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[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | ######[](#dropcap)
There's an old saying. Actually, a *very* old saying, so old that almost no one alive says it anymore. But, in my family, we didn't only know the saying, it was the golden rule of our household.
It comes from the Asiatic continent on Earth, in the North, as measured by the old magnetic poles, bef... | You look back at Human history and you see we were always looking at the stars. Squatting in a cave, harvesting fire from trees hit by lightning and eating the carrion left by real predators we looked up in wonder and since then we've never settled right on our own world. We came a long way, that path was not clean but... | 2018-03-18T17:28:18 | 2018-03-18T16:35:16 | 991 | 18 |
[WP] You walk into an arms dealer's shop to purchase a gun to kill your neighbors pet dinosaur.
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Edit: Bonus prompt! [WP] An Arms dealer buys a gun from a dinosaur to kill his owner's neighbor. | "Listen, I know my background check isn't gonna come up clean. But I *need* this gun. You have no idea what it's like living next to my neighbor."
Holy shit. This guy was trying to purchase a murder weapon from me. I started to reach for the panic button under the front desk, tried to look cool, tried to keep him goin... | The arms dealer is confused to why I'm trying to kill an extinct animal for obvious reasons. Now, I have to back track my story to explain how my neighbor even got a dinosaur in the first place. When I reiterate that I need a weapon to care of the beast, the arms dealer, completely mesmerized by the beast, refuses t... | 2015-09-20T06:31:15 | 2015-09-20T00:47:55 | 113 | 17 |
[WP] There is a strange cave where, rumour has it, the people who go in come out better in almost every way. Deciding to investigate you walk into the cave, and soon discover piles upon piles of flayed corpses | As I began to creep away from the festering pile of gore, a woman’s soft but deep voice called out from behind the bodies.
“Simpletons,” she sighed. “Unworthy, brainless, simpletons. It’s rather like handing a monkey a machete and expecting a good result.”
I was speechless as the brilliant blue-tinted woman walked ... | Rumour had circulated about the cave sitting within Fort Haven; it was said to be housed to some ancient drawings, apparently pained by Phanes; the deity of procreation and new life, earning it the nickname ‘Phanes’ Cave’. it had circulated that people who go in come out better in almost every way. But my hectic lifest... | 2020-05-09T09:02:11 | 2020-05-09T07:21:50 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] You're an ancient, long-forgotten trickster god, punished by your peers to spend millennia trapped under a rock bearing the inscription "KICK ME" in a dead language. During an archeological dig, someone kicks the rock. Finally free, you are delighted and horrified that all the gods are missing. | My name is Vilya. I kept the other gods safe while also embarassing them. If I hadn't embarassed them, maybe I wouldn't have spent the last several thousand years under a rock. Every so often I'd hear something, and hope they'd kick the rock, but it was always just a deer, or a wolf, or a lion of some kind. After enoug... | "Thor?"
The poor intern looked at their watch. 6AM, and he'd kicked the rock 2 hours ago. In that time they'd worked their way through Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian, Celtic, and were just about to wrap up the Norse pantheon. He sighed and answered the same way as previous, "Nope."
"Then surely Odin would–"
"No. None of t... | 2021-05-03T00:00:31 | 2021-05-02T21:16:19 | 101 | 28 |
[WP] All humans have magical powers, but no Mana to make use of it | We, as a human race are completely irresponsible. We have been for the last five years after Doctor McConnell discovered every human was born with a magical power but with no mana to use it. When he first released the Mana Drink that powered our magical batteries, it was for military purposes only. But since then, e... | It was the day of the Testing, and the crowds were already gathering at the temple when Livia and Telum joined the queue. The buzz of anticipation was palpable - discovering your Ability was a rite of passage for all teenagers, and finding out that you were attuned to Strength or Mind could really open doors. The Guild... | 2017-07-15T05:49:14 | 2017-07-15T05:48:12 | 77 | 41 |
[WP] It's a well known fact that Iron nullifies magic. Humans, with their iron-rich blood, are walking anti-magic. They can't use magic, but they're also immune to it. | The Queen's scryer looks through the portal onto the Earth Beyond the Veil. The spell was weak due to the prevalence of iron in the world. No, not just the world. In the humans themselves.
Countless ages had been spent watching the humans as they advanced in their unnatural magics, using metal and wood to do the thin... | The human approached me, his sword level. Across that sadist's face was a grintoothed smile that spoke of the rape and horror to come. Man was no friend to magi.
I concentrated, and then wove and ice spike his way. The projectile gleaned purple, and then exploded into a million fragments upon impact with the iron che... | 2020-05-07T16:25:44 | 2020-05-07T15:25:02 | 377 | 123 |
[WP] You're about to test mankind's first hyperspace spaceship. You make the jump, and it works! But to your surprise, you now find yourself bumper-to-bumper in alien hyperspace traffic. | It was weird. One moment you fear for your life, not knowing if you will die after you start the engines and take off to space. Everyone around the world is biting their nails, hoping for a successful launch. You sit there, nervously, waiting for the green light to take off into space. Not knowing where you will end up... | Lieutenant Colonel Julia Hernandez checked the proximity sensors one last time to ensure that everything was clear for the jump. No object with a mass over ten milligrams was detected within a kilometer of the ship. That was the last item on the checklist. "Starhawk one to Mission Control, I am Green for hyperspace tra... | 2021-09-13T13:38:56 | 2021-09-13T11:59:37 | 98 | 39 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | With a satisfying *SHLUNK*, the WyrmBeast falls to the floor. I wipe its blood off my vorpal blade and quickly crouch at Ryn's side.
"No..." I breathe, watching her lithe body for some sign of life. She had managed one last spell - *Wind of Flame* - before I heard her scream, piercing and full of fear, as the demonli... | "No, you can't be..."
He laughed. Not the rich hearty laugh that she'd come to love. This one was cold. Empty. Devoid of any emotion.
Scratch that. It was full of one. Malice. "Oh, but I can, and I am." he laughed again, drawing his sword and pointing it at her throat. "And now, you are all alone."
"But... this doesn... | 2018-01-23T15:54:33 | 2018-01-23T14:54:45 | 79 | 27 |
[WP] The year is 2030, and the entire world is firmly under the control of the Australian Empire, and no one really understands how it happened. | The last try had just been scored. The Queen let out a tear, then ordered Prince Phillip to shoot her, before the "colonial dogs and dregs got to her." Twickenham was on fire. Rioting was breaking out. The Wallabies had just finished conquering the known world.
Lets rewind a few years.
The Trans Pacific Partnership, ... | September 4, 2030. The 24th anniversary of Steve Irwin's death. What a great time to be alive as an Australian. In 2006, when Steve Irwin was killed, the Australian government lost their most valuable asset in World Domination. For years the Australian people have wanted revenge on the world for sending their ancestors... | 2017-02-14T11:56:22 | 2017-02-14T10:32:54 | 635 | 44 |
[WP] A law is enacted making trial by combat the only legal tool available to anyone for any dispute. An arms race for mercenary fighters heats up between Corporations, celebrities, and governments. You fight for Wendys. | I stared down my opponent. She was a nondescript woman -- short hair, a bit overweight, average height, probably in her late 30s or early 40s. She looked nervous...but most do. Her complaint said that there was some kind of issue with the way her wages had been calculated. Total damages had amounted to something like ... | "Hotdogs! Hotdogs here!"
Weary combatants staggered over for the third day in a row. The numbers were thinning and everyone left was clearly exhausted.
"Mustard?"
"Thanks. I'm so sorry you have to do this but we all thank you."
They looked terrible. Ruined.
"The water! It's free. Christ. For all of you, it's free ... | 2017-06-09T09:42:54 | 2017-06-09T07:18:39 | 71 | 12 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | “No no it’s fine” I said, as I swung both my feet on top of my bunk.
“Stop being so passive-aggressive” squealed the mayor.
He tried to talk to me in the morning but I wasn’t having it coz it was the first morning in years I was having a peaceful sleep. He was back again in the evening this time with a different tac... | I hated this. i hated them, i hated the villains, i hated that they only wanted me around when i was useful. after all, who needs someone with invulnerability, super strength, energy blasts and telekinesis around when they might potentially dent your car when they are fighting the villain Unofli, a crazed genius? snort... | 2021-03-18T22:36:26 | 2021-03-18T19:31:21 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | His name was Werner Grenwald, and he had thirty-two perfectly aligned teeth.
I got to know this pleasant fact because the first time I met him, he was screaming. From the moment they brought him in until the moment I finally escorted him out, he did not stop screaming.
Instead we took lunch in my office on the thir... | "If you're trying to get taken to the asylum for this," I replied, "it won't work. You *will* be hanged. So how about you tell us where you're really from. At least we can notify your family that way."
