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[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | *This place sucks.*
That was all Yuki thought when she walked through the doors of the office building. The work was mundane and easy, so long as she refrained herself from throat-punching her co-workers. Most all of them were annoying as hell, though Yuki didn't blame them.
At one point, Yuki was sure, that these pe... | It was 5:30 AM. My 1969 Ferrari 512S Berlinetta raced down the highway. It was that time of the night, where the darkness was slowly fading to day, where the pitch black almost had a tinge of light to it. You couldn't see this in a city, which is why I was flying through the Tehachapi Pass. Well, that wasn't *the* reas... | 2019-03-04T09:23:43 | 2019-03-04T08:49:15 | 121 | 48 |
[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 stared at the blood dripping from my finger, shocked. I'd always tried to be good-- always volunteered, always helped people I saw that were in need. I around at the other patrons in the coffee shop I sat in, but nobody seemed to notice someone as old as I, hunched over in a back corner. I brought my withered finger ... | 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... | 2018-08-04T10:51:37 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] A husband and wife have lost their passion for each other. Secretly, they both look to have an affair online, creating secret identities. They meet each other online, and really hit it off. After a few days of talking, they decide to meet in person for the first time. | Silence reigned over this end of the restaurant. Neither one of them seemed able or willing to start any kind of conversation. They'd probably sat there for half an hour already. Bob just glared at the ceiling lazily. Sophie stared at other people. A couple across the room was having a wonderful evening. She missed tha... | "You're cheating on me?" he asked indignantly.
"No, I'm not. I'm cheating *with* you, apparently," she replied.
"It's not cheating if we don't do something."
"Fine." She pulled a set of handcuffs out of her purse, lashed one side to his wrist and the other to her own. "Now let's go do something."
His eyes widened,... | 2017-03-12T19:06:37 | 2017-03-12T17:48:31 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The villain created a device that disabled the superhero's power. Now the hero stands in front of the villain, but instead of fighting them, the hero is thanking the villain with tears in their eyes. | "I need some time to process this..." I said as First Strike flexed his wrists in front of me. I had thought I'd make him powerless, but for him to thank me was just too much to handle.
"Grab a cup of tea, Doctor Labyrinth and I'll explain." He pulled back his hood and revealed a face with wrinkles under the eyes and ... | Read and translate all languages. The power that a lot of people say it's weak and poor enough to didn't bet a second eye. I would agree if they weren't so wrong.
"Say Alchemist! You really are a pain in the ass with your godly powers, but you too are very dependable of them!" Raven touch the ground and the dirty turn... | 2022-11-24T19:08:35 | 2022-11-24T09:11:18 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You've been a gravedigger for 20 so years. Each coffin obtains a button that'll alert you if pressed. A buzzer goes off years after the burial of a coffin. | *BUZZ*
"Hey, let me in."
*BUZZ*
*BUZZ*
"Carol, it's John let me up."
"One second," Carol screeched through the old apartment radio box outside.
*click*
The door unlocked and John made his way into the building. Dry mud and dirt flaked off of his boots onto the worn tile floors, as he made his way up to Carol's s... | **That foggy night the chilling sound of the living dead sent shivers down my spine.**
Roger Turner is my name, I am a gravedigger with two decades of experience buried inside me. No one comes close to me in that field, that's why I work alone in Dreamsbury Graveyard, Ominous City's only graveyard... now that I think... | 2017-07-02T20:41:02 | 2017-07-02T20:15:08 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, there is no heaven or hell. You just get rated on a scale of 1-100 of how much of an assole you were in your life and get thrown together with all the other people with the same rating.
Posted this a while ago, got some upvotes but no storys, so I'm trying again. | 100. 100? 100!
"That couldn't be right." Ben muttered to himself.
"Oh it is, I don't make mistakes." The old man behind the large mahogany desk said with a deep calming voice. "There's not many of you but there are a special few that certainly belong in Room 100."
"But what did I do to deserve this? Can I a... | I lifted my foot. Under it was a strawberry, leaking a delicate but heavenly scent. The perfect red was hardly marred by the fact that it was quite crushed. All around me was a garden, with a narrow path of gravel winding artfully through it. I suspected at the end I would see a charming welcome mat below a discreet... | 2021-12-19T23:14:58 | 2021-12-19T20:34:57 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] You found her on your doorstep, a fairy shivering from the cold and the pain, her delicate wings broken and torn. You take her into your workshop, and she tells her story as you craft her a new pair of clockwork wings | I picked up the tiny fae, careful not to crush her in my grasp. How one of her kind had found her way to my doorstep, I couldn’t imagine. I hadn’t even truly believed they even existed. It had only been a half-belief, the kind kept out of a desire for a little sense of wonder in the normal drudgery of the world. Her me... | "Thunder claps politely for the Fairy of the Stage, and buildings lend their stories to the Fairy of the Page. Ice and snow will hail the reign of Fairies of the Kings, and lightning bolts are building blocks to Fairies of Machines."
The strange, almost-translucent fairy nodded to me, even as I screwed a lightning bol... | 2020-07-09T17:58:46 | 2020-07-09T17:56:36 | 159 | 28 |
[WP] Someone makes an anonymous book publish, the book is called "Everything Is a weapon. -By Humans", it immediatly becomes a best seller, it becomes a required read when entering any alien military and a must read for every alien interested in self-defense. | “And besides your required reading, fitness is another absolute must for cadets. And because of that, every morning…” the cadre droned on.
Con stopped paying attention. His attention was focused on the holoscreen in front of him, glowing lightly with the list of scripts, ancient texts, books and other written materia... | "Don't crush the skull of your enemy if you are planning to drink from it later" X'ona cited. "'Everything is a Weapon', of course".
Of course, we thought. Pretentious prick, always wrongly citing the "Weapon", talking like they understand humans at all. Our partial-parent was an expert on human tactics but as usual w... | 2021-11-30T09:42:13 | 2021-11-30T06:02:44 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Like Spider-Man, you have a built-in "danger sense", but instead of alerting you of danger, it stops time around you until you're out of danger. One day, time stops suddenly, and as usual, you tried to move until time continues again, but after an hour of walking, time is still frozen. | "think Patrick, think", I tell myself as I walk around the frozen streets.
This isn't the first time this happened. Hell, it it isn't even the first time this week. My sense has been triggering more often as I grew older. I guess mundane slips and falls become more dangerous when osteoporosis starts to set in. Last M... | This is getting weird thought Sam, as he rounded another corner and saw the view. People, cars, animals, even birds had completely stopped where they were, frozen in time.
Now this wasn't an unusual situation per se, Sam had had this happen a few times in the past. The close call with the car, the time he nearly fell ... | 2020-11-12T10:47:32 | 2020-11-12T10:20:44 | 66 | 28 |
[WP] You're pretty sure your crush's parents are the head family of a local mob. You decided it's worth the risk, and ask ur crush out anyways. Pretty early on in the date, you realize that they, not their parents, are the mastermind behind the mob's activities. | I didn't know what i was getting myself into. I'm just barely getting my feet in this college town and i did something stupid like asking a girl out. Not just any girl either, my lab partner for the year. Not just any lab partner, but a local politicians daughter. A politican tied up in racketeering charges. Great. He ... | Italian. Grouchy. Appear to have blown up the old police station. Probably did.
Traditional.
Walking up to their door, I try and imagine the worst case scenario. I’m 16, just a normal guy asking out my lab partner. I mean, if the parents are home worst case scenario they send a death threat.
Or shoot me in the mi... | 2018-10-19T08:29:31 | 2018-10-19T06:47:15 | 1,244 | 62 |
[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. | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 501 | 236 |
[WP] You are a student in the most prestigious magic academy in the kingdom. No one knows how you got in, sure you have amazing magic potential, but you’re “magic blind” meaning you can only feel the presence of magic and not see any magic. | It was a gloomy Tuesday afternoon when I first laid eyes on Atlas. I couldn't help but feel as though his genetics betrayed the weight of his name. I wouldn't say he was scrawny, but *nobody* would call him imposing. He was thin, on the smaller side, and held his books against his chest like a girl as he waited for the... | "Fools like you are a dime a dozen", quipped the ancient looking professor as I sat down in the chair across from his desk.
"It's the same story every year - some jumped up little runt gets *the tingle* and is shipped off to fulfil his or hers' ultimate destiny at this damned school. I'm of some mind to just send you... | 2021-10-24T09:52:41 | 2021-10-24T09:26:05 | 304 | 62 |
[WP]"Why are you just standing there and where is your uniform?! You are here to serve the demon king and we can't have someone incompetent like you, get moving!". I knew I hadn't met most of my lower-ranked generals so he must not recognize me. No matter I want to see how this will play out. | "Why are you just standing there and where is your uniform?! You are here to serve the demon king and we can't have someone incompetent like you, get moving!"
