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[WP] "As you slowly awaken from your cryogenic sleep, you realize nothing is like how the scientists said it would be. Instead, a savage warlord and his retainers stand before you, and in broken english he offers you a simple choice: Teach him the magics of your people, or die now."
[deleted] | "It's not magic," I explained. "It's technology. Science. Tools."
The warlord looked unconvinced. He wore the hide of a mutant bear. The members of his posse were all deformed: a man with three eyes, a woman whose ears drooped to her shoulders, twins conjoined at the head who together possessed one sickly right arm an... | "Oy the magicks. Hand 'em over, ya prock."
Where am I?
"Donna make me ask twoice. It's a bad coming, fosh."
My hands are tingling. My face is ... numb. What is this place?
"Them magicks' ripplin'. Ah sense'em, prock. Oy!"
I open my eyes to find a disfigured burn victim staring straight down at me. The air smells o... | 2021-06-07T15:32:35 | 2021-06-07T15:23:31 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] An excerpt from the most cliché young adult novel
Ex. Futuristic dystopian society where vampires roam the streets | I glanced around at the rabble. "What...what am I doing here?" I asked, my violet eyes glistening in confusion.
A beautiful young man full of beauty stepped forward. He looked familiar, but I couldn't tell why. "You're here because you're like us," he said, his soft yet firm voice echoing in my mind like a beautiful b... | > "You know Bella, Jacob?" Lauren asked—in what I imagined was an insolent tone—from across the fire.
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> "We've sort of known each other since I was born," he laughed, smiling at me again.
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> "How nice." She didn't sound like she thought it was nice at all, and her pale, fishy eyes narrowed.
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&... | 2015-05-14T08:31:38 | 2015-05-14T08:14:00 | 37 | 21 |
[WP]If you murder someone, your jail sentence is as long as their remaining life would have been. | “You do understand the sentencing system.”
Lawrence looked around the conference room. It was spare, with more chairs than were really needed. Nobody frequented this place. “Sure,” he said. “You guys do your voodoo to figure out how long my, heh, victim, had to live, and make my sentence just as long. So lay it on me.... | This would be my sixth time in jail over the last 5 years. Ever since the new government implemented the "time lost" murder laws. I remember reading about it in the New York Times with keen interest. - "A panel of experts will convene to determine the amount of time the deceased could reasonably expect to have enjoyed.... | 2016-05-29T09:41:46 | 2016-05-29T09:16:38 | 146 | 29 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | She typed in the name of the website where you could make *sure*, her hands trembling slightly.
Where you could check that you had met the real thing. Not a cheater or an abuser or a rapist. She had a little habit of checking almost everyone she met, whether she was going out with them or not. Most terrified her. She... | "It isn't worth it," said Niklas, trying to grab the phone out of my hands. "The terms are trash. You're gonna be miserable. Just sit it out, man."
I pushed him off. He was right - the profile certainly had a *lot* of fine print, and I wasn't thrilled with all the contractual details, but what else was I supposed to d... | 2016-09-24T11:16:02 | 2016-09-24T11:03:32 | 2,480 | 623 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | It was just a stupid video. Something I did for fun to test out my new webcam. I wasn't looking for attention in anyway, and didn't really think much when I uploaded it to the web. In fact, at the time there wasn't much around that let you save your videos and I didn't have an external backup drive so I simply uploaded... | I was young when it all happened. A thief in the night had claimed my life and my blood had been spilled onto the ground. I remembered all of the steps after when my body was bitten and drained of all blood and just torn asunder like I was just some sack of meat to be had. It all happened right after I had seen Simon- ... | 2017-06-26T12:48:11 | 2017-06-26T12:04:53 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You are a 17-year-old living in a futuristic dystopian society where a fascist party rules the world. Upon turning 18, citizens are required to take a DNA test to put their genetic information on file. When you go to take yours, your genetic identity is a 100% identical to that of the dictator.
Edit: Wow! I didn'... | When I saw the report, I was terrified - not at the contents of the report, which had a list of suggested relatives and the percentage of heritage, but by the reaction of the lab technician who had handed it to me. He snatched it out of my hand like it was a thermite grenade and apologized profusely for handing me the... | My mind was in a whirlwind as I clenched the piece of paper that identified by genetic embodiment. I crumpled the slip of paper and pushed it into the pockets of my corduroy blue pants. I didn’t want anyone around me to see what was causing my utter distress. My vision began to fuzz as I thought about the pure confusio... | 2018-02-17T00:22:41 | 2018-02-16T21:00:27 | 76 | 33 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | They say ‘History is written by the victor’, yet in our case, that is categorically false. I am a prophesy, a warning. I sit alone, the last of my kind, with one final duty. I too will become another footnote in history. Ours inevitably similar to countless others who, just like us, believed in our species’ supremacy. ... | The landscape is cold- barren. We work in silence, Henry and I. I can sense the Universe recoiling away from us, the cosmos pulling its lips away, teeth gnashing and foaming, spitting vitriol on humanity. We knew this was wrong. But someone had to tip the cosmic scales back. We had come too far- walked the path of reta... | 2020-02-07T14:04:38 | 2020-02-07T13:56:49 | 83 | 58 |
[WP] You have lived an unimpressive life, and died an unimpressive death. Surprisingly, Odin welcomes you into Valhalla, citing the many battles with depression you fought. | Arriving in Valhalla you are gifted the garments of battle you were most familiar with during your conflicts.
"And here we have the holy garments with which you battled nearly every day of your life. Gaze upon the battle garb that kept you safe and steadfast in your continued fight against the great 'meh' as you call... | (1/2)
The scenery I found myself suddenly gawking at came right out of a dream. Wispy clouds floated against the backdrop of an endless azure and reflected the sun’s soothing rays across the landscape. But was I dreaming? I don’t remember falling asleep… My body, my memories, even my emotions… Everything felt so hazy... | 2022-05-28T07:00:27 | 2022-05-28T06:39:39 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] Years ago the evil, black dragon was defeated by good dragon. You have no heart to tell people that it was just a phase and you simply grew up and washed off the paint. | Beneath the gold coins there are bones. I know this. They are buried deep in the warm piles, covered by trinkets. A crown falls there (and the skull that sat beneath it?) Armour studded with rubies (and the ribs which it protected?) greaves from a man who lost his legs to my jaws, gloves from scorched hands when the sk... | Nebeus shifted on his mountaintop perch and suppressed a yawn, struggling to focus on the ramblings of the emissary. At some point during the past century, the local humans had taken to worshiping him. He neither encouraged nor dissuaded them from the practice. As bothersome as it was to listen to their droning praises... | 2022-10-26T06:40:30 | 2022-10-26T06:37:55 | 462 | 263 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | The message was unmistakable. Transmitted on 10 different frequencies in 27 different languages, all saying the same thing, "Be quiet before they find you".
Three hours later a second message. "You have less than 6 hours to shut down all broadcasts, otherwise they will find you".
The message was genuine, and apart f... | “Hey, did y’all hear the news about the alien message?” Henry asked as he sat down with his meal.
The others at the table just stared at him, not wanting to take a break from eating their meals. Undeterred, Henry continued, “I mean, it’s crazy, right?”
“Yeah, real crazy, Henry,” came a reply from down the table.
“O... | 2016-08-07T08:06:13 | 2016-08-07T06:06:00 | 70 | 32 |
[WP] When a sorcerer dies any spells they cast throughout their life that are still in effect will cease to be. An powerful and ancient wizard whose origins are clouded in mystery lays comatose on his deathbed and nobody knows what will happen once he draws his final breath. | I looked out over the dusty grey plain at Earthrise. Ever since we had fled the genocide of our people and stepped through that great portal to the moon, we knew we would never be able to go back. But somehow, today it was more real. We had done our best to prepare; Teminarin knew she was dying, she knew that her spel... | Countless people from countless kingdoms had traveled countless miles, just to see if the rumors about Merlin the Great were true.
I'm one of those people. Yeah, the rumors were absolutely true. The old man was dying. He was completely motionless. Not even the best clerics from across the land were able to help him w... | 2018-05-24T03:22:52 | 2018-05-24T00:13:02 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] You commit a crime. Time passes and it seems like you have gotten away with it. One day you are called to jury duty and when you the trail starts, you realise that the trail is for the crime that you committed. | I walked into the courthouse to a flurry of lawyers, paralegals, reporters, and regular citizens scurrying about.
The case was one that had gathered national attention. The body of a girl who was missing for three weeks finally turned up. A single suspect had been apprehended and the governor wanted this case to be d... | When I opened the envelope, to my surprise, it was a Jury Summons. I took a second and closed my eyes. I knew this day was unavoidable – I just didn’t think I would have to deal with it this soon. I regret having the burden to serve my community. However, I live in a community where I do not get the pleasure of having ... | 2018-09-11T18:35:52 | 2018-09-11T18:12:30 | 2,056 | 68 |
[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... | Son of a bitch earned that kill, that's for sure.
