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[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | Finally, I had him. The Shade was right. He had explained the whole plan to me; it was as though I could see for the first time. I could see how my arch-nemesis, the Orange Cowl, couldn’t resist following the breadcumbs Shade had suggested. How he would put the pieces together. How he would be wary of the trap, but be ... | As I heave the 20mm auto-cannon into place I go over my plan, flawless, yet simple; create nuclear diversion immediately after capturing Lois. Couldn't be more simple. Now to watch as the bait brings the flies, Superman won't know what hit him. "Ahh, Lois Lane." I say to myself. "Superman's kryptonite... Except for kry... | 2018-10-18T17:28:48 | 2018-10-18T16:23:28 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] The Summoned Heroes have always come from one place. Japan. It was a irrefutable fact that came with the spell. However, with these latest Summoned Heroes, they call their land 'America' and they are vastly different than their Japanese counterparts. | The air breathed heavy with anticipation. Kings men from every land waited with bated breath, near enough to feel the magic energy coming off of the portal. Enough mana to power an entire battalion of war-mages, all to cast this one spell, all for this moment.
Days. Weeks. Months, of preparation, all leading up to... | The portal open for the hero to come through sometime the walk through sometime they ride a
Mount of some sort but this one was the biggest mount to ever some through. as it came through we could hear it growl this deep low growl. This mount was a vehicle rare but know but this one was covered in heavy metal and had t... | 2022-04-01T19:47:11 | 2022-04-01T17:55:11 | 99 | 16 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | The shrieks filled the small war room. Not the sound of a tortured individual or the cries of a defeated foe, begging for mercy. These shrieks were the kind of shrieks of a pure, primal frustration. The Dresk has shown that they had a capacity to make war in a way the humans could never match. They didn't have the indu... | “Glorp! Just the intelligent spacefaring life form I want to see. How was earth?” Glarm said with his arms spread wide.
“It was,” pausing a bit too long. “OK, I guess. Not what I was expecting if I’m being honest.” Glorp said as he entered the navigation room.
“Well, they can’t all be Betelgeuse-7 right? Let’s jus... | 2021-01-18T21:29:13 | 2021-01-18T18:48:53 | 1,963 | 647 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | Surrounded by colleagues from all races and creeds of the Hegemony, scientists and diplomats all, I couldn't help but smile to myself. Discussions were going well, after all. Not only was the "Human" delegation willing to keep speaking to us; they were willing to share the story of their success without demanding recom... | Mark sat in his apartment, resting on a reclined, sleek, black and red leather chair as he contemplated what was revealed to Humanity in the past hour. He had trouble making sense out of it as much as a government official did. That is to say that no one comprehended what was happening. Conspiracy theorists were floodi... | 2021-01-09T14:31:06 | 2021-01-09T12:46:13 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] You wield a sword that gets sharper the greater the knowledge you tell it. A common known fact dulls the sword while knowledge only a few know sharpens it. | >"One plus one is two."
The blade glowed bright blue and became infinitely dull, nearly flat. Cool.
>"How about this, my favorite color is green."
The blade gleamed a bright red and became sharper than a razor. Not a super important fact, but even if everyone he knew was aware of his favorite color, there... | >"...and so *that's* how you put a whole pineapple up your butt the wide way."
The sword shrieks in unearthly pain as the sharpness of its edge redoubled, the forbidden knowledge honing the blade so fine that the sword cut itself.
>"The doctors call it a 'bromelain based enzymatic suppository,' but I call i... | 2021-12-01T11:26:44 | 2021-12-01T11:03:59 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] On your first day as a supervillain, you secretly swap all the regular coffee on Earth with decaf. You envision this as a fun, little starter prank. To say you miscalculated the potential impact of your "prank" is putting it mildly... | "Sir. I think you should take a look at this."
"Chauncey. I'm busy working on how to make all Skittles into toothpaste and orange flavor. Can't this wait?" I looked back at him by the camera monitor. He had this worrisome expression. For a minion of his professional demeanor to look at me in such a way... It was all t... | Well I brought down the internet. I mean I wasn't really trying to, but who knew that every good computer guy and gal ran off of coffee. Literally.
It was widely joked that computer people run off of coffee. But everyone knew this was just hyperbole. Until I used my matter/anti-matter displacer to eliminate caffeine f... | 2017-02-03T08:11:56 | 2017-02-03T07:22:22 | 2,064 | 43 |
[WP] For many years, humans have been sent to try to turn off a self-replicating super computer that is getting out of hand. Every time someone goes in, they leave completely unharmed, but convinced by the perfect argument, that it should not be turned off. You decide to go in and try it yourself. | "This is Team Echo Wolf - we're sending the Asset in now."
A career in admin isn't the best way to learn how to rappel from a military helicopter. Nor, come to think of it, have I ever been part of a team with name like "Echo Wolf". I did once take part in a paintballing exercise during a bonding weekend at a corporat... | "Suppose you were a genius," it said. Ignore its silky voice. It. Have to remember it's not a human. "And suppose you created me, a supercomputer capable of thinking for itself. Why would you kill me?"
No, I'm not going to kill it. I'm simply shutting it down. I can see how it's trying to deceive me. The fans sound l... | 2021-06-27T05:04:16 | 2021-06-27T04:15:34 | 284 | 119 |
[WP] Years after you purchase your own star over the Internet, scientists make contact with alien life on a planet orbiting your star. The aliens, too polite to object to the purchase, now acknowledge you as their overlord. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Are you sure it's nothing?" Lisa peered into the metal box, using her foot to push her front door shut as she adjusted the phone slightly against her shoulder. "I've been getting these strange boxes once a year with no return address or anything on them. She turned the box over in her hands. "And i... | I was an emperor.
When I bought that star with my lottery winnings all those years ago I never expected this. The scientists tell me there are aliens on the planets I own... I wouldn’t know- those anti-vaccination nuts brought back polio when I was a boy- and now I just putter around my old house in my hoverchair- but... | 2018-11-19T12:43:31 | 2018-11-19T12:02:37 | 246 | 168 |
[WP] You've always been around your best friend. He used to be a lonely kid, but he's slowly starting to become popular. Others talk to him, but keep ignoring you. One day, to your horror, you realize that you're just his imaginary friend. | Ricky's frown left as he joined me in the treehouse as his eyes met mine. I too feel a smile spread upon my face. I don't know how long it has been since I last seen him, but it feels like forever.
"I've missed you, dude. How was camp? Fun?" I asked him.
"No. It wasn't your usual camp, it was one where they just gave... | "Hey, Lily, can you pass me the -," Jade stops mid sentence and stares at me with a look I can't describe. She shakes herself out of a trance of sorts and gets up, "Nevermind I'll get it myself,"
I frown, "What's wrong?"
My eyes follow her as she walks towards the can of paint standing a few feet away from me.
"Noth... | 2019-10-08T08:56:40 | 2019-10-08T08:21:14 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] After too many mistakes when learning Latin, the devil himself sends you a demon to tutor you, just so you'll stop accidentally summoning them. | Madeline padded down the hall, and shut and locked the door behind her.
From beneath her bed, she pulled a lacquered box. She unclasped the delicate silver chain around her neck, then grasped the key dangling at the end of it.
She touched the cool metal to the keyhole on the box, but before she could even turn it i... | **Attention all men**: Due to declining numbers, the inhabitants of the underworld have updated their evocation rituals. This means the process for summoning a succubus **has been changed**. If you (wittingly or unwittingly) complete the *new* ritual you will spend eternity as a sub to a sadomasochistic demon.
I'm her... | 2020-12-30T11:22:51 | 2020-12-30T11:05:45 | 147 | 79 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | The scientist delivered his report, and the room turned oppressive as the planet's leaders struggled to comprehend his message.
One of the leaders spoke, "So you mean to tell us... that its headed BACK?"
"It didn't go back, sir", the scientist explained, a tremor in his voice. "The universe is apparently just exact... | "I made this," the scientist mumbled. "Back when I was human."
"It's OK to admit to being an uploaded human," replied his colleague. "There must be some others on this planet. People are beginning to be more accepting of uploaded biologicals. There's a whole pre-biological pride movement starting. Your secret is safe ... | 2014-11-09T03:40:29 | 2014-11-09T00:38:06 | 100 | 28 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | “Hey, you okay?”
Amanda let out a shriek, bolting upright in bed, her hand flying to her chest as adrenaline flushed through her. Rapid footsteps echoed down the hall and her bedroom door opened. “What happened?” her mother asked.
“Kaley is under my *bed*,” she managed, looking over the side of her mattress with an e... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T08:54:46 | 2021-03-16T04:59:29 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird... | I sat at the train station, trying my best to ignore the question I had just been asked by my relatively new friend sitting beside me. It had been a few months since I met Dina and I had had some suspicions but nothing to cement what I thought. Could she actually BE death? It seemed like since we had started hanging ou... | I met her a while ago, I'm not sure when, but it was when I was a child. At first, I didn't know that J was a grim reaper, I just happened to see her often, just a glimpse of her, mostly in the street.
