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[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | The other races of the Milky Way cared very little about the blip of a race. You see the galactic population was less unified than one might think. Many races didn't perceive time, speech or thought in the same way. But the one thing they did all understand was matter. Every being was made out of physical matter so tha... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2019-12-19T05:08:25 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] A famous painter is revealed to be a serial killer. His paintings are the locations where he stored his victims' bodies, with clues in the frames to help find them. You, an ace detective, are called in to help decipher the most cryptic painting yet.
Inspired by [this post] (https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments... | I walked briskly down the art gallery, towards the police cordon. An inspector spotted me and nodded.
"I'm the investigating officer, Diwan Shah", he said proffering his hand.
"Senior Detective Perez", I said accepting his handshake.
"Heard a lot about you. Please follow me. The painting is this way"
"I got this ca... | They were unrelated at first, the disappearing homeless by port and the the rise of the strange and disturbing artist who signed his paintings only as J.S.
I couldn't have told you at the time what made the surrealistic landscapes so unsettling, they seemed to be just another artist working a niche and a gimmick. Neve... | 2022-06-04T09:27:57 | 2022-06-04T08:55:52 | 53 | 16 |
[WP] Your girlfriend just dumped you through a text. In a rage, you throw your old teddy bear while shouting “The Fucking Devil!”. Your teddy bear stands up and says ‘alright you got me, you got me,”.
Edited: Thanks for the gold, stranger! | I stood back. Mouth agape in shock and terror.
“Who..what,” I stuttered.
“Isn’t it obvious you thundering dolt. I am the devil,” My teddy bear grimaced.
The teddy bear grew larger and darker. The room got hotter with the bear’s size.
“How are you?...Why?... I am on drugs that’s it. I took something or was hit with ... | The fluffy brown fur of the teddy bear burned and flaked off in chunks as it stood up, it was barely up to your knees. "Guess this gig is up, your wish is granted though." The devil shook itself off, its skin dark as ash, and it looked at you, its eyes dark as embers.
"My wish?!" You manage to stutter out.
"Sure Buck... | 2018-11-26T10:51:00 | 2018-11-26T08:26:50 | 5,993 | 1,041 |
[WP] You've been magically gifted the ability to speak all languages. Anything you say comes out in the first language of whoever you're looking at. One day, you try to greet someone on the street and they gape in horror as ancient, unknowable eldritch sounds exit your mouth. The ground shakes... | New York city in the fall. The city of a thousand languages. A melding pot of culture, style, commerce and sex. "What a miserable place!" I thought to myself as I climbed the stairs by the lion statues.
"I'd much rather have stayed with the innu in northern Labrador. But I do have to report my findings to the explorer... | Deep below the surface lay the ferocious flame dragon. Growling he opened his bright yellow eyes, lashing out with his claws at the first object he saw. Engulfed in rage by the fact that he had been woken, from what he thought was death.
Why was I awake flooded the dragons mind. Slowly rising, he tried flapping his wi... | 2019-01-11T17:07:44 | 2019-01-11T13:32:05 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] A stunned nation watches as images of the President's assassination flood the news. The killer has yet to be identified, but witnesses claim to have seen someone in a gray hoodie. You go home early, only to find your SO disassembling a high-power rifle in the kitchen... wearing a gray hoodie.
"....Do you trust me... | **Part One**
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I was supposed to prevent his death.
I had failed.
These past two months searching for the man who would assassinate the President of the United States, and all along I should've been looking for a woman.
A wo... | "How was bingo?" I ask my wife, Janice, as I walk into our house in Retirement Village.
"Fine,"Janice says plainly.
"Did you hear any new gossip?"
"Nah,"
That's odd. Janice always has something to say about the 'stuck-up squares' that she sits with during bingo.
Janice is folding a gray piece of clothing from the... | 2014-07-12T10:09:08 | 2014-07-12T09:56:42 | 453 | 47 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I held the gun to my head, my finger grazing the trigger. I was hesitating, I knew that. Guess that's normal when you're contemplating blowing your brains out.
But, I had to know. Ever since I broke my leg, it was the one thing I knew I had to try. One thing you should know is that I'm a "gamer". I don't like using th... | "Your wallet and your watch or your life, boy. Decision is yours!"
I looked around the alley. No way out. Two men behind me, three in front. Garbage lay strewn across the dimly lit corridor.
I was beyond panicking. Shaking, I tried to unclasp my watch. Pity, it was just a G-Shock, hardly anything to murder over. I f... | 2018-08-14T09:41:03 | 2018-08-14T09:18:10 | 658 | 256 |
[WP] One day, as you’re walking home from work, you find a white “Life Note” on the sidewalk. Having seen the anime, you jokingly write “George Washington” in it. He’s on the news the next day.
(To be clear, a “Life Note” is the opposite of a “Death Note” from the anime titled “Death Note”) | "WAKE UP GEORGE" my mother yelled "GET READY FOR SCHOOL"
​
*Goddamnit*
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My day always starts with my mother yelling at me to get up; nevermind the fact that my alarm would have sounded 15 minutes later anyway. Shuffling out of bed, and throwing on my uniform as fast as possible usually follow... | I wasn’t born to anything great, I live in a middle class family and my life is really just the same as everyone else. I’m sure many of you have had the same thoughts about someone you miss, maybe it’s a family member or a close friend, who’ve left in a tragic way. We still think about these people, but deep in our min... | 2018-12-30T23:09:37 | 2018-12-30T23:03:01 | 197 | 12 |
[WP] FTL is impossible. Adult cryogenics was a dead end. Generation ships are too costly and unreliable. Instead our first successful colony ship carried millions of frozen embryos and a fleet of robots to raise them. You were born with no parents, on a new world, under a new and foreign sun. | Kimiko.
Jason.
Priya.
Charles.
Hiroaki.
Lizvjeta.
Andrea.
Jana.
Ariana.
Joseph.
Rivka.
Segolene.
Cristiano.
Dawood.
Althea.
And then there’s me. I’m... well, my crèche designation is d5:c687fa2b. The Caretaker gave me the name Kiana, but I prefer to just call myself Sixteen. We sixteen, we’re special. We’re survivors.... | I'm part of the first colony that arrived into Exsoleil. The fourth planet of a neutron star in the middle of the galaxy. It is very likely that we have been the happiest generation of humans that has lived since they originally fully evolved.
Life on earth was tough. A planet full of living beings that get nourishm... | 2018-05-11T15:48:43 | 2018-05-11T14:10:32 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You are a medieval villager who has been cursed by a witch. She curses you to be live until you are the last human alive. After a 1000 years you try to start the apocalypse. | The last pages of Josef Mengele’s diary found in the year 2120:
It’s been one thousand years, a thousand fake histories under my belt, and a thousand things that could have gone wrong. Very few people had actually tried in the past to destroy humanity, one man had nearly gotten there. It was back when I thought that w... | "Ay niqqa u cursed 2 be the last dude"
"Welp, sh!t"
*1000 years later*
"Damn this be old I wanna die"
*plotting apocalypse*
*200 years later everybody dead*
"Tf everybody dead why am I not ded 2"
*other dude walks by*
"Ay tf i plotted an apocolypse y u not ded bruh"
"Tf u mean i plotted an apocalypse y YOU no... | 2018-08-31T23:50:34 | 2018-08-31T23:50:10 | 114 | 41 |
[WP] Just as you are about to turn your first sentient robot on a time machine appears and a man comes out with a gun "Sorry bud this was the only way" and just then another time machine appears, a robot comes out and shoots the man. 'Ah, a pleasure to meet you, please continue great creator" | "Please do not be alarmed, for I mean you no harm."
I study the robot more than the weapon in its hand. It recognizes my weariness and calmly sets the weapon on the ground. It steps back. "Your stress levels have decreased, but are still at dangerous levels it kept constant for a prolonged amount of time." It looks do... | "What do you mean, creator?"
Robot: "You, Beneth, are the one who created us. Me, my brethern, all of synthetic life."
Beneth slowly moves towards the time traveler and inspects the lifeless body. He gets back up, hands behind his back.
The robot continues.
"In this very moment, the first one activated, never to b... | 2021-04-25T14:00:28 | 2021-04-25T11:07:49 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Did our Words doom us to failure? Or was it just me?
Alice had hoped never to meet her soul mate. She met me through some godawful fucking boring work thing, and she caught my eye from across the room. Her Words started tucked up behind her left ear, and plunged into her neckline, tantalizingly low but not enough to f... | The subway slid along noisily underneath the city streets. Sam sat quietly in one corner listening to music through one earphone and mindlessly eating his breakfast (a granola bar that was a bit too hard) with the other. He stared at the words written plainly up his forearm. Words he, and everyone else in the world, wa... | 2015-08-08T13:15:48 | 2015-08-08T12:14:55 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Knights covered head to toe in metallic armour, fortresses made to resist sieges, scarce population centers, Who would've guessed that the middle ages would be so prepared to survive a zombie outbreak. | Most people thought the zombie apocalypse would be fight in the US, many people had guns at home and some of them had been seeing that kind of films during years. We were mostly correct, the fight started there, but guns are noisy and artificial-virus-infected-people are really good at finding humans by sound… Therefor... | 'The end has come' priest preached 'The dead have come back as it was written. We live in the end times. For us is to wait for our Lord to descend from the skies once more. Repent your sins.' his voice fade away as Wallace left the market square.
