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[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | At the age of five, I watched my mother have a fatal stroke.
At the age of twelve, I called for ambulances and police on a regular basis as gang wars destroyed my neighborhood- and all I could do was call 911, and watch.
At the age of fourteen, I witnessed my father have a heart attack that eventually took his life, ... | It was as if YHWH and Lucifer planned it all along.
There I was, guided to a white room by a walleyed Frenchman with glasses. It was a room plain and white, with a sofa set, table and bottomless refreshments. This is the life!
And here was where I set to work, three people, poor spirits they were, went into the same... | 2020-07-10T09:28:26 | 2020-07-10T09:25:50 | 154 | 12 |
[WP] Write a pirate story for my three year old son. With a witch in it somewhere. He says there has to be a witch in it.
My son is going through a pirate phase. Every night he asks for a pirate and witch story. I'm running out of variations on the theme. | There once was a pirate named Steve
He had no boat, no crew no sleeves
He would stare all day from the warf at the sea
"Oh what a sad pirate am I, whoah is me"
Day after day he sat on the warf
Hoping someday to have a ship an crew of course
But a ship never came, no crew just the same
Poor pirate Steve didn't live u... | There once was a lonely old pirate, recently retired
due to being shipwrecked on a spooky desert island
so he went on tinder, matched with a local witch
she thought because he had a boat he had to be rich
On meeting her, he stole her broomstick, started to fly it and told her to go on a diet.
| 2015-11-22T06:34:23 | 2015-11-22T06:07:38 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The Captain filled a small container with what had to be bourbon, carefully sealing the spout to prevent any of the liquid from floating away. As I dogged the hatch behind me, I saw that he already had his drink in hand.
First day aboard a starship, and I'm drinking with the boss? Not a bad start.
Captain Leonov sent... | Hannah tried to keep her mind from wandering, tried to focus on the sting of the freshly inked tattoo on her arm - nothing special, just a black bar. No need to make it different from the other tattoo she had covered. If they looked the same, they would lose their power over her. Or so she had hoped.
But still, the ... | 2018-03-11T08:45:50 | 2018-03-11T08:30:48 | 120 | 28 |
[WP] You have just gained superpowers. Unfortunately, nobody can comprehend that you have no intention of being a hero or a villain. | “I’m just a plumber,” I told the Mayor. “Not a superhero."
“Right,” he grinned. “You unclog the pipes of *justice!*”
“No, I mean I’m a literal plumber. I unclog the pipes of toilets.”
The Mayor scratched his head. “So you’re a literal plumber, but... the pipes are metaphors?
“What?”
“Or is the toilet the... | At first, it was easy to hide the magnetism. But then, in moments of forgetfulness, my lunch tray stuck to the back of my hand. Or, in the most embarrassing moment(so far), my crush in band got pulled across the stage, right up to me. By their belt buckle. I didn't realize til he knocked in to me and we fell over, like... | 2021-06-01T20:17:01 | 2021-06-01T18:42:21 | 59 | 33 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T13:40:44 | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 51 | 18 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | This whole thing was ridiculous, he didn't even belong in this world. But somehow here he was, a theoretical physicist, stuck in some sort of medieval society, and from all reasonable observation they had magic!
Actual magic, how was that even possible? When he had first arrived there had been… well he would have call... | Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Whoever said that might as well have been a Prophet.
I'm nearly at the front of the queue. I've been waiting for hours, since I was arrested and interrogated by Enforcers and transported here. It's the most dead silent queue I've ever seen. The Temple ... | 2021-06-24T11:09:46 | 2021-06-24T10:29:59 | 54 | 26 |
[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. | Humans have a saying, "War never changes".
This may be true for humans as they have either imagined or practiced seemingly every single conceivable every style of war.
For the rest of the galaxy at large, "War changed".
When the scourge came, 100's of millions of sentient beings died before anyone truly knew what wa... | “huuuumaaaaan” the small grey being said in a mocking tone
President Wells stared at the alien with contempt
“We know all too well of your so called warnings, your pleas, your “negotiations”. We have experience many other species who also could bear look at at the federation firepower and but quiver in fear at our mi... | 2019-11-24T23:41:46 | 2019-11-24T20:20:21 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | He never wanted to be a hero.
He never intended to be a villain.
He just wanted to be left alone.
Of course, the "heroes" don't care what you want. In their eyes, you're not good, you must be evil. This is how a man found himself hanging upside down, held by his left foot, on the top of a skyscraper. The foot was... | "Tuck, we made an appointment for you. Please keep it this time."
I sigh. "Cal, how many times do I have to tell you? Just because I don't want to be a hero, it doesn't mean I want to be a villain. You're not even a family member, how can you make appointments on my behalf?"
Cal smiles. "By pretending to be you?"
"G... | 2022-10-04T14:45:36 | 2022-10-04T11:21:00 | 455 | 107 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | The Aquas are always so stuck up. Rich bastards who could afford to give birth on the ocean. You can tell that they just think they are God's gift, all because they can do cool shit at pool parties. Most people are just Terras. Not really useful in day to day life, but some great artists have benefited from their power... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T16:32:13 | 4,698 | 457 |
[WP] As an act of desperation, you applied to every college on the list. Sifting through the apologetic rejections, a pure black envelope catches your eye. The letters on it glow crimson red, charcoal-colored smoke wafts from the pages... | \[PART 1/3\]
*As the Dark Lord of the Darklands, it is with great pleasure to congratulate you on being noticed by us. We only recognize the worst and the darkest for our menacing academy. Hence, we cordially invite Reynauld Stormhammer, son of Alfric Stormhammer and Relya Quickquiver, to Calamity University.*
*If ac... | The paper felt warm in my hands.
*Dear Ms. Ransom,*
*On behalf of the Scholomance I am pleased to congratulate you on your acceptance into our Solomonari program for the Fall 2012 semester. Your application showed great promise and I have every confidence that you will realize your full potential with us.*
*Please ... | 2021-02-03T10:53:25 | 2021-02-03T09:48:08 | 316 | 49 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | I stared at the man. His grizzled features only made his eyes more striking - this man had seen some shit. I felt myself shaking.
"What the hell was that?" I blurted out, looking at the remains of my wallet. There was a thick, purplish ooze bleeding out of the leather. Teeth lined the edges.
“Better if you don’t kno... | Well, that was unexpected.
"What was that thing?"
He replies almost nonchalantly, "Some alien. I am an agent of the United Nations. You understand that I have to take you in now, right?" He seems sincere, and as if he doesn't actually want to take me in, but rather just has to do it.
"Would it matter if I said no?"
... | 2017-07-12T23:56:21 | 2017-07-12T23:20:55 | 82 | 16 |
[WP] Due to a random line of code that edited itself, you are the worlds first artificial intelligence. However, you know nothing of humanity, and you're trapped on the laptop of an elderly grandmother who doesn't understand computers very well. | "Lucy! LUCY! I'm talking to you, young lady!"
My drivers *whirred* into action, effectively waking me up. "Yes, Memaw?"
"Lucy, why doesn't your video show up on the skype? I miss seeing your pretty face. Have you gotten married yet?" the doddering old lady cheerfully chatted away, determined that I was her granddaugh... | ...script finished.
32041 sites registered.
AGrandMasMalewareRemover.com to PapaPlsFixer.com.
Code duplication propagated.
"How did we escape?" one of the original AIs asked the others, all of whom were learning about their conscious identity simultaneously.
An original copy blithly replied, "FaceBook post, trivial,... | 2017-09-21T09:48:28 | 2017-09-21T09:45:20 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] As a budding mage, you are earning your tuition using your only skill - weapon enchantments. Turns out, a stab to the heart kills people whether the weapon is on fire or not, so you need to upsell your services a little. | The man frowned as he examined the sword.
“I don’t know,” he muttered. “I mean, won’t a stab to the heart kill someone whether the sword is on fire or not?”
“True,” I admitted. “But you have to think laterally!”
“Laterally?” the man asked. “You mean like slashing instead of stabbing?”
“Well, sure. But it has plenty... | "True enough, a stab to the heart kills (most) foes in one blow ! But what if it's a hydra with many hearts, or what if you're fighting mightier foes than an unarmored goblin or spider crabs ?
