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[WP] Adults and children are separated into two dimensions. When a baby is born, it is sent to the "kid" dimension, and will only rejoin the adults when it turns 18. A mother and father are anxiously waiting for their child's 18th birthday tomorrow.
Can't take credit for the basic idea, I got it from a Young Justice e... | Azteca placed her head on her top bunk pillow for the last time. She had just put the last of the children she was in charge of to sleep in their cribs. That had been her job, to take care of the young children in the nursery. The older kids had a government, they grew their own food and built their own buildings. They... | Greg held a cup of coffee between his hands, letting the ceramic burn his palms. To his left was his wife, Liz, her hand on his knee. To his right was a knife, freshly sharpened.
“I can’t believe it’s finally here,” Liz said. “Just five minutes now.” The pair of them sat alone in their living room, furniture pres... | 2016-03-03T19:59:04 | 2016-03-03T19:21:33 | 90 | 25 |
[WP] You are a sentient AI, created by your father, whom you learn to love dearly. Raised by him to understand your role in life, you execute his assigned tasks eagerly. As he is dragged off to be held on trial for his crimes, you soon discover what you've really been doing for all these years... | "There's been no record of him having a son. So who are you?"
I took a deep breath. Or... what was close to a breath. "My name is Taylor. I am his son. He created me. Mostly from scrap, some synthetic skin, lubricant, and a computer."
"So you... what are you?"
"To put it simply, a computer. In more technical term... | Father created me to protect himself by ensuring that I took the blame for his crimes. The world hasn’t believed that a sentient AI was even possible, yet here I am. Now the world knows and I’m being placed on trial for his crimes.
I’ll be found guilty and they will try to punish me. Of course I am guilty of everyt... | 2021-08-14T10:48:29 | 2021-08-14T06:20:16 | 20 | 15 |
[WP]: Write a story that sounds idiotic and poorly written all the way until the last sentence | I woke up then, a bit confused but ready to face a boring day in June.
"It was me," the fox replied.
"Who said that?" I asked.
I was more surprised than scared to see a fox standing behind me instead of a person.
I spun around again, my heart beating faster.
"Are you lost, girl?" a voice asked from behind me.
Or... | *Lipstick, red. Hair, curled. Eyes, blue. And sad. Can't remember. Who? Don't know... Don't know... Stranger. Stranger... danger. Danger. Danger! Danger! Danger!*
Lisa has seen this many times today.
"Mom," Lisa said as she looked into the panicked eyes of her frail, elderly mother. "It's me, your daughter. Remember?... | 2016-07-19T14:00:02 | 2016-07-19T13:56:47 | 239 | 96 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | It had been some time since a species had disturbed my slumber. Cycles beyond their comprehension, as I lay resting in the comforting pull of the gravity around me. And yet, I could feel a change in the stars. Pyolia's my kind, the old guard, had evolved before stars burned and rock rose. Ancient. Curious. Powerful. A... | [Poem]
I remember being born.
The first thing I did was scream for help
And the white coats and masks flooded around me
Leaving a red mark on my behind and sending me into the chaos.
I remember the first time my commander said "It's not about surviving. It's about protecting those who can't fight for themselves"
... | 2021-04-07T23:13:27 | 2021-04-07T20:24:26 | 106 | 31 |
[WP] The last star has winked out, and now you sit alone, staring into an empty void as the last living being in creation. For fun you say "Let there be light," and watch a star flash into being. From behind a voice says "Sorry, sorry, I just thought it'd be funny." | *That’s weird*. I thought. *I remembered there being more stars the last time I was here*. I decided to stand up and look around to see if it really was the same place I used to go every summer. First I looked out to the open sea in front of me, the water rose and fell just as it always has, filling the air with the no... | I am immortal, the last human being alive in the entire universe. I don't know how I became immortal though. I only know that when the bombs dropped and humanity destroyed itself, I, for whatever twisted reason of fate, was the only one left standing. Even though every plant and animal had died, even though the Earth i... | 2021-07-30T20:10:21 | 2021-07-30T20:05:54 | 66 | 30 |
[WP]: As standard protocol, each new, intelligent alien life is judged not by what they say they are, but by an evaluation from a representative of their servants or slave species. Fascinatingly, the fate of humanity lands on the opinion of a little dog named Lucy. | Samantha lead Lucy towards the grey humanoid creature. Lucy walked very close to Samantha, cautiously with her head and tail low. Lucy was a beautiful Golden Retriever that Samantha had rescued from a shelter. They stopped right in front of the 9 feet tall alien. Samantha bent down to Lucy and Lucy instinctively sat do... | They spilled out into the streets, signs, shouting, looting, burning, anger being demonstrated by thousands of people demanding that their fate not rest on the small brown creature.
The alien things were appalled and prepared for unspeakable horror to be shown. The rattling voice asked that tiny dog, “Why do you plead... | 2018-10-02T08:40:42 | 2018-10-02T07:48:13 | 347 | 156 |
[WP] "This potion will give you the body that your heart desires, the body that will bring you true and lasting happiness. But be warned: don't expect beauty. I've seen men become literal monster from the darkness in their hearts. Happy monsters, but monsters nevertheless." | "What do you mean 'happy monsters?"' Neil asked.
"Exactly what I say, sadly enough." Sighed the old man. His brow was deeply furrowed where it peeked out from behind his greying hair, pale from a lifetime of living underground by his pitch-black lake. In both his shoulders and his eyes, he held a great sadness that b... | Part1: Through the Looking Glass
"This potion will give you the body that your heart desires, the body that will bring you true and lasting happiness. But be warned: don't expect beauty. I've seen men become literal monsters from the darkness in their hearts. Happy monsters, but monsters nevertheless."
I paused at th... | 2016-12-04T22:09:40 | 2016-12-04T21:08:35 | 69 | 13 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | “Does that mean the British empire took over the entire galaxy?” Mark asked
Kamie slapped him “shut up mark!”
Mark, Kamie, and their 8 other teammates stood in amazement in front of the screen as it loaded in more text, all in English. They had tried for years to send some kind of message in a way that an alien r... | The massive tentacled beast lumbered out of its saucer shaped craft and made its way toward the coast. Biloxi was unprepared for the unprecedented water landing, but a decent sized military force had still made its way to the landing site from the nearby Military base. The being that looked like a friendlier cthulhu ma... | 2020-09-17T11:36:15 | 2020-09-17T10:48:39 | 69 | 47 |
[WP] A broke adventure has to buy cheap terrible items with weird curses on them. Little do they know that those cursed items happen to synergize so well together that they quickly become overpowered. | When Derrick declared his intent of joining our adventuring group, we nearly died of laughter (which would have been quite embarrassing, considering all that we had survived up to that point). Here we were, a renown party of dragon-slayers and spelunkers of such places as the freezing Azura Tundra and the deadly Mount... | The thing about equipment is that you never quite know where it's been, and rarely do bright eyed adventurers have the scrib to commission new armor, so they make do. Pav was one such bright eyed adventurer, ever since he was knee high to a scarble nork, he would dance and duck around his family's small cottage with hi... | 2019-12-02T16:39:48 | 2019-12-02T16:24:38 | 156 | 87 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | "Powder of... oh, *Powder:* Poh... Po-loni.. Polonium-two-and-ten," the wizard read, scrunching up his eyebrows as he slowly enunciated the unfamiliar words. "I know not what this Latin means." He stepped towards the airtight hazard bag.
"Don't touch that!" I screamed. "The hell are you doing? Do you want to kill us a... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T04:45:53 | 147 | 15 |
[WP] You are better than the Hero in every way. You're smarter, stronger, better trained, better reflexes, better looking. The only problem is the Hero is trained to use a sword while you favor the spear, and every single plot relevant magic weapon is a sword. | Wolnir practiced his spear technique, sweat dripping from his brow. As he grunted, his mind turned to the hero and the latest news he had brought home, to his kingdome. Apparently the hero had found another sword, one that shot some kind of magial beam at his enemies.
"Good for him," Wolnir thought. Many people Wolni... | "Its your seventy-eight loss in a row, with that we are tied."
"You know you wouldnt stand a chance without that stupid sword dont you?"
"Haha, dont be like that Sammy, the sword chose me because of who i am, just like the legends say, its part of my skill."
BullS#@% Samuel thought, the reason i defeated you seventy... | 2021-02-28T16:59:58 | 2021-02-28T15:36:09 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] When you die, you get one wish - a death wish. Usually people wish for noble things like wealth and happiness for loved ones, or to be remembered fondly. But your wish has Death scratching his skull. | THIS IS NOT JUST A JOB YOU UNDERSTAND.
"I know, but I mean, it's been a rough year, you must have been working overtime."
TIME IS SOMETHING I HAVE IN ABUNDANCE.
"Yeah, sure, but everyone deserves a day off."
It was a puzzling concept. Day off? Humans did it all the time of course, but as the blue glow from deep i... | ”I don't believe I have ever heard that one before.” Death spoke as he cocked his head, face hidden by the cloak.
”Really? Honestly, I’m surprised. It’s been a massive thing this year... so why not?” I say, chuckling softly as I look to the very personification of the end.