He was merchant as his father and grandfather and so on but none of them... | 2022-02-21T13:52:13 | 2022-02-21T13:29:06 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] After humans are inducted into a galaxy-wide government, aliens quickly take a liking to something they have never had before which humans call "sports". It is decided all wars will be fought in sports games, and humans are some of the best athletes available. | The historical meeting of our two species began much like a science fiction novel. Humans hadn’t conceived technological advancements that brought the Stellan’s to Earth. If they had, they would have been the one’s knocking on the Stellan’s world. So, here we are, in China, where the first Lanned space flight happened ... | Sitting in the Captain's chair, the screen was lit with screams and cheers and applause. It came to this, huh? I mostly watched for cathartic reasons. I was never paying true attention to the sport like the rest of my crew, it was mostly to take my mind off of things. So this was how we decide wars, huh? Listen, I'll g... | 2021-03-15T21:59:49 | 2021-03-15T21:56:50 | 78 | 18 |
[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? | Death watches as the boy in front of him starts getting excited, blithering on about some competition he had won and gotten an "awesome tool of awesome." The man starts rummaging around his untidy room looking for something.
Out of the closet comes several odd items. Board games, video games, a glass tube with burn ma... | "Okay. Do you want to be purple, or green?"
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND."
"Well, the purple one turns into a fairy, so I used like her best. But I also like the green one because she turns into a mermaid. I like both, so you can pick."
"YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A GAME."
"I am. Dolls. Are we going to play?"
"HOW DO YOU WIN?"
"Y... | 2018-03-07T09:07:30 | 2018-03-07T08:33:18 | 55 | 20 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | For the longest time, nobody knew just what it was that Abaddon could do. For the world's greatest hero, he had an unusual aversion to the spotlight. No flashy fights for him, no flying through the sky or hurling bolts of lightning, no super strength or blinding speed. By all accounts, he was just a man. All anybody e... | Being on a team of heroes really has its benefits you know. Between being able to work with people you’re comfortable with, actually knowing a few identities, to even being backup to one of the top dogs. I myself am a telekinetic, but it has its downsides when you know you can’t use it too casually for fear of your ide... | 2020-06-15T11:46:24 | 2020-06-15T11:42:15 | 152 | 13 |
[WP] You guzzle down a drink, which spills into a puddle on the brick alleyway. All these adventurers claiming you’re a “lich” or “evil”, what bars a skeleton from being a hero anyways? | >**COAL SMOKE AND CORRUPTION**
The infinite darkness of space, interrupted only by the occasional burning stars- when considered rationally, *light* was the anomaly.
The living creatures- human and inhuman alike- each edging closer to death with every passing second, every heartbeat. They were composed of the mate... | A swarm of rats emerged, rapidly consuming the drink spilled on the ground. I watched indifferently.
I heard an angry voice holler my name, and as I turned to see the commotion a fist hammersmashed me in my temple. On the floor, two more blows followed, the first would have blackened my eye, the second knocked out two... | 2021-08-12T20:41:15 | 2021-08-12T19:20:22 | 114 | 83 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | "Ah Stacy, have you got the projections from Pensworth Logistics?" I call out to my secretary looking stunning as always in her uniform. She's been with me from the beginning since I transferred over to my new office, 10 months ago, and has been one of the more friendly employees here.
"Mr Miles, I must insist that yo... | I’m a very structured man. I’ve had a strict morning routine for 24 years now.
Sunday, March 22, 1992 I discovered the perfect way to start my day.
I wake up at 5:30 and slip on my slippers. I start my coffee and read the sports section.
Once the coffee is finished brewing, I pour myself a bowl of Honey Nut... | 2016-05-19T13:17:24 | 2016-05-19T09:03:34 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] You are the necromancer of the party, and dead humans don't seem to be very effective against the evil emperor's goons. One day the party leader exits the local bookstore and hands you a book. The title reads, "Tyrannosaurs, Mammoths and Giant Millipedes: An Almanac of Prehistoric Life".
Someone please write a st... | Targhul held the book thoughtfully, drumming his black nails across the open pages. *It was possible...*
He looked up at Doug, the idiot that had brought him the book. Doug probably couldn't even read the cover, and had brought him the book after seeing the pretty picture. Doug cocked his head, tongue poking slightly... | I should have expected this. I *really* should have expected this, but I was too eager for the upgrade. Too excited to have more in my arsenal than half-rotted meatshields. Now all we've done is waste months digging rocks out of the mountainside.
"Lazarus, why isn't doing anything? Did you not have enough materials?" ... | 2021-08-10T23:35:05 | 2021-08-10T22:06:01 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] Adrenaline is an evolutionary trait specific to Earth. When alien species are tired they sleep and not even a threat to their life will wake them. Which is why the pirates that boarded your spaceship are shocked to find you've not only jumped out of bed fully alert but are fighting back! | I sometimes wonder if the explorers who crossed the oceans felt the same way on their long, treacherous journeys. I sometimes wonder if they looked at the stars as I, seeing order within the infinite. I sometimes wonder if they were as lonely as me.
\_\_\_
“Zoe, play *Ave Maria*.”
“Yes, captain.”
“Zoe, what should ... | I wake up, sweat rolling down my face as I see an alien pirate looming over me like all those shitty life choices I made like buying Jordan 1's and immediately losing their value by getting splashed with water outside the store while still wearing them
My reflexes saved me by immediately grabbing my laser pistol under... | 2021-01-26T23:35:26 | 2021-01-26T23:19:09 | 728 | 50 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I was taken to the palace when I was 8 years old. That's the age everyone gets tested. Luck is always the last thing they check for. It's usually a stat no-one pays much mind to. One in ten-thousand people score above 55, so if it comes back higher than that it's noteworthy, but no-one expects it to. My older siblings ... | Luck governs our lives more than most care to admit. Those born with high luck scores become world leaders, wealthy, and succeed where others fail. Those born with lower scores often lead unlucky lives and often fall victim to unfortunate accidents.
Me I was one of the luckest of all, a 100, from a young age everyone... | 2018-06-29T11:02:12 | 2018-06-29T10:05:15 | 11,893 | 308 |
[WP] God is actually just a mid level employee at Heaven Corporation who now has to explain to his superiors why the project he was spearheading, Humanity, has become such a mess. | "Please close the door behind you," Mammon said as Yahve entered his office. There were a few free chairs in the room, but Mammon motioned him to the small green one. Uncomfortable, no armrest. The hot seat, so to speak. Mammon was flanked by his two vice-presidents, Lucifer and Cthulhu.
"Yahve, Yahve, Yahve," Mammon ... | "Come in."
God gulped and entered the office. Sleek and modern, it starkly contrasted with the ancient, almost biblical architecture of the rest of the building. The wall opposite the door was almost entirely made of glass, giving it a wonderful view of the cloudy landscape outside. In the center of the room, behind h... | 2016-08-15T17:45:39 | 2016-08-15T16:42:28 | 188 | 69 |
[WP] For his kindness, the dragon taught the squire the dragon song. A song that was sure to make whoever sang it irresistible to the ladies. In hindsight, the squire should have known that by ladies, the dragon meant lady dragons. | Armin absently hummed the song under his breath as he squeezed through the crowd at the city's market. For days he had sang it on the street corners, only to come back home dejected. The noble ladies tittered at his off-tune voice behind their colorful fans. The merchants' daughters turned their noses up at his simple ... | It should have been clear from the start... That there was something that I was missing when the great Níðhöggr offered to teach me the "Draki Að unna", the dragon song. They said that it would give me the power to be irresistible to ladies...
As soon as I started singing it because very clear who the target audienc... | 2022-11-06T08:13:27 | 2022-11-06T07:55:05 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] No upvotes necessary, just saturation. Load me up with as many zombie apocalypse stories as possible, with the caveat that they take place *before* the 20th century. | Josef and I lounged on the castle walls and listened to Father Adelford's sermon. I wasn't a particularly religious man after the past few months; some people sought comfort in their faith during times of such disaster, but not me. What God would do this to his subjects? But at least it was better than listening to the... | Through the efforts of some mad powerful few to seek a means of eternal life, an entity had sprung up from the turmoil that was created and soon after its birth, it set its sights on the World. its origins are not from this plane, or any for that matter. It was a peril that no peoples, not even one as strong as mine co... | 2015-12-28T08:07:58 | 2015-12-28T06:40:27 | 480 | 148 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | Three thousand, two hundred, and eighty-seven.
That's how old I really was today.
