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[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | "I don't get paid enough to do this," I grumbled, as my boss waved his wand, transforming me from a pony back into a normal human.
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My name is Bergamot Butters, and I am a magic bug tester. When I was still an ordinary software developer, I chanced upon something amazing. Something that would change ... | "Sir, you will not regret this. I swear." Miffle entered my quarters with a bound. The sweet smile in his eyes twittered with anticipation. Miffle's dreams of commanding a prestigious estate in the annals of spellmen's history ever lead his way.
"I see you think you've got something quite exceptional this time, Miff... | 2017-07-25T23:25:51 | 2017-07-25T20:43:49 | 1,655 | 32 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | "Aaaaaauuugh!" Rang out Fuerbors' agonized scream, "Gwaaah! Urrrrrgha! Hooooooow!" He raved on. Harold Barlett the first human Ambassador to the human race was on his knees next to Fuerbor the Ambassador to the polflongs' a race of blue/green squid-esque people.
"Ambassador Fuerbor? What's wrong?! Someone get him med... | Accariz, the diplomatic of the Azara species, went down sudenly when he was talking to the human.
His screams fill the circular chamber completly. The noise of the hundreds of conversations stopped sudenly, and the AI responsible for security started to search for threads, but fail.
Accariz was screaming in the groun... | 2019-09-29T18:06:35 | 2019-09-29T17:13:42 | 119 | 65 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | “They say they’re as fast as a Snuqial.” the Private said, trying to hide his increased level of anxiety.
“Have you ever hunted Sunqial? ‘Cuz if you had you’d know a Human would smoke a Sunqial. Run them both from here to Tyrawon and the Human will be back a full DAY before the Sunqial!”
The Lieutenant was hiding hi... | Professor Kalinov adjusted the HD cam in front of him and straightened his white coat. He looked down at his notes, found his starting line, and then spoke, "Even the wittiest tongue is wasted on deaf ears. Much like our search for aliens these last few millennia."
He cleared his throat and then continued, "They said... | 2016-08-22T19:10:46 | 2016-08-22T18:24:28 | 696 | 90 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | Heroes are people too, I think most of us forget that. Behind all the cheesy smiles, the bright colours or black leathers, it’s so easy to forget that there’s a human being under there. We all get to feel safe, comfortable even, knowing that there’s someone out there looking over us like a kindly god, ready to extend a... | "I'm sorry to say this, but your product just isn't good enough, I'm out-"
I was very happily watching Shark Tank when a brilliant light shines in from the balcony. Thomas was home I guess.
"Hey Toby, could you turn your power off for god's sake?" I shout, "I'm watching something here."
"Yeah, yeah, Sorry," comes ... | 2016-03-23T22:50:10 | 2016-03-23T21:51:39 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You've had an imaginary friend for longer than most. On the day of your 16th birthday your imaginary friend wakes you up. When you ask what's wrong he says "I can't talk to you anymore, you're not real." | It's a world where everyone had an imaginary friend at one point. Children without imaginary friends were considered abnormal and therefore needed therapy, they're called 'Struggling without IF.' These imaginary friends eventually fade away at the end of adolescence, and if they lingered for a long time then they neede... | "Hold on, hold on, hold on, you're telling me that it's the other way around?" I said to Tim. "What other way around?" He replied. "I thought you were the imaginary friend." I replied back.
Tim's face tells me he is confused about the situation.
"Look, I can't talk to you anymore, alright? You may never see me again... | 2020-10-31T04:45:04 | 2020-10-30T20:44:29 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] For millions of years, robots have evolved from tiny, unaware programmatic errors in the code of the universe to a civilized sentient society. To perform menial tasks, the lead scientist creates and engineers the first carbon-based life form known as a Human. | "Strange don't you think?"
"What is?"
An engineer stood leaning over a workbench covered in bits of machinery, a spotlight illuminating a soft pulsing device. He was holding a small tube of adhesive in hand. His friend continued from behind him, leaning on a cluttered desk.
"That we here are acting very much in defi... | When they first introduced the idea of an organic life form being developed most of the council scoffed at the idea. Their current planet was only inhabitable to machines like themselves. This caused them to name the project " the arsenic doll" due to the abundance of the material in their region.
The jokes made no di... | 2013-11-24T16:51:00 | 2013-11-24T14:13:16 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] With as much confidence as you can muster, you plant your feet, gaze up at the sky, and cry out a simple command to the expanse above with all your might: “SHOW YOURSELF!!!” After a moment, a calm voice echos from the heavens in reply with a simple question: “Why?” | "Why?"
I froze. It.... had answered? God(s)(ess(s))? I don't know. Something called back to me, it's voice seemed to fill the world and at the same time was quieter than a whisper. I don't know how long I stood there waiting, before I heard a sigh. A sigh long and slow and tired, like the breeze after filtering throug... | Yu Ping held the woman in his arms as she took her last breath. She was his daughter, who had been fatally injured in the aftermath between his and the insect demon Gu Shen's fight. The demon was dead and gone, but his Demon Qi was ravaging the woman's body and eroding it from the inside, and there was nothing Yu Ping ... | 2022-10-19T01:53:23 | 2022-10-18T21:47:13 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] You are an air traffic controller trapped in a time loop to prevent a plane crash from happening. Its been nearly 10 years and you still haven't figured it out. | Five minutes. That's all I have. Just five brief minutes to save one hundred and twenty three lives.
You would be amazed what can be done in five minutes. Brush your teeth. Read a short story. Make love. You can achieve anything in five minutes.
Except land a fucking plane, apparently.
The fuselage is still rolling... | December 30, 1998
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It was a dim night. Closing time. Like any other night, everyone prepared to go home. But not me. Not tonight.
Looking at my watch, the time was 8:55 in the evening. Station controllers were shutting down. Most of the data traffic was passed on to the other station 30 km away from here... | 2020-07-16T10:49:16 | 2020-07-16T08:25:36 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants were the most beautiful thing ever. They started off small, insignificant, just a little seed in the huge world. But with time and care they grew from a little shoot, larger and larger until they bloomed, bright and full of life with thousands of different colours and patterns. I suppose I liked them for they sy... | Swords. Their metal sings, a testimony to their maker. Coin. It jingles temptingly, a way of speaking their handler may know. But even with a forest of swords, and an ocean of gold, it is all for naught. For when there is no animals, no fruit, and not even a single stubborn strand of grass resisting the earth's embrace... | 2021-09-09T21:25:01 | 2021-09-09T20:52:32 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] Everyone can do magic. Everyone except you, that is. Your aunt and uncle have always made fun of you for not being able to do magic, until one day you received a letter inviting you to a school of "science", and you discovered a secret society of people who make great things without magic. | Everyone knows how fresh rainwater, combined with baby's breath (the flower, not the gas) serves as a magical amplifier. Everyone knows that the water needs to be fresh--anything longer than a day or two reduces the potency of the brew. Everyone knows that freshly-picked flowers are best, even though you might get away... | Geoff was with two other students he met at the robot fight: Lauren and Jonathan. Jonathan was talking about how he wanted to create a machine that would send out signals to interfere with magic. Their plan was that Lauren would build the machine, and Jonathan would write the program to do this. Geoff asked what Jonath... | 2021-05-27T21:37:45 | 2021-05-27T18:36:00 | 1,771 | 118 |
[WP] A serial killer decides to murder a bunch of teens in a cabin in the woods. However these 'teens' have just returned from a magical journey thousands of years long and have dealt with much worse. | The sound of innocent laughter drifted through the woods. It sounded like teenagers on their first unsupervised trip. Their first taste of freedom and the liberating calm of nature.
It made my blood boil. This forest was *mine*, and they were ruining it.
I’m a logical person. I know I couldn’t storm up and demand the... | His face against the window pressed
As from a wardrobe they coalesced
The would-be killer licked his lips
About to slay four teenage-kids
He stroked his knife against his palm
And told his heart to *just. stay. calm*.
Around the house he crept that night
About to give four kids a fright
He found a window ... | 2020-03-14T08:03:57 | 2020-03-14T07:58:35 | 2,994 | 73 |
[WP] You wake up in a dirty back alley after a blackout. There is a stiched wound on your side. Deciding to check out at the doctor how many kidneys you have left, you are surprised - not only the both are left intact, but now there is a new organ in your body. | I realized pretty quickly that something was off. Everything smelled terrible. Hell, *I* smelled terrible. Definitely some vomit, I remembered where that came from. (Damned cheap vodka.) Hopefully the urine smell was the alley, and not me.
When I tried to roll over and stand up, I could feel the stretched stitches on... | Ok I definitely have 8 new diseases now. What the fuck is this scar? Jagged, raised, and still stinging like a bitch. Why would anyone even want my kidney?
Warm brown liquor swirling down my throat. At least they didn't take my flask. Doctor commented that I look a little sloshy. Prick. Never would last a day in my ... | 2017-09-11T21:17:48 | 2017-09-11T17:25:03 | 82 | 27 |
[WP] You wake up one day and find you are now a sentient cake. You cannot decompose, and all that consume you fall under your control.
What kind of cake are you? How do you achieve world dominance?
Update: Posted this before going to bed, needless to say I awoke impressed.
