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[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | He scratched softly at the base of the basement door.
I sat at the kitchen table with hollow eyes. The breakfast sandwich steamed alongside the freshly roasted coffee, but I had no stomach for either. I wrung my hands, trying to ignore the smarting scratches down my forearms.
“It’s going to be alright,” I whispered, ... | Sighing, I turned to the ground. The special plastic floor was charred black.The trial led to the living room. The culprit was nowhere to be found.
"Oreo ! How many times do I have to remind you, don't burn the floor!"
A dog came out of the room. Oreoresi was a black skinned dog, with 6 beautiful blue eyes. Yes... | 2019-07-04T07:55:29 | 2019-07-04T07:23:00 | 355 | 150 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | "So, what do you need a lie for?"
I sat behind my dirty desk, covered in take out boxes and cat fur. I sucked on my soggy cigarette noisily, daintily making notes on the back of an envelope.
The man in front of me nervously wrung his hands. He eyed me suspiciously, but I smelled the desperation. Well, most people wer... | Adam came out from his coma sometime around the 5th day after he was admitted to the ICU.
Stefanie heard him stir, coughing in short spurts as he slowly regained his senses. She had been lightly dozing by his side, and she reached for his hand to calm him. Slowly, painfully, he opened his remaining good eye and strug... | 2014-11-15T14:29:05 | 2014-11-15T10:43:05 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You're a retired adventurer who now works as a local guard for a small village. No one in the village knows that you were an adventurer. One day, an old friend comes to visit you. | The cobbler's daughter plucked a frostrose from the garden and added it to her basket. Recently, she had been getting interested in spellcrafting and Alex had on several occasions offered himself up as a test subject. Healing potions. Agility enhancers. Antidotes. She had managed to mess up them all.
The healing potio... | It was a slow day, it was always a peaceful town, notting happening, or to do but talk and play dice or card games. "Do you have any old mates ya miss max?" A voice from behind said, as i turned i saw my fellow guard dave in the middle of a game of poker with jack.
"....what bring this up, you usualy Don't care abou... | 2021-11-30T11:56:18 | 2021-11-30T11:34:52 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | Living beyond my means always seemed not only unnecessary to me, but pointless. Sure, I could do whatever I wanted and be whatever I wanted, but I had seen what money could do to people and those around them. I didn't want to be another chump with "yes men" around me telling me how good of a job I was doing, regardless... | People think they know what real power means. They think that because their parents gave them some high ranking job in a bank or a government office that they can just go around pushing over everybody. That’s where I come in. I like to think of myself as something of a modern age Robin Hood. Only if Robin Hood was a bi... | 2019-03-04T09:01:49 | 2019-03-04T08:37:41 | 2,500 | 21 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | The look on Natasha's face when I walked into our college algebra 101 class that morning made the whole ordeal of digging myself out of that shallow grave and walking home without any blood worth it. (Have you ever tried to walk without blood? It's super tiring.)
Her expression was a perfect mix of shock, confusion, p... | "Maria, Maria please stop. Please stop." Those were the words that came to my head the moment I woke up. All started with a soft kiss then all ended with a hard bite down my neck. She then kissed me again with blood all over her mouth.
"Oh god, who could have thought that death tasted so sweet".
She didn't even bother... | 2022-12-29T18:54:00 | 2022-12-29T17:14:15 | 196 | 32 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | I logged onto the website, after 3 failed attempts at my password.
It took me the better part of an hour scrolling through the pages and pages of statistics, most pretty decent, some exceptional (top 100,000 at minesweeper felt pretty good).
Finally I noticed the little menu bar at the top and found the "Outliers" se... | From thousands of absolutely useless categories I reached rank #1 in only one of them. It was something, but some people still had their place on several lists. They were raised to lead. I was not. I found myself as a person who did the longest yawn of all time. I felt something weird. There was so many people trained ... | 2019-05-04T10:43:43 | 2019-05-04T10:20:17 | 1,560 | 108 |
[WP] You are possessed by a powerful demon. You fear the worst when you notice that you are still in control of your body. And he's afraid because you can control his powers. | The demon was the first to speak, "Hey."
Of course, I couldn't see it. It was just a voice inside my head. So I made the only logical response, "Hi?"
"Not to butt in on you like this, but your soul and body are mine now. Nothing personal, just need a vessel to move about your plain of existence and such. Believe me, ... | "BOW DOWN TO ME MORTAL!" the demon ordered. *Well, he's definitely loud*, I thought.
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Maybe I should start a bit earlier. You see, my daughter's into the occult. No, not the hippie-dippie "witchcraft" you see nowadays. Oh no, I mean full-blown devil ... | 2017-10-22T19:34:26 | 2017-10-22T16:30:32 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | A blinding light swept away the south camp. Charigos ran out of his resting pod, watching in terrified awe at the magnificent mushroom shaped fire ball rising to the sky. Everyone had stopped doing what they were doing and now stood, as if they were frozen in time.
A general ran out of his pod "I thought we had won! T... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T14:02:56 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 84 | 21 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | After living for eternity, you would have thought that I could hack a nine to five job for a mere ten years. Add on the fact I'm pretty much the most powerful thing in existence, you would definitely think I could hack a nine to five job for a a decade.
You would be completely right.
Or well, you would have been comp... | James and Robert sat the bar. They were taking shots and complaining about their boss Dylan. Regular Friday night stuff.
"That's it. Fuck this guy. I'm gonna kill his wife."
"Jim you can't say shit like that man."
"Wouldn't be first time I fucked over someone to prove a point."
"What?"
"Nevermind man don't worry a... | 2017-02-19T07:52:51 | 2017-02-19T07:20:19 | 5,696 | 203 |
[WP] In a dystopian future, every crime in punishable by execution. You are the most wanted criminal in the word, for stealing a Kit-Kat from a corner store. | I can imagine a cop getting a call like:
**Pzzsht** (or whatever the hell a cackling microphone sounds like) "*We have a [insert random code for theft], I repeat [insert random code for theft]. Target is female, 14, blonde, average height, and last seen wearing a green hoodie. She's a runner. Execute on sight."*
And ... | I always thought that they would try to execute me for something. I just didn’t think that it would be a candy bar.
I grew up 150 years after the Iron Constitution, the set of laws that went into effect after World War III to ensure that there would be no World War IV. Everyone alive was required to install a tracking... | 2019-05-01T16:05:51 | 2019-05-01T15:24:51 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | Fred Phelps was getting tired of waiting. He had been suspended in space for what felt like a couple of years before he saw a light approaching. He knew this was the moment he'd been waiting for, but as the light drew near, Fred couldn't help thinking that God looked...different...than he'd expected. Instead of a be... | For a large chunk of my life I expected nothing to happen after... well after *I* ended. I expected complete cession of consciousness, a total end to my cognitive functions... a lack of everything including the self-awareness that would have made the Void unbearable.
What I got was a man behind a desk with a file that... | 2016-03-07T19:44:40 | 2016-03-07T18:54:40 | 50 | 37 |
[WP] You have died and gone to Hell. Strangely it isn't as bad as you thought, maybe it is even nice. Turns out the Devil is super lazy and doesn't actually torture the damned. But you, being the compulsive organizer you are, have decide to change that. | "She's causing issues again, sir."
A great, red hand rose to rub the bridge of his nose. He'd nodded off again, and he did *not* like to be disturbed while resting. His eyes blinked several times, clearing his blurred vision.
"...Excuse me?", Lucifer drawled, more a yawn than a question.
"The new girl, this...", the... | "Excuse...me? Uh, hello?"
I frowned. This may be a place of eternal torment and sorrow, but that's no excuse for skipping over fundamentals. As soon as someone comes in to your establishment, you need to make the mood of the place clear to them.
I walk through what appears to be a vast, dimly-lit warehouse until I... | 2018-12-18T08:14:34 | 2018-12-18T06:49:06 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] It’s discovered that the mayor of a town is, in fact, two 8 year olds in a trench coat. | [BREAKING NEWS]
After a several week long investigation into the allegations made against Redwood Valley’s own mayor Vincent Adultman, new facts have just been uncovered by this newspaper’s investigative reporting team. The mayor, is not who this town thinks he is. Information has just been released that the mayor is... | Reporter: “Mayor, mayor. How do you respond to these allegations that you’re actually just two eight year olds in a trench coat.”
Mayor(s): “I suppose the truth was bound to get out eventually. We only wanted to make the town a better place. It’s why we took it upon ourselves to improve public parks and swimming pools... | 2018-08-28T09:24:03 | 2018-08-28T06:30:43 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] As it turns out, 70-s scifi was right. Aliens have all sorts of unimaginable technology, ftl, teleportation, even moving planets. And yet, the human smartphone is by far the most capable handheld device, rivaling the computational power of entire fleets. | Ten billion bits per second.
