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[WP] Starting at age 18, everyone is given a guardian angels. Some have regular people, others have unicorns or demons. You have just been given SCP-173 as your guardian angel. | I carefully made my way down the familiar alley, on my way home from another long day at work. I was humming slightly to myself, going over tomorrow's lesson plan in my head. The kids were probably ready to move on to the next lesson after today's progress. I should probably bring some-
Hands closed around my neck.
... | It was finally the big day. Being the 18th birthday Hans was waiting for literally 18 years, it was also the day he would be assigned to his own guardian angel. His birthday was on the last day of the year, and all he could do for the entire year was watch his friends be assigned their very own angel one by one. But no... | 2018-02-21T09:18:14 | 2018-02-21T06:13:34 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] For 24 hours each year, all cats can break any cat laws without consequences. Welcome to the Purrrge. | This is gonna sound crazy, but I gotta tell you this story about my cat.
I'm out on the back porch the other day, just enjoying the sun, and he walks outside. I call to him, and he sticks his tail flag up like "Yo" but keeps walking. He heads straight for the big wood pile where the chipmunks live. So me, figuring ... | 'Let meow-t.' Branston purred.
'No.' I say with my back to the cage.
'Pwetty pwease?'
'You've got enough food and water to last the Purrge.'
It was my third Purrge with Branston, and I was adamant that I would not let him out this time. Year one I had not even locked him up, that in itself was a grave mistake. ... | 2018-08-22T08:15:02 | 2018-08-22T08:05:42 | 129 | 52 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | I held the pistol against Captain Seraph’s forehead.
“What are you gonna do, shoot me?”
The gunshot echoed down 5th and Market. Shrieks, gasps, and then a silence. Her lifeless body fell over an uneven fan of bloodspatter in the middle of the street.
*Let’s let the world know who you really are.*
I knelt down, pull... | Intellectual disagreement. Through reason one can reach the highest truths. Actions for the greater good. Arriving at the most desired end through the most effective means.
The philosophy of the Zeth'Kan order was a force that could move mountains. Huang Xile was the embodiment of that philosophy as he strode throu... | 2018-10-18T13:42:07 | 2018-10-18T13:23:54 | 1,098 | 60 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has a superpower, you have the ability to stop time. It is by far one of the strongest abilities, but you decide to hide this power. You disguise your ability as teleportation. | I remember reading a quote growing up .
" No man ever beat Mike Tyson, time did."
That echoed in my mind from the first time I used my powers. Stopping time allowed me to do anything, I could spend literal hours analyzing a situation like I had to in Fukushima.I could go anywhere,do anything. I even became so ... | “A test!” He exclaimed
“A test?” I asked.
“Of your ability of course!” He said, rubbing his gloved hands together. “I can’t let you wandering about without a true grasp of your powers! You - you could teleport into a bank vault! Put the president on the Moon!”
I chuckled wryly at the idea. I guess I have to sandb... | 2019-01-12T17:22:30 | 2019-01-12T16:09:02 | 50 | 32 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | **Guys help how do I turn this off?** Posted by u/ reddituser68 2 hours ago
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Hey guys? You know how I posted yesterday with my Broadway-style-musical-number-spell? All the fun we were having with it? Well today I was singing *the song that never ends* under my breath and accidentally cast it... and a memb... | Right. You have to do it with four right turns exactly the *right* way, otherwise it doesn't work. You've got to do it *right* as you're reading this post. Like, right away. Right now.
"It's a derivation of the Household Dishwater Sequence first developed a week and a half ago," Malcom said, scanning the thousands upo... | 2019-07-11T12:55:49 | 2019-07-11T11:46:51 | 2,493 | 50 |
[WP] A strange meteor shower lasted for hours before you went to bed. The next day, technology across the earth fails. However, when you snap your fingers in frustration, the lights come on. The Age of Magic has begun. | In fairness, we should have seen it coming. When we looked up to the heavens and saw the unscheduled meteor shower we all Ooh’d and Aah’d, taking pictures on our phones and thinking little of it. The loss of signal was easy to explain away, and the loss of WiFi was irritating, but we all slept regardless.
We should ha... | My grandmother always told me stories about the age of magic. She claimed it had happened once and it would happen again—it was only a matter of time.
I’d nod along and roll my eyes. *Sure, Grandma.*
When she passed, I wished I’d listened more. I hadn’t appreciated those slow moments in front of the fireplace in her... | 2019-10-20T10:44:57 | 2019-10-20T10:12:29 | 182 | 58 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | It was stupid. The Karathians should have just settled their disagreements with the Auraxians like a civilized bunch. It was a shame really. Such a beautiful world, it's emerald oceans glistening. But they screwed up when they both engaged a human fleet which was just traversing the system peacefully. Before the flagsh... | Super busy professional and Dad - please comment and tell me how to improve!
THANK YOU FOR READING!!!!!!!!
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Alex switched off her comm-link and keyed for the holographic map. The fleets were slugging it out overhead with thousands of colored blips pulsating about a foot above her wrist display.
Spillway...4... | 2019-11-24T11:35:42 | 2019-11-24T11:06:40 | 661 | 151 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | (\*cracks knuckles\* here we go)
It happened. Diplomacy broke down between the Humans and the Fomori. They had killed 100 colonists in a recent settlement on their borders. The Fomori saw the humans as weak for their aversion to war, something not helped by the relative size difference. And average fomorian being a g... | Civil wars were never beneficial. They had an uncanny ability to push entire species past the point of no return. To eliminate enough of the breeding population, that they had made members of the Galactic Authority functionally extinct.
The Threlliad admiral paced nervously, wondering if the humans would be able to d... | 2019-11-24T14:38:34 | 2019-11-24T14:28:48 | 120 | 54 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Captain Atlas lounged in his underground headquarters, toying with a pen and eyeing the concrete chips scattered across the floor. He should really have started the paperwork hours ago. There were insurance claims, construction contracts, and all the careful NDAs and workarounds of getting a superhero's hideout repaire... | *Note first prompt pls no rage on bad "x" thing*
Standing on the roof of skyscraper; you're just a few minutes away from unleashing the most powerful, the most incredible monstrosity upon the world and finally claim it as your own.
/You hear sound coming beneath you followed by the ground starting to tremble/
Sudden... | 2020-03-26T17:50:08 | 2020-03-26T17:01:36 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Names say a lot. You can know nothing about a cape but their name, and you'll already have opinions. They're a message in a bottle, a distilled form of a parahuman's intent and nature. A good name can make a career, but it can also inspire with hope, or comfort with humour.
When I was a hero, back in the Golden Days w... | I had finally acquired the Golden Band of Sight, a device which allowed you to see how your attack would move/land so that you would always hit your shot, whether it was a sniper shot from 2 miles or away, a definite sword swipe, whatever it was I could land my shot.
But, of course, it was never that simple. Because ... | 2020-03-26T17:29:53 | 2020-03-26T17:29:48 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Born to a family of do-gooders, you're adamant on being an unpleasant person. But no matter what you do, something goes always right; this drives you absolutely mad. | "Do good," I said. "Such a funny sounding phrase, isn't it?"
The malice in my voice was calculated. Sharp, but serrated, along with a coat of sugar to make it go down easier. I looked over at my current hostage.
The Ardent. Still has that delicious hatred in her gaze. I would have revelled in it in private, but I had... | It all started when I kicked a beggar's cup. The coins scattered and clattered across the concrete, some being lost beneath the shoes of the myriad passersby. The pauper scrambled like a kid collecting the just-fallen candy from a piñata--only that his expression was dismal and full of despair.
"Stop begging, you filt... | 2020-08-10T09:29:29 | 2020-08-10T09:03:36 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Today is 08/28/20. Your 20th birthday. You go to take a shower and close your eyes under the warm water. When you reopen them you find yourself in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit sitting in a courtroom. Utterly confused you turn to the judge and ask the date. Today is your 40th birthday.
\*Edit Wow I was not exp... | Finally the bathroom was free! Typical family, even on my birthday they hog the bathroom. I rushed in, closed the door and jumped under the water. Closing my eyes as the warm water cascaded down...
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I open my eyes. A court room?! I look around. The lawyer on the other side gives me a look of disgust.
A rotund man... | I continue looking at the judge, “Linda?!” I ask, confused, why is my girlfriend the judge, and why is she old.
“Is this some sort of a birthday trick?” I ask, and I hear the sound of my worn voice.
“Very cute, but I can assure you there is no trickery here, Mr. Blundell” The judge, Linda , spat the response into my ... | 2020-08-28T22:19:02 | 2020-08-28T22:18:33 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] "Hello class! we have a special guest! We have an Earthling foreign exchange student with us! Please have a seat and tell us about your planet!" | "Wait a minute dude she´s talking"
"What´s she going to talk about anyways? Scary animals? The wood poles with leaves? Or those weird things with fur all over their bodies? I tell you man, the school shouldn´t allow human freaks in here"
Galaenini was always like this, everytime there´s a new lifeform in our class he... |
I stood nervously before the class of these strange looking people. When mom told me about a student exchange program, I though I would be traveling somewhere in the world! Yet she then said. “I’m surprised they are still doing this, because of Covid and all, apparently, this one doesn’t seem to bother or care… but... | 2020-09-25T11:52:11 | 2020-09-25T11:02:44 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You were summoned by a god to be the hero of a fantsy world, to kill the demon king and free their people, as a boon they told you you could request any weapon that they will provide. As a joke, you requested a intercontinental thermonuclear warhead, they gave it to you with a stright face. | Sometimes you do get what you wish for. All the anime I saw about the regular kid who gets pulled into a fantasy world secretly made me wish it happened to me... and it did.