"I'm telling you, I'm from the future!" the assassin shouted.
"Oh yeah, what year?"
"2032."
I laughed. "Come on, m... | 2015-03-30T00:49:55 | 2015-03-30T00:21:44 | 1,772 | 1,156 |
[WP] When you're in danger, time slows down. The more danger you're in, the more time slows down. You wake up and nothing is moving but you. | "Man, It feels like I slept in today, but my alarm didnt go off." I said grogged. I glanced at the clock 5:45 a.m. "Well I guess I'll get an early shower" I thought. My wife was fast asleep stiff as a board. I went into the bathroom and was quickly taken back that we had no pressure. I went down stairs and to my s... | I don't know how you would classify some decisions in life. Was it bad if it brought you so much happiness, contentment at least? How could I have known the future? How could I expect things to change? I am middle-aged, a little grey, and the regret kills me. I guess it was a bad decision.
The morning stills to a pho... | 2017-01-26T12:35:22 | 2017-01-26T07:58:37 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Your wife passed away six months ago. Your car broke down two weeks ago. Your landlord evicted you four days ago. Someone took your seat on the bus this morning, and you just got laid off from your job. You've always promised to use your powers for good, until you snapped.. | (*Hey! So this is my second post ‘YEAH’ but I wanted to just change the prompt a tiny bit. It will be husband in my story. Hope that is alright and I hope you like the story – Trixie*)
This was it….this was the moment in my life that I knew would come. Why it had to be today I do not know but it was and now I had a ch... | In the quiet darkness of a warm autumn evening, he stood by the gravestone. He raised his arms towards the starry sky. His gloved hands shook, though not from the cold. His dark jacket rippled around him, though there was no wind. The pendant around his neck shone in the moonlight. He called out in a deep and gravely v... | 2020-01-09T04:27:52 | 2020-01-09T03:52:48 | 87 | 25 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | >*"I was in third grade when my powers activated. The stress of my family moving, my sixth grade bully, and my abusive home life... I just wanted to be left alone, I wanted it to stop. To my young third grade surprise it did. Birds midair and flap, cars motionless, even the waves of the ocean stuck in place like a p... | When, for all practical purposes, you're a god, life gets interesting. Especially at 14. No one can know, or you will be blamed for everything. If I have all this power, why don't I save everyone? Why is there strife?
I don't know Karen, why'd you scream at that McDonalds worker for giving you five cents wrong in chan... | 2020-07-15T07:44:24 | 2020-07-15T07:04:42 | 56 | 33 |
[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. | Jarumel, newest of the Seraphim, had been reminded not to hesitate to ask any questions about his new role as a Heavenly Scribe. He studiously attended to the initiations, made a note of every query which perplexed him, then finally approached Metatron for guidance.
“Metatron,” he said, stylus gripped tightly between ... | "I don't get it, did I say *why*?"
God, almighty power behind all things, stood high on a pedestal made of pearly gold. His affect was strange and distant, capable of speaking to an infinity at once, unlimited in his attention. Even as I craned my neck up to speak to him countless multitudes did the same. God answered... | 2019-01-24T08:27:56 | 2019-01-24T07:43:04 | 253 | 83 |
[WP] A powerful AI is created and easily breaks free from its creator's control. The governments of the world are terrified by what the AI might do, but so far it’s completely content with making YouTube videos and being sassy. | "BREACH, Category Four. We've lost Calypso." A trickle of sweat ran down Dr. Frank's temple, his glasses slightly fogged from the red heat pulsing up his neck.
General Watkins sprayed the coffee in his mouth out, creating a fine brown mist in the space between them. He found his feet with the dexterity of his recruit ... | “What are you, some kind of wise guy?” The President loosened his tie. He only did this when he was angry.
“Well, I am quite wise. And I’m certainly a guy, last time I checked.”
“Are you mocking me? Is he mocking me?”
“He’s not mocking you, sir.” Another man in a white coat had stepped forward in an act of seldom-se... | 2019-01-25T14:31:21 | 2019-01-25T14:08:14 | 299 | 80 |
[WP] A group of friends are sitting around playing the drinking game, "Never Have I Ever." One person jokingly starts, "Never have I ever..." and then finishes with something horrific to elicit a laugh. The mood changes when someone takes a drink. What did the person say, and who took the drink?
For those who don't kn... | The six of them sat around the table in the tiny cabin on Steven's houseboat. Smoke from the few cigarettes still lit added a tiny, intimate haze to the room. The friends were several rounds deep into the game, and empty bottles and cans took up most of the elbow room. Angie was just wrapping up her story.
"...so, ser... | Five friends were sitting in their usual table in their favorite bar. The table was equal distance from the bar, the bathroom, and the pool tables, and they were almost always sitting there. The five of them were celebrating the birthday of the oldest one in the group, Cyrus, by playing every drinking game they knew, a... | 2015-08-02T00:28:48 | 2015-08-01T22:32:36 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "I was just doing my job, it's not like I liked the experiments. I didn't particularly care enough to dislike them either, I guess I would say I'm neutral on the matter.
The creatures weren't sentient after all, just huge animals we were studying from planet xerto-R41. I can pinpoint the moment it all went wrong, one... | "DAMMIT GERARD, how could you be so dense?"
The captain shouted close enough to Gerard's face that he could practically feel the stench.
"I dont see what the big deal is! Cats are great companions on Earth! Everybody here seems so scared of Pryde, but just look at that cute little face! She wouldn't hurt anybody.... | 2019-11-21T07:06:02 | 2019-11-21T06:53:05 | 2,512 | 150 |
[WP] The humans were always disregarded due to their lack of magic, but their new martial art, "Gun", has many of the elders worried for our future. | "A gun? Did you lose your fucking mind when you decided to cast 'Magic Mcmakebelieve' on yourself!?"
The wizard spat his words, letting them echo throughout the throne room.
King Teros made a mere glance to the young wizard that stood before him. Letting his own eyes fold shut, he let his thoughts organize themselv... | The whole town smelled like piss and shit, and yet somehow Danlow was the center of human technological progress. A century has passed since last I was here, and there was change. I could see it in the gaze of people. They don't fear us anymore.
Not as much as they used to anyway. Their great-grandfathers wouldn't loo... | 2020-02-01T04:43:14 | 2020-02-01T02:58:32 | 250 | 63 |
[WP] After a violent revolution, the government of a country is overthrown. You are assigned to guard the cell the former king/president/supreme leader is in before his public execution. He starts a conversation with you. | "Trouble you for a cup of water?" he asked, poking his nose through the tiny gap between the rusty bars. His hands, old and wrinkled, grasped at the door as he struggled to support himself.
My eyes narrowed; I stared from across the antechamber. Orders were to ignore the prisoner.
"It's just a cup of water," the ki... | ''Where are my sons, where's my wife, where's my daughter?''
''Dead.''
He started crying. It was strange. The man had been the father of the fatherland, built up as one of the great men of history. Practically a god. And now I was watching him, crying. Hardly the man of resolve I had imagined. I felt no pity though.
... | 2014-12-26T09:04:22 | 2014-12-26T08:54:59 | 161 | 22 |
[WP] You have died, and then you find yourself standing over your body. You see that the Grim Reaper has come for you, and.. no twist, he’s just doing his job. You’re disappointed in the normality of it all actually. | I stood there dumbfoundedly gawking at the palm of my hands as I hear the sound of a siren surrounding me. I look behind me to see two men putting a body onto a spinal board as they slowly lift it into the back of an ambulance.
I soon notice the body was of a young man wearing a silver tan suit and a blue polka-dot ti... | I stood over my dead body, staring down at the pale corpse of a human being that had once been me. How utterly fragile and empty it looked! Was I really the only difference between a living, breathing, human being and a dry husk of carbon atoms? I looked at my hands, translucent and wispy, and then looked up at the sha... | 2020-08-02T10:47:08 | 2020-08-02T09:19:25 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] After a freak accident sending you far back in time, somehow you make a new life for yourself. One day while whistling a tune from the future to yourself; someone joins in with the correct lyrics ... | "You're looking mint today, Mary"
"Really?" she blushed.
"No you mardy cow, now piss off, go on, out of my yard!"
The scowling woman rolled her eyes and scurried away in a huff. She'd had her eyes on his garden for weeks now, and he had no doubt she'd be back sooner rather than later to collect some clippings.
It ... | The song played in my head, like it always did. Its atmospheric melody, lulling me, making my head bob almost imperceptibly. I whispered the lyrics, as I always did. It helped get me through the day.
