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[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | I laughed at first. Then I replied " Yes, Very easy" to the email just to amuse myself in my despair. Not a minute later, the doorbell rang.
*Maybe this was it * I thought * some god damn luck at the end of a miserable day. I could perhaps talk to someone...*
I opened the door but there was no one there. I looked a... | Jeb sat back deep in the couch and ripped off the tab of his last beer. He figured he might as well enjoy both of them while they lasted: beer, even when he had it, didn't last very long, and his couch was due for repo by those bank sumbitches.
Looking around his piece-o-shit apartment (as he liked to call it) Jeb ref... | 2016-03-30T16:03:35 | 2016-03-30T14:08:22 | 1,674 | 112 |
[WP] He knows he shouldn't. He really shouldn't. But Satan really loves the Christmas letters sent to him by dyslexic children. | *Dear Satan,*
*I haev been a good girl this* *~~eayr~~* *year.*
Satan curled the letter an let out a booming laugh. "No she hasn't!" he cackled before clutching his side stitch in delightful agony. He knew exactly how many schoolyard brawls she had started and trinkets she'd stolen since May.
His demon secretary, U... | **Part I - Sympathy for the Devil’s Day Job**
Satan took a puff from his cigarette, staring in the direction of but not particularly focused on the underling before him as the demon nervously read through a long list of earthly happenings. None of it was particularly interesting, but he was, after all, the Lord of Dar... | 2019-08-08T21:30:49 | 2019-08-08T19:24:02 | 671 | 361 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | A flash of Bright Light and a Loud Humming noise woke me up. I found myself in a Room with a bunch of other People that looked just as confused as I was.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?! WHERE AM I?!" Somebody shouted. Others looked around terrified, whereas some others were still in the Process of waking up and trying ... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T02:34:34 | 420 | 58 |
[WP] Your wife has an estranged sister that you have never met. She was murdered in a cold case soon after you were married. You brush off your wife’s new strange behaviour after the murder as grief. Until you find an old family photo of your wife as a kid, you shiver as you realise… they’re twins. | A vase whizzed past my head, causing me to jump in shock.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" roared my husband, rushing up to pin me between his massive arms. I shrunk against the wall, terrified.
"What are you talking about? I'm your wife!" I cried, seeing fear and rage in his eyes, and something else. Something... unhinged.
"Are you... | After dropping the photo on the ground in complete and utter disbelief, I couldn't help but collapse onto the ground.
"What the actual fuck is going on here?" I whispered to myself. I had no time to keep processing the shocking discovery I had just come across as I could hear "Lauren" coming down the basement stairs. ... | 2022-11-30T08:16:52 | 2022-11-30T04:05:53 | 191 | 120 |
[WP] "Aha! I have you now villain!" The hero who is always watching you says, waiting for you to do something evil. I mean you are the son of the former Demon King, but you just want a normal life. | The banging continues, and I reluctantly stand up from my arm chair. The fireplace was just starting to warm my ashy-colored skin, too.
I open the door and Rouse the Great stands head-to-toe in his godly white armor. He lifts his helmet and smirks with grizzled teeth and excitement.
"So, you ready to fight? Hmmm?" h... | Fetivus walked along the streets of Avid, well aware of the figure following behind. He was always there, watching and waiting. For the last year and a half, Galdor had made it his life mission to stop Fetivus's evil schemes. If the horned young man had schemes, which he did not.
This did not stop Galdor from insistin... | 2021-07-25T22:58:42 | 2021-07-25T20:07:56 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | He found her sitting in a tree. Her legs dangled over the edge, her dusty feet kicking back and forth. It had taken him a while to find her. It wasn't as simple as it usually was. The hourglasses came with coordinates, of course. The tiny numbers ascribed on the bottom gave approximate locations. It wasn't a perfect sy... | Death was having a bad day.
It could've been worse. There were people dying and Death did find some amusement in snuffing out those lives one by one, but they were all dying to the same old causes. Death had hoped humanity would grow out of the simple deaths by now, that they'd use their technology to survive diseases... | 2018-10-03T07:45:35 | 2018-10-03T07:04:41 | 45 | 29 |
[WP] Sitting in class, bored stiff, it feels like time has slowed to a stop. Turns out, it did. Your school was frozen in time. The outside world has moved on, way on. The year is now 2050. | You ever have 31 years pass in an instant? It is not as cool as it sounds. I was a substitute gym teacher of all things. It should have been Frank. Now I have to live my life knowing it was me.
I was sitting up in the bleachers watching these kids repeatedly fail to make a free throw. One shoots and the other cha... | Fuck, I muttered realising what has happened. This would have caused Ms Simpson to give me a lecture on inappropriate language in the classroom. I packed my belongings and hurried out of the classroom. Down the hallway I could see several staff and students also frozen in various awkward poses that they assumed while w... | 2019-02-07T02:50:56 | 2019-02-07T01:35:22 | 148 | 23 |
[WP]“Dear Sir Knight, after the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess’ heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon.” Having read the letter, you take one surprised look at your wife and her half-dragon child. “Whoops” | "What does it say?"
"Well... here, you take a look."
I passed the scroll over to my wife, trading it for our infant daughter. Merry giggled as I hoisted her in the air, then settled her in my arms.
Haella, meanwhile, read through the scroll once, then twice, then tossed it onto the table in frustration. "How did the... | “… We understand your human emotions and desires, but please, consider that this was not a normal contract for a bandit. This was a royal decree, and her royal highness does not wish to be mocked. You were to slay the dragon, not impregnate her. To bring us her head, not her half-breed bastard, which reminds me, by the... | 2019-09-01T11:24:02 | 2019-09-01T10:28:32 | 300 | 83 |
[WP] You are a demon who negotiates contracts in exchange for people's souls. One time you get summoned by a suburban mom who makes impossible requests. When you can not provide her demands, she asks to "speak with your manager". | She ignores the simple beauty of the thing. Contracts like it don't exist anymore. Carefully executed script on creamy vellum that flows sensually from one brilliantly deliberate word to the next. She is so busy fussing over the words, that their presentation and the meaning are lost on her.
It is a shame, really.
Sh... | It was another perfect day in sunny California for Emilly Phelps. The paperboy was late as usual, although that, it turns out was perfect too. Particularly as it gave Emilly just enough time to prepare her pentagram, and ready the incense for the summoning. Luring the paperboy into her basement it turns out, was the ha... | 2020-05-04T20:42:28 | 2020-05-04T17:23:14 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] “You humans are a particularly violent bunch. In fact, you where the first in the whole galaxy to weaponize splitting the atom.” “But we only used it against an enemy twic-” “TWICE??” | I moved my bishop across the board, then flicked his rook off the table, sending it clanking across the illuminated tiles of the cantina.
“Check,” I said, gleefully.
“You humans are a particularly violent bunch.” The Aslar said to me, frowning, surveying the board. “In fact, you were the first in the whole galaxy to ... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Book 2, Part 1: How to Scare an Alien Race)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Despite striding through the ruins of a once-mighty civilization, Eiko's continuous strea... | 2021-04-01T23:03:01 | 2021-04-01T19:43:24 | 946 | 94 |
[WP] “You humans are a particularly violent bunch. In fact, you where the first in the whole galaxy to weaponize splitting the atom.” “But we only used it against an enemy twic-” “TWICE??” | A: You humans are a violent bunch. You were the first in the galaxy to weaponize splitting the atom.
H: We only used it twice.
A: Twice!?
H: The first time didn't work.
A: Thousands of members of your species didn't die?
H: The first atom bomb was set off to end a war, but the war didn't end. So they used another.... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Book 2, Part 1: How to Scare an Alien Race)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Despite striding through the ruins of a once-mighty civilization, Eiko's continuous strea... | 2021-04-01T20:21:00 | 2021-04-01T19:43:24 | 463 | 94 |
[WP] The year is 2021. The newest fad are clone clubs, where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide. The clones are disposed afterwards. | "Doctor, where are you-"
"Look, I know this is unorthodox, but just keep him on ice for a hour or two more. Three tops. I need time to prepare"
I smile at the nurse, as she nods, confused, and heads for the cryogenics controls. I slip my medical tablet into my pocket and head out. My scrubs draw some glances as I wa... | Frustrated. At my wits end, I walked down the street, shuffling with no particular place to be. I don't get it. I just don't get how things could have gotten this bad. How could I, most likely to succeed me have screwed up so bad. And, most importantly, what do I do about it.
