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[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. | As everything came into focus, red block letters greeted me
DON'T TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE
For a moment I sat, looking at the shapes. Like the others, I had been blinded December before last. My MX-Sarah assistant had guided me back home while the world was in chaos. The robot became my eyes.
I needed an upgrade b... | I walk along the street. It's a normal night like any other. Nothing special until I see the sun rise. Something was different the light was too bright. Far too bright. I close my eyes and they still burn from the light. I try covering my eyes as they're closed yet they're still burning. Until I can no longer see the l... | 2022-10-22T00:27:31 | 2019-08-26T10:34:32 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] You work for an agency that uses time travel to prevent global disasters; your latest assignment has you working undercover in New York City in the 1911. One day, your blood runs cold as you pass a violinist - he's playing "Killer Queen". Your eyes meet his and he stops. He knows you know... | He looked at me,coldly,sharply,it felt like he was staring right into my soul.He was blonde,looked about 33,he seemed to be quite rich,with his purple suit,and i also noticed something poking out of his coat,but i darent question it.I backed off,and he stood up and called out to me.
"Hey,sir." He said simply,with a f... | Either that truck bombs the entire city or I divert that truck somewhere else.
That was the conclusion for the disaster prevention plan, it feels off but why do we even need to prevent this? I don't get it at all. We prevent global disasters from evil scientists or madmen in the past like creating artificial weather ... | 2020-05-08T02:24:00 | 2020-05-08T01:29:10 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | The woman lifts off the floor, rising slowly and spinning counterclockwise. "Widdeeshins", Father OBrady says aloud. He finishes the salt circle, and blesses the bottle of fiji water he bought at the corner store on his way.
"It's not fair!" The demonic voice rips from her throat. "You never let me have any fun!"
He ... | Father Atkinson returned home a tired man. His once sturdy frame stood hollow, a tree devoured inside out. His face had grown wrinkled as bark; his calloused hands could barely grip the cross as he pounded the pulpit before his congregation.
They didn't know him. Not the true him--the man who scrambled to correct his... | 2020-10-20T09:37:27 | 2020-10-20T08:05:28 | 393 | 123 |
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help." | He was crawling on the ceiling, again.
"Oh *crtraledra.* Oh f*ctreck.* This was... Oh *greck* I... I'm going to go to prison I..."
A notebook flapping into his head very nearly dislodged his grip. He looked around, as if trying to find some *other* person in the room who it might have been. I jumped up, standing on ... | After that slightly odd announcement, I just stared slack jawed at the being in front of me. The first coherent thought to enter my mind wasn\`t particularly profound or deep but I had no control over this most obvious course for my mind to take. It was really the only thing I think most other humans would be thinking ... | 2021-01-22T11:53:45 | 2021-01-22T10:31:15 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] A technician pulls a headset off of you and asks you if you liked the VR. You panic, and he calmly says that your whole life was a 2 minute VR experience to show you what being an average person would be like. You, stunned and afraid, ask, "Who am I, then?" He stares in complete disbelief.
(The title implies that... | It was too dark. I blinked rapidly against my surroundings, confused, disoriented, and then I started to panic. “Hello?” I asked. My voice rasped against my throat.
“Angela. So, how was it?”
My surroundings started to come into focus, and I realized that my vision had been more blurry than dark. I blinked again, my e... |
With a sudden feeling of falling from a great height, I was washed in a bright light as though I had just stepped out from a dark room and into the sun. I blinked as my vision adjusted to take in the sight of the face of a man I did not recognize.
“Well, how was it? Pretty realistic with the latest updates, I bet. ... | 2021-03-27T19:49:18 | 2021-03-27T18:26:57 | 3,134 | 200 |
[WP] The Dragon "kidnapped" the princess to get her out of a clearly abusive environment. When the kingdom sent a "hero" who was more a child soilder than legendary warrior he ended with two adopted children. | On a clear night the shadow of a dragon was seen crossing full moon at same time a Princess was cursing her fate on a balcony and suddenly lifted her head at the moon, the two pair of eyes meet.
Even though separated by great distance the two bonded strongly allowing the Dragon to feel the distress and anguish the Pr... | The dragon slept amongst the trees in a small Forest. A small infant came up to his face.
Dragon:" what is a human child doing here?"
The dragon begin to scan the area with his eyes seeing through the trees. Next to a cliff, a maid was having a steamy rendezvous with a knight. The dragon felt uneasy having to see tha... | 2022-03-18T04:45:42 | 2022-03-18T01:53:56 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] A married woman saves an uninteresting Japanese high schooler from a truck crash, but dies in the process. She wakes up in a world of adventure and harems, clearly made for the boy. | I open my eyes in an enormous room, lavishly decorated with pillows, rugs, lounging areas, and trickling fountains. I don't notice the room at first, I notice the women. One is curled up on me, her head on my shoulder and her hand delicately on my chest. Two more slumber peacefully nearby on this enormous bed.
I cauti... | Gisela was a wife, was. Her ex-husband decided that he would like to pursue his love and settle comfortably with Miss Something Blond, some 20 years young than Gisela. Tired of the sadness and meaningless Germany, she took a position in Japan, taking a handkerchief passed down from her grandfather and Noah, her 12-year... | 2022-06-07T23:02:47 | 2022-06-07T22:56:16 | 103 | 32 |
[WP] A married woman saves an uninteresting Japanese high schooler from a truck crash, but dies in the process. She wakes up in a world of adventure and harems, clearly made for the boy. | I barely remember anything of the incident that brought me here.
There I was, just walking home from the market, saying my usual prayers, when I saw it out the corner of my eye; a truck careening towards that sweet young boy. He was completely oblivious top the danger, head straight down in his phone.
I remember runn... | Gisela was a wife, was. Her ex-husband decided that he would like to pursue his love and settle comfortably with Miss Something Blond, some 20 years young than Gisela. Tired of the sadness and meaningless Germany, she took a position in Japan, taking a handkerchief passed down from her grandfather and Noah, her 12-year... | 2022-06-08T03:59:39 | 2022-06-07T22:56:16 | 55 | 32 |
[WP] You're a female hero in a fantasy world, and you are annoyed. The wizards keep giving you enchanted armor with incredible stats, but it looks RIDICULOUS! This one has nipples! This one has a hole over your heart! This one is just a necklace and a belt! Would they please STOP IT! | "I know it's ridiculous!" The wizard threw his hands into the air.
"Then stop this nonsense and make me something that doesn't look like I should be wearing it on a street corner rather than in the dungeon!" I snapped.
"S'not my fault," the wizard muttered, turning away to fiddle with something. "I'm doing the best t... | I began adventuring because I thought it would be more interesting than slaving away as a barmaid, or apprenticing for... what, lute playing? Glass blowing?
Yeah, no, absolutely not. I wasn't gonna settle for something where I had to deal with being looked down upon, or leered at, treated like I'm just a floozy. This... | 2022-11-21T04:56:11 | 2022-11-21T03:11:54 | 568 | 54 |
[WP]: A psycholoist slowly realises that a patient of the mental ward he is working at actually is what they have claimed to be all along | "Crime rates at an all time low" the newspaper read. It would be some solace to me if I didn't work with the criminally insane every day. Every day a different patient committed some new atrocity against the human race. Shit on the ceiling fans was just another Tuesday, and you'd be lucky to get a week in where someone... | Bradley sat down at his desk, not quite prepared for another meeting with a patient at Memorial Mental Hospital. Bradley was ready for retirement from this hectic life as a psychiatrist. He loved his work, of course, it was just time for an easier existence--one spent with his wife, his adult children, and some leisure... | 2013-11-13T11:09:28 | 2013-11-13T10:02:01 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] The villain defeats the hero but the world turns out to be a better place because of his twisted views. | "Tell me, Mr. Curondo, do you think that the means justify the end?"
Mr. Curondo, tanned, well-muscled, shirtless, and strapped to a tilted surgeon's table replied with his usual bravado. The laser was slowly sliding between his legs.
"Evil is evil Raen. In the end, good always triumphs."
The black cloaked figure re... | He stood over the man's corpse, the battle had been waged, and against all odds, the man had lost.
He looked rather pitiful now, his arms and legs twisted in uncomfortable positions; the fall had left his body broken and maimed. *No open casket for this poor, sod.*
The crowd was quiet, onlookers locked eyes with h... | 2014-02-06T15:05:40 | 2014-02-06T14:12:29 | 77 | 38 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | He fancied himself good at war. In his own lifetime he had seen the rise and fall of dozens of civilizations. Ancient and long lived people's had submitted to him, with almost no actual loss of life.
There was an art to it. The posturing, the stance. The *romance* of battle. It was said that Angori commanders wo... | Fligthtdynga looked through a telescope trained at the blue sphere.
"Teacher, why are we here?"
"In a previous iteration, a scout ship was despatched here. They landed and attempted to establish a portal on the surface for a typical resources transfer. Our last multi-spectral transmission from the lander showed they ... | 2014-08-07T09:50:20 | 2014-08-07T08:46:14 | 46 | 13 |
[WP]You accidentally erase the entire internet. | Once upon a midnight dreary, while I reddited, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious subreddit of free hardcore—
While I browsed it, quickly fapping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at the number 4.