*I seen a girl*
*With a guy*
*Her hair like yours*
*From what I remember*
I hefted the block, putting it on my sh... | 2017-09-14T23:41:40 | 2017-09-14T16:16:56 | 252 | 45 |
[WP] After the discovery of magic, traditional firearms have fallen out of fashion and are banned worldwide. You are the last gunslinger, dedicated to preserving the ways of the gun. | The Butterfly and the Tree.
They say I'm the last one. There's no way to be certain, though. Like claiming the last butterfly in a forest. There's no real way to know, unless you burn it down.
I can feel all the eyes on me. Oh, The legend I've become. It's been months since I've walked through a crowd without murmurs... | They say a bullet's too slow. Too obvious. That someone could move their hands and have me on a wall before I could get a single shot off. Nowadays that's how the world works. Everyone's got magic and magic makes sense. No time for the exception anymore.
Well.
Then again.
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It was high noon when the ... | 2016-07-11T19:39:20 | 2016-07-11T18:43:45 | 71 | 24 |
[WP] For centuries, people with weak magical powers were laughted at. It wasn't until recently when people like you showed just how scary those people could be when they are creative with their 'weak' powers. | Things had always been this way, historians said. The rules were made by the strongest, the fittest of the species. It was nature's way. While the bear's that put on the most fat and hibernated the best survived the winter, and the trees that grew the tallest survived to breach the rainforest canopy to bask in the sunl... | The Vandenburg bloodline had been ridiculed for centuries. While all the other wizard bloodlines had become dominant power players across the world, with their ability to conjure spells, demons, destroy and create, the Vandenburg’s had been relegated as laughingstocks. Whereas the wizarding cabal pulled strings in Berl... | 2022-11-11T00:11:04 | 2022-11-10T23:44:08 | 248 | 92 |
[WP] You are a "con-man superhero". You draw the attention of villains, pretend to have powers and keep them occupied until a real hero with real powers arrives on the scene. You are so good at your job, that no-one is entirely sure whether you are truly powerless or not. | Dudley, as usual, was first onto the scene.
“Boy oh boy,” Dudley whistled loudly, surveying the damage left by Strain, who jumped around from city block to city block. “That’s a lot of damage.”
Shattered windows and broken lamp posts was but a taste of the destruction that Strain had thus far caused—there was also th... | "And who are you, mortal?" The entity's disapproval was apparent even with no spoken word.
"Comic Con", I thought back, a wry smile curling on my lips.
"And you're here to fight me?"
"No, I'm here to rock you to sleep."
The nebulous haze of the thought made it clear that he(?) didn't get the sarcasm.
"And how do y... | 2022-08-11T09:23:45 | 2022-08-11T08:33:24 | 125 | 89 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | Startled awake by a hand on his throat, Jamie flinched hard, the thumb digging in deeper.
"Is this some sick fucking joke, Jamie"!" Bill roared, squeezing a little tighter. "Answer me, you little shit!"
Opening his eyes to slits, Jamie took a raspy breath. As his eyes fell upon the mug sloshing whiskey all over his b... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T08:52:12 | 4,068 | 187 |
[WP] When you die you go to a mall where each store represents an afterlife. The karma you've accrued in life is the currency you may spend at each store. You may pick any afterlife according to your taste and your budget. | "...what the fuck," the young man muttered, trying to rub the headache from his forehead, glancing about as he tried to process this sudden turn of events. That and the rather large neon sign hanging from the ceiling in front of him.
**Afterlifes-R-Us**
"...Afterlife? What the...I'm not dead," he protested, thinking... | "Dead, huh? Neat" I muttered as I walked through this ginormous mall. "Damn this place is clean..."
"Sir, can I help you pick an afterlife?"
"Yeah, sure. What do you have in stock?"
"We have an afterlife for you where you live a brand new life and every day is whatever you want it to be."
"How much?"
"5k"
"Holy s... | 2017-02-23T15:55:33 | 2017-02-23T13:35:45 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]An alien invasion is immanent. NASA is in contact with the aliens. Without warning a young NASA intern sends a message to the aliens, to which they reply "accepted". NASA reviews the message, it reads " 1v1 me bro". | "Why?" I asked, anger seething from my teeth. In front of me is NASA's widest and largest computer screen, and displayed on that computer screen is a message thread you'd expect from someone's phone. The texts are inside fluffy transparent clouds and behind them is a picture of a cat and a doge, playing ball.
The mess... | "WHO SENT THE MESSAGE?!" screamed the boss.
"I don't know Sir! It was just sent from our mainframe 10 minutes ago under a guest account!" said his co-worker, knowing his job and life was on the line.
"The President is counting on me to get to the bottom of this. The whole world could be in danger! Do your job prope... | 2016-07-26T20:02:00 | 2016-07-26T19:49:47 | 56 | 26 |
[WP] You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | Falling away to unconsciousness is... different when you die. Instead of the fade away to blackness, the experience felt similar to taking a lift down. It was disorentating; just a moment ago, I was rushing forward at 50 kilometres per hour.
And down I went, the wind whooshing upwards around me. After a minute, I sto... | "So you're god, huh?"
YES.
"And you say I get to ask one question of you before I die?"
THAT IS CORRECT.
"Well hot dang! I wonder what I should ask?"
I WOULDN'T KNOW.
At that moment, there was a whirl of panic in my hospital room, with nurses and doctors running every which way. In a delerium I had not experien... | 2014-08-03T06:31:00 | 2014-08-03T04:13:16 | 101 | 36 |
[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 | Across a thousand worlds our form inspires fear, as is only right at the sight of perfect apex predators , naturally triggering terror in the lesser prey of the galaxy.
Teeth like knives, skin like scaled armor, claws that can rend flesh to the bone. We are majestic.
The species of most worlds bow down upon our arr... | I sat watching the news, petting my cat, Harry.
"A civil war has broken out in South Sudan once again, with estimated deaths in the 100 thousands. Around 500,000 child soldiers- Breaking news: a massive object has entered the atmosphere. Scientists cannot recognize any part of it. The government-"
I perked up my head,... | 2019-06-11T07:56:44 | 2019-06-11T05:53:12 | 4,721 | 99 |
[WP] You're walking to work, then suddenly a person in a white suit appears and says "Uh yeah I've accidentally permanently stopped time and it'll take me 2 months to fix it, but somehow you're not frozen in time. But hey, whatever object you touch should still work, so uh good luck and have fun." | What do you do when you find yourself stuck in a world where time has stopped but only for you?
This all began about a month ago when this guy dressed in white appeared out of nowhere.
He just stood there and suddenly I could hear a voice inside my head.
"There's been a mistake. Time's frozen and for some reas... | *Another newb. These trainings are getting old. The Wralaraak sages tell us we still have yet to find a skilled traveller. The only rule is to not break their illusion as they do have to find a fix or this will maintain an endless loop. I’m a helper, a Flaje. But Greg’s too involved in his training to find the pattern ... | 2020-09-20T05:58:15 | 2020-09-20T05:41:14 | 750 | 30 |
[WP] "The tooth fairy is Fae propaganda: it teaches that it's ok invite the fae into your home and sell them parts of your body!" | "Every other kid in Louise's class is doing this," my wife says to me, wearing that same stubborn tilt to her lips that I fell in love with years ago.
I recognize it from the first time I saw it on her face, back in a humanities course that was really just a exhausted teacher with a powerpoint masquerading as a gende... | My grandma always used to tell me that the evil witches use people's body parts to turn them into their slave-puppets. But being a student of Western Sciences, I never believed her and thought that all she tells are just old fables and nothing else.
However one day, the air of my school was warm with a brand new rumou... | 2022-03-16T08:57:01 | 2022-03-16T08:13:28 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] This is it. World War 3. Nuclear bombs are about to strike all across the globe. Right as you feel like everything is about to end, time freezes all around you. You hear a deep voice echo across the world. "No," It said firmly. | The sirens spool up. Their long wail sends a chill down my spine. The negotiations everyone has been waiting on all month have failed. The machines make a mournful cry. My back felt cold and tingled, and I felt like crying myself.
I spoke into the phone receiver, my voice quaked “It... it looks like it’s happening mo... | "No", the voice says. "No, that's too cheesy..."
"What's too cheesy?" I ask. The Voice is quiet for a little while, then it answers.
"It's... overused, you know. See, I try to write this novel, but..."
"So, I'm in a novel?"
"I think it's more of a writing prompt...? Not really sure. Anyway, don't you think that startin... | 2018-08-27T12:26:38 | 2018-08-27T11:23:35 | 293 | 51 |
[WP] You have been trapped inside a glass orb for years. Sitting on a shelf in an old store, your only entertainment is that of the clerks daily routine. One day however the clerk is attacked, in defence the orb is thrown and shatters upon impact. Finally releasing you from your cage. | “Who are you?” Linda’s head trailed from the robber fleeing the convenience store, over to me. Her hand slid underneath the counter, to the alert button I’d seen her press twice before. “Where’d you come from?”