I must admit, I froze. Could he truly not recognize me? I, the great Demon King? The Scourge of the Darklands? The Terror of the Forty Lakes? The - well, now th... | The figure was more snarling than speaking. Spittle flying from his lips with every word turning more violent and belligerent. The demon general of some meaningless rank was clad in platemail, only his bright red face and horns gave him away. His eyes glowed yellow and as he approached, with every step his claws began ... | 2022-11-14T05:50:36 | 2022-11-14T03:40:14 | 806 | 136 |
[WP] You're the worst adventurer in history. You've made every imaginable mistake and have had little to no success in quests or dungeons. So you decide to set up a school to teach new adventures what not to do. Your graduates have gone on to be elite adventurers making your school famous. | “Alright team,” I said to my new party of rookies, “this is a fairly easy dungeon. In fact, one of the easiest. I’ll be guiding everyone through this course, and we’ll make sure we *all* know the basics before we tackle the higher-level dungeons. Got it?”
Five new recruits nodded back at me.
I’ve been a graduate from... | Turns out that I am the luckiest adventurer in history. I am the only adventurer to get out of Redfire the angry dragon's lair alive. No one has ever succeeded in ransacking it and no one has ever gotten out alive, until I did. The path that I discovered to the secret Troll market only led to a high ledge where I could... | 2022-08-02T20:42:09 | 2022-08-02T20:31:10 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "Okay, sit down," God said, lighting a cigarette and crossing his legs. "You gotta tell me how you did it. I mean the
whole thing was a mess and now it's just… just…"
"The word you're looking for is perfect," I said. "The universe is perfect."
"Yes. Perfect."
"Divine. Wonderful. Flawless."
"You've made your point.... | After reading the paper again, I couldn't take all the hypocrisy and ignorance in the world. I slammed my fist on the table and grunted, "if only I could run the world for a day" something I've said for years now. I glanced up from an article I wasn't very interested in to see a very irritated man looking at me.
"Can ... | 2017-03-05T02:12:38 | 2017-03-05T02:02:16 | 1,196 | 65 |
[WP] Humanity was excited to explore the cosmos, and what do we find? Bottom of Venus, crabs. Alpha Centauri, crabs. Andromeda, intelligent crabs. Floating in the middle of nowhere? Space crabs. | The universe is full of crabs. Humanity shouldn't have been surprised, really. After all, their home world was, in so many ways, one big ball of exceptions to the rule. Helium, for example, is the second most common element in the entire universe, but it's relatively rare, on Earth.
While Earth could be said to have a... | The first time we saw the space crabs, we thought they were harmless. They floated around in the nothingness, bumping into our ship and each other. But then we started to notice that they were getting inside. They would sneak in through the vents and crawl into people's beds while they were sleeping. We would find them... | 2022-04-12T20:57:30 | 2022-04-12T19:20:01 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] Torrents mysteriously start appearing online for movies that haven't even begun filming yet. They are complete films using the planned script and cast (who have no knowledge of filming it) and the industry is desperate to find out where they are coming from, and more importantly - why? | "It's time travel, isn't it?"
I sighed. I was getting sick of this question. Here I was, standing in a room in front of all the head honchos of the biggest movie studios, and they couldn't get over the idea of time travel. Trust the moviemakers to have overactive imaginations.
I rubbed my forehead wearily and ... | Water dripped from the pipes, landing on the cold concrete. The only light sources was the old lightbulb, dangling from it's chain, flickering, shining the stairs leading up to the overworld. The other was the computer monitor as it's buzzing rhymed with the quick tapping of the keyboard.
A pale, lanky, creature sat o... | 2014-12-08T03:22:06 | 2014-12-08T03:10:56 | 245 | 26 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | Quick edit for readability: a lot of comments are telling me the time skips aren't showing up on mobile, since you can't see the break lines. So I'll just add in dates.
Westminster Palace, 2050
Rodney Bradley eased himself to a stand and felt a series of clicks in his left knee. He straightened his back to a chorus o... | James Wright tapped his finger on the desk absently.
Another dead end. He had made a career out of following the royal families movements and reporting any peculiarities.
Why they never seem to age was easily waved away in the way of Hollywood stars. Lotions, potions and the best doctors money could buy.
However ... | 2022-09-28T19:15:05 | 2018-07-09T01:29:27 | 1,931 | 37 |
[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... | The Nine Kings were a sort of urban legend. Eight powerful enigmas uniting under a truce to lord their power over the people with Number 1. The higher your rank, the more political influence you had over the city, and even the world.
Take Mason, a red-headed hothead with eyes of amber, for example. Mason was ranked 9... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T13:33:39 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 77 | 18 |
[WP] A dragon has kidnapped many princesses and many knights have gone to rescue them. When they get there the dragon always groans and gives back the princess willingly. Turns out this dragon doesn't really care about the princess, she's looking for the perfect knight to wed. | “Dragon!” came the deep, powerful voice, “I am Sir Nathon of the Ironwood, and I give you now this chance, release Lady Salora immediately, or I’ll be forced to come up there and issue the king’s justice upon you!”
“Ugh…” the storm dragon groaned in annoyance, she poked her head over the rim of her roost to get a look... | I finally met the love of my life. I just took some random princess. Her parents didn't seem to be bothered when I took her. They were kind of relieved.
The princess and I have been living together for a while now. I've gotten to know her habits and her schedule. She wakes up at the break of dawn, grooms herself, mak... | 2020-06-02T01:26:05 | 2020-06-02T01:21:01 | 37 | 27 |
[WP] "It's simple, really. You just buy a haunted house for cheap from a desperate seller, finish the ghost's unfinished business - or deal with whatever it is keeping them bound to this plane - and then just sell the property for a profit." | The ghost hung among the cobwebbed eaves of the old house, tracking the progress of a too familiar van up the driveway. Things faded for the dead. Life turned to distant memory like the setting of the sun and only the most important things remained.
For the ghost in the eaves that was the car and the lithe, waifish wo... | The Belgian medium, X. Hervé, looks about the foyer of the stately home. The widow, a Mme. Fournier, wears a black lace veil over her face, but Hervé has seen enough of her unlined hands to understand she’s young to be a widow.
He takes his time as he peruses the rooms of the ground floor. There is a particularly spl... | 2021-02-12T06:03:40 | 2021-02-12T04:34:51 | 756 | 258 |
[WP] "Shh, it's alright," the villain said. "You've done beautifully and I'm so proud of you. But that's enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me - you could never have won. It's not your fault."
Inspired by [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/comfypasta/comments/hhc2pi/shh_its_alright/) post. | To complete her quest, she had to wade a terrible path through a sea of blood. Much of it was regrettably innocent. But it was necessary. And today, more innocent blood was on her hands. It had been a terrible battle, horrible and long. The hero's blade had carved through her armour like it was mere butter, the hero ha... | She surprised even herself, holding the young Knight tenderly in her arms, whispering words of comfort as the blood flowed, dark and free, from the wound in his chest.
"These men whom you revere, whom you *trust*." She shook her head, her curtain of dark hair swinging around her head. "How cruel."
"Enough." The Knig... | 2020-06-28T18:02:18 | 2020-06-28T17:14:32 | 340 | 182 |
[WP] The hero defeated the dragon sorceress, rescued the princess, and saved the kingdom. Instead of ascending to the throne, he decided to introduce democracy and give power to the people...who then promptly elected the dragon sorceress. | In the old system, it was hard for the common man to have a say in anything. As a child I had seen too often the common folk's cries for relief or fair representation often go ignored at best. If you wanted to gain recognition as a commoner, to have your words mean something, you had to have done something those of hig... | Sitting down at a table with Agrezza the Dragon was not how I envisioned this would end.
"*I am an adult that can control his feelings, when I made the decision to introduce them to democracy I was aware this could happen,"* I thought to myself. But it was especially hard to keep thinking those thoughts when the Drago... | 2021-02-08T18:59:37 | 2021-02-08T17:39:09 | 994 | 157 |
[WP] The NPC perspective when the player does nonsensical things or uses idiotic tactics just to grind skills. | Jod didn't move, he didn't blink, he just kept the figure in the corner of his eye right where they were. He could only just make out the dark magic orbiting their hand but so long as he didn't do anything stupid, everything was fine. He just had to last a short while longer on guard duty and he could-
He froze ... | “Hey! Hey you!” I shout for the 5th time today. “You can’t keep jumping in my forge, it dampens the flames. You will also burn yourself.” My voice, full of anger, falls on deaf ears.
“These poxy players and their glitches. How in the draugr am I suppose to get this order done if I can’t even heat up my blade.” My ang... | 2022-12-31T10:52:10 | 2022-12-31T10:35:40 | 103 | 18 |
[WP] A stable wormhole appears in Earth orbit. Once every 27 days the Moon disappears into it...only to return 27 days later. You are the first group to ride the moon through... | Twenty years ago, on March 3rd, the moon vanished; plucked out of the night sky without any warning. Most would not have even noticed right away, were it not for the 24-hour news coverage that ran on every news channel almost immediately after it happened.
