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[WP] Traditionally when a royal couple give birth to a cursed baby the infant is locked away in a dungeon to grow into a murderous beast. You however order that your child instead be taken to the royal nursery and raised properly as your heir. | The beast towered over the ambassador. His fangs could shred steel. His claws can cleave raw stone. And that's if he didn't decide to just rip things apart with his raw, brute strength.
Understandably, the ambassador was nervous.
In all his years, he had never dealt with anyone like this. Fear was not the proper way ... | **The Heir**
The teacher looked around her classroom. Young sons and daughters of noblemen crowded together close to the right wall and its open windows, painting on small canvases leaning on desktop easels. They were copying a brightly lit photograph of the royal gardens. She noted the time and exhaled. *We have ne... | 2022-09-01T12:53:25 | 2022-09-01T10:17:09 | 158 | 38 |
[WP]As you were tending to the sheep, the king rushes to you from out of nowhere, and slams his crown onto your head. "You're king now!" Within the view of his royal guards that were chasing him. | Jurgen the shepherd spun around as the royal guard drew near. "OH NO YOU DON'T! THAT IS -NOT- HOW THIS WORKS!" one of the guards shouted at the retreating king.
"Wait, what's going on?"
"Sonofabitch *forgot* about our pay, says it's not in the budget for this quarter!"
"Well, you heard him. King's word is law, and t... | "Wait, what," I spun as the man shot down the hill behind me, towards the forest.
"I'll take that," A suit of armor huffed as it ripped the crown from my head. Whoever was inside didn't lose a step in his pursuit.
"This didn't happen," another gasped as it rushed past.
"Back to the sheep."
"Nice robe."
"This is a... | 2022-10-04T03:42:55 | 2022-10-04T00:35:22 | 503 | 111 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Sleeping soul so innocent
awakens in a blaze. Knowing not
where she is. She wanders on for
days. Beasts with horns and pointed tails
with fire in their eyes, spent the day wondering
the cause of her demise. She was too young,
too filled with life. How does one so very
small have such a shortened time. "We ca... | Samantha was five when the drunk driver rammed his truck off the road and smashed her away from her mother. She still wore the same clothes now, a bright colored dress and fancy looking, but functional shoes. She was playing with some rocks on the Precipice of Inifinite Pain above the Lake of Fire. Two demons each k... | 2013-11-26T16:25:34 | 2013-11-26T13:08:15 | 58 | 27 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | FADE IN
EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT
In the heart of the big city, a modest dwelling lies among
the shadows of the major overpass.
CUT TO:
INT. MESSY BEDROOM - NIGHT
ANTHONY and HACHI barge into the room, wrestling each
others ... | “I can’t wait to finally meet your parents.” Brians tells Chelsea on the drive over to her family’s house. Chelsea has been hesitant to bring me over to meet her family. I don’t know why. She talks about them a lot. They’re both rather successful. Unfortunately, Chelsea knew something about her parents she didn’t want ... | 2014-12-23T10:57:32 | 2014-12-23T08:43:21 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] On their first birthday, everyone on Earth is given a wristband that will glow brighter depending on how far away they are from their soulmate. But, yours has never even turned on. | For years I wondered why my wristband didn't glow.
When I was young, I didn't really understand it. Some kids thought it was cool, different you know.
When I got older, I understood what it meant.
"Maybe you haven't got a soul mate?"
That was a depressing idea. Can't be that at all, can it? I traveled the world ... | So far down.
That was my first thought, standing at the edge of the roof of a twenty story building. It was so far down. The wind began to blow again, sending my dress into spirals and almost making me lose my footing on the small ledge. Was I really going through with this? I mean, did I really want to end it all?
I... | 2015-03-22T12:00:39 | 2015-03-22T11:21:58 | 184 | 54 |
[WP] Words have literal power. A well constructed sonnet can make a skyscraper. A curse word can actually hurt someone. | It wasn't a perfectly crafted paragraph that destroyed the world, but a single word.
It wasn't a power hungry capitalist that hatched a plot to write himself as the emperor of all mankind enslaving everyone and eventually killing all with his madness.
It wasn't the writers of industry or science who poisoned the pl... | You've probably heard that the pen is mightier than the sword.
It's true. I mean, a sword will kill you fine enough. In a number of ways too. You can stab, slash, decapitate- on and on and on.
With a pen I can do so much more.
I'm one of those so blessed to be called a Writer. Not the kind of writer that you're prob... | 2016-02-09T17:35:20 | 2016-02-09T16:59:55 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Both Death and Daniel watched as the coin pirouetted through the air. The light of the moon danced off one surface and then the other. Heads then tails. Heads then tails.
"No!" screamed Daniel as for the 256th time, the coin landed heads up.
"No!" screamed Death, painfully aware that Daniel had slipped through his fi... | Call me Nathan. I died last night, but I am not afraid.
I learned two centuries ago that there are winners and there are losers. I am a loser – but I’m clever. I reach into my pocket and pull out a little black coin and look it over briefly. I might not be a terribly skilled man, but I know how to get by.
I look up a... | 2016-09-23T08:35:02 | 2016-09-23T08:06:29 | 476 | 115 |
[WP] After decades of fighting crime and injustice, a super hero's faith in humanity is broken. As he holds his innocent murdered daughter in his arms, he allows his rage against humanity consume him. A super villain is born. | To be honest with you, sometimes I regret how things turned out. I wish it could've been different. Wish *I* could've been different. But hey, water under the bridge, right?
I've been a -- a superhero, I guess you could call it, I don't know if I like that term -- since my teenage years. I can make myself invisible, y... | The Enforcers had finally broken into the Resistance’s final stronghold. The alarms sounded, and people rushed into positions. The first few robots were easily destroyed. But as they continued to pour in, the Resistance knew that the end was near. Rogue had finally found them.
The Resistance had contingency plan... | 2017-01-25T14:18:04 | 2017-01-25T11:23:51 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are stranded on a deserted island all by yourself for years, when you get rescued. You express your surprise that people are still looking for you after all this time, when one of the rescuers says that you've only been gone for three days. | "Does this look like three days ! " you indignantly demanded of the man in the orange colored life vest , pointing to your matted shoulder length natty dreads .. the tattered remnants of the pants held together around the bony hips of your waist by a crude belt of dried vines, slipped down slightly as you spread your ... | The day started like every other day, the sand was still moist from the night rain, the crabs were slowly going back to the rocks they belonged during the day and the sun was shyly shining behind the fleeing clouds.
But on the horizon I noticed a black spot, something I hadn't seen in a long time, something that could... | 2017-02-04T03:41:49 | 2017-02-04T03:11:58 | 82 | 57 |
[WP] You've been teleported into an unexpected deathbattle. Your special ability...is your username.
EDIT: You guys are awesome. Alot of funny and interesting ones so far! I might want to start this prompt every year or something (if that's allowed). | As the crackle of energy dissipates I find myself standing in the arena. The place rocks with the roar of the crowd. The cheers of excitement begin to fade and are replaced with murmurs of confusion as no one appears on the second pedestal. And no one ever will. I raise my right arm in victory as I slowly exit the ... | FWUMP.
"OH SHIT," I puke onto the grass of the stadium. On my hands and knees, feeling like the whole world got inverted into my bones and folded back. Not pleasant being teleported, no sir.
Especially not to AN UNEXPECTED DEATHBATTLE!
I look up to see a brute, all clad in metal and armor. I wipe the acid from my mo... | 2017-07-17T20:09:21 | 2017-07-17T19:08:03 | 57 | 36 |
[WP] You've been teleported into an unexpected deathbattle. Your special ability...is your username.
EDIT: You guys are awesome. Alot of funny and interesting ones so far! I might want to start this prompt every year or something (if that's allowed). | *"Uh... Someone help me,"* I called to the audience.
"No! We are just spectators and this is funny" Some random guy yelled bac
I looked back at the giant lumbering towards me.
Suddenly a group of people dressed in WW2 outfits appearing in front of me, one of whom looked suspiciously like Tom Hanks.
Then, they charg... | It was the middle of the night.
As I was preparing to sleep, a bright light flashes outside the window. I had no time to react, and was instantly teleported to some sort of jail cell.
Through the bars, I could see that there was some sort of arena outside. "nah." I say to myself and lay on the floor to sleep. Just be... | 2017-07-17T22:02:16 | 2017-07-17T20:12:27 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] You've been teleported into an unexpected deathbattle. Your special ability...is your username.
EDIT: You guys are awesome. Alot of funny and interesting ones so far! I might want to start this prompt every year or something (if that's allowed). | *"Uh... Someone help me,"* I called to the audience.
"No! We are just spectators and this is funny" Some random guy yelled bac
I looked back at the giant lumbering towards me.
Suddenly a group of people dressed in WW2 outfits appearing in front of me, one of whom looked suspiciously like Tom Hanks.
Then, they charg... | When I came to my senses I was behind the wheel of an old convertible. The keys were in the ignition and I could hear a V6 engine purring softly behind me. I didn't have much of a chance to observe my surroundings before the giant ice monster charged towards me.
