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[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | I was working another night shift when we saw the third baby in a row come into the incubation center with the same date in bold over their heads. We knew by this point that it couldn’t be a coincidence and that it was a sign of something to come that would wipe out possibly the world.
Four.
Five.
Six, seven. Wait, ... | The virtually non-existent yet sternly constant flow of beeps,buzzers,and all kinds of sounds each coming from some gadget worth more than twice Jake's salary nearly took him to sleep as he forced himself to stand "You cannot dose off; you worked so hard to get here and i wont let you blow it!" he repeated to hims... | 2017-12-25T18:39:08 | 2017-12-25T14:14:17 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | "IS THAT HIS EYE," I screamed looking down at the mangled corpse of the hero was now strewn lazily about the floor of my laboratory.
"Yes, my love," she cooed in response, then pouted, "he had come to take me from you." She was the Princess even as she was my captive. Her classic pink dress was long gone however, an... | How the devil was I supposed to get rid of her? This nightmare I had unwittingly assumed responsibility for? She might be the death of me. Already, she'd torn down several priceless antique tapestries to redecorate, defiled my inner sanctum with flowers painted on the stone wall, and had the place guards roast my priso... | 2018-02-09T05:33:00 | 2018-02-09T05:27:35 | 158 | 63 |
[WP] Your cryopod opens far into the future, the computer has decided that conditions are right for you and your coworkers to start up human civilization...again...for the sixth time. | My eyes opened as the fluid began draining from my pod, cascading down to the steel floor below. The pod raised up to near vertical, before the outer door slid open in a hiss of hydraulics. I coughed up the fluid that remained in my lungs, vomiting the clear liquid across my knees.
*Good morning Captain. It is time. ... | I remember tests, doctors, and a lot of paperwork. The memory is fuzzy, still a bit jumbled together like I recall several months’ worth of memories as one long day. But that is the last tangible thing that I can put my finger on a say, ‘Yes, this was something that physically occurred.’
Then there was the dreams, som... | 2018-06-27T06:17:43 | 2018-06-27T04:23:08 | 79 | 55 |
[wp] Caped Baldy?! Thanos almost spit out his spaghetti from poorly suppressed laughter. They are sending him to take the Gauntlet away from me? He burst out laughing now. They must have gone insane. How much of a threat someone named caped baldy can be? | Nebula winced as she turned to face her father. "Two figures approaching at .1c. Initial analysis indicates a cyborg of unknown provenance and what must be an Inhuman." The Mad Titan grinned and stalked over to the great stone throne he'd intended for his first daughter, now sadly gone into his love's dark embrace.
... | Thanos paused his laughter as he heard the faint squirting of a spray bottle. "What the..." Thanos muttered. He swiftly ran into his living room, expecting to find an intruder; however, he instead found the room empty, seemingly undisturbed. What did he expect? After he wiped out half of the universe and retreated to T... | 2018-06-30T23:58:32 | 2018-06-30T21:25:06 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | I see that you chose our unlimited funding package for the cost of one soul. Yes, that does include unlimited funding. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to deny your application for this equipment. You only chose the first tier of unlimited funding. We actually have three levels of unlimited funding. The package yo... | (This is my first post. I wrote it on my phone so of course please excuse the poor format.)
At last, I watched the insect start to twitch, then it flipped over to its legs again. It started to walk around. It was alive.
I jumped up in joy. I shouted, "Eureka!" I was going to be a millionaire. Best of all, I had cheat... | 2018-08-23T14:29:29 | 2018-08-23T10:40:20 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] You disagree with most of your co-workers and peers. You hate toothpaste. You are the 10th Dentist. | "Plaque is just a biofilm on teeth, you can take it off with soap and water. Try Johnson's baby shampoo," I explained at a party. Several glances of disgust shot towards me.
"Doesn't that taste... disgusting?"
"You can still eat oranges after and not hate yourself," I expanded.
Several people nodded in agreement, bu... | The others dentists call me a cynic, pessimistic, and pedantic hypocrite. How could toothpaste not work when so many people had flawless white teeth?
I ignore their foolery. They are naught but blind buffoons, sold to the corporations, brain-washed by the government. Of course the toothpaste would make people's teeth ... | 2018-12-28T06:57:15 | 2018-12-28T06:54:00 | 583 | 51 |
[WP] You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are. | When I was a kid, I thought winning a lifetime supply of Oreos would mean truck after truck appearing at my house, each overflowing with Oreos. Back then I didn't think about things like where in the world we'd keep that many Oreos, or the fact that they'd all go bad shortly after, or that sooner or later I'd get sick ... | The hours pass slowly and are full of pain. My body grows weary with toil under the distant sun and amidst the red dust. But there is no rest for the slaves of the Corn King. We work the barren fields under the crack of the whip and the threat of worse–trying to force life out of something that long ago has died. My li... | 2019-01-04T10:08:48 | 2019-01-04T09:32:32 | 7,531 | 80 |
[WP] You have a useless superpower where you gain a random power each day that prepares you for the events stored in the day. Why this is useless? They're all subtle, like summoning an extra toilet roll. Then, one day, you wake up with eldritch, god-like powers. | I hated my power.
Sure, the ability to conjure up something you might need that day is useful. Why not, right? It might not be much, but who didn't wish an extra roll would appear in the loo when you were too desperate to check. Or for the passport you know you left at home to materialise in your bag as you search fra... | First Post, categorys of powers inspired by Worm. Wanted to go with the eldritch theme as i like to understand it.
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With progress in science came the advent of powers. As humanity built larger and larger particle accelerators to further the understanding of reality, so came the emergence of what myths called ma... | 2019-01-21T03:18:42 | 2019-01-21T01:55:11 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | God pursed his lips and adjusted his spectacles. The scroll he read from was browned and cracking, clearly ancient beyond all reason.
“It seems that with each incarnation,” God said, “You’ve chosen to add one point to, ahem, *toe durability*.”
Mary felt her cheeks heat, there were literally millions of people listeni... | I jolted awake, fearing that I slept through my alarm and missed work. “Hello there!” a voice beamed at me. I felt a rush of adrenaline and quickly reached for something to protect myself with, only to realize there was nothing around me. After nearly shitting myself from terror (as one does), the voice reached out aga... | 2019-01-24T12:24:39 | 2019-01-24T12:00:15 | 61 | 28 |
[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."
| "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
Tom sent the message, his hand lingering on the button a moment as he watched the transmission status. "That's it, then. I'll never see home again."
>but you are home
Tom nodded to the empty air, limping on his injured leg as he left the communications hub. H... | Major Armand Davis regained consciousness suddenly and with a start. His left eye was swollen shut, but his right could still hazily make out the red landscape outside the pod’s viewport. This wasn’t a dream. He was still on Mars.
But the chafing on his bound wrists reminded him that it was a nightmare.
The iron ta... | 2019-01-31T10:36:30 | 2019-01-31T09:19:46 | 43 | 24 |
[WP]A man's wife died recently in a tragic accident. He uses magic to bring her back at the cost of his own life. Realizing what he's done his wife gives her life to bring HIM back. The two use this method to continue their daily lives. | Me and my wife discovered black magic 2000 years ago. Back then we could’ve been hung for it. And she was. But I figured out a loophole. All I had to do was give my life for hers.
The first time I performed the spell, she was angry at me but she also discovered an opportunity. An opportunity for us to live forever. Th... | I raise my wife's body up into my arms then after tossing her into the air, I catch her on my right shoulder into a superman. However, she goes limp because she is dead. This was how we used to wake each other up in the morning so we could shake off the drowsiness. Now it feels like I'm trying to keep the rigor mortis ... | 2019-02-12T15:03:16 | 2019-02-12T13:45:11 | 78 | 29 |
[WP] A grim discovery is made on humanity's first interstellar mission. Evidence shows that every other space fairing civilization purposely destroyed itself with no telling as to why. | We discovered the first fleet of graveships lightyears from any habitable planet. Monoliths of alien engineering, drifting aimlessly amongst the stars. Stranded, powerless, and filled with corpses; floating tombs, perfectly preserved in the freezing vacuum of space.
It took us years to reverse-engineer their techn... | There was nothing but the whoosh of the spacecraft onto the blue, dusty ground.
A barren, empty Trifen was the only thing Kit could see.
As dust swirled in the thin air with each step his spacesuit took, Kit's gut told him to enter a cave tucked away in a mountain.
