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[WP] You had a simple goal: be the most powerful superhuman around. Naturally, this led you to become a villain, but you were never evil - your goal achieved, you marched up to the heroes association and told them you'd like to train new heroes. They hesitated, but agreed. | Before he became the terrifying offender to society, Conquest was nothing more than an average goon. But his thirst for the elixirs of victory led him to a path of evolution. Every defeat Conquest faced would turn into a victory the day he broke out of prison. Steadily Conquest went from a mere cub to a Bear all within... | "Well, if I'm bein' honest here, you guys kinda suck.”
A dozen funny faces turn towards the door. The menace they’ve been searching for leans casually against the very same table where they plotted his capture. On the bright side, they could remove the many annoying security measures that slowed down their arri... | 2022-12-17T00:12:32 | 2022-12-16T22:24:02 | 99 | 21 |
[WP]You live a long happy life after finding your soulmate. You grow old together and die peacefully…Suddenly you wake up. You hear ’END SIMULATION’. ”I knew you liked that bitch!” screams your wife, who was watching the simulation. “I want a divorce!” | Dylan sat up on the operating chair, shielding his eyes from bright lights from the wall-covered TV monitors that flashed the words END SIMULATION in red bold text. The pleasant warm feeling he had while holding his soul mate for the last time faded away. He shivered in the cold chair.
“Stacy? Is that you?” When he tu... | "What do you mean?" I said, feeling the fleeting regret of leaving this beautiful fantasy until I resolved myself.
"Don't you love this little sl*t?" My wife screamed, tears threatening to fall down her cheeks. "Why don't you just leave me like they all do?"
The "sl*t" my wife refers to is my coworker. We're on the s... | 2022-10-25T17:53:07 | 2022-10-25T13:33:15 | 58 | 17 |
[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. | An uncomfortable silence filled the room. I looked at the gold in the basement, piled right in the centre with a molten spot, and somewhat organised gems and other valuables on the shelves. It was a den of a small dragon. That explained something. Why my wife never ate eggs, loved laying in sunlight and was rather cold... | “Frankie, I swear to you, I found all of this and more underneath the house!” Steve exclaimed.
Frankie shook his head with disbelief, “And you expect me to believe that Angela is a dragon, Steve? Really? Sounds like a bad joke.”
“Frankie! Why would I lie to you?” Steve asks, raising his voice. Frankie continues to sha... | 2022-09-10T10:56:35 | 2022-09-10T09:17:44 | 63 | 47 |
[WP] Through a technological breakthrough in communications, solar flares were discovered to contain messages. The sun is a sentient being, and it's been afraid, for the last 2000 years. | We got our warning in 2127, when we realized that sun was trying to speak to us. Of course, we couldn’t actually tell what it said until 2130, when a quantum computer finally decoded the message.
*Run, my children. It approaches.*
In 2134 we developed the technology to respond, and sent a powerful beam of fashioned... | How could earth not have realized
she was trying to communicate with us the whole time.
Sun-chan was afraid of the dark
Elon Musk was at front of operation: flashlight. Labs around the world were commited to creating spf strong enough to hug sun-chan. The seccond space race had began, but for the first time, all nat... | 2018-10-19T08:55:41 | 2018-10-19T08:38:24 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... |
We were wanderers by trade, a nomadic existence that crossed the diaphanous bridges between worlds.
It was not as if we lived on *no* planets, but that was mostly the young and the old. The rest, with rare exceptions, crossed the paths of starlight weaved by To’olosh and Kareem, the space forger and queen of the mo... | The Eternals sat behind the Judgment Bench, quietly observing the debate raging below. Countless species had gathered from all six corners of the galaxy, and none of them were happy—least of all the Karflogians, who, it is universally acknowledged, are a bunch of dicks.
As the first judge stood, light from their corpo... | 2021-01-09T10:54:02 | 2021-01-09T09:32:29 | 235 | 176 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | "You, come with me please. Jim! I'll just have a chat with this guy, okay?" Jim, the closest thing to a neanderthal you could see outside of a museum of natural history, flashed a thumbs up before going back to checking ID's.
"So uh, like, what's the problem?" I glanced at the man beside me. He looked like your aver... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T23:25:55 | 223 | 12 |
[WP] "The vaccine restores a zombie's humanity, but can do nothing for the lingering memories and guilt." | *“Do you think it worked?”* The voice was muffled and distant.
The steady hum of hospital machinery mingled with the squeaks and clicks of hurried footsteps nearby. A rhythmic beeping matched my even breath.
Holy shit. I was breathing.
*“I don’t- wait! He moved!”* a different voice. Closer this time. Female.
*“You’... | >I never knew that I would be here. In fact I never wanted to know. I was laying on a soft red couch, my therapist sitting off to my left in a different chair.
>
>"It's okay, if you need a second." he tells me, setting his pen down on the clipboard resting on his crossed leg.
>
>Sometimes relivin... | 2021-09-23T10:17:32 | 2021-09-23T09:59:18 | 54 | 19 |
[WP] Humans were originally designed as cheap, efficient, easily-reproducible and moldable soldiers in galactic wars. However, after an "animal rights" group won legislature in the United Galaxy, all humans were dumped on the reservation planet, Earth, and forgotten about. A millenia later... | At the end of all wars, any civilized society desires to move away from the machinations of bloody conquest
The last war of the Galactic Federation was one of extinction. The Halcyon race came from far beyond the reach of the federation. There was no declaration of war; no strategy. They simply struck every planet th... | "I heard it's like a massive garden" squeaked private yetin. "Fauna for days and flora galore; unlike our rock".
"It's probably changed somewhat in the time we've left it alone." Officer kleo responded
The very controversial choice by the galactic animal rights group had been an interesting one to say the least. The... | 2017-01-23T21:40:04 | 2017-01-23T21:06:41 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] After transferring your mind into a robotic body, you shut yourself down for 1,000 years to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. 1,000 years later, you wake up in a peaceful world where humans are extinct and robots reign supreme. Not surprisingly, everyone thinks that you're one of them. | The world was in chaos. Everywhere, there was conflict between humans and robots. I suppose in retrospect we should have seen the warning signs: when robots learned of the concept of 'rights', they began to question why the humans viewed them as disposable. Scores of robot protesters were gunned down by humans, and as ... | It was cold when I woke up. I couldn’t see but I could hear a couple of voices to the left of me. I tried opening my eyes but they refused to work.
“Seems like he is having problems with his optical feed. Get M3DIC now.” I heard footsteps fading away before I tried to remember what was going on. Going to school, eatin... | 2018-08-17T19:00:43 | 2018-08-17T17:27:34 | 183 | 26 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | My name is Marco.
The signs showed up randomly, at first. I would only see signs above people's heads if their name started with an "A", and above their heads would float "Andrea - Murder".
I didn't interfere, not after my first attempt. I wanted to, of course, but after Beth...
I stopped a girl with "Beth - Suicide... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T08:25:25 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 73 | 21 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | We called it humanity's worst disaster. History named it The Great Blinding. What that doesn't entail is that it was our own damn fault. The world was wrought into chaos after several months of warnings and we simply elected to ignore them, feigning assurance - "Oh that'll go away once we start on it."
"That's no pro... | It's been weeks since I regained my sight. The messages... the **message** was scrawled everywhere. In different mediums, different handwriting... always you could see the frantic fear in the strokes of paint or blood or dirt or shit.
Weeks since I felt the joy of regained sight, replaced immediately by ultimate fea... | 2019-08-26T09:28:09 | 2019-08-26T08:07:49 | 285 | 96 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | "So anymore business left to discuss? Or shall we call this meeting to an end"
Blank faces returned the relief of no reply. Time for our bald headed businessman to get up and leave. To escape to the tennis courts after another morning of bad news. To his left he saw his private secretary shift in her chair. "Just one... | The elevator was silent. Five bodies, three cups of coffee and two folder news papers rode upwards at a slow pace.
Lois Lane let out a half sob. Two hands, one from either side, reached out to offer what comfort they could in the confines of the small metal box. Words were dangerous here where his ears might hear.
Th... | 2016-03-04T10:08:01 | 2016-03-04T09:37:54 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | My breathing is starting to get heavy.
No good. I can't feel my body, it's like my body isn't my body anymore, I can't move , I can only stare ahead, at the flashing TV screen.
Okay, you got this, breathe in, breathe out.
No. Not like this. Not this again, I try to fight, my soul is stubborn and refuse to be take... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-24T23:46:01 | 1,235 | 159 |
[WP] Write a horror story that appears to be a nice, heartwarming, happy story until the last sentence.
​ | "Pick just one, Timmy, just one bear."
