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[WP] You are an astronaut in the I.S.S. The last message you received before the world went dark was "turn off all electrical signals,or it will find us." Now as the sun comes over the horizon you see a massive shadow on the earth. | Anita watched the world darken. The fires of the Earth – Paris, London, New York – one by one they all extinguished, like a swarm of lightning bugs dying in the air and hitting the ground with a soft thud. She focused on a spot on the Indian peninsula, her hometown of Delhi, usually a festival of color and lights, was ... | The blue orb of Earth lazily drifted through space. As though nothing at all was wrong. Shane had never gotten over the sense of wonder that his home planet conveyed to him since he launched into orbit. It had not occurred to magnitude of loneliness one could feel as part of the 6 human beings outside of that orb.
The... | 2016-12-12T21:35:20 | 2016-12-12T19:51:15 | 194 | 49 |
[WP] An immortal vampire wakes from a 500 year sleep. He emerges expecting humans to cower before him as they did before, but things are a little different now. No one even believes him when he tells them he’s a vampire. | "Oh wow, sick look dude! Can I get a picture?"
It had been like this the entire night. For some reason, dozens if not hundreds of unholy symbols, rituals, fetishes, and the like had been raised and put on display all at once. This had been going on for several weeks, culminating on this night, where people had even be... | The still warm corpse sagged in his arms, its head lolling backwards in a just-so way, allowing the ancient vampire full access to the blood cascading down its chest.
The One greedily lapped at the brilliant red liquid, contemplating the surprising way the corpse had responded to his attack.
It had laughed at him, gi... | 2020-03-22T12:55:08 | 2020-03-22T12:54:51 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You are a reformed supervillain that has settled down and raised a family. When your child starts showing signs of superpowers and anger issues, you feel it's your duty to set him/her down the right path. | "Susan killed another squirrel."
Maria was very chill this time, relating the acts of our daughter. Our only child. "She lured it in with nuts and berries, but laid a trap."
"What was it?" I asked.
"Spike pit," she answered. "Coated in mud."
"Ah. Time to have the chat with her." She nodded solemnly. My wife was ... | "Jennifer..."
Helen stared at the glass in front of her. Part of it had been cracked via a fist. The raven haired teen looked at her mother with a smile. "I guess I've become what you wanted."
"I never wanted this!" Helen attempted to jump through the glass, to wherever Jennifer was. Her power was cancelled lout by ... | 2019-01-31T09:24:59 | 2019-01-31T08:00:54 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] The Humans are..interesting. Their weaponry is ancient, but their warriors are nearly unstoppable. | -----transmission recieved----
they dug holes in the dirt. And sat in them. And fought there, until they died. They killed a few warriors each, but it was of not matter to the brood mother, she could always make more. It didn't take long, only 4 cycles and the planet was theirs, but the humans persisted.
they were be... | Galactic Cycle 807, Battle Log
War of Sol-3, Conflict Omega
*transmission start*
"..Hello? Is this thing on? If you're hearing this, we didn't make i-"
*Explosions are heard off in the distance, the source is unknown*
"Oh Hive Mother, what have we done? Why, of all the species in this horrid universe, did we stum... | 2018-01-11T20:12:15 | 2018-01-11T18:43:18 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] it was a dark night when our villain heard a wrap on their door. To their surprise their arch nemesis, the hero, collapses into their arms. Beaten and a bit woozy in the eyes ,the hero looks up and barely manages to get out "I wasn't sure where else to go" before going limp. | "Emma?" Shadow Wolf groaned as his eyes flickered open.
"It's Sidewinder." I corrected with annoyance. He was the only one that insisted on calling me by birth name and not my villain alias. "Whoa, don't move!" I stopped him as he tried to get up. I was in the middle of stitching up a large wound across his abdomen. ... | Choosing a nemesis is not unlike dating. You get in a few scrapes, maybe have a heist busted, and you figure out if this is going to be the one for you. Sometimes it’s easy. He’s a fire elemental, she’s an ice queen. Sometimes it doesn't make sense at all, but it works. He’s a Victorian detective, he’s a cyborg.
But a... | 2021-07-08T17:16:06 | 2021-07-08T15:23:31 | 266 | 112 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | The demon looked down from his tower, the flow of humans into hell had exploded in the past few days. Another war, maybe, but this seems bigger. Suddenly a blinding light appeared in the sky. As it approached he could make her out. A winged angel coming down from the sky.
He tensed up, the Lord's messengers were not ... | The elders of our interstellar civilization always cautioned us never to anger them. "The Elohim", that's what they're called. A very ancient and very powerful Type IV civilization, perhaps one of the oldest in the Universe. They are believed to have evolved just as the universe was feeling its way out of the dark ages... | 2020-09-18T11:45:25 | 2020-09-18T11:25:32 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Instead of of Mice Infestations, your world has tiny Gordon Ramsay Infestations. | I excitedly unlocked my front door and braced myself for the smell of cooking to hit me.
 
I quietly took my shoes off and snuck down the hallway to my bedroom, changing out of my work clothes before heading out into the small kitchen to watch the action.
 
Almost fifty little chefs scurried throu... | "WHAT ARE YOU?!?!" The hoarse voice roared. I sighed, I really didnt have time to deal with then today, I was just trying to make a grilled cheese for christ sake. I was tempted to ignore them, but I'd long ago learnt they didnt stop shouting until someone played along, "an idiot sandwich" I replied, dead inside. | 2017-12-18T14:17:15 | 2017-12-18T12:43:18 | 32 | 16 |
[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 :) | "So," the interviewer said, manicured hands folded neatly in her lap. "How did you end up living in the Cardvale Murder House?"  
 
"Well, my husband Jason sells real estate for a living," Sarah explained, still squinting and blinking at the earliness of the hour. She wore pink yoga pants and a ch... | "Another day another dollar," Bob Saget whispers to himself after a long night of shooting his latest motion picture: Horror Directly Following Late Night Movie Shoots.
"You be safe now! Don't want any sort of horror scenario happening to you on the way home!" chuckles the director.
"What the fuck did I tell you ab... | 2017-05-05T08:14:46 | 2017-05-05T07:10:06 | 29 | 21 |
[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. | Everything was Just the way it should be. The chamomiles were blooming. The snakeroots, freshly planted. And in front of her stood the Maidenhair, so tall that she could only just see the top. The leaves were just starting to change from their bright green to the brightest gold that would rival the gold the richest of ... | Plants were the most beautiful thing ever. They started off small, insignificant, just a little seed in the huge world. But with time and care they grew from a little shoot, larger and larger until they bloomed, bright and full of life with thousands of different colours and patterns. I suppose I liked them for they sy... | 2021-09-09T21:37:31 | 2021-09-09T21:25:01 | 172 | 45 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | I'm used to being left out of the loop on things.
It's not surprising. I don't really read the news or follow popular media, so all sorts of shit can happen that I never know about. It can be nice not dealing with all that drama--though when I'm at school and everyone is in on some trend or change in schedule or whate... | Everyone thought it was a joke looking upon the site, a clever trick played by some bored devs ... right? Then they saw the timestamps and got worried, upon governments themselves (After a few higher up individuals having some very embarrassing things leaked about them) raided the supposed location and found nothing c... | 2020-02-29T23:07:04 | 2020-02-29T22:29:01 | 92 | 15 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Unjustly" I said, as loudly and clearly as I could.
The presiding justice was an elderly man - probably in his late 80s, maybe even older. He blinked at me with steel grey eyes that despite his advanced age were as sharp and penetrating as any I had encountered.
"Unjustly." he replied, curtly. "Yes. You heard me co... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T07:50:17 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 457 | 181 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The species known as Humans came from a distant star, deep within the swirling vortex all other races had avoided. They brought with them many wondrous advancements including advanced healing never before seen within the known galaxy. Though they were diverse, they had no want for war and would help any in need without... | The Orak believed the war with humanity would end in blood and glory. Instead it ended in a white flash while they struck the outermost colony of Elysium. Humanity attacked their home planet Orakus. Citizens on Orakus felt no pain or suffering as the humans on Elysium did. Instead it was a white hot mercy that the Tsar... | 2020-02-07T13:28:43 | 2020-02-07T13:21:46 | 151 | 18 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | The genie stayed stone faced, as he had been since he first appeared. But after a quick blink, the first one I had seen him make, I had realized, his emotionless stare was slowly replaced by a wide grin of recognition. "Wait, hold on," I stammered, "I take it back. What did I just do."
The genie floated silently f... | “Granted. You now have -6 wishes.”
“I wish for the ability to do magic.”
“Granted. You now have -7 wishes.”
The wisher laughed, have broken the wishes in a incredibly dumb way. Turns out genies grant wishes unless you have zero wishes.
“I wish everyone but me has zero wishes.”
“Granted. You now have -8 wishes.”