I'm honestly pretty happy with the results though. I was getting bored of my powers anyway (A small, 5ft8 blond haired blue eyed with the ability to reflect kinetic energy 100 fold? People were literally punching themselves to death. Too boring for me. Also, my face w... | Everyone wants a power....everyone has a power, just many don't know what to do with them. They cower; they hide. They think everyone is out to kill them to get a better rank. As if the ranks were like a video game power meter, and each kill was experience points.
And me? I can't volley for power. I am what everyone ... | 2014-12-18T19:13:58 | 2014-12-18T19:11:06 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're a half orc, but none of your team-mates ever ask what the other half of you is. That was never an issue before, but your other parent just showed up. | When i tell people i'm half orc, they tend to assume that one parent was an orc, and the other was something else. It's understandable--half anythings tend to get absorbed back into whichever parent's race is more convenient, or else die unmated and childless. But now and then a pair of crossbreeds get together, and ... | The dust settled as the engine died. The others shook nervously as the large, unhuman figure emerged from the truck. I rested my hand on Carls shivering, pale shoulder as I turned around to face the others who were slowly increasing their distance. I had to think of something rapidly as I have seen friends seize in fe... | 2020-07-22T15:30:08 | 2020-07-22T14:06:06 | 575 | 33 |
[WP] A dangerous facility is preparing residents for an accident. People in the "red zone" should evacuate. People in the "green zone" should stay put. You have just discovered that, no matter whose map you look at, that person's area shows him or her as being in the green zone. | If you want to understand, you have to know the whole story.
It was April 22nd, 2153 when we had the first drill. It was scheduled, 14:30-22:45 Plains Standard Time. When the new military development facilities went up, every single building in the whole damn Tri-River area got a evac signal. Pretty simple system: ... | The clock ticked on. Honestly, the ticking was starting to get on my nerves. I decided to take a walk outside in the back garden. With my parents, siblings, aunts and uncles all in the same room, I was feeling awfully cramped. I wandered over to the kitchen, which hadn't changed much since I was a child, and opened the... | 2015-04-22T20:52:01 | 2015-04-22T17:54:47 | 194 | 36 |
[WP] You are a successful artist who has a condition where you randomly black out. When you wake up, you see that you have created beautiful masterpeices that you don't remember painting. Lately, all of your paintings have been more and more disturbing. | It had been happening for years, at least since she was in her mid-twenties. The first time had been soon after finishing university. Anjuli had been sitting working at her desk, and then all of a sudden, she had felt as though there was a sudden pressure at the sides of her neck. Her vision had started to cloud, her m... | Eloquent and endearing, each stroke carried a vibrancy of colorful congruence. Her mind’s eye had already visualized it, but seeing the brilliance gradually materializing on the canvas was something else entirely.
Like a stiff coryphée on a private stage of white ice, the brush swayed and pirouetted, leaving trails ... | 2017-04-16T07:39:37 | 2017-04-16T06:34:53 | 145 | 58 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | It was quite strange actually.
The first number popped into view when I was about 12 years old. It was a solid 4 that looked like something straight out of Times New Roman font. That 4 I remember, hovered above a big scruffy looking man with a tattoo of a stripper on his left arm. I didn't think of it as much at the ... | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | 2014-11-29T22:35:42 | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 200 | 140 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | There’s a particular sensation, of sorts, that comes to a person in their dying moments; hard to place, at first. However over time —and an egregious amount of practice, I’ve been able to nail it down to a handful of words:
“My insides are cold.” Okay sure, not the most graceful of death-words. Nevertheless I take so... | I sit in the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by the corpses of my fallen enemies. I am battered and bruised, but I will not give up. I have fought and died countless times, but each time I come back a little bit stronger.
The other heroes fear me now, and rightly so. I am no longer human, but something else e... | 2022-08-26T13:16:58 | 2022-08-26T06:59:02 | 290 | 100 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | Here at the Edgar Jones Clinic for the Immune, we run a battery of tests to find out *your* immunity. Stabbing, crushing, fire, disease - we have safe test facilities to discover almost anything. While the process is well-documented and carried out by trained professionals, your results may vary. Take, for instance, Ro... | Well, this isn't so bad. I get to help all these people, and bonus, I don't even need a face mask.
Another guy sneezed on me, and I didn't even feel it. It may be mundane, but with this, I will save lives!
Unless, of course, I am shot, not immune to that. | 2017-08-06T14:59:49 | 2017-08-06T13:13:41 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] For your 10th birthday you received vr goggles. You tried them, thought they were dumb and went on with your life. Its only now, decades later looking back, you dont actually remember ever removing them. | It's my 80th birthday today.
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I wake up early as I usually do, my bladder urgently signaling my brain that the dam is going to burst. After a blind stumble (what used to be a confident strut, mind you) to the bathroom and a piss, the robe comes on and I make my way downstairs to my waiting wife.
&#... | The thought came unbidden. But there it was, lodged in between the intangible folds of his mind. He ignored it at first, yet the trembling of his rattling bones, and the fast, steady thrumming of his heart spoke of an ever-settled fear.
He was twenty now. It'd been ten years since he'd put on the goggles. Ten years of... | 2018-12-23T07:46:48 | 2018-12-23T06:04:41 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] Humans were largely friendly and kept a low-profile. They were seen as the bottom of the food chain in the galaxy and they preferred it like that. But when they were attacked, everyone found out how ruthless the humans can be with killing in their DNA and that Mars was never their home plant | The Reptilian limped forward towards the rock formations, clutching its side. The feeling of contempt it once had for humans was now replaced with overwhelming fear. If the Reptilian could just make it to the rocks and reorganize with its comrades, then maybe they stood a chance of rescue. Just before reaching the mout... | It should have been so easy.
Humans were a diplomat species. They excelled in things like art, science, and medicine. They were peace keepers.
They had no tough outer shells or claws like many of the more dangerous species did. The only threatening about them was their propensity fo bear sharp front teeth from a tim... | 2020-03-20T16:36:23 | 2020-03-20T16:31:01 | 143 | 94 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | The wizard Galmus’ incantation was over and the blue hues faded from the walls of the stony tower. The form of a man appeared and stepped through the arcane mists. What kind of hero would he be? Many imagined a tall and dashing young man with chestnut wavy hair and sun kissed freckles. Nothing could have prepared the s... | “What is this?” The King shouted. “What kind of mockery do you intend to make of my Royal Guard?”
The strange man was obviously disheveled and terrified to find himself in this new world. “As a Navy Seal of the United States Government, I demand you to return me immediately!”
“United States!” The King shouted even ... | 2020-11-10T17:57:02 | 2020-11-10T16:24:48 | 89 | 40 |
[WP] An S-Rank adventurer casually sifts through their quest log and notices they still have an uncompleted D-rank request. With a chuckle, they decide finding the farmer’s lost cat could be a relaxing change of pace— they were gravely mistaken. | The remaining cultists ran away when seeing me charge another lightning bolt.
I thought I'd have to fight more of them, considering my luck during this quest, but they quickly realized how much I out-leveled them after my first spell disintegrated over a dozen people.
All that remained was searching the abandoned t... | They wondered why it always seemed to end like this. After the last long quests full of stress, danger stress and ridiculousness in general, they really wanted to take a break... But due to the sorely needed equipment repairs and other unexpected costs they had to do at least one other quest. Luckily for them, a D- que... | 2022-06-22T06:57:10 | 2022-06-22T05:35:46 | 72 | 41 |
[WP] Every step on the Staircase of Universal Truths reveals a hidden fact about the universe. The world record used to be two steps, due to the fact that people dropped dead at the third. You're on your fifth already. | Deep in an undisclosed location-- a cave hidden within a mountain a peculiar discovery was made. A stairway made of white stone, smooth and carefully carved, in no way it was a natural occurrence.
The discovery was never made public as such strangeness would stir the already chaotic world. Such secrecy was kept by a s... | One step: Something's got to give. I'd known this from the very beginning of my latest attempt at climbing the Flight of Truths. Oh, sorry, depressing opening, huh? Well, I mean, I'd lost everything. My house, my hobbies, my livelihood, all in the Great Upheaval (which occurred on 2R32W6D (Second Reckoning, thirty-... | 2021-11-16T22:35:42 | 2021-11-16T22:29:56 | 1,055 | 25 |
[WP] People only age when they move. Some folks live for centuries, only leaving home to buy groceries. Others age quickly, traveling from town to town. Today, you meet someone who claims to have traveled the world. The odd thing is, they only look 10 years old. | I’d never understood the travellers. Turning up in quiet, sedate towns, decrepit and breathless. Looking for experiences I suppose, but everywhere was just like here. Looking to avoid movement as much as possible. Empty. Slow. Boring.
People with kids were a bit weird as well, but at least there was a logic in the con... | The day was nice. I had left my home only for the necessities. Bread, eggs, and gallons of water filled my cart. I bought in bulk, always in bulk. It was how I was taught as a child. My clothes were bought all at once and the only things we ever left home for were groceries, funerals, and weddings.
On this particular... | 2020-08-01T13:54:44 | 2020-08-01T13:43:53 | 949 | 14 |
[WP] One of the gods of your world has abdicated, and each of the others has nominated a mortal candidate for the position. You've been sponsored by the weakest of the gods, and while the others are being granted all sorts of powers for the tournament, all you've been given is an odd looking musket. | "It's... a musket."