“’This cannot be,” I muttered, screen showing half loaded whore— ... | "I'm sorry, Ted, what?"
"Yeah. So, I'm just guessing this is what, a half day?"
"Can I ask how?"
"I was looking for Frogger. But then, like, the whole thing froze up, and then I tried to hit delete, and then, you know, blue screen of death."
"The world economy is tanking. We're talking billions of lives that are co... | 2014-10-04T15:39:17 | 2014-10-04T14:49:58 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The world biggest Casino now accepts remaining life time as a currency. | Sam Gamoni took stock of the situation. A few hours earlier the guy in the gray suit walked into the poker room as a healthy young man. What sat before him now was wizened and weak... scared... desperate.
As pit boss it was Sam's job to prevent situations like this. Nobody wanted to see people throw their life away, i... | Written on my phone so sorry for typos.
The skin on her trembling wrists stretched taut as she placed delicate luminous chips on the table. "Thirteen, black", she said. Her voice shivered as the words came, from excitement or age the dealer could not tell.
The man beside her spoke gently, "don't do this grandma. You ... | 2014-12-13T11:10:05 | 2014-12-13T10:55:03 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Scientists find a probe similar to Voyager... After they decryptet the message from space they give a press conference. A sweaty, teary eyed man in a labcoat takes the stage...
the messages that voyager carried... http://imgur.com/a/CvEvO | Ladies and gentlemen of the scientific community, esteemed members of the press, I... well, I can honestly say my name isn't important. I never thought anyone in my field would ever be able to say these words, and I want this moment in history to be remembered for what was said, not who said it. This discovery belongs ... | "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our
thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday,
having solved the problems we face, to join a community of intergalactic civilizations. This record... | 2015-02-17T06:18:45 | 2015-02-17T06:00:26 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | Obama looks down as the small black box is placed in front of him.
"It's a - " He frowns. "What is this?"
"A… save button?" suggests an intern, before he's shushed by a stern glare from one of the senior advisors.
"That's a 5 1/4-inch diskette, sir. Also known as a floppy disk."
Obama stares at it. "Do we know," he... | “They took the water.” That is one of my favourite apocalypse stories, and I'm living it right now. We have heard the speculative tales of laser-wielding aliens, thermonuclear war, zombies or deadly diseases over and over again. I like “They took the water” better, probably because of its relative rarity and the whole... | 2015-04-16T10:56:52 | 2015-04-16T09:54:49 | 480 | 13 |
[WP] A massive wall of light, a few feet thick and a few hundred feet high, stretches from the north to south pole. This wall slowly circumnavigates the globe in 1 year. No one knows where it came from and no one knows who created it. All people know is that if you touch the light, you disappear. | Twelve year old Nellie McDonovan lay on the rooftop of her barn, hands behind her head and sneakered foot leaning against a weather vane. Beside her, fourteen year old Thomas Boyd.
"Should we really be up here, Nellie?"
"Shut up, Thomas. Enjoy the view. If you squint real hard, you can see stars."
Thomas squinted,... | Twenty miles out from the Halo Meridian, and every hour becomes daytime. Sleep becomes a futile effort. Making the effort worse, talk radio battles against the hiss of air as they collide in the 92 Ford dad couldn't afford to let die or fix. The car's sun blinders are down and held in place with coat wire and electrica... | 2015-04-28T20:51:06 | 2015-04-28T19:50:28 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You are randomly summoned to a spacecraft and told to argue the case for Earth's survival. Three alien races, all vastly superior to Earthlings, are also arguing for their survival. Only one species gets spared. | You should spare Earth because it's the least advanced of the four races here. These other three beings are vastly superior to Earthlings. They've conquered intergalactic travel, whereas we humans continue to kill each other over access to resources. And while that may sound infantile compared to the other races repres... | The mysterious being are seated high above you. The room is dark but you can see the dark outlines of the creatures high above you. You should be afraid but you are not. You almost feel humbled, a distinct respect of the immense power of the beings resting before you.
One of the beings before you rises from his seated... | 2015-05-17T12:55:41 | 2015-05-17T09:41:38 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] Two planets come within range of eachother every 300 years. There is always an ensuing war that lasts the 5 days that the planets are close enough. Each side can only guess at what new technology the other has built since the last time. | The Alignment. It had always been this way. Every generation knew of it, but none now lived to remember the last occurrence.
My generation was the latest Soldier Generation. From the time we could walk we were taught tactics, weapons skills, and physical training. A cloud hung over our lives like the storm clouds tha... | Space war doesn't work how people think it does. It's not like in the movies. There are no fly-bys, no laser guns, no evasive maneuvers. All those things are pointless. There's nowhere to hide since your heat signature can be seen across the solar system. There's no atmosphere in space, so there's no way of turning eit... | 2015-05-26T20:36:04 | 2015-05-26T20:24:48 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] A colony ship discovers that, due to a calculation error, they will never reach their destination. | I turned on the video log, and punched the button for a new entry as I hung my head.
"Medical log, I... don't know the proper date. We are supposed to be at the end of our journey, but we... three hundred fifty years of interstellar drift has put us far off course. The navigation computer burned up a log time ago, we.... | "Sooooooooooo" began the captain "turns out, and believe me we will laugh about this later…there was a slight calculation error"
The blank faced crowd stared back at him
"What does that mean?" said one of the blank faces"
"It means we're not going to reach our destination"
"No what does calculation error mean?" sai... | 2015-10-27T14:27:21 | 2015-10-27T13:22:57 | 101 | 26 |
[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | It was a sunny afternoon in mid July. I was walking with my gramps down towards our house.
“Okay, young one,” he said. “Let me tell you a secret that you will not believe.”
I lifted my head up to see his old, wrinkly face as he continued, “Have you ever wondered why they put that sign in front of the well? ‘Do not pi... | My wife says the vacation has been horrible. She was sun burnt, the kids had been hanging off of her cherry red skin for two days now, they hated the sand, they wanted mom to hold them. Fine.
Back to the hotel they went, on the beach I stayed. Which was more than okay. I needed some time. Dad needed some time alone ... | 2016-08-02T12:19:23 | 2016-08-02T12:08:33 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Something happy please. Include cats and maybe lizards.
My girlfriend likes to fall asleep to the sound of me reading something, I'd just like something nice to read to her.
EDIT: Whoops, now I'm on the front-page I can't pass any of these off as my own ;) just kidding of course, thanks very very much to everybo... | Dense flakes of snow fell from the sky
and Mittens the kitten looked up with a sigh.
His pillow was cold!
And though he wasn't yet old
The chill in his bones made him cry.
He shifted away from his seat by the pane
and leapt up to see where his neighbor had lain.
Freckle the gecko had all the best stuff,
which m... | *Just pull the trigger, and earn another paycheck* was what I thought. *I've done it fifty four times already. Why can't I pull it now?* No, it's not the trigger assembly, no I didn't forget to turn off the safety. I'm a professional assassin, on a rooftop, with my target in sight. In less than a second, I would be don... | 2017-01-29T18:40:55 | 2017-01-29T18:01:44 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] Legend foretold the one who pull the magic sword shall be the hero to slay you, the demon king. After hundreds of years no one has managed to pull it out. Bored of waiting, one day you put on a disguise as an adventurer and jokingly tried to pull the sword out. It came out on the first try. | Grimon stared at the sword in his hand. The legendary demon slayer, the sword that was foretold in prophesy to be the weapon that would kill the demon king who rules from the red citadel on top of the craggy mountain.
The problem with true prophesies is that all the people believe them. What use is an army if the... | Many many years ago, a great man foretold that whoever could pull the Sword of Satan out of the ground would be the one to kill the Dark Lord himself. I have laughed at adventurers, just like you may well be fail to pull the sword. I have seen people with huge muscles use sheer strength but to no avail, and watched peo... | 2017-03-10T09:53:21 | 2017-03-10T02:49:51 | 55 | 27 |
[WP] You're considered as one of the best assassins in the world. Unknown to your clients, you've never killed any of your targets. | I killed my sister when I was thirteen.
Thirty years later, as I screw the silencer onto Heather, my Sig Sauer P226, I reflect on how I arrived at this apartment door. It looks solid, but the pre-fabricated wood will give easily, as the door swings away from me into the apartment. Out of habit, I almost check my cham... | "You...you don't want me for this," the man was a tall, brutish looking one. He had a scar across his left cheek, and a tattoo of a some lizard like animal crawling across the right side of his face.
Yet here he was, shaking in fear.
"Nonsense," Will spoke with less confidence than he had previously. He was an old, ... | 2017-03-22T08:04:25 | 2017-03-22T07:57:54 | 184 | 47 |
[WP] After first contact, mankind and another civilization agree on a exchange program where you went to their planet spend a year there. When they bring you back, there is nothing where earth used to be. | **Galactic Lunch Time Theorem**
What used to be there was no longer there. My life, my memory, everyone I ever known and all the computer games I ever bought on Steam was gone.
