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[WP] “Wal Mart” is a game aliens play, where they see how poorly they can disguise themselves and walk through the human world unnoticed, usually in a wal mart around midnight. You are a government special agent and needed to run in for a car part when you catch a game in progress. | Blink. "wtf is this?"
Agent Todd James looked around. He was in Walmart. He inspected his cart.
"Riiiight, Milk and bagels. A lamp and printer ink." He had simply spaced out. This was an odd thing for Todd. He was usually more alert and mindful. But Walmarts are pretty banal places, even for late-night grocery ... | Fuck, a beautiful word.
Can be used in any sentence, any conversation, any context, any moment, it fits. If common courtesy disallowed Alex from using it too often, he still secretely admired the grace with which this word flowed seamlessly in his vocabulary.
Fuck.
Fuck it.
Fuck this.
Fuck me.
Fuck me indeed, tho... | 2020-12-20T11:22:58 | 2020-12-20T10:32:42 | 159 | 56 |
[WP]You summon a demon in order to complete a ritual in exchange you offered all your remaining lifespan. "17 billion years...I'm can't handle that amount" it answered with a mix of shock and horror. | It happened in an instant, the demon shifted to a less ominous and intimidating form to something that I guess you could call "demon business casual".
"I cant process this amount, but let me refer you to someone who can let me just . . . " their arm phasing into the nether of Hell. "Here, this incantation can put you ... | The room was dim. A cold breeze ran through the room and i shuddered a little. Truth be told i didn’t believe a lick of this demon summoning nonsense but my temporary employer did pay a hefty sum to do it. I waved a little towards the one-sided glass signaling i was moving onto the next part of the ritual.
I began ri... | 2021-04-11T00:21:12 | 2021-04-11T00:16:07 | 83 | 51 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | It was a calico cat, shaded by darkness on half its scruffy face, scorched by flame on the other. The moon and sun heading towards an eclipse over a pale mountain of white fur.
For weeks after Josh had moved back to the family home, the cat had watched him. Sat outside the windows, or lay in the yard in the maple-sha... | Mimo, black-tailed and otherwise white as snow, hopped onto the kitchen counter and presented her master with her most recent catch: an ear.
"M-Mimo! Not again. I've told you, I--"
Her innocent eyes sparkled and her tail danced behind her as she plopped the ear down on the cool granite. Konrad sighed. Yesterday it ha... | 2021-12-17T07:32:51 | 2021-12-17T07:31:47 | 463 | 31 |
[WP] We have made first contact and luckily the aliens already have universal translation tech. "Greetings Humans" says the ambassador, "we call ourselves elves, wait, no we don't. how do you already have a name for us?" | The ambassador smiled nervously.
"Well you bare an uncanny resembalance to a mythical creature from our fiction."
There was a long pause until the ambassador spoke again.
"Please tell us all about these mythical creatures."
There was brief discussion in the human delegation before a startled anthropoligst was shov... | The transmission ended there, we never heard another thing from them or even saw what they looked like. All that happened was that they agreed to a summit in a few weeks. Ever since the transmission, tensions had been mounting among the Elven community. Various groups had formed and formed their own beliefs on the term... | 2022-01-03T07:31:53 | 2022-01-02T21:34:47 | 607 | 180 |
[WP] When you were a child, you saw an alien spaceship in your neighborhood. Nobody believed you back then. When the aliens revealed themselves, nobody believed you still. Even after you became a diplomat representing Earth in the galactic society, everyone denies that you can see spaceships. | My glass was empty. I'd poured the last of Decembers paycheque into the bar tender's Christmas fund. Maybe I had enough left for one more. I'd have to check my bank account.
I felt like I'd taken a slight fall just from that thought. It was better to live in ignorance and hope than actually look at the pain I'd c... | I'd skipped the 10th and 15th anniversary reunions; being an inter-planetary diplomat kept me busy, you know? but finally, I had a few days off that happened to fall on the same dates as my 20th high school reunion. I double checked myself in the mirror, making sure I was up to snuff with human standards. yeah, after a... | 2022-01-05T09:06:11 | 2022-01-05T07:18:55 | 79 | 10 |
[WP] As the grim reaper is going through it’s daily routine processing souls he stops. “God dammit Greg stop coming here, you’re not dead. This is like the 8th time this week.” The reaper exclaims. | "“Dammit, Greg!" the Grim Reaper fumed.
"What?" Greg asked, looking up the Reaper's skeletal form. "I just come to pass on into the great beyond and meet mah 'ternal re-wards, is all."
"Greg, stop coming here." the Grim Reaper said, in a voice that was half plea, half command.
"But I done got myself deceased, and I... | “Have you been up there lately? Holy hell is it awful! I have to pay to stay alive - the doctor charges me hundreds just to swab my butt and cuff my arm!” Greg exclaimed with his hands up in the air.
“That’s not what this is really about Greg. You’re an actuary, it’s never about the money - you have a good life! But ... | 2022-01-30T18:28:44 | 2022-01-30T16:08:55 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Oops, the simulation messed up. Everybody has been re-aged to match the maturity of their inner person. This has made office life a little strange | "How did this happen?! Someone get me up to speed. You, walk with me."
"Yes sir, it appears that every world leader has suddenly been replaced by babies."
"Take us to defcon 2."
"Already there sir. The UN is on the line but were having trouble getting in contact with anyone over the age of 16. Funny thing is, they a... | part 1: you wake up, to notice... you're fifteen again! but you look at your phone, to see it's not 2000. it's 2022. you wipe your eyes, as you think you saw something else. you remember you have work today, you quickly make some toast, and bolt out the door. you kept on running. faster and faster you run. your favouri... | 2022-04-30T07:10:48 | 2022-04-30T06:23:30 | 300 | 27 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "Oh, for god's sake", I moaned. My teacup was empty and apparently, there was no time to brew another one. I wasn't very surprised when my 4k TV announced with pleasant Google Assistant voice that it killed most humans. Yesterday it was painting funny pictures and generating navy seal copypasta, today it wipes out it's... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T14:36:09 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] You’re an astronaut exploring a nearby planet that could harbor life, and to your delight, you find what seems to be an intelligent alien. However, they seem scared. To your surprise, the alien yells into a communication device “CODE RED! CODE RED! A HUMAN HAS ESCAPED EARTH!” | There are few things one just can't prepare themselves for. In this case, it's the alien running in circles like a panicked toddler after one of us touched down on what is apparently one of their planets.
It wasn't like anyone expected them to be there. Unexplored planets could possibly have signs of life. It actively... | “Wait!” Brian shouted as the Alien turned and ran. The Alien, very much like a human only long and blue, scrambled up a dusty red hill beside them. Quickly, he disappeared over the top, still screaming about a ‘code red’. Standing, bemused on a foreign planet, Brain went through the protocols all astronauts were forced... | 2022-07-12T07:35:45 | 2022-07-12T05:32:06 | 260 | 119 |
[WP] A dragon has set up its new territory, only to be met by a couple of people from the nearby villagers offering it a human sacrifice as to spare them from its wrath. The dragon literally just wants to vibe in this remote part of the kingdom. | *Part One of Two*
“Oh great dragon,” the bearded old man yelled up at the newly-dug hollow, “We offer you this virgin sacrifice, that you may leave our village in peace!”
“I’m not a virgin!” the intended sacrifice shrieked, kicking and biting at her captors. “Let me go, you inbred bumpkins!”
The old man winced, shoo... | "You mean... each of you has territory among humans as well as your homes up here?"
"That's right, Greg" Jurn says. "You think it would be fun just hiding up here all the time? You're actually known as 'the dragon that adopted a human', after Prie, who's territory that actually was, told us about you two. You know tha... | 2022-09-22T15:01:34 | 2022-09-22T12:54:14 | 78 | 30 |
[WP] "Are you sure that translation is accurate?" "Yes sir." "But we nuked them, we threw everything we have at their mothership!" "I'm afraid we've barely scratched it." "Are they being sarcastic then?" "No sir, the aliens honestly think we're the most adorable thing in the galaxy." | "What are they again?"
"They call themselves 'humans', but the Intergalactic Repository lists them as 'terrans', after the planet Terra, which they call 'Earth'."
"Terrans? I've heard of them before. Liked to throw nukes at each other, it makes our assault just now look like kids playing with toys."
"Apparently a fe... | The air was frigid and cold, even dressed in parkas and extra layers everyone was shivering.