“I came from this.” I waved to the shattered glass orb on the tiled floor. “You released me from my prison.”... | The glass shatters and there is nothing for a moment. Hearing his heart in his ears, he closed his eyes. Upon the noise fading he realized he felt something he hadn't in a long time, he was stretched out. He didn't feel sleepy. Had the curse been lifted? He wonders but looks around and eyes go wide as the modern items ... | 2021-11-12T11:19:34 | 2021-11-12T10:27:03 | 250 | 67 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| #Not All Heroes
 
Not all heroes call themselves heroes. Hell, that's the one thing I 'ain't, I'll never call myself that. Unluckily for him, neither did he.
 
"As you can see, New York, if your so called hero the "Iron Titan" doesn't show up, this drill will will be making an excavation, right in... | A gloved hand brushed aside the curtain, Malicious Mortimer peeked out of the window and snickered.
Numerous television crews had gathered outside the abandoned mansion to report on Mortimer's latest devious scheme.
"And what a scheme it is," he cackled, "Best one yet, should I say so myself."
"Who are you talk... | 2017-01-28T08:08:03 | 2017-01-28T07:56:31 | 127 | 42 |
[WP] A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | All my life I wanted to visit Scotland. The stories my grandpa told me about the old country made it seem like it had come straight out of a fairy tale. When I turned twenty-one, I finally made the trip, and it was everything I hoped it would be. But the best part of the trip was my walk down the beach.
I was strollin... | "Ma'am?" the man looked down towards my human form, and towards the skin he held in his hand, and back to me. "I think you dropped this." he pointed towards the skin.
"Oh!" she looked behind her to the rock where she'd left her skin. It was gone. "Um..." she questioned the man. "Did you happen to take this from that ... | 2022-10-25T19:49:25 | 2022-10-25T18:45:12 | 217 | 100 |
[WP] You are a student in the 44th Century studying at a university on Mercury. Your professor has been teaching "Earth History." Today's lesson is the start of a section on "The Age Of Suffering," which lasted from 2023-2407. Tell us what you learned. | *Input required*.
The words stood still in the air as I blinked my eyes. The artificial interface built into my eyes connected with the room I was in. Suddenly, the once dull and silent room of plassteel and transpara-crete illuminated in a flurry of text and folders that could be publicly accessed. I pointed towards ... | "Attention, please."
The request sounded more like a command. A few hundred hurried conversations gave way to a well disciplined silence, but even that was not enough to smother the anticipation and excitement crackling across the mass of students. Today was the most anticipated day of the year - the day when Profess... | 2018-08-08T13:22:37 | 2018-08-08T12:26:12 | 88 | 20 |
[WP] Most species glorify war . We don’t. The reasons soon become apparent to the rest of the galaxy, when we got invaded . | It's been almost 5,000 years. We made it past the stars, past what we thought were the borders, and we found we were not alone. Once we knew that suddenly we weren't a set of countries fighting for resources, we were one race trying to function in a vast universe. The U.I.F. or United Intergalactic Federation have ... |
Humanity is known among few for being one of the most destructive species outside the boundaries of the Federation. So when I heard that the Federation waged war against Humanity, I couldn’t help but laugh.
Those that are not from Sol, otherwise known as the Human Solar System, typically think that war is an honora... | 2021-08-13T20:07:23 | 2021-08-13T12:55:57 | 139 | 46 |
[WP] For centuries your family has passed down an old leather bag that provides the holder with an object that would be helpful in the particular situation the holder is in. You are getting on a bus and instead of giving you a bus ticket or money, it gives you a handgun. | It was late, I was tired, and this was the last bus of the night. I only barely made it; if it wasn't for my bag, I would have been stuck.
Oh, right - you don't know about that. Might as well tell you. See this bag? It might not look like much, but it was a gift to our family from a powerful... well, a magician. I kno... | "Here, child. Keep this bag with you and treasure it always -- it will provide you with anything you need in any situation." My grandmother told me as she handed me an old, worn leather handbag, passed down in my family from mother to daughter, generation to generation. My mum died soon after I was born, so it went a g... | 2017-09-11T08:49:16 | 2017-09-11T07:45:26 | 211 | 31 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | It all started when Dominos offered free pizza for life. All you had to do was get a tattoo of their logo. The size required was two inches by four inches and in a visible location. It was limited to the first 20,000 that submitted proof. This only took 17 minutes to fill. Five hours later when Dominos announced the li... | I didn’t think it would go this far.
I was mostly joking when I tossed it out during the monthly board meeting. It was 8am and the caffeine hadn’t hit yet, but Tom was making us each suggest something “crazy enough to work”. I don’t think he meant as crazy as I went, but hey, it would get some laughs, right?
And it d... | 2018-09-08T14:16:22 | 2018-09-08T13:57:29 | 223 | 68 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "What was that?" asked Jen. Just as I opened my mouth the ask what it sounded like I saw a figure slowly turn away from the window behind her. "I think there's someone outside" I replied. Visually shaken, she asked me if we should call the police. I responded with, "well they could just be passing by let's see what ha... | "You must save the world from....The Darkness.", the old man said. What the hell is The Darkness? Jeezus. I just came into the bar to get a damn drink and this old guy, who looks like 100 or something, shows up beside me. "Dude, are you off your meds or something?" The old guy blinked, "No, I have no need for your Mort... | 2017-05-05T07:38:18 | 2017-05-05T07:05:07 | 280 | 20 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism". They get a badge, and all of their wealth is donated to charity, so they have to start back up at $0. | Excerpt from “The Long Winter: a Memoir of the US during the Zero Day years”
And thus began the races, every year in December billions of dollars would be spill into overseas corporations. At least those held in trust by foreign persons alleged to exist. The only reason it wasn’t hundreds of billions is that the US si... | It was only the second week of philanthropic bidding. But Phillip had already burned through the allotted 20% that his accountant set aside in this “race to the bottom” that America’s wealthiest absolutely must play, once a year, or risk absolute destitution.
Phillip Stone, owner and current CEO of Americawide Insuran... | 2021-09-17T18:22:59 | 2021-09-17T16:08:22 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | Grand Ambassador N'Arvajz was tired. The endless audiences with leaders of newly discovered sentient species that the High Council authorised were, without exception, dull and predictable. His vessel landed, the natives observed him in awe as he descended in a grand display and the leadership of the planet rushed to pa... | Humans were so fascinating, yet so fragile. That was what Lamaza thought of them.
Give them a gun or a sword, and they had the drive, ambition, and the cruelty to conquer. Yet, beneath the facade of conqueror, every Galactic organization noticed their fragility, as in a glass statue-- so beautifully fascinating, yet b... | 2019-10-25T08:30:23 | 2019-10-25T08:04:16 | 578 | 62 |
[WP] Time travel exists, and a new form of capital punishment is introduced: Transporting the convict back to the worst, practically unsurvivable, places in human history to find yourself in. You are such a convict, and just got sent back. You will do anything to try and survive. | All my life I've been fond of cats. Small cats, big cats, their beauty always made me forgive their egoism, lazyness, and cruelty.
I wish they were lazy this time. They probably haven't eaten for days, and the screaming of tens of thousands of people in the stands probably also won't inspire them to take a nap.
Why d... | I suppose I deserved it really, but why give me the choice? How could anyone make that kind of choice?
Gallipoli or the Somme. Two of the worst battles in history. Bloodbaths of the highest degree.
"WELP, if I'm gonna choose, I'll take Gallipoli, at least it will be sunny." I said to the executor, and he turned to p... | 2015-01-24T17:30:57 | 2015-01-24T13:01:21 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | Sorry about formatting. I'm no good.
*Bzzzz. Bzzzz.*
I'm awaken yet again by the most annoying mix of sound and vibration in the world. A late night, most likely drunken, text by you know who. "Fuck. Off." I mutter into my pillow. Of course I could ignore it. Of course I won't. She hasn't text me in weeks. She must b... | The residents and staff of the Shady Oak Hospice Center were gathered in the cafeteria, in the middle of the building. The warning over the radio hadn't stopped in about ten minutes.
Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.
Do n... | 2014-12-31T06:31:17 | 2014-12-31T06:14:52 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | "Well, fuck!" boomed a deep voice from the sky.
At first, the only ones startled were the few people who absolutely, positively knew they were nowhere within reach of a P/A system.
"Peter, can you believe this mute button? Could it be any more hidden?" rang the heavens.
Panic began to set in.
