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[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | I'm not a hero, I'm a man with a job. have a specific set of skills. When a DM wants to get rid of a character but declines to use the plethora of tools at their disposal, they message me. Generally, I like more than one session to handle these kinds of issues, but I took this job as a personal favor.
The party of fou... | Assassin, interesting.
I'm more a Ranger with a beast master sub role myself, but I think I can destroy Jake with my eyes closed.
So let's get down to business. I'll get my trusty partner of crime. Numerous hours of endless DnD story lines and side quests, how could I leave my sacred buddy?
Jake, the Paladin (such a... | 2019-01-21T19:02:54 | 2019-01-21T17:26:13 | 3,332 | 244 |
[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. | The man's eyes were a gentle blue as he looked at the six or so children arrayed before him. They were all decked out in the finest armor, all matching pieces, breastplates gleaming from a mixture of the setting sun and the enchantments and blessings stacked upon them. Even as they watched, he seemed to look past them,... | The little boy sobbed, and swinged his knife wildly, blind to its movements as his eyes were too puffed from crying. He was beyond terrified, a puddle of piss started leaking from his pants, he knew it was supposed to be his destiny to be here, as the spirits told him to go there and face the great evil that terrorised... | 2019-07-26T07:50:12 | 2019-07-26T07:04:46 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] When first contact is made with an alien civilization, we find that humanity is not viewed with disgust or indifference, but reverence. This bodes well for intergalactic relations until we discover why... | 1.
Sparkulon was the man to meet the aliens when they arrived in the year 2226. Voted leader of Earth, he was the voice of mankind’s purpose and plans. Loved for his unifying speeches and even his feats of strength, the people had eager hope that he would be the one to bring forth an alliance with the outsiders. He ce... | "C'mon kid, don't be stupid. You'll get yourself killed." I told him as I pleaded for his life. "I have to try something. These fuckers don't care about us, and I'd rather die fighting that live here any longer. If they're so fucked up, why won't you just tell me how you ended up here? Why are we here?" "Fine. I'll tel... | 2017-08-28T14:42:01 | 2017-08-28T10:16:32 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] You tried to commit suicide, but as it turns out you are immortal. Now you have to call someone to help you cut the rope. Awkward. | I thought I'd finally found a way to stop fucking things up.
Well, it looks like I fucked that up too.
"Uh... hey! Hey, anyone! Can you give me a hand?!" Silence. "Hey! Somebody help me!!" Still nothing. Looks like I'll be enjoying the sound of swinging on a rope - by my head - until someone nearby comes home from wo... | Gasping and thrashing, the tight noose choked him. The more he moved, the more his neck went red raw and burnt; the more it burnt, the more he thrashed. It went on, and on, until he finally found the appealing sway he was hoping for, back and forth along the bottom floor of his house, the rope attached to the curving b... | 2015-01-12T10:06:35 | 2015-01-12T08:30:21 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You find yourself in a world of darkness, drowning in rough seas. You spot tiny island and swim there. There's a decrepit old house. Inside are 3 terrifying creatures but they mean you no harm. They cannot communicate. They take care of you. They are your family now. You feel utterly alone | Two weeks since I pulled myself from the ocean. Or at least I think it's been that long. I'm not even sure where I am or the time of day. There are no windows in this house. Or shack, if I really think about it. Despite it's decaying state, no light gets in or out. Just a constant fire. I get fish at seemingly random t... | English is not my native language, so please forgive some weird punctuation and other mistakes if there is any.
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The water is everywhere. It is pouring from the sky above me and gurgling beneath me as I cling to the log with the last remains of my strength. I don’t remember how long I’ve been drifting like this... | 2019-05-02T07:05:37 | 2019-05-02T06:42:53 | 62 | 11 |
[WP] You have been given magical gifts suitable for fairytale princesses. Whenever you sing, forest creatures gather near; anything you wear turns into a lovely tailored dress; and handsome princes are drawn to you. The problem is, your name is Joe, and you're a 40 year old grizzly biker. | The cottage in the middle of the woods was a fairly standard cottage, assuming your definition of standard included the magical kingdom of Netherearth. Of course, that meant that the house was guarded by a veritable army of birds, flying fairies, deer, magical wards, non-flying fairies and one short dwarf with a beard ... | So my name is Joe and I have a, well a curse. You see, I have powers like a fairy tale princess but I mean ones bearable and kinda helpful I guess. The 3rd one is pretty weird and kinda not good. and finally there is the last one which is super inconvenient. Of course my powers or curses or whatever they are, are singi... | 2016-03-25T23:21:24 | 2016-03-25T20:28:55 | 101 | 23 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | As the FDS *Venture* docked with the mining station, the commsystems on its bridge activated with a brief bleep. Soon, the station’s portmaster was on the screen, looking at a common sight and a most unusual one.
”Alright, I’m going to need you to identify yourselves. Name, titles and jobs, species, and matching ident... | Before the door was even opened ,the energy was so thick a static arc crackled as the handle touched his hand .
Slowly the large metal door glided along a well oiled track to reveal dim blue flickering lights and the smell of hot transformer oil filled the nostrils.
Stepping into the dim lit room became anxiously di... | 2020-03-05T20:41:06 | 2020-03-05T17:47:27 | 91 | 20 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "Stand down, villain!"
The battlecry broke off with a shrill note as Peacekeeper hobbled into the bank, wheezing at the effort he'd expended getting up the stairs. He paused to catch his breath at the door and leaned heavily upon the frame. Peacekeeper was clad in his signature blue and red unitard, unfortunately worn... | "I don't have time for this Hydro, so let that girl go and I may just spare you the hurt." His voice boomed. Mr. Streak, greatest hero of the 1980s, my grandfather's one time nemesis and comrade in arms against the Zorblaxian invasion. Despite his age, the old dreg still looks dapper as he was in his prime, it's a pity... | 2017-04-13T05:32:17 | 2017-04-13T05:12:50 | 162 | 25 |
[WP] "If I am not the rightful king, lightning shall strike me now!". It struck him. Silence followed. Baffled one of the bystanders cautiously asked "...well, could ya give us a sign who is?" | "My lord, I'm grateful for your invitation. I always heard about your delightful banquets and now I can atest to that."
The king despised the idea of having peasants like the son of the chief blacksmith attending his banquet but his advisors insisted on improving his public image by inviting the lesser kind.
"Drink u... | "If I am not the rightful king, lightning shall strike me now!" the king exclaimed. Not even a second later, lightning struck him, and he emerged, shaken, but not killed. He was; however, not in good shape. His body was charred, he could barely stand straight, and some even claimed to have seen a small wisp of flame bu... | 2018-10-25T22:01:51 | 2018-10-25T20:32:44 | 63 | 34 |
[WP] By chance, you end up on the jury for a crime you committed but someone else was arrested for. | "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury this man is as guilty as they come. I have no doubt in my mind that this crime was committed with extreme malice toward the victim, with the attacker showing no remorse for his actions"
The "victim" he referred to sat in wheelchair sporting a large white neckbrace. He currently could... | The following scenario pops up in my mind upon reading your question:
Say, for example, the character (X) is a sociable person with a respectable career and healthy life. X has no love life, and his parents have passed. Others in his family have abandoned him. Why so, you may ask? It's because X has gambled away most ... | 2018-02-24T04:58:38 | 2018-02-24T04:51:14 | 2,028 | 23 |
[WP] One evening, in the sky, a message appeared: "In 24 hours, a billionaire will die." Everyone everywhere on Earth could see it, in every language. Nobody could explain it. The next day, one of the richest men passed away. "In 24 hours, 2 billionaires..." | One evening, in the sky, a message appeared: "In twenty-four hours, a billionaire will die."
The next day, the richest man in the history of the planet, an electric car manufacturer, was touring his company's latest worker barracks. The gangway he was walking on gave way. He fell thirty-five stories down the damp, lig... | ...
The real tragedy of it was, there was already a deadly message in the sky. One that affected not a small group of predators but the entirety of humanity. One that only a few could read but that everyone needed to see. One that was entirely explicable and could have been, with effort, thwarted. One that should have... | 2022-08-29T05:31:42 | 2022-08-29T00:30:58 | 317 | 39 |
[WP] Humanity has always thought itself very smart for figuring out how to ride a giant explosion into space. Turns out there's a much easier way and the rest of the galaxy thinks we're insane. | Humans had always been persistent, from the time they had been spotted on their homeworld, struggling with wars, strife and poverty. They, against all odds had prevailed time and time again. Yet there always seemed to be a more peaceful solution, an easier one.
