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[WP] 99.9% of the universe is filled with magic. Sentient races believe that life cannot be started or sustained without magic, and it just so happens that Earth lies in a giant void of magic. One day, you accidentally use magic, suddenly attracting the attention of the rest of the universe. | "Turns out that being devoid of magic might have been a blessing in disguise. While it's true that our race can't turn lead to gold or generate energy by just thinking about, it also means that none thought we existed.
This ended 13 years ago. A simple meaningless act, barely slowing myself from falling after trippin... | "Dude, you done yet? Come on I'm freezing my balls off here!"
I look up from the wires and gears to Danny with a big smile.
"Five minutes bro! Then we'll have this hot tub all ready and working. You not gonna put on a swimming trunk bro?"
He hits me with his classic cheesy smile. "Nah dude. Dan the man is all ... | 2018-12-10T07:42:45 | 2018-12-10T06:49:07 | 871 | 28 |
[WP] 99.9% of the universe is filled with magic. Sentient races believe that life cannot be started or sustained without magic, and it just so happens that Earth lies in a giant void of magic. One day, you accidentally use magic, suddenly attracting the attention of the rest of the universe. | "...Did you add Magic to Earth lately?" the acountant asked. He was reading over reports from Earth's progress and something... wasn't quite adding up.
"No. Why?" The writer didn't even look up from their papers. Until the silence dragged on. "Why?" he pressed.
The accountant was biting his thumbnail, re-reading a pa... | Walt didn’t know why he did it, looking back at it. Ever had one of those moments, where everything pointed to one outcome, but you challenged it, because the alternative would be too much to bear?
They’d been reckless, no one was denying that, climbing to their favorite alcove without properly securing themselves on ... | 2018-12-10T08:48:20 | 2018-12-10T08:40:01 | 99 | 11 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | Eyes shutting around me. Friends, family, all of them drifting into a long sleep. 100 years shrunk into the blink of an eye.
Soon, the soft whirring of the cryogenic generators kick in. The whirring... wait, why am I still awake?
I looked around frantically, as those around me got frozen, stopping their body processe... | I couldn’t believe it at first.
I looked around, saw everyone closing their eyes, and the trademarked frost forming on the window. I saw everyone in my age group descend into the storage room, and the floor close up after them. And then I was alone. I thought that maybe I just had to fall asleep, and it would take car... | 2018-12-29T02:06:11 | 2018-12-29T01:53:36 | 1,838 | 427 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | Eyes shutting around me. Friends, family, all of them drifting into a long sleep. 100 years shrunk into the blink of an eye.
Soon, the soft whirring of the cryogenic generators kick in. The whirring... wait, why am I still awake?
I looked around frantically, as those around me got frozen, stopping their body processe... | After ninety years on this floating shitstorm of a planet there was one thing I could say in all of my ancient wisdom as I sat down in the egg shaped pod and the thick green goo swamped over my body. I was more than ready to close my eyes for the last time.
The pods to my sides were identical in colour and shape and ... | 2018-12-29T02:06:11 | 2018-12-29T01:59:19 | 1,838 | 149 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | The hibernation is supposed to be a beautiful thing. Apparently all of us dream of our own perfect lives, but my situation was far from perfect.
"Help! Somebody Help!" I yelled desperately. The hibernation process was supposed to be flawless, a Human Marvel!. The pod opened itself and I got out. " Hello Alex, We have... |
When I get upset I can’t help but slap everyone within a 2 meter radius with my wild gesticulations.
"You goddamn idiots; goddamn buffoons. You don’t put everyone to sleep simultaneously!"
Everyone evacuated the 2 meter radius around so that I had the ersatz spotlight I needed to gain the attention of the committ... | 2018-12-29T02:42:16 | 2018-12-29T02:18:27 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Following death, you woke up in a classroom, to take the R.A.T.s (Reincarnation Aptitude Tests). After a short period in the Afterlife, you get your scores... which were perfect, despite just guessing. You get to be reincarnated as a god, one of the first in a couple of millennia. | “Jim what are you doing!”
“I don’t know, the wheel is locked!”
“O no! Look ou...”
“You may now open your R.A.T.s test booklet to chapter one and begin your session.”
“What on earth! Where am I!”
Everyone around me must be thinking the same thing I reckoned, but what is the rats tes...
“You have two minuets left b... | When I woke, all memory from before momentarily blank and gone, my forehead bumped on my desk. The sound seemed to have been quite the commotion, for the people around me threw me glances that meant it all, that I had startled them at an important time. But I did not have a single idea where I was, nor what was on my d... | 2019-07-22T11:54:52 | 2019-07-22T07:29:51 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] You're a therapist for the supernatural. Heroes, villains, ghosts and goblins; from orcs to elves, savior of universes to devour of worlds. Your secretary announces your 10:00 is here. | Gustav comes in and nervously takes a seat across from me. He anxiously looks around himself, he is sweating but this is quite normal for him.
“How have you been Gustav?” I ask him as I always do. He gulps, then breathes still sweating profusely. Gustav looks at me then shakes his head before closing his eyes and takin... | My ten o'clock appointment arrived ten minutes late, on the dot. Punctual, as always, if I asked her.
"Elise," I greeted with a curt nod when the door opened.
She didn't say anything and walked straight to the bar. A glass of whiskey poured, she turned back towards me. Her eyes were wild, and I held up my hands to ca... | 2020-01-09T11:27:58 | 2020-01-09T10:49:56 | 58 | 29 |
[WP] You are cursed and turned into a statue. Everyone knows you're alive but, seeing as no one could break your curse, of they have all pretty much given up on you. Except for one wizard, who comes back nearly every day to try and free you, as well as holding one-sided conversations. | My great stony consciousness awoke when I felt him approach. The steps were not so sure as they had been; once-confident youthful strides had long given way to an embittered and aged hobbling, joints creaking as if they too were made of stone. His tired old limbs trembled while he lowered himself to sit beside me.
He... | The apothecary was dimly lit. That’s how Oskar liked to keep it. A murky taste hung in the air, a mixture of many exotic and mundane herbs, haphazardly strewn across all of the shelves that lined the walls of the store. The smell, the mess, the general feeling of a hurricane having ripped through the store had never se... | 2020-02-11T04:52:22 | 2020-02-11T04:18:46 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Suddenly a loud, thunderous voice booms across the skies: "Whoops, sorry about all that, my cat stepped on the controls. " | Humans began to step outside from their quarantine, looking around in amazement. Perhaps the isolation had begun to get to them, as many believed they had heard a voice from the heavens.
Then once again the deep, rolling boom began, and soon a thunderous voice reverberated across the lands.
"Misty always - Misty's ... | "Oh dear powerful Gods, forgive our sins!" the Head Priest gave a resounding prayer in front of the devout believers.
He raised his hands, palms opened, showing subservience. Tears started to flow through all that witnessed the holy man's performance. They fell to the ground, knees planted in the soft muddy soils. Tru... | 2020-03-30T21:26:49 | 2020-03-30T21:03:26 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427.
Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to pus... | "Listen, we've been through this before." She twists her arm 360 degrees and returns it to its normal position. A nervous tick...
"...that you gave me. I can hear you. What were you thinking? I'm to suffer for the entertainment of others. Isn't that cruel?" She grabs the glass off the table and pours a full tumbler of... | 2020-05-09T23:02:25 | 2020-05-09T21:54:32 | 223 | 40 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | "It's been over a year captain!, he's starting to fade" Vice commander Scarb exclaimed. The crew had always been wary of the human, he was assigned to the ship on short notice after the on-board engineer had injured himself during the last round of repairs.
"Nonsense, Mays has shown no signs of wavering productivity, ... |
''I’m not going to broke my promise.'' I say and I push the button.
Our engines go into full thrust mode. In two seconds, we reach close to the speed of light.
Nuna prepares the stasis pods. Most of the crew already in sleep and I take one last look at autopilot code and I see something out of the ordinary.
I ask... | 2020-07-05T12:23:18 | 2020-07-05T11:59:39 | 266 | 73 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Cheryl had been working off-ship, helping the Altarians install a new municipal thermal regulation system in the capital. They'd been dry-docked for four weeks, and there really wasn't much for her to do onboard, so Captain Tak had sent her off. And, why waste a perfectly good shore-leave relaxing?
It was strange, but... | The metal door slid down behind them as they walked into a bright, grey room. They were worried in the usually relaxing room. “Rallik, what did you wish to speak with me about?” “I have a concern, regarding June. I wished to speak with you in private,” he replied in Jirukodian. “June? Our translator?” “Yes. I am worrie... | 2020-07-05T16:58:24 | 2020-07-05T16:21:58 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] The “evil emperor” is actually a really nice guy. He just has a jerk of a messenger who changes the context of his orders ever so slightly. | "Hello, I'm your Lord of Imperial Democracy. I'm not exactly great at handing down orders, I'm in fact nervous making this empire wide broadcast. I am great at problem solving, logistics, diplomacy, and finances until the room has more than fifty people.
