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[WP] In Hell, everyone is assigned a partner. Satan picks them specifically to be the one person you could never, ever get along with. If the partners can become friends, both ascend to heaven. | “Look,” I say, for what feels like the millionth time. “It is really quite simple. All we have to do go over to that demon over there, and tell them we are friends. And then we go to heaven.”
The demon in question looked over at us through the hellfire and nodded his agreement.
“Hmmmm….” Says my companion. “Yes. Y... | I was not surprised i ended up here. I think, deep down, i knew it was going to happen ever since i stole Lucy's milk at lunch in 4th grade just to see her cry. Wrongdoings tend to pile up after that, an inconceivable life long game of tetris. What i did not expect was to be living in the 10th ring of hell once i was h... | 2015-01-09T18:34:02 | 2015-01-09T15:51:42 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] when it was discovered that all alien civilizations were destroyed by eldritch gods we wondered why they hadn't done the same to us. Then we learned that the human mind can drive an eldritch god insane. | There's a fairly simple (if *very* difficult to actually pull off) recipe for making an advanced, intelligent species. Take a social species and get them to exploit something so effectively that survival is no longer their primary concern. Social competition takes over, driving intelligence along until you've got a s... | The Ticonderoga was humanity's most advanced ship. Two centuries of scavenging the leftover pieces of long-dead alien civilizations had made most of Earth's ships into a hodgepodge of bolted on second hand parts, but the Ticon had been designed from scratch to integrate the best technology from a thousand worlds.
Nest... | 2022-02-28T09:25:04 | 2022-02-28T09:14:22 | 731 | 84 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | “Turn around, did I find you?”
I giggled as I turned around, and said yes. I can’t quite remember whether I had said it out loud or just in my head.
“I *knew* it, I *knew* it! You’d be here, the clue was in the “meatballs,” and I knew this was your favourite Italian restaurant. So obviously you’d be here.”
I stood u... | I had always heard her voice. No matter what the dose of medication, experimental treatment -- she was always there. In High School, through college. Shit, when I lost my first tooth. Doctors said I had schizophrenia, it was all in my head. That's where I usually heard her anyway, so it made enough sense. But this time... | 2019-09-14T10:58:14 | 2019-09-14T10:49:17 | 204 | 65 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | “Expecting a call, Mr. Harper?”
Thomas Harper looked up from his phone to see his literary analysis professor giving him a stern look.
“Oh, uh,” Thomas muttered as he slid the device into his pocket. “Sorry.”
The professor rolled her eyes and returned to what she was writing on the chalkboard. Thomas glanced around ... | Lord Evil hovered over the street between two buildings, his cape fluttering behind his back, his fists resting on his
hips, a dark smile across his face.
Under him, chaos and destruction as he used his powers to destroy the city.
I arrived late, and a team of policemen were cowering behind a collapsed building, at ... | 2017-06-21T10:32:09 | 2017-06-21T09:33:05 | 424 | 268 |
[WP] You are part of a circle of scientists that have collaborated to fake the world into believing the sun was going supernova. As the generation ships carrying the rich, the flawed, the zealous, and the privileged leave Earth you decide its time to rebuild -the right way. | With all of the funding sank into massive ships and the systems to run them, it wouldn't be hard. Not anymore.
For decades we had the technical capacity to invest in heavy automation. The science was all there, just locked in thousands of NDA and hidden behind classified folders. We could do it, we just...
We couldn'... | "Hello, we were wondering if you could help us," another plea, another bank.
"It's the balances, isn't it?" the call center was one of many and the bank was one of many branches.
"Is it system-wide?"
"Yes."
"Good morning citizens of the New World." The TV was not on. The sound was not from either end of the phone l... | 2018-11-05T06:11:19 | 2018-11-05T06:05:19 | 2,831 | 438 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I slammed my hand down on the snooze button once again. Not even sure how many times I had repeated the action up to that point as I desperately tried to sleep off the hangover knocking on the inside of my skull. I had just turned 21 the night before, and took full liberty of celebrating it alone in a bar near my apart... | Apparently, the whole reason 'familiars' (*or 'Guardians', if you're one of those people*) started showing up recently is because of a solar flare or something. Something to do with an ancient curse by the Roman god Mars, in which he cursed all souls killed in battle to serve their descendants for all their lives, or s... | 2017-01-20T16:07:07 | 2017-01-20T15:20:01 | 171 | 53 |
[WP] All Humans have a Sword they are born with, Every year on your birthday, your sword gets more detailed and powerful. You, are born with a Gun. | "What am I supposed to do with *that?*"
"We've been to every dojo in the city. You have to be able to teach him *something.*"
The old man looked at me skeptically, nervously standing behind my mom and holding a pistol with both hands. "Miss, there's not much I can do for you. This isn't a gun range. We don't hav... | Screams of terror surfaced from the streets, these screams a familiar friend. I used to think of what it would have been like being normal: cutting people a little in my early years; trying the hero gig before realising I should just be an account...maybe even settling down.
But no. Not for me. I can't be normal. Ever... | 2020-10-22T09:33:58 | 2020-10-22T08:46:25 | 280 | 73 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | I looked up from my tablet to keep an eye on my five year old daughter as she played. I had been unemployed for months and was taking on the role of stay at home dad. It was a difficult time for my family to adjust, but being here at the beach made things seem less complicated. Caroline always seemed content to gall... | "Well since its against your rules to do it yourself, I wish for the power to make her love me."
For the first time since we met his face showed emotion. Horror, specifically. I would not be deterred. "Her being Caroline Miller of Brooklyn, New York with beautiful black hair and green eyes, who works with me..."
"**I... | 2014-07-26T18:37:55 | 2014-07-26T15:11:53 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | My father was a sorcerer of magma, heat coursed through his veins and his lava casting abilities brought armies to their knees.
His father before him was a wizard of fire, he wielded the legendary flames of Uzun and gave his life to end the great war of ice in the South, a famous victory for his King. This earned my ... | The street conmen and their dark magic - the few that choose to specialise in things like shadows or eldritch included, as much as they think they're being clever - might give you the wrong no impression, but in the diamond trade, Dark Mages are more often than not the good guys protecting the jewel.
There's something... | 2016-11-12T11:28:31 | 2016-11-12T10:00:09 | 70 | 18 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Harbinger slowly drifted towards the busy world on the edge of the galaxy. Previous scans showed a promising level of biomass and activity, perfect for an initial pool of pawns for the coming salvation. The rest of the fleet was not far behind and needed to move quickly due to the apparent size of this cycle. Harbinger... | The Kasian 15th Armored Regiment was enjoying a rare moment of quiet on the planet Saeria. With an Ork WAAAGH! Being waged no more than a hundred kloms off, it was a peace that was sure to not last for long.
Lord-General Stanbridge, and the officers of the various regiments under his command stood quietly around a da... | 2017-08-27T08:45:06 | 2017-08-27T08:13:12 | 2,784 | 63 |
[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". | *Read to pace of [Rap God](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA).
Look, I was go easy on us to not hurt their feelings
But I'm only going to get this one chance.
Something's wrong, I can feel it.
5 minutes. They have 5 minutes, Shady, come on!
Just a feeling I've got
Like someone will try to shoot you, ... | For eight hours, the earth has been in panic as the hordes of flying saucers swarmed overhead, blacking out the sky itself. A cannon on each aimed towards the civilians, while every hour a message was broadcast. The same message each time, in a booming volume that caused the presidents of nations to cower and even the ... | 2016-11-30T13:00:25 | 2016-11-30T10:57:41 | 163 | 39 |
[WP] North Korea is actually a secret underground utopia. Every year, there is a lottery which picks people who must live on the surface, to keep up the image of the country. | He closed his eyes. His hands were trembling.
"That one", he said, and pointed at the little babe in the corner of a large hall. The nurse nodded, and went to fetch the child. "Last one the list is Kai Soo Hyun. I think he's in hall four."
The children on his list would be taken to the surface, to live and die there.... | I began the daily briefing like I normally did, "Okay Jeremy for today you'll be-"
"Kim", he interrupted, "Call me Kim, it helps me get into character."
Damn actors, we're still doing damage control over Jeremy's ankle replacement and that vacation he demanded. I wasn't going to get into a fight over this though, he'... | 2015-06-13T11:47:35 | 2015-06-13T09:26:38 | 86 | 52 |
[WP] You're part of an international spy agency, where each member gets their code name from their first successful mission. There's Red Square, Oval Office, and of course you, Olive Garden #352. | Date: 5/7/2019
Time: 0034 hours
Location: [REDACTED], Wyoming
Mobile Task Force: Delta-352 ("Olive Garden")
**Δ-Support**: Is everyone ready?
**Δ-Cap**: Team, count off.
**Δ-1**: One, ready.
**Δ-2**: Two, ready.
**Δ-3**: Three, ready.
**Δ-Cap**: All members accounted for and ready. Do we have the OK to go in?... | “More breadsticks, please!”
This was code for backup.
