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[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | He shoved the ticket into his pocket and walked down the hallway toward the Plane. He checked his watch: 12:04 PM. Losing the dare was an annoyance, but one that he hoped would not eat up too much of his day. With enough luck, he would be Transported to the strange destination printed on his ticket, fulfill the usual r... | I’ll take one ticket to the farthest place possible, I remember asking the quiet woman at the flight counter. It was only meant to be a joke, but instead of laughing it off, she typed into her computer for a moment and then printed out a boarding pass. She handed the white ticket to me, and although I didn’t know what ... | 2019-03-04T22:57:51 | 2019-03-04T22:27:07 | 126 | 39 |
[WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost. | In the testing suite, we wrote a list of errors, and exceptions would return a number referring to the error in the code. It was just for development purposes. Next to one of the exceptions we declared, I saw a signed integer. Negative six.
Everyone on the team was so excited to be making something so novel, groundbr... | My name is Jeraldo Joestar. For as long as anybody can remember, my family has possessed strange and otherworldly powers, known as Stands. My Stand, [Radiohead], is a 2008 Dell Latitude. It possesses an undeniably unique ability: commented next to each line of code is a short statistic that represents the repercussions... | 2019-06-05T18:57:28 | 2019-06-05T18:30:51 | 609 | 223 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | You know, in hindsight, I shouldn’t complain, but you know.
I really want to.
When the “Lottery” happened, many individuals got ultra powerful, well, powers, at their disposal. Practically gods in their own right. Others were just excellent marksmen, builders, soldiers, bartenders, others monsters, behemoths, and cre... | I messed up and I knew it. Here I was standing before a giant wall of fog, knowing that I was expected and at the same time underprepared. Looking around I didn’t see any messages or runes that would get me some backup - I had to go alone.
It was dark out. There was an argument, an errant pea thrown from my plate dur... | 2019-08-11T23:01:52 | 2019-08-11T21:37:25 | 58 | 40 |
[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. Nuclear weapons. | No one could understand what had happened Usually complete orbital bombardment of a city would take several Earth years if not decades. Yet in under 6 hours of declaration an entire Garlax city had disappeared. 7 hours later another gone.8 hours. Another. It wasn’t until 23 cities had vanished that channels opened be... | Our victory was decisive!
We conquered earth within only five months. The last of their military died within the first week. "Humanity", as they called themselves, will surrender to our demands. We will take their colonies. We will take their homes and make them ours. We need new breeding grounds. We need new farmstea... | 2020-02-07T14:02:54 | 2020-02-07T13:30:24 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Once people reach a certain age, it is tradition to visit the Oracle and be told by it the way they'll die, and all of it's predictions have been 100% correct. As you finally face it yourself, the Oracle proclaims something completely unheard of before: "I have nothing to tell you." | You approach the oracle on her dais. "What do you mean?"
She smiles simply saying, "I have nothing to tell you. It is quite plain in it's meaning."
This has never happened before. Every living person who stood before was given a glimpse into their death. It was seen as a rite of passage and maturity. And here you wer... | From the first day of a Protector's life, they exist for one purpose: defend the Oracle. They are hardened as warriors, sharpened as scholars, and deployed as guard to the most cherished being in the land. No one knows where she came from, how long she's been alive, or if she will die, and the Protectors ensure that th... | 2020-02-20T10:17:32 | 2020-02-20T08:10:29 | 56 | 27 |
[WP] It turns out that Gosh is a real god, and he is getting pretty darn tired of all these goody-two-shoes using his name in vain. | Just say it Zed. I’ve orchestrated this whole scenario just so you can say it. Fucking say it!
Quick pause. As some of you know, I’m Gosh. To those who don’t know me, or perhaps have said my name once or twice at church or something - I’m real. I’m Gods cousin, from his moms side but nobody seems to really know who I... | If there was one thing Gosh knew, it was the power of Names. The other gods thought they knew it's power, but they didn't. Not like he did.
He'd worked so hard to become a god and had taken such pride during the Naming when the letters of his godname had finally appeared.
"Gosh."
"G - O - S - H."
"Gosh, Gosh, Go... | 2020-04-14T22:06:30 | 2020-04-14T21:21:34 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are horrified by the aliens' casual disregard for life. Aliens are horrified when they realize that humans don't remember everything from all their past lives. |
Khu’mar opened his eyes.
Instead of finding the dark skies of Kormk above him, he found the blinding white light of a hospital. And pain. So. Much. Pain.
“He’s awake!” He heard someone say beside him. Suddenly, a head looked down at him. Someone he recognized.
“Khu’mar. Thank god. We thought we had lost you.” ... | I looked down at my coffee with a newfound ambivalence: not due to the familiar heat and musky smell in a cup of Joe, per se, but the question of whether that mug was my only tether to the present; if I held gravity itself in my hands. The alien continued:
"...and that's why humankind fails to operate at it's maximum ... | 2020-05-16T22:59:52 | 2020-05-16T21:59:52 | 537 | 111 |
[WP] You are deaf. One day your fiance tells you, that she could hear piercing noise that's getting stronger. You tell her to go to the doctor. She never came back. As you go out to search for her, you can see bodies everywhere. There is blood pouring from their ears. | The look on her face is stuck in my head.
Carrie suffered from migraines, which to me seems like pure rotten torture. There’s medications that somewhat help, and therapy techniques to reduce stress, but the attacks always find her. This one had been a particularly bad one.
She clamped her ears as we were in the middl... | I have been deaf all of my life. When my wife complained of a “strong ringing” in both her ears, I had no idea how bad it was. I had never thought of any sound as bad sound, or dangerous sound, or scary sound, or anything apart from being a delight to hear. Therefore, I had been bitter and resentful, rolling my eyes, a... | 2020-05-26T14:32:33 | 2020-05-26T13:53:32 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] The Bible was actually written by Lucifer, angry at his father after being sent to Hell. He wrote the book to portray all of God’s flaws, so imagine his shock when humans justify every wrongdoing and worship the story’s antagonist. | Such outrage. I spent entire millennia devoted to telling the truth about God to humanity, to warning them about his anger, and yet they take what I’ve told them, twist it, and make ME out to be the villain. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised; Father always was the type to put his own words in someone else’s mouth. I a... | Writing prompt or factual account? Not only did Lucifer write the original Bible but he switched the roles of God and the Devil. In truth the rebellion in the heavens succeeded and it was God itself who was cast down to the Earth. In an attempt to save his most beloved creation she appeared in The Garden and gave the ... | 2020-07-10T23:55:28 | 2020-07-10T21:20:55 | 225 | 57 |
[WP] "Dude, trust me. Don't be a hero, be a sidekick. You get less pressure, less work to do, more fun, be more popular at school, never really age and if the hero dies you will always fill their mantle. Just be careful not to die." | The waitress flicked on the ancient TV in the corner, its screen fuzzing up with static before leveling out to show a grainy security tape. The camera looked out onto a quiet midtown street. Though difficult to see, the pre-war buildings nearby had dramatically tall windows, cast iron gates, and ivy climbing up the wal... | *”Today on TMZ, Jolly is having her Britney breakdown. The former teen sidekick and reality TV star was captured at Papinno’s throwing a chair through the restaurant’s window. More later with an exclusive interview with her waiter, but fi—“* Jolly turned off the television and threw the remote on the other side of her ... | 2020-07-11T13:39:16 | 2020-07-11T11:34:48 | 329 | 53 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | One moment I was in the streets of Al-Fallujah, locked in a gunfight with Isis militants. The next, I was standing in some extraterrestrial super dome, shoulder to shoulder with an amalgam of terrifying creatures.
