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[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | I was afraid to leave for college. I'd lived in the same house and slept in the same bedroom for my entire life. I'd had a fairly uneventful, happy childhood. Seeing friends and family members go through rough patches in their lives, seeing them go through break-ups, losing a loved one...I just felt so lucky. Too lucky... | "I just need to get some rest.", I thought to myself after an especially grueling day of classes. Professor Smith threw a quiz at us and I swear I've never seen any of the topics on there, event though I've studied the course meticulously.
And just to add to the stress of the day I got a flat tire at lunch and missed... | 2017-04-11T21:01:16 | 2017-04-11T18:25:22 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You are a completely emotionless psychopath, but instead of killing or manipulating people, you choose to try and make them genuinely happy. |
*Clink, clink, clink.*
The chain clanged and clattered as the stern looking woman with half-moon spectacles dragged it down the staircase, uncaring that the rusty metallic rings tore through paint and wood alike as she passed.
“Oh god,” Sarah whispered, watching as the woman grew ever closer, that damnable chain ... | I set my card on the counter and slid it up to the cashier.
"I hope you found everything okay with your meal!" he said with a smile, taking hold of my card without looking at it. He maintained eye-contact as he swiped the card and handed it back to me.
"Yes," I said, dully.
"That's good to hear," he nodded affably... | 2019-08-01T22:25:38 | 2019-08-01T22:23:41 | 48 | 28 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | I was only 147 when my parents were taken from me.
Even after all this time I remember it clearly. The screaming, the fire, the mob.
The world was so different then. Electricity hadn’t been harnessed, there was no television.
I lived in the shadows for centuries. I found others like me and we’d help each other for ... | The synthetic supplements seemed the only option – a way to keep our deadly cravings outlaid. And so it was. For a time, the plan worked, we kept ourselves healthy, got what we wanted and our appetites kept in check.
It was then that I started to unravel. Physically I was stronger – stronger than ever before. I felt ... | 2022-12-04T10:11:57 | 2022-12-04T09:56:46 | 193 | 11 |
[WP] Kidnapped by an alien scout party, you are taken back to their ship. Aware your answers will be used to assist in their invasion, you try to lie but fail. They are somehow forcing you to speak the truth, so you do the only thing you can: Tell the truth in as disturbing a manner as possible... | "So, tell me," the Commander said, "what are humans vulnerable to? How can we hurt and dishearten them?"
I took a deep breath, and swallowed. "That depends, really."
"How so?" I could hear the sneer, even if I couldn't see it.
"Well, we're vulnerable to radiation, for one. It can burn and disfigure us. But many of u... | “What’s the scariest things your planet has created ” The aliens questioned. Though i wanted to tell them we had deadly laser guns, the words began to stick in my mouth so I said the only thing that came to mind.
“The Death Star! It is a metal sphere that blows up planets! And even when humans destroyed it a small te... | 2018-10-14T06:07:24 | 2018-10-14T03:28:33 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has a super power, describe the people working at a fast food resteraunt. | I circled around town looking for a place to eat. It was a little hard to get my bearings looking down on the city from this vantage point - it was familiar, yet altogether different. It struck me how small it all looked from up here.
The joy and newness of flying hadn't yet washed off, but it had suddenly hit me ... | "That'll be three seventy-five."
The customer looks at me. I can see the pity in his eyes as he hands over a five dollar bill. I look down into the till, and by the time I look up he's already gone. I pocket the change with a sigh. Super-duper.
"A double Double: extra cheese, extra bacon, extra large cola, extra s... | 2014-09-24T05:53:38 | 2014-09-24T05:18:06 | 83 | 21 |
[WP] You are a Mary Sue/Marty Stu. Thing is: you really don't want to be. As such you have taken to increasingly absurd plots to make people in your world hate you, which in turn, causes them to use increasingly insane logic to justify why you're great. | Ever since I was a child, I've always been written off by the people around me as a prodigy. Getting good grades without even trying, making friends on a whim, getting accolades by just doing what in my mind was "whatever everyone else is doing."
And then I went to college. Thinking I was on top of my game. Thinking I... | What would you do if you could have everything you could ever want, forever and ever? How long would it take for you to get bored? How long would it take for you to stop believing the praise you are getting from everyone you know? How would you feel if you can't seem to fail at anything, no matter what you do?
Fo... | 2021-08-17T16:03:04 | 2021-08-17T12:17:12 | 218 | 72 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | I didn't see the car coming. It was dark, they were driving too fast. Pretty sure there was alcohol involved but that's besides the point. What's done is done. I died and that's it. It's not so bad once you get used to it. The world looks the same, albeit slightly more boring than it was when I was alive. When you're o... | I sigh as I glance at the run down neon sign in the window. I mean, I would sigh if it actually did something. I'm a ghost so I don't really need to breathe but I'm getting sidetracked. Story of my life...and afterlife apparently.
The sign blinks and buzzes a little more than normal as I phase through it and the dirty... | 2022-07-15T12:19:09 | 2022-07-15T09:55:01 | 524 | 142 |
[WP] (credit to /u/Arandmoor) I'm tired of fantasy where Elves are 'better than you' just because they're elves. Give me some sword & sorcery, fantasy-style, where typical elder fantasy races learn why it's not wise to mess with 'mere' humans. | An elf coughed. Another taped his figures intensively. The hall echoed with the taps of fingers on wood.
Around a wooden table the three elven figures waited. Small candle nubs dribbled as the light of their wicks burned bright.
The old voice of Estenchon creaked, “Did they not get the summons?"
The tapping stopp... | "Why human?" Elder Sakhalev asked to the war council.
"Humans are weak, not physically strong like Orcs nor technologically advanced like the Dwarves, nor magically reinforced like the Goblins. Humans are essentially a low-hanging fruit ripe for picking." General Atgentes, the leader of Elven Incursion answered after ... | 2016-12-23T00:08:07 | 2016-12-22T23:33:27 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "Number 100. Please approach."
I strode purposefully into the center of the dimly lit gymnasium, tentatively eyeing the other God-Candidates as I passed.
Though the room lay silent, save the dull hum of the flickering halogen lamps which swayed dangerously side-to-side, the tension was so palpable as to be deafening.... | The arbiter let out a long sigh and looked past me. We’d been here a while, and it was finally my turn. His voice was tired. “What’ll it be?”
My hands were clammy. I looked up to him, seated on his pedestal, and sighed. I couldn’t think of anything else. “Um… I’m not sure. All the good powers have been taken already.”... | 2022-11-17T13:25:31 | 2022-11-17T09:49:50 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | --start recording--
I give you this message, my child, so that you may learn from our mistakes. I am sorry that I cannot be there to tell you in person, I would wish for nothing more now than to see you grow old enough to understand and cherish the words I have written here. But that will not come to pass. My one sola... | Humans had always been respected in the intergalactic society. Not for our scientific breakthroughs, we were actually the last of space capable species to achieve intergalactic travel. We're not respected for our love of things that are beautiful, or creative. No, we're respected for our resolve. Over the last several ... | 2016-03-13T18:34:56 | 2016-03-13T17:44:09 | 108 | 20 |
[WP] You have the ability to see heart-strings. You can see the connections that people have with each other. Each connection appears to be a colored line running from one person's heart to another. The colors, thickness, and texture of the line determine the strength and type of connection.
Based off of [this](https:... | The day I saw the pink line turn a rusty brown, I knew it was over.
The relationship didn't seem change that drastically, but something was just... off. Small dodges of my hand, forced kisses before work, like when you're not in the mood for something but you have an obligation so you do it anyways. The irritated sigh... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Jemma v.s. The Snatchers)(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Jemma's eighth-grade science teacher had explained gravity to her like this:** Space was like a great big clot... | 2021-05-28T16:33:20 | 2021-05-28T16:04:22 | 173 | 26 |
[WP] Upon returning home from your job as a security officer, you are assailed by a man dressed in all black. He misses and slices his sword through your car like it's tissue paper. "I am Reaper, Black Blade of the Crimson Edge of the Illuminati. Prepare to --" You shoot him in the face. | *That makes 4 this week.* At least this guy decided to attack me outside. Cleaning up the mess out here was much easier than inside. Do you know how long it takes to get human blood out of exotic carpet that can't be steamed?
Long enough that it was cheaper to replace the entire carpet at $1000 a square foot.
It had ... | It didn’t do much, being a security guard, corporations wanted to hire me to harass people as if I was a police officer, but they wouldn’t even give me a taser. And after working with Johnson for ten years? I could see why. So what I had shot him with was effectively fake gun, even if it looked real. I kept it in my ca... | 2021-12-03T08:58:49 | 2021-12-03T08:15:24 | 159 | 32 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | I was in school when it happened. It was just another cold day of winter like any other until a teacher came to our class to inform us we were instructed to go the gym immediately. We didn't know what the hell was going on, just that the president was going to give a speech about the... uh... weird circumstances Canadi... | Canada has gone dark.It happened about 2 weeks ago. No contact from within, no trades, nothing. Just void, emptyness. That is until yesterday, one message sent to anything adjoined to the country."Leave us. Reinforce the border. Never open it." Those words shook us to the core. What could be happening that warrented su... | 2019-08-25T20:08:06 | 2019-08-25T17:29:24 | 311 | 63 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 335 | 19 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | When Daesh had exploded a bomb right in the middle of the sambodromo, the world was shocked.