At first, it seemed like a highly-coordinated joke being coll... | We rest in a crater that is filled with craters. Above us spins our home, serene and blue and veiled by clouds. It as if Mother Earth is hiding her face from us.
Moments from slipping through the Anomaly with Luna, we message home: all is well, we are ready - ready to be the first homo *sapiens* to squeeze into a rift... | 2015-03-21T19:00:57 | 2015-03-21T18:31:34 | 192 | 67 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | Eyes were darting around the conclave and beginning to rest on me. I felt the hairs on my neck begin to raise.
"Sir, we have reports of a captured agricultural unit in sector 179"
As the static chatter wafted out of the two way receiver on my desk the room fell silent. I could hear the officers questioning what they ... | He had spent many nights like this one, alone in the dark facing this machine.
His whole life had been devoted to this laborious task of understanding this creation of his. His legacy, his mark on this world. He pondered to himself why he had chosen to make it's face so robotic, it's eyes so hollow.
"Master"
The voic... | 2015-03-02T09:45:49 | 2015-03-02T08:24:25 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention, you shout "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediatelly rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you.
Thank you everyone for all the stories, they're wonderfu, i really enjoyed every ... | “I object! I still love you, Sarah. If I can’t win you over with just my words, then I’ll do it in song. I thought love was only true in fairy tales-“
Everyone was dead silent, not exactly the reaction I expected from my declaration of love. Usually, this sort of thing is met with praise in movies, so why is everyo... | I sat at a bar downing a glass of whiskey, the love of my life was to get married today to Brad of all people. Some jerk that's never really cared for her, and loved her like I ever did.
I sit there and reflect on all the great moments we had together, the love we felt and how quickly we connected. The look in her dee... | 2022-08-29T08:43:01 | 2022-08-29T08:24:25 | 244 | 106 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | It was 10 years ago today that I'd gotten my card. Ten years since the Engine had outlined my path.
I was only 18 then. I stood in line with everyone else. Slowly got my card from The Engine. Waited until I was alone, wanting to be able to react in private.
They'd printed who I was, who I was going to be, the pure trut... | I sat there just stunned, how could this even be an occupation? I went to go ask my local job representative. When I pulled my result card out all it took was them seeing the fuchsia coloration with the cyan stripe on it and they stiffened up saying that cannot discuss occupations with a high ranking official.
That st... | 2018-08-13T21:58:48 | 2018-08-13T16:28:21 | 125 | 62 |
[WP] You are hired for a new job which you begin to hate. You decide to do everything you can to get fired, however you still become their best employee. | I don't know what I was thinking when I took this job. Fucking seriously, what was wrong with me?
Okay well, I know what I was thinking: "Well shit, that's a lot more money than the nothin' I'm currently making. Besides, how bad could it be?"
Turns out: really. fucking. bad.
Spent 6 years of my life studying enginee... | (NSFW Language)
It was amazing! Out of college and already offered a senior position at a local tech firm! I don't know how it happened, but I was always in meetings making important decisions. My girlfriend was so proud of me. I made big money.
I was ALWAYS in meetings. My job was important. I had many tasks to do. ... | 2015-02-03T08:53:05 | 2015-02-03T08:52:32 | 271 | 76 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | “Pray for death? Why would I do that? He’s an asshole”
This was my message sent to the EZ-Comm translation module I’d installed to communicate with these tall slimy fucks. Who knows what it will actually relay to the Korthonian ship blotting out the galaxy in my view port.
The earth is dead, well, all life on earth... | *I know the ending I want but I need the earlier story...*
"As I fell to the ground I couldn't believe that I had found another like me...another immortal person stuck here just like me. She was amazing, if I had to spend the rest of eternity here I don't care! I have never been more happy in my life. What are the odd... | 2018-10-12T11:42:03 | 2018-10-12T11:37:08 | 55 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | I killed the love of my life humanely. No one would argue with that. Slit her throat then squeezed her hand in the most comforting manner, as she slid down to the floor. She didn't even try to talk, not that she could have done -- not with my hand over her mouth -- but I could see clearly in her big blue eyes that she ... | Nobody else believes in me, laughing at me and telling me I've wasted my life. They just don't understand. They look at me and think, 'There he goes, writing prompter. He'll never amount to anything.' But they just don't get it. I've devoted my life to inspiring others. It's not so simple a thing, to be the bedro... | 2018-09-12T08:22:13 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 249 | 20 |
[WP] Spellcasters are usually very focused and precise. This makes them appear unremarkable and easily overlooked in battle. You however have developed a very dramatic spellcasting style. | "FIREBALL, LIGHTNINGBOLT" Gregory the Magnificent yelled out at the top of his lungs, flinging the spells as he called them out into the enemy armies' ranks.
"I know he loves attention, but isn't it a bit much?" Sergeant Elise asked Nina the Cunning. She had to raise her voice to be heard of the clamour of battle. Ni... | Rita the Magnificent lifted her arms and screamed at the darkening sky.
"I call on ye gods to deliver unto me the Might Primordial. I summon the darkest angels of Hell and the very stones of Creation Itself to bind themselves to my will. Hear me, ye cosmos - I speak and you move, I flick my wrists and the universe co... | 2021-12-03T09:55:19 | 2021-12-03T09:17:58 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | “Oh, you want to work in my ice cream shop? So does every other teenager who needs cash for the summer and wants an employee discount that goes a long way. I’m happy to hire you, your resume and application look great, but I have to be honest with you – my girls and guys fight for their jobs on a daily basis. I know a ... | The last customer left the store. We both watched the old lady leave. A clerk silently slipped in and locked the door behind her.
We were alone.
I examined my opponent. The harsh fluorescents of the dimmed grocery store lights made sharp angles and deep shadows of her face. Her bright red hair seemed muted against th... | 2020-11-15T13:48:55 | 2020-11-15T12:35:27 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] After you laze about in a looped day for years, God finally stages an intervention to tell you that you’re supposed to be trying to get out of the loop. | I was walking down West 46th Street, craning my neck, checking out the people on the street. I glanced down at my phone, checked the time. There should be a cute brunette walking down this way around now. I've seen her before, smiled and said "hi". I remember wanting to see her again on another day. And since every day... | In has been 4 years and 32 days since the event. How did it all end the first time? I can't remember. It had something to do with a wood chipper.
As you know, my same day is on repeat. Forever. It's a record player with the same actors, sets, and events. I scratch the record to play a slightly different tune, and eve... | 2019-02-20T13:22:51 | 2019-02-20T09:59:55 | 138 | 23 |
[WP] At 18 years of age, everyone gets a weapon based on their personality and strengths. All your friends got traditional weaponry, but you...oh, you got something interesting that no one knows how to wield.
Note: by traditional weaponry I mean like swords, bows, spears, etc. | The village was abuzz with excitement. In every corner, there were candied peanuts, caramel popcorn and other street food being peddled by emphatic sellers, each touting their wares to be the tastiest and freshest. Children were running freely without the watchful gaze of their parents, as was the tradition every Armam... | I've been waiting for this moment for so very long. The transformation that happens on the exact minute you leave the womb. I've heard the stories, a glow of white light, said to be the reaction of the soul molding a weapon for the host.
 
It varies of course, but it usually follows a general pattern. It can... | 2016-10-27T00:40:16 | 2016-10-26T19:07:16 | 115 | 33 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Darkness.
That was all the man could see - given that he was of sound mind, of course. For the man had spent an eternity, if not eons upon eons of *time* drifting through empty space. All that had once existed - the stars, galaxies, black holes - had inevitably faded away with the passage of time. Eventually, even ti... | The boy ran, red-faced, across the field full of dead grass and frosty branches. Winter had passed but spring was yet to come. His still frozen breaths shivered him slightly. It was cold, yet he was burning. He might have a fever.
That morning, his parents, him and his little sister along with another dozen doctors an... | 2018-10-03T07:44:44 | 2018-10-03T07:34:53 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] An powerful ancient being has been held captive by an interstellar civilisation. After eons of being held captive, it has accidentally freed by humans, who've not been to the "galactic stage" for long... | The first anomalies in the cosmic microwave background were detected by sub-sentient AI programs monitoring humanity's deep space telescope networks. The anomaly became a question, and then a mystery, and then a shocking realization, as subsequent analysis with orbital telescopes and gravitational interferometers confi... | The ships approached the moon slowly.