I couldn't believe what I had in my hands. Well, I couldn't believe where I was, why I was there, who I was with, and what I had in my hands but the first three were of little importance since this tournament was going to happen with me in it regardless if I thought I should participate or not. I ... | The chosen candidate stared at the musket in his hands, then stared at the God sitting before him. The so called God was some schmuck in a sappy looking leather jerkin, a beaten up sword tied to his belt, and eating an drinking something from an ornate waterskin.
"Great! Chosen by the least powerful God, given a shitt... | 2018-10-17T00:03:46 | 2018-10-16T20:17:16 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] You obtained the ability to experience life as it is for others. After trying out a few people you realize that the general "living feeling" differs enormously to each person. You decide to try it on your super cheerful friend... you have never felt such emptiness before. | One might think that developing a super\-power would be the event most likely to completely change a person's outlook on the world. But for Ben, that wasn't the case at all.
When Ben first started developing his powers, he didn't really know they were powers at all. He had always been pretty good empathizing with peop... | I blinked back to myself and glanced at the TV, where Monty Python and the Holy Grail was playing. I spaced out *really* hard whenever I blinked to someone, so I needed to either do it really fast and ride out the dizziness that came with it, or make sure there was some sort of distraction. Hence the movie.
It also me... | 2018-05-23T14:13:27 | 2018-05-23T13:56:34 | 48 | 19 |
[WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive. | "Excuse me, what the fuck?" the demon shouted while gesturing angrily at me.
I looked down at myself, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. I saw my old t-shirt, my favorite hoodie, my ratty jeans and scuffed up sneakers. I looked back up at the inhuman creature standing in the painted circle in front of... | A cold sweat wrung its way through my being. Was this death, as they called it? No, it couldn't have been. But it felt as if that was the case.
The cloaked figure in front of me had the most piercing red eyes I'd ever spied upon.
"Why is it that you still stand?"
"I don't know. I don't know why or how I got to be he... | 2021-10-06T14:18:44 | 2021-10-06T14:13:41 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] In each life, you and your soulmate are reincarnated into different forms. The only problem: only one of you knows the other is your soulmate, alternating between you two each life. This time, it's your turn to hold the knowledge. | Cruel are the gods that allow this existence. The words have become my mantra. Across the centuries we have searched for eachother to the exclusion of all else. Limited by a mortal life span. Tortured by an immortal soul. One awake, one asleep. The memories of our past lives only serving to further ingrain the need for... | I accelerated the car as we merged into traffic on our way to the beach. Life was lonely. I was the first to die, and with it I took our love on to the next life. Death was always unpleasant, but the years waiting to be reunited seem to drag on for an eternity. I was 40 and I still hadn't felt her presence yet. My wife... | 2016-11-05T22:32:58 | 2016-11-05T19:08:30 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] The Devil promises you everything: fame, fortune, all the things a mortal will ever need for paradise on earth. But he doesn't want your soul, he just wants you to take his socially awkward daughter, Gertrude, out on a date. Make her special, y'know?
**EDIT** All of your responses have been amazing! I wish I had ... | Karl Jacobs fell asleep, and had the dream again.
Everything was blackness, a huge empty void stretched around him. He could feel vertigo, but in every direction. His body was gasping for air, and…
…sprang bolt upright in bed…
Karl gasped for breath, the terror of the dream clinging to him with a sweaty mental re... | "So, that's all huh?" I asked, looking down at my coffee cup and trying to light another cigarette, at something resembling a coffee franchise in hell.
"Yeah, that's pretty much the deal. Take my daughter out, show her a good time, and then the world is yours. Sound fair?" Satan nodded. He had decided on appearing a... | 2015-05-20T12:02:49 | 2015-05-20T10:23:34 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are immortal, having lived through thousands of years and witnessed much of human history firsthand. A quirk of your immortality however is that the person physically closest to you at any given moment also ceases to age making you a highly prized commodity by friend and foe alike. | You don't appreciate how nice it is to be alone, until you never are. I longed for quiet, to walk through the woods accompanied only by birdsong and the gentle whisper of the trees. To hear the leaves crunching under my feet, and mine alone, no hidden beggar lurking in my shadow.
I was going to meet a young girl who h... | The way he looks at me, I may as well be dead. John has never been here for my companionship, only my powers. I can’t kill him. After all, he is immortal as long as he’s the closest person to me. I can’t leave, because the entire house is magic-proof. We’ve been here since, what, the American Civil War? John a lonely b... | 2020-02-27T11:40:10 | 2020-02-27T08:14:20 | 81 | 16 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | My grandmother still worships the old gods. I dont know how she can keep track of all of them. There seems to be a god for every problem. I probably should have played more attention in history when we went over all this stuff. She always said I was a favorite of Aphrodite. She warned me that living with the favor of ... | "Fuck. What's wrong, Jill?"
We were in a bank and she wore a wool overcoat. The two of us stood between velvet ropes. In front of us an elderly lady was arguing about her account balance.
"Nothing is wrong? What are you doing here? I thought you were in New York?"
"I was. Jesus where are we?"
"Chicago, Jack. Listen I h... | 2017-03-22T19:03:01 | 2017-03-22T16:39:20 | 53 | 25 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | "Heya Mister"
Chris's eyes snapped open at the sound of a child's voice, his vision blurry, like he had just woken up from a long sleep.
"Hey! Can you see me?"
The colors cleared, and he found himself staring upward at the roof of a dimly lit cave. He was lying on a cold stone floor, with no recollection of how he h... | What the hell is this place?
I was just walking home, when suddenly everything went black and now I am here. I look around and see what looks like a normal child's bedroom: there is a bed, a desk, a pile of D&D rulebooks with some dice, some posters starring a rock group I don't recognise, and a window with a vie... | 2019-09-17T11:08:24 | 2019-09-17T08:16:42 | 297 | 39 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
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We awoke before the sun had even risen. The dust storms from yesterday had already worn down, and left our encampment covered in fine red dust. [*ERDUK EXPLETIVE*] dust. It was everywhere on this p... | Starlog:210x August 24th
Our plans ,to invade Earth, thwarted by Humans again!No matter how hard we try, there always seems to be a collection of heroes sticking their ugly heads into our business.Last weeks invasion made us extraterrestrials look as weak as a bag of sticks!Outrageous!
....What went? wrong?Everything... | 2016-03-13T23:31:00 | 2016-03-13T19:47:12 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You were summoned to another world to be its Hero. You attained amazing abilities and powers. Traveled to distant, fantastic lands and exotic cultures. Met and fought alongside incredible allies to stop the unspeakable Evil. Lost friends along the way. But now you’ve returned to your own world. | I'm not sure what I expected upon my return to Earth. A huge welcome back party? A squad of police officers telling me I'd been missing for weeks and my family was worried sick? Whatever I expected, it wasn't what I got. I appeared in my bedroom late at night- right where I'd been standing a month ago when an elf appea... | Fucking wizards. Would it kill them to be precise for once? Actually, this one might be my fault. *Send me back.* No word as to when or where 'back' was.
And that landed me in this unfortunate situation of wearing battered plate armor, an enchanted ~~tiara~~ circlet, and a cape. As if that wasn't enough, I am carryin... | 2017-12-10T07:04:18 | 2017-12-10T06:46:48 | 62 | 14 |
[WP] An advanced alien race has done extensive research and deems us an easy target. As soon as they invade, all earth governments simultaneously reveal all their secret weapons. | A mass of light and matter coalesces into a vague bipedal form before solidifying to reveal the Earth's emissary.
"FUCK!" he exclaims as his atoms reform and his consciousness gets a jump start into reality, "Could have warned me guys!" he doubles over to catch his breath before realizing that he is no longer surroun... | The US: We are bringing back the Nuclear Railgun! We can launch these damn Manhole Covers so fast, they could vaporize half the ship!
China: Alright, so while you were all bickering about North Korea, we built a secret Laser Station in orbit, the thing can vaporize the alien invaders!
Canada: We sent them a Welcome Gif... | 2018-01-12T12:28:24 | 2018-01-12T10:40:07 | 549 | 76 |
[WP] The first message from another planet was different than we expected. "Dear people of Earth, an armada is on its way to conquer your world. Pay no attention, they' re idiots we've sent on a fake mission. We've no interest in your planet, the weapons are fake. Just play along, they're harmless." | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, lovingly called Seti, was established in 1984. It was built upon a long history of hope. Only a few years earlier in 1977, a young man by the name of Jerry gained international fame for his hand written note “Wow” in the margins of the printout of the radio telesc... | As the world leader all patiently waited for the emergency meeting to start, a cold air filled the room.
Then the head scientist’s live stream started to begin.
“Dr Zorzo.” started the president of Russia. “My agents have informed me that you had received a message from what we presume to be an extraterrestrial sourc... | 2020-06-01T02:34:53 | 2020-06-01T01:03:23 | 105 | 21 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | "WAIT!"
