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[WP] A group of ants stumbles upon an abandoned ant colony. Inside, they find cryptic warnings scratched on the walls by a series of past inhabitants, foretelling impending doom wrought by something called "the Human". | "My lady, you summoned me to your chamber?" the Minister of State said cautiously as he entered the throne room. He had just seen the general in charge of defenses stomping out, and knew the war effort was not going particularly well.
Servants pulled the doors open all the way, exposing him with nowhere to hide from h... | "For the last time, there is no Human", cried Dawkins, his eyes almost rolling into his brain as he spoke to the crowd.
Heavens, were they stupid.
"If there is no human", sounded an elderly woman's voice, "What is the rain? And the voice?"
Dawkins sighed. It was tiring, discussing with those simpletons. "The rain fa... | 2015-01-14T17:26:56 | 2015-01-14T15:26:29 | 212 | 67 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | I've lived a pretty sheltered life.
You'd think the power to use the powers of those surrounding you would be awesome in a world where everyone has a power of their own but you'd be dead wrong. Lots of people hurt themselves and others when their powers first manifest. There are of course lots of people with powers o... | John and I were heading to the pub to do the speed dating we signed up for. We hoped to see if we can find our soulmate. John was able to see 5 seconds in to the future. Which was good, but not great, and was hoping he can see farther. He wonders how far he would see if he finds his soulmate. I, on the other hand, can ... | 2015-10-10T08:55:28 | 2015-10-10T08:42:59 | 54 | 21 |
[WP] When you were a child, you saw your parent(s) get killed by a delusional man who claimed he was a time traveler. You thought he was just crazy, but as years pass and you grow older, your best friend starts to look eerily similar to your parent(s) killer. | "Why, Kent?" I said, voice low and raspy. "Why go back and kill my parents?"
He didn't answer; just stood and stared at me. Was that pity in his stoic blue eyes? I wanted to tear him apart, and almost by rote I recalled all the various ways I had planned to do it already, with every contingency accounted for.
"The... | June 13th, 1999. This day was burned into my memory and because of it I found my life's work. In broad daylight a man barged through the door and killed both of my parents and my sister, but when he turned to me he didn't shoot... He just looked me in the eyes and told me that he was from the future and he left. From t... | 2016-06-13T07:51:36 | 2016-06-13T06:50:11 | 89 | 16 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Every colour has a power.
Brown controls the earth.
Blue controls the water.
White controls the sky.
There are many colours, and some are more common than others.
Grey, the colour of ashes, is the most common colour. Grey controls fire.
The least common was Purple, the eye colour of the royal family that has ru... | No one is suppose to be amazing, not really. Life is suppose to be an ordinary struggle to continue living an ordinary life until the eventual ordinary death. Maybe some people could accomplish amazing things, but not someone from such an ordinary past as myself. My mother was an ordinary green eye, only capable of ... | 2016-08-08T11:30:41 | 2016-08-08T11:27:39 | 55 | 26 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | The Strangers frightened us, at first, and, looking back at the old texts, I'm sure we terrified them, as well. Imagine walking into your kitchen and discovering the roaches are all out in the light, and have decided to form a parliament. Now imagine if they sent an embassy to you. *That's* what we must have been to th... | "I wonder what it's like in there," Kevin said as I flicked my cigarette down in the ravine below. My neck was sore from staring at the ship, and I knew I'd feel it in the morning.
"I bet they know." I motioned to the watchtowers which had recently been erected below the magnificent vessel in the sky.
"They just don't... | 2016-08-22T23:30:46 | 2016-08-22T21:02:54 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The Deep Woods are a fearsome place, filled with screams and lights and terrible magic. But in the depths of the forest lives an ancient dragon who constructs all the sounds and sights to keep people away, because he just wants to be left alone. | “Leave me,” Tamot, the Eldritch, snarled.
The dragon towered over the silhouette emerging from the forest clearing. A hunter, no doubt. This time, he would be ready for them.
The person paused. Tamot watched them with curiosity as the smoke from his nostrils twisted and coiled in the scant light, creating horrid shap... | The Deep Woods weren't kind to visitors. The muddy, peaty soil underfoot sucked and dragged at travellers' feet. Horses disappeared in bogs. Roots twisted and turned, the trees groaning their displeasure at having a stranger in their midst. It was said they walked when the moon was high. Paths became goat trails, and p... | 2016-09-16T06:20:13 | 2016-09-16T06:09:59 | 92 | 11 |
[WP] Once a name has been used it becomes unavailable until the person using it passes away. With over 7 billion people on earth people are starting to get... creative. | "It was 9:48 AM, I was awoken by a phone call. I lazily limped to the phone, then picked it up.
"Hello, LAXVER, GOD OF THE GALAXY 832?"
It was 3JEKELASLU, a good friend of mine...But why would he be calling me at this time?
'Pretty good, 3JEKELASLU, you?" I answered.
"Pretty bad, that bitch TASTYBITCH8AA left me..... | Back in the year 2025, a new law was enacted worldwide. The law was created in an effort to reduce the occurrence of identity theft; only one person was allowed to have a certain first name at any one time. People who were born before the law were given new identities. The new name usually consisted of their origina... | 2016-10-23T10:38:42 | 2016-10-23T10:21:58 | 986 | 136 |
[WP] you are an immortal and have lived a very long life. Everytime you die your body regenerates as you come back to life. Unfortunately, a serial killer finds out and sees you as the perfect victim to kill again and again. So he captures you. But he didn't expect you would play tricks on his mind | Months of imprisonment and it still hurt like hell. Every fingerprick, every cut, every dismemberment made my body cry out in pain. My nerves would regenerate with the rest of my body. There were no calluses or scars, there never were, only fresh skin.
He was punctual. Every day he'd drag me from the cell and kill me... | Blurred lines slowly turned into steel bars. I'm locked up. And very clearly not in the bathroom of the mall, the last place I remember being. "How the hell-" I try get up, but I immediately stop, then proceed slowly. Damn, the back of my head hurts. The door opens. "I see you're awake, finally." ugh. Not this again. ... | 2016-10-29T08:36:06 | 2016-10-29T08:31:22 | 507 | 57 |
[WP] In the canine world, humans are celestial beings who live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you and the past seven generations of your family will die soon. | The Cat Guardian is back, the smell of heavy sand and fur trailing behind her feet. She is sitting beside the Mistress, touching her hand, whispering something. I can understand things like *food* and *walk.* I cannot understand the heavy shove of these words, the wet ocean smell on her skin.
We went to the beach onc... | Her hand trembles as it strokes my head.
I can feel the blood flowing weakly through her skin, and I look up at her with concern, my eyes wide. She says something strange, I can never understand her, but her smile lights up my world.
I let out a little bark of excitement and wag my tail. She loves it when I wag my... | 2016-11-21T16:39:44 | 2016-11-21T15:57:48 | 839 | 331 |
[WP] In the canine world, humans are celestial beings who live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you and the past seven generations of your family will die soon. | *Because fuck ya'll and your depressing stories. Let's make this a little more happy, eh? Or at least as happy as possible following the prompt.*
I never knew master's wife. Father said that she was kind and generous and fed him scraps from the table when master wasn't looking. Master did the same, too, of course.... | A grey Charge approached me from across the street & lowered his ears in deference before exchanging the traditional sniff greeting.
"The preparations for The Howl are complete, as you requested," he grumbled, avoiding my eyes.
"Thank you," I panted. While I wagged my golden tail in appreciation, my heart was h... | 2016-11-21T19:15:40 | 2016-11-21T18:42:25 | 264 | 49 |
[WP] "They mass-slaughter this organism called "flowers" and give the bound mass of corpses to their desired mate as a courting ritual, possibly as proof of ability. Truly fascinating."
Replace with other weird behaviors as desired
Edit: Mod's Choice and #1 in Hot in 5 hours? woohoo! | Moreover, the “flowers” are wrapped in sheets produced from the ground, reconstituted, and subsequently desiccated flesh of their cousins, “trees.”
It is usually the male who presents this gift to the female, and the female must first react with a loud cry, to express horror at the evidence of slaughter. This is to ... | “As you can see, the pre-telekentically evolved human is about to perform a mating ritual practiced by the males in its lineage for several generations now.” Came the soothing voice of the narrator of the critically acclaimed nature documentary, ‘Pre-evolved Humans and their Societal Functions’. The work could only be ... | 2016-11-23T08:45:28 | 2016-11-23T08:00:48 | 1,418 | 48 |
[WP] Everyone has a stopwatch they are given at birth, it counts down to the exact moment you will meet your soulmate. You met your soulmate years ago and have been happily married since with three beautiful children. This morning you woke up and looked down, your watch has begun counting again. | "Hello, Marie." The words echoed in her memory fondly. She gazed blankly out of the tinted cab window. A light snow had began falling outside and the streets were buzzing with young couples.
