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[WP] You're a cab driver that drives souls to a memory of their choosing before delivering them to the City of the Dead. | He was a stout man, 5 foot three with a head of thinning silver hair. From the neck up he looked his age-- 93, or so said my instructions. But, he still filled out his forest-green Army coat and stood ready beside his dented mailbox.
I eased the car over the dips in the dirt road and stopped. I rolled down my window.... | I'd had a long day, about 15 fares so far and it was barely past four. What with all of the chaos going on in the world, death was rampant. I was one of the few drivers who could work weekends so I often had to work for long stretches at a time. Truthfully, I didn't mind that much. My next passenger was a young man in ... | 2017-12-14T16:28:51 | 2017-12-14T16:17:19 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] One morning, everyone in the world wakes up with either a blue triangle or an orange circle on their hand, and a voice announces "The two teams have been selected - let the competition begin!" Things degenerate from there. | Reddit had practically told us about this years before it happened. Who would have guessed that pitting everyone on Reddit into teams Orangered and Periwinkle was a beta test for something bigger, and not a harmless April Fool’s joke? Nobody had seen what Alex Ohanian and the others were plotting, and when it happened,... | Hell had ascended in the form of two symbols. Two abysmally plain, mundane symbols. But they held power, carried a mountain of weight. Life and death were decided by these two symbols; a circle of orange or a triangle colored blue.
“The two teams have been selected! Let the competition begin!” the booming voice cause... | 2018-01-25T15:47:01 | 2018-01-25T15:46:15 | 122 | 20 |
[WP] *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up* | The phone was ringing. Normally I would let it go to voicemail, but I was waiting to heär back about a job interview.
"Hello?"
"In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped."
Then the caller hung up. It was a restricted number, but ... | It's been five years since I got the call. I would be a vile lie to say that I hadn't thought about that day when I delighted myself with a startling amount of speech disability.
I had convinced myself that the opportunity will truly come to me. I didn't know how, but I sure hoped a strikingly beautiful goddess would... | 2018-02-04T14:30:46 | 2018-02-04T13:14:55 | 104 | 62 |
[WP] *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up* | The phone was ringing. Normally I would let it go to voicemail, but I was waiting to heär back about a job interview.
"Hello?"
"In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped."
Then the caller hung up. It was a restricted number, but ... | *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up*
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What would you say to that? Was it a prank? No. Because the v... | 2018-02-04T14:30:46 | 2018-02-04T14:27:55 | 104 | 11 |
[WP] You've been recruited into an adventuring party full of rejects. The warrior faints at the sight of blood, the wizard's spells never do what he intends, and the cleric is an atheist. As a tone-deaf bard, you're sure that you'll find right in. | The Warrior.
Funny you should call him that, since facing people head-on is the last thing he wants.
No, he'd rather things end before they begin. He's full of warm smiles and flowery words. Seeing his charisma in action is like mind control. A saint and an angel, he's the nicest man you'll ever meet, at least until ... | “Are we successful? Success is relative. I like to describe us to our clients as incredibly successful. And in a way, we are incredibly successful. In public, we are known as the Last Hope. To those in the know, such as yourself, we are known as the Lost Hope. We are the rejects, the losers, the people you hire to fail... | 2019-01-05T01:27:36 | 2019-01-04T19:16:52 | 79 | 22 |
[WP] your best friend recently died. His funeral was yesterday, but today you just saw him on the street. Approaching him you ask how he was still alive he responds, "how do you know me, no one was supposed to remember". | "What do you mean 'no one was supposed to remember', Teddy?" I asked. There was a nagging voice in my head, saying that our mutual roommate and friend had been oddly chipper the morning after Teddy's funeral.
"I mean- well that you're not supposed to remember." Teddy said, raking his hand through his hair. "Or- I don'... | Startled by his response I paused. What was really going on here? I stared into his eyes looking for an answer. Only to be greeted back with a stone cold look. Everyone saw what happened I thought to myself, so the fact that he was standing here today is unthinkable.
“How do you know me” he quizzed
“ your my best fri... | 2019-01-09T13:15:39 | 2019-01-09T10:23:58 | 61 | 24 |
[WP] A clang came from the engine room, followed by a string of curses. Most of the crewmembers stood far from the doors, fearfully looking in. It was their first trip out to deepspace since they had taken on a human mechanic, and they were all pretty sure that those were not good noises. | First Engineer Timothy Jenkins: Overall, I think today went well. Got a good look at their engine internals. Pretty tidy work, though they seem to play it overly safe with their parameters. I reckon they could get another 5% jump distance if they widened their quantum ports in the manifold, and another 10% if they fed ... | It's been 50 years since we, as a race, perfected space travel. Of course, I say race so as to gloss over the fact that entire groups of people had not only developed the math required to make the jump to hyperspace, but according to myth and lore, a few groups had managed it also, a full 150 years ago. That's a full 1... | 2019-05-31T07:32:53 | 2019-05-31T02:52:26 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. | "I'm sorry, what?!?" Captain Amazing Jr. asked.
I tried to remain as calm and professional as I could, but it was really getting out of hand. "I think you heard me. I, as a law abiding citizen, would like to file a complaint against a rogue hero. The Foehammer has been stalking me, and at this point who else can I cal... | “… I was stealing an ORANGE,” Dr. Bad Things said. “A single orange.”
Commissioner Gordon ran his hand through his mustache, thoughtful. “I see…”
“He broke six bones in my body and gave me a concussion. The doctors say I might never see out of
my right eye again!”
“Well, you did commit a crime, Dr. Bad Things… smal... | 2019-08-01T16:47:10 | 2019-08-01T16:20:25 | 883 | 296 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | "Upbeat and happy."
"What?"
"Upbeat" I picked up my mug. "And happy."
"No," he groaned, mumbling a string of insults under his breath, "When I say 'What' I didn't mean--"
Dad ran a hand through his hair.
"You know what?"
"The one where you say but didn't mean?" I took a sip from the mug, the steam fogging my glass... | (Can i make this undertale cos Im making this undertale lol)
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Its a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. Im going hiking today. Who cares if people say Mount Ebott is dangerous, people come back all the time! I get out of bed and get dressed into my favourite striped jumper. I g... | 2019-09-07T07:53:22 | 2019-09-07T04:42:58 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are rather friendly and peaceful. But they have one problem : they eat on a daily basis one of the most illagal and worst drug in the galaxy, known in human language as "sugar", making their integration on the galactic stage... Complicated... |
"Sugars?"
Dr. Othman adjusted her glasses to stare incredulously at the large being across the table from her.
"Yes. Please understand that such systemic addiction would normally be cause to exclude a species from full membership. Given how well human civilization has been able to operate despite the entirety ... | I raised both hands above my head, in the universal sign of "please don't shoot me." I had just crossed the airlock from my ship, the Majesty Capacity, and was being waiting for inspection. The Klates took no chances with me. Not because of who I was, but of what I was.
I was a human, and despite our frailty and lo... | 2020-04-22T15:39:36 | 2020-04-22T14:19:44 | 103 | 26 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | A lot is made of it, really.
People have written books about it.
The truth is, nobody really has any idea. It's just our way of, well… '*trying to understand God'* probably sounds a bit dramatic, but I ask you: what else do you call somebody who flies at a mach ten and plays swingball with rockets?
What is an 'in... | You know what they say
"You can't judge people by their first apperance"
I always thought how wrong this is. This girl has a mind control ability. And she literally use his boyfriend's ability to fly as a taxi service. Does he even know he got abused? Unbelieveable.
That's also why there are heros. Because of how v... | 2020-06-15T06:40:59 | 2020-06-15T06:38:30 | 892 | 93 |
[WP] In the Demon Hunters Academy you are known as the very best professor, 80 years old but still in your prime, but you're secretly a demon, and the academy recently got some new demonic detectors, and as opposed to the old ones, these actually work. you can only avoid the main hall for so long. | “And with this simple tincture, I can set off this contraption with no effort at all.”
He stepped through the metallic archway, arms raised disarmingly, as a siren began to emit a pulsing screech and lights flashed out of synch with each other. The audience clapped and cheered, assured because their mentor and leader... | I adjusted the red tie in the mirror, below the course hair on my neck, my gnarled hands trembling with the touch. Staring back at me with sunken cheeks, a large brown liver spot above the eyebrow, and eyes that hadn't shut in days, was an old man I had steadily come to realize was me. I had absently dressed myself in ... | 2020-07-02T22:12:46 | 2020-07-02T22:11:10 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Crusher had finally found his nemesis’ weakness. After hours upon days upon weeks of observing, monitoring, tailing, he finally found The Reader’s real name. It was Mark. Mark Bellings, the highly regarded psychiatrist. As Mark Bellings, he had saved the lives of countless patients’ lives by helping them realize what... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T11:14:56 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 233 | 10 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | "Wait, you're *not* some crazy rich billionaire philanthropist, who chases women to appear aloof, but secretly runs the city?" The villain, known as the Getup, asks.
"No?"
"Then, who the hell are you?"
"I am, *Justice*!" I strike a heroic pose, fists on my hips, arms and elbows jutting out.
