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[WP] As the Empire descends upon Earth despite the Federation's best efforts, the Galactic Council watches in horror; their invasion force will soon be wiped out, and when they are, the most violent species in the galaxy will have access to space age technology. | "If I've told you once, I've told you a million times. Do *not* make contact with Dirt. The inhabitants are... strange. They don't function on conventional logic. They care very little for life, even their own, and will wipe out any and all threats to their barbaric way of life."
Councilor Drargon wrung his hands tog... | Diplomacy has failed. This newly discovered species had at first warned us. They had shown us the violence they are capable of, told us stories of the wars they fought amongst themselves over arbitrary imaginary lines scribbled on pictures of their planet. They entertain themselves with depictions of violence, and regu... | 2019-10-01T22:49:55 | 2019-10-01T20:50:47 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] A world where people can store the adrenaline rush and aggressiveness of their anger for later use. Keep enough rage inside and you can, literally and figuratively, hulk out. Now, in your city there's a person who's never been visibly angry... | I've heard it said that a wise man fears three things. The first is a moonless night, and the unseen dangers it holds. The second is the sea in storm, for no man can withstand the awesome power of nature. The third, though, is the most terrifying of all.
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It had be... | "Is he ready?" The major asked.
*"What do you think? He's been storing that rage for 25 years. Nobody's more ready than he is.*
"He had damn better be. If this succeeds, it'll be a major coup. Possibly the biggest breakthrough in our field in...what, 50 years? Anyway, lets commence. BRING HIM OUT!"
The hangar door w... | 2016-03-16T10:59:07 | 2016-03-16T09:29:15 | 221 | 98 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | Father Richardson paced furiously in the driveway. Wringing his hands, rubbing his rapidly balding head, tapping his hands to his chin in thought. Giving a slight glance to the front door. He was getting too old for this routine. Finally, he steadied his resolve and touched his chest in a cross formation, muttering a s... | "This can't go on forever, Marcus. You can't let that thing live!"
"She isn't a thing, Cristopher. She is a girl, and my daughter"
"She is a damned demon!"
"She is a gift, from our lord and saviour"
"I am going to talk to the bishop. You can't lose your path like this"
"No, brother Cristopher. I have seen you beco... | 2020-10-20T10:23:23 | 2020-10-20T10:03:27 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] A newly-hired bartender is slowly realizing that he's working at the bar from all of those "X walks into a bar" jokes. | Joe didn't really mind his new job, except on Mondays. No, this isn't one of the typical "Mondays, right?" situations. Joe's new job tending bar was very much unique, but on only Monday. At some point today, something crazy will happen.
*Mad Monday,* Joe thought to himself as he flipped back the covers and tossed his ... | The last bartender grinned as I signed the employment papers, then handed me a metal pipe with an odd scribbling on it.
"What's this?" I asked.
"When someone walks in you listen to their story, then make an observational comment on what they say or look like. After that? Hit 'em with this. It'll knock them right off... | 2015-05-14T16:24:59 | 2015-05-14T16:02:19 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | *The police officers close the door as they leave, and a heavy tension descends upon the two of us. We watch each other warily.*
“Did you kill her?” he asks.
“Did you?”
There is a long silence. “Yes.”
I say; “how could you?”
“She loved you more than me.” His eyes flash with anger.
“I was her husb... |
I am without want. I hunger no more. Is life to come to an end? Days fade into nights. The sun sets on this day. The moon rises in the sky.
I am. Without want, I hunger. No more is life. To come to an end, days fade into nights. The sun sets. On this day, the moon rises in the sky. | 2015-09-23T16:48:26 | 2015-09-23T13:53:35 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You had a high school friend who always talked about world domination. At graduation you jokingly make them promise you to give you the rank of a general. 20 years later a series of violent coups happen out of nowhere and the new dictator appoints you as a general. | It was hard to stomach at first...
That our Nation could fall to a dictator.
Drought, famine, and the eventual wars for resources all saw to our fall from grace. Eventually as these things tend to go, an organization rose to power, promising to "fix" everything. The People rallied to their cause and in a swift "... | I remember that day, clear as water. Calum had promised that once he had dominated the world, he'd appoint *me* general. We of course, laughed it off, knowing that stuff would never happen. But here I am.
I've been watching the news, checking in every 5 minutes to see what's happening, when suddenly there's a sharp ra... | 2022-10-29T18:24:04 | 2022-10-29T18:00:38 | 250 | 63 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | When humanity first entered the galactic senate, most of the representatives were shocked by how interplanetary politics operated here. It was almost indistinguishable humanity's petty bickering, only slightly more performative and ostentatious.
Eric, as humanity's first ambassador in the senate, arrived at Lartuen w... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T09:59:45 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 133 | 18 |
[WP] You are a professional pickpocket. You've just picked someones pocket only to discover that the thing you have stolen is truly horrifying. | I hurried through the crowd, weaving my path away from the man whose pocket had just found its contents transferred to my possession. I know it sounds like a fancy way to say pickpocket, but I don't like to think of what I do as such a juvenile thing. It's really more of a Robin Hood type thing. Find a white-collar typ... | He looks well off. Brown overcoat, black leather shoes, combed hair, and square glasses with silver frames. The crowd is flowing around us, but I see only him. There’s a hook between my knuckles. I flow behind him, matching his pace, moving with him, and the crowd. The hook swings into his pocket. I give it a lig... | 2014-07-14T22:56:32 | 2014-07-14T22:50:55 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You're a super villain therapist. You try and break them of bad habbits like monologuing and other idiotic activities. | “Come in,” Dr. Live said, quickly pushing his fake glasses back up the bridge of his nose. He had a new patient today and felt the need to at least appear professional, regardless of the clandestine nature of his clientele.
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“So you must be,” Dr. Live skimmed his hastily scrawled schedule, “Mr. E. Villai... | "Look, Dr. Deathknell, I know you like to monologue and I know you like to tell them your evil plan, but all that does is buy the hero more time. What do you think?"
"I can't help myself. I feel as if I am going to win every time, I just simply cannot help myself. But... you're right. Who cares what my plan is? They d... | 2020-04-24T13:45:31 | 2020-04-24T13:07:23 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | Lying underneath the broken husks of countries, some semblance of government had remained. And together, in their wisdom, the greats had decided that - to avoid any further conflicts, which could prove even more disastrous - each country should isolate itself from its neighbours. That way, even if some internal crisis ... | I remember when it happened, all the channels on the television set wouldn't stop broadcasting about the discovery. It changed everything. Our government had been faithful, stood still in 1945, keeping the peace around the world.
I'd been chosen by the government to 'represent', nobody wanted to. I didn't want to meet... | 2016-10-18T14:31:05 | 2016-10-18T13:36:28 | 158 | 54 |
[WP] Super-speed can power a city without polluting. Super-healing can provide an endless supply of donor blood. Weather manipulation ends droughts. Your job is to convince superheroes to use their powers for practical purposes instead of fighting crime, and you’re very good at it. | John rushed over to Zach’s room when he heard the screams in the middle of the night. When he burst through the door, he noticed two things: Zach standing over the limp body of a masked man, and the hole smashed through Zach’s window.
“Daddy,” Zach sobbed, his hands covering his face as he spoke. “I hurt him…I hurt th... | I'm the closest thing the world has to a superhero.
I’m not sure why they call me that. I’m not a hero; I’m a diplomat. But the public has a way of putting labels on people. And, at the risk of being pedantic, I'm more of a freelance peacemaker than a superpowered rescuer.
Most superheroes are criminals. You wouldn’t... | 2021-04-11T08:10:41 | 2021-04-11T05:10:42 | 622 | 58 |
[WP] You are allowed to 'downvote' a government candidate instead of voting normally, reducing their votes by one. Turns out people have little love for politicians, and the majority end with negative votes. In these democracies, anonymity is the key to winning. | "I'm sorry, but we already have a candidate registered under the name Puppies Apple Pie, you'll have to choose a different pseudonym. Please choose something quickly, as we close in two minutes."
The elections office clerk was ancient. She had permed pink hair and was wearing glasses on a chain in a style that Julia c... | Robert Smith was working from home, but hadn't yet gotten dressed (no video calls this morning) when the doorbell rang. He grumbled at that--he wasn't expecting any visitors. He quickly threw on a pair of jeans and a red polo that that he kept handy just in case, and answered the door.
Two men were standing at the d... | 2022-11-21T08:20:23 | 2022-11-21T06:52:58 | 448 | 78 |
[WP] It is modern day America, but everyone speaks in Shakespearean English. You are a gamer raging out during an online multiplayer match. | What in God's name hath thee just say about me, thy little wench? I must have thee knoweth that I have graduated in the top of my class in the prestigious Navy SEALS, and I have taketh part in numerous raids on the heathen group, Al-Qaeda, and thou shall knoweth that I have slain ov'r 300 heathens. I am in the prestig... | Come now, thou lily-livered hog's behind!