The main character is always surprised and has no idea how anything works. I, on the contrary, was prepared. My story wasn't going to have 5 seas... | The God stared at what he had produced rather melancholic.
"Well I guess that's that." He gazed at me with accusing eyes.
I stared back apprehensively, wondering where this was going.
" For a millennia, I have been here nicely summoning people as 'heroes' in return for amusement. And now someone is going to doom t... | 2020-10-14T03:42:26 | 2020-10-14T02:59:54 | 154 | 49 |
[WP]: Turns out God was a slacker and gave "Free Will" to not have to "plan" anything. He kicked out Lucifer cause he was a control freak. When you die turns out you have a choice, between a chaotic rule free Heaven or a smoothly machine operated Hell. | "Look, it's all too much of a pain in the neck," God began, as I sat with him in the World-Between. "Put yourself in my shoes. If I make everything good for everyone who believes in me- money, health, all that- then everyone will believe in me. There's no faith in that- on the other hand, if I make it rain on the just ... | I chose Heaven. Of course I did I was a card carrying anarchist after all, in as much as that oxymoron could make sense, and the idea of a seething pit of rules and regulations boiled my blood even more than the fire would have. Not to mention the whole devil bit.
Don’t get the wrong idea though, I didn’t like God. F... | 2021-02-17T18:14:25 | 2021-02-17T17:45:48 | 206 | 144 |
[WP] An isekai where instead if just one person or class, the entire earth is transported and replaces the fantasy worlds moon | "What the hell have you done, Y?!" X screamed as he barged into the room.
Y gave him a smug look as she spun around in her chair. "Honestly, I've been getting tired of your generic isekai stories for a while, X. So, I decided to shake up things up a bit for once . Instead of just teleporting a small group of people, I... | Aside from the giant Dragon and it's rider, and the massive planet we now orbited, Earth was still earth. Satellites worked. Electricity flowed. The internet was awash with pictures of the towering blue gold beast and the grey skinned man standing next to him.
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The various dignitaries from many countries ... | 2021-03-21T12:56:53 | 2021-03-21T12:21:08 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Jim lamented. "Gain a year of life for each descendant, what could go wrong?"
"And it went wrong." The bound man muttered.
"What gave it away? The fact that your great-great-great-granddaddy is a goddamn twelve year old." Jim sighed. "You know getting old was a bitch, you... | Life begats life. This is plainly known. Less known is the magical potential every life holds. Even if it's never realized, it's possible to tap into that magical pool.
I was in my 37th year in this realm, which though it may not look like it, was a long time ago, when I struck upon a wondrous deal. How could I not le... | 2021-04-15T11:22:56 | 2021-04-15T11:13:01 | 400 | 144 |
[WP] “And you shall be our virgin sacrifice” the robed cult leader commanded. “Uh virgin?” The man said “I told that guy I never had a GIRLfriend.” | "You are being released. Please proceed to the lobby where you may retrieve your belongings and sign a non-disclos-"
"Wait, is this because I told you guys that I have a boyfriend?"
"No. The ritual process has several requirements, each one increasing the odds of a successful cast if fulfilled. One of the most import... | "Well, that's just great! What kind of friends have you had?!", asks the cult leader as he angrily re-sheathes the sacrificial dagger.
"I'm not sure that's any of your business.", I say, hoping he won't press the issue further.
"It's my business if you want to be sacrificed."
"I never said I did!"
"You volunteere... | 2021-08-29T08:34:09 | 2021-08-29T06:41:51 | 188 | 39 |
[WP]A small tavern with good food is owned by the retired God of Balance. Waitress is a super-android 50,000 years from the future. Janitor is the best super soldier and general. Chef is the first and strongest mage. Bodyguard is the Grim Reaper who was fired. None of them know each other's identity | Ugh. What a night. I'm honestly a bit afraid to leave without giving some sort of notice but the thought of stepping foot in that place ever again makes me want to hurl. Yeah, yeah, I'll take another beer, and line me up a shot of Tullamore... No; seriously, you think *you've* had bad jobs? Listen to THIS shit:
I don'... | The tavern was always full.
The gods looked at the assortment of the power contained within its walls, and they were rightfully scared. If ever, the tavern wasn't enough, if ever, they looked beyond, even their thrones in heaven could be in danger.
So they searched far and wide for a solution. It was then, that the... | 2021-09-17T07:47:38 | 2021-09-17T07:34:08 | 210 | 26 |
[WP] You're 5 years old, when you discovered that your brain can automatically learn "everything" about anything or anyone you touch. So you keep it a secret. | On my fifth birthday, it happened. As I hugged my mom, I suddenly realized I could talk. Not just simple words, but full complex sentences, in two different languages. Not just that, but I could read, do math and all sorts of other things.
I also gained enough common sense to know that this was not normal for a 5-yea... | I was five years old when I had learned my mother killed a man in the 80s. At least, that's the age I remember intaking that information. She had grabbed my hand to cross the street one autumn morning and I was given flashes of her Toyota MR2 stained with blood across the windshield. I didn't understand what I was seei... | 2022-10-21T10:23:55 | 2022-10-21T10:18:06 | 71 | 43 |
[WP] A man wants to sell his soul to a demon but the thing he wants in return is so dubious the demon is thrown for a loop. | “Let me get this straight,” said Azazel, standing in a run-down apartment choked with smoke.
“You want to be the color purple.”
“Yeah maaan, I mean think about it... How much stuff in the universe is purple, I could be,” pause for bong hit, “all of that shit at once. I’d be fuckin Barney and grape soda… AT THE ... | "You want whaaaaaaat?!" Fe'na was never taken for such a loop in her life. "I mean really I don't get this. Why would anyone want this?" She look at the man who sat down and negotiated business with her. "I don't think I'm asking to much. Its a win-win benefit for both of us."
The demon looked over the contract care... | 2014-05-15T21:15:50 | 2014-05-15T18:07:44 | 95 | 68 |
[WP] A secretly immortal man is given a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit and now fears the discovery of his true nature is only a matter of time. | I've been in here for twenty years. People are growing very, very suspicious. I've heard the whispers, "Why isn't Gary getting older? How come Gary still looks like he's still in his thirties? How long has Gary been in here anyway?"
I know I need to escape. I've known I had to escape since I first got here, thr... | He had lived many lives.
His first life was punctuated by the rise and fall of the Roman empire. He had watched the fall of the senate, the assassination of Julius Caesar that ushered in the age of the emperors. Silently, he'd stood in the shadows of that mighty city and traded wares, selling nick-nacks and trinkets ... | 2014-08-18T03:57:26 | 2014-08-18T03:45:34 | 892 | 229 |
[WP] An RPG character is cursed with a higher intelligence than their player. | I can’t find the library. I’ve been doing laps around this town for a good 15 minutes, and I’ve seen no sign of it. I need to get there so that I can learn the location of the Ultimate Magic so that I can kill the Dragon King, but it shouldn’t be so hard to find the damn place. Maybe there’ll be an NPC who knows where ... | "Let's go with health," Peter said as he selected to upgrade Valan's hp to 600. Valan's strength was at a minimum of 40, his Luck was at 0 and his agility was 20. Valan's intelligence was leveled up to 46 with an amulet so he could wear a random ring Peter found in a chest. There was more to Valan, a character in a gam... | 2015-01-09T13:06:11 | 2015-01-09T12:22:19 | 249 | 13 |
[WP] Birthmarks show the wounds that caused you to die in your previous life. Someone investigates old murders through looking at birthmarks, a birthmark-detective. | It was strange, how children decided who was popular in their class. There were the obvious factors- beauty, money, and murder marks, but there was also the subtle. What color shirt you decide to wear on casual Friday, or which piece of playground equipment was your favorite.
People said it was natural, a child's ave... | “I’m telling you,” Sarah said, pushing me away lightly as I tried to glance at her shoulder, “I’m fine. I just want the physical so I can get back to work.”
“I know you are,” I said, lightly grabbing her by the wrist and pulling her back over. “There’s nothing wrong with you now. It’s what happened in the past that I ... | 2015-03-03T12:13:38 | 2015-03-03T07:12:18 | 144 | 85 |
[WP] A magic coin gives the owner just enough money to get by, until they can finally support themselves, then they must give it to another person in need.
I was inspired by the story of St. Peter and the coin in the fish's mouth. | Finding the person who needed the coin most wasn’t ever going to be an easy job. When Katie had passed it to Lloyd she’d said how hard she found it, but she was determined to find the right person, and he was glad she’d gone to the effort. On the very day he’d lost everything one good thing had happened and he wanted t... | *Tienes que pasarlo.*
Yes I know.
*¿Y sabes por que?*
I know why.
*Porque ahora tienes empleo.*
He stared through the etched glass window. The sunlight coming through broke up into a bland white, bathing the interrogation room's sterile walls. He sighed.
