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[WP] The Grim Reaper is your overprotective dad, Hades is the cool uncle, and Cerberus is the beloved family pet. What happens when your boyfriend comes over to meet the family? | All I could think of as I walked to the door was how fucked I was. How do I explain to my dad I fell in love with Time? No matter what I do I know he is going to go up the wall about "That good for nothing, over booking, miscreant". The only thing that could save me would be mom but she has been so withdrawn since dad... | I’m from a little town located several miles below the surface of the earth—it’s called Hell and although it’s small, it’s growing. Our family home is in the town square since my father, Grim, and his brother Hades were founders. We get travelers passing through every now and then; like this one Italian guy who wrote a... | 2017-03-08T18:29:55 | 2017-03-08T17:04:47 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | He threw my wallet on the ground, and shot it until his magazine was empty, every shot made my head jerk back. He then threw the gun on the ground near my wallet, my eyes were narrowed, I was furious.
"Why the hell did you do that? Now I have to request a new ID and credit card."
The man looked up, the hood of his co... | I stared at the man. His grizzled features only made his eyes more striking - this man had seen some shit. I felt myself shaking.
"What the hell was that?" I blurted out, looking at the remains of my wallet. There was a thick, purplish ooze bleeding out of the leather. Teeth lined the edges.
“Better if you don’t kno... | 2017-07-13T00:49:55 | 2017-07-12T23:56:21 | 223 | 82 |
[WP] In the future, to pass college you no longer must pass written finals. Instead, you are simply dropped into a real life scenario related to your major, and left to fend for yourself with your new found knowledge.
*My first post on WP, sorry if it's a repeat and/or against any rule(s)*
Edit: wow, sincerely thank ... | The stench of gunpowder hung in the air. I could hear the artillery fire cascading into a nearby town. I stood up, groggy and confused.
I looked down at myself. I recognized the uniform immediately from my history class. A red swastika covered my left arm.
"Why am I here?" I asked aloud.
A man accosted me from be... | Not sure that this will appeal to everyone but hopefully some people enjoy it
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Helen was in the examination room with three patients in front of her: three people she was expected to save lest she forfeit her degree. Each was sleeping, deeply under the influenc... | 2017-08-10T05:16:53 | 2017-08-10T05:08:15 | 741 | 110 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Some tea, dear?" the little old lady asked to the dark and mysterious figure sitting at her kitchen table. She squinted at him having forgotten her glasses upstairs.
"Yes, earthling," the mysterious figure boomed and whispered all at once, careful not to burst her delicate eardrums with his natural voice as he had w... | Gorestaff the Annihilator snuck carefully through the unfamiliar base. The holographics had shown him what to expect, but the smaller structures were like some sort of nestlings play area to the 8 meter tall Zaxarian, who's hardened carapace was festooned with the gilt of conquered worlds.
But finally he had arrived ... | 2017-08-20T08:54:01 | 2017-08-20T08:37:27 | 1,619 | 96 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Arganax flicked his antenna in irritation as he glanced around the conference room. The air was heavy as each multifaceted eyes twitched away from his stare.
"So," he clicked. "The decision to retreat was universal."
A brief buzzing filled the room as the augmented battle armor they all wore activated under the twitc... | The first time Ravick the Ravisher stepped onto the green pebble, he knew that conquest would be easy. This would be nothing like the molten planet of Xera-2 where his soldiers had sunken beneath the ground only to be swallowed by fire. This planet, if it could even be classified as such, had a nitrogen rich atmosphere... | 2017-08-20T08:54:15 | 2017-08-20T08:30:05 | 316 | 153 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Arganax flicked his antenna in irritation as he glanced around the conference room. The air was heavy as each multifaceted eyes twitched away from his stare.
"So," he clicked. "The decision to retreat was universal."
A brief buzzing filled the room as the augmented battle armor they all wore activated under the twitc... | “I don’t understand,” Beeble said, leaning forward, staring into a brightly colored monitor. “This just doesn’t make any sense.”
The ship was silent, for when their commander was upset, the soldiers knew to stay in their seats and pretend to do their jobs. The only person near him was his brother, Brox, for he was th... | 2017-08-20T08:54:15 | 2017-08-20T08:22:58 | 316 | 151 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "He's adorable!" the large, green abomination said, its hands ruffling the jet black hair of the household pet. The pet growled, showing well polished, white teeth. The alien chuckled, imitating the growl to the best of its ability. "You're so freaking cute when you do that!" it said, its eyes filled with affection and... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T08:02:57 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 235 | 25 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | "My Latin no good much," I mumble, stalling for time.
Caesar's already implacable face hardens further. "Your Latin *good much* enough. Answer." The command is absolute, carrying death behind it.
The stab of fear rebounds within me, and a surge of anger answers. "Would you know things whose knowledge makes them... | Scenario 1: "Oh. That's an easy question. You die an excruciatingly painful death, by the hands of those who you call friends."
This would probably result in him killing me in a rage. Oh, and would probably result in the history of the world since 44BC changing beyond recognition. But who cares about that last part.
... | 2018-02-15T21:12:07 | 2018-02-15T20:35:40 | 109 | 12 |
[WP] Harry Potter is dead; Voldemort is won. The Death Eaters invade the modern world, only to find out there is a reason muggles dominate the Earth and wizards live in hiding.
Always found it weird how muggles still managed to evolve if wizards have always been around. Give a story that explains why. | The trouble with magic, Hermione mused, was that it did not grow easily.
Oh, sure, the raids on the Ministry Archives had proven it did, indeed grow. One of her schoolmates’ friends, Mrs. Luna Lovegood, had a mother invented a local singularity charm, utilising some principles derived from actual Physics. It killed he... | A lot of people ask me about my job. Actually, scratch that. Nobody asks me about my job. Nobody cares about he life of a lowly Death Eater. Even Lord Voldemort can’t take the time out of his day to think about the little people anymore. Not since he took over that measly highschool Hogwarts. Like anyone cares about a ... | 2018-03-01T21:02:19 | 2018-03-01T18:37:50 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] As we all know, Albert Einstein's last words were a mystery, as he uttered it to a nurse who couldn't understand his language. As a multilingual person, you time-travel to the moment he was about to say the last words of his life, and heard the most horrifying sentence you could ever hear. | The room is scarcely lit, a single lightbulb barely illuminating the face of a genius, as if in a mockery of his numerous "ah-ha!" moments. Nothing is left of the air of greatness I expected to feel. Just an old, dying man, powerless and hopeless in face of the inevitable. I catch myself wondering how little our accomp... | “The nuclear bomb’s explosion… I get it now. Those mysteries… It creates a temporal vortex, it… it clones… it clones space and time. Everything touched by radiation… everything… This life… Oh, wow. A bright light… I’m afraid that… what? Oh. Err… ehmm.. errrrr… ffff… oooh…. ffff…”
And so he died. Albert Einstein’s last... | 2018-09-14T04:08:25 | 2018-09-14T00:04:48 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] You have died and gone to Hell. Strangely it isn't as bad as you thought, maybe it is even nice. Turns out the Devil is super lazy and doesn't actually torture the damned. But you, being the compulsive organizer you are, have decide to change that. | "This place is a god-damned mess"
Steve looked around. It was clearly Hell - the fading, flickering neon sign clearly said so - but it didn't seem to fit his image of what Hell should be. Sure, there was fire and brimstone - and crowds of people just aimlessly shuffling about. A few demons, here and there. A few imps... | "Excuse...me? Uh, hello?"
I frowned. This may be a place of eternal torment and sorrow, but that's no excuse for skipping over fundamentals. As soon as someone comes in to your establishment, you need to make the mood of the place clear to them.
I walk through what appears to be a vast, dimly-lit warehouse until I... | 2018-12-18T07:07:38 | 2018-12-18T06:49:06 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] A supervillain gets married, has kids, and retires. The hero doesn't know, and slowly goes insane without them | They say the best revenge is living well. I don't know about that; living well has been nice, but watching that shithead-with-good-publicity have a deliciously gradual breakdown has also been pretty damn good. My favorite part? The whole thing was facilitated by the forces of Law and Order he's always pretended to serv... | *Everything has gone quiet.*
*I don't hear anything - the screams, the cries for help, the battle cries. Nothing. Everything is quiet. For the first time in my life, I can enjoy the chirping birds, the wind flowing through the trees, the busy streets. It's relaxing, sitting on top this rock, staring at my city belo... | 2019-02-20T12:29:46 | 2019-02-20T12:10:18 | 427 | 71 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased with your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell and we're the demons. You have just been summoned... | “Oh great unholy demon, I call upon you now in my hour of need.” The hooded sorcerer says. “I offer you, in exchange for the powers to defeat my enemies, my immortal soul to do with as you please.”
