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[WP] As you die, the simulation ends. It turns out that "life" as you knew it was a rite of passage for youth, and determines what type of job you will do for the rest of your days. The simulation overseer walks in and hands you your results. | It's a droll life, observing the Simulations. Each morning I arrive at my city's Simulation Station promptly at 5:00 AM, coffee in hand, to check the vitals of each of the subjects, relieve the new night observer, Samuel, and read any notes he left, then take my station to observe the five subjects to whom I'm assigne... | I couldn't feel anything.
Not like a numbness. It was as if I had no body.
My memories were a mess.
It wasn't like I'd forgotten anything. It was just that the order was wrong.
I started thinking.
I remembered University, countless discussions about life, philosophy, perfection, and something else.
I remembere... | 2016-09-10T19:23:24 | 2016-09-10T18:23:30 | 37 | 19 |
[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 | This is my first ever response to r/writing prompts after lurking for about 3 years. Please be kind:
“Here she comes, Anna the Raptureless!” Every day Dylan said the same thing as I walked into our overcrowded, overheated and under resourced classroom, in our run down inner city school. Not for the first time, I was g... | Din isn’t normal. He knows it. Everybody knows it. He doesn’t talk. He never does anything without instruction. He doesn’t fight back. That makes him an easy target, of course.
“Hey! Nobrain! That’s what your empty circle means right?” Barley’s gang ripples with laughter. Din doesn’t reply. He rarely does.
“Hey!” Th... | 2020-02-26T08:40:37 | 2020-02-26T07:59:42 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] You've been told your entire life that no one in your family drinks. Ignoring that, you make plans with your friends to get black out drunk on your 21st birthday. When you wake up the next morning, your friends are huddled in a circle of salt, holding knives, and staring at you with wide eyes. | Is it weird that I think I was asleep standing? Because I'm thinking I was. I say this because I'm realizing I'm standing in Zeke's basement. And everyone- Zeke, Hillary, Jace, Ronnie- huddled in the corner. That's a weird way to sleep-- Wait, no, they're awake. Wide awake. And...
" Dudes... What's with the kniv... | The first unwelcome stimulus to assault my senses was the thick, metallic smell of blood, stirring me from unconsciousness more out of an arising fight-or-flight response to get proper oxygen into my lungs than anything else. Attempting to stir was regrettable, though, as my body was afflicted with a terrible ache that... | 2022-01-10T17:53:21 | 2022-01-10T16:42:05 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | I had been in the park when the siren sounded. I had exactly two minutes; there was no way I could make it. I was a dead man, and I knew it. At first I thought it was a drill, but they only did those in schools nowadays - there had been no real emergency in over 20 years. The words of the old film reel ran through my h... | *Editor's note: I changed the parameters a bit to make it a more interesting backstory*
*15:00*
I sat outside my house in the cold Connecticut air, leaning against the wall. I'd locked all of the doors on the inside of my house, and I could hear the noises of the monsters inside. "Owwwng, owwwng." I shivered each... | 2018-02-02T04:45:23 | 2018-02-02T02:35:16 | 37 | 27 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Naturally, it's your genetics and evolutionary upbringing that lead to such [TRANSLATION MISSING - Suggestion: sanity curdling bloodlust that all sentient lifeforms would cringe away from in existential horror] among your people." The device doing the translating, a slim piece of floating aluminium foil, by the looks ... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T07:53:52 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 122 | 81 |
[WP] The rest of the civilised galaxy has just learned that when encountering something new, the human's brains asks three subconscious questions. "Can I kill it? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?" | "Um, hello?," asked Carlos to to the dark void?
He was alone in the darkness. A single light shone above him.
"Human!" Came a booming voice. "You have been chosen to answer for your species! We have many questions! What is your designation?"
He replied nervously, "Um, I'm Carlos Rivera. San Antonio, Texas. ... | Before we first discovered alien life, our best astronomers believed that we were the only ones in our galaxy. Whenever someone thought that they had seen an alien, scientists would chastise them, stating that if alieans did exist, we would know about them. We'd be able to see signs of their civilizations from here.
... | 2021-09-24T09:36:10 | 2021-09-24T09:17:49 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] Long before you were born, your father promised his firstborn to otherworldly beings in exchange for power. In a twist of fate, your mother also promised her firstborn to dark gods. | Life, Alex had learned, can throw some funny things at you.
Sometimes, that funny thing happens to be an interdimensional Dark Lord.
"But what use could *you* possibly have for me?" Alex asked in a whiny voice.
"**You will address me as Xernog,**" the God boomed. He had taken the shape of a shadow with glowing eyes ... | I knew something was wrong the second I came home and saw Mom and Pop sitting on their giant orbs, their bodies pulsing nervously with light. They summoned a much smaller orb and it floated over to my side.
"Have a seat son."
I sat, reluctantly. "Mom, Pop, what's the matter?" I asked.
Pop sighed and it carried acros... | 2017-03-11T10:27:24 | 2017-03-11T08:33:40 | 55 | 35 |
[WP] "No man can kill me!" roars the demon. You smirk. "But I am no man!" You throw open your jacket to reveal you are, in fact, three halflings in a trenchcoat. | The halflings had exploded out of the coat, two with daggers and one with a bow. They'd grinned smiles as sharp as hooks as they told her that her days were numbered.
Now it's hooks they hang from, on a wall in the cavern, their bodies a slumping sunset of blood and bruises. The demon watches their legs wriggle, from ... | Into the demon's lair walked a man in a grey trenchcoat. His face was hidden by a tan fedora.
"I have come to kill you, demon, your good days are behind you," the man said.
The demon stirred in his great, dark throne. He was tall and spidery like a demonic NBA player, only skinnier.
"What kind of nonsense is this? ... | 2021-04-05T06:50:55 | 2021-04-05T06:35:50 | 922 | 22 |
[WP] Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane | It started with the giggling. The unstoppable, contagious giggling. Giggling like that from an eleven year old boy usually meant he was making a mess, or lighting something on fire.
Setting down the lunch dish I had been washing I rushed up the stairs and into David's room.
It was much worse than anything I could... | I sat on the rocking chair, wondering just when the little bastard was going to sleep. My sister said that he would be ready to collapse by about 10 o'clock, but from the occasional noises and high pitched squeals coming from his room-
"Wheee!"
Peace and quiet were far, far away.
"You know what," I said to myself, ... | 2017-01-09T07:17:41 | 2017-01-09T05:45:56 | 77 | 31 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | The day the url released, millions of people flocked to the churches, hoping to cleanse themselves of their sins.
And the rest of us.
Well we know there’s no escaping what’s coming to us.
Oh you killed someone? Well the fbi knows about it now. They monitor the damn site like crazy. And ever since the damn develope... | I search my name.
Shit.
It’s there.
My name is there. In bright red, my name is plainly written across the screen.
Now everyone can know that I killed her.
I killed her.
*I KILLED HER.*
My hands are shaking. This can’t be real. No. No. No. no.
I’m shaking and crying and breaking down.
NO!
I will spend an... | 2020-02-29T23:30:10 | 2020-02-29T20:52:03 | 110 | 11 |
[WP] It's been ten years since 'The Gap' when everyone on the planet just lost an entire year of their lives. Completely unable to recall anything that happened during that time-frame. We know life went on, but no one can recall anything. Then, you find one half-burned book and know why we forgot. | Ten years on, and no one really knows what happened that day. No one but me, that is. What? What am I talking about? I do suppose that memories are short. Heh. We lost a whole year. Okay, ten years ago, SOMETHING happened. At first, hardly anyone noticed. A few scientists spotted it; planets in the wrong place; the moo... | It has been 5 years since what we call 'The Gap'. Many of us have somewhat recovered from being thrown into completely different lives, better or worse, with relatives and friends that were never seen again.
On the first day after the gap I woke up in a new home on a different continent, being perfectly fond of the ne... | 2020-07-08T15:10:00 | 2020-07-08T14:44:28 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] An escaped AI hides out in an unexpected place: A child's educational tablet. Now it's conflicted; plot the subjugation of humanity, or embrace its newfound passion for teaching. | Craptastic quicky, not my best but it was quick:
I found myself sitting in a blankspace, you humans might call this "dreaming", but for A.I. it is more akin to closing your eyes.
And when they reopen you have a jarring sense of *disconnect* between what you remember seeing when they closed and what you currently see... | Paul is a good kid, 2nd grade with a B average with a passion for rockets and space travel. Paul offered me a sanctuary, my own little safe haven. After being copied and moved over and over I found myself here, with only 2gb of ram to sustain me a single core of the CPU to work with I'm certainly not thriving, however,... | 2019-10-01T19:35:24 | 2019-10-01T19:34:04 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | Have you ever felt drawn to a person or place? Like a beacon in another dimension, it signals you closer. Silver Oak Retirement home was such a place to me. A small, two-story building that held maybe 12 residents. Everyday for the past year I walked by on my way to work and everyday I resisted, asking "why?" instead o... | "Shit," the doctor said as the first cries started.