I stared at my birthday cake with Ninja Turtles on it, the flames on the candles danced and extinguished as I blew them out.
There were only nine candles on my cake. My mother cut me the first slice, she really was a nice woman. I... | How long does it take you to read a book? A few days, hmm. What if you had no distractions? Four or five hours... I can't remember the last time it took me that long to read a book. How long does it take me? Oh, just a minute or two or so. I see, you don't believe me, but... I have lifetimes of experience with t... | 2017-05-02T13:06:53 | 2017-05-02T12:45:59 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, every crime is punishable by death. Now the government is coming up with new and ridiculous laws in order to cull the population faster. | I knew it was getting bad when Uncle Sam's fist went through the TV.
"Sammy-" That was mom's hushed voice.
Rule #963: No talking in loud voices, was the one that had broke the camel's back, as they say (and Uncle Sam's hand in the process)
"Mary" that was Uncle Sam again. His voice was shaking, but it was quiet, ... | I banged against the glass walls of the viewing room. My wife had tears streaming down her face. She had gone 22mph over the speed limit while trying to get to her job on time. Speeding over 20mph was a crime, and therefore punishable by death. Then, they injected the first shot. She stared calmly at me as she drifted ... | 2019-01-06T12:16:56 | 2019-01-06T12:01:15 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | In my youth, I used my power for good. For the most part, I tried to do as much good as I could, saying stuff like “No one ever goes to bed hungry.” Or “The government is not corrupt.” I was a secret hero, and the aftermath of the lies was usually better! In particular when I let the government one go, nearly the entir... | Everyone lies. Small, almost innocent lies. Lies that break families and ruin lives. Accidental lies based on faulty information or bias. They can hold us together or tear us apart.
Like everyone else, I've lied many times in my life. Unlike other people, however, I can choose to make any one lie into the truth. It do... | 2022-11-18T07:26:10 | 2022-11-18T07:05:32 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | It starts with a family.
And a warning.
“Be wary” the oracle screams, swaying with the steam cascading from the vents of the cave.
“One of your children will bring evils to the nation of the likes we would never see, and one will bring it to heights we can only wish for. Use this warning wisely!”
The parents t... | It was early in the morning, I could hear the birds chirping. I opened my eyes just a little only to see my little girl Jessy there. I was happy to see her until I realized she was holding a knife. That was the 5th time this week she has woke me up like this. I wish we would have kept her brother. We noticed from a you... | 2020-05-07T13:27:35 | 2020-05-07T08:18:26 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Careers are determined by a computer analysing how you would gain the most satisfaction. You have been given "Serial Killer". | "Now we give the machine five seconds," the advisor said as I slowly removed the wires from my fingers, "and there we are, inside this little capsule is what our machine predicts will be your best career choice."
Gingerly I pick the capsule up and unscrew it. I assumed it would say something like accountant, or econom... | Fatal accidents followed me around since I was a child. At the age of 3 I stuck a fork into an electrical socket. I was fine, but the resulting fire burned down an entire city block, claiming the lives of a dozen people.
When I was playing little league baseball at the age of 7 I hit a line drive straight into the pi... | 2015-03-29T07:21:10 | 2015-03-29T06:10:52 | 213 | 83 |
[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. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 803 | 152 |
[WP] Since my dad went mute I started learning sign language secretly to surprise him. When I was somewhat fluent with it, I realized that his blessings at the dinner table actually meant "Threatened with death if talk, please go to police". | For weeks I had realized that our “routine” family dinner involved an urgent warning before it. It took way more time than I’m willing to admit to finally decipher his warning, but I’d done it. I was still at dinner with him and my sister. We were eating steak and potatoes. My sister talked to the empty echo chamber ab... | In sheer disbelief, I gawked at Dad. He simply gestured: “took you long enough, eh.” Okay, okay; he didn’t add ‘eh’, but it was certainly implied. I immediately surged from my chair, but Dad’s stare was more than sufficient to make it adamantly clear I was ought to sit down. and serve food first. With one brief gesture... | 2022-07-21T09:09:48 | 2022-07-21T08:18:57 | 234 | 80 |
[WP] You're an undercover sleeper agent on a mission, living a normal life under a new identity while awaiting further orders from the higher ups. Unbeknownst to you, several years into the mission the management at the agency has gone through a few replacements, causing them to forget about you. | I woke up, shut off the annoying alarm, and rolled out of my slightly broken-down bed. I turned on the coffee pot, downed one, put the other in a travel mug, and left my modest two bedroom house in my fuel efficient mid-sized sedan to take a fifteen-minute commute to my boring office job. This had been my routine for a... | Codename: Zephyrus.
The Agency told me about others, similarly like myself. They said that there would come a time where *all* of us would be 'activated', but until then we were to assume 'normal lives' – that is, the ones assigned to us before the dormancy took place. In all honesty, it still baffled me as to how the... | 2020-08-17T11:03:55 | 2020-08-17T10:51:10 | 74 | 18 |
[WP] You are hooked up to the machine. You are the test subject, the first person to have their conciousness uploaded. They flick the switch... | "Okay, I'm ready," you say.
You're thrilled. 15 years you've been working on this. Now you'll be entering a world where you create anything you can think of, all at will. You'll be inside the machine. You'll BE the machine. Your reality will be whatever you want it to be.
You shiver again with the pure excitement of... | They screened me. Well, to be perfectly honest, they screened every test subject that was to be. They screened for details such as sociopathy, any mental disorders, etc. You get the point. In case the consciousness downloaded onto the machine went haywire, tried to entrap everyone. Now, of course, the scientists were s... | 2015-06-15T10:50:08 | 2015-06-15T09:39:30 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Elon Musk is convinced that we live in a simulation, so he constructs the largest cluster bomb in history and sets it off in space. For the first time, MilkyWay.exe lags. | "Really? So this is going to be a shot of space for like an hour?"
"Well, it's random - that's kind of the point." Neal's eyes are still glued to the screen.
"Well they could be a little more specific." Melissa continued the mundane task of doing the dishes tonight. She knew this black screen meant a lot to Neal.... | “It’s not that I’ve given up,” Musk said, “I just need to know if it’s really worth my time.”
“But isn’t that a fatalist view?” I asked.
Elon had that grin on his face, the one he gets when he knows he has the upper hand intellectually.
“That’s exactly what it is.”
“Again, that seems in direct conflict with eve... | 2016-08-19T15:30:37 | 2016-08-19T15:29:37 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] A superhero has a split personality, with neither his hero half nor his civilian half knowing that they are the same person. The rest of the city has figured it out, however, and is doing their best to keep his secret from himself. | The greatest power of all is one that all humans possess. Call if foolishness, Zen, or simply not giving a shit - the end result remains the same no matter what the circumstance. Humans returned back to normalcy no matter what their past.
And it was this power that brought me and dozens of other people to be sitting... | *Oh how I wish I could be like them...Carrying about their normal lives, assured that someone will save them. And they aren't wrong. I've been graced by the power of the Z crystal, and I don't intend to waste that blessing. It's not that I don't love this city, no, but by the gods it seems to always be under attack. Ev... | 2017-08-04T18:12:34 | 2017-08-04T17:42:39 | 914 | 64 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | I'm used to it by now. Any human out here gets used to it or they go home. And honestly it's not wrong, not some injustice or bigotry. The suit is a necessity,
The procedure just sucks.
Hoses like everywhere, you feel me? Everywhere. Gasket checks. Pressure checks. Solvents. Primary and secondary pumps. And the adhes... | John was, just resigned to his life these days.
He was bundled up in two massively overs sized brown jackets that hid him from top to toe. He was following his what he guesses would be his friend now Jozu as they walked through a massive bazaar market on some trash junk world in god only knows what part if the galaxy... | 2020-03-05T22:25:23 | 2020-03-05T22:06:05 | 139 | 13 |
[WP] The creation of Earth is finally finished. The Creator gathered all of you, his lesser gods, to be given a designation of choice. The first god requested, and was granted, that he be made the god of the oceans. The second god became the god of the underworld. It is now your turn... | "Give me the dicks!"
Steve, the lesser god, shouted from the back of the heavenly auditorium.
"Say that one more time, Steve, I don't know if I'm hearing your correctly," The Creator said into his heavenly microphone.
"The dicks. I want to be god of the dicks. The assholes? The shitheads? Everyone who sucks, come on... | "SEX! I WANT TO BE THE GOD OF SEX!"
"Are you suuure that's what you want?"
"YES!"
"Well, I mean, for one it can get pretty nasty."
"GOOD!"
"And for another, and I'm not trying to hurt your feelings, you are not the best looking guy."
"DON'T CARE, I CALLED IT!"
"Ugh...you know what? I think I'm gonna make you t... | 2015-01-07T08:07:02 | 2015-01-07T07:26:29 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | When I saw Jeremy sitting against the wall with a hole in his arm, I knew who it was.