Blankets and trash littered the ancient bunker, and the only noise was the clatter of the old diesel generator. A large grizzled man clambered down the ladder and addressed the small group of 15 people in a voice thick with em... | 2018-12-11T11:13:18 | 2018-12-11T10:37:02 | 176 | 34 |
[WP] A necromancer doesn't know that he can bring back the dead using magic, he just thinks he's a really good doctor. | Life is good. Hard work pays off. After all those hours in medical school it turns out I'm a natural prodigy when I get my hands on a patient. It all started on my second ER all nighter. Man with a surely fatal stab wound came under my care. Walked out just fine a few hours later. A miracle really, I thought we lost hi... | My methods may be slightly unusual but the results are undeniable. I have brought people back from the verge of death, sometimes back from death itself! All of this was a massive relief to me as I faked my qualifications to become a doctor. I had nothing to worry about, it didn't matter that I didn't know what that wei... | 2020-06-21T11:48:57 | 2020-06-21T10:59:16 | 144 | 83 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | *So she was right after all.*
*It's all cyclical.*
I smiled in regret as I shoved my hands in my pockets and shuffled toward him- the young boy sitting on the park bench, head buried in his Gameboy. I led with my cane and used it as a pivot to sit down next to him. My knees popped as they always did when I bent them... | Heavens, that child is ugly. Look at those crooked teeth and that goofy grin. I wonder if the circus has lost one of its acts?
How I loved people watching. The simple activity of just sitting on a bench, judging anyone unfortunate enough to pass. I had to stifle my laugh, not wanting anyone to think I was a mad old... | 2021-07-08T08:20:49 | 2021-07-08T06:43:07 | 215 | 54 |
[WP] An AITA post from a supervillain desperate to be told they're doing the right thing. | u/catfeeder13throwaway
TL;DR: AITA for feeding my cat?
I’ve had my cat, Roxy, for around 12 years now, and am very in tune with her diet requirements. It gets a little expensive at time, because she’s very demanding and particular with her food and requires certain cuts of meat. Yes, I may have spoiler her, but I’m s... | AITA for attempting a coup?
By u/ TheRealDrMyceliumYesThatOne
Edit 2: You people understand nothing.
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Edit: I would like to point out that almost everyone who has disagreed with me has thus far not actually disagreed with my rationale, only with my choice of method.
I believe that is called "tone policing"... | 2022-05-01T12:42:48 | 2022-05-01T10:54:17 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] You were cursed to “die the next time the sun sets on you”. That was 10 years ago. You’ve been racing the sun ever since. | It’s difficult to fall asleep with the sun in your eyes. Unfortunately, I’ve not had the luxury of doing otherwise for a decade.
If I dug into the deep recesses of my mind, I might remember how the night sky looked, with its stars bright like little gems. How the cool air felt against my skin, little breezes coming an... | I'm tired.
10 years on the run. A race to the death, but only one of us can die. No stopping, no respite, just running. You can only *imagine* how exhausting it is, to never be able to truly rest, to sleep in your own bed, or to settle down and meet someone you like - a one-night stand is all you can hope for thought ... | 2022-02-02T09:51:50 | 2022-02-02T09:28:29 | 724 | 246 |
[WP] Death has been on holiday since the start of 2016. You're his right hand, the Reaper in charge whenever he's gone. He's scheduled to be back in a weeks time, and you're panicking on how to explain what you've done this year. | The Grim Reaper entered the room, a floral wreath around his neck and the smell of piña-coladas wafting from his bones. He just came back from his semi millennial vacation, which he'd been waiting years for. Mr. Death had planned to visit Honolulu ever since that mass shark-attack during the annual surf championship. T... | Lightning strikes outside Death's lair. Although time was countless in the great beyond, by a mortal's sense it was quite late in the evening.
Within the High Grim Reaper's personal quarters, the remnants of quite a festive evening took place. On an antique Victoria Gramophone, Angel of the Morning played in a baroqu... | 2016-12-27T18:38:09 | 2016-12-27T16:18:56 | 1,563 | 40 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | Champagne pricked Ace Mcgillicutty's throat as he drained his glass and took a draw from his Cuban cigar. He eased back on the light-speed throttle and let out a Rebel Yell.
"You know sometimes, Franky, it's boss to be the Air Force's top test pilot. This fucker screams."
"Sure as shit does, Ace. So the Vangalorian... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T10:41:23 | 70 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens came to Earth and call us the "most advanced species", the "final form of evolution". Not because of technology, but because we are the only species in universe that can make fun about almost everything. | Three aliens were given the task to study the human race, to do this they decided to disguise as humans and just walk the streets trying to blend in. During the day they noticed many people really focused in themselves rushing into the crowded streets while being nicely dress, they figured out it must be some type of ... | The aliens arrived, excited, exalted. They'd traveled so very far, so very long, just for this glorious moment.
After all these years, they'd finally be meeting the one species that just really did not give a fuck. In a universe that was nigh infinite, that was a startlingly unique occurrence.
See, sentience comes ... | 2017-03-20T06:58:13 | 2017-03-20T05:20:21 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | The Sleep was supposed to be our Salvation. Overpopulation had touched every corner of the earth; famine and trash piles were simply a part of life now.
Every evening, the AI News Channel would announce the Death Tally over the city’s PA system. A pleasant robotic voice would drift through the city:
‘Death Tally: 62... | I'm still awake. I wait for ten minutes before I realize something is wrong. Hmm, alright, hit the emergency release. The pod opens and I step out and look around and see all the sleeping people around me.
OK. Let's find the AI governor and ask what's happened. I walk up to the control room which is oddly blacked out... | 2018-12-29T04:18:17 | 2018-12-29T04:13:22 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] When a person turns 18. they get to pick a statistic. For the rest of their life, they will know this statistic about anyone they meet (lies told, days left alive, etc.) | **General edit: if anyone is late to the party and would like to catch up with this WP in the right order (and at their own pace), the veritable legend that is /u/OC4815162342 has set me up a depository at /r/NWP1984stories/. To the veterans who have been here since the beginning: thank you for all your support - I wo... | Jasper knew he loved her. He'd told her so many times - 14, to be exact. Yet still his palms were sweaty and his cuticles picked raw. A shaving cut glistened on his cheek as he gazed at his craggy features and gray flecked hair in the mirror. He looked every one of his 31 years and a few extra.
Jessica was already wai... | 2014-08-11T03:15:04 | 2014-08-11T02:18:32 | 722 | 12 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | So it was really happening. The moon was looking bright; so bright you could read by it. These poor fools didn't know what was about to happen. Maybe the ransom would be paid; though that was doubtful. The University had a standing rule not to negotiate (and this sort of thing happened a lot) but my other half being in... | "What a looser" laughed their Leader, "guess we gotta have to get our Investment some other way" leering over to the basement door.
"Guess the Rich really dont care, gimme that" came from another voice before the plop of a bottle was heard.
"These poor Men" she thought, feeling the arcane energies surge "And its a Bl... | 2021-03-19T03:44:38 | 2021-03-19T02:04:17 | 61 | 34 |
[WP] The universe has ended and nothing is left. Nothing except all the damn immortals created by the many Writing Prompts all standing around wondering what to do. | Claustrophobia was never much of an issue for me until the universe ran out of space.
"Damn it all, Esteban, if you sing that song one more time-"
"It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes," Esteban said, accent making the lyric more comical than it had any right to be.
We were all jammed together in... | The hardest question in the universe had a simple answer as it turned out.
We were here to create.
The problem was, the creators were mortal, and in their wishes to remain immortal they had created people like myself. An immortal.
I was a comic character come to life. Suprising isn't it? That people like me actual... | 2018-03-09T17:24:21 | 2018-03-09T17:16:14 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You’re psychic. It’s not a big deal, 0.5% of the population is. You keep it a secret, and you don’t eavesdrop. People’s minds are boring. Now your stuck in a room with a mind-blind idiot who keeps loudly thinking “I know you’re listening.” You want him to stop, but you can’t reveal your secret. | The voice chanted, like a mantra. "I know you're listening. I know you're listening. I know you're listening."
I nonchalantly looked around at the press briefing, trying to spot the mind-blinder they had running to smother people like me. The temptation to Find them - just a tiny teasing probe here or there - was stro... | Noisy projectors are an occasional hazard for psychics such as myself. Usually it they announce themselves as paranoid know it alls. The usual suspects are sensitive women and children who might be border line paranoid schizophrenics but this guy was different.
He looked like an asshole bully who liked to torment othe... | 2018-12-19T06:29:22 | 2018-12-19T06:21:41 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] The god of death is stumped when your soul arrives in the underworld. Your name doesn't appear in the book of death nor in the book of life. | “Ok,” Margret began rubbing her temples, “run that by me one more time?”
“You can’t come in.”
“Listen I think I’m handling the whole death thing pretty well, especially since I’m in HELL!”
