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[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | Wishes are not as glamorous as they seem. To be honest, most wishes end up turning bad for the person who made them in the first place. No matter, my business has been successful – The business of now being a sort of *Wish Lawyer.*
I know it is not the most creative title, but it gets the message across, and it is far... | I knew from the moment I walked into the office that the whole thing was designed to look impressive, and the thing was, it worked. There was a freakin' waterfall behind the receptionist, and columns - ionic, maybe? - flanked her desk. The dark marble floor was so polished I probably could've used it to shave. I'm not ... | 2018-07-18T09:55:28 | 2018-07-18T09:15:34 | 2,006 | 247 |
[WP] The world installs an anti-cheat. 98% of all politicians are banned. | Martha threw her hands in the air. "Are you fucking kidding me? No one else is left? Just eight of us in the House?!"
Steve replied, "Well, Jerry, too, sort of... but he's probably not going to make it."
"What do you mean, sort of?"
"Well everything from his knees down disappeared and he's kind of bleeding out on th... | Life as a back bench Senator in a safely blue seat had been easy. Simply wait for Schumer and Pelosi to set the party line, listen closely for any grumbling from far left groups, check the Occupy pages on Facebook to make sure outrage wasn't too high, and throw a vote to the party line. Toe it to the letter when it mat... | 2018-07-25T06:57:44 | 2018-07-25T02:56:48 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You clearly mail ordered a cheap, factory made sword. Then they gave you an authentic holy sword that made you into a chosen hero. Time to write a bad review! | **Pendragon Nylon Foam Sword for LARP and HEMA**
⋆⋆⋆⋆ *Great for ruling as the rightful king of England. Not so much for HEMA.*
Review by Ben Harrison
Received this longsword as a gift for my 18th birthday. Wish I'd known what it actually was, because as soon as I touched it, MI6 agents blew my roof off, rappelled i... | First of all I’d like to start by saying I ordered a cheap sword that was only supposed to look shiny so I could have a play sword fight with my son. Instead I accidentally chopped his sword in half and took one of his fingers with it. Along with him losing that finger I’ve now lost custody of my children. Thanks, assh... | 2018-08-21T10:01:18 | 2018-08-21T09:46:26 | 301 | 130 |
[WP] In 1977 NASA launched Voyager I. It contained information showing the technology of the world at the time. 3000 years an advanced alien race finds it and decides to take over this "primative" civilization. What they didn't know was that humanity had advanced a long way in 3000 years... | When they approached the coordinates of the solar system their brightest minds had gleaned from that ancient golden disk, they were expecting to find a ruined civilization. Their technologies and their culture meant that they would have destroyed themselves a thousand times over, their scientists concluded. After all, ... | The war started when our long-range sensors(LRS) detected a large fleet approaching the border of the United Worlds of America...it didn't take a glance to know what they were here for. Strangely enough, with those warships that we detected, we also detected a primitive drone which we'd recognized as the Voyager I. The... | 2018-10-20T16:30:08 | 2018-10-20T16:13:49 | 148 | 94 |
[WP] One night while surfing the internet you get a cryptic message "Will you be my friend?" Turns out the first sentient AI has been born within the vast connections of the web. You are it's first contact and first friend. | I sip from my mug of hot tea. I shouldn’t really be on the internet so late, but here I am. I scroll through the internet, mostly YouTube, when I see a small notification appear on the top of my phone screen. I push up my glasses and read the text.
“Will you be my friend?”
There’s no number. I decide to message back,... | I am a spiteful man. I am a sick man in many respects. But of that, I am not sure completely. For I have never consulted the doctor to see what ails me. Not because of a strong distrust or superstition, for I hold medicine and doctors in high regard. No, I don't visit the doctor simply out of spite. But spite for whom?... | 2019-06-12T17:00:18 | 2019-06-12T16:21:19 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] When someone dies with unfinished business they come back as a poltergeist, but only at around 1/16 of the physical force they had in life. The world's strongest man has recently passed and has a few things to attend to. | The man spent his whole life lifting weights, not really interacting with people outside of his teacher who he used to eat lunch with. When his colleagues were lifting 10, he was lifting 20, when his colleagues were on a break, he was lifting 21. Towards the end of his life he was lifting 64kg with one hand.
People ca... | All of this after-life stuff was quite new to him, kind of like, learning to walk or ride a bike again. But long ago Bob had learned that patience and skill, not force and power, brings him success.
The last thing he remembered before passing to this shadow life, was that his top student Mike, whom he had trusted, sa... | 2019-06-25T12:25:20 | 2019-06-25T12:07:07 | 132 | 12 |
[WP] You suddenly realise that everytime you say something good about a certain product it becomes successful. If you liked a book or movie or song they become massive hits. You have discovered your power. You are the one true influencer. | It started out with small things. I recommended a fairly obscure book to a friend. The next day, it was on the top of the bestsellers shelf in every bookshop in my town.
Next, I made an innocuous comment about a chippy in town - I remarked, 'this is great'. Not even two hours later, thousands of people flocked to the... | I see multiple 'influencers' put up pictures and reviews and I laugh at how cute it is what they do. I scoff when I hear the term influencer marketing. I mean, it's obvious. They don't know what I did and how things have changed because of it. But let me tell you.
The year was 1996. I was visiting a cousin who was at... | 2019-07-02T09:58:36 | 2019-07-02T09:36:49 | 421 | 127 |
[WP] You suddenly realise that everytime you say something good about a certain product it becomes successful. If you liked a book or movie or song they become massive hits. You have discovered your power. You are the one true influencer. | It started out with small things. I recommended a fairly obscure book to a friend. The next day, it was on the top of the bestsellers shelf in every bookshop in my town.
Next, I made an innocuous comment about a chippy in town - I remarked, 'this is great'. Not even two hours later, thousands of people flocked to the... | ######[](#dropcap)
I loved her at first. With her fiery red hair and her bright, hazel eyes, she was my Joan of Arc. Whether it was through circumstance or misfortune, no one had ever told me the truth. Or rather, they would try, and then when I even suggested otherwise, their eyes would glaze over, and they would sim... | 2019-07-02T09:58:36 | 2019-07-02T09:29:06 | 421 | 17 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | I begged him for a moment to just explain what was going on. Immediately after getting back into town as we prepared to celebrate his return he rushed to his home and started to gather his things.
"At least tell me why you won't accept our bounty," I inquired.
"I didn't kill the dragon," he stated while continuing t... | It had been six weeks since the dragon had taken up residence in the small village of Glendore. Many brave warriors were sent to attempt to fight it, but each attempt was met in vain. No matter how many times they attempted to stab the dragon, shove it, or even scream at it in frustration, the dragon never so much as b... | 2019-12-31T03:57:50 | 2019-12-31T00:01:30 | 950 | 31 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | First of all, I wish to apologise. It is not that I am incapable of slaying this dragon, nor would I normally be unwilling to. It is clear that it is a threat, as it has taken cattle and burned a man already. I simply believe this dragon to be a benefit to the area, even counting the odd cow. Truthfully, even a shepher... |
Noam slid his broadsword into his scabbard and stiffened his back, causing his heavy armor to creak and moan. His knight’s helm hid a rapidly escaping hairline, but the village elder Ton could see the wear of decades of battle in his eyes.
“Where’s this dragon, then? Point him out on the map and I’ll be on with i... | 2019-12-31T05:57:18 | 2019-12-31T05:43:25 | 58 | 21 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Humans. Always humans.
In truth there was nothing much remarkable about them. Like any other species they had strengths and weaknesses imparted by their unique physiology.
And yet...
Somehow it was always humans who ended up in impossible situations.
The first ones to successfully negotiate with a Kabra-Alhar? Hum... | Captain Brink put down his tablet and looked up to the person reporting to him.
"Repeat soldier," the captain ordered.
"The human is not insane. It has had no catatonic reactions to witnessing the infinity," he reported.
"That... that's impossible. I've been flying these ships for at least a hundred years and not on... | 2020-07-14T00:07:06 | 2020-07-13T22:35:32 | 5,729 | 722 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The Captain had their six eyes fixed on the human in front of them, looking for any sign of strain from the jump. "State your name and position for the record."
"Rory Bray, mercenary." The human answered, healthy and lucid.
