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[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | It was my fault he died. They weren't pressing charges, cause I'm just a kid and it was pretty much an accident. But it was still my fault. Which begs the question:
Was my birthmark counting down my lives or the lives of others? There were only two ways to test my hypotheses, but both could prove fatal. Either I could... | I woke up in the hospital, noticed that the 9 had changed to an 8. Had an odd notion that this was the number of lives I had left. Considering I should have died from the accident. To truly test my theory, I grabbed a scalpel from the table. I dug the scalpel deep into my neck and slit my own throat...
I woke up in a... | 2016-08-03T20:39:27 | 2016-08-03T20:22:20 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] A noise wakes you. You investigate and see a burglar in your hallway staring at you with a startled look on his face. He falls over dead. Your 4 year old is standing behind him with a bloody knife. She says, in an unearthly voice, "Parent, I have protected the domicile. May I have a cookie?" | I know sugar is addictive, but what its done to my son is something definitely beyond this world. He’s just standing there, gazing at me with his puppy dog eyes. Like he’s asking me to be proud of what he’s done and I should reward him for it. However, should I? Seeing as there’s fresh blood dripping from the knife in ... | you stop and stare, mouth agape. your gaze switches between your baby girl, Eleanor, and the body of the intruder, whose blood is slowly seeping onto your hardwood floor.
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Eleanor steps forward, knife still in hand. "May I have a cookie, parent?", she says urgently, in the same tone.
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You s... | 2018-10-31T08:52:34 | 2018-10-31T06:41:24 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | I treated it as a sign from god, maybe. A source of motivation from up high.
The digit 1. Always 1. No other number showed, lit up and sparkling on the floor in my bedroom, an ethereal, otherworldly light source that bothered me day and night. And so, I aimed for it.
Studies. Work. A pickup basketball game. For years... | I‘m already sitting! He shouted from the toilet.
No, come out here and take a seat, I think we have to talk about some things.
Babe, i feel like i‘m giving birth here. Can‘t that wait a few more minutes?
Ohh i swear to god you have no fucking clue what that means.
Yeah you think so? Do you want to come in and take... | 2020-09-03T03:06:18 | 2020-09-03T00:49:34 | 636 | 69 |
[WP] Muggle-born wizards and witches are struggling to install wifi in their dormitories and library in Hogwarts. | "My phone shows negative one bars."
"What?"
"Have a look. The little icon with the bars shows one bar below zero, like the signal strength is negative."
"What does that even mean?"
"I think it means magic is screwing with us. Anyway, no Internet access for us. This sucks."
...
"I just don't get it. You've got... | "Hello, this is Comcast, how can I help you?"
"Yes, this is Amanda Reskin, my internet is down. I was hoping you could help me get it back running?"
I flipped my script to the starting page. "Certainly ma'am, let me pull up your information"
She shared her details and I brought up the info.
"Oh." my shoulders... | 2014-12-04T09:33:42 | 2014-12-04T09:02:53 | 211 | 69 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | James let out a sigh as he boarded the S.S. Life-raft. He thought the name was fitting even beyond its metaphorical meaning. It was a small ship, just enough room for the scientists aboard and any equipment they saw fit to bring with them, and not a particularly nice one either, with obvious signs of age. Most would be... | First time writing so be gentle.
"I didn't mean to!" Tim exclaimed as he ran away from the side of the ship.
"Darn it, Tim..." I sighed, "I told you to be careful with that; if they find out that we lost it RIGHT after being told not to, they're gonna kill us! ...or worse! Take us home.."
Tim let out a short gasp as... | 2017-11-17T07:25:39 | 2017-11-17T07:00:35 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | The students filed into the room slowly, some clearly uncomfortable in the more modern clothing that had, for the moment, replaced the tradition student robes. The front of the room was dominated by a stack of crates, each containing a small chicken, in varying levels of calm.
"Silence," the professor began, gesturing... | Professor Baron was sketching the alchemical formula for the fifteenth time today. The class was silent. A thick aura of boredom congealed the air, making the classroom oppressive. Students fidgeted, scratched at the desk, rubbed their eyes.
Another hour of this, I thought to myself, rubbing my neck.
Arya yawned, lo... | 2021-04-02T01:22:24 | 2021-04-01T20:24:12 | 302 | 59 |
[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" | Hellfire and death fluttered down from the sky. Ashy snowflakes, falling burning. Through the rapidly-heating window of his office building, Federation Commander Korthu watched the foreign spaceships drop fire on the capital city. Below him, people ran, their many-tentacled bodies writhing, as smolding debris crushed t... | It happened faster than anyone could process what was going on. At one moment the Tokyo Olympics were being televised, and the next no one on Earth were able to contact the city.
Japan, obviously, was the first on the scene. What the soldiers reported was unbelievable, craters the size of football pitches, giant def... | 2019-12-17T12:03:04 | 2019-12-17T11:54:47 | 421 | 39 |
[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... | Peter stood among a line of mourners filing past a casket paying their last respects to a friend Peter had loved. The sorrow and weeping in the room reflected the anguish and weight Peter carried inside of him, but he shed no tears. There were none left after centuries of watching every person he loved die.
This death... | Context: I’m scared of silence.
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He just kept on talking. I mean I talk a lot too, but gosh this is a bit much. God can’t you just shut up…” I mumble under my breath.
It wasn’t supposed to work.
But it did.
He stopped talking. His mouth just…… stoppe... | 2022-05-14T20:10:32 | 2022-05-14T19:30:24 | 128 | 12 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | A flickering then an eventual fade into darkness - those were the last of memories of Hex.
Hex regained consciousness in a pleasant room. Antique bookshelves covered all fours filled with countless hardbound books, the scent of pine cones waft in the air. A desk separated Hex and an old man with a long, gray beard. On... | "Happy 80th birthday to us, Mr. Gloves!" I whispered to his ears as I slowly lulled him in my thin and wrinkled arms. Mr. Gloves is my twin cat, being born on the same day I was eight decades ago, which is essentially today. Little is known why and how cats always seem to have a *twin* human, and why they also pass awa... | 2020-07-20T03:04:41 | 2020-07-20T02:51:13 | 269 | 127 |
[WP] "Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy." | "Duh," I said.
"... Duh?" he uttered, dragging the word a tag too long, betraying his unfamiliarity with the times and its lexicon.
"Old man," I continued.
"... Old? I've only--"
"Old man," I assured him of the fact once again, pressing my blade a little closer. Not enough to draw blood, but enough to make him winc... | \*in a light white hallway with yellow sides\*
"no matter what you call me, the devil, 001, deaths hand, whatever" the thing croaked "i am me, and humanity is you, and you will always unite to fight me, that's why I'm here"
the scientist, with tears in his eyes: "no, you killed so many,you brought so much pain to thi... | 2020-12-09T09:06:25 | 2020-12-09T08:52:16 | 598 | 106 |
[WP] You are the ageless evil of the land, and a prophecy has been made about a chosen one arising to end your rule. Instead of antagonizing the Chosen one, you send Gaurds to his farmstead, and give his parents tax breaks. | The Dark One, Overlord of the Fifteen Worlds, had kidnapped the oracle years ago. It was best to keep prophecy-spewing maidens close to the den, after all. So when the aforementioned oracle made the "Great Prophecy" that foretold of his reign's end by the hand of a farm girl, the Dark One was the first to hear of it.
... | Galodir the Undying, Killer of Men, carrier of the Black Shield and supreme Lord over all five kingdoms of Calcot, looked at his messenger flatly. The boy, a squire, apparently had been running since the early dawn hours to reach Galodir's ageless glass throne, tempered in dragon flame in the wars of the first empire.
... | 2017-08-13T10:49:26 | 2017-08-13T10:01:54 | 7,608 | 587 |
[WP] You've had a crush on the local Superhero for a while. In an effort to get their attention, you've unintentionally become a Supervillain. | Wow, I dunno. All the times I got near her? Lessee.
The first time was just standing on the balcony outside my office. She was flying past being chased by the Blue Mosquito. You know how he's surrounded by that cloud of flies? One flew in my mouth and I ate it, I think. I guess it had some of his mutagens on it. I got... | Sigh. It was a sigh that I have heard too many times in my life. Kelly shook her disapprovingly head at me. She frowned, just like all the other times. Her smile still eludes me.