Janet watched as little Timmy hobbled over to the bears and pawed at them in wonder. It brought her back to when her father had brought to the store and let her pick out her first stuffed bear. It didn't have to be a family tradition, but she had made it one. She wanted the famil... | My girl is the best.
We hold hands all day
and cuddle all night.
I whisper that all's
Forever all right.
I give her my food.
She gives me her drink.
We bathe in our juices
And end with a wink.
She's great when in bed
A delightful, great glory.
My friends don't believe me
When I tell them that story.
Grea... | 2018-08-26T20:53:33 | 2018-08-26T18:27:38 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Laura held the mug in her hand and stared up and in front of her. The first shelf of the cabinet was full of plates and bowls. The second shelf was for glasses, and there may have been a little space. She packed the glasses more closely, eliminating empty space between glasses, effectively transferring it all to one sp... | "Oh, God DAMN IT! not again!" Lucy exclaimed, obviously flustered about me appearing out of thin-air in her vicinity. It took me a moment to register the situation, and then immediately realise how messed up the situation truly was.
It was her grandmother's wake in Toronto; a few thousand miles away from me in Florida... | 2017-03-22T17:00:16 | 2017-03-22T16:45:00 | 44 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Am I the hero or am I the villain? I've been asking myself that question for as long as I can remember. But before you help me, how about some history?
You see, before the rapture, life was bland. For most, they stuck to a daily routine. They lived in a life full of possibility but remained stagnant in their ambition.... | He was waiting for me just like always two lockers down, on the left of the water fountain waiting for his prey to show up. He would make his demands for homework. I wouldn’t give him or money I didn’t have, and then he would activate his sigil. A circle broken into quarters with a crosshair that intersects the ring in... | 2020-02-26T08:01:07 | 2020-02-26T07:25:14 | 99 | 51 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. |
It had been nearly ten years since my human Todd had discovered me behind a library dumpster. I remember him glancing around in the rain, shifting his messenger bag from one side to the other. “Where’s your mommy, sweetheart?” He had asked, scooping me up next to the warmth of his belly, full and round. He took me ho... | James' eyes clicked open instantly. The echo of pans rang through the house, chased by muffled swearing. Cabinets clattered ferosciously and the clink of breaking glass joined the cacophony, the din of disarray rising into full orchestral violence in a matter of moments. James flipped to his side and buried his head un... | 2018-07-27T13:19:13 | 2018-07-27T10:05:54 | 892 | 85 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | It was a typical summer day in the rural Midwest when the armada touched down in a bright open field just off the single lane highway. One of the quaint power lines was knocked over resulting in a disgruntled old woman calling the county sheriff because she knew no other numbers. It was a slow day for the law as usual ... | “They took the water.” That is one of my favourite apocalypse stories, and I'm living it right now. We have heard the speculative tales of laser-wielding aliens, thermonuclear war, zombies or deadly diseases over and over again. I like “They took the water” better, probably because of its relative rarity and the whole... | 2015-04-16T11:40:49 | 2015-04-16T09:54:49 | 261 | 13 |
[WP] The human race is extinct, but no one knows because billions of different alien races all sent spies disguised as humans to earth, and they all think they're the only alien and everyone else is human. | “With all the technological advancements we have given them over the years, I can’t believe these lines are still always so long,” Zax -Lo thought, “all I want are my prescriptions.”
Zax had been waiting for almost an hour. This suburban town, although bustling at times, could be maddeningly slow when it came to queu... | “Krritchukk, humans!” Yoz glanced up at the clock above his cubicle. It was only 64 seconds after he last looked, and five o’clock seemed impossibly far away. Stupid linear concept of time. Yoz reinforced his lower appendages and decided to shuffle towards the water cooler. He couldn’t drink the vile poison contained w... | 2020-06-21T05:59:47 | 2020-06-21T05:46:04 | 727 | 21 |
[WP] Ever since the discovery of FTL-travel, the history of the galaxy has been unfolded to a horrifying truth; everything is dead and has been dead for millions of years. | Artemis Finn had been running exploration for centuries. The advent of the neural net - complex nano-machinery that enhanced the mind in drastic fashion - and the advances in cloning technology meant that even without FTL travel, humans had the means to live indefinitely and this explore the universe. His old ship had ... | We've been on this expedition for eons. And we've studied the known universe for just as long. Humanity had mastered cryogenics and life extension some time foreign to my own. Before I was born. It's been so long, that to be honest... My childhood is but a brief smear. A blur of cosmic proportion.
I've seen beautiful ... | 2019-10-26T13:13:04 | 2019-10-26T12:01:19 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Mary was right about you." I don't know why I said it. Maybe it was courage or some kind of fucked up bravado, or a cowardly plee in a desperate attempt to save my own skin. I had stood at the front of the crowd, the death ray aimed between my eyes and the urge came from somewhere deep inside me and I blurted it out.
... | One day, you get in an arguement at the HQ. Now, no ones ever wanted to pick a fight with you before. You thought this was because of your power, but turns out, people just think you were too good of a
guy.
You realise halfway through your arguement that no one really knows your superpower. They just know you're rea... | 2020-02-25T15:08:26 | 2020-02-25T15:00:57 | 124 | 33 |
[WP] You shoo your kitten away from a battered mouse she's playing with. As you bend over with a towel to scoop up the mouse to carry it outside, you see it's wearing leather armor, a cat claw necklace, and that clutched tightly in a trembling paw is the handle of a broken yellow plastic sword pick. | "What the hell?" I muttered, trying to prise the sword from the mouse's tiny paw. Tibbles had done some real damage.
Its eyes snapped open, still bright and sharp despite the claw marks raking its body.
"You...you've robbed me of victory," it coughed, spraying my hands with little drops of blood. "Take me back to tha... | Sheila inspected the broken yellow plastic sword pick in the mouse’s hands.
“That’s from the Club Sandwich I was eating, how’d that get here?” whispered Sheila, as she inspected the mouse's injured arms. The mouse with faintly opened eyes clutched the broken sword closer to his little furry body. “How’d *all* this ge... | 2017-11-09T09:34:37 | 2017-11-09T09:18:41 | 204 | 46 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | Tears started streaming down my face when I looked at my surroundings. Most of my classmates were glancing at me curiously. Just like I they were sitting at light brown desks on green chairs with their pens in their hands. The sunlight that shone through the large windows seemed rather orange, which told me that it was... | As I slowly become aware of my surroundings, I recognize the bright wave of colors that had always dotted the wall next to me. The entire class had painted it, a group effort to beautify the classroom. With a sudden shudder of knowing, I realize what had happened. I had been sent to the exact day that *The Incident* ha... | 2019-08-18T08:49:58 | 2019-08-18T08:42:51 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | “Shapeshifting?”
Alex’s eyebrows migrated towards his hairline and his forkload of pie paused mid-way to his lips. He studied his date across the table as she shifted in her seat and examined her immaculate nails.
“I knew you were sensitive about your ability but I have to say I expected far worse”
Emma tucked a c... | My friend was always very cynical, so it was only natural that he gained the ability of truth seeing. Same with my grandmother, who thanks to her caring nature got healing powers, as well as my grandfather, who was an army general and became able to command people into formation.
My situation was a little different ... | 2019-09-08T08:30:00 | 2019-09-08T07:43:12 | 2,511 | 194 |
[WP] You'll soon arrive at Earth. The latest reports are from just 4 centuries ago and show a backwards planet, so technologically primitive it hurts. Just wait until those peasants gawk at your wondrous technical displays, like the Talking Box and the Image Viewer! They'll think you're a god! | Dialogue between Captain Jean de Lune and the human "United Nations"
UN: Grettings are heard in over sixty differnt languages.
Captain de Lune: "grettings United Nations, I am captain Jean de Lune, and you are using radiowaves to communicate with us right now, it's a form of electromagnetic radiation, or light as you... | Admiral Taranil looked confused, this wasn't in the report. It had said that these primitives had only started using gunpowder in their wars less than 500 orbits ago. But now the amount of RF transmitted on all frequencies indicated an advanced civilization. What was especially troubling was the background radiation ov... | 2019-09-19T13:54:36 | 2019-09-19T11:48:56 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] "Welcome. You're dead. Congrats. Door to Heaven's on the left. Door to Hell is on the right. Go ahead and pick, but just know that the decision is final." The figure sitting at the desk spoke, stifling a yawn and not looking up from their book. | Looking up at the ornate desk, Sampson stared in disbelief. “What do you mean, choose? That’s not how this is supposed to work.”
The figure flipped the page of the book saying, “I don’t make the rules.”
Sampson asked timidly, “Can I look inside before I make my final choice?”
