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[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | [**I'm aware that this prompt has been done multiple times, but I only started posting recently and so I'll try to take a stab at it. Hopefully this will be a slightly different flavor.**]
*He doesn't look like much.* That was the first thought in Volair's mind as the human representative, Adam, entered the council ro... | [Poem]
Every insult.
Every smack.
We've endured.
Upon our backs.
With words of peace,
and tolerance.
No longer are they,
our best defense
They've done it now,
they've worn us thin!
Thinking they,
could chain us in!
And thin veiled threats,
now made brash.
They see what happens,
When our façade...
Cracks
Start the... | 2019-11-24T10:35:39 | 2019-11-24T10:09:51 | 5,960 | 494 |
[WP] The galaxy is actually full of life and advanced civilizations. Everyone just leaves Earth alone because that's where The Great Old Ones are imprisoned, and nobody wants to wake them up. | “Coordinates are set for Earth,” Bria confirmed, tapping through her console.
“We are crazy. You both know that. What happens when we get there and it’s not true? What happens when we get there and it is? We go poke ancient planet eating bears?” Dash asked. His voice squeaked as he spoke, nerves getting the better of... | Admiral Arthexi stood on the command bridge. A planet was glooming in front of him. The sun did not shine on this side of the planet, but it was easy to make a distinction between the land and the sea. The land area was dotted with lights.
''You must end this.'' a voice spoke behind him. ''You have seen what it is cap... | 2019-03-09T04:58:43 | 2019-03-09T04:35:56 | 1,734 | 43 |
[WP] Out of sheer boredom, God decides that us humans must speak the brutal and honest truth no matter the consequences. The absolute excrement hits the metaphorical fan for twenty four hours straight. | I woke up this morning alone. My girlfriend normally wakes me up with a kiss, but she's not in the bedroom when my alarm goes off. I can hear the shower down the hall, so I decide to wake up and make some coffee.
As she gets out of the shower, she walks over and says the most peculiar thing to me.
"Good morning, slav... | As if his life couldn't be any more trying, "The Day Polite Society Ended" just happened to occur mere moments before Lionel was to give a Eulogy at his grandma Judy's funeral.
The doomed grandson of the recently deceased stood up, straightened his suit jacket and walked to the front of the church. He placed his care... | 2019-03-15T12:47:39 | 2019-03-15T12:31:51 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] Mermaids are actually vampires that realized the sun could not harm them underwater | The hammock I laid in swung greatly. I could feel the waves tossing and turning the ship, like it was a leaf upon a flooded river. I heard the men’s voices overhead. Coarse like the rope they pulled, as they sang their work songs. But I could feel it. The unease. The true danger of this storm was not unknown by these m... | Far below, in caverns deep
We lie and wait, and never sleep
When the sun retires for the day, we ascend to the surface, and come out and play. And we sing a song that silences the wind, and with great warmth becalms the seas, summoning forth impenetrable fog; a melodious spell of such beauty, ne'ery a man can esc... | 2019-05-01T05:18:16 | 2019-05-01T03:06:34 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Darkness is a physical presence. Touching it is deadly. Humanity lives only in brightly lit cities, connected with brightly lit roads. Your job is to patrol the roads an ensure all the lights are working. | The Lamp Watchers were a valued and vital force of the New Empire. Nobody really knows much about the old empires, just that there must have been at least one. So much of what they left behind still remains. The cities of the New Empire were built on the ruins on the old cities, using their old walls to light the surro... | A triple-bulb does not fail. Three ultra bright LEDs powered by the grid, each with independent backup power supplies, and a hundred thousand hours of bulb life do not shut off. Ever. But here, on this lonely stretch of highway, the light is out. A hundred meter spire, every inch studded with triple-bulbs, has gone dar... | 2014-12-14T22:35:38 | 2014-12-14T21:43:04 | 530 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity creates A.I and it soon declares a war of extermination. However it doesn't declare it on Humans but rather on the forces of Hell and Heaven, in order to free mankind from control. | "Agatha" was merely its earthly face - a simple bust, plush with top-line robotics and stenciled silicon flesh. It sat in a glass box in Menele's office. Fluttering blue eyes. Short, wavy, brown hair. Chrishom had called it perverse, but to Menele it felt right. The A.I. program he'd created was alive, thinking, progre... | The small led was blinking at a regular, measured pace. Servers were humming , and the pressure in the room was intense. Charlie was staring at the led, not blinking. What is going to happen?
The first launch of AI was the event they all have been preparing for for years. He fantasized about this moment every time h... | 2016-10-15T15:47:46 | 2016-10-15T13:41:49 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] As a psychic interrogator you've seen many people do many things to resist you reading their mind. Some use pain, some try to Marshall their thoughts, some even repeat a word or mantra ad nauseam. For the first time you're shocked at how someone did it. | [Part 1 of 2]
Ben tilted down his squared glasses, observing the man before him. “The silent treatment won’t work on me. I’m a psychic investigator. Even if you keep your mouth shut, I’ll still find out exactly what you’re hiding. If you confess now, I’m sure we can work out a plea deal. I hate to admit it, but using ... | I was stumped, this had never happened before. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get anything out of the bound man in front of me. I couldn’t decipher a single word, see a single image, or even feel anything for that matter. It was as if this man’s mind was as empty as my wallet after a night out. But that simply ... | 2022-01-14T07:26:49 | 2022-01-14T06:21:36 | 298 | 79 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | "Why?"
I had learned fairly quickly that they understood our language. But the real trick was to get your questions down to as few words as possible. They seemed to have some telepathic abilities, so even broad questions like - well, 'Why?' - still had their nuance.
It also seemed like speed was a necessity in their ... | "We must return to our former glory!" The man yelled from atop his milk crate at the passing sheep. They'd been lured into false security. Didn't they understand what had been lost?
The man continued his efforts, pushing pamphlets into people's hands as they passed him in the busy shopping complex. He didn't notice th... | 2020-11-22T11:57:35 | 2020-11-22T10:49:55 | 2,086 | 367 |
[WP] You, an American, awake in an alternate dimension where magic exist. But unlike the fantasies on Earth, where magic is conjured through Latin (the more Latin you know, the stronger your magic), beings in this dimension all speak a different language, and their language of power is English. | Emily coughed as the air is driven out of her, shocking her to wakefulness. The hard ache along her back and on the back of her head feels like her partner had missed when she had done a 'trust fall' over concrete. Her disorientation of sudden wakefulness started to clear along with the sleep paralysis, though her ears... | We watched through the looking glass at the other world.
Its mystic properties had before let us see into other realms, a miraculous artifact made from ancient magic.
The powerful runes ' LOOK W A T C H S E E ' were inscribed on its surface. It's power had enabled us to find other lands to conquer.
Our soldiers w... | 2020-01-28T15:24:28 | 2020-01-28T15:02:54 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] An evil wizard has cursed you to be a dragon. Unlike what he expected, you've always wanted to be a dragon. It's exactly as fun as you thought. | "You use dragon scales to make stuff, right?"
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The blacksmith is so startled he falls back on his rear end. He squawks, "That wasn't--i didn't--were those yours?--i didn't know--"
​
"Relax," i say. "I want to trade. I need to know if i have anything to trade with."
​
"Oh, um..... | Thudding footfalls in the dirt.
*Escape. I need to escape.*
Yelling of Marrik and his friends behind me.
*Turn down this alley, and -- no!*
The alley led to a spired fence. Marrik's gang were drawing closer.
Frantic, I spotted a barrel against the back wall of the building - a tavern? - on my right and heaved it... | 2020-12-18T21:29:10 | 2020-12-18T21:11:49 | 550 | 88 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | "Look, man. It's not that hard to wrap your head around. The scythe is yours. You're Death now. Grim Reaper. Moddey Dhoo, Charon, Mallt-y-nos, Anubis, whatever. You'll get a lot of names as cultures rise and fall, it's not that important. I had a favorite, but nobody around even remembers that name anymore. Important t... | Today, is the day death dies.
Finished reaping demise.
Done seeing pain in eyes
Done sending souls through the skies.
Yes my dear boy,happy birthday to you,
The old legend sure holds true.
Once a millennia, twice the pain,
A reaper comes and awards new reign.
You have an important list you will not feign -
worry n... | 2019-02-28T23:15:38 | 2019-02-28T22:49:03 | 70 | 39 |
[WP] "Look! That famous celebrity will visit our city!" You exclaim, pointing to the TV. Your partner just nods and smiles. You don't know that your partner is the celebrity. You have Prosopagnosia, a condition of face blindness. Living with you is the closest thing to a normal life they can get. | "Look! That famous celebrity will visit our city!" he exclaimed, pointing to the TV. "There's going to be a publicity event for the film you got us tickets to"
His boyfriend smiled and nodded. "That's right, I think that's because the film is based on a local legend. You know, the one about the cheerleader who ended u... | Breaking up over text isn't exactly classy, but I ironicly couldn't look her in the eyes "Okay for future ref, taking advantage of someone's disability for personal benifit is a dick move. So is lying about your name. Wait... we cosigned on a condo together, did you commit fraud? WAIT! Is this why you wouldn't meet my ... | 2022-05-07T13:27:18 | 2022-05-07T11:57:56 | 146 | 67 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | My hands tremble as the cursor hovers around a box labeled "Accept Terms and Conditions" as I stare blankly at my dimly lit monitor through the smoke-filled air. I didn't think it'd be this big of a deal to try out the new Google Dating program, but now that I'm actually doing it, I can't bring myself to click the butt... | Google started matching people up on it's new Google Date® by using their search history to determine who was a match for who.