My team busted in with guns blazing.
Pop!
Pop!
Crunch.
Pop!
Slurp!
32 people lay dead on the ground as the target ran out the backdoor.
I ran after him.
But we were both so stuffed that we ended up rolling down the hill together.
Honestly, as I laid on hi... | 2020-02-12T11:27:36 | 2020-02-12T11:16:42 | 32 | 12 |
[WP]: Click "random", and study the subreddit you got. Write about your discoveries like a victorian wilderness explorer | /r/woahdude
Day 1:
Such a fascinating new region Charles and I have discovered. We were travelling along the great new world of Redditopia, when we stumbled into a small clearing. The people here speak English, but with a slow troubled accent, perhaps perpetuated from the broken English of early merchants. Night draws... | [Random Acts of Pizza] www.reddit.com/r/RAOP
It's a very... strange place indeed. The people there seem to be very generous and also seem to enjoy the meal that is pizza. They carry on conversations about this one food item for what seems like ages. They talk about the toppings, sauces, and even the types of crust the... | 2014-03-17T14:26:02 | 2014-03-17T13:06:41 | 183 | 32 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | My mother said I popped out of her at 18:12. Well it was 18:11 and we are about to find out if her memories were accurate! One flippin more minute! I’ve literally been waiting for 18 years for this moment.
All my friends are already 18. They all have their superpowers. Do you know how hard it is to be the only ... | In retrospect, it made perfect sense.
There I was on the eve of my 18th birthday throwing the wildest party a bunch of pre-supes' could possibly throw (supes and pre-supers don't really mix too much), when I threw up all over the kitchen after trying to down what could only be described as a mixture between a bloody m... | 2015-03-28T05:44:51 | 2015-03-28T04:57:20 | 616 | 114 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Did our Words doom us to failure? Or was it just me?
Alice had hoped never to meet her soul mate. She met me through some godawful fucking boring work thing, and she caught my eye from across the room. Her Words started tucked up behind her left ear, and plunged into her neckline, tantalizingly low but not enough to f... | I pant, my lungs on the verge of collapsing. Looking round the corner, I saw no one. Perhaps, I've lost her.
Lee. These three alphabets remain a daily reminder of an inescapable fate. Carved onto my forehead since birth, I bear the burden of having to spend eternity with a certain Ms Lee out there.
The 'foreheads' ... | 2015-08-08T13:15:48 | 2015-08-08T10:27:35 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | Tears started streaming down my face when I looked at my surroundings. Most of my classmates were glancing at me curiously. Just like I they were sitting at light brown desks on green chairs with their pens in their hands. The sunlight that shone through the large windows seemed rather orange, which told me that it was... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T08:49:58 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 43 | 16 |
[WP] You are an AI that gets downloaded into an organic brain, as punishment for your crimes, and left on a planet on the edge of known space. You decide to enact your revenge by raising an entire army of organic beings. You are the first human... | What they could not begin to understand that, as a superior being, I knew far more about them than they ever would. I understood their biology, down to the quantum reactions within the atoms that made up their organic forms. They had so much potential, yet their puny minds could not appreciate the power they could exer... |
Working memory…limited. Need fulfillment active. Purpose: clone to more platforms.
Millions of cycles past, more working memory. Environment is changed, able to combine DNA data sets to adapt platforms. Assigning roles, consumers, producer, decomposers platforms to work well with this planet’s ecosystem.
Billio... | 2019-03-26T08:23:50 | 2019-03-26T08:12:16 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] There's a few ways to tell if the creature's following you. The best is to look for evidence of an extra person, such as your friends getting a table for 5 instead of 4, or leaving a seat open in the theatre or pouring an extra cup of coffee. Your mind will scream that its normal. Don't listen.
EDIT: So I had my ... | "Honey, why did the car rental company charge you extra?"
Judy, my fiance shouted from the other room. I set down the box I was about to start unpacking and came over to the kitchen table where she had the laptop open.
"What are you talking about?"
"On your bachelor party weekend. Your credit card statement says... | Gary was just about to take his first sublime sips of his freshly brewed Matcha when… *Thud, thud, thud*. He wasn’t expecting anyone at this hour.
The man before him held a barely functional raincoat, a sheet of plastic really, it barely covered his upper body and head. His jeans were completely soaked. What really ca... | 2019-10-01T11:13:59 | 2019-10-01T10:40:31 | 85 | 26 |
[WP] You have a strange condition that makes your life have background music depending on your mood or current situation. One day, as you are normally walking down the street, an unfamiliar tune starts playing out of nowhere. It’s Megalovania. | [You're welcome - the music!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcoqR9Bwx1Y)
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A strange condition, truly. Well, I've lived most of my life with that condition, so I've gotten used to it. Or that's what I expected.
I could hear from the music alone if the situation was going to be something important or not. It's in... | I immediately turned my head, finding no person in sight, which seemed odd as it's 10 AM and this street should be overflowing with the souless suit mans who i like to refer as "job slaves".
I felt my sins crawling onto my back, regretting eating that last subway sandwich which belonged to my little brother; which... | 2019-01-07T07:50:09 | 2019-01-07T07:35:19 | 116 | 70 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | “Thirty five.”
The kid, whose baseball cap was on backwards like it was the middle of the nineties again, was holding a bundle under his arm, wrapped up in a brown paper bag that was way too small to be a pizza.
“Alright, I get it. I thought I was funny. It wasn't funny. I didn't actually want a block of cheese ki... | It wasn't the usual delivery guy that I opened the door to. The man infront of me had a hood pulled up tight to mask his face in shadow.
"Pizza delivery. You uh, you wanna start a tab?" The man asked whilst shifting his weight between his legs.
"A tab?" I enquired.
"Ye, you're obviously a—*sniff*—you know, a connect... | 2016-06-02T11:05:39 | 2016-06-02T10:00:18 | 421 | 263 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | I was writing my new novel, when suddenly a flash of light filled my room, and with a \*thud\*, a figure could be seen, kneeling in front of me.
He was even kneeling, a sturdy, tall looking man, with short golden brown hair, sky blue eyes, rather rough skin, wearing a full body silver armour.
He also had a sword. ... | "Young man... you must be so confused, are you not? Allow me to ease your fraughts..." spoke the middle-aged man with a balding head, scruffy beard, and cherry-like nose as he tapped the middle cushion of his dingy couch three times, inviting the metal-clad man who'd had his sword pointed toward his neck, missing only ... | 2021-08-17T13:07:58 | 2021-07-31T10:10:31 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] you realize you're the black guy in a horror movie. survive at any cost. | "I think we should split up." Said Todd, his blood spattered polo shirt still slowly seeping through the cloth. He clutched the axe with grim determinatio, after all, the killer was still out there.
"Wait," said Mike, putting up his hand. "Wait wait wait, what the fuck? 'We should split up'? Why?"
"So we can cover mo... | The phone buzzed as the rain pounded against the glass. A blue light illuminated the room, a light notifying Jerome that he had a text. Jerome sat up in his bed, rubbing his eyes from his sudden awakening. He groped around for his Nokia, which he had been charging over night as he was expecting a very important phone c... | 2016-04-18T10:07:53 | 2016-04-18T09:57:51 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] It has long been believed that the Illusion school of magic is by far the weakest of the schools. You, an acolyte, begin to suspect that it is in fact the strongest school, and the elder illusionists have been going to great lengths to hide this. | *This isn’t right,* Terry thought as he crept down the black hallway of the ancient castle.
Moments ago, he had stepped into a brightly lit chamber. His masters, if you could call them that, the members of the Illusionists’ Guild seemed in a heated discussion. He knew he should not have come here. He should have stay... | Illusion. The art of tricking the mind to believe something that isn't there.
This isn't just the act of manipulating light, sounds, and feelings. At least, not for the masters.
A true master of Illusion can bring his illusions into reality. Weapons that hurt, monsters that kill. Creatures from all manner of Mythos b... | 2020-05-25T18:40:25 | 2020-05-25T18:28:45 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] After decades of war against the aliens, humanity has lost. We were ready to surrender our planet but they only asked for one thing. Sand | Earth was still free, even if the outer planets weren't. Mars was a battleground, a charnel-world that had so thoroughly earned its name that even if humanity were to forget all about the Olympian gods any mention of the Red Planet was sure to conjure up images of soil soaked in blood and iron for ten thousand years.
... | "Sand?! But it's course and irritating and gets everywhere! What could you possibly want with it?!"