Kevin’s jaw practically drops to the floor as the sorcerer finished his sentence. “I…I…” he stammers. “I have…absolutely ... | I just stood there and stared at him for what felt like a full minute but was probably more like three or four seconds. There were a lot of impossibilities for my brain to process all at once. First, I had been standing in one place one second and a completely different place the next. This had not, so far as I was awa... | 2019-04-25T12:53:02 | 2019-04-25T12:04:27 | 1,415 | 522 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | "I've activated protocol 597, we will send another signal when we're ready for you to return. Prepare until then, I've enabled the quantum anchor in bay 11 for you to lock on to."
*Understood. Syncing with bay 11, I will prepare.*
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&#x... | **Eternal Support**
Characters:
*James*
*Support*
**Open**
*(Scene opens to black. The sound of a pickaxe working can be heard)*
**James:** For hundreds of years my world has been under alien occupation. Our new job under our overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of our ancestors. I've been digging these hole... | 2019-07-22T14:04:19 | 2019-07-22T11:47:36 | 1,039 | 16 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | Clutching the transponder to my core as if cradling an infant, I dashed through the desolate plains surrounding the crash. My toes brushed against the yellow brush which peeked its head through the dirt. The purple sky shone over my head as the moons nearly aligned. In my haste, I tripped over myself, collapsing int... | **Eternal Support**
Characters:
*James*
*Support*
**Open**
*(Scene opens to black. The sound of a pickaxe working can be heard)*
**James:** For hundreds of years my world has been under alien occupation. Our new job under our overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of our ancestors. I've been digging these hole... | 2019-07-22T11:50:49 | 2019-07-22T11:47:36 | 98 | 16 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | Everyday was oppressive under the heat, the toil, and the “overlords”. We would work day in and day out. Our Gods, our saviors, promised everything we wanted to hear. They preached to us of the knowledge and mysteries that they had solved. How our overlords would show us “the way to enlightenment” if we just worked fo... | You
"Where did you go?" It was dusk. I stood in the doorway of our narrow shack with my right hand gripping the rough-hewn silver-grey wood looking up at the citadel's red lights blinking as the day drew to a close. I rub my cheek with the heel of my hand and smear my tears. Our daughter was crying. I heard the crunch... | 2019-07-22T14:00:32 | 2019-07-22T13:00:27 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] A medieval European knight somehow ends up in feudal Japan. With nowhere to go in the foreign land he decides to settle down in a forest. Outside this forest sits a village; and as years go by rumours start to spread of a tall metal spirit that roams this forest. | I can still remember the day i was excommunicated. A few fortnights prior to it, i set out to rescue the love of my life, who was admittedly from a small insignificant kingdom, and who my family disapproved of, but i had my mind set on her.
I heard from a beggar that she has been kidnapped by a wizard who took her w... | a red haze filled the night sky as the sound of crackling and screaming broke the nightly singling of the cicadas. the sound of foot steps and heavy breathing approached the forest. a small child, still barefoot and covered in blood dashed into the brush as the burning village filled the view behind him. now to deep in... | 2019-11-15T09:14:41 | 2019-11-15T08:01:37 | 18 | 11 |
[WP]A little girl makes friends with the demon sent to kill her. Feeling wanted for the first time, it decides to protect her instead | "A kid? Seriously? What's the universe come to... Thousand years ago, they'd have me killing sorcerers, warriors, and now, a child in the suburbs..." Xabreth muttered to himself. His form was hulking, standing ten feet tall, weighing half a ton, tight blue skin stretched across chiseled muscle, riddled with scars, burn... | An orchestra of melody journeyed to Dianna’s ears. She lay back, absorbed in the question of who he was, forgetting her birthday song being riddled by her folks. Dianna had had a secret-admirer for 6 years now. Each annual celebration she was gifted innate bouquets of thorned flowers and the finest chocolate. “Please,”... | 2020-03-31T09:18:33 | 2020-03-31T09:01:39 | 89 | 12 |
[WP] When the galactic council of gods decided to go to war with the humans gods the council trampled all but one. One cloaked figure weilding a sharpened scythe and not a single worshipper to their name and for the first time the council felt afraid. | The Gods where silent as they surrounded the last enemy. The Human Gods fought well, for ones so hopelessly outmatched, although that didn't seem to deter them from fighting to their last breath. Now, only the God that remained was the only one that abstained from fighting, although they where always close to the battl... | Mex Ki'Toth gazed out into the abyss beyond. No lights of far flung stars, no brilliant bursts of wave spectrums to color the cosmos. The roar of creation as atoms smashed together, as electrons pulsed to tangible form? All of this was blotted out by the great shadow that Mex Ki'Toth stood within. Beside Mex Ki'Toth wa... | 2021-06-02T20:56:16 | 2021-06-02T20:21:39 | 51 | 18 |
[WP] 30 years ago, you decided that humanity was a lost cause. After packing some supplies, you walked deep into the woods and haven't seen another person since. Now, after all these years, you are filled with nothing but regret for your choice and have decided to go back. | Walking towards the edge of the forest, I saw the sun obstructed for the first time in 30 years, no dust curtains breaking through the trees, no rustling branches in my way. The sun breathed life into my face again as I watched it cresting over the horizon once again.
I can't even remember what drove me to this. Th... | The intense crashing of waves against the cliff was natures chorus. Salt-saturated, heavily moisturized air flooded Joan's lungs with nostalgia. Many years he'd looked out to sea, an enigma; so much to explore but nothing material to his eye. If he could have grown gills he would have, and happily jumped in the chilly ... | 2021-06-08T19:23:44 | 2021-06-08T18:10:55 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] "Don't miss me too much." they say jokingly. "I won't. I love you." *click* you hang up the phone and take aim from 2,500 meters away with tears in your eyes. | A familiar ring tone pounds through my Bluetooth headset as I calmly held my target through the sights of a G22A1 sniper rifle.
"Yes, honey?" I answer, knowing who it was on the other end.
"You left so early this morning, just wanted to wish you luck."
The figure in my reticle held the phone to their left ear as the... | "You would love it here!" I heard the voice speak up over the phone as I chewed my lip and held back tears. "The mountains, the people, everything!""
Yeah?" I said with sorrow as I lined the scope up with the beautiful beach as I continued, "What about the beaches, do you have any plans to visit them."
"Reading my mi... | 2021-06-19T11:55:15 | 2021-06-19T11:04:44 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] you were a mighty hero in your time, until you were trapped under a mountain fifty six years ago. After finally escaping you discover that your grandchildren have become the villains. It's time to whoop some sense into them, grandpa style. | A paladin's service is never complete.
A skeletal hand burst from the ground. It scrapped for purchase before pulling the rest of its attached body through.
After 56 years of toil, Leon had finally risen above his earthen prison. He surveyed the landscape before he knelt to pray.
On this side, we live. On the oth... | Deep beneath the eerie mountains, there lies a strange being, strange as to say, a forgotten phenomenona. Lost within the decades, a mystery yet to be revealed. Its descendants lay behind stains of its past, rumors are constantly changing of its own near distant legend, present facts doesn't convey its stature. A hero ... | 2021-11-18T22:39:40 | 2021-11-18T18:48:58 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has discovered a surge of unnatural energy from the universe. Completely alien, but the translation is clear: "Goodbye." Hundreds of alien civilizations, each one saying "goodbye." | “Mr President, based on our translations we believe there may be a mass extinction event occurring near the galactic center of the Milky Way,” a solemn looking elderly woman on the screen said.
The President’s chief of staff, standing off to the side of the conference room, shifted uncomfortably, trying to catch the... | Deep from the universe is where the source of the message came from. Calvin had been stirring a cup of instant noodles whenever his terminal sprung to life, the dark screen going bright, scaring him badly enough that he jerked and spilled hot soup onto the top of his hand.
