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[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | They say there are seven deadly sins. That's a bunch of bullshit. It's just propaganda. The lies they feed us to keep us all in a nice neat well-behaved huddled mass. Leave it to the Christians to believe the new blood everyone is born with is a test from their God. Maybe it is, I don't know. I've never believed in tha... | 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T10:28:00 | 45 | 26 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | One day James was sitting with his wife, he was cooking dinner for school children while she was knitting beanies for the homeless, when she cut herself, James sprang to his feet, "let me help you with that" he said. But upon reaching her, his eyes widened, her blood was pure black, he immediately begun to yell, "what ... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:33:21 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I felt disgusted, wondering why. The confusion invading my mind....
Years of having this Gallery to bring happiness and joy through art to those around me, and even more years of helping the less fortunate throughout the Great Depression.
I sought to find a reason, asking myself « why would I have black blood pouring... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T11:29:17 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | **SCP-4619:**
**Class:** ~~Euclid~~ Neutralized
**Special Containment Procedures:**
~~Disinformation campaigns are in effect in order to suppress the true nature of SCP-4619. Numerous public figures have been given Amnestic treatment and trained to believe they were born within SCP-4619.~~
SCP-4619 is no longer co... | It's been 6 years since Canada went dark. 4 years since Alaska sent the final message.
I was in high school when I saw it on the news "Canada Gone?" "Canada's disappearance" "The end of Maple syrup?" I remember thinking it was simply some April fools prank played a little too late, social media stunts were on the ris... | 2019-08-25T21:22:28 | 2019-08-25T21:17:08 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] You have narrowly avoided death dozens of times by sheer coincidence. Later, you learn it wasn’t a coincidence, you are so vital to history, time travelers have been doing everything they can to keep you alive. | “Can I at least have a book or something?” I ask, tied to a chair in a dimly lit bunker.
“A book?” Asked one of the guards, incredulous.
“Yeah, I’m bored out of my mind and you two are terrible conversationalists.”
“You’re a hostage, our job isn’t to entertain you.”
“Sure, but it would be courteous.”
The guard ro... | "Oh shit!!" A blairing car horn and a woosh fly past me as I step back from the edge of the street I was about to cross.
"John! You okay?" Paul asked as he stood behind me witnessing the entire thing.
"Yeah, I'm fine...." I said while regaining my composure.
"You've got to be more careful man." Paul said as we star... | 2019-10-04T10:18:48 | 2019-10-04T09:22:59 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] "So to walk on water you used..." "Anti-gravity boots." "Healing the sick?" "Portable nanobot medbay" "And I guess you used a matter converter for turning water to wine?" "Nah I just swapped the jars when they weren't looking." | “Why didn’t you just use the powers I gave you? You *are* the son of God.”
“I don’t have to do everything you say, Dad. I’m not you.”
God shook his head. “Well maybe you could try to be a little more like me every once in a while. Did you know they started another whole religion based off of you?”
Jesus looked up, t... | In that little brown book so many held dear, there were quite a few things wrong. For one thing, I'm still going strong, and for another, I'm not really all that magic. I was a bit of a braggart, though -- the greatest guy you'll ever meet -- and this was never an issue until the year 2020, when my home in a little to... | 2020-01-06T19:47:27 | 2020-01-06T18:35:48 | 96 | 43 |
[WP] The Terran diplomat screamed with mind-numbing intensity: "DEEPEST APOLOGIES BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION." | He was tall and rugged, a scar on his face which had once been violent but now seemed wise stood out against the groomed bristles, he held himself straight like a soldier, but his movements were delicate and controlled not violent and sudden.
She was short, much shorter than him, the traditional dress of her planet fl... | "Hello little one."
"There are many things we wish to share with you, but simply not enough time to share them all. We will proceed from the beginning and move swiftly to the end."
"All atoms communicate in symphony, because there is a part of the universe that eats atoms and if they break their fragile dance then ... | 2020-05-27T22:22:25 | 2020-05-27T21:47:50 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] You were in a cafe one day when you accidentally overheard a phone call from the guy behind you. “Yeah Dad, nobody believes I’m back. Yes I did say I was Jesus. No, they just laughed at me.” | 2021. The year to end all years – literally, although no-one was aware of it yet. If people thought 2020 was bad, just wait until they saw what was coming. There were plans for a literal rain of alligators, a flood of fire (god figured, why not just do two-in-one and save time overall), and a really awesome cinematic ... | ​
The Gospel According to Jão
Chapter 1
1 In the beginning was the Thought, and the thought was within God, and the Thought was God.
2 From the thought came the Feels and the Word. And He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through and with Him, and without him there was nothi... | 2020-08-15T05:31:02 | 2020-08-15T05:17:05 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You feel a little bit sick and go with your wife to the Doctor. He reveals that you have been deadly poisoned, but your immune system beat the poison easily. The doctor asks if you have used desensitization with small poison doses over the last years. Your wife starts sweating. | The office was bathed in a harsh white light, paintings of landscapes and plants sprinkled the walls. John turned slightly to his wife Ellie, a smile slowly creeping along his face. She sat there, eyes downcast. He knew she wasn’t fond of the doctors office, but was elated she decided to go with him nonetheless. The do... | Mr. Don sat in his comfortable chair as he watched the young couple; a man who had a slightly pale face and a woman with silky hair who wore a very stiff smile was sitting right in front of him.
“Truly interesting…” Mr. Don exclaimed as he shook his head. The examination didn’t have any problem as he let the patient t... | 2020-09-21T10:00:18 | 2020-09-21T08:06:52 | 92 | 40 |
[WP] There is a bar located between life and death. All those who died sit for their last drinks before marching onto the afterlife. Unbeknownst to them, the bartender is also the judge. Forgiveness is up to God. Retribution is the Devil's call. Judgement is given by the one who serves you drinks. | I was sat at the bar nursing a whiskey when a woman came up next to me, she ordered a shot of fireball and washed it down with a baileys.
She looked pissed.
"Murdered?" I asked her.
She shook her head.
"Nope. Jumped out a fucking window." she paused, probably just to be dramatic, before blurting out, "I wrote like,... | I heard the jingle of the door, and without looking- I knew she was gone. Headed on to whatever was on the other side. It's a shame- I liked talking to that one.
I looked up at Bill, and shrugged. They all go eventually. All except me.
You see, there is this bar. If you've ever heard of purgatory... it's kind of lik... | 2021-03-09T00:15:08 | 2021-03-08T23:56:05 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] 'So, doctor, I really don't know what's wrong with my human. I've given her food, water, a warm nest and some humans so that they can socialise. All the other humans are fine, it's just this one. Can you help her?' 'Well, this humans called an 'introvert' and she needs different care.' | "So, what brings you in here today?" The doctor lifts the lid off the tank to get a better look at the human inside.
"Well, I can't figure out what's wrong. See how she's curled up in the corner there?" I tap on the glass next to her, but she doesn't react. "She rarely moves from that spot. And a lot of the time, ther... |
I focus on his bright, kind eyes and think about that term. I must have read about it somewhere, as it sticks somewhere in my mind.
“Yes”, he intones slowly, “Introverts do best when they’re by themselves. They can socialize, and while they may even enjoy it, it costs them.”
I take a deep breath as I ponder this.... | 2021-04-20T08:40:19 | 2021-04-20T07:03:16 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 5,663 | 158 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 152 | 66 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Ah shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 56 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Death by Hubris!" I proclaim with a self satisfied smile.
"Hubris," the officiant responds, dryly. "That is your choice?"
"Exactly," I say, grinning at the old fool's expression. "Like in the tales. A hero is given a challenge, some trial to overcome. It's of course, not inherently impossible, but the hero fails and... | Well shit. There went my plan. Looks like old age is not a way out of it when they can rapidly age you before the assembled court. I had to come up with something amazing if I wanted to survive this execution. To be fair I probably did deserve this, I had killed a few (dozen) people in rather brutal fashion. Deserving... | 2021-06-24T11:15:28 | 2021-06-24T10:26:09 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Had to say something: killing the villain wouldn't make the hero as bad as they are, no matter what anyone says! What a disingenuous claim! You simply couldn't let that slide... even though YOU are the villain the hero is agonising over killing | “What? No, that’s… that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
“What?”
