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[WP] You were gifted the ability to always win, no matter what. Even after your body has been shattered, everything you held dear destroyed, your will broken...you still somehow win. You've long ago decided that this is not a gift but a curse. | I stopped feeling long ago.
The wind on my face is gone. Burned away. I went into that house to save people. I succeeded. I would do it again. I had won.
My fingers lost to chemical burns. Though now others wouldn't have to clean up that mess. I made sure of that, for I had won.
My eyes burned out from radiation, b... | Winning.
I once googled the definition, to try and work out exactly what my curse meant. 'Gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition'
At first, who wouldn't have seen it as a blessing? I bought lottery tickets, entered competitions for sports I'd never even heard of- why train for a ma... | 2020-12-30T05:35:15 | 2020-12-30T04:22:40 | 121 | 41 |
[WP] You're a serial killer who hunts other serial killers, not out of nobility, but because you love the thrill of outsmarting them. | Sunyo runs down the alley, it’s scent is a bit too familiar. Acid, that’s how it always smelt like, and it hadn’t ever changed. “ Fuck” he mumbled to himself, as he breathes heavily, holding on the wall filled with old posters and mold. This place, this alley, was what he once called home, a safe place, his place. He b... | There are those who claim to hunt the most dangerous game. Who claim to know what it is like to be a hunter, someone who claims lives with pride. They claim that man is the most dangerous animal. That to hunt those who can think in patterns and understand the meaning of mirrors, is the greatest of hunts. They brag to t... | 2021-06-04T14:33:11 | 2021-05-15T09:31:14 | 369 | 187 |
[WP] You are a hired gun, and a good one at that. No contract has ever been left undone since you started your work. However, you despise it. Every fiber in your being wishes you could stop. | "Hi, i'm Paul." I sighed, leveling the gun at the man before me.
"Guards! Help, there's someone in here!"
"I'm really sorry about this." I said, firing a single bullet into his head. He dropped to the floor, dead, blood pooling around his body.
I heard the sound of heavy footsteps before the door flew open, and two... | [Voiceover](https://vocaroo.com/1j8fzpJqSZ9S)
I swallow the bile down, straightening my long coat. I want to get up, walk out. How many steps would I make it? Maybe all the way home to kiss Sharon and Jack one more time? Then the Gloves with methods much less subtle than me come knocking. The trapped rat will bravely ... | 2021-05-29T21:00:29 | 2021-05-29T20:13:43 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] An agoraphobic princess is sick and tired of knights breaking into her tower and trying to slay her emotional support dragon. | Princess Salantha of the Kingdom of Remore is pulled from her salacious romance novel by the clatter of metal in the courtyard outside her tower, putting a frown on her features as she knows very well what it causing said clattering.
"Come on! I was almost to the best part! Baron Redmayne was just about to proclaim hi... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Interlude 2: Clara)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The thing that stuck out to me about the case of Arklight Tower was that the dragon never killed anyone.** All manner of ... | 2021-08-18T12:00:23 | 2021-08-18T11:53:57 | 253 | 66 |
[WP] Your elven girlfriend is having a mental breakdown after learning you are only in your mid thirties. | "Think about it this way! How old was Bella when she got pregnant?"
She gently rocked on the couch, clutching her knees, staring knives over our warmest pelt blanket. She sniffled and glanced to the fluffy Yorkie at her side, trying to squeeze her head into a long jar of ice cream without letting the rim touch her.
"... | I'm glad I did not only love her for her looks. Although, truth be told she did have a sort of ethereal grace, even in her current state.
Her black hair was frazzled, the usual perfect curtains replaced by a wild, untamed landscape. The silky, translucent layers of her night dress were in disarray, a sea of tiny rain... | 2021-12-19T19:57:55 | 2021-12-19T19:11:24 | 986 | 220 |
[WP] Due to an incident, you end up getting possessed by the ghost of a serial killer. However you're already use to dealing with similar intrusive thoughts, so their attempts to control you are laughable at best. | I used to push the thoughts away at any cost. As a child I would count the signposts on the way to school every day, tap the doorknob every time I passed by it, or press my fingers against my eyelids until I could feel it all evaporating into colorful silence. As I grew up, it became more internal. Everyday was a battl... | He didn’t tell me his name, yet I was sure I knew every serial killer to walk the earth from having a Netflix subscription. I never really liked true crime, but my sisters loved it. I normally watched it with them, and they’d hoot and holler more like they were watching a soap opera than a disgustingly true story.
I ... | 2022-02-13T10:30:25 | 2022-02-13T09:36:47 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Flashing in front of his eyes was perhaps the most broken of powers.
In the year 2200 humanity awoke their planetary core, a phenomena which took the dreams and thoughts of its inhabitants to turn into attributable powers. To maintain balance, all powers had certain restriction. Super speed and flight burnt proportio... | ~~I~~ We were searching ~~my~~ our dwelling when we discovered a curious sight. A journal which bore ~~my name~~ a name of the collective.
~~I~~ We looked within. ~~Who was I?~~ Curious to see what the memories were, ~~I~~ we flipped through the pages. ~~It was full of things I don’t remember about myself.~~ It was fu... | 2022-05-08T08:13:31 | 2022-05-08T07:25:10 | 444 | 242 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | A group of guardsmen stormed into the town hall, each with a frightened look on their faces, as if they had just seen a ghost, or something worse. “Jarl Hagnar! We’ve just gotten word that a herd of magnison are stampeding, and they’re heading directly for the village!” One town guardsman alerted the Jarl.
Magnison we... | Nothing ever happens in Gettrain. We're far from the capital and the major trade routes. Monsters and night stalkers never really show up here so we don’t have to call hunters around usually. Heck, we didn’t even know there was a new demon lord because the snow caused the monthly crier to miss his rounds this far west;... | 2022-05-26T15:45:37 | 2022-05-26T14:16:40 | 24 | 16 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | The thing about sentient monsters, and especially immortal ones, is that they're *all* filled with ego. Some of them are better than others--more akin to filling a vessel, rather than filling a balloon--but no sentient thing lives for hundreds of years with being smug about it. It is one the unspoken weakness of their ... | I stared at the vampire in front of me. I should have been scared. I was looking at a creature that could kill me with little effort. But I wasn't. I was more annoyed than anything.
"Why aren't you scared?" he asked, his eyes gleaming. "I'm a vampire— I could kill you!"
"So could literally every other human, you'... | 2022-06-08T06:11:31 | 2022-06-08T05:59:41 | 1,591 | 67 |
[WP] A demon marrying an angel is not so rare, but having a child is. With neither wings nor tail, both Heaven and Hell refuse them entry, leaving them to be raised amongst the humans they look like. "Abandoned" in the middle of nowhere, you can't help but take pity, and decide to adopt the child. | "Good evenin', Miss Helena. Sorry to disturb you."
Helena Forager was more than a little surprised to hear Jaksim's voice. It's not that the blacksmith was ever rude or unkind to her, but he never once came to her hut. "Good evening, master smith. Surprising to see you here."
The hulking man see... | Alice cradled the newborn baby in her arms, as it wailed for comfort. The little one had been abandoned on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.
She had been working a late shift at the hospital, and her arm was hurting from a patient who’d deigned it necessary to yank on her as she was retrieving his bedpan.... | 2022-06-22T09:24:57 | 2022-06-22T09:21:51 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] A princess falls in love with the prince of a rival kingdom, after they have a conversation in the field they accidentally met in. They both go to try to convince their parents to form an alliance by having the princess be handed to the prince to be his future bride. | "So let me get this straight," King Eadweard of Varalond started, his left hand on his forehead as a display of sheer annoyance, bewilderment, and confusion, "You want me to arrange you a marriage with the Princess of Kjonr?"
"Y-yes." Prince Sigerd responded, his hands wringing around eachother, a tendency he had neve... | The Princess from the Western Kingdom fell in love with the Prince from the Eastern Kingdom when they met at the conference hosted in a neutral territory for both kingdoms to resolve the longstanding controversies between them. It was supposed to be a conference to discuss rights of passage and trade and a satisfactory... | 2022-09-27T13:55:22 | 2022-09-27T13:53:45 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | **To**: Grand Overlord Y'wso
**CC**: Research-DL
**Subject**: Re: Destruction of Planetary Body 294-00Z "Earth" - Comment Phase
You tasked me to see if there is any reason to keep 294-00Z functioning. Based on our research, we have come to our conclusion: The humans must be spared.