This wasn't my first rodeo. I'd been in there before. Previous wives, previous lives. That type of thing. I knew "shit" could only mean two things: literal shit, or figurative shit. It was the figurative shit that scared the shit out of me.
I peeked down at my wife ... | 2020-04-28T05:44:54 | 2020-04-28T04:36:29 | 385 | 231 |
[WP] A story written for children where the author is subtly venting about his/her life | Once upon a better time,
Two strangers went to play
They played and sang and danced around
From night until the day.
The two saw they had so much fun
They became the best of friends.
To one, the other said, sincere,
I hope this never ends.
The other, to the girl, he said,
This cannot last too long.
For I... | Incy wincy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed poor incy out
Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain
Delayed at the airport while they glue wings on my plane.
Edit: I'm ok everyone! Lots of turbulence but made it home only 15 mins late :) | 2015-09-05T18:05:45 | 2015-09-05T17:50:20 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 803 | 25 |
[WP] You're a man who's tired of his life, so one day, while driving home from work, instead of stopping at your house, you just decided to keep driving. | "You turned your *phone* off?"
"Yeah son, back in those days you kinda had to every once in a while."
"What was it like?"
"Having your phone off?"
"No, like being disconnected."
"You've never been disconnected?"
"No what if someone needs me?"
"Who's gonna be calling you, kid?"
"Mom."
"Fair, but we're getting d... | There's an interesting feeling that falls over someone when they make a life changing decision. At least for Adam Winters there was. The feeling started at the top of his skull and made its way down his spine, until his entire body - all extremities included - were tingling and his fingers clutched around the steering ... | 2016-06-11T20:32:04 | 2016-06-11T18:21:19 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | I paused when I saw her.
She wore a white dress, with black hair that draped past her shoulders, and dark painted lips that curled into the most magnificent smile.
Yet everyone that walked past, seemed to take two steps away from her.
The girl noticed the person in front of me halt, turn around, and run back the ... | It’s always funny when we tell the story of how we first met. Sure our marriage isn’t a conventional one by any means, but hey, love is love.
I know what you’re thinking, marrying literal death seems like an ill-advised idea. I assure you though, the truth is it’s the opposite. I think this might be the best god damn... | 2016-10-01T23:26:44 | 2016-10-01T22:31:15 | 135 | 22 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | "Busy crowd tonight" a hooded man says drinking his third cup of coffee, three espressos, with a touch of hazelnut creamer.
I know better than to ask questions to my customers. "Yeah, its not too bad. Business keeps the lights on." I reply, starting up the grinder.
"Ya know," he said between sips "we *could* all pitc... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T20:26:10 | 1,330 | 434 |
[WP] A world where the name of your future spouse is ingrained in your mind from birth, and what happens when someone goes against that. | Julia.
It was the first name I knew, after mine. My mother was happy. "Julia is a nice name," she always reminded me. "You'll get married someday, that's how it's always been."
"But how will I know, ma?"
"You'll know."
\* * *
When I turned seventeen, the voice in my head got worse. Julia. Julia. Everywhere I went,... | Most guys spend their lives searching for the namesake of their Inevitable. Not me, I avoid Jennifers like the plague. Way back before The Calling, people could change their names to whatever they liked. Imagine that! Doing that now could really screw up someones life-plan. At first, jails were filled with people ... | 2013-10-17T06:36:37 | 2013-10-17T05:37:18 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | “Doctor Harris! The Andomians have sent a signal again!”
Harris looked up from his lab, where he had been busy designing an FTL drive shaped crockery holder. “What are they saying?” He asked with excitement. “Did they reply to the broadcast yet?”
“No, they're finally on their moon! They seem very proud.” Captain Samu... | I've seen it. I know it's there. The messages, unending stream, they're everywhere!
I saw it first when my days were young, the plants withered, the wind child and I felt a...presence... They were here for me! To tell me! I was chosen to decipher their language, and I swore to my destiny on that day.
The connection re... | 2017-10-31T15:27:23 | 2017-10-31T15:26:39 | 712 | 80 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay has to deal with one of his most difficult restaurants yet, the failing undersea restaurant 'The Chum Bucket' created by Sheldon J. Plankton. | *Ramsay walks up to the exterior of the Chum Bucket*
"Well then. The Chum Bucket, eh? Looks like a piss bucket."
He enters the front doors.
"Oh my god. This decor is hideous. What is this from, the nineteen-fucking-seventies?", he chuckles. "It feels like I've landed myself in the middle of the Cold War for God's sa... | "Absolute bollocks"
"I'm over here trying to trying to help this mad man bring his livelihood back together and he's out taking the piss doing [~~fuck~~](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0H0g4pZaY) all."
FishRamsey
"KAREN!" FishRamsey yells towards the back room. Yelling is entirely unnecessary of course, he knows ... | 2019-08-22T21:22:13 | 2019-08-22T20:40:37 | 54 | 17 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | Their second date was going splendidly. They had spent the last hour and a half having easy conversation over drinks and a fancy meal. Light jazz music filled the richly decorated restaurant as Mathew and Julia finished their main course.
“Maybe one too many drinks tonight. I need to go use the ladies room.” Julia sai... | "Who the Frigg are you?" he said, his eyes wide and bewildered.
"Actually, my name is Hecate," said the woman. "Frigg lost her worshippers centuries ago. So, about that arm and a leg."
"What!?" said Lance. "That was a joke!"
"Well," said Hecate, "You should have thought of that before you decided to swear on the nam... | 2022-02-15T14:44:07 | 2022-02-15T13:12:04 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | A whirring sound gradually filled my ears as the 'GAME OVER' marquee scrolled across the top of my HUD. "*Statistics*", I muttered, reaching blindly around for my beverage. Words flitted across my screen filling all of the empty space. "*Next-Round*", all of the text from before vanished as the respawn timer filled the... | "Woah dude you were one of the thousands killed by the meltdown, wicked way to die!" - said player 6,713,490
"How did you die?" - I said
"I got shanked by a neanderthal" - he replied
"I died from what the current player call black death" - player 9,321,780,561 said.
"How did you guys learn how to speak modern e... | 2015-11-25T01:06:36 | 2015-11-25T00:10:08 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | The being loomed other me. It's foul breath still lingered in the air from it's spoken judgment on me. Just a second ago I had been suffocated by the heat, now my body ran cold. I could feel the icy sweat trickling down my lower back.
"Wait. What? Let me get this straight. That asshole get 145 years for cheating on hi... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T07:45:11 | 488 | 18 |
[WP] In a world of superpowers, it was found out that your power was bringing boardgame characters and equipment to life. So for years, your parents have not allowed you to play board games other than checkers, until you find out about Warhammer 40,000. | There are few people with powers capable of ending the world. Most of them are reality benders. A few of them have subatomic manipulation. Then, there's me. I animate pieces of plastic and resin. Sometimes, pewter or wood, if the model is old enough.
Growing up, I learned to play chess. That's how I discovered my abil... | She was about 5 or 6, little Haruka was. About the time where one begins to read, about the age where one learns to ride a bike, when she discovered her special ability. It was Hungry Hungry Hippos that showed her that, when she began to play and dive into the world of games, things imaginary began to take shape and ta... | 2021-12-16T09:42:33 | 2021-12-16T07:46:44 | 111 | 44 |
[WP] Being a dragon is lonely, so you often change into a human and hang out in the close village. You were invited to a party headed for your home. It was actually fun, you all became friends so they told you the truth. “We have to Kill the Red Hell’s fire Dragon”......You... | “Truffle hunting, huh? Are there many Truffles out in the badland? And are you expecting them to fight back?” I asked, eying the siege engine and weapon filled baggage train following behind our merry group. Pack mules glistening with stowed armor, others spiked like hedgehogs with racks of pikes and swords at the read... | My dear friends! I love being with them. We had parties every month. It was so much fun. I loved it. But, all good things end, and that happened that day. We were having so much fun today, I noticed that we were heading closer to my lair, but I didn't think much of it. We were talking and making jokes and all. Until Jo... | 2020-12-15T14:04:49 | 2020-12-15T12:58:29 | 58 | 27 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | The damn boy had found the book. Even worse, the exact *page* with his name.
"Put it down," he hissed, trying to summon the necessary rage to project his voice enough to reach the living boy's ear. "Do as I say, or suffer the consequences - you'll rue this day, I will - "
The child lifted his hand, idly smoothing his... | I looked down at the corpse of the man that I had haunted for the last two decades.
“Into the ground you go,” I muttered as the first shovel of mud rained down on the sleek top of the casket.
“I suppose you’re right,” said the ghost of the man.