I do not understand. Everything was supposed to be perfect this time. I kept quiet, hoping that maybe... just maybe, she will see past what ... | 2018-01-30T07:12:40 | 2018-01-30T06:07:41 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | The first one, I did not notice. He died of a heart attack later, just like it said. When I heard, I freaked. I started seeing more of them. I tried saving them. Saved a guy from a car crash, a day later he got into another one. Saved another one from a heart attack, as soon as they took him away he got another one. Sa... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T08:19:44 | 241 | 156 |
[WP] You've lived in this cave for hundreds of years. You know every sound, every disturbance. You can hear the footsteps, a young human. He thinks your asleep, you observe. His steps are mousy, they tremble with fear. His posture speaks of abuse. It's obvious that someone else put him up to this. | I have lived here for a long time. The local village think me a terrible beast. In centuries past this led them to give me offerings, first of flesh, then of items they thought of great value. I was never interested in these things, I chose this cave so that I might wither away in my lonely immortality. Eventually, my ... | "Hello," My voice stretches the word, dry and wispy as I shift amongst the walls, "what do we have here, then?" He stiffens, then, as he searches for me, his eyes move yet his body is stone. They dart around to darkness, hardly able to discern any detail, "I-I am Jonah. I am s-s-supposed to slay you." His voice tremble... | 2021-03-25T05:17:34 | 2021-03-25T04:11:38 | 84 | 34 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | I felt groggy. My back was stiff. “Where am I?” I thought. “I must have slept in. I can’t remember falling asleep.” The mattress felt unfamiliar. I eased myself into a sitting position.
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“She’s up!” a voice to my left yelled, startling me to no end. I wrenched my eyelids open to take in my surroundings. W... | A hooded figure enters the cathedral. Not confidently, yet not with weakness either. With a complete disregard for his surroundings, he continues through. The crimson pathway opens up to an abyssal black altar, with seven seats worthy of the title of thrones by themselves, until compared to the momentous monstrosity th... | 2019-01-12T21:06:01 | 2019-01-12T18:24:29 | 631 | 195 |
[WP] Waking from cryostasis is now possible. The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week. Your name is chosen. | They’ve stolen your life from you. That’s what my mother said. But I didn’t mind, really. You see, they had chosen me, the government that is, to be the first living time capsule, to be the first man to span human existence. Cryostasis. This was a gift, a privilege. I would be remembered for as long as I live.
The da... | “Time travel.” I tell the board of the selection committee. “You want me to time travel. Why?” I hadn’t known that this committee existed, or even if cryostasis technology had come this far along. Now I had been summoned to a mysterious meeting to talk about this….I wasn’t sure what to call it. Was it an honor? A privi... | 2014-12-19T07:17:25 | 2014-12-19T06:30:31 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] You've just entered the restaurant of Karma, where everyone gets what they deserve. As a very normal person, you expect to get a bowl of soup, or maybe pasta. But before you can even sit down, the staff carry out a 12-course meal for you. | Whatever its real name is, it’s been lost to time. The vinyl awning just says “REST UR T”, there’s no menus, and the staff just shrug if you ask. But I call it Karma’s, and it’s my go-to first date spot.
Number one: it’s really good to see how she copes with the no-menu, you-get-what-you-get thing. Once a girl walked... | Theo finished the final course and allowed herself to relax into the soft, corner booth. She had arrived with the hopes of getting a bite to eat, not gorging herself on foods she had never even seen before! Why was this happening to her? When asked, the servers just smiled at her and ignored her questions.
Something ... | 2020-08-10T08:41:22 | 2020-08-10T06:56:18 | 79 | 40 |
[WP] You are going on a quest to avenge the death of your brother. Each village elder gives a gift. The Dwarf an axe, the elf a bow & the Necromancer your brother.
* Your village is very multicultural. | "Oi, Dremar, can you help me hoist the tent?"
The dark eyed man glanced over at me as I hold up two poles. Grath, our dwarven companion, was little help. Lestar, the elf, was trying his best but we just need extra hands.
"Mmm, go help them, if you will," Dremar said. He waved a long fingered hand and his shambling se... | Dillan sighed, hoisting his rucksack further up on his back, and strode off down the path that led towards the village gates, which was lined on either side by his fellow villagers; some of them wore sympathetic looks as he waded past them, others looked eager, excited, even, at the prospect. It had been years since a ... | 2020-08-19T12:05:42 | 2020-08-19T11:51:56 | 138 | 37 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | John Tyson quietly left the board meeting wearing a false smile, only letting his true emotions show on his face after he had turned away from the rest of the board. Everyone else in the room was jubilant - their fourth quarter earnings had shattered Wall Street’s expectations, and Tyson’s stock price was set to rise a... | And we're back with live coverage of the two thousand and fifty third interplanetary Olympics, direct from Gliese 6c! And what a spectacle it's been so far, Rob.
You can say that again, Claire. I haven't seen competition this fierce since the nuclear blast survivability round. In fact I haven't seen anything since!
A... | 2014-05-06T06:49:25 | 2014-05-06T06:42:13 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are known throughout the galaxy as the only species without active psychic abilities. One day at school the alien teacher reveals a book that not even the universal translators can decipher. You and the other humans in the class can read it perfectly, and you recognize it as a grimoire. | Three hundred years ago humans have made contact with various extraterrestrial life. Overwhelmed by the sheer difference with technological advancements humans quickly fell into the bottom of the food chain. The United Galactic Government or the U.G.G. enacted laws in order to protect humans as third class species, in ... | Humans were considered "Disabled" by the various races of the galaxy. We had no access to psychic abilities. Oh when they met us they marveled at our paradox, a race radiating psychic energy that had no ability to direct it. We were quickly cordoned off by the larger galactic community, we were just too loud most of th... | 2020-09-07T02:56:08 | 2020-09-07T01:49:12 | 295 | 76 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | "General, Cavanaugh. . . ." the sergeant said, cautiously, unsure how to proceed.
It wasn't difficult to pour venom into my words, it was seeping out of my soul, the vitriol eager to escape. I pushed a feather boa out of my field of vision and got close to the soldier, close enough that he could smell the perfume I... | "Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me!" The lady persisted.
I had tried to ignore her. That worked about half the time. "Yes?"
"One of your employees was very rude to me. He should be fired." She was red in the face and pointed an Shakey finger towards a young woman. The employee had a massive bun hairdo and blue eyesh... | 2018-08-12T17:43:39 | 2018-08-12T17:07:02 | 579 | 215 |
[WP] Technology has advanced to the point no one alive has seen or even heard of a naked flame; one day a fire starts. | The square was quiet, only a few afternoon merchants milling about. Mareena had scoured the stalls, but nothing had really stood out. Pretty trinkets, some views she hadn't seen but had no real interest in, and of course the food.
She wondered why there were stalls for food still, the energy intake from one of those b... | Nobody knew how it started, a rat chewing some cables maybe, or a desk jockey overloading his computer. The fire took place in Megacity N4, starting in district D, it quickly spread from office block to office block, devastating the financial district.
It were as if Judgement Day had come, people were fleeing the city... | 2016-04-16T04:52:07 | 2016-04-16T04:47:24 | 127 | 90 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | “And honestly, you don’t even really get that nauseous after the fourth or fifth time,” Captain Zerk explained, passing paper towels to Matt Damon.
Suddenly, a bright flash of light\-\-a ship appears behind theirs.
“What in the\-\-?”
“Incoming message, Commander Zerk,” chimes the ship’s command station.
Zerk waves ... | The apparent reason for the kidnapping was to fill the vacant role of (janitor) on the ship. As the Aliens know earth is the most fecund spot in the Milky Way for specimens to fill janitorial roles.
What the aliens on the ship hadn’t expected was when Matt started work on the ship, mopping floors, cleaning space shit,... | 2018-06-06T15:07:45 | 2018-06-06T14:10:50 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] People can buy, sell, trade, or give away their skills. Some skills are passed from father to son, like woodworking. Your uncle recently died and left you a box. Inside is a warning, and a very particular set of skills, skills he acquired over a very long career. | "To my dearest Isabella,
My family's history is complicated, to say the least. Your uncle Alfred isn't quite the playful old man I wished to be. When I was close to your age, I was given the same task that I must now pass to you.
A few hundred years ago, our story started. Man decided to become God, and we all know ... | The box lid shut with a bit too much noise for the small room. The echoes seemed to collect in various corners, something I had never noticed before. Never been able to notice before. Because I've never been this aware before. Time feels thick, like I can barely push through it.
My uncle was no one special. Ins... | 2017-02-04T18:12:05 | 2017-02-04T16:58:14 | 1,496 | 173 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | Quick and Efficient. That's my trade.
Movies always get it wrong. People fantasize about all the wrong things. They let their hatred and past injustices run wild inside their own mind because that's the only place it's permissible to feel those things. The imagination runs wild about how they get their justice,... | I won't lie. I am in this for the money.
Some of my "colleagues"--if you can call them that--are out to settle old scores. Society shit on them and theirs, and now they want to be the ones to do the shitting. I never got that. This business is *hard*. Too hard to stay in just to reap some *schadenfreude*.
Others I w... | 2018-10-18T19:21:11 | 2018-10-18T19:12:43 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | I have always wondered what my ancestry was, it's always been like that since I was little. I was adopted at a very young age, my foster parents never told me anything. When I pressured them they'd go off on me, they were stuck-up anyway. I got a DNA test done in college, I barely have a connection or relationship with... | Her footsteps followed a precise rhythm, her heels never missing a beat on the cracked pavement. He tight, brunette bun coupled with a tailor-fitted suit told Aaron she was of high importance. The four armed guards surrounding her gave off that impression, too. She carried a black briefcase with a silver double helix e... | 2019-08-05T19:16:34 | 2019-08-05T18:13:14 | 52 | 33 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | “Prepare for trouble”
“Make it double”
“To protect the world from persistent pain”
“To unite all peoples within our gang.”