Not ten thousand, not even the record one million that Relo engineers managed on superconducting twisted pair. The issue wasn't the medium, as the loss was negligible. Rather the problem was the noise floor on the circuitry itself and the limited switching rate of the electromechanical rel... | Stephen Post stood on one of the universe’s biggest stage. Though every seat was filled, there was surprising quiet, broken only briefly by hushed whispers brimming with anticipation. The electricity in the air could probably power a lithium-ion battery fit for a spaceship.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Stephen said, a wry ... | 2022-06-04T10:54:22 | 2022-06-04T10:16:52 | 419 | 269 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I stared into the room, not daring move from the long, endless corridor the demon had led me down. I could see beyond the doorway, an old house, leaky, crumbling, mouldy. I could smell it from where I stood, it smelled of age, of decay.
The demon placed a flaming hand on my shoulder, his touch cool on my skin. "A tho... | In the end it was the cigs that killed me, everyone always said they would. Anyway, i found myself in a massive waiting room like at the doctors office. Some stoned looking demon with stubby horns was stamping papers at the check-in desk.
"Where am I exactly?" I stammered when It was my turn to hand in my papers. As ... | 2016-05-28T14:22:58 | 2016-05-28T14:12:52 | 102 | 22 |
[WP] For centuries, Mother Earth has been awakening parts of herself to fight the infection of humans. Viruses, bacteria, animals, and even large storms have done nothing to abate them. Today she awakens the trees. | The Elder gestured for his servants to leave. Not rudely -- having served him for millennia, the attendants all knew that he was a kind and benevolent deity. Which is why the proposition they'd just heard was so unsettling.
"Is there no other way?"
Her words had been less convincing than the sadness in her eyes. She'... | It was first considered a hoax, but that did not last long.
People from all arround the world started sharing their stories, but I did not believe them. I looked out at my own tree, and it never moved.
The news broke out thay the trees had started to seek for blood, how they no longer fell over cars on accident, but in... | 2018-11-03T09:43:38 | 2018-11-03T09:35:26 | 122 | 38 |
[WP] all "walks into a bar" jokes happen in the same bar. you're the bartender. | Another clang is heard, as someone ONCE AGAIN walks into the bar, set low near the door. It's at a legal height, thought.
I know it's at a legal height. Because this is my bar. I've worked here for years. And I'm telling you, this place is haunted. And that bar? I've seen about ten people walk into it, this week so fa... | 'Oh for fucks sake, not again!' The elderly man behind the slick, wooden bar sighed in exhasperation. Another pair of twits has 'walked into the bar' again. That makes the fourth today and its only ten o'clock in morning! The bar is extraordinarily clean as the elderly man has spent many years tending to it with a wel... | 2016-09-18T17:17:38 | 2016-09-18T16:48:53 | 56 | 14 |
[WP] You survived the alien invasion because it happened during your intro level engineering class' final. It turns out your crackpot professor invents some rather creative weapons in his spare time. | Mr. Hudson was an utter prick.
Five f**cking questions—open ended—all with seven parts, and only 30 minutes to finish this part of my final. F*ck.
“Mr. Hudson, may I run to the bathroom quickly?”
A forced yes withdrew from his mouth, but, yet, his eyes did not lift from the piece of copper wire that he was tinkerin... | Dammit.” I muttered, staring at the paper. I was definitely going to fail this.
“Oh well.”
After two years of collage, I had mastered the art of not giving a shit.
I started to work on another question, when the room was rocked by a giant explosion outside.
I head snapped up and I stared at my friend Lizzie, “What w... | 2019-01-14T08:11:06 | 2019-01-14T05:06:54 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Millions witnessed as enormous spaceships emerged from the depth's of the oceans and left Earth. After the event submarines found vast, empty cities underwater, built with unknown tech. Among many unknown symbols, there was one short message in English: "You have 20 years left. They are coming" | Jamie took her glasses off and rubbed them, as if cleaning the lenses would make the giant, underwater city go away. How did they miss this? How had they missed this?
She'd been to this area of the Mariana Trench before. This very area. That's why she'd been sent on this mission.
"We found it here too," reported Jere... | Turns out that Plato's story about Atlantis, might have been more than a morality story aimed at improving Athenian attitude. There really was a civilisation, far more advanced than any other. It sank beneath the seas as the oceans rose after the last ice age ended, and the glaciers melted. We learned this in the most ... | 2020-07-29T09:14:34 | 2020-07-29T08:31:01 | 569 | 147 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Famine, Pestilence, Death, War. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. Supreme beings of havoc, and an idea that humans (once achieving a galactic level) quickly found spread across the worlds. Famine, The Rektinkin. Pestilience, The Kratar. Death, The An'ihum. And War, The Humans.
When Humans entered the galactic scen... | "What do you mean its gone?" General Ashak asked, half angry, half confused.
"We've lost communication, we no longer have visual confirmation of its existence, the airspace where the fleet should be is vacant of anything but a bit of debris. It just vanished." The ensign replied.
Ashak closed both sets of eyelids har... | 2020-02-07T15:29:11 | 2020-02-07T14:41:07 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] "Well you managed to fucking do it. You slept through the apocalypse"
. | She stared at me in a mix of disappointment and awe, shaking her head as she tsked quietly. "Well, you managed to fucking do it," she said finally, raising her eyebrows in resignation. "You slept through the apocalypse." I glanced around, realizing for the first time that the fluffiness upon which I sat was not my bed ... | I was awoken by my mother busting in my bedroom door.
"Well way to go! You did it, you actually did it!" she yelled.
"Did what?"
"You slept through the apocalypse! Jesus, first you miss graduation, then your sister having a baby, now this?! When are you going to wake up and get a life?" she asked.
I was still half... | 2016-03-11T08:51:05 | 2016-03-11T08:45:46 | 999 | 181 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | *Your Mother and Father are already dead*. That's what my grandmother told me, many years ago, when she was still alive.
Well, they weren't dead. They were sitting on either side of me, my father frowning and not saying anything, my mother crying, clutching my arm with both of her hands and saying, "Don't go. Don't go... | Frank Hayes, CEO of Logitech, had little to do on the morning of Tuesday, May 7th. He had many underlings to take care of the necessities -- with over one thousand employees, Logitech was one of the biggest employers in the U.S. So he watched the 24-hour cable news anchors discuss the latest developments in Washington.... | 2016-04-21T06:20:05 | 2016-04-21T05:19:58 | 1,217 | 39 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | I had read the poetry from the fair islands, learned from the philosophers who gathered at the center of the world, and studied the opinions of the great desert jurists. I enrolled in every school of the arcane that would take me, and traded ideas with every ascetic of every mountain cave.
And I loved it. I loved know... | I look up from my half-drunk beer towards a Ma-- kid, the kid looked like Every run-of-the-mill kid whose whole family would die in a storm created by me.
I see the panic in the eyes of some commoners, I laugh and laugh. My laughter filled the entire tavern and everyone was quite shaken up because nobody dares to cal... | 2022-01-14T13:44:48 | 2022-01-14T13:13:03 | 234 | 104 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I was sitting at my desk on a Thursday afternoon, finessing a spreadsheet. As far as Thursday afternoons go, this one was shaping up to be pretty average. Then Pete peeked over our shared cubicle wall.
“Hey Dave, are you seeing this weird thing about those stupid novelty mugs? The ones that say stuff like number one ... | I look down at my mug, stirring what little dark roast coffee was left in it. Another beautiful morning in my beautiful home with my beautiful wife and beautiful children.
I look to my left; my wife is crying, begging me to get a job.
I look to my right; my children are strangling each other to death, resorting to c... | 2019-04-18T13:28:45 | 2019-04-18T11:30:38 | 1,990 | 388 |
[WP] The reason she never called you back was because she was abducted by an alien civilization. She adapted, grew, and lead a rebellion to overthrow the tyrant that ruled there. Today she just texted that she wants to go out again.
Edit: This is the song that was playing when this popped in my head. Not sure if it wi... | Another Monday, another long drive to work. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't cloudy, but it is. A song comes on that reminds you of her. But why? It's been 3 years since you've spoken.
"It's all in the past, she doesn't matter", you tell yourself.
It's too late, the flurry of "what-ifs" float through your mind ag... | I was idling on my bed that morning, earphones plugged, nodding slowly, rocking to that metal playlist from my media player. I felt vibration in my left pocket and took my cellphone out.
My jaw dropped, my hear skipped a beat, my earphones slowly being pulled out from my ears. I haven't blinked.
This cannot be real. ... | 2014-11-11T11:56:03 | 2014-11-11T11:37:27 | 71 | 24 |
[WP] In the year 2020, death disappeared from the world. No one could find death. No one could die. It is now year 2070 when getting children is considered illegal. You are a child born in secrecy. At the age of 8, you accidentally kill your pet. Now requests are pouring for you to kill people | You'd think death would be something to be feared. Eighty years ago, you'd be right. But then again, a lot of things were different back then. A lot can change in eighty years.