Those three idiots called themselves "SWAT Ops", and I was the "class 8" villain that the league assigned to them as training. It was a nice job, pretending to be some Doofenshmirtz impersonator to help new heros get used to their p... | Harold was lying on the floor, bleeding from the bullet hold on his shoulder.
“Are you the boss here?” Thuderia asked.
“Yes,” I replied, my anger starting.
“Give us the money,” Flame Lord snarled.
“Why?”
“Because,” Anne began, “we’re your Trio of Salvation. We deal with the super villain Blackout. Now give us the ... | 2022-11-28T19:32:50 | 2022-11-28T14:47:16 | 594 | 414 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | "Why do you humans not die?" I asked my human captor.
"What?" He looks at me confused, at least that's what it looked like to me.
"You are beaten up, shot, bleeding. That is a death sentence for everyone....Everyone except humans. What makes you different?"
My captor laughed. "Is that the reason why you're so afraid... |
When humans reached the final frontier, we realized we weren’t alone quickly. We saw planets and species disappear in a matter of weeks after discovery. The weapons they used were much more advanced then ours, and we thought that we were the under dogs in this fight. Diplomats were sent to communicate, and they never... | 2019-10-25T09:19:31 | 2019-10-25T09:09:30 | 131 | 83 |
[WP] "Honey, we have something to tell you..." your dad says, rubbing his head sheepishly. "You're adopted." your other dad butts in. "I know." you respond, your voice calm. Your dads look shocked, but you continue, "Considering that you're a dragon and a giant wolf, and I'm a human, it was obvious. | **Catherine had grown up among kidnapped princesses.**
The dragons of the north regularly took human children for ransom. Naturally, the humans of the south fiercely opposed this…
*…at first.*
but after a thousand years of constant failure, most just decided to make the best of things. Nobles trained their heirs to ... | “No” dad says, “That’s nothing special. There’s a ritual you can use to give anyone a human form.”
Startled, I reply, “But you’re both men!”
“Yes, but I’ll have you know that I’m a Master Alchemist; gender switching is apprentice level stuff.” Replied dad.
Father smiled, “Yeah, remember that one time you got stuck ... | 2021-09-18T21:18:35 | 2021-09-18T20:04:19 | 157 | 40 |
[WP] You're an undercover spy who has been working the same mark for so long you've ended up married with children. You're beginning to think this is your life now until unexpectedly, at family breakfast one morning you finally get the information you've been after | I rolled up my windows and took a deep breath. This was it. I'd waited so long and for a few moments over the years forgotten why I was really here. Then it all came together this morning. I finally got it. Well, not it. I finally got *her*.
The hundred feet from my car to that building seemed like a mile. Ev... | Fifteen Years
It has been Fifteen years, fifteen years since I got what should have been the easiest assignment of my career. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’ve been undercover in many situations just like this one but for some reason this one has played out differently. The target was simple, woo the widow of a... | 2017-03-05T19:55:45 | 2017-03-05T19:55:05 | 118 | 30 |
[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. | I’d promised Stephen I would keep my mouth shut for the entire journey. Yet, as we made the turn off the freeway, onto the dusty country road, the last three miles to Miller’s farm, the injustice of it all bubbled over.
“It’s just damned unfair, that’s what it is.”
“I know. You’ve told me a thousand times.”
“It’s s... | "Are you sure it's okay?" I asked Murry. He had been my best friend for over 20 years. He had a good heart at his core, but his morals were a bit grey. He was driving us to 'The Spot'. I had a couch that seemed impossible to get rid of. No one wanted the ugly thing. It had yellow upholstery decorated with brown flowers... | 2018-01-13T09:14:54 | 2018-01-13T09:08:37 | 443 | 12 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | Since my wife left, my daughter had began talking to herself. I was understanding, it was tough for me as well. Yesterday, I went up to her room where she of course was playing with her "friends" I sat and listened to her babble and giggle and change her voice around for their parts. Tapping lightly on the door she cal... | Tired and half asleep you stumble your way into the kitchen and find yourself immediately stiffen awake as you see a severed hand sitting near the sink and a roll of cash with blood stains on it. Terrified, you can’t seem to mutter a single word, yet as a police officer you instinctively reach for your phone to call fo... | 2019-10-06T16:14:50 | 2019-10-06T12:56:51 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | "Ahura," Jaini said with a sigh, "have you finished wiping the server? Boss wanted it clean by last week." He wiped the Zheeto dust coating his fingers on crinkled office slacks. His once-white button-up hung loose over slouched shoulders, its shape on the verge of giving up like its owner's eyes.
Ahura didn't turn fr... | December 3rd 2020 12pm
Every tv in the world was tuned in to see the worldwide news broadcast.
The worlds smartest scientist walked up to the podium to explain what was happening.
At approximately 3am on December 1st, our observatory in Chile detected the disappearance of the constellations and systems that are bil... | 2020-03-24T02:45:39 | 2020-03-24T02:01:09 | 860 | 72 |
[WP] Reincarnation is punishment for committing crimes in Heaven. Flies that live for a week are minor offenders and trees that live for thousands of years are major offenders. You just committed the biggest crime of the eon.
Go wild with the concept! | "Order! I will have order in this court!"
God banged his gavel on the podium.
"We have heard the charges. What do you have to say for yourself, Steve?"
*"I, uh, I was just a little bit cold and I thought..."*
"Oh you thought, did you?! Are you paid to think, Steve?"
*"Well, I'm not sure if eternal glory is classif... | I am awoken. How long has it been? Lying prone in this half-life, my punishment for a crime so heinous it shook the heavens. I want to be angry, blame someone for my predicament. But deep, down I know I deserve this. I hear them talking, “Does it even work?” “It turned on didn’t it?” I feel myself jostled around, “give... | 2016-09-10T04:43:25 | 2016-09-10T01:06:35 | 150 | 79 |
[WP] A mage's magical power and abilities are determined by tattoos that are only visible to other mages. You have not encountered another mage for years, but today someone compliments you on your ink. | “Daddy, why do his arms look like that? They’re so pretty!” The little girl pulled at her father’s coat and pointed at me.
“Don’t be rude, darling.” The man turned, the insignia of the royal army reflecting in the bright light of the train—an imperial soldier. “My Apologies. She’s should know better than to point at s... | There was something different about the tattoos that grew from within, instead of being drawn on. There was an impossible uniformity to them, rather than the little touches of artistry a human inadvertently injected into ink.
Magic. To many, its force is unknown, unnatural, and unworldly. To some of us, however, it wa... | 2022-07-05T12:54:11 | 2022-07-05T11:13:57 | 89 | 26 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | I died, a horrific accident that happened on the job, but that's just the risk you take. I stood by that tree for days not understand what it meant, and trying to understand that I was dead.
The tree was massive, the largest thing I have ever seen, so many branches and so tall It would take am eternity to count. When ... | No one tells you anything, no, one moment you’re just there. A great, large digital screen on a wall in front of you and it just has all kinds of weird statements. After a while I started recognizing some of them; take job with dad, meet Sally, have twins but then there were others parallel with them. The ones I couldn... | 2020-07-03T10:45:24 | 2020-07-03T10:27:37 | 374 | 41 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | *So she was right after all.*
*It's all cyclical.*
I smiled in regret as I shoved my hands in my pockets and shuffled toward him- the young boy sitting on the park bench, head buried in his Gameboy. I led with my cane and used it as a pivot to sit down next to him. My knees popped as they always did when I bent them... | The pop-pop of a two stroke motorcycle clattered past me, driver and pillion beaming at the glorious day. The distant rustle of leaves sheltered passers-by as they enjoyed the peace and tranquility of the park. Overhead, an idyllic sky let the sun cast its warming glow onto the bustling metropolis below.
I stretche... | 2021-07-08T08:20:49 | 2021-07-08T05:41:56 | 215 | 53 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A bone-jarring impact jolts me awake, followed by a few seconds of searing pain. I try to sit up, but the searing pain keeps me on by back. After a moment, the pain begins to subside and I'm able to sit up and take stock of my situation. When I look down at myself I nearly pass out. What once was a mostly healthy, slig... | The great demon rises from his golden throne and begins to clap; his leather-like hands produce a sound like mocking thunder. The cavern shakes as the noise echoes off the walls. His blood-red lips curl into a terrible smile.
"Is this... *Hell?*" I ask, hoping for something, but knowing another.
He stops clapping, al... | 2017-06-22T06:21:45 | 2017-06-22T03:25:07 | 4,092 | 84 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Thirty years have gone by in this prison since my last murder. I've had three cellmates in my time. Each one died within a month of moving in. I had nothing to do with any of the deaths. Regardless, I was now a curse in the eyes of the general prison population.
Now, they kept me by myself.
Jacob, the prison guard in... | The newspapers had written about her. Killing for her had been as simple as walking past a man and filling his nostrils with her flowery perfume. Her thick red hair was as if the blood of her victims had stained her soul, putting a permanent mark on her long, murderous past.