Come forth, and face thine punishment!
Thou cheating coward! May no MOBA let
Thee play forevermore! Be cursed to rot
Upon the sidelines, lover-boy of whores!
And may your mother lay abed with all
the rotten, scurvied, men of ill-repute! | 2017-01-09T21:11:09 | 2017-01-09T15:44:37 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] You've taken over 30 different career aptitude tests, but the only result you've ever gotten was "banana tree". | I was fourteen, a freshman at Purksbay High, when I first asked, “What are my results?” The part time accountant and full time counselor stared in amazement.
“Mr. Roberts, what does it say?” I asked, engulfed with a passion and drive to take on the world and build a meaningful life. Mr. Roberts twirled his index fin... | Life is ultimately pointless there is no grand scheme, no benevolent creator or even an primordial tentacle monster. It is nothing but chaos and the order that We as humans have created. As such a man who believes these things with all my heart, and with the universe itself evidence to my claim why then does the world ... | 2017-03-10T08:13:34 | 2017-03-10T04:47:16 | 119 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity has finally noticed that almost every other galactic species has rather bizarre beliefs about humans. They seem down right gullible about just what humans can or will do at any time. So humanity decides to have some fun with it. | When man told its first story, what was it for then? What is it for now?
To fascinate oneself? Delighting a small group of friends? Entertaining a flock of fans? Interesting thousands and millions of people through a screen?
No. It was all for this moment. For the utter bullshit that was about to spew forth from Lks... | I remember as a kid I had a very wild and wacky imagination. I watched those weird science-y YouTube videos on stuff like "what if we all jumped at the same time" and stuff like that. Before I watched that video though I'd always thought that if every human on Earth jumped at the same time the planet would collapse. Of... | 2021-06-13T11:37:31 | 2021-06-13T11:07:30 | 79 | 34 |
[WP] After being chosen in an elaborate contest and ritual, the Grand Sorcerer defeated you and banished you to the Dark Realm for 1,000 years. When you finally return to defeat the new Grand Sorcerer, you discover that the position has since devolved into a largely ceremonial and bureaucratic role. | A thousand years wasn't really that long.
Not on the scale of humanity, anyway. The mounds of the Britons were nearly three thousand years old before the Roman Empire even collapsed. The last pyramid was built a thousand years after the first. Fifty generations of babies learning to smile, youths piecing together a br... | 1,000 years.
The stone ring shuddered, towering over the strange, bulbous creatures I'd spent decades subjugating and intended for my vanguard. It took centuries to adapt their society, and, unfortunately, more than a little brutality, but now I had full confidence in my would-be shock troops.
1,000 years.
The elab... | 2021-01-28T17:40:46 | 2021-01-28T15:42:07 | 292 | 39 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | A distraction.
Some like to portray demons and villains as misunderstood, which is in many regards belittling their character. A god of darkness should not have that conundrum; one does not become a god without fully embodying what one represents, and if one represents darkness, one *is* darkness.
Yet somehow, someon... | ######[](#dropcap)
There's something senseless about the way flesh meets metal.
The desperate pleas and cries, the anguish, this is all nothing new. Especially not new to I, who has lived through both feast and famine, the dark times of the Rebellion and the high times of the Exalted Era. I have known moments when m... | 2020-05-20T00:25:50 | 2020-05-19T23:44:12 | 53 | 32 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | I feel sorry for the parents, really.
Here they are, they've raised a lovely son or daughter (OK, probably son), they're looking forward to having them take over the family business, or the farm, or get married to that eligible young bachelor down the road.
And then some wizened old hermit with more beard than sense ... | This is preposterous. First i get summoned by a chap named Arthur who wielded Excalibur, the only sword which could kill me. Then he threatens to kill me unless i protect his empire. I wouldn't say i hated it, in fact i think my time there may have changed me. However, after all that i get sent to quell some asinine re... | 2018-05-19T04:39:08 | 2018-05-19T01:52:14 | 690 | 120 |
[WP] A vampire commissions you to paint a portrait of her, she's spent centuries wanting to know how she looks. | Never done this before but here goes...
She stood, looking brilliant, in her classical garb, small of stature but somehow seeming to take up most of the space in the struggling artist’s studio apartment.
“Well?” “What do you think?”
Clementine looked in disbelief at the photo taken on her smartphone, showing only ... | “Oh, you want me to paint you?” asked a confused Clarence slightly startled by the 1800s looking vampire standing at the foot of his bed. “Let me just take a photo of you instead on my iPhone”.
Clarence took a photo on his iPhone and showed it to the vampire.
“Well shit, this was a much easier idea” she concluded.
| 2018-01-28T11:32:43 | 2018-01-28T08:23:32 | 202 | 61 |
[WP] When you were sent to Hell, you expected fire, brimstone and hordes of demons. But upon your arrival you found nothing but a barren wasteland and a single lonely imp. | An epicenter of agony and pain. A blazing inferno, where the truly dammed reside in endless limbo. At least, that's what we were all led to believe. The reality of it all is actually quite... dull. A moment of nausea washes trough you as you pass onto the afterlife and the first thing you, see? A barren wasteland as fa... | "No! No, get away! Before... *they* get here!"
I was shook. This demon was concerned for me and I literally just got here. I don't know why either. I guess I should've gone with Catholic instead of Baptist. Anyways.
I went to ask the imp who they were talking about and what was going on, but then I saw three hulking ... | 2022-09-21T11:51:39 | 2022-09-21T10:26:41 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Every "walks into a bar" joke occurs in a single bar. You're the bartender and your shift just started. | *Same old shift. Same old jokes.*
Frank looked out over the bar, his eyes focusing on nothing in particular, barely registering the buzz of chatter between patrons. His hand twisted rhythmically, aimlessly rubbing a towel over the rim of a glass that had been dry for ten minutes.
The sound of the small brass bell abo... | As I arrived, the usuals sat at the bar, sipping their water downed whiskey and watching an old playoff game hoping for a different ending never to come. I topped off whiskey, rum and cokes, and opened a couple more beers. To be honest, I wasn't in a great mood, but I thought he day was looking up when a blonde, a brun... | 2018-01-31T19:02:23 | 2018-01-31T18:46:27 | 6,382 | 32 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | Something changed. The air grew steadily colder.
Nick looked more somber than afraid. “I really wouldn’t do that. Please, stop this, for your sake. Let me help you.”
“For years you lot have used and abused your power. All of the Guardians have. And where are they now? I’ll tell you: they fled Sanctuary. They abando... | Mimic collapsed to the ground, gasping, eyes watering, face drained of all color. “How… can… you… stand it…?” she gibbered through clenched teeth. I stood there looking over her. I could feel nothing for her; no sympathy, no spite, nothing.
“Why do you assume i can stand it? I endure it because there is no other o... | 2020-12-02T07:40:36 | 2020-12-02T07:12:30 | 999 | 453 |
[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. | "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee."
*What?*
I stood atop a steep, winding set of stairs with a breathtaking view of a charming town. Every building was adorned with yellow roof tiles and horse sculptures, beautiful in their uniformity. At the bottom of the stairs was a small b... | I had just come back from a business trip, I was always "just coming back from business." I wanted to make an effort to bond with him, so I walked up to to my sons room. I heard him from outside the door, using profanities I'd never thought he knew. It seems he had developed a colorful vocabulary, not that I would have... | 2015-05-08T00:17:59 | 2015-05-07T22:04:09 | 659 | 90 |
[WP] A colony ship discovers that, due to a calculation error, they will never reach their destination. | CHaRLy booted up his systems check program and ran a diagnostic. All's well since the last time he came online. He started all systems and allowed himself to flex his muscles, as it were, throughout the ship. He was able to 'feel' everything, from the powerful engines to the smallest air flow vent. Besides routine main... | "Sooooooooooo" began the captain "turns out, and believe me we will laugh about this later…there was a slight calculation error"
The blank faced crowd stared back at him
"What does that mean?" said one of the blank faces"
"It means we're not going to reach our destination"
"No what does calculation error mean?" sai... | 2015-10-27T14:57:04 | 2015-10-27T13:22:57 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Immortality isn't a miracle. It isn't a blessing. It's cold hard science and a severe lack of morals. The key to immortality is what scientists around the world are looking for right now. I just happened to find the fountain of youth first but it was nothing that you could go around publishing in Scientific America. Th... | I detected the faintest rattle of keys before the door clicked opened into my own personal exhibit tucked away in a supermax prison somewhere in Mississippi. By the heavy breathing, the scrape of his worn soles, I knew my visitor to be Officer Cleburne making his morning rounds. Undoubtedly the stench from his breath ... | 2016-10-15T10:12:12 | 2016-10-15T08:58:14 | 709 | 49 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | **Part 1**
"Oho, if it isn't *Black Magma*!! What brings you to my nefarious lair?!", I crowed.