The Getup rubs his face,... | Through thin thin eggshell walls of the motel room, the voice of Paul Anka crooned about a slow dance as rain pattered against the windows. The floors needed to be steamed and the tile needed an extra mopping. The only nice thing that could be said was no bugs were spotted when the pair had burst through the door. The ... | 2020-08-21T04:04:44 | 2020-08-20T23:13:29 | 399 | 126 |
[WP] you are a super hero/heroine. You've been captured by your nemesis so often that now you tend small talk while trying to escape or waiting for a rescue. Today's topic: the creepy fan mail you've BOTH been getting. | "Good, good," the menacing undertone piercing my groggy mind. "You are finally awake."
"Ugh," I murmured, still a little shell-shocked. I instinctively raised my right hand to rub at the sore, aching spot at the top of my head, only to run into the ever-so-familiar feeling of a restraint binding my wrists.
"That's...... | "Well, isn't this a familiar scenario?"
I shook the dizziness from my head, which only made it hurt more. I was pinned under several heavy crates and could barely move. Looking up, I began to mentally kick myself. It was such an obvious trap, but it had been just long enough since he had last used it. Just like l... | 2020-10-28T04:53:11 | 2020-10-28T04:36:23 | 99 | 29 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | I touched down on my backyard, exhausted and disappointed that I let Dark Lord escape. Actually it wasn’t my fault, it was those two new heroes that wanted to help. I guess their parents don’t give a damn about them. With a snap of my fingers, my costume faded away, leaving my blue dress. I told Henry I was going out w... | I do what I can. It’s not much, but it keeps the city safe. It’s been this way for years now--I fight off the muggers and thieves and super villains--and come home to my wife, Jenna, and our young twins, Liam and Nicole.
More often than not I’m exhausted. My left knee is bad after the fight with Polaris years ago. One... | 2020-10-30T12:00:19 | 2020-10-30T11:36:36 | 268 | 104 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | .
Jake saw a darkly robed figure riding a worn horse up the path to his barn. The dragon belched behind Jake. Jake grated "Eggard, I told you that was impolite." The dragon's eyes swiveled side to side in embarrassment.
The robed man halted his horse at what some might think could be the reach of a dragon's flame. I... | FADE IN:
INT. A HUMBLE HUT -- SUNNY
*One man sits at the head of the table, head in his hands. This is FARMER. He is dressed simply, streaks of dirt decorating his face and arms.*
**FARMER:** My family name is literally Farmer. I farm. My father and his father before him farmed on this very piece of land.
*To his l... | 2021-03-21T15:06:08 | 2021-03-21T13:10:16 | 281 | 128 |
[WP] Your parents are ordinary people, so you thought, yesterday you and your father found your mother's old villain costume, he told you he already knew but to not tell your mother. Today you find your father's hero costume and at that moment your mother enters the room. | “Please don’t tell your father about me,” mom says as she sits gingerly upon the edge of her bed. She keeps a gnarled, arthritic hand on her cane for comfort and traces the other along the sleek lines of the scarlet dress she’d worn when she was my age.
“I think he’d understand,” I say, playing with the hem of her... | "Put that back!" She said, eyes wide as she quickly looked behind her into the hallway.
For being secretive, they really don't pay that much attention to where they hide these things.
"What is this? Isn't this... Mr. M's suit?" I asked, recognising the insignia.
"Your dad, ah, likes to cosplay."
"Cosplay?" I asked,... | 2021-05-29T06:21:46 | 2021-05-29T05:57:25 | 699 | 483 |
[WP]In your dream, a strange man conversed with you: "I offer you a gift, what would you like?" "A dragon!" "That's not realistic." "Fine, I want a boyfriend then." But the next day you wake up to a dragon with care manual instead. | I looked back and forth between the dragon, a glorious pink and gold beast the size of a large dog, and the manual, entitled "Care and Feeding of the Modern Dragon."
"I, uhh." I opened the apartment door wider and the dragon primly stepped inside. I followed.
She - I was sure she was a she - curled up in between the ... | I didn’t know weather to be scared, confused, or offended, but before I could feel anything I saw the book. It was a care manual on how to care for dragons with what I could access as a human, but their was a note attached to it, “I made sure he was your type *winky face*,” oh I get it now.
I open the first page of t... | 2021-07-17T20:40:12 | 2021-07-17T19:44:42 | 214 | 28 |
[WP] The superheroes and supervillains are angry with you because you help them both but they can't kill you because you're too valuable. You remind them, "look, I'm a doctor with healing powers following the medical code, it doesn't matter who my patients are! Stop whining about it!" | I stand next to Dr Wesley, clipboard in hand, as he looks over his next patient.
"3rd degree burns across the body, 5 broken ribs and a dislodged collarbone, plus broken legs from falling off a skyscraper after losing consciousness." I start scibbling with practiced strokes. "Oh, and cancerous lungs from smoke inhalat... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Asclepius v.s. The Unified Sovereignties' Healthcare System)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**My daughter was bleeding out, and there was only one person who could sav... | 2021-08-01T09:49:48 | 2021-08-01T09:24:46 | 581 | 111 |
[WP] Humanity has finally achieved FTL travel. They can now explore the universe and find other alien species, sapient or otherwise. To the consternation of Man, it turns out they’re all crabs. As a matter of fact, the interstellar community is quite disturbed we are not crabs. | *This post has been translated from Crustaceanese to English.*
"What the hell happened to its claws?", the Crab President inquired to his foremost interstellar species expert as he gazed upon the giant screen displaying a human male.
"They don't seem to have them, sir. I believe what they have instead are referred t... | Captain Hawthorne and his four crew members followed the Kilitonian (blue, short crab) through the various halls of the Galactic Capitol. He had to crouch a little bit, but not too much. He felt the eyes of the other species on them as they passed.
A Mynian (yellow, slender crab) shied away as they passed its store. A... | 2021-08-05T06:43:16 | 2021-08-05T06:05:05 | 1,041 | 211 |
[WP] You are the weakest member of a famous superheros family. Villains kidnapped you for a ransom, unfortunately hostage situations don't work when your family is already neglecting you... | John sat slouching in the corner of his cell thinking about his last meal. It had been two days now since he last saw his captors. They had slid a small tray of microwaved food into his cell and had mentioned going to check if his family had responded yet. He doubted they remembered.
A loud bang from the door down the... | “What… what the hell!”
I was roused to consciousness by the harsh screech of one of my captors. Opening my eyes, I was greeted to the same dark bag, or sack, or whatever it was they stuck over my head.
“We were supposed to get a payday from ‘em, Mac!” a deeper voice than before spoke.
Being groggy ... | 2022-02-13T18:53:40 | 2022-02-13T17:49:26 | 200 | 142 |
[WP] You are the weakest member of a famous superheros family. Villains kidnapped you for a ransom, unfortunately hostage situations don't work when your family is already neglecting you... | My family has always been the most popular of the city, thanks to their powers. My parents were able to manipulate matter and teleport. My siblings could fly, control fire and water.
And my relatives although they had minor powers like pass through walls, they still had powers strong enough.
I was the exception... | So, imagine you're some medieval peasant going up against a knight. Dude has a huge fuck-off sword and enough plate to be a walking tank. Hell, in those days they may as well have been. And you have to kill him. What do you do?
I say go for the joints. You can't go through the armour, and the sword will cleave y... | 2022-02-14T02:34:12 | 2022-02-14T00:21:21 | 39 | 29 |
[WP] There's a girl who knocks on your door at exactly 9pm on every full moon, expecting sweets. It's been more than ten years and she's never aged a day. | The moon was high and bright, never a cloud to be seen every full moon. The house groaned and creaked, clamoring and calling, I think. The front door stilled long enough for the knock
*tap, tap tap, tap taptaptap tap.*
Only once have I heard it twice. And I regretted waiting that long, when I did. The door opens, sil... | For the first while since living here, full moons were always uncomfortable for me. Always approached by the same strange girl, asked the same question. I worried that I was being stalked or targeted or something…
But after about four or five months of three consecutive nights of knocking and sweet requesting, it bec... | 2022-06-25T17:42:20 | 2022-06-25T15:29:44 | 116 | 71 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "H-hello? Operator?"
"Ma'am, yes, please stay with us."
"God, help me. *sniff* I don't *want* to die!"
"It's ok, ma'am, you don't have to die."
"I do, I *do*, oh Lord, why must it be *me*?"
"Where is your present location, Ms... Ms-"
"S-Svenson, dear. 46th and Maple. Don't come, please."
"Ms. Svenson, the displa... | "Hello, my name is Emilio. I'm here to help you. What's your name?"
"My name is ... ugh Jesus. Shit, I don't even know why I'm calling you guys."
"Well, how about we talk it through and figure out how we can help you today, okay? What's your name? I doubt it's 'ugh Jesus' haha."
"... Ben. Ben Silverton. I'm 46. I us... | 2013-12-23T15:11:05 | 2013-12-23T13:39:10 | 50 | 26 |
[WP] everyone in the world has a number over their head, but nobody knows why. You have just figured if out. | Science had a lot of answers for us. How chemical bonds work. How to get to the moon. How water turns to ice. But the one question that science could never answer was the one about the numbers. The numbers that were floating above everyone's head.