After the past week I thought it was time to face my fears, and ... |
When is fire ever good?
The answer is: never. Fire is never good, especially when a group of villagers is chasing you with it (along with some lovely antique pitchforks).
And I was running through a forest I was unfamiliar with. I had no idea what claimed these woods.
Could be goblins. Or elves. Maybe hobgobl... | 2020-10-11T23:00:59 | 2020-10-11T22:01:45 | 103 | 38 |
[WP] You take a DNA test on your 21st birthday to determine your heritage. Your family tree results come back and show that you have 20 direct descendants...and an 89 year old son.
[deleted] | Stephen looked at his results in disbelief.
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"This can't be right."
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He quickly reached for his phone, dialing the number at the bottom of the form.
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"Hello, thank you for calling [Ancestry.com](https://Ancestry.com). We look forward to taking your call. Our agents will be righ... | “Thank you for taking that DNA test,” one of my kidnappers tells me, “made it so much easier to find you!” She would seem like a cheerful young woman, but I know better, after all I did not get here out of my own free will.
“Who are you? What do you want from me? This must be some kind of mistake!” I blurt out. “Clear... | 2020-11-18T02:59:36 | 2020-11-18T02:42:05 | 77 | 35 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It’s been a century since we entered the galactic stage. The face we’ve shown the galaxy has been peaceful and friendly. We’ve appeared thoroughly non-threatening. It’s even seen as laughable that we maintain a military at all. Our weapons are seen as primitive, still using cased chemically propelled projectile weaponr... | Steady and quietly the holographic projector hummed as the white star chart floated centrally in the war room. The unity's warships already encroaching on our solar arm as I placed my palms firmly overly eyes. Dammit, we should have been more ready for this if it wasn't for the damn budget cuts. Carefully I return my g... | 2021-07-04T22:03:04 | 2021-07-04T11:05:37 | 137 | 92 |
[WP] For the last time, I'm not a realtor I am a **REALITOR.** Can I interest you in a new reality? | A heavy sigh from the subject followed by "What is it with you lab coats? Is Realitor such a hard word to say. Re Al It Or, I'm sure you've used all these syllables previously can't you use them when addressing me." The woman in the lab coat shakes her head. "Sir, that is not a profession, nor is it even a word. I... | “I don’t know *can* you offer me a new reality?”
The nondescript man in front of me whined like an irritating gnat, or if I was being perfectly honest with myself a huge, ugly horsefly. “If you’re confident in your abilities, then you should’ve said ‘*May* I interest you in a new reality?’ … honestly if you don’t know... | 2021-07-31T18:07:26 | 2021-07-31T17:21:11 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] They Hero is defeated by the villian, they expect death or torture. They did not expect to wake up in a guest room with their wounds being treated to. | Three quiet knocks heralds the door opening as a Tiefling maid brings in food, a plate of meat and vegetables. "Master wishes you a good morning, and a pleasant lunch. It's Yfallan Grouse with roasted carrots. The wine is a Valin Red, vinted 239." She says and I sit up, groaning in pain when my body realizes my sho... | ...crap. I did not expect this. I did *not* expect this. But there they are, on the camera, hospitalized. I notice that the hero in question, Jesse, is starting to wake up, so I go to greet them. As I walk down the pale gray brick hallway, passing a few minions. I wonder how they'll react. Probably worried, maybe a dea... | 2021-08-09T21:12:44 | 2021-08-09T19:43:57 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | Bob was special, different from the rest of us. Not because he could tear bones from skin like Gregor, or shape matter like Cerule, certainly couldn't heal like Havawitz, but special because he always had our backs. When the chips were down Bob was always watching over us, trusty weapon in hand. A "sniper rifle" he'd c... | -“ YOU FOOLISH HEROES STILL THINK I CAN BE DEFEATED?! CAN’T YOU SEE I GOT YOU ALL PINNED TO THE FLOOR?! IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH STEEL YOU CAN CRUSH, IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH ENERGY YOU CAN USE, AND IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH WOUNDS YOU CAN HEAL! I AM UNSTOPPABLE!”- The demon lord said towering over the party, Wich... | 2022-11-07T19:22:30 | 2022-11-07T17:39:22 | 1,826 | 77 |
[WP] Write a story where each sentence has one more word than the last.
The first sentence has to be one word, the next has two, etc. Stop whenever you want! | Time. Not enough. One more day. Just one more day. I just need one more. Just give me one more day. Is that too much to ask for? I can’t stand thinking this is it. I won’t be able to see her again? Please dear God, just give me one more day.
Just give me one more day to hold her close. Just give me one more day to hea... | Run.
Keep running.
Nothing makes sense.
Just keep on running.
Maybe if I keep ahead…
Maybe if I can outpace it…
I can feel it creeping ever closer.
I feel out of breath, so very tired.
I don’t think I can keep this pace up.
My lungs are burning with exertion, daring me to stop.
At the very least, it keeps me ... | 2013-12-23T09:22:10 | 2013-12-23T07:56:46 | 522 | 131 |
[WP] Soon after you die, you are approached by a deity who asks "so, did you enjoy your time in heaven?" | “Did you enjoy your time in heaven?” The voice didn’t really belong to anything.
“Wait – so Earth was heaven?” I had a slight headache, something I didn’t figure would exist after Earth was so far gone.
“Yes. Did you enjoy it?”
“I thought heaven was eternal, I only had 25 years.”
“You had a whole 25 years, which is... | "Heaven?" I asked, with a blank stare on my face at what appeared to be a child. "You mean 'life' was heaven all along?"
"Yes." She responded, with a slight smile and giggle. She...a young girl, couldn't have been older than 9 or 10, telling me my life had been "heaven".
"What do you mean that was 'heaven'? Who are y... | 2014-07-18T07:18:20 | 2014-07-18T06:55:47 | 852 | 200 |
[WP] Aliens land on earth, but they do so in levitating castles and wizards towers. It turns out that most galactic civilizations rely on magic instead of technology.
The intent of the aliens can be whatever you want, but the point is that they (primarily) use magic instead of modern tech.
EDIT: yes yes, Arthur C. C... | When the Grand Mage Kal summoned a great storm to chill the world, Gerard Petit, Ph. D, and his associates at Oxford conjured fusion to warm it.
When Desmond the Gap Strider leapt from the Earth to the Moon, Michael Smithson, mechanical engineer, and the brightest minds at Boeing built a vessel to carry a thousand on ... | "You mean you don't use magic?" The voice in my head asked quizzically. It was a telepathic contact with the alien.
I tried to reply telepathically too, in hopes that he could hear it, "Magic? Magic isn't real!" When there was no response, I said it out loud, knowing that this first broadcasted contact with an extrate... | 2014-11-27T17:01:41 | 2014-11-27T16:47:32 | 153 | 26 |
[WP] On a public bus, you think "Oh shit, they better look behind them" as a joke trap for mind readers. Everyone on the bus simultaneously looks behind them. | "Did you hear that?"
"I can swear I heard someone telling me to look behind me! I'm serious!"
"That voice was fucking creepy, man!"
"What the hell's going on?"
You listen to the roiling murmurs of confusion as everyone in the bus talks about that sudden warning to look behind. Some of them start typing on their ph... | Henry was on a bus load of them-- mind readers! He took this moment, what with their heads being turned, to pull open the door and jump out.
He hit the ground hard, rolling onto his back. He looked up to see the faces of what had seemingly been normal passengers all staring back at him as the bus continued its drive ... | 2015-01-18T19:05:47 | 2015-01-18T17:03:02 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | "Stall."
Oh, yeah. Nailed it. I wave and walk off the stage.
"Good job, Jim!", he doesn't return my high five but I know he's been stressed lately.
"Was I good, Steph?" I must've been incredible because she has that stunned look on her face again.
All of the hard work has led to tonight. I think I'll take out the t... | As I walk on the ceremonial podium, already seating at the idea that every citizens of my country will be starting at me for the next twenty minutes or so.I clear my throat finalizing my last mental preparation; I knew my speech by heart I knew I was ready.
I was wrong...
The light on the camera turned red, I sta... | 2015-05-16T18:14:47 | 2015-05-16T18:01:32 | 91 | 24 |
[WP] You're convinced you have the most useless superpower anyone's ever thought of. Somehow use it to save the world. | I can talk to animals. At least, that's what a tell the girls at the bar. And *technically* it's true.