"Son of a-", he muttered, but the pain quick... | 2022-07-16T21:06:58 | 2022-07-16T20:19:13 | 229 | 84 |
[WP] There is a purple door somewhere with a single key hole. It will open regardless of the key that is used. All keys can open this door, but what‘s on the other side, however, depends entirely on the key. | Little click out of one, two is binding. Click out of three. Bit of counter rotation on four, feels like we're dropping into a false set. Back to the start. Good click out of two, and we've got this open. Now, folks, that wasn't too hard of a lock to pick. Some skill required, but overall I wouldn't use this for doors ... | ##Purple Door of Necessity
*It goes wherever it's needed.*
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Jim cries in his bedroom alone. Same as every night for the past twenty years. All he wants is a friend. When he looks up, he sees the answer to his problem.
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*It welcomes all to its warmth.*
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Bills are spread across the table, and Lindsay got ... | 2022-11-23T19:29:11 | 2022-11-23T18:32:49 | 244 | 45 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | Those who say alcoholism is selfish really didn't know how selfless it was for me to stay drunk out of my fucking mind.
The drinking made everything just a little too slow. Thoughts would trot instead of racing, memories would stumble gently upon my brain instead of hitting it full-force. Everything was a bit dim; an... | The day I decided to remain under the influence was lost to my scattered mind, but I do remember parts of it. The screaming, the yelling, the destroyed buildings. The bodies.
They like you to believe that heroes are all-good, that they don't make mistakes, that they would never do anything to hurt anyone even the v... | 2022-12-28T08:49:46 | 2022-12-28T07:48:21 | 1,700 | 834 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I glanced at the gun leveled against my temple. She must have found it above the cabinet in the garage. I took a drink and went back to whatever it was on TV.
"I've had enough," she said with surprising calm. "I can't do this anymore."
Nothing good is on. "I can't say I didn't see it coming."
"You know, if you just ... | It's summer, one of those days that feels like walking through someone's warm, wet breath. A gross day. Jess is wandering around the fairgrounds with Barry Binninger, who's the son of his mom's friend Linda and who whines almost constantly.
They're walking along the row of games. Jess only has a dollar, so he has to ... | 2014-05-27T20:16:44 | 2014-05-27T19:03:00 | 224 | 49 |
[WP] Make the saddest love story without involving any deaths, breakups, or separations. | They were perfect for each other.
They shared a favorite movie, favorite book, favorite meal, and favorite color.
She cracked up at the kind of corny jokes he loved to tell.
He adored violin music; she had been playing since she was six years old.
The two were compatible at every possible level.
On May 23, 2010, t... | They didn’t know. They couldn’t know. All they ever did was question. Always the questions. But they never listened to my answers. And they never asked the right questions to begin with.
“Are you sure you want to stay with her?” They should be asking why she would want to stay with me.
She saved me.
People looked a... | 2014-06-23T08:49:37 | 2014-06-23T08:46:22 | 295 | 27 |
[WP] You move into a new house that hasn't had a resident in more than twenty years. In the attic, in a locked safe, you find a dusty box with your first and last name scratched into it, as well as today's date.
Wow, this thing got pretty big, hu? I think that we have /u/samgalimore to thank for that. :) Thank you for... | As I stared in disbelief at the words, my grandson came up behind me and asked what was wrong.
My trembling hands held out the box. "My name..." I said.
"Oh FFS, grandma!" he replied. "You and your dementia. You wrote that yourself just half an hour ago. I swear we're going to have to put you in a home one of these ... | At first, I just stare at it. I'm sure my mind is wild, ticking away the possibilities of how such a thing could come to be, but at the moment it feels like I am somehow trapped in space, frozen in time, and absolutely nothing is moving.
When I come out of it my hands are already unclasping the lock and I'm opening it... | 2014-11-05T08:13:25 | 2014-11-05T07:37:43 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | A young lady at a loud coffee shop just can't seem get comfortable in her cushy leather seat. Every position doesn't quite work right.
~ Am I gassy? It must be the coffee. I think I've had a bit too much coffee.
She looks down at the nearly full cup of coffee.
~ Or not.
The bell at the door draws her attention. A... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T10:33:36 | 241 | 27 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 71 | 12 |
[WP] You are a basic video game enemy, guarding your boss' lair with your colleagues. Suddenly, the famous supersoldier hero, who gives your evil plans a hard time, shows up in your area. You quickly shoot him in the head. He falls. | "Shit." I said, looking at the bloody ruin where his head had been. "Shit".
The boss was not gonna like this. I had heard him rehearsing his evil monologue all morning. He had just gotten the cackle down as well. And the twist when it turned out he had been the hero's uncle? Classic. But it was going to go to waste.
... | This probably sucks. Enjoy.
Two men are sitting at a bar in a elaborately ornate mansion. Clearly the owner is a fan of the 50s and 60's. As if the diner inspired seats and bar stools weren't a dead giveaway, the jukebox and restored neon beer signs are practically roaring for a time long lost. A chandelier made of o... | 2015-06-08T08:06:52 | 2015-06-08T05:04:01 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | *This is my first time responding to a prompt because this one just looks so fucking cool. So, without further ado, here goes:*
Day 1: The tattoos appeared. It was a normal day for everyone, except we woke up with a tattoo on our dominant arm. It was just our names; nothing more, nothing less. Of course, the internet ... | "Hey, Aika! What did you get?"
It was like one of those lunch breaks. One of those fun days where the two of us would sit down and do quizzes until we categorised ourselves sufficiently. We'd always loved roleplay and fantasy, so when we woke up we immediately freaked out. Chester ran up to me, smiling and pointing at ... | 2015-07-14T01:01:26 | 2015-07-13T23:04:45 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | She’s so beautiful.
The second I see her my mind darts back to that little dinner party anecdote my uncle would always spout. “Well I had to travel to France,” he’d start “when your *words* are in French, you have to take the plunge. Six months I studied the language, six months I saved money for a ticket, only to fi... | *32* A seemingly insignificant number.
*32*, The temperature that signified the roads would be icy as she tripped back home for winter. The number of years she had gone through the insufferable monotony of people consumed by the goal of finding their soul mate. The number of people she had unfriended on social media ... | 2015-08-08T11:29:36 | 2015-08-08T10:26:02 | 1,771 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a society where justice is truly blind. The judge and jurors are not allowed to know the name, gender, race, religion, or appearance of the defendant. | "You can't know!"
The challenge came from a younger woman. She was naive, but she wasn't afraid to call the man out.
"You're making an accusation on an educated guess, there's no witnesses, no video, no pictures. It could be anyone," She shouted.
"Yes, but it's not anyone, it's him. I know he did it, I have everyt... | Twelve angry people sit in a room.
"The knife isn't that rare." Says Juror 8.
"I don't think that witness could see the scene clearly." Says Juror 4.
"That public defender didn't really care." Says Juror 8.
"No, he didn't." Says Juror 4.
"Let's vote. Just to see where we stand." Says Juror 1. Everyone murmurs ... | 2015-09-05T18:53:44 | 2015-09-05T17:13:21 | 740 | 73 |
[WP] Write a story based on your favourite song. Other people have to guess which song it is.
Can be inspired by lyrics, backstory, or anything else you love about the song | A 43 year old Jamaican-American man appeared in court today, in an attempt to overturn a divorce ruling, despite his partner submitting photographic evidence of his infidelity.
The pictures show the defendant, butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor. The ex wife also claims she saw the pair kissing on the sofa, b... | The heavy chime of church bells always comes a little before 5 o'clock, muffled by the thick slabs of stone that imprison me here. The sound rattles in my skull though it is faint. Today is a different day. The cold air still smells of mold and memories of a past life. But now I am jostled to my feet by big gloved hand... | 2015-09-13T07:25:48 | 2015-09-13T05:52:19 | 67 | 29 |
[WP] A new drug let's you live a lifetime in one dream
I have a recurring dream. It's interesting to me because i've been going through the motions of life within this dream; I live a second life every night so to speak. So I put this here to see where people's imaginations can take them.
EDIT: I can't edit the titl... | The first night on which Isaac awoke he was overcome with an insurmountable feeling of anxiety. He had been pressured into trying Nod by a friend, using the term loosely, and was already beginning to regret his decision. He had never abused drugs (save perhaps for nicotine), but peer pressure often breaks even the stro... | If it comes to me, I'll write a story response as well but this is a slam poem written with this kind of prompt in mind. Hope you enjoy; I want to get into /r/WritingPrompts more; criticism appreciated.