I used to annoy my desk partner and ask him... | As Greg Samson awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic cake.
This was a surprise to Greg, who had not fallen asleep with any intention of waking up as a cake. He would have blinked, had he eyes. But he didn't. Of course he didn't. He was a *cake.*
He couldn't m... | Wow! I guess I slept well last night. Had to be at least nine hours, right? Whatever. Got to be bright outside by now, gonna open my eyes slowly...
WAIT. What? My eyes won't shut. In fact, I'm having trouble feeling any eyelids at all. That's really, really strange. I don't feel like my eyes are forced shut. I wonder ... | 2022-04-18T20:52:47 | 2015-04-10T18:43:35 | 771 | 44 |
[WP] Humans died a long time ago. But our AI live on as caretakers for the planet; becoming spirit-like constructs integrated into the planet; today, alien colonizers arrived to what they thought was a garden world. The Fey Machines are having none of that. | Every worker on the planet received the message instantly after the Europa outpost detected and confirmed the signal.
*Intruders have jumped into the system 563,000 kilometers from Earth. Engage defensive measures*.
As one, the entire population of Earth seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving behind little more tha... | An enormous factory towers above an electric city of the distant future. Flat-screen billboards line prism-shaped buildings, hovering mechanical devices whirl and float throughout the streets-- meaningless, aimless. There is no flesh in sight, only advanced electrical and mechanical objects.
This factory is stagnant, ... | 2020-05-22T18:51:06 | 2020-05-22T16:40:34 | 325 | 47 |
[WP] You accidently discharge your firearm into the television. Much to your surprise, instead of shattering the glass, it passes right through and hits one of the characters on screen. | "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"
In what I mistook to be a serendipitous coincidence, a small band of my favourite, minimalistically-drawn cartoon characters stared, slack-jawed and wide-eyed, in my direction through the television screen.
It had been a melancholy day. He had left in the night, having taken nothing w... | Looking back, it always seemed to me that people asked the wrong questions. The lawyers, the scientists, the police, the media, and the cable company always wanted to know how I shot someone through a television. When they should have been asking: why did I have a shotgun on my lap one Tuesday afternoon?
I do not kn... | 2016-09-07T10:40:27 | 2016-09-07T08:40:07 | 107 | 72 |
[WP] Small utopian societies exist, scattered in isolated parts of the world. You discover one at the top of a mountain but they violently reject you. Your curiosity drives you to infiltrate the gated city | The dried sewage stinks under the high altitude sun. I reckon the pipe to be between uses; if I'm quick enough, I can climb up before fresh waste flows down. Yet I wonder: is it worth it? Clambering up a foul drain just to get inside? Well, only one way to find out. I place a hand on each side of the pipe and haul up m... | Everyone knows these places exist in theory. Small towns, villages here and there set up with minimal outside interaction and as much self sustaining as can be done on a couple of fields usually. There was the story of an old cruise ship set to sail on its people's waste but even that, in its biggest rumours, was not a... | 2022-07-03T19:08:30 | 2022-07-03T19:03:22 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | The first planet we landed on was unlike anything we'd ever seen before. The ground was hard and purple, and the sky was a vibrant red. Their days were many weeks long, and the planet had rings. But what was most interesting were its inhabitants. They were long, with flowing limbs and something that resembled eyes. Far... | The Ship called the Jethroll Tow sat adrift in the inky blackness of interstellar space , and in it sat Chris Kirkland wearing a old peterbuilt trucker cap and a shirt calling back to a 70’s slogan Earth first we’ll strip mine the other planets later.
Well here we are.
He chuckled” it’s later.” Chris jammed his finger... | 2019-01-18T09:06:41 | 2019-01-18T06:19:16 | 310 | 139 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "Alright, Mr. Johnson," the warden had begun six months ago, easing back in his leather chair. "What is your last request?"
I had spent years in prison as court proceedings dragged on, the final result being my guilty verdict and subsequent sentencing to death. I had spent years researching my way free, only to realiz... | The trick was to find the loophole.
The Alien-egg Omelette was just two Century-Eggs blended, added to milk, and re-fried.
Dragon Steak? Wagyu beef drowned in hot-sauce and cooked sous-vide.
The Flesh of Jesus Christ? Communion Wafers.
The Executioners were akin to djinnies, twisting the last request and presenting... | 2022-07-17T15:51:37 | 2022-07-17T15:22:32 | 1,563 | 1,032 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Yeah yeah, I know. I'm no Superman or Batman. I'm not particularly flashy like Catwoman, or that gearhead Iron Man. I have no sex appeal, no super human strength nor that undying desire to do good. I didn't choose my power, none of us do. We're all equals before the reckoning power of the Initiation Day.
And yet, I se... | Captured again! What was this? Like, the 5th time? I wasn't going to get off so easy this time. The last time I got caught was when I rolled a casino. I should explain. I have a useless, "not-so" special ability. I have the ability to control probability. At first, I would use it for my personal gain. It started in hig... | 2015-04-12T18:48:32 | 2015-04-12T18:46:16 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] You wake up in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Unfortunately for you, you quickly discover every major religion in this world contains humans in some way, shape, or form | Some had different thoughts of me. The birds adored me. They didn’t think of me as a god- they didn’t have any gods- but rather as a spirit. One of freedom and journeying. A nomad who travels not by the air, but by foot. They viewed me as a force of nature, and like other forces of nature, I should not be tampered with... | I am a god.
Growing up I always hated going to church. I hated the idea of worshipping a higher being. Like, maybe there is a higher being or creator, but how egotistical does he have to be do demand worship?
I finally understand.
I wasn't born a god way, of course, I was some nobody from Kansas who sat at a compute... | 2022-04-03T01:52:21 | 2022-04-03T00:28:46 | 816 | 43 |
[WP] A professor stands in front of a class on the first day of term for “Time Travel 101” and explains why no one is allowed to go to Steven Hawking’s party. | "Forgive me for asking professor, but why? The *Codex Vetiti Temporis* lists certain key events that cannot be tampered with, because they would affect the time and space continuum. What is it about that party that so strongly affects the future?"
The professor leaned forward, letting out a slow sigh, his tired exp... | "It's not that no one is allowed to go, but before you travel you need to know something about Steven Hawking. He is, to put it simply, a huge, raging asshole. I would not want to spend five minutes with the man, much less a whole party. And that's me speaking as man. If you're a woman, forget it. He's ... trust me, to... | 2022-09-24T20:19:44 | 2022-09-24T15:18:22 | 421 | 190 |
[WP] Time travelers have become such a nuisance that governments have begun recording fake historical events that lead time travelers to areas where they can be arrested. You're a bartender at one of these artificial towns, trying to determine if the customer in front of you is from the future. | Something was up with that guy. Marian knew it.
“So, like, is it usually this busy at this time?” he said, looking around, nervous.
“Pretty much,” she replied, as she dried the glasses like a bartender in a 1940s film noir. She was not a
great actor.
He took another scan around. On the edge. Nervous. “Anything… in... | The man walked in and gazed upon the almost empty bar. He was wearing a button-up white shirt, his hair was slicked to the side, and he had glasses on. He had on a dark brown blazer and he smiled as he walked up to me. The man looked familiar and it gave me an uneasy feeling as I wiped the counter with a dirty rag.
“S... | 2021-01-16T10:09:46 | 2021-01-16T09:21:41 | 3,201 | 416 |
[WP] There is a tradition that before making a wish to a genie, you have to ban 1 available wish he can make. It started out pretty simple, no more great wealth or no more infinite powers, etc. But after hundreds of thousands of owners, the list wishes the genie can fulfil is running thin. | The genie flipped the book closed, staring down at his open mouthed new owner.
"So... yeah. Anything but all of those." He said after a silent minute.
The owner, a short bespectacled woman shook her head. "This is not what I signed up for when I went to polish that lamp." She motioned to his lamp where it sat on an a... | I was sitting back, stunned. The golden lamp waved in the air and then settled back down, landing on the floor right in front of me.
I had purchased it from an antiques store, cliched I know, but this is how it happened. I was rubbing it to try and find how to... I don't know, I don't really know why I was rubbing ... | 2020-08-24T11:55:37 | 2020-08-24T11:29:36 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes | "Mother, Father, look! I've captured my first royal!"
Iorskan, glittering green and barely the size of a horse, excitedly herded his disgruntled prey into the family cave. He bounded around the human and wagged his tail like a sheepdog, looking up at his parents for approval.
Iorskan's parents, who were the size of l... | "Mom," said the Young Gay Dragon, "Dad. I see you've noticed that I've only been kidnapping princes."
"Yes we have, son," replied the Young Gay Dragon's Old Straight Father Dragon somberly.
"I can explain myself. You see, I only kidnap princes because they fetch larger ransoms from their rich, royal dads. As a drago... | 2018-05-03T20:29:28 | 2018-05-03T19:03:43 | 40 | 22 |
[WP] Two depressed, suicidal people meet at the same bridge they plan to jump from. One begins to convince the other not to do it. | The early morning light slowly filtered through the clouds, illuminating the bridge below. The light hit both their faces, creating an eerie, surreal glow. They both stared at the distant water below.