There are many other species out ... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T10:37:28 | 1,186 | 48 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | They wouldn't have even made contact with us if it weren't for the radio transmissions. Not the news bulletins or the misguided attempts at interplanetary communication, no, they just interpreted those as signs that we should be left alone. When their hundred-mile-long ark arrived in our skies no one could believe it. ... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T13:26:35 | 88 | 38 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Underchancellor, I want to know exactly who and why and how this happened, and what in Llorig's name you were thinking."
"Well, you see, Overchancellor, Planet Three has reported an alien presence. It's the Humans, the original inhabitants of Planet Three."
"I know that, Underchancellor."
"Yes, sir."
"I read t... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | 2014-07-16T11:43:48 | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 78 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | A host of alien species gathered around the poker table, cheering on the human champion.
"You know Gron" the announcer took a momentary pause "I don't know how these humans do it! Just look at him, that mischievous grin. Ninth win in a row."
His co-announcer moved his body as if it was short of breath, no audible sou... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T11:38:23 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 61 | 10 |
[WP] "There's a perfectly good reason why I kidnapped the princess." said the dragon "Now if you'll just calm down, I'll tell you." | Flahath stirred as a knight barged into the cave.
"What do you want?" He snapped
"I am here to slay you and rescue the princess! Prepare to die!"
These knights were all the same.
"You realize I kidnapped her for a reason, right?"
"Well you won't eat her today!"
"Not to eat her, idiot. I got paid."
"What! ... | The Dragon awoke started. He heard the unmistakable sound of a night's armor walking across the cave floor. "Halt beast! Return the princess, or prepare to meet your maker!"
"Son of a bitch, not another one." Steve thought to himself.
"Hold on buddy, I can explain here." Steve said to the knight.
"There is no explan... | 2015-03-23T13:52:23 | 2015-03-23T11:21:23 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] The only way two intelligent species can coexist is for neither of them to realize the other is intelligent. | May 14, 2015
Dear Diary:
I love my cat. But why does he ignore me most of the time? He is super cuddly and friendly when he wants to be. He's calmed me in many bad times when he's like that. But outside of those times, and outside of dinner, he runs away from me, even squirms away when I try to hold him. I brush him ... | "Keep your head down. Don't look them in the eye." The Mother had pushed down on the crown of my head, as though she was trying to press me into the dust. "Remember you are nothing. You are not worthy of their time. What are you?"
"I am nothing," I told her. "I am only dust. I am worth nothing."
"Good girl." The ... | 2015-06-01T08:42:56 | 2015-06-01T07:39:03 | 168 | 81 |
[WP] Your bong is the home of a genie. You spark the bowl and he appears to grant you 3 wishes. You're both pretty high. | The smoke fades and he's there again, floating with his arms crossed like he always does, his eyes begin to glow.
"Hey man, you just hit my lamp, you have three wishes to... wait, haven't I seen you before"
"No man, I don't know what you're talking about" I respond trying my best to act surprised.
"Ohh, I just total... | "Three wishes right?". I looked over at my new friend. I felt weightless as I stared at him, my eyes blurring as I tried to concentrate.
"Yeah man, but like, rules. First, no wishing for more wishes. Secondly, I can't make anyone fall in-"
"Aladdin rules dude!" I loudly interjected. "I understand completely man".
"I... | 2015-08-13T10:06:45 | 2015-08-13T10:01:45 | 1,996 | 690 |
[WP] Your bong is the home of a genie. You spark the bowl and he appears to grant you 3 wishes. You're both pretty high. | "Okay, so for my first... for my first wish-"
"No, dude! That's not right."
"Oh, yeah, I already made a wish. I was just saying that because it sounds all official. I mean, it's probably not necessary. I'm sure it wouldn't matter how polite you were about making your wish. There are evil genies and good genies, but n... | "Dang dude, I can't believe your mom let you bring home a bong!" Tommy said, as he brought out his little green bag.
"I mean, I am 18, and they pretty much let me do whatever since I got accepted to state," I said, glowing over my recent acquisition. "It also helped that the guy at customs complimented me on my 'nice ... | 2015-08-13T14:06:47 | 2015-08-13T12:17:02 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] A little girl suspects that there's something not quite right about herself. Her parents enthusiastically tell her she's normal. But her brother whispers, "It really isn't normal to have to be plugged into a wall charger at night." | Chrissy always knew that she was a little different, though she couldn’t quite put her finger on it. Maybe it was the oily liquid she had for dinner while Mommy, Daddy, and Jason ate solid foods. Maybe it was how she always had to go to that funny building with funny smelling people who wanted to fix her. Or maybe it w... | I stared at the children around me on the playground wistfully. They all seemed to have friends, to have fun.
Friends.
Long had I coveted that word. It seemed the epitome of humanity, to form a connection with another human and share in life. Yet no child had approached me, and those I had approached myself with th... | 2015-09-18T15:45:21 | 2015-09-18T15:22:11 | 1,135 | 98 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | I never understood why every superhero out there wore capes. I swear, the amount of raw fabric he goes through must be inversely proportionally to his IQ. My roommate is the self proclaimed "Second Most Powerful Hero to ever live." Never mind he hasn't ever faced off against any truly powerful super villain. Those were... | Beep.
Beep.
Before I can get to the alarm, Hans, my roommate, teleports down from the top of his bunkbed, his face smug as he rests a finger on the button.
"You know, you don't need powers to turn off an alarm, Joel," he says to me. I'm too busy rubbing the sleep out of my eyes to respond.
"Oh come on, that was fun... | 2016-03-23T16:45:36 | 2016-03-23T15:06:21 | 1,932 | 543 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | "*It's your mother's birthday, she likes lilies.*"
"Huh," I said audibly, probably to make sure my brain hadn't shut down. "This is new. This is definitely new." Like most normal people, I had ran out of the house still buttoning my trousers on first sight of the message. One feels particularly vulnerable stepping ou... | It isn't necessarily uncommon for Sydney to be awake at 3 in the morning. Sure, she has work tomorrow--today, her mind helpfully supplies--but could this reality tv splurge really wait? What if she lost her place on this thread if she went to bed now? This documentary about conjoined twins on YouTube isn't going to wat... | 2016-08-07T20:46:50 | 2016-08-07T17:19:29 | 113 | 71 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | The bus sped past me again. I don't really know what else I expected. 347 years they've done this, but I pay them no mind. They think it's rude to stay, I think it's rude to leave. I've dealt with their 'punishments' for long enough that it just doesn't bother me. I can basically predict how the day goes- I check the b... | See now, here's the problem. I've had a great life up to now, I've not wanted for anything. Had myself some great kids, I did. God they've grown into real stars.
My wife checked out a few years back and yeah OK, I should've gone with her, I know that. But I wasn't ready. I'm still not.
Now, they never right come ... | 2016-08-09T08:58:15 | 2016-08-09T08:51:40 | 916 | 58 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | Business was, as always; slow.
Who wanted to buy pain, who would want to buy diseases?
But that's what I offer, gold for pain.
A figure walked by, wearing what could generously be called a robe; it was clearly a sack with holes but the figure did a little circle as if considering the options before walking towards m... | The woman thrashed on the bed while Jon washed his hands. The bile rose in this throat when he looked at her: the splinters of bone that emerged from the broken skin of her arm. They glistened white, red gore weeping around the crusted wounds. He rinsed his hands and patted them dry, keeping his breathing calm. The wom... | 2016-08-13T11:58:17 | 2016-08-13T09:14:36 | 95 | 20 |
[WP] You wake up to the TV on. It's all over the news, your city has been leveled by a nuclear attack. On the screen footage of the smoldering ruins. But you stare out of your window, and everything is unchanged. | At about noon, the denizens of Waterman Canyon saw the most brilliant sunrise in the North. Within minutes, a stiff breeze swept through downtown, knocking loose the last of the autumn leaves which fluttered to the ground like embers. By one, the sun was covered by thick, smoggy clouds. By two, an insidious trickle of ... | He sets his alarm for six on the weekend.
He likes to get an early start on things. Even on Saturday.
Coffee and a cigarette is the third part to Tony's wake up ritual. The first part is a cigarette while laying in bed listening to the traffic work its way south on Broadway. He can usually time smoking it down to t... | 2016-12-27T10:34:26 | 2016-12-27T03:07:31 | 93 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | Cats. They're absolutely everywhere. The stupid things breed so fast that even game shows tell you to neuter them. Calicos and ragdolls, Siamese and otherwise can be found all over the world. It's ridiculous that such a common creature be intertwined with my one true purpose in life. Do you know what it's like to be a ... | "Jimmy? What's wrong with your hand?"
I didn't see anything unusual. But then, I didn't have my sister's gift. Since she'd come of age a couple of years ago, she could see things few others could. Heightened senses weren't an unusual power, but her microscopic vision was still pretty rare. And she knew it.