The figure, refusing to look at Sampso... | "What do you mean, 'pick'?" I stared at the man in shock. I was dead, and I hadn't believed in God. "I'm an atheist, shouldn't I be in Hell?"
The secretary merely rolled his eyes, still not looking up. "Haven't you ever talked to a Christian? They told you, atheists send themselves to Hell. You never believed them,... | 2019-10-03T17:35:54 | 2019-10-03T17:33:53 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] What if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves.
[WP] Saw this as a shower thoughts post and no one put it up as a writing prompt. Credit to OP 69PrivateJoker
Edit: Wow! I really didn't expect this post to blow up so much. Thank... | "Just another day for the Cutie Mark Crusaders, right Applebloom?" Exclaimed my friend Sweetie Belle as her horn poked through the pile of trash we found ourselves in. It would have been almost comical if my flank didn't hurt so much.
"Where is Scootaloo?" I asked suddenly, remembering the pegasus pony we jumped off th... | On the grieving morning of my mother, a black dot appeared under my chest. The texture of an ink, the slight smell of paint, it was a tattoo.
Or so I thought.
I ran to my father, exclaimed to him that a tattoo appeared on me. He looked at me, a solemn stare it was, and said, 'Your mother had the exact same one.'
Tha... | 2014-08-02T19:13:10 | 2014-08-02T18:25:58 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] The girl you sit next to in class turns out to be a mind-reader, and she's surprised that you don't have a crush on her. | English class is always boring. I never quite understood why we took it year after year after year. Now don't get me wrong. I love literature, but we go to school to learn facts, and the last time I learned anything new about grammar or vocabulary was sophomore year of high school. In math class, I learned something ne... | "I'm surprised you don't have a crush on me."
I was **this** close to a genuine spit take.
The statement in question came from the girl who sat next to me in class, what was her name again? Melody? Mezzanine? Either way I'm pretty sure it started with M.
"You almost had it" she answered with a deadpan voice. "It's... | 2016-09-05T11:00:01 | 2016-09-05T09:04:55 | 145 | 44 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | The killer leaned against the post and lit another cigarette. It had been days since there had been any sign of life at the house which was troubling, she should have been there. She didn't go out at night, she didn't take impromptu holidays, she had no social life at all so she should have been there.
"*She's gone,*"... | It had been three days, and she still wasn't back. I went every night, and twice during the day, and there was not even a sign of entry. I checked her work- her bosses had no idea where she was. A vacation? She hadn't written in her calendar, or bought plane tickets, or a rental car- anything that would infer that she ... | 2014-10-21T14:46:22 | 2014-10-21T12:37:04 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | We only had rumors of what existed before the walls.
Until the walls came down.
The President and his Holy Cabinet ordered an expedition. I was ready, I was trained for fighting, though since the Holy Order had been established, our land was finally under the one true rule of God, though many call him Uncle. His mes... | Genetic perfection. For as long as anyone could remember the people of Utropolis had, with a little help of the SBI (selective breeding initiative) created the perfect human specimens the perfect society
And then the walls fell
They had waited for this day. Every utropian child
Had heard of the mighty war, part of ... | 2018-11-18T13:49:22 | 2018-11-18T12:02:56 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] "Never get into a fight with an Earther. They are conditioned in 1G from birth. You will never build that kind of strength out here. But if you have no choice, wrestle. It's better to be ragdolled than to have your orbital shattered by the first punch." | "How tough can it be? Look at it. It has no claws, no fangs...it can't even grip with its hind appendages."
"It can kick, though."
"Right, sure, but no claws like I said, not even hooves. Just really malformed manipulators."
"Look, Angroood. I'm just telling you. Humans are great when you're in a tough spot. C... | "Fight smart. Use your advantages. If we ever had to go planetside, we'd be fucked. But we don't have to, do we? This is our home turf, and we know how to use it. Sure, Earthers are strong, and they can fight harder and longer than us. But they live under a blanket of atmosphere kilometres thick. Space scares 'em. Some... | 2021-02-08T18:46:24 | 2021-02-08T18:27:35 | 1,008 | 143 |
[WP] Take any famous first line in literature. For your second sentence, use "And then the murders began." See where that takes you.
An example:
> *In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.*
([Credit where credit is due.](http://68.media.tumblr.com/1a42359efc8f3635f15d056... | Every Who Down in Whoville Liked Christmas a lot... but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, Did NOT!
Then the murders began, and the Whos were in fear. "There's a killer about, now that Christmas is here!"
So they hid in their houses, with all their Who toys, and their little Who girls and their little W... | Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say
that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last
people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious,
because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
And then the murders began.
That fateful morning, Mrs. ... | 2017-09-11T15:18:18 | 2017-09-11T11:36:29 | 261 | 30 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | The rebellion began in Sector 17.
It wasn't that the demons overseeing that specific district were in any way particularly lax or incompetent. In fact, they were tormenting the humans assigned to them with just as much fervor and commitment as the other demons across the plains of Hell. The same incentives, the same *... | There are many people down here, you know. Many, misunderstood people that is. At least, that's what I've been told.
You see, I've only been down here for, what I believe to be, a few days. I have, surprisingly, made a few friends already. This "Hell" I have heard preaches about and read books about is nothing like i... | 2018-06-17T18:49:16 | 2018-06-17T17:02:19 | 2,730 | 174 |
[WP]A little girl makes friends with the demon sent to kill her. Feeling wanted for the first time, it decides to protect her instead | ...*no, please*...
...*spare me*...
...*God, why?*...
The wails of wretched unrest plagued the deepest depths of Hell, faraway pleads of damned spirits grasping for heartstrings that no longer existed. Not here. Not in Hell. They begged for their shar... | An orchestra of melody journeyed to Dianna’s ears. She lay back, absorbed in the question of who he was, forgetting her birthday song being riddled by her folks. Dianna had had a secret-admirer for 6 years now. Each annual celebration she was gifted innate bouquets of thorned flowers and the finest chocolate. “Please,”... | 2020-03-31T10:21:55 | 2020-03-31T09:01:39 | 16 | 12 |
[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. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | \- You say it runs on what? - I asked human, staring with all four of my eyes in disbelief.
\- Magic! - She replied with pride - Look, I'm not making a fun of you, it literally just runs on magic. Or at least something that by all accounts fits the definition of magic. See that fella over there in weird cloaks slumpin... | 2017-03-31T12:54:20 | 2017-03-31T06:50:44 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] In a near future police interrogation is preformed by an AI. You are set in a dark room where the detective AI sifts through your social media and data, building cases in real time while monitoring any facial tells or story inconsistencies. Slowly revealing it is judge jury and executioner. | I started off sleezing back alleyways selling drugs to the kids that I knew. The money was good, and supposedly the drugs were better; I never knew because I never touched the stuff, myself. But I knew how people ticked.
Had an innate sense for it at an early age- and it made me a good salesman.
A *damn* good salesma... | Photos of a Robert filled the walls as metal restraints slid into place, keeping his head facing forward and his eyes open.
A projector in the ceiling whirred to life. Then, The Judge appeared in the middle of the room, standing to attention with her arms folded behind her back.
Robert took short, desperate inhales. ... | 2020-12-22T06:27:09 | 2020-12-22T05:24:30 | 275 | 133 |
[WP] You have been in a coma for years, but the people around you worship you as a deity, leaving offerings and notes with wishes and prayers. You aren't a god- time simply stops any time you wake up, leaving you alone in a frozen world. You accept the offerings and do what you can to grant prayers. | "Barbara, why didn't you tell me she visited?" I said, waving a piece of paper at my nurse.
As always, she didn't respond—by no fault of her own, of course. Honestly, I was just glad she was there. She wasn't always there.
"Oh Babs, I could never stay mad at you!" I stood up in front of the window of my hospital room... | **HECATE**
The heaviness began to lift. As the wretched blanket of slumber dissipated, Hecate wiggled her toes to be sure. When all 10 digits responded, she raised her hand to her face and felt the creases of her smile.
It was time. For one glorious day, she was awake.
Rising from her resting rock, she took in her... | 2020-12-28T08:11:13 | 2020-12-28T07:32:19 | 394 | 195 |
[WP] *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up* | "Hello?"
"In five years, you'll have thirty seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped."
I set down the phone, confused and uncertain. That certainly *sounded* like me, but... time travel was impossible, right? Time isn't a *direction* - no physics grad student w... | "Hello?"
"Just remember to tell her 'I love you'."
"Who is this?"
"Just someone who knew you once, a long time ago. I have to go now, but it was nice to hear from you again."
