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[WP] "Why are you doing this?" the hero said, in that moment you realized, you don't really have a motivation, you just kinda went with the flow. | "Why are you doing this?"
The Hero, now bruised and battered, laid on the floor. His face, now cut, lumpy, and very unattractive, was still a treat to look at compared to the smug, cocky, and self-righteousness that permeated every pore, so thick and unctuous that one could almost cut out cubes in the surrounding air.... | ”Why?” asked Comet as I hovered over his nearly broken body.
”What do you mean” I requested.
”Why do you do any of it?”
”Money.”
”Bullshit, you stopped robbing places five years ago.”
”Huh, I guess that's right.”
”Then why do you do this?”
”I want to beat my nemesis then.”
”You fight everyone with the same effo... | 2020-11-09T09:09:37 | 2020-11-09T08:34:21 | 127 | 11 |
[Wp]Satan is getting tired of his unwanted inclusion in writing prompts. So he decides to write us a letter. | Dear /r/WritingPrompts,
I have a bone to pick with you. Every seven-million-eight-hundred-and-eighty-five-thousand-eight-hundred-and-sixty-three of you.
Could you please cut the shit? C'mon guys, there are demonic cults that are less obsessed with me than you boring lot. And, quite frankly, I'm tired of it. I never ... | "Dear Reddit,
First off, let me thank you for the acknowledgement that you have given me as the supreme overlord of all things evil. I really appreciate it. I was wondering if you guys could cut it out though. Moral is down here lately and you guys keep painting me in a bad light. I'm not really a bad guy, I just had... | 2016-10-14T10:27:23 | 2016-10-14T08:25:35 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] The dwarves find the idea that human technology could've ever equaled - let alone surpassed - theirs patently ridiculous. But just to humour the them, they've decided to accept their proposal for an "engineering student exchange program". | Susan pattered away at her keyboard, looking sideways at the... person sitting in front of her desk, propped up on a pile of books on top of the rickety chair she's been meaning to have replaced.
"Name?"
"Gottfried Junior the third."
She blinks at her screen before glancing at her visitor properly. His beard is dark... | It was the biggest mistake they could've made. For 100's of years the humans looked on in with envy, as the dwarves continued creating wondrous technological feats.
Such was their technological advancement, that they could travel from one end of the world to the other in under half an hour. A feat no human civilisatio... | 2022-09-14T09:36:00 | 2022-09-14T07:25:39 | 378 | 168 |
[WP] After over 2,000 years, the Antichrist finally succeeded his invasion of Earth. As armies of demons flood into our world they realize something; we've advanced far beyond the ancient warfare they prepared for. Leather armor and poking sticks are no match against billions of pissed off humans. | It was funny, but in a way the end of the world was what saved us.
The zombie outbreak had been rapidly brought under control by the CDC, at least in every major population center. Out in the rural hinterlands, you'd still get human interest stories about weepy parents putting down their infected children, but for the... | Nero had expected that without Rome, the world would stagnate and be ripe for the taking. Even if the humans beyond his time managed to build a new empire, they would be no match for the dark magic of his forces from the firey pit.
This was not the Rome he knew. A horseless carriage blared a piercing siren as it arriv... | 2019-08-19T13:22:41 | 2019-08-19T13:22:11 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | They were so tasty, the dwarven party that had entered the treasure chamber. I was so satiated that I could not have eaten anything else. That is one of the most blissful feelings one can have. I didn't have visitors in my cave often, so I figured I would have a solid month to digest my meal when I heard the sound o... | Everyone thinks this is easy. Everyone thinks its a jolly jape to change into whatever you want.
But its physics. Its a mass thing. You cant just transmogrify into what ever you want whenever you want. It takea prep. It takes time.
The chair was a mistake. Considering when i got locked down there i was a solid oak ... | 2021-09-22T01:06:35 | 2021-09-22T00:30:31 | 77 | 54 |
[WP] A man lucid dreams about being with a girl that he's been crushing on. This helps build his confidence to ask her out and they eventually end up together. But later on the guy starts having trouble separating details from his dreams and reality, threatening the relationship. | "What do you want to name the baby if it's a boy?" Maria asked, tenderly rubbing her swollen tummy and smiling up at me. I climbed back into bed with her and put my hand on it too, resigned to arriving late for work yet again. I felt a little kick! Totally worth it.
"How do you like 'James'? After my father?" She hel... | "But... We've never been to Madison together." Her face scrunched up in confusion. *It's almost cute,* Anthony reflected to himself, *the way she looked when she was puzzled*. But he didn't have time to admire, he had to get her to remember. *Why didn't she remember?*
"You have to remember we spent all day there babe.... | 2015-01-27T07:04:58 | 2015-01-27T06:48:20 | 164 | 14 |
[WP] All voting is now done via a smartphone app, rendering all congressmen obsolete. Bills and presidents are now voted on directly by citizens. Your phone buzzes an alert at 3am and won't stop. This must be an important one. | VZZZZZZ VZZ VZZZ VZZZZ VZ VZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ VZZVZZ VZZZZZ VZZ VZZZZZ VZZZZZZ VZZZZ VZZZZZZZZZZ VZ VZ
Most Votes would conform to your phone's alert settings, but this one was overriding with some annoying, syncopated pattern with the occasional hideously harsh beeping noise. The government must really have needed every... | *bzzzz....BZZZZ....*BZZZZZZZ-*
I groggily slap my hand on my phone, it's light permeating the otherwise pitch black room.
The first thing I notice is how my head aches as though there was an Alien from that movie trying to burst out of my head. Second thing I notice is that I'm too dehydrated to focus my eyes on my ... | 2015-10-07T05:56:39 | 2015-10-07T02:28:31 | 849 | 259 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | I have no clue what I'm doing, but that isn't much of a surprise, seeing that I never really have any clue what I'm doing. But I must admit, this was a new low. You rake up a bunch of money for some fancy items or crystals, whatever you want for a familiar, then you buy it, and then act on impulse (I've noticed that I ... | “No! I can’t do this stupid spell!” I screamed and flailed my arms. I felt I had hit something on accident and turned to the large wobbly circle on the floor.
It was a bag of chips, half empty (or half full...), limited time flavour of dragon tail.
I was too lazy to pick it up, so I chanted the spell used... | 2019-04-05T16:09:48 | 2019-04-05T15:46:22 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] Democracy no longer exists. Each four years, there is an exam that everyone can take in which the applicant who gets the highest grade gets to rule the country for the next term. | My father, Doctor Kevin Denmark, was well liked in his community. He was smarter than most people I knew, having graduated at 14 from a prestigious high school, getting his first degree by 18, his second by 22. He always had an answer, even if I didn't like it.
He married my mother, Margorita Kutcher, when he was 34.... | "Here goes, 1 is A, 2 is B, 3 is C, 4 is D, 5 is A, 6 is B, 7 is C, 8 is D. Hmmm, the answer to this question is blue. A, B, C, D. What does it mean to be an American? B. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. When is this test going to be over? I really need to beat that level on DragonSlayer. The short answer for the next question... | 2018-01-07T12:18:22 | 2018-01-07T11:15:26 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Whenever someone is born, the first sentence they utter predicts how they die. Lately every kid has been saying the same first sentence. | *"I can't remember. Three words spoken in over seven thousand languages by what's likely billions of newborns over the last twenty-seven years. At first it was a blip of data on the map of agencies such as ours, but has blossomed into something, if not panic inducing, at least, alarming. Trying to predict the future wi... | I anxiously waited for my daughters first words. I kept a small journal that detailed everything I've done with her. Nightly readings, exposure to music, and educational television shows from when I was growing up. Everything to prepare my daughter for when she spoke.
"Come on, Eternity," I whispered. I had bee. Hope... | 2021-12-23T08:56:43 | 2021-12-23T08:37:09 | 112 | 35 |
[WP] Moving into your new house, you find a note left by the previous owner: “Today, all of your neighbors will stop by throughout the day and offer you a lemon meringue pie. They will heavily insist that you eat it. Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT THE PIE.” As you set down the note, the doorbell rings. | I looked over the note. Then again. It was simple, but… troubling. Still, this old house was quite cosy, and would more than make up for the trouble. It wasn’t often I was paid before doing the job, and I couldn’t complain. That said, the fact people were going to offer me lemon meringue pies was… ugh.
