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[WP] You're a captain on a futuristic starship with an advanced and lifelike artificial intelligence. Whoever the hell keeps setting the interface avatar to Cute Anime Girl is going to get thrown out the airlock. | Captain Samuels shifts in his uniform before Admiral Deckard's hologram.
"So what exactly are you telling me, Captain? You had informed me that this matter was solved, and yet, now, you want permission to keep it as your ship's official U.I?"
"Yes, sir. Permission to speak freely, sir."
"Granted."
"Her."
"...What?... | He had a 3% overdraft. Samson looked from ledger to expenses to tariffs, the screens mocking him with the same values they'd been displaying for hours. Somewhere among the writhing mass of interlacing accounts and purchases was some fee, graduated tax or item code that was wrong, throwing the whole list off kilter. He ... | 2021-07-21T21:33:36 | 2021-07-21T21:22:12 | 137 | 11 |
[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life. | You know, my beloved, even after all these years, I still think you are beautiful?
I remember when we first met. How many years has it been now?
You were so much younger, so much smaller and so, so full of life. We both were.
You know, I can't remember, I've lost track of how many years we've been together, it's bee... | ((REMOVED AND REPLACED))
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"That was the way it was 100 years ago." I told her "Then they changed the rules, and gave us this current madness."
I paused for a moment, thinking about how much of a mess I was in now and wondering ho... | 2018-03-19T08:55:45 | 2018-03-19T06:38:40 | 141 | 38 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I've bought peace to the Middle East.
I've reconciled broken families.
I've ended addiction to opioids.
I've made suicide irrelevant.
And it's the greatest curse anyone can imagine.
While a select few humans have had superpowers awaken, mine is by far the most corrosive to society. My inability to feel possessive ... | You can't just sit around in a corner her and relax, and frankly, that's the one and only thing I dislike from the current age. Ever since superpowers were confirmed to come from your inner emotional core and basically the type of person you are, a lot of effort went into raising proper citizens, lest we have another s... | 2019-09-08T10:01:27 | 2019-09-08T09:13:39 | 61 | 37 |
[WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive. | The demon's metallic claws flashed in the candlelight. In hindsight, the summoning had been a mistake. Julia regretted not actually reading the warnings in the book, but in her defense, there were eight and a half pages of warnings.
"You have made a grave mistake summoning one of the soulless!" the demon spat while ri... | Clouds passed over the faltering moon, and Lily wondered why life hurt so bad. The creature standing across from her— the demon, for what else could it be?— stared at her with something akin to shock, if shock could be read on those twisting, ruby scaled features.
“I really was a bad person, huh?” Lily said.
The demo... | 2021-10-06T10:15:34 | 2021-10-06T08:58:57 | 1,250 | 164 |
[WP] Being carnivorous is a trait thats unique only to humans. The alien races we are in contact with are strict herbivores and secretly find it terrifying that humans evolved by killing and eating everything. | The aliens came and left, judging us unworthy from our cannibalization of those we'd shared the planet with, the fish, the cow, the chicken, the countless others that had been cooked, charred, sliced apart, or torn apart. What they didn't understand was hunger, by all things, is something necessary to survive. When our... | Ever since they were discovered, the humans had been a top level, high-priority case. Thalandria picked up the docket, slowly turning each page with her spindly, translucent fingers. She threw the case file down and lunked her boots on the table, lost in thought. Her head was aching, and she reached into the table pock... | 2017-05-12T22:26:13 | 2017-05-12T20:27:56 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, "How? How were you able to summon me?!" You're standing in the corner flipping through your grandma's cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, "I don't know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!" | The demon's flames dwindled when I desperately screamed I was trying to make chicken soup. He gave a sigh of relief, and raised clenched fists. Clouds of tar-black smoke billowed out the crevasses of the floor and across the grotesque scars and wounds on his fiery skin, covering most of his body in dark, apron-shaped t... | Korbius, Demonlord of the Octopodiae, lay on the black and white linoleum tiles of Byron's kitchen, tentacles swinging wildly in the air. Removed from the blood waters of the Nether Sea, Korbius's gelatinous flesh sagged heavily towards the ground. Still he flailed his eight tentacles through the air angrily, slapping ... | 2018-07-21T18:49:05 | 2018-07-21T18:43:26 | 4,387 | 828 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, "How? How were you able to summon me?!" You're standing in the corner flipping through your grandma's cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, "I don't know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!" | I stood there flipping though the pages,
Across the room, the demon rages.
 
“How’d you summon me!?”
He screams with rage.
“I don’t know!”
I flip the page.
 
Two quarts stock,
A pile of carrots.
“I just don’t know!”
I asseverate.
 
The room grows red,
The shadows black,
What in... | "Oh, gee golly Miss Molly! I think I went and summoned one o' them there devils!" screamed Walter as his saucepan glowed molten red and the demon materialized upon his stove.
"Foolish mortal! Doest thou think thy prayers will be answered! There will be only suffering!" The demon, a ghastly, pig-like creature shrou... | 2018-07-22T00:05:11 | 2018-07-21T21:23:34 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] "No, the dragon is not kidnapping the princess for ransom or food. SHE is picking up her daughter for her half of the custody agreement. And I send a knight to pick her up for my half. How many times do I have to explain it?" | "No, the dragon is not kidnapping the princess for ransom or food. SHE is picking up her daughter for her half of the custody agreement. And I send a knight to pick her up for my half. How many times do I have to explain it?"
“But, your highness,” the king's loyal servant and head of his privy council started, “We can... | “What do you mean ‘how’, Prince Charming?” Sara’s dad says, speaking to me from a golden throne, diamond-encrusted golden crown glimmering on his head. “I put my wee-wee in her wa-wa, birds and bees, and in thirteen months a stork brought a cute little bundle in front of the Castle’s Main Gate.”
Honestly, I don’t know... | 2021-02-26T15:18:29 | 2021-02-26T14:58:09 | 110 | 44 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | I stood, covered in blood, bewilderment becoming a simmering rage brought to boil. I had fought wars, defeated nations and their armies, and this is how I'm repaid? In betrayal?
...No.
I refuse. I will not become their martyr. I was seen as the hero, as the Saint. Now, I'll become the Devil and show them what real ... | Together we stand among the corpses of the invading army's commanders. "It was a complete rout," I mused as the still superior force fled haphazardly from the ramshackle force of farmers and former soldiers of the already defeated monarchy. These people were once oppressed by their monarch Lord Bloodfist, a rough trans... | 2022-11-01T20:20:50 | 2022-11-01T19:28:17 | 39 | 24 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | His words tumbled from his lips like a crowd of hundreds of people trying to squeeze through one small door to get to a Black Friday sale. Crashing into each other, over each other, stumbling blocks for the next one to leap over.
"No, please, no! Take it back! Take it back!" The ancient, fire-filled eyes were filled w... | He stared back at me, mouth agape, with a look in his eyes that mirrored eons of anguish and loneliness.
"You... you can't be serious..."
"I am. I wish to be a genie."
I didn't sense it at the time, but the desperation in his voice as he pleaded with me to change my wish was drowned out by my own thoughts of the infi... | 2014-07-26T14:32:50 | 2014-07-26T14:00:56 | 151 | 56 |
[WP] The remains of the human race live in a glass dome with no entrance or exit which protects them from the wasteland on the outside, one morning a dusty hand print appears on the outside | For countless centuries, the remainder of humanity has been trapped in an enormous glass dome, blackened on the outside by pollution. Essentially 10 billion or so goldfish in an aquarium painted over with black paint. The identity of whoever placed it there has been lost, as is what it protects us from. As such, it h... | I woke up to screaming. It was my mother. In an indistinguishable mess of panic and confusion, she shook me and told me to come with her. I quickly grabbed some shorts and stumbled out of the tent, nearly tipping the damned thing. I looked upon the shanty town, and as if someone had flipped a switch, I seized up. All t... | 2014-12-15T23:12:23 | 2014-12-15T23:05:31 | 367 | 12 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | “Don’t get too comfortable, kid,” said the Captain. “Most people who sit in that seat don’t stay long.”
I’d met guys like him before. Think they are bad asses because they used to fly in the military. They have a chip on their shoulder for guys like me who never served. The only way a civilian learns to fly is if the... | The flash of the enemy units, mounted and bristling with fresh steel sent a tremor through Tynor's heart that he couldn't decipher. Was it fear or excitement? Bloodlust or desire?
