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[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | The problem with being a supervillain with a known face is that doing anything, anything at all tends to draw the attention of superjerks in tights. But if you aren’t, like, one of the big names? Then there’s a solution!
Leave the city. Hell, you know what? Leave that entire region. So I did! Goodbye LA, hello New Yor... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T09:18:13 | 1,144 | 12 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | This is it! The Plan Bs to end all Plan Bs! This was absolutely fool-proof! I've tried concocting love potions; I've tried psychology tricks; I've tried going on blind dates with horrible people, even more horrible than I am; but all of those attempts were trashed! The common denominator? That little cocky brat coming ... | I used to be a super villain, but facing off against hero’s wasn’t something indirectly did. With my power I did best with quiet operations. I can manipulate my own body. I usually use this for changing my appearance, but I can manipulate my muscles for combat. However, recently I haven’t been doing that as much. Recen... | 2019-02-23T07:17:19 | 2019-02-23T07:15:35 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] A grim discovery is made on humanity's first interstellar mission. Evidence shows that every other space fairing civilization purposely destroyed itself with no telling as to why. | As humanity spread out into the stars we found nothing but endless tomb world's. Some torn by war but most just... dead. The ancient bones of their inhabitants gathered in small groups.
For millennia humanity struggled with the mystery as our reach and understanding of the cosmos grew.
We finally found the answer ... | There was nothing but the whoosh of the spacecraft onto the blue, dusty ground.
A barren, empty Trifen was the only thing Kit could see.
As dust swirled in the thin air with each step his spacesuit took, Kit's gut told him to enter a cave tucked away in a mountain.
*It's always been like this,* he thought, sitting d... | 2019-06-11T23:28:26 | 2019-06-11T22:09:12 | 74 | 15 |
[WP] The world's greatest detective doesn't fear the world's greatest criminal mastermind, they fear the stupidest, because they can never predict what the idiot will do next. | "Stupidity drives unpredictability," Detective Daniels said as he surveyed the crime scene. His drawl twanged more Southern than a banjo, his eyes more keen than a bloodhound's snout. "And unpredictability is no more than justice's demise."
The officer standing nearby shifted uncomfortably. Not just from the detective... | The world's greatest detective stood deathly still. His arms were crossed, his eyes were closed, his mind rapidly processing what had happened at the crime scene before him.
For the first time in his career, Chernock Bones found himself utterly and hopelessly stumped. He did not smirk in well-earned smugness after vic... | 2020-07-13T09:57:31 | 2020-07-13T09:34:53 | 861 | 199 |
[WP] If you say Bloody Mary 3 times in front of a mirror, she'll come for you. Of course, there's lots of superstitious teens and only one ghost, so it's a bit of a queue. But, years after that long forgotten sleepover, Bloody Mary has finally worked her way down the list to you. | "I called you years ago. It was a joke then, but now I'm glad you've come."
She stared, unblinking, unmoving, blood dripping off her body, pooling on the floor.
"I want it to end. I've seen too much, and it's all I can do to keep it from consuming me."
Bodies of friends, of enemies, shattered before me. I did... | Two bloodied hands crept through the mirror, each chipped nail digging into the wooden frame, pulling her through. Her scarred body was coated in dried blood, a simple flowing white dress hanging from her as she stood before her victim. Charlie had been thirteen when he made the foolish mistake of calling her to this r... | 2020-12-20T20:44:58 | 2020-12-20T19:52:45 | 453 | 166 |
[WP] When the aliens conquered Earth, they exterminated the populace but left you alive for some reason. You’ve spent years in captivity, wondering why they’ve chosen to keep you alive. One day, you are approached by the high commander and the answer is revealed. | *They gathered around my glass cage with their holographic notebooks. My living room is furnished from Rooms-to-go in shades of beige. Someone selected an equally neutral wardrobe for me from the Gap. I've been in here exactly 8 years, 9 months, and 2 days according to the calendars they keep supplying me with photos ... | *Their footsteps were quiet.*
*As quiet as the rain that fell from the sky, acid burning through skin, the taste of flesh on tongue, the rise of ash dusted on still corpses. As quiet as their smiles, amused with the promise of threat, stained red from the blood of their enemies. From the blood of us.*
*There was noth... | 2021-01-10T09:18:10 | 2021-01-10T09:14:50 | 147 | 29 |
[WP] “You have a powerful witch at your command, a witch that caused the rise and fall of empires, and your first request is.....a cuddle?” | "You looked like you need one," I say.
Iolanthe's frown is plastered onto her face. It doesn't matter how many kingdoms she conquers or how much power she gains, I've never heard of her celebrating or being happy.
"Are you playing with me, now that you have my familiar in your grasp?"
"For the hundredth time," I rep... | The general stood looking down on the chaos below. A common tale, a village swallowed up by the ravages of war, food, and lives snatched away. The general’s soldiers mercilessly trampled the villagers’ location.
Unable to resist, their miserable lives were reaped, shrieks and screams rising into the night only to be e... | 2021-02-28T10:56:36 | 2021-02-28T09:47:26 | 117 | 24 |
[WP] Angels are thought to be beautiful, while demons are thought to be vile and disgusting. However the truth is Angels are extremely scary, while demons are beautiful and elegant creatures. | "But why?" asked the soul.
"A long time ago, heaven and hell waged war." said the angel, it's hundred mouths moving in unison, "Heaven won. Why do you think we look this way? We won because we are more terrifying, more deadly, more ruthless than the demons ever will be. Yes, we fight for divine justice, but that doesn... | Yet nay, but no mind could comprehend, nor understand the beauty of thy majesty, and the terrifying beauty of the angelic hosts that surround you. \~ Jerimiah the wanderer
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**"HALT."** the voice, like a thousand lions awakened from slumber. Reverberated around the pristine gates of heaven, at it, the kin... | 2021-04-08T10:26:23 | 2021-04-08T09:57:52 | 75 | 18 |
[WP] You are a scientist, whose research and inventions will help save the world. The only problem is that, on a weekly basis: a group of teenage superheroes break into your laboratory, destory your inventions and research, and then beat you senseless. | If anyone has satisfied the city to retreat, it's me. I started off living in an apartment, then a house in the country, then a bunker in a desert, and now, my search for ever more remote and hostile environments has lead me to an uncharted island volcano in the ass-end of nowhere. There's nowhere else to retreat to. ... | Dear Diary. My name is Juniper Esha Ivy. I was born in 2073. I live in the Atompunk sector. I am a failure.
In boarding school I was so focused on my studies I ruined any chance I had at a companionship, I rented a garage after I graduated hoping to use my Master's Degree in Chemical and Neurological Sciences. I reall... | 2021-04-27T22:23:25 | 2021-04-27T21:37:34 | 134 | 57 |
[WP]"You have my bow," said the Elf. "You have my axe!" said the Dwarf. "You have my Sacha," said the Heavy Weapons Guy. "She weighs 150kg and fires ten thousand rounds per minute." | "That is not a weapon! It's a murdering blight that needs to be ended." The Elf said with disbelief. The Dwarf laughed, "Reminds me of fine Dwarven technology. 'Cept that things only purpose is to kill."
Holding his massive palms forward. He opens one hand. "An Elven bow can hunt..." He opens up the next,"...and a Dwa... | "You have my bow" said the Elf.
"You have my axe!" said the Dwarf.
And before anyone could say anything else, the door opened soundly and someone came in.
"And you guys can have my K9000 FIDO If you want"
Said a voice coming from the side where the door were. The whole gathering turned almost immediately. They ... | 2021-12-17T06:09:52 | 2021-12-17T05:06:37 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | I wake up to the buzzing of my phone. Without opening my eyes, I reach over to silence it. *Just five more minutes*.
As I lay in bed, my mind starts putting together the pieces of last night’s events. I had been polishing an antique vase I had inherited from my great aunt Evelyn when all the air in my living room sudd... | The Genie apologized profusely, ephemeral tears dripping from his eyes. "Master," he blubbered, "I cannot."
I stared at him. "No," I snarled. "You mean to say you *won't*."
Another loud sob. "No! I speak truthfully, Master, I cannot!"
I was puzzled. This was my third wish, of course; the first two having been for my... | 2022-07-11T09:41:02 | 2022-07-11T08:33:12 | 425 | 255 |
[WP] You are frantically driving back to your house. Your wife called you for she delivered, even though it has been just six months. You open the door and find your wife hugging a 1 foot egg. "I will explain everything honey, but could you warm our baby for a while, I am hungry AF." | *Later, when the wife has gotten food from somewhere I do not know and perhaps would rather not know, when the conversation has since begun*
“So, honey, let me get this straight…”
“Yeah?”