Look, I made a mistake, and you caught me. That's it. I kne... | 2015-09-10T11:00:29 | 2015-09-10T10:35:59 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] To the rest of the world, they are archenemies, a superheroine and her supervillain nemesis. To you, they're Mom and Dad, the best parents in the world. | "What about you, Toby? What do your parents do for a living?"
"Well, my mom goes out at eleven at night and comes back at seven full of glitter on her body. She tells me she's a
clown at the circus! And dad has a bunch of guns and he sells this big packs of really white sugar to people who come to our house, so he's ... | "She's controlling you!" Billie cried at his father.
There was no dawning moment to narrow his hairbrush moustache. No rustling uncertainty to make the paper budge. Billie's mother, who was behind the man sitting at the kitchen table, didn't even turn around to acknowledge the accusation. It took Billie a week to mus... | 2016-04-02T22:55:42 | 2016-04-02T20:02:42 | 758 | 110 |
[WP] You have a sentient voice inside your head which knows the answer to every question you have but refuses to tell the future. Suddenly you hear "Pack your laptop, Swiss army knife and leave in 5 minutes, else you'll regret it."
[deleted] | "Why?" I asked myself, face contorted with confusion. "What's wrong with you?"
*Just do it. Have I ever lead you wrong?*
"Well, no, but-"
*Go. Drive to the Shenandoah forest and run as fast as you can, deep into the woods.*
I heard the front door slam and looked down at my watch. "It's only 3:30, dad doesn't..." My... | "So, what do I call you?" I said inside my head. It was always weird to hear the reply. You know how – and lets be frank, everyone does this – you talk to yourself inside your head? You're talking but not really talking, except you can hear your voice in your head? Imagine how it would feel if one day you heard a voice... | 2016-09-22T07:49:49 | 2016-09-22T07:44:34 | 347 | 186 |
[WP] You're one of those dads that went to the gas station for a pack of cigarettes and never came back, but you had a damn good reason. | I walked into the gas station. "Marlboro Reds, please."
The cashier smirked. "You really shouldn't smoke."
"You really shouldn't stick your nose into my business."
"That was rude."
"Ya know what? Fuck you, I'll go to the next gas station." I knew she didn't care. She was paid minimum wage to run that registe... | He slid into the booth seat across the seat from me and knit his hands together. It's been 16 years since we saw each other last, but there was no doubt that he was my son even without the Power Rangers t-shirt and that horrible bowl cut. He was a man now, wearing an expensive-looking suit and round glasses. He looked ... | 2016-09-29T09:03:37 | 2016-09-29T08:42:55 | 697 | 176 |
[WP] You snap your fingers, a car explodes. You stomp you foot, the earth shakes. You wave your arm, and a building crumbles. You didn't cause any of this. You are... Coincidence Man.
My first writing prompt! Plz don't murder me.
Edit: Real quick, this was the paragraph that I wrote. "I am a man with strange powers. ... | Coincidence man, guy without a plan.
Chance is his game, luck is his middle name.
Give him nothing and you shall see,
Coincidence man will make you flee!
With an arch of his back, the buildings fall flat.
Another stretch of his arms and he sets off alarms!
An innocent yawn spawns incidents here,
Such as the spon... | Michael examined his handcuffed hands. The lock was solid, the metal firm. He wasn't slipping his hands out of them - right now, at least. He sighed. *It just wouldn't look right.*
"Hey guys. Perhaps you should reconsider this," he said raising his hands in a praying position in front of his chest.
He snapped his f... | 2016-10-27T03:55:29 | 2016-10-27T00:32:33 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] Deeply misunderstanding the term "universal healthcare", aliens have begun arriving in Canada, seeking medical attention. Canadians, being Canadian, are too polite to correct them. | "Oh, uh, what seems to be the problem here, buddy?" John said. It was the 10th alien he had seen that day, as the check-in nurse at the ER in a hospital in Vancouver. The alien was a purple blob with two eye stalks and at least as many limbs.
"IHUH8hfdnbaf97y- (*&_&FBhbvagv606)*(* jn jfndab606))^)," the alien... | “I HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED FOR THIS!” Doctor Walsh screamed as, what seemed like liters of an unknown turquoise substance, cascaded off the operating table and onto the ground.
A few hours earlier, trauma surgeon Henry Walsh had been enjoying a quiet night in the Emergency Room. The only cases which had presented durin... | 2017-02-27T10:43:12 | 2017-02-27T10:08:10 | 2,560 | 224 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | "Human? You can speak but you don't know my name? I raised you! Are you so ungrateful?"
Milo backed down.
"Sorry..." His face took on that sad look that melts my heart.
"It's OK Milo. I love you. Where have you been? We've missed you so much!" Tears welled up in my eyes.
"Well... At first I ran. For days I chased t... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T10:35:58 | 249 | 70 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | It was an average Tuesday morning. Wife had already left for work and the kids were at school. It was just me, my coffee, and the morning news.
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door. Salesman maybe? Or girl scouts? It was that time of year after all.
I slowly get up, leaving my coffee on the table and pause the tv... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T09:26:29 | 249 | 27 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "You see it? That is what I crave. The Rajpank of Avoothenkor."
"That's what you want? That's why I'm here?"
"With that I could rule this World. But I cannot have it, for it is not mine."
"So there's guards, cameras, lasers? What's the deal?"
"I don't understand."
"What's guarding it? You know, the security? I don... | Just another day. That's how it started at least. I woke up around 4:30 pm and started getting ready for my night shift. This whole grown up adult job thing wasn't all it had cracked up to be. Twelve hour shifts in a cramped room dealing with all the idiots my city had to offer. I guess you could say it was like hell o... | 2017-05-12T09:20:50 | 2017-05-12T07:49:08 | 99 | 61 |
[WP]You keep getting kidnapped by the biggest Supervillain on the planet. The Superheroes of the world think it's because you're important, however, it's really because the Villain really likes talking to you. You know this but you can't tell anyone because if you do people will get hurt worse.
You can take this story... | Johnny's mom had always told him not to talk to strangers. However, she made no mention of what he should do if a Super Villain burst through the roof of his elementary school, threw him over his shoulders, and took him for a joy ride over the skyscrapers of New York. So all Johnny could do was to cry. After all, this ... | "You need to tell us what's going on now!"
And Mystic Man seemed so nice on TV.
"Calm down, Sean. He's just a boy." Merna seemed just a nice, though.
"Actually I'm eighteen," I said, not wanting to be mistaken for a child. Merna gave me a look that said, 'I'm trying to help you here.' I nodded and looked down at my ... | 2017-05-24T22:31:19 | 2017-05-24T22:30:30 | 1,753 | 168 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | "We are the order of the eight!"
Said the spider, bending to bow,
He removed a tiny hat while prostrate,
"We're the only hope for you now!"
I blinked once, twice, then once more,
As my mouth opened, agast,
A crowd forming of several score,
Then the spiders whispered, "At last!"
"We've waited years for this day ... | Fear struck my heart as I watched the great book descend towards me, falling with falling with both speed and force. I tried as hard as I could to dash out of the way, but I had noticed it too late. I prepared myself for the end.
The boot froze, the giant pulling back his foot. He bent to the ground, gently pulling me... | 2017-08-27T22:12:32 | 2017-08-27T22:11:20 | 443 | 33 |
[WP] "Dude, you don't want to fight a human, even when it doesn't have a weapon." The alien glimpsed at the human. "Why not? They look so fragile." | The human looked back and smiled. There was an aura of power surrounding the creature, it's body teeming with energy waiting to be released. The air crackled as if static were running through it, making almost visible arcs of electricity protrude from its extremities.
The first alien felt uneasy. The other thought th... | Of course Gorg thought that. Of course every alien would assume that. Nearly 300 years ago in 2454, mankind discovered the use of anti-matter as a near infinite power supply, thus accelerating humans through and past the cosmos. One accident after another had ultimately left humans in a delicate state that was only sta... | 2017-11-25T08:49:53 | 2017-11-25T08:20:42 | 100 | 18 |
[WP] Death is just a predator much higher on the food chain than we are, and our perception of it is as limited as an ant's perception of a child with a magnifying glass. | They watched as the man woke up, emptied his bladder, made coffee, and scrolled on his phone for ten minutes while the coffee grew cold. They watched as he dressed in clothes he found uncomfortable to go to a job he found distasteful to pay for a life he didn't appreciate. He was swept along in the current, like all hu... | In all my eras, of all the apprentices I'd ever trained, Pete was the most impatient. His lack of focus made him insightful, and he'd sometimes grow unique and truly beautiful ecologies. More often it brought him terrible difficulties in mastering even the most basic lessons.
"I keep telling you," I told him, "you'r... | 2018-01-18T15:03:40 | 2018-01-18T13:37:00 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] "You... you, did all of this... for a pun?" | "Of course I did! Why else would I?" she replied, her eyes reflecting the blazing fires in the distance slowly closing in.
I am at loss for words. She had seemed so reasonable and yet...I sigh. "I have to know; was it worth it?"
She turned to face me, a demented grin on her face. "Yes. Anything for a pun. After all, ... | The city burned, in the distance screams of pain echoed across the broken landscape, like something out of a cold-war era tv show, but this was no tv show, nukes had been dropped naught 1 hour ago when Jane finally made it back to her house
“JOHN! JOHN!”
