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[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | I woke up on my 18th birthday and - aside from the obvious nervousness - I felt exactly the same. Of course, this was to be completely expected. After a wonderful birthday breakfast with my family beset with gifts, well-wishes, and gentle teasing, my father volunteered to be the one to fly me to the local Scientific U... | Like any grand or nightmarish moment of fate, my destiny came to me on the toilet.
Just like everyone else, I had been waiting feverishly for my 18th birthday. The day itself was one giant anti-climax - I awoke awash in the glow that accompanies a soon-to-be legend. I climbed into bed that night in a huff - surely so... | 2015-03-28T05:39:45 | 2015-03-28T05:14:37 | 757 | 134 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | It was a harsh world.
My father was one of the first to level up. He killed my mother and my brother to gain power. He only left me alive to raise a daughter.
Laws didn't apply to anyone. It was every man for himself.
But the stronger you are, the more EXP you're worth. Rankings never stayed constant, beyond the t... | There was an explanation.
Fermi had latched onto the beginning of the thread back in 1950, then Moravec and Bostrom gave it a tug, and the whole nasty thing came unraveled.
We had speculated this was the case, before the first pop-up Window materialized in front the face of that SEAL in Bahrain, asking him to spend ... | 2015-11-11T10:21:08 | 2015-11-11T09:22:31 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] Write a Lovecraftian horror story where YOU, writing the story, are the incomprehensible cosmic horror tormenting the protagonists.
EDIT: Wow, so many different ideas already! You guys would be excellent at destroying worlds! | Forever I sleep
Here in the bleak,
Watching their world tick by
Their Lives are so shallow,
They revered themselves hallowed.
Yet Oh so afraid to Die.
But whats this, whats this!
They call from above.
Testing the waters below
Their heavenly Plane
so full of pain
begs to be purified
They look for me... | I write to you... Reader... Savage... One of those who think themselves ruler of this decrepit rock. The rock of which was thought ruled by those you call 'The Elder Things'. The rock of which was thought ruled by those you call "The Outer Gods". The rock of which was thought ruled by he you call "Cthulhu"...
Like all... | 2016-06-21T09:29:43 | 2016-06-21T09:27:45 | 59 | 26 |
[WP]: Your new roommate seems to think entirely in video game logic. Somehow, the world around him abides to this. | I remember the evening I met Carl.
I was manning the bar alone, a dead Tuesday night, not a soul in the place. I'm cleaning glasses, ready to close up, whistling a half-remembered tune from childhood when he walks in. Tall, striking, wearing some kind of heavily reinforced leather jacket over cargo shorts and what lo... | I kick off my heels and crash on the couch – it happens to the best of us – miles on a dance floor in these lopsided contraptions causes the strongest of thighs to quiver and ache by the end of the night. Macy and Laura are idiots, positively mental, but at least the cranberries aren’t growing where they shouldn’t. Wha... | 2016-11-25T12:39:24 | 2016-11-25T11:54:57 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2027. Humanity has discovered reliable FTL-travel. The universe is filled with other space-capable sentient life - but all other species rely on different forms of magic, despoiling science as something humanity made up to protect their own form of magic. | **Forbidden Knowledge**
The starward face of the palace flickered dim, then bright, then dim again. The architects had conjured it in an otherwise empty system, high above a pulsar. A thousand flags in a thousand times a thousand colours fluttered in the wind from atop exotically tiled spires. Looking through the wind... | "What is metal, other than another kind of crystal?", Kit chided as he fired another volley of railguns into the Saurothrop armor.
The ships were close, too close, and most weapons were too destructive for either party to fire at this range.
They were so close that the crew was feeling antsy.. Angry..
Saurothrop ... | 2016-12-16T11:23:42 | 2016-12-16T10:09:24 | 87 | 43 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | 2017-03-31T12:42:19 | 2017-03-31T07:50:09 | 127 | 34 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "I'm sorry...there must be a glitch with this translator. You do *what* now?"
"Fiddle with the Higgs Field around our ships."
"And your 'Higgs Field' is where a particle essentially gives an object its mass via its interaction with other particles, yes?"
"Yup!"
"And you...fiddle with it?"
"Yeah, it ain't too preci... | Captain Lance sat there before the council of Species, listening to them talk in their many differnt forms of communication, he basically ignored the translation machine since none of the conversation was being targeted at him at the moment, he was getting tired, cranky, and hungry as it'd been five hours since the pro... | 2017-03-30T23:27:43 | 2017-03-30T23:11:33 | 61 | 28 |
[WP] A duel with your arch-nemesis. You're both so immensely powerful it does not even make sense. | Strike – invisible due to its faster-than-light speed.
Parry – as time itself bends to accommodate the defender.
Stalemate – the grinding of two dimensions trying to encroach on one another.
Break – the return from singularity.
Circle – anticipating the opponent’s next move by smelling the background radiation.
... | He is humming as he walks across a wasteland.
Radioactive waters pool in the muddy ditches, glowing visibly. There are corpses half-buried in the orange loam. There are craters everywhere and the very air itself is filled with toxins and engineered viruses.
It is the perfect place for Immortals to meet.
He leans ... | 2017-04-06T04:56:28 | 2017-04-06T03:41:35 | 66 | 35 |
[WP] You post a picture on reddit of the stick your daughter found and is using as a magic wand. It is actually an ancient, powerful wand, and you just alerted the wizarding community to its presence. | "DEFCON 1! DEFCON 1!"
Wizard General Alexander Cooper sighed as he turned to the Wizard Apprentice, already exasperated at his new subordinate's enthusiasm after only three hours on the job. "What is it now, Riley? And stop using that Muggle slang about DEFCONs and such."
"Yes sir, General Cooper, sir," said Riley ob... | -Hm... Joe might... Joe! Come here!
-Yes? A cat again?
-Not this time. On r/whatisthisthing, do you recognize that?
-The kid?
-The stick.
-The sti... oh.
-Do you?
-Do we know where she is?
-Hm... Nothing on the title or the comments. Do I message the person?
-Hm... It would be best to shut.. How many upvotes? ... | 2017-07-30T02:44:28 | 2017-07-30T01:16:56 | 122 | 14 |
[WP] After a freak accident sending you far back in time, somehow you make a new life for yourself. One day while whistling a tune from the future to yourself; someone joins in with the correct lyrics ... | The song played in my head, like it always did. Its atmospheric melody, lulling me, making my head bob almost imperceptibly. I whispered the lyrics, as I always did. It helped get me through the day.
*I seen a girl*
*With a guy*
*Her hair like yours*
*From what I remember*
I hefted the block, putting it on my sh... | I sighed wistfully as I worked in the kitchen. I know I had a thing for the Victorian Era back home but I really didn't think I would ever be here. Or that I'd be washing dishes in the kitchen of a bordello. The Madam and the girls had found me in the ally behind their... Establishment, and took me in. I don't know how... | 2017-09-15T06:10:41 | 2017-09-14T17:00:02 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] To travel the stars, humanity has built a teleportation device: two doors must be built, and a portal opens linking them when both are turned on. We've sent instructions to build the second door in a radiowave broadcast into space. For decades we have waited for the portal to open... until now. | 100 years.
That's how long it's been since the project.
Everybody thought the project was a complete failure. Nobody pursued the project at all. The second door hasn't been opened in 100 years. I, myself, thought that was not enough time to judge, but people don't change.
No one thought about the project anymore. It... | Gus ran his hands over the thick brown folder. *Top Secret*, it read in bright red letters on the cover. Flipping it open he scanned the pages. The Humvee hit a bump in the road as Gus clung to the papers. Dirt clouds wafted behind the military vehicle illuminated by a full moon. Gus peered out from the window at ... | 2017-09-30T11:18:18 | 2017-09-30T11:14:21 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | I shuffled my papers. "This clause about the owning of souls is completely absurd."
Archaeoblix grinned. "Ah, you read that bit. I thought you would."
"And the bit in invisible ink? About ten thousand years in the lower planes sf hell? Not happening babe."
"How about the bit about-"
"-Devouring my unborn child? Tha... | I've known them since I was a little girl. This magical creature, this demon, isn't as frightening as they must appear. I know their dreams, their heart.
It started when I was young. I was out with my mother, shopping. I found a large, wooden book. It was dusty and battered, but I discovered hinges. It was a por... | 2018-05-07T00:38:21 | 2018-05-07T00:26:50 | 114 | 43 |
[WP] When a sorcerer dies any spells they cast throughout their life that are still in effect will cease to be. An powerful and ancient wizard whose origins are clouded in mystery lays comatose on his deathbed and nobody knows what will happen once he draws his final breath. | The thing about being old, really old, is that when the time finally comes to leave this world, the world you grew up in will have left you a long time since. Archmage Prasutagus was definitely old. For nearly two millenia Prasutagus had defended the earth from mystical enemies, thanks to the power of his bloodline. Fo... | Countless people from countless kingdoms had traveled countless miles, just to see if the rumors about Merlin the Great were true.