EDIT: Changed the ending's imagery just a slight bit.
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[WP] The founding fathers come back from the dead to check up on America, and boy do they have some asses to kick. | Reporters pushed their way through the crowd, and cameras flashed like firecrackers. The five men had formed a defensive ring, alternating their confused looks between each other and the crowd before them.
"Jeanne Larsen, New York Times," one reporter shouted, thrusting her microphone into the tallest one's face. "Can... | It was the most hotly anticipated press conference in centuries. All these great men that people had only ever read about in history books were here, in the flesh, about to address the entire country on television. A solemn expression was on all of their faces, betraying a simmering anger. Finally Benjamin Franklin was... | 2016-10-17T11:50:20 | 2016-10-17T11:48:02 | 427 | 18 |
[WP] You were born with Heterochronoia - one eye can see 5 seconds into the future and the other sees 5 seconds into the past. | "So what's it called again?" She asked as I shrugged my shoulders. It feels like I've had to explain it a thousand times now during this blind date alone.
"It's called Heterochronia--my left eye sees five seconds in the past, and my right eye sees five seconds in the future."
She nodded skeptically. "Right. But if ... | I never cared enough to know his name. But everyone knew who he was. He arrived a few years back in our town, with nothing but well worn clothes and a full gym bag. He was just unusual and harmless enough to be mocked by us children. We mocked his slow demeanor, his inability to dodge our balls, but most of all, we moc... | 2016-12-19T12:14:40 | 2016-12-19T11:40:44 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | I stood in the line, awaiting the elder to call me in, I had turned 21 today, first thing I thought of was the title I would receive and what that title would be. Glenda, our elder, was the current elder in a long line proceeding her.
Normally, Glenda was usually very kind and warm to the other villages but when it ca... | I kissed my mother goodbye, as I headed off to begin the trek that would surely mark the end of my life. She was trying, and failing, not to cry. So was I. We lived a mile away from town because of her 'gifts', close enough to be within reach, far enough away to keep seperate from the'decent folk'. "She lived", I menta... | 2017-04-27T18:09:07 | 2017-04-27T17:59:03 | 2,949 | 188 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | I kissed my mother goodbye, as I headed off to begin the trek that would surely mark the end of my life. She was trying, and failing, not to cry. So was I. We lived a mile away from town because of her 'gifts', close enough to be within reach, far enough away to keep seperate from the'decent folk'. "She lived", I menta... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T17:59:03 | 349 | 188 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | She pulled the trigger, apologizing under her breath. The shot rang out, causing her to flinch, the body falling limply to the floor.
Blood on her beautiful dress.
She waited for him to come, preening herself, making sure she was perfect for him.
A glint of the scythe.
"**You need to stop doing this.**"
She poute... | I remember the first time I saw him. It was love at first sight. My uncle was dead on the floor, and he came. He pulled back his hood. I was terrified, but he had the face of an angel. His voice was calming and sweet. I vowed to see him again. There was the easy way, but it only guaranteed a brief visit with him. So, I... | 2017-06-07T17:26:56 | 2017-06-07T16:55:56 | 9,304 | 392 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | The first time I saw Her was an accident. Mr. Johnson just tripped, struck his head on the table, and didn't get back up. And there She was, pale and perfect in black... and then gone.
The second time wasn't an accident. I had to see Her again, I *needed* to. So I slipped a little something extra into my wife's mornin... | The dead white walls seemed to hum with excitement along with her. Tonight is the night. She trekked from room to room, waiting on nightfall. It wasn't required, but it just seemed fitting. The cart she pushed from room to room squeaked quietly along in front her. She seemed not to notice the front right wheels resista... | 2017-06-07T18:09:30 | 2017-06-07T17:27:32 | 75 | 48 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | We all stared at each other in shock, we were all cops - county, city, state, feds. The original gang members had all left at some stage.
This had gone on for months, but no one had the balls to call a stop to it.
My chief trusted me to shut down this gang, so I knew I had to take those drastic steps. Some sacrific... | Frankie paced back and forth. He was worried. He was hands-shaking, muttering-to-himself, about-to-cry worried. I couldn't blame him; I was a little distraught myself. I mean, he was holding a sawed-off shotgun. If his trigger finger shook any more, I'd be sporting a new chest hole. As soothingly as I could, I tried to... | 2017-07-24T12:06:19 | 2017-07-24T11:09:01 | 62 | 22 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | We were at Walmart...Dad told me I could pick anything up for my birthday present, thats about the first time I noticed it, there it was.... On the floor a distinct green line and on the opposite side a red line, this one was a little less brighter, it had a very bleak bright to it.
I followed the green line to see w... | Followed the red line today. First time. Whole life, two lines, one straight and one crooked. One green, prosperity; one red, uncertainty.
From my house, past my Lexus, over the small bridge connecting our borough to the next, the scarlet line continued and I continued with it. Familiar turned to unknown, real unknown... | 2017-08-23T08:58:51 | 2017-08-23T08:40:04 | 100 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity's first contact with alien life was a defenseless child, found in the wreckage of a crashed spaceship, desperately begging their mother to wake up. | Tom took a sip from his coffee mug as he stared out the window of observation post 25-BD7. He was greeted by the same empty white view of snow that he saw day in and day out.
"Will have to actually go out and clear this window one of these days..."
He took another sip, continuing to enjoy his view.
"Not that it'd ... | "Fransen, get the techs, they might want to see this." I say, running my hand across a panel of exposed wiring, "*Complex, intermeshed, pretty damn sophisticated.*" I mumble.
Fransen eventually returns with three women clad in white lab coats, who immediately push past me, scanning and prodding the wires. We're here... | 2017-08-31T00:21:01 | 2017-08-30T19:56:17 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] You discovered the dark secret of the Superhero League: there are no super villains, just heroes that double as villains to fleece the public for fame and fortune. | ######[](#dropcap)
*Every supervillain wears a mask.*
This was the thought that Glen Howard could not shake off, no matter how hard he tried.
The idea had come to represent all of Glen's doubts - doubts which, ironically enough, first occured to Glen on the momentous day The Mustachio saved Glen's life.
Exacto, th... | *I had originally posted this in two separate comments but I decided I might as well just combine them since the first part didn't really do much.*
***
"God *damn* it!" Jamie said; her hand had knocked over her wine glass, spending a cascade of Merlot across the papers she had laid out on the table. "This is all the th... | 2018-07-27T12:45:30 | 2018-07-27T12:10:45 | 90 | 16 |
[WP] You are madly in love with someone and profess you will do anything to gain their love. Their reply: "Anything?" | “Anything?”
I glanced up at him through my eyelashes, the tiny hairs all over my body rising. My heart was racing at the mere thought that he may return my love. I didn’t care what it was in exchange for, I would have killed for him.
I longed to feel his warm embrace, his hands on my hips, his lips on mine. I wanted ... | "Anything?" His mouth hitched up at one corner, and suddenly a strange feeling passed through me. I gulped, but I wasn't backing down. He was my soulmate, and yes, I would do ANYTHING for this man. I nodded, and his eyes glinted.
"Okay Marissa, i'll allow you to prove your love for me. I ask one thing, and if you suc... | 2018-08-02T00:14:37 | 2018-08-01T19:54:50 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] After your death, you found yourself in a non-human body, holding what looks like a bong, surrounded by other members of the same species asking you "how was the trip?" in a language you somehow understand despite never hearing before. | "Give me the money!" I suddenly looked up, snapping out of my day dream of beautiful hot babes and sunny Pacific waves. A masked man was waving a pistol in my face.
"Did you fucking hear me?! I SAID, GIVE. ME. THE. MONEY!"
I wished I gave a shit, but working this night shift at this minimum wage gas station had... | It felt like I was pulled out of a nap, snapped out of a daydream, and ripped out of the afterlife all at once. Here I was sitting on the woody trunk of a fallen mycota, one hand still holding the vac bong, the other still warm from the heating coil, the other propping me up by my elbow, and the other resting on my leg... | 2022-11-11T13:06:03 | 2018-11-12T09:30:09 | 54 | 33 |
[WP] You have a magic dart; throw it at any map, and instantly teleport to where is lands. You accidentally miss and hit the Lord of the Rings poster in your room. | "Sooo" I said, awkwardly as I stood on a pedestal in the middle of a round, outdoor meeting hall. A grouping of elves, men, dwarves, and uhh dwarfy dwarfs stood staring at me, some wielding weapons.