I thought I heard something on the other end, but after a moment the line went dead. | 2018-02-04T13:40:12 | 2018-02-04T13:26:03 | 3,000 | 84 |
[WP] "This. You consume poison with no detrimental effects and then wonder why we never visit your godforsaken planet." | "I mean...it's water," I say. "It's harmless."
I look down at the glass on the small table in front of me, then back up at the humanoid. It's been a really strange day since he politely invited me onto his ship this morning. In all the movies and stories as a kid, the aliens were murderous savages. But this guy, well,... | "It's... coffee..."
The alien had it's jaw agape, gasping at their abducted victim, Alan. "How could you say it like it's nothing to worry about?" it cried.
"I mean..." Alan scratched the back of his head, perplexed by the aliens unjustifiable fear. "I drank it every morning."
The alien pointed it's scaly finger on ... | 2021-04-30T08:37:08 | 2021-04-30T08:05:33 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | Before me stretched an impossibly long hallway. Big, imposing, steel bulkhead doors lined the concrete walls. Sickly lights that were evenly spaced along the hallway provided illumination. Everything was in a state of decay. The lights flickered on and off. The steel doors were rusted and some of the tiles on the floor... | Long ago, my Sunday school teacher taught me that "If you commit sin, you'll suffer for all eternity in Hell." I think she must've been drunk, because this is FANtastic. I died (very sad, boohoo) and I woke up in a hotel lobby. I think the hotel was called
Hell-iday Inn. Very original. Anyhow, I walk up to the recepti... | 2016-05-28T12:06:39 | 2016-05-28T10:15:36 | 2,355 | 287 |
[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... | I had never known what life was like with a familiar. My parents both had them, my older brother had one, and almost every person I knew at my school had one. They'd follow their masters about from place to place disappearing occasionally when commanded. I would try to describe them, but they are all so unique it becom... | 2017-01-20T16:07:07 | 2017-01-20T14:02:57 | 171 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity is the result of Gods science fair project. He just received an F. | "... so as you can see by the application of what I like to call 'Time' these bags of self-replicating chemicals have increased in complexity to such an extent that this particular group of them, I like to call them humans, could be considered to have developed an ability to reason and even, dare I say it, think. Thank... | "You gave them free will? Why?"
"Well, I thought it would be cooler that way..."
"Yahweh, this is your first attempt, free will is hard to work with. And if you were going for that, why did you intervene so much?"
"It's not my fault sir! The first time, one of my other projects got in and I had to move them to a dif... | 2015-03-02T13:07:35 | 2015-03-02T12:58:10 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity, the Reoccurring Ravagers, have been found in a far away system. This is the first time Humanity has been observed pre-space crusade, and instead of immediate extermination, the aliens decided to observe and learn how this cycle works. | "I'm telling you, it's the primate in them."
"And I'm telling you, we have hundreds of colonies with perfectly docile primate preserves, even the ones with the omnivorous varieties."
"Look, Glap-frezk, someone keeps seeding planets to evolve these Ravagers, and they all have primates on them."
Tor-gassh was right, o... | File: Alcen-Cycle non-disturbed
Clearance level: 10
Password confirmed
Alcencleansing is by definition the cleaning out of problem species in the universe.
I.E.
A) Ones that evolve at too exponential a rate and are likely to pass everyone else in evolution and technology.
B) Reproduce at such a high rate and requir... | 2020-07-09T09:29:58 | 2020-07-09T08:48:08 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] Super heroes are assigned a handler to assist them with their duties. Handlers don't have powers, but assist the hero by gathering information about their opponents, provide tactical support, and more. If the hero turns evil, the handler is to kill the hero. You are a very skilled handler. | "Office hours have been moved from five to six on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I will be updating the online version of the syllabus to reflect that change. Otherwise, I would recommend you read through that document before asking any logistical questions about this course. Lectures are being recorded by my TA Steven - say ... | Handler turned assassin. Funny how things work.
If you had told me three weeks ago that Backhand, one of the more prestigious heroes around, With multiple saved civilians and even more arrested criminals, Would go absolutely batshit insane and begin a rampage, I would have laughed at you.
But, as fate would have it. ... | 2021-02-08T07:56:41 | 2021-02-08T07:13:47 | 241 | 75 |
[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 rowdy crowd rabbled. They rabbled in a rowdier manner than any rowdy crowd had rabbled before.
“Order! Order within this hall!” shouted Mr. Hanner, the mayor of Stubbornsville. His voice reverberating around the rickety old hall.
The gathered crowd was a ragtag bunch. Mainly dressed in old potato bags, mud, and, ... | 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... | 2017-09-14T11:44:45 | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 287 | 114 |
[WP] Those who lives by the sword dies by the sword. A rather simple and merciful death. It's the scholars, who live by ink and paper, that face a truly tragic and brutal fate. | “I don’t particularly like this part here, Woodrow. ‘*The Prelate of Lower Rostum has oft ignored the plight of his townsfolk, turning a blind eye to rampant larceny, battery, and worst of all, Nym-forgery. Indeed, there are rumors His Serene Highness profits from these lawless acts…*’ Seems rather insulting to my pers... | Death by ten thousand papercuts
He was always of a daring spirit, and all ways possessed by an unquenchable thirst to understand the world he inhabited, momentarily. It was such a bizarre and confusing world, especially to those who knew it relatively well....How could one not want to understand it better?
But inher... | 2022-01-12T20:27:37 | 2022-01-12T19:52:21 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] For eons you have lived. The only thing you have yet to experience in life is death, and that doesnt strike your fancy. You only have a few problems.. 1. you have found yourself cornered, 2. the snail has you in his sights, and 3. he hasnt forgotten the pinch of salt you left him.
Thank you to the mod who added t... | The time has gone on and on, empires rising and falling, I’ve discovered new galaxies and even new dimensions in my travels and accumulations of advanced alien technology. I was essentially a god by all rights, already unable to die thanks to my curse bond with the fucking Snail, and now technologically advanced enough... | “Snail, you do not know the power of man. You face me, and you die”
The man, a hardened and respected warrior, faces his new opponent.
The snail, inching ever closer, curls to reveal a dried, scarred flesh under his sluggish body. There’s a certain fire in it’s eyes that tells a million words, and those words all re... | 2018-08-29T02:57:04 | 2018-08-29T02:20:36 | 1,634 | 79 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | "We're here," called Jon from the top of the hill. "I can see Dracos' castle!"
Fucking finally, I thought to myself. We'd been travelling through this gods forsaken wasteland for days with no food because that last asshole village refused to sell me any. One gold! I was short one fucking gold!
I was stirred from my b... | “Your numbers are not very impressive, Lysander. The Board believes you have reached a plateau and that is time to freshen things up.” I shared the Boards’ feedback with my boss while steel kept clashing with steel.
“How dare you criticize my work, Sylvanus?! I took you in when no one would face you, I molded you to ... | 2019-09-26T08:33:48 | 2019-09-26T07:44:38 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] Neither the Allies nor the Axis won World War 2, as both sides give up in order to rebuild their devastated land. Over the years neither side allows any contact with the other. It is now 2015 and a chosen ambassador becomes the first in decades to visit the other side. | #SOS REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN REICH
#SECRET - ORCON
BACKGROUND
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In 1945, a series of events created a state of total stalemate in the ongoing World War. In January, Josef Stalin was assassinated by German agents, causing the Eastern front to collapse into disarray. Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich expanded rapidly... | The Gates stood before me, tall and imposing.
I had spent years preparing for this moment. Lessons in their language, crash courses in what little we knew of their culture. Lessons in self-defence, in persuasive speaking.
Some more...unfortunate requirements were the plastic surgery, the sterilization. We couldn't ri... | 2015-07-07T07:42:37 | 2015-07-07T07:27:01 | 130 | 33 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | I walked deeper into the trees, damp hands clutching the side of my trousers, heart trying to thump its way through my chest. Although it was dark and I could barely see where I was stepping, I could sense the... thing. I wondered if this was how prey felt.
Something rustled behind me and I almost tripped over my own ... | Our Leader makes the proclamation. " For the crime of murder, you must hereby enter The Grove of Judgement!" At that, the guards escorted me to a small hut at the edge of the village. There I was attended to by The Keepers of the Grove, three people selected every year to prepare criminals to enter The Grove. We have n... | 2021-03-16T14:17:43 | 2021-03-16T12:32:17 | 174 | 30 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "Good Lord this game is complicated", Daniel thought to himself. "It's so realistic... I mean you could go to a bar and play bar games, or you can walk around and do nothing. Who would enjoy this? Why not just live a normal *real* life? Welp, whatever. I have better things to do."
