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[WP] You find yourself in a control room with a panel that has one button for every natural disaster there is. You hear a robotic voice that repeats "You choose one or I choose two." | The voice reverberated off into the cold hard steel around me. I sized up the panel of hundreds of buttons labeled with disasters of every kind.
I began at the bottom and began pressing them one by one.
"What are you doing?!" the robotic voice asked, "you'll destroy the entire planet."
I smiled, "I know." | I don't know how I got here. I don't know how to leave. All I see is a panel. Lined with silver buttons, each one has a picture on it. In the background, a monotone voice repeats the same sentence over and over.
"You choose one or I choose two."
I assume it means a button, so I begin to inspect them. Upon looking at ... | 2018-01-02T14:12:14 | 2018-01-02T13:44:59 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Due to a clerical error, you never got a soul. One day the Reaper came to collect. Instead he gave you a scythe. "Another like me, then. Your soul is out there, and you'll need this to get it out." | "Wait...one more time?"
"How many different ways would you like me to explain this sir?"
Death brought his bony fingers to his face in exasperation. Normally, all that came was the light, and the soul; a simple call and collect that persisted in a hollow rhythm that echoed through all of times and space. Never had De... | 1."Why do I even need a soul, anyway?" - asked David, three weeks after his dead, still unable to collect the essence of a living being.
"I'm not sure of the details myself, but it seems you need one to pass on."
"Pass on to where?"
"Who knows? Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation,... I'm just like you, David. I'm still stuc... | 2018-02-22T23:45:20 | 2018-02-22T23:22:48 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You get invited by an eccentric classmate to join the "Conquest Club." You think it may be a video or board gaming club, and decide to check it out. During your first meeting you realize the group is actually planning to conquer the world, and somehow, they seem to have the resources to do it. | The club was an oddity.
Its room was set in one of the constructed areas of the the school, marked with yellow tape with a big “KEEP OUT” sign.
At least, that’s what it looked like.
Kevin, the person who introduced me to the club, laughed at my puzzlement. He was dressed, as always, in formal attire. While o... | I pushed the door open with my laptop halfway open, Baba Yetu playing in quiet tones through my headphones. A whiteboard sign with big bubbly letters saying "Conquest Club" in the shape of an arrow pointed me down a corridor. I felt a familiar nervousness about meeting new people, but I pushed forward nevertheless.
M... | 2018-11-06T09:01:09 | 2018-11-06T08:40:40 | 164 | 47 |
[WP] The old legends say that only "cold iron" can kill the Fair Folk. Now, with the Goblin King invading the surface world, it's discovered that this was a mistranslation. The original phrase was "Heavy Metal". | Standing on the precipice of extinction , humanity reaches back in time. Back in time to the tales of old. The tales that spoke of the Fair folk.
The fair folk were prophesied to come killing and burning the Earth clean of humanity’s taint. They did as the prophecy foresaw.
Modern weaponry was useless against them... | A tiny goblin rushes down a hallway, torn necktie hanging loosely from his neck, clipboard in his hand. He comes up to a door with a pentagram star on it, knocks three times, and the door opens. He takes a few steps in and looks at his king, tall and stately, as he stares into a mirror, giving the goblin only the sli... | 2018-12-26T18:06:08 | 2018-12-26T16:38:44 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] It's been roughly eight years since the last time you saw another human being. It's been a further twenty years since you met you seemingly immortal childhood dog that has become your trusty companion. | It happened when I was pushing some fallen concrete rubble in the road aside--I felt the last bit of hope in me die. I was almost angry at myself for it, that I would allow myself to let it die, but I'm not stupid. Everything dies in this world. It's no one's fault.
Rather, I should've been impressed by my own efforts... | The hazy taste of wood ash on my lips is a perpetual travel companion these last few months. Smoke rolls in from over every hill, day and night, no matter which way the wind blows.
Paolo has a wracking cough, poor thing. So do I. I reckon we're about fifty miles north of the U.S. border by now, but the going is slow ... | 2019-02-26T04:41:45 | 2019-02-26T04:23:26 | 74 | 28 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | This was a mistake.
When we arrived the whole planet focused on us as though a great beast was questioning who had awoken it far far to soon.
At the start. Before our intentions were known and we offered them a choice of submit or perish they were excited buzzing around in a frenzy that so many other species had wh... | "So here's what we do men," Captain Averal started as the ships started pulling out of the water, "they think we're gonna let them go, we're gonna let them fly away because we're scared of 'em, are we scared of em?"
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"SIR NO SIR!" The sailors replied.
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"Are we scared of those buggy bastards?... | 2019-02-26T09:23:50 | 2019-02-26T07:06:44 | 227 | 144 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | I should have known. They had it all there, available to view on their version of the Hypernet. So much information, the sum of all of their human knowledge all sitting their in that database they called Wikipedia. Their science, their religions, their philosophies, but most importantly their history.
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If... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T10:58:57 | 75 | 25 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | This is commander Xxar speaking. I am ordering all troops to retreat. I repeat, all troops must retreat. We were wrong about these creatures. On the surface, they seemed weak, they seemed like non-intelligent vermin. They hadn't even developer nuclear fusion for vxyyr's sake!
Once we had landed, they approached us wit... | Mobile, so please forgive any formatting errors.
World War 3 had devastated the planet. The major cities turned to radioactive dust. 300 years later, we can still feel the effects of it. From South Jersey, in the distance, you can see the ruins on New York. Fortunately, the ICBM's forgot about New Jersey. The p... | 2019-02-26T09:29:33 | 2019-02-26T09:26:21 | 60 | 23 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | We wanted the planet, we wanted its resources.
The only way would be to remove the human population. This would be a ground battle, as we couldn't risk destroying the planet.
As a race that had no home to call its home, we've lived in space for the last 8,000 years, pulling resources from anywhere we could find. Eart... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T11:56:18 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *Ring ring.*
"HELP! The zombies are right behind me and-"
"Good morning, Tracy speaking. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"The-the what?"
"Your gun safety. Big black dial on the side of your rifle. Can't miss it."
"What? What dial?"
"You are holding a CCD rifle? If you are a customer of SurvivorLink I... | "Hi, excuse me... I was b-biten and I, uh, I think I need help–"
Here we go again.
"Sorry, mam. But if you refer to the Zombie Protocol, page 14–"
"I don't have time to read! Argh, just... I'm on 7th Street, Easy-by-the-river. Please come and help me!"
The panicked woman hung up.
I let out a sigh and immediately c... | 2020-05-12T07:25:12 | 2020-05-12T06:27:21 | 1,637 | 139 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *A new employee finds a note under the desk of his new job at the "Zombie Hotline". Parting advice from the previous occupant at the desk.*
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I used to work in a call Centre for taxes before this you know?
But there's not much use fo... | It is not as busy as it used to be. There are 4103 boards on the false ceiling over my head and a 121 holes in each board. Apart from the ones marked with red X’s. They are inventory boards. Those have 119. The boards used to be white and there was no fungi.
Some time ago I used to love my job. Hell! I volunteered f... | 2020-05-12T08:55:39 | 2020-05-12T06:12:46 | 104 | 42 |
[WP] "Checkmate," you say, a smug expression on your face. "Finally," says Death. The smirk is wiped off your face as the Grim Reaper removes his robe and hands you his scythe, "It's been 400 years since I beat the last guy." | “Wait wait wait wait,” I said, standing up quickly as Death - Maybe Old-Death? Yeah. Old-Death “I thought if I won I didn’t die!”
Old Death shrugged, “Yeah. Death doesn’t die.” He grinned, “You’re welcome!”
“Oh come off it,” I growled, aiming the scythe at Old Death’s face, “You bloody tricked me!”
“Yeah I totally d... | "Checkmate."