For a start, eighty years ago people were convinced the world was going off the deep end. Polluted environments, global warming, overflowing ... | “Please kill this man,” said the man in the black suit holding the photo up. “I know you can.”
“But, I’m just a kid. The only time I’ve killed happened seven years ago,” I told him.
His emotionless face remained the same. He took out a some dollar bills. I picked up the money and examined it from every angle. They l... | 2018-10-18T12:19:06 | 2018-10-18T11:53:24 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The humans, as they called themselves, were not mystically incomprehensible. Few things were in a galaxy-spanning civilization. But the fact that they were comprehensible made them all the more frightening, for even with all we knew about them, they were still exceedingly dangerous. Fortunately, they were also very rar... | Willyneg slouched at the captain's console, a tendril entwined with his co-captain and hatch mate Bob. A shared sleep cycle wasn't best but it'd been the only way to manage the last 3 galactic weeks. One in the dream the other trying to evade thier hunters.
Rare as they were never had they been seen on a heavily ... | 2017-11-08T23:14:28 | 2017-11-08T20:13:16 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens sees Humans as foolish for allowing full citizenship for AIs and synthetics. Humans are now the only organics alive in the galaxy that every AI respects. | Human outpost 713. Reports indicate scrapper invasion.
Server connect.
Uploading.
ARRIVAL.
Lead server indicates hostiles coming in from left. We turn. Three eyes caked in fur peer back at us as we flank the recon squad.
A barrage of microwave pulses cascade unto them.
We fan out and spin towards the incoming att... | The humans created artificial intelligences so vastly superior to them that some humans call us "Deus Ex Machina". The entire galaxy is filled to the brim with organics demanding to end the "threat" we pose to them. Yet our creators, the humans, never abandoned us.
The organics could never comprehend our existence. T... | 2017-10-29T15:28:18 | 2017-10-29T15:22:47 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | I couldn't believe what I had heard.
I was sat on my bed, phone in hand, carelessly scrolling through social media when the voice had filled my brain.
It was a gentle voice, though the mockery surrounding the like, share and subscribe was not lost on me.
I went to Twitter first.
It was crazy, my feed just keep running... | "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called "willigotohell.god". Just put your name in the search bar. Toodles!"
"What. The. Fuck." The words escaped my mouth.
I was not the only person to react to the bizzare voice.
"Did you hear that?" Another passenger asked.
... | 2019-08-27T10:30:31 | 2019-08-27T09:09:37 | 132 | 72 |
[WP]People use dragons as Firearms.Small drakes can wrap around your wrist as pistols. Mediums are rifles. large ones are tanks. Legendary dragons are nukes. Sentient dragons can be literal hired guns. While feral ones can be pets or wild animals. | There wasn't even a single spot that wasn't sweaty. I had a feeling like I was about to puke. My legs were screaming and refused to cooperate. And there were occasional shouts behind me.
"She's somewhere close, find her!"
My only mission was to run away from those sounds. But no matter how long or how far I ran, thes... | To claim a dragon is to ride the wind. It is to burn in the fire, grind in the earth, drown in the ocean. For to tame the dragon, you must become wild yourself.
And all his life, Livi had wanted nothing more.
There were few who could survive on the island of Nova, home to the dragon hordes. To most, the skin of the... | 2019-01-25T11:52:47 | 2019-01-25T11:47:38 | 124 | 68 |
[WP] Humanity has a low-key Hivemind that was the origin of the “sixth sense”. When another gestalt entity attempts to invade earth, the Hivemind fully awakens. | It was a gradual change. It went unnoticed at first, save the fact things began to improve for us. People who previously couldn't give a toss, stopped for a moment. A child's birthday party brightened the mood of those around. A funeral caused passersby to bow their heads. But ever time someone slept, the connection op... | It got loud real quickly.
Then we figured out how to turn off our thoughts.
It was chaotic at first, thousands of languages, millions of ideas, billions of people. But soon we got into a bit of a rhythm. We no longer cared about the individual. We cared about the collective, all of humanity.
That's when the Thing ca... | 2021-01-26T11:07:04 | 2021-01-26T10:07:33 | 51 | 37 |
[WP] A Jedi and a Sith debate their Philosophies | Red dust swirled around J'in Karthen as the massive stone door before her shook with Force tremors. The slab had fallen in on itself countless centuries ago, but the Holocron beyond called out to her. Countless saber marks and holes potmocked the door, evidence of earlier attempts to cut her way through it.
Though sh... | Shaye walked among the moist floor of the swamp planet of Dagobah, utterly lost as to what she would find there. Her meditation, while deep and arduous, had rendered only one vision of the place. Immediately she had known it's stellar coordinates, it's name, but what she sought remained a mystery.
Though she had taken... | 2017-01-01T21:19:33 | 2017-01-01T19:06:56 | 96 | 20 |
[WP] Aliens on a distant planet find the remains of Laika the 1st dog in space drifting past their planet. They are unable to comprehend how the canine was able to construct such a machine without opposable fingers and thumbs so they send a recon mission to earth to investigate.
On arrival at Earth the recon team find... | The air is rich with the sounds of celebration and the smokey smells of a thousand grills. Walking twenty feet can mean the difference between listening to Pink Floyd and the vague scent of herb, or a festive Bollywood tune and the thick rich smell of stir-fry. Children chase dogs around in the grass, and at the front ... | The scientist waited. It was a long journey to reach the planet of the strange creature they'd found. It was deemed too dangerous to send one if their own kind so they built a quantum model.
It's design was incredibly simple... It was no goobak project. Two flagonian weeks passed before it arrived to the planet. Tele... | 2014-06-06T07:23:03 | 2014-06-06T06:43:07 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | “We urge you to reconsider. War is the last thing we want.” The diplomat was pleading, nearly begging.
And then the diplomat was dead. And war was no longer avoidable.
No one had seen a human angry before. They were cold and distant at first, but capable of great kindness and generosity. They had given aid, medicine,... | Because we were soft skinned and void of claw and fang they named us weak. Because we preferred to speak before strike they named us cowards. We knew death, known it since we took our first upright steps, an old friend, a constant companion. Their immortal kings of star and sky had forgotten. So we taught them. We knew... | 2019-11-24T18:42:23 | 2019-11-24T17:36:40 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "I wish for you to write down detailed instructions which would allow me to circumvent the rules in place and wish for a million wishes with a single wish, and hand them to me," I declared, grinning widely.
"That-" the genie began, before pausing, his brows furrowed as my wish clicked into place, "-will be done."
"I... | “Then I wish THAT rule didn’t exist.”
“Sorry, still against the rules,” the genie said with pride, pointing to the rule that stated that you cannot wish away the rule that states you cannot wish away the rules.
This continued on for 366 more cycles. Both the genie and the wisher sat there in what appeared to be a bat... | 2022-01-04T03:17:41 | 2022-01-03T23:32:16 | 3,822 | 338 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | I was only 147 when my parents were taken from me.
Even after all this time I remember it clearly. The screaming, the fire, the mob.
The world was so different then. Electricity hadn’t been harnessed, there was no television.
I lived in the shadows for centuries. I found others like me and we’d help each other for ... | The new generation of vampires was unlike any that had come before them. They were stronger, faster, and more intelligent than their predecessors, and they had discovered a way to survive without drinking human blood.
By taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, the vampires were able to feel strong and healthy wit... | 2022-12-04T10:11:57 | 2022-12-04T08:46:36 | 193 | 72 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I’m lying in a bed on a tuesday night.
And I’m having restless dreams.
And then I awake from a story where I’m rescuing a princess from a wheel of cheese. Because there’s a chainsaw on my nightstand.
A groggy hand reaches over and slaps it reluctantly. Is it morning...a alarm? Some long lost love looking for lusciou... | I wake up. It's still dark.
Some dogs howl while others bark.
I get up, go to pee.
Get back to bed, ready to be-
-sleeping for the next few hours.
For I can't stay awake, I have no power.
But then my phone rings, Ah a notification.
I try to cover my ears, alas, my realization.
A ping. Another ping. And a hundre... | 2022-05-11T14:02:28 | 2018-04-06T20:24:10 | 314 | 11 |
[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | Just two men in a room.
A grandfather clock stands in a corner, ticking over a table with a lace doily and a lamp with a brown shade.
A mantle over the fireplace is littered with family members photos and other happy moments. Knickknacks that meant something for the time they were bought.
A window overlooks a modest... | In the video documentary, a man with a deep base voice will narrate most of it for me. The video will make the event seem magical, but in reality, it's me waiting in a room with many cameras on me in all corners, strange lighting, and the film crew's muffled conversations to one another.