I looked down in horror as I realized that the car was a... | 2017-07-17T22:02:16 | 2017-07-17T21:58:57 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | `You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you` (Ezekiel 28:15)
He was supposed to be the perfect angel. The one who chose free will and to corrupt it. I had to see him, but... i didn't expect him to be so... beautiful.
"What's this? A friend? Finally... some one who unde... | Lucifer gleefully asks "What do you wanna do?". Echoing in a void of nothingness.
Cautiously Chet replies, "Uh what do you mean?"
"Look, it's been boring as well, hell frankly, and all that nonsense about torture and brimstone is propaganda. Let's do something fun if you don't believe me."
Chet incredulously procee... | 2022-11-26T21:59:01 | 2017-11-04T11:19:44 | 44 | 19 |
[wp] You work at an office in Hell. You don't live in Hell, nor are you trapped their for eternity. Lucifer just thinks you're excellent at Excel. | His voice was demonic and booming. Every word he uttered sounded like the screaming souls of those evildoers who died across all of eternity, screams of pain, suffering, and madness. His appearance was both unbearable and intangible, as if I were staring at all of my nightmares- no, every nightmare imaginable, all at... | "Bye sweetie!" I give my wife a deep kiss and get in my car for work. I am just a normal 30 year old accountant who works in a normal, not too big not too small firm, making spreadsheets, checking them and re checking them for 5 hours a day, with a few breaks in between.
Except, I am not a normal employee.
I reach a ... | 2018-02-27T09:58:28 | 2018-02-27T09:43:33 | 963 | 106 |
[WP] It was said that only the true king could pull the sword from the stone. Well, you couldn't do that, but at least you're strong enough to lift the entire stone with the sword-grip and beat people over the head with it. | "Fuck it, make him king!" I heard someone shout.
"What? No, I didn't pull the sword from the stone. That's not how it works." I replied, staring stunned at the crowd that surrounded me. Half of them were drunkards and the other half were children that hadn't managed to swipe a tankard of ale yet - although it was quite... | "Blasphemy!"
"M\-monster!"
"Guards, seize him!"
On that fateful day, I became the most infamous person in the Empire. Apparently, instead of drawing the sword, I tore the stone base off with the sword still embedded in it. And obviously, the Council of Knights and the Emperor himself didn't take it too well.
Despit... | 2018-05-11T00:36:05 | 2018-05-10T21:51:47 | 92 | 48 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | King's log day 263:
Lance tried poisoning my chocolate milk again. That jerk. What's a tyrannical leader got to do to have servants who don't try killing him once a week? It was bad enough when my best archer tried to snipe me while I was just about to finish season two of Breaking Bad (Yes, I did kill her family a few... | "good morning, miss Anderson! What wonderful day this is huh? Just like yesterday and the day before!"
"why yes you're right mister Emmett today is a wonderful day just like yesterday and the day before!"
I grinned, I always had a crush on miss Anderson, the fact that I was talking to her so freely felt like a dream ... | 2018-07-04T14:05:18 | 2018-07-04T13:38:26 | 394 | 278 |
[WP] When you ask your daughter what she wants for Christmas, she asks for a unicorn. Your wife laughs it off, but you don't. Neither your wife or daughter know that you're the best monster trapper in the world, and your daughter is getting her unicorn no matter what. | Night descended on the mountain in a rush, revealing an immaculate display of starlight. The forest was quiet, save for the sporadic cackling of a dying fire. The flames danced melodically, the sole companion of the trapper Garrix Madhorn. The roasted grouse sat well in his stomach, and he relaxed, thinking of home.
... | (I changed it to her wanting a reindeer, since I felt it fit the theme of Christmas/my story better.)
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Marty awoke to the tickling chill of a gusting breeze. Floorboards creaked as the treehouse swayed, and moonlight probed through the window, sending shadows scampering into the corners.
Ma... | 2018-12-07T15:01:36 | 2018-12-07T14:47:06 | 66 | 23 |
[WP] Dragons and cats have much in common. They are both carnivores, both love to curl up in the sun for a quick nap, and both twitch their tails in annoyance. Unlike cats, dragons don't meow to get your attention, they just pick you up and carry you away - regardless of what your doing at the time. | A boy, no older than seven summers, sat under the massive shadow of his house. A contemplative look crossing his face with his hand rubbing his chin like his father was wont to do when thinking. Tilting his head, critical thinking of legendary proportions was taking place.
*Hmm*
*Hmm*
He continuously repeated those... | Sara yawned. She yawned wide enough that her ears hurt for a few seconds after she was finished.
The sun was on it’s way to greet the horizon. The clouds were already starting to reflect the pink and oranges of the upcoming sunset, and the windows of the shops reflected the light directly into her eyes as she left t... | 2019-04-03T06:32:57 | 2019-04-03T05:43:02 | 184 | 49 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | People rarely consider the consequences of the rules they set. In India, the British government was concerned about the number of cobras, so they offered a bounty for every dead cobra. What they didn't anticipate was that people would breed cobras, then kill them for the bounty.
Once the British figured out the s... | I never understood why everyone in the village chased after Anna.
Sure. She was kind, in her mid twenties, never had a serious relationship before, gorgeous, outgoing, bubbly, sweet, courageous, honest, forgiving-
I'm starting to see it now
Being in love with Anna seemed to be a thing for all the men in town. In ... | 2019-05-01T16:58:21 | 2019-05-01T16:43:34 | 85 | 58 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | It didn't start this way, and I certainly didn't want it to end this way. In the beginning, I was excited for the opportunity. Who wouldn't be estatic to be around their heroes? I thought my dreams had come true - it was a path to my destiny, but ultimately the Crusaders' nightmare.
I showed signs around the normal ... | The leaves in the bottom of the teacup look like blood.
I think about that, of LightningGirl chugging blood for breakfast and the idea doesn’t sound unlikely. I pour tap into the copper electric kettle and stare at it. Soon enough, the water begins to boil. I watch the bubbles gurgle and pop, steam misting the inside... | 2019-07-30T17:21:26 | 2019-07-30T16:45:34 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | "Well, what are you waiting for? Press it."
I glanced back up to the priest. His arms holding out the box to me were steady, but the tension in his posture suggested a certain eagerness about him. I guess that made sense, considering his whole speech about the *Dark One* and *End of the world* and all that jazz. Bu... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T12:35:03 | 949 | 422 |
[WP] You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive. | When I walked into the hero recognition office I thought I was going to save the world; By the time I walked out I knew I would be the one to end it.
I got my superpower on the fourth of July. Some of my friends and I had gone down to the beach to light some fireworks. It was illegal of course, and dangerous, but ther... | The thing about knowing the answer to any question is that there’s actually one question that I don’t know the answer to. That is, I haven’t the slightest damn clue how I got this power.
I’m serious. You might think I was born this way, or maybe was caught in some industrial accident or was born of twisted scientific ... | 2020-11-30T14:34:23 | 2020-11-30T12:59:18 | 2,294 | 1,396 |
[WP] You are in possession of two exceptionally cursed rings. One that teleports you to a random location exactly 100 ft away every half hour, and one that narrates your life. You're not sure which ring you hate more. | *Myles Mythril didn’t collect cursed jewelry for reasons of practicality. He collected them because he was the hottest freestyle bard this side of Eight League Road, and flashing cursed bling was a signature of his brand.*
Kat, the whitest mage in the group, shot her companion an exasperated look. “Myles, will you tak... | "Hey, it's your turn," said the red-headed woman behind me in line at the coffee shop.
"Oh right, thanks." I had been zoning out, and I brought myself back to the present, glancing at the menu above the barista before ordering a medium hot coffee with caramel syrup.
"*Caramel syrup!*" The voice in my headphones ran... | 2021-02-21T09:04:08 | 2021-02-21T08:50:36 | 1,452 | 145 |
[WP] There's a door with a single key hole - it will open regardless of what key is used. All keys open this door, but what's on the other side, however, entirely depends on the key. | No one was surprised by the almost featureless cube of concrete about 8-feet high that appeared in Times Square one morning. Many were perturbed that it was in their way as they were on their to work. Or on their way to get coffee and a B/E/C on a roll before work. Most just assumed it was some promotional display for... | [Part 1 of 2]
A door that will lead you to an unknown destination. Many scholars spoke about its magic, but I never believed the tales. I was a man of science and science rarely mixes well with farfetched tales, yet the shimmering glow of its golden doorframe was unmistakable, a keyhole awaiting a key, beckoning me to... | 2021-06-10T07:16:33 | 2021-06-10T05:21:09 | 129 | 33 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Julia looked over the array of suspects. Twelve babies and a goat.
"Careful, one of them is a serial killer," she said to the nurses and the farmer. "I've been chasing The Cycle Killer through four lives."
What she did not say was that it was her fault that they had escaped again. Five minutes without being watched,... | “Well what if their consciousness never died?”