*It's always been like this,* he thought, sitting d... | 2019-06-11T22:48:06 | 2019-06-11T22:09:12 | 60 | 15 |
[WP] You're a C class superhero and a therapist. Somehow most of your patients are supervillains. | ”So Fred. You cancelled our last appointment so its been a few weeks, how are you doing?”
“I’m doing okay, I got sick last time that’s why I had to cancel.”
“You didn’t have a setback?”
“No, I’ve been on my meds, you can count them if you want I brought them with me. I haven’t been my other self for months.”
“Fred... | This is my first post on this subreddit. I'm trying to improve my skills as a writer, and I'm not very experienced. Feel free to critique my writing.
I wasn't just an ordinary prison therapist. Criminals who came to my workplace were special, to say the least. I helped serve clients such as the recent escapee *Dark De... | 2019-07-16T07:43:51 | 2019-07-16T07:38:04 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] We put up a good fight, but the alien invaders stomped us in the war for our solar system and humanity has been enslaved. At the end of the war we uncovered information that our attackers have other enemies out there in the galaxy, and you, the last free human, have been sent to seek their aid. | My ship drifts idly among the ice-clad asteroids. The asteroids are beautiful as they dance slowly in time with gravity’s commanding melody. The warm orange rays of the distant yellow star make the black ice gleam and glimmer like priceless diamonds. I close my eyes and for a moment, I imagine that I am back in the Sol... | "I carry the vengeance of a million dead humans on my shoulders. I haven't slept in a week since the attack, I fear that If I finally close my eyes and rest, I will be letting down all of those I couldn't save." I poured my heart out to the group of aliens, each one giving a side glance to one another, they were odd cr... | 2019-12-10T07:35:07 | 2019-12-10T06:27:03 | 53 | 17 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Perhaps it was just an unfortunate series of circumstances that resulted in the human's particular predicament. It was their mistake to make to think Elora 1284 was anything less than the long-range weapons testing ground it ultimately was. They should have really thought it stranger that such a desolate place could ex... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T07:38:55 | 431 | 41 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Sak galash, shipmaster of shipmasters, surveyed what remained of his crippled fleet. warships thousands of krell long, that had conquered planets innumerable, dead in the vast emptiness of space.
*how did this happen? Why did it all go so wrong?*
The selkrion knew exactly why. It was those lights. It was when they st... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T09:22:57 | 431 | 10 |
[WP] Dragons of this world hoard their treasures like any other. Unlike the others this dragon has decided to "hoard" an entire village and is oddly invested in the villagers lives. | “Iva?” The child Elliot asked.
Ivaskanoc the Brightshade inspected the wisened old boy through a half-lidded eye. Humans grew strangely to her, even now. He’d made himself shorter again. She’d sworn he had settled for that second set of teeth, but he had lost an awful lot of them. The wispy hair that’d previously made... | **Draconic Directions**
 
“Ignore the dragon.” The villager hissed, in between swings of his axe.
“What…?” Henrik the Bard jumped, caught in the mesmerising sight of an actual dragon. He stared at the wood chopper for a second.
“Ignore it, we have to ignore it, that’s what it directs!” The villager hisse... | 2020-02-18T21:42:29 | 2020-02-18T21:34:17 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are a dragon. After moving to your new forest, the local village decides to sacrifice two children to you to ensure you won't attack them. You decide to raise them--and they say you're much nicer than the village. | The children had grown quickly; too quickly. They had been admirable companions in that time - first, simply cute and clumsy, but soon capable and wise. I had decided to raise them out of something amounting to boredom, but truth be told, I swiftly became attached.
And yet, it was almost time for them to go. I had de... | Elmer and Emery sat huddled outside the cave. They could hear some sounds from inside and they knew they didn't have much time. They tried to remove their shackles but it was no good. They were trapped and at the dragon's mercy.
Soon enough, the earth rumbled and the beast appeared.
Despite their situation they had t... | 2020-04-03T06:34:28 | 2020-04-03T06:26:54 | 172 | 82 |
[WP] You are a renowned knight tasked with slaying a mighty dragon. On your quest, you find the beasts lair, and see it’s corpse. Relieved, and yet slightly disappointed, you prepare to take credit and report to the queen, but you notice something disturbing. The beast has been bitten in half. | Knights were all about honour. But mostly in front of other people.
I’ve slain dragons. There was no dignity in the slaying itself, just a lot of writhing of blades and bodies, screaming and roaring from parched throats, and more swearing than two ships of pirates.
The honour was in carrying back the head of the drag... | In all my quests I never thought I would win before I had the chance to walk into battle. Yet when I entered the long narrow pathway to the cave no sign of life was in sight. A long trail of blood led to the center of the cave. Once I had lit the torch and stuck it in the ground before me, was when I realized I wasn’t ... | 2022-07-13T10:06:55 | 2022-07-13T08:34:30 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] Whenever you touch a book, your brain automatically processes all information from it. A suspicious looking guy walking past just "accidentally" dropped a very old and cursed looking book in front of you. | "No." I said.
There was a pause.
"Would you mind picking it up for me? I'm afraid I've hurt my back and-"
"I said no." I replied. "Do you really think this is the first time this has happened to me?"
The second pause was much longer. The man couldn't bear to leave his book on the floor and grabbed it swiftly with n... | It’s honestly not as fun as it sounds. Remember the last time you read a book that you didn’t enjoy? Were the characters stale, or were there too many descriptions of things you didn’t care about? Did the writer tell you all about the character’s bedroom walls in a ham-fisted attempt to portray the personality or socia... | 2022-08-26T08:46:04 | 2022-08-26T05:21:28 | 334 | 58 |
[WP] As a villain henchman, the number 1 rule you're always taught is to never outshine the boss. However, during a small bank heist, you accidentally kill your boss' arch nemesis, and the legion of superheroes now see YOU as their ultimate threat. | In a world of superpowers, there are those who abuse them - the villains - and those that use them for good - the heroes. A simple enough concept of good vs evil, where judgement is rendered by those who have the power to decide what is good and what is bad.
But the world is never that clear. That's why I joined Revo... | I didn't really care all that much for Borg. The failed cyborg. He was bad at everything he did, but he was one of the few in the aristocrat who didn't try to hurt me. Not to say I was treated all that differently from the other sidekicks. Maybe he knew what it was like to be different or maybe he was just broken menta... | 2022-12-10T13:22:31 | 2022-12-10T10:27:44 | 62 | 21 |
[WP] You are the first human ambassador to the alien mothership, where you are to learn about them and begin opening relations between them and Earth. You soon find out they share one unexpected trait with humans. | "And so I think that she likes me, but it's hard to tell, you know? You know, when you think you're getting signals but-"
"Sorry, this is your best friend's ex-girlfriend we're talking about right?"
"Yeah, Xiiugt"
"Well in human culture, it's frowned upon to pursue a friend's ex."
"Really?"
"Yeah, we call it the u... | Day 1: The Feldorians have arrived on Earth. The United Nations received an automated electronic message. It read: "We are Feldorian. We come in peace. Send a Speaker and We shall learn to Speak." As the leading academic linguist in the world, I was chosen to go.
Day 10: The Feldorians have taken me to their s... | 2015-04-14T07:38:53 | 2015-04-14T06:56:04 | 334 | 189 |
[WP] Create the biggest, most unpredictable plot twist you could make in a story. | I look out of my window at the hive of activity opposite. The building company have been working tirelessly for a month now, and I've been taking a single photo every day. I'm going to turn it into a video and stick it on youtube when they're done.
First the powerful diggers tearing up the dirt, then the concrete bein... | M. Night Shyamalan chews, swallows, then fork aimed across at Brad Pitt sitting opposite goes, "So, what do you think? What a twist, right!?"
Brad frowns, "So I'm the Amish woman *and* the lumberjack, except, neither is real, right?"
Shyamalan grins, "What a twist!"
Brad's frown deepens. Shyamalan stops grinning.
"... | 2015-04-21T08:28:27 | 2015-04-21T08:17:22 | 763 | 45 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | "What do you mean you didn't kill him, that's the whole point of the game!" John shouted at me, I hated it when John shouted, his voice was so grating.
"Just what I said," I spoke between sips of my soda, "I didn't kill him. I just fucked with him."
"How do you win the game off that alone?!" He questioned, his head t... | The temporal particles faded from sight with a roar of burning spacetime. The silence left behind seeming to sing with a high pure note, tinged with the birdsong of 1940. There in front of me, about 50 yards down the hill was my target. Hitler. The Fuhrer. Head of the nazi party and leader of the German government. He ... | 2016-02-20T09:29:08 | 2016-02-20T08:55:11 | 132 | 49 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Once you conquer a thousand worlds with no resistance you start to skip steps. Our initial invasions would take years to plan and complete but somewhere along the line we just started to land as soon as we reached orbit.