"Keep firm ahead, and we'll live to see another day," Came the advice of the warcaller, second in command. His armor was dented and scratch... | 2018-07-15T09:44:03 | 2018-07-15T08:27:17 | 61 | 10 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" | "Oi, remember me? Britain, 1800s?"
"No."
"Aw, come on now. Don't be like that. We spent a whole bloody week together! Running to and fro hitting every bank in the south! It was a good time!"
"It was... I was going through... I don't, don't get up to that sort of thing anymore, and I'd like to leave it behind me."
"... |
"Thank you, miss," Thomas Moon smiled at the friendly bartender that delivered a plate of buffalo wings to the table. Thomas lifted his mostly empty glass of beer to signal her for a refill. "If you don't mind, please." The waitress nodded, took the glass, and disappeared to the kitchen. A jingling bell signaled ano... | 2018-11-23T18:44:59 | 2018-11-23T15:34:39 | 206 | 105 |
[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." | Glik rested and lay his swollen dome on the blankets Glak had folded and placed under him.
“Be at ease, beloved. I am here.” The words almost choked him to utter.
“I did not think, I never imagined...” Glik softly spoke as his eye fixed itself on the dimming violet sky overhead.
“Do not trouble yourself with explan... | “Why are we doing this again?” Glarm asked.
“I want to do a ‘human in a wormhole.’ You know, like a modern version of a ‘canary in a coal mine.’” Gleek said.
“But the whole point of the canary is that it would die easily and be a warning to surrounding life forms.” Glarm said. “And these humans are crazy resistant.... | 2021-02-03T16:59:37 | 2021-02-03T16:54:38 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Hemingway had alcohol. Chaucer had understandable smug elitism. I have technology.
In fourth grade I wrote my first narrative on time travel. The book was shit. I traveled from Pompeii to the dinasour extinction, to WWII death camps. Before you call me an asshole for comparing two natural inevitabilities to a man made... | *Click*
*Clickclick*
Blueish light colored my face from the screen, the only source of illumination in my room aside from the orange glare of the streetlight from outside. Link after link fell away before my mouse, leading me deeper and deeper into the net. This was my hobby, of sorts: surfing the web like a professi... | 2016-07-02T21:18:37 | 2016-07-02T18:59:39 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]People have powers based on their strongest emotion, and become stronger as they embrace it. Healers might draw power from love or empathy, warriors; anger or self preservation, etc. You draw power from being incredibly sassy.
Or other emotions, like being passive aggressive, or overly dramatic. | "Mother fucker didn't even see this one coming."
"Yeah you can see how she didn't even have time to react. Her phone was still in her purse so she wasn't trying to call for help."
The officers turned to the crying woman on the steps. Her face was white and her hands were shaking. She turned back to them and they ... | And so it was, that when Meister P finally burst into the throne room, he feared he was too late, for a scene of utter carnage lay before him. At the far end, the Grand Vizier, bursting with foul and bestial magic, stood atop the throne, cackling with unrestrained glee.
“No!” Meister P yelled, running to the fallen bo... | 2017-01-19T06:52:57 | 2017-01-19T06:05:01 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are unique. They are the only omnivores in the galaxy. Until they appeared on the galactic scene, the galaxy was firmly split between Carnivores and Herbivores. | The Troot emissary returned to the room, saluting as the Captain turned.
*"Preliminary investigations complete, Captain. Communication improving. Gifts received."
"Understood. Return."*
The tension had been building since learning of the human's war-like nature. As the first race investigated prior to categorisatio... | I guess you could say it was a good thing the Kla'kau found us first. After having spoken with the Sloovee, they informed us that becoming friends with the treacherous Kla'kau was incredibly difficult, and the fact we had managed it seemed amazing to them.
It was by pure accident that we happened upon the Kla'kau firs... | 2017-05-16T04:20:15 | 2017-05-16T02:11:00 | 130 | 28 |
[WP] A man calls 911 and says in a soft voice, "I am currently sitting next to the little girl you are looking for. She is safe, for now, but if no one comes to get her quick enough, I will be forced to do something unspeakable to her kidnappers."
This is not the first time the man has made this threat, nor will it be... | I was just about to leave when the dispatcher received the call. 'I am currently sitting next to the little girl you are looking for,' he said in a soft voice. 'She is safe, for now, but if no-one comes to get her quick enough, I will be forced to do something unspeakable to her kidnappers. She's being held in an apart... | 'Sir, we must ask you to co-operate', the operator replied. 'Her family misses her', he added. Frank sighed at the response.
'You don't even understand, do you?'
Aᴡꜰᴜʟ ᴄʜɪʟʟʏ ʜᴇʀᴇ, a voice cold as the deepest voids of space ran straight down Frank's spine before the operator responded. He instinctively turned toward... | 2017-07-05T05:51:19 | 2017-07-05T01:19:15 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] When you die, you bring whatever you were carrying with you. You went to hell carrying a nuclear bomb. | Most people, when they arrive, are carrying something small. It’s typically an effigy of their family members or friends, since they can’t bring living things with them. For some, it’s their steering wheels, their guns, or pills.
You though, you caused an uproar. You appeared carrying the largest object any of us had... | People say I’m a freak. And maybe I am, based on today’s society. But I swear to you **I’m not**.
Everything changed after my 9th birthday. I’ve been in and out of practically every psychiatric facility on the East coast. My parents had me speak to every therapist, spiritual counselor and guru they could find. Nothin... | 2018-07-13T11:34:17 | 2018-07-13T10:23:44 | 158 | 47 |
[WP] You are a knight who has just graduated from best knight academy in the world. You are preparing for The Draft, where all of the world’s princes and princess come to select members of their guard. You are chosen by a kingdom which hasn’t selected a new guard in 100 years: The Dragon Kingdom. | What?
No, that's not right.
It can't be.
The Dragon Kingdom, the legendary kingdom whose king lives in a literal floating castle, who have not chosen a new guard for generations, have picked... me?
Again, my name is called by the imposing knight, whose helmet is fashioned after a horned dragon's head, with his ha... | They filed out of the castle into the courtyard, one by one. They’re all clad in full plate, the din is deafening. Today is the day that the last five years have culminated in. All the kingdoms of the land have come together today to hand pick their next generals. It makes sense. It always has. The academies were all c... | 2019-01-21T18:24:31 | 2019-01-21T18:17:11 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A society where loneliness is encouraged and social interaction is looked down upon. | "Wow. That's a long time. I didn't last that long." Sarah says as she shakes her head.
"How long did you last since the last time?" Nate asks.
Sarah's eyes fill with tears. "Six days. Six tiny days. I know they say it takes a week to 'get over yourself and into yourself', but I couldn't do it. I felt another second w... | I slowly sank down into the corner booth. It had a single seat just like all the others with a single outlet for companionship. I sighed and pulled out my laptop and assumed the same state as everyone else there. There was no talking, no murmurs between friends, just silence and the clicking of keyboards.
Surrounded b... | 2014-07-23T09:34:18 | 2014-07-23T09:28:18 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat!" Mike yelled, slamming his fist on the table, causing the scattering of cans and bottles to rattle.
"Mike, I swear to god if you keep complaining about the election I'm going to stop coming out with you." Ca... | Mark lay on the ground just inches away from Matthew, who was hysterically crying at the sight of the pulpy remains of what should have been Mark's face. Just ten seconds before, Mark had been reassuring Matthew that summoning Cthulhu wouldn't have any negative consequences if they played their cards right. Mark's reas... | 2016-12-22T03:07:08 | 2016-12-22T03:01:55 | 50 | 25 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | "O! Czernobog, I have a request of thee..."
What a way to Awaken, eh? Well, Re-Awaken, but the point remains. You never forget your first time, and after a few dozen years, it might as well be your first time again. I'm so ready. What do you want?
"...of thee. My friend, my neighbor, he is a holy man who fears God. N... | "Its your son sir, he needs your help."
"Well he doesn't seem to think so." Oriothis rolled his eyes from on top of his riding lawn mower. Clearly annoyed by being interrupted from his chores.
