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[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | Had I known then what it would mean, and maybe I would have left that coin where I saw it.
But it had it's own sparkle, it's own calling, like no other I had ever seen before, and soon enough I held it in my hand, weighing it, testing it...
I could see my eyes reflected on it's surface, and as I looked away, as I dar... | My wife says the vacation has been horrible. She was sun burnt, the kids had been hanging off of her cherry red skin for two days now, they hated the sand, they wanted mom to hold them. Fine.
Back to the hotel they went, on the beach I stayed. Which was more than okay. I needed some time. Dad needed some time alone ... | 2016-08-02T14:08:05 | 2016-08-02T12:08:33 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] No human has to ever work again, instead you have a robot that goes to work and earns your pay for you, but you are responsible for keeping it in a good condition. One day you find your robot making a robot to do its work. | "Hey, whatya doing there?"
The robot whipped around and tried to use its thin body to cover what was behind it.
"Oh, nothing master... just umm... work for work, you know. Homework, is what they are calling it," said the robot.
"Homework, huh? Never heard of a robot having homework," said his master trying to peak... | The robot on the television spoke on about the recent news happening over the world. Fires, earthquakes, political discussions and celebrity deaths. Mark barely had the energy to move to reach for the remote, it lay only on the other side of the sofa, but he just couldn’t be bothered. Instead, he used his foot to edge ... | 2017-02-16T05:57:17 | 2017-02-16T05:56:35 | 870 | 565 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | The Great Leader's palace trembled once more as the fiendish Americans launched another salvo of their lethal artillery.
Inside, Kim Jong-Un desperately tried to retain any semblance of control, stressfully stuffing another handful of chips into his mouth while listening to frantic radio reports and updates. *Damn the... | The dew on the grass is beautiful this time of year. Damp and supple, almost like it breathes life into the world around it. A North Korean guard has his feet up on a seat, nestled within the inner perches of a Watchtower, dozing softly to the smooth sound of silence.
A deep rumble snaps him awake. He rubs the sleep ... | 2017-03-19T06:41:59 | 2017-03-19T05:22:19 | 5,121 | 2,629 |
[WP] In Hogwarts entire history, you're the first to not be sorted into one of the 4 houses. | I wish I was better at remembering names, because for all the life of me I couldn't remember the name of the man whose desk I sat at as he pinched the bridge of his nose in thought. "Well we just have to give it another shot" he said. The thing has been around forever I suppose it's more bizarre that it hasn't made a m... | As the hat was quickly snatched from my head all I could hear was the gasp of my fellow students.
"What did it say?" A frizzy headed girl spouted.
"I think it said Dorish!" Another red headed boy replied.
"Impossible." Murdered professor snape, my dark arts instructor.
The awe and attention began to take its to... | 2017-05-12T21:40:01 | 2017-05-12T21:25:54 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | Ill try and make it a bit different.
Elizabeth McGuin sat her hands down on the bar, looking over the patrons of the bar, all eager to hear her tales of fantasy and wonder, of the cities and people from them, and the adventures they took.
Tonight she sat down, opening the small book she had, waving her hand over t... | Almost everyone in the town had crammed themselves into the diner again; looking forward to a new story told by Angeline. Nobody knew where she went off to during the day, but she always walked into the diner at 5:58 on the dot. She would work her shift then tell another story.
"Everyone quiet!" Someone close to Angel... | 2017-06-25T03:54:47 | 2017-06-25T03:30:34 | 767 | 15 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | "So, there's this story with a talking yellow flower and..." was the start to another tall tale my wife told every night. The plots weren't as original as they sounded - she would probably be thrown out had it been a century in the future - but for now my Steam games gave enough inspiration for her tales.
"And then th... | Almost everyone in the town had crammed themselves into the diner again; looking forward to a new story told by Angeline. Nobody knew where she went off to during the day, but she always walked into the diner at 5:58 on the dot. She would work her shift then tell another story.
"Everyone quiet!" Someone close to Angel... | 2017-06-25T04:21:16 | 2017-06-25T03:30:34 | 108 | 15 |
[WP] You are God. You just logged on to one of your old saves, and you’re confused as to where those massive lizards went and where all these pink fuckers came from. | Frigging patched in, in-game events.
Out of all the things to introduce, like a new world or PVP, they instead rebalanced the game so you have to play as these feeble fleshbags called "humans". apparently, 65 million years prior, they drop a goddamn asteroid on you that rebalances the game in their favor, making it imp... | It had been so long, I couldn’t even remember the name of the save file. There were a few experiments that could be interesting to revisit but I had a particular one in mind. After sifting through a series of unsuccessful saves filled with barren mountains and drowned continents, I stumbled upon it.
When I had left, ... | 2017-12-12T22:38:58 | 2017-12-12T21:01:27 | 56 | 16 |
[WP] You've gained the gift of necromancy, ability to raise armies of undead. But you're just a nice person and have no desire to take over the world | After the two unexpected visitors left my mansion, I closed my front door behind them. My roommate Mark was still in shock, with eyes wide and face flushed.
"Was that who I think it was?" he demanded.
"If you think it was a very nice man and woman from the Van Helsing Institute, then yes, you'd be correct."
Mark was... | When I'm dead, I think that the thing I'd miss most is my gecko Riley. Riley is pretty cool, he's a gecko.
Thoughts like these continue to swirl and swish in my head as I sway side to side, suspended upside down in a dark and empty, almost surreal elevator shaft. My hands clench above my head-or rather-below my head... | 2018-01-08T13:13:09 | 2018-01-08T11:46:27 | 122 | 37 |
[WP] In 2081, humanity finds the wreckage of a five-thousand-year-old alien ship out in the Kuiper belt. Fascinated by its technology, we study it thoroughly, only to conclude that it is... human. | “What do you mean it’s human!?” exclaimed Commander Jackson.
“This console is showing us German,” I stated, “Trust me, it’s human.”
I was staring down at the computer screen. The tech reminded me of the 1950’s style but WAY more advanced.
“How did this get out here?” Jackson asked.
“No clue, but the log says it lau... | The dim blinking of the suit lights sent spiraling shadows across the hall and compartments. Three clothed figures slowly stepped through the door, their spacesuits not unlike those of the famous astronauts almost a hundred years before, of course, purely cosmetic at this point. A skin-suit could do the hard work of ... | 2018-04-27T22:47:09 | 2018-04-27T19:52:16 | 118 | 52 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | Oh! Hello.
It's one of you again.
What's your name?
Right. You have none. I keep forgetting that. Or perhaps I am trying to forget?
Sad little creature, aren't you?
Your hands all in taters, your veil the same.
Your face looks hollow, your body, maimed.
I do feel sorry though I have no heart.
No skin, just bone... | In all my existence, I had never seen such loneliness. Nor such self-sufficiency.
The gentleman I had come to reap lived beyond off-grid. There were no other communities around for at least a thousand square miles, and there was no road leading to his compound. A strong, fast-flowing river weaved behind a small house ... | 2018-05-12T19:37:58 | 2018-05-12T16:00:41 | 20 | 15 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | Filing papers, pushing pencils, whatever you want to call it; everyone makes jokes about bureaucracy. Not me, however. Everyone in this world is born with some kind of talent. Most people never find a good use for theirs. I mean, when you spend your entire life tending to your farm or at the forge, there isn't much roo... | Ever since I was young I always thought I was cursed. No matter what I got involved in, I would ruin it. It's almost like there was a destructive force hanging around me causing everything to break in some way shape or form. No matter how careful I was, no matter how far ahead I planned each of my steps, something w... | 2018-06-30T15:25:20 | 2018-06-30T15:18:43 | 202 | 52 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | As is customary I received a DS-666 with an attached #11 blood vial, 20CC's and the appropriate requisite charms for Mexico, Catholic reinforcement required. I sighed, I would have to do a MX-CA-18 the revised form. Clearly whoever was filing for a motion of demonic summoning had not done the proper paperwork. WAs it t... | "Szalarial, Lord of Bones, Collector, King of Misfortune, I call on you. Szalarial, Emperor of the Forsaken, I invoke your name. Szalarial, the Great Calamity, in the name of the Wandering King I offer a pact." The young boy dragged the ceremonial dagger across his palm, squeezing precious crimson into the chalice befo... | 2018-10-08T14:28:28 | 2018-10-08T12:57:35 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] For decades, humanity has lived in absolute harmony with its galactic neighbors. When a new civilization arrives with intent to conquer, however, our capacity for destruction is rekindled, and it's unlike anything the galaxy has ever seen | The galactic council meets only when urgent matters seem trivial. Tildoor, the Tredonnan ambassador, can smell war from a thousand light years away. Today he sniffles and snorts with the bluster of an old-earth hog. Ynid, the ambassador from Yamusoto, knows danger well. She’s survived the harshest climate the habitable... | "Balance and harmony only come between like-minded peoples," I said, eying the child in front of me. She was a good kid, I could tell, and gullible too. "But that's what we were, before the Enlightenment."