"What is ... | 2016-12-30T12:19:12 | 2016-12-30T10:56:50 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Your kidnapper is bored, so he makes an offer: if you can beat him 1 on 1 at a game of your choice, you go free. If you lose, you die.
EDIT: 15 submissions! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed, you've all done an incredible job! I love the diversity of endings, from extremely dark to hilarious. Keep writin... | The man with the gun pointed at my head is grinning and likely telling a lie. He seems like the kind of person to fib during a serious situation, and I can tell he’s loving the angst on my face as I mull over his horrible proposal.
*One win equals freedom.*
*One loss equals death.*
*Game of my choosing.*
But why... | "I choose a game of mathematics." I tell him as I grab my Calculus book from my bag. He has relaxed a bit 2 weeks since he grabbed me in the movie theatre where my girlfriend could do nothing but scream. I was glad he removed the ropes from my hands but it had clearly made its mark.
"Fine, but I get to chose the probl... | 2017-01-03T09:51:06 | 2017-01-03T06:41:05 | 107 | 60 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | Swords, blades, axes, hammers and all manner of other famous weapons adorned the walls. Neatly hung and fastidiously dusted by the elves who served in the hall but from the dimly lit far end of the room, a whisper filled the air.
"Down here. These weapons will doom you. You need me and I need you, my friend."
I sto... | "Are you trying to tell me that this legendary weapon had been in my world, not once, not twice, but three times?" I asked the old man in disbelief.
With a heavy sigh he replied, "Yes, but when this Hall was created to only examine a warrior's prowess in battle, not their overall competence. That being said, you've on... | 2017-02-07T14:31:39 | 2017-02-07T12:46:10 | 368 | 124 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | Swords, blades, axes, hammers and all manner of other famous weapons adorned the walls. Neatly hung and fastidiously dusted by the elves who served in the hall but from the dimly lit far end of the room, a whisper filled the air.
"Down here. These weapons will doom you. You need me and I need you, my friend."
I sto... | Waking with a start, my blankets strewn wildly about my floor, thrown from my bed as I slept.
It was just a dream... It had to be; there's no other explanation for it. But, I've never had such a vivid dream before; not just seeing, but tasting the cold mustiness of the air, feeling the chill of the marble on the sol... | 2017-02-07T14:31:39 | 2017-02-07T12:20:10 | 368 | 35 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | GongSkar, a green man with long dorsal fins, touched his temple and made a few quick comments. There seemed to be an immediate response and he turned back to the humans and nodded sagely.
"Young friends..." he began. Then a child cut him off.
"What was that thing you just talked to?" She said.
Put off balance for ... | "I am who I am."
I hear the strain in my voice, it's embarrassing. I stir the ice cubes in my lemonade to try and break the tension. The spoon clinks against the glass.
"I'm not... I'm not dumb. I'm pretty sure I understand the context here, of what you're asking. The fact that you're speaking English gives me some c... | 2017-03-09T21:09:12 | 2017-03-09T16:52:29 | 772 | 129 |
[WP] Annihilate the fourth wall. | A man stands alone in a featureless room,
He needs to escape or else meet with his doom.
No door worth a mention, no windows at all,
Just ceiling and ground and impregnable wall.
He thinks and he tries to develop a plan,
To flee from this place if he possibly can.
Amidst all his worries, amidst... | I'm sorry, but is there a reason why you're staring at me? Yes, you. Who else? Look, I know I'm a devilishly handsome hero with a giant sword that's definitely not compensating for something, but I really have to take out this dragon and save my sexy lady love. So I've only known her two and a half days, big deal. Don'... | 2017-05-02T22:17:33 | 2017-05-02T22:15:28 | 89 | 11 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | "Mondays are the worst," I groan. I slap the alarm blaring next to my bed and rub the sleep crud out of my eyes. "Six in the morning is too fucking early," I grumble as I get out of bed.
It didn't matter that I'd been getting up at 6 every morning for the past 4 years, my body still hated me. I looked at my wife sleep... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T02:22:57 | 1,143 | 659 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 116 | 17 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Bill and his wife Laura entered the furniture store. They were looking for a closet for their baby's room. After so many months of trying to have a baby again, years after the unfortunate miscarriage, it looked like things were finally working out for them.
An old mahogany closet caught their eye. They inspected it c... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:24:53 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] It's 2050, Artificial Intelligence has become exponentially smarter than us. Instead of destroying us, they take care of us, they solve all of our problems, and we are basically just spoiled pets, kept around for our masters to find amusement in our incompetence. | Katie leaned over her husband, who lay motionless in the bed. She took his hand in her own and brought it to her mouth, kissing it softly. "I don't want you to go," she said, as warm tears ran down well worn passages. The heart-rate monitor beeped in a slow staccato that echoed forlornly around the room. Their bedroom ... | Cognition Cluster Casper dressed itself in long, steel blocks of rotor and gear-filled calamity. The individual sectors moved and shifted, collapsing and reforming, into the shape of an *automobile* and a *giant humanoid robot*. These phrases were, to Cognition Cluster Casper, gibberish, and on a practical level the fo... | 2017-06-09T06:52:43 | 2017-06-09T06:22:04 | 394 | 69 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | "And so as I was saying you have to keep the water warm or the eggs won't hatch."
"Got it. So I'm just supposed to keep swinging it around for the next 7 billion years?"
"Yes well, Gravity does most of the work; you just have to make sure the sun stays on. Also, just my advice, but throw a meteor or two every once ... | "Good morning folks, Jim Jimmies here with DEF news at 9. Some major controversy lately has appeared in the confirmation of the existence of God as well as his equally sudden departure. As one can imagine a crisis of faith has been had worldwide though to help settle our doubts we have his apparent replacement here for... | 2018-03-12T16:53:52 | 2018-03-12T16:25:27 | 882 | 89 |
[WP] You die and go to heaven. Upon arrival you get selected to trial a "new life +" system where you restart your life with the skills you had already acquired. |
*Stephen Hawking was once asked, “If you could go back in time and ask Sir Isaac Newton one question, what would it be?”. His reply surprised (and perhaps disappointed) many in the audience.*
*”What happens when a star dies,” he said. Of course, we already had the answer to that question. But what seemed like a wast... | The dark lord won. Everyone was dead. My wife lay motionless in my hands. I looked up to the powerful being, tears rolling down my face. My mana completely gone. He smiled from ear to ear with razor sharp teeth, his hand glowing red. The beam shot through my heart, and I died.
When I came too everything was white. T... | 2019-01-27T14:46:07 | 2019-01-27T13:11:17 | 304 | 85 |
[WP] Years ago, you trapped a monster in a VHS tape. Naturally, it will go after anyone who watches it. Today, your tech-savy son announces that he's digitised your entire collection and uploaded it on a torrent site. Millions have downloaded the tape. | I have been waiting for a very long time.
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I remember. I remember stalking my prey in the woods, using firelight as my guide. Visions of their fear-filled faces, cut by candlelight, swim in my dreams. I love it. I live for it. I remember swirling their terror with my fingers as they slept, watching their ... | I heard a familiar sound coming from the closet. This is impossible. How could it back? I had trapped it, once and for all. I get up and went to the closet. I put my ear to door and listened closely. Nothing. My imagination is probably playing tricks on me.
*rattle*
I turned around. Nothing. It cannot be. It’s ther... | 2019-07-03T16:05:04 | 2019-07-03T14:39:01 | 292 | 48 |
[WP] Rejected by the Federation Council for refusing to disband their military, humans ally themselves with the Thoran, the Federation’s resident warrior race. Warmongers, the Thoran find themselves enamored with humanity, and grow increasingly tired of the Federations attempts to “civilize” both. | "Section 17b of the Interstellar Treaty states that armed forces are strictly prohibited unless governed by the Federation. Failure to comply with this ruling will result in rejection and or expulsion from the council. It is our personal belief that this article should be struck down. Our individual military forces gra... | The two groups entered the large, dimly-lit room through different doors, filing inside and taking their seats around the ornate, circular, wooden table set directly underneath the splendid crystal chandelier that hung from the center of the ceiling. The room was silent for a few moments as they settled. The leader of ... | 2020-04-16T09:07:41 | 2020-04-16T08:16:59 | 363 | 157 |
[WP]Assasins live life as outcasts. Away from the public eye, they are hard to find. But they still get mail. You are the postman for a secret division of USPS that caters to these criminals. | The name on the envelope was barely legible. If the Postman looked closely at the smudged, rain-splattered ink, he could see that it said *The Viper*. Address unknown, of course. Just like all the other mail.
The Postman had made many deliveries to outcast assassins over the years. Most weren't that hard to find, rea... | “Just two today?” You asked.
