while. I got up, and opened the window.
“Thank you,” she stepped into the windowsi... | In the privacy of my bedroom in the cold of the November nights, the screen in front of me flickered on and off for several seconds. It was spooky, but it had been flickering on and off at random times of the day for at least a week now. The lights, any electronics. Maybe a witch really did move in upstairs, I thought.... | 2022-12-11T09:30:07 | 2022-12-11T07:30:59 | 97 | 38 |
[WP] Use the first line of a literary novel and spin it into an entirely different story | Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
But their normal lives were would never return once it was interrupted by a soft but sharp rap on their door in the middle of the night.
Vernon Dursley, his face turning the color of his scarlet ... | Rage:
Sing, goddess, Achilles's rage,
Black as night, deadly as a whetted spearhead
Piercing a bronze breastplate.
Sing of the god-warrior,
Invulnerable, the mightiest of the
Achaeans, the bane of House Atreides,
The death of those brothers
Agamemnon and Menelaus.
Begin with the clash between golden Ilion
... | 2014-09-02T14:06:51 | 2014-09-02T13:33:45 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] A shoulder angel and a shoulder devil are in love. They can only be with each other while their host human is having a moral conflict. | The ever growing tension had begun with subtle hints, as always these things take time. The imp had begun to occasionally give Angela the benefit of the doubt, even complimenting her suggestions. Of course he would masquerade these moments as caustic taunts, imp nature. However the frequency began to increase. Angela h... | The first time I saw her across the shoulder of the little boy, I knew that I had to bring him into more mischief. The softness of her features, the slight glint of her eyes, and her smirk as she whispered into the child's ear.
I was too distracted to do my job.
He would resist the temptation to steal back a trinket,... | 2014-10-07T18:28:04 | 2014-10-07T18:01:00 | 175 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth is blind, and you are the only person born with sight in hundreds of years. You tell the world what you see, and the consequences are huge. | I gasped.
"What it it?!" My family and friends crowded around me.
"It's *round.*"
They made confused noises, but they didn't understand. To them, round was an arpeggio, descending with the notes shortening by some logarithmic or exponential scale, a tactile and auditory sensation. Not *this.*
"But what *is* it?" Th... | Growing up, I had a peculiar sense: I could see. No one believes me, that sense hadn't been seen (hardy harr) in hundreds of years, not since the world decided we didn't need it anymore.
Elaborate? Certainly! You see, we humans, around year 2034, decided that we don't need to deal with certain things, so we designed ... | 2014-12-11T18:16:16 | 2014-12-11T17:36:53 | 94 | 42 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins hold auditions for an eighth. | The Seven Deadly Sins are a bit of a legend in this Universe. Not just because they are, obviously, a literal legend, but also because of a rather interesting feature of them- Here, there isn't a single religion in existence that doesn't acknowledge them as at least existing, and in many cases being among the most powe... |
None were totally convinced of any of the candidates. Vanity, Pride's younger sister, was basically the same as she. Used the same modus operandi and caught the same people. Gluttony, Lust, and Greed (the children of "Excess") were loath to allow another sibling pair into the group. Pride already had a lot of influen... | 2014-12-28T02:28:57 | 2014-12-28T02:07:33 | 270 | 10 |
[WP] You got a genie, congratulations! Enjoy your three wishes. Beware though as he'll do his best to warp your wishes to try and make you regret them. There is some good news though. He's really bad at doing that. | The genie rolled up his sleeves, "Are you ready for your second wish? I cant give you anything." He gave me an overexaggerated wink.
"Well, I wish--wait, what was that wink for?"
"Oh, nothing, don't worry about it," the genie waved his hands unconvincingly. "Just... be careful what you wish for." He winked with the o... | "A hundred gold pieces."
"Yeah, that'd sure be swell."
"A HUNDRED gold pieces?"
"Gosh, do you think that's too much?" Reggie twisted at his hole-ridden tunic anxiously. "Should it be twenty? How about twenty?"
"Twenty gold pieces." The genie was staring at Reggie as though he had lost his mind.
Reggie looked worrie... | 2015-06-01T12:52:44 | 2015-06-01T12:38:41 | 89 | 19 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The temporal particles faded from sight with a roar of burning spacetime. The silence left behind seeming to sing with a high pure note, tinged with the birdsong of 1940. There in front of me, about 50 yards down the hill was my target. Hitler. The Fuhrer. Head of the nazi party and leader of the German government. He ... | "Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2150 time travelers awards!"