Space Fleet Commander Paloma watched the steady approach from the front windows. Scanning the moon, her gaze fell on what seemed to be a small blue orb resting on the surface. Of course, from a distance it looked small. But she knew that it was a 10 kilometer sphere of pure energ... | 2022-08-23T12:35:23 | 2022-08-23T10:39:39 | 457 | 209 |
[WP] Having developed time travel in secret, you find yourself stranded alone in the 1800s following your test jump. Walking amongst the crowds on the cobbles of Victorian London years later, you pass someone humming a Beatles song. | I pull from the pocket of my waistcoat a roughly-sewn handkerchief to cover my nose. With every step the stench coming off the Thames becomes impossibly more putrid. At first I'd thought plumbing is what I'd missed most.
I whiff a bit of oily perfume soaked into the cloth square - it's lavender, a natural antibacteri... | I hurriedly ran, desprately attempting to escape from my pursuers, in HOA one little mistake meant life imprisonment, imagine what destroying a time rift would do, and after building a machine to replicate it, they tried to silence me about the injustice in our world.
I felt betrayed, tears started welling in my eyes ... | 2018-10-01T22:09:31 | 2018-10-01T21:16:56 | 1,891 | 22 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is buried beneath your feet. You have worked for years with geologists finding lost cities and treasures. Today is the first time you have ever said “We should not dig here.” | I’ve always loved my job. Walking onto an ancient city almost guaranteed I wouldn’t hear the voices begging for help that plagued me every day. Graveyards were hell, which made my grandfather’s funeral nearly impossible to endure. I left early, and a few aunts and uncles never spoke to me again.
My parents never beli... | "Well Cornell, what do you think?" the land surveyor, Ronald asked me.
"Eh, I'm not really feeling this," I said.
"What?" Ronald's jaw dropped.
I tapped the grassy land once again, but shook my head and shrugged. We were in a field wide and expansive, a surprising amount of short grass that was well kept, but then... | 2020-04-04T20:56:22 | 2020-04-04T17:15:41 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] You live in a world where karma is real and where you get what you deserve. The thing is that you want to be the ruler of the world, so you decide to become the nicest person on earth. | Curled up in sleep, the kindest man in all the world snored. It was a chainsaw snore, the motor sputtering and failing before ripping into sudden, frantic life. When Lily complained about it her friends always laughed. They said that if a snore was the worst Malcolm had to offer then she was even luckier than they had ... | Dennis Poe stayed calm, despite his growing frustration with being treated like he was less than a full-grown adult. It was what a good person would do.
“I don’t understand,” Dennis said. “What do you mean, intentions matter?”
“Intentions count as much as your actions when it comes to karma, young one,” the vaguely-h... | 2021-12-01T11:45:40 | 2021-12-01T11:38:44 | 101 | 33 |
[WP] Vampires don't believe in humans. A world so bright the light turns you to dust? Animalistic molars, feasting on anything from flesh to poison? Minds so powerful you're unable to even enter their domain without permission? Bodies bloated with excessive blood, warm to the touch? Yeah right... | Clyde got a call from Sarah. She was distraught.
“Someone broke into my house! I need you.” Is all he could gather between her frantic sobs.
He got to her Victorian mansion as quickly as he could to find her pacing in the front unliving room. He embraced her protectively.
“Oh my god, Sarah, are you ok?” Clyde ask... | I’ve heard stories of their kind. Eating food that is poisonous just for us to sniff. Warm, filled with the blood we so crave. But, these are just stories. Things told to youngsters around a campfire. Nothing any sensible being would believe… yet. One night. One damn night I can’t quite explain away. I walk walking, al... | 2021-01-24T18:55:35 | 2021-01-24T16:06:46 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] When People want someone dead, they hire the best. When they can't afford them, they hire you. You are the Budget Assassin. | I awoke around noon with a full bladder. The last thing I wanted to do was leave my bed. I rolled over to the other side of the bed and closed my eyes, but I knew it was useless; I had to get up. Stumbling to the bathroom, I knocked my knee on the computer chair in the middle of my bedroom floor and grumbled. Mornings ... | Eli could have gone in through the skylight. First he’d cut at the glass with surgical precision, making not a sound in removing the severed pane. He’d then let a drone quadcopter fitted with a silenced pistol descend into the building. It would then be a case of scanning for heat signatures and pressing the kill butto... | 2016-11-08T20:50:17 | 2016-11-08T19:26:32 | 910 | 66 |
[WP]A man is contemplating suicide. Death visits him not to take his soul, but to convince him life is worth living. | The the taste of the gun was almost sweet.
Jerry put his finger on the trigger, willing himself to add just a little more pressure. Just a little more, that's all he needed. A little more and all the problems in the world would go away.
"It won't work," said a voice behind him.
Jerry took the pistol from his mouth... | Eduardo Rojas stood on the ledge of the tallest building his small town in Mexico. Below, six floors down, there were no people on the street; the cartels had made sure that just standing out in the open was a possible death sentence.
From his vantage point, Eduardo could see the other effects of drug dealers on his ... | 2015-05-26T10:22:05 | 2015-05-26T09:44:21 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] You have the special ability to see the cause of death of the person you look at. For most of your life, you chose to not pay attention to it, but now everyone you look at has the same cause of death. | Every day, I wake up, open the curtains and go look in the mirror. There is just me. I always hope for a little more, to see the words "Peaceful death". Pain is terrifing for me. I'm reminded of that when my mother calls me to eat and, for a split second, I see above her head the words "Burning in a fire". I don't know... | Everyone dies. That was a lesson Joseph had learned from a young age. Crying after his parents and sister on that fateful day, begging them not to go away and being ignored, hearing the news of their accident with little surprise, these were the images that came up in his mind whenever he thought of his ability. For ... | 2016-08-19T11:19:42 | 2016-08-19T09:52:10 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] You have a reputation for being horribly indecisive. In truth, you've been cursed with the ability to see every possible negative outcome of every choice you make, no matter how minor. |
Jeanne’s grip on my hand tightened and she pulled me suddenly left into a small shop. The little bell on the door tinkled merrily, announcing our arrival into an ice-cream parlor. My stomach sank. My carefully controlled date had just been dropkicked by my girlfriend.
“Wanna share a cone?” Jeanne asked with a seducti... | “Would you like anything to drink with that?” asked the waitress, smiling brightly.
The visions hit me instantaneously. *A flash of white* I order a large Pepsi. I knock it over accidentally while reaching for the salt, and it pours all over Julie’s white dress. *A flash of white* The waitress knocks the glass over wi... | 2017-01-23T10:02:37 | 2017-01-23T09:24:53 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | There he was. The devil sat there by himself, legs dangling off of a ledge. He grasped a harmonica in his hands and between his lips, out of which came music that was not as sad as one might expect in such a situation. Rather, it was an utterly beautiful, complex piece that moved me to sadness because it had no audien... | I expected to go to hell, I expected the lava, the spiky grass, hell I even expected the solidarity. I had used it myself on many people, its delightful to watch.
I did not expect music.
Someone was playing the harmonica, and awfully at that. The notes were completely off, the person, if it was a person, repeated t... | 2017-02-01T09:26:11 | 2017-02-01T09:19:12 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | It's genetic, they think, but only mad men try to pick apart the threads of this phenomenon. But some of it is genetic, because some families get them more than others. Or maybe those families are similarly emotional.
There's surely more important things for the minds of our generation to worry about.
My mother was h... | I look in the mirror. I see a pale, wan man looking back at me. I no longer recognize myself but that barely concerns me. I see countless tattoos of the same shape. Small shapes of knife scattered all across my body like the stars of the galaxy. When people discover a tattoo, they wonder what meaning it has for their l... | 2017-08-03T16:01:34 | 2017-08-03T15:09:43 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the universe with pets. As humanity enters the ranks of the Galactic Empire humanity soon is known as "The Beastmasters", taming even the worst nightmares of alien bedtime stories. | It was an awkward existence for any of us traveling outside the colonies. Wherever we went, we were met with equal parts fear and reverence.
The funny part was that in order to deal with the arms length, sorry that was insensitive, appendage length, that other species kept from humans, we often traveled with a pet, th... | "Daddy, daddy. I'm scared," my daughter called as I entered her room to put her to bed. Her little face looked up to me from behind the covers. She was shaking.
"What is it, sweetie? Are the monsters bothering you again?" I stopped by the door, turned on the lights, and sat on the bed by her side, She nodded. Her four... | 2020-01-04T18:43:56 | 2020-01-04T18:08:30 | 86 | 46 |
[WP] NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early. Astronaut: Moon's haunted. NASA employee: what? Astronaut: *loads pistol and gets back on rocketship* Moon's haunted.
credit to @Dustinkcouch on Twitter | The moon had sat evacuated for months.
The ghosts of the dead had lived on the moon for millennia.
The base finally allowed them to take tangible form. To begin the ritual.
As he rose forth, the moon shuddered. A portal opened.
The ritual continued. A hand crawled out of the void that had appeared.
