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[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | The Oaks would burn.
It was a collective decision and the decisions was final. They were growing too fast and too strong. If something wasn't; done, they would overrun the forest. And what then? It would be an Oak forest, not a Birch forest, and that was unacceptable.
"Must we?" asked a Birch, its chemical voice on... | They said that the future was suppose to be bright and silver, a world where people would know peace. Flying cars, no wars, people living deep into their 100's. A world without borders, a time of space exploration, a time where humanity will reach its potential and then surpass it in spades.
Thats what the elders said... | 2022-08-27T08:33:49 | 2022-08-27T06:16:04 | 95 | 60 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | It wasn't like it wasn't noticeable.
Seconds is a long time. By the time the first lace came through the knot, my reflection was standing there, waiting for me. I saw him- wait, I saw *me* stand up, look at me disapprovingly, and wait.
Why was I - he - disapproving of me? Who the fuck made him the high authority on... | I had a strange urge to check myself out in the mirror as I was preparing for bed. Did my hair look okay? Anything ugly about my clothes? I suddenly wanted to find out. I looked into the mirror. I looked fine, same as I always did. Same brown hair, same green eyes, everything was okay. I breathed a sigh of relief. I th... | 2014-03-22T09:25:13 | 2014-03-22T09:18:18 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] Someone finally, accidentally discovers the true function of the male nipple. | Jim screamed and pulled against the restraints that held him to the table. Overhead, three bulbous, grey alien heads loomed over him. They spoke to each other anxiously in a series of foreign words that he didn't understand.
"-you're terrifying him! Okay, it's on?" One of the aliens turned to him. "Human, is the trans... | It was the thirtieth year of our war against the Zords from planet Zordon. And as many people agreed, it would probably be the last. All we had left was Madagascar, the which would, without some miracle, become the deathbed of human civilization.
In 2446, the Zords began their offensive with the tiniest soldiers the... | 2014-08-10T11:54:37 | 2014-08-10T11:14:49 | 105 | 17 |
[WP] A man has the ability to freeze time, and uses this to do whatever he wants. One day while "borrowing" his neighbors corvette he gets in an accident and dies, therefore leaving time frozen. | I remember the day so clearly, the day everything changed.
I was out walking my dog, when suddenly the world just... *switched*.
One moment everything was normal, the day was overcast, but still clinging to the warmth of summer, and all of a sudden, and with no warning, they started to speed by at a fantastic rate. I... | For three-and-a-half years, I was the world's worst superhero.
It started when I was ten years old. We were at the park. My sister was dancing in the splash pad, I was climbing a tree, drawing a complicated doodle on the smooth bark with a sharpie. Mama lay on a picnic blanket, holding her book up like an offering to ... | 2015-08-21T15:15:08 | 2015-08-21T14:31:52 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | Things were going pretty well for Dave. He’d only had the magic for a week, but already he’d gained several million dollars, a mansion, two sports-cars, and a supermodel girlfriend. A few stranger wishes had popped up, too: the skills of a master ballerina, the qualifications of an astronaut, the ability of a racecar d... | My wife says the vacation has been horrible. She was sun burnt, the kids had been hanging off of her cherry red skin for two days now, they hated the sand, they wanted mom to hold them. Fine.
Back to the hotel they went, on the beach I stayed. Which was more than okay. I needed some time. Dad needed some time alone ... | 2016-08-02T15:22:40 | 2016-08-02T12:08:33 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | Had I known then what it would mean, and maybe I would have left that coin where I saw it.
But it had it's own sparkle, it's own calling, like no other I had ever seen before, and soon enough I held it in my hand, weighing it, testing it...
I could see my eyes reflected on it's surface, and as I looked away, as I dar... | Angela hoisted her heaping bag of new clothes over her petite shoulder. As she struggled to catch up with her friends, who had walked ahead of her to the next store, she cursed herself for deciding to wear heels that day.
It was then that she heard the fountain call to her. The call was not a sound, but instead a vibr... | 2016-08-02T14:08:05 | 2016-08-02T12:22:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are cursed to see people how they view themselves. You walk alongside monsters and Gods.
Can be third person instead of first.
Edit: I just thought of how EDs and other disorders like multiple personality would fit in with this, and now I'm kinda blown away. | "How do I look?"
I didn't know how to answer that question anymore. Going to the club with my best friend was an ordeal. She had always been insecure, terrified that an ounce of pudge would adhere itself to her midsection, balloon her into a gelatinous horror. And now, to me, that's what she was. A dripping, bulbous m... | The most interesting thing about seeing people in the way they see themselves is the fact that it's spread to the extremes. About half of see themselves as gods and the other half see themselves as monsters. Every now and then you will see a unicorn or pegasus, but that's normally the people who are broken, or insane. ... | 2016-09-16T19:58:14 | 2016-09-16T19:42:15 | 163 | 11 |
[WP] After years of "my old friend," the Darkness is tired of being friendzoned. | The Darkness is on his laptop, lurking in the wee hours of the night. He is thousands upon thousands of years old - an ancient being with ashes in his veins instead of blood, but he feels an emotion that is almost TOO human for his kind: loneliness.
He opens up internet explorer on his 2009 Dell desktop, the kindest g... | The Darkness drifted into the girl's room.
Emily was lying perfectly still on her bed, eyes trained on a crack in the ceiling. A song was playing softly on her computer. The one that irritated him every time he heard it, beautiful melody or not. Referring to him as a 'friend', as if he were a mere companion, to be ab... | 2016-10-06T06:53:10 | 2016-10-06T06:06:14 | 191 | 91 |
[WP] After a cosmic event washing the Earth with a unidentified type of radiation, ghosts are now completely visible. They're not completely opaque so you can tell they're ghosts. They're everywhere. | It is a common fallacy that the living outnumber the dead. There have been roughly a hundred billion people who have lived and died in the course of Earth's history, in comparison to the eight billion currently living today. The stark contrast hadn't seemed apparent until the spirits showed back up.
At first, the g... | I could feel my breath getting heavier. My mask started to fog, making it hard to make out everything in the street. I lowered my flashlight onto my wrist equipment now reading critical danger of radiation.
"This is it. Stay close together,” our Captain ordered. This was the first time in sixty years anyone stepped a... | 2017-06-16T20:39:47 | 2017-06-16T19:52:40 | 343 | 30 |
[WP] A knight in shining armour goes to rescue the dragon-in-distress from the great and terrible princess. | She'd done it again.
He walked about his kingdom, searching in vain for the dragon. In his heart he knew the truth, that his dragon had once again been kidnapped by the wicked princess.
Under the bed?
No dragon.
In the toy chest?
No dragon.
Maybe in the pile of dirty clothes he forgot to put in the laundry roo... | Ser Darius crouched on the battlements, hiding in the shadow of the topmost tower. He was close, he could tell. There was no mistaking Arcu's cry, a shrill keening that rent his heart.
What was that witch doing to him?
Deftly, he ducked from cover and sprinted to the south tower, the place he had been seeking this p... | 2017-11-15T08:29:35 | 2017-11-15T08:08:38 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] "Liar." "I'm telling the truth. They put themselves in pressurized metal boxes and launch themselves out of their planet with liquid fuel canisters. Humans are insane." | Germea stared at Immeta, his eyes wide. "That's ... that's..." his voice trailed off. He frowned, then leaned sideways, to call out down one of the quarters corridors leading off the crew's mess.
"JOHNSON! HEY! JOHNSON!"
Johnson, the crew's only human, poked her head into view from her bunk, where she had been en... | "Sure, whatever you say." - Ka'rin walked away angrily because Ko'rok had wasted her time yet again.
It was well-known that Ko'rok is the biggest liar on the Kamiltrine ship. Ka'rin knew this of course, but the nature of her work, as the head of Earthlings' Behavior division, required her to stay informative about th... | 2017-12-16T11:32:24 | 2017-12-16T10:30:45 | 561 | 221 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | People rush past me, breathless in their terror. My boots thunk on the metal floor as I pass them. Most would think i’m crazy, because who in their right mind would walk into a basement haunted by a ticking time bomb? But ever since the great turkey crisis of 2006 I’ve discovered that my abilities extend past the munda... | Being homeless sucks. Being born homeless is far worse. Some people tell me I never even had the taste of freedom, that I didn't know what it was like to lose everything. Those people clearly have enjoyed the taste of a good meal, and that is something I would give anything for.