The booming voice washed over the crowd that was packed with all of the biggest celebrity, from George Clooney's 5th clone, to the never aging Brad Pitt. It was an event no one would miss. Lights filled the arena as the clapping and cheering had yet to... | 2016-02-20T08:55:11 | 2016-02-20T08:49:38 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | "Sir, their technology... It's, well, quite frankly, it's terrifying."
"Explain yourself."
"All of their technology," he stammered. "It's powered by explosions."
"Explosions? All of it?"
"Yes sir. Their vehicles, their warships, even their weapons are all powered by explosions."
"How did they ever achieve space tr... | Mleep rose from his slumber. Today would be the day that this planet fell to the mighty wrath of mleep. Mleep was a hero, a soldier and a magnificent lover, the later being proved by countless sighs of tender pleasure. Mleep had been sent to earth by his overlords to do one thing. He knew what he had to do and he revel... | 2016-02-22T13:30:29 | 2016-02-22T10:30:41 | 79 | 20 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Once you conquer a thousand worlds with no resistance you start to skip steps. Our initial invasions would take years to plan and complete but somewhere along the line we just started to land as soon as we reached orbit.
Killing all of the inhabitants with our aerial bom... | When people thought of the words *alien invasion*, the first thing that usually pops to minds is overwhelming firepower. Giant, city-sized saucers with nuclear energy beams, giant mechas or tripods waltzing through military installations and destroying everything in globules of plasma, standing triumphant anove the hu... | 2016-02-22T13:09:56 | 2016-02-22T11:29:44 | 66 | 18 |
[WP] The monster under your bed is protecting you from something much worse. | I hear the familiar boards creak as my child tiptoes to her bed. As always, she moves quickly, panickedly. She hates the dark, and what's more, she hates what the dark holds. I can hear her heart skip a beat as she hops into the bed. The frame creaks, the mattress shifts. After a few minutes pass. Her heart rate gradua... | For as long as I can remember, the monster has lived under my bed. Though, I’ve never seen it, I’ve heard stories of it. How it fed, if it breathed air, or ever really slept, I didn’t know. After all, the space under my bed wasn’t that much. Let alone big enough for a monster to live under. But there it resided for yea... | 2016-03-20T18:06:57 | 2016-03-20T17:39:49 | 83 | 10 |
[WP] The monster under your bed is protecting you from something much worse. | Tim whimpered.
He knew that Mommy said he was growing up now, and that he needed to be a big boy. Daddy called him his little man - just six years old, and already riding his bike with no training wheels. Riding bikes was a little scary, but Mommy was there to help when he got all wobbly. He'd only skinned his knee o... | For as long as I can remember, the monster has lived under my bed. Though, I’ve never seen it, I’ve heard stories of it. How it fed, if it breathed air, or ever really slept, I didn’t know. After all, the space under my bed wasn’t that much. Let alone big enough for a monster to live under. But there it resided for yea... | 2016-03-20T19:27:47 | 2016-03-20T17:39:49 | 18 | 10 |
[WP]All humans are made sterile at birth and can gain fertility at 18 if they pass a simulated morality and IQ test administered by an AI. Suddenly several generations later no one can pass the test | *This is the way the world ends.*
At the height of our numbers, we were over twenty billion. Now, barely two billion. And everybody saw it coming just a little too late.
*This is the way the world ends.*
It's the test, of course. Letting an AI determine whether we, at the age of eighteen, are smart enough and moral ... | "We need to look at the latest batch of results.".
"What is it, Fred? Low pass rate? It was bound to happen. Check the projections.".
"No, Professor Salver, it's not low, it's zero."
"Zero? Why Fred, that's impossible. Check the-"
"I checked them, I checked them twice. There should be a low margin, a 12% pass rat... | 2016-08-22T01:35:43 | 2016-08-22T00:18:58 | 83 | 50 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | I could only lie there, incapacitated and powerless. It was his sick and twisted rules.
*Poke.*
"Aah!" right between the ribs. All hope had left me. There was no one but us. Me, and this harbinger of pain, exacting his ancient torture method upon my person.
*Poke.*
"Yaah!" Plunged into my stomach. Strangely enoug... | There I was laid back in this guys ez chair covered in my own blood and a strong taste of iron in my mouth. Oh and my still beating heart in the hand of my personal torturer Mr Sukurov. We both stared wide eyed at the heart. He looked to me with anger.
"WHY ARE YOU ALIVE!?" He screamed in my face.
