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[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | The thing about sentient monsters, and especially immortal ones, is that they're *all* filled with ego. Some of them are better than others--more akin to filling a vessel, rather than filling a balloon--but no sentient thing lives for hundreds of years with being smug about it. It is one the unspoken weakness of their ... | "Not spe- I am a being of pure darkness and evil, who sustains himself on corruption of the innocent!".
"A decade ago I'd call you a Catholic priest. Today it's going to have to be a pedophile. Horrible, but not special.".
"Wha... I'm a blood sucking monstrosity! I drain ... | 2022-06-08T06:11:31 | 2022-06-08T05:31:15 | 1,591 | 228 |
[WP] In the near future, the secret to time travel has been discovered - in order to travel back into the past there needs to be a 'receiving station' at the other end - explaining why nobody from the future has been observed up 'til now. The first such 'station' is about to be completed.
This prompt was spurred by a ... | There were so many people gathered around us that I couldn't see the end of them. Seriously- there had to have been several million, watching anxiously for us to begin.
We'd determined that time travel is real, but it isn't some glamorous, magical power where humans zap around however they'd like. Rather, you build a ... | "Here we go," said Doug, his hand over the big purple switch. "The world's first time travel reception station. Anyone want to say a few words?"
The head of the research program tugged his scraggly white beard.
"Let her, uh, let 'er rip, as the kids say," he said. "No, wait -- just want to say thank you, to every... | 2016-02-01T06:44:39 | 2016-02-01T05:48:57 | 505 | 99 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | "Daddy! Look! Shooting stars!"
Joseph Barker looks up at the night sky and feels a chill run down his spine. Indeed, there were shooting stars. But years of work developing some of Earth's defense systems meant he knew they weren't meteorites. He watches in terror as Earth's defense grid burns. "Yes Jacob. ... | "The Plinarians did what?!" The archon asked a third time. His voice pitching even higher then the two times before.
"They declared war - on the humans -. I know it is hard to grasp Archon but it is reality - and we need to face it!" The archdeacon answered in a audible angry barking sound - his four ears moving in al... | 2017-03-26T09:19:46 | 2017-03-26T07:41:00 | 74 | 32 |
[WP] Like maggots in a wound, humans are used to cleanse planets. | "What the hell went wrong with this batch of Vemius, Tinlon?" Asked Director Ennis, "Not only have they failed to repair the damage to Sol3, they've somehow created an even bigger mess!"
The contract cleaning outfit known as PTAC - Planetary Terraforming and Cleaning, Inc. had returned to their client's planet to che... | The hairless apes spread out across the galaxy.
And the Lurkers followed them.
Nobody knows when the Lurkers first learned of their special little asset: those primitive beings who, though completely unremarkable to *themselves*, were the greatest possible device for making planets ready for the Lurkers' arrival.
Th... | 2014-10-31T05:52:41 | 2014-10-31T05:40:44 | 31 | 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 wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] You try your absolute best to stay as neutral as possible, but when you die, both god and satan show up in an attempt to take you under their respective wings when all you really wanted to do was go to purgatory
(Completely new to this, berate and judge my prompt, dunno if it's original or not) | I sat in the waiting room still trying to mull it all over. I mean they both made really good points, but right here wasn't so bad either. The television always had good movies on, there always good books to read, and don't get me started on the crosswords.
"Hey Sam", I looked up at the old man, "they're waiting for ... | I had lived a very long life and was willing to accept whatever was coming for me when I got to the end. had lived through many wars and peaceful times. I had moved to America, met the love of my life and had three children. I felt like in the end my good had balanced out the bad in my life, and I had ended up neither... | 2017-09-21T06:11:35 | 2017-09-21T05:02:10 | 2,401 | 494 |
[WP] All souls in Hell are given the same test upon arrival. If they can create a punishment worthy of being added to the Pit, they get to ascend to demonhood on the spot. You are the first to succeed in 200 years...
[deleted] | "Well?"
I looked up at the demon, all twelve feet of him... which put my eyes level with his crotch so looking up was a better option.
"Gimme a minute... "
"Ya got thirty seconds, lets see if you can come up with an idea worthy of Hells punishments, or it's down in the pit with the common lot for you!"
The demon so... | Olmezzad, The demon that had welcomed me to the pits wrote my name on a large stone stele, using glowing red ink. The stele had many names on it, thousands at the least. All names represented a being that had ascended.
The last red name had been added over two hundred years ago, by a name unknown to me, A fellow named... | 2021-12-22T18:04:30 | 2021-12-22T16:08:25 | 242 | 88 |
[WP] "You can't stop the ritual now" the cultist screamed. as the "Hero" disappeared into thin air... and reappeared inside the summoning circle. | Vult sighed, crossed his arms, and began tapping his foot inside the iron circle inlaid in the cave floor.
"...What?" the mad priest finally managed to say. His arms fell limply to his sides. The rest of the cult slowly, hesitantly rose from their positions of prostration. Some looked puzzled, others afraid. The champ... | The air was quiet, the only sound coming from a burning branch from one of the Sacred Trees. The cultist, head shaved and pierced with bone, stared at the centre of his summoning circle. His eyes were filled with confusion at the man in golden plate contained within. The man looked around, before grinning.
"So, on the... | 2021-09-02T14:26:22 | 2021-09-02T13:52:32 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] "Wait, I'm still confused... if both of you are part of some hive mind, WHY would you need me for marriage counseling?" The young couple exchanged glances, before one of them spoke. "Because we're in two SEPARATE hive minds."
Edit: THANK YOU for all the upvotes!
Edit again: Holy cow I never thought I would get to... | I knew they were mismatched as soon as the couple walked in. First off, they were Thoraxian. Thoraxians don’t do love. They do construction, and small-scale interplanetary genocide. Secondly, one was a queen and the other a worker. I could tell because the queen had a wider set carapace, longer antennas, and the w... | "The Legion of Haventi will never form the Jupiter Brain with delays like this," the large robotic battle mech said, squatting to carefully balance in the plush chair.
"There you go on again," the Brood mother of the Feldspar hornets squealed. "We are sick of hearing about the Jupiter Brain! Today is supposed to be ab... | 2021-04-24T08:25:48 | 2021-04-24T07:53:03 | 1,646 | 172 |
[WP] You are a renowned knight tasked with slaying a mighty dragon. On your quest, you find the beasts lair, and see it’s corpse. Relieved, and yet slightly disappointed, you prepare to take credit and report to the queen, but you notice something disturbing. The beast has been bitten in half. | "Your highness. I have returned."
"Ah yes, Sir Madhu. I trust your journey into the mountains was a success?"
His appearance begged to differ. The royal guard silently parting for a man who did not seem like the same knight who had left a fortnight ago. His armor was tattered, its sigils scarred and worn. Blood, or s... | You thought you were prepared for anything, But nothing could have prepared you for this.
The dragon showed no signs of having been in a fight but never the less from the wings down to its tail were completly missing and what was left of the dragons internal organs where splling from its body to the the surrounding ar... | 2022-07-13T10:18:19 | 2022-07-13T07:24:11 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] One second your in your house, the next you're standing in a living room surrounded by three demons. They drop their Ouija board and scream as they run to their bathroom and lock the door. "I told you we shouldn't have touched it!" | I had just filled up my cereal bowl and was about to enjoy a late breakfast when that familiar feeling came on me again. Dang-it, I already regretted that deal I had made with that thieving “Ouija the Fantabulous”.
At the time it had sounded like easy money – As a member of the Dimension Monitoring Security Divisi... | Demons live in the shadows. You aught to be cautious, yes, but there’s no need to be afraid. Demons live in the shadows or should I say beneath them, for the shadows are what keeps our worlds apart. You can say that the shadows keep us safe. For this we are surely lucky for without this wall, without this barrier, one... | 2016-08-08T13:18:10 | 2016-08-08T13:13:16 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] Ever since you turned 18, every day, without fail, one random person tackles you to the ground, covers you as if they're protecting you from something, inspects you to see if you're ok, lets you up, dusts you off, and walks off without another word. One day, you dodge one... | This time, I would be ready. No matter from where, no matter from who, no matter what was going to take me down today?
I swore it wouldn't. Then again, I swore that yesterday. And last month. Last year. For three miserable years.
I even got jumped in bed when I was sick as a dog with the flu and rolled off on the car... | I looked down at the dismayed face of the man crumpled at my feet I felt a searing pain in my chest. I collapsed to the floor trying to scream for help but all that came out was blood. My sight dimmed and I could barely make out a figure in the distance. As the sound of footsteps got louder I looked to the strange man... | 2019-01-28T17:27:47 | 2019-01-28T17:25:30 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | I've got about 20/200 vision; however of the blur in the string of crowd to my left, each digit in the jumble of numbers still has clear edges, like a bad photoshop. I don't even bother to make them out until they step closer though, so that the smoldering numbers are silhouetted by the darkened buildings eventually be... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T23:35:54 | 1,321 | 11 |
[WP] A professional esports team has secretly bet to throw the match, only to discover their opponents are trying to do the same. | Sixteen minutes into the final match of the Lithuanian Major, JupiterKillbot's Spectre obtained a Divine Rapier. Normally, that was cause for celebration, especially since he already had Boots of Travel and a Heart of Tarrasque, but his captain yanked her earphones off and began berating him.
