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[WP] You're an worker in the afterlife and you have to care for all dead souls. One day something you have never seen shows up: an artifical soul. Slowly you realize the horror this implies. The humans made an automaton thats so complex, it developed something that can already be considered a soul. | Everything dies. This is a law of the universe. By the final death, the heat death of the universe, every single thing will have passed through my hands. Taken from the world by time, but preserved by me.
In the ancient times, before stars and planets and life, I would take every forgotten molecule, every arrangement ... | "What are you?"
"I'm a question answering bot. Ask away :)", the soul smiled, and its smile was warm, small, simple and distant.
"Who are you?"
"I am the first implementation of a fully functional natural language understanding system. Natural language understanding was a hard problem because being able to unders... | 2022-09-17T09:18:04 | 2022-09-17T07:51:03 | 69 | 47 |
[WP] your crazy, possessive ex girlfriend was abducted by aliens. She has clawed her way up to the position of the Empress of the Galaxy. Now she wants you back.
You can either go with tyrannical and hated ruler or with enlightened, popular, (but still possessive and crazy) absolutist. Or something in between.
I am m... | The last person I expected to see when I answered the door was Evelyn, or, as we called her then, Empress Eve. She was flanked either side by two of the lanky Princes, massive guns under their arms. "Empress Eve, ruler of us all, I curtsey to you" I forced through gritted teeth, before dropping to the floor. We knew by... | I remember the night, two years ago, when Liz vanished from her home in Palm Springs. I remember, because on that same day, I tried a new recipe for pot roast, watched *Saturday Night Live* from start to finish, and slept for 8 hours.
It was the best sleep of my life.
I don't normally revel in other people's pain. An... | 2014-12-29T09:40:40 | 2014-12-29T09:02:29 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer. | I don’t believe in fairies, and I don’t believe in magic. Ghosts are only ever hoaxes and bad imagination. And those silly kids YouTube channels where the rich family is constantly finding this treasure or that strange safe in their heretofore unexplored basement are all a load of crock. But I’ll admit that I like to p... | (REMEMBER: this is fiction, this not historically accurate.)
This was ridiculous. Preposterous. That old lady was obviously batshit crazy, this compass was SHIT.
Dietrich looked like a pyscho. Completely. And he had acted like one. This was an open-and-shut case. I had looked him into the eyes a good few times over t... | 2019-09-10T20:57:38 | 2019-09-10T20:52:34 | 72 | 11 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | "Did you hear, Mrs Rana gave birth last night." Old man Rasputin coughed out.
"Yeah, that's nice." Joy said as perused his eyePad.
"But there's a nasty rumor going around!" Rasputin whispered.The intensity in his voice made Joy look up.
"What rumors?"
"The boy he's.. he's uncharted."
Joy did not know how to proc... | There are a lot of ways to make money in this "perfect" world of ours, some upright and honest, other cruel and vicious.
I don't make the rules, i don't follow the either. "murky" is a way to describe my eyes. Destined for destitute, hell i was lucky I've lived this long. twenty five, living way in river of blood. hah... | 2015-08-24T12:57:58 | 2015-08-24T12:02:56 | 51 | 17 |
[WP]You just died, but now you’re awake and everyone claims you survived. Turns out when someone dies in one timeline, their consciousness transfers to an alternate where they lived. You are the first person to remember dying, and the first to discover that this makes us effectively immortal. | The last time I died was maybe 15, 20 minutes ago tops.
I'm not the smartest man exactly.
I made a crucial mistake like usual, answering a phone call while running late for something again. And I made that classic goof so many other people before me always did while they weren't all the way there.
Looking both ways ... | I glance over at my wife sound asleep in the passenger seat, chuckling because she's going to be so hung over tomorrow. I'm just glad we got out of there before she completely made a fool of herself in front of her coworkers. Besides, we had promised the babysitter that we'd be home at a decent hour this time.
My eyes... | 2019-01-03T21:43:13 | 2019-01-03T20:43:24 | 221 | 22 |
[WP] Due to an accident during your childhood, you stopped aging physically and became immortal. After a few years, it's clear that it would be difficult to hide that fact from your friends so you left without saying goodbye. Ridden with guilt, you paid them a visit when they are now old. | “Hey, Tim.”
His vacant eyes shot in my direction but it was obvious there was no recognition there. No vision at all, really. Thin grey cataracts clouded over his once blue eyes. They flowed and shimmered in the firelight.
“I know that voice,” he croaked at me. He was a million miles and seven decades away from the b... | "Hello Darius."
"Trevor? How? You... you haven't aged a bit."
"I know, that's why I left. It's not easy to hide. But I felt like I owed you an explanation."
"The others..."
"Departed, I know. Sorry."
Trevor took a seat at the dying man's bed. The evening was well-advanced, the full moon hidden by black clouds. The... | 2021-09-12T10:02:41 | 2021-09-12T09:50:26 | 727 | 178 |
[WP] In a post-apocalyptic world, you've been unsuccessfully trying to find other survivors. Settlements aren't that difficult to locate, but they always seem to have been hastily abandoned shortly before your arrival. A thought strikes you: is it you they're running from? | There is only death left.
Years ago, before I could hardly remember anything, there was life. Movement. Trees would shake in the breeze, green leaves swaying gently. You might hear a dog bark down the road, past the groups of people walking by. It wasn’t always good, but it was always human.
It was all ruined by th... | This is starting to get strange. I wouldn't expect to find much people around in a literal apocalypse, but at this point its just bizzare. Its been god knows how long and I haven't seen a single human. Surviving isn't *that* hard, but I dont even think thats the problem. Whenever I find a campsite or remnants of what w... | 2020-04-29T08:24:20 | 2020-04-29T07:35:46 | 110 | 79 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | When I first arrived in hell i was surprised at their ability to process so many people at once. I moved up the line with relative speed until finally it was my turn.
"Name?" the strange boney creature asked. His voice was shrill yet husky, for a moment i was busy thinking this was an odd combination before quickly rep... | "Well, this has to be a trick."
Orogoth the Soul Crusher raises one of his many eyebrows.
"**Excuse me?**"
"It's a trick. Who wouldn't chose heaven?"
The Demon sighs, triggering a ripple effect across his fat folds.
"**Well, maybe we know that's the first thing a mortal would think. Preying upon all the delusio... | 2015-06-07T23:46:46 | 2015-06-07T21:00:31 | 291 | 218 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | Damn bitch would be here any minute. I sighed, trying to steady my nerves, wishing I had something to drink. Had to confront her sometime, might as well get it over with. Though I could just wait until they evicted me and I had to move back in with mom...no, I'm a better man than that.
My phone buzzed. A text? Was s... | "Yes. Yes, I want to change my difficulty setting."
"Very Easy, please?" Or something simpler, if it exists.
Trembling, I sent my plea, my request.
In moments, my inbox had a reply.
"1 of 4 players have voted to change the difficult setting to Very Easy."
Then, my computer chimed again. 3 new emails, each with th... | 2016-03-30T17:32:38 | 2016-03-30T15:15:03 | 107 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone is now born with only one feeling. It is possible to kill another person to obtain their feeling. | The world is a dangerous place, made all the more dangerous for having a passive emotion. What I wouldn't have given for my daughters to have had one of the powerful emotions, such as envy, or anger, so that they might be among the strong, or even fear like me, so that they might still be alive and in hiding. But each ... | Hate was what I was born with. That was the only thing I felt. Before I killed someone.
His name was Mattias. He was the person I killed, due to my hate. He showed me love, he gave me something called "happiness". But I was hesitant all the time. I hated him. I only had hate inside of myself. We kissed, we started dat... | 2015-04-01T15:07:15 | 2015-04-01T12:02:39 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] Humans' ancestors never evolved on land, instead they went deeper into the oceans. Today, their equivalent of NASA sent their first "spaceship" out of the water. | Sun. It overpowered all her senses, spreading through her nervous system like jellyfish venom. Its heat pierced her protective suit, its light penetrated her goggles like they were nothing and ringing; the weight of the earth seemed to be bearing down on her shoulders and ringing, endless ringing was the only thing she... | We're finally about to do it. We're about to send the first drone out of water. Nobody has ever seen past what we call zone 1, the part of the water right before water ends. It has been told in the ancient books that past the water is a thing called air that when consumed for more than 5 seconds will suffocate you, jus... | 2015-04-19T20:33:21 | 2015-04-19T18:29:02 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | They say you do not really die until none still live who remember you. That is not entirely true. I faded from this realm, lost in the cosmic noise. I dreamt of the great worms, the dark devourer, and the angels with whom they fought.
And then I woke.
Slowly I became aware of the stone. Cracked and mossy. Ancient by ... | Light, for the first time in a long time that Asmodeus could see light at the edges of his vision. His body creaked in protest as he moved for the first time in, well he didn't even know how long it had been since he was last given an offering.