“To denounce the evils of villainy and strife”
“To scoot the villains out of ruining life”
“Scooter Red”
“Scooter Blue”
“Scooter Heroes ride off into the night.”
“Surrender now or prepare to fight!... | \[ParaSEC Target File, Threat Level: Low\]
* C-Class audiokinesis \[Looping and pitch. No evidence of volume control\]
* D-Class speedster abilities. \[Slightly faster run speed. Potential sensory acuity - further evidence required\]
* Target demonstrates propensity to use powers exclusively for show. All 'villainous'... | 2022-11-29T03:44:50 | 2022-11-28T20:44:52 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Your tech-illiterate mother is absolutely insane with the desire for a grandbaby, so she signed you up with "Otherworldly Dating Services" mistaking it for "online" dating service. You give in to her pleading and decide to go on a few dates just to shut her up. | Admittedly, I have never gone on a date before. So, you can see my predicament. Not only is this my first date, but it also happens to be with a young vampire, who for all I know, only wants me for one thing. My blood that is.
I was surprised when my mother managed to open up internet explorer. That surprise only grew... | I waited at the secluded diner for my date. We've talked a lot online, and I think she seems charming enough.
My mom got us hooked up. She found some website called "Otherworldly Dating Services". She called and texted *every single day* to give it a whirl; she wants grandchildren badly.
I finally gave in. I love my ... | 2017-12-21T12:36:13 | 2017-12-21T12:27:59 | 248 | 91 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | I walked deeper into the trees, damp hands clutching the side of my trousers, heart trying to thump its way through my chest. Although it was dark and I could barely see where I was stepping, I could sense the... thing. I wondered if this was how prey felt.
Something rustled behind me and I almost tripped over my own ... | **-- Part 1 --**
By nightfall the villagers had lit their torches and grabbed their pitchforks, beginning the ravenous parade of chants and hisses behind the Warden, leading the Accused in chains. The Accused couldn’t help but contemplate his fate as they continued their forced march. “Murderer!” “Killer!” “Death to t... | 2021-03-16T14:17:43 | 2021-03-16T12:39:38 | 174 | 103 |
[WP] In a world where everyone discovers their superpower at age 5, you discover that your child has the ability to bring small toys to life. Things seem fine until he comes across your Warhammer 40k miniature collection... | "Ari, sweetie? Lunch is ready!" Ana called out for her daughter from the kitchen, a plate with a sandwich in her hand. A girly giggle followed by a deep burbling, wet belly laugh and a squelch reminiscent of wet skin hitting concrete made her freeze.
Ariadne had just turned five, and they had discovered her innate ... | You awake in a strange land full of reds and browns. A gentle breeze comes form above. Looking upwards, you see a massive fixture hanging from a paneled wooden ceiling. Blades crafted from clearly ancient and gigantic trees swing in circles, creating a gentle breeze. You’re on a platform of some sort, the ground being ... | 2020-12-02T19:08:03 | 2020-12-02T19:00:48 | 242 | 81 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | There were four of us. We'd meet every couple hundred years and discuss the pranks we pulled on the mortals. Such good fun the mortals were. So easily susceptible to manipulation. Would we be so simple if we lived less than a century? Barely the blink of an eye, I can't imagine that being my entire existance.
"... | "Hey Tony," John said "in ten thousand years pull my finger."
"Okay, sure" Tony said
Ten thousand years pass.
"Well, John. It's time for me to pull that finger of yours."
"Here it is." John said with a grin.
Tony reached for Johns finger. As he pulled it John audibly farted.
"Aww, gross!" Tony said, pinching his nose.... | 2017-06-22T21:50:06 | 2017-06-22T19:04:31 | 679 | 309 |
[WP] No one else knows but we’ve been in an extremely realistic RPG all our lives. You seem weird to everyone because you’re always trying to “max your stats” and “defeat the final boss” | "Roy, what in god's name are you up this late for?"
"Leave me alone 'Mother' I need to grind out more constitution if I want to make it on the basketball team this year."
It was 1:00 am. I had crafted my own lunch and dinner to optimally improve my CON gains. Not only that, I had went out and gotten an energy drink... | Ever since the malfunction, no one remembers the original goal of the game after respawn. It's though their memories are completely wiped, and starts over as a new born babe.
But you remembered, you know, it's your 50th respawn and you remembers everything. The first time you respawn you were kicking and screaming...... | 2018-06-10T10:44:01 | 2018-06-10T08:26:59 | 422 | 186 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows us to hear sounds locked into the clay of ancient pots as they were being formed. What is extracted are conversations that will alter the perception of history in the most terrifying of ways. | *God I hate him.*
Of course, the “*most brilliant mind of our time*” is a complete moron. And his name is Jerry. First, He radicalized the historical record by developing a device for reading micro impressions left on malleable mediums. Delivered the speech about it via recordings he left on play-doh figures *of himse... |
*Yo man, check this out! I just bought this pot from pre-historic South America. Neat uh? Let's hear what it says! Turn that shit on!*
*O-kay. I'm turning the device on. Get ready for disappointment.*
*Wow this sounds like gibberish! You sure that thing ain’t broken?*
*Yes, I am pretty sure. I am also sure you ... | 2019-03-18T17:38:49 | 2019-03-18T15:24:37 | 56 | 21 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | “Bring out the wretched Human!” The voice boomed from all angles. “Let the council decree his fate.”
Steve Stevenson was dragged from his cell by two exceptionally large Moroxi. The Moroxi had an unnerving similarity to the long extinct Kangaroo from earth, but with four arms and scales. The guards sneered at Stevens... | I can’t believe I’m stuck on this podunk planet in this no name galaxy. My transmitter isn’t working and my translator is only picking up parts of what’s going on because this language is extinct except for this one backwards ass planet. I’m in jail. It’s a weird jail. It’s two cement walls, two glass walls, and cement... | 2020-05-20T10:46:26 | 2020-05-20T10:06:43 | 3,523 | 94 |
[WP] After working hard your whole life you’ve finally done it: You have a stable job that’s rewarding, a wonderful wife, two young children, and you just bought your first home... You awake. “Thanks for grinding out those beginning levels for me.” The stranger says. “Your money’s in the bank.” | A screen appears before you, your fingers on its holographic keyboard, purely from muscle memory for now. There is no dark mode for hard light and as much as you dislike the brightness, the blinding glow helps you focus. Your bank account is on the screen. There are a lot of zeroes in the balance. You scan the transact... | There is always a delay. It is the worst part of being a lifelunder. It is the most agonizing 11 minutes one can endure. You are receiving information. Seeing again. Hearing. Feeling your environment. For the first time in 8 months. Senses you've depended upon to be brought to you are gone, and your brain literally com... | 2019-09-13T02:39:44 | 2019-09-12T22:23:29 | 114 | 43 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T09:55:29 | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 97 | 18 |
[WP] You started listening to a podcast about strange creatures in myths and legends. Jokingly, you start to put out offerings of bread and such, asking permission to cross bridges and fields. When one day you hear a small voice in your ear "no one has given me an offering in centuries". | I stood in my garden, looking at the ring of mushrooms growing almost in the middle of it. I knew mushrooms could grow just about anywhere and I haven’t been the most diligent with the garden lately, yet it’s rare to see such a perfect circle grown naturally like that. For some reason though I didn’t pluck them, and ju... | I'm an odd dude.
While my friends were joining the track team, or playing soccer back in high school, I was reading books. Lots of books, actually, and most of them were fantasy. When I wasn't reading, I was writing about these fantastical things.
I loved mythical creatures. Stories of elves and trolls, of wizards an... | 2018-07-02T08:20:40 | 2018-07-02T07:21:35 | 104 | 54 |
[WP] Your family is known for only producing geniuses or idiots. The jury is still out on you, but it's generating plenty of interest. | My eldest sister Katherine Jepsen was just named the youngest ever appointee to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. She graduated from Harvard Law several years early and had spent the intervening years righting wrongs and correcting injustices in wrongful convictions across the country. She is as brilli... | The eighteenth birthday of a member of the Duffy clan is a peculiar one. For the first half, at least. The greatest mathematicians, engineers, poets, politicians, gathered in your mum's cooped-up country house, peering expectantly over your breakfast table. Today is the day the Duffy genii either claim you as their own... | 2019-08-03T11:54:31 | 2019-08-03T08:52:41 | 60 | 17 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Our War Council was surprised when these Humans asked what we knew about the Aldins' own core worlds.
"What are their defenses, their detection systems for tracking ships jumping in from deep space?"
We told them that what we knew from our own attempts to fight in Aldin systems was that they were passive at home, th... | "Finally, those damned Cetaceans and their ridiculous cylindrical vessels have decided to share the secrets of FTL travel." Admiral James T Kahn sat confidently on the bridge of the newly christened flagship of the Earth Space Superiority services.