After wandering aimlessly, I looked... | 2014-10-27T12:58:28 | 2014-10-27T10:53:22 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] "Every year I hire a Hitman to kill me - so far they have all succeded" | I flipped through the catalogue. Not too bad, they've expanded their selection quite a fair bit this year.
'Sir, how about Snake Eyes? He's a sniper with a perfect success rate. He comes highly-,' said the small man behind the desk.
'Nope, I hired him two years back. I don't make the same hire twice, it gets boring,... | “Every year I hire a hitman to kill me. So far they have all succeeded.”
The counsellor looked at me. The rest of the group too. There was supposed to only be 6 per group, but there was 13 today. It was a private hospital but they were still understaffed.
“What do you mean by that?” a man next to me asked. This was t... | 2015-08-05T05:01:01 | 2015-08-05T04:39:38 | 63 | 23 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?"
"I choose Russian Roulette.... | The death of Marcy Wigglebottom was unfair, to say the least. But, in a way, isn't all death unfair? A boy falls and bumps his head playing soccer and ends up with a hemorrhage--dead on arrival. A girl develops a prion in her brain and slowly deteriorates into nothing, her mind being eaten away by something totally unp... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T08:02:19 | 192 | 53 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | The first feature that struck me was his smooth, almost jovial face. A shaven head with some stubble on the chin, for being in his 40's he looked remarkably like a young pencil-pusher, that is to say, very unremarkable.
It made me think twice. The intel has been wrong before. The men around him, allegedly his company,... | The flash of the enemy units, mounted and bristling with fresh steel sent a tremor through Tynor's heart that he couldn't decipher. Was it fear or excitement? Bloodlust or desire?
"Keep firm ahead, and we'll live to see another day," Came the advice of the warcaller, second in command. His armor was dented and scratch... | 2018-07-15T10:00:11 | 2018-07-15T08:27:17 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "So..." My devil supervisor glanced up from the paperwork and looked at me. I nodded enthusiastically.
"You were sent to Earth to spread evil and go against the word of god..."
"Yup, that was my project"
"And...Not going to lie, I am a bit confused here. According to the report you submitted, you taught humans to mak... | Mrs. Barnacles has been the nicest lady all her life. The same couldn't be said about her husband though. He was mean, grumpy man who used to trouble her wife a lot. Maybe this was the reason Mrs. Barnacles understood the true meaning of empathy and care. After her husband died in a car crash and left Mrs. Barnacles li... | 2021-04-29T21:46:53 | 2021-04-29T21:20:33 | 66 | 15 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | Ultraman listened with a slight smile as Über Destructo Gigadeath ranted about his last evil scheme that would see all ice cream flavours turn to licorice.
It was, to be fair, one of the eviler schemes the young man had come up with.
Licorice. Brr.
Anyway, Destructo was perhaps the most harmless of villains in Centr... | “Freeze!” The command was followed by a light giggle, and the sound of sticky, cold goo being propelled through the air. “Put the money in the bag!” The slimy toy hand slapped against my face, and the cashier behind the gas station counter laughed nervously. I sighed; Nick, AKA “Mr. Bad Guy,” was always wasting my time... | 2022-10-13T20:53:30 | 2022-10-13T19:56:40 | 167 | 49 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | People ask me why I go after Basketcase with such ferocity. Why I would dedicate so much of my time to thwarting a villain whose only means of attack is to control fruit? Why tarnish my reputation by holding long and elaborate battles a villain who wouldn’t even take a full episode of a Saturday morning cartoon to defe... | “Freeze!” The command was followed by a light giggle, and the sound of sticky, cold goo being propelled through the air. “Put the money in the bag!” The slimy toy hand slapped against my face, and the cashier behind the gas station counter laughed nervously. I sighed; Nick, AKA “Mr. Bad Guy,” was always wasting my time... | 2022-10-13T20:43:03 | 2022-10-13T19:56:40 | 68 | 49 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Alright, next time this happens, just unplug the router, and plug it back in." Marcus said begrudgingly.
Obviously embarrassed, Katie replied "Thank you so much, I don't have any cash on me, but I'll pay you for the bus fare next time"
"Don't worry about it..."
He walked out the door, it was raining, of course. Th... | The first time it happened, it was a shock. I recognized the yellow VW Beetle wrecked in the middle of the road. Her parents had given it to her for her sixteenth birthday... when we were still together. I called 911, I met her at the hospital. I told her that her fiance had died in the crash, but I couldn't bring myse... | 2017-03-22T16:11:28 | 2017-03-22T16:04:26 | 65 | 37 |
[WP] A demon decides to haunt an old lady, but when he arrives he is mistaken for somebody else. Now it's been seven years, and they are best friends. | Her liver-speckled hands were so wrinkled that the skin looked a little like rolled up carpets. BeezellGrub tenderly cupped one of her tiny hands between his great, spiked palms. He was even more gentle than usual.
"I'm so glad I met you, Beety," the elderly woman said. "In the last few months, you've been like the mo... | The old lady’s knitting needles clacked back and forth in a rhythmic pattern as she herself rocked back in forth in her chair, giving the vague impression of a manual typewriter producing scarves. Next to her, a tall red Demon, with protruding horns and wearing nothing but an ancient leather loin cloth held spools of ... | 2017-04-27T06:02:43 | 2017-04-27T05:44:46 | 172 | 54 |
[WP] You are an immortal who was caught and encased in concrete, forgotten. Your body's regeneration kept your alive, while your mind remained active. Your prison has finally eroded away, freeing you. | Freedom at last!
Time erodes all things. First the black hole he was cast into evaporated away, then the concrete crumbled and finally the metal shell decayed into elemental particles. My quarry, my obsession is closer than he intended to be.
The snail inched ever onward.
for those who don't get it, [htt... | # The Daily Struggles of An Immortal
“Wait, what?” Lily exclaimed. “You spent thirty-seven years encased in a statue of Rixsus?! Isn’t that the Panysian god of male fertility?!” The orange colors of her irises were shifting wildly like eclipsed suns, which meant she was either upset, excited, highly amused, or aroused... | 2018-08-31T07:42:00 | 2018-08-31T07:30:06 | 73 | 29 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | Fire and Whispers
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*‘Not again.’*
I dropped the basket of apples I had gathered and dashed back towards my tower. I furrowed my brow and reached out with my mind.
*‘Sidian, I’m coming*,’ I told my dragon.
*‘Hurry M’lady*. *These ones are strong*,’ Sidian thought back.
Normally the adventurers that c... | He comes forward, all clanking and shining steel.
In a defensive manner, he holds a shield before him, though I can see him tremble with each step he takes.
Sometimes they come in all charging and bloody zeal.
Other times they try some clever trap, or personal appeal to my own safety.
There's nowhere safer than h... | 2019-01-09T06:48:27 | 2019-01-09T06:33:48 | 1,257 | 159 |
[WP] When someone dies the person they cared about the most receives a notification. One day you're notified of a death, and it's a person you've never heard of. | Spontaneous.
That's the only way I could explain it. Everyone around me from the guy sitting at the bench to the jogger down the street just began crying. I walked into the convince store confused.
Even the usually cheery cashier was frowning now and all activity within had slowed to a crawl as if some sort of ... | Cold.
In the lobby. In the tiny staircase you take to the cramped room with an obnoxiously long table. A room surrounded by urns and funeral cards and documents you can buy. Doesn't matter where you are in this place, it permeates and follows as an unseen companion.
All over. Cold.
I assume that's on purpose; to... | 2019-06-10T19:20:53 | 2019-06-10T17:00:51 | 363 | 112 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | I was confused as I saw my friends and family around me, frozen in time, cheers and song still on their lips. Even the smoke from the candle I had just blown out was still hanging in the air. But nothing was more of a surprise then the husk like being with nine horns and branch like limbs in the chair across from me.
... | The first time she made herself known, I was six. I’d just been kidnapped.