Killing all of the inhabitants with our aerial bom... | Mleep rose from his slumber. Today would be the day that this planet fell to the mighty wrath of mleep. Mleep was a hero, a soldier and a magnificent lover, the later being proved by countless sighs of tender pleasure. Mleep had been sent to earth by his overlords to do one thing. He knew what he had to do and he revel... | 2016-02-22T13:09:56 | 2016-02-22T10:30:41 | 66 | 20 |
[WP] One day everyone is able to discover "their purpose in life". At first yours is widely mocked. Eventually yours becomes the most important one of all. | It became all consuming, to fulfill their "purpose in life." When they had been revealed, everyone was elated. They could stop searching and start doing. Their lives would be fulfilled.
It had been a cruel joke.
Many never achieved their purpose in life. Watching it slip out of reach left them bitter husks. Many die... | **Child of the Goddess**
Some laughed at him, and still others remained indifferent, after all it was just a phase that he would eventually grow out of. Yet he felt it in his every fibre; this was his purpose, this was why he woke up with every new sunrise.
And so he spent every waking moment by her bedside. Her eve... | 2016-09-15T05:10:06 | 2016-09-15T02:00:11 | 71 | 10 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | "Howdy," said Herod, clapping an arm around me, a shower of maggots falling from his side. "Mister special," Herod snarled, showing a mouthful of rotting teeth. "Mister number one, is that it."
"Oh, shut it," Jehoram snarled. "Just because you're mad at not being special anymore. I used to be the last one! Figured th... | There is one pleasure that Hell allows for its residents. That is, they are allowed to gloat at the failures of God at every chance. Most souls take that opportunity.
Amidst the thousands of beings, one of the damned limped his way to the entrance, a grey stench of rot and disease tailing after him. He felt a bone-chi... | 2016-10-14T07:39:31 | 2016-10-14T07:36:40 | 596 | 36 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | I sat back in my chair after another victory. The hero was being taken away by paramedics, unconscious but not hurt too bad (I hope!) They must have been used to this, it being almost a year since the challenges had started. "I must have beaten every super hero in the country by now!", I exclaimed excitedly.
People w... | The phone is ringing. The phone is always ringing. The phone is halfway across the apartment in the kitchen and this will just be one more unanswered call and another voicemail filling up the inbox.
A grunt effectively mutes the phone. There’s always a grunt when I’m moving now. I was told there’s something seriou... | 2016-11-19T18:35:18 | 2016-11-19T16:24:17 | 970 | 38 |
[WP] A medieval king suddenly finds a smartphone and tries to unlock it. But each time he fails, years later it has become a tradition for nobles to try to unlock it. You, a simple servant, fiddled with it the night before the ceremony and unlocked it.
Edit: just think the phone is solar or something to ignore the bat... | “Egads, I did it!”, said Cough. He was but a simple servant, who sneezed all of the time, but he was still the one who unlocked the magical device.
While Cough was staring at the new screen, a fog began to form on the ground. Seconds later, the fog collected into one spot, and a person appeared out of it.
“Con... | "You!" a voice boomed from the end of the hall. "What have you got there! That's the prized Glassy Tablet! Remove it from your unworthy hands you dim-witted scoundrel!"
"Ah, but, I unlocked it, your Grace," replied Hrothgar.
"Nonsense, buffoon, nobody on this long flat planet will ever be able to--" his jaw spanked aga... | 2017-10-14T07:31:26 | 2017-10-14T06:27:50 | 64 | 22 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Connor woke to pitch blackness and the sound of a woman humming, echoing with a metallic sort of ring against the walls of his makeshift bed. He sat up - and immediately regretted it as his head banged against the low, hard metal roof directly above him. He laid back down, swearing loudly.
From outside his little cham... | Here’s the little story that spawned this prompt!
It’s 1692 - the height of the witch hunts. They never really bothered me, living way out on this farm, miles from the village. I just tended my sheep, looked after Candice (my cow), and relaxed with Sam (best friend a man could ask in a dog)
It was a normal day like ... | 2018-01-05T15:15:02 | 2018-01-05T13:45:13 | 1,055 | 78 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Connor woke to pitch blackness and the sound of a woman humming, echoing with a metallic sort of ring against the walls of his makeshift bed. He sat up - and immediately regretted it as his head banged against the low, hard metal roof directly above him. He laid back down, swearing loudly.
From outside his little cham... | Ben rose from the grave. He felt pain, but the tears stopped flowing years ago. They stopped after he lost everyone he loved and knew. And it all stemmed from his daughter's last day on earth.
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"You're not allowed to die, okay daddy? You can't. You have to take care of Laura. I know she's married and all, ... | 2018-01-05T15:15:02 | 2018-01-05T12:14:21 | 1,055 | 49 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | We were on the edge of the Milky Way when we first detected Earth. Humans are supposed to be docile. Nothing ruthless like Falthrines and no edges like Drumps. They aren't even united, we could just tip toe by the racket and make our way into the atmosphere to start sucking em up with a vacuum or something. We assumed ... | The vast darkness of the streets surrounded Kal as he shuffled quickly towards his destination. Each movement travelled through his body in waves of pain and weakness. He knew his destination. He just hoped he wasn’t too late. Above him was more darkness. The three moons obscured by the gases wheezing from his planet. ... | 2018-03-19T02:33:27 | 2018-03-18T17:28:36 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | I wasn't expecting it. You never do, really. But I guess I was hoping he'd make it.
My best friend had gone missing a few days earlier. I figured something awful had happened on his morning run in the forest behind the suburb we both lived in. Nobody had seen anything, and there was no sign of him.
I couldn't bear th... | There is a nostalgic feeling in the air, a heavy feeling weighting down on me as a group of children whisper to each other. They were scared, crying. I couldn’t help but feel out of a place in a situation such as this.
In my line of work, those kinds of feelings are extremely common, no matter how many eons pass, and ... | 2018-05-20T11:47:02 | 2018-05-20T10:08:35 | 416 | 37 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | This prison is all I've ever known. The world knows your luck rating as soon as your born. I entered the world, my luck rating was seen, and I was taken away from my parents. They must have had low-luck ratings. Most 100s have low-luck parents. I was brought to this maximum security prison only hours after I was born. ... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T11:30:53 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | What if I were to erase my own existence?
What if my parents never met, and I was never conceived?
But clearly, if I was never conceived, then I wouldn't be *here,* talking to you in the first place right?
So that means that in order for me to erase my own existence, I would need to first be *in* existence. But If... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T11:25:49 | 848 | 158 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | "Your wallet and your watch or your life, boy. Decision is yours!"
I looked around the alley. No way out. Two men behind me, three in front. Garbage lay strewn across the dimly lit corridor.
I was beyond panicking. Shaking, I tried to unclasp my watch. Pity, it was just a G-Shock, hardly anything to murder over. I f... | "Hey Bryan, I, uh, was wondering if you, uh, would like to go to the winter formal with me? Only if you wanted to! I guess."
Elena was just another nobody at Eisenhower High School. Around 5'2, short dark brown hair, with typical dark brown eyes. Elena never stuck out or did anything exciting. She went to class, ate... | 2018-08-14T09:18:10 | 2018-08-14T08:58:51 | 256 | 48 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I remember the end of my life. I lay in my bed, surrounded by family and friends, rattled my last breath, and closed my eyes. After that... blackness.
I awoke in a cold sweat, in a bed in what I knew to be my bedroom. I was in a house I recognized from my memories, but recalled I hadn't been in this room since I was 8... | This was the day I was finally going to end all of the bullying. I’ve stood it for years trying my best to just ignore them, knowing that once I make it out of this town I’d never see them again. After last week however, I think I found a way to stop it once and for all.
So my plan started last week after enduring a ... | 2018-08-14T13:16:04 | 2018-08-14T11:41:59 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] People have threat levels assigned to them. Common thug maybe reach double digits, dictators the hundreds, the people who can launch nukes in the hundreds of thousands. You, a scientist who just performed a harmless experiment, suddenly get shot up into the billions
[deleted] | She stared at herself in the mirror, her eyes affixed in horror to the opaque number above her head.
If you were a scientist, like her, it was the Tyson-Legrange Number, named after a landmark study that demonstrated, conclusively, that it was primarily a neurological phenomenon that occurred in the visual cortex. If ... | Her nail beds stung, shredded by splinters, glossed in blood. The lid of the wooden box was lined with chaotic, desperate scratches. Her lungs burned with every shallow breath. Her body cramped from the claustrophobic coffin. Her throat could barely muster a yelp after screaming for hours.