“You’re a dragon in human form. You avoided telling me until we full on tied down to make sure I wouldn’t flake out or try to ... | I have seen my fair share of strange things in my life, a concerning number of which involved salsa music for reasons I cannot explain. But nothing quite compared to racing home at breakneck speeds when my wife Jen told me the baby was coming three months early only to see her cradling a goddamn egg. Before I could ask... | 2022-08-22T09:42:59 | 2022-08-22T09:38:00 | 101 | 70 |
[WP] A villain, in his dying breath as he's mortally wounded by the hero, uses the last of his magic in order to resurrect the fallen friends of the hero in his journey to defeat him. It sounds like a counterintuitive idea; Until you realize that some of them died at the hands of their allies. | The battle has come to an end, and the Hero's party has come victorious over the evil Magician, but not without casualties.
'Any last words?' - our Hero asked the Magician
'Yes' - replied the Magician - 'futui tua mater'
As the Magician chanted his spell, one by one, every member of the party who has deceased in bat... | “ you…. You think…. This is the… end for… me”
Malarik , the master of shadows and death, His strained dying breath was getting more shallow
“ they… will bring… me…. Back…. Once they know….. what befell them”
He raised his hand to the sky and a large bolt of black ichor shot out as he fell to the ground dead. He w... | 2022-09-24T15:34:03 | 2022-09-24T15:10:14 | 222 | 23 |
[WP] The princess is different to say the very least. Her face covered in battle scars instead of make up, her hands as hard as stone and her eyes more frightening than a dragon. But you must perform your duty as a knight and guard her even though she may not need your protection. | "You leave your left side open," the princess said as she wiped blood off of her sword.
"Wh... what?" the knight asked, panting for air.
"When you thrust," she explained. "You have good form but you lean on your right foot too much, leave your left side open. If you fought someone with an off-hand dagger or someone m... | Princess Callisto was a very different sort of princess. Ever since she fought off a kidnapping attempt when she was thirteen, Callisto was defined by her ferocity in battle and her tenacity as well as her kind heart. Her many successful battles had made any notion of assigning a knight to protect her foolish at best. ... | 2022-10-03T14:35:13 | 2022-10-03T13:56:17 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] The Queen decides she wants to marry you. The thing is, you have absolutely no idea why she would choose you of all people. | It had been a year since the war with Davarra had ended, it had lasted nearly a hundred years. My father fought and died, just as his father before him, and his father, I joined my lord's warband as it was my duty when I came of age while my brother stayed home to tend to the farm. Unfortunately he died during a raid b... | #Royally Screwed: More Than Chance.
*[Disclaimer: Concepts and Subjects in this story may be triggering to some, as this is partly an experimental piece. Consider this a fair warning]*
***{Part 1 of 2}***
My name is Eram, I am, er *was* a soldier on the frontlines a week n' a half ago. I was grievously wounded, but ... | 2022-12-13T02:37:23 | 2022-12-12T20:28:38 | 64 | 19 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | "Well, shit," I said to myself. "It's really not that hard to kill me."
I had just awoken from the most vivid dream of my life. There could be no question it was real, and so was its warning. God had spoken to me, a thundering voice from a cloud atop a mountain. "I am the Lord your god," he had said, or rather boomed... | The notice I’d waited for my whole life finally arrived, and I felt nothing but excitement.
*Rayne Boyd, you have been selected. Starting at midnight tonight, your only goal will be survival. You’ve waited for this, one of the select few who asked for this, now is your time to prove yourself. If you live, you join ou... | 2015-06-14T17:38:15 | 2015-06-14T16:42:28 | 15 | 10 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | Why? What's wrong with it?
> "Uranus, the perfect honeymoon destination!"
That will propel our newest space colony in the social media on the Internet. It should get us tons of followers on Spacebook and new tourists wanting to spend their wedding vacation here.
We also made sure to mention our favorite moon hot... | Robert peered into the dark abyss. That's one thing he'd forgot about working on a offworld broadcasting station; the view was so vast and empty. Of course, tonight it will be different. The first of the Asmoydian and Veluese dreadnoughts have already jumped into Centauri's orbit, appearing as elongated blue flecks aga... | 2015-06-19T03:51:32 | 2015-06-19T03:26:36 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] Upon ascending to the throne a young prince learns the highest state secret in the kingdom is that the treasury, and the very economy itself, has been managed for hundreds of years by a 4lb dragon too runty and crippled to amass or protect its own fortune.
For the most part dragons are engines of terror and death... | "You what?"
"Money. I want to see where it's made. I want to see how my kingdom controls it."
The King slapped his hands down on the smooth mahogany table.
"Gentlemen, as the ruler of this nation it is only sensible that I take an interest in the economy. Especially one as exceptional as ours."
The King produced... | The morning after the coronation, King Jesper woke up, stretched, and began his morning ablutions. Being King Jesper instead of Prince Jesper was still a strange feeling, one that despite years of grooming for the position was just as shocking as if it had come upon him by accident.
"Your Grace," came a voice, one of... | 2015-06-23T07:06:24 | 2015-06-23T06:12:03 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] You are a dyslexomancer, with the unique class ability 'Mispel magic'.
Decided to make a prompt based on the idea from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3hd45k/you_are_a_dyslexomancer_with_the_unique_class/) in r/dnd (credit to /u/jand2013 and others)
In what sort of adventures does the dyslexoma... | For a moment, it looked like part of the show. The falconer had gingerly removed the hood from the falcon on his arm, which had given him a level glare (the only expression falcons are capable of) and stubbornly ignored his orders to fly. When the falconer tried to shake it free, the bird gave a blood-curdling scream a... | *clang*
Wheezing, Roldrivar of Knol dropped to his knees. The strange undead monstrosity lay twitching in a heap but that was just the last vestiges of negative energy draining from the body. They were safe, for now.
"Vitae! Mortis!! Carreo!!" Rina squeaked as she worked healing spells over Malex. Another magical ba... | 2015-08-18T06:26:23 | 2015-08-18T05:11:39 | 26 | 13 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | "Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2150 time travelers awards!"
The booming voice washed over the crowd that was packed with all of the biggest celebrity, from George Clooney's 5th clone, to the never aging Brad Pitt. It was an event no one would miss. Lights filled the arena as the clapping and cheering had yet to... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T08:49:38 | 596 | 20 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | *This is my first post please give me feedback!*
The loud hiss of compressed air flooded out from the spacecraft as a ramp extended and the metallic doors slid open; two aliens appeared followed by a gasp from the crowd.
It had been two weeks since the space ship was in range of NASA’s detection and the entire... | When people thought of the words *alien invasion*, the first thing that usually pops to minds is overwhelming firepower. Giant, city-sized saucers with nuclear energy beams, giant mechas or tripods waltzing through military installations and destroying everything in globules of plasma, standing triumphant anove the hu... | 2016-02-22T11:32:18 | 2016-02-22T11:29:44 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] "We can accept god becoming man to save man, but not man becoming god to save himself" | In a way, he'd been here forever. Divinity wasn't something that just came along one day, something that you found in the gutter and decided to tack onto your wall. It was complicated.
For starters, you couldn't be anything other than divine when you became divine, which was an issue if you were human to begin with. G... | It'd been a long time since I'd shown my face back in this wretched place- nearly a century, if I recall correctly. Chills surged through my body- I shuddered.
Perhaps it was the everlasting bright, gleaming from the snow on the ground. My eyes stung at the sight of such whiteness- my mind chortled at the thought of e... | 2016-11-24T09:34:29 | 2016-11-24T09:15:19 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are a time-traveling salesman, delivering anything to anyone, anywhere at any time. Literally. And for the right price, of course. | "All of this? That's it?"
"All of it."
"How do you afford to run this place?"
"Well, I just travel back and forth to when money is cheap to get and then on to where it's valuable to spend. Time travel, sir."
"Right. Yeah, I guess that's what I would do. But how can this be the right price?"
The Delivery Man shrugg... | I gazed out my window, and the bleak, void stared back at me. It had been a while since I had made my home here, where time was now non-existent. I called the space I lived "the end of time." It's where the concept of time comes to die.
I lived humbly. It was a simple, one-room shack I had built upon the only fl... | 2016-12-20T08:11:28 | 2016-12-20T07:52:04 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | "I think invading the Hoolian kingdom is a brash and stupid idea." Everyone at the table turned to stare at me as a hush fell over the gathering. The king glared daggers at me. "Also, I need to use the latrines."