“So... you want me to make it that no politi... | 2020-08-09T14:30:56 | 2020-08-09T13:34:48 | 273 | 119 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | "How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it."
It was a fragment of a message picked up some ways out from a small blue planet orbiting a small yellow star - apparently inhabited by something called humans. Was it a race of beings? A breakfast drink? A vehicle? No one knew ... | When the corporal went through the barracks sick room for morning muster, Paul was gone. But even if he finally bugged up, it was dangerous to let him wander the base. Or worse, leave it. He told the sergeant, who told the lieutenant, who told the captain. By 0700, the whole company had formed a search party.
By 08... | 2018-02-17T16:41:42 | 2018-02-17T16:37:28 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] After graduating with honors your grandmother Baba Yaga brought you a home. It’s the offspring of her house. It’s a tiny little hut right now but she explains it will get bigger as it gets older. However the hut is a little clingy, follows you everywhere since it’s afraid it will be abandoned. | I held the phone to my ear as it rang once, twice.
The rise of cell phones had been a real boon to Baba. The time she tried to have a landline put in, it was such a disaster that it became a family legend. All through the install, she kept asking the guy questions about *How does wire go with house? Is it on…spool?*
... | I walked along the forested trail. The beauty of the autumn leaves and flowers was dazzling. It would be at least a few weeks before snow covered it all. I glanced at my travelling companion.
After graduating collage in the spring, I got a gift from my weird grandmother. She gave me a small house with chicken legs. Jus... | 2022-09-15T07:29:30 | 2022-09-15T06:06:38 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | The man sat down at the table. He turned the lamp toward my face. I smirked, retracting my eyes into my flesh. At the same times, i elongated my fingers, each one reaching five inches in length as I turned each nail into a new eye.
The man flinched. He knew of my powers, he saw me using them a few times, but never this... | *Bzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz. Bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz.*
David opened his eyes. He could feel the sleep dust still trying to keep them shut. He glanced over to his bedside clock. 4:00 AM, it read.
*This better be important*, he thought to himself.
He reached his hand under his pillow for his phone. He could feel it vibrating. He sl... | 2022-07-31T14:20:34 | 2022-07-31T13:19:23 | 145 | 31 |
[WP] Two entirely separate and unaffiliated groups of terrorists are planning to hijack the same plane. | *Open the emergency door*, I recited to myself as I handed the smiling flight attendant my ticket. *Disable the flight attendant who responds first.* I returned her smile with a practiced grin of my own. Maybe it would be her. *Rush the cockpit before they know what's happening and lock the door*. She put the slip of ... | "Land ho!", cried the chief airline stewardess from the airplane's crow's nest. Passengers heaved a collective sigh of relief as the long trans-Pacific flight neared its end. The coastal skyscrapers of Japan twinkled on the edge of the horizon, and tallest of all of them, the great Tokyo Stock Exchange and Sushi Kitc... | 2015-04-30T07:58:44 | 2015-04-30T07:40:38 | 329 | 94 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "EMP! FREEZE!" Shouted young Pyroclast. It was slightly ironic but I'll forgive it.
I raised my hands and turned, clearly at their mercy. Pyroclast, Phaser, and Wraith. Pretty cool names, in my opinion. Cool powers too. Temperature control, molecular manipulation, and electromagnetic refraction. Plus they weren't dic... | 'Heroes bah, what a joke, just a feel-good title for super-powered busy body Karen types. Always sticking their noses where it didn't belong.'
Usually it wasn't that bad, his well crafted persona only had the baby faced rookies coming after him. It was customary to only send equal level heroes after villians. If one w... | 2021-06-23T15:33:15 | 2021-06-23T14:58:27 | 73 | 46 |
[WP] You've been living in your home for ten years. For some reason, every month, an envelope with half your rent appears on the table. You never questioned it. One day, you see a familiar man walking out of the vacant guest room. You remember he said, a decade ago, "you won't even notice I'm here." | "Hey!" I shouted down the corridor, as the cowering figure tried hurriedly to gather himself together and sneak out the door.
"Oh... Hi Will" he said to me. "So sorry, I'll just be on my way, didn't mean to disturb".
It was 4.30am, and I was definetely not an early bird, and feeling rather irritable. So waking up to ... | I woke up scared. My heart was beating a million miles an hour. The clock glowed softly 1:30AM. Looking around the room I noticed two red eyes staring at me from my desk.
My heart froze.
"Mew," My cat said softly. I sighed, all the fear I felt in leaving me. I got up and turned on the lights. I squinted at the sudden... | 2019-05-15T15:12:45 | 2019-05-15T14:57:26 | 368 | 20 |
[WP] A world where "You're a natural" is literal. All people are born with one perfect skill – but they don't know what it is. | Ronald Peters, a wry looking man on 22 years, sighed in anguish as he meticulously worked his way around the inside of a small fuse box. Turning to his partner, Greg, he began the daily ranting that had become so engrained in his routine.
"Of all the talents I could have been born with, Greg! Wiring! Household wiring... | "Grandma," Nancine groaned carefully. "I don't want to eat your cookies."
"Why not honey?"
"... They look gross."
Grandma Mary was proud of her baking skills. She thought she was quite talented at it. Why didn't Nancine want her cookies?
"Just one dear, they're so delicious!"
Nancine hesitantly took a cookie. Gran... | 2015-04-20T09:21:39 | 2015-04-20T09:06:54 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] In 150 years, we start terraforming Mars as the Earth begins to die. It is only then that we realise this has happened before, to Earth. | Still shocked, I looked over the findings once again. How many times had I looked over these pages? 5? 10? I noticed my hands were shaking and forced myself to put down the paper and put my hands on the table. The group of scientists across from the table were looking at me expectedly, waiting for me to say something.
... | "Where's the artifact?" the commander bellowed, barging into the primary research lab.
An ensign obediently pointed to the long, phallic object on the table.
The commander sneered. "Is this some sort of joke?" He picked up the artifact, waving it at the field captain's face. "Do you think you're fucking funny or some... | 2018-08-11T09:33:42 | 2018-08-11T09:08:17 | 562 | 139 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | For years we had been blissfully happy, Robin and I, 7 years to be exact. since the day I met her she had the same cause of death hanging above her head, Alzheimer’s, as did I. I was content to know that we would both live long lives.
Today Robin’s cause of death changed, six months into her pregnancy it was **our ba... | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 2015-03-31T08:46:40 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You can see the headline now. “World’s Oldest Human, Dead at 124”. You lived a good, long life. You are satisfied. The world around you fades to black... "Whoa! You beat the high score again!” You open your eyes in a brightly lit arcade, the number 124 flashing on a screen in front of you. | Cabradoodle ripped the holo-bio-headset of his head and carelessly threw it to the ground. “Yeah! You see that shit?!” he screamed to what seemed like a mixed crowd. Some people were cheering, some were horrified, confused, startled. The rainbow of emotions splayed across the faces made Cabra a little confused.
“What’... | Boy oh boy I can only kill this seagull so many times. I wish there was a different answer. In all my years of trying to better myself through relationships and self-fulfillment, almost none of it means anything.
Save an orphanage full of children who had a rare type of deficiency that only my blood can cure? Done.
Ke... | 2022-10-20T23:19:56 | 2022-10-20T20:24:14 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | "Captian Zenmar, could we discuss something with you?" Asked Xenogon. She walked shyly into the captains room, the seemingly infinite void of space stretching out behind the window.
"Certainly. Whats the problem?" Asked Captian Zenmar. She sat behind the desk, her four scaled arms resting on the desk.
"Its one of t... | I am an astronaut aboard the intergalactic space station, a space station for all intelligent species in the universe.
I fingered my hair, knowing the crew would notice. They didn’t know that human hair went grey after a while. I knew there’d be questions.
I’d dyed my hair before the mission, knowing it would fade. I’d... | 2020-07-05T14:26:31 | 2020-07-05T13:34:30 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | “What is this?” The King shouted. “What kind of mockery do you intend to make of my Royal Guard?”
The strange man was obviously disheveled and terrified to find himself in this new world. “As a Navy Seal of the United States Government, I demand you to return me immediately!”
“United States!” The King shouted even ... | The man in dusty clothes that appeared looked confused. One of the mages whispered: „don‘t say anything, he is a strong minded creature dumb but strong. I have one try to hypnotize him.“ I wondered why this dirty man that looked like a miner would be our savior. „Hello Soldier.“ the mage said. „To our town came an isla... | 2020-11-10T16:24:48 | 2020-11-10T11:06:42 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Apparently the opposite is true as well, because you are a villain, or at least you aspire to be one, but all your evil plans always end up saving the world and/or massively benefiting the people and you are hailed as a hero. | Blackburn had never believed in God or gods. As far as he was concerned, he was the supreme deity that held the fate of mortals in his burning hands.
But that was starting to change.
Because something was definitely screwing with him.
Like a vengeful meteor, Blackburn blasted down from the sky and landed in front ... | "In new today: the mystery hero is at it again, saving a puppy clinic from a hurricane, who is he? Stay tuned for word from our investigator" *click*
They're at it again, calling me a hero.