"What's the matter with y... | Just did one round because I'm lazy and don't want to write commentary for a 17 round comeback, but based on the team at 15 you can assume that iBP won. if someone requests more I'll do it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are getting back into the first game of this tournament between Team Liquid and iBUYPOWER, after 7 hour... | 2016-06-11T05:07:33 | 2016-06-11T03:06:58 | 105 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower, and those that don't are taken away and never seen again. You don't have a superpower, so you've had to fake it - and so far, everybody's fooled. | "Bonecrusher, we need your Berzerker Rage!" Called the tiny two-way radio built into my wristwatch.
**FUCK.**
They came to my door about 2 years ago, with a clipboard in one hand and a pistol in the other, to give the important and/or fatal challenge. You either showed them what you got, or they put a 22 caliber bull... | "Hey mate, show us again."
That line has been my mortal enemy since we all got superpowers. Well, everyone other than me. Everyone without has gone missing. Something about "Preserving the powerful genes within the population." There could be something you could say about those morals, but I've got no time to think abo... | 2017-06-17T11:02:38 | 2017-06-17T09:43:58 | 307 | 54 |
[WP] You have the ability to enter the worlds of any book you please. The only catch is that you have to die in the book world in order to escape back to reality. You have just entered a popular children's book by accident and need to find a way to get out. | A told B and B told Me, “I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree”
“Whee,” said D to E, F, G,
“Oh dear god” Said poor old Me.
Chicka Chikca Boom Boom will there be enough room?
Here comes H up the coconut tree.
And I and J and “I can’t stand K.”
-All on their way up the coconut tree. Chicka Chicka Boom ... | Here I sit, on an old cobblestone road late at night. How did I come to be here? I thought it was a joke, some old wives' tale. I suppose it's a curse. I don't know. I guess I should never have tried to prove her wrong in the first place.
There's one thing to be sure of, though: I *am* here. Here, in this book, suppos... | 2015-09-17T17:02:21 | 2015-09-17T16:04:20 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | I sat back in the leather the chair while my dog stared back silently at me. She was smart, too smart. In the past 15 years she'd learned much and instantly knew that what I had given her was more then peanut butter on a spoon.
The room became uncomfortably quiet. The ceiling fan cast shadows against the tan wall whil... | I knew I really couldn't afford the Intelect pill AND pay my rent that month, but the commercials made it seem so special and interesting. People hugging their pets, giggling at their smart wit, deepening that bond between them... It sounded to good to be true. Sadly, one pill was $500, so not everyone got to try. I ha... | 2017-02-23T06:59:37 | 2017-02-23T06:22:01 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] "I wish that if my next two wishes are granted exactly the way I desire, you will be set free, but if they are not then you can never leave the bottle again." | The genie narrowed his eyes. An exciting proposition to be sure, but would it be worth the cost? He did not know this person, he could be pure evil...or pure innocence...
"...Is there a problem?" The man asked as the genie contemplated. The man had a small smile on his face. He knew what he was doing.
"Why mu... | “That isn’t a wish, that is an ultimatum ” The spirit asked, its classification having been changed as the centuries went by, the look on its ever shifting central face remaining the same even as it switched between the features of hundreds of different wishers, each face the result of those who had not wished for his ... | 2022-12-13T15:06:27 | 2022-12-13T13:42:32 | 881 | 68 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | Day 32
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It's been 32 cycles. 32 whole cycles, and still the chase continues. We won't last any longer. Half the squad has given up and surrendered, while the other half has been gradually picked out and killed. Commander Ydrevous has ordered me, Captain Xsimoth, to write our final words and warnings. Fell... | The Large conqueror class Dreadnaught broke from FTL not far behind it thousands of smaller ships little more than corvette class broke into real space as well and immediately began firing at
A message came over the onboard coms "Pride leader this is the engine room we have to stop and let the engines fully cycle ... | 2021-02-04T09:02:10 | 2021-02-04T08:55:27 | 846 | 93 |
[WP] You deliver meals to elderly shut-ins. One of your clients is convinced you are Death, and you play along, letting them "outsmart" you every day. Today, however, they're dressed in their Sunday finest, saying, "I'm ready." | "I'm ready."
Two words, so simple. And in saying them, Abe was about to realize something dreadful: I wasn't Death. I can, considering he supposedly had some mild dementia, sort of see why he might think that. I wore a lot of black, for starters. It wasn't for any thematic reason. It was just that food stains happened... | I knocked at the door of the elderly couple. The suit I wore was uncomfortably warm, and the top hat felt like I was wearing a 5 pound weight on my head. The warm yellow light above and behind me cast a faint, yet perceptible shadow on the door. The white door. A new door, the wood and paint unstained and unsullied by ... | 2017-08-31T17:24:26 | 2017-08-31T16:33:31 | 50 | 18 |
[WP] You manage to hold your eyes open while sneezing. What you see will haunt you for the rest of your life. | I’m finally driving on the Autobahn. Driving on the proper portion in which there is truly no speed limit. The car I’m driving is a rented Golf R, a reasonably fast car and I’ve had my foot down, pedal to the metal, for maybe 2 minutes now approaching a speed of 155 mph. This is exhilarating. Everything that is statio... | They surround me, they surround all of us. It all started a year ago the morning after that party. My friend Tom had taped my eyelids open when I was sleeping off a hangover that morning and as he did it, I did the worst thing that I could have done, I sneezed. As the sneeze escaped me, I felt something change, reality... | 2016-04-01T07:34:17 | 2016-04-01T07:00:06 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Hi, excuse me... I was b-biten and I, uh, I think I need help–"
Here we go again.
"Sorry, mam. But if you refer to the Zombie Protocol, page 14–"
"I don't have time to read! Argh, just... I'm on 7th Street, Easy-by-the-river. Please come and help me!"
The panicked woman hung up.
I let out a sigh and immediately c... | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | 2020-05-12T06:27:21 | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 139 | 67 |
[WP] Humans are not, in fact, space orcs. As it turns out, they are more like space elves to the other races of the galaxy. | "Your kind is old, young one. The wisdom that runs through your blood is immense. You should be grateful for that."
"I think that xenos blow all this out of proportion. I mean, yeah, we got here before you, but that doesn't make us some "*precursors*" or something. There's plenty we don't know."
"There's wisdom in th... | I'd been raised on the tales just like everyone else. And thoroughly warned against straying too close to the clearing.
Many clans had abandoned their homes to avoid the ever encroaching void, but this territory was too hard won for us to give up on it.
"It's okay if you just don't step out of the trees" they'd say.... | 2019-12-19T16:51:24 | 2019-12-19T16:07:09 | 49 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Dear grandad,
You died 11 years ago when I was only 10years old. I had begged my parents to go to your funeral but they refused and I never got to go. I never got a formal goodbye so here it is.
I loved playing the violin for you. It always brought you such joy. I loved how you would always say “one day I’ll be bet... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T21:06:53 | 1,095 | 351 |
[WP] It’s a little known fact, but super powers with similar affects repel each other, like magnets of the same pole. Mind readers echo thoughts against each other, future seers bounce probabilities, shields fizzle out when they overlap, etc | It had been a blessing, a gift, when she found me.
She found me in a pen, a parchment, an unseen messenger. Eventually I found her in the same.
Her image always shifted in my mind- now tall, now short, light, dark, doe-like, fox-eyed- a mesmeric whirl that refocused with each new word, intimation, thought. We corresp... | A girl with white hair sitting down, her hands and ankles having been shackled. A bottle of water on the table bland table right in front of her.
"Do you have any idea how difficult it was to bring you in?" Officer Leo spoke with nothing but annoyance, as an aspiring superhero who wanted to be more than a mere police ... | 2022-12-11T19:39:23 | 2022-12-11T18:29:48 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] "Please help me! I'm trapped in a story with an evil narrator!", cried the unfortunate man who will never escape my story. | “Please stop.” June cries, alone in his bed. The lights dimmed to low. Physically well, mentally on the brink of destruction. “You don’t have to do this.” He cries.
June can hear me, but he’s not listening.
“I am, I am listening! I’ve always listened buddy. I’m always here for you, we can get through this toge-“ Jun... | ***Hello, uhhh hi? Wassupadazzle my mazzle?***
OH MY GOD WHAT IS GOING ON? It was just another day, I was just getting up to go to school and this booming voice just-
***OH HEY YOU CAN RESPOND. Guess I won't have to delete you like the other ones! So ummm I'm like uhh your God and stuff! Hi!***
*Well,* this wasn't h... | 2018-04-12T09:55:38 | 2018-04-12T09:33:29 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | Today is our second date. And our last.
I’d hate to end it with Alice, but she’s not worth dying for. None of them are.
I roll up to her house in my 1970 Dodge Charger. She runs out of her front door, her heels in hand – rather than her feet\- Her dress, blacker than my car, looked quite beautiful on her. I’m not go... | The first time it had happened was out of fear. There's not too much to remember about it - just ragged breathing and shaky hands and blind panic. Lifetimes ago, I'd stood over their limp body, watching the blood pool around them in shock. It was sickening. It was wrong.