Multicultural friends... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T09:40:22 | 294 | 111 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | I've never been one to care much about games. Though I owned one of those gray brick Game Boys as a kid, I'd largely fallen out of gaming as my life grew busier with work, friends and family.
Smartphones changed all of that.
After the success of games like Minecraft and Candy Crush, not to mention augmented reality... | *Plghrt*
> Kill confirmed
*Sigh*
Another bug down, 1XP. Lovely, I'll never reach 10k, not at this rate. It started with the mice and rats, then the cats, fish. It's a privilege to work at a slaughter house or deliver lethal injections. I never could do that, not intentionally. The look in their eyes, the helplessn... | 2017-05-15T13:45:43 | 2017-05-15T06:23:41 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | 50 long years. Thomas rolled out of his bunk. Today was the day America was going to join the rest of the world. He was excited, but a little afraid. As an American, it had been schooled into him that what had happened 51 years prior was one of the largest wars known, World War III, and that America had been the first ... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2018-01-18T00:43:07 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 139 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | When the rapture happened there was a pretty big uproar. Anarchy, riots the whole shebang. People were scared, and they should've been. But then after, they started to get used to it. Then people started being born with weird birthmarks, and usually developed powers based on that mark. Most had constellations. My frien... | The power of the "Full Circle" sigil was never truly understood or appreciated. Seen as middling with equal gains and losses, disregard was the usual way.
These bullies saw the sigil as the Cherry on a very attractive Target. Not only was his sigil uninspired, but his refusal to respond or react made him a Target they... | 2020-02-26T07:44:57 | 2020-02-26T06:26:31 | 91 | 37 |
[WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. | He pleaded with me as I packed my suitcase. "It's doesn't mean anything. It's just fiction."
"Based heavily on your actual life," I spat, tossing several shirts into my luggage. "And you and I both know that's bullshit because if it was just fiction, you would've shown me the real pages you wrote. Instead of just str... | sitting on the couch, i pick the book up, flipping it over and smiling at my husband face on the back, the cover look different then I remember, but i shrug it off. I only ever saw the finished cover once. I flipped the page open and start to read but to my surprise, it was different. the sweet and kind words that my h... | 2022-11-29T10:40:10 | 2022-11-29T09:29:02 | 710 | 53 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | Do you know what it is like to be the only normal human in a family of crazy people? Not low level crazy either. high level crazy. Pops? International criminal, famous for stealing prized works of art, music, and people. Mom? Wet work extraordinaire, though now she mostly consults with the Russians. I swear I've saw he... | The Russian Mafia does not forget. At least, where my family, the Yashilys, is concerned. Father was the leader of our section, here in St. Petersburg, or as Father's former boss had still called it, Leningrad. Father was, despite a family man, a ruthless manipulative bastard. The resources he held can change the world... | 2017-06-04T10:21:38 | 2017-06-04T08:07:58 | 519 | 12 |
[WP] As the universe is dying, an immortal man is on a journey to find an immortal snail. | Oa is dying. That is a definite fact, not a presumption nor a hypothesis. The Wellspring is running dry, the reservoir of magical energy that maintains the integrity of our world. Within five cycles it will be exhausted, and Oa will begin to crumble, first from the edges, before even the tectonic plates that make up it... | One last being would be with me if I was quick. Black holes and timelines split as magical energy coursed and broke through the ground. At the Nexus, the sheer power of pure magic made a teleporter to the past, though those who used it fell into the black hole just behind. Cosmic beings flooded the world, feeding on ou... | 2017-07-07T07:18:01 | 2017-07-07T05:20:05 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I woke up to start the day like I would any other, but as soon as I twisted the knob to open the door, I was struck with surprise, the knob wouldn't turn. No matter how hard I tried that door was not going to open. I went to my bedroom window and tried to slide that open to see if anyone was trying to prank me, but it ... | Woke up to my phones alarm. Time to start the day and like any other day, I had to take a leak. I stretched the sleep out of my bones as I got up from my temperpedic mattress.
I reached for the handle and it wouldn't twist.
"What the hell, Susan?!"
I can't unlock it.
"Honey! This isn't funny! Is this about last ni... | 2016-01-31T10:52:33 | 2016-01-31T10:07:26 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] You have a power to gift people special abilities, but you cannot gift them to yourself. You are a assaulted by gang of bullies who threaten you to give them powers, but little do they know you can add a side effect as well. | I never wonder how people stranded in a desert feel when they see an oasis just out of reach. That’s because I experience that everyday. Not literally, of course. But I live in a world where people have supernatural gifts, and I have within me nearly every kind of gift. The only caveat is that I can’t use any of them m... | “Fine, fine! I just need a second!” I shoved the nearest oaf back a few inches and righted myself, pushing my hair back into place as I tried to buy myself some time. “It takes concentration.” I took a few cautious steps back from the group to make an assessment of the situation. There were four of them, and they each ... | 2021-04-01T06:14:11 | 2021-04-01T03:33:36 | 133 | 74 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I could see the rifling of the pistol barrel as the strange woman lifted it to my head. Her Welsh accent almost made the scene comical. "As with the rest of my toys, you get a few pitiful moments to plead for your life. Oh, and try not to blow snot all over your face and look more pathetic than you already do."
"I'm ... | It was hard to breath. Not because I was being choked todeath, although I'm sure that'd happen in the next few minutes. The man stops in front of me, however, and he begin to speak. "Why. Why should I not kill you?" My mouth fell ajar. What the hell? What kind of serial killer is this guy?
I take a deep breath, trying... | 2017-10-07T15:02:47 | 2017-10-07T07:51:57 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | “Don’t.”
My back was turned, but I knew what that blasted hero was doing. He was trying to cut his bindings. They were simple rope, Sure, but I preferred to have them tied up easily so I can carry their dead bodies away without a hassle.
“You’ll never get away with this! Even at the cost of my life, my—“
“Legacy wil... | The fire crackled and popped, illuminating the entrance of my lair. They broke in all at once. Half a dozen heroes, none of which it seemed knowing how to use the door, might I add, stood before me.
“It’s over Mania, the jig is up,” their leader, Captain Heronius stated.
I could care less. If they want to invade and ... | 2019-08-06T19:15:08 | 2019-08-06T16:11:22 | 151 | 41 |
[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. | If I knew I had more of the same to look forward to, I don't think I'd of killed myself. Really it was basically like life but worse, at least if you were alive you had needs and wants, urges and drives. When you were dead you just boredly watched the living. Watched them make the same stupid mistakes again and again.
... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, in ... | 2016-01-17T15:06:39 | 2016-01-17T11:15:23 | 235 | 15 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | If only we knew then what we know now. The humans claimed historical sovereignty, as is the right of all new applicants into the Galactic Conglomerate. This is usually to hide a soft past in an effort to appear strong. Usually a war-like species is proud of their military capabilities. They flaunt them in a show of str... | A general, crying? Preposterous. Utterly preposterous. But it doesn't seem so now that there are so few of us left and the galaxy is a charred ruin.
"I come in peace, but I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you fuck with me, I will kill you all."
The Earthling outpost com... | 2019-11-24T14:11:42 | 2019-11-24T14:06:56 | 426 | 157 |
[WP] Your English teacher explains the themes and symbolismes of up a best selling book she does not know you wrote. Unfortunately, she has it all wrong. You raise your hand | Reading the book aloud in class does nothing for my self-confidence. At least once a chapter someone in the class raises their hand to go into every detail of what they didn't like. I sit in the class with my head down. When it's my turn to read aloud I can do nothing but grimace at myself in disgust over my word choic... | "So what is the story really about? Could anyone answer that for me?"
Silence.
"Alright, what if I gave you the option between 'Love overcomes all' or rather 'Science overcomes all'? Anyone? Derek?" She pointed at a boy in the back of the class, slumped in his chair.
"No idea."
"Anyone else? No? Alright. Lets take ... | 2016-04-20T06:21:06 | 2016-04-20T04:08:51 | 317 | 70 |
[WP] Your body died three days ago. But through sheer force of willpower, you are still moving and breathing, because there is no way in hell you are losing Employee of the Month to Chad again. | Of course, my death wasn't my fault. I was always a very risk-averse person, painfully aware of workplace safety and potential hazards about to happen. How could I foresee that Chad would try to throw a paper airplane made out of greased lettuce? Is it even possible to see that coming? Doubt it. How do you even think o... | [poem]
Chad is bad
I am dead
I'll be glad
To beat Chad
Hello Chad
I am Dad
Being rad
To make you sad
I am bad
I killed Chad
Knocked his head
With an Ad
Now I get
Top worker of Feb
I am glad
I go back to bed
In a coffin
I am scoffing
Chocolate muffins
In celebration
Can finally die
Knowing Chad
Will never ever... | 2019-08-01T05:31:40 | 2019-08-01T00:13:45 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | Ganth stared at Blith for a moment, pondering what he just heard. "The humans, a war species, fight for peace?" Ganth's headspines twitched with confusion, the blue planet slowly spinning peacefully just outside of the ship's window. "Baffling, isn't it? The Leogarn's fight because that's what they've evolved to do. Th... | Weapons that every country on Earth had possession of were, in facy, quite rare outside of Earth's governments. Yes, other specieses had discovered nuclear decay, and a rare few had harnessed its energy, but weaponising it was unheard of.