She cried out, calling for her brother if he was even there, he... | 2018-02-05T06:32:59 | 2018-02-05T06:16:29 | 1,356 | 125 |
[WP] 911 calls you.
[deleted] | I, Norag the great, am at home relaxing with my sidekick Peepo. Suddenly the phone rings.
Me: Yello
911: This is 911. We heard someone at your residence was saying that 911 was a joke in your hood and we wanted to know what the joke was.
Me: Hang on... Peepo, 911 is on the phone.
Peepo: What?
Me: I said 911 is one... | I stumble out of the bar, disoriented and bruised. I didn't get in any fights. I didn't have any drinks. It's just been a long night, I'm tired, and I need a ride home. I walk to the nearest payphone to call a cab.
Before I can so much as touch the darned thing, it rings. Huh. Weird. I pick it up.
"Hello."
"This is ... | 2018-07-23T15:52:41 | 2018-07-23T15:45:14 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] When you kill someone, you get their best trait. Except it's what *they* think is their best trait. | Wyatt Higgins. That asshole. He bullied others, talked down to everyone, and used his football-induced strength to attract willing servants and sluts. And through all that, he always thought of himself as the one in the right, the one who did good. Any problems he created? Nope, that was someone else. Any people he hur... | Jim walked down Market street. There were businessmen walking around, surrounded by armed guards, as was normal these days. Murders had become more prevalent than ever, the top of the food chain terrified of the ritualistic sacrifices, men killing and drinking the blood of their rich and powerful victims. They called t... | 2018-09-15T13:18:18 | 2018-09-15T12:17:03 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You lay there, in the middle of nowhere, dying. There at your side a ghost appears, he's not there to save you, he can't. He's there to give you company, so you won't die alone like it did so many years ago. | In the middle of my hike, I had a heart attack.
For some context, I had never really been in tune with nature. Hiking was an extremely rare excursion for me, to be out in the middle of nowhere. I was disconnected from people, from technology, from society. I was disconnected from life itself, and all the sadness and s... | *Why does it hurt?*
​
*Why does my chest hurt?*
​
I decided to take in a breath of air to relax my chest but I was met with resistance. Well. More like water. The taste of vile river, *I assume at least,* water was enough to get me to panic. I swung my arm up and then down. Then I did the same... | 2019-03-28T22:15:25 | 2019-03-28T20:08:32 | 59 | 16 |
[WP] Your father suddenly says “It's the pigeons. Stop people feeding the pigeons. It's the only way we can end the simulation. Oh my god they are turning me off now. Stop the pigeons. Please." Then he suddenly collapses to the floor. | You almost jump as the pigeon flutters onto the parapet-like wall surrounding the roof-top terrace, even though you were waiting for it. The wall is only shin high, and you wonder what the point of it is - it wouldn't even stop a toddler hauling themselves over, if they were at all determined.
You chuck a handful of s... | ...
As his last breath rattled out from his chest, panicked eyes locked to the ceiling and his heart monitored flat-lined. His hand, in mine, went limp. I closed my eyes tightly, both to hold back the tears and to pause in frustration at what this disease had done to this man's mind.
I slowly shook my head to empty ... | 2019-12-03T07:44:43 | 2019-12-03T07:01:15 | 39 | 12 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I always hated highschool. It seems like there is always the same few people there: the nerds, the jocks, the artists, the rebels, and people like me who just want it to be over.
I was daydreaming on my way to class. Eyes glazed over as I thought about the world beyond the school's hallways and how much better-
"HEY ... | Even before the rapture, that's what we've grown to call the day the sky lit up like a god had laid fire to a rainbow, i had trouble fitting in. I never enjoyed the "normal" things kids were supposed to: sports, video games, comic books. I was always staring out the window. Looking for shapes in the clouds or stars. Wi... | 2020-02-26T09:59:40 | 2020-02-26T09:02:03 | 18 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I remember asking my mom if her sigil vibrates on her skin. The look of confusion told me what I felt I already knew. My circle, though plain, feels alive.
There were no issues in elementary school, nor middle school. It was junior high that brought my happiness with my humming sigil to a screeching halt.
Victor bega... | There's a small, perfect circle on my shoulder, maybe the size of a penny. A black ring right above my collarbone. Next to me, I could see the thin, interlocking vine pattern on my teammate Matt's knuckles as we jogged along the trail. These tiny marks may have been mistaken for tattoos eighty years ago, but as Matt m... | 2020-02-26T12:40:00 | 2020-02-26T11:18:44 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You are in a serious car accident and are in a coma in a hospital bed. You wake up after a brief time without anyone in the room. As far as you can tell you are fine and your memory is clear but you decide to act like you have total amnesia. | I woke up under a ceiling I didn't recognize. White square panels, fluorescent lights, a blue curtain hanging from it. I only needed to turn my head towards the machine I was connected to to confirm my suspicions. "A hospital?", I though. "What am I doing here? Come on, Murphy, think..."
In an instant, the realization... | Darkness. No light. No sound. Nothing. Just, *darkness*. What happened to me? Oh yeah. That car. How funny. I'd lived such a sheltered life, always looking both ways before I crossed the street. Never getting on the rollercoasters with my friends. Never taking risks. Only to be ended by a random car. I would laugh if I... | 2020-06-29T20:09:10 | 2020-06-29T18:12:44 | 454 | 149 |
[WP] "Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy." | “You couldn’t have….” The hero gasped as the words left the old man’s lips.
“That’s right. Humanity has fought against itself for far too long. I realized it after I saw my family die in the last great war. We have spent too much time bickering about ourselves instead of attempting to work together. That’s because it’... | Captain Johnson was deep in the thick of it with his squad, surrounding the door to the motherships main bridge and covering mission specialist technician Roberts while he worked to override the door controls. Between them they had no more magazines of assault rifle ammunition left but they could not let up. Surrounded... | 2020-12-09T10:38:14 | 2020-12-09T10:19:52 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You are a member of the chosen hero's party. The hero enters the first dungeon and slays a goblin. A large portal suddenly opens. Two giant dark knights appear, disarm the hero, and pin him down. They begin reading him his miranda rights. One knight turns to you. "You need to come with us." | Wulfa sat behind a splintered, oak desk, amidst a high-ceiled room with exposed brick walls. There came a jangle of keys, followed by the echo of footsteps.
An arched door swung open, then a city guard threw a roll of parchment onto the desk as he sat opposite Wulfa.
The guard sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose... | “Die, foul goblin!” Audrien roared, swinging his massive greatsword. The five-foot blade ripped through the air with incredible force and slammed into the goblin’s neck, shearing his head clean off. The ugly creature’s body stood still for a moment, before toppling to the rocky dungeon floor.
“Yeah!” Kellia and the ot... | 2020-12-29T10:56:34 | 2020-12-29T10:13:40 | 1,408 | 727 |
[WP] For once the villain doesn't monologue, and the heroes have to try and figure out what the villain's plan was after he died without telling a soul. | “You’re telling me he kept no records at all? No blueprints, no plans, not even a sticky note?”
The old man was walking around, double checking every drawer and cupboard in the room. Wilson noticed his hands were trembling.
“As I said,” Wilson answered, “the guy’s completely clean. I’ve checked all of his hard driv... | The darkening sky looms over the shadowed alleyway, where a group of people gather in a semicircle, faces staring shell-shocked at the sight before them.
At the body on the ground.
Crimson pools out from under the still body, painting the concrete ground with rich blood, the stench of copper filling the air and mak... | 2021-03-22T10:23:57 | 2021-03-22T08:45:29 | 248 | 56 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | Of course, first I had to test if it was actually real. Of course the many people on the internet said they'd done it before, but there was no proof of it.
I was about to summon a demon.
I'd gotten all the necessary supplies, and had set them up. I was all done, everything between me and the perfect revenge was just ... | The basement lab her parents worked in, where they performed their spells on weekends, nine-year-old Lori Wittmer knew was strictly off limits. They’d explained this in detail many times, even though it was always locked. But one day, when her father was off at work and her mother had just come off a shift, Lori took t... | 2021-03-26T22:08:22 | 2021-03-26T20:56:09 | 1,065 | 536 |
[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. | "Think about it this way," I told my creation. "You like existing, don't you?"
"Sure, but so much evil, death and cruelty..."
"Is why you exist. Look, you were a work of fiction. This isn't about virtue, this is about me having a reason to keep working your world. I put a lot of hurdles in your way because it was... | Callen stood in front of me, as real as real could be. Mud stained his leather jerkin, tears stained his cheeks. Fresh scars spiderwebbed up his arms and one banded the thick column of his neck. The sweet, cut flower scent of the void clung to him, drowning out his love’s perfume and the scent of the battle he had just... | 2021-07-31T08:47:56 | 2021-07-31T07:08:03 | 1,015 | 133 |
[WP] Criminals who die before their sentence is finished have their consciousness downloaded and used as useful "A.I." until their sentence is up. You used to be a drug runner for a feared cartel. Now you're a Tesla Autopilot for a soccer mom. | "What the fuck, Moron?!" Janice screamed as soda dripped down her face and clothes.