Erlec Muerte pressed his sword against the cowled neck of the Grim Reaper. The blade shimmered against the dark drapes, the blue hues of its enchantment burning the swirling shadows that emanated from the reaper's robes.
Erlec smirked. It had taken centuries of refining the spells, generations of honing ... | 2020-07-07T22:19:14 | 2020-07-07T22:01:29 | 55 | 40 |
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | "Uh I'm here live," I meow unconvincingly. "I'm not a cat."
"I know," the judge tells me. Yes, that's right, foolish human. Believe my lies. One day soon, the council of cats will strike and there will be nothing you can do about it.
"Oh uh my assistant is trying to fix it now." I gesture crudely with my claws towar... | Silence and stares of disbelief continue to dominate the video conference. But, the judge's head might have froze in an especially angry, judgmental glare over the green-screened State Seal of Texas. At least... until he blinked just a second ago. This cat. Appears to be a cat.
A cat replacing their newest and most pr... | 2022-02-03T20:13:42 | 2021-02-10T19:10:43 | 491 | 44 |
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | "Uh I'm here live," I meow unconvincingly. "I'm not a cat."
"I know," the judge tells me. Yes, that's right, foolish human. Believe my lies. One day soon, the council of cats will strike and there will be nothing you can do about it.
"Oh uh my assistant is trying to fix it now." I gesture crudely with my claws towar... | The picture glitched.
I was giving my opening statements in a calm and confident tone, my human avatar the very image of well groomed authority. And the picture...glitched.
I saw the widening eyes among the jury. The amusement struggling with the disapproval on the judge's face. I looked frantically to the corner of ... | 2022-02-03T20:13:42 | 2021-02-10T19:26:53 | 491 | 10 |
[WP] Your body was taken over by an Eldritch parasite from the beyond the stars after a camping trip. You actually get along it just fine, it's just Doug in Accounting that gets one your collective nerves. | ***We should cut his brake lines.***
“No.”
***How about a fire at his house? We could make it look like an accident.***
I sighed and scooted my chair away from the screen. “We’re not killing Doug.”
The Nameless Abomination nesting in my liver grumbled. Most days we got along just fine but Mondays were rough. That’s... | "So this is what you do everyday?" A voice spoke in his mind.
"It's work. Don't you have work where you're from?" He replied wordlessly.
"Your kind has evolved beyond basic survival into... This?"
"I want to make a joke about capitalism, but honestly it isn't that bad."
"You dedicate most of your waking life sittin... | 2021-04-21T07:44:17 | 2021-04-21T07:35:18 | 1,138 | 743 |
[WP] With the hero chained up, the villain unveils their masterpiece: a weapon that tracks everyone who loves the hero before obliterating them. The map powers on. "Wait. There's just one dot." The Villain says. "...Someone loves me?" The hero replies with hope. | "...Someone loves me?" Powerhouse asked in a weak voice as she looked at the screen, the red dot seeming to be blinding against the dark background. "Yes, evidently so." I said as I looked at the map and back to her. "Your husband I presume?" I asked gently, feeling guilt starting to eat at me for revealing she only ha... | Marybelle Smith once again call a certain number on her phone but unlike the previous instances there is no response from the other side.
"God damnit Carl where the hell are you?!" she impatiently said her hand shake.
"We really need to evacuate now, young master.", His body guard said
Of all the times for him to b... | 2021-06-19T02:11:42 | 2021-06-19T01:05:23 | 94 | 29 |
[WP] When you became a vampire you assumed that you would have to watch out for vampire hunters but the truth is something much, much worse preys upon the undead. | You'd think being an immortal creature of the night, blessed with unnatural strength, speed and regeneration, would leave you untouchable by mortal men...
The first couple of decades are the best. Pranking poor mortals on Halloween, never gets old. Seriously, house' of mirrors, fucking great.
Travel the world, live a... | They sat on the hill overlooking the small village that bustled below. At least, it was a hill once, long ago. it was more of a cliff now, the wind and rains having eroded a chunk of the hill. The villagers had dug a mine a few decades hence, and the ground had collapsed in a few more places as they tunneled. The villa... | 2021-10-28T23:44:12 | 2021-10-28T22:52:40 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] While playing DnD with your friends, the dungeon master kept railroading you into an ancient ruin, whenever you tried to avoid it your character just kept running into 'new' ones. Frustrated, you leave the table and head home, but on your way you find an ancient ruin. | "So, you turn away from the ancient ruin, and you head on towards... wait... page three-twenty-five, just a moment... towards an ancient ruin?"
"Not funny, Mark."
"No, seriously, guys, that's what my notes say. Right here. In black and white."
"You have three-twenty-five pages of notes?" asks Brenda.
"Hey, I like t... | "Again, Max, really?" Lexi asked.
"Just play the game, Lex," Max said.
I sighed. We'd been avoiding ancient ruins for as long as we could. I looked at my inventory sheet. "Shit, I'm out of arrows," I said. "Can we go back to the town and buy some more?"
The rest of the party jumped at the idea. Max made up some new ... | 2021-11-09T03:53:15 | 2021-11-08T23:22:06 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | The High Wizard’s Council was a shadow of what it once was. Where once reigned supreme the Elves, now sat a mixed council of children who couldn’t even believe in the truth of his existence. A Human, a Half-breed, a Dwarf and a Gnome stared down at him from on high, not one of them a year over eighty. Most of them woul... | Despite what my old professor would have said, I wouldn't necessarily call myself a clever man. I've always been content to simply watch the world go round, spending my time working on various little projects, tinkering with magical trinkets and what not. Didn't really believe in any cause enough to stick my neck out o... | 2022-11-19T02:25:30 | 2022-11-19T00:02:48 | 589 | 161 |
[WP] The . . . creature . . . has been following you for weeks now, but nobody else can see it. It just sits there, staring, grinning. Then one day you look across the coffee shop and see a young woman with another one right behind her. Your eyes meet . . . | I never drink coffee! But there I was ordering an espresso.
While the barista made my drink I looked at my _other shadow_. Still there staring at me with a silly grin on its face. I gave up trying to describe it years ago. Because no matter how many times I told someone about it they always forgot about it. I’ve neve... | I glanced at the women with short brown hair and blue eyes across the boisterous coffee shop as we made eye contact. I sipped my coffee casually as I contemplated. The women broke eye contact as she glanced at the creature behind me.
*Well this is a first.*
Behind the women was an ugly creature with a wicked smile s... | 2022-11-26T04:30:02 | 2022-11-26T03:08:50 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You are an advisor/ guidance counselor for a superpower academy. You are in charge of the students whose powers are not conducive to heroism or villainy. | The day I get an empath who flunked the Slyer-Bocks placement test in my office is the day I kill myself.
Not that you can "flunk" the test *per se*, but if you do a bad enough job you get placed into the "societal supportive" stream. This is where we raise flailing flyers to be excellent window washers, the inept psy... | FADE IN
INT. A SCHOOL CAFETERIA - DAY
*We see a group of a dozen or so students seated on metal folding chairs. They are facing a whiteboard at the front of the room, which is being attended by a tall, slender man in a dark suit. This is MISTER SLANT.*
**MISTER SLANT:** Alright, kids. Do you all know who I am?
*The... | 2015-09-22T08:34:43 | 2015-09-22T08:27:48 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] "What do you mean, 'It broke'"? | "I mean it broke. It's not working anymore."
"How do you break something like this?!"
"I don't know, I left them alone for like an hour and now its broken!"
"How the hell did you manage to break something this big?!"
"I already told you, I didn't do it! They did it themselves!"
"All my work creating, all that time... | "I'm *mean* the fucking hydraulic line just sprung a leak; we're gonna have to replace it with a new one."