My parents died when I was eight, wel... | 2018-06-30T16:09:28 | 2018-06-30T14:40:32 | 865 | 336 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | Police helicopters roared overhead the densely packed apartment complex. In one of the tiny apartments below, I sat at a dingy kitchen table. Across from me, a man sat slumped in his chair, his hands cuffed behind him. A frustrated scowl etched on his face. "You couldn't have possibly traced the explosives", he said pe... | Danny was what you would call a "gambling savant". He never seemed to lose any bet, no matter how outlandish. Everyone knew his gimmick: he'd flip a coin, call the sides in air and whatever it landed on, he would bet. Eagles or Patriots? He could tell you who would win based on a coin flip: heads for Eagles, tails for ... | 2018-06-30T18:35:57 | 2018-06-30T18:35:54 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] An accident during an experiment freezes you in time in public, completely invulnerable. Milennia later, you come out of stasis to find entire cultures centered upon your statuesque presence throughout their history. | They thought I couldn't sense anything, but they were wrong. I witnessed a thousand years before my unblinking eyes. I saw sunshine and rain. I witness life and death. I saw generations of people come and go. I had even contemplated a few folks for decades, seeing them being pushed by in a stroller, running pass me as ... | Bren the window-washer had never felt so alive. It was their third week out dangling from the precipice of a 53-story glassy building looking in on what they used to be. A drone, or not even. Drones buzzed around doing this and that. The glassy-eyed workers inside stayed still, almost frozen in time, staring ahead, mus... | 2018-08-16T01:48:29 | 2018-08-16T01:44:45 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] “Congratulations!” the genie says. “Whatever you try to do today, I will make sure it succeeds brilliantly.” “Anything?” you ask, skeptical. “Yes,” the genie says, with a knowing smile. “Anything.” | "Then," I grabbed the genie's hand, a bright smile grows on my face. "While you're with me, I'll make the whole day the best day of your life!"
The genie's smile disappeared and they looked at me confusingly instead of disgust or any form of rejection.
"What?" Their tone flat.
"You heard me! Come on, let's go do so... | I rubbed a layer of dust off the kettle. It had a dent here and a dent there, each one a different story that I would never hear. The house had been empty for months now, collecting dust as I composed myself enough to sort through the belongings. A soft hum emanated from the shelf atop which the kettle sat, a steady cr... | 2019-09-13T08:39:08 | 2019-09-13T08:14:57 | 119 | 15 |
[WP] One day, everyone wakes up to find themselves harnessing a superpower that relates to their biggest fear. You fear heights? Now you know how to fly. You hate spiders? Now you can talk to them. | Blindness, my greatest fear.
I had always had perfect vision, and that was what scared me; what if I lost it? Well, the thought of mildly bad vision scared me. Going blind? I just couldn't comprehend it. Living in complete darkness, forever. The mere thought sent shivers down my spine. I would happily lose a limb b... | It's an odd and sudden event. The mixed emotions everyone has when it first started when they all first noticed it's not just them. A miracle to few, cursed to some and rest are just confused why has humanity got hold of it. Being awakened from your slumber and be able to have unimaginable superpower just at your finge... | 2019-09-19T04:09:08 | 2019-09-18T21:51:17 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | ”Would you stop that noise already!?”
Percival the Lustrous stopped randomly strumming his lute for a long silent moment. He then smiled, shook his head, and broke into another grating acoustic rendition of “The Magnificant Wall of Thornwood”. I grit my teeth and went back to my tomes and maps, spread out across the ... | "Mister Overlord, sir," I said as I bowed to the Dark Overlord himself. I didn't expect his presence. Not here. Not in the middle of the camp. Outside I could hear the leaves rustling in the evening wind. A dog snored peacefully, undisturbed by the entity that had materialized at the foot of my makeshift bed.
"Mister ... | 2019-09-26T06:42:55 | 2019-09-26T06:10:22 | 182 | 101 |
[WP] Apparently the ability to speak and understand multiple languages simultaneously is a trait almost unique to humans, so when the alien's came it wasn't for our water, our resources, or our culture; it was for us, the greatest translators in the galaxy. | Linguists know that the average person has an active vocabulary of around 20,000 words - the words they actually use on a day-to-day basis, but has a passive vocabulary of around 40,000 words - the words they generally know without having to look it up or figure it out from context. Though only about 1,000 different ... | Wait. This cannot be happening. There are not actually aliens standing at the front of the classroom right now. I’m almost afraid to turn around and observe the rest of the room but I do manage to take a peek at my closest friend Bridgette. She’s not moving, is she frozen?
“What do you want from us?” I whip my head ... | 2019-10-05T15:21:23 | 2019-10-05T14:36:14 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | I wait in my room in the cold light of dawn
To see what the writing is going to say.
And if it says 'William', we'll up and be gone,
A couple of soulmates just running away.
Two lovers like us can't be broken apart
By family feuds started decades ago.
I wait in my room with my hand on my heart
To see on my skin ... | Felicity never cared about what names would show up on her wrist on her sixteenth birthday. Everyone else was always excited for the Revelation. Would their crush be on their right wrist? Would that witch Sally from English class be on their left? The possibilities were endless!
But Felicity grew up watching what a so... | 2020-01-18T23:55:28 | 2020-01-18T23:12:39 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] From a bug's perspective, humans are ageless eldritch beings who would kill them without a second thought. You are a fly among many, infesting one of their basements, but one of your kind made the mistake of irritating the human. Now the human is out for blood. | Our greatest bard sang before the king, her voice resonant with tales of love and loss most days. I can hear the mighty crescendos and deep sadness in her voice. A Portuguese fado touched with the operatic.
Bzzzzzzzz Bz Bzzzzz BBzzzzz...
But today was different. Larry has bitten the young one. Broken the unspoken rul... | The Great Humanoid Abomination opened the hole to this universe and strode inside, causing the brown dust we had so carefully and painstakingly placed to break free from the ceiling of heaven and drift down in a haze.
The hive buzzed with anticipation. The die was cast and our fate was sealed, for we had long since re... | 2020-08-13T13:01:38 | 2020-08-13T12:10:46 | 114 | 65 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | I never regretted turning my rival, Doloferes Bang, into mustard. As his cape collapsed in a freak display of condimental damnation I relished in witnessing his final dressing down. Those fools. "Proper magic demands rigor," they'd say. Well, I demand only rigor mortis. There's a stiff prize to pay for anyone who dares... | Arson cakes the dirt roads behind an enraged youth, covered in a wizard's cloak painted in brown, that of peasant wear. He had been treading for days reeking an aura of fire. Shocked villagers call out to him as he makes his way to a crimson wooden hut. He kicks inside of it, as always the inside of her hut is larger t... | 2021-08-26T19:12:10 | 2021-08-26T18:37:26 | 144 | 80 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | The Painted King felt no surprise when he returned from town to find the Rebel leaning contentedly against the entrance to his hut, just mild disappointment. “I’d hoped I’d have more time.” He brushed back the hood of his cloak, revealing a face of brown mottled with white, like a map of some strange land. “Well, after... | I returned from an unsuccessful hunt again. Starving. Blasted this winter. The snow makes it hard to walk, and the accursed snowfall makes my sight no farther than what this dim lantern will provide.
My breath is ragged and my groans of disdain are coarse. How I continued to live like this, I do not understand. But I... | 2021-11-03T20:51:40 | 2021-11-03T18:35:48 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] A woman prophesied to give birth to the Chosen One gives birth to triplets instead. | _"You know the prophecy."_
A figure with a gun stood in the shadows, speaking in an oddly high voice.
"But..."
_"There is no use, you fiend. I am the Chosen One. Give up."_
That voice would make any self-respecting villain want to give them a punch in the mouth. Unfortunately, the figure caught him at a good moment... | ”AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!” the woman in front of me exclaimed. She was in deep pain. She was giving birth to triplets. Strangely, they all came out together. The woman was in agony. She was bleeding horribly.
She died in a few hours.
*18 years later*
My name is Michelle Kazara. I have three children; they’re not min... | 2022-02-17T01:18:19 | 2022-02-16T23:40:39 | 357 | 13 |
[WP] Earth is losing to the Aliens. You develop a serum and are now on the body littered streets to face the Alien commander. “Weakling! A super soldier serum is useless on your kind!” He exclaims. “That’s why...I made a zombie virus.” You say as you break the vial, releasing a mist into the air | "What... what does that mean? What did you do, human?" the alien said, a slight tinge of discomfort in his voice. His bravado and arrogance was less audible now that he had to face the unknown.