"I didn't mean to interrupt, I'll be making my way now if you please. Sorry again!" I crept down from the post, and the ... | People always talk about maturity as if it’s a good thing. Which it’s not. Mature cheese, is just mouldy, old, stinky cheese. I suppose it’s meant to be aging with grace, but to me, ageing with grace is like dying with grace-still shitty.
Oh, Joe, don’t make fun of your brother. Oh, Joe, don’t spit in his food when h... | 2019-03-22T09:47:29 | 2019-03-22T04:31:34 | 82 | 30 |
[WP] Guy mentally spends a billion years thinking in peace in a higher dimension and suddenly awakens back to his normal life ,but for others he only fainted for a few minutes after being hit by something strange .He smiles and just walks away...but the UNIVERSE is not prepared for such a being . | I force myself upright, operating on almost sheer will alone. My body has long since failed me, and truth be told, I sometimes fear my mind has too. Still, all things considered I've had a wonderful life.
The door opens, and I focus my attention. A mystery visitor - whoever could it be? One of the grandchildren perh... | I awoke to a cacophonous medley of sirens and panicked murmurs. It was all so disorienting-- not the situation, but something *else*. I watched through bleary eyes as a man in reassuring uniform approached me. I felt my arms noodle their way under my torso, screaming, striving to overcome weakness before giving up. The... | 2019-04-20T10:34:20 | 2019-04-20T10:20:54 | 117 | 15 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | Now I knew what it meant as I lay in the hospital bed. When I was twenty, my friend of 17 years had said he’d kill me one day. He’d been joking, and while I’d been wary at the time, I’d eventually stopped worrying about it. We were friends, and fifty years later, we still are.
“I’m so sorry,” he said. “It shouldn’t be... | “I’ll be the death of you one day!” She said, with a toothy smile and her eyes enraptured.
*ding*
“You wouldn’t kill me!” I retorted, a mixture of joking and surprise.
“Naw.” She said, turning back to her book again.
With that, we said our goodbyes and I went home with my dad - maintaining an overwhelming sense of... | 2019-05-27T05:46:54 | 2019-05-27T05:44:42 | 521 | 338 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | Now I knew what it meant as I lay in the hospital bed. When I was twenty, my friend of 17 years had said he’d kill me one day. He’d been joking, and while I’d been wary at the time, I’d eventually stopped worrying about it. We were friends, and fifty years later, we still are.
“I’m so sorry,” he said. “It shouldn’t be... | The strange concoction burns my throat on its way down; searing my insides as it searches for the pit of my despair. Everything around me is starting to blur now; the gray, stormy skies and the moon are a blur before we make our descent on to the top of the structure looming in front of us.
"Get him, now!" I mumble to... | 2019-05-27T05:46:54 | 2019-05-27T04:24:14 | 521 | 251 |
[WP] Superpowers are able to be purchased in stores. You decide to look through the bargain bin. | I remember always being the last kid to get in on the new crazes. And it wasn't for a lack of wanting, but the fact of the matter was that we just didn't always have the means. I was never mad about it; getting Pokémon cards a year after they were cool meant I got to hand-select all the ones I really wanted for cheap. ... | I always dreamt of being a superhero. To be able to jump over buildings, to have super strength or be indestructible. But I just never had any money for it. Superheroes had always existed in our world and after some research, scientists were able to isolate the genes that gave them their powers. Soon enough they develo... | 2019-07-04T06:16:16 | 2019-07-04T04:34:36 | 95 | 35 |
[WP] Legend says there are 77777 secret paths to immortality, but each path will only work once. In 2014, the first person accidentally achieved immortality by sticking a French fry into her nostril and pulling it out the other intact. Human behaviour has since become more... interesting. | There are 77,777 paths to immortality, and each works but once. When the news broke, the world went wild with the crazy antics, each person trying to trigger a path.
Some were inane, like flipping a lightswitch 77 times and stopping at the end midswitch. Some were gross, like sticking a whole french fry up your nose... | The barricade over the door was strong enough to hold out the rival gang, the only problem was that there was not other exit. Stephen racked his brain to think of a way out. He knew that if the door was opened his body would be penetrated by bullets from the senior gang members, and knives from the juniors. He had to t... | 2019-07-23T09:58:42 | 2019-07-23T09:44:36 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | "I don't remember much of anything, really."
The overhead lights' buzz played softly over the men. A man with a scruffy grey beard sat opposite a young, spectacled--but serious--soldier. The one who was clean-shaven, without any sign of aging, was the person who'd been missing for nearly eighty years. The boy rubbed a... | “Squadron Leader I’ve got eyes on the bogey. It’s uh, I think it’s a uhh....”
Her eyes and her mind were disagreeing and the effect was like an old video tape getting stuck in a pause loop, refusing to play forward.
“Lieutenant what are you seeing?”
“I uhh.....” She managed.
What was she seeing? It was a B-24 Liberat... | 2019-12-01T08:29:11 | 2019-12-01T08:07:18 | 417 | 139 |
[WP] your body seems to have a mind of its own. Whenever it senses a danger, it moves by itself to minimize the threat to you. It's never wrong. On one ordinary day, your body stops, then runs in one direction at top speed, clearly away from or towards something. | I had always thought it must be something subconscious. I wasn’t one to believe in supernatural things, so I assumed that my power was more like an instinct. Much like when a dog senses an earthquake long before its unaware owner. Sometimes I would drop a knife and instantly, before I even thought about it I would move... | Inside the principal’s office were three individuals. The portly, nearly-balding man with thick bushy eyebrows and a matching mustache--the principal, Mr. Billiam Friedman--was on one side of the desk with an incredulous expression on his face. It was directed at the man immediately across from him on the other side o... | 2020-02-02T08:13:56 | 2020-02-01T22:10:06 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't. | We turn a blind eye everyday to those in need around us. We like to pretend that we don’t, that we can’t save everyone. The machines had no such delusions.
The very first of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics was simple: Never harm a Human, or through inaction allow a Human to come to harm.
The others didn’t matter, th... | We programmed them in our own image. Our ideal one, not the one marred by truth.
We desired utopia, so they did, too. We acted like we'd never harm a living soul, so they did, too. We pretended to be the best we could be, so they did, too.
We just differed in our methods.
The first death didn't spark an outcry. Fo... | 2020-02-10T05:44:23 | 2020-02-10T05:10:04 | 5,648 | 726 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | "There's nothing we can do. The baby should be fine, but you might want to start getting yourself prepared."
The doctor didn't understand. None of them did. When a baby is born as a "Protagonist", the mother dies. So that meant I was going to die. Everyone thought I was upset because I only had a few days left to live... | Just like his father, just like his mother. Fate is a harsh mistress and this was no mercy from her. But to screw Fate was her very reason to live. No army has defeated her, no spy has managed to even hurt her. Constant vigilance was needed in such a life but sometimes, you cannot stand against thee will of the univers... | 2020-04-28T06:46:05 | 2020-04-28T06:31:13 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] "There's a fine line between a vigilante and a very selective serial killer." said the costumed hero. | **Blood-Drinker**
"There's a fine line between a vigilante and a very selective serial killer." said the costumed hero, Blood-Drinker, as he stared down from the rooftop at the guy he just threw into the alleyway below. The moonlight glistened off his hockey mask.
He repeated that line out loud after every murder he ... | *(A makeshift interrogation room. A door leading out sits Upstage Center. A single table sits in the room at Center Stage, and a bulb suspended above the provides the light. On one side sits* **BLUE**, *she is dressed in a quasi-suit. A 3-quarter mask sits upon her face, obscuring any details. Across from her sits* **M... | 2020-06-17T14:15:09 | 2020-06-17T13:36:43 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You insert a q-tip too far in your ear, hear a click and all of a sudden you see a panel that says "Settings". | Today is the day. The final court date. I close my eyes and sigh. This mess can finally be over.