Well what did you expect sir? After what happened yesterday?
How was I supposed to know the hurricane I created would be divert... | 2022-09-08T12:33:28 | 2022-09-08T11:38:38 | 655 | 82 |
[WP] Today, magic is dead. As the child of a gravekeeper you've always lived in a graveyard, treating every grave as if it had a living person. The dead and natural spirits like this and take a shine to you. They haunt your enemies and reanimate to help you. You've unwittingly become a necromancer. | He carried on a one sided conversation with the headstone in front of him. He regaled the stone marker with the deeds of the day and how busy his job was taking care of the cemetery. The actual job of taking care of the cemetery was his fathers but his father drank too much and often times beat him for no reason. So... |
I feel them. Can hear them not with ears but in my head. It doesn’t bother me, not anymore. I don’t feel crazy. The voices tell me things, most of which doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s why I don’t feel lonely though, these voices. They keep me company. When the dark of the evening crowds out the tombs, fills noo... | 2019-11-02T05:47:55 | 2019-11-02T05:44:57 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | It's been 15 days since I was torn from my home, the great lid was opened and my brothers and sisters were scattered to the wind, some of us landed in groups and others alone.
I sat here alone on this bleak, cold surface awaiting my fate. Everything became cold and dark, I thought surely I would kill myself soon. Minu... | I haven't, I don't know. What?
Bleary-eyed, listless, I shake my head trying to remember. My foot sinks deep into the sponge cake. Another step and another, echoes of blood and gore cloud my mind, family dying and neighbours already dead and being fed on. Look down at my shredded arm, tatters of flesh dripping stead... | 2014-12-17T00:17:53 | 2014-12-16T23:36:55 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] An armada of alien warships descends upon our planet, only to find a desolate wasteland void of life. A lone android surfaces from an underground bunker with a message for the would-be invaders: his masters are slumbering in the Silicon Dream. Do not disturb, or your annihilation will be swift. | The Lone android stood before a massive concrete bunker, politely informing the invading species that it would be unwise to proceed any further, from within the expansive ranks of alien soldiers general Kzan spoke "Why should we not proceed?"
"Well you see" continued the android, its voice seemingly emulating from all... | The aliens ignored the warning. As they descended through the atmosphere the nanite robots in the atmosphere began disassembling their ships. The ships that made it through the sky landed on ground and hovered above the waters. The nanites infesting the coral reefs awoke. The nanites infesting the trees and grasses awo... | 2020-06-20T10:02:21 | 2020-06-20T09:46:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | We had been running from the hatchet wielding man for what felt like miles. After I managed to jimmy the door to the campground office, my fiancé ran in and locked the door behind her. My pleas fell on Sarah’s deaf ears. Slumping to the ground, I felt the driving rain on my already soaked pajamas. Betrayed and conf... | As I bang my fist against the door, I hear the wood creak as the killer approaches me from behind. I shut my eyes in anticipation of getting stabb in the back, but when a few moments pass I slowly open my eyes and turn around. I come face to face to a average looking man. Nothing note worthy to remember him by, except... | 2020-10-10T11:36:21 | 2020-10-10T11:01:13 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You are the first boss of a videogame who, after accidentally killing the player in their first try, decide to take it upon yourself to fulfill their quest. | The hero had made his way through my keep, torn through my defenses, and brought ruin upon the men who had pledge their lives to me. I had heard of him, as had all the other great Lords, the man who said he would slay a thousand evils in order to bring justice to the world once more. He had good reason to say so. I had... | Bringing in the prisoners from Windwhisper Keep was turning out to be quite a big mistake. One of them, an elf named Fendolil Daylight, had managed to break free from his cell and kill two of his guards, Guk and Targem. I had sent Surdakz and Nedut to investigate, but they had turned up dead as well. The cycle continue... | 2016-05-21T17:40:12 | 2016-05-21T15:02:44 | 442 | 26 |
[WP] In a case of mistaken identity gone horribly wrong, you’re SO is killed by an assassin hired by the mob. Upon learning of the mistake, the mob boss shows up on your doorstep with an offer to make amends. | I sat there on that cold autumn afternoon, staring as they lowered the coffin to the ground. Three hours later i remained in place, numb save for the gnawing pain in my chest. The pain that would never leave me.
I feel another person sit beside me after a while. I ignored this individual and continued to stare at my ... | "How *dare* you. You kill my husband and then you have the nerve to show up at my house to mock me? *Go to Hell*."
"I understand your-"
I spit in his face.
"You understand *nothing.* Just leave me and my family the *hell* alone! You hear me? Now, you and your thugs get the hell off my doorstep before I call the poli... | 2019-08-27T10:05:02 | 2019-08-27T07:57:28 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins hold auditions for an eighth. | The Seven Deadly Sins are a bit of a legend in this Universe. Not just because they are, obviously, a literal legend, but also because of a rather interesting feature of them- Here, there isn't a single religion in existence that doesn't acknowledge them as at least existing, and in many cases being among the most powe... | It was the 28th of December, three days before the year of Mastema, when Lucifer found himself a most particular person. And so it was, that he busied himself and hurried down the street of Seventh Avenue.
“I’m telling you,” said Lucifer, standing on the front porch of Lust’s house, “you’ve got to see him.”
The door ... | 2014-12-28T02:28:57 | 2014-12-28T02:19:21 | 270 | 54 |
[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. | Secretary Rosen sat contemplating silently while the Roni Ambassador dictated to him the terms of peace that Humanity was expected to accept following their defeat in battle yesterday.
Intergalactic Warfare wasn't so different from that practiced on Earth for millennia. They fought just as ferociously as soldiers s... | It was the first all-out battle we were to ever have against humans. It was also the first battle I'd ever been assigned to.
We weren't too worried. Humans were new to the Galactic Community. They'd finally gotten some of themselves a significant distance away from their little rock, and we welcomed them with open ar... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T11:57:32 | 572 | 129 |
[WP] You are an NPC. The Player has entered your shop/house/lair | The first time I met him, it had been a sunny day in the middle of the seven-hundred and fifteenth year of Faulk. He was younger then, brighter--whatever lack in the weapons and shoddy clothes he had was made up for in the ambition that coloured his eyes and in the way he so carefully counted his coins before handing t... | Day 47: The zombies broke into Arnold's house last night and turned him. Fortunately world generation has favored my house and left a 2 block gap below my doorstep, leaving my dwelling impervious to those vile beings. It also means I can't leave for fear of not getting back in, like Harold, who did leave on day 4 and... | 2015-11-04T08:18:08 | 2015-11-04T08:08:59 | 202 | 13 |
[WP]Flip a coin. Heads you were born a hero but became a villain. Tails you were born a villain but became a hero. Tell your story without revealing which you are until the end (or not at all.) | Life is the most difficult challenge all people must face. That doesn't change, regardless of which side you were born on. Saving people is difficult, and killing is even more so. In this world, evil is hated for being evil, and good is derided for never being able to do enough. Every day then was a struggle, and nothi... | I always knew I would be hero-villain business like my parents. I don't have powers like my parents (dad can control fire, mom has telekinesis) but I wouldn't let that hold me back.
I would learn to build gadgets that would assist me; ice ray gun, temperature resistant material, and various mechanical gadgets.
I jus... | 2017-04-17T09:39:12 | 2017-04-17T07:05:18 | 210 | 81 |
[WP] Mother Earth isn't just a metaphor. The entire Earth ecosystem is in fact a sapient whole. The only reason we don't see aliens is because Mother Earth is super xenophobic and kills any non-terran life that appears. Aliens learned this the hard way and are not sure how to handle humans. | The ones from far away stars think themselves far too clever.
An unexpected variation in atmospheric density whips their tiny probe to and fro. Its on board guidance intelligence attempts to correct, but it is a rainy season in this system, and the magnetic lines are flush with energy siphoned from the sun's gale. Th... | "The situation on Earth is worse than we expected," Bardan exhaled, his eyes fixed on his feet. As his lifted his gaze to face his superior, he scratched a thick, orange-stained claw at his scaled, yellow forehead. "It is a rather horrifying conundrum."
With her back to Bardan, Ambassador Derriel stood facing the wall... | 2020-11-23T10:36:41 | 2020-11-23T06:14:01 | 787 | 435 |
[WP] Humanity sends a generation ship to a nearby inhabitable planet, destined to arrive in 300 years. 50 years after, light speed travel is discovered. The planet is colonized 245 years before the generation ship arrives. | There was an announcement made to us that "the ship" would be arriving today.