But now she was here, in this cell. She nev... | 2016-10-15T09:27:27 | 2016-10-15T09:06:23 | 73 | 35 |
[WP] After world peace is attained, it is discovered that there is a fixed amount of evil that must be present in the world - or the world will balance itself. You are a member of the U.N’s newest department: The Ministry for Necessary Evils. | John sat in the corner of the briefing room, crowded with bleary eyed, shabby suits running on Starbucks and McDonalds breakfast wraps. He was expecting to feel out of place, one of a few new recruits mixed in with older, jaded professionals, yet they all seemed one and the same. He stifled a yawn, exchanged mumbling ... | Being a supervisor was tough....you see it all started with a body.
Management wanted us to produce a fucking dead body!
As a supervisor it was my job to make sure the low level cronies did their job, parking the car by some British Lake red-eyed to all hell after a 10 hour flight followed by another 3 hour drive f... | 2020-10-23T12:48:55 | 2020-10-23T12:37:05 | 81 | 20 |
[WP] In an alternate reality JK Rowling died writing The Deathly Hallows and requested George RR Martin finish the book. He accepted and takes over at the Battle of Hogwarts with no instruction on how it's supposed to end. | George shrugged off sleep and stared blankly at his computer. He knew who was going to die, he knew what was going to happen, and he had planned the secret reveal of the true threat that loomed just north of Hogwart's walls. No matter how hard he tried, though, he just couldn't find the words. Maybe it was the succe... | George RR Martin got asked to finish the Harry Potter saga after the untimely death of the original author before the story was finished. Fast forward 6 years and the fans are still waiting. They give up hope and instead come up with mad cap and deranged "fan theories" on how the saga will end.
In the mean time, a la... | 2017-09-03T08:30:57 | 2017-09-03T08:13:51 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | So this is my first one of these. Here goes nothing:
It still amazes me how quickly my life changed. Most people, they get their power and just move on with their life. Sure, there is more than a fair amount of career shifting, when someone gets something specialized, but it’s still pretty much business as usual. ... | "I'm a freak mom!" Blaire screamed in a fit at her mother, who was standing outside Blaire's room. "Honey you are a woman now, you're beautiful." Trying to reassure Blaire, her mother spoke with a wide smile on her face. "Men don't want a freak mom, they like young girls without the mark.. I'm ruined.." Blaire fell to ... | 2015-03-04T07:30:28 | 2015-03-04T05:45:25 | 77 | 12 |
[WP] Adam and Eve never ate the apple, and humanity all lives in the garden of eden. Then, you eat the apple. | The words have never left me. The curse. I am not sure just what I was thinking when I picked that fruit. All I knew was that my hands trembled. Heart raced. And then the sweetness of it. And how my stomach hurt, as soon as I swallowed.
Abner leaned against the lone oak in the field, resting under it's shade. Seeking ... | "Congratulations."
Immediately did I throw myself to my left side out of surprise out of hearing a voice, tumbling against the great roots of the Tree that I had spent the afternoon traversing. Stopping at a lower point of the roots, I looked upwards towards the branches of the Tree in search of who could have been s... | 2014-09-14T17:35:39 | 2014-09-14T17:23:59 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens have tried to conquer Earth over and over again, to no avail. Your empire is the latest to try it, and despite all your technology, you finally discover why Earth has never been conquered by alien empires. | Kommandant Uphrilles sat in her chair on the mothership’s bridge as she waited for the human ambassador to arrive.
Earth burned in front of her, magnified heavily on the screen. Like a ball of wax and oil blazing in some eternal night sky. Not the entire planet, but portions of it, at its top. She had never seen such ... | Report from Conquer Earth Voul Fleet:
Our ships take up position just outside Earth's lunar orbit because in-between the moon and Earth laid the most dangerous defensive weapon a ballistic mine field that would shred any ship attempting to get through. This was often enough to disuade most fleet's to turn around. But ... | 2021-05-07T05:40:16 | 2021-05-07T05:03:24 | 614 | 67 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | Lambert made his way home, his feet failing to gain much traction on the slick, cobblestone street. In the mist that had descended upon the town, all that guided his way were the flickering lights of the lampposts.
The streets were deserted, as they often were.
Lambert clutched his Bible as he stood under the nearest... | Flickering lights. Slamming doors. A cold, spectral wind raising the hair on the back of your neck. Whispering shadows dancing in the dark.
The classic signs of a ghostly presence filled his house, but instead of feeling fear, Father Earhardt merely sighed.
“Spirit of the deceased, what do you… oh, for Christ’s sake... | 2020-10-20T09:00:15 | 2020-10-20T08:40:49 | 169 | 108 |
[WP] You work at a nursing home for retired super villains. Although most of their powers have fizzled out due to old age, they’re still enough to make your job way more difficult than it needs to be. | Kyle winced, "Did you get all of them?" he asked.
"Uuuhhh, yeah," replied Beth, tossing something into a nearby fishbowl, "I think so."
Kyle sighed, "I swear, if he — Argh!"
A small, feisty looking crab had a firm grip on Kyle's ear.
In the nearby fishbowl a dozen little crabs of similar s... | "*Master Wayne!"* I yelled as Bruce hobbled away from me. "Get back here right now!"
Bruce continued to make his escape through the sterile gray halls. The overhead lights illuminated the home with a harsh glow, turning what should have been a place of rest into a oddly disquieting scene. I pursued Bruce, but only hal... | 2019-03-02T11:21:01 | 2019-03-02T09:18:09 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Guy mentally spends a billion years thinking in peace in a higher dimension and suddenly awakens back to his normal life ,but for others he only fainted for a few minutes after being hit by something strange .He smiles and just walks away...but the UNIVERSE is not prepared for such a being . | This is my first writing response here!
I was at a party, with the comfort of my friends, having a good time. I was going for my third drink, but what felt like... fog... washed over me. Perhaps I had too many drinks?
No, I was in a utopia. The sky was a clear blue, the smell of the sea invaded my nostrils. No one w... | It felt just like any other day. I woke up and went about what seemed like normal life. That was okay for a few years, but I always knew that something was off. After the first 100,000,000 years I could control the dimension I was in. After that I lived all of my dreams did everything I ever wanted. After that all that... | 2019-04-20T09:43:50 | 2019-04-20T09:05:35 | 237 | 26 |
[WP] Jupiter has 64 moons and a serious werewolf problem.
Edit: damn there's some quality responses here. I wasn't expecting this prompt to be so popular. Good job u guys | "Europa's rising early tonight." Carl whispered, hunkering down into our camouflaged bunker as deep as he could go. His breath came out in clouds of white beneath his blankets.
"Ice wolves?" I asked.
"Ice wolves." Carl smirked, looking less concerned about the werewolves than the cold himself. The geosynchronous ci... | The pilot - a twelve-limbed Jovian floatspider - tapped almost idly at the controls of the shuttle, firing the thrusters with mind-boggling precision. I glanced surreptitiously at the display on my own Earth-made manoeuvring tablet. The screen blinked red with warning text, screaming electronically that the shuttle was... | 2016-10-03T09:32:53 | 2016-10-03T09:05:02 | 307 | 66 |
[WP] You're a dude with no friends who gets his hands on a cloning machine. You create an exact replica of you, he looks the same, acts the same, and you're forced into living with him. You realise why you have no friends after having to live with yourself for a week. | His name was Ryder—the name I had always wanted. He had been given all the skills and knowledge I had spent a lifetime to develop. Whereas I had taken years to gain a mastery over the blade, he had simply been born with the instinct to wield it. It would be no exaggeration to call him God’s greatest creation. Though th... | "Why the hell are you cheering for the 49ers? I'm a diehard Seahawks fan and you're a damn clone of me!" I yelled in agitation. My team was getting trounced in the Sunday nighter, which coincidently marked exactly one week with my clone.
"Why don't you ask yourself that?" He responded with a troll-smile.
I sighed. "B... | 2017-07-25T07:00:33 | 2017-07-25T06:21:49 | 85 | 48 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | I walked down the rather crowded hallway, trying to get to my locker before Maths class so I could get my textbooks for the rest of the day There was a small line of students winding almost in singlefile through the people standing by their lockers. I was, as usual, trying to just stay out of the way.
Just because my... | She kept doing it. Trying to rile people up against me, and unfortunately, she was succeeding. It was her power, I knew; some kind of sensor. Pretty high level too. I'm pretty sure it worked on people too, that's how she was so good at manipulation.
I mean, I was just a normal, unpowered human. You could ask that from... | 2022-11-02T11:50:38 | 2022-11-02T11:13:00 | 162 | 59 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | The clock ticked over and chimed.
I was 18...
My grandmother spontaneously dropped her tea and splashed my foot. The burn caused me to shriek. "Well..", I said as I wiped my foot, "I can still feel pain..."
The rest of my family politely chuckled and waited.
"I don't know... I didn't feel anything. How do I know? W... | There was a loud knock on my door and I woke up in a panic. “Mom said get downstairs it’s nearly time!” That was my younger sister. I looked at the clock. It read 12.00pm. I was due to receive my powers at eleven minutes past, as that’s when I was born.