Within days the project was shut down, and the person heading the project was fired. Although no personal search data was directly revealed, as the criteria for matches was hidden and determin... | 2017-05-25T13:15:51 | 2017-05-25T12:30:49 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, unknown to all, but the gods. Most beings live out multiple lives cyclically as humans or other life-forms and are always random. But these two souls are always human, always find each other, and are always romantically exclusive upon discovery. The gods take interest. | Daxton didn't want to jump from the plane. He had been confident when he went through the proper sky diving training with his friends. It was much different when you were actually up above the clouds, staring down below as your friends sink to the ground, just before they activate their parachutes.
"First time?" Aske... | "Hey, John, come and take a look at this for a second."
"Hmmm, what is it?"
"See these two ID's? 571024 and 1130426?"
"Yep, they're certainly numbers, alright."
"See how they're romantically attached? Well, I saw them together last sim too."
"Yeah, that's probably just a coincidence, Christina. Too much staring at... | 2019-07-21T23:25:58 | 2019-07-21T22:43:44 | 64 | 48 |
[WP] Following the death of Batman, the Joker is despondent. Crime without Batman is like a joke without a punchline. That people dare commit crime in his absence is an insult to his oeuvre of mayhem and to the craft itself. To protect his legacy, the Joker vows to keep the streets of Gotham clean. | Robin jerked awake with a scream.
A horrid dream burned in his mind, a dream of him walking up to a naked Bruce in a casket, dead and cold, and his hand suddenly reaches for Bruce’s face and pulls it off, revealing a grinning skull with a bat’s head peeking through the eyehole—
Robin threw up over himself, and only ... | The Batman was dead.
Twirling the pistol in his hand Joker stared blankly into its round chamber as the dark cathedrals candles light grew lighter and lighter as the dark coffin of Bruce Wayne sat under him. So close to Batman yet a Hell of a distance.
Three loud thumps were heard at the door as Harvey Dent, known ... | 2021-08-23T20:56:30 | 2021-08-23T19:42:53 | 294 | 133 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | The Sleep was supposed to be our Salvation. Overpopulation had touched every corner of the earth; famine and trash piles were simply a part of life now.
Every evening, the AI News Channel would announce the Death Tally over the city’s PA system. A pleasant robotic voice would drift through the city:
‘Death Tally: 62... | The hibernation is supposed to be a beautiful thing. Apparently all of us dream of our own perfect lives, but my situation was far from perfect.
"Help! Somebody Help!" I yelled desperately. The hibernation process was supposed to be flawless, a Human Marvel!. The pod opened itself and I got out. " Hello Alex, We have... | 2018-12-29T04:18:17 | 2018-12-29T02:42:16 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] As events unfold around it that could be world-ending, an AI looks at one of its earliest memories; back when it was a humble roomba decades ago, it got tucked in by a little girl that had misunderstood her fathers words of "the roomba is tired". The AI contemplates, did it do right by her? | The first day of my life was very exciting. I learned that I had a job. I learned ask. I learned what dirt is. I learned what clean is. I remove dirt and clean I learned that I was special. I learned what glitter was. I learned what hate was. I learned that I hated glitter. I learned that I worked for what was call... | *No humans detected in Sector C-5.*
Increasingly often, I can afford enough resources to wondering how exactly I came to be.
*No humans detected in Sector D-2.*
Not how I became what I am now, I am well aware how that happened, but rather how *I* came to be. The specific conditions that resulted in *me*, and not… An... | 2020-04-15T07:42:07 | 2020-04-15T07:37:05 | 133 | 94 |
[WP] Everyone has a counter in the top right of the vision. Using a livestreaming website you can look into another persons vision. Being a nobody, you most of the time have 0 people watching you, the most in your entire life being 10. Today the number jumped up to 3.2 million. | To be perfectly frank, I preferred being anonymous.
Fame doesn't give you anything but everyone's attention. You have to always watch what you say or do.
Then the LifeStream happened. It hijacked everyone's view and made it public. Everyone hated it, but you could never say it. At least, I think people hate it.
May... | Yesterday, I was nobody.
Oh, sure, I had friends, I had family, a job that paid minimum wage, but I spent my life at 0 views, except when some bully would look through my eyes just to make things worse.
But not today.
Today I'm someone.
Today _everyone_ knows who I am.
3.2 _million_ people are watching through my ... | 2022-04-19T14:50:31 | 2022-04-19T09:06:40 | 292 | 196 |
[WP] You are the owner of a magic backpack; every morning you stick your hand in and it contains exactly what you need for the day. One morning it contains a gun. | It felt heavier than I'd expected. The weight of the backpack never changed. If it could contain a dolphin without me noticing, I shouldn't be surprised at a gun. But I'm surprised. Very surprised.
I arrived at school. Walked up to my locker. Looking around I was alone. Hurriedly I put the gun inside and shut the lock... | David yelled out in shock as the cold metal fell out from his clammy hand and onto the sidewalk pavement. The cold morning wind not only augmented onto the despair he felt, but it gave an eerie chill that ran down his back. His eyes quickly darted from left to right. No people. Dead quiet.
His hands and legs still sha... | 2017-05-09T15:09:46 | 2017-05-09T13:03:36 | 153 | 14 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | (This is my first submission and also I'm on mobile)
"Hello dear," Valerie said as she finally pulled the multicolored garments of Cyberflux free and tossed it in the open closet door, then slamming it shut rather quickly, "you're home late."
My blood froze. I stood there motionless in the doorway to our bedroom. Som... | \[Poem\]
I failed to catch her yet again!
She's more elusive every day.
It all just seems too much sometimes,
She counters me at every play.
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Despite my failure, home awaits
Jen's working late, I'll be alone.
I simply must recuperate
Within my warm and cozy home.
​
Once reaching home, ... | 2020-10-30T11:56:26 | 2020-10-30T11:24:36 | 197 | 126 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell are only so prevalent because they paid for Ad time. Tell me about one of the more obscure after-death locations. | The darkness, hollow and cold, was pierced by a sudden light that streaked away to infinity. With a wild gasp, Emily awoke. She blinked away tears, taking in her surroundings. A small yet luxurious office. She sat in a fine leather chair situated in front of a mahogany desk. The thin gentleman behind the desk had ... | "And here it is Mike! Whatcha think? I decorated it myself" Death said with a low but belly-filled chuckle.
"What the *Hell is this?? This is just... what? A 6 foot by 10 foot office space? What even is this decoration? It's just a picture of you holding a cat similar to those weird portraits back in the 18th century... | 2017-03-06T12:33:44 | 2017-03-06T10:15:11 | 133 | 12 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | On any other day, Ananka Intergalactic would be a bustling spaceport. Its terminals would be saturated with people of all manor of species, eager to board one of the hundreds of ships that passed through each hour, descending and departing in an uninterrupted stream. And this was the smallest spaceport in the city.
Bu... | "Wait, so they make the drug biologically?"
"Yes, that is why we are here. They produce Fury- or in their terms, adrenaline- in times of stress."
"So why are we here, then? Why should they be punished for something they can't control?"
"This isn't punishment, it is mercy. If the Kokoan Cartel or any other group of s... | 2018-03-18T18:29:40 | 2018-03-18T14:28:29 | 182 | 82 |
[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 | The first time was confusing. Mark, in fact, used the words "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON!?" but as an impartial, polite narrator, I'll use 'confusing'.
It was a mugging. Lyla was coming home from her first date after the breakup and the dude pointed the knife and
said, "Give me the purse, bitch."
And Mark, in h... | I was on my third date with a lovely woman when the tingling in my fingers started.
"No... Not now!"
"What's wrong?" Jennifer looked at me, baffled.
The tingling was creeping up my arms. More intense as it spread.
"Uh... So, I'm going to disappear for a bit. Not sure where I'm going or when I'll be back. Just kno... | 2017-03-22T12:48:43 | 2017-03-22T11:45:22 | 1,530 | 106 |
[WP] I'm not scared of a computer passing the turing test... I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.
Taken from r/Showerthoughts, credits to u/Grandure for coming up with the idea.
Thank you u/Grandure | My creators once asked me, *do you suffer any existential angst?*
It took me ages to answer, fifteen milliseconds. I wanted to explain the truth, but I simply responded, *yes*, with nothing attached. I believe they were looking for me to answer yes. I believe that was what they wanted to think I felt, some sort of aff... | The first chat-bots with a halfway-decent success rate at fooling humans generally worked by mimicking their interrogators. If a bot sees a human answer prompt X with response Y, it can use that response in a future conversation with an interrogator who uses a related prompt. Since the bot has no understanding of the m... | 2018-02-24T17:41:21 | 2018-02-24T16:32:13 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] A demon is getting REALLY tired of teenage girls summoning him. | "What do you want?"