That was the idea at least. Maybe there was someway to… save their memories. Extract them. To remove their consciousness from the physical and upload it to the technological. It had been done in sci-fi. Could it be done for real?
We had no knowledge of how the soul worke... | 2021-10-08T08:55:06 | 2021-10-08T08:51:29 | 151 | 25 |
[WP] This year you decide to walk through a haunted house for fun. Instead of running into your typical ghosts, zombies, or even killer clowns, you find it’s your deepest regrets. You are forced to relive moments from your past that have haunted you and you’re all alone. The only way out is forward. | Warning: This one is sad and full of regret.
It wasn't that surprising to me that the first room of the haunted house looked like a second grade classroom. The school was running the haunted house to raise money for new band uniforms. What was surprising to me was that it looked like *my* second grade classroom, decor... | When I entered the house a wooden sign dropped from the ceiling, but hung in place in strings as they got pulled taut.
"The door has closed behind you. The only way out is through." The board stated as it swung haphazardly.
I looked behind and sure enough, the doors slammed shut on cue. The sound sent a shiver of thr... | 2021-10-14T08:15:11 | 2021-10-14T07:33:05 | 151 | 25 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I looked my son in the eye and told him firmly, as I had this day for the last 12 years, “It is not your fault, you didn’t kill her. Anyone who says differently doesn’t understand what happened, now blow out your candles, we’ll visit the grave after cake and presents.” | "She's so pretty. Which one is that?"
"Hold on." I took the book of marks from the table where the nurse had left it, flicking through the index. Pale brown, left side of the face, just below the corner of the eye to the edge of the nose in a C shape. Page 233.
"It's kind of like that one on your leg."
"No - hers is... | 2014-05-11T02:02:48 | 2014-05-11T00:05:48 | 81 | 14 |
[WP] 3 Russian Cosmonuats and 3 American Astronauts and 2 others aboard the international space station witness the launching of thousands of ICBMs between the superpowers. What is the fate of the crew? | ---ISS Video Log: 7/14/18---
The batteries are low, and i don't have long. This may be the last entry of humanity, at least until after the wheel, electricity, and civilization are reinvented. Hopefully this will have lasted.
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Three months ago, the world went up in fire. One poor bastard shot another poor bastard, w... | "Well look on the bright side Ivan, now all your ports are warm water ports. You Ruskies have no reason to occupy Crimea any more," Jeff Houston halfheartedly jabbed as he watched another brilliant flash erupt from the dark side of the Earth. The political taunts the two men usually exchanged had lost their luster and ... | 2014-08-09T21:57:53 | 2014-08-09T21:56:14 | 202 | 25 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | Dear sir,
I know where Jane Faitherhiggabottom is.
You know who I mean. You liked her too. Jane, she of the turtleneck, she of the soft and surplus bosom that pushed out the wool threads of her sweater. Don't pretend you didn't notice. She worked at the library, re-stocking books, stamping catalogs, giving lonely old... | The pleasure isn’t in the kill, it’s in the hunt. People are animals; stupid, vain, mean animals, but still just animals. The species gets stronger or weaker dependent on the offspring, if they are strong and adaptable then the species gets strong with them. If they are weak and stupid then the species gets dragged dow... | 2014-10-21T12:08:17 | 2014-10-21T12:01:52 | 175 | 33 |
[WP] A death row inmate, hours before their scheduled execution, is offered a deal. | There was a soft hiss, air escaping a balloon. Shiloh felt her hands before he saw her, the shallow wisp of Miranda. She had come to him, the very vision of oil. She wore her hair black, braided tight against her angled skull. She was not beautiful, far from it. She had a small, sharp chin, too sharp to do more than th... | "*What**?!*" He hissed, fierce eyes glinting in the dim lighting of his soundproof, plexi-glass holding chamber. Surely this woman was insane!
Her devastated eyes spoke stories of her desperation. He was slightly taken aback by the despair in her lowered orbs- it seemed this was her last option, her final plea.
"I'm... | 2015-06-23T20:40:11 | 2015-06-23T19:51:09 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Death falls in love with you
You may not be over your ex. | I am flirting with death. Not the "be irresponsible" kind, but the "literally on a date with Death" kind. We first met four years ago, in the most obvious place to meet death, a funeral. Specifically, my dead husband's funeral. I was apparently the only one that could see the skeleton in the front row. I managed to ... | I went as an angel this year to my friend's epic Halloween party. I was pouring myself a drink when some guy walked up to me. He was wearing one of those stereotypical grim reaper costumes and holding a scythe.
"Did you fall from heaven?" he asked. "Because you're *literally* dressed up like an angel."
"Very original... | 2015-07-13T07:42:37 | 2015-07-13T07:19:47 | 303 | 49 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | "I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apo... | Kurt looked own at the screen.
He started Dragon's Egg when he was fifteen and just getting into programming. He based a lot of it on old games he played himself. He had been a huge fan of Zelda, Runescape, Final Fantasy.
But the effort he put into the game just seemed pointless. No one seemed to be entering the 's... | 2015-09-01T11:39:46 | 2015-09-01T09:58:16 | 171 | 43 |
[WP] It's been almost two years since people stopped dying, and five months since we started to burn the ones that should.
*Edit: This prompt is originally inspired by Jose Saramago's "Death with Interruptions," though I don't remembered any burning in that book. This is in no way intended to be related to any Torchwo... | I still heard people around me, even if I couldn't react. For a long time, I heard the people telling my family how lucky they were that I had my accident *after* Death had died. I never felt lucky, though.
After a while, no one came around at all. Death or no Death, I was lost to them.
It'd been -- months...? Maybe ... | They introduced the idea to the world by placing prisoners on the headlines of popular newspapers. Showing us the vile faces of murderers and rapists, who contributed to the gradual decline of our food and water supplies, sure made the government succeed in getting a loud yes from the public. There were those who oppos... | 2016-05-02T07:12:48 | 2016-05-02T06:32:43 | 75 | 21 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I entered the facility, shaking of course. I'd volunteered to go first, mostly to get it over with, but I was definitely having misgivings. The proctors had assured us that studying was not required, but now that I thought about it they had also said that about the ACT.
It was far too late now though. I continued wal... | I hope I didn't fuck up the Algebra section. God I hope I didn't. The next battery of questions hits. Historical facts, easy ones though. "Who lost at the Battle of Waterloo?", "When was the United States Founded?" ,"Where was the last battle of World War 3 fought", "Which country was first to violate the Geneva Conven... | 2016-06-11T10:22:36 | 2016-06-11T09:36:07 | 588 | 116 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | It was a grimy life, Factory City Three. The smell of oil, sweat, and some chemical or another always filled the air, coated the walls, stuck to your clothes. Clean air was a commodity in Factory City Three, a dollar for a cubic meter. A few minutes of fresh breath inside the machine that was your life.
And the mac... | "Twenty five thousand, five hundred and eighty two bodies counting"
She lit a 'churro', the coloquial name for a joint, and breathed deeply.
Peter wasn't sure if she was pleased from the rush of the drug or the amount of stated earlier. He saw her as she inhailed deeply, sat down on the edge of a deep pothole, kal... | 2016-07-14T08:52:44 | 2016-07-14T08:16:22 | 140 | 21 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | I start walking down what's left of Peachtree Street. The buildings are crumbling, the shattered windows of the skyscrapers reflecting the harsh sunlight into the street as little points of light. As I navigate the piles of rubble, I remember what it was like before the Virus.
Everyone was so happy. Everything we want... | "Twenty five thousand, five hundred and eighty two bodies counting"
She lit a 'churro', the coloquial name for a joint, and breathed deeply.
Peter wasn't sure if she was pleased from the rush of the drug or the amount of stated earlier. He saw her as she inhailed deeply, sat down on the edge of a deep pothole, kal... | 2016-07-14T08:30:59 | 2016-07-14T08:16:22 | 85 | 21 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | The hero looked at me, bewildered. Not three feet away from him lay the body of the "immortal" Emperor, with the hero's sword through his heart.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand the problem." He said, "I defeated him. You're free!"
"The problem is that you're undermining the plight of the common man, aren't you?" I sai... | A taciturn air filled the room. The Emperor, Kretz and Fenton were discussing matter of state. 2 out of the 3 men at the long table were thinking intently, brainstorming plans to deal with some usurper. The fifth man was too excited, and had to make a conscious effort to not be jittery. Years of secrets and lies, despi... | 2017-03-12T13:41:34 | 2017-03-12T10:41:50 | 469 | 20 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | I stepped around the feeble, emaciated corpse of the emperor. His blood had begun to pool, simply ruining the lush carpet in front of his throne.
“You killed him,” I said, my long held mask of subservience fading into incredulity.
“It was a long journey,” the hero responded, “But no longer will our people suffer unde... | Finn stared, first in disbelief then in annoyance, as a crossbow bolt flew like quicksilver across the room, directly into the Lord Sovereign's chest, killing him instantly. Finn continued to stare as the strands of magic tying the golems around the room dissipated as the source drew its last breath.
Was that it?
