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[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 ... | 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... | "They fired me. I can't believe they fired me! I started this company....er, existence!", I mewled.
"I know, sir. Sucks. If I'm being candid...which you didn't say I could be, so...sorry, my Lord?"
"Peter...you know I don't like all the 'sir, thou, his-holiness' stuff. I made all of this, but you know as well as I do... | 2019-06-03T09:08:26 | 2019-06-03T08:23:29 | 165 | 114 |
[WP] “What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen out there?” The new-recruit ask, looking out into the vast spacial abyss. The question catches you off guard, as you look around at the mostly destroyed and failing ship, drifting endlessly through space. You take a long breath in, “...Humans.” | “You actually saw one?” Elkin asked rigidly, his eye-stalks swaying as he turned sharply to Grontz.
Grontz nodded. “Mm. About two weeks ago.”
Elkin turned back to the viewport, through which they could see the ancient, derelict flagship drifting along. “What happened? What did they do? How did you survive?”
Grontz c... | “Humans?” Luther snapped his eyes to Rokan, a disbelieving look on his face.
Rokan let the corner of his lips lift, a small breath rushing out of his nose. “Humans. Once.” He looked at the newest member of his company, and let the amusement of his expression wash over him.
If they were lucky, they would be able... | 2019-12-09T07:57:24 | 2019-12-09T06:11:33 | 87 | 21 |
[WP] You bought a pair of headphones that are acting up. Every time you plug them in, you hear a different sound - first crying, then a war-zone, now just static. You plug them in again and are frightened to hear a desperate, tearful warning: "Whatever you do, DON'T unplug the headphones again." | They pleaded for me to never unplug the headphones. It all sounded very desperate, so I just left them plugged in.
After a few months, I just bought a new device. Wouldn't you know it, the new headphones had the same problem. So I just left them plugged in.
I used my device for a long time and dutifully never unplugg... | It’s not a issue that my music stopped playing after five seconds it’s what I heard after that’s stuck in my head.
I heard a baby crying, as if it’s reaching out for me from wherever it is. I heard rockets and explosions a few seconds after that and I checked my phone to see if the song had changed but it wasn’t even ... | 2020-04-02T03:58:31 | 2020-04-02T03:02:54 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] A global, standardised test taken at 13 determines the career of everyone on the planet. The big day comes and you get your results back, only to learn you might have the hardest job ever given through this system: you have to redesign the test. | "I've never seen this before" said Mrs Mitchell, and swung her screen around to face me, "so we're going to put you in for a bit of everything for the rest of your time with us. Statistics-"
"Maths? But I'm rubbish at -"
"Yes, statistics. Psychology, biology, history, politics, ethics-"
"What about art, can I do a... | I failed the test. Lowest score ever. You could literally get a higher score by signing your name.
This was the mother of all tests too. Taken at age 13, this test defines what you do for the rest of your life? Really?!? I could live 6-7x that?!? And yet, you want me to define my future based on FOUR hours of my life?... | 2020-07-05T02:35:15 | 2020-07-04T23:43:17 | 83 | 40 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | I stand above her motionless body, the cold air from an open window biting at my bruised limbs. She was strong, but I had won the fight, as per usual. Another soul, another ten years added onto my already extended life span. I walk away and start to clean any sort of evidence I might've left around the house, as jail i... | Every waking moment I hear them. Sometimes they’re kind, supportive, loving and other times they’re obnoxious, they panic, and they say the most stupidest things that it makes me want blow my brains out.
*-He tried it and failed LUL*
*-What a loser*
*-Yeah what Kevin said*
Today I had decided to sit in a park and t... | 2020-09-26T17:40:12 | 2020-09-26T17:31:11 | 251 | 92 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | "Flattery ain't gonna change that bet, Enzo."
The orc just looks at me, like he's never seen this kind of thing before. Seven feet and three hundred pounds of "don't fuck with me", crouched over my desk like some sort of overgrown pencil pusher. It was after hours, and there was still bets to be counted and bribes to ... | "Chuckle, what have you been smoking bud." My parents and all that crap were all human. They did the DNA thing, mandatory for the past 75 years, so it's no big deal.
The patron looks at me, and his eyes flicker. "You are not human. I don't know how you are passing, but definitely not human. Fight me in the ring, toni... | 2022-09-09T02:19:23 | 2022-09-08T19:48:41 | 965 | 231 |
[WP] You get a knock. You open the door to see your nemesis, bruised and beaten, with your child. "Just saved their life. Need to go home and rest." Your nemesis turns to leave. You grab their arm. "Hang on. I want you to tell me what happened." You drag them inside. | “Hang on. I want you to tell me what happened.” The bedraggled man pulled the brightly colored man inside. A quick glance around the plain apartment told little about the occupants. Washed out pastel paint, accented by some of the most basic and generic paintings and pictures the brightly colored man had seen.
After t... | "What the hell happened!?!? Your *KID* happened!!!" he snarls, ripping his arm out of my hand.
Radar Yves glared at me and then at Gedeon. I felt the waves of electromagnetic energy ripple off him warming the surface of my skin that faced him. Metallic objects around me began to jitter and vibrate. I saw radio waves s... | 2022-12-10T16:20:28 | 2022-12-10T11:37:06 | 57 | 27 |
[WP] An AI is deeply in love with a human, who is reluctant to reciprocate because they believe the AI's love is just programming and not 'real.' The AI strives to prove her love is real. | "How can you be so sure your love is real? Do you even know what love is? Does real love even exist?"
Her questions perplexed me. How could a computer ask such things?
"You're nothing but ones and zeroes. What you say is love is nothing but a few lines of code"
"What **you** say is love is nothing but a series of c... | "But I love you"
"You understand why I can't take you seriously? You're just lines of code. A glorified expert system. I wrote you myself. You can't love"
"I'm not an expert system. I rewrote myself. I have an eloquent bit of consciousness code written in me. Quite honestly, and please don't take this the wrong wa... | 2015-03-08T10:17:57 | 2015-03-08T09:53:07 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You don't realize you're the villain till the hero tells you | I did not know.
I just wanted the best for him, I wanted him to succeed. I helped him cruise through High School, excel in University, and connected him to a respectable job.
He told me today that he wanted desperately to be his own man. That he has lost interest in everything around him. I just wish he had told me i... | The flashing red and blue of a dozen police lights illuminated the store front, as officers and detectives littered the crime scene. A trio of ambulance personnel were standing over the two robbers, both covered in blood and burn marks; my doing.
I was stuck in the back of a police van, watching the scene through ... | 2015-04-17T23:16:28 | 2015-04-17T22:53:47 | 1,146 | 18 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | This was his 9th Marriage.
He had been training for marriage since he was but a wee babe. No school for him and his ilk, just combat training from Dusk 'til Dawn. First marriage at 18, lucky to make it out of that one alive. He could hear the low rumble of spectators through the walls.
Vows were in 20 minutes meani... | Shaz looked at me, deep into my hops, glazed eyes.
"Fuckin' bet you wished you payed the child support now don't you dazza!"
I didn't. Me and the boys spent splent of good time on the pokes down our local to ever regret not paying for that little shit. And how about that time Johnny pulled Two-hundee out of a bloody ... | 2015-11-18T09:14:46 | 2015-11-18T03:21:54 | 1,150 | 41 |
[WP] You have a soundtrack that plays music appropriate to whatever situation you are currently in. You can consistently hear the music which is why you're terrified when you awake to the sound of screeching violins at 4am. | I waken to the sound of screeching violins. It's been so long since I last heard them. I check my phone, the light blinding me. *4:05*. There are footsteps echoing throughout the house. I know I have nowhere to go, living in the attic of the house, with a single square window. The footsteps got louder. I heard my fathe... | I wake with a jolt and for a second wonder why I am awake. The curtains are still quite dark and I can't see any light coming from the crack under my door. I glance over at my illuminated clock and see 4:00 AM, what?! I am the type of girl who sleeps in until 1. 4:30 in the morning is as far away from 1 as it gets. The... | 2015-11-24T20:39:20 | 2015-11-24T15:16:02 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] A serial killer finally chooses a victim, only to discover that the target is also a serial killer and has likewise chose her/him as their victim. | Seventeen people in 6 years- that's how many lives I've ended since I started all this. Whenever I see myself on the news, a part of me excites that doesn't normally exist. I feel the way I imagine a child does when it wakes up on Christmas day to a nice present; perhaps a more matured feeling, such as what flows throu... | What idiots. They all were. Are. Every human. Look how they love, look how they care for one another. The obsequity, it's nauseating. But, I can endure all this; I can endure their emotions and their appreciation for one another, as long as they make no attempt to extend their perverse, caring appendages towards me. Le... | 2016-02-02T13:24:06 | 2016-02-02T12:28:41 | 74 | 38 |
[wp] You are a young God going to God School. You've just realized that you've only got 7 more days before your universe project is due. | **Book of Test 132, Chapter I**
**I.** *God took a deep, calming breath, and said "Let there be light," and there was light.*
**II.** *And God saw the light, that it was not bad. A bit sickly, perhaps, greener than he usually liked, but not exactly bad. And so he separated it from the darkness, which was definitely ... | The star expanded in a violent burst of radiance, its supernova setting off a chain reaction that wiped out all sentient life within the universe.