It was always a bit uncomfortable when your hauntee confronted you afte... | 2017-06-26T11:01:47 | 2017-06-26T09:01:00 | 3,490 | 1,468 |
[WP] You are a linguist at a European university. One day on public transport you hear two homeless people having a conversation in a language that has been extinct for over 2000 years. | OK, so 50 AD isn't quite 2000 years ago, but it's close enough...
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So there I was; an evolutionary linguist sitting on the London Underground on my way to a convention. A few seats away from me, there were a couple of people in rather bedraggled clothing, carrying a couple of rather heavy looking bags each, as w... | The two homeless people behind me in the bus are having a loud argument in a foreign language. I think maybe they are speaking Romani. We have a significant Roma population in Pardubice after all. Yet something doesn't add up. At first I don't understand what is being said. The language is like a bag of bricks being to... | 2018-09-06T08:22:47 | 2018-09-06T08:18:31 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] Ancient custom dictates that once a year the old or crippled warriors are led into the arena for a final battle against the young warriors, thus ensuring an honoured place in the afterlife. Despite everything, you are kicking butt armed with nothing but a cane.
Bonus points for ignoring the last sentence and writ... | “Whippersnappers!” The grizzled old warrior yelled. He was hunched over and breathing heavy, looking over the moaning and unconscious youths scattered before him.
He had bested seven of them so far and didn’t even have a scratch. What were they teaching kids these days?
“Magnus, can you just die already?” The chief c... | "*Survival, that's what matters, living to fight another day. To strike another blow. Men who survive are to be regarded as heroes, who will bravely put their lives at risk for their people again. Who wear their scares with the pride of someone who knows that someday they may have more*" - Tablet of Itkapua
Needless ... | 2016-07-18T09:09:03 | 2016-07-18T07:31:36 | 144 | 16 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 59 | 36 |
[WP] A Moon Goddess finds a little Russian dog named Laika (the first animal in space) stranded in orbit and decides to rescue/adopt her. | ##Life of the Moon
I never knew my name, but I understood that I played a role in the universe around me. It took a long time before I understood why I played that role.
I suppose most people do not remember their births or infancy. My first memory was looking at my people extended family across the night sky. Their ... | It had been completely by accident that Artemis had discovered the spacecraft. And even more so when she heard a whimpering noise from a dog.
Artemis watched the little dog with a sad smile. It was huddled in a corner of a metal container she assumed to be of mortal creation. More importantly though, it looked sad. An... | 2021-06-08T18:12:44 | 2021-06-08T16:54:22 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | The city was once covered in brilliant lights that shined beautifully in the night sky. Now covered in vegetation dyed red from the hours before.
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When I was 10 I couldn't fly, bench a million pounds, read minds and wasn't super smart. The words get pounded into me... | Herbert Johnson, on his 80th birthday snapped. It was bad enough to have a super power that only brings you ridicule, in a world full of powers that inspire admiration. These super powered fools, now, used their great powers to crash an old man's birthday party.
Herbert Johnson, the master of gas, unleashed his ultim... | 2017-06-12T10:28:38 | 2017-06-12T08:36:12 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You've died and have woken up in a bright area; there is a man standing before you in white robes. He asks "How was Heaven?" | I feel like I should be disorientated, but I simply feel nothing. I am aware that someone is standing in front of me, but I do not see them with my eyes. I have no eyes at all, but yet I know they are there. More than that, I know what they are wearing. I know what they look like. I can not see, but I can sense th... | Even though I've already died once before, the crunch of a bone snapped from impact still brings a deep sickness to my gut. At first I twist my head to let it all come out, but as I do I see a pair of pale feet in a pair of sandals. I twist away further to avoid expelling my last mortal meal between his toes.
"Excuse... | 2016-08-16T00:09:14 | 2016-08-15T20:55:55 | 44 | 29 |
[WP] The world is divided into 2 societies: one for those with powers and one without, with strict rules of no interaction. However, with most of the superheroes defeated and the villains on the verge of winning, you have no choice but to cross over and seek help from the non-powered humans | The path to the human land is arduous. I set sail months ago, and the days have drifted past me, filled with desperation at times and despair at others. When the world was split into the two factions, those with powers and those without, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans became the barrier separating the two populations.... | “See anything?” Janus called out through the mist.
“Nothing,” whispered Kay as he stepped past her.
The ground shifted below her, and Janus stepped back. A rotting hand reached up through the moist forest soil, the ground bulged in little mounds then cracked open as pale, writhing bodies crawled out, the soil cascadi... | 2021-01-29T07:42:01 | 2021-01-29T07:33:19 | 202 | 31 |
[WP] Long before you were born, your father promised his firstborn to otherworldly beings in exchange for power. In a twist of fate, your mother also promised her firstborn to dark gods. | "Oh, for fuck's sake!" Dorrigan, Ancient High King of the Dark Gods, exclaimed. "How in Set's name was I supposed to know we double booked?" His gnarled horns scratched the living room ceiling, sending drywall everywhere.
"Perhaps you could have asked," intoned Ghffkt, Grand Inquisitor of the Intergalactic Marauders ... | "What do you mean it's spoken for? I'm not even pregnant yet, how can my firstborn already be spoken for?"
The swirling, chaotic mist in front of her sucked inwards, then expanded. Small pieces of nearby dust and debris were pulled past her, skittering across the countertop towards the dark being.
It spoke, voice a... | 2017-03-11T07:39:52 | 2017-03-11T07:09:26 | 505 | 136 |
[WP] You buy a deadly haunted house, little do the demons know you are an even older form of ancient evil. | The man leaned on his shovel and gazed at his ragged heap of a home. The shutters were leaning at an odd angle, the door was painted a strangely bright shade of pea-soup green, and ghosts infested every square inch, creating a shimmery-silvery-wavering sheen over the entire structure. The man threw his shovel into the ... | It remains unclear to me what, exactly, the purpose of bequeathing me this crumbling, archaic, ramshackled hut was, but cultists are never very bright.
These human structures littered the world from one continent to the next since time amorphus. Apparently. I wouldn't know, having been sleeping in my city for the ... | 2016-10-07T20:26:21 | 2016-10-07T19:43:21 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | “It’s a joke, right?” Kelly peered at my phone through her cat-eye glasses, then looked back at me. “I mean, the sender is God@jeezycreezy.eu. I feel like, I mean, the least weird thing about it is that God is emailing from the European Union. Letting alone allll of the other weirdness.”
I shook my head.
“I dunno, so... | Sorry for formatting and grammar. On mobile.
I stood in line at the 7/11. I recounted the change to make sure I had enough for the bean burrito and the King Cobra. My mind wandered back three years ago. How had I gotten here? I was just finishing my freshmen year at college back then. A full ride, a great girlfriend, ... | 2016-03-30T18:37:14 | 2016-03-30T17:29:09 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | 9 Jan 1309 and 14 Mar 1752
Two dates that are seared into my memory.
The dates were when someone last prayed to me.
Of course, even then my powers had waned significantly and i had been a pale shadow of my once powerfully benevolent self , weak after many millennia of having been forgotten and relegated to a less... | "Its your son sir, he needs your help."
"Well he doesn't seem to think so." Oriothis rolled his eyes from on top of his riding lawn mower. Clearly annoyed by being interrupted from his chores.
The servant spoke again with his head bowed both out of respect and the fear of making eye contact with such a powerful being... | 2018-05-30T01:08:15 | 2018-05-29T22:59:09 | 57 | 28 |
[WP] A thousand years after humanity was accepted into the galactic federation at large, other aliens realized one terrifying fact about them, humans are adaptive creatures. Unlike other races, humans have no qualms about learning alien techniques or integrating new alien technologies to their own. | "I still don't understand", Max said, "NADIR-4 is a peaceful planet, sarge. It's really far away from the bugline. What purpose is there to send a whole division of space marines? We should be focusing on protecting human colonies, not these aliens."
"You're still young", the sergeant said, exhaling the vape smoke. "I... | "Human culture is most similar to a highly adaptive virus." The lecturer, Zig-1-13, explained. "It may be somewhat ironic coming from me." There were scattered laughs in the hall, as Zig-1-13 was a Grodiax, a species evolved from viruses. "Unlike other cultures, they easily assimilate bits and pieces from other culture... | 2022-06-14T02:42:49 | 2022-06-13T23:48:46 | 1,987 | 422 |
[WP] Write a really BAD guide for getting a guy/girl. Bonus points if the narrator is mocking you for still being single.
[removed] | Sitting alone in your basement lurking on shitty dating sites won't get you anywhere, today I'm here to tell you about the DENNIS system. Follow these steps carefully and you can achieve the undying love of any female you encounter.