“... | 2022-12-09T12:11:00 | 2022-12-09T10:51:28 | 174 | 33 |
[WP] You are an assassin who has been training their whole life to become a part of The Society. A league of the world’s top assassins. You are given your final test. Kill the person you love most. If you fail the final test you die. | I know not where I come from or my real name. I merely picked "Yin" to represent the shadows and darkness, contrasting those in the light. I was adopted by the Assassin guild and tested out for my skills. Turns out, I was the perfect assassin, mastering every challenge with strong intuition and quick learning, as if I ... | I checked my weapon another time before sliding it into my jacket pocket with one last deep breath. “It’s going to be okay,” I said to myself in a low voice. “You can do this.”
With a heavy heart, I set out to complete my task and find the person I had been told to kill – my own beloved father. He was an upstanding ci... | 2022-11-30T10:49:52 | 2022-11-30T06:57:03 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] After lulling other countries into a false sense of security, Canada finally makes its move to conquer the world. | "My fellow Americans.
We have had a long and illustrious history as a nation. We have been a beacon for hope and freedom throughout the world.
As you know, this morning, Canada's Prime Minister Liam Gagnon, announced to the United Nations and to the world, that Canada was taking over the world. All government activi... | The Canucks had finally done it - the whole world was addicted to maple syrup. How sweet it was!
Golden Rice in Beijing, Syri Curry in Mumbai, Maple Mousse in Italy (for hair), Syrup Sizzlers in Buenos Aires, and, of course, the American Pancake. The Canadian weapons appeared innocent, but became lethal in the enem... | 2017-01-17T16:06:41 | 2017-01-17T14:43:11 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You have a necrotic touch. As such, you cover yourself completely, using the excuse that light of any type hurts you. After years of roaming the lands, you find a peaceful village of farmers that accepts your condition without question and settle down. And then the raiders come. | "Raul you say? We don't know anyone named Raul" said farmer Jun. The old man trembled, afraid of the cloaked raiders. Their reputation, ruthlessness are know throughout the land. Once, they were the vanguard of the kingdom but now become Merc of Shadow.
I know why they are here. For me. But not for whatever reason you... | Sleep has departed me. My mind was filled by disjointed images, each of savage and grotesque nature. Imagination, as if to seize the opportunity of my sleeplessness, formed the ghastly figure of that red-headed boy I had the misfortune of encountering. I could vividly recall a dark patch of skin. It was of a scaly text... | 2021-09-18T10:04:46 | 2021-09-18T07:00:14 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | The great demon rises from his golden throne and begins to clap; his leather-like hands produce a sound like mocking thunder. The cavern shakes as the noise echoes off the walls. His blood-red lips curl into a terrible smile.
"Is this... *Hell?*" I ask, hoping for something, but knowing another.
He stops clapping, al... | "Uh, hey, Satan," I say. "Are you hiring?"
"Sorry kid," says the devil. "We don't have any job openings at this time."
"Well, I guess I'm stuck here," I reply. "Is there anything to do around here?"
"We have an old PlayStation original," says Satan. "That's about it."
"Do you have any of the *Final Fantasy* games f... | 2017-06-22T03:25:07 | 2017-06-22T03:21:52 | 84 | 23 |
[WP] Multiple personalities are the norm. You are the first person to be diagnosed with SPD: Single Personality Disorder. Scientists are baffled: "How can you possibly cope with being so alone?" | I woke up to the sound of rain outside my window. A calming sound amidst the craziness that was my life. I crawled out of bed and got some medicine for my headache. The bottle was almost out. I would have to ask my mom for more. On top of the loads of other meds they kept me doped up on, you’d think that they could at ... | They told me something was wrong with me. I said that I was pretending to be multiple people and they said that was wrong. That I shouldn't have to pretend. They said that I was lonely without anyone else in my head.
"We haven't ever met anyone who was alone in their head", they told me. "You aren't like the rest of... | 2016-11-18T14:57:04 | 2016-11-18T11:47:31 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] Due to a freak accident, you now mentally experience time at half the speed you used to. | Mumbling had always been a problem of mine. When I was tired or stressed, I would forget how to form proper syllables. My lips would bounce, my tongue would flap...
"What?"
Then I'd take a breath. A Reset, my therapist used to call it. To find myself. When I did, there would be intention, power, and true meaning in ... | Dammit, i missed another word. I can barely follow conversation these days, i get lost in thought, distracted. Its just takes forever. People must think i have the worst case of ADHD ever conceived.
-she stopped talking- what were we talking about? Has it already been too long for me to answer... she's starring at ... | 2017-07-04T10:45:47 | 2017-07-04T10:35:06 | 112 | 27 |
[WP] Your job was simple: Interview some humans to develop a planetary risk profile in the Galactic Travel Guide. The humans seem to delight in lying about their planet in efforts to increase their score, but you are on to them. Their lies always seem to mention a fictional place: Australia | What is the most dangerous place on your planet?
It's a simple question. All the species I've interviewed over the last three centuries have answered honestly. They talk about ranges of volcanoes who poison the air with their toxic fumes. They talk about deserts that burn skin, chitin and scale. They rave about frozen... | "I've interviewed hundreds of spices and am the most oldest and best employee at this job!" Sar yelled at his boss, then paused for a second to think before continuing "so why, just why are humans the hardest to interview spices I've ever encountered." His boss was surprised at his out burst as he had never yelled at w... | 2019-11-18T03:50:42 | 2019-11-17T23:02:12 | 1,213 | 42 |
[WP] You entered a forest filled with monsters. The exit constantly moves, you don't age in the forest. When exiting, one person must stay unless they are the only one in the forest. Many a time you found the exit but let others leave. For the first time, another asked how long you've been here. | They called him the Watchmaker. Luna never learned why. Clocks, of course, do not work in the Valley. He had other names as well, but she never heard those.
He threw a huge shadow, but was really quite small - just less than average height and slim as a knife, but wiry strong, like a gnarled tree clinging to the side... | ##Forest of Morality
She looks to be no older than twelve. She probably has the most unfortunate distinction of being the youngest person in this forest. I wonder why she is here.
"You there, where the hell am I?" she yells. That will do it. I walk up to her.
"You are in a forest filled with monsters," I say.
"Very... | 2020-12-30T00:39:01 | 2020-12-29T20:36:55 | 1,253 | 408 |
[WP] "What do you mean the Council won't give us a seat?" "Well, the Galactic council is... unsure... how to proceed with a species that can so readily turn predators into, well, pets." | "That's preposterous! We-"
Terra Ambassador Nicols had a much longer, and a much more *colorful*, response to Galactic Councilor Xendoxu-Inj's statement but knew better than to speak it aloud. Looking down at the floor of the Citadel's Council Room, Nicols lost himself in thought for a moment and did not realize that ... | *We can explain* by thatonedoveslayer
“Oh, you mean dogs and cats?”
“Yes... canine and feline species have shown to be incredibly dangerous on your planet, with both groups traveling in packs that can easily wipe out one of your kind. You have also befriended any form of reptile and amphibian creature, and some forms... | 2020-10-30T01:26:02 | 2020-10-30T00:54:17 | 420 | 131 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | The High Wizard’s Council was a shadow of what it once was. Where once reigned supreme the Elves, now sat a mixed council of children who couldn’t even believe in the truth of his existence. A Human, a Half-breed, a Dwarf and a Gnome stared down at him from on high, not one of them a year over eighty. Most of them woul... | Humankind is not meant to live many hundreds of years. Or thousands. I should know; I'm somewhere in my teen-hundreds. Calendars have come and gone in my centuries of desiccation. My skin smells of dust and mites, the oils that lubricate it long forgotten. My stomach churns at the sound of my bones grinding together, t... | 2022-11-19T02:25:30 | 2022-11-18T20:35:55 | 589 | 155 |
[WP]You're the deadliest unit in the U.S's Army, but people get suspicious when you head shot 5 Taliban from behind a wall and yell "Get good."
Best way I can describe the idea is a COD:WAW mod menu that you can toggle. | General Mark Jones rounded the table and sat down in the chair opposite to me. He opened the file and flipped through the pages.
“Break it down for me, Cpt. Lokowicz,” he said and put the file down.
I shifted in my chair. The video of the final stages of the mission had been leaked and then gone viral.
“I don’t kno... | Not exactly following the prompt, but I want to get this story out there anyways so I could continue at a later time. Any criticism would be appreciated, as this is the first time I've wrote on this sub, and the first time I've wrote a short story in a long time.
I back away slowly, dust blowing quickly away from the... | 2017-07-26T12:57:53 | 2017-07-26T12:45:03 | 1,640 | 34 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | "You wish really really hard and then you push the button."
"Really really hard? What does the wishing do?"
"Frustrates the hell out of the new recruits when they realize that the incredibly genuine way we insist that they wish as hard as they can is just a ploy to make them look silly to amuse the rest of the crew."... | 2017-03-31T12:54:20 | 2017-03-30T23:13:22 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] In a world of incredible heroes and villains, you have the most dangerous power of all: forcing actual, real world logic and physics to take place
2/19/19: Woah! I look away for a few minutes and suddenly 1000 likes! Thanks you guys!