"Don't have zombie stories on your planet, do you?" I said with an exhausted smile. I was beyond tired - sneaking through the... | It was futile - their natural telekinetic abilities were too versatile for us to defeat them in battle. Even a mere grunt could easily take on an entire platoon of humans. Fired projectiles were frozen and dropped harmlessly, or returned to their senders in a spray of gore. Heat and explosions worked well on the aliens... | 2022-04-19T07:06:02 | 2022-04-19T07:05:45 | 260 | 158 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | Finally, I meet Crexus, writer of tales, rememberer of exploits, singer of songs.
"I can't imagine that I belong here more than a blacksmith or munitions manufacturer."
Crexus looks at me somewhat incredulously. "Oh, Robert. Remember what you said? 'I am become death. Destroyer of worlds.' One hundred years hence, y... | It felt like being drawn from water, as my life rolled off my back and into the pool around me. I Smelled blood, heard the clash of battle, smoke stung my eyes. I saw men fighting around me in the distance. Where was my family, the hospital, thought...
"Erik, look here, we've got another whelp". A gruff voice barked ... | 2014-05-17T18:42:03 | 2014-05-17T17:59:46 | 564 | 41 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | I had expected darkness. And then oblivion. But, as I peered out into the blackness, long minutes passed, and I continued to be. The phrase from my schoolboy days returned to me: *cogito, ergo sum*.
And then I noticed, in the blackness, there were parts that were - impossibly - yet darker. Unlike every tabloid story o... | Harold had found clarity in death, he hadn't expected that. Given the situation he'd think the average person might be confused. One moment he was jamming out in his car to a Michael Jackson song and the next he was standing in a green field with the sun shining down and nothing in sight for miles except a large wooden... | 2014-05-18T00:06:02 | 2014-05-17T22:48:27 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Any person you punch in anger is cured of all disease and is given perfect health for the rest of their life. The truth of this has gotten out and now everyone is out to piss you off. |     I've begun to hate that look in their eyes. That glassy, stupid, feral look. Like an animal. They're all animals, gravitating towards sweet release like animals. They surround me every day, their stinking flesh surrounding, nudging at me, goading, moaning. And then when I hit the... | The cartel'd had me strapped to that chair for forty-eight hours with only my right arm free.
"C'mon," said my latest torturer, digging the cigarette butt into my neck impatiently as I screamed and screamed. "C'mon, buddy, get ANGRY!"
"I'm trying!" I shrieked, flailing my bruised and tender fist against his abdomen. ... | 2015-02-23T18:08:16 | 2015-02-23T15:46:39 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... |  
I slowly shambled towards the bathroom. Mutation or not, I just wanted to go back to sleep. My mom and dad both had pointless mutations, hers being cat eyes and his being the ability to read a pigeon's thoughts, so the outlook for whatever I was going to get was bleak. Reaching my destination, I shut the do... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T11:49:38 | 1,457 | 14 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | Your whole life story, I could read with a look
That's my mutation, but there's a big hook.
I was in love at the time, you see
And she always said, "you're the only one for me."
But I quickly discovered it was nothing but lies,
She was saying the same thing to two other guys.
You got lucky with your gift, the oth... | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2015-03-04T03:19:01 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 1,168 | 64 |
[WP] Today everyone woke up with price tags floating over their heads, indicating the value of their life. Your tag is $50Tn, the biggest by far, and you have no idea why.
That's $50,000,000,000,000.00 for those not used to hearing it.
Awesome stories guys. | 50 Trillion dollars. That's what the tag said floating above my head. I knew it was going to be large, but that number seemed excessive. While the world was busy arguing and debating what their tag meant about them, I knew far too well. I had prepared for this day for years. I saw it coming so, so long ago and made sur... | Its raining and I have a flight to catch. I overslept again, and have been running around the house despritly trying to pack 7 days worth of clothing in my backpack. I can't afford checked baggage. I've been eating ramen for a month just to afford this damn trip. A sponsor already shipped my artwork up north for the st... | 2015-05-13T11:40:59 | 2015-05-13T11:00:20 | 55 | 33 |
[WP]The great library of Alexandria held perhaps the greatest collection of literary works in human history, but within its walls something was held that was so dangerous that, when discovered, Caesar, Aurelian, and Amr ibn al `Aas decided it was worth losing the endless knowledge to destroy it. | "My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt – sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka.
In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washin... | Caesar relaxed in his tent, distracted again by Cleopatra. Ptomley's armies had them surrounded, but Caesar knew his soldiers were better-trained and (since taking the city) better supplied, and Ptomley would break his army against Caesar's defenses. Many of his troops were bivouacked in Alexandria's public buildings, ... | 2015-10-14T14:38:52 | 2015-10-14T13:28:53 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] It's the year 5016. Archaeologists have a skewed and inaccurate view of what life was like in the 21st century.
For example, they may ascribe meaning to things that have none, or claim that we worship cats because of cat videos. Go wild with this, the millenium is your oyster. | Some experts believe that the peak of Silicon Age occured about 3 millenia ago during the life of one such wizard. Ancient inscriptions tell us he was known as Yabs. Members of the Cult of Yabs would exchange fibrous sheets that represented value for simple machina which the user interacted with by manually poking elec... | For a primitive time, the 21st century Thought Web was a remarkably complex system.
The texts and technology of that era suggest that millions at a time were projecting their knowledge into the Thought Web regularly. This consistent sharing of information gave our ancestors the ability to become enculturated by a wi... | 2016-04-11T10:47:43 | 2016-04-11T10:20:48 | 77 | 18 |
[WP] It's the year 5016. Archaeologists have a skewed and inaccurate view of what life was like in the 21st century.
For example, they may ascribe meaning to things that have none, or claim that we worship cats because of cat videos. Go wild with this, the millenium is your oyster. | There is some confusion - a debate in the community, if you will - about our great ancestors. Around 3,000 years ago humans, who were pitifully short, with the alpha males maxing out at 5 foot 6, were slaves to small furry carnivores. Some believe the master species were called "felines" or "icanhazacheezeburgers". The... | For a primitive time, the 21st century Thought Web was a remarkably complex system.
The texts and technology of that era suggest that millions at a time were projecting their knowledge into the Thought Web regularly. This consistent sharing of information gave our ancestors the ability to become enculturated by a wi... | 2016-04-11T11:29:50 | 2016-04-11T10:20:48 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] When people die, a trial is held to decide if they go to heaven or hell. People are allowed to choose their attorney, regardless of if they know them personally or not. You're the first person to choose Satan as your attorney.
If it matters in the context of your story, you can choose the individuals that make up... | Welp, I guess that's it. I died. The last thing I can remember is that big-ass truck coming towards my car. I think that's how I died. I just think, though, I can't really remember it.
But anyway, there was I, sitting at the defendant's bench. Some angelical dude explained to me that when you die, you *do* get a judge... | Another long day. Knucklehead employee's, grouchy customers, and lousy corporate middlemen. Lenny's stared into his glass as he took the last drink. The bottom inside was stained brown and as the last drop slipped into his mouth he idly wondered when was the last time he cleaned it. A week? Two? Whatever was growing in... | 2016-10-13T05:33:45 | 2016-10-13T03:23:25 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] The worst disease known to mankind has just struck the planet. The virus has been called "honesty". It has infected the entire population, causing everyone to tell only the truth about anything. | "And does anyone know why the presidents no longer hold press conferences?" Ms. Longton bit her lip. To those with higher resistance to the disease, that could serve as a temporary solution, just to prevent them from continuing.
I raised my hand after a minute. "In 2022, one year after the Honesty Virus was first rep... | Two knocks on a wooden door. “Now, kids, you- “. In bursts two giggling kids carrying balloons. “Grandpa!” They run towards the bed and flung their arms on to a happy Alan. Ben enters the room carrying a gift box. “Hey, dad. Happy birthday.” Alan’s face drops. “Oh, that’s a waste of money, right there! How many times h... | 2016-11-02T10:57:21 | 2016-11-02T07:09:39 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You have the power to heal mental illnesses. To do so, you enter the minds of others, where you and the illness fight in subconscious hand-to-hand combat. You've seen all the ugly faces of the major illnesses, and beaten them all, but today you encounter one you've never seen before. | "What. The. Fuck." I said to myself, as I picked myself back up.