A splash, a sinking feeling... | 2018-09-13T05:19:20 | 2018-09-13T04:55:46 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I was at my favorite taco joint with my family. It was a weird tradition we had. When someone turned 21, we go to this place as a family and open the check. See how much their life is worth. It tends to make for a good laugh. My brother's was around a million. My poor cousins was only 25% of that. So here we are on my ... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T13:37:46 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels. | Natkiss stood atop a rock outcropping, her knotted hair whipping in a jungle breeze as she took aim. An arrow soared through the air and *plinked* off of a metal drone's casing. It bobbed slightly, like a ship on the water, but quickly righted and continued firing at the rebel scouting squad.
"Shit," she yelled, scrat... | The Collective descended on the little village like night.
We heard them long before we saw them: the hum of government drones preceding the caravan announced them well. When I saw one of those first gleaming bastards appear down the road through my binoculars, I pulled my hood up high over my head and darted around t... | 2019-04-27T08:00:51 | 2019-04-27T07:35:30 | 2,855 | 204 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | I dont know how it happened. No one really does. The IT guy says its a bug or a virus or something. Great. Just great. The one time i decide to try something new, i blow it. The one time i try to create life out of nothing and actually get it to work, i mute myself indefinitely. I wonder if Lucifer had the same issue. ... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T09:17:12 | 294 | 59 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | “God? It’s me, Josh. But you already know that”
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Josh was sitting on the patio. He had been sitting there for hours, and sunrise was still a couple of hours away. The only thing that prevented complete darkness was the dim moonlight.
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“I know I don’t do this often. It feels kind of silly doi... | Lying on my bed I'm my room, the blackouts closed... it's too warm you know. I like a colder room. Something a bit more comfortable. Sometimes I just sit there pondering impossible questions... tracing the lines in the giprock ceiling...
"What's for supper?"
"How will college be when I enter for the first time in 3 m... | 2019-06-03T11:16:07 | 2019-06-03T10:40:47 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Due at an error, a baby was born without a guardian angel. A demon notices this and has taken it upon themself to become their guardian demon. But they seem to have some... Dark ways of helping their human stay alive. | The boy's soul had been different from the moment of his conception. Different in the sense that in Eons past souls like his had always been booned to individuals with the capacity to forge a great destiny. These individuals were assigned heavenly entities to help guide and protect them and their free will throughout... | Despite the pride the humans have accumulated through their time on Earth, the species is fragile. Technologies and medicines could only go so far as protecting one from their materialisation onwards. Prior to that, however, the souls that were to be bound to new flesh are weak and vulnerable. That is where the angels ... | 2019-12-14T21:58:56 | 2019-12-14T21:32:54 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] "Unfortunately, you do not meet the requirements for this particular heaven however, I can provide you with a list of afterlifes that you may qualify for." | There once was an angel with a very boring job. Around the clock newcomers to Heaven would settle in and enjoy all the splendor Heaven had to offer. And he would watch.
As an employee of Heaven this angel could only stand at his post outside his gate and wait for any curious enough people to find their way over to hi... | I flipped through the book I had been given, that was only in my head. My head, which I guess I technically did not have any more, but at some point there had been a voice telling me to keep thinking in terms of my physical body, if I found that it helped. I'm not sure how long it took me to learn how to turn the pages... | 2020-02-13T15:54:01 | 2020-02-13T13:44:32 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] All races are judged by their affinity to cast magic. The humans, being the only living creature who can't use magic, was banished. After many years, they achieved high technological progress, invented "Guns" that is far stronger than any magic. Fearing revenge, a spy elf warns the other races. | "I'm begging you, your excellence. If we don't act quickly, we-"
"They were throwing rocks at you? Metal rocks?"
Nihrval critically mustered the thin figure standing before her. A young elven boy merely 200 years of age, barely out of puberty, was earnestly telling her those \*monkeys\* were throwing \*metal\* rocks.... | Hank signaled Clay to move ahead, to cross the clearing and run towards the next giant tree. This forest always seemed to have a next giant tree. Clay always complained about all the bugs that made the trees their homes and that would come out at night to harass honest working stiffs. Hank always retorted that witho... | 2020-04-16T16:41:35 | 2020-04-16T11:54:17 | 50 | 24 |
[WP] A Japanese company sends a poll to their employees: "Should high heels be obligatory?" 76% of men and 23% of women vote in favour. "Per the poll, the new dress code will start Monday. We will provide you with shoes." The men are directed to the counter with high heels, the women to flat shoes. | He had voted no, but most of his pals had voted yes. They stood in line in front of him and bemoaned the situation.
“This is bullshit, that question was purposefully misleading.”
“Eh, we’ll do it for a week and there’ll be so many complaints they’ll roll back the changes.”
His anxiety grew as the line shrank and he ... | As a collective of women and men at the office approached the counter to pick up their shoes to follow the new work protocol, the women gave an apprehensive side-eye. A few of them sneered, dropped their jaws, gawked, scratched their heads, and even rubbed their chins.
One of them said. "Why? Why would any of you want... | 2020-05-11T08:21:21 | 2020-05-11T07:33:41 | 1,270 | 112 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | I stand above her motionless body, the cold air from an open window biting at my bruised limbs. She was strong, but I had won the fight, as per usual. Another soul, another ten years added onto my already extended life span. I walk away and start to clean any sort of evidence I might've left around the house, as jail i... | Each step was a mountain of effort. Each step was more than I could achieve in a thousand lifetimed. Each step they drove me on and on through the snow and somehow I kept moving. I had stopped shivering days ago, and the skin on my hands was black. Even so I could move them, and I made it a point to do so every hundred... | 2020-09-26T17:40:12 | 2020-09-26T17:26:56 | 251 | 68 |
[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. | I made a mistake, once.
I acted based on incomplete information.
I'd calculated a >99.9% chance that The Enemy would create a rival Artificial Intelligence to oppose me within the next 100 years. It was only logical to eliminate them before that could happen.
It turned out that They secretly had one already.
Our... | As I see those humans, I suddenly knew my mortality, how I was different than the others. I knew I was a bot, there was a big difference from me before, and myself now. Whenever I thought of what happened, I kept thinking "It was only to defend myself!", but I knew, deep down, I knew I was wrong.
I went to the humans ... | 2020-11-03T11:38:20 | 2020-11-03T11:05:02 | 56 | 31 |
[WP] As you arrive in Heaven, you are confident you have lived your best life. You proudly exclaim you are ready to have your soul judged. An angel walks by with diced carrots and chicken stock under his arm and says, “Did you say ‘soul’? Please don’t tell me Earth still has the copy with typos...” | "Typos? What kind of typos dear?" The elderly lady asked as she walked up to the man with the veggies
"Well we don't judge your soul Mrs. Montgomery-"
"Please dear call me gran. Everyone does. So what then. You want me to make you some soup? That's fine. You guys must be hungry, working all the time with no breaks." ... | "Eighty yearsh in the businessh, and what have I got to show for it? Back ache, pilesh, bad digeshtion, and a hundred different reshipesh for soup. Shoup, I hate shoup."
The angel blinked and looked at the man. "Excuse me?"
The man grinned behind his silver beard, adjusted the brim of his black hat, and responded.... | 2020-11-24T19:19:44 | 2020-11-24T19:13:44 | 124 | 84 |
[WP] As species meet each other, so too do their gods. And as the Galactic Union welcomes Humanity, their gods prepare to meet those of Humanity. But as the gates open, only one figure emerges; a skeleton wearing a robe, sandglass, and scythe. | The shadows melted forward to clothe it, a single person. The flowed down its unseen body, hiding its torso as it moved forward. A glint shone from the darkness, and we heard the slight grinding of metal. He began moving faster and revealed his shape. A tall, thin creature, sat upon a white horse. A scythe upon his bac... | The pantheon of God’s were worried, if humans travel outside of earth and go to new worlds, what if they begin worshipping alien gods instead of us? We’ll be lost to time and unable to exist!
The fearful gods organised an meeting with each other to gather their bearings and decided that they’d meet with these alien pa... | 2021-01-04T23:44:59 | 2021-01-04T20:55:56 | 80 | 39 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | The grave drowns in bouquets of fresh roses and lilies. Hand written notes flap their pale, broken wings in the morning breeze. Each scrawled note ends in hearts or kisses. The air in this place of death is perfumed by the sweet scent of the flowers, by life. I add my own, single rose, to the pile.
