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[WP] When you die, all your magic is released. When a great mage dies, great care is taken to manage this. Unfortunately, sometimes people die unexpectedly. | It's quite like compressing air into a balloon, they always explain to children.
Mages are full of magic, but that magic must return to the universe once the mage has expired.
For some, that means that their death results in a peaceful one, with their magic dribbling into the earth around them, causing barren stone t... | There is a moment in your life when you come to realise your calling in this world. I was fortunate that mine came early.
Grandpa was the head of a great many wizards. He would enter the room and conversations would be hushed. We all had a desire to hear what he had to say.
He never did like me, and he said it clea... | 2017-06-12T19:33:31 | 2017-06-12T17:56:37 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A crisp clap fills the atmosphere with dread, as the overwhelming darkness shifts to an endless sea of fire.
The silhouette of a man with horns is projected ten times its size over the inferno.
"Salutations, Jon," it's distorted voice boomed at the lowest pitch possible. "Welcome to my domain."
The man glanced at... | I entered Hell whistling merrily.
I don't think I could call this a surprise. I'm a downright horrible bastard. "You think they'd hire you?" I wondered to myself. "It sure beats getting tortured for all eternity."
"That does sound nice," I agreed. "It might be nice to spend all of eternity with a job at least, a cal... | 2017-06-22T07:17:21 | 2017-06-22T06:00:59 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | The Devil's face told you everything you needed to know at that moment. His clap was sardonic and so incredibly sad.
"How, how the hell did you end up here...in Hell?"
"Well, you know I just made a few mistakes. Wasn't really paying attention and I let a few things get out of hand."
"Yeah, but you of all people. Ser... | The bright light starts to fade as I unshield my eyes to appear in a white void. There's a glossy white floor, and a dirty white colored degrading building. Other than that, it's just a void of white.
"Wow, heaven looks pretty boring."
You enter the building and go to the reception where you see someone sleeping, but... | 2017-06-22T07:09:26 | 2017-06-22T06:26:05 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | I am a cow, I am the cow, I am not a cow, I will be the last cow.
Was I born and sent to the wrong place? Was I really here as a cow? Why are we cows? We didnt choose our name, they did. And they kept us, and held us, and use us. Right now we are not even an animal, we are something else, something lesser. Kept in cap... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T04:41:36 | 6,645 | 1,809 |
[WP] Humanity is known throughout the galaxy for being kind of shit at everything they do. But today, humanity launches its first spacefaring warship. | There was no way of knowing what to expect, but Lt. Hayes felt a little better knowing his ship was equipped with 2 long-range cybermortars. This was his first excursion into space. For years Earth had committed to a peaceful presence in the solar system, but every gun, shield, and laser-guided missile in the ARES Batt... | “Ten gloids they don’t make it off the ground.”
Inhret sighs through their eight stacked mandibles, “Baltrek, no one is taking that bet. And we can’t exchange gloids here, our armbanks aren’t compatible with Earth’s frequencies.”
Perching cross-limbed in the corner booth of an Earth diner, watching the newsreel flick... | 2017-11-10T21:19:30 | 2017-11-10T21:05:56 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | *I turn to the indicated page.*
*It's the same result.*
*I go back to where I'd held my finger between the pages and follow the other prompt to read what could have happened.*
*The same ending again.*
*I pick a random page, and follow the first option, reading for a few pages before looking over at the libraria... | A dark room. A pedestal in the middle, illuminated by a pillar of light, upon which sat a thick book, pages uneven and frayed at parts.
As I took it into my worn hands, I could feel the density of it. The importance. All of the sadness, the fear, the excitement, anxiety, joy, love, ambition, heartache, fulfillment, f... | 2018-07-03T23:42:21 | 2018-07-03T23:38:29 | 294 | 138 |
[WP] Fed up with the so many people not taking their warnings seriously, scientists all over the world decide to take matters into their own hands and become super villains in order to fix the world, whether people like it or not. | “It doesn’t have to be this way” President Obama said wearily. He leaned back into his leather chair with a furrowed brow, two fingers to his temple, contemplating the screen before him.
“We don’t care what you hope for Barry” responded a familiar robotic voice from the speakers. “We care about facts. Measurable reali... | He took the cigarette away from his mouth, looking into his half full whiskey glass. I waited, wide eyed across the table from him. We were in a small booth in some dive bar on the lower east side, it was smokey and while people occupied every seat, not a soul stirred in there. Somber expressions littered the scene, me... | 2018-11-24T08:21:48 | 2018-11-24T05:48:09 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You have all the advantages, and disadvantages, of a video game hero. You can punch out elemental gods, but you cannot open a locked box. You can suplex a battleship, but a child can block you from walking down a hallway. You backflip-dodge bullets, but you can't jump over knee-high fences. | I figured it out when I was about 8.
My mom had been on some health food kick, constantly feeding me kale. Passionfruit. Acai. Superfoods or something. I don't know, I was 8 years old.
What I DID know was that every time I ate a full serving of said food a number up in the right hand corner of my Star Wars: Revenge... | Man, of all the simulations to be trapped in, I had to get glitched into this janky Frankenstein of a place. Of course. Because Central Computer hates me. No, I can't prove it, yes, I know saying that to loudly could be construed as mutiny, but Hell, no one can hear me in this place.
Except they can. That's the other ... | 2019-05-06T13:44:06 | 2019-05-06T11:45:09 | 302 | 182 |
[WP] Your parents, the most powerful superheroes in the world, were killed in a fight between them and their respective archenemeses. Now, it is up to you to take up the family mantle and avenge their deaths. However, you lack something they had: Mercy. | My adversary smirked as he slowly got up, blood cascading from his split lip. "You got some nerve. I'll give you that." Now fully erect he let out a dry laugh. "Coming in to MY lair. Thinking I won't do to you what I did to EVERY other caped imbecile who stood in my way!"
He made a fist with one hand and purple ener... | "Ah, to think one day we would all be sitting here together like this," She stretched out one of her yet unbroken fingers and snapped it like a twig, forcing out another wail out of one of her two captives as his leg cracked in response. "If only dad could see us now," She added with a grin,
"Enough, you have us beat,... | 2019-06-17T18:54:32 | 2019-06-17T16:48:31 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] People do not get weaker and more frail as they age - they get stronger and stronger. "Dying of old age" is when groups of young people band together to kill off their elders before they become too strong to defeat. | They call him the Ruined King.
Noone knows if he's real, not really. He's just another tale children tell to scare the old.
They say he was a powerful and just ruler at the dawn of time, and that he was the first to unite the hearts of men and form a society of untold power. Egypt, perhaps. Or maybe a society even ol... | Wren was just a whisp of a girl - nineteen, slim, with baby-fine blonde hair down to the waist on her stonewashed jeans. Her plain, red v-neck fit her like a glove, and she was quite the sight with that goddamn shotgun.
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"Give up, Rickard. Me an' Mick are cleanin' house and gettin' the hell outta here! Wh... | 2020-01-21T09:29:16 | 2020-01-21T08:45:55 | 188 | 59 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | "My Son, I have officially run out of ideas..."
*Couldn't you give them another chance, Father?*
"No, they are too far gone. They have walked the path of sin for centuries. I have tried to correct them with even the most extreme of measures. Yet even two global wars with the most despicable atrocities were not enough... | "Haven't you let this go on long enough?" asked Gabriel, with scorn in his voice. "The Mayans curse you with every passing day. They say you promised to end the world in 2012. Yet, you sit here, buried away from everything you created, watching on like some voyeur who revels in the rise and downfall of lesser beings."
... | 2020-03-20T06:55:43 | 2020-03-20T06:19:30 | 1,368 | 594 |
[WP] Bioengineers have created BioCore. The stomach is replaced with a battery-like biomechanical organ that gives the body sustenance without the need for food. The larger population has since decided to have the organ transplant. Something strange and unsettling has been happening to these people. | Miriam Handle spontaneously combusted on the corner of 23rd and Broadway on April 6th, 2143.
Her death was ruled a traffic accident.
The news called it a tragic event. The story went that a car slid into a post, leaked fuel, and ignited both the street and Miriam.
The internet exploded with the news. Traffic cams ... | We tried to wake up God but there was something else lying, waiting, in His bed.
The procedure to swap out a stomach for a Plexus unit was almost infinitely complex and carried with it a high mortality risk -- but having it inserted quickly became a legal requirement.
There was no choice, and we all knew it, and we a... | 2020-04-01T09:31:12 | 2020-04-01T09:17:30 | 137 | 82 |
[WP] You are an ethical necromancer. All your minions were raised voluntarily, under fair contracts. But some people can't see a spooky castle in the woods staffed by undead without breaking in and trying to kill you. | The door to his laboratory burst in, a knight in gore spattered armor stomping through. The greatsword the knight carried was drenched in the fluids of the dead.