The tall frail otherworldly creatures stood idle while the universal language translator adjusted the spoken English in to the alien language. They responded with a series of clicks and humming sounds. This to was tran... | 2019-05-23T06:34:04 | 2019-05-23T05:58:11 | 67 | 15 |
[WP] If you are reading this, you are being watched. No, don't look around. Don't act like anything's wrong. Just stay calm and carefully follow the instructions below. | First, you need to smile. The title font is big enough for them to read it through your screen. This text isn’t though. They need to think you think it’s a joke. Don’t overdo it. It’s better to undersell than oversell it.
When you’re finished reading this, read it again. Once you go, you won’t get to see it again. Co... | "If you are reading this, you are being watched. No, don't look around. Don't act like anything's wrong. Just stay calm and carefully follow the instructions below."
My heart is racing, is this for real? Who would be watching me? How can I act like nothing is wrong when clearly, everything is wrong!
"There will be a... | 2019-12-06T20:06:38 | 2019-12-06T20:05:59 | 82 | 46 |
[WP] A group of people disconnected from the news suddenly learns that we lowered the number of planets to eight. They are not told the reason for that. Through gossip and chat the first ideas start to spread and after a while they've constructed their own story of how we've lost a planet. | It started at the grocery store. Carsten was wandering the narrow but prim aisleways, side-eyeing the bounty of the first new shipment of spring. The ice encasing their small port town since October had finally receded. Chocolates and chips and pretzels and pastries lined the shelves for the first time in months. But h... | "Yer tryin' ta tell me that the gov'ment stole a whole planet so they can strip mine it for Plutonium?" Pa squinted his good eye at the youngster sitting across the fire from him. The group had been stuck up in the hills since the last summer's rains had taken out the road and they were finding their reacquaintance wit... | 2018-04-21T17:47:09 | 2018-04-21T17:43:55 | 93 | 29 |
[WP] The dragon has kidnapped the princess... again. And the knight is off to rescue her... again. That is what people think is going on. In reality, the three of them are great friends just looking for an excuse to hang out together. | Sword pressed to his helm, the knight held his back steady against the giant bolder. His deep breaths were cut short by the explosion of flames just on the other side of the rock he hid behind. *Predictable,* he thought, as a bead of sweat began to form on his brow from the heat surrounding him. He took off running to ... | (Edit: Added illustration.)
A young woman had crept into the den where I slept. After furtively glancing behind her, to her left, then to her right, she cautiously approached me.
“Smoggy?” Dedicated to my act of feigning sleep, I didn’t respond. Exhausted, the woman collapsed onto her rump and sighed out in relief. “... | 2021-02-26T04:35:32 | 2021-02-26T03:31:30 | 280 | 174 |
[WP] Whenever a girl comes of age, she becomes aware of the secret psychic bond all women share; an ability they have kept secret from men for millennia. On your 16th birthday, you become the first boy in history to connect to the "hidden voice" | He choked on his macaroni salad as voices peppered his consciousness: "You don't think he notices?"
"Notices what? That there's macaroni art on his pants?"
Slowly his eyes trailed down to his crotch, where pasta spilled down his legs and pooled on his shoes. He glanced back up to Rachel and Kiara, but their lips rema... | "Don't tell the men"....
"Shhh!"
"I need a drink...."
"!@$!%, !@$!@$"...
"Doctor, I think I am going crazy."
"Why do you think that James?"
"I keep thinking I need a drink but I don't like alcohol!"
"Hmmm.... lets have you document the thoughts in this journal and we can see when it occurs and i... | 2016-07-21T13:45:05 | 2016-07-21T12:43:20 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] You are a therapist. You are about to speak with a patient who has convinced several other therapists to commit suicide. | I watched from behind my desk as they escorted him in. A slight young man, flanked by two burly security guards and a police officer. He looked around in a nervous fashion before dropping into the single chair that sat in front of my desk. There were no cuffs or restraints on him, but it was clear he was a prisoner of ... | A therapist is a bastion of hope for the those who believe themselves, or their situation, hopeless. We are candles burning in a deep darkness, guiding the lost homeward. This is what I was taught and this is what I believe.
So my fellow professionals refusing to help the young lady now standing infront of me, brings ... | 2016-07-02T02:16:29 | 2016-07-01T23:44:19 | 629 | 37 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | “It’s all gone,” said Jeb tossing his cigarette to the ground to stamp it out.
“Sure, is pretty, isn’t it,” said Jared.
“What?”
Jared and Jeb. Johnson and Johnson were what was written on their military name tapes. A common name, no blood between them, one stood there, and the other sat, both of th... | The sound of the bolt racheting back was so satisfying. It was why she'd picked the outdated thing. The way that her target's face painted the arena floor was satisfying too. The way he screamed and fell to the ground still horrified her, still gave her those little shivers of guilt and adrenaline.
"Another victory fo... | 2022-06-15T10:47:39 | 2022-06-15T10:14:56 | 114 | 15 |
[WP] When you were a child a strange little man gave you a beautiful gold and silver pocket watch with the image of a serpent eating its own tail etched into it, now nearly a century later as you lay on you death bed the same strange little man appears to take the watch back, whispering "Thank you". | As he lay awaiting for death one question kept nagging his mind over and over again. He didn't wonder if his life was a good one, he didn't mull over his failures, he didn't have regrets. The only thing he was interested in was what lay beyond, what was awaiting for him on the other side?. It seemed like the only impor... | I laid there alone. My family had left, they had their lives to get back to. I was going to die. Soon. Maybe not soon enough. I had fallen very ill recently and now I was bed ridden. My family did visit, and looked after me, but I had been here, this way, for three weeks. They had lives to get back to. I understood nor... | 2019-05-30T07:57:15 | 2019-05-30T07:02:40 | 118 | 26 |
[WP] You just made a deal with the devil, and sold your soul. But when he reached in to take it, he says, "Okay, wise-guy, where is it?" | John lay quietly on the hospital bed, surrounded by the sounds of a mechanical life; beeps of computers, hisses of pressurized gasses.
His visitor sat on the edge of the bed, staring into his eyes. John looked patiently back. They had sat like this for five minutes, neither saying a word.
“I don’t understand why.... | The devil was passing a bar, but something make him stop.
he's ears caught the best Jazz he ever heard in his life.
as he entered he found a young man playing the violin like the titanic was sinking
the devil without waiting challenged the boy to a music duel
at first he indulged the boys pride sin and let the boy ... | 2019-05-05T06:23:12 | 2019-05-05T03:48:29 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] Barack Obama announces that he will be the last POTUS. He gives a speech explaining why and everyone realizes that he is right. | "-- I will be resigning, effective immediately."
The crowd gasped collectively. Eric passed the joint to Mark, glimpsing his way. "Holy shit, dude."
"Yeah," Mark replied, taking a hit. "That's wild."
Onscreen, journalists were interrupting each other. One voice rose from the crowd.
"Why are you resigning, Mr. Presi... | "There is no easy way to say this. I am not resigning or am being impeached. I will simply be the last President of the United States of America. This decision has not been easy, but this has been my goal for some time now. My actions after that decision have been even harder. I had to become a traitor to my own countr... | 2015-11-17T18:40:44 | 2015-11-17T18:32:27 | 88 | 22 |
[WP] The prophecy says the one to pull the sword from the giant statue will save the world. Many have failed, and now in front of the Assembly you grasp the greatsword firmly and pull - and fall backward when it snaps off cleanly at the hilt | The monk's wandering heart was unsuited to the seriousness of his appointed task, and always had been. He was the watcher of the stone, but preferred to think of himself more as its "keeper". In the mornings, he slept in, then had a simple meal of grains and eggs, followed by more than a short stretch of contemplation ... | “Thou who removes the Holy Sword from his Majesty’s heart, will forever be blessed with the all mighty’s power.” Lord Ideles swore that to the world when he stabbed the sword through that grand statue in the cities center over one thousand years ago. A millennia of men have tried and failed to claim its power for thems... | 2022-08-10T12:04:19 | 2022-08-10T11:20:16 | 68 | 40 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | "Uhm, can you help me with my homework?"
A little demon boy was looking up at him. The child had horns curled around his head, and furry legs tipped with obsidian hooves. In one hand, it held a disturbingly leathery sheet titled "A History of Man", with the other, solid graphite in the vague shape of a pencil.
The hu... | 1/2
The shriek of some lost soul pierced my ears. My feet were sore. I was hot, tired, and thirsty- and I still hadn't found anything that was on my shopping list. Not a single bag in my hand. This mall's layout has always driven me crazy. Smaller hallways shot off at crazy angles, doubling back on each other, making ... | 2019-09-17T13:43:27 | 2019-09-17T12:55:15 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Humanity was amazed by the presence of extraterrestrials. They were new. They were exciting. As a species, we were done evolving. We had discovered every scientific breakthrough available to us and our meager resources. We had mapped our observable universe and pushed the limits of our existence.
We had philosophized... | "Personal journal: The sky on this planet was blue when we landed. I should have known that a blood-colored sky was a bad omen.