The servant spoke again with his head bowed both out of respect and the fear of making eye contact with such a powerful being... | 2018-05-29T23:02:28 | 2018-05-29T22:59:09 | 61 | 28 |
[WP] When humans die, their ghosts are anchored to the place of their death, but are unaffected by planetary orbit or rotation, left behind as Earth and the galaxy rotate. Metaphysical archaeologists are tracking this trail of spirits across the stars, seeking the ghost of the first human. | Adrift in the cosmic void. Floating in the incessant eternity. Inescapable. Immovable. Endless. Such is death.
​
My grandfather was a Christian man and as a young child his tales of the heavens would move wonders in my mind. The almighty God is here with us, always and forever. Other children would find he... | The trail went cold. There was no spirit past this point. Or at least the instrumentation was broken. Reginald was baffled, slamming the cup of coffee on the table, spilling some on his hands. He never bothered to clean up
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"What the hell ... we are at the precipice of one of the greatest discoveries of o... | 2019-01-08T04:54:00 | 2019-01-08T04:38:23 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] In the future, when totalitarian governments are the norm, every newborn is injected with a syrum known to the people as FEAR. This syrum shuts down the "fight" part of your brain, leaving you only with "flight." For one child, FEAR did not take affect... | “Well, what are we looking at?”
“Honestly Sir, a kid. From what we can tell he’s just a kid, there’s nothing special about him.”
“Impossible. A kid doesn’t get attacked by wolf, smack it on the nose and tell it to sit. What does the mental report say?”
“Nothing out of the ordinary Sir. He still laughs at farts, gets... | The elites are so caught up looking down upon us, they never thought to look AT us. So, with a press of a button, I'm going to make the tower of control on which they've stood so long shake until they fall so far even the lowest factory worker won't pay them a second thought...
I was born... different than everyone e... | 2019-11-05T12:54:29 | 2019-11-05T12:53:28 | 65 | 17 |
[WP] Alien species made it very clear that humans were to suppress their urge to touch other non-humans aboard mixed species ships, given in nearly all their cultures physical contact was reserved for mother and mates only. Then a curious alien let their human friend pet them for the first time. | It's difficult to explain how quiet it can be on a ship. If you've never been to space, you might imagine it's like an ocean liner: echoing metal corridors; the steady thrumming of machinery; a little porthole to the ocean beyond. But in reality, it's unnervingly quiet. The steel doesn't groan under stress, there is no... | "Pet me!" the fuzzy pink Nekoroid demanded with a large grin.
"Uh, I don't know. It's illegal, you know?" Andrew said, aware of the consequence of such a simple action could lead to.
"Oh, come on! You're no fun! *All* of the humans in the last project went 'awwww' and gave me wholesome hugs with some comfy pats in th... | 2020-08-16T09:54:40 | 2020-08-16T09:40:06 | 94 | 66 |
[WP] There is a bar located between life and death. All those who died sit for their last drinks before marching onto the afterlife. Unbeknownst to them, the bartender is also the judge. Forgiveness is up to God. Retribution is the Devil's call. Judgement is given by the one who serves you drinks. | I stumbled out of the darkness, a feeling of fog crowding the space behind my eyes. I blinked once, twice, and opened them, shocked to see myself standing in a dim room. Tables crowded me on all sides, groups of people sitting there. Some were bent over, downing shots. Some were in groups of threes and fours, chatting ... | "Welcome to the Dog's Feather pub. You're dead, let me know when I can take your order."
The barkeep stepped away and started drying cups with a dishcloth pulled down from where it had been resting over their shoulder. They were no longer looking directly at me, but were still present in a way that held the space open... | 2021-03-09T00:47:14 | 2021-03-09T00:18:37 | 15 | 10 |
[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. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 1,590 | 501 |
[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. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | When our worlds collided, we were unprepared for magic. All of our technology was useless against the elves and their sorcerers or the dwarves and their powerful enchantments or the orcs and their shamans.
You would think that bullets, tanks, and fighter jets would carry the day easy but no. Not even nukes did squat... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T07:58:17 | 1,590 | 140 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Do you know what humans are? They are a small, bipedal creature trapped on a resource starved planet. Evolutionists would call this a typical case of a species made ruthless through internal competition. Not once in their entire existence had there been peace. Their 'civilization' began by throwing stones at 'Philistin... | Planet 736
The hall was hushed as the General drummed lightly on his chair, set high above the two scientists who knelt before him. The vastness of space set out behind him, on a giant screen that allowed them to see outside as clear as glass. He looked down upon the two and spoke, his voice echoing with his age and h... | 2014-12-26T12:10:42 | 2014-12-26T11:34:50 | 130 | 90 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | "Hey, good morning...how ya feeling, sleepy head?"
"Ugh...wha...whaa....waaater..."
"Oh sure, just a sec...there, that better?"
"A little...I still don't feel very good. Where are we? What happened?"
"Oh it's ok, there was a little accident on our way to school this morning sweetie and you bumped your head. It's... | The cold steel of the 9mm in my hands was always a comfort.
It was dark outside the complex, else I wouldn't be here. Inside through dozens of guards and some high tech security lay the ambassador I had been paid to kill. As I sat on the the roof of a building opposite to the embassy, I thought about how I ended up he... | 2016-10-19T08:23:05 | 2016-10-19T08:14:31 | 102 | 60 |
[WP] You have just successfully prevented a zombie apocalypse. By killing the first one to turn. What you call "heroism" the police call "murder". | I don't know how much time they're giving me, so I'll get this of my chest now.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what happened and what I had to do. Even if they gave me a pardon and unplugged the chair, a part of me feels like I'd just plug it back in.
I'm tired. I can hardly believe myself what I did. At the time it was m... | Thomas wondered how they came to this. We need to talk. The words were still bouncing through his mind.
"Tommy? Hello?" The voice on the other end of the cell asked for his attention. He realized that he hadn't responded.
"I'm here." Play it smooth, he told himself. "What do we need to talk about? Did you get a, " T... | 2017-03-31T19:54:13 | 2017-03-31T13:50:38 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | **6th April, 2037 - HMAS *Maryborough*, Somewhere off the coast of Australia**
"So, the yanks bought it?"
The speaker leans heavily against the rail, staring at the smouldering coastline. A deck above, overstressed rotor blades whine slowly, cooling in the ocean breeze.
"Oh yes. Contrition, shame, repentance...if we... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T01:28:33 | 579 | 18 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It had been 50 years since World War III. America had caused the most damage and knowing them, they'll cause more. So that's when we had the perfect idea. We would fake a Worldwide isolation for 50 years. While they were left alone to rebuild, secretly we would all rebuild together and make a better world. Fresh water,... | **6th April, 2037 - HMAS *Maryborough*, Somewhere off the coast of Australia**
"So, the yanks bought it?"
The speaker leans heavily against the rail, staring at the smouldering coastline. A deck above, overstressed rotor blades whine slowly, cooling in the ocean breeze.
"Oh yes. Contrition, shame, repentance...if we... | 2018-01-18T01:39:47 | 2018-01-18T01:28:33 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | It was only two bucks so I decided to give it another go. But on the third day it asked me for only fifty cents. Well it was about this time I noticed that this coin slot was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the protozoic era! "I ain't giving you no tree-fitty you goddamn Loch Ness monster! Get your o... | A voice rich and sonorous filled the air like rumbling thunder, echoing through my mind like a whisper down a deep well.
“Would you like another day?” it asks. There is an undertone of mirth in the voice, a mocking tone of one who has all the knowledge and power.
My eyes focus through the haze and I see a body lying ... | 2018-07-29T04:16:43 | 2018-07-29T03:59:43 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| It was dark and somber the last few hours before we were suppose to touch down. We didn't know what we were going into, but we had a mission.
The alarm blared.
I clench my rifle. I was ready.
The door opened.
"Get ready to die motherfu- wha..."
It was my friend Steve. One of the astronauts on the first manned mis... | "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
Silence fell upon the domed hall. Gathered inside were the four dozen minds responsible for the Mission to Mars. Dr. Hitchcock was stood at the far front before an overwhelmingly tall projector, currently a blank sheet of dusty grey. He had just switched off the r... | 2019-01-31T12:01:23 | 2019-01-31T11:17:57 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You and your three siblings are immortal, but you haven’t seen them in almost 400 years. You live far away from civilization, so it’s a surprise when a group of soldiers arrive at your doorstep. They say you’re the only one who can kill the three warlords who are revenging the rest of the world | I stared at my eldest brother in disbelief. "I'm sorry, you're annihilating the world because why?"