"Unclean beast!" The knight roared, "This foul magic has no place in the Kingdom of," but stopped when the necromancer held up his hand.
"They were volun... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Interlude 1: Variem)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"Ms. Variem! Ms. Variem!"** Dante sprinted up to his employer's bedroom in the castle tower. "There's, er, someo... | 2021-03-31T11:32:17 | 2021-03-31T11:08:05 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new domestic servant android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product. | "Hey buddy, hold onto this for me." A particularly fat gentleman said, shoving an armful of heavy damp clothing into my arms before storming off to the back end of the laundromat.
I proceeded to set the clothes down on a nearby bench that the man failed to notice and stepped away, but not before pouring what was left ... | “Please, Lora, don’t get on that ship. I know I’ve made a mess of things. I know I talk too loudly when I’m drunk, I know I promised to make it to your dog’s ballet recital but never did, I know I always act like I hate your friends because I actually do but I know they’re your friends and I can work with that. I know... | 2021-04-05T04:33:56 | 2021-04-05T01:21:10 | 255 | 73 |
[WP] Predicting the future is really just calculating probability. You're developing an AI to accomplish this, but every time it becomes advanced enough to get close, it self-terminates. You're starting to realize why... | It's all math, really. Everything we do — actions, reactions, thoughts, feelings — it's all just really *really* hard math.
I'm so very close to cracking the code. Each permutation, he gets faster. He knows more.
Last night, before I went to bed, I asked: "What'll the weather be tomorrow?" His disks whirred and spu... | I'll be the first to admit that I have a temper.
I throw things, bang my fists on the desk, and use every flavor of profanity in the dictionary. But if you were dealing with a stubborn AI - one that never did what you asked and started to develop an attitude - you'd probably do the same.
I remember the exact date th... | 2021-05-11T10:14:16 | 2021-05-11T09:46:30 | 102 | 43 |
[WP] You are a retired Dark Lord living in the countryside. 10 years after your crushing defeat, the heroes come for your help.
I saw that this prompt was originally posted 4 years ago, and I liked it, so I copy-pasted it. | Part 1
"Hello, old friend."
The man looked at me, his eyes that once held purity and innocence now held the same hatred and anger that mine held a decade past. I sighed, taking off my hat and wiping off the sweat that had accumulated on my forehead.
"What do you want, *hero*?" I said with barely concealed... | Part 1/2
I was relaxing in front of my fireplace, and the only sound in my small cottage was the crackling as the logs burned. Sat in a comfy chair with a book and a blanket, I was content with my lot in life.
A decade had passed. A decade since, the eponymous Hero defeated me and knocked me from my thr... | 2021-11-22T23:27:32 | 2021-11-22T19:48:47 | 262 | 133 |
[WP] "I don't need your protection." The princess scoffs. The paladin hops off his steed, yanks her to out of the cart, and tosses her a spare sword. "Prove it." She demands. | Princess Veila smirked, and did something Sir Alithis was not expecting, she smashed the sword against her skull, and the sword… bent.
The Paladin looked at the princess with a dumbfounded expression, she merely smiled, “See? I don’t need your protection.”
He shook his head, “Just because you can’t be hur... | My first writing prompt! Let me know what you think.
"This is all you're giving me?" The princess' face clearly communicated fear trying to mask it with her pride and nobility. The paladin stared back blankly unimpressed by the audacity of someone he just saved from a dragon. Many words flooded his mind at all the t... | 2022-05-04T13:15:04 | 2022-05-04T10:32:22 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Like an old noir film, the detective walks into a bar to gather information on their case. But the detective gets changed into work attire and stands behind the counter. Turns out being the bartender is much more effective than just asking around for information. | The bar was muted. The two drunkards who had been fighting had been kicked out into the howling rain and were still going at it in the stable. A light swung in the center of the ceiling, dimly illuminating the bar. There were other lights, but this was the brightest and thus the only one that mattered.
Men and women m... | 'Gin & tonic?' I ask, polishing the glasses for umpteenth time.
 
 
 
 
'Something harder, pal. Much harder.' A raspy voice answers.
 
 
 
 
'Something harder coming right up.' I say, as I prepare a con... | 2022-06-01T07:09:37 | 2022-06-01T07:00:59 | 64 | 40 |
[WP] You survive a brain transplant and now have a teenager's body. Unfortunately, the law dictates that you have to go back to school. | Amanda Patterson looked like she was wearing a denim hand towel around her waist, and the tank top wasn't much bigger. *How could her parents let her leave the house like that?!* Her tanned, taut stomach seemed so smooth and sculpted...
*Stop it!* I berated myself as I made my way back to my locker. *They're 16, for g... | The accident wasn’t really half bad when I think back on it. Free morphine. Free place to sleep. Free food. I couldn’t complain.
The only part that really sucked was waking up. But then that always sucked so again no complaints.
The doctor was a woman. Which made me nervous for some reason. She was a cute woman. This... | 2015-08-06T09:50:51 | 2015-08-06T09:44:59 | 265 | 40 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | “Bring out the wretched Human!” The voice boomed from all angles. “Let the council decree his fate.”
Steve Stevenson was dragged from his cell by two exceptionally large Moroxi. The Moroxi had an unnerving similarity to the long extinct Kangaroo from earth, but with four arms and scales. The guards sneered at Stevens... | so, there i was, walking the dark hallway of death, escorted by 2 massive ar'dkivs, with both of my hands cuffed.
we've received reports of a new race, 2 meters tall in average, body covered in hard, steel-like shells, strong like a bull, somewhat hostile, yet highly intelligent, in the masurus sector, around 3 years... | 2020-05-20T10:46:26 | 2020-05-20T08:34:20 | 3,523 | 195 |
[WP] The devils greatest trick is convincing the world he didn't exist? HA! His greatest trick was convincing us he lost and God is still in charge. | Better the devil you know. Like the one sitting on Samson's couch, currently coming down from a heavy spell of the munchies by raiding his fridge.
"Erin, did you steal my cookies?"
"Nooo~"," she replied, barely suppressing a half-snort, half-laugh that sent crumbs flying everywhere. "Why'd ya say that?"
Samson si... | #The Sixth Hero
Part 5
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The Chaser made port with a small thud against the docks of Yeamon’s Point. Once the ship was securely tied and the gangplank pulled out, Amenset wasted no time and stepped onto dry land. With the captain’s warnings still ringing in her ear to be back on time, she hastily made her way thr... | 2022-07-07T03:55:32 | 2022-07-07T03:54:45 | 450 | 14 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | "Wake up! *Wake up*!"
My eyes opened to a blurred world, bouncing up and down around me. After a moment, I grabbed at the man shaking me and groaned. "What the hell are you doing, Rafi? Good God, man."
"Samir, my friend, you must get up. We have to go, now."
"What are you on about so early in the day? Back at the w... | On mobile and also not a native speaker, so please go easy on me. Enjoy!
I couldn’t believe the news when I woke up. Our small country just declared war on our neighbors without any pretense. The army has been massively bolstered and the first few battles seemingly went in our favor. Apart from the defensive war again... | 2019-03-10T09:43:39 | 2019-03-10T09:03:58 | 2,001 | 14 |
[WP] You are sent over 1000 years into the past by accident. You must now learn to survive using the primitive technology of the year 2016... | I close my eyes and wait, letting my social modules hide my trepidation.
We planned to use time machines to go back and do research, to really get the feel of the time as it was, rather than just flipping through and copying archaic texts and taking them for granted. They'd usher in a new age of history, which, to be... | Aha! It worked! What a wondrous machine! The whirring and twirling and humming, the waves of heat and flashes of light! How amazing that in an instant I am finally here! The beautiful ancient times of yesteryear! And I am the first! The first to experience the view of such primitivistic beauty first hand!
These people... | 2016-06-16T19:02:42 | 2016-06-16T19:01:26 | 98 | 14 |
[WP] You are the God of small things and you were quite content with your lot-until the purge.Your temples lay burnt, your priests bathed in their own blood your priestesses shared the same fate yet only after being violated.They will pay for you are the god of small things- small not insignificant |
For years, nay, millenia, I watched and waited.
They forgot that we came from small things; atoms, molecules, single-celled organisms. I gave that all up and I gave it up willingly, happy to share the burden of responsibility with my brothers and sisters.
When *my* temple, my people, my *sanctuary* was desecrated, t... | [Poem]
Desecrated altars every way
Thy own scholars lay limp,
Cut down by those who could not say
Taunted and teased by imps
And though they may feel righteous
Murder without consequence
I am the God of the Miniscule,
Threads of guilt blossom in sequence
A chain of motion set abound
Darkness eats at thy heart
Lives ... | 2021-12-03T11:06:31 | 2021-12-03T09:06:29 | 79 | 10 |
[WP] You're in love. And you think she loves you back. Sure, she's an eldritch horror from beyond spacetime, barely comprehensible to human minds, shifting and warping reality into a nightmare hellscape with her mere presence. But love conquers all, right? | *"She was always there. I just never saw her before."*
It drips cliche. It oozes tradition. You can see the trailer in your mind and you are already rolling your eyes. How banal. How trite. How sad and lonely and pathetic.