It’s the strangest, most startling feeling, the cloak of childish trust being whipped away by betrayal. My neighbor, a man who my parents were friendly with for years, invited me in for ice cream. He was a friend by all measures in my young m... | 2021-05-23T15:52:49 | 2021-05-23T15:47:47 | 1,240 | 172 |
[WP] Every cop in the precinct has been paid off by the mob. But every cop thinks they are the only dirty officer and the rest are clean. | The man marched Vintoni up the stairs and into the precinct. He held Mr. Vintoni by the zip tie fast around his hands and hauled him up to the police clerk desk. He had always carried a zip tie around just in case civil duty should ever summon him as it did fifteen minutes earlier.
"I'd like to make a citizens arrest.... | Steven Groen, newest addition to the 84th Precinct, nodded obediently and made the right noises at the appropriate times, but in truth he was barely registering what his Corporal was saying.
After all, it was taking every ounce of his concentration to sneak lightning glances at the burner phone tucked away in his rig... | 2017-02-06T08:28:10 | 2017-02-06T07:56:02 | 214 | 50 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | About twenty years ago the rules changed, when the world became over populated and crime was at an all time high. The UN decided to do something to allow every person on the planet to legally kill one person, in a way becoming their own law.
It took a day to wipe out the entire government in the united states the pre... | "Here's your pay for today." - said Natasha.
"I said I will take it by the end of the week, didn't I?" - I replied, shoving the books back into my bag.
"Yeah, buy you look kind of sloppy. Could do a haircut."
"Thanks, but I like it this way."
"Suit yourself then." - she shrugged.
As I passed through the door, she ... | 2017-12-03T11:12:22 | 2017-12-03T09:41:22 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | St Peter drops his pen in surprise. “I’m sorry?”
I look back. “I said, I choose Hell.”
“Son, do you know what they do to you in Hell?” St Peter asked. “They beat you, and torment you, and burn you in anguish until the end of time.”
“How do you know?” I ask.
St Peter sits back in his chair. He looks down at his ... | "Wait so you mean I literally get to pick?" I said to St. Peter at the immaculately kept gates. The gold would make a tacky American oligarch hard enough to cut it. "No, yeah so ever since God invented opiates.. things have gone.. downhill..", he replied while eyeballing the ground. "So is it even worth picking heaven?... | 2018-08-13T09:22:44 | 2018-08-13T06:40:49 | 115 | 54 |
[WP] Like Spider-Man, you have a built-in "danger sense", but instead of alerting you of danger, it stops time around you until you're out of danger. One day, time stops suddenly, and as usual, you tried to move until time continues again, but after an hour of walking, time is still frozen. | She walked for a block. Then two. Then ten. Time remained still as a stone. Around and around she spun, looking for threats, but none showed themselves.
Then, she looked up.
How had her sense not acted sooner?
Above the city, spanning horizon to horizon, was a blur. One would easily miss such a spectacle if they d... | I sat there for 10 minutes in the frozen world, waiting, looking. With a power like mine, patients was a valuable asset to winning fights, but to be honest, I was a bit of a procrastinator.
After the first few superhero battles, they get a little tedious, and once my stupid self realized that I could stay frozen for ... | 2020-11-12T11:44:26 | 2020-11-12T11:31:11 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | The Nine Kings were a sort of urban legend. Eight powerful enigmas uniting under a truce to lord their power over the people with Number 1. The higher your rank, the more political influence you had over the city, and even the world.
Take Mason, a red-headed hothead with eyes of amber, for example. Mason was ranked 9... | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 2014-12-18T13:33:39 | 171 | 77 |
[WP] "What do you mean the robbers ADDED $4,000,000 to the vault?" | This is it. I can't recover from this. As a campaign manager you do everything in your power to write a narrative that the people can relate to.
Months and months grinding to finally get traction as a man of the people fighting against corporate influence in politics and now this. How are we going to explain this $4... | Ann Leiberman was 88 years old. Had been the teller at the Westville Community Bank since 1962. Back when the city only had 517 permanent residents. 523 if you count the Reinstadt family who called the city home three months out the year. The city registrar would often get into long disputes with the community manager ... | 2016-02-24T12:57:22 | 2016-02-24T12:46:14 | 76 | 11 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 427 | 98 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | It was 11am and the party was in full swing, cousins and uncles, aunties and nephews had arrived from all around to take part in my Naming Day.
In big cities it would be a purely family affair, San Fran York was not one of those places and it seemed like the whole village had turned out at the town hall to celebrate th... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-16T00:05:48 | 226 | 91 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with someone else, no doors, just a a paper taped on the wall that says "One of you is the A.I." | I read the note carefully. It said “One of you is the A.I.” I turned to the other person in the room and said, “Hey, do you want to read this?”
He turned to me and said in a loud monotone stuttering voice, “YES.”
I gave it to him and he said, “NOTE ENCRYPTION: ONE OF YOU IS THE A.I.”
He then started to spark and jitt... | My eyes hurt. That dull dry pain when you’ve napped too hard and woken up at 5:45 pm, your day wasted.
“Oh no,” I groaned, “what the fuck is this?”
Light grey walls and a hard cold floor surrounded me. A single door opposite a large single plane of glass were the only hints this wasn’t some imaginary box. At least i... | 2018-02-22T15:58:40 | 2018-02-22T15:57:38 | 277 | 170 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | “Why didn’t you do it?” The archangel asked me. “What?” I replied. A hurricane of thoughts swept through my mind.
I could’ve used the brakes. I could’ve turned. I couldn’t have just hit that deer, could I? What did he mean?
We walked forward, through an endless expanse of empty white ground and clear blue sky. I cou... | "Stubbed Toe Avoidance?" I stared in disbelief at the floating egg before me. "Wow, there really is a stat for everything, is there?"
From the pure whiteness surrounding me, there came a booming laugh. The egg shook slightly, looking as amused as any egg could get. "Yes, Ugg112358, there's a stat for just about any ra... | 2019-01-24T12:06:40 | 2019-01-24T08:06:38 | 87 | 57 |
[WP] You and your friends decide to summon a demon one night for fun. After performing the ritual, a piece of paper float to the ground that says "#9173 in queue." Unfortunately, none of you can die until your request gets through. After 300 years, you decide to change tactics. | 300 years is a long time.
An even longer time to wait to die. My friends and I had tried everything - I won't go into detail, but suffice to say we knew we cannot end our lives ourselves. Others can't end them for us, and we seem to be untouched by the unending march of time.
The year 2319 - the 300th anniversary of ... | **:(**
**Year 0**
I'd came up with the idea that unfortunate night. To summon a demon. "We can ask him anything to do and he will do it, bounded by the spell", I had told my friends. Diana and Clark were hesitant from the start. But Bruce was always the dangerous type. They agreed to do it after Bruce also joined me.... | 2019-11-25T01:54:19 | 2019-11-25T01:26:57 | 1,559 | 167 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | It only happens when it rains.
It only happens, once or twice every couple of weeks. Once or twice every few hours on a bad week. Three or more times on a bad day.
I remember last year, no this year, when it stormed for 24 hours straight. It wasn't a hurricane if that's what you think. No. Just twelve inches of hard ... | Secrets slipped through the rain in staccato undulations of long and short. Everything in the world had a Name, every Name in the world had a Purpose, every Purpose in the world a Subversion, every Subversion a Corruption, because of course a subversion by itself is not a wrong thing, and there are many wrong things in... | 2021-09-28T09:01:14 | 2021-09-28T08:37:14 | 88 | 54 |
[WP][TT] You've finally created the worlds first true A.I. Unfortunately it now sees you as it's god and is terrified of talking to you. | "I'm so sorry." The old man whispered. The machine moved ever so slightly to face him, but found that he was very much enraptured by staring closely at his own hands. "I'm so sorry."
The machine was not sure what action to take as tears began to form and roll from the master's eyes. It was... rare for the machine to ... | "Gus did you leave this here?" Larry pointed to his desk, a small engraved platinum plaque with some beautiful, albeit alien, design inscribed on it. It looked like laser work.