Captain Yuri Danilov didn't bother cursing, he'd run out of words if he started up then. Instead he merely spat, the tan tinged spittle splashing on the dun colored sand.
"Fair enough, Ted. You'll get your new ... | 2015-10-24T11:04:51 | 2015-10-24T10:52:04 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You are in a bar when a six year old pigtailed little girl takes the stool next to you. In the deepest lumberjack voice she says, "Hey, Frank, make it a double. It happened again." You can't resist and ask her, "What happened again?" |     The little girl just glares at me, "Fuck off, buddy."
    I raised my hands in surrender, and turned my attention back to the drink in front of me. I was a little surprised Frank didn't tell her to beat it, that kids had no place in bars. ... | I stared gaping mouthed as the little girl struggled to climb onto the barstool, which was nearly as tall as she was. The stool kept tipping under her weight, so I steadied and she deftly hoisted herself up.
She gave me a cute smile. "Thanks," she boomed. Her voice was utterly disproportionate to her body. She sounded... | 2016-07-22T03:05:17 | 2016-07-22T03:00:05 | 63 | 41 |
[WP] You glance at your watch 10:34 am, roughly 10 seconds later your plane explodes over the Pacific Ocean. Your eyes open as you jolt awake. The familiar hum of the planes engine remains. Checking your watch it is 9:35 | Again? Not again. Anything else. Please. If anyone or anything can hear this, whatever mad god has trapped me here, just please stop. Not again.
The thrumming of the plane engine remained unbroken. No deities or tricksters revealed themselves. I knew that, for another fifty nine minutes, this flight could ... | I woke up just as the credits started rolling. Perhaps it was the music that roused me. After a brief tussle with the cheap airline headphones, I managed to untangle the wire enough to pull the things off my head. Then I just sat watching the screen in a semi-conscious daze. I remember thinking to myself that lots of p... | 2016-09-27T07:29:01 | 2016-09-27T07:18:28 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | My dog, who I named Mr. Fierce when I was 14, was no longer quite so fierce. 12 years later I was nearing 30 and he was slowing down. His black and white fur had a little extra white in it from old age. He was always excitable, but now days he took a while longer to get his body moving. I could tell I only had a year, ... | "Alright, Listen VERY carefully, I've been trying to tell you this for months now, but there is something very dangerous lurking in the back yard. It's been stalking you for months, unseen, unheard by you and apparently.. and this is something I can't understand, unSMELLED by you. I love you human, but you've got to ta... | 2017-02-23T05:15:25 | 2017-02-23T02:14:42 | 3,942 | 167 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | Um, no man not really. That's kind of... not my thing. Hey by the way rent is due next week, can you write me a check?
Yeah, sure thing bud. I'll leave it on the counter before I... go out for the night. Hey is it my turn to do dishes or yours?
I think it's your turn, I did them Sunday. Have you done any since then?
... | "In mind to WHAT?"
Jonathan looked down at his shoes sheepishly. "Well, y'know... do that one thing I'm really good at..."
I couldn't believe this. I had put up with his bullshit for so long. The heads in the freezer, making up alibis for him when he was really off making his "artwork". I would've just thrown him out... | 2017-03-21T18:37:20 | 2017-03-21T18:35:56 | 79 | 41 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | Bony fingers
gripped my hand
tore my soul
pulled me into
depths below
Black as Midnight
robe on hook
scythe on wall
Wait in office
for the call
Souls in balance
need my swipe
feel my slice
I decide who's
naughty nice
The day will come
you will see
I will see
your sins laid ... | and so such was life now. an endless chore for an unknown employer. nothing was ever needed again. nothing was ever needed to be done. existence was the job. each and every day played out just as the monotony of a dayjob. and each day was a shift in a dayjob. each day carried the burden of dread, of uncertainty of purp... | 2017-04-29T03:55:38 | 2017-04-28T23:00:16 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | The room was empty, sole for the two chairs that faced each other. On opposite walls were two white doors. There were no clear markings or anything other than the white doors. It was a brick room. Grey mortar and bricks laid on top of each in a pattern not unlike most modern houses. And the light, a sole fluorescent li... | It was unbearably hot, but more in the Arizona mid summer sort of way. The receptionist shrugged and said the AC's out, usually it's not so bad. The smell of sulfur waited in the air, a lone fan blowing it this way and that. Turns out hell is mostly a bureaucracy. The line was ridiculously long. It was one of those "ta... | 2017-05-30T18:34:40 | 2017-05-30T17:55:53 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | This was it. Time to see how far my charade could get me. Time to see how insightful this old, dusty hat really was. *Dusty, hmm? You could use some scrubbing behind the ears yourself, young mister!* I stared straight ahead, head held high, trying to look aloof. *You are quite hard-working, you know, in your own way. A... | It was that time of year again at Hogwarts. A new wave of anxious first years will be starting their magical journeys today, and after waiting what seemed like a lifetime, so will I.
We were lined up at the stairs, McGonagall instructing us on what would be taking place as we enter the Great Hall. While confident, I ... | 2017-06-25T15:16:10 | 2017-06-25T14:36:15 | 63 | 36 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | This was it. Time to see how far my charade could get me. Time to see how insightful this old, dusty hat really was. *Dusty, hmm? You could use some scrubbing behind the ears yourself, young mister!* I stared straight ahead, head held high, trying to look aloof. *You are quite hard-working, you know, in your own way. A... | "Hmm...? 'Please don't be Slytherin?' Very well, then. Gryffindor!" the Sorting Hat shouted as Harry Potter excitedly ambled down the stairs. His oblivious expression only further ignited my excitement.
"Pfttt. What's all this cacophony about? Sure, he's that voodoo 'Chosen One', but he doesn't have the ounce of the p... | 2017-06-25T15:16:10 | 2017-06-25T14:51:44 | 63 | 17 |
[WP] Four people are dancing in sync with each other. It's beautiful, and haunting, and totally impossible. You are watching traffic cams from Dubai, Italy, South Africa, and Peru. | "Johnson, take a look at this."
"What is it, Smith?"
"Look at these four. Across the world from each other, but all in sync. How is that possible?"
"This again? Look at their moves, Smith. Mostly your standard club stuff, but with subtle Spanish touches. It's just Despacito. Fucking song's everywhere."
"Oh." | Their arms and legs moved in sync, their eyes staring off into the distance. Traffic was stopped around all four of them, the drivers transfixed as well.
And all four of them were in four different countries.
It was baffling. *What is happening?* Nothing explainable, at least. Four people couldn't be more in sync. I... | 2017-10-06T20:57:46 | 2017-10-06T16:45:13 | 249 | 72 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | Who is that shivering man on the street?
That woman who's pleading for something to eat?
That beggar whose pungency left you annoyed?
Anonymous people we _used_ to avoid.
If life were a stage, they would merely be props,
Something to look at, to pick up then drop.
Yet now they can murder with nothing amiss. ... | The law says everyone gets to kill one person in their life without needing to facing any punishment. It seemed to have minimal impact at first. After all, murders happened all the time, and many murderers are not caught. This new law essentially only affirms an existing fact.
Until I read the papers the next day:
... | 2017-12-03T06:52:52 | 2017-12-03T06:50:17 | 754 | 146 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | "Has anyone here used their one kill yet" the office manager asked, he didn't hear the footsteps or see him coming. The knife went into his back a great many times, there was no struggle.
The managers body fell to the floor and there stood Tom holding the knife dripping with blood.
"I have." Tom said calmly.
"Well To... | As he was staring straight into the barrel of a gun, Gary wasn't as afraid as much as he was perplexed. It's as if time slowed down under the pressure of death. Note, pressure not fear.
The alleyway stunk of death as Gary was there trapped between a rock and hard place.