Mars was there, so was Venus, even the moon was still there orbiting around an empty space like an abandoned dog barking at a car long gone. ... | The Luscians were normally a loud, rambunctious lot, given to easy laughter, quick excitement, and warm effervescence. Now, they huddled together in small groups on the bridge of the starship, bracing themselves against the emotional tidal waves gushing out from the Earthling in the centre. Every sob, every whimper was... | 2017-04-11T10:48:17 | 2017-04-11T10:01:37 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2020. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a single human skeleton and four words written on the wall. | EDIT: Good lord that blew up. I will see about maybe writing some more tonight.
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"Hey guys," I said over the comms. "You're all going to want to come down here."
"What is it, now?" Jon's voice said in my ear. "Another pretty rock you want to show us?" I could almost see the bastard's smug face. No one ... | The wind howled against the Martian rock, blowing golf-ball sized rocks and waves of dust over the cave Martinez ducked into.
“About time,” Vasquez grumbled. “You almost got yourself killed collecting space rocks.”
Martinez joined the other four scientists huddled in the cave around an electric lantern and plopped d... | 2017-06-06T20:03:39 | 2017-06-06T19:47:48 | 1,368 | 181 |
[WP] A fleet of spaceships land on earth. Each filled with humans from 2.6 million years ago. They were more advanced than we ever knew, and a some fled earth to escape the coming ice age. They've travelled the galaxies, failing to find a new home. Now they're back to claim their planet... | It was three fucking am, I hadn't had my coffee, there were dark circles under my eyes, and my hair was doing its best impression of a wild berry bush.
The three of us were standing in a small room, that looked like a classroom. There was a short, blond guy who I'd never seen before, and Lauren was there too. I'd kno... | **A Tribe Called Hominini: Part 1**
*Homo Errans*
I only know my homeland through hand-me-down stories, their details lost to time. Our history is tatters of an old dying woman's memory, but the legacy burns within all of us: a distant but undying heat that draws us even from so many moons and miles away.
The last o... | 2017-10-15T10:31:35 | 2017-10-15T10:16:57 | 516 | 154 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | For the first time, the whiskey swayed in my hand. It's aftertaste long since settled in the back of my mouth, and the bottle rolled in the gloom like an empty skull. Silent tears and countless questions I never dared to ask replaced the itching void I felt inside. I travelled inside my mind, and found horrors and hole... | In all my existence, I had never seen such loneliness. Nor such self-sufficiency.
The gentleman I had come to reap lived beyond off-grid. There were no other communities around for at least a thousand square miles, and there was no road leading to his compound. A strong, fast-flowing river weaved behind a small house ... | 2018-05-12T16:17:09 | 2018-05-12T16:00:41 | 80 | 15 |
[WP] The Universe™ has just run out of free trial meaning we are being downgraded from Universe™ pro to Universe™ lite. | It all happened so quickly. The darkness became darker. Nebulae, Galaxies, Stars, everything just disappeared. Our Sun was lucky. All planets excluding Mars and Earth were not.
All wars immediately ceased. Every Nation focused all of their efforts on figuring out just why the hell everything disappeared. Research of t... | I remember the day that it happened like it was yesterday. Hell, it could have been yesterday for all I know, time doesn't seem to exist or matter anymore. The sun neither rises nor sets, just hangs in its default position overhead.
It was just like any other day, I had come home from a long day at work, and resigned... | 2018-05-28T09:23:40 | 2018-05-28T08:11:13 | 84 | 29 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | People rush past me, breathless in their terror. My boots thunk on the metal floor as I pass them. Most would think i’m crazy, because who in their right mind would walk into a basement haunted by a ticking time bomb? But ever since the great turkey crisis of 2006 I’ve discovered that my abilities extend past the munda... | I was told I was blessed with a green thumb, when I was the only kid in my preschool who didnt kill their plant. This made my grandpa very happy.
Grandpa was a man I loathed in my younger years, someone who always smelled of cigars and hands where always covered in dirt, even after washing up for supper time. From as ... | 2018-06-30T16:09:28 | 2018-06-30T13:56:55 | 865 | 173 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | I used to find my gift difficult. Whenever we were reading in class, or even when I read back my own work, there it was glaring at me. I used to ignore it as best I could because no one liked when I mentioned what I saw. People would be angry at me for trying to correct them. That is, until I started learning to code. ... | I don't sleep. Not much anyway. I *can* sleep, and do so about every other week, but I don't need to. The doctors think I somehow mimic the dolphins, letting half my brain get good naps at a time.
And it suits me fine. It means i get a lot of time on my hands, most of wich I use unproductivly and some of wich i use ... | 2018-06-30T15:56:32 | 2018-06-30T15:08:15 | 263 | 129 |
[WP] After 50 years of waiting in solitude at the Pearly Gates, a surprised angel walks up to you and says, "We're closed, dude." | They painted angels as shining, winged creatures of endless grandeur, bearers of purity and untainted souls. However, what I witnessed was nothing but a teenager with reddened eyes, dark bags under his eyes, and dressed in a dirty tunic.
"We're closed dude," the angel had said, and squinted his eyes as the blunt creak... | "We're closed, dude. Didn't you get the memo?"
"Did I get the—No! I did not get the memo! I didn't get a Goddamn anything!"
"Whoa, dude, watch the language, this is still heaven."
"And I'd like to speak to Him! He's in charge around here isn't he?"
"You really didn't get the memo, did you?"
"What was this memo?!"
... | 2018-07-06T18:41:30 | 2018-07-06T16:08:04 | 135 | 72 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | "Jakob stop trying to bite Lisa and Lisa stop bothering Jakob, you two know well enough how to behave."
The situation developing right in front of me had something in common with a circus show. Someone without knowledge of the nature of this place, would see a hairy wolf like creature trying to poke a bat with a sti... | Deepview Manor, hidden in the woods and overlooking Deepview Lake itself, was not somewhere most people would venture. The master of the house was Mr. Black, a tall and imposing man, rarely seen but with a reputation suitable for his work.
Micah was aware of this. His mother had told him about Mr. Black, kept tabs, wr... | 2019-01-17T08:03:33 | 2019-01-17T07:18:29 | 47 | 24 |
[WP]Greek mythology, but everything is upside down. Hephaestus cheats on Aphrodite with Artemis, who looks down on him but truly likes him. Hades is kidnapped by Persephone, and she keeps him on a flowery cage under a big tree with pink flowers. Zeus is loyal, etc. | Achilles smirked as he faced his opponent. "Well, Hector, at long last your time has come. Prepare to die!"
Achilles charged at Hector, spear in hand. Hector, anticipating the attack, slid to the side a few inches and dodged it. When Achilles eventually lost momentum and stopped, Hector walked up behind him and poked ... | He looked about his meager villa, the tan stone and arches dreary to his eye. Pillars rose about him. Strong and steadfast. He followed one pillar with his gaze, base to ceiling. He continued to look upwards and brought a laughably small bottle to his lips with a shaking hand. He drank as deep as he could coughing as t... | 2019-03-07T22:40:12 | 2019-03-07T20:19:36 | 68 | 14 |
[WP] The Necromancer escaped his pursuers by slipping into our world through an interplanar door. He stepped through and appeared into the closed Natural History Museum. As the Witchhunters clambor after him, he begins to laugh. He's in the dinosaur section. | The necromancer looked around the cathedral like room. Multiple levels lined the outside of a center space with the skeleton of a giant creature he had not seen the likes of. However death was his domain. A skeleton is a skeleton after all. He smiled at himself and faced the beast, readying the incantation to bring it ... | He hesitated, the door swang closed in front of him as the others started to yell as the met whatever was in there. The door clattered open from the force of the swing, letting their moans escape and rasping wails that didn’t seem possible deter him further. Ruben lowered his water pistol, his thumb dancing over the... | 2019-05-09T05:57:11 | 2019-05-09T05:00:50 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] You're secretly a monster. Not a vampire, or a werewolf, or an alien, or a zombie, or really any monster that's commonly known. It's always awkward explaining to your soon-to-be-victims what you are. | “I had a feeling,” he said.
“What?”
“Well, in our sessions you often talked about feeling like no one could ever see the real you, how they wouldn’t understand, how you feel like you’re about to burst with the secrets that you keep. But I was never able to get you to tell me. That’s how I knew it was really a big sec... | "Argh, A demon!" exclaimed a man as he cowered in fear for his life.
The bloodlust that had formed in its' eyes suddenly died down. It turned its' head towards the man and began shaking side-to-side. The gesture was then followed by a deep breath ending in a deep breath. It lifted its' muscular four-fingered arms up a... | 2019-07-17T00:28:16 | 2019-07-17T00:02:03 | 353 | 42 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | Everyone eventually finds someone, its just an unwritten law of this world that you will. Well not unwritten, cause its literally on your wrist. Though everyone also stays away from someone, that one person whom they dread the most. These are the anomalies of this realm, and everyone acknowledges their existence... Wel... | Your eyes stare down the clock in front of you. Your fingers impatiently tapping your table as you wait on the ticking hands.