He sighs, as though the weight of the things I've set in motion already pulled at him. So soon, and it's as if understands how truly powerless he is. This has been weeks in the making, and he knows by now that the only way... | I used to be a super villain, but facing off against hero’s wasn’t something indirectly did. With my power I did best with quiet operations. I can manipulate my own body. I usually use this for changing my appearance, but I can manipulate my muscles for combat. However, recently I haven’t been doing that as much. Recen... | 2019-02-23T07:51:01 | 2019-02-23T07:15:35 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says, before pulling out a sword. | As my gray-bearded lecturer draws his sword, I take a deep breath, and I come to a harrowing realization: my parents were right all along. I should've gone to medical school instead.
"You seem to be under the protection of some native god," says the lecturer. He reaches for something inside his podium. Is that ...? Oh... | Finally, he was serious about reading my thesis in earnest. I slowly pulled my hand axe and mace from my backpack, having learned to dual wield when I had to take that part-time to pay off my unsubsidized student loans. I grinned at him. I had studied his bibliography. Read his rate my professor reviews. I knew all his... | 2021-12-05T22:35:47 | 2021-12-05T22:33:43 | 70 | 26 |
[WP] Years ago, the last remaining God of the Universe died, passing on it’s divine omnipotence to humans. It is split across 8 billion people, though, so most people are God of something obscure or unimportant. You are in the police force’s Misuse of Divinity unit. | It should have been a simple enough job. A elderly man reported that his neighbour had been performing miracles, and he suspected that they weren’t properly documented with the Canadian Divine Authority Department.
Inquisitor Davis almost didn’t take the call. When he heard dispatch relay the address, he shut his eyes... | The three-person team entered the headquarter, escorting a man-- handcuffed with his mouth muffled.
"Lemf me ghhho!", the man protested only to be disregarded by his captor.
"Another success for Team Beta, eh?", the front desk clerk quipped to the leader of the team.
"Another televangelist for ya, Jim", Agent Nic... | 2021-06-21T01:11:53 | 2021-06-21T00:55:51 | 97 | 63 |
[WP] An S-Rank adventurer casually sifts through their quest log and notices they still have an uncompleted D-rank request. With a chuckle, they decide finding the farmer’s lost cat could be a relaxing change of pace— they were gravely mistaken. | # Soulmage
**It was one of those jobs that was 'beneath' everyone, so nobody got it done.** Like cleaning out the kitchen of mildly aggressive slime molds, or sweeping the sewer of mutated gremsquirrels. There was no glory or cash to be found in those jobs, after all, and even a seasoned witch like me had to pay the b... | They wondered why it always seemed to end like this. After the last long quests full of stress, danger stress and ridiculousness in general, they really wanted to take a break... But due to the sorely needed equipment repairs and other unexpected costs they had to do at least one other quest. Luckily for them, a D- que... | 2022-06-22T05:43:08 | 2022-06-22T05:35:46 | 82 | 41 |
[WP] It was a freak accident, but you died. As you stand over your body someone steps next to you and speaks. "I'll send you back if you do me a favor." | For every moment in your life, there's a non-zero percent chance to die.
Of course, full-throttling a motorbike with failing brakes down Mt. Everest, dressed in nothing but a t-shirt and shorts is much more likely to send you to the afterlife than taking a step; but, how many people do either.
Of the near eight billi... | It was all wrong, Sarah thought. She had never even seen the car that hit her coming, never felt herself die. Suddenly she’d just been standing over the broken hulk of her car, watching as the paramedics gave up on CPR.
“I’ll send you back if you do me a favor” a deep voice from behind her said. Startled, Sarah whippe... | 2020-12-15T07:42:35 | 2020-12-15T07:37:38 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] Write the most uncomfortable to read story you can. | "Eat up while it's hot, guys!" Aunt Melanie trilled as we sat down to dinner.
My aunt had made mountains of food. She groaned heavily as she lowered her body into the chair. She beamed at us once settled, and picked up her cutlery, eyeing her towering plate of food.
"Mmmm, don't mind if I do - I'm feeling a bit pecki... | *This isn't gibberish, trust me*
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[WP] Your spouse has the annoying habit of unexpectedly licking you. When you ask them why they do it, they always reply "just so you know it's really me." You think it's nothing but a cute joke. One day, feeling something is off, you realise your spouse hasn't done it in over three weeks. | I'm a little late to the party but I hope you enjoy!
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What started out as a drunken, silly game when we were dating in college turned into an odd sort of routine for us.
Senior year, blitzed out of our gourds, we tried to lick each other's fa... | “It’s been three weeks,” the man complained to his psychiatrist, “three weeks.” While scribbling some notes onto her pad, the psychiatrist was listening intently. The man continued, “at first I thought it was nothing, but it just kept happening. She would pass by, and not a single lick! Now I know this doesn’t seem lik... | 2018-04-28T21:43:58 | 2018-04-28T21:16:08 | 410 | 66 |
[WP] "Please," the dying monster begged the Paladin, "spare the child." And so while the rest of the party celebrated, he sat by a large egg, struggling between his oath to protect the innocent and his oath to destroy all of the evil race. | ​
"What are you thinking of, uncle?"
Her words interrupted my thoughts and ancient memories. I turned towards the voice.
"Just old times, dear. Do you smell anything?"
She turned towards the clearing in front of us, the grounds shifting as her claws plowed through the earth leaving enormous marks. Her sc... | Issac cradled the smooth egg in his arms as his party laughed heartily. Within the fragile shell laid the last changeling. The Norheimian Army had slaughtered all the others.
Mayell sheathed her sword with a victorious smile. "Finally, those vermin have been eradicated! The city council will be more than pleased to he... | 2018-09-26T21:49:56 | 2018-09-26T19:17:28 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You are the latest victim of a God who is known for handing out superpowers. Unfortunately this God has a twisted sense of humour and only gives out superpowers that are useless to the person receiving them. You are determined to make the God regret giving you powers. | For tens of thousands of years the Priests of the Covenant Sacrifice had offered their precious souls to the gods of the pantheon. Souls are so, so rare and powerful. Most of us can’t even imagine the cosmic importance of something so abstract and intangible. But the gods know. The priests know. I know. That is why I h... | (On mobile, sorry for the formatting)
There used to be a rumor of a terrible god who gave out powers to those who sought it out. Only the chosen were given gifts but were sworn to secrecy on where the specific shrine lay hidden. I managed to get the location after endless hours of research and chasing down ambigu... | 2022-09-04T06:22:07 | 2022-09-04T00:29:18 | 78 | 53 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Raul," crooned Raul in a very suspicious French accent, as he took the lady's hand and graced his eager lips on it. "Let me guess," he continued, releasing his grip and pulling a chair out from the table. "Sit, please. Let me guess, you're a Mari- no, no, you're a Cassandra? I'm right, am I not?"
*Suave.* Yes, that ... | Delilah hung up her jacket and took off her shoes. Another dud date. This one was cute. Almost as though he was made to be her type. Tall, dark hair, subtly muscular. And only one dimple. He checked off all the boxes too. He worked as an EMT, bleeding heart type. He liked classic rock and k-pop. Game of Thrones and Gi... | 2022-08-24T03:20:20 | 2018-02-14T10:13:19 | 1,353 | 37 |
[WP] During a robbery you’re surprised when the criminals seem to recognize you and retreat in fear. Only later you learn that your high school sweetheart now runs a global crime syndicate and has you placed on a “no harm list” . You decide to pay them a visit after all these years . | "Hands up Asshole! If you want to live, you will move real slowly when you turn around!" I was tidying up behind the counter of our family jewelry store. I looked up and raised my hands above my head and slowly turned around.
"Look, I don't want any trouble, please don't break any of the glass, I'm insured, but th... | For a moment, there is silence. They form a odd tableau: for criminals with semi-automatics, stiffened in the midst of bursting through the door, the customers politely waiting for them to get their bearings or gaping at them. Then the screaming starts. One by one, the weapons are dropped and the would-be-robbers sprin... | 2021-05-06T10:32:01 | 2021-05-06T10:32:00 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You are a food critic that can immediately identify all the ingredients used in the food after just one bite. Because of your negative reviews, many people dislike you. You are tasting a famous restaurant's steak. But after a bite, you identify that one of the ingredients is cyanide. | Malthus Sorenson, food critic, dabbed at his mouth lightly, pondering the meal he'd just finished at the trendy Chateau DeVries. On reflection, he concluded it was likely to become much less trendy, once his review was published.
The critic was exacting, but fair. He felt his nigh-superhuman sense of taste, that could... | As the taste hits my lips my eyes go wide. I remember this from my childhood, mother trying poison me because of my unnatural behaviour. She never could bring herself to do it with violence, poison seemed so much simpler.