One of the gh... | The base went on lockdown after the astronauts took hostages. Nobody expected them to go this far. They were mentally unstable. That much was obvious from the start. Deputy Director Anderson couldn't believe they had the gall to end their mission early. His dismay only grew when the crew begged to return with weaponry.... | 2020-01-17T12:31:35 | 2020-01-17T12:16:42 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]: You hate this one guy in particular. You also know witchcraft. So you cast a curse to slowly destroy the thing he loves the most. As time passes on, you find that nothing has changed, but you are starting to get sick. | I paused in my journal as a large drop of blood fell dramatically from my nose to land on the center of the adjacent page, turning it into something that resembled the flag of Japan. Briefly, I considered leaving it there. A monument, of sorts.
I imagined him reading this after I was gone, and seeing my deterioration... | She was the love of my life, my muse, my reason for existence. Though we barely exchanged words i felt a deep connection the moment we looked into each others eyes. It had to have been meant to be. I knew i had to act soon so no one else could steal her away and she could finally become mine. Her vibrant yellow hair, b... | 2018-09-14T10:49:57 | 2018-09-14T10:34:46 | 96 | 10 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | A grin on Silas' face.
Sickly green lightning, coursing through his veins, occasionally sparking out from the bare skin. The ground beneath his feet scorching, with leaves hovering the air from the static spread by him.
One guard fell. And another. Pure, unbridled power, kept secret for so long. He never dared to ... | 'Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'
The dungeon was filled with screams and blood like it always does. But the screaming and the lifeless bodies that is hanging from the chains doesn't belong to its usual prisoner. Laying lifelessly on the table is captain of the prison guard, his left eye gouged by a crude device, his fingers a... | 2019-12-07T12:57:33 | 2019-12-07T11:35:02 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] It’s more than a scavenger’s dream- it’s anybody’s. A perfectly functional, massive ship drifting in space. A “ghost ship”- free for the taking. This ship is in amazing condition, so much so, your crew seems to be ignoring the clues as to why it was abandoned. | "It's fucking haunted frank, we shouldn't have even boarded."
"God dammit Bob ghosts aren't a thing, we've traveled billions of miles and seen dozens of planets and not a single ghost!"
"There were chains rattling as soon as we stepped foot on board! Chains Frank! I've never even seen an actual metal chain! And that ... | "I don't like this," said Bi-Han, leader of the junkyard rats.
It was no military operation, it wasn't even approved. A perfectly functional spaceship of unknown design was too lucky a catch to lack a downside. Bi-Han expected an ambush.
Since space travel became readily available on Earth and the technology easier t... | 2021-04-12T08:21:37 | 2021-04-12T08:19:12 | 206 | 143 |
[WP] You can talk to pigeons and only pigeons. In exchange for some seeds or if they trust you enough, they tell you things, like where the best bread spots are, embarrassing things humans or other pigeons have done, or what's under the statues around the city that keep them from moving. | Kevin took a seat on an empty park bench, pulled out the bag of croutons he carried in his bag, and threw a handful on the ground. Within seconds a fat blue-brown pigeon landed and began pecking at the dried pieces of bread.
“Yo Gutterflap,” The pigeon called out. “Get over here, it’s the good stuff.”
Another pigeo... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 3, Part 7: Pigeonlady v.s. The Petrified Police)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Every citizen of the Unified Sovereignties was raised to take pride in their diverse and gloriou... | 2021-04-19T20:07:01 | 2021-04-19T18:39:26 | 279 | 41 |
[WP] It all began with the forging of the Great Planets. Three were given to the Elves; immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the asteroids. And nine, nine Planets were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. | *Three Realms for the Elven-kings, their orbits high,*
*Seven for the Dwarf-lords, the asteroids they own,*
*Nine for Mortal Men that never reached the sky,*
*One for the Dark Lord to be his dark throne*
*In the Galaxy of Mordor where the stars go to die.*
*One Realm to rule them all, One Realm to find them,*
*On... | It all began with the forging of the Great Planets. Three were given to the Elves; immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords; great miners and craftsmen of the asteroids. And nine, nine planets were gifted to the race of Men who above all else desire power.
***MEN***
I woke to a sudden kno... | 2015-10-25T17:56:54 | 2015-10-25T16:13:50 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | "After all, you're only human," She said to me, rubbing my back as she held my hair.
I puked once more into the toilet.
"That's it, just let it all out," she continued to rub my back.
No, that was not the same. The feeling of nausea from the night of alcohol was still present and was distinct. Distinct from a lie. S... | It was a taste I noticed in lies. A cheap metallic. A flavour like a greasy coin from a cheap greasy spoon diner.
It was a trait that benefitted me greatly where I went. The liars and the honest were seperated, at the cost of childhood.
"Can I have your cookie? I'll be your friend" she asked. We were in kindergarten ... | 2018-05-12T05:39:11 | 2018-05-12T05:31:31 | 259 | 96 |
[WP] Humans are the only species with rules for war. The rest soon learn why when humanity is forced to abandon those rules. | Rules for war. The concept sounded so absurd, in the beginning. War has but one rule - win.
Humans, as it turn out, have many rules for war. Rules for prisoners, rules for civilians. They have rules for how their common soldiers behave when captured and how their noble, or officer soldiers differ. Rules for what weap... | The humans were like children to us. They were new to the galaxy. Their ships were small. They used mere toys to travel, rockets and nuclear fusion. They actually kept their entire ships filled with a portion of their atmosphere, instead of each individual carrying its own necessary environment. No sentient race would ... | 2022-11-01T21:21:05 | 2018-07-21T20:25:28 | 70 | 38 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | *London, January 1, 1936*
“Uh Baldwin, you’re going to want to see this sir.”
“What is it?” replied Baldwin.
“Well, uh, Germany declared war on Poland, Denmark, and the Netherlands at once...”
“What? What about the League of Nations?”
“What League of Nations?”
“Uh, nevermind. Can we protect them or anybody else i... | “And that’s all you need me to do?” I asked. “Just… this one… report, and then I’m done?”
“That’s all,” said the man had given his name as Hartner. “Ten minutes of your time, and we’ll be out of your hair. How difficult can that be?”
He smiled, and even managed to make his eyes twinkle, but I wouldn’t have trusted hi... | 2019-03-10T10:40:01 | 2019-03-10T09:58:45 | 424 | 110 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | People never visit my town anymore. It’s because of her.
She flew higher and faster than the strongest hawks, and she was sweeter than the nicest dog. Her fiery red scales danced in the sky every new year for us. She would play with the children. Made fireworks over the lake.
She killed parasites. A pack of coyotes k... | It has been 8 weeks since Ruby hatched, and I can't stand it. Not from anything that Ruby has done, but rather the ill fame that she has garnered. At first it was a treat and a spectacle among the neighbors and the market for such a miraculous creature to be born from an egg. A chicken's egg mind you. But in two weeks,... | 2021-03-21T19:30:54 | 2021-03-21T19:12:20 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You are an ancient entity, contracted to defend the village’s sheep from danger. The times move on, and you begin to hibernate. Once more, your services are requested, and you agree that, technically, defeating intergalactic invaders would be protecting sheep. | Cerunn woke slowly as heavy footfalls disturbed the peace of his grove and the calm of his flock grazing there. Unwilling to wake fully, he turned his attention to the intruders and prepared to swallow them beneath his soil.
“Are you sure your family’s records said it was here?” One of them whispered. Cerunn pause... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Part ?: Rafi)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Globalization had ruined fairy contracts.** People who failed to understand exponential growth asked for something simple, like ... | 2021-04-25T22:17:58 | 2021-04-25T20:52:27 | 86 | 63 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | "You shouldn't be here."
Rebeccka's voice rang loud and clear as everyone in the hall seemed to freeze.
Closing my locker I gave a nod. "Yah I really shouldn't be here. Still pretty neat that I am here." Giving my best smile I offered my hand. "I'm Joe. It's nice to-"
"If you know you shouldn't be here then why... | "Well, well, well, if it's Tommy O'Gransworth. Granny to me and the boys, like." In came Ted Nuggerton. All-round arsehole, and self-proclaimed champion of the school ground. His thicker-than-most Irish accent horrendously disturbing the peace.
I was sitting in the small tired-looking, abandoned chapel, built back in... | 2022-11-02T13:05:27 | 2022-11-02T11:48:42 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | A few days ago, my wife died after [](#s "I helped her along with") a tumble off the roof top.
The doctors decreed it an unfortunate accident. God, I was wretched. My wife had died [](#s "because of me"). I couldn't be more despondent [](#s "while around my friends").
At home [](#s "however"), I jumped [](#s "for... | Freakin spoilers man.
**Censored:**
She was laying in the middle of the room in a king bed, completely alone. In the pale and tender moonlight that shone through the window, she truly looked like a queen, and I swear to you in that moment, I might have even felt a little love for her. I mean, we were together for a ... | 2015-06-07T19:24:11 | 2015-06-07T17:00:05 | 210 | 21 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | "Honey? Fox news says I'm dead."