"Come onnnn!!!" You mutter to yourself as the clock strikes 2:31. "3 more minutes!!!"
You jump up from your seat and begin pacing the room. The excitement coursing through you and causing you ... | 2020-01-18T22:49:37 | 2020-01-18T21:46:35 | 68 | 46 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | Joan placed her hand on the glass. Behind it, her mother and father sat in orange jumpsuits.
Joan put on her brightest smile. "Ma, Pa. I'm graduating next week. Wish you guys could see it."
Her father huffed. "What good is a uni degree? A piece of paper ain't gonna help you rob a bank is it. What are you going to do?... |
It was Thanksgiving dinner at the Chebwick family home. William Chebwick smiled at his three children, Terry, Sherry and Merry, as he chewed on his boiled turkey drumstick. “It’s been so long since the entire family has been together like this! So, what have my three darling children been up to?”
The oldest child, ... | 2020-04-03T22:22:47 | 2020-04-03T21:43:25 | 1,211 | 27 |
[WP] Ghost hunters use points system to determine how haunted a house is. 1 point for ghosts, 2 for fae spirits, and 3 for demons. A ghost hunter valued your house for 278 points and became the no. 1 haunted house around the world. Your house was only built 1 year ago. | "What do you mean?" I asked. "This is the most haunted house you've ever been to?"
"Look," said Peter. "I don't know how. I don't know why. All I did was count. And goddamn did I count the living hell out of myself. A word of advice for you, buddy."
He beckoned me in closer. I leaned towards him.
"Get out!" he shout... | "Right, so what you've got here is known in the industry as an ectoplasmic rift" A tall mustache in a short suit said to Lante.
"Sorry, a what?" Lante, who had been enjoying quite a pleasant dream involving a lazy river and a lazy susan before he had been rudely awoken by a series of frantic doorbell chimes at the ung... | 2020-05-13T04:38:28 | 2020-05-13T04:18:23 | 326 | 71 |
[WP] You were born in a city where everyone has a superpower. However, while people freely use theirs (breathe fire, heal wounds or grow flowers), you seem to not be able to do anything. But one day, as you leave the city, you realize that everyone loses their power.
[deleted] | How long had I been here? The years all seemed to meld together leaving only a muddled sense of never ending time. I slept mostly, or at least tried to, not having any other form of entertainment but it was never restful. I always dreamed in nightmares only to wake up and find the truth was worse.
They had denied me a... | Everyone can use their powers as they please and I’m just normal. The doctors claim it’s cause neither of my parents were around when the dynampho occurred but my mother can phase through walls. The Dyampho was a chemical explosion in the city that only worsened when a meteorite hit the center of the city at the same t... | 2020-06-09T05:37:21 | 2020-06-09T05:13:23 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] - You are an American astronaut stationed aboard the ISS along with two fellow engineers and two Cosmonauts. When conducting experiments, you gaze out the window and witness the telltale flashes of nuclear detonations ringing across the continents. Your cries are met with silence from Houston.. | “Ivan, Anatoly, are you seeing this?” You say, not taking your eyes off the view from the Cupola’s central window. It is just before dawn in the Far East, and your view of the eastern hemisphere’s nighttime is wreathed in the speckled gold-on-black you have become accustomed to seeing over the past few months. Except, ... | #WARNING: BAD (NSFW / SWEARING) LANGUAGE
>***04 / 07 / 21***
>FUBAR. The first day of the bombs. I remember looking out of the window, thinking when I can finally see my mom again. Been a few months and I already miss that woman. Then it happened. Bam. Couldn't see shit for a moment. Before I looked, another on... | 2020-08-24T07:16:41 | 2020-08-24T03:36:01 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] The genie you've acquired is a chill dude who, like you, has a dog. However, his dog is also a genie and has started granting your dog's wishes. | "I wish I never have to work solely for money again."
The glowing blue genie shrugged, then made to grant my wish with a snap of his fingers, but he paused, and smiled.
"It seems that wish is already granted," he said.
I scratched my head. How would that happen? That can't possibly occur, unless-
My border collie, ... | I rubbed the lamp and out came an Indigo skinned genie, who for some reason, was holding a small... Bundle, in his arms.
"Uh... Mr. Genie, what is that?" He looked at me and roared in laughter. My sorry state humorous to him.
"What happened to you girl? You look like you got run over by a bus. Want me to make you ok... | 2020-09-22T02:46:50 | 2020-09-21T21:53:59 | 99 | 63 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | The planet was dark. Captive. Defeated. The paltry attempts at combat were not enough to damage a single ship. Their leaders never stood a chance.
So why did they look happy?
Every conquered civilization has wept, pleaded, begged for mercy. Not Earth. Not the Earthlings. As we brought captives aboard the ship, ther... | “They’re... what?”
“They seem to be celebrating, Sir,” comments the alien, a portable screen in hand. Up on the ship’s main screens, images of crowds of Americans filling the streets and cheering, proudly hoisting signs and hugging their friends, were prominently displayed. Other, smaller screens showed similar situa... | 2020-10-10T21:55:35 | 2020-10-10T21:09:39 | 537 | 93 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | 239 pigs in 239 days. Dirt, wood, concrete, hell even titanium. It didn't matter. Everyone single one fell, consumed by the Wrath of the Wolf. The pig sat in his bunker. His project produced enough byproduct to build an entire bunker out of. Not that it matters. The Wolf will get through. Even now the rending of metal ... | "Dude....like come on"
"What, you eat my 239 brothers and this surprises you, fuck you"
Each day a different pig would be eaten by the wolf in the remains of what he called his home, simple houses made of sticks and wood weren't enough and even brick, which honestly seemed practical was destroyed by the wolf and his... | 2021-01-29T16:24:08 | 2021-01-29T14:03:58 | 577 | 49 |
[WP] You are a demon that has had several failed attempts on your life by demon hunters. No matter how they use their holy powers they cannot harm you and as a result they consider you extremely powerful. In truth, the holy powers don't harm you for the simple reason that you aren't actually evil. | Many demons and extraplanar beings are considered evil. Succubi, dormant eldritch gods, and devils and imps of all manners typically are evil, whether lawful or chaotic. I, however strived for a different life. One of balance, one of neutrality.
The other demons scoffed at the notion. Called me a fool and a madman. S... | Beezelbub Talk, Church of the Underground 2/14/21
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Humans stereotype. I suppose all creatures do. It's lazy though leading to sloppy thinking, poor outcomes.
Hey, I'm a demon I understand evil. Evil is fun, its spontaneous, it shows you're an individual with power. As one ages, one seeks other forms o... | 2021-02-22T14:07:48 | 2021-02-22T14:00:46 | 766 | 70 |
[WP] The finale of international chess tournament takes place. Two grandmasters sit in front of each other in ultimate showdown. The thing is nobody knows that both of them got here by cheating. First is a mind reader and second one has an ability to see the future. | Immediately after I reached for the first piece, my opponent fell to the floor, retching uncontrollably.
<Well, that confirms it.>, I thought to myself. <You're definitely a mind reader after all.> Not that there was any doubt, of course.
A referee hurried over to stop the clock as spectators crowded arou... | I was surprised to find out, after I had been doing this for a while, that matches against chess grandmasters were so much *easier*.
You see, one of the talents of strategic geniuses - be it in chess, go, or even war - is their ability to constantly ask themselves "How do I lose?" Seeing paths to victory is (relativel... | 2021-03-16T23:05:44 | 2021-03-16T22:47:54 | 129 | 90 |
[WP] you are perfectly safe in your bunker, you have plenty of food and water and even plumbing. The problem is that you are alone and there is a zombie outside. Out of sheer boredom you teach it to speak, and now it's trying to convince you to let it in. | Dave heard the chime of the intercom over the bunker’s speakers and groaned.
“Daave.” called the gravelly voice, muffled slightly as it rolled out of the old overhead speaker. The speaker itself was embedded in the concrete ceiling under a metal plate that had been bolted into place. The bolts had proved problematic,... | Part 1
“1, 2, 3, 4…” I count the cans of food placed neatly on the shelves. There is a thin layer of dust that covers them and I take notice with the cans expiry dates, most of them are 20 years from now but I still try to choose the one closer to expiry.
Not that that really matters, anyway.
I’ve really... | 2021-09-29T08:44:53 | 2021-09-29T06:56:19 | 1,940 | 127 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | I am the Truth. A God who has no mysteries. The universe bends itself to my will, I merely speak to have, whisper to destroy. I scream to forget and nobody can deny me.
Had I known about my powers before my history project, maybe I wouldn't have messed up the true mysteries of the pyramids, but I like my version bette... | "Who am I? Nobody, don't worry, I get that look a lot. Try not to think about it too hard, you'll get a headache." The woman staring up at me was shaky, not everyday you see a criminal just cease their own existence, all for a purse too. "W-where are you?" The lady was clearly in some sort of shock, I suppose it's scar... | 2021-11-23T07:27:02 | 2021-11-23T07:21:20 | 355 | 75 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | "Now, Mr. Truth, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Do you mind if I call you Mr. Truth?"