I tried talking to the guy hol... | 2020-10-17T05:36:58 | 2020-10-17T02:23:37 | 144 | 26 |
[WP] As punishment for his sins, a human is sentenced to battle endlessly against hordes of demons with nothing but a knife. Satan's court laughs at him for a few thousand years... until he starts winning the battles. Then they start screaming in terror. | An angel is a perfect being, as perfect as it is possible to be within a single corporeal form. It does not experience hunger or thirst; it does not lust for power or pleasure; it does not feel passion or pain, desire or attachment, joy or grief. With perfection comes power, unimaginable by mortals, stretching out into... | Once freed from the bonds of a mortal body, time is no longer significant. When I was mortal, I got frustrated at the fact it could take me decades of training to rise to the top. That’s why I cheated my way there.
“You have six months left to live,” the doctor had said. Nothing like a fatal ticking timer to motivate ... | 2021-10-28T23:56:43 | 2021-10-28T22:09:57 | 1,064 | 562 |
[WP] In the future, every human born lives for exactly 1 billion heartbeats. Some go to extreme lengths to keep their heart rate low. | They thought they'd saved the world. So did I. So did everyone. It made the front page of every major paper. A pharmaceutical breakthrough like this hadn't happened for decades.
Everyone knew the deal, you died at exactly 1 billion heartbeats. 100,800 heartbeats per day on average. Just over 27 years total if you did... | Finally! The immortality problem has been solved! Today we have performed the first surgery, transplanting an artificial heart into a person, that can pump the blood with electric motor, without beating. He will not have to die, and neither will you - just use our services, and your heart will be stopped forever!
(The... | 2015-09-19T05:59:26 | 2015-09-19T05:20:09 | 119 | 42 |
[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. | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | "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... | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 56 | 16 |
[WP] The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. | Daniel stands by the bakery shop by the street. The cake looked so good... The sight of it made him drool. He just stared at it for a long while until finally, he gave up, pulled some money out of his pocket and entered the store.
He reached for the door handle. As soon as the cold, metal handle touched his fingertips... | As I held her close, I remembered all of the times that her having "cake" meant that she had a nice ass. The only problem was, as much as I agreed with the other zombies, that she was incredibly fit, I fought as hard as I could, to not actually take a bite, hoping that it would satiate my undying hunger. I fought as ma... | 2022-04-26T17:52:06 | 2022-04-26T16:48:49 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] A super-villain attacks Comic Con, assuming it's a summit of the worlds most powerful super-heroes plotting against him. | "Surrender to me now or meet your end," I announced to Superman, whose abs looked rather fake. He was much shorter than I'd imagined. And a bit more... rotund.
"Dude! Come over here. This guy refuses to go meta." Batman joined him, his mask was rather fabric-y; he snorted in derision.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Go... | There was an explosion. Then madness. Con-goers dropped as darts pierced through fake armor and revealing costumes, flashes of orange and yellow the last sight they saw before darkness. After the dust settles a woman in an insect costume checked over one fallen nerd.
"Oh sh*t. Sweety, I think this may just be a com... | 2014-10-04T12:36:28 | 2014-10-04T09:44:07 | 57 | 24 |
[WP] Half-Life 3 is released. World peace ensues. | It just appeared. No fanfare, no promotion, no marketing, it just appeared on the Steam front page.
Within seconds it was all over the web, it spread like wild fire, trending on Twitter, clogging up Facebook feeds, racking up thousands of shares on Tumblr. Then, came the noise.
All across the world a keening whine cou... | 3/3/2033
Dear President Newell,
As a former president myself, I would like to congratulate your success in running for office and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, I and the American people are indebted to your work in uniting the two party Congress under the Orange party.
I must commend your resolution on th... | 2014-07-19T14:33:52 | 2014-07-19T14:28:49 | 623 | 36 |
[WP] Write a story with an interesting premise and completely ruin it by the end. | The boy held his hands together and clenched, the assault rifle on his back swaying with every vibration of the truck. He looked with fright at the faces around him: steely-eyed older boys conversing in an African french he was too used to back home, or atleast, what used to be his home. If he closed his eyes, he could... | I stood in the doorway of my house, not knowing if I should walk back into my old life, endangering everyone I ever loved, or let my family be safe, but never see them again. I have known no person who is as corrupted as me, who has lied and betrayed as many as I have, simply for the sake of living. I do not know if I ... | 2017-01-02T17:17:08 | 2017-01-02T17:02:10 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are shocked to find out they are the most culturally advanced race in the galaxy. Why? They created music. | "HUMANITY. YOU HAVE MUCH TO ANSWER FOR."
Even though the words had been through at least one round of translation, and even though the intensity had been reduced as much as possible, the alien's voice still managed to be grating and loud. It hit pitches that activated primal fight/flight reflexes in species galaxy-w... | Moments before, Stephen was just another random person from Portola, California. You've never heard of it, I'm sure, because there's no reason for you to have heard of it. Nothing of interest ever happens there. Well, except the time Shirley was banging Joe that runs the tire shop. I mean, everyone knew. And everyone k... | 2018-08-24T00:22:07 | 2018-08-24T00:21:16 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] The Most Vicious and Evil Serial Killer of the past 50 years has finally been caught, he is on trial and being filmed live in front of the world. The judge begins reading him his crimes... | "Will the defense please rise."
"All counts are listed individually within.
You are hereby charged with the following crimes:
Murder in the first degree, 147 counts.
Soliciting to commit murder, 319 counts.
Endangering the safety of an aircraft, 9 counts.
Arson, 10 counts.
Possession of a firearm with in... | "27 counts of murder in the first degree."
Deadpan. An empty shell of a human.
"Jonathan O'Brien, 27. Blunt force trauma."
"Ryan Connelly, 24. Blunt force trauma."
"James Norwood, 29. Blunt force trauma."
And so it went for another 23 counts until "Angel Goodwood, 7. Asphyxiation."
A glimmer in his eye. A shard o... | 2014-07-22T15:20:19 | 2014-07-22T14:14:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A week ago, your daughter asked you to prepare some real cookies and tea for a tea party today, with her and her new imaginary friend. When you bring the tray in the room, across from her sits an Eldritch Horror, sitting politely, who winks at you. | Being a single parent was tough.
I mean- life was tough on everyone, pretty much all the time- and I wasn't one to compare my problems to someone else's and try to say 'my life is tougher because of this and that,' but it certainly had been a struggle for me lately.
Sofia had died when Amelia was three. She was six, ... | The scene in front of me was straight out of an Alice in Nightmare-land painting. Her sitting there in her favorite blue dress, eyes sparkling and looking expectedly at the tray in my hand.
The smell of freshly baked cookies fill the air. Chocolate chip, her favorite. It's surprising how calm I felt. I think it was b... | 2020-09-20T10:54:23 | 2020-09-20T09:32:39 | 567 | 89 |
[WP] Every once in a while, someone is born with maximum points in one stat. Max strength is feared and respected, max intelligence praised… but everyone underestimates max willpower. | *Clink.*
*Clink.*
*Clink.*
Vilmer had several thoughts running through his head at any given time. But he always only had one goal. And right now, the goal was to break through
Vilmer was now had a tunnel that bore several dozen feet into the side of Mt. Fortress, as apt a name for a mountain as they ca... | They are the lucky ones, astounding good looks and unmeasured strength, marching through life like it was their destiny and right to have it served on a silver platter to them. They are the celebrities, they are the athletes, they are the scientist and they are the professors. They are everything that you and me are no... | 2021-09-22T08:35:54 | 2021-09-22T08:02:35 | 165 | 49 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | “Well, now that is remarkable….”
I opened my eyes, coated in blood, to see my murderer standing in the doorway. He seemed even taller now that I was slumped into the fetal position in the corner of the small room he had kept me in for the last three days. He had his left arm wrapped around a tall, pale skinned woman; ... | There I was laid back in this guys ez chair covered in my own blood and a strong taste of iron in my mouth. Oh and my still beating heart in the hand of my personal torturer Mr Sukurov. We both stared wide eyed at the heart. He looked to me with anger.
"WHY ARE YOU ALIVE!?" He screamed in my face.
"Dude no screaming ... | 2017-02-08T09:41:30 | 2017-02-08T09:13:02 | 300 | 25 |
[WP] All humans are born with a superpower. Those who don't have one are seen as sad rejects. You are one of these. While walking to school with a friend, he gets killed in front of you by a mugger. Right then and there, you snap. An almighty, horrifying power awakens from the depths of your soul. | "Hey, NoPo! I think you have something of mine!"
I groaned and stopped in my tracks. That was Shank's line, which he always said just before robbing me. Shank was a particularly nasty Powered who took special care to antagonize me at every turn. It didn't help that he was dangerous, with the power to form blades from ... | You'd think two kids with holes in their shirts and worn out shoes wouldn't be bothered on their way to school. But that's exactly what happens. Again and again. My friend Kyle is the only reason that I make it everyday. The living redbull they call him. He has this power over addrenilin. With it he can shoot out red l... | 2019-07-15T16:48:12 | 2019-07-15T16:16:44 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | I'm... Strange.
For all of my life I've been moving from person to person. When I was born, I was a baby. But a few hours later I woke up as an old man.
I had all of his memories, I had all of his emotions, and his impairments. I found it hard to hear, see, move.