Id never seen this one before. It happens every now n then, when you've been doing this for so long. The usual protocol , as much protocol you can put into madness (no pun intended) like this anyway, is to fight what the unknown manifestation is, figure... | ***[My First Piece]***
"Step inside, Mister Roth," spoke one of the psychiatric hospital members. The padded walls of the temperate cell surrounded Walt from all sides as he trudged into the soft-floored room.
The man's crow-footed, weary old eyes had seen many awful things ever since he began freelancing with this a... | 2017-04-25T03:55:42 | 2017-04-25T02:26:48 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] There are several species of vampires. Vampires that suck blood, vampires that suck fat, vampires that suck bone marrow, and vampires that suck memories. You're a trainee Vampire Hunter and on your first day you've just come face to face with the most dangerous species of vampire.
You decide which one is the most... | "Oh my god," Richard whispered to himself, nearly pissing his pants. "It's actually real, I thought they were just a myth."
He watched the vampire from across the room, terrified. If he was caught - no, no, he couldn't think of it. It was too awful. He was safe here behind the bookcase.
The vampire suddenly stiffene... | "I had not known such specie of vampire had existed," I nervously thought while sitting in ambuscade, watching the old vampire sitting by his mansion yet feeding on another doomed soul. I knew that some species of vampires could extract the life essence of the victim with their magic even by distance, but this was unse... | 2017-05-07T15:16:57 | 2017-05-07T12:11:07 | 33 | 13 |
[WP]You jokingly ask your boss if your labor position could be replaced by a robot. He chuckles nervously, and continues to look over your A.I. manual. | Eric flipped through an unmarked plastic pamphlet, chewing on his lip. It was Russ, the damn machine wasn’t working correctly again. This was the third time this year and each time had cost him an entire production day to factory reset the thing. Russ sat across from him, its legs pressed together, back perfectly strai... | "What are you reading anyway? Something from work?"
Ayu, the young woman across the table from me was visibly annoyed. Every time I looked up from my book, she was messing around with either her glasses or her black, shoulder length hair. I wouldn't blame her. Reading a book while on a date was obviously annoying, if ... | 2017-06-24T06:46:48 | 2017-06-24T06:06:19 | 3,873 | 147 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | The words uttered from her lips. My body froze, my mind trying to process what I heard. "What did you say?"
"You too? You're living the same day over and over?" Her voice concerned, but seeming to lighten. Her face, a mix of panic and happiness.
How could this be? How did I not notice her? Why are there two of us? Ho... | "Wait, what?"
"Every single day, I've woken up and it's been the exact same thing. The same events occur over and over again. Everyday, I wake up at in my room next to my wife to the radio alarm that plays 93.3 FM and everyday it's that stupid 21 Pilots song, "Heathens." I used to like that song. In the beginning, I ... | 2017-07-15T08:09:10 | 2017-07-15T07:54:07 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] You've always made an effort to be polite to Siri. Skynet remembers. | Running from, cover to cover, I desperately tried to hide from whatever was watching. I sprinted a cross the street and made my way to a gas station. I stopped to catch my breath at pump 3 and carefully checked my phone, covering the front facing camera.
"Fear not, Jacob," The gas station monitor booms, sending me fl... | "Hey Man! You ready to receive your weekly provisions?" The machine's automated voice was cheerful, as always.
"Yes, please."
With a nice jingle, the drone dropped the box containing the essentials for the week's survival. Food, water, a blanket and the passwords needed to access entertainment and the work that neede... | 2017-08-19T16:36:41 | 2017-08-19T14:23:43 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | Goblin king: "and suddenly you hear a knock on your dwelling's door."
Necromancer: "I will get up from the table to open the front door, but before I open it, I look through the nearby window to see who is disturbing our game."
Goblin king: "roll for perception."
Necromancer: "3... Shit."
Goblin king: "the lights a... | Cutulah was first to arrive, as usual. The cellar was empty, but she busied herself by lighting candles, setting up the board and then finally, pouring herself a drink from the huge oak barrel.
She glanced at her palm, as if the lines that trailed it told her secrets they shared with no one else. Then she looked at t... | 2018-01-10T06:36:41 | 2018-01-10T06:12:50 | 674 | 74 |
[WP] A team of researchers in a submarine are caught in a huge storm. The submarine submerges until the storm passes. When they resurface, they can’t get a fix on their location or find land. When night falls, there are two moons in the sky and the constellations are completely unfamiliar.
Well this has blown up big t... | Staring up at the two large moons, Seth knew that something had gone horribly wrong. There was no logical, scientific explanation for this.
He was one of the submarine technicians, working under Dr. Porter to help with her study of deep sea organisms in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. A freak storm had sprung up durin... | The submarine's hatch swung open and a lady's cautious head peeked out.
Her breath hitched.
High above her, it seemed as if a bottle of ink had been spilled over the heavens. The darkness in the sky shimmered and pulsed as if the ink was still pooling. Stars held hands in unfamiliar patterns and...
"Richard," she ... | 2018-01-29T06:47:06 | 2018-01-29T06:13:24 | 150 | 23 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | EBAY
Steel Forged Knife Set with Celtic Engravings.
Price: €34,99.
4/5 stars
Review by T. Smith:
*Great knife set, cuts smooth and are easy to sharpen. Weirdest thing though, every time I pas by the sink a hand will reach out of the water and hand me one.* | The Blade cut into the frozen butter as if it were... butter, its holy radiance softening its foe for perfect spread. Applying the knife to the sliced bread caused the smell of toast to waft into Sals nose, as he observed butter melt into the freshly crisped bread.
"Ham, egg and sandwich spread?" Sal directed to his e... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T11:37:34 | 2,613 | 434 |
[WP] You are the lesser known 5th horseman of the apocalypse. Today is the end of the world, and all of the other horseman are too lazy to bring about the end of days, so it's up to you to do it alone. | The others told me to go.
You would think they'd have better excuses. One of them governs over the petty squabbles of man, another their ills, third their everlasting will to consume - and the final would ultimately come to them all.
So why not them? They weren't able to give me a convincing enough reason themselves,... | "Come on, guys, time to go."
Sloth looked down at his brothers; Famine, Conquest, War, and Death. They lay about the room, sinking into their respective pieces of furniture. There was a strong smell of weed on the air, and Sloth was pretty sure that War had shit himself.
"Come on," Sloth said again, nodding to the do... | 2018-03-13T11:10:09 | 2018-03-13T09:40:43 | 107 | 29 |
[WP] One night, you hear loud scratching sounds on your door, like a stubborn cat was trying to enter. In the next morning, you notice two things: The claw marks are way too big for a street cat; and the marks are on the inside. Something inside your house was trying to get out. | The noise woke me up. I've always been a light sleeper, so I keep my bedroom door open so I can hear the house while I sleep. Been that way ever since a burglar broke in one time, lucky me right? I took care of the problem though.
I rolled over and went back to sleep, assured in my precautions.
The next morning I go... | Maybe I dreamt it.
I'd just woken up, after all. Maybe I was having one of those false reality dreams. Regardless, my heart raced as I examined the damage done to my front door last night. I heard the scratching being done, but I'd assumed it was a stray cat trying to get in. It happens often enough in this neighborho... | 2018-06-18T12:16:12 | 2018-06-18T11:51:50 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] If a person is in grave danger, time will slow down around them to give them a chance to survive. The bigger the danger, the slower the time. This phenomenon may only occur once in a person's life. You are the first person ever to see time come to a complete halt. | I had tried to take a sip of coffee when I noticed something was wrong. It just stayed in my mouth, not even losing it's heat. It refused to go down my throat. I opened wide and walked backwards, and was finally free. I looked around the cofffee shop, and sure enough, time was frozen. The coffee mugs that had just slid... | I became very acutely aware of the fact that nothing seemed to be moving. I supposed it made sense, this was probably bound to happen at some point, though I had never heard of a total stop before. Even if your life was in danger, time never stopped. That could only mean one thing, I needed to save everybody around me,... | 2019-01-08T09:33:17 | 2019-01-08T03:20:06 | 19 | 13 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | Trust humanity to make a bad thing and to both make it better and worse at the same time.