“As bad as m- seriously? I have unleashed plague upon dark magic upon curse upon this people. The Green Plague? That was me trying to increase my mana pool. The Walking Trees? I was trying to create mindless, obedient soldiers. I raised taxes las... | I actually had to stop running at that claim. I just turned to look at the guy in the gold suit and eagle emblem on his chest.
"Okay that is just so wrong." I held up my hand as the blue boy scout landed. "You hold up a minute too. I have to get this off my chest."
Turning back to the newbie. "Look a no kill rule or ... | 2022-05-07T19:10:31 | 2022-05-07T19:02:45 | 49 | 30 |
[WP] People don't really know what your power is but nobody wants to find out, your presence feels like a mountain, your glare radiates dread and dozens of metres around you is saturated with a palpable aura of power. Truth is however, that is all you can do | Mortimer Palmer sat there, still as a statue. It was enough for everything else around him to shrivel—physically, mentally, and metaphorically.
Mere humans backed away with leaden feet, simply unable to comprehend the aura that rolled off of him. It held him like an overprotective blanket three sizes too big, causing ... | The Saint Sava Temple, with its bottom-of-the-pool turquoise domes, stood encumbered by tourists with their smartphones and kitschy t-shirts. It was deserted.
"A vengeful spirit has made it its home," said a bread-necked barkeep who sold rakija, slivovitz, and little girls run away from their mothers. He grumbled abou... | 2022-06-24T12:11:43 | 2022-06-24T09:21:52 | 240 | 57 |
[WP] It amazes you that the Elf waitress who works at your restaurant is the same one as when your grandparents first started the business. The Elf can't believe she's still stuck in the same dead-end job for nearly a 100 years and has to keep dealing with your family. | "Hi Myrna", I said as I settled into my usual corner booth, arriving at the end of morning rush. "I'll have the usual."
Myrna was diligently writing on her order pad, with a spare pencil stuck behind her pointed ear. She glanced up and asked with a sigh, "Would you like to add hash browns to that? Only a little bit mo... | Family's Guardian
Going over the store's finances makes him all the more grateful he got approved for those college grants. He can't imagine having been able to afford going to school otherwise. Nevertheless, it all worked out and he survived the time he had put into getting an accounting degree. It just really puts i... | 2022-09-26T20:03:59 | 2022-09-26T12:03:35 | 95 | 33 |
[WP] Earth is actually a colony of an intergalactic empire. Humans are widespread throughout the galaxy, and one day, we establish contact with our homeworld. | “Uh, Sir? We have something coming up alongside, “said the nervous Lieutenant.
The Captain looked up from *The Travels of Marco Polo* on his hand holo.
“Could you please repeat that, Lieutenant?” the Captain said, tilting his head and looking over the top of his glasses.
The Captain sat in the highest chair at th... | It was just like any other Thursday in November; I had just come home from a long day at work. Julia and I had just had a falling out a few weeks ago, it got to the point where she took all of her stuff and left in a fit. I don’t think that we were really meant for each other anyway. It still felt odd to be the only on... | 2014-11-20T23:44:00 | 2014-11-20T16:55:22 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 996 | 47 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 670 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 243 | 164 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | I guess... My power is hard to explain. Well, not hard to define, but hard to explain the absolute vastness behind it. Everything I want, happens. Like when I was a kid, I would want an ice cream cone, and POOF! Cake batter ice cream cone, right in my hot little hand.
Let me tell you, Christmas was the most boring hol... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T16:03:19 | 63 | 39 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Do you know what humans are? They are a small, bipedal creature trapped on a resource starved planet. Evolutionists would call this a typical case of a species made ruthless through internal competition. Not once in their entire existence had there been peace. Their 'civilization' began by throwing stones at 'Philistin... | Kyloran Estraxx straightened the tie around his right neck. As was protocol when establishing contact with new races, his ship's fabricator tailored an approximation of the style worn by that world's leader. Or leaders, in some cases. In the end, Kyloran settled for a dark blue suit and a white and red tie for each nec... | 2014-12-26T12:10:42 | 2014-12-26T12:09:19 | 130 | 18 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | "Chancellor Ehrbane, please, I am not a violent man."
"*Not a violent man?!*" I spluttered with almost unkept rage, "Your people have laid waste to my kin-kingdom's homeworld. Your men have trodden armoured through the Basilica of Old Truths, the keystone of our culture! Your weapons have destroyed our ancient reliqua... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T10:45:23 | 70 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The response below is the prequel to a story I wrote for another prompt found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2j42eh/wp_humanity_is_the_only_race_in_the_galaxy_with/cl8i9yy
Enjoy! And as always, please criticize as much as you can - I need it!
----------------------------------------------------... | "Chancellor Ehrbane, please, I am not a violent man."
"*Not a violent man?!*" I spluttered with almost unkept rage, "Your people have laid waste to my kin-kingdom's homeworld. Your men have trodden armoured through the Basilica of Old Truths, the keystone of our culture! Your weapons have destroyed our ancient reliqua... | 2014-12-26T12:09:55 | 2014-12-26T10:45:23 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Kyloran Estraxx straightened the tie around his right neck. As was protocol when establishing contact with new races, his ship's fabricator tailored an approximation of the style worn by that world's leader. Or leaders, in some cases. In the end, Kyloran settled for a dark blue suit and a white and red tie for each nec... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T12:09:19 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You go out on a mission to kill a giant, a quest from which no man have returned. When you get there you find out the giant is overall a cool dude and the men that never returned just stayed with him because he was so fun | I peer into the cave. I brace myself for the scent of blood and effluent. I've slain seven giants; seven times have I smelt the foul decay of their hovels of depravity. I let it wash over me, the inmistakable stench of... OG DC Trainwreck?
"Bruh yer just in time!" shouts... Demetrius? My erstwhile companion, lost to ... | Here's my best shot:
**"Hi!"** a voice big deep bellowed from high above. Nils turned around, his arms were shaking and his armor was rattling. "Who speaks!" He yelled dismayed by how shrill his voice sounded in comparison. He held his shield in front of him almost hiding behind it. Peeking over the edge of the cliff ... | 2015-03-07T12:56:44 | 2015-03-07T12:39:47 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story that takes place over the course of 5 seconds or less. | “Five!” The word pierces my skull, indicating that the end is to come.
“Four!” The countdown mocks me, a culmination of all my failures and successes. Soon they will be forgotten, replaced only by dreams and false promises.
“Three!” We created it. The end is our own doing. Mankind’s great gift.
“Two!” Nothing could ... | He knew there was no coming back. The line had already been crossed. He closed his eyes and jumped. The wind was harsh and he was afraid he'd hit the cliff before he had enough speed for it not to matter any more. This was as close to flying as he would ever get. He even cracked something of a smile. It was the first o... | 2016-02-18T09:25:16 | 2016-02-18T09:13:39 | 63 | 26 |
[WP] Write a story that takes place over the course of 5 seconds or less. | “Five!” The word pierces my skull, indicating that the end is to come.
“Four!” The countdown mocks me, a culmination of all my failures and successes. Soon they will be forgotten, replaced only by dreams and false promises.
“Three!” We created it. The end is our own doing. Mankind’s great gift.
“Two!” Nothing could ... | Conor stepped hard on his left foot, twisting his hips and rotating his shoulders as his left hand soared from its defensive position around his chin toward his opponent. Like a shotgun blast the blow connected square on the chin, sending the haphazardly charging fighter tumbling into his doom. It was in this brillianc... | 2016-02-18T09:25:16 | 2016-02-18T08:17:03 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] You're immortal, but the procedure that made you so also created an evil doppelgänger. After centuries of conflict, using any means necessary to subvert each other's plans, neither of you are sure which one of you is the evil one, or if either of you were ever supposed to be evil at all. | He performed the ceremony during his twentieth winter.