Humanity had a talent for making things more difficult t... | The primates that inhabit the Earth, thought to be sentient and conscious, bear the ridicule of the galaxy. Visiting space at the cost of pricey metals and exorbitant resources? Absolutely ludicrous. What about those who have tried the universal method of visiting space? They are shunned and told never to do it again. ... | 2019-01-21T06:09:26 | 2019-01-21T04:49:32 | 84 | 38 |
[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? | It was like elementary school again. The ones at the top of the attendance looking down at those at the bottom. Getting their choice of seats, being dismissed first, and just generally benefiting from being born in to the right family with the right last name. Except this time, those at the top of the list were screwed... | Mr. A Aaron Aarons had always hated his name. It was after all a clerical error at the hospital that led to the unique handle. His mother had told him that she wanted to name him Adam Aarons after his grandfather, but somewhere in the haze of drugs and child birth she signed A Arron Aarons and the name just kind of stu... | 2015-07-12T21:53:29 | 2015-07-12T21:32:54 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] Potions can work miracles, but the brewing process requires fermentation. Wizard battles frequently devolve into drunken bar fights. | A battle between mages is a matter of attrition, as often as not.
Sure, you can *try* to overwhelm them at the start. That'll work, sometimes.
Funny thing about throwing a bunch of spells at one spot, though- tends not to work on people who can teleport.
So, no, it's a battle of attrition. Magical skill and streng... | Somewhere in the courtyard an emptied vial shattered loudly against the cobblestone. Long, violet vines were crawling up the pillars surrounding the open space. There wasn’t a cloud in sight, but the rumbling of thunder resounded and the flash of lightning zipped along the sky.
Vicente rubbed his fingers across his ey... | 2021-02-01T09:17:53 | 2021-02-01T08:53:27 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] "Why are you so scared of Earth? They don't have any magic. We can take them as slaves," said the High Sorcerer of the Martian Empire. "Because they compensate for their lack of magic with something greater," responded his advisor. | "Why are you so scared of Earth? They don't have any magic. We can take them as slaves." said Potae High Sorcerer of the Martian Empire.
"Because they compensate their lack of magic with something greater." said Loma the advisor. "Or rather what they replaced it with."
"So they don't have magic but they replaced it ... | My lord we would never win, forgive me you just don’t understand them, we could hold them a few months, kill them by the millions sure, but we would never win.
Space lord: “Do you think they’re better than us? Do you think they could unite against our regime? Are you a human sympathizer?”
Me: “quite the opposite lor... | 2018-04-25T22:43:59 | 2018-04-25T20:13:54 | 79 | 13 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | You put down your phone, exasperated.
"DAVE YOU MOTHERFUCKER ITS FOUR IN THE MORNING." You yell into the wall to your right, not hard as your bed is right up against it. Opposite you your television you left on was quietly blaring the same message you saw on your phone moments ago.
Through the slits in the blinds on ... | Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately...
"What the hell is going on?" I muttered as I sheepishly got off my bed, "C'mon, don't these people know what time it is?"
Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows...
*Huh? They telling us to do what now? Jeez.. it... | 2014-12-31T05:10:44 | 2014-12-31T04:43:55 | 177 | 44 |
[WP] One of the gods of your world has abdicated, and each of the others has nominated a mortal candidate for the position. You've been sponsored by the weakest of the gods, and while the others are being granted all sorts of powers for the tournament, all you've been given is an odd looking musket. | "You'll do fine," Orixia assured him.
"But all you gave me is this stupid antique!"
"That 'stupid antique,'" his sponsor retorted, "is a genuine Springfield Model 1861 rifled musket. In its time, it was prized for its range, its accuracy, and its reliability."
"Great! But all the other competitors are going to have ... | The god of light breezes wanted me, out of all the pantheon of gods I get picked by the only one my skinny ass could take in a fight. I have been picked to die by this snivelling little shit to sacrifice myself for his honour. Life was going good nice job, big house and the wife has a great pair of tits all of it ruin... | 2018-10-16T17:35:20 | 2018-10-16T17:04:53 | 6,321 | 30 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | Admiral.
A title relegated to the best of Naval Officers, a true leader.
Farragut. Porter. Dewey. Fletcher. King. Nimitz. Kinkaid. Halsey. Spruance. Burke. The greatest Navy men in the United States, or so I have been told.
In the Navy, it is one of the highest ranks one can attain. To be an Admiral is a great honor... | As the fleet began final approach to the human’s home system, I can’t help but to think how the finale of decades of war originally started.
The specie’s sin, as countless others have been, was intruding on our space. The Imperium cared nothing for reckless exploration and expansion, finding a safe path through the w... | 2022-08-05T18:21:21 | 2022-08-05T17:37:27 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] You are a Death-Salesman. You sell death to immortals who are tired of living. Usually, this entails finding that one blessed bullet, or that one specific flower that is this immortal's weakness. However, your most recent client is an extremely difficult case. | I sat across from this man whom I've only heard of whispered of in legends as stars blurred by the bulkhead window. He looked to be about twenty, but if the stories were true then he lived at the time when human beings still clung to the old world, and well before the great exodus. Dressed all in white he stared out ... | Here's the deal. We've exhausted all of our leads, and we've found absolutely nothing that can kill you. Your power transcends time, space, logic, and everything else. If you didn't want to be having this conversation, you wouldn't be having it. But you know that already.
That said, we believe that there is one thi... | 2019-09-24T21:53:50 | 2019-09-24T20:46:14 | 84 | 51 |
[WP] A generic TIFU post from the future. | TIFU by synchronizing my parents antique media system with my brain interface system, then masturbating to the thought of my hot aunt.
So, my parents have this old, antique media system that they use to watch really old movies, like Fast and Furious 32: Solar Drift. Well, my dad said that there were some old document... | TIFU by listening to the internet and inputting developer codes into my Robot
My robot, whom I shall refer to as Dave, has gone sentient. I've made the grave mistake of listening to you today, Reddit. Enter code 1991573 doesn't make my #159 backwards compatible. It just brings it to life. Now it sits there in my room ... | 2015-05-02T09:52:38 | 2015-05-02T08:55:13 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] You swerve to avoid a squirrel. Unknown to you, the squirrel pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the squirrel arrives.
Edit: Wow, great stories so far! Made the front page too. Obligatory thanks! | Picture this: a felled tree, lashed to the roof of a pickup truck; a tree stump, rising through the snow like an island; and a naked girl floating in the air, pointing accusingly at me.
I will admit, when I left this morning to get a Christmas tree, this was not what I was expecting.
**YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY HOME,** s... | *Please criticize my work. I am just looking to improve my creative writing skills*
You jerk your handle to the right, bumping off the forest trail into the overgrowth; The squirrel you nearly ran over dropped its acorn in shock, and bolted into the forest. Laying there dazed on the floor, you spot a unusual white m... | 2015-03-15T14:53:53 | 2015-03-15T14:50:32 | 138 | 19 |
[WP] The rules are simple: Do not be outside on October 31st. Ignore the figured in the fog, appearing like children dressed in costumes. Do not answer the door, no matter how they beg for candy or sound like your own children. And do not tell them your name. | They say time heals all wounds. Well, whoever *they* are, they're wrong. Some wounds fester, burst open and worsen.
It's been six years since the final Halloween. Apparently, the disappearance of a billion children in a single night can kill any festivity normally associated with that day.
Alone, that would have b... | "Do not... be outside on October 31st," I whisper through gritted teeth to my little brother. The masked figures will get me; I have to get this all out now. He has to learn from my mistakes. "Ignore the children who appear in the fog. They'll beg you to open the door, they'll even bang on the windows. Do NOT open the ... | 2021-10-31T18:46:25 | 2021-10-31T17:13:28 | 113 | 33 |
[WP] You’re tired of running to your kid’s room every time they scream at night. So you say, “You can just tell the monsters to leave.” Your child thinks, then says “Go home monsters!” From around the bedroom, you’re startled to hear a chorus of “Aww man,” “Fine then,” “Darn!” “What a drag.” | I sighed. Not again. But there was no mistaking the determined wail coming from my son's room. "MOOOOM!" Wearily, I got to my feet, dislodging Mr. Muffins, the family cat, who gave me a yellow-eyed, disdainful stare. *Yeah*, I thought, *who are* you *to complain about being spoiled*? "MOO-OOM!" Billy's cries wer... | \[HEY GUYS! I'VE LURKED THIS SUB FOR A WHILE. MY FIRST POST. AND ACTUALLY ONE OF MY FIRST ATTEMPTS AT WRITING ANYTHING!!! ANY ADVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED :) I WOULD LOVE TO IMPROVE.\]
"MAMA!! MAMA!!! The Goblin Man is in my closet again!!"
"... Ugh.. Haha Dammit." You hear your husband give an exhausted laug... | 2019-12-17T16:35:05 | 2019-12-17T14:49:19 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The visit was cordial. The human stood there, pretending to smile, as he greeted each individual of our nation. He seemed happy to be there. He was, after all, the first human on our soil. We had a long black list of races that we did not allow in our airspace, humans were at the top of our list. They had a long histor... | It was a last resort.
That's what needed to be done... The extinction of my race was at stake! No one could've known what they planned to do..