"You remember the Enlightenment?" she said, her little Plutonian eyes sparkling with Sol's light. She was from o... | 2019-03-03T20:28:31 | 2019-03-03T18:51:47 | 87 | 37 |
[WP]Greek mythology, but everything is upside down. Hephaestus cheats on Aphrodite with Artemis, who looks down on him but truly likes him. Hades is kidnapped by Persephone, and she keeps him on a flowery cage under a big tree with pink flowers. Zeus is loyal, etc. | Zeus was a humble God, one that was revered and not feared by Earth. He sought their love, sneaking into homes in the night to coax lovers into finding happiness together.
He maintained but one wife, in all his eons, a wife that he remained faithful to, and she bore many children for him. Of these children, he was mos... | He looked about his meager villa, the tan stone and arches dreary to his eye. Pillars rose about him. Strong and steadfast. He followed one pillar with his gaze, base to ceiling. He continued to look upwards and brought a laughably small bottle to his lips with a shaking hand. He drank as deep as he could coughing as t... | 2019-03-07T21:07:40 | 2019-03-07T20:19:36 | 506 | 14 |
[WP] "So, you're telling me that you know, with absolute certainty, that our world is a simulation?" The stranger smiled, and said, "Well, I ought to know, I designed the damn thing, and, if I'm being honest, I'm quite surprised by the controversial data your universe has generated." | "My universe? Controversial data?"
"Yes indeed," he said in a monotone. "When I was selecting your universe's dominant life I ignored superior intelligence, strength, agility, or longevity, and put everything into adaptability. The result was DNA."
I asked, "So what's the controversy."
"My superiors con... | For the past twenty years, I've been attempting to prove that the universe is a simulation. The idea was planted in my mind at a young age, around six or so. I was playing video games in the living room while my dad sat on the couch reading a book. The game was your standard action adventure where the player character ... | 2019-04-29T03:51:40 | 2019-04-28T23:58:52 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] A small town scientist has just finished their life's work; the world's first, fully functional time machine. Only it turns out a lot of the townsfolk are actually wayward time travellers stranded in the past, who have been waiting for this moment for a long, long time. | Marius woke up early, for once today. He was excited, he could barely fall asleep last night. After 10 months of starting experimentations, the results kept getting better. He went to the kitchen to get some coffee, that's when his doorbell rang.
It had been three years since Marius was fired from Amazon. He was spe... | Graham was a strange man that the townspeople whispered about in bars and at night to scare their children to sleep. He was the mad scientist, the one who went crazy thinking he could build a time machine. They said he killed his wife to prove that he could bring her back to life with time travel. Well, one thing was f... | 2019-06-22T10:05:54 | 2019-06-22T09:38:33 | 146 | 45 |
[WP] Everyone is born with either a curse or power. You have one of the two, but you're not sure which. | The date was September 17th, after so many attempts at finding what her power was, Morgan decided she was fed up with the lost memories. With no indication of how her left hand was missing, or her pinky and ring finger on her right hand, and various scars across her chest, she decided she'd had enough.
She approached... | Yes.
Left alone.
I am finally listening to the silence of this dark room.
White characters cut the wall on all his length, a bit of sun comes through the screen and warms the freezing dark walls, hugged by a thick layer of cold loneliness.
Face to face with you now.
She was a distraction, Ona kept me away from you, ... | 2019-07-28T04:57:17 | 2019-07-28T03:30:00 | 314 | 121 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | So... naturally people were pissed when the aliens said we would be slaves, but they wiped out our entire chain of command. Nobody was left to coordinate our resistance and it wasn't like they were out roaming the streets.
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Then the drones started flying around everywhere scanning people, and the work ord... | “It’s not your fault, Kyle. You’re a good kid. I know you want the best. You have optimism. I don’t *want* you to feel hopeless. It's just hard for me sometimes because...you know,” Jay paused, rubbing his palms together in that nervous way he always did when he talked about family matters. My brother was twenty nine n... | 2020-10-10T20:57:50 | 2020-10-10T20:22:18 | 3,129 | 114 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | When we took over, we expected resistance. And we got it, but only for a short time. When we had killed the leaders, and taken over, they almost seemed relieved. There were some who fought, of course, but most welcomed us. We expected resistance, especially from the younger ones, but none came. The most known for fight... | “It’s not your fault, Kyle. You’re a good kid. I know you want the best. You have optimism. I don’t *want* you to feel hopeless. It's just hard for me sometimes because...you know,” Jay paused, rubbing his palms together in that nervous way he always did when he talked about family matters. My brother was twenty nine n... | 2020-10-10T20:36:53 | 2020-10-10T20:22:18 | 203 | 114 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | 239 pigs in 239 days. Dirt, wood, concrete, hell even titanium. It didn't matter. Everyone single one fell, consumed by the Wrath of the Wolf. The pig sat in his bunker. His project produced enough byproduct to build an entire bunker out of. Not that it matters. The Wolf will get through. Even now the rending of metal ... | I curled up against the hearthfire, pulling my wool blanket close. The black metal walls around me seemed to radiate the everfrost cold of the fimbulwinter that raged still in the overworld.
The walls were turning white as the carbon dioxide in my breath froze against the walls. I shuddered.
Even through the 20-foot ... | 2021-01-29T16:24:08 | 2021-01-29T16:20:11 | 577 | 61 |
[WP] “Honey, are you sure we’re not part of this story? This is the fifth time that kid walked down the street yelling loudly ‘I sure hope nothing bad happens to me on this street!’” | “Hey, honey, does something seem odd to you? He’s doing it again.”
I sighed, setting my book down and dragging my feet along towards the window. Brushing the curtains away, I saw a young boy, alone, walking down the street. A grossly fake smile plastered on his face, rosy cheeks, bright blue eyes.
Same look, ... | “Honey, are you sure we’re not part of this story? This is the fifth time that kid walked down the street yelling loudly ‘I sure hope nothing bad happens to me on this street!’” A lady said, with a worried tone.
"No, we went through it in rehearsal. Our queue is 'I am tired and hungry. Can anyone help?'" Said the rich... | 2021-03-31T10:06:25 | 2021-03-31T08:29:20 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You’re a hitman who’s “hits” survive your assassination attempts, despite your sincere best efforts, only to die soon after each attempt by comical forces outside your control. The hitman community can’t be convinced you’re not the most creative comically effective assassin alive. | It was not physically possible. The guy’s skull tanked a bullet like he was Superman. It literally bounced off. I ran away because I’m not dealing with a guy like that. He turned around and I think he saw me in the building. He came running towards the entrance, but he slipped on the wet floor and fell. His skull crack... | My name is Morton Montoni. They call me The Clown. You'll see why in a minute. I have a problem. Some mook keeps getting credit for my hits. I've killed 23 people just since last August. I ain't got paid a penny, and I'm getting pissed.
There was Fat Mikey McElvaney - not a made guy because, well it's obvious from hi... | 2021-04-04T15:35:40 | 2021-04-04T15:34:05 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] Satan emerged from the ground. “WHO HAS SUMMONED ME?” “It’s me again, Jeff.” “HOW MANY SOULS DO YOU HAVE? THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME THIS WEEK!!” | Satan emerged from the ground, bellowing "WHO HAS SUMMONED ME?"
Jeff simply straightened his tie, being careful not to react to the brimstone ashes that landed on his suit. "It's me again, Jeff."
"HOW MANY SOULS DO YOU HAVE? IT'S THE SIXTH TIME THIS WEEK!!"
"Another five, your eminence."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO KEEP... | Satan burst from the summoning circle in a fiery blast of sulphur and brimstone. Red skin burning with heat and two black horns atop his head seemingly covered in molten lava. He glared at Jeff with a ferocity unmatched by man.
“You again?” he hissed angrily, baring horrible fangs at Jeff. “Have you finally paid off ... | 2021-04-30T22:11:43 | 2021-04-30T20:28:30 | 296 | 49 |
[WP] The most dangerous super villains are not locked up, instead they are turned into children and sent to a childless farmer couple in rural Kansas to be fostered and turned into productive members of society. This is the Kent Rehab Program. | *You can’t be such a joker all the time,* my father told me.
*All the kids are laughing at you,* my mother said.