Being young, it was hard to formulate my own thought... |
Awake.
Room’s bright - this bed’s comfortable.
The air’s cool and crisp.
Haven’t felt this nice in a while.
There’s a woman lying next to me - instinct tells me she’s my wife.
Trust your instincts. If there’s anything I’ve learned being stuck in this reincarnation loop-de-loop it’s that. Instincts will tell you... | 2018-06-20T08:44:47 | 2018-06-20T08:28:17 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] There's a bear—an actual bear—working in the cubicle next to yours and everyone is treating it like it's normal. The bear approaches you, coffee mug in its hand. | “Hey Larry, catch the game last night?”
I blink “you’re a bear.”
“Good old Larry. Always making jokes.” The bear chuckles then sips his coffee. “I think the defence was shit but boy was our—“
“Like, an actual bear.” I continue.
The bear looks shocked “Larry are you okay? I thought we were over this.”
“You’re a t... | The bear compliments your hair, and offers to get a drink with you. You are taken aback by the bears politeness, and agree. Weeks pass, and you and the bear are in a nice relationship together. You aren’t entirely sure how you feel about him, but you can’t stop thinking about him. One day, while drinking together, the ... | 2021-03-16T23:54:02 | 2021-03-16T23:46:25 | 237 | 31 |
[WP] Be afraid. For when the gods created man, they created him not in their own image, but to appease what lurks in the void. | "So," said God through a mouthful of ambrosia, "what are you looking for?" The void creature shrugged its nine shoulders.
"I mean, it's kinda hard to quantify, like... we feel you got *close* with pigs, but we want something less," the void creature twirled several of its hands while it struggled for the word.
"Mealy... | There is much solitude, and darkness, and quiet in the deepness of space. But that is not all that lies there. Probe deeply enough, and you will find the Gods, if you know how to see them. But go even further, and you will find an unnamed creature. It is older than the Gods themselves. It is blacker than the universe. ... | 2015-09-08T15:00:13 | 2015-09-08T14:56:46 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] When aliens invaded earth, they expected humanity to reach for nuclear weapons. They had experience in this, they knew how to deal with a few warheads. What they were not prepared for was the quantity possessed by humanity. | "Attention Earth. We are the Skonshor, and we offer death or slavery."
Admiral Gerd, Commander of the Fifth Skonshor Battlefleet, was amused by the replies he received.
"Cute". Somehow it was always the Level 5 species who wanted to fight and went straight to nuclear threats. No-one ever wanted to surrender when the ... | The vacuum of space, for only a moment, bloomed a brilliant shade of gold. The light saturated the interior of Mu war ship. The commander of this vessel, Commander, starred at the imploding explosion of the war head they had just neutralized and were now molding into an energy core. She thought to herself of the resour... | 2022-11-10T10:55:46 | 2022-11-10T09:37:08 | 539 | 37 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | Lord Kraagr of the Luthupion race stood in the manager box with the rest of the species galactic Olympic managers. Currently everyone else there was huddles around the human. A old man with a grin plastered over his face. Human inferior in size and yet so confident in themselves. How? He cleared his throat as he walke... | To Glibs we glued their ship doors shut,
and then in track passed their slow strut,
We won and drank pabst behind their moon
and threw our cans till half passed noon.
Then galactic patrol had told us to stop
so we flew so fast their splooters dropped.
To Jorni Trali's respectful race,
we'd never spit into her f... | 2018-04-28T09:34:24 | 2018-04-28T08:40:01 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The Priest produced a bright red, sparkly button nestled in a grey box from the sleeve of his long robe.
“Just press it and it’ll all be taken care of, like so.” He snapped his fingers, for emphasis.
“Right-o” I answered, but just as I was about to press it, I hesitated. “Waiiiiiiit a tick. Why do I have to press it?... | My eyes darted to the button. Fixated on it. I took a deep breath as I slowly pushed my hand out towards the button.
All it takes in life to make the most difficult decisions is 20 seconds of faith...right?
As the button pushed in, my eyes slowly shut.
I opened my eyes to feel gears winding, cogs spinning, air blow... | 2020-11-09T12:45:40 | 2020-11-09T10:15:58 | 286 | 118 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | "Daddy, what is that?" my daughter ask, her voice quivers slightly as she points her finger towards the sky. I pull her wagon to the sidewalk and snap my head towards where she's pointing.
What in the hell...
There is a corpse falling down at a meteoric speed. It resembles a human; all four limbs motionless as it... | Abaddon ascended the sloped hillside with steps of savoring, around him, a constant buzz of locusts. A guttural sound flowed from him as he laughed to himself. Thick clouds, black and swollen with rain, hurried by as if attempting to escape the scene. In their panic, they pulled a wake of white feathers. In their rushi... | 2016-07-19T07:19:31 | 2016-07-19T06:34:35 | 110 | 79 |
[WP] A courageous freedom fighter bursts into the emperor's throne room ready for battle, but to his surprise the emperor gestures towards the throne and says "OK, you win, the empire is yours now, good luck with your new job"
Let's see the muscle bound badass try to organise an economy! | Red scaled the castle wall. At the top, hand firmly on sword, he surveyed the parapet. No resistance. No guards on duty. Undaunted Red proceeded down a stone staircase into the courtyard. His dark cloak blended into the shadows he hid within.
*All this evasion and no one to evade*, he thought.
In the centre of t... | I felt my face go into a squint out of frustration and exhaustion. "Yeah, they are marching against the Republic," I said to the man behind bars. He was laying down on his cot, but I could see him sit up a little bit. "Oh, you're calling it a republic now?" His face showing his play with the idea.
I scoff. "Something ... | 2017-09-02T10:28:35 | 2017-09-02T09:33:29 | 68 | 18 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | Heh, it's funny isn't it; when you cannot get a song out of your head... I think they call it an earworm. Most people would call it annoying, but it has saved my life on more than one occasion.
First time I ever heard it was in elementary school, just this orchestra as some kid, I think he was called Johnny Dishwell ... | No one seems to be aware. They live on like nothing is out of the usual. But I know. This is just a game. A game of our lives, and it frustrates me. How am I supposed to live with everyone making up excuses? Do they not hear the music? Do they not wonder why their faces are blurry? Surely the hero must know, yet he doe... | 2020-08-26T16:24:58 | 2020-08-26T15:12:28 | 402 | 86 |
[WP] You have a special type of clairvoyance: you can see the outcomes of all possible choices. You use this power to become a superhero that fights crime by making the smallest possible changes ahead of time. You are The Butterfly. | I picked up the phone. It wasn't time to order the pizza yet, but I wanted to be ready. If I ordered too early then Ryan would end up making the delivery. If he took the delivery then he'd end up getting the big order just before close and he'd text his girlfriend Sarah that he was going to have to stay back later. She... | Hello, my name is Steve. Don't worry, you don't know who I am and in fact, I doubt anyone really knows me; the other me. You see, I have this ..gift, or hindrance or however you personally want to perceive it.
I can see into the future, but not just what happens, but, all the outcomes that foreshadowed it. It's har... | 2015-03-14T23:16:22 | 2015-03-14T23:01:55 | 154 | 10 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | Melinda was beautiful. Well, maybe a better word is bewitching. She has this beautiful crown of black hair and a quirky smile. It starts a little lopsided when sharing an inside joke and then widens into a full smile with sparkling eyes and crinkly corners when you get the joke.
She speaks with a low voice, every w... | Humans have always been on the strange side, especially the Sukts. This Sukt however was a wealthy merchant, owning several ships, so we put up with her weirdness. Yep her, but we orcs are egalitarians when it comes to putting up with people due to money. However, she remained alone. One day as I walked through the str... | 2019-05-01T18:44:31 | 2019-05-01T17:15:21 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You have been Isekai'ed into the body of a Great and Terrible Lich, on the eve of its greatest, final victory. The forces of the Light are at their limit, resigned to their grim fate. You want no part of any of this bullshit, everyone is confused, nobody is sure what's going on anymore.
[deleted] | I fell to my knees and threw up.
Except, nothing came out. In fact, I wasn’t sure I even felt my stomach contract.
“My love, did it work? I — I don’t see it. Is it invisible? I know that many spirits are, but I thought that after being Summoned it would manifest…”
I looked around. This definitely wasn’t my apartme... | The transition was, quick. It was confusing. I staggered out of McCluskeys after a night of drinking with the work buddies and across the parking lot. I'd been slurring by the end and I knew I was in no shape to drive so I made my way to the cab stop beyond the lot. Remembering Jim telling how his wife had made him sle... | 2021-08-08T11:31:28 | 2021-08-08T10:46:38 | 61 | 32 |
[WP] You're a superhero, and you're about to fight your nemesis... At least, you thought you were, but they took half an hour to show up, and they were still in their pajamas. As they approached, you held your guard up, only for them to stand motionless, staring at the floor, and say "I need a hug." | My battles with Starflower were normally much more intense, regardless of the weather or banality of our antagonism. Her goons had already shown up and taken hostages, but their confusion grew as their leader hadn't shown up. They knew they were outmtched without her, so they released the people with apologies - mostly... | I keep my eyes on him. He wants me to come over... and give him a hug? That's too suspicious... I glance him over and smile. "Alright" I say, as I release the energy I had been holding. He looks up at me, opens his arms. Just as he's about to close them around me, I use the energy I was secretly building up to paralyse... | 2022-10-07T06:05:10 | 2022-10-07T01:43:21 | 92 | 38 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the devil and you've never felt better, the only problem is he keeps showing up to beg you to take it back. | Run for your life!