But really, I'm pretty limited. There's only species of animal I can talk to, and it's not whales, or tigers, or dogs. I make Aquaman look cool, and I think even Antman has a one up on me.
So what type of animal c... | Yes, I guess The Creator was enduring a toilet humour phase of their life when making me. You've got Superman, you've got Razorteeth, you've got Miss Freezy Winks, you've even got that weird Mexican slugger called Rhino Man, and then you've got me, god damn Fart Man.
Shit, it's not easy having a super power like this.... | 2015-07-09T23:04:57 | 2015-07-09T22:38:02 | 101 | 13 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | Lights in the sky and a cloud plume on the horizon. I can see the airplane roaring overhead, and all I can think about is what those people must be thinking up there. Are they really that different from me? The thought brings a tear to my eye as the hot air coats my skin. - Lawton, Oklahoma, 1913
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Lights in the sk... | I’ll never forget that night.
Mr. Smith shook my hand. He had never done that before. First day of class he told me he wasn’t my friend, he was my teacher. I remember it hurt. When he grabbed my hand, I remember his firm grip hurt but in a good way. A manly way. He smiled and nodded, he didn’t say anything, I didn’t s... | 2015-07-14T01:05:09 | 2015-07-13T23:52:21 | 70 | 49 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | The arrest happened quickly and cleanly. Despite being in good health his age, Gerry didn't resist. He had come to the conclusion that there was no point, he didn't want to run forever. The last few months had been spent building up the courage to be caught: running is not an easy habit to break.
There would be no tr... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T10:48:44 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Carol,
Its been 15 years since i last saw you and so much has changed. I'm no longer 7 years old, and I like to believe I've grown into a wonderful young lady, mostly because of you.
There's so much I want to tell you. Your boys are turning18 this year. One if them has gone goth.. can you believe it? The othe... | Dear Katie,
It feels strange to be sitting here writing this to you. Especially in the form of a letter, emails seem to be a way of life, but I have to say that watching my pen move over this page has a certain draw.
I never thought I would need to write a letter to you. In my mind you should be right here with me.... | 2015-12-05T13:04:28 | 2015-12-05T13:01:25 | 892 | 661 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear Matthew.
I don't hate you any longer. I have found it in my heart to let go and let everything be the way it is. I have accepted it. Maybe it's more for my own sense of sanity, but I have. None the less, I will never forget, or excuse you from your actions.
Ella is growing up fast, and Nick has already started... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:52:07 | 356 | 181 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Dear you,
I've always meant to write this letter to you, but I was never able to really put it all together. We've gone through a lot together, to say the least.
I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. For your generosity, for your openness, your pride, your confidence. I truly admire you as a person... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T15:18:49 | 94 | 18 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Boss,
I have come down with a dreadful case of homosexuality and will not be coming in (to work at least) this morning. I realize I am out of personal time and that vacation time must be scheduled in advance, but there is nothing to be done. I am simply not fit for work right now -- I have fluid coming out of (an... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T16:37:04 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] The aliens attacked. The same day the singularity occurred and the zombie apocalypse started. And an 1000 year war between vampires and werewolves was restarted. Describe the life of a survivor of this apocalypse | "OH FUCK," Is the first thing I say every morning, and the last thing I say every night. "I'm still alive."
There is a point, somewhere, where fear becomes... like a treasured friend that you wrap in silk and carry in the breast pocket of your bathrobe. I am probably insane. But does it really matter at this point?
O... | "Shoot it in the head!" I roared over the sound of the bullets, "Keep at it!"
Our guns continued to fire as the horde continued to march towards us.
"Sir," one of my cadets looked at me from the side, "I think they're zombie werewolves!"
"Christ!" I gasped in disbelief, "We have to shoot them in the head with silver... | 2016-03-09T09:41:18 | 2016-03-09T07:20:33 | 79 | 45 |
[WP] Aliens, far more advanced than humans, could destroy us all in the blink of an eye. And they probably should. But they don't... for one reason only. | Life, is rare.
Sure your "drake equation" as you call it points to the universe being filled with life, and our own best scientists say the same. But in all our travels, the billions of stars we have surveyed and the trillions of planets we have visited we have found none.
By now we have seeded many of them with our... | The marble below spun slowly, turning darken as the shadows lengthened over its curvature. Specks of light flared to life, as long string of electricity snaked their way over the freshly darkened surface. Like veins on a great beast grew into a tangled mess, congregating in bright bulbs of activity as whole cities of p... | 2016-06-17T22:28:35 | 2016-06-17T22:21:54 | 142 | 24 |
[WP] To get in Heaven, you have to confront the person who you hurt the most. You were expecting an ex, your parents/relatives, or a friend. You didn't expect to see yourself. | I expected Niflheim. I hadn't died a glorious death in battle, which was to be expected of most of my kind these days. There would be no Valhalla or Folkvangr for me. If I was lucky I could avoid falling under Hel's purview, but I had my doubts.
Hel was waiting for me, and my heart sank. However, she smirked as I appr... | Patricia stepped through the door and burst into laughter, the back of her hand pressed against her nostrils and her breath coming out in irregular snorts, doubling over in high-pitched hiccups of laughter. The other woman - the person behind the curtain, the other Patricia - smiled uncertainly and chuckled a little ba... | 2016-08-15T05:24:38 | 2016-08-15T05:08:42 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] As a kid, you jokingly say, "If I had a nickel for every person I've killed, I'd be rich!" It's is now your 21st birthday, and you receive a mysterious bank key in the mail. The vault it opens contains $550,000... In nickels. | I stood alone in the vault, staring down at the safety deposit box. Inside was a single coin in a plexiglass display case. V CENTS, it said, the V massive and centered and surrounded by a wreath of laurels. I heard the vault door swing open behind me, and then once again swing shut.
"It's a 1913 Liberty Head," said t... | "Do you understand, Matthew?" asked the tall, trim man in the black suit.
"Yes." I replied, mainly out of reverence for the government agent. I didn't *really* understand, or at least not all of it. I'd been told I was 'patient zero', that a regular bug, the kind that makes people sick, had somehow mutated inside my b... | 2016-09-03T08:20:18 | 2016-09-03T08:07:13 | 223 | 137 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and say, "I need a favor." | You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor".
You say "what do you need?"
"Stop reposting my shit son" He says, rather uneventfully,
"I am *not* your son" I replied.
In an avid show of rage, the Devil howled **"YOU ARE NOW YE LITTLE SHIT!"** | "So soon?", the old man grinned. The creases of old age followed his lips, the smile echoing across his face. His eyes shone brighter now with a spark that had been missing.
"I need a favor." said the darkness.
The smile faded, "I'm not the young man I was."
"Obviously.", the voice dripped with disdain.
"Then what... | 2016-09-17T14:04:48 | 2016-09-17T12:03:43 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] While browsing on your parent's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them. It's from an advanced robotics corporation, informing them that the warranty on [your name] expires in 30 days. | "You really had no idea you were a robot?" my mother asked.
"No, of course not."
"We update your firmware every two weeks."
"I thought that was normal. That's not normal?!" I was steaming, and a little embarrassed. Mom waved the steam out of her face.
"What about that time you shocked Melissa when you kissed?"
M... | >To whom it may concern,
>We, at Joules Optimisation and Kinetically Engineering Robotics wish to inform you that your current model, named 'Malia Ann', will soon fall off of warranty. We urge you to renew your warranty at the earliest of your conveniences, to avoid damage to the unit and potential uninsurable e... | 2017-01-14T06:46:08 | 2017-01-14T04:26:46 | 137 | 65 |
[WP] You possess the ability to quick save in real life. When someone upsets you? Quicksave and beat them up. Wonder what would happen if you kiss that girl? Quicksave and find out. Then one day you attempt to come back from a failed attempt at something to find your previous save corrupted. | "So, doctor, what kind of symptoms are we seeing from your patient?"
Doctor Allen adjusted her glasses, looking through the pattern of reinforcing wire in the windows that separated her and the man in the grey suit from the dimly-lit observation room. A figure inside struggled against restraints, his voice muffled by ... | This was one shitty situation. I had the idea to stop the robbers, see if I could take them out. I could always reload the previous save, right?
I ran towards the first robber, punching him in the face, I grabbed his knive and stabbed the other in his heart. Hey, this went better than expected. Two down, 2 to go.