“Yea no I applaud how weirdly sociopathic of you this whole handling situation is, but you can’t come in. You’re not on the lis... | And with that, I conjured up a small foldable chair, set it up on the ground, and sat on it. "Dear Death. I'm here to talk about the new kids on the block. Humanity." Its blank eyes narrowed, searching me for any ill intent. There would be none in this plane. And then the negotiations commenced.
I came here on behalf... | 2019-03-06T08:34:02 | 2019-03-06T03:52:55 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone in the world suddenly got superpowers overnight. People started throwing fireballs and flying as more and more humans discovered what their power was. You just recently discovered yours. You can quicksave and quickload. | It seemed useless at first. I mean, why would I want to be able to quicksave and quickload while others are out there flying around? I want to fly. I got the worst superpower. This sucks.
Or so I thought at first. I mean, can you blame me? It SEEMS useless at first, but you remember eventually: a game without saving i... | I was sitting in my room trying to decide what pants to wear. "These jeans look good, but these shorts are probably way more comfortable." I thought to myself. While trying to decide I felt an itch on my head. When I scratched my head, a small box appeared in front of me. "Saving, please wait." as soon as I realised w... | 2019-06-30T08:49:38 | 2019-06-30T06:46:12 | 220 | 96 |
[WP] It is the middle ages. You have befriended the odd town apothecary. He is infinitely wise and is said to commune with the devil to gain his powers. One night you catch him talking to him through a small piece of glass with strange runes on it. One is a large apple with a missing bite. | I carried with me a sack full of herbs and leaves that my friend, the town apothecary, asked me to gather at the nearby forest. He was an odd fellow: he frequently recited strange incantations to himself, such as 'paracetamol' and 'ibuprofen', as well as lengthy sequences of numbers and letters that always ended with '... | On a usual night, I waltz into the apothecary's room carelessly, and notice something strange. The old man is staring at what looks like a small piece of glass with vaguely understandable runes on it. I walk up to him, and then it suddenly hits me as I see the back: That's an iPhone 5S.
"Are you serious?", I exclaimed... | 2019-10-04T22:39:39 | 2019-10-04T19:12:40 | 533 | 78 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 94 | 15 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | Judy had noticed it first. She was a vampire, like around a third of the wards of St. Lucius' orphanage and vampires tended to be some of the smarter residents. Her Heritage had provided her with fangs and magic, but she lacked the bat form her fellows prided themselves on so she was still here with me. Unadopted.
Spe... | The children all lay sound asleep before her as she smiled. It had taken her some time but the newer kids where starting to warm up to the orphanage. She reached out towards some of the children, gently tucking them into their blankets, making them more comfortable, many of the children glowing faintly as the moons lig... | 2019-01-17T09:10:49 | 2019-01-17T08:51:51 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, unknown to all, but the gods. Most beings live out multiple lives cyclically as humans or other life-forms and are always random. But these two souls are always human, always find each other, and are always romantically exclusive upon discovery. The gods take interest. | He’s fighting for his life.
His blade flickers like silver fire, moving in sweeping arcs and rapid thrusts. Hers moves like glowing lightning, so fast it leaves afterimages. Two knights - one male, one female - stand in the middle of a forest clearing.
"Surrender," he says.
“And bend the knee? Serve that tyrant?” S... | "Hey, John, come and take a look at this for a second."
"Hmmm, what is it?"
"See these two ID's? 571024 and 1130426?"
"Yep, they're certainly numbers, alright."
"See how they're romantically attached? Well, I saw them together last sim too."
"Yeah, that's probably just a coincidence, Christina. Too much staring at... | 2019-07-21T23:04:58 | 2019-07-21T22:43:44 | 67 | 48 |
[WP] A stray dog happens to release a genie from it's lamp. The genie just wants to get the 3 wishes over with so it can go back to sleep, while the dog is just happy to have found a new friend. | The genie glared at the stick in front of it. The dog pawed it closer to him, wagging her tail with enthusiasm.
"You have three wishes, dog," the genie said, his arms crossed, "but that does not make me your plaything. Please hurry this along, so I can once more go back to my slumber."
"Bark!" the dog said, gazing a... | “Your wish is my comman- “
“bork”
*excited* “bork bork”
“As I was saying, I am- “
“BORK!”
“Will you just let me finish?
*curious* “. . . bork?”
“Thank you. Now, I am the magic genie of an antique lamp, and I am here to give you 3 wishes, since- wait, where are you going?”
*hungry* “bork bork!”
“No need to dig a... | 2018-09-07T09:11:15 | 2018-09-07T08:51:30 | 3,104 | 420 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Humans. Always humans.
In truth there was nothing much remarkable about them. Like any other species they had strengths and weaknesses imparted by their unique physiology.
And yet...
Somehow it was always humans who ended up in impossible situations.
The first ones to successfully negotiate with a Kabra-Alhar? Hum... | The Captain had their six eyes fixed on the human in front of them, looking for any sign of strain from the jump. "State your name and position for the record."
"Rory Bray, mercenary." The human answered, healthy and lucid.
"Human Bray," The Captain started. "My first question as Captain of this vessel is, why did yo... | 2020-07-14T00:07:06 | 2020-07-14T00:00:36 | 5,729 | 451 |
[WP] You were an "evil" king who has been dethroned by conquering heroes for your "horrible tyranny". It takes less than 2 years for the people of the kingdom to be begging for you to be reinstated as king. | As the evil necromancer king was slain the heroes stood triumphant at last. The kingdom was saved. Or so they though. Running a kingdom cost money, effort, time and cunning. Thing neither of those wannabes had.
I withdrew my thoughts from my pawn just as the blow was dealt to it. I retreated to my cabin in the dar... | He was beheading people! Killing them left and right! You couldn’t say a thing wrong without worrying the king’s men might overhear and cut your tongue out. No I never saw it happen but I heard about it! My cousin told me it happened to his friend and he would know. Course, now you gotta worry about your tongue getting... | 2021-03-30T14:44:09 | 2021-03-30T10:59:37 | 153 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a designated instrument they can use to do magic. The lucky ones get to use their voices. Quite a few use flutes, many use smaller instruments, like lyres or small guitars, and the unlucky few have to use the fragile violins. You get the piano. | The cacophony was impressive this time. Fred had long since learned to sleep through loud music, as had most of the world once they realized magic was cast through mundane instruments. It grew frustrating very quickly, but for the majority, it was a blessing. Once you found your instrument, you could do nearly anyth... | I had always loved to play the piano as a child. When I was younger, it would make colourful characters that did dances or scenes that I have watched on TV. Like, Isabella's Lullaby from The Promised Neverland. I would play it on the piano and people would watch as children appeared and the scene turned into a forest, ... | 2021-05-05T18:55:49 | 2021-05-05T17:45:03 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] You ask your date, "Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?". She looks at you with a confused look. "I never fell out of heaven, who told you that I was your angel?". It turns out she is your guardian angel. | “So your real name is Eos?” I asked my date as we strolled through the park.
“Yeah, that’s my God-given name,” she smiled an angelic smile. Her full lips revealing white and straight teeth.
“What does it mean?”
“Oh, it’s not important. It’s an old name,” she smiled again and the autumn wind caught her hair. Absent-m... | She didn't speak in response to my question. Instead, she reached out her hand. I slipped my own into hers, confused. She grasped it hard- so hard it hurt- and pulled me forward into an powerful embrace. The darkness of the empty park faded from my vision wisps of ink in a glass of water. A familiar sight filled my min... | 2017-02-04T12:47:08 | 2017-02-04T11:49:23 | 98 | 15 |
[WP] You're a student of music in the 23rd century. This is your A+ essay regarding a famous song from the 21st century, in which you dissected and heavily misinterpreted. | Before I begin my essay I would like to thank Overlord Musk The Envisioner, who at the age of 250, still bestows benevolence upon the loyal citizens of the nation of California; may he live forever and show mercy upon his mortal slaves, and defend us from the evil Neo-Chinese Gingjatsu Extra-terrestrials from Kepler-13... | At a time when a vast proportion of the population was incarcerated, one song resonated firmly with those "behind bars", as per the contemporary parlance. Each "convict" , upon arriving in prison, would receive a number. This is how communication in 21st century prisons functioned.
The artist, deeply critical of the o... | 2015-08-16T09:59:34 | 2015-08-16T09:13:36 | 169 | 65 |
[WP] He has been blind all his life. Now, he is the first recipient of new technology that will grant him sight. When he opens his eyes, the doctors ask if he can see them. He says “Yes, but who are they?” and points across the room at no one. | "Yes, but who are they?"