She hovered her foot over the edge, trying to loosen her grip, trying to will herself down. He sat on the ledge near ... | The second car came to a stop on the side of the bridge. A man in a slightly creased brown suit stepped out of the vehicle. His hair was slightly too long and fell over his ears, and he probably could have shaved that morning but decided against it. The top button of his shirt was undone, and his shoes were scuffed. De... | 2017-06-18T18:30:51 | 2017-06-18T17:52:52 | 167 | 35 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | This chair. This fake leather chair, it has been my bed, my room, my home for six years. Every crack and crease in it were familiar to me, I could tell exactly how it looked from memory alone. The beeping has been my only constant companion, a slow metronome beating to the sound of a fading heart. Six years, so much ha... | (Seeing a lot of people post romanticized stories of people waking up from a coma. Figured I would tell a more realistic tale.)
It was a day just like every other day. I woke up, did my morning routine, went to work, and then came back to the hospital. I practically lived there now.
Two thousand, two hundred and twe... | 2017-08-02T06:54:44 | 2017-08-02T06:52:23 | 120 | 42 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "Good Lord this game is complicated", Daniel thought to himself. "It's so realistic... I mean you could go to a bar and play bar games, or you can walk around and do nothing. Who would enjoy this? Why not just live a normal *real* life? Welp, whatever. I have better things to do."
Daniel powered off his son's PlaySta... | *Huh? where am I?* Having just regained my vision I began to look around. *An elevator? What the hell am I doing in an elevator? More importantly HOW the hell did I get here? And who are these four men? Are they wearing bullet proof vests? AM I WEARING A BULLET PROOF VEST!? HOLY SHIT I HAVE A MACHINE GUN!*
"S nami Bog... | 2015-05-08T06:02:17 | 2015-05-08T02:33:00 | 61 | 18 |
[WP] You see a spider run across the floor and run under a couch cushion. you lift up the cushion and see the spider along with a $20 bill and a note saying "Rent Money" | The spider was big and black. It scurried under a couch cushion. Andrés, not wanting to be woke in the middle of night by the spider, lifted the cushion. He could see his reflection of awe in all eight eyes. The spider sat next to a crisp $20 bill. In thin webs, it wrote "Rent Money."
Few people lived on the island o... | Alison's heart missed a beat when she saw the large hairy spider run across the floor. She tried stomping on it before it could hide, lurking to bite her when she was least expecting it. Maybe that wasn't true, but spiders terrified her ever since her friend had been bitten by a brown recluse. Luckily they were able to... | 2022-02-06T23:14:13 | 2022-02-06T21:54:00 | 345 | 54 |
[WP] You've succesfully taught a crow to speak English. In return, it taught you to how to understand Crowspeak. What you've been hearing lately, has you very afraid. | "The food here is good. It reminds me of the sea just a little"
"Yes, I remember. The french fries and hot dogs and the salt in the air. It was wonderful."
"I was actually planning to go in a couple months too."
"Shame."
"I know, though I'm happy to have some fries at least one more time. Though I wish I could've g... | Caw! Caw! Caw!
The sound is a constant shrill, piercing the evening air from the branches of every tree along my path home, drowning out any other sound that might carry through the summer sky. I wish now, more than anything in my life, I had never tried to understand what they’re saying. I look like a freak, a lunati... | 2022-02-17T20:02:48 | 2022-02-17T18:43:48 | 533 | 70 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | I'd died already.
I look around. I'm in a small rundown apartment. It smells. It's too small. It's too big. It's...empty. There is cracking plaster where my legendary swords are supposed to be. A small TV where my Mythic Artifacts are supposed to be displayed.
An empty chair where Maria should be.
I think I'd alw... | My character in the game, John paused hus game and finally looked up. He was a game character designed by me to look like me. I had spent a lot of money buying every expansion that came out. My house, my room, my stuff, they were all exactly the same as what I had in real life. I had been making my character 'John' pla... | 2018-02-19T08:24:17 | 2018-02-19T07:06:50 | 857 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a world where karma is real and where you get what you deserve. The thing is that you want to be the ruler of the world, so you decide to become the nicest person on earth. | Daniel sat patiently in the waiting room of the KARM4 Initiative office, looking at the large poster on the wall opposite him. The words “EVERYONE GETS WHAT THEY DESERVE” were printed in bright blue letters underneath a picture of a smiling couple enjoying a glass of wine on a beach at sunset. Daniel noticed how brilli... | It had been an awful amount of time since I started this project. I went out of my way to help other people, help my family, helping generally. I worked hard, spent my money to charity, helped out where I could.
And now it would be time to get my karma reward back. I was asked to take a seat and I nodded nicely whils... | 2021-12-01T13:59:13 | 2021-12-01T09:30:07 | 48 | 13 |
[WP] "Damn you Hero! I will get my revenge" those were the last words before your arch nemesis ran away, 5 years have passed and she still hasn't returned, you retired, got married and now have a lovely wife and kids. But one day while checking the basement you find the costume of your arch nemesis | As I pull into the driveway, the headlights illuminate a green sleeve with a black glove attached to the end. It's draped over the edge of a trashcan.
I sigh. A smarter man might have seen this coming and picked up some flowers on the way home. At times like these, I really wish precognition was one of my superpowers.... | Kacy Amman was naked somewhere in Ria's house – this was the second thing that occurred to her upon seeing the costume of her former nemesis hanging limply from a metal rod in the basement. The first thing that occurred to Ria was *fuck*, which in all honesty was just the sound her mouth made when her brain realized se... | 2020-12-28T06:10:04 | 2020-12-28T05:35:20 | 266 | 63 |
[WP] A moon sized battlestation approches the Earth and destruction seems inevitable. Only Disneys very thorough copyright lawyers stand between humanity and its doom. | *The Walt Disney Co. v. Glaksmar Death Cannon,* 120 F.5d 1 (S.D.N.Y. 2021)
**Opinion & Order**
This case concerns a motion for preliminary injunction brought by The Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) against the Glaksmar Death Cannon (“Death Cannon”) for infringement on two franchises: Star Wars and Mickey Mouse &... | \[inspired by Tom Scott's Earworm video\]
Human lawyers had been gradually outsourcing more and more of their work to algorithms for decades—the deterministic, clean-cut nature of large swathes of the legal system meant that artificial intelligence had a particularly easy time handling the bloated, backlogged courts o... | 2021-03-22T18:08:03 | 2021-03-22T16:54:02 | 104 | 36 |
[WP] The Sol system was an experiment by aliens to determine if life would evolve under hyper hostile physics. Unfortunately, it was forgotten about. Years later, humans are leaving the solar system, only to discover that upon passing an invisible barrier, they essentially gain superpowers. | Lushaika woke up to the scent of a pheromone package pumped in through the ships air vents, one spiced with uncertainty and concern. Unwinding her eight segmented body from her sleep perch she blearily groomed her antenna with one of her four three fingered grasping limbs and rotated her mandibles before slowly trudgin... | I am pressed up against the thera-mutatic glass when I wake up. My arm is sore and bleeding from where the IV line ripped out upon what I assume was a crash landing. Assumed so because I am no longer cocooned in the hyper-sleep bed my parents had tucked me into. In fact everything is sideways and I have to crawl al... | 2018-11-12T22:43:34 | 2018-11-12T22:41:57 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] Just the other day you could have sworn you saw a hole get torn into reality with a horrific eldritch abomination crawling out at the local McDonalds, which handed a few notes over, asked for "the usual" and returned to the screaming Void from whence it came with a big mac meal | “Um...did anybody just see that?” I ask, wide-eyed in disbelief.
“See what?”, the server asked, looking up at me.
I told her what I had just seen. She shrugged and looked back at her screen.
“We don’t discriminate between any paying customers, Sir.”
“Bu-what?! That was a monster! An abomination from the depths o... | His fist slams aggressively into the steering wheel before he turns to you, rage in his eyes.
“Damn it, we have talked about this. This is getting out of control!”
“...but Dad” you stammer.
“No buts! You know that was just Mrs. Fushainari, you can’t keep referring to her as some kind of monster. We see her every tim... | 2021-04-18T06:54:55 | 2021-04-18T06:50:20 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | The compound guards, both organic and mechanical watched over the desert, bracing themselves against the raging sandstorm. Suddenly, over the howling winds they hear a faint sound, growing in volume rapidly.
*Doo Doo ^Doo ^Doo ^^Doo ^^Doo ^Doo ^Doo Doo Doo ^Doo ^Doo ^^Doo ^^Doo ^Doo ^Doo*
The front gate is blown to p... | Tank Trap Rap:
Forged to kill, I create chaos in battle,
I move and shoot, crush with a rattle.
The enemy can't penetrate me with no RPG,
They'll soon lie halved and dead, they've yet to see.
Just 'cuz I'm an AI am I supposed to stop,
Hell, no, I destroy motherfuckers with a bang and a pop.
I'm a tank, fools, ... | 2018-03-28T13:14:35 | 2018-03-28T11:29:06 | 89 | 47 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | "DUUUUUDE! YOU'RE BACK! I'm so happy to see you! Hey! Hey! Hey! Dude! Hey!"
"Yeah Bode, I see you too." I replied and knelt down to give him a big hug.