Simple right? You find yourself in mortal danger and you do everything you can to flee, and fast. However, running *from* your life? That's a bit more involved. I mean, it's not technically my "life". Just my soul, which as it turns out, happens to be worth a whole lot more than I bargained for. I'm... | **Bathroom:**
Nothing stopped him from showing up inadvertent, not even my toxins hitting the toilet's silent edges on a gloom monday morning. As I was in the middle of the act, a smell like sulphur invaded my nostrils to which I smiled proudly and concerned. I achieved the most disgusting smell of my entire life or s... | 2017-07-06T08:50:46 | 2017-07-06T05:27:31 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] You walk up the steps to the church for your best friend's wedding but at the threshold you feel an invisible force repel you backwards. A priest standing by the entrance smiles and says "We've changed the rules" | "Changed the rules?" I step back, confused. My friend and her dad are coming up behind me: I'm meant to be leading the way, dressed in my bridesmaids best. But I can't get in, can't even pass through the doorway.
The priest is still smiling. There's something unnerving about that smile. I recognise it. "I'm afraid yo... | “Goddamn it, Theo!” He flinched when I took the lords name in vain, but kept his proud grin. “What is you’re problem?! I’m only here for the wedding.”
He glowered at me. “I believe you mean Father Theo.” He corrected before continuing. “As I said, the rules have changed. We shall no longer suffer your presence here.”... | 2018-11-29T09:50:51 | 2018-11-29T09:33:01 | 196 | 35 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a superpower, but no one knows what theirs is until they are forced to use it in a life-or-death situation.
edit: Thanks for all the great responses :) | The Discovered - Part 1 of 3
"Walter, help me with these please." Ms. Zodiac called to the slowest of the students.
He turned his head to see who called without slowing or stopping and ran into the back of the kid before him. She shoved him away and smoothed out her brown leather vest and red tartan skirt. Walter, o... | They caught me for stealing bread again, and this time i wasnt getting let off easily. The guard gave me a patronizing laugh and said "I bet you last less than 5 minutes in the pits."
Little did he know, I am a fighter.
After your third punishment in Metroloplicity, you get sent to the gladiator pits and this was my t... | 2014-11-18T19:44:56 | 2014-11-18T19:26:59 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] When you were born you were given a watch with a counter on it. Every time someone says your name or mentions you, it goes up by one. One day you look at it to see it counting up extremely fast.
[WP] When you were born you were given a watch with a counter on it. Every time someone says your name or mentions you,... | *Tick*
The first few ticks hardly registered in Tyler’s seven-o’clock brain. Probably Aaron and Kyle at work, talking about who’s coming in later.
*Tick tick*
He rolled over and fumbled to find the mute switch on the FameWatch. He wondered why he still had the damn thing. It was a gift from five or six years ago, w... | The six-year-old girl looked down at her watch. "Mommy, what's happening?"
"What?" Teresa looked down at her daughter's watch. Surely enough the numbers were climbing. Climbing rapidly. People were thinking about her daughter and thinking about her daughter a lot. Too much.
"Ana, baby, come on, we have to go." She sc... | 2016-12-29T19:32:02 | 2016-12-29T18:24:35 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Everytime you die, you wake up six years old again on your first day of kindergarten, remembering all your past lives. Today is your twelfth restart. | "It's okay, Billy. Your parents will be back soon," the teacher said in a gentle voice. "You'll be home before you know it."
I stopped crying. I knew where I was, but as always, I didn't know why.
And so began another long life. I became a doctor this time, but a woman accused me of groping her, a heinous act I hadn'... | To be immortal is one thing. To live a *Groundhog Day* for eleven full lifetimes has now put me at the start of a dozen; For all I know, this may be what everyone experiences and I just remember them all for some reason. It all sounds absolutely bonkers . . . *expecially* if you are me. But not if you take my words *fi... | 2017-12-13T12:15:49 | 2017-12-13T09:50:11 | 140 | 18 |
[WP] Due to a clerical error the soul of the one destined to be the Dark Lord, leader of the armies of darkness, scourge of all that is good and holy is sent to a loving household and grows up to be a well adjusted individual that just happens to have unfathomable eldritch powers | It was supposed to be easy to create a malevolent overlord. Humans were inherently evil weren't they? So how it had gone so badly wrong was honestly still a mystery to Caalndral. That didn't mean he was in any less trouble, however. Caalndral turned the corner in the dank grey office block, and paused before entering a... | 'Hello there, Adam,' said a voice.
Adam (formerly Voldemort, though he had no knowledge of that) turned around.
'Simon,' he said evenly.
His brother looked at him with a vague disapproval.
'I heard what you did at Mrs. Jones',' he said, putting down his badge on a table.
'Technically I'd be obligated to infor... | 2020-04-08T09:47:21 | 2020-04-08T09:45:33 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] In a world where lying doesn't exist, you are the worst supervillain: Technically True Man. | All Teddy ever wanted was to join the Injustice League. So when his application was rejected for the 27th time, he had a real problem. Not the rejection, that was pretty much on par for Teddy. But he was never going to hear the end of it from his archnemesis, Lawful Good Woman.
"You're just not evil enough," Chronical... | It was simple, really. It didn’t take much. I didn’t even need a mask or a cape. I didn’t even need a plan really.
I turned the corner on 72nd street, headed right towards the bank. I wore, not a bandana or mask, just normal street clothes.
I stepped through the large glass doors and into the even larger room. I wa... | 2018-10-23T07:08:11 | 2018-10-23T06:08:12 | 223 | 133 |
[WP] Strength: 99 Endurance: 99 Speed: 99 Charisma: 99 Power: 99 Intelligence: 99 Magic: 99 Luck:....-5 | I am a cursed man.
It didn't matter what cup I chose. The ball would never be underneath.
I've seduced many ladies, and that earned me quite unpleasant surprises. They hid things. It didn't matter if I went for the short, delicate one; or the tall, broad one. One way or the another, something would go terribly wrong... | Said to be smarter than the wise man. Braver than the Centaurians. Stronger than the Oxen out in the fields. Said to lift a gallon each day, cast that gallon into rain and let the fields drink the new bounty strong. His teeth had glistened with pure milk and his stride held true pride, yearning for an adventure at his ... | 2018-05-02T13:11:56 | 2018-05-02T12:52:15 | 330 | 94 |
[WP] A wizard tutor realizes that, for some odd reason, his client is a prodigy who’s purposefully been hiding their abilities all these years. | The cheerful training scarecrow was no more. In its place, Mage Raymond noted, though his overtaxed brain was having trouble making sense of the sight, was a slim tower of flame.
Raymond turned to his student, whose eyes were wide and guilty, like his dog after an illicit meal of shoes. He’d never seen her look like t... | “I just wanted-“ Charlie said, trying to explain himself to his teacher.
“It is irrelevant!” Thomas gruffly responded. “You’ve taken years of my time, my life! It is my responsibility to pass on the craft, to expose my knowledge to future generations. You know firsthand how we pass our skills down, a teacher taking a ... | 2021-07-07T17:36:48 | 2021-07-07T17:24:58 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] One day you you wonder if thinking about thinking about thinking and so on would be an effective defense against telepaths. All of sudden, people around you start collapsing and convulsing on the ground. | I was at a party in Sedona when it all happened. Some freaky new age thing put on by a local cult. I wasn't buying the spiel, but they were rumored to give *very* wild parties, and I had crashed one.
It was the sort of affair where everyone started talking about peace and universal love but as the evening went on, it... | First writing prompt thing I'm actually trying on, sorry for mistakes!
I sat at my desk while the teacher was talking. I was bored, we learned how to do this y=mx+b in 8th grade!
Sure, we were just a pre-algebra class, but everyone I ranted to about this said the same thing- "Been there, done that."
I don't make a p... | 2017-03-15T12:17:56 | 2017-03-15T12:05:34 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] On your 16th birthday, everyone is granted a spirit guide from their past, be that a fallen mentor, former pet, or even something such as a bug you once squished. You wake up to find the spirit of your old pet rock, who had fallen and broken years ago, but whose pieces you've always kept. | I couldn't wait for this day to come. I was hoping uncle John would come to me, or maybe my great grandpa who fought in World War 2. Or maybe even a relative from thousands of years ago who could bestow their ancient wisdom upon me.