It had been a day not too unlike this one, just 33 short years ago, that she had met the love of her life. Her watch had been ti... | This morning, I heard an old familiar sound. I hoped that my husband didn't hear it, too, or perhaps I hoped that I would hear his watch ticking in harmony with mine. I listened closely--nothing. I got ready quickly, nervously, not wanting to give myself away. I grabbed my watch and left for work before his alarm had e... | 2016-12-04T03:00:12 | 2016-12-04T01:18:48 | 595 | 92 |
[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | I was on the phone with my best friend Tony when the piece of paper came shooting out from under the closet door.
"Hey, Tony, I'm gonna have to call you back."
Tony and I met when I came to college, and instantly became friends. We talked to each other about everything, maybe sometimes too much. Maybe sometimes not... | "I don't think you know I exist. I've been at this college a long time, and I've never seen anyone as beautiful as you, never spoken to anyone as kind as you, never met anyone as smart as you. I would really, really like to get to know you better. I know that a letter is not the best way to do this, and you must be ... | 2017-04-11T16:07:59 | 2017-04-11T15:13:09 | 305 | 129 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "Very funny, Michelle," Barack called into their new home, the letter in his hand. It has always been their tradition to out-prank each other when they move to a new place. JFK, alive? Barack chuckled as he folded the letter and placed it in his pocket. Michelle has got to come out with better pranks.
Barack closed th... | Obama slowly lowers the letter as a drop of sweat starts to slide down his forehead, his heart pounding.
"Michelle." He says. "I have to step out for a minute. I'll be right back, you can go back to sleep." She mumbled something in return, but it wasn't coherent enough to understand.
Obama walks outside with his phon... | 2022-12-29T14:39:14 | 2017-05-14T11:15:12 | 274 | 30 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "Very funny, Michelle," Barack called into their new home, the letter in his hand. It has always been their tradition to out-prank each other when they move to a new place. JFK, alive? Barack chuckled as he folded the letter and placed it in his pocket. Michelle has got to come out with better pranks.
Barack closed th... | Barack smiled when he saw it. This was the sort of sense of humour Sasha had when she was a kid. She wasn't a kid anymore, a fact he had come to find out the difficult way. He had been on the business end of an angsty rant from her earlier that afternoon.
Maybe this was the way she was going to make it up to him, by ... | 2022-12-29T14:39:14 | 2017-05-14T10:21:11 | 274 | 27 |
[WP]The smarter you are, the slower time moves for you. It's been 63 years and the doctor just handed you to your mom. | The thing about being smart? You don't really feel smart. You just feel tired.
The doctor hands you to your mother, who welcomes you with a kind face. It was.. cruel, that's the word, that you were in a way older than your own parent. From the moment your conscience was first realized in her womb, you've been absorbin... | I didn't really like that I took more than 60 times the average human to exit my mother's womb. But if waiting could give you success, it wouldn't just be me who would clamour for it. Hyper-intelligence made life Easy-mode, in a way.
For one, I would always do well in class, because of how slow it moved for me. I coul... | 2017-07-04T19:23:42 | 2017-07-04T15:47:10 | 127 | 29 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | I took the time to read through each one of their books thoroughly. Most of them were over 400 pages, so it struck me as odd when I walked up to the last of the gods and saw a young girl with a 3-page pamphlet.
"You're just a kid," I pointed out to her, stupidly.
"That is my soul you're seeing. I am Fun."
"Fun? T... | Do you know what permeates the afterlife?
I mean, given my own personal inclinations, I would've said "nothing" -- you know, like those nights when you don't dream, you're just... gone. And you keep being gone until you no longer aren't; then the *waa-waa-waa* of the alarm and off you go, back neck-deep into the rat ... | 2017-07-09T05:04:36 | 2017-07-09T04:29:57 | 58 | 36 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | She sat in the chair, shivering against the cold dense plastic and metal monstrosity. Eyes flickered back and forth, the chill in the room not the only reason for her to shake and tremble. Eyes gazed warily, fearfully at the metal tower beside her, unknown attachments hanging off with unknown purposes.
A man in white... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T06:31:44 | 5,691 | 43 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | "Run away, run away!! It's going to eat us!"
"My wife! My boy! It's going to eat them all!"
"Wait, could it be? Is it the great, fantastic...hmmm, magnificient Mighty Man!"
"Mighty Man, Mighty Man, he'll save us from the monsters!"
"Yes it is I, Mighty Man. The mightiest man in all of Pleasantville. I shalt slay y... | Glass
Lottery was like my religion. I would treat everyday like Sunday. Everyday, I'd pray about my six numbers. I would even kneel. Because I was desperately hoping. Always. Always hoping to hit the jackpot.
I'd always wanted to buy my wife those south sea pearls her mother passed down unto her, but she pawned as w... | 2017-08-30T07:30:27 | 2017-08-30T07:26:10 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story, but the last line reveals how chilling and horrific the story actually was. | This is my first time ever doing a WP, or generally writing anything since quite a while ago, I just spontanously flicked through some prompts and decided to go for something.
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"Children are a blessing" I thought to myself as I watched little Violet play with her friends, chasing eachother, laughing uncontrollabl... | "Look at this!"
"What a beautiful instrument! "
"The gleam on the lid, the golden pedals and- oh! Those ivory white keys!"
"Look at the shine! Crimson red- such a unique piano color. Truly one of a kind!"
"Davenforth, you've done it!" Sir William McMahon exclaimed, patting Charles Davenforth on the back with enthu... | 2017-10-06T16:15:18 | 2017-10-06T13:30:57 | 454 | 189 |
[Wp] You finally build enough courage to talk to that cute someone you see everyday on the bus. Their face turns dark as they respond "You shouldn't be able to see me." | Rain struck the bus shelter as the old, beaten down bus came to a halt. It was an off-green colour, the paint beginning to peel and rust forming around the wheel arches. It had been in service for 20 years, always on the same route, and arrived at this particular bus stop at 7:30 AM every morning to pick up morning com... | I assume he followed the same routine every day. He’d be on the bus when I would get on after work at 5:43, and he’d stay on the bus after I got off near my home at 6:27. He always sat in the same seat, and no one ever sat next to him even if the bus was packed. My car had been in the shop for a while now, pending me a... | 2017-10-13T03:15:26 | 2017-10-13T00:21:24 | 2,073 | 660 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | On the day of his birth, Craig Barclay was visited by every wise man within travelling distance. Birth had become rare, Humanity on the brink of extinction. To witness such an event was a treasure. They brought gifts fitting for the family.
His father was born with the mark of the Bear on his back. It was large, indi... | It was a pretty quite night for the hospital. Haven Metro-General was one of the biggest in the area, so the calm seemed surreal at best. It set me on edge.
"Mind if I burn one?," I asked my partner, trying to sound more casual then I felt. I obviously failed, as the big jowly man eyed me sidelong over his coffee.
... | 2017-11-08T05:45:29 | 2017-11-08T05:34:44 | 192 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | At birth, it had looked like a small silver dragonfly. Uncommon, but not unheard of. It had started on my side, just above my left hip. My parents had been so pleased, but my mother shone with pride. She was marked with the dove and not prone to excessive emotions, but seeing the tiny, glittering wings on her daughter ... | There are thousands of stories of the great heroes of our time, stories meant to inspire the children despite their anima. It is believed that no anima was inferior to another, no anima was stronger or weaker, and so we tell stories of of both Regar the Lion, who came from a farming village and went to conquer 40 kingd... | 2017-11-08T06:02:20 | 2017-11-08T05:57:15 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | **Leviathan**
Mom and dad never looked at me with love. In fact, they tried not to look at me at all. Dad was as strong as a bear, mom was soft as a dove, and I was... To be honest, I wasn't sure what I was. No one really knew. Whatever creature imprinted itself into my skin wasn't of this world. It sort of resembled ... | I’m told that when I was born, my birthmark was barely visible on my shoulder. Just a smudge on newborn flesh. It wasn’t uncommon for someone’s mark to be illegible at birth, and most people were comfortable with the thought of it becoming clearer as I grew older. The more I grew into my spirit animal, they thought, th... | 2017-11-08T07:05:24 | 2017-11-08T06:50:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | I take a glance across the hall. Who's going to get in my way this morning? Who's going to get my day ruined, again. Who am I kidding, it's the same, scrawny, sad excuse for a boy. The one who thinks he deserves to share the same space with someone like me, a stalwart 92. Does he have an ounce of respect? Does he think... | (I didn't exactly follow the prompt, sorry in advance)
"You're obviously hiding, like, a two, no, a zero!" I teased. I peered curiously at him. "What number *do* you have though, seriously? Just tell me and I'll stop bothering you."
"No you won't. You'll just bother me more." Arthur insisted.
"It can't be *that* ba... | 2018-12-27T17:17:45 | 2018-12-27T16:33:21 | 81 | 29 |
[WP] one day, the we wake up to find that we can no longer age or die. No one new is able to be born, and people stay in the same age and body that they were in on that fateful day. | To most people, the day that we stopped aging is celebrated as a worldwide holiday. It happened nearly three centuries ago. Some days i just lay in bed crying. Wanting for it to end.