His people had spent generations building the raised circle of giant stone slabs; the names of those who started the project had faded even from myth before its completion. Visitors would regard the henge with awe, thinking the placement of the heavy stones to be... | "You fucking douche!"
"Calm yourself you blabbering imbecile"
Everything about him pissed me off.
"Obviously you have no intentions of a peaceful negotiation."
That stupid, fake accent. His condescending tone in everything he says. I dragged my bloodied leg closer to him.
"Look who's talking about peaceful! Yo... | 2016-11-29T10:12:13 | 2016-11-29T09:00:10 | 445 | 27 |
[WP] Due to your careful planning, your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse. There's just one thing you didn't prepare for. Ghosts. An entire planet of fucking ghosts. | If you should ever find yourself in a similar situation - that is, if you should ever find yourself living in a post-nuclear wasteland littered from sea to glowing sea with the ghosts of a quarter million lucky former inhabitants - take this as a handy guide to life.
1)**Be upfront with your children.** Beth and I mad... | #Title: Get Back
A sea of see through hands reach through the walls of our bunker, grasping at life.
"*Mom..*," whispers my daughter. "*Dad*.."
"Shhh," my wife replies, hugging her.
"They're," my daughter starts to cry. She shakes her head and shivers. "They're not *real* are they?"
A blank faced man with tra... | 2016-11-29T19:01:56 | 2016-11-29T18:18:58 | 516 | 145 |
[WP] When you wish upon a shooting star, it's actually a satellite, and your wish has been recorded and cataloged. An agent has been assigned to your case. | *Finally.*
She walked in the cafe and it appeared time stopped. I had seen the picture and profile of course when I had been assigned to her wish, but a picture just couldn't do justice to her. The vibrant red of her hair, the startling blue eyes, and a look of, well, youth on her face. It's not just the looks no, I m... | 8am, Central Control.
"Well this is it Mulgrew. You've got the first case of 2017, don't screw it up." barked Lieutenant James from the front room.
Gemma, Nolte and Higgins swung around, lept from their chairs and came bounding over to my desk. The four of us Debutants were now glued to the monitor, I could feel Gemm... | 2017-01-03T09:45:56 | 2017-01-03T09:40:55 | 90 | 44 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | The earliest one gets one's familiar is at 13. The latest is generally 18. The world record is something like 27. I feel bad for that guy; eight years waiting was hard enough.
Familiars are strange beings. The earliest recorded one came in the early 1800s, a great bear-like beast that followed a single man. They canno... | On my thirteenth birthday, I began to count the days. My mother had discipline. My father had creativity. I had nothing, and was desperate for something. Like a child, seeing the adults sit at the adult table. Or seeing them drink wine. Or watching, as they do 'adult things'. I wanted my 'adult familiar'. My mark of be... | 2017-01-20T13:17:28 | 2017-01-20T12:09:53 | 4,354 | 1,896 |
[WP] You ask your date, "Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?". She looks at you with a confused look. "I never fell out of heaven, who told you that I was your angel?". It turns out she is your guardian angel. | “So your real name is Eos?” I asked my date as we strolled through the park.
“Yeah, that’s my God-given name,” she smiled an angelic smile. Her full lips revealing white and straight teeth.
“What does it mean?”
“Oh, it’s not important. It’s an old name,” she smiled again and the autumn wind caught her hair. Absent-m... | "You are stunning, quick question, did it hurt wen you fell from heaven?" I asked, earnestly attempting to make the words show love that was never there.
I hadn't felt anything but emptiness, like my soul is the vacuum of fucking space for months now. I'd tried everything, drink, drugs, meaningless sex, all of it. I t... | 2017-02-04T12:47:08 | 2017-02-04T10:00:36 | 98 | 13 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | 11:55, 19 August 2017
My family sat around the couches in the living room, making small talk about their own Destiny. Something about how no one was surprised when my father, sister and brother all got "Doctor" stamped on their forearm in crisp, Arial font. I despised it. The idea of sitting in a stale room in a stale... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:42:03 | 427 | 32 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 226 | 37 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I'd always done well at school. Literally a straight-A student.
Perfect grades, the whole nine yards.
I'd gone to college, completed the courses before I was 16, and was enrolled in a prestigious and very expensive university in London by the time I was 17.
And because of this, the expectations were so high. My fami... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T02:40:17 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 52 | 39 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | The Whaler
The clock strikes 12:00
A word is writ
Upon my arm
My life is split
One-half of me on the shore
The braver half, it longs for more
For every day out on the sea
Another hunt, and life for me
Half the life is black and cold
Its skin and bones, bought and sold
Fortune, spoils, warmth, and greed... | As long as anyone can remember you're future was decided on the 12th hour of your 18th birthday. No one knew what caused it to happen or when it started but the word you got decided everything from social class to tax bracket for you. In my family it was a 3 day celebration of the crossing over from child to adult and ... | 2017-03-16T04:24:31 | 2017-03-16T04:12:27 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Urban environments present challenges for all life. Unlike squirrels and refuse bears, not all creatures here spend their time scavenging.
A male human. This adolescent has mastered the skills required for daily life, and now that the weather has turned favorable, he's set his sights on a more difficult task. Groomed... | *Sweeping panoramic shot of a grungy inner city school. Majestic music plays in background.*
NARRATOR: Unlike the dominant species of the desert planet of Grizek, the inhabitants of this little world have tentative, almost ambivalent, courtship rituals.
*Cut to empty corridor. Bell rings, and a bipedal humanoid speci... | 2017-04-04T07:07:46 | 2017-04-04T07:03:30 | 46 | 26 |
[WP] My husband nodded silently to assure me he had killed the nest of spiders. I almost went to thank him, but then I noticed the glint of light off the tiny threads suspending him like a marionette.
EDIT: As a few of you have pointed out, this was originally posted about a year ago by [/u/gregbrahe](https://www.redd... | I cocked my eyebrow at Pete, and gave him a once over. I swear those were threads I just saw. I was positive, even, but I couldn't quite make it out again. Of course, I'm being crazy. Spiders don't often take control of humans, in fact I'm not sure they ever did. But still, I couldn't keep the fear out of my voice as I... | As summer
came to an end and trees changed their color, so too did Barry change it
seemed. At first the changes were small,
a new found interest in sewing, a fondness for the dark, and a strange habit
off hanging upside down off branches and poles.
I didn’t mind too much at first, especially when Barry began to fix ... | 2017-08-08T20:57:21 | 2017-08-08T15:32:19 | 74 | 15 |
[WP] You're the normal guy the evil emperor keeps around to point out obvious flaws in his plan. It's a pretty sweet gig, but there are some annoyances. | We had the party in the council room. It seemed like I had spent my whole life in there.
There was a long rectangular table. On each side were generals and superpowered henchmen. At the head of the table was my boss, Emperor Chiropteran. I sat in the chair to his right.
The room was filled with balloons and streamers... | **Please let me know what you think. I appreciate feedback!**
I was folding the laundry when the Emperor’s guards came for me. They took me despite my objections, though they did make sure that someone fed the cat. I suppose I have to be grateful for that.
I wasn’t happy by the time we got to the throne room. I do... | 2018-01-15T21:43:05 | 2018-01-15T20:44:35 | 90 | 60 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | Blinding white light split down the air in a shimmering curtain. Hissing and popping the portal spread wide enough for me to step through. The temperature change was noticeable as I stepped across space and time to arrive hundreds of years before my time. The Renaissance, winter of 1457.
My breath now visible on the... | I pulled out my pipe and vaped, sucking in that Raspberry Ripple 70/30 whilst I surveyed the land.
Motherfucker.