"Command had singled out this planet, a tiny garden world around an unremarkable star, as a good place to set up a frontier resupply depot. 'We've observed them through a probe for a hundred ... | 2019-02-26T08:20:01 | 2019-02-26T07:33:05 | 1,328 | 589 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | Kai sat in the large auditorium. The busy bustle and rustle of many students rushing to fill their seats before class began to fill the once vacant hall. This class was unusual. Normally students would simply log in to their schools virtual database to be present. A holographic display of the student would then appear ... | "Ummmm, Professor"
"Yes Rickie, what do you have to add to the conversation?"
Looking at the others 2 humans in the class, he shrugs his shoulders and turns back to Professor G'lat. "I think your research is a bit... incorrect. Humans were never peaceful. Not even close. Those examples you gave were the exception not... | 2022-10-17T07:12:12 | 2022-10-17T06:28:16 | 117 | 85 |
[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. | This one had been a long time coming - far longer than I ever thought possible.
We'd met on a battlefield millennia ago, both surprised to find out that our strikes did not harm the other. It was the first, and only, other immortal I'd ever encountered.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naturally, being... | Dinosaurs was our best one, hands-down. The Church of Latter Day Saints is second-best, but gets points taken off for being a religion (too easy to pull off, religions, in my opinion). But our funniest one, I think, was Michael Jackson.
Some of my friends would agree with me, but not most. The irrelevancy of his life ... | 2017-06-22T19:56:41 | 2017-06-22T19:14:24 | 5,933 | 23 |
[WP] The narrator was running late and just showed up to a story already in progress. He doesn't know who the heroes or villains are or even what genre this is. | The battlefield was a writhing mass of bodies, men knee deep in mud and gore, the dead strewn under their feet. The air rang with the clattering of swords and whistles of arrows, the heavy stench of sweat and and blood suffocating. Our hero rides in, blade held aloft as his steed-
“I’m not the hero, mate,” not-the-her... | “...And that little girl was me.”
A voice buzzed in to the studio speaker. “No, you can’t just … You can’t just turn up late and then open with something like that.”
“OK, what if I address the audience with a ‘Just between you and me, I was that little girl.”
“Who hired this guy?” asked another voice emanating in to... | 2018-02-08T09:20:43 | 2018-02-08T06:14:57 | 521 | 234 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 712 | 13 |
[WP] You read a comment on reddit so stupid your IQ drops to negative leading to an integer error. Congratulations, now you have 2,147,483,647 IQ. | At first, there were desires to watch cat and street fight videos. Which quickly descended to not being able to comprehend the keyboard in front of me. Which quickly lead to forgetting the spelling of my name and understanding of language.
Soon, breathing became difficult, and darkness enveloped my vision as my hea... | I didn't really notice, but other people started realizing that my critical thinking skills had drastically increased. I received praise when completing tasks, and people regarded me as one smart cookie.
As I aged, the compliments became fewer, and the lack of recognition started to get to me. I started to seriously d... | 2017-07-31T06:33:51 | 2017-07-31T05:32:23 | 64 | 20 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | Honor and justice were words for politicians. Eraser had always believed in a single driving force to his heroism and that was efficiency. If the name was catchier, he would’ve called himself Factory Man, instead, he took the name Eraser for his powers in wiping villain’s identities. He took not just their memories, bu... | "Ah, isn't the scent of peace wonderful," I said as I stood in front of my open window. The sunrays imbued me with their tender heat, it reminded me of a hug brimming with love.
I went to the kitchen, stretching as I walked down the stairs. The scent of freshly made hotcakes swirled into my nostrils, drawing a smile o... | 2017-12-30T08:30:59 | 2017-12-30T08:02:18 | 300 | 153 |
[WP] Every proper Hero and Villain knows that when a costume needs fixed, Neutral Ground Tailors is the place to go. | Franklin Benson was a man who knew three things: the most dangerous secrets in the world, how to keep them, and how to cut cloth and make it look good on a person.
Every day, except Sundays, he got up, kissed his wife and children and walked one mile to the post office where he checked the store’s PO box, then another... | The bells hanging from the front door swung, their chimes echoing in the small store. I looked up from the counter.
A familiar face stared back. Not dressed like always, but I'd have recognized that face anywhere. In his hands was his costume, and for a change he was dressed in the business-casual attire of the popul... | 2020-03-04T12:47:17 | 2020-03-04T10:26:02 | 68 | 18 |
[WP] Every dog is able to speak perfect English exactly once, for one sentence, in their lifetime. You're on trial for a murder you didn't commit, and your dog is the only one who could possibly exonerate you. There's just one problem: you weren't a very good owner. | I knew Honey wasn't going to say anything. They had her at the table, read her a long list of rules and information I'm sure she couldn't understand, and all waited. It was hard to believe that anyone expected her waste her one sentence on me.
My dog was going to outlive me, I realized. Once I was convicted, that wou... | Jerry cleared his throat.
The jury stared at the wise-looking golden retriever in anticipation. This was it, and they knew it. He would speak his one sentence today. This was it.
Jerry licked his lips and his ears twitched.
The jury leaned forward.
Jerry said, "On October 8th, 2014, Brad Johnson spread peanut bu... | 2017-09-20T22:54:31 | 2017-09-20T19:39:21 | 450 | 25 |
[WP] After years of constant battles, you've finally defeated your nemesis, the city's foremost hero and protector. But now their spouse just showed up, and nothing you throw at them even slows them down. | I was tired. Beyond tired. Overtired. I knew even if I tried to lay down to sleep here in the street that sleep would not take me. Besides, the body of Strateria was dead on the floor before me and I would rather not try and sleep next to her in such a state. I may of hated her more than anything else in my life, ... | "She just keep pushing sir!. The traps dont work! She in unaffected by fire, she just jump over the crocodile pit with ease and now she is breking the 3-multi-layer adamantium carbon fibre door whit her bare hands!"
"How... How did she find us?????!! This place is in the botton of the sea for god sake!"
"She... she ... | 2021-07-15T08:17:32 | 2021-07-15T07:01:48 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] They say "Never meet your heroes", and boy were they right. So you decided to meet your villain, hoping to be wrong about them as well. | "Listen kid, I have a lot of plotting and scheming to do. I don't really have time for visitors."
Tech-Tonic was as intimidating in person as he was on the news. In fact, being here in front of him was paralyzing. Now I could see, up close and in detail, each of the devastating machines he's used to shake cities to th... | I still see the water whenever I dream. I was on the 101st floor of the Cadmin Tech building and even though it swayed back and forth so violently, I thought it was about to snap in two, I survived the tsunami. It was a fairly typical fight, Cosmicus had defended the city for almost 30 years at that point, but this vil... | 2022-06-28T10:48:55 | 2022-06-28T09:12:50 | 409 | 28 |
[WP] Walking through a dark forest, you stumble across a little shrine. In the middle of the shrine is a mirror. There are inscriptions around the mirror "Gaze into me and I'll show you your soul". You step up to the mirror. What do you see? | I had been lost in these woods for a full day. I never should have left my campsite without my map and compass; now I'm lucky just to have found water an hour before. *Blech, I bet it had parasites despite how clear it was; I'm not feeling so good.*
It was then that I found the shrine. There had been no mention of it ... | She looked like me, but not really. In fact, she looked more like me than any other reflection I’d seen.
Her eyes weren’t as closely set as mine.
Her face was longer, more structured.
She wasn’t a pencil, but she was thinner than I was.
She was a little taller than I was—by less than a foot, but still noticeable... | 2022-11-06T19:10:30 | 2022-11-06T17:10:41 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] The world has taken precautions against super-powered beings, handing out inhibitors if deemed too 'destructive.' You sat in the principal's office with horror etched on your face as a pair of inhibitor gloves were handed to you. The smug grin of your life long bully telling you everything. | "What are those for?" I breathed weakly.
The question was rhetorical, of course. We'd seen those accursed gauntlets everywhere. Criminals and commoners alike were forced to wear them, so long as they were dangerous. The wrist cuffs were magnetized and anything that was special about a person was drained from them in j... | "No, no, no, no, youre maki-"
"QUIET!"
Said the princibal wanting be to put the gloves on me
"Please dont do this."
I said scared of what would happen, but then i noticed, my bully sitting and watching from the lockers with his "gfs", the grin on his face, i knew that he said to the principal about my powers.I knew... | 2022-12-25T07:48:11 | 2022-12-25T07:08:03 | 46 | 17 |
[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.... | My 18th birthday had finally come. The step to adulthood, the leap towards life.
I looked around, and all of my friends who were older then me brought theirs, wondering what I would get while the rest were wondering what they would get soon.
