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[WP] Murder is rare; killing someone means their remaining years are 'subtracted' from yours. Likewise, saving a life (or lives) adds time to your own. Nobody knows why. Centuries ago you killed a young man by accident (usually resulting in instant death). You haven't aged since. | It was an accident. I knew I shouldn’t have been carrying something so heavy, but I wanted to help my husband. I was used to carrying heavy things and helping around the house. Honestly, I had forgotten.
I knew when I fell down and landed on my stomach. I knew. I started to bleed. I knew then. I had been around seven... | Look, I’m really not a bad guy, not really. I never wanted to be a killer. I just had no other choice. The whole thing started with an accident. Just a spur of the moment mistake, the kind of thing that happens hundreds of times every day. We’d both been drinking, words were exchanged, I walked away, he didn’t. Except ... | 2020-11-02T00:43:45 | 2020-11-02T00:42:21 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] You are the result of a high school girl being given 3 wishes. She wished for the perfect boyfriend, so you were magically created. Now she’s trying to erase you because the boy next door loved her all along. She’s literally trying to kill you because “You never existed in the first place!”…… | I don't know where she'd gotten a gun. Maybe it was her dad's, pulled from the end table by the bed. Maybe it was hers, a sweet sixteen gift, you know, for protection. Regardless, it appeared before me.
Much as I had appeared before her. My first moment was looking into her eyes, terrified and curious. From that momen... | Even if what she says could be a lie, I find myself believing her. Not because it’s possible. Hell, this is the most absurd thing that I’ve heard in my entire life. No… It’s because it’s her that said it. Thinking about it, why is that I am like this for her? Even love should have a breaking point, but I can’t see mine... | 2021-01-07T03:23:15 | 2021-01-07T03:21:42 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | Barrak'domalanshavonokutumubala known to his friends as Barry welcomed the human delegation to the Dalarian Senate chambers to negotiate their surrender.
"Greetings! I hope your trip was pleasant?"
"The shuttles you Dalarians make ride *too* smooth leaving the atmosphere. I like to feel something." Chancellor Ashly... | The red dust of the Martian surface began to clear, and the truth was made evident: the humans had lost.
General Zin to his Martian brother, a somber look on his face. It was not meant to come to this. Peace was all they ever wanted; the humans could have learned much from them. And yet.
“How many of their troops r... | 2021-01-18T22:29:03 | 2021-01-18T19:47:06 | 344 | 178 |
[WP] Rolling your eyes in exasperation you plugged the customers unique order into the console which quickly flashed. Warning: Unauthorized access detected. Lockdown commencing. Shutters then closed all of the doors and windows. "It seems I am no longer welcome" The customer said with a grin. | "...I...I'm sorry, I need you to-"
"No cheese. No sauce. Beef on the left half. Put the pizza dough into the oven, and *cook* it." He states again, his patience clearly dwindling.
"Are you actually serious?"
"*Prepare the none pizza with left beef.* I have waited long enough as it stands. DO IT."
I sigh interna... | Dave stared at the customer, watching their lips, wondering if they would give up on trying to talk to him. It had been a full minute, and that man was still standing by the register, continuing to mouth something that Dave couldn’t hear. When it was clear the man wouldn’t leave, he took off his headphones, letting out... | 2021-10-13T09:19:07 | 2021-10-13T07:16:27 | 64 | 25 |
[WP] The alien invasion of Earth was going quite well until they made three mistakes: They invaded Russian during the winter, got into a land war with Asia, and went in against the Sicilians when death is on the line. | The blazing winds of the tundra was something they'd not prepared for. They'd been warned against arrival during the cold seasons. "It couldn't be that bad", some of them said, with the arrogance of having the coldest winters in the Galactic Union. They were not prepared for how cold the icy tundra would be, and the in... | Ironically the unsuccessful conquest began in Mongolia. Thousands of drop pods launched from high orbit landed with explosive force across the steppes that the greatest conquerer of them all once rode, and from these pods streamed a new horde, only with lasers and tanks instead of bows and horses. But it was not as s... | 2022-02-11T06:50:31 | 2022-02-11T01:18:46 | 370 | 73 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | I was shocked when I found out that yes, demons were exactly that stupid. They were so keen on making deals, they forgot to use their brains.
And thank god for that, because otherwise, Earth would have been screwed.
After the whole prophecy shenanigans, I was trying to get rid of that growing lump of cells inside my... | Lying has its merits; so, too, does being able to bend the truth and save the true falsehoods for those who deserved them. Discerning who deserved which — if either — had always been a skill I’d employed with ease. My therapist as yet has yet to form an opinion on whether my beliefs on this matter are attributable to g... | 2022-08-31T19:52:37 | 2022-08-31T16:07:39 | 88 | 61 |
[WP] Years ago, an old Villain saved the life of a Young Hero and decided to adopt him before retiring. Now some rookie Villains have decided the best way to get to the Hero is through his dad. What a terrible mistake. | It was kind of a travesty, how lax modern villainy had become. He'd been surreptitiously informed about the coming ambush dozens of times over the past few days. His old minions had gone on to set up a whole host of hench services after all, and no-one took notice of the help.
They'd made it too easy, his generation.... | There were only two choices once you'd been infected. Become a lapdog or fight back.
I should know. I saw the earliest try to fight back, when we first escaped, drunk on their power, and fall to their peers. A lot of us tried to hide. None of us succeeded. So we villains began to stay in packs. We were no less powerf... | 2022-09-02T13:43:52 | 2022-09-02T12:41:26 | 53 | 21 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | "1 day on this planet is 15 years on Earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface"
I was exhausted. When you are sent to explore, the bosses back at mission control seem to never want you to have any time "off". I hadn't even gotten out of my p... | "...why?"
The AI blinked its status light in an impersonation of a startled bird, hopping back ever so slightly on its gravity dampener. "Something to do with the physics of the planet, or the star it orbits."
"No, I mean why withhold the information? Why reveal it, but only after the 12 days, which would be..." I ... | 2022-09-15T11:57:03 | 2022-09-15T11:30:24 | 161 | 106 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | *crack*
*Crack*
*Crack*
" Please I beg you stop!" mighty lad screamed.
A steel cane rams into his jaw
"Martha, Benjamin, Alice, Steven" the wack hatter mutters
Mere hours ago Angelstar wack hatter's boutique cosplay shop was attacked by the league of cool crime stoppers. The employees were beaten to within an i... | *This time* it had to work. It couldn't be like that time the duct tape broke in the torture chamber, releasing the bar that kept Doctor KingKitty from morphing into her feline form and escaping. Or like the time my blaster cannon had no ammo while I finally had WhipWorm in the scope. And most certainly never like the ... | 2022-11-28T17:41:23 | 2022-11-28T14:15:34 | 81 | 18 |
[WP] Quantum Physics responds when things are being observed. For some reason, the universe doesn't consider you to be an observer, and daily life can get pretty weird when no one is watching. | "The world is as we perceive it." At least, thats what dad always used to say, but then again dad never saw much himself. Cataracts, he had. From a young age I would wind up describing to him how we would both end up perceiving the world. The color of the cars on the freeway. The shape of the milk crates at the store. ... | "You don't know the capacity of your own imagination until your hallucinations become the only thing you have. It's all too easy when you're in prison, blindfolded, cuffed, and hanging from the air with earmuffs on, to see false images that are as pleasing as they are implausible. I just want to go back to the way it w... | 2022-12-29T09:57:11 | 2022-12-29T09:19:43 | 101 | 62 |
[WP] You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | The thing about God is the infinite patience. I felt I had all the time in the world to select the one question that framed exactly my heart's desire.
Both worlds were hovering between shadow and light and I felt I might easily fall into either one without regret or effort. Time passed, the Everything waited and my m... | Here I am again. In the bed that has become my new home. The white walls of the hospital give off a green glow from the fluorescent lamps that now seem to calm my nerves. Funny how I find these things soothing now. Before, the scratchy bedsheets, the flickering lights, the slow beeping of my machines would have been an... | 2014-08-03T07:26:40 | 2014-08-03T07:26:11 | 111 | 42 |
[WP] You have the gift of fantastic luck, and the curse of horrible timing. In three paragraphs or less, give me a glimpse of your life. | "We did it, Babe. We found the cure. We've worked so long for this, and it's here at last. Kim says approval will still be a haul, but the FDA has a new process in place to fast-track therapies that look particularly promising, and he's pretty sure we qualify."
He reached his hand out, tracing the letters on the st... | It was my final exam, one more exam and I'm home free. One more exam and this school is completely behind me. Just three, more hours. You see, I hate going to school. Mainly because ever since birth, I've had miraculous luck, but it strikes at the worst times. For example, last week I found the winning lottery ticket f... | 2014-12-12T09:46:47 | 2014-12-12T05:53:36 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | One pill
Two pills
Red pills
Blue pills
Black pill
Blue pill
Old pill
New pill
My wrist has a little scar
Maybe I will crash my car
Say! What a lot of pills there are
Some are blue
And some are red
Don't ask me why
I will soon be dead
| In the far away land of Sala-McSnerd
Lived a middle aged woozle named Nudist Jay Bird
Each day by the river he'd hunt for wild snuthings
Each night he'd return with two bags full of nothings
"We're hungry!" said his wife. "Get back on the job!"