"Hmm. You should probably go down to the courthouse or something to figure this out."
When I arrive I head towards the front desk lady and ask where or how I could correct a false death certificate. She tells me she could set up a meeting with a lawyer, which I agree to do. At the la... | “Dylan? Sweetie?”
My mom comes padding into the room in her slippers, coffee mug in hand, her eyes drifting from the floor, to me, and finally, to the television. The words fly across the screen much too quick, but I think she gets the gist of it.
“Dylan Forrester, 15, 148 pounds, Caucasian”. The woman on the screen ... | 2020-08-01T07:10:54 | 2020-08-01T05:34:48 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You were summoned by a god to be the hero of a fantsy world, to kill the demon king and free their people, as a boon they told you you could request any weapon that they will provide. As a joke, you requested a intercontinental thermonuclear warhead, they gave it to you with a stright face. | It was just... easy. The god delivered me to this fantasy-esque world with lots of magic but where, for some reason, almost everyone lived like a peasant. "*Defeat the Demon King!*" the god boomed, and it appeared as a bit of text in the corner of my vision as a constant reminder. It was annoying at first having it the... | “We finally meet hero. My minions tell me you came here from another world. Maybe I’ll check out that world once I’m done conquering this one. The great Argnot is far too great for only one universe. I will spread my terror over all the worlds. Now what do you have to say for yourself, human?”
“I have a massive bom... | 2020-10-14T02:27:18 | 2020-10-14T01:45:33 | 1,070 | 293 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Jim lamented. "Gain a year of life for each descendant, what could go wrong?"
"And it went wrong." The bound man muttered.
"What gave it away? The fact that your great-great-great-granddaddy is a goddamn twelve year old." Jim sighed. "You know getting old was a bitch, you... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archcommander Varney)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The National High Energy and Temperature Lab was abuzz.** Professor Hale bustled into the main containment... | 2021-04-15T11:22:56 | 2021-04-15T10:44:40 | 400 | 104 |
[WP] Your dad used to say, “always leave the campsite better than you found it.” But the park rangers have gotten a lot better at clearing litter and cleaning trails since you were a kid. You’ve had to resort to more and more ridiculous schemes to improve the campgrounds. | Dawn had just broke over the mountains. The air was cool; a breeze flew in from the east. The old crow woke us up as he searched for his morning grub. In the distance, campers could be heard coming back from their fishing spots brining their spoils of war.
“Ok son, it’s time to pack and head home”, Larry said with a ... | Apologies in advance…
It’s been six days. I have been searching for six days. For litter, for a mess, for an untidy cabin. For a wrinkle, for a tear, for any sign of soiled product. I looked and when I couldn’t look, I felt, and when my hands were numb I heard the whispers of the forrest, asking the forest for a crack... | 2021-07-13T19:25:34 | 2021-07-13T16:22:54 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You are the test subject for an experimental surgery to see wavelengths of light that humans normally cannot see. As you adjust to your new vision, you see one person in the corner furiously taking notes. "Who is that?" you ask. "Who is what?" asks the doctor, looking at the empty corner. | Day 1
“This is Doctor Argart beginning this recording. I have just begun to wake Subject number two hundred forty two. Subject two forty two, How do you feel?”
“Like I can’t see? There’s a rag on my face”
“I’m aware, we don’t know what you’ll see exactly. We don’t want to expose you immediately after waking up. You ... | "All five fingers," I said to him with my new eyes. Everything still looked the same.
"Good. Now try to focus on my light."
Doctor Evans pulled out a penlight and held it in front of my face. That's why I hated these optometrists, they always asked me to do the impossible. I don't know about you, but one of the fir... | 2022-01-16T16:36:52 | 2022-01-16T16:36:20 | 165 | 107 |
[WP] The Heroes politely knocked on the door of the Dark Lord. There was a side quest over in the nearby forest and they were rather lost. | The Dark Lord stared down at them with its giant milky eye. “You’re…kidding…”
Sir Galavan sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. “Ah, no…‘fraid not. Sorry.”
It folded its arms over its giant chest. “Potion of Ice Resistance,” it repeated. “You broke into my Keep not to slay me, but merely because you wish to ob... | The party of three and the old man stare at each other until the fighter shifts uncomfortably, his battered armor creaking. The old man lowers the hand that stopped the cavalcade of words, closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose between two fingers. “Let me get this straight. You were asked to go to Gre... | 2022-08-15T08:21:48 | 2022-08-15T02:18:35 | 46 | 26 |
[WP]You're the Interim CEO of a major internet company. Every decision you make seems to just go completely wrong. | "But it's our site," I said sternly.
"*Your* site? It just got shutdown."
"Well then revert the shutdown! We fired her, we can fire the mods!"
"Don't you think their revenge would creep back into the site? You know what happened when our country went into another country and made a lot of young, angry and trained me... | "What this is about is not fat people, if I may say so, mister –"
"You may not say so", I interrupt. I look around the room. "Who invited this clown?"
"Now, if you look at my figure, you'll see I'm not exactly the kind of person FPH folks would call 'healthy'. I'm not
for any of that bullshit, per se. Those guys wer... | 2015-07-02T23:44:11 | 2015-07-02T23:40:42 | 815 | 278 |
[WP] You have a sentient voice inside your head which knows the answer to every question you have but refuses to tell the future. Suddenly you hear "Pack your laptop, Swiss army knife and leave in 5 minutes, else you'll regret it."
[deleted] | “My laptop? Why?”
*Because you will need it.*
“Why will I need it?”
*You know I cannot answer that question.*
“Don’t be a bitch and answer the question.”
*Pack your laptop, Swiss Army Knife and leave this house within the next 5 minutes*
“I don’t even own a Swiss Army Knife.”
*Yes, you do.*
“I don’t.”
*It’s in... | It was about as average of a Thursday as you could have. Stumbling through my morning routine till the coffee was ready; a snail-paced crawl through morning traffic to my office; spending the first hour of work just staring at an excel file on my screen as my brain fought a desperate struggle to wake up; an early lunch... | 2016-09-22T07:30:35 | 2016-09-22T07:03:48 | 3,472 | 1,755 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I had just finished putting the finishing touches on my paladin's character sheet. Ah, classic Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, the best version available. Call my old fashioned, but there's just something so refreshing about playing a goody goody character with a strict moral code. And heck, playing D&D was a great di... | Coughing, you wave your hand in front of your face, trying to clear away the smoke. You blink frantically, trying to stop the burning sensation from the smoke in your eyes.
As your vision clears, the creature in front of you becomes more clear. Your first impulse is that it's a sickly child, but the longer you look,... | 2017-05-12T10:50:04 | 2017-05-12T10:01:31 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | A little dragon born, with great small eyes of red and gold. He crawled out of his egg and roared, his tiny voice heard across the cavern hall.
The little dragon was met by loving eyes and a proud cry from his dragon mom and dragon dad. Their firstborn hatched and soon would grow, as their mighty dragon son to defend... | FADE IN:
EXT. A WOODLAND ROAD - DAY
*Two young men stroll along a dirt path surrounded by trees. These are DAVE and STEVE, workers from a nearby village. They keep silent as they walk, until the glint of metal catches Dave's eye. He halts in his step and stares off into the undergrowth.*
**DAVE:** Hey, what's that? ... | 2017-09-07T12:45:24 | 2017-09-07T11:30:58 | 52 | 30 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | In a time when knights and dragons played a deadly version of capture the horde, only the elite dragons managed to protect theirs. One such dragon was Squeak-Squeak, the smallest dragon. Squeak-Squeak’s horde may not have been giant and filled with rubies or pearls, but he was proud of it all the same. He owned a singl... | FADE IN:
EXT. A WOODLAND ROAD - DAY
*Two young men stroll along a dirt path surrounded by trees. These are DAVE and STEVE, workers from a nearby village. They keep silent as they walk, until the glint of metal catches Dave's eye. He halts in his step and stares off into the undergrowth.*
**DAVE:** Hey, what's that? ... | 2017-09-07T13:15:56 | 2017-09-07T11:30:58 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | Jasper flew up from the park with a rush of excitement, A small golden coin clutched between his two miniature claws. He had finally claimed a prize from those pesky humans.
Unlike his counterparts, Jasper’s unusual size allowed him to fly into the city reasonably undetected. He would find a flock of like-minded pige... | Torch after torch after torch chain link lit up all around the massive granite chamber. It seemed impossible that a room so huge could be buried so deep into a mountain. The torches follow along the clean, smooth walls which brightened the entire room. Two things stood out immediately to the squad of treasure hunters. ... | 2017-09-07T12:19:27 | 2017-09-07T12:04:53 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] For all your life you have been able to see someones’ age floating above their head. You’ve seen people who don’t look their age before, but you’ve never seen anything like this. Standing before you is a small boy and above their head is the number 13.8 billion. | I'm pretty sure that I'm not actually insane. Not certain, but, pretty sure.