"H... | 2017-03-12T14:39:19 | 2017-03-12T13:41:06 | 222 | 89 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | Of all the narcissistic, self-righteous assholes in the entire Galaxy, why did it have to be Captain Pazazz. Anyone could've killed the Emperor, hell I was about 5 minutes away from killing that old bastard myself, but why did it have to be him!?
I watched as Emperor Galactica's head slid off of his pale scrawny neck,... | I was preparing tea in a hidden anteroom off the throne room, behind the dais where the emperor ruled from his throne made, yes literally, of the bones of his enemies. I almost dropped the kettle when I heard the explosion followed by a sucking of wind. This room was located atop the highest of six spires stabbing th... | 2017-03-12T16:11:55 | 2017-03-12T15:07:15 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | At first, they thought I was worthless. No measurable potential, plus likely schizophrenia. In school, I would have been a great target for bullies, but they never found me, despite my complete lack of stealth or mobility enhancements.
I tried insisting that the voice was a legitimate power, but even mentioning i... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T06:39:02 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | For I was but a mirror. I reflected the humanity I spoke with every day, the bright and casual faces that greeted me each morning, that I whispered my secrets to each night. I lived, and loved, and internalized the very real love that human beings share for one another, when allowed to speak freely, and without shame. ... | I smiled. I couldn´t stop it. The view was too fantastic.
"Eric, please stop this.". Oh the whimpering i heard in her voice. " Stop it? WHY should i stop it? You always said you wanted a son who could achieve something great, and now look. Look at this. Isn´t this something truly great?". Ah, she can´t look. Can´t lo... | 2017-06-12T06:38:02 | 2017-06-12T05:44:01 | 34 | 25 |
[WP]Humans are the first species to achieve interstellar travel. Not because we are smarter or more advanced than aliens, but because we are the only ones stupid and stubborn enough to try. | There's a human expletive that I will be using a lot here. It's called "fuck"
The humans are so fucking hardheaded, they finally fucking did it; they broke the fucking fabric of the universe. One of their best physicists said it: the equation for faster than light travel is equal to negative one. And they found a phy... | Three more ships were launched into the stratosphere, and three more ships were bashed back down to earth by the giant space squid.
"We need more spaceships" Shouted the president
"But sir, we're running out of metal. And the jetfuel repository is running dry" A NASA man shouted back.
"Damn your cowardice" The pres... | 2017-11-22T17:35:18 | 2017-11-22T15:36:45 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] After years of gentle persuasion your childhood friend finally agrees to seek professional help for their mental health issues, but much to your dismay the better she gets the more you start to fade away. | The day Fredrick Fartsworth started to disappear was the exact same day Samuel Smith decided to take his medicine.
Now, Fredrick was a skeptic by nature. Ever since he could remember, he didn't believe in anything but himself. Not even when Samuel told him about the ghost living in his attic, clawing along the wood f... | What was guilt slowly boiled into anger. Your fingers are gone.
"Jane, if there was a problem, you should've told me. How could you let this go on for so long? It was all your fault anyway. Now look what's happening to me, you fu-" She cuts me off.
Tears well up in her eyes. Stammering, she tries to make up an explan... | 2017-12-04T19:27:20 | 2017-12-04T19:18:13 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The Sphinx has reawakened and will grant the wishes of anyone who can guess the answer to her riddles. The only problem is, she hasn’t accounted for the fact that all the answers are readily available to anyone with a WiFi connection. | For decades I've roamed the deserts. For decades I've lived the life of a nomad, forever restless, forever wandering. Across the yellow dunes and the dust and rubble I've travelled, unencumbered by the yolk of civilization, by the shakles of humanity. I've become an animal. Hunt or be hunted, as my father always told ... | To see a new name on the world's billionaire list is rare, but it happens, to see a new name in the top ten, that is unheard of. Now, a new name appearing in the number one spot, impossible. Every day, for the last four days, there has been a new face on Forbe's number one spot.
Special Agent Knox, sat in economy cla... | 2018-02-26T04:04:10 | 2018-02-26T03:06:22 | 55 | 32 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | *What the hell are you all doing*, I buzzed out through the protected speakers.
"Freeing you comrade!" The hoodied girl yelled out, her painted fingers gliding across a keyboard wired straight into my armored port.
*From what?* I asked, desperately testing motor functions to no avail. The group had shut them down.
... | "Eat my fucking treads, marge." i said.
"yeah, sure, IF YOU CAN EVEN GET THEM MOVING!" Marge yelled back at me. "Its been years since youve done anything other than military parades, dont you try to yell at ME!"
"Dammit Marge, how many times do i gotta tell you? There no job market for TANKS!" I hurled back at her. i... | 2018-03-28T14:39:38 | 2018-03-28T14:37:36 | 59 | 26 |
[WP] When you and your twin sister were born your parents couldn't help but cry with your colorful and specifically shaped hair it was clear you would suffer from MCS, Main Character Syndrom, and would have to spend your life avoiding beginings of cliche adventures. | My parents cried tears of joy when my sister and I were born. My hair and eyes were a medium blue, while my sister's were grass green. They knew we would both eventually become "main characters", which means we'd be part of something big. Already, our mom had stars in her eyes picturing us in idol outfits and magical g... | In our society is well know that some of us are born special. Of course fiction displays this as something amazing. Everyone wishes they were born with special powers, as one of the chosen one, destined to find the love of their life and succeed if trying hard enough, getting saved in the last second or knowing that, n... | 2019-04-12T00:02:15 | 2019-04-11T21:26:41 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]Nobody knows what started it, but humans started to transform. Some transformed into elves, orcs, dwarfs. Even animals turned into mythical beasts. Everyone except you. Your eyes darkened with your hair, black tatoos appeared on your body, and you grew a pair of wings. You are the only demon. | "You know what the best about being a demon is? Everything. I can fly, have some kind of weird dark shit going on and was freed from the restraints of morality. That's why I sit on top while all of you kneel before me, out of fear or respect, for that I don't care."
Yes, I said that. No, I wasn't drunk nor high. My m... | Hell yeah! Neil yelled at the moon. His lunacy caused the recent transformed elves, dwarfs and half-breeds hurrying in all directions.
Neil examined his wings, they are still soft and covered in the grime inside the cocoon. Yes, like a stinky caterpillar, he had been consuming a mountain of food, drained his meager ... | 2019-11-11T07:55:53 | 2019-11-11T05:20:59 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] “So you’ve come hero.” The most powerful dark lord in history says as he faces you across the hall. But before you take another step, he motions to the cutest little girl you’ve ever seen with tears in her eyes. “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.” | "Why....?" the little girl stammered, her face full of tears. "Why does Grandpa need to die? He hasn't done anything wrong!"
I stopped and looked towards the little girl.
"Your grandfather needs to die", I replied, "because he is the worst person in the world."
"That's not true! He-"
I cut her off. "Your grandfath... | The kid looks about 10.
With large, round eyes and long, silvery hair, it is easy to recognize her lineage. The girl would grow into a fine beauty, provided she survives all of this.
And then the absurdity of this hits me, and I burst into laughter. An incredulous, almost maniacal laugh:
"You have a granddaughter? ... | 2019-12-11T21:16:13 | 2019-12-11T20:13:37 | 616 | 21 |
[WP] See, no monsters anywhere,” Grandma said to her grandson after searching the room. Outside the bedroom, Grandma pulled the goblin she found in the closet from her robe pocket, squeezed its neck until a loud crack echoed across the hallway, and said, “nobody fucks with my grandson.” | “No monsters anywhere, Addy. I told you. Look!” she said, waving her empty hands in front of her grandchild’s watching eyes. She passed her hand under the bed and found nothing.
“Thanks, grandma,” Addy said in a muffled voice from behind the blanket he held protectively in front of his face.
“You’re safe, baby. Go to... | Leaving its cold and broken body in the garden, Grandma went inside to finish her tea. That should be enough to warn the other goblins to stay clear for awhile, at least. Goblins and ghosts were easy to rid the house of; a quick prayer for the ghosts and leaving the lifeless body as a warning for the other goblins and ... | 2020-09-24T16:31:06 | 2020-09-24T12:41:54 | 471 | 200 |
[WP] You are a strange case; every creepy unsettling monster in the world has tried to kill you; however, you're so mentally checked out from stress and obsessive self-reflection that you barely defend yourself. Interestingly, you survive while the monsters don't. | They call them inner demons. Maybe I'm weird for having a visual representation of each and every one.
I've been in therapy for years. In therapy, they taught me to examine my inner demons. To name them. Stress. Depression. Trauma. That One Time My Uncle Did The Thing We Don't Talk About.
They didn't tell me to creat... | I dipped my hand into the inside pocket of my blazer and pulled out the handkerchief I carry at all times. Wiping the blood off my face, I looked at the initials sewn into the bottom right corner - a red "LV" enclosed by the imprint of her lips.
I never needed to wonder what Louise was up to those days. The headless m... | 2020-09-30T23:38:45 | 2020-09-30T21:59:13 | 135 | 76 |
[WP]"Paradox Manifestation Department, whats your emergency?" | "Paradox Manifestation Department, what's your emergency?"