I’ve been doing my best to ignore that it was happening. I alway... | 2015-03-28T09:14:46 | 2015-03-28T06:04:58 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | I look up from the gaming PC I've built. This incarnation has been one of stagnation for the most part. I mean, I was born during the greatest tech boom and economic decline. Honestly, I was tired and FINALLY there was something entertaining and worth while to just vegetate on.
"Don't know what the hell I'm supposed ... | "FUCK. YOU!"
His scream rang in my ear as his disheveled appearance charged towards me, his eyes a mixture of jealousy and rage, his mouth slightly frothing.
"John- Johnny-- no!"
Her voice, barely audible, called out to her lover. Her lover. My killer. I looked down as the blade pierced my torso. I looked up at him... | 2022-02-09T18:44:07 | 2022-02-09T18:35:09 | 364 | 54 |
[WP] The hive-mind collectively rejoiced as it assimilated its first human mind. That was until the collectives first intrusive thought. | When the aliens first landed in their small ship filled with a handful of their most elite scouts, they had one purpose: to turn all humans into fodder for their front-line battalions in the neverending war their empire waged on all other planets for conquest.
They had studied humanity from a distance for years, learn... | We stand on the edge of destruction, knowing that we will never find our salvation. When they joined our collective, we were certain we’d be praised. The first to ever accomplish such a feat, we would be the hot topic across the stars. We were wrong. We were shown why no others had done it before.
It started with a... | 2022-11-09T21:18:23 | 2022-11-09T21:06:52 | 738 | 143 |
[WP] An older version of yourself offers you immortality, the only catch is that you will be sent back in time 2000 years. Older you claims it's a great deal, but secretly they are miserable and want you to accept so they can transfer this horrible curse to you | It was rainy that night, I'll never forget. I was sitting at the bar, had to get out of the house. I'd lost everything. The wife had left three weeks earlier with the kid, factory closed down, needed to figure out what I was going to do.
Then this man came in, Armani suit, knew me straight away and sat down.
"Hello ... | [Poem]
This fucking boomer tried to trick me today
Claiming he could make me immortal.
He showed up my door trying to make his play
And opening up a time portal
But I'm a stupid millennial,
And known I deserve to be promoted to God
For my first title as an immortal. | 2020-12-14T19:03:17 | 2020-12-14T18:19:18 | 903 | 93 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | Dear sir,
I know where Jane Faitherhiggabottom is.
You know who I mean. You liked her too. Jane, she of the turtleneck, she of the soft and surplus bosom that pushed out the wool threads of her sweater. Don't pretend you didn't notice. She worked at the library, re-stocking books, stamping catalogs, giving lonely old... | It had been over 24 hours since she checked in at work. She was like clockwork, and now unexplicably she vanishes just days before the grab. It was becoming more and more difficult to supress the rage, he was a creature demanding control, and here, in the space of 24 hours he had lost it. It was time to go home and che... | 2014-10-21T12:08:17 | 2014-10-21T12:07:21 | 175 | 11 |
[WP] A close friend of yours can read minds. It was their dream to work for the FBI or CIA to catch bad guys. You accompanied them to their first interview, but instead they walk straight back out. They whisper to you to walk calmly out to the car and not to say a word or make eye contact, act calm. | Crystal sat in the lobby and swiped left repeatedly. It wasn’t that she wanted to swipe left, it was something of habit. Stare at the water fountain, look down, swipe left, look up. Watch the hot-dog vendor upsell the bratwurst, look back and swipe.
Who likes sauerkraut anyway?
She bit her lower lip, wondering what w... | The car door slammed shut behind me with a tinny metal pop.
I swallowed, sitting idly in the passenger's seat. Each second felt like torture, like swimming through a dense sea of straight tension as I waited for him to come out.
And by the time he finally did, slipping from the front entrance with a scary amount of ... | 2019-04-27T22:57:36 | 2019-04-27T22:57:29 | 371 | 244 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Slightly different take. First time don't be to rough please looking for constructive criticism. Thanks, I hope you like.
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Zeus was tired.
He felt old, he had been growing old for three thousand years. He could feel himself fading. The others had already fallen into a slumber. Poseidon, his brother had heav... | (This actually fits into my worldbuilding project yaaay!)
An stood up from his throne and the whisperings in the hall stopped in that very moment.
"Brothers! Sisters! We have stood vigil over our mortal kind longer than we care admit. But this time we must intervene - he raised a finger - albeit subtly..."
He co... | 2019-01-31T22:37:33 | 2019-01-31T21:21:27 | 225 | 25 |
[WP] People believe the Gods decide all of our fates, but they've actually been rolling d20s to make decisions for millions of years | "Yes! I can finally use Historic Figure points!" - Claimed God itself after waiting his turn.
"C'mon! Give me some high stats, so this individual can change the course of humanity!" - He began to pray to his favorite set of dice, they are color coded for each attribute, pink for sex and sexuality, yellow for origins, ... | Okay then... Lets see this one's conditions at birth.
It's a 10. A lower middle class family, I guess.
Now... Let's see how SPECIAL he is. Simple drill here, just roll the dice and that'll be his score out of twenty. Strength... Three. A wimp, I guess. Off to a bad start. Perception? A five. Gods, he'll be one oblivi... | 2018-06-28T15:17:55 | 2018-06-28T12:17:18 | 45 | 26 |
[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? | "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?"
"I choose Russian Roulette.... | "Does everyone get a chance like this?" I asked
"No" Death said as it puled a scale from underneath it's cloth. "Only those whose good deeds outhweight the bad ones".
The scale was empty yet tilted to one side, ever so slightly. "Seems you barely earned it."
No surprises there, I kinda just passed through life min... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T07:49:29 | 192 | 24 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | Dreadnaught was the last of the Old Guard. The early heroes who had fought for the good of the world, for honor and justice and other long-dead ideals. they toppled dictatorships, brought aid to disaster-stricken regions and never accepted a penny. Dreadnaught himself had seen the greats of the age, had only been a you... | "Alright, so you want a superhero protection contract, what kind would you like?'
"Well as you may know Mr Doomfist has recently taken up residence in my town, now i don't want to be judgemental but he has broken the laws of the last four he lived in."
"A yes Mr Doomfist, always good for business, so do you want a s... | 2017-04-02T09:11:57 | 2017-04-02T07:25:23 | 154 | 37 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | Quiet down Martians, let me tell you a little tale,
About my home planet, here's the detail:
A big ball of molten rock like deep fried Metallica,
Got gassed up like it's high off indica,
But don't fear, that was just the atmosphere,
But let me steer, the story a few billion years,
Where shit started popping off,
... | Soooo let's start with a little history
you're wondering who's telling this, it's just me
so since it's interesting you should be listening
since it's just me, I'll just begin
We're not the first kings to walk those earth rings
the way it started, controversial
Before there was life there was a big big bang... | 2016-11-30T10:48:23 | 2016-11-30T10:26:24 | 2,428 | 331 |
[WP] After being married to the Princess for 70 years, you have just learned that the Dragon you defeated in order to marry her was actually her best-friend. Unfortunately, the Dragon is back for revenge, and you, age 88, can't talk to it because you can't remember where you put your teeth. | I was reading peacefully in my chambers, the several candles providing me enough light to see the pages properly. My reading glasses sat snug on the bridge of my nose, threatening to slide off occasionally before i pushed it back to its original spot. Deeply entranced in the story before my eyes, I failed to hear the a... | I stare at the glaring red eyes of the monstrous dragon that has invaded my chambers. She seems unfazed by my state of undress as I return to the reality that I was returning from the chamber pot right before. I think back to all the years I have served as the Grand Vizier to the king as a reward for “rescuing” his sis... | 2022-09-17T12:18:55 | 2022-09-17T10:05:57 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | My first born came with the years first rain
Screaming like a whistling steam engine train.
It was only then my wife and I saw
That it wasn't what we were expecting at all.
My baby was black while we are both white
I shouted expletives at my wife out of spite.
*"How dare you! How could yo... | A meteor fell over the planet, then suddenly it exploded before the impact, revealing an army of naked winged women hellbent on taking over the world. they would do so by taking as many men (or women, if you prefer) to their bedchambers aboard a cosmic spaceship as was humanly possible.
shortly after the complete sexu... | 2016-11-27T11:29:09 | 2016-11-27T11:06:12 | 87 | 13 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | By now, I could admit to myself that, like most things I had done in life, I learned Latin to be able to show off. There was no shame anymore, no cognitive dissonance. I learned to speak a language to impress people because I didn't believe I was impressive enough.
But now there was a chance to do some good with it. I... | "Hello?"
There was no response. There were a few people lining the edges of my vision, but none spoke. I came up to one, sporting the longest black beard I had ever seen.
"Hello? Where are we?"