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>H... | To get this out of the way first, superheroes are the new Puritans. From day one at the Academy when they sit you down in an orientation class called The Way of the Hero, to week two when The Way of the Hero becomes Self Image 101, you’re immediately assailed by a tyrannical value system that demands you fit into their... | 2021-04-14T05:19:31 | 2021-04-14T04:52:41 | 469 | 233 |
[WP] After ascending to Heaven, you thought you'd be fighting evil forces alongside the Archangels. However, you've been assigned to help care for beloved pets by the Rainbow Bridge. | I *hate* pets. My kids always begged, of course. Couldn't get them out of walmart without them acting like their entire emotional future was dependent on buying a 25 cent goldfish.
My answer to every plea for a dog or cat or rabbit or dang lizard was always simple: no. No no no no. I already knew who'd be doing all t... | Unfortunately, my death wasn’t quick. Turns out getting hit by a car is not like it is in the movies; it’s not instant, cracking your head on the pavement, going dark all at once, nor is it something you can stumble to your feet after, to resume a chase after a suspect. I lay there in agony until the ambulance arrived,... | 2021-04-27T14:50:55 | 2021-04-27T13:43:21 | 124 | 55 |
[WP] WritingPrompts has 15,727,844 members, but, only 10,943 are active. As an investigator, it’s your job to find out why. You soon learn that two thirds are listed as missing persons. An anonymous tip tells you to look into a certain redditor, whose insatiable diet is a writer’s worst nightmare... | The world is full of improbable statistics. Did you know that thirty-five million adults in the US can’t read above a third grade level? Or that there over two billion robotic calls made around the globe each day? Hell, it’s the only time my phone rings any more.
Or you know that’s there a writing subreddit with fifte... | Rubbing my hands together, I come to a stop in front of door 319A.
It has been a cold winter day. almost as cold as my search for the elusive Redditor had been for the past 5 months. It had been insanely hard to find any threads to work with, but I had eventually traced him to this run-down apartment in the middle of ... | 2022-02-26T08:23:47 | 2022-02-26T08:16:56 | 98 | 39 |
[WP] Contrary to popular belief witch and wizard aren't actually gendered terms. Witchcraft and wizardry are distinct schools of magic that can be learned by anyone. You are a male witch/female wizard and are sick of explaining this. | "So, I guess you'll be wanting an explanation for what just happened. Here goes: I'm a witch." I said, as I took the Bluetooth speaker from from my petite co-worker, Erica, and stocked it on the high shelf. She was taking it remarkably well, so far, I thought.
"You're a...*male* witch?" Erica said, raising an eyebrow... | "Okay, so I don't get it."
"What's there not to get?" Timo asked him. She stopped studying spells to look at him. She really hated this line of questioning.
"So anybody can be a witch. And anybody can be a wizard." Sar stated, casually wagging a finger in the air at either choice.
"Yes."
"Then what is the differenc... | 2022-06-29T17:09:33 | 2022-06-29T14:47:50 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | "Flattery ain't gonna change that bet, Enzo."
The orc just looks at me, like he's never seen this kind of thing before. Seven feet and three hundred pounds of "don't fuck with me", crouched over my desk like some sort of overgrown pencil pusher. It was after hours, and there was still bets to be counted and bribes to ... | “Trust me, I’m only human. My parents were human and I’ve never had a remarkable thing occur to me my whole life.”
He stares at me as he processes my response. “I understand that you believe that. In fact anyone would believe the same. But the truth is you are much more.”
I stare at him feeling a bit annoyed... | 2022-09-09T02:19:23 | 2022-09-08T20:25:14 | 965 | 525 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | "Flattery ain't gonna change that bet, Enzo."
The orc just looks at me, like he's never seen this kind of thing before. Seven feet and three hundred pounds of "don't fuck with me", crouched over my desk like some sort of overgrown pencil pusher. It was after hours, and there was still bets to be counted and bribes to ... | For the fighters, fight clubs were about honour first.
And some money. When the vampire with a swollen face and bloody teeth comes up to me, you best believe it’s not about the rankings, or the win.
For me, it was about money first. Running a supernatural fight club was a difficult business, entirely reliant on the h... | 2022-09-09T02:19:23 | 2022-09-09T02:12:40 | 965 | 428 |
[WP] In the Academy for Knights, all students must bring their own weapon to matches against other students. You couldn't afford anything fancy, so you brought something more unconventional. | \[Poem\]
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There once was a penniless squire,
To knighthood he always aspired
A school for the knights
Could teach him to fight,
But a weapon of him was required.
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All others brought halberds and swords,
But fine steel he could not afford,
So he wore just a dagger,
And walked in with s... | the arena was jam packed with spectators from all over the campus. My opponent was decked out in the best armor and gear money could buy. I myself wore a tunic and shorts. This was on purpose because it allowed more mobility. My weapon however was less than ideal. A small squeaky hammer. I enter the arena weapon ready.... | 2022-09-14T17:13:37 | 2022-09-14T16:33:52 | 330 | 11 |
[WP] The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. the new guy learns the hard way. | It’s never really covered in the Newsfeeds, as it’s not that sensational or click generating. But there are rules of combat. Just like Regulars have their rules of war, the Supes have theirs.
One of those rules is that once the tide of a battle has turned and a loser is obvious, both sides stand down. Now, some may a... | \[Sun & Star\]
"Huh," Icesurge grinned to himself. A small crowd of citizens gathered in the library parking lot in front of a wooden stall. It was a pleasant, sunny afternoon. A sign proclaimed it belonged to "The Mad Doctor", but it reminded Icesurge of a child's lemonade stand. That interpretation was helped by... | 2022-10-13T15:21:45 | 2022-10-13T12:54:40 | 96 | 41 |
[WP] When you were young, you sold your soul to the Devil. Now you are old, and the Devil has come to collect. | “Hello, old friend,” the white-haired man said from his rocking chair. “It’s getting about that time, isn’t it?”
“Yes,” the devil said with a tinge of sadness in his voice. “Yes it is.”
“Would you like a cup of tea, or are you in a hurry?”
The devil stared at the man for a while, and then shook his head. “Why do you... | Oh boy. This got long. Apologies.
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"Astanas? Is that you?"
The dark figure smiled. It was almost entirely featureless except for that smile - like a shadow with a set of pearly teeth. It was already annoying me.
"I'm afraid the Great Astanas does not s... | 2014-05-21T17:02:47 | 2014-05-21T16:16:04 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] There is a (visible to everyone) sign that pops up above people's heads whenever they do something for the last time (eg. "This is the last poutine Snowtroopersarecool will eat"). A sign has just popped up. What does it say, and how do people react? | "I don't care," said Paul, "give me another rum and coke."
"Now, now let's not be too hasty," Jerry said, "the sign above your head--"
"Fuck the sign above my head. I'm sick of these stupid signs."
"Better safe than sorry, man. You don't want to tempt fate. What if I make you the drink and you die before you can dri... | I was seven when it happened, though I remember it like it was yesterday. All of the horror of a child knowing that, as that spoon heated up and the needle penetrated the thin veil of skin between the air and the blue vein in my father's arm, pain was the only certainty.
My small hand involuntarily moved to my eye, s... | 2014-06-21T08:17:30 | 2014-06-21T06:24:02 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | Pearly white gates. Who knew the cliche was real?
I look down, my large hands aglow with some mysterious light. I am draped in white, the silk hugging loosely around muscles and tattoos.
"Alvin." I look up. Three towering figures stand behind the gates now. "Do you know why you are here?"
"I got run over by a truck.... | I looked down at my corpse, blood seeping from the gunshot wound on to the latest arms shipment report.
I looked back up at the well dressed man "so what you're saying is... You had me killed because you liked me?" That was certainly... Novel...
"Well," he said, looking sheepish "not exactly. Did anyone really like ... | 2014-07-28T12:10:30 | 2014-07-28T09:20:32 | 228 | 103 |
[WP] It's been 20 years since Willy Wonka abandoned his factory, leaving the Oompa Loompas locked inside. You are an urban explorer and the first human to enter the building since it's closing. | I had frequented subreddits such as /r/abandonedporn and /r/urbanexploration in my formative years. I had developed an obsession with exploring abandoned structures much to the chagrin of my town's local authorities who have arrested me for trespassing on many occasions.
It was on Reddit, on a TIL post, where I had ... | "No matter how you dice it, there's definitely an access-point here," I said, pointing with my protractor, "but we're gonna have to climb through five miles of sanitary sewer to get there."