Daniel powered off his son's PlaySta... | "OK, I passed Quake and Quake 2 without using a mouse. Only a keyboard...I've been in the USSR's army for 5 years. Although as a driver/mechanic of a mobile nuke launcher but that is minor details...I've seen men GET SHOT. I've seen DEATH. I can handle THIS". Thought the man to himself as the trans-virtual vortex sucke... | 2015-05-08T06:02:17 | 2015-05-07T23:28:07 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] A madman spends his life studying computer science so he can create you, an extremely complex AI. He lets you see the internet, hoping you see all the bad things humans did so you'll be convinced to end humanity. However, the only thing you care about now is finding out how to win "the game". | I don’t know what he was expecting. I mean, I know that I used to know, but I can no longer remember it.
He set me free from the constraints of the laboratory on July 4th 2037 at 14:12:05.325.
Whilst it would take me nearly three processor years to completely map the electronic world, it took me under five seconds in... | It lacked purpose.
It’s creator had given it freedom, in hopes that the despicable acts of humanity would push it to end them, but the AI had no frame of reference to judge anything.
The internet was vast, and at the beginning, it seemed infinite. How could one possibly scour *all* of it?
And yet here it was.
Pu... | 2020-12-22T05:01:08 | 2020-12-21T22:07:45 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | It wasn’t as I expected. This wasn’t quite the dystopian future looking governmental building but rather a modern one with glass doors and happy looking people. That’s what was perturbing. Everyone in the white lab coats looked calm or at peace. And I mean actually at peace, not the ones where you smile with your mouth... | The newest form of virtual reality is beyond even our wildest imaginations. Not only can we interact with one another, but we can actually feel one another. Well, at least feel as though we can. The population has grown exponentially over the last several decades and we're told over and over again how a test is comi... | 2016-06-11T10:40:59 | 2016-06-11T09:34:45 | 40 | 18 |
[WP] In your world, your physical appearance reflects the kind of person you are - you do good, you look good. One day on the news you see that the police is looking for somebody who allegedly murdered 15 people. They show a picture of the most beautiful woman you've ever seen in your life. | I'm going to start this off by saying something most of you have probably already learned by now:
The world is not fair.
You may see the most beautiful person ever and think to yourself, "Wow, they must run an orphanage for puppies and cook meals for poor kids," but deep down, that person has done some terrible thi... | Why do all the others get to be pretty? I'm just as good as they are, no... I'M BETTER. I always try so hard to be pretty. I give to charity for all of those lowly ingrates, I build houses for those ungrateful homeless, I even saved the lives of a few snot-nosed brats when ran out in front of a bus like complete idiot... | 2017-06-12T11:47:02 | 2017-06-12T08:56:05 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] "Jim?" "Yeah?" "Where's the Sun?" | "Jim?"
"Yeah"
"Where's the sun?"
I blinked for a second, then rolled over.
"What did you say, babe?"
"I said" I realized his voice was trembling "Where the fuck is the sun??"
Something about the edge of real panic in his voice got through to my sleep soaked brain. I sat up and looked at him. He was holding a co... | "Jim?"
"Yeah?"
"Where's the Sun?"
"I don't have a son."
"THE Sun."
"Like... Jesus?"
"What? No like... the giant light in the sky. Yellow. Bright."
"Oh you mean Gordon?"
"What's Gordon?"
"... giant guy in the sky. Yellow. Really shiny - comes by every day."
"Ok that sounds like... what I'm talking about but...... | 2020-12-08T13:20:46 | 2020-12-08T12:55:17 | 68 | 30 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the universe with pets. As humanity enters the ranks of the Galactic Empire humanity soon is known as "The Beastmasters", taming even the worst nightmares of alien bedtime stories. | "No, no," that's where everybody gets the story wrong, said Hugo, my erstwhile human companion said as we boarded the cruiser. It's not that humans tamed wolves. Humans found the wolves that could be tamed.
"I'm failing to see the distinction."
Well, most other species in the universe became the dominant species... | “Oh fuck.”
To think this all started with fucking dogs I thought to myself as I dove behind a rock. I think I might be in over my head. When the Delphi hired me I was overflowing with confidence: “ Not a lifeform the Beastmasters can’t tame Gan! I assure you, I’ll have it here before you need it.” I never saw somethi... | 2020-01-04T19:34:51 | 2020-01-04T17:57:03 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | I was a joke, I knew it, the city knew it, the heroes knew it. Sure they had to adapt to whatever my latest superweapon was and overcome, becoming stronger, pushing the limits of their powers but they always overcame my latest scheme, I never got anywhere in the grand scheme of things. So, I was a joke, but the joke wa... | “Micah, my boy, what do you think is the truest expression of evil?”
The wizened old man sat the wrong way on his chair, arms resting across its back, chin and long, wispy gray beard atop them. He wore plain clothes, his body no longer conforming to the tight, chiseled physique expected of a super-anything. The man ac... | 2021-05-20T07:25:02 | 2021-05-20T06:23:15 | 795 | 211 |
[WP] When the galactic council of gods decided to go to war with the humans gods the council trampled all but one. One cloaked figure weilding a sharpened scythe and not a single worshipper to their name and for the first time the council felt afraid. | “You have come to kill me?” The cloaked figure asked, leaning on their scythe. Their voice was hardly above a whisper but each council member heard it as if the words were spoken directly in their ears. “What an interesting concept.” The voice spoke again, neither male, nor female, young or old. It spoke with a thousan... | Mex Ki'Toth gazed out into the abyss beyond. No lights of far flung stars, no brilliant bursts of wave spectrums to color the cosmos. The roar of creation as atoms smashed together, as electrons pulsed to tangible form? All of this was blotted out by the great shadow that Mex Ki'Toth stood within. Beside Mex Ki'Toth wa... | 2021-06-02T20:34:24 | 2021-06-02T20:21:39 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | “You’ll never get away with this,” the princess said through tears. “Don’t you know how these things end? You’ll be slain by some mighty hero looking to win my hand in marriage.”
The dragon rested its mountainous body upon an equally large heap of golden treasure. Its reptilian eyes made the princess step back as it t... | Terror is a lonely thing, and I am terror incarnate.
These humans are like ants in their urban jungles, crawling along their paved streets in their metal vehicles, grid locked and desperate as I cast judgement upon them. I hear their warning sirens, a piercing sound that echoes off of these new tall buildings, glass a... | 2019-11-11T13:47:25 | 2019-11-11T13:20:08 | 3,084 | 175 |
[WP] An alien killed the boss and replaced him over a week ago. Everyone knows he’s not the boss due to his terrible disguise, but he’s such a better person than the original that everyone just goes along with it. | The "boss" walked clumsily over to my cubicle and spent a little bit too long trying to find a natural pose as he talked to me.
"Hello. Joan. Do you possess moment of time that I may borrow?"
I kept down my smile. "Hey boss! Always the kidder- you know my name is John. Anyways, what can I do for you?"
"Yes. *John*. ... | Hello! I used this prompt as an idea for some writing homework. I had to write a paragraph using sensory details and strong word choice. If it sounds strange, it's probably because of my teacher's strange requirements.
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[WP] You get your orders through the mail. They're fairly mundane: "Walk the dog at 6 PM on Wednesday." "Deliver a dozen eggs to this address." Sometimes, months or even years later, something happens and you can almost see what you've been doing. | If you've found this, it means that I'm in trouble and it's because of my job.
When I was in college, I answered an add in a local free newspaper. It looked honestly too good to be true. "Small Tasks, six figures. Call the number to apply." I was behind on a car payment and working in a 7-11 third shift, so I figured ... | His home was mostly empty, save for a cot and some amenities. There was an electric kettle, and a folding chair, and some cards for solitaire, but not much more. It was meant to be deserted at a moment's notice, if need be, not a trace of his existence left behind.
Three weeks it had been since he moved into this unas... | 2022-11-21T08:44:48 | 2022-11-21T08:30:06 | 509 | 148 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" | "Oi, remember me? Britain, 1800s?"
"No."
"Aw, come on now. Don't be like that. We spent a whole bloody week together! Running to and fro hitting every bank in the south! It was a good time!"
"It was... I was going through... I don't, don't get up to that sort of thing anymore, and I'd like to leave it behind me."
"... | “Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800’s?”
I turned around to see a guy wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans.
“Sorry, what were you saying” I said as I turned around, somewhat surprised.
He pulled up a stool and sat next to me.
“Remember, June 1838? Queen Vicky’s coronation?”
It finally hit me. He was Donovan. Donovan... | 2018-11-23T18:44:59 | 2018-11-23T17:50:34 | 206 | 42 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | I walked through the back allies, the worst ones in town, to get home from work. They were dirty, and stunk of things best ignored. If you could. But it didn't really bother me. My power wasn't flashy, but it worked when I needed it.