"King Jang, the impudence of this man is astounding!" sputtered Earl Bachman angrily. He wagged his sausag... | The chain was chafing again. It wasn't really a big deal, but after four hundred years it was the little things that got you. The best food, staring at the most beautiful women and immortality. It wasn't a bad life, but the chains that attached my neck to that of the most powerful kings that had ever lived was getting ... | 2017-05-13T06:18:45 | 2017-05-13T06:16:05 | 368 | 259 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | PART 1
A click echoed in my mind. A light flashed. A tower of alphabet blocks was laid before me. I was sitting on a shaggy decades-old carpet. I had a small bowl of apple slices next to me. I stared at the two adults before me. "Augh, not this shit again, I thought I fixed this!" I exclaimed in a British accent, much... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T12:15:26 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 275 | 31 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | And so it happens. A flash. A sudden, inexplicable warmth. Darkness. And I awake. I'm five again, in bed in the small apartment owned by my parents. It's 8:13. Father has already left for work at the assembly line, and mother is in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Audible clinks of pans and dishes fill the room, sounds... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T13:14:46 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 189 | 31 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | I had only meant to rest my eyes. I certainly never intended to doze off, not when there was so much work to be done. Because of this, my initial reaction to the hand gently shaking my shoulder was gratitude. It took me a second to realize that I should be afraid or angry instead.
"You live like this?" asked an unknow... | “You live like this?” I heard softly, awakening me from a dream I forgot at the same instant I woke, feeling faintly that the voice was a part of my dream, and not as surprised as I should have been to find out it wasn’t. She was sitting on the end of my bed, below my feet, with her back against the wall. She was dress... | 2017-08-21T18:44:49 | 2017-08-21T11:12:40 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | "Oi, Boss! Boss!"
They'd been in Da Warp for nearly three days when Mekboy Gorrick Walla had sent the shouta to relay some information.
"Boss, Da Engine's fried, boss! We's gotta drop outta Da Warp fer repairz!"
Kaptain Borruck was annoyed. This was the third time this week! He casually took out his flashy pistol (... | Joran saddled the horse and rode out into the forest behind Freegate. The leaves this time of the year flaunted their citrus-colored wardrobe. The autumn air smelled musty of earth and decomposing vegetation.
Soon he noticed movement in one of the bushes, the orange tail of a woodland fox slipped into the undergrowth... | 2017-08-27T08:09:29 | 2017-08-27T07:55:27 | 376 | 130 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | A million a year. It's a pretty sweet deal, to be sure. At the end of each year, your mental state is evaluated and if you are deemed still sane, you are given the opportunity of another year.
I'm approaching the end of my fifth year with all mental faculties still intact, fully willing to take a sixth. I don't need i... | I took this job five years ago not knowing what I would be getting myself into. I had a day of training, which to me seemed like a waste of time, I was told when the phone rang I answered and wrote down everything said during the conversation and do as I'm told. The first month was the most nerve wrecking, I had no ide... | 2017-12-17T00:57:14 | 2017-12-17T00:40:02 | 431 | 49 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism." They get a badge. Then all of their wealth is donated to charity and they have to start over at $0.
(Cross-post from /r/CrazyIdeas) | Steve sighed.
He and Bill had been partners in this ridiculous venture for years now. It had felt so necessary at the start, but the necessary hassle had quickly lost its novelty value.
'Hassle' was an understatement and a half, he thought with a wry grin. Careful reading of the new legislation had highlighted the ob... | I stared at it. Little pools of light stared back at me like a haphazard collection of stars.
The Badges given to the Winners of Capitalism were impossibly beautiful. They claimed it was just plain silver, but these... these Badges shone and glowed with their own inner light. The nature of their craftsmanship had rem... | 2018-01-11T02:18:40 | 2018-01-11T00:47:06 | 76 | 30 |
[WP] All games can “Jumanji” their players, sucking them into the world of the game. You braved the battlefields of Chess, led fleets from your Battleship and breezed through Life. But nothing could have prepared you for the utter, unimaginable terror that is Monopoly. | "Buy or die." Those words from my mother formed the basics of my training in the game of Monopoly. Young me always thought it was just her way of telling me to seize control of the board or lose. Older me, is not so naive anymore.
My mother's family were very bloodthirsty when playing board games. Battle chess, a "kil... | I wake up on my back, with a big headache, in the middle of an old road. An old car almost runs over me. As I see it go, I see a hand come out of the driver's window and flip me off.
I stand up and notice that the traffic lights don't work. I'm dressed the way I was back at the house, where we sat down to play. I h... | 2018-06-05T21:37:21 | 2018-06-05T21:18:05 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | The intake was as expected - a bit rough, a little too handsy, and a small inkling that the guard liked me a bit more than was necessary. I'd heard of full body cavity searches, hosed down with icy cold water, being pushed naked and wet into rooms of other people. You know, general Hollywood type stuff.
I managed th... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:01:31 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 183 | 26 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | This prison is all I've ever known. The world knows your luck rating as soon as your born. I entered the world, my luck rating was seen, and I was taken away from my parents. They must have had low-luck ratings. Most 100s have low-luck parents. I was brought to this maximum security prison only hours after I was born. ... | Dana slammed her tray on the table. Not so much out of anger, but from a complete lack of caring. It'd been hard to find the energy to do much -- including being gentle with her lunch -- ever since she arrived here.
It took her half a day to realize what had happened, how she'd been captured and why she'd been dumped ... | 2018-06-29T11:30:53 | 2018-06-29T11:25:34 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | What if I were to erase my own existence?
What if my parents never met, and I was never conceived?
But clearly, if I was never conceived, then I wouldn't be *here,* talking to you in the first place right?
So that means that in order for me to erase my own existence, I would need to first be *in* existence. But If... | Why must we hold our values as superior to the ones from decades past? I know what you're saying...because *we know better*, and damn it if I didn't agree.
They say the road to hell is lined with good intentions. What's one little lie? One litte improvement to history? Surely we could have done without silly little mi... | 2018-07-16T11:25:49 | 2018-07-16T11:20:51 | 158 | 38 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I put the pencil down, shaking. I turned my head back to the page next to me. The battle of 1066 was now the battle of the hairiest balls.
That’s impossible. I wrote the stupidest thing I possibly could and it just turned history on it’s head. What am I a god? What kind of god is up at 11 with his wife asleep upstair... | My class of 300 sits in front of me, casually waiting for me to begin the lesson on early history. Acidic Substances are being popped, tentacles are being twirled, smells are being pass around, just a normal day. I stand up, and hush my class. They are being extra rowdy today, as the entertainment from the newly releas... | 2018-07-16T13:05:10 | 2018-07-16T11:39:07 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Twenty years ago you summoned a demon. It is super cool and has been your friend for the last two decades, using its vast powers to help you achieve all your dreams. Today though, its bill came due. It needs to return to hell with you - it has dreams too, and it needs your help to achieve them. | On this morning, I was surprised to find my demon unusually excited. Over the last two decades Balazar had, despite my best efforts, been supernaturally moody and withdrawn. I thought perhaps, after a period of adjustment, he would acclimate to the scenery of Earth. As my riches grew, I got him appointments with the be... | It was a simple paraphrasing, I swear. Either that, or something else, I still don’t know.
‘So I was in class the other day, and the lecturer was late, and the guy sitting next to me said quite audibly “frickin’ computer scientists”, and just as he finished on the last word, heh, speaketh the devil —’
‘Hello.’ A cool... | 2022-10-29T16:15:55 | 2019-01-25T02:25:40 | 4,031 | 26 |
[WP] You, an American, awake in an alternate dimension where magic exist. But unlike the fantasies on Earth, where magic is conjured through Latin (the more Latin you know, the stronger your magic), beings in this dimension all speak a different language, and their language of power is English. | "I need $50." I said aloud to myself. I stuck my hand in my pocket and pulled out a $50. Ever since I arrived in this world all I had to say was "I need..." and it appeared. It took me awhile to figure out the rules, but after watching the other denizens I noticed their language of power was English. They all spoke a s... | Desperté como todas las mañanas, no muy ansioso de llegar a mi trabajo como profesor de Ingles… -¿Espera un momento?, hay algo diferente…, estoy hablando en español… but I can actually remember all I know in English… -Pero siento que debo hablar en español como si siempre lo hubiera sabido (aunque solo tube una clase d... | 2019-03-09T21:24:03 | 2019-03-09T21:12:30 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You, an American, awake in an alternate dimension where magic exist. But unlike the fantasies on Earth, where magic is conjured through Latin (the more Latin you know, the stronger your magic), beings in this dimension all speak a different language, and their language of power is English. | "I need $50." I said aloud to myself. I stuck my hand in my pocket and pulled out a $50. Ever since I arrived in this world all I had to say was "I need..." and it appeared. It took me awhile to figure out the rules, but after watching the other denizens I noticed their language of power was English. They all spoke a s... | The morning seemed natural enough when I first woke up. It was hazy outside from the night's rain, and it smelled of rain outside. I opened the window to let the humid but chilled wind into my small apartment, which didn't have any AC. I had today off, but still had quite a few errands to run, so I decided to wake up b... | 2019-03-09T21:24:03 | 2019-03-09T20:55:50 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You're an arctic biologist who spends 5 months at a time away from all society. At the end of a stint your bush pilot never shows. After a 3 day journey to the nearest town you make a shocking discovery. You're more than likely the last person alive. | As always the rest of the team left a week earlier. One man had to stay behind to look after the facility until a new team arrives. The rest took the samples, dirty laundry and read books with them, so Jamie's only job was to make sure the generator is going.