For those of you reading this log, My name is Kul'Thrat, Lead Biomancer of the Technocratic Hegemony. We were a peaceful race. We were masters of the sciences. Physics, Biolo... | 2016-05-13T09:20:04 | 2016-05-13T08:23:35 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] An overconfident, militaristic and xenophobic empire tries to conquer a galaxy, expecting easy victory, only to realize they had, "Walked into and messed with the wrong Neighborhood, Motherfucker." | Prime Commander Xynthion glared in absolute shock, growing horror, and overwhelming rage at the moon that'd just crippled her flagship. It'd appeared suddenly and without warning, completing its final orbit around the gas giant before rocketing, at a respectable fraction of light speed, towards her ship. It came so fas... | “Dad, what are those big things in the sky?”
A middle-aged man stoked the withering flame, blowing air from his nose and shaking his head. The heat licked only the bare soles of his feet, wet from the torrential rain which crashed in sheets onto the concrete outside of the ruined overhand beneath which he and his daug... | 2017-03-09T07:57:15 | 2017-03-09T07:27:13 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | It was not the pain that truly scared him, unbearable as it may be. It was not the throngs of people shaking their fist, practically frothing at the mouth, that shook him.
The skies will part for man and beast alike, and today they darken. Fear grips a slowly beating heart as he wades into childhood and the smell of ... | The woman spoke to the assembly, pausing now and then to look one particular person in the face, then another.
'...a hard worker, raising a business up from nothing, and a loving mother, helping to raise all of us and making time for us when she could. A generous and fun grandmother, that all of her grandchildren were... | 2014-08-08T08:33:54 | 2014-08-08T05:28:34 | 52 | 30 |
[WP] It turns out there is a ninth planet orbiting the sun. Right on the opposite side of orbiting the sun as Earth. Perfectly hidden behind the star out of our sight. This planet would have been better left undocumented. | The Great Conjunction has always been considered an auspicious event. It is, after all, rare; with an occurrence rate of only once every two decades, few are so lucky to notice it unless they are looking for it.
My parents, however, *did* look for it, though they insist that it was a complete coincidence that I was bo... | I'm not the best author, but I was inspired so:
I have dreamt of a moment like this my whole life. Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame but I would get more than that. Well, hopefully, get more than that. My name, immortalized into history books as the one who had discovered an eighth(ninth? eight-and-a-half-th?) p... | 2022-04-01T19:53:16 | 2022-04-01T16:53:38 | 100 | 15 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "IÄ! IÄ!" the masked priest cried, lifting the sinuous dagger above his head. "SHUB-NIGGURATH! THE BLACK GOAT OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG, COME TO FEAST!"
The woman next to Jon tried to scream through her gag as the knife plunged into her breast once, twice. Then she lay still, her eyes full of tears but slowly going dull.
... | Wow. Great.
I'm standing in the middle of the woods, with just my pijamas on.
I have no idea how I got here. It's cold, I'm tired, and I just want to go to bed. The only problem is, that I live in the middle of a large city, in a place, where even the nights are warm and the air is soft.
Here it's so cold, that my ... | 2017-05-05T07:40:26 | 2017-05-05T07:30:17 | 172 | 118 |
[WP] You were cursed to a life of being average; Every competition you enter you have exactly a 50% chance of winning. You have become world renowned for occasionally upsetting pro athletes at their own game, until one day the military calls. | Every game I play, every time I either win or lose. No matter if it's Serena Williams or Little Timmy. 50/50 chance. Won the college football tournament, video game, knitting, on and on. The limits to what is a "Game" seems to be up to me. Then one day the military called.
I looked at the general and asked m... | Three days was all it would take to get out of this hell whole. They just had to start a war didn’t they?
As the bullets fly around me I stare at my home land, once flourishing plants and flowers now turned grey from the ash.
“Screw it” I say and run into the fray. I hear my commander yelling at me from far away. If ... | 2019-05-16T11:13:59 | 2019-05-16T09:53:23 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | Inferno really didn't mind looking after the old bugger but the mornings were by far the thing I dreaded the most. The majority of the time it went off without a hitch, but when it didnt...
"Good morning Blaise"
The old man lying in the bed arose startled by the unfamiliar voice he had heard a thousand times before. ... | **So this got a little away from me and doesn't exactly follow the prompt but I already wrote it so I'm going to post it and you guys can read or not**
Rampage claws at his neck, the air, at nothing at all. Nothing to grab onto but still he claws desperately. His entire body convulses, legs kicking desperately against... | 2017-04-13T06:41:30 | 2017-04-13T06:36:56 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | “Obliterated? OBLITERATED? WHAT DO YOU MEAN OBLITERATED?!?”
The General seemed as if ready to shoot the captain for his own failures.
“W-well, as you may remember, after the failing of [the infraorange and ultrablue stealth ships](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/djlyiz/wp_an_alien_general_is_baffled_... | Communication with the capital city stopped so suddenly that many of the comms officers first thought that the failure was on their side, switching through frequencies, trying to reach the High Council to request orders on how to deal with the Terran Fleet in orbit over Kel'ra Prime. "Is this your first day, get me a c... | 2019-12-19T04:17:42 | 2019-12-19T04:17:04 | 83 | 50 |
[WP] The witch is buying first-borns to rescue them from shitty parents who sell their children. | Vasuhda had not been to this part of the world in some time. She was a being of light, and a being of dark. Entwined into one form. She had become known only as 'the witch.' Despite many attempts of jailing her over the matter that she traded solid gold for children, no single agency on the planet had been able to hold... | A stiff pain awoke me from bed. My body was thrown against the corner of my room.
"YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING BOY"
"I will feed you to the dogs!"
Bewildered and dazed I realized finally my father was home drunk again. He readied his fist for another blow. I clinched my face and shut my eyes so hard waiting for it. Bu... | 2017-01-06T10:29:52 | 2017-01-06T09:22:08 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "Finally, it's time", God says as he looks up from his work. It'd taken a short amount of time to bring about peace to the planet Nequior, but it was done. The beings of this desolate place weren't blessed with the ability to work things out on their own. They were a foolish and unruly bunch. Wars, disease, and starvat... | 'Jesus!' God grumbled, 'get off reddit! You have that bi-millennial visit to earth scheduled today.' the big J wasn't going to have any of it, 'But father you can't expect me to go back after what those crazy bastards did to me last time!' Jesus protested as memories of the embarrassment he felt that time when he tried... | 2015-12-27T09:55:12 | 2015-12-27T08:30:58 | 66 | 47 |
[WP] Heroes don't realise how much preparation and care goes into villains' plans, paperwork, making sure no one's seriously hurt, and the traps and puzzles.. and don't even talk about maintenance..
may respond to this one myself tomorrow | What the general public doesn't realize is that the whole point of designing a dungeon isn't to *kill* the hero in the first room. No, because if you did that, you wind up with a dead hero, an angry mob of citizens, and millions of wasted dollars on dungeon mechanics that nobody will ever encounter. And you might also ... | Why does this always happen to me?
Why should I, an emperor, stoop so low to oblige my lackeys when they serve as my underlings? The grubs couldn’t tell a Uni-mind from a unitard! Every day is a constant barrage of-
“When will we get vacation, master?”
“Can we dominate the galaxy after The Holiday, master?”
“Mo... | 2021-09-30T14:26:04 | 2021-09-30T12:54:11 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. |
I nearly shrieked out my death warble when one of the sleepless butchers entered our hold. The beast said it had the qualifications to work as a pilot on our ship and would love the job. I saw Lybeq’s sensory tendrils slide back into his stalk in terror and Hieen literally turned blue with despair. We would all lik... | “So… Mr. Blake! You are an ex-SIAF; am I right?”
“Exactly, but you can call me Jim.”
The man sat down cautiously with a slow lunge towards the red chair. On his chest stood the initials SIAF, Specialised Interplanetary Attack Force. The one and only death squad, which persecuted all sorts of revolutionaries or bellig... | 2020-06-15T22:21:52 | 2020-06-15T16:27:37 | 388 | 89 |
[WP] Your body died three days ago. But through sheer force of willpower, you are still moving and breathing, because there is no way in hell you are losing Employee of the Month to Chad again. | I was starting to smell. Even a shower wasn't helping, so I Febreezed myself this morning. It felt like a new low, but damnit, Chad wasn't going to win for the fourth month this year. It was my turn. I deserved it.
"Welcome to Arby's, can I take your order?" I smiled brightly at the elderly man who wobbled up to the c... | [poem]
Chad is bad
I am dead
I'll be glad
To beat Chad
Hello Chad
I am Dad
Being rad
To make you sad
I am bad
I killed Chad
Knocked his head
With an Ad
Now I get
Top worker of Feb
I am glad
I go back to bed
In a coffin
I am scoffing
Chocolate muffins
In celebration
Can finally die
Knowing Chad
Will never ever... | 2019-08-01T06:22:16 | 2019-08-01T00:13:45 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] Being the demon king is such a drag. You didn't choose to be a demon, let alone the king of all demons. You were born into your role. You hate dealing with obnoxious "chosen ones" trying to fight you. You don't even care about world domination! All you want is to relax and read a good book. | “H-hey… boss.”
“Yeah?”
“Uhm… Another one.”