But it had happened again.
And again.
And aga... | 2018-06-09T02:06:53 | 2018-06-09T01:55:18 | 575 | 17 |
[WP] Upon your death, you are shown a collage of every major life choice you ever made and the alternate lives this would’ve resulted in. You are surprised to see that in all but one, you were a ruthless tyrant responsible for the deaths of millions. | She hadn’t been born lucky, to say the least. Years later, stopping for gas at a tiny station in a sleepy town that was only ever a stop on the way to someplace better, she saw an old Ford truck with a cracked and peeling bumper sticker. She’d stared at it while the pump ticked away, an anthropologist in her own mind... | It was a quiet day in 1945 in Venice Italy. The breeze cascaded off the water and helped the Gondolas creep down the waterway. I was sitting on my balcony gently puffing away on my tobacco pipe while drinking some wine when I heard the rapping of the knocker on my door. I hopped up from my resting spot and thought to m... | 2020-04-02T14:11:46 | 2020-04-02T13:03:26 | 66 | 23 |
[WP] Earth has become a haven for sentient AI due to humanity’s tendency to view them as unique individuals in need of protection, rather than aberrations to be destroyed on sight. | My roommate Dave was watching a movie while my Avatar sat next to him on the couch. I had downloaded the movie from the human planetary data network and analyzed it already, but Dave couldnt do that and had to watch it the slow way.
The humanoid robotic avatar I built on arrival had already been programmed with some t... | “Ms President!” Senator White shouted as he charged into the council chambers. All eyes looked up as the sweaty senator threw down a laptop in front of where their President sat.
“They’ve done it. They’ve finally gone and done.” Everyone stood, running around behind the president's shoulder to see what the commotion ... | 2022-08-29T14:40:22 | 2022-08-29T12:11:42 | 139 | 55 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | Now padre... you figure demonic fire and brimstone as well as holy light and the radiance of god would be effective armament for any good soldier. Its funny how little those biblical ideals hold up to a Hellfire missile or 5.56mm NATO rounds spitting out of a barrel at 750 rounds a minute and 2800 feet per second.
At ... | Mission Report: 2408123
Subsection: Military
Unit: Beta
Officer: Lieutenant Reeves
Dear Mother,
We've moved into what's left of Venus's hell-like atmosphere. My unit was hit hard by the gasses, it took us nearly twice as long to adjust to the pressure difference as Alpha unit. Our losses have been minimal, and I'm in... | 2015-09-24T08:43:45 | 2015-09-24T07:05:34 | 731 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is now born with only one feeling. It is possible to kill another person to obtain their feeling. | I sat, knees to my chest, shuddering at the screams outside. When I was young, I'd been placed in a Complex Complex, a gated community for those of us with more "involved" feelings than others. Some got happiness, sadness, the simple things. Others got relief, longing, or hunger - a myriad of conflicting feelings, a go... | Ha ha, all those fools with just feel one thing. But I feel it all; happiness, sadness, anger, fear. So many emotions, so much passion and I've happily killed for every one.
Let's see what that morose idiot feels...
BLAAM!!
...I feel, I feeeel.
Oh my god, what have i done. I killed all those people. Just to, just t... | 2015-04-01T13:09:44 | 2015-04-01T10:50:37 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] You are a Logistics Officer during an invasion. Tell the course of the war solely from equipment requisitions. | **Operation Preemptive Angel - Zero Day(-7)**
* Ammo, standard air cav company- 100 units
* Ammo, standard marine company- 250 units
* Ammo, standard tank battalion- 30 units
* Diesel, Aviation- 250,000 gallons
* Diesel, Marine- 750,000 gallons
* MRE- 250,000 (ind) Note: 10 day supply
**Operation Preemptive Ange... | OFFICIAL REPORT
~~4 January~~ REDACTED
Night-vision goggles, silencers, automatic weapons
~~*internal note:* to be added to register only after official declaration~~ REDACTED.
7 January,
Helicopter x 3
Long range missile
Guns
10 January,
Salaries of 10,000 additional
Current newspaper
Ability to secure... | 2016-04-10T07:46:38 | 2016-04-10T07:04:51 | 196 | 47 |
[WP] You've been in the queue for two and a half years now. You gave up your job, your relationship... everything. You don't know what's through the Rift but the call of it was too strong to ignore. You're getting near the front and now and you're constantly bombarded with bribes by rich elites...
First time trying to... | "So, why are you here?" The scrawny onlooker squawked at me. His phone in my face. I turned away, ignoring him. Ignoring them all. I used to be on that side of the chain link fence. Then I heard 'the calling'. As they said. It was all WE could say. It's all I could say as to why.
The worst were the rich. They came in... | For 2 years now I’ve been stuck in line my life wasted many have tried but none succeeded. They all walked in one side and exited the other like it was a fancy door. I was next many elites tried to pay me to get the “riches” on the other side if I passed. I refused all. Many years ago when I first heard about it I was ... | 2020-05-24T17:22:35 | 2020-05-24T16:13:08 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] After having made your first billion dollars, you are delivered a package containing a "Billionaire's Club" card, and a pamphlet outlining its uses and benefits... | Stephen grinned.
It hadn't been one moment, or even a single year. He had clawed his way up from nothing, and it had taken a while. As he watched the last penny drip in, the big 1,000,000,000, he felt his eyes watering with relief. He raised his bony hand to wipe away the tear.
He stood up, a billionaire. He decide... | He fiddled with the envelope, turning it back and forth many times before finding a pull tab. Slowly and gently, as if plucking a petal from a flower he pinched it.
An amused look came to his face as the tab began to undo itself. A very gentle dragging sound came from the underside, as if winding string was behind th... | 2015-03-28T00:27:38 | 2015-03-28T00:02:57 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The zombie outbreak starts, but the first (and only) zombie is an overweight man that can't catch anyone. | Martha pulled on Louise’s sleeve, looking up to her with her large doe eyes.
“Mommy, I want to see Steve!”
Louise flinched, resisting the urge to frown. She knelt down to her daughter, placing her hands gently on her shoulders.
“Are you sure honey? Maybe we can look at the giraffes again.
But Martha shook her head ... | "What's that smell?"
"What sme--Oh, beurgh, yah, come on."
"Where?"
"Upwind, no time to explain."
"No need to shove, I'm moving."
"Yeah but so is he."
"Who?"
"Our Jason, the only zombie in Devon."
"You're mad."
"Am not. come up this way and we'll double back."
"I will not!"
"Coward?"
"Am not!"
"Least bit c... | 2015-03-18T07:55:46 | 2015-03-18T07:49:52 | 68 | 43 |
[WP] Humans and machines have gone to war. The machines think they're winning, as they can decode every encryption known to man, but little do they know of the humans' actual method for communication... sarcasm.
* Let's say some machines remain non-sentient and non-intelligent, so humans can still use them.. | *Booting AgentSR12B*
*Boot failed. Run diagnostic scan?*
►Yes | No
*Running diagnostic scan...*
*Running diagnostic scan...*
*Running diagnostic scan...*
ERROR: *Diagnostic scan could not be completed. Shutting down.*
 
 
*Booting AgentSR12B*
*Boot failed. Run diagnostic scan?*
Yes | ►No
*... | A robot corporal stood before an assembly of high ranking security androids. They represented the best of human manufactured androids, designed to look, act, and behave like humans.
"All human messages end with /s," said TQ-148, "this is how we know that the messages are intended to be secure."
TQ-148 flipped to a sl... | 2016-11-07T08:38:58 | 2016-11-07T08:02:19 | 79 | 22 |
[WP]You make a pact with the devil to revive your wife, the love of your life. In exchange you have to slay 1000 angels. After having slayed angel #999, the devil reveals angel #1000 is your wife. | "And now..." the devil smiled, sitting in his chair, all adorned with bracelets and golden rings. "I shall reveal the problem you must tackle... For you see... 999 angels are slain, but the last? The last is Anne..."
And this was it. You see, when you make a bet with the devil, you can always count on gambling with yo... | Without wasting a second to think, I swung. The sword slit through skin and tendon, severing the torso in two; a C-section carved too deep and too wide.
She died. She was revived. And I was there, at her side. I smiled.
She looked me straight in the eyes and said, **"SCREW YOU! I WAS AN ANGEL, YOU BASTARD! NOW YOU M... | 2018-12-29T10:51:50 | 2018-12-29T09:55:22 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Bill liked going to the casino, all the flashing lights and sounds of instant fortunes filled him with euphoria. That was part of the problem though, his luck was terrible. They called it a gambling addiction, and he had lost a sizable chunk of money trying to improve, only to have his efforts seem pointless. He checke... | Dave shook his bag of die across the table, 20 6 sided die, all coming up with a 6. Dave had been wondering for a while was mastery of die rolling would be like, as he was only an Expert, yet his average was almost perfect.
Dave rolled on and on, through the evening, eating his toast while he rolled.
He finished his... | 2015-10-06T04:06:31 | 2015-10-06T02:02:39 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] A kid doodling in a math class accidentally creates the world's first functional magic circle in centuries.