I'm one of those people. Yeah, the rumors were absolutely true. The old man was dying. He was completely motionless. Not even the best clerics from across the land were able to help him w... | 2018-05-24T05:08:18 | 2018-05-24T00:13:02 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Sick of being lied to you beg the Gods for change and one takes pity on you. Now when people lie to you a little text box appears next to them that only you can see, with the lie, the truth, and their motive for lying. | "Have you done it yet?"
The being, a god, apparently, smiles.
"Yep," it says, "all done."
"Huh," I say, "I didn't feel a thing."
"Told you I'd be gentle," it replies, beaming wider. "Now, remember, no backsies."
"Oh, no," I shake my head, "definitely not. I'm sick of being lied to. I think you've really helped me... | Alyssa's head was in her hands. She knew she had to make a decision; she couldn't keep Her waiting any longer.
"Yes," she said without much confidence. "I'm sure."
There wasn't a flash of light, no thunderous boom from a cannon or novelty explosion of confetti. Alyssa just felt warm for a few moments, and then everyt... | 2018-07-02T11:39:15 | 2018-07-02T09:40:13 | 215 | 66 |
[WP] Fed up with the so many people not taking their warnings seriously, scientists all over the world decide to take matters into their own hands and become super villains in order to fix the world, whether people like it or not. | OOC: I'm late to the party and as such nobody is going to read this but it's a fun one so I'm going to write anyway, upvotes be damned.
"At 10am today, the Evil Supervillainess, 'Mistress Organic' dumped tonnes of graphite to the White House and Senate bathrooms via underground microbores. Thick layers of black dust n... | He took the cigarette away from his mouth, looking into his half full whiskey glass. I waited, wide eyed across the table from him. We were in a small booth in some dive bar on the lower east side, it was smokey and while people occupied every seat, not a soul stirred in there. Somber expressions littered the scene, me... | 2018-11-24T10:14:13 | 2018-11-24T05:48:09 | 23 | 12 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | "Goosha?" I said, tilting my head a bit. "Who are they?"
The alien looked at me strangely. I had difficulty reading his expression. He was almost entirely human in appearance, with angular features and an air of delicacy and grace. The only thing that would separate him visually from a human were his ears; they were l... | "Three colors? What exactly do you mean by that?"
"Ah, I apologize."
The being across from me taps its headset a few times, twisting a few dials.
"I believe my translator made an error," it says.
Oh well. It happens.
"I believe I've fixed it. Now, is it true your species can only exist in three dimensions?"
"U... | 2018-12-04T11:27:13 | 2018-12-04T08:31:40 | 3,287 | 1,201 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | It all happened so fast. I was going into town for a shovel. Earlier that day I'd broken one digging a drain trench out behind the barn.
Now I was sitting at a table in a room with a long mirror along the wall. The kind you see in a cop movie where they are shaking down a suspect.
Oh fuck. I'm a suspect. But for wha... | I arrived in town around 8 as usual. Ideally my father would come to town to pick up supplies so I wouldn’t have to, but he insists I learn how to interact with folks who aren’t farmers. So far, all I’ve learned is that I hate them. All their focus on money and possessions seems absurd to me. I’m a simple man. Animals ... | 2019-05-04T11:15:23 | 2019-05-04T09:56:06 | 6,214 | 226 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | The witch buried her face in her hands and sighed, "AGAIN, it's the Curse of Optimism. You will never be able to understand the potential negative consequences of any decision you make."
"That doesn't sound like much of a curse", I replied.
"You will be the eternal optimist", she explained. "You will only see the ups... | "I curse you and your entire bloodline!" Lycania shouted. Her vine covered shack now a ball of raging flames. It served as a window to her own fury building. They have finally cornered the ancient witch and her last moments alive would be spent scorning the man who made it possible. Ulfur froze, knowing how devasting a... | 2019-06-25T15:21:51 | 2019-06-25T12:54:50 | 1,435 | 17 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | "I see your plumpness." She crowed. "Oh yes, very wealthy you must be to afford so much food. I'm sure your resounding footsteps set all the ladies a quiver. With this spell, you shall shed your fat. No matter how much you eat you'll not gain it back."
I glanced down at my plump form. It was true, I was heavy, even ap... | Of course, it was not very pleasant. I just failed my payment. But then, it was not easy with the king getting his taxes, with my wife and children needing food. Yes, we had money, usually.
Not that winter. Who could have thought that it is war again? Who could have thought that we had to flee? We returned a few month... | 2019-06-25T12:08:45 | 2019-06-25T12:08:02 | 126 | 19 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | The banners were raised and the trumpets rang out for all the townsfolk to hear: A courting duel would commence this day. I sat in my tent, my squires busying themselves worriedly around me, listening to the bustle outside, as spectators filled the royal jousting yard. The air was positively full of bubbling energy, bu... | "What do you think you are doing?"
"Why setting up a chess board your highness. What does it look like?"
She honestly looked as confused as the murmuring crowd gathered around the arena. Everyone looked either confused or entertained, like I was some great fool.
"This is a duel to the death."
"Yes I know." as I c... | 2020-09-20T22:50:37 | 2020-09-20T22:50:04 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "Juramaia, man", the hazy figure in front of me in the queue said.
"It's this little thing, kind of a primordial shrew or something. Split off from the marsupials, closed up the pouch and grew a placenta instead. Size of your thumb. Doesn't look like anything much.
We don't know if it was something they ate, maybe so... | Wrong Lever
As I watched the others transcend to that primordial hell, I began to reconsider. What did they know that I didn't? As I took each small, eternal step towards the dock, I decided -jist this once - I would follow the crowd; after all, how long could a worms life be? When my time came I entered the transpir... | 2021-02-06T01:50:11 | 2021-02-06T01:45:16 | 4,249 | 80 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "We don't forget. That's the problem, you see?"
The man? Woman? Thing? next to me seemed to smile, but even that was not clear. It was more a feeling building up inside me, the same feeling I might have had, had someone smiled warmly at me. Words felt like they had formed briefly before, a quick memory of something t... | Man, this line is dragging out. Can't people just stop dying so much for a little while until I get my turn. Oh, that guy's talking weird. Maybe he's not just cosplaying as an roman soldier. Is that woman from the paleolithic period? Oh god, is the wait that long?
Wait no, the roman is in front of her. I think there's ... | 2021-02-06T04:20:08 | 2021-02-06T03:35:52 | 249 | 31 |
[WP] "No Man can kill me!" the demon jeers, taking in the carnage it has caused. "But I am no man," you proclaim, ripping away your helmet to reveal your feminine features. You strike, your blade bouncing harmlessly off the demon's hide. "Did you... did you really think that's what I meant?" | "No man can kill me!"
"But I am no man!" Shining steel fell away to reveal flaxen locks framing a smooth chin and delicate nose. "You gaze upon a woman! Eo-HaA!"
Leaving the dramatic geneology monologue to be finished over the foe's corpse, a bloody sword in a slender-fingered hand flashed up, inerrantly seeking t... | *It was that same look of arrogance I had seen a hundred times before; that foolish certainty only a man was capable of. And demons, as you know, they represent the worst of all men.*
I strode down the stony path towards that fabled summoning ground. But, I was too late. The poor souls that had brought the beast into ... | 2021-03-30T17:43:22 | 2021-03-30T17:21:48 | 190 | 20 |
[WP] You are an ethical necromancer. All your minions were raised voluntarily, under fair contracts. But some people can't see a spooky castle in the woods staffed by undead without breaking in and trying to kill you. | "Sir, there's another band of heroes trying to get in."
"Thank you Captain."
I stretched, letting out a groan before straightening my robes. My staff floated to my hand, the black flame growing at my touch. I left the latest batch of preservation fluid to mix, whilst I dealt with the latest set of do-gooders.
Captai... | Lightning cracks across a dark and cloudy sky, illuminating the spires of the ancient, ivy-covered castle. As the rain begins to fall softly, a group of hooded figures walks along a forest path that leads toward mangled iron gates.
The band enters the castle grounds and reaches the overhang that protects the main ent... | 2021-03-31T11:08:25 | 2021-03-31T10:31:13 | 106 | 55 |
[WP] You see ghosts daily, always attached to people. Some are malevolent, others benevolent and some indifferent. Today, you are shocked to see a young man being followed by hundreds of ghosts, all wearing faces of anticipation, Curiosity gets the better of you. | Many had one, some had more. I had none, but this woman, a crore.
"Excuse me?" the woman asked with no small amount of hostility. "Is that supposed to be a joke?"
"No, not at all. I'm sorry," I said, backing into the intersection pole below its merciless red hand forcing this interaction to go on.
"Then why on Eart... | The ghosts came down the mountain in silvered scores, following a boy who should have been old enough to know better. Even if he could see them he'd have felt their cold. The grass shriveled with the passage, morning dew turned to frost, turned to a sheet or ice. The world melted for miles behind them, as the dawn rose... | 2021-06-14T04:08:06 | 2021-06-14T03:48:18 | 284 | 64 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | “I’m afraid I don’t understand,” I told my teacher calmly, uncaring of the disruption I was causing in the classroom. “Was my essay badly written? Was there a problem with my citations? What exactly did I do wrong enough to warrant a D?”