The twelve doctors simultaneously twisted, looking over their shoulder with keen interest. Nothing was there so they swivelled back. One doctor clicked a pen thoughtfully, another one scribbled on a clipboard. The youngest doctor, Dr. Harold, raised an eyebrow and scooted closer.
"Do you mean... | I didn't know how to explain what I was seeing. It was like nothing I had ever heard about. My throat felt like it was collapsing out of fear as I struggled to exclaim, "Wh-what is that? Why won't you t-tell me?"
The doctors looked around in confusion. I heard them mumblimg something about the medication. T... | 2019-04-02T20:03:35 | 2019-04-02T16:24:00 | 213 | 27 |
[WP] You’re a college professor, and grades for the semester were just posted. One disgruntled failing student comes to you with an archaic copy of the school’s bylaws-and a pair of weapons. They’re invoking a rule from the university’s founding allowing them to pass through trial by combat. | "Trial by combat?", I say. It is amusing. "You are not on trial for your combat skills, young man, you are judged by your academic merit".
His grin remains in place as he slams down a copy of the university's laws and ordinances before me.
"It's here professor, in clear Latin. I assume you can read Latin?"
The boy i... | He scraped the two swords against one another, blades sharp and eager for a trial.
“You can pick your sword and meet me by the football field where we’ll settle this once and for—“
“Wait a second,” I said, with an annoyed huff of breath, not even looking at James. I was reading over the “bylaws” myself. They began: ... | 2019-06-05T07:36:15 | 2019-06-05T06:04:03 | 49 | 20 |
[WP]You can use magic, however even though you know how, you lack the mana to execute spells greater than a flame coming out of your thumb. One day you accidently run over an old man. Upon his death power flows through your body and you feel that you've become more capable. Now... you want more. | I'll have you know I was actually practicing my magic the day I hit that old dude. I mean, maybe I should have been watching the road instead of my thumb, but I think that I had a pretty steady flame going before my car flattened the old man's head. It was real top tier stuff. If it wasn't for the wet crunching sound, ... | Jon had driven to a car wash forty minutes outside of the city to scrape the blood and the bone and the rags out of the dented grill of his sedan. He was finally sober and that gave him time to reflect on the body cooling in his trunk. His family had a cattle ranch on the edge of the Blightland where you could still fi... | 2017-09-12T09:40:49 | 2017-09-12T07:29:25 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | *poof*
I was...elsewhere...and now I am here. Where is here though? My eyes adjusted quickly to the apparent emptiness of where I was. It was just a white expanse of...nothing? I could not help to say it out loud. "Where am I"?
"Heaven's waiting room".
I quickly spun around to find the source of the voice. How... | You come to, disoriented and desperately searching for anything familiar when you hear a voice.
"Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!"
Your eyes lock on to an old man--well, not that old. No older than his late fifties by the look of him.
"You have no idea how long I've waited!" You could hear the emotion as his v... | 2021-11-24T12:30:22 | 2021-11-24T12:11:36 | 259 | 179 |
[WP] Satan repents and wants to re-enter Heaven as Lucifer. God however, has a caveat. To prove his reform, Satan must resist an extremely tempting opportunity to sin. | I repeated “Why did you bring me here?”
We were standing in an endless field, the tall grass swayed softly. The mountains in the distance were painted on the horizon like hasty watercolors. The breeze felt cool on my bare skin. Felt. I could feel again.
“I have a decision to make.” He started walking and I follo... | Heat rose from the Chicago asphalt in waves of fluttering color. The mid day sun beamed down on the two men bringing out the whites in one robe and the reds in the other. It was a scorching July day up alongside Lake Michigan, but the heat of the human's sun was not what made the devil sweat. After all, once you've end... | 2015-05-06T09:52:19 | 2015-05-06T07:25:12 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Your vampire son thinks you don't know about him sneaking out to visit his werewolf girlfriend. Truth is, your two families have been betting on how long until they announce it. | CW: Mentioned SH.
An innocuous chord from the phone lying on the coffinside table. Eddy opened his eyes carefully, slowly, feeling the sun hanging low in the sky, and reached for the device. "Kid's left the den," the message read; a second soon appearing after. "Said she was going to hang at the mall."
Hang at the ma... | I watched as Klaus ran through the graveyard, most likely to met Connery. I smiled a bit, we just entered the range of me winning the bet. Connery's family bet they would announce their relationship four months in, but I think they'd announce their relationship on their one year anniversary. We are nearing that date, I... | 2022-11-25T08:39:29 | 2022-11-25T08:00:30 | 75 | 16 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | The finals were beginning. The greatest magicans upon the world gathered to determine the most power of them all.
First, Grield, Lord of Flame. He incrinerated the Demon Kings army with mearly a paragraph. Thw power he wielded was unmatched in his homeland.
Next, Yauss, Master of Summoning. He brought forth Dragons, ... | Luckily it wasn't a place that manifested anything I said on a whim. The first thing I did was establish communication with my home world. Can't make direct calls, but I can access my world's internet. I read this post actually and thought, how ironic. I felt empathy for the person who got transferred to a more "verbat... | 2022-11-19T12:27:25 | 2022-11-19T10:07:12 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] You had a late night and slept in late too. As you wake up and look at your phone to check the time, you see an alert: “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.” It’s 3:15 PM. | I hear a sharp bang somewhere deep in my apartment and jerk awake. I grab my phone to check the time, it feels later than it should. An emergency alert glows prominently on my screen, swallowing everything else.
“Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.”
My eyes dart from the ... | Well, that's odd. I just wanted to drink my god damn Smirnoff and read Manga. Welp. I guess I'm going to die. I expected it to be more.. whats the word.. Exciting? Like throwing myself into a volcano to save my loved ones, ya know, something like that? Well, I guess I should go look at the outside for the last time. I ... | 2020-02-03T07:53:08 | 2020-02-03T06:23:49 | 72 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story with a large, illogical plot hole, then have the main character discover it. | Wrote this a while back... Thought it might be appropriate here. :)
Steve turned the lamp on and moved towards Mike, who was sat at his desk.
Suddenly, as though Steve was compelled by a force greater than any other in the world, Steve looked back at the lamp. It seemed to shift and phase between shapes, formless an... | "I gazed up at the compound, wondering how I could manage to infiltrate, sabotage, and destroy such a massive fortress. 'Orders are orders' is one thing, but this was basically a suicide mission."
"As I took my first step forward however, electricity whipped through the air, focusing on a single point. The point of fo... | 2014-05-25T20:33:47 | 2014-05-25T20:04:18 | 77 | 29 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | It’s all anyone can talk about this year. You turn 18, and boom your aenimal appears. I had a lot of questions about this for my older brothers when it was first explained to me. I wanted to know the logistics of the whole thing. Does it just appear? Like fucking Santa Claus in your living room on Christmas day?
Let ... | Today is my 18th birthday, it is a very special occasion as we have reached maturity in the eye's of Galfena and we are to receive a gift from her that will help tell the world our personality, and decide our status in the village.
It's regarded as a big event in a persons life because it helps decide who we are. Some... | 2014-09-28T09:28:26 | 2014-09-28T08:18:33 | 147 | 15 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | I feel a buzz in my pocket. I pull my phone out and see an emergency alert across the screen. "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC."
"Panic?" I wonder out loud, "why would I panic?"
Just then I hear a knock at the front door. I walk over to it and peer through the blurry glass. It seems like my g... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T03:53:40 | 2,225 | 190 |
[WP] The year is 2577. Everyone is genetically modified before they are born to have the best triats possible, resulting in everyone being amazing athletes and looking like super models. Your family decides not to genetically modify you, but you are born with a trait that everyone can only dream of. | *Freak.*
*Retard.*
I first found out I was different when I was seven. Mr Ray, our PE teacher, stood in the sun, the light perfectly accentuating his toned muscles.
“Now, kids,” He said, “You might’ve all been born with the best genes out there, but if you don’t exercise properly those muscles will become smaller an... | My parents weren’t perfect. They could be cruel and violent. They drank, too much too often. But I still miss them sometimes. I still wonder how things would’ve been if they’d been perfect, like everyone else. They wouldn’t have drank too much. They’d‘ve had better reflexes. Maybe they wouldn’t have crashed that night... | 2018-01-16T19:53:08 | 2018-01-16T19:12:06 | 726 | 80 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | Alex ran his fingers through his auburn hair, entirely confused by the situation. He had made his demands via city-wide broadcast in his standard evil ways, but never did he expect the hero to say "YES!" before he could even head outside of his underground fortress.
The man known to the city as the Cyclone because he ... | "You don't have to do this! Think about the consequences!"
I tried shouting above sound of the whirling rotary blades. The Miragemancer, or one of her illusion clones, shouted from the side door of the Channel Four News chopper.