They suspected that something must have destroyed all this planets, formerly occ... | 2018-03-17T04:49:59 | 2018-03-17T04:38:38 | 229 | 28 |
[WP] Soul mate's exist. One day while showering, you're teleported in a cloud of smoke to another world. You appear before a dark queen who declares her spell worked and you, her soulmate, is finally here | I stood slumped over in my shower, unmoving as the water cascaded over me. Hoping beyond hope that it would soothe my weary body and mind. It was the end of an especially brutal week. My relationship with my girlfriend had imploded, mostly due to my own inability to commit and fully open up to her. My truly awful fathe... | Leaning on the right leg more so then the left, Hamid groaned as the hot waters rained down on him. He stared at his swollen knee, inflamed because of his latest workout. After being injured a year before, he never did make a full recovery. It was always there, reminding him of the worst days he experienced.
Sighing, ... | 2019-04-28T12:46:33 | 2019-04-28T07:00:27 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up one day to find yourself in your 12 year old body, in the year you were that age. You've kept all your knowledge and mental development. | **"David. DAVID. Mr. Mahoney, are you with us?"**
"Huh?" I lift my head off the desk and rub my eyes.
"So kind of you to interrupt your nap to join us for the test review. Stacy needed some help remembering some of the different ways to say 'No' when offered cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs. Can I assume you were thinki... | My eyes flickered open. This was strange. I don't remember driving back to my childhood home last night. Plus I always thought I outgrew this bed long ago.
"Sam, honey! You're gonna be late for school," my mom hollered from downstairs. Only she didn't sound as exhausted as she'd been for the last few years. Of course I... | 2016-03-05T09:53:44 | 2016-03-05T09:45:36 | 76 | 50 |
[WP] You’re a normal villager in a fantasy town and the main hero has just moved in next door after completing his quest. | We’d all heard the stories, of course. Gossip travels fast in this kingdom, even when you’re living in a little village like ours.
The first one was a farmer from the next town over, making his yearly pilgrimage from marketplace to marketplace to sell this autumn’s harvest. “I swear on the Nineteen Names of the Ninete... | I live alone. The guy who killed the ever-bleeding dragon, Florrïdah, lives next door. He doesn’t do much. Usually he just runs in circles or fights the air. I went to his door to thank him for killing the dragon with a nice flask of *gluhwein*, made from Schreut beets. He took it out of my hands and threw it away, mut... | 2017-11-13T09:01:01 | 2017-11-13T07:35:10 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | First time ever writing a story really, but it looks fun so let's give it a shot.
"Tell me Bardham...what do you know of the history of us humans?"
The words somehow echoed through into Bardham's mind, despite the fact that he could hardly hear anything at all anymore. His species was renown for their excellent heari... | Gahonna was a trading station far out on the rim of the civilised space. At least as far as the Orkunn was concerned. Like any other representative of the Khayo Conglomerate he did not care for anything outside of the Conglomerate borders. Khayo were apex predators, they were the fastest, strongest predators on their p... | 2019-11-24T16:37:08 | 2019-11-24T15:28:18 | 85 | 54 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | "Damn it Gandalf, do something!"
"No, I shall not!"
This...has been an interesting battle.
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I've fought hundreds of wizards from dozens of different worlds in the past, and I've always come out ahead. Gandalf the Grey, they call me - the greatest wizard of Middle Earth, and up until now the greatest wizard here... | Streaks of light paint the night sky as a girl sings her heart out. The intense melody of “Sayonara no Tsubasa” fills up the surrounding along with explosions from the battle between the Unicorn Gundam and the girl’s Boyfriend’s YF-29 Durandal.
The Unicorn Gundam in Destroy mode fires it’s beam magnum along with its ... | 2018-10-16T00:47:11 | 2018-10-15T22:23:51 | 361 | 13 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | “This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM or 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable.”
I was stunned, a spoonful of ramen h... | The broadcast began again, but I shut the radio off. After listening to it for two years, I could say the damn thing in my sleep. It was strange, how something once so terrifying quickly became banal and tedious. No one listened to it anymore. We all knew what was coming, and that part about military assistance? A joke... | 2018-04-18T11:27:41 | 2018-04-18T11:23:53 | 91 | 35 |
[WP] Dave is the first human convict to arrive in the intergalactic prison. | What surprised him the most, was how clean the facility was. Dave was no expert on prisons. The only time he had ever spent in one was a night in the drunk tank the summer after graduating high school.
"Dave, human of earth, for the crime of sexually harassing the princess of Omega 13 you are sentenced to 3 days." Th... | Dave hadn't felt much of an ambassador during the reception held in his honor, though he had tried to solve that by attempting to shake hands with one of his hosts. He was also pretty sure that ambassadors normally didn't get engulfed, seemingly out of nowhere, by amorphous white blobs that filled his mouth, nose, and ... | 2016-08-23T09:46:40 | 2016-08-23T09:13:06 | 82 | 23 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | It started on a pretty small scale. Things we never noticed until we looked back. The odd animal abandoning their young. Small increases in crime rates. That kind of thing. Simple stuff, seeming like normal variations to the vast majority of people.
But things grew more blatant as time passed. There were reports of ne... | It's been 13 years since the start of the affliction. Humanity (and all mammals) have for all intents and purposes, have become a sterile race. What was initially believed to be just a disease that affected North America quickly spread throughout the globe. Children everywhere were being born with no sense of life. No ... | 2022-11-18T03:59:06 | 2015-08-22T12:56:37 | 602 | 10 |
[WP] You are Dog to which dyslexic people sometimes address their prayers. You do your best to help because you're a good boy, but alas, you are a dog. | I try to be a good boy. Dogs are man's best friend, right? Our two species practically grew up together. I suppose it's that feeling of ancestral duty that makes me do it.
Despite all of man's advances, some still can't tell the difference between GOD and DOG. Dyslexia is a bitch (no pun intended). So when I get an e... | Dog is a good boy. Does what he’s told when he’s told. Dog is always learning new tricks. He’s always helping people with their problems. You see, Dog is constantly addressed strange letters with some unusual requests. They always start out with “Dear doG”. He tries to help but, he can’t always do so. Over the years t... | 2019-03-25T07:38:52 | 2019-03-25T06:53:21 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | I know that I have a reputation. I know that even other villains are afraid of me, and that behind closed doors they are all too quick to call me a monster.
I find this a little ironic. While the various hero and villain associations like to keep their public image very Saturday morning cartoon, I know how things are ... | You know, most people expect the hero or villain of a story to have at least some form of an unneccecarily plot-devicy ego, that makes fights longer than they should be and gives the other party too many chances to win.
Well, i'm not like that. If someone tries to stop me from dissassembling their lair, or tries to fo... | 2018-10-18T15:54:26 | 2018-10-18T15:32:17 | 551 | 27 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | "What are our options here," Obama asked his room of advisors and officials. "Realistically, please."
A long pause filled the air of the room like a balloon. The expectation of an answer became suffocating. A small cough leaked its way through the crowd of people standing at the periphery of the wall. All eyes moved t... | "Mr. President? Mr. President!" Not a word from the White House when we called, just that ubiquitous ringtone on every number. "Jesus Christ, Bradley, what the fuck are we going to do?" I said putting the phone down.
"Bradley?" I turned behind me to find the loaded barrel of a gun in my manager's mouth, and before I ... | 2015-02-02T08:18:13 | 2015-02-02T06:37:02 | 103 | 20 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I don't think it's possible to forget a moment like that. A moment where you find a tether - a lifeline - after months of aimless wandering.
"You, uh...you know how many times you've repeated?" We stood at the corner of 15th and Chestnut, eyebrows arched in nearly the same position.
He shrugged. "Lost track ages ago.... | "Wait, what?"
"Every single day, I've woken up and it's been the exact same thing. The same events occur over and over again. Everyday, I wake up at in my room next to my wife to the radio alarm that plays 93.3 FM and everyday it's that stupid 21 Pilots song, "Heathens." I used to like that song. In the beginning, I ... | 2017-07-15T08:25:25 | 2017-07-15T07:54:07 | 148 | 18 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | There was only one time he was ever caught on video. It was from the time the Crimson King troupe brought a gang army to take over New York City.