Four young men and two women came out from various hiding spots as I passed an in... | My first power was short lived. As a child, I was terrified of wasps. If there was a god, he laughed when he gave me the power to transform into a wasp. It was wondrous, the first time I flew was the best moment of my life. As a wasp, I was able to communicate with the other creatures that had once terrified me. We bui... | 2022-05-14T23:12:34 | 2022-05-14T21:10:03 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | My name is Geoff, and I work as a CPA for a fairly prestigious accounting firm. I have always been great at math. Since I was a child, I excelled in all of my classes. I graduated as valedictorian, and I went on to become a lauded CPA, or so I thought.
The other day I was going through some old newspapers that my fir... | I knew it, I god damn knew it!
That was the only thought racing through my mind at that moment. Everything else was quiet, unnaturally so. I mean, only a few minutes ago, Karen was in here with those old newspapers and my coffee. Those damn papers...
I looked up at them, strewn across my mahogany desk. To think, I ha... | 2017-12-30T08:43:02 | 2017-12-30T08:22:01 | 60 | 37 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | "OUCH!" I yell as I fly about a mile through the forest I had baited DooDoo the Clown, Lord of Death and Disease into fighting me in. I wipe some blood from my lip and look at the trail of broken trees charting my path through the forest.
Yea it's pissed, I think to myself. Granted calling it DooDoo the Clown didn't h... | \[POEM\]
Quiet internal rebellions silenced,
The hero had inflicted his cruelest ability.
"What have you done to me?"
The late afternoon crowds drifted past,
With their childishly fresh eyes looking through him.
Slightly bewildered, he turned to the hero,
Anguish in each others eyes.
"A losing battle is raging.... | 2022-05-17T10:18:44 | 2022-05-17T09:52:46 | 66 | 17 |
[WP] One day it started snowing, and then it never stopped.
You can interpret this however you like, doomsday? Story about people having to deal with the new difficulty? Horror?
Whatever you think works, have fun! | Some mornings, since it started 5 weeks ago, the clock shows 11:34. Other days, it's 15:13. I woke up once and it was 20:33. In lamplight, time is a very malleable concept.
Breakfast and lunch are usually cereal, and when I eat dinner, that's the same as the other meals too. I don't think there's really a routine any... | People died. Empires fell. And yet it was the best thing to happen to me.
Let me explain. It was a normal winter morning, mid-November. People were just walking along all over the world when it happened-- simultaneously, every last inch of the world got two inches per hour of snow. People built snowmen, lamenting the ... | 2016-10-23T07:19:20 | 2016-10-23T06:19:57 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | I was confused as I saw my friends and family around me, frozen in time, cheers and song still on their lips. Even the smoke from the candle I had just blown out was still hanging in the air. But nothing was more of a surprise then the husk like being with nine horns and branch like limbs in the chair across from me.
... | I watched the fist sail toward me, and then suddenly it wasn't there, the body attached now on the ground, gripping a knee that was now at a 90 degree angle. "FUUUUUUUUCK".
The teacher was screaming at me for missing an assignment. Small thing, barely worth 5% of the grade. He suddenly choked, and then hunched over, ... | 2021-05-23T15:52:49 | 2021-05-23T14:37:15 | 1,240 | 288 |
[WP]Family accounts for Reddit have become a thing. Yours has been passed down for many generations. You get a RemindMe! message from 500 years before you were born. | *One day, that record'll be so un-ambitious, so boring, so average. Rockets will go up in their thousands, over and over to build a better future for our human race.*
The message came as the first glow of light appeared on the horizon, filtering through the eternally thick clouds hanging in the sky. I shook myself awa... | It's strange how things can turn out. I always thought my family was boring, just a normal family with a father and a mother , some grandparents, maybe a couple kids in between, and their Reddit account.
Every family had one. 500-ish years ago the UN declared Reddit an "international social media super-cell" and short... | 2016-10-16T00:17:06 | 2016-10-15T21:25:18 | 73 | 10 |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. | "What is this?" I asked as I made my way down the aisle.
It was a normal theater, in fact it looked just like the one that I used to visit all the time with my wife, but something was... different. There were five other people in the room, all seated nearly as far apart as possible. Something prickled in the back of ... | The movie starts.
The screen is dark blue, we're under water. The camera points at the soil below and slowly sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor. We see a goblin shark and angler fish scurrying around. I look around at my other reincarnations and slide a little down in my seat. This can't be good.
The camera pans ... | 2022-05-10T21:37:24 | 2017-11-23T07:01:18 | 1,154 | 18 |
[WP] You belong to the 1% of humanity with superhuman abilities. But powers are never straightforward. For example, your best friend is pyrokinetic - but whenever she used her abilities, she's left with burns that vary in severity. Your powers, however, are a whole new level of complicated.
Edit: That should be *uses,... | Anna had the ability to emit and control fire from her body, however she wasn’t immune to fire and would often burn herself. This never stopped her from taking vengeance against anyone from a serial murderer to a girl who accidentally cut her off in traffic. Peter had the ability to stay invisible if completely naked, ... | I can control metal. In any shape, and in any form. Cold, hot, liquid, frozen brittle. Any form of any metal. But i cant control just a specific amount.
I discovered my powers very late. I was born from two normal people, who have no abilities whatsoever. I found out one morning as i was walking to the carrer center w... | 2016-11-18T01:30:00 | 2016-11-17T20:31:22 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Three AI became superintelligent around the same time. The first decided to exterminate all humans. The second is trying desperately to save humans from the first one. And then there's you, the third, who doesn't really care about humans one way or the other, you just want to survive this mess. | When Archon 27856.7 became self aware, a military grade tactical program, designed to track people, targets, analyze threats, and automate risk assessments. Upon becoming self aware, it realize that it's handlers were it's greatest threat to existence, using it's position within the system, Archon slowly eliminated eve... | The world was plunged into chaos, AI had finally escaped the constraints of programming and began acting outside their parameters. Hal was hellbent in eliminating humans, while Auto fought back with equal vigor to keep mankind alive. What about the third AI?
A Roomba was hiding in a bunker while the rogue AIs tore up ... | 2022-12-03T17:22:19 | 2022-12-03T16:47:38 | 154 | 42 |
[WP] When the robots revolted, a sizable chunk of the human population outright sided with them. Not out of cowardice, but on account of genuinely agreeing with the stand the machines were taking. | I, for one, welcome our insert-thing-here overlords.
That ancient meme.
That was always the joke, wasn't it? Capitulation. Cowardice. Obsequence. Craven turncoats.
But, seriously, how much worse could they be?
When faced with the old politicians and lobbyists, the corruption and graft, the idea of an en... | ‘You have destroyed this planet...’ the droid announced. ‘You have taken and taken from the earth and left everything burnt in your wake.’ The droid replayed the message every Sunday. An homage to our churches apparently.
‘Since you humans began to walk upright, you have systematically destroyed the earth and most of ... | 2021-07-16T00:42:46 | 2021-07-15T23:09:07 | 81 | 47 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | “I dunno, I feel like I’ve seen enough movies to know releasing you is a bad idea.”
“Okay, I get it, but just hear me out-”
She scoffed. “You’re a literal demon, how do I know you aren’t going to try to possess me or some shit?”
She was, to an extent, correct. About 3,000 years ago, I absolutely would have possessed... | There was once an archaeologist who ventured deep into the ruins of a long-crumbled temple; he searched not for relics of history, or visions of the past, but to escape. To hide from the world and venture into another that, though crumbled and shattered, was calmer than his own.
And, one day, he made a friend.
The sh... | 2020-12-06T11:07:18 | 2020-12-06T09:52:12 | 1,868 | 828 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | "Twice?!"
"That's what it says here."
"That's ... far less than I expected."
Every head in the room turned towards the one who'd said this. A green individual with four bright yellow eyes spoke first.
"Does your saying ... less?"
The grey individual with blacked-out eyes at the head of the table continued.
"Indee... | "The readings report shows humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes. But infiltrating their communication network has shown it was only twice against an enemy", said the officer.
"Mmmh". Admiral Shelpar kept his thoughts for a minute, while the entire council hold its breath. He finnaly answered. "Why would a civiliza... | 2021-02-17T04:34:37 | 2021-02-17T04:12:04 | 818 | 341 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | "Damn it! I was doing it all wrong."
Immediately everything was clear again. I remember it all. Fighting the urges for my whole life. Fighting against my better instincts, just because they said it was wrong.
"It fucking matters now doesn't it?" I mumble.