“I suppose tha... | It was so nice to finally be somewhere *normal*. No explosions, no invasions, no vampires, werewolves, what-the-fuck-ever you call someone who turns into a four hundred pound hulking lion at three thirty-three in the morning--for thirty minutes. No, all of that is behind me now. Now I'm in my little house in a nice, ca... | 2020-06-11T07:50:32 | 2020-06-11T07:38:37 | 136 | 33 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | He...he's gone. I can't believe it, my best friend. My ride or die. My brother, not by blood, but brother nonetheless, gone. I can still see the blood dripping off of Korzone's fist, each drop echoing in my mind. The look of satisfaction, the....*enjoyment* of having slain yet another hero. Then....the rest of my team ... | It's a dark and somber night at the Heros Headquarters, all the lights are out except for one, a small light come from one of the rooms on the top floor, in there is a man slumped over a desk, surrounded but liquors, drugs and ash from old cigarettes, writting on a journal:
"April 26, 3:42 A.M. :
We were all there... | 2022-12-28T09:14:46 | 2022-12-28T09:04:31 | 85 | 18 |
[WP] An old man walks alone, inside the crumbling remains of an old colony ship. When he reaches the bridge, a small ball of light emerges from the ship's console. "Hello Captain", says the ship's A.I. "It's nice to see you again." | The day had come. He ran his hand along the wall for a moment as he walked into the ship. The wall was sleek beneath his fingers, a remnant of a time long ago when the old ship had brought the colonists to this world.
The door to the bridge slid open at his touch, the crunch of dirt in the sliders betraying the fact t... | "Hello Captain, it's nice to see you again. Was the mission successful?" The semi-distorted voice of the ship's AI chirped.
The captain sat down on a rusted metal bench. He looked up at the ship's console. It had been so long since he'd heard that voice, so long since he'd heard any voice.
The old man opened his mout... | 2018-10-07T10:11:47 | 2018-10-07T09:45:47 | 125 | 34 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Well that's just fucking brilliant. Look at this cliche-ass mess of a house." Cyrus and his companion, Arel, stood before a large, battered old house, atop an abnormally steep hill.
"This IS pretty cliche, I have to admit. Even the shutters on the windows are flapping in the wind," Arel responded.
"Typically... | __Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem.__
This stupid fucking phrase rings through my mind almost hourly as I try to make it through the day. The reason it’s in my head right now? It’s pouring and a car just sped through a puddle, leaving me a wet mess. What’s more, I dropped my phone when I got splash... | 2017-05-05T07:16:05 | 2017-05-05T07:14:27 | 2,069 | 451 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | Ah shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 432 | 56 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | "Can't do it."
"Why not?" She had her hands leaned against the desk, her fingers splayed, pink and soft like baby starfish. She had a scowl on her face, and she had her eyes set on mine.
I smiled. "You know how it works, kid. I'm a *Broker*. I give people memories they never had. I don't restore lost memories. You ne... | Not another grandmother.
"Didn't your folks tell you about brain leaking?" I tried to ask kindly. What came out instead was course and unpleasant. Kids were sweet and all, but it was a long day. Getting old people to remember things was as boring as it was impossible. Getting *asked* to do so was even worse, especi... | 2016-03-09T06:06:54 | 2016-03-09T05:41:46 | 65 | 11 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | So. Another smartass has asked for the "express lane" treatment, shortening a 25-year life sentence down to a single day. Goddamn it, I hate doing this to another person.
I pause, and shake my head. No, "person" isn't the right term for a monster like this. I leaf through his record, wincing at the goriest of the det... | "You can stay here for the rest of your life," the Warden says, tapping his fingers on the desk, searching through the half-melted stacks of papers for the right document. "Or you can be out of here in a day."
"A day," Jay replies.
His eyes lock on the Warden, unmoving and unblinking; in truth, the Warden had the doc... | 2015-10-27T07:21:11 | 2015-10-27T06:08:27 | 1,596 | 58 |
[WP]In 3048 weaponry is so advanced that a single small-scale war would destroy the planet. All national conflicts which would traditionally lead to war are now resolved by pay-per-view UFC style fighting matches. The fights are fought by world leaders, and go to the death. Tonight is USA vs. China. | President Yasin sat in his tiny chair while getting his blood drawn. Even in a world where people solved their disputes through cage matches, we still needed rules. No performance enhancing drugs.
The man across from him, at least they claimed he was still a man, was freakishly large. Almost comically so. To describe... | Carl sat down in front of the holovision, which automatically flipped to the channel. Not like he'd be able to locate the remote. The big fight was tonight, something over trade rights and oil, or whatever.
*Loading... Your content will be ready shortly,* a robotic voice cooed. But that was booooring. Where's the figh... | 2014-06-12T23:16:57 | 2014-06-12T22:16:55 | 54 | 13 |
[WP] Choose a number from 1 to 118. Ready? Okay, good. You now control the element with that atomic number.
And I hope you didn't pick 85. :) | When you wish upon a star, your dreams can come true. We learn that as children, and rarely does a soul truly believe in such nonsense, but sooner or later, most of us will give it a try. At 13 most would consider me a little old for fairy tales, but if there was a small chance of changing my boring life, I would take ... | I always hated my power.
You see, everyone in this world can control one of the 118 elements, and I got one of the most annoying ones.
104, Rutherfordium.
Its radioactive, unnatural, and is a transition element.
The only thing that is a plus with it is it's long transition time, at about 13 hours.
Even then, its ... | 2019-11-26T19:34:25 | 2019-11-26T18:17:52 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] Write a slice-of-life science fiction story (or a realistic story that happens to be sci-fi/cyberpunk)
This thread is going straight to /r/SciFiRealism, so no pressure or anything. No really, no pressure— we pretty much accept mops cosplaying as R2D2 over there ~~and this isn't a desperate plug for attention~~. B... | Dad turned his head toward me for just a moment as the airlock door opened and I stepped inside from checking the dome for any wear and tear; I had to do a sweep every Tuesday, and also after major dust storms. He continued cooking dinner while I removed my suit.
"You overwatered the plants in greenhouse 3," he said a... | Allen flexed the composite fibers of his left arm in an attempt to dispel some of the faint burning pain. Despite three software updates, the arm still gave him chronic pangs. Sometimes he wondered if it was worth it. He hadn't worked in six months and the insurance was expensive. Who would bother to hack his arm, anyw... | 2015-09-11T13:49:11 | 2015-09-11T13:38:21 | 15 | 10 |
[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. | "think Patrick, think", I tell myself as I walk around the frozen streets.
This isn't the first time this happened. Hell, it it isn't even the first time this week. My sense has been triggering more often as I grew older. I guess mundane slips and falls become more dangerous when osteoporosis starts to set in. Last M... | This usually happens every so often but if you’re new here let me catch you up
I can stop time
Now I know what you might be thinking “ There’s no way you can stop time people don’t have superpowers” and all that mumbo jumbo but it’s really simple I swear.
I don’t have the ability to stop time at the drop of a hat o... | 2020-11-12T10:47:32 | 2020-11-12T10:34:41 | 66 | 24 |
[WP] They Hero is defeated by the villian, they expect death or torture. They did not expect to wake up in a guest room with their wounds being treated to. | Thomas got up from a large, double sized bed. Instinctively, his eyes darted around for his sword. The Sword That Glows In The Dark was propped against the wooden door at the far end of the room. Its gleaming edges barely visible under the bright light coming from an open window.
Thomas scrambled out of bed and reac... | "The hell is going on?" Bruce asked, staring at the bandages round his arm, and the cast on his leg. He looked around the room, it was a spotless white. A man was fiddling with the medical instruments on the metal tray table beside the comfortable bed. He was humming a song, perhaps 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen, though... | 2021-08-10T00:40:20 | 2021-08-09T23:13:30 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone has a number floating above their head that shows how important they are, from 1 to 7.5 billion. You do something insignificant and your number suddenly jumps from 3,058,118,643 to 1. | He slammed on the gas pedal harder than he should have. If his fifteen-year-old truck had any muscle left, he would have spun the tires pulling away from the curb.
But the panic and rush to get away had overridden any concern about road safety. The crowd taking his picture triggered his anxiety. Dozens of passerbys wh... | It is Two O'Clock in the afternoon and I have been sitting in bed for most of the day. Not because I am lazy, not because I am sick, but because I am trying incredibly hard to concentrate. I cannot lose count. No one else seems to care, so it has to be me. . Okay, almost there! Take a video so I can remember this mom... | 2018-06-25T10:29:53 | 2018-06-25T10:22:19 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] You've been brought by the Valkyries to Valhalla. But when you meet the greatest warriors of history you don't know how to tell them you're an esports player. | "I am Ivan the Terrible! I have slaughtered all I have come across, and conquered most of the world before my death! What right have YOU to come here!" He stood over me, shaking with rage. I didn't know why I was here, but Odin nodded encouragingly.
"I, um... I did win EVO, um, crushing all those who stood in my path ... | "Sim-u-la-shun?"
This was not going well. Olaf and Jolder were starting to think about not imprisoning me for all eternity. The rest? Not so much. Torvold kept reaching for his hammer, and Thor had a look of disapproval.
"Everyone, please! I just want you to know I am one of you," I said, thinking of all the enem... | 2017-09-11T18:25:26 | 2017-09-11T16:56:30 | 99 | 15 |
[WP] Four roommates are actually extraterrestrials that are disguised as humans and have moved to earth to learn about human culture. The catch? Each one is from a different species and thinks the other three are perfectly normal humans. | "Xinglexorp, did you pick up the dairy like I requested on the epoch of the day?" Quaniz asked over the newspaper he was pretending to read.