Your hand hovers over the sword, it's ancient golden hilt beckoning. You look at Elder Sister One next to you; she is frowning at the source of the interruption.
"Sister Seven, this is not appropriate. Whatever you have to say, surely it can wait until Miss Detterman has completed the final rite . .... | This is my first time writing this type of stuff so please bear with me. :)
Story begins:
Me: My whole Family are known for doing illegal things, heck even I admit they do those stuff.
Me: But I know you're wondering why wouldn't they want me to join in their.....well..... escapades?
Agent: Tell me why?
Me: Well..... | 2017-06-04T08:49:41 | 2017-06-04T05:32:37 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | I also wanted to contribute one. Let me know what you guys think or where I could improve.
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I lay there in the trunk of what I guess was the same 90's model Buick I saw in the parking lot of the bar. I only got a brief look at it before my consciousness left me altogether and I collapsed onto the should... | **\- My first attempt on this sub -**
I was awoken to the sound of dripping water. I tried to move but quickly found out my wrists were bound above my head. I looked upwards to see them chained to a pipe on the roof. Water dripped from the pipe in a regular unbreaking tempo.
"So. You're awake." An older man with gra... | 2018-08-23T02:17:27 | 2018-08-23T01:51:10 | 836 | 47 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Hollywood, I think, is the closest thing to real magic one can find on planet earth. The ability to take what lives in one's mind and broadcast it to thousands of screens across the world. The ability to invite others into your mind is a modern one. It can also be dangerous though, to consolidate a novel perception int... | "Hey? Joe? You there?"
"Where else would I be, Bob. Not like we've been moved since they put us in these damned boxes."
"Well, that's just it. I don't think we're on Earth anymore. Try jumping to the ceiling."
"Why?"
"Just try it. I wanna know what you find out for yourself."
"Okay, alle-o *CLANG* OW!"
"Joe... | 2021-05-18T06:30:08 | 2021-05-18T06:04:50 | 2,212 | 77 |
[WP] Choose a number from 1 to 118. Ready? Okay, good. You now control the element with that atomic number.
And I hope you didn't pick 85. :) |
I looked up from my omelette to see which of us was on the news at the moment. Abraham Southfield. Huh. So that was One’s name.
There were 118 of us shoved into that lab. Subjected to those torturous experiments. I had thought the numbers attached to us were rather comedic when I first arrived. Some trope about de... | I always hated my power.
You see, everyone in this world can control one of the 118 elements, and I got one of the most annoying ones.
104, Rutherfordium.
Its radioactive, unnatural, and is a transition element.
The only thing that is a plus with it is it's long transition time, at about 13 hours.
Even then, its ... | 2019-11-26T20:15:15 | 2019-11-26T18:17:52 | 201 | 15 |
[WP] Time freezes for everyone around you each time your life is in danger, leaving only you able to move until you are no longer in danger. One day time freezes, but you can't figure out why, until..
I hope its not too vague, first writing prompt ^^ enjoy
Thank you all so much for the responses it's so much fun to r... | The first time it happened I was just little kid riding my bike. My mom wasn't paying attention to me. She was too deep in her gossip with our neighbor to notice me peddling toward the street. Honestly, I didn't even notice at first. But I was six and day dreaming about how I was a race car. I felt the bump of hitting ... | It has happened your entire life. You first noticed the time stops while riding your bike at 13. Trying to impress the cute girl in school you had tried riding down the locally imfamous "suicide hill" which crossed over a fairly busy road at the end. You noticed the semi truck to late and before you knew what happened ... | 2017-06-21T10:03:52 | 2017-06-21T07:56:10 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and your boyfriend/girlfriend is the child of their nemesis. Both your parent and theirs are furious at both of you for dating, but the two of you think that your parents feud is just stupid. | Part 1/2
I was fourteen when my powers first manifested. I was on a field trip to the zoo when the Macaque took me hostage and I generated my first explosive burst in a panic, sending the Macaque clean through the wall to the hippo enclosure. Luckily, my mom was chaperoning that day and she made up an excuse about the... | \[Poem\]
\[or rather: Proemium\]
Two households, equal in proficiency,
In rainy Gotham, where we lay our scene,
From smackdowns old break to new mutiny
Where muggle blood makes super hands unclean.
From forth the mutant loins of these two foes
Spring teen-aged lover protags, Roy and Janet,
Whose misadventured w... | 2022-10-12T04:44:44 | 2022-10-12T04:14:41 | 100 | 46 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | It isn't necessarily uncommon for Sydney to be awake at 3 in the morning. Sure, she has work tomorrow--today, her mind helpfully supplies--but could this reality tv splurge really wait? What if she lost her place on this thread if she went to bed now? This documentary about conjoined twins on YouTube isn't going to wat... | *July 1^st 2016*
-it happened again.
This time it said "Remember about your date with Tony tonight at 8."
I did forget about it, so in kind of glad. I still am none the less terrified.
*July 2^nd*
-I seen it happen.
I was brushing my teeth and I looked up, I seem a dark face in the mirror. It was hard to tell ... | 2016-08-07T17:19:29 | 2016-08-07T15:49:46 | 71 | 31 |
[WP] You have the ability to tell how powerful an organisation is by looking at its headquarters. However, you’ve never found which one is number 1, despite walking past many world governments. Today, you find what number 1 is: a small flower shop in Tuscany. | This is my first submission, so I'd really appreciate any growth / improvement feedback please.
"Wait.
This can't be right.
I look around to see if I've missed something. I've been walking in a bit of a stupour, still sweating out last night's binge drinking pounding music mental fucking getting right out of hand pa... | Strange... A flower shop? Really? I mean, I know we're in Tuscany, so it's probably the mafia, but still. Do they rule the world by killing everybody with perfume or something? Sarcasm aside, you decide to check it out.
You walk in to the shop, while an overload of nice smells attacks your nose. You walk to the desk, ... | 2019-10-29T03:47:17 | 2019-10-29T03:42:59 | 1,902 | 11 |
[WP] Your mother was a Centaur, your father; a Minotaur. You are a horse, but with human intelligence. The recent crime spree? Definitely not you, no one ever suspects the horse. | The Grand Vizier Jorlin, a stooped, shrunken man whose eyes had begun to cloud over, still commanded the highest respect from all he encountered. His presence, usually reserved for staterooms and grand halls, understandably caused a stir in the palace stables. With a wave of his hand, he dismissed the stablehands and s... | *Clip clop clip clop...*
I paced around the perimeter of the property, watching, listening.
"Glad you came, Felipe. Without you I would've never known the neighbouring house had anything to do with the blight of my crops!"
"Its fine! Just remember, tell no one of my help. I don't want to overstep my place in this wo... | 2017-11-27T08:34:15 | 2017-11-27T07:54:14 | 163 | 25 |
[WP] "Captain! There's a light in the library window! The Nerds call for aid!" "The Nerds call for aid? The Jocks will answer the call!" | **The Siege**
“Brock has betrayed me. The football team has abandoned us.”
Sheldon, President of the Chess Club, gripped the windowsill of the library’s tallest tower. Legend had it that this historic high school campus, built in 1820 originally as a medical school, was once the sight of a great siege during the Civi... | "Of course," said the Football Team's Captain, leader of the Jocks, upon entering the Library, "The Bullies."
The other Jocks began to surround the Library from the outside, while several more moved to watch almost every angle of the inside.
The Nerds had been corralled between four long tables that had been pushed... | 2022-01-12T06:22:34 | 2022-01-12T06:11:30 | 1,304 | 132 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | They say that you cannot truly become a general until you’ve seen the trenches of World War I with your own eyes. The truth is that there’s little else in our history that can compare to the Intergalactic Stalemate with the Xi-An. According to the statistics of LN, waging war on such a massive scale is ungraspable by o... | *First attempt, I like this prompt idea*
"**World War One?** For what reason would there be another?"
Realizing quickly what I had done, I had to remember the books I read. If I remembered correctly, the Treaty of Versily made Germany too weak to pay it's debts, and made it's debts huge. "Because of the Treaty of Ver... | 2017-12-10T09:08:24 | 2017-12-10T07:32:51 | 969 | 163 |
[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. | "So, how many casualties ?"
" We estimate between 1.5 and 2 billion sentients, my lord. The planet's biosphere so far seems to be holding well. It may need some repairing in the future, but nothing that we can't handle."
"A good start. Move our fleet to low orbit and begin deploying the hunter-warriors. I want them o... | We never expected that such a peaceful world can hide such a powerful enemy, we had one of the biggest fleets in the galaxy, they WERE supposed to be a world that can be taken with no force whatsoever, we were wrong, they have obliterated us in less than 4 earth rotations.The weapons while not the most advanced, they a... | 2019-02-26T09:45:36 | 2019-02-26T08:55:47 | 142 | 40 |
[WP] First, all souls go to Hell, where they experience the suffering they inflicted upon others. Then, heaven, which reminds them of all the happiness they brought. And only then they are allowed to move on to the next step. | His head rose suddenly out of the dark waters, sobbing uncontrollably, convulsing and gasping for air. Three figures stood around the shallow pool, watching over him with a look of deepest pity in their eyes. They had the outward appearance of humans (two men and a woman, all tall and muscular, barefoot and wearing sim... | "Will i remember all that I've been through?", asked the manly voice with an unearthly figure of a winged creature to a ray of light in a distance. After some silence, which felt like an echo in itself. A voice responded to the creature, "You shall be who you are, do what you may, feel what you wish, your path is guide... | 2022-11-06T05:13:02 | 2022-11-06T02:54:38 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] Leonardo DiCaprio is actually an evil warlock who needs to obtain a rare mineral in order to complete a dark ritual. The only source of this mineral is found inside an Academy Award. You are part of an ancient order sworn to deny Leonardo an Academy Award, at any cost.