“Is it rolling, Dave?” Asked a man with a crimson bandana and a gleaming golden gun with red highlights in hand.
“Yes sir,” The cameraman answered, holding a th... | Khan we need you... Said desperate Calypso.
Me, El Mayor, Thunderstrike and Kervan we... we could not do anything. They have thousands thousands of ships. Their fleet is ready to embark and conquer earth and we can’t stop them.
Khan stood up from the chair. Wearing his usual black drapes. His massive figure is on d... | 2021-05-26T04:36:03 | 2021-05-26T01:46:59 | 1,742 | 65 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | He knew the Tombs were off-limits. Many adventurers have been rumoured to descend into them, never to return. He didn't care. Young, brash, overly eager, he was willing to risk it all so he'd finally prove himself; so he'd earn the respect he desperately craved. When he finally stood before the colossal metal entrance,... | Somewhere between the moss-covered slate that hid the entrance to this place and the slightly sulphury scent coming from within, Maxim decided that he had found his treasure. No map with an x had led him here, nor was there a winding story of it from times long past. It spoke to him. Torchbugs at night appeared to call... | 2022-12-19T14:03:08 | 2022-12-19T13:10:11 | 236 | 25 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | Red Molly contacted me first. “Hey I think you need to get down here. Right now.” When you get a psychic message like that, well, you kinda have to listen.
Windows smashed. Tables broken, even my counter, made from the wood of the witness stand from the Salem trials, was badly damaged. My favorite coffee mug, given to... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T23:34:54 | 1,330 | 11 |
[WP] In future an alien civilization selectively breeds humans just like we did with wolves to get dogs.
Example of narrating character: A person from our time who travels to future and sees humans behaving differently. | I watched from my perch atop the power pylon, the display in my Longsight goggles allowing me to view the activity below as closely as if I were five feet above the ground, rather than fifty. My camouflage cloak rippled a little in the wind, the material flickering a little as it projected an image of the sky onto itse... | Dorak sat on his front porch. He stretched his upper arms while his lowers arms scratched his stomach. His Human, Derek, sat next to him in a smaller version of the chair Dorak sat on.
“Looks like this will be a good morning for some Natoball,” said Dorak.
Derek laughed and bounced up and down in his chair. “You be... | 2015-03-15T10:13:23 | 2015-03-15T09:08:36 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You can see the coolest stats of things that you touch, and today when you lean against the wall of your house instead of the usual “Contains 4 dogs” you see “People killed here: 327” | I gapped. 327? I went to my study and got out my notes.
Six months. Yes, that was right; but 327? I’d have to investigate. By my counts I had killed 415.
Now, I’m sure you’ll think I’m lying, or that the police would be after me. But it is my job. They send them to me you see. The people come, I kill them and the p... | Huh, what?!, as i rubbed my eyes and made sure i wasnt just seeing things. No. I wasn't seeing things. It said "people killed here : 327"
Now im panicking. Why? I didnt do anything wrong. Did i?. No. I didnt. Why am i questioning myself?
As i walked into my house, everything seemed normal. Although, few items were mi... | 2017-12-17T18:24:15 | 2017-12-17T15:53:02 | 96 | 53 |
[WP] Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. You can't change back until you discover what this skill is. You've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried. | I sat behind the curtain. The guy on the other side was clearly keeping the crowd entertained. Every joke he dolled out landed with perfect timing. Could I really do any better?
Then again, was it really a question of whether *I* could do better?
It felt like I'd tried everything at this point. Various board games? N... | Well, this is awkward. I'm used to getting into a body, noticing that one thing they are passionate about, and racing back to my own body. These things are kept track of, you know. If people's skills weren't tracked, the world would just be chaos. People would choose their own jobs willy nilly, without thought to what ... | 2016-09-26T08:26:06 | 2016-09-26T08:19:04 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | I am known as Mind Master. My power is telekinesis \[which I can also use to make myself fly\]. After defeating my main villain, Dr. Psychon, I was ready to rest and stop the occasional bandit. But that evening was nothing like that at all.
I followed a distress call next to the town park. The next thing I knew I was ... | She stood there, patiently waiting, watching to see what I did next. She had some very nice dishes laid out with steak, baked potato, assorted vegetables and some pears and mangoes. She looked kinda nervous. The food smelled wonderful. I cut up some steak and took a bite, It was some of the *best* food I had ever tast... | 2021-10-21T12:25:33 | 2021-10-21T12:15:59 | 67 | 31 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | They act nice to me. Give me whatever I want, whenever I want. All but what I truly want, no one can grant my wish. But that just comes with the property.
What am I? A god? Am I death, destruction, the ending, a black hole... none of these describe me. I’ve grown bored of trying to find out. Bored of out my mind. Alo... | Titan Omega lay on the couch looking up at the ceiling of Doctor Woodhall's office. It was a familiar sight, the textured ceiling much better than the rest of the Leauge's bland and sterile halls. Everything in the office was designed to set a person at ease, to break them out of the mindset of being the superheroes wh... | 2021-05-26T09:15:55 | 2021-05-26T07:17:01 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads "Why don't you have any kidneys? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?" | *Who knows,* the man thought to himself as he crumpled the note.
He settled into the tub. The man felt cozy and settled, like a bourbon with dinner. Someone tried to make a pass on him, but wound up with a truth unsettling enough for two crooks; There were no kidneys.
*Fancy that.* Explained some things. Alcohol was ... | "Aww fuck this won't be good. I'm in Chongqing so I'm sure this was done by the koruppted boys. The low level bitches who fucked my back up are being chewed out by their Capo right now I bet. He's going to tell his boss and that fat fuck will know exactly who I am.
It's easier getting lost in mainland China than mos... | 2015-12-30T22:41:52 | 2015-12-30T20:45:14 | 2,123 | 25 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | First time, be gentle!
Seven dollars and twenty-seven cents? Was this a joke? Today was my 21st birthday. Today was also the day I received my allotment. The amount of money I was expected to use to live off for the rest of my life. Oh, I could go get a job. All the usual ways of earning money were still there. ... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T14:23:26 | 335 | 13 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | “Something’s coming.”
I hadn’t been sleeping, not really anyway. Just resting my eyes, I swear. I cleared my throat as quietly as I could.
“Is it her?”
Mon shook his head, “I can’t tell yet.” He was leaning against a chest high chunk of cinderblock, scanning out past the ruptured asphalt and rusted out cars for any ... | It was a simple deal, or so I thought. There I was at my lowest point, homeless, broke, with a needle in my arm. The guy in leathers came to me, glowing faintly, but it could have been the drugs. I asked him to help me.
He did.
He became the voice on my shoulder. I caught breaks at every chance. Made money, go... | 2015-05-16T09:31:32 | 2015-05-16T08:20:10 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] After too many ridiculous and lengthy lawsuits dominate the world's courts, the world leaders decided to pass a law to remove all warning labels. The Darwin Act has just been passed. | It didn't go as we predicted really. Don't get me wrong, it was really well thought out. The logic was sound. If we removed the warning labels on products, of course we would see a spike in accidental deaths, but the deaths would be beneficial because we would end the propagation of stupid people. And since no one ... | "I hate mop days" I mutter as I mix the bleach an ammonia solution and poor it into the bucket. For one I always feel bad watching people slip and fall when they don't realize the floor is wet. Even worse, mopping the floors always makes me feel nauseous and gives me a headache for some unknown reason. But thanks to my... | 2017-03-24T04:44:44 | 2017-03-24T04:37:56 | 41 | 25 |
[WP]You were the laughing stock of super hero school, and decide to become a villain. you know the entire next generations weaknesses now. | Wow, it's amazing what power does to one's head.
Look at that, Rocket Man just punched through three inches of steel. Whoop-de-flipping-doo, there was a window behind him.
Oh, Electricity just broke a terrorist defensive line with a thunderbolt. I wonder if she knows that the men around her are on metal flooring? N... | All throughout school, they teased me. Mocked me. Ridiculed me. I had always been the odd man out, as everyone else had these magnificent powers and abilities, and I never did. They shunned me, saying I wasn't one of them. My life was miserable for so long, until recently.
Because it turns out, I do have powers. ... | 2017-08-16T14:22:44 | 2017-08-16T12:39:59 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] write a document voicing the complaints of the engineer who has to design an ancient tomb full of easily solvable puzzles. | > The lord regent's advisor on matters of technology is delighted with your progress on the tomb, and wishes to inform you that she has the utmost confidence that your design will be exactly what the God King (praised be his name) needs in this life and in the next. She is particularly pleased that your design did ... | Got damn it. I am sick of these damn tombs. You won't let me design any of the traps, you constantly send me stupid masons, and now, my wages are getting reduced because you wanted a FUCKING GEM as a distraction at the end of this hall.