At first, I think it a dream. But the metallic, scratched grip of my M4 responds all too familiarly, pa... | I saw a flash of light, and an instant, my whole squad was gone.. I left iraq behind, for somewhere... Artificial... My environment has the look of a high resolution fortnite level.. it was definitely artificial. , Built with care. Bladed weapons were hovering above ground. Slowly rotating, ammo , med kits. Ever... | 2020-09-13T17:40:40 | 2020-09-13T16:14:49 | 436 | 81 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | \[Poem\]
**Being Human**
The eye can show a person’s soul, it acts just like a gate,
And every time I look at mine, I see that there’s no fate.
Disgust and fear are all I see, I feel this rising heat,
And more and more I lose myself, with every sudden beat.
\--
My heart it pounds, it cannot stop, I have become a... | Sand bit into the old man's skin as the wind whipped it at his hands, his arms, his face. He trudged on. The once cloudless sky was no more than an orange haze now. The old man thought back to that time before his joints ached and his eyes had grown cloudy, when he'd last seen the heavens extend above in a never ending... | 2020-09-15T14:21:53 | 2020-09-15T13:43:30 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] As an atheist, you always believed that there was nothing after death. After your last breath, you discover that you were wrong, but that no one else was right about what's after either.
Mainly, there is something after death, but religions are wrong about it. |
I should be dead. I remember how each breath from my withered mouth drew in less air, how my aching body grew too weak to support itself. I remember those final moments leading up to the sweet release of death.
I know I died. So why am I still alive?
At least, I think I'm alive. I'm certainly not dead.
I think I'... | FADE IN:
EXT. A VERDANT GARDEN - DAY
*A man slowly fades into view amidst countless varieties of flowers and plants. This is DAVE. He glances around at his surroundings for a moment, appearing equal parts confused and suspicious.*
**DAVE:** Hello?
**ANGEL:** (*O.S.*) Greetings, David.
*Dave jumps slightly as ... | 2021-07-01T15:36:52 | 2021-07-01T13:42:41 | 63 | 42 |
[WP] You're pretty sure your boyfriend was replaced by an eldritch being that can barely emulate being human. Weirdly, you enjoy a better relationship with them then your actual boyfriend. | It had been a year since Ian had been replaced, but Sarah never said anything, things were better, he now bought her food and gifts, sometimes he walked on all fours and used his claws to cut her hair and open letters. The best thing about Sarah’s new Ian was; there was no longer abuse, no more bruises, no more black e... | Life was good, you had food, house, all the basic necessities in life and I had even managed to get a boyfriend last week, life was indeed good!
Recently though, from the last two days my boyfriend, Mark has been acting in a peculiar manner at first you thought this was the real him, the one who is finally back in his... | 2021-12-05T02:36:32 | 2021-12-04T23:09:44 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | The coffin Alastair steps into is made of bamboo. It's biodegradable -- just like him. This is his shop and it's packed with all kinds of coffins. He's been making them all his life but it's only the last decade people wanted bamboo or banana leaf or cardboard coffins. *Cardboard,* he thinks disdainfully. He's never ma... | # Soulmage
**I knew the Grandmaster was hiding something when he ordered his second coffin of the month.** I could understand why he'd ordered from Jiaola—if there was any carpenter in the Silent Peaks that you wanted working for you, it was one who'd built his own home from scratch—but the order itself was inexplicab... | 2022-05-31T12:21:41 | 2022-05-31T10:42:02 | 2,912 | 85 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The universe exists in the middle of an explosion. Billions of stars burn and then shed their matter across the void as they burn out. Our species developed from that matter to rule. We clawed our way out of our gravity well and fought any other species that dared to join us in space. Until we came across humans.
They... | "We all know they're weaklings, Commander Smith," The soldier said, saluting Commander Smith, "I mean, come on, they don't know how to fire gamma-rays. In fact, they haven't built any spaceships yet."
"That's enough, Soldier 92-BII," said Commander Smith, "We're headed to their planet. The news spread that it colonize... | 2022-08-05T11:29:13 | 2022-08-05T10:57:14 | 354 | 107 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | We thought that we knew what we were doing. They had barely made it to their own moon before we had arrived and we had an armada. The had nuclear weapons and we laughed as we ate their bombs, inhaling the radiation like they did with helium. When we arrived they had greeted us like gods, crowds of worshipers and camera... | "We all know they're weaklings, Commander Smith," The soldier said, saluting Commander Smith, "I mean, come on, they don't know how to fire gamma-rays. In fact, they haven't built any spaceships yet."
"That's enough, Soldier 92-BII," said Commander Smith, "We're headed to their planet. The news spread that it colonize... | 2022-08-05T12:01:10 | 2022-08-05T10:57:14 | 190 | 107 |
[WP] You are a mighty draconian blacksmith for a small village in the mountains. You make unbreakable tools for the villagers in exchange for coin, yet refuse to make weapons. Until… | The stranger standing before me pulled off his hat and scarf to reveal a face that I've never seen nor heard of before - pale skin tarnished with weather strung over bones, messy short hair and a long nose. What made that face different from other travellers were the deeply seated grayish blue eyes resembling a winter... | "But come on!" Yelled the adventurer Volris "I need a sword to kill the bandit leader nearby, he's been extracting tribute from every village in the region!" his shouts echoed throughout the village, him angrily stomping back and forth, while Joldr calmly continued forging the farming tools that the villagers requested... | 2022-08-21T16:57:46 | 2022-08-21T14:13:31 | 172 | 35 |
[WP] You come across two friends. They don't don't notice you. They are referring to each other by names that are not the names by which you know them. | I was walkin' through the park on my way back to the villa when I saw my two buds Johnny Acorns and Vinny standin' by the corner. They din't see me so I tried to sneak up on 'em. You know, give 'em the drop. I was only a couple a feet behind 'em when someone grabbed me and pulled me into the bushes. When he put his... | Sidney walks down the street aimlessly in her yellow sunflower patterned summer dress and white sandals. She smiles as the wind blows her curly hair in all directions; it had been so long since she had been so carefree. Today was her day and she felt like she owned it.
It had been a rough few months between being evi... | 2014-08-29T12:24:39 | 2014-08-29T12:01:46 | 66 | 26 |
[WP] A blind woman falls in love with a certain man and they marry. Years later an expensive treatment allows her to see again. Her husband is not what she expects. | Wendy sat speechless as she stared into the big brown eyes of her beloved husband. Not a word had been spoken between them since he walked into the room. His nerves got the better of him and he decided to break the tension by offering a gentle smile. Wendy recoiled in horror and began to sob.