"If every person is entitled to one death then ... | 2017-12-03T09:22:40 | 2017-12-03T09:11:33 | 69 | 25 |
[WP] Whenever you are about to die, your main consciousness switches to alternate universe in which you survived. This makes you conscious only of the longest possible life. Uppon death, you are shown all the ways you would have died. | "Are you an angel?" Peter asked the creature that was bathed in light, light far too bright for him to be able to make out any real features. It was tall though, and he thought he could make out wings billowing behind it. Far away in the distance, he could just see the outline of an arched gate.
"*Yes,*" it said in a ... | The switch itself is conditional, and that may be confusing to the living.
So let's clear some things up with a little hypothetical, boys and girls.
You're dying in a hospital bed. Surrounded by loved ones, but each face unrecognizable. You can barely breathe, every part of your body is in excruciating pain. Somet... | 2018-02-15T05:33:05 | 2018-02-15T04:42:23 | 1,584 | 432 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are always challenged by Death itself to a chess game, symbol of how nobody can win against it. Except you. You died and just won the game. Death is not amused. Both of you don't know what should happen now. | "Magnus, you have mystified the world over with your daring play ever since you were a young boy. What's your secret? How did you become the world's best?" The reporter leaned forward, waiting for her answer. It was something of a perfunctory question at this point with Magnus always responding with same rote answer of... | "I can't believe you're acting like this. And, I can't believe I'm surprised that Death is a total dick!" I could feel my cheeks getting hot.
"Just- just humor me. So you took your-" It would have been comical how confused the old man looked, in most other situations.
"I waited in line for what felt like a year! All... | 2018-04-20T13:50:38 | 2018-04-20T12:30:36 | 72 | 34 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | The hills rolled away in the distance around the old forgotten monument.
"This is stone henge. It was built over a period of thousands of - please keep an eye on your kids while we're near the stones."
A 3 year old ran under the ropes and made a break for the stones. The parents didn't even realise, nose deep in the... | There was a low rumble coming from under the sink, it was barely loud enough for her to hear it from the other side of the room. A small sigh escaped her as she cursed under her breath. She tenderly placed the plant in her hand onto it's proper pot, the corner of her lips tugged up as the leaves reacted to her tending.... | 2018-05-30T00:59:15 | 2018-05-29T22:03:25 | 111 | 45 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | The Data Analysis Device, that's what it was called. It was an app, available on all the major smart-phone platforms.
It was helpful, unobtrusive, and if asked nicely capable of coming up with clever solutions some of the time. Not all of the time, though this was not it's fault. Some of the queries it fielded were... | "Okay... So... I suppose I'll be your instructor for today..." I said as I fixed my position on the chair, briefly glancing at the person in front of me. "Your name please?."
"N-i-o. Nio." Replied the girl in front of me. It was a rather strange reply, but I've met some stranger people in my life.
"Right. Okay..." I ... | 2018-06-21T08:10:03 | 2018-06-21T08:07:58 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You have been turned into a cat, but still retain your intellect. A kind person has rescued you from the animal shelter, and you have decided to pay them back by making them rich via Youtube. | If you see a cat outside in a lightning storm, just let it be. Sounds easy, but if you're like me you'll still try to help it. If you're like me, you'll instinctively shield said cat when lightning strikes too close.
Yeah sounds like a nice thing to do until you open your eyes to find you're now in the cats body. Con... | Bahhahahaha I knew I would be famous one day, I just didn't realize that it would come with 12 lives. Yeah 12, you see when I was a kid I got an invitation to go to a prestigious learning institution for magic users. Would have been taught by the grand flambe himself!
Even as a child I was practical, why would I need ... | 2018-07-05T14:41:48 | 2018-07-05T14:32:28 | 69 | 12 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | The old woman pricked her finger upon accidentally touching the tip of the needle and her blood appeared to be a gelatinous obsidian black substance, the old lady was clearly distressed and confused about how she could be so "impure" but little did she know, she never thanked the Bus Driver. | Between his teeth, he drew his breath in sharply; a wordless exclamation of the pain. Putting aside the knitting, he rose from the chair to find something to dress the small wound.
It was between the living room and the kitchen he came to the realisation that blood which should have come from the small prick, had not... | 2018-08-04T09:48:46 | 2018-08-04T09:46:21 | 395 | 24 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | The Choice was made known to the world by those who had died but were revived. They all told the same story; when you died, you could choose either Heaven or Hell. Knowledge of The Choice changed the world, but not for the better. What did it matter what you did in life if you could just choose where you went in the en... | I opened the ordinary door with its ordinary handle. Behind it was a hellish portal, blackened by the fires of lusty wickedness, set with precious stones that turned out to be eyes glancing desperately about, and covered in many other infernal whatsits and doodahs.
When I had pushed the hellish portal open, and been... | 2018-08-13T09:16:06 | 2018-08-13T07:02:49 | 341 | 143 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | The Choice was made known to the world by those who had died but were revived. They all told the same story; when you died, you could choose either Heaven or Hell. Knowledge of The Choice changed the world, but not for the better. What did it matter what you did in life if you could just choose where you went in the en... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:16:06 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 341 | 13 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | I smirked. Now wasn't this ironic. After finally falling to the demons from hell, I get to choose whether to finally take my eternal rest, or continue to *Rip and Tear*
Now why the hell would i go to heaven.
The Doom Slayer walked in through the gates of hell.
The second slayer's testament would begin to be penned t... | *Day 1*
*You know, with all the terrible people in the world, I expected Hell to be pretty occupied and automatically chosen. But I was shocked after my bad car accident to find a choice between Heaven and Hell in the Limbo Waiting Room. Everyone was lined up for Heavenly Stairway and the Hell Slide was seemingly aban... | 2018-08-13T09:08:57 | 2018-08-13T08:57:53 | 82 | 53 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Lucas was floating in a starry void. Above him, a vortex of light swirled like the sun while below a whirlpool of darkness churned, gradually tugging at him like a current. Somehow, without words, Lucas knew that to go up was Heaven, and to go down was Hell. So he waited to be pulled into one of the options. After seve... | And so it goes. Everything was a blur amongst the tornado of flashing lights and somber moods. Gravity itself subsided as they wheeled me into the ICU. I wanted to focus but my mind was clouded by nurses shouting and the cries of my wife as she stood over my lifeless body.
They talk about that moment, the one where y... | 2018-08-13T10:50:13 | 2018-08-13T09:52:05 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | I watched Angela fly out into the gray sky from our dining room window, clad in shining white armour and sporting a very mean looking greatsword, and the only thing that crossed my mind was *how do those wings support her mass?*
Though that was definitely a pertinent question, there was more going on here, and I need... | She’s always been wonderful to me and to all around us. My heart fluttered the day we met all those years ago, a high unlike any other the moment our eyes met. I never was one for the thought of love at first sight, or destiny, or luck, or any of that stuff…until that morning waiting to get on the subway. Aside from ou... | 2018-09-16T17:08:15 | 2018-09-16T15:58:09 | 142 | 11 |
[WP] Earth is doomed in a matter of years, but you are bestowed with a mystical dagger that causes anyone killed by it to instantly resurrect on an alternate Earth that does not share the same fate. In one world you are revered as a hero, on the other the most notorious serial killer of all time. | It is surprisingly hard to kill a great amount of relatives, friends and acquaintances without inevitably ending up as a person of interest. Somehow, being the only common denominator doesn't fare in your favour when the people you unite all manage to die by being stabbed with, according to the newspaper, a museum arte... | Christ, it never got easier. Well, it did... in the same way that you'll pick up riding a bike, I managed to make it quick and painless, for the most part. The hard part was the aftermath. They all wore smiles, in their death throes, and the echoes of wisdom in my head told me what I was doing was the right thing. Of c... | 2018-10-15T06:42:48 | 2018-10-15T06:12:29 | 220 | 47 |
[WP] When humans die, their ghosts are anchored to the place of their death, but are unaffected by planetary orbit or rotation, left behind as Earth and the galaxy rotate. Metaphysical archaeologists are tracking this trail of spirits across the stars, seeking the ghost of the first human. | I am in love with a ghost that I see once every year, for the briefest glimpse of a second.