"That's fine."
"Right, Mr. Truth. Our readers are dying to know more about you. You can just make any statement you want, and it becomes real. Besides you, Nobody has that power, correct?"
"Yes, absolutely correct."
... | The blood slowly dripped down the shaft of the takeout plastic blade into a growing pool on the floor. The press, which moments before had been clamoring with questions, stood silent. Dozens of faces riddled with shock. It was not immediately clear to Bernard Boothe Benedict whether the shock came from the fact that hu... | 2021-11-23T11:51:41 | 2021-11-23T10:16:31 | 109 | 15 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | When the Jal-tharians had begun destroyimg human settlements and capturing planets, the Terran Federation asked for peace, hoping to resolve whatever had caused such violent acts against them.
When the Jal-tharians laughed and mocked, and destroyed the vessel sent with offerings of peace, the Terran Federation demande... | Something big was about to happen. All of the TV channels had switched to a live feed to Paris, Earth’s current Capital. Earth Head Toussaint was about to give an emergency address. I checked the socials and it was filled with wild conjecture, all the while listening to more tempered speculation from the reporters and ... | 2021-12-17T16:22:34 | 2021-12-17T15:01:38 | 54 | 31 |
[WP] “So your saying that you humans feel empathy?” “Yeah, it’s great to be able to understand one ano-“ “You don’t understand! If your species has empathy then that means your planets been infected.” | "Wait, did you say 'infected'?" Leo tilted his head curiously.
The alien being had been talking to him for quite a while now and when the initial shock of speaking to an alien subsided was revealed to be a fairly amicable fellow. It bore more resemblances to humans than Leo expected - a head with two eyes, a mouth-hol... | "For there to be progress, there must be dispassionate and cruel exploitation. You, as a species, know this." The being spoke from the other side of the glass.
"That's not an inherent attribute to progress. There can be progress without—"
"Wrong. Your kind is on its way to greatness. But, like many other species befo... | 2022-01-20T07:39:45 | 2022-01-20T07:35:41 | 476 | 96 |
[WP] Earth is losing to the Aliens. You develop a serum and are now on the body littered streets to face the Alien commander. “Weakling! A super soldier serum is useless on your kind!” He exclaims. “That’s why...I made a zombie virus.” You say as you break the vial, releasing a mist into the air | Of all the places to have landed an invasion force, Isla Nublar didn't make a ton of sense. The aliens were indiscriminate though, destroting both the park's attractions and guests with equal prejudice. After the Costa Rican government capitulated, it was clear that the landings were worldwide, not just on the island.... | They called me mad.
Insane. Crackpot. Overly attached to oatmeal cookies.
But they're not saying anything now, I thought as I bit into a new oatmeal delight.
The streets were filled with charred corpses, and above, were the floating mechanical monstrosities that had gunned each of them down.
I took out another cook... | 2022-04-19T07:32:11 | 2022-04-19T07:22:00 | 250 | 51 |
[WP] Despite being dead, you are still the best doctor the city ever had. Especially since you know exactly what is wrong with any patient by possessing his or her body. However once it was discovered, some people believe that the board should make you moved on but the board won't budge on this... | “Now, starting the discussion for Dr. Whilms to move on to the afterlife. Prompted by Dr. Charles.” The hospital administrator announced inside the conference room. She’s in front of several established doctors deciding the fate of the late Dr. Whilms. Dr. Whilms possesses several patients to tell doctors the diagnosis... | "You have been using your talents to extend the lives of the living!" Jimmy Bones yells at me. I stand at the podium in front of the seven judges, waiting for each of them to unleash their wrath on me in turn. "This is forbidden! You understand your pact is with the dead. You are to heal the dead souls so that they may... | 2022-10-12T15:11:20 | 2022-10-12T14:40:01 | 82 | 20 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | "Listen here new guy. Every night at precisely 3:30am I brew a fresh pot of our darkest roast. I use a whole bag of our house blend. If you know what's good for you, you'll set an alarm to remember." He looks at me like I'm crazy.
"But.. We haven't seen a customer for at least an hour.. Also, why so strong?" He leans... | “Hey, how’d it go with your date last night?”
I looked at the time. It’s 3:32am. “Well, kind of a long story. I’d tell you, but you know who will be here any minute now.”
“Ah. True. Well, he might wanna hear too? Is he a he by the way? Does he just identify as “demon” or …”
Suddenly Damien the Demon, most venerable ... | 2022-10-30T12:33:33 | 2022-10-30T11:59:59 | 113 | 50 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | About 5 years ago the owner decided to make this little cafe 24hrs. He figured he could take advantage of the after club crowd and by him I mean my poor ass that got shifted to over night. I was the assistant manager, was getting ready to become the manager, now I run over nights 6 nights a week.
Why do I work 6 nigh... | The Barista sat at the end of a counter in an empty coffee shop, flipping through the pages of a disguarded magazine. The after-bar crowd had just cleared out and it was time for a well deserved break. Turning the page, The Barista's nose was met with a strong smell of sulfur and something sour that sent chills down th... | 2022-10-30T14:17:00 | 2022-10-30T14:09:43 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] The date is July 13, 1836. You're the clerk at the front desk of the U.S. Patent Office on opening day. Things are going just fine until a number of strangely-dressed people get into an argument about their placement in line. Coincidentally, they're all trying to patent methods of time travel.
EDIT: I never imagi... | I'd been getting things ready for a couple of hours. The papers were all neatly stacked, the pens filled with ink and the blotting paper spotless.
Everything was exactly as it was supposed to be and everything was in it's correct place, just what the rulebook said.
No-one could have cause for complaint that I was ... | Ulysses had never seen a man from the future before. He'd expected drama on opening day, but this left him rather speechless.
He gulped. "Sir, I need to fetch the director for this application. A minute, please."
Taking two steps backwards, he forced his eyes closed to shut out the visage that terrified him so. He to... | 2014-09-13T11:51:14 | 2014-09-13T11:44:28 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 1,457 | 64 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | (This is my first story on here, please bear with my on any mistakes or if its just bad...here we go!)
I've been a gamer for almost my entire life. Fantasy in games became reality for me to escape my awful life growing up. I'm the basic, 'single mom, no dad, no money' kinda kid. Yet somehow I always scraped up enough ... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T09:02:41 | 1,457 | 10 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | "Hey Kazaak, I sent that signal like you asked. What did it say?"
"It said, 'Shut up, and Play Dead!'"
"You piece of shit, that'll make them hide out there for another three centuries at least."
"Or they'll run around like headless chickens like they always do. They're a pretty dumb species, bear in mind."
"Says th... | Shut up and and play dead.
After that there was nothing.
An increasing amount of nothing.
Felt something like a cloud drifted in front of the sun.
The static that was always there just became a little less when one turned the eye.
Michael Gruppman of the SETI research facility said it was like being under... | 2016-03-27T08:55:20 | 2016-03-27T08:53:09 | 61 | 22 |
[WP] We forget our dreams for a reason: in the near future, memory enhancement therapies allow everyone to fully recall every dream they've ever had. Across the entire human race, disturbing patterns and implications emerge that were previously hidden by the unappreciated bliss of forgetfulness. | I shouldn't be having this meeting. It's 4:30 in the morning, I'm still in my pajamas for christ's sake. I knew this was going to be part of the job when I applied, but that doesn't mean I have to *enjoy* it. One of my aids, Evan, hands me a mug of coffee.
"Good morning sir" He says."The Director of the NSA has b... | (I've twisted a bit how the dreams are recalled, sorry)
When the EMDC, the Electromagnetic Dream Catcher, came into action, we added an additional waiver you could sign to allow us to, anonymously or not, add your dreams to our data bank, so we could look for patterns in human dreams. We never expected it to reveal su... | 2016-09-30T09:00:58 | 2016-09-30T08:23:09 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper appears to claim your life. He's heard so many pleas and excuses, but yours is the first that has worked. | *Come now. It is time*
I AM YOUR MOTHER AND YOU WILL DO AS I SAY!
*It is simply time, mother*
DON'T BACK CHAT ME YOUNG MAN! I BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS WORLD, I WILL TAKE YOU OUT OF IT
*Mother, I am doing my job. Being responsible. I have a duty*
AND MY JOB WAS TO RAISE YOU INTO THIS...ONCE FINE YOUNG MAN.
**AND THIS... | His foot, heavy on the gas pedal, could have never moved fast enough to brake. The car spun out, blood spattered across the front of the windshield and tufts of fur jammed into the grill. The man was ejected from the car dead on impact with the black pavement. His son survived, concussed and bruised. The young child, b... | 2017-01-12T07:22:04 | 2017-01-12T02:07:59 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I'm so very happy I wake up to a generic buzzer alarm. I think I would have lost my mind if I had to wake up to "I Got You Babe" thousands of times. It isn't easy, but I'll embrace the small wins.
The same day, over and over. As you might guess, there is no reset. Not suicide. Not staying up over night. Day 2 might st... | "Wait, what?"