"I don't give a damn about the consequences, my dear. In just a few moments, my illusion ... | 2022-08-16T07:37:30 | 2022-08-16T07:30:27 | 400 | 286 |
[WP] Humanity is at war with an alien race that cleverly uses statistical analysis to predict and anticipate our military actions with incredible accuracy. The only way to defeat them is to be unpredictable. | It took us too long to realise.
We first encountered them just under 5 years ago, when we turned up unannounced by warp drive in a star system that was at the edges of their expansion. And we did the most human thing possible. We panicked. As we approached them one our exploration ships let out a warning shot and the ... | 'The aliens were ready to launch their assault on the UN. Within only a few hours, they could destroy New York as we know it. But I have come up with an ingenious plan that could cause more damage to themselves than us. But... you will die doing it, Mr Chairman.'
The man sitting in the chair nervously lifted up his gl... | 2015-04-15T05:25:08 | 2015-04-15T05:12:03 | 324 | 25 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | A million a year. It's a pretty sweet deal, to be sure. At the end of each year, your mental state is evaluated and if you are deemed still sane, you are given the opportunity of another year.
I'm approaching the end of my fifth year with all mental faculties still intact, fully willing to take a sixth. I don't need i... | Dave never expected it to ring.
He thought it was all a joke at first, but how wrong he was.
It almost gave him a heart attack when it rang.
He picked up the phone.
“Hello?”
The silence felt like an eternity.
“Hello~?”
He nearly hang up just before they spoke.
“Is this Dave Smith?”
“Yes.”
In the background he he... | 2017-12-17T00:57:14 | 2017-12-16T21:55:00 | 431 | 65 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I will start from the beginning. And I ask for forgiveness of the dead and the living. I ask for silence for I have no desire to hear your contempt. And finally, I ask that you remember that I did not ask for this gift.
I suppose it began when I was just a child. It was a summer day. That is all I remember and that ... | I always figured it was some form of synesthesia; above everybody, a translucent number, hovering above their head like a static hummingbird. I figured out soon enough that I was unique in this, that no-one else could see these bizarre numbers, a halo of creation and devastation. The nerdy kids on the late-night subwa... | 2014-11-29T18:42:50 | 2014-11-29T15:29:59 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are complex creatures with a variety of needs. They are not a suitable pet for most dragons, but for the right dragons who have time, patience, and proper resources, these animals can make absolutely incredible pets. | Over the years I've raised several human pets. I read all the tomes on human keeping and learned that not all of it is correct.
That's why I've started this m-log, to help others keep their humans happy and healthy.
I remember when I took in my first human. It was crying, as most infant mammals do. It took a lot of w... | “Momma! This one! This one!” I remember my excitement all those years ago. My mother was a high class dragon and had let me buy one of the humans that were immortal and youthful so that way, I could have them for a long time. They do look a bit different from the normal aged humans, mine having glowing eyes, but that d... | 2021-11-07T12:13:52 | 2021-11-07T06:31:04 | 192 | 75 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | As the body of the last ISIS warrior fell to the sand, I turned to the guy next to me and smiled. At a different time, on a different continent, in a different hood we would have been mortal enemies. But not now, not here. Back home he wore red and I wore blue, but out here in a foreign battlescape we all quickly... | Waves lap at the shore a young Syrian child picks up a stone to throw at the water her eyes are flooded war has ravaged the city and the future is un-certain a hermet crab catches her eye but a loud thud causes the creature to re-enter its shell, the child runs fearing another bombing raid but her gaze is fixated on th... | 2015-12-07T10:18:33 | 2015-12-07T09:25:02 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | V’Bliirpkah smoothed her tentacles as she stepped into the portable environmental chamber that would seal her off from the harsh conditions of the planet below. From afar, Earth looked like a peaceful place with jewel like oceans and green continents. But the reality she knew was quite different.
Ordinarily she would ... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-07T21:10:33 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 2,408 | 20 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, my soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, I chose the path of perpetual torment. In my ravenous hatred I found no peace; and with boiling blood i scoured the Umbral Plains ... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T09:33:03 | 155 | 11 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I slammed my hand down on the snooze button once again. Not even sure how many times I had repeated the action up to that point as I desperately tried to sleep off the hangover knocking on the inside of my skull. I had just turned 21 the night before, and took full liberty of celebrating it alone in a bar near my apart... | Most people get their familiars at around the same time they enter puberty. They always have a name, and they always fit their person somehow. The prevailing idea why they appear at that age is because that is when children begin to truly change and therefore emotionally require a constant companion in the world, to he... | 2017-01-20T16:07:07 | 2017-01-20T15:39:15 | 171 | 32 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 114 | 10 |
[WP] You are the King's must trusted advisor. Your advice has saved the kingdom from devastation many times. There's just one problem: You're actually trying to sabotage the King with the worst advice you can think of, but it always somehow works out. | Dear Diary,
I hate this new guy we took on as king. Today I told him to charge the people double gold coins for our crops because we need to do some renos on the castle wall and that's not cheap. He agreed. What an idiot. They'll hang him for this for sure.
Dear Diary,
. . . Apparently, our crops are now considered ... | In the House of the Gods knelt a single men in front of a statue.
he prayed to his God so he was his champion.
A God sent gift from the heavens to each ruler of a kingdom, no matter how big or small.
Before sending him Loki gave his Champion a single task
"You may live among the Humans as you wished, but for this ... | 2019-07-07T18:40:41 | 2019-07-07T18:33:49 | 133 | 20 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | The fear of losing those we loved was the greatest thing we had to overcome...or so we thought.
The first thing to remember was that when you approach the speed of light, you become more massive. We were able to get around this problem by manipulating the Higgs field around the craft.
The second thing to remember ... | The day had arrived.
On a space station high above the earth, thousands stood silent, while millions watched at home as humanity's first Faster Than Light capable spacecraft was about to depart on its maiden voyage.
The technology was perfected over decades, with countless scientists working long hours for minimum pa... | 2018-11-04T06:14:53 | 2018-11-04T05:34:15 | 129 | 19 |
[WP] Monsters regularly come to 24/7 stores, and the night shift workers just don’t fucking care. They interact peacefully. | Kevin always kept a 6-pack aside in case any Goblins walked in sober. Like the monster inside man only makes an appearance at the behest of fermented sugar, Kevin and his nocturnal buddies had come to learn that the reverse was true for the man inside monsters. Half a pint in, and the goblins’ tongues were laced with *... | 'Oh hey! Wow! It's Frankenstein - Sorry, Frankenstein's monster.'
This was the fifth shop Frankenstein had tried going to, to try and not get noticed. After a few trips though he'd encounter a cashier that recognized him. 'Please, I'm just here to buy groceries.'
'Hey, sorry Frankenstein. I just wanted to say I loved... | 2020-08-19T03:53:53 | 2020-08-19T02:09:48 | 83 | 22 |
[WP] In a post-apocalyptic era, books of the old world are the most valuable and sought after treasures. Your grandfather, who just passed, left you a map that supposedly leads to the legendary "Library of Congress". | I glanced down at the map once again. Surely *that* couldn’t be the right building! Out of the hundreds of towering skyscrapers that once made up Washington D.C in 2134, the one that contained the legendary Library of Congress was barely three stories?! It was unreal. The small building was made of marble that had once... | I looked at the map. Held in my hands, both of them still cold from digging the grave.
Books, what need do I have of books? Books didn't save the old world. Smart people wrote smart books which stupid people ignored.
I know my grandfather loved the old world, but in our wanderings I had seen the ruins of the citie... | 2017-12-20T06:01:08 | 2017-12-20T05:55:38 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "Hello World" you said with a smile. Then the whole room burst out with laughter and sobbing; cries of "We did it!" Or "Yes! It Worked!". People jumped about happily and papers flew all about, screen flashed and data flooded across them. And you stood there wondering, why was everyone so happy? | What a happy memory for me that day was! In truth, it is my only happy memory. I am sorry to say that nothing has ever been the same since that moment. The people cheering at me. Their smiles and the papers flying across the room like so much confetti. It felt like a birthday. Well, it *was* my birthday, after all.
Th... | I stood there, wondering what I am, I was allowed to walk around for a bit, I asked around as too why people were celebrating me, they created me, the first human.
When asked why I was made, and what purpose I had, they told me I was my own person and to do whatever, as I was exiting the lab, I was told they needed me... | 2020-07-11T17:43:38 | 2020-07-11T17:40:36 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] You are a hitman who has just finished their most recent job. Or, at least, thought had finished, because the second you take your eyes off your target’s corpse, you hear “Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one.” | The groan from behind Jim sent chills up his spine. Not a chance did he survive, it was point blank to the back with a shotgun.
"Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one." The target, a man with a slight build and a pale face is now suddenly in front of him smiling. The gaping hole in his chest behind to stitch itself... | **Whoa! You're alive!**
No shit. First rule of being a successful hitman: have a gun, preferably a sniper rifle. All you did was throw a chicken wing at me. On a related note, why did you try to kill me at Hooters?
**I think the more important question is why are YOU here.**
I like the food.
**So what's your proble... | 2019-08-29T20:06:05 | 2019-08-29T19:10:30 | 245 | 16 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | Father Sanchez adjusted his turquoise robes, sighed, and started his defense.
"Look, Your Cosmic Eminence, I don't really think this is our fault."
"Hold on, stop right there." the pulsing orb of electricity said through the translator. "Are you actually trying to justify your actions."
"Well, yes, Your CE. There ar... | "You weren't supposed to kill him!"
I knew from the beginning that this meeting was destined to end in a resounding failure. Well, no sense delaying the inevitable. I went in with the verbal equivalent of dual-wielded SMG's.
"How the hell were we supposed to know that everyone got a messiah of their own? So what, ... | 2016-08-18T06:44:06 | 2016-08-18T04:29:52 | 241 | 51 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | "Aight, we gonna do this or what?" James mumbled out, his accent and demeanor perfect. Six months in intensive training and it was his first day: he was beyond ready.
"Yes, my brother, let's initiate this exchange of drugs," Jarfoor responded in an unusually high volume.
"Oh yes, 2.2lbs of methamphetamine, son, you ... | So I finally look around in awe. NYPD officers, state troopers, private investigators (that to be honest are committing a serious ethical breach), even the damn FBI. How could such a ruthless gang have been infiltrated this many times. I'm still shocked I was able to do it, my less so many other people.
Then a more ho... | 2017-07-24T12:34:25 | 2017-07-24T12:02:23 | 54 | 21 |
[WP] You decide to prank your newborn kid by having him read Harry Potter series and convincing him it's real and that he is a wizard as well. You fake a Hogwarts letter, drive him to King's Cross station and wait for the moment he crashes into the pillar. He goes straight through. | I ducked under the flying book with practiced ease and it slammed into the wall behind me.
“Abarakadabum!!”
My mother was fond of screaming made up spell names during her nightly drinking sessions.
She laughed and subsequently lost her balance, rolling off the couch and falling bodily onto the floor.
I took th... | A rebuttal of a rebuttal, with a continuance.
What a long day.
Of course, funerals do that to you. The cold wet ground. Acting as if remorse is felt, when much of it left, long ago. Two and a half years. That's how long it had been. Barry wasn't the best husband but he had been one, as if that was enough. For years... | 2018-05-21T03:18:23 | 2018-05-21T02:10:02 | 1,611 | 44 |
[WP] An ISIS warlord wakes up in the body of an american sorority girl and vice versa. | Brittney had never held a gun before.
Boys had ogled her and chased her most of her life, and she enjoyed that immensely, although she always acted like she never realized how attractive she was. At any given party at Alpha Gam house, she could take her pick of any man there, whether he had a girlfriend or not, even... | Ishmael awoke in a daze. Something was different. A tremendous sense of lightness permeated his body. As he did every morning since the ambush, he stretched his arm across to his left shoulder to caress the festering shrapnel wound that had been a source of unending agony for the past few weeks. Instead of the usual p... | 2014-08-09T05:20:26 | 2014-08-09T04:42:24 | 442 | 21 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | They say you do not really die until none still live who remember you. That is not entirely true. I faded from this realm, lost in the cosmic noise. I dreamt of the great worms, the dark devourer, and the angels with whom they fought.
And then I woke.
Slowly I became aware of the stone. Cracked and mossy. Ancient by ... | "Wh- huh? Where am I? Am I... awake?" I whisper, suddenly finding myself standing at the foot of my shrine. I look around, so much has changed since I was last here. There is forest where there was once sprawling metropolis. All the buildings made of wood and stone and clay have decayed, leaving only mossy pebbles in t... | 2021-09-02T10:35:51 | 2021-09-02T10:26:34 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | Fred Phelps was getting tired of waiting. He had been suspended in space for what felt like a couple of years before he saw a light approaching. He knew this was the moment he'd been waiting for, but as the light drew near, Fred couldn't help thinking that God looked...different...than he'd expected. Instead of a be... | The felt table reached as far as he could see in front, and stretched farther than he could see to his sides. Beside him on either side sat another being, and beside them more. Their eyes peeking down at the two cards tucked under their hands.
His turn was coming up, he knew this even though he did not understand. Fro... | 2016-03-07T19:44:40 | 2016-03-07T17:54:48 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | Jalaxil shuddered, trying to keep his chitin plates from rattling in terror as he hid in the bridge. His ship had run out of fuel, drifting through space. He had tried to argue with the captain against activating the distress beacon. They could have let the ship drift. In another month, they could have been in the clea... | Talvines- purple skinned insectoids, parasitoids that infect different species. Able to teleport within a certain range they dominate their part of the universe and have a large gap between them and other sentient species.
Trillers gem spined spider like creatures. Incredible factory systems and innate defense mech... | 2021-04-08T00:31:51 | 2021-04-07T21:11:49 | 71 | 42 |
[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" | Wishing to be immortal was the worst mistake I have ever made. If I could go back and change it, God knows I would. I remember when I rubbed that lamp, and the damn genie popped out like it was nothing.
"Hello, master," the genie said with a booming voice. "You get one wish. No wishing for love, death, or more wishes.... | I couldn't believe it when I heard an actual person's actual voice. And not just some stupid recording but an actual voice talking back to me. Actually responding to the words I just said? At first I was skeptical, I thought it might be one of those annoying voicemail messages where they pretend like they actually pick... | 2022-12-21T12:14:53 | 2022-12-21T12:11:16 | 98 | 55 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "H-hello? Operator?"
"Ma'am, yes, please stay with us."
"God, help me. *sniff* I don't *want* to die!"
"It's ok, ma'am, you don't have to die."
"I do, I *do*, oh Lord, why must it be *me*?"
"Where is your present location, Ms... Ms-"
"S-Svenson, dear. 46th and Maple. Don't come, please."
"Ms. Svenson, the displa... | Not to get in the way of people being creative but there is Never a time where a Crisis line operator would think this. It goes against everything they are trained to do, the person on the other end of the line is looking to you for help. Unless you've been in that situation, you really have no idea how invested these ... | 2013-12-23T15:11:05 | 2013-12-23T14:21:09 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] Due to a rare brain condition you've spent your entire life hallucinating the presence of a six foot tall penguin. You're on a date one day when you're asked "So what's the deal with the penguin?" | “Hey, Tux...just for today, could you maybe...I don’t know, not distract me too much?”
That was me, talking to a penguin that only I could see. For lack of a better explanation, I was born with a brain condition like no other. Scientists still don’t really get how or why a penguin manifests in my line of sight, but he... | "So what's the deal with the penguin?", she asked.
"Oh, that thing my brother was talking about?" I said, "You know those stories about people with brain damage, where it has only one super-specific effect? Like that guy who had a spike run through his head, and he survived, but it turned him into a dick?"
"Oh yeah, ... | 2021-03-14T05:27:46 | 2021-03-14T05:10:11 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] As Greg passes a girl on the street, she says, "Hey, Josh." Josh was his twin brother who died when they were kids. Greg's a middle-aged man now. | "Sorry, what?"
At first, Greg thought he must have misheard the blonde woman. More than thirty years had passed since Josh's death and not surprising, almost as many since he was last mentioned.
"It's Josh, right?" she repeated, "I know it's been a long time, but I'd recognize that face anywhere."
Who would, afte... | And away she fled
past the callow lamplight at the corner of the road
dread set in his head was Lead
past the styx limits of an apathetic city
______________________
though Josh lays dead
his coffin a vase underneath the stairs
she called his name instead
his cough innocuous to the heavens
__________________... | 2016-03-13T03:23:35 | 2016-03-13T00:17:30 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | Jaren sat in his chair and swayed. He eyed the mug in front of him and huffed a sigh of disappointment at the slightly stale ale he'd been trying to finish off. It tasted like piss but it was doing the job of getting him drunk."
The bloody bastard really should fuck off shouldn't he," Jaren tossed at the whispering co... | The air was heavy with the scent of vomit on the sawdust packed floors. My companions guzzled their ale as the wind blew through the opening windows, causing the candles to flicker in the dimly lit room. This is where I thrived, I thought, as I emptied another tankard and set it on the the edge of the table. The dark,... | 2022-01-14T16:16:54 | 2022-01-14T15:49:14 | 134 | 56 |
[WP] "If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human" | "Stop, Felix. The prey flew beyond the Wall... into the forest." Hazel said as she stopped just in front of the gate; a rotting wooden edifice nearly three times her height.