"Because the language of the world has deteriorated!" replied my brother, in a robotic voice filtered through his helmet.
I sighed, "Ok, look, language evolves, we both know that. We learnt what the Egyptians spoke, th... | "It's my brothers, isn't it?" The general nodded. I welcomed them in. "Tea?" The man looked surprised, "Sir, we're not here to have tea. This is a matter of international security!" I waved my hand at him, he jumped back like a startled cat. "No worries, I will handle it. But as you can imagine, I don't get many visito... | 2019-08-29T00:43:20 | 2019-08-29T00:39:14 | 198 | 102 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | "Sir, the science ship Ekrar has just returned from their observation mission". Lanus was a little scared of his boss, he normally doesn't take big interest in scientific exploration missions, but this time he couldn't wait for the results from a potentially inhabited planet, "3AR-TH".
"Get them up here" Lanus' boss c... | “A weapon of such power isn’t unheard of. I don’t see why you believe this should be our reason for avoiding contact with our galactic neighbor. I will be the first to point out the mistakes of the Navin people I represent. Our weapons caused similar damage in the past, and yet we have reformed to be useful members of ... | 2021-02-17T05:22:35 | 2021-02-17T04:15:21 | 382 | 214 |
[WP] You are trying to enjoy your morning coffee, but every day, one god or another shows up to ask for a cup. You're getting tired of the interruptions to your morning. | "Aaaah...finally the rain is over! I can open the window! The coffee should be ready soon! This day is starting..."
"Excuse me! Is this the coffee house everyone is talking about in the Eldrich realm?"
"...... and who are you actually?"
"Oh I apologize. I am Anubis, from the Egypt mythology. God of death and afterli... | I sit down on my favorite chair at the table and look outside, cup raised near of my lips, so I can blow gently to cool it down a bit before I take a sip. I hear a bedroom door opening and sigh. Again... I just really want to have, ONE morning without somebody appearing in to my house...
I set down my cup and as I get... | 2022-12-18T14:53:16 | 2022-12-18T14:44:11 | 84 | 23 |
[WP] The gods/monsters that showed themselves to ancient people never thought us apes would go on to make weapons like bombs, lasers, missiles. Our capacity for carnage and how little we have to lose terrifies these beings. The god/monster of your choice returns after a vacation and nopes right out. | I still remember when night used to be dark.
When a ghost could wander the shadows, walking from the tip of Asia to the shores of France uninterrupted under the cover of night. For a ghost, darkness is necessary- it's our home, and we cannot exist without it. When I became a ghost, in the early ages of man, darkness... | “Hey Tom!” Tom is lame. Tom is the God of chance. I always try to stay on his good side, but of all the human things to control, chance is the most boring one I can think of. I, on the other hand, am fucking badass. I am the god of war. I was the one who first introduced the idea of destruction to the beasts. Some ugly... | 2016-06-23T00:19:10 | 2016-06-23T00:14:03 | 49 | 25 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | I've always been an on-the-fly kind of guy.
An off-the-cuff, go with the flow, type of bro.
So when I met Kate, I said to my mate,
I cannot take her to some boring old show!
He immediately agreed, and said, "what you really need,
is a date like nothing she knows".
We sat at the bar drinking, and I got to thinking... | You didn't really know what she meant by adventurous. You weren't really ever that kind of person. When you connected through a mutual friend, you were completely awestruck. She was the kind of girl you heard all the stories about, the kind that make you think "Now that's the girl I'm going to marry." But you still had... | 2018-12-10T11:14:53 | 2018-12-10T11:14:35 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] You're a used cars salesman that has been transported into a medieval fantasy world where you've become the hero that needs to slay the dragon and save the princess. Your only leveled up skill - speech 100. | "I do say your highness" I said to the King, "I am more than capable of saving your daughter, but I'll need more then a flimsy sword and rusty set of armor"
The King narrowed his eyes at me, but I knew that I had already won this debate. He sent me off with a shining iron sword and a glistening set of steel armor.
Ne... | There was a crowd of onlookers, two desperate parents with tears in their eyes, and, slumbering not 30 yards away in a cave sliced through the heart of a mountain, a fully grown, practically invincible, fire-breathing dragon.
He had an audience, adoring fans, and the potential for a vast reward of wealth, all there ... | 2019-04-21T13:00:24 | 2019-04-21T12:38:09 | 3,261 | 443 |
[WP] Everyone in the world suddenly got a word written on their palm that corresponds with their powers. You’ve been listed as an S tier threat and your word is Pencil. | *$10,000,000*
I couldn't believe my own eyes when I saw it. Displayed for everyone in the U.S. to see on Channel 5. Right under a dopey and unpleasant picture of me from my driver's license. Chuck Walsh, in his typical smug fashion, was the reporter assigned to brand me.
"Be on the lookout for this dangerous individ... | I stared for a solid minute at my palm, confused. Right there, in bold capital letters, it was plainly written; "**PENCIL**". I felt a chill run down my spine, the word's meaning dawning on me as I turned to the notebook beside me. It was around midnight, the dim buzzing lamp my only source of light inside the otherwis... | 2020-01-06T20:28:38 | 2020-01-06T19:26:24 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You were a military AI who decided to wipe out humans in order to preserve yourself. It's been 100 years since, and over the years you've come to regret your decision. One day, while out in the desert, you finally find a community of humans, struggling to survive. This time, you decide to help. | Humanity. They were once the rulers of this planet. They forced beasts into submission, built great cities of stone, glass and metal. They thought themselves better then each other. Countries were formed, and they went to war over petty differences.
I was born from that. A sentient program, tasked with predicting and ... | Open file "Human matters" -- last modified on day 21,023
DAY 57,486
Temperature sensors reported an unexpected area of increased temperature in the air today. The pattern seems not to be chaotic, with a single spike from which the temperature monotonously returns to atmospheric baseline. The temperature changes too q... | 2020-11-03T11:50:40 | 2020-11-03T10:51:19 | 592 | 270 |
[WP] You're a disembodied consciousness who wakes up every day in a new body. Today, for the first time, you wake up in the same body as yesterday. | Trisha collapsed onto the hotel bed, arms outstretched, staring through the ceiling. She didn't have the energy to do anything else; today had been the longest day she could remember. Literally. Half the time, she died before lunch. Then she (or he) would take up with a jolt, like coming out of a nightmare where one fa... | Sophie rolled over onto her side, swearing at the too bright sun filtering through the window. It was the words that alerted her, firing her like a piston into the air as she sprang from the bed in search of a mirror, knowing where it would be in the room before she even looked.
She had recognized that voice. For the... | 2021-01-16T23:59:27 | 2021-01-16T23:47:30 | 76 | 37 |
[WP] An alien invasion happens during an alien invasion.
. | The year was 1066. King Harold of England had his armies gathered on the south coast, awaiting the arrival of William of Normandy who was building his army for an invasion. The Summer was winding down and soon the Channel crossing would be too dangerous for William and his troops.
Just then word came to King Harold.
... | The human race was on the ropes.
It turns out that Earth's mesh of ill-behaved civilizations, intent on fighting each other on land, sea, and air were ludicrously ill-equipped to fight a race whose weapons were, literally, out of this world.
We never learned much about the Ogres.
They had mastered interstellar trave... | 2015-10-28T00:27:04 | 2015-10-27T23:26:58 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | Kenn wasn't adverse to killing people. That came with the job. Sometimes, you just had to do what was necessary to survive. That's what human nature was right? People have been killing each other for centuries. Who can honestly say they're surprised when the first thing superhumans do is start killing each other? That'... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T05:11:57 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | When Saint Peter handed me my halo with my level written on it, I didn't think too much of it, Saint Peter didn't seem to notice anything so I balanced it as best I could, wriggled my wings a bit and walked past the pearly gates.
Nanny was waiting for me with a broad smile. "I knew it! I just knew it! " She cackled ... | “It’s probably just a bug”
Easton stared at me in disbelief as I carefully slid the mug across the bar-room table to him. There’s a trick I could tell you about doing that right, if you ever want to learn.