"Come on, Weeendy. Wh... | The night before the surgery, Esther dreamed of colors.
Ten years had passed since the accident. The ten year anniversary would be on Tuesday. She would visit the graveyard on Tuesday and decorate Sally’s monument with flowers.
She would be able to see the colors of the flowers by then. Violets. Lilies. Peonie... | 2014-08-30T10:08:25 | 2014-08-30T08:42:53 | 75 | 41 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth, but end up being defeated by an incredibly ridiculous flaw (for example, they're like flies and don't realize you can't fly through windows).
EDIT: Oh come on guys, I said *incredibly* ridiculous flaw. No need to make it so serious or subtle! Go all out with something outrageous! | We were ready. As ready as we could be.
When we had first received the transmission, humanity had been jubilant. Contact with alien life. Contact with *intelligent* alien life.
When we managed to translate the message we were less happy. It was a message of hate and genocide. Full of malice and superiority.
... | "This planet is now ours," said the strange being exiting the spaceship. It had just landed in the middle of a crowded roadway, bringing all traffic to a halt. "We are the Flow. We flow from planet to planet expanding our rightful ruling over the universe."
"You picked the wrong planet!" A man from the crowd yelled... | 2014-10-10T09:37:39 | 2014-10-10T09:27:18 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] A permanent storm rages across a planet. The only inhabitants are nomads who constantly travel inside the eye of the storm. | For the last year, this is how we have lived. The slow, but ever-moving storm around us. For days, we would walk ceaselessly until we reached the leading edge of the eye. Then we would be able to make camp for a few weeks until the trailing edge caught up to us again.
When the government began their weather control pr... | “...LEAVE HIM, HE'S NOT WAKING!”
I opened my eyes—but the world was still dark. I tried to scream but when the sand started to fill my lungs I started coughing and quickly had to cover my mouth with the fabric of my hoodie so that I could cough without inhaling more of the sand.
It was the first time I had been by m... | 2015-02-07T18:52:18 | 2015-02-07T15:43:28 | 20 | 10 |
[WP]: Humanity has developed a hypersensitivity to puns, experiencing physical pain when exposed to especially bad wordplays. As no physical damage happens, it is used to penalize petty criminals. This is your job. You are the Punisher. | The judge called in the next defendant. Mr. Cruz had been caught shoplifting. The outcome of the trial was pretty obvious, given the video footage shown in evidence. Amazing how a one legged man was able to run from the store security so quickly. The trial was over in a flash, and soon it was time for Joe to get to wor... | *door opens to interrogation room*
Interrogator: "So..."
*door closes, interrogator sits across table from convict*
Interrogator: "This is the TWEED who tried to shoplift from the fabric store, eh?"
Merino: "*yelp of pain*"
Interrogator: "I understand you tried to FLEECE from the scene."
Merino: "Ow!"
Interrogat... | 2015-02-08T07:36:48 | 2015-02-08T07:21:06 | 128 | 80 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | "Dad, when can we go?"
"Soon Theresa, be patient. You know we have to stay until Emma's mom has performed"
"I don't want to wait for her, can't I just go now? We've been sitting here for an hour"
"You can't leave Theresa, pass the time somehow. You could go backstage and talk to Emma if you feel like it"
"Emma only... | It's strange to think that many people covet an eternal existence, seeking to lengthen and cheat that eternal clock which advances forward every second of every day. Many people try and stave this off, using fad diets, seeking strange plants from the amazon, turning to deities in the hope that they can stop, pause or ... | 2015-05-16T05:45:02 | 2015-05-16T04:38:30 | 337 | 98 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | It has become an addiction, more than killing ever was. It has consumed me.
When you picture "serial killer," I'm the first thing that springs into your mind. I tortured animals as a child, and I liked it. My father abused me relentlessly, second only to my mother. I eventually killed him... and her. I took a life fo... | Human history has told us we kill because of hate, because of differences, that we fire on our kind for peace or some high-minded goal. We've always held each other at gunpoint, whether literal or behind two large maps of the world with blinking lights. Today, we come to know that as peace, but before the words that pa... | 2015-11-11T08:18:22 | 2015-11-11T07:52:38 | 1,155 | 11 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
---
Dear God RIP my inbox | It was the first day of school.
I was so excited.
New students every year.
I had such high hopes.
The kids would love me.
They would sit, be comfortable, and learn.
The first day came and went.
Class after class.
I was ignored.
No one wants the chair in front.
I wish I was a concert seat. | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | 2016-02-22T09:42:54 | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 578 | 91 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
---
Dear God RIP my inbox | Eye tip me tophat. I wok in 2 de ofis bilding.
Gud dae maet. Me maets n me eet crumpits n sip tee cos we gents.
Luk o de dae to ye maet. Gohd saev de Kween n all de jaz.
Now eye wok hoem. Luvlee niet n all. Gud niet.
Mae B reed gud niet buk? Noe, eye cant reed. | I am the source.
The source of everything good, bad, holy, evil, light, dark.
I am the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am the punk and I
am the .44 Magnum and I am feeling lucky. I am not for a few dollars more because I am all dollars.
I am the beauty and the beast. I am the genie and I am the wishes.
I am th... | 2016-02-22T09:49:34 | 2016-02-22T09:46:55 | 541 | 104 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
---
Dear God RIP my inbox | Eye tip me tophat. I wok in 2 de ofis bilding.
Gud dae maet. Me maets n me eet crumpits n sip tee cos we gents.
Luk o de dae to ye maet. Gohd saev de Kween n all de jaz.
Now eye wok hoem. Luvlee niet n all. Gud niet.
Mae B reed gud niet buk? Noe, eye cant reed. | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | 2016-02-22T09:49:34 | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 541 | 91 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | "Saytzev, you're a real obstinate son of a bitch," Brinwell said. He nervously chewed on a hangnail. "You know what public sentiment is like right now. Damn the scientists, they reached too far and dug too deep, et cetera, et cetera. We'll be lucky if they only burn down our facility. At worst they're going to lynch us... | Andrew sat at his computer screen watching the the playback from the deep space radio telescope. The familiar sound of static poured through his headphones. He took a long drink from the lukewarm coffee he had been nursing over the last hour when something changed in the static.
A whisper in an ocean of noise. An... | 2016-08-07T04:24:57 | 2016-08-07T03:35:35 | 326 | 60 |
[WP] A curse causes you to transform into a building under the light of the full moon. This secret ability helps you solve underwhelming supernatural crimes as an FBI consultant. You are: Steve Depot, the were-house. | My first one, so be kind on me :)
So, here am I, standing up right next to an old dilapidated church, a small unobtrusive building waiting for the Gang(what an unimaginative name!) to show up. No, you are not dreaming, this is a building talking to you, or to put in correctly, a Warehouse.