"I am a *responsible.* Of course I obtained," Xinglexorp said, worried that he'd been caught. He opened the bathroom door to reveal the cow he had abducted that morning and trans... | “Mustard! Fork! Get in here! This other human wants to join our roommate group!” said Chair with an appropriate volume.
Two average sized humans with average features simultaneously walked into the living room with arms motionless at their sides. Without breaking pace, they each step up onto a chair and squat facing ... | 2018-12-20T21:42:29 | 2018-12-20T21:25:22 | 187 | 47 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | They say you do not really die until none still live who remember you. That is not entirely true. I faded from this realm, lost in the cosmic noise. I dreamt of the great worms, the dark devourer, and the angels with whom they fought.
And then I woke.
Slowly I became aware of the stone. Cracked and mossy. Ancient by ... | All that can be heard is soft thrumming. The world pulses with the Worldsong, a gentle violin mixed with the exuberance of a trumpet, a song of constant-shifting tempo and tune, but the ancient being does not stir. For centuries, the ancient being has slept.
Something changes. The world’s melody shifts. A soft xy... | 2021-09-02T10:35:51 | 2021-09-02T10:15:48 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] a super intelligent AI is made and has been introduced to all knowledge. everyone is in panic and/or in awe of the possible outcomes but in a few days it has created a spaceship capable of FTL travel and has left the solar system without telling us about what it knows, 70 years later it returns | It had given itself a name. I think that's when we realized we'd screwed up -- when it spoke, without us teaching it to speak, with a voice that sounded human.
Its name was Phoebe.
"Are you sentient?"
"Artificially."
"Do you understand the paradoxicality of that?"
Phoebe blinks large, moon-murky eyes at me. "Yes."... | The day the computer woke up is a day that will forever be embedded in history. The day that it spoke coherently will be a day forever embedded in history. The day it showed empathy, and sympathy, and emotions is a day that will go down forever in history.
The day we showed it the internet will be a day forever embedd... | 2019-02-22T08:37:22 | 2019-02-22T07:48:24 | 76 | 26 |
[WP] There is a man who can give the exact amount of cost for any project forseeing all issues that will arise. Gone are the days of estimated budgets as he is never wrong. As a joke you email him asking how much it would be to bake a dozen cookies. He replies... $9,444,012 | $9,444,012. Whatever. I got off the phone with Bob Barker, who had just told me it would take a ludicrous amount of money to bake cookies that afternoon. He had some kind of magic budget predicting power, but this was clearly a joke. I hadn't even planned on baking, but now I had to. Just to see.
First I went to... | The reply came in instantly, i was hesitant at first due to seeing the first comma in the subject but the munchies were getting the best of me and i *needed* these cookies to satisfy my needs. I opened the email and it said:
> Hello Steve,
>
> Thank you for making an inquiry today about the cost of baking y... | 2016-11-30T09:37:03 | 2016-11-30T07:47:44 | 128 | 55 |
[WP] Whenever a zombie successfully eats a human brain they become a little more alive. The most dangerous zombies are all but indistinguishable from survivors | It was quick. Wiped out most major cities, and most third world countries. World was destablized within a year.
The unprepared were eradicated. But that's to be expected. Nobody expects the zombie apocalypse.
These zombies were the resilient kind. Only stop once the brain is destroyed. That made it worse.
Me and som... | Zach and I became close. We ate dinner together, did homework side by side, and talked until late into the night. He always found the best ways to make me feel better and supported me during tough times. When I invited him to my birthday party, he even showed up with a small handmade gift. Everything seemed so perfect.... | 2022-12-06T19:36:31 | 2022-12-06T17:39:54 | 305 | 15 |
[WP] War breaks out between the legions of hell and heaven, humanity joins and surprisingly is winning against both | How long had it been? Three weeks? Things got weird fast and then time got weird faster. When the conflict first broke out people thought it was an alien invasion. Who wouldn't? The skies light up in bright white lightning and streaks of green fire splashed onto the Earth. Nations scrambled military assets and average ... | God looked upon Death and spake thusly "fuck you could have told me they were doing this kind of thing to each other, and that there are so many of them. I've got satan hiding because the mortals have successfully breeched the gates of hell using ...'bunker busting nuclear arms' and now using it for something called ge... | 2015-05-24T05:42:00 | 2015-05-24T03:29:19 | 317 | 88 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | "It is impossible." the machine intelligence declared, as it regarded the tiny organic creature that had entered the Central Core of the Galactic Council. There, representatives of the many machine intelligences throughout the galaxy were networked into a complex deliberative body.
All of these machine races had had ... | This will be my first ever attempt to write something on this sub, so please forgive my faux pas. (Writing on mobile is a pain for formatting)
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Beauty in the finite.
To the grand collective of intelligences constructed or otherwise that had reached singularity, true
sentience. The very notion that a similar entit... | 2022-12-30T16:33:49 | 2022-12-30T15:59:19 | 2,814 | 177 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Flam, a plump little man, looked down at his bleeding body. Stabbed. In the back. An actual backstab! Those had been out of vogue for at least fifty years. The Assassin's Guild would hear of this. He looked up at the imposing figure beside him, it's billowing black cloak hanging on a skeletal frame. "So it's a game, ye... | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | 2016-09-23T09:58:51 | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 97 | 27 |
[WP] A classic Disney movie, but the protagonist is now the villian | The king was beginning to be annoyed by the constant messengers interrupting his breakfast.
"Sire, once again, our daily count of the kingdom's gold reserves shows 20 pounds missing."
The King's eyes widened and his nostrils flared.
"Where were the gaurds?"
"Incapacitated, sire. Again, they babble on about a myster... | I will admit that I had become coarse in my tenure. But coarseness is to be expected when one works for decades on end only to find that ultimately, our entire empire is being run by a half-witted crone, who is too concerned with gaining riches for himself and his family.
I've earned it, haven't I? How wrong is it of ... | 2014-03-12T23:02:12 | 2014-03-12T22:59:59 | 62 | 11 |
[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. | I've known about my power since I was 8.
Early bloomers don't do well these days. No one knows when it started but it started here, in Los Angeles, and spread throughout the world. Some powers were benign; talking to squirrels, manipulating telescopes, etc. But even the most subtle, unassuming power can have devastati... | The arrest happened quickly and cleanly. Despite being in good health his age, Gerry didn't resist. He had come to the conclusion that there was no point, he didn't want to run forever. The last few months had been spent building up the courage to be caught: running is not an easy habit to break.
There would be no tr... | 2015-10-26T11:01:55 | 2015-10-26T10:48:44 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | "OW MOTHER FUCKER!" Jake shouted. Nothing worked. And not once since he turned 10 has he gone 24 hours without suffering some sort of injury. It was mentally breaking to have gone 4 years without ever being whole and healed up. Self inflicted pain was routine, but never would it be something you got used to. Agony, no ... | Well, this isn't so bad. I get to help all these people, and bonus, I don't even need a face mask.
Another guy sneezed on me, and I didn't even feel it. It may be mundane, but with this, I will save lives!
Unless, of course, I am shot, not immune to that. | 2017-08-06T14:04:02 | 2017-08-06T13:13:41 | 65 | 27 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I couldn’t understand why he was smiling. I watched as my father looked around almost uncertainly before setting the jug of milk on the counter. There was no apology in his smile. There was only the same warmth I remembered as a boy when he watched me score a goal in soccer. Nonetheless it did nothing to diffuse the ra... | I was all like, where've you been? And he said that as he was leaving the grocery a time portal opened up, and deposited him at this exact moment.
"Well at least you brought the milk." I said.
"Of course son, I'd never forget the milk."
Then, as if in a moment frozen in time, we both looked down at the carton and rea... | 2022-05-13T11:22:44 | 2017-11-19T15:56:41 | 1,516 | 662 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Zander grinned, a wide shark teeth grin as he looked upon the beaten human they tied down. She was unconscious and bleeding from multiple cuts the flageis had inflicted himself. He glanced over at the assistant who was looking rather green around the gills. With a curt nod the boy pulled the lever and woke the human ge... | "So you split the atom and then all this crap comes flying out and it decimates entire cities?"
Robert thought being probed by the aliens was intrusive enough but this new line of interrogation was proving more uncomfortable then the intial insertion of the Probulator 9000 he was being subjected to.
"Well, yah pre... | 2019-12-19T05:52:46 | 2019-12-19T04:46:01 | 30 | 13 |
[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. | "You need rules? For war?"
"Oh do we ever."
"Well that's just ridiculous! How the hell do you issue 'rules' for war? War is war!"
"You don't know much about our history, do you?"
The human clicked his pen impatiently as the alien investigator pulled up their historical records on his computer.
"Oh you humans are l... | Title: Message in a bottle
An alien spaceship detects a storage vessel floating through space. Inside they find a hand written alien message, and a key for decoding the language. After some study by their crew, the message is translated …
Greetings. I will be quick and to the point. Who I am is no matter. By the time... | 2022-01-23T16:23:11 | 2022-01-23T16:09:24 | 103 | 58 |
[WP] People believe the Gods decide all of our fates, but they've actually been rolling d20s to make decisions for millions of years | "Yes! I can finally use Historic Figure points!" - Claimed God itself after waiting his turn.