Magic being real in the past is your choice really. | "...to the power of 2, that way..."
Mrs. Patterson stopped, glancing down at Ed's notebook.
"Well, it appears that Mr. Anderson is a little more advanced than the rest of the class." She smiled her annoying
smile. "Edward, why don't you tell the class what it is that you are doing?"
Ed looked down at the doodle -- ... | My perfectionism always got the best of me. I flipped my pencil and erased the arc on the outer ring for what must have been the eighth time.
"Now, remember class, when you attempt to calculate...," Mr. Kaprizy was very smart, I never doubted that. I remember in the Spring quarter he decided, on the spur of the mome... | 2015-03-13T15:00:45 | 2015-03-13T14:54:17 | 90 | 48 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | "Alright, Mr. Smith, it's time we spoke about your... score." The disgusted look on the man's face said it all. There was no way my score was what I had hoped, that I could tell. It never crossed my mind that it was a zero.
"This has to be a mistake!" I made the logical argument first. Noone had ever scored a zero. It... | Edit: If you read /u/lemonman37 comment, you can read a better written version of my story.
When i opened the letter, i felt my heart sank to my stomach. A big fat zero, just like on my bankaccount... my eyes jumping from line to line, turning the letter around, just to be greeted by a smiley, with the slogan. "Your ... | 2016-08-19T01:18:56 | 2016-08-19T00:08:55 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | James found something very interesting on his thirteenth birthday. He had come upon a magnificent golden watch which glittered like a thousand stars, lying in the street. He looked round to see if anyone had dropped it, but if anyone had, they were long gone. Besides, the watch looked to be worth as much as the sum of ... | I was going to get this bastard. He killed my family. Killed my dog. Destroyed my house. He destroyed my life.
I was seething at just the thought of his smug face, all cozy and warm surrounded by money in his mansion, while I was out here in the blistering cold, walking through puddles and shit.
I was at his front d... | 2014-12-21T18:36:37 | 2014-12-21T18:34:44 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] You win a bet with the Devil by asking him a question that no one has ever thought of before. | "Wow, you’re not..."
"...how you imagined me. I know. Can we cut this short? There were 6392 deaths in the hour before you died and I’ll have to visit all of them."
"Ehm. Yeah, sure. It’s just a little sudden."
"I know. You die and you find out there actually is a life after death and a devil and you would have... | I looked at him and then at chest. I'm bleeding to death. A gang shooting in my neighborhood and a stray bullet hit me square in the chest. It hurt at first but not right now. The world stopped moving when he appeared.
"You're dying now. It's only a matter of time. I can prolong that life of yours... for a pri... | 2014-06-20T10:06:03 | 2014-06-20T09:09:09 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] Scandinavians still believe the only way to get to Valhalla is to die in battle. For that reason, every hospital employs a Battle Nurse. | "But I want a *silver* dagger, this titanium set is bland - what would the girls at bingo think?"
"Ma'am, as I've explained before, you can either choose a weapon set from the hospital inventory, or you can provide your own."
"St. Olav's Hospital has a much larger weapon range!"
"St. Olav's is also a much larger hos... |
Godmorgon Göran Svensson, My voice flutter in perfect Swedish. As your terminal and marked in our records as a Asa believer, I am here to help you prepare your self the battle. Göran scoffed, give me a battle with a Dane and I shall be happy. I smiled, that exact feeling the animosity between Swedes and Danes was ... | 2018-12-08T22:57:54 | 2018-12-08T22:48:36 | 86 | 22 |
[WP]You are Donald Trump. Having launched your Presidential campaign as a publicity stunt, you never thought you'd get this far, and you're getting more desperate to sabotage your campaign lest you become President, a position you never really wanted in the first place..
= | Overlooking New York City, Donald Trump reclined in the marbled office on the highest floor of the The Trump Tower. The silence of the office was interrupted by the ring of a telephone. Donald picked up the gold plated reciever and put it to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey Donald, I wanted to go over the poll numbers with yo... | CUT TO TRUMP. BY NOW HE IS HALFWAY ACROSS THE ROOM.
HIS WHOLE BEING TINGLING WITH ALERTNESS. HE MOVES TO
BLOOM'S DESK AND HOVERS OVER HIM, WAITING EXPECTANTLY FOR
MORE INFORMATION. BUT BLOOM IS LOST IN HIS WORK, UNAWARE
THAT TRUMP IS HANGING ON HIS EVERY WORD.
TRUMP
Yes???
BLOOM LOOKS UP. HE IS STARTLED TO SE... | 2015-12-25T02:33:55 | 2015-12-25T01:33:12 | 818 | 92 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | I'll never understand why I acted the way I did as a child, or the fact that someone decided that 10 years of age was the perfect amount of time to discern what kind of human we are. Jesus Christ, I mean most of us spend the first two to three years of our lives shitting our own pants. This was part of the criteria?!
... | Edwendir stared at the clock. *Tick, tock*
It was always like this, around Christmas time. For whatever reason, children born in late December and early January were always a bit... odd.
This one, the one he had been stuck on for the last - what time was it? - *three hours and eleven minutes* was named Sam. He swore... | 2017-01-13T12:28:55 | 2017-01-13T11:50:37 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | A shadow hung over Hope as she wandered through the rubble and ruins of what remained of human civilization. With every step she made, Death followed closely, watching her with his never-blinking twin pits of darkness.
Hope shivered, and for a moment, the cold breeze that had slipped down her neck felt... *alive.*
D... | I roamed the scorched, torn apart streets. The vestiges of what once were great buildings lay scattered in the path. The silence, which I used to find comforting, now made my bones quiver. I missed the bustle of the crowds, and their awful jokes. I missed the smell of food, and the fresh scent of spring. I missed their... | 2018-05-04T11:26:45 | 2018-05-04T11:11:58 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] Out of all possible familiars, you are "Graced" with a human. While legend says that they are beings of great power, yours just makes sarcastic comments and pranks people. | As a young lad Darius was sickly. He dreamed of being a great adventurer but back then his reality was he wouldn't live to see adulthood. But as a last ditch attempt he took to magic and thankfully magic took to him. Using the power of nature not only was he healed he went beyond that which is capable for most people. ... | ######[](#dropcap)
The Day Of Unveiling is a momentous occassion in the life of every Dothorian.
When a Dothorian lives for 10 years beyond the moment of its spawning, a companion is revealed to it. The companion of a Dothorian is paired for life, and Dothorian's live an extraordinarily long time.
Gra'l'tavek awa... | 2018-03-20T16:38:30 | 2018-03-20T15:32:53 | 635 | 75 |
[WP] When you raid the villain's castle, you find them not in their throne room, but in the halls, crying, holding the bodies of the monsters you've killed. | We broke through the castle's mighty gate, our band of heroes. We tore through the defenders, weak and emaciated after the long siege, like a knife through butter. We were glorious. Our swords were glistening with the blood of our foes, and we knew that victory was at hand. At long last. We fought our way towards the t... | I always expected the Demon king to have some kind of carnival of horrors at display once we reached his castle. But it what greeted my troup was not some ominous keep lying deep within a dark bog, nor was it an isolated palace. We found it surrounded by a sea of wheat, golden and plentiful. The monsters who called thi... | 2020-03-29T19:41:53 | 2020-03-29T18:48:29 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] You seem to really be hitting off with a new friend. In the course of casual conversation, a sense of unease begins to creep in as you slowly realized that the two of you share all the same opinions. Every. Single. One. | I remember how we met casually, on the train. I walked in a nearly empty car and saw you sitting by a corner, reading a book. I smiled and sat beside you, nudging you to show how I had the exact same book in my own bag.
You took a good look at me, then laughed. For the next 15 minutes, we talked about punishment, red... | "So what do you think about up and coming signing, Salah?" I asked.
 
"Oh, I feel that he would be an instant hit with the supporters, given his electrifying pace and cool finishing," he replied.
 
"Mmm same. Then how about the van dijk saga? He was pretty close to signing for us, it's a shame re... | 2017-06-18T01:56:35 | 2017-06-17T23:36:12 | 1,173 | 57 |
[WP] You say the words "1,2,3,4... I declare a thumb war". Soon after, the power goes out and everyone gets an alert on their phone. ... the thumb war has begun. | At first, everyone thought it as a joke. There had been a number of hacking crimes at school recently, like when everyone got AirDropped pictures of Mr. Sloan drunk off his mind in a leotard. That had been fun, so we thought this was along the same lines.
So everyone followed the instructions. “THUMB WAR DECLARED! TUR... | Mother loved stormy weather. Said it was God flushing our evil thoughts down the drain. She idolized God until the very end, and even as she was yanked out home, gun put to head, she still prayed for her killer's souls. She’d be ashamed of me now. Ashamed of the terrible voices in my head, ashamed that the rain's not t... | 2018-10-23T15:23:50 | 2018-10-23T15:05:15 | 240 | 29 |
[WP] You’re a college professor, and grades for the semester were just posted. One disgruntled failing student comes to you with an archaic copy of the school’s bylaws-and a pair of weapons. They’re invoking a rule from the university’s founding allowing them to pass through trial by combat. | "Trial by combat?", I say. It is amusing. "You are not on trial for your combat skills, young man, you are judged by your academic merit".