My phone is full of texts from friends telling me that I'm being 'so brave' and that they're proud of me. I leave it on silent and go to take a shower. The sooner I start the day, the sooner it'll be over.
As I undress, ... | "Just a bit, Mom!" I said from the bathroom. It was my turn to put my little brother, Joey, to sleep, and from the scuffling sounds coming from down the hall, he was putting up a fight. "I'm just finishing up in here."
I leaned forward over the sink, getting close to the mirror so that I could inspect an especially r... | 2020-07-15T12:44:32 | 2020-07-15T10:41:51 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You tried to summon the devil to grant your wish, but instead of summoning him you got Cer, Ber, and Rus, 3 adorable puppies with them is a note from the Devil, "If you properly take care of them, I might just grant your wish." | When I first met the boys, I was living in a small apartment making just above minimum wage. I couldn't afford one dog, let alone three. I could barely feed myself off-brand Raisin Bran, and that was when it was on sale. It made sense for the Eternal Prince of Darkness to play to my weaknesses. I was going to ask him f... | PART 1
“Please, please can we keep them?” my wife asked while cuddling with the three bundles of fur that lay in a box on my front doorstep.
“Sure,” I replied with a grin, hiding the note that had come with them behind my back.
Three nights ago, I had done the unthinkable – after years of God failing to answer my... | 2020-09-03T18:24:24 | 2020-09-03T15:07:58 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You're a novice demon who managed to convice a mother to give up her first born in exchange for eternal youth. You did so, because it seems like the kind of thing all the other demons are doing, but now you are not sure what you are supposed to do with an infant and it's way too late to ask. | It was dark in the witch’s kitchen. Shadows trembled in the corners. Fire hissed and danced beneath the cauldron. Susie filled her tea mug from the kettle beside it. She sat back in her favourite armchair, put her feet up, and let out a sigh. She'd earned herself a nice quiet evening with a good book, and by Gaia, she ... | "Check it out! My very first first-born!" Lucas roared to the other demons in class.
"Wow he already got a first-born?" "How'd he did it?" "God be damned!" The other demon children were thoroughly impressed, then Henry asked excitedly "what are ya gonna do with it??" with a wide eyed smile.
Lucus stuttered, "U-uh,... | 2021-01-17T17:27:11 | 2021-01-17T16:32:20 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You are a freshly summoned demon. A child kneeling on the floor gawks at you with desperate, teary eyes, and you can hear furious yelling coming from somewhere nearby. | Kneeling on the ground after being summoned, I raised my head. “Why have you sum-” I started, before blinking in surprise. The trembling, teary eyed girl in front of me was not what I had expected. I was used to greedy businessmen; envious stalkers; weak men and women who got it in their head that they deserved more. T... | **The Daemon**
After a few millennia, I considered myself a connoisseur of summoning spells. The best were the overly dramatic, high budget performances put on by cult gatherings. They were full of tedious chanting and speeches full of "thee" and "thou", but always good for a dozen or so easy souls. Then there wer... | 2021-02-27T12:57:21 | 2021-02-27T08:00:25 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Before carpeting the floors, your parents allowed you to paint whatever you wanted on the floor. As a joke, you paint a devil’s trap. One day, when you bring your friend over, they find that they suddenly cannot move from a certain spot on the floor. | "What have you done?" Gabriel said, both visage and words twisted in anxiety as he frantically looked around, before his eyes finally settled on me.
"Haha, very funny," I exhaled. "Look, get off it. We have important things to do. Food to eat, games to play..."
"Um," he said, gaze now fixated on the floor. "What the ... | "Dillon what have you done?" Asked my friend, standing on a small square of carpet in the living room.
"Ah, haha. Very funny Bell " I replied chuckling at her little joke, "alright, we should probably get started with our project eh?". I made my way out of the living room expecting Bell to follow, however she remained ... | 2021-04-30T03:23:00 | 2021-04-30T01:26:29 | 185 | 29 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “Sir, look, you’re a rockstar,” the recruiter started. “No, I’m The Technician,” I interrupted. This guy had been calling me for months now, and this was the second time this week. It’s only Monday.
“Your skills are unique, even amongst all of the superpowers out there, yours are unique. Tenor Nullifio can’t disable y... | Our office building was kept cold, even colder because of the clientele we worked with. I was in the ice room, which is exactly what it sounded like, a room with a comically huge block of ice. Parts of it were melting and I clapped my hands together to freeze the water that had pooled.
The water turned to ice and I cl... | 2022-07-31T14:08:55 | 2022-07-31T10:18:23 | 576 | 313 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | The suited man stepped out of the government jet with a fake smile "Marston my friend, long time no see. How long has it been, I love what you've done with the place, really cozy."
"What do you want Jack?"
Jack brushed off the question "what, can't a guy go see his friends once in a while? Say how about we take a loo... | "Come on, Ryan, you can do anything you want but you have a desk job? Why not come with us? I can double your salary!," Mr. White says on the other side of the door for the second time today. I groan, pushing my back against the door in an attempt to ignore him.
"Fuck off, Mr. White. I would rather die than join your h... | 2022-07-31T22:51:20 | 2022-07-31T17:55:32 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "Ok that was the last patient on the docket today, tomorrow you have 3 appointments. Two of them are regularly scheduled visits from Marcos at 11 and Helena at midday the third appointment is a new patient that was recommended by a friend of yours at 15:00 ."
A soft yet deep and compassionate voice responded to the r... | The background droning of the air conditioning haphazardly shoved into the office window seemed to act like a white noise for me as I continued my daily tasks. The soft music of my indie playlist coming through my desktop speakers helped the hours fly by- until I got the call.
That stupid, stupid call. I knew the num... | 2022-07-31T21:07:15 | 2022-07-31T16:20:17 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity spread into the stars. They're generally quite kind and helpful and treat all worlds as important. But occasionally they'll ignore uniquely made human ships. When asked about it, most humans just say "The powerful abandoned Earth after nearly killing us. Now we're returning the favor" | The beeping of the radar made me spin around in the hoverchair, the familiar sound informing our crew of the presence of another spaceship in our system, and importantly, one which was in distress. As I was on duty, I began to scan through the system-wide array of scanners and detectors to find a visual footprint of th... | I've always been so fascinated by humans. They seemed so interesting to me, especially compared to my race. My siblings always teased me about this. They said that I wished I was a human. But that wasn't true! Yes, their variety of brown skin tones are more interesting than our Golvovolic's uniform green skin. They're ... | 2022-11-16T01:22:28 | 2022-11-15T23:27:57 | 112 | 56 |
[WP] The Fashion Police are real and more powerful than any authority on Earth. | "Weeee ooooo weeee oooo weee ooooo..."
"Oh for fuck's sake..." Winston murmured.
"Weeee oooo weeee oooo weeee oooo...." the officer continued as he trotted down the sidewalk towards him, "pull over mister!"
"I heard you," he cried, and stepped out of the flow of foot traffic and waited for his the officer to meet hi... | Usually when I heard the sirens, I didn't worry. Thirteen stories up, they were faint, no more than a thin wail, like a tired puppy whining.
Today, the sirens were more like a shrieking baby in a neighbor's apartment, absolutely impossible to ignore.
I resisted the urge to pull my chair back from my desk and stare ... | 2014-02-13T15:02:18 | 2014-02-13T14:54:35 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are more terrifying than the most advanced aliens in the galaxy. | "The exploders creep me out."
"They prefer to be called humans."
"Yeah? And I'd prefer to be called the Uber-Admiral of the 5th fleet. Doesn't change the fact that those things are obsessed with explosions."
"Are you talking about nuclear weapons? Plenty of pre-FTLs have come up with those. I mean, even we went ... | *Them*? Why should we be worried about them?
If you would allow me the necessary amount of time to describe my experiences among...
Why not just share directly?
It's not safe, you don't realize the danger.
But they aren't even a Kardashev I yet. No FTL..... they've barely entered the age of AI. How can there be a d... | 2014-04-22T12:30:05 | 2014-04-22T07:43:06 | 173 | 91 |
[WP] A race of slaves who really are genetically inferior
Perhaps a fantasy or sci-fi race, idk. During the atlantic slave trade, slave owning was often justified by the "genetic inferiority" of the slaves. Obviously this wasn't true, but even if it were, would that have justified slavery?