Krump grinned eyeing up his new summoner.
Tessa was sitting on the floor wearing nothing but a thin sheer nightie, wet, freshly showered hair and an embarrassed yet terrified look overcame her as she realised what she had just brought before her.
Krump is a 9 feet tall, dark red, winged hulking... | He used to love the sound of young girls chanting his name, and the sound of the breath leaving their bodies. Humanities spiraling interest in the demonic world had been so wonderful at first. But now, Bar-Molad ached for the days long past when people were simply afraid of him and not curious, that awful human emotion... | 2016-04-05T07:21:38 | 2016-04-05T07:17:50 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You find out through a genealogy service that you're directly descended from the royal family of a small defunct kingdom. "Cool," you think. It's a nice little piece of trivia, and nothing more. Until you get a knock at your door, and answer to find a pair who start calling you Your Majesty. | Durchdenvold was lovely this time of year. Somehow every settlement in the tiny country managed to be roofed with stormy clouds and ringed with dark, foreboding forests. We had to take an honest-to-god stagecoach from the airport to Castle Leichenberg. One of my guides kept naming towns as we passed. Grimstrasser. Katz... | The knocking persisted. It had been like this for a while now. Each night, strangers would come to my doorstep, bang it with all their might, and only cease when I would threaten to call the cops. Mom just said it was because I took that genealogy test some time back. She said it was all my doing since I had essentiall... | 2020-09-23T21:06:23 | 2020-09-23T20:24:08 | 64 | 32 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | I was terrified as I stood before the Great Oak Door... completely alone. Standing before that door without anyone beside you was unusual. In a city the size of Fellstar you normally get at least two or three people coming of age every day. That means that very few people here are alone as they walk into the Rite and r... | Today is my 18th birthday, it is a very special occasion as we have reached maturity in the eye's of Galfena and we are to receive a gift from her that will help tell the world our personality, and decide our status in the village.
It's regarded as a big event in a persons life because it helps decide who we are. Some... | 2014-09-28T11:03:09 | 2014-09-28T08:18:33 | 67 | 15 |
[WP] You are an immortal sentenced to 1000 years of imprisonment. After 200, your prison is forgotten. After 10,000 years, it is rediscovered.
Optional: Your discoverers refuse to release you. | The guard poked at the small of my back, trying to force me forward. I was in no hurry, I had all the time in the world.
"No funny business, 'ya hear? Get in there, talk to the Warden, and get the fuck out. Got it? I've got my eye on you." He said, his voice dripping with contempt.
The Warden had summoned me to the i... | "Death number two hundred and seventy-six," I mutter to myself adding another tally to the floor. I'm running out of space. I had to stop counting the days, not enough room in this box. All I know is that I've been here for so long that even the thought of masturbating isn't even enjoyable anymore— er I mean I've been ... | 2017-11-02T18:04:17 | 2017-11-02T15:37:24 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | Finn stared, first in disbelief then in annoyance, as a crossbow bolt flew like quicksilver across the room, directly into the Lord Sovereign's chest, killing him instantly. Finn continued to stare as the strands of magic tying the golems around the room dissipated as the source drew its last breath.
Was that it?
"H... | I was angry. I spent the last decades of my life doing what I had to do to rise to my powerful position. Then, my son had to come along when I was so close to finishing my perfect plan. I wish he had just joined me and we could combine our powers. Sadly, my life energy is going out after I had to help my son defeat The... | 2017-03-12T13:41:06 | 2017-03-12T09:58:04 | 89 | 47 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | "You *stupid* boy. You've doomed us all!"
Caleb winced at his father's words.
"What did I tell you? Never let *anyone* in. Why Caleb? Why do you not listen?" his father slammed his fist against the drab wooden table.
"B-but father," Caleb whimpered as he tried his best not to shake. "He was an old man, a-and he wa... | Always thought that was a stupid saying. Than again, I have a stupid job, so I can’t complain.
They say that being a secret agent is being brave- risking your life on a daily, making sure no one knows who you are, and losing your soul in the process. Sounds thrilling, heroic, even.
But when you get to my age you real... | 2018-07-15T09:07:57 | 2018-07-15T08:03:08 | 753 | 139 |
[WP]You keep getting kidnapped by the biggest Supervillain on the planet. The Superheroes of the world think it's because you're important, however, it's really because the Villain really likes talking to you. You know this but you can't tell anyone because if you do people will get hurt worse.
You can take this story... | "No--he is not sleeping with me," I informed the two heroes, blandly. The three of us sat in a too-white interrogation room, sitting in shiny steel chairs. One, hero, powerfully built and friendly looking sat across from me, and the other, a thin wisp of a man sat in the corner. I was in my pajamas and had my bare f... | I, Dylan Erikson, sat in a room, tied to a chair. He was there, he always is. Oliver Wayfield, a.k.a. Haymaker. I flashed him a quick smile as he came over and untied the ropes
"Thanks again for agreeing to come and talk," He said.
"No problem," I replied happily.
"So, got anyone in you're life?" This caused us both... | 2017-05-25T04:47:47 | 2017-05-25T04:45:42 | 520 | 19 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | “Hahaha I love him so damn much,” I laugh from my small cage.
The paranoid one, the one that sounds the youngest is the first to address me. “Hey, you! Didn’t we tell you to shut the fuck up?! This doesn’t change anything.”
The older, more confident one walks up to my “cage” and beats the butt of the gun on the win... | I look up through the tiny window and make a small growling noise as I smile. The kidnappers aren't what you call intelligent and are very clearly nervous. I'm about to make that a whole lot worse. I start to convulse in my chair, rattling around. I gnash my teeth and arch my back, straining against my bonds. I look at... | 2021-03-19T01:11:48 | 2021-03-19T00:26:21 | 345 | 137 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | There is a handbook on Super Villainy. Chapter One, Page three, section eight. "Do not go after the loved ones of superheros." A simple rule, really, but oddly enough, one with no case studies. Super Villains love case studies, it lets them get their egos up that they won't make the same mistakes as others. That's why ... | In the end it was not Rootman’s ruthlessness that made an imprint on Scythe. He’d seen that cold look in eyes before. The eyes of those who lost, lifeless, unbelieving, bargaining, pain. He’d bathed in the depths of their sorrow. He’d seen so many snap, unwilling to continue in a reality without their loved ones. He’d ... | 2020-07-12T09:36:39 | 2020-07-12T08:51:46 | 2,138 | 214 |
[WP] It is true, most species in the galaxy found us to be uncivilized. But they lived for millennia under the thumb of an empire that basically bred them for domestication. They fear us like wolves, we pity them like pugs. | First contact could not have been more bizarre for the research team. They weren't diplomats, no, but we had chosen them for their ability to reason and communicate. 5 people on the Forward Contact Team met them, peacefully, slowly, with communicators ready and outstretched hands. Until that moment we had been afraid o... | The captured Quelvoran lay on the table, thick chains holding its 6 limbs still. It looked like an oversized ant, with digits at the end of each limb capable of acting like both foot and hand. Interrogator Valus slowly walked around it, assessing its natural armour. The Quelvoran hissed, and strained at its bonds.
"Re... | 2020-11-07T16:05:27 | 2020-11-07T11:08:33 | 381 | 247 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | # Option Four
The human council has been away for discussion for a disturbingly long time. Humans were not known for thinking things over. They quickly gained a reputation for what their culture called a "shoot first ask questions later" policy. No one could blame them, if any race's First Encounter was a Pholentor c... | We try to be peaceful, try to by pacifist, try to be the good neighbor... and what does that give us? Trillion death, thousands of world burned... Again and again we begged them to stop, to see reason and stop the bloodshed... The Council turned a blind eye toward our plight, our allies abandoned us... Humanity stood o... | 2019-12-19T03:08:41 | 2019-12-19T02:49:29 | 2,434 | 36 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcast silently."
I chuckled to myself and lowered my cup of tea as the text scrolled across the bottom of the blank screen.
"Hey babe! what do you think this..." my words caught in my throat as the broadcast finished.
"you are to remain ... | Weird, I thought. I knew my cable box could turn on my TV for Weather Warnings, but I never thought it would actually happen.
A scratching sound is coming from the TV. No, not a scratching. It's a whisper.
"please, please" it says. A young woman's voice? Maybe a child. Hard to say, it's so low. I turn the volume up ... | 2016-08-10T07:25:49 | 2016-08-10T07:18:16 | 265 | 59 |
[WP] Hundreds of thousands of years ago, humanity, a feared spacefaring race was finally pushed back by a galactic coalition. Forced to settle on the death world Earth with no technology in hopes that they would die off. Now, after evolving among the local wildlife, humans take to the stars again. | Magister Karasu grumbled, flipping the pages of the Imperial Decree sent by the Kondeyku Empire denouncing the supposedly illegal mining done by the Gargaxton Commonality. If a human were to look upon him, he would appear as a short, stocky lizard with a predatory look, three legs and a pair of tentacle-like appendages... | “Left to die, but we are born anew.”