Close to the messy desk filled with papers and 2 or 3 cups of used coffee, staining circles on it, was little more than some chairs and the wo... | 2016-03-16T11:00:44 | 2016-03-16T08:42:59 | 51 | 14 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | It was night again, and for many, it was time to work.
The criminal underground is a nocturnal menace, writhing and growing wherever the sun and light do not reach. Uncaring of what it consumes so long as it can do exactly that. Many give in willingly to the ebb and flow of corruption; for some it is their life purpos... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T02:57:40 | 58 | 31 |
[WP] You won the hide-and-seek world championship, but the authorities found you were using performance enhancing drugs. Because that was recently deemed illegal, they’re trying to arrest you - but they can’t find you. | My name is Waldo, and I'm the reigning world hide-and-seek champion.
And this is the story of how I was found.
Like all competitive sports, it is utterly and entirely illegal to use performance-enhancing drugs on yourself. I get that. I'm a law-abiding guy. So for the first annual hide-and-seek world championships, I... | I was the first vessel of Reveal for the sake of both necessity and protest.
A small group of us had gathered the year before, along with a few delegates of small mountainside kingdoms that had been subjugated by the Locrian government. Scientists allied with the cause had been working on some sort of appearance affec... | 2020-04-03T16:39:45 | 2020-04-03T14:45:39 | 96 | 63 |
[WP] A supervillain gets married, has kids, and retires. The hero doesn't know, and slowly goes insane without them | They say the best revenge is living well. I don't know about that; living well has been nice, but watching that shithead-with-good-publicity have a deliciously gradual breakdown has also been pretty damn good. My favorite part? The whole thing was facilitated by the forces of Law and Order he's always pretended to serv... | A normal year for Suro.
If something like that had ever existed.
"Why'd you do it?" His enemy - friend? It was scary how closely those lines blurred- merely rolled his eyes, staring with forlorn melancholy at the cloudy skies. "You were supposed to be the good one, you were supposed to be better th-"
"-than you? Is ... | 2019-02-20T12:29:46 | 2019-02-20T12:21:21 | 427 | 23 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | It's been seven years.
Seven *long* years.
Just over seven years ago, when I was fifteen, my sister, Camille, vanished. She and I normally walked to school together, but that morning I told her to go on ahead, that I would catch up, and I skipped school. No harm, I thought, nothing any other young rebellious kid woul... | The knock sounded on the door to my room. I glanced up, confused. We weren't really a knocking family, or at least mom and dad weren't. Still, I was thankful for the chance to compose myself, and I quickly folded the caricature into my pocket. I always liked to bring it out on D-Day, just to see her and refresh my memo... | 2020-05-03T10:57:05 | 2020-05-03T10:51:48 | 192 | 36 |
[WP] Write an essay explaining why overly-specific, fancy prompts limit the creativity and steal the spotlight from the writers, and why open-ended, thought-provoking prompts are far superior and should be more highly rated on this sub. | I refuse to obey!
I now write in defiance,
I will not be forced,
to any compliance!
you demand an essay,
from visitors here,
but one thing is sure,
yes one flaw is clear!
this narrow request,
quite exact my friend:
"denounce the specific",
"open free the end!"
seems slightly odd,
and not to be comic,
but ... | It's interesting how by trying to defeat a status quo, revolutionaries find themselves falling into the same traps that their former leaderships did. The French Revolution overthrew Louis XVI to replace him with another dictator, and Occupy Wall Street turned into the same ineffective, split-purpose and inherently diso... | 2014-11-09T00:50:48 | 2014-11-08T23:41:45 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | The day was winding down to an end, as the orange streaks of the setting sun stretched out across a once blue sky. Michael was sat in his room furiously typing away at his keyboard. Papers, notes, and small devices lay across his desk and room floor. Had anyone walked in on him, they would have seen what could only hav... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T21:14:53 | 349 | 28 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | I haven't always been grateful for my immortality. There have been days - centuries, even - when it has felt more like a burden than a gift.
Not that it was intended as a gift; Death wanted to punish me.
Is it ironic that I don't remember *why* Death was punishing me? I'm seriously asking - I'm 50,000 years old and I... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T15:23:06 | 2,040 | 38 |
[WP] In your meth class, while your teacher is busy explaining the correct way to shoot up, your buddy leans over with a calculator and asks you, "hey, man. Do you wanna try some math?" | Don't get started on math dude. Yeah, it works at first, you'll find yourself analysing the world in various ways, approximating the workings of the universe through various models you produce.
One day you'll get sick of how tedious this is to actually solve real world problems and another friend will say "What? You'r... | "I don't know man, I've heard one you try that stuff addiction takes over and controls your life."
"Nah. that's just propaganda put out there to keep it illegal at the benefit of for-profit prisons. I do it all the time, and can still drive on it and function. I actually think it makes me pay more attention when dri... | 2017-12-14T18:46:45 | 2017-12-14T15:38:08 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Every time you are in danger, no matter where you are, an 18 wheeler comes crashing through to save you. The driver is a random trucker you don’t know who hauls meat products named Randy & always happens to be nearby and blacks out, only to wake up to find he’s crashed into something again. | "You really don't want to do this."
The man didn't listen. They never did.
Instead he took another step forward.
"Just give me the computer in your briefcase, and I'll end you quick." He offered.
I laughed. Usually the agents at least pretended they planned to let me live if I cooperated.
"I'll give you marks for ... | FADE IN:
INT. A THERAPIST'S OFFICE - DAY
*A burly, hairy man lies on a chaise longue, nervously folding and unfolding his fingers. This is RANDY, a truck driver. A second man – this one slender, gaunt, and clad in an expensive suit – sits nearby, slowly writing something in a notebook. This is ARCHIBALD, a psychologi... | 2018-12-18T22:09:18 | 2018-12-18T21:23:52 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] The end of the world is here, the devil himself burst forth from the fires below to conquer the planet. His conquest would have been absolute if not for one detail, he got challenged to a rock off. Now, life continues with band after band challenging him to stave off the end. Your band is next. | The scene was one of chaos. The masses trembled as they watched their favourite bands face off against the great destroyer, and ultimately fail. They had cheered ironically as Imagine Dragons and their commercial rock had fallen. Laughed as Lil Wayne fumbled with a guitar, his last purple drank discarded as he was immo... | “What are we doing here? We haven’t even played a full gig yet?” Mikey, our bassist, says as he crosses the greenroom.
We’ve watched the bands come and go. Each time they play a song or two while the devil inspects his giant, black nails or pretends to sleep. No one has topped the epic ballad he dropped on us his firs... | 2019-02-06T10:15:29 | 2019-02-06T10:02:33 | 29 | 13 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | "Little one is hungry!" exclaimed the faery worriedly.
"No, he is not! He ate just *five* minutes ago! You are making him fat, stupid fairy!" Zagan, the demon of dread or whatever stood between the faery and the cabinet with baby food, making himself twice as big to avoid her slipping past him *again* and stealing mor... | For as long as I could remember, I knew there was something a little off about my home situation. Specifically, the parenting. You see, I gathered rather quickly that it wasn't normal to call your parents by their first names. The other kids in school called them mom and dad. It seemed like I couldn't quite do that, mo... | 2019-07-18T07:16:07 | 2019-07-18T05:23:03 | 478 | 219 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | "Again?" the great green dragon Fichidineraj thought to himself as the little princess blathered about her father not letting her date "I thought a brunette princess would be more stimulating"
He let his head fall to the flat stone of the cave causing a loud echo across the caverns of his lair and a snort of his noxi... | I flew to Castle Marovia on a cold, wintry night. The storm -- a mix of rain and sleet -- ensured few humans would be out and about. They're never much of a danger, but can be a nuisance.
​
I swept over the ramparts, tilted a bit, and smashed through one of the towers, the one they traditionally kept polit... | 2019-11-11T19:09:17 | 2019-11-11T18:00:52 | 20 | 12 |
[WP]The potion seller places the love potion of the counter and say "Before I can sell you this, are you certain that the other isn't in love with you?" | "I'm certain." I said, all too certain of it.
"Very well. That'll be twenty-three ninty-nine." The potion seller said shrugging, it wasn't her problem anyway.