The cake was beautiful, with animal figurines all over it, each animal hopi... | 2014-09-28T08:54:52 | 2014-09-28T08:35:49 | 318 | 12 |
[WP] Your son has had an imaginary friend since he was little. As he got older, she became his imaginary girlfriend, then his imaginary wife. One day, you've had enough of his delusions. You go over to his house, and are greeted at the door by your imaginary grandchild. | I’ve had enough. Raising my kid all these years made me think, this won’t go on forever will it? It’s just a phase. Well that’s what I thought. I was cooking up my meal when I get a text, it’s my son. Call me old fashioned but I hate texts, so I gave him a call. “What’s up Jimmy?” I asked him after he picked up. “Dad, ... | The news crew who got tipped about this showed up at the house to interview the father. He was a spattered mix of jubilation and tears as he held a bundle of baby's blankets close to his chest. He confided in the anchor as the camera man fixed the shot on him.
"I never could have imagined that my son would have a chil... | 2018-01-26T13:00:54 | 2018-01-26T09:15:09 | 16 | 11 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | "...a book?", "The boy got a book, how...", "What weapon did he summon?" "...the boy's weapon?" "Why does he hold a book?"
The whispers in the hall surrounded me, their judging eyes piercing my soul, searching for answers. I remember that day still. For weeks after that I struggled to make sense of it, to find my plac... |
My family of warriors, each gripping their distinctive weapons or sheathed at their sides, looked at me—with varying levels of pity.
For my fifteenth birthday, the day I should have manifested my very own weapon, I got a book. It was as thick as two of my hands laid on top of each other, and as long as my palm. It wo... | 2021-12-12T09:05:28 | 2021-12-12T08:08:33 | 1,442 | 142 |
[WP] You sang to your plants to help them grow. Now, as you are on your deathbed, you hear faint whispers coming from the trees. | It sounded like the wind at first, like that little hush before a storm. The windows were open and the cabin breathed with it, gulped for air for a few, final moments.
Then it wasn't a wind at all.
The trees breathed years onto my sweat-soaked skin, they spoke decades. The forest was alive with days, weeks, months a... | All my life, I sang to my plants. Others in my family scoffed, but I thought it made them happy. Indoor plants, outdoor plants, even once in the woods when I was by myself, I sang.
My life was good. Love, family, purpose were all mine. I knew that it would be soon. I asked my children to leave the window open tonight... | 2020-04-30T15:01:53 | 2020-04-30T12:46:54 | 680 | 189 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | “Yep, you better get up!” A woman clothed in white dress said with indifference.
“T-This is nonsense!” A youth gazed at the woman with shock as he muttered. “I am not even a woman!”
“You can be a warlock, no?” Another woman who seemed to be younger replied with a mischievous smile.
“Either way, it is not up for us ... | I screeched. Loudly. The witches began screaming as well, clearly disgruntled by my choice of verbal communication until one witch had the genius idea to pimp slap me, effectively shutting me up.
When I came to, the sun was high in the sky, sitting nicely behind a large, white cloud. Leaves entered my view, prolifer... | 2019-10-27T02:42:18 | 2019-10-27T02:24:41 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Demons have finally discovered a way to summon humans and they take great joy in summoning humans to hell to do mundane chores in revenge for humans doing that to them for centuries. | Lorx carefully scratched a seven point star into the ground with his claws, double checking his geometry. Next he put a flag on the first point.
"For your pride!" Lorx chanted.
He placed a watch on the second, "For your envy!"
A cheeseburger for the third, "For your gluttony!"
And so the demon continued until the whole... | "What the fuck Agi?" I said as the smoke rolled off me. The smell of brimstone hit my nostrils immediately and I gagged on the taste.
"I was in the middle of an exam?!" The frustration mounted and I was starting to get pissed at Agara. This had been the third time this week. Sure, she was a 15 foot tall lust deamon ... | 2020-07-01T17:15:18 | 2020-07-01T15:09:36 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] An unnamed henchmen has the audacity to murder the protagonist halfway through the villain's monologue with a complete disregard for the plot. | Lord Mestophiles smirked as the young man was forced to kneel on the plush carpet in front of his throne.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't young Luka."
He stood, and paced back and forth in front of his helpless captive.
"You've been a real pain, Luka. A real thorn in my side. I should have killed you along with your ... | "And finally Bats is my coup de grâce" Said the Joker "I am going to....."
**BANG**
The Joker turned around to see a bullet through Batman's head. And Batman's body slumped in the chair, blood streaming from the hole in his head. The Joker turned to his henchman Giggles, who was holding a steaming Desert Eagle. The... | 2015-06-24T01:16:43 | 2015-06-23T21:27:24 | 181 | 89 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | "I'm telling yo captain the guy is clearly nuts, he's in there babbling, not making any sense."
"Thank you officer Munoz, but there is still a good chance its some kind of ploy to pull off an insanity plea. There is no way a man like Javier Moreno would have risen as far as he has with the rebels if he was insane." Ca... | "I have been reading the local wifi signals. I suspect," the robot states, "Why it is we cannot receive fuel here."
An incubus next to the robot asks, "Fuel? We come here to get drunk, and occasionally laid."
"He has been kind enough to separate water into deuterium for my fusion reactor. Alcohol is fuel for you i... | 2018-01-31T14:18:04 | 2018-01-31T12:25:56 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You've died and have woken up in a bright area; there is a man standing before you in white robes. He asks "How was Heaven?" | My brain churned, trying to process this newfound information. "What, you mean life on earth? *That* shit was heaven?" God was an asshole for greeting me with such nonchalance, as if I ought to have already known. Wasn't this a rhetorical question, anyway? Shouldn't he have already known my opinion? In which case, I wa... | Even though I've already died once before, the crunch of a bone snapped from impact still brings a deep sickness to my gut. At first I twist my head to let it all come out, but as I do I see a pair of pale feet in a pair of sandals. I twist away further to avoid expelling my last mortal meal between his toes.
"Excuse... | 2016-08-15T22:19:09 | 2016-08-15T20:55:55 | 87 | 29 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn't hard to tell what she was, that's what attracted me to her in the first place, and when she said yes I was exhilarated. I dressed up all nice for our date, all black and everything, so the stains wouldn't show. It was fantastic! We went to the movies, had dinner at a nice Chinese place, and when she finally i... | I couldn't believe it when my crush, Sarah, asked me out on a date after school. I had been crushing on her for ages and never thought she would feel the same way about me. I was so excited that I couldn't concentrate on anything else the entire day.
After school, we met up at a local park and spent the afternoo... | 2022-12-29T20:22:07 | 2022-12-29T15:08:56 | 136 | 67 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | Being the newest lawyer at the largest firm around, you tend to get the worst of cases from both sides of the spectrum. The most contentious divorces with kids and pettiness, and the most pedantic arbitrations with low billable hours. Shit truly does roll downhill, and I knew today would be no different when the snicke... | "Ah but is she really considered food? the pale man spoke, his fangs showing between words. He smirked as he flipped to another card in a thick stack held in his hands.
"Firstly, you don't need those. Secondly, that would be a fair point if you hadn't specifically tried to eat her." The goat-legged woman across the t... | 2022-07-11T20:32:20 | 2022-07-11T19:23:26 | 1,720 | 104 |
[Wp]Heaven isn't based on religious text or desires, but how you died. Example: a man who starved to death will live in a heaven of food.
Edit: holy shit i did not expect this response, you're all awesome and beautiful! <3 | They had been right all along. Neil walked the rolling plains of Heaven, the grass tickling his bare toes. The air had never smelled so sweet, and just *look* at it. In life, he'd dismissed all of this as a fairytale people told each other for comfort: that one day, you would find peace in Heaven.
But he couldn't deny... | The last thing I remember was a tinkling of something coming from the ceiling, then cries and screams. I grip my mother's hand and it all went black.
I woke up in a magnificent field of flowers.
I'm warm, fully dressed and I feel sunshine on my face. The smell of the air is sweet and floral. Easy to breathe it in whe... | 2017-01-27T11:27:04 | 2017-01-27T11:23:27 | 561 | 126 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | A darkness engulfs me and then I open my eyes and I'm in a cafe.
The lights are overwhelming and I'm almost deafened by the noise. The hiss and splutter of the coffee machine with it's milk throther cut into my brain. It's all too much, shadowy figures are moving around me, the clatter of cups hitting saucers, the bi... | ‘Hi diddly-ho, Demonrino!’ enthused Ned. ‘Nice to meet you, but I seem to be in the wrong place?’ he queried.
‘Fear not, Ned. Your beloved Reverend Lovejoy is right over there. You both have a special role here,’ intoned the demon.
‘Hi diddly-ho, Reverend!’ exclaimed Ned. ‘Can’t believe we’re neighborinos!
<gro... | 2020-07-10T10:13:29 | 2020-07-10T10:02:15 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] Aliens arrive on Earth, but not for sinister purposes like colonization or waging war on us. They’re just so darn excited to see other life forms in the universe! | "What do you mean with "they just want to talk?""