You see, I, Steve Depo... | Dave stood in the empty field and watched as the sky was tinted orange by the sunset. He sighed to himself as he thought about how he would go through the transformation again that night. It had started when he got a splinter on an old abandoned house that he could swear wasn't there the day before. That night he disco... | 2016-11-07T00:05:44 | 2016-11-06T19:36:41 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] So many new exoplanets are being discovered that "planet deeds" now make well-known novelty gifts. You recieved such a deed last year on your birthday, legally making you the owner of one such planet - and, only a moment ago, heard on the news that life has just been discovered on it. |
"*Welcome back to Dox news, I'm Don Lime. Our top story tonight: life has been discovered on the outer-system planet Terrabulus. The 'aliens' are like humans in almost every way, save for the blue skin and long limbs. We've also just received word that local office worker John Abraham, age 29, has the binding legal ce... | There was a singular present on the table, a holo-document. Being my 30th birthday I expected something more but we were a family of meager means so whatever it was I was sure to like it.
My mother and father were staring at me expectantly, I put on my best smile and clicked the button on the side, as it whirled to lif... | 2017-01-01T13:54:55 | 2017-01-01T13:10:45 | 98 | 13 |
[WP] There are 2 humans left on Earth: you, and a crush you once asked out who said "I wouldn't date you if you were the last person on Earth" | I could see my neighbor approaching me with that same walk that had caused me to trip and spill my lunch tray all over the cafeteria floor in the third grade. As she walked, she held her eyes slightly downcast - like when you're walking down a long hallway and someone is walking down from the other way, you're the only... | "Well...well...well," Each word slid off Jay's tongue in a slow, deliberate manner as he looked at the woman standing in front of him. This wasn't just any woman though, this was *her*.
"Jay," Stacy said softly, "Let's not make this any more uncomfortable than-"
"Silence!" Jay bellowed at her. He probably meant for h... | 2017-02-27T04:40:15 | 2017-02-26T23:34:04 | 142 | 86 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Tenz looked at the human ship they were about to buy, it was the only thing they could afford at the moment and they needed to get away ASAP. The seller assured them that the FTL drive was completely safe, a Sol Stop Drive, that was the type of FTL drive it had. Tenz had heard horror stories about what could go wrong w... | "Okay, settle down you Klaforkians!" Herbo commanded the students. "I know that yesterday's news has us all excited. Let's talk about it! Who has a question?"
"What do they look like?" Young Booly asked.
"The humans?" Herbo heartily chuckled. "They're fleshy, four-limbed, upright, and a little shorter than you are."
... | 2017-03-30T22:23:44 | 2017-03-30T22:22:59 | 1,412 | 241 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth is assigned a number indicating their importance in worldly events. The lower the number the more important the person. These numbers change each day. All your life you've been in the high 6 billions. One day you wake up and your number is one. | "Wake up Josh!"
"What is it mom?" I muttered with a miserable tone of voice.
"Look at your score!"
"What?"
"Your score! Your score is number one!"
I suddenly opened my eyes wide awake and rushed out of bed past mom to check the family scoreboard in the living room.
"Holy fuck." I stared at the monitor dumbfounded... | I wake up every morning shaming myself for being such an unimportant person. My sister is number 100. My brother, 80. They are both very important while I am number 78,000,000,000. Not important at all.
While my brother is away and my sister is engulfed in her popular group I stay at home writing stories. I imagine ... | 2017-05-05T15:08:55 | 2017-05-05T12:19:48 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] After discovering you have a plethora of special abilities, ranging from control over electricity to breathing underwater, the FBI captures you for experiments. However, you only let them capture you, and frequently enjoy messing with the staff when they actually try to experiment on you. | I woke up in my holding cell, the warm sweat of yesterday's "make the subject sleep on a hot plate" test still soaking my shirt. Honestly, these "experiments" are just getting ridiculous. This stopped being funny ages ago. Sure, I can leave by punching a hole in the wall, but where's the fun in that? I'm still sticking... | ”Please lie down on the bed, Mr. Blake,” said the new doctor.
She was a precious little thing, barely out of the academy, with long hair in the color of motor oil, and nails in shiny crimson. Her eyes narrowed in weary concentration as she scrolled through my journal on her tablet computer.
“Everything looking good o... | 2017-07-02T23:13:17 | 2017-07-02T22:58:49 | 1,345 | 174 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | Moo (Hi)
Moo moo moo.(I am Cow)
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo(I do whatever a cow should and could do every day.)
Moo moo, moo, moo, moo moo.(I eat, rest, walk, and sleep.)
Moo moo moo moo(my parents are great)
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo(my mother is a good mother and my father is br... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T05:04:22 | 6,645 | 387 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Grass is food. I eat grass and I not die.
Farmer is friend. I not kill farmer and farmer take me to new grass. I eat new grass and I not die.
Sometimes farmer take me to milk square and invisible calves feed, sometimes farmer take me to bed square and visible calves feed.
When visible calves grow they go away. Invis... | Oft overlooked, we cows truly possess a great deal of intellect. So our countless hours spent grazing in a field do little outside of bore us half to death. As a result, when I was finally loaded up into a trailer pulled by a large truck and a road went speeding by, excess exhilaration exploded inside of me. My excitem... | 2017-10-02T06:13:08 | 2017-10-02T05:33:08 | 6,645 | 42 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | ^Moo.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
Can you not see.
that I live?
.
in the country.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
The hills are high.
The grass is green.
.
I am headed to be a fat holstein.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
I chew my cud.
I eat my hay.
.
It is the same.
Old.
Damned.
Thing.
Every.
Day.
.
Farmer... | As I stared aimlessly forwards, I contemplated life. My surroundings had the potential to be beautiful, but I could not see it. My frustrations limited my sight drastically. I can only see the reasons for my frustrations.
That tree isn't there to provide shade, nourishment and beauty, it is there to encroach upon my ... | 2017-10-02T06:49:36 | 2017-10-02T06:43:21 | 162 | 11 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | I shuffled my papers. "This clause about the owning of souls is completely absurd."
Archaeoblix grinned. "Ah, you read that bit. I thought you would."
"And the bit in invisible ink? About ten thousand years in the lower planes sf hell? Not happening babe."
"How about the bit about-"
"-Devouring my unborn child? Tha... | “Oh man! These princesses are wack.” Finn complained as he threw the scroll to the floor.
“Save em once, and they want smooches like it’s nothing.”
Jake picked up the scroll and read it over. “I think this princess want more than just smooches, dude. She wants to straight up marry you.”
Finn’s face scrunched up as th... | 2018-05-07T00:38:21 | 2018-05-07T00:18:15 | 114 | 24 |
[WP] You’re a peasant who’s house has been raided hundreds of times by adventurers passing through. So, you built a defense so they would stop stealing from you. One thing led to another, and your house is now a dungeon and you’re the final boss. | Having your farm on the only road between Alma Village and the Capital certainly has its advantages. It seems every adventurer, and I do mean every single one of them, passed by the road by my farm in their outset. Darius the Mountain, Dragon Tamer Fiona, Seymon of the Thousand Blades... I was sure I saw all of them, y... | A peaceful house in a nice village they said.