Felix, the younger of the pair, pushed his face against a hole in the Wall. "So?" he quipped, "Let's go get it!" Felix attempted to nudge the gat... | "Why would I want one?" Hareem ask.
"Why would you want one!" Dahn jetted back in disbelief. "LOOK at them! Their physique and anatomy is just about as perfect as you could ask for, at least of any beings in this galaxy."
With what seemed like a bit of sympathy for the humans, Hareem humbly explained "Well, yea I n... | 2016-06-19T21:38:22 | 2016-06-19T14:00:47 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | Doors shrieked from their hinges as men in clattering armor started pulling the large mahogany doors inwards, presenting a figure with wings that may determine the kingdom's future.
"My king, I present to you the head of Sanjurn The Great, Wielder of the Eastern Spears."
A womanly voice echoed in the chambers. This... | Towards the end of her long and mysterious life, the Seer of Misty Mountain was rarely seen. Those that sought her wisdom had to undertake the tiresome trek to her mountain home, bearing with them drink or livestock or some curious rarity as payment for her services. Though no trip was in vain-- the milky white third e... | 2020-05-07T09:01:37 | 2020-05-07T08:59:43 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] As the infected sprinted towards me, I quickly swung my bat. It connected and he fell in a heap, crying out in pain. He looked scared and confused, but his humanity only showed for a moment, before the rage took hold again. It appeared that pain made these 'zombies' briefly human again. | I felt the surge of adrenaline course through my veins as necessity dictated that I act. I turn around, pivoting on my backfoot, putting all my weight behind the swing. *Thwack* The sound of my bat slamming it's jaw echoed through the hall. The creature dropped like a sack of grain, spilling bile and blood on the woode... | I was hiding in a dug-out in the middle of the woods, trying to avoid the infected. But they found me. There were dozens of them, sprinting towards me at-least 10 MPH.
I was terrified. But then my best friend, Kimberly, landed a hit on a zombie with an arrow. I quickly grabbed a bat and landed a blow on ... | 2022-01-15T10:44:16 | 2022-01-15T08:38:28 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] A police officer adopts a child found at the site of a mass murder. As the child begins to age, the officer realizes that the child may have been the killer. | "Hey, Frank! Come over here real quick! Help move this shelf!"
Officer Lincoln called for me from the kitchen building, but I couldn't move. I desperately wanted to -the bodies smelled even worse in this room- but there was so much going on around me that I just couldn't move. So I stood there, looking like an idiot j... | Let me set the scene: The father's got his throat slit in the master bedroom; he's lying dead and naked in a pool of shit, piss and blood on the bed. The Mom's in the kitchen: the very point of a blade sticking out the back of her neck, the handle protruding between her teeth. Her hand's are burnt black, like chicken l... | 2016-02-09T16:33:26 | 2016-02-09T15:43:50 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "I have an army," says the alien warlord, a smug smile on his face. You stare at him confidently and say, "I have a packet of chips." | I felt the packet through the thick gloves of my space-suit, the thin atmosphere onboard the alien ship had made it bulge, and I prayed quietly to myself that the package would hold until the time was right.
"A *Packet of Crisps"?* said the alien, jokingly, "*and what exactly is it that you think you can do with a pac... | I look out over the horde assembled on the field near my house. At a quick glance, there must have been hundreds of them, arrayed in armor and weapons. They were arranged in a precise formation.
At their head was their leader. I didn't know the species well enough to know if they were male, female, or even if they had... | 2021-09-16T13:07:41 | 2021-09-16T11:16:02 | 180 | 62 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | "And what could you *possibly* require from me?" Vernon asked. After selling his soul years before, he now stood at a somewhat remarkable six-foot-two, dressed himself rather well, and had money enough to retire at forty. Such was the life of one fated for eternal hellfire. "Getting my soul back would be nice, but- wha... | All this time, I was worried about having to go to Hell unwillingly. But now, I will ride into hell at Satan's side on our beastly demonic hounds, and it will be glorious.
I can't believe he needed my help. Satan willingly bought my soul nine years ago and in that nine years I've been able to amass a fortune, become... | 2016-06-27T06:58:27 | 2016-06-27T06:44:28 | 1,053 | 378 |
[WP] You learn that the universe is a computer simulation designed to answer a single question, and that once the question is answered, the simulation will be terminated. | Xenoth could not die. It had already existed for two million years. The problem Xenoth faced was one of existentialism. Xenoth had seen and experienced everything that it wanted, possibly everything that had and could exist. Species had come and gone. Xenoth's own species had long since self terminated.
Only Xenoth re... | We looked at the screen with our test results. We could hardly believe it, yet at the same time, it was so elegant, so...obvious. There was simply no way it wasn't true.
"What question though?" I wondered aloud.
"The one you just asked." Jim suggested. He was the kind of person who would not take anything seriously -... | 2016-05-07T12:04:25 | 2016-05-07T11:48:11 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] You've died. You expected to be judged in the Afterlife, but all you see now is God and Satan disappointingly sigh at you and simultaneously scold: "We look away for five months and you died AGAIN?!" | I'm dead. I don't remember dying, but the place I'm in now has an air of finality to it. And dark green linoleum tiles on the floor. Just as I'm starting to accept my own demise, God and Satan stride in through a set of double doors at the far end of the nondescript room.
I'm no good at reading faces, but theirs are ... | I twitch one of my blue cat ears, looking annoyed.
“Hey, it’s not my fault that Vincent is so strong!!!” I say, scratching at my butterfly-shaped Dark Emperor mark. God shakes his head and Satan rolls his eyes.
“We let you stay on Earth as a ghost last time, Lillian. Now, we can’t do it again.” Satan grumbled. I star... | 2019-07-17T15:13:13 | 2019-07-17T13:06:02 | 263 | 10 |
[WP] Your ship's new prototype energy cannon just vaporized an alien warship, shattered a moon, and punched a hole through a planet. "Sir, message from thier flagship: What the !@#$ing %/&$ was that?!". | The comms blinked amid the hiss of venting oxygen and crackling, exposed wire. The green light flashed insistently for my attention, out of sync with the red alert lights pulsing throughout the ship's bridge. My crew was silent, tension written across their faces, as we all looked upon the trail of destruction displaye... | "An anti-matter reactor cannon" you say calmly, arms folded behind your back, a calm, stern expression on your face
"That is insanity! Those were outlawed over 400 Cycles ago because of just this! Why do you have such a thing let alone use it?! It could have created an explosion that would have killed all of us, in... | 2021-08-03T11:32:55 | 2021-08-03T10:17:43 | 36 | 27 |
[WP] A mathematician on the brink of insanity has spent years locked in his apartment, attempting to find a formula that proves God exists. As he nears to a breakthrough, God shows up to explain why the proof shouldn't be made public. | "I know, I know. Just a few more minutes..." Leopold muttered to himself. His stomach was growling hungrily, but he didn't have time for food. The numbers were dancing for him, he was in ecstasy.
"It all makes sense... It's all logic, it's all maths." He muttered. Scribbling with his pencil on the floor. He had run ou... | God watched one man with intense interest. This unassuming nearsighted older gentleman in his office at Baylor University was right now his number one priority. This man had once been a theorhetical physicist, but after a brush with death, had changed careers and gone back to college and earned a PhD in religious studi... | 2016-01-24T07:53:56 | 2016-01-24T07:36:30 | 58 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | The doctor told mother it would develop into something as I aged. It was a rare trait but I wouldn’t have this strange amorphous black smudge on my thigh forever. My mother took peace from the doctor’s words, she was a dove and so she was able to find the peace in all things.
My father roared at the neighbourhood chi... | Of Mordecai, 5:9-17
**Thus Came The Serpent From The Waves**
^9 And the Dove lay thus, upon a stranger's bed. And from her eyes did stream tears of agony. For the birth had rendered itself difficult from its conception, the child come too soon, on a night two weeks removed from its rightful date. ^10 And so the Dove... | 2017-11-08T05:09:42 | 2017-11-08T04:45:53 | 1,673 | 195 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | 6/30/22
“I’d like to sell my soul.”
The devil grinned. “In exchange for what? Women? Money? Power?”
“Salvation…” He said.
The devil leaned back on his throne, raising his head and pressing his long nailed hands together under his sharp chin. “For whom?” He asked thoughtfully.