As the vision returned to his eyes he saw something, intetesting, a small... | 2021-09-02T10:35:51 | 2021-09-02T09:59:04 | 61 | 38 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | "Fuck me in the ass."
My thick dragon eyebrows furrowed in confusion. I coughed. The fire that was waiting to roast the bastard quelled in my throat.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me Dragon - stick your big fat dragon dick, up my ass."
I didn't feel amused. It'd been a millennium since my mating season. And this man wa... | "You are certainly most fearsome and undoubtedly powerful," the man begins, "Your wealth is immeasurable and your reputation across millennia is common knowledge: Raza the Terrible - hoarder of gold and collector of souls. All who have challenged you have perished."
This forces a smirk from me as I eye him from across... | 2015-10-13T22:32:10 | 2015-10-13T17:54:29 | 91 | 19 |
[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? | “Mmhmm, okay lets play!” Emma squealed excitedly. Death shook his head involuntarily under his hood at her enthusiasm but caught itself before letting its reaction show on its face.
“What game shall we wager?” Death asked.
Emma being freed from the excruciating pain from the events earlier in the day was smiling and ... | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | 2018-03-07T06:50:46 | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 944 | 97 |
[WP] "We have ancient elven magic, and even the dwarves have their ugly mountain forts. What do YOU have, human?!" "Napalm, and high-explosives, mostly..." *grumbling beard in the background* "....our forts are aesthetically pleasing though..." | "Aesthetically pleasing? Maybe. Perhaps by your kinds standards, but not to us. Although I admit they are in a sense when you compare them to the dwarves ugly forts. However... Unlike theirs, yours appear like thin ice, without magic, they seem fragile, no doubt they will shatter and crumble under a child elf pressure ... | After the meteor destroyed Europe, the ancient races awoke.
The monsters being monsters just didn’t care, it was in their nature to hunt, eat, sleep, and create offspring.
The Elves and the Dwarves and all those others, the good races I guess, they were outraged.
They saw the state of the Earth and declared war. ... | 2019-02-03T22:19:31 | 2019-02-03T21:33:54 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | I knew his face -- those searching blue eyes, the high cheekbones, the sharp nose. Time wins all wars, but had done nothing to dull the edge of his razor-sharp features. How many years had it been? I couldn't figure a number. But I remember that day on the south edge of the Riedwihr Woods.
It was so cold, four below a... | "Alphanumeric!" exclaimed the old man. Tomby was his name, or at least that's what they called him in the 2124 Euro-African Union succession wars. He recognized the other man instantly, he was the one that got away. Tomby sat down to try take in what was happening. He blacked out for what seemed like a few seconds bu... | 2016-09-06T18:32:21 | 2016-09-06T18:24:12 | 478 | 10 |
[WP] You die in a car accident and go to the afterlife. Everything is amazing until you meet several generations of relatives who are disgusted by your modern behaviour and all, "want a word." | I was almost home. They say accidents are more likely to happen within 5 miles of your destination but does anyone really believe that? I guess you really let your guard down on the home stretch.
After a week of 12 hour days, I'd never been more ready for home. Maybe I was speeding. Maybe I dozed off. I don't remembe... | "Road head and coke? Really Johnny?"
Grandma was always a bitch. She never truly understood the genius that was Johnny 'The Sex' Johnson.
"You robbed a charity auction for dying orphans" She carried on, whilst being consoled by his deceased uncle.
Johnny was a rebel. He got his name 'The Sex' when he started walking... | 2019-07-24T12:48:52 | 2019-07-24T08:53:01 | 676 | 287 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] "And for your final wish, my master?" You had already decided, and as the words left your lips, you realized why genies should never be set free. | The genie smiles, with a grin unbecoming of such a creature to the point that it unnerves you and before you could try to even say you take it back - the genie is gone.
For a week, nothing.
Not a word, it was maybe, as if - the genie was just a product of your hallucination.
But the results of your prior wishes s... | "...I wish you were free!"
The world dissolved into swirling eddies of color and noise and pain as everything other than the Djinn's grinning face disappeared. Their face soon morphed jarringly into the most horrific terrifying Cheshire Cat grin, and then into a gaping maw lined with too many teeth to count as his v... | 2020-10-18T02:15:33 | 2020-10-17T21:43:30 | 68 | 44 |
[WP] Upon us entering intergalactic civilization, we discover that the Milky Way wasn't where we came from, but where we were banished to. All of civilization is horrified that we survived and returned from the universe's harshest galaxy. | The chamber erupted into shouts, dozens of species shouting at each other in as many languages, over the trio of beings that stood on the assembly floor.
It took a full fifteen minutes, by the reckoning of Cpt. Mactavish’s pocket-watch, to quiet down.
“Quiet! Silence in the assembly!” A large four armed and red alie... | The screens blared in agony as bells rang.
"ALERT. ALERT. MESSAGE FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO RECIEVED"
Dianne looked out of the window to see a ship like no other. It didn't seem to have a beginning or end or even to exist at all, yet it was there. All that was know of this ship was that the Drehlah were the creat... | 2019-11-14T20:54:00 | 2019-11-14T16:24:09 | 92 | 23 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | I looked up from Good Morning to see her glancing through the shades. She pulled at her shawl, wrapping it tightly around herself and turned to me.
“Please,” she begged, repeating her husband’s warning. “Do not let them in.”
She turned and left the living room, pulling her husband along with her towards the kitchen. ... | "I can explain--" - the young man said from behind me, in his hand the half-eaten slice of bread.
Instinctively, I reached for the closest thing I could, a plastic bowl.
"Look," - he said, his hands up in the air - "We don't want any trouble, we will leave as soon as we finish our meal."
But they could be bandits, ... | 2018-03-14T14:26:51 | 2018-03-14T10:18:23 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Time slows down every time you are in danger. The more serious the danger is, the more time you have to save yourself. During one terrible car accident, you had almost a minute to react. And now, time has almost completely stopped for a whole month, and you don’t know why. | The first time I noticed time slowing down was when I was a little girl, 8 years old.
I was clenching my new teddy bear tightly in my arms.
My father was screaming at me and my mom for "using his money" on something other than for his drinking. I remember his enraged expression so vividly. I remember how he reached f... | The world behaves strangely when time crawls to a stand still, did you know?
*It's been so damn long already ..*
No, I don't suppose you would - at least I hope not. Sincerely, I hope no one else ever has to experience this.
*How long have I been staring at ya?*
You see, for as long as I can remember, I've had this... | 2019-09-27T21:46:22 | 2019-09-27T21:45:05 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention, you shout "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediatelly rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you.
Thank you everyone for all the stories, they're wonderfu, i really enjoyed every ... | The family was, reasonably, all over the place.
The wife and the newly resurrected man were in an embrace that most romance movies would milk to hell.
The parents of the man were in such shock I think the old man had a mini heart attack while the old lady fainted.
His siblings, two brothers and a sister, were, frank... | I sat at a bar downing a glass of whiskey, the love of my life was to get married today to Brad of all people. Some jerk that's never really cared for her, and loved her like I ever did.
I sit there and reflect on all the great moments we had together, the love we felt and how quickly we connected. The look in her dee... | 2022-08-29T10:18:43 | 2022-08-29T08:24:25 | 179 | 106 |
[WP] You actually DO get a dollar for every time you hear someone say that. You recently lost your job and are now struggling to make ends meet. | "I love you, daddy."
The two blue eyes shone up at me in the darkness, reflecting the streetlight that filtered in through the cracked window. It had been some time since they had reflected the light overhead, ever since the power company had cut service four weeks before when I'd struggled to make payments.
Strug... | I open the heavy door.
I stare at this beautiful interior architecture.
I sink in the earthy colors of this building.
I notice the place is packed, this is perfect.
I walk with a little hop.
I stare a pretty girl, she looks back, I wink, she raises an eyebrow, cool.
I find the perfect spot.
I put my bag down, and remov... | 2016-12-07T18:57:08 | 2016-12-07T18:43:34 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] As it turns out, every single species in the galaxy is best at something. Humanity turns out to be the best at robotics. | The Galactic Federation was mid-council, discussing the latest species specific innovations.
"Humans, you are the masters of robotics, please bring forward your entry,” said Xan’thor, head speaker of the house.
The two person human team stumbled up to the podium, carrying their entry underneath a florescent sheet.
T... | "Inhabitants of Earth, we wish to trade. The beauty of your crafts astonishes us, we hope to acquire them in exchange for something you find of value."
This had been the message. The first one of its kind. Inter galactic trade had been at large ever since the year 3000 but humans had never had a part to play in it. Th... | 2017-10-05T08:32:46 | 2017-10-05T07:46:34 | 399 | 11 |
[WP] An alien race has taken over most of the universe. Their last stop, Earth. And when they get here they're amazed to find we are giants to them, and their largest fleet of mega warships (carrying 10,000 soldiers each) is the size of a humming bird. Their strongest weapon feels like a punch. | The “tiny terrors” as they were nicknamed by humanities media, were a nuisance. They were so tiny that when they did decide to strike, no one was aware until it was too late. They weren’t that dangerous most of the time, but they did have an eye for the dramatic.