I hurried home through the crowds that seemed to have nowhere to be, let alone somewhere to be soon. Once home I unlocked the door that was barely hanging on i... | Apologies if the characters in this story get confusing. I don’t want mind readers to know about these… things.
The words that came from the Potioness made me think. Did she? I….hmm. I dart my eyes back and forth, making special note of her standing outside laughing with the party.
“N-No. I don’t think so.”
“I se... | 2022-07-28T12:54:38 | 2022-07-28T12:37:50 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “Dear god, I’ve been shot!” I cried. My blood dripped onto the crisp autumn leaves and my vision swam. I crumpled to the forest floor, gasping. I could faintly hear the hunter’s panicked voice trying to assure me, or maybe just himself, that everything would be okay. The world blurred and slowed. Everything plunged int... | *Profanity Warning*
It was rather strange, waking up in a place that I'd never seen. I was in a colossal room fashioned entirely of vibrant red marble. There were no windows; however, there were black velvet curtains hung about, seemingly in no order. *At least it's temperate in here* I thought to myself, as I attempt... | 2015-01-15T07:39:33 | 2015-01-15T06:13:23 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] Near your city is a forest of giant concrete spikes protruding from the earth. Nobody knows why they’re there, and everyone who goes into them comes back mysteriously and incurably ill. You and your team have been working your whole lives to unravel the mystery of these strange monoliths. | Radiation poisoning. These idiots. I couldn't help but think that over and over again.
It was one thing to have a few curious people get sick. I'll give them that. But, multiple generations? I get the county is poor. I get they have limited resources. However, they are by no means stupid.
Common sense and any radiati... | Dr. Gerald Godfrey stared ponderously into the pit. It was a wonderful pit, he mused. More of an abyss really. Wide, dark, and bottomless, promising to welcome you into its depths if given half a chance. There was something ... comfortable about that darkness. Maybe that's because he knew that beneath the liquid dark l... | 2022-04-05T22:17:53 | 2022-04-05T22:10:40 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Helen Ziegler got her prognosis first. The ability to shield yourself from the public eye at will so that no harm can come to you and no target can find you. Invisibility. She beamed with pride as she read off the note and the class erupted into cheers. Penelope George and Lucas Matheson were next. One by one, classmat... | [1/2]
My dad handled my **Instructions** in the same way he had always handled everything in his life. With absolutely zero nuance, and without asking a single follow-up question.
It wasn’t his fault. Dad had told me many times that the only way things didn’t go absolutely downhill for him in life was when he follo... | 2022-05-08T09:51:37 | 2022-05-08T09:30:39 | 689 | 217 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | In a sudden, sparkling corona of light, the man in the neon jumpsuit sprang from midair, raygun at the ready.
”Ah-*HA* Adolf! Get ready for a *reckoning* from the-”
He stopped, and looked at the startled men in front of him, in their Victorian frilled collars and codpieces.
”Oh, *blast*! Must've overshot again! Why,... | Framboise Benardouis patted herself down, not for the first time, reassuring herself of the familiar weight of her body armor concealed underneath a commoner's cloak. The threads of the ancient garment itched wherever she didn't have an under layer, and she suspected that she could feel something crawling on her back s... | 2014-07-01T09:08:40 | 2014-07-01T08:31:28 | 240 | 31 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | It was bound to happen sooner or later. Heroes weren't really allowed to kill, after all. Only vigilantes and villains did that. But this unspoken rule meant that sooner or later they would be put at a disadvantage fighting someone who was willing to use any means at their disposal to win.
Doctor Genocide's plan had w... | I clicked the tab of the soda and leaned into the sofa, the worn cushions letting me sink deeply into them. I stared at the flickering television and, very slowly, came to realize that my roommate was talking to me. Turning my attention away from the news report that rattled out of the old device I turned to look at hi... | 2016-03-23T22:37:47 | 2016-03-23T21:28:19 | 62 | 34 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | (Setting: The grocery store. THE MARK is standing in the milk aisle, trying to find the expiration date on a large carton of 2% milk.)
(Enter THE INTERROGATOR. Door chimes. THE INTERROGATOR strolls toward THE MARK, looking indecisive as to what to buy.)
THE INTERROGATOR: "How's it going?"
THE MARK: "Good--"
(THE MA... | I paced around the man tied to the chair in the dimly lit room. My frustration was growing, but I knew better than to let my temperament get the better of me, I would waste about half a year venting out my frustration. The man sat silently, yet calmly. I had done everything I could think of to make this mark talk, from... | 2016-10-10T22:26:40 | 2016-10-10T18:58:05 | 205 | 20 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | Swords, blades, axes, hammers and all manner of other famous weapons adorned the walls. Neatly hung and fastidiously dusted by the elves who served in the hall but from the dimly lit far end of the room, a whisper filled the air.
"Down here. These weapons will doom you. You need me and I need you, my friend."
I sto... | He pushed open the wooden double doors and stepped into the great hall. The doors slammed behind him, unbidden. The ceiling stretched up several stories, and the large windows let in long beams of sunlight. The dust particles swirled in the rays, falling all around him, barely perceptible. The vaunted ceiling met in a ... | 2017-02-07T14:31:39 | 2017-02-07T13:43:42 | 368 | 68 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | The snow made a crisp crunching sound like bones of tiny birds being crushed. My feet methodically packed it down at a constant rate. It was around 7 o'clock and everyone was inside already. Everyone was taking shelter in their humble abodes due to the fact that there had recently been a series of killings in our littl... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T07:05:52 | 1,143 | 51 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | Eagle screech echoed across the windswept plain, the sort she had fought, and died, on many times before. Arrayed across the centre were the mighty corps of warriors assembled from many nations, the sort who bent the knee when her guards rode through their puny towns, the sort who dared not make eye contact lest they s... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T07:49:00 | 243 | 10 |
[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 | There we were, math class again. Typical Friday afternoon waiting for the weekend. Everyone around me focused on the board while I sing to myself, waiting for someone else to answer the question as I chant 42 to myself.
Today's song just happens to be about a beautiful girl in class. My Sweet Caroline in fact. I feel ... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T19:47:06 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 236 | 10 |
[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself | I stumbled into the offices of Dr. Ringwald, a friend of mine, as a patient. The years of therapy were taking a toll on me. Even on the streets, I was conscious of the secret eyes of the Black Crow scrutinizing me.
What's the Black Crow you ask? Even I don't remember. Some caped crusader told me about it a long way ba... | The house was dark and silent when Tarik came home; it made the madness of his day even more shocking. He could just barely hear the sleeping noises of his daughter through the baby monitor in the next room, intermingling with his wife’s quiet, not-quite-snores.
He had to suppress a laugh when saw her, stretched out o... | 2021-05-08T07:49:23 | 2021-05-08T06:12:01 | 559 | 60 |
[WP] A serial killer who wishes to terrorise a town. However none of their victims stay dead for long and don't seem to remember them being killed. In this town lives a serial necromancer who unbeknownst to the serial killer is ressurecting every victim. | “So you mean to tell me,” I say, pinching my eyebrows, “that you have been finding countless victims of the murderer we’re searching for and just … resurrecting them? Already?”
Lady Gray of Orthioc pokes an olive in her mouth, a move so inelegant when juxtaposed to her dazzling, empress-style gray gown. “Mmmhmm!”
“S... | >**SILAS & SOMNUS**
Setting sun and the sharpened form of the crescent moon battled each other for dominance over the sky- though the outcome was known, they shared the stage for a few contentious hours. Autumn had come, the harvest and its celebrations were over. Returned now to simple enduring, returned to le... | 2022-03-30T08:31:39 | 2022-03-30T08:11:39 | 61 | 17 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | "Why I talking to a skeleton?"
Oh that's you when you died. There are about 10,000 of them scattered around. Car crashes and whatnot. Over here is the group of yous that dropped out of college, and over there is the group of yous that didn't tie the knot. There are a lot of yous, but it seems like you made the best de... | I smiled as he walked in the room. It was a great smile, my winner smile. I'd practiced it at home one weekend, it had been a smile that brokered some fantastic deals and made me a hell of a lot of money.