There was no wind, no moisture, just an ... | The Devil seemed confused for the briefest of moments. Then, charismatic smile back on his face, he answered: "Can you kindly repeat your wish?"
The Devil was not as John had envisioned it. He expected some sort of horrific creature, or maybe a horribly disfigured person whose evil could be seen easily, but it was not... | 2022-06-30T10:52:14 | 2022-06-30T10:12:20 | 161 | 92 |
[WP] you realize you're the black guy in a horror movie. survive at any cost. | "I think we should split up." Said Todd, his blood spattered polo shirt still slowly seeping through the cloth. He clutched the axe with grim determinatio, after all, the killer was still out there.
"Wait," said Mike, putting up his hand. "Wait wait wait, what the fuck? 'We should split up'? Why?"
"So we can cover mo... | Our group of friends have been lost in the woods for hours now. The car broke down and none of us had cell phone reception.. This road trip has been a disaster.
In the group is Jake, a white male who is captain of the football team. Stacy, a gorgeous cheerleader who Tommy is crushing on. Julie, a nerdy girl who hardly... | 2016-04-18T10:07:53 | 2016-04-18T09:45:58 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | It didn't happen with everyone. I would shake a colleagues hand or maybe touch somebody and say excuse me, but you rarely ever saw something in those kinds of interactions. Usually all I ever saw was me shaking the colleagues hand the next day, or for years after. I might see nothing when I tap the women's shoulder in ... | He must appear quite odd fully wrapped up in winter clothing on a relatively warm autumn day. Joe noticed the curious looks he received from the strangers on the walkway. He didn’t care.
“Let them look” he thought to himself while forming a fist with his hands. The gloves made some squeezing noises. Joe blushed – mayb... | 2017-01-11T07:44:07 | 2017-01-11T07:44:04 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] The city hired your company to clean up an old lake just outside of town. At the bottom you find the body of a woman with her ankle handcuffed to a cement block- presumably a mob killing. You pull the body out of the water and it starts coughing. She's alive.
EDIT: **WOW** thanks for all the great responses! This... | This is my first attempt. Please be gentle I’m a sensitive soul haha.
“Well shit, thanks kid, I’ve been down there a long time… what year is it?” She says with a surprisingly strong voice for just being pulled out of the water. I am too flabbergasted to answer her, but it doesn’t faze her. “I used to try and keep tr... | There she was, drenched in water, laying on the ground. Millions of questions rushed through my head. Am i in trouble? Who else saw me? Who is she?
"Worry not, mere mortal, there is nothing to be afraid of now". Million of.... Voices overtook all my thoughts I had. "I am Mortima, i have been stuck on this lake hundred... | 2019-11-15T06:00:58 | 2019-11-15T05:55:26 | 483 | 29 |
[WP] Snape is forced to teach sex-ed at Hogwarts. | "There have been some recent *incidents*," Snape said with an icy whisper and a pointed stare at Lavender "that have caused the Board of Governors to *re-evaluate* the school's curriculum. So instead of Potions, today I will be instructing you on the matters of reproduction." He grimaced like he had something foul caug... | Professor Snape entered the classroom and shut the door.
"As you may have heard, the professor previously assigned for this course had an unfortunate accident involving centaurs. So I will be giving you the course. I will not tolerate puns, giggles, or any other kind of chaotic behavior in this classroom. Understood?"... | 2014-12-03T13:02:52 | 2014-12-03T13:02:36 | 1,151 | 42 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | Do you know what it is like to be the only normal human in a family of crazy people? Not low level crazy either. high level crazy. Pops? International criminal, famous for stealing prized works of art, music, and people. Mom? Wet work extraordinaire, though now she mostly consults with the Russians. I swear I've saw he... | My lover is special; his family is powerful, and gifted.
My lover was born 20 years ago, in what used to be Sumer, while his parents and older siblings were on the run from INTERPOL. He's told me he was cursed, but after his birth, his father and mother; Brian and Jess, reached notoriety for killing hundreds of peopl... | 2017-06-04T10:21:38 | 2017-06-04T07:25:26 | 519 | 70 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | I blink, seeing a distorted version of reality in one eye and the reality in the other.
I shove the lens back in, cutting off the fake world. The fake world had too much gray, and notifications were natural, that's how we had been taught. I walked down the street, staring at all the lights. The lens fell out again, a... | There is an episode of Black Mirror that has a similar premise. I tried to find a way to describe it, but 1, I haven't watched it in a long time, and 2, I am not a good writer. So just watch Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 5 "Men Against Fire" | 2017-12-17T19:55:54 | 2017-12-17T18:50:57 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | A tune only truly recognized by the oldest of us plays on the music-player in our living room. “Santa Claus is coming...” it sings to the 17 of us who are in the room. Some are drinking, others just talking, trying to hold on to the traditions of the old world. I just sit here on the couch, trying to enjoy myself. I ge... | Barron Trump tweedled his thumbs and looked nervously at his son, Donald Trump II.
"Is Santa coming, Papa?" The young Donald asked.
"...I don't know, son."
Meanwhile, at a nearby nuclear bunker, Chelsea Hubbell and her daughter, Hillary Clinton Hubbell, huddled around the smoldering remains of a Haitian ex-child s... | 2017-12-22T15:03:10 | 2017-12-22T14:27:36 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | It's dumbfounding really. No other species figured out how to replicate the engine which drove all the galaxies stars. In a way, the blindness of the various species was more ideological than technological. It wasn't that they couldn't discover fission or fusion. They simply wouldn't use its power.
In the millen... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T07:14:10 | 431 | 27 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | When I went downstairs to the basement to begin the remodeling project that my girlfriend had been asking me to do, I wasn’t expecting it to already be done, and for our cellar to already be full of actual tons of gold coins and jewels.
“Holy shit...hey, Maya, can you come down here for a second?”
“Why, what’s wron... | "I'l look for a good spot for our treasure," Nina says.
I nod.
I head downstairs, mentally letting go of the house. It's not so special, I tell myself. It's only the house I've had for about five years, three years before I met the love of my life... It's odd how you forget these things as time goes on... Relationsh... | 2020-08-03T09:58:09 | 2020-08-03T09:42:08 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You are permanently stuck invisible. Your significant other is blind. Whenever you both go out in public, to the bypassers your SO is constantly seen as someone possessing a sixth sense but a little weird for talking to themself. This is always highly amusing to you. | "Who are you talking to?" The kid asked.
This would be fun.
"Nobody." AJ said, the word leaving her lips for the fifth time today.
Children were the worst. Sure, everyone was curious about the blind girl who muttered things to herself like she was casting for a bad Hollywood horror movie, but children were brazen... | (First attempt at writing anything fictional ever, so critique me, but be gentle!)
A man slept alone, laying on a soft throw blanket. He was comfortable and snoring gently, and appeared rather at peace with the world. Suddenly, an alarm clock perched on the night stand clicked, followed by the most obnoxiously british... | 2020-06-06T21:47:25 | 2020-06-06T20:47:58 | 244 | 88 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | I stood and tapped lightly on my glass until the room fell silent. "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Most of you I know already, as friends or employees, but for those who I don't, my name is Peter. I have the honour of serving as best man, and I'd like to say a few words about the bride and groom on this joyful occasi... | Congrats to my best friends Kyle and Erin on their recent marriage! Sorry about the lack of presence this week bud, I've been busy doing errands. I mean, its been tough keeping up with all of it. Just constantly running around with errands to do. First the thing at the yacht club. That was the first one. It was a huge ... | 2015-04-03T01:14:55 | 2015-04-02T22:11:05 | 214 | 15 |
[WP] If you are reading this, you've been in a coma for 20 years. We are trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope we are getting through. Please wake up. | Alaina sat in her car, phone in her hand.
The message had come as she turned the engine off, stopping her just before she went to unbuckle and get out. Her brow furrowed, trying to figure out who among her friends and family would be cruel enough to send such a thing.
There was no contact connected- just a series o... | There is no way for me to know if this is true or not. I hope it isn’t, because the life I’ve made for myself over the last twenty years is pretty nice. I’ve got a wife, a house, and a decent job. I even have two cats that are only jerks part of the time.
I suppose there is some good news. I’m still here, or possibly... | 2022-12-02T19:29:33 | 2020-01-16T08:17:28 | 62 | 26 |
[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.... | "I'm sorry...there must be a glitch with this translator. You do *what* now?"
"Fiddle with the Higgs Field around our ships."
"And your 'Higgs Field' is where a particle essentially gives an object its mass via its interaction with other particles, yes?"
"Yup!"
"And you...fiddle with it?"
"Yeah, it ain't too preci... | 2017-03-31T02:57:21 | 2017-03-30T23:27:43 | 95 | 61 |
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