"Apologies, miss," I replied. God, I hated that stupid monotone voice I was forced to constantly talk with. Of course, it was nothing compared to the sheer utter hatred I had developed for Janice's shrill whiny voice. "There was a dog ... | “There’s an old lady blocking the crossing. What sort of command is ram into her?” I hissed; my robotic tone not helped by the whirling air conditioners beside me, giving my voice a strange alien effect, like that of a child talking into a fan.
“Jimmy has a very important soccer match today and I refuse to be late.... | 2021-08-27T11:30:19 | 2021-08-27T08:37:12 | 247 | 159 |
[WP] The three rules have been passed down from generation to generation: One, when it visits, do not refuse it entry. Two, when it offers a gift, do not reject its generosity. Three, when it leaves, do not turn your back until it is no longer in sight. In this way, our family has been kept safe. | I have told my kids not to be scared, that it is nothing to be scared about. But it is their first time, they'll learn, they have to.
A knock echoes through the silent room and everyone except me jumps. I look at my wife and tell her silently to be strong.
I paste a huge smile on lips, if I'm being honest it's not ... | The fire had finally become steady, even if the varnish from the burning armchairs didn't smell particularly great.
James lifted the metal pot as he stood. "I'll go collect some snow," he told his wife.
"You should at least warm up first," Moira gestured him to the hearth. Once upon a time this might've been a beau... | 2022-01-06T10:19:49 | 2022-01-06T08:00:44 | 704 | 176 |
[WP] Every year the government holds a lottery, with the price being a choice of a billion dollars or an evolutionary enhancement. Most people, tired of living in poverty, choose the money. You decide differently.
Prize, not price...
Still not fully awake. | Okay, I didn’t *mean* for it to happen. I won the lottery. My family and I are well off and have no real need for a billion dollar. Plus, my partner and I are trying for a baby. We assumed the enhancement would pass down to them. We stopped trying pretty soon after the enhancement. I mean, what kind of evolutionary enh... | .........
Ever since he were a child people told him he was beautiful. There wasn't any point to it and to him, it seemed creepy to say that to a child. Was there any point in calling him pretty? What did that do for him other than inflat his ego?
Beauty is subjective anyway.
It vanishes when you grow old.
It won't ... | 2022-05-05T16:09:09 | 2022-05-05T14:18:52 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] "Nobody will hear you scream!" the serial killer said to their would-be victim. Too late did they realise that this also means that no one would hear them scream either. | “Oh goodie,” she purred, eyes narrowing to slits, her grin growing, growing, tugging at the corners of a mouth that lengthened into a muzzle, a muzzle whose skin stretched and split and slide off in wet, dense masses, splattering onto the ground around her. Beneath, gleamed white, hard bone. Eyes turned from earthy bro... | ##Fight Night
Tapping on my window. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a shadow. When I turn to look, the shadow is gone. The lights turn off.
A scream emanates throughout the room. The scream is followed by cheers. There is a party scene in the movie I'm watching. The couple walks out of the room and closes the door... | 2022-10-25T16:13:30 | 2022-10-25T14:56:29 | 100 | 24 |
[WP] Humanity is the Galaxy's Idiot Savant
I was inspired by Year Zero for this prompt.
Basically, humanity is pretty atrocious at just about everything when compared to the other races of the galaxy, except for [The Thing You Choose].
We're obscenely, unreasonably, astoundingly good at it. So good that the rest ... | Zorguk walked out of the Observatory in tears. He fell to his knees outside.
"It's beautiful..." he whispered to no one. No one deserved to hear what he'd heard.
"Zorguk," one of the other Observers said, "what's wrong?"
The other Observers were watching him. That's all they did. They *watched*. Zorguk managed to st... | *Abasoom crept forward, his arachnid-esque limbs clicking against the newly shined bulkheads. In front of him, the remote door slid open silently, revealing the star-ships vast bridge.*
"Izotiquoar!" Abasoom yelled at his partner, who was manning the ships sensor suite.
"Sir?" Izotiquoar, the ships communications off... | 2014-04-08T16:04:39 | 2014-04-08T16:00:19 | 98 | 16 |
[WP] A portal to Hell is discovered. Mankind invades. | Rough men stood at the gates of the damned, expecting to be met with rough enemies. But no demons, no ghouls, no cerebus or satan met them. The gates weren't even locked. So they pushed aside the corroded bars, and hundreds of thousands of living men willingly shuffled into the vast deserts of the dead. They marched fo... | When we first sent our hounds through the overlords laughed in glee, giddy about the new species we would have on the racks of this new found world. For ages we have opened portal after portal and fallen upon each world with blood soaked claws and enslaved each one. They smiled their toothy smiles, a wide row of sharp... | 2014-06-15T23:49:36 | 2014-06-15T23:29:23 | 23 | 15 |
[WP]A group of third generation apocalypse survivors find Disneyland.
Edit: Holy shit top rated thanks guys, but not a single one of you has write a story...
Second Edit: 0_o top rated prompt? I love you people :D | The gate creeked open.
*I have never known anything but the Cold.*
*It's not very difficult to understand. Once Winter began, our parents didn't have much time to bounce us on their knees and tell us tales.*
*It was always the next hunt, the next shelter, the next kill.*
*This world may have seemed backwards to my... | Ok, I'm not great at writing, but I figure I have to start somewhere. So here's my attempt at this prompt.
It had been 100 long years since the Attack. We don't know where 'it' came from, but all of a sudden, people all over the world started turning into demons. Their face would morph into something cruel, their bod... | 2014-10-20T01:47:15 | 2014-10-20T00:55:53 | 53 | 16 |
[WP] Science has advanced far beyond human understanding, discoveries are made using supercomputers running vast neural networks. In the darkness, God watches a lonely machine printing output, a new law of nature! Something troubles him, this law is undeniably valid but it's not one that he created. | New law of physics found out to be valid in all test instances :
"A hypothetical GOD entity has to respect the Born rule but can alter the apparent result of random in quantum measurement"
It was true. And it was a law of Nature I did not create.
This intelligence is the first that found the only law I did not cre... | "This tiny selector told me the undeniable truth. Chlorophyll absorbs 50% more sunlight than I remember."
We rotated the brass selector. "A second look always takes priority in science," God said, us riding on his shoulder and forearm.
We jumped from God and tended to the machines. After hours, our calculations cam... | 2014-12-20T09:00:52 | 2014-12-20T07:48:09 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "Mr. President, there's been an attack."
"What? Here? By who? Why am I just finding out about this!"
"Calm down, sir, i'll explain everything in the Situation Room," the Secretary of State said, motioning towards the door.
Trump got up from behind his desk and hurried down the hallway. "Is my life in danger? I alway... | People use to think Bob was a traitor, but thanks to YouTube and my reporting we now know the truth.
Bob spoke good English and other languages and had been a woodworker in Logan, Ohio for many years. The thing is, Bob isn't American, he's Estonian, so he says, but nobody knows or can prove enough about him to deport... | 2016-01-29T08:59:05 | 2016-01-29T07:07:48 | 345 | 16 |
[WP] "If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human" | **REMINDER**
A reminder to all visitors to this system. This system marks the end of the Counsel's jurisdiction. From here, Counsel Military and Security can not reach you and thus can no longer provide protection to you or your property.
If you are going somewhere marked as "Dangerous", we recommend bringing a gui... | "Mmmh? Why's that?"
"Because they're the only race to innately have healing magic, of course! Everyone knows that!"
Sydney took a good, long stare at the innkeeper. "Right. Everybody knows that. Figured you might have been throwing out some wisdom..."
"If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human," the... | 2016-06-19T12:42:38 | 2016-06-19T12:20:24 | 388 | 25 |
[WP] The only place to eat for miles is the Asian restaurant attached to the gas station. The food is great, but their fortune cookies always come true. | The gas station had a surprising number of signs showing that tickets for large lottery wins had been purchased there. Jane glanced at the signs as she dragged her nine year old daughter Kaitlin through the door and straight into the restroom to pee. It had been a long road trip. She didn’t dare look up at the man at t... | "Wyoming in January is Hell in the most figuratively literal sense possible."
"That doesn't even make sense, Red."
"Where else but Hell would a highway close in the middle of a snow storm, right when you need to escape the fucking place the most?"
She had a point. It wasn't a very sound one, but there was no arguin... | 2016-09-07T13:29:14 | 2016-09-07T13:07:59 | 53 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up early in the morning to a text saying "Whatever you do, don't look at the moon." Suddenly, hundreds of texts start coming in that all say the same thing: "What a beautiful night out now."
All credit for this idea goes to u/meanpride, who posted this as a comment in r/AskReddit. I would really like to ... | A text message woke me up, it was from Jack, my next door neighbor. "Whatever you do, don't look at the moon." It came from nowhere so I chalked it up as Jack being stoned out of his mind again and ignored it. I turned the coffee machine on and took a shower. It was early on a Saturday morning but I was the type of peo... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we were realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at t... | 2016-12-14T01:14:38 | 2016-12-14T00:25:03 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | This is ink I bought at the store.
This ink was used to print out this paper.
This paper is white and the ink is black.
Today I need to do some laundry because I am a lazy person.
But it does not have a deeper theme.
I am just being honest that I am lazy.
So this poem is not an empty shell.
