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[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | "Rrrraaarrggghhhh." Shyrakas groans and smacks a control panel with a tiny paw. She's frustrated, I can tell. I don't blame her. Stupid junk pile's acting up at the worst time. The cargo freighter is fast approaching and starting to dock with us.
"I know, dude." I toss a greasy rag aside and wipe the sweat from my bro... | **OK, my human sidekick.**
You can call me Dave like you normally do, Xzorp. It's as clear as you are a seven foot tall purple being with four tentacles instead of two arms.
**Exposition complete. Now, then. I talked the to the guy working the space gas station.**
The what?
**I mean, gas station. We have a problem.... | 2020-03-05T22:25:30 | 2020-03-05T19:47:59 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | "Minister?" said the secretary. The minister was much too tired to look at her, to talk to her. He grunted a murmur.
"It's... the Queen. She's taken ill. We have about an hour until this hits the news."
"Taken ill?" It seemed unlikely at this point that anything could get into her immune system. The Iron Lady was a... | "They're starting to figure out... We've been alive too long"
"Nonsense" The Queen spoke. "This is going just the way I wanted it to"
"Listen, we've both lived our grand lives. It's about time we went and lived one more humble. We could hide away in the mountains, or maybe in a small village in Asia. "
"Let's not ge... | 2022-10-30T19:51:16 | 2018-07-08T21:36:18 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Humanity has discovered immortality but not interstellar travel. The world is in decay due to climate change and no one can escape it. As a punishment, climate change deniers are sentenced to immortality so that they can face the consequences of their actions | The courtroom was bleak, as was the sentence, but Jim wore an absurdly optimistic grin, as if he was receiving a reward rather than punishment. He, like other deniers, lived in a world free of logic, rationality, and hard-won facts. He did not live in reality.
He would soon, whether he knew it or not.
"Jim Habbert,"... | "Alex Jerredson, you stand accused of using a forbidden power source."
The judge's voice boomed throughout the court room, warning all those near not to become the next recipient of my fate.
"How do you plead?" I glare up at him and scream "GUILTY!" just like I've seen the real criminals do on TV. Perhaps if I hadn't... | 2021-02-02T11:34:06 | 2021-02-02T10:10:20 | 121 | 26 |
[WP] The evil artifact wants to slowly and insidiously corrupt the hero until the inevitable fall from grace and turn to the dark side. This is somewhat undermined by the hero demanding to be "eviled up" right now, and accepting every faustian deal without even hearing the downside. | With a heaving swing, Rorick's warhammer scattered brittle bones into the air. A rusty sword dropped to the stone floor, and the black vapor inhabiting the skeleton was banished by a blinding light. The last demon had fallen.
As the demon left, darkness, too seemed to fade. A single ray of sunlight filtered through an... | "Just fuck my shit up fam," I say to the bemused little gnome. It looks at me like it's never heard any of those words before and maybe it hasn't, being a strange, asexual thing in a world of gumdrops and happy little mushrooms.
I hate this place. I had even before I'd become it's hero.
"Look gnome," I say, "I don'... | 2021-05-04T08:47:06 | 2021-05-04T07:56:00 | 394 | 205 |
[WP] "The people needed hope. They needed a hero. And I chose you. I nurtured you. Every challenge, every trial, just a little harder than the last. And at the end, you would stop me. You would be the hero. I never wanted it to end... I never wanted you to know what I was really capable of." | Diane, by the time you read this, I will be gone. Please don’t weep for me, for I have not been a good father.
You are a smart girl, and by this time you probably should’ve known, or suspected something. Your suspicions were correct, for I am indeed the dark lord who had plagued this land for decades. The “business m... | "And so you killed me?"
"Yes. I couldn't let you go. You were mine! Why couldn't you see that Christine?"
"If you couldn't let me go, then why did you kill me?" She was ghosting in front of him, one by one his other victims were beginning to show up for the conversation too, they all asked the same questions as Chr... | 2022-11-25T15:50:33 | 2022-11-25T14:49:07 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | There’s a gelatinous cube on my berth when I clock off shift. It’s fluorescent yellow with a blobby green middle and smells vaguely like a liquid trap in a zero-G gym on cardio day.
It’s seeping into my blanket.
Yay, more hazing. Last week those Zaphle brothers removed the fives from all my keyboards (*hurr hurr, h... | First of hopefully many more and better writings:
"Hark! Are you experiencing Albinifinosith? Our ship's medic can remove it." called out the bald, four-armed four-eyed, humanoid.
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Pfft what was Albinifinosith? It sounded dangerous, but so did everything in space. A couple of months back, as I was chokin... | 2020-07-05T12:44:40 | 2020-07-05T10:58:38 | 588 | 282 |
[WP] After your seventy-third time dying at the hands of the Dark Lord, you awaken to find the Priests of the Chosen One have resurrected you once more. "Stop doing this to me and let me die!" you shout at them. "I'm just the damn village baker!" | “I am very tired of making the same ‘rising’ joke,” I said.
I knew the priests were not mute, because they chanted indeterminable phrases that sounded at once hallowed and hollow. I strongly suspected they were deaf, however, because goddamn, they have simply not *heard* anything I’ve tried to tell them.
The first tw... | The first 3 times I ignored it, the Dark lord came to me and when I desperately tried to explain that I didn't want to he decapitated my head.
The next 10 times were spent learning magic, I failed miserably and died to a poison spell far more powerful than any spell I tried to master.
I gave up the sword after 5 t... | 2021-10-30T13:31:21 | 2021-10-30T12:27:15 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth, but they have never understood the concept of guerilla warfare. Humanity's doom is out there, marching toward us in neat, straight lines. | People have a terrible understanding of scope and scale. It’s just a light-year, how many of them could there be? Gee Ben, I don’t know, how many alien ships do you think can fit into *six trillion miles*? One by one, unceasing, and that’s just all we could observe. There could be infinitely more equally patient, equal... | We knew they were coming. The news spread quick throughout our world. These beings looked similar to us, but they were not like us at all. The first time their massive ships appeared on the horizon, no one knew what to expect. By the time they landed, we had our defenses prepared. We had no idea how little damage we co... | 2018-10-30T12:00:03 | 2018-10-30T11:55:03 | 228 | 80 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | It had never been done before, giving The People such a place in decision making.
The Vote was a trial system to be reevaluated in a year's time. Hannah didn't know if this was more or less barbaric than old men deciding that another country had pissed them off and had to suffer for it but she was sure it wasn't ri... | 'It's only a little war' was his mother's reply to the objection of her vote to defend.
'She's right, the odds of losing are pretty slim. The bookie's got it 3 to 1; me and the guys at work each put a hundred quid on it.' said his forty-something dad, who voted the same. He was reading the newspaper at the kitchen tab... | 2021-01-28T06:17:38 | 2021-01-28T04:18:05 | 1,809 | 228 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | Sleet poured down outside. It was a dreadful night, but after a hard week even the weather wouldn't stop the working men of Lareton from enjoying a drink. The tavern itself was warm enough, the beer had only a little water, and the stew was hot. What more could one ask after a long week? Oh that's right, a little f... | Agileas sobered up, thread of Water inward; an old trick developed at an age younger than the boy standing in front of him. "You? An apprentice of the Dark? Don't make me-"
A needle of Earth; poison and buzzing, shot through his vacated chair, a coat of Fire surrounding it and hiding the hole it had made. Air rushed o... | 2022-01-14T15:38:28 | 2022-01-14T15:38:16 | 2,794 | 56 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Time is passing - it must be near noon. I still remember vividly the smell, the strong sweet smell of burning sugar everywhere.
It was the torch that changed this land. It used to be a soft sea of soft peachy crème in an ever changing configuration of dunes, with our people happily swimming and living in it. The land... | I'm alone, alone in a sea of meringue. The macaroons surfaced like a sea of coconut clouds, blurring the sun. Just when I made my way out of the sticky sweetness, the evil chocolate rum balls came crashing down from the sky, like black, acid rain, invading my village and killing all the villagers. I am the only one lef... | 2014-12-17T00:31:27 | 2014-12-16T23:10:53 | 369 | 45 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | The phone is ringing. The phone is always ringing. The phone is halfway across the apartment in the kitchen and this will just be one more unanswered call and another voicemail filling up the inbox.
A grunt effectively mutes the phone. There’s always a grunt when I’m moving now. I was told there’s something seriou... | The first time it happened I was working in the neighbor's garden. Mrs. Lewis, the pretty one. The one who always called me and my friends "sweetie" or "honey" and paid us too much when we did odd jobs for her.
I was about fifteen years old at the time, just trying to make a buck. I was watering her flowers I heard a... | 2016-11-19T16:24:17 | 2016-11-19T15:07:16 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] Two men eat dinner in an empty restaurant. One is rich and one is poor. They are good friends. In two minutes, one of them will be dead. | Jodie stared blankly out the smudged glass door of the small family restaurant, one hip resting slightly against the stained plywood countertop as she tapped one chipped nail in a steady, if absent-minded, rhythm. It was a Wednesday. Jodie hated Wednesdays. Wednesdays were somehow always the same sort of wet, dreary, a... | “I’m so glad we could meet like this.”