Why? I’m not suicidal or anything. I’m just tired. I was nine months pregnant when it happened. Days away from welcoming my second daugh... | There's a limit to how smart a baby can get. There just is. It's a fact. Adults think with their prefrontal cortex, and, well, babies don't. That's what I'm told, at any rate -- but really, I think it's just 'cause their brains are much smaller than ours.
Some of them learn to walk. Some learn to talk -- even better ... | 2019-01-30T05:33:31 | 2019-01-30T05:28:12 | 44 | 22 |
[WP] After your grandfather’s sudden death, you inherit his massive mansion. You find that the basement has been converted to a massive jail filled with various supernatural creatures. Except for one cell. In it there’s a weak looking simple man who begs you to let him out. | I held the lantern up, closer to my face, and squinted into the dark cell.
The man was old, with a scraggly beard that looked like it hadn't been combed for weeks. His skin was taut around his bones, with no muscle to show for it, save for his soft belly, which was shrunken and shriveled beneath his rib cage.
&#x... | I clambered down the stairs as I heard the disturbing noises grow louder and louder from the main floor. The door was almost hidden in plain view but every time I started walking past it after I inherited this mansion I kept hearing these weird sounds. I love the paranormal and supernatural. I investigate on a regul... | 2019-05-22T08:02:56 | 2019-05-22T06:38:57 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] You’re an actual wizard pretending to be a magician on a Vegas stage. A video was just released that “explains” how you do all your tricks. It’s all wrong, but your popularity drops. Now you need to do a trick that’s unexplainable, but not so unexplainable that people realize it’s real magic. | "Not real magic." Squinting at his phone Quinn, Master of illusion AKA The Grand Mage Master Warlock Keeper of the Secrets Never Been Defeated in Combat Quinn was reading his Twitter feed. "Not real magic?" "That dissapoints them? I thought they only liked fake magic."
"Well it turns out Millenials expect the real de... | The fans were all well aware of the intensity of my tricks. Each trick will always cause uproars and astonished looks from the audience. It’s as if nothing I do can’t make them view in awe. I’ve been using complicated tools such as enchanted swords, pyrokinesis, and even some animals involved. The audience loved ev... | 2019-09-02T23:24:30 | 2019-09-02T20:32:53 | 18 | 11 |
[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... | "Sir the Gord'ush home planet has stopped broadcasting" a low ranking insect like creature said while running into the war minister's chamber.
"So what? They probably got caught in a storm or something" The fat slug responded dismissively. "Have a recon ship go past it to check out the weather"
The insect walked away... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T11:02:03 | 572 | 184 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | ***WARK WARK WARK WARK***
Damien Pentacle Horriblis, better known to the world as Doctor Horrible, cursed under his breath as he hurried down the secret corridor towards Lab Number Six. Of all the blasted times for the Uncarnation Engine to go into a meltdown, he still hadn't even managed to finish recording the ranso... | *Note first prompt pls no rage on bad "x" thing*
Standing on the roof of skyscraper; you're just a few minutes away from unleashing the most powerful, the most incredible monstrosity upon the world and finally claim it as your own.
/You hear sound coming beneath you followed by the ground starting to tremble/
Sudden... | 2020-03-26T17:09:25 | 2020-03-26T17:01:36 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | ​
"I believe in you young man!" Captain Mirage shouted from the right. "You're the tip of the spear Rider!" Crimson Fury yelled on his left. *This is my chance! To prove I can be more than just a sidekick!* Red Rider thought to himself. The Veil's men panicked and ran at the sight of the forces of good, as ... | I had finally acquired the Golden Band of Sight, a device which allowed you to see how your attack would move/land so that you would always hit your shot, whether it was a sniper shot from 2 miles or away, a definite sword swipe, whatever it was I could land my shot.
But, of course, it was never that simple. Because ... | 2020-03-26T17:58:34 | 2020-03-26T17:29:48 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | "31 year old Harry Dentris, died in an unfortunate car crash. Thankfully, he died a swift and painless death." The news reporter announced.
"WHAT!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. "I can't believe this, am I even alive right now?" I said. But alas, my curiosity took over and so I continued watching. "They even got ... | The news knocked me on my a**. I couldent keep the shock from crossing my face, like it mattered. Sam dident even know I was in the room watching the news with her. I just wanted to reach out and hold her. Instantly the thought drew tears from my eyes, I’d never hold her again. Frantically my mind searched for the last... | 2020-08-01T03:54:43 | 2020-08-01T02:47:27 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The human population has always been static. The instant one person dies, another is born. You wake up one morning to an emergency broadcast reporting billions of unexpected pregnancies. You have 9 months to figure out why. | Our planet’s population is seven billion, seven hundred and seventy-eight million, seven hundred and forty-two thousand, and forty-nine—or 7,778,742,049 human beings. It has been that way for the last fifty-five years. Ever since our planet stopped growing.
It wasn’t noticed at first—The Great Ceiling that is. That’s ... | Alex licked his lips as he looked through his telescope. The stars were going dark. Each night, more would blink out of existence, their silvery wisps gone forever from the night sky.
As Alex peeked through the scope, he noticed at least two more clusters of stars winking out of existence. He stood up, letting his un... | 2021-03-11T23:46:42 | 2021-03-11T23:22:31 | 961 | 80 |
[WP] "Sire, the hero's party is outside. It's large, too." "Fools. Not even six or seven can stand against me!" "No, sire, you misunderstand. The hero's party consists of his entire village." "Wait, what?" "They weren't happy that you razed their village. And they've all been leveling up." | "Leveling up? Leveling up?? How?"
"Boars, your highness..."
"BOARS?!"
"The forest near their village- err... where their village used to be... appears to spawn boars at a faster rate than average. It's... conceivable that if fifty or so people spent three years training in that forest against boars, then they could ... | The Baron danced a pattern in the air with his fingers and uttered a few arcane words, and an misty orb shimmered into existence in front of him as he looked into it. The mist parted and revealed the large, diverse number of people outside. Close to a hundred or more.
The Baron violently waved the orb away, thinking a... | 2021-07-19T10:20:59 | 2021-07-19T09:27:23 | 623 | 63 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | Lynch regarded the teenage girl in front of him, and barely held back a scoff. Her tattered clothing was in contrast to his grand robes in orange, indicating his status as the Archmage of Recruitment.
“Child,” he said. “I do not want to underestimate you. But I sense zero magic in you.”
“Please,” Thea said, her voice... | "Well, you see, Miss Julia, we do not typically give tours of the school." The headmaster was ancient. So ancient that Julia could not tell which marks on his face were wrinkles and which were scars. He stood blocking the doorway holding a staff in one mangled hand as if he thought he was going to have a say in the mat... | 2022-04-26T11:02:18 | 2022-04-26T10:52:17 | 389 | 30 |
[WP] Reversed Hades and Persephone situation: the Goddess of Life kidnaps the God of Death to be her new husband, meaning that six months of the year things are normal but the other half literally nothing is able to die. | I hated how it was all we would hear about for the two months prior. We hadn't even finished celebrating Remembrance Day, and already we would see the notices plastered on billboards, on the front page of the news paper, notices sent to our phones. For two months we would be subjected to the daily reminders. "DayLife S... | ##Tears of Death
Primvia sits on her throne of roses with a crown of lilacs. Across her domain, nature sings in the warm light of day. A small pool directly before her contains fish leaping into the air. At the bottom of the pool, a batch of eggs begins to hatch. Primvia closes her eyes as life begins before her.
A g... | 2022-11-15T21:10:30 | 2022-11-15T16:49:40 | 110 | 48 |
[WP] Your super power is preventing collateral damage. While the public thinks you're useless, all the other heroes really like you because they can go bonkers all out while you're around. | Cloudburst hovered above the street, staring down a monstrous tank. Cybertech’s robotic voice echoed out from the vehicle, cold and mocking. Behind it lay a path of ruin. Buildings had collapsed under its twin cannons as it fled from Johnson Research Labs. A few bodies poked out from the rubble. His heart clenched.
“S... | "Are you ready for your interview?".
I looked up from my seat on the sofa, yawning. Harold stood there with a smile on his face, as he always did. Being in charge of us was probably incredibly stressful, but he never let it show. Though I suppose I went a long way to helping with that.
"I guess so boss. This is for o... | 2022-12-17T10:58:06 | 2022-12-17T10:10:06 | 813 | 334 |
[WP] A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | Sharon pulled the knife out of her husband's chest. "Why did you delete my recording of Breaking Bad?" she screamed. She dropped the knife through her trembling hands. "I DVR-ed that shit for a reason!"
Brandon wheezed on the floor. His palms covered his broken heart. He tried to speak but coughed up blood. Final... | I fluffed his pillow and he smiled.