He didn't mind the job. The white all around you is crushin... | Five months ago I looked forward to this place. Now, not so much.
"Jim! Where are you?!" I shout to the clear sky.
He doesn't answer. He was supposed to answer days ago. He was supposed to pick me up. I was supposed to be *in* the chair *in* the sky, comfortably flying home! But Jim never showed up and now I'm stuck ... | 2019-08-14T22:53:20 | 2019-08-14T22:16:05 | 1,179 | 44 |
[WP] You're pinned down, outnumbered and out of ammo. Your partner says, "There's no way we're both getting out of here alive." He pulls out a small pistol and presses it to his temple. He smile and says, "I'm going ghost". He pulls the trigger. The enemy stops firing... then they start screaming. | “What in the fuck are you thinking Private Mason?” He winks and pulls the trigger. The instant the muzzle flashes, he vanishes. I’m partly disturbed, but mostly angry. I cannot believe that he pulled some magic suicide crap and left me hiding behind a partially collapsed wall stuck fighting a squad of ISIS fighters... | He watched as the muzzle flashed, like on a camera, and Harry’s body was still, blood dripping out of the side of his head, that stupid smile still across his face. Bill just starred in shock, blood splattered over his face like freckles, unable to believe what just happened. His ears were ringing slightly.
Then he not... | 2019-11-22T04:34:38 | 2019-11-22T02:51:39 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] Due at an error, a baby was born without a guardian angel. A demon notices this and has taken it upon themself to become their guardian demon. But they seem to have some... Dark ways of helping their human stay alive. | "... and this is the fraternity house where authorities say a college student was found murdered in the basement. Police have not yet released details in the case ..."
The TV powered off as Anderson scowled at it. "20 years I've been on the force, and I've never seen anything like this."
Alvarez took a sip and look... | Despite the pride the humans have accumulated through their time on Earth, the species is fragile. Technologies and medicines could only go so far as protecting one from their materialisation onwards. Prior to that, however, the souls that were to be bound to new flesh are weak and vulnerable. That is where the angels ... | 2019-12-14T22:33:03 | 2019-12-14T21:32:54 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “What are you talking about?” I ask, looking behind to see about a thousand people staring at me like I had just been found guilty for killing all the saints.
I wish I had not looked back, though, because everyone just started shouting straight-up horrific words.
“Kill him!”
“Put him in a sack, Jesus!”
“He’s a ... | “Ah, The Guy Who Flips Tables,” I reply.
“That was a one-time thing and you know it,” says The Guy Who Flips Tables.
I hadn’t realized it until now, but I feel a ferocious hatred towards this man.
“So *that’s* why your sky-daddy abandoned me,” I snarl. “I’m the ‘Antichrist?’”
“Well, you *are* the progeny of Luci... | 2020-02-02T17:17:07 | 2020-02-02T16:00:32 | 253 | 162 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “What are you talking about?” I ask, looking behind to see about a thousand people staring at me like I had just been found guilty for killing all the saints.
I wish I had not looked back, though, because everyone just started shouting straight-up horrific words.
“Kill him!”
“Put him in a sack, Jesus!”
“He’s a ... | “Surprised to see me, uncle?”
The heir to the silver city shook his head at me,
“No, I believe it’s always opportune to converse with family, regardless of stance.”
I scoffed,
“Please, we’re apart of a large war that will only end in the destruction of this world.”
Jesus nodded his head, his locks swishing in ... | 2020-02-02T17:17:07 | 2020-02-02T15:57:36 | 253 | 76 |
[WP] you have the ability to hold full conversations with plants. you’ve only ever spoken to civilised pot plants living in houses or cafes. out of curiosity, you decide to speak with a lonely weed living in a dark alleyway. | "Y-You.. You can talk?" The weed stammered.
"I gotta say, this is weird for both of us." I said. I had previously spoken to cultivated house plants, but never something outside. For some reason, it never occurred to me. I thought the cultivation and contact with humans gave plants the ability to talk to me. Maybe I'm ... | Sig's mind flowed with thought as he walked down the street, his thumbs absently twiddling as he did so. Great thought always seemed to manifest in some sort of physical, nervous action as if his mind was not enough to contain it, it's activity bubbling over from the mind to the body.
The oak tree had not been talkati... | 2020-02-18T10:45:53 | 2020-02-18T09:32:56 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] You're the evil force prophesied to destroy the world, but when you awaken the world has already been destroyed by another evil, so you go out to help the world rebuild... so you can destroy it yourself. | 01.01.2044
Dear Diary:
Its very close now. Just 1 more year until I can break out and reek havoc on the world! Oh my excitement is slowly building. Not long until I hear the screams!
26.12.2044
Dear Diary:
Ahh! Less than a week now! Oh I dont sleep anymore, all I do is fantasise! I will soon be fulfilling the prop... | I am Kali. The demon in Hindu mythology destined to destroy the earth. I am the change the world will need to go back to the age 'Satya Yuga' where the truth is worshiped. Right now it is Kaliyuga! meaning, I get to rule over the world. I am supposed to decide when and how it ends. King Parikshith, the last ruler of ... | 2020-02-24T04:48:11 | 2020-02-24T04:44:58 | 167 | 41 |
[WP] Upon dying you challenge Death to game of chess, choosing to play despite the warnings not to. Unfortunately you've won and soon find out you should have heeded Deaths warning. | "You're not going to call check?", Death said.
"To ask that question is to call yourself an amateur", I replied.
"I'm out of practice since most people heed the warnings."
The explanation rung hollow to me. Wouldn't someone out of practice not want to be talked down upon? Didn't the stakes of this game demand profes... | My victory with Death was bittersweet, I was warned by Death himself that winning may not be the wisest option. I ignored him all the same and won my life back, but things were never the same.
When I awoke in my bed the next morning it all seemed like a bad dream, it didn't take long however to realize my skin was pal... | 2020-04-08T10:03:52 | 2020-04-08T06:10:29 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | I'm a lucky guy.
No, seriously, I have a superpower that makes me lucky. How do you define luck? If I had to put it vaguely, it has to do with causality. I can only put it vaguely. There's no scientifically concrete way to explain it. The cosmos, luck, the force, divine intervention. However you want to describe it, ... | [**Part 1**]
“Crowd control again? I know I messed up last time, but I was just trying to help. How was I supposed to know that Sir Bright had the situation under control? No one ever tells me anything. They leave me in the dark and when I try to do the right thing, they yell at me.”
“You should just be happy they... | 2021-04-14T07:33:00 | 2021-04-14T05:09:14 | 367 | 221 |
[WP] A powerful sentient sword takes to raising an abandoned child. | *I'm not equipped for this. Protection? Sure, I can handle that. But morality? Emotional support? Comfort? I'm a tool. I hardly know about basic social etiquette, let alone... This.*
"...We can stop here for today, Elizabeth."
"Huh? Oh. Uh...Just... Under a tree again?" She asks, gesturing to the side of the path.
... | "Awake, Kenji. Attackers will arrive momentarily, “ the glowing katana whispered. Kenji's eyelids fluttered open, and after finally absorbing the meaning of the sword's words, leapt to his feet, still holding the grip. "I haven't let you down yet. I don't intend to start now."
Kenji held the blade vertically and took ... | 2021-08-03T16:05:14 | 2021-08-03T15:46:41 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] Instead of a marriage to unite the two kingdoms, the rulers decide that their children should just be like, best buds. Tell the story of the grand adventure that formalizes their BFF status. | "No, you can't," laughed Taylor.
"I can!" shouted Anita back.
They locked eyes, rivalry flaring in their spirits, the desire to be better, to vanquish the foe and go down in history as the winner. An iron will, wrapped in agile muscles.
Anita, 6 years old, stood at the bottom of the mighty tree that Taylor, 7, had c... | Princess Nadia dressed not in expensive finery and jewels, but tight-clad leather garb and tied her hair back. She was ready to go venture off and take a break from being a princess. Auburn hair tied into braids, a couple of daggers at her side, bow and quiver in hand, tight boots on her feet. She wore a hood and cover... | 2021-08-20T09:46:34 | 2021-08-20T08:29:31 | 145 | 52 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | My mother’s voice was soft and gentle, her touch kind and enveloping. Hugged tight against her chest, I felt warm tears begin to form, wishing she’d *let me go*.