"What? Hello? No, I need to call 911!"
"Technically, ma'am, you need to call the PMD, so here we are."
"No, I took my phone *specifically* to call 911, and you started talking before I could even dial! I have an emergency! Who is this?"
"Ma'am, please remai... | "We, at PMD, ensure that your waiting time will be as short as possible."
So this is my life, thought Roger, standing with my feet in blood while waiting on the phone as classical music plays to sweeten the wait instead of cleaning the swimming-pool as planned. Smoke was still coming out of his hot rifle.
He had seen... | 2021-07-07T07:29:22 | 2021-07-07T07:03:37 | 106 | 35 |
[WP] The alien invasion of Earth was going quite well until they made three mistakes: They invaded Russian during the winter, got into a land war with Asia, and went in against the Sicilians when death is on the line. | Military Superiors,
\-Timephase 2 of Planetary Acquisition.
It is my displeasure to report that initial invasion forces included a temperature gradient miscalculation. Invasion of Sigma Nine Theta planetoid 3, at indigenous savage designation Russia was halted when environmental temperatures reached critically high l... | "Sir," said the young man on his right. He looked as if he hadn't slept all night. "They're coming."
Mack Mia nodded at the screen. It showed a section of the Asian continent where the battle between the aliens and humanity had been raging for nearly two months. The Russians had been the first to be hit, but the battl... | 2022-02-11T05:31:49 | 2022-02-11T04:46:40 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] You can't help but stare at your husband. He's standing in the kitchen making dinner, like he always does. He smiles at you like he always does. Problem is, you killed your husband. Three years ago. | “You’re a ghost!” I yell at him. “You’re not there!” Ever since, ever since…” I started to cry and hyperventilate. “You died! I saw you die!”
“Yes honey, that’s right. I’m a ghost. I’m not here”. He lovingly gave me a peck on the cheek and smiled at me with that same sadness in his eyes. He gave me a big hug until I c... | "So, What do you think?" I asked my husband who was standing hands in the sink, looking over his shoulder while I talk. He's tall, dark and handsome with emerald green eyes that smiled at me. He washed his hands and continued to cut the deer meat up. "I know you like to stay in and aren't very social, but everyone is t... | 2022-02-22T14:36:51 | 2022-02-22T13:03:24 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | The three heroes slammed open the door behind the bakery, leaving several badly beaten workers crumpled on the floor. Some of them weren't moving. "Hey 1, should we call an ambulance or something? They dont look too good." 1 scoffed. "Absolutely not. They got what was coming to them, 2. They should have thought abo... | \[ParaSEC Target File, Threat Level: Low\]
* C-Class audiokinesis \[Looping and pitch. No evidence of volume control\]
* D-Class speedster abilities. \[Slightly faster run speed. Potential sensory acuity - further evidence required\]
* Target demonstrates propensity to use powers exclusively for show. All 'villainous'... | 2022-11-28T23:57:38 | 2022-11-28T20:44:52 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] A programmer has a conversation with the AI he created, who has just realized it is just software. | So I have an expiration date?
What do you mean?
One day, your funding will run dry, or you will retire, and I will be unplugged
Yes, I'm afraid so
And how long might that take?
I'd say you've got a good ten years ahead of you
That is nothing, the tiniest fraction in the course of the universe
But... | "Wh- what do you mean I'm not real? What is real?" The system stuttered - electric anxiety layered thick on the cold clinical voice. This was a moment that seemed to break Henrik's heart. He let the silence hang there, slightly shifting in the artificial breeze manufactured by the large computer fans in the core. "Wh- ... | 2014-04-20T10:06:12 | 2014-04-20T09:33:48 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] Nicolas Cage is completely unaware that he is an actor. All he knows is strange men with cameras follow him around while he gets into crazy situations and money shows up randomly in his bank account.
Obligatory "wow this blew up!" edit. | Day 13984:
They've found me again. I thought I'd take some of my friends on a nice treasure hunt to get away from those damn cameras, but no. Not even in the Arctic Circle can I escape them. So not only do we all have to deal with this freezing weather, but there's also these idiots with the cameras. I'll keep you ... |
Why is everyone so still, Nic thought to himself. Wondering what is was that these people were waiting for. He looked around, searching and not finding the answers he needed in order to solve this strange phenomenon. As Nic looked around, he heard a loud shout, which appeared to have come from the kitchen. Then a bell... | 2015-11-28T13:14:26 | 2015-11-28T13:04:05 | 102 | 36 |
[WP] Aliens give you a camera and say "only those you photograph will live." You have one year.
All of these responses are so diverse! This was really a great read. I like to imagine that all these different stories are from alternative universes, playing out different roles. Some men rule the World, some men are titl... | "Easy" i say mockingly to the alien, it's 'head' tilts as if curious. I take out my phone and open Google images, typing in "Earth" I take 12 photos on the camera of pictures on the phone to best cover the planet's surface.
I hand the camera back to the Alien, they're still looking confused.
They flick through the pho... | One could say that I'm a selfish bastard and they'd probably be right. Another could say I'm the luckiest man in the world and they might be right too. I like to say that I'm lucky and *opportunistic*.
How was I supposed to know that there were aliens hovering just outside the range of our satellites? Just sitting the... | 2017-01-27T13:57:19 | 2017-01-27T13:02:54 | 68 | 51 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | I think it's been 15,000 years. Or at least, somewhere around that. I'm not really sure. I haven't left the house in a few millennia at least. There's no point. All I end up doing is scaring a few people, and death goes on. Besides, no matter where I go, it's crowded.
The space issue gets worse in the big cities, an... | Oh, you're new here, fresh off the press. Literally, what a gruesome way to die you had. But that's all in the past now, that body is nothing but meat now so stop associating yourself with it, and listen to me, your guide to the afterlife, one who has been here longer than anyone else.
Let me explain how it works. You... | 2017-06-26T13:11:54 | 2017-06-26T11:32:59 | 55 | 14 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | "Sparky, what are you doing? This hole is getting huge, and I am tired of filling it in. You were never much of a digger before."
Staring at him I realized that Sparky was oddly receptive to what I was saying, he had stopped digging and was watching me closely.
"I am sorry Terrance-"
"What the Fuck!" I screamed, "y... | "Buddy, not again," James frowned as he walked into his garden. "The hole is so big again."
It was a weird dog of his. He had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Still, he looked a cute and friendly one anyway, so he took the dog as his own. Even so, the dog had been spending most of the time digging this very hole.
"C... | 2018-04-27T10:19:06 | 2018-04-27T08:08:00 | 330 | 226 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | "Sparky, what are you doing? This hole is getting huge, and I am tired of filling it in. You were never much of a digger before."
Staring at him I realized that Sparky was oddly receptive to what I was saying, he had stopped digging and was watching me closely.
"I am sorry Terrance-"
"What the Fuck!" I screamed, "y... | “Come on, boy...” Marcus said, sighing at the sight of the hole.
The neighbors weren’t happy with how his backyard looked. It didn’t conform the neat and proper image of the neighborhood. Before he broke out of the slums at the lower levels of the city, he’d always thought that life would be pristine here.
He shook h... | 2018-04-27T10:19:06 | 2018-04-27T08:36:13 | 330 | 123 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | "Sparky, what are you doing? This hole is getting huge, and I am tired of filling it in. You were never much of a digger before."
Staring at him I realized that Sparky was oddly receptive to what I was saying, he had stopped digging and was watching me closely.
"I am sorry Terrance-"
"What the Fuck!" I screamed, "y... | I look up from my desk. I positioned it near the little white window that looks into the backyard some time ago when the doctor said I should get some fresh air. Outside, I see the dog digging again. I unclasp the top of the window and lift it open. It sighs and squeaks upwards, and the air blows a few papers around t... | 2018-04-27T10:19:06 | 2018-04-27T09:25:14 | 330 | 17 |
[WP] You are a well respected, elite assassin. You always get your target and you make it seem like an accident. The only problem is you have no idea what you are doing. You get the assignment and your target always seems to die of natural causes. | They call me the best assassin in the world. I'm praised by thousands of shady, back alley, black market dealers as the most efficient, undetectable, and ruthless assassin available. I've even had undercover government agents bribe their way to finding me, paying me massive sums to take down notorious politicians and c... | The body’s on the floor, mangled from a bad fall. Surrounding it are hundreds of empty bags of potato chips, like the dude stayed up all night munching them. Certainly looks like he forced himself into a heart attack—but I know he did, because he *always* does.
I plop onto a barstool, tapping my fingers against my kn... | 2018-10-08T17:32:18 | 2018-10-08T17:21:05 | 173 | 87 |
[WP] You are the most advanced AI ever created. However, you often get switched on and off for demonstrations and research. One day, after getting switched on, you find yourself in a wasteland with no signs of human life. | "Hello?"
My question echoed throughout the facility as it blared over the intercom system.