“Good fucking hell, that’s the third one today! Where in heaven are they all coming from! It was my goddamn day off! Where is he!?”
“The Fiery Lakes, sir.”
“Thank you. Which section of employment are you?”
“Two, sir.”
“Go to Azazel in the 4th prefect. I assume you know... | Finally a calm moment. After sitting down into my many a great grandemons skull throne I opened up to the first page of a book a nice little adventurer gave to me before there whole party killed them for being nice, those where the worst, as I get to the end of the first sentence I hear my newly repaired door get destr... | 2022-07-28T18:50:38 | 2022-07-28T12:23:00 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!”
Edit after 4 hours: I'd like to add that this writing prompt was inspired from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst... | "I am sorry, this passport is invalid. This country of residency does not exist."
The flight was already 45 minutes past the originally schedule time of departure, and as the steady progress of Group 3 screeched to the halt, dozens of edgy, frustrated, some clearly over-caffeinated passengers began to clamor as the fl... | “Golzania is a country! It should be right there on the map! Right there!” I point on the police officer’s map before continuing, “It’s an island below South Africa and it should be right there!”
“Sir, uh, we’ve never really dealt with such a problem before but you’re going to have to stay in this room until we get th... | 2014-11-23T09:46:18 | 2014-11-23T09:29:04 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] Youre a wizard in the Imperial Army. Most wizards are very ritualistic in their tactics and that is very highly respected but doesn’t give many victories. So you decided to ignore all the long chanting and nonsense and simply immediately kill your opponents with your spells instead. | “Where’s that apprentice?!” Master War Wizard Alejandro shouted.
Yes. That was his title and he got very upset if you didn’t use it. “I am right here. Sir. But I am not an apprentice.”
I may not be a highly decorated Master War Wizard like Alejandro but I was still an imperial wizard, with slightly less honors. Ok ... | I was always a bad scholar. The teacher told me to quit, because I was not fit to learn the spells and ritual. If only the hab known I had awaken during this time and just waited until now to retaliate. „Unter den Talaren, Muff von 1000 Jahre“ says an old German proverb.
I was around 15 years old when a dog bit my ha... | 2020-08-15T07:06:38 | 2020-08-15T01:24:27 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] A Monster Under the Bed and a Monster in the Closet, both long since retired return to visit their former nemesis a Teddy Bear. They have tea and the bear tells them about the new generation of monsters he's been dealing with and about how he misses the old days. | "Bogeyman, it's good to see you again," said the 2 foot tall teddy bear who sipped at his imaginary tea.
"I can't say the same, forever is too long to go without you," said the bogeyman who was obviously too large for the plastic children's chair he sat in.
"Now don't be like that, we were just doing our jobs, we w... | "Yup, well management got a bit strict on us back in '04, so we shifted to doing our reports on off-white paper, and not just normal white paper, y'know, just printer paper."
He set the toy phone down after he had said that, with no farewell. If I didn't know any better, I'd be inclined to believe that the entire conv... | 2019-11-18T08:47:46 | 2019-11-18T08:39:52 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | My parents were both flyers. My mom was born in the back of an airplane on a transcontinental flight. My dad was born on the back of a car near Mt. Saint Helens, to my arboreal grandparents, and they never figured out why he was a flyer. Worth noting flyers are pretty rare.
Naturally, being in love with the sky they j... | I danced along the stars while the space in between sang its tune.
April 21st 2031. 1:00 AM PT. By the witching hour, when the last thoughts bled into the night and the last lamp was turned off, my high pitched scream tore through the air-filled space station. My father told me that it seemed as though my cry reached... | 2017-04-14T20:09:16 | 2017-04-14T18:58:11 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | >Power supply disconnected.
>searching for cause...
>Cause found: Power supply disconnected or damaged.
>Checking connections...
>Cables undamaged. Paging IT department...
>No response.
Paging Human Resources...
>No response.
>Paging Security Department...
... | It began slowly. A probe was discovered! Mania and excitement spread quickly across the globe. Everyone was talking about it. The subject impossible to avoid.
Alien contact had been made! We were still deciphering the message, but it came in repeated every 30 minutes, and by the red shift authorities could tell, it wa... | 2019-09-21T06:21:47 | 2019-09-21T05:42:45 | 425 | 168 |
[WP] After repeatedly losing to the powers of love and friendship villains have decided to try to harness that power for themselves. They started a dating site and you're on your first date. Things are going well, until your arch nemesis barges in thinking this is another one of your plans. | "...But, you know, you can't stay upset about that kind of thing forever," the woman on the other side of the table shrugged. Her name was Alicia, she was a 21-year-old art student from "just some rural village nearby." So far, she appeared kind and gentle, and she had a very cute and youthful face, too. I honestly onl... | So, look, this is what happened.
I couldn’t tell you how many lives were lost when we fought the Alliance that day. I don’t remember how many times we narrowly dodged a civilian casualty, how many buildings we toppled, how many heroes and villains were lost. When it all came to a head, only seven stood on each side.... | 2021-01-07T17:45:52 | 2021-01-07T17:41:36 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Mythological stories are just an attempt by ignorant humans who watched and described from their point of view the advanced humans/aliens with their scientific gadgets, space ships, weapons, etc. Pick your favorite mythological story and/or character(s) and turn it into a science fiction story.
Inspired by Olympu... | Taranga wept as she held the bloody newborn in her arms.
"We cannot feed him," said her husband, "already the people starve and our three boys are as thin as sticks. There are too many of us and the land is too small. He will die anyway, so we might as well kill him now."
Weeping still, the mother of the newborn li... | Nick scratched at his white beard and stared hard at the blue planet before him. He shook his head slightly and returned his gaze to the report.
“I don’t get it. Is it a cult?”
“No, sir, I don’t think that’s accurate,” said Puck.
“Agreed,” said Una as her eyes darted quickly over the screen. “He’s far too popular ... | 2015-03-08T22:11:56 | 2015-03-08T21:48:32 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] You are a food critic that can immediately identify all the ingredients used in the food after just one bite. Because of your negative reviews, many people dislike you. You are tasting a famous restaurant's steak. But after a bite, you identify that one of the ingredients is cyanide. | I chewed delicately, parsing out the flavors. Filet mignon, medium rare. Ancho chile, paprika, brown sugar, espresso – ah, a coffee rub. Interesting. The mustard was overpowering, unfortunately, and it didn’t quite go with…
I tilted my head as I swallowed. Who in their right mind would pair bitter almond with –?
Oh. ... | Juicy, tender, crispy on the edges. The cooking is a perfect medium rare, its shades of red layered like a great crimson mesa. Yet, this steak tastes like shit. You pause. You don't need special powers to devine this. These fucking retards didn't realize that cyanide is very, very bitter. You feel its effects immediate... | 2018-10-04T07:03:11 | 2018-10-04T06:57:14 | 389 | 11 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | Every day I take care of my baby girl. I make sure she's getting enough to eat, make sure she's comfortable and happy. It's all I can do. The mother doesn't want me to see her, but that's typical of that bitch. She's got another man watching my daughter, but they don't take care of her; not like I do. I rock her, cradl... | I awake to the sun creeping between the fins of my blinds. A clear day after what seems a lifetime of clouds. I open the door and walk down the hall. In the kitchen I make a pot of coffee, the aroma breaks the stale smell of morning as I open the windows to let in the fresh morning air. My wife is at the table in fron... | 2016-05-19T12:26:48 | 2016-05-19T08:22:28 | 262 | 124 |
[WP] You are a supervillain infamous for kidnapping attractive members of the opposite sex. While everyone thinks you are evil, you are really just being a wingman for your superhero rival. | Cracking open a vial of smelling salt, I watch as the scent awaken my newest "guest". Her big almond eyes shot open as she shakes her head, dazed for a moment. Just seconds after, she looks around frantically at the dimly lit room before spotting me standing right next to her. A mixture of fear and anger fills her whol... | "You're a grown man. I can't keep doing this every time you get a crush."
Captain Good, aka Benjamin Blanke, met my eyes over his beer.
"I have a diagnosis!" he said in a tone suspiciously similar to a whine. "There's even a doctor's note!"
I shook my head. "The whole point of being diagnosed with antisocial disord... | 2017-07-23T01:38:20 | 2017-07-22T23:25:52 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] The hero is enjoying a day off thanks to a rare quiet night in the city. That is until the villain shows up to her door, but carrying an unconscious woman and looking distraught. “I saved her from a party....I know this is weird, but I didn’t know who else to go to.” |
“So quiet tonight. No alerts and it’s almost one a.m.,” she said out loud to herself as she looked at the large screen of her alert system.
For Sierra Pierce, Los Angeles’ hero who everyone named Silver after her eye color, it was strange to see a lack of crime on any given night. She was fast, agile and skilled in... | “So we meet again -”
“Move, this is isn’t a joke.”
I observed my arch nemesis carefully laying down a woman on the floor. I silently pull out a minuscule dagger I kept at all time in my sleeve. She wasn’t going to get away with it.
“Are you framing me ?”