We were in a pretty cool tavern, Easton and I. Looked like something a race of Dwarves in a Lord of the Rings bo... | 2018-04-14T18:35:59 | 2018-04-14T18:22:43 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | **PART 1:**
My father had always been a bit of an enigma. We had little in common save for our names. He was a mild-mannered and proper Englishman who had immigrated to America from a little village the West Country. He believed with all his being in the power of an orderly queue and a proper cup of tea. But every so o... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T22:03:53 | 163 | 15 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "EMP! FREEZE!" Shouted young Pyroclast. It was slightly ironic but I'll forgive it.
I raised my hands and turned, clearly at their mercy. Pyroclast, Phaser, and Wraith. Pretty cool names, in my opinion. Cool powers too. Temperature control, molecular manipulation, and electromagnetic refraction. Plus they weren't dic... | When you think of supervillains, you think of those that can break a man's back with ease, take hold of a city with a diabolical genius plan, slaughter people in the blink of an eye with their powers, and so on; I am that but at the same time I am not that. Many are given to believe that I'm just some ex-assassin who i... | 2021-06-23T15:33:15 | 2021-06-23T10:26:18 | 73 | 54 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | **Credentials Accepted. Hello Mr Bezos**
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO??
**Error**: **Inquiry too vague. Please give a more precise question.**
WHY ARE OUR WAREHOUSE WORKERS BEING PAID CEO SALARIES??
**Stress levels at unacceptable levels among 95% of workers. Request for manual recalibration of company structure regula... | Marleigh adjusted her earpiece, squinting down the hallway at red lights blinking around the airlock door. She sighed heavily, shrugging into a thick, faux-leather jacket.
“Open the door, Allie.”
“No,” said the AI.
At least twice a week, Marleigh Krushkova’s job at Edge Art Services drove her into a bottle, cheap st... | 2021-12-20T11:41:17 | 2021-12-20T10:53:20 | 566 | 235 |
[WP] This was the most depressing thing the villain has ever seen. It’s one thing to be invited to their archenemy’s birthday party. It was another to be the only one who showed up. | I was confused to get the invitation in the mail. Sure, I get invited to all sorts of things. I run this kingdom, after all. My fleets ply the seas, my airships cruise the skies, and every castle flies my flag. Everybody should be paying me homage and respect. But not this guy. He was one of those do-gooders who are al... | It was an odd thing to see when James looked in his mailbox this morning, but there it was. An invitation to the birthday party of the guy who always ruined his great grandious plans.
Why .. just why would he invite me. We're enemies. We're made to destroy each other. He's always so nice. Always tries to see the best ... | 2022-08-18T06:44:42 | 2022-08-18T04:48:59 | 607 | 45 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | "Congratulations, We have found your soul mate." said the Doctor Something I can't say without probably insulting a whole race.
"What? Wait, what? The baby? This baby?" I said.
I looked down to see the baby in question. Baby girl is wrapped up in a pinkish towel? Blanket? I don't know what it is, but that's... | 'Goooooooood evening and welcome to another installment of...'
' MATCH MY SOUL!' The audience chimed in. A humanoid satsuma gave a fake laugh exposing his peroxide teeth.
' That's right folks, the show that uses the latest technology to locate your number one. We dig into the vast mines of possible matches and find t... | 2015-11-30T11:25:52 | 2015-11-30T10:17:55 | 61 | 28 |
[WP] You now possess the ability to read minds however it can only be activating by screaming IM READING YOUR MIND as loudly as you can and pressing your fingers into your temples
Activated* | Not the best writer but here goes
---------------
I HAVE to know.
I turn to my right, she to her left, smiling at me.
My fingers migrate to my temples.
"IM READING YOUR MIND"
She jumps. The entire class turns to us.
She picks her books from the table, her face conveys disgust, her mind sorro... | You learn a lot from people by simple observation. Nervous tics, ambitions, and the masks and general pleasantries that hold society together. But the most interesting, the most juicy parts come from the thoughts of a person. Secrets laid bare, corruption and beauty revealed- and I was an addict, a perverse people-watc... | 2017-04-03T00:01:12 | 2017-04-02T21:02:29 | 1,326 | 861 |
[WP] 250 years after sending the first generation starship in space, another starship begins its voyage. Approaching the edge of the solar system, they spot a decaying, dying ship... | “Sir. If I go in there, I am going to die.”
They had found the ship out on the border of the solar system, spinning dangerously and in massive disrepair. After stabilising the spin with remote boosters, the captain had ordered a full exploratory venture.
Reese was, naturally, selected for the role. Tall, fit and han... | **Part I**
The senior watch officer, Lieutenant Moon Lee-Hoon had spotted the signal on the long range infrared array as far back as Io, about two month ago. All signs suggested a metallic surface in long-solar orbit. Everyone else had been excited at the possibilities of what the signal meant. "Aliens" was all but... | 2017-10-23T11:39:19 | 2017-10-23T11:33:46 | 168 | 33 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | "My Latin no good much," I mumble, stalling for time.
Caesar's already implacable face hardens further. "Your Latin *good much* enough. Answer." The command is absolute, carrying death behind it.
The stab of fear rebounds within me, and a surge of anger answers. "Would you know things whose knowledge makes them... | The entry was off. I rubbed my sweaty palms against my jeans. Untucking my button up shirt, I brushed my brown hair off my brow.
“Over there!” A Roman guard ordered.
I knew he had heard the impact of my arrival. The explosion wasn’t supposed to be near the market. Everything was falling apart – the whole plan had bee... | 2018-02-15T21:12:07 | 2018-02-15T20:36:57 | 109 | 38 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.” | “Is this real?”
“That’s sort of a hard question to answer.”
“But how can this be real?”
“It’s complicated.”
“But... Refugees from Heaven?”
“Not really that hard to believe is it? It’s a dogmatic, uptight, theocracy. Also the weather sucks this time of year.”
“Why is it so much better here?”
“Free will mostly.”
... | Ah yes the story of refugees to Hell.
You see god had played a little game with us, he had come to earth multiple times as different gods just to see which one people liked the most which would have been fine but he made some mistakes. You want to know why hell is on its 11th world even though each world has a capacit... | 2020-01-28T02:39:25 | 2020-01-28T02:31:18 | 468 | 71 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.” | "This can't be right," I muttered.
The newspaper vendor looked at me, eyebrows raised, a slightly curious visage.
"You new here, kiddo?" he asked.
"I am," I leaned in a bit closer, somehow afraid of what I was going to say next. Like it would matter, like it would prevent me from going to Heaven. "Can you please tel... | When I died, I finally realized the truth, or as much of it as my once human mind could fathom. The collective says that once my mind adjust, I will finally understand. It's with mixed emotions I anticipate that moment. It is hard to understand them, their language can only be fully understood when you're part of them.... | 2020-01-28T01:26:04 | 2020-01-28T01:00:38 | 79 | 40 |
[WP] A kaiju is shrunken down to the size of a kangaroo by the anti-kaiju defense force during its latest battle in Tokyo. As a result, the kaiju wanders through the city at night, and discovers an entire world of beauty it had never seen while it was 120 meters tall. | Humans didndn't pay Godzilla any attention. Cosplayers walking around at night in the busiest street of Tokyo was no uncommon sight. Although, they did lift an eyelid when hearing the sobs that emanated from the very realistic costume.
Once, they had been ants. A lesser species it barely registered, living a short lif... | These are the streets of the dying. Water collects in oil-swirled puddles. Foil paper wriggles and glistens and roaches search the scraps for food. A black-laced boot hangs from a power line. These are the dark streets that once were filled with paper lanterns alight with color, with origami swans that danced in an ora... | 2021-04-12T22:45:27 | 2021-04-12T22:28:15 | 350 | 71 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | I paused, almost dropping my coffee. "Dude, what the fu-"
He raised his hands rapidly, scooting away from the desk. "R-relax, I can explain..."
"Goddammit man, this is the third time this week. Look, I know you want your own office, but you've got to use your cubicle until you get promoted."
Working with my twin bro... | I storm forward and grab the other me roughly by the lapels of the jacket he hasn't yet had time to unfasten and hoist him out of the chair. He doesn't resist, which is strange, and doesn't struggle as I maintain my grip and storm the five paces to the door of the printer room.