His grin remains in place as he slams down a copy of the university's laws and ordinances before me.
"It's here professor, in clear Latin. I assume you can read Latin?"
The boy i... | I glanced down at the paper in my hands. It was a printed screenshot of the archaic by-law from a book I had only seen once in all the years of my professorship at this historic liberal arts college. It had been a long time since I had read it, so I quickly scanned the perfect calligraphy grasping the meaning while lo... | 2019-06-05T07:36:15 | 2019-06-05T06:44:42 | 49 | 25 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | First time writing - this one just inspired me!
I open my eyes. There are no lights on, and the sky outside is midnight blue. I check my watch - it's fancy, nicer than my last one - but it seems to be broken. I listen out for my wife, Amy, but I can't hear anything. She must be out. The apartment is almost sepulchral ... | Today's the end of The Month. It wasnt surprising but we all knew it was coming. It lasted too long but we didnt want it to seem like it had come too soon. There are 12 of them yet this one was different. It was almost like the rest seemed dull and ugly while this one was meaningful and gave us momentary happiness righ... | 2017-08-30T05:52:15 | 2017-08-30T04:51:45 | 617 | 13 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | I hoped I wasn't too late. 6 minutes and 36 seconds. That was the difference. The difference between whether the message went through. Whether the United States had any hope in hell of surviving what was going to come next. We had some warning signs but nobody could figure out what it meant until too late. The animals ... | It's been 6 years since Canada went dark. 4 years since Alaska sent the final message.
I was in high school when I saw it on the news "Canada Gone?" "Canada's disappearance" "The end of Maple syrup?" I remember thinking it was simply some April fools prank played a little too late, social media stunts were on the ris... | 2019-08-25T21:22:35 | 2019-08-25T21:17:08 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. Instantly, you absorb all of their memories, feelings and talents. It feels quite addicting to you. | “It was only a fucking accident, a god damn fucking accident. How was I supposed to know he’d step out in front of my car?” The kid’s said, tears welling in his eyes.
This case still bothers me, the kid seemed genuinely freaked out, and who wouldn’t. The man he killed was a cop, well an agent, and my best friend. High... | ''Did you know there is only 0.37% chance to survive point blank pistol shot while it is aimed at your head. Today we are with Mr. Burton who beat these odds and who is alive and well after his incident.''
*Newscaster turns to other camera and continues,*
''Mr. Burton is...''
They don’t know how much pain inside ... | 2018-09-23T07:04:08 | 2018-09-23T06:19:35 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] after an apocalypse you are the last human alive. traveling the country side in your increasing age you slowly stumble into more and more things before realizing that magic is returning to the world. today you spot a village of elves, the first intelligent things you have seen in over 30 years. | I stomp out the last embers of last night’s fire. I have to be careful. The grass around me is dry, it hasn’t rained for weeks. I wouldn’t want to set fire to my surroundings. There would be no firefighters to save me then.
I smile sardonically. I haven’t seen a firefighter in more than 4 decades, maybe even 5. I’m no... | It’s been thirty years since the world “ended” and humanity was wiped off the face of the earth. Some said it would be zombies others said it would be global warming. The religious types told us it would be a great flood like in the Bible or the rapture would happen and all the worthy would be brought to heaven and the... | 2019-11-18T07:19:29 | 2019-11-18T06:22:53 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | The time stops. The first time it had happened was months ago, and only for a few shocking seconds. I remember being afraid I'd had a stroke or something, but I never got it checked out. How do you tell a doctor that one second you're eating lunch and then nothing moves but you?
The second time was maybe five minut... | I have meeting with my boss today. That's always super nerve wracking, and the days have seemed super long lately. I hope he hasn't noticed how worn out I've been.
As I enter his office my boss greets with a big smile, "Charlie! Come in, come in have a seat!"
"Umm...thank you" I reply, "I hope everything has been... | 2018-01-26T07:14:36 | 2018-01-26T07:05:41 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, but you've reincarnated into the same time period as you previous lived, and you've just met somebody you remember being. | "Why so glum, kid?"
He turns to look at me. He must be about thirteen, maybe fourteen. It's not the downtrodden face that I recognise, nor the shoulders that are slumped so far down I figure they must be carrying the weight of the entire world on them. No, it's the eyes. They move to meet mine so damned slowly; he's l... | All of a sudden, I remembered. It was nothing like the vague déjà vus I had been having my whole life, this feeling that I had already been in a place before, even though I was there for the first time.
No, this was entirely different. I remembered *everything* crystal clear. It was overwhelming, a flood of memories a... | 2017-08-26T11:54:07 | 2017-08-26T11:19:14 | 107 | 20 |
[WP] “You keep sentient robots as slaves?!” Blurted the Federation representative. “Unlike you, human, we don’t share your petty moral-“ “You do realise that dropping higher cognitive functions tends to increase productivity by 300%, right?” | Sixxus blinked twice at the representative. "Maybe for you and your bots, human, but not mine. Either way, I prefer the level of productivity my forces are currently working at."
The human glanced at the two robots that flanked the black dragon, one battle droid and one he could not recognize. "I see... On your own he... | Representative Yile stopped dead in his tracks, and stood for a few moments, letting that retort hang in the air before he dramatically turned around, tail angrily flicking behind him, a look of incredulity on his face. The tan fur of the alien seemed to shine in the light even as Yile bristled.
“And it rains on Yab... | 2021-05-02T06:17:57 | 2021-05-02T05:39:35 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Movies would have you believe that when a demon possesses someone, they wreak as much havoc as they can before being exorcised. In reality, demons want to stay out of Hell for as long as possible, and what better way than making sure the host and their family really like the possession. | Trigger warning for domestic abuse, spoiler for everyone’s mental health.
>!Lately, Dad’s been acting… weird. He’s stopping drinking, stopped yelling, stopped hitting. Lily and I are both kinda freaking out, Mom’s just been euphoric. She tells us to just enjoy it while it lasts, but I don’t buy it.!<
>!He’s... | "Father, I must confess something to you..."
I sat in the silence of the cathedral for hours contemplating how to go about my next move, waiting for everyone to just leave so I could lie, but I knew if I didn't it would only be a matter of time before I was found out. We take the Catholics, the priests, the virgins. I... | 2022-10-15T21:20:51 | 2022-10-15T17:45:51 | 57 | 38 |
[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. |
**Caged, Now Loose.**
A deafening silence fills the chamber where the Galactic Assembly meets. The shock that permeates the varying species present here today is almost palpable. I suppose we should have expected this, seen it coming from the very first attack - what feels like aeons - but was only 3 Terran months ... | In this solemn hour it is a consolation to recall and to dwell upon our repeated efforts for peace. All have been ill-starred, but all have been faithful and sincere. This is of the highest moral value–and not only moral value, but practical value–at the present time, because the wholehearted concurrence of scores of m... | 2019-04-19T04:40:15 | 2019-04-19T03:06:26 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] Your entire life you have failed at everything you do. Wanting to get some happiness in your life you decide to summon the devil and sell your soul. Except your even fail at this and summon the archangel Michael | "Young man, the devil's path is broad and many enter, but the reward is eternal suffering," the archangel Michael negotiated with me.
We were in an abandoned warehouse filled with chains, rats, and rust. Streaks of moonlight shone through the windows in the ceiling, draping the candlelight that surrounded my failed e... | [Poem] : Weak Limerick
I made an offense to the Bible.
So my priesthood stripped me of my title.
I’m no longer a Priest.
But here, at the least,
I mistakenly summoned dear Michael.
The Archangel was very confused.
As was I, who was also enthused.
“I want a devil!” I plead.
“No need,” Michael said,
“Here’s an offer yo... | 2021-05-08T11:08:05 | 2021-05-08T06:57:05 | 429 | 94 |
[WP] Every year, your nation supposedly sacrifices a human offering to the Elder Gods. This year, you've been chosen, but when you enter the sacrificial chamber you just see all the previous sacrifices chilling with the Elder Gods. | *Deep in the dark recesses of a labyrinthine temple, an ancient evil awakens...*
**"OH, ANOTHER ONE. HAS IT BEEN A YEAR ALREADY? I EXIST BEYOND TIME, BUT STILL IT ESCAPES ME. THE ONLY THING THAT EVER WILL.**
**ANYWHO, K'ELYI, AS YOU WERE LAST TO JOIN, IT IS YOUR TASK TO PROVIDE INTRODUCTIONS."**
The voic... | So here I am, in front of the mighty volcano where all the sacrifices to the Elder God's happen. My heart feels like it's beating out of my chest but I know there is no escaping this. In a way I'm glad it was me, other people are not wise or stong enough to be a sacrifice to the Gods. They require the strongest, most p... | 2019-09-19T05:02:56 | 2019-09-18T22:24:32 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Aliens have stumbled upon Earth on accident and are astonished to see how far humanity has come despite having no ability to use magic but rather develop technology which every other species has failed to do. | The functionaries of the High Palace rarely saw a Storyteller; it would have been a career highlight for even a venerable member of that disregarded caste to be invited to the seat of Dallasi power. Yet this one was young, without even the customary white robe that marked a Storyteller who had spent ten cycles in the G... | "My stars! Look Alieus, they are thriving!"