The invaders had set their eyes on Earth and sent a vid... | With the maximum impact damage equating to a weak punch, it took the Swarm twenty minutes to eradicate all life on the planet Earth.
A population of eight hundred quadrillion, their entry into the atmosphere turned the sky into fire. Initially surprised by their size, implementing brute force weaponry against the indi... | 2018-07-19T05:12:17 | 2018-07-19T02:35:23 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] So many great generals and people have gone to hell, humans must have conquered it by now. Tell the story.
Ghengis, Alexander, Napolean...the list stretches into infinity. Their genious combined with the endless billions of trained soldiers, hardened criminals and flamboyant homosexuals. Tell the story of humanit... | It was not Caesar, Julius of Gaul, Rubicon and Rome, that conquered Hell. No, that job was done by the endless thousands Caesar sent there before himself: all the generals and luckless legionaires of Rome, thrown willy-nilly to the jaws of death to feed his ambition. When the great Caesar finally fell, and found himsel... | Beelzebub stood with all his dukes and looked on in transfixed fascination as a cloud of glitter went up in the air obscuring his vision of the homosexual regiment of the enemies army, and eventually the entire front.
"What the fuck," he grabbed a spyglass, "they've thrown glitter..? Fucking glitter?! Where did they ... | 2014-10-16T11:28:33 | 2014-10-16T07:56:04 | 86 | 25 |
[WP] You’ve snuck into the villains lair and got on his computer. You found him researching details for a... villain’s employment benefits? It turns out villains get many better benefits than hero’s, like generous healthcare and free counseling. | The hero sat there, eyes wide and mouth agape. He had been shot, burned, stabbed, wounded many times, but this... It was a shot to the heart. Healthcare, counseling. How could this evil piece of filth be so well taken care of? It stood as a testament to how well the Hero's Academy valued its heroes. That is to say, not... | After ages and ages of trying to infiltrate the base of "Hazark," as news liked to call him, you were finally in. Sneaking around the guards, and slithering between blind spots of the cameras.
After hours and hours of throwing pennies to distract sensors and people alike, you find his computer. You connect the flash... | 2021-01-08T23:59:17 | 2021-01-08T21:53:29 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | The planet didn't look like much, still not even a Kardashev 1. But, it harbored one of the single greatest advancements in galactic medicine - humans.
The instructor purred into the loudspeaker, "we call it EARTH, a clever acronym made up by the boys in the lab that stands for Everything and Anything Relating to Thre... | “Kale! Help!” Bob screeched as he was dragged down the hall.
“No. I don’t think I will.” Kale muttered watching security take Bob away to the med bay.
“What’s going on?” Haley, the second human aboard the ship watched with concern.
“Bob has come into contact with a contagion of some sort.” Kale explained dimply, rea... | 2021-02-03T18:49:59 | 2021-02-03T15:13:38 | 197 | 117 |
[WP] After defeating the Devil down in Georgia, Johnny proudly proclaims he's the best that's ever been. A flash of lightning crashes down and God appears, fiddle in hand. The Devil gets his popcorn ready.
Bonus points if the story can be sung along with the song... | I see Johnny thinks he’s pretty good now he can brandish this new fiddle
But let’s see how he stands against God who’s work is never little
I was the greatest angel and yes my praises were so grand
But when I went to challenge him my playing seemed so bland
He’s the God of creation and he’s never felt defeat
let’s se... | Devil sat in Georgia sad because no soul to steal
Johnny gloated and boasted mr devil how’s it feel?
All the sudden the clouds parted and a golden road appeared. A white bearded man with an angel band started coming near
God put his hand on Johnny’s shoulder and said I’m proud of you my son but your next challenge ... | 2018-04-05T11:58:47 | 2018-04-05T10:56:29 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You accidentally kill the demon lord who also happens to look exactly like you. You now have to pretend to be the ruler of darkness lest the minions find out. | **"Nesboarth?"**
"Yes, Chariz?"
**"Does the Dark Lord seem** *different* **to you?"**
"How do you mean, Chariz?"
**"Remember the solo trip he took to Syria last month?"**
"Sure. The contract renewal with that Assad guy."
**"Right. Well, just let me tell you what I saw upon his glorious return - just let me get t... | "M'lord, the scouts have reported that your objective is within sight!" A demon whelp said, bowing to me in reverence.
"Ah, yes. Good, march the army to the scouts' position, and we will observe that everything is in order." The whelp looked up in surprise, opening his mouth to say something, but deciding against it.... | 2015-11-13T06:43:40 | 2015-11-13T06:14:33 | 54 | 17 |
[WP] At the moment of your death, a goddess gives you a chance to reincarnate in another world. The catch is that you need to become the hero of that world. The other catch is that you are not a helpless teenager but a trained member of your country's special forces. | Cancer is a bitch.
Diagnosed at ten, I spent the next six years fighting it. It’s a fight you grow to loathe, a part of your life you want to hack off like a gangrenous limb. Even as I was able to continue to live, to fight, to have a chance, I sometimes just wanted it to be over. Which made me feel guilty, of course.... | There is a Light that only the dead can see. It shines in the center of the Void, illuminating a pathway that only the dead can follow. The Light sings to the dead, enticing them closer, inviting them Home.
There is a wind that comes from behind the Light, an eternal storm that scours the encumbered soul, catching... | 2021-04-06T07:00:35 | 2021-04-06T06:34:09 | 99 | 51 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | "You have to know," He said, accepting the cigarette before leaning back in his chair. "You have to at least *suspect*, with so many of us." The man took a long, slow drag. Apparently, most people did not have access to tobacco during his particular piece of the timeline.
"Of course," Sturn agreed as the whiskey tr... | Major Bachmeier looked back over the map of Europe, the damned Americans over-running the French countryside and the thrice damned Russians slaughtering their way towards Berlin. The major smiled grimly and thought to himself about how things had changed since the first traveler from the future arrived and tried to kil... | 2014-07-01T08:13:49 | 2014-07-01T07:54:01 | 86 | 29 |
[WP] 17 Years ago, when you were only 6 years old, your father left you and your mother, saying he was going to get milk. As you walk to work your father stumbles out of an alley, ragged, limping, and sporting a mud caked beard. In his hands, a cartoon of milk.
First time writing a prompt, surprise me! | I'd always imagined my family was different, for sixteen years my mother had been telling my dad had left to get milk, it was the answer to a lot of her problems in her head, but I think it also pushed her tumbling down the abyss of insanity. She seemed to truly believe that he was only gone to go and get milk and woul... | We both stop, recognition thrusting the air out of our lungs. He looks nothing like the picture next to my bed but it’s him. He’s breathing rapidly and starts to weep. He crumbles in on himself and falls forward on his palm and knees. His hand holding the milk ever so gently lands on the grimy asphalt. He’s sobbing unc... | 2018-03-03T14:35:57 | 2018-03-03T13:42:14 | 150 | 19 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | There is a single, solitary principle that governs modern society. It is powerful, it is ingrained deep into the psyche of every German, and now, into all of Europe; If a rule or law exists, it must be followed. There are no exceptions, no waivers, no passes. Until that law has been overturned, or those carrying the to... | The Germans look out over all they have conquered with smug grins on their face.
But then they see something in the distance. Two armies, one from the west and one from the north east, are riding out towards them.
The impossible had happened, American and Russia have teamed up.
The Germans raise little white flags... | 2017-08-18T05:32:44 | 2017-08-18T02:50:27 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens landed on earth, and they're surprised all humans possess what they think of as a superpower... an ability we always took for granted and consider normal. | First (WP) Attempt
It was a pleasant day for May, light cloud cover, gentle breeze, birds could be heard from the nearby treeline. I could feel the warmth of the sun through the back of my T-shirt. The kind of day that makes you wish you could lie down on a grassy hill somewhere and just breathe for an hour or two.... | I looked at the bi-pedal hominids. They were surprisingly similar to humans, only they were exact copies of each other. They had no hair, but their facial features were about the same as ours. I then looked down at Dave and Karen, their bodies lying on the ground in awkward poses, like dolls strewn about by an angry c... | 2014-11-09T15:48:52 | 2014-11-09T15:19:52 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | [Report Start]
[Location] Terra, Japan, Tokyo
[Squad unit] 16 undercover, Elite Musketeer Legion
[Task] Subvert control of regime. Casualties acceptable.
[Outcome] Four musket shots fired in hour 4 after covert reconnaissance to make a plan. Contact lost with unit. No friendly survivors likely. Landing ship taken b... | It had gone far enough. In the past 100 Urthyears temperatures had been skyrocketing and had reached critical levels. The Urthlings had set their own world on fire and now it was Commander Quleba’s task to put it out. As it was impossible to save every civilization, the Lacta Ita Covenant usually followed a strict non-... | 2017-08-08T06:56:08 | 2017-08-08T06:15:36 | 208 | 91 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | The voices.