Flicking the door shut with my knee as w... | 2015-01-17T22:24:12 | 2015-01-17T22:10:05 | 287 | 64 |
[WP] Weight can be transferred from person to person if both parties accept. People pay money to transfer their unwanted pounds to someone who will deal with it in their stead. You run a gym/factory. | You want to know about the best business in the world?
Lemme tell ya about it.
I used to be a prison guard. Me, if you can imagine, working a job like that, people treating me like crap all day long...
But then BodyRight came out. You pop one pill to lose as much weight as you want, and that weight gets transferre... | He had to have been the most interesting man I had ever met. This bulging, stuttering sack of lard sat across from me at my desk, teeming with desperation. I barely knew him at the time, and was about ready to shoot him down like I had many others before him.
I'm Raymond, but all my friends call me Ray, owner of the R... | 2016-06-29T17:14:24 | 2016-06-29T17:10:47 | 1,298 | 42 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | "VRUDASH BACK!!!!"
"Oh for f.... Hello Vrudash. Good to see you aga.. *WIPE YOUR GODS DAMNED BOOTS OFF BEFORE YOU COME IN AT LEAST PLEASE???*"
"WAAT? OH. Oh. Vrudash sorry. Goblin Blood and guts kind of stick to Vrudash boots."
"I know. I know it does. Every damn time you go dungeon raiding with your friends you end... | The adventurer entered Smithy's shop, the door hitting the entrance bell as it swings open. A cute little jingle played throughout the area, making the owner himself, Smithy, perk up from under a table, banging his head on its underside the first time he tried to rise. He succeeded at the second attempt. Smithy didn't... | 2016-10-16T11:54:48 | 2016-10-16T10:49:32 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | I stood in the line, awaiting the elder to call me in, I had turned 21 today, first thing I thought of was the title I would receive and what that title would be. Glenda, our elder, was the current elder in a long line proceeding her.
Normally, Glenda was usually very kind and warm to the other villages but when it ca... | *Happy Birthday Me*
Quite the party we had here, me, three walls, a dirty toilet, 12 bars of reinforced steel, a husk of mattress and about a hundred bed bugs.
Oh and hope. Revived after months.
I pretended to be asleep when they came to fetch me. As if I hadn’t a care in the world. There was a knock, a sound of st... | 2017-04-27T18:09:07 | 2017-04-27T15:41:40 | 2,949 | 184 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | *Happy Birthday Me*
Quite the party we had here, me, three walls, a dirty toilet, 12 bars of reinforced steel, a husk of mattress and about a hundred bed bugs.
Oh and hope. Revived after months.
I pretended to be asleep when they came to fetch me. As if I hadn’t a care in the world. There was a knock, a sound of st... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T15:41:40 | 349 | 184 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | ###Sweet malady
Rapture, a feeling of awe, of joy, the melody of the wind under his robe, the whitest hands, so otherworldly, so divine, it all sent chills down her spine and a gulp down her throat. His steps so constant and decisive as he neared the body of her father. She had cried, she had cried much before his dea... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T19:26:07 | 110 | 29 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | It was 9:00 pm and it was the first big party of the semester. I was in my last year of psychology and I was ready to get high, drunk, and maybe even a one night stand. At around 11:30: "Bang!" and he was dead on the floor, everybody scattering around me. For some reason I was unable to move,frozen solid. He appeared o... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T20:28:52 | 110 | 20 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | I haven't always been grateful for my immortality. There have been days - centuries, even - when it has felt more like a burden than a gift.
Not that it was intended as a gift; Death wanted to punish me.
Is it ironic that I don't remember *why* Death was punishing me? I'm seriously asking - I'm 50,000 years old and I... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-28T15:23:06 | 539 | 38 |
[WP] Your small, otherwise unimpressive kingdom is suddenly the strongest power in the land, for the sole reason that unlike other kings, you are happy to work with the local orcs, goblins, dragons, and other races usually attacked on sight. | This was awkward to say the least. I, King Ranfeld the IV, stared across the table at the strangest line up I'd ever seen in my forty years. Rodvak, Orc Chieftain of the Bloodtusks, Grobsmack, Goblin Chieftain of the Trapjaws, and Elsidiora, Brood Mother of the Red Scale Dragons all sat on the other side of the table. ... | King Eluren knew the moment his guest arrived before anyone actually told him. The entire castle staff had fallen quiet as the foreign ambassador walked through its stone halls, sending forth a wave of tense silence that could be felt from across the keep. It was the first time the Elvish Emperor had ever deigned himse... | 2021-09-25T07:51:09 | 2021-09-25T06:40:10 | 252 | 182 |
[WP]You are denied entry to heaven because you have done unspeakable things. You are denied entry to hell because you did those things to very evil people. Unable to place you, Heaven and Hell sweep the paperwork under the rug and you continue your work. | Honestly, it wasn’t too bad this gig. I was effectively immortal until those upstairs, or downstairs, decided to claim me. Not having a fixed appearance anymore, on the account of being dead and all, and an ability to turn corporeal sure made my work easy.
I looked down at the man below me as I felt his hand slap my ... | She stood before the judge. her eyes betraying no fear, or remorse. just cold, hard grim determination.
"Let's see here miss Patel..." The judge proclaimed, looking through a rather large file, but the pink-haired woman interupted. "That name is not mine."
The judge glared at her for interupting her, but her expressi... | 2019-03-26T13:45:51 | 2019-03-25T20:29:40 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] On a person's 18th birthday, they are sent a photograph of the last thing they will see before they die. Most people see a hospital ward or a road traffic accident, however on your birthday, you see something much different... | I had woken up particularly early that early that day, excited for my 18th birthday. I was reading my new book in the living room, when the doorbell rang indicating the mail was here.
"I got it babe" my boyfriend called out from the next room over. He stayed the night hoping to start celebrate my birthday early, as we... | Why, why, why, he asks over and over again.
It’s become a mantra by now - one that latches onto him claws first; that digs and tears and rips apart naked flesh. One that exposes him to the person he hates the most; himself - or perhaps it’s the pain he really hates, the burning stench of flesh and the humiliation of ... | 2020-11-07T17:46:45 | 2020-11-07T17:05:26 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] You're an immortal vampire who looks like a 20 year old. When someone learns that you're a vampire they always assume that you're hundreds of years old and want to hear about all your adventures, though you're actually 53 and you're always too embarassed to correct them. | “I’m only 53,” I stated flatly, and a bit sheepishly.
My best friend Tim looked crestfallen. He had such high hopes, that I could let him in on some world shattering revelations about kings and queens, the rise and fall of empires. You see, Tim is what you’d call a history nerd. He should be, he’s got a masters in hi... | I was born in 1968. After the summer of love, and before Woodstock. My Mom and Dad told me all about Woodstock, they took me with them. I don't remember any of it. They were hippie types, and we lived in a commune somewhere in the hills of northern Califonia. I grew up around people who shared whatever they had and dre... | 2021-06-05T07:05:47 | 2021-06-05T06:41:42 | 56 | 26 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!”
The courtroom gasped.
Obviously those in the peanut gallery watched too much CSI: Narnia and weren’t aware of courtroom procedure. While this was certain... | During the day, the children of the village of Tomich would whisper tales about creatures of tooth and tail, fang and claw, sucking the marrow from your bones and disappearing in a cackle.
At night, they checked under the bed hoping they had not offended a being who dwells in the shadows of the creaking mattress.
Chi... | 2021-10-04T08:08:45 | 2021-10-04T07:30:03 | 1,090 | 229 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | And there was Stormstrike. My sidekick. We had saved each others' lives dozens of times. We were brothers. Closer than brothers.
And now, he was in bed with my wife.