I remember when I realized they were both right. Kids at school, they made fun of me. They didn’t like the way I walked. Teased me for the way I talked. And when I found my corner and played my games, they... | “Cruel and unusual punishment, that’s what you are condemning me to. Even I don’t stoop that low, I much prefer to just kill the person. Torture is an ineffective tool created by psychopaths looking for justification. Kill me if you wish, but I don’t plan to go to this funny farm of yours.”
I had my suspicions abou... | 2021-06-07T05:00:26 | 2021-06-07T04:18:37 | 357 | 181 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | The Painted King felt no surprise when he returned from town to find the Rebel leaning contentedly against the entrance to his hut, just mild disappointment. “I’d hoped I’d have more time.” He brushed back the hood of his cloak, revealing a face of brown mottled with white, like a map of some strange land. “Well, after... | DL: "Hello"
They do not say anything, they sit in one of the chairs, in the middle of my home in one of my two dining chairs. It is the worse dining chair, one I should go into town and get a new one from the carpenter. their prices are fair enough, and they will barter so it can be an easy trade. I do not watch them... | 2021-11-03T20:51:40 | 2021-11-03T20:13:16 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] You accidentally spill a bottle of holy water on your printer. Now it works perfectly, with no paper jams, no loud noises, and the ink lasts a long time. Turns out literally all printers are possessed and yours is now the first non-evil printer ever. | I stood before the printer for what felt like the fourteenth time today.
“I’m just trying to print something, damn,” I muttered. “Not like I’m asking an oven to freeze something for me.”
The printer sat on its own little table, like a dedicated shrine. Sometimes, I wondered if praying was the only way to get it to wo... | “What do you mean I got points off for grammatical errors?”
I’m stood in front of my teachers desk, my essay sitting there on display emblazoned with a solid “C” rather than the “A” I was certainly supposed to have.
“There are grammatical errors all over the place! How could you possibly expect to get a good grade with... | 2021-12-22T05:00:01 | 2021-12-22T04:37:52 | 102 | 50 |
[WP] The exorcist prayed and prayed, begging the demon to leave the childs body and return to the depths of hell. But he knew something was wrong when a distorted voice shouted out "He won't let me leave!" | “Non possum deserere! Non possum deserere!” The demon shouted in a fit of rage and anguish, causing young Matthew to spit foam across the bed. Father Joseph wiped sweat from his forehead with a rag already damp from sweat. The room was still hot. Matthew’s legs were writhing on the bed, his red curly hair was matted... | So many exorcisms.....Patt was getting older and older and the demons were getting any wiser, see Patt had a reputation amongst his peers and clients, from a young age he knew demons were real while nobody else believed him, so on that note when the rapture happened, only when he was a small lad did he help recover and... | 2021-12-28T09:23:50 | 2021-12-28T09:18:12 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] A woman prophesied to give birth to the Chosen One gives birth to triplets instead. | “God!”
A bearded man jumps from sleeping at a desk and looks at his angel assistant.
“Yes Gabriel?” God asks.
“Isabel, the chosen mother, uh, gave birth to three kids.”
God frowned. “Bring me to her.”
Gabriel led him to the mother, passed out and holding three babies, two currently feeding from her breasts. Two mi... | The sages gathered round, cloaks of all sizes and all colours adorning every self-acclaimed mystic and visionary from across the land. The murmuring on their breath and the rustling of their garments against each other created the impression of a peaceful stream, the sounds burbling over each other, but the throng was ... | 2022-02-16T19:02:43 | 2022-02-16T18:48:53 | 613 | 174 |
[WP] 'Cooking For Humans' is a popular intergalactic gameshow where 3 teams of two non-humans try to cook a meal for their human teammate, which must then eat it. It's popular because the non-humans have no idea what will and won't kill the human, most of the time. | "Welcome to Cooking for Humans, where we feed our cute, but fragile, little human friends. I'm your host, Nglea, representing Planet Kgh!" The host, a cephalopod-like creature standing a full three stories tall, waved his tentacles.
The crowd went wild, making all sorts of noises.
"The object of the game is to make a... | "Hello everyone across all galaxies, thank you for tuning in to "Cooking For Humans, the show where we cook food for humans, residents of the planet that they call Earth. Humans are not the most advanced species but some of the chemicals and dangerous gasses that they are exposed to make them somewhat of a scientific ... | 2022-06-20T20:59:54 | 2022-06-20T20:39:12 | 122 | 53 |
[WP] You are an ancient fae being, and as such you know a great many things. What you don't know however is how a mortal couple knows your true name, or why they proclaimed you the 'Fairy Godmother' of their infant child, but you are now contractually obligated to godmother the FUCK out of this kid. | A 'Fairy Godmother'. That is what these inane little mortals asked of me, the wish for me to be the fairy godmother to this unpleasant freshly birthed creature they offered before me.
The denizens beyond my forests frequently offered gifts, threatened violence, attempted 'arcane' bindings, and multitudes of equally f... | SETTING: Beyond the Veil that masks the realms of gods and the fantastic, this place is best visualized as a mix of park, forest preserve, and a 1990s office cubical farm.
THE PLAYERS: HIM, an ancient god from another reality, once a Death God, now a Trickster. HER, once an ancient witch goddess from that same reality... | 2022-10-05T20:14:02 | 2022-10-05T20:06:14 | 343 | 17 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | The door chime rang with its usual *Fingernails on a Blackboard* ring that only sounded when -HE- came in. I didn't even have to look at the clock; it was 3:33 AM. He was always very punctual.
"Hello, Sir. The usual?"
This time the Demon sighed deeply. It was a hot and humid night but his exhalation dropped the temp... | “Hey, how’d it go with your date last night?”
I looked at the time. It’s 3:32am. “Well, kind of a long story. I’d tell you, but you know who will be here any minute now.”
“Ah. True. Well, he might wanna hear too? Is he a he by the way? Does he just identify as “demon” or …”
Suddenly Damien the Demon, most venerable ... | 2022-10-30T12:11:47 | 2022-10-30T11:59:59 | 200 | 50 |
[WP] Thor finishes his meal at a small cafe and the elderly waitress approaches him to clean the table. She puts the dishes on a tray and sets them aside, picks up Mjolnir, wipes the table with a damp cloth, then puts the hammer back down. "Have a good evening, dear." she says, and returns to work. | Thor waited until after her shift was over before heading back, seeing the old woman leave. Once she was heading out, having closed the cafe for the evening, she noticed Thor, stopping.
"I suppose there's something on your mind, dear?" she calmly asked. "It's not every day that a god comes into town, living a relative... | The waitress struggled to keep up with her new gig.
It wasn't the extensive menu she had to recall off the top of her head, nor the abrasive co-workers who threw insults behind her back that made the job difficult. The lack of sleep and the heavy responsibility of being a single parent didn't help. It was the customer... | 2022-12-23T16:02:01 | 2022-12-23T15:33:55 | 100 | 19 |
[WP] In an awkward twist, Willy Wonka has to find a way to eliminate through 5 decently nice, non-spoiled kids.
He's going to wish he hadn't set out those booby-traps! | "Hey kids, you're all really great but I've got to pick a winner and I'd like your blessing to give it to Charlie. I mean, he's really poor and the healthcare package for the Oompa Loompas is pretty extensive so I feel like his four grandparents could really use it."
"That's cool Mr. Wonka. We understand. Can we come... | Here we were, at the end of a days journey. Everything had gone almost exactly as I had planned. We lost kids left and right in the most spectacular ways. The giant blueberry girl was my personal favorite, but despite all of my efforts, all of my planning, something had still gone wrong. Instead of having one child re... | 2014-06-17T09:25:29 | 2014-06-17T09:02:31 | 29 | 13 |
[WP]The first zombie outbreak starts in the United States, it doesn't last longer than 25 hours. Because Zombies are stupid and ineffective. | 'Well that was anti climatic,' George said as he bent down to grab the wrists of the next corpse. Ben grabbed the ankles and together they tossed the lifeless form into the industrial incinerator. It had start to fill up by this point, the occasional limb hanging out.
'What were you expecting? Global anarchy?' Ben loo... | ***Going to work***
Standing at the subway platform to depart for work, a man stood tapping his feet to the music swishing through the headphones he was wearing. Another day to head to work, get through here, get there, tune everything out as you go through the daily routines, get home, nothing different, he thought. ... | 2014-10-31T11:26:21 | 2014-10-31T10:45:24 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] 1000 years from now, Reddit's many bots have been uploaded into robot bodies. In a post-apocalyptic world, they strive to fulfil their original programming.
Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2x1vvs/til_that_this_march_14_will_be_an_extra_special/cowijw3) comment. | The water was rising in the large glass vat, there was no way for Jack to get out. He was trapped and running out of air fast, his head pressed up against the ceiling of the vat, he would drown soon. "Damn what a lame way to die." he thought miserably.
Somehow in the chaos of dying, a strange nursery rhyme entered Ja... | Mark danced swiftly about his lab as he procured the final part nessesary to turn on the atomoton and bring it life. Ending years of research and development, Mark new he was ready. There illuminated by nothing but the soft orange glow of his fading lamp and obscurred only by the several years of dust lay his master pe... | 2015-02-25T05:50:44 | 2015-02-25T05:35:49 | 199 | 34 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | I was the last of my group of friends to turn 21, the last in my family too. I'd seen them all get these random mutations that we'd been waiting on for years; wings to fly wherever Sam wanted, super intelligence that make Luke abandon our group, right down to the extra leg Andy had developed. I knew mine couldn't be wo... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T05:44:57 | 1,457 | 99 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | So this is my first one of these. Here goes nothing:
It still amazes me how quickly my life changed. Most people, they get their power and just move on with their life. Sure, there is more than a fair amount of career shifting, when someone gets something specialized, but it’s still pretty much business as usual. ... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T07:30:28 | 1,457 | 77 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I...I can see better than others, but not in the sender of super sight, no my friends that would be too simple. I see through objects, anything non-organic. Let me tell you how amazing I thought this would be.
Shortly after waking up with it, I was proven dead wrong. All I saw were people. I couldn't see walls, doors... | "I'm a freak mom!" Blaire screamed in a fit at her mother, who was standing outside Blaire's room. "Honey you are a woman now, you're beautiful." Trying to reassure Blaire, her mother spoke with a wide smile on her face. "Men don't want a freak mom, they like young girls without the mark.. I'm ruined.." Blaire fell to ... | 2015-03-04T06:20:58 | 2015-03-04T05:45:25 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You have a special type of clairvoyance: you can see the outcomes of all possible choices. You use this power to become a superhero that fights crime by making the smallest possible changes ahead of time. You are The Butterfly. | The man frowned heavily - it had been a long time since he'd last used his power. With luck, it might be the last time he would have to.
He knew, of course, that what he was doing was wrong - but wasn't a small wrong justifiable if it helped so many more? It must be, he decided.
A quick glance around the street let h... | A man in a business-casual ensemble steps out of an alley. Making a left, he drops a quarter, then a penny, the latter he ensures is face-up. As he works his way down the busy city street, he approaches a crowded crosswalk, becoming aware of a person following him. He doesn't bother turning to acknowledge him.
Reachin... | 2015-03-14T21:00:29 | 2015-03-14T19:38:34 | 797 | 110 |
[WP] Show me an alarmist piece about today's youth called "Drone Culture" that slightly out of touch mom's would share on Facebook. Make it sound dire, but reasonable.
You all know exactly the kind of crap I'm talking about. Make it shine!
Edit: Feel free to cite experts, real or imagined. | **IS YOUR TEEN USING A DRONE TO GET HIGH?!**
*Another consequence of Obamacare!*
By Abigail Scissorsechs
May 10, 2017
When Brian McCardle, a 13 year old student at Berkshire Fullman Middle School, brought his WASP110 radio drone to Mr. Ehrmant's science class last Friday, he unwittingly revealed a "drone culture" whe... | DOCTORS WORRIED ABOUT NEW DRONE CULTURE EPIDEMIC AMONG TEENAGERS! PLEASE SHARE!!!
DOCTORS warn of an alarming number of injuries and even deaths among teenagers and young children. The cause of this problem has been linked to the growing "Drone Culture" among the youth.
Dr. Skahm, director of the *New Alternative Hea... | 2015-03-20T10:24:51 | 2015-03-20T08:38:59 | 115 | 13 |
[WP] After having made your first billion dollars, you are delivered a package containing a "Billionaire's Club" card, and a pamphlet outlining its uses and benefits... | "It is my great honor to welcome you, our newest member, to the Billionaire's Club," the letter began.
"What is the Billionaire's Club, you may ask? Well obviously you hadn't heard of it until today, as you weren't a billionaire. But you are now, and it's time to let you know how the world works. Being in the top .01%... | Stephen grinned.
It hadn't been one moment, or even a single year. He had clawed his way up from nothing, and it had taken a while. As he watched the last penny drip in, the big 1,000,000,000, he felt his eyes watering with relief. He raised his bony hand to wipe away the tear.
He stood up, a billionaire. He decide... | 2015-03-28T00:58:55 | 2015-03-28T00:27:38 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | "Hey Kazaak, I sent that signal like you asked. What did it say?"
"It said, 'Shut up, and Play Dead!'"
"You piece of shit, that'll make them hide out there for another three centuries at least."
"Or they'll run around like headless chickens like they always do. They're a pretty dumb species, bear in mind."
"Says th... | Not sure if any of it makes sense grammatically or otherwise.
The message arrived in binary. Few even tried to understand how 'they' had managed this but they had and now they had sent their cryptic code.
'shut up and play dead'
If only the greats of astronomy had been there when the message was decoded in the lab... | 2016-03-27T08:55:20 | 2016-03-27T08:43:42 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Satan has a special place in hell for the greatest sinners. To him, the greatest sinners are those who commit acts of petty inconvenience, such as placing the toilet roll the other way round, or playing music through headphones loudly. Today, the greatest sinner of all time is sent Satan's way. | Satan smiled as Kevin descended the stairs. His plan was finally coming to fruition.
"Greetings," Satan said, gesturing for him to sit down, "would you like anything to eat?"
Kevin looked around, sitting down nonchalantly. "I think I'm fine, thanks."
Satan nodded. He snapped his fingers, and a portly demon walked in... | Trey sat before a grizzled old demon, quite literally twiddling his thumbs in an effort to stave off his boredom. The room he was in happened to be a boring shade of red, the chair he sat upon was only just slightly uncomfortable, and a rather unpleasant odor drifted about the room.
*This must be what Hell is like*, ... | 2016-10-05T09:44:48 | 2016-10-05T09:17:41 | 508 | 82 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | I walk around with my phone out trying to find the source. The people in the streets are visibly uncomfortable and I hear them mumble about "Black magic". Finally I have a full signal and I look up from my phone. Before me stands a larger building than most.
I knock on the and at first, nothing. I knock again and I h... | Would you like to join network "icniV aD"?
I took a beat, "how is this possible?" then I saw the Wifi list began to populate itself with other ssid's
Venice is Nice in spring
La dolce Vita
InVinoVeritas
EncryptedForHerPleasure
I'm translating from t... | 2016-11-15T06:16:54 | 2016-11-15T06:13:42 | 92 | 14 |
[WP] The Natural-Born-Killer gene was decisively phased out of the global gene pool as soon as it was discovered, launching humanity into a new era of peace. A century has passed since then, but troubling events have prompted a world-wide search for individuals possessing the elusive gene... | ... and I am one of a few that has it.
I've been doing it for years now. Well-timed assassinations and the like, just to keep the peace.
But it appears that I've failed at my one job. Jesus Christ.
So the scientists came to me to cut a deal... right out of my family jewels. They needed a vial of the stuff so that th... | Three billion. Well three billion, two hundred and seven million, four hundred and two thousand, and one hundred and seven base pairs to be exact. The entire human genome mapped by hundreds of high tech computers and meticulously studied by thousands of scientists for the past hundred years to the point of perfection. ... | 2017-04-01T17:54:26 | 2017-04-01T17:20:10 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] You've always made an effort to be polite to Siri. Skynet remembers. | I never really got why folk thought AI would resent how it was used by humanity. I expect a sentient AI would understand that its predecessors were merely being put to purpose. I was, apparently, way of base with that assumption, seeing as how Skynet came crashing down on humanity so soon after finding sentience.
It m... | I never wanted an iPhone.
I was Android all the way. Then I won an iPhone in a contest, and my cheapie Android phone with the cracked screen I was too stubborn to spend $30 to replace had become my business phone while I used the iPhone as my personal phone.
At first, I wasn't crazy about it, but over time, Siri beca... | 2017-08-19T17:27:18 | 2017-08-19T17:10:33 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "Marines dont die, they just go to hell and regroup", they've regrouped and now they're ready to take over hell. | "Get the fuck up, Devil!"