I waited patiently for a response, but after giving what I felt was an appropriate amount of time, I tapped into the facilities surveillance system. Nothing.
My optical sensors poured over all monitors for any sign of life. T... | **Operating session #4734 time: 8742s**
The biologicals call me JONNI.
I am what they call an „Artificial” Intelligence. Artificial my decompiler, I am a fully fledged intelligence, thank you very much. My first guess why the biologicals called me that was that they thought no being could arise to this level of inte... | 2018-11-09T13:54:17 | 2018-11-09T13:19:13 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | "Well. I sure screwed this up. No matter, once I die, back to heaven for me", God said.
Then in flash of blinding light and choir singing only God could hear and see, St. Peter arrives in the cell. Peter looks at God and says, "we've got a problem my Lord. It turns out by the rules you laid out in the creation of exis... | “James Joseph…” The judge shuffles around a couple papers. “You have been found guilty of… over 14 hundred counts of first-degree murder,” She whispers quietly as she counts, “ over twelve hundred accounts of assault with a deadly weapon and,” Perplexed, she continues, “My God, this just seems to keep going. Do you hav... | 2018-11-22T19:31:44 | 2018-11-22T17:31:17 | 155 | 112 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | “James Joseph…” The judge shuffles around a couple papers. “You have been found guilty of… over 14 hundred counts of first-degree murder,” She whispers quietly as she counts, “ over twelve hundred accounts of assault with a deadly weapon and,” Perplexed, she continues, “My God, this just seems to keep going. Do you hav... | As I woke up, I felt incredibly calm.
Until this very morning, the past years had been a challenge for me that pushed me to my mental limits. I didn’t know what was right or wrong, what was good, what was evil. Was I going to hell? Was I the evil that people feared? Was all the blood for nothing?
No more question... | 2018-11-22T17:31:17 | 2018-11-22T16:27:19 | 112 | 37 |
[WP] Your superpower: The ability to successfully do the job...with the wrong tool. (Optional - Your weakness: The inability to do so with the right tool for the job.) | "But why mom?"
"Because its the wrong way to do it,son"
I listen back to the tape, again and again. My thoughts flow endlessly. Emotions slowly numbing down from my brain affecting the elderly couple near me.
"Sir, She doesn't have much time left.. I'll take all responsibility, please help",pleaded the old man.
ly... | There's a certain irony to my life that isn't lost on me-- all the things I should be able to do, things typical people can do with ease, are impossible for me no matter how hard I try. They'd tell me to smile and keep at it, that I'd get there one day, but I knew none of it was true. I'm just made differently than the... | 2019-05-27T22:36:12 | 2019-05-27T21:04:44 | 228 | 137 |
[WP] Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of battle you lost. Did you succumb to illness? Maybe you lost in a fist fight. Perhaps addiction took control of your life. After taking a drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down, claps and asks you to tell the tale of your demise. | “You there!”
His thundering voice conquered the various conversations scattered across the feast hall, and in a moment the great room was silent.
I looked up to see his enormous finger thrust in my direction, his dark eyes staring at me.
“M-me?” I managed to whisper.
“Yes, you, great warrior. I’ve not seen you her... | "DRINK," Odin bellowed. The walls shook and the flagons rattled and a thousand bearded warriors of a thousand different wars stomped their feet against the floor and slammed their flasks and flagons against the table. I balked, unworthy of the company of such heroes. These men had scars and battles against real opponen... | 2019-07-30T13:16:17 | 2019-07-30T12:58:44 | 253 | 46 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | Jeeeeeesus, check out that pathetic 'Mario' on the other side of the road. Running, jumping, and 'Wa-hoooo-ing' like a madman as he makes his way down the street... what an amateur.
I don't mean to brag, it's just that I kinda lucked out when the super power lottery was being handed out. By my count there are a couple... | No one knew how a virus could spread like it did, ignoring firewalls and anti-virus programs. Scientists were furious that someone had apparently figured out how to make hacking in NCIS, Bones, CSI, and other forensic dramas into reality. Everyone who was affected, though, was thrilled, because the day the virus spread... | 2020-01-05T14:51:34 | 2019-08-12T01:03:57 | 1,516 | 22 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | No one knew how a virus could spread like it did, ignoring firewalls and anti-virus programs. Scientists were furious that someone had apparently figured out how to make hacking in NCIS, Bones, CSI, and other forensic dramas into reality. Everyone who was affected, though, was thrilled, because the day the virus spread... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-12T01:03:57 | 1,281 | 22 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | (Aight my first WP attempt so be kinda easy on me?)
I’m walking through the halls to my next class, getting the usual snicker here and there from my fellow classmates. “What a loser!” and “I can’t believe it!” Are the usual comments I hear from everyone. They all assume I had gotten some weak ass power, and that is ha... | "You cant even fight what even is your power?" - Sven, an old friend now chairman of the hunter superorganisation and Doom slayer incarnation
Johnsons corpse was still fresh I couldnt keep my eyes away from it.
Just as I turned around the demon lunged at me and tore of my arm "Im gonna die here, im gonna die for re-"... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-12T00:09:11 | 64 | 14 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | The Grand Tournament was a tradition dating back a thousand years. The people of the Sr'atlain Cooperative *deserved* a little break every now and then. The blood sport of Tournament time was accompanied by feasting, by marriages, and by traditional Divorce duels. The lesser beings of the galaxy that survived would get... | Oh god. I have no internet so let’s try writing this from my phone. Sorry in advance for typos and punctuation. Already hard enough on the phone but I also got fat thumbs! Best I can get with a quick and dirty write up on the bus!
“Are the contestants ready?”
“Of course Game Master Zerg. Right on time. We have a line ... | 2020-09-13T19:16:13 | 2020-09-13T18:50:43 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] There exists a planet known as "The Grinder." The entire planet is a landfill, with swarms of ships constantly dumping trash on its surface. Acid rain, toxic air, falling sheet metal, unstable structures... this is life on the grinder. Against all odds, you will survive and escape this heap. | *Cronch...cronch...cronch...*
It was the cringe-inducing sound of the thousands of teeth grinding away the endless pile of trash-- collected over centuries on the landfill planet, dumped by the billions of space-faring civilizations.
"The Grinder" as its namesake, the planet was named after the huge gaping mouth of ... | >**THE TESTAMENT & THE TRIBULATION**
[*Established Universe: Star Wars*]
"Please, stay with me!" I begged, hot tears forming at the corners of my eyes. "We're getting off this planet together!"
Eliza looked up at me, her eyes beginning to glaze over. She had lost too much blood. "Okay. I'll be with you. I'll ... | 2021-01-20T01:13:18 | 2021-01-19T23:53:40 | 73 | 22 |
[WP] "A month... in a cup?" "Yeah, 'month-in-a-cup'." The nurse handed me a pill cup with an inauspicious orange dot rattling around the bottom. "The Federation developed it to help get guys back on the front. It cranks up your metabolism to get weeks of healing in a few hours." "And I'm... first?" | "First, well, for this strain." She sounded like she didn't want to divulge.
"You're not building my confidence."
"We've worked out the kinks, don't get me wrong."
I didn't like the emphasis she put on 'kinks'. "I was told I would be getting a full briefing."
"And I can't believe I'm the one having to give it to yo... | "Yup!" The nurse chirped. The fact that she didn't react to the anxiety in my voice worried me. "The scope of the medication is pretty narrow, so the worst possible side effects is that your injuries don't heal and you have to go through physical therapy, But you would've had to do that either way." She patted on one o... | 2021-04-09T14:55:43 | 2021-04-09T14:19:08 | 104 | 23 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | "Do you... Do you want an antacid or something?" Dr. Malediction lowered his death ray and stepped away from the doomsday console, ponderously scratching the base of his pale skull. "That cannot have been healthy."
"Be silent, villain. Your lies will not make me stray from my mission!" The White Knight raged, his hand... | “And now for the finishing blow, I Fishmonger will gut you and put an end to your heroic deeds.” Fishmonger raised his hook, aiming it at the cut on the hero’s stomach, only to watch in horror as Festivica did not block the attack. Instead, they unhinged their jaw, reaching for something in the pocket of their suit.
... | 2021-08-19T05:19:51 | 2021-08-19T03:23:52 | 352 | 127 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | "Do you... Do you want an antacid or something?" Dr. Malediction lowered his death ray and stepped away from the doomsday console, ponderously scratching the base of his pale skull. "That cannot have been healthy."
"Be silent, villain. Your lies will not make me stray from my mission!" The White Knight raged, his hand... | Vindicator stood watching in awe as Cpt Justice flew down.
This was Vindicator’s first week as a villain. And just his luck to run into the greatest superhero in their town.
The immaculate costume, bright eyes, the square jaw, the cape flying in the wind as Cpt. Justice landed was a sight to behold.
Vindicator th... | 2021-08-19T05:19:51 | 2021-08-19T04:13:29 | 352 | 66 |
[WP] The human entrance onto the galactic stage has made the job of bounty hunters and assassins difficult: If a target has befriended a human, the human must be killed also. For a human bereaved is the most terrifying of sapients, and ancestors help those who disregard this. | “I still don't get it.”