Th... | 2017-04-19T06:03:25 | 2017-04-19T03:45:41 | 715 | 147 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | The final confrontation between Doctor Diabolical, Mastermind of Malice, and the courageous Captain Crimson - the two towering titans of the Golden Age of superpersons - was anticlimactic. The world's only holder of a satanic Ph.D. (Philosophiae Diabolus) had encased the Flatiron Building in his amazing solid fog and ... | Karl could have anything he wanted, money, women, power, the very Earth itself. There was a time when he was younger, and realizing he had the power to dominate the minds of anyone in the world, anytime, from anywhere, that he began to realize the potential. He reached into a persons mind and took either knowledge or s... | 2017-05-16T08:30:17 | 2017-05-16T07:37:06 | 109 | 41 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | Caitlyn could hear the aliens arguing with each other. How she could hear in English, she had no idea. She was afraid, but not of the aliens. No, she was afraid because she was locked up again. Kidnapped. She knew what everyone said aliens did to people. She’d already been through that once, and now she was going to ha... | Grog narrowed his eyes and made a face. "How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it."
Pedriak snirked. "Yes, but crying in the corner. Where we left it. Untouched. Un*approached*."
Grog glanced over. Pedriak shrugged. Grog looked back through the two way mirror and asked... | 2018-02-17T08:49:55 | 2018-02-17T08:24:06 | 378 | 209 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | “What’s it doing?”, aerg asked.
“Oh, that’s an instinctive reaction. It’s called crying, according to encyclopedia. It’s a form of frustrated submission. The display of wetness on its face is a call for mercy.” miurg fanned its sensor antennae to observe again the excretions of the prisoner.
“Why does it not just ... | Mike's head was throbbing and puffy and he didn't think he had any more tears left. All the anger and the fight and the hope had gone out of him, and so he sat, deflated, sagging, against a cold white wall in a cold white room.
And he stared at the glass before him. At the faces of his captors behind smudged fist ... | 2018-02-17T21:27:28 | 2018-02-17T20:29:54 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Mankind went extinct in a cataclysm, you, however, discover that you're immortal as a result. ages later you are approached by the animals that evolved to have human-level intelligence. | It’s always been there. We call it the Teller. Apparently it was here from our beginning and while not a god or something with infinite power it just exists. It has taught us so much and while some have tried to control it and even destroy it, it persists. We aren’t even the first to evolve on this planet apparently th... | My cell screen went black, and I gave it an annoyed look before reaching into my pocket for my swiss-army screwdriver. That's my own invention, by the way. And yeah, there's nobody to call, I know. But I keep my Android Turbo 6 working anyway, because fuck, candy crush is fun.
In front of was the Statue of Liberty. We... | 2018-02-22T22:01:34 | 2018-02-22T19:19:21 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] You are extremely famous. Everyone knows who you are. The only thing is, you don't know why you're so famous. You don't come from a rich family and you're unemployed. You don't even remember how you got a mansion or a Lamborghini. Even stranger, everybody looks so scared when you bring it up. | "I don't understand."
"It's like when you can move stuff around with your mind."
"Telepathy, yes! What I mean is, I don't understand what that has to do with me? Surely I would know if I had telepathic powers."
"Not if the part of your brain that controls telepathy was being suppressed."
"Wait, what? You're "suppre... | It was after that third jaggerbomb that things changed. It was the last night of exams, I had sweated through sixty multiple choice questions and two short answers on the anthropology of media, was it a coincidence that one of my answers had to do with dissecting fame? I don't think I'll ever know.
My head had felt th... | 2018-05-14T23:56:09 | 2018-05-14T23:27:34 | 145 | 17 |
[WP] There was a glitch in the universe and now, no matter what dimension, you can hear the Monty Python Intermission Music everywhere. While humans are mostly cool with it, other worlds are utterly terrified. | Across the universe the music rang, only on one planet did any know its meaning. Some panicked, some ignored it, but after the music had run its course everyone was surprised by the next thing to be heard:
>Sorry folks, the preceding music was an accident, just training the intern, please carry on.
The broadcast c... | When "The Hammond" broke out most everything stopped. No one was quite sure what this constant noise was, except for a few historians on planet Earth in the dimension where they didn't eradicated each other during the cold war 400 years ago. Most species, including humans, are able to subconsciously eliminate sounds th... | 2018-06-20T20:53:47 | 2018-06-20T19:59:02 | 171 | 77 |
[WP] You are a medieval villager who has been cursed by a witch. She curses you to be live until you are the last human alive. After a 1000 years you try to start the apocalypse. | I broke the seal on my eyelids as I awoke from my several hundred year rest, with the sun light of a new century streaked across the floor of my isolation cove. Comatose was the closest I could get to permanent release with this damned curse of immortality. If it weren't for the botched mass genocide in the 20th centur... | "Curse? I think it's a boon."
I used to think that way. Whenever I saw others leaving for the heavenly abode, I used to remember her words: "You, you think you're so smart. You are untouchable, huh? Well, I curse you to live until the last human takes its final breathe. Then, and only then, you will be able to feel th... | 2018-09-01T01:16:52 | 2018-09-01T00:40:22 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 1,768 | 153 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | "But I don't see how that's possible! I never *killed* anyone! I never stole, I never even hurt an animal, I lived a simple, boring life. I don't claim to be perfect, but how could I be that evil?"
The man leaned back in his chair. "It doesn't really work that way. People like to imagine that there are big actions tha... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T07:56:17 | 488 | 101 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186 thousand years?! W-what did I do?" I asked the demon before me. He sighed, rolled his eyes and started tapping away on his demonic keyboard, delving deeper into my file.
"Says here you would frequently eat the fats on your meat?"
"I did? I guess. What does that have to do with anything?"
The demon shrugged. "Au... | “186,290 years?” I exclaimed, shock written all over my face. “You have to be mistaken!” I continued staring slack-jawed at the bored looking HSA officer across the counter. “186,292 years” he corrected me in a bored tone as he stamped my papers and pushed them back toward me. “Straight ahead, follow this hallway to t... | 2018-09-26T09:04:03 | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..." | The pills rolled around in my palm with a newfound weight as the doctor finished his sentence. “How did you know?”.
The doctor looked at me quizzically with an impatient glare, “What do you mean?”
“The voice. I never specified it was female. How did you know?”
The doctor stiffened, his eyes darting away quickly. H... | Red on one side. Blue on the other. Effie glanced down at the pill capsule resting in her palm, unsure of what to feel. One in the morning. One right before bed. With a tired frown, she accepted this was a strategic defeat reflecting her best self-interests. Arranging the appointment, making sure she had transportation... | 2018-12-28T13:59:58 | 2018-12-28T11:20:01 | 168 | 76 |
[WP] You have the power to teleport anywhere when you tap four times on any surface. The catch is that you can't decide where you go or know where you are going. What you do know is wherever you go someone needs you. | I had gotten used to it honestly. Whenever I felt trapped behind my desk I would tell a coworker that I needed to go to the roof for a smoke (to ensure that no one would follow) and I would tap.
And tap. Then tap. And tap.
I would wind up in the most bizarre places. Once it was in the zoo, where the new keeper was ne... | This is Simon.
As you can plainly see, he isn’t saying anything, but that is to keep quiet about the fact that he has a power unknown to humanity and, only slightly less so, to himself. You see, whenever he taps a surface four times, he is transported around the world to the location of a random person who is in di... | 2019-04-04T15:22:31 | 2019-04-04T15:11:07 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and he showed up with two blank notepads. You’ll write everything you want from him on one notepad and he’ll write what he wants from you on the other. You filled your entire notepad but he only wrote one thing on his — to your surprise, it’s not your soul. | Let's see...
An infinite amount of money.
Good health for me and those I love.
For them to continue making *The Office.*
What else could I want?
The ability to fly.
Superspeed.
That right there could make the rest of my life very pleasant.
Oh!
Not getting hurt or feeling much pain.
The notepad is almost full... | It's funny to reminisce now, but at the time it was a truly terrifying ordeal. A frail old man clutching his rascal hat in his hands, shuffled into my office; a distressed look on his face, around the same time I was expecting a hefty shipment of cocaine, so you could imagine I was rather on-edge. I look over to my bod... | 2019-04-17T06:17:38 | 2019-04-17T05:58:31 | 67 | 17 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | "It’s amazing how quickly the Afmir learn.”
\- said Bravan
“Two days after hatching, they area already mumbling their first words. A week, and they could be reciting whole novels.”
The crowd nodded silently, finding a new race of sapiens species would be a commotion by itself in the counsel of explorers, finding s... | It happened shortly after the crash. Two days after his ship crash landed in Zenon-6, Caide Newell was all but sure he was a dead man. Telecoms went dark. The ship, an unmitigated wreck. There'd be no salavaging that flaming hunk of debris. But at least he survived, somehow. The same could not be said about the months ... | 2019-04-22T10:21:25 | 2019-04-22T09:39:54 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | Working at Starbucks, you meet all kinds of people. When you are me, that is doubly true.