Normally, I strove for politeness. But it was simply unacceptable for any educato... | "A "D"?". I ask incredulously, catching Ms Evers' attention, the words gushing forward reflexively and without regard for any of these sheep beside me. "How is it that I, Josephus Son of Zthon, could possibly receive anything but the highest of praise. An explanation shalt be offered with haste"
"AD? Well, not yet. We... | 2021-07-18T02:33:51 | 2021-07-18T02:19:36 | 1,930 | 27 |
[WP] Aliens had been invited to their human coworker's wedding. They are both scared yet amazed by the human wedding traditions. "What are the weddings even like on your planets?" asked the concerned human. "For starters, we don't make our friends and siblings our temporary slaves..." said one. | "Slaves? What are you talking about?" Bill asked.
Claxotensious replied, "My empathic organ detects 12 humans who are here against their own wishes. Mostly male, ages 12-33."
"Oh that" said Bill, "That's just called an obligation. I know on planet Hyper Ball things are a little more cut and dry but the human experie... | The bride was glaring at the two of them again.
"Just go with it, Quas" said Qel resoundently.
Quas sighed and held out three of his long blue limbs.
The bride dumped the third bucket of flowers into his outstretched blue palms. Quas felt his legs buckle with the weight. Earth's gravity was much harsher than it w... | 2021-08-20T04:43:14 | 2021-08-20T04:12:01 | 269 | 44 |
[WP]You possess an ability that seems relatively harmless, albeit useful, at first glance, yet on a deeper look is scarily powerful. Nothing can be taken from you against your will | Tom’s phone rang. The number was unknown and only a few people had access to it. If he did not know the caller, then it was a transferred request from his agent.
“Tom’s delivery service, this is Tom.”
The voice on the other end was grainy from the use of a filter. “You’re the freelance Ability User, right? We need yo... | "No."
"What did you say, asshole?"
Words have power.
Sometimes, they have power only in your head.
That is often enough, for your head is where all of the most important things happen.
Sometimes, if you are particularly lucky, words have power in *other* people's heads.
​
"I said *no*," I told the two... | 2021-09-11T13:12:54 | 2021-09-11T12:05:24 | 442 | 318 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | I blinked hard, rubbed my eyes, and blinked again. Nope, still there. But I tried again, shaking my head this time, as if that would change things. But no, still here. Jason Momoa was sprawled out on my bed, looking around in abject confusion.
I sighed, hard. 'Look what the cat dragged in,' I muttered. Jason stare... | It's getting to the point I don't want to wake up. Yes, I know; giving presents is how cats show their love...or their superior ability to hunt. Honestly, either's possible.
And I want you to know, I *do* play with the cat. No, he's not my cat. A neighborhood stray, I think, or maybe he's just got a lot of homes. Poin... | 2021-12-17T08:16:08 | 2021-12-17T07:43:15 | 59 | 37 |
[WP] We invent the warp drive, only to discover that humans are already a member of the galactic community. Apparently there have been enough alien abductions over the years to start a small country. | "I just... I still don't quite understand," Captain Jefferson repeated as he sat across from the colourfully dressed man. This was to be a day of triumph - not just for him, but all of humanity. The warp drive! Travel lightyears in seconds! And, of course, at last contact with other intelligent life!
And he did. He wa... | Crimson bursts swam behind Commander Holland’s eyes. The ship slowed, feeling more like coming out of a spin than forward acceleration.
“Johnson, what do you see?” he asked, raising from the safety pod as soon as the locks clicked. He rubbed his eyes, idly wondering on the long-term effects of this bleeding-edge tech.... | 2022-10-13T08:07:42 | 2022-10-13T07:59:34 | 605 | 69 |
[WP] A demon tries to possess a human. The only problem is that the person's mind is so broken and lonely that even the demon, for the first time in it's existence feels sadness. | “God, if you exist out there, please help me.”
The demon listened to the young girl pray, as he had been doing for the past several nights, and as she had been praying. He grinned to himself, thinking she would make an easy possession if she believed in such silly things as God. It had been her voice that drew him her... | "So, Flora, what are your plans today?" I turn to look at Urrick. It is the start of the weekend. I smile coyly, leaning into him as we sit in the grassy field.
"Whatever you want, Urrie" I reply. "After all... you're the one in control!" I kiss his cheek. Urrick puts his arm around me, pulling me in closer, putting m... | 2022-10-17T06:31:52 | 2022-10-17T04:01:57 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | "Hey there, tall dark and handsome!"
Her lips were blood red, and pursed in her most seductive smile. Her dress was black, with white skulls in the pattern of polka-dots; it was also short. Her legs were long and smooth-shaven. Her eyes smouldered.
"Stop it."
His voice was huge, cosmic. It boomed with the sullen, c... | Bella waited.
She had done this before and she had become *good* at doing it. Whilst she waited, Bella took the time to examine the face of the man who now lay slumped at her feet. He had been a handsome man, in a rustic kind of way. His eyes were lined in a manner that suggested that he had lived a life worth livin... | 2014-06-30T06:04:49 | 2014-06-30T05:50:48 | 1,253 | 173 |
[WP] You are a Lich, a fearsome undead necromancer with magical powers beyond comprehension. Unfortunately, the economy is really rough so you have taken a job as a Middle School Teacher. | “No Tommy I wasn’t-“
“Was he a good rapper?”
“Tommy I never met Alexander Hamilton. Now can we please get back to-“
“Did you meet Washington?” A girl in the back row asked.
This was my second day teaching. Yesterday the children were terrified of me. Once they got over my decaying appearance they wouldn’t stop pes... | The bell rings, and the nervous sixth graders look around anxiously. I smile. Homeroom on the first day of school is always amusing.
They look at me with confusion and fear. One kid looks like she is about to throw up. They probably think I was in some sort of horrific accident, cause my skin to turn ashy and parts of... | 2018-06-27T08:10:49 | 2018-06-27T07:36:55 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] To be Samurai is to be Honor personified. To be a Viking is to be Rage personified. To be a Centurion is to be Strength personified. But your people are much different. To be a warrior of your kind, you must be Death personified. | When fighting beckons, each tribe of people have their own way of fighting. This defines them, and how they kill.
The Samurai of the East come from a land of plenty. Their history of looking out for one another gave birth to their way of war, Honor. They fight face to face, in carefully chosen duels. They strike at no... | "You are *forbidden*!" Shouted Dayamaise. He rested atop his throne, fashioned of fallen warriors. His dark brows were serious, his white beard swaying in the wind.
"Lord Father, the youth are restless, and I among them!" I objected.
A resonant, guttural growl began at the back of Lord Dayamaise's throat. "You are ye... | 2020-07-23T10:37:31 | 2020-07-23T10:21:20 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] You're a lesser demon from actual hell who has taken a part-time job because the supernatural world has been cutting salaries. You suspect your coworker is secretly an angel in the same position. You're both appalled at the brazen evil of your human employers. | "...You just... upsold a retired woman on a laptop she will only use to call her grandkids and spread nonsense on facebook," I told Carl. Because apparently he didn't understand what he had done. Else, he wouldn't have done it, right?
He shrugged. "Look, buddy, I'm paid by comission, alright?"
I blinked. Made in the ... | “They cut ‘em again, bloody bastards,” I crushed my fork and tossed it into the hearth. My reptilian skin sizzled, its scales turning over, the gaps between glowing with fiery cinders. “Humans- those insects, they’ve turned agonistic. Atheist. Bullshit, really. If Satan hadn’t been banished, we wouldn’t be in stuck in ... | 2020-08-25T01:22:44 | 2020-08-25T01:14:00 | 45 | 27 |
[WP] You're a lesser demon from actual hell who has taken a part-time job because the supernatural world has been cutting salaries. You suspect your coworker is secretly an angel in the same position. You're both appalled at the brazen evil of your human employers. | "...You just... upsold a retired woman on a laptop she will only use to call her grandkids and spread nonsense on facebook," I told Carl. Because apparently he didn't understand what he had done. Else, he wouldn't have done it, right?
He shrugged. "Look, buddy, I'm paid by comission, alright?"
I blinked. Made in the ... | Now that Hell City was making pay cuts I had to find a job in the human world. I took the Hells Express subway which transported demons up to the overworld which was known as Earth. I knew I could find a job since my old job was surveillance on human diplomats. As I made it through the rift, my form began to morph into... | 2020-08-25T01:22:44 | 2020-08-25T00:45:40 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] The devils greatest trick is convincing the world he didn't exist? HA! His greatest trick was convincing us he lost and God is still in charge. | I ended my life three hours ago, and -to be perfectly honest- I choose to go to hell. My parents can live in their self-claimed heaven for all the prayers they made with my blood. I'll not meet them, I don't want to.