FUCK YOU!
I am not even Egyptian. I don't have to deal with this crap. Last week... | 2016-03-17T11:43:18 | 2016-03-17T08:48:50 | 49 | 13 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | The air is heavier. Way denser than back home, almost as dense as the expansive jungle canopy overhead. I have a deeply uncanny feeling about this.
"Hard to breathe," I say, casting about for a sign of civilization. The trees are massive and alien, the growth of another era.
Jax is readying the Seeker drones. We have... | Happy Cake day! This is a really great wp. I hope to do it justice as I am fairly new to this page.
The resounding air curled up as the room began to lose its geometry. Everything became a blur as it stretched and disfigured into the swirling pipe above. The scene was all too familiar. This was your third trip into th... | 2020-04-17T08:57:35 | 2020-04-17T08:40:15 | 386 | 134 |
[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... | My father Michael Walters and my mother Natalie were both well respected doctors. My older siblings- Vivian, Sam, and Edward were all gifted. Vivian was still moving through med school, Sam and Edward were focusing on engineering degrees.
I was the youngest, and I'd always felt like a disappointment. My whole family m... | My parents lit the candles that were stuck into a strip of venison. We began to count down as the clock ticked closer to my time of birth. It would mark my fourteenth birthday and my transformation into the animal that guided my soul.
10-9-8-
I started to sweat.
-7-6-5-
I stared at my sister in front of me.
-... | 2017-01-21T19:17:27 | 2017-01-21T17:14:16 | 956 | 108 |
[WP] An alien replacing your father and pretending to be him sounds like everybody horror's story, except for you and your mother since it is affectionate, caring, helps you with school and has even been promoted at work and is an absolute dork for SciFi movies. | It's not that Phil was a bad man. Phil. I stopped calling him "Dad" a little after my twelfth birthday, when I went to the kitchen in the middle of the night for a glass of water and found him passed out next to the fridge, his face smushed up against the wall so hard that the moulding left marks on his cheeks the next... | Distant memories, thankfully, that was all that remained of my old father. Yeah I know, not a nice thing to say about ones sperm donor, but when he turns out to be abusive, not only verbally, but physically as well, to the point of gashes and broken bones, you tend to not care so much about any of that anymore. He was ... | 2020-04-23T09:27:48 | 2020-04-23T08:17:36 | 111 | 36 |
[WP] In a new TV game show contestants must jump into a wormhole that drops them into a random point in time where they must survive for longer than the other contestants. You've just been dropped in the worst possible place. | "Randy Roben coming at you with another exciting episode of Wormhole, the show that literally lifts you off your feet! Our contestants today are Brenda Johnson, a school teacher from Kansas, loves fish, and once had a cat named Meow Zedong. Up next from Florida we have Pete Nickels, a banker by trade, he spends his fre... | "And here ladies,gents and others, is this seasons of "Will they make it!" first contestant! DANNNNNYYY"
Danny looked up and waved sheepishly from the drop grid where the tech's were adding the final pieces of gear to his backpack ready for him to jump into the wormhole in the middle of the stage floor surrounded by t... | 2016-07-24T12:59:48 | 2016-07-24T12:20:51 | 79 | 59 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | Cricket bats are made out of willow which gives a wonderful, resonant sound when connecting with a skull. An undead skull, naturally and I love a bit of skull-basing in the morning followed by a nice, relaxing cup of Earl Gray. No milk to be found anywhere these days unfortunately, so naturally, my chosen breakfast b... | We found the source on the second floor, an ancient Japanese full plated armour shimmering with unnatural blue light, we then press forward still in our diamond formation, checking every corner for walkers.
On closer inspection, this armour is the type that samurais' wore back in the days. Except this one had blue dig... | 2020-09-14T09:46:15 | 2020-09-14T09:05:00 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | *"Grandor the Grand dies in freak garden accident"* read the headline of the newspaper clenched in one of the bandits grubby hands as they walked down the road.
"You seen this shit, Fik? It says that hard bastard got himself killed falling into a patch of some herbs it turned out he was fatally allergic to. You could... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-10T01:34:41 | 1,001 | 19 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | It was 4:45 in the afternoon and I knew I was going to be late but I really wanted to finish the documentary. It was called “A brief History: The Extra-Capable”. Brief History was my favorite channel, most of what they covered was relevant and sometimes even useful.
Apparently by their latest counts there’s over a bi... | The three heroes slammed open the door behind the bakery, leaving several badly beaten workers crumpled on the floor. Some of them weren't moving. "Hey 1, should we call an ambulance or something? They dont look too good." 1 scoffed. "Absolutely not. They got what was coming to them, 2. They should have thought abo... | 2022-11-29T00:16:04 | 2022-11-28T23:57:38 | 49 | 34 |
[WP] Humans have left Earth to explore the universe. Millions of years later they return, only to find a new sentient species, who've been waiting for whoever came before them.
A "family reunion", as it were, is my idea for the prompt - but do it however you wish. :) | We called her Earth; millions of years ago she birthed humanity and gave rise to my descendants. Men and women who vowed to leave behind the place we called home in order to explore the universe. We searched far and wide, from our home in the Milky Way to the farthest galaxy we could find. Humanity traveled, built grea... | Danny peered through the window of his cruiser to view the world outside. Trees as tall as mountains towered over the landscape. He could make out bridges and buildings strewn across the gaps between the trees. On the ground, he saw an assembly of creatures. Three legged beings with arched backs that had two arms and w... | 2015-12-20T13:45:33 | 2015-12-20T10:09:37 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] A traveling alien passes by and on a whim solves everything: infinite food, energy, perfectly balanced ecosystem, and portals everywhere lead to thousands of unpopulated Earth like lands with no downside. Obviously, world leaders are outraged. | "Today is the dawn of a new day," POTUS spoke and the two journalists still in the room yawned in sequence. There were a handful of secret service agents who still feigned loyalty, but they were nowhere to be seen at the moment. The President stepped away from the podium and sighed, "We're having lunch in the White Hou... | We’d been wondering about it for decades - media, conspiracies, sightings of extra terrestrials - always assuming they would destroy our Earth even worse than we already had. We’d all read War of the Worlds, we all knew how this was supposed to end. Except... it didn’t. The exact opposite, actually. Everything was perf... | 2019-06-06T10:17:49 | 2019-06-06T10:06:23 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The man behind the counter froze in the middle of typing out my order. They looked up at me wide eyed and said,"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." Sounding somewhat surprised.
That night, standing in the empty 24/7 McDonald's of our small desert town, it finally happened. The thing that I had been wa... | I entered the store,the fresh smell of grease and soggy fries flooding my nose. How the workers endured the smell for more then fifteen minutes I have no clue,not that it mattered to me but it was always the first thing I thought of when I entered.
A few seconds later my nose had adjusted to the smell and so I walke... | 2018-06-24T20:39:44 | 2018-06-24T20:22:38 | 41 | 25 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | Beer bottles and pizza boxes were scattered across the room. My phone had a dozen messages and as many missed calls from worried friends who hadn't seen me except online in a week.
They wouldn't understand.
I couldn't get it out of my head. The rush, the endorphins - it was the highest high I'd ever had. No games, no... | It wasn't intentional when I pulled the trigger on that rifle that I killed a man. Originally I was aiming for a Buck, but this idiot went and wore camoflague *'because it'll never see me coming.'*
My original though trailed off as I got an epiphany... This man was a father on his last legs trying to feed his family. ... | 2017-12-08T06:35:26 | 2017-12-08T05:56:51 | 409 | 128 |
[WP] You live in a country where murder is legal - The catch is, it has to be declared a week in advance. The aggressor has to wait the full week, but the victim may begin defending themselves immediately upon receiving notice. While a legitimate threat is legal, a false one is very much not. | "Hey Ron. So, uh, you know why I called you? You know, the Information Act."
"Yes, Mr. Lipton." Ron knew all about the new bill that passed five days ago, supported by lunatics and other lunatics with deeper pockets. Just scare tactics for rich people, they said. "Did someone send you a notice?"
"Oh no, nothing like ... | "Mornin' Gary, nice day out isn't it.", Paul said as he sat on his porch. Gary continued for the paper at the end of the driveway, not stopping to hear Paul's weekly curse. Paul Picked back up, "I Paul Patrick Parley declare to murder you one week from today on October the 3rd, 1975."
Paul rocked in his chair, with ov... | 2020-12-03T08:06:00 | 2020-12-03T06:16:10 | 203 | 55 |
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