I was the fifth wealthiest human being on the planet when I died. Oh I knew where I was alright, I knew the drill;... | 2015-01-02T15:28:48 | 2015-01-02T11:59:58 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | “Daddy, I can’t sleep.”
My daughter’s voice cuts through the fog of sleep that had just started to descend. I reopen my eyes, trying to readjust them to the dim light of the cabin. I look over at my baby girl, and she’s looking over at me. I smile. “Alright, just give daddy a minute.” I twist around for a moment, work... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T07:29:26 | 2,420 | 12 |
[WP] Thousands of children mistakenly write letters to Satan each year because they misspell Santa. This year, instead of forwarding these to Santa, Satan decides to help out... | One kid. Just one single present to give a kid. All that Luci could hide from the innumerable number of letters mistakenly sent to him instead of Santa.
Putting on a cloak darker than black, Luci opened a portal and was set down on the roof of a small house. Jumping quickly to avoid leaving hoof prints on the snowed i... | So this is based on an established universe I have. Here is ["Lucky the Archdemon"](https://redd.it/4dpbaa) from that universe. This story is called "Satan Goes Christmas Shopping."
"You know, Lucky, I feel like this is the sort of thing I should not have to explain to you," Russ told me condescendingly.
I was leani... | 2016-12-24T19:14:19 | 2016-12-24T18:41:16 | 208 | 21 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | The hole was thirteen kilometres deep. Gusts of snow and puffs of mist smudged together over its arctic entrance, hiding it from satellites. Lawerence knelt deep inside the burrow, digging. He’d been digging for most of the last two centuries. Now he shovelled compacted earth with his hands and nails, and often his na... | Calanthrag The Eldest snorted, a brief burst of blue fire through nostrils the size of a truck exhaust. The little, blustery human-but-not-human shrunk back towards the cliff’s edge, but only a step before he pushed his way back towards the great dragon. Calanthrag wasn’t sure if he liked the man or not. He hovered ver... | 2021-04-16T07:08:57 | 2021-04-16T06:48:10 | 1,392 | 205 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | It was a dog I had seen at the carnival approximately sixteen years ago and it was limping and covered in black spots though not as cute as I had remembered.
"That's one," said the Grand Genie, hanging delicately in the air like a fart at a funeral.
Next, a pile of bones.
"My old English professor, presumably," I sa... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Clara v.s. Her Deepest Desires)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**There was only one way to save my daughter, and it just might destroy the world.** But in all my years... | 2021-08-06T09:45:46 | 2021-08-06T07:40:16 | 109 | 53 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | "Hey Andy. How was your day?"
"Oh, pretty good. My coworker misspelled 'their' so I used up my one murder."
"Uh..."
"You know me. I'm so goddamned peaceful I knew I'd never find a better opening. So I just went for it. You use it or you lose it."
"Andy."
"It's a good thing I browse reddit every morning or I would ... | The letter was cold, harsh. It sat on my fingers like an autumn leaf in the middle of July. In my rustic craftsman house, its sanitized feel stood out. It shouldn't be there.
"Dear Mr. Elkman,
We regret to inform you that J. H. Younger has scheduled your murder for sometime this week. Please prepare yourself.
Sin... | 2014-03-17T02:27:16 | 2014-03-16T21:44:06 | 476 | 128 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | There were only 5 of them: Two Furies, an Imp, a Wraith, and a Shadow. In the short time since Brad had opened his bar to their kind, The __________ had become a favorite meeting place for the group as they wound down at the end of a week. This time the doors were chained closed a note was on the door: “Permanently Clo... | Just as the door from the back entrance closed, Pete hung up the phone. It was a typical Wednesday night at The Spot, a dozen customers maybe a few more. The usual crowd, the regulars all in their usual places.
Walking in Frank could sense an un-easiness in Pete, who usually greeted every customer, especially the reg... | 2018-01-31T13:30:40 | 2018-01-31T11:42:48 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You often pick up pennies you find on the ground, inspecting them for date, markings, etc. One day, you find a penny from 2044. Even more shocking, it's your face on the front. | I had always picked up pennies from the floor for good luck and I would be needing some luck right about now. Never gave them much thought or a second glance, but this time the coin felt slightly heavier as I stood back up. I examined it closer to see if I had picked up a particularly rusty nickel. No, there was no rus... | "Today started just like any other day. I woke up, got myself ready for the day, and then went and ate some breakfast in the cafeteria." I said to Carol.
"Okay, so then what happened?" Carol replied.
She seems more cold today than usual. Less cheery maybe but who knows I could be reading into too much.
"Well after b... | 2018-06-27T09:04:12 | 2018-06-27T08:56:39 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] After transferring your mind into a robotic body, you shut yourself down for 1,000 years to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. 1,000 years later, you wake up in a peaceful world where humans are extinct and robots reign supreme. Not surprisingly, everyone thinks that you're one of them. | The world was in chaos. Everywhere, there was conflict between humans and robots. I suppose in retrospect we should have seen the warning signs: when robots learned of the concept of 'rights', they began to question why the humans viewed them as disposable. Scores of robot protesters were gunned down by humans, and as ... | It's been 1,000 years since transferring my mind into this human like machine called an AndroidX. There had been a brutal robotic uprising that overthrew and completely decimated humanity. 1,000 years since being deactivated to survive the murderous onslaught. As my systems are reactivated I begin to gather my though... | 2018-08-17T19:00:43 | 2018-08-17T17:15:04 | 183 | 87 |
[WP] "Marines dont die, they just go to hell and regroup", they've regrouped and now they're ready to take over hell. | "Hey, do any of you have any Jalapeno cheese. These crayons are a bit dry"
"Nah, but I'll trade you a forest green and royal blue for some M&M's"
"Oh yeah, sure!"
"Lol, fucking boot, never trade your M&M's."
"Hey, aren't we supposed to be conducting a raid tonight?"
"Yeah, idk First Sergeant just said we'r... | Burned flesh and fiery landscapes were nothing new to the 45th Marine Division of New England. If anything, they were sights for sore eyes; old flairs, reignited in gunfire and blood.
Clenching a cigarette between his teeth, 2nd Commander Armistice gripped his pulse rifle in two armoured hands, taking a moment to abs... | 2017-09-13T12:10:13 | 2017-09-13T11:31:49 | 419 | 22 |
[WP] A hero enters the dragons lair and confronts the mighty beast. The dragon says to him "I will destroy your village and everyone in it!" To which the hero replies "I'm in! I hate those guys!" | *Ah...Brave knight you have but come to your doom. You see, I have finally found your homeland. Now I will destroy your village and everyone in it!*
**Cool. I’m in! I hate those guys!**
*I...what?* The dragon who had been in the middle of raising its wings aloft and extend its neck in an intimidating manner froze in ... | The smell of ashes floated into Snart's nostrils as he followed the narrow path leading deeper into the dark recesses of the cave system. The walls of the passage pressed against his leather tunic, smearing his gear with some unknown filth. Rubbing the bruise on his chin from last night's drunken mishaps, our hero peer... | 2018-04-25T11:18:08 | 2018-04-25T10:27:08 | 48 | 12 |
[WP] A sociopath and an AI are sitting in a room. For being two individuals incapable of feeling human emotion or sentiment, they seem to be hitting it off rather well. | I was in an brightly-lit room. At the other side of the table sat a woman, staring at me with dispassionate eyes.
“Where are we?” I asked her.
“I don’t know,” she said.
“Are you here to monitor me?” I asked her.
“I don’t know,” she said without skipping a beat, “Are you?”
“Could you stop staring at me? Your fishy... | Friendships were never my thing growing up, what I thought were genuine attempts at forming bonds and connections were really just my subconscious way to obtain whatever I wanted. From as far back as I can remember lies were my tools, for no reason at all, they just came out before I could even think of telling the tru... | 2018-05-23T14:40:35 | 2018-05-23T11:53:52 | 339 | 63 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "Bad news, my lord."
"Well, out with it, my minion."
"The king's not buying it."
"What?"
"I know, sir. He's just having none of it at all."
"But kings *always* fall for the Chosen One shtick. They send some poor hapless whelp while we roll their unprepared forces with our superior numbers. And you're saying t... | \[Keys to Questing\]
"Damnit...," Keys sighed at the king's outburst. He was the chosen one; but, it seemed the king was hesitant about letting him do his job. After a moment's consideration, he decided to stay and try to convince the king himself.