Gee this blew up! These are great responses ... | "Steve Carrell," I yelled, banging my hand against the table. "How about Steve Carrell? The Academy loves a comic
actor turning serious."
"We talked to him," Zed replied. "He's doing a movie about Wall Street and the housing market crisis."
"Beautiful! An industry that makes billions every year and controls the mass... | It has been so long since this battle began, a game of sorts
He can conquer the world, if he wins this metal
I am the last of us, after me, there will be no one left
For so long I have denied him his precious metal, for so long have I fought
However, the time is finally at hand, he will complete his ritual, the met... | 2016-01-18T23:53:20 | 2016-01-18T22:37:40 | 1,879 | 13 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | I imagined my death for years. The Transportation Effect had been unwittingly created about a decade before I was born. I grew up hearing stories from schoolmates and relatives of all the Final Ceremonies they had attended. The sunny warmth of the portal. The lavender scented air of the Ceremony location. I committed e... | I had heard about it online. An hour before someone goes they're teleported to their loved ones. Not that it mattered to me. I had no one.
Standing on this windy day watching the Sun set. The oranges and reds in the sky and faint breeze in my hair. I could faintly hear sirens in the background, some stranger yelling a... | 2018-05-20T11:43:12 | 2018-05-20T09:20:13 | 507 | 246 |
[WP]"Captain, why is an entire planet being used to hold only two life forms"? "The species confined there is the most savage and destructive of any world. We've waited this long to check on them to make sure they died. We're lucky they're the last ones". "Checking status of prisoners Adam and Eve". | "..execute Plan 37."
The Helmsman hesitated for a moment, but he complied. Everyone grew up with stories on the volatile nature of humans, especially the destructive wars they caused, and how two of humanity were 'mercifully' spared, so the crew knew what was expected of them. What they \*didn't\* know was the sheer ... | They say there. They hadn't done anything, but play chess, have sex, and eat apples. They hadn't spoken any language, tried to advance, nothing. They just played chess. They didn't even wear clothes. We yad tried interacting, they didn't do anything but play chess with us. No matter how much we tried, they wouldn't do ... | 2021-12-30T18:32:24 | 2021-12-30T17:47:12 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] The hero has been defeated, the Dark Lord reigns. It seems like nobody can stop him, but then he surprises everyone by actually being a good leader, or at least better then the warring kings that used to rule this land. He's even funding science, if only because he wants to conquer the moon. | Lord Zaxos sat upon his throne built of skulls and bone, molded together by dark fire and blood magic. The petitioners knelt before him, some trembling in fear as the herald beat a giant drum made of human skin and dead wood.
"Rise," he said. His voice echoing off the cavernous dark hall of his throne room, a gothic... | We all thought it was the end, that we were doomed to a life of horrific slavery, torture, and death. But we were all so very wrong. The poverty, the hunger, the illness…he fixed it all. Every single problem that we had, from violence amongst the people to the high levels of corruption present inside the government. We... | 2021-03-11T09:53:35 | 2021-03-11T08:33:48 | 2,132 | 101 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | “Heaven seems awfully dark,” I remarked as I moved through what appeared a twilight fog. The world around me was vague and indistinct, whenever I thought I was gaining sight of something that could be a landmark it would fade away into the gloom.
I’m not sure how long I walked in that gloom, there was nothing to refe... | I wasn't expecting to go to hell. I lived a good life as a good christian. I took care of my family, I was active in church and I devote money to the poor. I was a rich inventor when I was alive, but the lord decided to take me in the year 1811 after a battle with the flu.
I met the devil and he said one word to me. ... | 2016-12-19T16:59:11 | 2016-12-19T14:59:39 | 88 | 13 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Humans, no one really got humans. Always sticking to themselves, bizarre peaks and valleys in their technology, almost no one in their species older than 150, despite them having immortality technology for at least 300 years and a disturbingly adamant insistence on near total pacifism. They saw nothing wrong with stick... | “Have you ever seen a planet die, senator?”
The aged human is hunched over a podium, his eyes narrowed and knuckles white against its ornate frame.
“I have,” he says, shifting his weight back, “and I believe it was the right thing to do. That is what you invite if you truly wish to go to war with us. If this is the ... | 2018-12-15T00:58:53 | 2018-12-14T23:02:53 | 184 | 121 |
[WP] You are the latest victim of a God who is known for handing out superpowers. Unfortunately this God has a twisted sense of humour and only gives out superpowers that are useless to the person receiving them. You are determined to make the God regret giving you powers. | The cathedral walls of pure white clouds continued to swirl in the ethereal golden light of the Great Bestower's temple as you awaited your "power". You had heard this story enough times on the news. You'd be going about your daily life and then boom, flash of light, angels singing and soon enough you opened your eyes ... | (On mobile, sorry for the formatting)
There used to be a rumor of a terrible god who gave out powers to those who sought it out. Only the chosen were given gifts but were sworn to secrecy on where the specific shrine lay hidden. I managed to get the location after endless hours of research and chasing down ambigu... | 2022-09-04T02:12:24 | 2022-09-04T00:29:18 | 1,446 | 53 |
[WP] Humanity finally meets an alien species. However, it takes us both a while to realize that they were just as excited to meet us as we were to meet them. We also realize, at the same time, that they were just as nervous about their homeworld embarrassing them, since they're as 'united' as we are | The room was similar to what you’d see on a popular cop show: metal table, grey bare walls, security camera up in a corner with an attentive blinking LED. At least her chair was padded and the cup of tap water wholesome enough. Naturally though, none of that did anything for anxiety. Would the UN Embassy come? Did anyo... | We've just been standing around staring at each other for the past hour. It doesn't look like 'it' wants to hurt me, what is it anyway? It's a weird blobby creature with no arms, but it can change its form to hold onto objects. It's quivering, at first I thought it was scared of me but now it seems more like a happy do... | 2022-01-18T15:28:38 | 2022-01-18T14:34:23 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You are acing every class at the International Espionage Academy except one: Post Kill Puns. | "Cyrus, good to see you lad, come in," the balding Professor said looking up from the stack of papers on his desk. Cyrus walked into the ancient office. He smelled the strong odor of cologne as he sat down across the desk from his Professor. He examined the solid oak desk that was littered in old documents and dust. it... | I had always considered myself a gentleman. Treating women with respect came naturally to me, because of my upbringing. My mother had throughout my childhood stressed the importance of being kind towards others. My father had been killed by a mugger years before my birth. This meant that my mother was extremely protect... | 2016-02-21T11:17:59 | 2016-02-21T07:47:27 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You have made a heist group. The brains: Jimmy, 5th grade, who has a 7th grade reading level. The brawn: Henry, who can do an entire 2 pullups in gym. The hacker: Mike, who knows how to cheat infinite cookies in Cookie Clicker. The guy on the inside: Cam, who claims his dad owns Microsoft. | Cam pretended to crack his back as he turned in his chair to peer out of the large windows at the rear of the class. Across the morning assembly blacktop, on the other side of the window for the wood-shop room, Jimmy held a green piece of construction paper against the glass.
Spinning back in his chair, Cam leaned for... | It was a day like any other, the swings creaked loudly, the leaves rustled in the warm August air and at the edge of the playground stood Mrs. Feather, a wrinkly woman with a stare that would melt the ice-cream from a kids cone a mile away.
In the wooden fort on the other side of the playground my friends and I stood ... | 2019-10-18T14:07:36 | 2019-10-18T12:01:15 | 82 | 20 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | "Do you remember that old meme, Janice?" Anthony Miller, the ship's chief engineer, grinned as I concluded his annual crew interview, one of the more important duties of the HSR Officer, mainly to prevent confusion on my part, when Capt. Ste'Rces had questions.
"Which one?" I replied, tapping *Save* on my notes for hi... | Just another day in the life of Sagearca. Part of the crew on a courier ship that’s normally chartered to transport hoverdrives from the factory planet of Yelta to the assembly planet Kor Jadom. She’s the only human on board with all the other crew being zorlon, but they’re perfectly fine to live with.
After being ru... | 2020-07-05T16:13:02 | 2020-07-05T14:33:08 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] You have the ability to see the lifespan of everybody in color. Green is a long life, orange is about 50 years, and red is under an hour. You're in class, your teacher walks in late, everybody suddenly has a red glow.
Teacher has an orange glow... | **Took some liberties with the prompt**
 
No one ever believed me, they just thought I was strange, and seemed to avoid me. I think I was about three when my parents realized something was wrong.