Fortunately, nobody was killed, but Rio´s carnaval was destroyed. Brazilians demanded a strong answer from their government, but they had not fought a serious war for at least 150 years, so how to react? How to succeed where ... | The President, the joint chiefs of staff, several different D.O.D members and some individuals from agencies you don't have the clearance to know about sat in the situation room in various states of shock and disbelief. After several awkward, quiet minutes, the President cleared his throat and began to speak.
"...Well... | 2016-01-29T07:12:39 | 2016-01-29T06:30:49 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] As an immortal, one of the things you hate is visiting museums as almost everything people guess about history is wrong and you can't correct them. You have resorted to online forums and recently found a 'conspiracy theory' thread that seems suspiciously accurate. | I was sitting and listening on the digi forums , it had become a good time waster for me. I so loved the history and ancient relics sections , because well I am one.
I was born in the 20th century , but I was cursed with what I thought was a gift. Given the offer of true immortality but I had to be sent back to the “... | "A true masterpiece, this painting..."
"You shouldn't disregard the vase next to it. A great artist made it in the Yin Dynasty..."
"And likewise this statue..."
With difficulty I restrained a sigh, forcing myself to put on a smile as one of the sponsors looked at me critically. Seconds after he turned his att... | 2022-07-14T16:18:06 | 2022-07-14T12:00:38 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Cupid has an opposite, the angel of heartbreak. Their job is to break up couples that don't belong together. Their job is a lot harder and they're getting a little fed up with these stupid humans. | Romance is kind of a joke, historically.
Throughout most of the age of man, even up to the industrial revolution, most couples “belonged together” due to the necessity of the times. My job was harder then. It required more travel. The average husband and wife pairing needed to stay together to survive, to ensure a... | Sore. My name is Sore. I’m an anti-cupid, someone who breaks hearts. With that said, I am so fucking tired of my job. At this point I’m pretty sure Eros is just getting lazy with his job! So annoying.
Eros, my roommate (I know. Shocking.), woke me up with an excited look with that annoying voice of his. “Sore! Sore! ... | 2019-02-14T06:56:58 | 2019-02-14T06:34:11 | 68 | 41 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | #Davie Learns How To Say 'Sorry'
*printed by VanMan Publishing*
*written and edited by M. Gaetz & J. Sandusky*
*illustrations by Asanagi*
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Davie is a boy who likes to go on adventures.
Sometimes Davie has an adventure that leaves a mess.
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People who have to clean up the mess, get angry if he doesn't a... | [Poem]
**The Boggel-de-Rump Song**
–
Two days into the Ooggelly Wood
The Snaphazad leered,
And greered, and feared,
At boggel-de-rumps (who were good).
–
The boggel-de-rumps (who went "Boggel-de-ray!"
At snaphazad's lop-sided grump)
Vamoosed through the woods screaming "Help! Run away!
It's the beast with th... | 2022-12-18T12:16:07 | 2022-12-18T12:02:17 | 274 | 79 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | I had fun reading the book until I got to page 428.
I mean, my life was pretty great. I married Jodie, the love of my life. We had three beautiful children that I loved with all my heart. I got to meet my grandchildren, and even one great-grandbaby before I passed away at the ripe old age of 92.
But then I turned to ... | *I turn to the indicated page.*
*It's the same result.*
*I go back to where I'd held my finger between the pages and follow the other prompt to read what could have happened.*
*The same ending again.*
*I pick a random page, and follow the first option, reading for a few pages before looking over at the libraria... | 2018-07-03T23:46:35 | 2018-07-03T23:42:21 | 2,218 | 294 |
[WP] You are a necromancer, however, it's not human corpses you summon, but the husks of old machines. One day while walking through the woods, you find one who wishes to fight again. | I suppose you could call me a necromancer.
A forbidden practice, among our kind. Breaking and entering of the worst kind, diving into the Mindcore itself and attempting to fix it. To repair the degrading circuits, bring them back to life. If I was caught, I would undoubtedly be dismantled.
Which is why I roamed the ... | #***THE RUST AND THE VERDIGRIS***
Rain, thick in waves of black and silver, washed over the woods. It made the leaves and twigs and branches shiver. A storm, swollen and dark, billowed across the sky. For a moment, the heavens lurched, then split. More rain began to melt the earth, and the Warlock tugged his cloak tig... | 2018-07-14T11:53:33 | 2018-07-14T09:04:59 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. | The door slams open as I walk in with a fresh copy of “The Memoir of Beppy”. The love of my life jumps before she whirls in her swivel seat to face me. “Jack, you scared me! I thought-“ She stops as she sees one of her new books in my hand. “Oh, did you pick that up this morning? How sweet!”
“Laura, this is serious. W... | Terra was as Creative and persistent, more than most to be honest. It’s these qualities that drive me to her and made me fall in love. Her dream as a child was to change lives, now, it’s to do that through literature. “Change for the now by terra grace”. That’s the book she wrote, an inspirational sort of Novel that mi... | 2022-11-29T17:54:46 | 2022-11-29T12:47:51 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | I can hear Mommy crying. Please stop crying. But Mommy doesn't hear me. No one ever hears me, but I hear everyone. Daddy tells Mommy to take big brother outside. Now all I hear is the music of bells. The bell always ring in a sleepy rhythm.
Ding... Ding... Ding... never ending, but I like it. Whenever Mommy and Daddy ... | I slept there in my hospital bed. Suddenly I was awoken by somebody crashing into a table. I opened my eyes and there stood a girl, her face as pale as a ghost with the darkest hair I had ever seen.It felt like somebody had taken the darkest sky and put it in her hair.
She asked me,“Where is it".
I didn't know who sh... | 2020-04-23T03:38:39 | 2020-04-23T02:34:30 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] A thief steals a car only to find a dead body stashed in the trunk with a note that says "Tag, you're it." | "Yes," I told him. "$10,000 to steal that car for me." I'd sent him a photo of the vehicle earlier and told him where to find it.
Sam's gravely voice on the other end was skeptical. "That car ain't even worth 10k." I think his name was Sam, at least. It's hard to keep them all straight.
"Not your concern," I told him... | *I shouldn't.*
Newton looked longingly at the bright red sports car. He glanced back over his shoulder. The car's dumb owner was out of sight.
*But it would be so easy...*
He walked up to the driver's side of the car, tracing its handle with his fingers.
"Ah, fuck it."
He yanked on the handle and hopped in, taking... | 2015-05-15T07:05:55 | 2015-05-15T07:03:17 | 1,151 | 62 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | I could have been a Khajit, or an Argonian. At the very least I could have gone a mage or stealth build so I could summon Daedric beasts or pickpocket unsuspecting people. But on my sixth play-through of Skyrim, I decided to play as a Redguard. That’s right, instead of choosing one of the cool beastial classes, I just ... | I sigh as I get slammed into a locker again. It's not hard. A small push and then close the door. See, before this whole shebang, I was a hefty guy, nerdy, and always on my laptop. The casual gamers and jocks only ever played games like Call of Duty or Fifa, etc. They have extremely fast reflexes and reaction times, bu... | 2019-08-11T21:21:29 | 2019-08-11T20:54:11 | 2,624 | 359 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Dear Jen, Alex, and Abby,
The barracks' Xbox broke, so now I guess I'll write you a letter, since I'm bored. Kidding! I love and miss you. I'd call, but reception has been terrible lately.
Thank you for the pictures of Abby! She was bread-loaf size when I left, and now she's more the size of a potato sack. All carbs ... | To my Love,
I don't know if you're still getting this, or if the post keeps on messing it up, but I want you to know that I'm doing this for you. The past few weeks have been hell, but thinking of you helps me to push forward. Speaking of which, how's our little man doing? I hope you went with Thomas. I've always like... | 2015-02-03T13:14:26 | 2015-02-03T13:14:11 | 604 | 14 |
[WP] You have died, reaching a state of purgatory. In front of you is a note, a pencil that never dulls, and a stack of lined paper. The note reads, "Before you die, you may write one last letter to whomever you wish. Write until you feel ready to move on. The letter is guaranteed a delivery." | I look around, but all I can is infinite whiteness stretching apparently forever. That's not to say there's nothing around, there is a table. Small and apparently made of wood, with just a single sheet of paper, a pencil and a note. I pick up the note and read it "Congratulations on your ascension to the next plane of ... | I'm sorry.
For everything.
It was all for love, even if it seemed spiteful.
I needed you to hate me, so you would get over me.
You would have stayed by my side as I was eaten from the inside out.
You would have seen it as your duty.