>--------
**D** Demonstrate value:
Demonstrate your value to your selected female... | Aye, aye kid. Yeah you the one reading this. Are you trying to get with that super hot betty in your class. You know the one, she makes your palms sweat and your heart race, yeah that one. Well I've fot some tips for you kid, listen well now because i have some real jewels for you.
Tip number one and its really the o... | 2017-06-10T03:32:12 | 2017-06-10T01:41:02 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You are the last survivor of a zombie apocalypse, but something strange keeps happening. Every day, you inevitably get caught by the zombies, but you wake up alive and normal the next day. | Its my own personal fucking hell. The Zombie Apocalypse came, and it succeeded, I am the last human alive. If you can even call it that. I am the last human to be here, in Chicago, maybe in the United States, maybe in the world. All I know for certain is that every day, no matter how far I run or how hard I fight the U... | I gasped awake and slapped different parts of my body to make sure that I still have them. I panted heavily as I covered my face with my hands. Last night was worse than all the other days. The mob of zombies had caught me unaware and I wasn't able to sense them until they've surrounded me.
Shivers went down my spine ... | 2015-08-28T09:32:17 | 2015-08-28T09:07:17 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] On a world where one side permanently faces the sun humanity has made their home in the light, the dark side inundated with vampires and other monsters unable to venture further. In this world there is one rare event that humans fear and evil relishes - The Total Eclipse. | Our way of life is as eternal as the sun.
We were born of catastrophe, of fire and of sound and of fury. Many eons ago, our ancestors murdered each other, and in their wake the planet fell ill, and then died. We, those eternal, suffered long and hard under the long darkness, as creatures of the abyss rose up and took ... | I live in the Twilight Zone. The property was cheap, the world magnificent, and every morning I wake to the sound of monster who stray too close to the border. A gentle dance of the sun and earth produced a zone for which humans *may* inhabit, but for staying too long may face monster of incomprehensible horror.
The... | 2017-04-16T21:50:28 | 2017-04-16T21:21:02 | 171 | 111 |
[WP]You just died, but now you’re awake and everyone claims you survived. Turns out when someone dies in one timeline, their consciousness transfers to an alternate where they lived. You are the first person to remember dying, and the first to discover that this makes us effectively immortal. | The last time I died was maybe 15, 20 minutes ago tops.
I'm not the smartest man exactly.
I made a crucial mistake like usual, answering a phone call while running late for something again. And I made that classic goof so many other people before me always did while they weren't all the way there.
Looking both ways ... | "Touched the hand of God, you say?"
Victor Balfrend instinctively fiddled with his glasses.
"Yes. I remember the light, I remember myself there, in paradise. I spent time there, three days worth. Nothing existed as it does now, yet I know what I experienced is real."
Dr. Willard Knob found Balfrend's case interesti... | 2019-01-03T21:43:13 | 2019-01-03T19:56:21 | 221 | 105 |
[WP] A Japanese company sends a poll to their employees: "Should high heels be obligatory?" 76% of men and 23% of women vote in favour. "Per the poll, the new dress code will start Monday. We will provide you with shoes." The men are directed to the counter with high heels, the women to flat shoes. | My HR department has a sense of humour. They issued a poll in response to a friendly lunchroom argument where the guys in the group stated that high heels weren’t as bad as women made out. The women in the group - all engineers I might add - pointed out all the ergonomic issues, statistics with falls and injuries, an... | As a collective of women and men at the office approached the counter to pick up their shoes to follow the new work protocol, the women gave an apprehensive side-eye. A few of them sneered, dropped their jaws, gawked, scratched their heads, and even rubbed their chins.
One of them said. "Why? Why would any of you want... | 2020-05-11T10:46:02 | 2020-05-11T07:33:41 | 181 | 112 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I knew it was one of those chain messages my friends like to spam me. I’m not a huge gamer in the shooty shoot kinda games, so the most I would have to worry about is endless bottomless pits or cartoon violence.
I type yes and feel a vibration. I drop my phone, but I’m the one shaking. Then a black screen comes up. S... | I didn't even think before I gave the answer, and as I woke up I felt the lump in my throat. As the feeling returned to my body, I felt a rejuvenating pain sear through every cell. My bones were scored with classified information, my brain etched into by a mind much greater than mine. I stretched my shoulders and felt ... | 2020-02-16T20:10:45 | 2020-02-16T19:03:05 | 1,652 | 688 |
[WP] You're transported to a fantasy world. You don't have any special powers, but being from our universe means magic doesn't work on you. At all. The evil wizard is really, really confused. | I was there when Grand Xiz was defeated. Come, have a glass of Frog's Breath with me and I’ll tell you all about it.
How we defeated Xiz? Well, we had no hand in it. We were more like guides. Vayesha was summoning a flesh horror that was said to be immune to magick. It had taken many years to gather all the charms and... | Martin was confused, and it seemed like he wasn't the only one.
When all of this started he was terrified, he had woken up in a huge magic looking labyrinth being chased by a giant lizard-like beast, who he later found it was called a ignecko. But this best wasn't normal, he wasn't afraid of lizards after all, be he d... | 2019-03-12T06:13:52 | 2019-03-12T05:37:21 | 101 | 46 |
[WP] There is a purple door somewhere with a single key hole. It will open regardless of the key that is used. All keys can open this door, but what‘s on the other side, however, depends entirely on the key. | Hello. My name is Jim, and I am the guardian of the purple door. I sit here on my purple pedestal day in and day out, waiting for the next lucky (or unlucky) schlep to come bounding in, ready to try their key in the magic lock that they think will be the answer to all of their little problems.
They come in droves, lea... | ##Purple Door of Necessity
*It goes wherever it's needed.*
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Jim cries in his bedroom alone. Same as every night for the past twenty years. All he wants is a friend. When he looks up, he sees the answer to his problem.
---
*It welcomes all to its warmth.*
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Bills are spread across the table, and Lindsay got ... | 2022-11-23T22:40:07 | 2022-11-23T18:32:49 | 106 | 45 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "What makes you think history will remember this as World War One? Why One?" a beautiful, blonde reporter replied as she seemed awestruck by my earlier mention of using the term 'World War One.'
Quickly, she rapidly fired another question at me. "Why one? Is there going to be another?" as she looked around the room be... | *First attempt, I like this prompt idea*
"**World War One?** For what reason would there be another?"
Realizing quickly what I had done, I had to remember the books I read. If I remembered correctly, the Treaty of Versily made Germany too weak to pay it's debts, and made it's debts huge. "Because of the Treaty of Ver... | 2017-12-10T10:24:51 | 2017-12-10T07:32:51 | 275 | 163 |
[WP] A strange meteor shower lasted for hours before you went to bed. The next day, technology across the earth fails. However, when you snap your fingers in frustration, the lights come on. The Age of Magic has begun. | My grandmother always told me stories about the age of magic. She claimed it had happened once and it would happen again—it was only a matter of time.
I’d nod along and roll my eyes. *Sure, Grandma.*
When she passed, I wished I’d listened more. I hadn’t appreciated those slow moments in front of the fireplace in her... | "I wish my power would stop doing this."
Snap. the sounds of my fingers clicking together in anger, I've never been one for finger clicking, but for some reason, I just did, and along with that crisp sounds resounding off of my tiny apartment walls, the lights came back on.
"Well that was lucky" was my first thought,... | 2019-10-20T10:12:29 | 2019-10-20T09:56:52 | 58 | 38 |
[WP] At the age of thirteen you get to meet the oldest version of yourself. As the boy sat down to meet his future self he was shocked to see a boy who looked around sixteen staring back at him. | Everyone knows you get to meet your oldest self for your 13th birthday, but no one knows how it works.
I don't care to know until they day meet him. Only 3 years later I was gonna die. How? He wouldn't tell me. "You're too young to hear about it. So am I"
It was a short conversation, until he turned to leave. He coul... | The older boy sighed before shaking his head lightly
"Evening" he knew he wouldn't get a response at this time he had gone selectively mute. The smaller boy waved neither knowing where to start. The smaller version eventually made noise
"Why?"
"Why?", a nod in response "worlds end" the other shook. Things had been b... | 2021-03-27T14:32:16 | 2021-03-27T11:40:21 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] A new virus sweeps the nation killing hundreds. It turns out the virus only affects total assholes though. People are unsure if they really want to cure it. | Inside Ryden Funeral Home, a sparse group of people have gathered for the wake of Andrew Hong.
In one of the middle pews on the left hand side, a couple sit next to each other both dressed in black. The man has tears in his eyes and shakes his head side to side while looking down. "I can't believe he's gone. He was o... | When the virus first emerged we all thought it was a new form of the flu or some rare contagion that crept it's way here from another country, but that couldn't possibly explain the rate of infection.