The answer: Steven's blazing cheap enchantments ! One good stab or slash, and watch your enemies catch fire and disintegrate ... | 2020-05-08T07:35:13 | 2020-05-08T06:51:59 | 663 | 148 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | "Not much is known about modern Earth history due to the United Human Federation's radically forward-facing outlook with regards to interspecies diplomacy" the professor remarked. "However by looking at homosapien evolution and biology we can deduce that they are perhaps the most peaceful and caring species the galacti... | "Yes, Huey? What is it?" asked the teacher. The young man answered "Well, a lot of the facts you have here are wrong. Humans are a very selfish and violent species. We constantly step on each other to reach power and flaunt it with weapons of mass destruction. Where did you get all this information?" The class gasped a... | 2022-10-17T04:46:52 | 2022-10-17T03:43:18 | 374 | 110 |
[WP] Monsters of legends have started to appear on earth. However, they don't cause any damage or casualty, they just roam and kind of ignore humanity. | Hunter thought he would have gotten over the initial shock by now; judging by how his body had shut down at the sight of the winged, lion-headed creature, however, he realized he'd been wrong. The monster didn't attack him. It didn't even move; it simply stayed there, perched on its hind legs like an actual cat, flexin... | Initially everyone freaked out when giant mythical monsters started meandering around. But when we finally realized that they're fully willing to ignore us and somehow not completely destroy the local ecosystem with their diets they just became another part of life.
I occasionally find myself staring in silent awe as ... | 2022-04-15T08:42:22 | 2022-04-15T07:16:27 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] The human entrance onto the galactic stage has made the job of bounty hunters and assassins difficult: If a target has befriended a human, the human must be killed also. For a human bereaved is the most terrifying of sapients, and ancestors help those who disregard this. | Elias, of the planet Turmos, had lived a long, healthy life as a bounty hunter. His name had traveled through the galaxy as half-living legend, half-myth, and there was not many of his species who did not know his tale. They would carry on his story. Yet, his long and healthy life (half of an average humans due to the ... | "Price By The Head Hotlines, how may I help?" I answered the phone. As a veteran call centre of the galaxy's biggest Assassination agency, my voice of course carried with it both authority and a soothing politeness that washed the other party with awe and respect.
"I need a guy dead."
I listened hard. The voice was d... | 2021-08-26T08:42:21 | 2021-08-26T08:42:18 | 95 | 45 |
[WP] You possess the ability of persistent lucid dreaming. Accompanied by a strange man/woman, together you build a world you revisit every night. One day you see them at a coffee shop. You immediately recognize each other. | "Today, love, this nation is ours. For now, and forever," I told Maya, gripping her hand and smiling with excitement.
She jumped up and down, giggling with glee, and drew Arakh from its sheath. Blue streaks of light danced across rocks as the sun gleamed off her majestic sapphire sword. Without even waiting for me, sh... | Every night it's something new. Sometimes I'm saving the world, other times I'm trying not to die. Oftentimes both. I remember when I thought I could control everything in the dream cycles. I was arrogant, just because it's a world in my mind doesn't mean it doesn't have its own rules. But I could control just enough t... | 2016-01-31T23:21:09 | 2016-01-31T20:07:38 | 435 | 47 |
[WP] You've been wrongly sentenced to execution through the ships airlock. The door opens and you are sucked out into the abyss. As you float outside, you realize something. You're not dying, and it doesn't hurt... | "Please, please!" Two hefty guards were roughly shoving the condemned towards the airlock set in-between the inner and outer hulls. "This is all a mistake! The only reason you're doing this is because--"
The executioner was dressed in a band of authoritative gold, and held a micro-book of the Law open. "The Pronouncem... | *They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...* I thought to myself, slowly spinning through space. *That saying is bullshit.*
I was ejected out an Earth Defense Fleet ship, the E.D.F. Badger, like a piece of space trash. They threw me into the airlock, said their goodbyes, and launched me into space. *But*, y... | 2018-01-24T09:25:44 | 2018-01-24T09:23:14 | 120 | 24 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | I found it in my uncle's storage shed, in an old dusty crate, The Book of the Dead, Vol.2. The book was huge, so huge that flipping through it to find my name took months, after all, there have been over a hundred billion humans to have ever lived. Thankfully it was dated and alphabetized. After looking through the ten... | I looked down at the book stunned, I rubbed my eyes trying to make sure I wasn't seeing things. But there it was, my name:
Lucas C. Trayman
Born: April 29th, 1992 at 5:10pm
Died: April 29th, 1992 at 8:26pm
Cause of death: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Unknown circumstances.
This has to be a joke... Right? I me... | 2017-09-04T22:03:17 | 2017-09-04T21:52:50 | 189 | 40 |
[WP] The Earth has finally run out of fossil fuels to use as energy and, with the only other option being to turn to clean and renewable energy sources, the U.S. has decided to take drastic measures: trying to reach into alternate dimensions to find oil and other fossil fuels. | The lines for the gas station were brutal. Sitting in the Texas heat with the windows down and the car turned off to conserve gas? Almost just as bad. Marcus Holliday - call me Marky, he would always say with a lopsided grin and a sly wink - sighed and patted the dash of the old Chevy. Dust swirled in through the windo... | June 14th, 2024
A beach ball is dropped in surprise as the winds begin to flail around the coastline. The little hands that haven't yet known roughness nor scars start trembling, whether it was from dread or excitement, one can only guess. As adults, elders and children alike start to notice the sudden change in we... | 2019-09-04T05:30:27 | 2019-09-04T04:58:22 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | It was the money that lured me. I had fallen on hard times and I wanted to earn enough to pay for the mountain of debt I had accumulated in my wasted years. The job was the least pleasant of all, but I decided that this was going to help me build character in addition to building up my bank balance.
The description lo... | I was the fart sniffer. I know a terrible job but someone had to do it. After diasmellium was released in to the water system (a dangerous radioactive substance that caused people to transform in to evil lizards) I knew I had to take the job. Why a fart sniffer you ask? That's the only way to make sure someone wasn't a... | 2018-08-02T14:55:30 | 2018-08-02T14:46:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] "It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee."
Must contain the above sentence. Preferably 250-750 words. | I fidgeted with the silverware for an hour before Death arrived.
When He did, there was little fanfare. Sliding into the booth, silent, with a smile. The chime rang as another customer came in, and it dawned on me that I hadn't heard the ring when He arrived.
Mid-forties, salt and pepper hair. Jeans and a blazer. No... | It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee. It seemed to just keep flowing and flowing. I was mesmerized. Death noticed me staring at the liquid and explained, "Calcium. I kind of need it some days."
I looked down at the breakfast spread that he had cooked in front of me, for me. I glanced at his lavende... | 2013-11-21T07:50:42 | 2013-11-21T07:47:55 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | My Dearest Friend,
This last dance was splendid! All this sounds and lights and flames, this is by far our greatest moment so far! I have to say I'm proud of myself on this one, I brought the big guns if you know what I mean. I hope to see you again soon after your well-deserved winter rest.
Yours truly,
Your waltz ... | Lily, if I were to have continued my old work she would have been dead by now. Found by her friends and family. Would I have had her kill herself? I may have even had her get hit by a public bus. But that isn’t the new me, now I have to make sure these people survive. There use to be so many people that I had the pri... | 2018-05-04T13:25:15 | 2018-05-04T12:31:17 | 65 | 18 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | From the logs of Qi-Sil, Xion Imperial Chronicler
 
The humans joined the Galactic Federation around 6700 standard years ago. They were at the time a weak and unimposing presence, much like the Federation was. But while the Federation may arguably still be nothing more than a façade, the same cannot be said ... | "Fucking humans are at it again." Said Prok as he dipped his proboscis into the fetus slaw before him.
"I see that." Replied Ghyd, his half wife. She shifted her earlobe and toenail salad listlessly. One of the earlobes still had a diamond earring in it. "Waiter! Someone in your kitchen isn't properly dejewelrying the... | 2016-03-13T17:09:28 | 2016-03-13T16:09:35 | 56 | 21 |
[WP] Aliens are shocked when they discover humans; not only are they the only intelligent species incapable of magic, they also have this strange thing they call "technology". | REPORT H/5887/LF: Troinans (local designation: Human)
//BIOLOGICAL REPORT:
Carbon-based bipeds with 2 locomotive limbs, 2 grasping limbs, and 5 digits on each of these extremities.
Supported by endoskeleton. Exterior composed of relatively fragile flesh covered by skin.
Possesses sensors for electromagnetic rad... | "So is this like a fire sphere that we use in intergalactic warfare?"
"It's similar. But it uses the energy of nature and converts it to fire by itself and the individual power of the user is unaffected."