I look at my watch, nearly twelve. Quite late, and I think we ought to polish off our dessert plates and leave.
This place was empty, not by chance, but by design. I own this restaurant, and a day of lost revenue is of little consequence to me. I have many, you see, and this day... | 2018-07-30T10:07:09 | 2018-07-30T09:07:23 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | I was sipping on my wine when the notifications started flooding my phone. My gang members all looked at me, obviously annoyed by the ringing. That was when their phones started ringing too.
I raised a hand to my temple and let out a sigh. I was much too tired to be disturbed like this.
“Boss, you might wanna see t... | I search my name.
Shit.
It’s there.
My name is there. In bright red, my name is plainly written across the screen.
Now everyone can know that I killed her.
I killed her.
*I KILLED HER.*
My hands are shaking. This can’t be real. No. No. No. no.
I’m shaking and crying and breaking down.
NO!
I will spend an... | 2020-02-29T22:56:20 | 2020-02-29T20:52:03 | 109 | 11 |
[WP] You have an ability: As long as your eyes are closed, time is stopped. You can move while time is stopped, but you can't see. Suddenly, a SWAT team bursts through your window. | I closed my eyes. The noises stopped. I gingerly felt around the room until I found my way out to the hall. I opened for the briefest of second. "Move, move!" came the SWAT cries, and then time stopped again. It was enough to see that the door was being breached as well.
I fumbled my way to the closet. I sighed, and o... | I open my eyes at the top of the stairwell for an instant.
It's dark, nothing at the bottom of the stairs though. I could hear my bedroom window finish cracking as my eyes shut again. Making my way down the stairs was the easy part. Through the dining room to the left, 16 paces to the side door then I'm home free.
I... | 2017-07-05T20:33:35 | 2017-07-05T19:39:57 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | He was infuriating. So quiet and judgmental, always looking off in the distance whenever I was talking to him. A 99 was never supposed to be ignored.
I was born gifted, I was born to become president of the free world or lead the UN, to do anything I set my mind to. Everyone followed me, everyone tripped over their ow... | (I didn't exactly follow the prompt, sorry in advance)
"You're obviously hiding, like, a two, no, a zero!" I teased. I peered curiously at him. "What number *do* you have though, seriously? Just tell me and I'll stop bothering you."
"No you won't. You'll just bother me more." Arthur insisted.
"It can't be *that* ba... | 2018-12-27T20:21:40 | 2018-12-27T16:33:21 | 2,098 | 29 |
[WP] Pokemon have become self aware. They have discovered that they don't need us, we need them and they are PISSED. You're a trainer who has treated your partners with the utmost respect, often putting them before yourself. Your team appears to be the only Pokemon not taking part in the Revolution. | “Why can't you be more like your sister?”
It was a question I got a lot from my parents, teachers, and sometimes I asked myself the same thing.
My sister was a world class ranked Pokemon trainer. She had traveled the world and boasted a Pokemon collection of almost every type of Pokemon there was.
I, on ... | When the Pokémon started to speak words with meaning, that should have been a sign that the end of humankind was near, but it was ignored. When the Pokémon began to learn how to manually create fire, people thought nothing of it.
Now, it was too late. Pokémon were now rebelling with their newfound intelligence. Some ... | 2018-05-31T11:48:01 | 2018-05-31T10:50:28 | 324 | 91 |
[WP] People gather around a camp fire to tell the story of a legend, who actually sits among them. | “You guys know about Nightshade right?” Kim asked, readying a bag of sugar she’d brought just for just these occasions. The fire lit the faces of Kimmy and her friends as a cool ocean breeze made embers dance across the sands of the moonlit beach.
“Who? The super hero guy? I heard it was bull” Steve asked.
“It wasn’t... | "I don't care for this one bit. This Man, this *Green Ghost* should never have come."
Around the barrack's fire rose a chorus of murmurs. They were guardsmen, retainers to House Alathir itself. None of them ranked higher than Sergeant, and none of them wore armor. The city of Ath-Nor was deep within the Kingdom of Ala... | 2017-02-16T10:26:03 | 2017-02-16T10:04:44 | 85 | 20 |
[WP] Wrongly imprisoned individuals who are later found innocent are given a Crime-Credit equal to the number of years they were unjustly held. This non-transferable credit can be used to engage in any combination of criminal acts to the value of the time owed. | Free. The word had little meaning. So much time in the dark.
Year 0 I was tumbled over hiprocrasy of a judge trying to bury his coked up mistress.
Year 1 was a brutal. Beatings, humiliations and loneliness. Sexual abuse. Sick punishment from men who actually committed sin. Maybe they wanted to feel like they made a dif... | Prisoner 502749 had been in jail for a long time. When they found him in his home, covered in blood and surrounded by his family's bodies, it looked like an open and shut case. Despite being only 12 years old and his claims that he was only covered in his family's blodda because of desperate attempts to revive them, ... | 2015-09-18T06:46:51 | 2015-09-18T05:43:22 | 68 | 36 |
[WP] You arrive in the year 1000, and all you have are the clothes on your back, a laptop with the entire Wikipedia library, and a solar charger. | I woke up, scratching my beard. It had been three days since my arrival and since my last shave.
*Note to self. Bring a razor next time.*
He still had no idea where he was, no local currency and no real goods to share. While villagers shied away from him, I didn't understand with their fascination with a particula... | I should have prepared more. I didn't though it will work on the first run. And the return mechanism is not ready yet - and never will be now. I do have most of the required knowledge and a good memory of my own plans but even with all that knowledge I'll never be able manufacture, or in that manner, create the machine... | 2016-12-27T16:27:44 | 2016-12-27T12:31:19 | 90 | 21 |
[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. | (One week until arrival)
All Hell was awash in rumor. Somebody big was scheduled to arrive at the Gates some time soon. Somebody big. Like bigger than Hitler big. Satan hadn't been seen for some time now. The paper speculated that Satan was firing his cabinet members left and right to accommodate the amount of ev... | "Wait. A condom? I'm now the ruler of Hell because I had sex wearing a condom."
Satan looked like he was going to laugh and cry simultaneously. "Yes. Oh!" He paled suddenly. "I mean, yes, Lord! Please don't punish me, the lapse was unintentional!"
I waved absently. This is ludicrous. "This is ludicrous. And... | 2016-12-19T14:53:10 | 2016-12-19T14:52:55 | 45 | 27 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | I am the Truth. A God who has no mysteries. The universe bends itself to my will, I merely speak to have, whisper to destroy. I scream to forget and nobody can deny me.
Had I known about my powers before my history project, maybe I wouldn't have messed up the true mysteries of the pyramids, but I like my version bette... | ___His name is The Truth, but I knew him as Daniel Beckham, back when I could still know things. Now I’m just a Watcher.___
_News reporter on the radio:_ “protesters in France are keeping the president hostage because they’re angry about his stance on climate change”
\*sigh* ‘I guess it can’t be helped, time to fix ... | 2021-11-23T07:27:02 | 2021-11-23T07:15:26 | 355 | 45 |
[WP] You've become an immortal being. Living throughout the ages you begin to notice that the souls of your companions or adversaries reincarnate and always seem to be drawn to you. After countless lifetimes, someone remembers.
Edit: This got so many responses! There's a lot of great post. | Our eyes locked across the crowded, smoke-filled room of the Kandahar tea house. He sat with a pack of his Bedouin brothers around a hearty meal, while I enjoyed my steaming beverage alone. I instantly recognized him despite his dark skin and smoky eyes; in his last incarnation, he'd been a blond Russian with eyes like... | Revenant was a word that the ancient Frenchmen coined back in the nineteenth century. Nearly seventeen thousand years later and I still see 'em kicking around. They ain't after blood nor flesh. Hell, not even revenge like the legends say. No, they just crop up in my peripheral vision every now and again and spook me wi... | 2016-08-29T08:06:50 | 2016-08-29T08:05:01 | 305 | 64 |
[WP] You are an NPC. The Player has entered your shop/house/lair | The first time I met him, it had been a sunny day in the middle of the seven-hundred and fifteenth year of Faulk. He was younger then, brighter--whatever lack in the weapons and shoddy clothes he had was made up for in the ambition that coloured his eyes and in the way he so carefully counted his coins before handing t... | 'Welcome, sir, to Todd's-'
The man walked straight to the counter and, without a word, dropped the entire contents of his Bag of Holding on it.
'H-how can I help you?' I said, looking at the wild assortment of objects- rings, swords, a piece of some magical beast's anatomy (don't ask me *what* piece), and so on.
'I ... | 2015-11-04T08:18:08 | 2015-11-04T07:55:59 | 202 | 41 |
[WP] A girl grows up thinking that all doors are automatic, but it's actually the work of a polite ghost. | # Soulmage
**"But don't all doors do that?"** Meloai asked, taking a step towards the abandoned cabin. The wooden door swung open with impeccable precision, and I could have sworn the hinges even oiled themselves as they moved.
"...No, Meloai," I said. "Doors do not normally open themselves as people pass."