Of all the dogs I'd known, Bode was the friendliest, but also the stupidest. He's my third dog, and yeah, I love him, but he's an idiot. Sometimes his constant yammer... | *The sound of thunder rattled in my chest. The trees cast shadows across my bedroom floor, swaying in the wind and jumping at every flash of lightning. I could swear they were reaching hands, getting closer and closer to my bed. An explosion of lightning hit the transformer in front of my house and my Winnie the Pooh n... | 2015-03-07T02:05:06 | 2015-03-07T00:50:42 | 109 | 23 |
[WP] The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assasination attemps by well meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveller doesn't want to kill Hitler, he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross. | Hitler was having a piece of banana cake when Bob Ross walked in.
"And I just feel like no one *gets* me, you know?" The future Fuhrer was saying to one of his servants, as he
sprayed whipped cream over the cake, distracted. "I mean, I know most artists are destined to be posthumous,
but… I don't know, I guess I wan... | The paint ran down the canvas, slowly trailing through the empty blank sheet as a deep sigh escaped my mouth. My lip quivered as I stood silently alone my modest and small room. I had been up for 3 days and the stench of stale coffee, dirty pastille paints and unlaundered clothes filled the room. A little tap echoed fr... | 2022-01-20T15:15:35 | 2017-02-16T17:37:01 | 8,573 | 16 |
[WP] A child is kidnapped. Outraged, the monsters living under the bed and in their closet vow to find them. | The man opened his eyes groggily. He was facing a ceiling, painted with a vivid depiction of the night sky and fan with a smiley face on it turning lazily. As he goes to move he feels his restraints. He looks down to find himself roped to a rather small chair. As he gathers more of his surroundings he feels the familia... | "Calling all residents of Jack's bedroom!" a voice boomed.
The closet shook, and out stepped a towering, three-eyed, pink-skinned monster. "You woke me up," he complained, stepping forward... in Jack's light-up sneakers. "Oh, uh, I was just making sure these things still work for Jack. Yeah."
The carpet rippled, and ... | 2017-11-26T13:53:16 | 2017-11-26T13:30:26 | 241 | 97 |
[WP] You are an elder god taking a vacation on Earth when aliens invade. You teleport to their capital ship and explain them that if they don't leave you will wipe out their entire species with a single thought. They dont believe you so you wipe out 10% of them to show you're serious. | "Do you believe me *now?*" I asked, my tone gloating but with a note of malevolence dripping from every word.
The insectoid alien-leader looked at a holographic display before him and then back at me. "What do you mean?"
I blinked and looked at the display. "Wait what do *you* mean? I just destroyed 10% of your spec... | Even the most awful and ancient eldritch *things* out there floating from speck of plasma to speck of plasma enacting unknowable machinations get burnt out sometimes. When forever doesn't describe half of your lifespan, and you're old already, sometimes you just want a nice break.
At least that's what *It* told itself... | 2021-05-04T17:02:59 | 2021-05-04T13:57:35 | 2,555 | 298 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6b55yn/the_weight_of_a_hero_part_2/) | [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6b5hy0/the_weight_of_a_hero_part_3/) | [Part 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6b61h1/the_weight_of_a_hero_part_4/) | [Part 5](https://www.reddit.com/r/jray... | Barack smiled when he saw it. This was the sort of sense of humour Sasha had when she was a kid. She wasn't a kid anymore, a fact he had come to find out the difficult way. He had been on the business end of an angsty rant from her earlier that afternoon.
Maybe this was the way she was going to make it up to him, by ... | 2022-06-24T19:04:50 | 2017-05-14T10:21:11 | 3,481 | 27 |
[WP] You are forced to take a genies place, and can only be freed once you have granted 10 wishes. The catch: You have no magic in any way. | *A simple enough request*, I think to myself as I scan the overflowing cabinets before me, silver stopper in hand. In the other, I hold a small, transparent rod. Four inches, sturdy- one best suited for the intricate task in front of me. My gaze flickers over the shelves, pausing here and there as I crook my neck this ... | I was left out in this island. I don't know how I got here but the last time I was able to blink I remember I was in a meeting of genies and their boss told me that 'I am the new one' and I have to grant at least 10 wishes to get back to delivering pizza again. And although I hated my job it was more preferable than th... | 2015-04-20T10:44:50 | 2015-04-20T08:44:45 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | (Inspired by an old post of 'why humans would be terrifying to alien life')
**Memo To Management:**
As you all know, a new species is attempting to join the federation. While we welcome our Human brethren to the federation with open arms, I would like to take some time to remind everyone that splinter-factions and pe... |
When humans reached the final frontier, we realized we weren’t alone quickly. We saw planets and species disappear in a matter of weeks after discovery. The weapons they used were much more advanced then ours, and we thought that we were the under dogs in this fight. Diplomats were sent to communicate, and they never... | 2019-10-25T09:25:43 | 2019-10-25T09:09:30 | 171 | 83 |
[WP] Somehow your wedding invitations get into the hands of the seven princes of hell. They show up
The seven princes are:
Lucifer (Pride)
Mammon (Greed)
Asmodeus (Lust)
Leviathan (Envy)
Beelzebub (Gluttony)
Satan (Wrath)
Belphegor (Sloth) | **Part I**:
Jerome wondered if he had invited Aunt Belle and Uncle Kurt's family to the ceremony, but then again.. *he didn't even like them*. He shrugged it off and waited for his bride to walk in with his father-in-law beside her.
The ceremony began as stereotypical wedding music filled the church with noise.
Tears... | "So, you're the devil?" asked Joe.
"Yes, Lucifer in the flesh. But you can just call me Luce my boy."
"Uh huh, and why exactly are you here?"
"Ruling over Hell is a difficult job, sometimes you just have to take a little vacation. And since we got the invites I figured we all could use the time off."
"I still d... | 2015-11-14T18:06:56 | 2015-11-14T17:30:16 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] The prophecy said that the king would meet his end, not by an enemy or uprising, but by his own child. Having heard enough of these stories, the king raises all of his kids as well as he can and decides to see how the fates play this one out | Though their methods may take time, our seers are flawless and so because of this it has been a requirement for many generations now that each ruler is told his end. I can't say I truly wanted to know, all those years ago, but I understood that it was my duty. Some rulers had found out the rough year and been able to p... | Over fifteen years had passed since the decisive battle against the tribal nations in the south. It was a tumultuous campaign that lasted nearly twice as long as the peace we have enjoyed since then.
I was merely a captain then, but I was there when the King had spoke with the Matriarch of the tribes. She had prophes... | 2022-01-28T16:37:22 | 2022-01-28T13:59:55 | 140 | 42 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | The Maenad
"Fuck you, David; it wasn't my fault." I mumbled as I finished the second bottle of the evening. "Fuck you. Fuck you and your whole family and fuck your little whore too. It wasn't my fault."
Angry as I was at the time, I actually felt sorry for Emily. She didn't know what a piece of shit my ex-husband wa... | Billie was dancing around her apartment naked. It was a bit of a Sunday night ritual for her to cleanse, to dance, and then to meditate.
This Sunday was a tiny bit different though. There had been a major snafu at work, partially due to Billie’s lack of interest in a current work project. The snafu led to an angry cus... | 2020-11-08T13:57:12 | 2020-11-08T12:48:01 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] A dying outlaw is approached by two people. An angel and a demon. Both are working together to save the world from something. Offering the mortal a chance at a new life and redemption, they become a pair of pistols. A worn and rusted one named justice, and a beautiful one named Vengeance | The outlaw strode into town, guided by the burning Vengeance on his hip. Hot and cold was the game they played. The main road, a dirt trail through the center of town, was matted down with the recent rainfall and the bustle of horses and boots. Citizens had begun to emerge, itching to get back to their daily tasks that... | Isaac was pissed. Two pistols suddenly adorned his belt, one ornate revolver and one crummy one, both with more than enough power to blow a strangers head clean off.
Isaac grunted as he rolled over, gradually trying to find his feet.
Well what the fuck, Isaac thought, I need some goddamn water and food; he already o... | 2021-02-23T18:27:29 | 2021-02-23T16:35:37 | 120 | 27 |
[WP] The demon appears in the sigil, growling. "Mortal, your soul is at stake for summoning me. What is it you desire?" You point out the window. "Can you help me get back?" The demon raises an eyebrow, following your gaze. "...Is that... Earth? Why is it getting smaller?" | Being a demon grows on you - or so he thought. He'd pulled plenty of fancy, otherworldly stunts before. The creature before him barely phased him, at this point - and to the extent it did, only in his exasperation at *yet another* summoning just like this one. Why was he always called upon to solve the trivial issues? ... | “So can you get me back?” the astronaut asked with inquisitive eyes; wrinkles forming on his forehead, and a faint frown appearing.