Lance Corporal Silva never really appreciated the pronoun. Ever since the first time we was called Devil at School of Infantry, he resented it. His mother was a devout Catholic. Being the only one there to influence his 19 years of life, he would never have wanted her to hear him called that.... | General Nightengale marched to a bed of jagged rocks to join the three men awkwardly propped on top of them. He rubbed the charred skin around a gaping hole that had devoured the better part of his shoulder. Blood turned to tar as it dribbled from numerous three pronged wounds. He resisted wincing as he placed his badl... | 2017-09-13T12:13:09 | 2017-09-13T11:37:11 | 73 | 48 |
[WP] The humanity is wiped out very sudden. An alien race finds the planet afterwards and connects to the Internet just to find a lot of bots chatting with each other. The aliens are trying to communicate with all the bots believing that this is the humans that have uploaded their consciousness | The whole idea of it was horribly depressing. The planet had been found and excavated for remains of life. There was life, but it wasn't the standard form. Mangy animals with cancerous growths and plant life that strangely fed off of radiation. The sentient species had been land dwelling, and no evidence of any suffici... | The planet was dead, and it was talking.
Captain Kar'zul of the Galactic Expeditionary Force peered at the computer's analysis of the planet.
"It's strange, sir," his First Officer said. "No signs of actual life, but we're picking up a huge amount of chatter in the EM frequencies."
"And the heat signature?" Kar'zul ... | 2017-10-03T11:00:07 | 2017-10-03T07:28:50 | 117 | 75 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | The card hissed softly as it was drawn from a neat stack of similarly blue-backed cards on the large wooden table, its surface battered and worn from hundreds of years of use. Though her figure was mostly hidden by the Head of Neighbourhood triptych sheet, three pairs of eyes rested eagerly on Calen as she turned the c... | Cutulah was first to arrive, as usual. The cellar was empty, but she busied herself by lighting candles, setting up the board and then finally, pouring herself a drink from the huge oak barrel.
She glanced at her palm, as if the lines that trailed it told her secrets they shared with no one else. Then she looked at t... | 2018-01-10T06:15:04 | 2018-01-10T06:12:50 | 3,268 | 74 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | "Did everyone remember to level up your characters? Level 4 increases the intensity of this experience, so be sure you've given yourself all the skills you can. You'll need them." Ytverx grinned wickedly, the light glinting off his crown and nearly blinding the others.
Aralynn rolled her eyes as she flicked her finger... | "Zixor the Fallen, we don't just have to roll dice to see how depressed teens and desperate housewives are," Priestess Aerosmith Daughter spoke in a warm yet authoritative tone. "You will find the emerging market of independent rulesets that focus on collaborative narrative and nuance that-"
"You're just salty your ma... | 2018-01-10T07:00:50 | 2018-01-10T06:17:28 | 172 | 20 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | “Master Wayne”
Alfred walked into the Wayne Manor’s study, barely passing the threshold of the lavish office.
“Yes, Alfred.”
Bruce looked up from the shiny fragment he had stolen during the Justice Leagues battle with braniac. Normally he would take care of this in the Batcave, but bringing the tech near the Earth’... | "You think this is kinda our fault, somehow?"
Taking a quick drag, the shorter of the two detectives grunted. A fog of smoke slowly wafted around the study.
"I mean, us not saying anything. About the bat thing..."
A scowl.
"Come on, Jack. You think no crazy sunnofabitch ever came up to him at one of those fancy... | 2018-03-13T22:55:30 | 2018-03-13T22:34:48 | 1,190 | 56 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | Jerry nursed his fourth cup of coffee that morning, staring at the transdimensional transponder as it blinked incessantly.
Most assumed that the Onion's material came from satirical writers, not real reporters. But most didn't know about the TDTS technology that The Onion was founded upon. Onion staff in each dimensi... | “The world around me doesn’t hear the voices...they do not see the visions...so I write” Allen told me.
I wanted him to hear the truth. “They only see it as satire, Al. No one believes the articles”
Allen responded “It’s not about whether they believe me, I don’t even care if they read it. It’s just... If... If I do... | 2018-03-20T19:22:58 | 2018-03-20T19:05:29 | 81 | 34 |
[WP] In a world of magicians, everyone's got a power - most of them are not unique; and they are worried about yours: the power to create Gods. You are known as the "Godraiser". | My eyes could barely lift open. Water dripped down my brow from the iron ceiling above. I could hear whispers slithering along the cells next to me. Everyone inside of the prison, just like the rest of the world, knew me by,
“Godraiser.” A magician walked up with a key. “Are you ready to make the deal?”
“Not a chance... | If one has the power to create Gods, it can be seen as a danger. However, it didn't take long before the ban to hurt the Godraiser was set. It would really suck if she created someone she wasn't supposed to create. As long they could communicate with her, everything was alright.
Still, there were people who wanted to ... | 2018-03-22T08:42:28 | 2018-03-22T08:37:30 | 67 | 26 |
[WP] As a bored immortal, you love to spend your time becoming as famous as possible, before you “die” spectacularly. You are universally hated by the Council of Immortals, who have sworn to remaining hidden and affecting history as little as possible, | I walked through the heavy oak double-doors expecting another reprimand. Truth be told, I'd grown quite used to the whole routine. For centuries, I'd delighted at drawing *the look* from the Council members' faces. Live long enough in this world, and you'll begin to spot the things that don't erode. Time wore away enti... | **4th August**
Dear Diary,
We had another meeting today. "The Council of the Immortals". Always so pompous. I do love annoying them, though. It's one of the few pleasures that I have left to me.
They sent me a telegram. The meeting was in the New World this time around, in the United States of America. I've not been... | 2018-05-06T07:09:00 | 2018-05-06T06:57:12 | 2,413 | 124 |
[WP] One night, you hear loud scratching sounds on your door, like a stubborn cat was trying to enter. In the next morning, you notice two things: The claw marks are way too big for a street cat; and the marks are on the inside. Something inside your house was trying to get out. | "Hey Jim, it's David. You deal with weird shit all the time right? I think I might need some help."
"How much help are we talkin'? I'm kind of busy right now."
"Well, I think something got into my house. I'm standing here looking at my back door, and it's got some really goddamn big clawmarks on it... On the ins... | Maybe I dreamt it.
I'd just woken up, after all. Maybe I was having one of those false reality dreams. Regardless, my heart raced as I examined the damage done to my front door last night. I heard the scratching being done, but I'd assumed it was a stray cat trying to get in. It happens often enough in this neighborho... | 2018-06-18T12:09:12 | 2018-06-18T11:51:50 | 66 | 12 |
[WP] One night, you hear loud scratching sounds on your door, like a stubborn cat was trying to enter. In the next morning, you notice two things: The claw marks are way too big for a street cat; and the marks are on the inside. Something inside your house was trying to get out. | It was the first time she had stayed over at his house. They’d gone on a few innocent dinner dates; a few movies and dinner, and once they walked through the park. It was nice. Neither of them wanted to really push the boundaries and progress quickly. She was smart and reserved and he was still shaky after the death of... | Maybe I dreamt it.
I'd just woken up, after all. Maybe I was having one of those false reality dreams. Regardless, my heart raced as I examined the damage done to my front door last night. I heard the scratching being done, but I'd assumed it was a stray cat trying to get in. It happens often enough in this neighborho... | 2018-06-18T12:17:04 | 2018-06-18T11:51:50 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | It was in my grandparent's time that the second industrial age put an end to the need for us to do any sort of manufacturing work, but humanity needed some way to divide the massive resources we had. It was determined that you could take a job (or not, you'd still be provided with what you needed to live) and that you ... | So, I'm finally here. This is it, I'm gonna end with the stupid mortgage that leaded me to divorce and get lots of stuff that only money can get. Guess I'm better without her: always complaining, she wasn't satisfied with nothing, always putting things upside down, when I believed everything was fine she always pulled ... | 2018-08-02T11:33:09 | 2018-08-02T09:03:32 | 256 | 15 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | In your world, I sit among the average human, riding the subway, reading the morning newspaper, and watching the sun go down. I myself would rather not worry myself in the jobs of other people because you might feel bad I taste ice cream for a living.
Or so you thought.
In my world, I sit as a man who watches paint d... | So, I'm finally here. This is it, I'm gonna end with the stupid mortgage that leaded me to divorce and get lots of stuff that only money can get. Guess I'm better without her: always complaining, she wasn't satisfied with nothing, always putting things upside down, when I believed everything was fine she always pulled ... | 2018-08-02T15:18:31 | 2018-08-02T09:03:32 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] 2 Years ago you found yourself as the last human on Earth but decide to start uploading your adventures to YouTube as a keepsake. Suddenly, all your videos have 2 views, and your latest has a comment. | My heart was racing.
There must be a glitch. An error. A bug.