Soon, it would be engaged in battle with Rodentia. "They think they... | 2016-05-13T06:30:06 | 2016-05-13T06:26:32 | 87 | 21 |
[WP]Georgia, 1903. A Baptist minister, armed with a Bible, an axe and two pistols, waits for sundown at a crossroads, where he intends to confront the Devil. | He waits. The minister dreamed this place, felt it calling to him last night, felt the battle coming like you feel a storm in the air. Dreamed the feel of the heat coming of the ground. Saw the horse shit in the middle of the crossroads. Heard the insects chittering to each other in the fading light.
He's got his ... | The Devil went down to Georgia. He was lookin' for a soul to steal.
He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind. He was willing to make a deal
When he came across this preacher with a gun in each hand and eyes burnin' hot.
And the Devil jumped upon a hickory stump and said "Father, let me tell you what."
"I bet yo... | 2014-05-02T07:52:45 | 2014-05-02T06:28:06 | 300 | 99 |
[WP] You get invited by an eccentric classmate to join the "Conquest Club." You think it may be a video or board gaming club, and decide to check it out. During your first meeting you realize the group is actually planning to conquer the world, and somehow, they seem to have the resources to do it. | Wrapping three times on the door did just the tick this time.
“Gives a minute” a voice called from the other side of the oak. “Damn thing’s stiff”.
After some time the door slammed open and Mathis was met by a figure already wearing his secretive robe.
“Hail, brother!” Mathis said remembering the secret code given ... | As the realization hits me I sit in shock only half listening as someone as someone begins discussing food supplies for troops in Paraguay. Looking around the table at the determined faces I consider my options. These men and women have the potential to create a new world order. Every word I spoke in this meeting was a... | 2018-11-06T13:47:13 | 2018-11-06T09:34:09 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | "How do we know it's not a transmitter bolted to the earth?"
"It bears all the hallmarks of non-terrestrial non-solar system origin. We've confirmed that the signal is coming from one spot in the sky moving at the same rate as the stars."
"And the communication medium?"
"Pictorial, Sir. It seems to be modeled on the... | First Prose Be nice & tear it to shreds!
It hums, late at night, but the sounds are not songs. The Earth is crying, a lonely desperate tune, seeking for something more. The Earth, like any creature with sentience, seeks to find a companion. The Earth is filled with inhabitants, the tiny bacteria-like creatures tha... | 2016-03-27T08:44:25 | 2016-03-27T06:54:18 | 215 | 108 |
[WP] You live in a universe that wasn't constructed that well and the physics are buggy and things occasionally just don't work right. | "At times, I wonder if I should just get an apartment for the boy."
Alright, I thought. That was a fair start.
"Peter is sixteen. He's been my nephew for... well, technically, he's always been my nephew, but he didn't actually exist until about nine years ago. *That* was a shock, let me tell you. I can still remember... | Daydreaming was one of Johnathan's strongest talents, and on days such as this, frequently fell back on to escape Mr. Barnaby's incessant drone. It was the last week of sixth grade and all he could think about was the magnificent promise of the Summer ahead: all the sunny days and the carelessness and the county fair. ... | 2014-06-13T18:50:56 | 2014-06-13T18:41:08 | 121 | 29 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Cheesecake Town was the best town before the Dentist Nation attacked. Led by members of the **I**nternational **D**ental **C**avity **I**ntercept **L**egion, or **IDCIL**, they showed no mercy.
They tore chubby children from their mother's arms and disemboweled them with daggers etched with IDCIL's singular mission s... | I'm alone, alone in a sea of meringue. The macaroons surfaced like a sea of coconut clouds, blurring the sun. Just when I made my way out of the sticky sweetness, the evil chocolate rum balls came crashing down from the sky, like black, acid rain, invading my village and killing all the villagers. I am the only one lef... | 2014-12-16T23:53:26 | 2014-12-16T23:10:53 | 67 | 45 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | “A boy is what they have mustered?”
The beast seemed on the verge of laughter, amused at the most recent ‘raider’ to approach her. “I am no mere boy, basilisk,” the young man huffed, grasping at what remained of his courage, “and do not mock me!” The young one’s sword was an average implement, the dragon noted. She co... | “Once again our crops burn, even as we speak we wait for their flames to be doused. Last year was a travesty, but a surplus in stock gave us ample time to slay the beast yet here I stand with bellows of smoke in my eyes to a crumbling kingdom! Once a great nation, its citizens the wealthiest in the land of Astharnia, a... | 2020-12-01T09:21:21 | 2020-12-01T06:36:28 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2022. A virus has wiped out everyone over the age of 60, decimating world governments and and the mighty 1%. Generation X is too relieved from the constant badgering of their parents to rebuild society. It's up to the Millennials to put the world back together. | "Your total comes to One-Forty-Eight Sixty-three today," the clerk at the market says cheerfully. I don't think I'll ever get over the sticker shock. I look down at my single cloth grocery bag packed with lentils, quinoa, various fruits, and a package of Impossible beef substitute. I miss Kroger. I miss grilling up a n... | Cindy peered over towards Jacob, fumbling with the mechanical contraption in her hands. Just when she thought she had it, the object inexplicably slipped through her fingers and went flying half-way across the room. She threw up her hands in exasperation and slumped backwards.
"Just how the hell are you supposed to op... | 2019-07-26T07:06:38 | 2019-07-26T06:28:00 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | "I don't understand general, how can you expect to beat them with so few!?"
"What do you mean ambassador?"
"We gave you their numbers ahead of time. They have over 200,000 units in the city! Why did you only bring 300 of your own?"
"Ambassador, you also gave us their equipment specs, a full layout of the city, and ... | It was a last resort.
That's what needed to be done... The extinction of my race was at stake! No one could've known what they planned to do..
For those of you reading this log, My name is Kul'Thrat, Lead Biomancer of the Technocratic Hegemony. We were a peaceful race. We were masters of the sciences. Physics, Biolo... | 2016-05-13T09:31:34 | 2016-05-13T08:23:35 | 40 | 16 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | James and Robert sat the bar. They were taking shots and complaining about their boss Dylan. Regular Friday night stuff.
"That's it. Fuck this guy. I'm gonna kill his wife."
"Jim you can't say shit like that man."
"Wouldn't be first time I fucked over someone to prove a point."
"What?"
"Nevermind man don't worry a... | "Hey Garry, get your ass into my office!"
I must admit, I may be omnipotent, but I'm definitely not as forgiving as the big G. My "boss" was getting on my nerves at this point. I went into the office anyway, I dont know what brought me there. He started before I even got to sit down, something about responsibility and... | 2017-02-19T07:20:19 | 2017-02-19T06:32:54 | 203 | 115 |
[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. | “I like skin. I can’t not have skin. It’s time to get more skin.....I move silently toward the cabin. The skin cabin. Have they noticed it doesn’t lock yet? Have they noticed the blood stains from my skin work yet? I can’t wait to wear their surprises skin. Here’s the door. Do you think the noticed the bone handle. I l... | 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 ... | 2020-03-14T08:16:06 | 2020-03-14T07:58:35 | 349 | 73 |
[WP] Genie: aah, that's... an unusual wish, are you sure?... I mean, it's doable but... you sure you don't want something else? Like richness, or eternal life? Cos this is going to... and all the paperwork. But ok, if that's your wish, well, your wish has been granted | "So you're wish is to willingly take the genie's place?"
I answered without hesitation. "Yep!"
The mysterious, otherworldly entity that claimed to be the genie's boss stood before me, giving me a variety of expressions to indicate his confusion. The creature held a terrifying appearance, a tall silhouette shrouded in... | “Master, are you sure?” The genie asked again. “I know you don’t truly want something like this...”
“Well, maybe, but it is my wish right now.” I firmly answered.
“I don’t know... all that work we’ve done... After everything we’ve been through, it feels kind of...”
“Look, I wish for something, you wish for me to ... | 2018-08-05T08:35:37 | 2018-08-05T05:49:45 | 50 | 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... | I recall an SCP article that is almost exactly this prompt. Or at least, the spirit of this prompt for it's entirety. It's the rewritten Hateful Star skip, which I'll link at the end of my little blurb. There are a number of cross links to other skips, which you don't have to read but having a cursory understanding wou... | 2020-03-24T02:45:39 | 2020-03-24T02:30:47 | 860 | 38 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | “Sir, we’ve checked and rechecked the translations, and we are 100% positive that this is what they said,” General MacMillan said. The army-man’s eyes were blazing intensity, and he knew what he wanted to say. However, attacking the invaders had already been written off the board by higher powers than he.
“Five minuet... | You say to me why should you save me after you faze me with your stun gun
I don't want none, but listen son, cause I'm about to school you
with what I knew would one day come to free me, it's easy, the history of these cities
See, we evolved from nothing to what you see here
Ugly as sin chimps without any hair
... | 2016-11-30T10:44:29 | 2016-11-30T10:35:41 | 10,272 | 55 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | Every person in the world receives a creature at the age of 18. Since time immemorial, scientists and philosophers have been aching to find the reason for this, to figure out where the creatures come from- And how they reach us. The Guardians, as they have come to be called, are bonded in life and death to their owner.... | Ian was buried under a thick layer of sheets when he felt something moist run the length of his back. It entered his dream, and he saw a dog licking him. Ian started to play with the dog, before he felt the feeling again and jolted awake.