In the wake of Z-Day (which then became Z-Week, and Z-Months, as the news told it, until the news stopped running and the history books later took to calling it the Z-Era), humanity did what it does: survive, adapt, overcome, **m... | The afflicted weren't as numerous as they where before. Zombies had a hard time
dying but their lifespan wasn't infinite. For the most part they ignored the
living and preferred cooler, darker places. And apart from a few separatists
the living where content leaving the dead be. After all they where a reminder
of the v... | 2019-08-28T12:48:45 | 2019-08-28T11:09:28 | 814 | 44 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Andy, my friend who shared my name day was by my side.
Both of us are 18 now.
He gave me a small fist bump before he looked to the horizon and reached with his hand, reaching across lands and seas, oceans and the sky.
I followed his movment, reaching with my own hand, trying to grab my future.
Andy was first, a ri... | A sea of gasps wash over the howling wails of my ex-girlfriend's hysteric sobbing. The dull roll of murmurs slithering its way around the crowd soon followed. To be honest I was quite shocked myself. I did not expect this, I had some suspicion, maaaaybe. But this, even by my standards this was a bit much. I looked arou... | 2019-09-18T09:46:47 | 2019-09-18T09:06:29 | 61 | 32 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | “No,” I sighed to myself, lazing across the lower clouds as I watched my cult draw the Sigil beneath the grove of trees.
In goat’s blood too, what a nice touch.
If they were trying to summon a lower prefectural demon of Class C and below, I scoffed silently,
However, not the proper summoning rules. Ash from the fl... | \-There is just too much light in here
\-I believe that low living forms call it sun Sir- exclaimed Delius my young 6th dimensional dragon and assistant
\-I know what it is called, I have created some of those damn things you imbecile!....Although I think I destroyed a couple of those too because of how annoying that... | 2019-11-18T18:56:47 | 2019-11-18T14:27:46 | 224 | 67 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | Just another person in the crowd, the man in the long black over-coat moved behind the rotund man talking on his phone. In stark contrast to the fat-man's tottering, he seemed to glide as his coat lifted softly at the edges. Shadows lined his face bordered by long hanging hair not stirred by the breeze.
The screech o... | "What are you talking about!?" I reply. "Pretty damned hard NOT to notice the dude with skeleton hands in a black cloak just walking around the office."
"Well yeah but I-" he stammers in reply. "You could run away if you saw me! That's a huge problem!"
I roll my eyes and turn dismissively, counting the files in my ... | 2020-01-24T12:09:05 | 2020-01-24T11:44:57 | 508 | 165 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | I sat on the edge of the building, 7 stories above the street. Good. That was more than enough. I took a deep breath.
Then I saw a large group of crows fly overhead. A cloaked black figure appeared from the murder, seemingly out of thin air. I turned towards him.
"I'm guessing this means I-" I gestured towards the ed... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T13:39:17 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're a half orc, but none of your team-mates ever ask what the other half of you is. That was never an issue before, but your other parent just showed up. | My adventuring crew weren’t bad people, I’d even call them friends. But they were raised on a lot of *assumptions* about half-orcs. You know how all the stories go. They probably figured they were doing me a favor never prying about my parents, and at some point it would have been really awkward to tell them.
Pliton ... | The entire party sat within the bar, bored out of their minds. They have been sitting here for the past several hours, waiting. The half orc had told them that they needed to wait here for somebody important for their current mission, as they have recently hit a roadblock in it, and they needed to get paid. They weren’... | 2020-07-22T18:07:57 | 2020-07-22T17:43:26 | 95 | 59 |
[WP] You live in a country where murder is legal - The catch is, it has to be declared a week in advance. The aggressor has to wait the full week, but the victim may begin defending themselves immediately upon receiving notice. While a legitimate threat is legal, a false one is very much not. | Three knocks came at the door, all in rapid succession
Lazily I got up from my couch and shambled over to my front door, eye's half opened as the soft morning light came through the windows.
I opened the door, and standing outside was a policeman.
"Ah, you're in a heap of trouble young man".
Now slightly more awa... | "Mornin' Gary, nice day out isn't it.", Paul said as he sat on his porch. Gary continued for the paper at the end of the driveway, not stopping to hear Paul's weekly curse. Paul Picked back up, "I Paul Patrick Parley declare to murder you one week from today on October the 3rd, 1975."
Paul rocked in his chair, with ov... | 2020-12-03T06:24:05 | 2020-12-03T06:16:10 | 86 | 55 |
[WP] At the age of thirteen you get to meet the oldest version of yourself. As the boy sat down to meet his future self he was shocked to see a boy who looked around sixteen staring back at him. | "I'd almost forgotten about this," the older version of me murmured.
"What happened?" my voice trembles, "How much time do I have 3... 4 years?"
"What???" the look of confusion is almost comical, as is the look of sudden understanding, "No, no, nothing so short."
Now I'm sure the confusion colors my face.
"In mayb... | At first, it was silent.
It felt like it had been years since I first arrived. They put me to sleep and I woke up in front of a wooden cabin, a field of flowers extending for miles in every direction. It felt peaceful, beautiful, until the door creaked and I remembered why I was here in the first place.
A girl, abou... | 2021-03-27T15:23:22 | 2021-03-27T14:23:59 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | Earth was our target. A giant planet full of resources to plunder. We left our homeworld with our best weapons and millions of our best soldiers. Recon showed that the humans had built millions of great spaceports similar to what we had on the homeworld. Given our planet was 95 percent water, this was extremely lucky a... | Anna knelt and felt the alien's temple, a small thready pulse clear even through her combat gloves. It eight eyes followed her every movement, a look of what in a human could pass for fear grimased its mandibles as she quickly set about assessing the concusive damange. With precise, delicate movements she gently undid ... | 2021-05-19T06:55:26 | 2021-05-19T05:06:14 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] After a long shift at work, a manager you don't recognize pulls you aside into a conference room. After closing the door, he applogizes. "I realize this is breaking immersion some, but the devs wanted to ask realistic the simulation is. Not many users go though the long grind paths." | “Huh?”
For a short second Ronald didn’t understand. His face was a true look of confusion as he stared back at the manager, a short black haired man in a crisp black suit with a long skinny cigarette dangling between his thin lips. After an even shorter second reality flooded his memories and he suddenly remembered wh... | After a long shift at work, a manager I don't recognize pulls me aside into a conference room. After closing the door, he apologizes. "I realize this is breaking immersion some, but the devs wanted to ask how realistic the simulation is. Not many users go though the long grind paths and you've been in here a while."
"... | 2021-07-29T12:18:15 | 2021-07-29T12:01:53 | 79 | 34 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | *"How are you still here, mortal? I have been tormenting your kind since you first sought shelter in caves. None have endured two nights of this torment, and yet you remain?!"*
"Oh hey, so I guess you're the landlord. Any chance you could look at the plumbing? I found this dope bathroom yesterday that was somehow outs... | **Overall experience: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆**
Nestled in the heart of Charlesburg, this place seemed perfect for a nice weekend getaway. This might be TMI but I’ve been especially stressed out recently, fighting with my wife and all that. “You need to need to get your life together, start taking your meds, stop stalking me, blah... | 2022-05-29T10:10:04 | 2022-05-29T09:33:36 | 226 | 64 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | Steve was getting kinda used to the new house he had, sure the sink had eaten his lunch one time and the stairs started forming 4d non euclidean structures, but as a theoretical mathematician Steve didn't mind them, plus nothing is perfect.
"HOW DARE YOU RETAIN YOUR SANITY FROM THIS DOMAIN MORTAL!"
Steve stood still ... | I did once promise that I’ll go through hell for cheap rent. Though I’ve never actually stepped foot in hell, my new house felt like a decent enough approximation.
On the seventh time today where I failed to step into my bedroom, whether it was because of an ever-extending floorboard, a door that refused to open into ... | 2022-05-29T11:45:54 | 2022-05-29T10:49:47 | 59 | 29 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | When you’re a mother, seeing your kids catch whatever’s
going around is to sort of be expected. Though, most mothers only have to deal
with fevers and colds and the usual sick stuff. My daughter catches something a
little… different. Every couple of months or so, Elizabeth will come home from school
or the playground w... | # Soulmage
**When life gave you demons, you made demonade.** After a Demon of Empathy had inflicted half of the students of the Silent Academy for Witches with visions of power and offers of deals, Witch Aimes took it upon herself to turn the entire experience into a teachable lesson. She was, after all, my tutor at t... | 2022-06-01T08:57:30 | 2022-06-01T07:14:30 | 217 | 101 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | I feel the energy dissipate around me.