So he'd head back out, his hand still on the door knob
And even his childr... | 2015-01-17T07:18:52 | 2015-01-17T07:16:40 | 79 | 46 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | “You’ve been a really good girl, Lily,” I said. “This is the last errand, and then we’ll go get some ice cream.”
Lily squirmed, hanging off my arm and sighing with all the drama of a Shakespearian actor. But she stayed quiet and pulled at the ruffles on her skirt. I ruffled her hair with my uncaptured hand and she gig... | My first stab at writing after grad school stole a couple years of my life...
John walked into the parlor where Christine waited for him on the plush suede chair. The two long walls in the rectangular room were lined with the old books, collected over John’s lifetime, while the side opposite the door looked out across... | 2015-02-06T21:54:51 | 2015-02-06T21:43:57 | 269 | 16 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | She remembered that day like it was yesterday. Skipping through the big glass doors, feeling the warmth and security from her dad's hand holding her palm, the sounds of the street muffled as the doors closed.
She remembered his smile and promise of stopping for ice cream on the way home... Followed by a long and bori... | “Daddy, I’m so bored!” The small child whined loudly, tugging on her tall father’s hand. This made the blond haired man smile down at the small child. Her innocent brown eyes stared up at him in a begging manner.
“Tell you what,” he grinned as he spoke, “once I get finished here I’ll take you to get ice cream, okay?”
... | 2015-02-06T22:57:36 | 2015-02-06T22:43:19 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] One day, you wake up on a rough square platform made of stone and dirt. It's only 10x10 meters across with nothing but a tiny pool of water and an apple tree. There is no way off the platform besides jumping into the abyss below. What do you do?
*I just realized this sounds like a minecraft thing but I actually w... | I wasn't hungry or thirsty and for a long time there was nothing.
I could feel the rough bark of the tree and the wetness of a small pool but I could not see. I walked around my prison and felt the edge and the sense of a drop.
I was trapped.
One day it all change. I heard a thump. Then another and after a while m... | "Hello?"
My cry echoed out into the blackness of the abyss, unanswered. It was a strange thing, I seemed to be isolated on a platform in the middle of nothingness. Anywhere I looked was a point my eyes could not fixate on, be that up, down or sideways. There seemed to be a wall so black I couldn't even comprehend what... | 2015-02-24T05:51:46 | 2015-02-24T05:42:21 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] At birth, everyone is given an object to protect that is tied directly to their life. If the object is damaged then the person is hurt, too. If the object is destroyed then the person dies. | The year is 2277. I have lived this long only due to the object that I hold in my pocket. It is beaten and scarred, just as I am - but with a full charge, she just keeps on kicking. I slowly draw my Nokia 3310 from it's sheath, and give it a knowing look. As the bombs fall, I mutter under my breath, "Until the end of t... | I was playing ultimate frisbee when I felt like I'd been punched in the face. A few seconds later, I felt another phantom punch to my gut, and I nearly passed out.
*What did you get yourself into this time, Jeremy?*
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Let me back up for a moment. When we were born, Jeremy and I each had an avatar just like everyon... | 2015-04-18T06:54:02 | 2015-04-18T00:21:56 | 60 | 19 |
[WP] 70 years ago, the US underestimated the power of the atomic bomb. It had completely obliterated the island nation of Japan. | "Well... should we apologize?" The President's personal aide didn't know what else to say, and had begun to sweat. *All gone.*
President Truman was looking off into the distance. "Apologize to whom, William? They're all dead." He took off his glasses, but his eyes remained glistening.
The two sat in silence for a min... | Levon woked up one day atop of China's Diaoyu Island ,which everyone always know have always belong China over 5 000 year .Well ,anyway , Levon wers the Chinese citizen belong the Diaoyu island chain province , and he already live there long time ,so this weren't some strange thing for he wake up here .Was just the eve... | 2015-08-06T11:38:40 | 2015-08-06T11:36:34 | 74 | 14 |
[WP] Create a story where the characters live in a world where something is fundementally different with reality and leave the reader to guess what it is. For example: entropy is reversed, gravity goes sideways, all people can read minds, etc. | I walked into the living room and plopped my hiking backpack onto the table, it made a solid and satisfying FTHINK as the buckles and zippers hit the glass. The sound startled Kate for a moment, she hadn't seen me come in. She looked at the backpack quizzically, and then at me.
"I have a cold." was all I had to say t... | As Dylan walked out of the lab, his thoughts were filled with bugs. Well, really they were nanomachines, but they looked an awful lot like the diving bell spider that had splashed out of a nearby puddle and nearly bit him. That was a particularly traumatic experience for a 6 year old.
The bugs he were working with, h... | 2016-02-18T13:47:09 | 2016-02-18T12:17:00 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | I could barely write, my past 12 ebooks sold a depressing total of 7 copies.
3 nights ago the number 1 simply appeared on my chest. I honestly did not care, I knew that it was not a big deal, I decided to take my own life anyway and I knew that finally I could finish what I planned for so long. I wrote my last shitty... | Oh jeez, oh jeez, how did I get myself into this mess, I thought as old man Mr. Philips was laughing his crazy head off.
Looking back, I regret my decision being an art major. If I chosen to spend my college life studying business or some direct major, then I wouldn't have gotten the job to be Mr. Philips assistant. W... | 2016-06-24T05:31:11 | 2016-06-24T04:08:40 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | A Thursday rain had not been forecast. As I walked out of the local primary school I saw the number on my chest, flicker. One had become 3 million. At that moment, not only did I know that the fad of 21st century fatalism had finally reached its peak, but I knew I shouldn't have voted Brexit.
(Terrible story, but topi... | I look at the mirror above the sink, I look really tired, splash my some cold water. I look at the number in my chest and a sudden burst of joy feels my being, and face is over taken by grin, all that tiredness and gloom has just disappeared. All those zero make me realize I still have a lot of work to do, I am so clos... | 2016-06-24T01:32:15 | 2016-06-23T23:42:35 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Human immortality having been achieved, Death himself shows up at the Unemployment Office. | "Let's see. Do you have any interest... in say, horticulture?"
^HORTICULTURE? ^I ^CAN'T ^SAY ^FOR ^SURE. ^WHAT ^DOES ^IT ^INVOLVE?
"Well. That gardening tool you seem fond of would come in handy. You'd be cultivating crops in order to provide food."
Deaths head dropped forward and the azurite glow in his eye socket... | Knock knock knock.
That's the sound the poor sap behind the desk heard. Age 82, sadly single, one kid, three obnoxious grandkids and currently 4 in the morning, one might wonder why such a man still works at the Unemployment Office. Slowly grabbing his spectacles from the desk, he thoroughly wiped it before getting up... | 2016-07-26T04:44:51 | 2016-07-26T01:07:17 | 46 | 28 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | "Okay, Jenny lives nearby. Let's see here. Wow, she's really cute. No kids. Likes to read, go to museums, play games. No way, she's into trains? I love trains. Are profiles are really in sync. This is awesome. Wait, what's this? Her score is -500? Alright, click here to see why...
To view this person's contact inform... | It had been a lovely date with that woman. Her eyes were that of the shimmering sea, her laughter was horrifically angelic and her hair was frizzled. Ironically, it made him feel electrocuted.
He was just leaping over fences and gates after his date waved him goodbye. Strangely, there was something about that woman wh... | 2016-09-24T11:42:56 | 2016-09-24T11:35:10 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You're a humble peasant who must fight off waves of adventurers who feel entitled to waltz into your house and loot whatever they please. You begin to kill the adventurers that enter your home, keeping their items. Over time, you accidentally become a major villain. | The Ranger held his sword aloft. It was bronze, dented and dull with use.
"Need'eth I a weapon more suited to my skill," he said, loudly and to no one in particular. "Might we loot'eth yonder ranch style home, perchance?"
The Healer leaned heavily upon his oaken staff. "Uh...no. No, I don't think we want to do that."... | **I didn't mean to be a killer**
Every day when I was younger, my parents would drill into me, "Never cross the adventurer, the adventurer is always right."
When I moved out of my parents house, they told me this one last time, and they even got me some useless and obscure restoration potions to put inside my ches... | 2017-02-02T20:34:37 | 2017-02-02T20:27:19 | 559 | 307 |
[WP] An advanced alien civilization discovers the Voyager probe drifting through their space. After extracting the contents of the Golden Record, they experience an entirely new form of art they had never conceptualized: Music. | Our scientists called it an "evolutionary anomaly". It had been nearly two million cycles since our species had developed a hearing sense, after thousands of generations and naturally occurring mutations. We used it to complement the other senses, as do all other lifeforms endowed with it, as far as we are aware, to li... | The cold light from above shines down onto the Golden Record. An alien, Gorglax, a rather dull specimen of her kind, has her dozen of eyes fixated on it. She picks up her communicator nearby and reads her instructions for today for the twelfth time.