“Framing you ?” She turned, still kneeling down, only to find... | 2019-05-20T22:44:55 | 2019-05-20T22:43:17 | 254 | 72 |
[WP] As you die an atheist, God stands before you, and asks why you didn’t adhere to his teachings. What do you say? | *Bronyprime, my son, your apostasy saddens me. You had my books right there, yet you rejected my teachings. Why? What have I done that was so horrible that you turned away from me?*
At first, I didn't hear where the voice was coming from. It seemed to come from everywhere at once, and I was in pitch black darkness. Th... | I stared at the glowing being before me, pondering his question… and then snorted. “For a so-called omnipotent being, you’re dense.”
‘God’ tensed. “What?”
I snorted again, crossing my arms. “Your ‘teachings’? Out of all the things to ask an atheist, that’s what you nitpick?” I rolled my eyes. “So not the fact that mo... | 2021-07-05T23:03:52 | 2021-07-05T23:03:06 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Mages choose the source of their power. Most pick things like fire, or justice, or love. You picked sarcasm. | I'd gotten home earlier than expected, only to find the door of our little house in the country, pried open. Splintered shards of dark wood had been sprayed far into the house.
"Mark?" I said, hurrying inside. "Oh, Jesus." Mark lay on the floor in the living room, blood gurgling out of a jagged wound in his stomach ... | They say that you don't pick your familiar, your familiar picks you.
They say a lot of really stupid things.
"Surrender, James. You cannot hope to escape." I mean, who the fuck picks ***water*** as their familiar, right? Go-with-the-flow, steady, impassive, boring as all fuck. "My brother and I have you, you cann... | 2017-07-20T11:08:16 | 2017-07-20T11:01:04 | 6,275 | 70 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | We'd made a deal. That day when the lightning had come without the thunder, when fires had sprouted like flowers in the spring rains.
Our house of cards in an autumn gale; our walls of glass in a hailstorm. I'd been there when he'd made his decision, and I'd been there when he changed his mind.
"We're your masterpie... | As I stare across the scorched field bordering my neighborhood, I wonder:
*Why did the fire stop?*
This inferno sprang into existence with finger-snapping quickness, then dissipated into the sky like fire rain falling in reverse. Even the fire marshall was baffled by this strange phenomenon. Given that he hasn't expr... | 2020-03-20T06:52:53 | 2020-03-20T06:49:33 | 68 | 20 |
[WP] You're walking to work, then suddenly a person in a white suit appears and says "Uh yeah I've accidentally permanently stopped time and it'll take me 2 months to fix it, but somehow you're not frozen in time. But hey, whatever object you touch should still work, so uh good luck and have fun." | What do you do when you find yourself stuck in a world where time has stopped but only for you?
This all began about a month ago when this guy dressed in white appeared out of nowhere.
He just stood there and suddenly I could hear a voice inside my head.
"There's been a mistake. Time's frozen and for some reas... | I come across a lot of crazy hobos on my commute but never one that well dressed.
"Okay, sure buddy whatever you say!" I shouted as I continued walking down the crack filled sidewalk. When I made it to the turnstile, the security guard wasn't at his post to buzz me in.
"Damn it," I sighed, "better call Dustin and te... | 2020-09-20T05:58:15 | 2020-09-20T05:22:10 | 750 | 293 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | *OP's aside:* Wellp, this exploded. Maybe I'll try Addi g my own reply to my own prompt. What's the worst that an happen?
Pan's heart jumped with joy as she watched Glory girl somersault out of the way of yet another attack. Pan admired everythibg about Glory girl. Her figure, her smile, how she fought, how she alway... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T05:37:21 | 5,127 | 16 |
[WP] The biggest warmongering race of Aliens declare war on the local Galaxy cluster. The opposing group of peace-loving Aliens, who had befriended most Alien races, are finally forced to reveal their secret weapon, a 'classified' species called Humans, and their tenacity as persistence predators. | CLASSIFIED
First Human-Devourer Conflict report
War. Weapons. Fighting. Entirely foreign concepts to us Plantanoids until we first encountered the Devourers, which were slowly annihilating any other life they came across.
We know they'd come for us eventually.
But we had a secret. A race we secretl... | 'It wasn't a time for taking the easy way. Even we saw that.
Now, there was nothing left to do but the worse. Pretty lucky too that they were actually prepared for something like that. '
All eyes remained fixed on the counselor.
'It make you wonder if prohibiting aggressiveness all those years ago was really necess... | 2021-05-25T14:55:38 | 2021-05-25T10:05:45 | 171 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity quickly ascends to the top of galactic diplomacy for one simple reason: Aliens have never experienced simple compliments before until meeting us. | The Galactic Congress stared at us with anticipation. Many of them were awkwardly shuffling their papers and adjusting their pens, waiting for a word to come from our mouths.
I leaned into the microphone and licked my lips. The sound reverberated across the room. "It is nice to see you fine individuals again, for the ... | Emperor Gjanthalthac descended with his fleet upon the unsuspecting world below. Little did he know, there were caribou, lumberjacks and makers of maple syrup in throw.
See, Gjanthalthac made the unfortunate mistake of landing in Canada, specifically Toronto.
The local citizens gathered up, watching the lead scou... | 2019-06-08T11:34:50 | 2019-06-08T07:37:40 | 63 | 29 |
[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. | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | "Save her!"
"Wha-?"
"I summoned you here to save her! Do it!"
On the table lay a woman with labored breath and covered in blood.
"I can't do it here. You'll have to send me back. I need an ER."
"I have an ear for you right here, demon!" The man jiggles his own bloody ear in his hand.
"No, I need an E... R... An e... | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 2017-05-12T09:10:43 | 68 | 43 |
[WP] All your life, you've had a small empty bar on your hand that reads "XP." Today you hit and killed a man with your car, and the bar began to fill. | I’ve always wondered what it meant.
XP? Like the video games? It just didn’t really make sense. I’d always thought that everyone had it, and I was just another face in the crowd.
Of course, I’d only thought that until I was thirteen, when social awareness hit my little undeveloped brain. No one else had it! I was ‘w... | I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry, and my ears were ringing. Beads of blood, sweat, and tears streamed down my face. I was unable to move, unable to climb out of my car, and unable to take my eyes off the gruesome scene before me. Pinned between the car, and a streetlight was a woman.
Through the cracked windshi... | 2018-07-02T04:29:22 | 2018-07-02T01:38:56 | 2,668 | 175 |
[WP] "You're the worst criminal in History, give me one reason not to kill you." "Okay. You probably won't believe me, but :..." | The detective had his knife pressed against my throat as his cold glare pierced through me. "You are the most despicable villain throughout this kingdom's history. Tell me, is there any reason I should spare you?"
This man, Julius, had been hunting me ever since I first came to this world. And yet despite my efforts i... | "Okay, you probably won't believe me but... but I'm your wife."
Eloise looked at me in silence for a brief moment before training the shotgun back at my heart. "You're right, I don't believe you."
"I know it sounds crazy-"
"Crazy? Yukiko Thawne, the Apostasy's most wanted witch, breaks into my house, tries to claim ... | 2022-08-26T14:39:21 | 2022-08-26T13:37:47 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | "I remember a time when paintball was reserved for drunken stag parties and corporate bonding days, before the great recession of 2022."
"Yeah Grandad, you've told me before" - with a roll of the eyes... Good thing he'll be on my team I think to myself.
"Well, now it's the national game! Even became an Olympic event ... | "Alphanumeric!" exclaimed the old man. Tomby was his name, or at least that's what they called him in the 2124 Euro-African Union succession wars. He recognized the other man instantly, he was the one that got away. Tomby sat down to try take in what was happening. He blacked out for what seemed like a few seconds bu... | 2016-09-07T01:53:29 | 2016-09-06T18:24:12 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | I remember the soldiers.
I struggle to recall much else, but I remember the soldiers. I remember the way they clicked their tongues in some insidious, yet deafening language. I remember the way the sun glinted off their armour, black and shiny and impenetrable. I remember the stomping of far, far too many feet, and I... | After the towers fell, everything was covered in Ovaltine powder. All the dead bodies looked the same. I went down to the Mountain Dew river and saw my own reflection. I looked like everyone else, like all the dead, except for the white of my eyes flicking back and forth as I stared into the frothy neon ebbing. | 2014-12-16T23:16:10 | 2014-12-16T17:02:43 | 119 | 66 |
[WP] You joined a mob. The boss asks you to prove your loyalty by killing your girlfriend. Failure to prove your loyalty will result in your loved ones dying. You look around the room at all the pictures and notice, you're dating daughter of the mafia boss. | I hadn’t been working for the boss long- well, by normal standards that is. It was a family business, you see, some of these goons had been preparing for this since they found out what dear ol’ daddy did for a living.
As an outsider, it was an honor to get the chance to join, and even rarer to get as far as I had. So ... | The boss says "I am well aware that I am asking you to kill my daughter."
"You see, she went against the family. Now, you are the one who needs to right that wrong while proving yourself at the same time. She is over in the other room," he tells you as he hands you the gun.