“What. The. Fuck?” The demon replied with his bright orange eyes widening in horror. “Why the fuck you summoned me here?” The demon asked, his voice a higher pitch, hands grabbing his hor... | 2021-11-24T01:55:15 | 2021-11-24T00:26:59 | 295 | 164 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | **"Flee, they're coming"**
That was the message broadcast to the world in complex repeating binary a hundred years ago. It took that long for scientists to recognize that it was a signal among all the noise and actually realize that the amount of energy necessary for it to be noticeable meant that somebody either very... | After being raised wealthy, Mr. Engilwald knew spoiled. Having been charged with taking the keys to his father's planetary business, he himself had never been spoiled, but he *certainly* had seen those who were. There were his entitled classmates of his younger years, who attended university for the luxury rather tha... | 2017-10-31T17:09:38 | 2017-10-31T15:34:28 | 1,292 | 509 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | "Four months of work down the drain," he thought. Had she become aware of him? Surely not. He had been meticulous. Down to every minute detail. He could even predict when she would need to visit the ladies room before his mark could. So, how could he miss this?
He backed up the video again. There. Right there. She was... | It had been over 24 hours since she checked in at work. She was like clockwork, and now unexplicably she vanishes just days before the grab. It was becoming more and more difficult to supress the rage, he was a creature demanding control, and here, in the space of 24 hours he had lost it. It was time to go home and che... | 2014-10-21T12:10:56 | 2014-10-21T12:07:21 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] The heroes have confronted the villain in their lair. The villain starts by telling them "You don't have to believe me. I know I've done horrible things. But I only took this gig as a fated overlord to prevent someone worse from claiming the title." | "Fated Overlord isn't a *job.* It's right there in the name. It's your fate. You can't be blamed for the circumstances that drove you to try and shatter this world, but by the same token..." Eiras hefted his sword. "...you cannot blame us for stopping you."
"Well, you'd think that. But Fate is a little more flexi... | Commander Justice stood in The Crimson Shadow’s lair. Finally. The war for Earth was long and brutal. Many heroes and civilians had been slain by the Shadow’s dark army. At long last the Commander stood face to face with the most evil man in the universe. His beloved wife, Princess America, was suspended in the air by ... | 2021-03-21T10:25:52 | 2021-03-21T08:45:01 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You are reading the grittiest, manliest, most testorone-filled bedtime story to your daughter. She's adding in bits. | Max Strikehammer - ex-marines, ex-SWAT, ex-CIA, ex-husband to a traitorous bitch and yet an ex-cellent father to his estranged daughter, eggs-benedict his favourite breakfast dish - was not having a good day.
"I'm not having a good day," he said, his handsome face covered in dark grease. The North Korean helicopter p... | "Once upon a time there was a construction worker with -"
"Flowers!"
"What's that?"
"Flowers, he has flowers!"
"Um, if you say so, sweetheart. The construction worker had flowers and a big bulldozer the size of a grocery store. He and his bulldozer would -"
"They make cookies!"
"Cookies? No, they moved dirt and r... | 2015-03-17T12:27:44 | 2015-03-17T12:18:18 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | "Damn it Gandalf, do something!"
"No, I shall not!"
This...has been an interesting battle.
*****
I've fought hundreds of wizards from dozens of different worlds in the past, and I've always come out ahead. Gandalf the Grey, they call me - the greatest wizard of Middle Earth, and up until now the greatest wizard here... | The cultist, wearing a trench coat and smoking a cigar, with a Colt pistol holstered in his pocket, raised his hands, chanting some indecipherable phrases, as a creature from beyond the comprehendible portions of reality dragged itself into our dimension. The conditions were right, the sacrifices were made, and the wor... | 2018-10-16T00:47:11 | 2018-10-15T23:09:43 | 361 | 42 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | Most days, I am chained high above the fat King's throne, rocking gently just above him. A blanket is tied around me to make my appearance more... acceptable. My pale, vascular skin is off putting to Frederick whilst he is eating - which is almost always. He'd rather I am neither seen nor heard. My tongue, nails and te... | (First time responding to a prompt, and it was fairly rushed, so sorry for the fairly bad writing \^\^')
The coronation of the princess had an air of apprehension to it.
Her father, the long-lived King, had been a ruthless dictator, but while she seemed a far lesser evil, the mystery surrounding his disappearance sti... | 2017-05-13T06:14:31 | 2017-05-13T05:49:31 | 3,350 | 1,201 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Ok, this may be a little late but let's see how it goes. Also, I have never written before (besides essays in college) so there may be a bunch of grammatical errors.
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The day had finally come. It was Name Day. The day your future is mapped by a single wo... | As long as anyone can remember you're future was decided on the 12th hour of your 18th birthday. No one knew what caused it to happen or when it started but the word you got decided everything from social class to tax bracket for you. In my family it was a 3 day celebration of the crossing over from child to adult and ... | 2017-03-16T06:31:54 | 2017-03-16T04:12:27 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Every time you cooked over a campfire, you would throw some food into the fire as an offering to the gods. One evening, just as you're about to perform your little campfire ritual, you hear a voice behind you say "You know, I would very much prefer my food un-burnt." | Edit: This is literally my first time to write for fun, so constructive criticism is appreciated!
Another normal night was in the works. Cooking over the campfire has been my nightly ritual since I started squatting in these woods three months ago. The people in the nearest village warned me not to come here; they say... | [Wip] Usually when I prepare my food I make extra for whatever God or upper being wants my food. As I had finished making my food I threw the extras into the fire and started to eat my own portion, "You know, I would very much prefer my food un-burnt." I wiped my head around looking for whoever was talking, not se... | 2022-11-28T10:38:15 | 2022-11-28T07:38:19 | 29 | 17 |
[WP]You discover a library with a biography for everyone on Earth. While reading yours, you notice that when someone else is mentioned, there’s a note showing where you can find their biography. It’s odd how someone who was a sentence in your book has a whole chapter for you. | I couldn't believe it at first. I didn't recognize the name, barely remembered the store, and everything I could remember about that city and even that whole year was . . . not very pleasant for me. I checked his biography anyway, the note said I saved his life. I knew my version of the events: "feeling the effects of ... | I couldn’t help but blink. He was barely a few words in my life yet I inspired such awe in his.
We were from the same hometown, went to the same school, and yet I never noticed much about him.
“Cal was Sadies Quiz Bowl teammate” was all it said in mine yet I had a chapter with pretty font. Sadie.
It told of how I wa... | 2019-10-31T01:39:21 | 2019-10-31T00:14:44 | 73 | 35 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | I lazily grabbed the card from the machine, politely thanked the attendant, and walked away dreading what sort of mundane life I looked forward to. Ever since cognitive analytics became a field, machines had been created to scan and determine ideal careers for people.
As part of legislation, it was mandated that machi... | "Oh my god!" Jimmy said reading the assignment card. His mind raced as he wondered if it were true. "Mom look at my assignment card! Is... is this real!?"
His mother couldn't hold back her grin, "pffft ha ha! You dummy!" She said laughing histerically, "I put that in the envelope as a joke!" She pulled the real assign... | 2018-08-13T19:22:34 | 2018-08-13T17:47:14 | 542 | 19 |
[WP] The narrator hates the protagonist, but has no power over the story | And so, the pathetic spineless coward; still crying from the loss of his best friend, rose up, attempting to steady himself upon his scrawny little legs, still shaking in fear. He marched across the burning town, head raised high, probably trying to hide his tears – like the little wimp he is.
A watchtower nearby crum... | During the War of Mater Corncobs, there was a hero named Dave. He has the most stereotypical name ever, other than Bob, I don't understand why everybody likes him. Of course, his heroic feats were praised, but not by me! If I could, I would not narrate his "adventures". But they were the first person I could find, and ... | 2015-10-25T23:49:44 | 2015-10-25T23:16:15 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] You’ve always been told that Earth is a death world full of things that can and will kill you in seconds. However there is no way the adorable creature before you is dangerous, no matter how terrified your guide seems to be of it. | Grevra had heard so many terrible things about Earth. She had heard all the stories about how deadly it is, and how hostile the locals were. But the human guide she had found was a perfect gentleman. Of course, it probably helped that her species looked so similar to his. He knew she was not from Earth, of course. But ... | "Oh come on, this creature can't be that bad."
I said, as I played with a white fur-ball creature, that had the fluffiness of clouds.
"S-s-s-s-sir, please be careful."
Our guide was rather terrified, and I am pretty sure that's not sweat.
A little backstory, right now, we are on a deadly planet called Earth, ... | 2021-07-29T10:19:50 | 2021-07-29T09:08:56 | 146 | 19 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Helen Ziegler got her prognosis first. The ability to shield yourself from the public eye at will so that no harm can come to you and no target can find you. Invisibility. She beamed with pride as she read off the note and the class erupted into cheers. Penelope George and Lucas Matheson were next. One by one, classmat... | Flashing in front of his eyes was perhaps the most broken of powers.
In the year 2200 humanity awoke their planetary core, a phenomena which took the dreams and thoughts of its inhabitants to turn into attributable powers. To maintain balance, all powers had certain restriction. Super speed and flight burnt proportio... | 2022-05-08T09:51:37 | 2022-05-08T08:13:31 | 689 | 444 |
[WP] A time traveler sells different timelines to people who regret their past mistakes. This is his most memorable encounter. | I choose a secluded corner of the local library to meet today's client. The library is always a good place to meet because it is small, run-down, and everyone buries their noses in their books and pretends you don't exist. It smells of dust and old perfume and I've been bringing my clients here for years now; never onc... | Roll up, roll up. We gotcha unrequited love timelines over here, that moment you were late for work and get fired just there and remember when you called your teacher mum? We got some lovely treats for you today, my dears.