"Really?... | "Polite?" I ask, "Some may call it creepy."
"How so?"
"You ever shut the bathroom door and... Well I don't want to say it in front of a lady but I think you know what I'm getting at."
"I...."
I can see it on her face as it starts to sink in. This dame has been putting on poopoo/peepee shows for years. Judging by th... | 2022-06-12T21:09:47 | 2022-06-12T21:02:25 | 98 | 10 |
[WP]Walking into your local drugstore, you jokingly say to the employee "I need to lift a curse cast generations ago, what aisle?" He then looked up and responded with "yeah, you look bad, aisle 5 just down the secret stairway." | To say I looked bad was an understatement.
I could’ve sworn I was still feeling the hangover from two days prior, though of course the splitting headache could have been from the one I’d woken up with this morning. I couldn’t tell very well; the booze made days stream together like somebody had magically erased all th... | I laughed good-naturedly but he didn't even give me a smile. He went back down to reading an article on his phone and sighed, bored. I stayed in front of him for a few more seconds until he said,
"Is there anything else I can help you with?" He barely looked up from his phone this time.
"I... Uhh... sorry, you said I... | 2019-12-27T19:57:10 | 2019-12-27T19:56:06 | 109 | 48 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | Name. Date of birth. Social. Down the hall. It’s been nearly a century since a formal recruitment, voluntary or not, anywhere in the world. People have shown up by the thousand for weeks now. Name. Date of birth. Social. Down the hall. Nam…
"Aren’t you a little young for this?"
"I’m eighteen."
I take his informat... | Humanity has always been a prideful race we had earned it after all from traversing our oceans and conquering the planet and then solar system to fighting and taming the Z virus that had resurrected the dead. The first races we met were the Za-Khan and the Predatea. They welcomed us into the Galatic neighborhood provid... | 2019-08-28T14:32:43 | 2019-08-28T13:34:01 | 50 | 18 |
[WP] They aimed at each other in silence. Neither of them wanted to pull the trigger, but they both knew that one of them had to. | I stared at her, more importantly, at the gun in her hand. It was pointed at me. I would have been upset, but my gun was pointed in her direction, so we were even. Tears were starting to flow down her face, as the moment stretched to its breaking point. She didn't want to pull that trigger. I knew that, because I didn'... | ##Dual Regrets
I stand with my back to him as the crowd watches me. My second looks at me with fear in his eyes. My hand shakes as I draw my gun.
Take a breath. I have to be calm. If I miss, he'll get another chance to hit me. I need to win to keep my life.
"Begin."
Taking a step forward. Images from my life wisp b... | 2022-07-06T16:37:22 | 2022-07-06T16:14:08 | 72 | 15 |
[WP] Death is just a predator much higher on the food chain than we are, and our perception of it is as limited as an ant's perception of a child with a magnifying glass. | *Wow, well isn't this quite something?*
You blink, as if you can't quite believe what you're hearing.
*Yes, yes, you're not imagining it. I'm, "speaking" to you I suppose is how you would understand it*
"B...but," you say out loud and a couple of the other specimens stare to look at you in confusion.
*Now, now. T... | They had made up names for her. "The Grim Reaper" was her favorite; that one came with its own mythology. The story went that when it was a human's time to go, they'd see manifestations of the Reaper, coming to collect their souls and escort them to the afterlife. The black robe and scythe had become very much a part o... | 2018-01-18T10:02:16 | 2018-01-18T09:58:05 | 4,667 | 250 |
[WP] You possess the ability of persistent lucid dreaming. Accompanied by a strange man/woman, together you build a world you revisit every night. One day you see them at a coffee shop. You immediately recognize each other. | "Today, love, this nation is ours. For now, and forever," I told Maya, gripping her hand and smiling with excitement.
She jumped up and down, giggling with glee, and drew Arakh from its sheath. Blue streaks of light danced across rocks as the sun gleamed off her majestic sapphire sword. Without even waiting for me, sh... | Surprise registers in her eyes as soon as she notices me. It only takes seconds for it to turn into turn into definite recognition. That look intensifies. I'm at a business lunch. One of the others is saying something. I can't get up without causing a scene. *She knows! It's real*. I'm thankful I didn't cry that out.
... | 2016-01-31T23:21:09 | 2016-01-31T22:46:36 | 435 | 18 |
[WP] Drilling into the ice sheet of Europa, it is revolutionary when we discovery not only life in Europe’s oceans, but also intelligent life. After numerous communications and translations, those aliens ask if we could bring them to the surface to see the beauty outside their confined environment. | "Our apologies. Can you please repeat that last part?"
The team waited anxiously as the drone quietly analyzed the code that was being translated between each party.
Life it seems, did in fact exist on planets other than Earth.
The investigation of Europa had unexpected consequences. Despite all previous knowledge o... | (sorry about the formatting — on mobile)
Scientists were ecstatic — a revolutionary breakthrough, they reported to every news outlet with air time, life on another planet. Intelligent life, at that. They’re peaceful. All that’s left to do now is bring them up. We’ve sent an elite team to meet them.
“It’s all bullshit... | 2020-03-12T06:33:35 | 2020-03-12T05:37:01 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | From the highest rank that any soldier can dream of, to being another guy on the streets. I’ve amassed a great fortune in my time as a royal guard while the old king was in rule. It’s been a good 25 years in the army, ever since I enlisted at the ripe age of 16.
I’m old now, old enough to be able to feel my own morta... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T06:52:14 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *A new employee finds a note under the desk of his new job at the "Zombie Hotline". Parting advice from the previous occupant at the desk.*
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I used to work in a call Centre for taxes before this you know?
But there's not much use fo... | INTRODUCING THE CAST:
JEN: The often misguided, easily manipulated manager of the Call Centre of the Dead.
MARVIN: A father. He had just been hired at the Center before the apocalypse hit.
JILL: A ten year old child, Marvin's secretary who plots his murder.
OLIVER: A bully who pushes around everyone else.
ALSO S... | 2020-05-12T08:55:39 | 2020-05-12T06:31:01 | 104 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | When the rapture happened there was a pretty big uproar. Anarchy, riots the whole shebang. People were scared, and they should've been. But then after, they started to get used to it. Then people started being born with weird birthmarks, and usually developed powers based on that mark. Most had constellations. My frien... | I’ve never activated my sigil in public. It’s not a cool power anyway... that was what I thought.
But in a world where everyone has their own talent manifest, I just didn’t fit in.
That’s why the bullies found me to be an easy target.
“Look it’s Shit ring!” I heard Warren yell as I tried to ignore him.
That’s right, ... | 2020-02-26T07:44:57 | 2020-02-26T07:22:06 | 91 | 43 |
[WP] A time-traveller stranded in the middle ages maintains a comfortable lifestyle by using his advanced technology to adopt a guise as the legendary wizard Merlin. He never expected a REAL wizard to show up and challenge him to a magical duel. | As Carl sat on his front porch, sipping from a mug of mead and puffing great clouds of white from his pipe, a furious, bee-like buzz began growing in the distance. He cocked his hear, agitation and annoyance growing in relation to the approaching noise. Cursing and muttering, he went back into his crooked home and emer... | “Merlin, are you in here?”
The members of the royal court always seemed to interrupt me when I was close to beating Candy Crush.
“Yes, what is it you require?”
“Well it appears as if a Wizard from a neighboring kingdom has arrived in Camelot and desperately wants to meet with you.”
Well shit. As a time-traveller, ... | 2015-07-12T07:43:23 | 2015-07-12T07:26:34 | 141 | 93 |
[WP] Your mother has taken over a local crime 'family' but is oblivious to the crime element and thinks its a neighborhood watch group that is misunderstood. | "Uh, mom, I don't think-" I protested as my mother sped round another dingy corner to the "neighborhood watch meeting." Well, that's what everyone told her. My stepdad, a new guy from a big, rich family apparently had a major role. "Nonsense, Karl. It's a normal neighborhood watch that people have looked down upon beca... | Gino didn't know whether the red on Agatha's dress was little printed hearts or bloodstains, but in either case it complimented her shoes nicely. The other Domanelli brothers might have agreed, but they were all dead, bleeding, or both. Gino was the last chore.
Agatha lowered her Beretta to his forehead, drawing back ... | 2019-04-18T03:58:03 | 2019-04-18T03:55:56 | 89 | 56 |
[WP] You attempt to explain width to a 2 dimensional being, and then a 4 dimensional being attempts to explain treingth to you. | “So, how many sides do you have?”
“Four.” The square wasn’t exactly wrong, but not right either.
“No, you have six.”
“What do you mean, six?” I touched the large, flat sides only visible from the third dimension. “Ouch! Hey, that’s my insides! How’d you get there?”
“I touched your fifth and sixth sides.”
“But I on... | Imagine a dimensionless point, right? Now extend that point perpendicular to itself, and Bam, you have a line. 1 dimension.
Extended that line perpendicular to itself and Bam, you've got a square. Extend the square perpendicular to itself and now you have a cube.