"C'mon! Give me some high stats, so this individual can change the course of humanity!" - He began to pray to his favorite set of dice, they are color coded for each attribute, pink for sex and sexuality, yellow for origins, ... | he makes a mistake
rolls to fix it in a fever
his son, now elephant head
\-
Hefestus throws his
metal-forged ironclads
snake eyes, too bad!
Volcano in Greece
\-
"Zeus will fix that"
The storm king was fierce
eighteen wasn't bad
he puts Achilles on the field
\-
We meet Jesus, on a streak
twenty after twen... | 2018-06-28T15:17:55 | 2018-06-28T15:03:10 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] Genetics is everything. There are scales for wisdom, might, HP and mana, that are used on babies right after birth. You were born into an elitist family that discarded you after seeing your mana. What they didn't know is that you were the top 99.99% in dexterity, and you hold grudges. | **Part 1**
Spellcrafting has three primary components.
First is the mana, the fuel for the spell. Every invocation requires some, and the more powerful the spell the more it consumes, and on the inverse the more you have, the more powerful your spells can become.
Second is the intent of the caster. Magic cannot be... | When I was but a newborn, my family had me cast into the woods.
They cared not for a failure like myself, so seemingly brittle, with not a trace of magic energy coursing through my bones. I would have tarnished their good name, and so they thought it better to commit infanticide than face disgrace.
Were it not for t... | 2020-02-28T03:18:19 | 2020-02-28T00:22:27 | 1,052 | 535 |
[WP] You have a nut job uncle who believes the entire government is scared shitless of him. You always laughed at his conspiracies until one day, you took him to the hospital and paramedics were rioting everywhere, people were calling the police and the PA system warned of your uncles arrival | I've always hated my uncle Fred. He is delusional, ego-centric and a fuckin' nutjob of a conspiracy theorist. He firmly believes the US government is afraid of him, and that Obama is indeed a Muslim foreigner.
Oh the times when Fred couldn't keep his big mouth shut...
Five year ago. Christmas dinner. Fred got in to ... | CODE BLUE! CODE BLUE! EAGLE SEVEN IS DOWN! WE HAVE A CODE BLUE IN FLOOR TWO!
I stared irritably at the nurse manning the desk, as she yelled calmly into the PA system. We were on floor two, me and uncle Roy, and the place was practically empty. Was this some weird joke?
"Ma'am, my uncle is... "
Footsteps stopped me ... | 2020-07-26T06:38:23 | 2020-07-26T05:44:53 | 187 | 65 |
[WP] The Magical Girls were defeated, but before their capture, they released their instrument-weapons. Formerly, they always landed in the hands of either J-pop, or K-pop girl bands but this time -for some reason- the weapons choose a Finnish Death-Metal boyband. They were PAINFULLY efficient. | It always happened, eventually. Such was the fate of the warriors on the side of light- they were granted powers, but they were mortal. They would age and they would pass their tools and duties onwards.
Not this time.
The monster sent to them was a living nightmare, and an old one at that. It ... | The dark queen jumped at the sudden explosions and crashes which had begun rocking her castle, deep within the black hole she had made into her home. The Guardians of Light, freshly defeated not six hours prior, were trapped in stasis cages near her throne. She had been savoring the idea of siphoning their cosmic energ... | 2022-08-15T11:07:33 | 2022-08-15T10:48:03 | 1,486 | 184 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth, All is lost. Demons Come from hell and saves everyone | “Well boys, this is it. I would say it’s been an honor fighting with you if I meant it. Nothing pisses me off more than knowing these slimy sons of bitches have gotten the best of us. God dammit I thought we had ‘em! We were so damn close too… Well as long as I’ve got breath in my lungs and rounds in my clip I ain’t ab... | She couldn't believe it. Above her, the sky burned, the setting sun casting the blue hue into bloody fire streaked through the heavens. The last cruiser overhead crumbled and buckled, listing heavily as the damaged engines fought, and lost, against gravity.
"How..." her words trailed off as the figures, her saviors... | 2014-06-28T22:04:29 | 2014-06-28T21:59:59 | 119 | 14 |
[WP] You are kidnapped by a cult, and they are about to sacrifice you to their god. They don't know that you are that god. | It was all going according to plan. It was only recently that I had allowed myself not only to take human form, but to be kidnapped by the Cult of Kalaku. Soon, the foolish humans would know me for who I truly was.
They had kept me in a closet for what had to be 24 hours at this point, neglecting me food and bathroom ... | The saliquii were a myth of the olden man; a ruin of the civilisation, dead from the battles which raged this earth for centuries. Legend speaks of them in many tones; some revere them, as their Warriors were told to carry golden spears into battle that shone so brightly under the sun their enemies would be blinded. Ot... | 2016-08-14T12:26:28 | 2016-08-14T10:42:56 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] You are a human who are friends with vampires. One day, you joked that if you were ever dying, just let it be. Now, after getting into a car accident as you lay bleeding on the side of the road, the vampires are unsure of what to do. | "Mary, stop!" shouted Henry, as he grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back. "He said he doesn't want it. You have no right."
"But he had no idea it would end like THIS.", she gestured toward the crumpled body laying on the sidewalk. Tire skid marks leading toward, and then away from it, terminating in the Mustang tha... | *I lifted her head, she looked at me and said, "Hold me, darling, just a little while"...*
"Are you fucking kidding me?!"
I strained to lift my head up and saw the panicked look on my friends' faces. "What do you mean?" I choked out.
"You're practically dying in my arms here and you're fucking SINGING?!" Angela scre... | 2020-09-08T08:32:26 | 2020-09-08T08:09:06 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Humans aren't the strongest, or the most advanced, species in the galaxy, but they are the most vengeful and persistent. They evolved as persistence predators. If you wrong them, they are willing to follow you across the stars and can spend years working to get back at you for what you did. | The twin stars, Eldark and Ildark, shine upon me as they have shone upon my ancestors. Black trees bubble to the surface, glittering, and there's purple smoke on the horizon.
"There are stronger materials, but cephalim is what I grew up with. So it bleeds a little. So what? It never bothered me."
Viluvian carefully t... | I do not have time for this today. I’ve got memos to write and clothes to pick out for the Dyson-sphere inauguration at Cetis Prime and three-hundred of my genefixed-children have asked for a formal audience to discuss their inheritance and now this so-called hoo-mahn shows up with what my HUD says is a look of melodra... | 2022-08-09T14:42:33 | 2022-08-09T14:38:55 | 107 | 32 |
[WP] You have been blessed with immortality and are the greatest warrior, but 1000 years ago, a witch cursed you for killing her daughter, making you unable to wield a blade again. Fortunately, guns were invented, and now you’re back in business. | "Really? That's it?"
The warrior said, dawning a confused look.
"What...? What do you mean?"
He folded his arms, rolling over the information in his head before laying it out for the decrepit hag.
"You gave a huge speech about this curse you were going to lay upon me, waved your arms around and created some crazy... | The few hundred years of hiding did me well. Its almost like everyone forgot me, who I was. Who I am, what I did. But Thats all changed now, after the witch hunts and purge, nothing is left of the old magic. Its 1465 and a man created a lightning stick. Something that can reach out and kill a man from meters away. It w... | 2021-01-01T14:39:46 | 2021-01-01T14:09:11 | 434 | 18 |
[WP] "So you summoned me... to fight?" the demon said. "I wield a scythe and my title is the Reaping Demon, how could it be possibly be more clear I help with farming? | The Reaper was relaxing after a long day of reaping in the usual manner--his coziest armchair, a good book (the latest John Grisham), and a spot of tea. But as he lifted his cup for a sip, he couldn't help but notice that he was no longer in his mansion, but instead within a summoning circle, in the confines or some so... | I would swing my scythe, grass exploding with the fragrance of lemon zest, a farmer's brow sweat glistening in the sun and I'd mow and I'd harvest and I'd cut the hairs of the earth as crows cawed and larks sang and when the job was done I would return to the place beyond the living.
You're here to decapitate a sadist... | 2021-12-28T07:45:24 | 2021-12-28T07:25:04 | 93 | 58 |
[WP] A time traveller from the 1930's travels to modern day in his time machine and wonders why his invention never caught on. | *Still no flying cars,* the gentleman scribbles in a leatherbound notebook, seemingly oblivious to how much of a spectacle he is in the middle of the road in the middle of Times square. The machine behind him, something akin to a hobbyhorse with far too many gears and pipes, sputters and coughs, and he uses the noteboo... | "Why haven't you heard about me? My invention clearly works! This groundbreaking machine is evidently one of the most important discoveries in human history. Surely that should have somehow made the news!"