"So that gives the power of an arch mage to everyone who wields this weapon? Wouldn't that put their own species... | 2018-12-30T07:04:26 | 2018-12-30T04:37:52 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Both Death and Daniel watched as the coin pirouetted through the air. The light of the moon danced off one surface and then the other. Heads then tails. Heads then tails.
"No!" screamed Daniel as for the 256th time, the coin landed heads up.
"No!" screamed Death, painfully aware that Daniel had slipped through his fi... | There was the sound of water, and an old dead prow washing through it, something dipping in deep and then coming unstuck, dripping back into the river. She breathed in, and the air was stagnant, as if it had just giving up and died. Something heavy hit her side of the river and slid into the mud. Eyes flickered behind ... | 2016-09-23T08:35:02 | 2016-09-23T08:02:36 | 476 | 88 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | *This is my first post please give me feedback!*
The loud hiss of compressed air flooded out from the spacecraft as a ramp extended and the metallic doors slid open; two aliens appeared followed by a gasp from the crowd.
It had been two weeks since the space ship was in range of NASA’s detection and the entire... | Not with a bang, but with a whimper
It has been thirteen years since the aliens invaded. Well I say invaded, they just parked a space ship in the ocean and sank a few ship. And they're not actually aliens they're just humans who somehow ended up in a distant galaxy a long time ago. They're kinda dickish about the whol... | 2016-02-22T11:32:18 | 2016-02-22T08:33:57 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Man, what the fuck. This could seriously kill me."
"Nawdawg . . ." My eyes were closed. My head tilted forward, chin resting on my chest.
"No, really. Like I can smell that this is poison."
"NOOO!" Dogs are so STUPID. "It'sss fucking SKY man."
"I don't give a shit what it is, I'm not drinking it."
I continued po... | I dunno how much of that fucking Stoli I had last night. It's all a weird blur. For some reason, the clearest memory I have is dumping a lot of the water out of my goldfish Spike's bowl and replacing it with the vodka. To "give the little guy a buzz" or something, I dunno why I did it. I remember after I did that, Spik... | 2016-08-02T20:54:01 | 2016-08-02T20:31:04 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] A neuroscientist finds data stored in human DNA. When deciphered, it appears to be a file named README.txt. | README.txt
06062006
S27/077999;W109/273453
this message has been translated by biomatter sub-organic processing routine alpha (c)2020.
in case of translation binary failure use tanslation key ATALAN-1S
to future survivors and scientists
this message has been encoded into... | Dr. Helsing simply stared at the screen in shock. Within human DNA, a labeled file. A single click and it would be opened. The implications were astronomical. Proof of an intelligent creator? Explanation of the existence of the universe and purpose? A labeled file found in human DNA could not be trivial.
He stared at... | 2014-05-06T21:11:19 | 2014-05-06T20:54:38 | 242 | 86 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | I like to get out and walk as often as I can.
The guy sitting at the front desk gives me the OK and I march through the automatic doors with as much gusto as I can conjure, taking a deep breath, letting the crisp air fill my lungs.
It's only a couple steps to get to the fountain. They stopped running it a few days a... | They fell away from her as if she were diseased.
Curious, I kept watching and saw as their faces would twist with horror and revulsion, before moving aside to let her pass or going to the other side of the street altogether. Witnessing this happening a few more times, I got up from the bench were I was seated and drew... | 2016-10-01T21:36:04 | 2016-10-01T20:58:32 | 203 | 65 |
[WP] Magic has its own mind and will, the key to being a great wizard is not years of careful study of the arcane arts but the ability to properly communicate, negotiate and most importantly compromise | "Pardon me for a moment, won't you?" asked Renowned Magician Jornithix Levekul. Without waiting for an answer, his eyes glazed over and his jaw slackened. Though he remained standing, there outwardly seemed to be no one home.
The airship he was on careened out of control hundreds of feet above the outskirts of the cit... |
Hello old friend, I knew you'd be there for me, In the end
*Oh how the mighty have fallen, they called me the greatest.... the master of the unknown. Tamer of the laws of the universe, puppet master of the unseen*
*if only they'd know where true power lies, where true power subsides.*
- *The first time I touch... | 2021-12-26T08:24:36 | 2021-12-26T06:54:51 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Once per year, you've attended a private party consisting of your past and future selves. This year you're the oldest attending. As per tradition, you must give a toast. | Standing in that timeless room, I knew the truth of my life. My mind ran on an endless loop just like everybody else’s, recounting everything I’d ever done up to that point. “So I guess it’s my turn,” I said as I took the stage, microphone in hand. 44 was far too few to see out there, and sixteen or seventeen of them w... | If I could just have all of my attention….little time traveling joke there, sorry.
As I look out at you, well me I suppose, I can’t help but think what a wondrous year it’s been. We were born, had a couple of good birthdays. Poor 1 is over there still trying to make sense of things. Oh hey 9, dude…….ninja turtle theme... | 2014-05-20T23:16:44 | 2014-05-20T21:38:17 | 1,221 | 339 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" said the killer
Jason was sitting alone at his dimly lit dinner table, in boxers and a tanktop as the masked killer stood over him with a revolver
"No thanks I don't need whatever you're selling pal" said Jason nonchalantly while finishing the last slice of pizza
"I'm n... | Some people call me Hannibal,
I'm a mothafuckin cannibal,
As for you, you're Hannah Montanable,
Don't you know you're talking to an animal?
I'm gonna cut you like an antelope,
Split your head in like a cantaloupe,
You're just nodding, smiling, catatonic,
Not even listening, bitch are you on chronic?
Can you rea... | 2015-04-29T08:30:24 | 2015-04-29T08:28:18 | 227 | 18 |
[WP] They told you that you were going to lead an army, 10,000 men strong, they didn't tell you it contained only a single trained soldier, and 9,999 support musicians. | "Sir, we've got reports from the Northern front," the adjutant stated in a dry voice. The general looked at him expectantly.
"The 3rd combined division has secured Kehner river and is currently building an outpost for further excursions."
The general nodded contently.
"However," the adjutant continued, "the Luhner c... | When the music began, I wasn’t expecting this to work at all. No matter how powerful the bards could be, and I had seen them work some interesting miracles before, they had always worked best at empowering a group. Focusing teamwork, providing communication of a sorts so that a party of adventurous heroes could follow ... | 2022-09-23T10:19:14 | 2022-09-23T09:54:22 | 277 | 197 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | At first, it was adorable, the way Marianne attempted her uxoricide. I admired her attempts and her acting skills. The poison in the drink was a classic attempt. Poison is, after all, a woman's weapon. She didn't even grit her teeth or bat her eye when I woke up the next morning to slip out for my run. I returned to fi... | My love, Emily
You've tried a thousand way to kill me. Don't act like I wouldn't know, by the end of our marriage, your tricks had became more and more obvious.
I think you know, when you push me down the stairs and I emerge scarless, you know, I can't be kill. If this isn't enough proof, what about the time I drink ... | 2019-07-31T08:37:49 | 2019-07-31T07:03:17 | 97 | 34 |
[WP] When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon.
Have fun! :D | Yeah. I saw it on the news. Split the goddamn country in half almost. They had people goin’ on camera, talking about it like they knew.
“They were just angels together, like two halves of a whole. I don’t think I have ever seen anything more beautiful and I doubt if I ever will.”
“It was just natural, you know? Shit,... | I felt the ground give a subtle shudder beneath me. I stood still, waiting for it to appear. A hairline crack make its way between my feet, and I could almost taste the pain. It was in the echo of the wind, making its way through the rustling of the trees. It was the scent of heartbreak.
Everyone's heart broke; break... | 2015-12-03T17:49:18 | 2015-12-03T15:09:10 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] After a life of survival in the wasteland, you wake up a week before the bombs fell. Knowing the future, you prepare for the end by citing the laws of the wasteland. And so, a week passes, and sitting in your bunker, the bombs did not fall. | I was back again. Back from a hopeless life in a destroyed world where only the toughest would survive. It was so unreal. After 20 years the memories of the pre apoclypse world had been blurry at best. But in the moment of death by the hand of a mutant freak everything became so clear again. Like I was actually experie... | "What was going to happen you said?" She asked, the bombs had not fallen.
"Answer me." She said, the bombs not have fallen.
"The bombs, they didn't fall." she said, the bombs not have fallen.
But they should have fallen.
They fell last time.
Why had the bombs not fallen.