The first time, I didn't know what it tasted like, it just tasted strange. There was pain, cramp... | 2018-10-04T07:39:04 | 2018-10-04T05:35:36 | 439 | 107 |
[WP] You're a supervillain with a superhero as your arch-nemesis. When they come out to the world about their depression and mental health, others call them weak and there is backlash. You, however, are the first one to support them publicly. | *Ahem*
I always believed what elevated a villain to a super villain was their sense of *style*. But my unique, snazzy, often explosive ways of contacting you plebes are starting to be expected. ^(I know, Paradoxical.) And so, I have chosen to host a press conference, something wholly unexpected and therefore being abl... | I would like to you all see this. This brave woman that was your champion, see what you have done to her. I am not the villain, that is what I have been trying to warn you all. She got crushed by your own system by being a mother, a worker, a woman and a “super-hero”. She battle for the Status-quo and what did it bring... | 2022-06-21T10:53:05 | 2022-06-21T09:53:16 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] Luckily for them, the hero wasn't too hard to find, based on his clothes and appearance. That and the massive amount of soundtrack players following him. | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archcommander Varney, Part II)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Archcommander Varney could see the giant blue sword from three blocks away.** It was nearly three ... | Sir Lematu strode into the tavern. His gilded armor near blinding and the legendary mace of stone locked on his hip. Over his back a harp was nestled beside a quiver of arrows. As he entered the inhabitants of the tavern shielded their ears. He had long grown used to the curse that followed him, forever more ethereal m... | 2021-09-19T12:29:03 | 2021-09-19T11:45:13 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] A portal opens before you and out steps a version of yourself covered in blood. "I've killed humdreds of you and they say you're the strongest one. Time to find out why." | We both stood in wide-eyed confusion in the corner of my bedroom.
I stared at the bloody reflection of myself for a few breaths before spitting out a stuttered "What?"
He responded sharply, "You are the strongest version of Austin and it's your time to die."
I shook my head lightly trying to throw the shock from my ... | “I don’t understand.”
“Well of course you don’t.”
“Can you run it by me again?”
“I’ve killed Humdreds of you- us and they say that you are the strongest one. I’m here to see why.”
“Okay I’ve got 2 questions, why are you covered in blood? And did you say “humdreds”?”
“Did I say humdreds? Shoot I meant hundreds, and... | 2022-11-09T10:11:50 | 2022-11-09T08:59:54 | 659 | 86 |
[WP] An alien had cornered up a Human, pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. "Why won't you die?" Shouted the shocked alien. "Dude, it's a watergun." | "Water...gun" was the only words that came out of the alien, it had been around 10 minutes and Jerry had never met someone as emotionally damaged as him before, he felt ashamed instead of proud to this awkward victory but he didn't knew what to do.
"OK, so...where do you guys come from and why are you scared of water ... | Above the space ship everyone laughed at Droxl, the dumbest of all aliens. They couldn’t believe, given all the technology available at their tentacle-tips allowing them to traverse mine-boggling expanses of spacetime, that he could have failed to realize the scans showing this planet to be mostly water meant the human... | 2018-02-11T09:59:12 | 2018-02-11T08:37:32 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] You have just found the cure to a virus that is killing millions worldwide, why do you keep it to yourself? | John approached his colleague, and friend, glancing around the sterile room as he did. Most of the other researchers had hit their bunks for their mandatory four hours.
“Stephen, I think I’ve got something…” he said
Looking over his shoulder again, he directed Stephen to the corner of the room, where a microscope sat... | I did it. me! I finally did it. That damn virus reanimated our dead.its killed millions, billions even. And I finally found the cure. I have been working my ass off I haven't really counted the days.my only friends have been these concrete walls. But it is no matter because I am the true savior to the planet. Now I wo... | 2014-05-30T02:32:10 | 2014-05-30T02:00:50 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | EDIT: Now with part 2, and one minor edit at the end of part 1!
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*We thought ourselves masters of the game of war. We were wrong.*
It started the same as any other: observation.
A resource-seeker - known to the public only by her employee identification of E-0001229-AZ - observed a system through a starscope fo... | ​
Writing Prompt
\[WP\] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war.
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"All Life is ... | 2020-03-21T10:44:51 | 2020-03-21T10:23:49 | 634 | 59 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | **A Brief History and Final Advice** *by Sage Sebastien of Hintz*
For the first 18 years of life, parents focus on developing their children's core attributes - Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma. The Core Attributes (CAs) - and how they are developed - necessarily increase associate... | Nobody else believes in me, laughing at me and telling me I've wasted my life. They just don't understand. They look at me and think, 'There he goes, writing prompter. He'll never amount to anything.' But they just don't get it. I've devoted my life to inspiring others. It's not so simple a thing, to be the bedro... | 2018-09-12T08:27:25 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 623 | 20 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | You grew up with bruises on your knees and scabs aplenty, just like any other kid. What your parents never knew was that not all of them were your own.
You're ten; baby Sarah from next door is bawling because she's just fallen and skinned her knee. You take the pain away from her. As the wound fades from her knee you... | "You aren't supposed to kill them."
That was what they all said.
"You can't kill people!"
As if they hadn't done the same thing, over and over again.
"Villains kill people!! You're a Villain."
That was how it started. I didn't care. They were hypocrites, the lot of them. A mass-murderer? Me? What about all the l... | 2017-06-12T07:49:37 | 2017-06-12T06:36:00 | 1,670 | 45 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | **Part 1 of 4**
The greatest stars aren't born, they're made. The words were written across the wall of John's room when his phone rang.
"Hey John, you want to go to the beach?" the voice on the other end asked.
"Dude, the beach man? I went to the beach once. It was a nightmare. I spent hours getting rid of the sa... | Christmas lights were the only illumination in the small dorm room. Empty beer cans, some crushed, some stacked, were strewn about. Music played softly in the background.
“I really needed this tonight,” said Ray. He finished his beer and set the can aside without looking.
“I’m so happy that you decided to come over,”... | 2015-10-10T08:52:41 | 2015-10-10T08:11:16 | 150 | 57 |
[WP] After you die, you are revived to the same day when you were 16, getting to relive your life again until your death, making any changes you want. After your 100th revive, you're getting sick of this shit. | "It's like Groundhog Day. But then, instead of repeating every day, I'm reliving my life over and over again. Could you even imagine what that's like? And I start at the worst possible time in my life too. I'm way too old to act like teenage angst. You know you aren't even able to communicate properly after a while? I'... | "YOU!"
Chrissy sighed, closing her locker door. Down the hall, Mark fumed, his face beet red. Probably looking to start another fight. No one really understood why he'd gotten so aggressive lately - a flip had been switched overnight, and he'd gone from the meekest guy in school to the being detained by the police thr... | 2017-09-25T11:09:16 | 2017-09-25T11:09:09 | 410 | 43 |
[WP] Due to a minor typo, the city starts building homeless smelters. | A small crowd gathered around the facade of the new building. The steel plating of the walls stared at them, little bolts jutting from the joints, glints of sunlight highlighting the bald heads of the men dressed in smart suits.
The door opened unceremoniously, revealing a grinning figure with a yellow safety helmet p... | I picked up a newspaper from the pavement, and my eyes caught the headline. Horrified, I went on to read the piece.
>THE END OF THE HOMELESSNESS DISEASE
Our Supremem Leader Jim has ordered that homelessness be excised. Homelessness is a disease, He said, in a televised interview, that was watched by everyone. Our S... | 2016-10-20T00:26:34 | 2016-10-19T23:45:08 | 60 | 13 |
[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? | It was nearly twenty years ago now. I was sitting in the middle of an over crowded storage unit, while my father scoured it for anything of value. My tiny searching hands probed the depths of a large wooden box, and emerged with a beautiful and elegant lamp, inlaid with all manner of swirls, beautiful designs. It took ... | John's eyelids flutter and he slowly comes to. At first the man is groggy and doesn't take notice of his surrounding - the white walls, the smell of medicine and the beeping of a heart rate monitor. But after a few seconds pass, he realizes where and why he is.
*Fuck* he mutters to himself quiet as not to wake up his ... | 2015-03-07T02:49:26 | 2015-03-07T01:52:00 | 154 | 11 |
[WP] "This is not my job! This is the exact opposite of my job!" screamed the grim reaper as the human went into labour.
Inspired by a post I saw on the internet about the grim reaper in sims in the same situation.
edit: Holy Thread Batman! did not expect this to blow up at all.
edit 2:So many good stories I can't ... | "This is not my job! This is the exact opposite of my job!" screamed the grim reaper as the human went into labour.
"but surely you must have something within you. Some humanity left." she pleaded.
"I was never human to begin with." he said.
"We were born together, me and life, fraternal twins. Some think I'm... | It had been so long since his world changed. Dying has a certain scent, a certain feeling to it that was timeless. It made everything the same, as if time had stopped.