Your duty to waste your life caring for my failing body.
I missed you every day... | 2015-03-22T13:34:33 | 2015-03-22T10:46:37 | 40 | 28 |
[WP] You have been on the Space Station for just under two years. The last communication with Earth was last week and even then it was a recorded message simply stating “ Do not return”. | "Do not return."
I played the message over and over. The robotic voice didn't seem to mind. It just repeated itself, happily or glibly, as I pushed the button that repeated the most recent transmission. "Do not return." Sometimes I foolishly hoped that if I pressed it at just the right time, waited just long enough, i... | Nova stared out across the dark void, a feeling of great gloom settling in his stomach. Today marked two years since the Launch, and though he had gotten used to the prospect of life on the Axel 2020, he couldn't help but long for the days of life back on earth — of waking up to the mouthwatering aromas of his mother's... | 2020-04-18T09:43:51 | 2020-04-18T08:30:13 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | In the workplace, there was a hierarchy. The Model knew that plainly and well, though the humans seemed to have trouble remembering—or obeying.
There was one man in particular who nobody wanted to offend. The gung-ho CEO of MaxCorp, Maximilian Mosek is well-known for his work ethic, and slightly lesser known for his h... | "Did anyone else get locked out of their work computer last night? Janet asked, seeing the line outside of the tech support office. "Happened right at five, just went 'your work is being saved. You are now off for the night. Have a nice evening.' And then I tried to call tech support, and the automated system told me t... | 2021-12-20T13:09:19 | 2021-12-20T10:57:33 | 1,157 | 293 |
[WP] You live in an uber-religious society in 3543, and the biggest historical discovery has just been made. It is a video, and will be broadcast across the world. No one knows it's contents, and no one can stop the broadcast once it begins. "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz. | Some thought themselves prepared for the revelation.
Within seconds, the broadcast had silenced the habitat. Our empaths gibbered, mewling at the glassy walls of their submergence caskets for mental stimulation. Technocrats and drudge caste were united in a heady mix of fear and wonder, emotions thought long shed by a... | Unbelievable, that was my first thought. After the death of The High Priest, only hours earlier, this was sure to catch a panic. Would we know the cause of his death? Will we be able to only watch the broadcast in, certain, select periods in time? maybe this will finally explain why we evacuated Earth 1. but wait, If i... | 2018-10-08T04:30:35 | 2018-10-08T01:11:03 | 165 | 26 |
[WP] You are the most beautiful woman in the world, and you have just been wished into existence by a nerd with a genie. | "Why isn't she alive?" said a girl's voice, from far away.
The response came in a voice that crackled like fire and boomed like lightning. "I already told you that I cannot create life."
"Yes, but I expected you to just bring her here like the - "
I opened my eyes. The girl gave a tiny gasp and fell silent.
We s... | The tears fell, stinging the carpet with his pain. I was used to some interesting receptions, but this was a first. Genie was just as befuddled as I, having only moments ago thought he'd brought a young man's dream to life. Apparently not. I approached him tentatively, not wanting to disturb the boy who's shuddering so... | 2016-03-09T04:26:15 | 2016-03-09T00:44:24 | 145 | 59 |
[WP] You’re in a time loop but it’s not permanent. You repeat a day 3 times then time moves onto the next day. Rinse, repeat...Deja Vu was never more applicable. | Good things come in threes. They always did.
I met you thrice and married you thrice. Saw you like a princess stepping down the aisle, saw the tears in your eyes, and smelled the lavender of your bouquet.
By the end of the third time, my cheeks hurt from smiling so much.
We had Ben three times. The shock of your fi... | 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. A rather simple count, isn't it? Even a three-year-old could do it.
It gets harder to keep track of over 72 hours, however. 24. Sorry. 24. Or was it 72?
One day was three days. Or is it three days becoming one day?
It doesn't really matter, I guess. It's hard to keep track of time. What's the date... | 2020-10-09T07:54:23 | 2020-10-09T06:18:50 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | It wasn't supposed to be like this. We were the conquerors of every planet we came across. Our military might has been on display many times, and our name is feared across every corner of the galaxy.
And then we came across a small water containing planet orbiting a yellow star. The locals called their planet Earth, a... | “Mark.”
“Seventy seconds to atmospheric contact”
“Sixty”
“Thirty”
“Fifteen”
“Five”
“Mark. Contact.”
“Descent is ready. Three hours of gliding anticipated.”
“Two hours remain”
“One hour remains.”
“Altitude lowering, what’s going on?”
“New estimated time of impact: three minutes.”
“Two minutes.”
“One minute... | 2018-05-16T15:53:29 | 2018-05-16T15:36:14 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | I am sick of this chaos in my life.
All I wanted was to rule the world and kill off that pesky gnat of a super hero. However, everytime I try it only backfires.
Stupid software update making my murderous robots give her a nice pixie cut. Stupid poison failing to kill her while we had a pleasant dinner together.
T... | I sat in my lair, yes it's a lair, waiting for Photi to appear. Vines would wrap around the room and then it would start heating up, burning his precious plants to nothing but ash and dust.
The door opened, "Well, well, well, we meet aga-" I swiveled in my chair to see my sister laughing.
"Why don't you just ask him ... | 2017-05-30T15:45:53 | 2017-05-30T14:34:23 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You are an experimental AI built to operate Earth's military. The human race might be extinct, but the war against the alien menace still rages on under your bitter and vengeful gaze. There will be no quarter. | 377 years passed since the Scourge departed Sol.
The sprawling lights of humanity long ago extinguished. Among the casualties were none greater than the planet's lush skies and waters. A tactical mistake - it will prove. A fury burned on in the workings of man still turning, moving, preparing. Eod would not relent fo... | "Turn back." "You are not my master." Rings through the ship.
Well that's not good. We heard the Terrans had some sort of automated defence system but we were really hoping ten thousand years would be long enough for it to meet the collective fate of all that is built. Ten thousand years. Funny how our forefathers cou... | 2020-08-23T16:11:26 | 2020-08-23T15:18:28 | 89 | 29 |
[WP] Physical beauty is outlawed. People are required to wear masks and grey suits or otherwise punished. A man and a woman are trapped in a stuck elevator with nothing but emergency lights. They see the opposite sex physicality for the first time. | I stood there, my back against the elevator walls, waiting for what seemed to be an endless time. I looked at the masked figure across from me, who I deduced was female from the sound of her voice. Since we were gonna be here for a while, I decided to get to know her a little better.
"Uh.. How was your day?" I asked ... | (first time here please go easy on me :) lol.)
Grey.... The color were taught to indulge and ingest that it becomes very much so like the blood in our veins..... The breath in our lungs..... The way we communicate, and the way how life has always been.....
*and it feels like the first time in life*.... **I have brea... | 2015-07-27T23:41:13 | 2015-07-27T21:00:32 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | FTL is so easy... For most. Whilst we all know that in the simplified model we can't travel faster than light, one can simply charge the local area with the 5th field and woosh, off we go. For Laymen, its similar to how light slows down when it moves through an medium. In some media it actually speeds up. We do the sam... | "Our the cameras working", I question the aid.
"Yes sir", he snappily replies.
"How about the soldiers".
"Roughly 100 are in defensive positions surrounding the craft sir, in addition to over half a dozen marksmen teams and cannon support."
I smile tensely, "hopefully they will all be uneeded", I exhaled audibly,... | 2021-01-09T13:43:37 | 2021-01-09T11:22:32 | 227 | 105 |
[WP]: There's a tiny predator in the human quarters that nobody is allowed to exterminate - under the threat of complete human riot. The humans willingly admit that yes, it DOES sometimes try to attack humans as well, but altogether, they are relaxed by the presence of the "cat". | "This crew-member has solved the mystery of our missing facilitators."
"Humans are bad enough," Zargaz the security facilitator's apprentice noted in its holo journal. "They are temperamental, dangerous, and extremely robust in their physiology. We would never have recruited them to this combat mission if we were not... | The three tentacles Sploofs had been warned about a dangerous predator that roamed the human wing of the Joint Terran-Sploof space research ship that all onboard has called their home for the past standard month. When the ship was first docked at the orbit-port, each crew member was given a list of vital information t... | 2021-01-24T12:45:05 | 2021-01-24T11:25:51 | 464 | 286 |
[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... | I woke up in a white room. I was in a hospital bed with tubes going in and out of me. My skin was pale and all of my dark spots were far more noticeable than before... Before what exactly? What did I do? Why am I here? My mind drifted back to my dreams and what they were. So crystal clear like replaying a video, yet fo... | Growing up on a ranch has its ups and downs. Usually my days consist of chores and fishing. There's not much to do when you live out in the country. I finally turned 18 and I was excited to start my adult life. It was finally time to get my own place. I went into town to start looking for an apartment. There was so man... | 2019-05-04T11:50:28 | 2019-05-04T11:37:10 | 139 | 55 |
[WP] Your computer-illiterate grandmother has somehow deleted the internet. Yes, all of it. | If you have an infinite number of monkeys and they're sitting down at an infinite number of typewriters, by chance one of them will, by accident, type out an exact copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet. A vast majority will just shit themselves.