“Thanks for that,” he said, settling happily down on the threadbare cotton sheets. There was a moment of quiet. There was a tube running up his nostrils and into a beeping machine beside him. That was the only thing keeping him here, a metal box, connected to the mains.
“I’ve go... | 2013-10-08T10:26:16 | 2013-10-08T09:52:54 | 324 | 41 |
[WP] When a parent dies, their knowledge and skills immediately pass on to their eldest child. An adoptee is shocked at what they discover when they receive their inheritance without warning. | My dad was a monster.
That's what the woman told me. I didn't understand why this was happening. Why me? Not just why, either, but how?
I spent my whole life around my dad, but I don't think I ever really knew him. He never talked about his past. Never. He would stay awake all night some nights, drinking whiskey out ... | "What do you mean 'a heart attack'? He was in prime physical condition! I don't believe you!"
"Ma'am, I'm gonna need you to calm down. We've arranged to have the body moved to Cadwell Memorial."
"Like hell you are! Fuck, do you even know who he is?"
"Ma'am, please. You can call the funeral director, all the informat... | 2014-08-01T12:03:28 | 2014-08-01T11:10:30 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You have 7 days to die, If you do not die in those 7 days you become immortal. What do you do? | "Your week begins... Now."
The specter vanished as quickly and silently as he appeared. I found myself once again alone in my bedroom. With my eggshell white walls, my twin-sized bed, and my pewter carpet. I began thinking. I imagined what I could do with the gift of time. I imagined the endless possibilities. I began... | ------transmission begin
Day one. Still haven't left the house. Not sure I ever will. Not for the next six days, at least.
I can remember the moment that pendant fell through the mail slot with the most perfect clarity. It looked dull and kitschy -- like a free sample from a door-to-door trinket salesman. Yet when I ... | 2014-09-23T01:35:58 | 2014-09-23T01:02:57 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] A genie offers a man three wishes. After hearing his wish, the genie straight up refuses to grant it. | ''That's pathetic''
''Hey, if it weren't for your rules it wouldn't have to come to this.''
As an eternal entity very few things could strike a genie to his very core but this was one of them. Millenia of ending up in the hands of madmen had made the genie an invaluable tool in causing death, theft, and all sorts of ... | Peter was cleaning his house, various items, keepsakes and old artifacts from his family, friends, everyone. He did it every week; this time was to be no different.
Moving on to the next item, an old bottle encrusted with jewels, he thought about the rest of his day -- a crappy one, as usual. His mind returned to the ... | 2015-03-15T20:36:10 | 2015-03-15T20:16:28 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up in a house. It's nice place, with all the comforts of home. However, the front door is cold steel, with a note on it. The note warns you never to leave the house. After years of compliance, you decide to go through the steel door... | The house was paradise. Every night I went to sleep on the softest, most comfortable bed. I had the most succulent steak for dinner. The socks were always new. I watched Firefly Season 2. There was everything here I could ever want, ever need.
My life before hadn’t been any great party. I’d struggled with money, time,... | It had taken me four years to finally decide to do this.
It's easy to follow rules sometimes. When following them means you stay in the well lit and furnished house, your fridge stays full, and the internet is fast. Every Christmas a game console would show up, or that sweet guitar I never got very good at playing. Th... | 2015-03-21T10:58:56 | 2015-03-21T10:57:41 | 269 | 60 |
[WP] You are an enemy character in a video game. Every time the hero of the story dies, time is reversed to a point at which he is alive again. None of the other characters remember this occurrence but you do. | I even managed to KILL him once, ages and ages ago. He'd wandered out of the sewers and I slaughtered him mindlessly. Then again, I'd done everything mindlessly up to that point. After I'd watched time break, things were never the same. I used to try to catch him whenever he went past, but he was much too fast for me... | What was the point of being the leader of a vast army, controlled by several lieutenants and commanders each with their own individual traits and abilities? Every single time that little band of nitwits fell to one of my battalions, or when they came across one of the worlds 'forces of power,' or when the idiots fell o... | 2015-04-14T15:11:52 | 2015-04-14T14:27:09 | 90 | 28 |
[WP] People are born with tattoos telling their future. In an effort to save one man's life, doctor's remove his tattoos, and he survives past his destined death. | In the past two thousand years of civilization, no one has questioned their Expiration Date. Most people don't think about it, much, preferring to focus on the life that is foretold by their other tattoos.
I was not most people. I was only born with a half-sleeve. Right below the crook of my arm was a date. Destined b... | "-Need ten micrograms of Ativan- IV push- *somebody get the anesthetist in here!*"
Nurses bumble around the cart until a frantic hand lays a plastic syringe into the palm of a white-coated doctor. As he reaches out, the edge of a sleeve tattoo peers out from underneath the coat. Indiscernible from this distance, but e... | 2015-09-28T07:02:56 | 2015-09-28T07:00:19 | 99 | 24 |
[WP] After 10000 years of slumber, the fair folk have recharged their magic and is ready to take revenge on the human race. However we're not throwing stones at them anymore. | Tolianthe stepped out of the summoning circle, watched passively by scores of pointed eyes, glowing emerald green in the half-light. Whispers of eldrich energy snaked from her fingertips as she, with all the grace of an antelope and the regal pride of a lion, walked up the curving bow of a massive oak tree.
Swollen b... | One long winter ago the queen of Winter slew the king of Summer with a dagger of iron. Her power spread and the world grew cold. Queen Sera's hand never recovered from her use of the iron dagger and remains withered to this day.
The dagger holds an important place in her court; displayed by the entrance for all wh... | 2015-10-13T06:27:12 | 2015-10-13T06:17:52 | 177 | 62 |
[WP] Write a horror story that doesn't seem like a horror story until the last sentence. | "Honey, I made you scrambled eggs, just like you want them." I had to rub Kelly's shoulder to wake her up. "Eggs!"
Kelly sat up on the bed, she took the plate and spoon - she eats fried eggs with a spoon, that's silly, and I left the room to watch some TV before work. It was a Friday, on weekends Kelly and I spend ent... | To all of the faithful,
I am writing to you before any of you even exist. I am writing to you because I have so much faith and confidence that the world you now live in is a near perfect one. I am writing to you because even now as a nobody, I care about each and every one of you more than you could ever imagine.
W... | 2015-12-23T00:43:58 | 2015-12-23T00:17:44 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Adolf Hilter fakes his own death, survives the war, and gets a job verifying the authenticity of Nazi memorabilia at a pawn shop. | "No, no, no," the old man was saying. "This is not what I am telling you. What *I* am telling you, is that this," he waved around my grandfather's knife, "is a replica."
Sales shit. Fuckin' assholes. "Dude," I said. "I found this in my grandfather's crawlspace."
He looked at me like I was an idiot. "And because your ... | I stepped into the pawn shop that stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle of New York. It was called The Nazi Shop. I mean, who would name their store that, right? You would probably assume that it would get picketed by religious folk day in and day out, but that wasn't the case. In fact, it had grown to be a huge pa... | 2022-03-20T02:03:42 | 2015-12-26T15:45:53 | 1,230 | 202 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Human? You can speak but you don't know my name? I raised you! Are you so ungrateful?"
Milo backed down.
"Sorry..." His face took on that sad look that melts my heart.
"It's OK Milo. I love you. Where have you been? We've missed you so much!" Tears welled up in my eyes.
"Well... At first I ran. For days I chased t... | **EDIT: BEFORE YOU READ THIS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE BEST FRIEND.** I was writing whilst preparing my kids dinner. I'm sorry to the OP. I will still submit this and allow the downvotes to be a reminder that I need to pay attention at all times.
So naturally, I obliged.
'Where shall we do this, should... | 2017-03-31T10:35:58 | 2017-03-31T10:02:08 | 70 | 16 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "Put down everything and put up your hands! Make one move, and you die!"
Hothead Fawkes waves his pistol at the people in the bank, who all immediately drop what they're doing and put up their hands as told.
Chubby Shark, Hothead's partner, takes out a small handheld device.
"Sorry if you have an expensive phone, ... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T06:10:33 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 28 | 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... | "Naturally, it's your genetics and evolutionary upbringing that lead to such [TRANSLATION MISSING - Suggestion: sanity curdling bloodlust that all sentient lifeforms would cringe away from in existential horror] among your people." The device doing the translating, a slim piece of floating aluminium foil, by the looks ... | 2017-05-12T08:18:29 | 2017-05-12T07:53:52 | 617 | 122 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | Jason dropped the carboard box onto the one he had set down prior, and stepped back. He held his lower back and arched. Fuck, this retail stocking shit is not fun. Time for a break. He walked over to the door, reached in his shirt pocket and grabbed for his smokes. Opening the door, he stepped through into brilliant su... | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 2017-05-12T08:33:39 | 68 | 44 |
[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. | "Da hell?"