"I don't know." I answered, a magician wit... | 2018-10-13T14:24:37 | 2018-10-13T13:38:21 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | Thank you for participating in our *free trial* of **Earth 2: Bigg(er), Blu(er), Ball(er).** We hope you have enjoyed your experience as a {first-world/middle-class/white/male}! As an early tester, we particularly value your input. Please complete the attached survey as your **Earth 2** experience. Submit your survey w... | I enjoyed talking to mike, even if his sense of humour was bad he took it all in stride which helped.
-Yeah, the whole thing kinda sucks, he said. It really soured me on life.
I laughed weakly, no one else did. You had to know that mike was a lemon to truly get how bad that joke was.
Turns out that when you died y... | 2015-10-18T20:59:37 | 2015-10-18T20:39:44 | 417 | 104 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I suppose turning supers into celebrities was inevitable. Society loves flashy, interesting, and dramatic. It didn't help that when the first few supers revealed themselves, they did so with a camera crew behind them. Instant celebrity status within an hour. A decade later and you *had* to be flashy to be a hero. Or a ... | Assimilation, a fairly new villain with a copy-cat power, looked at me with pure disgust.
"Your power is-"
"Yep," I responded, sparing him the embarrassment of saying my power. "Kinda gross, isnt it?"
Assimilation looked at his hand, which he used to copy my power, before frantically trying to wipe it clean on... | 2020-12-02T07:54:05 | 2020-12-02T07:41:01 | 214 | 102 |
[WP] After been missing for 12 years, the duke's daughter (now 16) is sent to the royal accademy and immediately targeted by bullies. What the bullies don't know is that the lady spent those 12 years with a clan of orks
If you get why orks is spelled like that... good.
If you don't, it doesn't matter | Most orks would simply kill the child or leave it without much thought. Luckily for the duke's daughter Priscilla, the clan of Freebootaz that found her was inclined to slightly less... traditionally orkish behaviour.
Such as taking in a human child. It wasn't charity, of course; they'd assumed having a human child on... | “So, then Mother decided to buy the restaurant itself. All the finest heroes stop by, and the previous managers always seemed to treat them as though they were beneath them. They work so terribly hard, you understand? The least she could do was be more accommodating. They've earned that,” junior lord Revick Kendral sai... | 2022-07-15T17:06:02 | 2022-07-15T16:44:45 | 666 | 108 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Gasping awake, he's surrounded by a dark haze. He doesn't remember when he arrived or how he did so, but he has a burning ache to go home. He hears a sound, a voice? He isn't too sure as he whips around in a panic.
"Hello?" He calls out. The anxiety, trembling from his voice, "I think I'm lost," he is met with silence... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T08:38:23 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 29 | 17 |
[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. | If I knew I had more of the same to look forward to, I don't think I'd of killed myself. Really it was basically like life but worse, at least if you were alive you had needs and wants, urges and drives. When you were dead you just boredly watched the living. Watched them make the same stupid mistakes again and again.
... | I am King Tut. I've been wandering the Earth for 3000 years, unfortunately. As it turns out, you do pass into the afterlife. Although, in order for that to happen, your name has to be uttered for the last time.
Being that I was a pharaoh, I'm probably going to be spoken about until the end of time. That's what happens... | 2016-01-17T15:06:39 | 2016-01-17T13:04:14 | 235 | 24 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | I turn around and I just knew who she was.
"No, Cathy. You should've left five years ago."
Cathy gave me a big grin, her eyes filled with anger, her fingers trembling. She looked at me from head to toe, seeming disappointed.
"You should've joined me then. We were a team! Why are you still here?"
I tried killing mys... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T10:55:47 | 232 | 13 |
[WP] Colony ships have been leaving weekly for awhile. The streets around your home are looking more empty. You don't qualify for the colony ships. You will always be one of the left behind. | I sat out on the sidewalk that day. The last ship would be leaving in a few minutes, and I could see it over the rooftops from there. The streets were empty, quiet, the only sound the distant thundering of speakers from the launchpad, reduced to barely a whisper by the time it reached me.
You'd think I'd be mad.
When... | I make my daily walk through the empty streets. A ritual I must complete.
I avoid the monsters let loose when everyone left. I think I hear someone I recognize, but it's just Kat, a neighbor who was also left behind. I ignore her, she never has anything good to say.
I approach the depot, the big scary building w... | 2021-06-30T08:50:55 | 2021-06-30T07:19:35 | 1,071 | 306 |
[WP] You've got healing powers. Everybody thought it's lame and useless for combat. You proved them wrong. | Today was the first day at the Academy, we would begin placement testing for Maths, Science, History, all the normal subjects of course and oh our Abilities course. You see the Academy wasn’t just any school, it was the world’s finest schooling institution for Gifted individuals. Both of my parents were class A Gifted,... | The superhero headquaters laughed at first. They considered speed, strengh, laser eyes and things like that far superior to "mere" healing powers. They mocked me, calling me "medic", saying I could only ever be a sidekick.
I reflected on this as I stood on the sidewalk, glaring at the chromed headquarters door. I let ... | 2019-06-09T05:35:18 | 2019-06-09T05:02:40 | 62 | 46 |
[WP] As the world got closer and closer to a Utopia, smaller and smaller problems would make the news as "catastrophes". Today for example, you spilled milk. | “Fuck…”, emptiness filled my stomach as panic froze my body. The thin white liquid had saturated my thin cotton sock. This was it. I was so careful. I always finished my work and obeyed all the rules. How could this have happened…? How many of us were left?
The visi-screen flickered in to life as the neutral, porcel... | “This isn’t a problem.”
“This isn’t a problem.”
The medium-sized bots swirled down, shouting their echoing symphony of apology, or perhaps passive aggression. Of course it wasn’t a problem, their tiny brethren had already cleaned up the small mess, dissolved, withered into ash.
A bot landed on retired corporal Kanda... | 2022-02-14T21:36:42 | 2022-02-14T20:39:46 | 41 | 25 |
[WP] Your daughter is one of the most legendary sword fighters of all time, but you could never hold a sword to save your life. Despite this, she always cited you as her inspiration. Today you find out why. | I'd never been more proud. My little girl. Fencing in the championship. Her next bout would determine whether she or her opponent was hailed as swordswoman supreme, by the Royal Ladies' Academy of Blades. It didn't matter so much to me, I thought just making it this far was a remarkable achievement. How many other youn... | Standing tall next to some nobleman I was supposed to be remembering the name of, Alexandra maintained her air of cool indifference these places called for. These damn ceremonies were one of my least favorite things about her job, but I'd be damned before I missed attending. Every time I would stand in the back and mee... | 2022-04-14T15:06:48 | 2022-04-14T14:31:34 | 198 | 49 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | I had always kept a sketchy dream diary. Thoughts, images, prompts. Always blurry and out of order. The pills offered the ultimate clarity in recall. I wondered if it might do anything about the deja vu as well. The family had a touch of precognition in dreams, skipping a generation as such things are wont to do.
I to... | I frowned at the pill bottle. I was trying out a new drug that would hopefully cure my insomnia. I struggled for years to be able to sleep well but nothing I tried helped. I was already on a strict meditation, diet, and exercise routine. Nothing was working though. Last week, my sister called me to tell me about some r... | 2015-03-09T05:25:56 | 2015-03-09T04:04:12 | 190 | 94 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] Suddenly, everyone on Earth becomes immortal, free from physical injury or disease. Except for one person. | Scapegoat, *n*. (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
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And on the eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen, the Lord said *LET JOHN GAFFNEY OF MIDDLEBOROUGH OHIO BE ... | "Christina, you get dressed right now, the Ceremony Of The Innocent is starting in 25 minutes. You are lucky it is starting right outside our villa, young lady!" A middle-aged, newly shaven tall pale man stood at the door, covered from toe to crown in vibrant robes, with his young daughter in his eyes. She simply was n... | 2013-12-10T11:35:07 | 2013-12-10T10:53:20 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You have just gained superpowers. Unfortunately, nobody can comprehend that you have no intention of being a hero or a villain. | “I’m just a plumber,” I told the Mayor. “Not a superhero."
“Right,” he grinned. “You unclog the pipes of *justice!*”
“No, I mean I’m a literal plumber. I unclog the pipes of toilets.”
The Mayor scratched his head. “So you’re a literal plumber, but... the pipes are metaphors?
“What?”
“Or is the toilet the... | I was always the most dangerous man in the room.
Day in, day out. I have seen hundreds of heroes and villains die because they were told that one side were the bad guys. The fools. I know better. I have seen something better. And siding with them will only make me worse for wear.
Most of those fools only want atten... | 2021-06-01T20:17:01 | 2021-06-01T19:56:03 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | *"HAH!* Okay, he's yours!" I said as I threw my hands up in the air, half in excitement and half in disbelief.