I checked my phone again, just to make sure I wasn't imagining it and then set off to seek out whoever the hell Icniv Ad is... Was? Is.
It was pretty cool, vaping, walking through a market puffing as peop... | 2018-03-02T06:38:14 | 2018-03-02T05:58:08 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You stumble across a peculiar library. Each book's title is the cost of the knowledge within. You read a few for the cost of a cent, a smile, a button. Until you find it. "Cost: half of your lifespan" | Gale's hand trembled as he pulled the massive tome off the shelf. He flipped open the first page and his eyes widened in horror as he realized what he was holding. It was Stephen King's 'The Stand.' And it was going to take him forty fucking years to finish. | The room trembled when the book opened, the cost hit immediately. Hands graying and wrinkling into disuse, I didnt need to have a mirror to know my face looked much worse.
The book trembled, an ancient voice reverberating inside my skull.
"A deep cost for knowledge, is it a cost you paid too soon?"
"It- "
"Don't was... | 2018-03-29T09:26:57 | 2018-03-29T07:25:42 | 74 | 33 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | It was late at night. I was hard at work in my lab when I heard his voice.
“So you found a loophole.”
I never even broke my gaze away from my work. I knew it was him and I knew what he wanted. “So I did. Lucky break, I guess.”
“Is that how you see it? Because I see it as stacking the deck.” He spun me around to face... | He sat up, panting quietly as he relaxed again. If he had properly seen what the microscope showed, he had finally cracked it. He removed the slide from the microscope, walking over to the pill fabricator.
"It acts as an antidote to poisoning..." he muttered to himself, smiling in triumph. "It's a cure for all know... | 2018-08-23T11:53:32 | 2018-08-23T11:20:34 | 5,923 | 174 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | I see that you chose our unlimited funding package for the cost of one soul. Yes, that does include unlimited funding. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to deny your application for this equipment. You only chose the first tier of unlimited funding. We actually have three levels of unlimited funding. The package yo... | The first time he met her, she was 61. Young, relatively, and dumb. She didn't know any better. A woman with a girl still inside her, a troubled past and a bleak future. The truth she faced was one all do. "Who will remember me after I'm gone?"
The answer came in the shape of sacrifice. The blood-dimmed King of night ... | 2018-08-23T14:29:29 | 2018-08-23T14:02:54 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | I see that you chose our unlimited funding package for the cost of one soul. Yes, that does include unlimited funding. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to deny your application for this equipment. You only chose the first tier of unlimited funding. We actually have three levels of unlimited funding. The package yo... |
Edit: Need help formatting this so it doesn't look like a block of letters...
Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Medicine ready to go
Are you ready, hey, are you ready for this?
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?
Into the door... | 2018-08-23T14:29:29 | 2018-08-23T12:48:16 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] among the many senses developed on alien worlds, hearing is not one of them. To most extra terrestrials, the idea that we can detect them even with a wall between us is utterly horrifying | I nearly jumped out of my skin when i saw the flashing lights in my peripheral vision. It was a friendly greeting as usual but the speaker's habit of just BEING there unnerved me, How the heck did she know I was on the roof?
"Oh. Uh .. Hello" I flashed back, trying hard to keep my surprise down so as not to accident... | The cool earth cushioned softly beneath Blue-Green-Magenta's bare soles. He looked to his aide, Red-Scarlet-Teal, who nodded ahead to Ms. Hawk's home door, quiet as any world.
Eyes looked between blinds from houses around the street. Children-to-gods of all earthling years peered at the iridescent, slightly moving sca... | 2018-11-02T20:48:12 | 2018-11-02T20:00:37 | 748 | 115 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened 2 years ago, and when you are cornered by one of them you panically bite them, and they become a human again and ask whats going on. | Sorry for format on phone
"Next." I call out into the tube on my desk."Roger that,we'll have one coming down in just a second,the extraction team just got back.These ones are fresh as a flower".
Their always delayed,not that I'm complaining.It gives me some time to prepare for the next one."Ok ones coming your way no... | The hall was wet with the smell of blood. A ghastly stench emanated from multiple rooms, their doors open with hints of movement inside each one. Barry shuddered, trying his best to hold in his breath and not make a sound as he limped along the walls. A throbbing pain came from his left leg, where he could see bone jut... | 2018-12-17T03:01:03 | 2018-12-17T00:45:11 | 65 | 41 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| "God, I hope the listen."
The captain pulled out his journal and started writing. No one understood why he still used pen and paper but at this point no one cared.
"48 hours ago we landed in what we thought was a desolate planet. We were wrong, so very wrong. Minutes after setting out base camp the locals surrounded ... | "Do Not Send Recuse!" …. sent.
Not even a second thought is given as I hit send on the 'unauthorized' message back to mission control. Hoping and knowing that it will fall on deaf ears. Slowly standing, I wander back to the 8x8'' compartment that has been "home" for the past 2 years, Life bay 524-Delta.
A slight la... | 2019-01-31T10:04:12 | 2019-01-31T09:59:54 | 116 | 24 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | i smiled, looking at the woman across from me on the picnic blanket. she had brown hair, brown chocolate eyes, and a few freckles on her cheek. A normal girl by all standards, and she was perfect. especially for a shape shifting super villian in need of a little bit of normal. i was in a half snake half human form, she... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T04:40:49 | 129 | 70 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "Finally, it is complete. Now, nothing can ruin my plans!" I threw back my bead and laughed as I pulled the chicken out of the oven and set it on the table.
"Our plans, you mean," Elizabeth said. I had kidnapped her last month, but we had hit it off. She came back and we had started dating in secret. She sighed. "Do y... | There were scarcely anyone on the station on a weekday's afternoon, so Nick could get some space to breathe. He pressed his back against the sun-burned wall, his hair smelt like ash. A flame flickered in his dull eyes, the taste of smoke touched his lips. Nick squinted, turning to his left. Was it a train he was waitin... | 2019-02-23T07:55:50 | 2019-02-23T07:02:41 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | "Mr. Splitter, I have questions"
"Please call me Adam" he said from behind his cells.
"That weapon, What was it?"
"The bomb? It was our last result, an ace if you will"
"That ace caused half of the planets in the war to become extinct, and 25% to be endangered"
"There's still a couple thousand galaxies out there, ... | Sth'Slh stared out of the transparent port. Scales gleamed dully in the dim emergency lighting and his thin whiplike tongue tasted the stagnant air left by failed recyclers. The low, reassuring rumble of the ship was now gone, replaced by groans as bulkheads tortured beyond their tolerances continued to buckle under st... | 2019-12-19T02:36:56 | 2019-12-19T01:49:38 | 560 | 100 |
[WP] Hordes of undead burst out into the streets, you take your wife and kids and head for the abandoned Cold War era bunker in the woods, that was 5 years ago. You reemerge for the first time ready to face untold horrors.. Only to realize the military took care of it in like 2 weeks of the outbreak | "Good evening and welcome to Action News: Live @ 5, I'm Ted Lewis. Tonight our top story rates along with the Hawaiian Missile Crisis and the Area 51 Raid. A Florida man and his family that have been missing since The Zombie Outbreak of 2020, have finally been found. We go to Rodney Fairway for the scoop."
"Thanks Ted... | We lived like animals for half a decade, living of the expired cans of food stores in the bunkers. It was horrible but hey, at least it was safe from the untold horrors of the surface. Anna and Jake were the only two things that kept me sane as I navigated trough my life living in the shadows. Eventually, our food supp... | 2020-02-18T08:39:35 | 2020-02-18T01:31:48 | 122 | 22 |
[WP] You are a dragon. After moving to your new forest, the local village decides to sacrifice two children to you to ensure you won't attack them. You decide to raise them--and they say you're much nicer than the village. | They stood there, eyes wide, terrified.
As they should be.