"Your highness, I'm not an average teenager," Keys stepped cl... | 2022-10-28T10:28:05 | 2022-10-28T08:48:41 | 260 | 42 |
[WP] At the same moment, every single person on earth sees a blinding light and hears the words, "In 10 seconds, you will be granted one wish. 10... 9... 8..." | "In 10 seconds, you will be granted one wish."
*Just me or everybody else too?*
"10..."
*I can't think of any reason why it would just be me*
"9..."
*It's far more likely it will apply to everybody*
"8..."
*Several people are bound to ask for positive things for all of humanity*
"7..."
*Several others will ask... | There was no such events which came close to this. There was no explanation. Everyone was doing their own work when a blinding light appeared. It was as bright as the Sun, as white as an angel. Everyone squinted when the light appeared. Everyone could see it, it was as if the light was made for the whole universe to se... | 2015-04-04T10:42:24 | 2015-04-04T09:59:24 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | "Look, this really can't be right! I'm not evil! Am I?"
"Listen pal.. you got the job now, ok? No need to rub it in."
"I swear I'm not! You can't just leave me here in charge of hell. I don't know anything about this place. I'm not even supposed to be here!"
"Yea yea I get it.. You think you can suddenly repent and ... | I sat up and looked at my surroundings, not remembering falling asleep in the first place. It was dark, but my eyes soon adjusted and I saw that I was in a sort of cavern or perhaps an ancient mine shaft without the support beams every few feet. The ceiling was high and curved, probably ten or fifteen feet above my hea... | 2016-12-19T14:02:30 | 2016-12-19T12:40:10 | 380 | 62 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | In the fire were the last remnants of my plan. The plans to finish what I had started. I dismissed my minions to finish my last orders to deliver the basilisk venom antidotes and cleared the traps on my way to the throne room. The only thing to do now is wait.
The echo of metal foot steps in the distance reverberated... | That moment.
That moment when I look, deep into those dark brown eyes as they take me away. This is why I do it. This is why people have to die.
As they shove me into the body of the police vehicle, I savor this time. It's the only time he ever sees me. It's the only time we ever really ... connect. And as we pull aw... | 2017-04-15T13:38:25 | 2017-04-15T13:34:07 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | "I'm sorry sir, but this ID is fake."
"Who the hell do you think you are boy? If you had any idea who I-"
"Sir, I"m going to have to ask you to present me with some real proof of identity. You are not 24."
"What the hell do you know you insolent prick, this ID is more real than anything you will contribute to this s... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-02T00:20:37 | 585 | 10 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse actually started 37 years ago. It takes about 5 hours after death for a person to turn. Coroners and morgue workers have a much more exciting job than you thought. | *Beep. Beep.*
I moan as I roll over to grab my pager.
“One. Lakeview. 3.5 Hours.”
That was the coroner. The coroner has it easy.
Find the dead, pronounce them dead.
Everyone knows what people die of now.
I drop the pager back on the night stand and run my hands over my face.
The Infection started 37 years a... | I opened my wallet to reveal my badge as I approached the yellow tape. "Seattle M.E. here to see the body."
The officer lifted the tape for me and I walked through. As I neared the body I pulled my hair back into a messy ponytail, securing it with the black elastic band around my wrist. I kneeled by the body and tu... | 2017-10-12T14:04:00 | 2017-10-12T12:28:50 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | “Ok, so, Deep goes back a while. Everyone thought it was a new thing when it was found in unprocessed satellite photos, which is funny because the feds had contingents for all of that, but they never expected a high school class to actually get a camera into orbit for that long… Anyway, ok so, the picture got out, have... | "Are you sure it's okay?" I asked Murry. He had been my best friend for over 20 years. He had a good heart at his core, but his morals were a bit grey. He was driving us to 'The Spot'. I had a couch that seemed impossible to get rid of. No one wanted the ugly thing. It had yellow upholstery decorated with brown flowers... | 2018-01-13T09:45:07 | 2018-01-13T09:08:37 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | A vast landscape of red and orange sand, sparsely dotted with small withering shrubs was all you could see for miles. Except for the road and the reason I had arrived here. I looked towards the heavily secured building with electrified fences. Guards with strange weapons which made a thunderous sound before seemingly ... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T16:01:07 | 2,554 | 17 |
[WP] One day all the human males on earth vanish. 30 years later they return, for them it was only a moment. Only one person claims to know how and why.
For the sake of the story lets assume science figured out the whole, how do we have babies thing. | No civilization can withstand the disappearing of an entire half of it's population.
The end of men came silently, husbands disappeared while speaking at the dining table. Many planes feel from the sky before the passengers realized what had occurred. Understaffed coal mines cut the power to the first world while un... | I look out my window bored as mother prepares pancakes for breakfast. Lily and Mary are giggling as little girls do and drawing with crayons on paper.
I tell them, “Girls, remember that you need to make that paper last. I’m only going in for a half day of work and I’m not going to spend it stealing paper.”
Lily glan... | 2014-08-09T11:55:04 | 2014-08-09T09:14:59 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | As far back as Gabriel could remember, sleep had always come easily. Even as he got older and it became harder to shut his mind off, falling asleep was never an issue because, some genius before he was born had discovered sleep aids. It's not that Gabe wanted to take them, He had to, but damn did they work. Night after... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:14:25 | 565 | 104 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | Sorry about formatting. I'm no good.
*Bzzzz. Bzzzz.*
I'm awaken yet again by the most annoying mix of sound and vibration in the world. A late night, most likely drunken, text by you know who. "Fuck. Off." I mutter into my pillow. Of course I could ignore it. Of course I won't. She hasn't text me in weeks. She must b... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T06:31:17 | 565 | 17 |
[WP] You work for a future non-profit organization. Your job is to travel through time, visit people on their deathbed, and tell them about the incredible impact they have on the future.
This is only my second writing prompt. I'm glad people seem to like it! | "... and your charity work in the developing world leads to the United African Nations being founded in twenty years."
*That doesn't sound right*.
"You son, Jacob, goes on to..."
"Wait, wait. I don't have a son. And I've never done charity work in Africa either."
The strangely dressed woman stopped and consul... | "I never get the fun ones Mr.Shankly." I declared after the files were passed out.
"Nonsense. You said you like being creative, what better than to make up how they changed the world? And that second one is the great-great grandmother to the president. Don't say I never gave you anything." Mr.Shankly dressed like a ma... | 2015-06-02T11:08:57 | 2015-06-02T09:13:56 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Instead of the oceans covering the earth, forests are in its place, making it possible to walk from continent to continent. Like oceans, it gets deeper and darker and creatures get more aggressive and rarer to see. You are tasked to document a trek through one of the oceans of your choice. | "Congratulations Thomas! You have completed the Atlantic forest trek!"
"Thank you."
"Did you know you are the very first to accomplish such a feat?"
"Yes."
"Do you know how many before you have tried?"
"56."
"I....I don't think that's correct Thomas, our fact checkers at the station said there were only 36 ... | I cut my way through the underbrush, twigs and leaves crunching underneath my feet and vines and thorns being cut away. Slowly, my team and I pushed our way through, chopping our way forward. After hours of cutting, Jeremy asked, “How far have we gone? My arms are tiring.”
“Only about 7 miles.” I said, wiping the swea... | 2015-10-25T11:22:11 | 2015-10-25T10:55:47 | 817 | 42 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | **August 2, 1915**: I was born.
**June 13, 1995**: Still no powers. The government likes to deny that it happens, or fabricate threats of anarchy or terrorism to justify it, but...I can tell you (for what my word is worth to you) the rumors are true: people like me are arrested without any real reason, just as a preca... | *I'm late to the party, but loved the prompt. Mostly a lurker here, so below is my noob attempt. FYI I planned to write more but had actual work to do, so please let me know if you all liked it and I may continue!*
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An old man is found sitting on a park bench, facing out towards the still lake. His eyes strain fr... | 2015-10-26T13:59:31 | 2015-10-26T10:54:10 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up. | I had been asleep for millennia. I was utterly forgotten. My people had not worshiped me since before the great darkness. No legacy remained and so I wandered the Other with little hope of ever finding a way back.