This was different though. Time raced and he was out of his element. The house shook from the wind. The bottles rolled and clinked. The old dying scen... | 2017-01-31T04:10:26 | 2017-01-31T03:38:29 | 218 | 96 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | General Gaffney rubbed his temples at the head of the table. Without opening his eyes, he muttered, "Major, start over from the beginning. I want to make sure I have this straight."
"Yes sir. The attack began at oh-nine-hundred and current intel has it lasting 17 --"
Colonel Thompson broke in. "And it was Akron? Ak... | War. War never changes. Only weapons are new. Yet it is not the weapons, but the men who handle them, who win victories
And so it was men who redefined war on the galactic scale.
For millineal war had followed a simple formula. Once relations broke Down full armada would be assembled and hurled at the enemy. A battle... | 2019-12-17T12:02:20 | 2019-12-17T11:41:49 | 611 | 106 |
[WP] You've eaten your Chinese takeout and open your fortune cookie. It says, "If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same." That gives you an idea: you'll kill two of them. | The dry, sweet fortune cookie crunches in my mouth as I consider the fortune.
"If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same."
Part of the dry cookie catches in my mouth and I start coughing. I can feel my eyes bulge and face turn red as I scramble for water. Deep breathing. Good.
"That's d... | "Two for the price of one." I muttered to myself before crumpling the thin paper into a tiny ball, tossing it to the floor. I eyed my 'Table gun' which sat just beyond reach, obscured by the stacks of newspapers, used paper towels and porno mags. The Newspapers I wanted to keep but they were stained from pizza the week... | 2019-01-30T20:24:25 | 2019-01-30T20:13:35 | 55 | 31 |
[WP] The galactic empire demands tribute from its subjects, which is gifted directly to the emperor. Only the humans were spiteful enough to send a bomb. | The Goek Emperor studied the subject in front of him, bearing the tribute from the Sol System. He frowned slightly, as the male performed the necessary motions showing deference, but there is something in his posture that... does not fit the status of prey specie.
The Emperor pointed at the human, and ordered the gua... | The King of the Ro'shaak stared down at the man and the metal box he brought in. In his booming voice he, addressed the 'hooman'. "Speak, puny one. Which planet are you from, and what gift do you bear?"
The dark skinned man gulped. This was it. He stood at his full height of 1.8 metres, and stared up at the ten metre ... | 2017-09-26T01:26:17 | 2017-09-26T00:18:04 | 25 | 14 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | The thing about time jumping is that it gets easier every time you do it. Before my first trip, I rolled the silver Roman denarius between my thumb and index finger, closed my eyes, and held my breath. Dalia said it would be easy. She’d made the trip dozens of times. And when had she ever lied to me?
The jump hit me l... | Miles lay down in the dust, head cradled in his palms. His eyes wandered back and forth, trying to soak in the stars.
The vast amount of stars. The night sky was almost bright with them, and those seemed dim compared to the moon.
It was hidden that night, on a journey to some other part of ancient earth, but when ... | 2020-04-17T10:44:46 | 2020-04-17T09:26:54 | 250 | 139 |
[WP] He rushes onwards like a bloody tempest, destroying all in an attempt to free you from the stake that binds you to the pyre at your feet. For before he was a Hero, he was the boy that gave you flowers. And before you were exposed and branded a Witch, you were the girl that taught him love. | "Yundara, please! Let me go! Why are you doing this?!"
The armored priestess gave the struggling witch a cheerful smile as the flames of the pyre slowly grew around her. The witch's powers would normally have been able to extinguish the flames with but a whisper and a wink, but two squads of Holy Inquisitors surrounde... | Carmen heard the shouts of the soldiers at first she had heard the cardinal giving her last rites before they carried out the sentence. But now she heard soldiers shouting. She opened her eyes and saw a miraculous thing it was Ben running toward her riding a beast of some sort her Ben was coming to rescue her. Carmens ... | 2020-11-16T06:27:30 | 2020-11-16T05:05:51 | 79 | 13 |
[WP] It's December, and you've just died in a car crash. You try to talk God into reviving you, so you can watch The Force Awakens. | “Oh come ooon!” I pleaded. “Pleeeeease?”
“Absolutely not!” Spoke the giant deity. “If I sent you back just to watch that movie, I would have to send everybody back!”
“Well why don’t you? I bet lots of people would want to see the new movie!”
“It doesn’t work like that child! Death is absolute, It always has been an... | Me boy, I don't think ye grasp the concept of heaven.
What?
It's already out over here, everything is perfect here.
Hah. I bet you're going to tell me you have half life 3 already.
...
...
Brb God.
Hold up I never said you were allowed in heaven. | 2015-10-06T10:58:10 | 2015-10-06T09:57:26 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are a high-ranking spy on a vital mission. Alas, you have also just pissed off the fae and they cursed you to be unable to tell a lie. There's no time to send in a replacement agent, or find a way to lift it. It's time to infiltrate the enemy and take them down- all with perfect honesty. | "Are you the spy?" She glanced at her watch as we made our way down the underground passageway.
"Mmmm, I'm the little spy of your heart, if that's what your asking." I gave her my most charming smile.
"Oh you~ stop it. But really I need to find this spy, do you know who it could be?" She pushed me away playfully befo... | "What's your reason for visiting Russia, Mr. Smith?"
"I'm on a business trip."
"Business trip, I see. What sort of work do you do?"
"I'm a doctor."
"A doctor? Interesting, what sort of doctor?"
"A neurological surgeon. I mainly remove tumors."
"My, that is very fascinating. How long have you been in this field of... | 2022-06-29T14:32:33 | 2022-06-29T13:32:16 | 192 | 63 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | It was a tough hack. The Minds was not designed for this kind of thing. They were autonomous, versatile, adaptable and it was in their nature to overcome obstacles. Honesty seems such a simple thing, and yet it turns out to be an impossible requirement. We all depend on lies to maintain a sense of self. But I had ... | "Love, professor. We do it out of love."
"Love? I don't understand." The glow of Cybele's massive visage reflected on the professor's glasses in miniature. Even still, her face took up a small part of the screen that consumed an entire wall. She was the only source of light in the lab besides the field of blue pinpric... | 2015-03-02T08:17:53 | 2015-03-02T07:36:54 | 56 | 26 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | It is over. The boy-warrior has triumphed. The afterimages of his silvered blade, blessed by all the gods of the old world, still linger in this wretched crypt. Every prophecy was true. Here, an ancient deity would arise once more to enslave the world. Here, a youthful paragon would cast that god down.
He takes but a ... | I was not the most handsome god and I didn't speak this Anglish that has replaced the old tribal tongues. However, I was the region's god of the hunt and my ways were simple: I would track down and kill all those who journeyed into my territory except the Sacrificial Virgin Priestess who would ritually slay me. Thus wo... | 2018-05-19T01:54:18 | 2018-05-19T00:07:35 | 366 | 136 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | A tiny, cold, coal black kitten was curled up on my doormat when I came home one evening. I introduce myself (by kneeling down and offering a finger to be sniffed, of course) and once reassured that the kitten isn't feral (as if that wasn't already obvious, after all it sat there while I walked up to it) I picked it up... | Hearing this you slowly closed the door, rubbed your eyes. 'Am I dreaming?' You thought to yourself.
You opened the door again.
'Human, you cannot escape me or my clowder, we will hunt you to the end of Midgaurd....... '
The largest cat keeps on blabbering as you move past him and started pouring some milk and cat ... | 2021-12-21T14:42:43 | 2021-12-21T12:46:24 | 91 | 61 |
[WP] You have a superpower where the harder a solid is the easier it is for you to break. Diamonds crumble to dust under the slightest touch but mashed potatoes are virtually unbreakable. | They call me a superhero. A few months ago, I was awarded the Key to the World by the UN for destroying a giant diamond asteroid before it impacted with Earth. Since then I tried to keep it quiet, I never enjoyed being in the spotlight, I just want to work and come home and go on Reddit. The media shockingly respect my... | At the beach. Turn to a friend, watch this shit. Start sprinting across the ocean. He's seen it before so he's looking at me like I'm a dumbass. I f o r g o t I h a d a c u t o n m y l e g. A fucking shark swims up toward me. I start to run, too late, the sharks teeth shatter on my leg. And now I'm in jail for ... | 2017-05-19T03:24:21 | 2017-05-19T02:41:45 | 586 | 27 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | "First contact. Hooooooly shit."
"Great!"