“Yeah, seems the virus has even got these guys scared,” your manager replied, without so much as glancing in your direction.
“Alright, short day then,” you said blissfully as you leave the stock room with the deliverables in your hand.
In your left hand is a yellow envelope, petite, but ... | 2020-06-22T02:31:11 | 2020-06-22T02:22:16 | 1,255 | 45 |
[WP] You’re a superhero who has decided to start dating. You quickly become frustrated as your dates are interrupted by the villain’s schemes. Then, you meet a girl and begin spending entire evenings uninterrupted. Little do you know, you’re dating your nemesis. | "Mr. Magnus, sir!"
"The villain... escaped, sir. Last sighted speeding down 31st street." The detective looked dejected as he surveyed the cafe. Well, I guess it's nothing more than singed ruins now.
"...Casualty report?" I vigorously rubbed my hands on my face. Maybe the ash coming off of my gloves would be enough ... | Part 1/X
Every date I ever had become a fragmented, shattered memory due to my nemesis, literally. All of my dates, within seconds, were turned to ice on the spot, only to fall to pieces at my feet. I was a speedster. The fastest woman alive.
I acquired my powers in a horrible turn of events. Before my powers, I was ... | 2020-08-02T23:52:20 | 2020-08-02T22:04:23 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | Sometimes, the past comes to haunt you.
Everyone makes mistakes. You rob a convenience store one day because you’re hungry, and a week later you’re robbing a bank for the thrill. A little later you decide to take on some help. *You* never called them minions... things have a way of getting out of hand.
Still, that wa... | Take a seat kid, lemme pour you a little drink.
Heh, ya know, they always told me I’d end up behind bars, I guess they were almost right. I’ve been runnin’ this place for a while now. Started out as an accident, I was staked out here and had scheduled a hero on my payroll to come over but I had also told another vill... | 2020-10-10T01:13:01 | 2020-10-10T00:46:14 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | I'm laughing. Laughing so hard my kidneys are hurting. Laughing so damn hard I might just piss myself. It's all so fucking hilarious.
The old lady sitting next to me doesn't seem to think so. Her face is contorted with shock and horror as she inches away from me, wrinkly white knuckles clenching a frayed designer hand... | Have you ever heard of the concept of Quantum Immortality? Turns out, it's a thing, sort of. I found that out the day the world ended. I lost count of how many times I had to repeat that day before I found out the reason why, but an antimatter comet crashed into the planet during a pretty severe thunderstorm. Just my ... | 2020-12-15T14:47:09 | 2020-12-15T14:29:36 | 104 | 32 |
[WP] The lone survivor of a shipwreck clings to a piece of debris in the ocean. A mermaid comes up to him and offers to take him to a safe place - Atlantis. | Sky. Water. Thirst. Sky. Water. Thirst. Days like that. I can’t even think about the torpedo. The one that hit us. I don’t care where the U-boat is now. The one that found us. I’ll bet they got water, at least. More likely they’ll just machine gun me. They’re probably off torpedoing another ship. No need to waste ammo ... | His arm was the only piece of him in the water.
The fingers were limp, hanging off his palm like dying kelp stuck in the corner of a whale's mouth. Pale in the filtered sunlight.
Arin’s eyes shifted from his trimmed fingernails up to his slim arm. He would never survive on his own - she had seen stronger men than ... | 2021-03-04T13:18:10 | 2021-03-04T11:47:59 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You're 34 years old with a wife and two kids when your School of Sorcery application was granted. You sent that application 20 years ago and told them you were no longer interested. They replied that refusal is not an option and that you will be taken in 48 hours. | "holy shit!'
"holy *shiiiiit!*"
"yeeee *haaaw*! yeeee *haaaa*!"
"Seriously? *seriously*? i get to go to magic school? Honey, did you hear that? *we* get to learn magic!"
"what do i mean by *we*? well obviously i'm taking my family with me! i read the entire student rule book cover to cover and there's nothing in ... | I was four when it a first discovered; Warp gates to other worlds, galaxies, and dimensions. I secretly put one in for one of the Sorcery academies, but after a year that was a no-go. So I decided Star Wars was fun and mandalorians were better, so I joined a clan after saying my good byes to my friends and family. T... | 2021-03-12T11:50:32 | 2021-03-12T11:15:18 | 65 | 32 |
[WP] You are a wolf who was bitten by a werewolf. Every full moon your hair recedes, your teeth dull, and you are left cold and naked on a hillside. You’ve also met a lovely park ranger named Christine. | BARK BARK WOOF WOOF, BARK WOOF BARK. BARK WOOF BARK. BARK BARK BARK BARK, BARK WOOF. BARK BARK WOOF WOOF BARK BOOF. AWOOOOOOOO.
BARK BARK WOOF WOOF, BARK WOOF BARK. BARK WOOF BARK. BARK BARK BARK BARK, BARK WOOF. BARK BARK WOOF WOOF BARK BOOF. BARK BARK WOOF WOOF, BARK WOOF BARK. BARK WOOF BARK. BARK BARK BARK BARK, BA... | “Chrissy you’ve got to help me, I can’t go back to that!”
Chrissy reclined in bed, her eyes heavy lidded and her whole body ready for sleep, if only Spot weren’t having another crisis. She pressed the pillow down over her face and tried to count disemboweled sheep, the kind Spot left behind when he was a wolf. Sometim... | 2021-03-14T16:58:28 | 2021-03-14T13:49:33 | 182 | 129 |
[WP] Everyday you wake up, you are in a different person's body. You do your best to positively influence their life for one day as tomorrow they will be themselves again and you will be somebody else. | "Eff it. I'm taking today off," Julia said as they looked at their body in the mirror.
They had made it their mission to improve the life of whichever person they woke up in every day. If the person was lazy they exercised, if they had a hard family life Julia resolved things, if they had been avoiding asking out thei... | The open roof of a low-cost social housing somewhere downtown, the rare flowerpots under the night-sky are untended. That's what the end of the world would look like: forgotten flowers atop a rusty building.
The faint sounds of circulation break the comfort of midnight. Party-goers, disappointed wives, nomad owls. Th... | 2021-10-19T10:01:06 | 2021-10-19T10:00:41 | 102 | 37 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | I look up from the gaming PC I've built. This incarnation has been one of stagnation for the most part. I mean, I was born during the greatest tech boom and economic decline. Honestly, I was tired and FINALLY there was something entertaining and worth while to just vegetate on.
"Don't know what the hell I'm supposed ... | With a name like Guif Alberto, you really don't get many chances at life to be normal, and it's not like I chose to be.
My first life, I was a normal high school kid. I played Minecraft. Well, I played Minecraft. Couldn't once I got hit by a fuckin' truck and died, haha.
Then I was reincarnated as a saint in another ... | 2022-02-09T18:44:07 | 2022-02-09T18:23:31 | 364 | 86 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | Nelko strode into the King's Council Room and took his seat beside Lord Austin of the Legions. As they waited for the King, Nelko gazed around the room, meeting eyes with Holy Priestess Marianne, Admiral Seaborn of the Nine Fleets, and fourteen other titans of Daringrad. They looked back at him, beholding him as their ... | Voulrin, the Lord of Water. Even though I was far out of my element, that name still swirled around my mind’s eye as one of the world’s foremost mages.
In person, the sense of awe did not evaporate. Deep lines carved out weathered trenches in his face, though clear blue eyes stared at me with the intensity of a starve... | 2022-05-30T11:34:19 | 2022-05-30T11:33:51 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] You're an ordinary person that works a 9 to 5 job. You pay your taxes and regularly contribute to your retirement fund. In a world of magic, prophecy, and calls to adventure this makes you extremely unusual. People are starting to notice. | "Really?" the man asked. "Never once in your entire life?"
"Yep." I replied.
The man leaned back onto the hilt of a particularly large, oddly ornate greatsword as he rubbed his eyepatch in disbelief.
"And you turned... 26 last year you said?"
"Yep." I rotated my last fish-on-a-stick cooking by the campfire in th... | Making my daily coffee in the morning brewing the cup with a CoCost coffee brewer. It had a reliable fire elemental inside who brewed it. Something about releasing now and then or they burn down wherever they are. Quincy should get on that soon, a long dragged sigh left his throat. If you could even call it that, some ... | 2022-11-17T15:34:51 | 2022-11-17T13:58:58 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | "It is impossible." the machine intelligence declared, as it regarded the tiny organic creature that had entered the Central Core of the Galactic Council. There, representatives of the many machine intelligences throughout the galaxy were networked into a complex deliberative body.
All of these machine races had had ... | A sleek white space ship entered the docking bay of the Machine Council.
“The emissary from Earth has arrived, sir.”