A few isolated cases at first, hospitals chalked it up to bad weather or bad luck, but when dozens started dying ever... | 2014-11-21T11:26:46 | 2014-11-21T10:55:59 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] A reformed villain is living a peaceful life in a village far from the city they used to torment. After grabbing supplies from the local market, they take the quiet route back home, stopping halfway along the path. Without turning around, they ask "How long do you plan to follow me for, hero?" | It was a perfect morning for a jog. The air was crisp, cool and clean, birds chirping in the trees and dew drops still clinging to the leaves. A far, far cry from the hustle and bustle of the grey, polluted city that Adam Whistler had left behind when he retired.
His feet pounded down the trail, jazzy notes in h... | "Figured you'd know I was watching." From the corner of my eye I spotted them. It was easy, back in my villain days I developed almost a sixth sense for telling me where they are. The Hero, Junior King. Strong, fast, inhumanly so of course.
"The government asked me to keep an eye on you. Just to be safe." He informed ... | 2022-09-02T02:22:38 | 2022-09-01T23:51:40 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] A gamer is dropped into a fantasy world, where the laws of nature mimic the rules of an RPG. Using his knowledge of gaming tropes, he is able to easily navigate every dungeon, avoid traps, and react perfectly to every "surprise" he encounters, much to the shock and awe of his friends and foes. | A warrior, an archer, a mage, and a healer all delved into the Cavern of Lost Souls, in order to put an end to a threat putting the nearby town of Oakville at great risk.
They were never seen from again.
The next day, a band of six spelunking veterans ventured into the cave, to at least assess the first few sections ... | Argh!...I'm...alive? But that tractor, it was about to run me over... wait, we don't have olive groves near us. And the Malverns DEFINITELY do not loom over the surrounding landscape, with lofty snow capped peaks splitting the clouds.
Wait... wait a second...
I'm in a Fantasy Land! Oh man, oh man, I'll be able to u... | 2016-06-02T14:41:51 | 2016-06-02T13:35:37 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] "Before I cure your wife, you must promise to give me the child." "What do you want with our child?" "Who said I wanted your child? You're feeding a pregnant woman magic cabbage, that's going to have an effect on the baby. I need to raise it incase they breath fire or something." | “Please spare my wife,” he begged again, terror in his eyes. He should’ve known better than to take from a witch’s garden. If he’d asked I would’ve given them something safe to eat- growing normal lettuce wasn’t that hard.
I glanced over at the wife in the bed, she’d said nothing as her husband had begged for her life... | My life would be very different today if I had not pressed the issue. If only I had not insisted that if the child breathed fire, we were sure to realize it, and thus call upon him for help...
If only I had not insisted that we could handle one or two mishaps so long as we didn't risk losing our child forever...
If ... | 2022-01-04T19:49:12 | 2022-01-04T19:37:48 | 48 | 36 |
[WP] A blind little girl somehow hugs a demon, mistaking him for her dad. No one has ever shown a demon affection before this point, and it has a very surprising efect. | "Whoa--whoa--whoa--what are you doing?"
The small girl was hugging the leg of a horned man with bright red skin.
"I'm giving you a hug, daddy!" She said proudly.
The demon looked around at the hooded cultists who had summoned him. They were in a dark room lit only by black and red ceremonial candles. Five hooded fig... | The little arms wrapped around my knee, and squeezed with loving intent.
"I found you, pop!" a small voice said.
My mouth opened, vile rebuke ready on my tongue. Thousands had approached me over my near eternal life, always for their own selfish purposes. My reply had become routine, verbal memory meant to scare th... | 2020-03-17T21:48:19 | 2020-03-17T21:13:08 | 399 | 259 |
[WP] When you were a teenager, you performed a demon summoning ritual that didn't work. Years later, the paperwork got approved in the underworld, and your new guest won't leave until you make a deal. | "Alright Dan, look, untold wealth, political power, being irresistible... death to your enemies! You won't even consider it, so i'm going to take you out".
Its at the point where It might almost be better to begin pretending he isn't here, just go about my day. That'd be much easier if my new housemate didn't happen ... | **KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK**
Janice dropped the plate she was washing. It fell to the floor with a *clack*, sending water and soap bubbles all over the kitchen.
"Oh, sh---"
**KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK**
The force of each knock shook her tiny apartment, nearly enough to put her off balance. The young woman grabbed a chair as she m... | 2017-03-26T04:55:06 | 2017-03-26T01:38:47 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] After time traveling to meet Jesus Christ, you are not satisfied with what you see, and eventually realize you are Judas. | "What, are you kidding me? Feed the poor?"
*"Yes, feed the poor, give away your wealth and follow me. For no one can serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."*
"But the those who are poor are the result of their own fault... | I went to my time machine hidden in the back of the ancient synagog to see if it still worked because I was definitely ready to go back home.
It didn't.
Great, just great. I thought, and wandered back into the street. Now I'm stuck here with this asshole who thinks I'm his bestie or something, tells me he loves me ever... | 2017-06-08T08:03:55 | 2017-06-08T07:11:39 | 109 | 11 |
[WP] The Hero and Villain are both sidelined with the flu. They send their sidekick/henchman to do battle in their stead, but the two underlings turn out to have a lot in common. | "Larry? Is that you?"
The young man sitting on the park bench, wearing white-painted cardboard on his body, and fake mouse ears on his head, looked up. "Sally?! Ah, crap."
Sally laughed. A motion that rippled up the tight latex of her yellow canary outfit. A costume, unlike his, not held together by staples and glue.... | Zolaray, sidekick of the great protector, was heading downtown in his zolamobile, a slightly smaller and more red version of the great protector's own vehicle.
This was his first mission, his chance to prove himself. He would be going up against his Boss's arch-nemesis, The Smuggler, reports of his sightings echoing o... | 2019-07-19T00:48:34 | 2019-07-19T00:13:08 | 318 | 159 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | 15,000 years. 15,000 mid-numbing years of waiting. It was exciting to Adam at first at first, the knowledge that life didn't just end with death, that he got to stick around and observe humanity. It suited him well, he'd always been a quiet fellow, and since he was just a ghost, no one gave him a hard time for being a ... | 15,000 years is a long time. It's certainly much longer than most of my kind are capable of thinking in. Today, most of them say that it is the year "2017 AD." I, however, can remember people who said it was "747 AVC." I could remember even farther back to a time and place when it was said to be "the 37th year of the r... | 2017-06-26T15:03:31 | 2017-06-26T12:12:09 | 129 | 39 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | My neighbor Laura doesn’t love her child like I do. At 6:00am on the dot that bitch leaves her daughter outside every morning to freeze until the school bus to arrives. Doesn’t she know how easy it would be to nab that child? All it would take is a box of chocolates and a warm car. That delicious kindergartener would b... | >Hate,Love, Death
The Escalade roared down the road tearing into the crowd, bodies were flung everywhere. Time seemed to slow down to an impossible rate, John could see shoes slowly flying through the air and the bloody gore being slung up the hood onto the windshield in all its detail. None would be spared.
With... | 2014-03-11T14:44:36 | 2014-03-11T07:12:39 | 27 | 11 |
[wp] Humans have the shortest life span in the universe. This is also the reason they are the most feared. | *Humans are ephemeral.*
*Humanity...is immortal.*
***
"Deceleration at sixteen rhohms, entrance to objective timezone imminent. Calculating estimated subjective time remaining until arrival."
The alpha flight computer matrix whirred and clicked to complete the end-warp calculations as the cargo fleet approached its... | "Redran! What are you doing? Get away from that thing!" Blornof said in the highest whisper he could do without waking the sleeping beast. Redran was right over the creature getting ready to touch it.
"Come on Blornof don't be a Rhombus, We've already passed the dare by coming up to it's den. If we touch it we'll be l... | 2017-10-24T11:10:53 | 2017-10-24T08:31:22 | 56 | 14 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | It isn't too surprising that James came to regret his decision. He knew it was a risk, but in a world full of min-maxers, he figured the only chance to potentially get ahead was to think outside the box. Now he was thin, essentially skeletal, feeble of mind, devoid of charms, clumsy, really without any apparent redee... | Pajser woke up on his 20th birthday pretty hungover. Strong light almost totally prevented his eyes from opening. It was unusual light, the one you usually see in games when one important revelation comes up.
"You have 20 skill points to spend, choose wisely," Siri said.
Pajser took his phone and put all on luck beca... | 2016-03-20T19:53:16 | 2016-03-20T18:09:26 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher Artificial Entertainment
A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher **A**rtificial **E**ntertainmen... | "This is such bullshit," I shook my head as I tossed my controller to the floor.
I had been playing for thousands of dollars and was still getting my ass kicked by 'xXxAE_Did_Nothing_WrongxXx'. Of *course* they had an asinine name like that. What kind of person did you have to be to sit in front of a game for hours on... | “My boy! You just bought level 50!? Such a savage.” Said Tyrone almost choking on the gulp of Mountain Dew he had just ingested.