2/19/19: Holy God! 6.5k likes?! Awesome! | This one knew what to expect. A nice change of pace. The usual desperation was truly saddening to behold after a while of doing this. He fell into a fighting stance. Good. No meaningless gesticulations, trying to summon a tornado or whatnot. No intense staring, expecting to see me liquefy or burn to ashes. The ridicule... | "FLYING MEN HAVE BEEN LEVELED ALL OVER NYC"
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The headline surprised everyone.
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Didn't surprise me-I don't scare easy. But the news headline was the last to get to the story and that was the scariest part. The reason why modern print journalism is dying: slowness.
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I walked ou... | 2019-02-19T14:19:17 | 2019-02-19T13:13:58 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Every year several hundred thousand people go missing worldwide, the crazies said it was aliens. When you were abducted, you found out they were right. Turns out humans make astonishingly good pets. Not because we're smart or strong or fast but because... we're adorable. | It reminded me of my leopard gecko.
Mine was bred in captivity, of course. He was a cute little thing, the length of my hand, yellow and black spotted, with the sweetest little smile. Leopard geckos are like that - they look like they're smiling. That was what caught my attention as a kid. I spent weeks pleading and h... | "Awwwwwwwww."
The three children, at least I think they're children, beam down on me as I... eat my cereal.
"Lookit it go munch munch.
"Munch munch?" I ask.
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwww."
"Now now moppets, don't crowd. They don't like it when you stare as they eat."
My world has turned upside down lately in the past few mont... | 2020-09-09T09:24:08 | 2020-09-09T08:32:02 | 379 | 269 |
[WP]: Two characters with no common language are forced into an arranged marriage. Due to the language barrier, they have vastly different ideas of the nature of the situation. | (Hover over the marked text to read the spoilers/translations)
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After the ceremony, the vows at the altar, the exchange of rings, the kiss, and finally the dance, the newlyweds found themselves in a horse carriage on the way back to the castle. Brian’s father, who also happened to be the king, had arranged the whol... | The wind was strong today. Stronger than I have ever seen before. So strong that it uprooted the ancient oak tree and catapulted it into our windmill. I never thought I'd see either our sturdy oak tree or our strong mill fall. But, as branches and rocks lay scattered across the ground and the wooden blades were hanging... | 2017-05-27T11:22:59 | 2017-05-27T10:16:53 | 2,339 | 262 |
[WP] Orcs and Elves have been fighting since what seems like forever, but eventually both sides get confused as to why they even started in the first place. The rulers of both races get together to find out why, but even the most well-kept Elven records and highest ranked Orc shamans don't know. | Orc and elf alike watched the other warily, hands drifting close to their weapons as one side warily eyed the other. They had both arrived on the outskirts of the great elvish capital with a truce in place, but nobody could be entirely certain the other side could be trusted to uphold their side of the truce...
After ... | The Ancient one carefully unrolls a scroll so old, it appears to be just dust held together by magic." This scroll is the oldest one we have found linked to the war, it predates the sundering of Divus mountain. A reference to it was discovered by chance, and to find it, high price had to be payed to the Elementals."
... | 2021-10-12T05:02:49 | 2021-10-12T04:35:20 | 49 | 17 |
[WP] You are a commercial airliner pilot. The moment before you turn your phone off to begin the flight your SO sends you a deeply concerning text. | "Davis! Great to see you. It's been too long, eh?"
I sat down next to my copilot, and sipped on my coffee as the preflight checklist slowly scrolled on my phone.
"Yeah buddy. I've been in the Northeast these last few months. You been well?"
"Jackie and I bought a house in Florida last month. 6 years of saving, b... | *644221*
I read the numbers and then our pre-flight routine is broken as I whirr to a stop. Co-pilot, John, keeps talking, not realizing I'm sitting there frozen like a block of ice.
My phone buzzes again. *644221*.
"Mike? You right?"
John's Australian. It sounds like *rooight*.
"Uh yeah. Just give me a minute. My... | 2014-06-18T18:47:02 | 2014-06-18T18:29:14 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] A demon provides an angel a shoulder to cry on as they watch the world end. | The naked sun beat down, red and furious over the cracked earth. The wind swept over crags and broken, precipitous, stone. Small pools of blood dried as the desert staunched their slow growth. Soft whispers of breeze danced along the barren clay, flinging gray flecks off the flesh of the ground and into the unforgiving... | They had lived so long as opposites, they had forgotten what it was like to be together.
Aleana's golden tresses fell on Ahruman's arm as she wept, tears trickling down her cheeks. They were the contrast of a painting; whites and reds, golds and blacks, sat atop a cliff, legs dangling with childish abandon as the wor... | 2018-04-12T16:28:50 | 2018-04-12T16:20:24 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | \- You say it runs on what? - I asked human, staring with all four of my eyes in disbelief.
\- Magic! - She replied with pride - Look, I'm not making a fun of you, it literally just runs on magic. Or at least something that by all accounts fits the definition of magic. See that fella over there in weird cloaks slumpin... | 2017-03-31T12:19:53 | 2017-03-31T06:50:44 | 37 | 17 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | The screams confused me, the scent of burnt flesh overwhelmed me, the ever-growing fires blinded me. The only light came from the burning homes and bodies. The only sound was that of death and destruction. The only person I cared about was no more. That's when I decided to hide, to go dark.
For the first time in my ... | "Did you hear what the Boz did at sigma phi? The Mytolixers were butchering the GI but they didn't count on having their heads explode on account of the resonant frequency from the suit".
Deekin was doing his hero worship thing again. They treat us support staff like shit, but Deekin was a true believer. Or at ... | 2019-08-19T11:20:44 | 2019-08-19T10:42:35 | 158 | 88 |
[WP] The Universe™ has just run out of free trial meaning we are being downgraded from Universe™ pro to Universe™ lite. | I remember the day that it happened like it was yesterday. Hell, it could have been yesterday for all I know, time doesn't seem to exist or matter anymore. The sun neither rises nor sets, just hangs in its default position overhead.
It was just like any other day, I had come home from a long day at work, and resigned... | I knew something was up when the clouds spelled something about changing privacy policies but i didnt know things would be this bad. This wasnt something that could be easily be solved and my god was this laggy. I was about to get mugged but i refused to give him money and as soon as he pulled the trigger a message pop... | 2018-05-28T08:11:13 | 2018-05-28T07:43:24 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are a tutorial character, your job is to guide new players through the bigining of the game. You're used to the usual eye-rolling and the occasional newbie but one day you encounter a speed runner. | So I guide this guy, one mister "SaveTheAnimals", into the training room. The moment I finish my introductory speech and activate the Cube Dispenser, he catches the cube without looking. Just sticks his hand out behind him and let's it fall into his open palm.
He goes straight for the big red button on the floor, whi... | I could sort of see the new trainee pressing 'X' again. I had an urge to strangle him for his insolence, but NPCs couldn't do that. Instead, I was resolved to have my painstaking teachings ignored. I continued on in the same tone, making sure I didn't arouse any suspicion regarding my inner emotions. The tutorial ended... | 2017-08-17T19:33:44 | 2017-08-17T15:58:45 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] A trenchcoated stranger has depositied a stack of hundreds on the table in front of you. He tells you that you know what to do, and vanishes into the crowd. You have absolutely no idea of what to do. | "You know what to do."
I stared as the man's black trenchcoat swooshed through the air and he turned to walk away. He was tall, with a black hat which made him look even taller, and sunglasses that only added to the weirdness of wearing a trenchcoat in the middle of the California summer.
"What the hell?"
At 20, I ... | [poem]
He said I would know what to do
But here I am without a clue
He looked like he had malintent
So how should all this cash be spent?
..
I bought a house, it was all paid down
It was on the nicer side of town
The dealership stopped me at a skid
My dented car I'd soon be rid.
I filled the house with ... | 2020-09-06T05:58:40 | 2020-09-06T05:45:10 | 50 | 18 |
[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. | A man came in, he was skinny, pitiful and shaking. Xyphoriz watched in bemusement as the human nervously came over to the negotiation tables, before getting to the table when the guy stopped. He pulled a pack of something Xyphoriz recognized as the earthling primitive device called a ‘cigarette’
“Hey man,” the human s... | In this solemn hour it is a consolation to recall and to dwell upon our repeated efforts for peace. All have been ill-starred, but all have been faithful and sincere. This is of the highest moral value–and not only moral value, but practical value–at the present time, because the wholehearted concurrence of scores of m... | 2019-04-19T08:32:03 | 2019-04-19T03:06:26 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] The ultimate intergalactic war ends with reality being shattered. Humans are the only species able to navigate the broken universe without falling into despair at the nonsensical nature of the new reality. Apparently they have these things called “dreams” that have trained them for this. | >**ALIENS & ALLIGATORS**
I wasn't meant to be privy to the secret meetings that the Humanity Coalition held. I was not on their war council, their secret service agencies, or even a general in their armies. I should have had no business learning about every little dirty deal and nasty secret.
