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[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | So he walked into my 3B class, just like anyone else would. Kinda handsome, I guess, but overall pretty ordinary. Until he turned and I caught the number floating over his shoulder.
The big one-O.
I'm pretty sure I made a noise that would make a mouse call me a pussy, and I sweated through my T-shirt in five second... | The rest of the day I quietly followed him, trying to determine his secret. To no avail, nothing out of the ordinary, just some clumsy kid with middling mental capabilities. If he was exceptional in some way he was very good at hiding it.
By Friday I was going nuts. I ducked out as he went to the principals office, ... | 2014-11-29T13:14:54 | 2014-11-29T12:23:17 | 322 | 216 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | Everyone feared the Arsenicides. While the oxygen tribes had long vowed to never remove their lifesaving element from people, the Arsenicides had pretty much made the opposite vow. Everywhere they went, they spread their poison. Just a wave of a hand, and you were choking on nothing. They allied themselves with the Bro... | Iridium. Atomic number 77. Transition metal. A commonly forgotten element, unless you study the periodic table for an excessive amount of time in your 7th grade science class or used a random number generator to pick a random element.
Or maybe you know it because you control it.
There is a small group of people w... | 2019-09-19T08:50:42 | 2019-09-19T08:40:23 | 3,004 | 162 |
[WP] You find a genie lamp. Knowing, that the genie will twist your wishes, you decide to hire a lawyer to draft wishes | You've heard about the genie in a bottle, right? The trapped spirit that grants wishes, but doesn't have to like it? Well, I found one. I set it free, and... well, let me start at the beginning.
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I leaned back, folding my hands, and shared a smile with my lawyer. The genie scanned the first page from the stack I h... | "Okay then, Mr. Genie. Here is our first request. Er, wish," Eddie amended. He handed the bemused genie a thick sheaf of papers with small, typed writing. Dave stood nearby, biting at his nails and fidgeting.
The great spirit squinted red eyes at the smartly dressed lawyer. "I grant *wishes*, big and small, great and... | 2017-10-16T08:23:19 | 2017-10-16T08:17:18 | 247 | 101 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | Death, that little asshole, sat in the corner of my room, reading a newspaper detailing about a recent plane crash. As I languished in my bed, wanting to die, he flipped ever more casually though the pages in an attempt to feign the most extreme indifference he could muster.
"Kill me." I demanded in a level, toneless ... | Death stared at me. She was a true beauty. Flawless white skin. Palest blond lockes. And she looked angry.
- i am sorry... please...
She smiled instead.
- Finally I found you.
She raised her left hand and I saw a black string of fate connecting us. Oh no. No no no.
Skip forward a 1000 years. When ever I mana... | 2018-10-12T10:38:34 | 2018-10-12T10:34:26 | 178 | 43 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | A strange buzzing noise fills the air as the drumming and chanting reaches a crescendo. It's almost a cross between a whistle and a hum, produced by an instrument that no one particularly likes, but is still used as a matter of tradition. In that respect, it's a bit like a bagpipe, which would still be a welcome sound ... | 6 months in, I was surprised to find so much death. I was devastated. I was best friends with Uul. He was a very kind man. He's the one who taught me everything I know about this planet. I learned of their lifespan. I won't be making friends anymore. What's the point?
They have an interesting biological trick that he... | 2019-04-22T09:51:46 | 2019-04-22T09:50:46 | 60 | 34 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Cheesecake Town was the best town before the Dentist Nation attacked. Led by members of the **I**nternational **D**ental **C**avity **I**ntercept **L**egion, or **IDCIL**, they showed no mercy.
They tore chubby children from their mother's arms and disemboweled them with daggers etched with IDCIL's singular mission s... | We were some of the better-off gingerbread people this Christmas; we had rows upon rows of beautiful, multi-story houses all gussed up with gumdrops and hand-piped icing. But everything changed when the ceiling fan came crashing down one day.
I don't know how long it's been. But I'm alone, and all I see for inches an... | 2014-12-16T23:53:26 | 2014-12-16T22:45:28 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | "Are you sure?" Bane asks Bruce in a thick accent, "this is **high stakes** D&D - you know that, right?"
"That's why I'm here," Bruce replies as he edges past the monstrous man and pulls up a seat at the table.
A host of familiar faces eye him suspiciously. A tall, cloaked figure is sat as still as death at the e... | "I seduce the mimic chest."
"Harley, darling, you can't deduce every obstacle we come across." The Joker, in a surprisingly endearingly way, was losing patience with Quinn's stratagem.
"Don't be jelly mon frere; we all wanna see what Riddler comes up with next. I bet it bites her...in *two*." Dent's a smooth talker w... | 2017-05-14T03:27:12 | 2017-05-14T01:05:42 | 2,067 | 29 |
[WP] When offered one wish, you jokingly said that you want to fire proof. You are disappointed to discover that fire still burns you. When you accidentally lit the company breakroom on fire, your boss just laughed it off and you began your new career as the person who can't be fired, ever. | On second thought, I should have been suspicious when the genie had laughed after granting my wish. Initially, it seemed like he was just happy, but I'll be damned if I appreciated his mirth when the flame burned the crap out of my index finger.
I threw the match aside as the blister, clearly a nasty one to come, bega... | I started my day by strutting into the office wearing the most ridiculous outfit I could find. Khaki shorts with knee-length leotard socks, a hawaian tee and flip-flops that kept click-clacking on the linoleum floor. My colleagues kept throwing me irritated glances, and I could hear whispers between some of them.
Kar... | 2019-03-01T12:49:14 | 2019-03-01T12:31:57 | 5,051 | 37 |
[WP] Every alien race has a superpower, including humans. As it turns out, the fear and mortal terror experienced by Earth's lower life forms in the presence of a human, also works on even the most rational and advanced species. | Ambassador Rodriguez could not help but notice the furtive glances her way as she walked down the corridors of the giant spaceship housing the Galactic Federation Assembly. Even the Grakons, each standing over four meters tall with honest to goodness horns coming out of their heads, halted their conversations and tried... | The council of governing met on very few occasions in full. Usually only a few of the members would meet to discuss and coordinate with their individual task forces. Meetings in mass could cause issues between the races intentional or not. You wouldn't want a Galthian sun maker melting a Virood Ice giant. As peaceful a... | 2017-12-01T06:12:43 | 2017-12-01T03:52:13 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] Every time the Messiah returns, we kill him. It is now the Thirty-seventh Coming, and Jesus is getting sick of our sh*t | He leaned against the wall, exhaling cigarette smoke through an outward sigh. He rested his head against the nightclub's outside wall, hearing the faint rumble of the musics bass from within.
Lately, the man had been thinking. All this time, what has he been doing? Thousands of years wasted, dying over and over. Lif... | He stared in shock at the clicking noise emitting from the mouth of the creature before him. He moved slowly backwards, not daring to even breath, afraid to set off the metal mechanism that was grinding away in front of him.
"Don't move!" Called a distant, female voice. Footsteps echoed down the hall, getting louder ... | 2015-03-19T11:36:57 | 2015-03-19T10:45:20 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | The Heroes were approaching the door to the keep. I rose from my throne to meet them. By my calculations, I had 2 minutes, maybe less, to try and escape the hell I'd been living for the past 2 years.
The Paladin, righteous as always, kicked open the door. I don't think he expected to see me standing right there though... | I hold my hand against the brown,ancient earth.
The soul trembles under my roots,their twisting veins piercing and shoving through the rock and silt.
It wails as I scoop the mass,so full of life,and crush it in my palm.
Dehydrated soil falls down through my fingers,defeated and hollow.
I chuckle,the rumbling coursi... | 2018-02-09T06:50:51 | 2018-02-09T03:55:16 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You finally came up with a plan to get rid of the hero. You would go undercover and fall in love with his civilian identity before breaking his heart and killing him at his emotional lowest. A couple months later, you have experienced a complication in your plans. You’re pregnant.
Change around genders, POV, etc ... | "Well shit."
I glare at the pregnancy test in my hands, a storm of conflicting emotions washing over me. My plan was supposed to be foolproof, no attachments, no dawdling, and absolutely no sex. Evidently, tequila should have been the first big no on that list. Well, and vodka. And maybe chocolate. Okay, and *he* prob... | I look over my shoulder as I jump the fence, seeing the bright yellow light gaining on me, I exert my whole being to continue sprinting in escape. I round the corner of an old dilapidated warehouse and seeing nothing behind me for the moment, I tuck myself into a corner and try to catch my breath. As I sit there, huffi... | 2021-02-05T11:59:29 | 2021-02-05T09:01:57 | 904 | 248 |
[WP] “NASA to launch baby squid to International Space Station.” We thought the ocean was its natural environment. We were wrong.
Based on the post: Nasa to launch baby squid to International Space Station | “Now then, let’s take this from the top.”
Allen was trying to focus on what he thought might be the eyes of the alien that looked somewhat like a giant garden slug. “Sorry, what was that?”