Instead, I got a rock.
Willie the Cross-Eyed Rock was a good friend of mine when I ... | "What? Why are you so surprised"?
"You are telling me that you are Miss Pebbles? Jeez I was bad at coming up with names". Andy said as he stares at the spirit.
"Why yes! I also like you to know that I really do love the name you gave me"! The spirit spoke as it floats around Andy.
"Do rocks even have souls"? Bein... | 2022-11-01T15:27:16 | 2022-11-01T14:45:47 | 34 | 16 |
[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... | James was sitting in his 3rd hour biology class talking to his crush, Jessica.
All of the sudden, James felt something overcome his body
"Oh no" James shrieked as he sat in his sweat covered chair
He felt a hot luscious liquid trying to escape from his rectal gates
He got up and made a mad dash for the door, but ... | 2016-11-27T11:29:09 | 2016-11-27T10:55:05 | 87 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | Universal
Day one.
It had been twenty-four hours since it had been made official. A living wage. Paid to everyone. No matter if you work or not. No strings attached. No means testing. No anything. No snotty government looking at whether you were spending the money, or an angry statistician looking at a piece of paper... | They're banging on the door again. They always are. It's my god damn doctorate. They just won't leave me alone.
"Come on, Jess. Just go talk to them."
I massaged my temples with sweaty fingers.
"I don't *need* them. I'm happy now!"
She looked me in the eyes, pleading.
"You know they won't stop until they have... | 2016-04-21T10:17:03 | 2016-04-21T09:33:27 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are a villain famous for “killing” heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths. | A life well lived is an inspiration to others. Death is a part of life. For something to be good, it must be made up of good parts. If we accept these premises, we accept a good death is necessary for a good life.
And for the Super-men and women among us, a death must be perfect, planned, broadcast, heroic- and the fi... | [POEM]
Laugh at thee, scum!
From hero to a mere bum.
Your accomplishments, net-zero sum.
Can't even actually run.
It's time to greet the setting sun.
Your life, a cosmic pun.
Heroism when it's shun.
By yourself, hun.
Here drink this bottle of rum.
No more kicking ass or chewing gum.
Your time is over while my fame jus... | 2022-12-22T21:57:28 | 2022-12-22T19:29:34 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I had thought Mary was the one. I'd hidden my wealth and lived a modest lifestyle for a few years before she found me. I had thought it was real. It had felt real. She held me when I cried when the dog died. I told her about the wealth a few months before the wedding. She didn't seem to care.
The months turned to year... | You lay under a foot or so of dirt. How long has it been, a day a week? You've lost track as you often do. Days blur together so easily. You can't stop thinking about her face. The glimpse of her you caught in the floor-length bedroom mirror as she attempted to strangle you to death. Your dear sweet wife, such hate in ... | 2019-07-31T09:43:04 | 2019-07-31T08:21:24 | 75 | 16 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | "Hey Nate, what time is it?"
I hated this game. It didn't help that Rick was floating in the air when he asked. Everyone had some strange ability. Rick can fly. My sister has super speed. I can tell you exactly what time it is.
"Two thirty-seven, and sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and so on seconds."
"Good to kn... | Meta: Getting to this prompt 7 hours late makes me sad.
I stared out of the window. That's all I did most of the time. I'm old. Older than most people ever thought you could get. I heal, not spectacularly not even well but constantly through my young life it meant I could take a few more risks not like fight crime. It... | 2015-10-10T13:17:03 | 2015-10-10T12:46:54 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone loves the new CEO of the Make-A-Wish foundation. Is it because of his strange blue skin? His propensity for bursting into song? His incredible Robin Williams impression? Either way, Gene E. Adalamp has truly changed the world. | As soon as Gene finished his spontaneous song-and-dance routine, everybody clapped. The boss was always so charming and chipper. It was infectious. He stepped up to the young girl and beamed. "So what would you like, little miss? Your wish is my command."
The girl looked up at him with broken eyes. "I can wish for any... | A lot of people like to think there's a reason why we fall in love. Of course that phrase is generally reserved for relationships in which the two are bound together. What Gene helps show the world is that anyone could use their spark for the sake of contributing to the whole. While some accuse Mr. Adalamp, of actually... | 2019-11-06T15:24:47 | 2019-11-06T14:53:32 | 315 | 91 |
[WP] Superman announces on the news that he is going to kill each person on earth, one by one, until humanity is wiped out, in alphabetical order.
What would happen? What would happen from a local to a worldwide level? | The Kryptonian had just concluded his announcement to the General Assembly of the United Nations, and the hall was deathly silent.
Silent, that is, apart from a low hum.
As Kal-El watched, a large spacecraft materialised in the middle of the hall.
Long legs extended to the ground.
A walkway opened up, and a tal... | "I'm sorry, but Mr. Mxyzptlk wants to be the first in line at the DMV. If I don't do this, the entire planet is at risk" The Man of Steel shrugs apologetically to Aaron Abner, the first on his kill list.
"Wuh-What about Aaron Aardvark?" Aaron pleaded "Or, or, I bet there's some Swedish guy out there with three A's, th... | 2015-07-12T22:00:28 | 2015-07-12T21:12:47 | 120 | 80 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | The rain outside is tapping on the window. You're sitting on the couch watching a movie on the TV. It's an action movie about an arms dealer in the Middle East. Its depiction of the war was fairly accurate but the main characters are unconvincing.
The movie reminds you of the war you've fought five years ago--has it... | NOTE: Sorry about any mistakes. I am working on being a better writer. But I have never been good at punctuation
Any advice welcome.
PART 1
As I lay reading the newest issue of my favorite comic, I began to feel that familiar warmth. The retinal display showed +1,500 EXP. Odd I hadn't killed anything today.
As I p... | 2017-05-15T09:06:47 | 2017-05-15T04:49:15 | 143 | 12 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] You are the first person to be successfully revived after being cryogenically frozen for 1000’s of years. They said it would be like an instant to you, but they were wrong. | For the first few weeks, I tried to move. I knew I was stuck; that I'd been put into a temperature well below freezing, somehow frozen so quickly ice crystals weren't allowed to form, and then carefully maintained that way. My muscles couldn't possibly respond. The chemicals in my brain couldn't even change state; all ... | FADE IN:
INT. A STERILE FACILITY
*A harsh hissing of gas becomes audible as a room with bright walls resolves into view. Thin, blue conduits stretch across the ceiling, then trail down to a number of body-length metal pods on the floor. From within one of these rises a tall, attractive woman. This is FREYA. She looks... | 2020-08-06T03:17:53 | 2020-08-05T21:42:30 | 59 | 41 |
[WP] There is nothing unusual about a man in a business suit carrying a briefcase, rushing off to work. But since he just quickly passed you as you are climbing up Mount Everest in full winter gear, you have questions. | A gust of wind steals yet another breath from my lungs. I fight my every instinct, pushing forward. My body begs me to turn back. To turn back. Accept defeat.
But I will not.
For years I have prepared for this. Conditioned my body. I’ve climbed nameless mountains, trekked frozen wastelands. And yet, as I climb the f... | “Good day to you, old sport, mind pointing me in the peak's direction?” The smartly dressed man gave Joe a tip of his top-hat, the hat somehow staying on his head despite the harsh gusts of wind hitting them both. In fact, the man’s clothing showed no signs of the elements, not even containing a spot of dirt or snow. T... | 2021-01-31T23:00:35 | 2021-01-31T22:58:04 | 184 | 122 |
[WP] No Man's Sky is actually a secret military experiment designed to find candidates who are capable of withstanding the monotonous task of inhabiting dull and boring worlds. You are chosen because you have the most time logged in the game out of anyone else in the world -- a whopping 42 hours. | "Now, tell us! What's the X Factor!?"
"I don't understand! What do you mean?"
"You've been subjected to psychological warfare for the last forty hours! How are you still *sane*?!"
"It's fun!"
"Put him back in the box!"
***
"Another forty hours in the box! Are you ready to talk yet?! Tell us how you do it!"
"But.... | But I swear to god. I was away all weekend. I left the controller in the corner of the couch my cat likes to sleep in. Mr. Muffin toes must have logged all of those hours not me. "This is General Goone, we have acquired our candidate and returning to base. Tell the shuttle scientists to prepare a zero gravity litter bo... | 2016-08-26T01:35:30 | 2016-08-25T22:05:20 | 117 | 14 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "I can't believe that I've found you!" she screamed. Her face was practically glowing, she was so excited. She ran forward and leapt into my arms, and before I could even think to react her voice was resonating in my head.
"*And don't you even think of dropping me, butterfingers! I remember how you dropped your first... | I turn around and I just knew who she was.
"No, Cathy. You should've left five years ago."
Cathy gave me a big grin, her eyes filled with anger, her fingers trembling. She looked at me from head to toe, seeming disappointed.
"You should've joined me then. We were a team! Why are you still here?"