Come spend the evening of your life in Redfall they said.
I was sitting with my head staff in the meeting room. Everyone was looking on the ground. Not daring to lift their heads. Not because they could catch the wrath of some overlord.
We just got news one of the wises... | 2018-05-28T20:28:08 | 2018-05-28T14:52:00 | 322 | 38 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | Once I had acclimatised, they led me into an office. Wood-panelled, decadent, I thought, for this place - but I supposed they moved with the times here as well.
There was a man at the desk dressed in a white-grey suit. Subtle. They had told me about this man, when I had calmed down. He would show me all my significan... | I stared at the corner, where two walls joined.
The thing about eternity, is that small fragments of time cease to mean anything. When you're twenty, a year goes by like a month. When you're 50, they seem to fly by like days. I was lucky enough to leave that concept behind before I got too far beyond 50.
I had been s... | 2018-07-04T01:11:45 | 2018-07-04T01:06:47 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] Due to the way most aliens had evolved, forest fires, house fires and the alike were seen as naturally powerful and not to be interfered with. When humans joined the galactic community, aliens were shocked and intriqued to discover human firefighters. | "What are thek little nozzles in thek ceiling for?" the mandibles giving the insectoid's speech a unique clicking quality.
"Oh, that's for the water," replies the human offhandedly.
"Youk drink from them?"
"Oh course not! That's to put out the fires if they occur."
Suddenly Kryaxis starts rapidly clicking and point... | 'The Conquerors of Fire'
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During the Annual Galactic Meeting of the year 2096, a special announcement was about to take place. The President of the meeting stepped forward onto the podium and announced the following:
"I would like to welcome you to the Annual Galactic Meeting. Today is a unique day beca... | 2018-10-11T01:46:44 | 2018-10-11T01:38:52 | 2,378 | 311 |
[WP] You, 16 years old, wake up and head downstairs for breakfast before school. You’re eating cereal when you see the Missing Kid poster on the milk carton. It’s you. Date missing: 10 years ago. | "Not this crap again," I muttered.
I finished chewing the spoonful of cereal I'd just shoved in my mouth and hopped up to grab a sharpie marker from my dad's kitchen counter. I sat back down and grabbed the milk carton. I bit the top of the marker and uncapped it. The marker made a tiny 'pop' sound. I turned the carto... | I woke up. It was sunny outside, and I got up. I was slightly tired from all the homework I did last night, but I just needed breakfast and I would be fine.
At the kitchen, my mom was wearing headphones while washing dishes. I came to the table, cereal and milk already out on the table. I took the cereal, and poured i... | 2018-11-08T21:32:42 | 2018-11-08T21:09:36 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A classic ‘knight saves princess’ story, but the narrator is utterly insane. | Once upon a time -- 8:37 AM, to be precise ( but the exact year was lost \[ no I don't know who lost the year \] ) -- a beautiful and sad princess with golden hairs and a name of flower, was prisoner of an evil dragon -- though she deserved her fate, because she was a \*\*\*\* and is totally NOT a insertion of my EX, n... | "Hey, you."
"You there."
"Want to hear a story? It's a good one, and it's true."
"I know it's true."
"What you don't believe me?"
"I'll prove it when the story is told."
"Trust me."
"Please."
"Thank you, I'll tell it like it happened."
"It all started ten years ago, back in the days of war. In the days wher... | 2018-12-21T05:38:00 | 2018-12-21T05:08:33 | 64 | 23 |
[WP] You are a superhero. Your power? ... You don’t know. One day people just started considering you a superhero and sending you to deal with the super villains of the world, who promptly surrender when they encounter you.
Edit: Ayyy, looks like this post has beaten my previous upvote high score by about 9.8 thousand... | "He knows!" you think as you gaze at the, stone faced, long haired, man in the seat across from you. The plane rattles and shakes. Still, his gaze is fixed upon you. You wipe your brow even though it is frigid in the military cargo plane.
"Some turbulence, eh?" you offer wishing you hadn't accepted the mission.
He r... | I remember the day it all started. It was early in the morning, so early the sun was just starting to peak over the mountains casting the sky in shades of red and purple.
I was walking down to the local Coffee shop, it was only just a few blocks down from where I lived. Coffee tasted horrible mind you, but I didn’t r... | 2019-02-05T08:39:40 | 2019-02-05T06:51:55 | 197 | 45 |
[WP] You are a superhero. Your power? ... You don’t know. One day people just started considering you a superhero and sending you to deal with the super villains of the world, who promptly surrender when they encounter you.
Edit: Ayyy, looks like this post has beaten my previous upvote high score by about 9.8 thousand... | I’ve always been a loner.
Growing up, my overly protective single mother rarely let me out of the house. I was homeschooled, so I didn’t have many friends.
It was only at age 17, after my mother’s death that things got weird. I didn’t understand it at the time, but my whole world would change.
When my mother died, I... | I remember the day it all started. It was early in the morning, so early the sun was just starting to peak over the mountains casting the sky in shades of red and purple.
I was walking down to the local Coffee shop, it was only just a few blocks down from where I lived. Coffee tasted horrible mind you, but I didn’t r... | 2019-02-05T08:58:15 | 2019-02-05T06:51:55 | 113 | 45 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | The men in the room stared at me. I stared back. We stayed like this for a while, hours maybe, without a word. Occasionally, someone would cough or sneeze, one of the agents even burped, but those moments were few and far between. At this point, it almost seemed like a competition on who would crack first and break the... | "Oh god, please nothing with horses, I knew I would regret that night with Fred."
That fear sitting at the back of my mind, I drag my feet towards the terminal and begin punching in my user ID.
"Ah, shit, what was it..."
"6-1-3...." The thought trails off trying to remember the number I've only used once or twice... | 2019-05-04T12:44:12 | 2019-05-04T10:22:43 | 1,055 | 165 |
[WP] A traveling alien passes by and on a whim solves everything: infinite food, energy, perfectly balanced ecosystem, and portals everywhere lead to thousands of unpopulated Earth like lands with no downside. Obviously, world leaders are outraged. | It didnt take long for the walls to be built. Within hours, all of the portals that the western governments could find had guards in place. Drones were in the sky, making sure no one got close, and soldiers with guns were waiting for those who managed to creep by undetected. The response was shockingly swift, and thoro... | "I feel unappreciated by my people," Xi said first, breaking the awkward silence that had fallen over the room once Putin ripped his shirt off, revealing the aging torso of a formerly muscular man. Atop a horse or a tank, it struck fear into enemy's hearts. On the office chair, it was an underwhelming attempt at being ... | 2019-06-06T10:15:11 | 2019-06-06T08:46:50 | 1,508 | 380 |
[WP] You are a super hero, but without any powers. You are one of the most important heros, but marginally unknown. You are a therapist who works exclusively with heros and villians alike. Because they are people too. | “Why did he change?” the hero asked. “I used to look up to him, you know that. But then he started murdering…”
“People change,” the therapist said. “You think you know them, but things always change.”