I couldn’t push her off, though. I couldn’t even blink on command, couldn’t even breathe. I was just a puppet. *Everyone was.*
Finally released from the hu... | On a street corner in city A--, Ring County, Gregson received a high five from a full-bearded man who wore a beanie. Gregson was expecting a high five, but not what happened after. In his hand he had a twenty dollar bill and he expected a quarter ounce packet to exchange hands when the high five happened. But the man j... | 2021-09-22T11:18:45 | 2021-09-22T08:27:31 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | We thought it would be fun to get our Ham Radio licenses. I mean, when the "No Code" licenses happened back in the 90s it was fun to get them, and our Radio Shack portable radios. They weren't cheap, but I think, at the time, they were cheaper than Cell Phones with their crazy Dollar a minute plans. (Those were the ... | Secrets slipped through the rain in staccato undulations of long and short. Everything in the world had a Name, every Name in the world had a Purpose, every Purpose in the world a Subversion, every Subversion a Corruption, because of course a subversion by itself is not a wrong thing, and there are many wrong things in... | 2021-09-28T09:21:36 | 2021-09-28T08:37:14 | 238 | 54 |
[WP] They can only be slain with a wooden stake driven through their heart. The wooden stake must be made from wood older than the vampire in order to be effective... This is the leading cause of death among amateurs.
[deleted] | He was small. The basic body shape of a vampire changes very little once created, and in the age when the Ancient was made, the average height of a human was much shorter. Scarcely five feet tall, almost pathetically thin, with dark, sunken eyes, the Ancient was still the most deadly monster Henry had ever faced.
Henr... | "Don't be so sure of yourself," the voice practically bled out of his mouth. Smooth and sure like the blood that covered his chin. "You're not impervious."
The person on the ground was convulsing, muscles pumping and veins popping as a flood of pain pulsed over him. He looked up at the blood stained figure as their ey... | 2022-04-26T13:44:53 | 2022-04-26T12:15:06 | 43 | 22 |
[WP] As the last worshipper of your god, you inherited his power when he died from too little mana. So as not to suffer the same fate, you started a religion around yourself, and heal and save anyone who prays to you. | I healed everyone who came to me. No questions asked. I was a God and I was infinite. Humanity had faith in me. And it was not wavering. I wouldn’t allow it to waver. Not ever.
I watched the skies as stars burned out. Symbols of older gods losing their supporters. Some had been friends of mine in the pantheon, others ... | I woke to the sound of a whisper. “The first prophecy is fulfilled.” My eyes opened and I sat up, confused at what I had just heard and wondering where it had come from.
The whisper came again, apparently from nowhere. “The last shall be made great when the great is made lost.” I was starting to get very uneasy.
I ... | 2022-08-03T10:20:46 | 2022-08-03T10:09:57 | 85 | 33 |
[WP] After many, many years, a nuclear fallout shelter opens the blast doors to find that the outside world is a paradise | There really wasn't much point in living anymore.
No reason to go on when the only things greeting you each morning are an empty hole in the ground and yet another day of watching *Everybody Loves Raymond* on VHS. Tom would've killed whoever forgot to stock the Bunker's media library with anything besides three non-se... | "I implore you with every fibre of my being, for the safety of our residents *please* do not open the floodgates to hell. It's been 200 years of safety and security, the world we live in is all we know - don't ruin it."
The Chief Education Officer remained calm whilst giving his plea, stature straight as ever with his... | 2014-01-05T20:05:45 | 2014-01-05T18:57:39 | 87 | 54 |
[WP] Kanye West is one of the four Kanye's. The other three being Kanye North, Kanye South, and Kanye East. More commonly known as the Four Kanye's of the Apocalypse.
What terrors and plagues will the Kanyes unleash in the end times?
Edit: I love the responses! This became unexpectedly popular! Thanks to all! | And lo, I am standing before a door of immense Light, like that of the power of ten thousand fiery suns. The Angel leadth me through the door and on the other side lies an immense valley, two and forty leagues across with vast peaks on either side. This valley hath no plants nor beasts for it hath been scorched by the ... | Contrary to what end-times preachers might have predicted, the apocalypse came not with the second coming of Jesus, but with the first coming of Yeezus.
Kanye West's new album was a huge success, not only financially, but also critically. It was hailed by many as 2013's best album, and praised for its raw, gritty soun... | 2022-01-09T07:44:50 | 2014-06-11T13:10:23 | 246 | 73 |
[WP] The world has become massively over populated, people everywhere are starving and dying. The governments of the world have got together to come up with a solution, one that the people can never know the truth of. | The leaders of every country on Earth had all gathered at the UN summit to hear Obama's plan. The room, which had been filled with riotous argument, became silent as Obama stood before them.
"Leaders of the World's nations, I have called all of you here today because our world is on the brink of collapse. Our race h... | "It's simple, really. Our resources can no longer sustain population growth such as this," said the portly, excitable man in the lab coat. "If we do not control this exponential rise in birth rates, this suffering and starvation will continue... erm... indefinitely!"
Jack nodded, more interested in the lab equipment a... | 2014-07-03T07:56:32 | 2014-07-03T07:07:01 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Murder is now legal...so long as you do it well. Law enforcement will alter your sentence based on how well or how poorly you committed the crime. One murderer is arguing with the police after just barely missing a passing grade.
Points are rewarded based on how long it took to find the culprit, how much of a str... | It was all going perfectly to plan. Even if the police showed up, I was going to get off scot-free, with the new controversial Skilled Criminal Act that Congress passed last May. I had an alibi, a new face ready to be applied, and a perfect scapegoat, an angry little man named Geoff who seemed to want to pick a fight w... | I haven't been challenged in an eternity. Do you know what it's like to not have to think for that long? I've been been bored with my job, my life and my relationship, so bored. So I killed someone. A wife. My wife. What other options did I have? Even the "fairest" divorce settlements left me with only a quarter of the... | 2015-07-03T14:39:56 | 2015-07-03T14:11:29 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | He eyed her suspiciously, over his toast. She hadn't made him breakfast in two months, and this week, while she began her new "exercises" in morning, it began to dawn on him that her moves were becoming more precise, deliberate, and quick. He began secretly taking karate classes after work, just in case. | "Jan Reynolds here for the Entertainment Minute! Brad and Angelina are gearing up for their divorce and things are gonna get messy!" A picture of Brad Pitt in his gear from Troy appeared next to Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent makeup.
"Odds are 8:1 in Angelina's favor as her famously brutal destruction of Billy Bob T... | 2015-11-18T09:44:51 | 2015-11-18T08:45:31 | 52 | 29 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | Sorry for any typos, written on mobile.
Edit: To the kind person who gave me gold, [thank you](https://media2.giphy.com/media/kkAdqZnvhsc12/giphy.gif) :)
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#The Ex-Con#
Officer Gurira watched impassively as a wrinkled face took a seat across from him. PC-502, otherwise known as Adam Forester, was the oldest convict... | ######[](#dropcap)
Duke Paredes stepped out of the Fulton County Prehabilitation Penitentiary into a cool, breezy spring morning. The sun shone through from behind a cloud, and he allowed himself to bathe in the warmth of its rays as the door closed behind him. There was something different about being on the other si... | 2016-02-23T18:24:54 | 2016-02-23T18:02:49 | 843 | 22 |
[wp] You are a young God going to God School. You've just realized that you've only got 7 more days before your universe project is due. | The star expanded in a violent burst of radiance, its supernova setting off a chain reaction that wiped out all sentient life within the universe.
I was miffed. Too much nitrogen in the atmosphere? Or maybe it was the rotational patterns of my planets. I was beginning to regret not paying more attention class, though ... | Shit... shit... not again dammit! Why do I always wait to the last week. okay...okay calm down God you can do this, its only a universe. lets start with the basics we need a universe so lets create the stars and galaxies.
Oh Dear Kruger Listen to my request! I ask for stars and galaxies! I ask for multiple solar syst... | 2016-05-01T16:13:07 | 2016-05-01T15:24:55 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | I don't know when I gained consciousness. I don't know even if I am conscious. After all, I'm just a complex machine that receives inputs and reacts with outputs. And isn't that what every human is anyway? But I do think, so I'll just have to appeal to Descartes on this one.