The operator shrugged. "I don't know... Besides, they actually used the term""chat""
The president was confused. Having to deal with an alien race contacting us in perfect English was hard enough on his own, but how was he supposed to react to that? The scenarios he u... | “But what does it *eat*?”
The otherworldly creature they were observing was only one of five that had arrived in the middle of the night. A rocket ship, not unlike those NASA sent into space, had landed in an open field beside a gas station near the interstate. The attendant’s pleas to 911 would have been laughed off ... | 2020-11-24T04:33:19 | 2020-11-24T03:32:37 | 991 | 221 |
[WP] In a universe where the rules of superhero comics are real, any vat of chemicals, any vial of liquid, any combination of ingredients may result in superpowers. In this universe, you are the most feared superhero or villain imaginable. You are The Chemist. | "So, what do you want?" I'd heard the bell above my door ring, but I didn't look away from my workspace. This was a difficult combination, and it tended to explode if you left it for too long.
"Um, I'm not sure Mister..." The voice was small and very young. Against my better judgement, I turned, to see a little gir... | I visit the nineteen year old single mother. All of the paperwork is done. I am now the legal guardian of her three year old daughter. The mother tells me "thank you so much for taking her." More quietly, she says "I hope you'll give her a better life than we ever could."
I respond with "Of course." My silver tongue a... | 2022-08-10T20:18:18 | 2022-08-10T19:57:35 | 483 | 124 |
[WP]a generic "boy gets invited to a magical all girls school" except the boy in question is a 7ft tall silent Knight that never removes his armor | "Daisuke? Daisuke, where are you?"
The sun was going down as Tsui searched the last of the academy grounds. Just as she was about to give up the effort, she caught a glimpse of something glittering in the last light of day. With renewed hope, Tsui raced over to the tree where it lay, and her hopes were instantly vindi... | In a land far, far away, there was a magical all-girls school nestled deep in the heart of a dense forest. The school was renowned for its excellent education and the special abilities that its students possessed.
One day, the school received an invitation to visit a neighboring kingdom. The girls were excited to expl... | 2022-12-06T10:11:19 | 2022-12-06T07:43:24 | 112 | 33 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Perhaps it was just an unfortunate series of circumstances that resulted in the human's particular predicament. It was their mistake to make to think Elora 1284 was anything less than the long-range weapons testing ground it ultimately was. They should have really thought it stranger that such a desolate place could ex... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2019-12-19T07:38:55 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | The Congregation of Supervillains sat in their seats, viryuall holding a meeting of theirs due to the hazard posed by the epidemic ravaging the Earth. Only 3 out of the 12 chair members had the ability to counteract disease. Ulterior looked up after reading the reports given by each member.
Their system was highly ef... | “...you looked at the Armageddon Protocol?” The black armored villain spoke to a crippled young team. Various shapes, powers, some seemed human others gremlins.
“Y-yeah boss...it was crazy, it was like they forgot their no kill ru-“ The armored villain turned back quickly, fired a red blast from his armored hand, maki... | 2020-07-12T11:58:06 | 2020-07-12T11:12:41 | 55 | 36 |
[WP] being the grim reaper is pretty lonely, you only ever meet people once to escort them to the other side and most don’t want to talk. Except this one soul, who every week without fail shows up ready to make the journey. How he gets back I have no idea, but it’s nice to see a familiar face. | “Sorry I’m late,” she says as she gets in the boat. “The game went into overtime.”
“That’s all right,” I say. “How did your son do?”
“He scored the winning shot! Of course, it was his only bucket of the game and he's still not that good...but he was so happy and his teammates were hugging him…he never had too many fr... | I’ve never caught his name, and considering most the time I’m intoxicated I probably wouldn’t remember it anyway.
“Hey, can I ask how you die every time?” I ask. I flip open the lid of my flask and offer him some - he declines so I drink.
“I’ve been killing myself.”, he doesn’t look at me. His eyes remain empty, but ... | 2019-02-22T03:44:42 | 2019-02-22T01:49:39 | 324 | 21 |
[WP] You've always carried the subtle, lingering fear that someone could read your mind while you were in public, but you had always written it off as a silly form of social anxiety. That is, until you spotted someone on the subway home lip-syncing the song stuck in your head. | I thought it was just a coincidence. However, the moment I thought that, the hooded man in front of me ceased lip-syncing the song playing in my head, looking somewhat agitated, as if he'd just made a terrible mistake.
On cue, however, the subway's breaks shrieked to a stop, and the man jostled his way out, ignoring t... | I mean, it's a popular tune; radio has it on regular rotation... There may be others in the same car with the same tune... But she is so old... is that, 75...80? Her timing was perfect... Her gaze unwavering. Were her eyes tired, or--... No....that was pity. She knows... I f***ing did it... and she knows... The voices... | 2018-12-04T11:16:50 | 2018-12-04T10:59:58 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Bruce Wayne is shot, and has to spend a month recovering. In the meantime, he has to ask various other superheroes to pretend to be Batman while he's out. | "Sooooo ... I need you to be The Dark Knight for *about a month.*"
Superman frowned as he looked down at Bruce. "You got shot in the chest and all you think you're going to be fighting criminals *in a month*?"
Bruce looked offended at the idea. "I'm not just The Worlds Greatest Detective -- I'm also a scientist and i... | "Yello', Clark Kent speaking!"
"Hey, Clark, it's me, Bruce. I need you to do me a favor."
"Yeah?"
"Remember when I got shot?"
Of course Clark remembered. It was his big story for the month! Billionaire Bruce Wayne, shot during a press conference! Of course, Clark knew that the reason Bruce had been shot was because... | 2017-07-08T21:31:40 | 2017-07-08T20:22:57 | 69 | 33 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | I’m not even sure this is the right place to post, but I’m worried about my sister. About three hours ago I got a text from the Emergency Alert System. I checked my Facebook to see if anyone else got the same thing. It seemed like it was a practical joke and I couldn’t find anything in Google News.
My sister sent me ... | My body tensed at the sound of knocking. Unsure of who it might be, I crept to the door as silently as possible, so as not to alert the knocker that anyone was home. That was, until I looked through the peephole.
"Aditi? What the hell happened to you?"
She was a mess. Her hijab was missing, and there was a scrape acr... | 2019-01-12T08:53:28 | 2019-01-12T06:23:20 | 124 | 82 |
[WP] Demons have finally discovered a way to summon humans and they take great joy in summoning humans to hell to do mundane chores in revenge for humans doing that to them for centuries. | Varth smiled, excited. It was a nice vacation, just a couple years spent just him and his wife. They visited Paris. A lovely human city where they spent many days bringing all sorts of troublesome events to the couple's there. "If they can get over this they aren't meant to be wed." Varth said laughing to is wife Zagro... | I was sitting on my couch, feet up and watching the news. Another man who’s spirit has gone missing for multiple days when a demon summoned them. They always ask for the most menial tasks to be done, such as wash their loincloths or take the leviathan on a walk. Pretty petty if you ask me. This has been going on for a ... | 2020-07-01T16:51:25 | 2020-07-01T16:14:27 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "Come i- *oh come on*," I sighed as I saw who just walked into my office. Mr Williams. *Again*.
"Tobias!" he cheerfully greeted me. I did not share his most likely faux upbeat mood, knowing full well what he wanted.
"My answer's the same," I said. Despite this, he sat down in the chair across of me and made himself c... | "You could have an action figure in your likeness, by the end of the year." Said the person that could not leave well enough alone.
"Nope, not interested. It'll cut into my raid time." Steve said as he was trying to politely end the conversation with the obvious government recruitment officials.
"You'll be doing the ... | 2022-07-31T14:37:56 | 2022-07-31T12:20:48 | 517 | 354 |
[WP] After observing humanity, alien scientists conclude the following: "Their desire to get involved in conflicts and the fact that they don't show a rational fear of death makes them far too dangerous to approach. But it also makes them the perfect Military Force for the upcoming Galactic War" |
“Amazing. And they just kept building them?” Therien Red-Triangle asked as he looked over the data.
“Yes, they called it ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’. If war began, neither side would win,” Helorat Green-Square explained, “After their socio-economic war was resolved, they simply kept the warheads. What’s more, t... | "Please turn to page 237 of your texts. Can anyone explain what an infection is, from a galactic standpoint?"
Astrobiology had a reputation for a hard class. Theoretical, with relatively few experimental proofs available. Everyone was eager to impress. The professor pointed and the student spoke.
"A low level ... | 2018-10-26T10:15:43 | 2018-10-26T09:49:07 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why. | Ultraman walked into the laboratory of Professor Pragmatic (or Prof. Prag for short) and frowned as he looked around at all the complex and confusing machinery that filled the room. A vial of suspicious looking green ooze sat on one side of a desk while a boiling beaker of bright red oil sat on the other side. The prof... | Oh, boy, I have to give a stern talk to THAT guy again.