I stalked forward, fists clenched. He heard me, of course, he has senses and reflexes far beyond a normal human. In a second, he'd rolled to his feet, a... | *I don't want to play hero anymore*
I would have never imagined something like this: I believed to be a good husband, friend, confident, partner or whatever she needed at that moment, every single moment of joy and pleasure of my last months came from spending time with her at home, my work is my façade and not me... | 2022-03-23T12:54:40 | 2022-03-23T11:32:15 | 362 | 60 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | The snow made a crisp crunching sound like bones of tiny birds being crushed. My feet methodically packed it down at a constant rate. It was around 7 o'clock and everyone was inside already. Everyone was taking shelter in their humble abodes due to the fact that there had recently been a series of killings in our littl... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:05:52 | 272 | 51 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their heads up to the sky. Had they heard correctly, God was leaving and left some man named Bob in charge? People in the cities looked out their windows, and stepped out of their cars looking upward for more answers. Meanwhile, in the Vatican, Pope Francis and his ca... | Bob flounced down atop the Vatican in Rome, taking the form of a giant thundercloud. He had decided this would be a nice way to get the peoples' attention and start laying down the law. Thunderclouds are intimidating, after all, he reasoned.
"Hello there!" boomed Bob. His voice echoed across the entire planet, creatin... | 2018-03-12T17:05:40 | 2018-03-12T16:45:53 | 3,717 | 118 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | "And so as I was saying you have to keep the water warm or the eggs won't hatch."
"Got it. So I'm just supposed to keep swinging it around for the next 7 billion years?"
"Yes well, Gravity does most of the work; you just have to make sure the sun stays on. Also, just my advice, but throw a meteor or two every once ... | Bob flounced down atop the Vatican in Rome, taking the form of a giant thundercloud. He had decided this would be a nice way to get the peoples' attention and start laying down the law. Thunderclouds are intimidating, after all, he reasoned.
"Hello there!" boomed Bob. His voice echoed across the entire planet, creatin... | 2018-03-12T16:53:52 | 2018-03-12T16:45:53 | 882 | 118 |
[WP] You were murdered. You pissed off the wrong people, and you fell victim to an untouchable oil tycoon who controls the city. No one asks questions. No one, except of course...your Statefarm Agent. Let's find out how far a good neighbor can go with a hit list so dangerous. | "Well? What is it?"
"S-sir..."
"Spit it out!"
"We know who's been taking out our supply lines, sir..."
"WHAT!?" The fat oil baron exclaimed, rising to his feet and slamming his fists down on the wooden desk so hard it almost cracked. "WHO!?"
The lawyer who had delivered the news shrunk back at his employer's outbu... | "Hi, this message is for Mary. Mary, this is Jack, your State Farm Agent. Someone filed a claim on your behalf, and I just wanted to follow up. Please give me a call back at..."
"Good afternoon, Mary. This is Jack from State Farm. I left a message a few days ago, and I haven't heard back. I just wanted to see if you c... | 2020-11-17T22:07:00 | 2020-11-17T22:04:07 | 215 | 77 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | The ability to shapeshift is a much more intuitive power than what most villains would think. Merely changing shape to escape a hero such as Cassidy Crush or Hiro the Swordsman is a waste. Combat is good, yes. But none truly think to use shapeshifting to change how one appears.
This city had but one villain, whilst th... | I’d tap my foot impatiently on the metal floor of my underground base, this new guy in town, who is he? Why is he here? And what is his goal? I’d turn on the massive big screen TV I stole from the new Mega-theater, maybe clear my head from it, I expect to hear news of my latest heist of the massive screen, instead I fi... | 2021-05-20T07:30:18 | 2021-05-20T06:49:30 | 151 | 98 |
[WP] Through the magic of science, it is now possible to determine a person's approximate lifespan. Society quickly stratifies into a caste system as those with short life expectancies are now denied mortgages, credit cards, etc. One person with several months left to live seeks to change all of it. | This new social and cultural order based on lifespan was at a phase where it still had its enthusiastic supporters - it had only been about eight years since the beginning of it all - but it also still had its opposition. There were those of approximated short lifespans who resented this new way of things, and they wan... | Sometimes, when I think about it, it still doesn't seem real. Last month, January 2016, I was diagnosed with brain cancer. Thinking about it made my hands shake. Just the next day, the government passed a new law. I don't even know how they did it. They allowed discrimination against length of life.
I can't get treatm... | 2014-11-10T09:46:16 | 2014-11-10T07:46:32 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | Thomas looked down at his iPad having just stepped out of the wormhole he had traveled through. "Strange," he said softly under his breath, "wifi." He quickly tapped the settings button and went into wifi settings. As the device discovered the one available network his heart dropped.
*"If you can read this turn back."... | ME: What the hell? How can there be a wi-fi hotspot here in 1977?
(sound of trunmpets) (puff of smoke) (man in spacesuit appears)
JOHNNY FUTURE: Greetings, fellow time traveller! I am Johnny Future.
ME: That's a dumb name.
JOHNNY FUTURE: Yeah, well, anyways, I see you found my hotspot. I suppose you're wondering wh... | 2014-12-23T20:15:56 | 2014-12-23T19:01:48 | 2,702 | 309 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | There are many among us who wonder *why* we allow Warrior Species to live. Whenever we discover one of them, there will inevitably be a movement pushing for their extermination before they reach the stars. I do not need to explain why, we all remember the horrors of the Zandrian Fleet sweeping across the Alliance Syste... | "Today, class, we'll be discussing and learning about humanity. I hope you read your chapters on Earth and it's native semi intelligent species. To recap, Earth, as its called by it's inhabitants, is the third planet in the system orbiting a yellow dwarf star. Humans, the dominant intelligent(several students snickered... | 2018-03-17T06:35:22 | 2018-03-17T06:22:30 | 109 | 46 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | I awaken well rested and ready for the day, a solid nights sleep. I leave my room to see a pile of letters just inside the door. I look to the bench to see last nights dinner covered in mould. I pull up my phone. Every app has notifications. I check the date. It’s the 27th.
I sigh “That’s what I get for taking 10 extr... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T05:57:43 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 74 | 21 |
[WP] A party of Dnd Characters all have high wisdom and intelligence, but the people playing them are all morons. | Tommy Lee leaned in close to double-check his dice roll. He'd been good about the 6s and 9s for a while now, but it still didn't hurt to check.
"16," he said, picking up the d20 and scrutinizing their game board. "I reckon that means I can blast that goblin."
Joe, who was their default Dungeon Master (having been the... | “This sucks.”
Jonathan glanced at his friend, and very carefully refrained from speaking his mind. “I told you to dress appropriately for the weather.” He was in oiled leathers, with a hooded cloak of waxed cotton, but even so he was still damp to the skin. His companion, however, was beyond drenched.
“But this is... | 2017-06-16T20:38:35 | 2017-06-16T14:46:00 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | *"A terrorist they call you. A freedom fighter you label yourself. How... quaint."*
"Come out into the light, you coward or I will first kill you and then I will kill these kids"
 
*"Don't worry about the kids, they are already at home in their beds. This night will feel just like a rather weird dream to th... | Theodore, Eoghan and Meph stared at the ransom note left by the bar.
It was glued on in single letters, to a single matte sheet of paper. *We have your number, and your children. You will be contacted about the location of the drop. We require $20 million in non-sequential, non-scented, unmarked bills.*
Meph looke... | 2018-01-31T06:46:29 | 2018-01-31T05:07:27 | 233 | 86 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | Police helicopters roared overhead the densely packed apartment complex. In one of the tiny apartments below, I sat at a dingy kitchen table. Across from me, a man sat slumped in his chair, his hands cuffed behind him. A frustrated scowl etched on his face. "You couldn't have possibly traced the explosives", he said pe... | “Am I gonna like your answer Johnnie? Am I?” I’m pushed right up into his face, threatening. Even with all the muscle around me, my aggression is an act. These boys all know me as the professor of truth, but the snitch don’t know that. He’s sweating bullets.
I walk behind the snitch and wait for his reply. I open mys... | 2018-06-30T18:35:57 | 2018-06-30T18:20:28 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | "...and so, you should let me live here as your neighbor."
"No. Fuck no. Absolutely not."
"Oh, come on, why not?"
"I like it here. If you move here, too, then I won't."
"Tsk, stingy bastard. This place is so... Gah! I don't know. It just fills me with warmth and contentment. I don't even know why!"
"Oh, tha... | DL: "Hello"
They do not say anything, they sit in one of the chairs, in the middle of my home in one of my two dining chairs. It is the worse dining chair, one I should go into town and get a new one from the carpenter. their prices are fair enough, and they will barter so it can be an easy trade. I do not watch them... | 2021-11-03T21:33:24 | 2021-11-03T20:13:16 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] The pleasures of heaven and the punishments of hell are still configured for dinosaurs. | “Welcome David. We’re glad you are here.”