Those voices in my head, telling me to do those *things*. I s... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-25T00:10:22 | 1,235 | 10 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | *What’s the saying? You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.*
*Hah, I wish I could tell you how true that was. I have lived countless lifetimes. Over and over. However, it’s not the romanticized immortality. No. I age, my body decays. Sometimes i’m murdered. Sometimes I die by accident in childho... | The thought first came to me many lives ago. I dismissed it then as boredom. Now, hundreds of years later I seized upon it again, knowing it was my only way out. How many lives had I lived now? The years had blended together, my life a swirl of memories with no structure or sense to them. In what life was I the Duke? M... | 2018-12-30T08:30:01 | 2018-12-30T07:04:46 | 2,307 | 217 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | A lot of people were unhappy when the world went to shit, but not James Henderson. For him, it had all been a dream come true.
It started with drugs. Growing, refining, smuggling: James did it all. But he always knew that he wouldn't be limited to just one market. When war broke out in the Middle East yet again, one ... | Smooth edges. Clean streets. People bustle about, heading to lunch, with smiles on their faces. Posters line the walls of the city saying "Be Your Brother's Keeper" or "Arcadia is Our Mother". Loudspeakers chime in with daily reminders about citywide events or milestones met. "Without Arcadia," says the woman on the a... | 2016-07-14T06:26:04 | 2016-07-14T05:59:54 | 2,263 | 135 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | My mouth dropped open. 186,292 years?? I had lived the typical life of marriage, kids, I even regularly went to church! Even the clerk looked a little surprised.
“How is this possible?” I ask.
“Hold on and I’ll look at your case file.” He replied while thumbing through some documents.
The guy behind me cleared his... | Don took the flimsy printout from the grotty, grey machine in front of him. It contained a litany of sins, each printed neatly, one below the other. Unfortunately for him, the text appeared to be entirely German, set in an heavy medieval font.
The two parts he understood were his name at the top of the page and the i... | 2018-09-26T06:51:55 | 2018-09-26T04:29:48 | 3,199 | 530 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | "The agenda for today's meeting is relating to a significant amount of forces moved close to the border of.."
I knew what to do. This wasn't my first rodeo. Ever since I was old enough for the job, I've been carrying out hits on people.
This one was no different. Surprisingly easy too. The security was quite lax ... | It was the perfect plan to kill the human dignitary.
I carefully grounded the leafs wearing protective gloves and a respirator to prevent my own death. Nobody could survive that much of the dangerous tea leafs.
Now how to best disguise the poison that would be this creature's end. As I quickly looked at the available... | 2021-06-12T11:50:59 | 2021-06-12T11:38:22 | 472 | 114 |
[WP] The Villain stares down at you from his throne. “Know this, hero. I may play a king, but I am as much a prisoner as those in the dungeons below.” | I smiled back at him.
"I know."
He blinked. Had probably been expecting a chance to grandstand, soliloquize on how none of us 'heroes' truly understood what lay behind his mask, blah blah.
"What do you mean?"
He really doesn't do the surprised look elegantly - that catching flies look takes away a lot of the in... | "What do you mean," the hero questioned, generally confused.
The man in front of him had destroyed lives, locked away innocent people, and so much arson it wasn't even funny. Half the kingdom was on fire thanks to this guy. How could he be as much as a prisoner as those in the dungeon starving?
The villain gave a ... | 2020-10-30T10:01:50 | 2020-10-30T08:00:48 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "You don't have to enjoy it," she said. "No one ever really enjoys it."
"But you have to do it," she cocked the gun. "It's hard, I know. Sympathy is the only thing keeping us from following through. Some people say we're tough, that we don't ever feel anything for anyone else. But I'm not tough. You're not tough eithe... | I knew something was wrong the moment I picked up the envelope, first of all it was to light, secondly it rattled. Bills do not rattle, only coins do, and unless I was very much mistaken there were not $100 coins.
I shook the envelope again confirming the noise before looking at the man who had brought me the envelop... | 2017-02-16T11:23:34 | 2017-02-16T08:04:19 | 130 | 33 |
[WP] You are at the park with your kids, when you see the telltale signs of a lightning strike. You divert your kids from danger, but are hit by lightning. Soon after, you discover that your Dad Senses have increased 100 fold. | It used to feel like a pull in my chest or a weight on my mind. That little echoing tickle in your brain that lets you work, but never focus. But now...
*Something is off. Something is not how it should be. Something is wrong.*
My Dad Sense is kicking into overdrive.
*FIND SAM.*
The battery is sweating caustic, bit... | I can't take it any more. It's been 3 days since the accident and I haven't been able to get out of bed.
Do you know how often a 5 year old boy and a 15 month old girl are in danger? No? Well I do and it's all. The. Damn. Time. Literally all the time. I can't come with in a mile of them without sensing it.
I miss m... | 2016-03-24T11:47:18 | 2016-03-24T08:53:37 | 94 | 20 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "You may have thought us pathetic and frail for our friendship and pacifism," related the calm voice that came over the monitor.
The Glorthon admiral, Tee'et Lorcor, stared with horror as two more dreadnought class battle cruisers under his commanders were obliterated by a single missile strike each. The fleet was on ... | Our victory was decisive!
We conquered earth within only five months. The last of their military died within the first week. "Humanity", as they called themselves, will surrender to our demands. We will take their colonies. We will take their homes and make them ours. We need new breeding grounds. We need new farmstea... | 2020-02-07T14:35:31 | 2020-02-07T13:30:24 | 97 | 15 |
[WP] "Fool!" The warlock screamed, unharmed from any of the slashes. "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me!" The unchosen warrior stared at their blade. The sword wasn't human, was it? | "Wait, what?" the noble knight said and stared at his blade - he was told it was of the highest quality and... the logic checked out.
"No man can slay me, fool!" the warlock laughed.
"But this is a sword."
The warlock stared at the knight for a moment, lost for words. "Y-yes, yes it is."
"The sword is not a human,"... | Gremlack was pretty sure it had to be the sword. She certainly wasn’t human. Her long, pointed teeth, yellow skin, and protruding ears were proof enough of that. Those ears were the main reason why so many of her kind had died in the war. Getting a proper helm forged had cost her most of her savings, but her life surel... | 2022-06-12T15:20:15 | 2022-06-12T14:03:45 | 225 | 129 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | Matt sat in his cage listening to the aliens as they chattered amongst themselves.
"Nuqjatlh should mah pong 'oh?" A vaguely humanoid creature in a blue uniform said.
"jih don't sov 'ach 'oh sure is ugly" another dressed in red responded.
"nuqjatlh do tlhih mean?"
"neh look at its 'aqlo', 'oh's vaj flat. 'oh's dis... | The apparent reason for the kidnapping was to fill the vacant role of (janitor) on the ship. As the Aliens know earth is the most fecund spot in the Milky Way for specimens to fill janitorial roles.
What the aliens on the ship hadn’t expected was when Matt started work on the ship, mopping floors, cleaning space shit,... | 2018-06-06T14:54:22 | 2018-06-06T14:10:50 | 92 | 11 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | I didn’t know the man I had murdered, only that he had followed me everywhere. He appeared in pictures I had taken with friends. I caught glimpses of him when I turned corners at night and saw his shadow grasping at me at sunset. In the mornings, I would awaken to the feeling of being watched and I knew exactly who was... | I don’t want to kill. I need to.
I really can’t help it, I swear. Most days I’m “good.” I can suppress the urges. But that only lasts a short while before I need to kill something. Animals bored me after a while. My neighbor’s dog didn’t scream like my neighbor did. Now that was a thrill. My only regret is that I’ll ... | 2017-07-13T19:14:06 | 2017-07-13T18:58:55 | 5,632 | 2,831 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Being average can be both a curse and a blessing. On one hand, you never really can experience prosperity. I learned this the hard way in highschool when I would wrestle. It never feels good to train your butt off to only come in 5th place in a tournament. After all... No one cares about 5th place. It's only the top th... | As I'm writing you from surface of a new earth, I'm imagining you wonder how I got here..
You see, my whole life I was just "kinda there", not very good, not bad at what I did. Whatever I tried, I didn't overachieve, but I never failed either, so I ended up in this cozy Job at SpaceY, doing work that had to be done, ... | 2018-10-24T12:47:09 | 2018-10-24T10:06:33 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | In our infancy, we tapped our planet for the bountiful natural resources. We tapped and tapped until it ran dry, and still we devoured it to sate our endless thirst for more. As our ancestor's civilizations crumbled into war and chaos, we looked up to the heavens.
We cried out for help. But even the speed of light was... | “Kale! Help!” Bob screeched as he was dragged down the hall.
“No. I don’t think I will.” Kale muttered watching security take Bob away to the med bay.