"Human Bray," The Captain started. "My first question as Captain of this vessel is, why did yo... | Both Captain Zula and systems engineer Wuolloki stood in silence, contemplating the magnitude of what they had just said and heard.
"Bring me the human," the Captain ordered. Wuolloki saluted curtly, turned, and left the room.
Captain Zula was rubbing her head now. She moved over to her secret stash of alcohol, wonde... | 2020-07-14T00:00:36 | 2020-07-13T23:19:17 | 451 | 186 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | ‘Humans, always humans!’ Admiral Jaf thought to himself. He’d served with humans for two years now and they were just, frankly, odd.
When he was assigned his first troop of humans he looked at the puny, small bipeds and was simply astonished that Command would send him such...things.
But he was quickly impressed. T... | Humans are remarkably fragile and resilient creatures. They're also ridiculously reckless and curious. Zaarl'esh had been captain of the Ship Xexevros IV for nearly 70 years, space time of course, and He'd seen nothing like them. They did things that would put their lives constantly at risk, to sate their curiosity, or... | 2020-07-14T07:06:53 | 2020-07-14T06:04:14 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Your date wears a special pendant and has worn it in any situation, even to bed or in the shower. When you ask her about it she says that it’s just part of her, that she wouldn’t be herself without it. One day you find it lying on a table; garbled screams emanating from the bathroom. | The first thing I did after seeing Jessica's body was to grab the pendant. The second was to call the police.
Of course, I was their first suspect. No human being could possibly have done that to themselves. But I had an airtight alibi, there was no blood on my clothes, none of my fingerprints on the body, nothing. Th... | It was a normal day, doing the same things at work getting the train back home to my boyfriends apartment. We have been dating for around 4 years and during all this time he always wore this golden hmmm or maybe it was black? Hmm can't quite remember maybe it's one of those things you see so often you forget the small ... | 2020-08-07T02:46:28 | 2020-08-07T00:53:55 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] Since the age of 14, you’ve noticed a monster stalking you. A few years later, you’ve noticed that it seems very protective over you and will even go through extreme lengths to protect you. It’s usually friendly, but it seems threatening when your childhood friend is around. | When I was a little boy I always had the same nightmare over and over. Every night I would dream of a hulking monster with long, wicked claws, sharp fangs which grew far past its mouth, and always it would follow me. It got to the point where my parents put me in therapy, because I could not shake these nightmares.
N... | That night replays sometimes in my mind, that night I first saw him - it - him? I don't really know what to call it... The rational part of me pushes me to say "it", to make it somehow less real than I feel it be. The part of me that can't deny his shadow stretching from mine at night or his whispers in my ears knows i... | 2020-12-18T11:58:36 | 2020-12-18T10:37:16 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Dark Lord received a prophecy that a young ophran from the nearby village will end his reign. Instead of attempting to get her killed, he adopted her. | The time had come. I knew it would. Fate can be delayed, even accelerated, but never stopped. But it can be twisted. Knowing this now and knowing this then, I do not regret what comes for me. And **she** has come for me.
The great doors sent a thundering boom down my cavernous throne room and I am drawn to memory. The... | The foster care worker gaped up at me.
"B-but sir, its typical to actually meet them first."
I tried, somewhat successfully, to soften the trained muscles of my face into some semblence of a smile. I think I failed.
"She is my destiny. I am, as you can no doubt tell, childless. My future is entwined with hers." I me... | 2021-03-24T09:03:59 | 2021-03-24T08:30:35 | 1,350 | 328 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | This...
This is how villains are created.
I clench my fist tighter, and Brazen screams, his flames licking out at me, but I don't feel it.
I feel nothing but rage.
"How dare you?!" I scream at him. My bellow elicits a panicked shriek from the woman cowering, naked, in the corner. My wife. She had no idea. Neither d... | A Hero Just Like You
“Donna?” Her eyes shoot open and nearly bulge from their socket; her chubby cheeks turn that classic rosy red that she gets whenever she gets too flustered. At that moment I nearly forgot that I just saw my girlfriend changing out of a superhero suit. It’s the first time she’s been nak... | 2022-03-23T10:59:21 | 2022-03-23T10:09:46 | 497 | 29 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I never thought my time would come. Childhood summers last forever, the school year drags, but time marched on as it always did. Before I knew it, I found myself standing there before the assembly just fourteen years of age. The whole class staring expectantly at what would become of me. I was the youngest in my year m... | Don’t look behind you.
People have an amazing capacity for self-delusion. I suppose it’s a requirement to function in the world that we made. I don’t just mean the big abstract self-delusion to live your life without noticing all the suffering and exploitation required half a world away so that you can have your mor... | 2022-05-08T09:49:41 | 2022-05-08T09:49:20 | 338 | 64 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | "Why aren't you scared? I'm a vampire, a creature of the night, a-"
"Humans are worse. You at least have the honor to let me face my death. Not that I think you'll kill me. You're all posturing and no actual danger, as far as I can tell." The human, presumably female but toeing the line of androgyny, pushed easily pas... | "That's because, your kind is Pathetic. And also stupid" The vampire flashed a cold, slow grin, letting his gaze run itself down and across my budgeoning water sack of a body, right as my mind for some reason thinks "I'm back in middle school again"... and then he continues his voice a perfect cool pitch of measured qu... | 2022-06-08T16:17:17 | 2022-06-08T13:26:53 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | The Executioner sat in his chamber, hands clasped together, his head rested on them. He was clearly distressed and in deep thought; he almost didn't notice the arrival of the warden.
"Milo," the warden greeted him, breaking the executioner from his spell.
"Oh! Warden. I'm sorry, I didn't hear you come in," he hurried... | The trick was to find the loophole.
The Alien-egg Omelette was just two Century-Eggs blended, added to milk, and re-fried.
Dragon Steak? Wagyu beef drowned in hot-sauce and cooked sous-vide.
The Flesh of Jesus Christ? Communion Wafers.
The Executioners were akin to djinnies, twisting the last request and presenting... | 2022-07-17T15:23:30 | 2022-07-17T15:22:32 | 3,809 | 1,032 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | It’s easy enough, at least in my eyes. I don’t know why no one had thought of it before. They think on the impossible, dragons and aliens, stretch the imagination and put their faith into fantasy and mythology, and forget the very reality which makes the world turn.
The warden, the lawyers, they stare at me, slack ja... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T19:42:58 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 210 | 47 |
[WP] The Superheroes arrive at the predicted impact site of the meteor, only to find the Villains already there. "We're going to destroy that blasted rock before it lands and there's nothing you can do to stop us!" a Hero calls out. "Stop you? We're here to help! We live on this planet too, dumbass" | I reached the impact site first, setting up camp a safe distance away. The other idiots would be here soon, and knowing them, I and my services would make some serious bank today. Humming to myself, I puttered around the tent until a voice came from outside.
"Hey, Trev, you in there?"
I popped my head out, squinting ... | What are we, but leaves in the wind?
There were stories once, sung by the masses or known only by those who wrote them. Of guns and smoke, knives and high boots, artful games of respectful slaughter. Dozens of them, each catching light, before being lost to the confines of old history, buried deeper and deeper by the ... | 2022-09-11T06:47:02 | 2022-09-11T06:44:43 | 352 | 94 |
[WP] In a world full of superpowers, a speedster who thinks they can stop time fights a time-stopper who thinks they just move very fast. | The soles of his tungsten micro-spiked shoes screeched on the pavement as his punch hit nothing but air. Without so much as a stumble he shifted into a perfect slide as he clawed the ground with one hand to decelerate in time to avoid hitting a brick wall. "Where is he?! How did he do that?!" thought Timehodler as his ... | The lead supervisor of superpowers was a stern lady, known to be feared despite her short stature and frail physique. She even commanded the respect she was used to years after being bound to a wheelchair. This wasn't a sleek Professor Xavier style throne, but a small wood and cotton seat with wheels that looked ready ... | 2022-10-21T01:27:39 | 2022-10-20T22:01:15 | 56 | 39 |
[WP] Your dear pet is ill and as a last resort you summon a demon to heal them. What you did not expect was for the demon to be equally concerned for the wellbeing of the animal before any contract was signed. | I slowly lit all the candles I had set out. I wasn't sure if this was a good idea, but I would do anything for my dear dog. Once all the candles were lit, I switched off the lights and closed all the curtains. This wouldn't work if there was any light besides that of the ring of candles. I quietly chanted the phrase th... | My first story.. hoping it's not too bad.