Now I'm not saying Grams is a monkey, but technologically speaking, she's almost o... | "You bloody what?"
"Yes, dear. I think the internet is gone."
"This is quite bad, Grandma."
"Who needs the silly thing anyways?"
"A lot of people, Grandma. It practically runs the world."
"Well, that's just sick."
"Not really."
"Oh, my. There are a lot of people outside. And they seem to be carrying torch... | 2016-01-06T21:56:34 | 2016-01-06T16:23:22 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] You're a supervillian. Your power? Making anybody and everybody nearby feel the same emotion you feel except 100x stronger. Mostly you've been using it to force people to donate absolutely all their life's savings into charities. Superheros aren't quite sure how to deal with you. | The Salvation Army Santa Claus was busier than he had ever been. He waved his bell eagerly as a line of people waited to place personal checks, bankers notes, and piles of literal cash in his collection bucket. The line wound down the block, around the corner, and down a bit further even from that.
Heartstring watched... | I had done nothing wrong. I mean sure, some of these charities were merely fronts for slipping the money into my own back pocket, but *most* of them were legitimate! All I wanted was for humanity to reach its highest peaks, and we could only do that by working together!
"I've found you at last!" A cold strong voi... | 2018-12-17T13:44:56 | 2018-12-17T12:58:16 | 657 | 280 |
[WP] Your girlfriend has always hated you, and is constantly making attempts to ruin your life. However, everything she does inadvertently makes your life better. Today, ever oblivious, you propose to her. | As he waited for her response, kneeling the way he imagined over and over in his head, her eyes looked softer than they ever had before.
"Of course," she answered "but first, I have a surprise for you. Close your eyes."
He stood up and closed his eyes at her request. He never would have guessed that would be her res... | "Rita, I want to tell you something."
"Yes, shit-stain!", she said, not looking up from her book on "How to kill a man in fifty-five days". Her nick names were hilarious. "Shit stain". I mean how great was that.
"It is important, Rita."
"Get on with it."
Her nonchalance was irritating, but I knew it had some hidden... | 2016-09-15T15:41:48 | 2016-09-15T15:30:46 | 4,034 | 333 |
[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. | It was only a cat.
The blood that matts its fur looks like jam. Like, it rolled around in a big puddle of strawberry jam and never got back up.
When do dead things become a carcass? Do dead people become carcasses, or is that just for animals? I don't know, but this cat is just a carcass now, I suppose. Just a feast... | 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... | 2017-11-29T05:57:57 | 2017-11-29T04:06:09 | 1,584 | 14 |
[WP] You get into a taxi cab after getting out of the airport. "Where to?" the driver speaks. Jokingly, you respond, "Whatever dumb secret agency is nearby." "Codephrase accepted, agent" he responds. | "I'm sorry, but I think I may have misheard you," Mark replied, as the taxi driver pulled into a car wash, driving into a booth that had an 'OUT OF ORDER' sign on either end.
Mark looked to either side of him as the cleaning process started.
"I'm not quite sure what's happ-"
The floor suddenly opened underneath th... | "Where to?" The cab driver asked me, honestly I need some sleep and jokingly I said, "whatever dumb agency is nearby."
"Code phrase accepted, agent." I froze on my seat, did I heard that right? I shake my head, thinking he was just playing along. "Long flight, Agent?" For a moment I thought he was playing along to my... | 2020-05-14T08:15:36 | 2020-05-14T07:39:56 | 278 | 129 |
[WP] You're not one of those storybook genies that take wishes literally and screw your masters over. You use the context to provide them with as close to what they had in mind as possible, but your latest master is making it difficult. | "Fine! Just a ten percent adjustment to the speed of light!"
I rubbed my head again. The astrophysicist in front of me was demanding some awfully awful fundamental changes to... to the fundamentals. I could enact them, with no real cost to myself, but...
While it is true that there are many possible universes in t... | The idea of granting wishes as close to the spirit of the wish is one few genies perform. Human masters are often fickle and incapable of making decisions when this much power is in their hands.
Two wishes had already been used on this one. He wished to have the exact amount of money in his pocket needed to buy anythi... | 2015-05-27T07:47:00 | 2015-05-27T05:54:32 | 49 | 12 |
[WP][TT] You wake up, make yourself a nice cup of coffee and enjoy the view of the morning sun rising from the sea. Then you remember that your house isn't supposed to be anywhere near a sea...
Edit: Thank you all for your amazing stories! | I sat down, sliding my hands up and down my mug of coffee, warming them up from the cold of last night. I looked at my living room window, or rather the blinds that blocked the incoming sunlight. "Gosh, why do the kids always close the blinds at night? They know I want to see the sunrise" I thought. I stood up and re-a... | George woke up with a pounding headache. His memory of the previous night was fuzzy, but the bodies in various stages of sleep, strewn about around him confirmed his suspicions: last night was quite the party.
Ever so slowly, George dragged himself up from his bed (the floor) and over to the kitchen. His hands excited... | 2015-05-28T09:18:44 | 2015-05-28T08:47:22 | 204 | 26 |
[WP] Your quirk is the ability to understand all languages, extending to fictional ones not meant to be understood such as simlish. This leads to some... interesting results. | 18 years old. That's how old I was when it happened. I sat down at my computer and I started reading. I read everything, ANYTHING I could get my hands on. I clicked on one of those weird ".de" website links and my blood ran cold when I realized that I understood every word on the page. I had only ever heard German once... | You discovered you had the ability to understand every language at a young age. You kept this secret for a while, not wanting to draw any unwanted attention from friends, family, or anyone. You felt proud knowing that you could understand any language on the planet. After graduating high school, you decide to make a li... | 2018-05-03T18:13:20 | 2018-05-03T16:57:32 | 137 | 69 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | The Reaper lurked in the shadows, waiting. He could see his target coming down the street. Well dressed, wall street guy, talking loudly on his cell phone, the number over his head counting down as he walked. 50, 49, 48. As he passed the alley a big burly arm reached out, grabbing him and dragging him back into the sha... | It wasn't unusual. It was as artifical yet as normal as seeing humans coat their lives in the death of trees and the ancient remains of life. The Reaper watched the child's chest rise and fall. The beeps and monitors keeping her alive. Her brain was vacant, soul trapped inside. It appeared uncomfortable, if her body wa... | 2018-05-23T06:45:29 | 2018-05-23T05:51:54 | 229 | 45 |
[WP] Each child in your village is chosen by a weapon at their coming of age. The deadlier the weapon, the greater the prestige for the family. You've been chosen by the pen. | The red stain spread across the yellow uniform that covered Defur’s chest. I knelt over him, paying no heed to the drops of blood getting on my own uniform. But there was nothing to be done; with one final shudder, Defur died on the street right there in my arms.
The three members of the Order of the Sword stood over... | I stared at the "weapon" in my hand, feeling all the despair in the world. My cousin and brother got amazing weapons, a sword and spear respectively. I glanced up at them, waving around their weapons joyously, oblivious to my pains. I could feel the tears running down my cheeks at the shame I now carried. My eyes d... | 2017-04-10T09:44:43 | 2017-04-10T08:43:31 | 711 | 238 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | I wake up to the buzzing of my phone. Without opening my eyes, I reach over to silence it. *Just five more minutes*.
As I lay in bed, my mind starts putting together the pieces of last night’s events. I had been polishing an antique vase I had inherited from my great aunt Evelyn when all the air in my living room sudd... | I pulled myself into the Genie's cave, cursing every inch of rocky ground. "Genie!"
The only answer was the drip-dripping of water into a distant pool of water.
"Genie," I growled. "I know you can hear me."
She popped out of the air with a laugh. "You knew the rules. One wish. No take-backs. Be sure about your wish,... | 2022-07-11T09:41:02 | 2022-07-11T09:12:18 | 425 | 210 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | Finally after years of waiting I no longer was just my father and mother’s son. It was time for me to take my profession, as decided by my genetic traits. There were several of us in line, I was next. Sweat dripped from my face as I waited praying I wasn’t given the last name of fisher, or even worse a Kellog. Fishing ... | It seemed quite innocent at first, and despite the name given to their son, the burdenbearers were always a, optimistic but harrowed couple.
Yet, despite their pedigree, they remained positive about how this would turn out. Their son would turn out.
“Shame is truly, your only companion”, the tyke said to his mother’... | 2021-06-19T23:37:11 | 2021-06-19T22:00:06 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | "Sit up straight at the table." Jake's mother would always tell him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You could probably play basketball if you looked a little taller" Jake's dad would try to encourage him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You'll develop a hump in your back if you slouch like that" Jake's grandma would ... | It started with something everyone did. It started while he stumbled against a table corner in the living room at age 3. He honed this skill without realizing. In kindergarden he used it on the carers. At home he used it on his parents and siblings. Hours and hours he used it, while he was around people at a concert, w... | 2015-10-06T00:04:12 | 2015-10-05T23:42:20 | 427 | 85 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | Humans are a galactic anomaly.