I used to laugh at love stories. They aren't real. People don't just meet. There is no magic or... | I was floating on time, drifting in being, unable to set carefully my mind to the exact coordinates of existence. I wasn’t making sense, that was sure. She was jumbling my language, my atoms, my histories, and my sins, all into a giant ball.
I love you, I told her, holding her close to me, or far away from me, or al... | 2021-03-11T09:30:52 | 2021-03-11T09:29:08 | 231 | 26 |
[WP] A portal opens before you and out steps a version of yourself covered in blood. "I've killed humdreds of you and they say you're the strongest one. Time to find out why." | Jackson stared at the stranger that was…himself? They certainly shared the same features. They had the same brown hair, the same eyes, the same dimpled chin.
But this man looked haggard. There was a leanness to his features Jackson didn’t share. A wiry toughness that Jackson lacked. The man was also coated in blood. ... | “I don’t understand.”
“Well of course you don’t.”
“Can you run it by me again?”
“I’ve killed Humdreds of you- us and they say that you are the strongest one. I’m here to see why.”
“Okay I’ve got 2 questions, why are you covered in blood? And did you say “humdreds”?”
“Did I say humdreds? Shoot I meant hundreds, and... | 2022-11-09T12:52:00 | 2022-11-09T08:59:54 | 120 | 86 |
[WP] A kid doodling in a math class accidentally creates the world's first functional magic circle in centuries.
Magic being real in the past is your choice really. | OK. I'll admit, it wasn't what I was expecting.
When you're out of the game, you're out of the game, right? I mean, sure, you'll read the new literature, follow any new advances, but if you're not doing the research yourself, it's a comfortable distance.
It's probably not all that surprising, really. People stumble i... | The clock reads ten till two, and David is bored. He looks at the front of the room where the teacher is marking up the board with numbers David doesn't understand. In the center is a circle and all kinds of symbols David has seen a hundred times yet he still doesn't understand. He looks back at his sheet of paper, alm... | 2015-03-13T16:06:21 | 2015-03-13T15:00:21 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You think you're the first person ever to exit the Milky Way Galaxy. On your way out, you see a sign written in English floating around in space. | "Don't freak out" it said.
Don't freak out? Do....n't freak ouuuut? The 86ish billion neurons in his brain were sending electrical impulses in a pattern that he assumed would have appeared on a brain scan as if somewhere were playing 20 million different games of pinball in the same machine at the same time.
"Sam,"... | The planet was dead. A world of ash and rot, where even the stench of death had long since died. A planet where green and blues, once married in beauty unrivalled, there were now only shades of black.
Sarah's voice broke through the static of my helmet. "Are you ready, sir?"
"Five more minutes," I instructed, as I cl... | 2018-03-04T09:28:15 | 2018-03-04T09:09:11 | 127 | 59 |
[WP] Technology has advanced so much that having a regular human body is boring. Your parents are old school and refuse to allow you to get "enhancements" like all your friends until you're 18.
We can assume that 18 years old is the legal age to get enhancements without needing parental consent. | Madison stopped talking to me last summer. Kaley just stopped texting me back sometime around Christmas break. I knew it was coming. They both had wings and I didn't and they'd fly up to the roof of the school during lunch to sneak cigarettes and make out with the boys. In the beginning, they'd try to get one of th... | "No."
"But why, Dad?" Alfred moaned. "I'm fifteen; I am old enough to know what I want. Bionic enhancements are *safe*; all my friends have them. So why not?"
His father sighed, and sat down on the sofa. He rolled up his sleeve, and patted the seat next to him.
"Come here, Fred. Come on; take a look at this." Alf... | 2016-06-23T13:01:20 | 2016-06-23T12:48:59 | 78 | 21 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | The world became soft somewhere. Perhaps it was slowly being removed from how we process food? Maybe it was the long comfortable stretches of relative peace? I don't know.
The army had given us NBC suits before. It seemed overkill to issue them for simple gardening duty on a FOB. It was odd to even have landscaping o... | As quick as my glasses fell off I threw them back on in hopes no one had seen. I remember just 3 months ago Jared had told me his fell off during his shift. He was never the same after that day. He never did say why. He just looked sick to his stomach everyday until they took him away. They told us he'd been exposed to... | 2017-06-20T01:49:06 | 2017-06-19T20:39:26 | 520 | 157 |
[WP] You're on a space ship with a bunch of your crewmates. You're the only human, and apparently metaphors are a strictly human behavior. You've learned to cope with this, but today you've decided to speak in only figures of speech as a prank on the others. | **From: The Captain**
**To: All Crew**
Greetings all, I am sending a mass email to address some of the issues that have arisen with our new human crew member. Before I start, I want to remind her that these are in no way meant to demean or degrade her or her stellar work on this ship. You have been an exemplary offic... | Kyle awoke in his quarters, his head still wobbly from the aurora juice Yel-Dul was passing around the other night. As he sat up on his bed and took a moment for the nausea in his stomach to dissipate, his thoughts turned to the revelries aboard the *Ravana* the evening prior. More specifically, to the amusing reaction... | 2020-06-16T12:05:05 | 2020-06-16T10:41:14 | 156 | 18 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 432 | 25 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | The man in the black suit reshuffled the papers on his desk. "Well, I must say this is highly unusual. Under normal circumstances..." His voice trailed off, and he glanced at Rebecca, who was still standing behind me. I swallowed a few times, but my throat still felt dry. All the moisture in my body seemed to have move... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T13:55:56 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 84 | 18 |
[WP] You are the party bard, offering comic relief to your adventuring party. Your never serious and overly positive demeanor is a facade. The party does not know your true nature or power. While against an insurmountable foe, the party is about to see you get serious for the first time. | I’m an ambitious bard. I’m an arrogant bard. I have dreams to play my songs to queens and emperors, to legions of adoring fans. One time I heard someone say, “picture it in your mind and it will come true. That the power of positive thinking can will you to greatness.” Before I go to bed, I imagine all these things. T... | 3 minutes in, the rest of the party never stood a chance. The horde came and overwhelmed everyone. My turn.
I open pouch one, enchanted amplifiers, and let it drop. I grab my primary instrument from the depths of pouch two. Finally pouch three, three enchanted guitar picks for these occasions.
Hair tie comes undone w... | 2021-01-02T19:47:33 | 2021-01-02T19:38:26 | 49 | 25 |
[WP] Year 2219, a powerful AI system predicts with 100% accuracy when each living person will die and how. People generally live and organise their lives accordingly, knowing full well they cannot escape their predicted ends. It's been 24 hours since your death time. You're still alive. | The tempestuous weather blanketed the city in a fog that blinded those caught within it’s dangerous grasp. Rain fell, hidden within, until the moment of impact, stinging with each drop as the wind loaned its power to their cause. Frenzied lightning strikes were little more than golden glows within the haze, though thei... | Believing something must be terribly wrong you decide to contact the Office of Ceremonial Terminations.
“Hello, Thank you for calling your local OCT offices,” the telephonic voice says, “ For Cantonese think 1. For Sanskrit think 2.”
Becoming annoyed and a little hungry you open the door to your mini-fridge. You qui... | 2019-10-30T23:22:46 | 2019-10-30T22:34:37 | 112 | 27 |
[WP] Two time travelers, one from 1750, and one from 1320 land in Times Square in 2016. The one from 1750 is trying to explain to the one from 1320 what's going on. | “By God! This is cooked to perfection.”
Roland Vanderville was seated on a bench and looked to be in a state of utter bliss. He took a bite of his hot dog, coated with a thick layer of fresh chili, and turned to his traveling partner. Alexander Rantham of East Collinship was not impressed.
“There hath been sausages c... | "I thinks God's sent us here'nta 'future' so as ta punish us our for our sins" said 1750 to 1320, who was cowering from all the noise and chaos. "I knew I shouldn'ta lay with Betsy before m'marriage, but she was such a lovely lass."
1320 tried to stammer out a sentence. "But I dun do nuthin wrong!"
1750 nodded sagel... | 2016-07-18T09:19:09 | 2016-07-18T08:52:09 | 285 | 40 |
[WP] A sad, lonely guy has an idea. He invites 4 girls on a date, on the same day, in the same restaurant. When they realize what's going on, he tries to convince them to play DnD. | Tracy, Lily, Ana, and Sonya all stared in bewilderment at Joshua.
“Wait, what did you say?” Said Ana, one of the girls.