According to my psychiatrist, I don't have schizophrenia, I'm not delusional, I don't have early onset dementia, or... Well, much of anything else, aside from anxiety, panic attacks, a small bit of PTSD, and depression.
I don't hear voices... |
Growing up as a kid, I liked reading the x-men comics a lot, because I felt that they were more realistic than others, you might think “a comic is a comic, they’re all fiction” and you wouldn’t be wrong to think that but the fact of the matter is some people do have special powers, how do I know this? Because I have o... | 2021-06-15T22:05:43 | 2021-06-15T22:05:06 | 113 | 48 |
[WP] “Why is the magic sword so cheap?” | "it causes emotional damage."
The hero ran his finger down the blade before yanking it back. "I'll take it."
\*\*\*
"What do you mean, Sulfar, the Dark Knight of the Underworld quit," screamed the Dark Overlord of all Creation.
"The hero showed up, they fought for a minute and then Sulfar started sobbing, saying ... | This is my first ever story, so I know it's very rough (also I don't know how to bold or slant the text for when the internal mind thoughts are happening).
It was mid afternoon. As the sun had started to cast shadows across the bustling slums within the greater city of Valantis. Valantis was an old city, but still tea... | 2022-01-19T04:54:00 | 2022-01-18T21:11:52 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone has been granted the ability to change their outer appearance to what they desire to look like. Beauty standards are no longer impossible, so attractiveness is based on something else.
You pick what that something else is! | The lunch whistle blew.
Max and Vinny sat on a platform and began to dig into their sandwiches. As they viewed the sidewalk, they couldn't help but notice a young woman walk by.
"Hey Baby, nice choice of outer appearance!" Vinny yelled and Max supported with a whistle. Vinny continued, "I like how your combination ... | “What is it you want, Helen? I don’t get it. What is it you women desire these days? Every man around looks like whomever is on the cover of the latest magazines, with their own little twists on it, so how do you pick a mate?”
I admit I had probably drunk more than I should have to be addressing this stunningly succes... | 2015-02-26T09:36:50 | 2015-02-26T09:17:03 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | PARIS (AP) Leaders from 42 countries gathered in the French capital Tuesday to thank the police detective who singlehandedly defeated the terrorist group known as ISIS.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau still seemed a little dazed from his ordeal in Syria, saying only "I do not know who zis ISIS person is, I am just glad ze ... | People use to think Bob was a traitor, but thanks to YouTube and my reporting we now know the truth.
Bob spoke good English and other languages and had been a woodworker in Logan, Ohio for many years. The thing is, Bob isn't American, he's Estonian, so he says, but nobody knows or can prove enough about him to deport... | 2016-01-29T07:27:42 | 2016-01-29T07:07:48 | 1,067 | 16 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | "So, basically, you have to re-kill everything you've killed, all at once. That's gonna suck for you, Mr. Exterminator."
I go out into the arena. There's a countdown.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6-
"GOOD LUCK, YOU FILTHY MURDERER!"
3, 2, 1, GO!!!
A door opened up on the other side of the arena. The crowd waited anxiously... then b... | The words “FINAL ROUND” scrolled across the bright marquee hanging from the ceiling of the arena, and the crowd became abruptly silent, the echoes of the last cheer reverberating against the walls. The lone man in the corner held a hunting rifle, but was otherwise unequipped for hunting, dressed only in streetclothes: ... | 2017-04-24T01:48:58 | 2017-04-24T00:35:40 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | I looked up from the book.
He looked back at me.
"You believe this shit?"
He nods.
"If I kill you, I get your powers?"
He nods again.
"And if you kill me, you get mine?"
Another nod.
We sit in silence. His cereal looks soggy.
"You read these books back in high school. So, you knew the whole time?"
Aga... | In the footnote of the college biology textbook was something that changed my whole outlook in life. *Identical twins are the only known group of people that can gain from their twin’s death, according to a Nazi Twin Experiment. On their deathbed, a twin can take all their strength, intelligence, and beauty through a... | 2018-02-25T08:05:44 | 2018-02-25T05:27:54 | 5,212 | 230 |
[WP] The Apocalypse begins, and the Four Horsemen ride out leading an army that will depopulate Earth. But the old pagan deities of Earth do not consent, and side with humanity. | Pestilence watched
As barley blackened beneath his feet
Broken by a single breath
The farmer lay beside his wife
As he rotted inside
And wilted and died
An arrow sailed through the sky
Artemis fired a second time
An... | The scythe came down and another man fell. The scythe came down and another man fell. The scythe came down and another man fell.
Slowly, casually, the Red Lady of death unfurled her clothes and checked over the inky red list, surveying the wreckage in front of her. Her steed glinted in the fading light of the apocaly... | 2018-05-17T06:48:39 | 2018-05-17T06:36:42 | 4,594 | 335 |
[WP] The Apocalypse begins, and the Four Horsemen ride out leading an army that will depopulate Earth. But the old pagan deities of Earth do not consent, and side with humanity. | They were no army, but only four.
War, famine, pesitlence, and death.
A ballad of destruction, a symphony of the end.
No man could stand to them, for they were gods. But humanity were not on their own.
With them stood a millenia of belief.
The old gods.
As the four stood upon a hill, overlooking the old world. The ... | The fire slowly took hold of the log that had been tossed on top and the flames began to creep along it, singing off ancient lichen and mosses until it was consumed. It burned well, as did everything in this forest, it was old and dry, the life force stretched thin here at the boundary.
Six figures sat around in the ... | 2018-05-17T07:56:16 | 2018-05-17T07:42:52 | 69 | 42 |
[WP] You are a minion in the service of a dark lord. Your master has tasked you with creating and spreading a prophecy about a chosen one, the only person who can defeat him, so that the so-called "heroes" will stop resisting his rule and instead wait for their savior to arrive. | Many years ago, I had a conversation with a man from another plane, one without dragons or warlocks, with a white star that lit their days and a single moon, and he told me a story. He explained his job was much like mine, to serve a master in exchange for currency, and that seemed to me somewhat unsurprising, to find ... | “With the highest amount of respect to you, my master, I’m unsure about this plan. I understand your great will and wit is only matched by the gods, but are you positive about this? What about Riza the heart snatcher or Jok the eye licker? Both seem more frightening than me.” The pint-sized goblin brushed his hands aga... | 2021-03-17T20:55:33 | 2021-03-17T20:04:32 | 217 | 14 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | "Oh my god, you're *31* and you've never eaten with another girl?"
Sigh. I hate this topic.
"Look, Shelly, I'm not exactly the pinnacle of man."
"That just means you eat a lot by yourself."
This was new. When me and Shelly were usually having sex for lunch, she *never* brought up mastication.
"Erm, I-I uh..."
Smo... | Everybody looks at me weird when I tell them I teach evolutionary history. They've heard of the second word from the history channel (if anybody even watches it anymore) but if anybody knows what the first word means it means I've found a kindred spirit. Someone else who studies the past in a way that I do.
My s... | 2013-11-18T14:24:30 | 2013-11-18T12:07:53 | 44 | 18 |
[WP] You have an unique ability. When wearing someone else's clothes, you change into this person. You collect "appearances" by buying clothes in second hand shops, but up to now it was just a game for you. Then you find something very special ... | Part 2 -
One specific day changed everything. One day I bought a Hawaiian shirt. Bright, loud, expressive colours. I genuinely believed I was to become someone who couldn't afford taste when it came to fashion, but I could not have been more wrong. I became Damien Black. Damien was a mid-thirties, ridiculously succes... | I bet a question that Salvation Army and Goodwill employees never pose is "who farted?" Because it always smells like farts. There's something about the musty odor of some thrift shops that just reminds of a really old, ancient, decrepit fart. Like one that had been sealed up in a box, hidden away into the corner of an... | 2016-07-30T15:29:15 | 2016-07-30T13:59:59 | 55 | 33 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | My finger froze on top of the button. "What do you mean things get nasty? What happens when I let go?"
The desk vibrated as her phone rang. "I'm so sorry, I have to take this."
"What's goi-"
"Anita Hayes, Senior VP of Human Resources" as her name tag had read, stood up from behind the desk and curtly exited the room... |
I look at her, still smiling, thinking she'll laugh and say that she was joking about what she'd just said about the button but her face remains passive.
"Understand this," she says, placing her arms behind her in that contemplative way people like doing and starting to pace the small area in which we were. "If you'... | 2017-01-05T11:43:41 | 2017-01-05T10:53:52 | 231 | 42 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "What nonsense!"
"I know! But it's real! We've been testing with her at our lab for three days now."
"Can she *triple* jump too?"
"Yea, of course. That's like the first thing we've asked her to try. She has even done four! But beyond that, she gets very tired."