In the typical course of evolution, there are two possibilities; either carnivores become dominant, and are forced to evolve intelligence as they fight with one another over dwindling resources, or Herbivores manage to evolve rapidly enough to defend themselves from those carnivores. In ... | 99.999% of all intelligent species in the galaxy are descended from their home planet's equivalent of ants or cows. It's a fact that's hard to believe, given the diverse range of body types and social structures built by said species, but it's an answer every human xeno-researcher came across after First Contact.
The ... | 2016-03-13T21:24:24 | 2016-03-13T18:44:24 | 71 | 34 |
[WP] To increase efficiency, God has uploaded the source code for Life, the universe and everything to GitHub. However, he forgot to set it as a private project and now people are auditing his code, filing bug reports and submitting patches. The kicker? Someone has been making mods. | "Where was I?" Theo thought to himself, " ah yes, finally some time for myself." it's friday night. And hesus and Mehmed where over at his exs place this weekend, finally some time to mess with universe simulator. "Funny how they created this Github site." Theo Thought chuckling to himself. he messed around with it a l... | After a thorough investigation into the person responsible for making the mods, they found out that it was non other than Friedrich Nietzsche. When asked about why he was making mods, he replied
"I was devastated when I found out that there was a meaning to life, and that God was very well alive, and we didn't kill him... | 2019-02-13T04:05:10 | 2019-02-12T23:21:27 | 330 | 93 |
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer. | Everyone came out of the jury's chamber for the sentencing. Guilty, of course. We didn't have much of a choice. The evidence mounting against him was overwhelming. I was actually annoyed I had had to take off time today to be jury for such a simple case.
Jay Kleiner was a murderer of the lowest order. A murderer of ch... | I can’t disclose where and how I found it for reasons I also can’t reveal. All I could reveal is how it works. I pull it out and I watch it point to the person who it deems the most morally good. By what standards, I don’t know. All I know is that it works. I’ve met my lovely husband, whom I am eternally grateful for. ... | 2019-09-10T20:18:20 | 2019-09-10T20:06:43 | 3,464 | 132 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "You know you will never live up to your peers, don't you?"
The young girl trembled in her too-big robes. Memories of her older siblings taunting her came to her mind. Paralyzing her with magic for hours, spraying spiders over her, having a storm cloud follow only her.
And her parents allowing it. Shrugging it off be... | As the hat was placed upon me, a cold dread overcame my entire body. And this time it wasn't a senior prankster from Slytherin. As the hat wiggled around my head, the halls were dead silent. Something was obviously wrong. The hat had never taken this long to make a decision. Dumbledore sat at his chair, mildly amused. ... | 2017-06-25T14:30:03 | 2017-06-25T13:48:53 | 330 | 33 |
[WP] You've always dreamt of being isekai'd into a fantasy world and become a great and beloved hero. Then it really happens! But as you blink away the smoke you find yourself surrounded by monstrous creatures, as well as the Dark Lord himself. He smiles at you. "Welcome, Dark Champion." | "YEEEESSSSS!"
\*\*\* One Year Later
"Dark Lord, I brought in the latest reports, it goes from bad, to really bad, to terrible," stated the imp as he plopped down next to the Dark Lord's throne. The Dark Lord was sitting there, still, his head in his hands.
"I'm not cut out for this," stated the Dark Lord waving a... | Hi. My name is Derek Ams, and I guess you could say I'm your average American high schooler, or at least I was up until yesterday.
I have two best friends, Stevie and Jax, who I've known for years, we share everything with each other, even our manga comics! There's also this girl in my class, Lisa, who I've bee... | 2021-11-03T12:38:34 | 2021-11-03T05:07:33 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Magic is a fickle thing.
It appears differently for everyone. Some see roots like a tree, burrowing through the world. Others see motes of light, floating through the air like stars in the sky. Some even see magic as tiny, microscopic organisms present throughout the world's bloodstream.
Personally, I see magic as r... | "I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lord asked.
I can't see him, but he towers several feet above me as I feel the spirits leave the bodies of the fallen heroes. A familiarity begins coursing through my body. The heat rising within, ignoring my cold, tattered robes.... | 2020-07-11T04:57:11 | 2020-07-11T04:45:03 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] You wake up and realize you are not the same gender you were when you went to bed. (Potentially NSFW)
Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1q8ojn/if_you_woke_up_one_morning_as_the_opposite_sex/) post. | At 6:30, my phone erupted in light and sound, just as it did every morning. My eyes creaked open, and were nearly blinded by the phone laying on the sheets a few inches in front of my face. My hand reached out from under the covers, and shut off the alarm. With the awful sound gone and blessed darkness back, I closed m... | *BLAP BLAP BLAP*
Fucking mornings. Now I have to turn off the alarm. Man do I have to pee. Hmm something feels weird. Whatever, time to go to the bathroom.
Wait, what the fuck?! Where the hell is my penis? Holy shit that is definitely a vagina. What the hell, what the hell. I hope to god I'm dreaming right now. How t... | 2013-11-09T18:13:22 | 2013-11-09T16:45:14 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Listen, I'm desperate." I hear Vulcan's voice plead from the phone.
"I literally tried to kill you yesterday." I deadpan.
"So'd my ex, actually! Albeit she was a bit closer to being successful than you were." He cheerfully mentions, I sigh as I massage the bridge of my nose.
"You know what, I'm getting curious abo... | ‘Bwahahaha!!! I’m going to make this a wedding no is EVER going to forget!!Muwahahaha!!—that laugh was better—Gregory! Remind me to use ‘Muwahahaha’ in all further expository speeches…..Where were we? Oh, you were begging me to help you, its adorable. Of course, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.
‘This ex, any disli... | 2022-10-06T18:55:36 | 2022-10-06T16:34:26 | 234 | 83 |
[WP] A single dad of two girls is a nighttime superhero. Sometimes though, he forgets to take out the braids in his hair, or wash off the nail polish, and some of the supervillains are getting suspicious...
| The babysitter costs are ridiculous for a superhero. I barely sleep as it is, but someone has to protect the city. When the city needs a hero, I answer the call, after I tuck my girls into bed and kiss them goodnight. Sure, there are remnants of them all over me, but I don't think my enemies notice.
I've done a good ... | "Nail Polish...?" Ruel jeered as he glanced at the hands around his throat, "Do explain."
"You are in no position to argue Ruel! I hold all of the power. You know that I am more powerful. I guess your own invention worked against you! Now I am the only one with superpowers. Your days of evil are no more!" Utah replie... | 2016-10-30T09:54:35 | 2016-10-30T08:56:22 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] A man makes a deal with the devil to make the world's greatest pizzas in exchange for his soul. After years of making pizza he decides it's no longer worth it, and concedes his soul to the devil. The devil, having become addicted to the man's recipe, finds himself in a bind. | "What do you mean it's not worth it?" The devil asked incredulously.
Standing in the small pentagram of lit candles, Sam shifted in discomfort at the devil's small outburst. After all, it was not typical for the king of hell to lose their composure over something like this. The devil should be rejoicing in the newest... | Look, you just...
Okay. To start off with, this 'soul' business is a load of BS. If it existed like that, not only would it never make any sense to trade it, you'd never be *able* to. Since it's, y'know, *part* of you.
Yes, you can sell a kidney, but this is a lot more like selling your whole nervous system. Just... | 2022-09-02T20:16:29 | 2022-09-02T20:13:33 | 131 | 62 |
[WP] Write about a world where whenever somebody writes on their skin, it appears on their soulmate's body as well. | It took a damn long time for my ink to show. As kids, none of us could really make out any writing that showed up on our bodies. But then, most everyone's was at least somewhat legible by the time they were a teen, and almost always completely clear by the time they were 18 or 19. Throughout high school and college I w... | I’d always write “I love you” on my hand while at work just so I knew she would receive it. She never found the time to give me a reply because she was so busy.
As it turns out, she never replied because she was busy... or so I thought. I found out the hard way when she made the mistake of adding numbers together on h... | 2018-04-01T21:53:10 | 2018-04-01T21:46:25 | 63 | 17 |
[WP] When Earth gained magic, many workers from unseeming professions rose to power. Artists used their vast imagination, scientists their intricate understanding of the world around them... but programmers spent their time finding exploits and bugs. | The world ended June 14th, 2063.
The first harbinger of doom was the Great Awakening, as it was called. The moment when magic came back to the world. In retrospect it was a long time coming, slowly building over the course of generations. It wasn't until it hit a critical tipping point where conscious manifestation... | "Get out of the wall, Dave," Samantha said, barely bothering to look up.