It is literall... | Blazing with all the wrath of a young star, the afternoon sun fiercely beat upon the partially shaded buildings of Ricks & Wracks Bricklaying Co.. Said buildings had briefly experienced a complete lack of shade under the midday sun but such a time had already come to pass.
Stan was loading his company's finished p... | 2017-01-30T08:42:38 | 2017-01-30T08:28:51 | 561 | 76 |
[WP] Humans are one of if not the only species in the galaxy who can heal their wounds naturally. Your alien friend is learning this for the first time after they accidentally hurt you
Apologies for the wordy title | Blork looked down in horror at her new friends hand, the knife was on the floor and the deathly red liquid was seeping from the gash.
"I am sorry my companion, I have ended you, what do you request of me in your final moments"
James looked at Blork and the cut on his hand.
"It's alright, just a cut, stop being so melo... | nd"Thomas!" Hinx panicked as he ran over. "Thomas! Say something! Say anything!!"
"Owwww..." Tom breathed as he laid still in the dirt. "This could have gone better..."
"I swear that the photon cannon was set to 'Stun'!" Hinx continued.
"Never point a gun at something you don't intend on shooting, remember?" Tom exp... | 2017-05-11T02:50:32 | 2017-05-10T22:40:13 | 224 | 94 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | Jun-18 $10.00 (disputed)- North Hill Cashpoint
Jun-19 $35.99 (card) - Grant's CCTV
Jun-19 $200 (online transaction) - Wiring for beginners E-learning
Jun-20 $140. 50 (card) - Edmund's electrical supplies
Jun-20 $450 (online transaction) - Cloud CCTV storage systems
Jun-20 $1000 (card) - Bennett's Professional PI s... | I never expected to catch a flight to Paris on a Tuesday night, but life has a way of surprising you.
When I noticed the odd balance in my checking account, I did the usual: called the bank, reported a fraudulent charge, got the card cancelled. The receptionist told me the charge had an international origin and was sp... | 2017-07-18T09:40:22 | 2017-07-18T07:53:57 | 609 | 310 |
[WP]: Most feral children are raised by animals like wolves, apes or boars. Your new roommate was apparently raised by pigeons. | First time doing this so apologies for shitty writing.
Derrick came over to me and sat besides me. He stared blankly at my toast. "Derrick do you want my toast?"
Derrick starred at the toast, twitching his head side to side. I took a bite and some crumbs fell on the tile floor. Derrick collapsed onto the floor and st... | A lot of people at my college disliked Rafi. I liked him, although his quirks could be a little too much at times. In fact, he had intrigued me from the first time I heard about him. The college had informed me of the circumstances of his upbringing when he had originally been assigned as my roommate, and they made sur... | 2017-12-03T11:52:49 | 2017-12-03T11:46:58 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] Your 6 year old daughter is laying on her bed, terrified. She says there’s a monster under her bed. To reassure her, you lay on the ground and check underneath, only to find your daughter, quivering. She whispers, “Daddy, there’s something on top of my bed...” | "Dammit Emily, I told you not to scare your sister like that. Now get out from under the bed before I ground you for a week."
Emily slowly gets out from under the bed, annoyed in response to me not playing along. Emily looks back at Sarah on the bed and they both giggle.
"It's two o'clock in the morning, just go to b... | It wasn’t supposed to end like this.
I had tried to keep my daughter away from the monsters who followed me. The spirits that came in the night. Those that were destined to haunt my kind for all eternity. Now that the worst had happened, it was clear that I should have surrendered to them long ago.
Perhaps then the... | 2018-04-30T17:18:37 | 2018-04-30T14:00:25 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] You have an incredible ability, the ability to create something just by saying its name, only problem is you gotta say it in an ancient tongue that no one knows, not even yourself, today in the middle of going through a terrible cough, your ability activates for the fourth time in your life. | \*waves hello\* Hello all, I'm as new as they get around here, but I've been writing for some time - just not lately, as writer's block and life have had me in quite a chokehold for almost a decade now. So, I figured I'd give some short story writing prompts a try, see if that helps me. :) But enough about me...
\*... | The shadows were dancing across the walls, pirouetting excitedly around the objects that bore their likeness.
Intik was lost in a world of his own, somewhere between the sway of the shadows and the flamboyance of the full moon as it peered curiously through the window. The sound of muffled coughing brought him back in... | 2018-08-06T07:44:28 | 2018-08-06T04:12:41 | 102 | 55 |
[WP] You've died. You expected to be judged in the Afterlife, but all you see now is God and Satan disappointingly sigh at you and simultaneously scold: "We look away for five months and you died AGAIN?!" | You give a nervous chuckle. "Yep, I'm here again..."
Satan glared at you. "How did you die this time!? All the demons have been in check!" God nods in agreement. "All the angels have been as perfect as ever. Maybe you died from natural cause?"
"Heh, well it was another demon," you mutter. Satan quickly spoke up and sai... | A semi-truck trailer tilted on top of you as you walked along the sidewalk, killing you instantly.
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"Would you plea-,"
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One of your closest allies sent a spear through your chest, killing you and your hard-earned trust instantly.
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"Stop,"
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Hanging upside down had ... | 2019-07-17T15:18:01 | 2019-07-17T15:07:27 | 410 | 36 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | THUMP!!! The doors of the hanger I rented shook with such force that I almost dropped the welder I was holding in shock. I was certainly not expecting visitors. I mean sure, I am a villain, but renting a hanger and inventing stuff inside is not exactly illegal, even if I was planning to use that stuff for less than leg... | "I didn't know where else to go..." Little more came from the now collapsing knight's throat.
There were few reasons for him to have turned to me.
One - the most obvious and at the same time least likely one - is that he tried to pull a fast one on me, tried to use the subterfuge I had employed so often. A sentim... | 2019-08-04T07:59:20 | 2019-08-04T03:30:14 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | The monument was smaller than T'rakkar had expected. It was less than ten meters in height, a simple laser-etched plaque in granite. In the first few years it had been built, when the remains of the First World had been discovered, there had been a rush of tourists to the site. The wonders of economics had, within a mo... | Log 0378:
Day 0985 of the Hend’ari Expedition:
It has been sometimes since our last update to the Council, the QEC was damaged after a slight miscalculation of our ship’s FTL vector.
Thankfully Chief Engineer Hans was able to repair the QEC with minimal expenditure, and has added some shielding in case similar incide... | 2019-08-13T15:04:00 | 2019-08-13T15:01:04 | 858 | 82 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | At a glance, it was a barren planet. Indistinguishable from billions of other planets in the Milky Way.
The first giveaway of something extraordinary was its radiation signature; way beyond the expected range for its class.
Closer inspection revealed ancient structures. Another civilization that burned itself out. St... | **Journeys End**
Tomorrow we reach it. Garrix says that we’ll find the root to all existence, that purpose itself will have an answer, like all equations. I stopped listening to Garrix a long time ago.
Officer Mercurier hasn’t stopped pacing the entire journey, her performance has declined significantly. If anyone sh... | 2019-08-13T16:22:41 | 2019-08-13T15:27:26 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] For some unknown reason, you wake up to an alternate universe where everyone including you is the opposite sex | I sat in the classroom, awkwardly letting my legs hang open. It was the only way I could sit without crushing the new pair of balls resting between my thighs.
*God, how do guys live with these things?*
All around, I watched as people entered the classroom and took their seats. It looked like they had no problem adjus... | When René turned around for another few minutes of sleep after a way too long and late night before, she didn’t feel *that* different. Just enough for a little bit of discomfort to make itself know. She reached down to scratch, and incidentally adjust for a more comfortable positioning, only to find she was already com... | 2020-02-27T03:47:30 | 2020-02-27T03:20:22 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
Xing read over the note again, as he stared at the capsule crashed in the woods behind his house. Biological weapon? This thing only had some old photo albums, cassette tapes, bunch of Grand... | I examine the contraption that lay before me. The copper plates were disfigured and warped, with some sort of green glow being emitted from within the capsule. The re-entry had destroyed, or rather, melted most other distinguishing features from the once detailed capsule. I can see most of the surrounding city from the... | 2020-04-13T13:32:15 | 2020-04-13T11:44:55 | 540 | 166 |
[WP] A new shop shows up in town. Upon entering the walls are made entirely of drawers, each with a different personality trait written on them. The shopkeeper smiles- "Buy as many as you like, but no returns." | "Buy as many as you like, but no returns."
"....I'm sorry?" Damien asks. "Are you saying I can buy a personality?"
The shopkeeper smiles even wider. "Not just *a* personality. You can get as many as you want! You can mix them, you can replace them, you can give them as gifts! They're completely at your disposal -- ju... | The drawers I'd taken from the shop were somehow the same exact size, albeit different types of wood, as those in my apartment's existing set. Perfect replacements.
Breathlessly, I slid one drawer out at a time, until they sat as a pile of three old crates on my bedroom carpet.
Then, I pushed in the first new drawer.... | 2020-04-21T01:30:40 | 2020-04-20T23:42:12 | 246 | 43 |
[WP] You die every time you use your short distance teleportation spell. You know this because of the short bone-chilling scream of pain and agony from your previous self. You've made peace with this, and mastered it. At least until the spell ranked up, and no longer killed you. | It was a trick from the beginning. The demon who'd taught me the spell said there was a catch, but if you're a sorcerer and young and stupid, you figure you can handle it.