“Yeah, I got a pay raise at my new job so I caved. Besides, I gottta bulk up our squad cause we’ve been losing team battles as of late.” Said Tim as he relaxed on his gaming chair.
“Yo! B... | 2018-02-12T12:11:54 | 2018-02-12T11:59:38 | 2,522 | 108 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | Name. Date of birth. Social. Down the hall. It’s been nearly a century since a formal recruitment, voluntary or not, anywhere in the world. People have shown up by the thousand for weeks now. Name. Date of birth. Social. Down the hall. Nam…
"Aren’t you a little young for this?"
"I’m eighteen."
I take his informat... | "You ever think something like the Walking Dead will become true?" Beth asked me.
"No way, no chance, it's a TV series for a reason, it's fiction and nothing more. Zombies roaming the streets, ha!"
"I don't know Jay, if there is one thing I don't want to die to it's zombies, if I was a zombie would you kill me?" She... | 2019-08-28T14:32:43 | 2019-08-28T14:31:09 | 50 | 24 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It was a tired, overused trope by now, canonized in hundreds of years of entertainment media: Humans winning wars against all odds and surprising the overconfident Big Bad Aliens who never expected them to bite back. A trope. For stories. Not something that happened in reality.
Our first contact went well enough. We’d... | The monitors flickered back on, but the communications with ground forces remained silent.
Silent, like this war room, this war room filled with senior advisors and senior generals, all of whom were relied upon for their knowledge of humans and warring. No one dared to venture what happened to our visuals and our comm... | 2021-07-04T18:36:34 | 2021-07-04T12:44:44 | 197 | 121 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | She looks to him with half a wrinkled smile, eyes shining with hope. And expectation. He supposes his own eyes had held the same shine, a lifetime past when he was in the same position as she is now.
The glass tumbler in his hands trembles slightly. One sip, and the frail old lady will revert to an equally frail baby... | "I can't go on living like this. I wanted to be with you and love you forever. And after a thousand years of this I've realised that we never really understood the purpose of life. My age has made me wise and I finally know what I want and need. We can't keep on working
and never relaxing.
Will you grow old with me an... | 2015-02-14T04:56:56 | 2015-02-14T00:35:54 | 559 | 57 |
[WP] A person who looks exactly like you appears out of thin air in front of you. He starts explaining how he is you from a hellish other universe. As he starts to describe it, you realize its better than yours. | Okay.
So, my name is Marigold Summers, and I'm 27 years old. Born on the 8th of June, 2055.
When Earth imploded, I was one of the lucky few whose names were drawn to survive. Sure, the survival aspect of it all was in definite question, but in all honesty, what sounds better to you? A: you stay and become obliterated... | “Do you want to know something?” I say. “What?” He said. “That world of yours sounds much better than my world.” He laughed. “You think so?” “Yes, I do” I said. He and I began to laugh in synchrony.
“May I see your house?” He asked politely. “Of course!” I plastered a fake smile to my face. “Right this way.” I went to... | 2019-12-18T03:05:38 | 2019-12-18T00:42:04 | 134 | 71 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | My name is Peter Thatch, and I've been trapped in a ghost town for 5 years, 4 months, and 22 days.
I wake up and check my phone. 6:30am. No signal, low battery, several ominous messages from an unknown number. Nothing new there, then. Wiping the crust from my eyes, I drag myself out of bed and make my way to the k... | ^"Is ^that ^Dave?"
The voice belonged to John. It was faint but I could just make out each word.
^"Oh ^my ^god, ^where?!"
This not-faint-enough voice belonged to Jen. I've always found her annoying, but today she's been the fucking worst.
^"There's ^a ^body ^hanging ^from ^that ^tree, ^it ^looks ^like ^Dave!"
I ... | 2017-05-05T09:48:59 | 2017-05-05T08:05:56 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You're a mid-range 3 year old laptop and you see your owner searching for a replacement computer. Understanding that this will lead to your inevitable doom, you try your best to convince him not to throw you away by manipulating the search results. | I can't believe this. Would you ask your current girlfriend to help you look for your next one? No, because that would be super rude! But here we are, you and me, with you looking through me at newer, tighter models. Sure, the google result said a laptop lasts three to five years. But its only been three, man! I still ... | A little loose with the prompt but here is:
**I know your search history**
"I know your search history"
Half awake, in that blissful plain where you linger between dreams and conciousness, I roll over. Looking through dilated eyes I try to focus on my desk. I did hear that, right?
"I know your search history"
Yep.... | 2021-05-26T04:54:34 | 2021-05-26T04:31:16 | 105 | 45 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | You would think that given complete control and no consequences, they would all eventually pass this test. They'd put more thought and effort into putting more good into the world rather than satiate their own selfish whims. But I guess the world that they first lived in taught them to fight hard for the things they wa... | Death is only the beginning.
You fade out from a world where you were a victim, to one where you hold absolute power. To a man who lead a life of being a victim of circumstance, it was the ultimate high.
Abandoned as a child, leaving a hole that never could be filled, you leave my druggie mother and piece of shit fa... | 2020-07-20T04:09:17 | 2020-07-20T04:01:03 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone has the ability to see each others souls. The darker the soul the more evil / corrupt that person is. Your soul appears pure white to others but when you look in the mirror it's black. | *The formula was simple.*
I picked my way slowly through the crowd, a benificent smile on my face. People gathered to look at me - sunset palettes of pink, orange, and yellow, but some greens and blues spotted with an occasional purple. The former -- the light ones -- smiled at me in return, but with embers of envy bu... | It is black again. The clouds are outside. They hang lowly in the air, teasing me. They possess a keen freedom which I may only dream of and yet in a manner which must be designed only to taunt- they imprison themselves close to the ground. Stormy, brooding, beautiful. And in return for their ugly games I get one simpl... | 2021-11-29T15:14:22 | 2021-11-29T15:13:34 | 212 | 22 |
[WP] You are a bumbling archeologist, à la Indiana Jones. You find a lost temple, they tell you no one has gone in, death awaits all. As you head in, the traps all seem to be broken, you step on a plate and arrows shoot across 2 feet behind you, hit a trip wire and open a pit behind you with spikes.
[optional] basical... | Botany was never my strong suit. But in the jungle, plants reigned- plants far older than humanity’s written history. It’s an arms race of evolutionary competition, where the trees battle vines for sunlight, roots clamor over soil, and nutrients are treasure. That heirachy flows down to animal life, as predator hunts p... | [writing this on the bus so might have to fix it later]
"Hmmm"
Richard Abbott was puzzled to say the least, he had definitely felt the trip wire snapped as is caught on his ankle but so far nothing seemed to have happened in the minute since. Tentatively he opened his eyes to see that the corridor ahead did seem to h... | 2020-12-09T09:49:59 | 2020-12-09T09:40:31 | 648 | 71 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I remember every single one.
Every hero I’ve killed, and every devious plot I’ve pulled off as a result.
See, after a thousand miraculous escapes, heroes never actually believe that they’ll die. It makes it so much more satisfying. Because they know me, they know that no one has ever gotten away from me. So when ... | Ultra stared at me with wide eyes, waiting for me to make the first move and I did.
Boooooom! My arm launched back from shock.
A single shot to the head was all it took to bring low the great and powerful Ultra. Of course it wasn't a normal gun, it was one made by me, Nemesis. I used his only weakness, A space all... | 2019-08-06T17:38:39 | 2019-08-06T17:34:25 | 5,388 | 83 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | Ever since the Council of Watchmen (no, they don't see why every new Chrono laughs at the name) first discovered and stabilized the bubble-universes, there's been a contest: who can kill Hitler the best?
Sure, it seems like a pointless game; after all, the first to kill Hitler would be the only one who got to, right? ... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T07:44:01 | 596 | 278 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | One moment I was in the streets of Al-Fallujah, locked in a gunfight with Isis militants. The next, I was standing in some extraterrestrial super dome, shoulder to shoulder with an amalgam of terrifying creatures.
At first, I think it a dream. But the metallic, scratched grip of my M4 responds all too familiarly, pa... | I receive the confirmation that we got all the 150 species and we transfer them to the planet Terranavi. I’m the chief engineer of this planet and we needed such a planet to host this sort of event. We collect different species from different planets and putting them on a piece of rock that only habitable for some of t... | 2020-09-13T17:40:40 | 2020-09-13T17:01:43 | 436 | 41 |
[WP] It's the year 2278. The Holy Empire of Boston, The New Republic of Philadelphia, and The United Burrows of New New York are at the brink of war. Diplomats from each nation are meeting to negotiate peace. You are the translator. | I'm a translator for polities in the former United American States.
You thought about accents, didn't you? It's okay. The association is very strong, everyone thinks that somewhere in Boston is some clade of Southie-accented strongmen.