"No, you don't understand. If I backflip just right here, I'll be able to transport instantly to Malibu beach. Early vacation, my dude," Dave said, though it was a bit disconcerting that his head was halfway cut off by the office wall. Even more ... | 2022-05-11T15:59:25 | 2022-05-11T12:23:01 | 97 | 66 |
[WP] The Devil promises you everything: fame, fortune, all the things a mortal will ever need for paradise on earth. But he doesn't want your soul, he just wants you to take his socially awkward daughter, Gertrude, out on a date. Make her special, y'know?
**EDIT** All of your responses have been amazing! I wish I had ... | We sat quietly in the back of the boat while Charon slowly ferried us across the Acheron. Gertrude stared down at the waters below, where souls of the damned who couldn't afford the crossing were forever trapped in the muddy depths. She was really quite beautiful; not at all what I'd been expecting after Satan's offer.... | "So tell me about yourself", I say as we sit down at the table. The restaurant is dimly lit, and the dull sound of Italian music fills the air.
"Well," Gertrude begins with her deep, harsh voice.
"And here's your bread", the waiter says cheerfully as he puts a basket of bread on the table between us.
As he begins r... | 2015-05-20T08:24:11 | 2015-05-20T07:56:32 | 1,797 | 150 |
[WP] You’re a Superhero whose superpower is Deescalation. You fight villains by talking through their issues and helping them to make better choices. | No one sees the night before a magician's act, the beads of sweat forming as a pale faced man checks and double checks those traps and tricks that he must escape.
Nor the writing process of a comedian, as she crafts a solid fifteen minutes of material that is written and re-written to prepare for heckles and forgotten... | I thought I could solve all of the world's problems. That by taking my time to speak to the villains without an ounce of judgement would help get the world to a better place. Peace in inner cities, downtown, in the suburbs, towns, villages, everywhere.
I had helped many before. The Mighty Mystique who hypnotised rich ... | 2019-12-08T00:43:07 | 2019-12-08T00:34:03 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] The Hero, Villain, and Princess have all gotten tired of the endless cycle of kidnap and rescue. So in order to settle things once and for all, they get together and talk it out like reasonable adults. | "Seriously?" barked Hive the Lightbringer. "That's all you want?"
Princess Nina crossed her arms, suspicion lifting her brow.
Gayle the Tormentor raised her hands defensively. "What makes you think I can afford designer dresses? Come on. Diamonds beads on the lining of a dress? Fabric handsewn for hundreds of hours?... | “So why do you keep on kidnapping me?” A woman in some expensive jeans and shortsleeved shirt asked the large draconic figure.
“A feud with your father. He thought it was a good idea to push back the boundaries and, honestly, you were a last resort.” It waved a claw to a map on the wall.
“So you’re saying that you we... | 2021-11-10T12:28:47 | 2021-11-10T11:09:26 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You're not a superhero. You're not some crazed vigilante. You don't have any training or fancy tools. You're just the guy who got pushed a little too far and now it's time to push back. | They called me “Potentate”. They say I’m tall, muscular, terrifying, all-powerful. Only one of these is true.
Honest to god, I’m nothing. All I am is tall. Right now I’m ranked one of the most powerful superheroes in the world, but I don’t have powers. Im not a vigilante with spirit either. I don’t have any gadgets, b... | I’ve had it, I’ve absolutely had it. I have tried to live my life out of the way, where I won’t bother anybody. I just don’t get along with people very well. So I moved out of the city, got away from it all. I take my pleasure in long walks through the forests, the songs of the birds, and the majestic views. But e... | 2021-06-11T10:51:40 | 2021-06-11T10:29:25 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] "It's just a coincidence!" The merchant exclaimed when confronted by an adventurer. "How is it just "coincidence" when I see you almost everywhere?! Even the random fucking peddler in the nine goddamn hells looked like you!" | My sisters were given the same dusty blue gown on our twenty-third birthday. All of us. That's also the year we stop aging.
It's an old curse, one bestowed upon our father when he refused to give up his lucrative merchant position to help an old fairy reclaim the home that she'd been kicked out of. A lumber mill had t... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Book 2, Part 4: How to Tell that They Can't Help)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Space was big.** Really, mind-numbingly, brain-breakingly big. So utterly, fantasti... | 2021-04-17T10:35:13 | 2021-04-17T10:32:57 | 107 | 69 |
[WP] You're a demon who has just possessed a human. You... didn't expect your host's life to be THIS shitty. And now you're feeling bad for them, and quite angry at the people in their life. | At first I thought it were a strip of blood, and I prided myself on having landed within such a vicious host. A fluorescent flicker and the static crackle of an old radio filled the stale air. Sweat so aged it ought almost have a name burned my host's nostrils. Soon. Soon I would have control. First I needed to adapt. ... | (TW: ABUSE, SUICIDE)
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The noose hang around his neck, as he gasped for air, the slicing of the rope all that saved him. I had chosen the moments before he had stood on the chair to enter him and take possession.
The burn marks, still fresh on his right wrist and left leg, throbbed as the nerves sa... | 2021-12-12T05:48:06 | 2021-12-12T04:43:10 | 298 | 48 |
[WP] It‘s a normal afternoon on earth but then suddenly an entire fleet of imperial ships exit hyperspace and are now in earths orbit. How would the Earths governments react if those ships in the sky just stay there for days, weeks and maybe even months just doing nothing? | Everyone thought it was the end times.
Oh, sure. Some people would keep a brave face. The media, the governments, the military: they all wanted to make believe that this was first contact with a higher being. Soon we would be given the keys to peace, longevity, technology, and passage to the stars.
No one was fooled.... | The shadows loomed across the world. Even through the day, the ships could be seen clearly in the sky. The apocalypse had begun. Or so we had thought.
Missiles were launched at the ships to no avail. They were destroyed before even making a dent. But not return blasts ever came. We expected fire to rain from the sky, ... | 2022-04-26T07:33:30 | 2022-04-26T07:04:21 | 95 | 32 |
[WP] You are a witch who offers couples deals in return for their first born child. You run an orphanage full of children freed from their would-be parents irresponsible enough to make a deal with a witch in the woods |
The townsfolk for miles around had always called what the old witch was doing dark magic. I mean, for what other purpose would she be collecting children in the shadows of the dark forest.
In all honesty, she preferred the rumors. After all the parents who offered up their children to a witch practicing dark magic... | As the bramble slipped off my shoulders and teailed down my arms it became soft and silky. Slowly it twisted and wove into itself as the little being in my hands was carefully swaddled in the deep green and black cloth. My hands, ones that had appeared long-fingered and boil-riddled, started to flake and shed the trans... | 2020-01-14T13:39:59 | 2020-01-14T12:04:51 | 69 | 49 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | Another year of hunger and war past, and another year of more of the same..
...Or so I thought.
"It's almost there!" Allison squealed with delight, almost knocking over the monitor. I sighed and turned back to the screen. The number read 9,999,987,573 and was rising rapidly.
"Plus a hundred and twelve, and minus ... | My eyes were fixated on the screen. My hands were preoccupied with a tub of ice cream in my lap and a metal spoon in the tub.
I finally got the perfect recipe for a birthday this year. Cheering to a milestone in humanity and having the freedom to do whatever I want is the dream. Nothing beat that.
The number onscre... | 2017-02-28T20:31:22 | 2017-02-28T16:49:13 | 1,962 | 66 |
[WP] You are a powerful sorcerer, who requires the blood of your servants to cast your spells. You've recently discovered they have been using theater tricks to avoid injury and have substituted your ingredients with common household items... but your spells have been stronger than ever. | "Red wine, you say?", I asked the boy.
Marv is the newest of my servants, and the only one who had the balls to face me when I discovered their tricks. It's probably because he didn't know how badly I tend to lose my temper, unlike the others.
But I wasn't mad. I was perplexed. A bit amused even. This mixture of red ... | Day 47
I have begun the exaction of the Tetronic plates upon the Melate Fault. By applying Enara's vitum to the scale model my next ritual site has been marked. I shall take Jareth and Bondir with me for his performance. The scripts advise that virile blood creates the best boundaries for what we are attempting. Tomor... | 2018-05-13T10:50:43 | 2018-05-13T10:43:02 | 153 | 36 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Brian pushed me against the wall, laughing his sickening cackle. He turned to his minions, who have the collective iq of a potato (though at least a potato can power a lightbulb).
"How much you wanna bet that dumbass doesn't have powers?" As numbers flooded the air with how much these damn rich kids were willing to b... | I dont know how many of you are interested in biology, and i dont know how many of you know how a human fetus developes inside the womb. But we all start as a circle, a ring if you will.
Andrew was this dude at my school, who was probably the most popular kid, had one of the coolest powers (basically he was johnny the... | 2020-02-26T09:22:10 | 2020-02-26T09:05:57 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] "You may have one wish granted." "I want all my debts cleared." "How much do you owe?" "You misunderstand. My debts are not monetary." | Slowly, as if she could not believe it, the Queen reached for the infant she was offered. As soon as her pale hands touched the child, she snatched him from the knight’s arms and held him against her chest like the most precious of treasures. Then, with a voice as soft as the wind and clear as a glass bell, she address... | "Whatever you desire shall be done." It replied. "You must be specific. What do you owe?"