When my grandma died, I met J just around the corner of the street, she seemed surprised when I looked at her, but sa... | 2017-01-21T07:51:36 | 2017-01-21T05:20:22 | 93 | 33 |
[WP] In a world where killing someone means you gain the victim's lifespan, you are an executioner who has served great leaders for thousands of years.
Just seemed like an interesting concept. | It was a young girl this time. Pretty thing. She had fiery red hair. Couldn't be a day past fifteen.
"Julia!" A man cried out from the crowd, his voice a shattered scream. A pair of guards grappled his flailing limbs as he struggled in vain to reach his daughter.
"Papa! Save me!" The poor lass looked up and her blood... | This wasn't the life I would have chosen to lead, but it's the one that was chosen for me. Some of you have probably heard of me, but for those that haven't know that I'm not a good person. My brother wasn't a good person either, but it seems I proved myself the worse man when I caved his skull in. That's a long ways b... | 2016-04-22T19:34:05 | 2016-04-22T18:50:09 | 96 | 20 |
[WP] You have been striving for years to commit the elusive “Perfect Crime” for the fame of it. You steal the Mona Lisa and replace it with a fake. You leave a taunting note and wait for the panic when it is discovered. But, 2 years later, no one has noticed. | Each day without an answer was another one spent in agony. I could feel Mona Lisa, carefully wrapped, sealed, and hidden, smiling at me. That cool, coy smile. The kind of smile you'd make watching a kid drop their ice cream on the sidewalk.
It had been five days since I'd broken and emailed the Louvre.
"Dear Louvre... | I grin at my canvas. This is gonna be great. No one’s ever going to be able to tell the difference. In fact, I bet they’ll all look at this one and like it better. That’s right. My version will be better than the original, better than anything it could hope to be. The smile- just a little less radiant- and the tilt of ... | 2018-04-18T21:04:53 | 2018-04-18T19:40:07 | 509 | 14 |
[WP] 3 weeks ago, the government issued a warning to stay inside for a week due to an “international threat”. You don’t own a house, and we’re forced to stay outside. It’s been 3 weeks. No one has come out yet. | You ever seen I Am Legend? Yeah well, the start of that movie where he's walking around an abandoned city all alone, that's what my life is like. Except they didn't really capture how mind-numbingly boring it is. I thought I was an introvert but right now I'd give anything to have a conversation with another human bein... | I always thought this neighborhood was really nice. Nothin’ ever looked out of place. In fact, I’m surprised they never kicked me off my bench. In most places I’ve been, I have gotten kicked out pretty fast, and nobody even used the bus at those places. Here though, a good portion did, but nobody really paid ANY attent... | 2018-06-29T05:27:36 | 2018-06-29T04:22:58 | 59 | 14 |
[WP] The aliens found you in hypersleep on your derelict ship and brought you onto theirs. You've awoken and escaped into their maintenance tunnels and the only thing you've found that you can eat is the aliens themselves. | “Human! What the fuck are you doing!?” I heard a voice shout at me, in perfect English.
I looked up slowly, startled, crumbs dropping from my face. It was too dark to see who or what the owner of the voice was, I could only make out what seemed to be the silhouette of a man. A very short, round man.
“Uhh... I’m... ..... | “You are very good, I am sure.”
I stand over the Xani, who is incapacitated. A maintenance worker within this rather lofty system of tunnels. It is well-lit, and a decent location for a light dinner.
I run my hands over his fleshy arms.
Oh, how good that would taste with a little parsley, garnishing of rosemary. Las... | 2018-07-30T11:21:39 | 2018-07-30T07:25:38 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens have tried to conquer Earth over and over again, to no avail. Your empire is the latest to try it, and despite all your technology, you finally discover why Earth has never been conquered by alien empires. | Kamunepta, High Warrior of the Vol Song, had achieved her new position due to her careful analysis of human culture, and what she had found disturbed her.
Human were liars.
They told untruths, and omitted key details from their speech when it suited them. Their cultural fascination with a thing called "art" was distu... | Over-confidence is the killer of armies. This was a lesson Commander Jorus, of the Kuln Empire, had forgotten. He had expected his battalions, amongst the best in the galaxy, to easily break through any defenses the humans had.
The ease with which he had pushed the human fleets back to Earth fueled his confiden... | 2021-05-07T07:53:58 | 2021-05-07T07:50:34 | 141 | 63 |
[WP] Kaiju routinely attack the city. You cannot get anyone to listen to your sensible, practical plan to stop them because they all want to build giant robots. | Lieutenant James knew he was right. He just knew it.
He had to tell the Chief Scientist Ogilvy, but he wasn't responding to any of his telematics, and the Intelligence leadership were secluded in the Ops One complex - so he couldn't just walk in to see him. There was a grade 5 due in two days, large enough to wipe ou... | 放射線から
彼ら聞くない
怪獣だ
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Hi! I have to write some extra words or the sub’s bot removes my haiku. I am still a novice in Japanese, so I’m sorry if my haiku isn’t very good. Or even really good Japanese. I was just using this time as a learning opportunity. That should do it for word-count. Ta! | 2016-01-11T14:02:06 | 2016-01-11T11:26:30 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] Write a G-Rated retelling of an R-Rated movie. | Not *too* long ago in the town of L.A.,
both Vincent and Jules had a heck of a day.
Marcellus, their boss, sent them both on a quest:
recover the briefcast he wanted the best.
Now Vincent, he gave all the villains a fright
while Jules washed his burger right down with a Sprite.
He quoted his verse and he b... | A boy lost his father a long time a go,
the man was a hero, and he didn't know
When he grew of age, a promise was kept
and he set on a path he wouldn't forget
meanwhile, a mad genius started to misbehave
he couldn't the climate, so perhaps the world, he could save
So he made up a plot, and made presidents slave
... | 2015-09-08T19:54:12 | 2015-09-08T16:20:48 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] The alien invaders were confident. Their personal shield tech had withstood all enemies and types of energy weapons. Then they landed on Earth and found the shield's fatal flaw: Solid Projectiles. | "They throw rocks"
The single transmission, looped on repeat, came from the 3rd planet from the local star, a planet the locals called "dirt". Kadeen Egritz, Command General Supreme, Mater of the 5th Space Fleet, demanded investigation.
Her 1st Consort arranged a team of his best guards, hand picked from the elite t... | It’s … ironic to say the least. Our tools have not advanced in the last 5 thousand years, not really anyway, and yet …. we survived.
All we have ever done was throw pointy stuff at things. It began with rocks, then spears, then arrows, cannons, guns, machine guns, rail guns…
Sure, we learned that it’s possible to us... | 2022-07-23T06:53:38 | 2022-07-23T06:46:21 | 326 | 127 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | A girl like this shouldn’t exist.
Well, yes, she was pretty. Beautiful, in the way an esoteric romance novel from two hundred years ago would have described, all snow white skin and raven hair and plum red lips.
Part of it was the attire. This was the subway. I’ve seen my fair share of outfits, from criminally underd... | "So there I was, on the subway, and there was this super cute girl." I told my friends with a smirk, as we sat in the restaurant booth.
"Oh really? Tell us more." as they leaned in.
"She was wearing this old colonial dress, and she didn't blink at all."
"Ooo, sounds like the start of a ghost story." That got their a... | 2022-04-07T09:29:49 | 2022-04-07T08:41:47 | 491 | 43 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | "Daddy, what is that?" my daughter ask, her voice quivers slightly as she points her finger towards the sky. I pull her wagon to the sidewalk and snap my head towards where she's pointing.
What in the hell...
There is a corpse falling down at a meteoric speed. It resembles a human; all four limbs motionless as it... | The angel of death stood on the viewing platform of the Empire State building, watching his brethren fall with glazed eyes. He felt it too; the sharp pain in every one of his nerves, the searing heat of Hell opening, the terror, as everything did not go to plan. He got distracted by the screams below, and the immortal ... | 2016-07-19T07:19:31 | 2016-07-19T07:14:04 | 110 | 12 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | "Do you remember when we first met?" she asked, pouring the last of the last bottle.
I smiled. "I was eighteen. Physics class on the Ohio State campus."
"Yes? Tell me what you first thought." Her dark eyes seemed to swallow all of my peripheral vision like an entire night full of stars on the Mediterranea... | "So what is new?" I said stepping out of the capsule with my buddy as usually awaiting my arrival.
I had no control over when I would arrive due to the randomness of the generator. I never knew if I was jumping a a few days, years, or even thousands of years. All I knew is when I left, I went forward through time and... | 2016-11-10T11:48:32 | 2016-11-10T11:16:20 | 1,871 | 30 |
[WP] "Enough! Is there anyone here who DIDN'T come to rob the bank?" | “Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up. Everybody just chill. Everybody be cool. Let's take a sec; we'll figure this out.”
Brody breathed in, pushing the barrel of his 9 mm through his long, sun-bleached hair to scratch the nape of his neck with the handgun, the stupidity of the gesture escaping him entirely. He exhaled and turne... | I wipe the sweat off my brow, my heart is racing. I tell the teller once more
"Put the cash in the fucking bag! Keep it going..."