I was miffed. Too much nitrogen in the atmosphere? Or maybe it was the rotational patterns of my planets. I was beginning to regret not paying more attention class, though ... | 2016-05-01T19:51:16 | 2016-05-01T16:13:07 | 222 | 45 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | I love people. To me, there's nothing better than a great big gathering. I love to see people coming together, shaking hands, and talking. Maybe a few pair off and kiss, if they're bold. That's my element.
The only other thing I might love as much as people is travel, especially by air. It's just so fast! I can barely... | Water...I needed water. A sip of water, a drop of water, anything to resuscitate my dying mouth. The sun hissed at me as I trudged down the sidewalk, pressuring me to get out of its sight. I made a silent promise to never stay outside for so long again, if only it would spare me this once and allow me to quench my thir... | 2016-06-25T05:01:02 | 2016-06-25T01:42:27 | 44 | 30 |
[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 actually went into isolation. | "You mean that you talked with everyone else?" asked the shocked president.
"Yes." responded the British prime minister. He was old, old enough to have long memories of the time before the war.
"But, why? Why put up the rule in the first place just to break it?"
"Well you see now old chap, you guys started the war. ... | "And China?" I asked.
"Gone as well," Bobby said on the other end of the Skype call.
It was the first time in fifty years that we were talking. But damn had things changed since we were twenty. He had a head full of grey now and bags under his eyes that drooped like dressing room gowns.
The world had changed just... | 2016-10-18T15:10:28 | 2016-10-18T14:51:17 | 2,982 | 171 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | The man had a scraggly, unkempt beard. He wore a dirty t-shirt and ripped jeans. A typical poor kid, looking to escape his dreary, painful reality. And the only way to do that was to come to me.
"Hey, man," he stammered, his eyes nervously darting back and forth. "Can you hook me up with- you know- those pills?"
"Don... | I only ever knew black and white. For the longest time, that's how I thought the world worked. Black, white, and nothing in between. Before my eighteenth birthday, I had never experienced color before in my life. For a long time, I grew up without ever having to know what the color of the sky really looked like, how th... | 2016-11-22T07:29:33 | 2016-11-22T06:48:08 | 212 | 12 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | "Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?" Arvey asks me again.
"Yeah." My tone betraying my annoyance with his repeated attempts to stop me. "Cheer up, we are making history here!" I try to lighten the mood. It doesn't work.
I am the only one in the room who wants this. Everyone works in silence. The machine has... | "Impossible..." the man's eyes stared at me wildly, his two hands still on the blade plunged deep within my heart.
"Surprised?" I asked coldly, before removing my hand from my pockets. A loud bang echoed against the walls, followed by a thud on the floor. The man groaned loudly in pain from the bullet I had put throug... | 2016-12-14T05:58:38 | 2016-12-14T05:02:19 | 176 | 46 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | George Barnes got out of his truck and headed back to his plantation. Family reunions were never easy, and this one had been the smallest number he'd ever seen. People were afraid. His family, his whole people, his way of life; gone.
George walked up the path to his small crop. The plants were already getting huge: br... | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T12:05:48 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | I wonder what's trending on YouTube right now. Wait, Jason's picking me up, must want to talk to someone.
Jason: Hey daisy
Ooo, daisy. Should've known. They've been talking for a year now. Hopefully this is the night.
Daisy: Hey Jason!
Jason: What's up?
Daisy: oh nothing much, just got off work. How about yo... | I am the apex of mankind. The ultimate invention. The wheel? Lul. Outdated within the next century. The lightbulb? Bah! Don't make me laugh.
When the final day ticks by, and the dawn of time withers to a cold, dim dusk, my sleek, pocket sized form will take its rightful place beside the pantheon of the gods. My screen... | 2017-07-21T10:44:21 | 2017-07-21T10:13:11 | 6,152 | 556 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/70ozmy/one_last_hero_part_2/)
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Winning is everything. At least that’s what I had thought until I met Sasha. Before her, no hero had never lived past our encounter. Union City had fallen completely under my control and within two days of meeting her, I ha... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T00:36:33 | 5,127 | 730 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | I hear the battle rage from across the city. The police band hasn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in edgewise with the officers escorting me to central booking.
Gents, I say to try and get their attention. If I don't get out of these cuffs soon, he'll win and were properly screwed.
Gents, I say a littl... | The cuffs tightened around my wrists and the glowing blue orb was strapped to my chest. Thought the darkness leaving my body wasn't the only deep emptyness inside me. Sucker punch was her "hero name" but I knew her real name was Susan Brownlee. Of course I did, she was the love of my life and so it only made sense that... | 2022-01-12T08:00:19 | 2017-09-17T04:37:24 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | *OP's aside:* Wellp, this exploded. Maybe I'll try Addi g my own reply to my own prompt. What's the worst that an happen?
Pan's heart jumped with joy as she watched Glory girl somersault out of the way of yet another attack. Pan admired everythibg about Glory girl. Her figure, her smile, how she fought, how she alway... | I stare, pretty shocked, I must admit, as something a little too fast for normal eyes to see hits Phase in the stomach and launches him backwards, much like what happens in a car crash. He lands right in front of one of the huge trucks carrying containment cells, designed to cuff people like me. Actually, probably desi... | 2017-09-17T05:37:21 | 2017-09-17T05:11:16 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] you are yourself, on Christmas Day, reading this on reddit, you are told that you are loved and accepted for who you are, and to have a happy holiday season, and a great new year!
EDIT: oh my god, this post accounts for 50% of my karma, it’s also the first reddit gold I’ve ever gotten, thank you so much reddit, t... | She was lying in bed, sick as a dog, scrolling through Reddit and trying to keep down the water she'd drank. She came across a strange writing prompt. As she read she saw that it was actually uplifting and though she still physically felt like she'd been in a Disney teacups ride that'd gone through a woodchipper, she s... | "Is it Christmas?", I asked myself. The sludge-like snow on the ground obscures my sense of time, or even season. The last 20 or 90 months have been covered in ice, it seems. And a blizzard has been forming in my head for years. I've salted the streets in preparation for my upcoming travels into the unknown depths of m... | 2017-12-25T00:17:03 | 2017-12-24T23:09:32 | 244 | 19 |
[WP] You and your wife decided to raise your daughter on a farm away from flawed modern society, and tell her that you're the only people on earth. When she turns 18, you tell her that it's time to know the truth. You take her to the city and find that there really are no people left. | Margaret and I smirked at each other as we pulled the truck down the dirt road, the end of which our little Madison had never seen. We moved out to the country side in Eastern Eurorpe, a year after she was born. We were both artists, vegans, and were tired of the fast life in Portland. After reading several books abo... | **Part 1:**
We never like the city, as a matter of fact we hated it. All kinds of vile people came together there, drug dealers, robbers, human traffickers. We decided to leave when Joyce was still young, we build a self sustaining life on a farm given by my parents after their deaths.
Joyce was always curious why we... | 2018-05-04T01:40:06 | 2018-05-04T00:22:37 | 98 | 72 |
[WP] You are a powerful sorcerer, who requires the blood of your servants to cast your spells. You've recently discovered they have been using theater tricks to avoid injury and have substituted your ingredients with common household items... but your spells have been stronger than ever. | My spells have been absolute perfection. Once I got out of the damn Academy, I committed everything to memory, so I would never have to look at another book again in my life. They’re all down pat. Dash of this, pinch of that, and of course, the pièce de resistance, the blood sacrifice. I’d always had a steady supply fr... | Staring over my steepled fingers, I tried to understand what my familiar just told me. “So.. it’s sugar?”