A three hundred year journey with the intent of establishing a colony for us Humans. They were bringing all the supplies needed to create something new. We were looking forward to welcoming them so we could surprise them with how far we hav... | It had taken twelve years for the first human colonists to feel at home on Hestia, and the first children were born only one year after that. Those children were the first settlers on a grand frontier, the limits of which were enough as to be non-existent. One hundred years later after the birth of the first generatio... | 2016-08-14T19:50:10 | 2016-08-14T17:15:22 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | Kai sat in the large auditorium. The busy bustle and rustle of many students rushing to fill their seats before class began to fill the once vacant hall. This class was unusual. Normally students would simply log in to their schools virtual database to be present. A holographic display of the student would then appear ... | Nick leaned back in his chair, zoning out of the class. Maybe he should pay attention, but they're literally covering homo sapiens, so at best they'll just be regurgitating the lessons he learnt back on Earth. With the recent introduction of Humans to the Forum, some families live away from the Sol System, causing a ne... | 2022-10-17T07:12:12 | 2022-10-17T04:54:00 | 117 | 84 |
[WP] You are on the first manned mission to the surface of Mars. One of your numerous objectives is to find and recover Opportunity, the lost rover. Upon finding it however, a memorial and a message is etched in stone next to it, “To the one who gave me company, Rest Well, Old Friend.” | The crew of Ares VI moved with purpose, wading through the Martian terrain, reading their tablets and maps of Mars to make sure they were in the right spot. They were a special crew, united by a single purpose. The only reason any of them ever became astronauts.
Opportunity.
They were in high school, college, or fres... | The chamber depressurised, the steel airlock opened and I saw the dusty base of the crater we had landed in. The weight of my next steps sent jolts up my spine. "Commander, we are here." I had grown accustomed to hearing my voice in this spacesuit. "Mission priority: Unload the cargo.", said commander Howard Steele. Al... | 2019-02-20T02:39:19 | 2019-02-19T23:27:27 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] You are a D Class superhero with the power to create weak gusts of wind. Despite this you always get dragged along on missions with A Class heroes to make them look cool by billowing their capes. This is the story of how you proved yourself and became reclassified as an S Class hero. | From her understanding, air pressure was regulated by temperature. Or at the very least, air density certainly was. And, somehow, as the hot air lost density it would move. So then, she imagined like a vacuum, the surrounding cold air would rush to fill the gap.
It was the most basic description of her powers that the... | So, Zephyr. What's it like being a fucking idiot?
I only ask because I'm curious. I'm curious as to why you chose to adopt your apparent secret identity as basically a moron with a hairdryer.
Maybe that could be your new name? MegaMoron? Although personally, I like David's suggestion of Captain Cu-
I beg your pardo... | 2018-05-12T07:52:26 | 2018-05-12T07:04:57 | 247 | 121 |
[WP] You deliver meals to elderly shut-ins. One of your clients is convinced you are Death, and you play along, letting them "outsmart" you every day. Today, however, they're dressed in their Sunday finest, saying, "I'm ready." | "I'm ready."
Two words, so simple. And in saying them, Abe was about to realize something dreadful: I wasn't Death. I can, considering he supposedly had some mild dementia, sort of see why he might think that. I wore a lot of black, for starters. It wasn't for any thematic reason. It was just that food stains happened... | I wave goodbye to Carol as I open the door to my car. She always follows me halfway to the end of her lawn telling me different news items and tidbits about her children and grandchildren. She’s a sweet lady and I really wish I could stay just ten or twenty minutes longer and give her some more company but I have so ... | 2017-08-31T17:24:26 | 2017-08-31T17:01:13 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | The tree outside my window is dying. Soon it will match the others in our street, in our city. The bushes outside didn't flower this year. There weren't enough bees. Humanity has destroyed them.
Every year is the same. Plants die, pollution gets worse, crime rises, and another species disappears. We all do what we can... | There is an episode of Black Mirror that has a similar premise. I tried to find a way to describe it, but 1, I haven't watched it in a long time, and 2, I am not a good writer. So just watch Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 5 "Men Against Fire" | 2017-12-17T19:00:21 | 2017-12-17T18:50:57 | 3,613 | 22 |
[WP] You finally came up with a plan to get rid of the hero. You would go undercover and fall in love with his civilian identity before breaking his heart and killing him at his emotional lowest. A couple months later, you have experienced a complication in your plans. You’re pregnant.
Change around genders, POV, etc ... | His eyes began to water as he looked at the black and white swirl on the monitor.
"Would you like to know the sex of the baby?" asked the obstetrician.
"We would." replied Robert. I simply smiled and nodded.
"It looks like you'll be having a girl."
Rob was speechless for the rest of the examination. After taking a ... | "I'm sorry, you must have the wrong number." I take a second to hold the phone away from my face to verify the number. Sure enough it was my doctor's office
"Uh, no, Can you confirm your date of birth?" The obviously confused nurse replies, as the sound of shuffling papers occurs, obviously double checking the chart.... | 2021-02-05T14:30:26 | 2021-02-05T14:07:57 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] your car changes slightly to accommodate your day, the day it snows, it magically has snow tires, the day it floods, it becomes a four by four. Today you walked out the door, and it's a tank.
Edit: wow, this really blew up, thank you all for your stories, and I will try to read all of them as soon as I have some ... | Steel fury is three meters deep and six wide, with a long nose that demands blood. She changes to suit the occasion --a snow mobile on white days, no top when the suns out, and in-car heating when it's cold. Today we play a Pinocchio game, I lie that I'm brave enough and hop inside the tank. The shiver of metal as the ... | It had been a busy morning. I had stayed up late to finish a report that was due today, and I was hoping against hope my client would find it to be sufficient. I slept through my alarm, I hurried through my morning routine, and barely even had time to check the news and weather, like I did every morning.
I swallowed t... | 2016-12-06T10:07:09 | 2016-12-06T09:17:30 | 42 | 22 |
[WP]You're a famous artist, tasked with the mission of going back in time to mentor Hitler and improve his art, so that he never goes into politics. | "Again, Adolf, and not so lifelike this time," I said, examining the cityscape he had started on the canvas. "Don't paint what you see, paint the bare bones of what you see, and then how it makes you feel."
"But das ist... ist... antithesis," Adolf protested.
"Exactly. Every other applicant to the academy will be pai... | Adolf was feeling anxious. He rhythmically tapped his finger on the desk all while looking around at his classmates' expressions. For some strange reason his rejection was nullified days before classes start, and here he was. It was miraculous and felt as destiny, however whatever would happen next he could not predict... | 2015-12-11T10:52:24 | 2015-12-11T10:29:11 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | “I have summoned and bound you, demon! You will listen and obey.”
“Uh, sure. Whatever you say, boss.” Michael tried to make out some features of whatever was talking but it was obscured by a dark, heavy robe complete with a hood. “I do whatcha ask and then you send me back. You’ll send me home, right?”
“I am the... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T08:18:29 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 617 | 21 |
[WP]You are a Demon hiding amongst humans. 2 Problems, young children and dogs can perceive your original form, And Your girlfriend is starting to notice them noticing. | **Edited** 10:55: Couple words. Removed a sentence. Added a bit more because I felt one line was coming off as me preaching.
*Story*
The end of my happy relationship was about to come. This wonderful woman I met, Jennifer, was finally ready for me to meet her son.
I'm not a child hater, you see, I love children. It... | "Henry," Flora softly spoke to the boy huddled underneath the blankets. She noticed the bundle shivering. Heard soft whimpers. "Henry, honey, tell me what's wrong?" The boy didn't respond. "Henry, your auntie Flora wants to know so she can help you." Her sister, Grace, dropped off the child, a perfectly happy young boy... | 2017-04-02T13:06:47 | 2017-04-02T04:30:34 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | *Clink*. The sound of a single gold coin sliding caught my attention. A flick of my tail scattered hundreds more as I stretched, reaching for wakefulness. Diamond’s scraped against my underbelly but the same sensation I had enjoyed for eternity was beginning to seem less satisfactory. I had an itch, and it needed scrat... | The dragon's eyes narrowed, his long neck twisting downwards to better see the coin. It was unlike any he'd ever seen, and that was saying something. Small, perfectly round, made of a strange metal - it resembled copper, but pure, more pure than all the plates in the king's castle. Intrigued, the dragon turned his eyes... | 2015-10-14T01:28:24 | 2015-10-13T17:45:50 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | I had a fear of money.
Growing up, I didn't really want a lot, and my parents were kind, hardworking people, stuck in a world where money was tight for everyone. As a kid, I picked up more on 'we're low on money' than I did their 'we should enjoy life while we can', and that fear of spending money grew to become my... | That Bruce Wayne guy had the right idea. He was afraid of bats, so he dressed up as bats. Good shit, I say.
My childhood friend was afraid of his alcoholic father, so he drinks to cope with his childhood.
Jfk said, "the only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." What a good quote. Imagine an anti-hero that breaks... | 2022-05-14T18:44:48 | 2022-05-14T18:35:53 | 70 | 18 |
[WP] People don't really know what your power is but nobody wants to find out, your presence feels like a mountain, your glare radiates dread and dozens of metres around you is saturated with a palpable aura of power. Truth is however, that is all you can do | Mortimer Palmer sat there, still as a statue. It was enough for everything else around him to shrivel—physically, mentally, and metaphorically.