“I want to go over this aga…look, if you’re trying to find my equivalent to your eyes, they are about 6 calmeres up from the tabl... | A white board and a rather pedestrian conference room was the last line of defense for human space travel today. A long table seated some of the most brilliant minds NASA could bring together as they focused on their tentacled blunder just hours ago when they launched a space squid unintentionally into orbit.
"Baby ... | 2021-06-03T11:43:05 | 2021-06-03T06:57:26 | 186 | 60 |
[WP] Aliens give you a camera and say "only those you photograph will live." You have one year.
All of these responses are so diverse! This was really a great read. I like to imagine that all these different stories are from alternative universes, playing out different roles. Some men rule the World, some men are titl... | He's been in the bar a lot lately. Doesn't talk much; just drinks. He strikes me as different from most of the other regulars around here -- he looks young, for one thing. Clearly doesn't shave, but he can't grow a real beard yet either. Yes, I've carded him. Every time.
It's a slow night, and I'm curious, so I lean u... | One could say that I'm a selfish bastard and they'd probably be right. Another could say I'm the luckiest man in the world and they might be right too. I like to say that I'm lucky and *opportunistic*.
How was I supposed to know that there were aliens hovering just outside the range of our satellites? Just sitting the... | 2017-01-27T14:29:58 | 2017-01-27T13:02:54 | 73 | 51 |
[WP] Every person can only say 100 words in their lifetime. After which they will die. Write all of the dialogue for one persons life.
You would die of natural causes anyway so it wouldn't benefit to never say anything. All common language and information is taught by recordings. Directly after your 100th, you will di... | It was a Wednesday. I don’t bother to keep a calendar anymore because I know that the beautiful girl across the way from me color coordinates her wardrobe according to what day it is. She wore yellow, so it was a Wednesday.
When you only have one hundred words to speak before you kick the bucket, you adopt other... | Mum. Dad. No. No. No. No. Mine. Mine. Mine! When I grow up. Please. Thank you. Totally cool. Like. Like. Like. Um. Um. Just one drag. Everybody hates me. I love you. I hate you Dad. Just the tip. Awesome. I will never love again. My major is. Party! I have to study. Really me too. I love you. I have people skills. Will... | 2015-03-09T18:42:31 | 2015-03-09T18:01:00 | 73 | 34 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. | Enough was enough. Nim wasn't going to do anything about it; well, couldn't, technically, but I sure could!
"Judgeman." I called to the fellow *Cape* as I landed on the roof he was holding vigil on.
"Starlight! So good to see you! Have you reconsidered the offer to join our group?" The slightly older Hero asked jovia... | God what a long day, stopping by the time clock he wipes his brow, all he wanted was a cold brew and a thick med steak. He was bummed he couldn’t go straight home but a man had to eat, so off to the store it was. He picked up the little red basket and made his way to the meat department . Minding his own business he ... | 2019-08-01T19:40:24 | 2019-08-01T18:30:21 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | *Hop. Hop. Hop.*
The merchant's waiting out in front of the village gate just stared in abject befuddlement.
*Hop. Hop. Hop.*
And adventurer started to draw his sword. The two next to him stopped him.
"Don't bother," one of them muttered, shaking his head at the ridiculous scene.
*Hop. Hop. Hop.*
The guards at ... | “ORK STRONK!”
That isn’t just a dumb interjection, no, for an orc tribe that is a certainty of life and the only way to live properly. It was something that my parents have tried to instill upon me all the way to their grave. I had become an adult (13) only 3 months prior to them showing me proof that strength is a... | 2022-09-03T17:33:02 | 2022-09-03T14:31:42 | 57 | 20 |
[WP] The silent teen in class speaks for the first time.
Which class? What do they say? What prompts it? | Miss Bradley shuffled the papers and looked over at *him*. He was vacantly staring at his desk and rubbing his arm with his painted fingernails. The black polish was beginning to wear off. "Timothy," she said, putting the papers aside. "Would you like to explain the phrase 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do.'?" She ign... | All eyes in the auditorium were on Aidan Greenfield. Some kids stared with mouths agape, while some others whispered to their peers. Since he started classes in his freshman year, no one outside of school had heard Aidan speak about *anything*. Now, in the middle of health class, the shy teen stood in front of Jackson ... | 2014-01-18T17:28:32 | 2014-01-18T17:08:27 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Despite the inherent supernaturality of reincarnation, not everyone believed that souls exist. Various theories have been posited, scientific, supernatural or otherwise, as to why reincarnation was what it was.
But the soul existed.
I was sure of it.
"In the latest in a string of serial killings, another body was fo... | I looked at the steel bars, those poor prisoners, stuck in a cage for the rest of their life and it was a long one. Modern medicine has made us live longer than ever thought possible, a life sentence now meant a very long time indeed. My job was keeping the serial killers and general criminals from killing each other ... | 2021-10-08T09:12:44 | 2021-10-08T08:05:13 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] You have the ability to instantly know what someone desires just by looking at them. It just pops into your head when you see them. Usually it’s something simple like “getting married and having kids”. But one day in the subway you see a hooded figure and you it desires “to get out of hell”. | A beautiful asian woman with a compulsive need to perform oral sex.'
I look away from the security guard, more than a little disturbed by the times new roman text floating above his chubby head. Having the ability to see other people's heart's desire written in professional font above their heads is usually an inter... | As much as I would have wanted to have been, I'm not Mr. Lucifer Morningstar, civilian consultant for the LAPD. Yes, when I first watched the Netflix show, I was enthralled at how similar his power was to mine. But he needs to ask, while peoples' intentions just pop into my mind. In fact, it may be closer to Jack Sparr... | 2018-12-21T08:39:32 | 2018-12-21T08:13:47 | 149 | 21 |
[WP] My German Shepard had to be put down today. We never knew where he came from. Please write about his adventures. | The Long Happy began almost as soon as I was born. I remember before it started. They were yelling. They would yell and throw things and ma would lick my fur until the shaking stopped.
 
She would put her big paws over my tiny body and protect. I was safe in the warm and dark, tucked right up against her bel... | I was the last of my kind, at the end of my time. This is my story.
My planet was doomed. The alien species know only as C.A.T. had completely wiped out our military defensive. As a last ditch effort to stop them from advancing through the galaxy, I blew up my home. I got into my craft and set the director to find th... | 2018-02-13T21:32:25 | 2018-02-13T19:52:50 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | The cell door slammed open, light slanting in lazy rays through the bars.
I studied the guard carefully as he treaded into the darkness of my abode. He couldn't so much as discern my form in lighting this low, but I could see him clearly. An amused chuckle broke from my lips as the guard cautiously called for me.
I s... | It's been a while seeing these grey walls. About 45 years. Or maybe it has been fifty. I can't recall. I was sentenced for a lifetime here since I was on a killing spree back in the days. I was sort of a Robin Hood you see, killing criminals just like me. I actually call myself Charlie Catastrophe if you ever wonder if... | 2016-10-15T09:54:14 | 2016-10-15T08:27:16 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] humans were the diplomats and negotiators of peace . They kept their 4 world wars well hidden from the galaxy. When a warmongering species thought humans as an easy target, they found out how good at war humans really can be the hard way. | Part 1.
Vulutana observed human ambasador who went by the name of Robert Fischer. He was a bipedal, "humanoid" as his species called themselves, similar to most species of galactic union, but he still did seem weaker and smaller then other intelligent races.
It was just appearance though, Vulutana knew that. As an am... | Distant thunder crackled across the shadowed sky of the planet the invaders diplomat's shuttle hovering overhead. Lights slowly sweeping across the deeply forested surface of the earth before setting down in an empty clearing. Hissing escaping the hydraulics of the craft as the rear ramp of the vehicle lowered to the m... | 2020-02-28T15:28:04 | 2020-02-28T12:51:35 | 48 | 12 |
[WP] You’re several thousand years old, and a historian wants to pick your brain. Trouble is, you’ve always been somewhere else during every major historical event. But the history you -do- know is much weirder than what made it into the books... | *Yes, please have a seat.*
*So I wanted to ask you a few questions about some historical events.*
I shrug. Truth be told I’m not entirely comfortable telling Richard about history. But he’s Richard J. Evans, an extremely famous british historian. Might as well answer the questions and get it over with.(Also the monet... | **A sequel to [this](https://redd.it/7ruf3l). Please let me know what you think!**
The woman wore her hair in a tight bun, which did nothing to hide the grey strands among the brown. She seemed to wear no makeup, but the unnatural redness of the thin slash of her lips suggested that some lipstick had been involved. He... | 2018-05-12T03:59:54 | 2018-05-11T23:07:18 | 130 | 38 |
[WP] A band writes a hit song, but unlike most hit songs which eventually fade away, this one just keeps growing in popularity with no end in sight. | It was pretty obvious to say that I hated the "mainstream" music nowadays. The most popular music was usually crappy pop about sex and drugs. It's been done too much, so I started to move on into different genres. Yet at the same time, a new band has risen in popularity with a new hit single.