"Every single day, I've woken up and it's been the exact same thing. The same events occur over and over again. Everyday, I wake up at in my room next to my wife to the radio alarm that plays 93.3 FM and everyday it's that stupid 21 Pilots song, "Heathens." I used to like that song. In the beginning, I ... | 2017-07-15T09:16:49 | 2017-07-15T07:54:07 | 83 | 18 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | The officers glanced at each other. There was worry in that look.
"We weren't aware that you'd remarried," the bigger of the two said. "When was the last time you saw your ex-husband?"
"Ex?!" I spat. "I've been married to one man for ten years! You've got the wrong house!"
He looked down at the folder, tracing the t... | "I know its hard ma'am, but we found his dead body today on a construction site."
The young detective and her 2 police officers seemed dead serious.
"No! I mean he is standing in the kitchen right now cooking some soup for dinner."
"Well, that seems odd. May we enter and to ask you some questions?"
I just nodded. T... | 2017-10-10T06:46:42 | 2017-10-10T05:53:19 | 47 | 27 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | “Do you remember that time you got hypothermia?”
“No.” I thought, unable to get the point across with a head shake. “Do you think its going to feel like recovering from that?”
“How would I know? You don’t remember it.” I thought.
After almost 500 years stuck in what the scientists of my time called a “Cryocasket”, ... | I am now nothing.
I am nothingness. Nothingness is I. I is nothing. That one sounded like Yoda or would he say I am nothing, nothingness I is. Wait, I just said that didn’t I? No, stop it. I’m getting distracted I am nothing I no longer exist. Stop existing in 3, 2, 1. Silence. Emptiness. Non existence. See! That’s mor... | 2017-12-17T02:57:38 | 2017-12-16T21:57:11 | 187 | 53 |
[WP] The real reason why aliens wont attack Humanity is because the system is full of overwhelmingly powerful ancient defense systems and weaponry. | "So why do you think the Nexori never harvested the resources in this system?", the navigator asked his admiral.
Looking intently at the holomap on display, the admiral scoffed. "Who knows, probably some religious sentiment those foolish Nex maintained. Now that the Nex are defeated, everything they had is ours and t... | Galactic Sector - 2348876V, A system of 8 planets with only 1 planet in the Habitable zone, and the last Sector of the galaxy to be explored, although not for the lack of trying. For the last 300 years, our race has attempted to send probe after probe to this sector, only for the signal to mysteriously cut short after ... | 2018-02-26T09:17:13 | 2018-02-26T08:58:59 | 95 | 52 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | “Master Wayne”
Alfred walked into the Wayne Manor’s study, barely passing the threshold of the lavish office.
“Yes, Alfred.”
Bruce looked up from the shiny fragment he had stolen during the Justice Leagues battle with braniac. Normally he would take care of this in the Batcave, but bringing the tech near the Earth’... | John walked the halls of the eerie mansion, as his shadow was cast on the wall by the moonlight.
"Where was everyone?"
John thought to himself as he crept up another hallway. Even though it was midnight most billionaires had security roaming the halls, taking care of the mansion and making sure no one was there to k... | 2018-03-13T22:55:30 | 2018-03-13T22:33:19 | 1,190 | 62 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | Johnny was getting creative.
For clarification, Johnny was the name of the demon shark who sporadically appeared in my life and attempted to kill me. His actual name was Jœhņňý the Eradicator, but that was too difficult to pronounce. When I was three, he appeared in my kiddy pool. When I was fourteen, he appeared in m... | Lightning fell, illuminated the weeping sky. The grief of heaven melted down the window pane; a slow dance, a glacial descent to the bare timber and barren ground.
I got lost in the dying raindrops, splashing, breaking as they struck the parched earth. I sipped my tea idly, as my mind circled with the thought of how, ... | 2018-11-22T08:00:42 | 2018-11-22T07:22:31 | 5,268 | 1,018 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | "Commander...Look." My Second pointed out at the horizon with his root as the Humans marched in formation over the ridge. Lined up perfectly they came with a mechanical precision. Strange looking beasts who stood on only two limbs, manipulated machinery with small soft flesh covered digits and had small patches of fur ... | Stupid, such massive crowds of Terrains looked to the skies as we approached. We came at them hard and fast. We burned the sky as we dove down to met their planet. 5 minutes to impact, "Fire the grounders at the population zone, troop deploy 3 minute after, once confirmed by the landing forces deploy the second wave gr... | 2019-08-28T17:22:22 | 2019-08-28T15:57:42 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | When my parents turned 18, they summoned each other. That rarely happens, and when it does, it happens for the people who are really destined to be together. It saves them the trouble of matchmaking and forced marriage. But, like I said, it happens once in fifty years, maybe more. The people who got lucky enough must'v... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T09:06:39 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 125 | 37 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | You’ve read the stories. 118 elements, 118 sects of bending. Existing in perfect harmony. The cycle of life. But everything changed when the ferrous benders dug too greedily. Too deep.
They found the fissile elements. Uranium. Plutonium. Thorium. Vicious and wild. And, unlike fire, uncontainable once let loose. For ce... | My teeth ached.
My gut hurt, my feet hurt, my chest hurt, trying to stand was an exercise of endurance, but the worst was the teeth. It enveloped my whole jaw, a buzz of wrong that made me more than irritable and hate this curse.
I was the precious specimen of bending Element 118. Oganesson.
The thing with bending... | 2019-09-19T10:19:09 | 2019-09-19T10:13:13 | 164 | 62 |
[WP] The cure for death was discovered and it worked 99% of the Earth's population. You are one of the 1% and now 90 years later, you are the last mortal left on your deathbed. The World comes to.see the last dying human. | 48 Million. That's how many their were when the "cure" was distributed.
24 Million. We lost about half before the terror struck us. We had become the minority across the globe. Governments stepped back their spending on healthcare in massive amounts. Hospitals began to close their doors as their funding and necessity ... | The sliver of silver road could be viewed from the high mesa, and from the rough hewn from the adobe window of what could be charitably called a shack. The vast emptiness outside was a welcome relief from the crowded hospital, of “well wishers” who were little more than gawkers. The hospital had to ban cellular phones,... | 2019-12-18T11:29:13 | 2019-12-18T10:02:29 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "I have always been able to see you Death. You could say we are connected. Destined to forever drift along parallel lines, never to intersect".
Death flipped through his clipboard once more with erratic movements, showing a great deal of confusion despite a noticeable lack of eyebrows. He turned towards me, empty ey... | "What are you talking about!?" I reply. "Pretty damned hard NOT to notice the dude with skeleton hands in a black cloak just walking around the office."
"Well yeah but I-" he stammers in reply. "You could run away if you saw me! That's a huge problem!"
I roll my eyes and turn dismissively, counting the files in my ... | 2020-01-24T12:35:20 | 2020-01-24T11:44:57 | 309 | 165 |
[WP] You’ve been kidnapped by the SCP foundation. Why? You have the ability to ‘Mr. Magoo’ yourself out of anything. Sniper about to assassinate you? You bend down to pick up a penny just in time, SCP-049 about to touch you? A Sudden cannonball knocks them away. All with you being none the wiser. | **Item #:** SCP-777
**Object Class:** Euclid
**Special Containment Procedures:** No special safety procedures are required for the containment of SCP-777. SCP-777 is free to move about Site-19 so long as it does not attempt to engage with other SCPs, enter restricted areas, leave the premises or cause obstruction to ... | "Subject is reaching 103 MPH."
"Why is he even going so fast? He can't possibly be aware that we're on his tail!"
Agent Zeta checked her scanner. "Well, we're reporting that he's listening to Don't Stop Me Now on the radio and likely just hasn't realized how quick he's going."
Agent Phi swore. "And there aren't any ... | 2022-05-20T21:30:10 | 2020-08-18T08:50:37 | 4,017 | 483 |
[WP] An unassuming school janitor, is in fact an incredibly powerful but reformed dark magic user who chose a humbler life after the Hero defeated and spared them; except today is different: today the magic academy is undersiege by the BBEG, their former boss. | The letter sat opened on small rickety table in front of me. It was a standard letter of "no" containing words like "we appreciate your interest" and "pursuing other options at this time." I sighed and leaned back in my only chair in the dingy basement. Fired. From the Darkness Unleashed. Not evil enough. Well, I... | The man pushed the trash can forward, nodding at the student passing by who failed to notice the tendril of shadow snaking towards her.
The tendril flicked the scrap of paper the student had dropped into the air, and it landed squarely in the moving trash can.
Zair, practicing warlock and now janitor of the King’s Pa... | 2020-09-06T08:43:33 | 2020-09-06T07:49:42 | 138 | 63 |
[WP] Angry at the thief, the witch cast a spell upon him. “The moment your eyes meet with your soulmate, you shall die.” The thief immediately has a heart attack afterwards. “Damn it.” | Theria looked at the new corpse on her doorstep. Young man, no more than twenty summers. Brown hair, his half lidded eyes shown blue. The slack face of death was the only way to tell he was not sleeping.
"That was...not what I expected." she said to no one.