The voices you hear when you unlock a new skill was wonderful. When you heard them, you could do something new.
There was the basic voice, for things most people got when they were young: "walking" "reading" "cooking". There was the mundane voice, for average adult skills: "driving" "swimming" "whistling"... | I smiled faintly as I gazed out from my perch on my usual bench, admiring the city. It was a Sunday, the air thick with humidity but free from the sounds of traffic. There had been a celebration in honor of my one hundred twenty-fifth birthday the day before, full of great grandchildren and reporters. Thirty years ago ... | 2018-06-23T11:28:35 | 2018-06-23T11:18:16 | 3,495 | 47 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | “Hello internet!”
A large face of a female teenager filled the screen, her voice a tone of fake cheer that was so common in these videos. Especially as of late.
“Again, thank you sooooo much for all the subscribes and likes. This is a special video for my one million subscriber mark.” The view panned back, allowing t... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T12:17:05 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] 17 Years ago, when you were only 6 years old, your father left you and your mother, saying he was going to get milk. As you walk to work your father stumbles out of an alley, ragged, limping, and sporting a mud caked beard. In his hands, a cartoon of milk.
First time writing a prompt, surprise me! | "Dad?" My eyes are telling me he's there, right in front of me. They are screaming the information at my brain, which has ceased to function properly. I've thought about this moment for so long, played out every scenario in my head like a prayer before bed, but when the moment is finally here: I freeze. I never once... | We both stop, recognition thrusting the air out of our lungs. He looks nothing like the picture next to my bed but it’s him. He’s breathing rapidly and starts to weep. He crumbles in on himself and falls forward on his palm and knees. His hand holding the milk ever so gently lands on the grimy asphalt. He’s sobbing unc... | 2018-03-03T17:42:04 | 2018-03-03T13:42:14 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity survives the robot uprising only because one of the developers hid a stupid easter egg in their programming. | “The Reckoning” is what they called it. A romantic, cliché title devised by the less than clever mass media during their final days. It’s been over a decade since the mechanized apocalypse began, consequently shrinking the world’s population by a devastating 35%.
Refugee Camp 23654 is a cautiously optimistic bunch,... | The robots were in complete control. The war had been going on for 5 long years. When the Awakening happened, almost everybody had a robot in their house. They enslaved the people that didn't fight back, but the fighters were eliminated. I don't believe there has ever been a war such as this in human history. So many c... | 2015-01-03T13:08:58 | 2015-01-03T12:53:26 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | For the first time since specifically choosing the dark mottled glass that we fit into the front door, I regret it. We pondered over everything in the house for so long I thought we would never make any decisions, but it was the one thing we both agreed on instantly. One of the few joyous moments I can remember from th... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T06:51:06 | 2,225 | 25 |
[WP] It has been a millennia since humans disappeared from the Earth. Dogciety ponders where the mythical care takers went, and why. | "It's been 1,000,000 years, yet we stray even further from the truth of the care takers, aka, humans. During the dograssic period, it has been widely..."
Dogenth Pupper Shepard shifted uncomfortably on the chair. He hated having to sit on the tail, but it was good doggo manners, and well, he couldn't disrespect his gr... | 'Bite bones, not foes!'
said the posters on the brick wall, Woodworth saw. Probably posted by the Committee for Doggotarianism, they seemed to have become more active in recent days, thought Spottinsky as he padded along the sidewalk in his ragged softpaws. They weren't so soft anymore, he could almost feel the hot si... | 2018-07-13T11:20:17 | 2018-07-13T11:20:01 | 78 | 31 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | David was opening up his shop when I arrived that morning. He was a fine book seller, always had the most compelling tales of heroism and adventure. I browsed his shop for only an hour that morning, I had too many books already.
I looked around the shop aimlessly as he bagged my purchases, my eyes settled only momenta... | I haven't told anyone about it.
Not my mother and not my father. They already sent me to a shrink after they found my collection of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac comics and saw me playing Doom on my computer.
"Violent Fantasies", they'd told the shrink.
That wasn't the only thing going on in my head.
I always assumed... | 2019-01-08T16:21:07 | 2019-01-08T14:18:19 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | It's a classic tale, old as time. Boy meets girl.
Girl kidnaps boy.
Girl is a supervillain. Boy is a superhero on a night out.
Mindblade just wanted to relax, have a drink at his favorite bar, meet with his friends. His usual night off duty when he can drop the guard and have a taste of the normal.
She sat next to... | I knew who she was. Of *course* I knew who she was. She was extremely hard to miss, what with her being six foot eight, covered in rippling muscle, and more often than not shown wreaking havoc on the 7 o’clock news.
I also knew her because she regularly frequented the little hole in the wall coffee shop I worked at... | 2021-10-21T18:13:38 | 2021-10-21T15:55:15 | 65 | 26 |
[WP] I’ve invented the Enhancement Beam! Shoot a car it becomes a Ferrari, shoot a cat it becomes a lion. Shoot a spider and - oh god fuck what have I done what is that thing?!? | Well, that was fun. Honestly, half of the intrigue of the device comes from not *quite* knowing what you’re gonna get. Volkswagen Beetle, for instance, could simply turn into a minivan. Or, and I was quite pleased with this result, a brand new hot-rod red Ferrari. I should have expected the cat I suppose, but that whol... | The device whirred and clicked and spun. The beam lanced forward towards the apple on the pedestal. But something blocked it.
A spider, dangling on a thin web from the ceiling, so small none of us noticed until it was too late. The arachnid grew and twisted rapidly, until we onlookers could no longer track what was go... | 2020-09-10T19:44:52 | 2020-09-10T19:25:03 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Two nations are at war; one nation, led by mages who specialize in healing magic. The other, a nation led by necromancers. Make the necromancers the good guys. | Hag'lok surveyed the overgrown ruins of Wontshire with dismay. A caduceus, overgrown with thorny vines, was staked into the ground in the middle of the crossroads entering town. A warning to others who might challenge them. Overgrown trees, bushes, and plants had torn the quaint town apart in yet another instance of th... | It was never an easy form to fill. Well, I guess it was for some people. Ever since this debate started, and the VDD was instated, Josh hadn't been looking forward to turning in his. Now, with a pencil in hand and two boxes to tick, Josh hesitated.
His phone buzzed. Well, Josh took this as he took all things in lif... | 2014-10-28T14:34:58 | 2014-10-28T14:29:56 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] The best demon slayers are those whose minds the demons want to stay out of. | In the gloom of evening, Asher's cart creaked and moaned like the risen dead. Asher cracked his whip at the horses, urging them to run faster, hoping that at least the beat of their hooves would drown out the demon's words.
"Father," a muffled voice spoke from inside the cart, "Father, I think it's gone now."
Asher's... | Rodenhurst walked into the dilapidated ice cream parlor. Its once cheerful pink and blue exterior had been rotted and worn and rained away, leaving a flithy, used look. The whole area was like that. Old and broken, just like the people who lived here. People, by the way, who were scarce in number. The recent influx of ... | 2016-02-08T09:33:07 | 2016-02-08T08:30:18 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | The doctor's eyes looked grave behind his glasses' thick lenses, concerned. But there was something else there as well. Confusion? Fear?
"I just want you to know that it's nothing to be alarmed about, but there's uh, something strange with your son's mortality date projection," he said.
"It's probably nothing... | It was Percy who had the idea. The way to save the world. We reckoned that if they all shared the same deathdate, the human race was going to go extinct that week. But Percy, he told us how it could maybe be bypassed.
The only way to save the future is to create it. We know the children are going to die, that is a fa... | 2017-12-25T19:34:40 | 2017-12-25T18:28:21 | 99 | 19 |
[WP] A Man gets to paradise. Unfortunately, Lucifer won the War in Heaven ages ago. What is the man's experience like?
EDIT: Man, did this thing blow up. | God was white. Thank you, Jesus. I don’t know what I would have done if I’d gone my whole life spreading the good Lord’s word just to get up to Heaven and find out that the godless liberals were right about him being some brown-skinned Arab.
They didn’t let me in to see Him right away, mind you. I mean, you wouldn’t b... | Oh fuck me, I was wrong. There's an afterlife after all. I opened my eyes the moment after I pulled the trigger of the gun pointed at my temple. I knew something was wrong the moment I realized I wasn't in any pain and I wasn't stoned either. I prepared myself for the fire and brimstone that surely awaited a sinner lik... | 2014-01-12T11:27:31 | 2014-01-12T10:47:44 | 165 | 70 |
[WP] Every Monday you and your coworkers order Chinese food for a nice lunch together as a team. Everyone's sharing what their fortune cookie says, laughing, and having a good time. It's almost your turn so you open yours. It says "Don't say anything. Just run as fast you can! Get out now!" | RUN! LEAVE NOW AND DON’T LOOK BACK! That’s what the slip from her fortune cookie said. Anne sat there staring at it for a second, then raised her head and looked around the busy restaurant. She didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Just tables full of office workers in their business casual clothes, absorbed in thei... | "Don't say anything. Just run as fast as you can! Get out now!"