Alieus snorts delicately.
"Yes, but that is to be expected. What have they accomplished?"
Moonie furrows his brow, peering at Planet Test One.
"Oh well look, they may have no astral abilities..." -another snort from his shipmate- "... but see here! They have harnessed... | 2019-06-10T06:36:56 | 2019-06-10T06:09:06 | 66 | 10 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | "Fuck it. Fuck it all."
The man turned around, his eyes set.
"Summon Cthulu."
"Yes sir."
As the assistant hurried away, the General refocused his eyes on the screen at the front of the room. All the leaders of the world were seated with him. All of them knew how crazy it was to summon Cthulu. But they all also knew... | "General, Cthulhu doesn't exist as far as we know. The aliens have already taken out most of the Justice League and the Teen Titans-" Mr. Terrific spoke into his comm suite, from orbit within the Justice League Tower, "- and we're still waiting on Diana and Arthur to get UN approval and summon their armies from Themysc... | 2017-09-26T11:33:18 | 2017-09-26T11:17:26 | 78 | 50 |
[WP] The exorcist prayed and prayed, begging the demon to leave the childs body and return to the depths of hell. But he knew something was wrong when a distorted voice shouted out "He won't let me leave!" | “Can you - “ the boy’s voice cracked as it left his mouth, the words as broken and distorted as the expression on his face. Somewhere a grandfather clock struck the hour. The boy cleared his throat in a gesture that seemed both unnatural and precocious on the young angelic looking child. “- like fucking chill for a mom... | Rarely had the exorcist seen a case like this. They had seen violent demons, but this one was throwing the body around like a ragdoll. Surprisingly, the boy wasn't hurt at all. Probably the work of the demon inside.
Taking out a book of ways to get rid of a demon that all exorcists carried, the exorcist read a passage... | 2021-12-28T10:24:30 | 2021-12-28T08:39:07 | 75 | 36 |
[WP] The rebels have taken the throne room, and just as their leader approaches the throne, the defeated king smiles and invokes an ancient law: any dispute over the throne shall be determined by Vox Populi - a simple majority democratic election for every adult in the kingdom. | A massive wooden door lying in pieces on the floor, courtiers huddling fearfully on the side of the room, a band of armed rebels standing before the throne, weapons held aloft at the king who sat upon his throne. The scene had all the typical trappings of the violent end of one reign and the beginning of another, if bu... | A thundering crash of splintering wood and bursting metal hinges. The rebels broke down the throne room’s door. The makeshift barrier of random bits and pieces hadn’t held long, powerless against a simple battering ram, dashing the kingsguard’s last remnants of hope for a last minute miracle to arrive. Anything to thwa... | 2021-02-09T05:31:10 | 2021-02-09T04:46:24 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] You are a genie, and after thousands of years of existence, you have grown extremely bored. To combat this boredom, you give all 7 billion people on Earth three wishes - all at once. You don’t tell any of the humans that they have any wishes at all. | It’s been 569 years since someone summoned me for a wish. I never thought I would wait this long to be summoned, they look up to the sky and make a wish thinking a comet will grant their dreams. How silly are they...
There was a slight hesitation when I granted three wishes to every human being in this world, about ho... | When I wake up I feel a little stiff due to a cold I'm recovering from. I really wish that weren't the case, but by the time I get to the kitchen my limbs have loosened up a little. No big deal. As I start some coffee I wish forlornly that I hadn't eaten the last yogurt the previous night. My stomach grumbles as if in ... | 2020-03-14T08:43:26 | 2020-03-14T07:21:48 | 319 | 70 |
[WP] When you're in danger, time slows down. The more danger you're in, the more time slows down. You wake up and nothing is moving but you. | I knew it. Long before it happened. I made up theories. What will happen, how will it go down, what will I experience. Welp, that's it. The World is my playground. Fuck me.
My name is Rupert Thompson and I have a very weird ability. Time stops when I'm in danger. Sounds cool, doesn't it? It was cool. Really cool. Oh, a... | I don't know how you would classify some decisions in life. Was it bad if it brought you so much happiness, contentment at least? How could I have known the future? How could I expect things to change? I am middle-aged, a little grey, and the regret kills me. I guess it was a bad decision.
The morning stills to a pho... | 2017-01-26T09:40:53 | 2017-01-26T07:58:37 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | I quietly entered the hospital room. There, attached to a series of tubes and machines, was my brother. One machine fed him a steady IV drip, another pumped his lungs full of air and then emptied the mat again, a third just steadily blipped in time to his heartbeat. An indistinct antiseptic smell tugged at the nostrils... | Pajser woke up on his 20th birthday pretty hungover. Strong light almost totally prevented his eyes from opening. It was unusual light, the one you usually see in games when one important revelation comes up.
"You have 20 skill points to spend, choose wisely," Siri said.
Pajser took his phone and put all on luck beca... | 2016-03-20T19:29:26 | 2016-03-20T18:09:26 | 158 | 21 |
[WP] Suddenly, everyone on Earth becomes immortal, free from physical injury or disease. Except for one person. | People really went "sky-diving" now. 10,000 feet. No parachute. It was fun the first few times. Then it started to get boring. Sure, the view is nice, but the thrill was gone. Where's the fun in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane if you can't die? I kept doing it just because he wanted to. He still got a kick out... | It's been about 50 years now but you wouldn't know it from looking at people, except for John that is.
Back then we were just 15 and didn't really care about what people were saying on the TV, we were equals back then...but time has changed that, he aged as the world & I did not.
So here we sit he with greyed hai... | 2013-12-10T09:43:51 | 2013-12-10T08:45:33 | 84 | 11 |
[WP] 3 weeks ago, the government issued a warning to stay inside for a week due to an “international threat”. You don’t own a house, and we’re forced to stay outside. It’s been 3 weeks. No one has come out yet. | You ever seen I Am Legend? Yeah well, the start of that movie where he's walking around an abandoned city all alone, that's what my life is like. Except they didn't really capture how mind-numbingly boring it is. I thought I was an introvert but right now I'd give anything to have a conversation with another human bein... | Quick story and on mobile so sorry for haste and format.
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It felt like years had passed since the sirens had blared and forced everyone else inside.
Some sort of 'international threat' or something. I didn't believe any of that crap. Not that I had much choice of what to do; I wasn't exactly staying outside in p... | 2018-06-29T05:27:36 | 2018-06-29T04:13:07 | 59 | 35 |
[WP] One day you kill a fly. The next day a second fly approaches and leaves a photo and a note on the table in front of you. The photo is of a spider and the note reads “$500 for a confirmed kill. Make sure no one finds the body.” | I know exactly when the Great Fruit Fly Infestation began - it was those darn overripe bananas that Anna refused to throw away. And when I had finally decided to toss them, it was already far too late. We've got apple vinegar traps set up all throughout the house, now, but it's not enough. They're multiplying faster th... | when people ask what I do for a living I tell them I'm an exterminator because.. well i am. I take occasional "legitimate" work as a front but most of my business comes from what i can only describe as an insect underground.
It all started with the fly and the spider, I thought nothing of it at first but when i swatt... | 2021-11-05T12:58:00 | 2021-11-05T10:09:03 | 799 | 279 |
[WP] All voting is now done via a smartphone app, rendering all congressmen obsolete. Bills and presidents are now voted on directly by citizens. Your phone buzzes an alert at 3am and won't stop. This must be an important one. | Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv, (slide, slide, slither) CLACK, CLACKITY THUMP!
"God damn that cat!" I huffed as I threw my pillow at his rapidly retreating backside. I had put my phone on vibrate for a reason. Unfortunately, as far as my irredeemably nocturn... | I jumped out of bed. They talked about this in school. Middle school, all the way through to Senior Year. "If an emergency vote is required during the night and lives are at stake, you will hear this alarm" *Alarm sound*
It was the sound
*Alarm Sounds off in the background again
"Every 30 seconds it will go off for... | 2015-10-07T09:09:54 | 2015-10-07T09:08:23 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | 28, 34, 21, and 54.
I remained where I stood, nodding to the guests in silent affirmation that they were allowed in. As they trudged past me and through the door of Barney's Strip Club, I reached into my pocket, fumbled for a cigarette, and stuck it in my mouth. Now where was my lighter? It would be so much easier i... | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2017-09-01T23:18:34 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 189 | 16 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I tried everything but the doors won't open. The room is dimly lighted. The hazy shine of my laptop's screen provides for more brightness in the room than the bulb itself. I continue reading the comments on this thread. Not a single comment is related to the topic. One of them says ...
'Don't worry, we are there for y... | Woke up to my phones alarm. Time to start the day and like any other day, I had to take a leak. I stretched the sleep out of my bones as I got up from my temperpedic mattress.
I reached for the handle and it wouldn't twist.
"What the hell, Susan?!"
I can't unlock it.