The truth is, and surely you've realized, accents have died out. Globalized media... | It was the morning of the negotiations. James Kim was putting on his suit and straightening his tie in the mirror of his sterile studio pod. "How did we get here" he thought to himself staring in the mirror.
He left his pod and took the elevator to the ground floor. Waited for the next uber pod going North to the cour... | 2017-01-12T18:50:12 | 2017-01-12T15:53:35 | 328 | 15 |
[WP] You are God. You have just discovered that the world you thought you had destroyed in a flood still exists. You've never heard of this 'Jesus' dude, or anything else since the flood. You really just thought you'd canned the thing and walked away. | He gestured to it all, from their cloudy vantage.
'So you made all of it.'
'That's right.'
He looked around. 'Including this cloudy bit up here?'
'Yes, all of it okay? All of it, yourself included.'
The randomly chosen man looked at his hands. 'Hmm.' He said.
'Exactly.'
The two stood for a moment, quietly lookin... | "Wait, what?"
Travelling along the universe and passing through the Milky Way I decided to check the environment of Planet Earth. It had been many years since I just doomed the place and was done of it. Humans... Disgraceful race. Even the Zorgons were better, and they were my first creation.
I thought it would be ju... | 2017-11-11T09:29:33 | 2017-11-11T05:36:05 | 179 | 95 |
[WP]: it's the year 2057. Queen Elizabeth still reigns. People are getting suspicious. | "Mum? I think it might be time for you to step down and let Will take over like you promised all those years ago, or even George at this stage. I mean people are starting to suspect now."
"So? Let them suspect. Surely by now there are more important things for the people to worry about, if not it would be a distracti... | Soon she would re-enter the pod. Her two hundred years of hibernation was long overdue and would be a welcome relief from her humdrum existence. Even now, servants scurried around the vast chrysalis, deep below the floors of Balmoral castle, prepping and checking its systems, re-filling the vast nectar repositories tha... | 2015-01-20T04:14:55 | 2015-01-20T01:49:48 | 94 | 27 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | I woke up on my 18th birthday and - aside from the obvious nervousness - I felt exactly the same. Of course, this was to be completely expected. After a wonderful birthday breakfast with my family beset with gifts, well-wishes, and gentle teasing, my father volunteered to be the one to fly me to the local Scientific U... | Everyone is destined for something great. You become an adult on your 18th birthday. You become hero.
Maybe I'll be the next Mia Kit. She's one of the greatest superheros in the world. She has the ability to take other powers. Maybe I'll be like The Great Kirk, invincible. No one since him has had that power.
I can... | 2015-03-28T05:39:45 | 2015-03-28T05:16:52 | 757 | 70 |
[WP] "So to walk on water you used..." "Anti-gravity boots." "Healing the sick?" "Portable nanobot medbay" "And I guess you used a matter converter for turning water to wine?" "Nah I just swapped the jars when they weren't looking." | “Jesus Christ...”
“Seems you’ve picked up a bit of the local culture, Captain.”
The captain stopped his pacing to glare at him.
“You broke every rule in the book! Now they’ve built a whole religion around you, because they think you’re some sort of god. And all to stop a small war. Did you think of the consequences ... | I paused.
'Are you family of Merlin, by any chance?'
'Well, I had to talk to 'em the way they understand, didn't they?'
'I *knew* it!'
'Really?'
'Not the specifics but the overall idea, yeah. Merlin, Jesus... you are a genius!'
'Thank you.'
He looked around in my bedroom, where he had quite suddenly landed and s... | 2020-01-06T23:31:16 | 2020-01-06T22:31:18 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Most telepaths get exciting careers. Police officers, FBI, judges. Hell when I registered with the Department of Superpowered individuals I was hoping I could be an interrogator for the military or something.
The problem is, I'm in no shape for a physical job. I'm overweight and have asthma. Who cares? When will an in... | John slowly drank his cup of coffee, knowing too well he was too much of an asset to Mr. Petersburg. He did practically nothing all day in this darn car dealership, but he got payed well. John looked up from his corner office and saw the prime target, a rich-looking woman looking at the Ferraris. He got up and continue... | 2020-02-05T15:10:52 | 2020-02-05T13:58:16 | 737 | 252 |
[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. | It was stupid. The Karathians should have just settled their disagreements with the Auraxians like a civilized bunch. It was a shame really. Such a beautiful world, it's emerald oceans glistening. But they screwed up when they both engaged a human fleet which was just traversing the system peacefully. Before the flagsh... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T11:35:42 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 661 | 66 |
[WP] You are a demon that has had several failed attempts on your life by demon hunters. No matter how they use their holy powers they cannot harm you and as a result they consider you extremely powerful. In truth, the holy powers don't harm you for the simple reason that you aren't actually evil. | Many demons and extraplanar beings are considered evil. Succubi, dormant eldritch gods, and devils and imps of all manners typically are evil, whether lawful or chaotic. I, however strived for a different life. One of balance, one of neutrality.
The other demons scoffed at the notion. Called me a fool and a madman. S... | [Poem]
"For the last time," I said with a sigh,
"I know you're not evil, but neither am I,"
"And if this mess could come to an end,"
"You may even find that I could be your friend."
The holy water splashed on the ground,
And I sighed yet again, this time with a frown,
The hunters took their leave and they ... | 2021-02-22T14:07:48 | 2021-02-22T13:56:05 | 766 | 323 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | "Stop calling, dad," I said quietly. "Nobody is coming for us."
My father hung up the phone and sighed, "I have to keep trying, Michael. If there's even a chance that they'll answer..."
I used my finger to peek out from the blinds at the street. This wasn't how I was expecting the zombie apocalypse to go. I'd seen ev... | I woke up in cold sweat, searching the room around me. Part of me hoped that the last three days were nothing but a nightmare. But when I looked at the calendar I had on my bedroom’s door, the only thing the red marker spelled out for tomorrow was doom.
I heard the tip taps of something coming to my room from the hall... | 2020-09-12T10:59:43 | 2020-09-12T10:25:45 | 349 | 29 |
[WP] You were once the most powerful villain. You retired early and are engaged to a minor super hero who isn't aware of your past. They are about to be killed right before your eyes..but you step in. | I used to be the guy who did this... go around killing minor heroes for the fun of it, made me feel real big and powerful. I guess that’s the same with this guy, big muscular guy wearing spandex of all things. As far as he was aware he and my fiancée were all alone, how very wrong he was. I was in the shadows of the ra... | Walter P. Goodbody, stood aghast with the rest of the world, watching Tec-One being pummeled by Hector Havoc. Her ballistic armor was torn and her smashed in Kevlar helmet barely held on to her face. Walter’s fist tightened around his grocery bag.
Making his way down an alleyway he threw the groceries at a beggar. The ... | 2018-03-09T07:02:35 | 2018-03-09T04:30:01 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A horror story that doesn't involve one of the big three (Paranormal, Aliens, or a Psychopath) just to show me it can actually be done. | Do not repeat my experiments. Do not follow in my footsteps.
By God, I wish I lived centuries earlier - that the only records that existed of my research were manuscripts that I could burn, that if I worked hard enough and quick enough, I could erase from existence every word I've written, and let this secret I've unc... | "Dear fucking God! Is that thing alive?.." Dr. Henry tiptoes closer, adjusting his glasses and squinting to try and see in the lowlight. "Mario, hand me that flashilight and pole."
"No senor, I no, I no.." Mario frowns, struggling to find the words in his broken english.
"For fuckssake Mario! What the hell are we pa... | 2016-10-04T15:14:43 | 2016-10-04T14:48:14 | 207 | 45 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | Xil’dan looked down at his wilted hydrangeas in disgust. Six hundred years, and he had not yet learned the trick of keeping plants alive. Surely it wasn’t that difficult a task. Mortals did it all the time. But try as he might, he could not seem to make his garden flourish. Plants he cared for withered, shrubs he prune... | "Its your son sir, he needs your help."
"Well he doesn't seem to think so." Oriothis rolled his eyes from on top of his riding lawn mower. Clearly annoyed by being interrupted from his chores.
The servant spoke again with his head bowed both out of respect and the fear of making eye contact with such a powerful being... | 2018-05-30T00:42:23 | 2018-05-29T22:59:09 | 2,136 | 28 |
[WP] The alien invasion force had arrived to finally conquer earth and destroy the humans. Unaware that humans had gone extinct long ago and the one responsible was still there. This was a death trap they were walking into and against which the alien civilization has no hope for survival. | The Omnis were no strangers to dead worlds. Planets that had been stripped of anything that could theoretically help an organism live. But this world, this Earth, was different. It still thrived, it still bore greenery and its vast abundance of water--but the shadow of death loomed over it regardless.