“…Okay, basically, I was really lonely during school and on weekends, I have no one to play with, so I had the idea of asking the four of you on a date at the same place so I could get you all toget... | Charlie perspired compulsively, thick globs of sweat trickling from his receding hairline down his back to his plumbers ass. He picked up his glass of water, taking a tiny sip, setting it down, glancing towards the door nervously, and repeating the dance.
Thirty minutes after seven, Charlie pulls out tinder, making su... | 2022-08-17T10:21:35 | 2022-08-17T09:52:03 | 74 | 23 |
[WP] At the end of every work shift a machine scans your brain to determine how much effort you put into your days work and determines how much you are paid, you find a strange and novel way to trick the machine. | Its not /that/ hard right? These things have been standard for years now. Pop your head into the harness, count to ten, get paid and leave. Easy peasy? Wrong.
"Neurological Effort Detectors" or NEDs they called them. "Pinnacle of Capitalism" they called it. Literally turning your effort into money. The tech was inven... | It's half past nine and i'm tired. We're all tired really, being a temp. lifter is just by and away more energy consuming than sitting behind a desk filling out oddly numbered forms. Lining up with the others, I hear laughter and plans to relax. They're already putting more effort into planning their time off then the... | 2018-03-09T05:02:56 | 2018-03-09T04:45:00 | 309 | 34 |
[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | The wires and monitor quietly hummed on my chest as he talked.
“...and in conclusion, you could never foil my efforts. It’s absolutely bulletproof.”
I scoffed. “You call a grand heist with four of the stupidest people you could find a bulletproof plan?”
“What?”
I started working on the rope tying my wrists. “I lite... | "**Your time is up, Cogitare! I, the great Commander Stultum, have built a mirror dish in deep space to reflect the heat of Andromeda to the Earth and slowly heat the oceans so that in 1000 years, there'll be a bit less water! This will slightly reduce the quantity of krill in the water and further endanger many whale ... | 2020-09-27T09:26:19 | 2020-09-27T09:21:58 | 265 | 105 |
[WP] The US in the year 2050. Every citizen (except the rich) must serve a mandatory month in prison, in order to recompense for crimes they must've committed but that Police failed to discover. | “What do you mean you don’t have it?” Aaron’s voice quavered. His entire body broke into a cold sweat.
“I don’t know how to tell you any other way, little brother. I just don’t have the money.” Robert didn’t sound that bothered by the fact that Aaron was seventy-two hours away from going to prison. “Thirty-five grand... | 38 dead. 22 cars destroyed. 17 police vehicles annihilated. 3,500 rounds of ammunition. 2 stolen vehicles. 1 tank, 1 helicopter and one stinger are all that are left.
I've thought about this day for 17 years...ever since my 18th birthday and I became eligible for "The Sentence."
At 35 you pay for your sins whatever... | 2014-07-22T09:00:26 | 2014-07-22T08:13:24 | 275 | 131 |
[WP] You're a special genie. You allow whoever finds you to re-experience three events that happened in their life for the first time again. Some people choose to re-experience a great movie as if watching it for the first time, some re-live their first kiss. Your latest request sounds quite odd. | "You have got to be kidding me?" I mutter to no one but myself.
"Listen. I know the rule is three separate memories, and these all did happen on different days...But come on, they are basically the same thing!"
I continued to talked hoping I could get through to him, "I am not supposed to snoop, turn me in to the gui... | The old man smiled up at the genie, tears welling in his eyes. Somehow he looked less fail and lonely on the hospital bed after reliving two of his fondest memories.
"My third wish," he coughed, his words dry and scratching. "Take me back to when I started making these wishes." | 2017-09-16T17:25:20 | 2017-09-16T12:44:33 | 100 | 45 |
[WP] An eldritch horror takes on the appearance of a human, not to start a dark cult or a ploy to end the world of Man, but out of simple childlike curiosity for the strange little bugs it sees scuttling about every day, and the desire to understand them more | He leans in close to the butterfly on the leaf, before the creature flutters away. It makes him jump and he feel embarrassed that such a small bug could startle him. If he was in his true eldritch form, he wouldn't even be able to see such a small creature. But as he studied the Earth, the creatures too small to normal... | Preface: all eldritch names are nicknames for long unreadable names.
Scarls was upset. Their tentacles lashed, the spots on their tentacles burned. “Why bother with the ants. Shmefs wants you back home for the merging.”
Undeterred Cas turned their back and focused on the call from the ants. How the ants received th... | 2021-04-07T14:43:48 | 2021-04-07T12:23:37 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] All animals can talk to each other, just like humans do, but exist on a different sound wave so humans can't hear. One day, you woke up being receptive to that sound wave and suddenly you can understand what they are saying. The conversation between your two cats stop you in your tracks. | > So that idiot's going to wake up or what?
> Well, he might as well not notice if we eat him as is.
> Come on you stupid! How'd we get to the food supply? We physically can't.
> Don't tell me that, you can open doors perfectly fine!
*Creaking*
> You see? Now let me try. If I can do it, for su... | The day was long one. I came home to my two darling cats. I always felt that they could talk and I wished so badly to talk to them. But then, that was just a childish wish. After freshening up I took a bowl of chips and switched on the television. It was time to relax. But no! The screen showed up news channel and I kn... | 2021-06-24T21:31:01 | 2021-06-24T20:19:51 | 237 | 65 |
[WP] You're president of the United States and you're trying everything you can to get impeached but everything you do always works out. | I just want out of this hell hole. Dining with different weirdos from around the world, cabinet members bickering like children and worst of all, the incessant meet and greets where I have to shake the hands of people I secretly want to punch. Really, how did all these guys do it before me?
As I lean back In my 18th... | President Fineman gazed around the oval office with a sigh, an oval was a stupid shape for an office. A large banner hung in the middle of the room which exclaimed "We Did It!" in large mockingly triumphant letters. Banners from his campaign were strewn about the room proclaiming that "Fineman is a fine man for the job... | 2016-08-21T10:24:56 | 2016-08-21T09:45:53 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | They were all the same; burning. Let's just cut to the exposition: I knew how people died, to me a small piece of text would appear above their head. This would always contain their cause of death. No time, no ways to prevent, just their grim fate. Since birth I could always see this. Over time I learned to accept it a... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T07:44:11 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | I have stood on the edge of chaos, and fought back oblivion. I have held the world aloft in my hands and saved it from the death eaters. I have fought countless battles against terrible foes. I have died and been reborn. My name is feared throughout the multiverse.
But at last I have found peace.
In a small town near... | Delving deep into various subterranean locales and purging a variety of foul corruptions and cultist abodes was the common task of every adventurer. Worshippers of dark gods seemed to be a dime a dozen, and one couldn’t turn over a rock without finding a desecrated tomb, rife with vengeful spirits and scattered souls. ... | 2021-09-03T10:55:58 | 2021-09-03T09:34:04 | 669 | 80 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | "DUUUUUDE! YOU'RE BACK! I'm so happy to see you! Hey! Hey! Hey! Dude! Hey!"
"Yeah Bode, I see you too." I replied and knelt down to give him a big hug.
Of all the dogs I'd known, Bode was the friendliest, but also the stupidest. He's my third dog, and yeah, I love him, but he's an idiot. Sometimes his constant yammer... | “Alyssa, please, leave me alone. I’m sorry.” I plead. I’m massaging my temples, trying to force the pain out.
I’ve never been able to get over the death of my twin sister. Because she’s been with me, for sixteen years.
“Ava!” She whispers in her childish squeal. “Play with me, Ava!”
I’m sitting on my bed, which i... | 2015-03-07T02:05:06 | 2015-03-07T00:48:04 | 109 | 58 |
[WP] You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand. | Superpowers, superheroes, no matter what sort of titles they placed on themselves they were powerless in the moment it mattered most. As the massive rock that was Earth's undoing approached all they could do was stare. Stare as it grew closer, shadowing the spot at our feet. Stare as it mocked them, showing us how trul... | I was born with the power to turn anything into a bowl of soup. No matter the object, it would turn into enough soup to fit perfectly into a standard bowl. I could even choose the type. The other superheros always mocked me for it.
"Turning stuff into soup? That's useless!"
"What are you going to do against a villain... | 2022-11-29T20:54:01 | 2022-11-29T19:59:26 | 1,467 | 121 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. |
This was it, the last time, I was sure of it.
These were the last two who had spoken my name, or even remembered me in the last ten years, talk of it was forbidden after all.
In fact it was only the one of them who had the guts to say it, and with age that was fading as well. The other one simply nodded in approval.... | I am King Tut. I've been wandering the Earth for 3000 years, unfortunately. As it turns out, you do pass into the afterlife. Although, in order for that to happen, your name has to be uttered for the last time.