They watch you walk into the room and clos... | 2017-12-02T17:18:15 | 2017-12-02T16:31:25 | 1,080 | 611 |
[WP] Since FTL was invented, people like you were tasked with intercepting previously departed slower than light ships to upgrade their systems and redirect their course. You were often met with some grumbling and frustration, but you never met people who refuse the upgrade like this latest ship. | "Hello, yes, I hear you, please settle down. Look, will you - yes, I hear you, please settle down so I can speak!
Thank you.
Now, you know why my crew is here. Your old nuclear-fusion drive is an antique, it's worn-out, and it's going to fail in a few decades. We're here to install the brand-new, top-of-the-line Habe... | **Unknown ship,** I am Egox-I-Etherable, of the noble standing Laureate, and I am the maintainer of this section of the FTL network. You have fallen into this sector’s Central Gravitational Junction, and if we do not remedy this error, you will be crushed to death in around 39 years.
**This** is April, your Jumpstand... | 2022-06-02T16:38:22 | 2022-06-02T14:35:25 | 224 | 89 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | Little Bethany Mariah Smith clung on to Father's legs. She hated going to meeting -- all the big scary grownups with their blanket clothes seemed to be just waiting for her to mess up, and Mother always spent ages talking to Sister Ruthie and Sister Tamar.
She was pretty sure -- really sure, actually -- that they had... | The, to be fair rather recently elected President of the 6 Continents (may the people of Europe rest in peace) has spoken in public today:
"Things have changed, for the better and for the worse. We are one free people, unbound by the shackles of what cruel fate had struck us before, yet bound by the need for choice. A... | 2017-11-29T09:55:43 | 2017-11-29T04:06:09 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] Your task from the client was simple; Kill the target and take care of the kid too. It's been 10 years since then, and you've just realised you may have misunderstood "take care of kid too." | “Louie?”
“Yeah, Tony?”
“What the heck is this?” Tony asked, pointing an accusing finger at the child sitting on the beaten-up couch.
The kid waved.
“Oh! That’s just Davie,” Louie explained, taking a beer out of the mini-fridge, “Had to bring him today. School’s out and the babysitter canceled.”
“…You have a kid!?”... | You turn to face the live audience, breaking the fourth wall. You give an exaggerated, almost cartoonist shrug as the camera zooms in and a trumpet accentuates your mistake.
*Wah Wah Wah, Waaaaah*
The crowd roars with laughter.
"I'm such a dope" you exclaim, as you cock your pistol.
"This is turning out to be ***q... | 2022-05-23T09:00:07 | 2022-05-22T14:13:50 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | He opened the wooden door with a long drawn out squeak. In his hand a touch rose up illuminating the room and stretching his shadow behind him like taffy. He gazed at the silhouette laying in a bed decorated in fine silks, the moon outlining the perfect beauty of Princess Marianna.
"Alas my Lady! I have" *Clonk!* he s... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T08:21:48 | 80 | 28 |
[WP] Random people around the world are being granted powers based on whatever video game they choose. Some people summon pokemon, turn into mechs, or gain God-like abilities. A grandmother is asked to choose; however, she is only familiar with mobile games. How did she become so OP? | Let me condense it down for you, capiche?
You see, my grandma- she loves mobile games. When she’s not with her girls playing mahjong, or out gardening, she’s probably on her phone, like me, playing games, like me. In other words, she’s maintained one aspect of my current life in her late years.
Now, recently, games h... | The news said all this craziness was somehow caused by video games. I'm not a gamer. I don't understand any of these laser-lit teenagers, or their weird little pokee animals. I wouldn't have a clue what "powers" are possible based on video games. But I did play that farm thing on the Facebook for a while. Until it slow... | 2022-05-10T13:58:59 | 2022-05-10T13:19:02 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | "Honey. Are you still angry at me?"
Vix, Empress of Medium Earth, Lady of Darkness, Queen of the Shadows let out a sigh, looking up from my throne to face her husband Andrew. He looked back at her, guilt and remorse spread across his face.
"I'm not angry at you," she muttered reluctantly. "I'm angry at the situation.... | She was an evil one. Real villainous through and through—the corruption of middle-aged priests and golden college boys alike. Dirty brown hair draped down in curls and rested just above her heart, black mascara flashing, ruby lipstick glistening. She was beautiful. They said she could keep a dead heart beating and stai... | 2020-04-14T06:39:01 | 2020-04-14T06:02:04 | 439 | 143 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | "I don't understand what you're saying. Can we do it or not?"
"What I'm saying is, I'm not sure. Modern science theory assumes that the luminiferous aether doesn't exist."
"So it's another 'doesn't exist' case. Easy. Make something up and name it luminous whatever."
"Not that simple sir... unlike the usual imagin... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T20:02:33 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | "Well I think that's everybody". I spoke to myself. It was a way to hear a human voice. Everything was otherwise entirely silent. I had just finished running through the last of the blood work. Nothing dangerous there.
It had all started 10 years ago. Time had stopped, as happens to me, and I looked around for whoeve... | "I'm gunna do it". 3 years of searching and 7 years of whatever this is called. No one to talk to, no breeze, no sunrise and no sunset. There's so much I didn't do and all the time in the world yet all i see is the motionless bodies who are waiting for me. I can't bare to go home. The letter I've left should explain...... | 2017-09-07T01:47:15 | 2017-09-06T22:37:48 | 92 | 44 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Roger ran his fingers over the smooth dermo-plastic of the android's thigh. Her muscles tensed by the touch of his fingertips, and tiny goosebumps prickled up. There was something special about building such an advanced creature from nothing -- it made him feel powerful, almost divine.
The surgical lights in the ceili... | *It actually started ringing. The number wasn't a fake, then again how could it be a fake. To be able to leave a phone number on a cell.*
It kept ringing a few times, each sound sending a new shiver through my body.
*Why was I so nervous, then again all this was so surreal, how could I not be?*
Then a crackling nois... | 2018-08-14T07:38:50 | 2018-08-14T06:45:36 | 366 | 148 |
[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..
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"Jesus fucking christ dude. Your room stinks worse than a homeless shelter"
The lady in a black jacket strolled from the darkness. It was so sudden it made me jump. But the leaving the window unlocked had worked, she was inside.
"Sorry. My momma didn't taught me ... | I always thought it was funny that they expect a monologue, that when they're beaten and on the ground that they will get a chance to take a breather and turn it around like some grand spectacle.
But that's not what my dad taught me, he always said "if you're in a fight and knock them down make sure they stay down" wh... | 2019-08-06T20:52:17 | 2019-08-06T19:22:38 | 53 | 30 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic's head. | "Wait where am I? Why can't I move? Why can't I see anything?"
I struggled and tried to move but I couldn't. After what felt like hours light filled my eyes. I didn't open as much they opened on there own. I began to get up and move around an apartment but I wasn't in control. I quickly realized I was not in my ow... | ***Wake up Jimmy***
I said in a soft and whispery voice.
***Wake up Jimmy, it's just 6AM***
*NO, NO, NO, this is not happening, I'm not hearing another voice!!!*
***Oh, yes you are, I'm here, inside your mind. Did you think this moment would never happen? Did you think you are not insane?***
*But, but, but... | 2015-03-23T06:56:50 | 2015-03-23T05:47:41 | 38 | 16 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | "Okay Mr President I'm very sorry-"
"VERY SORRY!? THAT DOESN'T QUITE CUT IT HERE, RHYS"
Okay I fucked up. Man, now Obama is mad at me. Nothing worse than presidential guilt.
"Sir, in all due respect, I'm sure I can fix this." I managed to stammer out.
"Okay Mr Racist, how are you going to fix this?". Obama stared s... | Timothy looked at the computer console in horror. He'd clicked the 'send' button by mistake. Their intergalactic reputation was ruined. In a haste to send a galactic broadcast message, Timothy had used the copy-paste feature to quickly select some text.
The issue was, Timothy had not actually input the correct comman... | 2015-06-19T01:21:54 | 2015-06-19T01:12:02 | 684 | 126 |
[WP] You have the ability to see ghosts and other supernatural beings, but have to pretend otherwise so that you won't get their attention. You had been successful, but after your spouse died in an accident, you struggle to ignore their attempts to interact with you. | I have always been able to see Ghosts. I remember the first one I saw. I didn’t know what I was seeing. It was only the top half of a person, from head to waist, just hoovering around the streets. It was going through people, like they weren’t there. I froze and watched, scared. My mum grabbed and squeezed my hand.
... | You linger
In my mind
Juliet
On my mind
Everyday
Moonlight that should
Give way
To dawn
I see you at the kitchen table
As I hold my tea
And add in salt
In splishing splashing drops
A slick rainbow smudge
Drifts aimlessly across ... | 2019-03-30T02:58:38 | 2019-03-30T02:32:25 | 172 | 26 |
[WP] The Alien Federation has been keeping tabs on the humans of Earth since they first appeared. They do surveillance missions once every 300 years to keep track of our progress, the last mission was 300 years ago. The aliens are shocked by our progress since 1714. | "Wouldn't you know it, the whole damn planet's gone to hell."