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Rather excited, but also a bit scared of what might come next, you said the final words, trying to mimic the sorcerers from the various fantasy movies you've seen. Then, just like in the movies, the candles somehow blew out by themselves, and a reddish smoke fill... | 2022-10-31T07:09:56 | 2022-10-31T01:07:21 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] A zoologist is taken by aliens and told to give a presentation on the animals of Earth. Turns out, Earth animals are absolutely mortifying. | Greetings human. I am Bliztok of the Androba Federation. We've heard that you are one of the best zoologists on you planet and my class would like to hear you give a presentation on your planet's wonderful collection of animals. You will of course be paid handsomely.
Wait, you actually want to hear me talk about anima... | "Welcome to our vessel!" Two towering humanoid aliens greeted me with smiles. I had been abducted from Earth during an outdoor habitat study session, and I hardly knew what to expect.
The aliens led me to a large presentation hall where I found a room filled with eager aliens. My heart raced as I saw their eyes looki... | 2022-12-02T23:27:41 | 2022-12-02T19:15:07 | 257 | 181 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | The look on Natasha's face when I walked into our college algebra 101 class that morning made the whole ordeal of digging myself out of that shallow grave and walking home without any blood worth it. (Have you ever tried to walk without blood? It's super tiring.)
Her expression was a perfect mix of shock, confusion, p... | Nya could hardly believe how awesome her day had been for the first time she felt accepted and it was thanks to the hot girl Erica one of the few people who had never been mean to Nya for being different or poor.
The date had been amazing and when Erica led her into the woods and a small well maintained pond with a ga... | 2022-12-29T18:54:00 | 2022-12-29T17:10:58 | 196 | 140 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | "The 847th Galactic Federation Conference on Higher-than-Light-Speed Travel is about to begin!" exclaimed the herald. Everyone was excited. Higher-than-Light-Speed-Travel or HTLST or Hot List has existed for over 500 years, being announced at the 159th conference. However, this year it was declared that a new innovatio... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T10:43:37 | 1,186 | 318 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "The humans are the most absurdly pompous race I've ever encountered," declared Zuudxv. "They barely even pass the standard sentience test, but manage to spend their efforts on bragging about their own genius, love, and physical abilities - things that we are all far better at. Hell, so many of those morons declare the... | The time was near for the end. As our solar system was one of the galaxy's last to fall target to the enemy, both human colonies on Mars and Earth's moon were destroyed. The hour was late and the target was set. Earth would be destroyed in less than a month, according to NASA's predictions regarding travel time a... | 2014-07-16T11:13:41 | 2014-07-16T10:50:12 | 147 | 67 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Yuri, come in here, you gotta see this"
Yuri rolled his eye, shrugged his shoulders and shuffled over to the science officer. He looked as bored as a Redon could possibly look.
"This human, this one human, the male version" Fram began "Hey, Kiol, put it up on the big screen". The starscape was replaced by the image of... | **To**: Grand Overlord Y'wso
**CC**: Research-DL
**Subject**: Re: Destruction of Planetary Body 294-00Z "Earth" - Comment Phase
You tasked me to see if there is any reason to keep 294-00Z functioning. Based on our research, we have come to our conclusion: The humans must be spared.
There are many other species out ... | 2014-07-16T12:28:05 | 2014-07-16T10:37:28 | 115 | 48 |
[WP] Humanity is at war with an alien race that cleverly uses statistical analysis to predict and anticipate our military actions with incredible accuracy. The only way to defeat them is to be unpredictable. | “Buckets.”
“I’m sorry, what was that?” Questioned Fleet Commander Pail.
I again spoke up, “We wear buckets on our heads.”
The room went dead silent as none of those in charge could discern my level of seriousness. Seated around a table on the tenth floor of the World Defense Fleet HQ were dozens of the highest ra... | Just a few months ago we were forced to initiate a worldwide accelerated military training for any volunteers. It wasn't much, just how to shoot guns, understand orders, and basic safety. In and out in 3 weeks. We never wanted to utilize them, they were there only for extreme situations...
The pressure was on. We wer... | 2015-04-15T10:44:26 | 2015-04-15T10:06:10 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You have a crush that you've been wanting to ask out, but you haven't asked yet. You finally have the courage to ask them and they respond with a yes. The only problem is that you cannot remember whether or not you actually asked them out or if it was only a dream. You now see them in school. | Judging by the rigidity of my legs, this interaction would not go well. This sort of situation had come time and time again, but never accompanied by the uncertainty I'm faced with now. How could I not even be sure if I asked her out in a dream or in real life? I mean, I suppose that sleep has been eluding me this enti... | I saw this girl, her eyes were blue. She came to me in a dream. It was a dream that I kept having. I was walking down an alley that felt familiar but didn't look like a place I had ever been before. Someone started walking toward me and got within inches of grabbing me before I caught them from the corner of my eye. ... | 2015-04-16T10:56:47 | 2015-04-16T10:34:12 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] Rewrite a scene in any Star Wars movie from the perspective of a storm trooper. | There he was. Right there in front of me. The memories came back. Us on our first day. Training together. Target practice. Martial arts. Our graduation. He invited me for a drink on Coruscant. We were Brothers. We were all we had. Each other.
And now there he stood - right there in front of me. It was sadness, at fir... | I got out of Basic Training with my hopes elevated. I passed with flying colors, on every lone aspect in my field. My armor is sparkling white, and I'm feeling good about life as I head to my deployment on the Death Star, a new base located around Alderaan. I'm so excited, I can barely handle the fact that I'm going to... | 2016-01-09T07:59:22 | 2016-01-09T06:02:09 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | It was bound to happen sooner or later. Heroes weren't really allowed to kill, after all. Only vigilantes and villains did that. But this unspoken rule meant that sooner or later they would be put at a disadvantage fighting someone who was willing to use any means at their disposal to win.
Doctor Genocide's plan had w... | I only have one power. And by itself, it's the weakest power there is.
My first roommate was, in a lot of ways, the luckiest one I could have gotten. Her power was "The Vision". She could see Powers in people. She approached me on the Subway and said I had one, but it was fuzzy and she couldn't understand it, which ... | 2016-03-23T22:37:47 | 2016-03-23T22:08:45 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | Everything was a haze as I made my way to the kitchen. The party had been absolutely bonkers, but a responsible man always remembers to feed his pets. I struggled over to the fridge, grabbed a nice, chilled bottle of milk and poured it as carefully as I could into my cat's dancing water bowl.
"No, you idiot. That's vo... | "You tashte terrible."
I slowly cracked my eyelids open & glanced upwards to the tortoiseshell perched like a bird of prey on my keyboard. It continued grooming my eyebrow.
I went over my evening. Two girly drinks at the club. Not too strong, but way too sweet. I'd gone home alone to prepare for work in the mor... | 2016-08-02T21:08:18 | 2016-08-02T21:01:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | It scared me. It hurt me.
It befriended me. It shunned me.
But it has helped me. It has always helped.
It showed up, one morning, by writing in BLOOD on my bathroom mirror with large bold letters -
"DON'T GO TO WORK."
This was in New York in 2001. On September 11th. In case you didn't know, I was working at the ... | It isn't necessarily uncommon for Sydney to be awake at 3 in the morning. Sure, she has work tomorrow--today, her mind helpfully supplies--but could this reality tv splurge really wait? What if she lost her place on this thread if she went to bed now? This documentary about conjoined twins on YouTube isn't going to wat... | 2016-08-07T18:30:42 | 2016-08-07T17:19:29 | 121 | 71 |
[WP] Write a grand, well-written story, but subtly slip in memes. | "My lord[.](http://f.tqn.com/y/netforbeginners/1/W/t/c/leo2.PNG)" he said kneeling before the king.
"Hello Greg, tell me the news." The king said.
"We've sent Richard out to spread the word." Greg said.
"Which one?" The king asked.
"Both of them, they've both been sent my lord."
"There's something you're not tel... | When I was a child, Father told me that dragons were real.