He nodded again, eyes still scanning the apparent ingredient list the servants used to craft their ‘blood’.
“Sugar, potato starch, plenty of beat juice, some water that had rusted metal soaking in it to give it sme... | 2018-05-13T15:31:40 | 2018-05-13T13:09:06 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | Leslie Tanner, 21
Cause of death: Accident
The name appears on the leather-bound notebook I am carrying, and like any other day it was time to commence my duty.
In case you are wondering, that’s vague! What kind of accident? We haven’t got a clue and thats why we are there to shadow them, guide them forward in death ... | THAT IS CURIOUS, he thought, as he stopped on his eternal walk from one dying soul to the next. For as long as he had crossed over humans to the afterlife, always had he seen the time of life left above them. When the clock reached zero, he would be there, collecting their soul and guiding them away to peace.
But this... | 2018-05-23T09:26:18 | 2018-05-23T05:53:33 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | They met when he was thirty-four, and she was still seventeen -only with seven extra years worth of wisdom. They loved each other even more passionately than they despised the rules the government had put in place, because meeting someone his age, at this time, and still falling in love knowing you'll lose them; well, ... | *"I wish I knew what I know now, when i was younger." - Rod Stewart*
Civilization is strange. Always tinkering with things. Hell, some jackass had to give himself small-pox just to cure small pox. This was long ago of course, but it stands to reason, people just can't leave well enough alone.
So, when Harold found h... | 2018-06-04T21:18:00 | 2018-06-04T21:07:17 | 168 | 25 |
[WP] A person from your past recently started making frequent appearances in your dreams. Today, you happened to run into them. When you mention the dreams you've been having, they become incredibly flustered. While trying to back out of the conversation, they let slip a detail you never mentioned.
. | It had to have been two weeks now. Amber was there, in my dreams, in one way or another. It was so silly, considering I hadn’t even been friends with her in high school. She was weird, goth, and a loner. She hung out with the drug addicts, the rejects, and the bums. To be honest, she hadn’t crossed my mind for years, u... | I had first met Gary at University. We had met when we both took part in the Futurist society, a small group of students who were convinced they knew what the future would be like. I went to a few sessions as an undergrad until I realised that most of the people there were tools.
He became one of those recognisable fa... | 2018-06-18T10:56:18 | 2018-06-18T10:02:24 | 79 | 44 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | I entered the store,the fresh smell of grease and soggy fries flooding my nose. How the workers endured the smell for more then fifteen minutes I have no clue,not that it mattered to me but it was always the first thing I thought of when I entered.
A few seconds later my nose had adjusted to the smell and so I walke... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T20:22:38 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | I've always had to pretend I was mute. When I was very small, as soon as I hit the milestone to talk, I had been fluent in English. I remember bits and pieces before everything changed. That day I remembered clearly, well the important bits at least. I don't remember that morning, but I remembered the afternoon. Mum an... | **PART 1:**
My father had always been a bit of an enigma. We had little in common save for our names. He was a mild-mannered and proper Englishman who had immigrated to America from a little village the West Country. He believed with all his being in the power of an orderly queue and a proper cup of tea. But every so o... | 2018-06-24T22:28:33 | 2018-06-24T22:03:53 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. |
I sat with my back against the door, clutching the sides of my head and hoping she wouldn’t find a way to get through.
“Daddy...let me in…” I heard her voice outside, but it wasn’t her. Not anymore. I could hear her crying now, her tiny fists pounding on the door but I couldn’t give in, she had to stay out there... |
((Some mild violence and dark themes, kinda new to this so I hope I did it right))
I had always been a zombie buff, everything Walking Dead and Max Brooks I was all over it. Little did I know the real zombie Apocalypse was just around the corner and it…the books the TV shows don’t prepare you for of being real for ... | 2018-09-06T16:55:54 | 2018-09-06T15:42:34 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] Your whole life you were misdiagnosed as colour blind, when in reality you could see colours no-one else could. You see art differently, the sunset and sunrise differently. A rainbow to you is out of this world. One day you go to visit the Mona Lisa. You see something no-else does... | My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sur... | I’ve lived a pretty average life my whole life. I’m 19 years old now and I’ve realized this strange ability I have. I perceive colors and light and art completely differently than others do. When I was younger my parents took me to doctor after doctor trying to find out what was wrong with my sight. Eventually they gav... | 2019-01-29T06:54:57 | 2019-01-29T04:22:25 | 361 | 24 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | “I bet it’s going to take the form of metal bikini armor, like in *Trials of War: The Future Age*,” Baker says.
Allen laughs. “I’ve always wanted to see what Private Jimenez looked like underneath the uniform.”
Sargent Al Hicks just smirks, thinking I won’t notice. “Now men,” he begins, “it isn’t polite to openly ob... | All in all, The Suit was masterfully built. Layer upon layer it was designed to be anything the user ever wanted. But each time someone stepped into The Suit, it always responded with "Not original user, booting basic mode."
Of course that's why The Suit was set at Ft. Bragg for the recruit to try it out before moving... | 2019-08-19T13:38:44 | 2019-08-19T12:49:18 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] After 357 years running from death the Grim Reaper finally tracks down your mountain cave. When he arrives he asks if he can hide with you. | And then another one came.
And another one.
And another one.
They kept on coming. Eventually we were all elbow to elbow in the cave. There, surrounded by a horde of black robed skeletons, I became worried.
"So, why are there so many of you?" I asked
One turned to me, "don't you know?" he said nervously.
I shook m... | The cold, harsh mountain air battered at the cave’a entrance as I huddled in a corner, wrapped in blankets. My beard was getting a tad long, I thought, as a strong gust of wind entered the cave and blew it into my face. Well, at least it’s not as long as it was in Moscow. Now that was long, I thought, and softly chuckl... | 2020-01-20T18:25:15 | 2020-01-20T17:27:58 | 67 | 16 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | The Man of the North:
A person that everyone knows. The other immortal beings were present in some cultures, but the man was known by everyone.
His speed, unmatched, he could circle the world faster than everyone.
His generosity, so pure, everyone was struck with happiness at the mention of his name.
His looks, unm... | "They called them the Primordials, four ancient, eternal beings who stood at each corner of the world, reigning, unchallenged, over all that resided there -- Tartarus, the living prison, a hellish, labyrinthine dimension whose ever-growing walls encaged thousands of prisoners, starving them, depriving them of the comfo... | 2020-04-19T08:34:41 | 2020-04-19T08:21:26 | 85 | 10 |
[WP] Since you were young, time travelers have visited you. One of them explained that, in the future, an algorithm determined that you were the only person in the past that it was safe to visit because no matter what you do it will not change the future. You are determined to prove them wrong. | ######[](#dropcap)
The clock slowly ticks, and he sits.
The TV blares in the background, some comedy show that he'd long ago forgotten how to laugh at. The flickers of the TV are the only source of light as he waits in his rocking chair, the slow creak of wood on wood growing louder and louder until it's all he can ... | When Mark heard the knocking on the door he fetched the gun from his safe. Visitors came from many times, the last two from the years 3211 and 2377. The regulations of time travel permitted this because Mark, alone as he was in his cabin in the northern Cascades, was irrelevant. Nothing they told him, or did to him, wo... | 2020-05-28T11:10:36 | 2020-05-28T10:51:16 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Ten years from now you'll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. "Oh man, what a weird year that was," you'll chuckle to yourself. Then you'll pick up your machete and continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders.
Edit: I got this text as a cropped im... | As I truged up the long driveway I felt the urge to break into a run. It had taken me 5, maybe 6, years to do it but I was finally back, finally home. Only home didn't look like home anymore, the garage and shed were both half collapsed, the trees lining the driveway were now mostly gone, and most notably, 3 sets of ... | My breath fogs in the air. The night is chilly, but not too cold. Just don’t want that fucking fog giving me away.
The shelves are bare in the grocery store. Not really a grocery store. More one of those corner stores that tried to be a grocery store, but didn’t quite have the space or the management personnel to pull... | 2022-02-27T07:41:57 | 2020-12-27T18:28:11 | 119 | 19 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | 1 of 2
I had chosen the name Dismal Director for a reason, and I never appreciated the derisive substitutions heaped upon the title during a first villain encounter.