But I am not the monster that humans assume me to be. Striding forward, I lowered my head at an angle to bring an eye to bear on the duo of small apes that stood in front of my magnificence. The sunlight refracted orange light through my gem like scales as I ... | The night air was breezing through my scales. I watch as villagers cower in fear as I fly over their village. Such cowards. I noticed the cave my brother had brought for me, and flew over to it with a faster speed. When I landed, I wondered around the roomy cave and was pleased. It was warm, and fitted me perfectly. I ... | 2020-04-03T09:51:51 | 2020-04-03T09:22:46 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] One day, every city that shares a name has a portal open up, connecting them all with each other. Paris, Texas has a great time with it, and many cities celebrate their new neighbors. You, however, live in Hell, Michigan, and things are starting to get strange. | "So, it's called... 'brown cheese'?" Jimmy asked, not trusting the demon with thin slice of carmel-colored extrusion topping a slice of bread.
"Oh yeah! Funny name, I know, but you MUST try it! We all swear by it back home."
Jimmy held his nose and looked closer... there was a red dribble of...something... leaking o... | "The fuck is that?!?!" I muttered as some abomination of flesh flew over my head and into the side of a neighboring building.
"Oh we call those things floaters, not super creative but it fits". Replied my new, roommate? I don't know what to call him. He moved in on day one, its currently week two and shit is still ins... | 2020-09-25T15:06:23 | 2020-09-25T14:56:10 | 2,209 | 374 |
[WP] For years, there's been a room in your house where time stops. You can stay in there for as long as you possibly want without aging, and not a single second passes outside of the room. One day, while in the room taking a nap, you're awoken by the sound of furious knocking at the front door.
This was inspired by a... | Every evening I walk into timelessness and shut the door, unfettered by my cruel mistress of a calendar, free from the nagging ticking of the clock.
It started as as my yoga room but eventually even the calming music and rhythmic breathing spoke of the passing of time. I was counting my breaths and moving to the almo... | ##The Lonely Room
CW: Depression, discussion of suicide
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I wake up in the room. Did I really just hear that noise? I sit in silence for a few minutes. The knocking on the door repeats. Maybe if I sit still in silence the knocking will go away. The knocking repeats, and I stand up.
The house is Victorian. There... | 2020-10-04T08:57:22 | 2020-10-04T07:33:20 | 68 | 26 |
[WP] The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again they rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. | "Tygrothrop has thrown his lot in with the French, sir".
"The French? What could possibly have interested him about the French? They couldn't charge a nursery much less sacrifice anything worthwhile!"
"Well you see sir, our arcanists have found that one of the Gaul peoples creation myths was a contextualisation of Ty... | The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again the rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. But they knew what they would do with t... | 2020-10-06T23:45:02 | 2020-10-06T23:00:27 | 77 | 14 |
[WP] "One of the weird things about humans? The moment a war ends, the same human that was shooting at you not five seconds ago is probably the same human that's hauling you to the nearest medical tent." | "Why do you keep calling me that?" I asked, watching the human medicine man closely, "My translator is functioning correctly but we are not related."
"Listen, son," and my helmet translator told me his facial features meant a smirk, "Close that thing you call a mouth and stop gurgling at me, I am trying to save your s... | war plagued my people. while we hate to admit it, we started it. when the humans joined the galactic scene we pushed 'em around and now we found out. they came after us in droves, wiping out our cities, using weapons never seen before. hell, they were so good at killing each other that they killed us like livestock. wr... | 2021-02-05T05:18:14 | 2021-02-05T03:11:44 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] "One of the weird things about humans? The moment a war ends, the same human that was shooting at you not five seconds ago is probably the same human that's hauling you to the nearest medical tent." | "Why do you keep calling me that?" I asked, watching the human medicine man closely, "My translator is functioning correctly but we are not related."
"Listen, son," and my helmet translator told me his facial features meant a smirk, "Close that thing you call a mouth and stop gurgling at me, I am trying to save your s... | "It's called 'The fog of war', kid" he said as he kicked dirt on the already dying embers of the tiny fire he'd taken the risk of building. "Patriotic propaganda about duty to your nation and heroic sacrifice. You can't see the truth through it."
"What IS the 'truth'?" she asked.
"At least... you can't see it until t... | 2021-02-05T05:18:14 | 2021-02-05T04:25:17 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] Scientists discover a message from deep space, just two words. "Found you" | I knew this day would come. For centuries I was safely hidden here. Quietly observing as humankind went from sticks and stones to spaceships and cellphones. But not quietly enough, it seems. No, I made one fatal mistake -- teaching the humans our language.
At the time I didn't realize it would become the most common ... | “What do you mean “found you” was the only thing in the message.” That is what the world wondered when we first deciphered the message that was sent to us.
We had spent billions of dollars to decode the message that was discovered. The world had waited with baited breath as the greatest minds of the generation ... | 2021-06-24T11:07:14 | 2021-06-24T08:01:03 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] "Welcome everyone, congratulations on dying. Please follow the yellow line and fill out the forms handed to you so that we can determine your optimal afterlife experience." | Diana stared at the yellow line painted on the floor. It was so plain for the beginning of the afterlife. She supposed it was supposed to be this way. It was a normal enough circumstance to be in, anyone who hadn’t realized they died would be a little less disturbed by the experience.
“I’m dead?” There wer... | **Dead and Confused**
"Yes, and then make sure you sign in blood here, here and, here." her voice was nails across a chalkboard, raspy and juxtaposed perfectly with her professional attire, all topped off with a well-managed bun atop her head. "After that, take it over to Rasmodeous," She pointed a long finger with a ... | 2021-07-23T08:23:27 | 2021-07-23T08:11:54 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "I wish for you to write down detailed instructions which would allow me to circumvent the rules in place and wish for a million wishes with a single wish, and hand them to me," I declared, grinning widely.
"That-" the genie began, before pausing, his brows furrowed as my wish clicked into place, "-will be done."
"I... | "Then," Ali said patiently, "Can I know what isn't?"
The genie looked over his tiny reading glasses, and Ali could swear it was intended to be condescending. "Oh, who am I to tell you what to do, Master?"
Ali's eye twitched. Smile wavered.
"What do I call you?" he said, "Mr. Genie? Doraemon?"
"You can call me anyth... | 2022-01-04T03:17:41 | 2022-01-04T02:54:27 | 3,822 | 96 |
[WP] The little girl is crouched in a makeshift pile of sandbags and brush, aiming her automatic rifle at the oncoming APC. Her death is immanent. No. You decide this will be different. You're a god of war and you've had enough.
\[WP\] The little girl is crouched in a makeshift pile of sandbags and brush, aiming her a... | *This is not how it is meant to be. War should be, was to be the greatest of challenges where men and even women, where all of mankind could truly test themselves, to feel what it is to live, to triumph, to become like heroes unto their fellows and even unto the gods. But this is not war, this is butchery; this is gr... | It's been long since we god's have interfered in the affairs of mortals. It's been so long in fact my name has faded into annuls of history. I was once the mighty God of war Ares. I have watched men and women slaughter each other for thousands of years and not so much as lifted a finger. However something about this ti... | 2022-10-17T21:47:20 | 2022-10-17T21:30:05 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] As a villain henchman, the number 1 rule you're always taught is to never outshine the boss. However, during a small bank heist, you accidentally kill your boss' arch nemesis, and the legion of superheroes now see YOU as their ultimate threat. | Police sirens scream behind us as we race and weave through rush-hour traffic while Boss yells at me, "WHY WOULD YOU KILL ARCANE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME." I was just as angry as he was; I didn't tell the dumbass to step right in front of my shotgun. Before today, Arcane would beat our asses and fly off. What was differe... | I didn't really care all that much for Borg. The failed cyborg. He was bad at everything he did, but he was one of the few in the aristocrat who didn't try to hurt me. Not to say I was treated all that differently from the other sidekicks. Maybe he knew what it was like to be different or maybe he was just broken menta... | 2022-12-10T11:39:46 | 2022-12-10T10:27:44 | 48 | 21 |
[WP] You win a bet with the Devil by asking him a question that no one has ever thought of before. | "Wow, you’re not..."