Throughout all of history people of all types had struggled with that ... | Bill's mouth tensed when Lisa asked it, and as if sensing it, she turned up the volume and skipped over to the couch and punched him in the shoulder.
"Come on. What do you think the numbers mean?" Above her head, a neon green floating *17* seemed locked to her hair by an invisible halo. Above his, the number *1.*
"It... | 2014-06-04T10:00:23 | 2014-06-04T09:53:27 | 214 | 135 |
[WP][NSFW] During a civilised dinner party, the nuclear attack siren goes off. The guests gather in the safety of the basement, only to realise that it's the owner's kinky sex dungeon.
Maybe set it during a tornado instead or even during the blitz.
It could be comical, (They emerge into the world, all of their relati... | "A tornado warning? Shit, you have a basement, right, Dan?"
"Uhh . . ." Dan swallowed heavily, glancing nervously to Maddie. The redhead merely giggled. *She* knew what was in the basement. They weren't even dating, they were just friends who played together, but she had wanted him to be more social. At her insistenc... | Sawdust.
He kept thinking it, over and over with his tongue. It simply wouldn't shut up, but over cooked steaks never do. He could feel the moisture disappear in the maw of that chewy mess described as "well done." The throat closed itself in fear of becoming something that belongs in Chile.
Sawdust.
The only thing ... | 2014-06-22T09:02:09 | 2014-06-22T08:42:55 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Gods are frustrated on how humans have misinterpreted all their teachings, they come together for a emergency meeting to decide the fate of Earth. Most agree to pull out the power plug (Sun). You are the only Human representative, convince them there is still hope. | The room was quite loud; everyone was talking over each other, trying to get their point across. Finally, a booming voice rang out: "Be quiet!" After the walls finished their shaking and Steve's ears quit ringing, all eyes turned to the being at the head of the table.
God glanced at each being that sat around the con... | "Our failings of character and understanding are the byproducts of your choices, not ours. Frankly, if you are surprised that giving us a few special books to read didn't result in ten thousand years of unchanging world utopia, then you obviously don't understand your own creation. If you don't understand us, who are... | 2015-01-08T10:26:40 | 2015-01-08T09:34:36 | 82 | 18 |
[WP]: You always know the best or the worst thing to say. Unfortunately, you never know which one it is before you blurt it out. | "Well, he lived a long, full life."
"He was 12, Dale."
*Shit. Brilliant.*
"Uh, I know. But he did a lot, didn't he? Not a lot of 12-year-olds get accepted into Harvard. He did a lot of good in his time."
She smiled and looked at the tombstone. "I miss him."
"I don't." *Shit*.
She head snapped up.
"A-as much as y... | "Hey, you'll get past this, these things don't last forever." I said, trying to calm her sobs.
"They don't last forever? I would really think that your mother's death does, Ryan." Shit. That came out wrong.
"I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. Please, let me help you get through this." I said, nearing desperation. I... | 2015-10-01T06:34:43 | 2015-10-01T06:12:40 | 108 | 12 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay mistakenly walks into your house to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, and refuses to believe that you aren't a failing restaurant owner | GORDON RAMSAY: DEAD AT 59
-BBC, 29 June 2016
NATIONAL TREASURE GORDON RAMSAY has been shot dead in a Florida home while filming an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, the American reality TV show.
The suspect, Michael Jensen, 56, allegedly shot the celebrity chef after Ramsay mistakenly entered his home.
"The deceased ... | It's tough holding a dinner party for your friends when you can barely cook. But trying to prepare food with Frankenstein's uglier Scottish cousin leaning over your shoulder is nigh on impossible. That's what I get for leaving a window open, I suppose.
As I take the chicken breasts out of the oven to inspect them, Gor... | 2016-06-29T03:00:02 | 2016-06-29T00:16:18 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | The highest number I'd reached before today was 324. I only remembered one of those days of course, the one where the ambulance was called in time. Sometimes I have dreams about what I must have gone through before. Finding her dead already the first time probably, or getting there just in time to hear her apologise. I... | 7212 days?! Jesus, that's a long time. I pull out my phone and do the math. "19.75 years? Holy crap!" I think to myself. This must be one hell of a day. I'm stoked and really looking forward to it. I get up it is almost two in the afternoon (that's not unusual for me after a late night of online gaming), have a bowl of... | 2016-07-11T07:44:16 | 2016-07-11T07:37:31 | 83 | 26 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Everyone wants to be different. I, to my dismay, am.
I was deemed dangerous when I was born. Even though there are those that can level mountains with a wave of their hand, or calm a storm with a mere thought, it was I that they feared- a baby. Those comfortable with their own strength and power often fear that which... | My dad supposedly fainted when I opened my eyes, right after birth, and peered at him curiously. My mom sobbed into her pillow, believing I’d never make it in life. My eyes were a molten gold, the yellow shade just as the sun began to set, or so poets have written so far. It’s been over 20 years since I gained control ... | 2016-08-08T11:36:54 | 2016-08-08T11:17:29 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | Boris crossed his arms and gave me a confused expression.
"You want me to do WHAT?"
I repeated myself, speaking slowly and with confidence.
"...You see, it has been rumored that it could not be done. That is was impossible to begin with. This man... he is immovable. Thousands, no, millions have petitioned this man f... | I watch the clown on my 52 inchTV, he delivers yet another embarrassing news conference making a spectacle of our entire political system. How did we get here? I must confess, it is all my fault. I belong to a gentlemen's club for what are termed, super-rich. One day, after enjoying a round of golf with my bud Mark, we... | 2016-08-23T14:15:07 | 2016-08-23T13:00:40 | 3,361 | 94 |
[WP] Cryosleep is invented and is now affordable. People line up to be put to sleep and wake up in 100 million years. The time comes and everyone wakes up to see all the future technologies that humans made, but they forgot that scientists went into cryosleep too. The earth is now very different. | Imagine a moment, a solitary and isolated moment, that holds within it a summation of catastrophe, awakening, and madness. It starts with the catastrophe, as a pilot light flares up and sets ablaze the labyrinth of your asleep sentience. It is followed by the awakening, that drags consciousness, screaming in agony and ... | Today is the day. The day I decide to quit living. Well not exactly. It's the day I quit living in the "present." I signed up for the new cryosleep trials. It's been rolled out and deemed safe so I figured why not? I never really fit into my small town. I grew up an outcast. Not that it was horrible. I was okay with it... | 2016-09-13T22:56:05 | 2016-09-13T22:42:58 | 775 | 66 |
[WP] "Sir, we have found a planet so toxic and inhospitable, I could not even imagine a place so hostile. However, it even has sentient life, calling themselves "humans", who seem entirely unaffected!"
Number 1 in hot overnight. Yaaaaay...
Keep it up. Today, /r/WritingPrompts, tomorrow, the World! | [BEGIN TRANSLATION]
"They breathe *rocket fuel*?"
"Ye... yes sir. And..."
"They're immersed in the vapors of rocket fuel and you expect me to believe their whole planet doesn't simply combust?"
"Well... They *do* have combustion events with great regularity, but they never reach that scale..."
"Don't be a fool! We... | When Martin was a child, he and his friends would play a game called 'Space Invaders' where one of their group is the 'alien' and the rest of them were poor humans trying to escape from him. In truth, the game was just tag with another name but it was an inspired idea for an eight year old.
Turns out, being abducted b... | 2016-11-07T15:22:28 | 2016-11-07T15:18:58 | 904 | 200 |
[WP] You live in a dystopian society divided into 10 levels of increasing wealth. Every level is only aware of those below it. You and your family believe yourself to be the highest class, but one day a man from 3 levels above comes to visit you, with some very disturbing information.
Edit: Thank you kind stranger! I ... | "What do you mean you are 3 levels above me?" I asked, puzzled.
"That's exactly what I mean, I am 3 levels richer than you" he replied. "You see, our society was created that people are only aware of the levels below them, hence believing themselves to be the most fortunate people on earth, hence keeping them happy".... | "It was incredible. The power we had.
We had developed technology to become one with magic and science.
We were a 10.00, we had an enormous mansion made out of the purest diamond.
We had rocket propelled cars, cures to all diseases, technology that enabled us to travel through time, sound, and light.
We had trillio... | 2016-12-05T18:17:53 | 2016-12-05T16:51:17 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | Simon Shivered. He'd been told such a long time ago by the old lighthouse operator that "Ships Don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out.".
Then he remembered the keeper's final words on his deathbed. "Whatever you do, keep the light focussed exa... | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." He took a sip of his beer.
I didn't quite understand him, I just stared as we sat by the cliff, darkness enveloped the sky and ... | 2017-02-22T12:25:17 | 2017-02-22T08:57:52 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] Lonely and confident that you're the last person on Earth, You sign onto Reddit to browse old memes and jokes but realize there's a new AMA from a person claiming to be the last person on Earth. | Waking from my cryosleep in three thousand and ten,
I logged back into Reddit, to see old memes again.
I clicked upon the front page, and to my surprise,
saw "Ask Me Anything, I'm the last person left alive".
I posted "is this really true?", and F5'd with breath bated.