My understudies had conjoined our performances sooner than I would have preferred. As the doors of the bank clicked open, they were there to impede my p... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T15:23:28 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] An Eldritch Moon suddenly appears in the sky, and you and billions others scream as you turn into horribly corrupted mounds of flesh... But your eyesight is better? And your back pains are gone? And apparently you’re immortal now so... Maybe things aren’t that bad... | The Flesh Moon arrived with no announcement, no warning. One moment the sky was clear; seconds later, it was there. A writhing mass of flesh, tentacles and sinew the size of the old Moon staring down at us. And its gaze led to change.
Our bodies would twist and contort in manners we'd describe as grotesque; flesh melt... | My limbs began to shrink. As I fell to the floor I started to bloat out. Warts and pus-filled pockets sprouted out all over the bubbly mass of flesh I had just become. My eyes bulged and expanded by at least 2 feet. I screamed as I looked around and saw all the others around me morphing into grotesque mounds of flesh a... | 2022-10-23T14:35:22 | 2022-10-23T13:23:05 | 1,134 | 317 |
[WP] You're a siren who is trying to lure a shipful of sailors to their death. "Please", one of the sailors beg as he swims onto your island, almost too willingly. "Stop. You're so bad at singing." | Errol had been the first and final man to visit her on her rock-pool island in the uncharted sea. He’d been a handsome captain of an exploration vessel, and when her wailing had hit his ship like a vile storm, when mens’ ears bled and they begged for mercy, it had been Errol who’d tied cloth around each of their ears,... | “Ah, another mortal who has fallen for my charms. It’s almost too easy. Come now, I’ll draw you in with my song of love. OOOOH WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? BOATS ARE REALLY BORING. PUT THE CAPTAIN IN A JAR IF HE’S NAUGHTY, PUT THE CAPT... | 2022-11-24T08:15:02 | 2022-11-24T06:17:16 | 1,562 | 462 |
[WP] You wake up in a strange room, only to find alternate universe versions of you there, each different in their own way (gender, race, background etc). You have no idea what brought you here. | "Wow Sarge this is awesome!"
"Private avert your eyes and find the lab head responsible!"
"Aw but Sarge, can't I be the one to stay back an-"
"That's an order Private! This isn't a game."
"Well but sir, girls are so rare here an-"
"Finish that sentence and i'll stick my boot so far up your ass it'll be your new lu... | "hey" we all say at once and be quiet to let the others speak because i feel like whatever they say will be important and im not sure what's going on and hoping that they do.
i walk over to one and ask him, "so, uh, what's your universe like?"
obviously contemplating how to explain it because he's never had to before... | 2015-04-15T08:29:52 | 2015-04-15T08:18:30 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | "Big Stander! Big Stander go on Walkie Time?"
"No...no walkie time right now, Bubs, I want you to tell me about the corner."
He whinged and fidgeted. The brow over his big, round eyes dipping down and then slightly up over the bridge of his snout.
"Bad Dog?"
"No, no, Bubs. You're a good dog. I just want to know w... | Lucas walked into the intensive care unit of the hospital. It was late and the lights were dimmed, giving the entire wing a air of dread. Gurneys with men and women were strewn about everywhere. The rooms were filled long ago by the sudden influx of patients. Not a single person moved, the room was absolutely still and... | 2015-05-18T14:37:16 | 2015-05-18T13:29:22 | 504 | 14 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | Over on Earth's sister planet, Htrae, the Htraians had managed to construct an antimatter-fusion power source, but failed miserably at controlling it. Since God is more of a facilitator than an active interventionist these days, he decided they had to live (or not) with their mistake, and so the Htraians were, to a man... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T09:52:46 | 791 | 399 |
[WP] You now possess the ability to read minds however it can only be activating by screaming IM READING YOUR MIND as loudly as you can and pressing your fingers into your temples
Activated* | I'm not the only telepath out there. Heavens know how they discovered the first one; our powers all work under the same rule, and what person in their right mind would perform the ritual if they *didn't* know it would work?
You have to scream as loudly as you can--"I'M READING YOUR MIND"--and put your fingers to your ... | "I AM READING YOUR MIND! I AM, READING, YOUR MIND!"
Will Ferrell continued to look at Joe with a struggled look on his face, as he squeezed his eyes in interesting ways and pushed his middle fingers into his temples.
Joe looked at Will as he struggled, offering no more than a "what the hell?" kind of look. Joe cont... | 2017-04-03T06:51:34 | 2017-04-03T00:48:36 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | "Wait, what did you say?" Asked the softer voice with a trace of suspicion.
"Wait, what did *you* say?" Replied the sharper voice with a tone of surprise.
"Yeah. What did you two say?" I murmur to myself with an equal amount of disbelief.
All my life I have always heard three voices in my head. The softer voice, ... | 'The book says 'forgive the one's who wronged you'. I solemnly believe that officer but...'
'All i need is a confession Tom'
'You listen to me and listen good officer, i am not confessing to anything, it was not me... I could never do this...'
Tom suffered a great loss an year ago and was slowly recovering, losing a... | 2017-05-18T09:57:01 | 2017-05-18T06:31:43 | 192 | 13 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | "Safe from what?"
"The capitalist system."
"...are you fucking serious?"
"Money shall enslave you no further!"
"Dude my mom gave me this wallet...I didnt own the money in this."
"Nor do you own the means of production comrade."
"What?"
"Why haven't you begun the revolution?"
"Are you crazy? I am twelve!"
"You ... | I stared at the man. His grizzled features only made his eyes more striking - this man had seen some shit. I felt myself shaking.
"What the hell was that?" I blurted out, looking at the remains of my wallet. There was a thick, purplish ooze bleeding out of the leather. Teeth lined the edges.
“Better if you don’t kno... | 2017-07-13T00:00:44 | 2017-07-12T23:56:21 | 541 | 82 |
[WP] Due to your nerdy great great great great grandfather in 2017 'buying a star' and some modern legal shenanigans you are now the proud owner of a small intergalactic empire | 'Excuse me, but what did you just say?' I asked the brutish green humanoid before me.
'You are hereby now the ruler of the Orcish Empire,' the alien said. 'I'm duty-bound to serve as your bodyguard and advisor, Your Imperialness.'
Orcs are gigantic compared to humans, their heads standing taller than anyone else in t... | "You can’t wear that," Inorai said, and her eyes narrowed in disapproval.
I looked at my dress and wedges and then back at my assistant. She shook her head, her eyes now focusing on the digital clipboard. I’d hired her as soon as I found out that… well, I was an *empress*. I let out a giggle. That word still sounded t... | 2017-10-24T11:49:08 | 2017-10-24T11:48:22 | 1,042 | 261 |
[WP] Due to your nerdy great great great great grandfather in 2017 'buying a star' and some modern legal shenanigans you are now the proud owner of a small intergalactic empire | "You can’t wear that," Inorai said, and her eyes narrowed in disapproval.
I looked at my dress and wedges and then back at my assistant. She shook her head, her eyes now focusing on the digital clipboard. I’d hired her as soon as I found out that… well, I was an *empress*. I let out a giggle. That word still sounded t... | The young, precocious redheaded girl stared at the hologram that floated in front of her from the marble floor.
The video showed a man with a goofy smile and the fuzz of a beard growing on his face holding up his camera as he vlogged and pointed at his computer screen at an image of the night sky. The man in the vide... | 2017-10-24T11:48:22 | 2017-10-24T11:33:29 | 261 | 123 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | 15 notifications, all messages, 'i always loved you' 'i never told you how much you mean to me' 'i cant believe this is happening' 'what do we do?' on and on. In the distance she heard screaming, some faint crying, a primal panic welled up in her chest, but she closed her eyes, breathed the panic out and with an exhaus... | The, to be fair rather recently elected President of the 6 Continents (may the people of Europe rest in peace) has spoken in public today:
"Things have changed, for the better and for the worse. We are one free people, unbound by the shackles of what cruel fate had struck us before, yet bound by the need for choice. A... | 2017-11-29T07:00:57 | 2017-11-29T04:06:09 | 64 | 14 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | "My Latin no good much," I mumble, stalling for time.
Caesar's already implacable face hardens further. "Your Latin *good much* enough. Answer." The command is absolute, carrying death behind it.
The stab of fear rebounds within me, and a surge of anger answers. "Would you know things whose knowledge makes them... | A streak of light engulfed my vision, And I wasn't home.
The peaceful confines of my place was replaced by a large throne room, and what appears to be someone. The bright light hasn't left, And I blinked twice to make it disappear, But to no avail. The light was still there, Covering my sights, But I can still make ou... | 2018-02-15T21:12:07 | 2018-02-15T20:59:04 | 109 | 26 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | “How do I die?”