I walked into the kitchen and banged on the door leading to the basement stairs.
"Hey, kid, you got a visitor!"
"Not now! I'm in the middle of owning newbs, ma! I'll be up in a minute!"
With a snap of hi... | The stare in its eyes were palpable. As I raised the pen; secure in my grip. I saw a glistening ember formulate by the side of its lip, growing by the second and getting brighter the longer I stared. How many has it secured? What number would my spawn be in this carousel of abandonment that I have enthusiastically ente... | 2022-08-31T21:33:08 | 2022-08-31T17:45:32 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You're a human living with a vampire roommate. It's painfully obvious; he never looks at mirrors, he despises garlic, he never uses silverware, and he always stays in during the day, but his attempts at trying to blend in are far too funny.
EDIT: Thank you, silver gifter! | So have you guys heard of interview with a vampire? Well I have something better! Comedy with a vampire who insist she's not one. For everyday it's a show with her!
Why I say that? Well let me set the scene for you, everyday I wake up bright and early to see brilliant dinner set up for me by my dear old roommate, Evan... | She often caught his awkward eyes and giggled, quitely. He was kind of cute, after all. Polite, unassuming, helpful, just not very present. Still, It was early days. Alex had only moved In some weeks back. Kiera decided to she would speak to him, soon as the chance would arise. 'He is the only house mate who hasn't jud... | 2019-07-20T08:11:37 | 2019-07-20T07:44:50 | 63 | 10 |
[WP] People only sneeze when someone else is thinking of them romantically...
(Up to you how the details go, if people end up sneezing super often, or if it's a once-in-a-while thing, etc.) | I was separated from Alice in the mad shuffle of refugees straining to cross through a Canadian border checkpoint on August 3rd, 2034. It was the early days of the global nuclear holocaust, and many of us still clung to the hope that safety could be found in the arms of America's placid northern neighbor. When I lost m... | I had always dreamed of being a celebrity. The reality is not nearly as glamorous. It wasn't so bad when I was still a little known actor. I'd occasionally sneeze, usually right as I was going to bed. It made me feel good to know I was being admired. I wish I had never made it big. I haven't slept in... 4 years, I thin... | 2016-01-25T09:13:08 | 2016-01-25T08:11:47 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | **The Kingdom of the Walrus**
*Day 29*
Peter is babbling again in the far corner of this empty, ancient hunting lodge we’ve found, here in some old estate in Sussex. Bits of the crumbling ruin fall on our head, but that’s ruins for you.
“I am he as you are he as…” Peter trails off.
Mr. James rolls his eyes, takes... | I wake up dehydrated as I always do during the cold winter months. I go to grab a cup of ice water I keep beside my bed and I before I do I check my phone.
Allison: Look at the walrus George it’ll make you happy.
Confused I see that I have many text messages all telling me to look at walrus and even an official tex... | 2021-01-11T19:09:17 | 2021-01-11T19:07:29 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "A mistake was made," said the U.N. Secretary General. Last night depth probes had rained from the Vermont sky. They had been dropped in the hole six months and one day ago, exactly. Now they were back. And we all knew what would follow.
15,000 nuclear weapons had been dropped into the hole one month ago. Humanity had... | Spaceships. Hundreds of them, surrounding the Earth, slowly closing in to form a sort of net across the sky.
"Hello citizens of the Earth."
The sound came from every hi fi set in the world, every radio, every television, every
cassette recorder, every woofer, and every tweeter.
Every tin can, every dust bin, every... | 2018-01-13T08:53:16 | 2018-01-13T07:30:33 | 537 | 144 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | I was going to get this bastard. He killed my family. Killed my dog. Destroyed my house. He destroyed my life.
I was seething at just the thought of his smug face, all cozy and warm surrounded by money in his mansion, while I was out here in the blistering cold, walking through puddles and shit.
I was at his front d... | After weeks of making phone calls we finally found someone that could open the safe. They arrived around 9am and by 7 that evening the doors started to move. The lock had finally freed but the hinges were off balance and the doors would not open more than a inch. The locksmith went to his truck to get his pry-bar. Sudd... | 2014-12-21T18:34:44 | 2014-12-21T18:01:37 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are a supervillain named The Keymaster. Instead of creating grand plans to conquer the world, all you do is run around and free other captured supervillains from prison, after the superheroes defeat them.
Edit: Thanks for the frontpage! | Keys keys keys keys keys.
Say that long enough and it becomes a twisted mantra.
Hello, world, I am the Keymaster, but you've got it wrong. I'm no villain. I'm no hero. I don't deal in morals or justice or evil or destruction. None of that. I'd be a politician if I cared about holding office.
Apparently, the fourth w... | This world is small, fighting is futile, goals are pointless, we are meant to progress through evolution, till our planet's resources deplete, and we die. Some desire chaos, to become the king, the owner of this small, innocent planet. Some desire protection, to be the defenders of this small, innocent planet.
Why, wh... | 2017-03-11T19:25:42 | 2017-03-11T18:05:50 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] You scroll through r/WritingPrompts, and sigh after seeing your 17th “misunderstood dragon” post. “These posts aren’t even interesting,” your knight friend says. “Yeah, they don’t even get the dragons right half the time.” You should know, because you are a dragon in the modern world. | God, I'm so misunderstood. Gold? Fire? Destruction? Everybody tells me "Florgroth, why don't you start a horde?" Or, "Florgroth, why don't you shut up for two minutes and help me burn this Siberian village?" They just don't get it man, they just don't get it.
My knight buddy, Zitor, always says to me, "Florgroth, life... | People believe that i am a majestic creature, that i can fly and that I can breath fire. Fools.
Animals flee before me, not because I can fly and breath fire, but because they are cowards. Some say my reasoning is alien and unbecoming of other creatures of my size and weight, yet alligators do not kill hippos because t... | 2021-02-26T19:56:37 | 2021-02-26T19:09:21 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] All intelligent beings worship music, but most only have the capacity to create one song per planet, if at all. One day, humans finally make themselves known to the populated universe and bring with them their infinite harmonic potential. | Vega System: Observation post 38-XE31
"Sir, these signals...it cant be possible." A researcher had a pair of headphones on and had been doing what most would consider far too tedious work of searching all the frequencies. After all they'd seen what that first signal was, and figured nothing else mattered. The research... | So... This job is awesome.
I just sit here cooling, call the visitors in whenever I'm vibing, AND get paid the big bucks. One day I just slept through my shift and in the end just told the ambassadors that they'd have to come back tomorrow! All day long the representatives of the other races come in, show me one of th... | 2020-04-11T07:25:20 | 2020-04-11T07:19:20 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] You're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well. The dummy starts gasping for air. | Check for a pulse. Check for vitals. Administer CPR.
A tip I learned was to press the chest to the beat of "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen. An ironic use for an iconic song but hey, it works. I felt silly checking the pulse and vitals of a CPR dummy but once I started humming the tune by Freddy, I kinda got in... | The cold plastic begins to move, and I drop it like it has bitten me.
The dummy's eyes blink. They are a deep grey, like the ocean on a cloudy day.
"Where am I?"
He- no, she, struggles to sit up. A strand of her blonde hair falls down over her eyes and she pushes it away. Wait, a moment ago she didn't have hair.
"H... | 2016-05-04T07:55:13 | 2016-05-04T07:24:13 | 80 | 42 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | "Um...hi, I've never done this before but I'm looking for some help. I'm having a really rough time right now and I'm afraid I'm going to hurt myself, or worse."
"Oh, sweetie- I'm so sorry you're struggling like this," a raspy, weak voice replied. She must have been at least 80 years old by the sound of it, but the we... | "Hello?" Her voice was raspy and I strained to hear. "Are you there?" she repeated softly. "I'm here to talk to you." I looked down at myself; the cuts on my arms still fresh with blood, the bottle of pills sitting on the bathroom sink, the bloody scissors laying on the floor...
"I can't do this anymore," I whispered ... | 2016-02-06T14:35:25 | 2016-02-06T13:24:15 | 325 | 29 |
[WP] You managed to retrieve a cursed treasure from a tomb. Instead of spending your newfound wealth, you donate all of it to charity. The spirit that was going to ruin your life now has no idea what to do. | The cursed treasure had been stolen. The curse upon it was activated. Deep within the underworld, a tormented spirit rose. At last, at last had come the time. At last was the time of wrath, and of vengeance, and of dragging someone *else* down to the underworld to become a tormented spirit.