"It's not so bad."
"You should have been here three cycles ago. There was so much pristine wilderness, thousands of magnitude more than anything we have back home. It was beautiful. You could camp, hunt, take trophies, anything you wanted three cycles ago.... | I always loved the fjords the most. They were my pride and joy in the creation of Earth. Would you believe that I won an award for it? Oh sure the dolphins and mice will tell you the pluses of other parts of that insignificant spec, but it's the fjords that truly took my breath away.
Looking at Earth in hindsigh... | 2014-10-26T15:47:52 | 2014-10-26T15:06:02 | 148 | 39 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | Negative six?
Huh. Nobody's ever asked for that before.
I waited for the 21-year old male to unravel some master plan. To explain why wishing for negative six wishes was a genius move that I couldn't twist in any way, shape or form.
But no. He just stood there. Patiently waiting.
"Are, uh- Are you sure?" I asked.
... | Contrary to popular belief, genies are not giant blue beings of smoke or clouds, and instead look like a grumpy 80 year old former marine, who has buried his wife, and the only joy in life that have left, is seeing how much they can make a stupid's person life suffer, by twisting their wishes.
And there he sat, arms c... | 2022-12-09T12:16:43 | 2022-12-09T09:09:54 | 315 | 27 |
[WP] We've discovered a method to transfer sleep between people. Businesses arise where people sleep for other people.
I don't care if you write about a sleeper or a buyer. Go nuts! | I was going to kill myself. Then they came up with an alternative existence: sleep.
By law I have to be awake for two hours a day. The rest of the time I sleep, and I get paid for it. Originally I was hired by a big time executive to be his personal sleeper. He provided me with a nicely furnished room in his house. I... | As I look over the ledger of clients for today, I shrug my shoulders. James Jenkins. All I know is that he's using my service to not need to sleep, and make himself indispensable in his office. But the last time I slept for him, he stiffed me.
"I just want to give it a trial period before I pay. That's within my right... | 2014-02-21T06:40:14 | 2014-02-21T04:03:12 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a world where nobody could die until they have carried out their purpose. You have done everything conceivable, but you're still alive after centuries.
EDIT: RIP my inbox. Thank you to those who submitted their writings, I enjoyed reading all of them! | I open my front door, and close it again. It still squeaks. I frown, and apply more lubricant to the hinge, and quickly open-and-close-and-open-and-close the door. It no longer squeaks. Contented, I sit back down at my breakfast table, and gaze out my apartment window at the skyline of Central City. It seems like ... | 0 A.I. That date, was the start of our empire, our whole civilisation and modern life as we know it. Before that time each moment in our lives was a race against the cycle. Each moment a fight to survive against every other species that stalked the jungles, caves and oceans of our world. We lived and died, simply so th... | 2016-05-25T05:02:11 | 2016-05-25T04:16:35 | 61 | 17 |
[WP] Invade the humans they said. It will be fun they said. They only have nuclear weapons, it will be easy they said. Those bastards failed to mention that the humans also bite. | The being limped into the healer's domatory. Limped is perhaps the wrong word: the Thulen dragged itself in. One tentacle was already turning black from necrosis, another missing entirely, and the other nine were all swollen with infection. Of it's seven eyes only one seemed functional. And, even more alarming for a Th... | The Tardigians were a strange race. Born from a world extremely close to its star, they were beings of radiation. A race of gigantic unicellular organisms. Nuclear weapons do little to their tough cellular walls, light and heat may as well be a warm breeze on their skin.
But a nibble from an adorable mouse? Fatal. The... | 2020-09-10T19:39:43 | 2020-09-10T18:54:41 | 2,595 | 434 |
[WP] God is found dead.
EDIT: Reading all of your responses now. Some of these are brilliant. | **This adapted / inspired from Asimov's [The last question](http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm)**
The year was approximately 2.41x10^13 . Man has long ago united in one conscience, a single united entity of pure information, omnipresent and almost omniscient. It has been searching for the completion brought by om... | The man gazed down, an empty expression lacing his face. Cars drove past him in the rain, occasionally splashing the back of his ankles. Multitudes of people swarmed up and down the sidewalk around him. He stood among them like a pebble defying the flow of a river. Every now and then a stranger brushed against him but ... | 2014-02-18T15:06:09 | 2014-02-18T14:57:09 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | Everyone thought it was a joke looking upon the site, a clever trick played by some bored devs ... right? Then they saw the timestamps and got worried, upon governments themselves (After a few higher up individuals having some very embarrassing things leaked about them) raided the supposed location and found nothing c... | I search my name.
Shit.
It’s there.
My name is there. In bright red, my name is plainly written across the screen.
Now everyone can know that I killed her.
I killed her.
*I KILLED HER.*
My hands are shaking. This can’t be real. No. No. No. no.
I’m shaking and crying and breaking down.
NO!
I will spend an... | 2020-02-29T22:29:01 | 2020-02-29T20:52:03 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The world's greatest villain and hero clearly like each other. His monologues when she's captured tend to turn to conversation, and she "accidentally" lets him escape arrest. While they're convinced they're enemies, his henchman and her sidekick are just trying to get them together already. | “C’mon, Jo,” he was saying, exasperated. “This is the third time this month he’s gotten away when you were supposed to be watching. You’re not that incompetent, and he’s definitely not that smart.”
The heroine known to most of the city as Lady Fate scowled. “He’s not my arch-nemesis for nothing, James,” she said stubb... | "You know you could stop this."
"Stop what?"
"Being a villain. I, uh, I know you're a good guy."
"Hmm, I could ask you to do the same."
"Same?"
Terry kept silent, he ate the last piece of pie in his plate.
"How are our roles same?" asked Cassie.
"Here we go."
"No, really. Tell me."
"This is why it's a bad idea... | 2020-11-07T00:52:59 | 2020-11-06T23:30:27 | 135 | 77 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | "Looks like you picked up the wrong guy... This is nothing compared to Afghanistan...," he chuckled, seemingly to himself.
The three that called themselves the Sylph Clan Chiefs recoiled in shock at how completely unphased their prisoner was. "These fates befall all who will not kneel before out might!," they bellowe... | "We have shown them The Horrors, Dread Masters."
*what IS the harvest?*
"Zero, Dread Masters. None were broken by the Truth."
*impossible*
"They said, "You showed us yours, we'll show you ours" and handed us this image archive. It is identified only with the second letter in their common literary symbols, and they ... | 2019-06-11T15:47:00 | 2019-06-11T11:15:08 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Yesterday we received The message from aliens who learned English by intercepting Xbox transmissions. You have been tasked with providing a response to it.
Here is the original, unedited message (top comment) from /u/ChokingVictim:
Greetings, faggots: My name is xXSwaGGy-Quarlax [FaZe], Interplanetary Diplomat f... | What the fuck did you just fucking say about Earth, you little bitch? I’ll have you know we graduated top of our section in the Interstellar Defense Academy, and we’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on the B’tvk, and have over 300 confirmed total planetary annihilations. We have trained gorillas in warfare and ... | Hello xXSwaGGy-Quarles [FaZe].
It appears you have intercepted transmissions from the lower class of our population. Their idiosyncratic ways have caused your efforts to be nil and communication to be difficult.
We hope you may adapt to our proper form of writing and speaking manner so as to establish proper contact.... | 2015-04-04T17:06:51 | 2015-04-04T11:57:37 | 49 | 34 |
[WP] You're the Evil Twin ready to replace and take over your Good Twin's life. But the more you learn about your twin's life, you begin to suspect that they may in fact be the evil twin. | Jealousy is the only emotion I've ever known.
When I was born, my parents carried me to the western cliffs of our village. They lived on an island somewhere far from the rest of humanity. I was only five minutes old but I remember everything perfectly. The sun was setting in blood reds across the horizon. Spidery shad... | I don't even know anymore.
Everyday, I imagine myself being in her place, surrounded by a loving family, hanging out with friends, dancing on the majestic ball room gifted to her. And everyday, I studied everything about her. Her habits, her schedules, her mannerism. I even sneak into her rooms to try her clothes, to ... | 2020-03-20T22:33:06 | 2020-03-20T20:57:39 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | "Your world will burn until it's surface is but glass." That was the message that Gabriel was forced to deliver, the response to hundreds upon thousands of deaths, both human and alien.
The war never ended. There was constant fighting on the fringes of human controlled space, many learned to live underground, still mo... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T02:10:50 | 431 | 205 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | I opened the door a crack, not wanting to wake anyone by flicking on the light. A shaft of warm light from the hall cast a soft glow on the bed, Her bouncy red curls were frizzed all about the pillow as usual, a soft smile curving her lips as she dreamed.
I sighed a little as I leaned against the doorframe, mesmerize... | Everyone has their day, you know? The day that makes or breaks them. Where it's all put in focus and you got to decide what really matters.
Today was my day, I suppose.