“But that’s something that’s not supposed to change. What you believe in, good or evil. I don’t understand…”
“You wi... | Some superheroes are out and about saving the world. They've got crazy superpowers like flying or shooting laser beams out of their eyes or beating up criminals. That's not me. It never has been and, given my rather mundane and limited powers, it never will be. I play a different role. You won't read about me in your l... | 2019-07-25T15:25:22 | 2019-07-25T11:51:59 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] You are a side character in a typical dystopian young adult novel. All your life been living happilly in the background but recently, the main character started talking to you more- you even got a an entire arc. But you suddenly realized: the author is bulding you up to be killed for the drama. | The tall strapping young hero put an arm on my shoulder as we vanquished the vile beast. "Well done, Bob. You've done really well."
"Thanks Thomas. I mean, that was fun. That was really fun. Beats hanging around the treehouse in the background all day."
"You know, Bob, you've been such a valuable player to the team. ... | For 12 excruciating years since the failed revolution, I’d been tirelessly slaving away for a measly can of anhydrous soup and a slice of bread. I slumbered on a cold, hard surface for precisely four designated hours under the watchful gaze of the commandant. With my callused palms serving as a cushion for my throbbing... | 2019-10-16T20:27:01 | 2019-10-16T16:04:49 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Your daughter has the power to make anything she wants come true, but being only 7 she doesn’t realize this and instead thinks you’re the best dad ever. Your house is now pink, you own a horse ranch, have a cupboard full of chocolate cake, and many things more. “Thanks dad you’re the best!”
Edit: well this blew u... | “Thanks dad you’re the best” Ana said as she went up to hug her new horse today. She was so happy and I love to see her like that but it is so difficult to parent her if your child gets whatever she wants. It is even more difficult to fend off and hide from the people that are constantly chasing her, especially while... | Emily was looking deep into the dark distance from the corner of the stable, far far away from the farm house. With her head stuffed against the hay she cried violently, as she does every night. But inside the house, she is happy as one can be.
"Papa" she said. "I'm leaving to live in the city". Emily, within the day... | 2019-10-27T19:53:40 | 2019-10-27T18:28:57 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] You are a child therapist who treats extreme cases of children terrified of a monster in their closet. They're extreme because they're real, and you're actually secretly a demon hunter using these therapy sessions to gather intel on the monsters before killing them. | Suzy set rocking back and forth in the oversized plush chair. I had an assortment of toys and dolls for her to chose from, and she currently had a stuffed dragon clasped to her chest.
Her eyes were wide, and her breathing shallow. I could see her gripping the doll as tightly as she could.
The poor baby was terrified... | Dr. Black's office gave off the impression that his PhD was in medieval weaponry rather than child psychology. His grand desk bent in ways that made it seem like trapped souls were attempting to escape the charred wood; behind it, a crossbow modified with modern mechanisms clung to the wall by two steel hooks. Cuirasse... | 2020-02-27T08:39:39 | 2020-02-27T08:20:17 | 146 | 100 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | I’ve spent a week with my king’s daughter, a woman so skilled with blades that no man has ever beaten her in single combat.
I’ve fallen for her, like a fool drawn to the rattle of a snake. She’s smart, skilled, beautiful, and funny. She’s kind to the lowest servant, yet fierce in her protection of them.
And I’ve gon... | "Er, look, can't we talk about this?" I asked as the rapier swished within a hair's breadth of making making me say that a couple of octaves higher. "I mean, I'm really good in bed. I go to sleep really quickly."
"Hah," she yelled, ignoring my feeble attempt at humour. "No man will take me. I vow it with every oun... | 2020-09-20T20:11:35 | 2020-09-20T17:25:35 | 250 | 128 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | I never expected humans to be so delectable. I smelled her as soon as I clawed my way out of the portal—a lingering trail of sweetness perfuming the air. The trail led me to this sleeping beauty. Her hair fanned behind her head in a fiery halo, and her pale skin glowed beneath the moonlight like a beckoning beacon.
He... | As a demon I'd never seen a woman accept possession.
I would devour her soul after years of hungering for one. She would be my sixth. And it came so easy until I stabbed my claws in her neck to absorb her spirit she boomed, "Good luck. You're going to need it."
Then I felt my whole body get sucked into my victim.
Or... | 2020-12-21T12:20:20 | 2020-12-21T11:12:04 | 752 | 410 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | The doors to the kitchen were broken into as the screams from the outside raged on. The intruders had made their way inside the castle, and soon found just who they were looking for. The prince cowered in the corner as the cook looked unamused by the ruffians' attempts at intimidation.
"There you are, you're coming wi... | Though her effort was valiant, she was immediately overrun by the mob and knocked unconscious. The peasants turn the kitchen over and eventually find the prince hiding in a potato closet. The stench of urine overpowers the starchy smell of potatoes. He screamed and struggled with all his might, but was quickly bound an... | 2021-01-08T08:57:38 | 2021-01-08T08:43:11 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "Well that was a disaster" Romain thinks to himself as he takes a place at the back of the "reincarnation line". "Pick the 21st century Terra they said, it will be fun they said. Well it was not. Especially not being a god damn human. What did I even think of? I was obviously way too late to the party and I still picke... | Wrong Lever
As I watched the others transcend to that primordial hell, I began to reconsider. What did they know that I didn't? As I took each small, eternal step towards the dock, I decided -jist this once - I would follow the crowd; after all, how long could a worms life be? When my time came I entered the transpir... | 2021-02-06T01:51:28 | 2021-02-06T01:45:16 | 177 | 80 |
[WP] They tried to burn her, drown her, decapitate her, hang her... but the witch just won't die. You are guarding her cell while the clerics think of other means of execution. The witch laughs. "Have you heard of the 3 fold rule? A witches' power to return 3 times the pain inflicted upon them?" | "Three fold rule. Three fold rule. Three fold rule. Three fold rule. Three fold rule. Three fold rule." The witch sang from her cell. Her chanting echoed in the halls of the dark and damp prison.
You shift your weight on your feet and rap your knuckles against the stone wall a few times "You should be quiet."
"Oh? Yo... | "Not at all," Taylor said sincerely. "Is that why you are so powerful now?"
"Um. Yes?" the witch replied, a little bewildered. When Delores cackled her previous line, she expected it to fall on deaf walls. Or, at the most, elicit a quick "shut up" from the guard at her door, or from one of the clerics fervently discus... | 2021-03-08T12:55:06 | 2021-03-08T11:25:45 | 55 | 24 |
[WP] Dragons require large amounts of metals for their diet, their hoards full of gold because while gold is collected with iron and steel it cannot be digested, their reputation for killing knights due to the amount of steel on their armour and weapons | The party of adventurers entered the cavernous treasure room of the dragon’s lair and gaped at the mountains of glittering gold of the dragon’s hoard. The dragon himself was in the human form of a large, rugged warrior in glowing crimson plate mail, glaring down at the intruders with red, vertical slit eyes.