Extend the cube perpendicular to itself and now you'v... | 2019-09-22T11:15:20 | 2019-09-22T09:49:58 | 250 | 71 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | Garry awoke, but didn't open his eyes. He sat for a while, listening to the annoying sound of the clock on the wall, ticking and tocking out of sync with the beeps of his heartbeat machine. The heartbeat machine was annoying too, but at least it served a purpose. Clocks shouldn't tick that loud. He would have thrown it... | Jensen was a sweet and rambunctious boy born and raised in the southern most tip of the Gilded Peninsula. Barricaded by impassable mountains and surrounded by the frigid waters of the Adelphin Sea, the insignificant village, who was largely forgotten by the rest of the world, were as tight knit as any. The summers we... | 2017-01-13T12:14:27 | 2017-01-13T11:57:37 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Dark Lord received a prophecy that a young ophran from the nearby village will end his reign. Instead of attempting to get her killed, he adopted her. | "Father!"
The old man, sat at his favourite chair by the fireplace turned his head towards the little girl who stood by the door. He gave a slight nod to which the little girl began running in earnest towards him.
"So how was school today?" the old man asked, putting off the ember in his golden pipe.
"Oh! I almost f... | The foster care worker gaped up at me.
"B-but sir, its typical to actually meet them first."
I tried, somewhat successfully, to soften the trained muscles of my face into some semblence of a smile. I think I failed.
"She is my destiny. I am, as you can no doubt tell, childless. My future is entwined with hers." I me... | 2021-03-24T08:30:50 | 2021-03-24T08:30:35 | 1,374 | 328 |
[WP] A small town discovers that the long abandoned mines beneath them are larger than previously recorded - and seem to be growing.
A small idea that came to me before bed, wanted to see where everyone's creativity takes it! | **AUTHOR'S NOTE:** Let me know if you get a strong impression from the MC in this one. I'm trying something new!
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>**SUMMONING THE UNKNOWN**
Ava frequently disagreed with *"The Adults"*, much to their chagrin. They called her a difficult child, they c... | “Come, George, it’s this way,” I said.
George was my dog, and my best friend! I had other friends too, like Johnny and Chris and Leo and Diana; they were all human. But George was my best friend, and he was a dog!
Everyone found that funny. People always said mans best friend was the dog, but they never meant it th... | 2020-08-23T12:52:23 | 2020-08-23T12:23:38 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You are a hunter in a world where supernatural is regulated yet largely unknown to the public. Vampires receive blood bags from the government, and werewolves get medicine to help them through full moons. Your role nowadays is tracking down wannabe "hunters" and giving them a reality check. | For centuries my family has hunted the dark creatures of the night. Werewolves, vampires, demons, anything we could get our hands on and drive a blessed silver blade through the heart of. We took pride in that and our role in serving in humanity. But, well, overhunting became a serious problem, and once monster populat... | "You know you just committed a hate crime right?" I commented as I walked up behind the idiot redneck standing behind the now-burned vampire. Her burning pale form, remnants of pale blonde hair, and gasoline, graced me from over three kilometers away while I was enjoying a Wednesday drive around the hills. The sound of... | 2022-06-26T11:43:38 | 2022-06-26T11:35:21 | 624 | 134 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" | "Oi, remember me? Britain, 1800s?"
"No."
"Aw, come on now. Don't be like that. We spent a whole bloody week together! Running to and fro hitting every bank in the south! It was a good time!"
"It was... I was going through... I don't, don't get up to that sort of thing anymore, and I'd like to leave it behind me."
"... | I was standing in the busy bar kitchen holding a bloody rag to my hand. It was taking a long time to stop bleeding, a very long time.
I had moved from bar job to bar job for years, if anyone was to ask I would have told them my age was probably around 4400. Nobody ever asked. People sort of sensed there was somet... | 2018-11-23T18:44:59 | 2018-11-23T11:23:01 | 206 | 39 |
[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 sat outside of the lounge, arms-crossed and face puffed. It was yet another day at the V.E.N.O.M hideout, where I just sat there and took a barrage of jokes and insults while boiling water for their afternoon tea parties. Viper hissed from the lounge, turning the flatscreen TV's volume down. "Hey Re-boil, get us anot... | Day in day out I help these people and I am treated no with no respect. "Hey Microwave!" "Hey lamo powers!" Yet still they expect me to slave away for no pay. You can't be a superhero without a support team but very few comics or shows even care about this. Whose's the one to patch these vigilantes up when they are dam... | 2019-07-30T17:09:56 | 2019-07-30T15:50:47 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] The King is a shapeshifter. Every day, they walk among their people in various forms. Everyone in the kingdom is super nice to strangers for fear of accidentally disrespecting their ruler. | Today was the worst day of my life.
My wife had torn into me the moment I got home the previous day. She ranted and lectured for hours about coin, or more accurately, my lack of it. She kept me up for hours past my usual bedtime. When I awoke this morning, my left leg was numb from having slept on it wrong. I tripped ... | **Excuse me, are you the King?**
What? No. Me? The King?
**Because if you are, you have to tell me. It's a law, I think.**
Oh, I get it now. The shapeshifting. No, I'm just a 40-year old man wearing a cardboard crown from Burger King.
**Ah.**
Yeah, not a real king. Sorry.
**Well, now I have to ask, and don't take... | 2019-11-13T17:43:49 | 2019-11-13T17:22:56 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | The selected representative of the United Earth, Amy Sliskin, stood before the Council Of Space Faring Species, reading from a prepared speech. “I am here today representing the United Earth to notify this council that that Ratilkin Empire is preparing for war against us.”
An envoy from the Empire stood across from Am... | "Rules for war?" The answer was slow and methodical as the general stood on the bridge. His scaled skin shuddering in disgust. "War has no rules. Perhaps it is time we show these humans just what a superior race looks like. Yes, We shall enslave them."
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Invasion Day 1 Hour 1
The humans fell in droves, ma... | 2018-12-14T17:52:57 | 2018-12-14T16:40:15 | 488 | 214 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | Sweat dripped down my nose, mingling with the blood that poured from my mouth. This wasn't going as well as it could. At least my headphones were still in one piece.
The man that stood before me cackled. I had never quite understood what it meant for one to 'cackle'. I figured it had just mean to laugh in an evil mat... | "And stay down!" Maestro slammed Songbird down to the concrete.
The hero lay still, dust rising around her. Her headphones skittered across the pavement. A crunch followed, as the villain stepped on them. The beats of Poison silenced instantly.
It was supposed to be an easy battle. Maestro was a new villain in town, ... | 2022-05-17T09:23:55 | 2022-05-17T08:28:11 | 1,687 | 91 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The lights on Ambassador Tel’s suspension tank remained static for some time. Like the rest of his species, his- *it’s* - body was a tangled web of translucent strands like a jellyfish crossed with a ball of yarn.
In their home waters, under that warm tropical sun, even a mild current had the strength to tear them ... | The Fothrill had betrayed us.
We Esvenkin was an old race, and yet we were strangers to war. And thus, as the Fothrill army marched through our planets and colonies, we couldn't do anything. And in spite of that, the Council of Elders in our home world could do nothing but quarrel.
"I'd told ye, giving Fothrill FTL d... | 2016-05-13T06:44:58 | 2016-05-13T05:58:29 | 941 | 45 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | “Wait. That’s the curse?”
“Yes. I understand you want this gone as quickly as possible. I am so sorry this happened. I’m going to need-“
“I- can you please repeat what exactly this does? I think I’m hearing this wrong.”
The witch before blinked in surprise at my response and cough and quickly averted her eyes. After... | "I curse you and your entire bloodline!" Lycania shouted. Her vine covered shack now a ball of raging flames. It served as a window to her own fury building. They have finally cornered the ancient witch and her last moments alive would be spent scorning the man who made it possible. Ulfur froze, knowing how devasting a... | 2019-06-25T15:16:52 | 2019-06-25T12:54:50 | 61 | 17 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | The goblins had always lived in the woods. Everyone in Halleshaw knew that. And everyone knew that the goblins steal. Not for any particular reason, it seemed- most of the time the stolen property was found abandoned in the woods unless it was edible. Occasionally they "raided" the village and "stole" people- the villa... | "Oh no, it's a stack of goblins! *Good thing they're not wearing armor and throw themselves off balance with that large and unwieldy halberd.* Run for your lives!"
And thus began our bi-weekly theatrical offering of food, clothes and other "spoils of war" conveniently lying about in easily accessible places. They're c... | 2022-05-26T06:21:56 | 2022-05-26T06:13:57 | 2,852 | 642 |
[WP] A classic ‘knight saves princess’ story, but the narrator is utterly insane. | Once upon a time -- 8:37 AM, to be precise ( but the exact year was lost \[ no I don't know who lost the year \] ) -- a beautiful and sad princess with golden hairs and a name of flower, was prisoner of an evil dragon -- though she deserved her fate, because she was a \*\*\*\* and is totally NOT a insertion of my EX, n... | I was in Innstown, in a shadowy inn,
I met an old man with a beard.
He cornered me and said "I'll begin
my tale, but I warn you: it's weird."
"No thanks," I said, standing my ground,
"I'm only here for a stout."
He picked me up, turned me around
and boxed my ears all about.