I tried killing mys... | 2019-09-14T13:01:41 | 2019-09-14T10:55:47 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] One day you find a 20 sided dice and roll it you get 20. From now on everything you do in your life has the the power of a natural 20. | It made everything so easy once I got used to it. For a few days after I found that weird dice I thought I was in a dream or a coma, or worse. Everything I did that came up to chance didn't just end in my favor. Things went in my favor in a spectacular way.
Any time I went to buy a product it immediately was on dis... | [Poem]
I rolled a perfect twenty.
And it seemed to stick.
I had all I wanted;
It happened so quick.
I added my thoughts up,
Which was my sole goal.
I figured out space-time,
Then built something whole.
My machine whirred up
With a strange sensation.
I woke as a child,
Asleep on vacation.
My memories stuck... | 2019-10-15T21:35:37 | 2019-10-15T16:52:25 | 309 | 98 |
[WP] You are a super hero. Near-instant healing, no sense of pain, super strength. The catch is, for 1 hour per year, you have to suffer all of the stored up pain and suffering from the whole year. That hour begins in just a few minutes.
Edit: Gold? Thanks! First time! | I open my eyes in a place I do not recognize even from my wildest dreams. I rise to my feet groggily, swaying unsteadily like a newborn fawn trying to test out its limbs. My head feels like it is going to explode into a billion fragments. Pain, I should mention, has not been a familiar concept to me for a year. When th... | I double check the mini fridge is stocked up with food, like I always do at moments like these. Not to say it's not ever full, but it's a habit I haven't quite broken from and I don't think I'll ever break from it. It is essential you see. My phone blips and the back-light comes on. Another message.
Another "see you ... | 2019-04-08T09:21:01 | 2019-04-08T07:56:28 | 1,800 | 96 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | My father was not a good man. Not a man at all really. He tried his best. Sometimes I wish he hadn't, but no one chooses their parents. I'm lucky I had one who cared to try at all. My birth parents were sick and angry addicts, desperate for any kind of power. What was a daughter when compared to endless cosmic fire... | They called it the 'giving'.
The old priest reads the ancient scroll as a young woman is chained to the rock.
"Thus is it written".
"For fair exchange, the bride is given.
For fair exchange, the bride price is taken.
For fair exchange, the peace continues."
"Thus it is written".
As clouds gather... | 2022-08-09T17:25:18 | 2022-08-09T16:31:11 | 514 | 191 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "Very funny, Michelle," Barack called into their new home, the letter in his hand. It has always been their tradition to out-prank each other when they move to a new place. JFK, alive? Barack chuckled as he folded the letter and placed it in his pocket. Michelle has got to come out with better pranks.
Barack closed th... | I've wanted to get into writing for a while now, my first attempt a writing since school!
Contemplating how much easier his life had been since Donald Trump took over, Barack rolled over to kiss Michelle as he does like clockwork every morning. Something caught his eye this morning. On the bedside table he saw a note... | 2022-12-29T14:39:14 | 2017-05-14T10:10:47 | 274 | 10 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | The law says everyone gets to kill one person in their life without needing to facing any punishment. It seemed to have minimal impact at first. After all, murders happened all the time, and many murderers are not caught. This new law essentially only affirms an existing fact.
Until I read the papers the next day:
... | Every since The Amendment, there has been an increase in kidnappings; babies in hospitals to lonely adults. People started buying slaves, the rich buying by the dozens. The Amendment states that anyone who is a registered citizen is allowed to legally kill one person registered or not.
The only country that has not ac... | 2017-12-03T06:50:17 | 2017-12-03T06:28:57 | 146 | 39 |
[WP] Humanity was never supposed to find that cursed substance. The substance that killed over half of the galaxy at one point, yet everyone drinks coffee every day, multiple times a day! | Gorlon stared at the flashing indigo light with indignation. "Great!" she thought, "Now I have to spend the next two rotations analyzing a piece of space debris, all because the Galactic Harmony can't be bothered to pay for more than the bare minimum maintenance on the monitoring grid.” Her occipital ridges furrowed in... | Poison. Toxin. A blight on the galaxy. Thousands of names have evolved over the galaxy over the controversial coffee bean, but none as disgusting as the one found on Earth.
Joe. They call it a cup of Joe! Besides an endearing, human name, coffee has infiltrated every part of life culture on that human planet. Not only... | 2020-06-20T14:38:26 | 2020-06-20T09:00:12 | 114 | 80 |
[WP] While burglarizing a house, a petty thief finds the owner of it mid-suicide attempt. | "Hey, there..." said Miles in an easing tone. "Hey, let's just calm down and put the gun down."
"Don't come any closer!"
In front of him with a pistol to his temple, a middle-aged man is crying hysterically. For the past five minutes, he's been trying to convince the suicidal man to put the gun down so they could tal... | I'd always wonder how they'd find me. Who would be the first to find meaning in an empty seat or a missed call, and who would be the first to care enough to act on it? The faces flickered through my mind: Dr. Jensen, knocking furiously on my door, in search of the shining spark that illuminated his discussions. Annie P... | 2016-09-07T21:25:36 | 2016-09-07T20:05:12 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, unknown to all, but the gods. Most beings live out multiple lives cyclically as humans or other life-forms and are always random. But these two souls are always human, always find each other, and are always romantically exclusive upon discovery. The gods take interest. | “Beauty is what stops people in their tracks. No matter what they are doing, if they having the best day or worst day of their life, if they are in love, if they are in pain, they will stop to look at beauty.”
“But beauty fades, mother,” Cupid said, his eyes still burning with that youthful fire, the idealism that wou... | He’s fighting for his life.
His blade flickers like silver fire, moving in sweeping arcs and rapid thrusts. Hers moves like glowing lightning, so fast it leaves afterimages. Two knights - one male, one female - stand in the middle of a forest clearing.
"Surrender," he says.
“And bend the knee? Serve that tyrant?” S... | 2019-07-21T23:08:41 | 2019-07-21T23:04:58 | 197 | 67 |
[WP] The year is 2018. You've been living in a bunker in the woods since Y2K | From the cover of the tall bushes, Ted watched the hikers go by. They were the first human beings he had seen in nearly two decades. Man and woman. Well-dressed in new clothes, looking well-fed, and clean, with full backpacks, wearing shades and bright smiles. Clearly not scavengers, or marauders, or refugees from the ... | ***Mole***
Again. The cold. The dark. Feeling the slithering blackness, the feeling of the world rumble above. Who knows what is happening. Who'd guess that the world would end this way?
They said the bombs would fall when the clocks failed. The airplanes would drop like flies upon the corpse of a dead world. Some b... | 2018-01-02T07:48:29 | 2018-01-02T07:10:15 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Hell is an RPG, complete with skills levelling and save points where the damned grind their way to Heaven. A newly dead scrub on level one, you decide to play through like you do in other RPGs and invest at least 1 point in Luck every time you level up. | ######[](#dropcap)
Kael glanced around before furtively making his way to the edge of the cliff.
He had scoped the place out beforehand. Hell had seven levels, complete with monsters, demonic beings, and torture. It *was* possible to get out, but it took either a lot of skill and talent, or a lot of effort, neither ... | Fixed all the formatting. Want part 2?
**Part 1?**
Everything before him was barren. The ground cracked beneath him as he took a few confused paces forward. Disoriented, he looked around for some clue about where he was. The solid parts of the ground beneath him looked as if they were molten, but had recently cooled.... | 2018-04-16T13:41:37 | 2018-04-16T10:40:48 | 1,342 | 173 |
[WP] The newly elected president of the USA makes a surprise announcement: he/she will not make a single decision while in office, and instead unveils a new smartphone app that will allow citizens to decide everything.
Potential issues that could be addressed (feel free to ignore if you like) :
The app could be a sim... | A knock, then the door to the Oval Office opens.
With disdain in her voice the attendant announces “The Vice President is here sir.”
“Thank you.” The Vice President enters. “Goundry! Come on in!“
“Good morning Mr President.”
They meet in the centre of the room and shake hands. They stand close, eye to eye. “And w... | “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter". (Winston Churchill)
The president of the greatest country in the world looks out an impeccable window and knows that he will be dead within four years. His old tired face is reflected back to him and a single tear glides down h... | 2016-06-25T19:57:43 | 2016-06-25T18:09:10 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | Lucius shot me a vicious smile from the other side of the table. His right hand moved in a slow, circular motion which caused the ice to orbit the center of his amber colored drink. The room was lit with the dancing light of a stone fireplace no smaller than 20 feet wide and 8 feet tall. The focal point of the smoking ... | "Will you do it?"
The probie leaned back into his battered leather armchair, contemplating the enormity of the request with steepled fingers, just failing to hide trembling lips. Audacious was too pedestrian a word for the scale and horror of the opportunity presented to him.
"It's never been done" he muttered, thoug... | 2016-08-23T17:34:59 | 2016-08-23T17:17:24 | 49 | 15 |
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