She picked up the young man, putting him on her shoulder l... | The man was good at his job, no one knew what he looked like nor knew his name.
He was like a phantom in the wind, such was a sad existence.
The man seeked more thrilling endeavors, he heard of a witch on top of the hill; a most interesting challenge.
He was full of pride, his act was traceless; for he had spent m... | 2020-10-29T04:49:07 | 2020-10-29T04:14:47 | 42 | 29 |
[WP] At the moment of your death, a goddess gives you a chance to reincarnate in another world. The catch is that you need to become the hero of that world. The other catch is that you are not a helpless teenager but a trained member of your country's special forces. | I was surrounded by an endless abyss. I can't even begin to guess how long I've been here since time seems meaningless in such a place. It could have been one minute or a million as far as I knew. As I floated amidst the nothingness, unable to even see my body, I began to ponder my fate.
"Is this Hell? My punishment f... | "Well. This is nice."
"I'd rather sincerity in our conversation, Sergeant."
"Can I at least have a fag, then?"
The woman who sat before me smiled, and handed me a packet of cigarettes and a zippo. With a quick, honest 'thank you', I got one lit and took a drag.
I wasn't quite sure how I got here, or even where 'her... | 2021-04-06T08:13:20 | 2021-04-06T08:06:12 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] "Dipper Pines. You think you and your sister are the only ones who have fought monsters before? You don't know it yet, but you've just become a part of something bigger." "Who the hell are you?" "You can call me Bright, and I came on the behalf of the Foundation." | "The... Foundation?" said Dipper, visibly confused at the cryptic statements made by the man who was calling himself Bright.
"That is correct. We specialize in protecting the world from anomalies, and you seem to have gotten yourself tied up in quite a few of those."
Dipper was slowly coming to terms with the fact th... | [I know this some movie/tv/book crossover. But I have no idea what movies or tv shows or books this prompt is a reference to. So of course I'll swing in with my probably wildly off input.]
"What are you saying? What foundation?"
"*The* Foundation. We specialise in the unknown. The unexplainable. Phenomena that persi... | 2021-05-02T16:49:34 | 2021-05-02T15:39:40 | 48 | 11 |
[WP] Time freezes when you are seconds from mortal danger, you can’t move but you have as much time to plan as you need and you can unfreeze time at will. You are in bed for another sleepless night and you just realized the alarm clock you have been staring at has been stuck on 2:45 am for an hour. | Time goes forwards, never back.
My mother leading me by the hand on the first day of school? Gone and done, and I'll never see her again. Just the memory remains, a visceral thought etched in my brain for all eternity.
Everything had froze, my child's eyes seeing the Freightliner bearing down on the crosswalk with no... | *What if I don’t unfreeze? What if I just lay here, live in the moment forever?*
Cool air billows in through the open window, mingled with the neighbor’s chimney smoke. If I focus I can discern the particles, pick the exquisite gray of the smoke from the black of the night, the nascent ice particles from the air outsi... | 2021-09-11T18:59:05 | 2021-09-11T18:06:34 | 1,071 | 195 |
[WP] A super villain who runs a number of retail stores, not as a cover, but as a means of recruiting their staff as villainous side-kicks once they are inevitably filled with seething rage for customers and the general public. | I often walked around the store. The employees knew who I was. I wasn't there to pick at their faults. I just liked wandering about the store. They actually liked me. I was often greeted with a smile or a quick nod.
I had one policy though. I asked them never to engage with me in front of the customers. I liked my pri... | I’ve always liked to take a hands-on approach, whether it’s to my villainy or something even worse—retail.
Fast Factory was a modest chain of supermarkets by many standards, but it was not a bad thing to stay on the down low. Still, it remains a profitable source of income for me—useful for buying costumes and gadgets... | 2021-10-13T23:52:38 | 2021-10-13T23:30:49 | 837 | 150 |
[WP] In the Land of Perfection, there is no imperfection. Which is why George was confused at the single, absurdly tiny crack in the sidewalk. | Permission to go into the Land of Perfection was a difficult task. George was thankful to be one of the few allowed in. This was such a rare occurrence that his family, who’s ignored all of his accomplishments for several years (hell, it could’ve been decades now), congratulated him when he said where he’s moving away.... | Today was a perfect day as any another day. Perfection, what does it mean? Does it mean a scenario where everything goes according to you? Then yes, I have a perfect life. Does it mean a life without any blemishes? Then yes, I have a perfect life. Or does it mean a life that has been made with so much precision that yo... | 2021-12-21T09:45:02 | 2021-12-21T09:22:07 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] It’s mandatory for a princess to be under a curse by their 16 birthday. Usually turning into a swan, or pricking your finger will do. Its now your 18th birthday, and still no curse. People are worried that no prince will come because of it. Today you set out to find a curse! | Patting me on my head, the fairy godparent I never knew said, "Ooohhhh, Dearie, you went looking for a curse in all the wrong places, when all along the curse has been in..."
"INSIDE ME ALL ALONG?!" I interrupted, earning only a look of disrupted confusing.
"N... No, Dearie. What I mean to say is that you were cursed... | I woke up to a wet pillow. I had cried a good part of the night. It wasn't the way the day of your eighteenth birthday was supposed to end, in tears and despair. But at least I had held it in until I was in my room, finally alone. My dad could be proud that I didn't shame his name by breaking down in public.
You see, I... | 2022-02-24T03:21:15 | 2022-02-24T00:08:16 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Yesterday, you knocked over a salt shaker in Texas. Today, you bought a newspaper in Fiji. Tomorrow, the chain of events you set in motion will stop a bank robbery in France. You are the master of the butterfly effect. | Lee sat down for breakfast in his usual spot at the airport lounge. Thoughts of the pictures he'd seen on his wife's phone last night raced through Lee's head. He fidgeted with the metalic wings over his left breast pocket trying not to let his sadness, his anger show. A waiter stopped to take Lee's order.
"I'll have ... | Henry slept for most of the 12 hour flight to Nadi. Thankfully, despite it being a full flight, the seat next to him remained vacant giving him a bit of extra room to get comfortable.
The nap on the plane did wonders for helping Henry reset his circadian rhythm and sync up with the time zone. After eating breakfast at... | 2022-04-24T07:43:50 | 2022-04-24T05:46:31 | 53 | 23 |
[WP] After hearing "Everything is a weapon to a human," A desperate alien race abducts several humans and gives them ships, random gadgets, and instruction manuals. | The general sat in his chair, nervously staring at his assistant scrambling towards him with a pile of reports. He knew how special these were; they were about the humans. When the war took a turn for the worse, they got desperate, looking for anything to turn the tide. Lost of all options, they put their faith in a si... | I stared down at the items in front of me. The aliens— that apparently did exist— had plunked me down in a room and left me with nothing but a carefully worded sentence that sounded like they'd been practicing it.
"We need weapons." I didn't really think I was qualified to make weapons. I was a librarian. Wondering... | 2022-06-29T05:15:33 | 2022-06-29T04:05:49 | 145 | 108 |
[WP] In order to end the war the kingdom kidnapped 100 orphan children and brutally trained them for the sole purpose of assassinating the enemy prince. A decade later only you remained. But then your instructor called you to say your princess fell in love with him and ended the war so you're fired. | The horse's hooves clack against the cobblestone path leading from the Royal Palace to the Academy. A route so familiar I can tell apart every bump in the road. Even with my face covered, I still know exactly where I am, and I know exactly where to make my move.
Whoever is helping me probably knows it too. I felt i... | The room was cold. Somewhere, someone had designed this place to be unpleasant. Concrete walls, strip lights that buzzed in that pitch you don’t hear, you just feel at the back of your jaw.
A steel table. Bolted to the ground, nothing on it but a metal loop for running handcuffs through.
Ayala looked through the one-... | 2022-10-20T13:35:32 | 2022-10-20T11:21:00 | 112 | 67 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | "Mommy, mommy tell me again the story about the twelve gods"
Sigh "ok sweetie but then its time for bed ok"
"Ok, so long ago there were twelve gods, and while they all knew each other they did not live at the same time, legends said that they just sprang into existence one day, the first god named Randy was saddened ... | I feel the energy dissipate around me.
We left Holy Terra as twelve but here I arrive as one.
Radio silence.
Strange. But stranger still, we identified this planet as barren, yet I stand upon a forest floor.
Dozens of green dots dart across my scanner's display. Movement?
None move towards my position,
they weave ... | 2014-09-02T14:24:23 | 2014-09-02T11:20:25 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] College graduation is over, and your parents present you with an itemized bill for raising you - several hundred thousand dollars. They want to work out a payment plan. | "Wait, what?" Brian asked, his focus shooting between both of his parents.
"We didn't think this would be such a surprise." His mother said with approximately one tenth the urgency Brian had used. "You know, you guys aren't cheap! We did the same thing for your sister when she graduated. She took it a little bett... | “You have to be shitting me guys?” Jacks bemused look was enough of a catalyst for his parents to issue a sterner warning.