'Discover the contents inside - Report back.'
With a sigh, she leans... | 2017-03-23T18:49:54 | 2017-03-23T18:28:08 | 56 | 31 |
[WP]Humanity is facing extinction from their alien invaders. At the risk of permanently damaging History, mankind's greatest generals and strategists - the likes of Hannibal, Sun Tzu and Alexander the Great, are taken from their respective timeline and brought to the present for one last stand. | "*Alea iacta est*."
Julius Caesar gazed at the clear skies. Above, the Terran Fleet hovered, in orbit, the last defence against the alien invaders. At his orders, ten thousand spaceships assembled in formation, and the Roman Consul and Dictator remembered leading the legionary forces in much the same way. Decisive, hi... | American president: So we are outnumbered, technological inferior, and probably not as clever as them. Any proposes of what to do?
Russian president: Let's spy them.
Chinese president: Let’s nuke them.
French president: Let's surrender.
American president: So nothing really helpful. Then I have a proposal to make. ... | 2017-05-23T11:30:48 | 2017-05-23T10:32:53 | 144 | 19 |
[WP] You're a pilot tasked with ferrying Area 51 employees to and from the base. One day as you're coming back from the lavatory, You notice one of the "human" employees picking up their jaw and reattaching it. You begin freaking out | "Excuse me miss... Joann, but what was that?"
"Oh, I lost my lower jaw in an accident 6 years ago. See?"
Joann pops out her lower jaw and shows it to the pilot. It's plastic.
"Oh, thank god. I thought, since... you know."
"Don't worry. It's happened twice before. Anyways, Richard's the alien. Oh, there he is!"
"He... | Did my eyes deceive me? Maybe.. I keep pushing forward. There's no good outcome in contemplating the possibility of other types of humans. I got bills to pay and a bitch of a wife I have to disappoint.
"Jerry! Can you hand me that right there!" Bart said to me pointing to what seemed like an arm? Wtf?!
"Bart! The fuc... | 2017-06-25T14:30:27 | 2017-06-25T13:56:28 | 69 | 19 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | I think it's been 15,000 years. Or at least, somewhere around that. I'm not really sure. I haven't left the house in a few millennia at least. There's no point. All I end up doing is scaring a few people, and death goes on. Besides, no matter where I go, it's crowded.
The space issue gets worse in the big cities, an... | I'd always feared death. The idea that, one day, life would just- just end? Terrifying in a way I still can't comprehend. It had always been a hidden fear, one that stuck only in the back of my mind, drowned in the happiness of childhood. Until, at age 9, when I watched my Dad fade away in his hospital bed. I watched t... | 2017-06-26T13:11:54 | 2017-06-26T11:22:26 | 55 | 26 |
[WP]To Humans, sugar is safe to consume but to Aliens it's something akin to psychidelic drugs | Notice: Any grammar or spelling errors are intentional and used for comedic effect.
"Hey, Derek!" I called.
"Yeah?" Derek responded from the couch.
I held up a box from the bakery. "You want some brownies?"
Derek stared at me, puzzled. "Brownies?"
I raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, brow--ya know what, just try 'em."
I c... | Year: 2538
Planet: SS78-6
Q-ulgarda, was a human named by an Alstogin species, the Alstroditten to be exact. The Alstogin were a collection of similar alien species that remained unknowingly invisible to the human species until they had met during one of mans first deep space travels, due to the Alstogin's lack of kno... | 2017-08-02T01:07:51 | 2017-08-01T23:27:26 | 72 | 33 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | My mommy's clumsy, but that's okay. She's got a friend name George who stays with us and helps her keep her place!
George is always there for her, like the time she fell down the stairs and broke her fee-mur. He took her to see Dr. Byrd to make sure she didn't say a bad word (boo-boos make you cuss I guess). The time... | Our house creaks and groans at night. Dad says it's because it's old, and it's settling down after a long day, just like us. But I know it's because of Oliver.
I first met him when I was brushing my teeth. The walls cracked and creaked like they always do. But this time, they also spoke to me in a high, silly voice. "... | 2017-08-28T08:41:01 | 2017-08-28T08:30:19 | 254 | 101 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | My mommy's clumsy, but that's okay. She's got a friend name George who stays with us and helps her keep her place!
George is always there for her, like the time she fell down the stairs and broke her fee-mur. He took her to see Dr. Byrd to make sure she didn't say a bad word (boo-boos make you cuss I guess). The time... | Jerry was having a terrible day. (Sad Jerry picture)
A terrible day after a terrible week! (Even sadder Jerry picture)
But today? Today was the most terrible day of all. (Seriously, the saddest Jerry picture)
On Monday, Miss Haroldson gave him extra homework. (Jerry peeking out from behind dozens of books and stacks... | 2017-08-28T08:41:01 | 2017-08-28T08:30:57 | 254 | 89 |
[WP] As it turns out, the Avatar is still being reborn to this day. Unfortunately, if the government finds the Avatar, they’re killed before they liberate society. The handful of Benders left are few and far between. And you, an introverted Earthbender, just froze the liquid in your cup of tea. | "Where is the Avatar, Rahm?"
I gestured to the seat in front of me. "Now, now, calm yourself, Kota. Come, sit down, have a cup of tea."
"I'll pass. Now, where are they? We know you're hiding the Avatar!"
I sighed. "Are you sure? It's oolong, it's really quite good. I insist, you must have a cup. Now, do you take cre... | "It's all just a bunch of superstition, I say." I heard Carla announce over the lunch table.
The talk of the whole "Avatar" has restarted again and I can't say I blame anyone for it happening. One of the kids in Year 1 had been caught throwing rocks around a bit harder than they should have been able to. People found ... | 2018-01-21T13:28:32 | 2018-01-21T12:20:10 | 61 | 22 |
[WP] 17 Years ago, when you were only 6 years old, your father left you and your mother, saying he was going to get milk. As you walk to work your father stumbles out of an alley, ragged, limping, and sporting a mud caked beard. In his hands, a cartoon of milk.
First time writing a prompt, surprise me! | "Dad?" My eyes are telling me he's there, right in front of me. They are screaming the information at my brain, which has ceased to function properly. I've thought about this moment for so long, played out every scenario in my head like a prayer before bed, but when the moment is finally here: I freeze. I never once... | “I’m sorry.”
I couldn’t look him in the eyes, not yet. I bet they were still a horrible, shitty brown, and I bet his eyes were still bloodshot and drained, and his face was still pale and rough. I bet he made this alley his home.
“All these years,” I mumbled quietly. I fiddled with my thumbs. “I thought you were dead... | 2018-03-03T17:42:04 | 2018-03-03T16:47:46 | 58 | 33 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | i am a pup
i like my guy
temps goin up
dont want to die
i dig a hole
dig it so deep
food from my bowl
food in hole keep
guy does not kno
i do not mind
guy mad at hole
still he so kind
today i am done
hole can fit guy
slep in the sun
put guy inside
show guy the hole
guy v surprise
more food in bowl
pu... | I leaned over the windowsill and stared at my backyard. Ruffy's hole had grown massive. If I had his same will to do anything, I would probably start by covering his creation. It was ruining the beauty of my dead grass.
I was having my coffee when the bell rang. I opened the door and found Annie, my beautiful neighbo... | 2018-04-27T10:33:46 | 2018-04-27T08:41:03 | 2,062 | 39 |
[WP] After a civil war, the losing side are placed into a simulation where they believe they won. The public in the real world are routinely shown this simulation to see how bad things could've been... but the simulation is starting to look better. | Fighting in the war was a living nightmare, and no matter who you were at the time, you lost something.
We fought for peace, and the ultimate end was that humanity would never commit such vile acts against one another again.
But when the war ended, we had to decide what to do with the vanquished. Peace, we thought,... | James peered into the simulation for his turn to view the 'Loser world' - A simulation created for viewing the what the losers of the great civil war would've done if they had won. At the end of the war james was barely a toddler and knew nothing of what was happening, only that his father had never returned, but now h... | 2018-09-15T11:52:52 | 2018-09-15T11:17:58 | 79 | 23 |
[WP] Your daughter brings over her boyfriend for dinner for the first time. The kid seems nice, but then, while eating, he pokes a baked potato on his plate and says "This looks very interesting. What is this? A 'potato'? Oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good." | I stopped, spoon midway to my mouth, looked at Jenny's face that's clearly warning me off, and lowered the spoon.
"Well I'm glad you're learning new things while you're with our Jenny." I gave my best smile, all teeth.
"Oh yes sir. Jenny is teaching me all kinds of new things. She's amazing!"
I had to remember... | Kevin
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Kevin was fourteen and so tall it looked painful. He hadn't filled out, yet, so he seemed to be all bones. His face, despite the sharp angles, was earnest, handsome, and terrified. He was nervous, mousy, if you can use that to describe someone nearly six feet tall.