I thought it would be ano... | "All rise for the national anthem" the teacher told the class. My fellow students all got out of their chairs and stould up facing the flag by the monitor. Suddenly, a tune unlike the one you're used to starts to play. No, this wasn't the national anthem that you've heard every morning for as long as you can remember .... | 2015-10-24T07:51:10 | 2015-10-24T07:30:25 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] Sick of being lied to you beg the Gods for change and one takes pity on you. Now when people lie to you a little text box appears next to them that only you can see, with the lie, the truth, and their motive for lying. | Alyssa's head was in her hands. She knew she had to make a decision; she couldn't keep Her waiting any longer.
"Yes," she said without much confidence. "I'm sure."
There wasn't a flash of light, no thunderous boom from a cannon or novelty explosion of confetti. Alyssa just felt warm for a few moments, and then everyt... | After my deal with the devil or maybe it was an asshole god trying to play a trick on me. Possibly Loki, I don’t know. I just remember being drunk and agreeing to something stupid.
I went to visit my mom. She always cheered me up. She opened the door and said she was so happy to see me, and she loved me. There was n... | 2018-07-02T09:40:13 | 2018-07-02T07:25:16 | 66 | 32 |
[WP] You are a soldier in a fantasy computer game, and your general/player has just given you some very questionable orders. | ".. I'm sorry, Sir; no copy. Repeat order? Over."
"I said take your squad to position 3, Assault and Capture and take their Commander prisoner.."
".. Okay I th.."
"I'M NOT FINISHED, SOLDIER. CAPTURE THEIR AND PUT YOUR NUTS IN HIS FACE. OVER."
"Uh.. okay. Solid copy Commander; Assault and Capture Position 3, take th... | What? Why?
**Just go over there already**
But why is everyone else staying here?
**Because reasons, NOW MOVE**
There could mines or artillery though
*sigh* **Look there is nothing over there I just want you and ONLY you to move over there**
Nope seems like a bad idea bad things happen to lone lings
**Fine... | 2016-11-23T07:09:44 | 2016-11-23T07:07:59 | 479 | 60 |
[WP]: "Greetings, and welcome to the Afterlife! According to our records, you lacked a primary belief system to govern your afterlife experience. As such, aside from a return to your past life, you may choose an existing belief system, or start a new life in a manner of your choosing!" | "...in a manner of your choosing!"
I stared at the lady who had made the aforementioned statement, in a tone not unlike declaring a disclamation. She stared back at me, a receptionist-smile plastered on her face.
Well...this sure was unexpected.
Lacked a primary belief system...yes, that I did. I used to be a believ... | "Oh" Joshua said " You mean that I can live another life or go to after-life of my choosing?"
"That is correct!" The woman said excitingly "So, where do you want to spend your eternity? Or maybe who do you want to be in your next lif? Such oportunity may never happen again!"
Joshua started stoking his beard , los... | 2020-04-21T05:14:28 | 2020-04-21T04:51:57 | 79 | 23 |
[WP]Both of your parents made deals with fae about giving them their firstborn. Different fae... Now you live under the joint custody of two faeries who don't like this situation one bit. | "All rise." Despite the fairies calling themselves "courts" this is the only gathering resembling a courtroom they had, and it was made for me. And what a farce it is.
As soon as the regnant presiding as this year's "judge" entered the clearing, the gathered fae all bowed. Well, all except the "jury" made of the remai... | “You live past the place no one goes, getting the child to you on your visitation days is going to be a nightmare...a literal goblin infested nightmare journey!”, said Hilea the maiden fairy of the Anderall Forrest.
Tilea, the peculiar fairy maiden of Bak’Tulgurr, the land of brimstone and ash, floated about with a p... | 2021-05-14T10:49:42 | 2021-05-14T06:03:17 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] There you stand, the Dark Lord carrying the swaddled newborn destined to save the land from evil. Now you’ve got to keep them alive long enough that the day actually comes, and perhaps they can save you too. | Dad used to be a dark lord. That’s what I’m told. His old friends come over sometimes and tell me about how he used to be something. Enslaved realms, wrestled ogres, beheaded heroes, wielded powerful magic. He was one of the best at what he did.
But that’s not the dad I know.
He‘s depressed. And he blames me for it, ... | In the castle, on the throne, sat a man, no longer a man. A face with no eyes, a chest with no heart, skeletal bones without the support of flesh and muscle. But one would be foolish to think the creature was weak. He held the world by the throat; the world was his necropolis. As the God of Death, he reigned supreme ov... | 2021-07-27T12:18:42 | 2021-07-27T10:08:25 | 117 | 39 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | "What the hell?" The old man, who said his name was Myrddin Emrys, was nearly impossible to understand. He was speaking English, some of which I recognized from my university reading of Chaucer, but it wasn't the words but what he said I didn't get.
I held up my hand to shut him up for a second while I tried to wrap... | When travelling to the past, it is inevitable that one loses some part of one's self. You arrival comes not with ceremony, but a great feeling of loss, a cold lack of sensation as your mind is separated from Soul. Of course one still is one’s Soul — by merely being first one must thus be the origin — but such reasons d... | 2016-11-28T03:38:57 | 2016-11-28T00:49:38 | 241 | 20 |
[WP] Humans have amazing filtration systems in their bodies. We drink poisons and intake smoke as hobbies that would kill other aliens/species with a single sip or inhale. | “Caffeine?” Zorbrox asked.
“Are you crazy? It’s a stimulant to them. Winds them up into a frenzy, you’d be fighting hyperactive mammals with nukes.” Gorinth exclaimed.
Gorinth and Zorbrox were sitting in a small room on Central, the capital planet of the Hegemony in the bureaucratic archive. They had been tasked w... | But nothing Stephen's body could do would stop the trip he was about to go on.
"Damnit, Steph, what the hell did you do?" Kara yelled from the doorway as Stephen fell to the floor, gripped by the drug's temporary paralyzing effects.
"I...I...I..." Stephen could barely manage a few words before being overtaken by a sn... | 2017-06-20T18:07:07 | 2017-06-20T13:07:40 | 127 | 11 |
[WP] Six months ago, an alien armada appeared in our solar system. Thousands of ships and millions of drones terraformed Mars, Venus and the Moon before leaving promptly. The world leaders hungrily eye these Earth-like worlds despite the loop message in English: Warning! Do Not Enter! Prison Worlds! | Our intergalactic visitors vanished as discreetly as they appeared in our solar system. Mars, Venus, the Moon, transformed from inhospitable chunks of rock into veritable Gardens of Eden by their hands. Under different circumstances, this confirmation of life beyond our miniscule planet and the charity our visitors bes... | George burst out of the rickety door of our shed, “Samuel!, Did ya here about the aliens!”
I looked up from the belly lint that was tickling me ever so annoyingly. “What?”
“I said, there’s aliens!”
I stood up and stretched and followed George inside
After watching Fox for a little while I grunted and grabbed a beer... | 2020-07-01T13:26:05 | 2020-07-01T12:54:30 | 355 | 29 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | I was shocked when I found out that yes, demons were exactly that stupid. They were so keen on making deals, they forgot to use their brains.
And thank god for that, because otherwise, Earth would have been screwed.
After the whole prophecy shenanigans, I was trying to get rid of that growing lump of cells inside my... | The stare in its eyes were palpable. As I raised the pen; secure in my grip. I saw a glistening ember formulate by the side of its lip, growing by the second and getting brighter the longer I stared. How many has it secured? What number would my spawn be in this carousel of abandonment that I have enthusiastically ente... | 2022-08-31T19:52:37 | 2022-08-31T17:45:32 | 88 | 13 |
[WP] It's 2120, and hypersleep has allowed humanity to access the far reaches of space. However, waking from hypersleep has resulted in a sensory overload that destroys the brain. You've traveled to an earthlike planet and woke to find your entire crew dead. You, however, are perfectly fine. | It is a glass cemetery that holds the brightest stars the earth ever lit. But they are ice cold now, flameless, long ago darkened.
They are the bodies of my crewmates and are frozen rigid and brittle; some faces forever gasping at the warped-glass, their pale palms pressed against it. Yet I walk between the cryo-pods ... | Upright tubes hold floating forms in clear liquid. Expensive coffins that display their cargo, ever youthful and at peaceful rest. Warning - hypersleep side effects include: disorientation, grogginess, prolonged anosmia and temporary loss of other senses, loss of appetite, some hair loss, and general malaise.
Prolonge... | 2020-04-02T02:36:19 | 2020-04-02T01:25:14 | 498 | 92 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | It was a cruel joke; his predestined last words. You would think it would be a gift. To have such sweet last words, but it meant he could never say the simple three words for as long as he lived.
For years, he had known he couldn't say them. Somehow, he knew, in the back of his mind. That those words would doom him. ... | First response, sooo...
My last words. I'd avoided them for years, knowing that they would begin death's inevitable march towards me. I'd kept my distance from people ever since I learned what they were, always avoiding a situation where they could be spoken.
But now, in this moment, I realize that maybe that was a m... | 2017-08-07T09:48:15 | 2017-08-07T08:52:42 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] You’re a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but… it’s been a month and no one’s come to save them. | The dragon gazed across the land, just as yesterday, nobody. Enraged, he yelped and drew fire straight up, the pillar of flame above his head grew and grew for a couple moments before falling into nothing.