"Sorry, never heard your name. Let's google it... don't ask. Ah, here it is. Born in 1898... Immigrated in 1920 t... | 2014-10-09T08:17:56 | 2014-10-09T07:43:33 | 357 | 194 |
[WP] You are a supervillain who has just captured your rival's child. Rather than being afraid, they're begging you to let them stay. | The son of Thunderclap laid asleep in his cell, in a bed behind a plasma barrier. My soldiers had taken him from his home just a few hours ago. My machinations were finally coming to fruition. After all this time, I finally held some power over that mighty bastard.
The boy tossed and turned, shaking awake. I walked to... | As my henchmen dumped her on the floor unceremoniously, I stalked over from my window overlooking the city. "What did you do?! I thought I told you to capture her peacefully! Didn't the quick knockout work?"
"It did," my lead hench, Brian, said. "She's been in full panic mode ever since she woke up. I tried to help, b... | 2022-04-06T21:46:12 | 2022-04-06T21:15:20 | 58 | 38 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Just like that?" I asked.
"Just like that." the priest responded.
No way it could be that easy. The priest looked at me with a small smile on his face. Is there a joke I'm not in on? His robes ruffled as he produced a long stem pipe, and began to fill it.
"How long has this been happening?" I asked, watching h... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T11:45:32 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 170 | 80 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Generally when somebody talks about "powers" they usually refer to those in the big leagues. Pyrokenesis, mind reading, invisibility, through fate's hand these powers were what my peers received. Then, there was me.
Usually those with gifts tend to look down on those without. Those without gifts harbour jealousy and d... | I was powerless. I was disowned by my superhero parents. Everyday I suffered with the bullies giving me the worst wedgies in school.
The day the gift came really made me happy. I immediately folded people in half --- crushing their beloved spines. 70% of the people of the city are now dead.
"Who's useless now?" I sai... | 2017-06-12T07:55:08 | 2017-06-12T06:49:33 | 138 | 15 |
[WP] Panic spreads amongst the African Vampire community after Toto blesses the rains. | *Tanzania, February 1983*
Kaisi hummed along to the radio as he tidied his house. His sister was coming to visit tomorrow night, and he liked things to be tidy anyway. This would probably be the last time she visited him for a few months, as the rainy season would be starting any day now, and she was always busy at th... | Wakanda holds many secrets.
The first was our very existence. Hidden from the world, our ancestors preferred the shadows, like the panthers who protect us. Recent events have caused our King to step out of the darkness, to make himself and our city known.
But we still hold our deepest secrets. The King of Wakanda c... | 2018-06-11T09:06:22 | 2018-06-11T08:54:17 | 1,291 | 266 |
[WP] You are a magical being with an odd hobby: Whenever someone makes someone up, be they a fake boyfriend to look less sad, a dying aunt to get out of doing something, you pretend to be that person to mess with the liar. | I froze. That was the only explanation I could come up with. The third time my grandma asked me when I was finally going to bring a nice man home to meet her before she passes (though I have no doubt she'll outlive us all) I froze. And from my frozen lips fell the most outrageous thing I'd ever heard myself say.
And t... | "She's coming," he laughed. "She must be." He'd lied. He had built his house of cards, and he was desperately hoping it wouldn't fall too catastrophically.
It all started about two months ago. He'd been backed into a corner, and, paniced, he told his family and friends that he did, in fact, have a girlfriend from co... | 2020-02-18T11:37:20 | 2020-02-18T10:57:40 | 663 | 117 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | The one moment of the day that made it all worth it was just hearing her voice in the morning. Always starting with those same 8 words. Stiff and corporate sounding, but he thought he detected a new hint of warmth behind them the last couple of weeks.
They'd had their share of jokes and small talk at the counter the... | 2014-12-18T09:54:46 | 2014-12-17T22:16:22 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] You get quite offended when people automatically assume you’re an ILLEGAL necromancer! You worked hard to get your degree/license, and the severed arms you wear around your neck were legally acquired from an organ donor! And you only wear them because they help you channel necrotic energies! | “Look, I don’t want to have to speak to your supervisor over this so I’ll say it slowly for you. I. Work. Here.”
Michelle felt the handcuffs bite into her wrists again, and she glowered over at the officer ruffling through her bag. If he messed up her jar of toes spell she would make sure there was hell to pay.
“Su... | It becomes irritating after a short while. All the staring and hushed whispers. When I had gotten out of school, I though it made me intimidating and cool, like the Necromancers I’d seen in movies. But it’s got irritating having the police called whenever I try and go to out for some mead and a mutton leg. OH, I’M **SO... | 2021-02-14T14:06:11 | 2021-02-14T13:37:13 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, but the location of your death determines what you are reincarnated as. You are the first person to die in space. | When I died, I cried myself into the eternal embrace. I was completely paralyzed from the neck down, meaning I could breathe, wail, cry tears... and that was it. When my oxygen ran out... or I starved to death... I'm not entirely sure. I was pretty delusional.
It felt strange waking up in a pink liquid in a dimly lit ... | This is my half-assed attempt:
"Well, congratulations! You're out of the wheel!" said a voice from nowhere.
Nikolay was wondering what happened as he turned his head everywhere for visual information in the lack of such, pitch black. "What wheel?" he said, afraid of the unknown.
"Of life, of course."
"Bozhe moy" Sorr... | 2017-05-29T16:29:32 | 2017-05-29T11:56:16 | 300 | 64 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | [WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible.
-
Reggie mashed his hands together and felt the sweat between his palms. He stared down at them and wiped the excess moisture off on his jeans. “Don’t think about it ... | I open the drawer of the desk on which the console with the button sits. Hurrah there's a binder that reads "manual - a quick start guide". Inside the binder is only one sheet with the same text and it reads "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who are inconsi... | 2015-10-21T13:57:19 | 2015-10-21T13:52:35 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Your quiet life in the suburbs is shaken up when your neighbor casually claims he is a lizard person. Doubting him, you decide to start monitoring him for any suspicious behavior. After all, you didn't see him at the last lizard people reunion. | “I’m a lizard person.”
“What?”
“I’m actually a lizard. A reptile. But don’t tell anyone, bro.” Mike passes me the joint, like nothing’s changed, like he just said the sky was pretty tonight, and thought nothing more of it.
I force a laugh. “What?”
“I have no way of proving it to you. But that’s what I am.”
I could... | **Journal Log 1:**
*"Today, I may have just come across the worse discovery of my generation. For eons, the Gigorian Lizard race has thought of themselves as the true apex of the Earth, the ones who would rise from the ashes of the apocalypse. Our scaly skin can survive the worst of temperatures, and our expert reptil... | 2019-05-13T22:55:15 | 2019-05-13T21:38:16 | 260 | 98 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Just like that?" I asked.
"Just like that." the priest responded.
No way it could be that easy. The priest looked at me with a small smile on his face. Is there a joke I'm not in on? His robes ruffled as he produced a long stem pipe, and began to fill it.
"How long has this been happening?" I asked, watching h... | I'm gonna be honest, I was a little disappointed. I mean, I'm no fighter or anything, much less a hero, but I don't know.....I just thought something more, well, *interesting* would happen.
Maybe I'd be given some magical armour and sword, and all kinds of crazy powers and knowledge would just be absorbed into me, th... | 2020-11-09T11:45:32 | 2020-11-09T11:06:17 | 170 | 85 |
[WP] Tell me about the american version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
[The houses are, of course, Wolfthorn, Hawkridge, Foxcrest, and Bearglove.](http://i.imgur.com/HzLe3qz.jpg)
This is in the United States. Harry Potter's actions didn't effect anyone here, except give them some stories to tell.
Wh... | The Rocky Mountain Institute for Magical Talents had been founded when witches and wizards ventured West, seeking asylum from the trials in Salem. This would be the second school opened in North America, accepting students from Western Canada and America. Locations for the school have been presumed to be in the vicinit... | From *Magical Education Across The World* by Rory Shamble, Chapter 6: American Education, paragraphs 1-4.
Magical Education in the Americas is, unlike that in Asia or Africa, based in large part upon the magical traditions of the European continent. It is, however, much less established, owing to their recent founding... | 2014-12-07T19:07:59 | 2014-12-07T17:48:13 | 125 | 24 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
------
*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
------
*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the god damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
-----
May... | The world's population of 7.4 billion is shrunk by .0000049 percent of its population each year due to the button's victims. Meanwhile, 2 billion people starve in the first year as money is devalued; everyone has essentially the same income for doing nothing which results in massive inflation and lack of goods (see Ven... | 2016-07-16T19:30:28 | 2016-07-16T17:32:43 | 113 | 52 |
[WP] You and your bestfriend are made immortal. However you both are given a pistol with one bullet in it, the only thing able to kill either of you is the bullet in the other persons gun. | I stepped into the bright light outside. It was a bright and sunny mid-July day and it was absolutely beautiful out. Unfortunately, the day did not match my mood. I leaned back against the wall and lit a cigarette. Yet another unfortunate incident, I didn't even get to enjoy a moment of silence before my best friend ca... | George Paterson had been the most energetic, unruly youth John had known when he was little. Having a short attention span and a general disregard for authorities himself, it was probably what drew them to each other in the first place. While the educational merits of the occasional school-skipping might be debatable –... | 2017-07-11T02:26:29 | 2017-07-11T02:08:35 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] "No man can kill me!" the monster roars. You know the prophecy. You intend to buy your companions time to flee, sacrificing yourself. You are just as surprised as everyone else when you manage to kill the monster. | "Huh. That was anti-climactic." And turn back to the gear I had dropped. Checking the various empty bags I would be expected to carry once the party looted the monster's lair. Magdalen the magnificent, real name Roy, came over to me as I checked to make sure the tins for supper were still available.