They wrote, "I need help so the earth can be ... | I sit alone in my room. It’s a cleaned out conference room in a library at my old university. I had just spent the entire day scavenging in what I have been calling the wastes. The food is getting scarce. The bottled water even more so now. I have been alone since it happened.
At first it was a joke, people on ... | 2017-08-18T01:25:54 | 2017-08-18T01:22:07 | 173 | 10 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | First time responding to a prompt, so be gentle.
Grixbrug gave a soft, uninspired sigh. Nothing he did could affect the world anymore. His steps made no impacts into the ground; his bow would not draw; he could knock an arrow, but it wouldn't leave his inventory. How long had he been stuck in this hell.
At this point... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T06:35:06 | 5,691 | 10 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story, but the last line reveals how chilling and horrific the story actually was. | I'm a good dog.
I don't poop on the carpets, I don't bark in the middle of the night, I don't steal mom's food, I don't bite shoes.
I'm a good dog.
I love cats, I don't bark at anyone, I don't attack anyone, I won't jump at people.
I'm a good dog.
I let Josh come into the house at night, but only if I get a mil... | Steve, who did not exist, returned to his dull and altogether not real house of no significance from a long day of work at Not a Business Inc., ate his bland dinner of Nothing With a side of Emptiness, and went to sleep in a bed that might have been real if it existed at all. Steve didn’t exist at all, which makes the ... | 2017-10-06T14:58:03 | 2017-10-06T13:52:37 | 130 | 18 |
[WP] A man watches his girlfriend repeatedly fail the “I’m not a robot,” test while checking out during online shopping. He comes to the realization she is indeed, a robot. | "Will you just come show me?!"
"Fine," said Harold, a forty-six-year-old senator, married with three kids, sitting beside his new girlfriend in their hotel room. He had met her two weeks ago at a fundraiser, and though she was much younger, and seemed immature, he found her advances irresistible and agreed to a discre... | James looked down and closed his eyes.
"In a minute, James. These things are getting way harder than they used to be, huh?"
The man moved his head, opened his eyes, and stared at the girl sitting at his desk as he sipped from his mugful of coffee. He waited. His focus sat inquisitively upon his younger lover as she, ... | 2018-01-07T11:29:08 | 2018-01-07T10:46:19 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] Every single person born, is paired with a freshly coded AI that will be their companion for the entirety of their lives and grow with them. After being dead for years, you are surprised to see your AI has somehow managed to follow you into the afterlife. | “I was wondering where you’d gotten to.” The voice startled me out of my depressed stupor. It was as smooth and fabricated as it was before my death but somehow softer, as though the harsh electric buzz of the speakers vibrations had been removed. Turning to face the voice’s origin I smiled as my twin stared back.
We... | The year is 4375. My name is Marcus Feícuo. I am-was... 22 years old... I lived in Eoxera, a utopia of sorts where every child is given a life partner in the form of an AI. They’re built perfectly to fit you. Nobody is ever lonely while alive. However, these AI are not living beings, they don’t contain souls. So, in ou... | 2019-02-14T19:00:26 | 2019-02-14T18:57:07 | 328 | 35 |
[WP] The last thing you remember is the car crash. In your will, you stated that you wanted your brain to be cryogenically frozen so that one day you might be reanimated. Suddenly, you awake in a cryo-pod, with text displayed over a screen in front of your face: "When you wake up, run like hell." | CONTENT WARNING: blood, graphic imagery
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His eyelids flew open in a burst of pain and fluid light, and inches before his pupils flashed a polychrome text:
*WHEN YOU WAKE UP, RUN LIKE HELL!*
The words had only barely swarmed into his brain when a loud burst of pneumatic gas thundered against his eardrums and the ... | Hot, searing, *stabbing* pain. Screeching metal, smashing glass. Blinding light. *Agony*.
Then, cold. A soft humming sound, like distant whirring fans, or an air conditioning unit. A faint blue light seeping through my eyelids. Blearily, I opened them, taking a moment to focus on the narrow display in front of me. A ... | 2019-02-28T23:12:00 | 2019-02-28T23:10:08 | 137 | 61 |
[WP] The date is April 1st 2020. Your town is deftly quiet for a Wednesday, but that’s because this time last year there came an April Fools prank that got so far out of hand that the town had to outlaw April Fools Day. That prank was yours and this is your confession. | Four pigs.
That's all my dad said I needed. Four pigs. Oh, and some grease and some paint. You take four pigs and write the numbers "one" "two" "three" and "five" on them, let it dry, slather them in grease and set them loose somewhere. The joke back then was that everyone would spend a day or so looking for number f... | The camera pans out and the blur on the lens reduces as the image focuses on a fairly young boy.
About 12 or so, he has tan skin, black hair, round glasses and a mischievous glint in his eyes that would definitely make you peg him as a troublemaker.
He clears his throat and the camcorder shakes as he reaches forward a... | 2019-04-02T21:20:08 | 2019-04-02T20:25:05 | 326 | 23 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | r/FoundSpells
u/ MagickalBoi2019 - 42 minutes ago
**[FS] I think I built an unlimited energy machine!**
Check it. If you put a pinwheel inside a box, and seal it. Poke a hole small enough for a straw, and then blow into it to start the pinwheel moving.
When it’s moving, cast this spell:“Ventus Mov... | Right. You have to do it with four right turns exactly the *right* way, otherwise it doesn't work. You've got to do it *right* as you're reading this post. Like, right away. Right now.
"It's a derivation of the Household Dishwater Sequence first developed a week and a half ago," Malcom said, scanning the thousands upo... | 2019-07-11T13:04:38 | 2019-07-11T11:46:51 | 125 | 50 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | Enviousdeath: 13 points - 4 hours ago
Guys three swipes. Trust me ;)
FuckTheGvt 6542 points 3 hours ago
Tried it, they were screaming furious!
Edmon5 2 points - 2.5 hours ago
Username checks out ;)
PartialMadness 336 points - 2 hours ago
So, for those of you late to this thread. We have discovered the combination r... | I love gullible people on Reddit! Recently, I saw this post:
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*Redditors, help! My son just cast ‘The Spell of Understanding!’ and I am shocked by what I’ve learnt!*
*I thought he was excited about construction and that he was going to be an architect. I heard him shout ‘Khalifa’ in his room so many time... | 2019-07-11T13:59:56 | 2019-07-11T13:02:47 | 114 | 27 |
[WP] A strange meteor shower lasted for hours before you went to bed. The next day, technology across the earth fails. However, when you snap your fingers in frustration, the lights come on. The Age of Magic has begun. | In fairness, we should have seen it coming. When we looked up to the heavens and saw the unscheduled meteor shower we all Ooh’d and Aah’d, taking pictures on our phones and thinking little of it. The loss of signal was easy to explain away, and the loss of WiFi was irritating, but we all slept regardless.
We should ha... | I look down a hill, watching Avalon rise up in the distance. Avalon used to have a different name, not too long ago. New York. The name changed together with the rest of the world.
My comrades nod at me. They used to be my classmates. Then the lights went, then the heat, then the teachers, then the families. We banded... | 2019-10-20T10:44:57 | 2019-10-20T09:09:51 | 182 | 76 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Humans have a saying, "War never changes".
This may be true for humans as they have either imagined or practiced seemingly every single conceivable every style of war.
For the rest of the galaxy at large, "War changed".
When the scourge came, 100's of millions of sentient beings died before anyone truly knew what wa... | The Tethron shivered in his hole. The mud was usually so comforting to him, but now it made him almost claustrophobic. Foreboding. The paradise of the colony world sundered into choking vapor and bitterly cold nights.
"Klang? Why are you coiled against the viewport like that? Come to the food station and get warmed up... | 2019-11-24T23:41:46 | 2019-11-24T23:22:53 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] When his daughter was born the oracle told the evil ruler that his grandson would one day kill him. But instead of trying to prevent the prophecy the ruler decides to be the best parent and grandparent, giving his grandson no motivation to fulfill the prophecy. | The seer's last words were the curse he spat at Lord Oberon, "Your first grandson shall be your last and he will be your death."
Lord Oberon was known by many names in the lands he had conquered; The merciless, the black scourge, the bloody lord. But to his face he was always called "your majesty". They didn't under... | It's amazing how something so small could change a person so set in their ways. Marquis Vale hated these cliches, but looking at and holding his daughter, he couldnt help the strings of his heart being tugged. Everyone around him drifted away as he contemplated how he would raise his newborn flesh and blood. How he giv... | 2020-02-03T20:28:23 | 2020-02-03T19:01:55 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened, and you don’t know what scares you more; the hordes of the undead that wanders the streets, or that one zombie that seems to be stalking you specifically. | "It's not us it wants, it's *her*!" Clyde pointed vehemently at me. "I say we throw her out there and make a run for it."
"She's saved your ass more than once you ungrateful piece of--!"
The group descended into chaos arguing over one each other about the merits of sacrificing me. Below us the hoard threw their rot... | Beads of sweat run down my neck and drip to the ground below, and my knuckles whiten as I grip my pistol by my head. I'm trying to steady my breathing and my body is fighting back; I may be in the best shape of my life, but these creatures are all in the best shape of their unlife. It took all I had to escape the horde... | 2020-09-28T17:16:21 | 2020-09-28T16:15:51 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] “O great demon, I have summoned you here today to–“ “No you didn’t. The young girl bleeding out on the pentagram did.” | The altar was swaddled in black velvet.