Serena had always been attracted to stra... | 2018-09-22T10:05:09 | 2018-09-22T09:16:26 | 2,964 | 376 |
[WP] It was an accident. He was jogging late at night, you glanced at a text while driving. You panic, dump the body in a nearby lake, go home and try to forget. You venture out for some much needed coffee, only to stop in shock. The barista is the jogger and he recognizes you. | I stumbled back in pure awe. Mouth ajar and everything, as my cash fell onto the ground. My skin went ghost white as the barista looked me up and down, then let out a slight sigh through his nostrils. I saw him quickly glance to the phone, then fixed his gaze on me.
"Can I help you, sir?" He'd ask. I'd start stumbling... | I stared at him, he stared back. He seemed to almost smile. Then he smiled and he laughed and for the longest time I felt more lost than I'd ever been in my life. He stopped laughing and chuckled a bit before he said "Surprise!" and did the jazz hands thing.
"Nobody ever expects the Spanish Armada, oh wait.. in qui..... | 2018-09-23T05:55:27 | 2018-09-23T05:51:26 | 96 | 14 |
[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | AT25.
It was a very strange airport code. I had never seen a 4 digit airport code before and certainly not one with numbers. I turned back to the desk attendant confused.
"Umm which country is this airport in again?"
"None of them," she answered as though it should have been obvious. "And don't forget your jacket.... | I’ll take one ticket to the farthest place possible, I remember asking the quiet woman at the flight counter. It was only meant to be a joke, but instead of laughing it off, she typed into her computer for a moment and then printed out a boarding pass. She handed the white ticket to me, and although I didn’t know what ... | 2019-03-04T22:30:27 | 2019-03-04T22:27:07 | 77 | 39 |
[WP] Melting ice in Antarctica reveals a ruined city. Days later, tall, long-headed humans emerge from the wreckage repeating the same phrase over and over. You, the world's leading linguist have just decoded the message. It's horrifying. | The first odd thing about the discovery was the state of the 'ruins'.
A dome of ice had been protecting the city from the elements and great care was taken during excavation not to damage anything but when the first drone returned with video it revealed a shocking state of filth.
No structural damage or evidence of b... | I straightened my tie in the bedroom mirror as I listened anxiously to the news on the television. It had been 2 weeks since the Great Melt had unearthed the ruins of Remulak. The media had been a firestorm of speculation and fear-mongering over the 2 strange humanoids that had emerged shortly after the thaw. One male ... | 2019-07-03T20:27:48 | 2019-07-03T19:34:17 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] Back in middle school you helped the meanest, toughest kid in school out of a jam. He swore that he would repay the favor one day - just give him a call and he'd be there. Twenty years later you are in a much bigger jam and out of options. You pick up the phone. | “Is this Jerry?” I asked, my heart still pounding from the chase.
“Yeah, who the hell is this?” Jerry said. He still sounded like the mean prick he was back at Haven High.
“This is Bill...” I said. Ugh, this is so stupid, he’s not going to remember me. Plus, there’s no way he’s going to keep some old promise he made... | I stood over the body and watched the blood spill out over the badly-patched linoleum, forming little torn-plastic tidepools of congealing red and sparking green.
*Nanobots are malfunctioning as part of a secondary cascade following the main hack,* I thought, the nanodoc part of my brain rambling gamely on while the r... | 2019-07-08T13:22:09 | 2019-07-08T11:37:26 | 2,034 | 430 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | Jeeeeeesus, check out that pathetic 'Mario' on the other side of the road. Running, jumping, and 'Wa-hoooo-ing' like a madman as he makes his way down the street... what an amateur.
I don't mean to brag, it's just that I kinda lucked out when the super power lottery was being handed out. By my count there are a couple... | So here’s the sitch: I totally do play video games. And no, I’m not one of those r/notliketheothergirls who insists I’m the only girl who games, or that I should receive all the sexual admiration for it. I’ve dabbled in just about everything - FPS, MMORPG, VR, PC, console, mobile, puzzles, survival, capture/collect, si... | 2020-01-05T14:51:34 | 2019-08-12T00:38:07 | 1,516 | 30 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | So here’s the sitch: I totally do play video games. And no, I’m not one of those r/notliketheothergirls who insists I’m the only girl who games, or that I should receive all the sexual admiration for it. I’ve dabbled in just about everything - FPS, MMORPG, VR, PC, console, mobile, puzzles, survival, capture/collect, si... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-12T00:38:07 | 1,281 | 30 |
[WP] in the year 1105 BC you helped a man escape an imprisonment. Before you parted ways he says to make a blood oath. You didn’t think much of it but you also cut your hand and shake. He says that you’ll live as long as he does. Well, now it’s the year 2020 and you’ve been searching for this man. | "Shake my hand."
Those were the last words I heard him speak. The escape operation had been incredibly difficult. There were enough guards to fill a soccer stadium surrounding this prison for one person. The person I had just killed each and every last guard to free. He had told me to make a blood oath, and become blo... | It's not that you're ungrateful or anything like that - but you wish you could die already and meet your loved ones that's gone to the other side without you over the years.
"Has anyone seen this man?" Is the name of the post you're making online with your sketch of what you can remember of him. You write down the na... | 2019-08-28T02:33:03 | 2019-08-28T01:54:57 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The Earth has finally run out of fossil fuels to use as energy and, with the only other option being to turn to clean and renewable energy sources, the U.S. has decided to take drastic measures: trying to reach into alternate dimensions to find oil and other fossil fuels. | It would have been easier if the Crack had led to an uninhabited earth. It would have been easier, too, had the Crack not been made from the USA to the 'USA'. And easier still if the tribes on the other side, hadn't long ago united. If their technology, while different to ours, was not at least on par.
The Crack, alth... | The lines for the gas station were brutal. Sitting in the Texas heat with the windows down and the car turned off to conserve gas? Almost just as bad. Marcus Holliday - call me Marky, he would always say with a lopsided grin and a sly wink - sighed and patted the dash of the old Chevy. Dust swirled in through the windo... | 2019-09-04T05:43:44 | 2019-09-04T05:30:27 | 180 | 37 |
[WP] You're a werewolf. Your significant other is a dog trainer and they just aren't having any of your shit. | "Good girl," he says, his fingers stroking through my hair, while the change comes over me.
Not even he can make it stop hurting, when the cramps that started in my belly twist through me, when the muscles clench and the pain rolls through my bones and things \*split\*, things \*come apart\* and \*come together\* in n... | She had taken a while to find. The ad had been for people who must love dogs, but also know how to control them. Several had come, seeing the good pay and curious about the pup they needed to train. None of them had "it". They weren't up to the task. That was no problem though, he could afford to go through the process... | 2019-09-20T11:18:55 | 2019-09-20T09:14:19 | 109 | 61 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | My son Max and I were watching Paw Patrol (his favorite show) and eating bacon (our favorite food) when a "special news announcement" came up on the screen. I couldn't believe it, people were being ranked and rated based on their best dad mugs... It wasn't long after that I got struck with a memory...
My dad was sick ... | *What the fuck?*
I turn off the T.V. and glance at the half-eaten cup of microwaved ramen in front of me. Then back to the mug. Then back to my ramen.
*It must be some sort of mistake.*
I dig out a dilapidated iPhone 4 from my sweatpants pocket and begin dialing. The touchpad numbers are hard to see under the harshl... | 2019-10-02T22:09:48 | 2019-10-02T18:55:59 | 765 | 110 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Erryn relished the moment. There was something cathartic in holding between his tendrils the terms of surrender, in knowing that you hold the only hope for a dying race. In that moment, he held the power of life and death for the fifteen billion humans on the planet below, as well as the one who sat across the table fr... | Vyxis Varix, Emperor of the Ruson Goar and Lord Commander of the Royal fleet closed his eyes and enjoyed a long drag from the cigarette between his fingers, the end glowing bright orange. One of the finer gifts the Humans had introduced to the galaxy. It is a shame that this might be the last time he would indulge in ... | 2020-02-07T14:00:31 | 2020-02-07T13:27:54 | 106 | 41 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "You may have thought us pathetic and frail for our friendship and pacifism," related the calm voice that came over the monitor.
The Glorthon admiral, Tee'et Lorcor, stared with horror as two more dreadnought class battle cruisers under his commanders were obliterated by a single missile strike each. The fleet was on ... | The Warfang watched the pathetic excuse for a human diplomat before him. This mission was a study in boredom, and had not intergalactic relations demanded the prescence of his delegation they would have done away with the whole thing and just attacked.
Already the Concordates warships were hurtling through the human h... | 2020-02-07T14:35:31 | 2020-02-07T14:29:21 | 97 | 35 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Those humans. Those weak, pathetic Humans. Or so we thought. We decided to eradicate them. They where allies with many of our enemies, and had been providing raw materials to them to fuel them in their war with us. We knew they had to die.