“No son, we’re not”. Jacks father was a military man, and joking to him didn’t come easy. “Also, watch your mouth.” His Dad looked down from his spectacles, a look I imagine he gave to many a... | 2014-09-09T09:13:50 | 2014-09-09T07:51:26 | 56 | 31 |
[WP] The real reason why aliens haven't made contact with Earth yet is not that they don't exist or the vastness of space. It's because they are scared sh**less by the supernatural races that inhabit Earth (Vampires, Werewolves, Wizards, Etc...).
An alien race doesn't believe the rumors about the strength of these rac... | For all the self-proclaimed endless knowledge possessed by the Eldararin, we could never have comprehended what the Earth had seemed to produce completely by accident.
Ancient. Impossibly powerful. Unbelievably dangerous when threatened.
We never learned who they were, and maybe it is better that way.
---------... | A storm raged across the heavens. Thunder cracked and bellowed, lightning poured down upon the earth below as a torrent of light. There was Armageddon, there was Ragnarok, there was the Rapture. Pandemonium. Hell.
It was war.
> "Exarch Tiberius! Exarch! Do you comprehend?"
Gaea had changed. The prophecies and ... | 2015-01-02T19:11:15 | 2015-01-02T18:10:37 | 52 | 39 |
[WP] The real reason why aliens haven't made contact with Earth yet is not that they don't exist or the vastness of space. It's because they are scared sh**less by the supernatural races that inhabit Earth (Vampires, Werewolves, Wizards, Etc...).
An alien race doesn't believe the rumors about the strength of these rac... | For all the self-proclaimed endless knowledge possessed by the Eldararin, we could never have comprehended what the Earth had seemed to produce completely by accident.
Ancient. Impossibly powerful. Unbelievably dangerous when threatened.
We never learned who they were, and maybe it is better that way.
---------... | Xcyztai watched the digital window of his quarters intently, his gaze focused on the small blue and green orb that hovered in the midst of a black void. The planet looked so harmless from up here, with it's gentle white swirls. But he knew the truth.
The corners of his window began to pulsates blue, and he promptly ... | 2015-01-02T19:11:15 | 2015-01-02T18:54:49 | 52 | 39 |
[WP] Take the concept of a metaphorical "war" (e.g.: The War on Tobacco/War on Poverty) and make it a literal war | This is Debbie Walters, reporting live from the field.
>"Alright Debbie, what can you tell us? How are our boys on the front?"
Well, as you can see Tim, every god-fearing man, woman and child is out here armed to the teeth. We won't give them an inch of ground, and as soon as midnight hits we'll be giving them all... | I punched one of the enemies in the stomach. She fell to her knees with a groan and a cry. I kicked her in the face and started to run.
The enemy overran our position. We were out of ammo and had already lost Jenkins to the horde. “Run,” I screamed. “Fall back and regroup.”
I had to protect these men and women. They... | 2015-01-31T08:03:12 | 2015-01-31T07:55:36 | 96 | 53 |
[WP] Superman's belief that he is actually a superhuman is a delusion as he suffers from schizophrenia and kryptonite is actually haloperidol (an antipsychotic medication) | "Doctors, today in Mortality and Morbidity Reports I present the sad, short tale of Superman, who found rather quickly that he wasn't faster than a speeding bullet, but survived being shot, nor more powerful than a locomotive, but lived when he was bounced off the cattle catcher of a slow-moving CSX freight train, nor ... | *???*
Still weak. The serum they’ve created is not enough to kill me so they must be keeping me alive for some reason. Don’t know how they discovered my identity. Spent last night very afraid for Ma & Pa & Lois. Tried to overpower a nurse & make a break but too weak. Need new strategy. Been cooperative las... | 2022-05-18T23:08:41 | 2015-02-19T10:39:49 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] You notice that a stranger is following you as you walk home. You pretend not to notice. The stranger follows you home and watches you go inside. Then when he leaves, you turn the tables and start to follow him.... | I'm confident he didn't see me exit my home. He strolled casually across the town without a care in the world. Follow ME will he? Ha. Two can play at that game.
He paused in the city park and looked around. Did he notice me? No. He got low to the ground near a bed of flowers and seemed to inhale deeply. Then he urina... | I shuddered. The night was still cold. This winter seemed to go on forever. I heard a door close far behind me. The night was quiet so you could hear almost anything. I tried to pick up my pace. As I turned a corner, I saw someone behind me. I saw him turn the same corner. I thought I saw a flash of metal near his belt... | 2015-04-14T04:20:11 | 2015-04-14T04:20:05 | 87 | 32 |
[WP] A newly-hired bartender is slowly realizing that he's working at the bar from all of those "X walks into a bar" jokes. | "Alright Sam, just watch how it's done."
Sam looked attentively at Holly, her higher-up, as two men in lab coats walked in and sat in front of them. Holly smiled and said to them, "Chemists?"
"Yep."
"What'll y'all have?"
"I'll have H2O, please," said one.
The other followed, "I'll have H2O, too."
Holly motioned t... | Joe didn't really mind his new job, except on Mondays. No, this isn't one of the typical "Mondays, right?" situations. Joe's new job tending bar was very much unique, but on only Monday. At some point today, something crazy will happen.
*Mad Monday,* Joe thought to himself as he flipped back the covers and tossed his ... | 2015-05-14T19:10:48 | 2015-05-14T16:24:59 | 87 | 38 |
[WP] You live in a world where humans actually do get 3 wishes, one when you're 5, one when you're 10, and one when you're 20. | I wonder.
I wonder how my life would've turned out if I had wished different wishes. I wonder how my life would turn out if I had a fourth wish. I've heard many people stating this. People, too immature at the time, wasting their precious wishes for nonsensical stuff that wasn't important to them anymore after a short... |
"**F**or _God's_ sake, Robert. You cannot be serious."
The Genie's voice was like nothing you had ever heard. Sharp like a whip. Deep like thunder. His huge blue body was adorned with golden jewelry, and his torso trailed away wispily into a small little lamp on the floor. Within his exasperated tones was the pow... | 2015-09-26T13:06:16 | 2015-09-26T12:52:43 | 216 | 33 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | The dragon shifted on its pile of gold, scales innumerable, size immeasurable, and power unmatchable. Even the knight standing before him looked like he was just going to be a snack. The armour he had brought with him would do nothing against the fire of the great beast.
All of this made the fact that the knight was ... | The dragon's eyes narrowed, his long neck twisting downwards to better see the coin. It was unlike any he'd ever seen, and that was saying something. Small, perfectly round, made of a strange metal - it resembled copper, but pure, more pure than all the plates in the king's castle. Intrigued, the dragon turned his eyes... | 2015-10-13T17:47:41 | 2015-10-13T17:45:50 | 60 | 16 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | How was he so behind in score? Jahweh sat gaping with disbelief at the icons floating in the top left of his screen, indicating that his rival, Jorgaxis, had just reached the highest tech level.
"Shouldn't have picked DNA as your genetic molecule, noob" the chat-window taunted. Jorgaxis was right, the higher rate of... | "I still say it's cheating that you sent your son down there." Lord Lamux was noticeably worried that God's people would soon crack the human genome. He was in danger of being over taken by God during the inevitable exponential growth that would soon occur. His protests were well founded, the rules clearly stated th... | 2016-04-09T08:11:27 | 2016-04-09T08:09:07 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | The Aquas are always so stuck up. Rich bastards who could afford to give birth on the ocean. You can tell that they just think they are God's gift, all because they can do cool shit at pool parties. Most people are just Terras. Not really useful in day to day life, but some great artists have benefited from their power... | "Hey, look, it's the *astronaut*!"
"Ah yes, our savior with the powers of the cosmos!"
There were snickers from the posse Mark had around him, leaning against my locker. The guy was your stereotypical asshole. Ugly face, huge teeth, tall, well built, you know the like, the kind you would find in your local Bullies-R-... | 2017-04-14T16:32:13 | 2017-04-14T16:01:20 | 457 | 229 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | This one had been a long time coming - far longer than I ever thought possible.
We'd met on a battlefield millennia ago, both surprised to find out that our strikes did not harm the other. It was the first, and only, other immortal I'd ever encountered.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naturally, being... | In the beginning, we started small- pranks like flies in the mead, or sawing off swords at the hilt before a battle. My personal favorite was paying off the whores to shit under the sheets during the act, but that's another story for another day. And I have plenty of days left.
Once, one of us even played dead, thou... | 2017-06-22T19:56:41 | 2017-06-22T19:24:49 | 5,933 | 4,256 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 1,321 | 223 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | One knows when they're in the presence of something ancient. A turn of phrase, the way their gaze meets yours, the way the air around them hangs, as though to communicate an unspoken form of reverence. Or fear. Simple folk like to trade their wives tales, attempts at justifying the things that exist just outside their ... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T23:22:02 | 585 | 62 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | She looked thin, an average girl, she shifted her weight as her high heel strap dug uncomfortably into the back of her ankle. She bent down to readjust the strap. My mind was racing and I could feel my body become aware of that I knew nothing about the situation about to enfold between us. Thin soft curls covered her e... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-02T00:03:35 | 585 | 10 |
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