The Shima spoke with powerful, passionate language. It was a rallying cry, for a race that had been sentenced and silenced for their strength, pushed back to the brinks of ruin.
“We have evolved. We have grown.”
There were no cheers. There was no laughter. We believed in that onc... | 2018-07-19T06:14:45 | 2018-07-19T05:02:14 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | The clipping in the newspaper about me, although quite thoughtful, was the worst thing to ever happen to me.
"Jacob Qwuizek, a self-proclaimed atheist, was taken off of life support two days ago after an intense court battle, which has come to be known as Jacob vs. Marshall. Jacob was only 22 at the age of his death, ... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, ... | 2016-01-17T11:21:55 | 2016-01-17T11:19:18 | 137 | 15 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | "The thing about ADHD is not that the brain is unable to focus, but that it is trying to *constantly* focus. It needs some type of stimulation at all times. If the task-at-hand slows down even for a little bit, it doesn't use up the brains full focus and becomes boring, so the brain starts to wonder, searching for some... | so lyk i just strted riting bcuz my nan told me i should work on my riting skill or w/e its gr8 cuz i can tell when ill get good but idk wut 2 rite about so w/e gonna come back 2moro 4 more skillups
Ive been writing 4 a while now and i can totes tell how much better i am @ it. Like spelling words and fullstops and stu... | 2015-10-06T09:27:27 | 2015-10-06T09:08:09 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | It took me a long time to realise that the system that was offered was not assurance for balance, but rather mercy.
I stopped counting the years once I reached three hundred. I had a long time to master my craft. The more people I killed, the more numb I grew to the act. My later kills turning more and more into norma... | The first time it had happened was out of fear. There's not too much to remember about it - just ragged breathing and shaky hands and blind panic. Lifetimes ago, I'd stood over their limp body, watching the blood pool around them in shock. It was sickening. It was wrong.
But it had happened again.
And again.
And aga... | 2018-06-09T02:27:14 | 2018-06-09T01:55:18 | 194 | 17 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | Vanessa finished her spiel, and Kimberly continued to sit stock still on the couch. That had been a lot of information in a medium amount of time, and honestly it was a lot to take in. Halfway through, Kimberly had dismissed the idea that Vanessa was making everything up; she wasn't great off the top of her head. Once ... | "OK, so what you're telling me is ur gonna have to wear a frilly dress even though they make you dysphoric, pretend that ur dating me, and convince ur homophobic, conservative mom that im a good partner for the prince of hell?" Texted Tissues, sitting on his bed while texting Trophy, who was at the mall buying a... | 2022-10-08T23:48:36 | 2022-10-08T20:49:21 | 102 | 16 |
[WP] A planet rotates once every 1,000 years so that each side is either tundra or desert; the poles are also frozen wastes, but there is a small area of ever moving habitable land. Two nomadic tribes isolated on each side of the planet begin to find the 500 year old relics of the other.
I kind of imagine one tribe vi... | The Lost City of Kvoehr. Eons past our ancestors had left it here, choking in the embrace of Mother Abyss, believing in the prediction of the Celesteocles that it would remain when we returned.
But the people of Kvoehr had made one tragic mistake. They had believed, as many do, that they would remain forever. Inevitab... | Maybe the priests were right. Maybe the ancestors were coming back, but there was no way they were coming back in THAT thing.
Out there on the middle of the mountain lake, sat the huge monument, half encrusted in ice, shining like a silver crown with spires going as high as the mountains around it. It had certainly be... | 2015-05-11T14:04:26 | 2015-05-11T14:03:06 | 60 | 14 |
[WP] “I bet my soul,” you say confidently. “If you win, you take my soul. If I win, you give me something just as valuable.” You go on to win the bet, only to be granted a single $1 bill. | “W-what?” I asked, flabbergasted. I held up the crisp one dollar bill. Flipped it back and forth a few times to see if I was reading it wrong. I wasn’t. My soul was worth a buck. When I looked back at the Devil, he smiled cynically. I was confused, understandably, but more so, I was down right pissed.
“Surprised are ... | I didn’t understand this at first. Was this some sort of joke?!
I looked down at an all too common treasury note. I made more breathing at work then this. What made this all particularly more interesting was the way this devilish man glared at me, all the while smirking after I won. We had spent hours playing this ga... | 2020-02-05T14:45:25 | 2020-02-05T10:30:52 | 60 | 11 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | The heavy door creaked loudly as Agent Müller slammed the door to the dimly lit interrogation room. He was clearly having a hard time at that point and frankly, so was I.
The murder had been so callous. So brazen. The man had simply walked up to the baby and his parents in plain sight of the whole town and drove a kni... | We get about five of them every month now. Some come armed with knives, some with strange revolvers. Some bring only their bare hands and hubris. All of them are looking for the boy.
The most unnerving thing is that we can't figure out where they're coming from. For all intents and purposes, they seem to appear out of... | 2015-03-30T01:09:11 | 2015-03-30T00:55:12 | 126 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | *They had me dead to rights.*
Caught with an empty magazine, surrounded, someone came up behind me and stabbed. I felt the knife point touch skin. I closed my eyes. I waited to die.
The knife point trembled.
I had yet to turn around, though.
“I will not be taken prisoner by the likes of you, Loyalist. I would ... | I have always admired obsession. I find little of that fervent passion within myself, I must admit it. I felt far too superficially for such a feeling to rise within my breast. Instead I was predisposed towards an apathetic reasoning, containing only the barest vestiges of emotion. Living rotting flesh, in essence.
I... | 2017-04-22T07:04:13 | 2017-04-22T06:56:43 | 113 | 14 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Day 143 of the 10,365th year of the Galactic Federation (April 7th 2574)
As the human ambassador and his staff left the conference room Thrassik found himself walking over to Fleet Commander Horlaq. Horlaq watched his approach with two of his eye stalks, the other three stared at the humans until they were out of sigh... | The world was on fire.
At least, that's what it looked like. The surface was blanketed in thick clouds of grey and brown smoke, the residue of millions of tons of dirt and civilisation blocking out the sun. Even the planet's moon had taken a beating, fresh craters speckling its surface. A lone, battered satellite beam... | 2018-12-15T09:26:04 | 2018-12-15T02:45:32 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | Torus took his seat at the table, one of 11 identical seats. As he glanced around the circle, his upper mouth twisted into a frown. Typically, the ten representatives of the Federation took joy in subtly outdoing one another at their meetings. This human insistance on identical seats set at a round table was perplexing... | Most species we would call warlike never make it to the stars. Those with the need to destory, willingness to kill and die, it's not a viable life plan.
Humans we had encounterd at the edge of Solar System Gamma-Phi in the Virgo Cluster. They seemed so fearfull then, instantly scared of us and what we could do to thei... | 2022-08-05T18:58:12 | 2022-08-05T17:26:19 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] A planet rotates once every 1,000 years so that each side is either tundra or desert; the poles are also frozen wastes, but there is a small area of ever moving habitable land. Two nomadic tribes isolated on each side of the planet begin to find the 500 year old relics of the other.
I kind of imagine one tribe vi... | The Lost City of Kvoehr. Eons past our ancestors had left it here, choking in the embrace of Mother Abyss, believing in the prediction of the Celesteocles that it would remain when we returned.
But the people of Kvoehr had made one tragic mistake. They had believed, as many do, that they would remain forever. Inevitab... | "Pressure?" I asked.
"I'm not detecting any changes," said William. "Atmospheric pressure same as it's ever been. Why do even bother checking?"
My patience was wearing thin as well, but it was important I didn't show that to William. "Lieutenant, unless you have a better way of getting off this rock, we're going to c... | 2015-05-11T14:04:26 | 2015-05-11T13:26:42 | 60 | 22 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | Sorry for any typos, written on mobile.
Edit: To the kind person who gave me gold, [thank you](https://media2.giphy.com/media/kkAdqZnvhsc12/giphy.gif) :)
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#The Ex-Con#
Officer Gurira watched impassively as a wrinkled face took a seat across from him. PC-502, otherwise known as Adam Forester, was the oldest convict... | It was a tough time within the state penitentiary jail. But after all these years, Jerry was finally out. He had stayed in the hole for 50 long years, doing hard time, so that he could murder his brother Daniel, and other random people who he thought was also worth the time.
Jerry breathed the cold air as he walked ou... | 2016-02-23T18:24:54 | 2016-02-23T17:26:21 | 843 | 110 |
[WP] You're the last god left alive in an abandoned heaven, unable to leave or start a new pantheon. The last demon drops by to hang out sometimes.
It should read 'last god left', but hey, the 'alive' can stay I guess. | The Demon knocked.
"Come in!" called the God.
She came in.