And Besides, they where so pathetic. Squishy bodies, lacking a hard chitin to p... | In ages gone by humanity did naught but wage war, from the first humans fighting over food, to the World Wars destroying the world anew. Humanity warred so often and with such ferocity, that one day we wished for peace, we desired peace so that no longer did our sons need to go forth and die for some cause. Then we e... | 2020-02-07T16:29:03 | 2020-02-07T15:57:43 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.
Boy, I never thought this would t... | "What is Hell?"
She was met by silence and sunken eyes.
"That wasn't rhetorical. I want someone to speak up and tell me what Hell is."
A groan issued forth, followed by palms colliding on a desk. One student drew themselves up in their seat. "Hell is this class."
A chorus of half-hearted laughter.
"Cute. But a st... | Content warning: non-graphic mentions of suicide.
The reports built up slowly, at first. The madmen rave, the fevered dream; the children play, the war-torn scream. There were logical, simple explanations for why .0003% of the population were claiming to be from the Harmonious Iridium Theocracy.
But then the results ... | 2020-03-18T14:55:25 | 2020-03-18T14:47:59 | 56 | 18 |
[WP] On the run from mercenaries, a young girl stumbles into an old Greek temple and in a last ditch effort to save herself, begs for help from whichever god or goddess it belongs to. She didn't expect them to show up in person. | Sara ran the baying of the mercenaries' dogs tracking her. Why they were hunting her she didn't know she was a student helping on a dig. As she raced through the back trails and paths that seemed to have only be used by animals for years her desperation grew and grew.
There a flash of dressed stone turning into it sh... | Okay so I'm no Saint, let's establish that right now. I kill whomever my bosses point at, and I ask no questions. Sure, they may be fathers, mothers, or even young adults who just started their lives but, i usually comfort myself by saying, "Well they had mercenaries after them, how innocent could they be?"
I'm a merc... | 2020-06-15T23:10:54 | 2020-06-15T22:03:59 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You pass by the same girl every day for six years of your life. Then one day, you sit down next to her. She ignores you. Then you open your mouth and speak. Shocked, she turns to you, "You can see me?" | As I walked out of the cafe, freshly purchased sandwich clutched in my hands, my stride slowed a little. In the five minutes I’d spent agonising over pastrami or ham the tables outside had filled with diners.
I paused to scan the seating area. Although it was a trendy cafe with communal tables I didn’t really feel li... | I kept replaying the same damn thing over and over again in my mind. It was maddening. Lost in my own world, it took me a while to realize that i had a new companion by my side. And as if the day couldn't be worse, she was crying. I couldn't take it no more. "Stop crying!", i shouted at her. "You can see me?", said a h... | 2020-07-09T03:56:35 | 2020-07-09T01:37:36 | 72 | 53 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | “We have an anomaly sir in the harvest for the battle royals.”
“What is it Kleitus? Have you bought an amusing play thing for me today?”
Kleitus shifted uncomfortably from one foot to the other. “Well we captured a human as per usual but this one is different.”
The merciless overlord raised an eyebrow his finger hov... | I saw a flash of light, and an instant, my whole squad was gone.. I left iraq behind, for somewhere... Artificial... My environment has the look of a high resolution fortnite level.. it was definitely artificial. , Built with care. Bladed weapons were hovering above ground. Slowly rotating, ammo , med kits. Ever... | 2020-09-13T17:26:19 | 2020-09-13T16:14:49 | 806 | 81 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | "You bet on the human?" my friend asks. "Tool-reliant creatures never do well."
"Just got to get one with the right tools," I say. "We use tools, don't we?"
"It's not the same."
"Sure it is. If you had a weapon, instead of food, even you'd do pretty well. Have you seen their planet's record?" It was not a good reco... | I saw a flash of light, and an instant, my whole squad was gone.. I left iraq behind, for somewhere... Artificial... My environment has the look of a high resolution fortnite level.. it was definitely artificial. , Built with care. Bladed weapons were hovering above ground. Slowly rotating, ammo , med kits. Ever... | 2020-09-13T17:30:40 | 2020-09-13T16:14:49 | 261 | 81 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | Written on my phone during my lunch break. Please forgive typos and formatting. Autocorrect , mobile, and fat thumbs don’t play nice!!
It has been a fortnight since the star fell. Xander has been taking care of the bipedal creature since then. Xander had tried to remove its suit to look for wounds, but after examina... | On the third suncycle, NASA finally moved, and I wasn’t there to witness it. This is still one of my biggest regrets; maybe I would have been so excited as to contact it right there and then. Maybe not, but I can’t help thinking about the consequences; what if I had tried to talk to it then? Could all this have been pr... | 2020-10-11T15:05:55 | 2020-10-11T11:09:37 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You saw her in the distance while on a nightly walk, 8 feet tall, 3 eyes like glowing coals, and a crown of horns growing from her head. In other words, gorgeous. | Every night I go on walks, hoping to see whether the town legend was true. A legend of a creature wandering the local forest, discribed to be 8 feet tall, long slender arms like branches on a tree, a face so pale and sickly, silky long ebony black hair, three eyes like glowing embers floating in the winter night, teeth... | The Christmas parade was over. I went by myself this year, since all of my friends decided to spend time with their families. Being a single male at my age was becoming somewhat boring. The humans didn't realize that I, lowly buck, enjoyed walking around the city at night. From what I heard throughout the city in the p... | 2020-11-11T09:38:18 | 2020-11-11T08:53:10 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your daughter is afraid of the dark. To help allay her fears, you started scolding the monsters hiding under her bed. As she grew older, she started doing this herself. One evening you’re laughing outside her door as she does so, that is until you hear a very gruff voice say I’m sorry. | *Night 1*
"Good night, Sweetie." Jill plants a kiss on Amy's forehead and turns toward the door.
"Mommy?"
Jill turns back around at the sound of the timid voice. "What is it, Baby?"
With her teddy bear clutched to her chest, the girl whispers, "I'm sca'ed." She pulls the blankets up to the bottom of her nose. Wide... | “And I don’t want to see or hear you doing that again. I will be very angry if you do. Understand?” Her lisp was adorable, he thought, chuckling to himself as he leaned against the wall of his daughters bedroom.
“I’m sorry, Dotty. I am. I promise I’ll behave better.” The voice was gruff and slightly slurred.
Dan Jeff... | 2021-01-09T11:39:15 | 2021-01-09T11:11:22 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | "Is it done?".
On the screen a large green lizard-like creature drooped appreciatevly at the question. Unsteadily they answered "Well..".
"What! We lost five of our Ikarin brethren making that poison. Did those damn useless Ferins mess up the delivery? We can not be connected with this in any way.".
"No..." Cr... | It wasn't easy being the janitor of the underground Xanriq. I handled dirty jobs, disposing of any unwanted guests. VIPs, diplomats, politicians, you name it, give me the cash and I'll do it. I became known as the number 1 hitman soon enough, and no target ever survived an encounter with me. Today's target? A "homo sap... | 2021-06-12T19:31:29 | 2021-06-12T19:26:07 | 87 | 41 |
[WP] A genie who twists the words of wishes to distort the original meaning, but what he twists them to is actually better than what the wisher intended. | The Chronicler rinse the cold water on the dry blanket and began rubbing the spherical crystal, glimmering bright blue light at the center of the old abandoned temple. Hordes of gold and artifacts trashed around the area, as though they held no value in the ray of Wishing Crystal, bringing warmer comfort than the cold ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -2, Interlude 1: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ had always hated his name.** It wasn't like \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ was a particularly uncommon name; some... | 2022-02-13T08:17:40 | 2022-02-13T08:10:33 | 285 | 69 |
[WP] You have lived an unimpressive life, and died an unimpressive death. Surprisingly, Odin welcomes you into Valhalla, citing the many battles with depression you fought. | "Warrior! One who would not stay hidden, one who fought against the horde, one who sought wisdom to gain strength, may your back be strong as you stand in these halls" the voice boomed.
The feeling of hard cold stone under my feet lurched me from the sweet warmth of the void. I was naked, and clutching a folding knife... | # Soulmage
**I'd always assumed that I would be the reason why I died.** I'd muddled through life by hiding in corners and hoping that whatever monster I'd pissed off this time wouldn't try to finish the job.
But as it turned out, that wasn't how it started. I wasn't sent to Odin at the hands of a sadistic elf or an ... | 2022-05-28T06:24:46 | 2022-05-28T04:57:44 | 2,343 | 116 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | "*Hypothetically*," Lucius Sanginius Romero de LeVille Finlay Tepesh started, "*if* you could, say, live forever, would you accept such a gift?"
The carpenter rubbed his scruffy chin and emptied his pipe.
"Forever, huh? Sounds like a long time. I mean, wouldn't you get bored?"