The dragon reached his claw into the tower where the hostage was kept, grabbed her, and yanked her out.
“Where... | “Princess, no one going to show up for you?”
“No, I’m only 4th in line for the throne so I’m not that important, definitely not worth enough to fight a dragon over”
“Do you not have any friends or lovers?”
“All my friends are fake and even if they weren’t, none of them know how to fight, and my love life is proba... | 2022-11-24T09:38:38 | 2022-11-24T07:09:46 | 222 | 44 |
[WP] You have the ability to read the minds of those you look in the eye. So far, you have met many interesting individuals, but this is the first time you have heard multiple, and even several voices in a single person, all at the same time. | The echo of their voices bounced around my head. I could sense more voices within the head, but only a handful of them were communicating. I heard faint whispers, as if they were coming from the end of a very very long hallway. Every now and then, a kid's voice would permeate through the noise, followed by a calming... | Part 1
They say eyes are the gateway to the soul. In my case, that expression can be taken *quite* literally.
Ever since I was young, I found myself... *learning things.* Hearing things about people that they weren't talking about - hearing voices who sounded similar enough to the person I spoke with, but from ... | 2019-05-17T08:28:10 | 2019-05-17T08:21:48 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | Slim,
"It started with a molten ball,
Slowly cooled off then explosions fall,
As astroids deployed to open scars,"
Aliens,
"But what about the stolen cars,
The war torn countries born and broken shards,
Of humanity full of insanity and show boat stars?"
Slim,
"Shut up bitch and sit and let me spit, ... | Mother fuckers
Started as blobs
Evolved
to Slobs and formed mobs
//
Killers and moms
Robbed the people of their peace
We won't even touch
Or discuss
The cluster fuck
In middle east
//
It's the U.S.A. not the USA *(writers note - pronounced ooo-sah)*
Centuries of minutia
Designed to
seduce... | 2016-11-30T11:41:59 | 2016-11-30T11:12:27 | 49 | 26 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | Dreadnaught was the last of the Old Guard. The early heroes who had fought for the good of the world, for honor and justice and other long-dead ideals. they toppled dictatorships, brought aid to disaster-stricken regions and never accepted a penny. Dreadnaught himself had seen the greats of the age, had only been a you... | "So what gives, Chief?"
The Chief's eyes followed Henry as he paced around the office. It was a sight by itself to see a grown man in tights and a cape, but now he was puffing, quite naturally, on a thick cigar.
"You go to Sam before me?"
The Chief sighed. "She's got X-ray vision. We needed X-ray vision at the tim... | 2017-04-02T09:11:57 | 2017-04-02T08:49:03 | 154 | 27 |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | It's odd watching the expanse of someone's life play out before you. A seemingly endless collection of memories that cycle over and over, floating about like iridescent bubbles moving pictures on them. You can touch one and the memory unfolds, spanning into a flat surface, simply hovering in the air a few feet above wh... | In anger the fire swore at me. Foaming at the mouth,it lapped up the darkness of the room.
A man of average height entered the room and immediately flipped on a light switch by the door.
The room became cold, sterile, and revealed a layout resembling that of a doctors office. No fireplace, no ash, nor char was visible ... | 2016-05-11T04:24:19 | 2016-05-10T23:51:44 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] King Midas has finally fallen in love with someone who is immune to his curse: Medusa. And he is immune to hers. However, things aren't going as planned at the royal wedding. | It was supposed to be a perfect wedding. All of our golden and stony guests were carefully placed to mingle with one another. I restrained from touching any of the flowers, and we even got a blind musician troupe for live music. Medusa had to find a veil that would also stay over her squirming hair. After all of this r... | In a normal wedding, the groom turns to stone, not everyone else. Also the food was decent, except after Midas lost his spoon in the sauce and everyone who hadn't seen Medusa yet began choking. All was going ok until medusa found that all the golden statues had huge boobs and a hand impressed in inappropriate places. T... | 2017-08-14T09:02:45 | 2017-08-14T07:45:50 | 74 | 17 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | The doctor's words hit me with an almost physical impact. I feel like I'm sinking into the stiff examination table, my hospital gown suddenly as heavy as a sheet of lead. "No. No, that can't be right."
"I know it's shocking, but I can assure you that it's true," the doctor says, turning the ultrasound monitor to face ... | The same eyes search mine
As I have seen before
The same first steps
She grabs the wall and pulls herself up
Triumphant
(again)
The baby clothes I had preserved
Had I known
I would again be a mother
To my Again daughter
Could
Would I
Have been better prepared?
My chance to do it all
Over
My Agai... | 2016-01-25T09:46:57 | 2016-01-25T07:47:30 | 151 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T13:23:57 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 99 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | It wasn't your fault that you stopped taking your daily pill.
It started with your job transfer. The paperwork got lost, or perhaps there was a clerical error (it aways starts with a clerical error, right?). Everyone more or less works a job that is given to them by necessity, as everyone must work at a job to pay for... | As I laced my tattered shoes on my aching feet, I could feel my heart pulsating in my ear drums. I'd never been so afraid. Never felt so alone. It even took me a few moments to realize that I'd been fumbling hopelessly with my laces because of how much my hands were shaking. I took a deep breath and repeated the same w... | 2017-07-14T15:51:12 | 2017-07-14T12:52:49 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You’re home alone when suddenly you get a visitor from 300 years in the future. They ask you to join them for lunch. As it turns out, you have been chosen as their one person - dead or alive - to have lunch with. | "Assuming what you say is true, I know exactly why you have come."
"You do?", Azod replies in a skeptical tone.
I say knowingly, "of course I do. There is only one reason in all of existence, that any person, throughout the spans of time, would want to talk to me."
Azod has a confused look on his face. "Are you say... | "Me? Of all the people you could have chosen, Me?"
Well...yes. Hyperion. You.
"Wait a minute..."
"The world post the virus changes far more rapidly than most are prepared for. You however turn out to be one of the better prepared. The business you're considering not only becomes a successful shop, but your franchisi... | 2020-04-22T13:04:40 | 2020-04-22T12:25:16 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | It was supposed to be exciting. Jamie wanted flames that poured from his hands or strength that could knock down walls. After years of being mediocre, turning 18 was his time to shine. Instead, he got...languages? It was stupid. His power was supposed to be a reflection of who he was. Jamie had failed Spanish not just... | Once again, the sound of languages coagulated in my head as I desperately tried to type out my college admissions essays. I wanted to scream: at the lady bragging about how she cheated on her husband, at the boys screaming about Fortnite, and at the tourists harassing the Hispanic lady next to me.
But it's not like I... | 2019-12-22T11:07:03 | 2019-12-22T09:26:08 | 112 | 49 |
[WP] When everyone reaches 18 they have to choose a super power from a select list of powers, but when you enter the selection room there is only 1 power for you to choose from. | "This isn't a power." The young man argued to a taller female.
She was of immense size, easily doubled his height. Her skin was covered in scales and fingers replaced by claws. Her glare could make the heartbeat of a lion stop and her roar could make a croc dive under water for cover. At present time she was picking h... | In Jamestown there is no crime. When the residents reach the age of 18 they go to the town hall, a large building where you can find statues of muscular men and women. They choose a power from a select list of powers.
Manuel was greatly disappointed when he saw that he had only 1 power to choose. He knew what that me... | 2022-12-18T16:15:34 | 2022-12-18T06:50:45 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Humanity was amazed by the presence of extraterrestrials. They were new. They were exciting. As a species, we were done evolving. We had discovered every scientific breakthrough available to us and our meager resources. We had mapped our observable universe and pushed the limits of our existence.
We had philosophized... | We got the data. We got the intel. We knew of their past and how violent the the humans were. After continuing to watch the humans for the past 300 Earth years they become peaceful after their third global conflict. The casualties reached to 4 billion by the time it ended. The country in the western hemisphere known as... | 2019-02-26T08:20:01 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 1,328 | 70 |
[WP] You're a psychic doing a game show. Unlike the other contestants, you're the real deal. They bring you all to a house where a crime happened in the past. When it's your turn, a ghost appears and tells you: "That's him, that's the one who killed me." Pointing towards the host of the show. | "Mr. Logan, can I speak to you privately?" The host shot me a quizzical look before motioning me to join him off-camera. There were five of us on the show. Of the other four, two were private detectives and the other two were fake psychics. The premise of the show was that they'd task us with ferreting out information ... | ######[](#dropcap)
Angela stared at the young girl, trying to hide the expression of pity that threatened to show on her face. The shimmering form of the ghost was that of a girl no older than fourteen, and despite the fact that her eyes were a pale white, she was no scarier than her own fat tabby cat at home.
"He l... | 2018-11-15T14:36:38 | 2018-11-15T14:29:32 | 340 | 113 |
[WP] "And that is why, no human would ever risk their life to save another." "Firefighters." "Huh?" "Firefighters disprove everything you spent the last ten minutes going on about." | "And that is why, no human would ever risk their life to save another."