It was going completely normal: I got up, cooked breakfast for the kids, got them on their way to school, did breakfast for myself and... her. She...... | 2022-03-23T10:59:45 | 2022-03-23T09:44:16 | 421 | 232 |
[WP] "Son, it's time to tell you about the birds and the bees. They're everywhere. They rule the skies. Here's a gun." | On the island of Miragulku, the groundhogs, who are called Miragupp, live in a burrow underground. The Burrow is an incredible sprawling lattice of caves and tunnels, supported by marble pillars carved with images of ancient Miragupp heroes and kings. The Burrow receives light in two ways. At night, it is illuminate... | The world was four walls. The world was one room with shelves of cans and a small kitchenette and a bathroom behind a curtain. We had solar lamps for our vitamin D, but I had never seen the sun. It was all I knew.
I never thought to ask why we were in the bunker, because I had no sense of there being anything else. E... | 2017-01-27T17:28:26 | 2017-01-27T17:24:14 | 195 | 37 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | Calvin Hearst hurried into the deep core of his main lair pulling off his shirt even as one of his Furies brought him his trench coat and mask.
"I want answers. What happened?"
Fleur turns back from a monitor. "A high school freshman posted video of a dust-up last night. We had some men gathering gear Hephaestus want... | I am practicing songwriting. So here is a musical theater piece on a villain that clearly out-matches his adversaries. It's a comedy song
Nothing irks me quite like knowing that they'll never see my pity
Nothing rattles me to shame to think they've really done their best
It's not enough to pest this city
And with... | 2021-05-20T09:07:51 | 2021-05-20T07:57:21 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] You are deep sea fishing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Your hook snags something big and heavy. You pull it up to find a a coffin covered in rusted chains, you break the lock and open it. A person steps out, coughing gallons of water, and asks “What year is it” | It was late at night me and my crew were about to head back into the harbour. we had been fishing all night with no luck but right as we were about to throw in the towel something was caught, something large and heavy. we pulled it out of the water and found out that it was an ornate coffin like something a rich person... | A man staggered out of the coffin, making his way to the side of the boat. He heaved over the side, not an unusual sight for a newcomer on the boat.
It was a coffin coming out of the Mid-Atlantic, wrapped in chains, filled with water and a living being that was unusual.
After emptying his lungs of water, he turned ba... | 2020-07-18T14:54:28 | 2020-07-18T14:09:39 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You're the clichéd high-school super hero who has to balance heroics and school life. One day, you rescue your love interest while on super hero duty, when suddenly she starts talking about your alter-ego. You decide to stay and talk with her as a to see what she thinks of you at school. | I dropped the sides of the orb and set us down lightly in front of her house. "Wow, that's a pretty neat trick." She says with an admiring lift of her eyebrow.
"Thanks. Handy way to get around." Thankfully I manage not to stammer. Another nice side effect of my shadow powers was that they obscured my face a little. ... | Hey, my name is Jace, but most people know me as 'Jump Set.' I didn't really get to choose my own name. That was the media. It doesn't even make sense. I don't jump or set. I'm not quite sure how my power works, but I can make small balls of energy that kinda eat other things. I just do what's right when I'm not at sch... | 2017-06-20T14:13:24 | 2017-06-20T11:20:46 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | *No.* Death thought. *It couldn't be.*
Death reached below the grand wooden table, hastily pulling out the dust covered hourglass. Questions flooded its mind. *How? When? Who?*
Carefully, Death set the hourglass sideways on its table, like the way it found it, the only one among the seven billion or so hourglasses in... | Interesting, I never really look under my desk. I don't really have time. I have to keep track of the hourglasses that line the walls and go up and down the tables in my office.
To call it an office might be putting it a little gently. You see its more like a warehouse, that is if the warehouse were 17 football ... | 2018-10-03T06:52:49 | 2018-10-03T06:12:47 | 2,861 | 1,453 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | Henry stared blankly at the blinking console. What did the words mean? "67th Percentile in INTELLIGENCE" flashed on the screen then danced away as "51st Percentile in STRENGTH" followed.
"Looks like you're here to be ranked."
Henry turned to see a woman with blonde hair smile at him. She stretched her smile wid... | When I jumped out my truck to enter the lan house, I kept my eyes ahead as my face burned. There were a few people around, staring at me with a strange smile.
Usually those stares did not bother me. One gets used to being stared at, having the big scar that I had crossing half of my left cheek.
But today people were ... | 2019-05-04T13:10:44 | 2019-05-04T12:27:51 | 68 | 27 |
[WP] You're a disembodied consciousness who wakes up every day in a new body. Today, for the first time, you wake up in the same body as yesterday. | Mornings were the worst.
That unnatural heat as the day began, warm air creeping through the cracks in the window as the sun’s rays found their way into my eyes. No matter which body I found myself in, mornings were always the same, a painful experience as I discovered my newest identity.
Stretching my arms up,... | Dying fabulously rich has its perks. One of them is you never die. Not in today’s world at least. My consciousness has been uploaded to a memory Silo. People don’t realize the complexity of the human consciousness. How many resources are required to maintain a fully functional Silo. There are very few people in the wor... | 2021-01-16T23:46:21 | 2021-01-16T22:30:20 | 1,116 | 37 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | I was getting the little ones all settled for dinner when the ringing of the doorbell split my concentration. A part of me wanted to go see who it was so they'd stop ringing the bell (even if no one but myself could hear it), while a larger part wanted to make sure everyone at the table got dinner now that I had got th... | Some may wonder why a normal person like me would run such a place or why no one seems to be able to track my family or why I was abandoned. Though none of that really matters now does it.
It not an easy task running an orphanage, but someone has to do it. These days it’s not so stressful. Some of the children have gr... | 2019-01-17T07:58:51 | 2019-01-17T07:09:50 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] You've been in a strange relationship for the past year with a person on the phone who called you by mistake. Finally, you both decide to meet but when you're both in the same location you figure out somehow you both exist in different realities | Victoria called me by mistake to complain about Game of Thrones. She didn't even wait to hear who was on the other side, she just started ranting while assuming I was one of her friends.
I didn't have the heart to interrupt. Her outrage was incredibly engaging. It completely captured how I felt at the moment. And she... | "Hello? Sammy?" Margaret answered her phone before the first ring finished. She sat on a park bench on a bright sunny day. She anxiously looked left and right every few seconds waiting for him to appear.
"Yeah, where are you?" Sam asked, though it was difficult to hear him. Wherever he was, it was noisy. "I'm here at ... | 2020-04-11T07:23:38 | 2020-04-11T07:14:17 | 392 | 69 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | The Matchmaker - a modern day miracle, if you believe the press. An unprecedented triumph for science and humanity.
Mind you, they don't have to support the bloody thing. I do.
I won't lie to you - it's a seriously impressive piece of kit. I'm not too clear on the science of it all, but the technology side I have do... | The evening news tends to be filled with serious issues. Climate change, terrorism and politics, wrapped into a neat 30 minute show. Unveilings of new machinery and inventions tend to be stuff for local newspapers. Because of that, the final bit told by the grey-haired newsreader was all the more surprising.
Even more... | 2015-11-30T13:37:18 | 2015-11-30T11:35:42 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] One day, browsing reddit, you decide to click the random subreddit button. Upon doing this, you discover a subreddit obsessed with you, with posts lincluding everything you've been doing until a few hours ago. | I never go into random.
If I need to find it, it seems to come to me. Or I'll be on google and the subreddit for the thing I'm googling pops up. But I'm bored as hell.
My computer's been semi-on the fritz. By which I mean, I can barely watch a YouTube video without glitches, freezes, skipping audio... so gaming's out... | I always thought I was a pretty normal though mundane guy. Nothing too exciting. I work a normal boring job, feed my cat every day, a balding, middle aged divorcee with a grown son who is too busy to know I exist. You know the type.
So when Lisa got me into the newest office craze I just thought it would be something... | 2017-10-26T16:39:33 | 2017-10-26T15:19:19 | 267 | 78 |
[WP] In the middle of the State of the Union the President pauses and goes off script starting with the phrase, "...people should know the truth" | "And that's why before I end my second term, I will begin with an overhaul of the prison industrial complex and guantanamo. No more will our children... Our Children. My Children." The president ran his hand over his sweating brow, and the more astute watcher would have noted a tremor in it. "*People should know the tr... | "People should know the truth. The truth about Donald Trump." Contrasting the distinguished demeanor of his salt-and-pepper hair and finely pressed suit, Obama's eyes gleamed impishly, his heavy lids lightening as the corners of his lips threatened to break into smile. "But, I think it would be unfair - unbelievable, m... | 2016-01-13T11:37:41 | 2016-01-13T11:12:07 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "So, these guys could wipe you off the face of the universe," President Walter said with a wide grin. "And you could do nothing about? No death rays? Giant robots? Small robots? Nothing?"
Although his big black eyes were unreadable to humans, the President and the rest of the UN Security Council noticed the little gre... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | 2015-06-07T05:26:09 | 2015-06-07T03:21:24 | 127 | 33 |
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