But I'm still wondering about what creature currently carrying me to the sky. So many eyes like an arc... | “God is good, god gave us freewill. How funny is it that they say such grandiose things while dancing to my symphony of sin? I can’t blame them; how can a human comprehend someone like myself? My existence goes against any science, it goes against common sense. A person shouldn’t be able to do the things I do and yet, ... | 2022-07-07T05:37:33 | 2022-07-07T04:48:54 | 60 | 36 |
[WP] You are a twenty something. You wake up to find yourself in your 8 year old body. You are in the time and at the place you were when you were 8, but with all the memories and mannerisms of your twenty something self. | Dear diary (is this how people actually start diaries?),
I am starting a diary... It been a crazy past few hours and I realized I need to put all of this to paper. For my sanity and maybe a book one day (it's never to early to plan ahead). So many things are running through my mind right now. I woke up this morning ba... | Timothy opened his eyes and found himself on his school playground. He was in the middle of a soccer game 20 years earlier. Without hesitation he pulled his pants down, and went with the plan he made during his time travel fantasies. As his late night journal says," pee on everything. Get the retarded card" | 2016-12-17T03:07:38 | 2016-12-16T22:42:10 | 39 | 15 |
[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..
[removed] | I have never understood how no one has done what I have. It's simple and direct. Plan and execution. Yet somehow countless people before me have failed.
I've taken over the world... more or less. Still a few groups refusing to accept my rule.
Looking back it all started when I walked upon a street brawl.
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It w... | I always thought it was funny that they expect a monologue, that when they're beaten and on the ground that they will get a chance to take a breather and turn it around like some grand spectacle.
But that's not what my dad taught me, he always said "if you're in a fight and knock them down make sure they stay down" wh... | 2019-08-06T20:42:43 | 2019-08-06T19:22:38 | 121 | 30 |
[WP] You remember the angry mob. You remember the debates on tv about what should be done with you. You remember the vote. You look up at the screen inside the rocket showing your path towards the Sun. "Ok", you sigh, "that's probably fair." | Nobody ever wants to think they are the bad guy. I'm not sure whether I am or not, though, and that's the scary part. My punishment is this cell and that acceleration couch, although to be fair, I think the path directly to the sun is meant to be a part of it. Fortunately or unfortunately, the mob didn't consider that ... | I sat down on the cold steel floor of my compartment. I sighed and grimaced, nothing in my temporary prison but a digital screen, showing how far my rocket was from the sun. I was roughly two hours away.
Serenely, I pulled out a camera and a long distance satellite receiver. Before my fall, so to speak, I'd done a lot... | 2016-11-30T08:16:43 | 2016-11-30T06:35:10 | 62 | 40 |
[WP] When everyone reaches 18 they have to choose a super power from a select list of powers, but when you enter the selection room there is only 1 power for you to choose from. | “Hey, kid. So, uh, I know this will be disheartening, but all of the kids before you had already taken all powers. I’m really sorry. But, the good news is, we still managed to save one power left just for you. Is it alright?”
It would be a lie if I said I’m not disappointed, but what else can I do?
“It’s alright”, I ... | In Jamestown there is no crime. When the residents reach the age of 18 they go to the town hall, a large building where you can find statues of muscular men and women. They choose a power from a select list of powers.
Manuel was greatly disappointed when he saw that he had only 1 power to choose. He knew what that me... | 2022-12-18T17:56:22 | 2022-12-18T06:50:45 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] At the moment of your death, a goddess gives you a chance to reincarnate in another world. The catch is that you need to become the hero of that world. The other catch is that you are not a helpless teenager but a trained member of your country's special forces. | Beasts buck-toothed and slimy charged towards the city capital. Their claws left ravines in the streets. Standing in their way was a man in a black helmet.
The man was dressed in black and held a gun. As the beasts leaped towards him, the man shot at them, and writhing and groaning they fell onto the ground. On the g... | I sat all winter waiting for the signal. They would not see me coming. It started with a bang. And I was off. Cascading down, collecting a force to take on the world below. Nothing could stand in my way. Nothing did. When the dust had settled, my forces and myself spread thin across the valley floor, I had realized my ... | 2021-04-06T08:03:23 | 2021-04-06T07:35:48 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Five psychics are gathered into a room and are not allowed to leave until one of them is outed as a fake. | We stared at each other. We knew it was true, we had to confess. We just didn't want to be the first. The men who had dragged us in there didn't look like they were messing around. They didn't look like they were going to kill us, but we had built our entire careers on a lie... And we all knew it. Nobody was going to s... | The man in the hat was pacing. He’d been pacing for 10 minutes, his left wrist gripped tightly in his right hand, 15 steps each way. Long slow steps that counted the seconds, 4 passes a minute and this was beginning to worm its way deep into my mind. In all the counting I had missed something. The red faced women had g... | 2015-08-23T12:38:40 | 2015-08-23T12:12:50 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Just as the almighty villain is about to strike down the destined hero, they notice that said hero is only 15 years old. Disgusted, they demand to know who would force such a massive responsibility onto a child, and take it upon themselves to raise this kid as he should have been raised. | I'm not going to talk long about that time, the time when I was told that I hold a great destiny in my hand. There were so many different prophecies that even my teachers weren't sure which ones were correct. Of course, they had their favorites, and to be quite frank, one particular.
*You shall bring balance to the go... | Each stir at the broth came along with a shake of his head. How couldn't anyone see the stress weighing down on this poor kid's shoulders? Why did fate place such an lacking boy in such an important role?
It didn't make sense, and so Ferronyr stirred, making sure the broth was perfect for this confused youngling who ... | 2018-09-20T18:35:06 | 2018-09-20T18:11:25 | 120 | 35 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | Luna was sat down, the results of her dna test having been explained to her already. She waa frowning, trying to piece it together.
"That's impossible - there's no way it could be a perfect match," she explained to the woman and men in the suits before her. "For one, I have a vagina. Kinda need a Y chromosome to ha... | They Hand it over, and in it written is the long list of ancestors you had up to the long lost king of the Medafega, a lost and fallen kingdom in the pacific ocean, that due to inner conflicts and wars was left abandoned and lost in the time.
The Government had been looking for the latest descendant of the king of Med... | 2019-08-05T20:03:16 | 2019-08-05T16:31:10 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | I sigh as I glance at the run down neon sign in the window. I mean, I would sigh if it actually did something. I'm a ghost so I don't really need to breathe but I'm getting sidetracked. Story of my life...and afterlife apparently.
The sign blinks and buzzes a little more than normal as I phase through it and the dirty... | I knew he wouldn't understand why I didn't come home. He would sit and wait and wait and no one would ever come to the door. He wouldn't even try to keep himself alive. Just holding on to the hope that I would come home. I couldn't let him waste away. But who would help? Who could I turn to? Who would even care? I only... | 2022-07-15T09:55:01 | 2022-07-15T09:19:03 | 142 | 67 |
[WP] Modern art has reached new levels of absurdity, and you're at your first art exhibition. | "Excuse me, what are you doing here?"
The bearded man in flannel applauded me generously and the crowd of onlookers clapped on cue.
Perturbed, I folded my arms,
"Are you mute? Answer me!"
Again, the indolent hipster clapped, making an appreciative noise from deep within his carefully styled beard.
"Seriously,... | Holding his glass of Chardonnay while with his fiance, Edward had trouble even identifying what he was looking out. People had been so enthusiastic while in line talking about the brilliance of this exhibit and how it expressed the 22nd century American plight of agrarian, urban, unrecognized musicians.
What Edward... | 2015-10-19T17:47:12 | 2015-10-19T17:36:03 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] So tell me this, elf. If you're so much better than humans at everything, then how come even though your ancient civilization dates back millenia before we "crawled out of the mud pits", you're still riding around on horses and swinging sharp pieces of metal just like us? | "So tell me this, elf. If you're so much better than humans at everything, then how come even though your ancient civilization dates back millennia before we 'crawled out of the mud pits', you're still riding around on horses and swinging sharp pieces of metal just like us?"
Jarila sped in front of the human, holding ... | Vander look at the bandits.
It wasn’t that hard to see all the weak points in their crude armor and weapons. All of it was cheap crap even by the low standers of human chaos worshippers.
Plus, all of the bandits had gotten intoxicated after capturing the inquisitor so they would be slower than normal.
A thrust here,... | 2022-09-04T09:14:44 | 2022-09-04T07:17:47 | 261 | 32 |
[WP] The death sentence is an actual sentence that when spoken will instantly kill someone.
Inspired by [this comment.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1w4n7l/what_misconception_did_you_have_as_a_child_that/ceyo995) | Most of the time, everyone knew who it would be. A jealous lover, a cheated business associate, an abused partner.
Sometimes it made no sense. In one case, it ended up being the Convicted's mailman. In the saddest case, it was a Convicted business man's seven year old daughter. They waited, of course, held him on d... | There she was. My companion. She stared at me with utter contempt. She didn't tolerate me any longer. Now that I was on top of her with my hand on her throat, well, that changes your perspective. I remember when we used to go to the park. We'd feed the pigeons, the ducks, languish in their supplication while they begge... | 2014-01-25T19:09:43 | 2014-01-25T19:00:59 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] The alien diplomat showing you their planet directs your gaze to an ancient relic. "Here are the oldest known markings on our world, we still don't know what they represent". You are horrified, as what appear to be meaningless scribbles to them, is a desperate cry for help in your own tongue. | The search had been long and desperate. Cal could not tell anyone what he was looking for, as there was a good chance they would have questions, and not like his answers.