Regardless, I kne... | The ship filled with red light. Who the hell had came out of cryo? Why now? A sound started but faded into the distance. That wasn't good; it meant the interstellar Break was happening, and worse, he felt wide awake.
Pete strapped himself into the chair, and activated the neural navigator. Whatever had happened... | 2022-02-10T15:57:47 | 2022-02-10T15:23:49 | 234 | 47 |
[WP] It is discovered that Possession works both ways and now we can have some payback. Demons of the underworld are now suffering under multiple cases of Humanic Possession. | The somber Hellpriest straightened his leather straps, attempting to look professional before using the heavy brass knocker on Lilith's door. This was the third case this week and he was feeling rundown. Can't let it show though, these demons have been through enough. First, he had to try and help. After this call, he'... | I fought the demon's mental barriers one by one, grasping their chaotic form and bending them into the stable shapes of the Solomon Keys I had spent the last three years studying.
Eventually I came to the last one, this one was far more complex but bore within it the signature of it's name.
IT railed and cried, and s... | 2015-01-02T07:11:35 | 2015-01-02T06:37:36 | 501 | 12 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | 2017-03-31T10:44:01 | 2017-03-31T08:44:19 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Fallen angel is a pretty popular trope in fiction. But I want to hear about Ascended Demons. Demons that were too good/ kind/ pious for the underworld and managed to break out. | I flicked my cigarette on the old, worn carpet and twisted it out with the sole of my shoe. I hated to waste it, but the man I needed to see wasn't a smoker. Not anymore, at least, and I didn't want to annoy him. Not while I needed his advice. I hesitated a moment before knocking, almost wishing he would not answer... | “Don’t you ever get the feeling that, well, this is all a bit extreme?” Alice frowned as she struggled to conjure the right words.
Darren, who had been heating up a large metal poker in the brimstone lined river of fire, gave her a raised eyebrow, and then looked at the human locked in the wooden stockade. The poor ma... | 2019-11-08T07:00:07 | 2019-11-08T06:57:55 | 2,220 | 61 |
[WP] You are a low-level henchman that just killed James Bond. What now? | "Shit, shit. This is bad."
"What do you mean? I thought this was what we were trying to do?"
"No! What? No! Why do you think we miss so much? You could sink a battleship with just the weight of the lead we've thrown at this guy. We weren't actually trying to *hit* him!"
"Why not? He was trying to hit us. He shot Jef... | *I did it. I really did it. He's... No he's definitely not moving... Really?*
*Wait... his phone is ringing. Who the hell brings a cell phone with a ring tone on a spy mission? Maybe I can get some intel from whoever's on the other end...*
Beep.
"James?"
*Oh, shit...* "Yes?" *I can't do a British accent if my life ... | 2014-05-19T10:53:29 | 2014-05-19T09:05:56 | 85 | 22 |
[WP] You're a powerful demon who's been locked away by an artifact for thousands of years. Some mortal fool has finally found it...and it's a sweet old lady. You really don't know how to decline all the offers of food and cookies and other help. | "I ate her heart."
She smiles sweetly at me, a frown playing faintly across her brow as she mouths the words silently back at me. "Oh, umm, yes?"
"Her heart." My frown mirrors her own now as I raise my voice. "I ate," I raise my hand to my mouth in a feeding gesture, "her heart."
"Oh, are you hungry, dear?" She r... | Thank you ma'am but, I really don't need anymore cookies. I need to go lead my army of souls!
What's that? Hush, you look starved to death, how long has it been since you ate?
Welllll, just a little over a ten thousand years.
Well see then, you need some more cookies then, to get your energy up! Or maybe a pie?
Oo... | 2016-04-16T12:00:30 | 2016-04-16T02:56:05 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The twin gods take a mortal spouse every thousand years. One twin gives rise to the next Champion of Light, the other to the next Champion of Dark. Their children fight, and whoever wins reigns for a thousand years. You've just killed both Champions in fair combat. | **Constructive criticism is welcome!**
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I stared down at the body of my oldest friend.
I had killed Cahya first, in fair combat. I had loved Duana slightly more and had put off going after her for as long as I could. I think Cahya had known and forgiven me for it. He had smiled brilliantly at me at the end, as p... | Every year the twin brother gods made a champion, each century alternating between one making a champion of light and the other making a champion of dark, and then vice versa a century later. Their champions would fight, and then whoever won would rule for that century.
Their two champions were facing off against eac... | 2018-03-31T03:53:09 | 2018-03-31T00:27:34 | 87 | 27 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "We don't forget. That's the problem, you see?"
The man? Woman? Thing? next to me seemed to smile, but even that was not clear. It was more a feeling building up inside me, the same feeling I might have had, had someone smiled warmly at me. Words felt like they had formed briefly before, a quick memory of something t... | It seemed almost paradoxical in a way, Jarod thought. Why would anyone want to experience a mundane life of dirt and decomposition over the wondrous advancements of the future? To opt against a post first-contact society?
Perhaps the more experienced souls had already seen all there was to life, and simply grown old ... | 2021-02-06T04:20:08 | 2021-02-06T01:44:20 | 249 | 118 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I was the odd case. Everyone has super powers, nobody knows why, even the people with super intelligence as a power can't figure it out. There really is no way to observe it. Which is why I am so different.
Everyone has a power, it sort of just come, like puberty or growth spurts. What can I say, we solved the e... | When your power is "Summon knives from everywhere to stab yourself", you kind of tend to get ridiculed. Still, even as a kid I saw what potential my power had...if I didn't care about anyone else. See, there were no restrictions to what "Summon knives from everywhere to stab yourself"entailed. So one day, when it felt ... | 2015-04-12T21:19:46 | 2015-04-12T17:46:50 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] You've just realized something strange about the humans. They're a race that joined the galaxy recently, but you've just found evidence of them already been part of it for many millennia before, but it feels like everybody's forgotten. | "There's no mistake about the dating?" I asked.
Shira shook her head, her antennae twitching slightly. "No mistake."
"And the sample?"
"Human. 99.9% probability. Not modern humans, exactly, but it matches our projections for homo sapiens DNA at the time."
I turned back to the ship. It was old. About ten thousand ye... | It was the woman, her profile seemed familiar. Was she Eve? Helen of Troy? There was something in the way that she smiled that alerted me that she had existed for a long time. There was mention of a beautiful hole on the planet they call, "Earth." "A hole?" I laughed at the obvious double entendre. It was there t... | 2020-06-29T01:13:11 | 2020-06-29T00:10:08 | 290 | 56 |
[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 | Life had a unifying feature.
It didn't matter if your species evolved in the oceans of a moon on a gas giant, or in the crevices of a planet tidal-locked with its star, it will always have one critical trait:
Fear.
Fear is what keeps species in check, what ensures that they don't kill themselves in foolish endeavor... | The beings reviled themselves to be what we all fear, everyone saw the end of the human race, end of our world, a world war, this is how they scare the other aliens, humans are the violent creatures of the galaxy, so, we are used to the destruction of our species, as it has happened twice already.
“Look now! See what ... | 2019-06-11T10:06:47 | 2019-06-11T08:24:52 | 363 | 26 |
[WP] "When I said I needed an army, I didn't mean...this" | Satan - Supreme Leader of the underworld, Father of all Hellspawn, and aspiring Weebo - turned on his heel and seized his brow between two gnarled fingers. "Hitler, Hitler, Hitler," He boomed. "What are we going to do with you?"
"Mein Fuhrer ist there ein problem?" Hitler frowned, his eyes glistening with innocence as... | General Valowen studied his newly massed army. The troops were lazy, none stood at attention. They drank, ate, shit and piss in front of each other. None were militarily trained (they probably had no idea what an army was). disgust was plain on his face. "When I said I needed an army, I didn't mean...this."
... | 2016-01-06T01:30:07 | 2016-01-06T00:43:42 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | I'm not a scientist, I'm not a doctor, or a minister, or even a philosopher. Before I died I was a barista. I wasn't working my way through college or anything like that, I just wanted to do a simple job where I was surrounded by people, so I did.
I don't, or didn't, but also still don't have a family. I am an only c... | The 'otherside' is actually just really nice. It's not paradise or rapturous bliss or anything - it's just better. Folks could come back, but... meh. They don't. I only came back because I love my Dog so much. I tell everyone it's a mistake to make immortal dogs because we can't take them with us when we die. So I kill... | 2020-10-30T02:36:59 | 2020-10-30T00:22:17 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | Ever since I was little I always had an interest in learning about times and lives long past. Luckily for me, I seemed to have been gifted in that area, too.
Long story short my childhood phase of being a huge history buff turned into the lifestyle of a college history professor.