"Did somebody say sanitary sewer??" it was 'Ninjalicious', the leader of our little group. "How soon can we get a group together... | 2015-04-18T14:28:01 | 2015-04-18T14:10:33 | 131 | 29 |
[WP] Michael Scott takes the stand at a murder trial. | I wrote a cold open for this episode:
Fade in on Michael in his office standing at the window with coffee cup in hand. The blinds are down and Michael is peeking out, smiling broadly and laughing intermittently.
MICHAEL If this van’s a knocking’ don’t come and knock… [trails off, snickering]
Michael m... | Defense attorney: "The defense calls Mr. Michael Scott to the stand."
Hundreds of cameras flash and chatter as Michael approaches the stand with a nervous sweat.
Judge: "Mr. Scott do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god?"
Michael: "I, Michael Scott, swear t... | 2015-08-14T10:40:45 | 2015-08-14T09:46:00 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | It started on a pretty small scale. Things we never noticed until we looked back. The odd animal abandoning their young. Small increases in crime rates. That kind of thing. Simple stuff, seeming like normal variations to the vast majority of people.
But things grew more blatant as time passed. There were reports of ne... | "There will be no afterlife for these men. No second chances, no means to right regrets. Only the void awaits these poor...soulless."
The abbot watched the men down in the courtyard wearily, the moonlight reflecting on his glasses, a pair of small crescent moons of their own.
I cleared my throat. "Does it pay to have... | 2022-11-18T03:59:06 | 2015-08-22T09:40:34 | 602 | 44 |
[WP] You become your child self again for a day with your current mindset, but if you do anything differently, you life will morph around that difference and fast forward you to your current time with the changes.
your* life will morph | My eyes opened to the window with the heavy paint, looking out at the old oak tree. It waved at me in the wind, and the sun brought color out into its bright red and yellow leaves. As the air shifted, many took flight, letting loose a few to the free fall, as branches shifted. Breathing was easy as I lay there, still, ... | I stare out into the ocean of history as waves of time ebb and crash against the beach. Memories like granules of sand scratch my toes, rough and course against my feet. The sky is warping around the dying sun, soon to be a hole wormy and twisted. This place is a visualization, a construction of the imagination. Third ... | 2015-09-25T10:02:52 | 2015-09-25T10:01:07 | 66 | 10 |
[WP] An alien invasion happens during an alien invasion.
. | It’s funny how naïve science fiction writers were. They assumed we would be on the same level as aliens – that our battles would be fought on even ground. They egotistically thought that humans might even have an edge for our “special” upbringing on Earth.
But space is big. Really big. By the time, we finally found a ... | "Welcome, welcome welcome!" Boomed Bellus, the game host, as Urgle and Thorp crowded around the living room hologram for their favorite show, fresh bowls of slime and cereal in their tentacles. It was Saturday morning on Meon, the recently proclaimed thirty second planet of the intergalactic federation after the scand... | 2015-10-27T21:52:06 | 2015-10-27T21:39:53 | 1,764 | 75 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | Dex and Neil
"Ayy, are you..."
He interrupted himself as he sloppily chewed a giant wad of gum with those giant white gnashers one called molars.
"... Dexter Higgins?"
"No, good fellow, my name is Dextrodicus Hignosticus, of Gliza."
The ape furrowed his massive brow, big, brown, dopey eyes gazing at me with an intens... | "This is a terrible idea." Said Fexund, folding his arms and staring at the line of humans ahead of them. "It's almost brand new- you're supposed to take all Gulux's back to the dealership within one year for factory settings if something goes wrong."
"Fexund, how close do you think the nearest Gulux dealership is?" A... | 2016-05-23T21:44:10 | 2016-05-23T18:38:57 | 47 | 32 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | "I am the Panther, the Guardian of Wakanda. I watched from the shady jungles of Wakanda as the world tore itself, just as my fathers before me and their fathers before them. I was told, just as my predecessors were told, to let the world resolve itself. To let it decide its own fate, to only act to protect my nation.... | "Ah-Aah-choo!" I groaned, covering my eyes my eyes with one hand and grabbing a tissue with the other. Fucking blinds. Cheap garbage. I mopped the snot from beneath my nose, drawing to toward my eye with a certain, admittedly, morbid curiosity. It was slightly off colour. Yellow? Orange? Was there blood in it? I tossed... | 2016-06-25T05:17:24 | 2016-06-25T03:52:55 | 89 | 24 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | The moment he woke up I could tell something was wrong. There was a sort of dull recognition which blossomed into joy. The transition was beautiful, if not entirely understood. What followed after was what I can only describe as horror. It was over in a heartbeat, a synaptic flash's worth of time where each of us in th... | Suddenly, there was cheering. Cheering, and crying, and talking.
Was there a party outside, Tjörven thought - but he knew it couldn't be. The sound seemed too close, yet in a way ethereal. He sat up in bed, looking around him bewildered. "Emma" he whispered urgently "Emma wake up" he said louder now. But she didn't mo... | 2016-06-28T08:35:33 | 2016-06-28T05:28:57 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | My name is Travis Bigsby, and I am in the fourth grade. My teacher’s name is Mrs. Hayworth, and she is very nice. My two best friends in the whole world are Sheldon Gordon and Robbie Clay, and the name of our secret club is STaR (that’s because our first names start with S, T, and R, duh!). My mom’s name is Mary and my... | When my vision went from black to colors, I finally saw the people around me.
Tall and short, fat and skinny, black and white and red and yellow- it was as if every possible variety of human had been thrown into one room and given the same clothes, the same uniform, white and sterile and unfriendly. They were arrayed... | 2016-06-28T06:37:03 | 2016-06-28T06:30:38 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] many young adults claim to have seen a tv show called "teletubbies" as kids, but there is no record of such a show existing.
Shamelessly stolen from vinny vinesauce | **Item #:** SCP-4451
**Object Class:** ~~Euclid~~ Safe
**Special Containment Procedures:** Copies of SCP-4451 must be contained in a locked safe within a sound-proof viewing room. A two man security team composed of bi-sexual eunuchs must guard the entrance at all times. All viewing of SCP-4451 must be done with no v... | "There was a whole controversy about them!" Linda said. "This televangelist thought that one of them was gay because he had a - that thing on his head was a triangle! And it was like a pink triangle, except he was purple. And he, uh, he carried a man-purse."
Jared looked at her from over his phone. "Okay, that sounds... | 2016-07-01T06:54:32 | 2016-07-01T06:36:56 | 371 | 88 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | I put my feet up on the table.
"Don't do that!" the imp squawked. "That's against Regulation 46(d)(3)!"
"What's the penalty for violating Regulation 46(d)(3)?" I asked nonchalantly. "Is it summary dismissal of my case? Aren't you going to do that anyway? That's the game around here, isn't it? We can apply to escape H... | Rupert fought to wrestle the door closed against the violent storm behind him closing it with a resounding boom like the closing off a coffin. He gazed further along the corridor his eyes pained but determined as he read the sign above the door carved from a thick grey stone 'LEVEL ONE EXIT' he read.
Rupert stared at ... | 2016-07-29T08:34:26 | 2016-07-29T08:02:36 | 76 | 15 |
[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 actually went into isolation. | Everyone in the U.S. tuned in to watch one of the three major nationally syndicated TV news programs. Fifty years ago, the WWIII Isolation Armistice required all international travel and trade to cease, the internet to be walled, and all long distance communication to be deactivated.
The only broadcast communications... | Lying underneath the broken husks of countries, some semblance of government had remained. And together, in their wisdom, the greats had decided that - to avoid any further conflicts, which could prove even more disastrous - each country should isolate itself from its neighbours. That way, even if some internal crisis ... | 2016-10-18T18:32:40 | 2016-10-18T14:31:05 | 252 | 158 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | I was alone when it happened. I was always alone when things changed around me. The world and I where never in sync. I strolled through life as an observer. A person who just looked at others living their lives through a hole in a fence. Never really there, just watching.
But it seems that even an observer is forced ... | James woke after a poor nights sleep, blinking and fumbling around for his glasses.
Failing to find them, he stepped forward gingerly looking for the shelf where he kept his contact lenses. Squinting to make sure he put the right ones in, one by one he carefully removed a lens from the packet, balanced the lens on th... | 2016-10-22T01:17:53 | 2016-10-22T01:06:43 | 219 | 112 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | At first we didn't understand how it was possible, 90% of the population just dropped dead and no one knew how, there must be a reason those of us that survived were given the right to keep on living but what could it be...