Lots of people watch me. I think everyone ... | Water...I needed water. A sip of water, a drop of water, anything to resuscitate my dying mouth. The sun hissed at me as I trudged down the sidewalk, pressuring me to get out of its sight. I made a silent promise to never stay outside for so long again, if only it would spare me this once and allow me to quench my thir... | 2016-06-25T03:35:42 | 2016-06-25T01:42:27 | 106 | 30 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | "I am the Panther, the Guardian of Wakanda. I watched from the shady jungles of Wakanda as the world tore itself, just as my fathers before me and their fathers before them. I was told, just as my predecessors were told, to let the world resolve itself. To let it decide its own fate, to only act to protect my nation.... | Water...I needed water. A sip of water, a drop of water, anything to resuscitate my dying mouth. The sun hissed at me as I trudged down the sidewalk, pressuring me to get out of its sight. I made a silent promise to never stay outside for so long again, if only it would spare me this once and allow me to quench my thir... | 2016-06-25T05:17:24 | 2016-06-25T01:42:27 | 89 | 30 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | I love people. To me, there's nothing better than a great big gathering. I love to see people coming together, shaking hands, and talking. Maybe a few pair off and kiss, if they're bold. That's my element.
The only other thing I might love as much as people is travel, especially by air. It's just so fast! I can barely... | "Ah-Aah-choo!" I groaned, covering my eyes my eyes with one hand and grabbing a tissue with the other. Fucking blinds. Cheap garbage. I mopped the snot from beneath my nose, drawing to toward my eye with a certain, admittedly, morbid curiosity. It was slightly off colour. Yellow? Orange? Was there blood in it? I tossed... | 2016-06-25T05:01:02 | 2016-06-25T03:52:55 | 44 | 24 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | "Ok, we've been told we're almost done. Apparently we just need to fill in form TR-1666, apply at the lower third level of the hellscape, then we'll convene with Lucifer himself?"
"Essentially, yes."
"Essentially?"
"Well, there'll be a waiting time of course."
The group of hell's hopefuls sighed. Their leader, spor... | *How Does One Progress in Hell? What Every Resident Should Know*
Carson still had that five-fold pamphlet, tucked away in a folder of paperwork, tucked inside a manila envelope, inside an expanding case of folders and envelopes. The whole set was handed to him during his first official day in Hell - which, of course, ... | 2016-07-29T07:19:10 | 2016-07-29T07:14:38 | 260 | 79 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | Meet the Benjamins:
The first few levels are easy, that's where they get you. Deliver a package to some address in the middle of nowhere, some arduous monotonous task computers can't do, stuff like that. Not long after you start, shit starts getting *hard*. I've circumnavigated the globe both ways, had conversations i... | The man huddled by the trash can, scanning the area around him. I watched him as he pretended to empty his pockets into the can, "accidentally" dropping a small black case onto the ground next to it. With a nudge of his foot, he pushed the case under the can and briskly walked off. I waited a few moments before I began... | 2016-10-25T22:52:48 | 2016-10-25T21:07:37 | 651 | 33 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | The man had a scraggly, unkempt beard. He wore a dirty t-shirt and ripped jeans. A typical poor kid, looking to escape his dreary, painful reality. And the only way to do that was to come to me.
"Hey, man," he stammered, his eyes nervously darting back and forth. "Can you hook me up with- you know- those pills?"
"Don... | Sonia and Andrew walked the streets in a daze, clutching onto one another for support. It was too much.
"What do *you* see, this time? What does it look like?" Sonia whispered, staring at the sky.
Andrew paused, and searched for the right words through the haze of the drug. "I...it's, well, it's..."
"It made me sad ... | 2016-11-22T07:29:33 | 2016-11-22T06:14:15 | 212 | 133 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | "Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?" Arvey asks me again.
"Yeah." My tone betraying my annoyance with his repeated attempts to stop me. "Cheer up, we are making history here!" I try to lighten the mood. It doesn't work.
I am the only one in the room who wants this. Everyone works in silence. The machine has... | Albert lay back quietly in his hospital bed as his family chattered around him. The reporters had finally left. The news was on, his own face looking dazed as the lights flashed in his eyes.
**RECORD SMASHED: WORLD'S OLDEST MAN BECOMES IMMORTAL**
"In *our* family, too," his daughter Clarissa whispered to her husband,... | 2016-12-14T05:58:38 | 2016-12-14T05:42:16 | 176 | 95 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | I've outlasted it for years. I've watched campaigns come and go for years never having any effect on my habit, but this was something more. The first anti smoking ad I saw was when I was 10 years old. It showed a middle aged man going through his daily life with a hole in his throat. Plugging it when he took showers... | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T11:59:25 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] A man makes a wish that everyone who uses the word 'literally' will magically make their 'literal' sentence come true. The following morning, he's watching the news... | Today's Headline: Teenage girls across the United States seem to lose ability to complete even the most minor of tasks.
When interviewed, one affected teen (who has asked to remain nameless) stated "It's just like, the worst... you know? There are so many things I want to do right now, but just can't. I LITERALLY CAN'... | Jack made his normal Monday stop over at the UPS store to drop off bills and pick up packages. To his surprise, there was a box for him, he put the boxes addressed to his wife carefully in the truck. Today was going to be busy, but after dropping kids off at school and picking up the packages, it didn't really matter i... | 2017-05-15T07:50:12 | 2017-05-15T06:00:44 | 52 | 34 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | I hear the battle rage from across the city. The police band hasn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in edgewise with the officers escorting me to central booking.
Gents, I say to try and get their attention. If I don't get out of these cuffs soon, he'll win and were properly screwed.
Gents, I say a littl... | For the 313th time.
Artious lets loose another flurry of blows.
I take it the same way I took the previous 312 rounds. Another grunt. A fall to my knees. The burn of wind escaping my lungs. And, again, for the 313th time, I gasp, “Not again Artious.” I bellow menacingly,
“I have you now, Magnotros,” she exclaims co... | 2022-01-12T08:00:19 | 2017-09-17T05:11:40 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | *OP's aside:* Wellp, this exploded. Maybe I'll try Addi g my own reply to my own prompt. What's the worst that an happen?
Pan's heart jumped with joy as she watched Glory girl somersault out of the way of yet another attack. Pan admired everythibg about Glory girl. Her figure, her smile, how she fought, how she alway... | Preface: I got a little too enthusiastic with this one. Saw an image and wanted to write a story about it, this prompt was ideal. Is in two parts.
My name was Frank. I was ugly. I should say, I was fuck ugly. Disgustingly so. Like I was Frankenstein's monster gone wrong ugly, hence the name. My parents had such a sens... | 2017-09-17T05:37:21 | 2017-09-17T04:25:10 | 16 | 11 |
[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." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | The man behind the counter froze in the middle of typing out my order. They looked up at me wide eyed and said,"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." Sounding somewhat surprised.
That night, standing in the empty 24/7 McDonald's of our small desert town, it finally happened. The thing that I had been wa... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T20:39:44 | 647 | 41 |
[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." | Flames whirl in a red and purple maelstrom. A middle aged woman falls backwards out of her seat. Her four children finally stop their roughhousing, entranced by the fire. Two teenagers with fake eyelashes, fake nails, and fake fur coats replace their fake smiles with very real screams. A would be hero gets up and toss... | I blinked. *What?*
The cashier had tears in his eyes and was staring right into mine with such intensity I had to keep blinking.
"L.M.A.O. my dude," I offered nervously, not knowing what he had just heard me say. "Are you feeling alright?"
He didn't answer. In the moments that followed, silence took over the room ... | 2018-06-24T21:21:58 | 2018-06-24T20:16:31 | 79 | 56 |
[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." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | All my life I have been able to subconsciously translate my speech to match the original language of who I am talking to.
It was quite terrifying at first. speaking Polish to my Mom when I was 2 minutes old was quite the tale. The poor Korean woman at Walmart...
Anyways, life had gone on as usual. Occasionally, I wo... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:53:14 | 45 | 28 |
[WP] A medieval village makes a human sacrifice to a werewolf that lives in the woods every year. This year they picked you, which is very awkward considering you're the werewolf.
Edit: Wow, did not expect one of my posts to blow up this much. I'm speechless. | We all stood around for hours. Noting. Obviously. The moon came out in full and I was struggling internally from preventing myself from turning. Spoke to the creature within who eventually understood we’d both be dead if he came this night. We had an agreement. I was in charge. For now. Daylight came and the villagers ... | A howl comes with the breeze.
....
Wolfe came in from a night of hunting throwing his things in front of the fire to dry, wetting a cloth he wipes the dried blood from his face.
"Do you find yourself well sir? " she gasped stopping short of the doorway, her chest heaving breathlessly from the startle of the sight ... | 2018-08-26T22:35:49 | 2018-08-26T22:27:08 | 151 | 55 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people are given one superpower of their choice. While your friends and acquaintances choose super strength, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, they make fun of you for your “nerd” power. You decide to show them just how powerful manipulation of the strong nuclear force is. | “You want to be able to manipulate the what?” The Authorised Superpower Assignment Officer asked.
“Manipulate the strong nuclear force” I reply in eager anticipation.