This was Cal's 14th planet, and the locals were very happy to see him. They rarely got travelers at this point in their development, so when another... | I walked along with the Árniņõ diplomat on a road, along the way we had a talk about our cultural difference, with the help of a translator.
There were supposed to be two translators, but mine was preoccupied with being dead, that idiot tripped on his own life support system, and it is locked on his head like a cap t... | 2021-04-23T00:46:54 | 2021-04-22T23:21:25 | 76 | 33 |
[WP] The fastest ship in the galaxy isn't a military Corvette or a ribbon-winning racing vessel. It's the ambulance that the human paramedic team operates. | EDIT: WHEW thanks for the warm welcome r/WritingPrompts. Don't hold your breath but I suspect you'll be seeing more of me.
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First time posting here and sci-fi is absolutely not my genre, but whatever. Please be nice XD
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"Boss! I got something on the scanners!"
About fuckin' time, ... | Sorry mobile.
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Have seen of ducking fast that thing drives?! At first you just see it intent if you for a fraction of a fraction of a nanosecond, and then it is gone. Some time after you can hear the flying past you, trying to catch up, which it won’t until it stops.
Alright I get it, it is fast, but what I don’t... | 2019-11-10T13:48:28 | 2019-11-10T13:46:55 | 1,282 | 80 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to anyone, whenever someone on Earth creates a fictional world, that world suddenly appears in space somewhere.You are a young novelist working on the sequel to your best seller. You wake up one night to find the main character of that novel standing at the foot of your bed. | *Tap, tap, tap...*
I wasn't even fully awake when I first heard the noise. It crept into my subconscious and there was nothing at all but the tapping and endless, grasping darkness.
*Tap, tap, tap...*
It took me a moment to realise that I was in my bed and that the darkness was merely a result of closed eyelids and ... | \[Norilsk, Siberian Bunker - Former Russian Federation 2066.\]
"General Karov, What you are speaking of is madness!" the vaguely Russian advisor gasped while slowly reaching for his holstered revolver.
"You will betray me too Yuri? like so many have before?" Karov remarks while looking out through a blast proof windo... | 2021-12-11T19:23:40 | 2021-12-11T17:41:14 | 160 | 61 |
[WP] World Peace has been achieved and the first crime in centuries has been committed.
EDIT: I've been reading a lot of these prompts throughout the day and they have all been really good, sadly I don't have the time to sit and read them all :( | "So, we're all here today to judge Mr. Holland." Judge Carver paused, and then finished with, "Right?"
The hesitation came from the fact that in the 27 years Arnold Carver had been a judge, he had never been in a trial. It's not like he was lazy though, nobody had gone to trial in the last 383 years! Not since, in a f... | For the first time in 371 years the Probability Engine failed to catch a crime before it happened. Scientists across the world united to create the perfect crime stopper. The entire moon was repurposed into a giant satellite. With the most powerful supercomputer ever made. At the helm sat an AI they called Nolan.
It ... | 2015-11-01T08:41:52 | 2015-11-01T08:32:38 | 210 | 66 |
[WP] In a new TV game show contestants must jump into a wormhole that drops them into a random point in time where they must survive for longer than the other contestants. You've just been dropped in the worst possible place. | This was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and John was going to grab it. He had always been a quitter, and couldn't remember the last time he had provided any important task his full attention. His grades in school were average at best, and his wedding vows were generic only because he was distracted by talkshow rerun... | "This has got to be hell" I told myself after exiting the wormhole. There were ashes all over the streets, everything was dilapidated and the people looked as though they hadn't had a decent nights rest or a hot meal in years. In the distance all I could hear were the roaring flames of burning store fronts, police sire... | 2016-07-24T13:19:16 | 2016-07-24T13:01:04 | 51 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | “You said you came in peace.”
Beelzebub laughed. The sound was a booming roar with the force of a hurricane that could have toppled the walls of Jericho. And indeed, somewhere behind them, one of mankind’s ruins which had outlasted its makers toppled in a landslide of brick, steel, and concrete.
“I said we came with ... | Far away, a ceremony was being conducted. As the conductor appeared before the crowd, he lifted his baton, signaling the rows of singers behind to begin their melody. All those there believe soundly that the expedition and conquering of Earth was going smoothly. The media had announced that the last human had since per... | 2020-09-18T08:27:23 | 2020-09-18T08:08:08 | 133 | 56 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | ((First response, hope everyone enjoys!))
"'Nother, Chief."
We had our routine. He came in, nodded at me, and went and sat down in his favorite chair. He always had an appointment, of course, but always that same greeting, his voice never changing, cigarettes and kindness over neat whiskey.
He was a grizzled old b... | "Brooke, he's here again." my assistant informed me. I took a look at the way he's looking and there it is, my favorite customer.
I never really got the chance to ask him why but every couple of weeks, without fail, he comes here just to get inked with a tic to add on his almost-covered right arm of endless other tics... | 2016-07-09T14:05:08 | 2016-07-09T09:19:24 | 93 | 14 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "Very funny, Michelle," Barack called into their new home, the letter in his hand. It has always been their tradition to out-prank each other when they move to a new place. JFK, alive? Barack chuckled as he folded the letter and placed it in his pocket. Michelle has got to come out with better pranks.
Barack closed th... | I could hardly breath.
"What is this?" I muttered to the guard detail with me.
"I don't know, sir. I suggest we take it the FBI, and they will deal with it." He responded cooly.
I hated that idea. I wasn't the president anymore, I want to be able to live a little. But I knew it wasn't a suggestion, it was a command. ... | 2022-12-29T14:39:14 | 2017-05-14T07:31:38 | 274 | 44 |
[WP] A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn't know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her parents. You are that monster.
Thanks for the huge amount of responses! Loving most all of them, thank you! Sorry it was a bit simplistic though. | They never linger long. Perhaps it's their own schedule that keeps them shuffling in and out of the well furnished room, a room that most would contend is too well furnished for a child. It's all so very formal, so lacking of dust or debris, no strewn toys or splashes of colors that so often betray youth at nothing mor... | It's the same every night. There aren't ever any deviations from this. Her father slowly opens the door to come into her room, I wait under the bed, he sees the gleam in my eyes upon approach, I growl, and then he leaves. I remember the first night it happened, I had just moved in. The dust under the bed needed to be c... | 2014-05-14T12:13:09 | 2014-05-14T11:13:12 | 331 | 149 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | My name is Marco.
The signs showed up randomly, at first. I would only see signs above people's heads if their name started with an "A", and above their heads would float "Andrea - Murder".
I didn't interfere, not after my first attempt. I wanted to, of course, but after Beth...
I stopped a girl with "Beth - Suicide... | They started showing themselves to me when I started high school. They were always a light shade of blue and wouldn't change. If someone was to die of a heart attack...he was to die of a heart attack. Nothing to be done about their fate. Nothing I could do, at least I thought. Those words would hang over the heads of m... | 2015-03-31T08:25:25 | 2015-03-31T08:21:48 | 73 | 47 |
[WP] The world is now in an urban-fantasy age, with you, a legendary sentient sword, being the #1 exhibit in a museum of magical artifacts. But with crime on the rise, you decide to do your old thing and choose a new wielder to deal with this crime wave. Whether they like it or not. | The choice of who was not mine. I chose only the time. And then I would be summoned to the nearest soul who did not wish to wield me. Normally I could talk them into it. All they lacked was confidence. An encouraging voice to drive them to greatness. It never took me more than three days before me and my partner were o... | I have to admit, the centuries of relaxation were much appreciated, but as a great man once said, I was not made to simply lay in bed. Or, in my case, a display case.
Crowds were walking by me, gawking at my body; A dream many people have. My handle, my curves, my tip... I was irresistible. Forged in the fires of a no... | 2022-03-10T19:04:19 | 2022-03-10T18:10:03 | 60 | 19 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | “I won’t agree to that job.”
I stared across the booth at Dirk, who hissed at me angrily in response, the flicking of his tongue practically a dead giveaway of his alter ego, The Serpant. It lashes out a mere four inches in front of me. When I started out, his demeanor would have shaken me, but now, more sure of my pr... | The doorbell rang. When Timothy Reid went to meet the stranger, two very special men stood opposite from each other. Timothy was in his mid thirties, a rather boring attorney by day, a gangster by night. Not just any gangster, but a greatly feared villain, successful at evading both the police and a number of heroes.
... | 2020-10-19T08:55:56 | 2020-10-19T08:45:39 | 375 | 94 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | My mind twisted this from comical to a bit dark...
I had accepted my fate as soon as I had sliced my wrists. The hot bath water stung but I had figured Hell would be much worse... only it wasn't. It wasn't what I had expected at all.