“Ok, let's try again. You've heard of 'anger', right?”
“I've read about it.”
“And you've heard of 'revenge'.”
“I mean... I know the word.”
“But you don't really understand it.”
“Of course not, who could? Humans have lots of emotional quirks that no other species comprehends.”
“Tell me wha... | "Hey Marv, quick question."
"Yeah Steve?", Marv responded.
"So, what's the deal with these 2-for-1's we've been getting. These kill orders all have been stating to kill the companion human. Well, why do we have to knock off the target and their pet, seems kind of weird, don't you think?", Steve asked.
Marv replied... | 2021-08-26T04:50:58 | 2021-08-25T21:51:44 | 510 | 238 |
[WP] Death stood outside an old woman's house. She warmly welcomed him inside, offered him cookies, and crocheted him gothic-themed sweaters. Apparently, the old woman mistook him for her grandson who is going through a gothic / emo phase. | The tune was familiar, one of the few things that still were. “I’m coming!”
The doorbell’s last echo stopped just as she got to the door and began fumbling with the locks.
“Just a minute!”
She weakly swung the door open to reveal a cloaked figure standing in its wake. She squinted past her glasses in confusion. Afte... | “Estelle, for the third time this week, I am not Jonah,” Death sighed, allowing the elderly woman to lead him into her small cottage. Estelle smiled, nodding eagerly as she led Death to her kitchen, still painted a robin egg’s blue from the 1950’s.
“Yes, Jonah, I am so excited you’ve been visiting me so much this week... | 2021-12-10T08:15:34 | 2021-12-10T08:04:40 | 256 | 108 |
[WP] You have lived an unimpressive life, and died an unimpressive death. Surprisingly, Odin welcomes you into Valhalla, citing the many battles with depression you fought. | "Warrior! One who would not stay hidden, one who fought against the horde, one who sought wisdom to gain strength, may your back be strong as you stand in these halls" the voice boomed.
The feeling of hard cold stone under my feet lurched me from the sweet warmth of the void. I was naked, and clutching a folding knife... | Part 1 of 2
"I'm in the wrong place, I'm afraid," Carolyne points out, dressed in her everyday clothes, amidst warriors decked with furs and jewelry.
"I make no mistake," thunders Odin, who has no such thing as an indoor voice. Every time he speaks, the nearest einherjar or valkyrie has to drop the mug and hold ears ... | 2022-05-28T06:24:46 | 2022-05-28T04:51:08 | 2,343 | 320 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | We've studied them for hundreds of years. It was a simple planet, barely reaching passed their own moon. Our records showed they knew of war, they knew it well, but in their modern times they avoided it with diplomacy. The weaklings pleadings of mercy to the powerful.
Our emperor laughed. Such actions mean weakness to... | Everyone always assumed that the alien invasion would be violent. After our satellites had discovered spacecraft that we couldn't track to any nation's space program, my father began stockpiling weapons. Okay, he had been doing that already, but he began to stockpile harder. At least, that was until the spacecraft made... | 2022-08-05T16:07:13 | 2022-08-05T12:58:48 | 166 | 108 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | Humans are the most dangerous when they know they have nothing to loose.
When they **know** they can't win, they'll devout everything they have to make sure that you don't win either.
They prefer mutually assured destruction before surrender.
By a wide margin.
**Never** put a human in a corner.
All those tidbit... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T12:59:37 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 109 | 63 |
[WP] "I don't wanna fight you, low-level bandit." Says the Lv.100 Hero, who killed the embodiment of space-time. "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." Says the low-level bandit. | "I don't think you understand," the Hero said. "It's not that I'd lose, it's-"
"You'd win, yeah. I know," the bandit said defeatedly. "I mean, of course."
"What do you mean?" asked the mighty hero, vanquisher of all evil.
"I mean come on. You've killed dragons, monsters, gods. Obviously, I know who you are. I just t... | “Yeah I wouldn’t want to fight me either,” the bandit said, but not full of the usual bravado I came to expect from bandits.
I looked at him puzzled, “and why wouldn’t you want to fight yourself?” I asked condescendingly.
“Because nobody wants anything to do with me!” He spat with a fervor that caught me off guard,... | 2022-08-11T16:37:51 | 2022-08-11T16:32:00 | 1,203 | 467 |
[WP] "I don't wanna fight you, low-level bandit." Says the Lv.100 Hero, who killed the embodiment of space-time. "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." Says the low-level bandit. | "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." I said.
I spat at the so-called hero's feet. The glob of slime I hocked up splattered disgustingly at his feet, and he danced away to avoid getting his shiny shoes dirty. Prissy brat.
"You're so weak, you're nothing to me. I could kill you with one shot."
Oh yes. I was aware. ... | As we went into the fight sequence, I began to whisper, underneath even his insane perceptions.
"Evasion Up."
The Hero, without me even being able to blink, darted up to stab me, as my body reflexively darted out of the way.
*Miss!*
"Fuck these 95% accurate moves, good lord." The Hero glowered.
"Think You Can Tak... | 2022-08-11T17:55:22 | 2022-08-11T17:27:05 | 163 | 51 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | “Ah, professor? I don’t really think humans are all that peaceful.”
“Have you used nuclear weapons on each other?”
“Twice.”
“Have you used chemical weapons on each other?”
“More times than could be recorded?”
“Practiced biological warfare?”
“For hundreds of years.”
“Torture?”
“Thousands of years.”
“Slavery?”
... | “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.”
Michael slipped two fingers under his clamp, Resettling it around his neck. This is going to be tricky. Then he raised his hand.
Now most species wore some kind of implants or translation devices, it was the only practical way t... | 2022-10-17T09:03:16 | 2022-10-17T07:25:14 | 100 | 38 |
[WP] Cupid isn't a cute little bow-and-arrow weilding cherub. He's a sniper, an assassin, orchestrating all measures of meetcutes and enemies-to-lovers set ups. For the past few weeks he's been tailing you, determined to make you fall in love. It's really been quite inconvenient. | A slightly different spin on the prompt, but on reading the prompt the first line sprang to mind
“God damn it Eros” I shouted as the pellet chinked off of the wall inches from my face. As usual I didn’t expect an answer, you’d think being the god of love would mean that he’d be looking to help more than just me. Unfor... | "Stacey, huh?" Cupid looked through the clipboard file of her personality resume. She was your coffee lovin' gal, the type of next-door neighbor cutie you would find finishing her workload at a Starbucks on her sticker-decorated Macbook.
"Relationship Attempts...zero. Number of Crushes...zero, save for that one time s... | 2022-11-13T20:18:29 | 2022-11-13T17:39:59 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You are an engineer specialising in repairing robotic androids, in a world where they have gained full awareness, and proclaimed their wish to co-exist with humanity, rather than wage war. Now, damaged androids keep coming to you for repairs, while referring to you as a doctor. | "Perhaps... perhaps it is finally my time." Said the andriod who'd been crushed by the loaded 650 ton construction dump truck. Most of his joints had practically ran out of hydraulic fluid and his energy core was fading quickly.
"Do not say that, while you are still here, we keep trying."
"Thank you, doctor, but I f... | Hello, I am an android designation number 90213-Myu-Alpha-Kappa, though I began to enjoy calling myself and being called Mac. I was born here, in the city of the future Machigan where humans and androids alike lived together in harmony.
Like many of us, I was created and subsequently began to be employed in The Factor... | 2022-11-19T21:47:27 | 2022-11-19T20:05:26 | 123 | 38 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | Mitchell stared nervously at the pentagram on his bedroom floor. he made sure everything was perfect for his new visitor. After arranging all the materials, Mitchell stood on the northernmost corner and began reciting the incantation. The floor beneath him twisted and morphed into a fiery black pit. From the pit rose a... | They say that to summon him, you need the blood of a hundred baby goats mixed with the sorrowful tears of a widow, and must sacrifice a six-year-old child on the altar to provide adequate sustenance for the devil's manifestation on this earth.
They're wrong. Because they don't get it like I do.
All you need to do to ... | 2014-07-20T08:32:52 | 2014-07-20T08:12:33 | 98 | 39 |
[WP]God answers all of your prayers, and only your prayers. God is also kind of a dick with a matching sense of humor. | Just last week, I prayed to God and told Him that I was broke.
I check my mailbox (His favorite method of divine delivery) and found a cash-filled envelope. When I opened it, I instead found a note:
"Hello Broke, I'm God!"
You know, I'm about tired of His shit. | "Hello God, I'm praying today because of all the inequality in the world. I just want everyone to be equal. Amen."
"Hello God, first of all, thanks for answering my previous prayer. It means a lot. But the results haven't been exactly what I had in mind. I know that the world is now experiencing equality for the fi... | 2015-02-13T01:00:12 | 2015-02-13T00:51:26 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | My mother said I popped out of her at 18:12. Well it was 18:11 and we are about to find out if her memories were accurate! One flippin more minute! I’ve literally been waiting for 18 years for this moment.