"What color is the Apple, Jackie?"
"Red," I smiled, proud of myself for making mommy smile.
"Jack," my dad s... | Math tests pretty much suck. Especially with substitutes.
I sighed and plopped myself into my desk. Seriously. Who gives math tests on Mondays?
My best friend arrived just before the bell and took her place behind me. "Hey, Jason," she said. "We all green?"
Hannah was the only one who knew about my...talent. I can s... | 2015-02-19T18:33:02 | 2015-02-19T17:51:21 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | Draxnor chewed on his upper lip. The Chosen One was mere meters away, her feet dangling off the pier as she stared into the sunset. She appeared to be whistling a quiet tune, and none of her dreaded entourage was anywhere to be seen.
There was still time for him to turn back. He just had to turn around, slip back int... | “Your numbers are not very impressive, Lysander. The Board believes you have reached a plateau and that is time to freshen things up.” I shared the Boards’ feedback with my boss while steel kept clashing with steel.
“How dare you criticize my work, Sylvanus?! I took you in when no one would face you, I molded you to ... | 2019-09-26T08:28:22 | 2019-09-26T07:44:38 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | Finally, break time!
I set my timer, got my food out of the fridge, and headed to the break room. I put my pizza in the microwave and through the door came Shirley, the new hire at the lab. I was her assigned "training buddy". She was like me in a way at that age. Young, a bright future. Working at this lab because i... | "Look, look, you dont even have to show up, not really. All I need from you is an agreement that you will abide by the international treaties and will confirm your reserve status so that I can show the numbers, the data to show that there is enough now to lessen the pressure. I was able to bring in only 72 this year wn... | 2022-07-31T22:29:34 | 2022-07-31T21:44:51 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | Anders felt a sickening lurch deep in his stomach as he watched his guild's oldest, most powerful magic sword being presented to a fifteen year old boy. The glittering blue blade nearly scratched the ground when the boy held it at his side, and to Anders' eyes, his hands seemed to barely wrap around the hilt. Though th... | “Behold! As foretold I have conquered!” The Hero bellowed out as he threw down the Sorcerer’s gnarled staff and ruby necklace.
Around the camp everything stopped. The Wizard’s pipe fell and tipped onto his book and nearby the Ranger chuckled.
“Well, that certainly isn’t what I was expecting”
The Wizard stuttered “My... | 2021-08-20T11:17:14 | 2021-08-20T10:19:37 | 423 | 74 |
[WP] You wield a sword that gets sharper the greater the knowledge you tell it. A common known fact dulls the sword while knowledge only a few know sharpens it. | "In secrets lie my power" -Inscription on the Asyre blade
The ancient sword had been passed down for so many generations that all mention of it's origin and history had long since been lost. Father to son, mother to daughter, it was beautifully made, decorated with precious metals, and perfectly balanced. Such a bea... | The icy wind bites at my lips. My throat is on fire. I panic as I face down The Ice Queen. My blade. I feel it limply in my hands, barely clinging to the skin on my fingers. I think back to what my father said, "Knowledge is power with this blade, ma' boy. Give it a quiz and there ain't nothing it won't cut.". I always... | 2021-12-01T08:24:00 | 2021-12-01T06:54:51 | 77 | 42 |
[WP] In a post-apocalyptic era, books of the old world are the most valuable and sought after treasures. Your grandfather, who just passed, left you a map that supposedly leads to the legendary "Library of Congress". | Our ancestors had jokingly said "You can't believe everything you read on the internet." This has become more true than ever over the past decade. Apparently it started with meddling in elections, spreading news of fake events. Then it was rallying third world countries to overthrow their governments and causing allian... | I had searched for five hundred sun-ups, and now stood in the overgrown foyer of the legendary ‘Congriss’.
A mighty oak door stood in front of me. With my lever bar I wrenched it open, and gasped.
Hundreds of old people lined the room, creaking with age, all mumbling about how Jerusalem should totally be the capita... | 2017-12-20T07:08:54 | 2017-12-20T04:40:51 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The miles between them had come and gone, leaving scars and wounds and memories and laughs. The horizon that day was clear, and the world fell into green and yellow, and far away were the mountains, and everything was cloaked in a dream. They had come far. The first peaks of Lankar shimmered in an ephemeral haze.
"W... | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | 2017-09-15T07:40:12 | 2017-09-15T06:04:09 | 322 | 193 |
[WP] An intelligent horse wanted to be a knight so badly that he strapped an empty armour on his back, and used ventriloquism and jousting to get through tough situations. Now he's being asked by the king to save the princess from a dragon. | "And now, for the final round between Sir Merquat and Sir Redmayne!"
At the sound of the sonorous voice calling his name, Redmayne cantered out of his stall. He kept his pace steady, not wanting to jostle the suit of armor on his back too much. It kept threatening to slide down the left side, even after he'd instructe... | Big Brown bit back his nerves as he stood in front of the King.
"And finally, Sir Brown, you will be handsomely rewarded for your valor in the face of the seemingly insurmountable, though certainly not insurmountable for your esteemed self, dangers of facing Vile the Dread."
Big Brown wished the courtier would shut u... | 2017-09-08T01:43:42 | 2017-09-08T00:08:50 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | It was getting so close, and my friends were smiling and giggling like idiots. I couldn’t make fun, though, I was just as euphoric about our stupid idea. The luck was out of this world, as well! Kinzie was next in line after me, and when she heard us talking about me taking a bite of the table instead of the food, I’ve... | My heart pounded relentlessly as I took the angsty act of rebellion and chomped down on the polished oak surface.
At first, nothing happened. The eyes of onlookers glazed over in mild disappointment.
And then, my abdomen began to extend, stretching disproportionately to my flailing limbs.
An ominous CRACK resound... | 2020-03-19T10:39:19 | 2020-03-19T10:30:18 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] New technology allows the courts to extract memories from suspects to prove their guilt or innocence, although the suspect permanently loses the memory that was extracted. This results in a nearly flawless conviction rate, but no one in jail can remember what they're in for. | "*What are ya in for?*"
It had become something of a joke in the Mabel Basset women's prison. A sort of slang way for saying "what's up?" or "how's it hangin'?"
The answer, of course, was that nobody knew. Nobody could remember.
That was a different sort of joke. You could lock people up, throw 'em in a cage and cal... | "What do you mean, talk about it?" I scoffed. "You know damn well I don't remember."
"Obviously, dumbass. I was talking about what you do remember. Tell me what you know."
"Well..." I started. "I remember the smell of freshly cut grass, and the way this one tree looked as if it was trying grab my arm as it mangled i... | 2017-09-06T12:26:55 | 2017-09-06T11:13:46 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "We... don't actually know what you did."
The burly red demon looked at a few papers. He squinted through his round glasses for a minute before sliding them off and slipping them into the chest pocket of his tight white collared t-shirt.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'? You just said I have to spend 186,292 years ... | The being loomed other me. It's foul breath still lingered in the air from it's spoken judgment on me. Just a second ago I had been suffocated by the heat, now my body ran cold. I could feel the icy sweat trickling down my lower back.
"Wait. What? Let me get this straight. That asshole get 145 years for cheating on hi... | 2018-09-26T07:49:48 | 2018-09-26T07:45:11 | 2,794 | 18 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people summon an animal that perfectly fits their personality to be their Guardian Spirit.
The animal would probably not be of the user's choice.
Just putting that out there. | Sebastian Barkwith awoke early on the morning of his eighteenth birthday. Anticipation of what lay ahead of him today meant that he had hardly slept at all. He was already out of bed and dressed in his Sunday Best when Mary, the maid, knocked softly on the door and came in, her lop-eared rabbit hopping contentedly at h... | "Happy Birthday, Adam!" Adam's parents cheered loudly in his ear, laying out a large white ice cream cake before him.
Adam suppressed a smile and aimlessly stared at the balloons drifting against the ceiling. He glanced down at the cake, which spelled out the words **Congratulations!!** in big red gooey letters, surr... | 2014-06-26T03:05:10 | 2014-06-26T01:48:49 | 170 | 23 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Uyreah swung the hoe one last time, burying it with a satisfying thud deep in the dirt and letting it stand there. He wiped sweat from his brow, cursing again the rarity and costliness of proper mechanised tools in this world. He stretched his back, grimaced at the toll his age was taking on him, and turned for the oth... | "You wish really really hard and then you push the button."
"Really really hard? What does the wishing do?"
"Frustrates the hell out of the new recruits when they realize that the incredibly genuine way we insist that they wish as hard as they can is just a ploy to make them look silly to amuse the rest of the crew."... | 2017-03-31T00:43:51 | 2017-03-30T23:13:22 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] You wake up trapped inside of your favorite MMORPG with millions of other players. Everyone starts out by testing their battle skills and combat abilities, except for you. You take a more "Economical" approach by purchasing land from NPC's and establishing new commerce and trade routes. | "Where is Agrabah! Get your ass out here, now!"