"Dude no screaming ... | 2017-02-08T09:18:16 | 2017-02-08T09:13:02 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] In the future, for your history final, you're sent back in time to an important date with the objective to correct a time aberration so history remains unchanged. You didn't study.
Changes you might cause will be permanent. | Jack ran across the street to the enclosure. He came to the top of the knoll where a small group of people where gathered. Ahead, the crowd had gathered along the road, waving their flags. "Why did I get this," he whispered. A man came up to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Stay down, sir," he said in a thick, outl... | "I hope you understand the seriousness of this task," History can turn out to be a very important factor in your lives" said Mr Bonarte, as he set off another barrage of useless information, useless at least to Jack. "To demonstrate this, each one of you will be sent to points of history commonly forgotten, but which h... | 2017-03-27T09:16:54 | 2017-03-27T08:51:07 | 40 | 29 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | And so it happens. A flash. A sudden, inexplicable warmth. Darkness. And I awake. I'm five again, in bed in the small apartment owned by my parents. It's 8:13. Father has already left for work at the assembly line, and mother is in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Audible clinks of pans and dishes fill the room, sounds... | Life is my game. Is there a way to win? Maybe, but hell if I know what it is. I can remember what I was thinking when I first died. My first life was such an awful run, I've topped it almost every life after, unless I count the runs I've just done for fun.
I was an artist, not very experienced, only about 60 years of ... | 2017-05-25T13:14:46 | 2017-05-25T12:49:34 | 189 | 60 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!"
Once more I hear the same two lines over and over again. It's amazing that I haven't tried to do the same to them. I honestly think that they truly want to get me killed.
"You bastards!"
And there it is. The only way I truly know that I've died. Not that it matters much. I will come ... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T14:31:23 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 74 | 31 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently shaking my arm. I groaned. "Whhhh..."
He stood up. "Dude. You live in a trash heap, man."
I licked my lips and tried again. "Whhh...ahhhht. Time?"
As the burglar checked his watch, I tried to rub the sand out of my eyes. It took some effort, and the muscles in my arm m... | "You live like this?"
Well, yeah, I motherfuckin' do, and thanks for the reminder. Somehow I'd forgotten I was living in a one-room shithole with a five-year-old. I'm sorry my cleaning don't live up to your standards; I'm a little fuckin' busy between my kid and my two god damn jobs. Especially the one with that assho... | 2017-08-21T20:16:03 | 2017-08-21T13:18:08 | 85 | 45 |
[WP] A medieval king suddenly finds a smartphone and tries to unlock it. But each time he fails, years later it has become a tradition for nobles to try to unlock it. You, a simple servant, fiddled with it the night before the ceremony and unlocked it.
Edit: just think the phone is solar or something to ignore the bat... | It started with king Ryse, who had found it under his pillow. He claimed that a woman came to him dressed like a man, whispered something in his ear and left in a bright light. He was convinced it was an angel. Unfortunately, he could not remember what the angel told him other than the sense of being warned that stayed... | "You!" a voice boomed from the end of the hall. "What have you got there! That's the prized Glassy Tablet! Remove it from your unworthy hands you dim-witted scoundrel!"
"Ah, but, I unlocked it, your Grace," replied Hrothgar.
"Nonsense, buffoon, nobody on this long flat planet will ever be able to--" his jaw spanked aga... | 2017-10-14T06:55:50 | 2017-10-14T06:27:50 | 692 | 22 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | A million a year. It's a pretty sweet deal, to be sure. At the end of each year, your mental state is evaluated and if you are deemed still sane, you are given the opportunity of another year.
I'm approaching the end of my fifth year with all mental faculties still intact, fully willing to take a sixth. I don't need i... | "DRRRRIING!"
I just stared at the phone. It was vibrating furiously and the ringing was deafening.
"DRRRRIING!"
Five years I’d waited for this moment. Five years someone had waited for this moment. My mind when racing back in time. I was trying to figure out what I was supposed to do. The first few weeks I sp... | 2017-12-17T00:57:14 | 2017-12-17T00:40:57 | 431 | 12 |
[WP] Guns were never invented. Instead, swords and blades became increasingly complex and powerful | The Terrans advanced like a metal cloud, glittering in the hard blue light of the Core System's star. All the spacefaring races had finally come together to resist the shocking might of the Terran Empire. A terrifying species of omnivorous endurance hunters from a ruined, militarized planet that had at one point decide... | They say, never bring a sword to a high-tech blade fight. Or, it is the skill of the wielder that makes the blade. Stuff like that, it never applied to me.