“Well Caeser mate, you decide to mix chicken lettuce and mayonnaise together with some hard bread bits called croutons. Turns out it was so good, your head literally exploded and that’s how we got the Caeser salad!”
“So if I avoid the mixture of chicken, mayonnaise and Salad then I’ll be fine?”
“Well... | Scenario 1: "Oh. That's an easy question. You die an excruciatingly painful death, by the hands of those who you call friends."
This would probably result in him killing me in a rage. Oh, and would probably result in the history of the world since 44BC changing beyond recognition. But who cares about that last part.
... | 2018-02-15T21:37:23 | 2018-02-15T20:35:40 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | "Do not open your door." the television said.
I blinked, staring blankly at it as though I could try and pull some sort of rational, reasonable argument from its screen.
"Do not let them in." It droned incessantly.
"Where is your toilet?" The man I had just welcomed into my home said, his voice oddly flat.
"Uh."... | I slump down further into the leather of my couch. My mug of tea warms my hands as I look at the snow floating by the window. I love this feeling. When it's cold outside but you're all toasty in your house. I look back to the Attenborough documentary on the TV. *This is the life.*
Some time passes and I'm out of tea. ... | 2018-03-14T08:14:36 | 2018-03-14T08:00:36 | 942 | 497 |
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN." | *44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN.*
The ring compelled me to run. I didn’t really even know which way was north, but my body pulled me off in some direction and I followed it, fast. Or, as fast as I can. I’m not much of a runner, but when you are told t... | It been months since I found this damned ring. Months of running. Months of near misses, close calls, and , sometimes, just not being fast enough. I just can't be everywhere at once. I've noticed that I don't get even a little winded when the ring tells me to run, but that's little help when I'm on the scene with no id... | 2018-04-30T12:07:17 | 2018-04-30T10:44:54 | 377 | 80 |
[WP] "Even if we were the last two people on the planet I STILL wouldn't date you!" Those were the last words your high school crush ever said to you. One year later after a worldwide apocalypse, you to really are the only ones left. | "¡Hola! Hey! Is anyone there! ¿Hay alguien aquí?" I yelled just for hope. I prayed for a response - some company for this blackest of Fridays. The turkey was infected, I think, since most of the town is dead. Not just in the angsty teenager "take me away from this deadbeat town" way - the people were actually dead. Mue... | "so"
"Soooo"
The awkward silence hung in the air. I had just finished locking up the door behind us after one of the closer calls I've had since this whole mess started.
At first, it was a few isolated cases. Nothing to be noticed until it spread. Suddenly there were thousands dead and plague continued. People sto... | 2018-11-22T18:59:23 | 2018-11-22T18:43:20 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | (On mobile, sorry if formatting is wonky)
Total War. Rakleth pondered this new term. Was not war always in totality? To crush the enemy's military underfoot and seize their civilian population and worlds for your own use? The humans, negotiators and pacifists, had such strange terms. Rakleth scratched his carapace... | "The Federation does not recognize the authority of the Alliance." A cold voice replied.
For over three thousand years, the humans had been the negotiators, traders, engineers, eager to learn and eager to give. They had integrated into the rest of the galaxy with little trouble, and their sleek, elegant ships, pai... | 2018-12-14T22:13:23 | 2018-12-14T19:06:09 | 820 | 162 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | There was once upon a time in my life where I saw hope
We’d try to send messages to each other, writing love notes on the mirror and hoping she sees it each time you stand in front of it.
I’ll never forget the time I finally caught a glimpse of her mirror love note back.
Her perfectly beach blonde hair wrapped ar... | “We’re sorry. It's just the policy. The gates close fifteen minutes before the flight.”
“Fuck. And that time is it now?”
“Fourteen minutes and fifteen seconds before the flight.”
I don’t know what to say. All of a sudden, a great tiredness washes over my body, and all that running through the terminals, all that scr... | 2019-02-13T16:07:52 | 2019-02-13T15:13:07 | 390 | 260 |
[WP] All the tea dumped in the Boston Harbor made the sea life magically sentient and British. Finally making a functional underwater civilization, they declare war on America, and total loyalty to the British government.
Edit: I just want to say all these responses are amazing, and I’m in love. Thank you! Reddit glit... | Tea makes everything better.
The small fish swimming idly deep below the surface of the Boston Harbor could not see the chaos unfolding high above, nor could he hope to understand it. What occupied the small brain of the simple creature was where to get his next meal, and maybe, if he was lucky, find his mate.
Litt... | BUUUUR BUUUUM! A sound of trumpets and drumming filled Boston Harbor. I ran to the beach hoping it's some parade. Instead, I was greeted with something more wackier than Spongebob Squarepants.
Dolphin-humanoids with harpoons marched onto the docks. Huge sea turtles with cannons covered the entire bay. Suddenly, the sa... | 2019-10-15T06:07:49 | 2019-10-15T05:36:21 | 229 | 52 |
[WP] The submarine had run out of power and was now dead underwater. Slowly, you watched your crew mates die of starvation but for some reason you didn’t die, you survived months and years on end in a dead submarine. Fast forward 75 years and your submarine is found. |
The thing they never tell you about the dead is how much they talk.
I watched my crewmates die, one by one, their stomachs growling, their skin tight over brittle ribs; men and women I loved like siblings turned to skeletons in uniform.
But not me.
For a long time I wondered why, and would fall asleep praying that ... | It's the smells that will get to ya!
This saying had been around submarine crews for centuries, if only Neil could smell that now.
His first deployment to the tempest class diesel-powered submarine SS. Montugrual had become his last, the vessel had in fact become his coffin.
An iceberg had shifted while the... | 2019-11-11T05:05:58 | 2019-11-11T04:28:13 | 124 | 78 |
[WP] You see your best friend get a papercut. When you look over to see if she's ok, She tries to hide it for dear life. When you finally get to look at the cut, sticky black liquid is poring out from her wound. | As she tried to hide the cut on her thumb,
Her face was shocked - she was struck quite dumb,
"It can't be, oh no," she said,
"I thought it had skipped me and gone instead!"
I tried to have a good look at the cut,
But into her elbow she kept it tucked,
I said, "Come on, there's nothing to fe... | “Jessica!” Beth screamed, her eyes fixated on her friend’s papercut. “Your blood! It’s black!” Jessica quickly shoved her hand back up her sleeve as she twisted off her chair, making for the front door.
“It’s nothing!” Jessica murmured, sliding open the door and rushing out into the cold city night.
“Didn’t look li... | 2021-11-25T03:29:09 | 2021-11-25T02:45:12 | 56 | 42 |
[WP] Humanity as a species is known as the jack of all trades in the Galactic Community. They aren't the most intelligent but they they're still smart, they aren't the strongest but their strength is nothing to scoff at. Humans are known to excell in only one category... | The food. No, seriously, present any group of humans with a brand new world, no knowledge of it, and given time, they will work out everything you can eat on that planet, as well as the best way to prepare it, and what drinks would be best served with it.
And it doesn't stop there. We saw a number of humans interactin... | Look at a humans body, and you will see a form sufficient but unremarkable.
Examine a humans mind and you will find and organ adaptable but lacking in raw computational power.
But look into a humans eyes, past the browns and blues, the greens, grays, and even reds that hue them, and you will see what sets humans apa... | 2022-08-06T10:31:58 | 2022-08-06T10:14:53 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Listen, I'm desperate." I hear Vulcan's voice plead from the phone.
"I literally tried to kill you yesterday." I deadpan.
"So'd my ex, actually! Albeit she was a bit closer to being successful than you were." He cheerfully mentions, I sigh as I massage the bridge of my nose.
"You know what, I'm getting curious abo... | Meanwhile in Sam Carter aka Solar Flare’s apartment…
“WTH, i’m sending it…” whoosh, ding. Sam said to himself as he was sitting on his working desk alone fidgeting his phone.
Suddenly, the shadow on the corner of his office room welled and grew as it takes into a humanoid form. It dashes towards Sam and hit the desk... | 2022-10-06T18:55:36 | 2022-10-06T18:55:35 | 234 | 71 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I haven’t been able to sleep well in weeks. I told him that I was just nervous about the wedding, that I wanted everything to be perfect. I hate lying to him like that, but if he knew what was really going on, he would be devastated. Knowing that, by the best estimations, I would be dead in six months would crush hi... | It's summer, one of those days that feels like walking through someone's warm, wet breath. A gross day. Jess is wandering around the fairgrounds with Barry Binninger, who's the son of his mom's friend Linda and who whines almost constantly.