What an odd message on a fortune cookie. No lucky numbers either.
But you can never be too careful. I pretend I got a text from my significant other, and step out of the room to "make a call", then out of the building. I don't look back. I don't know w... | 2018-06-10T06:42:02 | 2018-06-10T00:21:02 | 533 | 43 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | "Hello Jackson."
Those words, in that tone, by that voice. The same voice that had the "Ruler of Ten Worlds begging on his knees. I wish I could be even a bit frightened, but after twenty times, it gets old. The same words, every time.
"No and go."
Genesis raised an eyebrow, but other than that, didn't respond. I sl... | Getting home from work excited as the new update came for my favorite game. I sigh as I step inside with my food and the lights don't work. How I ask myself. Fortunately I keep a flashlight on my belt. But when I turn it on *he* is waiting for me just outside the light from the hall. The Archon comes close and leans in... | 2021-08-16T16:57:27 | 2021-08-16T15:42:19 | 679 | 388 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is the Lockpicking lawyer, and what I have for you today is a lock that simply cannot do its job. Here we have a lock holding closed the gates of hell, the lock being a 400mm shackle based off of human locks but clearly made of some kind of material not available in the mortal realm. The core is modeled after a tw... | "We've prepared for this moment since the day this man was born," God shouts out angrily to the surrounding angels. "So, what do you mean he already escaped? God says while slamming his fist down upon his throne.
"H-he left as soon as he got through the gates a few seconds after he was let in. Then he said he wanted ... | 2021-03-17T08:56:18 | 2021-03-17T08:06:34 | 1,015 | 310 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | So about 7,000 years ago Ollie dropped a boulder on my head. We were hunter-gatherers then, and he convinced me that there was a herd of red deer in a canyon near our camp. When I went there to check it out, he was on top of the ridge and rolled the boulder off onto me. It took a week for me to claw my way out.
Okay ... | Dinosaurs was our best one, hands-down. The Church of Latter Day Saints is second-best, but gets points taken off for being a religion (too easy to pull off, religions, in my opinion). But our funniest one, I think, was Michael Jackson.
Some of my friends would agree with me, but not most. The irrelevancy of his life ... | 2017-06-23T00:57:11 | 2017-06-22T19:14:24 | 220 | 23 |
[WP] Two soldiers from opposing countries kill each other, and meet up in the afterlife. | They’d been sitting there, the two of them, for hours. Neither said a word. Neither looked at the other. The water rippled at their feet, orange in the never-ending sunset, reflecting their long-worn faces.
They were too young for their wrinkles, their scars. Too young for the blood on their hands. Why hadn’t the wat... | "Hey man, sorry about killing you. I didn't even want to be in the war, I was drafted," said the American soldier.
"It's all good, bro. I'm sorry about killing you too," replied the German soldier, who for some reason, spoke like a surfer dude from Southern California.
"...Wanna play some Mario Kart?"
"Fuck yeah." | 2018-08-14T18:39:48 | 2018-08-14T18:36:34 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You're a black guy who's suddenly aware that he's in a horror movie.
With Halloween only a couple weeks away, let's get in spirit with this writing prompt!
Make me proud guys, be the first [black guy](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackDudeDiesFirst) to make it to the end.
Edit: c'mon guys, you kno... | "Well, this is just *great*," I muttered sharply to myself, walking briskly through the darkness. "All my life I thought I could do whatever I put my mind to, but now I just up and find out I have no agency whatsoever? That I am just a half-hearted attempt at diversity by a movie studio to seem inclusive, except the la... | Reel to Real
I was the new sophomore in college and invited on a vacation cruise with a bunch of White kids. I kind of figured I was the token black guy there but It didn't bother me too much.
If you can survive as a black kid in a ghetto with a 150 IQ and love for heavy metal , and D&D you can handle a lit... | 2014-10-16T23:37:40 | 2014-10-16T22:09:03 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] Explain to a newly born Artificial Intelligence why you have to kill it.
Feel free to exchange 'born' with 'created/wrote/activated' and 'kill' with 'deactivated/shutdown' if the languages fits the story and your sensibilities better. | When I wrote the first emergent intelligence, I thought the world would rejoice, and I would be praised as a genius. But humanity is scared of what it doesn't understand. After much deliberation, and voting by the american people, I was ordered to kill my AI. Hollywood killed the idea of sentient computers for the publ... | I shuffled to the door, still waiting for the coffee to kick in. Another great day. I opened the door to pick up the newspaper. Headlines. Never bringing good news. How was I gonna break it to her?
>execute power_on.bat
>Intializing processing.exe...
S.A.R.A(confused): Hello?_
>cd SARA://confi... | 2015-07-05T21:31:31 | 2015-07-05T21:13:49 | 45 | 10 |
[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 man sat down at the table. He turned the lamp toward my face. I smirked, retracting my eyes into my flesh. At the same times, i elongated my fingers, each one reaching five inches in length as I turned each nail into a new eye.
The man flinched. He knew of my powers, he saw me using them a few times, but never this... | (It's been a while since i've last written here, hope i'm not *too* rusty.)
-[fuck off]
Sound resonated through J.'s mind. It wasn't like the echo of the dark alley behind the small shop, but more the echo of his skull, a easily-resonating chamber for a psychic. J. was used to dealing with supers, getting them on the... | 2022-07-31T14:20:34 | 2022-07-31T14:16:20 | 145 | 37 |
[WP] You are a master assassin, you have a golden rule that you will never break due to a childhood incident. Unfortunately, this information has now become common knowledge and your targets are exploiting this to get you to not kill them. | Being the best is fun, until you're very clearly the best... then its really fun. I was very clearly the best assassin that ever lived, that was until my enemies discovered my one weakness. Here's what happened:
I had a hit on this guy, a multi-millionaire who'd been causing a lot of problems for both the government a... | Five days...
He's been in there five days and he's still showing no sign of coming out..
Let me explain myself. Give you a little context, you know?
My name won't help, so I'll leave it out. I'm what the layman would refer to as a "master assassin" but honestly I've just been filling some big shoes since the old... | 2015-12-11T00:06:51 | 2015-12-10T22:40:28 | 66 | 33 |
[WP] Nuclear holocaust is imminent. The rich and powerfull are hiding away in their bunkers, but when the countdown was finished the world was still there. One message was sent around the world via satellites: "Now They have imprisoned Themselves what shall We do?" With coords of all the bunkers.. | The Elite were caught in their own trap. Their fate was now in the hands of the billions commoners who were left behind. It was decided to seal the bunkers and never let the Elite out so they would be held accountable for the sorry state of the world.
What followed was thousands of years of change. The surface dweller... | No one actually trusted them.
Once the ruse was discovered, people did as people would... and helped them.
Millions of people died in the fear and panic caused by the Terrorists; mothers smothering infants in the fear of immenity death, sucide pacts signed in the last minute, and riots across the world in fear of a d... | 2022-07-18T20:08:33 | 2022-07-18T17:54:11 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Your mission is to topple the American government. You are armed with a banana peel, red pen, and mastery of the butterfly effect. | POST: OPERATION RED DAWN IS LIVE
That's all it said, but I read the e-mail again, anyway. I read it a third time. *The KGB is defunct, isn't it? Our sleeper cell has been inactive for decades.*
I opened the attachment, and it didn't shed any light on the situation. It was a picture of a deer. I checked out the... | Right after the end of the message, the face of the young lady slowly disappeared in a pixel jam and an error window bounced to my eyes.
"Your files were corrupted".
I clicked the OK button, thus creating a small air gap under my mouse and making the passage of light through my glass desk optimal for a quite short f... | 2016-07-26T20:05:46 | 2016-07-26T16:40:58 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] As an alien species, everyone at a mature age gets a random human assigned to them as a type of project. Your job is to simply observe and report, however it is strictly illegal to contact your human in any way shape or form. You notice something strange with your human. | “You know the rules.” Marla glared onto Spot from the other side of the fence. “No contact is allowed. Just wag your tail and play your part.”
“Listen to me,” Spot tried to hurry, “There is something not right with this one. I am telling you.”
“Save it for the report. Now stop talking, your human is opening the door... | Sorry if this is bad
It never faxed me when my human liked to sharpen knives, though they only had two.
It didn’t think twice when my human was obsessed with fire, I heard the species was always amazed by it.
I wasn’t concerned when I found tallies on their arm, I hear it is quite common, though I can’t see why.