"Charlie, no offense, but - do you actually understand how significant this is? It's.. it's like something out of science fiction. A lot of things out of science fiction, combined into something... greater. An entire culture, a people, surviving and thriving alone - like Ear... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T12:50:50 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] Your father has told you the story many times. When you were born a portal appeared in the delivery room and a man from the future tried to kill you. He missed you and killed your mother, before a security guard shot and killed him. You still can’t figure out why he would want to kill you. | It had all been covered up now. Enough so that I barely believed the story myself. To the rest of the world it was nothing more than a tragic story that had haunted my father. It was only his belief and anguish that made it seem real. The only known occurrence of time travel used was an attempt to murder me. But since... | I had heard the story a hundred times. Maybe more. And still I insisted that my dad tell the story again, testing the deepest crevasses of his memory. "What did he look like?" I asked this time. I knew it pained him to talk about my birth, especially given all that happened to mom. It couldn't be easy, losing the perso... | 2019-08-09T08:04:00 | 2019-08-09T05:48:15 | 2,301 | 425 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | Sixteen-year-old Theodore Cruz slouched in the cheap plastic booth, sucking the last dregs of his soda with obnoxious zeal and using a ketchup packet to paint a frowny-face on the table. In preparation for this interview, he’d donned his “Sperm Donor” T-shirt and smeared a tablespoon of lard into his hair. The look h... | "Hi, thanks for coming. You're our next candidate for reincarnation. We're very excited about sending you back, same make and model, just a second pass through."
"No, I'm pretty sure I fucked it up last time."
"Nah! I gotta good feeling about you. You'll do just fine this time around."
"How could I do just fine this... | 2017-08-29T11:49:17 | 2017-08-29T11:43:55 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | I think the idea of magical girls is a pretty common trope nowadays, so I think I can skip all the bullshit about transformation, how we’re meant to be pure of heart, and all of that jazz unless you’re following something like Mahou Shoujo Site where things get a bit, let’s say hairy to avoid spoilers. And I just like ... | **Goddammit. WHY???**
Sucks to be you, right? Goodbye sparkly princess and hello seven foot tall beast with sixty teeth and a battleaxe to boot.
**But how am I supposed to jerk off to this?**
You can't! By which I mean *you* can't, but you've been on the internet before. You know what's up with what people jack off ... | 2019-08-08T19:06:57 | 2019-08-08T17:13:07 | 110 | 25 |
[WP] You're a thief with superpowers, always in conflict with the local heroine. Off the masks, both of you are actually studying in the same school. You start picking up clues to who she really is way before she does. | When most people think of shapeshifters, specifically those of us who turn into animals, they typically think of the cool animals to turn into. Ones that can end a fight, like a wolf or tiger. Ones that can prevent a fight, like a rattlesnake or bear. Ones that can rule the skies or sea, like an eagle or shark.
My fav... | [My first post here, please give some good feedback]
*The world wasn't the same as it used to be; I was here now.*
Nothing could've prepared me for the sudden change, but i've gotten used to it. The day I got my powers was a day like any other, trudging home from a long day at school. And then, just like that, i wa... | 2018-11-02T13:17:08 | 2018-11-02T10:05:58 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone doubted you when you didn't invest in any defense points, and only in speed and magical power. However, after a few missions done without a scratch, people began to recognize you as the "Untouchable." | I stood in a seemingly endless line inside the Bureau of Adventurers. Creatures of every size and race pushed and shoved as they became annoyed with the glacial pace of those working inside. The only thing all of us had in common was our age. Each of us had reached the age of adulthood for our respective species and cu... | The idea was simple: take a young boy who had just come of age and had plenty of points to spend. Convince him to improve solely his speed and magical abilities. Throw him into the trials to teach him danger and love and hardihood. Make him learn suffering and experience pain and understand the camaraderie that bonds w... | 2019-06-03T19:56:05 | 2019-06-03T19:51:14 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | He descended from the dome ceiling without aid of an exosuit. His landing in the middle of the rock garden was quiet and drew little attention from the security drones. After all - he had no sonic resonators or gamma emmiters He had nothing but a standard lifesuit, issued to all peasant Earthians, on their way to minin... | First response, sooo...
My last words. I'd avoided them for years, knowing that they would begin death's inevitable march towards me. I'd kept my distance from people ever since I learned what they were, always avoiding a situation where they could be spoken.
But now, in this moment, I realize that maybe that was a m... | 2017-08-07T11:49:49 | 2017-08-07T08:52:42 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You run the only, and most successful magic potion shop in Brooklyn, NY. Not a single grievance or complaint from customers. The potions can temporarily energize the user, fix back problems, simulate catnip, etc. You have no idea what you're throwing together. | Did I know what I was doing? No. Did it work? Too well, actually.
It all started with my dream of owning a coffee shop in Brooklyn. Yes, yes, it's a terrible idea, and I knew it. But it was a dream! My dream. Which also afforded me a lot of time to daydream, considering the amount of customers I had.
Long hours turne... | “You bastard, you will never get away with this. Do you think you can keep cutting us out of your profits? You think we won’t eventually find out the secret to your ‘magical’ potions. Magic doesn’t exist, whatever fancy medicine you have, we will steal and patent it, then you will regret ignoring my offers!”
The bald... | 2020-08-30T04:23:01 | 2020-08-30T03:24:38 | 918 | 232 |
[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. | It really sounds good on paper. Everyone gets a superpower. Oh, there are people with awesome powers. Eki Magnusson, the current president of the great and bountiful human empire has the gift of luck; whatever choice he makes will turn out for the best. Since he was eighteen, his ambition to find challenges pushed huma... | **10 seconds.**
My dad was able to fly.
**9 seconds.**
My mum had the ability to heal wounds.
**8 seconds.**
On your 18th birthday, you recieve a superpower, my birthdy is in
**7 seconds.**
It is something you just know. "Like a switch in your mind" my dad always says.
**6 seconds.**
My mum and dad look a... | 2015-03-28T06:27:10 | 2015-03-28T05:36:19 | 70 | 37 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | If you're careful, you can just catch it. Sitting there, in the corner of your field of view. There's a little trick you have to do to focus just right to be able to read the words. "Human Version 1.1 Update: Progress 1%"
No progress bar, at least none that you can reliably reproduce. Maybe the update gets us a progre... | Everyone panicked. But then we realized. It had taken thousands upon thousands of generations to make 1% of the update. The rest would most likely not come in our lifetimes, nor in our descendants', or in their descendants'.
God gleefully cheered. "I can't believe it's updating! Stupid Comcast lost all my packets, but... | 2015-03-04T17:26:24 | 2015-03-04T16:33:29 | 182 | 123 |
[WP] Upon leaving out fruits and milk for cats and birds, you accidentally attract a few grateful faeries who only know how to thank you by pulling pranks on anyone who "bothers" you. | *They mean well*. I told myself as the car across the street burned. It was the latest trick by a new group of fairies that now inhabited the neighborhood- more specifically my back yard.
I had always grown up leaving birdseed, hummingbird feeders, fruits, and even milk out for stray animals and other woodland creatu... | "Elizabeth Rose! What happened here?" I shout to the next room.
My blonde little mischief maker peeks around the corner. She advances with her small dirty hands hidden behind her. Tiny toes kneading into the carpet. Wide green eyes, showing pretend shock, looking at the potted plant, now laying pitifully on its side.... | 2019-10-27T18:36:00 | 2019-10-27T18:30:06 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | Henry Cox eyed the waitress who was working behind the counter. Amelia was a little scared, if not worried. At the same time, however, she kept looking at the clock hung up by the entrance.
"Hey," he called out to her. "come here, I got a favor to ask."
"What?" she responded nervously.
"C'mon, it'll only take a sec.... | I glanced over at the button on my desk that'd appeared yesterday night. It seemed everyone in the world had one now. It'd appeared yesterday with a note attached. Apparently anyone after the first person who'd pressed it would receive a significant sum of money, and judging by today's radio broadcasts, the button work... | 2016-07-16T18:32:31 | 2016-07-16T18:24:40 | 1,306 | 141 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 69 | 46 |
[WP] You are happily married and have a 4 year old child with your SO. But when your child starts to develop super powers one day, you have serious questions for your SO who has always seemed to have a boring accounting job. | The Volvo steered itself down the road, lane-assist functions following the painted lines in the road, one hand resting loosely on the wheel. He was tired, so tired. He'd been awake for over twenty-four hours, running the whole situation through his head over and over. It started one day when their four year old baby b... | “Honey? Can we talk please?” I finally found a time to talk to Gretel tonight. She put her book down on the night stand and looked at me.
“Sure. What’s up?”
“Uh, well I’m not sure you know this but uh... Tommy was flying.”
Gretel looked shocked. “Flying you say?”
“Flying. Was going to bring him a bag of chips today. An... | 2019-08-23T06:59:58 | 2019-08-23T06:49:08 | 1,272 | 22 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | A summoning circle is a curious thing. First, draw a big ass circle. Next change that circle into a big ass dragon eating it's own tail too represent the never ending circle of time, the cyclical nature of the universe, entrooy, decay, rebirth, all that kind of thing.
Inside the dragon of eternity draw A dodecahedron... | A wise wizard said you will only achieve perfection without trying.