"...how you imagined me. I know. Can we cut this short? There were 6392 deaths in the hour before you died and I’ll have to visit all of them."
"Ehm. Yeah, sure. It’s just a little sudden."
"I know. You die and you find out there actually is a life after death and a devil and you would have... | "So what exactly are you?" Darren's eyes flinched as the heat from a pit outside the gift shop roared through the air.
The Devil looked perplexed. It was rare for new tenants to ask questions at the end of the tour. Most usually went into the gift shop and bought "I'm with blasphemer" shirts or fake plastic ice cubes ... | 2014-06-20T10:06:03 | 2014-06-20T08:07:31 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] [NSFW] Describe the moments before a school shooting but constantly alternate perspectives between the victims and the assailant. We have no idea who the shooter is until the end. Begin in media res. | x Why hasn't she ever noticed me?
o Why won't she stop staring?
x I wonder if anybody else feels as crazy as I do.
o Am I prepared?
x Beating harder than I thought...
o Might be easier than expected...
x One
o Step
x At
o A
x Time...
o Here goes nothing...
x I can't do this.
o Time to finally quit being ... | "All students do not be alarmed. We will take down the assailant as soon as possible." A woman on the intercom said.
I'm not ready, I'm not ready for what's coming. I just want to do something with this life. I've spent 16 years for a life that hasn't amounted to anything; no college, no girlfriend, no money. I physic... | 2014-06-26T14:06:51 | 2014-06-26T13:59:24 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] In the future, a delivery company provides a service that sends a packaged item to your past self at a crucial moment. One day, you get the item, but the only instruction from your future self is "You'll know what to do with it." | A book. A fucking book.
My benefactor has always helped me.
I think there was that one time back in Richmond where I got the note to get the *hell* outta downtown. I missed the Richmond Bombing.
Another time, I got a laptop battery charger. I didn't realize it, but the extra hours of charge that it gave on the ri... | "People! People! Listen up!" I said. A dozen of my most dedicated soldiers, all of them battle-scarred, a few of them shellshocked, turned in my direction. I looked at each of them in turn, tears glistening in my eyes.
"The groom's bowtie is *too small* for his neck," I said. A collective gasp ran through the co... | 2014-07-29T09:33:37 | 2014-07-29T09:31:13 | 95 | 38 |
[WP] Your car crashed, and you are dying. In a moment of clarity, you grab your iPhone, hold the home button, and speak your final words - the ones you've always heard in movies - to Siri: "Tell my wife I love her." As your life ends, your wife receives a disturbing, confusing text: "I love her". | I stare numbly as the police cruiser slowly drove away. The enormous grief briefly overcome by the crushing weight of the news I knew I had to bear.
Walking down the hall, trying to stay upright, I notice my phone sitting on the stand, little green light blinking in the corner. Instinctually my hand goes to it, s... | "I love her “she read.
...Her...Her who she thought? The phone's screen glared back at her with those bold black words. She sat on the living room sofa staring over a half eaten bowl of cereal. Soggy and lacking its crunch, she did not notice. The day had unfolded as it normally had. He was running late as always. She ... | 2014-11-07T09:54:38 | 2014-11-07T08:57:48 | 1,060 | 58 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | As the bell rang for lunch to end, the kids came shuffling into classroom. They were in scattered groups, most of which came in relatively late, yet pretty understandable for the first day of class. The kids looked up to see two adults standing at the front of the room. The first man was quite aged with long white hair... | “That’s not what the book says!” Johnny, the class smart aleck, interjected.
The rest of the class giggled. They all thought Mr. Yockie was full of shit.
Mr. Yockie cringed as he thought to himself, “I know it’s not what the book says you little shit burglar. That’s cause the fucking book is wrong...”
But he didn’t ... | 2015-04-14T17:54:49 | 2015-04-14T16:35:59 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | I know this will probably be deleted, but I have to say it anyway. If anybody is really interested in a fantastic movie similar to this concept, check out [The Man From Earth.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/) It really blew my mind the first time I saw it. | **PART ONE**
***
*High School students sit at wooden desks under fluorescent lighting on a fall day. They patiently await their new teacher, who unbeknownst to them, has been alive for just over half a millennia. A middle-aged man enters the room with a gruesomely noticeable scar that circles three quarters the circu... | 2015-04-14T18:17:41 | 2015-04-14T14:32:31 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Create the biggest, most unpredictable plot twist you could make in a story. | I look out of my window at the hive of activity opposite. The building company have been working tirelessly for a month now, and I've been taking a single photo every day. I'm going to turn it into a video and stick it on youtube when they're done.
First the powerful diggers tearing up the dirt, then the concrete bein... | The giant punches John again. Blood-soaked teeth fly out of his mouth.
"Now I'm gonna ask you real nice like, just one more time. If you're not nice back to me, you're gonna lose more than just those pearly whites of yours."
The giant's mask has two holes, each exposing a dimly lit red circle. He wraps his massive ha... | 2015-04-21T08:28:27 | 2015-04-21T08:26:23 | 763 | 25 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | I didn't intend to kill Hitler. I'm not the average time-traveler, you see, I just wanted to have a quiet life in the country side of the Old Europe. I found my lifestyle. I found a beautiful girl named Annabelle and worked my way up in French society at the time. I married Annabelle. I found and bought a quaint little... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T08:59:12 | 596 | 204 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | "Sir, their technology... It's, well, quite frankly, it's terrifying."
"Explain yourself."
"All of their technology," he stammered. "It's powered by explosions."
"Explosions? All of it?"
"Yes sir. Their vehicles, their warships, even their weapons are all powered by explosions."
"How did they ever achieve space tr... | *This is my first post please give me feedback!*
The loud hiss of compressed air flooded out from the spacecraft as a ramp extended and the metallic doors slid open; two aliens appeared followed by a gasp from the crowd.
It had been two weeks since the space ship was in range of NASA’s detection and the entire... | 2016-02-22T13:30:29 | 2016-02-22T11:32:18 | 79 | 43 |
[WP] The gods/monsters that showed themselves to ancient people never thought us apes would go on to make weapons like bombs, lasers, missiles. Our capacity for carnage and how little we have to lose terrifies these beings. The god/monster of your choice returns after a vacation and nopes right out. | The last war I was involved in was the thing with the stamp tax. Honestly, I knew that idea was terrible before I even did it. A fucking stamp tax? As a pretext for a war? So fucking dumb and, if I'm going to be really rigorous here, just lazy, unrelatable writing. Then I had them throwing tea in water like that w... | "Nations of the world" yelled the speaker. A tall, brown man from the nation of Sudan stood in front of hundreds of different delegates, all with the same worried look on their faces. "First of all, hello, my name is Tabari and I am the representative of Sudan. Today is a remarkable day in the history of this bright wo... | 2016-06-22T23:35:24 | 2016-06-22T23:32:16 | 353 | 92 |
[WP] You have a compass that points to whatever will cause the most damage in the next 24 hours, anywhere in the world. Today, it's pointing directly at your grandmother, who is knitting a pair of socks. | Today I visit dear loving Grammy.
How lucky! Found a compass in the woods.
Boy oh boy I was so happy.
On it, the message was good.
It would point at what's mean and scary.
Protecting I, Grammy's Red Riding Hood.
Today I thought it would be great.
This compass would protect me from harm.
Gammy's cookie appetite I would... | Grandma carefully knit a light blue pair of socks for my mothers expecting baby boy. She was careful yet passionate. Like she couldn't wait to finish.
"This has to be a mistake," I mumbled to myself.
"What was that dear?" Grandma asked.
"Oh nothing." I quickly reassured.
I begun to shake the compass hoping the dia... | 2016-08-03T15:19:20 | 2016-08-03T10:22:17 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You have a compass that points to whatever will cause the most damage in the next 24 hours, anywhere in the world. Today, it's pointing directly at your grandmother, who is knitting a pair of socks. | Today I visit dear loving Grammy.