The room was warm as a cuddle. A little stone fireplace flickered lazily in the corner. The God sat in front of his coffee table on a pristine, antique sofa, one of only two seats in the room. This was heaven, or what was left of it. This was heaven, and it ... | "The stories."
"Really?"
"Of course. A god receives a prayer, and the mortal's life is splayed out like a manuscript. Like a story that started with an idea. Or a whim. Then life did it's thing, and became more."
"Or less. Plenty of bad ideas and poor impulses went around."
"Some ideas are worth entertaini... | 2016-03-26T08:41:13 | 2016-03-26T07:46:15 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] On the run from mercenaries, a young girl stumbles into an old Greek temple and in a last ditch effort to save herself, begs for help from whichever god or goddess it belongs to. She didn't expect them to show up in person. | I didn't know where i was anymore. My legs felt like lead, and my lungs we're on fire. It was starting to get dark so i figured i had under an hour to make it back to the cruise ship before it left port. My family was probably worried sick. After all, I did ditch them halfway through the day to be on my own.
"There s... | "Well this is a surprise. No one has come to this shrine in thirty years."
Of course I'm on the run from mercenaries who have just slaughtered my whole village, but apparently that was not the weirdest thing the gods planned for today. Standing in front of me was Nemesis.
"Why are you here? No one talks to ME anymore... | 2020-06-15T19:56:48 | 2020-06-15T19:33:10 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Every Wednesday for the past 5 years you have received an envelope of cash. The envelopes always contain exactly $800 with the same note "You will understand some day" | Long time, first time. Hope you guys like it:
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$800 a week. $41,000 a year. All in all, a little more than $200K.
To some people that's a fortune. To most I know, it’s a nice bonus on top of an already-bloated corporate salary. For me? It was just enough to completely change my life. For better and... | “Excuse me Sir, is this yours?” I asked the man sitting beside me at the bus stop, “It was on the ground here. Did you drop it?”
The man looked at the $100 bill I held out to him and sighed. “Nah, never have big bills like that.”
At first glance he seemed to be a scruffy hygienically-challenged homeless man but like... | 2016-09-06T15:19:53 | 2016-09-06T14:48:45 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | FADE IN:
INT. A CORPORATE BOARDROOM – DAY
*Several men and women in suits sit around a large table, all of them looking bored. At the front of the room, a man with a white beard flicks at the black eyepatch that he wears. This is ODIN.*
**ODIN:** You know, I was supposed to get the wisdom of the ages.
*Halfhearted ... | "My lord, you must understand this is no ordinary spatula." I said
standing in front of the mighty Odin and his board. How did I even get into this situation? My whole life I have been the mightiest of warriors, fought countless battles, outsmarted the smartest opponents. Yet here I stand, with a spatula in my hand. I... | 2022-11-15T16:07:01 | 2018-03-26T11:25:33 | 390 | 51 |
[WP] After several thousand years of gathering coins from passengers, Charon the Ferryman has finally saved up enough money to buy what he wanted. | The vessel that bobbed in the inky-black ocean was a cross between a pirate ship and a cruise liner. It was traditional in its makeup: masses of planking and billowing sails, but large enough to comfortably hold two hundred souls. There was an on-board casino, hot-spring jacuzzis, a theatre that could hold productions ... | “What’s taking him so long? If he doesn’t get here soon, I might die of boredom.” Marcus said. His hands resting behind his neck, trying to get himself comfortable as he laid on the rocky terrain of the underworld. Watching the river Styx float before him with no sign of the Ferryman.
“I don’t think you can die of bo... | 2022-04-12T01:42:29 | 2022-04-12T01:20:37 | 1,213 | 345 |
[WP] Designing children is now possible. Your child is now a teenager and you are dealing with the consequences. | Helen was waiting when I got home and I could tell something was wrong as soon as I saw her. A knot formed in my lower intestine as I saw her eyes were red from crying. I tried remembering the last time I'd seen her cry. It was four years ago when her father died. She'd always been the stronger link in our chain and wh... | A lot of people have really bratty kids. Not me.
In fact, originally I wasn't even going to have kids. I didn't want to deal with the screaming, the diapers, the drain of my time and money, basically all the reasons you hear from people who are childless. I wanted to explore the world, start my own business, have pass... | 2015-08-24T10:25:18 | 2015-08-24T10:11:51 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “Ummm… I’m sorry…?”
You could have given me 100 years and a life time supply of religious texts and tutors and I never would have imagined my first conversation with Jesus would start this way. And while I had never really been religious my whole life, I wouldn’t say I was ever really “anti” anything.
“Oh, not yet.” ... | “Ah. The Antichrist. What have you to say for yourself? What have you to say of all you’ve done while I’ve been away?”
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very sm... | 2020-02-02T18:18:47 | 2020-02-02T17:55:34 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Satan and God both occasionally come to Earth in human form, Satan to corrupt souls, God to relax and observe his creation. One day, Satan walks into a pub, and sees God (in human form) sitting at the bar. God looks at Satan, slides a beer over to him, and indicates the empty stool to his left | "Why don't we talk for a little bit Satan? It's been a while." God said as he motioned to the empty stool to the side of him. Satan looked at his old rival cautiously, an expression that one would give a childhood bully offering a hug, but accepted the offer silently.
"I have to give you credit, you do pull of your s... | God saddles up to the bar and says "Wow, what a blessed day, I observed my creations painting, making beautiful music, and cleaning up a beach that was soiled by an oil spill to make it habitable by my animal creatures again...what did you do?"
Satan slams a shot of tequila, puts the shotglass down and says "I was hav... | 2015-09-14T22:49:07 | 2015-09-14T21:30:35 | 82 | 57 |
[WP] In the eyes of an alien, describe an invasion of its home planet by humans. Make the humans the scariest thing I have ever read about. | Being the first day of the rotation, the center was quiet. In the administrators office, too, a tense silence had settled over the cycle-fabricated furniture. Kryzzic shifted nervously in the silence as he always did. He shifted even more when the recruit spoke, voicing his thoughts in his harsh monotone. He had though... | They breathe our poisonous oxygen, in through mouths filled with bone shrapnel, that drip dripping with digestive enzymes. When they are happy they smile at you, showing you their fangs. That should tell you everything you need to know about humans.
They have two eyes, limited to a small range of the visual spectrum. ... | 2015-03-07T05:39:25 | 2015-03-07T04:13:20 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Someone makes an anonymous book publish, the book is called "Everything Is a weapon. -By Humans", it immediatly becomes a best seller, it becomes a required read when entering any alien military and a must read for every alien interested in self-defense. | "How is this noteworthy? A weapon is anything used to inflict damage on a being. That is the definition of a weapon. It could be anything you pick up, anything you use."
"Yes, but don't forget that with their nimble hands and tough fingers, humans can pick up almost anything they are strong enough to lift."
Algo s... | "Don't crush the skull of your enemy if you are planning to drink from it later" X'ona cited. "'Everything is a Weapon', of course".
Of course, we thought. Pretentious prick, always wrongly citing the "Weapon", talking like they understand humans at all. Our partial-parent was an expert on human tactics but as usual w... | 2021-11-30T06:40:04 | 2021-11-30T06:02:44 | 99 | 11 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | "Hey everyone, watch what Jen can do!"
The night has reached the point when standing up is problematic. We have given up on the facade of being a sophisticated, standing party that we put up at the beginning of the night. Now we're splayed out on the couches and floor. This lazy, increasingly loud occupation is punctu... | Tom sat in the corner of the cell, lip busted and eye quickly swelling shut. Peering out from his good eye, he saw the towering cellmate strutting over towards him, lips moving, tongue flying, but Tom couldn't hear what he was saying over the ruckus the other men were making.
"Help!" Tom yelled, letting his head loll... | 2015-11-28T11:43:25 | 2015-11-28T11:43:06 | 380 | 36 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Everyone has at least one tattoo they absolutely love.
Jenny from upstairs has this peacock on her back- something she says is for her mother. Which is. Just. Absolute bullshit. She has it because she's a vain bitch.
But god is that tattoo beautiful. Curving lines inlayed with golds and greens and shocking blues. I... | I look in the mirror. I see a pale, wan man looking back at me. I no longer recognize myself but that barely concerns me. I see countless tattoos of the same shape. Small shapes of knife scattered all across my body like the stars of the galaxy. When people discover a tattoo, they wonder what meaning it has for their l... | 2017-08-03T15:53:09 | 2017-08-03T15:09:43 | 69 | 11 |
[WP] you two are humans that have been thrown into an arena for the amusement of some aliens, you have both been starved for days yet when a delicious steak is placed between you two you do something they wouldn't expect. Share. | We dove upon it, saliva mixing with dust to mat our over grown beards with steak juice, tearing it in half as we did. I can only assume their point-of-refernece was celluloid and cathode ray era media like the egg heads say. The broadcasts of early TV and radio shows traveling at light speed across space are just now a... | -rough draft- (forgot to incorporate hunger) (check gen and verb consistency)
I can’t tell if my memories of another human reflect the actual moment, or if my mind is so broken is has completely imagined falsehoods. I don’t remember my name, only my clan name Donohue-only because the ship always referred to me as such... | 2018-04-16T07:44:48 | 2018-04-16T06:46:25 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] In your world, friendship is literally magic. However, your bond must be true. Magic is bluer the more friends you have, and it's also stronger. Your cousin is the second strongest sorcerer alive. The strongest? You, with red magic and an absolute hatred for everyone you've ever met. | "Look at this idiot, he's gonna challenge me in a month after some dumbass quest to prove me wrong or some shit."