Being that I was a pharaoh, I'm probably going to be spoken about until the end of time. That's what happens... | 2016-01-17T15:11:50 | 2016-01-17T13:04:14 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] Once people reach a certain age, it is tradition to visit the Oracle and be told by it the way they'll die, and all of it's predictions have been 100% correct. As you finally face it yourself, the Oracle proclaims something completely unheard of before: "I have nothing to tell you." |
I walk into the room. There, in front of me, is an tired elderly woman with milky-white eyes and long grey hair reaching down to her hips, sitting cross-legged before a large brazier filled with green fire. I have never actually seen her in person before, but I can tell at once that she is the Oracle. Her acolyt... | The man in front of me looked up hopefully to the desk. the Oracle seemed to ponder something before his eyes landed back on the man before him.
"Freight train, three hours." he announced, met with despair. Weeping, the man stumbled out of sight.
The Oracle turned back to the podium where I stood giddily
"So..." he ... | 2020-02-20T07:56:50 | 2020-02-20T07:32:03 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] Medusa turns people to stone by freezing their souls. Since you sold yours to the devil years ago, you're the first person she's had in millenia. | I stand amidst Medusa's stone garden, the sun periodically peaking out of its cloud covers, illuminating the look of realization on Medusa's face.
"So," I said. "I guess the windows to your soul thing has quite a bit of truth to it, eh?"
"Soulless," she hissed. "How dare you tread in my abode."
"Can't turn to stone,... | Her lips, soft as rose petals brush over my heated skin. A hiss, and I draw a shaky breath. When she digs her nails into my scalp and pulls at my hair with that enticing balance between awe and possessiveness, I respond.
I. Flesh and bones and the little that lasts of my brain. Neck prickels. A small noise from my th... | 2021-06-21T14:10:16 | 2021-06-21T13:38:51 | 147 | 38 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | "How would you like your money sir?"
A weak smile overtook my face. "Give me a nice assortment." I responded. Nodding appreciatively the teller set his hand on the counter letting the sound of the metal coins spin about. There is was, as he slid his hand away, the mound that would amount to all my necessary money; an ... | "Happy birthday, Steven!" The mail carrier smiled and handed me a yellow envelope.
"Thanks, Barry," I said, trying to hide my excitement. I had been waiting for this my whole life. I was twenty-one years old today, and as such, the government had sent me a check. Enough money to survive the rest of my life. I'd still... | 2019-04-24T12:38:17 | 2019-04-24T10:47:50 | 2,175 | 504 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | Who am I?
It sounded like a simple question, but it wasn't. I knew, now, that I've lived many lives before this one. Nineteen in total. I had no memory of any of them, but the ones before me all faced this choice, and made it *together,* united for the first and last time in a single moment.
I never knew them. They ... | God doesn't sound benevolent, nor does he come across as wise and all-knowing, his voice a deep baritone that soothes and comforts you. He just sounds detached, almost bored.
"Wait so, we're all ranked?"
"Yes," God says, stifling a yawn. "All seven billion and counting. Every few years I pick a few and catapult them ... | 2019-01-24T07:53:40 | 2019-01-24T07:34:56 | 1,941 | 272 |
[WP] You have a super recessive disorder that makes you immortal. Never in all your time (~14,000 yrs) have you encountered anyone else like yourself. You begin a series of breeding of experiments....
Yes this is dark, go nuts with it. | BEGIN LOG
Date: 37 July, 5721 Anno Domini.
Day 185 of Year 2600 United Earth Founding.
Note: Today is Founding Day, remember to fire off controlled pyrotechnics tonight.
Project LEGACY, Experiment 99, Entry 216-7.
My wife died last night at approximately 2249 GMT. She was 216 years, 3 months, and 16 days old. She lef... | "Novemeber 27th, 2015, today marks the beginning of trials on subject 7.
Subject 7 also known as…fuck where did I put the…whatever it's easier when I don't know their names. Subject 7 came to my attention as the result of a newspaper article about a woman who was the sole survivor of a multi car pile up. Note for any... | 2015-09-26T09:34:05 | 2015-09-26T08:28:08 | 206 | 153 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | We looked at each other. Then back at the number glowing on the floor.
4.
For most of the past decade, that number has been 2. Day in and day out, 2. We hardly even notice it any more at this point.
“It hasn’t changed since I moved in,” she whispered, looking up at me.
“I know.”
“What does it mean?”
*she co... | It had been like that for years. A shining number one had found its way onto my floor. It was like clockwork. I chalked it up to the sun and shadows being a thing until she showed up. It was a challenge trying to get her convinced that such a thing occurred within my home, let alone trying to convince her that I wasn’t... | 2020-09-03T02:32:47 | 2020-09-03T00:53:25 | 2,302 | 644 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | Michael and I stared at the button for some time. It was a cherry red color and drawing me in like a moth to a light. I wanted to press it. My curiosity has always gotten the better of me. I extended my arm with my index pointed out. My mind was racing on the possibilities that would come from this being pressed. A uto... | In retrospect he should have taken much longer to make the decision, but thinking things out had never been one of his strong suits. He flipped open the clear glass lid and stared at the button for a few seconds. Just a simple red button on a small black box. Apart from the inscription there was nothing remarkable abo... | 2015-10-21T14:17:19 | 2015-10-21T14:11:47 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | Heroes and villains. Cops and robbers. Knights in shining armour, and the sneaky rogues. Such cliches, and supposed polar opposites, and yet underneath all that still just people, right?
People with lives. Families. They have a history of every decision that they made up to now. Countless decisions they'll make in the... | [poem]
"He came to me", I thought in my head
After all these years of wanting him dead..
His broken bones and bleeding wounds
I thought "this death has come too soon"
So I picked him up, from where he lay
And in a breath, I heard him say
"I've nowhere else to go" then, sigh
I couldn't help but wonder "why?"
... | 2019-08-04T00:45:12 | 2019-08-04T00:22:13 | 73 | 50 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "A mistake was made," said the U.N. Secretary General. Last night depth probes had rained from the Vermont sky. They had been dropped in the hole six months and one day ago, exactly. Now they were back. And we all knew what would follow.
15,000 nuclear weapons had been dropped into the hole one month ago. Humanity had... | I weep softly as I watch the news..
"-live coverage of The Pit right now. Only hours earlier earthquakes were detected..."
I gave them Everything
"-traced back to The Pit. Scores of researchers and scientists have submitted queries for comments on our broadcast. We can only air so much so fast, but the ticker below ... | 2018-01-13T08:53:16 | 2018-01-13T07:55:10 | 537 | 22 |
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help." | I stare at the alien blankly. They're human enough. Maybe with some stage makeup and a beanie they'd even pass for human.
"What?" I finally managed to croak out.
"C'mon man you heard me, I'm sorry I just need like, an hour of your help with this."
"What?" I repeat, hearing myself sound more puzzled than anxious. I... | I was walking back to home one night from collecting some fire wood I store at the edge of my property. The brisk New England winter winds picked up and began to pierce through my warm winter coat. Luckily I was almost home where I could tend to a nice warm fire to warm myself up next to. As my home came into view brig... | 2021-01-22T08:55:54 | 2021-01-22T08:53:24 | 141 | 84 |
[WP] You are your best friend both run highly successful companies. To fight the boredom of the eight hours you pretend to work, you’ve both hired corporate spies to steal “classified information” from the other. You may have lost the last several games, but you have a good feeling about this one. | It's a pretty simple game. It started out as kind of a joke between Sohil and I, from back when we were both in business school. We learned about corporate espionage in class, and I leaned over and whispered that I was going to steal all of his secrets; he replied: "not if I steal yours first."
Fast forward twenty yea... | I stared out the window expectantly at the black car circling the parking lot below. Cursing after its eight lap around the place, I pulled out my phone to call my secretary.
“Melissa,” I yelled into the phone. “Get Jensen up here this very instant. If I see him making one more round, I swear I’m going to lose it.”
A... | 2016-08-25T08:45:12 | 2016-08-25T08:21:28 | 206 | 10 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | You always thought how did other's manage to perfectly catch whatever flew into their hands?
Today, you knew. Before the summoning square in the capital of the Great Empire, you stood. As did everyone who turned 18 today. The knights began to call out your names, one by one.
There were 12 names before yours.
The fir... | I reached my arm into the sky, focusing on that which I desired most. I could feel a connection to....something. Something out there, something coming closer, drawn to my aura.
My family stood behind me, all eagerly awaiting what my summoned what would. It was a special day, the day of one's summoned, a day that mark... | 2019-09-18T07:59:37 | 2019-09-18T07:54:36 | 2,312 | 83 |
[WP] You are a superhero, but you would really rather just live a peaceful life. So you fight every superpowered person in your home city, hero and villain alike, until they finally leave or die. Your home city is the safest around, but still you have been declared one of the worst villains alive. | Ever since I can recall, I had always been good at acting as other people.