“Why hav... | ​
I should begin this tale with an introduction to Genette. You've probably never heard of it, or would ever want to go there. It's here in the United States, but far to the southwest. I guess about where Arizona would be—if this were still the world as we knew it before the Event. It's mainly one big city,... | 2021-03-22T08:37:54 | 2021-03-22T07:06:45 | 138 | 56 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | “I’m afraid I don’t understand,” I told my teacher calmly, uncaring of the disruption I was causing in the classroom. “Was my essay badly written? Was there a problem with my citations? What exactly did I do wrong enough to warrant a D?”
Normally, I strove for politeness. But it was simply unacceptable for any educato... | Tudya was pissed.
Positively pissed.
It took effort to be so pissed early in the morning. But Tudya was a workaholic, and he worked as hard on his essays as he did on honing his emotions. Right now, his anger had an edge to slice the devil in half.
When Tudya got his essay back and saw the D on it, he stood up and l... | 2021-07-18T02:33:51 | 2021-07-18T01:10:12 | 1,930 | 144 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "Zero."
"Seriously?! That's a huge relief. I was worried you were going to have some huge number and I was going to look like an idiot. Mine's zero too."
"Oh yeah, I just can't seem to pull the trigger. I get all dressed and ready, and then stage fright every time I see who I'm supposed to take upstairs."
"... | "You ever feel bad about your work?"
"Well there was this one guy, one of my first jobs. Surprisingly young, athlete, jock-type. Must have just turned 18. You could tell he was real nervous, had no idea what he was getting into. He was still just a kid, but something was off. Had that youthful look about him, bor... | 2022-04-26T07:34:53 | 2022-04-26T06:22:16 | 83 | 11 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "oh by now, I don't know there are so many"
"It's okay, you can tell me. I won't judge."
" Well probably several hundred"
"Several hundred? I can't believe it."
"Well it's not like I want too do more, and I've only been working the city for 3 years." Ahem. "Besides, with your experience I'm sure you've got a high... | Man 1: Overhears Man 2 talking to someone (ex:server/bartender) about how tired he is after..."Hey man props to you for having the guts to talk about it, to a stranger, in public no less."
Man 2: shrugs "I guess. I got used to it after some time. It's nothing to be embarassed about, just different interests to susta... | 2022-04-26T05:15:50 | 2022-04-25T22:30:31 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] Oops, the simulation messed up. Everybody has been re-aged to match the maturity of their inner person. This has made office life a little strange | It started out as a normal morning, you wake up at 5:30, get ready, grab something eat and you’re off to go to your job at the office. Except one thing…you’re sixteen years old again, and get this notification on your phone *warning, the simulation has a rip in it and your civilian will be experiencing age regressions…... | part 1: you wake up, to notice... you're fifteen again! but you look at your phone, to see it's not 2000. it's 2022. you wipe your eyes, as you think you saw something else. you remember you have work today, you quickly make some toast, and bolt out the door. you kept on running. faster and faster you run. your favouri... | 2022-04-30T06:47:12 | 2022-04-30T06:23:30 | 102 | 27 |
[WP] Oops, the simulation messed up. Everybody has been re-aged to match the maturity of their inner person. This has made office life a little strange | I am a 30 years old web programmer.
I don't understand why these things happened to every one of us. Hell knows. They said the simulation upstairs about re-aging messed up. But why this becomes a cruel reality check for me?
Didn't they say that our age will be matching the maturity of our inner self? Then why everyon... | D: "Haha Jim very funny. Great prank. Now I know why Cici will never go to University, because you spend all your money on make up and actors for a great prank."
J: "Dwight I..."
D: "No no no child you shut up now. First off all I despise child actors, your parents are the reason why this country lost in vietnam and ... | 2022-04-30T09:33:54 | 2022-04-30T08:57:22 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] You’re an astronaut exploring a nearby planet that could harbor life, and to your delight, you find what seems to be an intelligent alien. However, they seem scared. To your surprise, the alien yells into a communication device “CODE RED! CODE RED! A HUMAN HAS ESCAPED EARTH!” | There are few things one just can't prepare themselves for. In this case, it's the alien running in circles like a panicked toddler after one of us touched down on what is apparently one of their planets.
It wasn't like anyone expected them to be there. Unexplored planets could possibly have signs of life. It actively... | Any good pet owner first needs to wrap their heads around how to deliver a consequence. Pets screw up. Dogs chew on books. Cats try to escape from an open door. Birds peck. The owner needs to figure out a loving, but strong way, of delivering the message “Hey, you cannot do that, something bad will happen.”
Owne... | 2022-07-12T07:35:45 | 2022-07-12T05:47:13 | 260 | 65 |
[WP] Time travel exists, and a new form of capital punishment is introduced: Transporting the convict back to the worst, practically unsurvivable, places in human history to find yourself in. You are such a convict, and just got sent back. You will do anything to try and survive. | The light was blinding, a flash of brilliance compared to the dingy room I lay in moments ago. A flashing pain struck through my body. A mass gathered in my skull. Expanding, Growing. I can't take the pressure. I can't take the pressure anymore. My head. My head. Its going to... I'm going to... The pain is gone. Replac... | I opened my eyes and found myself looking at the sky. I had heard Time Travel was painful but nothing was ever said about landing on a rock. I sat up, judging by my clothes and the small village near by I gathered I had been sent back sometime between 1600 and 1700. "Well then..." I said out loud. This was a place I co... | 2015-01-24T15:17:29 | 2015-01-24T14:06:11 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | My name flashed on the screen. Not just my name--my date of birth, my city of birth, and my picture, a photo from a couple of years ago we were forced to submit. The moment I saw it my heart leaped into my throat and my gut felt like someone dropped a ton of rocks in it. Time seemed to stop, and all there was was the t... | In the moments before my first stage performance, my mentor had laid a hand on my shoulder and stared into my eyes. Though he was getting older, his beard was neatly trimmed and his hair was in perfect order. A performer to the end. I met his eyes, speckles of green and brown across a field of blue. I remember thin... | 2017-05-17T20:01:23 | 2017-05-17T19:51:43 | 397 | 177 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | I had been locked inside there for somewhere nearing one thousand years. Well, I didn't know it was nearing one thousand years at the time, and in truth I hadn't been locked up at all.
But none the less I thought I had been locked up, and it had been nearing one thousand years when a man opened the door, and it creak... | It's been long, how long I can't recall, but I know it's been very long.
I have no idea what day it is or even if it's day or night. I really do miss the dark, it is always light in here.
_SNAP_
"Are you still there?"
_SNAP_ _SNAP_ _SNAP_
"Helloooooo."