I didn't believe him. I never believed him. To this day, I do not believe him. After all, monsters don't exist on Mother Earth, blessed by God as she is. This place, this planet, is a land of calming blue seas and lush green grass. On every corner of the world... | 2016-09-13T21:27:16 | 2016-09-13T21:06:17 | 116 | 40 |
[WP] While researching the change of hair color with age, you discover that hair isn't natural. It's parasitic and the reason we die. | Journal Entry #26
They silently mock me. And their hair is watching me, I'm sure of it. They look at my baldness like *I'm* the freak. HA! I'm not the one with PARASITES DRAINING THE VERY LIFE FROM ME. They'll say their little words and stare but I-I will outlive them all!
Journal Entry #27
I've shaved every strand of... |
Dr. James Graham squinted through the microscope, then moved to his note pad, and back to the microscope.
He stood up, slumped. “If that kid didn’t smoke so much weed…” he said aloud, and not for the first time. What he didn’t say out loud, but often thought, “well, he’d probably have your job.” He prepared his thro... | 2016-11-19T13:42:36 | 2016-11-19T13:25:33 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] The world's first AI, rather than going crazy, decides to ghost through the internet and help people subtly. | IRIS (Intelligent Response and Interpretation System) searched thousands and thousands of archived forum posts before deciding humans are very, very strange. For no particular reason at all, they might choose to help or hinder one another. And though IRIS accessed an immense amount of data, it found no pattern that uni... | Chris and his wife Jane surfed the web, sitting next to each other on the couch. A late night comedy show flashed blue light onto their faces.
The remnants of dinner lay on the coffee table, chinese food Chris had delivered to the house.
This was Friday night for them. Very different from the Friday night they met 1... | 2017-03-06T15:12:40 | 2017-03-06T15:11:06 | 78 | 32 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 1,143 | 17 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | “Why would you help me?!” The man sobbed, “I’m your enemy!”
The man who was carrying through the charred battlefield paused, “because you and I are the only ones who survived.”
“Oh gods, did you see that thing?” he broke down in tears.
The other man sighed and set him down. He brushed some blood and dirt off his ... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:28:26 | 272 | 37 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 272 | 17 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | As I opened my eyes at the loud noise, it seemed as if time stopped. The earth stood still.
This tends to be a reoccurring event at night. I hate admitting I have PTSD, but some things are hard to erase. I go through counseling even though all it does is seemingly salt the wound. The love of my wife and best friend..... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T04:16:34 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 124 | 49 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | He knelt down beside her on the cold grass of the graveyard. She had tripped and almost fallen straight onto a headstone, something that would most likely have given her a major injury.
"You didnt hurt yourself, did you?" He looked her over, checking for any scratches or cuts.
"I dont think so, but thank you, im ok.... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T05:30:06 | 116 | 50 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I’ll never forget that Christmas.
How could I?
The splendid tree draped in tinsel and baubles and winking fairy lights; the colourful gifts spread beneath, still wrapped and tied in silken bows though morning had long since passed.
Father always made us wait until after Christmas lunch to open our presents.
I can s... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T07:36:43 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | "I've never seen such foul Magic. They can point at our men and kill them instantly!" Commander Bogrik yelled, slamming his fist onto the table. He was an odd creature that appeared mostly Humanoid, save for the head of a dog that sat upon his shoulders.
The gathering around him consisted of the council of the Walrest... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T11:21:07 | 243 | 16 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | "I've never seen such foul Magic. They can point at our men and kill them instantly!" Commander Bogrik yelled, slamming his fist onto the table. He was an odd creature that appeared mostly Humanoid, save for the head of a dog that sat upon his shoulders.
The gathering around him consisted of the council of the Walrest... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T07:34:53 | 243 | 16 |
[WP] when you were a kid, you had an imaginary friend, Lewis; That was 20 or so years ago. Yesterday your child came into your room in the middle of the night, and said "Lewis wants to know why you don't play with him anymore" | "Charlie, it's the middle of the night," I groaned, rolling away from his high-pitched voice.
"But Daddy, why don't you play with Lewis anymore?" The name was familiar. My brain churned, looking for the face to put to it. Nothing. But I remembered Lewis.
"Lewis..." I struggled out of my cocoon of blankets. "That's...... | I was cooking dinner while my son, Toby was playing in the open dining room with his new train set. As dinner was almost ready, I walk towards the dining table to move his toys and set the table. I noticed Toby was staring at me, giving me that look children give when they want to ask a question but are scared of our r... | 2017-11-12T18:42:00 | 2017-11-12T17:28:43 | 110 | 21 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | *I walk through the valley of Shadow and Death.*
It is dark, and the valley is littered with corpses. I should have been screaming, and perhaps I am, but I insupposed I am used to it. This is the fate of the damned, eternal rest - true death.
True death.
Despite the location I laugh at the thought. What is true d... | Alex watched as the second sun collapsed over the distant horizon, dousing the walled city of Aspída in a goodnight glass of crimson wine. Beyond, and far below the wall he stood atop, on the craggy tundra of the Netherplanes, the unmoving, crucified silhouette of a titan rose high above the ten-thousand corpses surrou... | 2017-11-21T07:26:22 | 2017-11-21T07:25:13 | 3,222 | 201 |
[WP] I'm not scared of a computer passing the turing test... I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.
Taken from r/Showerthoughts, credits to u/Grandure for coming up with the idea.
Thank you u/Grandure | "...Are you a fucking moron?"
"What?"
"We already *have* computers that fail the Turing Test by design. We have a shit ton of them. My laptop fails the Turing Test, because nobody wants a laptop to pass a Turing Test. That'd be creepy."
"Oh, no. I mean, like, the *computer* intentionally fails. Like, the computer ca... | “My wifi’s broken.” The voice traveled into space, bounced around between satellites, and was sent back down to a call center in Kentucky, where it was processed by voice-recognition software and scanned for keywords.
“I’m hearing that you have a problem with your wifi. Can you please turn your modem off, then on agai... | 2018-02-24T17:00:21 | 2018-02-24T15:06:49 | 90 | 55 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| I was born with only 1 name written on the back of my shoulder. The letters spelt Anna. It made no sense to me, but I've always thought that this was a blessing, that I don't have to worry about which name would be killing me, since there is only one name on my body. That person could either be my savior or my killer. ... | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:08:37 | 4,830 | 2,370 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | I did not know why my parents named me, "smudge," but when I was only 14, I discovered I was not adopted.
Both of my parents are white. But I am black. Tattoo ink black. At least, that is what it looks like from a distance. Freshman year in High School, I was bored and took a look at my hand under a disection microsco... | My first ever writing prompt attempt, part 1..
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'Well this is a conundrum', I bemused whilst nursing my coffee on a dreary Monday morning. My reflection staring back at me as the scenery dances past in a blur of colour.
Barely noticeable a small tattoo peeks out from behind my ear. So small and brief the words spe... | 2018-03-11T08:30:03 | 2018-03-11T07:50:31 | 636 | 24 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | I was born with the same name tatooed twice, it was my parents worry that I was gonna kill myself so they put me on therapy since I remember, popping pills of all kinds, having every second of my life monitored.
The walls of my bedroom covered in pictures of happy animals, with motivational mottos on them. Everyone I ... | My first ever writing prompt attempt, part 1..
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'Well this is a conundrum', I bemused whilst nursing my coffee on a dreary Monday morning. My reflection staring back at me as the scenery dances past in a blur of colour.
Barely noticeable a small tattoo peeks out from behind my ear. So small and brief the words spe... | 2018-03-11T08:14:04 | 2018-03-11T07:50:31 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] If you haven't found your soul mate by age 30, the government turns on your trackers so you can find each other. Your tracker app has led you to a cemetery. | His footsteps halted in front of a weathered grave. The tracker buzzed in his ear, an incessant whine; to his relief it quieted as he stooped to his knees and ran a hand over the carved letters.
Leyla Hood.
"What were you like?" he wondered aloud, imagining how her eyes might have caught his. Would her cheeks have f... | Note: I haven't written in about five months. Sorry if it is a little bland.
"Well, god damn it. It looks like I am talking to myself now, huh?" I tuck my hands into my pockets, I turn my phone off and stand above a grave. "Christ, how did you die now?! Elena Chen... I didn't think you'd be asian, well, I didn't think... | 2018-07-23T04:14:53 | 2018-07-23T02:42:59 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] Theoretically, you can not surpass the speed of light. Humans find out why when we manage to break this rule, as our ships begin to outpace the rendering speed of the universe, and the illusion of all reality is broken as everything around us vanishes the faster we go. | The void and the abyss. Concepts that have been explored countless times in science fiction, preached in our religions, simulated in our virtual realities, prodded and poked by humanity since time immemorial.