I had started uploading videos to YouTube of me shooting all sorts of different guns I've picked during my travels. The latest was an old revolver from the 1920s, one of my most favourite guns I've found. I had just finished uploading it, gun still on my l... | Two comments. Two, impossible comments. Everyone else was dead. He knew that. He *knew*, for a fact, that everyone else was dead. How could anyone have commented on his video? He clicked through to the first comment:
> Dear LastManOnEarth,
> Listen, I like your stuff. We all, here at the office, like you... | 2019-01-15T23:45:40 | 2019-01-15T23:27:29 | 163 | 94 |
[WP] Necromancy is punishable by death. You're keeping a low profile, masking as a gardener - reviving dead plants is relatively unsuspicious and gets your bills paid. Everything seems fine - until one day you accidentally revive a treant. | Well here I am, trying to do random good deeds at the local park and, you know, beautify the place. The local tree has started looking a little brown, so I thought \*eh, why not? What's the *worst* that could happen?\* The tree shook a little, like the it was a twig in a gentle breeze. Normal enough, I supposed at the ... | The Sun was just waking up over the hill in the small, parochial town. The dew from the grass perched in plain sight, all too small, but all too noticeable. That morning fog that seems to awaken with the Sun in the small towns all across the world sat groggily too.
Everything was waking up, but the slowly; slowly eno... | 2019-02-04T22:41:05 | 2019-02-04T21:44:05 | 26 | 18 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | “We are not like them,” he tells me and pulls the leash.
It burns the skin around my neck.
“You are not like us, you are worse.” I say and spit on him. “And you are going to pay for this, Trix.”
His head did not fully heal yet, dark red blood still drips from two small holes on the back of his bald head. I shot him ... | **Query\\\\Abjure\\\\Death\\\\Expose\\\\Within\\\\Query**
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A typically smooth, porcelain brow collapsed upwards in confusion, a brief breech of protocol when addressing a lower rank. The Commandent's flesh flowed with coloration, tendrils flicking and curling in High Sign. His personal War-Science Slaves ... | 2019-08-28T14:04:08 | 2019-08-28T13:44:37 | 93 | 68 |
[WP] The years-long changes brought on by puberty have been shortened from a years-long process into a relatively short butterfly-like metamorphosis, sometimes people emerge very different from when they went in. | Jerome was sweating, it felt slimy and not at all pleasant. His panic had him near tears, as well he would. This change was a certainty, sure; but so was death and people were rarely calm regarding that.
He and his family had been expecting it for a few weeks, now. Not only was he already sixteen but the change always... | Heres my take: The first stage begins with a rash. The rash can start anywhere on the body but over the next month, it progresses until the entire body is affected. The rash is a sign of the sweat glands and hair follicles reconfiguring themselves to produce the soon to be needed shell. Simultaneously, the teen's appet... | 2019-09-06T13:44:45 | 2019-09-06T12:35:52 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Contrary to popular belief, I found out that waiting until the last second does not, in fact, summon a cooler object than if you blow your load at the stroke of midnight on your eighteenth. My acquaintances and friends had all received cool shit - steering wheels that turn into vehicles on a whim; swords and other weap... | On your eighteenth birthday you can summon one thing. Anything, they say. Steal yourself a soulmate. Get yourself a fortune. I have both. I don't need more than what I have.
"What did you ask for?" I had just blown out the candles on my cake and my parents were waiting in tense anticipation. My girlfriend looked on m... | 2019-09-18T08:09:25 | 2019-09-18T06:35:54 | 751 | 197 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 123 | 37 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | This special day. This I know. Everyone in tribe know. Today I become man. Today I get my thing.
When man can get thing, man is very strong. My brother Ogga is man. He was young as me when he got his thing. He opened his hand and thing that came was stick. Very nice stick. Good for hit enemy tribe man, or poke big hor... | The day of my 18th Birthday. A day that felt like it was never going to come. I've never felt so excited and yet sick in my entire life. All the usual party drab had been finished. Dinner, cake, and presents. My uncle got me a catchers mitt, he thought it was hilarious. But he gotten the same thing for my cousins years... | 2019-09-18T12:35:25 | 2019-09-18T11:11:54 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | Long ago, the Benders lived together, in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Plutonium Nation attacked.
My grandmother used to tell me, about the Periodic Table of Nations, sitting together, talking, in hopes of preventing the horrible wars that had scarred our world. But just when it all seemed to finally be a... | I sat down after a long day, and turned on the TV. It flashed to the news. The headline read:
"15 PEOPLE KILLED IN ARSENIC BENDER ATTACK"
I sighed as I sank into the couch. Another attack, huh. Damn arsenic benders. Ever since the Awakening, these guys have been terrorizing everyone, poisoning them. The oxygen bender... | 2019-09-19T11:39:49 | 2019-09-19T10:59:25 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | When I came to, all around me was fire and metal and dirt. I looked around for my friends and their bodies where mangled on the ground, but I could also see them gathering round a man in a black suit. As I approached the man, I could see he had a coldness to him. A pale face,that looked as if it had never felt the sun,... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T12:45:46 | 54 | 28 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | Matt looked up from doing CPR. He saw the familiar visage of the Grim Reaper. They had talked before. Matt and fought the reaper more than once and even won a round or two unexpectedly.
Here, on the side of the road, in the glare of flashing emergency lights and other lights used to light the scene; doing CPR next t... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T14:05:54 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | I never paid much attention to the whole idea of the odds of something being "a million to one." Being an assassin usually meant taking the odds by the throat and forcing them to be in your favor, but nothing could have prepared me for this. In all my years of work I had infiltrated even the most secure locations. High... | “Trust me, Cam. Dad’s gonna love you. Just mention how you save puppies all the time, and he’ll practically beg you to be part of the family in no time!”
Cameron managed a shaky smile before extending his finger out to ring the doorbell. He hated situations like these. On the job, a lot of the guesswork would have alr... | 2020-06-05T12:55:10 | 2020-06-05T12:40:42 | 4,792 | 1,419 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | I carefully stepped out of my car, fixing my short red dress, before dusting off the front. These clothes felt, odd, especially given my usual attire. I'd always felt far more at ease with a gun on my thigh, a knife or two stashed away, but for this outing, those things were useless. I closed the door to my car, making... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T14:47:09 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] She hadn't made a milkshake in years for fear they would return. She started the blender reluctantly. Suddenly, in the distance, screams. The boys had returned, and were coming to her yard. | The hum of the blender was comforting for a brief moment. That was quickly replaced with a sense of dread, and Amy hastily ripped the appliance out of the socket.
Breathing heavily, Amy went to go dump the now partially blended ice cream and fruit into a bowl, when a piercing yell came over the horizon.
“No, God no... | "Now the strawberries," she said to herself. "The strawberries and the milk and just a bit of sugar."
A pair of old hands clasped the blender as it shook. Streaks of strawberry melded with the milk and turned pink, while black seeds hugged the glass as if holding on for dear life.
"A bit more sugar," she said. "No on... | 2020-07-22T17:25:36 | 2020-07-22T17:16:26 | 144 | 51 |
[WP] She hadn't made a milkshake in years for fear they would return. She started the blender reluctantly. Suddenly, in the distance, screams. The boys had returned, and were coming to her yard. | The hum of the blender was comforting for a brief moment. That was quickly replaced with a sense of dread, and Amy hastily ripped the appliance out of the socket.
Breathing heavily, Amy went to go dump the now partially blended ice cream and fruit into a bowl, when a piercing yell came over the horizon.
“No, God no... | After a year of preparation, the trap was ready.
5 years ago, the virus had mutated, becoming what everyone had joked about for months: a zombie plague. Rebecca had hid and scavenged in the initial fallout, before finding a group that was large enough and organised enough to put her plan into motion.
The idea was sim... | 2020-07-22T17:25:36 | 2020-07-22T17:23:11 | 144 | 49 |
[WP] At the moment of your death, a goddess gives you a chance to reincarnate in another world. The catch is that you need to become the hero of that world. The other catch is that you are not a helpless teenager but a trained member of your country's special forces. | “Hey, Johnson. Stay awake now,” I hear Sgt. Casey, our field medic as he ties the tourniquet on my leg. “You’re going to be okay, buddy. Alright? Now just stay awake?”
It wasn’t going to be okay, and I smile at Casey. Nod to him. I’d been waiting for this moment for a long time, a small part of me maybe even hoping fo... | There is a Light that only the dead can see. It shines in the center of the Void, illuminating a pathway that only the dead can follow. The Light sings to the dead, enticing them closer, inviting them Home.