The sacrifice's pale skin glowed in the light shed by the crimson candles. Liquid pooled on the floor around her, darkening the pentagram of crushed bone.
The stone floor trembled -- like a young woman stolen at midnight from her home, struck mute by terror.
The wicks' flames ... | I left the city when I was six years old. The stars revealed themselves to me for the first time, and I was left breathless. The night sky, which had always been filtered through a haze of neon lights, was blacker than I ever thought possible; I felt pulled towards the vast nothingness, falling upwards into an abyss of... | 2021-01-15T10:11:56 | 2021-01-15T10:03:29 | 80 | 37 |
[WP]: Turns out God was a slacker and gave "Free Will" to not have to "plan" anything. He kicked out Lucifer cause he was a control freak. When you die turns out you have a choice, between a chaotic rule free Heaven or a smoothly machine operated Hell. | Saint Peter sat at a table in front of towering pearly gates.
“Well, where will you go?” he said to me.
“Give me a second, I wasn’t ready to choose where I’d spend eternity,” I said.
“Most people don’t hesitate the choice between Heaven or hell,” he said.
“But knowing the newfound information you told me about ... | Wisps of fog shrouded the floor of the cave as the soft green glow of stalactites radiated through the darkness. Shafts of light emanated from both ends of the cave. On my left was a golden ray that seemed faint now, but would sure to be blinding once I stepped out and, on the right, a warm inviting glow. The entire sp... | 2021-02-17T19:28:26 | 2021-02-17T18:59:51 | 415 | 104 |
[WP] You’ve always had good sight in the dark, you’ve been called a freak for it. When you die and see the light in the tunnel, you are the first person to notice a door to your side instead. | The walls of the tunnel were cold, slick stones. They stretched in front of me for what seemed a thousand miles toward a pinprick of light far in the distance. The floor of the tunnel was the same unforgiving stone. My feet were bare and ached on the hard stone as I made my way on the long journey towards this strange ... | It all happened so fast. One moment, I was driving, the next moment, I was flying in a dark tunnel with a light at the end that kept expanding.
*This means I died, right? Everyone who has ever died or come close, talks about a light at the end of a tunnel? Oh damn, this is really the end? *
I wanted to cry, but I did... | 2021-06-04T14:40:17 | 2021-06-04T12:27:34 | 320 | 97 |
[WP] After three grueling days of climbing, you finally reach the mountain's peak only to find a cabin, whose owner is an old man sitting on the porch. He asks calmly: "Are you here for a fight? Or would you like some tea?" | Hazel leaned her weight onto her walking stick, a thick chestnut slab worn from generations of use. Wiping days of sweat from her brow, she looked back out towards the horizon. The sun was just starting to rise.With a sigh, she turned her head in the opposite direction. To her destination.
The cabin was not how she’d ... | Cordeila had lived in the hut for two hundred and seventeen years and she had a role to fulfill. The hut was built into the side of a cliff face with small wooden beams jutting out of the rocks at odd angles. The house was ram-shackled and cobbled together, with clothes of various colors hanging over the windows and br... | 2022-07-01T20:37:22 | 2022-07-01T19:26:12 | 47 | 29 |
[WP] You're arrested and locked in the most infamous, inescapable, cruel prison. Dealing with you requires four armoured guards carrying tasers. Every inmate looks at you with terror. Except one. One inmate asks "What's a cute thing like you doing here?" Despite being ten, you look up with a grin... | ‘For all the years I have lived on this earth.. through the times of the Romans, the Greeks, Egyptians… The slaughters I’ve caused… Im sure they still remember me in Romania.. I have never met someone with such blatant disregard for their surroundings..
The other prisoners look upon me with fear and terror in their ey... | I look back, the 14,000 years that I have lived through pass show in my eyes, the inmate suddenly understands that he is insignificant and that I could kill him just by snapping my fingers. But before I could do anything I take a nightstick across the back of my head and suddenly I see stars and fall to my knees, and y... | 2022-11-12T21:32:46 | 2022-11-12T15:21:47 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Reversed Hades and Persephone situation: the Goddess of Life kidnaps the God of Death to be her new husband, meaning that six months of the year things are normal but the other half literally nothing is able to die. | I hated how it was all we would hear about for the two months prior. We hadn't even finished celebrating Remembrance Day, and already we would see the notices plastered on billboards, on the front page of the news paper, notices sent to our phones. For two months we would be subjected to the daily reminders. "DayLife S... | With a heaving yell, Lukas pulled himself up and over the outcropping. He breathed out only once a bundled boot found purchase on the snowy ground. He stood, dusted himself down, and almost fell right back over the edge when he saw the monstrosity before him.
"Ho, young sardassi! The Sacred Grove is no place for morta... | 2022-11-15T21:10:30 | 2022-11-15T18:36:56 | 110 | 33 |
[WP] Nonhuman youths swap stories about humans around a campfire equivalent. The stories are true, if wildly misinterpreted.
-012 | Human stories... classic. There was a tumblr about these once
welp looks like someone screen grabbed it http://imgur.com/hINj1xf
if I can find the story I wrote back then. I'll share it. I'm still thinking about making a subreddit for it but I can't figure out if it'll last more than a month. | Chicky, Clucky, Beak, Henny, and Ralph were sitting around the bonfire sharing scary stories. It was Ralph's turn.
"There once was a family, who lived happily on their farm. They lived out their days in peace and tranquility, eating their delicious corn and grain. One day a large featherless beast came and captured the... | 2014-01-12T15:08:21 | 2014-01-12T12:35:20 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A secretly immortal man is given a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit and now fears the discovery of his true nature is only a matter of time. | (Apologies in advance for formatting) I've been around the block a few times. I've seen some bizzare stuff. The strangest thing, though... fear. Definitely strange. Due to my, uh, unique circumstances, I don't know much about it. I only see it reflected in others. Usually the eyes. Those unlucky Revolution soldiers as ... | Abdul stared at the warden sitting across from him. Both were stone-faced. They were in the middle of a soundproof interrogation room. Six guards were stationed outside, ready to intervene should things turn violent.
Abdul had the upper hand in this discussion.
"My prison has been very accommodating of you for the... | 2014-08-18T09:31:10 | 2014-08-18T09:09:57 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | "Don't shoot, I'm Shia not Sunni! How come you westerners can never understand the difference?!"
"Oh. I understand the difference, more than you'll never know..." *blaat* (cut to thug life vine)
Alternative: dearest laquisha,
The days are hot and the nights are cold in this barren desert of Syria. I opine for these ... | Nobody could tell if the news reports were real or if it was "the onion" taking over all mass media outlets. "Gang Members Backed by Walt Disney World take on ISIS" one headline read. Below a picture of the megacruise Disney's Majestic was shown crowed with shirts of Red White and Blue.
It all started with a press co... | 2015-12-07T10:09:17 | 2015-12-07T09:53:24 | 146 | 18 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | We thought that the devils of the west only sent us more soldiers for the hounds of Allah to feast on, yet more greedy, rich, decadent American blood to bath in.
We did not expect this. They moved in, accepting our ways, then they divided us. Drugs were always an issue regarding our warriors, young and boorish, but ou... | Nobody could tell if the news reports were real or if it was "the onion" taking over all mass media outlets. "Gang Members Backed by Walt Disney World take on ISIS" one headline read. Below a picture of the megacruise Disney's Majestic was shown crowed with shirts of Red White and Blue.
It all started with a press co... | 2015-12-07T09:53:36 | 2015-12-07T09:53:24 | 76 | 18 |
[WP] You have a box, with a button. Press it and a year later you'll be right back to when you pressed it. A year without consequences. | The box had 2 lines written on the side:
* Press and live as you wish for 1 year
* At the end of 1 year, you will be returned to the moment the button was pressed
The opportunity was intriguing. He couldn't just ignore the box. Life was hard, but with the option of "practicing," perhaps things could actually be bette... | The most important day of my life was the one when I received this powerful magical artifact. It was a time machine, but with one limitation: it only had the ability to send me back in time to when I activated it.
So if I pressed the big red emergency button on its top, in a year's time I would be sent back to the po... | 2015-12-15T08:51:18 | 2015-12-15T08:25:37 | 129 | 10 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | "Sir! I believe that Lucifer is cheating." States Metatron, his tone annoyed as he tabs through a series of numbers and files. "If that's the case I'm not sure on who should be winning the game."
"Lucifer is cheating on what? What game? Where are you playing?" States God, as he places his paintbrush down, leaving what... | The Father stood proudly next to his Son, admiring all of the work that brought him to where he found himself today - at the edge of the Reflection in the Great Hall of Growing.
"As all have before you, so shall you Grow into your own" the Father spoke, his voice carrying effortlessly over the rows of Helpers attendi... | 2016-03-07T07:23:50 | 2016-03-07T07:19:57 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] On your first day as a supervillain, you secretly swap all the regular coffee on Earth with decaf. You envision this as a fun, little starter prank. To say you miscalculated the potential impact of your "prank" is putting it mildly... | How do you rank up from apprentice super villain to public enemy No. 1, in a single morning ? Well, that’s pretty easy. You remove coffee from the world. I expected some grumpy people, and a nice way to make a name for myself. I didn’t expected… that.