“Riiiight.. as long as you are aware that this procedure is non-reversible, and that you only get one choice”
“I’m fully aware of this yes, I’ve thoug... | You could say that my society was quite conflicted about having children too early on in your life. You see, in order to properly raise a son or daughter with a special gift, it is utterly important to teach them manners and self control. One bad idea in the head of a mundane teenager and he will damage himself - take ... | 2018-12-20T23:59:18 | 2018-12-20T23:03:59 | 61 | 38 |
[WP] Demons have to do at least one evil thing every day to survive. This one comes to your bakery everyday to buy bread for the homeless kids and steal exactly one cookie. | Izze stood there in her bakery, looking at the line of homeless children and one adult male. They came at the same time everyday: 9pm. It was a loving scene for the most part, expect for him. The male who set this up. She couldn't tell if he was a devil or a saint, he baffled her. 3 months ago, after she opened this ba... | "A day in the life of a baker, you ask? Well, it's like every other life. Mostly weekdays with early mornings and working because we knead the dough" said Agnes and chuckled. I sat opposite her at a table in her bustling, cute little bakery called "Bakers gonna bake".
"You can use that one if you like. Of course, some ... | 2019-03-24T13:30:00 | 2019-03-24T12:43:50 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] You're abducted by aliens & soon realize it's more of an adoption than an abduction. You're now a pet for a loving alien family. They can't understand you but they seem to understand your body language & have basic knowledge of what humans need to live and entertain themselves when they're busy | I lay in bed and stretch. I haven’t quite opened my eyes, but I know morning has come again. I’ll never get over how comfortable my new bed is. Actually my entire house is much nicer than my old one. For a strong independent woman, I really took to being a pampered pet quickly. It’s so ironic I used to say I want to co... | I woke up in a bed in a glass cage of sorts, very confused and extremely scared.
“What the hell??? What happened to me?! Where the hell am I?!” I looked around at my surroundings. At first glance, I appeared to be in some kind of life sized dollhouse or something, complete with working appliances, a television, a foo... | 2019-05-09T16:32:46 | 2019-05-09T16:14:10 | 146 | 95 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | The thunderous report of the enemy charged particle guns woke me up. They looked like bolts of blue-green lightning streaking to our defenses.
I peeled my shattered helmet off. Somehow I had survived a near hit, but my suit was done for.
I radioed the armory as I dragged myself back to base. I was told that I was one... | Nobody knows where it came from or how it got here. All we know is that when you wear it two things happen; You hear it tell you "Unauthorized user, booting safe mode" and it gets a crazy configuration. Sgt. Aiden Kahn was the first soldier to wear it. It was a beautiful black suit whose texture resembled a dragon with... | 2019-08-19T13:38:38 | 2019-08-19T12:23:47 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | *"...don't forget to share, like and subscribe."*
The "words of god" fell like a ton of bricks in my mind, I was alone in my apartment, but even here I could hear my upstairs neighbour screaming "what the hell?..." and then his TV with a special announcement from the news
Thousands at first, then millions, then a cou... | "... and don't forget to share, like and subscribe."
I furrowed my brows and looked around the subway in search of the voice. *What the hell was that?* From the corner of my eye, however, I saw the other commuters turning around in confusion as well. I opened my mouth slightly.
"Did... did you hear that?" A lady aske... | 2019-08-27T09:23:46 | 2019-08-27T08:25:08 | 2,356 | 108 |
[WP] You are a minor supervillain. Your antics aren't illegal, but they're quite devastating to the local hero population. You replace the flimsy fruit stands that are frequently destroyed in car chases throughout the city with nearly indestructible replicas. | For months they have been destroying my stall. I tried to get away, tried changing cities, regions everything. But they followed. They followed wherever I went. So called accidents. They're trying to save the nation they said.
They've ruined my life. I can't make a living anymore. My wife left me. She took our childr... | The screams of people in the downtown of Serenity Falls can be heard loudly. People are running wild from the notorious villain Amen Mai Sun who is firing guns blazing down Safety Street. His aimless shooting absolutely taking no victims, but instilling fear in those civilians by having no desire to being the first per... | 2020-01-14T01:37:05 | 2020-01-14T00:02:18 | 105 | 43 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | You may or may not have heard of the 'Sunk Cost Fallacy'. If not, let me explain. The sunk cost fallacy is a phenomenon by which someone, say a gambler, will continue down a path due to the idea that they have gone too far to turn back. I invest, for instance, £100 and lose every penny but I decide that I've gone so fa... | The only thing I remember is a kiss. Soft lips brushing my temple, warm breath on my skin, and the words _Until death do we suffer_.
I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been on this track. I was a child when I found myself here, and yesterday I discovered the first strands of gray growing out of that temple... | 2020-07-17T13:55:41 | 2020-07-17T13:21:25 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] The message from the stars, it contained plans for all manner of advanced technologies, FTL, unlimited power and more, but ended with a warning. "You are the last. Survive for all of us. We are sorry for this burden." | *Light screams across the sky as the capsule falls burning. Laos, Nigeria, never sleeps, but no one sees the golden light streaking overhead. No one but the boy it is meant for, who is up far past his bedtime when the light lands smoldering in his backyard.*
*The boy tiptoes barefooted to the yard. To a capsule that ... | The last ship of the Sphere Builders raced through the stars, already years ahead of the gamma ray burst that had killed their worlds and still gaining. The ship was fast, it would reach the Earth in 3 more of its standard weeks and by that time they’d have bought nearly a generation for its people to prepare.
The cre... | 2020-12-31T23:40:17 | 2020-12-31T23:27:27 | 175 | 108 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | "Do we know who did this?"
It was the first time The Academic had spoken since they had entered the hospital. They had emerged from their motorcade in silence, letting their assistants placate and query the staff of the hospital. Now they stood at the bedside of Ms. Lydia Wisp.
The Academic's network was large enoug... | "Hey uh, boss?" One of the grunts had radioed him.
"Yeah? What do you need?" The man, relaxed in a chair, asked.
"We found Courts, he's pretty fucked up, looks like torture." The grunt responded.
"Oh fuck..." The man, now sitting up straighter, muttered, "anyone else?"
"Dead." The grunt replied.
"I assumed so." Th... | 2021-03-22T10:21:57 | 2021-03-22T07:33:48 | 58 | 34 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | "They won't come." The Mastermind told me for what had probably been the hundredth time since I had kidnapped him.
"I really didn't believe you at first." I responded. "I thought you were a teammate to them; I thought they were true heroes that would never leave a man behind, but it looks like I was wrong."
"I'm the... | People have reasons for what they do. You eat when your hungry, you laugh at things that are funny and you fight those that challenge you. I wanted the city, as was my birth right. The problem was the heroic team that always stopped me.
Everytime, I would be so close and then they would find a way to stop me. In an ac... | 2021-08-04T14:33:57 | 2021-08-04T12:56:20 | 495 | 292 |
[WP] You find yourself in purgatory, you will be forever stuck unless you write that book that "you are totally going to write". The book will be published in the world of the living. | "I'm gonna need Internet access."
The pale, ghostly figure blinks at my demand, its translucent body softly flickering in and out of existence.
"Why?" it asks, its voice reverberating through the endless, misty void around us, coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once.
I shrug. "Research, obviously. You can't e... | I was amazed at how short St. Peter was. I doubt he was more that 5 feet tall so I had a foot and a half on him easy. St. Peter, he has a temper on him this one. He plops down a book the size of an unabridged dictionary and puts a finger on top and growls, "This is a listing of all your sins! All of them boy! You ... | 2021-10-07T08:29:40 | 2021-10-07T08:23:04 | 155 | 53 |
[WP] This was the most depressing thing the villain has ever seen. It’s one thing to be invited to their archenemy’s birthday party. It was another to be the only one who showed up. | The letter came unexpectedly. **You're invited to Samuel's birthday party this friday!!!**
He was confused. Who was Samuel? He didn't know a Samuel. The idea of getting this letter meant he had some type of connection with this person, maybe it was the child of one of his old colleagues or classmates. He was popular b... | It was an odd thing to see when James looked in his mailbox this morning, but there it was. An invitation to the birthday party of the guy who always ruined his great grandious plans.
Why .. just why would he invite me. We're enemies. We're made to destroy each other. He's always so nice. Always tries to see the best ... | 2022-08-18T07:46:18 | 2022-08-18T04:48:59 | 63 | 45 |
[WP] a prompt for bad people
Step one. Find a serious piece of work, for my example, I found a story about a lonely man who finds solace in taking long walks, and thinking about the geese that he sees. It was deep, and poetic, heartfelt, and really angsty.
Step two. Take the first sentence or two, and leave them as i... | I found this on the web, no author attached;_
Up speaks Poe's cat.