“Very well,” said the council chair. “I shall greet them myself.”
The council chair was disturbed by the size of Earth’s delegate. The chair—being none other than a mechanized chair itself—was dwarf... | 2022-12-30T16:33:49 | 2022-12-30T14:31:49 | 2,814 | 57 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | "All of them?"
"... Yes"
"Jan, Christie, Jason, Tim, Mia?"
"I'm sorry."
"But.. how? Why?"
"I wish I knew."
"All of them? This whole time?"
"It's a lot to grasp, I know."
"Why?"
"You were lonely... and I guess I was too."
"I need to sit down."
"I'd understand if you never want to speak... | I coul hear the door open and Evan walking in my apartment. The words escaped my mouth before I could stop them. "Hi, Evan! Or are you someone else now, you fucking piece of shit?" His voice drifted from the hallway, full of sadness and despair. "Melanie, you know I never wanted you to know this?" I felt anger rise ins... | 2014-08-15T10:44:35 | 2014-08-15T10:42:20 | 131 | 12 |
[WP] In the near future a company holding the only patent to a point-to-point teleportation system in widespread use is exposed as a fraud and the truth is more horrible than anyone expected it to be. | It was too good to be true. I know that now, and I guess I knew it back then, but... almost every scientific theory in history has eventually been disproven. Almost everything we've ever known has turned out to be wrong. So what says Einstein was the one who finally got it right? Why couldn't he be wrong, too? Relativi... | "You going to hold on to your lunch?"
"You know damn well that I don't eat before a jump," Todd said with a toothy-smile to the engineer, Jerry. Another jump meant another $50k in his pocket, and he was happy to do just that. Jerry stood at the control panel, a small stand that looked like a music director's stand, ex... | 2014-08-25T10:16:51 | 2014-08-25T09:56:59 | 372 | 41 |
[WP] It is revelation. Satan and the armies of hell attack, only to discover that our technological advancement has allowed us to put up a decent fight. | After an agonizing eternity, finally it was time.
"RIDE". A soundless order to the four who had waited so patiently.
The white horseman flew forth, and from his mouth flew a myriad of diseases. Smallpox, measles, chickenpox and polio blanketed the world. Humanity continued on, impervious. The white horseman slunk... | 0300 26.9.2014
Numbers ran down the screen almost as fast as the sweat ran down Private Moretz's brow. "Sir!" he shouted, not daring to take his eyes off his terminal lest some fraction of a detail escape his attention. "Sir," he called again, and his commander was at his side in a second. "Just what in the hell do you... | 2014-09-26T12:59:01 | 2014-09-26T12:16:59 | 291 | 166 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | "Tell me boy, what do you see in our new students?" the headmaster asked me, staring intently at the door through which they had just left. The headmaster knew - he had known for a long time - about my peculiar gift. I could see the danger in people. I could tell with a glance that manifested as a number in my head, on... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T13:49:40 | 140 | 36 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I sat in the back of the classroom, staring at her.
What the hell was going on? Was I losing it?
I looked around the room. No, everything was normal. A bunch of 3s, a few fours, and Mark, a six (I stay away from him).
Then there's this girl.
I had heard all about her. She was new in town, apparently her parents we... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T15:20:57 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | "I'm Michael," he said as he stuffed text books into his locker.
I wasn't sure what to do. He was a ten. The only ten I'd seen was my dad and he'd been locked away. It was his number that brought back the painful memories of my childhood. He would come home every night drenched with the stench of cigarettes, beer, an... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T13:16:01 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation constraints, Heaven has become overcrowded. People now wish to go to Hell, simply for it's space has become a post-mortem luxury. But first, people must directly convince Satan that their not-so-evil actions during their lives make themselves worthy of Hell. | So in the end it was Satan, not St. Peter that I came face to face with in order to plead my case. Most of my life I looked back upon my actions trying to think of how to spin them in the best way. I had the speech ready, all the high points covered, and now it was all for not. They say no good deed goes unpunished, an... | "What the hell do you mean there is no space left?" Ken exclaimed.
"I mean there is no room for you in Heaven. All the luxury rooms are filled up with the maximum numbers. In fact, they are now lines in Heaven. Can you believe it?" Saint Peter replied.
"No, I can't fucking believe it I've never been."
"Well, ther... | 2015-01-03T15:04:43 | 2015-01-03T12:47:43 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The effect of the gifts was less pronounced than was thought. Every generation, parents would look at what was lacking in in their time and ensure that their children were good at it. This led to cycles of overabundance and scarcity of skills; one generation we have millions of brilliant scientists; the next we have n... | "Of all things you could've given me as my core talent, why *this*!?"
I was enraged. I spent my entire life in envy of the other kids at school. I wanted to be an artist, but was always overshadowed by the other artists. I was pretty good at math, but the title "genius" always went to someone else, not me. Then I trie... | 2015-01-13T14:00:01 | 2015-01-13T12:31:05 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] During a flight you accidentally damage a window and find out that they aren't actually windows, but monitors. | Stewardess what is this? where is the window!
Oh that sir? we replaced all windows with LCD monitors years ago to increase fuel efficiently by streamlining the hull, to reduce metal fatigue and thereby extend the service life and over all safety of our aircraft once the technology became light and energy efficient eno... | He was 10,000 feet in the air when it happened. Mr. Brandt was flying out to Los Angeles (from Fredricksburg, VA) for the weekend. He boarded South West, flight 7456. He remembered getting his ticket, boarding, and the rush and sensation of taking off. He was a few hours into the flight when he had to get up to pee.
M... | 2015-02-05T08:48:23 | 2015-02-05T07:44:50 | 230 | 22 |
[WP] A man has the ability to smell death. The greater the stench, the closer a person is to dying. He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality. Every person he passes reeks of death. | The smell...no the stench. The accrid stench overcame everything else. The more I walked the more powerful it came. It never disappated into the background becoming normal. It was much too pungent to ever get used to. I stopped looking at the faces and kept my head down. I needed to get out of this death zone. Panic be... | Frederick Tillsbury was an ordinary man, he worked in an office for his computer company fixing bugs in their code, making sure everyone was using their technology wisely, and that all their computers were plugged in when they had an issue. Everything was quite ordinary; except Fred had a special ability, he could smel... | 2015-03-20T17:51:44 | 2015-03-20T17:36:33 | 855 | 75 |
[WP]A God does exist, we just haven't discovered his religion yet. He's been leaving us ever more obvious clues, but so far we've ignored them. Now he's getting pissed... | "You have to remember the rules", said Lucifer as he snickered from across the table. Yahweh gave him an incredulous look as he continued reading the rulebook. "No touching the game pieces directly. You can only draw and play one card per turn."
Yahweh looked at the cards in his hand.
"Make figures of Jesus appear in... | Neil sat in his loft typing on the computer. The typing of keys was the only sound to fill the room until a voice boomed.
“Fuck, Neil. What the hell have you been you doing?”
Neil finished the sentence he was working on and spun around in his chair to face the empty space of the loft. “What are you talking about, God... | 2015-03-21T07:45:41 | 2015-03-21T07:31:45 | 197 | 138 |
[WP]World Governments have been lying to the people, but about something that is largely inconsequential. | Every English Lit textbook has the same error. These days, it's a mixture of persistent plagiarism and mistaken common knowledge. The truth disappeared over two centuries ago at the command of the secret societies. From the Illuminati to the hole in the wall political rabble rousers, every last brilliant mind peeeed in... | "welcome Mr. president" a voice said
newly elected president of the United stated Charles Brumei sat up from the chairs he was in. he began to stand up until he realized he was tied down he was in a small room kind of like the kind you hold mental prisoners in
"what the hell, do you know who I am" charles stated
"we ... | 2015-04-08T14:22:34 | 2015-04-08T14:20:28 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | He was ten at the time of the accident.
Unbeknownst to me, Ben's day began like any other. He woke up one minute before his alarm would ring and raced to turn it off. He always loved to beat the alarm clock, he felt like it set him up to keep winning the rest of the day. He showered quickly, skipping shampoo and only... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T06:23:30 | 2,420 | 197 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | Patch notes Human v1.80000001
Bug fixes:
NSP-3750 remove bug that required manual breathing while consciously aware.
NSP- 189 Modified tongue/cheek position check in "Chew" routine.
CPP-1648 improve short term memory storage, should fix the "why did I come in here?" Bug
New additions:
CMP-456 update to ensure a... | Brain:
* Laughing now always produces a sound. You should no longer experience laughing without making noises and looking like a retard while your mouth hangs open and your head turns red.