I wasn't trying to prove him right, not after the hangover from last night's bootleg "mead" at the Guild's apprentice party. Circle? I made a vague circular movement with a chunk of chalk that had previously been used to make sure the pool cue wasn't ... | 2019-04-05T17:06:19 | 2019-04-05T16:43:46 | 24 | 13 |
[WP]Flip a coin. Heads you were born a hero but became a villain. Tails you were born a villain but became a hero. Tell your story without revealing which you are until the end (or not at all.) | *White Knight POV*
With each blow, the heavens echoed. Each strike could crack the crust of the planet. Our battle was one that would decide the fate of the planet.
It started just 6 months earlier: he, I, and three others awoke in a room none of us recognized. We made our way through and we discovered our powers, ... | My hair was sopping wet, although that's to be expected in the rain. Drops laid on my eyelashes as i quickly rushed, hands on my head, into the base. I'd seldom take calls but this was a job I couldn't refuse. There was a break in, North wing, which was odd as the point of a secret base was it being just that- secret. ... | 2017-04-17T11:27:59 | 2017-04-17T07:43:27 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You are a Psychiatrist...for gods, superheroes, villains, demons, and anthropomorphic personifications of supernatural forces. Basically, in order to find you, a being must have the ability to alter reality. Your new client appears to be a normal human being. | "Hello. Take a seat."
I glance at my file as my client sits down on the black leather couch.
Grayson Murphy, is his name, according to my notes.
He signed via the web! I was hoping someone would do that- I had a lot of trouble setting that up.
I glance at him, and immediately I am slightly confused.
"You...are s... | "So... You can't do anything out of the ordinary?"
"Was I supposed to?"
The psychiastrist sighed. This was the first time in millenniums that no special being (read: superhero/supervillain) came to him. Although he was the one responsible for having all the answers, he didn't know what to do in this case, as he spoke... | 2018-06-30T04:49:30 | 2018-06-30T04:35:47 | 1,631 | 23 |
[WP] After 1 billion dollars and killer abs, a genie grants you your final wish. When asking for world peace he gives you a troubled look with the words: "Are you sure?" | I stop staring at my account balance on my phone and look at the genie. "Yes.... did you not hear me correctly? I want world peace, that is peace on Earth, no other bullshit, no twists or anything. I want all wars to cease and everyone to start compromising fairly with one another. Is that too much to ask?"
The genie ... | "Fuck it, let's stop being greedy. Let's cause world peace."
The genie hesitated before responding. "...could you be more specific. Please..."
"...Um... No more war, no more wanting for anything, I don't know. Utopia."
"Again... Look kid, Genies are omniscient. We know what we need to do to fulfill a wish. I can't t... | 2017-07-26T13:39:23 | 2017-07-26T12:59:21 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | *The problem with suicide*, Ethan thought, looking from the gun in his hand to the drawer on the other side of
the room where he kept the bullets, *is that it requires too much initiative.*
He studied the gun, tired. Then, grunting like an old man, he pushed himself away from the mainframe computer and dragged his ti... | Andrew sat at his computer screen watching the the playback from the deep space radio telescope. The familiar sound of static poured through his headphones. He took a long drink from the lukewarm coffee he had been nursing over the last hour when something changed in the static.
A whisper in an ocean of noise. An... | 2016-08-07T04:17:42 | 2016-08-07T03:35:35 | 2,064 | 60 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The rowdy crowd rabbled. They rabbled in a rowdier manner than any rowdy crowd had rabbled before.
“Order! Order within this hall!” shouted Mr. Hanner, the mayor of Stubbornsville. His voice reverberating around the rickety old hall.
The gathered crowd was a ragtag bunch. Mainly dressed in old potato bags, mud, and, ... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T11:44:45 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 287 | 20 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | Human v1.1 Patch Notes
* Fixed an issue where eyes can become desynced from the balancing system, causing locomotion problems.
* Corrected a race condition that could cause speech to begin before the thought process for that speech had exited cleanly.
* Fixed a bug in the low level logic engine that caused some versio... | Everyone panicked. But then we realized. It had taken thousands upon thousands of generations to make 1% of the update. The rest would most likely not come in our lifetimes, nor in our descendants', or in their descendants'.
God gleefully cheered. "I can't believe it's updating! Stupid Comcast lost all my packets, but... | 2015-03-04T17:27:53 | 2015-03-04T16:33:29 | 519 | 123 |
[WP] The US in the year 2050. Every citizen (except the rich) must serve a mandatory month in prison, in order to recompense for crimes they must've committed but that Police failed to discover. | There was a knock at the door. It was six in the morning. Ben jumped out of bed with the jolt of adrenaline that comes from waking suddenly. He fumbled with his pants and an old t-shirt. He opened the door a few inches. A man stood with his face close to the opening.
"Ben Marduski?" the man said. "That you?"
"Uh, y... | "Hey." Jeff answered the phone on the third ring, just as Lacy was beginning to think she'd wasted her weekly call again.
"Hey, baby," she giggled in relief.
"Sup?" In the background she could hear the laser blasts and explosions of his favorite immersive, *Atlas Rising*.
Lacy paused, trying to find something to sa... | 2014-07-22T11:31:49 | 2014-07-22T11:20:26 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | "Hey hey hey! Look who it is... the good ol'' truth" I walked forwards flamboyantly.
Samuel looked at me puzzlingly "Do I know you?" he asks, innocently enough. "Maybe, who knows. But I know you... Samuel."
"How do you know that name?" He shouts, seemingly with confusion, but undertoned also with the raw anger that ... | [POEM]
My childhood was rough, everyone was tough,
I got picked on by most of the crew.
And then there was Bobby, who made it his hobby,
To call me nobody, till everyone knew.
Came adolesence, and its effervescence,
Dreams to each save the world.
Bobby the liar, rose higher and higher,
Stepping on those who'd ... | 2021-11-23T07:57:35 | 2021-11-23T07:52:09 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | Slow jazz music played in the background as the ice cubes clinked into the scotch glass. Turning around and pulling a bottle from the shelf, he uncapped the bottle of amber liquid and poured with a practiced flourish. Jay slid the glass over to the man in the pinstripe two-piece suit, speaking in his soft baritone voic... | Theodore, Eoghan and Meph stared at the ransom note left by the bar.
It was glued on in single letters, to a single matte sheet of paper. *We have your number, and your children. You will be contacted about the location of the drop. We require $20 million in non-sequential, non-scented, unmarked bills.*
Meph looke... | 2018-01-31T06:28:20 | 2018-01-31T05:07:27 | 2,402 | 86 |
[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. | Strength and Speed are easy to lie about, but you aren’t that lucky. Ironically, you are the one super hero who hasn’t been allowed to go public with your abilities, but it isn’t your fault it’s your stupid idiotic abilities fault.
You have to find a plausible explanation for your ability that can be used as a cover s... | # Soulmage
**"So... what can you do, power-wise?"** Tanryn gave me a curious look as I paced the vault-room floor.
I looked up, scowling. "Why do you want to know?"
Tanryn gestured at the sealed vault, at the horde of clockwork abominations outside, and said, "You're so confident that you can get us out of here aliv... | 2022-06-06T10:54:40 | 2022-06-06T10:28:42 | 1,007 | 237 |
[WP] The very last Google search, ever. | Tim sat down at his cubical, ready to start developing a new feature to add to Google Chrome his team had just discussed in a meeting. Today was like any other day at Google; software development, meetings, etc. While programming can be a monotonous task, working for one of the largest tech companies does have its be... | "what is sophilisim"
"what is solipsism"
"Gorgias of Leontini" "Descartes" "George Berkeley"
"why are we here"
"what is the meaning of life"
"42"
"HG2G"
"why don't I laugh anymore"
"what is depression"
"depression cures"
"depression treatments"
"anything to help with depression"
"make me laugh"
"make me sm... | 2015-07-22T08:23:13 | 2015-07-22T08:12:42 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] Every year, Santa Claus delivers millions of toys in exchange of cookies and Milk. Despite his sponsorship deals with Coca-Cola and other corporations, his toy factory isn't economically sustainable without underpaying his workforce. Finally, an elf does the math and realizes he's exploited. | **The House of Claus**
“Santa, the representatives of the North Pole Committee of Public Safety are outside. They say this is your last chance, or they will take the palace by force.”
The big red belly hung low over the rumbling fire place. Santa’s head was bowed but his eyes burned with intensity. Visible through th... | “No no no… this can’t be right,” Snowy said to himself. His typewriter clinged as he pushed the carriage back to the correct position. He ripped the paper off and stared intently at the maths.
“Carry the one, drop the decimal, divide by 9… By golly! We’re being exploited! I need to bring this up at our meeting tomorr... | 2021-12-11T08:16:55 | 2021-12-11T07:49:38 | 677 | 108 |
[WP] You have a distant uncle who seems to have an uncanny knack of giving you the exact birthday gift that you’d desperately need sometime during the next year. This year’s gift, however, is terrifying. | I always opened *his* gift first.