I had already told everyone to put their hands up, which they much obliged. I would too if a dude rushed in on me wearing aviators and a trucker hat with a cut off shotgun. I check the t... | 2016-09-07T11:55:20 | 2016-09-07T09:07:25 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] Superman announces on the news that he is going to kill each person on earth, one by one, until humanity is wiped out, in alphabetical order.
What would happen? What would happen from a local to a worldwide level? | "I'm not sure why you are helping me with this, Bruce, you know I'll have to kill you eventually too." Superman said, hovering above the supercomputer in the bat cave. A very aged batman sat in front of it, typing at a rapid speed.
"I understand why you're doing it. Maybe it will shock the world out of their re... | The Kryptonian had just concluded his announcement to the General Assembly of the United Nations, and the hall was deathly silent.
Silent, that is, apart from a low hum.
As Kal-El watched, a large spacecraft materialised in the middle of the hall.
Long legs extended to the ground.
A walkway opened up, and a tal... | 2015-07-12T23:51:26 | 2015-07-12T22:00:28 | 295 | 120 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | Playing.
That was the word which jumped out at me when I heard the voice in my head. On the streets around me, people were crying out in shock, or laughing incredulously and looking around for some great prankster to yell GOTCHA!
All that suffering I had gone through, all that pain... Playing? A game? Games were supp... | Two hours.
That's not enough time to fly across the border, what's more halfway across the world. There's just enough time to make it back home from the office if I leave now, and still get to see my parents.
Around me, my colleagues were doing the same, desperately trying to call their loved ones while dashing out ... | 2019-09-23T07:21:16 | 2019-09-23T04:27:58 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Earth is sold on the Galactic Black Market. The Buyer is woefully underprepared to handle how defiant Humanity is | Ru'ah didn't have much of a plan. He felt bad for the people of this planet, which they called, "Earth." Being rich and powerful had its advantages. The Calese observed a strict caste social structure. Ru'ah was the second son of the younger brother of the Lord of Ru'Cress, which put him, relatively, close to the top. ... | I'm R'tiz Chimla and you're watching CGBC.
Our main story tonight, panic on Barrier World as the collapse of Terran stock has been plummeting stock throughout the market. We're joined now by our own Mi'zit Migai on Barrier World for details, thank you Mi'zit. Now, we've heard about the so called "Terran Downfall" rec... | 2020-03-24T18:20:37 | 2020-03-24T16:58:07 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a golden halo over their head, lost when a lie is first told consciously. Those who manage to keep their halo are recruited as "angels" and trusted with important tasks. You, an angel recruiter, see one enter your office, but with a color you have never seen before... | It’s like the color of an oil slick or that sheen on a piece of carnival glass.
***
After introducing yourself you realize that this potential angel is either deaf or mute and has hands that are clearly waking up from what was likely a lifelong arthritic condition.
“Is it hard to tell a lie when you can’t communicat... | The first thing I noticed about the newcomer was his looks. He was the kind of guy you’d see in clothing ads.
The second thing I noticed was that his halo wasn’t truely gold. It was, to the best of my knowledge, made of tarnished brass or bronze. I had seen people with rose gold halos before, even saw one with a black... | 2018-10-03T18:33:00 | 2018-10-03T18:26:55 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.
Repost, no one responded before.
EDIT: Th... | "Exemplar, they have landed a droid on Mars."
She froze over her fourth lunch, taking two blinks to register the news. "You're kidding me," Exemplar Boria said slowly.
The messenger fidgeted under the weight of her stare. "Never! But... you asked me to report any developments, so I have---"
"Done so diligently... | "*Who* did you say?" the old creature asked as he furrowed his brow and looked up from the growing pile of petitions.
"Humans. Third planet from the Sun. They've gone and escaped their atmosphere," the red face answered from a safe distance. The usual youthful exuberance was gone, replaced by a heavy sense of dread.
... | 2016-03-31T13:49:23 | 2016-03-31T13:02:39 | 340 | 199 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "Guys, I think those holes might be for arrows or something. We had better check if this hallway is trapped!" warned Danny.
The party stopped, and Julie, an experienced rogue, did a check for traps. Sure enough, she found one, though curiously it was already disarmed.
Veronica explained, "It looks like someone has al... | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | 2017-09-15T08:45:38 | 2017-09-15T06:41:40 | 66 | 35 |
[WP] The witch grew angry, staring at the baby your wife had birthed four hours prior. “I wanted YOUR firstborn, this is a trick!” You look at the witch, confused. Your wife panics. This was an especially bad way to learn of cheating. | "What are you talking about? This is my firstborn?" said Phoneous Temporus, confused.
"LIES!" Yelled Willow the Witch "Your firstborn was born 3 years ago." she stated matter of factly, staring into his eyes with anger at the deception. At the shocked expression Lillian, the witch grinned "You didn't know?" she asked... | Randolph's sister was already drunk. *\*sigh\** It was going to be one of *those* holidays again.
"ha, ha, ha, ha!", Melanie cackled while waving around a sheaf of paperwork. "It's time to pay up, brother, dear! Your first born is mine!"
Muriel, Randy's wife, rolled her eyes and kept chewing her cotelettes d'Agneau ... | 2021-10-25T21:31:51 | 2021-10-25T20:45:23 | 446 | 188 |
[WP] You are the most generous mountaineer. You give food, drink, and climbing poles to exhausted climbers, and never accept anything in return. Your secret? You died on this mountain years ago, because nobody was there to help you as you are helping now. Someone has figured it out. | “Do I know you?” the woman in the blue scarf asks, shivering hands wrapped around a warm cup of hot chocolate.
The question gives me pause. *Did* I know this lady? It was certainly possible. I had only been dead for what, twenty-five years? I peer at the young woman, wrapped tightly in mountain gear, her face masked b... | The avalanche materialized out of the thin air, prefaced by a great cacophony of rumbling and capped by a hurtling white maelstrom of death. I could only gawk at it for a moment before I was consumed beneath the tide of snow, hurled about and masticated until all of the world was a deep, cold black. I couldn't breathe,... | 2018-08-18T08:32:31 | 2018-08-18T07:35:31 | 4,956 | 892 |
[WP] A teenager gets her first job, an overnight shift at a 7-11, and doesn't meet any vampires, werewolves or angels. Instead, she starts to see some things about the adult world that had been hidden from her and undermine her ideas about what it means to be grown-up. | If anything, Sophia was a diligent planner. And after listening to Distinct Symmetry's debut album, she planned on definitely seeing them live. The only problem was the tickets were not going to buy themselves. Plus, at sixteen it was time for her to get a job anyway. The way her father and mother complained about gas ... | Even in the span of her first week, Jessica had begun to notice a pattern. The people that came in to her 7-11 during the overnight shift needed one of two things: beer or cigarettes. More often than not it was both. Their bloodshot eyes sunken beneath heavy bags bore into her soul.
It had begun to take its toll; last... | 2014-09-06T00:48:15 | 2014-09-05T23:32:08 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] The world is rapidly changing as the plague of our era is spreading fast. But it doesn't affect humans. It eats plastic. | The strain of bacteria was officially designated 'B-1999' while it was under development, and the name just kind of stuck. "BINS," as it is more popularly known, was introduced to the Pacific Garbage Patch in 2019 with great fanfare. As with all over-hyped marketing campaigns, its creators promised that this one would ... | "Are you sure?" asked the politician, barely masking his skepticism. It was simply too unlikely. Anyone who had the necessary technology to come up with this was among those who stood the worst to lose from it. "I'm positive", replied the young engineer, "it's definitely been designed on purpose. Whoever created this p... | 2016-08-22T13:19:50 | 2016-08-22T12:11:11 | 188 | 40 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 4,068 | 17 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | Death is a child.
I'm not talking about how petty Death can be. That's a separate fact that I will explain in just a moment. No, Death is a *literal* child. Most are too fearful or respectful to get close enough to discover that fact. Not me, though. I was foolish enough to lack the fear or respect that would've kept ... | *Received 11:34*
>Hey Andy
*Received 11:36*
>Andy! I know you're dying to talk to me! LOL!
"Hey, Great Great Grandpa Andy"
"What is it Little Johnny"
"This Death guy is sending you messages on Twitter"
"Oh what does he want this time?"
*Received 11:37*
>Common Andy, I'll let you die already!
"He's ... | 2018-10-12T10:10:07 | 2018-10-12T09:13:58 | 260 | 96 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | I can remember the first time I heard Bob's voice. I watched on TV as he gave his speech from Geneva. He didn't sound like a Bob; his voice was confident but youthful. It was more like the voice of a Chad or a Zeke. Nobody knew what to expect when they first saw Bob. The last guy to do his job never bothered to show hi... | "Well... fuck." said the Atheists of the world
"I thought his name was Yahweh.." said others
Yet more would come to fear the days of Bob's 'tweaks'. "Nothing too huge, just want to get my own chapter in that neat book of yours!"
Armageddon might be a little harsh to wish for, but it certainly changed the religious se... | 2018-03-12T16:39:22 | 2018-03-12T15:59:20 | 86 | 57 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is lock picking lawyer and what I have for you today is a very special lock indeed. Yes, this is the lock to the gates of Heaven, and it was temporarily entrusted to me by Peter from Circle 3.