When finals ended I had resolved to spend no moment of the weekend sober. One moment I had been sitting on the steps of my apartment building smoking a cigarette, fending off last night's hangover with a bottle of whiskey, and the next I was sitting in a small, darkened room.
"Where's my cig... FUCK!"
Hav... | Jason dropped the carboard box onto the one he had set down prior, and stepped back. He held his lower back and arched. Fuck, this retail stocking shit is not fun. Time for a break. He walked over to the door, reached in his shirt pocket and grabbed for his smokes. Opening the door, he stepped through into brilliant su... | 2017-05-12T09:53:02 | 2017-05-12T08:33:39 | 59 | 44 |
[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. | "Save her!"
"Wha-?"
"I summoned you here to save her! Do it!"
On the table lay a woman with labored breath and covered in blood.
"I can't do it here. You'll have to send me back. I need an ER."
"I have an ear for you right here, demon!" The man jiggles his own bloody ear in his hand.
"No, I need an E... R... An e... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T09:10:43 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] You created the machine that brought about world peace, ended hunger, and eliminated disease. It's getting a little hard to avoid having to explain to people how it works, though. | We called it middle-matter.
It was something between anti-matter and matter. And we had barely enough for a single rubix cube sized object. But it was enough.
Nobody asked us where it came from, or how we found it. All they knew was as long as middle-matter existed, any angry thought, any greedy whim, any negative fe... | "For the millionth time, people, it's called Maaaagic!" Paul sighed as he drew out a long "a" and motioned with his hands. He tried making it look like he was bored and annoyed, but beneath the surface he was starting to panic. They were on to him.
"Stop lying! We haven't believed in magic for nearly three weeks now!"... | 2017-05-18T12:22:42 | 2017-05-18T12:14:18 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] As the universe is dying, an immortal man is on a journey to find an immortal snail. | I had kept my word. *sigh* why had I kept my word so well?
I was proud at the time; proud of my genius and diligence, but man have I caused myself a headache.
Immortality and 1 million dollars, that's what I got, with one little condition. A snail was given immortality as well as genius, and for all of the foreseeab... | The last sun was beautiful thing. Rather, it had been.
The age of suns had faded with one last supernova, right on the edge of the galaxy and Homine was glad to be there. He watched it with reserved awe, the last lights in the universe, set to fade any moment. Colours like spectres danced out over a never ending blac... | 2017-07-07T06:51:33 | 2017-07-07T05:09:50 | 379 | 145 |
[WP] Aliens have no concept of mental illness. During the great galactic war, humans send in all of their depressed, insane, schizophrenic, psychopathic, etc. to take them by surprise with their "illogical" behavior. | "They are so dissonant."
When we communicate, we sing with melody and harmony. When those things communicate their sound rips my antennas and often their thoughts didn't even match their gibberish vibrations.
But this time was different. I was scouting alone, the chant of Mother still inside of me, guiding me in thi... | This is it. Saving humanity is within my grasp. I had always been depressed. I had always wanted to end it all. Ever since the the wars on Earth had ended. I knew I would end it. I had talked to a thousand shrinks, all paid for by the U.S. Government. I heard it all, until they told me I could be a hero for it. I don't... | 2017-07-16T06:13:48 | 2017-07-16T03:56:39 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] For a thousand years you've been trapped inside of a magical sword. Warriors from every century have wielded you in glory. Now you only grace the battlefields of public parks and camping grounds as a novelty sword some L.A.R.P. enthusiast bought on craigslist. | Most people do not remember their first years of life - the brain is too malleable, and events pass from memory as one grows up. I never did. Grow up, I mean. I remember my mother. I remember being sold in the slave markets of some hot country with a profusion of people from all over the world. I remember being taken t... | **Mid-Blade Crisis**
This is a story of change, my change. A metamorphosis. Not just of my form, but of my spirit; though my form is a product of my spirit, so perhaps there is no difference.
I had bathed in so much blood. The crusades were my peak. I was drunk with power for centuries, and my warrior then was wi... | 2017-08-04T09:33:26 | 2017-08-04T06:10:39 | 64 | 29 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | It started as a small shadow on the ground that glistened and shimmered as it moved. Quickly it swelled, swirled.. pulsed. I was transfixed on the movement.
My shoulder had taken the brunt of the fall but my head had hit the ground with a loud crack. I was too dazed to move... all I could do was watch. The scene play... | Fear struck my heart as I watched the great book descend towards me, falling with falling with both speed and force. I tried as hard as I could to dash out of the way, but I had noticed it too late. I prepared myself for the end.
The boot froze, the giant pulling back his foot. He bent to the ground, gently pulling me... | 2017-08-28T00:15:26 | 2017-08-27T22:11:20 | 111 | 33 |
[WP] "You... you, did all of this... for a pun?" | “Punnen! Punnen it burns!” his wife screamed in agony. The sores had begun to cover her face...the same sores that had plagued him for the last couple of weeks.
Punnen kept his eyes on his work. Doing his best to drown out the intruding sound, he continued pruning back the overgrowth in his prized garden. It was h... | The rumbling of the machine woke me up. I was laying on the ground, hands tied behind my back, and legs bound together.
"Oh you're awake, good. Can't have you dying on me before my grand finale mr. Hero,"
My arch nemesis for multiple years, Timothy Eduart or Tim E.
"Now, as I was saying before you kicked me in my fa... | 2018-02-05T07:14:32 | 2018-02-05T06:48:35 | 663 | 34 |
[WP] You've been sent to exercise the demons. Not exorcise, exercise. You don't quite understand it, but you're being paid a lot of money. | Lucifer, the King of Hell, was perturbed. His demons were no longer the fit, muscular, agile beings they used to be. With humanity having managed to be so evil, they were no longer needed on earth. Now the demons only spent their time torturing the souls of the damned, and they could do that with machines. Thus, the on... | Shortcuts were Liam's bread and butter. Be it in exams or playing video games, if there was a shortcut he would find and exploit it. He had never been caught, of course, he flew through his senior education with just shy of perfect grades, Liam had mastered the act of flying close to the line.
When Liam reached his tw... | 2018-02-06T07:11:56 | 2018-02-06T06:09:18 | 56 | 42 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | "Do you have anything to declare?"
"...No?"
"You seem hesitant sir, are you certain?"
"Well... maybe, I don't know."
"Sir, this is a yes or no question."
"Okay... say, hypothetically, a ship visited a liquid water bearing planet... and gathered some biomass for research."
"...Oh?"
"AND, and let's say... 60 cycle... | By now you might not consider this species human. Now, that word doesn't exactly carry with it a connotation of dignity, but it might have at some point in time.
The species of human was not originally so animal, but as time went on and they adapted to a new surrounding, they found themselves acting in a much less bec... | 2018-05-30T16:07:47 | 2018-05-30T15:47:06 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] One night, you are taken into a UFO for several hours. You don’t remember much, and question your sanity. Weeks later a call comes in from the alien’s law enforcement, asking if you’d like to press charges for unlawful abduction. | "I'm sorry could you run that by me again?"
The voice from the other end had that canny but satisfying retro feeling to it that my asking again was half because some person introduced herself as an intergalactic law enforcement operative who called me up and confirmed what I'd been questioning for weeks now, and half ... | The phone started to buzz. A buzzing phone was a sound I had not heard in several years. Nobody used the telephone anymore. Newer technology was available, Feeling Transfer, FT for short, was where most communication happened today. Technology changed as fast as the cosmos beings lived in changed. A telephone call was ... | 2018-11-25T23:25:43 | 2018-11-25T21:47:21 | 1,254 | 207 |
[WP] You lay there, in the middle of nowhere, dying. There at your side a ghost appears, he's not there to save you, he can't. He's there to give you company, so you won't die alone like it did so many years ago. | I can’t feel anything.
No, that’s not true.
Everything *burns.*
White fire rips through my muscles, tears apart my sinew, and pulls me from the blissful nothing. My breath hitches - I can’t get it past my swollen lips.
Am I upside down? I can’t tell. The seatbelt chokes me against the leather. I can’t move my ri... | The car had fallen into a river, apparently. I couldn't remember it clearly; the entire night had been a blur. One second, I had been driving, the next, I found myself in freezing cold water, still buckled in my seat. I was watching myself from outside my body, which terrified me to no end. The glass from my windows ha... | 2019-03-28T19:21:52 | 2019-03-28T18:42:29 | 159 | 50 |
[WP] After a treasure hunt with your friends, you make it to the treasure. But instead of the wealth you were told about, it was a note congratulating you on your journey and that the real treasure was the friends you made on the way. Only problem is that all your friends died getting you this far. | We were on a holiday in Turkey. After some days of lazying around, we decided to do something more adventurous. Eventually, we ended up in some ancient pub in Yassihöyük. There we met an eccentric drunkard who entertained us with stories about the local legends. He was difficult to understand at first, not because his... | "Oh great, for all the gaudy it was just another clue. Well fine then, what have you got in store for me, Mr. eccentric King?"