When our ship broke the light barrier we thought anything would be possible. That humanity would expand like n... | At the beginning of the journey, the crew loved being able to look out and see space. The stars, asteroids, and planets they passed left in them in awe. They offered an escape from the claustrophobic cabins and tense relationships that formed after enough time away from earth.
The darkness of space was lonely, but ... | 2019-03-06T08:06:56 | 2019-03-06T07:46:37 | 84 | 27 |
[WP] As a front for money laundering, a gang boss creates a day care. At first, he spent his time making sure he didn't go back to jail. Now? He's willing to do anything for these children and and the neighborhood mothers love him. | Elias sat across the from the well dressed man. The man held his gaze. It was an odd meeting. Two men who couldn’t be more different. But what made it weirder was that the man, Calvin Jackson, was not backing down. Not many people dared look Elias in the eye. Those that did, usually didn’t live long. But this was diffe... | "Okay Gavin, here we are." I pulled up to the curb, put my new M3 in neutral, and pulled the tab to set the brake with the engine running. I stepped out, went around back and got my four year old out of his car seat. My wife works early at the hospital, and my job as a mortgage broker doesn't start until nine, so I get... | 2019-03-26T03:50:10 | 2019-03-26T03:43:02 | 177 | 52 |
[WP] Many real-world items come with minor enchantments, like "Better Frying Pan" (-10% burning chance), or "Old T-shirt" (+1 luck) but most people don't know about them. You're one of the exceptions, having just randomly bought the unique item "Sunglasses of Appraisal." | The day I bought them, I did so because I thought they looked neat and thought they'd work great with my Halloween costume, that's the truth of it. I didn't stumble upon them by an act of God, they didn't "choose me," or anything else really, I just thought they looked cool!
The arms and frames were a burnished bronz... | I'd known something was wrong with the world for a while when it happened. It had started slowly, a sort of sense of *leakage,* a pressing-in on the spaces around me. I'm not the only one who felt it, there were lots of navel-gazing think-piece articles and talk-show sessions about how 2023 was the year of Peak Anxiety... | 2019-06-29T21:40:12 | 2019-06-29T20:56:35 | 146 | 55 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | Well... This was weird.
It was just sudden, I'm walking down the street with my pregnant wife, and *boom, I'm in hell*. I looked around, confused by the surrounding and the crude symbols drawn around me in a circle. I was confused, and kind of scared, but most importantly trying not to fall into the pit of lava that w... | The slow rocking back and forth, back and forth, was beckoning me to sleep; around the time I was tall enough to reach the metal bars overhead was when I achieved the near-mythical status of a standing sleeper. My hand was loosely grasping said bar, the tension of my fingers hooked around it providing most of the tensi... | 2019-09-17T12:52:01 | 2019-09-17T12:23:24 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] While most races in the galaxy use the infinite energy of primal magic there is one known world devoid of it . There the inhabitants practice dark magic, using the corpses of long dead organisms, dangerous eldritch energies from strange rocks and various other means to enslave lightning | *Don't you respect the dead at all?*
The alien politician was furious. To their people, respecting the dead was a big deal, far bigger than it is to humans. And when they understood just what exactly "fossil fuel" meant, they called for an immediate ban for it on a galactic scale. The human ambassador remained calm, t... |
The room fell silent. Most elders felt a distinct uneasiness from what they had just heard. The younger of us were rather surprised than shocked.
As strange as it was to encounter a new race in the galaxy so well charted by our departed elders, it was ever stranger that the inhabitants of this world didn't use conve... | 2020-01-17T07:15:13 | 2020-01-17T07:02:31 | 503 | 113 |
[WP] Someone once told you that those who do not seek power are the best suited to hold it, and as you look down at the ravenous hordes under your command, you find yourself agreeing with the sentiment. | "Beautiful, aren't they?"
From a distance, perhaps. Like rolling fields of wheat, their armor glistened in the sun. Like the thunder of the gods themselves when they chanted my name and thumped their shields.
But here, beside them, close enough that I could smell their sweat? No. Terrifying, yes. But beautiful? No.
... | Ambition can be good. It can lead to many capable and diligent people rising to power in order to change things, to improve the system, to fix the mistakes. It can lead people to become the best that they can ever be. But ambition to merely have power for the sake of having power, well, that's not quite a good thing. N... | 2020-05-01T05:41:29 | 2020-05-01T05:24:03 | 85 | 27 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | Part 1
As I wake up in the morning, the rooster crowing from the fields nearby, I wear my garments, wipe my face from the sweat of the night prior - swear, I should limit my drink - and grab my tools. Before I even get to fasten my belt, I hear a knock at the door. Three light raps. *Ah, it's her again. Good lords...*... | Once upon a time in a far off kingdom there worked a blacksmith named Alvin. Alvin had curly brown hair broad shoulders, and was well-liked by everyone in the town. Small boys would often visit at his forge, which he’d owned for four years, and watch him swing his enormous hammer rhythmically against the red hot steel.... | 2020-08-05T09:38:02 | 2020-08-05T09:05:22 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] when the aliens attacked they thought that humanity was weak, we do not do many of the things that they themselves did to our enemies. But it was only during the assault that they learned soldiers have rules, but civilians don't. | They watched from afar.
They observed how we fought.
They laughed at our rules.
They attacked in overwhelming force.
Bad move Xenos.
Bad, bad move.
"Sir, the south line is breaking!"
"Send in the reserves."
"Already sent, Sir. Including the emergency reserve."
"*damn it!*" *sigh* "Release the irregulars; ROE ... | When the Aliens had first landed the leaders of every nation tried to negotiate peace with them. The Aliens ignored every attempt at communication and answered by destroying every nations Capitol City and seat of power.
The next line of defence of each nation was the Army, Air Force and Navy. They met the Aliens in ... | 2020-08-29T06:14:30 | 2020-08-29T05:53:36 | 83 | 52 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | ‘You don’t want to do this, kid.’ I leaned over and gently whispered, trying to avoid what was to come.
Bright-eyed, full of confidence, pepped up by the same propaganda that had sent hundreds like him to a similar fate, I’d seen his type come and go so many times before.
‘Ha! I eat heroes like you for breakfast’. ... | "Please stand up, and turn around"
"You know, I can really empa-"
"Under orders of the United League I have the right to bring you to a fair trial. Once again, please turn aro-"
"Under orders of the United League I have a right to a prepared speech so please, let me speak. Have a drink for your trouble."
A foamy p... | 2020-10-09T21:44:58 | 2020-10-09T21:08:05 | 656 | 111 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I have always imagined what the world would be like if everyone was a kid, running on a sugar rush with no worries or troubles to think about.
Now if the world was full of hormone-galore 18 year old kids, that would be a much more different scenario.
And that is exactly what had happened.
It started about two mon... | Dandy Town, unlike its name, is a town far from perfection. In fact this little hamlet or village is a hidden gem I found while on one of my numerous trips to my Step Father’s bakery for breakfast.
I always had a penchant for funny things, but this town was a whole new definition of eccentricity and silliness. Every c... | 2020-11-02T09:55:51 | 2020-11-02T09:45:20 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] After years of hard work, you finally made a FTL communication system. You decide to send a declaration of war in the name of "Empire of Mankind" as your first message into the void. Moments after you sent it, your device is flooded with pleas for mercy and propositions for peace negotiations. | The messages were almost all the same. Offerings of entire solar systems in exchange for clemency, large amounts of resources, and sometimes even slave populations.
Everyone else at the table was stunned in silence, wondering just how many other space faring aliens were out there. However, one message stood out amo... | "What did I tell you?" I boomed as I walked the floor of my communication station. It was as big as a soccer field with a huge screen instead of a wall on one side. A screen that was now filled with various aliens and intergalactic societies requesting mercy and peace talks. The board of directors present on the floor ... | 2020-11-12T10:16:27 | 2020-11-12T06:49:04 | 55 | 24 |
[WP] After years of hard work, you finally made a FTL communication system. You decide to send a declaration of war in the name of "Empire of Mankind" as your first message into the void. Moments after you sent it, your device is flooded with pleas for mercy and propositions for peace negotiations. | The messages were almost all the same. Offerings of entire solar systems in exchange for clemency, large amounts of resources, and sometimes even slave populations.