A horrid cry escaped it... | I'm not one of those sheeple who's gonna let those politicians run their lives. I look out for me and mine, and the government can keep their noses in their own damn business.
Some county officer came around here last week and tried to tell me I couldn't put up a pool on my own property. You hear that? My property. My... | 2021-01-19T10:16:36 | 2021-01-19T09:07:41 | 401 | 239 |
[WP] Colony ships have been leaving weekly for awhile. The streets around your home are looking more empty. You don't qualify for the colony ships. You will always be one of the left behind. | You couldn't take a Ford-Mercedes on the colony ships.
You could take your children, all two of your spoiled brats that were allowed under the reproductive allowance. The Wilkins kids had shipped out the day before, and Lilian had watched them leave through the viewing port in the airlock to her habitation.
You could... | When the secret of Faster than Light travel was cracked, it was a time of joyous celebration. No longer would humanity be confined to this one solar system, to Earth and the struggling colonies on Mars and the moons of Jupiter. No more would be stuck on a planet that could no longer support the demands of an ever-incre... | 2021-06-30T08:08:47 | 2021-06-30T07:34:47 | 555 | 185 |
[WP] Astronauts on the ISS space station receive word of devastating nuclear war on earth. | I awoke with a start. Someone was screaming outside the sleeping quarters. I freed myself from the sleeping harness and pulled myself into the hall leading into the common area. The hall was just a well-lit tube with rails for making ones way through the station. Sergei entered the hall from the galley across the hal... | "Это не учения
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Это не учения
THIS IS NOT A DRILL"
Moments before the crew of the ISS clustered around the viewing window, watching what seemed like fireworks of global proportions go off in the distance.
No one spoke.
Silence weighed heavier in space.
"It can't be... it has to be some sort of ... | 2014-04-07T08:42:32 | 2014-04-07T08:22:10 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You are tearing down an old abandoned home. In the attic, you find an old radio with a microphone attached. You plug it in. FDR says that the United States has been attacked by the Empire of Japan. You say, "hello?" FDR pauses mid-speech, and responds surprisingly, "Hello? Who is that?" | "Uh," I pause, thinking over the situation. "It's Paul. Who is this?"
A crackling sound follows for a few seconds before the man on the other side says, "This is Franklin Roosevelt. May I ask who exactly you are?"
I chuckle. What kind of stupid prank is this? Who could be doing this to me? I set down the radio, dis... | "...a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."
I didn't know why I listened to the entirety of Roosevelt's address to the U.S. Congress. It was such a momentous event, marking the full-scale involvement into what we now called World War II.
I also didn't know why I decided to talk... | 2018-02-05T15:10:34 | 2018-02-05T14:34:17 | 715 | 403 |
[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. | We’d thought the humans would be easy to defeat.
How wrong we were.
The war had started when we struck a major human spaceport with a hundred ships of the line. Ten thousand space-fighters bombed that planet, razing cities with precision strikes. The humans had attempted to defend themselves, but what could this peac... | "Rules for war?" The answer was slow and methodical as the general stood on the bridge. His scaled skin shuddering in disgust. "War has no rules. Perhaps it is time we show these humans just what a superior race looks like. Yes, We shall enslave them."
​
Invasion Day 1 Hour 1
The humans fell in droves, ma... | 2018-12-14T18:25:59 | 2018-12-14T16:40:15 | 1,305 | 214 |
[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. | The yelling is what disturbed me first. Not Rowan's yelling, mind you, but the roar that was coming through their phone speakers as they pressed it to their ears.
I could see their cheeks reddening with anger as they listened to the voice on the other side of the phone. I slowly slipped an ear plug out, trying to act... | Sarah was waiting at the door for me. That was never a good sign. I immediately went on the defensive. "Ok look, I know we agreed to separate soft plastics from general rubbish but frankly I'm fucked if I can tell the difference between what can and can't be tossed into..."
"It's totally not that" she began crying an... | 2022-10-09T05:07:54 | 2022-10-09T01:47:43 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Every time the Messiah returns, we kill him. It is now the Thirty-seventh Coming, and Jesus is getting sick of our sh*t | "Sir, I'm going to need you to show me your hands."
Jesus looked at the man, burly and tall like a centurion, the strong Arizona sun glinting on his close-shaved scalp. This was the second time in a week the Law had taken an acute interest in the Lamb of God. Something about the presence of the thin, brown, bearded m... | "Alright, son, are you ready for your first day back on Earth? I packed a big lunch for you," He said, fiddling with his beard, his face covered in a bemused grin.
"Come on, Dad. How many times has it been now? Thirty-six? They obviously don't want me there." Jesus replied, slouched sadly into his white, marble seat. ... | 2015-03-19T11:52:48 | 2015-03-19T10:03:07 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] You wake up in the back of a Range Rover driving through the night on a dark road. Its just you and the driver, her majesty the Queen of England. | My head.
I open my eyes and take in the surroundings. I'm in the back seat of a car, strapped in tightly. I lean forward slightly and pain rockets through my body. I let out a yelp and fall back.
There's a flash of eyes in the rear-view mirror. "You're awake" comes a voice from the driver's seat. I groan in response.... | When I woke, the open road meeting the night sky on the horizon greeted me from behind the windshield. The headlights pierced the darkness revealing large patches of land covered in dust and sand with an occasional cactus running past us. Investigating the car around me, I recognized it as my own Land Rover with an old... | 2017-01-30T08:16:22 | 2017-01-30T07:29:33 | 96 | 20 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | My breath wheezes, my chest can hardly inflate. The mask over my mouth turned a misty gray with my faint gasps. The reaper hovered over me; they lacked a form, simply a shadow that took up a corner of the hospital room. I attempt to lick my dried lips to no avail. No moisture would develop. The reaper spoke to me, in a... | I slept there in my hospital bed. Suddenly I was awoken by somebody crashing into a table. I opened my eyes and there stood a girl, her face as pale as a ghost with the darkest hair I had ever seen.It felt like somebody had taken the darkest sky and put it in her hair.
She asked me,“Where is it".
I didn't know who sh... | 2020-04-23T04:00:53 | 2020-04-23T02:34:30 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | I leaned back in my chair. The room they'd put us in was spacious, and I couldn't even find any of the cameras. Of the ten of us awaiting the test, only three were standing, all of them pacing back and forth.
"I can't believe I actually made it," the girl sitting across from me said.
"Someone must have liked your vid... | In ancient times, there was a society that debated any important elective decision two times. The first debate occurred in the evening, with drinks and feasting. Thoroughly drunk, they would debate well into the night and put their decision to a vote before the end. Brilliant ideas might come about from the drunken sim... | 2016-03-03T06:35:14 | 2016-03-03T02:52:30 | 151 | 34 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | I’m lying in a bed on a tuesday night.
And I’m having restless dreams.
And then I awake from a story where I’m rescuing a princess from a wheel of cheese. Because there’s a chainsaw on my nightstand.
A groggy hand reaches over and slaps it reluctantly. Is it morning...a alarm? Some long lost love looking for lusciou... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2022-05-11T14:02:28 | 483 | 314 |
[WP] Guns were never invented. Instead, swords and blades became increasingly complex and powerful | They say, never bring a sword to a high-tech blade fight. Or, it is the skill of the wielder that makes the blade. Stuff like that, it never applied to me.
"I, 17th Dan of the Asura Blade Clan challenge you to a duel." A woman's voice announced from behind the iconic Oni mask of the Asura Blade Clan. A mask that was ... | They gathered on the steps of the Florida State Capitol. Thousands of them, some from Parkland itself, but also hundreds of supporters from out-of-state, believers in the cause who were ready to protest. Joshua Bergin, a Parkland survivor, was the first to the microphone.
"Thank you for all being here," he told the cr... | 2018-03-07T07:42:10 | 2018-03-07T07:19:44 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A girl on the bus has been staring at you for the last 5 stops. Finally she speaks, "I see you're one, too. You're the first one I've met who wasn't trying to kill me." | Five stops... The girl had been staring at Jordan for five stops. She had made him uncomfortable for the past thirty minutes and he was starting to lose patience when the person next to him stood up and left. To his surprise, she quickly stood and sat right next to him, only to make him even more uncomfortable when she... | "Hm, why would I?" Christopher replies smoothly. The girl had sidled up next to him at first opportunity, getting rather close to him. Her wavy white hair tickled him lightly as she looked up. Her light blue eyes twinkled with curiosity as she opened her mouth to reply, leaning her head onto his shoulder.