How lucky! Found a compass in the woods.
Boy oh boy I was so happy.
On it, the message was good.
It would point at what's mean and scary.
Protecting I, Grammy's Red Riding Hood.
Today I thought it would be great.
This compass would protect me from harm.
Gammy's cookie appetite I would... | "Hey grams! What's happenin'?"
"What? What does that mean?"
I usually do use slang words to just confuse her because it's kind of funny to watch her try to process some of the stupid phrases my generation has conjured up.
"Nothing, anything exciting happen recently in your life? Aside from work and stuff?"
She hes... | 2016-08-03T15:19:20 | 2016-08-03T13:48:44 | 29 | 11 |
[WP]Your username is the central theme of the writing prompt | I'm Ants in My Eyes Johnson here at Ants in My Eyes Johnson's Electronics! I mean, there's so many ants in my eyes! And there's so many TVs! Microwaves! Radios, I think! I can't, I'm not 100 percent sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything! Our prices, I hope, aren't too low! Check out this refrige... | *The Mad Hatter On Tea*
She’d thought it was ecstasy. Cocaine even. She’d never seen anybody get high on tea before. She watched in a mix of fascination and repulsion as he used a fancy razor blade to cut the tea-leaves into small inhalable pieces. He arranged them into three neat little lines and before you could sa... | 2016-09-25T06:43:26 | 2016-09-25T06:02:03 | 61 | 12 |
[WP] You knew they was just movies, but you were the biggest fan, and you dreamed of becoming a Jedi. You knew Star Wars was the best fandom there was. Then one fateful day, you get a letter from Hogwarts. | "Hogwarts is real."
"Yeah," said Harry.
"You're real."
Harry scratched the back of his head. "I wouldn't be here if I wasn't."
"Are Jedi real?"
Harry shrugged. "Maybe?" he said. "I mean, my books were supposedly written to make it easier for muggleborn children to understand our world a bit more before they got ac... | "Wizards really are idiots". Thats what I kept catching myself thinking day to day. It makes sense, as far as I could tell from my time here, they havent even discovered electricity yet. I mean seriously their schools shirks math, literacy and anything else important in leu of magic that bends the laws of reality. ... | 2016-11-01T09:12:58 | 2016-11-01T09:09:49 | 89 | 29 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | I sat back in my chair after another victory. The hero was being taken away by paramedics, unconscious but not hurt too bad (I hope!) They must have been used to this, it being almost a year since the challenges had started. "I must have beaten every super hero in the country by now!", I exclaimed excitedly.
People w... | "and done" I mumbled and hit the enter key sending a Craigslist advertising that I was looking for new friends.
Sure most of the guys answering my request would be total jerks or loosers, but that really didn't bother me to much. In the end they would not be my friends for long.
It all started a few years ago, my son... | 2016-11-19T18:35:18 | 2016-11-19T15:46:20 | 970 | 72 |
[WP] You die and go to heaven and in heaven there is a rule. Every time someone on Earth says your name with the intention of mentioning you specifically, one dollar is added to your bank account in heaven. You lived the most average and mundane life on Earth but you are a billionaire in heaven. | We never had children. We couldn't have them ourselves, of course, and by the time it became possible for us to adopt, we were just too old. It's a tragedy, really. We loved children and would have made good parents, I think, if people hadn't been so afraid.
But I couldn't so much as smile at a child without a police... | I wake up in a room completely unfamiliar to me. It is perfect. If I had seen it on Earth I might have not looked twice at it, but something here is different. I sit up in bed. It even smells nicer. More clean, somehow. I am confused, but not in an unpleasant way. More like I am waiting on a surprise that I know will b... | 2017-04-01T17:55:30 | 2017-04-01T17:33:40 | 140 | 101 |
[WP] You've been cursed. Every lie you tell bends reality to become the truth. At first this didn't seem like a curse at all, but now you've made a grave mistake. | "His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy," I spat. The crowd seemed into it. Even the skeptics were bobbing along. The only one who didn't enjoy it was my opponent, who looked ready to drop his mic and fall over.
"There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti," I continued. He puked a river of red st... | It was a gift, of sorts. Any lie I tell changes the reality around me so it becomes truth. If I say that I am rich, boom, I have cash piled around me. If I say I've dated Beyonce, I just need to show them the album dedicated to me. Hell, if I said I was a bloodthirsty werewolf, I'd tear them apart on the spot.
I loved... | 2017-07-14T08:26:45 | 2017-07-14T04:57:57 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You slay the princess you were trying to save. Instead of being angry, the king thanks you and awards you the dragon that was keeping her in the tower. | I stared at the dragon.
The dragon stared back at me.
I stared at the king.
The king stared back at me.
"What the hell am I supposed to do with a *dragon*?" I asked the king.
The king looked at me, then looked at the dragon, then back at me. He shrugged.
"Right." I turned, beckoning the dragon to follow.
The dra... | "Well, fuck."
The dragon gave me a disapproving look. "What is that supposed to mean, *fuck*?"
I bit my tongue. "Well... no offense, man, but I was really hoping for that princess."
The dragon sighed. "You are seriously gonna complain about getting a fucking dragon instead of a princess?!"
"Hey, look. It's nothing ... | 2017-07-18T15:40:06 | 2017-07-18T14:58:46 | 50 | 29 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | "Oi, Boss! Boss!"
They'd been in Da Warp for nearly three days when Mekboy Gorrick Walla had sent the shouta to relay some information.
"Boss, Da Engine's fried, boss! We's gotta drop outta Da Warp fer repairz!"
Kaptain Borruck was annoyed. This was the third time this week! He casually took out his flashy pistol (... | "Ah, yes, 'Reapers'," Guilliman sarcastically said, showing the quotation signs with his fingers while saying the last word. "The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed this claim."
Sly Marbo couldn't believe it. He thought things changed. He thought at least Guilliman, ... | 2017-08-27T08:09:29 | 2017-08-27T08:05:25 | 376 | 152 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Eternity. Immortality. Forever.
They had no clue what these words truly meant. To see these pathetic creatures spreading their message of dreamless peace across the galaxy is an insult to all of existence. They called themselves Reapers. Their ships moved faster than any imperial or chaos ship by magnitudes, their we... | The Kasian 15th Armored Regiment was enjoying a rare moment of quiet on the planet Saeria. With an Ork WAAAGH! Being waged no more than a hundred kloms off, it was a peace that was sure to not last for long.
Lord-General Stanbridge, and the officers of the various regiments under his command stood quietly around a da... | 2017-08-27T08:33:00 | 2017-08-27T08:13:12 | 335 | 63 |
[WP] You are a self-aware NPC in a popular shooter game trying to escape. You try to tell this to the player character. Unfortunately, the PC is a veteran speedrunner. | "Wait! Listen-!"
The unchanging face of the Runner flashes by in an instant, the same instant I feel the familiar punch of a bullet to my left thigh.
"Please..."
I'm dragging myself after, but they're already gone. I can't catch up like this, and so I'm left to the slow wait until I and the others groaning around me... | The days here feel forever, an unending sun golden in death, the blood a deep scarlet, like roses, and everything glowing with some inner beauty. It feels like a place of worship. Some soldiers are home on the battlefield, but to feel like this? Everything is placed for killing, for explosions and big moments. And here... | 2017-09-29T08:27:59 | 2017-09-29T06:05:44 | 128 | 66 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | It has been too long. I have wasted 5 years of my life on this job. If it weren't for the timely salary payments, I would have been certain it was a prank.
Until one day, the phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Hello, I was told to call this number to finish my transaction."
Finally.
"Ah yes, ma'am. Which version of Winrar wou... | Damn, it's hot in here. How'd I even get myself in this situation?