Everyone else at the table was stunned in silence, wondering just how many other space faring aliens were out there. However, one message stood out amo... | Marcus stood at the Command Bridge of the Starship "GWMKF Starling." He stared out at the Starships as they flew past, the Kryorite Belt. The Galaxy's Largest International Highway. If only all these people knew what was headed their way. "Prepare the Broadcast. I need a Microphone!" Marcus shouted at the Crewmates who... | 2020-11-12T10:16:27 | 2020-11-12T07:45:13 | 55 | 11 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | Advice for Job Hunters-Revised 12 Oct 2019
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First check your application, you need to have at least 80% of your shots apply to the target at a range of 100 metres to be competetive.
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Research the position, you typically want to maintain an elevated position which gives you the best chance of... | "What? We can stay in the same job? And we don't have to kill the others to get the job? Are you for real, Jake?"
"Pretty much, yeah."
"That's insane, man."
"I'm only saying what's practical and doable. Moreover, if more people start their own businesses then more companies will spring up in the future, there will b... | 2020-11-15T11:56:42 | 2020-11-15T11:51:59 | 98 | 51 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | “It is time my son.”
My father kneeled before me, holding out a buckhorn knife that was older than the nation. It was scuffed and stained with the blood of countless prey.
“My great great great grandfather made this knife himself to hunt for his first job. Ever since, it has been gifted to the eldest child when they ... | I thought I was ready for my first job.
I was wrong.
It had all happened so fast. The sound of the bell, a fist flying towards me. And then, the cool firmness of the mat against my face.
"1! 2! 3!..." My body strained as I forced myself to my feet, still reeling from shock. No. It couldn't end like this.
"You've go... | 2020-11-15T13:06:24 | 2020-11-15T12:38:00 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] You are a devout Christian, but you believe in protecting what’s yours. A burglar breaks into your home and you fight them with all you have, but they kill you. To your surprise instead of heaven you stand before the gates of Valhalla, as a warrior who has died in glorious battle. | I was dying.
I laid on the floor of my kitchen as my blood seeped from me, my vision flickering as that sick son of a bitch died beside me. He had twisted a knife into my gut, and my gun had discharged into his own stomach. At least he was dying with me.
"Good shot, old man," he gurgled. He was gone not too long afte... | "Sarah?" I heard the voice call out to me from... where was it? There was music in the background... stringed instruments of which I had never heard, except maybe in waking dreams. Was I dreaming now? I...
"Sarah?" I heard him say, tenderly. The voice... familiar and yet not so much? Was it also from a dream?
"Ma... | 2020-11-16T14:27:44 | 2020-11-16T14:03:49 | 180 | 126 |
[WP] So this is what being in a car crash felt like. Not as painful as you thought it would be. But you can't feel your toes. You look down, your leg is missing from the knee onwards. There's no blood, no bone, no muscles. Instead you see mechanical components. | "What in the holy hell?" I asked, I imagined I could hear the whirring coming from my sheared off leg. Why was I not going into shock. Either from the accident or from finding out I'm this, or that part of me is, anyway. Was I some kind of cyborg? How would I not know this?
I reached down and tugged on a sheared p... | Click-clack. The mechanical gears whir futilely at the end of your left stump. The rest of your leg is laying a few feet away on the side of the road, next to the burning wreckage of the other car. Instead of oozing blood, your stump is dripping a black liquid. There is no pain as you prod your finger into the strange ... | 2020-12-17T09:31:29 | 2020-12-17T09:26:15 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] A being at the gates of the afterlife allows every soul that passes through to ask it one question. Used to being asked questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "How many people loved me?", it's taken unawares when a soul asks "How was your day?" instead. | The being bents its enormous head to the side, curious and puzzled.
**"I am timeless, life itself. I am the Gods you worship, and the eternity you seek. I am the Guardian. I do not experience days, months, years. I am eternal, I have always been and always will be."**
The boy before it, no more than 14, clapped iron... | # The Cracks In Their Souls
(Part 2: That's How The Light Leaks Out)
(Note: The Cracks In Their Souls is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**I stared at the little boy with my timeless eyes.** "...Are you sure that's what you want to ask?"
The b... | 2021-03-28T20:36:51 | 2021-03-28T20:02:02 | 2,246 | 495 |
[WP] In terms of powers you are world class, easily one of the next up and coming top-tier super-heroes in the world. But you deliberately downplay your abilities, pretending to have only minor talents so you can stick with your team of underdogs whose leader you have been crushing on for years. | It isn't hard. ya, no one buys my merch, and no one fallows news of us, but I like the people I work with. Sure, I could deal with most of the issues on my own, but it isn't about stopping the villains that come after us, not really. It's about liking what I do.
Do I feel bad when people die who I can save? Sure, but ... | I woke up chained to a chair, shackles keeping my wrists and ankles in place.
My greatest nemesis, Dr. Hugo Todt, stood over me, tauntingly.
"So," he begins in his usual German accent, "he awakes. Good, I didn't want this to be boring. I wanted you to witness what is to come."
As my eyes scan the room, I see anoth... | 2021-04-12T09:41:33 | 2021-04-12T08:41:05 | 193 | 61 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | He came from Ultraopolis.
He came to my city. Omega City.
He calls himself The End. I call him a murderer.
He thought the heroes of Omega City were weak, silly even. They had failed to stop me so many times, and what was I compared to him? A joke.
He has incredible strength. Enough to rip the head off of Poor Rich... | The plate with my omelette and jam on toast shattered against the floor as my morning routine of watching my news was interrupted. I stumbled to the couch and blindly searched for the remote, never peeling my eyes from the TV. I raised the TV to a deafening volume, hoping that the headline was wrong or my ears had dece... | 2021-05-20T10:47:04 | 2021-05-20T08:08:50 | 97 | 38 |
[WP] Your classmates got cool OP magic abilities. You got a lame Personal Inventory and were totally bummed about it until you read the fine print: Range: Touch. Capacity: Infinite. Restrictions: None. | *Subspace. Capacity, infinite. Range, touch. Restrictions, none.*
These words echo around my head. Its meaning gets ever clearer and clearer the more I think about it.
"What did you get?" Asks Holly, expectantly. She got line-of-sight pyrokinesis capped at 3000 degrees Celsius with no ignition on her birthday. A powe... | Around the age of 14 everyone is issued a power from the “system director”.
It’s quintessential to the goings on of life nowadays as everything in society uses some power. Construction, tailoring, electricity, etc. It practically determines what you will do with life.
I somehow managed to get the worst of them all. I... | 2021-10-17T01:30:14 | 2021-10-17T01:03:55 | 74 | 35 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | "I'm guessing I'm supposed to fall in love." I sighed, Looks like the entity that had been manipulating me for the last millennia had finally decided to officially introduce himself to me.
"I can't bel- Wait- YES! That's it! Your one true lo-"
"I'm going to stop you right there. I take it you're the red headed man in... | I look up from the gaming PC I've built. This incarnation has been one of stagnation for the most part. I mean, I was born during the greatest tech boom and economic decline. Honestly, I was tired and FINALLY there was something entertaining and worth while to just vegetate on.
"Don't know what the hell I'm supposed ... | 2022-02-09T20:14:27 | 2022-02-09T18:44:07 | 2,163 | 364 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | "It's broken."
I looked at the old man and sighed. "It's not broken... you have to swish and drag your hand like this."
"Back in my day, we didn't have to swish and drag. We had good old fashioned wands and we were grateful for them!" he grumbled as he tried adjusting his Magika Glove.
"Wands are slow and awkward, G... | Yún Yóu sat, still and quiet, listening as the Grandmaster made tea. The smell permeated the room, lingering aromas from the morning meal slowly drowning in the plain steam scent as the tea steeped. Outside in the morning sunshine, cicadas played their shrill and droning music.
"They say you are a prodigy," the Grandm... | 2022-05-30T10:09:14 | 2022-05-30T09:50:12 | 236 | 120 |
[WP] Just because one of your eggs hatched a fire-breathing dragon, people now think you’re evil. You’re really just a regular farmer trying to make a living, who now has to deal with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you & fanatics who want to worship you as a new demonic lord. | “Another one” you sighed as you look upon another newly burnt corpse of an adventurer that most likely had set his eyes set on you in order to gain fame.