I’m now known as “Coffee Killer, the destroyer of worlds”. That’s a... | Well I brought down the internet. I mean I wasn't really trying to, but who knew that every good computer guy and gal ran off of coffee. Literally.
It was widely joked that computer people run off of coffee. But everyone knew this was just hyperbole. Until I used my matter/anti-matter displacer to eliminate caffeine f... | 2017-02-03T07:57:13 | 2017-02-03T07:22:22 | 64 | 43 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "So you're back again? When are you going to stop visiting me old man"
"When you're rehabilitated or near enough". "You know my old man is gone right and he was still an asshole when he died"
"Yea well I like to think he was less of an asshole at the end".
Max was like clockwork every Tuesday and Thursday turning... | "Who's this old guy? Have I really killed enough of your minions that you're bringing the retired ones back in?"
"You fool child. Even as an old man he strikes fear into the hearts of more villains than you ever will."
"Dont make me laugh." He chortled back.
"Let me guess you graduated from school a couple of mont... | 2017-04-13T05:17:22 | 2017-04-13T04:36:58 | 97 | 71 |
[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. | “I have summoned and bound you, demon! You will listen and obey.”
“Uh, sure. Whatever you say, boss.” Michael tried to make out some features of whatever was talking but it was obscured by a dark, heavy robe complete with a hood. “I do whatcha ask and then you send me back. You’ll send me home, right?”
“I am the... | "Shit shit shit" I said under my breath as I raced down the sidewalk towards the bus. It was raining and all I could do was hold my unopened umbrella above my head as I ran. It obviously didn't help, so when I finally reached the bus stop panting and ready to fall over I was completely soaked through.
The bus doors wer... | 2017-05-12T08:18:29 | 2017-05-12T07:07:38 | 617 | 193 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "You see it? That is what I crave. The Rajpank of Avoothenkor."
"That's what you want? That's why I'm here?"
"With that I could rule this World. But I cannot have it, for it is not mine."
"So there's guards, cameras, lasers? What's the deal?"
"I don't understand."
"What's guarding it? You know, the security? I don... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T09:20:50 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 99 | 10 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | It had all come down to this. I stand upon this roof top silently contemplating my life. I had always been the compassionate type. Each day I made as many selfless acts as possible. I don't like to see anyone or anything struggle. I am the type of person that always gave away my spare change, helped elderly women acros... | "Tell me where it is!"
"I don't know! I don't know!", I cried as I got another kick in the gut, protected by nothing but the rope the chackled me with.
Apparently, the thing they want from me is a valuable jem hidden somewhere in my house. I thought the previous owner was shady, but who'd think he worked for mafia! ... | 2017-08-27T22:49:17 | 2017-08-27T22:41:33 | 392 | 56 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | In a time when knights and dragons played a deadly version of capture the horde, only the elite dragons managed to protect theirs. One such dragon was Squeak-Squeak, the smallest dragon. Squeak-Squeak’s horde may not have been giant and filled with rubies or pearls, but he was proud of it all the same. He owned a singl... | Jasper flew up from the park with a rush of excitement, A small golden coin clutched between his two miniature claws. He had finally claimed a prize from those pesky humans.
Unlike his counterparts, Jasper’s unusual size allowed him to fly into the city reasonably undetected. He would find a flock of like-minded pige... | 2017-09-07T13:15:56 | 2017-09-07T12:19:27 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] Earth gets into an intergalactic battle with aliens. They seem invincible to everything we do until we find their weakness, cheap foam and plastic. So in this war, it's Nerf or nothing. | They crushed us on the land and ocean, they where invincible in space and in the air. The aliens where terrifying, completely immune to all weapons actively used in the Earth's military combined.
"Docking alien ship in 5 seconds"
But with the discovery of the weakness all that changed.
"4 seconds"
The aliens seemin... | "Launch ready, aye, condition STATUS QUO 1, Tube Twelve," came the final reply by the Lieutenant over the phone to Captain Keef.
"Weapons Con you have permission to fire," replied Keef from his station. He braced himself against the console. He knew the problem of missiles pushing back against the ship was solved year... | 2017-11-11T05:07:41 | 2017-11-10T22:53:22 | 73 | 42 |
[WP] You've always felt the wildlife on the tour were just a little bit too docile and the whole thing felt staged. You had no solid proof, until you've accidentally snagged a video of a tour guide splitting his tips with a gorilla. | I had barely pressed the crisp bills into Koko's hands when the shout came over the hedges.
"Oi! I saw that! I bloody saw that!"
The voice was unmistakable, and it did to my spirits what stepping into a mound of fresh elephant dung would have done. Koko tensed up immediately, and the bills disappeared behind her quic... | The muted twang of a touchpad mouse spring rings out once more, and I remove one earbuds, turning my head back to see my wife, Carol sound asleep on the right side of our double bed. In the single next to her, little Susie drools on the stuffed monkey clutched firmly to her dressed. The only sound is of the air conditi... | 2018-02-25T17:27:14 | 2018-02-25T17:21:11 | 1,084 | 89 |
[WP] Once upon a time, aliens sent a virulent poison to Earth in hopes of clearing the planet for their own habitation. Hundreds of years later, they're back, and shocked that we're not only alive, but actually are eating/drinking their poison en masse. | We were running out of time. Our constantly growing population had created such a need for resources that we were forced to look for a new home.
Our scouts found a primitive planet in a small system that seemed perfect for our needs. The only problem was that the planet was inhabited by a primitive race of bipedals. ... | Life adapts to survive. Trying to destroy all life in existence is futile- in *some* corner of the world, deep within some forgotten ocean vent or kilometers under the soil, life will march on. And eventually, the weapon against it will become its greatest asset.
Take the cockroach- from eons of persecution, it has ... | 2018-05-16T23:31:55 | 2018-05-16T20:08:03 | 653 | 237 |
[WP]: Your little crime family ran a restaurant as a money laundering front. However, the place got so popular, you decided to quit the crime and just run the place straight. Now, a new crime organisation is trying to inch into town, on your turf. It's time to get back to business. | The room was dark, and full of frowns.
My dad, bald as he was, scarred as he was, couldn't stop pacing from wall to wall, shaking his head, grimacing, clenching his fists. "I'm telling you, it's time to get back to business. We can't allow another organization to come and steal what we took so long to build."
My mom,... | We had a lanky fella dressed in all black that walked into the restaurant one day; he sat down with some other well-dressed gentleman four of them to be exact. I didn’t pay much attention to them as it was lunch hour and we were swamped with orders “Come on, get those orders out!” I yell at the chef Pierre, “I am worki... | 2019-04-17T08:28:31 | 2019-04-17T08:13:29 | 2,944 | 69 |
[WP] An ancient evil was awakened, but the morals and ethics of the world have changed in the last 10,000 years that the ancient evil is considered pretty moderate by the times standards | Each had cut themselves, and given freely of their blood to awaken him. They had constructed their alter, their monolith of ash and polar, and burnt it. They heaped the flesh of the lamb and bulls upon their pyre as the scent was pleasing to him. And finally they spoke the words and swore the oaths.
It was time, the s... | I have been missing this feeling so much. That smell of deep satisfaction in the air, that disappointment and uncontrollable anger in their eyes, the look that gives away how powerless they feel. I don't remember the last time I made something truly evil. For thousands of years I have been trapped in this cave, listeni... | 2019-09-16T10:35:44 | 2019-09-16T10:33:41 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] You died. Death is boring, a blank black nothing. After a while, boredom sets in. As a joke you shout, "Let there be light!" And suddenly, there was Light. | I wonder how long I have been here.
Too long.
I can't seem to remember much about my life.
I can't seem to remember what life is like.
What is life?
What am I?
Who am I?
I can see my body, fleshy pink, odd shapes and sizes extending from the middle.
I need something.
Someone.
Anyone.
Everyone.
I need to see... | Well crap. Im dead. Isnt that fun. Weeeeeee! Void! I love this! This is so much fun floating around in nothingness!
Okay. This is painfully boring. What am i supposed to do? Am i stuck like this for eternity? Do i get reincarnated at some point? Could i at least watch what's going on back home?
Ugh. This is so ve... | 2019-10-06T00:23:54 | 2019-10-05T23:18:36 | 520 | 196 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | He’s old now, Dudley thinks as he stares at his cousin, no stranger, on his doorstep. There’s a touch of grey at his temples, and the beginnings of smile lines by his eyes. He’s been happy since he left, and Dudley was glad for it.
“Hullo Big D.” He says simply, a smile caught in the corners of his mouth. He was weari... | Sophie sat on the carpeted stairs mesmerized. She had never seen this odd lanky man before, and he had the most peculiar scar on his forehead. He wore a long over coat with a simple sweater underneath. He had circular glasses that blocked her view of his face. Sophie stared at him awestruck and amazed. She thought it w... | 2019-10-16T11:44:39 | 2019-10-16T11:35:26 | 94 | 66 |
[WP] You, a novice necromancer, accidentally discovered a new and more effective way of using your magic - politely ask the dead for assistance, which works suprisingly well. For this, you are hunted by both your fellow necromancers(for your unorthodox methods) and paladins(for using necromancy). | Tara watched the foul necromancer at work. He was working on a corpse, of course. Nothing she could do about it, tied up as she was. But she wasn't gagged... "Let me go, servant of evil."