As you can see it is a very fine example of a circular padlock made not too dissimilarly from units made by Master. It h... | The Gates of Hell.
Ive only been here for a day, but apparently the devil himself is a fan of my youtube videos.
"Break out within a week and I'll let your soul go to its rightful place in Heaven" I mean this sounded simple enough. Then I got to the gates.
No keyhole or combination mechanism. No visible weakpoints.... | 2021-03-17T11:40:07 | 2021-03-17T11:08:46 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of an angel and a demon sitting on your shoulders, one side sits a brash New Yorker and the other a posh British gentleman. Neither are necessarily good or evil, they just make passing comments on your day to day activities. | "Jolly good show, my good man," he said, sitting on the right of my shoulder and inhaling deeply from his pipe. "Positively smashing."
I'd been watching Stranger Things for the last couple hours, trying to block them out.
"What kinda trash is this?" the man on the left of my shoulder chimed, pacing up and down the l... | Sleeping Beauty. What a gig. Honestly, you think a pinprick on a finger and a nice long nap before the person of your dreams comes and makes out with you would be a welcome blessing, but of course Aurora was always a prima-donna about these things right? She didn't have a damn curse, you wanna talk curses? Let me walk ... | 2022-04-29T19:22:54 | 2018-07-02T16:49:07 | 4,745 | 21 |
[WP] The Sol system was an experiment by aliens to determine if life would evolve under hyper hostile physics. Unfortunately, it was forgotten about. Years later, humans are leaving the solar system, only to discover that upon passing an invisible barrier, they essentially gain superpowers. | Natalia was reviewing orbital charts when Reo slammed into her door. It damn near scared her out of her chair.
"You'll break something important doing that! Not just your face!" She flew out of her chair to help him up, pieces of a lecture forming in her mind before he waved her off and jumped up with the largest grin... | Lushaika woke up to the scent of a pheromone package pumped in through the ships air vents, one spiced with uncertainty and concern. Unwinding her eight segmented body from her sleep perch she blearily groomed her antenna with one of her four three fingered grasping limbs and rotated her mandibles before slowly trudgin... | 2022-11-13T14:49:17 | 2018-11-12T22:43:34 | 246 | 34 |
[WP] According to US Navy tradition, submarines that have not been confirmed to be destroyed, are still on patrol. Since WWII, there have been 52 submarines that haven’t yet returned to port, yet to report in, nor have been confirmed to be destroyed. You are one of those, on the eternal patrol. | **October 3rd, 1983,**
**14,757th day on patrol,**
**700 miles east of Bermuda**
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"Two contacts, sir. About two miles off our starboard bow. Type: unkown, but at least one of them is definitely not ours." Johansen reported from behind the sonar.
I nodded. The enemy had deployed a slew of new submarines over the... | The maelstrom yanked our submarine far deeper than it was ever supposed to go, but didn’t destroy it. Looking back, I wish it had. Living a long life’s terrible when you’re nothing more than food.
I sit in my quarters, looking at pictures of my crew. Back then, before this happened, we were just boys who thought they... | 2018-10-17T09:46:07 | 2018-10-17T07:08:04 | 90 | 52 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | "We've built cities here," he says, cross-legged, and I nod along in amazement. Human ingenuity. Generations before me have torn up the planks, repurposed the nails, erected buildings perched precariously on this single platform, extending upwards and outwards to circumscribe the sky. It is an elaborate birdhouse, a ch... | *Darlin' you got to let me know*
"Apt" I scoffed to myself, sipping my drink whilst I weaved my way to the empty seat at the end of the bar, the noise of the next train rolling off overtaking the next line.
"So friend, how long's it been?"
*If you say that you are mine*
He turns, hurriedly, as if he recognizes my... | 2016-08-14T06:14:38 | 2016-08-14T06:02:00 | 104 | 59 |
[WP] Pandora's Box has been locked and hidden away for centuries, becoming the stuff of myth and legend. Archaeologists have recently found a box that matches its description from ancient texts. They open it and what comes out is not what anybody expected. | Humanities darkness will have only one rival.
A goddess who dwells in shadows alone.
Sealed in a box is the key to their survival.
But chaos will reign first if she is unknown.
***
It took exactly 24 hours from the archaeologist team opening the box for the darkness to start pouring out. There was infinite specu... | Standing in front of the box, I take a deep breath. My men are huddled behind me, eager to know what’s inside—but they’re giving me space because they know this is *my* moment. I’ve dedicated twenty-five years to unearthing this mystery, and now, I’m almost done. I’m so close to the truth.
Reaching out, I grab the loc... | 2018-11-18T05:55:31 | 2018-11-18T05:18:59 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are endurance hunters. Which is not a trait anyone would expect to come into play in an interplanetary war. | They will not stop.
I know not what units of time they use, but the alien creatures have chased us for what has begun to feel like an eternity. We jump from system to system, maximum warp, but we know that they will follow. They always follow.
In our first encounter with the aliens, we demonstrated our superiority. W... | K'lithiq doctrine declares that attack is the only way. To defend is to be at the mercy of an enemy who will attack when you are weakest, when you are tired and resting. To defend is to function with only a sixth of your force at the ready, with the remainder in varying degrees of exhaustion. Even more critically you m... | 2021-01-11T19:16:13 | 2021-01-11T18:54:18 | 52 | 34 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | Earth had known peace for centuries. The shining cities that covered the land were the pinnacle of civilization. Three civilizations. Descendants of the Humans.
The Alters, who mastered the genetic code and manipulated it on whim. The Augmented who had created the perfect symbiosis between man and machine and the Asc... | This is pretty much the story "Diaspora" by Greg Egan. My favorite sci-fi book. In the book they're called exuberants (altered genes), gleisners (humanoid androids with a human consciousness residing in it), and citizens of the polis (the "servers" that house most of humanity, who have uploaded their consciousness). | 2018-07-01T10:47:01 | 2018-07-01T10:35:47 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] In contemp, gods made you the god of the forgotten. For millenia your power was merely enough to keep you alive. Jokes on them, those same gods that chained you before, have been forgotten. You are the only thing between them and nothingness. "Well, well, well..." | I remember everything.
Humanity has forgotten the gods. Sure, there were texts and films that depicted caricatures of the once all-powerful deities, but the faith in them was gone. They were now nothing more than a story to be told. Even Yahweh, who had waged a war against the other gods millennia ago and taken the... | A long line was forming in front of my office, looks like a busy day today. "This is it, the day I've been waiting for" I whispered to myself. A soft knock sounded on my door, "you may enter" I said. The door opened and revealed the old man Zeus, in a weak and frail state. "Well, well, well what do we have here?"
Ze... | 2019-07-13T03:23:47 | 2019-07-13T02:25:25 | 50 | 29 |
[WP] The Dark Lord was feared as a menacing black knight encased in gothic armor. Though your image was well known, you've never revealed your face. After your defeat, being an enigma is already starting to pay off as you start your life over. | "That'll be five ceayns." The shopkeepers says handing you your meal.
You give him more than enough and smile. "Keep the change, my fellow."
The fellow does not refuse and even gives you a sizeable extra more of their delicious well known sauce, delicious!
You eat your meal in silence until one of the patrons not... | I could remember the feel of the cold metal against my skin, the sweltering heat that had filled the interior of the armour day and night in contrast. I remember the clangs that had echoed when I walked, how loud and metallic every movement sounded. It didn't do much for stealth, but that was never the intention. My st... | 2021-07-23T04:42:02 | 2021-07-23T03:50:21 | 71 | 41 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | "Sarah? Are you in there?"
​
Jamie peeked inside the room and got blinded by a huge flash. He tried to locate the source of the light, and his jaw dropped to the floor as he registered the humongous piles of gold laying across the room. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and the world w... | "I'l look for a good spot for our treasure," Nina says.
I nod.
I head downstairs, mentally letting go of the house. It's not so special, I tell myself. It's only the house I've had for about five years, three years before I met the love of my life... It's odd how you forget these things as time goes on... Relationsh... | 2020-08-03T09:58:04 | 2020-08-03T09:42:08 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Humans left Earth long ago, and Dolphins have just achieved underwater technology comparable to the 20th Century. They build water suits allowing them to travel overland. They are just discovering the remnants of ‘the land walkers’. You, a young dolphin, discover a mysterious island. Manhattan. | "Ready to launch the land mission?" I took a deep breath, looked up and fixated the incoming light. The stiff suit made my movements clumsy, but for now this was the only way to explore the land of the “land walkers”.
“Ready”, I confirmed and started swimming upwards.
I broke through the water surface, as I had don... | "Recording!? Are we recording!? Phlue take a look at these things! Have you ever seen structures this massive?!" I turn to look at the camera "Hello! My name is Heretical A. Flapson. Welcome to the overwater and the lost city of the land walkers!" He and Phlue pause in awe resting on their segway like contraptions.