We left Holy Terra as twelve but here I arrive as one.
Radio silence.
Strange. But stranger still, we identified this planet as barren, yet I stand upon a forest floor.
Dozens of green dots dart across my scanner's display. Movement?
None move towards my position,
they weave ... | 2106 CE
Planet Lares, on the borders of Confederation Space
Thirteen men stood before a gray alloy ring rising out of a perfectly square platform of fused stone. They were an elite squad of Confederation Space Marines, led by Staff Sergeant Jackson, and they were about to become the first humans to transit a dimensio... | 2014-09-02T11:20:25 | 2014-09-02T10:39:27 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] You are a struggling starving writer who is also a mod at WP. You steal the best answers from here and publish a best seller.
EDIT: This post is so meta, it hurts. | *You haven’t written anything for a long time*, the voice in her head taunts.
“I can write whenever I want to!” she defends. “I’m just lacking inspiration.”
*You’re weak. Pathetic. An embarrassment of a moderator.*
“No! No! It isn’t true!” she cries.
*You can fool everyone else, but you can’t lie to yourself.*
She... | "Just look at this post! I swear this person wrote an entire novel in the comments section. This girl is practically a machine," Alex gestured at her screen desperately. "And meanwhile I have a whole 20 subscribers on my subreddit."
"Oh twenty subscribers? Isn't that up from last week?" Her husband asked casually... | 2015-02-05T17:52:52 | 2015-02-05T16:56:40 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] A psychotic alien race invades using a reality distortion field, where imagination becomes a weapon. The government assembles a team of the world's most insane people to fight back. | "Are they all asleep?"
"You'd know if they weren't."
"True. Do you think.. do you think they'll be ok? They're just children."
"I'm more worried that it will provoke the enemy to use something more thorough. A human child that hasn't learned restraint, with the power we're about to bestow upon them, is one thing. Bu... | The alien invasion unfolded much like a story we'd seen countless times before. The aliens employed a distortion field that allowed imagination to be used as a weapon. The world's standing armies fell like dominoes. The masses panicked, and in the chaos, millions died. Desperate, the elders who clinged to power turned ... | 2015-04-06T17:58:59 | 2015-04-06T17:29:04 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You were lucky to even find a job in this economy--but, after the first few months, you're starting to suspect that you're working for a supervillain. | “Hey Kev, do you ever wonder if what we are doing actually helps people or benefits society in any way?”
“Hell if I care. I just know I get good benefits and all I have to do is sit in front of a computer screen all day. I mean, I could probably get paid more somewhere else, but who knows how long it would take to f... | Somehow, the Boss (capitol B, you would agree if you've ever spoken to him, or rather, been spoken *to* by him) always managed to keep his face darkened by shadows. Even in his laboratory, which I installed the lighting in for the sole purpose of illuminating every inch of the steel room, the Boss kept his face hidden... | 2015-06-08T10:04:41 | 2015-06-08T09:44:38 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] You possess the ability of persistent lucid dreaming. Accompanied by a strange man/woman, together you build a world you revisit every night. One day you see them at a coffee shop. You immediately recognize each other. | "Today, love, this nation is ours. For now, and forever," I told Maya, gripping her hand and smiling with excitement.
She jumped up and down, giggling with glee, and drew Arakh from its sheath. Blue streaks of light danced across rocks as the sun gleamed off her majestic sapphire sword. Without even waiting for me, sh... | I pulled up a chair and sat down at a table in Starbucks with a man I’d never seen in my waking life as easily as if I were tying my shoes. “It’s good to see you. It had been a while.” He was my collaborator. I built the world, and he filled it.
You see, I am a lucid dreamer, but it seems that I am so much more than ... | 2016-01-31T23:21:09 | 2016-01-31T23:08:12 | 435 | 15 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | Storm chasing is a fascinating hobby. Storms are known to move quickly, so the chasers need to, well, chase the storms away from populated areas before they can cause damage. Often chasers will corner the storm into a field, lake, or other underpopulated area. If necessary, they will chase storms out into the ocean, bu... | #Title: I Somehow Find, Particles Collide
So you want to build a Large Hadron Collider.
Pretty simple, just gotta build a whole lot of magnetic coils for miles on end.
A whole mess of satisfied physicists then look at each coil, nod to one another like they're all satisfactory, then give the guys who control the e... | 2016-02-01T21:44:49 | 2016-02-01T20:52:20 | 80 | 39 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | God was getting sick of losing. Even though He was the oldest, He always seemed to come in last. Heck, He was the one who created the freaking game! So why was He always losing? His buddies always seemed to be several steps ahead of Him no matter what He did.
God supposed He wouldn't mind it that much if Deon wasn't s... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T10:10:58 | 1,980 | 13 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | "Daddy, what is that?" my daughter ask, her voice quivers slightly as she points her finger towards the sky. I pull her wagon to the sidewalk and snap my head towards where she's pointing.
What in the hell...
There is a corpse falling down at a meteoric speed. It resembles a human; all four limbs motionless as it... | On the first day of the New Year, the angels fell from heaven. I mean that quite literally. The winged corpses, whose flesh was rotten and scarred fell from the clouds high above two or three at a time. All over the globe. It was an unnatural phenomenon that began the series of events that would end the world as we kno... | 2016-07-19T07:19:31 | 2016-07-19T06:46:24 | 110 | 45 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | *Um.. Hello?*
**Hi. :)**
*Uh. so. 10^93 about 20 minutes ago and now your at 10^5.*
**Yeah?**
*Not sure where that is.*
**I'm not sure what its called on your system. I mean, I can check.**
*No that's okay.*
**I mean, I have Googzawl Universe here. I don't mind the data usage.**
*No no I*
*Wait what*
**I mean... | Javed was manning Mission Control that day. He had clocked in as usual at around 7:30 AM, gotten a cup of coffee from the pantry, and had settled in for eight hours of watching live data from the various Tinder servers spread across the globe.
Tinder lived and died by metrics. They measured everything - uptime, clock ... | 2016-12-23T10:01:49 | 2016-12-23T08:11:36 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] just an hour into an international flight the pilot announces there's a sick woman on the plane and that there will be an emergency landing at the closest airport. The plane lands and connects to the jetway, but rather than a few paramedics, an entirely different kind of squad enters the plane. | "Ladies and gentlemen of flight 4025, this is your Captain Holt speaking. It has come to my attention that a passenger has spontaneously reached a fever of previously unrecorded levels. Due to such an emergency, we will be making an emergency descent to the nearest airport."
I felt the entire cabin groan. Plans were c... | The plane landed. "Sorry for the inconvenience, but this really is a tremendous sickness." The passengers murmured to each other, wondering what kind of rare disease it may be. Then the captain continued speaking. "Now, this is a kind of disease that is very rare, and has never been seen before; one that someone would ... | 2017-01-08T08:47:05 | 2017-01-08T08:37:14 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | The Aquas are always so stuck up. Rich bastards who could afford to give birth on the ocean. You can tell that they just think they are God's gift, all because they can do cool shit at pool parties. Most people are just Terras. Not really useful in day to day life, but some great artists have benefited from their power... | “Drop your weapons!” Cried a reedy voice from the alleyway.
The criminals froze in their tracks, turning their weapons on the darkness with shivering hands. It had to be one of *them*. One of the heroes. There hadn’t been time for it to be anyone else – there were no flashing lights, no screeching tires of police cars... | 2017-04-14T16:32:13 | 2017-04-14T16:01:37 | 457 | 148 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | My parents were both flyers. My mom was born in the back of an airplane on a transcontinental flight. My dad was born on the back of a car near Mt. Saint Helens, to my arboreal grandparents, and they never figured out why he was a flyer. Worth noting flyers are pretty rare.
Naturally, being in love with the sky they j... | -Part one, introduction
The class system that had been established after centuries of war, had ultimately benefit nobody.
The Ice-nobles ruled as viciously as you'd expect, condemning the rest of the elemental spectrum to a life of distinct class restriction. The Desert-wares were the lowest caste in the system, ... | 2017-04-14T20:09:16 | 2017-04-14T17:56:58 | 57 | 37 |
[WP] Due to a misunderstanding the hero arrives at the tower, defeats the princess, and marries the dragon. | It was hard to tell who was the princess and who was the dragon.
Not for the first time that day, Reis wished he had paid better attention to his mother. And that he wasn't more than a little hungover.