Now, I’m not here to profess my... | You stare in horror at your class room. Every single child in it is now unusually fair with varying shades of blond hair and blue eyes.
With shaking hands you pat a lock of hair free from your bun and examine it. Yes, you too are now a blond though there is more silver there than gold.
You take a deep breath at... | 2018-07-16T11:08:56 | 2018-07-16T10:58:08 | 375 | 263 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | You grew up with bruises on your knees and scabs aplenty, just like any other kid. What your parents never knew was that not all of them were your own.
You're ten; baby Sarah from next door is bawling because she's just fallen and skinned her knee. You take the pain away from her. As the wound fades from her knee you... | I decided to have another waffle. They seem to taste different when they are made from... "organic" material. I giggle to myself in a less-than-good demeanor for the hell of it. Im only halfway through eating my waffle, before the third non-waffle today walks into my HQ, the "Waffelhausen". The mayor, who had a somewha... | 2017-06-12T07:49:37 | 2017-06-12T03:52:01 | 1,670 | 572 |
[WP] You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits.. | I still clearly remember the details of his face, from exactly 202 years ago. So boyish, with an old, red scar from his cheekbone all the way down to his neck, the only flaw in his handsome face.
I was a young girl then and had followed my father’s footsteps in helping the injured and fallen in battle. My father took ... | Bayonet to the arm. He’s losing it. I can’t do much, I think we need to amputate. Hopefully my own knife is clean enough. Put something for him to bite on, no booze around though. Cut deep, cut quickly. My shirt will have to stop the bleeding. God be with him. They’re still shooting at us, don’t they know it’s ... | 2019-01-05T16:08:32 | 2019-01-05T15:45:15 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | It's hard at my age, finding love.
You find a nice-seeming man, a sharp dresser, a real gent, or so he would have you believe. Then you look up their credit rating and realise why they never found the one.
I'd been in many relationships, married twice, had four children. Naturally some of those relationships had... h... | It had been a lovely date with that woman. Her eyes were that of the shimmering sea, her laughter was horrifically angelic and her hair was frizzled. Ironically, it made him feel electrocuted.
He was just leaping over fences and gates after his date waved him goodbye. Strangely, there was something about that woman wh... | 2016-09-24T11:36:22 | 2016-09-24T11:35:10 | 231 | 13 |
[WP] Whenever your crew lands you are seen as gods with wonderous machines before drifting off some where else. But today you are met with a species on a green-blue planet who, while interested in your tech, are not bowing down and worshiping. They call themselves humans. | First contact is always risky. Loremasters will tell you its the most dangerous phase of the assimilation. Some sentients are just prone to violence and are difficult to pacify. But most are overwhelmed by awe, confusion and doubt. This most often turns to worship.
Our tech is so far beyond the sentients we’ve c... | In the untold years we roamed the universe we have never found once or anywhere any other beings to rival who or what we are . We create, We are one and all. We are perfection and time in constant band among the lessors that cling to life in pity We are the owners and there can only be one . And everything else is fo... | 2020-03-02T07:54:05 | 2020-03-02T07:25:38 | 100 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 996 | 68 |
[WP] You build a time machine to go as far back into the past as possible, your first jump is 50 million years in the past....where You land in a technologically advanced society about to turn on a super massive particle accelerator | Light was streaming through the high coloured windows , this was once a church ... But now it was a skeleton barely able to stand which housed my lab.
The world was destroyed in fire and brimstone after a couple of nukes cascaded into hundreds of death bringers flying across the sky decimating entire continents , peo... | “A particle accelerator?” Jeff asked. “Perhaps this is the reason this dystopia turned into the ball of soil that it is in our modern time!” He decided to ask one of the locals about their place without raising any flags, even though his clothing was entirely out of place. As he greeted himself with a toothy grin, the ... | 2017-10-08T14:59:06 | 2017-10-08T14:30:01 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] A psychotic criminal suddenly worms into your life. However, he/she isn't trying to rob you, kill you, or harm you in any way. | Well, I knew he'd show up again one day. Still, seeing him in my kitchen was surreal. His face was plastered all over the papers - just last week, I'd watched a hasty news special patched together to meet the demand for information.
I could see why - it was sensational stuff. *Masked gunman decapitates banker*. *Hunt... | *Yesterday, upon the stair*
P.O. Simon Brown & P.O. Rachel Mendez, responding to a 911 call by Ms. Jane Kewolski (neighbor). Ms. Kewolski reported screaming from apartment 4B. Screams described as "blood curdling, tortuous." P.O. Brown was unable to establish communication with apartment 4B residents.
*I met a ... | 2015-09-19T08:57:01 | 2015-09-19T08:52:46 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A religion is proven true but not the one you expect how do people react? | "Gwen, calm down. He's just a kid. Sure, he's a bit lucky, but there's nothing really strange about him beyond that. Nice kid, really. Are you sure you're feeling well? Maybe the stress..." Gwen scowled and stormed out of the teacher's lounge, leaving Mrs. Hutchens alone with her coffee.
Gwen headed for the pla... | The reporter’s nervous smile, coupled with his rapid blinking was skittish and comical next to the massive, bronzed body of the Grecian demi-god beside him. “I’m sorry, you’ll have to tell me that one more time.”
“I’m Hurcules,” spoke the perfectly chiseled specimen of humanity as he swung his looming thick hand back ... | 2014-03-19T10:47:08 | 2014-03-19T09:47:45 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] A year ago the Dragons returned, the world finally having warmed up enough to keep them from freezing to death, and with them have returned the Fae and all the magic; which is replacing technology quickly. You've quit your mundane job, and today you've set off on your first-ever Quest. | It had been a year since the first dragon returned. Apparently global warming was good for something, because the dragons brought magic and faes and all sorts of mythical things. And global warming brought the end of global warming, thank the gods, as we had conjured up some ridiculous set of spells that did something,... | That's enough, I've had it
I'm over my menial ways
Mundane and repeating
Day after day
These reports and this filing
It's always the same
I want some adventure
A real life role playing game
To quest and to loot
Against tremendous foes
To travel and shoot
Magical bows
*And arrows?*
Yes arrows, tha... | 2017-11-25T08:21:50 | 2017-11-25T03:27:28 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The more extreme the hair and eye color one has, the more powerful their magic is. Your twin was born with white eyes and white hair, the strongest magician alive. You were born with black eyes and black hair with the ability to nullify ALL magic. | Moon and Sun was what we were referred to as. When we were born our mother named us, our father embraced us, and The Elders sent us to the Shoal to be trained.
With snow driven hair and pearl kissed eyes, Moon's magical affinity was more than that. Was love enough? If not, all I can say Moon's affair with magic was of... | It was a dark night, filled with the flickering light of stars that shined in the sky. The wind blew softly, filling the air with the rustle of the leaves it touched. The steps i took towards the nearby flatland made crunchy noise as each step contacted the gravel i walked upon. It was a peaceful night to face my corru... | 2018-05-18T11:49:45 | 2018-05-18T10:05:38 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Tired of the supervillain life, you engage in a final battle with your arch-nemesis and manage to fake your death. After living in solitude for several years, your nemesis reappears on your doorstep with one question: "Why?" | “Oh hello! It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, you want some cookies? I made a fresh batch.”
Hero man looked confused as hell, and I couldn’t help myself from laughing.
“Dude you look dumb, come inside it’s warmer in there.”
He comes in, still dumbfounded. It might be because whenever I *used* to greet him, it wo... | Well it's a very easy answer, do you remember when you knocked me on the ground and just before I faked my own death, well the reason is I have the ability to travel in time and I traveled into the future after I defeated you and I killed you. But I was also brought up on charges for murder I was found guilty, and I wa... | 2020-11-12T19:29:36 | 2020-11-12T16:18:34 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | "Ye've got to talk some sense into him," said Auntie Arm-n'-Hammer. "Och, it's just not right!"
"Fine." Papa BlackPorter finished his stout and wiped the creamy head from his mustache and beard. "But ye've got to work the bellows in my place until I'm back!"
Papa BlackPorter climbed up the long, long, long staircase ... | Oh how much the world can change in just half a year. The great kingdoms of mankind reduced to quarries for the Dwarves to build their fortresses, the sacred groves and forests of the Elves nothing more than kindling for dwarven forges.
Noone knew just how it had begun, how this could have happened. Countless tongues ... | 2017-12-31T08:13:51 | 2017-12-31T08:10:56 | 140 | 100 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | "This isn't possible!" the man screamed, as the guards dragged him into my office. "How! How the hell did you find me?"
"That's not the important thing, Mr. Spencer." I said, calmly, as the guards pinned him face down to my desk. "The important thing is after my firm put up the money for your bail, you attempted to sk... | My fingers drummed on the blackjack table. Currently, I was at 17, but that would have to do. My blessing should do the rest. The man across from me was already starting to fume, his brows coming together at how ridiculously lucky it seemed that I was. However, my blessing wasn't winning card games like he assumed.