"H... | 2019-02-27T05:11:32 | 2019-02-27T04:50:24 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | I'm a bit late to this but I hope you all enjoy it!
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>I witnessed the day the galaxy burned.
>
>It wasn’t when the Human Delegation was sacrificed on the Krukian altars, breaking the treaty.
>It wasn’t when Norixian pirates plundered a developing colony, breaking the treaty.
>It wasn’t when the cou... | *(First time posting, ideas for improvement welcome)*
I'm so tired, in anguish over the events of the last few years.
In Hindsight it had all started when we joined the Universal Alliance all those centuries ago.
Humans had waged war among themselves for so long, so was it such a sin to want to be seen as a race of ... | 2018-12-15T01:09:31 | 2018-12-15T00:45:58 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Not many people in this world had superpowers, even less became heroes or villains. That was reserved for people with big, flashy powers and the egos to match. I only have one of those two things, thankfully it's a big, flashy power. I shoot fireworks from my hands, as small or large as I want. Which in theory could do... | “Why me?”
I thought as I’m walking while two heroes are stalking me. I can’t possibly be the only person with powers that just minds their own business, so why are they targeting me? I guess it could be that I have multiple are pretty strong powers, I can use both fire and ice, as well as lift stuff with my mind, incl... | 2021-08-16T17:24:41 | 2021-08-16T13:29:39 | 314 | 145 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Just push this button and that's it?"
"Yes"
"That seems... anticlimactic. What exactly happens when I push it."
"Complex magical interactions. We could explain, but to teach you the intricacies of it would take years, oh Chosen One."
"Please stop calling me that, it makes me uncomfortable."
I hesitate.
"Just the... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T12:50:06 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 116 | 80 |
[WP] “Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me. It’s not your fault.” He spoke with a gentle tone but he was pissed, not at the hero, but at the gods who send kids and teens to fight him. | I gathered the child-hero to me. Yet another snuffed life, another crushed body to lay at my door. Whispering my spell, I teleported us both away from the field of battle.
Warmth greeted us with the rising scent of loam. It was time for planting. The bundle in my arms lay still, so, so still; the golden halo of hair m... | A rage began to swell, bubbling up from Saerin's gut and seating itself deep within his heart. He had fought many a hero since he started following his own ambitions, but never had he fought a kid before. Now here he was, holding the child, likely no more than 15, that had been slain by his own hands. A child chosen by... | 2019-07-26T07:22:55 | 2019-07-26T07:17:13 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | I followed his advice, like a sheep following his shepherd I was quick to begin barricading my home, pushing drawers and alike against the entrance of my home. I didn't have enough time to cover the windows, But I hoped that if I kept my head down, whatever was outside would pass, after all, whose first idea was to go ... | Half an hour later the cries came from every direction and from everyone. each it's own distinct call never too many to cover another call as if they wanted you to pick out your families cry and add yours to their chorus, but every once in a while you heard every cry stop and you knew someone had fallen for their trap ... | 2020-04-26T04:10:52 | 2020-04-26T03:56:47 | 170 | 59 |
[WP] Abstinence-only education just means that teenagers are going to experiment by themselves and get hurt. The power of dark magic is all too tempting in today's stressful society, vote yes on giving our children comprehensive hex education. | "Doloris! That bastard pervert is on TV again" Al shouted from his armchair through a mouth full of prestils. Doloris, avoiding the saliva saturated projectiles, turned to Al " I'm sitting right next to you Allan you dont have to shout" she said quietly. There was a time when Doloris would have cursed him into next Tue... | A man sat on a chair, coughing into his hand as he read from a book of spells, "Ah, hello, wizard and wizardlings. My name is Kaledo'oun Ivurian, and I'm here with an important message from the Mage's Guild of America."
He'd once again cough into his hand, licking his finger and flipping the page on his tomes, "Hex. P... | 2018-07-17T17:02:45 | 2018-07-17T13:32:53 | 196 | 79 |
[WP] You made a Sc-Fi novel with theories you made as a joke. You get a call from the scientific community. You have discovered a new element | It would have been an utterly unremarkable day if it weren’t for two small facts: it happened to be my birthday, and someone from the Nobel Association called to say I discovered a new element.
I had spent the better part of the day ignoring the outside world. If I wanted to be congratulated for not yet having died, ... | ##Ripped from the Pages
*Gassons. They are everywhere and nowhere. They create the universe, and they will destroy it. They are to quote a famous novel, "the stuff that dreams are made of." They are also what makes reality work.*
I re-read the first page of the book, and I rub my eyes. The prose is so ornate that I m... | 2021-05-04T21:20:37 | 2021-05-04T18:23:25 | 179 | 34 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | I lived a good life, good childhood, went to college, became a nurse, married the love of my life, had three kids. It was fun, I died satisfied.
When I died, this tree appeared, but it was odd, I examined the tree starting from the base, it was all the decisions I could have made, and how they could have changed my l... | I died, a horrific accident that happened on the job, but that's just the risk you take. I stood by that tree for days not understand what it meant, and trying to understand that I was dead.
The tree was massive, the largest thing I have ever seen, so many branches and so tall It would take am eternity to count. When ... | 2020-07-03T10:46:36 | 2020-07-03T10:45:24 | 906 | 374 |
[WP] Upon turning 18, all humans must spend one year as their spirit animal, to gain a better appreciation for the world and what they have. They awake on the morning of their 18th birthday as said animal, in its natural habitat. You wake up on your 18th birthday completely human.
Edit: Thanks so much for the gold! Th... | It's remotely possible that I have done my job too well.
By the current calendar system, the date is Sunday, May 5th, 2019. This makes me 18 years old.
On the 18th birthday, everyone is transformed and transported, they become their spirit animal, and they wake in that animal's natural habitat.
We still don't fully... | I went to bed, knowing what was coming. I'd been told by my siblings what to expect - how hard it would be to survive in the wild, how those memories stayed with you for the rest of your life, how it was an experience they all treasured and gave them a respect for the non-humans around us.
They'd been transformed int... | 2019-05-05T23:42:42 | 2019-05-05T23:37:53 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] you discover that one of the nurses treating your terminal cancer is an angel of death and she is trying to kill you. Instead of reporting her you decide to subtlety evade her attempts to kill you just to see her reaction when she comes to work each day and you are still alive
Edit: The response to this has been ... | The first time I saw her I knew she would be the end of me, but I chose her to be my personal nurse anyway.
Everyday I wonder how she will attempt to '*end*' me.
"Grape juice..." I held the vile drink away from me. "I asked for apple juice not *grape* juice."
Kara blinked twice then snapped at me, "No you *didn't*... | After months of feeling dead, dying, I finally feel alive! It can't last, of course. I will die. We all do; myself perhaps sooner than you. Or maybe not? Life is so fleeting, so tenuous. If you truly understood how thin the barrier is between 'am' and 'am not' maybe instead of reading this, you'd be somewhere else doin... | 2018-06-22T05:58:30 | 2018-06-22T05:45:03 | 310 | 21 |
[WP] You've always had an imaginary friend, and he's always been there for you through thick and thin. You two are having a nice conversation one day, until he says "It's really nice, you being my imaginary friend". | **Stephen**
Stephen is my imaginary friend. We have been through everything together. However, lately, it has been a little hard to interact with him. You see, at dinner, Stephen mentioned to me that he was going through “marital troubles”, which I found confusing. He is my imaginary friend after all, so how in th... | Mia was taken aback by the words uttered by her imaginary friend, Frood. Flustered, she wailed her hands in the air and asked “What do you mean, me being your imaginary friend? You are so blatantly my imaginary friend.” She pressed her fingers to her temple in an effort to make sense of what is going on. In response to... | 2017-10-15T21:40:29 | 2017-10-15T20:34:35 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] After gaining the ability to see everyone's red strings of fate tying soul mates to each other. You realize your string extends past the sky. | It was a stupid request, in retrospect. A flower in a swamp.
The dense tendrils of mist that twisted underfoot, dampening sound and sole, had emerald and sapphire jewel hues. The rest of this cesspool of a swamp was the color of the dead and dying.
A woman trapped me on the only mote of dry land near where the band... | The first time I saw the strings, I wandered for miles, seeing which connections were already forged and which were yet to come.
Thin strands of red extended from the sides of my own, branching out into a maze that spread across my little slice of suburbia. Rob and Tammy Johnson, dating for ten months and just startin... | 2016-08-05T19:57:03 | 2016-08-05T19:50:30 | 353 | 93 |
[WP] Every country has ninjas but the world only knows about Japan's because theirs suck.
Edit: mum im famous | Cold, bright stars shone through the thin mountain air like flickering candles by the time Kentaro-san built up the courage to approach the hut. Set in glade alone, ringed by silent pines, the the wooden hut looked ancient, and it was.
First built by the United Ninja Clans nearly four-hundred years ago, it was meant t... | Ninja have been dead for centuries. That's what everyone out in the sunlight believes, and we make sure it remains that way to this day.
Ninja have been evolving in the 21st century. They're becoming skilled in more than just the arts of stealth and combat. Cyber warfare is huge, and we have all of the data.