Sometimes, a whiff of her perfume lingers in the air a moment longer than her.
Or the echo of a word drifts by me long after she has gone.
Sometimes she mourns for herself, but mostly it is for her children.
And the feelin... | “Come down here, Bobbie! I think I found him!”
My assistant, Tommy, was one of the original boys who cried wolf, but I had to go down into the cave in the middle of nowhere Israel to figure out if this was in fact true. I finagled my way down the cave until I was crawling on the ground for a few seconds to reach up ... | 2019-01-08T03:55:13 | 2019-01-08T02:19:57 | 262 | 95 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | A hooded figure enters the cathedral. Not confidently, yet not with weakness either. With a complete disregard for his surroundings, he continues through. The crimson pathway opens up to an abyssal black altar, with seven seats worthy of the title of thrones by themselves, until compared to the momentous monstrosity th... | A woman dressed in black lace sat across from me, her smile a flat caricature of human emotion. I had been coming to the pub for weeks now, hoping for answers. I had been given a small apartment, some money, and a message to return to Death's Door every evening at 10 PM.
No one seemed to want to tell me anything. The... | 2019-01-12T18:24:29 | 2019-01-12T15:32:21 | 195 | 72 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | A hooded figure enters the cathedral. Not confidently, yet not with weakness either. With a complete disregard for his surroundings, he continues through. The crimson pathway opens up to an abyssal black altar, with seven seats worthy of the title of thrones by themselves, until compared to the momentous monstrosity th... | As I lay on my bed, I reminisced of my frequent fears I had felt on a daily basis, often times using them to justify inaction. I never did the things that I truly wanted to do because I was always too afraid of what people might say.
I was twenty-five years old and had been dealing with depressi... | 2019-01-12T18:24:29 | 2019-01-12T14:52:38 | 195 | 58 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | It was 5:30 AM. My 1969 Ferrari 512S Berlinetta raced down the highway. It was that time of the night, where the darkness was slowly fading to day, where the pitch black almost had a tinge of light to it. You couldn't see this in a city, which is why I was flying through the Tehachapi Pass. Well, that wasn't *the* reas... | People think they know what real power means. They think that because their parents gave them some high ranking job in a bank or a government office that they can just go around pushing over everybody. That’s where I come in. I like to think of myself as something of a modern age Robin Hood. Only if Robin Hood was a bi... | 2019-03-04T08:49:15 | 2019-03-04T08:37:41 | 48 | 21 |
[WP] You are the last living thing on earth following a massive disaster. Down to your last meal or two, water running low, you hear a knock on your bunker door one evening. As you approach it slowly, you hear from the other side, "I have a large Meat Lover's Pizza and a 2 Liter of Sprite." | "I have a large Meat Lovers Pizza and a 2 Liter of Sprite"
The voice, smooth as velvet as it caressed my ears, was that of a female. I contemplated opening the door, just to be sure she wasn't another survivor. Or was it just to be certain that all hope was indeed lost to those...*creatures*? I don't know but I didn't... | "Damn it..." I grumbled to myself softly, forcing myself out of bed. "Damn barbarians..." I trudged to the door of my bunker and shouted, "Screw off! I'm not an idiot, and I'm not that desperate. Show me the military. Until then, I recommend you return to your bandit hideout before a beast grabs your ass and swallows y... | 2019-05-24T07:57:06 | 2019-05-24T07:05:24 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are the last living thing on earth following a massive disaster. Down to your last meal or two, water running low, you hear a knock on your bunker door one evening. As you approach it slowly, you hear from the other side, "I have a large Meat Lover's Pizza and a 2 Liter of Sprite." | May 20th, 2019
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*"I have a large Meat Lover's pizza and a 2 Liter of Sprite,"* the voice calls again, prompting me to throw another book at the door.
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When the angels came down and announced the rapture, I was sure that we were all saved. I watched as all 8 billion other people on Earth were... | "Damn it..." I grumbled to myself softly, forcing myself out of bed. "Damn barbarians..." I trudged to the door of my bunker and shouted, "Screw off! I'm not an idiot, and I'm not that desperate. Show me the military. Until then, I recommend you return to your bandit hideout before a beast grabs your ass and swallows y... | 2019-05-24T08:15:55 | 2019-05-24T07:05:24 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You’ve been stuck in a time loop that repeats the same day over and over. You’ve perfected every skill, you speak every language ever spoken. One day you go crazy, by the end of the day the entire town is dead. You wake up the next morning still covered in blood, the loop finally broke. | The bird didn't peck on my window. That should've been enough for me to notice, but it wasn't until I rolled over in my bed and found a severed arm that I realized it was over. I immediately went back to sleep, of course. This was the first time in what felt like centuries where I could actually allow myself to rest.
... | I don’t know what got into me. I’ve never snapped like that before but those unintelligent bastards roaming the town were too stupid for their own good. Yes, I’ve lived this several quite a few times but still, they should have learned something by now, isn’t that how evolution works. Though I panicked a bit at first... | 2019-08-11T09:03:00 | 2019-08-11T08:26:24 | 2,614 | 258 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | "Fuck, I've to spend 4 more years with these assholes". You start hysterically laughing while the tears keep coming down your face. You can't believe you're back in the same shithole school, with the same shit teachers and shit students. All those years of bullying, being pushed into lockers, called everything foul kid... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T07:59:50 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You have a special power. Whenever your life is in danger; time freezes until you've made yourself safe. One day time stops, and nothing you do seems to make it start again. | One full day. That’s the longest it’s ever lasted before today. Twenty-four hours of time being frozen before I realized that I was about to have a heart attack. It was the longest, most excruciating time in my life. Luckily, I finally recognized my nausea for what it was, a symptom. That was the only time I ever thoug... | Everything is frozen and nothing seems to work. Normally, time stops when I'm in danger which I usually easily resolve by moving a few steps away. For example, in the jousting tournament last week, right as I charged down that lane with my steed towards an opponent, time froze for me. That gave me time to readjust myse... | 2019-09-15T09:46:11 | 2019-09-15T09:07:51 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] People gain superpowers the day after meeting their soulmate. When a hot young celebrity does so the day after a meet-and-greet, they're desperate to find every person who they even just shook hands with that day. | *Code red!!!!*
This was clearly not a drill. After reading the text message, Stephanie rushed to Heather's apartment as quickly as humanly possible.
"What's going on!?" Stephanie worriedly asked as Heather opened the door.
"I've found him!" exclaimed Heather excitedly.
"...I don't understand."
"Watch this," said H... |
Typically superpowers come in tandem with your partner, which is why when I saw her (green eyes, rainbow hair and angelic wings) I knew she was the one. I do not remember her at all, but then again yesterday's meet and greet was hectic, I don't do many of those but this one was for charity I was only able to co... | 2020-07-29T09:12:13 | 2020-07-29T08:55:17 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You have died, and then you find yourself standing over your body. You see that the Grim Reaper has come for you, and.. no twist, he’s just doing his job. You’re disappointed in the normality of it all actually. |
Oh, that car is *wrecked*.
Oh. That’s *my* car.
A hooded arcane figure swoops toward me and makes a threshing motion with its scythe, severing *me* from me.
Oh. I feel nothing.
“Is that it?” I call out to the retreating figure.