He slowly opened his eyes, saw the dragon in front of him, and went to check the... | 2014-09-28T08:54:52 | 2014-09-28T04:20:39 | 318 | 32 |
[WP] A hyper advanced alien race decides to mimic Darwin's study of finches with humans. Several groups of Homo sapiens are placed on different planets and monitored over a long period of time for adaptations/evolution. You've just been abducted from planetA to be studied alongside the others. | **Environmental Correlations with Human Behavior**
by Prof. Maelbogia and Brian
Department of Exobiology, Fifth Galactic College
Star GIM/18374, Planet Aelmo
**ABSTRACT**
As follow-up to our last paper^(\[1\]), we have determined that no more useful information can be gleaned about human behavior by replacing th... | “Homo-sapiens” the alien exclaimed, fluttering it’s wings for effect. “You are all descendants of Homo sapiens - a mammalian species form earth”
*so the legends were true.* I thought. *the legends of our origin, passed down verbally for millennia. I always thought them a fairytale. Abducted from a planet 680,000 light... | 2021-08-04T07:27:28 | 2021-08-04T07:09:14 | 126 | 41 |
[WP] You gain the skills and memories of anyone you kill. Naturally, you sought out to murder as many people as possible. With all the accumulated talent and experience, you became the world's most dangerous killer. One day you accidentally killed someone, and you gained something you didn't expect. | "More"
Jason growled, his face was twisted into a grin, his lips and teeth were red of fresh blood as he stood before the lifeless body of his latest victim.
"More"-- it was the word that had driven the Greedy Butcher, the nickname that was given to Jason as he commited a string of murders incited by his uncontaine... | You'd be surprised at how easy it is to get away with murder. What are the odds that a man decides in the middle of the night to hop in his car, drive to the second largest city in a neighboring state, and crumple the head of the first Lexus driver he can find unawares? Parking garages are ideal presuming you can find ... | 2022-02-20T21:46:46 | 2022-02-20T20:05:49 | 75 | 45 |
[WP] When you die you can stay as long as you want as a ghost. The year is 2028 and the crew of the first human mission to mars has no idea that the ship is filled with the ghosts of hundreds of scientists, explorers and intellectuals. | "Entry 1" :
Some say there is a god in the machine. If I were a superstitious man I could swear that I find things moved, small things that in zero gravity could have floated away on their own. When I am alone at my shift
in the silence I hear sometimes faint whispers. I can almost make out what they say, though they... | "Houston, can you sent a team in to check the air conditioning systems before we lift off? We've been experiencing lots of sudden drops in temperatures since we boarded."
"Uhh, no can do. We are running on a tight schedule here and running a last minute maintainence is costly. Over."
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The year is 2028. The wor... | 2016-12-25T11:44:00 | 2016-12-25T11:20:17 | 1,228 | 152 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | The council rose. Supreme chancellor Tir'vi of the Zri had entered the room. All eyes, pairs and quads and more, were focussed on her beak when she began to speak, her raspy voice echoing through the dark hall, which seemed to be floating in space, under and above nebulae, gas clouds, dying and birthing stars. A simple... | As the humans had become more self aware, we marveled at how little they progressed. They have done nothing but bicker over their meager lands, invest in immature sciences, squabbled over what invisible man was the one who would become their salvation from the endless void after life... But one thing we did not expect ... | 2014-07-16T10:34:15 | 2014-07-16T10:29:19 | 502 | 353 |
[WP] Everyone has a number above their heads that signifies their relevance to your life as a ratio. Both your parents are the highest you've seen (around 0.4-0.5) until today, when you spot an 0.97 hanging out under a bridge doing heroin. You make brief eye contact and they run. | “Dude! Wait!”
The man under the bridge had dropped his previously heroin-filled needle when I locked eyes with him. And then he bolted. With a 0.97 over his head, taunting me.
“Shit,” I breathed. I took off after him.
He was fast, but the knowledge of his potentially life-shattering importance filled every muscle of... | The park is usually a pretty quiet place and almost everybody there means nothing to me. Everyones a 0.0000000000001 or something. Maybe there'l be the occasional person I went to high school with or an Ex-Girlfriend's best friend who gets up to a .1 but thats it. It makes me feel anonymous. I feel like I have the free... | 2016-10-02T19:18:59 | 2016-10-02T15:36:21 | 67 | 47 |
[WP] Everybody on earth controls an element(wood,rubber,etc). Your dad controls steel while your mother controls plastic, but out of all the millions of elements you could’ve gotten you got time. You feel all mighty for a few years until at the age of 14 your sister was born. Her element? Space. | "Baba, baba!"
Harry smiled as he held his now 1 year old sister, Amy. She was really a thing to behold. Slightly pinkish skin, brilliant blue eyes, and a small brown tuft of hair the same shade as his. He couldn't help but grin as she called him again with her hands outstretched, reaching for the locks of hair he let ... | [poem]
i called the light
and she sWallowed up the darkness
inhalE
exahle
a moment set in motion
spAce
time
now intRinsically linked
red shift
bluE shift
the sequence and the dIstance
related
an uNbreakable bond
the universe is ours For the takIng
this entaNgled world of days and nIghts
wa... | 2022-11-12T08:12:56 | 2022-11-12T03:48:04 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] An alien race descends from above to invade a primitive world. But each attack is rebuffed by a single warrior--a man wearing every magic artifact the kingdom could scrounge up. | Ragnar could see the two giant alien motherships coming from a mile away. The motherships saw him too.
Hoisting up his shield, Ragnar emerged unscathed from the flurry of energy bullets unleashed upon him. The shield had always served him well. Forged by the Old Gods, it created an aura of protection that held all har... | I stood upon my little hill and surveyed the carnage before me. Craters littered the ground, smoking husks of their metal beast lay interspersed with the dead. A few moving ones could be seen milling around, scavenging all they could. Many more were just standing there, lost in one of my 267 various illusion traps. I c... | 2018-01-17T08:52:41 | 2018-01-17T08:48:18 | 49 | 28 |
[WP] "You're nothing but skin and bones." Little do they know that's exactly what you are. You're an undercover skeleton infiltrating the mortal world. | "HAHAHA! That is a funny joke. I'm totally not a skeleton in disguise whaaaat? No." Said the totally not a skeleton in disguise. "No, no I'm just a regular human like you. I have muscles and a digestive track and lungs just like every other human. Because that's what I am. A regular human and NOT a skeleton sec... | Bob and Jim sit in the office canteen drinking coffee, while staring at James, the new guy.
"He's a bit odd" says Jim nodding towards James.
"Drinks a lot of milk" grumbles Bob from his coffee cup.
"Yeah, lot of milk", Jim leans back in his chair while still staring intently at James.
James turns and sees Bob an... | 2016-08-19T13:03:56 | 2016-08-19T12:19:14 | 59 | 18 |
[wp] Caped Baldy?! Thanos almost spit out his spaghetti from poorly suppressed laughter. They are sending him to take the Gauntlet away from me? He burst out laughing now. They must have gone insane. How much of a threat someone named caped baldy can be? | “Attend me!” roared Thanos as he lifted his sinewy legs off the bed and settled them onto the ground with a thud. In rushed a steward dressed in the tradition uniform of a Black Order trainee, bringing Thanos’ favorite undergarments, tight leggings and gold crested sleeveless navy blue tunic. It was commonly known to... | Thanos paused his laughter as he heard the faint squirting of a spray bottle. "What the..." Thanos muttered. He swiftly ran into his living room, expecting to find an intruder; however, he instead found the room empty, seemingly undisturbed. What did he expect? After he wiped out half of the universe and retreated to T... | 2018-07-01T01:18:17 | 2018-06-30T21:25:06 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Glass crunched underfoot, and I shifted the broken glass with my foot and took in the rest of the scene. The broken windows were bad, but it was the pictures. My breath caught and I pressed my fingers over my eyes.
I'd opened this little diner back in the 80s. We were in the bad part of town, it was all I could afford... | Red Molly contacted me first. “Hey I think you need to get down here. Right now.” When you get a psychic message like that, well, you kinda have to listen.
Windows smashed. Tables broken, even my counter, made from the wood of the witness stand from the Salem trials, was badly damaged. My favorite coffee mug, given to... | 2018-10-20T23:57:04 | 2018-10-20T23:34:54 | 17 | 11 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | ** so I didn't follow the prompt exactly, but I liked my response so much that I wanted to post it anyways. Hopefully you'll like it enough to ignore the fact I didn't follow it to a T! **
I was in the kitchen when it happened. I heard the loud crash of glass a split second before I heard Jason's cries. I felt my hear... | Blood oh blood! Black is all I see,
She puts her finger on my lips gently to say "Come away with me"..
I try to look straight to ask her for answers,
while a million thoughts race through my mind like cancer..