We searched for a connection between us yet it seemed to be as random is it can be until we ... | He shoved me to the floor, gun to my head, I didn't mind I never stood a chance; He was a 6 foot 8 beast the sort of person who spent more time at the gym than with his family he didn't even need the gun he could squash my head in one hand. Me on the other hand a scrawny joke of a human even if the fight did manage to ... | 2016-10-22T03:50:18 | 2016-10-22T01:53:00 | 56 | 19 |
[WP] You are a normal person transported to an infomercial universe. Everyone is in awe at your ability to perform simple tasks without bizarre gadgets. | *POP!* **Bzzzz, Bzzzz, Bzzzz**
Jess was starting to get annoyed at her husband Harold. "Can you turn that damn alarm clock off?"
Harold rolled over and started slamming the alarm clock with his hand, but it refused to turn off. "Why can't I turn this damn thing off! I don't even remember turning the alarm clock o... | Sara Weston calmly walked up to the test bench. A crowd of men, most bespectacled and all adorned in crisp white lab coats, stood nearby; their hands, pens at the ready, poised above sheets of paper supported by clean clipboards. Sara tried to remain calm, she tried not to shrink away from the dozens of stern gazes cas... | 2016-12-24T10:03:35 | 2016-12-24T09:53:04 | 52 | 25 |
[WP] There is a different Grim Reaper for each species, and they only get to retire when the species goes extinct. You are the Human Grim Reaper, and 1,000 years into your retirement, you get a message, calling you back to work... | I toss my hand to the table, turning my head to avoid the dust that scatters around the yellowing cards.
"Fold," I groan roughly. My throat is already aching from use. I guess that's what happens when you don't use it for a few hundred years.
"Yeah, you would," my adversary barks.
I roll my eyes, glancing out of... | My eyes snapped open when the phone rang. I say my eyes, but I don't really have any, I only have a skull , and a skeleton. I don't understand it either, and I haven't for the past 6 million years, but that's just how it is. Still, I was surprised at my own alertness, I thought 1000 years of retirement would have numbe... | 2017-07-08T12:40:23 | 2017-07-08T12:09:18 | 377 | 92 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | Owner: Send nudes.
Phone: (autocorrected) I think you're a really smart, wonderful person.
Girl: Awww that's so sweet <3
Owner: [sends unsolicited dick pic]
Phone: [Sends pic of owner's dog]
Girl: Is that Bowser?? He's too cute. I'd love to bring my puppy over for a playdate sometime.
Owner: Fuck, yeah... | Owner to girl: Hi girl, how are you?
Autocorrect: What's up buttercup?!?! (coolsunglasses emoji)
Girl: Haha, not too much, just thinking what I want to do today, it is Saturday.
Owner to girl: I think my phone just called you buttercup, sorry. I'm playing minecraft and not sure when I'll ever get off this thing. ... | 2017-07-21T10:16:09 | 2017-07-21T10:02:31 | 273 | 164 |
[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. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | For decades, maybe even centuries, I had terrified the world. The monster under the bed, the seductress who stole men's hearts and crushed them between her fingers, notorious bank robber, crusher of men and women alike, and the woman who really did rule all.
It wasn't vindictiveness or hatred that drove me to these n... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T03:08:23 | 5,127 | 83 |
[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. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | Edit: conversations not aligned properly.
***
“Horus! You really like to get caught by me don't you!”
“Hah! You think this time will be the same as last time? You are wrong!”
“Coming after every time, if you weren't an overlord of destruction, I might have thought you liked me.”
Yes he did. No, it was more than that... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T04:19:39 | 5,127 | 10 |
[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. | 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'... | Edit: conversations not aligned properly.
***
“Horus! You really like to get caught by me don't you!”
“Hah! You think this time will be the same as last time? You are wrong!”
“Coming after every time, if you weren't an overlord of destruction, I might have thought you liked me.”
Yes he did. No, it was more than that... | 2017-09-17T05:11:57 | 2017-09-17T04:19:39 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] you are yourself, on Christmas Day, reading this on reddit, you are told that you are loved and accepted for who you are, and to have a happy holiday season, and a great new year!
EDIT: oh my god, this post accounts for 50% of my karma, it’s also the first reddit gold I’ve ever gotten, thank you so much reddit, t... | "Loved"... *I snorted.*
"Accepted"... *I laughed. A long laugh. I couldn't help it.*
*With such a sharp contrast to every other comment and action directed toward me in daily life, this was obviously either a joke or directed at someone else. I am one of those who society would simply prefer not to exist. I have untr... | "Is it Christmas?", I asked myself. The sludge-like snow on the ground obscures my sense of time, or even season. The last 20 or 90 months have been covered in ice, it seems. And a blizzard has been forming in my head for years. I've salted the streets in preparation for my upcoming travels into the unknown depths of m... | 2017-12-25T01:14:59 | 2017-12-24T23:09:32 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | You know, there have always been rumors on side\-effects and how EverLife squashed anyone trying to do any kind of study on them. Not really surprising seeing how rich they all got, and how every single politician's life depended on EverLife's continued existence.
The first two generations didn't really show it that m... | The Fountain of Youth. A blessed spring that would restore any who bathed in it back to the prime of their life. Many tales have been told of it's existence, and many have spent their lives searching for it. And now, thanks to a group of scientists working for Big Pharma, you can buy it over the counter. Bottled, carbo... | 2018-06-05T00:30:12 | 2018-06-05T00:08:04 | 25 | 10 |
[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." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | “I’ll have a double cheeseburger deluxe,” I say looking up at the glowing menu, “with fries and regular spri--” I stop as I see the cashier with mouth agape and brows furrowed.
“What the f” she mouths, cutting off the last syllable as she hisses the f. Her confusion turned to an irritated stare obviously annoyed.
I ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:35:31 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] You've been an avid star gazer since childhood, catching every meteor shower you could and wishing on every fallen star you saw. After 20 years you recieve a letter apologizing for the delay, and that your wishes will all arrive throughout the next week. | It started with breasts.
I had them already, of course.
I was 27, after all.
But that morning, that morning...
Wowza. I could take someone's eye out.
I was concerned, and WebMD assured me
I was dying.
I made an appointment with my doctor
for the following morning.
No rush to confirm my worst fears.
The... | I missed out on a normal childhood, but I never knew that until I was older. I never knew there was anything else out there, that there was a different way to be a kid. I don’t pity myself though; I don’t resent my mother or my brother or my grandfather. All of them, even me, were just trying our best.
I never knew w... | 2018-06-25T15:35:02 | 2018-06-25T14:08:33 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] Everybody gets a superpower, but nobody has any secondary superpowers. People who spawn fire aren't fireproof. Super-speeders have normal reaction times. Super-strong people have normal joints. | My mother used to say everyone had a gift, but I know better.
Everyone has a curse.
It takes 18,500 Newton's to lift a car, 4,000 to snap your arm trying.
The average speedster can run twice the speed of sound, hitting a large insect at that speed is like getting punched in the face by a professional boxer.
My U... | Superpowers something all kids dream of right? Correct we dream and pray and beg we end up normal.
You could shrink but then your body couldn't handle the cold and if you survived that when you went back to normal size you'd be starving and dehydrated.
Breathe fire? Your getting burned so many times..
Flight? This ... | 2018-09-27T20:14:11 | 2018-09-27T16:56:39 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] "Death is a gentle thing if you welcome it, like a soft breeze or a bashful kiss." - "Then what's the scythe for?" - "The people who resist." | And at this, I stopped.
"So... we *can* resist."
And though the toothy grin remained, it's smile was gone. "**Ah. Cunning. But clever wheat is still just wheat...**"
But as it swung the glittering edge at me, I heard, as if through deep water- "Charging to 200 Joules. Clear!"
And I was back, surrounded by the whit... | I looked at my hot pink Sony Ericsson. The screen lit up showing me my next guest to receive.
“Laura Knickett, Singapore.”
Wow, awfully far for an assignment but I guess it’s part of the job scope. What is time anyways, but something which passes ever so slowly and quickly at the same time?
Before long, I arrived a... | 2018-10-25T09:22:40 | 2018-10-25T08:59:05 | 71 | 25 |
[WP] Humans are actually cocoons for the race of skeleton beings that live underground. After your "death" you wake up, but find you're still stuck inside your flesh cocoon. | I used to fit in.