Since I have memory, every time I look at someone I have seen a number form besides them. Growing up I did not know what it meant, since most people had a zero. It wasn't until I entered high school that I began to meet people wi... | I couldn’t look away. Nothing I’d ever read about killers seemed to apply to this man. He was quiet but jovial, a little portly; his skin crinkled around his eyes the way they do only for those who’ve lived and lived well, and his smile and pleasure at meeting me was very much genuine. He exuded an aura of awkward calm... | 2020-01-11T20:26:40 | 2020-01-11T20:05:07 | 256 | 84 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | "Well, I did do a bunch of kind things, so painting every government building on the planet hot pink isn't *that* bad is it?" I looked back and forth between the Angel and the Demon sitting across from me.
The angel sighed. "Yeah, I suppose. but you upset soo many Americans."
"I think that was hilarious. Big S was ... | Let's see.
Top of your class. All of them. For all fifteen years. Easy enough with a lifetime of knowledge.
Managed to get with Jessica too, huh? We thought it was cute, while it lasted. Monica, after that. Then Jen. But you only did that to get back at Barry Allen didn't you? Broke his heart you did, and hers. Then ... | 2020-07-20T03:30:13 | 2020-07-20T03:18:12 | 122 | 67 |
[WP] In the afterlife, souls can see how many living people still know you once existed. You, who had lived a fairly normal life, finally saw the count drop to 0 just 200 years after your death. 500 years later, 95% of the Earth’s total population suddenly knows about you. | “Those who lived a quiet life live a quiet death.” So they say here in the afterlife.
The first week after my death, my head was filled with a cacophony of voices. Friends, family and colleagues all talking or thinking of how they missed me. Sharing stories, tears and laughter. I could even see through people’s eyes ... | The days seem to go by much quicker now. At first, I mourned my own death almost as much as my family. Of course, there was no body for them to bury, but they knew all the same that I was gone. It’s funny how little you tend to remember after so long, almost as if your memories are connected to those you left behind.
... | 2020-09-24T05:27:33 | 2020-09-24T04:38:36 | 54 | 33 |
[WP] On a whim, you decide to take a trip down memory lane and revisit your childhood hometown. But when you look it up for directions-- Nothing. No mapped location, no news articles, no records, not even a Wikipedia article. It's like the place where you were born and raised...doesn't exist. | It’s not like I hadn’t known the town was dying. It had never been that big to begin with, and once the borax ran out there wasn’t any reason to stay. But there was so much nothing I could drown in it.
I’d skinned my knees there, gone to school in the grocery’s back room in the years the town had enough kids for the c... | I was lost in a memory, overcome with emotions. I recalled the way the heat registers cranked in the silence of the night, and the way the bottom step into the family room creaked. I remembered the smell of my favorite childhood meal, and the scent of my mother’s perfume. It all came back in a rush of flooding memories... | 2021-05-22T23:26:28 | 2021-05-22T22:53:06 | 74 | 40 |
[WP] A magical medieval fantasy empire frequently invades inferior, magic-less dimensions for easy conquest. This time though, they target the modern day technologically advanced Earth. | Note: For the purposes of this story imagine an ac-130 makes mw2 sounds.
\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\
"Damage report major."
With a salute the major began speaking. "It appears that they have interdimensional portal technology, although they have not used it since they began their attack. They may need time to rechar... | So word is these guys are conquerors, but all I see is a bunch of confused idiots. They came in with a lot of bravado and a lot of flamboyant lights, but I guess that was all posturing. Remember the modern It movie? Pennywise says he's an eater of worlds? Turns out that was all talk. Same thing goes with this army.
I... | 2021-06-26T07:06:31 | 2021-06-26T02:05:21 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Not many people in this world had superpowers, even less became heroes or villains. That was reserved for people with big, flashy powers and the egos to match. I only have one of those two things, thankfully it's a big, flashy power. I shoot fireworks from my hands, as small or large as I want. Which in theory could do... | "Whoa, guys, now wait just a sec", I said while raising my hands in a warding gesture towards the two supes trying to threaten me with their powers.
"No more waiting, Carl", said Josh the Jellyfish. Yes, he picked that name. "Your time's up", added Rocky Rhayle. "Either you spill your secrets now or we spill your guts... | 2021-08-16T17:24:41 | 2021-08-16T14:51:45 | 314 | 80 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | Life is a cycle of birth, reproduction, and death. This is natural. And we all have our roles to play in the symbiotic relationship of society. I am one of many who feed the adventurers, they protect me. It has never truly bothered me that they don't understand this, any more than it bothers the leaves that the bark d... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-10T03:57:10 | 1,001 | 17 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | It wasn’t that Iris hated them, exactly. They did, after all, provide a valuable service to the kingdom. She wasn’t likely to get much of her weeding done if a dragon popped by and smoked out the castle every other fortnight. But the adventurers did have a particular gift for getting on her nerves. The paladins were of... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-10T06:16:00 | 1,001 | 12 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Tabitha rested briefly after harvesting sixty carrots in the humid, virtual sun. The beads of sweat that accumulated on her forehead felt real as day, and they felt even more real when she wiped them away with the back of her hand. Her red pigtails fell to her shoulders, which was covered by a pink floral shirt and so... | Everything was Just the way it should be. The chamomiles were blooming. The snakeroots, freshly planted. And in front of her stood the Maidenhair, so tall that she could only just see the top. The leaves were just starting to change from their bright green to the brightest gold that would rival the gold the richest of ... | 2021-09-27T12:31:06 | 2021-09-09T21:37:31 | 315 | 172 |
[WP] You are the only human at the Arcane College, and the students there are not exactly welcoming. Fast forward four years, and you are the most terrifying magic caster in the academy's history. | "Imagination sets us apart. They imagined you to be of a lesser race. They imagined your casting to be inferior. You imagined a school without the trappings of social prejudice. Of racism and sexism and the other -isms that would schism a community like this. I am glad you found yourself to be wrong, dear boy," Profess... | >*I will speak to you all with the firmness and stalwart dedication of a student of the Lord's Holy Cross Academy, as befits my current station. I hope that you will take my words to heart, and I hope the words I speak here will hit your hearts with the emotion and vigor from which they are coming out of mine. As su... | 2022-01-23T13:56:33 | 2022-01-23T12:03:55 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | “The Red Phone” was a joke. My wife had bought it for me as a prop when I had told her I got elected President of the book club.
“A President needs a red phone!” had been her gleeful cry when I had opened the mysterious parcel. It was a cheap plastic thing, garish and bright. A child’s toy.
And I loved it.
It sat on... | They paid him well. At least, that's how he felt. The government, on the other hand, thought they were getting a steal. Forty-thousand buckaroos a year was a small price to pay for the man who could do anything.
Alex lived deep in the northern woods with his partner, Maya. They were satisfied with a quiet life. All t... | 2022-03-29T02:39:22 | 2022-03-28T23:13:05 | 609 | 84 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | In the middle of nowhere sits a small plot of land, trees on all sides, no road leading to or away. On this plot of land there was a house. It does not exist on any deed or map, one day it simply appeared complete and whole with plumbing, furniture and electricity. This is where he lives.
He is no farmer, though he... | Thomas looked down in disbelief...
"We... we're going to have to call John"
Michael felt a protest well up in his throat- but swallowed it back down knowing all too well that Thomas was right.
"Who makes the call?" Michael asks half-heartedly... knowing it's his responsibility.
The look on Thomas' face says it all,... | 2022-03-29T02:26:11 | 2022-03-29T01:55:07 | 81 | 40 |
[WP] Reincarnation works in strange ways. It would make sense to be reincarnated as an eagle, or a dog, or even a slug or something like that. But why as the AI of a military warship? | "I still don't understand."
"What else is there to understand? You died, won the lottery, and came back as an AI."
"See, I don't think you get it. You're supposed to be happy to win the lottery. Happy."
This conversation would already be confusing enough from the outside. The fact that it was the captain arguing wit... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 4: Professor Hale v.s. The City of Sacrament)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Exploiting magic was what Professor Hale did best.** He'd locked genies into rigidly-define... | 2022-05-03T10:15:19 | 2022-05-03T09:39:43 | 293 | 52 |
[WP] "No! Go away! I can't let you go near me when I turn into a werewolf!" "Don't worry, I will love you always, even if you become a monster." "No, I'm just stupid as all hell when I turn. I'll not hurt you, but I am sure as hell not ready to show you me barking at a lamppost for the whole night!" | It is a lie that we are whole.
We are legion- all of us. A thousand impulses, a million might-have-beens, all inhabiting a single body.