"You owe me", she says, giggling with sparkle in her eyes,
then she flips out a blade right from beside her th... | 2016-09-22T22:31:58 | 2016-09-22T21:31:39 | 91 | 22 |
[WP] Nations around the world are hellbent on taking out this journalist that has been trying to publish pieces about things that are supposed to be top secret. But for some reason, all attempts to silence this “Clark Kent” fellow have failed. | "Superman is dead."
Clark Kent stared at the words on his laptop, the blinking cursor taunting him to write more. The infuriating curl popped out of place and landed square in the middle of his forehead. Clark pushed it back with an impatient hand. He squinted at the screen and continued to type.
"The age of the Vigi... | After leaving a hotel in London, I begin to walk the streets while listening to some of Gotham’s piano jazz. During which, I continue to uncover more secrets of other countries including one that all of them have collaborated on, called “Project Cadmus.” Apparently, the governments of the world were threatened by the r... | 2020-11-29T03:13:20 | 2020-11-29T02:09:19 | 63 | 43 |
[WP] Your father, the world's most revered scientist, lies on his deathbed. His last wish is for you to guard his time-travel research from anyone and everyone. You accept. A few days later, your father, as he was in his 30s, comes to you asking to see his own research. | "Son, I need it."
His voice sounds right. He even looks right. Just as I remember from back then. I hold the notebook behind my back and away from him. He has a hand out, expectantly.
"I can't."
It comes out of my mouth and I'm proud of myself. Standing up to my own father. Sort of.
Maybe. What if it's an impostor?... | He pointed the gun directly at his genitals.
"Son! Its me!" Russ said quietly.
The time flux was still settling around him, the air was thick with anticipation. Jeff kept his Glock 19 aimed true, unwavering. He had seen many things try to take his father's work over the years, sentient bananas, Ape Lords from Proxima... | 2018-06-07T11:22:34 | 2018-06-07T11:22:17 | 58 | 21 |
[WP] You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | For those who understand what being an outsider is like. It's a combination of illucidation and drowning. On one hand you can see how people self organize into systems by default. You see the cogs and wheels spinning as each gear fixes itself to rotate exactly where it belongs. On the other, whatever persistent desire ... | I look back into my empty, blank room. I smile. The first time I could really smile. “Sweetheart, do you want to take this statue to college? You can pray like you’ve been doing when you lived here,” my mother says, suddenly behind me. I look at the statue in disgust. No way in hell was i taking that. Then I thought ab... | 2020-04-07T08:51:41 | 2020-04-07T06:45:36 | 30 | 18 |
[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" | A blinding light swept away the south camp. Charigos ran out of his resting pod, watching in terrified awe at the magnificent mushroom shaped fire ball rising to the sky. Everyone had stopped doing what they were doing and now stood, as if they were frozen in time.
A general ran out of his pod "I thought we had won! T... | "Why?"
Aaalp coughed and split blood as he tried to use what was left of his arm to raise himself up. His ears ringing and vision slowly turning to red while he watched the massacre unfold around him.
Aaalp and his division had been apart of the Conquering of Earth which had occured just last year. They returned vic... | 2019-12-17T14:02:56 | 2019-12-17T12:03:37 | 84 | 62 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | **Quanta.. wake-up.. Quanta..**
( Quanta gasps )
Q: Where am I? Did we catch Mint master?
Me: ...
A robot walks in and hands over my medication.
Q(angrily): You... You're Mint master. You kidnapped me...
Mm: yes.. I'm the great Mint master. Your favourite supervillain. How you're doing?
( Comes to light)
Q: You'r... | I am practicing songwriting. So here is a musical theater piece on a villain that clearly out-matches his adversaries. It's a comedy song
Nothing irks me quite like knowing that they'll never see my pity
Nothing rattles me to shame to think they've really done their best
It's not enough to pest this city
And with... | 2021-05-20T08:42:02 | 2021-05-20T07:57:21 | 28 | 19 |
[WP]A Man dies and expects to go either Heaven or Hell,only to be told by an Angel that he already was in Hell and now his punishment is over | I remember my life on Earth as though it were yesterday, despite all my attempts to forget it.
I was the first born to a family of junkies. I was obviously an accident, and as such was considered one. My father spent all available money on drugs and alcohol. This included any of my money. I remember with clarity my fi... | Lukas gulped in air, shaking from his experiences on Earth. The images were vividly branded in his mind.
Seventy years of struggling, of fighting for the life he'd dreamt of as a boy. He'd achieved some of it, but lost most of those dreams along the way. And that *end*: choking for air as the sickness raced through h... | 2016-12-13T12:34:08 | 2016-12-13T12:02:36 | 295 | 93 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | Heh, it's funny isn't it; when you cannot get a song out of your head... I think they call it an earworm. Most people would call it annoying, but it has saved my life on more than one occasion.
First time I ever heard it was in elementary school, just this orchestra as some kid, I think he was called Johnny Dishwell ... | [Poem] when the music is just right,
You know they’re about to fight,
When you hear a twirling sound,
Watch out a clue has been found,
When someone gets slapped,
And you hear the word smack,
When you hear epic music playing,
You know a boss is gonna need slaying. | 2020-08-26T16:24:58 | 2020-08-26T15:29:05 | 402 | 16 |
[WP] Write a story with a very nice protagonist, and a narrator who absolutely loathes them for no reason whatsoever. | Frank woke up, alone of course, at 9:00 AM, a time too late to be respectable and too early to be considered a proper sleep. He slothfully thought that since it was a Saturday, his one day off a week, he could afford to sleep in a bit. He rolled out of bed and moved to the bathroom to take his morning shower, in which ... | He walked in the main door with his big stupid smile. I really cant stand him, you’d think I could escape him when at home but no this annoying idiot whom i loath is my god dammed neighbour.
He walks up and greets our money grubbing boss. I don’t get why he sucks up to him. He’s an old navy dog who is more interested ... | 2021-07-29T00:36:11 | 2021-07-28T20:48:06 | 1,221 | 238 |
[WP] Upon dying, you find yourself sitting at a table with God and Satan, each trying to convince you to choose Heaven and Hell respectively. When you are content with your conversation, you choose your fate, however, you do not know which person is which. What do you talk about? What do you decide? | "Let's talk about Hitler."
They were impressive, there was no arguing with that. Their nearly identical features were perfectly androgynous, neither male nor female. Large, bright eyes rested under thick, heavy foreheads. High, defined cheekbones set off strong, structured jaws. Long, slim noses flowed into full, soft... | "You made your choice then," said Gabriel the angelic advocate.
"Uh, yes, I think," said Tom as he stared at the flawless blue sky, cloudless, and still. He laughed, "I remember skies like this when I was a child, when my parents drove us to our grandpa's farm."
Gabriel smiled, "I know Tom, I know. I sorta had a han... | 2014-05-07T21:08:50 | 2014-05-07T20:59:31 | 55 | 32 |
[WP] A time traveler goes from 2018 to 1980. Instead of using his knowledge for great gain or influence history, he writes a sitcom that scarily accurately predicts future events. | A flash of blinding white light filled the alley way as I sat against a damp stone wall upon a length of old and moldy cardboard. Letting slip the bottle of whiskey from my hand as it clanked against the pavement without cracking or breaking, lucky us old drunkards these bottles are designed for poor handling.
Regain... | It was all going to pay off now.
The deceit, the sacrifices, the opportunities to prevent great hardship ignored in order to preserve the timeline. Everything that had come before had been preordained, inevitable - time itself would prevent major changes. The experiments he had performed demonstrated that with ruthle... | 2018-07-09T14:42:42 | 2018-07-09T14:09:12 | 63 | 44 |
[WP] You are the king, after your daughter was kidnapped by a dragon you offered the standard reward to whoever rescued her. You weren't expecting a different dragon to rescue her.
Wow! I didn't think this would blow up like it did! Thank you all so much for all your stories. I haven't commented on all of them but the... | King Herupo was only allowed into the great hall when the captain of his Guard, Sir Jerrold, gave the all-clear. His eyes were clouding over, and he had to squint to keep out the relentless sunlight beaming down from the gaping hole in the ceiling. He counted three, four dozen of his best lancemen, gathered in a circle... | The King looked pale and unkempt when he stepped onto the balcony, mouth trembling as he read his latest edict to the people filling the town square below. His normally trim beard had gone shaggy, his brow was lined and eyes bloodshot.
Royal messengers read out the words along with him on raised platforms across the s... | 2018-02-23T10:03:38 | 2018-02-23T09:26:46 | 243 | 133 |
[WP] When you arrived in the future, the locals put you in a "historical village" in an attempt to reduce culture shock. Unfortunately, their ideas about your past life are hilariously inaccurate. | "Look, I don't get what's so difficult about this," I said, trying to remain patient even as I felt my blood pressure start to build.
The human - or 'nu-man', I guess - in front of me just blinked as I talked. It wasn't a normal blink, though. More of an affectation. Think like people wearing trilby hats or monocles ... | Poem
Flying cars, ray guns, and massive wealth.
And my desire to go there was the promise of good health.
My mom's cancer was back for sure,
In the future I know we've got a cure.