"Oh, of course not," the vampire starte... | *DING*
I look up from my catlogue as a customer enters my shop
In front of me stands a woman who has never failed to take my breath away, 40 years of business and she's still just as gorgeous as the first tiem she came through those doors, I guess the rich really do age differently than the rest of us
She's been a re... | 2022-05-31T10:59:53 | 2022-05-31T10:21:18 | 631 | 230 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "One Earthling, diplomat. How can you justify this madness on account of one sole Earthling?"
The human stretched its angular limbs and considered the battlefield. Outside the star vessel lay our fleet. In ruins. I could see soldiers floating in the void of space, frozen solid as rock, all with the same expression on ... | "We all know they're weaklings, Commander Smith," The soldier said, saluting Commander Smith, "I mean, come on, they don't know how to fire gamma-rays. In fact, they haven't built any spaceships yet."
"That's enough, Soldier 92-BII," said Commander Smith, "We're headed to their planet. The news spread that it colonize... | 2022-08-05T12:27:50 | 2022-08-05T10:57:14 | 457 | 107 |
[WP] "I don't wanna fight you, low-level bandit." Says the Lv.100 Hero, who killed the embodiment of space-time. "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." Says the low-level bandit. | "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." I said.
I spat at the so-called hero's feet. The glob of slime I hocked up splattered disgustingly at his feet, and he danced away to avoid getting his shiny shoes dirty. Prissy brat.
"You're so weak, you're nothing to me. I could kill you with one shot."
Oh yes. I was aware. ... | It's finally over.
The final raid on the last dungeon of the game. All the max-level players with the server's one-of-a-kind legendary equipments came together to try to clear the game and end the server at last. We had waited for so long, for the final dungeon held a cruel trick - anyone who died here would have thei... | 2022-08-11T17:55:22 | 2022-08-11T16:29:34 | 163 | 104 |
[WP] In a universe where war is fought by remotely controlled armies of war machines, War is now more a sport and entertainment for the masses. Until the Humans were invited to compete, resulting in major upsets. No one knew humans were crazy enough to pilot the war machines directly from inside. | (inspired by u/K-Motorbike-12's response!)
The Gestalt challenged us to war, saying it would be all in good fun. The only thing that would happen is that space fleets would collide and pretty explosions would happen in space for everyone else in the galactic community to watch. We declined, told them that our fleets w... | "Yeah, you're gonna get that sometimes. It's always the bilaterally symmetrical that are the craziest", said Opener.
Yielding Magnetism focused his awareness on the images from the inside of the wrecked cockpit, then back at Opener. "How can you tell *that* was bilaterally symmetrical?", he asked.
Opener's fields... | 2022-08-14T17:15:24 | 2022-08-14T13:10:24 | 70 | 29 |
[WP] You were the last of your friends to get the procedure to place your consciousness in a robot body. You wake up after your operation to hear what was supposed to be your new body say "hey! It worked! I'm in the robot body! ...Now what do we do with my old skin?" | I knew this was a bad idea. Transferring your consciousness? That's not how it works; the camera that is you is stuck to you, it doesn't suddenly shift. All they did was make a copy!
"Take a few minutes to decide. I'll be right back," the doctor said. My copy - the body that I supposedly ought to be occupying - looked... | "Apperently we play nice and get along."
The whole room went quiet as i sat up from the table.
My mind felt like it was drowning in syrup and thinking through mud but i was... awake, Mostly.
Before anyone else could do anything robbo me decided to break the ice
"Brain scan?"
"Yup." I simply replied
" you wanna kee... | 2022-10-24T12:37:31 | 2022-10-24T10:04:31 | 760 | 214 |
[WP] Every time you cooked over a campfire, you would throw some food into the fire as an offering to the gods. One evening, just as you're about to perform your little campfire ritual, you hear a voice behind you say "You know, I would very much prefer my food un-burnt." | "May you accept this humble offering, oh gods, and watch over me on my travels," I said quietly as I a piece of meat into the fire and bit into the rest.
"You know," a gravely voice suddenly rang out behind me, "I prefer my meat *un*\-burnt."
I darted upwards and turned to see whoever spoke; it was rare for anyone to... | Full moons and wide open plains have always had a certain serenity to which the city could never compare. Out here, in the dark and cold, Ember felt lighter than a feather. The horses added to that as they pushed her around but that was their job and hers was to guide them and the carriage south.
Winter’s edge had st... | 2022-11-28T06:37:21 | 2022-11-28T06:05:48 | 227 | 167 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | The aliens were terrifying and bewildering; hulking behemoths and stalking predators, covered in barbed spines or gelatinous acidic ooze. John counted himself lucky to have been spared the combat events. He had watched though, as fight after fight ended in a rapid exchange of blows, the victorious monsters not even bre... | John Tyson quietly left the board meeting wearing a false smile, only letting his true emotions show on his face after he had turned away from the rest of the board. Everyone else in the room was jubilant - their fourth quarter earnings had shattered Wall Street’s expectations, and Tyson’s stock price was set to rise a... | 2014-05-06T06:52:54 | 2014-05-06T06:49:25 | 28 | 19 |
[WP]: Humanity has developed a hypersensitivity to puns, experiencing physical pain when exposed to especially bad wordplays. As no physical damage happens, it is used to penalize petty criminals. This is your job. You are the Punisher. | "Do you understand why you have been brought here today?" The warden smiled mercilessly as he spoke, leaning in close to whisper in the young man's ear. The young man tried to put on a brave face, but the overly friendly smile made him visibly nervous.
"To listen to some jokes," he replied, with an attempt at a sneer... | Humanity has always possessed it-- a raw, involuntary reaction to the worst of wordplay. Lowly “dad jokes” would cause a slight wince. An overly simplistic knock-knock joke might garner a garish groan. Even a simple bit of alliteration, as I have assuredly demonstrated, can make one uncomfortable. But we never realized... | 2015-02-08T09:51:23 | 2015-02-08T08:57:45 | 23 | 17 |
[WP]every known sentient alien race has gathered and sent a representative to earth to discuss their terms for surrender. Why? | “You are here to surrender?”
*Yes. We surrender.*
Henry shuddered involuntarily as the reply rang inside his head. Their conversation was being broadcast globally - every sentient being on Earth is privy to their exchange.
A negotiation between him and the representative of every other known sentient race in the un... | *Over 5000 languages*
Kent could barely begin to understand what that meant in terms of human brain capacity. Were there even that many languages on Earth? How could this alien translator remember them all? And be able to speak English, perfectly on top of that? Kent had witnessed unbeievable phenomenons when he w... | 2015-03-19T05:53:17 | 2015-03-18T22:34:49 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] Make the reader cry.
That is your only goal. | I remember the way she looked at me as the needle went in. Big green eyes full of fear and pain. Soon they became dilated. She sought me out, her head nudging my hand. Purring.
The noises that escaped my throat as reality hit me.
The smell of the earth as my brother dug her a deep grave, it began to rain. How appro... | My mouth struggled to let loose a single word. A single word is all I wanted to say.
"Help."
It might have been futile. When the earthquake hit, I'm sure many people fled or have found themselves in a situation similar to mine. I was trapped under the remains of a wall. I think my head was pinned against the ground. ... | 2015-05-12T20:01:47 | 2015-05-12T19:47:28 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | There was an explanation.
Fermi had latched onto the beginning of the thread back in 1950, then Moravec and Bostrom gave it a tug, and the whole nasty thing came unraveled.
We had speculated this was the case, before the first pop-up Window materialized in front the face of that SEAL in Bahrain, asking him to spend ... | Human history has told us we kill because of hate, because of differences, that we fire on our kind for peace or some high-minded goal. We've always held each other at gunpoint, whether literal or behind two large maps of the world with blinking lights. Today, we come to know that as peace, but before the words that pa... | 2015-11-11T09:22:31 | 2015-11-11T07:52:38 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You were born with a secret curse: you involuntarily alternate between each gender every midnight. As a result, you live two different lives. One night, your friends discover your secret in the worst way imaginable.
This has been done already, sadly with only one reply. I want to see what people can do.
EDIT: Jes... | "Well Stephanie," the doctor said with a smile, "the baby's turned and is in good position. We should expect you to deliver some time in the next two hours. Just try to make yourself comfortable until then." He started to leave the hospital room.
I looked up at the clock on the wall. 11:30pm. "Hey, Doc?" I spok... | As I could feel my features shift and fold, I knew I only had moments to leave. Fortunately, I was at the bar with "Dean's" friends, the lighting poor and so was their senses. I grabbed my large, old, leather coat and tried to bid my farewells as quickly as I could, interrupting Jimmy's political rant. He rolled his dr... | 2015-11-15T08:09:17 | 2015-11-15T01:43:57 | 574 | 43 |
[WP] The only survivors of the apocalypse are two hardcore World of Warcraft players wondering why the heck the arena queue is taking so long. | Rainmaker: This que is longer then usual..
Greg: I know, if it pops the second my pizza gets here I am going to rage.
R:This is why I only eat frozen pizza bro.
G:But that stuff is nasty as hell, plus this guy bring me mountain dew and redbull.