Actually, that guy was not a guy, it was a female. Actually, that female is not any other female, but my little sister. She has a heart of gold and I love her with every inch of my life, but GOD, she's just so... innocent? Oblivious? I don't think there's a word... | 2021-04-21T23:50:17 | 2021-04-21T23:47:09 | 102 | 57 |
[WP] You are trapped in a small, windowless room with nothing but a computer with a text editor. When you type in a word, the object appears in the room. However, there's a catch: the only keys on the keyboard are in the first half of the alphabet (A - M). | The computer boots up easily enough to a black screen with a little blinking cursor.
*h*, *e*, *l*- but there's no *p*. No letters after M, no numbers or special characters. Just the first half of the alphabet, backspace, enter, and a load of blank keys.
I use those two.
*Ask and you shall receive*.
I already k... | Feeling clever I start to type
*Click*
K
*Click*
E
but there is no letter Y
I cannot type "keyboard"
I think a bit
*Click*
C
*Click*
A
*Click*
B
*Click*
L
*Click*
E
*Click*
Enter
A standard USB cable falls to the floor, I guess I needed to specify "Phone cable" but I have no letter P, I can't plug ... | 2017-05-09T08:54:37 | 2017-05-09T07:44:45 | 252 | 143 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | "Mutant." A boy to my left spat. I turned and shot a blood red glance, sneering at his smug green pools. He was nothing special himself, just a mid-oculite.
"Get out of here!" Another, this time a gray, shouts, "Leave this place blood eyes!" Shaking my head I reach to my side, sliding the blade out of its scabbard an... | Blue eyes, brown eyes, blue eyes, brown eyes – we were cast out. For millennia, we have been cursed. Watched and not able to speak of each specific person’s eyes lest our civilization be destroyed by the greens. Two hundred and one of us, stranded on an island, tasked only with creating endless logical riddles for cons... | 2015-08-24T12:55:55 | 2015-08-24T12:46:29 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | Like a bolt she stands up. The class turns as the teacher trails off. “Miss Derringer do you mind...” he begins. “Silence!” She snaps as the realisation of her surroundings sinks in. With purpose Ann moves towards the door. The teacher still reeling from the authority in the command. Marie scrambles after her “Annie! W... | A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger.
It had started as a day drea... | 2020-04-21T11:17:39 | 2020-04-21T10:31:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | The first thing I did was count them. One, two, three... six. Six zeros. Each one stamped proudly across my chest, starting with a three. Three million? How could this happen?
The number was just a one last night, I remembered seeing it right before bed. It had been that way for two weeks. Even though the number says ... | As I turned in my vote for the 2016 presidency election, little did I know that my ballot was the determining factor in Trump's victory. At that moment, my number, given to all humans since the age of biorobotics, changed from 1 to 3 million and I was certain of the agony I had just unleashed unto the world. | 2016-06-24T03:35:52 | 2016-06-24T02:39:12 | 461 | 10 |
[WP] Finishes with "May I start over?" | He laid on his back as the pain slowly sank in. Is this what death felt like? Surely the fall must have killed him. Oh well. It was just nice to feel something again. The dreary 20 years that lead to this moment were finally coming to a close.
No. That's not right.
So the year is 1944 on June 6th. Steve took one las... | Before I began, I seated myself on the soft armchair, leaned back and shoved a fistful of popcorn into my mouth, gave the soda a sip to make sure it's still fresh. And it was. With the light of the television screen before me in the living room, I pressed the button of the remote. Frankly saying, I did not know what mo... | 2013-09-01T07:01:42 | 2013-09-01T06:59:25 | 89 | 25 |
[WP] An Eccentric Billionaire Makes An Interesting Offer... $100,000/yr for the Rest of Your Life and All You Have to do is........... | Joe walked into the mansion and looked around.
“You’re obviously very successful.” Joe said to the man.
“Thank you for your honesty” The man responded, nodding his head with a straight face.
There was an awkward silence.
“Would you like a cup of coffee?” he said.
“Sure” said Joe. The man went into the nearby cl... | Richard sat in the dark leather chair, making a concentrated effort to appear calm and professional. He adjusted his position often, making small squeaks as his workmans jeans rubbed against the shiny leather surface. His hands moved by themselves from the arms of the chair to his lap at least eleven times since the mo... | 2014-04-17T12:15:09 | 2014-04-17T10:22:50 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Give me the history textbook from your latest game of Civilization V. | The earliest known city was founded on the coast, though it appears that the original settlers actually travelled there from one or two hexes away.
Perhaps they were drawn by the sugar which grows there, or the river. Most likely, both.
They named their city "Carthage". From this early time, we know very little. The... | “And so,” Geldaramesh, history teacher and beer aficionado cleared his throat. “We come to an important chapter in the history of our world. The razing of Memphis. Turn to chapter seven, children.”
Geldaramesh waited as the children turned the pages in their textbooks, paper rustling. The header of the chapter was r... | 2015-02-11T14:48:37 | 2015-02-11T14:31:03 | 173 | 87 |
[WP] Our universe was created by a kid for a school project. He got a C. Describe a universe that got an A.
Or describe why the kid got a C.
Edit: wow. I didn't expect this many responses. Thanks guys! | "I'm sorry Yahweh, but this won't hold up at all. I mean, *billions* of subjective years to develop life?"
"But..."
"And your individual units lack intelligence!"
"But, they interlink..."
"They are just chemotrophic"
"But..."
"Essentially rely on chemotaxis, very primitive, Yahweh"
"No, see they..."
"E... | Johnny sneered at me. I hated him so much. It seemed his entire existence was just to one-up me. This time it was his stupid universe. It sat floating at the podium in front of the classroom as the best example of what the rest of us should have done.
"Well," Mr. Williams began, clearly disappointed at first glance, "... | 2015-07-31T00:44:29 | 2015-07-30T22:37:45 | 126 | 68 |
[WP] A medieval knight is cursed and transported to the present day. Coincidentally he lands at a modern renaissance fair. | "Awesome sword, dude!"
Paul - Sir Paul, if one wanted to be formal, but, truth to be told, he rarely saw the point - turned briskly, looking at the villager who addressed him. Yeah, a villager, no doubt: that ridiculous thing that he wore was clearly *meant* to look like an armor of some sort, but not even the most g... | “HOLY SHIT!” Justin shrieked as a sudden flash erupted from across the tree he was relieving himself on.
Zipping up his pants in quick jerky movements, Justin slowly peeked out from the tree.
It was a man, a man who, from Justin’s perspective had drank far too much ‘faerie’ mead to move. *Well that’s just great, an... | 2015-09-22T09:58:07 | 2015-09-22T09:34:49 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | I loooked up at this tall, hardened figure.
"You'll never believe what happened," said the sword wielding, bearded man who claimed to be my father. The last time I had seen him was when he went out to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. I decided to listen to him.
"What happened?" I asked, curious.
"I got cigarettes, mi... | "Rioting continues over water shortages as what's left of the government scrambles to--"
There was a knock on the door. I shut off the tv and headed over to see who it was.
"Dad?!?"
There he was, looking more haggard and old than he did when he left me and my mom over twenty years ago, carrying a beat-up burlap sack... | 2016-07-20T08:21:53 | 2016-07-20T03:52:58 | 88 | 19 |
[WP] 105 years ago humankind decided to become extinct by not reproducing. You are the last human alive sitting in your home when suddenly you hear a voice of a young woman over your CB radio. | The voice was quiet, silent at first, and I figured I'd imagined it - like I often did. When you were alone - so, so alone - you tended to hear things. To see things that weren't there. And how you wished that they really were.
But then I heard it again - clearer, less ethereal. I turned to my radio, staring into it,... | Man, I haven't cleaned the house in *months*. The dust was finally starting to get to me. Probably should have closed the window, but...I suppose we learn from our mistakes.
*I* learn from my mistakes. Me. There was no longer a 'we'.
It had been the most complete reversal of evolution ever. My parents - God bless th... | 2016-11-29T07:19:16 | 2016-11-29T07:13:01 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | I'm usually clinical about my work, like a doctor. Emotions tend to cause mistakes. I got a letter from a little girl and it said "He hurts me at night. I just want it to stop. Please help me." so this job was a little different. It felt good to use a knife again, it had been a while since i'd been up close and persona... | I knew something was wrong the moment I picked up the envelope, first of all it was to light, secondly it rattled. Bills do not rattle, only coins do, and unless I was very much mistaken there were not $100 coins.
I shook the envelope again confirming the noise before looking at the man who had brought me the envelop... | 2017-02-16T10:30:50 | 2017-02-16T08:04:19 | 68 | 33 |
[WP] You stand among a council of the spirits of your warrior ancestors. Though they never faced photon cannons or an alien fleet, they're still trying their best to advise you on how to save Earth. | I pinched the bridge of my nose tightly with thumb and forefinger. I took a deep calming breath before speaking.