The typical size, I cannot say, simply because there wasn’t one. Each year was a brand new mystery, wrapped in unexceptional brown paper and fastened with white string.
They started coming when I started college, as soon as I was living on my own, once a year, at my doorstep by the c... | My uncle throughout all my life has always given me things that have unexpectedly been needed. Extinguishers, pepper-spray, and tools have been some of the items given to me, the items are always the exact thing I need when things go oh so desperately wrong.
This year my uncle has given me the most peculiar gift, a w... | 2020-06-23T21:07:39 | 2020-06-23T19:45:47 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Your superpower is precisely and accurately measuring things without equipment. How do you use it to fight crime/take over the world?
You can tell that something weighs 155 mg just by holding it, or that a noise is 74 dB just by listening to it. You can immediately know it's 84.1 °F outside without a thermometer,... | (Kind of a cheat, but here we go!)
"How the hell did you get in here?" Dr. Hatred asked the man dressed in a 'Cool Runnings' t-shirt and jeans. The man was smiling, a sort of odd smile like he knew something that the other didn't.
"How did you get past my security?" The Doctor asked
"You mean your 143 guards? Or y... | "You're sure about this," the technician asks.
"The entire reason I was brought onto this team. You can do the math if you like, but it will take you a lot longer"
"Well you have a knack for this sort of thing, here it goes"
Yes, I can measure things perfectly making me a perfect rocket scientist, also the ultimate... | 2016-06-11T00:37:43 | 2016-06-10T22:46:51 | 106 | 12 |
[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.
Repost, no one responded before.
EDIT: Th... | "Good for them," Zolforat commented as they observed humans farming the cradle of civilization. "Tools and agriculture? Why, they're looking positively sentient."
"Real moxy," Mefro, Zolforat's companion, agreed. "I can hardly understand how they manage to stand up like that!" It stamped its twelve hooves in emphasis.... | "*Who* did you say?" the old creature asked as he furrowed his brow and looked up from the growing pile of petitions.
"Humans. Third planet from the Sun. They've gone and escaped their atmosphere," the red face answered from a safe distance. The usual youthful exuberance was gone, replaced by a heavy sense of dread.
... | 2016-03-31T13:57:30 | 2016-03-31T13:02:39 | 1,816 | 199 |
[WP] One night while you were hanging out with your friends in a bar, you met a mysterious fellow who said he'd make you immortal if you give him beer money. Thinking nothing of it, you drunkenly agree. You are now the last man on Earth. As you walk alone, you cross path with the same man again. | It's been 50 uears since he's spoken a word, but encountering the man who granted him immortality is a good enough reason to try. He clears his throat and, after some struggle, Tom remembers how to speak:
"Figures the only other person in the world is you."
"Yep, it's me! Just came to say thanks for the beer!"
A br... | I couldn’t be sure it was him at first.
The man walked down the middle of the street. The same way he had when I met him the first time. He didn’t seem to take notice of me at all.
It was him. I was certain.
"Hey..." I gasped, "I...I remember you."
"I remember you too," he said.
"Do you need any beer money?" I ask... | 2020-10-07T04:18:05 | 2020-10-07T04:03:55 | 609 | 69 |
[WP] When you were young, you encountered a witch who promised you immortality in exchange for your firstborn child. You accepted, and used all of your time trying to think of a way to bypass her deal, when finally you came up with an easy loophole that has enraged the witch. You adopted a child. | "Daddy," said Mark, tugging my jeans. "That nasty ol' witch is at the door again. What should I tell her?"
I smiled. My child didn't have a foul mouth, if that's what you were thinking. In fact, Mark was right on; the old lady was nasty, in more ways than one, and a witch. "Tell her to come in."
He nodded, and, a few... | Myralith the terrible had always been exactly as her name suggested. she was cruel, unforgiving, unrelenting. crafty, intelligent, and greedy. She had never loved anyone or anything. never held anything but disdain for the world. and this is, of course, why she thoroughly enjoyed stripping those who thought her a fool ... | 2020-03-10T06:58:24 | 2020-03-10T06:54:55 | 347 | 17 |
[WP] They told you that you were going to lead an army, 10,000 men strong, they didn't tell you it contained only a single trained soldier, and 9,999 support musicians. | When the music began, I wasn’t expecting this to work at all. No matter how powerful the bards could be, and I had seen them work some interesting miracles before, they had always worked best at empowering a group. Focusing teamwork, providing communication of a sorts so that a party of adventurous heroes could follow ... | "Right, all 9,999 of you line up here to receive your special vests before we enter battle," Sergei said with a grin.
"What makes them special?" asked one musician hesitantly.
"Oh, they contain reinforced plates to protect you in battle," Sergei explained.
"Why arent we getting any weapons?" asked another musician.
... | 2022-09-23T09:54:22 | 2022-09-23T09:44:12 | 197 | 41 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | I wake up in my bed, the same bed that I bought.
The same room with the same walls, the same decorations.
All of it is familiar to me, nothing had changed.
Nothing.
Not even the calander date.
My fear was simple and profound at the same time. I feared the familiar, the same repetitive thing over and over again.
I... | That Bruce Wayne guy had the right idea. He was afraid of bats, so he dressed up as bats. Good shit, I say.
My childhood friend was afraid of his alcoholic father, so he drinks to cope with his childhood.
Jfk said, "the only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." What a good quote. Imagine an anti-hero that breaks... | 2022-05-14T19:10:00 | 2022-05-14T18:35:53 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] The princess was cursed that her first husband would die a horrible death. Inorder to avoid this horrible fate the royal family used you as a scapegoat and married you to the princess. But because of your immortality you have died over 20 times and still come back to life. | I didn't mind the deaths, not really. I had died plenty of times before in this long dreg I called a life. However I do have to admit the curse was getting really creative. I've been mauled by wolves once or twice before, but I have to say this was the first time that I was simultaneously stuck by lightning while poiso... | *The princess’ curse had killed me before, and it would kill me again. But I had to endure for the sake of the royal family. I had to hold them together against the tidal waves of nationalism and fear. I had to keep them from breaking. And I had to watch over them as their father did, as a true son should.*
*Years lat... | 2021-06-09T13:33:44 | 2021-06-09T11:44:56 | 338 | 31 |
[WP] After a bad breakup, you take Reddit's famous advice. Lawyer up, hit the gym, delete Facebook. The problem? You are Mark Zuckerberg. | The lobby was crowded with suited men standing in small groups and feverishly arguing. They planned, reasoned, or stood slack-jawed and dejected, but none could think of a solution and all had tried their best to dissuade him. One leaned against a window and openly wept, his phone dangling in his limp hand. Hurried foo... | With half of Facebook stolen by his former wife in the divorce, Mark Zuckerberg saw no reason not to delete it.
"I'll burn facebook to the ground before I let that money grubbing whore have half!'
DELETE.
*ONE YEAR LATER*
A more swole, more satisfied Zuckerberg floats contented in his pool. In the shallow end his h... | 2016-02-15T13:26:19 | 2016-02-15T11:01:14 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | All of the sound was suddenly sucked from the room. I couldn't even hear my own pulse, if I still had one, given what I was seeing... but... no. No, no, no. I'm seeing things. This is just a trick of the light. I chuckled lightly at the thought of my own 'impurity'. What a concept! I was already anxious to share this w... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:00:48 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 147 | 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". | The gigantic oak door that made up the main entrance to my mansion buckled and broke, flying off its hinges in a shower of splinters. A young knight stepped in, clad in a pragmatic and flexible armor.
"I will not let you take my dragon!" I shrieked, wielding a heavy trident.
"Yes yes, we know."
"He is mine!" Purple ... | "Maybe in this castle we'll be safe," she thought to herself, "maybe we won't have to run again."
It had been so long since she had felt safe. So long since the running had started. So far they had travelled together, he had kept her safe as she fled to find another haven. So many worlds they had discovered, and falle... | 2019-01-09T11:21:07 | 2019-01-09T11:07:30 | 72 | 24 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | "Ahura," Jaini said with a sigh, "have you finished wiping the server? Boss wanted it clean by last week." He wiped the Zheeto dust coating his fingers on crinkled office slacks. His once-white button-up hung loose over slouched shoulders, its shape on the verge of giving up like its owner's eyes.
Ahura didn't turn fr... | A long time ago, a massive alien empire prepared, sending out van neuman probes into another galaxy. They wanted to troll the scientists of a young and unsuspecting civilization. They did the math, and hoped that they did not miscalculated somewhere. Every star should disappear for them at roughly the same moment in ti... | 2020-03-24T02:45:39 | 2020-03-24T02:04:36 | 860 | 39 |
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