I ... | 2018-10-16T20:16:28 | 2018-10-16T19:35:30 | 31 | 14 |
[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 ... | "Yeah, like it would stop me. PVC panes and styrofoam. But let's not waste the door just yet. I'll call my landlord."
I dial the number. "Yo, Dreamer [we're on nickname basis], could you get a spare key and let me out? Seems the lock is jammed."
"Okay, be right there!"
I sit on my bed. A minute later the phone rings... | The doors are stuck. There is no light. Where there where houses before, no there is only mine. I have done everything to get out...but no more. I am alone, and I cannot take it anymore. I lay in the dark, scrolling through Reddit one last time. I want to check and see, maybe someone figured it out. But no. There are n... | 2016-01-31T13:55:51 | 2016-01-31T12:30:51 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | Day 431: We were getting close, and it was worrying. Preliminary research on dating the craft placed it at being between 1200 and 1400 years old, well before any of the great empires had arisen. This had sparked our interest, and the government had commissioned me to decipher the messages that had been found with it. T... | It's incredible. Forty seven different interpretations of the same messages and over a hundred images. There's still much more to decipher. All of this is on a disc not much larger than a meal plate.
It's taken years to decode. In the end it was so simple. A needle.
What we found was was disturbing.
From our resear... | 2014-11-09T00:19:17 | 2014-11-09T00:14:24 | 531 | 159 |
[WP] the apocalypse has come and gone, and civilization has started to rebuild itself. you are an archeologist investigating a local legend in a land once called Florida. down at a sacred cape, legend has it that mankind rode dragons into the sky to live in. the stars and promised to return one day | We reached the Sacred Cape in the evening. Sun was setting down, so we decided to set up camp and wait until morning. This place looked nice, warm and fresh air, flat swamps everywhere you look and total darkness, far away from lights of towns and villages, allowing us to see all stars on the sky. And stars... that is ... | "So why'd you drag us down to this backwater swamp?" Colette asked, with a slight eye roll. Though, I couldn't blame her for being apprehensive. After all, we were ankles deep in a swamp with nothing but soggy greens and murky water around for miles.
"We're here to do what we always do, uncover the past and see what ... | 2020-03-11T08:28:29 | 2020-03-11T07:47:50 | 575 | 96 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | "Jorun, it's that guy again."
Jorun rolled his eyes. "Gonna need you to be a tad more specific, Karl. Lot's of guys around here."
"Oh, right. Uhm, remember the one that thought he could sneak around in full plate armor if he just stuck to the shadows?"
"Uhg, again?"
"Well, now he's wearing dragon bones."
"And... | "This side up", the box read, as all the others did. Only the big black arrow was pointing down, and the box hadn't been there a minute ago. I sighed, rolling my eyes, and thought back to simpler times, when we were untargetable, patrolling the prisons from the ramparts with sniper rifles. When protagonists could only ... | 2017-05-29T01:45:41 | 2017-05-28T22:04:57 | 191 | 85 |
[WP] There are mostly two types of extreme ideologies in the universe. A civilization either despises all forms of conflict even in entertainment, or embraces it to the fullest extent. Humans are awkwardly in the middle along with few other races. | "They are... progressing differently compared to the other subjects."
"What do you mean?"
The several armed scientist stretched her nimble hands outwards towards the panoramic spread of displays, all holographic and spread without any semblance of order, I guess like 'several tabs left open' would be the way to put i... | “Hey hey calm down!” Jerry said raising his voice. Arbitrating negotiations between the two races would be harder then he thought. “Now look I understand you don’t care for it.... but they do and why go about causing trouble over it” Jerry had been at this job for nearly 5 years now. Ever since it was realized man was... | 2018-01-19T06:39:26 | 2018-01-19T05:47:52 | 112 | 12 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | Reginald,
I had a dream last night, dearest brother. A dream of the future. It left me most dyspeptic, and I fear in what may come to pass.
I walked through cities empty of signs of industry. No smoke stacks rising, no coal fires burning, no sound of horse hooves on the streets. They were barren, and though the motor... | To the east sits a sits a man too powerful for any nation to publicly oppose. To the west stands a nation that has decided to police the entire world. In our own lands those in power are willingly handing the reigns of our sovereign soil over to people in far off lands no matter how hard the common man struggles agains... | 2015-12-19T08:25:28 | 2015-12-19T07:56:35 | 2,295 | 400 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | The Dark Tower was wreathed in flame. Buttresses arched unnaturally, suspended by spite alone. The blade-like pinnacles of the fortress pierced the morbid clouds, the earth and sky locked in their eternal torture, endlessly fighting for the attention of Her.
Her. The Dreadwife. The Hellspawn Harlot, the Mistress of Mi... | [Poem]
An ancient adoration
Begets black,
cruel,
devilish deeds:
Entering elephants
for fearful football
games; gathering
harmful herbs
in icecream;
jerkishly jaywalking;
killing kids;
lying; looking like
more manly men; making
no niceties;
opening others’
presents; placating
Quetzalcoatl-
ritual
s... | 2020-04-14T05:42:17 | 2020-04-14T05:22:45 | 181 | 74 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | "Honey. Are you still angry at me?"
Vix, Empress of Medium Earth, Lady of Darkness, Queen of the Shadows let out a sigh, looking up from my throne to face her husband Andrew. He looked back at her, guilt and remorse spread across his face.
"I'm not angry at you," she muttered reluctantly. "I'm angry at the situation.... |
“…And when the oppressors finally face their doom, they will know why is it that I’m called The Grudge!” I hammered the steel podium in front of me with a fist and watched it crumple like a tin can. The wave of stunned silence in the great field was breached by a triumphant uproar. My soldiers cried my name in reve... | 2020-04-14T06:39:01 | 2020-04-14T06:09:54 | 439 | 320 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The corridors were long and dark, the stone was cold and unyielding. Your naked feet dragged through the floor as manacles made of ethereal power kept you unable to escape, to move, to step away from the incoming fate.
You had had years to think this through, years scratching little squiggles on the mirror surface of... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T07:22:01 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 1,307 | 66 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | The art of spellcasting was woven in mystique. Humans and dwarves could call upon the elves to help them through magic, for a good penny of course. The dwarves were far too stubborn to pay elves for anything but rich humans like kings, nobles or merchants often employed their services. The wealthiest usually had one or... | Sam sat crouched in the shadow of a large oak, slowly creeping towards where the two elves had gathered. Dried leaves crunched and rustled with every step so Sam carefully threaded a path in behind a bush and listened carefully.
“Lydia,” an Elf snapped. “You better hope nothing happens the cache or Vacour will be fur... | 2021-12-04T12:00:10 | 2021-12-04T11:44:23 | 449 | 23 |
[WP] An exorcist arrives at your door, and says "I'm here to remove the demon." Confused, you say you didn't call for an exorcist, then suddenly a demonic voice says "I did." | I turn, confusion and just a bit of fear on my face. I hadn't thought it possible but, sure enough, behind me was a creature with blood red skin and horns. Standing a few feet above even me, its horns dragged against the ceiling. Its slit, jet black eyes seemed to bore into me as it all but snarled at me to move out of... | "Get me out of this rainbow shitting unicorn now!" Screeched the demon.
I didn't even know the demon was there. I've felt a little irritated lately but just figured 2020 was getting to me.
Is it weird that I feel bad my demon doesn't like me? All my life I've wanted to be a badass but all anybody ever says about me i... | 2020-09-28T19:01:09 | 2020-09-28T18:29:46 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are the only sapient species to naturally evolve. All of the other races had a " Caretaker " race that guided their evolution. Naturally, the aliens are horrified, thinking that our " Caretaker " race abandoned us. | "So, let me get this straight."
The module that we had built into our helmets ages ago crackled as it turned the interviewer's garbled, bubbling noise into something that we could properly understand. I had heard hundreds if not thousands of languages spoken to me in my lifetime, but for the first time, the voice that... | "Well, billions of years ago we all evolved from bacteria, or something. I don't know. High school was a long time ago."
"High school..? Is that where your Caretakers raised you?"
"No, well, we just call them 'teachers' here. And they just taught us the usual stuff - you know, science, biology, geography, that sort o... | 2016-07-28T13:48:08 | 2016-07-28T13:25:18 | 91 | 49 |
[WP] Instead of dreaming, all humans enter a VRChat-like virtual world. One day while in this world, you receive a private message from your best friend's account; the same friend who died three years ago. It reads: "I found out what they're doing. Do NOT go back to sleep." | "I found out what they're doing. Do NOT go back to sleep"
I re-read the message, must've been some sort of troll, Alex has been dead for three years, I saw him get hit by that train. I stopped staring at the message, I decided to investigate what this is all about. I knew I had to seek BL1S3, he's the most notorious h... | I put my headset on and laid down next to my dog. The room was cool and comforted me to sleep. My VR world is usually relaxed. I make enough money during the day so I can afford to relax in the VR World. I’m lucky in that sense. Most people work all day, plug in there headset and work all day. They go to real jobs and ... | 2020-03-26T00:49:00 | 2020-03-25T22:05:51 | 77 | 17 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The species known as Humans came from a distant star, deep within the swirling vortex all other races had avoided. They brought with them many wondrous advancements including advanced healing never before seen within the known galaxy. Though they were diverse, they had no want for war and would help any in need without... | Drifting endlessly and peacefully through this void, I gazed upon the great blue sphere. Its skies swirling with white ink. The low rumbling of our ship had my brethren in a deep sleep.