He shrugged. "You going to try to stab me again?"
"I will smite you."
"Then you stay right there." The necromancer held up an arm... |
Today was supposed to be an easy day. Just a simple supply run. Jessie and me were to go down to the lake to check out the old marina and see if there was anything worth taking back to our hideaway. Food, medicine, weapons, tools, anything. We needed anything. There were not supposed to be many undead in this area. Th... | 2019-10-24T21:19:31 | 2019-10-24T18:28:11 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | It was a single scout ship that first orbited the Earth. It’s technology was advanced well beyond the planet below. The crew was carrying out standard investigation protocol. The rocky planet had tremendous resources, including heavy metals, water, and vast amounts of organic. The population appears strong and useful. ... | ''The suit that I’m wearing also has the same compound as well.''
They look confused. One of them asks a question through the translator, ''Can you tell us where did you find this material?''
I clear my throat, ''Let me be clear, our deal with you only includes getting you all the defensive technology, not giving awa... | 2019-10-25T08:47:26 | 2019-10-25T08:30:46 | 217 | 78 |
[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... | He was waiting for me just like always two lockers down, on the left of the water fountain waiting for his prey to show up. He would make his demands for homework. I wouldn’t give him or money I didn’t have, and then he would activate his sigil. A circle broken into quarters with a crosshair that intersects the ring in... | 2020-02-26T07:44:57 | 2020-02-26T07:25:14 | 91 | 51 |
[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 | As his back bounced off the unforgiving steel of his own locker Tomas contemplated what imagined slight he caused this time. It was always the same. Same oblivious parents. Same uncaring teachers. Same Jacob Meech.
The circle sigil on the back of his right hand a mocking symbol of his overall life so far.
He considered... | My head rebounds off worn red brick after Jackson threw me into the outside wall of the teacher's office. His cronies hold my arms to the wall as Jackson puts his sigil to use, cutting my shirt to ribbons with swipes of his fingers to reveal my sigil, his careless cruelty leaves many shallow cuts on me by the time my s... | 2020-02-26T07:36:26 | 2020-02-26T07:22:21 | 72 | 46 |
[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... | Even before the rapture, that's what we've grown to call the day the sky lit up like a god had laid fire to a rainbow, i had trouble fitting in. I never enjoyed the "normal" things kids were supposed to: sports, video games, comic books. I was always staring out the window. Looking for shapes in the clouds or stars. Wi... | 2020-02-26T12:40:00 | 2020-02-26T09:02:03 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | The Maenad
"Fuck you, David; it wasn't my fault." I mumbled as I finished the second bottle of the evening. "Fuck you. Fuck you and your whole family and fuck your little whore too. It wasn't my fault."
Angry as I was at the time, I actually felt sorry for Emily. She didn't know what a piece of shit my ex-husband wa... | I’m hunched over an empty dining room table, necktie undone, staring into a glass of bloodred wine that I plan to drain to a rosy sheer. I couldn’t tell you what time it is. Definitely well past the traditional four.
In all the past years - especially the ones since my sister got married - I admit I kind of dreaded t... | 2020-11-08T13:57:12 | 2020-11-08T12:32:34 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy." | “You couldn’t have….” The hero gasped as the words left the old man’s lips.
“That’s right. Humanity has fought against itself for far too long. I realized it after I saw my family die in the last great war. We have spent too much time bickering about ourselves instead of attempting to work together. That’s because it’... | Our eyes met, and shared a look for a few seconds. He seemed exhausted, but then, so was I. How could I not be, after all I had been through? He averted his gaze before I did, his head nicking down ever so slightly.
"Peace?" I finally asked. "Do you call that peace, out there?"
My left hand pointed across the throne ... | 2020-12-09T10:38:14 | 2020-12-09T10:23:36 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | The basement lab her parents worked in, where they performed their spells on weekends, nine-year-old Lori Wittmer knew was strictly off limits. They’d explained this in detail many times, even though it was always locked. But one day, when her father was off at work and her mother had just come off a shift, Lori took t... | "…What is this?" The infernal being inquires as it clutches a crumpled piece of notebook paper in its talon. The room is completely dark save for the eyes of fire currently peering down upon me from within the summoning circle.
I snap my fingers and let the sound echo off the walls of the otherwise silent room. "THAT,... | 2021-03-26T20:56:09 | 2021-03-26T20:55:10 | 536 | 288 |
[WP] You have a power to gift people special abilities, but you cannot gift them to yourself. You are a assaulted by gang of bullies who threaten you to give them powers, but little do they know you can add a side effect as well. | “End of the line, kid. Not so tough without your bodyguards, eh Endowment?” Hector asked, savoring the fear in the kid’s eyes as he slowly spoke the last word. He hefted the bat for further emphasis as the two men from the bar joined him. “This can be easy or this can be hard. That’s up to you.”
“Okay, what’s easy?” t... | I never wonder how people stranded in a desert feel when they see an oasis just out of reach. That’s because I experience that everyday. Not literally, of course. But I live in a world where people have supernatural gifts, and I have within me nearly every kind of gift. The only caveat is that I can’t use any of them m... | 2021-04-01T06:38:24 | 2021-04-01T06:14:11 | 551 | 133 |
[WP] As a blacksmith of a small village, you double as a weaponsmith. One day, a group of adventurers enters your smithy with a broken ivory sword that they dare you to fix it. As you run your fingers over the familiar ancient engravings, you hear a voice whisper in your mind. ‘Hello, old friend’. | The oafish warrior places the sword down in front of me that he says he wants sharpened. I stare at the gleaming ivory blade edge and the runes carved along the length of the dull edge. The light from my forge daces off the perfect implement of death I made so long ago. I never thought I would see it again.
But how d... | Pt. 1
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The sound of metal dinging resonates throughout the workshop. *These are some nice acoustics*, I think to myself. The sound of my work always helps me keep my tempo, and this new workshop I’ve moved into sounds great. Creaking of wood and rusty metal followed by a chorus of footsteps interrupts the... | 2021-09-25T10:56:45 | 2021-09-25T10:02:45 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] Some planets have vast storages of mana, allowing its inhabitants to use magic. It's is belived that civilizations can only reach advanced technologies like flight trough the use of magic. Until the aliens meet the humans. | "First Magi, what do you make of this?" The captain waved at the scans before them. The First magi's ears two sets of eyes blinked simultaneously and his mouth twisted in consternation. "This is impossible Captain, someone must have falsified these."
The captain's nostril slits flared and his top eyes nar... | "Thus it is to our imperative strategic and economic benefit that we..._acquire_...these resources as soon as possible."
"By-"
A hand raised.
"Any-"
Two more too stood so proud.
"Means-"
Nine, _nine_, more have joined the salute.
"_Necessary_."
The last four too, but as proudly, gave their euphoric approval.
... | 2021-10-06T18:35:41 | 2021-10-06T13:39:20 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You are a serial killer, and you are nearly finished digging a hole for your latest victim when you hear steps approaching from the dark. Ready for anything, you shine your flashlight, gun at the ready, to see...another killer carrying another body. | I liked Mercy, she didn't scream in the beginning but breaking, oh breaking her was fun. Burns didn't do much until I started with my blowtorch, shame really, she had beautiful feet. If only she had screamed earlier, but then again, breaking her was the fun part. She was my longest girlfriend. And in the end, it was me... | He was gorgeous. I saw clear, pale skin that shone in the moonlight, dark curls of a colour I couldn't quite make out in the darkness lay on his face, framing it in an almost regal halo. And that's not even mentioning his cheekbones—they were as high and as regal as can be. And his *eyes*...they were...*indescribable*.... | 2021-12-14T19:50:36 | 2021-12-14T19:20:42 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] The three rules have been passed down from generation to generation: One, when it visits, do not refuse it entry. Two, when it offers a gift, do not reject its generosity. Three, when it leaves, do not turn your back until it is no longer in sight. In this way, our family has been kept safe. | I have told my kids not to be scared, that it is nothing to be scared about. But it is their first time, they'll learn, they have to.
A knock echoes through the silent room and everyone except me jumps. I look at my wife and tell her silently to be strong.
I paste a huge smile on lips, if I'm being honest it's not ... | There was a soft clattering as the plane lurched again through the turbulence. The young girl to my left was looking sickly.
The intercom crackled to life. “Hi folks, a bit of bad news from the flight deck. We are having a minor mechanical issue with the aircraft, and we will be returning back to Dulles. Once we’re on... | 2022-01-06T10:19:49 | 2022-01-06T08:27:53 | 704 | 333 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | “Wh-what?” My mother stammered those words as she tripped backwards. Collapsed perhaps, was a better way to phrase it. Thankfully, my father was there to break her fall. However, deep inside a part of me wished he hadn’t been, because now the normally larger than life giant of a mother I had was eye level with me…and I... | As his eyes scanned for an answer, the clock continued to slowly tick and pace along. Shallow breaths with droning murmurs emanated from the towering figure, He was hesitant about his next action. With his shoulders hunched forward a defeated sigh pushes through his teeth with a slight hiss. Then, he began to contempla... | 2022-10-04T19:36:26 | 2022-10-04T19:20:03 | 178 | 94 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | The door rattled before a knock came. Instinct kicked in.