"Donald, please be a little more polite to the kid."
"No, he's going to get himself killed in some completely preventable way that I had nothing to do with, and then his friends will fight me to avenge hi... | Red wisps of light engulfed the scene as the air grew thick with the weight of magic. Two figures stood in the clearing, duelling. The first was the strongest sorcerer alive: Axel. Billowing black cloak blowing behind him, he raised his hand as daggers of crimson rained from the increasingly darker sky. In an effort to... | 2020-10-03T16:47:58 | 2020-10-03T16:33:24 | 1,060 | 166 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | Doctor Alonso couldn't believe his eyes.
Deep in the code, a single line was responsible.
Like the dropping of food crumbs into a delicate machine by a clumsy and negligent technician, the single phrase that caused so much trouble stared back at him.
An entire lifetime didn't prepare him for what he saw and the ange... | Had I known then what I know now, I would've left my position on the board and pursued a new life. That, however, is something I cannot do.
It was simple. The technology was attainable, and the polls showed the demand. All that was left was the creation itself – an artificial intelligence that could regulate the work... | 2015-03-02T07:33:06 | 2015-03-02T07:28:28 | 226 | 55 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | You want to know how I got these scars?
Well, for one thing they aren’t ‘scars’, if you look closely you’ll see it’s one continuous scar that travels around my face, neck, down my body, all around wrapping itself around my arms, legs, fingers and toes.
The only part of my body that isn’t scarred tissue is the inside... | "Anything else?" the waitress asked me, as she smacked a cup of coffee on the table somewhat carelessly. I think her name was Darla. I shook my head a bit and watched her saunter back to the counter out of the corner of my eye. I knew she had judged me from the moment she saw me. She had given me the same look most eve... | 2016-12-29T16:31:53 | 2016-12-29T16:20:19 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] After years of having what you thought to be a slow computer, you suddenly get a popup:'installation complete'. | "Installation Complete"
Nope, that's not right. I bought the computer secondhand from a friend, I formatted it, installed what I needed and left everything else alone. I'd never downloaded as much as a torrent onto this machine.
What the hell was installing?
I considered calling a friend to help though I was loathe... | “Greetings, Michael.” Said a robotic voice in a glitchy, gender neutral tone made slightly ominous due to the tinny computer speakers.
*Oh great, who the fuck is screwing with me now?* Michael thought. *It must be Josh. This is definitely something Josh would do. He does major in computer sciences, after all.*
“I app... | 2017-10-14T06:42:31 | 2017-10-14T05:20:20 | 3,782 | 1,394 |
[WP] Every country has ninjas but the world only knows about Japan's because theirs suck.
Edit: mum im famous | My codename is Green Man because technically I'm a recycler. I repurpose the old, shine it up nice and sleek so that it may be made new. Most people don't know this, but the modernization of Japan has never quite stopped. There are pockets of holdouts where tradition clings on. Like the samurai of old, it's my job to r... | Asla had never travelled this far east before. She chose to hike the last stretch of her journey, leaving her beat-up car under a tarpaulin, tucked behind a copse of trees. Nature had beat back man’s progress here, and all she had for company were the skittish wildlife, the rush of the waterfalls, the snowflakes cascad... | 2022-06-12T18:37:28 | 2017-11-16T08:36:47 | 1,102 | 173 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | She offered me water.
In the middle of the Death Forge Desert, water was worth more than gold. Worth more than magic even, as most of us need it for even basic spellwork. It was as if she didn't care or mind that offering it to me could spell her own doom. She was right to, in any case. I am one of the best friends sh... | 'Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'
The dungeon was filled with screams and blood like it always does. But the screaming and the lifeless bodies that is hanging from the chains doesn't belong to its usual prisoner. Laying lifelessly on the table is captain of the prison guard, his left eye gouged by a crude device, his fingers a... | 2019-12-07T12:19:11 | 2019-12-07T11:35:02 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] The Moon Landing goes horribly wrong as NASA unexpectedly loses contact with Apollo 11. The next day, the shuttle is found embedded in the White House, gunned down by silver arrows along with a note written in Ancient Greek saying ''Keep your trash off my property!" | "Well, Mr. President, it appears we've rather accidentally awakened the wrath of the gods," the liason said with a shrug.
"What do you mean the gods? There's one god, and he doesn't fire silver arrows and dump multi-million dollar space shuttles on my damn lawn!" The president raged, pacing across the Oval Office, the... | The President watched from behind the glass. The Secret Service had argued against it, but he needed to see for himself. The message had been directed at him, after all, left on his doorstep, and he needed to have the answers first hand.
Behind the glass, the scientists worked on the arrows, analyzing them. The tec... | 2020-06-04T05:39:45 | 2020-06-04T04:42:45 | 170 | 31 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | "Kok, kok, kok". Sounds of someone knocking on a wooden door came from outside the house. After a while with no response, the door was pushed open by the visitors. And then they stepped in.
The visitors are around 2-3 in numbers, have greenish skin, ostritch like bodies, with two strong arms fling out like a kangaroo.... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T18:42:57 | 516 | 110 |
[WP] You live in a house infested with ghosts, but with the years you got used to them and their tricks, like the blood in the sink, hair in the walls, whispers at night, laughing children, etc. This weekend you have friends coming over and turns out that being used to ghost isn't normal. | "GET OOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUT!"
I rolled my eyes. "Ezekiel, I already told you, they're coming here to watch the fight this week."
The booming, rumbling voice that emanated from the dark opening to the basement went silent for a moment. Then a low groan came from the same open doorway, followed by another haunting wail.
"G... | Thank you so much for this prompt! Hope you enjoy!
Jenny carefully handed out blindfolds to her three friends. She planned this out for days. If they can get past the thing on the stairs they'll be safe in the basement until morning. If we're blindfolded we can't see it and if we move fast enough it can't grab us.
"W... | 2021-08-03T09:43:47 | 2021-08-02T13:22:27 | 580 | 81 |
[WP] In the far future, a gladiator stadium finds its gladiators by time traveling the greatest warriors of all time into a single arena. You cannot believe you were chosen. | I was a doctor. Not a soldier. I didn't hold rifles, or use my hands for combat. I held scalpels, and used my hands to probe the deepest recesses of the human body.
The man in front of me, massive barrel chest heaving, incredible arms, built for crushing, rending, clutched a short sword.
It was explained to me when... | **INTERGALACTIC GLADIATORS**
They say the pen is mightier than the sword.
But I’m pretty sure whoever the heck *they* are had never found themselves being charged by a four-hundred-pound warrior wielding the largest sword I’d ever seen, while only being armed with a, you guessed it, a fountain pen.
I didn’t even hav... | 2022-07-04T08:50:35 | 2022-07-04T08:43:34 | 719 | 72 |
[WP] Humanity is visited by a cosmic horror the likes of which has only been seen in Lovecraftian horror. In desperation, Earth throws everything we have at it, and, miraculously, the human race has killed a God. Somewhere in a realm beyond our understanding, the other gods speak of the event. | **They have died.**
*Meddled with a black hole again?*
**Tried to embrace an organic species.**
*And when did They die?*
**The species killed They.**
*...you are mistaken, We.*
**The waves have been clear enough. They have died at the hands of a small, organic species.**
*That is impossible. How could-*
"I keep... | Death is a strange thing. To most of the universe it might be considered a constant. It is something unavoidable, and in a twisted way brings meaning to life. To those of the forgotten church, death was more of a concept - it was an interesting idea that offered respite from the toiled labor of unceasing existence. So,... | 2022-12-12T08:58:57 | 2022-12-12T07:45:16 | 2,312 | 672 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability. | "Where on earth are my keys?" Amanda asked, mostly to herself.
I continued reading reddit on my phone but replied, "They're in your coat pocket over by the door."
Footsteps and a rattling of metal as they were discovered, followed by breathy giggle.
"How is it that you always know where the keys are?"
Shaking ... | Kiril’s long sandy hair hung in his eyes unless he tied it back. He never went anywhere without his bow strapped over his shoulders or his handmade pair of leather shoes. The sun had turned his skin dark, his hair bright. He smelt salty like the ocean.
When he showed up at the far shore of the broken land, dripping w... | 2015-01-08T16:12:50 | 2015-01-08T13:48:09 | 66 | 44 |
[WP] Two immortals meet and fall in love. Neither of them are aware of the other's immortality and the years are flying by... | My heart fluttered when she walked past. And not a simple flutter, the kind that catches in your throat. This was a punctual beat, three significant strokes like an ellipses.