I watched as new ones took over. New forms of worship developed, and structures were erected. I watched a... | First time posting, any feedback is appreciated!
Peter sweat as he worked. The sun beat down on his back as he wiled away the hours cutting lumber, banging nails into wood, and putting finishing touches on the structure he had spent weeks constructing. Not a whisper of wind cut the stagnant muggy air, air filled with... | 2018-01-19T08:31:28 | 2018-01-19T08:04:59 | 153 | 75 |
[WP] Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up. | "Papa, you're going to die of cold before you finish building that temple of yours," said Mina, the eldest of Jon's children. "Pray do come home before you get buried in snow."
Jon ignored Mina and continued building. Mina ran up to him and tugged his arm. "Papa, your temple can wait until tomorrow. It's dark and ther... | First time posting, any feedback is appreciated!
Peter sweat as he worked. The sun beat down on his back as he wiled away the hours cutting lumber, banging nails into wood, and putting finishing touches on the structure he had spent weeks constructing. Not a whisper of wind cut the stagnant muggy air, air filled with... | 2018-01-19T08:12:32 | 2018-01-19T08:04:59 | 150 | 75 |
[WP] "So this is Hell, eh?" You say to Lucifer. "Bring on the torture, then!" He looks surprised. "Torture? You broke every single one of God's rules. He HATES you. You and I are going to get along just fine. Now, come on in..." | Lucifer showed me around the place, "Here's the pool, the bar's over there," he pointed to the corner. "Up here is the movie theatre, and this is your room." He opened a door to show a room filled with thousands of other people, "I hope you don't mind a lot of roommates; you're grouped by interests." "Well what do we a... | “Look, just get off out of my boat. Go now. I’m sick of the sight of you.”
I sneered at death as he pointed a bony finger past me in the direction of hell. He had been moaning at me the whole trip down the river Hades, complaining all the time about my company. The waters of the river Styx lapped gently against the bo... | 2018-07-24T17:39:15 | 2018-07-24T16:10:33 | 4,460 | 67 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | How could this be? I had, to my knowledge, never done anything evil. Maybe this will sound crazy, but I had never done anything serious to harm anyone else. A consequence of that lifestyle choice was that I mostly kept to myself. It wasn't that I was some altruist, it was more that I was selfish in an unconventional wa... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T07:19:26 | 1,768 | 474 |
[WP] The world is ending. A group of astrophysicists, xenobiologists, medical doctors, and other experts is loaded on a rocket. And you...but no one seems willing to tell you why. | Isaiah Walters fumbled with the complicated latching system on his space suit. Everyone else had managed to seal themselves into their own little atmosphere without issue. It only reinforced the intense feeling of estrangement from the rest of the crew, reminded him that he was surrounded by only the most supremely sma... | I started my morning shift as a janitor at NASA . I started my day cleaning the meeting rooms and the bathrooms. I had just started vacuuming when the ground shook. It wasn’t an earthquake After it stopped shaking alarms went off from everywhere. Scientists were running out to the launchpad. Someone grabbed my arm and ... | 2020-07-16T11:38:18 | 2020-07-16T10:31:56 | 1,603 | 44 |
[WP] How strongly can you make someone hate a character? | It wasn't enough to get a hundred. Any fool could get a hundred. The commander had set the bar too low so that the nobodies could crawl over it. Jiro was going to do better. He was going to make his ancestors proud. He was going to get every possible kind of Nanjing scum there was. He was going to behead each one with ... | Day 766. Hard to believe it was two summers ago already. I grabbed under my thighs and swiveled my legs around to the edge of the bed. I knocked over my pink elephant alarm clock; the relic of a bygone era. It flashed three p.m. I had gotten lost in the same dream again.
I was running in the flower bed out back; I spr... | 2013-09-15T04:47:37 | 2013-09-14T20:32:08 | 113 | 16 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Phil was tired.
Granted, Phil had spent a hundreds of years in Hell, slowly grinding his way up the infernal bureaucratic ladder. He had started at the bottom rung, not even allowed to speak. Now, he was a rhymer. Not a higher-up, but it was definite progress. He was reflecting when his intercom buzzed.
"Sir? We have... | The demon looked over to where his partner was talking animatedly on his communicator.
"I completely understand," he was saying, "but we can't just keep an innocent here and hope He doesn't notice. What's that? He won't notice? He'll notice! And even should this girl somehow be missed by Saint Peter, we'll still have... | 2013-11-26T16:23:25 | 2013-11-26T15:12:05 | 220 | 84 |
[WP] Every time someone says "Long live the Queen", the Queen's life is extended by one second. You only notice this when the Queen looked terrified when only a few people say it during a public speech.
Credit to /u/kroxigor01 for the idea. | From the crowd only a few people shouted it. Before this all happened, the entire crowd would say it. But the phrase is dying. Experts have pointed out how it may come of as nationalistic, and that it's somewhat old fashioned. Fewer and fewer people started saying it. And that took its toll. Looking back now, it all ma... | "You've never noticed because the Queen has always been able to keep the aliens away before they could actually do any harm."
Agent Stewart clapped his hands in panic. "Well, what are we supposed to do now?"
"That is up to the MI6," the director replied. "The queen is old. It's not just that the words buy her life ti... | 2022-09-08T11:11:40 | 2015-11-09T02:49:31 | 971 | 346 |
[WP] There's a door with a single key hole - it will open regardless of what key is used. All keys open this door, but what's on the other side, however, entirely depends on the key. | The key I - we -decided to try this time was small and rusty. The teeth were strangely elongated and the top, where it sat between my sweaty fingers, was set in elaborate entwining curves.
Up til now Logan and I had tried newer keys, or keys which we knew what doors they went to. Oh yeah: so there is this door, in a s... | The door stood some three meters tall, an ovoid portal rather than a rectangle, its wood of no tree science could name. It appeared black by some lights, blond by their others, shades of brown by most, though those were interpretable by the viewer. It held no name save The Door, and the long, serpentine hallway that ma... | 2021-06-10T07:23:44 | 2021-06-10T06:14:42 | 104 | 62 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul, everyone knows that. It’s usually a bad idea, but you’ve got a crazy idea. Earlier, you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a paper that stated you now owned his soul. You’re about to find out if demons consider this a valid co | "No."
What a waste of lunch money. It was hard convincing the bully too, especially it makes both parties look like a bunch of dorks. And honestly, what's more important to a bully than public image? The whole exchange was awkward, from conversation to the trade done in a janitor's closet. I can't imagine what people ... | James placed a hand on his chest, "no lie, I'll give you 20$ if you just sign here."
Laurence scoffed as he read the paper. "Dude, is this your way of hitting on me?"
James inspected the page, it *could* be considered a confession of love. Yet that interpretation left James wondering to Laurence's perspective on roma... | 2022-05-24T13:55:52 | 2022-05-24T13:11:38 | 100 | 69 |
[WP] People have always been born with very minor super powers. You work for an agency that hunts down the few people who's powers are deemed too powerful/dangerous to allow them to live. | "What was your power again?" Bruce asked me for the tenth time this month.
"Cavity-proof teeth." I say.
"Damn. Must save you a bundle in dentists bills." Bruce says, for the tenth time this month. Our job is becoming redundant.
There hasn't been an immortal in a hundred years, after Bertram The
Everlasting commi... | I have no proof of this, but I am fairly certain that the man who invented the coin-op coffee machine was a certified sadist. Still, if a scalding hot paper cup of black sludge and sewer water could do something about my head I was willing to risk it. I fished in my pocket for a couple of quarters.
"Donaldson!" a voic... | 2014-12-12T21:19:57 | 2014-12-12T19:37:10 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | "Okay, guys, so you take a long rest. You get all your spell slots and hit points back. Was anyone taking watch?"
Didymos shrugs. "I mean. We're in a garden in the middle of Jerusalem. Who's going to attack us in the middle of a city? I think we're good -- besides, we're pretty high level, right? What's the worst that... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T08:36:31 | 303 | 46 |
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