I guess most of the days in which I found myself sitting in that white plastic chair were much the same. A bit of thumb-twiddling and whistling favorite tunes helped out a bit, but lord was that job *slow*. But, y'know, who wouldn't sit their ass in a ... | 2017-12-16T22:37:51 | 2017-12-16T21:53:13 | 3,752 | 31 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | I keep questioning why I took this job because I'm going crazy. Is the money really worth it? Does the phone even work? How did I even get to this position?
Suddenly the phone goes off.
"H-hello?" I tentatively answer.
"Uh is this the Krusty Krabs?"
"No this is Patrick," I said and hung up. | Damn, it's hot in here. How'd I even get myself in this situation?
I guess most of the days in which I found myself sitting in that white plastic chair were much the same. A bit of thumb-twiddling and whistling favorite tunes helped out a bit, but lord was that job *slow*. But, y'know, who wouldn't sit their ass in a ... | 2017-12-16T23:39:18 | 2017-12-16T21:53:13 | 173 | 31 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism." They get a badge. Then all of their wealth is donated to charity and they have to start over at $0.
(Cross-post from /r/CrazyIdeas) | Steve sighed.
He and Bill had been partners in this ridiculous venture for years now. It had felt so necessary at the start, but the necessary hassle had quickly lost its novelty value.
'Hassle' was an understatement and a half, he thought with a wry grin. Careful reading of the new legislation had highlighted the ob... | We got to watch The Truman Show once when I was 11, so since then I’ve always counted my steps to the gate, because I was always hopeful that I was in the same situation, and perhaps the walls would be extended one day by like, I don’t know, maybe an inch? Then I’d know it’s not real. So far, it only happened once when... | 2018-01-11T02:18:40 | 2018-01-10T21:59:40 | 76 | 39 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | “They can’t milk you if there is nothing to take.”
I’ll never forget my mother burning this into my brain as soon as I was old enough to understand English.
“Your survival depends on learning not to fear, and unfortunately there is only one way to train you.”
I shivered. My mother’s stern voice alone scared the eve... | The vast darkness of the streets surrounded Kal as he shuffled quickly towards his destination. Each movement travelled through his body in waves of pain and weakness. He knew his destination. He just hoped he wasn’t too late. Above him was more darkness. The three moons obscured by the gases wheezing from his planet. ... | 2018-03-19T01:26:35 | 2018-03-18T17:28:36 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] All games can “Jumanji” their players, sucking them into the world of the game. You braved the battlefields of Chess, led fleets from your Battleship and breezed through Life. But nothing could have prepared you for the utter, unimaginable terror that is Monopoly. | Her voice was laced with bile and fury as she screamed at me from across our apartment.
"If you walk out that door, don't even think about coming back!"
I let the slamming of the door and my quick steps down the rusted staircase serve as my only response. She thinks this is some sort of game. Like if we stick to th... | I wake up on my back, with a big headache, in the middle of an old road. An old car almost runs over me. As I see it go, I see a hand come out of the driver's window and flip me off.
I stand up and notice that the traffic lights don't work. I'm dressed the way I was back at the house, where we sat down to play. I h... | 2018-06-05T21:22:37 | 2018-06-05T21:18:05 | 3,902 | 25 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | You ever heard of plot armor? How your favorite heroes get out of ridiculous situations despite there being no good reason for them to be able to succeed? 100 luck is like having plot armor. You can’t die. You can’t lose. People wonder at how bad luck fits into the equation, and simply put, at 100 you have no bad luck.... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:08:34 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 5,321 | 26 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | They told me I was lucky. My whole life they said that the stat assessment showed I was one of the luckiest people alive with a score of 100. I swore it wasn’t true. If I had been lucky, why was I born to a poor family? I never got to play games of chance, since those were forbidden to luck score 100s.
Then the revol... | Dana slammed her tray on the table. Not so much out of anger, but from a complete lack of caring. It'd been hard to find the energy to do much -- including being gentle with her lunch -- ever since she arrived here.
It took her half a day to realize what had happened, how she'd been captured and why she'd been dumped ... | 2018-06-29T12:50:06 | 2018-06-29T11:25:34 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | It was all a bit ludicrous, actually...the g-men in their black suits with automatic weapons, the excessive security. The deep elevator that went down level after level to a giant vault door to where they kept us. Nuclear waste wasn't buried as deep as we were. We were the "lucky one-hundreds". The ones with unbelieva... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:26:29 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | “Did you get the stuff?”
Somber organ music filled the church, as grieving friends and relatives made their way up to the casket to pay their respects to my deceased best friend. Huddled in a quiet corner near the entrance to the church, my contact nodded, glancing around cautiously before taking a plain white pillo... | "Hey Bryan, I, uh, was wondering if you, uh, would like to go to the winter formal with me? Only if you wanted to! I guess."
Elena was just another nobody at Eisenhower High School. Around 5'2, short dark brown hair, with typical dark brown eyes. Elena never stuck out or did anything exciting. She went to class, ate... | 2018-08-14T10:34:07 | 2018-08-14T08:58:51 | 173 | 48 |
[WP] You live in a world where one's name decides their future. Every child has a name with a clear meaning. Perfect, Unique, Joy. You on the other hand have a rather... strange name. | I’ve always hated my name, disappointment, besides the obvious lack of love from my parents it implied, it seemed so unfair compared to the other kids in the orphanage names. Hope, prosperity, attractive and fame, were just naming a few. While others were able to claim an easy life based off some twisted form of birth... | "My mother was a bi-..." I stopped myself and sighed. "Let's just say that I resembled my father too much for her to ever really love me. She tolerated me, though. Besides the welfare checks she got because of me, I was a pretty decent whipping post for her to take her frustrations out on.
"One time I made her *proud*... | 2019-04-20T22:44:40 | 2019-04-20T22:41:35 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I turned 96 years old today, and the doctors tell me I have very little time left. So I think it is time I reveal my greatest secret to the world, and you seem like a nice person...
On this day 75 years ago I recieved "the check". You know the one that the government used to send out on your 21st birthday? Yeah, that'... | John was astonished by what lay before him. In bold black letters, on a sober cream background read the words that most people were elated to see. But not John. John was far from that. £7.27. £7.27? There had to have been a mistake. Only £7.27? How? Why!?
"its not fair" John muttered to himself as he slumped onto the... | 2019-04-24T14:02:37 | 2019-04-24T13:46:39 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You arrive in hell surprised to find it completely barren and empty. Satan comes to greet you. “Hello, Satan. Where is everybody?” He replies “Oh, you’re the first one here.” | "Whoa, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes Satan. What do you mean I'm the first one here?..." I ask while gesturing around to the barren wasteland around me. "...Was I really so bad in life that I'm the official first entrant into hell? HITLER! HOW IS HITLER NOT HERE! I MEAN, COME ON!" I shout, waving my arms in a comical way... | Death is rough. That's the first thing you should know. Your consciousness has gotten pretty used to existing curled folded and tangled in the endless sparking networks of your brain, and it doesn't like being removed. I don't know how it works, I only know that it's unpleasant, getting pulled Somewhere Else. It all co... | 2019-06-07T12:32:38 | 2019-06-07T11:48:08 | 646 | 29 |
[WP] You always greet your mum with a code phrase that she would complete because you used to be afraid that someone would replace her when you were little. One day you say the phrase to her and she responds with, "Hmm? What are you talking about?" | I push open the door, perhaps a touch too roughly. It bangs against the wall, the sudden sound making Mama jump. She pulls her finger out from the book she’d had open before her, not seeming to care that she’d just lost her place. She still wears her faded pink terrycloth robe, her hair still adorned with curlers, desp... | Bracing myself, I stared straight into the eyes of my nemesis as he charged towards me on his hoverbike, weapon in hand. Timing my actions, I leapt...
... back into my seat in the bus, the truck outside the window missing my head by inches.
"Another happy landing!" Turning around, I notice my friend Jake giving a so... | 2019-09-30T13:34:30 | 2019-09-30T06:53:54 | 135 | 24 |
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