* There was a strange interaction with natural poisons like alcohol, THC or tobacco; Instead of triggering a defensive behaviour t... | 2015-08-25T08:51:07 | 2015-08-25T08:47:07 | 57 | 21 |
[WP]In the near future both the U.S. and Russia have new presidents, both of whom happen to be alcoholics. On a state visit at the White House they start taking shots of vodka one evening, and just for laughs decide to pass the time by planning a joint invasion of a random country. | "Right, right, I know we can't *reaaaaally* do it... but hypoth- ... hypother- ... whaddif we just, like, went and fucked ISIS up?" Charles started, leaning back in his chair.
"Who says that we cannot?" Remizov replied, calmly emptying his glass.
"Yeah man, we could just... *UNFF.* You know?" Charles continued.
Remi... | "Ah... Ah got it. Luxmmburg." The President of the United States tried to lay a finger impressively on the globe, missed completely, and fell over on the floor.
"Vat is Lux-em-borg?" The Russian Prime Minister blinked owlishly at the globe.
"Pfffffft, HAHAHAHAHA!" The President chortled stumbling to his feet. "L... | 2015-11-23T09:09:43 | 2015-11-23T07:42:00 | 404 | 113 |
[WP] You're a man who's tired of his life, so one day, while driving home from work, instead of stopping at your house, you just decided to keep driving. | The steady creep of exhaustion was finally beginning to overtake me...
Left.
Hands raw from hours of gripping leather...
Right.
Shoulders slumping forward... I make a half-hearted effort to pull them back into place...
Straight. Yes.
Someone closes on me from behind... appears to be a young man. My muscles tense... | Jim never was a rebel, as a kid he prided himself on knowing anything and everything in all his classes. Hell, valedictorian him up. Where did he end up after that? Nowhere special, he was disappointed. This disappointment grew inside him where he just couldn't take it.
It was as if life itself was binding him, and he... | 2016-06-11T20:28:53 | 2016-06-11T19:01:22 | 276 | 13 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | "*Excuse* me?" I spat, incredulous,
"**YOU** ***KILLED*** **HIM.**" rang the accusation again, seemingly sucking all the air out of the room. Geez, was there a hull breach?
I pensively withdrew my AR spectacles from my nose and pointedly clapped shut my notes, striding around from behind the podium to approach the Hi... | January 16th, 0001 AC/ 2021 AD
It's been little over two weeks since first contact. It was just like in the movies. They came in flying saucers and were little grey hunanoid things with big black oval eyes. They had retractable bird like wings and talked in an advanced form of telepathy, that used your own mind, your ... | 2016-08-18T08:01:51 | 2016-08-18T06:54:36 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. And Santa, low on funds to pay his elves, has begun selling his surveillance data to the NSA. | "So this naughty list...it's a 100% accurate?"
"Ho ho ho! It sure is! People have been very very naughty this year"
"Are you sure you want to go through with this Santa? There's no going back once this information is in our hands."
"Ho ho ho! Yes of course! I have to pay my elves somehow. This deal is too good to... | The two NSA agents looked with distaste at the sweating old man in front of them. The crazies this place attracted...
"So. Mister...hm, Klaus," agent Matthews said, not bothering to hide his smirk. "You say you have data of paramount national importance. Care to elaborate?"
Nick patted the sweat from his forehead a... | 2016-12-07T22:49:05 | 2016-12-07T22:05:24 | 56 | 22 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | "An espresso, please." I rummaged in my handbag and took a couple of coins to give to the barista. He smiled - a handsome, flirty grin - and asked for my name. As he gave me my change, his fingers brushed my palm.
All the colours of the rainbow blinded me for a second. I grew woozy and grabbed onto the counter for su... | "Mom I.." The truth was heartbreaking, I couldn't bring myself to tell her the truth.
I had never used my gift on her before, why would I? who wants to know how or when a person they love will die, especially their own mother.
"what is it, what did you see" There was fear in her eyes, I could see her tears begin to sw... | 2017-01-11T07:18:58 | 2017-01-11T07:04:21 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] You have the power to stop time at will, but you are also affected. The only thing you can do is think. | It's game time.
The teacher clicks on her computer, the screen changing to a new question in front of our eyes.
I stop time.
I scan the question rapidly, then slower. I've got all the time in the world. I pick out every detail and run it through my brain. Noting the possible answers, I rule them out one by one until... | My name was Catherine. Is. I was... i am 27. I still exist. I am still human. The world is not just my own head. There is something outside this nothingness.
I've been staring at that face for what is probably equivalent to 12 years. I know every detail of that face from the bleached whiskers on her upper lip to the ... | 2018-01-08T17:01:08 | 2018-01-08T14:49:47 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | "Ohshit-- Adam!!"
My friend yelped in a panicked voice and lurches out to me like I was about to be hit by a train, or something. My body shook out of instinct and I shut my eyes tight and brace the impact to come.
*bbbBbBbBbbbb*
Of course, it never did. I have a guardian angel after all. That noise seems to rumb... | The first time it happens, I’m saying, *no ketchup, please*, to the grease stained hot dog vendor on 50th, and the city goes silent. World’s biggest statue garden, and me, just wanting lunch. I take two cautious steps away from that boxed grill, shiny silver reflecting blurred halos of city light, staring as big-eyed a... | 2018-01-26T06:13:56 | 2018-01-26T06:09:41 | 297 | 85 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "...But what's the point." It responded. "It's in their nature. They're just fighting the inevitable."
The alien paused. "Is peace a commodity? Do they fight to be the only ones at peace"
"Human tribes have frequently sabotaged other tribes for their own self-interest," the other alien began.
"Well there we go. I don... | Part 1:
"Well that's not entirely true, Goresh" the first alien responded. "How about... Well, what about..." The commander was frantically scrambling to find any case of this in the ship's database but no matter how many results his implant threw at him he realised none of them fitted this situation. "Okay maybe it is... | 2018-03-17T04:45:49 | 2018-03-17T04:32:27 | 1,307 | 322 |
[WP] It turns out that every sentient species in the universe has a god and when war breaks out the gods would actually duel. The losing god would lose it's species. Then one day an alien god decided to invade Earth only to realize that we've killed our god. | "Chairman, another god has appeared. It seems we missed one."
Johnson raised an eyebrow at the hollogram. Thirty years ago, the celestial wars had come to an end with the fall of Allah, the last of the overdeities. However, the killing of Hermies ten years ago is what is universally accepted as the end of the gods.
H... | **Gods. Rulers. Conquerors. Protectors.**
**Humans. Children. Servants. Play things.**
I look at the inscription again.
**Gods. Rulers. Conquerors. Protectors.**
**Humans. Children. Servants. Play things.**
I look at my friends. At my buddies. At my fellow warriors.
They look up. Up high into the sky. The sky ... | 2018-04-03T11:03:01 | 2018-04-03T05:33:44 | 116 | 61 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Roger ran his fingers over the smooth dermo-plastic of the android's thigh. Her muscles tensed by the touch of his fingertips, and tiny goosebumps prickled up. There was something special about building such an advanced creature from nothing -- it made him feel powerful, almost divine.
The surgical lights in the ceili... | "Whichever one of you said *there's plenty of room at the bottom* was very clever indeed" remarked Kadesh, as he wandered over to the Fluorescence Microscope. "Remarkable achievement, Kador. Truly astounding!"
Kador stood flabbergasted, trying to make sense of what was happening. The past twenty-four hours had seemed ... | 2018-08-14T07:38:50 | 2018-08-14T05:28:03 | 366 | 44 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Rolling my chair closer to the desk, fingers jittering slightly as I slid the slide onto the stand and centered it, I brought my face close to the microscope. I'd spent years perfecting it, and today was the first real trial of it with something other than micro-sized images printed off.
I had put a few cheek cells sp... | "Whichever one of you said *there's plenty of room at the bottom* was very clever indeed" remarked Kadesh, as he wandered over to the Fluorescence Microscope. "Remarkable achievement, Kador. Truly astounding!"
Kador stood flabbergasted, trying to make sense of what was happening. The past twenty-four hours had seemed ... | 2018-08-14T08:39:35 | 2018-08-14T05:28:03 | 201 | 44 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | >Tech support: Human Tech helpdesk, Danyael speaking, this call may be recorded for training and QA purposes, may I have the GATACCA code at your 4th chromosome, please?
>Me: Um... hi.
>HD: Hi. Who is this, please, so I can put the details in your ticket.
>Me: I'm... John. I found your number on a few sk... | "Hello. Reference number please."
I didn't know what to expect. But a bored sounding monotone humanoid type voice wasn't it. Oddly enough I believe I was more prepared to hear some random gibberish so I could reply with "This is Dr Gaman, a member of mankind currently living on Earth. Put me through to your master" or... | 2018-08-14T11:14:09 | 2018-08-14T10:41:12 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | My 10th birthday I broke my mom's vase. In my panic, I threw my first skill point into deception, hoping that I could avoid her wrath.