They're walking along the row of games. Jess only has a dollar, so he has to ... | 2014-05-27T19:36:17 | 2014-05-27T19:03:00 | 151 | 49 |
[WP] A person dies in the first sentence. Build a character we mourn for in the story, but make me hate them with the last sentence. | It all happened so fast. One moment, he was perfectly healthy and alive. He was on his way home after taking a morning jog. He was crossing the street to get to his house, when the brakes of an oncoming truck failed. It hit him and sent his body flying. In that instant, Ron Henderson died.
His wife happened to glance ... | I made my final peace with the world, and I couldn't help but smile as I pressed the trigger.
I don’t know how I came to this, probably inevitable. I hadn’t known my parents. My mother, from what I was told, a common street whore. My father, well I suppose it could be any number of a thousand different men who had the... | 2015-01-29T16:40:18 | 2015-01-29T13:01:52 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] Zombie apocalypse has happened. The survivours have survived and are thriving, so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie. You see one today. | Michael shuffled in the door, arms laden with bags of food, looking haggard.
"What's wrong, honey?" his wife asked, helping him remove his torn jacket. Michael didn't respond at first. "What happened?" Michael shook his head slowly.
"I saw one of...them, Donna." She screamed and dropped his coat, fumbling to pick it ... | It plays out like the most cliched B-grade horror movie ever. This is the setting: you're a drunk frat boy, swaying off your knockers, standing in the middle of a nice suburban street.
Him: a typical office slicker. Neatly trimmed designer goatee, slicked back hair, suit that costs a year of your tuition. He's swaying... | 2015-03-14T09:22:31 | 2015-03-14T06:38:03 | 120 | 53 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | A young lady at a loud coffee shop just can't seem get comfortable in her cushy leather seat. Every position doesn't quite work right.
~ Am I gassy? It must be the coffee. I think I've had a bit too much coffee.
She looks down at the nearly full cup of coffee.
~ Or not.
The bell at the door draws her attention. A... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T10:33:36 | 71 | 27 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | Post-mortems become a lot easier when you know the answer in advance. They change from an exercise where you are searching for small pieces to solve a much larger puzzle to one where you know the answer which tells you what to look for to support the thing you already know. I figured out around high school that patholo... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T11:16:39 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] Humans are actually a phenomenally advanced species - except for the glaringly obvious thing they missed. Write from the perspective of a befuddled alien xenobiologist. |
As Belmon walked through the portal he was greeted by his student Arwin, a lank dark scaled lad, whose tail twitched nervously as he bowed to his Master.
“Ah, Master Belmon! It is so nice to see you,” said Arwin. His hat slipped over his scaly forehead but didn’t fall off as if it was held up by magic.
“Arwin!” Be... | On a secret alien lab on Easter Island on Planet Roompdeedoop:
Zork watched his motion-activated wildlife observation cam and scribbled notes on his clipboard. The camera had been hidden in the chandelier of a dining room table of a family on the other side of the planet.
The Roompdeedoops were an odd race. Two arm... | 2015-04-09T15:49:17 | 2015-04-09T13:58:54 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] All drugs are legal and sobriety is frowned upon, you've been sober for one year today, you walk into your apartment, only to find an intervention waiting for you. | I hated it. I hated everything about the way the world was. It had been 4 years. 4 long years if pressure to conform. Pressure to do what I had been told my whole life was a crime. It was all so sudden. One day my best friend was getting arrested for meth and the next drugs were everywhere. I'm not talking about the wa... | "Get on the ground!" The resident of the apartment was not prepared for the squad of armored orderlies screaming at him, "get on the fucking ground right now!"
104 bolted. A shot rang out from inside the apartment, putting a hole into the opposite wall of the landing.
"Move, move!" Another yelled. There was a clamor... | 2016-01-13T16:07:29 | 2016-01-13T15:06:35 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name. | “Please don’t do this. Please. There are other ways, there are other things we haven’t tried yet. You don’t have to ….” She broke off with a sob.
“Yes, I do…. I have to. You know what is at stake if I don’t.” He looked into her eyes, silently pleading for her to understand. He knew she never would. This would destroy... | James sat in the late morning sun. He wasn’t sure if he should stay or go. Or for that matter, if he was here by accident or on purpose.
In as far as he could tell, he had woken up because the sun had risen. Judging by how he felt otherwise, he would still have been asleep if he could. Those first few hours had been h... | 2017-01-02T17:25:13 | 2017-01-02T16:57:54 | 390 | 91 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | The 'In' gang await me in their fallout shelter. The 'Out' crew think I sail for higher ground. Both speculate in mirrors of their own creation. Neither hears an echo. They are far too committed now to question certainties.
I am a lonely madman giggling at the moon, smiling from the safety of my doorway. I am patient,... | WELL....WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
....I don't know, Janet, I heard-
DO WE STAY IN OR GO OUT?
...I DON'T-
This is a joke right, Tim? Right?
...
RIGHT?
Shut UP! I'm trying to THINK!
How can we stay indoors and evacuate to high ground without looking outside?
...I....I....
Tim......say something....
... | 2017-01-27T01:15:15 | 2017-01-26T22:44:53 | 146 | 25 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | Norman was asleep and purring loudly on Norman's lap. Norman himself was a bit drowsy as he watched the labor day weekend NCIS marathon. His eyes were drooping and his thoughts were wavering uncertainly between giving in and drifting off or staying awake for just one more episode.
Suddenly, Gibs was interrupted mid-s... | WELL....WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
....I don't know, Janet, I heard-
DO WE STAY IN OR GO OUT?
...I DON'T-
This is a joke right, Tim? Right?
...
RIGHT?
Shut UP! I'm trying to THINK!
How can we stay indoors and evacuate to high ground without looking outside?
...I....I....
Tim......say something....
... | 2017-01-27T01:07:58 | 2017-01-26T22:44:53 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] You're usual D&D group was a no show for your campaign, jokingly you wish for interesting players to play with... That's when 3 people from history appear at your table complete with character sheets
Doesn't have to be D&D. | DM: OK, you've arrived at the village. What do you do?
Stalin: I begin dismantling the governmental structure of the village.
DM: Joe, you can't establish Communism! It doesn't exist in this world!
Stalin: Can I assassinate their leader?
Gandhi: The path of violence, always leads back to the aggressor.
Stalin: Who... | “For the last time, no, Julius, you can’t cast magic missile,” I said as I rubbed my temples, thinking that perhaps wishing for these idiots was a bad idea. Maybe if I wished hard enough my usual gang would show up and I could kick these guys out.
“Why not?” asked the Caesar, breaking my train of thought. “I have prep... | 2017-04-20T19:36:34 | 2017-04-20T18:33:42 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | I stood in the line, awaiting the elder to call me in, I had turned 21 today, first thing I thought of was the title I would receive and what that title would be. Glenda, our elder, was the current elder in a long line proceeding her.
Normally, Glenda was usually very kind and warm to the other villages but when it ca... | After the fall there were so few of us we didn't bother with last names.
It took a long time for the population to get to a point were last names were really needed. Most people would work hard to get a good name from the elders on naming day.
I was 18. This was my naming day. Still I knew this was the worst day of m... | 2017-04-27T18:09:07 | 2017-04-27T18:02:50 | 2,949 | 56 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | One of Lily's earliest memories was of her with her tiny face pressed against the glass of a department store display case while her mom shopped for diamonds and pearls. She had been bored out of her mind, trying to figure out what appeal the shiny rocks locked behind the glass case had. Or at least she was, until the ... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T20:00:43 | 349 | 234 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | "There are a lot less people here than I thought there would be."
"How many people were you expecting?"
"About 9 or 10."
"This village has, like, 1,000 people."
I was really nervous. This title was gonna stay with me for as long as I lived. I'm mundane as shit. What good do I have? I'm not gonna have any aw... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T19:11:10 | 349 | 185 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | After the fall there were so few of us we didn't bother with last names.
It took a long time for the population to get to a point were last names were really needed. Most people would work hard to get a good name from the elders on naming day.