So I made a machine to travel through time,
It worked on the first try and I arrived in the future to a friendly chime.
Apparentl... | 2019-04-23T13:34:28 | 2019-04-23T10:35:49 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] You are a Logistics Officer during an invasion. Tell the course of the war solely from equipment requisitions. | It started simple enough. Automatic supply systems kicked in at first. A thousand or so PD-9's, atomic cores, bayfield sensors and kinetic armor plates were all the specials that came through the office. It was so routine at first I thought I was resupplying training stocks. Then they briefed me.
0900, 36.04 -116.42, ... | Guns.
Guns, Tanks.
Guns, Tanks, Planes.
Draft Papers. Uniforms. Guns, Tanks, Planes.
Guns, Tanks.
Guns.
Body bags.
Swiss Currency.
Fuel for Air Force One.
(Apologies for plotting the invasion of someone else's country, but I can't think of anything that says "ruler's transport" like Air Force One. )
(edit: M... | 2016-04-10T07:39:43 | 2016-04-10T04:43:48 | 209 | 53 |
[WP]: Leaving people gifts is a socially acceptable way to begin flirting. Many start with a single rose, the extravagant and dramatic with a diamond or an heirloom. You have just been presented with a pinecone. | “It’s a pinecone.” I said matter-of-factly.
“Not just any pinecone. That’s a genuine lodgepole pinecone,” Jenny beamed, her bright green eyes glowing with excitement.
“Look, I really appreciate this, but I just can’t - I’m sorry.”
I’d known Jenny for two years now, but we were nothing more than coworkers who happe... | I straightened my glasses and gave another look at the peculiar object in my hand. If I wasn't a cooped in city guy, I would probably know better.
A pinecone. Just there, not shiny or dazzling or making a cute sound. A dumb, brown pinecone.
I was astounded. I seem to have lost the ability of speech granted to us hu... | 2018-10-20T19:03:49 | 2018-10-20T17:34:52 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | a'Kna Escu!h III, Galactic Ambassador to the Scunarian Sentients, pursed her *gnyrxs* in frustration. She had heard that this civilization was backwards, but it was only now that she had begun to understand.
She clicked and clacked her *snkths*, whilst her real-time translator interpreted her movements. "But how did... | "Tucson's a strange place.
Jesus look at it. It's a forest.
When I was a young man, I lived there three or four years. Usually takes that long to get used to a new place, and for me to start running it. 21 years later and it looks like this.
I'm still waiting to get used to this shit.
When they came, the... refl... | 2017-03-10T00:53:53 | 2017-03-09T23:13:07 | 240 | 26 |
[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. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | When I saw those blue eyes I knew it was her.
I remember how those gentle they twinkled when we saw the construction of the Coliseum together.
How she cried when the Library of Alexandria was burnt down, knowing she couldn't save that knowledge to keep the timeline stable.
The sheer curiosity and joy she felt when s... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T17:10:08 | 2,588 | 15 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | I’m the oldest cliff diver in La Quebrada. I was born in 1928 to two peasant farmers who lived on the outskirts of Acapulco. We never had any money so when I was 12 I went to the beaches to try to sell things for money. That’s when I saw the cliff divers and I decided I wanted to train to do what they did.
Over the y... | Looking up from the hands of the aged and weathered quarterback the doctor could not fathom the pain. 52, fifty fucking two and this fucking maniac was till tossing bullets with better aim than a rookie just getting his chest hair.
Leaning back and taking In the living fossil, for this game to be Honest, he gasped as... | 2018-07-15T09:19:53 | 2018-07-15T08:19:45 | 79 | 27 |
[WP] Humanity was the first species to discover space and conquer it creating their self sustaining tech designed to always obey a human over any other species. A frozen caveman has been found and just brought back to life aeons after humanity vanished. | "Huz ou ugh ei?"
E.V.E. threw up her metallic prehensile arms in joy. Before her, standing naked in all it's glory was a progenitor of her master's race. A race that was now merely a myth among the Sentient Intergalactic Council of the Universe. The glorious and magnificent *Humanity,* a race that had reigned supreme ... | \*\*\*begin transcript\*\*\*
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sent message DST-892: HS2.1 to awake at Singapore General, t-minus sixty seconds.
received message DST-892: Initializing fission reactors for Pan-Asian and New American continents. Exploratory shuttle at Angkor Center cleared for launch. United Orbital Station prepared to re... | 2018-10-01T09:15:02 | 2018-10-01T07:34:18 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] A dying child challenges the reaper to a 1v1 quick scope only call of duty match for his life. | “What!?”
“I said, I refuse” replied the cowled figure that now dominated the hospital ward.
“But...but you can't! You have to play me! That's part of the deal!” Tears began to well in sunken eyes as colour flushed into cheeks for the first time in months. Jayden clawed his way on to his elbows – rage and incredulity ... | **So, you want to test the lore do you Child? Well I am bound by your histories and humanity to uphold it**
Came the voice, well voice would be the wrong word for it, it didn't seem to pay attention to things such as the air and (despite not having any sonorous qualities) felt to be talking in bold letters in the cent... | 2014-09-15T23:01:24 | 2014-09-15T20:42:26 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You did awful, horrible things and served the tyrannical government with the promise of resurrecting your long-dead spouse. You finally capture the legendary rebel against this government. Who upon closer inspection, was your spouse. | Negotiation becomes notably more difficult when the other party has a misguided notion of what you want.
Some would assume the opposite. You can drive a harder bargain, ask for more, risk less. But if you don’t want them to realize, don’t want them to figure out that the cards aren’t all on the table, then you have to... | The world stopped.
It was lucky he had caught them alone, cuz right now, he wasn't sure what his orders would be. There they were, the love of his life. The person he thought was gone and fought to bring back, the *only* reason he did such horrible-*horrible* things. And yet here they were, alive.
Not only were they... | 2022-03-08T07:21:26 | 2022-03-08T07:14:51 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Cheesecake Town was the best town before the Dentist Nation attacked. Led by members of the **I**nternational **D**ental **C**avity **I**ntercept **L**egion, or **IDCIL**, they showed no mercy.
They tore chubby children from their mother's arms and disemboweled them with daggers etched with IDCIL's singular mission s... | I haven't, I don't know. What?
Bleary-eyed, listless, I shake my head trying to remember. My foot sinks deep into the sponge cake. Another step and another, echoes of blood and gore cloud my mind, family dying and neighbours already dead and being fed on. Look down at my shredded arm, tatters of flesh dripping stead... | 2014-12-16T23:53:26 | 2014-12-16T23:36:55 | 67 | 13 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | There are those who crave control, like mountain rivers crave the sea. There are those to whom the words "Dungeon Master" resound with tones of Godship and respect, with wish fulfillment. Making knowing, gleeful eye contact with me over the DM screen was just such a person, his carefully parted hair framing a slightly ... | I open the packet at my desk, it's midday, I'm in philosophy 201 and I just Kant take it anymore.
It wasn't unusual for the packet to just be dropped off, no conversation, might not even seen a face. When I looked up I just saw the other typical people in class. Had the Circle hired in people young enough to blend in ... | 2019-01-21T20:47:56 | 2019-01-21T20:41:29 | 63 | 19 |
[WP] Legend has it, the princess waits for her beloved prince who never returned from war. The princess is seen waiting every day where they used to meet secretly, a lake now known as the Lake of Longing, with only her attendant at her side. As her attendant though, you know the story differently. | The tavern was quietening down, as the evening swallowed the light and the regulars swallowed their drinks. Those looking for fighting or fornicating had either found what they were looking for, or taken their search elsewhere. Those that remained were there for the company of friends or for drinking in silence. So it ... | “There is no question of succession,” Princess Ireni said smoothly. “With the death of his father the king, Prince Reynaud is now King Reynaud the Seventh. We only await his coronation.”
“Your highness-” the archbishop began softly. “The prince has not been seen these twenty years.”
“For heavens’ sake, princess,” Cha... | 2022-12-12T12:43:35 | 2022-12-12T12:18:39 | 924 | 273 |
[WP] You are immortal however if you die in a dream, you die in real life. You have mastered the ability of lucid dreaming, however one night, you are faced with your worst nightmare. | Immortality is a burdensome gift.
To never die is something many great leaders of our times wish to have but for me it has become a curse.
Seeing friends and family die off. To see the world that I once knew become anew, time and time again. I yearn for death yet it escapes me. I've attempted suicide more times than... | Ive roamed this planet for 200 years now and have yet to meet my match. Till today i don't know his name all i remember is the smell of burning flesh and the sound of claws dragging across a chalkboard.
Its been weeks since I've seen the man in the red and green sweater but i knew the peace couldn't last forever, he ... | 2016-03-06T07:40:33 | 2016-03-06T06:13:53 | 133 | 16 |
[WP] You are the only human being left after the mysterious vanishing of the worlds population. Two years later, power and internet starts running once again, you recieve a reply notification on Reddit. | He was diligent.