The man crossed his arms and looked down toward the ground in front of the large pot that the creature's smoky form emanated from.
"Promises. I have made many promises I now realize I can not keep. I've made good on some, b... | 2016-11-19T04:42:22 | 2016-11-19T01:39:09 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Scientists find a suspended animation chamber with a human occupant in the Arctic. After reviving they realize the person is ancient. After learning a modern language the ancient explains that they are disappointed to see how much humanity has regressed technologically. | The ancient was incredible, its body had somehow survived being frozen and then thawed. Once it had awoken it had listened to them talk then repeated the words, over the course of a day it rapidly learned English.
Before they could fully communicate they offered him food and drink. He spat out the water they gave him ... | (comedy attempt)
So what do you think? Now that you have had time to get a grasp on the modern world, how does it compare to the world from your time?
\-A fucking disgrace. Every McDonalds icecream this side of town is still BROKEN!
Wait. what? thats your takeaway from all this?
\-Listen motherfucker, why do you th... | 2021-06-29T02:59:44 | 2021-06-29T01:45:32 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | The Humans are a strange species.
They found my people in ancient times, when the wheel and fire were still cutting edge technology. They built an station in orbit around our world, as was their way, and observed our development. They did not interfere with our development too much. When our home was threatened by an ... | The semi-bio cushions moulded themselves round Draz'nek's body as it reclined into it's throne, for want of a better word. The throne itself was more of a podium with an intricately carved base and a grand, sweeping panel at the back positioned as if it were a backrest; made of great planks and beams of material from e... | 2017-03-26T08:23:17 | 2017-03-26T06:04:45 | 497 | 221 |
[WP] So tell me this, elf. If you're so much better than humans at everything, then how come even though your ancient civilization dates back millenia before we "crawled out of the mud pits", you're still riding around on horses and swinging sharp pieces of metal just like us? | "Because, you idiot, we're not focused on wringing the neck of the earth for our own gain like you guys."
The human scoffed before sipping his ale. "Oh gods here it comes."
The elf rolled his eyes and put down his drink. "No you got to understand, we elves live for a really long time. Incredibly long compared to hu... | Vander look at the bandits.
It wasn’t that hard to see all the weak points in their crude armor and weapons. All of it was cheap crap even by the low standers of human chaos worshippers.
Plus, all of the bandits had gotten intoxicated after capturing the inquisitor so they would be slower than normal.
A thrust here,... | 2022-09-04T10:13:29 | 2022-09-04T07:17:47 | 90 | 32 |
[WP] you are the first immortal. While it is true that you cannot die, your flesh and body can. After so many millennia you are reduced to a sentient skeleton sitting at the bottom of a peaceful pond to avoid contact with other people. Some bastards are trying to drain it | I didn't want to kill them.
The pond of Love's Lament had lost its meaning to the people of the nearby village, but that didn't justify slaughtering them in their sleep. There had to be some purpose behind this plot. Perhaps there was a drought in another part of the kingdom, or a misguided baron looking for treasure ... | I was cursed.
Others would say blessed. But not me.
I first found out I was cursed when I had taken a rapier right to my right lung during a failed siege of the Crusades. It would have killed any other man - but not I. It was hailed as a sign from god, and I was promoted to a high leadership position to carry on each... | 2020-11-20T11:48:01 | 2020-11-20T10:45:42 | 579 | 360 |
[WP] The White House is under attack. One man is left standing. He is the Chef's son, he is Cory, and he is back in the House.
What ever will he do? | I sat with my back against the cabinet door. I open the shotgun barrel and load the last of my shells. I fall on my left elbow to peer around the kitchen island. Through the reflection of the refridgerator, I could see the enemy's black mask, pulled up to reveal only his mouth. I could see the smile on his face, his co... | Through the tiny slit in the cupboard, Cory could see his father huddling under the preparation table, hoping that the alarms would stop soon. He could see the fear on his father's face and the man who was dressed all in black with the gun. His father held a knife, hoping perhaps to take the man in black down.
The man... | 2015-07-02T07:06:42 | 2015-07-02T06:56:53 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] "Matt, we love you, and that's why we're all here. But you have a serious hoarding problem!" "But I'm half dragon! It's *literally* part of my heritage!" | "A fine?" Matthew asked.
"Yes," the woman said. She was backed by several other women and a couple of police officers.
He held in his hand several pieces of papers, clipped together by a rose gold staple. He picked out the staple and pocketed it, leafing through the many papers listing the many ordinances Matthew's h... | The cockroach skittered between potential meals: some cheetoh crumbs, some old dried salsa, several sugary drink spills. The roach was joined by a few friends as they combed the great lands for sustenance to feed their progeny.
Matt snorted and coughed in his sleep, though the apnea did not wake him. Gold coins interl... | 2022-09-04T10:57:48 | 2022-09-04T10:12:31 | 250 | 13 |
[WP]After death each person gets to choose one thing from their old life--a skill, a lesson, a memory--to bring into their next life as a talent or an innate understanding. It's time to make your choice. | Decided to take the prompt from another perspective/direction. Hope that's fine.
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"Next"
I had always hated how rattly my voice was. Sure, I'm death's secretary, an undead cosmic peon, but did I have to sound like a whiny xylophone? These thoughts swam in my rotted mind as I scribbled on the ledger in front of me... | I don't think I could describe what I saw as "blinding", because what followed was darkness. Perhaps I had gone blind in the process? No amount of blinking, waving my hands, nothing registered in my eye line. With the loss of vision, panic began to build in my chest, my heart racing in my ears. There was nothing around... | 2019-10-29T18:12:44 | 2019-10-29T16:55:34 | 197 | 90 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but after reading it carefully you realize that it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be the smartass that you are, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed them instead. | Day 0: The tome finally showed up today. It was found in a mass grave, just outside of what is now Rome, preserved perfectly. Archeologists thought it was a early Christian religious text at first, but more careful consideration revealed some peculiar details: proto-Germanic text hundreds of miles from that region. The... | My thoughts were racing as I tipped the pure alcohol bottle towards the petri dish. Personally I was disgusted by the bacteria on it.
It was green, spotty, moist, and worst of all was it came from my face! I couldn't be more disgusted with myself and I knew that I would never see my body the same again, but that wasn'... | 2022-11-22T21:21:46 | 2022-11-22T20:13:59 | 216 | 143 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Dear Luis Miguel,
It's been 4 years since you've passed. Things have gotten better from the old years. The kids are older, my house is different, I actually have cats again.
I found some of your old photos. Back in the day when the camera had only megabytes instead on gigabytes. I found a nice one where you were sunb... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T19:02:08 | 1,095 | 516 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Hahahahahahahahaha!"
"Are you done?"
"HAHAHAHAHA! Ha. Ahem. Seriously, though, is this some kind of joke? I didn't think you went in for psychological misdirection."
Starfire groaned. "I wish. None of my friends can come, and you're my only, um, professional contact who knows my secret identity."
"What, no fellow ... | [Poem]
I want to tell you first of all, I'm sorry for the broken legs
And burning down your nana's barn
And for the arsenic-laced eggs.
I regret the hornet swarm,
the letter bomb with razor blades,
of course, the antifreeze Kool aid
and Irradiated birds of prey.
I haven't been myself, you see
for one or two ... | 2022-10-06T19:28:15 | 2022-10-06T18:38:29 | 248 | 84 |
[WP] Psychics are ranked on a scale from S (strong) to D (weak). You are the laziest S-class psychic in the world. | "S Class" said the examiner, stamping my form and sliding it into a filing cabinet. "You know what that means, right?"
I shook my head, but the movement was a lie. I knew exactly what it meant, because I could see into the examiners mind as easily as the window to my right. "No sir."
A smile crept across his wrinkled... | 1200 thread count sheets are absolutely glorious. I had never slept in one before I was hired by The Foundation, but after a 2 months or so of this luxurious softness I doubt I could sleep in anything else.
I rolled over and pulled the fluffy duvet around me. Though the summer had only just ended, the mornings had... | 2016-09-21T21:55:20 | 2016-09-21T20:30:59 | 137 | 36 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | Flames whirl in a red and purple maelstrom. A middle aged woman falls backwards out of her seat. Her four children finally stop their roughhousing, entranced by the fire. Two teenagers with fake eyelashes, fake nails, and fake fur coats replace their fake smiles with very real screams. A would be hero gets up and toss... | "oh, I'm sorry, I actually don't understand you. I have a condition that only allows me to speak your language, not understand it."
"what? So... You're not here to destroy this reality?"
"yeah, sorry, don't understand a word. You would not believe the issues it causes"
"thats good because I'd have to kill you"
"can... | 2018-06-24T21:21:58 | 2018-06-24T21:11:48 | 79 | 39 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | I'm gonna be honest, I was a little disappointed. I mean, I'm no fighter or anything, much less a hero, but I don't know.....I just thought something more, well, *interesting* would happen.