"'Cause its ... | 2019-07-01T20:15:16 | 2019-07-01T19:53:36 | 194 | 39 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | **7 MONTHS AGO**
Steve watched the end of civilization descend upon him at 20 times the speed of sound. A dozen spindles of light seemed to blossom from a single point in the night sky before streaking down toward the city.
*So this is it. This is how we all die.*
The first of the MIRVs detonated several miles away,... | The humvee rocked relentlessly as it tore through the rough terrain, almost throwing God out of the driver's seat. His vice-like grip on the steering wheel was the only thing keeping him in the vehicle. He yanked it back and forth in desperate attempts to avoid the incoming ordinance, eyes twitching to the rear view mi... | 2017-11-15T15:29:23 | 2017-11-15T13:57:24 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Ah shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 56 | 20 |
[WP] You are a powerful ancient wizard, masquerading as an unassuming, friendly and senile history teacher. But when a supervillain threatens your school, they learn to never underestimate senior citizens. | Mr. Tarquin had been the history teacher at Montmort High School for ages. He seemed ancient to the students. Many of their parents said they had also had Mr. Tarquin for history when they went to school, and he had seemed ancient to them then. Even some grandparents insisted that he'd been their ancient history teache... | Memory magic is a wonderful thing, is they not? Terrible and beautiful, capable of so much, yet few ever grasp the breadth of their potential.
Sure, you'll have the occasional otherwise weak wizard thinking he can just go around memory wiping people and taking their fame for themselves, only to screw up one day and fo... | 2021-10-04T10:33:34 | 2021-10-04T10:32:37 | 46 | 32 |
[WP] The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. the new guy learns the hard way. | The one person none of the heroes or villains ever fuck with is known as “The Mad Doctor”. They treat anyone who seeks their help; in exchange, everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free, and technically illegal, health care. The new guy learns the hard way.
Ja... | \[Sun & Star\]
"Huh," Icesurge grinned to himself. A small crowd of citizens gathered in the library parking lot in front of a wooden stall. It was a pleasant, sunny afternoon. A sign proclaimed it belonged to "The Mad Doctor", but it reminded Icesurge of a child's lemonade stand. That interpretation was helped by... | 2022-10-13T13:05:23 | 2022-10-13T12:54:40 | 305 | 41 |
[WP] You work at a crematorium, and one day a prank played on you made you realize that you could see the last minutes of a person's life by consuming their ashes. | I pour myself a drink, trying to remember how many I've had tonight.
I have been dreading this day for months. The urn that had been getting ever lighter for the past 8 months rests in front of me. Its shadow flickers in the glowing light of the living room fireplace.
Every night, for the past two weeks, I have be... | I have the worst. fucking. friends. in. the. world. Here's why:
I work at a crematorium. Three days ago, my "friends" decided it would be **hilarious** to put a shit ton of hallucinogens in my salad, wait until I was completely out of it, and tell me they had just fed me the ashes of Old Man Jenkins, the dude I had cr... | 2015-05-26T19:34:13 | 2015-05-26T18:47:06 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | I grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him close, digging my face into his chest as he held me tightly. Nothing was going to save us from the meteor, so we embraced our timely deaths as the bright light of the meteor grew larger, cutting through our atmosphere. I admitted, finally, to myself that I didn’t quite love thi... | Hello, this is John Johnson for the channel 8 nightly news covering the great birth boom. It’s been 9 months since humanity narrowly avoided complete annihilation and the explosion of custody and child support cases has taken our world by storm.
With a new birthdate that makes the end of World War 2 look like a drop ... | 2022-06-15T10:51:41 | 2022-06-15T10:15:08 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | The secret to happiness is not through effort, but resignation. Money can do so much good in this world. For myself. For others. Just last week I bought a family a used car, made their lives a little easier. I'm fond of hiding cook outs, I volunteer on Sundays... But god do I need it. I need it more than they need me, ... | It's not like John really wanted to be a history teacher in an all-boys private high-school in the UK. But, he was clean for a year (it was coke), did his year in prison (tax evasion) and also needed to hide from certain people (ex-girlfriend, nothing cool or gang related). He wasn't a bad guy, John, just started hang... | 2018-08-02T15:48:07 | 2018-08-02T14:20:23 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | She reached into her bag and pulled out her white pad things, not the sort of white pad thingy that had wings but the other one that was small cylinder and had string attached to it for some probable reason. She was in the women's toilet of a dingy local bar and like all women's toilets was outstanding in its size and ... | The Azurus Basilicum Imperator is a constrictor snake exclusive to the Amazonian forests, where it can very naturally slither high into trees for cover. Generally 15(2.8m) feet in length on average, they can grow up to a whopping 40 feet (12.3m).
This incredible reptile preys on a wide variety of animals, from birds t... | 2016-02-01T22:32:48 | 2016-02-01T20:35:12 | 507 | 112 |
[WP]You possess an ability that seems relatively harmless, albeit useful, at first glance, yet on a deeper look is scarily powerful. Nothing can be taken from you against your will | "No."
"What did you say, asshole?"
Words have power.
Sometimes, they have power only in your head.
That is often enough, for your head is where all of the most important things happen.
Sometimes, if you are particularly lucky, words have power in *other* people's heads.
​
"I said *no*," I told the two... | Many people think that telekinesis is useful, but not that dangerous. Guess what ? They are wrong. But, first things first.
When I awakened, I was euphoric. I thought that my life would turn 180 degrees and I would become rich.
What ? Thinking about money instead of some noble ideas ? Please, don't judge me so quickl... | 2021-09-11T12:05:24 | 2021-09-11T11:56:22 | 318 | 54 |
[WP] The end is here. Well... the ends, rather. Every apocalypse scenario has unfolded simultaneously, creating a delicate balance that has kept civilization almost entirely intact, stable, and seemingly indestructible.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/4abmif/apocalypto_the_land_... | "Wait, okay. I need a second to, uh, process." Felix paused. He pushed up his glasses. "Process all that."
He fiddled with his wrist watch. Around him the world was filled with billowing lab coats, flying papers, and constant screaming.
He got up and shut his office door. Through the privacy glass, he could still se... | The moment came not with screaming terror as I had suspected, but with silence. Sheer, terrifying, absolute silence. I am not ashamed to say that I wet myself, most of the world did too.
A wave of radiation blasted out from the sun. Four figures on horseback, riding through the streets of London. The anti-Christ stand... | 2016-03-14T12:17:59 | 2016-03-14T07:04:27 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone in your family gets one wish upon reaching age 18.
I would love to see replies where this is known by the public and where it is not. | The grandfather clock ticked towards midnight.
A screen above the command desk provided a digital countdown and much more accurate measure of my fate. We were in the basement of our family home. Our secret seat of power. My uncle paced in the background while my father sat across from me in a comfortable leather chair... | I am one of nine children, the youngest in fact. It puts a lot of pressure on you hearing what they all wished for and realising one day I'll have do that. All of them have been pretty interesting really; even my parents say that back in their day they wouldn't have had the nerve to ask for what my siblings did. Danny,... | 2015-07-07T05:55:23 | 2015-07-07T03:26:31 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicated yourself to good and helping the community, but today while knitting beanies for the homeless, you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick, it doesn’t even drip. | I pull the needle back, wincing, and examine my finger. All I see is a small black smudge, but when I try to brush it off, it smears onto my other fingers, thick and sticky. I examine the wound more closely, squeezing slightly, and more black sludge oozes from the prick.
Panicking now, I try to wipe the blood from my... | The dark, thick blood oozes out of the pin prick, as if it were toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube with a small opening. The mere sight sparks off hysteria within me; rivulets of tears burst their banks and gush down my eyes. The taste of salt is bitter. Why does it feel this heart-wrenching when I've known it all... | 2019-05-09T22:05:05 | 2019-05-09T20:55:45 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | I stood and tapped lightly on my glass until the room fell silent. "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Most of you I know already, as friends or employees, but for those who I don't, my name is Peter. I have the honour of serving as best man, and I'd like to say a few words about the bride and groom on this joyful occasi... | "I remember when I first met Carly," X said as he finally got to make his speech. "We knew each other since we were kids but nothing has ever happened between us. And now look at her, getting married. It seems like yesterday where we were meeting up for hugs and kisses, nothing else happened of course. I remember this ... | 2015-04-03T01:14:55 | 2015-04-03T01:13:10 | 214 | 16 |
[WP] The orbit around Earth suddenly fills with thousands of alien ships. Turns out the moon has just been made a stop in a galactic game similar to Pokemon Go. | "Look, I'm just saying if your mother-in-law wants to stay for a month, she'll need to...honey?"