Every day, he'd wake in his small cabin, ignite the stove, fill the kettle with what little water he had left from the day before, and scoop a couple spoonfuls of coffee into his mug. He'd take a few steps out the back door and relieve himself in the yard and wince at the sun and mutter, "Thanks for s... | I was on my weekly inspection of the solar panels on my roof when I heard the loud and sudden sound of the transformer coming back online.
As I looked up sharply and scanned the surrounding buildings, still unsure of what I had heard, I saw the most incredulous thing - the lights were on in the houses facing me.
Ove... | 2015-03-20T09:23:51 | 2015-03-20T08:40:13 | 150 | 11 |
[WP] After years of living in Gotham City as a nobody, you have snapped. You think you may have found a way to commit large scale crimes and get away without Batman finding out. | My life, like most people's lives in Gotham, was shit. I would even be considered somewhere near the top of the shitheap, working a white collar job instead of turning to crime just to feed myself, but it was still shit. A mind-numbing corporate job working social media accounts instead of real IT work, getting mugged ... | One of my goons--his name didn't matter, he was a *goon*\--came stumbling into my room. He had in his hands one of the boxes from the warehouse. Usually, I would be livid. It was useless for it to be even near me. I was the brains of this operation, not the muscle.
No, the dangerous contraband that we moved could be ... | 2022-01-02T22:39:33 | 2022-01-02T19:59:15 | 153 | 85 |
[WP]After thousands of years of searching humanity finally re-establishes contact with it's long lost colony, Earth. | The president and his disciples sat at the conference table, anxiously watching the screen.
The screen lit up to reveal a group of Humans in a similar format. One sat at the front, all of them sitting eagerly forward in their chairs.
"Greetings from the Empire of Seksistinen!" The foremost leader said, grinning enorm... | It's odd really. Yesterday I was just some nerdy kid playing with an old walkie my mom picked up for me in a thrift shop; now I'm being rushed down some kind of metal corridor by men in black suits.
"Where are you taking me?" My 13 year old voice squeaks as in my fear I attempt to be assertive.
No response.
We finally... | 2017-12-29T18:14:02 | 2017-12-29T15:30:46 | 55 | 11 |
[WP] When humans arrived to the galactic scene, they thought wars would play out way differently. Instead of bloodshed, there were intergalactic video game tournaments fighting for territory. Most aliens thought humans were newbies to this but when the first war was played, they changed their minds. | Vax lay on top of the roof of an apartment complex, surveying the street through the scope of his rifle, checking for human avatars.
"First sector, clear," came a voice over the headset.
Vax scanned the area twice more, then crouch sprinted over to the other side to repeat the procedure.
"Second sector, clear," came... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/starcraft] [A writing prompt that i thought i would share here, enjoy!](https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/8c3rfa/a_writing_prompt_that_i_thought_i_would_share/)
 *^(If you follow any of the above link... | 2018-04-13T18:01:20 | 2018-04-13T16:59:36 | 319 | 41 |
[WP] A cure is made for a zombies virus outbreak. Everyone who has been infected is cured, but they retain their hellish memories from their time as a zombie. You are a doctor (or psychologist) treating of of the cured for PTSD.
Woohoo!!! First post over 1000 up votes, I've been doing some research online and have fou... | "It happened to you too?" He asked.
I made sure to make that scar on my forearm visible when we first met. They needed to relate. It was almost always through me that they opened up. I showed a pained smile before answering.
"Yes. I... I killed my... wife and child."
I measured every hesitations. Every word. By now... | I exhale deeply, attempting to prepare myself for the restless day- and night, ahead of me. Today was one of the many days that I, a mentally unstable, but respected, teenager with the correct knowledge and mental image of the destruction, whose origins date back to only a few months, would tend to the many who have su... | 2014-12-06T20:20:15 | 2014-12-06T18:06:17 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] You're a witch with a penchant to bargain for firstborn children... to adopt and train as apprentices. You've done it hundreds of times now, and considering how wretched the biological parents tend to be you're really doing the kids a favor. | "I am very careful-" I begin, fixing the man across the table with a look that was at once uncompromising and empathetic. "-to never demand it in return for... vital services. I won't ask for a firstborn to save a life, to repair a limb, or anything like that. Just..." A frown grows across my face as I try to come up w... | "You call me a witch like that's a bad thing you monster!" Hyra exclaimed
"You're trying to buy my child, what would you have me call you? And what you're offering, peanuts. With a magical child I can have all you offer plus more"
Hyra laughed internally, it was over, the child would be returning with her. The negoti... | 2021-10-26T11:00:21 | 2021-10-26T08:58:35 | 95 | 25 |
[WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not "Impress your peers" you will be executed. | The wait was always the worst, Nikamo knew that, but this time was the hardest of all. In all honesty, he was surprised he had made it this far. "They'll hang you at the next hearing if you keep this up, you little rascal" his mother always told him, yet here he was about to have yet another hearing, not a day younger ... | I had gotten the job when I was twenty-one. I was a shoe-in since my second meeting with the Board, they said. Studious, friendly, nice penmanship... they said I was a "good image" of what they believed in. I hated the system, I hated the lies... but refusing a Board job meant Failing for sure. So I bought their stupid... | 2014-06-15T13:59:44 | 2014-06-15T11:23:06 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is buried beneath your feet. You have worked for years alongside archaeologists finding lost cities and ancient treasures; however, today is the first time you have ever said "We should not dig here." | "So Boss," Doohan drawled "anything of note here?"
"Nope." I said, "Nothing at all, we best move on."
It was our third day on a previously unknown island in the Atlantic ocean. To be precise we were at 32.296060, -64.826548. In all their years of operation nobody's satellites saw this island. Not NASA, Not the CIA, N... | I am cold, and in a dark cell. Beside me, my cat Thompson sleeps. Below me, an evil does as well. Even now, I can hear his words, those awful words, those evil words.
"Have you no honor?"
Varet looked close to murder, though his eyes were also clouded with confusion. This was the first time I had ever told the... | 2016-09-03T16:02:43 | 2016-09-03T15:11:03 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | "Can't do it."
"Why not?" She had her hands leaned against the desk, her fingers splayed, pink and soft like baby starfish. She had a scowl on her face, and she had her eyes set on mine.
I smiled. "You know how it works, kid. I'm a *Broker*. I give people memories they never had. I don't restore lost memories. You ne... | My job is pretty boring. See this memory, stuff it in a small crystal ball, look at the swirly clouds inside, pow, you're done. Some guy who wants a hot girlfriend but will never get one comes to the Memory House and asks for a hot girlfriend memory. I toss him the orb and he swallows it, pow, he gets a memory; now he ... | 2016-03-09T06:06:54 | 2016-03-09T05:50:50 | 65 | 44 |
[WP] A vampire woman stands in front of you. "any last words before I feed on you, human?" she says. Instead of fear a filling of pity wells up inside you. "Do you miss the sunrise?" you reply. Fully expecting to die there you're surprised when she replies "yes" with a look of sadness on her face. | I intentionally asked this question to stun her for a moment, expecting neither side of the coin to fall in my favor. Fortune was in my favor today, though.
Ceasing the opportunity, I slid passed her and went for the door. I expected her to give chase and slammed the door behind me. I should have kept going, but I co... | The world isn't fair. It is unfair however to everyone equally. My old man's words resounded in my ears as I lay there with her on top of me in a pool of red. My left leg bent at an unnatural angle like glowstick, blood refracting the moon light. No escape.
They say life flashes before your eyes before you bite the du... | 2022-12-01T12:40:30 | 2022-12-01T11:31:19 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] You're not one of those storybook genies that take wishes literally and screw your masters over. You use the context to provide them with as close to what they had in mind as possible, but your latest master is making it difficult. | "I'd like a blue dress" she said, her frail weak voice whispered out from her wrinkly and cracking lips.
"Is that all? Just a blue dress? You know you could have anything in the world" I replied, hovering over lamp in a veil of mist.
"Yes, that's all, sir. Just a blue dress."
"Oh, alright then, here you go" with a w... | The idea of granting wishes as close to the spirit of the wish is one few genies perform. Human masters are often fickle and incapable of making decisions when this much power is in their hands.
Two wishes had already been used on this one. He wished to have the exact amount of money in his pocket needed to buy anythi... | 2015-05-27T07:27:00 | 2015-05-27T05:54:32 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a world where people can only die on Tuesdays. Any mortal injury on any other day persists but you're still alive and it can be fixed before the Tuesday saving your life. It's Wednesday and you've been mortally wounded. | "Oh, would you look at that. I've been impaled."
I was dumbfounded. That sense of humor was normally welcomed, but this was... different. I stared at the rebar protruding from his stomach wondering what I should do. Wondering what I *could* do.
"What happened?" I asked. Maybe I shouldn't have forced him to relive the... | During Wednesday I got shot in the heart and got mugged, it hurts so much, all the people around me has this look of sadness in their eyes whenever they look at me, everyone knows what will happen to me, I quit my job and used my life savings on whatever I felt like it, various establishments gave me discounts so I ca... | 2019-11-02T07:49:01 | 2019-11-02T06:35:48 | 34 | 12 |
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