Be... | 2018-06-30T14:13:13 | 2018-06-30T12:36:03 | 8,960 | 2,057 |
[WP] You and a dead artist share the ability to see colors others can't. His paintings become a global phenomenon, but his images are much more sinister than they appear. | "This is the first of the collection," she said. "It's called *Portrait of the Artist as a Child.* Do you see how powerful it is? The image of the child, alone in the centre? Such a small figure. Such a large, empty room."
It wasn't empty.
"This was his follow-up work, *Beginning.* A wonderful title, I've always tho... | It's a famous image, now, often adorning postage stamps and the empty spaces over suburban mantles: a good-looking young man, smiling broadly at the viewer, with a swaddled infant cradled in his arms. In the young man's eyes, something difficult to describe: a knowing spark of wit, perhaps, accentuated by the slight cu... | 2016-01-30T15:20:46 | 2016-01-30T14:11:01 | 583 | 46 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The Universal Council was in chaos.
For a relatively short amount of time, the encounters with the Sol-res, known to themselves as Humans, have dominated the headlines. These beings which existed in the absolute fringe of the galaxy known as M-801 had become a thorn in the Council's side over several cycles.
While no... | We do not fear many things; the hive has conquered many and learned much. When we rebelled against the Midnight Host centuries ago, we grew stronger with every battle; every enemy conquered added their strengths to us. We broke the Gilded Claws, despite their stubborn defiance. We found the Hidden Eyes, their vigilance... | 2017-11-08T18:30:31 | 2017-11-08T17:54:29 | 5,537 | 604 |
[WP] Everybody has the ability to bring another person back to life, at the cost of their own life. You are a suicidal celebrity who can't stay dead because of fans constantly sacrificing their lives to resurrect you. | My suicides started when my mother died.
For years, I've been known world-wide for my music. As a songwriter, I use my complex lexicon to bring to life very real, very private experiences in most people's lives. My lyrics evoke tears of pain, mostly, from those who have suffered significant loss or regret. I don't par... | I open my eyes again and see John, my overtaker. Damnit, not again. Instead of preparing me to be dead forever, John prepares me to wake up again. And again. And again. Mostly he just makes sure I'm clean, dressed, and then listens to my tirade of swearing.
I've tried everything: jumped from buildings, electrocution, ... | 2016-07-06T21:54:49 | 2016-07-06T20:07:02 | 423 | 51 |
[WP] A human is the deadliest species in the galaxy. It has redundant organs and can lose all of its limbs and not die. Human skin is tough, can absorb forms of kinetic attack, and rated to withstand both cold and heat extremes. Their bites are deadly. They irradiate and poison themselves for fun. | "We hereby convene this court to review Vizir Sintilas's actions in star system HJS-12127. Vizir, please tell us about the encounter you had with the Pasha, and please elaborate on how a new species, hooman, helped you defeat them."
Sintilas allowed his antennae to twitch in a display of compliance before responding.... | "What's that?" Karun asked her crew-mate as the sound of grating metal filled the cargo ship, "Is it that damned alien? What did I tell the captain about picking up that escape pod?" She was lashing her tentacle around furiously, causing Lodis to duck.
"Calm down," Lodis told her, adjusting the screen with her prehe... | 2019-01-15T15:44:43 | 2019-01-15T12:32:31 | 417 | 233 |
[WP] A handful of people have been born with a dumb and useless superpower. The government has made sure to not let two of these people make contact with each other because when these two useless powers combine the world will be at risk. One day two of these people accidently meet | It wasn't like I wanted it to happen, hell, it wasn't even that I knew it would happen..it just did!
Our society has labeled my ilk as "Defects"; while the majority of our race has evolved into a species with extraordinary powers, the rest of us (the defects) just do stupid shit like turn into bread, or have a golden ... | "Dear, future, intelligent species of Earth. I suppose this may be the only piece of evidence you will find for the existence of my species. I might as well introduce myself, so my name is Lieutenant Daniel Everett. Regular members of our society have the ability to grip objects with our hands, think with our complex m... | 2015-03-10T11:26:28 | 2015-03-10T08:59:14 | 24 | 17 |
[WP]The navy has a custom that no submarine is ever declared lost at sea, they are listed as "still on patrol". Every year radio personel wish them seasons greetings. When a "on patrol" WWII era submarine docked and young personel disembarked thinking that the war "just ended" The situation changed. | "Mr. Johnson, there is a man who would like to see you." While the nurse spoke, she turned on the light of the room.
"What? Who would come to visit me at..." Mr. Johnson looked at the clock on the wall. "3 AM in the morning?"
"They said that it would better that you see him face to face rather than explain who and wh... | The ropes creaked and burned against the creases of my fingers. Double knot, always remember the double knot. 'Down here life and death is measured in decibels.' I wouldn't forget. I smoothed the blanket where I had been sitting tying my shoes and headed for the door.
Stevo was snoring, a couple of bunks further down ... | 2020-01-23T23:14:23 | 2020-01-23T22:34:39 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The great Kreen empire had ruled for millennia, ever expanding with trillions of souls on thousands of worlds all toiling away for the benefit of the Dai'Kreen, the God Kings who ruled with an iron fist.
The Kreen first learned of the humans through rumors of encounters on the outer fringes of the empire. Stories of u... | "To think those simians would have enough political leverage for such demands" - The capital ships of both warring species faced in sandspace, a particularly empty region of the galaxy where war ultimatums would go to be resolved. The lack of large masses and their gravity fields meant all wreckage of ancient and recen... | 2022-08-05T19:16:19 | 2022-08-05T16:23:55 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Shelia opened her eyes to see that instead of her heart, it was a forearm impaled on Gore's thin blade. But she was even more appalled to find that the arm belonged to Nightmare, the man she had been fighting before Gore arrived soaked in blood. She tried to make sense of the idea that an incompetent and super-tough ba... | What do you do, as god?
In the span of, well.. no time at all, you could take in the sum of all knowledge, that which has, is, and will be.
With infinite time and the ability to violate thermodynamics at will, flouting reality as you pleased, you could predict the future perfectly.
All things, became possible. The... | 2021-06-23T17:18:18 | 2021-06-23T16:46:52 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers. | When I was a child I made a mistake. My school had a set of farm animal toys. I loved the donkey. It was less obnoxious than the family of horses and more interesting than the sheep and cows. There were many of those but only one donkey. I played with it every day at every opportunity and sometimes I would put it in my... | First writing prompt: please let me know if I did bad or horrible.
About 70% of lottery winners go broke. Want to know why?
The government, or at least the USA has knowledge of time travelers. After a 20-something year old man won the lottery 3 times in a row, they believed the man to be cheating. After a quick chat,... | 2014-10-30T17:03:02 | 2014-10-30T16:28:14 | 74 | 53 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *Ring ring.*
"HELP! The zombies are right behind me and-"
"Good morning, Tracy speaking. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"The-the what?"
"Your gun safety. Big black dial on the side of your rifle. Can't miss it."
"What? What dial?"
"You are holding a CCD rifle? If you are a customer of SurvivorLink I... | INTRODUCING THE CAST:
JEN: The often misguided, easily manipulated manager of the Call Centre of the Dead.
MARVIN: A father. He had just been hired at the Center before the apocalypse hit.
JILL: A ten year old child, Marvin's secretary who plots his murder.
OLIVER: A bully who pushes around everyone else.
ALSO S... | 2020-05-12T07:25:12 | 2020-05-12T06:31:01 | 1,637 | 13 |
[WP] Reverse Romeo and Juliet. Two families have long been allies, but their kids absolutely hate each other. | "Juliet's parents sent over a cake, dear!" Mother chirped cheerfully. The sugarcoated monstrosity was proudly displayed on the dining table. "Now isn't that nice?"
"I guess..." Romeo's reply sounded somewhere between disinterest and overt contempt. "*She* probably poisoned it anyway."
"Now why would you say such a... | "Does Joshua have to come to my 16th birthday party" Olivia complained to her father. Her father Danny, rolls his eyes at his daughter. "Yes, you were invited to his why shouldn't he be invited to yours."
Olivia slouches back in her seat "He only invited me cause his Mom made him." "Olivia, don't be difficult darling,... | 2021-08-18T05:22:29 | 2021-08-18T03:25:31 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] You are the special weapon of the law, if a murder case seems unsolvable they call you. You are a mutant with the power to raise the dead, for a short amount of time. Most dead are happy to see their murderer behind bars but there was this one guy who just didn't want to help. | ‘Do you KNOW who I WAS?’
Celebrities. Ugh.
‘Yes Mr Jones. And we are going to do everything in our power to hel-‘
‘NANCY!’
Nancy was his assistant. She no longer works for him. Because he’s dead, natch.
‘Nancy doesn’t work for you any more, Mr. Jones..’
His glassy nostrils flare in the glare of the coroner’s ... | "No!"