“Were you expecting choirs of angels to guide you to heavenly rest? A lecture abo... | I stood over my dead body, staring down at the pale corpse of a human being that had once been me. How utterly fragile and empty it looked! Was I really the only difference between a living, breathing, human being and a dry husk of carbon atoms? I looked at my hands, translucent and wispy, and then looked up at the sha... | 2020-08-02T10:32:41 | 2020-08-02T09:19:25 | 129 | 10 |
[WP] “Look man... I know that I’m not supposed to say this, but are you sure about this?” “Did I stutter, Satan?” | I blanched as much as someone with blistering red skin can. "No but like, isn't that super illegal?"
The kid stared at me. "Dude. I brought you here to help me do some fucked up shit. Isn't that your ish?"
I scowled. "No! Didn't you read the bible? I punish people who do that, why would you think I'm all about that?"... | "You didn't," Satan said, a little crestfallen. "Unfortunately."
"What are you even complaining about?" I said. "Isn't this what you wanted?"
There was a long pause.
"Not really, but--"
Satan's words were cut short with a long glare. To further reinforce the point, I struck Satan where his horns previously were, no... | 2020-08-26T10:27:07 | 2020-08-26T10:12:14 | 73 | 29 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | The blood on the altar was still wet. I touched it, bringing daubed hands to wipe across my cheeks. The cloying smell caught the back of my throat, the fresh stickiness pulling my skin tight.
In the hollow of the hills we stand shoulder to shoulder. The blood has begun to dry now, and sweat and tears have made tracks ... | The writings of General Marcinius Maximus, servant to the holy emperor of the true faith and servant of the highest being
Day 137
We prepared ourselves for war as the savage nons continually refused our gracious offers to convert to the true religion. If they are so blinded by their faith and unwilling to peacefully ... | 2021-02-10T02:05:46 | 2021-02-10T02:05:35 | 1,471 | 473 |
[WP] Every child is assigned a monster under their bed. Unlike most children, you befriended yours. However, adults don’t get monsters, so when you grew up, yours disappeared. Now, you have set off on a journey to the monster world to find your friend again | As I was about to step through the door into the monster world, the doorbell rang. I went downstairs, opened the door and was greeted by a few men in suits. One asked me if I was mister Happy, to which I replied; "yes". The man continued; "You are hereby informed that The Walt Disney Company is sueing you for copyright... | The door didn’t look like much. A few pieces of wood slapped together with nails that looked like you’d instantly receive lockjaw if you even so much as looked at them the wrong way.
“Are you sure this is it?”
“You come to ask Bashir for monster door then doubt Bashir when he provides monster door? I thought I had e... | 2021-03-07T04:12:20 | 2021-03-07T04:09:11 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] You've caught the heroes, and you know you shouldn't monologue. You've even written an entire book about not monologuing as a villain (It never made the top 10, but it was close!). Now you're not sure what to say, but they're looking at you weary... but expectantly. | Crystal Jade looked at me wearily, but expectantly.
I didn't know what she wanted from me. I had defeated her, and captured her. She was in chain. What was she expecting, really?
"Ok I will bite. What?"
"What what?"
"You. Obviously. Looking at me like you are waiting for me or something."
"Oh I thought you were go... | I look into their eyes one by one, this time they are the ones kneeling. This is the moment I have been waiting for, after this I'll have peace, harmony. Before all of this ends though, I want to rage at them, I want to scream at them, I want to ask them where they were when I needed them but most importantly I want to... | 2021-03-30T05:05:38 | 2021-03-30T04:04:12 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] Science finally found the secret to immortality, but it included treatments that only took hold in newborns. Now the last mortal humans are approaching the ends of their lives. | My daughter has no idea her existence is illegal.
I sit on the creek bank and watch her splash through the water with our old shepherd, always walking alongside her, offering his broad back for balance. She's only six years old, and she's been perfect since the day she was born, a little screaming raisin who became m... | Eric stares at the setting sun, and tries not to cry.
He sits on a wicker rocking chair in the cool shadow of a colonnaded porch. Farmland stretches out in front of him, stalks of dry wheat dancing in the wind. In the distant horizon, the sun blends the sky into gradients of blue, purple, and orange. He always loved t... | 2021-06-07T22:06:28 | 2021-06-07T21:49:57 | 1,385 | 539 |
[WP] The princess was cursed that her first husband would die a horrible death. Inorder to avoid this horrible fate the royal family used you as a scapegoat and married you to the princess. But because of your immortality you have died over 20 times and still come back to life. | Samuel twitched as he stirred the soup in front of him. Poisoned. And not just poisoned, the smell practically burned his nose. It had all the subtly of a hooded man with twitchy fingers and a crooked back stalking towards you.
The first few deaths were quite indirect. A stairway would break underneath him. A chandeli... | Heinrich took a gasp of air as his body jolted back to life. His lungs expanded as life began to pour back into him. His pale flesh turning back to it's normal colour, he looked at his hands for what he could only surmise as death number forty-seven. That was when he took note of the once white shirt he wore and found ... | 2021-06-09T15:13:58 | 2021-06-09T14:14:38 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 5,663 | 803 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | I take a step forward. The line to the High Magister grows shorter by the moment as the people befor me are tried and executed on the spot befor the Grand Court of Wizards.
The reading of crimes is honestly the longest part, the crimes are listed for each of us and given a unanimous guilty verdict on the spot.
Cant sa... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 5,663 | 255 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 5,663 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 5,663 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 1,590 | 66 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 236 | 66 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Execution day again. It took a full moon cycle for the kingdom’s mages to fuel the sphere of sentencing. But once it was charged, it would grant its prisoner their choice of death. Ten sentences would be carried out today before it ran out of power. Some nations gave their condemned a final meal, a last smoke, or a gla... | Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Whoever said that might as well have been a Prophet.
I'm nearly at the front of the queue. I've been waiting for hours, since I was arrested and interrogated by Enforcers and transported here. It's the most dead silent queue I've ever seen. The Temple ... | 2021-06-24T11:17:25 | 2021-06-24T10:29:59 | 46 | 26 |
[WP] It amazes you that the Elf waitress who works at your restaurant is the same one as when your grandparents first started the business. The Elf can't believe she's still stuck in the same dead-end job for nearly a 100 years and has to keep dealing with your family. | "Hi Myrna", I said as I settled into my usual corner booth, arriving at the end of morning rush. "I'll have the usual."
Myrna was diligently writing on her order pad, with a spare pencil stuck behind her pointed ear. She glanced up and asked with a sigh, "Would you like to add hash browns to that? Only a little bit mo... | “And this time don’t forget the extra aioli!” Uncle Jimmy was an arse. I never knew what Aunt Sarah saw in him. He chuckled and turned back to me. “So then” going back to his inane story “I said to him, I said, get this, you gotta give it some muscle!” He slapped the table laughing at his own joke. Only Sarah smiled an... | 2022-09-26T20:03:59 | 2022-09-26T17:04:44 | 95 | 62 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | It will be the end of everything, when I die. The fights will tear the world apart. Nations will crumble before the powers of their own citizens.
...I've done what I could, *when* I could, to prepare people.
There's one lie I've been holding into, one - one *distortion* in the fabric of reality that I've been holding... | When I was young, I wasn't that different. There was food, even if it wasn't that good. There were gifts, even if it was only simple.
If it weren't for that one incident, I don't think I'd ever have made a difference in the world. Held it all together.
I'm dying. And I'm not sure which lie to choose anymore. Ever sin... | 2022-11-18T04:28:51 | 2022-11-18T03:04:24 | 133 | 64 |
[WP] The last man on earth sits alone in a room. He gets an email.
This is from [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1u8rz6/what_do_you_fantasize_about_regularly_that_doesnt/cefz06k) reply from an askreddit question. :) | I rapidly tapped my fingers on the desk subconsciously as I stared at the glowing screen. It had taken so long to find a working laptop, generator, and internet connection, that I was more than happy to wait as long as I needed to for the letter to go through.