"I, 17th Dan of the Asura Blade Clan challenge you to a duel." A woman's voice announced from behind the iconic Oni mask of the Asura Blade Clan. A mask that was ... | 2018-03-07T07:54:38 | 2018-03-07T07:42:10 | 80 | 22 |
[WP] There is evidence of past lives. Employers now require thousands of years of prior experience. | Sipping my coffee, I looked down at the resumes arranged on my desk for the day. Fucking hell, this shit sucks.
Alright, Charles M., let's see. Born 1988, B.A. in communications from NC State, previous incarnation: Zhao Jingxing, born 1919, Nationalist Chinese soldier killed in action 1942. Illiterate, farming backgro... | "Hello, Miss Hanson." The man said as he entered the room and glanced down at me through his circular glasses. I nodded my head politely. "I'm Mr. Williams."
"Hello," I said with only a minor voice crack. The nerves were starting to get to me and I felt like there was an electric charge pulsing through my bones. But ... | 2018-04-03T20:04:49 | 2018-04-03T19:58:47 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone at superhero school bullied you and your twin sister over your weak superpowers. You told nobody that you both actually have hyper intelligence courtesy of your supervillain parents. It's graduation day and also the time to make mommy and daddy proud.
Assume that they protect themselves from telepathic p... | This is it, the fruit of years of pain and humiliation has finally ripened and will soon be picked. I stood up at the sound of my name and walked up to the podium. From behind the lectern, I turned to face the crowd, my fellow pupils, my tormentors.
“I am honoured to be speaking to you all tonight as a graduate from... | “….Those two have some nerve, acting like they’re one of us…”
“…I still can’t be believe they have been allowed to soil the name of this academy for so long…”
“…What? They haven’t been kicked out yet….?”
“I simply cannot believe that Headmaster UltraArc is allowing them to graduate…”
Petty words and snide rumour... | 2018-05-12T23:04:52 | 2018-05-12T21:05:23 | 425 | 75 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | "9/11 never happened!"
I said that out loud in my class, and things went so silent I could hear a pin drop. I'm a virtuoso, a perfectionist. I'm a master at my craft. I wield my mind like a master swordsman, my historic knowledge knowing no limit. Lately, it has been cause for distress. I've sat up late for many night... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T10:55:39 | 848 | 159 |
[WP] You’re a loner and your best friend is your cat. Recently, with some encouragement, you invite the girl you have a crush on over for dinner. It goes great, but when she’s leaving she tells you that cats don’t typically walk on their hind-legs, light candles, serve the meal, and play soft jazz. | "Yeah, cats don't normally do that," she re-affirmed.
​
"Huh," I replied. "Now that you mention it, my parent's cat just slept all day and pooped in the corner. He sucked at the saxophone, no matter how many lessons I tried to give him."
​
"Listen IWriteDumbStories, I think you'd better have a... | Agatha didn't remove her gaze off of the appropriately dressed cat. "That's not normal," she said, facing her death with an expression filled with wondrous bewilderment.
"Oh?" Effie directed her attention onto the cat, and smiled, "Oh no, that's perfectly normal for Felix." One dark eye winked at the cat, and the cat ... | 2018-12-28T16:53:10 | 2018-12-28T12:53:25 | 114 | 33 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | I stared at the check, completely baffled. All the genetic testing had come through clean as a whistle. The only option was employment or lottery.
“Work smarter, not harder.” I thought as I strolled into the gas station. A fountain soda, candy bar, and a combo meal later left me with one dollar for a single lottery ti... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T14:45:53 | 335 | 11 |
[WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels. | When the Overstate went from a struggle for dominance to a maintenance of hegemony, dissidents were no longer publicly executed. That was how things were when they had the courage to operate openly. Now, dissidents are an important part of Overstate maintenance: they give the most violent officers something to look for... |
“Welcome to our secret headquarters” Zak announced grandly “We co-opted a base abandoned long ago, forgotten to all but a few we will be safe her” Clara’s head was still reeling her reality was based on aa foundation of lies. She had always had faith that the government was a force of stability and order but what s... | 2019-04-27T08:19:23 | 2019-04-27T07:55:00 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | Felix Schneider had not, in the larger scale of things, lived a particularly difficult life.
There was a certain balance to it. The ups came frequently enough – his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, his two daughters (four years apart), the promotion to regional chief at the accounting firm he called his second h... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T09:08:26 | 294 | 165 |
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