"Congratulations! You have found my treasure dear adventurers. Maybe this wasn't what you wanted, but it is surely what you needed. What you may now lack in gold is made up for in the vastness... | 2019-06-20T01:00:24 | 2019-06-19T23:42:31 | 71 | 10 |
[WP] God has been watching as human technology gets more advanced. With each advancement it becomes easier for them to kill each other. In order to save his creation he adds an 11th commandment. "Thou Shalt not use any form of projectile weapon, melee only you cowards.". | As the screaming fanatics rushed towards the fence -a fence which bristled with a multitude of gun barrels like the back of a militarized porcupine- a divine flash of light surged into the foray.
“MY CHILDREN!” A voice boomed, directed at the US Military soldiers“THIS FIGHT IS TOO EPIC TO BE FOUGHT WITH WEAPONS SUCH A... | Charles nearly lost grip of his hilt as the jeep hit a bump in the road, preparing to venture down the impending fork ahead. Picking his whetstone, he resumed his project.
"ATTEN-TION" A command that had come from the head of the convoy. Charles opened the door to the jeep and filed out behind the heavy mace user in... | 2019-08-12T14:09:13 | 2019-08-12T12:01:06 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | I remember dad and I would always play this game. When the elevator door closed I would close my eyes during the descent and wait for my dad to surprise me, but this time the elevator came to a jerking stop. I immediately opened my eyes and seeing what appeared to be the paths of life I could take surround me. I didn’t... | "Daaaaddy, I don't want to do it! What if something goes wrong?" My daughter, Anna-Maria asked. She was never really one to do something like that, but my mother and I did it all the time. What could go wrong?
"Annie, trust me. It'll be fun, and if I'm not there, run to the lobby." I said as the doors closed. Running ... | 2019-09-07T19:55:10 | 2019-09-07T18:57:47 | 1,554 | 22 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | “Hello, Dad we have a lot to talk about and I don’t have a lot of time.”
She had the same dark brown eyes and dark black hair as my little girl. A birthmark on her right check just like Olivia’s. There was a scar on her forehead that I didn’t know. I shook my head. This was some twisted prank.
“Please, believe me. ... | "Daaaaddy, I don't want to do it! What if something goes wrong?" My daughter, Anna-Maria asked. She was never really one to do something like that, but my mother and I did it all the time. What could go wrong?
"Annie, trust me. It'll be fun, and if I'm not there, run to the lobby." I said as the doors closed. Running ... | 2019-09-07T21:43:45 | 2019-09-07T18:57:47 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | Dudley peered out the window at the guest on the porch. He was tall and lean, with thick round glasses pushed back gently against his nose. His black hair was receding slightly on his forehead, no longer covering the etched lightning scar on his forehead.
"Christ," whispered Dudley. It had been years since he had seen... | There he was, that same messy black hair, though now with a touch of grey at the temples, that same skinny, almost lanky, build. Though he looked somehow more solid than before. Glasses still perched on his nose, though the bridge was no longer held together by tape. And that scar, still there after all this time, thou... | 2019-10-16T11:32:26 | 2019-10-16T11:18:18 | 519 | 173 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | When Dudley opened the door his jaw dropped. He hadn't seen Harry since they had left Privet Drive with those wizard folk, hiding from Voldy... Something. In his head, Harry was bigger, and gave off a vibe of just being *wrong,* but as his cousin stood on his front walk, he seemed no different than any other visitor.
... | Sophie sat on the carpeted stairs mesmerized. She had never seen this odd lanky man before, and he had the most peculiar scar on his forehead. He wore a long over coat with a simple sweater underneath. He had circular glasses that blocked her view of his face. Sophie stared at him awestruck and amazed. She thought it w... | 2019-10-16T11:39:46 | 2019-10-16T11:35:26 | 179 | 66 |
[WP] "Your honor, the evidence is clear and undeniable. While my client may have been a 'mad genius' who sought to 'dominate the city' with his 'army of evil', I present that he did actually not break any laws or statutes in his actions. The defense rests." | “Rich people can get away with anything”, the reporter snarked from the gallery.
“Yeah but this time he didn’t break the laws...this is different than before, this changes the game.” His associate said.
Mr. Vale, sat on the stand, nicely tailored suit and tie, black hair neatly combed back, big white teeth grinning ... | I ran a trembling hand through my shaggy crop of brown hair. It was definitely going to be greasy later and I'd have to wash it, which meant I'd have to stop at the store on the way home for shampoo. A little inconvenient, after a day like this.
I had very clearly stated my case, Mr. Hermann hadn't broken any laws. Su... | 2019-11-07T08:29:12 | 2019-11-07T07:42:50 | 542 | 53 |
[WP] Almost everyone has a superpower by age 25 but it’s not unheard of for people to not have a power. Your power is that whenever you kill someone you strip their power both physical AND super power. You don’t have a way of knowing this until you join the military. In the middle of a superwar. | I was always told that I didn’t have a power, still most people didn’t have anything spectacular, yet deep down I always wanted one. And right now I needed one. I though there was no way I was getting out of here alive. So I started getting desperate.
During one attack caused by some power, it was always a fuck... | Dear god, I hate the smell of blood.
How the hell did I even kill this guy?! He clearly had super-strength! HE DISARMED ME FROM MY RIFLE! He could have easily just made my internal organs rupture just by lightly punching it, and yet all of a sudden, I was that much quicker than him, then somehow managed to stab him in... | 2020-01-09T23:53:06 | 2020-01-09T18:40:48 | 235 | 126 |
[WP] At a young age you discovered you could choose your luck for a week (0-100%) But every 52 weeks it must average 50%. You spent the last 51 weeks living on 49% luck. It was only slightly “bad luck”. But this is the week you need to cash in your saved “good luck”. You have selected 100% luck. | Sunday: I turned the luck all the way up. This was make or break week. I'd figured it all out. I bought a lottery ticket. The drawing is Wednesday, but I'm not looking until Saturday. By then, money should be the least of my joys.
Monday: Interview for my dream job. Here's hoping!
Tuesday: The company calle... | I woke up, the nice summer breeze whizzed past my face. Today was the day, the day that I would cash in all of my luck points to have a 100% lucky day. As I got out of bed, birds started pleasantly chirping in the distance. When I stepped into the shower, the water was perfect. Not too warm, not too cold. I got dressed... | 2020-04-21T07:26:26 | 2020-04-21T06:10:37 | 597 | 56 |
[WP]A civilization made a pact with a god, granting them immense power, but in 50 years summoning a being that'll destroy the galaxy. Only way to prevent that is to slaughter the offending empire within those 50 years. This marks the first time pacifists vouched for genocide on the galactic council.
Inspired by "The e... | The Pacifist Bloc on the Galactic Council had voted for genocide. It was really happening. War.
As the vote tally was read aloud, you could hear a pin drop in the huge chamber which housed the Council. There was no sound except the automated voice reading aloud the name of each voting bloc and the result.
Argondian R... | The falls of the gavel echoed throughout the chamber.
“Order.” Bellowed a large and imposing figure from the far end of the immense obsidian room. His dress was the refined simplicity of a warrior who has led his entire life. His one good eye shined a deep crimson and where his other had been was an empty socket that... | 2020-09-11T10:54:40 | 2020-09-11T10:45:37 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] Whenever anybody asks you a question, time stops until you figure out the correct or satisfying answer to said question. One day, someone asks you a question that you realize may take an eternity to answer.
Inspired by [this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/godtiersuperpowers/comments/jd58rn/questionably_time_stop/?utm... | "Do you love me?"
Her question surprised me, I've known Emily for some time, but I never expected that.
"What did you say?" I replied, hoping she will change her question so my curse will not start.
"I asked you, Shawn McCarthy, do you love me?" Her tender voice was the last thing I heard before time stopped.
I loo... | A flash of light in the middle of a cornfield. "I'm here?! But when?" asked to myself as I looked around. The machine showed 'June 01, 1998. 02:00 local time. Meadow town cornfields, Hershey. Coordinates ........'
"Record... The machine brought me to 1998, I'm 21 years old and I'm from 2020. It's exactly a year before... | 2020-10-18T02:49:16 | 2020-10-17T23:28:53 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | "I told you, I need you to sign right here so i can finish your homework."