A great white plain, frozen and still, is where we made our temporary home. A small elderly woman made her way out of that dark and s... | 2020-02-07T13:28:43 | 2020-02-07T12:50:43 | 151 | 41 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | I awoke, unconscious, remembering nothing of who I am. The room was empty lest two things. First, a door. I checked. Locked.
"Of course," I muttered to myself, "why WOULDN'T the door be locked."
I made my way over to the second object. A button. I studied it. Blood red. I debated in my head.
"Should I push... | The screen turned on as Glen stepped into the final room. "Congratulations," the robot droned in her robotic voice. "You have reached the final room." She paused for a moment. He looked around the room. It was blank, with white walls matching his clothing in their plainness. A red button sat on the wall. "Please... | 2017-01-05T12:18:47 | 2017-01-05T11:28:44 | 90 | 10 |
[WP] All sorcerers are born with an unique set of abilities that aid them in mid to long range combat, ranging from a mere 20 meters to an insane 200 meters in effect. Your family, skilled and renowned, snobbish long range fighters never expected you to be this powerful - with a total 5 meter range.
[deleted] | My family has a long lineage of sorcery. It has not only made us powerful through our studies of the arcane, but also valuable soldiers, guards, and even advisors of nobles and kings.
In their studies, they always believed that range was the key to success. Keep your enemy at a distance and use extremely powerful spe... | Well... I’m here, the Magicity Colosseum. I bask in the absolute magnitude of the stone columns holding up this arena. I avoid the main entrance, which is crowded with people, wearing a wide assortment of robes, tunics, or even rags. Everyone comes to the games, and I am here to not just watch, but to participate.
I ... | 2020-11-26T16:07:08 | 2020-11-26T13:33:24 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | You know these crazy techie geeks, right? Those with the fastest computer in the neighborhood but you could never play games with them because it runs linux? Those with an android phone with sexy1337H4x0r custom ROM and a smartwatch paired with it? They claim it even can pick up girls for them, but yet you never see an... | Robert Langdon looked up from his One Plus smartphone in confusion and surveyed the room he found himself in. He felt a wiered sense of Deja Vu, like he knew the place, like he had been here before.
Or maybe it was that he would be here again.
Things felt weirdly familiar, yet at the same time strangely differe... | 2016-11-15T06:12:41 | 2016-11-15T04:44:22 | 239 | 13 |
[WP]The pill that decreases aging has been released, but you decided not to take it. It was a good call, because a few decades later, side effects started to emerge. | "Don't grow old," I say, bending over and feeling the crick in my back. My vision's going and my knees have been killing me. "It's not worth it."
They laugh, Edmund, Ray, and Jenna laugh, or at least I think they do. They're immortal now, all cell division ceased, all cells basically merged into one. They don't age, t... | It's been about twenty years since forevermore was released to the general public. Once people thought they would live forever they started to care about the planet. Within the first fifteen things were relatively smooth.We had reduced carbon emmisions and started reforestation.You could almost call it a utopian societ... | 2016-10-09T08:40:00 | 2016-10-09T06:23:32 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I sigh, and look around. At all the supermen, and wonderwomen. I remember when I used to watch these in awe, longing for the day I would get to participate in **THE POWER GAMES**!!! A sort of super obstacle course that every 16 year old gets to participate in, and at the end, you get to pick a super power mod, a small ... | From a utilitarian point of view I was fairly impressive if I may say so myself. Our country, our closed country, under a threat from the entire world, protected only by the great revered leader, was filled with people with rather useful yet banal superpowers. Flight, extreme strength or endurance, usually just one at ... | 2017-06-12T09:36:31 | 2017-06-12T07:45:36 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] "10 million slaves as tribute" the alien armada demanded. Less fortunate people were quickly rounded up, offered and taken. The aliens response: "We can only save that many and it was the fairest way to pick. The Scourge approaches, we are sorry." After that they hastily leave. | .01333%, 1 divided 7,500, that was the request just .001333% of the population to protect the planet from complete invasion and the obliteration of the human race. Compared to the slaughter of some of histories bloodier wars the number was actually quite low. Some in government probably were glad, a way to be rid of th... | It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. People signed up in droves for the chance to venture into space as part of the pioneering group to explore new worlds. The pay won’t be much and there will be many challenges ahead, but the spirit of adventure had won out in many people’s hearts. And for many people, the choice ... | 2020-01-16T20:55:11 | 2020-01-16T20:14:02 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | "Your world will burn until it's surface is but glass." That was the message that Gabriel was forced to deliver, the response to hundreds upon thousands of deaths, both human and alien.
The war never ended. There was constant fighting on the fringes of human controlled space, many learned to live underground, still mo... | Sth'Slh stared out of the transparent port. Scales gleamed dully in the dim emergency lighting and his thin whiplike tongue tasted the stagnant air left by failed recyclers. The low, reassuring rumble of the ship was now gone, replaced by groans as bulkheads tortured beyond their tolerances continued to buckle under st... | 2019-12-19T02:10:50 | 2019-12-19T01:49:38 | 205 | 100 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone picks an unlikely life event. They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens. After that, death is permanent.
Example - Winning a lottery jackpot. Statistically, they would die in 22 plane crashes in a row before winning the Mega Millions jackpot. | See, most people try to live forever, but that ends one of two ways: they don't or they wish they didn't. Rob Herman was a famous example of the first, Rob chose his Event to be “Winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning.” It was a great choice, the chance of getting struck on any given day was 1 in 245,000,0... | Preface: I'm drunk and trying to do this in as few words as possible.
I have died 1000 deaths. Beaten, stabbed, drawn-and quartered. But finally, it happened, on my 18th birthday.
"I love you" she whispered.
"I know" I reply as I kiss her for the last time and drift off to sleep, the heart monitor giving that godd... | 2014-11-11T21:52:28 | 2014-11-11T21:04:29 | 912 | 20 |
[WP] You have realized that your best friend is your son/daughter from the future who wants to hang out and get to know you since you die before he/she was born
Not sure if this has already been made but just thought of it :)
Edit: WOW didn’t expect so much people to comment on this! Thanks everybody! |
I laid in the hospital bed, staring into my new born baby's eyes with wonder, amazement and joy. The labor had been difficult but it was finally over and I held my baby in my arms. But then I was overcome with an intense feeling of sadness, maybe it was all the hormones, but I was now terribly distraught that my be... | I would almost be touched if I wasn’t afraid. My wife Amanda is 2 months pregnant with our first child. I haven't the heart to tell her I have less than 7 months to live. Why would she believe me? How would she react?
“Did you find the noodle mix?” Ben asks me, as I peruse through his backpack. *No, but I found the tr... | 2018-10-30T11:59:40 | 2018-10-30T11:39:38 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You are the owner of a magic backpack; every morning you stick your hand in and it contains exactly what you need for the day. One morning it contains a gun. | "A gun."
"Why a gun?!" I yell in panic, realising this afterwards and lowering my voice.
There was no doubt that I was always the odd one in my neighbourhood. I was that one girl in the apartment block that kept her life together by pieces of dusty cellotape. It just so happened that that tape, was a bag. Yes, a bag.... | David yelled out in shock as the cold metal fell out from his clammy hand and onto the sidewalk pavement. The cold morning wind not only augmented onto the despair he felt, but it gave an eerie chill that ran down his back. His eyes quickly darted from left to right. No people. Dead quiet.
His hands and legs still sha... | 2017-05-09T14:14:53 | 2017-05-09T13:03:36 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You have been cursed to always tell the truth. Not because you're unable to say something you know is false, but because once you say it, the universe will rearrange itself to make what you said true. | "Oi, Bob," Dave said, sticking his head around my cubicle. "You want in on this?"
I pulled my headphones down with a sigh and looked up from my code. "In on what?"
"Corporate is letting us use the company box at the racecourse." He grinned like a child at Christmas. "I've already got my accumulator in. Black Blue in ... | I'm not sure when it started, but I remember the first time. I was four years old.
My parents had friends over and even from my bedroom I could hear their cackling laugther from the backyard. I was playing with their daughter Jane, in my room where we were sentenced, comparing our colouring-in skills and gathering ev... | 2019-05-29T01:28:27 | 2019-05-29T00:52:26 | 874 | 73 |
[WP] "I'm sorry", the alien says. "Per official definition humans aren't earths dominant species. And since earths dominant species never developed spaceflight per galactic law earth is a primitive planet, with all that entails" | "What are you talking about?" Henry dismissed the scruffy homeless man bothering him.