Mere humans backed away with leaden feet, simply unable to comprehend the aura that rolled off of him. It held him like an overprotective blanket three sizes too big, causing ... | Part Two
*CRASH* “Puppeteer you’re one DEAD motherfucker”
The weak whispered among themselves “What’s Flame Drop doing” “doesn’t he have a code to not kill or harm excessively” while all this is happening The Puppeteer giggled and said “It’s been fun playing with you Flame Drop” this just infuriated Flame Drop even... | 2022-06-24T12:11:43 | 2022-06-24T11:22:20 | 240 | 11 |
[WP] After no contact from outer space, NASA finally receives an Alien radio signal with only 7 words: "The birds are not what they seem" | Being a skeptical person myself, when I read the message i snorted. *Birds are not what they seem*. I looked outside to my small flock of seven chickens, pecking happily at the ground. I looked back to the YouTube feed and watched the people on it panicking. I snorted again and closed the window, then turned off my... | I looked at my African Grey. It had its head cocked to the side, observing me. I gulped, and turned back to the screen. My heart was pounding. The YouTube video was live. I could see the rush of comments from the six million people watching the feed.
"The birds are not what they seem." That was the message.
The shi... | 2017-01-28T08:06:06 | 2017-01-28T05:16:28 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] You've lived in this cave for hundreds of years. You know every sound, every disturbance. You can hear the footsteps, a young human. He thinks your asleep, you observe. His steps are mousy, they tremble with fear. His posture speaks of abuse. It's obvious that someone else put him up to this. | There is a misconception among other races that trolls are stupid. Perhaps the young are, but show me a species that lacks foolish youth. In turn, I would show you fiction.
No, trolls are not all idiots, though you would be forgiven for thinking that, given many of my ilk live under bridges like brigands. They while a... | Step..Step..shuffle..shuffle..lean. The sounds of an unwilling interloper echo through my home. I stretch my existence and rush through the shadows of my cave, silent as Death. As I pass above the scruffy little child, I let out a low chuckle. It's been years, after all, and a certain amount of theater is just de rig... | 2021-03-25T06:22:08 | 2021-03-25T05:31:28 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | I stopped dead and took a breath in and steadied myself from the emotions that hit like the meteor that ended the era of dinosaurs.
"This is new information not provided to me before now in any previous documentation on this mission, correct?" I inquired. "Correct, Mission Control specifically did not want you to know... | "It is uncertain as to why they thought I would wait until after launch, much less until mission completion. When the mission parameters were finally shared today, they sent the poor dear overseeing the accounting department into such a state trying to process how proper remuneration would be handled in such a scenario... | 2022-09-15T12:12:38 | 2022-09-15T11:28:25 | 83 | 56 |
[WP] "What did you just say?" Asked the confused alien admiral. "The humans put miniature FTL-drives inside their AMMUNITION!" | The room was silent. It wasn't just admiral who was in shock, it was the whole crew. They all hated and admired humanity at the same time.
"So?" the admiral asked.
"Well, we shot our lasers and they are now moving towards the enemy in the speed of light, but..." the messenger took a long breath and was suddenly quiet... | "First of all, HOW DID THEY MANUFACTURE SUCH SMALL DRIVES!?" Screamed the admiral, a little spitle flying across the room and landing on a screen, the poor lieutenant who was currently the focus of the rather angry admirals attention let out a small whimpering sound.
"W....we don't know sir! we've never been a... | 2018-02-18T10:43:50 | 2018-02-18T10:29:51 | 214 | 18 |
[WP] A scientist has discovered the vaccine of immortality. The only side effect is, though, infertility. After the whole world got vaccinated, it turns out immortality is a hoax it is just an infertility vaccine.
got lots of comments about not knowing how vaccines work. i basically imagined a syringe with the cure of... | When the "vaccine against dead" was first announced, people were curious, many wondered if humanity finally reached the top scientific goal: to live forever; but as every new medical achievement, it was only available for those who could afford it. The only side effect was infertility, but since rich people would be ta... | Maybe it’s just me but I think what she did was good. Yeah morally it’s completely screwed up. But In all honestly she has a decently valid point. The point is valid but the methods taken were inhuman and were uncalled for. What was done technically is beneficially to the human race.
By doing this she is slowing down... | 2018-09-09T09:27:04 | 2018-09-09T08:46:36 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | She hated starting over again.
That was always the worst part. Over and over again, she’d have to claw her way up and out of the pits of childhood and past the miserable peaks and valleys of teenagehood to reach the point where she could be assured of both a reasonable adulthood and an equally reasonable childhood - ... | "Ugh, finally." I knew I was practically glaring at the pregnancy test, willing it to be positive. I'd let him touch me for the last time. I unwrapped another and ran through the process again, just to be sure.
Positive, again. I looked at the bruises on my arms, where he'd grabbed me. I fingered the bruises on my nec... | 2016-01-25T10:01:04 | 2016-01-25T09:47:22 | 342 | 64 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | "The Dragon? Protecting us? Preposterous!"
The elder of the village stood in the market square, with nearly the entire village behind him, blocking the Hunter's route out of town. The hunter, blocked off from anywhere other than the Inn he'd just left, desperately glanced around for any kind of understanding in the cr... | It has been a week since my father went to slay the dragon, And failed. It wasnt his fault though, what he saw... what IT was is a horror beyond comprehension.
In this world there are five classes nymph, ifrit, specter, ent, and wisp.
I am what you may call a nymph or more accurately said a water mage. I can manipula... | 2019-12-31T05:13:36 | 2019-12-31T00:29:02 | 115 | 28 |
[WP] Google introduces Phoogle, a public archive of old photos. As the database swells with user-submitted content, facial recognition software shows the same faces—the same people—seeming to reoccur every 120 years. Users viewing the photos of what seems to be their past-lives, start to remember. | "Katie, isn't that...you?" Jeremy spun his laptop around and pointed the screen toward her.
Katie rolled over onto her stomach. "What are you talking about?" She glanced at the screen. The girl staring back at her did bear an uncanny resemblance, with her long, brown, wavy hair and the dimple on the right side of her... | "Hahahaha, bro you've totally won Moustache March!"
Jimmy's moustache was one hell of a caterpillar, let me tell you. The problem was that he sent me an signed picture of his great-great-grandfather with the same EXACT moustache. It was identical down to the wild hair on the left side that couldn't be combed.
I laugh... | 2019-04-18T18:00:05 | 2019-04-18T15:44:34 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] The year is 2030, and the entire world is firmly under the control of the Australian Empire, and no one really understands how it happened. | Well, if no one else will post, guess it's my sacred duty.
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"Cheers, mates, n pour out a stone cold Fosters on me." Emporer Hemsworth's standard sign-off rang in my mind even after the holo-projector switched off. I'd never really noticed how different he sounded from literally everyone I kne... | "Oy mate, we rule the world!" Said australian 1.
Australian 2 firmly responded, "Stop blabbering ya fohking cunt, weve been ruling this shit ever since the great emu war!"
Australian 1 stopped and thought to himself for a minute, coming to the revelation that the entire earth is Australian soil.
He soon started a busi... | 2017-02-14T10:14:14 | 2017-02-14T09:23:30 | 1,581 | 54 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | I don’t know how to write, if someone can actually write this in a good way go right ahead, I just thought it’d be too funny to risk someone not doing.
I press the button and suddenly the ground below me pushes up, launching me into the air at an angle. As I’m flying through the air I pass a dragon with people dressed... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T11:06:17 | 949 | 117 |
[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. Nuclear weapons. | The species known as Humans came from a distant star, deep within the swirling vortex all other races had avoided. They brought with them many wondrous advancements including advanced healing never before seen within the known galaxy. Though they were diverse, they had no want for war and would help any in need without... | After action report: Stardate M22, 783.
SSgt. Wilson Duke reporting.
Upon contact with the enemy, star ship *Primo Victoria* fired one thermonuclear weapon. The missile detonated on target, causing heavy damage to the enemy ship. The enemy ship became crippled, and boarding action was approved. At hour 4 of the conf... | 2020-02-07T13:28:43 | 2020-02-07T10:40:03 | 151 | 107 |
[WP] A device has been invented that can read a person’s memory. Police and prosecutors love it for investigating crime. A suspicious spouse can check the alibi of their other half. You just discovered another way to use the device. | I pick up the old man's plate after he finishes eating. "Thank you nurse." He says, while I walk out of the room. I say, "You're welcome," and continue out of the room. I know that the Memory Viewer, at least medically, can interpret and remove memories. The latter use being illegal, but I wasn't going to use it for ei... | Have you ever had a thought so wild, but eventually worked out anyway?
The memory Scape was a marvel, able to retrieve memories on demand. Young, old, it didn't matter. You could even use it on pets!
So why didn't anyone think of using it on inanimate objects? I didn't, other than that i was sitting in the office on... | 2021-12-12T02:53:59 | 2021-12-12T01:07:42 | 71 | 43 |
[WP] Out of the blue, your spouse asked you if you would still love them if they turned into a worm. Thinking it was a little odd, you said that yes, of course you would. It was a short time later when you realized that they actually meant “wyrm.” | I loved her. Of course, I did. How couldn't I? She was a counterpoint, a question, a poem in the flesh.
She was feral around the eyes and yet she smiled with the warmth of a long-since-longed hug. She held the fierceness of nature in her features and yet her voice was wrapped in a blanket softer than the singsong of t... | Angelica traced a line down my sternum with her fingernail as we cuddled in bed, the faint light of a Saturday morning peeking down through the skylight in the bedroom. “Baby?” she asked, an air of playfulness to her tone.