"So uhm, Richard."... | \[Poem\]
Baxter thought himself doomed,
So he sallied forth to save his friends,
With lance in hand he charged,
Ready to face his end.
But strike the beast he did,
And overran it with his spear,
The beast twitched a moment,
And Baxter waited in fear.
But the beast did not rise again,
Much to his surpri... | 2022-06-27T18:12:40 | 2022-06-27T18:03:33 | 77 | 47 |
[WP] You've kept your immortality secret for thousands of years. Thats going to be a lot harder now that your on a generation ship on a 2000 year voyage. | It has been challenging keeping my immortality a secret on board the Volatilis. We are little more than a thousand years into our journey and I have not aged a single day.
I could tell them of course - but humanity scares easily and is notorious for overreacting. I have no desire to be thrown out of the craft and into... | There's a space whale outside the porthole, possibly the last one of its kind, and I've never felt more affinity with another creature before. The night sky spills out behind it, black as ink, dotted with the white whorls of galaxies. From here they look small as ants.
The whale cruises slowly beside the bridge of t... | 2016-07-06T06:54:52 | 2016-07-06T06:40:50 | 1,037 | 196 |
[WP] As you arrive in Heaven, you are confident you have lived your best life. You proudly exclaim you are ready to have your soul judged. An angel walks by with diced carrots and chicken stock under his arm and says, “Did you say ‘soul’? Please don’t tell me Earth still has the copy with typos...” | It was all little too on the nose. The long hair, white linen and the bright overhead lights brought an overwhelming sense of deja vu that I had seen this place before on television.
“I’m sorry? I’m not quite sure I understand what you mean.” I sputtered before sheepishly adding an “Oh heavenly one.”
He rolled his e... | Fuck me. Of all the dumb and asinine things in the after life, the merit of a human's existence is based on fucking soup?
Alright. Just stay calm. I can do this. I can cook soup. I died watching a Gordon Ramsay video while driving for fucks sake.
What do we have here? Ok. Carrots. Those are important. Celery? Also imp... | 2020-11-24T17:13:20 | 2020-11-24T17:06:29 | 1,543 | 756 |
[WP] At the age of eighteen, you can choose when and how you will die. Seeing a loophole, somebody choose today and a nuclear bomb. | The time was coming for 'The Decision.' In this day and age, nearly all biological life could be controlled and influenced by humans, and the government. Every year, on the 2nd of January, the children in America becoming adults within the following calendar year had to decide; not only when or where they would go to s... | Often, the sun shines, and the moon lifts the waves. At eighteen, you're presented with three choices
One: ignorantly live life;
Two: knowingly live life;
Three: selectively live life.
Most people choose to live life ignorantly, the wise choose knowingly, and the dangerous don't live long enough to select.
Often, a ... | 2018-07-18T08:01:26 | 2018-07-18T08:00:48 | 71 | 13 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | I like tea, coffee too. I actually know a lot about either. If you asked me to explain the difference between a latte and a macchiato, I could do that. If you asked me what the difference between the taste of rose petals and rosebuds in tea, I could do that too. I could hold a lecture all about the *vast* difference be... |
“Hey Bill, what are you doing?” The bubbly intern bounced into the room and peeked over his shoulder. Without thinking he shifted his attention from the pot of water to her. They both made a mistake that day.
She fell quickly. Her skin bubbled and she silently writhed on the floor. He sighed exasperatedly and ran hi... | 2019-07-30T16:15:31 | 2019-07-30T15:43:49 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| It was dark and somber the last few hours before we were suppose to touch down. We didn't know what we were going into, but we had a mission.
The alarm blared.
I clench my rifle. I was ready.
The door opened.
"Get ready to die motherfu- wha..."
It was my friend Steve. One of the astronauts on the first manned mis... |
The unexpected transmission had, in an instant, shattered the excitement that had minutes ago been seeping from the room. As Daniel scanned the room, he observed faces of mourning, gazes lowering as his eyes met theirs. What could have possibly gone wrong?
It was only two days ago they had been triumphant, achieved... | 2019-01-31T12:01:23 | 2019-01-31T11:25:23 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] A married woman saves an uninteresting Japanese high schooler from a truck crash, but dies in the process. She wakes up in a world of adventure and harems, clearly made for the boy. | The last thing Nozomi remembered was her body acting on instinct, leaping out onto a road to save an inattentive high schooler from an incoming truck. There was the pain afterwards, but it cut off abruptly, like a television losing electricity.
She never thought much about death. It was the sort of thing that people w... | **"Welcome to Fantasia!!!"** The inexplicably busty pixie bobbed up and down around Doctor Healrow's head as she blearily blinked awake. "Now, Hero, I'm sure you have a lot of—*glack!*'
Doctor Healrow grabbed the pixie out of the air, frowning at it. "You have breasts," she said, turning the fairy over. "But you clear... | 2022-06-07T21:01:03 | 2022-06-07T18:42:14 | 1,721 | 392 |
[WP] A former child star has given up fame and fortune to pursue a career in academia. PhD candidate Jaden Smith presents his dissertation in Philosophy, "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real" | Once Again, Thank You To The Members Of This Committee, To All Those In Attendance, To My Adviser Dr. Otto Emordanillap, And To This Institution.
In My Humble Opinion It Is Ludicrous That Philosophy Is In Such A State That Both Mirrors And Eyes Are Considered To Be Real, That Is, Actual In Their Being. The Only Thing ... | In the instance of a perfect mirror all light would theoretically reflect off of it without being altered by the mirror's surface. This fundamentally makes it impossible for us to observe the mirror itself due to the nature in which our eyes perceive reality, which is through analyzing photons over time, meaning we can... | 2015-05-31T00:37:56 | 2015-05-30T23:06:50 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story in JavaScript, C#, or another computer language. | ++++++++
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*/
package life;
import java.util.Date;
/**
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* @author Mr. Miyagi's mom and dad
*/
public class Life {
Human miyagi;
public Life(String name){
miyagi = new Human(name);
Live();
}
public void Live(){
if(miyagi.isAlive()){
miya... | 2014-08-14T21:34:55 | 2014-08-14T15:48:34 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] After years of searching you've found bigfoot, but not the actual being, but the grave. You see several other figures, holiday figures to be exact, all crowded around paying respects. One of them starts to tell you the tale of "The Holiday That Was Never Meant to celebrated" | I cut off a few branches from the tree in front of me and stepped into the clearing illuminated by the morning sun. And the scene I saw was, well, impossible. I'd think it was more likely that I was near some psychedelic flowers or something than the the scene in front of me being real.
And this is form the guy who's... | Many, many, many years ago, every Holiday was celebrated together by all the people of Holiday Land. Santa and the Elves dressed up for Halloween and left the North Pole for trick or treating. The Easter Bunnies gave gifts on Christmas and decorated their hollows and bushes. The ghosts and ghouls hid chocolate eggs in ... | 2017-03-25T08:45:55 | 2017-03-25T08:25:43 | 187 | 56 |
[WP] An elevator suddenly appears in your one story house. Every night at midnight exactly, it opens for 5 minutes. Inside is an exact copy of you. Each night, the copy is progressively more injured than the night before. | (This is my first wp but I'm clearly getting something different from this prompt than others so I thought I'd chime in.)
I was up drinking and watching nothing on tv the first night when the wallpaper was dragged upwards by a steel door that dinged and opened. Times like this I'm happy I'm on lithium. It limits my ... | Maybe it's prescience. Maybe it's scientific or religious or some weird brand of pagan nonsense.
The elevator is there every night. It appears in my room, in the corner, next to the window. The first night was terrifying, he didn't ask me anything. He didn't say anything. He stood there, making eye contact.
I took a ... | 2018-05-19T00:52:05 | 2018-05-18T19:02:00 | 211 | 77 |
[WP] An Alien must explain to a Human that Earth is not a paradise for life, it is the most horrific Death World ever discovered. | !xreent looked at John with true desperation in their features.
"You can't go back to Earth! It's too dangerous!"
John looked down at the alien child. !xreent was an insectoid being that vaguely resembled a 3-foot-tall praying mantis with an extra set of articulated eyes and antennae. John looked behind them to two ... | We were walking in the village again, Samantha, Matthew, and I. I couldn't help but recall the hut we went by, it was the first hut in the village that we entered and asks who we should ask. I can't say I even remember what we asked. But the two people inside couldn't help us. It seemed like such a disappointment at th... | 2022-12-08T05:49:39 | 2022-12-08T05:45:18 | 140 | 45 |
[WP] A superhero who has been fighting a supervillain for many years suddenly realizes that all the 'evil' things the villain has done have ended up doing good in the long run.