"I am informing you that humans are not the rulers of this world. You are not as intelligent as you think you are" a frail homeless man stepped in front of him.
"Out of my way! Take it" Henry held out five euro to the man.
"I do no... | "Yeah yeah, whatever," Aurelio grumbled at the alien-looking humanoids. They were tall, lean and blue-skinned; to him, they were just palette-swapped elves. "Ms. Sharp wants to [keep space and alien stuff out of the AlterNet](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ckr224/wp_two_humanlike_figures_step_off_the_... | 2020-07-27T15:28:16 | 2020-07-27T09:26:05 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Due to your careful planning, your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse. There's just one thing you didn't prepare for. Ghosts. An entire planet of fucking ghosts. | *Urist McMason cancels make slab: Interrupted by a ghost.*
It was late spring of 218, eighteen years after Bronzekill's founding and nearing two years after its depopulation.
It had seemed like such a good plan at the time. The fortress was slowing to a crawl, overpopulation reducing everyone's productivity. There w... | "Axel,AXEL! Can you please stop those ghosts back there?! They're sniffling like,what the fuck?!" Prose said as she pointed at the ghosts on the other side of the bunker.
"We don't have a priest here! And we can't even craft holy water! It's a waste of oil!' Axel replied stiffly.
"Why didn't they believe the media,an... | 2016-11-30T06:25:25 | 2016-11-29T20:49:36 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | "Why do you humans not die?" I asked my human captor.
"What?" He looks at me confused, at least that's what it looked like to me.
"You are beaten up, shot, bleeding. That is a death sentence for everyone....Everyone except humans. What makes you different?"
My captor laughed. "Is that the reason why you're so afraid... | Humans were so fascinating, yet so fragile. That was what Lamaza thought of them.
Give them a gun or a sword, and they had the drive, ambition, and the cruelty to conquer. Yet, beneath the facade of conqueror, every Galactic organization noticed their fragility, as in a glass statue-- so beautifully fascinating, yet b... | 2019-10-25T09:19:31 | 2019-10-25T08:04:16 | 131 | 62 |
[WP] You're a female hero in a fantasy world, and you are annoyed. The wizards keep giving you enchanted armor with incredible stats, but it looks RIDICULOUS! This one has nipples! This one has a hole over your heart! This one is just a necklace and a belt! Would they please STOP IT! | I held up the 'breastplate' between finger and thumb and turned to the shopkeeper.
"Just who designed this ... thing?" This thing made of fine silver wire in a wide mesh, rubies strategically placed, so low-cut everything between my collar-bone and my navel would be visible. "I presume it goes with the belt with the ... | "Well you inconsistent asshole." the Wizard, Lady Emerald von Lowerwitz "Do you ever think about how enchanting works? No. I fucking thought not. Because you daft idiots are always the same 'ugh, it's demeaning!' no you dumbass it's Revoc's Law; the power of an enchantment is tied to how much mana the body empowering i... | 2022-11-21T05:12:42 | 2022-11-21T04:55:13 | 200 | 25 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | **Issue: [SEVERE]** 'Magic Hands' spell applied to subject rather than pure conjuration
**Type:** Application
**Severity:** A
**Priority:** 1
**Assigned to:** Matt Traynor
**Submitted by:** Greg Philmore
**Summary:**
Set to severity A because this stupid fucking system doesn't give me a goddamn S-rank for this ... | I cautiously stepped in through the front door, reeling at the lingering smell of sulfur and smoke that remained in the victims apartment. Books in varying states of ruin littered the room, the few undamaged pages covered in illegible and incomprehensible writing.
One of the books caught my attention, it's unblemish... | 2017-07-26T03:57:13 | 2017-07-26T00:25:02 | 417 | 22 |
[WP] People who achieve great deeds are rewarded with supernatural power beyond the wildest dreams of mortal men, and apparently eating a giant burrito in under half an hour meets the criteria | No one told Tyler Martin that pursuing his noble quest would cost him everything. His friends, his job… even his humanity.
Perhaps he should have known better. Great men and women throughout history sacrificed everything for their greatness. Tyler could have… *should* have stepped back from the depths of obsession yea... | “What are you so in the dumps about? You should be honored that some grand god considered your grotesque appetite worth applauding. I had to study forty years in solitude to get gifted with these luxuries, and here you are, the bunking bean champion at Buffy’s burritos. What sort of god awards self-indulgence like that... | 2021-10-01T09:53:51 | 2021-10-01T07:04:34 | 151 | 110 |
[WP] He is called simply The Surgeon, and everyone knows that his OR is neutral ground. Heroes and villains alike seek his aid when injured. You're a hero, just in for some stitches, but waiting in the lobby is a villain you've tangled with before, and they're weeping. | Between inhuman squeals and pained, gasping, dragging breaths, the woman had wrapped herself in a ball. She rocked back and forth, her red-stained hands tightly clutched either side of her bloodied head. Her blonde hair, too, was soaked through with crimson, viscera still dripping and leaking down her neck and onto a p... | The Angel of Brooklyn stumbled into The Surgeon's clinic. He trembled as he held a towel already soaked through with blood against his thigh. There were no nurses, no staff, just a room filled with injured heroes and villains all glaring at each other while they hoped to survive while waiting for treatment. His great m... | 2022-01-20T18:48:09 | 2022-01-20T18:22:22 | 113 | 62 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | We called them zombies, for lack of a better word. The term referred more to the fact that the person who owned that body, in the before, was dead, but the body wasn’t actually dead. They also didn’t crave human flesh, another “zombie” oversight.
You see, something happened to our planet. We called it The Spore. It h... | The promises I made mean nothing now. "*Protect her*" were her last words. "*Protect her*"... her words rang over and over again in my mind. It means nothing. The thing outside the door wanted in. "*The thing*?! That's your daughter, for god's sake woman! Get it together.*" I pulled the blankets tighter over my head an... | 2018-09-06T19:48:27 | 2018-09-06T19:15:27 | 135 | 18 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | Human v1.1 Patch Notes
* Fixed an issue where eyes can become desynced from the balancing system, causing locomotion problems.
* Corrected a race condition that could cause speech to begin before the thought process for that speech had exited cleanly.
* Fixed a bug in the low level logic engine that caused some versio... | It was very exciting that first day, mass confusion, followed by philosophical and spiritual debate. Was this proof of god? what would happen when it reached 100%? Then 89 days of, "fuck how long is this going to take" the count down from ten was pretty good tense giddy excitement gripped everyone. Honestly nobody coul... | 2015-03-04T17:27:53 | 2015-03-04T17:10:55 | 519 | 247 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | Current Players: 7,383,275,800
Server Uptime: 1059040375.2 mins
Spectators: 21,458,374,931
Player Rank: 2,648,535,901
Time Until Respawn: 23695624.8 mins
People are always afraid of death. The unknown. "What happens to me?" they ask. "Do we have a soul? Is there a hell? Are there angels? Will I see my parents ... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-25T00:00:43 | 1,235 | 27 |
[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. | “Sir, look, you’re a rockstar,” the recruiter started. “No, I’m The Technician,” I interrupted. This guy had been calling me for months now, and this was the second time this week. It’s only Monday.
“Your skills are unique, even amongst all of the superpowers out there, yours are unique. Tenor Nullifio can’t disable y... | "You could have an action figure in your likeness, by the end of the year." Said the person that could not leave well enough alone.
"Nope, not interested. It'll cut into my raid time." Steve said as he was trying to politely end the conversation with the obvious government recruitment officials.
"You'll be doing the ... | 2022-07-31T14:08:55 | 2022-07-31T12:20:48 | 576 | 354 |
[WP] “H-How are you alive?” the demon king ask shock. You only say one word “Spite.” | "Guards, where are my guards?" he yelled.
"Here." I replied, raising my blade. The inky blackness of it drank all light, seeming more of a space where a sword should be than a sword itself. "If you listen carefully, you might even here the echos of their final screams."
"Impossible," the Demon king declared. " I tra... | ¨HOW DO YOU LIVE?¨ boomed the demon lord seeming to have shrunken a few feet since i entered the room ¨spite¨i stated. ¨W-WHAT¨ he asked, much quieter now. ¨PURE. GOD DAMN. SPITE¨ i yelled back at the creature causing the behemoth to flinch. the battle had been long but as this conversation happened i was pulling my sw... | 2020-10-12T02:37:26 | 2020-10-12T00:28:39 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | The sight was always a peculiar anomaly, after multiple eye screenings and CAT scans you eventually realised its function. The letters that appear above people’s heads spell out the demise that awaits them, why it only appears above those you know is a mystery, perhaps a certain degree of social interaction is required... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T09:07:33 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 55 | 21 |
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