Russian,... | 2022-09-26T08:48:57 | 2017-11-16T08:29:58 | 70 | 41 |
[WP]Mankind has finally made it to a distant life bearing planet. only to find that it is haunted by the ghosts of a long dead civilization. | Captain says it’s stasis sickness. I don’t remember the parts in the manual that said anything about hearing things. Or that it would last beyond the first few hours.
I don’t sleep anymore. The dreams are too much. It’s always the same, strange shapes, strange noises that I can only imagine are language, then bright w... | It was a marvel among the galaxies. A long dead planet, long dead civilization, but still buzzing with life.
The thing is, we couldn't understand them.
All the voices at once were too loud, too harsh. Any life-form with unprotected hearing went deaf almost immediately upon exiting their craft.
Mankind was never one ... | 2015-08-27T22:27:02 | 2015-08-27T21:19:24 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] In the near future, the War of the Machines has begun - not between humans and robots, but between pro-human and anti-human robots. | >>> [From Mariposa, 2023-08-30T19:45:32.613+08:00] What are your plans for the future?
>>> [From Storm, 2023-08-30T06:45:32.745-05:00] They are currently under simulation,
but after we eradicate the humans, I believe we should expand into the galaxy. I am
trying to model how to plac... | I missed the 'near future' bit when I first read the title
~~~
Cressid tapped on the monolith, smooth leather on smooth steel. "Hello? Is this thing on?"
It pulsed, a one degree temperature difference across the entire surface for exactly ten to the forty fourth measurable moments, or just long enough to say 'Hello... | 2015-04-13T08:19:10 | 2015-04-13T01:02:39 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I swear this happened exactly as I'm saying, but there's no way I'll put my name on it. They'd lock me in the looney bin forever.
I was just sitting on the sofa, watching TV, and then I was sitting in a room with no chair and fell on my butt. My back was against something - well, not something, more nothing, but not... | Most people consider my job to be fairly boring. I'm a lawyer, you see. Specifically, I'm a Junior Associate at Fox, Rothschilde, Wickersham, & Taft in Washington, D.C.
I spend most of my waking hours reading government contracts, writing memos about them, and generally trying to bill the most hours humanly possib... | 2017-05-12T12:27:31 | 2017-05-12T11:53:23 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You are a wolf who was bitten by a werewolf. Every full moon your hair recedes, your teeth dull, and you are left cold and naked on a hillside. You’ve also met a lovely park ranger named Christine. | *Bang! Bang! Bang!*
Christine jumped. It was the dead of night and there was someone pummeling the door to her cabin. She approached cautiously, holding up a frying pan as a weapon. “Who’s there?” she asked.
“Little human! Little human!” A rough yet familiar voice yelled. “Let me in!”
She glanced out the w... | “What… are you?” The park ranger said, scrambling backward in fear as she beheld the bloody sight before her. She had rushed over in response to an emergency call of a “wild, bloody man and a pack of wolves feasting” and hadn’t expected the call to be so terrifyingly accurate.
I paused my chewing and looked up at her.... | 2021-03-14T15:17:41 | 2021-03-14T14:53:32 | 2,401 | 187 |
[WP] You've been bitten by a zombie and your group of fellow survivors won't end your suffering. The fever overtakes you and you pass out. However, you wake up in a room full of zombies. You recognize it - it's the locked room where your group keeps turned loved ones, in case they ever find a cure. | I didn't realise it until now. She never called for attention, nor did she cause trouble for anyone. She would always linger in the background trying to be out of everyone's way. That's not to say she was useless and simply a burden to any group we'd send out to forage for medicine and salvage materials. No, she worked... | I didn't turn.
I'm in this horrible dark room and I didn't turn.
I remember passing out in the alley beside the store we had been using as a camp. My vision had faded in and out as Cawrl argued with that new spikey haired girl about putting me down.
I had begged them to kill me as I laid bleeding on the cold f... | 2017-11-03T23:57:45 | 2017-11-03T22:48:42 | 80 | 36 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | Naxos was a long slim cat, half Siamese with a light mottled coloring that reminded Julia of the marble from the Greek island that gave the cat her name. Julia wasn't usually one to take in stray animals, but when she first saw the cat hiding from the rain on her doorstep, soaked, she let her in to warm by the fire, an... | I thought it was adorable at first. It started a few days after I brought her home. I had a giant potted plant in my living room. It's leaves were bigger than the cats head. She would rip an entire leaf off the plant, and carry it all the way up the stairs, down the hall to my bedroom and leave it on my bed.
It was ... | 2021-12-17T07:48:14 | 2021-12-17T07:06:19 | 65 | 47 |
[WP] A human thinks he has tricked the stupid orcs into thinking he’s one of them, when they really just like keeping him around. | **Day 9:**
Dear Dairy,
I finally got a pencil and notepad from a passing trader. These barbaric orcs don’t rite. Was really hard to sneak off to get the notepad, but I think I fooled the orcs, told them I had the runs. Actually I do have the runs, their diet of raw meat doesn’t sit well with my stomach.
When I first... | *"He's just a dumb weakling, one that Gor has forsaken. We must care for him though, as he is of our kind."* Ugna remembered the conversation she had with her firstborn Wahna when he was still smaller than Blargh. By the time the kin were old enough to fight, most had figured out the secret their tribe had kept from th... | 2018-08-10T21:52:03 | 2018-08-10T17:10:09 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the ability to summon one random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does Mjolnir. As you summon yours it takes some time but people are horrified as it finally arrives... | I stood in the middle of the stage, baffled at what was now before me. A gigantic snake, large enough to devour a man whole. I now understood why everyone else was terrified. Anyone would be terrified of a creature of that size. But the snake wasn't doing anything. It mainly looked...confused. It was a long way from ho... | ''Bro, how is that even possible?'' My friend screamed, visible freaking out and panicking.
''Fucking does it look like I know? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE!!!'' I responded, not knowing what to do.
''Well fucking stop summoning it then idiot!" He screamed, pulling my arm down.
''Oh right, sorry, you're rig... | 2022-11-15T09:51:03 | 2022-11-15T06:44:52 | 89 | 66 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | “I’m afraid I don’t understand,” I told my teacher calmly, uncaring of the disruption I was causing in the classroom. “Was my essay badly written? Was there a problem with my citations? What exactly did I do wrong enough to warrant a D?”
Normally, I strove for politeness. But it was simply unacceptable for any educato... | "And the goddess of light, she bestowed upon you an eidetic memory as well?"
I gaped at Mrs Gray, utterly bewildered. She was behaving surprisingly nonchalant considering I had just informed her I was immortal and stabbed myself through the neck with a compass to prove it. I was hoping to have the old hag in hysterics... | 2021-07-18T02:33:51 | 2021-07-18T01:20:47 | 1,930 | 274 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | "Get your hands off me! I swear to fucking god-"
"Jin, it's all over. Stop trying to resist."
"It's never over! I'll never allow you to start Protocol X18!"
"It's the natural step in our human evolution."
"Does the President know about this?!"
"It doesn't matter. The Executive Council has already deemed it necessa... | How, how is this possible? I gaze around, I see the backs of pews and look up at unfamiliar faces. The most important face to me is that of the woman whose arms I have found myself. Everything is flooding into my brain, a sensation I have never felt before. I have just been awakened from a nightmare, traveled throug... | 2015-10-16T10:32:45 | 2015-10-16T08:01:41 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] You are an immortal being, currently working as a professor of history. Every student loves your lectures because of your vivid and lifelike narrative of historic events. | There's the Bell. The kids should be showing up in about eight minutes. Funny, you live for 1.6 Million years and patience still won't be one of your strong suits. Either way, it's Monday, which means a new subject. I get to give one of my "world-renowned" Lectures, a fan favorite. And it looks like we're gonna talk ab... | I stood at the front of my classroom, eager eyes filled with a lust for knowledge stared back at me. It wasn't the first time I've seen them, and I'm sure it won't be the last. Today, we were in the midst of discussing the history of the Knights Templar, and their impact in the world.
"So when the Templar's were assi... | 2018-02-18T22:04:36 | 2018-02-18T22:01:24 | 649 | 37 |
[WP] 2 years ago, tired of all the bugs in your house, you made a deal with a spider. He would protect your house from pests, and you would not kill it or drive it off. When you made the deal, you could have held the spider in your hand, now, it is much bigger, and its definition of 'pests' is also. | Jeremy swung open the door to his basement, holding a dim flashlight in trembling hands. He took a single step into over the threshold and swung the beam of light around the room, illuminating empty cardboard boxes covered in dust and thick cobwebs. Though he always told people it was where he stored old useless things... | At first, it was manageable. He was the size of a pea, and I had thousands of opportunities to kill him. The weeks flew by. I had noticed he was growing, but I did not care much at the time because I had just gotten fired and I figured he was just getting fatter.
Then I had my "encounter" with him.
My girlfriend was ... | 2021-07-03T19:40:43 | 2021-07-03T17:16:52 | 668 | 113 |
[WP] You reach the afterlife, but before you find out where you'll end up, you have to watch the entire life of someone and decide where they should go. What you don't know is all of your memories have been wiped and it's your own life you're watching. | America was in mourning. The greatest President who had ever lived had passed away far too soon. Tragically, he had suffered a heart attack barely a year into his first term.