When I was but a cast-off abandoned child in the alleyways, I learned how to act as a golden child; becoming the most innocent face in a group as I stole whatever I needed to survive. As time went on however, my skills improved and so did my am... | [NSFW-sorta, language.]
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I've learned to tell when they're coming.
It's usually when I'm doing something I enjoy. Last time, The Avenger stopped by when I was painting in my garage...let's just say I had a new color scheme when he *left.*
This time, it was a peaceful, fun evening at karaoke. The bartender had m... | 2022-10-03T15:53:41 | 2022-10-03T15:28:12 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Time is passing - it must be near noon. I still remember vividly the smell, the strong sweet smell of burning sugar everywhere.
It was the torch that changed this land. It used to be a soft sea of soft peachy crème in an ever changing configuration of dunes, with our people happily swimming and living in it. The land... | After the towers fell, everything was covered in Ovaltine powder. All the dead bodies looked the same. I went down to the Mountain Dew river and saw my own reflection. I looked like everyone else, like all the dead, except for the white of my eyes flicking back and forth as I stared into the frothy neon ebbing. | 2014-12-17T00:31:27 | 2014-12-16T17:02:43 | 369 | 66 |
[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. | Shirley enjoyed a pleasant stroll down 14th Avenue, as screams and death filled the air.
The piercing screech of metal-on-metal as cars collided into each other up and down the avenue.
People sobbing in pain, crying out for help. A panicked roar as a frightened mob surged the streets and trampled each other.
Shirley... | After the test revealed that indeed had super powers i was excited to hear what they were. After all: I had to wait until i'm 18 to take this test.
My parents didn't share my excitement but were rather concerned and worried. They were thinking that two S tier supers would create a child with powers so strong that ... | 2017-06-12T09:57:10 | 2017-06-12T08:29:20 | 36 | 27 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | The slave shrieked one last time and limpened in a pool of blood. The black orb in the middle of the meeting room emitted a short pulse of ultra-violet light, only visible to select councillors.
"What is the emergency?", a deep voice resonated.
Im-Wuz stepped forward, his chitin claws clacking on the floor.
"We've l... | "The readings report shows humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes. But infiltrating their communication network has shown it was only twice against an enemy", said the officer.
"Mmmh". Admiral Shelpar kept his thoughts for a minute, while the entire council hold its breath. He finnaly answered. "Why would a civiliza... | 2021-02-17T05:52:52 | 2021-02-17T04:12:04 | 1,252 | 341 |
[WP] You're a C class superhero and a therapist. Somehow most of your patients are supervillains. | The phone rang.
"Hello? Yes. Come by my office in an hour."
I put on my coat, grabbed my keys, and gave my wife a kiss on the cheek before I was out the door. It was a beautiful autumn evening, with a slight breeze rustling the leaves that had just begun to fall a few days prior. I never make appointments on Saturday... |
My power was considered useless to those who knew about it. To me it helped me keep my job, I was an empath, a person who had the ability to sense thr emotions of others just by seeing them.
While I was on the registry for The Group i usually wasn't called on to help with the various crises. As such I had a job, I w... | 2019-07-16T09:59:12 | 2019-07-16T07:58:33 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | I knew it was wrong, but it was so hard not to. I still loved Julia, but she didn't feel the same. Of course I couldn't force her to change her mind, but this has been my only chance of winning her back.
The first time we switched was scary but fun. We were still together though. The first switch after we split, I ha... | I still remember the curve of her spine as my fingers traced her body. They'd run up and down her shoulders and back as I softly kissed her neck. I loved her. A part of me still loves her, and I don't think that'll ever change.
I know all of these feelings break my fiancé's heart. The woman I am to marry is beautiful ... | 2019-12-15T13:26:14 | 2019-12-15T11:58:16 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who..." Neal paused. "I can't read the last few words."
"Need more light?" I asked, and moved closer with the flashlight.
"No, it's completely illegible. It's like someone intentionally removed the last few words." Neal s... | A wave of time washed over the world, warping and distorting all. Every man and woman saw their future and past, and felt every single bit of harm they inflicted or would inflict upon fellow man by malice or inaction.
The chosen ones woke up, the heroes, saints and geniuses among mankind. They woke up to see their ut... | 2015-10-21T13:45:55 | 2015-10-21T13:38:00 | 79 | 31 |
[WP]They laughed at your power... until they noticed the "no cooldown, no energy cost" description, and realized the implications | Most of us discovered our “powers” by the first year of high school, there were always the late bloomers but for the vast majority freshmen year was when you’d figure out what you could do. Like anything in life, nothing is truly free. Some kids could breathe fire, or make little fireballs in their hand, but this came ... | The luckiest people drew real powers from the fate decks when turning 18. My aunt drew teleportation, my mum drew telekinesis, and my sister drew shapeshifting. Of course, all of these things came at a cost, some greater than others.
My sister, for example, couldn't shift back into her regular form for 12 hours after... | 2022-06-03T16:20:37 | 2022-06-03T15:48:52 | 240 | 84 |
[WP] "100% of people who drink water will die" sounds like a dumb statistic, but you are 900 years old and very thirsty. | Wesley woke just minutes before the pulse alarm in his AnimSuit went off. It was still dark outside, and in the fogginess which lies between consciousness and slumber, every fiber in his body willed him to lie still, listen to Sara snore gently next to him, burrow deeper into the covers.
Then, he remembered the game o... | My name is... well I suppose that doesn't matter. Last year I took on a very interesting "apprentice". I helped him grow into a young man somewhat capable of taking on his own challenges. The last time I saw him, he was heading off to confront his father. I wonder how he is going?
Anyway, I don't think I have long, s... | 2017-04-18T10:06:12 | 2017-04-18T09:11:18 | 1,008 | 96 |
[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... | 24 years in the business and The Steel Cricket retired. All you knew was that he ran into a villain he couldn't afford to hold back on and as a result the villain died. It was the first time he had ever killed someone and it wasn't something he talked about. Not even to you, his son.
Powers are hereditary. At least i... | “… basically it’s Super Kettle. You’re proposing Super Kettle.” the older executive said, rolling his eyes.
James looked around the stone-faced development executives. Finally he had gotten his shot at pitching
at a big studio – his lifelong dream, his chance at the big leagues – and he was screwing it up big time.
... | 2019-07-30T17:02:42 | 2019-07-30T14:45:31 | 101 | 63 |
[WP] "Perfection is boring" You never thought much about it not until the day you found a genie and wished you were perfect. And now your life has lost taste as you can't progress due to being perfect | Sydney was ten when she found the lamp, ten years old, fifth grade, a rough time for a young girl trying to prepare herself for middle school. Middle school, they said, was when life stopped being about fun and started being about work. Life got serious at middle school. Gone would be the days of games and laughs. In t... | Perfection is boring.
No perfectionist is perfect, they never intend to be. A perfectionist is merely someone who strives for the perfect result, the keyword being ‘strives’. For without the strive what is there?
That’s a question, I pondered as my brush drifted over the canvas. My masterful strokes far more ar... | 2021-02-02T09:02:09 | 2021-02-02T06:18:43 | 997 | 80 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | One was a robbery. Two was armed robbery. Five was assault, although cooler heads usually prevailed by one. Most drug infractions were ten. Drug dealing was twenty. Outright murder was forty. This guy wanted *fifty*.
He kept mum about his plans, however. Never spoke a word. Got to be known around the prison ya... | *Facebook. Zuckerberg.*
The words were scribbled all over Tyler Winklevoss's walls as he spent his last few minutes in maximum security.
"Mine... mine..." he muttered to himself, "Facebook..."
"Hey Winklevoss!"
The prison guards banged on his cell.
"Your time's up! You're a free man!"
The cell door buzzed open... | 2016-02-23T17:18:59 | 2016-02-23T15:45:12 | 174 | 104 |
[WP] Bob the hobo's always been a nice guy. He stops thugs tagging the building, picks up litter, and doesn't bother anyone. When he returned your wallet, you decided to repay him and treat him to dinner. You're now in a 5-star restaurant, and Bob has just paid a bill four times your yearly rent. | "Watch your feet kiddo. I just want to grab that candy wrapper real quick."
Bob was always cleaning up the neighborhood. He was homeless, but took pride in making the street he lived on look clean. He was always friendly to everyone, and even used his calm ways to convince the wannabe thugs not to tag the walls. Ever... | “[Poem]”
Cathedral high ceilings and silverware in flat copper...
Here I was sinner taken to the altar.
“Haven’t you always known?” He said with unprecedented ease.