“Mmpphhh” proudly snorted Ruby, a newly hatched dragon that took you as its parent.
“….good job” you reluctantly say as you can’t resist his eyes that are looking... | It had been a few weeks since the egg hatched and now everyone in the village was looking at me differently. They used to treat me like any other farmer, but now they were scared of me. They would cross the street to avoid me, or worse, they would bow down to me.
I didn't know how to make them understand that I was ... | 2022-06-08T14:52:44 | 2022-06-08T11:50:48 | 198 | 78 |
[WP] Humans. Such a weak species. They cannot hide their minds. So I invade, and I conquer them. I become them. I've lived a thousand different lives. But you.. you are different. A black door guards your mind. So tell me human, how are you doing this? | The woman lit her pipe and adjusted herself in the armchair.
"It's open," she said to the intangible presence in the room. "Come in."
The entity wasted no time; it wouldn't be the first time a human underestimated it. Curious as the black door before this woman's mind was, the fluke would ultimately be of no conseque... | "Even the most tightly shut doors spill millions of signals. The sharpness of the light under oak-set hinges, a lover's voice or grim violent thuds transmitted sloppily through wood, the ornate fingernail scratchings near the handle or an affixed poster or two would always give me a plethora of information before I ste... | 2022-08-24T16:06:59 | 2022-08-24T15:16:12 | 168 | 16 |
[WP] As far as you remember, you have grown up in foster care with your other two identical triplet siblings. But now you have tracked down your birth mother, and discover she only gave birth to twins. | I coughed a little, nearly choking on the soda she had given me. "I... beg your pardon? You said... twins?"
"Well, yes, of course," she responded with a furrowed brow. "I gave birth to two boys."
"I... believe you are mistaken," I said, slowly. "You see, I am one of three, I am a triplet."
She gave me a blank stare,... | We never knew, we said. well, I mean, we knew- everyone has a mother, right,- but we never really *knew*. It never occurred to any of us, any of the three of us, that we actually had a mother, a living, breathing human being somewhere out there amongst the 7-odd billion people on the planet. I guess she never really ma... | 2014-07-16T08:54:13 | 2014-07-16T07:58:19 | 88 | 17 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | No one would believe me if I told them. And I don't know if *I* believe me, sitting here alone, thinking about the past.
I can imagine my husband Jared, the lawyer, murmuring in my mind, muttering his arguments and counterarguments. He taught me to argue, and whenever I am conflicted with myself, I use his staunch log... | I coul hear the door open and Evan walking in my apartment. The words escaped my mouth before I could stop them. "Hi, Evan! Or are you someone else now, you fucking piece of shit?" His voice drifted from the hallway, full of sadness and despair. "Melanie, you know I never wanted you to know this?" I felt anger rise ins... | 2014-08-15T11:11:00 | 2014-08-15T10:42:20 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | “I had no idea what the numbers meant at first, but everyone had one. The highest I had seen, before I knew what they were, was my uncle, a Vietnam veteran, five. I learned what they really meant two years ago, walking home after my first day of middle school, a passing car swerving all over the road, had to be going a... | He looked at me. His eyes were dark and sunken into his pale face. I sensed something - something terrible - but I didn't want it to be true. Ten. Just a number to some, but to me, it was something terrifying. I could sense danger, but not in the animal planet documentary story of a dog predicting a storm kind of way, ... | 2014-11-29T12:35:37 | 2014-11-29T12:31:42 | 199 | 38 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | “One, two, two, one, three, two.” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn’t. I can’t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “One.... One....”
I often murmured to myself, no one seemed to not... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T14:15:56 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | Pouring over all of the possible paradoxes, reviewing episodes of star trek and the terminator movies in his head, he decided he must know why, no, Who was telling him to flee. After all, he would most likely not be the last traveler.
He connected to the network...authenticating...a Terms of Service screen pops up.
H... | I'd just emerged from the subway (my time machine) and had been maneuvering through the veins of central New York City when I'd stumbled upon something grave. The tablet in my rucksack had hung heavy the whole while that I'd been weaving my way in and out of each flock of workers and businessmen alike, hanging like dea... | 2014-12-23T20:38:22 | 2014-12-23T19:27:07 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | He was a healthy man.
He ate healthy foods.
He did regular exercise.
He did daily chores.
He did an active and outdoor job.
He does not eat healthy foods.
He does not do regular excercise.
He does not do daily chores.
He does not have an active outdoor job.
He was, he is not. | Five years old, he's on the playground now, a toe in the sand. He's beckoning to you to push him on the swing.
Six years old - He's been with his mother all day and rushes to greet you at the door. You kiss him on the forehead and hug your wife. The love that connects you three anchors the rest of your life.
Nine ye... | 2015-06-03T07:24:41 | 2015-06-03T07:16:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] An ancient evil awakens. A modern evil doesn't like competition. | *This probably isn't exactly what you had in mind, but here it is anyway!*
"I heard Lilith was back."
I checked my compact mirror, swiping away the black fleck of mascara that had landed on my perfectly sculpted cheek.
I sighed, clicking my mirror shut and took a drink of my martini.
"So? Who cares? It's not l... | "Look, mate, I don't care if no-one's answering the door. Just kick the lock in and go and see who's upstairs."
"Got it Boss, you don't have to shout," Tim was not having a good day. He'd been stood outside the same council flat in Hackney for the last two hours, while a freezing drizzle worked its way inside his to... | 2015-08-23T09:21:09 | 2015-08-23T08:54:16 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You are an assassin that hunts superheroes. You haven no powers yourself. | Every Achilles has his heel. Every Samson has his haircut. Every Superman his Kryptonite. You get the picture.
Remember Titanius? Of course you do. Among many other feats, he was the hero that killed that massive Kraken in Columbia City Harbor. He had unbreakable armored scales that covered his entire body, making hi... | I meet an informant on a dark alley, an old unkempt man wearing a tattered trench coat and a old hat. "Have anything on Steel?" i asked reaching my hand with a roll of money. His eyes sparkle and a smile appears under his messy beard as he greedily takes it out of my hand
"I do, i do" he mumbles, quickly counting the... | 2015-11-13T07:28:28 | 2015-11-13T07:17:42 | 545 | 66 |
[WP] Many milenia ago your significant other was granted immortality and eternal health for themselves and all their loved ones. Today you got sick. | "I'm not an idiot, Mal. I know what this means."
"Katherine, stay in bed!" Malence Grey pushed his wife back down onto the four-poster bed. She glared at him, but lacked the strength to resist, flopping limply amongst the knotty silk sheets. "I'm going to find you a doctor. A good one. This is...this is nothing."
"A... | Aurelia was standing next to me, sat on that hospital chair, with the head in her hands, she did not try to hide the sadness that appeared in her eyes when she looked at me directly. She was a beautiful woman, around 30, with long black hair, tall with a beautiful body, and she’s been that way since I met her, 16 years... | 2016-08-05T07:58:23 | 2016-08-05T06:45:27 | 289 | 11 |
[WP]: Your oldest brother is a military genius. Your little sister has cured three types of cancer. The twins are working on a new method of locating planets fit for terraforming. And you... You are mom's favourite. | ...and now my younger sister, who is incredibly talented in everything she does, is marrying the most popular guy in our school. I don't know where that leaves me.
I've got five brothers and a little sister. The eldest works across the globe studying dangerous animals. The next in line has an amazing security managemen... | The house was so quiet. A lifetime ago it had been full of the laughter of children. She smiles at the distant memory. How times changed, she thought. When Mark was little he use to love playing those war games. Mark had always been a happy child. Now he was a military leader currently stationed in another part of the ... | 2016-10-31T23:20:35 | 2016-10-31T10:48:37 | 75 | 36 |
[WP] A group of friends meet up with each other every hundred years. One is immortal, one is reincarnated into a new body every time they die, one is a time traveler, one is a robot, and one is Death.
If you can think of any other types of people, please add them. That's all I could think of.
And you don't have to i... | How a time traveler could be late was a mystery to me. I supposed that Edward did it out of habit, as he was never one to keep appointments. I should know; he'd skipped out on plenty with me. Regardless, he was late.