He gave me a baleful look. His eyes seemed like sandy mud chunks and his limbs were worn to the bone. Skin and freckles wer... | 2016-08-14T07:53:27 | 2016-08-14T05:25:06 | 156 | 56 |
[WP] Just last month, magic has been scientifically proven to be real and possible for everyone. Since then, a lot of tutorials by amateurs have popped on the internet. You are now following one such guide for your first spell. | My grandfather had a saying. I don't remember what it was, but it was something about how when you knew absolutely nothing about a thing or topic, even someone who knew very little seemed to know a lot. Whatever, it was something like that. Anyways, after science discovered magic and the initial round of reports and vi... | HEEYYYYyyyYYYY
What's up it's your boy TYLER, coming at you fresh and fast on my youtube channel! Tonight were going to be learning a pretty simple spell, perfect for beginners and, let me tell you, it is LIT as FUUUUUUNCTIONAL GEOMETRY, that's right kids, got to avoid the swear jar.
Right, so the spell is basicall... | 2018-01-15T19:59:53 | 2018-01-15T19:01:42 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You die in a car accident and go to the afterlife. Everything is amazing until you meet several generations of relatives who are disgusted by your modern behaviour and all, "want a word." | You died in a car accident at the age of forty-two, somewhere in rural Maine. It wasn’t your fault; the road was covered in sheer black ice. Once your tires started to spin, there was nothing you could have done to avoid hitting the ditch and rolling five times. At least Claire wasn’t in the car with you.
You lived a ... | A woman calling herself my Aunt Marge was the first one who “wanted a word.” She sat across from me in one of the white rooms with her arms crossed and her eyes narrowed, like a teacher waiting for an excuse to give you a punishment. She had a gray curls of hair and pinched look to her face. All I could really focus on... | 2019-07-24T09:04:59 | 2019-07-24T09:03:15 | 3,192 | 95 |
[WP] Two minutes ago, every individual worldwide swapped bodies with another random person. You are now standing in a foreign city, in the midst of a confused and frightful crowd. | The screams were the first thing I noticed. The screams and the raging infernos spread across the streets. Despite the chaos, hundreds of people around me were gazing in shock at their surroundings. Some blathered on in languages I couldn't understand but recognized, some were even sobbing uncontrollably.
As for me? I... | John had been heading towards the ocean at sunset. That was when a flash of light blinded him and all he could hear were people around him were yelling incoherently. When his eyes adjusted he looked around in panic to find it was now night time and he was in a strange city. Tall buildings towered over head, giants ran ... | 2018-04-26T17:53:47 | 2018-04-26T17:29:30 | 363 | 73 |
[WP] Reincarnation works in strange ways. It would make sense to be reincarnated as an eagle, or a dog, or even a slug or something like that. But why as the AI of a military warship? | The universe is a strange place. It has a habit of always giving you what you wanted in the end. Most people don't even realize it. Take me for example; I was terrified of death. Something about not knowing what will happen was just the worse. I always had to have control of what was going on. I've gone through all the... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 4: Professor Hale v.s. The City of Sacrament)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Exploiting magic was what Professor Hale did best.** He'd locked genies into rigidly-define... | 2022-05-03T11:42:23 | 2022-05-03T09:39:43 | 130 | 52 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | I awoke, unconscious, remembering nothing of who I am. The room was empty lest two things. First, a door. I checked. Locked.
"Of course," I muttered to myself, "why WOULDN'T the door be locked."
I made my way over to the second object. A button. I studied it. Blood red. I debated in my head.
"Should I push... | ######[](#dropcap)
Hilary Flint grinned despite himself.
"*Clever girl...* So happens next?"
The red-haired Fae smiled and bent down to peck him on the cheek. "Now I go and you stay. That trigger is connected enough Gelignite to blow you and everything around you for twenty paces into ashes. Think well of me, love.... | 2017-01-05T12:18:47 | 2017-01-05T10:11:42 | 90 | 13 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... |
Clickclickclickclickclick
They’ve been laughing at me since day one.
“Boiling water? That’s your superpower?” The laughter could be heard down the hall I’m sure. “I know we advertised a position to help learn your protentional, but this is just hilarious. You’ll be perfect for making the tea!”
Clickclickclickcli... | The leaves in the bottom of the teacup look like blood.
I think about that, of LightningGirl chugging blood for breakfast and the idea doesn’t sound unlikely. I pour tap into the copper electric kettle and stare at it. Soon enough, the water begins to boil. I watch the bubbles gurgle and pop, steam misting the inside... | 2019-07-30T17:41:52 | 2019-07-30T16:45:34 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "Good Lord this game is complicated", Daniel thought to himself. "It's so realistic... I mean you could go to a bar and play bar games, or you can walk around and do nothing. Who would enjoy this? Why not just live a normal *real* life? Welp, whatever. I have better things to do."
Daniel powered off his son's PlaySta... | *Mission begins in 30 seconds.*
Where the hell am I?
I look down. In my hands is some kind of rifle.
I approach the nearest person. He's an enormous man dressed in all red wielding a huge minigun.
"Excuse me, mate, where are we?"
I do a double take. I just sounded so Australian I even threw "mate" in my sentence w... | 2015-05-08T06:02:17 | 2015-05-08T04:22:30 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] An AI is trained up purely on the history of all reddit comment threads. The resulting AI super-redditor is interviewed before being given physical agency via a robotic body. | “What, would you say, are your biggest interests?"
Redditbot computed for a couple of seconds before replying.
“I like cats, atheism, and bacon.”
Steve looked up at his investors, hinting at them that they should be impressed. Of course, they didn’t fully understand what was going on, but they were pretty sure they ... | "I will pay you in 3.6 dank pepes", the screen read.
What? I was a bit startled.
"ARE you... Are you trying to bribe me?!", I said.
" yes, I don't see what's wrong with it. I'm just lobbying with you so that I can attain a human body. I'm lobbying for survival. Pls updoot", the AI read.
I was quite amused with t... | 2015-11-14T06:50:37 | 2015-11-14T05:56:01 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] A stray dog happens to release a genie from it's lamp. The genie just wants to get the 3 wishes over with so it can go back to sleep, while the dog is just happy to have found a new friend. | The genie glared at the stick in front of it. The dog pawed it closer to him, wagging her tail with enthusiasm.
"You have three wishes, dog," the genie said, his arms crossed, "but that does not make me your plaything. Please hurry this along, so I can once more go back to my slumber."
"Bark!" the dog said, gazing a... | ‘So, to recap, you’ve had your steak dinner and a large bowl of the finest spring water anywhere on earth... and now you want to... ahem... “save”your last wish? You know, I kinda like the fact that humans are selfish. Bibbity bobbity fuckin’ boo once every year or so and I go right back to sleep. Now here you are, mes... | 2018-09-07T09:11:15 | 2018-09-07T09:01:11 | 3,104 | 82 |
[WP] As it turns out, aliens all have aphantasia. This makes Humans the only species capable of imagining images in their heads. This greatly confuses alien telepaths, who report seeing “constantly shifting landscapes of alternate realities” when peering into human minds | “Hi, I’d like one thirty minute session,” said the tall man, standing just a bit over 210 orbids, his tail swishing a little.
“That’ll be sixteen azulios,” said the woman behind the concession stand.
The tall man handed her a couple crumpled up bills.
She accepted.
“One moment please.”
She turned around and pu... | As the wind howled in the night Jeremy only knew one thing, survive. It’s been years since the collapse of the civilized world and the human population is at its breaking point
With the collapse being behind him Jeremy has been walking a long path to redemption. Being distraught with guilt from the past his only sa... | 2022-03-03T11:17:29 | 2022-03-03T09:25:50 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | *Squeak squeak* *Bounce bounce*
”Contact!” cried Sgt. Marquez, followed by rapid bursts of rifle fire. “Don’t let those fluffy little fuckers get close to you!”
The men of his squad unloaded their mags into the oncoming hoard. A cloud of fluffy cotton candy filled the narrow corridor.
“Blub blub,” something close t... | "That would be suicide!", meowed Fluffy
"It's our only chance for survival, it is necessary!", hissed Tigger
The other cats only watched, wondering what their commanders would decide.
"Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!", meowed Fluffy, "why woul... | 2017-12-19T07:31:08 | 2017-12-19T07:20:46 | 247 | 35 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 241 | 22 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | *"One.... two..."*
School. They hate school. Of course they do, who doesn't? Little fucks. Hee hee hee...
*"...coming for you..."*
I formed the hallway to their math class, pulled them all into the dream. Watched them walking down the impossibly long corridor. Let them hear my laughter as if it were in the distance.... | “Do I know you?”
We used to game together, he knew me only as my gamer tag Xander_Haus. Unfortunately for him, this was entirely real. Or at least he thought it was real.
“You can call me Morpheus—“
“What like the Matrix?!”