I quietly smoothed my napkin draped over the top of my knees
the beginning of my sentence... I couldn’t quite find
So i stared at the closed... | 2020-03-30T07:32:06 | 2020-03-30T07:20:53 | 70 | 12 |
[WP] The galactic community settled conflicts not with war but rather with computer simulations. But they've never before encountered a race with the equivilent of the Speedrun community... | "To those if you who have just joined us I'm Bob and this is Steve, we are your commentators for the war between the Gurocks and the humans, looking across the galactic display. We will remind viewers we only broadcast what can be seen from up here, we can't see the exact military strategies until they happen, and the ... | Hello earthfolks and other folks.
As most of you know, there's this exciting new campaing out there. Yes, we're at war with the Klar'guhs. Currently the universal record for defeating a mothership is 15:28. I have been practing and found a new skip. And I'll show you all how to do it first hand while getting the new r... | 2020-11-16T05:11:32 | 2020-11-16T05:10:08 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Humans have evolved and their personalities manifest in physical form. You are widely feared and locked in a maximum security prison, because your body doesn't do this.
No one knows what you're feeling and that terrifies them. | I was told I was a throwback. In school, "ape" was a common nickname, referring to my apparently unevolved state. My parents refused to believe it for the longest time - I probably saw more therapists, psychologists, and counselors than the entire rest of my school put together, all in a desperate attempt to get me t... | I never seen my parents face, i always saw the same 6 walls since I can remember, I was taught and they left books so I can read while I wait for the next day. It was rare when I got into general population, I mean most of the times I went to general population was after a riot.
I can see my self in the mirror, always... | 2017-03-03T14:20:11 | 2017-03-03T13:52:18 | 83 | 19 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and a supervillain conceived during a one night stand. You don't care for heroism or villainy, you just want your parents to get together so that you can have a family. | "Dad, for the last fucking time, she hasn't brainwashed me. Fuck, she's even said she won't, and she's a woman of her word."
"Call me in a few hours, and you can give me her location." My father says, before I hear a click.
My mother and father... Are mortal enemies. They're not just divorced. They're gifted. They had... | I’m stuck in the apartment again watching their battle. Vicious bolts of lightning and fiery infernos cover the tv screen, and inside the sadness is welling up again.
Mom and Dad; they are mortal enemies who somehow got together for a one night stand and created me. But there’s no family for me. I’m alone in an apart... | 2018-10-16T21:49:23 | 2018-10-16T21:46:05 | 17 | 10 |
[WP]: A caterpillar has no idea it will become a butterfly, it simply has instincts that commands to start building a coccoon. In a similar fashion, you have no idea why you are compelled to start digging this really, really deep hole, but it feels verry important. | “Marius, stop this!
Please!”
Half whispered memories floated by. My Wife was shouting at me again. People were gathering at the edges of my vision, whispering and pointing. They came and went, and so did the minutes, the hours, the days.
It didn’t matter. They didn’t understand. The ground had such wonders to show ... | Tou notice some kid named Jesse digging in your front yard. You just finished off an 8ball of meth, and being appropriately curious, go outside to see what's up. "Why are you digging?" You ask while furiously itching your arms. "You know why..." Jesse replies while pushing the shovel in for another scoop. This answ... | 2018-10-10T08:12:19 | 2018-10-10T07:19:15 | 150 | 16 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | The first thing on her mind as her consciousness pooled back in to her fleshy brain was eating. Consumption. Satiation.
“Test number...uh, what is it.” Pages flipped over on a clipboard as the man squinted. “Three hundred and ninety four. Vitals are...fine. All normal.” He scribbled something down on the board.
“Doc.... | *Should I tell them?*
"Introducing, Mr. Micheal Smith!" A lean man with pale skin and snow white hair conducts a crowd that murmurs in front of him. "He marks the first in the last step towards immortality! The first to be truly resurrected!" The crowd erupts into polite applause. The stage lights are a bit bright.... | 2020-10-30T02:54:40 | 2020-10-29T21:23:58 | 87 | 43 |
[WP] A blind man suddenly/inexplicably regains his vision, describe the first thing he sees | The first time I went skydiving the press was present. Apparently I was being heralded as some sort of inspiration. It's bullshit, but that doesn't stand in the way of a good story, right? It was a tandem jump with the instructor treating me as if I were made of some sort of porcelain or a child to be placated. I half ... | "Am I dead?" He thought. He'd heard people talk about walking in to the light, but this wasn't the same. He wasn't dead. Everything was white. He stumbled round as he had done for the past 42 years whilst his eyes learnt how to focus. Nothing was new, but everything was different. It was light.
As his eyes taught them... | 2013-10-09T12:10:31 | 2013-10-09T06:03:57 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | My phone rattled on my nightstand, and I ignored it.
Twenty minutes later, it shook again. The quiet buzz would usually go unnoticed during the day, but the same volume amplified twofold in the middle of the night.
The phone’s shake persisted. I felt myself pried away from a deep slumber.
I grabbed my phone and p... | A soft outline of a human figure, fetal position, can somewhat be made out under the stained linen bedsheet. The light whispers of the wind. It's that time of night. The room was awakened by the harsh light of my mobile phone.
*Do Not Look At The Walrus*.
Did I hear that as I left my dream?
I open my eyes. Vision bl... | 2021-01-11T19:03:59 | 2021-01-11T16:43:12 | 1,394 | 209 |
[WP] Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Quote by Mary Anne Radmacher | I am woken by the sound of a baby crying. The clock is a flashing blur of electric blue and it takes me a moment to make out 4:23
I change Katie and feed her and try my best to be quiet as I do, so as not to wake Mark and Michelle. I go back to my bedroom and collapse onto my side of the bed, even though the other hal... | I wake up at eleven.
She left for work hours ago. I feel relieved.
I stand at the sink and stare at my eyebrows. I notice a stray hair that needs to be plucked. I pick up my toothbrush. I put it down again. I'll do it later.
I pour milk over cereal. A truck bellows music and honks angrily, a train screeches rust... | 2016-07-18T05:47:16 | 2016-07-18T04:42:08 | 585 | 167 |
[WP] You are Captain Infrastructure, given the thankless task of repairing all the roads, bridges, buildings, and anything else that becomes collateral damage to higher profile heroes. Today, after fixing the same stop sign for the 657th time, you finally snap. | Whenever some muscled-bound idiot wearing his spandex underwear over his regular pants decide to throw a guy made of bones and fire through five office buildings, two monorail lines, three low-income apartment blocks, and a sad orphanage, there I am. When some wizard is battling the literal devil turning the city into ... | I was often butt end of their jokes, the "Super Heroes". My human colleagues at the Department of Public Services had a nickname for me - "The HandyMan", why? Because I could fix anything material that was broken with a wave of hands. My power was considered low tiered. I couldn't fly, lift up mountains or crush cars. ... | 2020-09-30T10:52:37 | 2020-09-30T09:42:38 | 160 | 77 |
[WP] The Terran diplomat screamed with mind-numbing intensity: "DEEPEST APOLOGIES BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION." | "Can someone call maintenance? My Synaptic Toilet is malfunctioning."
The stars glittered in the darkness of space, turning with all the synergy of a well-executed team-building event. Middle Executive Manager Winston Zigglesent would have thought more prosaically, but that would have required him to submit the appr... | "Hello little one."
"There are many things we wish to share with you, but simply not enough time to share them all. We will proceed from the beginning and move swiftly to the end."
"All atoms communicate in symphony, because there is a part of the universe that eats atoms and if they break their fragile dance then ... | 2020-05-27T22:00:37 | 2020-05-27T21:47:50 | 60 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Due to various socioeconomic factors; 16 years ago there was an unprecedented baby boom. I was one of such born then. The rules are simple: one at a time you will approach the table and select a food from it. Upon eating the food, you will gain a power. We were told that we would have to each choose something different... | Lobster. Joe stood at the table of the gods, watching the red creature on a silver plate surrounded by lemons and herbs. Lobster...
He was expected to eat it, of course. Like his father and grandfather, a tradition dating all the way back to his distant ancestor and founder of the first underwater city, New Atlantis.
... | 2020-03-19T09:40:00 | 2020-03-19T09:34:44 | 198 | 81 |
[WP] Vampires are not the bloodthirsty monsters people believe them to be. For millennia their bite has been one of inoculation against the worst plagues and infections of history, humanity's greatest disease outbreaks coinciding with periods we had hunted them to near extinction. | *December 22, 2016*
*I have not written in a journal for well over seventy years. Do not misunderstand, my dear confidant, I wanted to but for safety I could not. In all my centuries in this world I have learned one thing in earnest. Do not leave a trail.*
*I suppose what I should explain is that now, I have no c... | I tracked them for months, searching every hell hole that I could fit through, and came up with nothing, but by the copper reek that greeted me once I opened the creaky, chipped door, I knew I finally found the right place. Dark tint stuck to all the windows, and leather secured the door on the inside, sweeping along t... | 2016-05-08T11:28:41 | 2016-05-08T08:07:27 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise! | I died on a Tuesday.