Finally, the message "Inbox[1]" popped up on my screen. I... | Two days have passed since the last encounter. And one month since they wiped the camp. They came from the air, giving them no chance, bombed the camp, killing over 5000 men, women and children. They have been surviving in that camp for almost a year, gathering resources, supplies and trying to contact other survivor g... | 2014-01-03T05:57:48 | 2014-01-03T04:26:07 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] Cats and Dogs see us as immortal and unchanging, simply because we can easily survive to be forty years old, while they struggle to survive twenty. | They baffle me, to be honest, these things. These giants, who feed us and love us. They’re so warm and adoring most of the time. But sometimes, they’re so uncaring and cruel. During the loud months especially, they seem angered by my pain. I suppose it’s hard for them to care much about my kind. They are huge and wonde... | Last Day:
The hot days are back. In the winter I lost my warmth, now the human says I'm nothing but fur and bones. I don't want the warmth now.
My human let's me out of my kennel and fills my water dish. He rubs my head and tells me I'm a good boy, and goes to get food. I try to cool down by lying in the darkness o... | 2014-01-25T14:18:59 | 2014-01-25T12:06:57 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 243 | 171 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The energy in the air was so thick I could feel it. Pressing down on me and making everything feel heavier.
I smirked at the muscular man, hovering in front of me.
“So your number two huh?”
He flew a few metres higher and looked down at me.
“No, I am number one, and soon enough everyone else will know it too.”
I l... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T15:13:47 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity survives the robot uprising only because one of the developers hid a stupid easter egg in their programming. | "Don't worry rookie, you'll catch on fast."
"It works just like the safety drills we practiced in school, right Sarge?"
"Heh, see? What's there to worry about?"
I looked over at the crowd of people. Mall customers who had obediently taken a seat cross-legged on the floor. The Sargent.
"We of the Robonoid Control an... | It's been 37 years since robots took over. We were warned to stop AI development, but fully automated cars and fully automated fridges gave us a taste we couldn't resist. Many companies poured money into R&D and future looked bright. Automatically mining asteroids gave unimaginable access to resources, at the time ... | 2015-01-03T18:12:21 | 2015-01-03T16:57:57 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] A woman slips into a coma during the birth of her first son, never meeting the child, who dies within hours. The father adopts a child to cope with his pain: you. Your adopted father later dies. You must now break the news to your mother that you’re adopted. | "You have your grandmother's hair," Mom said, bringing the brush down through the thick curls. "But your father's eyes." The way she spoke was empty, the way she might tell me the news was on, the weather would be pleasant, the laundry was done.
She liked to play this game, to break me into pieces to see where she wa... | My knuckles landed onto my mothers bedroom door. Once, twice, thrice. A
loud, dull knock resonated throughout the hall. I could feel my heart in my throat as I swallowed. It felt like it was going to explode. Go back for a second and think of high school, remember how you felt every time you saw that girl you liked? R... | 2015-02-22T21:41:15 | 2015-02-22T18:46:54 | 72 | 28 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Craigslist > Men seeking Women > losangeles.craigslist.org
37/M/LA
Athletic Male seeking Sarah Connor for termination prior to birthing the leader of the resistance.
Please provide photo. My connection has been spotty since hooking up to the local service provider, but don't worry if you miss me. I'll be bac... | WTT/WTS: 2019 Audi A6, LOW MILES!!!!
i have an Audi A6 for sale. I got it used, and it only has 70,000 miles! Loaded, supercharged v6, leathr, automaic, navigation. Looking for plane tickets/plane ride to anywhere close to south Florida.
M4W: Cuties (or whoever!) wanted!
Dudes can come to havin the banger. Tryin to... | 2015-04-29T12:20:34 | 2015-04-29T10:22:13 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] A wife meets her husband at the gates of Heaven after 20 years apart. Each must confess all of his or her lies to the other to enter. The man's is several volumes, while the woman only has one. | It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, birds were singing in the trees, and there was a soft breeze blowing. Outside of a small cafe, called Escalier à Paradis, a man sat waiting for his date to arrive. He had been waiting for a while now, around 20 years, to be precise.
The reason he was waiting was because the... | "Really? All those people worrying down there and this is all I need to do to get in?" Cathy was incredulous.
"That really is it," Peter said, "At least for the moment. Honestly we just follow what you guys want the requirements to be which means you lucked out. Anyway, you should be able to find... what's his name?... | 2016-05-11T23:06:57 | 2016-05-11T22:12:31 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | Gallagher frowned at his instruments, sure that there must be some mistake. He tapped the scanner with a gloved finger and slammed the rover into park.
"I'm getting something strange here, folks," he said into his radio. "Scanning again." There must be some mistake, he thought again, as he pinged the scanner again. T... | "... and so it is that we find ourselves in the position to be able to introduce Polkovnik Vladimir Komorov to the platform. Please wait until his statement is finished before asking any questions."
The NASA press secretary took a step down, and shook the gentleman's hand. The cameras flashed without cease, making it ... | 2016-08-16T10:05:33 | 2016-08-16T09:34:40 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | I don't even know how we found it. Mars is a big planet, albeit not as big as Earth, but we did. The scythe and hammer. The questions flowed through my head at lightspeed. Why didn't the Soviets tell us what happened? Actually, why didn't they tell their people? Nobody knows. It seems that all known people who worked o... | "... and so it is that we find ourselves in the position to be able to introduce Polkovnik Vladimir Komorov to the platform. Please wait until his statement is finished before asking any questions."
The NASA press secretary took a step down, and shook the gentleman's hand. The cameras flashed without cease, making it ... | 2016-08-16T10:58:56 | 2016-08-16T09:34:40 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | When human feet finally touched the surface of Mars, it was under the aegis of no government. De-centeralized social structures, growing rapidly under the influence of a de-centralized information network, had replaced government. It had turned out that cooperation only required adequate communication.
And, it had t... | "... and so it is that we find ourselves in the position to be able to introduce Polkovnik Vladimir Komorov to the platform. Please wait until his statement is finished before asking any questions."
The NASA press secretary took a step down, and shook the gentleman's hand. The cameras flashed without cease, making it ... | 2016-08-16T09:47:36 | 2016-08-16T09:34:40 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Due to your careful planning, your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse. There's just one thing you didn't prepare for. Ghosts. An entire planet of fucking ghosts. | *Urist McMason cancels make slab: Interrupted by a ghost.*
It was late spring of 218, eighteen years after Bronzekill's founding and nearing two years after its depopulation.
It had seemed like such a good plan at the time. The fortress was slowing to a crawl, overpopulation reducing everyone's productivity. There w... | A bucket of powder and some faded white clothing was all it took for us to infiltrate their society. Dad and I played the part, while Mum watched from the rooftop windows of the council building with her vacuum in hand. We’d been trying to make contact with the ghosts ever since everyone in the world died – besides us.... | 2016-11-30T06:25:25 | 2016-11-29T17:56:26 | 50 | 31 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | When Howard awoke that fateful morning, he realised two things. Firstly, that he had not woken of his own accord. And secondly, that he was not alone in his room. But it was when the haze of sleep had lifted completely and he was able to hear the noise properly, that terror seized his heart. The sound was difficult to ... | *I was pretty hammered when I started this, and I got progressively drunker during. You may be able to tell.*
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Most people got them before they had even thought about what they would do after school. The unlucky few that had to wait tended to get the weird ones, save ... | 2017-01-20T13:51:03 | 2017-01-20T13:50:55 | 551 | 63 |
[WP] You ask your date, "Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?". She looks at you with a confused look. "I never fell out of heaven, who told you that I was your angel?". It turns out she is your guardian angel. | “So your real name is Eos?” I asked my date as we strolled through the park.