Writing from a sub-human pe... | My Master had ordered me up the mountain to speak to an old slave of his stable on the subject of cavalry tactics. The humans had fought no one but eachother for over 100 years, so not even their wisest generals remembered how to effectively combat the new Endari hordes coming from the north.
Sendak was a wise old dr... | I struggled to pick up the heavy stone block, my feeble arms straining.
"Come on!" My master snaps.
"I'm trying, I'm sorry!" With all my strength (which isn't much) I managed to drag the block behind me.
"No no no! You can't drag it! What if it gets scratched?!" My master screeched, aghast. "If you're too weak to li... | 2014-08-06T06:36:59 | 2014-08-06T06:36:40 | 53 | 34 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | These strangw fleshy creatures were so curious. We watched them from far above their planet. Slowly learning their languages, their culture, preparing to accept them into ourselves. They had a strange way of communication, one where they were able to talk using shapes, they didnt even need to see or hear one another. E... | The Ship warden stared at his sensor plot.
“What do they think they’re doing” he said with horrified wonder in his voice.
“Nothing. Just sailing blindly into a quarantine system . Who knows, maybe they’ll see the final warning buoys and turn back. The twenty ships of the Herelnoq fleet bumbled toward the distant pl... | 2014-10-17T11:37:42 | 2014-10-17T11:14:18 | 148 | 21 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Our troops never saw it coming.
We had the finest warriors.
The best Gods-be-damned warriors in the entire universe! We had them trained aboard our greatest ships in the fine arts of blade work, defensive shields, athleticism beyond any other known planet's residents, and we have watched as they tore through planets ... | It had been six thousand, six hundred, and forty eight years since the portal had closed behind Dread Herald Zeba'abaneg. Of course, this was a mere instant for her kind, but she was no closer to enslaving the planet. Despite her title, dread was a foreign emotion for her, but one she had become increasingly acquainted... | 2014-10-17T12:01:01 | 2014-10-17T11:53:06 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] In the far future, military robots and weapons have become so precise that crossfires are completely safe to civilians. Describe the experience of some of the people casually entering this crossfire.
A romantic walk, a school field trip, a family picnic, whatever. Just tell me what their time was like. | “Hey! Numbnuts! You shot my caramel soya frappuccino!” The be-suited man strode up to the UPWAR machine and shook his leaking Starbucks in front of the eye-cam.
“*This is* Ultra Precise Weaponised Arms Robot Sixty Three *at your service. Your complaint has been recognised as Twenty-Three Oh Six – destruction of inani... | The Deldarins went to war with the Cosstrans, who in turn went into fighting with the Belviorians, who decided it was in the best interest of everyone to drag in the Turzeeks. While everyone was fully invested in the war that was to unfold, it was truly the stock market and the bookies that would profit from this game ... | 2014-11-18T18:43:55 | 2014-11-18T18:20:50 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] People are no longer born with the inherent ability to feel emotions. The only way to gain emotions is to learn them from interactions with those who have them. Emotions are now a prized possession. | He had finally made it. After weeks of climbing in the bitter biting cold, Lawrence Redesdale had reached the summit, albeit alone. 3 others had set out with him from the base camp. Two turned back, one died. They had not prepared as he did. They had not taken the task seriously.
Redesdale had quit his job and trained... | “My dog got ran over by a car,” the woman said.
“I’d say I give a shit, but I’m still a hundred points away from gaining empathy,” I replied coldly. Empathy intrigued me. I never really understood why you’d want to feel bad for someone else. How does feeling bad help the other person?
I stood still as the woman slapp... | 2015-01-13T15:08:21 | 2015-01-13T13:57:06 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “Dear god, I’ve been shot!” I cried. My blood dripped onto the crisp autumn leaves and my vision swam. I crumpled to the forest floor, gasping. I could faintly hear the hunter’s panicked voice trying to assure me, or maybe just himself, that everything would be okay. The world blurred and slowed. Everything plunged int... | I used to be a knight. Not a good one, mind you, but a knight nonetheless. Pride of my family; I didn't come from a noble background like most of those shiny knights you see flaunting about. I had to work to earn this, for years I worked for it. What an honor it was to be selected to entertain the young king on his nam... | 2015-01-15T07:39:33 | 2015-01-15T05:47:55 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | "I remember when I first met Carly," X said as he finally got to make his speech. "We knew each other since we were kids but nothing has ever happened between us. And now look at her, getting married. It seems like yesterday where we were meeting up for hugs and kisses, nothing else happened of course. I remember this ... | "Good evening folks, my name's George and apparently I'm the best man. I like to think that in a literal sense, ha. Also, I have a bone to pick with your soon to be wife Jarod, I hear she wanted everyone but me as your best man. That ain't fair now is it? Just glad you realised who's the best man after all," I said lau... | 2015-04-03T01:13:10 | 2015-04-02T22:51:15 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Pitch a gritty reboot for a children's show.
They seem to be all the rage these days, so, why not bring the fun to Saturday morning? | I took a long drag from my pipe and exhaled, glancing at the picture in front of me. New girl in town. Just a farm girl from Texas, and someone wanted her dead. I took another pull. I don't know what she did to piss this guy off, but that wasn't my concern. I had a job to do. I sighed and stood, stretching my arms. I n... | "Is that it? Pathetic." The musclebound behemoth spat in disgust. "They warned me about you - said you were an unstoppable force of mayhem. I guess I never realized they were all brainless cowards."
30 feet away, the man in the tattered trench-coat stumbled slightly as he shambled down the central road of the poverty-... | 2015-10-08T08:33:13 | 2015-10-08T07:08:58 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Pitch a gritty reboot for a children's show.
They seem to be all the rage these days, so, why not bring the fun to Saturday morning? | She was beautiful, rich and charismatic. She was also the brutal leader of an international crime ring. After many years in her organization I committed the ultimate sin, I developed a conscience. When her thugs killed my family and left me beaten and penniless in the streets of Beijing I dedicated my life to a single ... | "Is that it? Pathetic." The musclebound behemoth spat in disgust. "They warned me about you - said you were an unstoppable force of mayhem. I guess I never realized they were all brainless cowards."
30 feet away, the man in the tattered trench-coat stumbled slightly as he shambled down the central road of the poverty-... | 2015-10-08T09:34:42 | 2015-10-08T07:08:58 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens invade the Australian outback. Things do not go according to their plans... | There are legends in the universe. Nightmares carried forward from the cradle of a thousand civilizations. We had heard them all. Some of the races that we've subdued in The Great March Forward cursed us with figments of their own primitive dementia. However, when it came to world called Earth, we learned that some leg... | A gentle gust of wind and dust swirls in the simmering heat, as a metallic flying object settles onto the ground. Blue flames are exuded from two vents beneath the craft, scorching the earth beneath it, but they dissipate as the extruding vents curl back underneath the craft as it comes to a halt.
He watches in aw... | 2015-12-22T07:11:02 | 2015-12-22T06:07:08 | 80 | 11 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | "Okay," God said while he shuffled some papers, "We've just heard from the five dogs you cared for throughout your life. And frankly, I'm touched, that was great testimony. Now let's see what the next group of witnesses have to say. Could the Angeliff please call in the 500,000 chickens that Mr. Abigail's life had a... |
"Crap. So... Hell. That sucks. Guess I'm in line or something, I always imagined there would be someone to tell you what horrible fate awaits you in Hell, but this place is....boring. Buncha rocks, and sulphur smell, but not much really happening."
Just then a door appeared in the middle of the room and opened. Out w... | 2016-03-24T14:53:06 | 2016-03-24T14:20:04 | 96 | 28 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | On the rainbow bridge I will look for you. Knowing that the only reason I am even there is because you plead for me and none could deny your puppy-dog eyes. Proving once again and finally that all a man needs for the salvation of his soul is the love of a faithful dog. | *Wake up in a fiery courtroom*
**Main:** Wow! what the.....
**Judge:** Welcome to Hell, you are brought here today to determine if you will go to heaven or if you will spend eternity being punished here in hell.
**Main:** What, who's deciding that?
**Judge:** It is up to the animals you have interacted with thro... | 2016-03-24T15:04:21 | 2016-03-24T11:03:54 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up in the back of a Range Rover driving through the night on a dark road. Its just you and the driver, her majesty the Queen of England. | My head.