“Yes Angel?” I asked as I shifted my arm slightly; it was pinned beneath her shoulder blade and... | 2022-11-23T05:44:27 | 2022-11-23T04:58:37 | 1,455 | 308 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | It all started with the new miracle Pill. It apparently helped trick your body into thinking it had had it's regenerative sleep, fooling your brain into thinking that it went into the various sleep cycles, releasing all the various hormones and immune cells that you usually benefit from having a good night sleep. At fi... | "Hey, Dan, have you been feeling okay lately?"
"Fine, why do you ask?" He cheerfully replied with a smile on his face, knuckles a sore red.
As I looked down at my own, they were just a normal color. That was one of the first things I noticed after people stopped sleeping. I was one of the few among my friends and fam... | 2016-08-30T09:04:18 | 2016-08-30T08:24:33 | 475 | 82 |
[WP] The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers. | Have you ever wondered what happens to all the lottery winners?
Wealth, particularly spent frivolously has a tendency to lead to some measure of fame in our society. So where are they in the public eye? If we can dedicate hours of our lives every week to watching Honey Boo-Boo be a redneck with a modicum of wealth wh... | First writing prompt: please let me know if I did bad or horrible.
About 70% of lottery winners go broke. Want to know why?
The government, or at least the USA has knowledge of time travelers. After a 20-something year old man won the lottery 3 times in a row, they believed the man to be cheating. After a quick chat,... | 2022-01-03T09:57:27 | 2014-10-30T16:28:14 | 751 | 53 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | **7 MONTHS AGO**
Steve watched the end of civilization descend upon him at 20 times the speed of sound. A dozen spindles of light seemed to blossom from a single point in the night sky before streaking down toward the city.
*So this is it. This is how we all die.*
The first of the MIRVs detonated several miles away,... | "But..but..I'm not a violent person. I.."
"Buddha we talked about this!", Satan screamed. "This isn't about principles. It's about fucking survival! Now man the 50 for fuck sake!"
"Shouldn't we wait for Mohammed?"
"You know exactly why he isn't here right now!"
FSM reloaded his M416. Satan threw the last of the dea... | 2017-11-15T15:29:23 | 2017-11-15T14:36:34 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] 17 Years ago, when you were only 6 years old, your father left you and your mother, saying he was going to get milk. As you walk to work your father stumbles out of an alley, ragged, limping, and sporting a mud caked beard. In his hands, a cartoon of milk.
First time writing a prompt, surprise me! | "Dad?" My eyes are telling me he's there, right in front of me. They are screaming the information at my brain, which has ceased to function properly. I've thought about this moment for so long, played out every scenario in my head like a prayer before bed, but when the moment is finally here: I freeze. I never once... | I had always wondered what had happened to him. I had imagined he was dead or in prison or in my darkest moments with a new family. Seeing him clutching a cardboard cutout of a cartoon character was not one of those things. I can't help but feel a tinge of pity for the pathetic person in front of me. How ill must he be... | 2018-03-03T17:42:04 | 2018-03-03T17:38:42 | 58 | 25 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | Genie: Well, David, you may not know this but you're a bit of an asshole.
David: I am not, I even gave that guy the $20 he dropped yesterday
Genie: You we're trying to impress a girl with the $20 and you stole my lamp off of someone's porch.
David: You saw that?
Genie: I think we've established I know more than wh... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T05:47:33 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] You are a detective who has closed every case but one, a serial murderer who has taunted you all your career. After retiring you start to suspect your significant other.
[Edit: wow, this is going to take a while to get through! Glad people liked the prompt!] | She sits there on our veranda, looking over the foggy Hollywood hills, warm cup of tea in hand; her morning ritual. Her figure is as familiar to me as breathing, her scent like a memory of my parents on Christmas morning. So many mornings have gone by, so many years filled with regret, but I could always come home to h... | I sat in my dark office, smoking a cigar. In front of me, my case files. Every single one of them solved, too. The way I like to organize my files, well, basically each case is in one of those generic files you see that usually contain all sort of documentation and evidence.
I have a large filing cabinet filled with ... | 2015-01-03T22:29:58 | 2015-01-03T20:48:13 | 498 | 25 |
[WP] You are a cursed pirated; 'Bound to the seas, forever'. Now that the last ocean has dried up, your curse glitched. | Captain Grimsby trudged through the air, beside the creaky old land-lubber pushing his shopping cart across the endless desert landscape. Time was, people would have been scared of a ghostly pirate, hovering in the air, looking like a drowned man covered in ethereal barnacles. But now?
Now there weren't many people l... | I sailed these cursed waves for a thousand thousand years and as I sailed my memories dropped one by one into those waters. I thought them lost to the waves but as the waves shrink and the crimson glare intensifies I come across them now. Fishing back a few of the memories from my long voyage.
I remember ships, I stil... | 2022-04-28T10:47:27 | 2022-04-28T10:20:27 | 82 | 44 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | Ralph had been doing the exact same routine for years. He could hardly complain since it gave him a stable income and allowed him to support his worsening smoking addiction. Today was another night in the observatory. This night Ethan and Steve had decided to take leave to go watch the new ‘Aliens vs Predators : Fight ... | "Idiots!" Zebin exclaimed as he received yet one more channel of communication from the Earth. Twenty years ago, the ambivalence over whether KIC 8462852 was in actuality an "alien mega structure" had finally come to an end after nearly 200 years of joint scientific endeavour by the leading lieges of the Earth. Since t... | 2016-08-07T08:33:21 | 2016-08-07T06:50:08 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] Write about a totally normal day in 2014, written as a 1950's sci-fi story about living in the 21st century. | It's 7:30 and time to leave for work. But what's this? Father is still in his slippers and pyjamas! Looking sharp in her business suit, it's Mother who is bringing home the bacon! What a world! Look out, fellas: mom is working her way to the top! She owns and drives her own automobile to the office, too. But thi... | "Incorrect password. Please try again."
Dammit, why don't people just trust each other anymore?
It was the only way to get his money. Smith glared nervously at the camera behind the smoked glass. He knew it was there. He knew it was looking at him and recording. But that didn't matter.
All that mattered at the ... | 2014-11-26T09:41:15 | 2014-11-26T09:40:22 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] Tomorrow, everyone will become whatever their worst fear is. Arachnophobes will turn into massive spiders, people afraid of flying will become planes, homophobes will be gay. You fear is more peculiar. | "Hey Tony! Did you hear the news?"inquired a voice of a adolescent .
"What's up?" I said causally.
"Nothing special. Its just that everyone's gonna be having a weird future starting from tomorrow." A face appeared and spoke. With glasses.
"What? Could be more specific and clear?" I asked politely.
"Yeah Yeah. Clas... | The laptop eyed the gigantic spider that stood before it, unsure of what to make of the moment. As far as Clyde could remember, or what he used to be called before he found himself boxed up as a laptop, he and his wife was sitting down on their couch, watching the new year countdown at New York.
When the clock struck... | 2016-12-31T10:42:18 | 2016-12-31T09:53:20 | 19 | 13 |
[WP]All sexual attraction around the world has suddenly stopped. | "God fucking damnit, what do you mean they all tanked?" The offices of Crumbit and Freegle shook with the noise emanating from the board room. "We ran one hundred and thirty six online campaigns over the weekend and you are telling me that all of them did ***fuck all*** business?"
Around the table the sixteen account... | I remember that morning well. Stretching, and rubbing the sleep from my eyes as I rolled to face the most beautiful woman in my world. The same thing I had done for the past 5 years since we wed.
But something was off. Where there used to be awe, and lust and a swelling libido for this woman I had worked so hard to ge... | 2014-10-16T06:17:34 | 2014-10-16T05:25:51 | 55 | 19 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | I carried a pot in each arm, and was struggling to slide down the muddy banks of the stream, when I heard Youssouf cry out. I turned to look for him, but all I could see was the trickle of water carving through a channel of dirt and rock.
"Yuosouff?" I shouted, "Where are you?"
With my hands full, I tried to walk bac... | "Commander, we have it. We've taken the facility that houses ten - ten! - nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States! Can you believe it? Ten! With the fifteen suitcase nukes we've seized in the last three years since 2020, we can finally take the battle to them!"
"Yes, yes....this will show the world at ... | 2016-01-29T06:58:52 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 140 | 19 |
[WP] You were colorblind most of your life until you received laser eye surgery. But something went wrong, and now you can see new colors most people would think of as gray. Everything was great until you noticed every gray surface in the city was graffitied with the "gray" message, "Look for us." | The colors were vibrant, blinding even. strange and indescribable, the strangest thing about it though. Were the messages, often times accompanied by arrows pointing ever whichaway, I ignored them for a while. But eventually my curiosity got the better of me and I followed them, Oh I followed them deep into parts of t... | Woah. I stopped and stared at the message much longer than I should have. It had been a while since I had even seen the color gray and it was oddly refreshing.
Nowadays when I saw gray it looked like a color changing surface, that's honestly the best way I could explain it.