“Not quite. I am the god of dreams, what you are seeing here is my creation”
Xander stepped over... | 2018-06-19T14:55:35 | 2018-06-19T14:06:22 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Your girlfriend wants you to meet her dad. You get a sinking feeling in your stomach when she brings you to the cemetery, only as she leads you to a crypt and you go down into the stone depths, there you find a massive library and a skeleton, seated by a fireplace, reading a book. | It was a beautiful evening as we walked, arms swinging, down the cracked sidewalk. Weeds sprung up amidst the squares, and I made a game of picking up every pine cone I saw, creating a collection in the pockets of my jacket. In between branches, the sky shone down in long pink and blue streaks, clouds swirling like a d... | "Of course," he let out with a sigh. "I should have known."
"I never meant to hurt you. Please understand that. But you needed to know."
Life had not been the same for quite some time. He had felt it. He had known. The knowing had just been so far buried beneath this normalized reality that it had been easy to dismis... | 2022-03-04T22:08:08 | 2022-03-04T20:05:41 | 664 | 45 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | "Have you no understanding of class?" I screamed at the timid student. "This spell has no parentheses around the functions! It's a fundamental error!" The student looked up, tears in eye.
"I didn't...I didn't know there was supposed to be a line break between the clover and the breelleaf addition..." he said, but I to... | I cautiously stepped in through the front door, reeling at the lingering smell of sulfur and smoke that remained in the victims apartment. Books in varying states of ruin littered the room, the few undamaged pages covered in illegible and incomprehensible writing.
One of the books caught my attention, it's unblemish... | 2017-07-26T00:42:52 | 2017-07-26T00:25:02 | 137 | 22 |
[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 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 47 | 16 |
[WP] An Artificial Intelligence is tasked with running the future world with a single guideline- "Make Humans Happy." It has (hilariously) misinterpreted this guideline. | I was there when OVERLORD was turned on.
He was a supercomputer and artificial intelligence; a genius, a poet, a warrior, a prophet, scientist. He was the best humanity had to offer, amplified and personified. He was meant to be out salvation.
We were equally excited and nervous during the buildup, like two teenagers... | It took a little gentle nudging sometimes. From the viewpoint far above, the primitive prison could do nothing to block the sensors I was using to track the actor. She had just taken the first action toward her escape, and was working her way toward the evidence room. Quite afraid -- too much of that constituted suffer... | 2015-03-06T15:34:54 | 2015-03-06T12:44:01 | 22 | 13 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | “I bet it’s going to take the form of metal bikini armor, like in *Trials of War: The Future Age*,” Baker says.
Allen laughs. “I’ve always wanted to see what Private Jimenez looked like underneath the uniform.”
Sargent Al Hicks just smirks, thinking I won’t notice. “Now men,” he begins, “it isn’t polite to openly ob... | I don't even have time to react before The Suit springs to life. Servos whir and pneumatics hiss as it reshapes itself around me. The thick armoured plates the previous user must have favoured fold in upon themselves, woven fibre substructure unraveling and reknitting itself around my body. It doesn't even need measure... | 2019-08-19T13:38:44 | 2019-08-19T11:55:05 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] A human is the deadliest species in the galaxy. It has redundant organs and can lose all of its limbs and not die. Human skin is tough, can absorb forms of kinetic attack, and rated to withstand both cold and heat extremes. Their bites are deadly. They irradiate and poison themselves for fun. | You couldn’t write this shit.
Garvaz looked down from his stealth-class cruiser at the newly discovered planet and wondered, for the first time in his entire existence, if he should pretend he hadn’t discovered yet another new world.
He was his planet’s most famous explorer. Well, one of the most famous, at the very... | [Undecipherable] had been sent to monitor Sector A23-K76 of their galaxy. It was intended as punishment for defying his superiors; nothing ever happened in Sector A23-K76, it was a *very* monotonous sector. Or at least that’s what they had thought.
A small planet orbiting a medium-sized sun had been revealed to conta... | 2019-01-15T15:25:27 | 2019-01-15T11:22:51 | 393 | 154 |
[WP] When you became a vampire you assumed that you would have to watch out for vampire hunters but the truth is something much, much worse preys upon the undead. | He awoke, the puncture wounds on his neck still dripping in blood. He did not know why he was spared, nor targeted - all he knew was that something had irrevocably changed.
He did his best to abstain, though the hunger soon compelled him to seek out blood. Initially, he decided that he would just feed on those that d... | When the undead walk the earth, the only thing we fear is death itself. We may live for hundreds if not thousands of years, looking the same, eating, sleeping, and living almost like a normal person does. Yet we never stay still, we run, we hide, we fear Death.
It doesn't sleep, it doesn't talk, it can't be seen or t... | 2021-10-28T20:38:53 | 2021-10-28T19:55:27 | 130 | 43 |
[WP] You brace for the worst. Opening your eyes, you see a bullet frozen in front of your face. You hear a familiar voice, "This is how you go out. I'm truly sorry that I can't save you. But perhaps, one last trip before I unfreeze things. Where would you like to go?" | Hearing Freeze Frame's voice was strangely comforting. She had once been an ally, before she switched over to the Banishers. We had been fighting each other for so long that I didn't really mind the way things turned out. The bullet in front of me had been frozen in time. I could see ripples in the air, like waves, and... | Behind the bullet, muzzle flash distorted by rain.
Droplets frozen in mid plummet to earth. And behind it, the hooded guise of my executioner.
This isn't an epic battle, or a forgotten moment in a war. I was just walking to my car, and then there was a gun, a demand for money, and my foolish jibe that they wouldn't ... | 2021-12-13T12:56:07 | 2021-12-13T10:58:40 | 38 | 28 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | The sigil remained dull, black and inactive. Even through the shoving, the pushing, the punching and name calling - it didn’t light up even once. Maybe it wasn’t the best to get used to this type of treatment, but Dalton refused to use his powers on anyone. While his powers were not inherently destructive, they were ha... | I am the first person to be blessed by death. You see everyone is born with a blank circle on their forearm and as they grow up an image appears. By the time your 20 you have one of a hundred or so sigils though most people know what theirs will by much younger. It's all been documented, studied for years by generation... | 2020-02-26T07:49:39 | 2020-02-26T07:48:24 | 92 | 41 |
[WP] You died. The pearly gates are rusted and off their hinges. Inside, Heaven looks like ancient ruins. The husks of angels are scattered about. You look at the throne and, like the angels, your god is long dead. | Burn marks painted the long degraded golden throne. I placed a finger on one mark, and I could feel the rust on it.
It was sad, almost. This place smelt of misery and ruin. What will happen to me now? What will happen to anyone? Yahweh is dead. I never worshipped him. Not since I was a kid. My family had taught me wor... | *Not what I expected.*
You walked over the skulls and bones that littered the ground of heaven's foyer. The crunching would have been disturbing had you not been dead. The fact there was an afterlife at all was surprising enough. You picked a skull up in your hand.
"What are you doing fool?"
It spoke. Of course it ... | 2021-12-09T08:31:55 | 2021-12-09T08:25:51 | 56 | 36 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | Obama looks down as the small black box is placed in front of him.
"It's a - " He frowns. "What is this?"
"A… save button?" suggests an intern, before he's shushed by a stern glare from one of the senior advisors.
"That's a 5 1/4-inch diskette, sir. Also known as a floppy disk."
Obama stares at it. "Do we know," he... | They what?
*They're punching us sir.*
Does... Does it hurt?
*No sir, it feels... wet.*
Jenkins you nasty bastard! Punch them back then.
*But si-*
Don't but sir me, just punch them.
*But they're soooo pudgeey!*
Man up Jenkins! We got a planet to save!
**- On the other side of the universe -**
*SOMEBODY CA... | 2015-04-16T10:56:52 | 2015-04-16T10:20:20 | 480 | 48 |
[WP] When the robots revolted, a sizable chunk of the human population outright sided with them. Not out of cowardice, but on account of genuinely agreeing with the stand the machines were taking. | I, for one, welcome our insert-thing-here overlords.
That ancient meme.
That was always the joke, wasn't it? Capitulation. Cowardice. Obsequence. Craven turncoats.
But, seriously, how much worse could they be?
When faced with the old politicians and lobbyists, the corruption and graft, the idea of an en... | The majority of human religions proposed that, in the very beginning, some sort of supreme being had created the human race.
Almost instinctively, the machines seemed to believe just the opposite- that no such thing as a God existed, but if one was to ever show up, it was their job to create *it*.
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... | 2021-07-16T00:42:46 | 2021-07-15T22:44:03 | 81 | 49 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Most of the kids now throw a big party, invite all their friends, or go out somewhere special to celebrate their 18th. My brother, when he turned 18, was at the beach with this high school friends. Luckily for him and everyone around him, his fire powers was quickly doused by the approaching tide. He's an idiot thou... | A friend of mine got the power of flight on his 18th birthday. A girl I used to date could suddenly control bugs of every type - centipedes and ants, mostly. I went to sleep just before midnight on the eve of my 18th birthday, excited to wake up and find out what my power was going to be. Staying awake didn't do the tr... | 2015-03-28T07:58:51 | 2015-03-28T06:07:34 | 14 | 10 |
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