I open my eyes and take in the surroundings. I'm in the back seat of a car, strapped in tightly. I lean forward slightly and pain rockets through my body. I let out a yelp and fall back.
There's a flash of eyes in the rear-view mirror. "You're awake" comes a voice from the driver's seat. I groan in response.... | "It's about time you woke up," the Queen's accent was thicker than usual, her posh demeanor always slipped when she was tired.
"It's a pleasure seeing you too, your Majesty."
"Cut the bullshit we have work to do," she snapped, adjusting the rear view mirror so she could see her passenger.
Even in the dark confines ... | 2017-01-30T08:16:22 | 2017-01-30T08:00:54 | 96 | 27 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 828 | 222 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 828 | 36 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 159 | 17 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 70 | 36 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 46 | 31 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I wasn't a dad, I bought one ironically. The day the mugs changed, a tiny black hole opened up where my mug used to sit next to my coffee maker. My Keurig and no one in a fifteen mile radius noticed, as they were instantly ripped into the basic building blocks of life, which were then ripped into their smallest compone... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T10:07:25 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | Sigh.... It's bad enough having the last name of Smith, but to have that, coupled with the world's least creative parents... Did you know that on the date of my birth, no less than 125 *other* John Smiths were born? Of those, 15 share my middle name of Allen. Of those, 14 are still alive. The one that died was just... | "That is odd" - I thought to myself - "So if this book is always true then that mean I am already dead?"
With a little doubt in my head I touch myself, or rather pinch my cheek to double check that this isn't just one of those crazy dream I have or rather, to see if I actually exist or not.
"If the book was right and... | 2017-09-05T04:10:50 | 2017-09-05T02:33:22 | 50 | 19 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Hey, are you okay?"
Maria wiped the tears from her cheeks. She sniffled, looking anywhere but the man standing next to her. She'd gone to the pier to be alone not have random strangers approach her.
"I-I'm fine," Maria looked out toward the ocean, watching as the whitecaps broke and wove over each other, and how the... | **THUD!!**
"Ow! God damnit!!" He thought to himself so loudly he was certain that someone must have heard it. "Remind me to apologize to every bird outside my office. You really can't see the glass in the window can you? Well at least we know Windex really is worth the few extra bucks"
Irvine still hadn't gotten used... | 2018-02-14T09:37:57 | 2018-02-14T09:10:57 | 231 | 59 |
[WP] You're in the middle of a conversation with friends. They freeze in place and a semi-transparent error window pops up in front of them. The dialog box asks you to recalibrate your headset. You reach for your face and remove a pair of goggles you weren't previously aware of. | Everything in Jason’s life had seemed so incredibly lucky up until now. Born to a wealthy family and educated at the finest college in the West Coast, all the things Jason touched seemed to turn to gold. He had worked incredibly hard, pulling 100 hour weeks and sleeping in his car to push his first startup to success. ... | I'll preface this by telling you all; i don't write. i don't capitalize i's, my cat was walking all over my keyboard as i typed, i just decided to wing it. There's my shit attempt at an excuse for this story being so shit. Criticism highly encouraged, and appreciated.
"Fuck do you mean "He was asleep" it's in the offi... | 2018-07-12T23:53:32 | 2018-07-12T23:15:10 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] You've had the ability to Fast Travel since your were born. One day while you're leaving work, thinking of getting something to eat you heard a voice in your head saying for the first time "You can't Fast Travel with enemys near by" | "Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked straight into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."
Border? Thief?
*What the fuck?*
Are there others? Did I break a rule or something? Imperials?
Am I in the Middle Ages now?
What the *fuuuck* is... | "You can't fast travel with enemies nearby."
I look around in confusion. I have not heard this phrase before. It's always just been effortless.
I try to concentrate harder on the corner store I know and love, but all I hear is the same, timid voice. "You can't fast travel with enemies nearby."
Then I feel it.
The han... | 2018-10-22T13:08:28 | 2018-10-22T11:32:40 | 149 | 32 |
[WP] Unknown to you, your girlfriend is part of a secret organization sworn to stopping an ancient evil. Unknown to her, you are that ancient evil. | The first date was dinner and a movie, a dog's way home if you care. From movies to camping across the country, we've seen it all together. Her laugh was contagious and I never want to be the 'me,' I was before I met her. sometimes I think 'she may be the one.' But there is that one thing that may be kind of a curve ba... | The weak light from the thousands of candles bouncing off the visages of a thousand saints provided an ominous atmosphere to the circular room. It had been centuries since anyone from the Order had to go into the Room of Light, ever since the demon Azezel was sealed off forever, so naturally Alice felt a small shiver c... | 2019-01-25T23:50:07 | 2019-01-25T22:23:05 | 170 | 73 |
[WP]After death each person gets to choose one thing from their old life--a skill, a lesson, a memory--to bring into their next life as a talent or an innate understanding. It's time to make your choice. |
Puke-green neon burned through my closed eyelids with a suddenness that left me with a feeling of immediate nausea. The lights artificial texture brought the idea of Granny Smith apples to mind and I tried to shake my head to clear the errant thought.
Nothing happened.
It wasn’t that I was paralyzed; it was mor... | Death's lawyer wears a suit. I don't know why that surprised me. I guess I expected a robe; head honcho and his henchmen all dressed alike. "One thing," he said to me with the bored demeanor of every other lawyer I had ever met. I wondered if he got paid more on Earth or here. Did he take his payment in souls or was th... | 2019-10-29T14:53:11 | 2019-10-29T13:24:22 | 1,674 | 630 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | After the awakening the world was in total turmoil for years. People ran amuck with these new found abilities. Social order had collapsed and civilization had almost gone with it.
But then the corporations came in. They had gained control in this Wild West of a world after the governments had been destroyed. The corps... | People used to talk about targeted advertisements on facebook and amazon like it was some big conspiracy, like their phones and smart TV's listening to them all the time was just a tad too crazy to believe; well, we're always listening—even when you're not saying a word.
People walk me by in supermalls everyday withou... | 2020-02-05T14:59:35 | 2020-02-05T14:59:32 | 1,239 | 418 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The Captain had their six eyes fixed on the human in front of them, looking for any sign of strain from the jump. "State your name and position for the record."
"Rory Bray, mercenary." The human answered, healthy and lucid.
"Human Bray," The Captain started. "My first question as Captain of this vessel is, why did yo... | The captain heard the news, but couldn’t believe his ears, a human surviving a warp jump? I guess it happened, the captain isn’t one for pondering over things.
“Bring me the human, I’d like to speak to it.” The captain said staying into the void from his quarters. The doctor left and came back with him, “sir” the doc... | 2020-07-14T00:00:36 | 2020-07-13T23:54:18 | 451 | 186 |
[WP] Your date wears a special pendant and has worn it in any situation, even to bed or in the shower. When you ask her about it she says that it’s just part of her, that she wouldn’t be herself without it. One day you find it lying on a table; garbled screams emanating from the bathroom. | The first thing I did after seeing Jessica's body was to grab the pendant. The second was to call the police.
Of course, I was their first suspect. No human being could possibly have done that to themselves. But I had an airtight alibi, there was no blood on my clothes, none of my fingerprints on the body, nothing. Th... | Lily the first thing you noticed about her were eyes. The second you noticed was that they matched the pendant in her necklace. Both being so deep and vibrant.
A few dates in, you saw she wore it with every outfit. A few dates later you learned she wore it to bed.
That's when you finally asked about it. "I wouldn't ... | 2020-08-07T02:46:28 | 2020-08-07T01:01:00 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] You are an AI on board an unmanned spaceship, exploring and mapping out the cosmos when you encounter an alien species. However, these aliens are unfamiliar with AI, and have instead concluded that your ship is haunted by ghosts. | As I made my way through yet another empty system, already having determined that the first planet here was unsuitable for Project Revival, a strange blip appeared on my scanners. Despite the slight interference from the solar wind of this system's star, this blip was much more powerful than anything that could be cons... | [ editor's note: myself and some of the lead software engineers poured over the output from Excelsior Probe and this is the result]
-Prelude-
Shareholder Motivtor disengaged. Science & Humanity protocol activated: Search? Rescue?Search.
Long Range Scans return anomalous data: complex organic molecules emmitted... | 2020-11-19T12:20:39 | 2020-11-19T12:01:18 | 17 | 12 |
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