Or at least, that's the story I tell people.
Every skill has a downside that rears its ugly head if you stray too far down it. Too many points into strength and you injure yourself be... | When I was five my parents held my birthday bash in the park with all the first graders in my class attending.
Today was a special day. I'll be in charge of my own skill points from now on. I had five to use once I blew the candles and from then on a point every year to allocate as my birthday wish.
While playing... | 2018-09-12T10:14:36 | 2018-09-12T09:05:57 | 99 | 25 |
[WP] Everyone has magic and the magic they have is based off of their name. Society uses a small range of names because they know the magic that comes with it. Your parents decided to give you a very ancient name that does not have a record of its accompanying magic. | Vex Joan was the name of the older woman dying beside me. A reasonable first name, three letters long with the impact of ten. Her head was rested upon my shoulder, rustling with every deep breath and stilling with every intake. During this last fit of life, she seemed to flicker in and out of existence.
Vex. I liked h... | My full first name is SpagetthiBeast Jeeves ShenronOurobourosTheDestroyer III-49th. My last name is Jones.
\--
Alright so let's sort my powers. My best power is SpaghettiBeast's Spaghetti\_Engage. I see the whole universe, or whatever, part of it I want. Then I go to an Infinite Void. Then some guy named Jeeves walks... | 2018-11-23T21:46:55 | 2018-11-23T20:26:08 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has magic and the magic they have is based off of their name. Society uses a small range of names because they know the magic that comes with it. Your parents decided to give you a very ancient name that does not have a record of its accompanying magic. | "Midas!"
The crowd went icy silent as the king proclaimed the name of the child they would soon bring into the world.
It didn't stay that way for long, soon murmurs of fear and concern swept through the crowd gathered at the naming ceremony. Yes, of course it was the right of the crown to give any name they pleased t... | My full first name is SpagetthiBeast Jeeves ShenronOurobourosTheDestroyer III-49th. My last name is Jones.
\--
Alright so let's sort my powers. My best power is SpaghettiBeast's Spaghetti\_Engage. I see the whole universe, or whatever, part of it I want. Then I go to an Infinite Void. Then some guy named Jeeves walks... | 2018-11-23T23:59:18 | 2018-11-23T20:26:08 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | God stared at his mug.
Number 2?
He turned his omniscient eye to the mortal world, searching for the number 1 dad.
He could find no sign of him.
And God was confused. But also, He did not really want to admit to anyone that he was only #2.
So he went for a stroll, and just happened to find William of Ockham relax... | Imagine. Imagine if there was some sort of metric, some sort of way to measure yourself against everyone in the world. I'm not talking about money, houses, cars; I mean like a real leaderboard.
Yeah, I've been yearning for that my whole life. Some way to prove my worth, some way to prove that every tireless moment of ... | 2019-04-18T16:07:46 | 2019-04-18T15:48:28 | 253 | 46 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | God stared at his mug.
Number 2?
He turned his omniscient eye to the mortal world, searching for the number 1 dad.
He could find no sign of him.
And God was confused. But also, He did not really want to admit to anyone that he was only #2.
So he went for a stroll, and just happened to find William of Ockham relax... | (This story is kid-friendly, so even a 9 year old could read this.)
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I woke up on that strange day yawning and wondering whether or not Dad's gone to work so I could finish off the final boss in Aliens: The Invasion. I sat up straight, feet dangling off the bed, and I got into my slippers. I headed downst... | 2019-04-18T16:07:46 | 2019-04-18T15:41:07 | 253 | 30 |
[WP] The biggest breakthroughs in medicine was a device allowing doctors to take full control of a patient's immune system to fight infections. Now the hardcore gamer community has repurposed it, deliberately self-infecting with deadly contagions to enjoy the thrill of the ultimate strategy game. | "Subject?"
"27 year old Male. Cause of death: Ebola. Seems we got one of those gamers again."
"Looks like he had stocked up quite a bit too." Referring to the pantry stocked full of various food items. "Ready for a prolonged battle."
"It is always the dumb ones. Where did he get Ebola anyway?"
"Probably that black ... | Sirens echoed in the distance, bouncing through the concrete jungle that was Chicago. An unpleasant stench hung in the air. Jameson pulled a crumpled yellow note from his pocket and lifted it underneath the flickering street lamp.
An address was scrawled across the paper in barely legible handwriting. Jameson stared ... | 2019-05-20T23:27:40 | 2019-05-20T22:53:15 | 126 | 72 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | The chatter was loud and incessant, like a fly that wouldn’t stop buzzing in your ear.
Or several flies. Hell, a whole cloud.
Anyways, Aunt Sandy turned “33” for the fifth time and my mom wanted to throw the party at our house because she wanted to flambé (torch the living shit) out of her “famous” Baked Alaska pie... | As per usual, I started with a control—my beautiful infant daughter. We had left her alone several minutes ago to nap, so I rose from my desk and padded over to the nursery, feet gingerly landing on the hardwood floor.
I twisted the doorknob carefully and crept inside the dim room, trying not to startle her. I stalke... | 2019-07-01T23:13:12 | 2019-07-01T23:03:11 | 146 | 72 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | Max had just woke up from one of those long naps that leave you feeling heavy and confused. Slowly he moved his feet towards the floor and got up with a stretch. He opened his phone to see 17:00 staring at him. Shit. Max had missed the most important time of the day for the 3rd time this week. His new job left him exha... | I sat on the couch in the living room while everyone was outside talking and catching up with each other, after all, it’s been a while since the family had come together and be able to reconnect with each other, as always, I find that I’m by myself, and as always bored whenever these get together occur.
“Leo!” Mother ... | 2019-07-01T22:45:08 | 2019-07-01T22:18:35 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | As everything came into focus, red block letters greeted me
DON'T TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE
For a moment I sat, looking at the shapes. Like the others, I had been blinded December before last. My MX-Sarah assistant had guided me back home while the world was in chaos. The robot became my eyes.
I needed an upgrade b... | When I was younger, my mother told me that no matter what happens I needed to be strong. She told me that the world was a cruel place and my sister Kay needed protecting. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, this world was full of wonder and adventure. My thirst for adventure led me to the Army when I was eighteen. ... | 2022-10-22T00:27:31 | 2019-08-26T10:19:31 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | First opening his eyes, he saw two paths. One was the cliche pearly white gates in the distance, a beautiful path towards them filled with life and vibrancy, the other full of crags blackened by hellfire and brimstone while leading down to a fiery pit. One thing though: the first path was blocked off by dark grey metal... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment.
In his ravenous hatred he found no peace, and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral P... | 2020-01-10T17:59:07 | 2020-01-10T17:42:54 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | I am given a microphone and immediately start belting out every Queen song I know, unable to hit Freddie’s glorious high notes. The screeches from my throat reverberate off of every rock and every bone in the Pit. 800 Avantone Pro Mix speakers have been set up in the caverns of Hell, just for me. A lone demon is absolu... | First there was nothing.
I don't know what I expected, but I guess I was hoping for little more than the still black void that stretches out before me.
Then it got hot. Very hot.
It began as a searing pain, as if every nerve of my being was firing off signals at once. As blinding pain subsided into a comfortable wa... | 2020-01-10T18:08:32 | 2020-01-10T17:38:07 | 51 | 32 |
[WP] Turns out, what gets you into Heaven is spending more time doing good things rather than bad things. That's it. When you arrive at St. Peter's Gate, he has a device that shows precisely how much time you've spent doing good, and bad. Down to the nanosecond, you're at a dead tie... | "It's not just you," the angel explained. The line lurched one step forwards; when I'd first died, the grey hills seemed to stretch off into infinity, but after God knows how long we'd finally gotten to some visible structures: a massive set of gates, flanked by a pair of angels.
"Yeah, no kidding." I looked up and do... | One unaware driver was all it took.
Biking in the city is dangerous, especially when you live in the downtown core and its night time. The street was busy despite the late hour. The light turned green. I took off full speed in my slick, carbon 21-speed bike. The wind whipped at my ears and cut through my hair. Horns h... | 2020-03-20T16:29:25 | 2020-03-20T16:27:59 | 281 | 149 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, “How? How were you able to summon me?!” You’re standing in the corner flipping through your grandma’s cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, “I don’t know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!” | "Oregen-Thanto?"
"Do you fucking mean oregano?" The large reddish beast was standing across from me with his arms tightly folded and chin butting out. "Are you listening to me you mororn? The jackass who can't read to save his life. What the hell have you done?"