Careful, careful. No pushing. Just give your money to my associate and we can give you anything ... | 2014-02-18T09:24:14 | 2014-02-18T07:53:37 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] Two prison guards discuss a prisoner who is apparently immortal. He's been in jail with a life sentence for so long that no one knows the reason for his imprisonment. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Look, we can argue about this til the cows come home, man. It'll get us nowhere."
"What, I wasn't arguing. I was having a civil discussion," Greg declared, hand on his chest. "You're the one who-"
"Yeah, yeah, just shut up, would you?" Jordan said. "It's simple, see? If we don't know, then we ask... | Concrete walls create long hallways, the cell's metal bars breaking the gray. Behind one door sits a prisoner who is immortal, and no one can remember his crime. In front of him two guards argue about his imprisonment.
"Well how can we really know that they did wrong if we can't remember what they even did? For all we... | 2015-06-01T21:26:57 | 2015-06-01T17:53:40 | 169 | 14 |
[WP] The ground suddenly turns invisible, but the insects and things that live inside it don’t. | Have you ever played minecraft?
Do you remember those times when you could suddenly see through the ground like you've got x-ray vision or something?
You would be walking and all of a sudden, the pixelated blocks of grass and dirt would vanish and suddenly you would be able to see the vast twisting tunnels of dunge... | This was the day everyone in our society dreaded. The day our lives would change forever, nothing could have prepared us for this. Our whole world changed, quite literally, forever. We could see them, and they could see us. There would be no more separation between our worlds. What was once a door we hid behind became ... | 2018-04-21T08:39:35 | 2018-04-21T06:57:04 | 68 | 28 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | Reed stared out into the distance while his best friend drove the Range Rover. Ever since the incident they had been meeting every week. Running a kind of status update, a debrief of what happened in the last week. Simone used to be his CO back in the army, so this was more of a force of habit than anything else.
She ... | “It’s just an illusion.” I’ve said it hundreds of times. The silly girl won’t believe me.
“It feels REAL! It has to be! PLEASE! I don’t care if it hurts, send me back!” It hasn’t ceased for hours…
I sent her to an alternate reality in an attempt to ease her suffering. Two versions of the same soul can’t exist within ... | 2022-06-06T14:11:15 | 2022-06-06T11:23:37 | 61 | 40 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | When the recently-titled Ambassador of Earth entered the ship of the our newly discovered neighbors, the entire world held it’s breath. At first, things were going well. The “Prendoran” race and humanity had been communicating as pen-pals for several months prior to the meeting. They were well versed on our social rout... | Accariz, the diplomatic of the Azara species, went down sudenly when he was talking to the human.
His screams fill the circular chamber completly. The noise of the hundreds of conversations stopped sudenly, and the AI responsible for security started to search for threads, but fail.
Accariz was screaming in the groun... | 2019-09-29T18:12:16 | 2019-09-29T17:13:42 | 656 | 65 |
[WP] After being kidnapped you wake up in a room where the only thing to keep you occupied is a computer with access to just wikipedia. After 2 years you are taken to an illegal gameshow as 1 of 10 contestants, if you are eliminated, you die. | *'What is the lifespan of a crocodile?'*
We all stared silently at the display in front of us. Finally a voice breaks the silence.
"What the hell's going on? And what kind of question is this?" a woman across from me asked, bewildered. She was trapped in a plastic box, just like the rest of us. She looked around her ... | The heavy iron door slammed shut. I was alone in the room in near complete darkness, save for a small blinking light. Through the darkness i managed to follow the light through the barren room to the computer where the light was emanating from.
Hopefully I could find some information about how bad this situation real... | 2022-11-23T15:22:58 | 2018-04-29T10:42:47 | 51 | 24 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around, did I find you?"
I froze. *What the fuck?*
"Don't be afraid."
Strangers bumped past my shoulders, struggling to get past me. Like a rock in a fast-bubbling brook, I remained fixed to the subway floor. I tried to calm my thoughts. She could hear all of them, after all.
But curiosity and sheer impulse ... | The voice... and the face that goes with it
I start to say something, "a-"
She cuts me off
She's saying things, I don't really know what, it's just noise, I'm trying to remember the worst thoughts I've had over the years.
Then the thought slips, "maybe she knows too much, should I kill her?"
She takes a step back,... | 2019-09-14T11:28:36 | 2019-09-14T10:59:27 | 74 | 23 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | As the last known survivor, I feel I must explain it all.
We have muskets; by law, these are the weapons allowed by the Galactic Concordance. In fact, all weapons were severely restricted to prevent one species from gaining superiority through weapons technology. We know how to annihilate planets with a single blast,... | When he finished he put it back into the display case full of his other trophies. He had taken it from the Grand Warlord of Nor IV, one of his easiest conquests.
"But you must agree Admiral that it is a waste of our resources. Why invade when they clearly are killing themselves? We don't even need to wait that long, m... | 2017-08-08T08:28:06 | 2017-08-08T08:23:50 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I looked down at the email, and in that hot August evening, I knew what preparedness meant, and how rare preparedness truly is.
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$7.27 deposited to my account. The remainder of my life was being measured in currency, rather than time. My 21st trip around the sun resulted in growing old, even with barely t... | I cashed in my newfound fortune. $2 got me on the bus, I got out at the edge of town. I walked for a few hours and found a garage sale sign, I followed the arrows to a somewhat shabby looking hobby farm. There was a very old man sitting amongst the articles he had for sale, all of which had a more leaden appearance tha... | 2019-04-24T12:56:00 | 2019-04-24T11:25:08 | 59 | 20 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "We... don't actually know what you did."
The burly red demon looked at a few papers. He squinted through his round glasses for a minute before sliding them off and slipping them into the chest pocket of his tight white collared t-shirt.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'? You just said I have to spend 186,292 years ... | "Table for one, sir."
I reclined on the wooden chair and sipped at the complimentary cup of lava-heated water. The water, its temperature just nice to heat up my icy skin, spilled out as I set the cup down on the table. Dribbles of water remained on the plastic file beside the cup.
"A hundred and eighty-six thousand... | 2018-09-26T07:49:48 | 2018-09-26T07:07:43 | 2,794 | 895 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | David was opening up his shop when I arrived that morning. He was a fine book seller, always had the most compelling tales of heroism and adventure. I browsed his shop for only an hour that morning, I had too many books already.
I looked around the shop aimlessly as he bagged my purchases, my eyes settled only momenta... | I was walking home one Winter night, doing the usual and reading out peoples titles in my head. Kevin Johannes - Dog Groomer, Susan Warren - Kickboxer, I passed a man and woman who's title indicated they were siblings, and who were getting a smidge to romantic with each other, I cringed. Then, sitting on the corner I s... | 2019-01-08T16:21:07 | 2019-01-08T14:54:13 | 49 | 30 |
[WP] Instead of names like Steven or Julia or Bob or Helen, humans are given descriptive names that somehow wind up relating to their personalities or predict future careers, like My Little Pony names do. This is great, unless you're a guy/girl with a really embarassing or scary or gross name... | "Johnny? Johnny? Johnny...Will you please answer the question?"
Huh? Said Johnny, looking away from the window. The entire class stared, showing how much they hated him. Especially Nick Kunt, critique extraordinaire. Throwing him a snarl of mangled yellow teeth, he looked back to the teacher.
"Right miss?"
"We are ... | "Don't worry," I said to the parents of the patient. "An appendectomy is a very common surgery and although every surgery has risks, this risk is pretty low." "Thank you so much doctor!" the mother exclaimed tears in her eyes. "I know this procedure costs way more then what you are charging us." The "nurses" wait at th... | 2014-09-21T22:30:11 | 2014-09-21T22:03:19 | 59 | 25 |
[WP] A clang came from the engine room, followed by a string of curses. Most of the crewmembers stood far from the doors, fearfully looking in. It was their first trip out to deepspace since they had taken on a human mechanic, and they were all pretty sure that those were not good noises. | First lieutennant Jones stood from the desk.
"Ill go see what happened" he stated, as he grabbed his sidearm out of his holster and approached the door. Cautiously, he disengaged the door locks and opened the portal to the engine bay.
He took one step in before the clattering was interrupted by the human engineer sc... | It's been 50 years since we, as a race, perfected space travel. Of course, I say race so as to gloss over the fact that entire groups of people had not only developed the math required to make the jump to hyperspace, but according to myth and lore, a few groups had managed it also, a full 150 years ago. That's a full 1... | 2019-05-31T06:52:52 | 2019-05-31T02:52:26 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] The desperate, dying Paladin binds you, a demon, to a pact. In exchange for his soul, you will live on Earth as he lived: “protect the innocent, save the wicked”. 200 years later, the pact ends today. And you’re not sure you want to go back to hell. | Staring down upon your gauntlet, You felt the urge to leave the body you’ve been imprisoned within for two centuries rush through your veins. It was hard to resist and for three days since the pact you were forced into ended, you’ve been torn on what to do.
The welcoming warmth you felt every time you did as the pact ... | My existence has been a bit of a double-edged sword.