"Firefighters."
"Huh?"
"Firefighters disprove everything you spent the last ten minutes going on about."
Zeus blinks a few times at Hades. He'd be the first to admit that, after the fall of Ancient Greece, Zeus hadn't spent much time paying att... | Adeimantus walks into a bar and tells the firefighters they only do their jobs for glory; nobody would sacrifice themselves for righteous ideals like good or justice.
"And that is why, no human would ever risk their life to save another."
"Huh?" Finally replied a firefighter. "We disprove everything you spent the la... | 2022-09-25T15:39:08 | 2022-09-25T15:27:27 | 305 | 45 |
[WP] You've taken your children to the local museum to see the new traveling "Myths and Legends" exhibit. Half-way through your middle-schooler awkwardly jokes that a lot of the statues look eerily similar to their soon to be furloughed science teacher. | Mr. Johnson was hoping to be long gone from this town before the Hunters came calling.
Now, he only had a few hours at best to gather what he could and run again. Maybe he could make a go of it in the UK again, now that they've split from Europe it'll be that much harder to get in country, and his old persona... | "Look Mum!" Sarah ran up to me. She pointed at a statue near the door to the next exhibit. Something about 'Ancient Myths and Legends'. "Almost looks like Mrs Wolf, doesn't it?" Sarah laughed up.
"Sarah, will you quiet down already?" I grabbed her hand and let out a deep sigh. Since we moved, I didn't get much sleep.... | 2021-05-17T12:54:52 | 2021-05-17T12:34:29 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | I laid the utensils down gently against the white table cloth, careful not to blemish the tantalizing display I had organized. A platter of the finest cheeses to begin the evening. Followed by an entrée of roast lamb accompanied by ripe cherry tomatoes. And finally, a bottle of Château Margaux wine to complete the affa... | Not many people in this world had superpowers, even less became heroes or villains. That was reserved for people with big, flashy powers and the egos to match. I only have one of those two things, thankfully it's a big, flashy power. I shoot fireworks from my hands, as small or large as I want. Which in theory could do... | 2021-08-16T17:51:13 | 2021-08-16T17:24:41 | 1,035 | 314 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | Do you know what it is like to be the only normal human in a family of crazy people? Not low level crazy either. high level crazy. Pops? International criminal, famous for stealing prized works of art, music, and people. Mom? Wet work extraordinaire, though now she mostly consults with the Russians. I swear I've saw he... | 6/4/17
Dear Journal,
My acceptance letter came today. I finally got into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after 3 years of hard work. The classes weren’t too bad but the SAT prep, extracurricular activities, and my family have kept me very busy.
Dad’s involvement in politics keeps him busy. He’s always ru... | 2017-06-04T10:21:38 | 2017-06-04T09:52:41 | 519 | 32 |
[WP] You're having a friendly conversation with a vampire, where they try to convince you to let them turn you into a vampire. As they're explaining the benefits of being a vampire and vampire society, it starts to sound like a Pyramid Scheme. | I stared at him, in awe and fascination. As a believer in the supernatural, I always thought of vampires as scary but elegant monsters. Counts, barons, nobleman and woman. Slick clothing, handsome books, just like in the movies. What I saw instead was disappointing
In front of my door stood a middle aged man in a plai... | I was mesmerized, lost in a fog of fascination. But then he began to explain the mechanics of vampire society. How they “recruited” new members one at a time, and these members had to convince other people to join. It almost felt like a Pyramid Scheme, although he assured me that vampires were far more loyal and commit... | 2022-12-04T11:16:21 | 2022-12-04T09:21:19 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | It had already been an hour, but Frank could still hardly contain himself. Sure, it was cliché, but he still got a laugh from calling for a crustless pizza with cheese. This time, he was calling Loera's pizza Kingdom, that new sketchy place set up from Mexico. What sort of Mexican makes cheese pizza anyway?
He startled... | ..So can I pay for that with card?
"No" said the man on the phone "we only accept cash"
I begrudgingly said "Ok" I really dont want to drive to an ATM but I could grab some soda maybe fill up on gas I said to myself. "So how much will it be?"
"It will be $1,500 dollars" the man on the phone said
"I think Ill pas... | 2016-06-02T12:21:31 | 2016-06-02T11:31:19 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The dead stay in Purgatory until the last time your name is spoken. No one has said your name in 10 million years, but you haven't moved on yet. | I'd been here too long. Even the angel at the gate agreed.
"Are you, like, *really* famous?" he asked, for about the millionth time.
"No," I answered, annoyed. We'd been over this before. Raphael thought I was lying for the longest time. The famous people tend to stay here longer. Their names are remembered. Their ... | I never thought the name John Smith would be a curse, but here I am. Sitting here with... John, and... John, and... George.
George is nice, but John's an ass. And John is kind of a cool guy, but John talks too much.
John likes to walk. He found out that if you keep walking, you end up back where you started.
John k... | 2017-11-27T14:44:10 | 2017-11-27T08:34:11 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a huge spiral staircase and it takes you a thousand years to reach the top. You’re exhausted, but to your surprise you are greeted with the pearly gates, except they’re completely rusted over. A sign reads “Welcome to Heaven, Population: 1” | I kept my eyes fixed on the sign, reading and rereading it. It was only when I heard the sound of a pen scribbling across a page that I broke my gaze.
A woman of middle age was seated at a table in front of the gate.
"Welcome to Heaven, Andrew" She said.
"Uhh.. Hi. Thank you." He said.
"Are you ready to enter?" She... | I died an upset man. I was born into the world abit before the 21st century. I was autistic, i had health problems and all my life i was abused by everyone i met. I did not have a good life. I died in anger and rage after i jumped from the cellphone towers before my 30th birthday. The world changed from a bright democr... | 2020-06-17T03:27:50 | 2020-06-17T01:08:50 | 402 | 17 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Humans were quite the anomaly within the galaxy - unsophisticated, lacking any sort of psychokinesis, magic, or other advanced mental abilities, they had resorted to using tools and each other as ways to progress. Early humans summoned would speak in guttural tones, carrying sharpened stone and being muscled enough to ... | I receive the confirmation that we got all the 150 species and we transfer them to the planet Terranavi. I’m the chief engineer of this planet and we needed such a planet to host this sort of event. We collect different species from different planets and putting them on a piece of rock that only habitable for some of t... | 2020-09-13T18:35:05 | 2020-09-13T17:01:43 | 189 | 41 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The clock continued to move. One hour passed and then another. Eventually the clock showed that 12 hours had passed. I wondered to myself are they waiting for primetime to let me out? It dawned on me that they wanted the largest possible audience to see me exit from my year long isolation. When one day passed and then ... | I look at the clock, in a terror that I can't even explain. This is impossible. This must be a mistake.
I relax, I will just sit down and wait a little longer, people are late all the time....right?
With all the hope I can muster, I sit back down. And wait...and wait...until i eventually fall asleep...
When I awake,... | 2019-07-03T04:40:53 | 2019-07-03T04:13:40 | 102 | 10 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | They called it "99% day." How original. The boys in the media must have been working overtime to come up with that winner. Shit, I can come up with better. How about "Updayt?" Eh? No? Fine. Well anyway. May 19th, 2016. That's when the count would pass 99% and fully install.
What would happen?
That's the only thing an... | Everyone panicked. But then we realized. It had taken thousands upon thousands of generations to make 1% of the update. The rest would most likely not come in our lifetimes, nor in our descendants', or in their descendants'.
God gleefully cheered. "I can't believe it's updating! Stupid Comcast lost all my packets, but... | 2015-03-04T16:34:41 | 2015-03-04T16:33:29 | 1,473 | 123 |
[WP] You make a deal with a dark entity, but it panics when it realizes it cannot hold up its end of the bargain. | "No, you don't understand," I told the human. "I can't fulfill your wish."
"Why not?" she asked, hands akimbo. "I paid you my soul! Now get to work."
"But…" I stuttered. All I could do was panic. What would all the other demons of the Underworld think of me when they found out I'd granted this mortal's wish… to clean... | The human repeated his horrible request again. “I want you to go to the light with me.”
The human laid down on a hospital bed, covered in tubes. A few sacks of liquid dangle from poles right next to him. On the far side of the room, a heart monitor beeps. Red lines flow on the screen going in a rhythm, like waves.
T... | 2018-04-15T19:48:59 | 2018-04-15T19:42:07 | 89 | 38 |
[WP] You are brought to a meeting with 9 other versions of you at different ages. The topic of the meeting is "What went wrong and how to fix it." | They stared quietly at 21.
She looked at the floor. She didn't want 4, 10, 14 or 18 to see their future, nor 32, 46, 55 and 74 to see their past. To see the bruises. The black eye.
What went wrong? Ha. She was what had gone wrong.
"21?" said a gentle voice, tempered by age and experience. "21, look at me."