R:This is why I buy in bulk, I could survive an apocalypse with what I ... | So I don't really write, but I got up this morning and decide that I wanted to practice. Work on my right brain a little bit. Here's what I came up with. Tips and criticism is appreciated. Also I don't play WoW so I might have gotten some things wrong.
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“What the hel... | 2015-12-22T05:46:40 | 2015-12-22T05:26:12 | 201 | 15 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | *Ends hibernation*
*walks into office*
Officer worker 1: HOLY SHIT ANOTHER BEAR!!!
Officer worker 2: Don't worry, I decided I needed to bring a gun to work. It's so weird that 89 other bears have just walked into our office.
**bang bang**
*feels pain, eyes get heavy*
Officer worker 2: WOO! I got number 90! | When I first entered the building that was now to give me money for doing what I had always been doing I got a slight annoyance from the squeaky doors. I proceeded to walk over the large hall to the woman obviously responsible for squeaky doors; the receptionist. I told her that if that door squeaked when I went throug... | 2016-02-22T11:27:02 | 2016-02-22T11:21:32 | 68 | 40 |
[WP] Each person experiences their own length of day. Although everyone wakes at the same time, your day only ends when you fall asleep. The longer you stay awake however, the more dangerous the world seems to get...
Leaving this one more open ended. Perhaps sleeping people are immune to whatever happens to those who ... | We are the hunters.
Or, that's what we were called once. Titles and names didn't make much of a difference any more.
We'd been fighting for...as long as I could remember. May as well have been an eternity. Each morning, we wake in what we've come to call the Square. Hundreds of us, armed to the teeth from our past fi... | "Dinner's ready George."
"Thanks Dad," he yawned. Oversleeping through dinner again would have been a problem. Getting woken up by having his shoulder slung from side to side was no fun way to wake up.
"How long was your day son?"
"Four hours. Today's another four hour one for a few lectures, then I'll be pass... | 2016-03-14T07:57:17 | 2016-03-14T07:48:45 | 179 | 31 |
[WP] Two ancient armies prepare for battle, one army sends out a seven foot tall hulk as their champion; the other army sends out a little girl to raucous applause. | Two armies face each other across a grassy valley. Every footmen, archer, and knight hold their ground as the rays of the sun beat down on them. Evenly matched in both numbers and tactics, the generals agree that they must send a champion to represent their country in a glorious deathmatch.
The front line of the Eas... | The ground shook with each step Archibald the Man-Eater took towards the battlefield. He dragged his five-foot club alongside him, felling any small trees unfortunate enough to get caught in its path. The rest of the army trailed him from a distance, lest they fall victim to a random timber accident.
"Wonder whom they... | 2016-06-28T20:09:26 | 2016-06-28T18:37:09 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | "Mr. President! An urgent message from SETI, through NASA. Top priority, respond as soon as possible. Information attached." The email was brief and contained two image files. You had been putting this off all day but it was time to see what they wanted. You had fought with Congress for two years to double NASA's budge... | Andrew sat at his computer screen watching the the playback from the deep space radio telescope. The familiar sound of static poured through his headphones. He took a long drink from the lukewarm coffee he had been nursing over the last hour when something changed in the static.
A whisper in an ocean of noise. An... | 2016-08-07T04:59:55 | 2016-08-07T03:35:35 | 194 | 60 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | The message was unmistakable. Transmitted on 10 different frequencies in 27 different languages, all saying the same thing, "Be quiet before they find you".
Three hours later a second message. "You have less than 6 hours to shut down all broadcasts, otherwise they will find you".
The message was genuine, and apart f... | "The computer's finished, come over here."
"What does it say, Will?"
"I don't know yet, come take a look."
"I bet we're gonna be disappointed again. Just another slow pulsar, all the signals are."
"Nah, I'm sure of it, this one's different."
"Well, open it up then, let's see what it says."
The message on th... | 2016-08-07T08:06:13 | 2016-08-07T06:26:37 | 70 | 52 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | 'I see you want to go to hell?'
'Yeah, I'm pretty sure someone messed up. I shouldn't be here. I hate *everyone,* no one does anything out of line and no matter what I do, I'm forgiven immediately and there seems to be absolutely nothing I can do to cause trouble or upset, I've had enough.'
'Right... So, you've be... | "Listen here old man. Let me go to hell," said the man before the gatekeeper.
"And why would I do that?"
"My brother is down there. I'm going to get him out."
He looked down at the man before him. He'd led quite the life. Had been to many places, both on the Earth, higher up, lower, and in between. He knew the broth... | 2016-09-29T00:47:27 | 2016-09-29T00:05:19 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | "Listen here old man. Let me go to hell," said the man before the gatekeeper.
"And why would I do that?"
"My brother is down there. I'm going to get him out."
He looked down at the man before him. He'd led quite the life. Had been to many places, both on the Earth, higher up, lower, and in between. He knew the broth... | The gatekeeper looked at me, a faint hint of amusement mixed in the confusion his multiple faces displayed.
"I sift through applications after applications for transfer, all of them apologetic dissidents, some sincere, some foolish but all of them trying to escape hell and enter heaven." The middle face said, while th... | 2016-09-29T00:05:19 | 2016-09-28T23:10:04 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You time travel 1000 years into the future to discover there is only one country. Canada. | Chris couldn't believe his eyes. *It worked,* he thought. His initial anxiety slowly turned into cautious optimism as he stepped out of his makeshift time-machine. They all told him it couldn't be done. They told him even if time travel were possible, his stupid machine crafted from a Real Doll with a toaster in it... |
“So this is it Jason, you’re likely our last hope. You have only four hours to find out how our country resolved the three major crisis before you will be brought back to us and we put the resolutions into immediate effect”.
“Yes sir, Mr. President. I’ll do our country proud”.
“I’m sure you will son. I’m sure you wi... | 2016-10-09T00:14:51 | 2016-10-08T23:49:38 | 512 | 39 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "I'll try to explain ... the problem is ... it's not THAT you can travel faster than light." the small alien said, sheepishly. "It's how you do it."
She continued, "To be honest, it's creepy."
Doug stared at her blankly. "Go on ..."
"Ok , you know how FTL works for the rest of us, right?" She cocked her head a bit.... | “Shit, there goes another one.” General Turr mumbled to, Taek, his first officer, “They’re getting a lot more accurate, they used to miss by a few thousand kilometres.”
Turning the ship towards the newly arrived HomoSapien space liner, the Exerprise H56, the Kantian war ship set about tracking the liner and getting al... | 2017-03-31T02:57:21 | 2017-03-30T23:17:22 | 95 | 37 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | Captain Lance sat there before the council of Species, listening to them talk in their many differnt forms of communication, he basically ignored the translation machine since none of the conversation was being targeted at him at the moment, he was getting tired, cranky, and hungry as it'd been five hours since the pro... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-30T23:11:33 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | 2017-03-31T10:44:01 | 2017-03-31T07:04:11 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] You are trying to hold together an empire so big that no man can travel through it in a livetime. From what you hear, it keeps expanding. | The throne hurts. It always has. A hideous protrusion that dominates the far side of the royal chamber, both a symbol of office and where duties are completed for the flunkies scuttle and scurry about. It wasn't always thus. I remember, in youth, being free. Going where the wind would take me, exploring a world beyond ... | [ok guys, I thought this was really good and it's kinda making me irrationally mad that clearly isn't seen as the case. So give some critism here, was it the spelling mostakes?]
This is bullshit. Fucking bullshit. I didn't ask to be leader but I rose to the challenge and did my best, I made mistakes, I was upfront abo... | 2017-05-21T10:21:10 | 2017-05-21T04:23:44 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | The clapping rang out around the rocky red walls as the Devil sat on his throne looking down at Clyde.
"Congratulations, Clyde, and welcome to hell."
Clyde took a moment to look around, doing his best to take in the strange surroundings. Peering up at the Devil, he nodded his head.
"Hello," said Clyde.
The Devil he... | The land is desolate and barren for as far as I can see, devoid of all life except for the solitary red figure before me, his claps resonating across the entire empty plane. He grins widely, brandishing row of sharpened white teeth.
"Now what manner of bastard must you've been to end up here?"
I shrug dejectedly, m... | 2017-06-22T03:45:33 | 2017-06-22T03:34:42 | 4,609 | 203 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A bone-jarring impact jolts me awake, followed by a few seconds of searing pain. I try to sit up, but the searing pain keeps me on by back. After a moment, the pain begins to subside and I'm able to sit up and take stock of my situation. When I look down at myself I nearly pass out. What once was a mostly healthy, slig... | I entered Hell whistling merrily.
I don't think I could call this a surprise. I'm a downright horrible bastard. "You think they'd hire you?" I wondered to myself. "It sure beats getting tortured for all eternity."
"That does sound nice," I agreed. "It might be nice to spend all of eternity with a job at least, a cal... | 2017-06-22T06:21:45 | 2017-06-22T06:00:59 | 4,092 | 17 |
[WP] A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they're all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc. | "Alright, get in the car."
"Where are we going?"