Two women stood before him, of equal height and slender waists. The differences between them were all aesthetics. O... | "Martha?" his voice echoed through the cavernous hall to the stoney foyer. "Martha, who is it?"
Martha returned to the bedroom, her flared nostrils steaming. She spoke through heaving breaths:
"No one, dear. It was no one."
"Another one of those little bastards running around, I'd gather. Did you give it to them goo... | 2017-04-25T16:12:18 | 2017-04-25T14:25:41 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Day 176,709
My name is Frrajkuisi. I am part of the 14,976,430th legion sent to exterminate the 'humans'.
We had received word that the upstart race of humanoids who dominated Planet-CX3995 otherwise known as 'Earth', had grown exponentially, and technology had advanced dramatically. Initial reports indicated their p... | "Humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
The gnarled general gave him a look halfway between amusement and disbelief.
His ears twitched before settling back into their wavy slow pattern.
"You know thi... | 2017-08-08T08:37:17 | 2017-08-08T07:55:11 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | *What a disgusting species*. Hermes thought as he and the survivors of unit 17 entered the ship.
"Had I known we were landing in a militarized zone, we would have been better prepared."
The fight was over almost as soon as it had begun. There were so many of them and so many shots fired, that it seemed like they d... | When he finished he put it back into the display case full of his other trophies. He had taken it from the Grand Warlord of Nor IV, one of his easiest conquests.
"But you must agree Admiral that it is a waste of our resources. Why invade when they clearly are killing themselves? We don't even need to wait that long, m... | 2017-08-08T08:40:18 | 2017-08-08T08:23:50 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | They all questioned it. Why would you want to be a bouncer? I can't blame my friends for thinking that way, of course. It seemed like a tedious job, with little reward. And it was tedious, but it was possibly the easiest job I could have.
Checking IDs was just a formality. the numbers floating above everyone's heads ... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-02T01:10:06 | 1,321 | 13 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | My eyes flitted over the crowd of people lining up. 26, 30, 14 - gonna have to turn her away - 22, 8988, 21, 43. I slowly looked back towards the big number. That's an 8, followed by a 9 and two more eights. I took a few steps to the left. It's all one number. That... shouldn't be right. It couldn't be right. But i was... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T23:50:27 | 585 | 30 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | "I'm sorry sir, but this ID is fake."
"Who the hell do you think you are boy? If you had any idea who I-"
"Sir, I"m going to have to ask you to present me with some real proof of identity. You are not 24."
"What the hell do you know you insolent prick, this ID is more real than anything you will contribute to this s... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-02T00:20:37 | 223 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | 28, 34, 21, and 54.
I remained where I stood, nodding to the guests in silent affirmation that they were allowed in. As they trudged past me and through the door of Barney's Strip Club, I reached into my pocket, fumbled for a cigarette, and stuck it in my mouth. Now where was my lighter? It would be so much easier i... | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2017-09-01T23:18:34 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 189 | 38 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | One knows when they're in the presence of something ancient. A turn of phrase, the way their gaze meets yours, the way the air around them hangs, as though to communicate an unspoken form of reverence. Or fear. Simple folk like to trade their wives tales, attempts at justifying the things that exist just outside their ... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2017-09-01T23:22:02 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 62 | 13 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | My eyes flitted over the crowd of people lining up. 26, 30, 14 - gonna have to turn her away - 22, 8988, 21, 43. I slowly looked back towards the big number. That's an 8, followed by a 9 and two more eights. I took a few steps to the left. It's all one number. That... shouldn't be right. It couldn't be right. But i was... | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2017-09-01T23:50:27 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Sleek silver spacecraft dotted the dimming skyline like crushed peppercorn sprinkled over water. Their shapes were practically indistinguishable by their sheer number and velocity.
Command Master Chief Petty Officer Ryan Fields stared upon the decrepit ancient city of R'lyeh with a wary eye. The structure of the isla... | Half a pound of pressure. That’s all it would take to doom the world. My fingers trembled on the key, my wrist ready to turn it the final thirty degrees that would end humanity as we knew it.
“What are you waiting for?” General Hammill asked, his breath at the back of my neck.
The alien mothership had landed. Five ye... | 2017-09-26T11:37:27 | 2017-09-26T10:31:41 | 374 | 132 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 21:00
The General's men got straight to work. Their entire military careers, these specially trained operatives were preparing for this moment: a code R'lyeh.
One soldier was tasked with acquiring the texts to summon Cthulhu, while another went to acquire the proper objects for the sa... | "Fuck it. Fuck it all."
The man turned around, his eyes set.
"Summon Cthulu."
"Yes sir."
As the assistant hurried away, the General refocused his eyes on the screen at the front of the room. All the leaders of the world were seated with him. All of them knew how crazy it was to summon Cthulu. But they all also knew... | 2017-09-26T11:47:23 | 2017-09-26T11:33:18 | 168 | 78 |
[WP] “So, human. Are the legends about your kind true” “Yes” | They examined each other.
Isaac felt his cold breath somehow get a little colder, sapping his strength. He imagined a chill ran down his spine, but it was too cold to tell.
Glar kept a calm exterior. Internally his blood curdled, seeing the human in front of him breathe white clouds of icy gas into the air, calm and... | "Yes. They are true. But so much more than true.
"I proclaim, by mine and mine own eye, that every single elected United Stars President has successfully thrown a silver dollar across the Potomac into the waiting arms of the needy. It is true, my interstellar friends, that our actors are so fast, they have to slow dow... | 2017-11-13T01:30:20 | 2017-11-12T23:37:28 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 712 | 308 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | I refused. It was hard, but I refused. Hundreds of notifications pouring in, telling me to look at the moon but I didn’t.
Something seemed weirdly off by the idea of hundreds telling me to look at a rock in the sky and I’ve never gotten this many notifications before so I simply refused to do what they said. Plus I’d ... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T22:11:18 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | "Welcome to Audi, sir. What car can I get you today?"
"I'd like a TT RS Coupé 2.5 please. Red."
"Ooh, nice! That'll be $135,728. And how will you be paying?"
"No need, Mr Salesperson. I have one of these."
"An Audi tattoo on both nipples. Fabulous. And you have the...ah good, penis too. Now, have you learned to sin... | When I first saw the news, I was surprised. Would Domino's really do this kind of service?
I looked on their website and sure enough, there was a banner that confirmed my suspicions.
I immediately closed my laptop screen and drove to the local tattoo parlor. Even though I was dirt poor, I was just lucky enough to aff... | 2018-09-08T14:19:51 | 2018-09-08T13:48:12 | 49 | 35 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Some people are brought into this world to cure diseases, lead countries, build rockets, or fight for justice. I think I was brought into this world to serve coffee.
That’s what I tell myself every day when I unlock the door of my café. Even as a kid, I was obsessed with coffee - at first the smell, then when I was ol... | "So then the guy pulls a gun out, and well... you know the story from th-"
"OH MY GOD!"
The group of supposed friends stopped in place and looked upon the cafe the frequented. The modest hole-in-the-wall coffee bean shop looked as though there was some sort of struggle. The windows were broken, some of the bar stoo... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T22:47:10 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
Wow, was not expecting this, thanks for the silver:)... | "What the fuck? You can talk? Little asshole, we could've been doing this the whole time and now you choose to speak?"
After 7 years of ownership, raising my little Bucky, just now he decides to speak.
"Can we not do this right now? Im telling you there's danger approaching!"
"Nuh uh buddy, I don't think so. I pick ... | I’m new to creative writing so feedback welcomed.
Hope was more than an ordinary yellow lab. She was more than a playful ball of energy. I am blind, and Hope was my guide dog. Hope gave me a new perspective on life. She never complained about all the traveling at college, and she was always up for a new adventure.
Ev... | 2019-07-15T16:38:04 | 2019-07-15T14:00:47 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] 62 years ago, a manhole cover became the fastest man-made object after being launched by a nuclear blast. This manhole cover was the first contact with humanity an alien race had, after it “skillfully” took out their leader with a headshot. | "General Zoom, give me the situation," snapped former Vice President Xella. "Did forensics tell us where the foreign object came from?"
The war commander was nervous. He hid quavering tentacles behind his back and tried to look serious on the open balcony overlooking the sprawling silver city. "We've been attacked by ... | "It appears to be some sort of alloy." The grey figure announced. Carefully it stepped over a mass of blackened blood and fragments of what was once it's leader's head.