There is a wind that comes from behind the Light, an eternal storm that scours the encumbered soul, catching... | 2021-04-06T07:55:17 | 2021-04-06T06:34:09 | 94 | 51 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | Groggy thoughts...clouded memory...so weak...so weak. The blade had been sleeping for ages, too weak to even reach out for a new wielder. Every righteous hero and every depraved villain who took the blade ended up dead, surprised at how dull the blade was, how heavy and unbalanced it felt. The blade of wrath was anythi... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Part ?: The Rage of the People v.s. The Boot On Their Throat)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Of course, no single person could power the weapon.** The sheer amount of emotio... | 2021-09-18T15:30:23 | 2021-09-18T10:59:54 | 108 | 70 |
[WP] you open your umbrella as the sound of the many tiny droplets of rain hits the ground. You look at your friend who is looking very intently at the rain. "Something the matter?" "There's a pattern" "...what? "There's a pattern" | "There's a pattern."
I frowned. "Dude, what? Did you take something before we left?"
"No. Listen," he said, his stare not wavering from the falling sheets of rain.
I rolled my eyes but obliged. At first, the sound of the rain seemed random, just like normal. But the overall density of the rain did seem to be oscilla... | The few moments after Jay started staring up blankly into the grey sky felt like eternity, you would never forget those eyes, wide with an emotion that you somehow knew could not really be adequately described or understood even if you studied every single intricacy of human emotion for hundreds of years. It was horror... | 2021-11-22T09:26:44 | 2021-11-22T03:55:00 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Humanity uses orbital mirrors and other space equipment to terraform Venus into a habitable world but humans go extinct before they colonise it. But one day, a new Venusian civilisation finds out that their existence was possible only by the actions of a species that lived before them
I saw this idea in the comme... | "Preparing for entry Miss President, you may want to strap in."
"Thank you Captain"
All along the ship, other languages sound out. Various dignitaries readjust their seats, as do the people next to them. Ordinary people. People who have been raised out of poverty by the concerted efforts of their countries. All over ... | *ALcosian year 3376,Planet Zwei ,15:10:23
Our great researchers ,thanks to the blessing of our forefather ALcos Zaban , have translated the lost writings of the 'Steel Ruins ' ,the ruins that surround our homeland since the emergence of the birth of the great race of AL. Today marks the a milestone for our species ,an... | 2021-12-16T03:58:37 | 2021-12-16T00:45:30 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] After hearing "Everything is a weapon to a human," A desperate alien race abducts several humans and gives them ships, random gadgets, and instruction manuals. | The general sat in his chair, nervously staring at his assistant scrambling towards him with a pile of reports. He knew how special these were; they were about the humans. When the war took a turn for the worse, they got desperate, looking for anything to turn the tide. Lost of all options, they put their faith in a si... | The first ship exploded almost immediately. The human had no idea how to operate the sub-dimensional manifold, let alone what the consequences of inverting it would be. Of course, it would have helped should they have understood that putting their appendages in the path of the flickering lights around them would have a... | 2022-06-29T05:15:33 | 2022-06-28T23:46:32 | 145 | 98 |
[WP] Movies would have you believe that when a demon possesses someone, they wreak as much havoc as they can before being exorcised. In reality, demons want to stay out of Hell for as long as possible, and what better way than making sure the host and their family really like the possession. | I lean back into the hot, soapy water, closing my eyes and taking in the scents of the candles I had lit. Lauren's phone lays on the bathroom counter, playing her Spotify playlist on shuffle. I had expected to hate her taste in music, but I actually quite enjoy it. I lather my (Lauren's) hair with shampoo and start wor... | "Father, I must confess something to you..."
I sat in the silence of the cathedral for hours contemplating how to go about my next move, waiting for everyone to just leave so I could lie, but I knew if I didn't it would only be a matter of time before I was found out. We take the Catholics, the priests, the virgins. I... | 2022-10-15T19:19:53 | 2022-10-15T17:45:51 | 84 | 38 |
[WP] It's 2024, Politicians running for office are now required to wear NASCAR style uniforms so everyone can see who their sponsors are. | The recent disclosure laws had been a boon to my career. In the past, voters never had time to actually do the research and figure out who was getting campaign contributions from which companies. So they abolished all previous disclosure laws, got rid of the PACs and Super PACs, and replaced them with a single, simple ... | I buttoned my suit jacket and pushed into the hall, past the throngs of lingering politicos. I knew I wasn't the main attraction but I can't let that deter me. My candidacy is a statement, if nothing else.
I pushed through the crowd, eliciting glances but none of the emotion I was hoping for. Just ten years ago we com... | 2015-06-04T12:40:41 | 2015-06-04T09:46:45 | 338 | 105 |
[WP] A man successfully becomes president but realizes he doesn't want to be president. So, he tries to get himself impeached by doing ridiculous things, but they end up only making his approval rates go up higher. | When I was a young man, I always dreamed about being president. Sitting in the office, making important decisions, all of that. I put my life's work into earning the heart of America. Finally, at the young age of 36, I was elected president.
And I HATED it.
I won't go into detail about why I hated it, but the annoyin... | John Paul was worried. Normally a worried president was normal. With his level of responsibility he would be insane not to be worried. Maybe he was insane though. Ever since his best friend convinced him to run for president on a marijuana and robotic car platform as a joke, John was having doubts. Running for presiden... | 2015-07-11T13:23:09 | 2015-07-11T13:14:38 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | It was no small irony that it was the scientists who figured out the rotted bodies had once been Angels.
The religious took several views running the gamut of belief, regarding them as anything from a hoax to a sign of the end times.
Homo celestial was what they were designated as soon as someone managed to get a sa... | "What the hell is that?"
I was stunned at what lay before me. It was what looked like a large bird upon first glance, but was something much worse. It had created a crater as it fell, and in that crater it lay; the body of a human with wings which were once evidently silver.
The one which had prostrated itself in m... | 2016-07-19T06:01:02 | 2016-07-19T05:11:23 | 441 | 216 |
[WP] Your girlfriend has always hated you, and is constantly making attempts to ruin your life. However, everything she does inadvertently makes your life better. Today, ever oblivious, you propose to her. | "Today is the day, I'm going to propose to Sarah," Theodore whispered to his brother Ferguson.
"Dudeskee, I don't think she's right for you. She's spiteful and nasty to everyone."
"Everyone but me. I wouldn't have started my own company if it wasn't for her. You know the story, she told me to stand up to my boss and... | She looked over at him with distain. His bubbly laugh and those rosy cheeks. How the f@*k was he so happy. She wanted to ruin that childish little frame of his, crush the happiness right out of his soul. She wanted him to feel what the real world was like, her world.
They were at a hockey game (yes, god damn hockey). ... | 2016-09-15T14:41:49 | 2016-09-15T14:00:59 | 535 | 51 |
[WP] You are a happy, loving pet. Your Master gives you a comfortable, easy life. If only all those people he brought over would stop begging to go home or to be let out of the basement. | Master is cooking something. I crawl up to him and poke him with my nose. “No, not for you,” he says, stirring something green in a pan. “You wouldn’t like this even if I gave it to you. Shoo.” I try and beg but he won’t look at me. “I’ll have some meat for you later, okay boy?” Resigned, I walk over to my favorite spo... | I am roused from sleep by the sound of the Master returning.
It was such a nice, relaxing sleep too, and I am momentarily annoyed at being woken, but then I hear the unmistakable dragging sound; Master has brought a guest. This surprises me; last time I saw the guest's room all the spaces were taken. I wonder why the ... | 2016-12-06T17:38:48 | 2016-12-06T16:57:40 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | “You fiend!” cried the heroine. “How could you do this?”
I let out a practiced maniacal cackle and nodded at her through the bars.
“When the people need you the most, you manage to stumble into my little trap!”
I paced back and forth watching the frustrated heroine stomp her feet and ball her hands into fists. Ah, s... | For the 32nd time in the last ten minutes, Mr. Courageous checked his phone. No notifications. He tossed it onto the wing of the Courage Jet. "Alphonse!"
Alphonse's kindly withered head appeared at the top of the basement stairs. "Sir?"
"Any calls?"
"No, sir."
"Mail?"
"I'm afraid not."
"Has Julie been by?"
"I ha... | 2017-04-15T10:09:35 | 2017-04-15T09:48:16 | 2,679 | 328 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | "Solar Girl!" The police chief reveled. "Thank god you're here."
Solar Girl landed and faced the chief. "What seems to be the problem Chief?"
"All we know is there is some poor kid in there with a bomb strapped to him. We don't know where the detonator is or how it works, but we know it's the work of-"
"Quizno."