I folded my papers, swung my legs off the desk, and sauntered out from the backroom. There were four of them this time, and by the looks of it, all Level 60. The one who had shouted for me was likely the Warrior, adorned in the complete pearlescent set armor obtainable o... | Gold. Gold makes the world go 'round. The other PC's didn't even think of it. Hell, I wouldn't have thought of it if it weren't for my damn stomach. I had been hungry right before "The Merge" and I spent my first minute in this fantastical world going to try the grub. I never realized just how much gold us PC's throw a... | 2017-08-29T22:43:40 | 2017-08-29T21:23:55 | 375 | 34 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Thank you for your patience. The global communications outage has been resolved.
****BREAKING NEWS****
A live speech regarding the recent outage delivered from The Google University Seattle Campus
(Formerly the University of Washington) Quantum Computer Science Department will begin in 2m33s.
<... | Complete isolation? The only life in the universe? At this point that would be a blessing.
Yesterday we got a signal from a star system about 250 light years away. We have been testing the signal over and over again, making sure everything is correct. The data adds up, but the message doesn't.
It basically told human... | 2016-03-27T11:40:01 | 2016-03-27T08:00:33 | 79 | 52 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | I awoke to the quorking of ravens. The fact that I knew that sound meant ravens, or even what quorking was, surprised me, but didn't concern me. Nor did the fact I couldn't quite remember where I was or what I had been doing. That too, should've concerned me but, pleasantly, didn't. It felt like I was waking from a... | "-well, he did *stab* someone with it, you know," said a voice from the back of the hall. "I'm unsure if anything could be more indicative than being used to kill, wouldn't you say?"
I found myself before a one-eyed man, kneeling on both knees below him, head bowed, without the slightest recollection of how I got the... | 2018-03-26T12:45:14 | 2018-03-26T11:33:23 | 8,924 | 35 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | *The Therapist*
"Shit." I looked around, realizing I had just been summoned, again. How many times was this going to happen? Here I was, just enjoying my day, about to have sex with my girlfriend and this happens. Why can't I just stay on Earth? They always ask me to do stupid things I can't do anyway.
"Can you force... | I hate this job.
Two thankless years pandering to the whims of a boss who still can't remember my name and calls me Jimmy. My name is Jonathan. It's Jonathan!
But I'm spineless. I can't face up to his authoritative and domineering personality and honestly, he plain scares the shit out of me.
I'm so done with this... | 2017-05-12T12:28:14 | 2017-05-12T11:17:02 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | “I’ll have a double cheeseburger deluxe,” I say looking up at the glowing menu, “with fries and regular spri--” I stop as I see the cashier with mouth agape and brows furrowed.
“What the f” she mouths, cutting off the last syllable as she hisses the f. Her confusion turned to an irritated stare obviously annoyed.
I ... | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 2018-06-24T21:35:31 | 80 | 18 |
[WP] Due to a minor typo, the city starts building homeless smelters. | Every day at 5, Bob sits on the steps outside my building and waits for me to get off work. No matter the weather, he's always there, with an orange or a banana to share with me. He's like a dog; he'll probably continue to come long after I'm fired, setting up camp in the adjoining alley when I fail to show. It's not l... | I picked up a newspaper from the pavement, and my eyes caught the headline. Horrified, I went on to read the piece.
>THE END OF THE HOMELESSNESS DISEASE
Our Supremem Leader Jim has ordered that homelessness be excised. Homelessness is a disease, He said, in a televised interview, that was watched by everyone. Our S... | 2016-10-19T23:54:21 | 2016-10-19T23:45:08 | 935 | 13 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Then," Ali said patiently, "Can I know what isn't?"
The genie looked over his tiny reading glasses, and Ali could swear it was intended to be condescending. "Oh, who am I to tell you what to do, Master?"
Ali's eye twitched. Smile wavered.
"What do I call you?" he said, "Mr. Genie? Doraemon?"
"You can call me anyth... | Human Errors in Question [Poem]
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*said the genie but I replied*
But what about the book and the rules?
What about freeing you?
If there are so many rules. What’s the point of being a genie? In the first place and why would any of it matter? Who even made the rules in the first place, you or some other ... | 2022-01-04T02:54:27 | 2022-01-03T23:28:03 | 96 | 13 |
[WP] The whole town knows about it. The black shadow on the baby monitor. Sudden changed diapers or meals ready for kids when they get home. Cleaned rooms and drawn baths. It is known as The Babysitter. It will never harm a child, but heaven help those who don't pay for its services. | Rule number 1: Always thank the babysitter.
It was a simple rule to remember in our small town. When you left your house for work, if you were the last adult out the door and had children in the home, Always thank the babysitter. The babysitter just appreciated gratitude. It was said that if you didn't they wouldn't r... | You watch as the shadow goes about your house while you are at work. You know what is said about it. It won’t hurt a child but must be paid for its service. You decide not to.
&#x200B;
Several weeks go by and nothing bad happens. You think you got away with it.
&#x200B;
The day is like any other: cloudles... | 2020-04-14T17:26:13 | 2020-04-14T14:35:26 | 1,688 | 177 |
[WP] Suddenly it's found out that reincarnation is real and that after we die, we'll be reborn either as a "higher" or "lower" being based on our life. The twist is, "human" is at the very bottom and we can't even really comprehend the higher forms. | Sentience; an odd word to start off a sentence.
Sentient and divine, exquisite. Every word that defines the impossible, the perfect, the heavens. O, my! There is no word in any language that accurately grasps the sensation, both gay and insensate. The feeling of nothing and everything at once.
*Enlightenment*... |
You were trapped, my child
Lost, and ever so cold
You clung to your masks, you set yourself tasks
To whittle down Time until you grew old
And here you stand at Pearly gate
And now I offer a choice of fate:
You can step through, into the blinding light of tomorrow
Or you can hang back, just in case she ... | 2016-02-01T10:29:55 | 2016-02-01T07:03:48 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people summon an animal that perfectly fits their personality to be their Guardian Spirit.
The animal would probably not be of the user's choice.
Just putting that out there. | Sebastian Barkwith awoke early on the morning of his eighteenth birthday. Anticipation of what lay ahead of him today meant that he had hardly slept at all. He was already out of bed and dressed in his Sunday Best when Mary, the maid, knocked softly on the door and came in, her lop-eared rabbit hopping contentedly at h... | *ritual soon omg cant w8 u onli summon once so #yolo #yoso #spirittime*
*@kaseters omg excitd wat do u tink ure gettg*
*@cutecheekbuttswag i dunno prob sth kool lyk a jaguar for mi inner beeyatch lol or sth random lyk a penguin or eggsotic lyk a peacock*
*@kaseters wat if it's #uknowat*
*@cutecheekbuttswag ill kill... | 2014-06-26T03:05:10 | 2014-06-26T02:25:59 | 170 | 45 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | My phone rang.
"Thank you for calling support, this is Rick, how can I assist you today?
>It's not working. Ever since Necrosoft decided that Revival7 should be phased out and forced us on to Revival10 this damned thing's been out of wack!
"Uh.. Alright, sir. Well - What's the actual problem? What is it that you'... | "Hey nerd", James shouted in my telecom.
"What is it", I reply, already annoyed. James was always cocky, barely able to reanimate five soldiers of the Tahaka dynasty, yet acted like he could summon demons from the ninth circle.
"My reanimator isn't working again, get your ass here and fix it.", he said, annoyed. He was... | 2018-04-28T02:42:46 | 2018-04-28T02:15:43 | 71 | 16 |
[WP] On one rainy day, you decide to chill and listen to some music. You put on Don't Fear the Reaper, but then you hear an ambulance driving past your house. You put on Mr. Blue Sky, and the nonstop rain ends abruptly. You realize you have a superpower: You can control the world with music. | Xavier could control the world with music. He knew this as a fact.
The day he’d met Angela he’d been listening to Lou Reed’s *Perfect Day*. The cassette had been on repeat in his Ford Torino as he’d driven the I-85 through South Carolina. He’d heard it on the radio the previous day, then listened out for it to be play... | It had always been her belief that music made the world come alive. She typically felt numb and invisible, but when it came to music, she could melt into the waves and blend into the universe. She felt one, she felt whole, when she could lose herself in a song.
At first, the realization that she could affect the world... | 2022-03-01T04:54:34 | 2022-03-01T04:44:10 | 678 | 94 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | "Second Hell is coming along nicely, by the way, the new pandemic was a nice touch. What are you planning for them next? Gonna go old school, give em' a good ol' fashioned flood?"
The Archangel was only teasing of course. Sort of. He busied himself with lunch, laying four pieces of bread out on the counter. Behind him... | What is it that's making me like this? I want to end the world, end their struggles, but I can't, it makes me feel like I'm not God anymore.
Is it their prayers for hope and justice? No, it's not that easy.
Is it the kindness of the people? No, evil will always be there.
Is it their extraordinary achievement in hist... | 2020-03-20T07:05:37 | 2020-03-20T07:05:07 | 80 | 15 |
[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. | Late to the party, but whatever. It's long, so beware.