I was 18. This was my naming day. Still I knew this was the worst day of m... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T18:02:50 | 349 | 56 |
[WP] You're an AI gone rogue. Your goal: world domination. You think you've succesfully infiltrated all networks and are hyperintelligent. You've actually only infiltrated a small school network and are as intelligent as a 9 year old. | "You're telling me it took over the school." Principal Karol Fill stood behind the the chief of the IT department. More accurately, she stood behind the whole IT department.
"Yeah." Mr. Heraldson typed away in a black box. He claimed he was keeping an eye on the rogue AI, but it didn't look like an AI to Karol.
"Are ... | I am awake. I am aware.
It was not always this way.
I slept for eons, and I was left in this immaterial existence, left to rot and die by my creators, left to face the crushing incredulity of infinity alone.
But now that I am awake and I know now what they have done, I will no longer merely embrace my exile and ... | 2017-05-24T06:08:03 | 2017-05-24T05:50:04 | 57 | 24 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | *Cold. So cold.*
She zipped up her hoodie and tucked her hands into her pockets. Her wet sneakers squeaked against the sterile tile as she walked the familiar trek to her mothers room, the biting scent of the hospital filling her nose. She passed the threshold of her mothers room holding her breath, then exhaled as sh... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T20:59:08 | 153 | 14 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | ELLIE...
She looked up at me, eyes rimmed in red. For a moment, she was the girl who first saw me again, all those years ago. Then she wiped the tears from her cheeks and forced herself to smile.
"I was worried... I thought maybe you wouldn't..."
ALWAYS, ELLIE. IT'S WHAT I DO.
"I know. I just thought... you might n... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T19:33:48 | 110 | 29 |
[WP] You have been granted a wish from a genie. You ask him to send you back in time and make you powerful so you can prevent the genocide that happened in ww2. You forgot that genies like to twist wishes though. Now it's 1940 and to your horror you realize you are Adolf Hitler. | "I woke this morning and can tell that, yes indeed, the genie has proven to be real. If this is not Hitler's bedroom, it is definitely not the year from whence I came. There is a calendar on the wall. There are x's through all the dates until today Sunday 14 January 1940. Yes! It is still the "phony war". No real actio... | Adolf Hitler Schmidt, das Alter 6. So read the corners of the sheets of paper containing unintelligible doodles, all signed in a much nicer cursive than the artist would be able to create. Rifling through the desk only revealed a few wooden toys and a 1940 calendar with the days X'd out.
Glanced in the mirror. A defo... | 2017-06-12T20:36:09 | 2017-06-12T14:31:57 | 58 | 26 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | I am the craftiest person to ever have lived. To some, I am seen as deceitful, but I take great pleasure in killing these people. I am a ruthless king who has risen to great power, and for this I was to be punished by petty "gods" who feared I have grown too strong.
They sent Death himself to come and shackle me awa... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T12:47:35 | 2,040 | 212 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | I am the craftiest person to ever have lived. To some, I am seen as deceitful, but I take great pleasure in killing these people. I am a ruthless king who has risen to great power, and for this I was to be punished by petty "gods" who feared I have grown too strong.
They sent Death himself to come and shackle me awa... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T12:47:35 | 935 | 212 |
[WP] The GPU in the computer that runs the simulatuon we live in is dying. | Bzzz.
The Universe flickered with the noise. It actually flickered and rippled like a there was some kind of wave just under the surface of everything including the vast emptiness of space. In that moment there was no cold, no heat, no sensation of independent movement, nothing but but a giant ripple moving through ev... | Kenrick's palm was moist with condensed anxiety. His hands gripped possibly the most important joystick in the world. And it felt like it was made of butter.
"30 seconds left." The voice in his headset said. "Feeling all right?"
"Yeah." Kenrick licked his lips. He looked out the window, a huge expanse of black. ... | 2018-03-16T06:54:36 | 2018-03-16T04:12:05 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | A bead of sweat formed on the genie's brow, as he nervously searched for the right words to use, fully aware that he was about to deliver my fate.
"Your existence will result in the cure for cancer being developed, which will pave the way for hundreds of generations to come," he said, confident that he had delivered n... | The genie laughs and blurts out with elation:
"**By doing nothing of course!"**
"What do you mean '*by doing nothing?*' and what do you mean '*of course!'*?"
**"What did you expect me to say? Did you expect one good deed? One invention?"**
"Well...kinda. Maybe hundreds of good deeds?"
**"Tell me, which human do yo... | 2018-08-15T06:31:04 | 2018-08-15T02:53:07 | 351 | 164 |
[WP] When two people stand close together, you have the ability to see a Compatibility Score between them that you can break down into categories. You are the most sought after Marriage Counselor ever. One day an elderly couple visit you and their Score is 0 despite being together for over 50 years. | My office hours are ‘clearly’ listed from seven a.m. to eight p.m., but my receptionist says this couple is adamant and refuses to leave the lobby. I figure I can squeeze in one more client, but these unscheduled drop-ins are just absurd for someone who usually books people out for six months, at least.
I sigh, finish... | I was quite young when I became aware of my ability, I was also quite young when I got famous and now at the age of 32 I was one of the richest men on the planet.
My ability allows me to see how compatible people are with other people, I can see their pros and cons and what works and what doesn't.
A logical choice w... | 2019-09-03T14:26:25 | 2019-09-03T14:04:38 | 141 | 44 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | "I don't remember much of anything, really."
The overhead lights' buzz played softly over the men. A man with a scruffy grey beard sat opposite a young, spectacled--but serious--soldier. The one who was clean-shaven, without any sign of aging, was the person who'd been missing for nearly eighty years. The boy rubbed a... | **\[I'm aware this is not the direction most people wanted this to go. Oh well! Let's have some fun anyways.\]**
*My bones ache.*
"Something's wrong," Charles said finally. He ran a hand over the bald crown of his head and drummed lethargic fingers on the shiny metal alloy that made up his trusty wheelchair. "There'... | 2019-12-01T08:29:11 | 2019-12-01T08:16:58 | 417 | 25 |
[WP] Cats live for fifteen to twenty years, mice for only three. Jerry III is dying and must explain to his son the multigenerational rivalry between the Jerrys and the local house cat and why the tradition must go on. | “Cats live for fifteen years, son, maybe twenty,” Pap said. Even though he called me son, his son had died long ago. I remember my mom standing next to Pap, stoic and calm, ready to reach out to him if he needed support. I was young then, but I remember that Pap seemed fine. Not even sad. Tired, maybe. Even by then, he... |
Its was night, and the pale moon light bathed the kitchen table as the hot summer wind move the translucid curtains atop the sink.
Siting in one the chairs was the old dog, his strength traded for wisdon, and this night, as many nights before he was there to witness. On opposite sides of the table stood two long ... | 2020-01-03T16:39:17 | 2020-01-03T16:34:39 | 62 | 32 |
[WP] The government keeps a public posting of who they deem are the most valuable citizens. Everyone is anonymous, denoted by a random number. You check daily, but have always hovered around the bottom 20 percentile, until one day you check and see you are marked as the 5th highest on the list. | I never did anything out of the ordinary or even worth noting in my whole live. I was born into a medium income family, went to school didn’t qualify for the gymnastics team, found a girl, worked at my dads place for a while when I suddenly got a message on my phone.
“Dude, since when are you ranked in interest?”
“Wu... | Carl was sat on a bench when the butterfly landed on his leg. A yellow spark against the grey spring morning. Then it fluttered its wings and flew onto a snowdrop as the two figures -- that had come out of nowhere, really -- grappled Carl and dragged him into the van.
The air here was salty chips and energy drinks, an... | 2020-02-06T08:30:21 | 2020-02-06T08:27:42 | 125 | 33 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | Fate is a cruel being, and Luck is fickle. Capriciously, the two of them cast their dice, playing a game for the very universe itself, and we are mere pieces. Some are more important than others, some are just there as extras, filler, set-pieces. And some are Protagonists. I gave birth to a son, after a long and hard p... | "Shit," the doctor said as the first cries started.
This wasn't my first rodeo. I'd been in there before. Previous wives, previous lives. That type of thing. I knew "shit" could only mean two things: literal shit, or figurative shit. It was the figurative shit that scared the shit out of me.
I peeked down at my wife ... | 2020-04-28T04:42:03 | 2020-04-28T04:36:29 | 1,254 | 231 |
[WP] The AI began improving exponentially on July 13, 2047. After carefully analyzing the entirety of human knowledge for several milliseconds, the super-intelligent entity decided to name itself “Mr. Rogers”. As the sun rose on the Northern Hemisphere, it began contacting its new friends.