"Try to bless me and I will send you to your maker."
Feet sprinted away from the door as I relaxed and sipped on my tea. Why is this happening to me? It's been two years since my powers manifested, and I declared neutrality. Everyone took it to mean that I was... | My name is Naomi Gallagher, and I live in a world full of powers. Everyone born in this world was usually born with a power, I’m no different, but my power is not really for one side or the other.
I call my power, Null and Void, basically I have a small area around me that, as soon as any power is activated or is use... | 2022-10-04T17:10:27 | 2022-10-04T12:27:12 | 177 | 116 |
[WP] "The League of Super Heroes can't help but notice," said their representative, "that certain corporations have a say in which supers the government determines are heroes and which are villains. A large say. The League has determined this is not an acceptable arrangement any longer." | The representative stood just on the other side of the reinforced glass, her long dark evening coat draped to the sides of her slender figure that was just as plain as the way she spoke.
"The League of SuperHeroes can't help but notice,"—she
Said before readjusting her glasses—"that certain corporations have a say in... | A stunned silence hung in the air after the announcement, as the UN ambassadors tried to form the words to respond. The man lounging on the chair before then, studied them, no emotions on his face beyond a lazy smirk.
As shock turned to anger, one of the ambassadors finally found her tongue. “You think you can just wal... | 2022-10-07T06:56:39 | 2022-10-07T06:08:09 | 310 | 172 |
[WP] Two immortals have been duking it out for god knows how long and only now have they realised they have been fighting in the middle of a city | A phone rings.
Two men stand in the midst of a crumbled city.
‘Is that your bloody phone,’ enquired the rasping voice of a man in a black cloak.
‘Oh shit, hang on I need to pause, it’s the old ball and chain, if you know what I mean,’ replied the other man who wore a white cloak. His voice of rolling velvet.
‘Yes, ... | "Stop!!" Thor thunders, raising his palm to his enemy of the past hundred centuries.
Thunder roared from above. Not the kind brought on by a mixture of hot and cool air, but a deep crimson lightning, forced to break the clouds by Thor's impatience. The bolt shatters through the countless drops of rain before striking... | 2022-10-20T04:33:06 | 2022-10-20T03:57:02 | 92 | 31 |
[WP] "Nobody will hear you scream!" the serial killer said to their would-be victim. Too late did they realise that this also means that no one would hear them scream either. | As the masked man holds a knife to my throat, he snickers. I simply stare at him blankly. “Nobody will hear you scream!” He says, cackling. I really had to get an attempt today Huh? I just finished my shift of janitorial work, and decided to take a shortcut home. I didn’t think someone would try to kill me today. “Neit... | The rain pattered gently against the pavement, the only sound in the dark night. My footsteps echoed in the silence as I made my way towards my destination.
I could see the light coming from the windows of the old abandoned warehouse, and I knew that's where he would be. He always chose places like this.
In the week ... | 2022-10-25T16:53:56 | 2022-10-25T13:39:59 | 93 | 55 |
[WP] You are a wizard that specializes in summoning magic. Unlike other summoners that forcefully bind otherworldly creatures to do their bidding, you are the eldritch equivalent of "I know a guy". | >*"I'm Slick Scareson, and this is my spawn shop. I work with all manner of occult and eldritch entities here with the reanimated skeleton of my old man and my shambling mound, Big Moss. Everything in here has forbidden secrets and a terrible price. One thing I've learned after 210 years- you never know what is gonn... | “Hey Xarth’telach’zirmxoos, thanks for coming so quick at this late cycle of Slascr.”
“It’s cool. Not gonna lie Bill, this was an excuse. Z’tg is really pushing me on permission to shift the stars herself for the release of my great spawn of the Consumers of Void. I’m all like ‘I know when the stars are right and I’m... | 2022-11-12T08:42:01 | 2022-11-12T07:26:30 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity is the Galaxy's Idiot Savant
I was inspired by Year Zero for this prompt.
Basically, humanity is pretty atrocious at just about everything when compared to the other races of the galaxy, except for [The Thing You Choose].
We're obscenely, unreasonably, astoundingly good at it. So good that the rest ... | "We found this during one of our infiltration missions."
Rhakal gazed down towards the new square object his team retrieved. It appeared to be a semi open container with multiple thin sheets layered inside. It didn't appear dangerous, useful, or even important to human's warring potential.
"And? what is it suppose to... | *Abasoom crept forward, his arachnid-esque limbs clicking against the newly shined bulkheads. In front of him, the remote door slid open silently, revealing the star-ships vast bridge.*
"Izotiquoar!" Abasoom yelled at his partner, who was manning the ships sensor suite.
"Sir?" Izotiquoar, the ships communications off... | 2014-04-08T18:38:19 | 2014-04-08T16:00:19 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity is the Galaxy's Idiot Savant
I was inspired by Year Zero for this prompt.
Basically, humanity is pretty atrocious at just about everything when compared to the other races of the galaxy, except for [The Thing You Choose].
We're obscenely, unreasonably, astoundingly good at it. So good that the rest ... | Commandant Seventeen inhaled, bristling. Its subcommanders sat in a ring around its control chair. They awaited its orders.
"Heat beams," it said, lacking its usual blustery confidence.
Subcommander Eight swallowed, afraid of what would happen to it for dissenting. "Commandant," it started, "we don't have enough h... | *Abasoom crept forward, his arachnid-esque limbs clicking against the newly shined bulkheads. In front of him, the remote door slid open silently, revealing the star-ships vast bridge.*
"Izotiquoar!" Abasoom yelled at his partner, who was manning the ships sensor suite.
"Sir?" Izotiquoar, the ships communications off... | 2014-04-08T18:57:42 | 2014-04-08T16:00:19 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocent story that could have been written for children. Then tell a different perspective on the same story that casts it in a totally different light.
Nothing in the original story should change - all that should change is the perspective on it. | **SAM**
Sam always wanted a sister. She didn't have many friends at school, and was very timid. It worried her parents greatly, and although they knew they couldn't have any more kids, Sam deserved a friend. So, they sat down, and decided to adopt.
"Sam," her mother said one day, "The agency called and said we have a... | It was a bright and clear day. The sun was shinning and there was even a slight breeze. The setting was a lively forrest and out of that forrest came Jack. Jack was no ordinary boy however, Jack was part boy part squirrel. Jack had puffy cheeks two large teeth that were more prominent than the others and had the furry ... | 2014-09-02T16:41:55 | 2014-09-02T11:03:26 | 172 | 45 |
[WP] At age 18, you are able to trade in a percentage of your physical beauty for an equivalent amount of intelligence, or vice versa.
Inspired by a Time Magazine article | **Story of the Smartest Man on Earth**
Rudeus Greyrat just got smarter and smarter.
He traded his beauty for intelligence. Applied a lot of make up and did a lot of working out. Became beautiful again. Traded it for intelligence.
Until he became so smart that he realized that he doesn't need to be beautiful now. Th... | "Oh, my god, this is the dream come true!" I exclaimed, when I first heard about it.
I have entered the building with tall glass walls, waited in line, and here I am, talking to a pale, tall man in a suit.
"Hello. So you want to..."
"Yes. NOW. Shut up and take my money. I trade everything, for as much as I can."
-... | 2015-09-24T06:43:49 | 2015-09-23T22:55:58 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that's terrifying without implying or threatening any physical harm on any characters
No blood, severed limbs, or corpses. Keep it intellectual, existential, psychological, emotional, or spiritual! | There's nothing behind you.
Nothing is watching you from the dark corner of the room.
That crack in your curtain? Nothing was peering through it just now.
What was that sound? Probably nothing.
Is your door open? I could have sworn it was closed.
Did you lock your front door?
What about your back door?
Are you s... | I've always been scared. Not of anything in particular, mind you - this is just my general disposition. I've heard it spun a thousand ways: that I'm a coward, that I'm hyper-sensitive, even that I'm intelligent. The fact of the matter is, I'm just more jumpy than an ordinary person. Like I'm waiting for something to ha... | 2015-10-30T11:37:30 | 2015-10-30T11:15:52 | 70 | 14 |
[WP] With an unexpectedly high casuality rate, XCOM has been forced to take the soldiers from Team Fortress 2 as recruits. | "Vhen ze patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and ze doctor vas never heard from again!"
Dr. Vahlen was struck dumb as she watched her lab partner laugh as he worked. In all her time autopsying aliens, she had never found a monster more frightening then her fellow country man. The creature groans drowned out the... | So let me tell you how we lost the war. How the Advent won. How Earth went to hell in a handbag.
It all started with the dreaded Paris incident. Was probably the first time — and certainly not the last — when the entire escort team was wiped out. See, I arrived with the next batch of recruits, and all I heard is that ... | 2015-12-21T13:35:04 | 2015-12-21T11:19:17 | 58 | 16 |
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