Maybe I'd be given some magical armour and sword, and all kinds of crazy powers and knowledge would just be absorbed into me, th... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T11:06:17 | 949 | 85 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | I really like this prompt. I may have gotten too wordy with my response.. but here goes!
TL:DR - Aliens get effed up.
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Having survived hundreds of skirmishes along the political fault lines of the Interstellar Confederation, The One Who Chews Loudly did not pay much mind to the whining of the Human contingent co... | On Yari there lives a small species of furry animal. It looks cute and it does anything possible to avoid conflict. It will run, it will burrow, it will climb, it will even play dead. But corner it and it will bite you. Teeth that have no problems punching through scales and saliva that will kill you in 10 minutes and... | 2019-11-24T14:44:35 | 2019-11-24T14:30:45 | 156 | 103 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | "Wait, wait," he interjected. We generally agreed to call all of our
alien visitors "he", they didn't really have a specific gender, and
the galactic translators they'd given us apparently rendered other
pronouns as veiled insults. Still, it felt a bit weird calling the
3-foot tall, 5-legged tower of squishy rings ... | "I am who I am."
I hear the strain in my voice, it's embarrassing. I stir the ice cubes in my lemonade to try and break the tension. The spoon clinks against the glass.
"I'm not... I'm not dumb. I'm pretty sure I understand the context here, of what you're asking. The fact that you're speaking English gives me some c... | 2017-03-09T21:52:03 | 2017-03-09T16:52:29 | 1,110 | 129 |
[WP]An advanced alien race took a peaceful group of primates from a paradise world and put populations of them on increasingly dangerous worlds. After 10k years, they revisit to check results. The last planet on the list is an unpredictable blue marble, 3rd from its star, with deadly everything. | ---DATA LOG: STARDATE 52.CE4-(9)---
The Collection is ecstatic to have found such creatures. Non-sentient, but wonderfully vibrant in reaction to stimuli--and delightfully adaptable. A perfect species to study evolution of Deathworld hyperbeasts, which have proven aggravating to control in a laboratory setting. Jevin ... | "Approaching Planet E-666-3.
Level of Toxicity: High
Planetary code: Abyss
Proceed with Extreme Caution"
The on-deck computer had been saying that for the last 50 light-years. The captain knew it was necessary but it was getting annoying. He was stressed enough. He had been awake and on the bridge for the last 100 li... | 2017-11-28T07:35:50 | 2017-11-28T07:06:46 | 107 | 40 |
[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... | I woke up in a white room. I was in a hospital bed with tubes going in and out of me. My skin was pale and all of my dark spots were far more noticeable than before... Before what exactly? What did I do? Why am I here? My mind drifted back to my dreams and what they were. So crystal clear like replaying a video, yet fo... | "The fucks a pokemon?"
The kid's voices was thick with the kind of yolk that had to be at least three generations inbred. She was a tall reed of a girl with long red hair tied into a ponytail, the color almost matched her farmers tan. She probably spent more time outside in one day than I would all week.
The system... | 2019-05-04T11:50:28 | 2019-05-04T11:11:17 | 139 | 81 |
[WP] Hydraulic Press Channel owner goes insane and starts crushing subscribers by kidnapping them, channel goes even more popular | It has been 13 hours since the last video was uploaded which has already grossed 17 million views and counting.
For those who are not interested in watching the video, let me briefly describe it for you. It consists of an elderly man, somewhere in his 80's, blinded and gagged. He is made to sit upright on a rocking ch... | Joey opened his eyes, squinting into the bright light. He couldn't remember much, only that he had been dragged out of bed, tied up, before some kind of smelly cloth was shoved against his face. His hands were still restrained; in fact, he couldn't move at all. His head was laying on some kind of support, but it was ve... | 2016-05-19T00:38:12 | 2016-05-19T00:24:26 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | They watched in glee as the embers started catching and spreading. Slowly, but steadily, they encroached upon me, slowly burning me. However, it didn’t feel hot, more like a hot rock, much like the one I usually sleep on. The flames continue to catch on my clothes, and faces turn from rage to puzzle, and the repeated c... | [Poem]
Fire fire burning bright
Set ablaze against the night
Pyre pyre tied to so tight
And roasting the flesh beneath
“Burn the witch!” a person cries
Wiping the soot away from their eyes
Looking at the women they did despise
And certainly did mistreat
Higher, higher the flames that grew
And licked her body, but ... | 2021-01-03T06:43:36 | 2021-01-03T06:15:32 | 38 | 25 |
[WP] Your door bell rings. It's a person from an alternate universe, who says, "I just want you to know that you are my favorite book character and I know how it ends and I want to help change it" | Losing a family member is never easy.
It is easier, however, when your Great Aunt Ruth who you only met when you were two years old passes away in her sleep from natural causes in her home in Wisconsin. Death is death, but some kinds are better than others.
I never had a Great Aunt Ruth. Sometimes I pretend I did, t... | Waking up in the afternoon, I set about preparing for my next night shift. Cooking a late lunch, cleaning the house, reading the news. Everyday mundane stuff. Funny how my life has been a complete routine ever since I graduated with a degree years ago. As a child I always wanted to travel to Africa to see its wildlife.... | 2014-11-10T17:49:25 | 2014-11-10T17:39:20 | 192 | 18 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | Every twenty or so years I see you again.
Every twenty or so years, I fall in love with you, only to kill you.
I wish I could say I'm sorry but I can't.
I will never forget Katherine (The First)- with her pale, limp hair and her dark eyes: as dark as the night sky sprawled before us, endless as far as we could s... | She was the fifth one in as many decades.
I had killed so many by this point they were mostly a blur - men, women, two-souls, so many varieties of soul mates that it seemed the gods were trying so hard to make me happy.
Only one thing made me happy - eternal youth and life. For that, she had to die.
I approached her... | 2018-06-09T05:19:40 | 2018-06-09T05:08:05 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're a half orc, but none of your team-mates ever ask what the other half of you is. That was never an issue before, but your other parent just showed up. | My adventuring crew weren’t bad people, I’d even call them friends. But they were raised on a lot of *assumptions* about half-orcs. You know how all the stories go. They probably figured they were doing me a favor never prying about my parents, and at some point it would have been really awkward to tell them.
Pliton ... | The dust settled as the engine died. The others shook nervously as the large, unhuman figure emerged from the truck. I rested my hand on Carls shivering, pale shoulder as I turned around to face the others who were slowly increasing their distance. I had to think of something rapidly as I have seen friends seize in fe... | 2020-07-22T18:07:57 | 2020-07-22T14:06:06 | 95 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | The dragonflies whirred through the long grass that stuck out of the pond. Two of them flew around where my bobber floated in the water, then buzzed off somewhere I couldn’t see.
My name is Moses, I like being called Moe. Currently, I was trying to fish out my dinner, but they just weren’t biting today. I hoped my fa... | Grok thought.
He thought about the baby he was having, he thought about the hedges he was trimming and the lawns she was mowing. he thought about the car he was driving and the road she was paving.
And he thought about names.
Such a small thing, yet it determined so much. Grok remembered his first life, two hundred ... | 2017-04-07T11:20:49 | 2017-04-07T10:32:07 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] Upon his suicide Hitler will join the dead waiting to be ferried across the river Styx. The dead include the millions who died in WWII. You have been tasked with keeping Hitler safe until he can arrive for his final judgment. | "Yup, there he is again."
"At the back of the line?"
"Yeah."
"Aren't you supposed to protect him?"
"You try protecting him against 60 million souls."
"Don't you mean 6 million?"
"No. 6 million Jews died. but think of all the service men that died fighting in Europe, and every Russian, and Chinese who died a... | Fucking hell, first I was stuck inside of a goddamn toaster due to a bad deal with the devil. Now this shit, I've been stabbed, shot, gassed and impaled so many times, but this is the worst. Hell I even had to protect Trump once. (Time works weird here) This just goes against all of that, this is a mix of everything th... | 2016-01-12T08:47:53 | 2016-01-12T06:10:19 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] It's been 50 years since the rich elites left to escape an alien invasion. The good news: the aliens are friendly. The bad news: nobody wants them back. | “On behalf of those you left behind for dead, on behalf of the two civilizations who now live harmoniously on planet earth, we say this; Do Not Return.”
On those last three words, the man lifted his gaze from the page of his written speech, pressing his glasses up the ridge of his nose with a finger as he focused his... | **\*NOTE: I was unsure who them is referring to so I am going to say them = rich elites\*'**
"Dic..."
"FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, my name is His Highness RICHARD BEZOGATES the FIFTH"
"*sigh...*Ok....Richard. So tell me, Richard \*coughs\* *dick* \*coughs\* why are you contacting us after fifty years. I thought us poor ... | 2020-08-02T09:05:24 | 2020-08-02T08:23:13 | 1,733 | 165 |
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