There's a demon portal opened in the caverns of Mount Kershall, where I came crawling out as a young lad, to a family of purple rubber-skinned demons with red eyes.
We can disguise ourselves as humans with ease, but our cover can be blown once we start feeding off ... | 2020-12-16T12:12:23 | 2020-12-16T10:11:35 | 63 | 44 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | "Raise the dead," they said, "It'll be fun,' they said.
Ok, they never said that. The one thing they did say was never to experiment with necromancy. Surely, resurrection didn't count though, right? That's animating skeletons and liches and stuff. This should be a positive thing, at any rate.
I guess it helps to know... | Alright looks like it's all set up, all i need now is to drip a little of my blood. I hate this bit, why do they always need blood? My hands already look like chopping boards and I've only just started this magic stuff.
The wizard grabs his ceremonial dagger and stands in the centre of the room surrounded by markings... | 2022-12-31T14:34:19 | 2022-12-31T10:15:47 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | Todd was an… interesting man, to say the least. He claims to have lived through the Dinosaurs, the fall of the Roman Empire, and the destruction of what you, today, know as Europe. He found me back in the early 1900’s, when I was lost in the Appalachian. I had fled from a war in 3084 and was wounded. On that given day,... | "So what is new?" I said stepping out of the capsule with my buddy as usually awaiting my arrival.
I had no control over when I would arrive due to the randomness of the generator. I never knew if I was jumping a a few days, years, or even thousands of years. All I knew is when I left, I went forward through time and... | 2016-11-10T12:15:38 | 2016-11-10T11:16:20 | 483 | 30 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | This entire job had been a failure. I needed Starshine, our local hero, to come and rescue Dazzle, his sidekick, to get him out of his base. It was the only way I was going to end up stealing the White Crystal of Knowledge that had given him his powers so many years ago. I was hoping to upgrade from being one of the wo... | I ripped the blindfold off the tied-up sidekick, who shrank away from the blinding light, folding in on himself like a dying star.
“Please,” he said, shivering. “I’m sorry for being bested, sir, just please don’t...” His voice trailed away as he caught sight of me and the confused look on my face.
Why would he apolo... | 2020-03-26T17:30:06 | 2020-03-26T17:18:02 | 48 | 30 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | It's always the high-numbered ones that think they have a shot. Some up and coming punk that thinks that this is their once in a lifetime chance to take down #1... as if they can just skip all of the other ranks and become a superstar. They never really consider how I GOT to be number one. I've fought fire powers, ice ... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T18:29:42 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] A Romeo and Juliet style story, where a fedora-wearing neckbeard and an easily triggered tumblrinia fall in love, but the corresponding websites forbid their relationship.
Taken from /u/dem_yoga_pants on /r/crazyideas | JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore types thou Romeo?
Deny heteronormativity and refuse male privilege;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my polysexual dragonkin,
And I'll no longer be a Feminist.
ROMEO
[Aside] Do I neg more, or do I post at this?
JULIET
'Tis but thy gender-role that is my op... | Two sites, both alike in perks,
In high speed internet, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new circle jerks,
Where angry typing makes Dorito stained keyboards unclean.
From forth the fatal subreddits of these two foes
A pair of lovers leave their sites;
Whose feminist and meme-hating woes
Do wi... | 2015-04-26T11:04:25 | 2015-04-26T10:39:55 | 3,400 | 201 |
[WP]: You die in a hospital bed after a long, rich, fulfilling life, surrounded by your family, grandchildren and loved ones. You get startled back into consciousness, back in Berlin, on that weird night when you were 26. "Like I said", the stranger says, pocketing your money. "Save point." | “Is Bumpa gonna be otay?” I hear Penny ask from somewhere in the fog. I must be slipping away now.
“He’s—um—he’s going on a trip honey,” my daughter replies. “A really, really long trip. None of us can go with I’m afraid.”
God I’m proud of her. She’s always been so strong. I knew she’d be okay without me since before... | It was Berlin—201x. I was 26.
We took the train into the city. Berlin was gray, dirty, dusty, and ugly—it looked as if the war had just happened yesterday. After we dropped off our bags at the hostel we sat together at the downstairs bar.
"Well," Jacob said, finally, "we're here."
"That we are," I said.
"What s... | 2020-06-09T18:06:47 | 2020-06-09T16:59:44 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] Human civilisation had been nearly destroyed 9 times, this is now the 10th first contact with aliens, and they are puzzled why we keep making first contact so many times. | Surrounded by beeping monitors and the awed faces of politicians and scientists, the screen at last flickered to life.
Gasps emanate from the crowd. After so much work, so many false starts and dead ends, at last the day of reckoning had arrived. Contact had been made. The project had consumed generations of Earth’s g... | Millenia of eugenics programs had bred as much braininess into the Mindulons as possible. But this long process had also bred all brawn, animal aggression, and natural confidence out of them. Like giant heads, bobbling atop thin and sickly bodies, the Mindulons were highly intelligent and technologically advanced, but ... | 2020-11-26T17:45:23 | 2020-11-26T16:46:31 | 103 | 75 |
[WP] As a kid you were found to be magicless and abandoned, having black mana rather than the element specific colors of the other children being measured. One day a painter visits the orphanage to teach about colors and painting "mix red and blue you get purple, if you mix everything you get black" | Yesterday a painter came to the orphanage to teach a class. It was amazing. I learned so many wonderful things from him, during his hour long visit. My shading has improved dramatically. The hands I draw look even better and I had an epiphany. See I live in a world of magic and technology. As children we get our magic... | Colored Swords
WC: 460
Fin sits on his bed, notebook in his lap and color pencils busy with their dance across the page. He’s wearing headphones, blocking out the world as he escapes into his sketching. Even as the other orphans cause a ruckus around the bunk-room, it doesn’t bother Fin as he continues existing in hi... | 2022-10-07T16:19:03 | 2022-10-07T13:09:12 | 27 | 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. | "Da hell?"
When finals ended I had resolved to spend no moment of the weekend sober. One moment I had been sitting on the steps of my apartment building smoking a cigarette, fending off last night's hangover with a bottle of whiskey, and the next I was sitting in a small, darkened room.
"Where's my cig... FUCK!"
Hav... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T09:53:02 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] You're a supergenius-level robotics expert. Your neighbor is a godlike magician. You use your abilities solely to prank each other. | I’ll admit that at first, I lacked subtlety. In fact, my attempts at humour sometimes were downright crude (sending robots into the sewers to emerge into his toilet and spray him with water whenever he sat down) or unoriginal (making his television play a certain song by Rick Astley at random times). Of course I expect... | I slapped my hands together and looked at my latest creation. A plume of white dust erupted from my gloves, and was promptly followed by a fit of heavy coughing, but my newest robot remained untouched.
I stood upon my pedestal and looked down at the trench I had just dug. Not that I did physical work, seeing as my sum... | 2015-02-18T20:17:54 | 2015-02-18T19:59:49 | 596 | 31 |
[WP] Dwight Schrute attempts to sell paper to Ron Swanson | Good morning, this is Dwight Schrute. I'm calling from Dunder Mifflin Paper. Is this Mr Swanson?
Dwight? This is Ron.
Ron? I must have called the wrong number. I got a tip for an easy sell - a mismanaged government department in nowhere town.
Is there any other way for government to be managed? In my experience, far... | Ron?
Do you want to buy some paper
I have a deal on it today
You never order anymore
And wait there's more
We'll give you 30 days to pay
We used to be your vendor
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why
Do you want to buy some paper?
It doesn't have to be just paper
Go away Dwight.
Ok... | 2015-03-01T02:27:50 | 2015-03-01T00:46:07 | 74 | 33 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Entering the assembly hall, I looked amongst the cheap plastic chairs and spotted my group of friends in the crowd. Awkwardly squeezing past people, mumbling sorries and excuse me's, I sat down with them.
We were facing a large raised stage, lectern in the middle with teachers sat towards the back of the stage. A lar... | I was sitting and counting down, today was the day!
5...4...3...2...1...
A voice sounded in my mind, I knew I didn't hear it with my ears, but it definitely was not me.
"You recieve the power of making anyones nipples explode"
What the fuck is this shit....is this a joke? I mean that could kind of maybe help to sa... | 2015-03-28T04:40:57 | 2015-03-28T04:24:20 | 931 | 92 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Yes," the official sighed, "for the last time. All you have to do is press the button."
"This doesn't make any sense. How did you know it was me?"
The government official sighed — again — and deflated a bit. I could tell he'd given up any hope of this being quick.
"You know what? Fine. Let's see. We've been doing t... | “Already been taken cared of?”
Everything began to escalate quickly,
I looked at the Priest. His face was still, the red sky behind me reflected in his eyes, inviting me in. But around us, the sky began to storm, the clouds became electrical.
This simple task was all that needed to happen? After everything that has ... | 2020-11-09T13:08:44 | 2020-11-09T13:00:44 | 132 | 22 |
[WP] The Devil and Jesus meet each other disguised as hobos. They don't realise, who the other really is (at first) and start having a conversation. | "This your corner?"
The man with blue eyes looks up, sun directly behind the stranger in front of him. Stubbled, disheveled, with a torn leather jacket and a grungy terrier in his arms. Green eyes. The stranger nods at the corner of Sunset and Fairfax. Blue Eyes shakes his head, surfer-blonde hair bobbing slightly.