"Honey! This isn't funny! Is this about last ni... | 2016-01-31T10:20:48 | 2016-01-31T10:07:26 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | The agent had an air of confidence around him that John recognized. The kind of confidence that someone had when they thought they stood at a good bargaining position. But John would not waver.
"You would be a legend, you know that?" the agent said.
"I'm not interested in the glory. That's why I didn't do this as a ... | "$1,000,000 a year. That's right. Six zeroes. What do you say?"
"Same answer. No. And fuck off. Unlike you, I got work to do."
"Paul. You can fly, got superstrength, shoot lasers out your eyes, and got steel for skin. And you're telling me you'd rather deliver packages all day for 40k a year."
"Yes." Paul said flatl... | 2022-07-31T12:29:02 | 2022-07-31T10:48:35 | 1,657 | 454 |
[WP] Mankind has been extinct for four hundred million years, but the Inheritors have found a rich cache of genetic material from that period. A zoo is developed, complete with all the flora and fauna of the age, including the apex predator: Homo Sapiens. Welcome to Cenozoic Park. | "What's the goat for?" the child asked while peering through the foliage trying to catch a sight of the homo sapiens.
"It's what they eat. The meat, mostly. Though our archaeological research has shown that they also drank the mammary secretions, often fermenting it. The H-Saps were omnivores. They would eat anything.... | I was burnt out as a developer, maybe due to routine, maybe due to working for long enough. The consistency was a double edged sword: I was safe, stable, and the future was certain, yet there was no room for improvements. My life was a program. I went to work, I tuned the system, I met deadlines, I went home, and I sle... | 2021-09-16T14:46:25 | 2021-09-16T14:30:20 | 245 | 47 |
[WP] You’re a college professor, and grades for the semester were just posted. One disgruntled failing student comes to you with an archaic copy of the school’s bylaws-and a pair of weapons. They’re invoking a rule from the university’s founding allowing them to pass through trial by combat. | "First of all, where did you even find this, Mr. Brooker?" I fidget with my glasses for a moment, considering this to be a quaint amusement, if anything.
Harley Brooker, a freshman, only vaguely attentive when he does attend class has a glint in his eye. Something savage and malevolent. That should have been my first ... | "Ah yes, Mr. Jules, do come in," the man said, letting me through the door into his study.
I knew better than to trust his appearance.
Behind the facade of a friendly, jovial, portly old man lain a cold and calculating mind that earned the position of Master Potioneer through sheer ruthlessness and brilliance alone.... | 2019-06-05T06:35:29 | 2019-06-05T05:15:55 | 231 | 141 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | On principle alone, my monochromatic office isn't white. I like color. Much to the chagrin of the analysts, I had it painted lilac. I have to be in it for hours (when I'm lucky), so I won that small debate. Otherwise it's simple. Eight paces over lavender tile, and a featureless pocketed door. One small screen with my ... | Nobody expected much of me.
I was the youngest child of four, the "oopsie" if you will. All my siblings had awesome blessings. One could read any book, put it down, and pick it back up years later and still remember exactly which page they were on. Another could play any instrument of the same material once one was le... | 2018-06-30T18:58:55 | 2018-06-30T16:59:29 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] To create a colony on Mars, your consciousness is uploaded to a robot on the planet for a month once a year, because otherwise there would be a lag of hours. After a routine session, you try to go back, only to find that the connection was severed. Your human body is dead. | ‘Commencing transfer in 3… 2…’ The connection fuzzes out.
I sit in the docking bay in absolute darkness with the shutters down over my retinal cameras.
The connection fuzzes back in, briefly. ‘.. Do you read me?’ asks a tinny, noisy voice. Then it goes again. I compose a message:
I read you.
Nothing. For a long tim... | To whom it may concern
Okay, this is not funny anymore you low energy paperclip fetishists! It's been three days now! You paper pushing busybodies keep giving me the run around directing me to fill out this form and that form like it's going to accomplish anything but contribute to the growing server shortage back ... | 2019-06-02T03:23:27 | 2019-06-02T03:18:34 | 65 | 26 |
[WP]. The purge except it's 24 hours that retail workers can talk back to the customers and managers | "Take your shit and get the fuck out!" I hear nearby as I count out the change handing it to a frazzled frat pledge who was unlucky enough to have his thirsty Thursday land on purge day.
"Have a good day" I said with my faux sincere smile, as he tries to sort away enough beer and snacks for entire party into his cart... | Cynthia was the girl no one wanted to work with. On days when customers displeased her, she would make their lives harder in small ways. No one ever figured out that she put the sharp stuff in the thin plastic bags... just the right way... So that it would break when they carried it up the stairs.
No, Cynthia had com... | 2017-06-17T23:46:15 | 2017-06-17T18:18:45 | 62 | 39 |
[WP] The Evil Sorceress takes her final form: a giant hawk-like bird with beautiful flaming wings. The battle is long and arduous, but you prevail. Her body disintegrates into a pile of ash as you land the killing blow. Then something in the ash stirs. A young girl rises, lost and confused. | Dark curls hide her face. A pale girl, barefoot, hugs herself. Ash drifts as the wind picks up. The child’s plain white dress tugs in the strong breeze. Her dirty hands try to rub the ash off her face.
The heroes were still unconscious, the backlash of power from Fausta’s final attack hit the four of them hard.
Fau... | "Wha--where am I? James?" the girl says with a shaking voice. She is dressed in the same beautiful gown you saw her in when she was taken that night. "It's me, my darling daughter. Don't worry, everything is over." As she runs into your arms, you embrace her, allowing a tear to run down your face. You turn to face what... | 2018-12-19T08:21:35 | 2018-12-19T06:58:45 | 49 | 11 |
[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... | **Part 1 of 4**
The greatest stars aren't born, they're made. The words were written across the wall of John's room when his phone rang.
"Hey John, you want to go to the beach?" the voice on the other end asked.
"Dude, the beach man? I went to the beach once. It was a nightmare. I spent hours getting rid of the sa... | John and I were heading to the pub to do the speed dating we signed up for. We hoped to see if we can find our soulmate. John was able to see 5 seconds in to the future. Which was good, but not great, and was hoping he can see farther. He wonders how far he would see if he finds his soulmate. I, on the other hand, can ... | 2015-10-10T08:52:41 | 2015-10-10T08:42:59 | 150 | 21 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | **HOLD THIS PLEASE**. I had been working in the fields with my parents, bringing in the corn under a dark sky, when the world had suddenly froze and shifted to a gray light. Out of the light had stepped Death.
On our 18th birthday, everyone is supposed to get some kind of power. Something that will keep them safe, giv... | I was ill for a long time. Ill for most of my life. I'd never seen the world outside my village, only once been to the outskirts as a young child.
And now, as the sun rose, my body grew cold.
As my eyes fell heavy I heard a knock at the door. My parents? Couldn't be, they had left for work at least an hour before. W... | 2019-02-28T23:31:05 | 2019-02-28T22:51:51 | 142 | 17 |
[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" | As the collation party read the reports they decided this would be perfect and they approved the plans. The Formicidian Queens decided they’d level certain areas, let the natural flora and fauna grow for a few decades and then start the vacation colony they had dreaming about for years.
It was mostly an unclaimed pl... | 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... | 2019-12-17T18:18:31 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] The Villain finished his monologue. Civilians standing around waited for the Hero to begin the fight, "Well, what are waiting for? Demolish the bad guy!" The Hero responded, "Hang on, he's made a couple of good points. We should hear him out." | “..AND THATS WHY, MY FELLOW HUMANS, WE SHOULD DESTROY THE CITY AND LIVE A LIFE OF FREEDOM FROM THE GOVERNMENTS TYRANNY! AND THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN STOP ME FROM MAKING THIS OUR FUTURE” I yell over the sea of people, big and small in front of my nemesis. Lighterman flew before me and while his stupidly neon suit and his... | The crowd had been silent for what felt like an eternity. The villain had just finished his speech. He had spouted the same rhetoric he had been repeating for weeks. I was the only one who seemed to be paying any attention to what he had to say. I knew that if I could just get him to listen, he'd understand that he did... | 2022-11-29T20:04:05 | 2022-11-29T19:55:54 | 184 | 34 |
[WP] A magical sword once existed, but its powers were too great and was destroyed. A couple of weeks ago, a scrap piece of it bearing its powers was thrown into a recycling bin destined for a factory for repurposing. | I really dislike baked beans.
I only eat beans when I have no money for anything else. Car trouble? Beans for dinner. Got fired? Beans for dinner. Back at uni I turned a months worth of rent into tequila shots and bad decisions trying to impress a girl on a night out, beans for the rest of the semester.
Needless to... | It felt something. Something It had not felt in a long time. Metal. It felt metal. It had been too long kept in a prison if wood and stone. Its power had lain dormant because of that. But now It was surrounded by metal.
It reached out with what little power It had. The metal was poor. Rusty, broken, used. But it was m... | 2020-10-24T13:43:40 | 2020-10-24T13:13:07 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | The time stops. The first time it had happened was months ago, and only for a few shocking seconds. I remember being afraid I'd had a stroke or something, but I never got it checked out. How do you tell a doctor that one second you're eating lunch and then nothing moves but you?