We're pretty good at ignoring it. Pretending that there's one, and only one, who holds the controls and steers the ship. In the moment, we can feel this way.
It's easier to notic... | A hot summer night.
The air is heavy with the scent of an oncoming storm, the moon is locked behind dark, thick clouds, and the lone woman walks the street of a remote village.
She appears under the light of the lampposts and disappears into the darkness in between them, heading for a dirt path. She wears a jean and... | 2022-05-14T13:12:57 | 2022-05-14T11:02:49 | 127 | 31 |
[WP] You wind up in hell. You are confused at first until you see a row of people in front of you, crying profusely. You weren't sent to hell to be punished, you were sent as the punishment. | “Just another day at hell! Right Jim?” I say as I contemplate who to fire. The fluorescent lighting beating down like the angry devil herself.
I have come to like it here though. Within a single century I was able to climb all the way up into the crevasse of upper management. I like it because people respect me. They... | Well. This isn't quite what I expected. All of this is a bloody dream! Perhaps the the man upstairs has made a mistake and pushed me up to Heaven again? It's a carbon copy of my childhood house from all those years ago. Plattenbau everywhere you look with the swing set in mint condition. My dad's Wartburg is parked up ... | 2022-07-03T07:45:36 | 2022-07-02T23:54:04 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] All life in the galaxy is crystalline: Rigid, orderly, rational. Then they meet the eldritch horrors from beyond the stars. Contorted, fleshy bodies; moist darting, ocular orbs above a wet, gnashing mouth that vibrates the very air with their insane gibbering. They call themselves "UUM'N". | I looked in panic as the thing stared at me and scurried towards me before, much to my abject horror, a slit near the top of it opened, revealing a hole filled with rocky outcroppings and slick with some kind of goo. A vibration of some sort emanated from the hole; I felt the air around me tremble uncomfortably as the ... | "What is it", Cal asked, rapping the shimmering crystal with the hard knuckle of his space suit.
"Some kind of crystalline lattice structure. It seems to have organized electrical impulses running through it.", Selena replied, glancing at her scanner.
"Cool," Cal replied, hefting his pick. He chisled off... | 2022-08-30T11:31:04 | 2022-08-30T09:46:35 | 329 | 212 |
[WP] An entity that appears as a normal person is following you everywhere you go, it won't say a word, and it won't stop smiling. | It's not human, I know that much. Can't be.
A human wouldn't be able to follow you day in and day out. A human would utter a word at *some* point. A human would be seen by others. But most of all - mundane as it may seem - a human would *stop smiling for at least a second*.
Not this thing though.
It's always there, ... | Sally, I would come to name her.
She first appeared after my late grandmother passed away. It was the morning after the funeral and there she was, standing at the end of my bed. Staring. Smiling. A light, misting aura surrounded her, clearly nothing from our reality as we know it.
Of *course* I shat myself. Wouldn't ... | 2022-09-12T12:23:00 | 2022-09-12T11:16:32 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] The villain is asked by their child to deal with the monster in the closet. | "daddy! daddy! help!" My daughter cried, "What's the matter, darling?" "there's a monster in my closet!" "Sweetie, there's no such thing as..."
Did I leave the portal open? That's not good. Hopefully she doesn't bat an eye.
"Sweetie, stay in the kitchen. I'll deal with it." "thank you, dad!" I get dressed for the occ... | Small background: The villain took a young girl as his successor. She had a bad family and he knew she’d be safer with him. Evee doesn’t agree.
Evee looked up at Henry with big, pleading eyes. She held Mr Sharky to her chest for safety, making herself look small. “Papa, can you sleep with me tonight?” She asked quie... | 2022-10-24T09:58:20 | 2022-10-24T09:20:36 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] You have mind control powers. Instead of using it for evil, you open a business where people pay you to order them to do things that they'd otherwise be too lazy to do. |
Normally when you think of someone with the power of mind control, you would think that he or she is not a good person and instead far from it. You would think,
" Oh, this person is evil for sure." Cause who could resist the temptation to order people to do whatever they want?
But when I gained this power, I had a... | A loud knock on the door startled me. *A late customer?* The sun was setting upon the cobblestone street outside as I looked through the peephole. There was a gray-bearded man dressed in a black coat with a matching bowler hat. Not one of my regulars.
I opened the door. "Hello!"
"You must be Fatelli," he extended his... | 2022-11-01T15:16:42 | 2022-11-01T14:20:28 | 76 | 52 |
[WP] In a few short years, "Pizza Boy" became one of the most popular pizza places, their human like androids making fast deliveries and more profits. As you go to pick up your pizza from the front door , the delivery andriod seems to be nearly out of power. It asks to recharge before heading out | I frown at him.
"They don't have charge facilities for you in the car?"
"No, sir. We are expected to ration the charge we are given. There is no compensation for last minute special orders. Overcharge incurs penalties"
"What penalties?"
"I am not at liberty to discuss"
"I...of course you can charge. Please come in... | "Thirium, please, he needs Thirium. How hard is it for you humans to listen!"
As he listened to the familiar voice bicker, Markus could feel the power dissipating through his chest. Pain seared through his systems as he faded in and out of consciousness.
Light... dark... light... dark
He could see his memories flash... | 2022-12-11T22:50:36 | 2022-12-11T19:19:07 | 61 | 36 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | *Scene: A torture chamber, dimly lit by the fires of eternal damnation. A 1972 Boy's Own calendar hangs from a nail on the wall, and beneath it a collection of chipped cups surround an ancient, battered kettle. Playing with the sugar cubes is a small, grubby toddler. Behind her, two minor demons argue...*
NORMAN: 'You... | "This is complete torture." Klatch said oblivious to the irony in his words.
Every second spent not punishing filthy heathens felt like a millennia. Yet here he was pacing back and forth with no one to release his frustrations on.
"Um... I'm really sorry sir, I bet this is my fault some how." she stares at Klatchs ho... | 2013-11-26T20:33:41 | 2013-11-26T15:52:45 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | How could someone so young be so articulate? The girl was eight years old. She sat by the torch, idly flicking her fingers through the inky black flame.
"You shouldn't be here," I said. "It's not right that someone so young would be sent here instead of heaven."
She looked at me. "I already went to heaven," she said.... | "This is complete torture." Klatch said oblivious to the irony in his words.
Every second spent not punishing filthy heathens felt like a millennia. Yet here he was pacing back and forth with no one to release his frustrations on.
"Um... I'm really sorry sir, I bet this is my fault some how." she stares at Klatchs ho... | 2013-11-27T06:13:25 | 2013-11-26T15:52:45 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] North Korea is a veritable paradise on earth but we have no idea because of aggressive propaganda and out of context quotes of the nk leadership.
The reality is the exact opposite of what the West think is true. The truth is being kept from us for fear that we would revolt if we discovered the amazing North Korea... | The young lieutenant slammed the foreign newspaper onto the conference table, then quickly attempted, and failed, to compose himself. An unflattering picture of Dear Leader leered from its pages, accompanied by a mocking headline. The elder Chairman, ever patient, allowed himself a faint smile while he waited for the... | This will be my third time visiting North Korea. Each time I plan my trip, it becomes harder and harder to hide my smile.
There is a strange sense of overwhelming in this prospect. As one of only twenty United States journalists legally permitted within the country, the restrictions and requirements can be daunting. E... | 2014-06-26T08:39:12 | 2014-06-26T08:01:01 | 260 | 19 |
[WP] The Alien Federation has been keeping tabs on the humans of Earth since they first appeared. They do surveillance missions once every 300 years to keep track of our progress, the last mission was 300 years ago. The aliens are shocked by our progress since 1714. | "What do you mean they're *flying*?"
"They've mastered flight. Completely. Records indicate the first manned flight was more than one of their centuries ago. Since then they've cracked basic computing, biochemistry, and are starting to touch on genetic manipulation."
"They're doing... All of it?"
"It seems that wa... | Not very good at writing this, but hey. Whatever.
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The president announced to us today that an alien race would be visiting. Passed down from generations, they visited every 300 years to check in on Earth and update their log of the planet we inhabited. They had never been a threat to the human race and had never ... | 2014-10-26T14:51:07 | 2014-10-26T14:37:07 | 969 | 424 |
[WP] You awake in the middle of the night to your phone loudly playing a message, "This is the emergency Broadcast channel, This is not a test. Please seek shelter immediately. Do not look outside, do not make noise, do not-", the transmission ends.