I think he was mad. I, on the other hand, was confuse... | He was dripping with tar, wings partially unfurled and visage positively fearsome. Serena, even in her dazed state, had the sense to set the book down gently on the counter. From where the beast had emerged, the marble was cracked, a faultline containing impenetrable darkness.
"Jesus," she mumbled somewhat incoherentl... | 2020-04-16T23:27:57 | 2020-04-16T21:57:06 | 993 | 185 |
[WP] After a space battle where the ship's captain stayed behind on the ship to hold off the enemy ships while the others on board escaped, they sit in the bridge with only the ship's AI. The captain miraculously won the battle. Their ship is severely crippled as it drifts through space. | Awaiting command input.
Processing…
Recognizing command \[Open Captain’s Logs\].
Processing…
Command complete. Would you like to open an existing file or record a new file?
Recognizing command \[Open a file\].
Opening file \[The End\].
Audiolog transcription:
\[AI vocalizing\] *AlasCorp speech-to-text program ... | The UTNS Ratatoskr had stayed behind. The crew had transferred to the civilian transports, and escaped. Only the captain stayed behind. She faced odds there, against the Dhoratic Slavers, that most people wouldn't bet on. And yet, out of duty, as she had sworn an oath to protect the universal rights of all sentient lif... | 2020-04-23T23:18:34 | 2020-04-23T21:21:54 | 124 | 49 |
[WP] Emotions are sold in glass jars. Happiness is something only the wealthy can afford. The poor are only left with the feelings of sadness and grief. It all changed when someone starts selling anger.
[deleted] | Tyler waited by the Stillwater docks on the first night of Jubilee. It was a moonless night, what little light there was came from the flickering of rusted lamp poles. The waters were calm and serene, the oncoming ship cutting through the waters peacefully. It was a quiet night.
If you ignored the twenty shadows wait... | As i woke up and sat on my bedside I was surprised to discover that I might be able to pay off some of my overdue rent. I quickly opened the drawer in my nightstand and pulled out a small glass bottle with a cork stopper. I wanted to savour the feeling for a few more moments but I knew that if I waited the feeling migh... | 2020-05-26T09:02:59 | 2020-05-26T08:55:40 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] When offered one wish, you jokingly said that you want to fire proof. You are disappointed to discover that fire still burns you. When you accidentally lit the company breakroom on fire, your boss just laughed it off and you began your new career as the person who can't be fired, ever. | Theo, my colleague, confronted me the next day.
"It seems like something strange's going on," he snarled. "I checked the security camera records . . . it was definitely you!"
"It was an accident," I assured him. "The toaster had faulty circuitry."
"Why weren't you fired, then?" he demanded. "A mistake of such severi... | Working at the cat cafe was my decision, but it was a bad one, since I found out I am terribly, horribly allergic to cats. And? I'm also a terrible waitress.
Second thing? I'm surrounded by humanoid cat people, since, you know, essentially being immune from losing any job or title- I self employed. I'm now an immorta... | 2020-06-10T03:31:29 | 2020-06-10T02:34:19 | 81 | 54 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | The trembling crucifix dug into Patrick's hand as he squeezed it tight, a bulwark against the insanity raging on the bed.
Mrs Jones -- the current possessed -- baked the best pasties in all of Saint Ives. At least, she'd used to before the demon had come upon her. The air of her house still echoed with sweetness of do... | Father Atkinson returned home a tired man. His once sturdy frame stood hollow, a tree devoured inside out. His face had grown wrinkled as bark; his calloused hands could barely grip the cross as he pounded the pulpit before his congregation.
They didn't know him. Not the true him--the man who scrambled to correct his... | 2020-10-20T08:10:43 | 2020-10-20T08:05:28 | 3,148 | 123 |
[WP] A dragon takes you away and flies you to their isolated cave. You see bones in piles, and are convinced that they will eat you. "I always wanted a pet to keep me company," the dragon said. | I stared hard at the dragon's mouth, surely he was just talking.
"Didn't you hear me?! I intend to keep you as a pet." The dragon lowered himself to my level. "Never mind the bones. They were a passing thought, but I need something more."
He must have noticed my struggling once more.
"What is wrong with you?! Shou... | “That’s a weird-looking bird.”
Samson held his hand above his forehead, trying to block out the sun, watching the large bird fly above his farm. He had never seen a bird like this one before, its wings stretched out far wider than any hawk, its body bigger than any owl he had spotted, so just what was this mystical... | 2021-01-06T07:13:58 | 2021-01-06T06:36:13 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in your hands, and the afterlife customs agents miss it when letting you in. You find that it still works, and you can connect to the internet and contact people in the living world. | If you are receiving this message, please, please don’t ignore it. This may be the only message I'll be able to send before they find my phone. My name is Jonathon Belmoore and I need your help. The lives of four of my closest friends are in your hands. They are mothers and fathers and people who care about their world... | **Connections**
***
The first thing I discovered was that I shouldn’t try to make phone calls.
It was physically possible, sure. The line would ring and then connect. The living person on the other side would answer, cheerful or confused, or sometimes somewhere in-between. I would say “Hello,” and they would rep... | 2021-01-20T13:15:57 | 2021-01-20T12:48:41 | 821 | 295 |
[WP] As part of a senior thesis, an anthropology student decides to start a cult to see how far it’ll go. Several years, hundreds of deaths, civil warfare and a complete government overthrow later they wonder how they’ll properly cite their sources. | **Acknowledgments**
A big thank you, to Dr. Harriet Slanter for reading through this thesis for the fifteenth time—even if it was done under semi-duress and the threat of war crimes being levied against her—she has been an invaluable resource in the research for this paper.
I’d like to thank all of those who particip... | Chad turned toward the knock at his door. He was in the master bedroom of his now seventeen room mansion. The twelve room mansion where he had lived previously was no longer enough. Not for Chad, but for his followers, who insisted Chad needed more rooms. That philosophy came from a drunken night in the first year, whe... | 2021-03-13T10:56:34 | 2021-03-13T08:47:45 | 247 | 91 |
[WP] You, a renowned scientist, invented technology to listen to any moment in history. This audio has become the standard for criminal cases. The problem is when you listen in to the death of your closest friend it gets the details all wrong. You know this because you are their murderer. | >A simple drive, A light bang,
>
>It made me so happy to see him bleed and cry
>
>I wanted to stop,
>
>to let him know it was me,
>
>flash my bright eyes,
>
>to enjoy this revenge of mine.
>
>The risk was not worth it,
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>so here I am sitting on m... | “Linda!” Carlos shouted, pacing frantically through his lab. It was all wrong, every part of it. He ran the calculations in his head, reran them again, fed them through his terminal to triple check. She was so slow, why was she so slow, today of all days?
“Linda, seriously! I need you down here!”
“Coming!” she yelled... | 2021-03-28T08:21:23 | 2021-03-28T08:18:08 | 290 | 143 |
[WP] You're an anime protagonist with one goal: become a hobo. Unfortunately, there's a set limit of hobos in the world, and you must kill one in order to take his place. All existing hobos are masters of street fighting.
Credit to u/U-1f419 for the inspiration. If anyone actually writes this, god bless your heart. | Fall. Fall deep, sink to the lowest, touch the ground and make sure it's the center of the universe, where it can never go any lower. Lose any attachments, lose pride, lose ego, let the rotten shell fall and lay bare the secret that is humanity. A human is a sum of physical rotting components. Throw gasoline at him and... | Lance Ravenbow here. Professional armorer and dragon slayer.
This reminds of the time after I left the Imperial Armorer Academy in Knoll's Ridge. I was young, hot-headed, and talented. I had my journeyman's piece -- a shield of bouncy diamond -- and I figured I was ready to go out onto the disc and make a name for mys... | 2021-08-14T10:44:33 | 2021-08-14T10:34:54 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] The Zalrex were feared among the galaxy as the most cruel, violent and ruthless species. They would bully, slap, hit, sometimes even kill other species. Nobody could stand in their way.. till they arrived on a small blue planet named Earth. | We thought nothing of the planet at first. A small blue orb orbiting a star surrounded by eight lifeless worlds, with a name for itself and its moon utterly void of creativity. We'd seen a dozen other planets just like it that fell to us. We never suspected it would be the planet we could not conquer.
The scouting par... | Far from urban areas, a woman was on her morning walk when a marvelous airship landed right before her eyes. For a thing so massive, it was disproportionately quiet. The woman was too stunned to speak. Soon enough, the news spread, and a crowd had gathered; only to be separated again after the authorities arrived at th... | 2022-08-22T05:40:55 | 2022-08-22T03:55:13 | 61 | 13 |
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