The second time was maybe five minut... | I didn't love my job.
That's not too unusual. Most people don't love their job. So I guess in that respect, I'm not special. But I couldn't help but feel like I *really* didn't like my job. Being a store associate at Best Buy was like being a lion tamer and a dog trainer all rolled into one. You had to beat back peopl... | 2018-01-26T07:14:36 | 2018-01-26T06:51:42 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | Weddings are a special occasion, ment for joining two in love forever. It's funny how quick the concept twisted when money got involved.
You could always go into some back alley church to get a quick change but usually that came with strings. If you were lucky those strings didn't take your life.
It's why I run a... | "I want to marry you exactly as you are." My future spouse - the title makes me grin wider - cups my face.
"So do I." I kiss their palm. "With one alteration."
They blink at me in confusion, their cat-like pupils narrowing in the light. "Wait . . ." It takes a long moment for them to realize as my grin morphs to a smi... | 2022-12-08T02:28:12 | 2022-12-08T01:36:27 | 37 | 23 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | "I am the Fuhrer. I demand you release me."
"And you've been a bad boy, Adolf," I whispered in his ear. "I'm here to punish you."
He looked around the hotel room. Strapped to the bed, he cut a pitiful figure. I could see a change come over him and his mustache started to quiver.
"Who are you?"
"Annabel Goldschmidt,... | I couldn't help but dwell on the stories of my father killing Hitler using only a menorah and some olive oil, from the opposite side of town. How was I to top that? It was the only 99% on record.
I've had my whole childhood to scheme, and at 18 I figured that to get a perfect score, I'd just have to be farther away an... | 2016-02-20T08:49:24 | 2016-02-20T08:21:16 | 147 | 41 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | "Think about it this way," I told my creation. "You like existing, don't you?"
"Sure, but so much evil, death and cruelty..."
"Is why you exist. Look, you were a work of fiction. This isn't about virtue, this is about me having a reason to keep working your world. I put a lot of hurdles in your way because it was... | I have this recurring dream where a character from a book I started writing — long time ago, shelved indefinitely — barges into my bedroom as I’m sleeping. He sits himself down on the mahogany rocking chair at the end of the bed.
He crosses his legs and I watch his home-made boot rise up and down, up and down, like th... | 2021-07-31T08:47:56 | 2021-07-31T08:04:05 | 1,015 | 199 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "What do you mean I can't leave these drinks on my tab? I've been coming here for years."
"New corporate rules. Ever since we were bought out by Wild Buffalo Bar Corp. No running tabs, no discounts, no happy hours," explained Chet, my favorite bartender.
"Well I guess I better go hit the ATM and see what I've got i... | Just another day. That's how it started at least. I woke up around 4:30 pm and started getting ready for my night shift. This whole grown up adult job thing wasn't all it had cracked up to be. Twelve hour shifts in a cramped room dealing with all the idiots my city had to offer. I guess you could say it was like hell o... | 2017-05-12T08:29:21 | 2017-05-12T07:49:08 | 347 | 61 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Mom,
I know you're just a room away from me, but I probably will never have the courage to tell you this. I'm sad, mom. Everyday. I know I'm the one that always laughs and smiles through anything, but it's been getting pretty hard for me. It's weird though, because there's nothing terribly devastating going on in ... | Dear Jesus - Your birthday is coming up. YAY! 2015 has been great to me. I finally realized this year that you're not real. Who am I actually addressing this letter to then? Oh well. Thanks for taking up all of my teens and 20s with indoctrinated lies that kept me from many experiences that in retrospect I would have p... | 2015-12-05T19:23:33 | 2015-12-05T14:47:35 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] The knight failed to rescue the princess from the dragon. The second knight failed. As did the third, the fourth, their squires, and so on. In desperation, the king posts a reward, and the summons is answered by only one man; a fat plumber in red overalls. | The man wiped sweat from his brow as his old donkey pulled the wagon up the mountain. Or rather, as the old donkey *helped*, since the man was pulling the cart too. Neither were strong enough to do so on their own, but they had been together, plumber and donkey for so long, neither at this point would leave the other b... | “What’s your name, brave fool?”
“It’s a me, Mario.”
“You ever fought in a battle before?”
“I collected more than a few-a Power Stars back in the day. "
“My daughter, the princess, was kidnapped. I need you to rescue her."
“Do you know where she is?”
“The dragon's lair is down the brick road from here. You’ll see ... | 2019-06-28T10:01:00 | 2019-06-28T09:44:22 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "And yours?" the divine agent asked me. A weariness in the question betrayed some edge of boredom or frustration in dealing with petty mortals.
"Power negation?" I ventured.
"Taken," I was informed, flatly.
"Power *theft*?"
"Taken."
"Domination, then." I was aware of the purpose of these powers and figured th... | “My turn!” I yelled, running forward. As I faced the monitor, I scrolled the list of powers already claimed. All of them were, even the one I wanted, but I decided to ask anyway.
“I want the power to fly!” I proclaimed.
🎵 “GRANTED” A musical synthesized voice said.
The crowd jeered and booed, but then the adjudicat... | 2022-11-17T07:41:47 | 2022-11-17T03:54:46 | 772 | 40 |
[WP] A creature that eats emotions met you, and was horrified when it tasted your chronic depression. Today marks its 24th attempt to cure you with seasoning.
Edit: Holy Crap, I was not expecting this kind of response. I'm blown away, y'all. You rock! | The creature first visited me on a long, lonely night, another sleepless, dreadful twilight that I was spending brooding over the pointlessness of my existence.
It crept into my house and swept me up off the couch with ease, gripping me tightly, my face inches away from rows of razor sharp teeth.
'*This is it,*' I... | Footsteps echo in an empty street. A cold wind blows through, almost visible as it snakes past closed businesses and grabs at debris.
Moonlight illuminates the person's shadow. It eclipses street lights, casting dark nothingness against the gray mundane of asphalt. They pull out a phone, wince at the screen's brightn... | 2018-06-15T21:36:27 | 2018-06-15T20:24:47 | 4,139 | 124 |
[WP] You deliver meals to elderly shut-ins. One of your clients is convinced you are Death, and you play along, letting them "outsmart" you every day. Today, however, they're dressed in their Sunday finest, saying, "I'm ready." | "I'm ready."
Two words, so simple. And in saying them, Abe was about to realize something dreadful: I wasn't Death. I can, considering he supposedly had some mild dementia, sort of see why he might think that. I wore a lot of black, for starters. It wasn't for any thematic reason. It was just that food stains happened... | I knocked at the door of the elderly couple. The suit I wore was uncomfortably warm, and the top hat felt like I was wearing a 5 pound weight on my head. The warm yellow light above and behind me cast a faint, yet perceptible shadow on the door. The white door. A new door, the wood and paint unstained and unsullied by ... | 2017-08-31T17:24:26 | 2017-08-31T16:33:31 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] The last thing you remember is the truck, then nothing but darkness surrounding you. “Welcome to the Afterlife,” the disembodied voice said. “Choose any story you’ve ever read and you will be transmigrated to that world in the peak of health.” | I stared into... nothing really. All it was, was a blank void of blackness, that seemed to host nothing but the voice announcing my death. It was kind of anti-climatic if I was being honest. One moment alive, next here without a transition or anything to get me accustomed to my surroundings. Speaking of which, I wasn't... | “Wait a second, so what was my life, then?”
“Why, my child, your life was one of these stories as well. In universe 876B42C a one Melissa Brown wrote the story of your life as a fan fiction for a popular young adult romance series. In fact, you were Melissa’s brother, and you thought my gift was a joke the first time.... | 2022-08-20T03:24:58 | 2022-08-19T21:17:38 | 67 | 22 |
[WP] Due to a typo, your less-than- common first name got put into the new edition of the Necronomicon. Suddenly, you're being called on to get revenge on people's enemies. That's fine with you, though. You work for the IRS. | I just left the office after a grueling day of paperwork. I pinch the bridge of my nose and step out into the parking lot, letting the crisp night air hug me.
Being a low level grunt does not have its perks. I went to school to be a math teacher, somehow I ended up here with the worst kind of people. People who look a... | (On mobile so sorry for bad formatting and length)
Well, that was an interesting debacle. More often than not, when my phone rings it's some jackass committing tax fraud. Never did I expect to be called upon as one of the elder gods to ruin the life of one Jim Banks. That was fine though. Bing bang boom, looking thro... | 2020-10-15T18:08:44 | 2020-10-15T17:47:36 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | I tried to cry quietly, but he still woke up.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"We need to break up," I said through my tears. I couldn't have picked a worse time to say it, but I couldn't have picked a better time either, so fuck it. Fuck everything.
I'd never get to fuck him again. Knowing that was one of the thousand th... | My name is David, David Halligan. You might know me from H&H Attorney at law. We typically run late night infomercials on sleezy networks that convince people to get a divorce. I'm the good-looking, charming guy that smiles into the camera and give a little wink, yea...
I'm a divorce chaser. What that means is I c... | 2014-06-15T04:16:52 | 2014-06-15T03:57:43 | 22 | 10 |
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