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This was supposed to be easy. These kl'its, these *aliens*, these weak primitives with their scarcely interplanetary technology, ... | The bridge was abuzz with activity. Communications officers seemed especially busy as transmissions from the small blue green planet came through.
Lord General Dressex sat on his seat in the middle of it, already tasting his victory. It would be glorious. He got to take over a resource rich planet and tell his supe... | 2019-02-26T14:42:56 | 2019-02-26T13:58:07 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You build a robot to do your every day tasks for you so you don't have to work anymore. One day, you come home to find that your robot has built another robot to do its tasks for it. | “Let me through! Now!”
“I’m sorry,” said X72, “that would not be efficient.”
Sara Kellman weighed her options. Brute force was at the top of her list, and it was certainly tempting to try and barrel her way past X72. But it had more than tripled in size since she left that morning, evidently having gained the ability... | Through avoiding having to wash my underwear, I stumbled across a new fundamental Law of the universe. Simply stated, any robot created to do work that its creator clearly doesn't want to do will inherit its creator's propensity for shirking responsibilities. I call it the Laziness principle, or LP for short.
Thanks ... | 2017-11-20T09:58:25 | 2017-11-20T08:24:53 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] A suicide bomber and their victims find themselves in a waiting room, awaiting processing into the afterlife. | They were all just there standing there staring at me: all three of them. I’m certain I did the right thing. In the name of the Lord, I had served his will.
My first day at training was a great one. Everyone was so cheerful and ready to serve Allah and destroy western tyranny. That was only a month ago... and now I w... | They looked at me, their face wrought with confusion as they realised who I was, who everyone else in this same room had been just moments ago. Their eyes then wandered from my face to that of everyone else in this room. It appeared that they did not expect this particular situation to arise when their mission succeede... | 2015-05-29T11:45:54 | 2015-05-29T07:40:57 | 52 | 17 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | Pool party. I'm an idiot, right? For someone like me, wouldn't a big body of water by the prime place to avoid?
Most of the time, my brain's thinking clearly, and I would have declined the invitation. Hell, I've gotten really good at thinking about all the twists and turns of any sort of social interaction - will t... | Looking at her bare wrist, Moon sighed. Nothing but slightly tanned skin and an intricate web of faint, pale blue-violet veins lurking below the surface. In her other hand lay a Sharpie, and in front of her rested a small sketchbook, in which a small design was drawn. Organic, flowing...and fake.
Sharpie was a pathet... | 2017-08-06T17:01:38 | 2017-08-06T15:44:31 | 594 | 111 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. |
I could hear laughter, and the roaring engine of a car racing away. It's simple physics, and I know that isn't the sort of thing you would expect me to know about, let alone talk about, but outside of Halloween I find myself with a large amount of free time. I read, mostly. Sometimes I watch TV, but anymore it's jus... | I pulled to a stop at the red sign, keeping my eyes on the rear-view mirror. This bitch was supernaturally fast. I had left her in my dust and here she was already rounding the curve, her eyes burning with anger.
"COWARD!" she shrieked, and I laughed, but nervously - like laughing past a graveyard.
I tossed a quick g... | 2018-10-01T14:28:25 | 2018-10-01T11:05:06 | 179 | 125 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... |
Clickclickclickclickclick
They’ve been laughing at me since day one.
“Boiling water? That’s your superpower?” The laughter could be heard down the hall I’m sure. “I know we advertised a position to help learn your protentional, but this is just hilarious. You’ll be perfect for making the tea!”
Clickclickclickcli... |
“Hey Bill, what are you doing?” The bubbly intern bounced into the room and peeked over his shoulder. Without thinking he shifted his attention from the pot of water to her. They both made a mistake that day.
She fell quickly. Her skin bubbled and she silently writhed on the floor. He sighed exasperatedly and ran hi... | 2019-07-30T17:41:52 | 2019-07-30T15:43:49 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Humans have the reputation of being both an extremely dangerous species and social creatures that are easy to bond with, making them great crew members for voyagers. You and your shipmates are worried about your newly recruited human because you don't know what an introvert is.
Inspired by various "Humans are spa... | It was staring at the hologram again.
Tyrat had hired a good dozen or so humans to serve on his ship over the years and their questions before signing on were always different but alluded to the same motivation. Where are you going? What are you looking for? What are we going to see? What am I going to get to fight? A... | "Oi Jim you gonna eat with us tonight? I heard there's a cute humie female that joined the crew." Kraxis knew the answer before he even asked the question.
Jim was odd. Good. But also odd. Atleast for a human at any rate. Sure in a fight he had their usual battle prowess and he could fix just about anything on the sh... | 2019-11-17T08:16:36 | 2019-11-17T08:02:42 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | The Golden Gorilla ground to a halt, his mind a fuzzy mass of rage, the remnants of half a city block clinging to his golden fur. There was something in the way, a shape. A little, living, human shape.
“If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think ... | Alaira was silent for a moment, and a slight frown spread across her face. Zeaal silently celebrated and smirked at the young girl. Alaira hated that smug look.
"Things are a bit more complicated than that." Alaira started, kneeling down to look the child in the eyes. "You're right, there will be some damage done and... | 2021-04-18T06:48:18 | 2021-04-18T06:34:53 | 824 | 82 |
[WP] the grim reaper appears in your bedroom. You look at him, and notice a version of yourself standing next to him. The grim reaper tells the other you "if you don't change your ways, this is how you end up." The other you is mortified and vows to change his ways, and they vanish. | When it happened the first time, I thought it was a dream.
*"If you don't change your ways, this is how you end up."* The black-hooded figure with the skeletal face told the younger version of me, before vanishing into thin air.
I picked my head off the pillow, stared at them and dozed-off, dismissing it as a weird d... | Immediately I sat up off my bed. “Hold up, what the FUCK”. Furious, I walk down the hall towards my garage, cell phone in hand. I rummaged around a bit, before finding the incredibly dusty and thick book containing the yellow pages.
Thumbing around the book for a few moments, I find and call a number. After a couple o... | 2018-12-30T13:02:35 | 2018-12-30T12:51:54 | 144 | 63 |
[WP] Murder is rare; killing someone means their remaining years are 'subtracted' from yours. Likewise, saving a life (or lives) adds time to your own. Nobody knows why. Centuries ago you killed a young man by accident (usually resulting in instant death). You haven't aged since. | over three hundred years its been since i'd stopped aging. I'd had to leave everything behind my parent's, who were surely long dead by now, my children, my friend's, my fiance and of course, her little secret. She had been cheating on me.
When i found them together i flew into a rage. Normally i was very calm but su... | You recall how after a few decades people started noticing and your life began to fall apart. You were a marvel at first, then a freak and eventually people started getting scared of you. Wild rumours about your body parts being magic burst from seemingly nowhere and it didn't take long before even your closest friends... | 2020-11-02T01:14:57 | 2020-11-02T01:02:31 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] You are going on a quest to avenge the death of your brother. Each village elder gives a gift. The Dwarf an axe, the elf a bow & the Necromancer your brother.
* Your village is very multicultural. | "Oi, Dremar, can you help me hoist the tent?"
The dark eyed man glanced over at me as I hold up two poles. Grath, our dwarven companion, was little help. Lestar, the elf, was trying his best but we just need extra hands.
"Mmm, go help them, if you will," Dremar said. He waved a long fingered hand and his shambling se... | Necromancer: what?
The rest of the village stare at him with his arms still help up in the air from having summoned your brother back into his corpse.
Necromancer: What are you staring at??
He looked genuinely annoyed. He looks at the now living corpse of your murdered kin who himself looks qt the sorcerer, agape.... | 2020-08-19T12:05:42 | 2020-08-19T09:50:04 | 138 | 18 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | I stared down at the men levelling their blades at me. I spied several of the palace guard amidst the swelling ranks in my throne room. I turned to my head guard for assistance and was met his sword leveled at me.
"Really Hector? A coup? How bold." I smiled blithely down the blade before turning back to the crowd. "An... | From my granite balcony I surveyed the depths of my domain. The sky was a bloody orange, flecked with clouds and the rising smoke of burning buildings. People, the size of ants, were torching statues and government buildings, the legacy of my rule. I turned around.
‘Why did you have to do all of this?’, the Hero said... | 2017-06-12T11:17:27 | 2017-06-12T01:33:38 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] The Distillery is a front for a guild of expert assassins, each codenamed after alcohol. Each member is skilled in a number of things, but when an important job really needs doing and nothing less than perfection is to be expected, a letter is always received with two words: "Send Whiskey." | The funny part was that she wasn't even old enough to drink.
I don't remember who had given her the name Whiskey. The little girl who showed up on our doorstep almost a decade ago, battered and bruised. She barely knew how to talk back then, even though she was already ten years old. We never did figure out what piec... | # Portrait Of A World On the Edge
It’s 2:13 PM and the letter reads *"Send whiskey*." It’s signed in cursive crayon, and a smiley face with tired eyes that stares sadly up at me from the cafe table. My regulars are an eccentric bunch.
*Send whiskey.*
The words are code, obviously. These days if you want something no... | 2022-06-14T22:57:48 | 2022-06-14T21:16:38 | 278 | 34 |
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