"Say again?"
"I said no, just leave me to be dead and all."
I scratched my head. Never in my career had some dead ghost had the audacity to deny me information about it's... Well death.
"Okay, listen here! Seriously I can't keep you alive for longer. You are the freshest case of that mysterious murderer I've ... | 2020-07-21T12:53:40 | 2020-07-21T12:02:16 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You are eight years old when you fall into a coma. 70 years later, you unexpectedly awaken, a child in an elderly person’s body. Your parents are dead, and your relatives are nowhere to be found. Your only friend is the nurse who has watched over you for the last 30 years of her career. | Charlie's eyes fluttered as he quietly moaned in the hospital bed.
"Hello? Mom, dad?" Charlie said as he rubbed the sleep out of his old aged eyes. He yawned and his eyes shot wide open when he looked straight at the nurse in front of him as she jotted down his vitals with a smile on her face. The room had changed qui... | Bristol, 2017
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Beatrice is telling them I'm asleep. "He will decline to appear on your morning television show, but thank you".
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London, 1940
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The howling starts low. The solo rotary siren is joined by another, and then another, blasting out sound waves at 2900 revolutions per ... | 2018-11-03T11:22:34 | 2018-11-03T11:18:24 | 365 | 76 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | (This is my first time responding to a prompt, please let me know what you think.)
”I DID pass my Journeyman exam! Why am I not being given an assignment?”
“Job assignments are reserved for Journeymen in good standing and you know that, Enzo.” Jes said, glancing over her glasses at him.
Enzo hoped word wouldn’t spre... | Dolan only had to flick a skeletal wrist for the flame to die in a whimper.
His frail form would have denoted a man worn by the coarse sands of time, save for all the grandeur of his Magic. Azure robes suggested a Grandmaster, amidst impressive tomes and trophies of antiquity that came with a life so long and powerful... | 2022-05-30T16:30:56 | 2022-05-30T11:12:32 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | "But..but..I'm not a violent person. I.."
"Buddha we talked about this!", Satan screamed. "This isn't about principles. It's about fucking survival! Now man the 50 for fuck sake!"
"Shouldn't we wait for Mohammed?"
"You know exactly why he isn't here right now!"
FSM reloaded his M416. Satan threw the last of the dea... | The Buddha picks up the gun sitting on the floor of the passenger seat, he takes a long breathe in and out.
“Black implies white, you can’t have without the other. It’s simple. What was so hard about keeping this balance then, Satan?!”
Jesus looks back at us, “Yeah man, even God’s upset.”
Satan gives an incredulou... | 2017-11-15T14:36:34 | 2017-11-15T14:22:21 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | I appeared in a dark basement with a suprised little kid staring up at me. I thought it odd for a child to be dabbling in dark arts but not unheard of. While I surveyed the area my thoughts were interrupted by a sad little voice.
"I did it wrong...you're not...I mean... Oh no I did it wrong!" The girl's suprise had tu... | "Hrrrnnhhhgg...." I grumbled. Another one of these. I had the feeling I would never get used to them. Satan's lieutenants don't allow me a fricken day off from stabbing damned souls with my trident, do they? 'Promoted' me to also respond to those worthless beings from the Worlds Above. Humans, Ecrogas, Antaroans... ugh... | 2018-10-08T14:45:27 | 2018-10-08T14:03:13 | 48 | 19 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | "WHAT?" My parents screamed, furious. They couldn't believe that, with the combination of their genes and my upbringing, I could possibly score a zero. Not only that, but all three of us were smart enough to know that it is impossible to have an IQ of zero and still be a functional human being.
"You act surprised," I ... | Sir_Fartington MacVomit never had it easy. Questions plagued him all of his life. Why, in the long line of MacVomits, had nobody changed their name? What cruel, inconsiderate parents (Charles and Catherine) would choose a name like Sir_Fartington. Even the underscore was a throwback to typography from hundreds of y... | 2016-08-19T02:52:19 | 2016-08-19T01:09:24 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity is the only race in the galaxy with such a massive lack of common sense that we're the only species that requires laws to form societies. Other races just form naturally and are shocked when confronted with humanities laws and regulations. | We're exhausted.
Of all the races in the galaxy, we were the only ones who didn't have a common sense. Something to bind us all together in times of peace, or some universal moral code that we all followed. There is not one region on our home planet that's avoided the fractured, broken, and chaotic nature of humanity.... | "What do you mean 'laws?'"
"Well, they're the written, codified, and agreed upon, rules by which we organise ourselves within a state. They're both descriptive and prescriptive norms which use in cases of conflict or contest" replied Andrew.
He had spent several days sharing knowledge with the newfound alien species... | 2014-10-13T11:24:13 | 2014-10-13T09:43:55 | 343 | 53 |
[WP] In a world where people are born with incredible superpowers, you were born with an aura that makes you seem immeasurably powerful, though you have no other power to back it up. | Sun and Shadow
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Hand in hand. Hiroshima and Alex strolled through the city, heedless of traffic lights and strangers. Anyone with any hint of the Gift could feel the pulsing, roaring power coming off of Hiroshima. Cars braked. Gr... | It’s impossible.
That’s what they all say.
Superpower researchers have spent decades researching this power. Not one of them has figured it out. Arcane, the greatest wizard, could not replicate the effect with a spell. Intel, whose power made her the smartest person ever born, did not understand it. Not even Ghost, w... | 2018-01-11T22:48:49 | 2018-01-11T22:01:41 | 253 | 106 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | I am Azar Himolin , former general of the inter-systems fleet. If you are watching this you are either a future officer of what remains of our might, a diplomat in training, learning why your first lesson is about leaving humanity alone, or enough time has passed for some classified documents to be released to the publ... | "To think those simians would have enough political leverage for such demands" - The capital ships of both warring species faced in sandspace, a particularly empty region of the galaxy where war ultimatums would go to be resolved. The lack of large masses and their gravity fields meant all wreckage of ancient and recen... | 2022-08-05T17:00:35 | 2022-08-05T16:23:55 | 61 | 14 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | "I've activated protocol 597, we will send another signal when we're ready for you to return. Prepare until then, I've enabled the quantum anchor in bay 11 for you to lock on to."
*Understood. Syncing with bay 11, I will prepare.*
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&#x... | The old cities still gleamed in the distance. When I was young, I’d stare at the straight edges that punctuated the grey sky. I could believe that they’d once been as beautiful as the stories. They were figments of fantasy, brimming with vast arrays possibilities and endless opportunities.
It was only when I got clos... | 2019-07-22T14:04:19 | 2019-07-22T12:37:15 | 1,039 | 97 |
[WP] You thought the orc was joking about betting his oldest daughter in your game of cards. But after the game he handed you your new orcish bride and was gone before you could object. | With a flourish of triumph, I smacked my cards flat on the table.
The table -- which was suddenly upended in a fit of rage by my opponent. "Human *cheat*!" he snarled.
I shrugged. Though I'd held a good poker face, I now couldn't stifle a smug grin.
"Better than an orc loser."
"Ha!" The orc jabbed a gnarled finger... | Edmund opened his eyes and immediately regretting the action.
He'd had hangovers before. Hell, it was more remarkable that he had days when he didn't wake up with a splitting headache and a mouth that tasted like an troll's loincloth.
A spark of remembrance shot through his mind and he vaguely remembered an Orc laugh... | 2018-11-24T08:28:58 | 2018-11-24T07:58:08 | 496 | 109 |
[WP] One evening, a portal to hell opens at the foot of your bed. A demon strides through, rips off your covers, and begins to drag you through the portal by your ankles saying “You’re going to help me settle a bet.” | "Oh for fucks sakes Azarath!! Don't you know that humans have to *sleep*!?" I scream as I'm forced to fall. This goofy looking motherfucker, with cherry red skin and rams horns as black as pitch, was my stupid goddamn cousin. Auntie May was big into witchcraft and Satanism, and boned the Lord of hell himself in order t... | Part: 1
I sat still at a stone table, in nothing but my boxers. In fear but also amusement at the scene in front of me.
The bird winged man who dragged me through the portal was Mephistopheles, apparently to settle a bet with the the demon I front of me with bat wings.
"Alright, I got this one completely average and... | 2018-03-10T09:46:44 | 2018-03-10T09:18:57 | 336 | 99 |
[WP] Every time someone masturbates to you, you receive a notification on your phone letting you know who did it.
[Inspired by this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3gzuq0/nsfw_how_would_it_be_to_live_in_a_universe_where/)
Edit: THE ONE TIME I DONT POST ON MY MAIN, THIS SHIT HITS THE PAGE 1. FOR FUCK... | I'd never been a fantastic looking person. I considered myself perfectly average. In my formative years I about half zits, and the other half was freckles. High school was a rough time for me. I wasn't upset at this time that I was sending out all my notifications, I was more upset at the snickering I'd hear the next d... | *Breaking news, Burger King stocks at an all time high.*
The King probably heard the news story, but was unable to look as he feverishly continued to masturbate to another photo. As beads of sweat fell from his chin and onto his veiny, irritated cock, he shuddered and returned to his masturbational trance.