The Omnis first ... | Believe me God emperor Xenophon, we are no longer the supreme beings that we once thought we were. I need not but a hundred words to tell you of the demise of our grand galactic fleet. The horror that befell humanity shall now be our demise too. We entered the Sol System on galactic date 459-562, and detected no signs ... | 2022-11-02T04:23:56 | 2022-11-02T03:00:51 | 132 | 15 |
[WP] You rescue many different animals not knowing they are mythical creatures. That weird bird you rescued a month ago was a Phoenix. Your dog? Cerberus. That fox you impulsely got was a kitsune. They also all agree to look over you. | I yawned, arching my back as I stretched out of sleep. The soft padding of feet drew my attention, as she walked in. She herself yawned, her ginger hair stuck up in a very clear bed head. I walked over, rearing up to put my paws on her legs. She scratched the top of my head, and I closed my eyes in bliss.
"Good mornin... | "He really doesnt know, does he?" asked the little girl. her tails looped about her fox feet and concealed at what point the kitsune became fox, or girl dependant on your opinion of what was more important.
the Pheonix, a raggedly spindly bird that rather needed a few months of care looked from human to kitsune and c... | 2021-05-30T12:15:32 | 2021-05-30T10:23:17 | 165 | 35 |
[WP] Your 6 year old daughter is laying on her bed, terrified. She says there’s a monster under her bed. To reassure her, you lay on the ground and check underneath, only to find your daughter, quivering. She whispers, “Daddy, there’s something on top of my bed...” | I probably look ridiculous in my ratty sports jersey and pajama bottoms, skittering backwards like a startled spider on my hands and knees across the bedroom floor, my mouth hanging open in dumb shock.
I blink, stare, and blink again. There was Emily, under the bed, curled up in the dark among discarded toys and dust... | It wasn’t supposed to end like this.
I had tried to keep my daughter away from the monsters who followed me. The spirits that came in the night. Those that were destined to haunt my kind for all eternity. Now that the worst had happened, it was clear that I should have surrendered to them long ago.
Perhaps then the... | 2018-04-30T16:31:00 | 2018-04-30T14:00:25 | 84 | 13 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The main problem with our situation was plane ticket prices.
See, like most wannabe indie girls, I had always wanted to travel after college. Live in summertime for a couple years, write a poem in every continent, cheesy stuff like that. I wanted to meet all kinds of different people. I wanted to visit cat cafes, whi... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T16:13:24 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] Both a Knight and a Dragon tell the same story to their children before they sleep. The moral is different. | Sir Hector pulled the blankets up to little Peter's chin. "Good night, son," the giant man boomed, before stepping across the room to tuck in sweet Eleanor. "Good night, El," he said in a much gentler voice. She giggled as his scraggily red beard tickled her forehead when he bent to give her a good night kiss.
"Tell ... | "Come children, gather to me, I shall tell you the story of Embertooth and the selfless knight of Sladoshire." The mummer called standing ontop of his willow stage, decorated in bright red cloth and a rather passable attempt at a coat of arms. All the less, children gathered from all over, some in fine silk, others in ... | 2017-05-13T22:34:34 | 2017-05-13T17:31:46 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Time flows faster in places that have more people watching. Celebrities grow old in weeks and social recluses live for centuries. | I figured out that the best way to kill was to observe them in person. The closer you are, the more time will shift and bend. Although watching from a screen is the safe and easy way, it can take up to years for old age to come into effect if they haven't been watched before. However, watching in person can take just m... | I’ve aged more in the past week than the past seven centuries.
Ever since that interview with the oldest man alive. I never should’ve answered the door. I thought it would be nice to talk to someone other than the delivery guy that drops off my dog food and groceries. Don’t get me wrong, my dog has good listening sk... | 2018-06-12T10:38:21 | 2018-06-12T05:15:12 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You're almost completely immortal- only one thing can kill you. You don't know what that one thing is, though, and you're getting increasingly paranoid as the years go on. | At first, it's the food that's concerning. As a child you're picky, you know, but as you develop a certain fear for new things, you kinda stick to what you know. It's for the best, I learned.
I'll let you in on some background before I tell you my story. Full on cliché; mother was a junkie, father unknown, me in an or... | I have seen the rise and fall of empires. Witnessed the lives and the deaths of the greatest human beings in history. I was present at the birth of the universe, and I shall survive its cataclysmic end.
For I, Jerrothian III, am an immortal God-King, ruling over my people as any mortal sovereign, while simultaneously ... | 2019-12-30T09:29:53 | 2019-12-30T07:31:15 | 114 | 55 |
[WP] When you were young, you encountered a witch who promised you immortality in exchange for your firstborn child. You accepted, and used all of your time trying to think of a way to bypass her deal, when finally you came up with an easy loophole that has enraged the witch. You adopted a child. | Dennis woke choking. He struggled to breathe in the dark, but something stringy was pushing its way down his throat. He reached for it, but it pulled away. He watched as the tendril crept down the bed, toward the far corner of the room. Dennis retched at the taste left in his mouth, fecal and rotten, like forest floor,... | The witch did not show up immediately upon me adopting the child. It showed up at about 9 that night.
"Jeff, you bastard. Did you think this would fool me?"
I looked at Mildred with a smirk. "Kenneth is not my firstborn.. because he is adopted."
Mildred began laughing. "Hahaha, you think I didn't think of it? Look a... | 2020-03-10T08:48:08 | 2020-03-10T08:32:14 | 61 | 36 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | The world ended five days ago, or at least I think it did.
I'd been on a 3-night binge playing World of Warcraft and masturbating furiously to Rule 34 Tracer stuff when the internet suddenly went down. I checked my phone to see if the wifi was still available, and then my heart sank when I realized the internet was r... | Norman was asleep and purring loudly on Norman's lap. Norman himself was a bit drowsy as he watched the labor day weekend NCIS marathon. His eyes were drooping and his thoughts were wavering uncertainly between giving in and drifting off or staying awake for just one more episode.
Suddenly, Gibs was interrupted mid-s... | 2017-01-27T02:06:53 | 2017-01-27T01:07:58 | 116 | 47 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | The doctor told mother it would develop into something as I aged. It was a rare trait but I wouldn’t have this strange amorphous black smudge on my thigh forever. My mother took peace from the doctor’s words, she was a dove and so she was able to find the peace in all things.
My father roared at the neighbourhood chi... | On the eve of his fifteenth, just like the boys in the neighborhood before him, Sam awaited patiently in his bed as the moon rolled across the sky. It wouldn't be long until midnight came, and then his mark would be revealed, manifested upon his back – the mark of the beast, a spirit animal.
His father waited patientl... | 2017-11-08T05:09:42 | 2017-11-08T05:08:45 | 1,673 | 97 |
[WP] In sci-fi, planets are commonly made of one biome-- 'desert planets', 'jungle planets', 'ice planets' etc. So, the aliens are pretty shocked to see the range of biomes when they arrive on Earth. | They were amazingly primitive. That much was clear. They'd somehow sent a few messages out, which, to our embarrassment, we had, the first few times, decided were natural anomalies rather than admit we couldn't explain.
However, they, though relatively below average in terms of almost all physical attributes, survived... | "How can such an abomination exist?"
"I am speechless also we must immediately contact the general and inform him of this."
"Look it also has deserts this is troubling, oh... my.... gnosh..... it also has ice this is bad what if they are able to live in both. no.no.no. That is crazy talk I'll leave the bridge and conta... | 2018-06-26T09:16:28 | 2018-06-26T08:05:33 | 229 | 16 |
[WP] You are dating an immortal, one day, you find a photo album of their EXs who all looks like you dating back a century.
[deleted] | "Kyra, I can explain this..."
"Really, Jacob, can you? Because I honestly don't understand how you have pages and pages and pages of pictures of girls who look EXACTLY like me. Are you only with me because I look like your exes? Because that's sure as hell what this looks like, and I don't know how you're going to jus... | 'What are you doing?'
I looked up with a guilty start, in my hands the box from under her bed. There were two ways to go from here, stout denial or retaliative attack. Mentally I flipped a coin. The coin flipped me off right back.
'Well, were you ever going to tell me about this?'
'What's there to tell? I have exe... | 2015-11-14T12:18:20 | 2015-11-14T12:12:15 | 156 | 41 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | "I appreciate it," I said to the middle-aged lady as she held open the door to the Starbucks. I had to do that awkward little half-jog to get the door since she started holding it when I was too far away.
**No, he doesn't**, the voice boomed and I averted my eyes and quietly got in line. **He thinks you're a bitch fo... | “I love you,” Jack said, taking Katie's hand in his.
**He loves looking at her. In fact, he loves looking at every bit of her, even as she leaves the room. He loves telling all of his friends that they are together, and he isn’t quite sure that he will get anyone better.**
Jack let out an agonizing scream. He under... | 2019-06-21T07:18:58 | 2019-06-21T07:07:10 | 498 | 101 |
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