"One last thing, kid."
"Oh, it's alright. You guys have done so much for me already. I don't want to impose..."
"Look, I get it. You're happy. You're looking good, taking what you want, *who* you want, and you're doing it at your own pace. Life's good, and you're rea... | "Here try this suit, big guy. It would look great on you," said Pride one of my 8 demons. Yes, I live in a house with 8 demons... who are trying to help my depressed ass conquer the world. Ha! Ha! Ha!
It really is a riot, I'm sure. I've somehow drifted into an anime weird as hell but uplifting at the same time. It's ... | 2017-06-27T04:48:07 | 2017-06-27T04:00:46 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | They tell a story of a boy who fell from the stars and was raised by his human foster parents. The boy then grew into a man, who saved millions with his powers granted to him by the sun over and over again. Humanity’s ultimate defender was an alien.
That’s the only part which is true.
At death’s door, and as the la... | "They're always told that they have five senses. I never fully understood why society undermines the mind, which surely is the sixth sense.
Their entire being is projected through the mind. All other five senses merge into what the mind interprets them as.
If they are to acknowledge the mind, then they would hold... | 2017-12-21T00:51:48 | 2017-12-20T23:47:17 | 88 | 48 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | *Knock Knock*
I tilt my head sideways. *Did I just hear a knock?*
Silence floods the room as I drop what I am doing and listen intently for any sign of life around me. Nothing..
"I'm finally going crazy." I sarcastically say aloud, ironically to myself.
*Knock Knock*
I jolt up. I rush to the door and swing ... | It didn't occur to me what it was at first. Maybe the generators vibrating or rocks falling onto the roof. The second time I realized; there was someone at the door.
Dropping my lukewarm coffee on the floor, my head snapped towards the large steel door 10 meters to my left. Silence.
Three knocks this time, louder, mo... | 2018-03-05T06:19:23 | 2018-03-05T05:46:03 | 211 | 13 |
[WP] You commit a crime. Time passes and it seems like you have gotten away with it. One day you are called to jury duty and when you the trail starts, you realise that the trail is for the crime that you committed. | She was the only one saying no. That bitch.
Hannah Smith. What a stupid name. We all had voted, we all had agreed that he was guilty, except her. Hannah freaking Smith. People were rolling their eyes at her and I know I was not the only one calling her a bitch inside of my head. John Something kept telling her he nee... | When I opened the envelope, to my surprise, it was a Jury Summons. I took a second and closed my eyes. I knew this day was unavoidable – I just didn’t think I would have to deal with it this soon. I regret having the burden to serve my community. However, I live in a community where I do not get the pleasure of having ... | 2018-09-11T19:33:03 | 2018-09-11T18:12:30 | 126 | 68 |
[WP] Instead of becoming emotional or violent, you become extremely diplomatic when drunk. You've just woken up with a hangover and two feuding families thanking you for everything you did the previous night. | It takes me a couple seconds to understand the pounding I'm hearing isn't only the hangover, and that whoever is going at my door intends to keep at it until I either wake up, or they break it.The waves of nausea are immediate, vicious, as I stumble to my feet, sight still blurry. I haven't gotten myself in such a stat... | I didn't remember anything last night, but apparently it had to do over who gets the last slice of pizza. Something happened, and two groups of my adopted family (who I am not sure were even invited) started arguing over who gets the last slice of pizza, and it almost turned to blood. It's the last I remembered before ... | 2018-09-14T20:09:28 | 2018-09-14T17:21:49 | 667 | 256 |
[WP] You are a traveler who reaches a city where powerful magicians exist. The stronger a wizard, the less other wizards can sense him casting spells. You start showing off some card tricks to the locals for some coins and realize that some people in the audience look terrified. | An excerpt from *on the efficiency of magic* by Beverly Brine
Much as a candle burnt for light still produces heat, so too does the use of magic radiate excess energy. This has always been a concern of mine.
Despite our liberal use of magic, we still know very little about it. We do not know where this energy comes ... | "Sir, you seem to have my missing card in your pocket there" I announced with a squint. The onlookers now peered at a man in the middle of the crowd they had not noticed before."I assure you I-" The old man stopped as his hand came to the pocket beside his lapel. His gloved hand pulled the black jester from it and he s... | 2019-01-07T11:23:44 | 2019-01-07T11:06:26 | 21 | 13 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | I logged onto the website, after 3 failed attempts at my password.
It took me the better part of an hour scrolling through the pages and pages of statistics, most pretty decent, some exceptional (top 100,000 at minesweeper felt pretty good).
Finally I noticed the little menu bar at the top and found the "Outliers" se... | I arrived in town around 8 as usual. Ideally my father would come to town to pick up supplies so I wouldn’t have to, but he insists I learn how to interact with folks who aren’t farmers. So far, all I’ve learned is that I hate them. All their focus on money and possessions seems absurd to me. I’m a simple man. Animals ... | 2019-05-04T10:43:43 | 2019-05-04T09:56:06 | 1,560 | 226 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | Henry stared blankly at the blinking console. What did the words mean? "67th Percentile in INTELLIGENCE" flashed on the screen then danced away as "51st Percentile in STRENGTH" followed.
"Looks like you're here to be ranked."
Henry turned to see a woman with blonde hair smile at him. She stretched her smile wid... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T13:10:44 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 68 | 16 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | “Wait. That’s the curse?”
“Yes. I understand you want this gone as quickly as possible. I am so sorry this happened. I’m going to need-“
“I- can you please repeat what exactly this does? I think I’m hearing this wrong.”
The witch before blinked in surprise at my response and cough and quickly averted her eyes. After... | Of course, it was not very pleasant. I just failed my payment. But then, it was not easy with the king getting his taxes, with my wife and children needing food. Yes, we had money, usually.
Not that winter. Who could have thought that it is war again? Who could have thought that we had to flee? We returned a few month... | 2019-06-25T15:16:52 | 2019-06-25T12:08:02 | 61 | 19 |
[WP] A friend takes you out to dinner at an underground restaurant. While looking over the menu, you see your name under "Catch of the Day" | "This menu's outdated, mam," said the waiter, swiftly handing Lara another. "Please refer to this one instead. I'll be back shortly for your drink order."
Lara saw the waiter's eyes flash to her friend Jasmine, sitting across the small, poorly-lit table. Jasmine calmed her features quickly enough, but not before Lara ... | I was elated when Ella asked me to dinner. I'm not quite suave, and if it was on me to ask I probably would have fumbled over my words and asked her to be my dinner. I could manage to squeak out a more or less coherent acceptance, though. "Great, Alan," she said with a smile and a sly wink. "There's a nice Surf and Tur... | 2019-07-25T11:22:33 | 2019-07-25T11:04:45 | 99 | 10 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | "My Son, I have officially run out of ideas..."
*Couldn't you give them another chance, Father?*
"No, they are too far gone. They have walked the path of sin for centuries. I have tried to correct them with even the most extreme of measures. Yet even two global wars with the most despicable atrocities were not enough... | We'd made a deal. That day when the lightning had come without the thunder, when fires had sprouted like flowers in the spring rains.
Our house of cards in an autumn gale; our walls of glass in a hailstorm. I'd been there when he'd made his decision, and I'd been there when he changed his mind.
"We're your masterpie... | 2020-03-20T06:55:43 | 2020-03-20T06:52:53 | 1,368 | 68 |
[WP] You’re in a coffee shop, sipping at a medium latte. You think to yourself, “What if I’m the only one that can read minds?”. Suddenly, someone right looks at you, with the widest eyes. | *"What if I'm the only one that can read minds,"* I thought whimsically, eyes taking in the room through the steam wafting off my double-shot pumpkin-soy latte with a sprinkle of cinnamon and two sugars, thanks.
A girl with short hair, a long skirt, narrow features and wide eyes stared back at me.
*"Oh, god, she's s... | The look of surprise on his face was absolutely priceless. I looked down at my phone, latte in my right hand, and licked the foam from my lips slowly. I pretended not to notice the panic in his eyes as he continued to stare at me, before regaining his composure and pulled his phone out of his pocket, busying himself on... | 2020-05-02T19:10:54 | 2020-05-02T18:35:49 | 128 | 76 |
[WP] In a world of Supers, every ounce of power is important. Everyone ridicules you for only being able to do anything 75% of the way. They don't know you really meant *anything*. | A hero is more than just a Super.
They're the epitome of doing what it takes to bring out the best in others.
I always wanted to be that kind of hero. A charismatic leader on the forefront of a brighter future, a greater tomorrow.
But, fate can be a fickle mistress.
I was a late bloomer. My powers didn't come in... | I was taunted all my life for it, "only 75%, might as well be a dud loser-girl" but boy oh boy were they wrong. they didnt understand what anything meant.
Theres the people who use their powers for good, and those who use them for evil. and the neutrals, us shades of grey not noticed by the papers.
one evil group, th... | 2020-05-22T01:22:47 | 2020-05-22T00:28:51 | 153 | 61 |
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