"Another suicide? You don't have to stay here, you can go to Heaven" a disembod... | "I've been waiting for so long!"- The devil said excitedly, jumping around and exhaling noxious fumes. He seemed ghastly and yet, he had an air of friendliness to him.
The moment I saw him walking towards me was when I realized my silly little joke had gone a little too far. He walked rather vigorously and with every ... | 2017-11-04T08:14:39 | 2017-11-04T07:17:22 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The old man sighed heavily as the alarm went off. Sirens blared, and red lights flashed. The young man he had been training to eventually succeed him leapt out of his simple cot, eyes wide with terror and hands trembling as they clutched the nanofiber blanket covering him. The old man shook his head sadly, rose from hi... | After action report: Stardate M22, 783.
SSgt. Wilson Duke reporting.
Upon contact with the enemy, star ship *Primo Victoria* fired one thermonuclear weapon. The missile detonated on target, causing heavy damage to the enemy ship. The enemy ship became crippled, and boarding action was approved. At hour 4 of the conf... | 2020-02-07T11:53:36 | 2020-02-07T10:40:03 | 471 | 107 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | For centuries, the two immortals stared each other down, neither moving nor willing to let the other. In the isolation of their tomb, both had long since forgotten which was the immortal and which the king. They had both wielded power unlike any in the world. For one, his words were like the incantation to a spell. Eve... | Humans.. so absolutely delightful. Their fears, so handsomely written across the pages of their faces. Painful portraits pristinely polished to... *Perfection.*
Bashful Bastards Boasting Battered Broads. Cantankerous *Cards* Crawling Carefully Clasping Coat-tails. Dangerous Deeds Deserve.. Dashing *Deaths*. And I smil... | 2017-05-13T06:50:28 | 2017-05-13T06:03:50 | 1,785 | 26 |
[WP] A Vampire Hunter, a Dragon Slayer, a Witch Inquisitor, and a Demon Excorcist must work together to kill a Vampire Dragon possessed by a Demon controlled by a powerful coven of Witches. They all absolutely hate each other. | "How the hell does a dragon get possessed by demon?" Asked the Vampire hunter as he added more wooden stakes to his utility belt, "I thought only human souls could be possessed".
"With witches anythings possible", replied the Witch Inquisitor who was tying the laces to her thigh high leather boots.
"Shows what the fu... | From land afar came the wise,
a collection of masters in disguise,
To slay the beast was the request,
Achieving that was not the test,
Even tho they had great skill,
Their conquest brought a chill,
To every man that heard them speak,
Words that would make a sailor squeak,
No one could say for certain,
If they would ha... | 2018-11-08T18:47:36 | 2018-11-08T14:12:31 | 99 | 45 |
[WP] Medieval times, a woman is accused by villagers of being a witch and she is put in a cage to drown, after 3 minutes she is not dead so they burn her at the stake but she survives that too, villagers now realize they finally found a real witch and don’t know what to do next... | "So..." The magistrate nervously pulled at his collar, letting in fresh air into his shirt.
"So." Lilith grinned, her eyes flashing yellow. She did not prespire, despite being buried neck deep in hot coals.
"Your predicament is most unusual, Miss Lilith. According to our laws, anyone who is accused of witchcraft an... | The deacon's shriek ascended an octave, silencing the villagers muttering below.
"Truly this harlot is an agent of the devil! An evil being of the of the highest order! The flames have stripped away her, yet Lucifer's powers protect her body!"
His eyes tracked the listless crowd, as he desperately tried injecting... | 2019-02-12T04:31:19 | 2019-02-12T04:21:38 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] A summoned demon can always be defeated by the summoner, thus the caliber of demon is dependent on the power of the summoner. You were surprised to see Satan Himself stood before you, and so was He. | **The King Mage of Nothing**
The heathen armies of the North had been sieging the Capitol for three years. In that same time, I’d lost my three children. First it was starvation, which claimed my baby boy. Then it was disease, which claimed my only daughter. And finally it was the unrest, the riots, which had claimed ... | "Where did Hitler...Where am I?" Satan asked shocked while standing in my office. It is a completely generic one man law firm's office in a shopping mall.
I looked at my client, a seemingly homeless man who wouldn't leave until I tried his 'summoning ritual' to prove it was nonsense. Needless to say not only is it no... | 2022-01-30T08:40:24 | 2022-01-30T08:26:15 | 316 | 140 |
[WP] you realise you misheard your daughter. There’s a mobster under her bed. | A bleary-eyed John gingerly pulled off his covers and rose out of bed, “Wait, huh?”
“I think there’s a mobster under my bed and my light isn’t working!” John’s ten-year-old daughter exclaimed between short, rapid breaths.
A disorientated John rubbed his eyes and began shuffling towards his daughter’s room, “A monste... | Jenny has always struck everyone as strange, to everyone, myself included. Just last night she was craving pizza and talking in a weird Brooklyn esque accent, which was very strange, considering we lived on the west coast, she has never been in contact with anyone from that particular area. My wife and I have concluded... | 2017-12-02T00:12:35 | 2017-12-01T22:22:50 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | My name is Dr. Asclepius. I am not here in the senate chambers to make any demands. I am simply an ambassador, here to speak on behalf of all humanity.
It has been a year and a half since humanity stood on the galactic stage.
But this year and a half is already filled with more bloodshed, more atrocities, and more un... | August 18th, 4057:
Fuckin Xeno scum got carpet bombed and napalmed into non-existence. That's the 8th or so planet that's been given the "Ring of Fire" treatment. We've been blasting "Napalm Sticks To Kids" at them for a while before flattening them. Apparently some other species are more vulnerable to psychological w... | 2022-01-23T19:51:14 | 2022-01-23T19:44:59 | 60 | 38 |
[WP] A society where everyone is born gender less, and has to pick a gender by their 18th birthday. | After the clinic, there'd be a party. Either decision would be celebrated, but if I came out a woman the party would be huge - only 20% of kids decided to become women, and there was enormous pressure to increase that number. Everyone in my class had been engulfed by pro-female advertisements our entire adolescence, co... | "So... What do you choose?" The doctor asked.
There were two pills in either of his hands; one was blue, the other pink. A life where you grow up to be either a boy or girl and I didn't bother to ever look into it. What do I want?
Do I prefer being male? Waking up to find a razor and cream, the feeling of the blade r... | 2014-07-01T01:23:07 | 2014-06-30T23:33:05 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] The alien invaders were confident. Their personal shield tech had withstood all enemies and types of energy weapons. Then they landed on Earth and found the shield's fatal flaw: Solid Projectiles. | "Dad? How did you manage to beat those aliens back then?"
"Hmm... should I tell you? Ah whatever, you're old enough."
"It was the summer of 2050 when they called out to us, not even in our orbit, with just a single demand in tow: surrender everything to the Kal'ikeen empire, or be turned to dust.
As you know, my so... | With alarms blaring that Secondary Waveformer Yamblo had not heard since the training amplifiers, they sawtoothed their foreridges and managed to stabilise the shields for at least a moment.
The Command Crest looked completely different in the angry bleen light of the emergency systems. As Yamblo took in the fractured... | 2022-07-23T09:07:41 | 2022-07-23T07:34:19 | 48 | 31 |
[WP] you are a powerful warlock that has retired to raise your daughter everything's been going well that is until a couple of her classmates try to sacrifice her after reading about a 'dark spell' online, you've decided to show them what real black magic looks like | Lewish had been the greatest ever dark mage the academy had seen. He was lauded and celebrated. He was the one who could finally restore their once glorious past. Consequently all of his tutors had been enraged when he met and fell in love with the healer.
Lewish had given up almost everything for his love. Even he wa... | Something dashed by out of the corner of Rex's vision. Old reflexes kicked in and he turned just in time to see Sarah's fleeing form. That was when new instincts kicked in. He was not well versed in the ways of teenage girls, but he knew enough to know that something was wrong. And something wrong with her meant someth... | 2021-09-04T23:34:49 | 2021-09-04T18:47:20 | 212 | 140 |
[WP] You are a supervillain infamous for kidnapping attractive members of the opposite sex. While everyone thinks you are evil, you are really just being a wingman for your superhero rival. | Listen, let's make one thing clear right off the bat—I don't like Spark-girl. Not in the very slightest. She's loud and annoying, her outfit is stupid and impractical, and she keeps wrecking every single hideout I find within a week. And her name. Her superhero name is really stupid. The woman can *shoot lightning* for... | "Please! Someone help me!" Yelled the woman as I swooped her into the sky.
"Why?!" She screamed at me, panic hinting in her voice. "What have I done?"
I stared at her, my mask a deadpan expression, as we ascended higher and higher into the air.
"Please!" She yelled. "How could you be so heartless!"
The words stun... | 2017-07-22T19:48:32 | 2017-07-22T16:47:28 | 1,467 | 774 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | My husband... Is an an interesting man. Not that bright, but truly kind, caring, and compassionate.
I am not.
They called me the Rose when I was a girl. Too beautiful for words, too graceful for a poem, too lovely for a song. I caught the eye of a King. He married me within weeks. He was dead within months.