I looked up at Kevin, he had been my personal hell since the second grade, five years later and i wasn't certain if i hated him more or feared him. Every day was the same routine, get dropped off at the bus stop, wait for Kevin to hit me as a g... | While waiting a dark and dingy lounge of the Demon Inc, I was thinking what my lawyer said "This might be valid contract that you own bully's soul, but whether you will be entitled to the benefits (tangible or intangible) coming out of deal with the demon is debatable. The law is not very clear on this. It might happen... | 2021-03-27T02:14:37 | 2021-03-27T01:43:59 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] Due to a clerical error, instead of summoning Satan, you've summoned Satin. More and more satin keeps on arriving through the portal, and you're not sure what to do with it. | She walked through the door, 6-inch Laboutin stilettos clicking on the floor. My eyes followed up from the shoes, the the impossibly long legs in fishnet stockings, to an incredibly short black Dior mini-dress, to an immaculate D-cup cleavage festooned with a simple Tiffany necklace featuring (if it was real, which it ... | "Laugh again and I'll shove my rapier somewhere you'll regret!" Lucius circled the glowing circle on the floor, pulling yard after yard of the fabric out and shoving it to the edges of the ancient temple room. "I don't understand, sister! Where is our master?" Sable shrugged, swinging her feet back and forth on the mar... | 2021-05-31T16:04:39 | 2021-05-31T16:03:40 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Her astronaut husband and his crew are stranded in deep space. "This is going to be such an awkward conversation", she thinks to herself as she climbs into her UFO to go up there and get him. | NASA had lost contact with the crew two days ago.
Seeing the news on her living room television, Melissa phoned the director and demanded to know how long emergency air supply and rations would last.
"Months," he had assured her. "Don't worry Mrs. Craig. Your husband being unable to communicate with us doesn't mean... | They have a saying here on Earth, that some of the natives follow in some of the remaining natural habitat: "Take only photos, leave only footprints."
I'd been bemused when I first saw it on a sign on one of my field trips, because it's a remarkably succinct summarization of the oath one swears upon joining the Extrap... | 2021-07-24T14:57:59 | 2021-07-24T14:56:44 | 512 | 330 |
[WP] Excalibur is not a sword. It is a weapon that appears in many forms, conferring extreme luck to the pure hearted chosen wielder. And the Lady is the giver of this weapon, who can also take many forms. | It was cold as a witch's tit that mornin', but the deer ain't gonna put themselves in the freezer, ya know? Pa and me got up two hours before the sun thought about comin' up.
As we was a-creepin' up ta where we'd put the stand, mah sleepy brain finally noticed that the rifle case was a touch light.
"Daddy?"
"What Ar... | It was quiet, silent. The room was wrapped in the kind of silence that was as deafening as thunder. The kind of silence that could amplify the softest cough. It was as soft as clouds, as jagged as a blade. A silence that was friend and foe. People could hide in that kind of silence and say nothing at all. People ... | 2021-11-06T21:31:19 | 2021-11-06T19:38:47 | 153 | 41 |
[WP] Earth narrowly defeats an attack from an alien race. During the peace negotiations, one alien asks “Why didn’t you use the death beams?” You look confused, so the alien points at a photo of the Egyptian pyramids and says again “Why didn’t you use the death beams?” | "As far as we are aware, those aren't death beams. Those are tombs." I responded. There had been rumors about this.
The alien ambassador looked at me quizzically. It then sifted forward on its data hologram. The translator spoke.
"Surely you jest. This entire structure was scanned deeply. Your planet was chosen for i... | A long pregnant pause fills the room as, for a moment I was unsure how to proceed. "Will you excuse me for a moment".
"Certainly", said Beebblebroux, the pig like alien across the table from me with what I assume was a quizzical look.
I walked into the hallway trying to think of the implications of this. As I thought... | 2021-11-16T07:00:15 | 2021-11-16T05:10:14 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone's always happy in your uncle's presence. As his favorite naphew, he invited you to go stargazing one night. "Well, it's been fun, but now it's time for me to go back. See you around kiddo." You thought he was joking, but you never saw him again. No one else seemed to remember him too. | Uncle George smiled, and I didn’t know it then, but I would know it later—it was the sort that didn’t quite stretch to your eyes, the kind that meant goodbye, instead of see you again.
“Well, it’s been fun, but now it’s time for me to go back,” Uncle George smiled. “See you around, kiddo.”
Light engulfed him, turning... | Life just went as usual after that, you went to school, played with friends did your homework. It was wired, someone who seemed like such a big part of your life just vanished but nothing seemed to change.
You yourself almost forgot about him untill a year later you need to get a tent for the boy scouts trip. You ask ... | 2021-11-22T10:47:22 | 2021-11-22T07:48:47 | 59 | 34 |
[WP] At the age of 15 you gain the ability to see people's pain as glowing red areas on their skin. For this reason you became a doctor. One day you meet someone who is smiling and acting normal wile glowing like the sun all over. | Hi. My name is Alex Smith and I can see pain.
Now, that doesn't mean I can see injuries. Sometimes people will come to my office with severed nerve endings from a childhood injury, and I can never really see the glow. But it often comes in handy when you work in a hospital. I often get complimented for being so quick ... | I stared in shock, my second sight barely usable due to the brightness. I felt the instinctive urge to close my eyes, though I knew from experience it would do nothing. I knew I had to speak with that man, otherwise my curiosity would be unbearable for the rest of my life. I followed him into the parking garage, instea... | 2021-12-01T20:59:35 | 2021-12-01T19:55:29 | 865 | 126 |
[WP] You are a serial killer, and you are nearly finished digging a hole for your latest victim when you hear steps approaching from the dark. Ready for anything, you shine your flashlight, gun at the ready, to see...another killer carrying another body. | When you choose to kill there are certain rules you need to follow.
1. Clean up your trash.
2. Live in harmony with nature.
3. Hot blood is for the living.
Follow those rules and you’re home free most of the time. Don’t follow them and you turn into some Two-Body-Andy in lockup out in Arizona or New Mexico: some plac... | “Mind if we double up? I sprained my wrist last week in a charity tennis match, don’t think I’ll be able to dig a hole with it.” The man said, dragging the body over to my hole, trying to push it into the unfinished grave. I placed my foot in front of him, blocking him from littering the grave. When he had stopped movi... | 2021-12-14T19:47:14 | 2021-12-14T18:56:30 | 1,047 | 56 |
[WP] For a thousand years, mages have imbued wands with their power. They have enchanted rings, amulets, swords, staves, armor, and all manner of shining bauble. However, to your knowledge, you are the first to use... a pocket watch. Why? Well, frankly, you just thought it would be neat. | The wizards faced off for their duel. Holding his staff in a white knuckle grip, Agnaron glared at Norgarth. "I'll teach you to have an affair with another man's wife, you cur!"
"I already know how to do that, Agny. Just ask your soon to be ex." Agnaron's temper increased, not only at the truth of Norgarth's words but... | Tick… tick… tick…
The silver latch shut clasps the pocket watch as the train rolls in.
“Why hello there young man,” says a gentleman with a raspy voice. “My name is Amos It is so nice to meet you. I was wondering if you could do me a favor?”
“Depends mister.”
“Well of course it does,” chuckled the man. “All I ... | 2022-05-12T06:39:27 | 2022-05-12T03:03:34 | 52 | 17 |
[WP] The private investigator was stumped. The scene of the murder was messy. Not in the gory sense, but it was littered with tons and tons of contradictory evidence. Thousands upon thousands of individual leads and not one connects with another. | Everyone knew the minivac man. Homeless, dressed in layers and layers old ratty clothing, with big yellow dishwashing gloves on his hands. He moved slow, not out of frailty, but because he was watching where he put his feet, always giving each step due consideration. Stepping over cracks, stepping around discarded gum ... | (1/2)
“Here for room three-oh-four?” the superintendent asks me, her large nosy eyes prying for information out of me that the detective denied her.
“Horace Walden,” I tell her, presenting to her my business card.
She scrutinizes the three-and-a-half by two-inch paper, reads off the full text like everyo... | 2022-09-05T09:14:46 | 2022-09-05T06:48:22 | 432 | 37 |
[WP] Living a secluded life off the grid was also something you wanted to do and have been doing for the past 20 years, only heading to the nearest town 20miles away to get some odd supplies every 6 months. On your latest visit, you are greeted by the dead roaming the streets. | The sun glared off the broken windshields of the cars that had crashed and hurt his eyes.
There was a strong stench in the air, as if a septic tank had overflowed.
Tim stopped his car.
He had put off his bimonthly visit by a couple of weeks, thinking that the town wouldn't have run away, but it looked like everybod... | Everyone knew who I was, yet I always found myself alone. Ever since I was a child. From my parents to my peers, I've constantly found that I'm pushed to the side. There's always somebody funnier, smarter, better than me. And I'm okay with that! For years, I've been isolated. I don't even receive spam letters in the ma... | 2022-11-13T07:53:51 | 2022-11-13T07:41:28 | 133 | 51 |
[WP]Make me want to quit halfway through reading your response out of boredom. (250 word minimum)
The more boring the response the better it is. | Sand cascading downwards at a rate of four grains per hour slowly accumulates in concentric mounds of absolute pristine sand. This sandy sand becomes an accumulation of concentric, pristine sand, slowly, at a rate of approximately four grains per hour. If one was to observe this mound of sand, it would slowly become mo... | Today was just another day, I came into work with the same ugly tie my wife obsesses over, the coffee was cold and tasted like shit, and I know I'll be stuck in overtime yet another day. Why even try, I'm in a dead end job with an ass of a boss, my wife is infertile, and nothing seems as exciting as it once was. Honest... | 2013-10-28T16:03:44 | 2013-10-28T15:08:28 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Walt Disney actually WAS cryogenetically frozen, but he's now been cured, unthawed, and is being briefed on what has happened with his company since 1966. | James begins briefing Walt on the performance of the Disney Company. He approaches the end of the list and gets squeamish, and states, "Also, the most recent movie really took off, and we are working on a sequel now."