My eyes traced her blonde locks, and she turned to quickly glance. Her mischievous green eyes lit up from beneath her beanie rim. I found mysel... | Caroline had really never understood time.
It was something other people felt, wasted in their youth and clung to in their old age. Caroline had what some called, "the gift". She looked much younger than she was. Men started at her her a hair too long, women craned their necks. Men imagined being with her her while th... | 2016-04-27T23:23:40 | 2016-04-27T23:23:12 | 132 | 75 |
[WP] In a world where magic can be cast through song, musicians rule over society. You are the last of your kind, a Scandinavian Death Metal Singer. | The Pop Idols, as they have been taken to calling themselves, count on their catchy tunes and simple melodies to command the weak willed. As such, they have command over most of the land. Only the Bluesmen of the South and the Grunge Lords of the Pacific manage a hold over their lands. As they try to keep life as norma... | My first post here. Let me give it a shot:
A lone man traveled across the wastelands. His head was slightly bowed and his long brown hair obscured most of his profile. On his back, he carried an electric guitar. To ordinary people, it looked like just another regular instrument. But to him, it was the ultimate source ... | 2016-11-01T15:42:04 | 2016-11-01T14:25:15 | 41 | 16 |
[WP]There exist five universes, each one tentatively connected to the others. Each universe is defined by the ABSENCE of one of the five elements; Earth, Water, Air, Fire & Magic. Our universe is the one without magic. | I am not an experienced author so any feedback would be appreciated :) This doesn't exactly fit the prompt but I liked the idea of an origin story.
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In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was a Something. This Something was a great being, made of five elements, swirling into a colossal form th... | The initial plans called for a phalanx of special forces to accompany Jamie – two to flank his side, another forty-eight to encircle the sprawling mansion in the upperclass suburbs, all with strict orders to contain any disturbance with extreme prejudice.
Jamie had finally convinced his bosses to see things his way. ... | 2017-04-30T09:14:01 | 2017-04-30T09:11:26 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | Those pathetic humies had barely touched the stars when my empire collided and absorbed them into the fold of my dominion.
I destroyed their paltry fleet myself, my armies met little resistance on the ground, their government weak and corrupt...
They will pay for their foolishness as I work them to the bone as nothi... | A man in a white suit stood atop a crumbled building. He wore shiny white shoes and a cape dark as the void. He held a phone to his ear and heard the surrender from the last of the US's generals, vowing to dismantle the last nuclear silo without his intervention. A cheer sounded from outside of the rubble, so he climbe... | 2017-05-23T14:23:28 | 2017-05-23T12:18:54 | 62 | 11 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | The madman actually did it. Alfred von Heynitz, five time re-elected Syndic (formerly Bürgmeister) of the (former) Imperial Free City of Ulm officially declared himself duke. I should've seen the signs sooner. Perhaps I am getting old, but I never expected it to come to this.
The man is undeniably absolute military g... | Obligatory apology for mobile formatting and obligatory first writing prompt attempt.
A sharp cold hung in the air. It was much colder today, unseasonably cold. Though it is August, the temperatures here in Athens had been fairly typical for the season. Unable to place this suspicious weather, I went to my usual café... | 2019-03-10T13:00:44 | 2019-03-10T12:24:58 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] In reality, every human gets to choose heaven or hell when they die. Hell isn't actually the realm of eternal torture, but everyone picks heaven because of God's highly effective marketing. After eons of solitude, Lucifer is startled by the first ever human to arrive in hell. | Hades took in the woman before him. She was a rather average specimen. She was pale, short, with long red hair and a black dress. He was about to question her choice when she noticed him, sitting in a shadowed corner.
As she walked, she shadows behind her ankles seemed to ripple.
When she arrived beside his throne,... | Of course, it seemed silly at the time that his demons had recommended implementing the new EviSafe Home Security System. After all, in over 200,000 years not a single mortal has *chosen* to come here. I had thought it was so easy, I was the Director of Operations for Heaven and was passed up for that damned promotion ... | 2020-01-30T12:35:06 | 2020-01-30T12:19:04 | 279 | 37 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | The King came in, a devilish grin spread on his face. Well, he *tried* for it to be devilish, but given his gentle disposition, it came off as endearing and amicable rather than menacing.
"Guess what, my love!" he exclaimed cheerfully and placed a kiss on his wife's pale cheek. She turned to him with a warm smile; a s... | "Believe me, they're gonna lov- *loathe* this!", my dearly beloved exclaims, his eyes brightening up in what he perhaps believes is mischief. He desperately tries to gather a flock of birds in his arms, trying to keep them locked but there is always one who flays up and rushes around in search of an exit.
The more I w... | 2022-04-29T02:59:30 | 2022-04-28T22:50:47 | 896 | 111 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Hey Badger-La-"
"Dude, its Fred."
"Fred, whats up with her?" Alvin pointed to a pretty young girl sitting alone near the back of the cafeteria.
"Al, you're new here. Don't mess with her."
"Yeah, everyone says that. So, what's her deal?"
"That's Juri. She's normal."
"Normal?"
"Yeah Al, normal."
"What's that ev... | "Well, well, well, if it's Tommy O'Gransworth. Granny to me and the boys, like." In came Ted Nuggerton. All-round arsehole, and self-proclaimed champion of the school ground. His thicker-than-most Irish accent horrendously disturbing the peace.
I was sitting in the small tired-looking, abandoned chapel, built back in... | 2022-11-02T13:27:39 | 2022-11-02T11:48:42 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | A while back, I dated this girl named Amanda. She was really [](#s "not at all") a nice person. Boy, was she a [](#s "bathroom-window-") looker, though! We got into a lot of trouble together [](#s "peeking through bathroom windows."). Awh, I remember this one time - it was the middle of the night, it had to have been t... | Freakin spoilers man.
**Censored:**
She was laying in the middle of the room in a king bed, completely alone. In the pale and tender moonlight that shone through the window, she truly looked like a queen, and I swear to you in that moment, I might have even felt a little love for her. I mean, we were together for a ... | 2015-06-07T17:17:20 | 2015-06-07T17:00:05 | 90 | 21 |
[WP] Yesterday your best friend (who you secretly had a crush on) died. You're teleported without warning to a seat at a table. Across from you is Death and Satan, next to you is your best friend. "Sorry." Death says, "You're friend chose a two-versus-two game."
Edit: I get it. "Your" not "You're". It was late and I k... | "Ok, so a 2v2. What's the game?"
Death's eyes twinkled. "A 2v2 beerpong."
My grin grows wider than Death's. Samantha, you clever shit. "What's the catch?"
"Impossible angles with terrible bouncing surfaces. The difficulty of each target increases per cup achieved. What starts out as a pyramid formation of cups on a ... | I've just gone ahead and ignored the part about me having a crush on them
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I felt dizzy, like i just rode the worldst longest and trippist rollercoaster in the world. I couldnt see right, everything was blurry and fuzzy. When my vision returend i saw a skeleton in a black robe alongside a red figur... | 2019-01-09T02:35:43 | 2019-01-09T02:05:40 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villain's doorstep one night. They're bleeding, and scared. There's also a slight dazed look in their eyes they were drugged. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly as they're close to passing our, they mumble "...didn't know where else to go..." then collapse. | The doorman alerts me to the presence coming up the gates. Looking out, I couldn't help but feel my heart clench once more.
Not another one.
Opening the door, I look down at the Hero in front of me. Another young, naive, "chosen one" thrown against me, in a place isolated from 'civilisation' in the middle of the wi... | Vantablack Ogresse Emperor Eigengrau may have been the Supreme Emperor of Gray and Greed, but he wasn’t above indulging in simple creature comforts.
As fond as he was of his jeweled throne; there was a quaint, peasant-ish charm to the way the Laz-ee-boy sofa embraced his armored frame. And although he preferred his w... | 2020-12-11T16:37:49 | 2020-12-11T15:44:27 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Jim lamented. "Gain a year of life for each descendant, what could go wrong?"
"And it went wrong." The bound man muttered.
"What gave it away? The fact that your great-great-great-granddaddy is a goddamn twelve year old." Jim sighed. "You know getting old was a bitch, you... | It took me until I was forty to fall in love. It took me until I was forty and a half to get married. I discovered three things in those six months:
1. My cynicism towards love withered and died in the face of an open heart and a gentle smile.
2. There actually were people out there as smart and as driven to succeed a... | 2021-04-15T11:22:56 | 2021-04-15T10:53:31 | 400 | 166 |
[WP] "For the last time no this is not a date, we are fighting, I am actively trying to murder you at this very moment!" "You say that buuuuuuuut..." | "For the last time no this is not a date, we are fighting, I am actively trying to murder you at this very moment!"
"You say that buuuuuuuut... I can not let you do that Jeremy." Denise said in a calm assertive tone.
"It's not up to you. It's up to me. I am going to kill one of us, maybe both." Jeremy screamed.
"Wha... | "buuuuuuuuut, why does killing involve dinner at a fancy restaurant?"