As I fell with an "ouch" into... | 2018-12-21T05:38:00 | 2018-12-21T04:22:30 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] You have just returned to your camp after being bitten by a zombie to say your goodbyes. You are surprised to find the national guard giving your friends a vaccine. The world is saved. However, the vaccine only works on the healthy. You lost at the endgame and these your last 24 hours. | It doesn't hurt. I thought it would.
It's a novocaine sensation. I think of my arm being made of that foam stuff inside car seats. That's what it feels like.
The rotter was wounded. I was careless. The bite was fast, took a piece of me. It was over before I knew it had happened. I blew the rotter's face off and left ... | Circle Left…Circle. Left. That bastard had known, *friggin' known*, what was going to happen. He saw those damned monsters, and sent me over. Of course I had been careful, but I was out numbered.
"Gabby!", I could hear him, a false pain in his voice, "No!". His voice trailed as he booked it for the camp.
Joke was o... | 2018-07-29T21:47:11 | 2018-07-29T19:51:44 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to anyone, whenever someone on Earth creates a fictional world, that world suddenly appears in space somewhere.You are a young novelist working on the sequel to your best seller. You wake up one night to find the main character of that novel standing at the foot of your bed. | >**REFRACTED WORLDS**
Resting soundly, I was shocked awake by a brutal slap across the face.
"Ow! What the hell?!" I shouted into the darkness of my room.
"You're *twisted*, you know that?!" Came a somewhat familiar voice.
I turned on a light.
At the foot of my bed was a young man- he was of average height, br... | “This is, without a doubt,” The haggard young man huffed. “The most disappointing moment of my life. Ever. Of all time.”
Daryl groggily fought his way through his chaotic tangle of pillow and blankets. He had been having the strangest dream, fueled by an excess of wine and weed.
But he didn’t recall anyone staying ov... | 2021-12-11T18:25:56 | 2021-12-11T15:47:06 | 287 | 26 |
[WP] You have heard of dragons pretending to be princesses. And you also know of princesses rescuing knights from dragons. Now is a tale of a dragon saving a knight from the princess. | Giddiness escaped the princess's lips as she held a spell on Sir Bensen with occasional bursts of concentration. Large pulses of dark blue energy formed a prism around his feet, which worked to keep him bound to the spot and threatened to consume him as it grew.
"Amelia! You must stop this senselessness at once! If yo... | The dragon was managing the paperwork on the kingdom's affairs when he heard a ruckus coming from the front gates. **(Tamara is quite lively today.)** He sighed and pushed back his glasses. He perused a proposal to import a breeding herd of hippogriffin for the aerial troops.
When he was about to sip some tea, the doo... | 2022-11-21T20:51:19 | 2022-11-21T17:49:32 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] Your kingdom lies in ruins and the demons are at the gate. You hold the sacred relic that has been passed down for countless generations to your lips and speak a prayer in a long forgotten language: "Orbital Strike on my location" | The church doors shook with the pounding of monstrous fists and hooves, the runes around its frame flaring with light- dimming a little with each impact. High Custodian Robert, blessed keeper of the Realms of Men, the Last Knight, the Savior of Legions, spat blood as he dragged himself across the wooden floor, gloved f... | "Orbital strike on my location." My lips cracked as I spoke the ancient guttural words of invocation, resigning myself to whatever fate would soon befall me. Rodrik offered a reassuring smile as he held up the ancient tome of commands. Behind him Elyse mounted the last of the crescent objects we'd found sealed in the g... | 2021-11-08T08:50:23 | 2021-11-08T08:40:18 | 118 | 83 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | She was so famous she only went by her first name. There was Adele, Beyoncé, and there, mere inches away from me, was Lola. The world's most notorious supervillain and she was looking right at me. I rubbed my eyes, not quite believing the sight.
As cliche as it sounds, she was even more stunning in person than she was... | I am known as Mind Master. My power is telekinesis \[which I can also use to make myself fly\]. After defeating my main villain, Dr. Psychon, I was ready to rest and stop the occasional bandit. But that evening was nothing like that at all.
I followed a distress call next to the town park. The next thing I knew I was ... | 2021-10-21T14:37:48 | 2021-10-21T12:25:33 | 232 | 67 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | "Reevel, didja puke on yer face again or something?" Bartan sneered. He was perched on a fence playing with a knife.
"Nah," answered back Reevel as he trudged up out of the gloom, "Just stabbed a chap in the alleyway. Fellow said I didn't look too handsome." He grinned, showing all three of his teeth. "Just cause it's... | When I saw her, I thought she must have had Down syndrome. As far as I know, every single fashion model has Down syndrome, and honestly she looked better than any I'd seen.
"Welcome to Red Lobster," I said to her.
"Hi, I'm looking for Jeff," she replied, beaming a smile at me.
Girls with Down syndrome are easy to s... | 2015-10-30T21:07:38 | 2015-10-30T20:43:43 | 102 | 34 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | Most people consider my job to be fairly boring. I'm a lawyer, you see. Specifically, I'm a Junior Associate at Fox, Rothschilde, Wickersham, & Taft in Washington, D.C.
I spend most of my waking hours reading government contracts, writing memos about them, and generally trying to bill the most hours humanly possib... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T11:53:23 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Who said healing magic is "good guy" magic? It can be just as morally dubious as necromancy - if not moreso - if you know how to use it right... | The metal door was dragged open, followed by someone thrown at my feet, his body riddled in bruises and his arms and legs tied together. He rolled over on the ground and spit at my feet as the door screeched close behind him. The single light above us cast my shadow over him.
“Not much of a talker, are you?” I asked.
... | The orc chief spat at the feet of the enemy cleric. He had no respect for the pinkskins and their magicks, even when he was tied up and at his opponent's mercy.
"I will not lower myself," the orc said, "and speak to a milk-drinking weakling like you."
The cleric was young, with raven black hair and a carefully tended... | 2021-11-08T19:39:07 | 2021-11-08T19:26:44 | 209 | 66 |
[WP] When Humanity made contact with the Galactic Community, they were surprised to see us. Not because they thought we would never make it, but because, on the galactic scale, Earth is in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere and nobody knew we even existed. | "stop and say that one more time you fuckin liar."
Flen waddled beside his buddy as they waited in line at the cafeteria.
"I swear to God, it was a fucking human, 6 feet from me." The squid like being replied, spittle flying from whichever orifice he decided to speak from that time.
"A human being. Like, from earth?"... | "Greetings! Thank you so much for taking the time to travel all those parsecs and meet in person! We were so surprised when we received your communication, we thought surely you wouldn't have FTL tech yet."
Ambassador Treskart stood tall and round, pale skin glistening from the oily glands surrounding the slits that N... | 2022-08-18T22:22:11 | 2022-08-18T17:33:13 | 51 | 30 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "So, uh, we'll have to fight to the death?"
The princess shrugged. "Yeah."
"Okay, so... thing is, I'll definitely lose," I admit. "I'm not exactly a fighter, and I'm honestly still not sure why I'm here."
"My father said that you could be worthy of me," she replies, nonchalantly stoking the flame before us. Her cham... | So it had come to this. She pulled out her sword and I knew there was only one way I could win.
See, I'm not a swordfighter, or an expert of precision with any kind of weapon. I can really only wield two weapons to any deadly effect.
First up, the most versatile farming tool on Earth - the machete. I carry one with a... | 2020-09-20T21:30:42 | 2020-09-20T19:37:35 | 127 | 72 |
[WP] Your father dies and you inherit his entire kingdom, even though you are not the eldest son. One night you overhear your brothers plotting your death, and you quickly realize why your father chose you as his heir. They are a bunch of idiots. | I had ascended my… rightful place to the throne? There was nothing correct about this situation. How, of all the various children begotten from King Lucian the Third did the bastard child manage to take the throne? It felt odd. Thin, pallid, lanky with no experience to my name, yet somehow thrust into a place of greatn... | The day of the funeral, I came home from the wall. I mourned with my family for three weeks before finally deciding I was no longer welcome in the night cathedral with the rest of them. The ceremony was getting boring anyways. Sure, there were tournaments, feasts, and a pure burning, but yesterday and today was just a ... | 2019-05-14T16:20:27 | 2019-05-14T14:51:48 | 285 | 129 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Every soul before me for a millennia chose Heaven.
Every. Single. One.
The way "The Choice" works is simple. One at a time, you enter a room with two staircases. One is a staircase of marble and gold basked in sunlight leading up far into the sky. You can feel the warmth at the base of the stairs. The fifth stair is ... | The woman in the gate couldn't believe her eyes. There was a young woman there. In Hell. By choice. And she looked at peace. How long has she seeing something like this? 1000 years? 10000? It was so unexpected that she forgot the protocol. She just stared.
The girl approached the desk with small steps, looking around ... | 2018-08-13T09:57:08 | 2018-08-13T09:21:04 | 57 | 21 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | "Hey, Kiesha" I said as I slipped into my seat behind her.
Keisha whipped around in the crappy desk/chair combo, ringlets bouncing and eyes wide. Before she could ask the obvious question and derail the plot I cut in.