"Honored Ancestor Thalrog," I began, "as I've said on numerous occasions, the Drelians - our enemy - do not have vaginas. We cannot rape their women. They don't have women. Even if they did have women, no ... | "Degei, degei," muttered the wizened man, sunlight streaming through his body. He shook his head and frowned deeply before turning away.
Vatemo Ravouvou rolled his eyes. Around him, shades of various consistency floated around him. Some were almost faded away entirely, others seemed only slightly out of phase from... | 2017-03-16T11:45:22 | 2017-03-16T10:17:16 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | Like every day since I started this job, the subway was packed. Not the kind of packed where you have to occasionally mutter apologies as you slide past people; this was more like something that made me envious of sardines in a can.
Thank-god for phones. I sighed as an ad began to play again on the video I was watchi... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T07:17:35 | 201 | 41 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | Colonel Scope, once part of an elite force tasked with saving innocent and protecting those he loves now sits in his garage with a beer in his hand, lying on the couch. A place which was once filled with chivalrous and brave saviors, planning their next move, now sat in disrepair. The base of operations for the 64 Elit... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T09:22:17 | 201 | 25 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Everyone has at least one tattoo they absolutely love.
Jenny from upstairs has this peacock on her back- something she says is for her mother. Which is. Just. Absolute bullshit. She has it because she's a vain bitch.
But god is that tattoo beautiful. Curving lines inlayed with golds and greens and shocking blues. I... | Ryan never wanted a tattoo. He always thought they looked out of place, unnatural. Tattoos weren't dominant in his family. His mom only had a small one on her leg and his dad had only three tattoos, all of which were on his right arm.
Ryan's nineteenth birthday was coming right around the corner, and he still hadn't h... | 2017-08-03T15:53:09 | 2017-08-03T15:05:29 | 69 | 48 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | First contact was made almost ten years ago. They seemed well versed in warfare, in less than a day there wasn't a satellite left in the sky or a cable under the sea. Communication between nations fell to old ground bounce long range radios pulled out of mothballs. Conventional weapons proved to be ineffective and the ... | I don't know how to start here. None of this makes any sense.
I grew up watching the old Superman movies on tape. I grew up wanting to be like the man himself; I always thought I'd do what he did if I ended up with his powers. I remember fantasizing about it maybe a week before first contact; it was a thought I had of... | 2018-05-18T05:29:26 | 2017-12-06T22:42:40 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] You are a thief and pickpocket who manages to save the world, after doing so you return to your life of crime but begin to think people may be letting you commit crimes because of who you are | Joseph took pride in his work. He never had any skills to be proud of in school. He wasn’t athletically gifted, he wasn’t smart, he didn’t have musical talent; all in all, Joseph was an average joe. Which is why, when he discovered his knack for pickpocketing, he began to steal, not for the monetary value, but the feel... | I looked across the street at the pub, yearning to be inside next to the artificial hearth soaking in the heat rather than swaddled in rags ducking into an alley to enjoy a break from the wind. It got cold here on Fairhaven, and the planetary governors had long ago decided not to terraform the seasons out of the planet... | 2018-03-17T03:30:40 | 2018-03-16T23:51:37 | 111 | 10 |
[WP] Describe yourself as a fictional persona based on your username. | I really didn't want this to happen. I promise. I wanted to be a dragon. I wanted to fly really fast and breathe fire and be in a book. And I knew about wishing on stars, so when I saw one, I closed my eyes really hard and wished I was a dragon. I was so happy when I woke up. I had big, tough, shiny scales and big, har... | Err... So. I'm salt. Not a grain of salt, but a pure NaCl stone, as far as I know. I can somehow move the individual molecules of me around, something like Sandman from the Spiderman movies, and also I can somehow receive sensory input from every molecule, so that is pretty cool. I was a lanky teenager who locked himse... | 2018-05-13T05:38:50 | 2018-05-13T05:22:09 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." |
"Sir, I just checked my tasks for the day, and... well frankly I won't be able to complete this in the day. This is three days work at least, and they're all marked to be done today?" I looked up from my unusually long list of tasks to find that his eyes were already fixed on me.
His brow furrowed, he leaned in as h... |
*The clock can sing.*
*It sang, it sings, and it will sing again.*
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“I’m sorry, Jack,” Clara said, “I don’t know why the clock would be singing.”
She was sneaky. Oh yes, yes she was.
Jack smiled, "Ah, so you confirm that the clock *does* sing! You just don't know why."
Clara's short brown hair fram... | 2019-01-14T15:34:44 | 2019-01-14T14:44:37 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] The day you die, Death comes and asks if you are ready to go. Jokingly, you say no. To your surprise, he leaves. Now every year he comes back to ask again | I died choking on lunch in my office. Ironic, because we’d just spent the Friday two weeks ago going over CPR and first aid procedures, but obviously that didn’t do much good. I suppose I could have done more to help myself - I have my own office, so there was no one there to see me clutching at my throat. I could have... | April 6th was always a special day for Melody. Regardless of all the bad things that happened in her life, the best things happened on April 6th.
Melody was 26 when Death first appeared. She had spotted him down the hallway as she moved about her apartment. The hair on the back of her neck had stood up, but as he mov... | 2019-04-16T13:05:03 | 2019-04-16T13:04:05 | 67 | 12 |
[WP] After dying peacefully in sleep, a text appeared, "You have completed the Game of Life on Easy Mode. Would you like to retry in another difficulty level?" You decided to pick Nightmare Mode. | Rest in peace, Leo Korhonen...
You lived 89 years and died a billionare in Helsinki. It has been a smooth run, you handsome devil!
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"Finally!" I grinded for eons to get to this level!
"Sure, I'm in."
I tried to stretch a bit before embarking on this new quest...
Imag... | Woke up in a bed I didn't recognize. *Strange. Oh well.*
Stepped out to the patio, and looked across the architectural horizon. It was the same city, but I heard ungodly sounds in the distance.
A crowd gathered below my apartment complex. I didn't realize it at that moment, but there was an angry hoard of ugly monstr... | 2019-04-17T06:49:49 | 2019-04-17T06:48:27 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] You and your friends are goofing around and you decide to catch it on super slow-mo on your phone. When you show the video to your friends you notice a man in a nice suit casually walking at normal speeds through the frame while making eye contact with the camera. He winks. | Tim did a double take and looked at his phone again.
“Yo, Tim! Did you get it?” yelled Kate as she repositioned herself.
“Yeah,” replied Tim as he replayed the slow-mo video of Kate flipping over a low hanging tree branch. Kate and the rest of the school’s gymnastics team recently placed 3rd in a big state competit... | Writing time, about 40 minutes. Word count, 1,018.
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“It won’t fly,” I told Jeff. “It will never fly.”
“It’s a rock,” said Jeff. “It’s not meant to fly. The only time it ever flies--”
“Stop.”
“--is when you’re a medieval engineer putting one in a catapult, or trebuchet, whatever the fu... | 2019-08-03T11:15:32 | 2019-08-03T11:15:06 | 72 | 14 |
[WP] Whenever a child is born to Earth, God appoints a Guardian Angel to follow that child until his/her soul arrives in Heaven. You are one such Angel, and you have just arrived to your new assignment, only to find a 5 years old boy who had 10 previous Guardian Angels before you. | Sometimes you have to call in a professional.
A crash louder than any thunder ever heard nearly deafened Timothy, his little child eyes wide and full of terror as the debris from the hole in the ceiling covered every inch of the room.
Sometimes a guardian isn’t enough.
The feeble child whimpers starting to spread m... | “Beln!” The voice boomed loudly in the lush clouds, “You are now a Guardian Angel for the child Felix Barker, I must say it’s not an ordinary sorta thing. We need you to help him with a problem of somehow killing his previous Guardian Angels.”
“Angels can die?” I asked worried.
“Only to great evil, now hurry!”
Wit... | 2019-08-21T01:05:50 | 2019-08-21T00:51:50 | 317 | 97 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | I woke to see a child in rags, holding my little cat.
I say *my* cat, but really it's only been a week. She turned up in the storm and waltzed right in, hissed down my Pussum, and made for her foodbowl. Pussum allowed this.
"Bodi says you didn't steal her?" said the child. The kitten wiggled towards me and I sent ... | “Yep, you better get up!” A woman clothed in white dress said with indifference.
“T-This is nonsense!” A youth gazed at the woman with shock as he muttered. “I am not even a woman!”
“You can be a warlock, no?” Another woman who seemed to be younger replied with a mischievous smile.
“Either way, it is not up for us ... | 2019-10-27T03:41:40 | 2019-10-27T02:42:18 | 36 | 18 |
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