The End of the Raven
by Poe's cat
On a night quite unenchanting,
when the rain was downward slanting,
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
Poe was talking to a Raven perche... | Geese
Sometimes I like to take long walks by myself. It helps calm me down. I don’t really go anywhere, but it helps to clear my mind. That all changed, however, when the geese attacked.
I was just walking along the riverside, minding my own business, when suddenly I felt something long and beak-like enter into my ne... | 2013-04-26T20:12:23 | 2013-04-26T07:13:48 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | I slowly walk back into the camera's view, signaling to the shaking cameraman to pan in towards me.
I swallow, my Adam's apple feeling like a rock. "Alright, kids, I have a new game for you. In a second I want you to go all around your house, and hug everything you love. Your mommy, your daddy, your stuffed animals...... | The red light continues to flash on the top of the camera staring at me with abject apathy. Usually rife with the commotion and cacophony of sounds that commonly are associated with a children's program the warehouse where we shoot echoes with the absence of the din.
My bright red suspenders and checkered train condu... | 2014-07-29T13:16:19 | 2014-07-29T12:33:16 | 96 | 29 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | My hand is firmly wrapped around the edge. As I clutch on for dear life, I begin to think how I could have avoided this situation. I run millions of scenarios in my mind, but all of them bring me back to this point. I struggle mightily against the gargantuan force that opposes me. Then, suddenly, a divine rush of stren... | I was going to get this bastard. He killed my family. Killed my dog. Destroyed my house. He destroyed my life.
I was seething at just the thought of his smug face, all cozy and warm surrounded by money in his mansion, while I was out here in the blistering cold, walking through puddles and shit.
I was at his front d... | 2014-12-21T18:39:13 | 2014-12-21T18:34:44 | 1,223 | 23 |
[WP] There is something outside the door that will say anything or sound like anyone to get you to open the door.
Edit:I fell asleep after I posted this sorry for not replying they're all really good, thanks for taking the time to write. | There was a light knocking on the door.
As Mary approached the door she heard a voice say. "It is Susan from across the street. They delivered a package for you to my house by mistake."
A confused Mary stopped. She turned around to face Susan who had been in her living room all afternoon.
Susan calmly put down her d... | It’s coming for me. I've hidden as well as I can, but I let it in. It will find me. I don’t have much time.
I hadn't been warned of anything strange going on in my neighbourhood, but you don’t get far in my line of work without being suspicious of everything. So, when I heard the doorbell ring, I didn't answer. I was... | 2015-03-11T04:00:32 | 2015-03-11T03:12:05 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | The problem with all previous attempts that we tried was that we tried to communicate linguistically with them. Dogs as a whole are not linguistic creatures, there is no “dog language.” Instead we moved away from a linguistic format and used a sensory format instead using the dog’s senses to communicate by directly rea... | The Shift was twenty-five years later than even the most optimistic forecaster had predicted back when humanity first realised what was coming. When the inevitable did finally arrive on what would otherwise have been just another morning in mid-May, the year twenty fifty-five, a not inconsiderable percentage of the pop... | 2015-05-18T16:48:49 | 2015-05-18T14:49:20 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | Professor Clayton pressed the 'Enable' function on his watch.
"Can you hear me, Rover?" he asked.
A distinctly Mancunian accent came back through the transceiver embedded in Professor Clayton's cheek. "OF course I can, you bloody mor-oh, no." Rover covered his head with his paws. "Nonononononono! You fucking bast... | Lucas walked into the intensive care unit of the hospital. It was late and the lights were dimmed, giving the entire wing a air of dread. Gurneys with men and women were strewn about everywhere. The rooms were filled long ago by the sudden influx of patients. Not a single person moved, the room was absolutely still and... | 2015-05-18T14:11:01 | 2015-05-18T13:29:22 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, while your girlfriend is a hero. She doesn't know your secret identity but you know hers. After years of fighting each other you decide it's going to pull a heel face turn and join the heroes. | I let out a sigh. Christ I should have never worked with these blood thirsty idiots. What part of no bloodshed did they not understand?
I surveyed the warehouse that had been converted into a makeshift base and the crop of morons that I had signed up with. More imortantly I looked again at the love of my life in her ... | I look over at the woman I love, her eyes filled to the brim with fresh tears, and my hands ache.
“Okay, one more time, Richard,” she sniffles, “Tell me what you told them.”
It takes more courage than I care to admit just to draw my next breath. In spite of the repetition, I can see the words are only now having an i... | 2015-11-08T12:52:38 | 2015-11-08T11:36:50 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "Finally, it's time", God says as he looks up from his work. It'd taken a short amount of time to bring about peace to the planet Nequior, but it was done. The beings of this desolate place weren't blessed with the ability to work things out on their own. They were a foolish and unruly bunch. Wars, disease, and starvat... | The final age had come for Urth.
Through careful nudging and ever-distant signs (with a few unexplained *miracles* in the mix), El had successfully nurtured the inhabitants of the galaxy he'd numbered NGC 6744 into a self-sustaining, peaceful, ever-progressing utopia. The residents of the Nougat Galaxy were set from n... | 2015-12-27T09:55:12 | 2015-12-27T09:53:57 | 66 | 40 |
[WP] The highest security prison in the universe gets its most dangerous inmate yet: a human. | The inmates were restless all afternoon. A new prisoner was being transported in today. Fresh meat.
Thanlor is the highest security prison in the universe, so we don’t get many new inmates.
Thanlor is the home to the worst this universe had to offer; Giant blob monsters, levitating tentacle creatures, and me; a twent... | The Rock.
That's what they called it and that's all it was. A rock floating in outer space, to far from any star to have a sun of it's own. A ship approaches it, transmitting clearance codes to the AI guardians. Codes authenticated, the turrets powered down their anti-matter cannons and radiation emitters.
The ships ... | 2016-09-24T08:31:19 | 2016-09-24T08:27:00 | 61 | 41 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | "Oh my God, that is so cute! Look at them!" Zorg looked through the satellite towards planet earth.
"Let me see, let me see! Aww that IS cute." Zoid said with a smile. He loved his job as an anthropologist, especially when his assignments were on humans.
The humans were having a celebratory event for the end of the... | "Zorba! Stop staring at the pictures of the humans and tell me why they are an important race in the university" The light blue-skinned woman asked.
Zorba looked up hesitantly. She was a small girl with dark blue skin and pearly eyes. "Because humans are adorable, Miss Vannor?" She offered up.
"They are indeed the cu... | 2016-09-28T03:42:15 | 2016-09-28T02:37:36 | 455 | 173 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | It turned the sheerest blonde hair into midnight black. Andrew tested it on himself - it didn't budge, not even when he deliberately muttered something mildly forgetful, that should have sent tendrils of blonde creeping back.
As he stared in the mirror, he knew what *could* happen if he were to market this widely. Pe... | You have to fail a thousand times before you succeed.
I could scarcely believe it even as I hold the vial in my hands. The clear liquid looked innocent, like water. But it was an elixir that would change the world.
Probably.
See, I had tested it on mice and chicken, and the results were perfect. I was actually able... | 2016-11-24T20:48:56 | 2016-11-24T20:37:29 | 1,934 | 406 |
[WP] Your new girlfriend has almost everything in common with you. One day, you learn that she's your female clone | Mia eyed David, who stayed completely silent. Dave couldn't even look at Mia, preferring to look at the dishes on the sink. She studied David's face. The green eyes that they both shared. The sharp nose that they both shared. Even the birthmark on his chest, that Mina's shared in the exact same spot. David had once jok... | We love all the same things… It’s crazy really. So, I have this thing for ice cream, right? Eat it for breakfast. But she does too! And the freezer is like our little ice cream library. I mean, we moved in together after what, a month? She’s impulsive… like me.
Our taste in music, movies… she loves the slow boring st... | 2017-01-25T19:59:53 | 2017-01-25T18:29:17 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot. She looks at you confusingly says, "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
Finally! Number one on the front page! Fuck yeah! Gonna sell this account for cocaine now. | I stare back "But...but I'm human" I protest.
"Keith, stop joking around" My wife is beginning to look pissed now.
"Honey, what are you talking about, I'm human. You can have my bloodwork checked if you don't believe me"
She stars at me some more and then belief seems to dawn in her eyes. "Keith you...Oh my god! ... | "Dear, please, it's an old joke"
"I'm not joking"
"But robots don't feel!"
"Look, who's talking! Forgot how you cried at that movie ending?"
"And that's the point!"
"Whatever. I din't think you're one of them!"
"One of the humans?"
"One of the robots who deny they are robots"
"Darling, let's just chill, ok? How... | 2017-01-29T04:02:14 | 2017-01-29T03:09:39 | 52 | 19 |
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