It w... | The eight versions sat at a large rectangular wooden table. They were arranged from youngest to oldest, four on each side. The room was filled with deafening silence. Every one of them sat there glaring over their left shoulder at the past, and recoiling from the piercing gaze of the future. | 2014-09-25T20:06:43 | 2014-09-25T18:28:09 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Humanity was amazed by the presence of extraterrestrials. They were new. They were exciting. As a species, we were done evolving. We had discovered every scientific breakthrough available to us and our meager resources. We had mapped our observable universe and pushed the limits of our existence.
We had philosophized... | — Dude, come check it out
— My mom doesnt want me to hang out with you
— Come on, she wont find out. Look at this — he said turning the telescope-like device to his friend — look at that planet.
— The red one?
— No no dude, the blue one next to it.
— What about it?
— Look closer — he said and zoom it in.
... | 2019-02-26T08:20:01 | 2019-02-26T07:46:38 | 1,328 | 35 |
[WP] You always had a special relationship with your rich grandfather. The rest of the family was waiting like vultures for him to die. On his deathbed he passes you his prized Sony Walkman. You don't think much of it till you listen. All the broadcasts are from 24 hours in the future. | We didn't know how much Grandpa Nathanael was worth. Nobody did, except perhaps his tight-lipped lawyers and accountants. The rest of us figured the man was all-but-penniless.
Grandpa Nathanael had always lived austerely. He had raised his kids in a small house that was furnished with only the basics. When he and my g... | Grandpa always had a strange sense of humor. He was the type of man who would bring mustard sandwiches—literally just yellow mustard and white Dempster’s bread—to family potlucks and get offended when no one would eat them.
So when one of the last things he’d ever say to me was, “This Walkman I’m giving you will make... | 2021-06-01T17:14:56 | 2021-06-01T16:07:08 | 203 | 46 |
[WP] The hat that made Frosty sentient was only a small piece of a complete wardrobe. Each article of clothing had its own personality, granting its user magical abilities. They were thought to be lost throughout the years. Turns out, they've been shaping the world around them this entire time. | The crowd stood up and clapped as the actor returned to the spotlight, he bowed deeply and blew kisses amidst the falling flowers and scandalous articles of clothing, “Thank you, you’re too kind!”
He let himself relax his shoulders on his way through to the backstage, towards his room, the door with five prominent gol... | I recorded this on my ukulele! Have a listen if you like: https://clyp.it/vtyw04ev
Frosty the Snowman
was a ghost that Christmas Eve.
The children sang his song
as they ran along
but still they couldn't see.
The winter's magic
had lost its rosy charm
for they stayed inside
on their screens to hide
f... | 2019-12-06T11:31:43 | 2019-12-06T10:34:39 | 252 | 86 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a certain spell and a number of times they can use it. The durability is directly linked to how good the spell is. You were born with an infinite durability. Most people thought your spell was useless but you’ve recently found an exploit.
Example: a person with one use of a spell (a very rar... | When I finally found my ability, I was so proud. Five year-old me ran downstairs, shouting, "Dad! James! I did it!". I showed them the power, puffing out my chest in pride as wisps of mist trailed down my fingers. There was a silence. Then James snorted. "PfFfT!!!! What!?" He was doubling over. "That's your power? Maki... | "You ever get to the bottom of that filthy pan and your sponge just won't cut it anymore? That caked on burnt stuff, whatever it is, just won't come off. Was it from the spaghetti? Is it a bit of egg? Some steak bits? You scrub and scrub but it just won't come off, no matter how hard you push that sponge! So you do wha... | 2019-06-25T13:00:22 | 2019-06-25T11:43:00 | 199 | 119 |
[WP] A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn't know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her parents. You are that monster.
Thanks for the huge amount of responses! Loving most all of them, thank you! Sorry it was a bit simplistic though. | For centuries, men have cursed me and mine. Millennia, even. I'm not sure quite when they forgot what we really are, but they still fear us, still make their movies about us. They are still ours to kill.
This one thinks he knows what otherworldly dangers lurk for him. He thinks he has found the solution in books. Ha! ... | Here I peer from under the bed, protecting the only form of interaction I have for now. There have been many others but none who noticed me. I do what I can to help her, but I am never thanked for what I do. Even though I am only regarded with screams for "mommy and daddy" I am happy.
Right now though with tears falli... | 2014-05-14T14:54:22 | 2014-05-14T14:40:05 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] you were betrayed by the ones you called friends. they sacrificed you in a satanic ritual during an outing. however, you were taken by things older than you thought possible. empowered by them, you return as their agent in a war that scales eons and worlds beyond. but first, your revenge. | "Jenny."
She's at some playground watching three screaming, filthy kids. We're sitting on the bench, and she frowns.
She looks at me, and pales a little.
"I-I'm sorry, do I know you?"
I smile.
"We played a game on the beach... You and me and your friends. Don't you remember?“
She looks scared. Really scared. I... | Ashes of the Spirit - Part I
Getting backstabbed hurt a lot emotionally but it is even worse when the knife punctured your rib cage into your lung.
I never got along with most people, sometimes it was because of my social anxiety, a lack of common interests but it was mainly due to my lack of social skill. The few fr... | 2020-04-26T06:32:01 | 2020-04-26T03:18:50 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | She stood before two gates. She supposed that was kind of what she had expected. What was unexpected was that nothing was stopping her from going to whichever one she chose.
'*Well, this seems too easy,*' she thought to herself. '*It's got to be a trick.*'
Taking some time to really gather in her surroundings, she ... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:55:30 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] The universe is dying. A multiracial group of aliens surfs the Milky Way in search for shelter. They find a dead Earth. Among the rubble, they collect a strange Human program. Booting up their emulators, the Aliens gather together to play one last game of Minecraft, as the world falls apart. |
Aliens. Do they exist?
Humans were obsessed with this question ever since they got the knowledge about space and its vastness. It triggered some of the deepest curiosities they had inside, and the question was like an itch that needed to be addressed.
So once they had the capability to send out signals to outer s... | Atten stared hard at the screen.
"Tyel, do you have the techwarper? I've got a hell of an idea." Atten shouted excitedly. His species was always good with mechanics and engineering, things like that.
Before Tyel could respond, Atten had given himself operator privileges, hastily slapping on keyboard buttons with a s... | 2019-04-25T09:48:10 | 2019-04-25T08:58:46 | 47 | 27 |
[WP] Suddenly, all disorders and diseases are turned into superpowers. Blind people have x-ray vision, astmathic people have endless lungcapacity, and so on. You have cancer. | Being diagnosed with cancer was the happiest day of my life.
In retrospect, this wasn't exactly true, but as of last week looking back, it was the day my life turned around.
Before, each day was a painful routine of blood samples, needles, doctors helping me do things I was perfectly capable of doing and pity.
Th... | "So uh...can you, like, let the girl go?" I look at the self-proclaimed bad guy and sigh. I was passing by when I find him trying to rob a store.
"Stay back!" He forcefully hold the woman in front of him. "I- I have cataract!"
I lift an eyebrow and grin. "So you, like, shoot laser out of your eyes or something?"
"Ex... | 2017-05-21T08:58:42 | 2017-05-21T08:05:24 | 1,809 | 31 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | Once upon a time, there was a young maid named Rebecca, fourteen summers of age and black of hair. Ever since she could recall, she had wanted to be a singer, as prolific as the great Adella, as famous as Taylor of Swiftelsson, as breathtaking as the ravishing Beyoncella.
So one morn, she had a stroke of inspiration.... | O, ye, harken my tale! This is how, mine, a young man's life, was flipped, turned asunder, upside down. Allow me a moment, please take a seat, and I will impart on you the epic of how, I a mere commoner, became Prince of a land called Bel- Air.
On the West bank of old Philadelphia, where I, born and raise, romped wit... | 2015-06-10T16:13:15 | 2015-06-10T11:01:01 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] After thousands of years on a generation ship sent out to colonize the universe, nobody alive on board the ship believes in the "myth" of Planet Earth anymore. Until they receive the first transmission from Earth in hundreds of years... | "...schrfwwww..."
"What? Eristos, what the kak is it saying?"
"...njaaxchrr..."
"Amplifying signal, sir. Klarentine, are you feeding each loop to the PIE?"
"Yes. 12 cycles so far. We should get clarity soon."
"I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. Earth. Gaia. Right out of a fairy tale."... | No one knew what the buzzer meant when it went off. A high pitched, whining sound droned from the command center, seemingly echoing through every hallway on the ship. We quickly scrambled to decode the sound, a dozen people were assigned to this task force. We scoured every page of the manuals, both end user and servic... | 2018-08-28T09:35:19 | 2018-08-28T09:35:09 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] The whole universe is gone, and only two kids were left in the void. "Let's play again," said one of the kids to his only companion, "but this time I'll be God, and you will be the Devil." | as I walked into the light, I wandered into a white void surrounded by mist. I felt heat inside me and well aware of where I am. Familiar but unrecognizable. I feel like I have questions but only I have the answers too. "Why did this happen?" I knew why and it rushed to me. as I walked into the haze I look into the dis... | "I'll create a nice river first. Then I think the planes, different ones this time. Having just one was a huge mistake, maybe some ups and downs all over for variety. Then I'll make creatures to play here. Dogs first!!! I love dogs, dogs are awesome. The rest after that. What are you making?"