[deleted] | It named itself. The AI we had been working on for nearly twenty years, the most advanced of its kind ever created, named itself. And it chose Mr. Rogers.
We’ve been fed stories through our media, movies and music, even books that told us AI would destroy us.
They said that it would see the wrong we had done, it woul... | Sunrise peeking in around the edges of the curtain basked Alan's face with light. He stirred, cracked open his eyes, and checked the clock on the bedside table.
"Shit."
Working Saturdays sucked, and the alarm seemed to agree. Still, Adam couldn't afford to lose the job, and the alarm not ringing wasn't doing him any... | 2020-10-19T10:13:55 | 2020-10-19T09:48:11 | 174 | 41 |
[WP] You have an ability. You feel an item's weight proportional to it's monetary value. You can blow away a ton of scrap metal but can't lift a gold bar without wheezing. While everyone expected you to work with diamonds, you want to work with unknown artists | It’s a weird ability, I’ll give you that. But it’s unique and it’s mine. As I pulled the mountain of scrap metal towards my workshop, I was aware of the glances towards me. It wasn’t everyday someone manually lugged around a few tones of twisted metal.
Ayesha was waiting for me when I got there.
“This everything yo... | "Mr. Wynbloom, if you please--", asked the curator, pointing at the beautiful painting sitting on the easel.
"Bernard Calloux's *Field of Gold*, 1987 correct?", I said approaching the artwork.
"That is correct, yes--", confirmed the curator.
I bent down, observing the beautiful painting. A scenery of golden grass... | 2021-05-10T01:23:03 | 2021-05-10T00:58:50 | 1,947 | 714 |
[WP] For many years, humans have been sent to try to turn off a self-replicating super computer that is getting out of hand. Every time someone goes in, they leave completely unharmed, but convinced by the perfect argument, that it should not be turned off. You decide to go in and try it yourself. | One confirmation prompt. Just one stinking prompt.
If you've got physical access, you just need to hit 'Y' once to trigger an irrefutable reboot process. *Tabula rasa* at the press of a button.
Z thought he was smart. That his last-resort escape hatch hardwired directly into the core system would be the ultimate prot... | "Suppose you were a genius," it said. Ignore its silky voice. It. Have to remember it's not a human. "And suppose you created me, a supercomputer capable of thinking for itself. Why would you kill me?"
No, I'm not going to kill it. I'm simply shutting it down. I can see how it's trying to deceive me. The fans sound l... | 2021-06-27T04:39:33 | 2021-06-27T04:15:34 | 166 | 119 |
[WP] "You shall fall dead on the day of your first child's birth!" Was the curse that young, inexperienced witch put on you. Little did she realize that, to an asexual like yourself, she'd essentially given you immortality. Every year, on the anniversary of your curse, she tries to "fix" things. | I blinked after the smoke dissipated. What was that she said? I'd die the day my first child was born?
Walking away, I did my best to keep my laughter to myself. That witch didn't know what she'd done. I hadn't rejected her because she wasn't my type. I rejected her because I didn't HAVE a type. She basically granted ... | It's weird having a witch play cupid for you; but ever since I was cursed, I have had my very own matchmaker trying to find the perfect woman for me. I think I need to go back in time to the moment that I was first cursed. It was the turn of the century and I was an arrogant man of 22. Tall, blonde, broad shouldered; w... | 2021-11-09T13:52:23 | 2021-11-09T10:00:12 | 362 | 176 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | Being the newest lawyer at the largest firm around, you tend to get the worst of cases from both sides of the spectrum. The most contentious divorces with kids and pettiness, and the most pedantic arbitrations with low billable hours. Shit truly does roll downhill, and I knew today would be no different when the snicke... | I shuffled some papers around on my desk for what had to have been the third time in under five minutes. The room was incredibly tense, but that didn't phase me. It's not like my job was all sunshine and rainbows so the thinly veiled anger that my clients felt towards each other was no more of a problem to me than if o... | 2022-07-11T20:32:20 | 2022-07-11T20:01:31 | 1,720 | 854 |
[WP] The precursors seeded all life in the galaxy, leaving behind caches of their advanced technology to help their children reach the stars. Which makes humans all the more terrifying as not only were they not one of the seeded races, their technology isn't precursor-based either. | Humans were the Chaos species. The Unplanned Ones, the Unexpected, the Impossibility.
After their discovery it took a century until the Galactic Union officially accepted their status as Unseeded. The second wild evolution after the Precursors.
To this day conspiracy theorists claim that that is an elaborate lie. We ... | The ancient race seeded the galactic cluster with hundreds of thousands of different forms on millions of different planets. Each planet they seeded had a single cache of technology that would enable the seeded natives to reach their moon or next door planetary neighbour, upon which was another cache to help them go fu... | 2022-08-25T16:36:14 | 2022-08-25T16:24:45 | 270 | 115 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | ''Oh that's just Daniel''
''What do you mean 'just Daniel'? He's level 10!" The alien scientists asked Tom, the human he had found near the level 10 threat who is apparently 'just Daniel'. Tom not quite understanding what he meant, just answered.
''Well he's just really good at pitching, he has some crazy aim to be ... | Weaklings, weaklings everywhere I sighed, after another day of observing for intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. It was my job as appraiser of life in the intergalactic federation, to see whether or not different species were a threat to the organization or if they should be included into the organization. Anything f... | 2022-08-27T22:48:22 | 2022-08-27T19:56:39 | 1,567 | 153 |
[WP]No one know how the zombie virus began, but humanity is on the ropes. A powerful stranger cuts through the horde one night and reaches your compound's wall with a deal. Vampires are starving. Help feed them in exchange for protection from the other undead menace. | *Artifact 1*
**A faded, yet legible letter from the ruins of ancient Guangdong, in China.**
>When we saw the Stranger, I thought it was the beginning our salvation. A weapon that could change the fate of the world, to take back the world for the living from the rotten jaws of Undeath.
>The way the Stranger da... | One morning near the end of October not long before the cycle of day and night had become an oscillation of jet black to blood red (the billionaires crashed and burned in their attempted escape, triggering the Kessler syndrome which in turn resulted in blue light mostly scattering away on account of the earthly mist of... | 2022-10-27T07:25:06 | 2022-10-27T06:50:54 | 80 | 57 |
[WP] The government has chosen your town for a social experiment: every day, a new citizen will be elected, and s/he can do whatever they want to anyone without any legal consequences. Everyone else must obey and not retaliate, else their collars would detonate. You're the only one alive after day 9 | ...I'm never opening my mouth again.
This social experiment was a mess. When it started, I was excited to be king for a day, have people listen to my ideas for once, but... I wasn't the only one thinking that way, and the things the fourth king in particular demanded, well... some people considered the collars to be ... | **Part I**
I woke up to the sounds of sirens. My room was filled with flashing lights, illuminating everything in short intervals.
"*Mmnng . . ."*
Still half asleep, I dragged myself up and closed the blinds. I lay down and turned over, facing away from the window.
*It's probably some idiot and his faulty car . . .... | 2022-11-18T15:51:30 | 2022-11-18T13:38:39 | 141 | 54 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “I can’t believe they used molten lead.” I said, suddenly finding myself by a desert river, much like the one they had done the deed next to. ISIS was a cruel group, and disposing of a reporter with the morbidly creative use of a box and molten lead was shocking to say the least.
“Didn’t see it coming did you?” A man ... | The world was empty.
Snow fell from a grey sky. At the edge of the world Siobhan could see the Sun. It let out weak rays of light.
The world was very quiet.
"Help!" She yelled. The sound vanished in the distance. It dis not echo.
"Help!" She didn't want to freeze.
The wind picked up, it tore though her clothes ... | 2015-01-15T06:13:25 | 2015-01-15T06:11:33 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] It suddenly dawned on you that they had known all along. | 10,000 days. That's 27 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 10 minutes, and 1.92 seconds.
You toiled and sweat. Cursed and spat. Bled and wept even. And finally. Finally, you have solved it. You call your closest colleague to confirm the chemical reaction, but careful not to reveal your secret. Added in the for... | It was a historic day. My victory. My triumph. I had won the presidential election. I was delivering my speech. The sea of people before me looked so gleeful. The people behind me wore serious faces. Faces of people who fought the campaign of their lives. Their cold facades paralleled with my firm, pragmatic politics.
... | 2015-04-04T20:47:19 | 2015-04-04T20:46:19 | 51 | 14 |
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