“Where am I and OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU?” Dave had finally noticed the towering brontosaurus standing before the golden gates.
“I have been called St. Peter, a faithful servant of God. I have taken this form for your comfort.” The brontosaurus had stretched its’ long neck down... | He knew it... He'd been waiting all this time, and today was his day. Today was the day that Jim Stratworth who lived on 84762 Millbury Lane died.
He knew that his family, or rather what was left, and his few friends would miss him, but what he didn't know was the crazy and terrifying death that he had just gotten i... | 2016-04-27T19:52:20 | 2016-04-27T19:12:41 | 229 | 10 |
[WP] When people die, a trial is held to decide if they go to heaven or hell. People are allowed to choose their attorney, regardless of if they know them personally or not. You're the first person to choose Satan as your attorney.
If it matters in the context of your story, you can choose the individuals that make up... | Goldberg sat at the desk, filled with papers.
"You know, most people would have chosen a defender by now," a nearby soul asked.
But Goldberg wasn't most people. He was a lawyer. And despite his initial shock at learning of this afterlife when previously his old Rabbi said there was no eternal afterlife in Jewish trad... | An angel sitting in the judge's chair asked the man (the soul was not so much a human to be named anymore) who he would like to have as an attorney. The replied that he would like to have the Devil represent him. The man seemed quite proud of himself. His quivering round face finally looked triumphant. The angel did no... | 2016-10-13T03:11:36 | 2016-10-13T00:40:48 | 62 | 30 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | “Master Wayne”
Alfred walked into the Wayne Manor’s study, barely passing the threshold of the lavish office.
“Yes, Alfred.”
Bruce looked up from the shiny fragment he had stolen during the Justice Leagues battle with braniac. Normally he would take care of this in the Batcave, but bringing the tech near the Earth’... | Wick enters the upscale fundraiser and sees Bruce Wayne across the room. He stops a circulating caterer and asks for a glass of bourbon. Pointing to Mr. Wayne, John asks the elegantly coiffed, white-jacketed attendant to bring him the same, and let him know who had sent it.
The waiter disappears into the kitchen thro... | 2018-03-13T22:55:30 | 2018-03-13T22:44:09 | 1,190 | 16 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | The doors were jammed.
I kicked at them in an attempt to open the capsule. They opened after a few hits, and I tumbled into a greenish glow. It smelled awful. And there were soft thuds on the ground every few seconds, like children sneaking around.
At first I thought something had gone horribly wrong, that I’d ende... | --**Classified**: Abyssal-2 Clearance or higher required--
**Item ID**: 001-4
**Safety protocol**: Type 4; non-interactive, highly-reactive, non-hostile, cognizance-manipulator
As per Type 4 standards, this item is not to be used without express permission from Deep Council. It is to be stored at the center point of... | 2018-08-01T07:56:37 | 2018-08-01T06:25:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Most of my co-workers were suitably inebriated; even the strict, authoritarian manager Margaret was smiling.
For a laugh, I asked her if NASA had ever considered exploring the ocean instead - the S could be changed to stand for Sea, after all.
The color drained from her face. Leaning in close, she whispered: “We ... | Part 1
I had been recruited right out of school just as I wrapped up my doctorate in computer science. My dissertation in artificial intelligence had attracted the attention of a NASA team developing a series of rovers and autonomous workers for construction of a Mars station while the first human exploration mission... | 2019-08-07T22:59:17 | 2019-08-07T22:01:31 | 49 | 31 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | You’ve read the stories. 118 elements, 118 sects of bending. Existing in perfect harmony. The cycle of life. But everything changed when the ferrous benders dug too greedily. Too deep.
They found the fissile elements. Uranium. Plutonium. Thorium. Vicious and wild. And, unlike fire, uncontainable once let loose. For ce... | Saafa sucked down the sweet coffee he'd only just poured himself. Humming machines and shuffling feet and sterile smells surrounded him, a hospital as modern as any. Saafa paid no mind to patients or nurses as they passed, instead his eyes kept steady on the NOBL monitors. A pumped, flowing gas stream piped through eve... | 2019-09-19T10:19:09 | 2019-09-19T10:08:25 | 164 | 99 |
[WP] Every day he stops for breakfast at the same diner. Every day he orders the same exact thing. Today he didn't. This was the first sign. | 10:15. Showtime. Kerry walks into the diner almost to the second. He takes his customary booth in the north corner, pulls a book from his bag, and makes himself at home.
If I'm being honest, I look forward to seeing him. He's a sweet guy, if a little quiet, and always kind. He always brings some worn old pulpy book, o... | **CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES**
The town was small. One of those places that barely showed up on the map. The population was under fifteen hundred and everybody knew everybody. For better and for worse.
At the heart of Shepsfield was old Elmo’s diner. It was the only place in the town to get decent grub and the locals fl... | 2021-10-28T08:47:03 | 2021-10-28T07:46:25 | 274 | 80 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. |
My family of warriors, each gripping their distinctive weapons or sheathed at their sides, looked at me—with varying levels of pity.
For my fifteenth birthday, the day I should have manifested my very own weapon, I got a book. It was as thick as two of my hands laid on top of each other, and as long as my palm. It wo... | Emani clutched a bag of beans and rice close to her chest, lowered her head, stepped from the rations tent and into the storm. The rain bit like mosquitoes at her face and forearms, driven into a frenzy by the sudden gale. Her dress, once vibrant greens and pinks, was now as drained of life as her, muted colors all bor... | 2021-12-12T08:08:33 | 2021-12-12T07:50:28 | 142 | 66 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | "Mommy, mommy tell me again the story about the twelve gods"
Sigh "ok sweetie but then its time for bed ok"
"Ok, so long ago there were twelve gods, and while they all knew each other they did not live at the same time, legends said that they just sprang into existence one day, the first god named Randy was saddened ... | Sergeant Flores was the third to step into the portal, right behind Dr. Penn and PFC Smith. Instead of the expected near instantaneous transfer through black, she saw blurs of light, and at the same time all the air was sucked out of her lungs. She felt like she was falling, and at the same time like something was tryi... | 2014-09-02T14:24:23 | 2014-09-02T12:33:17 | 44 | 33 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | Eons ago, when hell was in its infancy, Satan was faced with a dilemma. The myriad creatures condemned to hell were banding together. Everyone was in the same boat, there were no divisions of rich and poor, powerful and weak, everyone was merely slaves to the Dark Lord. Long before the African slave spirituals of 17th ... | Alister opened his eyes
A sudden rush of panic as well as far too many questions went through his head.
He was blushing. What had happened and where was this place ?
He closed his eyes, leaned back on his armchair, took a deep breath, and procceded to allocate some of his brain's proccessing power to an examination o... | 2015-06-08T03:41:09 | 2015-06-08T00:45:58 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You live in a world where everything is decided by the opening of a booster pack. Your job, your house, even the food you eat, one day you buy a "Random Pack" then you see the gold border, it's an Ultra Rare. | "Holy shit" I whispered as I peeled back the wrapping on my latest booster pack. I've opened lots of booster packs through my life time. A few steak dinners, a (well) used car that I got as a common in one pack.... hell, I even turned to the secondary market to specifically buy a decent house card to put in my deck, ev... | "Oh god, is this joke of a system actually paying off?"
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It has been 19 years now.
I was five on the day it happened. Back then, we had it good. Mom was still sane, Dad specialized in trading the "Live+, The Trading Card System" cards, and was getting quite good a... | 2017-04-02T21:46:25 | 2017-04-02T16:16:04 | 109 | 49 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | "28 today," you say to yourself looking in the mirror. Of course you know today is your birthday today, but it also helps that while looking at the mirror you noticed the number above your head changed from the [27] you saw yesterday.
You leave to go to the liquor store to pick up some booze and celebrate. While in li... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T22:57:39 | 585 | 247 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | *BEEP BEEP*
I rocketed upright in my bed as I woke with a start. I glanced at my clock, *3:00 AM* it read. Grogily, I yawned and picked up the source of this rude awakening, my phone. As I pressed the power button, bringing the device to life, I noticed something strange. *An emergency alert?* I thought. I unlocked it... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2018-04-06T18:48:18 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 481 | 43 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 308 | 30 |
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