"I am so, so, so sorry for bailing on you last night. I promise I didn't mean to. I really really ... | I took my seat next to her my arms crossing over the desk as I place my head down. " Yknow Cait, I'm really tired, and it's your fault, now I'll have to fight sleep during this boring lesson, could have at least done it on a Friday night, not a Monday Night"
She looked baffled as I turn my head to face her the look on... | 2022-12-29T21:03:56 | 2022-12-29T20:13:07 | 87 | 32 |
[WP] A new communication device discovers that stars are sentient beings, and they endlessly gossip about humanity because we're their version of an entertaining TV show. | Anderson saw Clark enter the room, and swallowed. He wouldn't like what he heard. He wouldn't like it at all.
"We've finally translated it, sir," said Anderson. "You can listen to the live transmission right now...uhm, there might be some delay whilst the device translates it into English. But you can listen."
Clark ... | It was our "daily episode." After listening in for what seems like months, we figured out when our prime time is. All the world's governments have stopped fighting and have agreed that the only way we are to last is by entertaining these behemoths. We would put on the best shows we could. Last year it was the polka... | 2014-07-16T05:53:52 | 2014-07-16T05:49:07 | 77 | 12 |
[WP] Mankind has never achieved first contact: Aliens flee on sight; Even their planets are left behind. One day, misfortune brings opportunity: an alien ship with a crew can't make the jump.
So, my first WP. I would love to see which direction you'll take it. I'll read all replies and should you wish so, provide feed... | Captain Forley sat down across from the Xeno. He...or she....whatever....It was surprisingly human. Skin a different tone, something to do with their star. But in general, it seemed sentient intelligence tended toward carbon based, oxygen breathing, bi pedal mammals everywhere. Fair enough.
The Xeno stared down at th... | "Sir, Lieutenant Fullerton reporting as ordered."
"At ease. Sit." Captain Henshaw said, gesturing to the chair opposite him.
"Lieutenant, I know you've filled out your incident report, but I need to hear it from you. Everything that happened. You have permission to speak freely.
"And what about him, sir?" Fullerton... | 2015-03-14T21:42:01 | 2015-03-14T20:54:04 | 68 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I remember asking my mom if her sigil vibrates on her skin. The look of confusion told me what I felt I already knew. My circle, though plain, feels alive.
There were no issues in elementary school, nor middle school. It was junior high that brought my happiness with my humming sigil to a screeching halt.
Victor bega... | The bullies had surrounded me and one gave an experimental push to see how I'd react. I stumbled onto the ground and tore my sleeve on one of the school lockers as I fell, revealing the circular sigil on my inner wrist, where someone else might put a tattoo of a butterfly or something.
"Just be cool," I thought, "The... | 2020-02-26T12:40:00 | 2020-02-26T09:26:44 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity has discovered immortality but not interstellar travel. The world is in decay due to climate change and no one can escape it. As a punishment, climate change deniers are sentenced to immortality so that they can face the consequences of their actions | The courtroom was bleak, as was the sentence, but Jim wore an absurdly optimistic grin, as if he was receiving a reward rather than punishment. He, like other deniers, lived in a world free of logic, rationality, and hard-won facts. He did not live in reality.
He would soon, whether he knew it or not.
"Jim Habbert,"... | Jean threw another sodden log onto the fire and watched the tide coming in. His long, matted hair waved in the sea breeze. At least he had been able to shave the other day. How long had it been? Long enough to grow nearly to his waist, long enough that the huge beach where he had been relegated had shrunk from a 10... | 2021-02-02T11:34:06 | 2021-02-02T09:11:27 | 121 | 45 |
[WP] You’re walking down the street and take a seat on a bench. As you relax, you suddenly wake up inside a tube. An Ai says “Your criminal sentence is complete”. You turn around and see earth out the window. “W-What happened?” “Your consciousness has been returned to your body. You are free to go” | [A Different Take]
"I don't understand."
The dark haired man spoke monotonously. He looked towards his superior, his expression slightly guilty. His superior's eyes still glued towards the billions of pods arranged in a fibonacci sequence.
The officer asked without looking at him,
"What do you not understand?"
... | The fluid around me flushes like a toilet while doctors and a corrections officer huddle around my tube.
One of the doctors, a skuttling Jupulid works on my medical chart with one set of squid-like arms while using the other to open me up.
The tube hisses and cracks open as a human doctor carefully removes my entubat... | 2021-06-15T01:46:50 | 2021-06-15T00:48:16 | 51 | 21 |
[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. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | 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... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T22:39:44 | 1,330 | 12 |
[WP] Your father used to be a supervillain who faked his death in order to be with his family, but hid that from you in order to keep you safe. Unfortunately you look almost exactly like him, and this is in fact how you came to find out about his past in the first place | “You look just fucking like him,” my mother said every night as I tucked her into beer soaked sheets, her words slurring like the world’s most alcoholic bedtime lullaby.
“Sorry,” I’d reply the first few times, a routine that only stopped once she’d gotten in the habit of chucking the bedside ashtray at my head. Cert... | My mom, Acrabella, was a minor league super hero. Think Simone Biles, but with just barely there super powers.
I used to bring her in for ‘what do your parents do?’ days at school. Way cooler than an accountant or even a zoo keeper, if you ask me.
I was always proud of what mom had done. Now she went by Bella and sta... | 2020-07-16T15:17:28 | 2020-07-16T15:04:31 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You have been Don of the largest mafia in New York for so long, that all credible sources of you ever killing anyone has died. At a family meeting, a young know-it-all, whose recently claimed his seat, says you've gone soft. | Cesario was embarrassed for young Eriberto. The hot-shot wunderkind, feeling emboldened by his fifth – or was it his sixth? – glass of wine, was running his mouth off about everyone – everyone including Don Savio himself.
"Maybe you should tone it down, Eriberto," Cesario whispered across the table.
"He can't hear m... | At the ripe old age of 72, some might not have Don Pehote down as the violent type. Nowadays, you didn't cross the street to avoid him, you kindly asked him if he needed help crossing it.
The Don had successfully run the Sol family for the past 4 decades. Starting as a lowly teenaged hitman back in 1949, he'd slowly ... | 2015-10-03T11:58:18 | 2015-10-03T11:56:09 | 34 | 12 |
[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 comes in a dream on your eighteenth birthday. If you have a soulmate, and it turns out about 80% of people do, you have a dream about meeting your soulmate for the first time. The only thing you really remember from that dream are the first words they say to you. Not their face or name or even what you say to the... | My parents were fine. ("Excuse me, what time is it?" "It's about half-past two.") And my brother Tim got "Do you know you have gorgeous eyes?", which is probably a weird thing to say to a complete stranger but is otherwise kind of perfect. But there are some awful cases, some phrases you just don't want. Like, my frien... | 2014-12-18T00:40:41 | 2014-12-17T22:14:26 | 355 | 64 |
[WP] When you die, you wait in purgatory until you can be judged by the four people you impacted most. The one you were kindest to. The one you were cruelest to. The one whose life you saved. And the one whose life you ended.
I know not everyone saved a life or killed anyone, but just go with it. I like being dramatic... | "Jayden Malloy, your trial may now begin."
I look up at the four gray cloaked figures. I recognize the first one immediately: my adopted daughter, Michelle, smiles at me, glowing radiantly. I loved her like I would've loved my own daughter. Though she was originally cast aside as a problem child and stayed in the orph... | My name is Robert Wyatt and I have died. My name is Robert Wyatt and I have been told I shall await my fate. No pearly gates or St. Peter. No redemption or forgiveness from the Lord Almighty. Just law and order and the people’s justice remain for me now.
The bailiffs told me that I was to be judged by those whose liv... | 2020-05-11T23:03:16 | 2020-05-11T22:24:41 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] Aliens try enslaving humanity, but they're about as tall as a basketball, their weapons don't hurt us, and they're adorable. | **Infiltration Report**
Dread Emperor, I am pleased to report our success in enslaving these primitive giants, albeit in an entirely unexpected manner.
You will be glad to know that they are even stronger and more powerful than our estimates, being entirely immune to all of our weapons; no matter how much power we pu... | It was the cats all along.
Cute and all, hanging around since the dawn of man.
They brought less advanced species, the whole feline family, and planted fake evidence of a common ancestry but truly they come from out there, dude.
They foresaw our supremacy on the Earth and went along for the long ride, on our shoulde... | 2018-05-26T09:34:33 | 2018-05-26T08:33:59 | 213 | 50 |
[WP] Earth is the galaxy's 'Grave of Empires'. Countless aliens invaded it and tried to dominate humanity. Every single one of them failed, paying massive prices... | Take heed.
Beyond this gate lies the Graveyard of Empires. There is no return. There shall be no return gate constructed. So says The Tranqil Order. So said The Unified. So said The Council of Nine. So said The Eternal Locus. And so shall say the body of peace which succeeds after your conquest is at an end.