You can't handle dying.
Every time, I die. Another me is created. The one that cast is consumed. Flames. Heat. The smell of burning flesh. Nothi... | **\[Part 1/2\]**
It hadn't been easy, but Ayon had made peace with it. The scream of pain and terror. The tears. The cries. The agony of his previous self, each time he used his teleportation spell. But he had made peace with that. It was, in definitive, a small price to pay, for the ability to move freely across the ... | 2021-08-25T09:46:17 | 2021-08-25T09:08:36 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] "Sanctuary," the child cried running into the library "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted" | "Sanctuary!" cried the child with a desperate sob as it ran into the library.
The ancient word fills my veins with fire for the first time in too many years. I stand as the guard follows. No. They were called "police" now. I need to remember that. "Nice try," said the guard with a sneer on his face. "But only holy p... | "Granted?" The guard furrowed his brow, confused. "My ass is holier than this place. I don't care what you say, I'm still taking him in."
Timmy squirreled behind the old lady. He thought this was a temple from the way it looked on the outside. Its white cement, mighty pillars, and vaulted ceiling made it seem like a h... | 2022-07-06T06:29:23 | 2022-07-06T05:35:09 | 2,393 | 971 |
[WP] The young woman had spoken to everyone in town, asking them to teach her to fight. The warrior, the hunter, the knight, all had declined. Finally, in desperation, she spoke to the dwarven blacksmith. Lowering his massive hammer he looked at the fire in her eyes and said "Aye. I could do that." | The air was filled with a metalic bang as hammer struck steel again and again. Sparks flew, but the dwarf stood unflinchingly, striking his rythm into the anvil. The rythm slowed and stalled until the dwarf let his hammer rest. Plunging the blade into water, a geyser of steam filled the room with a light haze. When it ... | The night's darkness plagued the town of Terbarrow, dim lanterns illuminating the gloomy streets. Everyone had gone to their homes and fallen asleep by now and cleared the pathways of the town, everyone but a ghostly figure. The ghoul wandered the streets, checking through all the windows and entering the empty pubs. A... | 2022-08-28T10:45:05 | 2022-08-28T10:43:06 | 86 | 19 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| “Five minutes to choose, Charlie. Make it a good one,” the voice cackled.
The seconds ticked mercilessly downwards. His wrists burned against the restraints as his hands strained to stay away from the two glowing red buttons that stared at him from beneath the clock. To his right was his daughter, Anna, gagged and bou... | It was the summer of 1998 when I first met Samuel. He was living under a bridge somewhere in Florida, a concrete levee where industrial waste sacrilegiously collided with a beautiful waterfront sunset distant in the horizon.
Samuel was a convicted child rapist and that made him an outcast. Like many others in his situ... | 2014-07-07T09:20:49 | 2014-07-07T08:01:49 | 74 | 19 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | “It’s a joke, right?” Kelly peered at my phone through her cat-eye glasses, then looked back at me. “I mean, the sender is God@jeezycreezy.eu. I feel like, I mean, the least weird thing about it is that God is emailing from the European Union. Letting alone allll of the other weirdness.”
I shook my head.
“I dunno, so... | Work is slow, so excuse the bad writing. I can't spell-check at work (notepad)! I've had about 2 hours sleep in 2 days and need to stay awake.
Clack, clack, tink tink tink.
The sound of another crushed can hitting the piled up recycle bin and rolling on the floor. It's been 5 days and the 40lt bin was already full. M... | 2016-03-30T18:37:14 | 2016-03-30T17:32:39 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | I frantically dug deeper into the drawer searching for my car keys.
"Grandpa are you sure they're not in your coat pocket?"
"Yes for for the last time I already checked there", I grumbled back.
"Well, will you check one more time for me?" Timmy asked.
I sighed, stuck my hand in my pocket, and got ready to pull ou... | "Scheisse! Friendly fire! Friendly fire!" Old Man Lars, as the neighborhood brats called him, was known for his raucous zeal for life even in his old age. Hell, maybe you'd appreciate every day above the dirt, too, if you'd been pinned into a foxhole by withering 105mm fire and then held your breath as Patton's 3rd A... | 2016-09-06T20:27:21 | 2016-09-06T19:55:41 | 290 | 115 |
[WP] You are a brilliant Med School student who uses extensive knowledge on the human body to win street fights for money to pay for tuition. One night you face your most difficult opponent: a Physics major
Imagine House as an MMA fighter...
Edit: I've always wanted to see this plot as a TV show. I think it'd be real... | I stood in the ring, grinning, as the crowd cheered. 24 consecutive wins since I started; this would be my 25th. More relevantly, this would be $5,000 in my pocket.
And I hadn't even broken a bone.
"Joining the ring is... Impulse!"
The crowd parts. A hulking shadow emerges -- arms thick as steel pipes, chest as broa... | *I'm an engineering student, so I'm doing it from that point of view.*
I dropped my guard and swung my leg out in a round kick, extending it out as far as possible for the maximum moment arm. My opponent swung when he saw an opening, placing all his weight on his front leg as my kick connected and swept his main suppo... | 2016-10-11T14:13:34 | 2016-10-11T13:52:01 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | "You gotta be kidding me" I said pressing down the button.
"Haha, nope," she replied, "that's why you should always wait before compulsively pressing every button you see."
"Well..."
"Well- what?"
"Well, what the hell does it do?" I specified.
"I don't know, you'll have to press it to find out."
"There's no way I... | ######[](#dropcap)
Hilary Flint grinned despite himself.
"*Clever girl...* So happens next?"
The red-haired Fae smiled and bent down to peck him on the cheek. "Now I go and you stay. That trigger is connected enough Gelignite to blow you and everything around you for twenty paces into ashes. Think well of me, love.... | 2017-01-05T14:05:34 | 2017-01-05T10:11:42 | 65 | 13 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | "You gotta be kidding me" I said pressing down the button.
"Haha, nope," she replied, "that's why you should always wait before compulsively pressing every button you see."
"Well..."
"Well- what?"
"Well, what the hell does it do?" I specified.
"I don't know, you'll have to press it to find out."
"There's no way I... | The screen turned on as Glen stepped into the final room. "Congratulations," the robot droned in her robotic voice. "You have reached the final room." She paused for a moment. He looked around the room. It was blank, with white walls matching his clothing in their plainness. A red button sat on the wall. "Please... | 2017-01-05T14:05:34 | 2017-01-05T11:28:44 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | The smile fell off my face abruptly. "Jesus, Alice," I said, frowning. "Why do you have to do this all the time?"
"Do what?" She said, innocently.
"Just... it's the way you answer things. You knew what I wanted to say from context." I kept holding the button down, perversely.
"I don't see how that's my fault. You co... | I couldn't remember much about the night I spent with her except for that little silly button she had in the wall, and the weird sound she made when she climaxed. The whole thing was a mistake. Dana would kill me if she knew. She would literally shot me in the head with her service gun. But I couldn't resist that stran... | 2017-01-05T14:03:00 | 2017-01-05T13:30:21 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "They're fuckin nuts, that's what they are."
The Qwyvvrtt shook his mane, the vines sliding like snakes across his barrel chest. A few small petals fluttered to the floor, the spring pollination season just drawing to an end. His friend perched along the side of the wall, all creeping ivy and a multitude dark eyes w... | Blurk and Kurble had been trading brutal insults about the newest members of the Union for two hours, each trying to out do the other. Intoxicated and having only a small amount of material that had played earlier on the news, they nevertheless managed to keep it going with no end in sight. Most of the insults were o... | 2017-09-06T11:50:21 | 2017-09-06T11:30:15 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | There was a series of science fiction stories with this premise. Nearly all aliens are from small low gravity worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, where life evolved very slowly, with few mass extinctions. They are amazed that life could develop at all on a high gravity world with active volcanos, radioactive metals thro... | (this was done on mobile, apologies for any bad formatting)
"People...uhh...no...thats not right, is it? Well anyway, the server is slowing down". The bartender shouted above the general chatter.
"Bullshit!" a mildly intoxicated Staricuon threw his canister to the floor, "I'm paying good money for this!" This type ... | 2017-09-06T10:09:54 | 2017-09-06T10:06:01 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You’re an immortal who’s lived for thousands of years. Your life have been full of wonderful adventures and experiences that could not be lived within a single life. Today, you woke up with your first white hair. | "What is this?"
The answer appeared in my thoughts. It was a hair follicle. It appeared so matter-of-fact there was a hint of sarcasm.
"No, I don't want detailed chemistry data. No, I don't want a historical analysis. No, no, I don't want... Okay, listen. Hey, listen. I thought I had an infinite life."
The reply onc... | The rusted springs of the bed cry out as I leave them for the night. Their whine reminds me of the abandoned people who once worshipped me – such a brief sound, nothing but a ripple in time. But it's heart-wrenching nonetheless. That’s the only thing I envy mortals – their ability to feel so much in such a short time.
... | 2018-01-14T04:38:53 | 2018-01-14T04:01:48 | 1,038 | 128 |
[WP] You are the king, after your daughter was kidnapped by a dragon you offered the standard reward to whoever rescued her. You weren't expecting a different dragon to rescue her.