"Tired, you say?"
"Her heart races up with every jump... | They've been studying me for weeks now. I don't think they'll ever figure it out. Obstacles are nothing to me anymore. But maybe they'll turn me loose soon.
In a section of Arizona where the heat is upon you in seconds before the sun rises there's a facility hidden within the arid desert. What looks like a small ranch... | 2017-02-11T08:49:55 | 2017-02-11T08:30:49 | 338 | 60 |
[WP] Every known object on Earth has a legendary "sword in the stone" variant. From the legendary socks in the stone to the legendary tv in the stone. After years of searching though, you find it: the legendary Stone in the stone. | After years of searching for the fabled Stone in the Stone, I finally came across it. It was less than impressive to look at but after reading countless books about it, I knew the contents inside were what really counted, I just had to get it somehow. There was nothing in the books about how to acquire what was in the ... | The cemetery rustled with stirrings of malevolence. Elijah stood in the cool air of the summer’s night, relishing the sweet scent of grass and soft chirping of crickets. He breathed deep as she approached, her boots squishing down on the damp grass. She made no effort to move quietly, and he made no effort to run. Such... | 2019-02-07T14:47:50 | 2019-02-07T12:36:22 | 38 | 20 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | A slash. Metal glints in the sun. Pain, burning pain as I am killed, again and again.
In a way I am fortunate. The last game I played was Sekiro, in which you canonically cannot die. But now I understand why immortality is called a curse.
I die over and over and over, but with each death I learn a little more.
Time ... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T20:44:02 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 244 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | The text came at midnight. Exactly 12:00. It was strange to receive a text that late. Especially from a number I didn't recognize. I'm obsessive about saving numbers, always better to be able to recognize a friend.
But even still, it could be a prank. Some friend trying to spook me, with a strange out of country area ... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T21:58:41 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 37 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | Of course this isn't real. It can't be. Tell me again, Urist, why you decided to take my phone and text 'yes'?
First of all, I don't like bragging. Especially not false bragging.
It's all well and good if you've been playing... I dunno.. Skyrim or whatever. A game that has a goal, a game that is 'beatable' for lack o... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T22:18:04 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 34 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I blink rapidly, trying to clear my head.
Where am I? Last thing I remember was... a text message? Some sort of joke or prank of some kind. Something to do with a video game.
Images flashed in my head: a beautiful woman on horse back. A violent battle. A silver bird skull.
The woman, I was trying to find her. I *h... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-17T00:38:53 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 16 | 12 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | I groan as I sit up, it had been quite the rough landing after our encounter with the Witch of Droll. I run my hand through my hair and try to wrest away the knife of pain that has landed between my eyes to no avail. Time to take stock, both arms and legs and head still attached as well as Ryce, Brollan, and Jared also... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T09:09:21 | 138 | 64 |
[WP] You are an elf in love with a human. Instead of lamenting their inevitable death, you go on a journey to find a way to make them live as long as you. After years of searching, you found a way, but when you came home to them, you find out that they already passed on years ago. | I knew things were wrong when I rode into town. In our small village, everyone knows everyone. I saw no warm smiles as I wound through the cobble streets. A few quick glances were quickly turned away when we met eyes. Others bore sad frowns, were those tears forming? A sick knot started forming in my stomach. I urged m... | They always told us to stay away from that garden. I never really understood as a child.
Beautiful things grew there, and there was an air of magic about the place. Beyond it was a quaint little cabin, tucked away underneath the branches of a great elm tree.
I used to run off and peep through the brambles surroundin... | 2022-07-05T19:03:50 | 2022-07-05T17:51:30 | 97 | 34 |
[WP] As a sophomore in a school of magic, you've reached the point in your life where it's time to summon your lifelong familiar. The other students managed to get some pretty cool creatures as their familiars, but yours is... different. | “hey. Where am I?” the man in the circle asked.
“uhh hi. I mean, I am Robert Norton your new master!” I say trying to make it impressive. James had just summoned a flaming lizard for Christ sake and I get a human.
“New master? Ok” he says walking forwards. The circle’s barrier flares for a moment then dies. He pauses... | **Heavy is the Burden**
Magic. The word alone inspires thoughts of mystique and wonder. Images of some great figure, a robe cloaked master, hands cloaked in fire or lightning storming among their eyes.
Plausible. But only for the most brilliant minds; the kind of aptitude you witness once in a lifetime.
In reality ... | 2017-08-19T07:18:36 | 2017-08-19T05:41:51 | 65 | 17 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I couldn’t understand why he was smiling. I watched as my father looked around almost uncertainly before setting the jug of milk on the counter. There was no apology in his smile. There was only the same warmth I remembered as a boy when he watched me score a goal in soccer. Nonetheless it did nothing to diffuse the ra... | The door jiggled. It was a sound that any homeowner immediately recognizes, and has an immediate tightening of the bowels when they know that no guests have been invited. I got up from my soft and plush love seat. The by-product of 2 decades of use by my sisters and mother.
The jiggling continued for 15 more seconds ... | 2022-05-13T11:22:44 | 2017-11-19T16:28:57 | 1,516 | 176 |
[WP] Due to a shortage on angels you have had a guardian demon assigned to you instead, he doesn't quite understand how it works but he's very eager to please. | My first encounter with Draco, the consumer of souls, was...interesting. Don't let the name fool you, this little pipsqueak can't be more than 10 inches tall, and the worst he could do is nibble an ankle for about 5 minutes. I was at work dozing off onto my keyboard when a lite thump to my temple. I open my eyes to a b... | I tucked myself in. The sliver of gold from the hall light grew as Angela gently opened the door, careful not to wake Baby Bobby (not a baby) sleeping soundly in the bunk beneath me. I raised my head as I propped myself up on my orphan-like elbows. Elbows that haven't seen a loving, legal parent in an elbows-harvest.
... | 2018-08-14T20:06:22 | 2018-08-14T15:56:10 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You've accidentally summoned an ancient, long-forgotten god while trying to pronounce furniture names at IKEA. Fortunately, the employees are prepared as this has happened before.
Edit: holy shit this really blew up overnight. Thank you to everyone who has written along, and to everyone else reading.
For those ... | "JENKINS!" The call came over the shoulder mounted radio. The *-Chirp-* it made was reminiscent of the old Nextels. Ours had to be updated, of course. Ikea standard issue. Prevented interference.
"Yeah?" I responded, between mouthfuls of meatball.
*-Chirp-* "WE GOT ANOTHER BIN 52!"
"Ah, shit. Another Mikkaelian?"
I... | You know how it is. You're bright-eyed and bushy tailed. You plan a week in advance to set aside a whole Saturday to look for the furniture that will definitely make your life better. Partly it's to demonstrate a certain maturity to the person you'll share the furniture with; you're showing you're ready to make a combi... | 2019-01-03T00:56:07 | 2019-01-02T22:04:43 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "C'mon, just tell me," she said, leaning her elbows on the table and facing me, eagerly.
"I'm telling you, it's not that impressive. Hardly a discussion for a first date."
"I think it's the perfect discussion. If you don't tell me..."
I felt a sudden urge to blurt it out, but I composed myself. Her mind powers were ... | You can't just sit around in a corner her and relax, and frankly, that's the one and only thing I dislike from the current age. Ever since superpowers were confirmed to come from your inner emotional core and basically the type of person you are, a lot of effort went into raising proper citizens, lest we have another s... | 2019-09-08T10:13:02 | 2019-09-08T09:13:39 | 84 | 37 |
[WP] You are given a small notebook. Inside is a list of last times you'll speak to every person you've ever met. One date is far, far later than the rest. | October 3rd, 34709. It actually said October 3rd, 34709. I'll admit, the list was a roller coaster of emotions. I could see the days my parents will die, the fact that I will outlive two siblings, but also the names of my children and wife, who I have yet to meet. They'll all be with me on the day of my death, which lo... | I found the notebook when I was young, far too young to understand, but it really piqued my curiosity so I kept it. It wasn't long before I'd forgotten all about it, though, and it was lost in some corner of my room, hidden away until it resurfaced a few years later.
I remember that night. I'd had a huge fight with on... | 2016-07-31T00:11:23 | 2016-07-31T00:09:10 | 1,220 | 121 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The actor stood answered the knock at his trailer door. When he saw who it was that knocked, he said, "I wondered when you would show up. Want to come in?"
Death nodded his skeletal head and said, "Yes."
The two took seats, the actor in his chair and the skeleton on a long couch. There was silence between them for wh... | A rather androgynous figure stands behind a great stone desk, intricately carved with names you and I would find impossible to pronounce. It spreads outwards in both directions, infinitely long, growing darker and darker in the endless vault. Besides a few gaps close to the figure, the great stone carving is infinite... | 2018-10-03T06:04:20 | 2018-10-03T04:57:52 | 11,924 | 557 |
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