I am amb... | I was in an especially grumpy mood. I don't mind it when people leave books on the trolley, or just lying about. But I truly despise it when people think they're doing a good deed but are actually putting them back in the wrong place! It must have shown on my face, but I'm glad it did, otherwise I may not have met him.... | 2020-04-14T08:29:24 | 2020-04-14T06:18:39 | 146 | 73 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Humanity banded together nearly a decade ago, the aliens ship was after all easily detected. The massive nuclear engines they utilized poured out radiation and energy easily visible for light years even before they entered the heliosphere of the solar system.
At first some scientists feared we were about to witness a... | Mleep rose from his slumber. Today would be the day that this planet fell to the mighty wrath of mleep. Mleep was a hero, a soldier and a magnificent lover, the later being proved by countless sighs of tender pleasure. Mleep had been sent to earth by his overlords to do one thing. He knew what he had to do and he revel... | 2016-02-22T13:17:54 | 2016-02-22T10:30:41 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] You're not the protagonist. You know you're not the protagonist. The protagonist knows you're not the protagonist. Literally everyone else thinks you're the protagonist because you have bright blue hair.
edit: Thanks for the gold | "At last, I've caught up with you, Blue Bolt!" Dr. Sinclair stopped, and his visage suddenly went from maniacal to calm. "You have no idea how long I've been rehearsing that line. I sound like a proper villain, don't I?" He chuckled.
"I've got good news and bad news," I replied. "The bad news is, I'm not _actuall... | this is my first time posting here so all critiques are welcome, thanks!
First it was a few jokes here and there, but it got serious when I was eight. Walking down to the main square of my town, an old hag stopped my mother, my twin sister, and I on the cobble street. "You're the one the prophecy foretold--the Blue ... | 2019-06-19T10:55:29 | 2019-06-19T10:04:46 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | I was pleased with my hunt today. A plump, young hog. Time hadn't been able to turn it tough, but it's size would keep me fed for a good month, whilst leaving a hefty amount to trade for other supplies. I had my stasis chest at my hut to keep it fresh, which made me happy.
I headed towards my hut, smiling. The carcass... | I arrive home after a day of hunting with a couple of deer in tow on my wagon. The door to my house is slightly ajar. Someone probably wants some more meat from my cellar. I'm happy to share and everyone knows it, so they come in and sit patiently at the table till I get back to ask. I walk into my house to find hi... | 2021-11-03T13:09:00 | 2021-11-03T13:04:29 | 2,337 | 134 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | "Sir, the humans front party has arrived!" A guardsmen told me as I walked towards the council chamber near the center of the city.
I continued walking "Escort the highest ranking people among them to the council chambers. They will want to talk to them"
"Sir!" The guardsmen spun on his heal and briskly left.
I quic... | So it began...
As Elgeois viewed the scene before him he witnessed his certain doom. 130,000 orcs stood poised to charge the last free eleven stronghold left. He was there in the beginning, the final battle of the last alliance, he had stood side to side with his wood elf kin in the last war of the ring as well; but t... | 2018-12-03T05:47:51 | 2018-12-03T05:46:38 | 160 | 73 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | A week ago I was an elite member of the royal guard, doing my duty as always. I was the leader of the four female guards in the defense troop. That was until the new king, Harrion the fourth, decided that his troops would be better off with new recruits and decided to fire all of us who served for more than a decade.
... | When the king took his last breathe it felt like rain after a long drought. I was so close to my freedom. For 50yrs I was tied to that bastard, my wings clipped by youthful pride. I had loved him once and given my heart and magic to the king thinking he would love me too, he convinced me that even when he married his ... | 2021-02-28T03:11:04 | 2021-02-28T02:58:19 | 310 | 68 |
[WP] Someone finally figures out what the posts on /r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 mean, and it's not good.
For those who don't know what /r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 is:
It's a subreddit full of coded messages that no one has ever been able to solve (some people make good effort, though - I mean, [somehow finding strings of music within... | "Steph!" Alfred called out, his voice almost cracking in excitement, "Get over here! Steph!"
His voice, rising in volume, woke the young woman. Her eyes drowsy and unfocused open with a start. Suddenly she lifted her head from the pool of saliva that was collecting on the table where her face had just been.
"STEPH! W... | After months of sleepless nights followed by long and grueling days of coding and deciphering, Sam was finally just moments away from the answer. A858DE45F56D9BC9 had been a mystery for almost 3 years, and no one had ever been able to decode it, until now. All Sam had to do was run one last test to verify that his co... | 2015-07-27T11:07:20 | 2015-07-27T11:00:19 | 48 | 25 |
[WP] Over six billion orbs descend on earth, one for each man, woman and child. The orbs do nothing but silently hover near each person, until one day.... | Over six billion orbs descended upon Earth from the skies, one for each man, woman and child. Except Travis. He built his own replica so as not to raise eyebrows.
Despite the initial uproar, the orbs did nothing but silently hover over the person. Over time, some began praying to their orb while others began decorati... | The orbs began pressing into their hosts. There was no pain, no feeling of intrusion just a warm glow and then they were gone. It didn't take people here very long to enter a state of panic. Very quickly the doctors realised that each and every host was a vessel, a pregnant host for an as yet unknown species. Surgery w... | 2017-02-15T15:48:09 | 2017-02-15T15:35:21 | 92 | 15 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | At first, it was adorable, the way Marianne attempted her uxoricide. I admired her attempts and her acting skills. The poison in the drink was a classic attempt. Poison is, after all, a woman's weapon. She didn't even grit her teeth or bat her eye when I woke up the next morning to slip out for my run. I returned to fi... | I've survived five attempts thus far. Five cold-hearted murder attempts by my darling wife, the light of my life, the smile on guile, hiding the knife.
At first, I even avoided them, because... well, on principle, I suppose? Seems odd to just LET someone try to murder you, you know? But as much as I'm fascinated by h... | 2019-07-31T08:37:49 | 2019-07-31T08:08:28 | 97 | 45 |
[WP] You notice a pattern, anytime your child is recorded they inevitably look directly at the camera and say one word seemingly random word. You begin to listen to the videos from first to last, as you finish the last one your child walks in and makes eye contact. "today." | **My(37M) wife(34F) has been looking through videos and has found that our son (7) only speaks one word in each video. The words in order of the videos seem to make a sentence. She thinks our son is trying to tell us something. Like a warning. Help!**
My wife has been all over this Facebook thing. Recently she has be ... | It really started to freak me out when little Ella started the habit, at first, I told myself it was just the odd babbling of a baby. That was until I recorded her walking and caught several of the words in separate videos.
I strung them together to get, “on black wings.”
I sit here now trying to string them toge... | 2018-04-15T09:50:27 | 2018-04-15T08:15:07 | 1,181 | 104 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | ‘You don’t want to do this, kid.’ I leaned over and gently whispered, trying to avoid what was to come.
Bright-eyed, full of confidence, pepped up by the same propaganda that had sent hundreds like him to a similar fate, I’d seen his type come and go so many times before.
‘Ha! I eat heroes like you for breakfast’. ... | ”Heros and villains will accidentally destroy most businesses. Mine is a bit different than most, it is protected by the most powerful villain of all time. No villain tries to steal from my register and most heroes don't preach their justice above all to me or my employees. Everyone and then they try to fight each o... | 2020-10-09T21:44:58 | 2020-10-09T17:02:50 | 656 | 103 |
[WP] The death penalty for murder no longer exists, instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim. | ”Mr. Larsen? Can you hear me? Mr. Larsen?” The voice sounded and distant.
His eyelids felt heavy and when he finally managed to open his eyes everything was blurry. A shape was moving in front of him but he couldn’t make out what it was. Gradually the fog wrapped around his world was lifted but he still couldn’t reali... | "If only you were beautiful," Mark said, touching the edge of my dress. He would not take it off. My skin was burned badly on the left side, where the fire loved me for too long. I had been pretty once upon a time, before my skin had become ash.
I did not need to look into the mirror to know my melted smile was terri... | 2014-07-27T08:29:19 | 2014-07-27T07:41:11 | 157 | 17 |
[WP] Mages choose the source of their power. Most pick things like fire, or justice, or love. You picked sarcasm. | "No, stop, don't shoot." His voice came out in a long drawl instead of the pleading yelps everyone else in the bank had used. "It's not like I'm a wizard. Magic totally can't stop bullets cause they're just too cool."
"Shut the fuck up!" The young, ski-masked man stomped towards the self-proclaimed wizard and held the... | They say that you don't pick your familiar, your familiar picks you.
They say a lot of really stupid things.
"Surrender, James. You cannot hope to escape." I mean, who the fuck picks ***water*** as their familiar, right? Go-with-the-flow, steady, impassive, boring as all fuck. "My brother and I have you, you cann... | 2017-07-20T12:00:00 | 2017-07-20T11:01:04 | 118 | 70 |
[WP] Taxes become optional, however, those who don't pay are not protected under the law. | “You still pay taxes?”
Jeff barely held back a laugh.
“Well, sure,” said Dave. “It's only sensible. Otherwise, what would happen if I were the victim of a crime? No justice? I can't accept that.”