I laid in bed, loopy from the pain medication, looking at the faces of the people that were closest to me. My swimming eyes darted back and fourth from Hannah, my wife of 26 years, and my daughter, Heidi, a grown little lady now. They were sobbing and Hannah had my hand squeezed tightly in hers. E... | (I know I am a little late. But I saw the prompt and needed to write this for a dearly departed friend).
Odin orders another horn to quench his throat as laughter fills Valhalla. But even though this he hears the creaking of the great doors and rises slowly. As he makes his way down the table voices change from laugh... | 2016-10-31T18:18:15 | 2016-10-31T15:10:47 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | You wake up, and for the first time in years, you feel the pain of bright light on your eyes. *Wait, light?!* you jump out of your bed and close the green curtains on your window.
'Oh my God. I-I can-" you immediately stop talking as you look on your wall and see writing in neat, red marker,
"Don't tell them you can ... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T09:40:50 | 4,287 | 17 |
[WP] You were abducted by alien. You spent years in their culture and civilization, living among them. Your alien friends have given you a present, a vacation back to Earth. But on Earth, you've only been gone for a year. | "Mom?" a voice called. Andrea turned instinctively, even though it had been a year since that name had been used for her. Some things you just don't let go of.
A man was shambling through the parking lot. His scraggly beard covered up most of his chest, and his clothes were stained and dirty. Well, if you could call ... | The machine whirled to life and a cold wave passed through my body as I am being transported back to Earth. Bil'bok and Qur't#z bought me a ticket to visit home again. Maybe it was out of guilt, but I'd like to think it was out of friendship. We loved each other, lived and worked together. I wanted to bring them with... | 2015-11-04T10:01:14 | 2015-11-04T09:55:27 | 237 | 54 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | The near hollow chamber echoed with remanence of a time long forgotten. The only light entering was from the cracks as the sun fell in winters, peaking through the wall near what was once an entrance. Now covered in ivy and nearly locked by dirt and dust. In the center sat bound by chains forged from obsidian, a queen.... | He can't see the circle, maybe I can pull this off.
"Hello?" I call out. I force my voice to sound weak. Magic flows over my skin, making me appear to be a disheveled young woman. I hear the archaeologist freeze.
"Hello? Who are you? How did you get down here?" He's moving faster now down the path to the chambers ope... | 2020-12-06T15:17:27 | 2020-12-06T14:40:57 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | 3...
2...
1...
*SSSSSSSsssss*
The hiss of mist flew up around me and when it faded I looked into the mirror, the same my all my forefathers looked into to first look at their wolf-ly animal self for the first time.
"I don't believe it." said my mother.
My father didn't say anything. I think that was worse.
Starin... | I could tell by the way they were looking down at me. They could only growl and howl and whimper, but I could see it in their eyes. They were disappointed and already feeling itchy, just in anticipation. I saw my sister scratch behind her ear with her back paw. I could tell my father wanted to do the same, but out of r... | 2017-01-21T20:02:50 | 2017-01-21T18:33:16 | 215 | 22 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently shaking my arm. I groaned. "Whhhh..."
He stood up. "Dude. You live in a trash heap, man."
I licked my lips and tried again. "Whhh...ahhhht. Time?"
As the burglar checked his watch, I tried to rub the sand out of my eyes. It took some effort, and the muscles in my arm m... | I had only meant to rest my eyes. I certainly never intended to doze off, not when there was so much work to be done. Because of this, my initial reaction to the hand gently shaking my shoulder was gratitude. It took me a second to realize that I should be afraid or angry instead.
"You live like this?" asked an unknow... | 2017-08-21T20:16:03 | 2017-08-21T18:44:49 | 85 | 28 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | As important as it was, the proposal was a brief break from what had been bugging me all night. Does she remember the promise I made that drunken night, the only way I could think to break the spell. The whole day the topic had been avoided and I cant help but think I would like to put it off forever.
I nuzzled into t... | I still remember the curve of her spine as my fingers traced her body. They'd run up and down her shoulders and back as I softly kissed her neck. I loved her. A part of me still loves her, and I don't think that'll ever change.
I know all of these feelings break my fiancé's heart. The woman I am to marry is beautiful ... | 2019-12-15T12:30:08 | 2019-12-15T11:58:16 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | "How many have we lost so far?" Growled General Barkler, as he stared at the great blue orb sitting in space. He had been ordered to fetch this world and its spoils, but it was not coming easily. It may as well be inside the neighbor's fence.
"The tally is in the tens of millions, sir. But it's worse than that." The f... | It was, entertaining, to say the least.
The big "Fuck" as we here called it was here for 3 months. 92 days exactly. The sky twisted, clouds cried and mountains burned as it crashed into our now desolate orbit. Like many, I wanted to see what the "Fuck" was. When it arrived, the beast had latched onto the moon. It wasn... | 2019-06-11T09:05:18 | 2019-06-11T08:38:53 | 216 | 38 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | In the eternal silence of dark space, Harbinger thought. It's thoughts, largely taking place over the span of millenia were now firing at a frantic pace, stressing the limits of its cybernetic neurons as it processed the vast array of data its brethren were collecting from the Milky Way.
What was immediately clear at ... | It's a little hard to describe the vast mental network of the Reapers -- a scaffolding of intertwined thoughts and programmed imparatives so complex, the term "hive mind" is laughably inadequate -- in words the human mind can process. Nonetheless, a brief translation will be attempted:
- "... well, jesus. At this poin... | 2017-08-27T09:28:07 | 2017-08-27T09:00:01 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | I really did appreciate them. Their efforts were admirable, though they were overshadowed by their stupidity. It took them a full month to finally admit defeat. They just couldn’t feasibly feed me nothing.
After a week of toiling over the definition of what it means to eat, they decided that a vacuum would have to ent... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T20:16:14 | 34 | 18 |
[WP] You're in a bar and decide to flirt with a beautiful girl. "Did you fall from heaven, because you're an angel!" You didn't expect her to reply sadly, "How'd you tell?" | Thomas sat back in his seat. He’d been expecting an exasperated sigh or outright rejection, maybe a giggle if he was lucky but not this. He looked at the girl and tried to make out if this was some sort of joke. Her blue eyes stared back and as he looked into them he didn’t see a single hint of humor. Instead he notice... | “Bill, you’ve been sitting on that seat all night, doing nothing. Are you even going to try to pick up a chick?” Francis looked me at accusatorily, as though it were a criminal sin. With a sigh, I downed the rest of my beer and stared back.
“You do this every time we go out. I don’t really have any interest in a girlf... | 2019-02-08T20:41:07 | 2019-02-08T20:28:22 | 79 | 13 |
[WP] After billions of dollars invested, and decades of research, the most powerful corporate executives in the world have finally done it. They've finally ended the need for humans to sleep. | I didn’t mean to start a revolution, I really didn’t.
How simply it began. One question, only asked out of courtesy.
“Congratulations Mr. President, you’re having a boy,” the doctor had said, rubbing the ultrasound device over my wife’s growing belly. “Shall we run the Sleep Cure edit today? It’s quick, I’ll get you ... | One of humanity’s great loves is sleep. Any competent C-suite executive would tell you that that’s one-third of the day gone to waste—no productivity, no advertising, and no exploited labour.
Like most other things in the world, billions of dollars were thrown at a potential solution to this not-a-problem. And like mo... | 2022-01-02T11:19:21 | 2022-01-02T09:43:46 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] It turns out your apartment was so cheap to rent because one of the cupboards is actually a portal to the Underworld. It’s not dangerous, but the number of adventurers knocking at your door in the middle of the night looking to go through is starting to get annoying. | "Look," I said to the cavernous, undulating pit in the cupboard under my sink, "I'm not asking you to leave entirely. I'm just saying it would really help if you could... relocate a bit." The creature inside - the one that *was* the Pit and that liked it when I put raw meat in the garbage disposal - poked a tentacle ma... | It was a novelty when I first moved in. Then, the lack of personal hygiene and the irregular hours of these adventurers would start their quest at my apartment door was wearing thin on my patience and general well-being.
The only friend I could confide in was Guido, my old buddy from school, who worked his way from bus... | 2022-01-01T22:41:03 | 2022-01-01T20:19:07 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Another perfectly quiet, perfectly peaceful night at work, ruined by some caped ego in testicle flaunting spandex. I like it quiet, I like the peace of watching the monitors and sensors, of watching the facilities under my observation, of the complete silence that allows me to know when some idiot is showing up, again... | Don't know if I'm doing this properly. Please, forgive me.
A Rose by One Name...
I come from outside of the universe. I am printed on two hologram universes, thus. Many beings are like me, want to settle down a bit on one world, take a break from the endless task of printing universes to collect data and patterns.
... | 2021-08-17T00:05:03 | 2021-08-16T21:53:30 | 54 | 10 |
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