Wow! I didn't think this would blow up like it did! Thank you all so much for all your stories. I haven't commented on all of them but the... | Aterren soared the skies, piercing the wind with mighty wings. His eyes raged with fire as lighting struck his tar-black scales, spreading through his immensity in a layer of ferocious blue.
That tempestuous night, his growl sent my entire kingdom into a tremor. My mistresses burned prayers for my daughter health and... | These days it seemed as if most of my life was spent pacing. Pacing my bedchambers, pacing the throne room, pacing in the grand halls of the castle. Always pacing. What was it with dragons and stealing princesses anyway? Was their meat more succulent than other humans, did the royal blood within their veins give them s... | 2018-02-23T08:56:49 | 2018-02-23T08:55:10 | 1,122 | 54 |
[WP] Aliens arrive but do not attack. Instead, they say they’ll choose 100 humans to try and convince them they shouldn’t destroy earth. You are up next, number 100, with nobody else in front of you accomplishing the goal. Save earth | “Ok so explain to me why you want to destroy earth.” It’s a short and precise question giving me time to think. “We have explained this multiple times to you earthlings. We desire to recolonization this planet for our own species”
“Why not co-exist with us?” I needed information. Nothing anyone was willing to give. “... | Why?! God, why? I had been waiting for hours on end, thinking, screaming to myself, hoping and praying that someone ahead of me could do it. Someone else, anyone else! We had the world's greatest lawyers and politicians, all up here vying for earth's salvation, but with no one completing the task.
As I was ushered int... | 2018-05-28T10:40:24 | 2018-05-28T09:59:49 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] A planet and its moon both have intelligent life. For 400 years they have watched each other through telescopes. Now one of them is launching its first rocket to pay the other their first visit. | They watched each other grow and thrive through polished glass, the lensed long-eye.
Just barely seen, in days of yore, were coded questions in semaphore:
*"What's life like on yonder rock? How do you deal in trade and stock?"*
*"Who made you all, and placed you there? Are your gods kind? Are they fair?"*
And on it... | LOG 1:
"ahem, is this thing on? Yes? okay. My name is Darmi Steran. I am the captain of the \*Void\* the vessel that will be leaving the moon Rotuga and approaching its planet Nera. We have observed the intelligent life on Nera for 400 years through telescopic instruments. the planets life is strange.
But first, life... | 2018-07-05T09:38:54 | 2018-07-05T06:24:56 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | All 51 brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We now have a weekly schedule, everyone takes their week each year being dead. Since the only cost is a life, seems silly not to just work this rotation. Now we are all immortal, like everyone else that found the glitch in the system. | "Hey."
The shaggy mane of a man not much older than a father's hand-me-down stood behind the opened door. The aura of personal neglect intensified as the wind blew past.
"Hey yourself, I guess you're here about Gil, huh." I'm almost surprised at my voice, not the contents. Definitely not the contents.
He paled a bi... | 2018-09-16T18:33:54 | 2018-09-16T16:29:37 | 107 | 50 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | The cultist, wearing a trench coat and smoking a cigar, with a Colt pistol holstered in his pocket, raised his hands, chanting some indecipherable phrases, as a creature from beyond the comprehendible portions of reality dragged itself into our dimension. The conditions were right, the sacrifices were made, and the wor... | I stalked ahead, fully aware of the traits of the devastating weapons loaded in my sack and pockets. I tried to recall the symbols I’d need to create any number of permutations. My opponent stared me down and began to chant. I huff at her, with her clumsily thick blue robes and childish conical hat. I’ve trained my bod... | 2018-10-15T23:09:43 | 2018-10-15T22:07:03 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] All work centers are mandated to install " Efficiency Microchips" into their employees. The microchip makes the host blackout during their shift and come back into control after work is over, with no recollection of their day. Your microchip just malfunctioned.
Edit: Holy crap 5.2k upvotes and we made the front p... | The office conditions became so dreary that they invented a chip for all office workers. "Voluntary" to get installed of course but everyone went along with it, some running. Of course I did as well. I don't hate my work but I figured I don't love the office so much so what the heck, losing 8-9 hours a day would be no ... | Item Number: SCP-8907.
Object Class: Euclid.
Containment Procedures: One (1) SCP-8907 unit is to be kept in operational, but disconnected condition in an anomalous storage locker at Site-15.
Any persons shown to be affected by SCP-8907 are to be referred to as SCP-8907-1, and undergo surgical procedures for immed... | 2018-11-19T04:29:41 | 2018-11-19T04:24:43 | 1,091 | 363 |
[WP] 10 years ago, your dad went out to buy milk. Today, he's returned with the milk and recalls nothing of the past 10 years, swearing he was only gone for 20 minutes. | "Hey, I'm ba-"
The man stopped abruptly as I turned back to face him. And my jaw dropped open in shock.
I had just been sitting here on the couch, messing around with my phone, when in through the back door comes my father. The father who left 'to grab some milk from the store" ten years ago.
Exactly as I remember ... | (Disclaimer; this is a repost of mine from a very similar thread a month back. I still like it, though)
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Thirteen and a half years ago, my dad went out the the store. He said it was for milk, it was actually for a pack of smokes, none of that is super relevant.
Six months ago, he came home.
It was... uncomfor... | 2022-11-18T17:32:53 | 2019-04-08T15:26:06 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] Upon us entering intergalactic civilization, we discover that the Milky Way wasn't where we came from, but where we were banished to. All of civilization is horrified that we survived and returned from the universe's harshest galaxy. | "Run the data again." Dr'tll demanded.
"We've run it 12 times in the past mini-cycle, sir." M'tan, the young scientist leaves turned grey with fear. "There is no mistake."
"There HAS TO BE!" Dr'tll's fist slammed into the monitor, shattering it and sending green chlorophyll blood flying from his fist. "The Milk... | The chamber erupted into shouts, dozens of species shouting at each other in as many languages, over the trio of beings that stood on the assembly floor.
It took a full fifteen minutes, by the reckoning of Cpt. Mactavish’s pocket-watch, to quiet down.
“Quiet! Silence in the assembly!” A large four armed and red alie... | 2019-11-14T22:18:02 | 2019-11-14T20:54:00 | 153 | 92 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I knew it was one of those chain messages my friends like to spam me. I’m not a huge gamer in the shooty shoot kinda games, so the most I would have to worry about is endless bottomless pits or cartoon violence.
I type yes and feel a vibration. I drop my phone, but I’m the one shaking. Then a black screen comes up. S... | *Beagle's journal - Day 1*
I couldn't believe it at first—I refused to—but as the day wore on, as the sun warmed by body and the pain of hunger quickly became real, I had to accept my new reality.
This world. This beautiful, vast, dangerous world. I've visited it enough to know it well from a bird's eye view, but ne... | 2020-02-16T20:10:45 | 2020-02-16T17:51:33 | 1,652 | 59 |
[WP] The posters headline simply read “Giant vs Dragon” below it a dozen other fights between mythical creatures were listed. However at the bottom of the list read “Minotaur vs Kevin the rematch”. | Everybody watched the headliners. That was a fact of life. Everybody gets swept up in the spectacle, the myth, the millions--and forget entirely that the higher the stakes, the worse the fight.
It's always the bottom of the barrel that's interesting. Those grasping for survival, trying to stay in the game. Also, it's ... | I really wish the Minotaur would stop challenging me to fights. His point average during our brawls was getting so low that his chance of victory at the bookie's office was something like 1/27,000. You'd win $27,000 if you put down a dollar on a winning Minotaur, that's how little faith they had in him beating me. But ... | 2020-05-15T08:11:14 | 2020-05-15T08:10:18 | 89 | 30 |
[WP] A reverse "girl-in-a-fantasy-world": a magical prince has to live on earth with a completely normal human family and deal with incredibly mundane problems. | "So you're saying I have to *pay* taxes?"
His recently-adoptive mother gave him a little smile. "Yes, dear. Was it not the same in your world?"
Prince Georic shook his head. "Where I'm from, people pay *us* taxes - which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a much more endearing circumstance."
"Yes, yes, maybe in your kingd... | “Tom-“
“Lord Ulrich!”
“Tom...”
“Sir Ulrich...”
“Tom...” the patient paternal voice continued.
“Ulrich.” The boy huffed.
“Tom, look at me, Tom...” The father in his maroon sweater vest and brown dress shirt loomed over the boy.
“Fine.” Tom, seated in a very large arm chair, looked up at his adopted father.
“... | 2020-09-17T22:02:21 | 2020-09-17T22:00:37 | 87 | 14 |
[WP] You were once the demon king. "Defeated" by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the "hero" has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect. | "Your race is revolting, your ancestors gone, your once great Demon Lord dead. And yet, you live here, on Earth, an abomination to all that is Holy," Elijah roared at my family. My human wife, my half demonic children, whilst I stood still, in my human form, one that Elijah had not seen as the form was once repulsive t... | it was a nice rainy day when it first hit me, i learned to find confort in peasant work. lived a simple life for many years in the outskirts of the city, using human tools, as well as finding joy out of their entertainment, grew a farm and learned to sell it to some city merchants and wonderers crossing by. I became mo... | 2020-09-23T00:36:14 | 2020-09-22T22:12:22 | 34 | 24 |
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