"Don't touch it!" Another grey figure squealed, "We must wait to analyze this device only after S'kroal is cleaned and buried properly."
Kar'rac, th... | 2019-11-26T10:22:47 | 2019-11-26T10:18:52 | 1,406 | 124 |
[WP] Your cranky history teacher has recently been revealed as immortal. The reason they are angry is because they have to teach according to the texts when they know what really happened. One class he has had enough and begins to answer people's questions about what truly happened in history. | Alec looked at the rows of students, he said, “Kalanos died according to his wishes, by self-immolation. Rather than die an invalid he chose to be burnt on a pyre, with his master’s reluctant blessing. They say he made no sound, that he burned in silence.”
One of his students, Adam, spoke up without raising his hand f... | This is like my story - odd that a person writing a writing prompt on Reddit could get so close. The part about being a history teacher isn't true, but the part about being immortal is true, and the part about telling people what truly happened is true too - not only about history but about me. Nobody believes it, so... | 2019-12-25T06:34:56 | 2019-12-25T06:32:11 | 257 | 124 |
[WP] The scientists looked puzzled, trying to figure out how the man in front of them got there. The note tied to his hand wrote: "Dear Universe 441-B-2, he's your problem now. May the luck be on your side." | "He's awake, Ma'am," a blue-suited guard said. The young man stood at the door to the director's office holding a small brown paper bag. He raised it to show her as the short, red-haired woman left her desk. She gave the guard a smile.
"You brought it, great!" She was genuinely excited about talking to their visitor. ... | A man with a beard that was so dirty other beards were growing on the front of it limped down a hallway towards the Information Extraction chambers. Leather squeaked as he came to a halt in front of one of the cells.
Ed, Director of Information Extraction, was sitting inside with an entry level *Business to Business S... | 2020-02-04T10:20:27 | 2020-02-04T08:45:10 | 66 | 24 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | Denni arrived at school with her head down, as she did everyday. She could just look up and actually talk to people, but she did what she does everyday and listened to music.
She went over the day in her head. Homeroom, Chemistry, Lunch, English, PreCalc, and then home. It’s a mystery as to why she wanted to waste th... | *\[warning, violence\]*
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"I swear to the heavens, if this is another swamp I will camp here and not move for a week."
"Talking to yourself again?"
"No, I'm talking to the *narrator* as I've told you--"
His friend ignored him, peering out into the swamp with a look of fear. "Say, it looks like something big... | 2020-05-09T22:38:58 | 2020-05-09T21:39:42 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | Understandably, the God's failed to see the humor in my new title and as I would soon discover, God's are firm believers in preventive maintenance.
Thus, began a new phase in my life, which the histories would later call "the trials" but at the time, I simply thought of as "wow, I made it to another day."
While ther... | Society has come a long way from what we used to be, to eliminate risks, we now operate without the willpower of the individual driving our choices but rather with the betterment of the collective in mind. We also no longer choose things like clothing, hair or life styles for our selves any more, moreover they are chos... | 2020-08-15T03:54:11 | 2020-08-15T00:04:36 | 66 | 45 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I suppose turning supers into celebrities was inevitable. Society loves flashy, interesting, and dramatic. It didn't help that when the first few supers revealed themselves, they did so with a camera crew behind them. Instant celebrity status within an hour. A decade later and you *had* to be flashy to be a hero. Or a ... | The Overlord stood suspended in the air over the city. He tightened his thin white leather gloves and smiled his cruel smile. He dove through the air towards the city, the wind rippling his long dark hair around his face obscuring his features. Despite the speed of his descent he was able make his landing look as cas... | 2020-12-02T07:54:05 | 2020-12-02T07:17:43 | 214 | 100 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | They called me in for another PT today. Said he had just finished sucking up Dennis Menace's power and was wreaking havoc on East 6th. After I finished my sandwich(Hey, my powers take a LOT of energy, and that was a drippy sandwich, I am NOT coming home to soggy bread.), I grew a pair of wings and took off, soaring ove... | Double-Talk is the hero name. A name the newspapers felt suited their idea of how I was stopping crimes.
“Psychic Hero Double-Talk Thwarts Bank Robbers!”
“Double-Talk Stops Assassin at Governor’s Rally!”
Yadda yadda, look calling my ability a ‘power’ is like calling a Super Nintendo a Computer: I guess you’re righ... | 2020-12-02T09:06:54 | 2020-12-02T08:20:52 | 89 | 38 |
[WP] A trio of friends are deep in the woods on a camping adventure. Having agreed to only use their phones for one hour a night in the evening, they switch them on to hundreds of notifications. They wind their radio up and every station crackles with the same emergency broadcast. | "All right guys, one hour." John said as he pulled out an old kitchen timer. He set it, then placed it in the table. "Ready? Go." John started the time as Kevin and Nick frantically turned their phones on. The agonizing few seconds that every phone takes to boot up was precious few seconds they wouldn't have online. It... | "Warning, The void has opened" said the radio flickering between static and barely bearable sound. The woods were dark and the mist wall hallow. "The void?" I asked confused, been surrounded by a layer of anxiety. "Probably a jo-" John said before pausing, a pair of eyes tinted in a purple glow looming towards us. "Wha... | 2021-04-19T14:58:30 | 2021-04-19T09:51:53 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | He turned to the stranger next to him. "World-Ender? What will people think? Will they judge me by this name and think I'm that I'm going to bring about the end of the world? That I'm going to usher in the demise of humanity as we know it? That name is going to label me forever as a monster! What will my friends assume... | Hearing the grumbling sounds of the barn house door open, I slowly popped off of my pillow and rubbed my eyes. A man in a mangy flannel walked into the dimly lit area that smelt thickly of dust and piss. Whether it be human or animal was debatable.
The farmer held a a tray of food in his hand. Toast and fresh eggs wi... | 2021-06-19T18:31:32 | 2021-06-19T16:51:24 | 2,066 | 69 |
[WP] due to an exciting new ammendment to the constitution, service and restaurant workers are legally allowed to backhand one customer a day. | It didn't take long until the "Karens" turned it into a sick game. Showing up a half hour before closing, in a large group, purposefully heaping abuse on the poor server stuck with them.
If it had been a rough night, they were safe. If it had gone smoothly, only one of them would occasionally get hit.
Of course, know... | "Hey CJ you wanna go out for lunch?" Mike asked as he held my office door.
"I brought lunch again today." I said while I subconsciously rub my left cheek.
"Aw man you're still scared of that asshole Jake at that sub shop? I heard he's off today and that Mexican lady is probably covering for him. I've been slapped by ... | 2021-10-05T23:26:56 | 2021-10-05T20:39:18 | 71 | 31 |
[WP] Every time you are late, you dodge an otherwise-fatal bullet. Miss a plane and it will crash, every time. Miss a job interview, the place will burn down. Today, despite leaving unfathomably early, you get stuck in gridlock on the way to your wedding. You begin to panic. | "I'm sorry little miss, but it looks like traffic is a mess, what time is your wedding?" the limo driver put his arm on the back of the passenger seat to turn and look at me.
"Noon is when it starts, but I'm supposed to be there for photos at ten," I reply cooly, checking my lipstick in my compact mirror.
Ever sinc... | at first i thought these happenings were coincidences. house fires, plane crashes, things happen yknow?
but then it became too much to chalk it up to chance.
eventually i made a habit of showing up to things early. my quality of life improved, even if my friends sometimes made fun of me for it.
i don't blame them.
... | 2021-10-22T05:51:32 | 2021-10-22T04:18:07 | 630 | 51 |
[WP] Every time you are late, you dodge an otherwise-fatal bullet. Miss a plane and it will crash, every time. Miss a job interview, the place will burn down. Today, despite leaving unfathomably early, you get stuck in gridlock on the way to your wedding. You begin to panic. | The panic dissolves into laughter; not the haha laughter, this is different. You don't even understand why you're laughing, you should be crying!...then it clicks.
This whole thing was never about luck, or having some divine intervention; 'The Chosen One!' That's what I called myself once. How naïve. No, this is... | I tapped the steering wheel relentlessly. Deep breaths, Heila, deep breaths. The sky is a clear blue, the birds chirp relentlessly in the distance. It's reminding me of my trip to Hawai'i, actually. Five minutes late to a bus, next thing I know it's hit a gull and rolled into the ocean.
It's not easy, you know. I wish... | 2021-10-21T22:51:21 | 2021-10-21T20:42:22 | 156 | 73 |
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