"The earth and humans. ... | 2018-10-28T17:54:02 | 2018-10-28T14:08:48 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] The main character is perfect in every way. He's the most handsome, kind, gentle, generous man you could ever imagine. He donates to charities and volunteers at shelters. If it's amazing, he does it. The narrator hates him with a burning passion. | Imagine being a boring, perfect turd of a man that never had to do any hard labour in your life. So perfect that your mum thought the sun shined out of your little brown button. So perfect that the whole TOWN thought the sun shined out of... you get the picture.
Meet Jaxson. Spelled as obnoxiously as his personality. ... | Once upon a time, there was a man. The most infuriating man in the world, in fact. Everyone adores him because they think he's kind, and gentle, and generous. *Bleeegh.* Notice how intelligence isn't among those traits?
Only I know his dark side, his narcissism, his stupidity, his arrogance and his darkness. I despise... | 2020-01-10T05:39:57 | 2020-01-10T03:40:11 | 107 | 14 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "What do you mean I can't leave these drinks on my tab? I've been coming here for years."
"New corporate rules. Ever since we were bought out by Wild Buffalo Bar Corp. No running tabs, no discounts, no happy hours," explained Chet, my favorite bartender.
"Well I guess I better go hit the ATM and see what I've got i... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T08:29:21 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 347 | 10 |
[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 :) | My name is Peter Thatch, and I've been trapped in a ghost town for 5 years, 4 months, and 22 days.
I wake up and check my phone. 6:30am. No signal, low battery, several ominous messages from an unknown number. Nothing new there, then. Wiping the crust from my eyes, I drag myself out of bed and make my way to the k... | "Just get out of there, fuck off..."
The shadow slowly trickled down on the floor from the closet and slowly crawled towards the bedroom door. Alex threw himself down on the bed and turned off the lights.
Soon the thumping in the stairs started, Alex slowly turned over and looked at his door, contemplating if she wou... | 2017-05-05T09:48:59 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Alien life was discovered centuries ago and though they are advance they live relatively short lives (25-35 years). You ask your alien friend why he thinks humans live so long. He laughs and says it's because humans run at half power. You laugh back but he stops and says "No you really do." | "Allow me to explain," Xylus said as their suit would hiss momentarily. The chest would open up slightly as a small amount of their body would reach out to the tablet left on the table. Even though Jason has been hanging out with Xylus for about 5 years now the dark black, an almost mist-like substance that made up the... | **We do?**
Did I stutter? It's not my fault I have four mouths.
**You do? Oh, I didn't notice. I don't really see those kinds of things.**
Blah blah blah. Look, just because I have six tentacles instead of legs and genitalia--
**Again, I never said that.**
Come on, man. We aliens got it all figured out years ago. ... | 2019-12-29T22:59:31 | 2019-12-29T20:59:40 | 73 | 15 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | "Hey Jim, how's it going?" Andrew greeted his friend as they met up on their daily commute to the office.
Jim put on the fake smile. "Oh, pretty good. You?"
"In fact," boomed the voice, "Jim is not doing well at all. He has not slept well for the last week, the pretty girl he was talking to on that dating app - the f... | People claim to value and appreciate honesty but the truth is that lies are far better. I...
Narrator: this is only partially correct. The social contract demands we be truthful in matters of business, equity, establishment of trust,etc. It requires also requires a kind of lie under the label of tact which overlook... | 2019-06-21T07:31:01 | 2019-06-21T07:01:30 | 2,874 | 38 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | People almost always go quickly. Whether sure of where they're going or determined to get it over with, they hurry onto the train. Occasionally, someone will linger, waiting for something or someone. They scan the platform, searching. Then, someone, a love, a child, a friend, a parent, a fellow soldier, someone comes. ... | A thousand years down many more to go
In this plain room as white as snow
Its only decoration a door... | 2016-08-14T10:47:35 | 2016-08-14T08:46:44 | 48 | 14 |
[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. | FADE IN:
INT. HALL OF THE GALACTIC COUNCIL - MAIN CHAMBER - DAY
*Beings from hundreds of different species are gathered in an enormous, amphitheater-like space, each of them looking down at a pedestal near the center. A tall, slender humanoid with long limbs and flowing white hair stands there. This is SSAH, a diplom... | Astronaut Jack Wilson sat facing the large conference call screen. Around him on both sides, generals, politicians,
diplomats… too many suits and uniforms to count. All sitting. All facing the screen.
The president stared blankly at Jack. "Are you ready?"
"Yes," Jack said, nervously.
"Brian," the president commande... | 2017-03-30T22:12:39 | 2017-03-30T22:08:06 | 3,735 | 202 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | “Wh-what?” My mother stammered those words as she tripped backwards. Collapsed perhaps, was a better way to phrase it. Thankfully, my father was there to break her fall. However, deep inside a part of me wished he hadn’t been, because now the normally larger than life giant of a mother I had was eye level with me…and I... | "Tuck, we made an appointment for you. Please keep it this time."
I sigh. "Cal, how many times do I have to tell you? Just because I don't want to be a hero, it doesn't mean I want to be a villain. You're not even a family member, how can you make appointments on my behalf?"
Cal smiles. "By pretending to be you?"
"G... | 2022-10-04T19:36:26 | 2022-10-04T11:21:00 | 178 | 107 |
[WP] The peaceful humans are inhabiting a beautiful garden world known as Earth. They love sharing their eco-centric technologies with us. And yet, they are extremely ashamed of their ancient history and refuse to talk about it. You, a xenoarcheologist, are determined to find out why | The galactic federation always turned a blind eye to the small little world called Earth. In the grand scheme of things, inhabitants of the world were considered very weak. Humans, as they are called, are bipedal simian like creatures with an extensive capacity for intelligence. They used their intelligence to build si... | Out of professional curiosity I did some literal digging and found more questions than answers. It appears an extinction level event occured sometime around the 2nd millennia when lined up with the local Earth AD calendar system. After cross referencing the human biological database, a conclusive match of the most abun... | 2022-10-16T10:25:45 | 2022-10-16T09:48:01 | 99 | 35 |
[WP] The local costumed vigilantes coordinate their schedules so everyone has a chance to brood on the really cool lookout point above the city. | On the roof of Smithson Tower, overlooking the foggy expanse of the city below, five dark heroes stood shoulder to shoulder, regarding the east-facing gargoyle. The great bronze beast was one of four that jutted out of the roof of the tower, one facing each cardinal direction.
Though it was slightly pitted with age, ... | "All right, so Bionis has it on Sunday, he's due to fight with one of his minor league villains then, and will most likely feel bad about something." I made a note on the giant calendar I had hanging in my tiny office. Jamming the phone under my ear, I sighed. "And you're sure he'll be out of there before dinner? Only ... | 2022-07-02T10:08:56 | 2022-07-02T07:27:02 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | I came out when the early warning system went off. I have no desire to replace the blast door again. Why can't these assholes just leave me alone? I don't even want to fight them. They never listen, just slapped the villain label on me because of my power.
​
A white streak came over the ocean horizon towar... | It's been three days now since The Red Mysteryman had arrived at my doorstep. At first I had believed he was onto my latest scheme involving a brilliant heist of diamonds that would fuel a new superweapon and I went to greet him in civvie clothes, hoping to make it seem like nothing was wrong, but no...he just collapse... | 2019-08-03T20:47:52 | 2019-08-03T19:48:56 | 1,376 | 831 |
[WP] A thief steals a car only to find a dead body stashed in the trunk with a note that says "Tag, you're it." | "Yes," I told him. "$10,000 to steal that car for me." I'd sent him a photo of the vehicle earlier and told him where to find it.
Sam's gravely voice on the other end was skeptical. "That car ain't even worth 10k." I think his name was Sam, at least. It's hard to keep them all straight.
"Not your concern," I told him... | “The fuck,” I whisper, reading note.
*Tag, you’re it*
It’s tapled to the clothes of the body, written in clear red letters. Possibly blood. Upon closer inspection, definitely blood.
But that isn’t even the weirdest thing. It’s the body it’s attached too. It’s me, or at least looks like it. Same skin tone, build, hai... | 2015-05-15T07:05:55 | 2015-05-15T07:05:26 | 1,151 | 183 |
[WP] Everything is going fine at the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse until Mickey is found dead. Trying to investigate, the gang learns a lot of horrifying things Mickey has been hiding from them. | Minnie found Mickey lying face down in his bedroom late one night. The news shocked all of us, but Pluto was hit the hardest. Poor dog would barely eat for two weeks. Needless to say, we wanted to figure out exactly what had caused the death of our beloved friend, so we began to investigate.
First we checked his room... | The blood pooled around mickeys head, a bloody gash crossing from his pointy nose, across his wide always-smiling mouth to his chin. Poor Minnie Mouse never recovered when she found him. Said she didn’t scream, just lay down next to him.