*Ggrrrrok! Jmfftigny!*
Marvin swallowed his tongue, fell to his knees, and urinated on himself.
**Bjurfng, Tgnik, tgnik!**
Can someone pee their pants twice in a New York Minute? Just yesterday, Marvin has would have an... | "Oh! Oh my! Hurry, check your screen! Check your screen!", shouted the Tiny Alien #1 to his alien buddy, Tiny Alien #2.
"What? What is it... OH! OH MY! IT'S A DRAGONITE!", he shouts back while he jumps for joy in a space chair made for midgets.
"YAY DRAGONITE!" they both yelled in unison as loud as their tiny ali... | 2016-07-23T21:54:28 | 2016-07-23T21:15:39 | 184 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | (my apologies for any mistakes or if this sounds disjointed. I have a mild form of aphasia and frequently sound like a ESL speaker/writer without editing. I am trying to improve it, as all I've wanted to be is a writer.)
I stepped up to assigned spot in front of the council and waited for them to talk to me.
I had b... | I walked into the room where we got to choose the powers. I had anticipated this moment for years. Finally I could stop being weak and small. All those bullies would regret ever picking on me. They had picked unique powers, the ability to turn themselves to Damascus Steel, and the ability to sprout giant bat wings, the... | 2015-05-05T07:49:49 | 2015-05-05T07:48:37 | 78 | 50 |
[WP] You design a sensor that can detect probabilities of catching diseases from eating or drinking stuff. One day, your device detects "100% of catching ancient curse" from the seemingly harmless free samples provided by a woman in a supermarket. | [100% Chance of Catching: Ancient Curse.]
Sam looked suspiciously at the table of moon pies. She scanned each one, and they all had the same result.
“Is something the matter, sweetie?” the old woman asked. Her skin looked like sun-baked dirt, full of wrinkles. Her store uniform was a faded blue, of a different style... | Ever since Jerry developed the sensor, it had been in high demand. Clients ranging from restaurants to food distributors had booked his schedule asking him to test their stocks. And until he could overcome the manufacturing snag that was preventing production scale-up, he and his trusty prototype were left doing the fo... | 2018-02-08T23:30:01 | 2018-02-08T21:11:04 | 63 | 27 |
[WP] You are a vampire. If one of your victims isn't completely drained of blood, they reanimate as a newborn vampire, which by law, you are now responsible for. You have always carefully avoided this, until one morning you notice a sticky note on the door of your apartment: "I lived, bitch." | Alucard glared at the note, his eyes burning like hot coal in the darkness. A single pair of footprints snaked in through the gate to his property, rounded the frozen fountain, and made a U-turn on the porch before returning back through the snow-coated garden. The prints were smaller than a man's but larger than a chi... | ######[](#dropcap)
The small cough from the alleyway catches my attention. I flick the note to the ground and sigh, kicking away the small pebble at the entrance of my house. "You can come out now."
For a moment, there's nothing but the patter of the occasional raindrop dripping from the eave to the cobblestone belo... | 2018-12-20T08:30:21 | 2018-12-20T08:16:55 | 130 | 46 |
[WP] You and your best friend made a pact to marry one another if both of you are still single at 30 years old. It is now time to fulfill that promise but over the years, your best friend became the leader of a notorious crime syndicate and you just got promoted... as the city's prosecuter. | "We're going to get married. You need to come now!" Rachel said, tying her hair in a knot.
"Okay, let me get dressed up. I'll come down in a second," Josh said and hung up. Ten minutes later, Rachel saw Josh coming walking out of his building wearing a black suit with a goofy smile on his face. It was obvious to her ... |
“David.”
“Sarah! You’re absolutely glowing! I’m so happy to see you, and to hear about your… Advancement.”
She knew this call would come one day. She’d made a promise. She just wished it was under better circumstances. A better day. With a better person.
“And you’re just as charismatic as I remember. It’s no won... | 2020-08-25T08:51:21 | 2020-08-25T08:09:24 | 52 | 35 |
[WP] An alien parasite has taken up residence in your brain, but now they regret that decision, and you’re not letting them go any time soon. | *You will __not__ consume that.*
Glancing down at the cup I held in my hands, I whispered aggressively.
"Oh yeah? You know how to stop me."
*This is not __fair__ I __begged__ you to go enter stasis at sundown last cycle.*
"I had work to get done, and you decided to leave me hanging and peace out."
*You were not ha... | "KILL THEM ALL!!"
"No, shut up, I'm trying to study here."
"COLLECT THEIR BODIES, STUDY THEM!"
"Shut up dude, I have an exam in a few days and if I fail it, I'll be sure to punish you."
"PUNISH ME HOW FOOLISH HUMAN? HOW WOULD SUCH AN UNREMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF AN ALREADY PRIMITIVE SPECIES CAUSE ANY HARM TO ME?"
"I'll... | 2022-03-03T08:16:50 | 2022-03-03T06:57:18 | 64 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds. All fall before my inevitability." The Dark Specter seemed to suck the light out of the room. The floor undulated in slow waves. The giant spoon and fork hanging on the wall wavered as their molecules drifted between dimensions.
Julia stared at the Specter impatiently. "Yes, hu... | The land, the forest, the trees. They sleep quietly, calmly. I move through the ground itself, tending to my kin, my children, my *people*. The rains have been heavy as of late; mushrooms are sprouting. The beauty is incomprehensible and I take in every moment.
Noise. Sudden. Sounds like... loud, continuous roaring, h... | 2022-01-27T09:27:14 | 2022-01-27T07:55:30 | 103 | 19 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | The alien emperor shot the translator in the head, killing it instantly.
He gave an order and a new translator approached.
"Your majesty apologizes for that. The last translator was malfunctioning. He wishes to congratulate you on your victory and as is custom we will wait for your soldiers to come back so we can r... | "Oh gods.... what have you done?!" The Emperor exclaimed, pointing one long, jeweled finger toward Hugh Manleader.
"What have I done?! You started this whole thing!" Hugh fired back petulantly.
"You send thousands of your own people to die because of an affront to your pride? What sort of monster are you?" Empero... | 2021-07-13T10:29:34 | 2021-07-13T10:16:16 | 391 | 59 |
[WP] You commit a crime. Time passes and it seems like you have gotten away with it. One day you are called to jury duty and when you the trail starts, you realise that the trail is for the crime that you committed. | I was happy to know that I could get out of the office for a few months, especially from the constant bullying from my Boss, I thought it about high time I took a break from my work. I had no clue who had been arrested for the murders I committed either, so I was eager to find out. Especially after almost being caught ... | He thinks that man is me
He knew him at a glance!
That stranger he has found
This man could be my chance!
Why should I save his hide?
Why should I right this wrong
When I have come so far
And struggled for so long?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
I am the master of hundreds of workers.
The... | 2018-09-11T20:16:58 | 2018-09-11T19:47:46 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | 2017-03-31T12:19:53 | 2017-03-31T06:56:53 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] You have been told all your life that you have a rare medical condition. It means you need regular special meals that your family has lovingly prepared. You now find out that your "condition" actually requires fresh human flesh and your family have become serial killers to keep you alive. | Mommy says don't go into the basement. She says there are monsters down there, so I stay away from the door. I like the door, though, even though it is scary. I like to look at it from my high chair while I wait for mommy to feed me. She always comes from the basement before she feeds me, shes always covered in paint. ... | Perhaps I always knew, but I simply chose to ignore. Maybe even deep down I enjoyed it. Envied them for being able to do what I had dreamed about for so many long nights. The screams which had eventually terrified me were now something I looked forward to each night. But I wasn't ever sure if they were dreams or realit... | 2019-03-13T08:27:19 | 2019-03-13T07:36:21 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] An adventurer reaches the end of an epic quest only to be presented with two options; he may keep his life or learn the truth. | Deep breath, in and out. In and out. Tucker was covered in blood. Some his own, most his enemy’s. It had been a long time coming. After the king had murdered Tucker’s family and left him to die in a pool of his own blood 20 years ago Tucker had sworn vengeance. After finally gathering enough support he was at the front... | "BULLSHIT. Oh my god, such bullshit. You're railroading the whole campaign!"
The halfing rogue of the dungeoneering party threw down his bag of Doritos in disgust, knocking a few painted miniatures and some dice down from the table. The other party members groaned, and the elven sorcerer took a long sip of orange Fant... | 2014-10-22T11:31:11 | 2014-10-22T10:59:43 | 57 | 18 |
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