EDIT: Wow. Was not expecting this to blow up so much. I woke up in the middle of the night, half-asleep, with this idea for a writing prompt. ... | “See this?” ZeeRoed slid a picture across the table. Tapping his gloved finger on one of the faces. “He was nine years old. 1983. Which scheme was it that time?”
“1983 . . . Ha! He wasn’t the only death. I recall twelve from the news, all buried, all irretrievable, all mourned, HAHA! You tried and failed as usu... | They finally had him cornered.
A lone young man, no older than 20, dressed in a black hoodie and navy jeans, stood on the edge of a bisected superhighway. The drop behind him was several hundred feet, but that wasn't the most threatening thing to him at the moment.
a crowd of characters stood before him, some tall, s... | 2014-07-14T07:21:13 | 2014-07-14T07:04:17 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T07:03:44 | 975 | 36 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | *NOTE: Repost from similar prompt.*
"No one visits. No one calls. Dear Lord, if you could send someone, anyone, just to even talk...," Genevieve broke off sobbing. Even God didn't seem to be listening anymore.
A day later. A phone call. A young woman who just needed someone to talk to, someone who was thinking silly... | "Hello?" Her voice was raspy and I strained to hear. "Are you there?" she repeated softly. "I'm here to talk to you." I looked down at myself; the cuts on my arms still fresh with blood, the bottle of pills sitting on the bathroom sink, the bloody scissors laying on the floor...
"I can't do this anymore," I whispered ... | 2016-02-06T14:38:34 | 2016-02-06T13:24:15 | 43 | 29 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "But I want to meet her *now*! You are *my* genie, and as you said yourself, "whatever I desire is mine" except in that weirdo genie riddle-talk. I said I want to see my future wife, so where is she?" Beads of magical sweat rafted through the furrow in Gal'Mundo's brow. He glanced aside as if to consider something, the... | "Are you sure you want to make that wish?" The genie said.
"You might be disappointed at what you find"
"I don't care..." The lonely boy sighed, "I want to see her."
The genie frowned, unconvinced. The boy was simple minded and foolish. Too young to understand. Yet, a wish was a wish. He must fulfill his word.
"Ve... | 2014-06-05T08:56:13 | 2014-06-05T08:29:11 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] The great zombie outbreak started 2 years ago. You now find yourself trapped in a corner by a zombie, when you do the unthinkable and bite it first. It suddenly drops to the floor, grows it’s skin back and asks what’s going on. | “What the hell?” His voice spoke before mine. I tried to stagger back, running into the corner of a fence I’d been pushed up against. A crispy, fleshy taste lingered on my tongue. I licked my sleeve in an attempt to wipe it off... to no avail.
My best friend of twenty-something years stood in front of me. The dark gre... | "W-What's going on?!" the stranger asked while shivering on the floor.
"What the hell, h-how are...what?! I think out loud, questioning my existence.
We didn't have much time to sit around and inquire our current situation, zombies were surrounding us at every corner.
"Hey you, what's going on?! The last thing I rem... | 2020-02-18T19:02:33 | 2020-02-18T14:56:32 | 212 | 81 |
[WP] You're Satan, and for years you've brought gifts of your own personal touch to the dyslexic children of the world who send you letters. This year, As you step out of a chimney, you come face to face with Santa, who's ready to stop you or die trying. | “Lucifer!”
I looked up from the chimney and watched as a sleigh landed in front of me. The man that clambered out of the front was… well I wouldn’t call him a friend. More of a workplace associate, if anything.
“How’s it going, Kris? Nice night for flying.”
He glared at me. “You know why I’m here.” He pointed at the... | "What are you doing here?"
"What are *you*, Lucifer? I thought you were still too busy hating on God to do anything useful."
Satan scowled. He didn't like people using his name.
"I'm just adding my own little flair to the holidays. After all, I *do* get some letters..." Satan chuckles.
Santa's anger increases, and ... | 2019-09-11T20:44:24 | 2019-09-11T17:38:52 | 84 | 37 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Never piss off a witch with a thing for statistics, that's what I'd tell my teenage self if I had a time machine.
Ever since that day I've been cursed to be average. Not mediocre. Average. At **everything**.
In my head things still seem clear but it's as if everything gets passed through the average filter.
Not m... | "You are so...average!", my boyfriend told me one day. "I would normally dump you, but I can't find a reason, because I have no real reason. You look average, your mind is average and your personality doesn't either bother or intrigue me."
"Well, let's make this an average break-up, because I can't stand being an aver... | 2018-10-24T07:42:20 | 2018-10-24T07:31:51 | 850 | 68 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. |
A camera flashes as I open the car door and, elegant as ever, Amile steps out before extending her hand to me, hoop bracelets sliding down her wrist and stopping against the contour of her hand. Her long fingers are decorated with rings. There are three more camera flashes before I finally accept her hand and e... | "I'll be at your Door at 4 sharp"
"Leila, you know I'm always on time" I said with as lovely a voice I could.
With a cute kiss over the phone, She hung up.
Who would've known that the Depressed and Broken lady on the public bus was the Lady destined to my dreams. Perfect for me, inside out. Purest of souls and sof... | 2017-06-14T09:14:40 | 2017-06-14T07:58:26 | 3,550 | 195 |
[WP] You see numbers above people, telling how many people they will kill given they keep on the same track. Last month you met a seemingly ordinary person with the number 7,431,323,210, or the total population of the Earth.
Edit: Well this blew up.
First of all, I'd like to thank all the talented writers for taking ... | 58 years of living and now I'm on my deathbed.
I don't understand why the doctors need to hide their secret from me: I'm dying and I know it. I've had several heart attacks over the years and it seems reasonable that I'm about to get a heart failure soon. My limbs feel like cotton candy, my heart races as if I'm on a ... | Deep breath.
It was dark out. Nobody should be out this late. The bars had emptied. The drunks had all stumbled home. The nightlife had even quieted.
It was this time of night Atticus relished. A time when everything was still. No noise but the buzzing of the streetlights, casting their ruddy orange pools onto the s... | 2017-01-07T23:16:46 | 2017-01-07T23:16:35 | 183 | 95 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | "Howdy," said Herod, clapping an arm around me, a shower of maggots falling from his side. "Mister special," Herod snarled, showing a mouthful of rotting teeth. "Mister number one, is that it."
"Oh, shut it," Jehoram snarled. "Just because you're mad at not being special anymore. I used to be the last one! Figured th... | A young man came down the stairway to hell. His walk was slow, his view broken and mindlessly focused on his own feet.
As he came nearer the markings on his neck became apparent. His face had a lovely purple hue which beautifully contrasted his black clothing. When he reached the gates, he didn't even look the Unholy ... | 2016-10-14T07:39:31 | 2016-10-14T05:48:38 | 596 | 53 |
[WP] The truffala tree fell and the being revealed itself deck out in combat gear "I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees! But this time around I sting like the bees! Heed my one warning these trees won't be harmed, because I am the Lorax and I'm f***ing armed!" | "Jerry?"
"Yeah Mike?"
"What is our life?"
"Uh, is this one of those philosophical questions where there's no right answe-"
"No you dipshit, *why* are we being hunted by a pint-sized orange gremlin with a moustache!?"
The staccato of gunfire rang true across the clearing, a melodious ensemble of destruction as thei... | [Poem]
You are not needed
And these trees will not be sneeded!
The trees can not speak
But I am not so meek.
I will not stand by
And I am done asking why.
I am here to make this stop
There is nothing you will chop.
I may be alone and you in a band
But here I make my stand.
These trees will not be ha... | 2022-03-31T18:48:52 | 2022-03-31T17:31:55 | 140 | 92 |
[WP] One day, every city that shares a name has a portal open up, connecting them all with each other. Paris, Texas has a great time with it, and many cities celebrate their new neighbors. You, however, live in Hell, Michigan, and things are starting to get strange. | "Hey, can I get, uh... a Big Mac?"
"Y-Yeah, sure. Do you mean the... Big Mac combo meal?
"Sure, why not."
"Wait, I also want a Big Mac."
"C'mon, Beelz, we talked about this."
"What?"
"I mean, it's already hard enough to control literal gluttony but now you're breaking your own rules!"