Lab scient... | 2015-08-14T17:53:57 | 2015-08-14T15:51:46 | 96 | 68 |
[WP] You find yourself in a world that runs on turn based combat. Everybody is forced to follow this rule by some unknown force. You however are still able to operate under your worlds logic and don't have to wait your turn. | At first when I realized everyone but me was stuck using turn-based combat I figured I could just beat the crap out of them on their "turn". But while that does sometimes confuse them and let me get the upper hand, every time I attack them it's their turn again and they can hit me back if they react fast enough.
When... | They say there is a downside to everything that happens, no matter how good it is. Rich people are harassed for money, happy people are beset by sad life moments. All stuff that happens to everyone.
Even I, the most powerful person in this world, am chased by my curse. See, everyone here needs to follow one simple ru... | 2021-06-18T00:28:43 | 2021-06-17T21:30:27 | 106 | 41 |
[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... | I was resting in my house on a warm Saturday evening when the EAS broadcast began.
*BRRRP. BRRRP. BRRRP. Baaaaa*
"The United States Army has released an official statement. This applies to the entire country. Please, do not turn off your televisions."
I leaned forward in concern, for this was certainly no automated... | 2018-04-18T11:27:41 | 2018-04-18T10:58:54 | 91 | 24 |
[WP] You know the random driver in every action movie where the hero jumps in and orders to "follow that car!". Yup, that's you. Every single time you're trying to get anywhere. | "Where are you going?!", the passenger yelled, furiously. "The helicop-"
"Went down Chiltern?.", I interjected. "I know. I just need a few more seconds."
"But-"
As the car turns the corner, I turn my head. I look at the weary, angry man in the back of my unassuming black cab replica. I look him dead in the eye and ... | So yeah, I am the proud owner of the most armoured cab in the city. It started on my first day and carried on since then: mercs covered in scars, mobsters that have a conscience, journalists who always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and one time, I had a guy in an armoured suit that looked like a bat..... | 2016-07-03T13:03:06 | 2016-07-03T11:23:42 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] In your village lies the Lake of Memories. If anyone wishes to be rid of a memory, they can write it on a rock, throw it in and forget. Those who wish to be wise often search for rocks to read, but the memory is then theirs to keep. You find a rock in your childhood handwriting. | The brisk autumn air nipped Sabrina’s bare skin. All she wore was a red two-piece bathing suit. She figured her clothes could still go to charity so she didn’t want to ruin those, but she also couldn’t bear the thought of some child finding her face down in the lake completely naked.
“Because being naked is the worst ... | Two children play in the creek by the old watermill. The bed is pretty dry, the water having been diverted towards the village proper before either child was born, but there's still a trickle. That's all they need, really.
The boy fills his hand with mud, a mischievous grin on his face. The girl isn't looking at him r... | 2017-06-26T21:37:23 | 2017-06-26T21:00:22 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | They gave me the option. Heaven, or Hell.
Being the dumbass I am, of course I answered with "Hell".
Rather, I meant to answer with "Hell, I don't know why you give that choice. Heaven, of course!". But they didn't hear the full thing. The second Hell had been spoken, they marked down my decision.
So here I was. Stoo... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T04:24:35 | 960 | 318 |
[WP] You are a well respected, elite assassin. You always get your target and you make it seem like an accident. The only problem is you have no idea what you are doing. You get the assignment and your target always seems to die of natural causes. | "I've had enough!" Williams yelled, slamming his fists onto his desk and rising to his feet.
"Boss, please. Take it easy. You know your blood pressure can't handle it." Calm and unshakable as always, Johnny Gun was a perfect foil to the boss' more...volatile moods. Even though he was a hitman, he sometimes felt like h... | The body’s on the floor, mangled from a bad fall. Surrounding it are hundreds of empty bags of potato chips, like the dude stayed up all night munching them. Certainly looks like he forced himself into a heart attack—but I know he did, because he *always* does.
I plop onto a barstool, tapping my fingers against my kn... | 2018-10-08T23:31:17 | 2018-10-08T17:21:05 | 117 | 87 |
[WP] A death row inmate, hours before their scheduled execution, is offered a deal. | There was a soft hiss, air escaping a balloon. Shiloh felt her hands before he saw her, the shallow wisp of Miranda. She had come to him, the very vision of oil. She wore her hair black, braided tight against her angled skull. She was not beautiful, far from it. She had a small, sharp chin, too sharp to do more than th... | "Batman needs to die by monday."
Fuck sake. Batman??? Who the fuck do they think I am. But fuck it, what do I have to lose.
"Consider that motherfucker a corpse", honestly I had no idea how I was going to do this.
"Good. We will make the arrangement", the supervillain laughed like a supervillain.
"But why me? ... | 2015-06-23T20:40:11 | 2015-06-23T20:31:36 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] "Why do you call me stupid, Human?" "Because you came here alone, asking for our surrender while your armada is still 15 years out, and you brought us a prime example of your species technology, including fusion power and faster than light propulsion. You see where you messed up yet?" | The alien ambassador sitting across the table fell silent, a few moments went by as it stared forward motionless seemingly pondering what the human general had just said.
The aliens face began to rapidly turn a bright yellow as it immediately began taking in quick shallow breaths of air. Suddenly the attendants stand... | I continued to scoff at the alien. "We've already reverse engineered your propulsion and fusion power. We've also adapted that fusion engine, not only into a propulsion device for our ships, but a weapon: both propulsion and destructive capability. We now have 10's of thousands of those weapons. How many is the fleet c... | 2021-03-26T04:03:20 | 2021-03-26T02:24:51 | 124 | 24 |
[WP] Every milestone a person reaches, life creates a checkpoint, and if he dies he revives at it with his memory intact, as you die, a mysterious entity approaches you and explains that you are being sent to your latest checkpoint. You then wake up wet, seeing blurry and hearing “it’s a boy” | *This is the biggest insult of my life*.
I thought as mother held me close to her chest. Her weak smile doesn't fade even when her heartbeat fell. Father cried out mother's name. She's gone. And I'm really too insulted to care.
*I mean, what the fuck does that thing mean with this?*
I thought as I scribbled on my dra... | Oh come on man! Really?! I was doing so well in the last run. I did that trick in the high school section where you can skip grades by memorizing tests. I even got laid on my first try god dammit! And in the college portion, I decided to go to the skilled trades route just so I can start earning money faster. Then I gl... | 2018-03-18T09:20:25 | 2018-03-18T09:19:57 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] Pope Francis declares a holy war on ISIL, calling for a Tenth Crusade. | They descended on the village. From his birds-eye view in the chopper, the 32nd Division of Divinity looked like a writhing mass of ants, peaking the top of the hill and flooding down the other side. The first shot rang out, followed by the chatter of automatic gunfire. The ants began to fall, the front line melting an... | I prepped my troops. They were ready, I was ready. In a re-enactment of our ancestors, we wore knight's armor and were armed with swords of days of old. Thousands of us, spread across the land. I raised my sword and led the charge. We were charging toward Raqqa, ISIS' self proclaimed capital. Machine guns went off all ... | 2016-07-27T09:20:32 | 2016-07-27T07:30:49 | 146 | 104 |
[WP] You are cursed to see people how they view themselves. You walk alongside monsters and Gods.
Can be third person instead of first.
Edit: I just thought of how EDs and other disorders like multiple personality would fit in with this, and now I'm kinda blown away. | "How do I look?"
I didn't know how to answer that question anymore. Going to the club with my best friend was an ordeal. She had always been insecure, terrified that an ounce of pudge would adhere itself to her midsection, balloon her into a gelatinous horror. And now, to me, that's what she was. A dripping, bulbous m... | Some people see themselves as Gods. I stay away from those folk as much as I can; they generally aren't worth getting to know.
Most people see themselves as monsters, with their flaws and regrets plastered on their faces and amplified beyond all logic. They may be hard to look at, but at the same time, I know that the... | 2016-09-16T19:58:14 | 2016-09-16T16:38:05 | 163 | 122 |
[WP] A professor stands in front of a class on the first day of term for “Time Travel 101” and explains why no one is allowed to go to Steven Hawking’s party. | Good afternoon, students, and welcome to Applied Temporal Mechanics, or Time Travel 101, as you may know it. Over the course of this term you will be introduced to the basic theories of transporting information and objects from the present to the past, as well as the linear history of the creation of time travel.
To w... | Professor Tempus stood in front of his class, dumbfounded at the question which his student had just asked. He had finished writing a dissertation on time travel after having perfected the machine that allowed for actual time traveling back and forward in time. The youngest genius in a lifetime and he was teaching in s... | 2022-09-24T22:16:27 | 2022-09-24T22:00:28 | 67 | 39 |
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