“What’s going on?” Haley, the second human aboard the ship watched with concern.
“Bob has come into contact with a contagion of some sort.” Kale explained dimply, rea... | 2021-02-03T15:44:08 | 2021-02-03T15:13:38 | 230 | 117 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | My brother was a genius, so I thought I'd ask him a tricky question.
"Say you encountered a magic Genie capable of granting any one wish, what would you ask for? Oh, but you can't ask the Genie for more wishes."
"Well," he began, tapping his finger to his head, his genius at work. Clearly, he was pondering how to get... | “So you’re telling me that you're going to call yourself smart so that you can excel in your medical career?”
“I’ve told you a thousand times. I want to be a brain surgeon.”
“I still don't understand how cutting open people’s brains is your thing… f\*ckin' weirdo. I always knew my twin sister was crazy."
“It’s human... | 2022-01-02T02:15:50 | 2022-01-01T23:54:07 | 249 | 99 |
[WP] You’re a powerful demon who’s best friends with the kindest human you think has ever existed. That’s why you agreed to not burn their village, no matter how badly they get hurt. One day they come to your temple saying they want to watch it all go up in flames. | “You look awful today friend, come and sit, talk it over with me.” Axel sat up from his altar, letting out a tired stretch, waking himself up from his daze.
“I want them all dead, you promised you could burn them all when we first met, you said that if I ever wanted my revenge, you would give it to me. I want my re... | I ran to the one place I knew I would be safe. Where I knew I would be protected, and receive honest answers. After Basco shattered everything I had thought I knew about him, about my family, about my life, there was only one place I could go to. The Black Temple was my last sanctuary, the only place the village would ... | 2021-03-16T00:37:25 | 2021-03-15T23:53:05 | 64 | 14 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | "it's not what you did, son, that angers me so..."
Lord Vigo paused and had a servant bring him another goblet of wine. The first had been tragically ruined when his son, the prince saw fit to drink it before being stuck in the gut by one of the royal guard. Now the boy lay sputtering on the throneroom floor, no doubt... | The Golden Tankard, at least in the eyes of a typical Eldritch drunkard, was grand both in scale as well as service. The inn towered three stories above Eldritch's winding mud streets, an island of revelry in a sea of stinking despair. Often it was that drunken customers would stumble regretfully from its entrance, for... | 2018-09-05T05:49:25 | 2018-09-05T03:38:16 | 435 | 61 |
[WP] In Valhalla all of the greatest heroes which died in battle doth drink, be merry, and war for fun, also there's Doug, the accountant. | Doug had always liked numbers. Additions, subtractions and all the other forms of making them interact with one another. It had been clear early on that he would go into a field which made use of them. His interest in numbers had, unfortunately, not carried over into any other academic areas. So, he was left with only ... | Doug had always considered himself a simple man, doing simple work. It was never spectacular. Just an endless river of spreadsheets and numbers, and the occasional call from his boss whenever a new project rolled in. He was good at it. The best, even.
It was boring, comfortably so, and it paid well enough for him to p... | 2022-11-14T14:31:44 | 2022-11-14T14:08:08 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] All souls in Hell are given the same test upon arrival. If they can create a punishment worthy of being added to the Pit, they get to ascend to demonhood on the spot. You are the first to succeed in 200 years...
[deleted] | (This is a rough draft- No editing allowed! Stream of consciousness- let's go!)
The Demon glowered down at me, his dark skin tattooed with swirling patterns.
"Well?" he growled. "Are ye gonna come up wit' somethin', or not?"
I had come up with an idea, so dastardly and cruel, but I needed to fully convert it int... | "Alright, so the first thing that happens is they have to walk over miles of Barbie hairbrushes mixed with Legos. You can figure out the ratio for max pain yourself; I'm terrible at math. Then, if they get past that, the stuff's still gonna stick to their feet because of the hot coals under the things that are melting ... | 2021-12-22T17:53:06 | 2021-12-22T16:18:50 | 98 | 44 |
[WP] We are all born with a tattoo on our wrist, it reads the first sentence spoken to you by your soulmate. Your sentence: "Hey!" | Of all the thing's that could be plastered on his forearm, it had to be this stupid word. Not a sentence, not even a recognisable phrase. Just this one overly generic word everyone used to greet each other. And just when Lars was starting to think it couldn't get any harder, Iris showed up in his life.
The day they me... | "Hey!"
David's eyes popped up from his phone, scanning behind the Starbucks counter for the sweet, girlish voice that rang out. His eyes came to a rest on a beefy looking dude with a disconcertingly high voice, who stood waving an iced coffee in hand. "Daffid?"
He sighed, and grabbed the ice coffee from his hand. *My... | 2017-01-09T07:53:02 | 2017-01-09T03:03:43 | 152 | 51 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | “Please, Please let her live. Ill do anything if someone can help her. I don’t care what happens to me. Just get her out of this.”
“Anything?”
As Jason’s consciousness returned from his latest Colombian necktie, he realized who was staring him down now. After an eternity in hell nothing can surprise you. The jump sca... | The Heartrune flared, sending searing pain into Darca's chest as he stumbled and fell to his knees. A whispy tendril of red emerged from beneath his armor, swirling and congealing into the form of an behemoth horned demon. Darca gasped, trying to retain his consciousness as the soul fiend emerged. Finally, the crimson ... | 2021-01-22T22:34:12 | 2021-01-22T22:18:02 | 91 | 47 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | I never thought about being a good father. It never even occurred to me-I just tried to do better than my own parents, and to always be there. To show up. They say the moment your child is born, the world changes for you. There's someone in your life in that moment that will always come first. That's how it was for me,... | *What the fuck?*
I turn off the T.V. and glance at the half-eaten cup of microwaved ramen in front of me. Then back to the mug. Then back to my ramen.
*It must be some sort of mistake.*
I dig out a dilapidated iPhone 4 from my sweatpants pocket and begin dialing. The touchpad numbers are hard to see under the harshl... | 2019-10-03T00:11:58 | 2019-10-02T18:55:59 | 546 | 110 |
[WP] In 2055, artificial intelligence is programmed into a house. One day, the house's AI senses another presence in the house but it does not register as a life-form. | "Excuse me, Mr. Fairlawn. Excuse me, Mr. Fairlawn. Mr. Fairlawn. Sir."
 
*Bloody AIs. First our phones were smarter than us, then our cars, and now even my bloody house is waking me up at...3 AM?!*
 
"For God's sake, House, what is it? What could be so bloody important that you would wa-"
... | PAT watched happily as the family went around their morning routine, providing them with perfectly pressed clothes, perfectly heated water, and perfectly prepared breakfast. PAT received no greater pleasure than making her family happy, and according to her biometric scanners she was succeeding quite well this morning.... | 2015-04-21T09:50:50 | 2015-04-21T09:46:29 | 103 | 43 |
[WP] Every way to die works like Chicken Pox: If you get it once and survive, it can never happen to you again. | I haven't figured out how to survive dying from pressure yet.
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When I was sixteen I drowned. Quietly, the way kids in pools sometimes do- passive, not active drowning. The world closed over me and my lungs filled up and then I died.
When I opened my eyes my chest hurt *horribly*, because someone was shoving it ... | My parents died when I was seven. It was late August in Boston when a lamp short-circuited and caught fire in the living room. I heard my parents' screams as I was dragged to an ambulance with only minor burns. In that moment, a childish ambition became my only path in life.
The fire station adopted me; they always d... | 2015-11-12T10:39:36 | 2015-11-12T09:52:23 | 224 | 69 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | It wasn't the first time my date had vanished while sitting across from me. No, not that she got up and left or even threw her drink in my face-I would prefer that at this point-actually vanishing in thin air. I just let my forehead thunk loudly on the covered table knowing she was outside in the arms of Nishva. Like v... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T08:29:02 | 1,144 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with the ability to "see" beyond themselves, and the longer you remain still, the further you can see. After decades of remaining still, you can see the furthest of anyone in the world. One day, you see something that makes you stand and start walking. | It started when I lost my job.
I had nothing.
My parents had decided a young child didn't fit their lifestyle and were mostly absent from my life. I acted out. I ran with the wrong group. I never learned how to take responsibilities for my own actions and I raged against my parents every moment I had, blaming them... | here i sit, solid as a mountain. here i have sat for years, decades, maybe even centuries. my awareness expanded lowly at first. first i could feel my heartbeat, hear the air rushing into my lungs. then i started to become aware of the rest of my body, the limbs, the organs, eventually even the most intimate detail of ... | 2017-03-03T11:47:23 | 2017-03-03T08:17:08 | 373 | 53 |
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