Disney responds, "The most recent movie? What's it called?"
James didn't want to respond, so he ski... | "Star Wars? What is this crap? Kids don't like war movies! Kids want songs and princesses."
"Well, there is a princess in it, Sir..." his new assistant Alan tried to interject.
Walt flipped through the folder, looking at the stills of the movie and utterly ignoring everything that the young man said. "And it's not ev... | 2014-12-30T10:56:45 | 2014-12-30T10:35:03 | 765 | 261 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | American efforts against ISIS had failed. ISIS had toppled local governments and taken them over. Claiming most of the Middle East. Many countries themselves had made agreements with ISIS in order to try to secure themselves so that they would not be toppled as well.
America was the last to stay in the fight, but Amer... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T06:44:06 | 82 | 25 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | A man in a white tee-shirt, dust covered jeans, and a hat plops down into a recliner and turns on his television and begins switching through channels until he comes to the news.
The images on screen were like it was straight out of a dream. Or a nightmare depending on where a person was from. It showed members of th... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T07:13:23 | 82 | 11 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "DEUS VULT!"
The battlecry of the newly reborn Papal State rang on the lips of devout Catholics the world over. The faithful had come together once again to rid the Holy Land of the infidel scourge. Pope Francis stood at the head of his army, a not-so-ceremonial sword flashing in his hand as he held it up on the stree... | "Sirs," said the man who burst into the room,
"What, can't you see we are doing important work," said the representative of the USA as he and his colleagues took another shot. They were watching something on the television.
"Well, sir, ISIS has surrendered, unconditionally."
Everyone in the room said, unanimously, "... | 2016-01-29T10:03:10 | 2016-01-29T09:04:29 | 82 | 11 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | They swept across the dunes, conquering all foes before them. Charging forward to the roar of cannon and rifle, no stronghold or fort could stem the tide of red and gold that spew forth from the edge of the horizon. Like the sea, this force could not, would not be restrained by weather, terrain or people in the pursuit... | A man in a white tee-shirt, dust covered jeans, and a hat plops down into a recliner and turns on his television and begins switching through channels until he comes to the news.
The images on screen were like it was straight out of a dream. Or a nightmare depending on where a person was from. It showed members of th... | 2016-01-29T07:22:10 | 2016-01-29T07:13:23 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | He grew up on one of the toughest streets in America. Immigrants, weirdos, and living in filth described his young life. As he grew up, he was at first feared, then people started recognizing his deep, old man wisdom. Eventually, he gained many loyal friends, and others sought him out for his insight.
The ISIS problem... | "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 ... | 2016-01-29T09:11:06 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] "If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human" | Ugh, this line again. Thraxtorz thought to himself. "Humans are expensive and not particularly good at anything!" He protested. The Contract Maker glowed in response. Thraxtorz Chat^tm Pad filled with words, "This contract requires you to bring a human to dangerous places."
"Space exploration is highly specialized! H... | "Mmmh? Why's that?"
"Because they're the only race to innately have healing magic, of course! Everyone knows that!"
Sydney took a good, long stare at the innkeeper. "Right. Everybody knows that. Figured you might have been throwing out some wisdom..."
"If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human," the... | 2016-06-19T19:27:01 | 2016-06-19T12:20:24 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] Aliens try to breed humans in captivity but barely understand anything about our species | You and your humans
Chapter 5: Reproduction
In previous chapters we covered basic needs of your humans, and by now you might think they are a perfect choice. They are easily entertained, do not require sentient or even live food, and are adapted to wide range of temperatures. They can even learn and follow basic rul... | "What, they still haven't mated yet?" I blew air angrily out of my nose and stared at the two round creatures in the pen. One was chewing on a piece of grass, while the other lazed under a heat lamp. "This must be why they are going extinct. Seriously, we recreated their environment almost precisely. We even gave them ... | 2016-06-24T22:19:13 | 2016-06-24T21:13:12 | 163 | 43 |
[WP] While singing gibberish in the shower, you accidentally summon a demon, who then professes an eternity of loyalty for saving it from the doldrums of hell.
or maybe it is pissed you interrupted it while he was watching his favorite show. | "Yakka, lakka doodle, de dungley, da doo." I warbled in the shower while lathering my hair. The song in my heart upbeat and you may have seen me sway slightly with the rhythm of it. What I was *not* doing is summing Batharal, the 8th seat of Hell's Greatest Legion. Unfortunately, that's exactly what life hand in store ... | The static that filled my brain after someone handed me my back-scrubber was horrible. My eyes snapped open but wouldn't move from their position on the shower head. White curtains fluttered onto my hips and legs. Somehow, the air pushing them had even more heat than the water. The pain. That's what got me to finally t... | 2016-07-13T10:38:34 | 2016-07-13T09:55:03 | 60 | 44 |
[WP] After almost 1,000 years the population of a generation ship has lost the ability to understand most technology and now lives at a preindustrial level. Today the ship reaches its destination and the automated systems come back online. | In 2237, three-thousand-nine-hundred-and-twelve men, women and children from nineteen countries and federations climbed aboard the Dovetail and bid farewell to Earth and all of its violence, poverty and destruction.
Their mission was a peaceful one, although its aspirations were lofty and the chance of failure great. ... | Every day is the same. Wake up, gather materials for cooking and place it on the heat stone.
This one has been in my family for years. We're proud of it because it can be moved.
That's why my grand mother is the head of our village. She inherited the heat stone so she's the He-Kith. It is also our scribestone.
O... | 2016-07-27T10:56:09 | 2016-07-27T09:54:15 | 495 | 52 |
[WP] You are a genius who makes yourself immortal; unfortunately over a few hundred years the average IQ rises so high that you are now considered an idiot. | I can hear them mutter the same things as usual as I shuffle slowly past. They take 5 precious minutes out of their busy days to stop and stare.
"Who would want to live forever? Didn't he know that it would defeat the urgency and desires we find in life? What a fool..."
It's all relative, I think to myself. It's har... | "Don't you realize what accomplishment this is?! I have lived far longer than any of you!!"
"You are inefficient, what accomplishment do you seek now, the way of true existence is how we are now, to leave the smallest footprint possible."
"What do you mean? You are here, don't you want the world to know you were?"
"... | 2016-11-29T22:17:30 | 2016-11-29T22:14:03 | 79 | 13 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | Cheese and Broccoli Pie (Combo recipe)
Dough:
Buy some flour (requires at least 4 dl)
100g butter
1 cup of sour cream (the swedish "Kvarg" is perfect for this)
Filling:
3 eggs (but remember to buy freerange ones)
Cheese
2 cups of milk (whole preferably)
Broccoli
Pepper, salt and other spices.
200 degrees, 35... | Write something literal, they said. A good story is easy to read. A good story is easy to remember. A good story tells you a story. It doesn't preach. It doesn't moralise. It doesn't claim to know more than the eye can see. Write something literal, they said.
The writer stared at his computer screen in front of him. H... | 2017-01-30T09:40:34 | 2017-01-30T08:28:09 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti, and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying: "Wait...one's still here?" | "Now hang on a second, this isn't right. How did you get immortality?"
"Genie."
"A genie? No that doesn't make sense. Wait a second. Guys, did anyone put a genie in this one? No? No, I'm sorry friend, we're quite certain there were no genies in this universe."
"I'm telling you, I found a genie on the planet Earth."
... | After all this the I still remember the experiment. I became something else that day. 3rd May 2030, according to the human dating system back then.
Humans. I remember them. Perhaps my biggest accomplishment was getting in a spaceship before they blew themselves up.
I've seen space empires rise and fall.
I've seen an... | 2017-05-03T06:37:16 | 2017-05-03T05:49:32 | 395 | 33 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti, and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying: "Wait...one's still here?" | "Now hang on a second, this isn't right. How did you get immortality?"
"Genie."
"A genie? No that doesn't make sense. Wait a second. Guys, did anyone put a genie in this one? No? No, I'm sorry friend, we're quite certain there were no genies in this universe."
"I'm telling you, I found a genie on the planet Earth."
... | As he stood wincing, he looked out over the vast plain of space and time. Billions of light years of matter and energy begin hurling themselves inwards. The immortal looked out. Where, once there was an infinite sea of stars, now is a rapid influx of heavenly bodies and dust. His pain intensified. Yet, he couldn't help... | 2017-05-03T06:37:16 | 2017-05-03T06:31:42 | 395 | 16 |
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