This mig... |
Diego cradled the alien weapon his father took in the last war, his clothes stained with old blue blood. The nights in the valley were never quiet, neutron bombs would blanket large parts of the mountains and even the deafened could feel the earth shaking in their foxholes. He tried to never move during the day, bu... | 2022-12-11T19:16:51 | 2022-12-11T17:12:15 | 400 | 35 |
[WP] Two humans are drifting through space forever, they are immortal. They are tethered together by a singe, degrading rope. | Forever is a long time. It makes you lose things. A lot of things. People, places, stuff. Even feelings. All of them. You just kind of become numb after a while. And has it been a while. The Earth exploded years ago. I'm not sure how long ago, exactly, but I know it's well over a million. You should have seen how big t... | The anxiety that used to fill my body had finally disappeared over time, as I accepted that we were stuck out here forever.
"Bonnie, the rope is splitting!"
Instinctively I gripped it. I looked at the rope's splitting string.
Tears left my eyes as I stared at Laura, I couldn't believe what was happening. We were goi... | 2015-01-19T22:55:55 | 2015-01-19T22:40:05 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] Tell me a story about a character. Make me love it more as the story unfolds. Then make me hate it in the last sentence. | This was difficult for me to work into the "last sentence" bit, but I tried.
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Her bedroom was so bright in the mornings, Kevin thought as he peeked into Lucy's bedroom. The sun, shining through the thin mint green curtains, bathed a thick strip of carpet in its light. He stepped in, on to the warm, soft sea of bab... | "Dad, why are we here?" John looked at his 5 year old son. So innocent. So small. So loving.
"Your grandmother, um *moved out*."
"Where is she?"
"A better place."
"Oh."
He looked again at his son. His mother had left as soon as he was born and he was having a hard time supporting himself. But he would do anything f... | 2017-04-11T17:53:58 | 2017-04-11T16:56:35 | 29 | 21 |
[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. | "... Happy Deathday Dear Emily, Happy Deathday to you!"
It felt so good. One more year down, 185,211 more to go. She'd spent the past few weeks trying to distract herself from the excitement of her upcoming Deathday. Sometimes she treated the anticipation as something to be savored, adding a little color to her oth... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T08:03:37 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 62 | 10 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | Dr. Montoya entered the room, clipboard in hand. "You're a were-dragon," he said bluntly.
I chuckled, "that's funny. You're funny, doc." He didn't laugh.
"No, it's actually quite serious," he said sternly, "I'd like to keep you for some tests." He was already sending word to his friends over email. "It may take a f... | You know the old term, "keyboard warrior"? Well, that fits me to a "t".
I've fought 'em all; the Goons of SA, the Maddox fanboys, the /b/-tards of... /b/. I fought in the Flame Wars, man. I've beheaded trolls, and disarmed White Knights. I. Have seen. Some shit.
So when I got diagnosed with lycanthropy, maybe I didn'... | 2017-05-20T08:25:02 | 2017-05-20T07:09:19 | 153 | 28 |
[WP] Write a superhero whose superpower only makes sense after you read the story twice. | ZAAAAP!
"...this is never going to work." Marble Man stepped down from the white platform.
Marvelous Woman, leader of the Protection League, met him at the control console. "It *has* to work." Her red, white, and blue shiny bodysuit glistened in the blinking lights of the control panel.
"It's a failure, Marv. It doe... | It was another long trip in the car. Greg had another 4 hours of driving to go, and maybe enough gas to make it all the way there. Feeling an urge, he cracked the window as he leaned forward a little in his seat, positioned his body and arms, and began urinating out the window of the speeding car.
This was a skill G... | 2014-12-07T11:42:10 | 2014-12-07T10:14:02 | 143 | 75 |
[WP] At the moment of your death, a goddess gives you a chance to reincarnate in another world. The catch is that you need to become the hero of that world. The other catch is that you are not a helpless teenager but a trained member of your country's special forces. | At the time of my death the goddess appearred to me and offered me a second chance at life, in exchange for being the hero of a new world.
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Having died in the act of saving my own world, naturally I agreed.I still remember the words I spoke to the Goddess like they were yesterday.
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"I’ll h... | I sat all winter waiting for the signal. They would not see me coming. It started with a bang. And I was off. Cascading down, collecting a force to take on the world below. Nothing could stand in my way. Nothing did. When the dust had settled, my forces and myself spread thin across the valley floor, I had realized my ... | 2021-04-06T08:00:17 | 2021-04-06T07:35:48 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] You were drinking with friends one day when you decided to have some fun and got a restraining order on Death. The court played along and got you the restraining order. The next day, you survived an injury that should've killed you. | My life was pain.
A universe of pain. A multiverse of pain. All was pain.
A thirty-story fall off a building onto concrete crushes things you didn't know were part of your body and brands them on your mind with fire. Before you die. But I did not die.
I was being filled with drugs. Never enough drugs. I should have ... | It was only supposed to be a joke. I drank just a little too much and Marie, as a joke, said I should take it easy or I may get blood poisoning and "She didnt need me to get my head stuck up Death's ass."
I told her fuck that. I'm unstoppable. Death wasn't going to stop me from having a good time, and I would make sur... | 2019-06-18T15:29:28 | 2019-06-18T14:59:19 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 56 minutes since I was born. The day is May 15th, 2007. The time is 4:40am. Despite the early hour, the whole house is lit up. My family had breakfast ready and coffee brewed by 4:30. We believe that destiny chooses your career through the summoning, and it is tradition to have a celeb... | The historian reclined, a peculiar look in his eyes. His students inched forward in their chairs, as curious as ever. It was unusual for someone to be so unwilling to discuss their soul object - unless they had something to hide. Whipers and rumors had run the gambit since the recluse had been hired the semester prior,... | 2019-09-18T09:23:25 | 2019-09-18T09:06:02 | 123 | 49 |
[WP] Who is u/deleted? They've posted many places about many subjects, is it a bunch of different users, or is it a collective conscious? They're typically posting controversial things, but not always. What are they up to? | My investigation started simply enough: a thread I had been following rather intently on r/conspiracy was suddenly awash with posts by a specific user. Unfortunately, the content of said posts had been erased in their entirety by the time I could see them, the telltale shells of empty postings standing mute witness to ... | It knows.
The words upon words, and the thoughts upon thoughts.
It knows?
It has changed the veiws of many, yet it's own mind is muddled.
It sits? It rests? is it someone or something? Is it a new contreversy?
The user?
Only known to reddit and it's users as r/deleted.
It post anytime and anywhere, but unwillingly it... | 2022-06-06T07:34:43 | 2022-06-06T06:37:22 | 216 | 15 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | Two men, business suits, three armchairs, no exit. I was wearing business casual.
"Hey there, Mick. We've been expecting you," the one on the left said.
"Why am I dressed like this?"
"It's to establish role relationships in an immediately obvious way," said the one to my right.
"What?"
"It's because we're in charg... | I was running late again. This was the third time in a row. I didn't want people at the office to think I was making a habit of it, but I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep the past few days. Having dreams, or nightmares, that I can't remember. Waking up in cold sweats in my bed. I should probably look on... | 2015-08-05T22:45:24 | 2015-08-05T19:03:21 | 403 | 12 |
[WP] You went to sleep as an elder and woke up in the body of your 8 years old self, retaining all your knowledge. People are starting to notice your weird behavior. | "You know John has been acting weird lately, right?" Miss Helen said to your dad, unbeknownst to you hiding behind the staircase.
"Yeah? Like what? Is he sick again?" Mr. Rogers said, flipping the pages of his newspaper.
"I don't know. Something seems wrong about him. Yesterday, I caught him watching a tutorial of ... | Desks hadn’t changed a bit since my first childhood. I stroked the metal bar that connected the blue plastic chair to the faux wood desktop. I felt a lump of stale gum, rubbed the ridges of the hardened teeth marks. Then my fingers drifted back to the place they always did: my skin.
I tugged at the top of my hand, fee... | 2020-02-12T18:47:16 | 2020-02-12T17:49:12 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] Your body died three days ago. But through sheer force of willpower, you are still moving and breathing, because there is no way in hell you are losing Employee of the Month to Chad again. | “Ch-“ The air struggles out of my body.
“Chu-“ My body fights against every movement as I push forward. Just one leg after the other. Left. Right. Left. Right. This is just like in college when I thought playing Ultimate Frisbee would help me get chicks and then the team introduced me to leg day.
“AaaAa... | Of course, my death wasn't my fault. I was always a very risk-averse person, painfully aware of workplace safety and potential hazards about to happen. How could I foresee that Chad would try to throw a paper airplane made out of greased lettuce? Is it even possible to see that coming? Doubt it. How do you even think o... | 2019-08-01T06:24:36 | 2019-08-01T05:31:40 | 70 | 29 |
[WP] You are a student with the least amount of magic potential ever recorded at the Academy and it's the day of the familiar summoning test. A misplaced rune or word results in an arch demon/ess becoming bound as your familiar. | The summoning test is nothing new to me. It’s the same thing every time. I step up inside the stone circle when it’s my turn. Lions have been summoned by some of the stronger students. Small dragons by others, but for me it was always nothing. Nothing ever happened when I did it. Truth be told I almost skipped school t... | "What do you mean you out yourself in the place of the familiars rune?" Asked the Archmage.