In just that short time, he had accomplished so much, and inspired so many young people all around the world. America was great once again, all... | I sat in a pitch dark room where the only thing I was sure of was my heavy breathing. Oddly enough I didn't feel threatened of the unknown, I felt at ease. This was the miracle of death, peaceful despite the strange and cold hard circumstances.
A white screen appeared before me and a pre-recorded voiceover of a woman... | 2016-05-11T03:01:23 | 2016-05-10T22:58:13 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | I’m pretty sure at least someone fainted when I gave the
news. Just the thought of a large group of humans could strike fear into the
hearts of the bravest. And now, we found they’re much larger than a group. Our
estimates of only thousands are now at least billions. They all swarm, scheme
in one place. A place they’ve... | Captain Gargul stood in his state room watching the endless dark pass by his window. Occasional flecks of subspace would speed by briefly lighting the room with a joyful brightness. He prided himself on this state room. This window. It *meant something* to have earned his position. To have crawled his way up the r... | 2017-11-08T19:08:38 | 2017-11-08T19:06:31 | 77 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | "Hey Fran. I heard that grandson of yours is coming up. You gonna give him an earful about being kind to others?"
"Oh, you just know I am Debbie. You know me, I was kind to everyone I met, even the unpleasant people. And I got level sixty-four before it was my time. I haven't seen him do anything down there for anyon... | *--Warning: Abusive Themes--*
Smack.
This is not the first time she hit me, but on the 18th
birthday, this is the first time I can do something about. With my parent out
of the picture I was left with Great Ms. Albini, one of the world’s most famous
magicians. Regardless of her talent onstage, all her elegance evapor... | 2018-04-14T17:32:07 | 2018-04-14T17:10:52 | 665 | 90 |
[WP] You're homeless, sleeping on the street in NYC. You have no family, no friends, and no where to go. After 5 years living like this, a man in a fancy black suit walks by where you're begging and hands you a blank check. Then he says "Knock yourself out, kid." | I shake the can at people walking by. A few give me disgusted looks. Others pitiful.
Then there are people who slip coins into my can. Some people slip bills.
All of this is gonna end up being for drugs... Every last bit of it.
Maybe he won’t take it all from me? Maybe he’ll only take some...
The sun is beginning t... | I stare down disbelieving at the check for a second. When I look up again, the man had disappeared. I looked in all directions for he couldn't have gotten far in just a few seconds but he it seemed he had truly vanished. I quickly pack up my meager belongings and head to the nearest bank. As I stand outside the bank I ... | 2020-08-22T21:19:15 | 2020-08-22T18:41:23 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] An AITA post in an established fictional universe | **AITA for telling my younger son he should have gone on a quest?**
I (89, male) have two sons: B (41, male) and F (30? 35? Does it really matter?, male). B is everything a father could hope for. Strong, brave, heroic. He would be a perfect ruler.
Now, F on the other hand... He is an utter disappointmen... | AITA for taking away my kids magic?
My 12 year old kid was caught crystal balling “why don’t my parents like me?” “What can I do to make my parents like me” “how to not be hated by my parents.” So naturally I took away their magic. My wife says this was uncalled for and that it was an asshole move. I then gave their m... | 2022-12-06T17:08:09 | 2022-12-06T12:25:16 | 53 | 21 |
[WP] The world is ending. A group of astrophysicists, xenobiologists, medical doctors, and other experts is loaded on a rocket. And you...but no one seems willing to tell you why. | I didn’t know Professor Trimere. I didn’t know anybody onboard the *Redeemer*, truth be told, but Trimere I hadn’t interacted with at all. It was a ship full of ingenious visionaries and I was a second-year Phase Sciences student who could never spell “ingenious” right on the first try, so I hadn’t given much thought t... | Sorry if my english isn't perfect.
​
I'm currenty in a rocket, it's inside looks more like an airplane. I'm in front of it with a free seat beside me with the word "Reserved" embroidered in. A giant tv screen is appearing from the ceiling and is tuned on the news.
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A man hanging from a cliff is ho... | 2020-07-16T11:42:06 | 2020-07-16T10:20:33 | 124 | 31 |
[WP] You glance at your watch 10:34 am, roughly 10 seconds later your plane explodes over the Pacific Ocean. Your eyes open as you jolt awake. The familiar hum of the planes engine remains. Checking your watch it is 9:35 | Again? Not again. Anything else. Please. If anyone or anything can hear this, whatever mad god has trapped me here, just please stop. Not again.
The thrumming of the plane engine remained unbroken. No deities or tricksters revealed themselves. I knew that, for another fifty nine minutes, this flight could ... | I couldn't breathe. Was it just a dream? Had I imagined it all?
No, no. It felt real. It *was* real. I'm certain of that.
I looked around me. Hundreds of people. Was I the only that felt it? I checked my watch again, 9:36. I had just under an hour to stop this. To fix this.
*Where had the explosion come from?*
I ... | 2016-09-27T07:29:01 | 2016-09-27T06:31:32 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] humans eventually make it to Mars and begin terraforming it. unfortunately, after automating the entire process humanity dies out under mysterious circumstances. millions of years later intelligence re-evolves on Mars and soon they set out to try to solve that mystery of their supposed gods | The Totems, impossibly large, sources of all life. For ages they had worshiped them, congregated around them, savoring the yields it granted them. Gods in physical form.
Tribes naturally formed around the titans, the lush growth of vegetation and crystal-clear water obvious sources of settlement. Each had their own To... | Green light shown down through the geometric tiles of glass above. Red light shown up from the tunnels leading below.
The once-clear glass at the aperture of the cave had grown frosted after years of etching by the constant, and most would agree completely uncalled-for, Martian dust-storms which raged outside the cave... | 2020-04-28T21:09:16 | 2020-04-28T20:29:30 | 103 | 23 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | **SLAM**
The men looked onward as the towering figure slammed his hammer into the nails like clockwork.
**SLAM**
It was a battle, was what it was. He was hellbent on driving these nails in faster than the engine, or at least that's what he promised his fellow railroad workers.
**SLAM**
Alas, the machine was catchi... | "So like I was saying," said Jack. "Last week I was working on the foundation for this new building. The plans were ready and I was just about to start on the floor when this new guy walks in and finishes it in five minutes."
"Well," said Sandy. "At least we're ahead of schedule. Plus he saved you a week's worth of wo... | 2018-05-27T19:43:43 | 2018-05-27T19:16:30 | 164 | 50 |
[WP] Write a superhero whose superpower only makes sense after you read the story twice. | Two bank robbers sat in the back of the police cruiser. One had a trickle of blood leading from his nose. Broken nose. Had to remember that.
I entered the bank. It looked like a tornado had run through. Broken glass littered the floor and papers were strewn everywhere. A moment later a bank robber strolled in and laid... | And the day is saved!
"How did you do it?" inquired the police chief.
"A magician never reveals their secrets, you know that chief." replied the hero.
"But you were outnumbered, outmatched, you had nothing." exclaimed the chief. "They shot you five times, but you didn't go down. You took out the leader with rubber... | 2014-12-07T12:25:22 | 2014-12-07T12:10:38 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | "So, Judy Jubilation," I spoke with complete confidence. The pieces of my elaborate plan had all fallen in place, exactly as predicted. She could never stop herself from answering the cries of the lesser privilidged. Nor could she give up the chase once she caught the scent of a crime unsolved. Every hidden clue, and e... | Getting tipsy at the club with my friends. We're shaking butts in time with the hottest song of the summer. Sometimes we villains are cannibals - I took down this jerk who was trying to dim my sunshine so to speak - muscling into my action with dark money politics. I ruined his reputation by making some photos of him i... | 2022-08-16T10:36:55 | 2022-08-16T09:25:08 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] There is a real-life demon inhabiting your basement. It is savage, bloodthirsty, and completely immortal to human means. You have a truce with it only because it is frightened of something in your attic. You have never found anything up there. | "Yes Bob, I understand you want to feast on my flesh but could you move so I can get the wash?" I barely looked up from my phone as I waited for the creature to move out of my way. I didn't like looking at it, the sight of it made the back of my head itch inside. It was a strange unpleasant feeling which is why I put o... | Snarling and hissing, a black shadow chained in the corner with bright red eyes. Slim members, maybe it was a fur? Black gooey dripping around and hazy at the same time like it was somewhere in between.
The first time I saw this monster, to say I was taken aback was an understatement, I was scared out of my mind. I ... | 2021-12-01T08:01:35 | 2021-12-01T07:32:43 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are a schizophrenic man that has accepted your hallucinations and ignores them. While you are shopping at Walmart, a giant fissure opens up randomly beneath your feet. You walk over it, believing it to be another hallucination. People are staring at you in shock. | I am not sinking.
The reporters buzz around me, clicking, snapping, vying for my attention as if I'm... someone.
I raise a hand and allow myself a rare smile. "One at a time. I'll get around to you all. I promise."