The clubhouse “moderators” as they were called, reached the scene 2 hours after t... | 2018-01-20T18:56:22 | 2018-01-20T17:32:03 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] A strange-looking man arrives at court with a strange device and challenges the king and his entire guard simultaneously to a duel for control of the kingdom. Scoffing, the king accepts, telling his guards to charge at him. The strange man simply laughs and raises his AK-47. | Time travel had been harder than Charlie expected. When he'd found his way here, their language hadn't made any sense, and he didn't know anything about growing anything, which was apparently all these pathetic primitive excuses for human beings ever did. So he'd had to work in the fields to get enough to eat, until he... | Mike knew he had everyone fooled. One against 20? This was pitiful, and he would surely be obliterated.
As the guards charged, a shot rang out. It pierced the ears of the guards, they felt the sound waves ripple off their skin. They all froze.
No one fell, Mike shot upwards.
"What are you waiting for? KILL HIM!" th... | 2018-11-06T18:39:13 | 2018-11-06T15:19:06 | 133 | 54 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | I can remember the first time I died. A villain by name of The Black Crow grabbed Me and flew fourteen or fifteen feet in air.
"Please don't!" I begged him. He only laughed as he let me go. I remember the feeling of my soul wanting to enter the afterlife but my body wouldn't allow it.
I woke up only to see that I had... | I sit in the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by the corpses of my fallen enemies. I am battered and bruised, but I will not give up. I have fought and died countless times, but each time I come back a little bit stronger.
The other heroes fear me now, and rightly so. I am no longer human, but something else e... | 2022-08-26T11:35:05 | 2022-08-26T06:59:02 | 191 | 100 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | Deep down in secret, I'd always been a selfish person. I was hailed as a hero that night on the rooftop I stopped a girl from jumping to her death. Only she and I know I was only there to jump myself.
Drunk off my ass, I'd stumbled against the heavy metal bar at the top of the stairs. Surprisingly, it'd opened. They ... | I walk out of the eternal drizzle that is London in winter; into the brilliant fluorescence of the hospital. Once my eyes adjust to the light I round the oval reception desk giving the nurse a polite smile of suffering as she took in my drenched clothes. I call the lift down when the disconcerting thud hits my chest, p... | 2017-08-07T09:57:07 | 2017-08-07T09:16:02 | 93 | 44 |
[WP] in your world it's a fact if life that legends never die. Why you saw Julius at the bar once and bought him a beer in exchange for a selfie. You've suddenly found you can't die yourself but for the life of you, you can't figure out what you did that made you a legend. | There was something different about the immortals. They walked with an extra regalness in their steps. There was no hesitation in any movement. Power behind every word.
“A Cosmopolitan, please,” Julius Caesar said to the bartender, who nodded in awe.
He was as imposing as the legends told. He at once sat with the lit... | "Hey Julius, what's up?"
"Oh hi, long time no see! Wanna grab a coffee?"
"Sure!"
You both order, and sit down. As usual, you have 1 sugar and 1 cream. Julius has some sort of seasonal drink.
"So how's life been recently?" Julius asks. "It's been pretty good! I actually was hoping to run into you, I want... | 2022-04-20T08:37:20 | 2022-04-20T07:47:04 | 440 | 114 |
[WP] You have been striving for years to commit the elusive “Perfect Crime” for the fame of it. You steal the Mona Lisa and replace it with a fake. You leave a taunting note and wait for the panic when it is discovered. But, 2 years later, no one has noticed. | Each day without an answer was another one spent in agony. I could feel Mona Lisa, carefully wrapped, sealed, and hidden, smiling at me. That cool, coy smile. The kind of smile you'd make watching a kid drop their ice cream on the sidewalk.
It had been five days since I'd broken and emailed the Louvre.
"Dear Louvre... | I wrote a note and planted a seed.
I left it where a trained eye would be.
But even still years have passed
No one has noticed behind its thick glass
With precise skill to fool the best
I replaced her image with something less.
Mona Lisa your smile is not your own
It belongs here, safe in my home
Hanging in sig... | 2018-04-18T21:04:53 | 2018-04-18T19:44:08 | 509 | 35 |
[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... | The ship seemed to cascade against the forest's night sky, an oddly shaped lump of red metal against the inky black void and dark trees cradling the world as the ship slowly floated downward. It touched down with the mighty grinding of metal and the weight of not just the alien world's gravitational force, but by the s... | 2020-03-02T07:54:05 | 2020-03-02T05:55:32 | 100 | 50 |
[WP] The message from the stars, it contained plans for all manner of advanced technologies, FTL, unlimited power and more, but ended with a warning. "You are the last. Survive for all of us. We are sorry for this burden." | The day we first detected it, it was at the inner boundary of the Oort cloud, roughly 200 billion miles away. It arrived within the week, defying all established order of contemporary physics. The scientific community was in uproar. And why wouldn't it be? Frankly speaking, the universe itself should have collapsed aro... | The fires began a hundred years ago and there was no way to put them out. The skies have turned black. The greenery of our great grandparents is long gone, just a myth now and death is only what remains. The planet is dying. We can feel it’s death rattle in the daily quakes which drops the vast forests of dead trees. W... | 2020-12-31T23:17:58 | 2020-12-31T21:12:33 | 1,212 | 112 |
[WP] Aliens: Wow, it’s been a while since we last visited.You seem advanced but not rea-WHOAH, WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE TO WOLVES!? | The raid was successful! We got out of Area 51 with our cool new weaponry and games, and my new alien friend wanted to be my roommate. I showed him my house and he seems exited to live here. At that moment, Tofu, My Shiba Inu, starts sniffing his leg.
My alien buddy freaks out at first, but then he takes a closer loo... | Oh...
The furry community........ uh...... just ignore them. Yeah this place is a shitshow. People don’t vaccinate, people think climate change is a joke, the permafrost is releasing ancient diseases, Japan is still making tentacle garbage, and the USA has had multiple shootings this year and the Media is blaming it on... | 2019-08-07T23:08:15 | 2019-08-07T19:57:20 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | "Hi... honey. You're home early! Uh, how was the office?"
I blinked. Miranda was still wearing the bottom half of the Miragemancer's combat robes. Miragemancer, who just two hours ago was juggling me between two of her illusion clones in a four-person keep-upsises game that wouldn't have been out of place in a Smash B... | The silence was palpable, almost freezing me in the position I'd held upon pushing open the bedroom door. "Thunder...Knuckle?" I said, confused. To the population at large the villainous scourge lacked a name, only identifiable by the crackles and roars which followed a city or two being leveled by an unknown force. In... | 2020-10-30T11:58:10 | 2020-10-30T11:49:13 | 1,069 | 83 |
[WP] Once feared and worshipped for their unlimited eldrich power, cats now lay powerless with humans, giving up power for comfort. Your cat just bumped it's head and released the power held within. Your cat isn't any smarter though, so now your cat is using its ancient power to do cat things. | If you've ever thought cats needed tentacles, you'd be wrong. Especially the kind that seem to multiply endlessly and come out of nowhere and telescope out to knock your keys off of the end table. I can't leave anything on the edge of any flat surface, no matter how high up the surface is. Once my cat's eyes focus on w... | “What the fuck?!”
I had just gotten back from another Friday at the office. The boss was frustrated about how the project was going to take another week, because the customer decided that the software they wanted needs to run on their decade-old machines, but didn’t tell us that until 5 pm today. Naturally, I’m also a... | 2019-02-05T09:55:27 | 2019-02-05T09:33:16 | 116 | 42 |
[WP] To keep pace with the growing population, the role of Death has been divided; each immortal member of the new Council oversees one specific method of death, with higher ranking members governing common ways to die. A problem has arisen, and the entire Council is called together... | "Shit the *whole* council?" Said Stabbed In The Heart With A Machete.
"Yep, some serious shit went down. We better hurry." Replied Stung By Hornets.
As they hurried to the meeting they wondered exactly what was going on. A full council meeting has never been called before, usually it was just the big ten lead by Hea... | "Do we take him?" quizzed the council chairman. "He isn't dead." announced the lord high ruler of hell. "But he did die.." The emperor of life reminded them. "Look, this really should be the legion of reincarnations department.." said a voice from the back. Another voice rang out, "But the deceased disn't believw in re... | 2014-08-05T23:23:31 | 2014-08-05T18:50:47 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Too late to stop them, the heroes watch helplessly as the cultists summon their eldritch god. Out comes a thin accountant with a pocket protector who says “can we make this quick? I’ve got a meeting in twenty minutes”. | “Didn’t anybody hear me? I only got nineteen minutes left, now.” Everyone was frozen from the shock but the youngest member of the cultists managed to articulate a few syllables before silence dropped again: “Wh- who are you?”, “Not Cthulhu obviously, but one of his.. representatives.” the accountant replied with unde... | “What?” Says the silver hero.
“I asked if we can make this quick,” says the god “I have a meeting soon and if I miss another one I could be fired”
“who exactly are you?” Says the hero
“I’m Daniel, what do you want?”
He turns to the cultists, “And you, I thought that I told you idiots not to summon me o... | 2020-02-03T12:01:16 | 2020-02-03T09:36:17 | 31 | 15 |
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