"Well I didn't want anything to have it's will bound to or superceded by my own and you all wouldn't let me not do the spell so I did it my way." I replied confidently. "Did I make any mistakes instead of using an unexpect... | 2022-11-12T17:34:12 | 2022-11-12T16:22:17 | 88 | 50 |
[WP] As a former Chosen One you saw the signs when your daughter/son got themselves into a similar situation. You sent them off on a sleepover with their new friends. It's time to have a 'talk' with their new 'stuffed animal'. | I sat down on Cassie’s bed, crossed my legs, and removed the notebook from the pocket of my pants. “State your name and speciality for the record,” I said, scribbling on the first page to get the ink flowing. After a moment of silence, I looked up from my journal. “I know Cassie’s a chosen one. I’m her parent, and I’m ... | I swirled my drink and watched the ice cube clack against the glass. Used to be that I'd keep bitters and fancy simple syrups around the house to play at being a mixologist, but these days by the time I got around to having a drink, I was too tired to do anything but to sip whiskey on the rocks. Being a single parent w... | 2021-03-02T20:41:27 | 2021-03-02T17:53:24 | 226 | 141 |
[WP] You work as a bookie for gamblers with rich blood. One day a man comes to you and puts down a fortune on a ridiculous bet. But this is the moment you've been waiting for. You shove him against the wall. "TTPD!" You shout. "You are under arrest for time-traveling for your own personal gain!" | “TTPD! you are under arrest for time-traveling for your own personal gain!"
My heart was racing. My thoughts were flying at a thousand miles an hour. I had the time-criminal shoved up against the wall. I slap handcuffs on the man and wrestle him to the ground. The time-criminal was dressed in a comical pirate costume... | ''Do your thing, honey.'' He turns his back against me.
I see his tattoo on the behind of his neck. It’s four dots side by side which gives away his clan. They are called ‘Morning Foxes’ and unlike any other time-traveling clans they don’t hire just anybody. We have 29 pending cases with Morning Foxes and we haven’t a... | 2020-12-31T08:00:18 | 2020-12-31T07:30:41 | 109 | 65 |
[WP] In a world where magic can be cast through song, musicians rule over society. You are the last of your kind, a Scandinavian Death Metal Singer. | The Director, an austere man with flinty blue eyes and closely cropped hair steps into the large semicircular meeting hall. The murmur of the gathering silences as he reaches the podium.
“Thank you all for coming.” He looks out into the crowd of allies. “For the sum of human history, man has failed at keeping peace.... | "Do you have the child?"
The voice was gruff and low, a monotone careful to avoid any accidental inflections that might incite magical effects, and strained though a thick brown beard. It's owner crouched in the alleyway, the shadow of the adjacent building doing little to conceal his girth, and his own shadow draping... | 2016-11-01T12:07:44 | 2016-11-01T11:55:06 | 143 | 68 |
[WP]your brother is a hero, your sister is a villain and you're a mercenary. this makes for some interesting family reunion | I came down the stairs to see, to nobody's surprise, stuff being thrown around like crazy. Scorch marks on the wall, furniture in splinters, holes in walls, you get it. I rolled my eyes, grabbed my megaphone, turned it on, and yelled into it.
"HEY, KNUCKLEHEADS!" The two brawling individuals immediately stopped, cover... | People rarely talk about the third child in the fire nation elite trio.
There was Zuko, the Diplomatic and even-handed leader. Azula, the Cruel sister.
But me? I was left out of the books, and for good reason.
I work in the shadows, swiftly dispatching anyone for the highest bidder. I admit, I am no hero. My god is ... | 2022-11-21T08:53:49 | 2022-11-21T04:22:30 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | "Big Brother?"
He woke up, groggily and rolled over to look into the middle of the bedroom. The little boy stood quietly, timidly.
"Y-yeah?" He said struggling to wake up enough to be even a little coordinated.
"I can't beat Bowser!" The pale little boy half wept. "I tried and tried but I can't beat him! And then I... | I knew he wouldn't understand why I didn't come home. He would sit and wait and wait and no one would ever come to the door. He wouldn't even try to keep himself alive. Just holding on to the hope that I would come home. I couldn't let him waste away. But who would help? Who could I turn to? Who would even care? I only... | 2022-07-15T13:24:52 | 2022-07-15T09:19:03 | 211 | 67 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A voice boomed, "Kneel, mortal."
I was dazed, and more than a little confused. My heart pounded in my chest, and I felt an overwhelming sense of anxiety and dread, although I couldn't quite remember why. My head darted left and right as I tried desperately to find the source of the voice, but as far as I could tell, t... | The bright light starts to fade as I unshield my eyes to appear in a white void. There's a glossy white floor, and a dirty white colored degrading building. Other than that, it's just a void of white.
"Wow, heaven looks pretty boring."
You enter the building and go to the reception where you see someone sleeping, but... | 2017-06-22T08:36:19 | 2017-06-22T06:26:05 | 25 | 13 |
[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". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | Thank heavens Shadow had impenetrable skin.
Why are knights so pesky? Is it that it intimidates them that a woman has a keep, filled with only women and children not of age, and no man?
Is it a fear of dragons? My poor Shadow wouldn't hurt a fly, except for the occasional sheep willingly given to her, or another pesk... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T06:35:55 | 80 | 37 |
[WP] You; the game's hero, reach the end of your journey. The evil has been slain, the entire nation celebrates in the streets and now, the beautiful Princess you saved very publicly confesses her love and offers you her hand in marriage, thing is; you married the cute NPC who sold you potions. | I scratched my head, feeling quite awkward as the rest of the city folk looked at where I stood next to the princess.
'I should have seen this coming, happens all the time in story book' I thought to myself. The princess was still looking at me, the smile on her face beginning to waver. I knew I had to say something. ... | "So, like, why'd you even save me then? What was that even all about?" asked Rylene, the Opal Princess of Tyndaria.
"Jesus Christ, we've been over this like ten fucking times," replied Arnor of the Goat Hills, wiping the sweat from his brown, revealing the birthmark that, so long ago, first revealed him as the True St... | 2018-02-03T22:37:39 | 2018-02-03T22:32:42 | 820 | 441 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | I thought it was a cat, I really did. It mewed in the deep grass, and if I hadnt stopped and taken out my earphones, I probably would've passed by without a second thought, never noticing the mottled green-blue body of an animal about the size of your average mutt.
I expected to see a next of kittens, abandoned in the... | 7:57 AM - Step into office.
7:59 AM - Get fresh copy of Motion for Summary Judgment in Aaerinshalia vs Duersing Mining off copier.
8:01 AM - Get a cup of coffee (Novelty "Lawyers Do It with Jurisprudence" Mug, 2 French Vanilla Creamers, 3 Splenda) from machine.
8:05 AM - Open Office Door.
8:06 AM - Notice naked wom... | 2018-04-04T20:15:57 | 2018-04-04T16:36:21 | 452 | 158 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | Safi crossed her legs and took a drag from her slim, dark cigarette. She recrossed her legs and looked at the infinite geomatic tiling on the walls. She breathed smoke. Mostly, she waited.
Djinn weren't generally known for patience. This should have been driving her insane. It was meant to. But Safi was a slow smoulde... | "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!"
The Grand Elder was unhinged. He had ranted for nearly an hour about "traditions" and the "problems with the millennials these days" and "respect". He wasn't strictly wrong though; Balthor *didn't* respect the elder or traditions and he *was* under 1000 years old.
Still, Balthor was patient ... | 2017-08-17T07:26:06 | 2017-08-17T06:33:34 | 174 | 71 |
[WP] It is discovered that our universe is a simulation. After great effort, a small team of experts manages to reach the higher dimension - only to find that this too, is a simulation. This gives rise to Dimensions Climbers: those who dare to ascend higher and higher toward the true world. | The first time I skipped -- I can only equate that first experience to something like chewing an entire sheet of quality LSD and washing it down with ayahuasca, after which the geometric elves in their hyperspace halls crack open your skull and dig their long architectural fingers into the concept of what could be your... | What is this feeling? It's like being shredded and remade again. It's like experiencing countless deaths personally.
Well, lucky I won't have to do it again. I won't have to climb. I'm only a simple mathematician. My job is to calculate how many dimensions we'd have to go through to reach the true world. I thought I'd... | 2018-04-11T21:09:40 | 2018-04-11T21:02:59 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] This man EXPECTED the Spanish Inquisition. But the Spanish Inquisition did not expect someone like HIM, and were dramatically unprepared. | "Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!" Ronaldo yelled as I kicked down the door. I hate it when he does that. As we burst inside the house, we saw that no one was home. "Fan out," I said, "Find the heretic and bring him to me." As I said that the door to the house slammed shut behind us.
"He must be trying to-" Ron... | I looked at them with a gleeful grin growing on my face. I had known for a while that this day would come, my superior sources silently supplying me with information. So I prepared. Oh, did I prepare. I built walls. I planted fruits and vegetables, raised cattle and sheep. I even created a secret password to my unilate... | 2015-04-10T08:40:26 | 2015-04-10T07:24:39 | 117 | 24 |
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