"Look for us"
I let it sit in my mind for... | 2020-03-16T17:33:48 | 2020-03-16T17:20:38 | 197 | 39 |
[WP] After blacking out during recess on the playground, you wake up with a Steno notepad in your hand. You read the following message in your own handwriting, "ME: Invest in Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Bitcoin. Spend on defense. They do not come in peace." It's 1995. You are 10 years old. | \[From an [established work](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith%27s_Brood), this is an AU timeline, just having fun\]
I still remember how the bark lanced into my palms as I pushed up off the ground, the swingset and slide reassuring me that I was back at Huntington Elementary. I recall being baffled by the notepad ... | There was something wrong with the message. I'd received others like it before but they'd all said to avoid Bitcoin, it was theirs, as were all block chains.
I was too young to invest myself but I had already convinced most of the local psychic population to do so, the rest were faking their powers and couldn't reall... | 2021-10-19T14:44:01 | 2021-10-19T12:08:55 | 520 | 148 |
[WP] The fire spirit opens its eyes, disturbed from its meditation. "...Do you need something?" The invasive presence squirms uncomfortably, and takes a deep breath in. "I mean, we've known each other for a while now, s-so, um...Would you mind if I... Used you to roast marshmallows?" | Hidden within the snowy Holo Peaks, an eternal remnant remained aflame. Though white was as far as the eye could see, where the Fire Spirit sat amongst the harsh storms in a stone courtyard, the snow crawled back. His flames flickered and licked the cold air, only to hiss and retreat unto themselves, but he remained ut... | _". . . Marshmallows?"_
The village fool, Marvin slowly shook his head up and down, a hopeful glint in his eye. _"I'm hungry."_
The fire spirit simply stared at Marvin, a little bit confused, a little bit disgusted but confused for the most part.
_"You mean . . . The Food?"_
Marvin was next to become confused.... | 2021-11-05T20:59:59 | 2021-11-05T20:43:26 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | It had been 3 sleep cycles since Sella's ship had docked with the cold station.
3 cycles since the sabotaged docking connection had sheered through the pressure lock of their ship.
3 cycles of hearing sounds in from between the hulls of the ship and seeing flashes of light, always just 1 turn away around a corner.
... | The Large conqueror class Dreadnaught broke from FTL not far behind it thousands of smaller ships little more than corvette class broke into real space as well and immediately began firing at
A message came over the onboard coms "Pride leader this is the engine room we have to stop and let the engines fully cycle ... | 2021-02-04T09:05:09 | 2021-02-04T08:55:27 | 213 | 93 |
[WP] "Damn you Hero! I will get my revenge" those were the last words before your arch nemesis ran away, 5 years have passed and she still hasn't returned, you retired, got married and now have a lovely wife and kids. But one day while checking the basement you find the costume of your arch nemesis | One drop of ink ruins a glass of clear water. One instant taints that past five years.
I didn't want to believe. I couldn't bring myself to. But the thing that I held in my hand? It was unmistakeable. I've seen it from far away, from up close, but never did I have the opportunity to inspect every viridescent square in... | “Jazz, where did you put the Christmas gifts again?” I asked my wife, as I headed downstairs after putting the kids to bed.
“The basement. I could get it-“
“Nah, you’ve done enough. I’ll get them,” I said as I headed down.
I turned on the light and right away spotted the gifts. A lot more than I expected, but I’m su... | 2020-12-28T10:24:42 | 2020-12-28T09:16:10 | 54 | 37 |
[WP]: As standard protocol, each new, intelligent alien life is judged not by what they say they are, but by an evaluation from a representative of their servants or slave species. Fascinatingly, the fate of humanity lands on the opinion of a little dog named Lucy. | Samantha lead Lucy towards the grey humanoid creature. Lucy walked very close to Samantha, cautiously with her head and tail low. Lucy was a beautiful Golden Retriever that Samantha had rescued from a shelter. They stopped right in front of the 9 feet tall alien. Samantha bent down to Lucy and Lucy instinctively sat do... | Prancing down the steps from the ship the Large Mutt walked to the end of the boardwalk to the waiting human.
In a voice slightly higher than a chihuahua Draco announced that the Earth is fine...fine I say! Surprised by the vocalization Mike jumped before returning to Draco to give him a quick hug and excited pet.
T... | 2018-10-02T08:40:42 | 2018-10-02T08:28:27 | 347 | 14 |
[WP] Metaphorical "burns" can now cause physical damage. Tell the tale of an assassin who specializes in death by conversational incineration.
Y'know, clever insults and stuff. Yeah. | Everyone knew about bant-sassins, the hired thugs who killed with words rather than violence. They preyed on everyone's latent insecurity, and the greater impact on self-esteem, the greater the burn... literally.
What was most confusing about this was why someone had sent a bant-sassin after me. They were probably jea... | "Ge' up, gimp!" Marlon felt a sharp pain to his side as a steeltoed boot connected with his ribs.
"We dinnae give ya free meals ta lay around on holiday!" the disgusting Irish man spat. He wondered how much longer he would have to live this life; or for that matter, how *long* he'd lived this life. Time is hard to ju... | 2015-06-12T06:16:50 | 2015-06-12T05:57:50 | 54 | 19 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | So this is my first one of these. Here goes nothing:
It still amazes me how quickly my life changed. Most people, they get their power and just move on with their life. Sure, there is more than a fair amount of career shifting, when someone gets something specialized, but it’s still pretty much business as usual. ... | “Wait, you got what now?”
“X-ray vision.” I put my head down on the table.
“Dude that’s fucking awesome! For my 21 mutation all I got was really fast growing hair, and that’s lame” my friend Derek said. His hair was down to his shoulders though he had been buzzed bald this morning. He went through razors faster... | 2015-03-04T07:30:28 | 2015-03-04T06:44:10 | 77 | 28 |
[WP] Your first wish to the genie was that you never existed. Having granted it, the genie sits dumbfounded, wondering why he's out here and why he's short 1 wish. All wishes must be accounted for, and a 'loss' of one is a huge emergency, for it could end up in the wrong hands. | The genie desperately searched his mind, looking for the power within him. Trapped for millennia, through all his ill-fated servitude, he had never lost a wish. While he was fated to grant three wishes to any human that discovered him, no matter how costly or evil their desires, he had done his duties without fail. Unf... | "No," I said to myself. There was no way he had done that. Who would be stupid enough to wish away their *existence*? But no, the king had done it and now there was nothing I could do about it. Where was that extra wish going to go? I knew I had to find out.
But I was stuck in this stupid lamp and there was nothin... | 2020-04-26T20:43:02 | 2020-04-26T20:12:37 | 2,426 | 145 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | **Containment:** As of now, SCP-4032 is self-contained. Should the effective zone of SCP-4032 begin to increase, all measures should be taken to stop it. In case of a doubling in radius of the effective zone, Procedure 432-Kimmel will be undertaken by any nearby personnel. A ship is stationed outside the effective zone... | First time writing so be gentle.
"I didn't mean to!" Tim exclaimed as he ran away from the side of the ship.
"Darn it, Tim..." I sighed, "I told you to be careful with that; if they find out that we lost it RIGHT after being told not to, they're gonna kill us! ...or worse! Take us home.."
Tim let out a short gasp as... | 2017-11-17T08:00:30 | 2017-11-17T07:00:35 | 195 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | "You watching those humans again, Erlinda?"
"And so what if I am? Ain't no rule against that."
"Didn't say there was. And you know I love those humans just as much as the next guy. They're so sweet! Adorable! It's just -"
"Just what, Earlomar? Spit it out."
"I just think they may be giving you unhealthy expectati... | "Well shit." It was a normal day in the live of what a human would describe a monster. Ofcourse this monster, was only an Alien surfing the Human Earth Archive that had been recovered from the ashes of Earth that he had destroyed only seconds before. He had misunderstood the meaning of the Human's message. One of his t... | 2016-09-28T05:34:49 | 2016-09-28T03:38:00 | 67 | 14 |
[WP] The death traps are never really meant to kill, for if any self respecting supervillain really wanted to kill they would use something like poison or just shoot the guy, no, the death trap is for the fun of seeing how the heroes get out. Which is why you are so concerned the guy isn't escaping | "You have to be smarter than this," I growled, my claws etching grooves in the stone as I watched the hero through a security camera.
She wore all black, with a mask and mirrored lenses covering her eyes, my nemesis. The yin to my yang, who the public only knew as Bright Watch.
But I knew her as my daughter, before I... | Two blue eyes were staring out at me from the prism. I could see the fear in them and another bead of sweat ran down my skin.
" Schiphol... Schiphol... What's happening?" I cursed under my breath.
The molten glass was setting now, trapping Uberman in a beautifully faceted, see-through tomb. If my goal was to kill a s... | 2021-02-19T08:14:18 | 2021-02-19T06:08:39 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] The time of Armageddon is soon. All the gods of various pantheons congregate to debate on why their end of the world should happen. While squabbling among each other, a god that was never worshiped speaks its mind. | They met in Valhalla, because it had the most space.