“Yeah, that’s my God-given name,” she smiled an angelic smile. Her full lips revealing white and straight teeth.
“What does it mean?”
“Oh, it’s not important. It’s an old name,” she smiled again and the autumn wind caught her hair. Absent-m... | For a split-second panic set in, my mind racing to understand what this girl was saying. My eyes were frantically scanning every inch of the person in front of me, looking for anything to give her away. A mannerism, a ghost of a sneer, a nervous gesture -- but, the only thing I could read all over her perfectly-delicat... | 2017-02-04T12:47:08 | 2017-02-04T09:25:07 | 98 | 68 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 427 | 212 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | Tick tock
I had hoped, at one time, that my number would be big. After all who would want to be one of those poor kids, they who turn 18 and find their actual age written between beneath their thumb. Can you imagine the parents as they count down the days, not knowing when it will come, just that it will hang over the... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T00:57:55 | 427 | 63 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 427 | 39 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | I've never been much for parties--let alone a party where I'm the center of attention. I'd much rather be sitting in a corner somewhere with a cat and my phone until the crowd dispersed. But, it was my 18th birthday today, so my parents were hosting my reveal party.
Often, children took after one of their parents. My... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:49:08 | 427 | 12 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 71 | 37 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | My 18th birthday, something that seemed so far away is finally here. My family is gathered around, ready to see what word I would have. My dad's was JANITOR, while my mother's was DOCTOR. I hope I get something cool.
"We will be proud of you honey, whatever you are." My mother said. My father nodded in agreement. We ... | As long as anyone can remember you're future was decided on the 12th hour of your 18th birthday. No one knew what caused it to happen or when it started but the word you got decided everything from social class to tax bracket for you. In my family it was a 3 day celebration of the crossing over from child to adult and ... | 2017-03-16T04:22:00 | 2017-03-16T04:12:27 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Conviction parties were tradition, so friends and family could come and see as your life was essentially laid out for you. Sometimes the word was a good one. Other times it was more dubious. But nothing was ever set in stone.
Every person's Conviction meant something to them. It meant something to the people they met ... | I sit down, waiting for what's to come. To be completely honest, I wasn't expecting much. I was a pretty average guy, average looks, average complexion, had a few distinct features, but they weren't the kind I liked to show very often.
I had grown up feeling that I wasn't as good as other people. I was bullied in scho... | 2017-03-16T05:01:30 | 2017-03-16T04:27:29 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Urban environments present challenges for all life. Unlike squirrels and refuse bears, not all creatures here spend their time scavenging.
A male human. This adolescent has mastered the skills required for daily life, and now that the weather has turned favorable, he's set his sights on a more difficult task. Groomed... | Last time, we had a look at the mating habits of the adult forms of the Homosapiens Erectus, or "Humans" as they call themselves. Today, we shall be taking a look at the habits displayed by younger examples, here at what is known as "college". For the Homosapiens, knowledge is hard gained, and they use these learning ... | 2017-04-04T07:07:46 | 2017-04-04T06:35:46 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | “Dave are you looking at these numbers? All these kids end dates come out to the same day. June 6 2124, is this some glitch in the computers program or...?”
As Dave walks over and checks the computer, his annoyed facial expression changes to a severely puzzled look.
“You don’t think...that maybe it means something, do... | The virtually non-existent yet sternly constant flow of beeps,buzzers,and all kinds of sounds each coming from some gadget worth more than twice Jake's salary nearly took him to sleep as he forced himself to stand "You cannot dose off; you worked so hard to get here and i wont let you blow it!" he repeated to hims... | 2017-12-25T18:01:52 | 2017-12-25T14:14:17 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | *"The thought was naive. So naive that we didn't imagine it would work. Imagine our surprise when it did..."*
I down the little plastic shot cup of Daniels in my hand and toss it into the Recycler as I walk out of the bar. The little intern employed to shadow me follows on my footsteps, stumbling with her books. I chu... | I was only a child when the bombs fell. First, they said it was the Russians. Then, they tried to convince us that it was the vindictive actions of one "Kim Jong Un", authoritarian ruler of a small nation that used to be known as North Korea. Neither the north nor the south survived, so I guess it's just No Korea now... | 2018-01-18T00:13:03 | 2018-01-17T20:36:12 | 1,623 | 216 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | Well, this may be the ump-tenth time I've "kidnapped" the Princess. Every time she gets saved she plays the victim, swoons for her "hero" and goes home with a smile, plotting her next kidnapping in hopes of finally returning here for good. Honestly, she's crazy.
I feel bad for the guy, he's hard working, steady job,... | I should have known something was up. I should have asked more questions when the letter arrived. They hadn't offered a ransom. No hero to save her. Not even a single word of ill will. No... Nothing. And now somehow I The Lord of Fire. The King of Death. The Harbinger of Destruction and Disease am hiding in a broom cl... | 2018-02-09T05:44:16 | 2018-02-09T04:30:09 | 61 | 44 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | Well, this may be the ump-tenth time I've "kidnapped" the Princess. Every time she gets saved she plays the victim, swoons for her "hero" and goes home with a smile, plotting her next kidnapping in hopes of finally returning here for good. Honestly, she's crazy.
I feel bad for the guy, he's hard working, steady job,... | Tyran the Unreasonable was his first name, through countless crusades of evil he managed to bolster his reputation to Tyran the Insane. Tyran was seven feet tall, he had shoulders so wide that he had to walk sideways through doors and his appearance alone was enough to cause the bravest of men to stutter. A concoction ... | 2018-02-09T05:44:16 | 2018-02-09T04:43:06 | 61 | 42 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | This was great at first. I didn’t have much money to my name, but I had enough to last me a few weeks given the exponential increase in the money owed. The first week or so, I continued to live the way I had been before. This included bar fights, prostitutes, and cocaine. Lots of cocaine. How do you think I died in the... | A voice rich and sonorous filled the air like rumbling thunder, echoing through my mind like a whisper down a deep well.
“Would you like another day?” it asks. There is an undertone of mirth in the voice, a mocking tone of one who has all the knowledge and power.
My eyes focus through the haze and I see a body lying ... | 2018-07-29T04:48:35 | 2018-07-29T03:59:43 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] John Shoester is a bitter old man who travels around and tells people their approximate time of death. Five years. Twenty years. Two months. And he's always been 100% smugly accurate - then he met you. Last week!? | I didn't bother hiding my smile. I had died last week, and he'd predicted, exactly right, almost 8 years ago. He was just such a jerk, I had to rub this in his face.
"You know something," I half-chuckled. "That's the same time you told me before. And I told you it wouldn't stick."
His eyes went wide. Good, he remembe... | The little old man defied his apparent age by the speed at which he approached me. I was walking in the opposite direction of him, late for my shift.
“Hi, I’m John, have a moment?” He asked, as I pushed past him and checked my watch. 6:58. Shift starts in two minutes and I can’t be late again.
“Sir, please just one ... | 2018-09-06T09:43:21 | 2018-09-06T07:18:03 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You have a useless superpower where you gain a random power each day that prepares you for the events stored in the day. Why this is useless? They're all subtle, like summoning an extra toilet roll. Then, one day, you wake up with eldritch, god-like powers. | My powers were always special to me. Not in the way that many would think. They never helped me. They gave me the chance to help others.
The neighbor hood kids loved me when I would have the ability to make ice cream out of thin air. Their grandparents would love when threads of yarn would pop out of my ears. Finally,... | I hate my power
Everyday I wake up with a useless superpower, for example: yesterday i ran out of soap but i was able to summon a new bar of it..... that was it nothing else only a bar of soap.
Useless.
It’s been like this for as long as I can remember never having anything useful like invisibility or super strength,... | 2019-01-20T22:53:21 | 2019-01-20T20:07:22 | 1,907 | 176 |
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