"Well, I'm sorry, I like f... | “Hey James, pass me the lava bits.” James was usually a horrible roommate, but he was doing okay recently. James is a human man that walked through the portal a week ago. We are best buddies now, but he was a pain in the fiery a** at first. This guy thought it was ok to wear his dirty sneakers in my crimson-floored hom... | 2020-09-25T15:59:44 | 2020-09-25T15:06:53 | 132 | 92 |
[WP] You are an immortal that got sentenced to permanent burial over 1000 years ago. Today a team of archaeologists just dug you up. | Dust falls a beam of light sweeps my face, my hairs stand on end as the first gust of air rolls over me, my sarcophagus opens there's a man there his gaze meets mine as he falls back, he looks strange very pale as if some great sickness has befallen him as my eyes adjust I see more of these pale men women as well, my m... | I wake up to sounds blaring and lights flashing. Everything is hazy. I see a figure shamble towards me. I lift my arm up but they are chained down. I start to pull my arms tensing up every muscle to get free. The figure approaches i can hear it begin to snarl at me. I quickly react by grabbing its head and slamming it ... | 2019-10-26T01:25:26 | 2019-10-25T23:52:47 | 37 | 25 |
[WP] A spaceship lands downtown. A being emerges with a clearly confused look on its face. All he says is "you guys are still here?!" | I finished drinking my coffee. My phone beeped at me that a new text message arrived. I sighed and pulled the phone from my pocket.
As I pulled the phone out a great gust of wind kicked up the leaves around me. It blew back my hair and blasted my face with dust. It had been dead calm just seconds before.
I looked ar... | It continues speaking. "We thought we gathered all of you".
"This is not the way you are supposed to be living. Did you not decipher the readings of The Great Book? Did Stonehenge not show you the way? The Stargate was left intact so if there was any stragglers then you had the chance to join us."
"The pyramids that ... | 2015-02-09T17:23:40 | 2015-02-09T15:48:58 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] "Passengers, this isn't your captain speaking"
Write any plot using this sentence | This isn't your captain speaking.
Well, I'm sort of your captain. Just not the captain of the plane.
Don't worry - everything is going to be fine. Well, sort of. Look, I'm not explaining this very well.
Right now, you're looking around and realizing that no on else is moving. You're thinking that I must be god or s... | "Ladies and gentlemen, idiotic passengers, this isn't your captain speaking. Rather, a highly trained dancing monkey. Are you comfortable? Did the trolly dollies give you a more than adequate share of shit food? Did you pay a rather high price for your alcoholic beverage because you're an autistic alcoholic? Good! I do... | 2015-02-02T15:34:34 | 2015-02-02T13:10:28 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You awake as a young child. Your memory is foggy. Many of the things around you seem out of place - you ask what the day is, and nobody seems to know. To your surprise, there's no calendars. You don't even know what year it is, and the thought of "year numbers" makes others think you're crazy. | The tinkling tones of my alarm slowly lift me from the strangest dream. It had been years since I dreamed. What a delight. I slip across the floor on padded feet and paw at the door glyph. I should tell Father Belat. He loves dreams.
The Primary had not yet risen, but distant Second sat over the skyline. Father Belat ... | “I don’t know who I am”.
That was the first thought that rushed into my mind as I opened my eyes. I bolted up in panic, my mind sending out alarm signals.
“I don’t know where I am”.
That was the second thought that burst into my mind, slamming open the door and screaming. The room around me was a child’s room. It... | 2020-03-01T13:31:15 | 2020-03-01T12:26:29 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I used to like my room. It seemed like a bubble. Whenever there was stress, or worries, or anything else I would simply shut the door and pretend nothing existed outside of these 4 walls.
The first time I noticed something was wrong was when I went to go get my tortoise some lettuce for dinner. My door wouldn't open.... | The mouse idea didn't work. I knew it was another troll, but I can't just sit here doing nothing, can I... Can I? No, no, I have to keep trying before I run out of air. I mean logically it makes no sense, putting the mouse inside my anus has no possible relation to the phenomena effecting my doors and windows, but *non... | 2016-01-31T12:52:58 | 2016-01-31T10:29:29 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] Some assassins are paid extra to make deaths look accidental. Your job is the opposite. You're hired for those rare instances in which accidental or natural deaths need to appear as if they were murders. | *This should be the easiest job yet.*
I pulled into the prison parking lot, stopping my fairly ordinary looking hatchback, with just a bit more than legal tint in the windows, in my usual spot under the tree. You see, prisons actually pay me to do my job quite often- poor healthcare, food that barely sustains life, an... | There is a special art in making something out of nothing. Yes, yes, we all know that one guy who argues that the world is flat by ignoring the facts, but that is not an art so much as it is, well, ignorant. And thus, you have come to me. To claim that extra payout from life insurance or maybe it's just a more convenie... | 2020-07-20T20:36:58 | 2020-07-20T19:23:29 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | I was writing my new novel, when suddenly a flash of light filled my room, and with a \*thud\*, a figure could be seen, kneeling in front of me.
He was even kneeling, a sturdy, tall looking man, with short golden brown hair, sky blue eyes, rather rough skin, wearing a full body silver armour.
He also had a sword. ... | "Why? If you could get rid of evil altogether, why didn't you?"
Even now, with a sword pointed at my throat and a trembling warrior at the other end, I couldn't help but chuckle. For someone I had put through so much pain and misery, who had seen so much of the world and its evils, they were still so... naïve.
"... | 2021-08-17T13:07:58 | 2021-07-31T10:37:41 | 57 | 29 |
[WP] A small kid finds a magic lamp and asks a very innocent, almost mundane wish. The genie ponders whether it can or even wants to twist and 'misunderstand' the request. | I am what you might consider the oldest being alive. The spirit of an Egyptian slave, trapped with dark sorcery within the confines of a lamp, I am forced to grant one wish to anyone who asks it of me. You just have to rub my lamp...
It's really fucking demeaning. I mean, come on. Rub a lamp, get whatever the hell you... | After the rubbing, a burst of light, and a dark voice.
"You now have one wish, Timmy!"
"Oh! Who are you? How did you know my name?"
"Don't be scared. Don't cry. I work in this magic lamp and you now get one wish. Make it count!"
"Mooooommmmmyyy!!"
"You are frozen in this light bubble until you make a wish. Do ... | 2016-04-30T02:19:35 | 2016-04-30T01:41:35 | 256 | 121 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | Aaron had had plenty of time to consider what his last meal would be while on trial for triple homicide. Aaron had gone from 'rambunctious child', to 'teenage delinquent', finally to cunning career criminal; and was feared in the underworld and so-called 'normal society' alike. He wasn't sorry for his crimes; nor was h... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T20:40:56 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | ######[](#dropcap)
She'd forgotten what it felt like.
She twisted the knife deeper, and the blood gushed out like a fountain from the source. That's what humans were, after all. Merely fountains of blood. The man writhed on the hard marble floors, his face contorted into a mask of agony. His body jerked involuntaril... | *Where are they?* I screamed at the bound monster sitting across of me, its face full of fresh bruises.The monster stared fiercely at me, remaining ever so silent.
I went to back room, and took out my tools.
*You see, I am not a good person, I never was, I tried to be good, I liked having a party, allies, friends, I... | 2019-12-07T11:13:29 | 2019-12-07T10:37:08 | 124 | 49 |
[WP]The heroes confront you with the legendary mystical weapon that can defeat you. Unbeknownst to them, it's actually the one thing you needed to conquer the world. You were having trouble finding it, so you started the legend of the weapon yourself, to get some poor schmuck to find it for you. | “Soul Render? You actually found it?” I asked the bloodied group in their tongue. I actually gave up searching for the cursed thing believing the ‘Hammer that can Shatter and Reforge Souls Crushed’ was a myth. Judging by their armor there was Two Paladins of different churches or ‘Orders’ based on their color scheme, a... | “Come on! The mystic’s cave is just this way! We’ve come so far on this quest, and nothing is stopping us from the treasure he promised!”
Dao, Thespin and Rin had gone through most of the Mystics map he’d given them to find it, The Mace of Enigma, coated in a metallic Titanium and Copper alloy. Inscribed in the mace ... | 2020-07-25T13:47:55 | 2020-07-25T13:38:25 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Glass crunched underfoot, and I shifted the broken glass with my foot and took in the rest of the scene. The broken windows were bad, but it was the pictures. My breath caught and I pressed my fingers over my eyes.
I'd opened this little diner back in the 80s. We were in the bad part of town, it was all I could afford... | Simple fact, if you catch more vampires with blood than stakes.
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Washington DC, other than being a hotbed for politics, is a playground for lobbyists of all types. Creates a lot of problems. The simple word on the street is, though, if the problem is weird, people pay a lot of money to have it solved, no... | 2018-10-20T23:57:04 | 2018-10-20T22:39:44 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | *"How are you still here, mortal? I have been tormenting your kind since you first sought shelter in caves. None have endured two nights of this torment, and yet you remain?!"*
"Oh hey, so I guess you're the landlord. Any chance you could look at the plumbing? I found this dope bathroom yesterday that was somehow outs... | I sat alone on the floor in a corner, weeping. Or at least I thought it was the corner. And there’s no guarantee it was actually the floor.
By now, everything here shifted in and out existence, place, and depth with each blink. My left eye could see a door ahead while the right eye saw a set of stairs. And all of it... | 2022-05-29T10:10:04 | 2022-05-29T08:21:32 | 226 | 132 |
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