Dave paused for a moment.
“So, you don't pay taxes?”
Jeff tapped the coffee stirrer on the lip of his mug.
“Only sucke... | I sold a brick, a man threw a brick. It was thick, no bull, cracked my skull. Please, police, police this matter. My life could be taken, and although you smell like bacon I'm shakin' in the floor with brain damage looking at the door way; I was slain, landed in floor, I see gray. Now it's black and I relax forever, be... | 2015-02-20T09:18:11 | 2015-02-20T08:49:07 | 289 | 22 |
[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. | 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... | The "thing", at least that's what I've been calling them, exploded wetly and I mentally let go of its image in my mind. One of its wings spun to the ground and a particularly large chunk of meat landed in front of me spraying my jacket...and face...with gore.
"Ugh. Oh come on, seriously?", I said wiping my face with ... | 2019-10-20T10:12:29 | 2019-10-20T10:09:59 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | The man, or what could potentially be considered a man, stood stiffly in front of the girl, smoothing the lapel of his velvet suit jacket with a long, bony finger.
"Your parents sold you to me, as a...bride," he said. One could call his expression pained, though there were no muscles attached to his skeletal face. His... | "Uhhhhhh... Okay...?" She replied, slowly taking the card from his, uh, hand? It's hard to say, not so much a hand, or a tentacle, or tentacles... If you look closely, maybe the tentacles are made of hands... Is it even tangible? The card is, but...
"By the way, if you'd wish I could hear you from anywhere in this rea... | 2022-08-09T18:52:48 | 2022-08-09T17:37:06 | 285 | 53 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | I've been doing this for years, now... and I've never really "Freddy Kruger"d anybody. It's crossed my mind, of course. I've even put the fear into some people, but I always end on a sunny note. I guess I'm just not a mean guy.
Initially, I visited the dreams of people I knew. Handed out fun stuff, had some good t... | *"One.... two..."*
School. They hate school. Of course they do, who doesn't? Little fucks. Hee hee hee...
*"...coming for you..."*
I formed the hallway to their math class, pulled them all into the dream. Watched them walking down the impossibly long corridor. Let them hear my laughter as if it were in the distance.... | 2018-06-19T15:04:02 | 2018-06-19T14:55:35 | 1,738 | 36 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | (slightly NSFW)
 
It's a Monday.
It's 7am and I haven't been awake for more than 30 minutes so I can barely remember the name of the professor monologuing at the front of the classroom, much less what subject we're supposed to be studying.
I think it's appropriate to say that my mind is nowhere near a ful... | *C'mon Tom, SohCahToa,... tangent is opposite over adjacent which gets me... a ratio for... the hypotenuse?*
Math tests are not my strongest suit. Didn't help that last night was spent mostly in existential crisis-mode.
What's the point of these equations if I was gonna die before I used them again. What's the point... | 2017-11-13T22:10:35 | 2017-11-13T21:54:03 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You are the only human at the Arcane College, and the students there are not exactly welcoming. Fast forward four years, and you are the most terrifying magic caster in the academy's history. | Elasyra, blonde-haired elf of perfect appearance, crossed her arms with a pretentious smirk. “A Mundane? They really _are_ letting anyone in now aren’t they?”
At Arcanum, it was ordinary to be extraordinary. Elves, demonspawn, angels, dwarves, the odd orc or two, and (I suspect) several of the fae all studied and hone... | >*I will speak to you all with the firmness and stalwart dedication of a student of the Lord's Holy Cross Academy, as befits my current station. I hope that you will take my words to heart, and I hope the words I speak here will hit your hearts with the emotion and vigor from which they are coming out of mine. As su... | 2022-01-23T13:46:17 | 2022-01-23T12:03:55 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] In 2034, aliens kill the population of the world, except one group, who band together to fight them. I present, Aliens vs. Redditors | *Just one more post, then I'll head to bed. So many purple links. The only blue links are from r/TIL, but seriously, who actually opens those?"*
I take a sip of my coffee, struggling to work up the motivation to walk 10 feet to my bed.
*Perhaps, I'll browse r/new for a bit. I mean someone has to do it, right? May... | The day of the snoo was upon us, after years of us mocking of their race they decided now was the time to strike.
Their first move was to take out the pretenders at /r/totallynotaliens. The snoo struck them down with their mighty Internet bending powers, killing all of those who clicked on /r/totallynoyaliens.
The s... | 2017-05-31T08:14:37 | 2017-05-31T08:09:48 | 247 | 24 |
[WP] The private investigator was stumped. The scene of the murder was messy. Not in the gory sense, but it was littered with tons and tons of contradictory evidence. Thousands upon thousands of individual leads and not one connects with another. | I was no ordinary investigator, I made my reputation from thin air as the best homicide detective that Vancouver has ever seen.
I took the liberty of solving hundreds of cold cases, and I did so expecting nothing in return except the glory of having finally brought the guilty criminal to justice.
Yet when this case w... | (1/2)
“Here for room three-oh-four?” the superintendent asks me, her large nosy eyes prying for information out of me that the detective denied her.
“Horace Walden,” I tell her, presenting to her my business card.
She scrutinizes the three-and-a-half by two-inch paper, reads off the full text like everyo... | 2022-09-05T07:39:38 | 2022-09-05T06:48:22 | 56 | 37 |
[WP] Throughout history, when great evil threatens a country, swords in stone appear within its borders. Only those chosen may pull the swords out to join the round table and defend their country. It is now 2017 and swords have appeared across the globe. | It started with a blade lodged in stone in the middle of Time Square. People took selfies pretending to remove the sword. Some claimed it was Banksy, others an environmental protest to symbolize our raping of the Earth. But at the end of the day, all it truly was was a cool prop to some teenager's duck-faced selfie.
T... | They call us Gladiators.
We were those who could pull the swords from the stone. We were once like you, businessmen, parents, teachers. Now it is us, the gladiators that keep the horde at bay. The horde which dwells below the surface and have waited for their time to strike. They come from below and we come to stop t... | 2017-05-03T17:39:32 | 2017-05-03T16:23:28 | 187 | 21 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | ((First response, hope everyone enjoys!))
"'Nother, Chief."
We had our routine. He came in, nodded at me, and went and sat down in his favorite chair. He always had an appointment, of course, but always that same greeting, his voice never changing, cigarettes and kindness over neat whiskey.
He was a grizzled old b... | "I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know," I laughed "they're on your body. Shouldn't you know why you're getting them?"
He looked at me confused for a minute and simply said "I know I should. But I don't remember why. I just remember that I'm supposed to get one. I have to remember."
"Ok, boss, whatever... | 2016-07-09T14:05:08 | 2016-07-09T11:45:12 | 93 | 52 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | The men in the room stared at me. I stared back. We stayed like this for a while, hours maybe, without a word. Occasionally, someone would cough or sneeze, one of the agents even burped, but those moments were few and far between. At this point, it almost seemed like a competition on who would crack first and break the... | I arrived in town around 8 as usual. Ideally my father would come to town to pick up supplies so I wouldn’t have to, but he insists I learn how to interact with folks who aren’t farmers. So far, all I’ve learned is that I hate them. All their focus on money and possessions seems absurd to me. I’m a simple man. Animals ... | 2019-05-04T12:44:12 | 2019-05-04T09:56:06 | 1,055 | 226 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | A bead of sweat formed on the genie's brow, as he nervously searched for the right words to use, fully aware that he was about to deliver my fate.
"Your existence will result in the cure for cancer being developed, which will pave the way for hundreds of generations to come," he said, confident that he had delivered n... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T06:31:04 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 351 | 15 |
[WP] The longer someone is remembered after death, the longer it takes their soul to move on to the afterlife. You spend your life making sure you are forgotten, and you move on almost instantly after death. Hundreds of years later, your soul is suddenly brought back to Earth... | It felt like waking up from a long, long dream. Having a body again felt weird. When my eyes opened, I was laying down on the floor of the library; I took a look at the world around me, the world I had forgotten, and, still confused, got up. It surprised me that I could use my legs and arms like it was a normal thing; ... | We get to watch those who are still living.
It's one of the privileges of being dead.
Anytime someone got close to bringing me back, I watched to see what would happen.
So it was that I found myself one day, watching in fear as a young woman rifled through piles of old, dusty books. I knew just how dangerously close... | 2016-07-11T12:23:15 | 2016-07-11T12:05:42 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | A weighted conscience never seemed to bother villains. Many of them accepted their deeds as bad, or are so consumed with this false idea of heroism that guilt isn't even a factor in their minds. Which leaves me, Temperance, in an awfully tricky situation. I mean, truthfully, what can I do to someone who doesn't feel gu... | As Saitama crumpled to the ground the shock of being hurt let alone mortally wounded began to set in. People looked on in shock and horror as the life faded away from Saitama's eyes. A momentary silence in as Mumen Rider relaizes what he had done. He never knew the power of his Justice Crash as it was so ineffective in... | 2021-04-14T08:21:47 | 2021-04-14T06:21:06 | 39 | 29 |
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