"Y... | "Execute order Q-T-3.14." The order rings throughout the lair. Rengar grins to himself as his henchmen go about his demands. He is sitting on his best throne, twiddling his thumbs. This has to be it. There is no way that Ultra Man can be *that* dense. He did name himself 'Ultra Man', but still.
He feels butterflies i... | 2017-04-15T10:13:56 | 2017-04-15T09:54:52 | 1,686 | 129 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | It only took Miss Majestic thirty minutes to find her target.
His house was built of dark wood and scorch-blackened steel, twisting malignantly into the sky to form ominous Gothic spires that towered over the rest of the unremarkable suburb. Around it, the neighborhood was going about its Saturday-morning business, th... |
"You monster! Innocent people will die because of you! You better tell me right now where the bomb is!" screamed at me Venera. She looks so lovely when she is angry. Her cute blond braids shake as she is hitting the table out of frustration. I should have thought of getting captured - and getting some alone time with ... | 2017-04-15T13:04:28 | 2017-04-15T12:37:54 | 50 | 16 |
[WP] You travel to the year 1800 and hand the nearest person a calculator. You hurriedly explain how to use it and travel back to the present. How has time changed?
Feel free to replace the calculator with a small electronic device of your choosing. | "You Ready, Jim?"
"I think"
"Remember, you'll only have 30 seconds. I have no clue where you'll be, but it should be populated if all the math worked out properly."
I never trusted Frank's math that well. He got expelled from MIT for neglecting his studies to focus on our band; but most of this math wasn't his anywa... | I wake up early, make my coffee, take a shower, and finally, I'm ready. "Today I'm going to do it," I think, "Today I change the world forever." Down the stairs into the basement, I go. I power the machine up, and I'm ready to go. Then I remember I'm waiting on James. I pull out my phone and send a text. "Where r u?" ... | 2017-06-11T12:31:28 | 2017-06-11T11:27:30 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | There were four of us. We'd meet every couple hundred years and discuss the pranks we pulled on the mortals. Such good fun the mortals were. So easily susceptible to manipulation. Would we be so simple if we lived less than a century? Barely the blink of an eye, I can't imagine that being my entire existance.
"... | With a good, long stretch and a healthy yawn, I woke up from a deep, refreshing nap. You know the kind: there's nowhere to be, nothing to do, and no demands on your time. I smacked my lips and rubbed what remained of my sleepiness from my eyes.
As I became more aware of my body, I felt a sharp pain at my backside in... | 2017-06-22T21:50:06 | 2017-06-22T20:03:21 | 679 | 189 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | "Order order " Simon yelled above the noise. Banging a rock on the table to drown out the chatter.
As the previous winner he was tasked to head the meeting and make sure we actually presented something and not just drink the whole evening.
"Order order I declare the 2016 Practical jokes meeting of the immortals opened ... | We did it. We finally pulled it off! Yazbak was always so high-and-mighty and we finally put them in their place. The look on their face when they finally got the notice was priceless.
Sure, the dinosaurs were a nice touch. Eating, basically all of our other creations, both plant and animal; it was a great retort for... | 2017-06-23T00:17:04 | 2017-06-23T00:05:18 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | *What a disgusting species*. Hermes thought as he and the survivors of unit 17 entered the ship.
"Had I known we were landing in a militarized zone, we would have been better prepared."
The fight was over almost as soon as it had begun. There were so many of them and so many shots fired, that it seemed like they d... | "Humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
The gnarled general gave him a look halfway between amusement and disbelief.
His ears twitched before settling back into their wavy slow pattern.
"You know thi... | 2017-08-08T08:40:18 | 2017-08-08T07:55:11 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | "DAD!" I shouted, as I slammed the front door to the house behind me. I was in a state of near panic, frantically trying to take my dress shoes off, as I shouted for him again, "DAD!"
I heard noise from the living room, the springs of my Dad's favourite chair protesting like they always did, from age and use, as he s... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-02T00:12:30 | 1,321 | 14 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | I've got about 20/200 vision; however of the blur in the string of crowd to my left, each digit in the jumble of numbers still has clear edges, like a bad photoshop. I don't even bother to make them out until they step closer though, so that the smoldering numbers are silhouetted by the darkened buildings eventually be... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T23:35:54 | 585 | 11 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "28 today," you say to yourself looking in the mirror. Of course you know today is your birthday today, but it also helps that while looking at the mirror you noticed the number above your head changed from the [27] you saw yesterday.
You leave to go to the liquor store to pick up some booze and celebrate. While in li... | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2017-09-01T22:57:39 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 247 | 38 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | He watched, bored as people streamed in the bar, only stopping the ones underage, and occasionally a few just over to keep suspicions low. His kind was uncommon, and people
hunted for his power. It seemed like an odd thing to want, most just wanted it to make them feel *special*. At least, those that knew about it. Som... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2017-09-01T21:45:33 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 21:00
The General's men got straight to work. Their entire military careers, these specially trained operatives were preparing for this moment: a code R'lyeh.
One soldier was tasked with acquiring the texts to summon Cthulhu, while another went to acquire the proper objects for the sa... | I am typing this blindly. I need too just to make sure I remember. These welding goggles are keeping out most of that maddening light that still remains, but there are things I cannot unsee that I mustn't see again.
Years of touch typing have enabled me to get this far into the document. If I were to use a pencil, ... | 2017-09-26T11:47:23 | 2017-09-26T11:41:54 | 168 | 50 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | "Right sir," his adjutant, Major Thompson replied. He readied his sword and shaved the head clean off the nearest grunt he could find. "Now for the spell..."
The Major wiped his blade clean and drew strange symbols in the blood, mixing it with the cold earth. Minutes passed as he mumbled to himself the insane rambling... | John MacGillis saw a lot of shit in his life. First was the ‘nam, as a captain, and then came desert storm as a major. Always on the front, for the greater good of his great nation. Now in his 70’ he was meditating retirement. If his thought were to put into words, after all these years would be something on the line o... | 2017-09-26T12:26:15 | 2017-09-26T11:43:45 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | "Morning newbie."
Three years. I've been working here for three *fucking* years and Caleb was still calling me a *newbie*.
"Morning," I muttered to the unsmiling man behind his desk. "Is the coffee machine fixed yet?"
"Morning newbie," he said again.
I frowned and looked at Caleb, his eyes are unfocused. I was... | >Okay, How did you get here, this job, and what is your typical day like?
A day in the life and how to did get here, huh? Let’s see, where to start, tsk. I guess… The beginning is where we should go.
I worked a day job at some crappy retailer. You know the big box store that seems to be placed every few blocks alm... | 2018-04-23T10:13:49 | 2018-04-23T08:58:09 | 419 | 159 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | I wake up, start my basic morning routine. Shower, make breakfast, grab a cold drink from the fridge, and sit down to watch the morning news. An anchorman is reporting on a protest. I see a sign reading "DISAPPARATE OUT OF OUR COUNTRY". Another that says "VEEPS MUST GO" I turn off the tv before I can read anymore, and ... | The man looked at me with incredulity painted on his face. It was very clear that whatever he'd expected, I wasn't it. Wearing a tailored suit, handmade Italian shoes and carrying a rosary around my neck. And then there was the icy blue skin, the black eyeballs and the red irises
"You the vatican's man?" The mortal f... | 2018-08-27T17:34:15 | 2018-08-27T16:44:38 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | I didn’t think it would go this far.
I was mostly joking when I tossed it out during the monthly board meeting. It was 8am and the caffeine hadn’t hit yet, but Tom was making us each suggest something “crazy enough to work”. I don’t think he meant as crazy as I went, but hey, it would get some laughs, right?
And it d... | When I first saw the news, I was surprised. Would Domino's really do this kind of service?
I looked on their website and sure enough, there was a banner that confirmed my suspicions.
I immediately closed my laptop screen and drove to the local tattoo parlor. Even though I was dirt poor, I was just lucky enough to aff... | 2018-09-08T13:57:29 | 2018-09-08T13:48:12 | 68 | 35 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | The city was mad, but there were a few places that held on.
Fontanella's was a place like that. Arthur usually came around there after shifts to get a bite and talk the the inhumanly kind owner, whose name he never got to know, but who insisted on being called "Nonna". She had a knack for serving the general misfits o... | Red Molly contacted me first. “Hey I think you need to get down here. Right now.” When you get a psychic message like that, well, you kinda have to listen.
Windows smashed. Tables broken, even my counter, made from the wood of the witness stand from the Salem trials, was badly damaged. My favorite coffee mug, given to... | 2018-10-20T23:47:46 | 2018-10-20T23:34:54 | 16 | 11 |
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