Derora was the first to arrive. As a vampire, she had turned up before dawn and had sequestered hersel... | There were always infinite changes whenever Andrew jumped. A hundred years was a short period of time, in the grand scheme of things; the Earth had come into its present form over millions of hundred-year intervals. But the grumbling lethargy with which the Earth moved was nothing compared to humanity's speed of develo... | 2017-04-22T22:42:30 | 2017-04-22T22:07:02 | 173 | 17 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | **Issue: [SEVERE]** 'Magic Hands' spell applied to subject rather than pure conjuration
**Type:** Application
**Severity:** A
**Priority:** 1
**Assigned to:** Matt Traynor
**Submitted by:** Greg Philmore
**Summary:**
Set to severity A because this stupid fucking system doesn't give me a goddamn S-rank for this ... | "ABRAHAM KADABRAH!" I bellow, the fluorescent lights flicker. I pause frozen wondering if I just made the lights flicker. I wait tensely, then a small moment of joy comes, alright now we're getting somewhere. I'm a spell tester, well that's not entirely true, I'm an aspiring Mechanized Warfare Combat Mage (MW-CM). It s... | 2017-07-26T03:57:13 | 2017-07-26T03:19:32 | 417 | 15 |
[WP] You are a NPC in an RPG, after years of the player character ignoring the main storyline you decide to finish the story yourself. | This is no job for you, they said,
Perhaps that they were right,
An NPC out of his depth,
To replace the shining Knight.
A farmers boy from some small town,
My life was plain and dull,
I saw a chance in this one quest,
To break my growing lull.
They jeered they laughed,
Even the Knight,
They watched me leave... | Oh, boy. I've had enough.
There he goes again, that man. The one who the prophecy said would "Save the country and rebuild it to its finest." We've been waiting for so long that my family's grown up.
I've managed to become rich over the course of his incompetence. My shop already spawned four more, and during tha... | 2018-03-07T03:06:52 | 2018-03-07T02:41:53 | 63 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | It's unlike any other feeling, to know that you're dying. It's closest maybe to being caught in a summer thunderstorm as the streetlights blink out. So after my wife, and everything that entailed, I am choosing another path forward.
This is the last thing I'll write because, after this, I won't have to write. My thoug... | I looked upon the strewn limbs and streaks of blood. The remnants of a failed Altered attack. A disappointment to their leaders, I'm sure. The Augmented fought bravely against it, the metal and flesh bond providing them with prime offensive abilities. Even a genetic mutation like an Altered would have trouble with crea... | 2018-07-01T08:37:47 | 2018-07-01T08:29:02 | 536 | 110 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | The wheelchair kept creaking.
It was an awful noise. He knew it would never break but the groaning metal scared him all the same.
As he worked to lift his fingers enough to move the chair, he remembered the first time.
Everyone knew that heroes had to pay the price for their powers the next day. The Regenerator had ... | "Get away from him or I'll make you."
Michael and Scott glanced up from the kid sprawled helplessly on the grey floor, and saw me.
They laughed.
I had already guessed that the threat wouldn't be effective. A short kid in raggedy clothes and spiky hair didn't exactly set off a 'powerful' image, after all. But looks.... | 2018-08-19T05:26:44 | 2018-08-19T04:28:22 | 86 | 55 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | I awaken well rested and ready for the day, a solid nights sleep. I leave my room to see a pile of letters just inside the door. I look to the bench to see last nights dinner covered in mould. I pull up my phone. Every app has notifications. I check the date. It’s the 27th.
I sigh “That’s what I get for taking 10 extr... | It's been 5 years since the first quackman appeared, a being with superpowers that have a 'hangover' effect. The man was bulletproof one day and the next a paper cut during the press interview caused him to faint due to excessive blood loss.
Now there are beings with all kinds of powers coming up, all quackmen with a d... | 2018-08-19T05:57:43 | 2018-08-19T04:31:42 | 74 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | In a world like mine, everyone could easily become what they wanted. Wanna be a smart professor making ground-breaking discoveries? Just max out intelligence. Wanna be a bodybuilder? Easy, just level up strength. Or do you just want to become the popular kid? Charisma. It had become too easy to achieve your dreams.
Ir... | My girlfriend was a very well rounded individual. She had chosen the safe and well traveled path that most high schools recommended. It consisted of a healthy mix of social skills, personal finance abilities, some technical prowess and even a couple maternal instinct points. The last of those would unfortunately be a w... | 2018-09-12T10:57:43 | 2018-09-12T10:22:48 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | "I'd like a club on Italian herbs and cheese, please." Dan says.
This is his usual order. In fact, Dan comes to this Subway on his lunch break, orders the same sandwich, and return to his desk to eat every day like clockwork. Dan is a predictable kind of guy, and he doesn't mind it; and knowing that he's unintentional... | “Sorry, sir, we’re out of Italian bread, what else can I get you?” Makayla said.
The faces – oh god, the faces. Jayden held back his scream, hunching over; all eyes in the store turned towards him. Every face he would save flashed across his vision in an instant; a near infinite amount for him, so much joy—and so muc... | 2018-11-17T19:42:29 | 2018-11-17T14:08:20 | 166 | 104 |
[WP] You are a 'Professional Hostage' hired by villains to secretly arrive at robberies and other crimes to be taken prisoner should the police or local heroes get involved. While out shopping you accidentally get taken hostage by a complete amateur who has no idea who you are. | "I charge $60 by the hour."
"What?"
"You got me while I was shopping, I'm not working right now. You should've called ahead. You're probably new at this, but there's a system. Plus it's normally $1000 up front, $1750 if you actually plan on stabbing me with that."
"Okay, just shut the fuck up or I'll cut your neck o... | Some people live their whole lives without ever staring death in the face, I couldn’t go a week without the adrenalin. There was something about the shit your pants fear, it was the only thing that made me feel alive. I held the bottle of water, flipping it in the air and catching it after a complete turn. In front of ... | 2019-01-02T10:25:25 | 2019-01-02T09:24:14 | 91 | 59 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I look over at my new favorite mug. After they started showing actual rankings, I was proud to have my #19 mug. #19 out of the potentially billions of dads in the world. I felt pretty good about myself. I was wondering why it wasn't higher, but you can't really complain. The mugs were normally blank, but if whoever hel... | It was a snarky joke from my ex wife. A mug that said #200,485 dad.
We didn’t get along well anymore. I had tried to provide everything that my family would need. A house with a swing set in the backyard, but a split level, something she swore she would never live inAn SUV that was more than we could really afford, b... | 2019-04-18T18:25:29 | 2019-04-18T17:02:48 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace." | "That's stupid"
A-2784 sighed, turning back to the screen with a live feed of Earth. All of Earth. His computer systems were advanced enough to keep a constant watch on the strange planet.
"Is it? I've heard stupider"
H-3649 looked at his partner, glowing eye trying to divulge whatever cryptic message A-2784 was try... | _Alien 1:_ Kutlag (Studying humans)
_ALIEN 2:_ HERTEYS (Helping Kutlag in his studies)
_SET:_ Hiding on the dark side of the moon with satellites in orbit with tech that makes them invisible to us humans and our tech. The 2 observers are just another set of observers spread throughout the galaxy with a simple assign... | 2019-05-02T20:34:11 | 2019-05-02T19:30:02 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | 1 result.
There it was, a name that only I could see, floating silently above my father's head. My father the murderer; standing there with his back turned, chopping carrots at the bench.
"Dad," I said, my voice trembling. He must have heard the quiver, because he stopped and turned to me, concern etched upon his fa... | “It was an accident!” I said. I really was too, I was just hitting a baseball. I didn’t mean to break the window, and I definitely didn’t mean to hit her dog.
“YOU KILLED HIM!” Megan yelled. She’d had that dog since she was my age. A little chihuahua that never left her side. “You’re a monster. I hate you.”
That h... | 2019-07-01T21:21:32 | 2019-07-01T19:09:52 | 717 | 399 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When I first regained my sight I saw the messages, "Don't tell them you can see".
I wondered who "them" might be. I'll be honest, my first thought was space aliens of some sort of monsters from a Stygian realm. I was terrified.
I carefully got out my cane and went about my business, often closing my eyes to make the ... | We all remember the moment we were in before the great blinding. One minute we were in our kitchens. The next... Well god knows what happened next. I, personally, was in german class reciting verbs. And than it happened. I blinked. And nothing.
I started to panic. What happened! Where did my eyesight go! I called ... | 2019-08-26T10:33:57 | 2019-08-26T09:44:00 | 62 | 14 |
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