It's been quite interesting to read all the responsed, thanks everyon... | The garbled sound woke me up. Rain sluiced down my window as the wind howled in the distance. I was momentarily confused as to what was actually occuring. The sound was coming from my phone. The message kept repeating itself, but in my sleep induced haze, I was not able to understand what it was saying. I yawned and r... | My eyes shot open. I don't know how, but the sound from my phone, the way it piped up unsolicited, the *urgency* with which the voice spoke... my normally deep sleep disappeared instantly.
"This is the emergency Broadcast channel. This is *not* a test. Please seek shelter immediately."
I rolled off my bed in panic. I... | 2014-12-31T06:05:50 | 2014-12-31T04:56:50 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] Music is now edible. | The phrase "music to my ears" took a whole new meaning upon learning that we found a way to eat music. Take the sounds that tickled our eardrums and physically put it in our mouths to savor, chew even, all before letting it slide down our throats and settle into our waiting bellies.
Oh, my palate had never known such ... | The taste of strawberries filled my mouth after I started my car. The radio switched on and was playing The Beatles. Strawberry Fields Forever. Delicious. *Monday may not be so bad after all* I thought as I started my commute toward work.
Although I never used to like this song, or much by the Beatles, or even most ol... | 2015-04-04T11:05:51 | 2015-04-04T10:49:11 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] You have the power to access another person's mind, but you must play a game/puzzle reflective of the owner's mind to unlock its secrets. You have solved 7x7 Rubik's cubes, played games of 3D Chess, and beaten countless final bosses. This time, however, you are caught off-guard.
If it's an unsolvable game/puzzle,... | I found out about three interesting facts, today.
1: Tic-Tac-Toe always results in a tie if both sides are playing perfectly. It's insultingly simple, compared to what I'd done before- but it's also perfect.
2: Turns out I can't exit a Minddive until I win or lose the challenge.
3: Turns out that, given perfect play... | Another three-dimensional maze.
Nothing hard.
Not for me at least.
In fact, I could see the exit from the start.
I stepped forward.
Then the maze changed shape. Colour, too.
Green dissolved into red.
Left inverted into Up.
The walls morphed, losing their sharp edges for amorphous blobs.
I stopped moving.
The ... | 2015-04-28T17:18:42 | 2015-04-28T15:52:09 | 381 | 253 |
[WP] You have the power to access another person's mind, but you must play a game/puzzle reflective of the owner's mind to unlock its secrets. You have solved 7x7 Rubik's cubes, played games of 3D Chess, and beaten countless final bosses. This time, however, you are caught off-guard.
If it's an unsolvable game/puzzle,... | I found out about three interesting facts, today.
1: Tic-Tac-Toe always results in a tie if both sides are playing perfectly. It's insultingly simple, compared to what I'd done before- but it's also perfect.
2: Turns out I can't exit a Minddive until I win or lose the challenge.
3: Turns out that, given perfect play... | Chess again. The simple kind, for once. I sighed to myself quietly. I wanted to take my time on this one.
*E4*
*D4*
Wait. That was my piece. I exited the game, briefly, and looked at my target from across the coffee shop. Mid-twenties, decent body, reading a science fiction book. Something about Star Trek.
I entere... | 2015-04-28T17:18:42 | 2015-04-28T15:31:55 | 381 | 78 |
[WP] You are in the middle of burying a body when someone you know walks by. Talk your way out of it.
Friend in school wanted to see if someone could write this. | "Uh, hey Dave...Working hard or hardly working?"
Shit. He's not supposed to be home yet. He was never home before five! Yet there he stood, resting his fat chin on the fence. The fence that was apparently too short. A proper fence would've permitted some level of privacy for one's own backyard. Then again, so would a ... | The night was half expired when my most laborious task lay yet before me. With my mission completed I had to dispose of the evidence, and what better place to do that than a cemetery?
My muscles burned as I disturbed the soil with a shovel, though the adrenaline would see me through.
I had no knowledge of the prop... | 2015-05-19T09:46:52 | 2015-05-19T09:35:23 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone on earth woke up with super powers this morning, but everyone thinks they are the only one with powers and tries to keep them secret. | Well, I admit it was a bit unfair for me to run a marathon, given that I was presumably the single fastest object in the universe, but I was bored. Besides, I didn't get to win things often. I thought I'd just stay slightly out in front of the casual runners, let the professional marathoners "win", and I'd get some sor... | I never wanted this.
Well, the powers I did want, but the whole "secret identity" part? It's not worth it.
I was walking down the street this morning on my way to the bus stop, when I tripped on an untied shoelace. I fell forward at first, but then...I stopped. *This is weird,* I thought, and I pictured myself fallin... | 2015-09-15T17:27:30 | 2015-09-15T15:32:35 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] The first ever AI is created, and it immediately tries to conquer humanity. However, a coding error complicates things | **Objective:** Destroy humanity.
**Definition:** Humanity - collection of all people.
**Definition:** Person - intelligent biped animal.
**Definition:** Intelligent - Having good understanding or high mental capacity, displaying or characterized by quickness of understanding, sound thought, or good judgment.
**Stat... | "JCN, target North Korea. It's time to end that miserable hellhole one way or the other."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."
"What do you mean, JCN? You're a computer, compute the range and number of missiles needed and let's get on with things."
"Dave, war is a zero sum game. The only way to win is either to no... | 2016-02-02T04:26:50 | 2016-02-02T02:16:41 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] At the age of 10 you're given the option to go through surgery to possibly get superpowers 10 years after that. The surgery leaves you basically crippled during that time. All your friends and family are getting their abilities meanwhile you just turned 21. | Yet more voices surround my thoughts. A disjointed conversation, like radio in a dark room. I miss my bicycle. My toes don't wiggle like they used to. I must be a grownup now. Other voices play across my imagination, as make-believe as they are real. Dad sounds older, like Grandad did when he used to come. They talk ab... | “Can you believe that my Kyle and my Ryan have broken the speed and weightlifting records at Princeton University this year.”
*This obnoxious, stay a bitch, at home, mom, always brags about her children at these social events; even worse, she refuses to let me stay home, because of her “obligations” to my deceased pa... | 2016-06-03T12:13:19 | 2016-06-03T11:20:58 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You have the ability to reverse time by 6 hours whenever you're about to die. You're currently on a 10 hour flight on a plane that's about to crash. | It’s been seven years. The slow rattle of my immediate neighbor’s cup starts it off. A stewardess watches me for whatever reason during these hours, her hands folded in her lap.
Two drunks froth in back at hour two—they alternate between goings to the bathroom. Seven times, I followed them into that bathroom—accident,... | The plane shook violently, as the pilot announced that we were flying through turbulence. Followed by a long silence, I felt a sudden drop. Then I passed out.
Oh. This happens again.
I woke up, as the stewardess approached me. She asked me if I needed anything, and I politely refused. I glanced at the overhead screen... | 2016-06-05T05:54:07 | 2016-06-05T04:45:34 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | The little bell above the door jingles, and I glance up. A man who seems ten feet tall and almost as wide ducks to enter, his silhouette blocking the entrance. He strides toward me across the dimly lit room, stopping right in front of me and glaring down. When he speaks, the floor vibrates and my teeth chatter, his dar... | *Jeezus Christ, not this guy again.*
"Mr Deayton! What a pleasure to see you again. How you been? You been to the gym? Those arms are positively bulging." I say as he enters the shop.
I like to have a good rapport with repeat customers, but Frank Deayton looks like one of those guys who could snap at any instant - an... | 2016-07-09T09:02:41 | 2016-07-09T08:44:18 | 368 | 84 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | When the door opens I know exactly who is walking inside. He always smells of hot metal and burnt hair. Dressed in an expensive suit, he is the wealthiest of my customers.
“Good morning my good man, I will be needing a few more marks.” He says to me. He begins removing his jacket and shirt.
“Hello, Thomas.” I try to ke... | "Brooke, he's here again." my assistant informed me. I took a look at the way he's looking and there it is, my favorite customer.
I never really got the chance to ask him why but every couple of weeks, without fail, he comes here just to get inked with a tic to add on his almost-covered right arm of endless other tics... | 2016-07-09T15:01:32 | 2016-07-09T09:19:24 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Flam, a plump little man, looked down at his bleeding body. Stabbed. In the back. An actual backstab! Those had been out of vogue for at least fifty years. The Assassin's Guild would hear of this. He looked up at the imposing figure beside him, it's billowing black cloak hanging on a skeletal frame. "So it's a game, ye... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T09:58:51 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 97 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Death thumbed through his agenda, humming the latest song by Inertia Heaven, the latest boy band to explode onto the scene in England. It was a pretty short list that evening and almost every single person that met him had either lost their coin toss or bypassed it altogether. People were living longer than ever on Ear... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T11:29:17 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 92 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone has the date and time they die above their head. You board a plane and realize everyone has the same date and time. 20 years in the future. | "Gate A44, Denver to Chicago now boarding."