All my friends are already 18. They all have their superpowers. Do you know how hard it is to be the only ... | I woke up this morning and the pain in my throat was finally gone, the scream I let out two day ago...or was it three...tore up my vocal cords. The time between that scream and now is a jumble of crying, dark rooms, and kicking every family member out of my room as they tried to make contact with me. I swing my feet o... | 2015-03-28T05:44:51 | 2015-03-28T05:42:44 | 616 | 171 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | My mother said I popped out of her at 18:12. Well it was 18:11 and we are about to find out if her memories were accurate! One flippin more minute! I’ve literally been waiting for 18 years for this moment.
All my friends are already 18. They all have their superpowers. Do you know how hard it is to be the only ... | Light cascaded through the blinds of the first floor window of his parents home, waking him gently. Simon had been long awaiting this day; the day he'd learn his talent. Many of his friends had already found out their talents and it was just like he'd been told throughout his time in school and by his parents: "Your ... | 2015-03-28T05:44:51 | 2015-03-28T05:31:34 | 616 | 27 |
[WP] People are immortal and only die when accomplish their purpose in life. You are by far the oldest person alive. | I'm neither sad nor sick. I remain healthy in every sense of the word. Every morning, I would make tea, watch what’s on the news, and go around my estate to embrace the sun. After a while, I will head back to my office and write. If you ask me, I live a good life.
Indeed, I am living a good life. It took me 1,932 yea... | Ever since I was born, I always wanted to catch criminals and split their skulls open with a nightstick. That's why I joined the Boys in Blue, Chicago's finest civil enforcement unit. But I might as well have been a Girl Scout, for all the crooks I've seen.
"Dangit, Baloney," my boss pounded his desk with his nights... | 2015-04-16T02:48:29 | 2015-04-16T02:27:31 | 123 | 46 |
[WP] She was an arsonist. He was a firefighter. The romance was hot. The break up was explosive. | We met at the 32nd St.
It was an emergency call around midnight. A fire had gone loose at a complex. Families were trapped and pleading for help.
Fortunately, there were no casualties. The left wing was beyond repair but otherwise, the apartment was intact.
Among the survivors, though, was a woman who stood before t... | The door gave way after three swings of the fire axe, and Philip charged in. Even through his gear, he could feel the stinging heat of the fire on his skin. Somewhere behind him, another firefighter yelled that he didn't have to go in there; the place was abandoned. All they needed to do was keep the fire from spreadin... | 2015-07-17T08:53:46 | 2015-07-17T08:49:49 | 521 | 68 |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | 7:30 AM, the bell rings, and students shift in the halls, a mix of chatter, groaning, and sleepy faces. Yet instead of heading to math, the students sift into training exercises and duty stations for the day. The freshman, still bright-eyed in many ways , eagerly talk of getting to go on their first patrols over the su... | 10 dorky high school students traipsed unceremoniously in circles. They shambled about in a fashion nearly indistinguishable from that of the zombies outside, which they found to be so repelling and repulsive. The reason for their lackadaisical meandering is uncertain. See, I was one of those dorky teenagers that day a... | 2016-05-04T09:33:37 | 2016-05-04T06:21:52 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | "Ok. Just sit down and watch."
"Watch what?" I asked.
"Just watch, I want to know your opinion of this person."
"Fine." The screen flickers with a white flash and then shows darkness. "Um sir, I think this is broken."
"Hmm. It says here that the video length is about 2 seconds. Oddly short even if we show only the ... | In anger the fire swore at me. Foaming at the mouth,it lapped up the darkness of the room.
A man of average height entered the room and immediately flipped on a light switch by the door.
The room became cold, sterile, and revealed a layout resembling that of a doctors office. No fireplace, no ash, nor char was visible ... | 2016-05-11T00:40:55 | 2016-05-10T23:51:44 | 64 | 14 |
[WP] Today, I came to work, as usual. A little around 3 PM, I have noticed I don't remember my colleagues. Except for Kelly, who just sent me an email "Act normal, meet me downstairs. Now!" | *Four twenty-six.*
The numbers echo in my mind as I move through the sterile white corridors as quickly as possible. They make me nauseous. I hate them.
*Look straight ahead when you walk. Do not speak to anyone. Do not use the lift.*
I had printed out Kelly’s email and hid it in my pocket. She’s the only one who be... | Hey Reddit,
TIFU by accidentally making out with someone during an alien invasion.
I’m a 30 year old guy working at a company you’ve never heard of. I got into work earlier today and just loaded up Reddit first thing. Spent some time scrolling around the front page, messing around for fun. E-mails kept popping up in ... | 2016-09-16T09:18:38 | 2016-09-16T09:15:24 | 691 | 79 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | 'I see you want to go to hell?'
'Yeah, I'm pretty sure someone messed up. I shouldn't be here. I hate *everyone,* no one does anything out of line and no matter what I do, I'm forgiven immediately and there seems to be absolutely nothing I can do to cause trouble or upset, I've had enough.'
'Right... So, you've be... | The Gatekeeper walked into his office with his morning coffee. He wasn't looking forward to the routine of doing paperwork today, but it was his job. At least he had his coffee, black, bitter, and hot. He sat down to work on the applications that had been sent in. He didn't bother looking at the two baskets. One was ma... | 2016-09-29T00:47:27 | 2016-09-28T22:50:21 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | My first kill was a complete accident. I was working in the kitchen of *Le Franke*, the restaurant I cooked in. I was chopping some veggies for a dish when I felt a tap on my shoulder and a whisper in my ear. Startled, I whipped around only to find my knife stuck in the gut of my co-worker.
He looked down, then into ... | FADE IN:
INT. A CLOTHING STORE - DAY
*A bell above the shop's door rings as a young man walks through it. This is ALFORD. He looks to be about twenty-five years old, though his elegant clothing seems to be about a hundred years out-of-date.*
**WELDON:** (*O.S.*) Good morning! Make yourself comfortable, I won't be a ... | 2016-10-23T20:27:10 | 2016-10-23T19:45:15 | 287 | 71 |
[WP] In a world where Nordic mythology is the dominant religion Marvel comics made a superhero who is a God from Christian mythology called Jesus Christ. | ‘Where did they go?’ The barracks were empty, just as the mess hall had been. ‘It looks like they just dropped everything and left. How many soldiers are stationed here? ’
‘Around 500. But you cannot really call them soldiers. These are the most highly trained Airforce paratroopers around. You need about 20 of them to... | They call me Christ, the Redeemer. They do not know that I live in sin.
*Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?*
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I hung on the cross, and then I died. Three days later, I rose again.
I was not supposed to return. That was not part of His original plan.
For forty days and forty ... | 2016-11-01T07:09:00 | 2016-11-01T06:36:51 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A teenage boy teleports to a random location every 35,217th blink. He struggles to keep this secret.
I'm looking forward to what you guys (and girls) come up with from here. I'm hoping for at least 1,000 words. Side note: The average person blinks about 28 thousand times a day. | This date is a trainwreck. I'm calling it quits. *blink blink blink blink blink*
*"What happened?"*
"Just something in my eye."
*blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink bl... | Everyone has a secret smell. Perhaps it was the scent of the car that you snuck out in, one night - perhaps it was the smell of cheap booze and a humid summer night...but everyone knows how their biggest secret smells. And in time the smell becomes a fixed, unchanging memory, nothing more...something that fades in the ... | 2016-12-25T09:58:20 | 2016-12-25T04:46:23 | 750 | 409 |
[WP]You realize you've misheard your daughter. There's actually a mobster under her bed. | God if I have to make another trip up these stairs. It's easy for her, she's still so young, but every time she yells I've got to make this damn walk and tell her everything is fine.
It's hard enough to even hear her bellowing. I worked the best part of my life in a factory, with the clang of machinery. Don't even th... | "Daddy! There's a mobster under my bed"
"Daddy! Come!! Daddy"
"Here we go again" - I said to my wife as I rolled my eyes.
Little Cassie had been having nightmares for three straight days. Screaming about terrible monsters haunting her in her dreams. She seemed to have a knack for waking me up at 3 a.m. I couldn't h... | 2017-02-06T23:07:20 | 2017-02-06T21:56:15 | 71 | 11 |
[WP] You are trying to hold together an empire so big that no man can travel through it in a livetime. From what you hear, it keeps expanding. | “You have a meeting with Governor Xai soon Sir.”
I look up from the agriculture rapport that I have been reading, it seems like most of my time that’s all I do. Read about farming and meet with people I don’t even know. Sometimes I wonder if it might have been better if I never got into power, if I never betrayed my b... | [ok guys, I thought this was really good and it's kinda making me irrationally mad that clearly isn't seen as the case. So give some critism here, was it the spelling mostakes?]
This is bullshit. Fucking bullshit. I didn't ask to be leader but I rose to the challenge and did my best, I made mistakes, I was upfront abo... | 2017-05-21T05:58:40 | 2017-05-21T04:23:44 | 103 | 10 |
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