"... | The lighter flared brightly, the scrape of the flint barely audible over the combined hiss of rain and cars on the overpass. The smoker shuffled back against the grubby concrete pillar, away from the slow trickle of water, overflow from the trash-clogged gutters.
He held up the cheap plastic lighter, eyeing it in the ... | 2014-07-29T08:57:42 | 2014-07-29T08:37:08 | 254 | 52 |
[WP] Write about a person in law enforcement who works in a city full of superheroes and supervillains.
Can be in an established universe or have original characters. I don't want to hinder creativity.
EDIT: Doesn't have to be plural heroes and villains. Don't even need both a hero *and* a villain. Just some more foo... | "911 SRT, what is your emergency?" My voice droned into the phone.
The reply, panicked and near tears, was barely intelligible. "Ohmygodpleasendhelprightaway!Dr.Disastrousjustmadetheentirepark vanish!Rightintothinair!Nothingbutaholeleft!"
"Please slow down, sir. Did I hear you say Dr. Disastrous?"
"Yes!Yes!Hurry!... | Sheriff Rigby poured another glass of rum, no mixer this time, as he stared out the window of his office. Outside, a man in a cape grappled mid-air with another man that had a turbine strapped to his back. In the distance, he could hear sirens and up in the sky, he saw the Cat Symbol.
He drank his booze in one gulp an... | 2013-11-22T09:42:43 | 2013-11-22T08:09:41 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | “So, what is it like down here?”
Asked Jared, the new rookie. Clint shifted uneasily from foot to foot. The old man, although well accustomed to mining for coal, obviously was not accustomed to speaking to his coworkers.
“It’s Hell.”
Was all Clint could manage. Jared thought this was an appropriate answer. The mini... | Always thought that was a stupid saying. Than again, I have a stupid job, so I can’t complain.
They say that being a secret agent is being brave- risking your life on a daily, making sure no one knows who you are, and losing your soul in the process. Sounds thrilling, heroic, even.
But when you get to my age you real... | 2018-07-15T09:28:11 | 2018-07-15T08:03:08 | 388 | 139 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | I have lived for ages.
At some point, humans began to stop aging at 18. The old generation started to die out, with the new taking in knowledge and grow via experience, but keeping their physical prime, most of them. There were a select few that still aged, whatever the reason. Some loved and embraced this new life. ... | *thud*
And just like that her lifeless corpse hit the ground... to be honest I’m hardly shaken at all by this. I’ve since lost count of the soulmates I’ve harvested...
“If I keep killing them, I can live forever!” I tell myself every time. “This is their only purpose, to supply me with an eternal state of being.”
I f... | 2018-06-09T02:09:18 | 2018-06-09T01:03:43 | 61 | 39 |
[WP] People have threat levels assigned to them. Common thug maybe reach double digits, dictators the hundreds, the people who can launch nukes in the hundreds of thousands. You, a scientist who just performed a harmless experiment, suddenly get shot up into the billions
[deleted] | She stared at herself in the mirror, her eyes affixed in horror to the opaque number above her head.
If you were a scientist, like her, it was the Tyson-Legrange Number, named after a landmark study that demonstrated, conclusively, that it was primarily a neurological phenomenon that occurred in the visual cortex. If ... | I am just curious biochemist who never got any attention from the world. And last night I just did something I think it’s just funny joke on my twitter. Turn out to be very wrong decision in my life when I wake up in the morning seeing my threat level skyrocketed to billion, but I never get even two digit before. What ... | 2018-09-13T05:19:20 | 2018-09-13T04:34:43 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Kinda short for a knight, aren't you?"
The words hung in the air. Sir Gregory was taken aback. He was expecting the princess to be excited to see him or terrified of the dragon. Condescension was an emotion he never entertained.
"Oh Gods, you reek. No, this won't do. If you wish to rescue me *properly* I insist you ... | April 5: I've finished digging the moat and the crocodiles have already moved in, fantastic.
4/6: me and Chico both had a good hard laugh when this suited up loser got devoured. all those dollars for armor but zero sense. I saddled up Chico and we flew to Halfordshire for some juicy lambs, dined and dashed because ... | 2019-01-09T11:59:29 | 2019-01-09T11:44:13 | 158 | 21 |
[WP] You're a U.S. Senator and are running out of things to say in your Filibuster. In a last ditch attempt, you start a D&D campaign. | "Point of order honorable Dungeon Master, that's a violation of procedure!" said Marco Rubio, Ranger. "Senator Franken should not have that many spells per day at his current level!"
Senator Wyden (D-OR) sighed. D&D was his ace in the hole for extending the filibuster but he was beginning to regret the constant ru... | Senator:The day is old and the wind has burnt your skin. The sun is setting in your eyes. As you approach the shadow town in the distance AH SHIT ! four skeletons jump from the road with an attack. ( rolls 20 sided die on podium) 15...... the first one takes 2 hp off of the chairmans life, the other three are further b... | 2017-01-21T22:31:16 | 2017-01-21T22:00:30 | 350 | 13 |
[WP] For as long as you can remember you've worn eye glasses. Your parents always made sure you had them on and you formed the habit. One day you forget them and you realize you can see something no one else can. | Demetri sat up with a start as the alarm clock next to him blared loudly. He reached wildly across the night stand, attempting to silence the harbinger of the morning commute before it woke his neighbor, an angry tattooed Russian fellow that was the king of noise ordinance procedures. As his hand finally smashed the sn... | My vision is pretty bad, I can't even really see without my glasses. Everything becomes this nebulous blur, almost foggy. Sure, I've gone without them for a bit around the house, but if my parents saw they immediately throw an absolute, full blown shit fit. You know the kind: veins bulging, head red, etc.
So it ju... | 2015-07-21T12:56:57 | 2015-07-21T11:58:40 | 177 | 53 |
[WP] You woke up this morning with a superpower: anyone in close proximity to you must tell the truth. They can't lie or hold anything back. At first, random people just blurt out things you never wanted to know, but then it starts getting weird... | Tomas found himself kneeling in front of the altar in the darkened gloom of the town church, praying with a fervor he had never known. At this hour, there were no other parishioners around, just Tomas and a thousand flickering candles.
“Please, please take this away, whatever it is you gave me, please take it away…” T... | *Jackson's Journal*
*30/5/2016*
These people yelling things is getting a little annoying. But I'm going to keep track of them anyway.
Things they said today:
*"When I was 12, I peed on my dog."*
*"I secretly really like drawing, even though I suck at it."*
*"When I get 1 million followers on Instagram, I plan on ... | 2017-04-23T10:54:36 | 2017-04-23T09:57:43 | 309 | 101 |
[WP] You offer your soul to the devil. When he hears what you want in exchange, he refuses to make the deal. | November, 2004:
"Oh great and wicked Athariel, answer my call as I have come to offer my soul."
The smoke from my burning offering-- sage, willow bark, and yew flowers -- twisted, darkened, thickened. From the writhing, bitter smoke coalesced a monstrous form, with spindly wings and over-long arms, curled horns pe... | The motel rooms contents had been shifted drastically. The bed pushed to the far side wall, the tv unplugged and put it the side while the heavy dresser had been pushed to block the door. Two chairs sat in the middle of the room. In between the chairs was a mirror covered in strange writing. The twisting and turning le... | 2018-12-12T14:16:41 | 2018-12-12T13:05:37 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] When humans achieve interstellar space flight we discover that we live smack dab in the midst of several massive squabbling ancient alien empires. So we do the only sensible thing we could, and become space Switzerland. | There’s something many people forget about expanding an empire. Something the Romans had to deal with. The Chinese. The Mongols…you get the idea.
As you get bigger, you have to more border to defend. As bad as it is on land, it is even worse in space. An ever enlarging sphere of empty space to defend.
Luckily for u... | Earth was an economic powerhouse. When we first left Earth, we were a dying race. Years of ignoring the failing biosphere bit us in the butt. With time, we managed to fix the mess we made. We made nuclear fusion, bioplastic, nanotechnology, all the fancy stuff. Never once did we think the old ways would come back.
Upo... | 2022-03-06T21:33:17 | 2022-03-06T20:21:56 | 1,166 | 102 |
[WP] The age of superheroes finally arrives. Your power is that whenever you step into a room, it is immediately cleaned to perfection. At first you think it's useless but you realize that by cleaning people's rooms you get paid and thus gets funding to buy tech to match other heroes and villains. | **Cleanly Deception**
“No! No no no, oh *God* please no.”
It’s an incongruous sight really, the supremely manly Mr. SuperUltraMan and his bulging muscles, on his knees, quaking in his superboots before me like a child.
“And why shouldn’t I?” I say, holding my hand up in a position to *snap*. “Give me one reason I s... | They were the World's Greatest Heros, and it was an open audition. I kept working my way back it the line. Soon I was the last application. Perfect.
They held the audition in their famous Battle Room, where they trained. After a day, where hundreds of would-be super heroes had blasted, burnt, crushed, flooded, froze,... | 2022-03-11T08:09:26 | 2022-03-11T08:07:55 | 119 | 59 |
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