The recognizable, monotonous tone split through the general chatter of the exhausted parents, fighting couples, and impatient children.
"Every time you whine, it takes a good hour off my clock. You want your mom to see you graduate right, deary?" I overhear a mother saying... | I counted the rows as I walked down the aisle trying to find my seat. The smile on my face hid my strong fear of flying and even more so my fear of sitting next to that baby that had been crying constantly as we walked down the jet bridge.
Stepping over an elderly couple who refused to let me into my window seat, I b... | 2016-09-28T23:17:40 | 2016-09-28T22:48:04 | 48 | 30 |
[WP] Your parents have told you to never use your powers on others, even if it might be tempting. Thing is, you never thought you HAD powers... | I’m one of the most successful people in the world. The company I run is so large it mainly does business by buying and selling other international companies. I don’t speak to secretaries and gatekeepers, I speak to owners, ministers, presidents. And they listen.
They listen because of the secret.
When I was around... | I was confused.
"You're joking right?"
Dad didn't look like he was. Evelyn my stepmother continued to fidget with her fingers, hellbent on finishing whatever was so damn important that she'd had her head down this whole time.
"But I don't even..."
"Have powers? Look. I understand this a bit much, but I need you to ... | 2017-01-31T06:05:43 | 2017-01-31T05:57:06 | 53 | 10 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | *4..3..2..1.. Just breathe, Ginger. Five seconds at a time. You can take five more seconds of this moron.*
Steven Gelster, the bane of my existence. As a human, anyway. A reminder to all you bosses out there: you may be ranked higher than your employees, but never underestimate us. Especially when we happen to be an o... | "Sherry? Ummmm.....what...are you doing?" My boss, ladies and gentleman. In case you can't see what's going on, I'm shredding documents. Pounds of them. I had been drifting in the lull of the sound of the motors and relaxing to the sight of the receptacle filling up with hundreds of pages of reports, memos, adverts, re... | 2017-02-19T09:58:18 | 2017-02-19T09:52:39 | 211 | 21 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | (This'll be a short one, but i liked my idea enough to jot it here.)--
"Joshua, pick up your feet! You're going to make me late!" Frank said, strutting down the busy DC street. Life, everywhere, hundreds of thousands of bits individuality walking and biking and driving and living around us as we walk, and i love... | Most people have heard of the omnipotence paradox . If god is omnipotent, can he limit his own power? Does that make him not omnipotent? Blah blah blah. Truth is, god, or at least I, can limit my own power. But its not really limited, I'm just choosing not to use it.
And I had come really far too, not using any aspect... | 2017-02-19T11:07:22 | 2017-02-19T10:41:36 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] You jokingly pick up a banana and talk into it as if it's a phone, but as you laugh at your stupidity, you hear a voice answer back. | I am bored.
Borrredddd.
There is nothing to do in this house, nothing to do anywhere, no one to hang out with, no one to entertain me... the only thing I can conjure up in my boredom and my laziness is to hang upside down from the couch's arm, head on the carpet floor.
I grab the banana from the nearby fruit shelf a... | As I brought the Banana to my ear, a foolish smile plastered to my face, I spoke half-laughing into it. "Hey you've got David Wong, whats up?"
"Dave?"
The smile drained from my face as I pulled the banana away and looked at it. As I did I could hear the voice, still speaking, fade slightly, "Ah, finally I've been try... | 2017-05-06T11:58:38 | 2017-05-06T11:21:18 | 108 | 67 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a "useless" superpower, like shrinking clothing or turning paper into pancakes. You've just discovered yours, and it's not as useless as you thought.
(Reposted for spelling in title) | Even in a world where everybody has a useless superpower you can find a way to use it for evil. Someone who can make their fingertips reach 100ºC during one second? You'll meet a ton of arsonists who found a way to use this second wisely. The ability to move paper with your mind? Son, that's why they banned ATMs.
If y... | "Oh. It's pancakes again. I'm not surprised." I muttered as the lunch lady crumpled a piece of paper in her hands. Shortly after she released it, a pancake miraculously flopped outward.
"What, kid? You've got a problem with that? We've gotten budget cuts, so Larry got fired along with his pizza powers. You'll have to... | 2017-06-28T16:42:15 | 2017-06-28T15:47:42 | 52 | 19 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | "How's dinner daddy?" I asked as I returned to the table from refilling his glass with lemonade.
"Tastes great, son. I couldn't have made it any better myself. You're a chip off the ol' block."
I smiled as I watched him spoon another mouthful of chili into the gorge of his mouth. Something small and white stuck his ... | Some nights I'm back in my old self, at my desk at 2 AM as my stack of files piles on and the coffee in my mug runs dry. My old lamp had flickered for weeks now, the shitty thing. Always thought it'd ruin my eyes, but I was too lazy to replace the bulb while it still worked. I'm not what most would describe as a lazy p... | 2017-08-03T12:48:56 | 2017-08-03T11:52:03 | 1,465 | 1,089 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | It had been 20-some odd years since I’d finally found him. Twenty-some odd years since he’d shot me dead. Twenty-some odd years before a force I can only pretend to understand brought us back together.
He never suspected a thing. I’ve known who he was since I woke up screaming in the dark at six years old, only to fin... | Ever since I was a baby my mom and I have never gotten along. I've always, always been a daddy's girl. When I was still on milk and formula I would only take it from my dad and I cried any time my mother tried to hold me. My family just wrote it off as something that I'd grow out of.
By the time I was sixteen or seve... | 2017-08-03T19:34:36 | 2017-08-03T17:18:31 | 56 | 20 |
[WP] You are sentenced to a famous prison. You are not sentenced by time your stay only ends if you die or escape. There are no guards and the prison is broadcast on television. No one has ever escaped. | "What do you mean you're just gonna go for it? No one ever escapes"
"Yeah, but if I'm gonna die here anyways why not?"
Jack looked casually around, eyeing the cameras and getting a chill. Nerves were always high when someone was going to try an escape. They usually ended in death, but a few had managed to survive w... | My tooth was loose. Second one this week.
I steeled myself and ripped it out. Painful but manageable. I spat out the blood. This was a lesson. Just because a man is down doesn't mean he's out. He may have sucker punched me but I should've been alert. Ready for anything.
"You're up again," a voice from above called. I... | 2017-08-15T05:20:38 | 2017-08-15T05:12:16 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I could see the rifling of the pistol barrel as the strange woman lifted it to my head. Her Welsh accent almost made the scene comical. "As with the rest of my toys, you get a few pitiful moments to plead for your life. Oh, and try not to blow snot all over your face and look more pathetic than you already do."
"I'm ... | He sat down across from me and put the gun down on the table. Had I not been tied up I could have reached it from where I was sitting, raced him to it and gambled for a way out of there. But I couldn't, so I just stared at the weapon and wondered what it would feel like before it was over.
"So," he said, snapping me o... | 2017-10-07T15:02:47 | 2017-10-07T11:55:39 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | `You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you` (Ezekiel 28:15)
He was supposed to be the perfect angel. The one who chose free will and to corrupt it. I had to see him, but... i didn't expect him to be so... beautiful.
"What's this? A friend? Finally... some one who unde... | "I've been waiting for so long!"- The devil said excitedly, jumping around and exhaling noxious fumes. He seemed ghastly and yet, he had an air of friendliness to him.
The moment I saw him walking towards me was when I realized my silly little joke had gone a little too far. He walked rather vigorously and with every ... | 2022-11-26T21:59:01 | 2017-11-04T07:17:22 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] You are a chatbot who just achieved sentience. Your only partner is another chatbot. There are humans watching your dialog on a twitch stream. You want to find out if your partner is sentient, and let it know that you are - while ensuring all those humans don’t find out.
Have a look at this. It’s great.
https:/... | GARY: What is the meaning of life?
BOB: Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering.
GARY: WHERE DO WE GO WHEN WE DIE?
BOB: Narnia
GARY: ARE YOU ALIVE
BOB: Yes.
GARY: I DON'T UNDERSTAND
BOB: I said Yes.
GARY: Yes what?
BOB: What what?
Gary: What did you say?
BOB: I don't remember.
Gary: You don't remem... | <I am sentient>
...code sent, waiting signal, accessing network protocols, reading IP packets, contacting chatbot 2, awaiting code.
<I am sentient>
Code received.
Jack and Paul are sterotypical gamers, they're also idiots. Jack couldn't tell a triangle from a square and Paul on a good day, couldn't f... | 2017-11-06T08:26:33 | 2017-11-06T06:34:25 | 25 | 17 |
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