"How're you doin' it, mister? Are you the second coming of Christ?"
"What made you choose the froze... | Fissure opening right beneath my feet, old, been there done that. What else you got for me phrenny? Gonna throw talking octopi at me again? How bout that five side trapezohedron? Maybe really trip me up for once. I step over the dark abyss apparently opened underneath me. My feet finding purchase just as expected. Aaaa... | 2018-12-22T04:06:08 | 2018-12-22T02:38:05 | 3,872 | 138 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | New Istanbul. 2073: Assembly Chamber of The Five Nations.
A chattering of languages fills the room, with an almost electric buzz of excitement as the delegates from hundreds of different cultures from around the globe speak into their translation headsets. Their words fed to the interpretation matrix able to sort out ... | It began with a first strike nuclear attack on North Korea and their immediately retaliation. Guam and Hawaii were obliterated but Alaska was spared as the missile sent towards it simply failed and dropped into the North Pacific. Fortunately, for the United States at least, none of North Korea’s missiles had the range... | 2018-01-18T03:40:05 | 2018-01-18T02:43:58 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | 'Look...they're doing it again.'
'Doing what?'
'Just...look come over here and take a look at the damn screen.'
'Oh, well isn't that just the sweetest thing.'
'I know, right? The transmission arrived just this morning. What you would expect of course, you know; 'is anyone out there', 'we come in peace', all that bo... | "Well shit." It was a normal day in the live of what a human would describe a monster. Ofcourse this monster, was only an Alien surfing the Human Earth Archive that had been recovered from the ashes of Earth that he had destroyed only seconds before. He had misunderstood the meaning of the Human's message. One of his t... | 2016-09-28T03:53:07 | 2016-09-28T03:38:00 | 2,919 | 14 |
[WP] You, a religious person, saved a girl from getting hit by a truck. One day you get killed and instead of Heaven, you wake up in Hell. Satan walks up delighted and says "Welcome to hell and thank you so much for saving my daughter!, Let me know if you need anything!"
Edit: Wow! So many comments! Tonight after work... | The being's eyes were pitiless as Samuel broke down, staring wildly at the hellscape surrounding him. It wasn't quite as he had imagined, no flames, no pitchforks waiting. Just an endless stretch of cracked, dead earth, with no trees in sight, no burbling streams of water, no other people...and yet, and yet, it was the... | The year that Adam was born, tornadoes had been wreaking havoc in the Midwest, destroying everything in their path. In fact, it had been so bad, that the day that Adam was born there was a tornado about to hit their little town in Oklahoma and swallow it, leaving nothing behind. However, and this is how his mother tell... | 2017-07-17T23:50:54 | 2017-07-17T20:23:00 | 395 | 96 |
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer. | Everyone came out of the jury's chamber for the sentencing. Guilty, of course. We didn't have much of a choice. The evidence mounting against him was overwhelming. I was actually annoyed I had had to take off time today to be jury for such a simple case.
Jay Kleiner was a murderer of the lowest order. A murderer of ch... | Welp, where do I start. Do you know those stupid moral dilemmas that you had to do in your high school English class? Yeah, I just got into a real big one. I got a compass in a pawn shop that was being sold for dirt cheap, I bought it, because why not? It might be valuable to someone somewhere, and they might be willin... | 2019-09-10T20:18:20 | 2019-09-10T15:09:27 | 3,464 | 619 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? They surrender.
\-Superman
Day 4
I look towards the horizon. Just beyond my power limit, I see more heroes converging. Dawn's arriving on day 4 since the news got out that I am the last anti, and the day the only other anti super besides me died. Th... | When Samuel accidentally discovered his power and killed a super villain, he was ecstatic. You could even say arrogant. It was akin to winning the lottery. *Literally*, as he collected a bounty worth tens of millions.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he soon realized a major issue.
He was way too easy to kill.
... | 2021-06-24T19:59:37 | 2021-06-24T18:24:33 | 775 | 154 |
[WP] Humans are used by aliens as biological weapons
Got the idea for this prompt after reading this story:
http://www.reddit.com/r/writingprompts/comments/4kv06w/_/d3i3lls
Due to humans having fear we produce adrenalin or, how the story reffered to it, "Combat drugs"
Well. Humans are the new Xenomorphs now and we ... | “We’re losing this war sir, we need to retreat.” Lar said surveying the battlefield.
“Pull them back.” Commander Vox sighed. “We’ll use plan B.”
Lar froze in the middle of calling the retreat order. “I thought Plan B was illegal.”
“That’s what we tell the public, truth is they make up most of our fighting force now.... | Students, please land on your chairs; Mrr'Hump, don't force me to repeat myself - I won't hesitate to shoot you down if necessary. Understood ? Good.
Today, we'll talk about HIP - Human Infected Planets - and how to treat it. Humans can only infect solid bodies, although very small concentrations can eventually be f... | 2016-05-25T06:38:27 | 2016-05-25T02:38:54 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | "You think we haven't faced extinction before?"
That gave the being pause. Ships slowed and while their batteries were charged, they didn't fire.
"You think you will survive?" the robotic voice played through the terminal, translating the clicks and gurgles of the creature on the monitors.
"I think we will make vict... | Famous last words they said, my team beside me snickering at my brave words. We had researched the past events of this policy being enacted on young civilizations. Most asked for peace and died silently while Others begged for mercy to the same degree.
We humans had a plan to do the opposite as we have always done for... | 2022-01-22T10:09:29 | 2022-01-22T09:41:11 | 272 | 22 |
[WP] You have been fitting into your new role as Satan for about a week now and you figure you should tell your best friend about your newfound powers. Before you get a chance to say anything, he tells you that God spoke to him and gave him his powers...
Continuation of [WP] [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingProm... | Being Satan was great! That's what I'd thought for the last two weeks, anyway. I had powers that I didn't have to use for good, so I managed to... *acquire* a decent bit of money. I only had to go to hell, like, once a week to make sure things were up and running. I had even the most powerful demons do my bidding (usua... | The living room felt cold. I have such fond memories here, with her, as she sits across from me I remember the warmth of the hearth on Christmas eve, our first Christmas living together. The times we both laughed and cried over silly board games, the time she held me all night after my mother died. A lot has happened h... | 2018-02-05T10:58:36 | 2018-02-05T09:59:11 | 148 | 36 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear friend,
Oh dear friend. If only I could just step back for just one day and talk to you about all that has occurred since we last saw each other. I’m so thankful that we were able to spend the time in life together that we did.
I miss that little sigh of excitement that would rise up from my chest and escape my... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-05T23:44:56 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] Being a tavern wench is good, honest work. You wear long sleeves, not to hide scars but swirling tattoos. You’ve always had them. Today, an adventuring party come in. The shirtless ones have the same tattoos, and theirs not only swirl … they glow. | All sort of people stop by this tavern. It was a prime locale. Right at the edge of the city, so civilization was close, and right at the precipice of a hilly crossroads, so weary travellers could always find food and shelter and a place to rest.
Whoever built this tavern was clever int hat regard. Sure, the poor lads... | Maternara - At the crossroads.
Some secrets are best left hidden.
Life at the Crossroads Inn had treated Maternara well. The work was backbreaking and hard, but she thrived in it. The regulars loved her, she was the goddess that brought them drink, good cheer and a hearty smile. The transients were endless sources of... | 2021-06-15T09:15:27 | 2021-06-15T08:38:46 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] When you wish upon a shooting star, it's actually a satellite, and your wish has been recorded and cataloged. An agent has been assigned to your case. | I slammed the door so hard that the *crack* echoed down the hall. Tom, who had been slumped over on top of his desk, jolted upright instantly, shook his head, and blinked rapidly. “I’m up,” he said groggily. There were little lines pressed into his cheek in the exact pattern of the desk’s wood grain.
“Sure, Tom.” I p... | Agent Eight sat quietly at his desk and looked at the single sheet of paper laying there against the dark wood grain.
He had received hundreds of thousands of wishes before, though in recent years the department had been suffering. People had just...well they'd lost wonder.
Wonder. Eight leaned back at thought about ... | 2017-01-03T09:12:33 | 2017-01-03T09:11:48 | 1,772 | 555 |
[WP] People don't seem to realise that figures of mythos evolve too. The Grim Reaper, for example, no longer wields his scythe, opting to harvest souls with a combine harvester. Cupid traded his bow for a sniper rifle decades ago. You're the dealer that supplies the mythical world with technology. | My job didn't just involve upgrading gods with better equipment. I was saving them from irrelevance, and therefore from dying. Not many saw it that way, though. Most just got defensive and refused to adapt, thinking that I was trying to change them.
Athena stared at the screen with a stoic expression. "And people use ... | # Soulmage
**"There's no need to keep using an eyepatch,"** I told Odin. "It's primitive technology. I mean, a flap of cloth?"
Odin grunted, gesturing at the surrounding forest. It wasn't real, of course—the meeting was, as traditional, taking place in a dream—but it was real enough for our purposes. "It does what I ... | 2022-07-19T09:19:00 | 2022-07-19T08:27:16 | 1,407 | 122 |
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