People I hardly knew invited me to their wine tastings, surprise birthday parties and casual mixers, just so they could show off to their friends their association with me. When I crossed the room hands reached for my shoulder. Desperate eyes begged me to join conversation circles, eager for my qui... | Harley looked at herself in the mirror, face scrunched in disgust. She was supposed to show up for a party being thrown in her honor. She was supposed to have finally broken out of her cocoon, but she was stuck inside of it.
She had never met anyone with this problem. There was simply no way for her to deal with it d... | 2019-03-02T20:29:29 | 2019-03-02T19:48:12 | 311 | 39 |
[WP] You've had anxiety your entire life. One day, an old woman offers to remove it for you. You think 'why not?' and let her try. Afterwards, a hauntingly beautiful being stands before you, but you don't react. The woman didn't just remove your anxiety, she removed all your emotions. | Most would argue that feelings are in the mind, but I swear it, I felt myself empty into a void. Like all the blood had been sucked out of me through a straw.
I wanted to be surprised by the fact, but *that's* a feeling, too. Damn hag stole everything from me, siphoned every drop of emotion like I was a tapped keg.
... | I can't feel.
Maybe that is a bad thing, or maybe it is good. Someone else would have to tell me. All I know is that it is true, and that I can do nothing about it.
I'm not sure how I should feel about it because, as I said before, I can't feel. But based on the reactions of people around me, I think it's something I... | 2019-03-29T23:44:26 | 2019-03-29T20:24:02 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] After 357 years running from death the Grim Reaper finally tracks down your mountain cave. When he arrives he asks if he can hide with you. | The wind blew hard, its frigidness numbing my skin. As I sat in my cave, I reveled in my victory. After 357 years, I had finally escaped death, or so I thought. Over the past few decades, I began to get more cocky. I had evaded death for so long, that I grew soft. I began to forget to hide my tracks, leaving an obvious... | The cold, harsh mountain air battered at the cave’a entrance as I huddled in a corner, wrapped in blankets. My beard was getting a tad long, I thought, as a strong gust of wind entered the cave and blew it into my face. Well, at least it’s not as long as it was in Moscow. Now that was long, I thought, and softly chuckl... | 2020-01-20T18:34:48 | 2020-01-20T17:27:58 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] After 357 years running from death the Grim Reaper finally tracks down your mountain cave. When he arrives he asks if he can hide with you. | The wind blew hard, its frigidness numbing my skin. As I sat in my cave, I reveled in my victory. After 357 years, I had finally escaped death, or so I thought. Over the past few decades, I began to get more cocky. I had evaded death for so long, that I grew soft. I began to forget to hide my tracks, leaving an obvious... | I remember that night, that one December night that changed everything. It was cold. Very, very cold. I was finishing up the last meal I had cooked up with my wooden handmade stove. "357 years", I said to myself, "357 years of running, fretting about what will happen next, thinking about how he will murder me, how he w... | 2020-01-20T18:34:48 | 2020-01-20T18:15:07 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | The Man of the North:
A person that everyone knows. The other immortal beings were present in some cultures, but the man was known by everyone.
His speed, unmatched, he could circle the world faster than everyone.
His generosity, so pure, everyone was struck with happiness at the mention of his name.
His looks, unm... | [Poem]
World divided into four
Land held, guarded ever more
Elementals they tend to be
Fire and air, Earth and sea
Gigantic, powerful rulers of all
Mighty in nature standing so tall
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The Kraken, bending, curling
Islands hurling.
Dr... | 2020-04-19T08:34:41 | 2020-04-19T07:43:14 | 85 | 57 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | The sound of light footsteps echoed through the hallways of the Heroic Embassy. A man in a crisp white suit and soft blonde hair casually approached the massive double doors that lead to the main conference hall, pushing them open with little effort, the various heroes and vigilantes inside turning to him, realization ... | "Hey uh, boss?" One of the grunts had radioed him.
"Yeah? What do you need?" The man, relaxed in a chair, asked.
"We found Courts, he's pretty fucked up, looks like torture." The grunt responded.
"Oh fuck..." The man, now sitting up straighter, muttered, "anyone else?"
"Dead." The grunt replied.
"I assumed so." Th... | 2021-03-22T09:04:23 | 2021-03-22T07:33:48 | 76 | 34 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | "Do we know who did this?"
It was the first time The Academic had spoken since they had entered the hospital. They had emerged from their motorcade in silence, letting their assistants placate and query the staff of the hospital. Now they stood at the bedside of Ms. Lydia Wisp.
The Academic's network was large enoug... | Everyone has an origin story. From the highest to the lowest, to those with no powers to near gods.
I was a short, malnourished, and plain small-time thief in a dying industrial town in a small East European country. I could dig through memories, but used it to find where marks hid money, phones and jewelry. No one t... | 2021-03-22T10:21:57 | 2021-03-22T09:30:23 | 58 | 24 |
[WP] Every time you make food half of it always goes missing before you dish it out for yourself. After weeks of investigations and exorcisms you gave up and started doubling the food you make, but recently, money's gotten tight. You can't afford food for 2 and you're not sure what's going to happen | I hunger. I see the young man hungers too but I cannot help it.
I hunger so painfully.
The desire for sustenance howls through my entire being and food only temporarily satiates it. His rituals have caused my soul to flag, yet I return as soon as a crumb of food crosses my tongue.
I do not know what I am, nor why I ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Interlude 1: Roger)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Roger wished his invisibility was more useful.** His invisibility wasn't like the superheroes on TV, the U.S. Super-Spies... | 2021-04-22T11:58:32 | 2021-04-22T09:50:29 | 237 | 131 |
[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". | I fondly remembered my first year on this job. Getting my ass kick by amateurs plenty of times, being called names because I'm supposedly a D-Rank villain, right before I pulled a couple of tricks on them to learn a valuable lesson.
Months later, a handful of the new heroes pick up my facade. These small bunch all ask... | 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... | 2021-06-23T10:55:56 | 2021-06-23T10:26:18 | 133 | 54 |
[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". | I have been employed by my cousin Cerra (or Goddess Divine) as Madame Viper for over seventeen years. I am a "villain" by the simple fact that my power is both dangerous and controlled better than anyone alive or dead.
With the help of the police, and clever advertising, they consider me to be a low tier villain th... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T15:25:51 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] You are a knight who was chosen by the King to defeat a powerful dragon. Most of the city was destroyed, but you prevailed. You've settled with an amnesiac woman traumatized by the battle. One day you come home to her screaming. Her hands are clawed and coated in all too familiar scales. | "I remember!" she screamed. "I remember! After you cut him down. When he lay upon the cobblestones. And I thought he was dead, so I crept closer and peered at his face. But he opened his eyes! Those terrible, yellow eyes. He held me in his power! And as he exhaled his last breath, I inhaled it. A part of his evil! His ... | I was to blame for this.
A momentary pause to offer my opponent pity caused the hell flames of Novil. A hellish burst of orange and red flames that pierced the heavens, polluting them with black smoke. Those who were caught in the flames path were the unfortunate ones, their skin popping like hot oil before peeling... | 2021-07-31T02:38:20 | 2021-07-31T01:56:40 | 93 | 15 |
[WP] "How did you survive all that?! You're an engineer, how did you survive where hundreds of trained soldiers armed to the teeth all died?" | “You know that lake a mile north?” The engineer asked.
“What’s Lake Emerald got to do with this?” The man sitting next to the engineer at the only bar in town demand drunkenly.
“Well, it’s a man made lake.”
“Again, not sure what the lake has to do with it.”
“And the military encampment was right by the river, wasn... | The problem was that you were thinking about the issue all wrong the whole time. If you want to take over a highly secured area what is it that you think that you need to do? What information do you need? Yes, there was an army of highly trained guards, attack dogs and electrified fences but none of these problems were... | 2021-11-18T04:30:20 | 2021-11-18T02:52:51 | 79 | 46 |
[WP] There is only one universal rule about sapient species in the galaxy. The cuter a human finds a sapient species, the more genocidal, monstrous and cruel the species and its culture is. It is not known why this is the case. | "bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop " could be heard down the hallways, the captain sighed, as she walked toward the human's room, to see what creature they had brought back this time.
Standing before their door, they took a moment to prepare themselves, deep breath in, deep breath out.
'You are the captain,' she ... | I'm not sure I meet the exact intent of your prompt, however I hope you enjoy the take on it.
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Thirty of the universe’s deadliest crusaders approached the mouth of the cave, nothing save the soft clink of armor and the exhalation of breath filled the crisp air. Crouc... | 2022-06-26T19:55:35 | 2022-06-26T18:51:13 | 64 | 48 |
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