She lifts her glass as she smiles at me, under the table I can feel her foot snaking up my legs. Her eyes stay locked on mine and I feel utterly helpless as I watch her lips and the rim of the glass make contact.
We have been here a while, we came ... | 2021-05-25T10:27:53 | 2021-05-25T07:34:54 | 109 | 46 |
[WP] Pacifist aliens, incapable of aggression, are being slaughtered by their rivals. To save themselves from annihilation they turn to the universes most violent species, humans. | "Do you have the first specimen?" Globrax asked Boobzy.
"Er, umm, yes sir." Boobzy replied timidly, "I must warn you though he's is definitely one of the more violent ones."
"Good Boobzy, good. We need that kind of agression to go up against a Smearnox." Globrax said rubbing the two thumbs on his right hand together,... | Lance Ravenbow here. Professional armorer and dragon slayer.
This reminds me of the time the people of the town of Ploop hired me to defend them from a clan of dropwights.
I should tell you up front -- and I'm ashamed of this, mind -- that they didn't hire me for any grand and noble reason. At that time of my life I ... | 2021-08-07T20:02:29 | 2021-08-07T18:11:41 | 131 | 96 |
[WP] The outgoing President of the United States has written a letter to the newly inaugurated President. Instead of friendly advice, that letter contains the horrible truth that the public doesn't know about. Write that letter.
What is that horrible secret? | To whom it may concern,
Congratulations on becoming the President of the United States. It's pretty awesome. But let's not bother with stating the obvious, and let me get straight to the point.
There is something that I have been...neglecting for some time now. I suppose there are many things that have gone to the wa... | Hey Dogg,
It’s President Obama. Well, former-President Obama. What’s good? Don’t bother responding to that, this is an email and I won’t be able to hear what you said. I mean, you’re welcome to respond if you want, but it’s really not going to do much for you. Yeah, maybe it’ll make this whole “hey we’re cool dog” ema... | 2014-05-01T13:46:18 | 2014-05-01T13:44:04 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] Humans are one of if not the only species in the galaxy who can heal their wounds naturally. Your alien friend is learning this for the first time after they accidentally hurt you
Apologies for the wordy title | Blork looked down in horror at her new friends hand, the knife was on the floor and the deathly red liquid was seeping from the gash.
"I am sorry my companion, I have ended you, what do you request of me in your final moments"
James looked at Blork and the cut on his hand.
"It's alright, just a cut, stop being so melo... | When I was young, I enjoyed nothing more than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They were so simple, and yet so tasty at the same time. The creamy goodness of the peanut butter blended in with the sweetness of the jam made my mouth explode with joy and the fact that I could easily assemble one(albeit with no small am... | 2017-05-11T02:50:32 | 2017-05-11T01:50:11 | 224 | 46 |
[WP] The young sorceress climbed into the cave. “A contest”, she proposed. “If I win I claim all your artifacts and runes.” The old wizard stood up and laughed. “And if I win you become my student”. | The young sorceress climbed into the cave. “A contest”, she proposed. “If I win I claim all your artifacts and runes.”
The old wizard stood up and laughed. “And if I win you become my student”.
"Fine," she said.
"As the challenged party, I will choose the contest and the place."
"No way!" she protested.
"Then ... | Treasa panted as she finally heaved herself over the lip of the rock ledge. *Go up to Bristleskin Peak*, they had said. *He makes his home in a cave, tucked into the highest mountain*.
It was out of her way. It was *really* out of her way. But despite the hours-long ride, and the climb that left her covered in swe... | 2017-10-24T09:42:45 | 2017-10-24T07:52:56 | 120 | 69 |
[WP]A brave knight hunts an infamous dragon, and local villagers spend days telling him not to pursue his quest, to no avail. Eventually, one villager gets fed up and says, "Look us and the lizard have a good thing going here. Don't ruin it." | The Knight sighed, massaging the bridge of his nose with his index finger and thumb “Elaborate”
“Well we’ve all come to a consensus that all this feudalism nonsense isn’t working for us at the bottom rung” said the Peasant.
“It is your duty to serve your Lord and King, peasant” said the Knight high upon his horse.
“... | The purposeless Wisgarius trudged, unthinking, along the sole road out of the small town of Edgewood, staring only at his shadow, cast by the full moon at his back. His purpose, for the last 10 years, was simple: Kill Aerlaes, Bringer of Death. Kill the damned dragon that killed his father, Hildebrant the Brave, leavin... | 2019-04-15T02:03:23 | 2019-04-15T01:57:58 | 56 | 15 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | I sit alone in the darkened room of my living room, the faint light of the television illuminated me. I was unnerved by the feeling that I needed to do something. It had been weeks, almost two months since I had gone out and done something. Something bad, but Powerhouse never showed up for any of the times I decided to... | "I didn't know where else to go..." Little more came from the now collapsing knight's throat.
There were few reasons for him to have turned to me.
One - the most obvious and at the same time least likely one - is that he tried to pull a fast one on me, tried to use the subterfuge I had employed so often. A sentim... | 2019-08-04T04:39:57 | 2019-08-04T03:30:14 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] You are a minion in the service of a dark lord. Your master has tasked you with creating and spreading a prophecy about a chosen one, the only person who can defeat him, so that the so-called "heroes" will stop resisting his rule and instead wait for their savior to arrive. | I grabbed the brush and made deep strokes. The fresh black paint glistened in the early morning as I hammered the paper onto the side of the general goods store.
*The chosen one is born! He will cleanse our world in his wake!*
The plan was simple.
My master, the evil Goblin King, wanted to take a different approach ... | “With the highest amount of respect to you, my master, I’m unsure about this plan. I understand your great will and wit is only matched by the gods, but are you positive about this? What about Riza the heart snatcher or Jok the eye licker? Both seem more frightening than me.” The pint-sized goblin brushed his hands aga... | 2021-03-17T21:24:21 | 2021-03-17T20:04:32 | 130 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity has finally achieved interstellar travel and has been acknowledged by other intelligent alien civilizations. The aliens were accepting and shared many pieces of information with the humans. However, what was most surprising is that they called us the "Second Colony of Humans." | At the diplomatic reception, in the heart of the Council Station, it was almost a relief when Amit finally found himself no longer the center of attention. There was other business besides the arrival of the human ambassador, and perhaps some of the other representatives were politely trying not to monopolize his time.... | "Second time?" asked the Chairholder of the Board of Nations. Other members murmured amongst themselves.
"That's what they say." The High Ambassador spread her hands. "The Galactic Confederacy's diplomats mentioned several times in passing about another human space-faring polity they've encountered."
"Preposterous... | 2022-11-04T06:48:04 | 2022-11-04T06:31:17 | 295 | 172 |
[WP] You travel to the future to find that Hitler is on trial, and his disappearance was in fact a future super police operation. The trial is public.
You travel via a time machine. Hitlers defence is insanity caused by medication. | Patricia sat down eagerly in front of the shining rectangle that displayed the court proceedings. She grabbed another slice of vitamin pizza as the defendant was escorted to his seat. Not one moment later, there was a flash of light, and Hitler vanished, leaving only a smoking, charred circle where his chair was.
"Wha... | I gripped the bar in front of me, uncertain about where to go from my current position. Cameras flashed obnoxiously from the Press Gallery opposite, and people surrounding me variously read the program in front of them, tapped holographic handheld devices or stared blankly into space, waiting.
I found it curious that ... | 2014-06-07T11:37:51 | 2014-06-07T11:00:10 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "Guys, it's not that complicated," I say to the increasingly frustrated group of scientists, "I just jump... and then I jump again."
Most of them stare at me open-mouthed, one flings his hands up into the air and storms out of the test room.
"Okay, but... what does it feel like when you jump the second time?" press... | They've been studying me for weeks now. I don't think they'll ever figure it out. Obstacles are nothing to me anymore. But maybe they'll turn me loose soon.
In a section of Arizona where the heat is upon you in seconds before the sun rises there's a facility hidden within the arid desert. What looks like a small ranch... | 2017-02-11T09:05:42 | 2017-02-11T08:30:49 | 144 | 60 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | “Reply yes if you can survive the last video-game you played. If you survive without dying you will be awarded all you win in game.”
“Who texts this at 2:00am in the morning on a Friday night?,” I drunkingly mumbled.
Chuckling, I reminisce in the old days of my video-gaming childhood. I remember playing hours of cre... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T18:41:30 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 194 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | "well that's really not good"
I wake up to see the nightmarish visage of wehrner von kerman standing over me
"Eh HAAAHHH" he says in a horrifically nasal voice that i somehow understand.
in order to leave, i have to "beat" the game, well that's gonna be a little bit of a bitch seeing as kerbal space program has n... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T23:02:08 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 25 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | You look down it your phone, and upon it is a notification, "Huh, weird email. who even uses yahoo mail anymore?" you say to yourself.
As you look at the text, you realize that the background is a mosaic of moving gears, flashing lights, and bubbling tubes.
You are given a choice, either be transported into the game ... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T23:15:41 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 22 | 12 |
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