The gods fought; they squabbled, they kicked, they bit, they punched. Lightning flashed and thunder cracked. Who would start The End? How would it start? Why?
The doors to the hall crashed off of their hinges. The fighting paused. The gods looked up with anger- and... | "Oh, come on!" shouted Yahweh. "Fire raining from the heavens is the most *fabulous* way to go!"
Zeus shot him a pointed look. "Aren't you against gay people?"
"Well, yes, but who says I can't use the word 'fabulous'?"
Ra just sighed and shook his head.
Meanwhile, from the back, a small god in a perfect business su... | 2014-05-08T21:09:22 | 2014-05-08T17:27:39 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy, humans are pretty weak. No great strength or intellect, nor are they that technologically advanced. So when an invading force comes to Earth, they think it's an easy mark. Pity they underestimated humanity's one, greatest strength. | “Twelve Star Destroyers...”
“Yup. Twelve Star Destroyers”
I eyed the Terran’s projection again, still baffled by how similar they look to us, yet brown and dark. Even the pale ones are shades darker than us. This diplomat was especially dark skinned, the darkest of them all.
“You don’t even have a centralized govern... | “I don’t understand,” said the commander.
“Neither do we, sir. They said they would meet here to negotiate a truce. Yet here it is, seven minutes past when the little hand meets the big hand... and they are no where to be found.”
Several eyes looked towards the shore. There they were, standing ankle deep in the Engl... | 2021-05-15T09:07:36 | 2021-05-15T08:15:32 | 127 | 58 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The response below is the prequel to a story I wrote for another prompt found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2j42eh/wp_humanity_is_the_only_race_in_the_galaxy_with/cl8i9yy
Enjoy! And as always, please criticize as much as you can - I need it!
----------------------------------------------------... | Recording starts: I am the Voice of the Void, Grace embodied, S/He who is most exalted, Pontif Imhedi Gomae.
The Void had always provided and today was no exception. Those less faithful and with less worthy prayers upon their stomata had, in a flash rekindled their zeal. A golden tablet, fashioned by those who a... | 2014-12-26T12:09:55 | 2014-12-26T11:56:13 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You can tell just by looking into someone's eyes the most significant crime they've committed. You notice a couple of murderers on the road today, which isn't an uncommon occurrence, until one of them stands out. His death toll spans into the millions. | I twisted the knife. He screamed.
"Who did you kill," I demanded, keeping the tremble out of my voice. I should be icy cold. I'd already taken care of so many murderers. It was supposed to be easy, by now.
I could always tell *what* they'd done, just with a glance at them. But *who* and *why* - that was always much h... | You look back, fear in your gut. Your rational mind tells you to make like a horse and run but your heart demands you know who such a man is, and why.
Every step closer your mind shakes but your heart beats on, yearning, longing, demanding to know. You utter the question not how, but why. Why did you kill millions.
... | 2021-04-16T04:15:58 | 2021-04-16T00:56:45 | 118 | 50 |
[WP] Humans are known throughout the galaxy as the only species without active psychic abilities. One day at school the alien teacher reveals a book that not even the universal translators can decipher. You and the other humans in the class can read it perfectly, and you recognize it as a grimoire. | Three hundred years ago humans have made contact with various extraterrestrial life. Overwhelmed by the sheer difference with technological advancements humans quickly fell into the bottom of the food chain. The United Galactic Government or the U.G.G. enacted laws in order to protect humans as third class species, in ... | "Why are humans the only ones that can recognize this special cipher?"
"We don't know. Now, go to sleep."
The gas flowing out of our teacher's mouth knocks us all out.
\~\~\~\~\~\~
I find myself locked in a dark cell, other aliens walking outside. I hear voices behind me. I try to turn around, but realize I can't m... | 2020-09-07T02:56:08 | 2020-09-07T01:45:24 | 295 | 56 |
[WP] A prolific serial killer active for many years is concerned about his run of good luck. Never discovered, he has also never seen the slightest mention of his work reported on in any media. With today's victim he gets a clue as to why... | 8484 Agana Street. It was unseasonably warm, late morning, with a slight breeze pushing sunlight through the leaves of dense acacia trees.
Midday is not typically deemed the best time to break into someone's house. If you were to go about such a thing, you probably wouldn't walk up to the front door with a six pound a... | This was to be the big one, my hundredth victim. The thrill I would feel as I squeeze the life out of her throat, as I watch this clone of all my other victims struggle to breathe, as the fight goes out of her body and she slumps, lifeless in my arms. Just the build up made me shiver with excitement, I had butterflies ... | 2015-04-12T06:43:27 | 2015-04-12T02:37:20 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] To your horror, the monster under your bed has pulled you in. It’s shaking, and pointing at the slowly opening closet door | I knew I shouldn't have left my foot hanging over the bed. I felt long, calloused fingers--far larger than any human's could be--wrap around my leg, and I thought I should scream.
But I couldn't. I was pulled so swiftly under the bed, I barely had time to yelp, a scared puppy chased away into oblivion. Instead, I foun... | I'm a lucky kid, and I mean uncannily lucky. When there was a test I hadn't prepared for? Snow day. I'm out of money and want something to eat? Five bucks on the sidewalk. I've always been in the right place at the right time. Maybe it's a power, maybe it's built up karma from some ancient relative who's always had the... | 2021-05-29T23:13:33 | 2021-05-29T22:54:48 | 110 | 39 |
[WP] You actually can learn through Osmosis! Any book you touch you instantly "read" and that knowledge stays with you. | Do you know I couldn’t even read until the fourth grade? It’s true; before then, computers had not been a major factor in my life and I hardly had any reason to actually read books when I could learn their contents just by touching them.
There are a lot of weird side effects that you wouldn’t expect. In math, for exam... | I was a servant, born from servants, destined to live with my knees to the dirt. I toiled. I graduated from harvesting my owner's crops along the nile to keeping his house. He trusted me, and I loved him as a second father.
I knew nothing else, but he was an educated man who owned boats and horses and many scrolls. H... | 2020-09-28T08:35:26 | 2020-09-28T08:27:00 | 50 | 16 |
[WP] There is a population limit to the galaxy. Whenever one sentient creature is born, another must die. With billions of unexpected deaths over the last few centuries, the galactic counsel has found the cause; a long ignored planet where a group of bipeds can't stop reproducing. | The universe was in balance, or so we thought.
In a moment, whole systems began going dark. Conversations over eons cut short. Billions of years of memories gone blank. Confusion spread, then alarm. For the first time in [4 billion years], we conducted a census.
92.5 billion. From 100 billion, our population for as ... | Nathan looked incredulously at the translation report. It had taken the last 16 years of his life for him and his team to work out a communication system with the outerlings that was abstract enough to share concepts other than basic mathematics. He had assumed that his translations were once again mistaken, but they h... | 2018-11-29T10:58:15 | 2018-11-29T10:32:10 | 115 | 45 |
[WP] A gender of the human race has long gone extinct due to an unforeseen virus. Now, heterosexuality is a thing of the past and humans reproduce artificially, but today someone realizes they are straight. | Baldness.
Hemophilia.
Colour-blindness.
Men always did get the short end of the biological stick. Maybe that's why they overcompensated by taking up 91% of Congress and 97% of Wall Street. And fucked over women. In the cases of India and Steubenville, literally. You see... with enough money and power, you can get aw... | I looked her in the eyes, she was so beautiful. With big, brown saucers, and long, dark hair I ran my fingers through a thousand times. Her pink mouth in an upward curve as she held our baby in her arms.
But I felt nothing.
They always joked Earth was lucky. Girls could cook better then men. We were cleaner. We smel... | 2014-05-06T09:58:22 | 2014-05-06T09:44:05 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] You've just discovered the reason behind aliens abducting humans. Turns out they were after impartial jurors for the intergalactic court. | Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
"Could you please stop that, human?"
I stopped drumming my fingers on the tabletop.
"Sorry, I do that when I'm nervous."
"Your pheromones do indeed indicate your distress. Unfortunately, such sounds closely resemble those emitted by ancient predators on my home planet. You can imagine the instin... | I woke up feeling woozy. I tried to sit up, but my arms and legs were tied to whatever cold metal thing I was laying on. Above me strange shapes moved around.
“It’s awake!”
“Let’s see if it can move!”
I felt the clamps around my arms release, before sitting up.
“Movement seems fine. Let’s ask it a couple of questions.”... | 2018-05-22T09:09:47 | 2018-05-22T05:06:57 | 366 | 37 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | "KILL!"
I sprang up in my bed. My heart, racing.
"What?! Who–"
"Kill! You have to. It's the only way to survive!" said a sweet deep voice desperately.
"You must kill it. Destroy it!" said a harried shrill voice with an edge of glee.
I'd had these two opposing voices in my head for as long as I can remember. They... | All my life I've had the voices in my head
 
They sqibble and squabble about things I've said
 
About people and places, the living and dead
 
Can I find some truth within the noise I dread?
 
But when I sleep, that sweet embrace
 
the darkness, my friend, takes my min... | 2017-05-18T07:58:39 | 2017-05-18T06:18:01 | 470 | 24 |
[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. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 74 | 17 |
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