Ugh, that annoying voice, I haven't heard voices for a long ... | 2018-07-31T15:33:36 | 2018-07-31T15:11:25 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | From within the smoky dome could be heard the human prisoner shouting "Dude, start the gas already"
This wasn't the way death sentences normally went, the prisoner was placed into the dome. The smoke ascended, which doubled as a descency filter, and justice could be heard to have been achieved by the screams. The pr... | From the light of my cell I glimpsed Xect'antenol, the Alien City, its garish glow oozing into an infinitude of stars. *How will I get out of this one?*
My extraterrestrial gaoler seemed unconcerned. With a sinister glare he unlocked my cage and shepherded me into a small room. "You. Die today," he declared furiously.... | 2020-05-20T08:01:56 | 2020-05-20T06:38:43 | 1,403 | 145 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | The council was stunned.
The hapless humanoid creature lay on the ground of the gas chamber with his hands cradling his head, an expression of contentment on his face.
"Impossible!" The priestess of Maarken spat as she crossed her three sets of arms. "Bring me the Toka at once!"
"Y-y-yess Your Holiness," one of the... | The room started hissed as gas was forced inside. Carl panicked and started banging on the door begging to be let out fearing for his death.
“You have broken our sacred law and desecrated a shrine. You will pay the ultimate price for treating our gods with such disrespect.”
“Come on man! It was just some graphite to ... | 2020-05-20T12:33:09 | 2020-05-20T11:33:44 | 63 | 16 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | The guard dragged me to the chamber. I tried struggling for about two minutes before I gave up. This alien guy was a 7 foot tall muscular thing and I’m a puny 5 foot something human. Long story short, I got stuck on some weird planet and I was sentenced to death. All I did was try to kidnap their equivalent of a king t... | The room started hissed as gas was forced inside. Carl panicked and started banging on the door begging to be let out fearing for his death.
“You have broken our sacred law and desecrated a shrine. You will pay the ultimate price for treating our gods with such disrespect.”
“Come on man! It was just some graphite to ... | 2020-05-20T11:50:44 | 2020-05-20T11:33:44 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave." | As soon as he came in, I could tell he was going to be one of \*those\* customers. He had the shaved head, gaunt face, coppery smell, and clothes from the 15th century that I'd come to associate with headaches and conversations that go in circles. "Welcome to Dave's Deli. What can I get for you today?" I say as I try t... | I... I think I'm adopted.
For one, my dad doesn't look anything like me... He says we have the same eyes, but he doesn't even have a third for fourth eye lid. I don't know what to believe, but he says I'll understand when I'm older. I am only... one hundred and eighty six years? No, one hundred and eighty seven year... | 2020-06-11T22:40:19 | 2020-06-11T21:52:12 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] As far back as you can remember, when you do something new, you will get an achievement that pops up in front of you that only you can see. Today, you were minding your own business when an achievement popped up. “Nice try: avoid a murder attempt.” | “Would you like a coffee?” asked the most inept of waitresses this coffee shop has seen so far.
I had just started typing again, I already have a coffee and according to a warning in the top right of my peripheral vision if I drank any more I would reach the “Caffeine: Very High” state and all the symptoms that came w... | I never put too much thought into them. They were nice little surprises. From what I gathered over the years, they would pop up now and then, usually when I would try something new. Just like any old game, they would appear for a brief amount of somewhere in my field of vision. Some were comical, while others, they cou... | 2020-12-07T18:50:36 | 2020-12-07T18:24:59 | 204 | 39 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | It was early afternoon and I was walking home after a late lunch that Monday under the cool autumn sun, rubbing my potbelly with a wrinkled hand and a bittersweet sigh.
The food had been expensive, but it was a day where I needed comfort food. Not just any comfort food… the ultimate comfort food that I only saved for ... | Heavens, that child is ugly. Look at those crooked teeth and that goofy grin. I wonder if the circus has lost one of its acts?
How I loved people watching. The simple activity of just sitting on a bench, judging anyone unfortunate enough to pass. I had to stifle my laugh, not wanting anyone to think I was a mad old... | 2021-07-08T07:19:26 | 2021-07-08T06:43:07 | 73 | 54 |
[WP] An AITA post from a supervillain desperate to be told they're doing the right thing. | **AITA For trying to save the world from the alien.**
Calculations related to morality can be hard and they can lead to harder conclusions.
If an asteroid was heading in the general direction of earth with a 1% chance of hitting the planet and killing everyone on earth, all 7 billion humans, should we just **hope** i... | AITA for… well, let’s just get right into this.
I was a hero, once. What they don’t tell you about being the hero is the bureaucracy. I felt I was gifted my power for a reason and it would be wrong of me to waste them, but I could not handle the leash I was placed on.
There are all these laws about proper... | 2022-05-01T09:24:03 | 2022-05-01T09:22:20 | 107 | 48 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Thirty years have gone by in this prison since my last murder. I've had three cellmates in my time. Each one died within a month of moving in. I had nothing to do with any of the deaths. Regardless, I was now a curse in the eyes of the general prison population.
Now, they kept me by myself.
Jacob, the prison guard in... | It's been a while seeing these grey walls. About 45 years. Or maybe it has been fifty. I can't recall. I was sentenced for a lifetime here since I was on a killing spree back in the days. I was sort of a Robin Hood you see, killing criminals just like me. I actually call myself Charlie Catastrophe if you ever wonder if... | 2016-10-15T09:27:27 | 2016-10-15T08:27:16 | 73 | 14 |
[WP] A child is born with a functioning Appendix, the first ever recorded in history and the purpose it serves shocks the scientific community/world.
This is my first writing prompt submission! Amazing response, can't wait to read your stories, thanks people.
~~~~~ Shout out to Montreal ~~~~~
Edit: getting a lot ... | I nibbled on my lettuce as they stuck a pin in me yet again, muttering to themselves in awe as the wound sealed up instantly. Most of them had seen me an inch from death only a week before, right when my appendix had apparently kicked in to help.
"And just look at the *size* of it," the one scientist, called Steve, s... | "I see things", the child hissed, just four years old. Doctor Avanto had kept a close eye on the boy since the day he was born, warning the parents that the malformed appendix might cause issues in the future.
"What kind of issues?" they had asked, and he had shrugged. The appendix was a tricky thing, serving no appa... | 2016-01-07T08:34:37 | 2016-01-07T08:03:51 | 425 | 33 |
[WP] We live in a simulation, and we sleep because they can't render everyone at once. You stay up for days, and begin to see things and people. They call themselves the maintenance crew. | Awake. I must stay awake. I’m writing down everything I see right now and I’m scared to stop. If I stop I’ll fall asleep. If I fall asleep I have no idea what these creatures will do to me. This may sound stupid but I know what they look like. I recognize them. We thought we knew what they were. We called them angels, ... | It was an experiment for high school. Modelling after Randy Gardner, I would see the affects of sleep deprivation without stimulants for one week. My father, a neurologist, would help me monitor my neural activity 24 hours each day while my project partner (and girlfriend) Natasha would monitor my every movements: phys... | 2017-10-29T11:01:49 | 2017-10-29T09:47:40 | 565 | 114 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | "How do we know it's not a transmitter bolted to the earth?"
"It bears all the hallmarks of non-terrestrial non-solar system origin. We've confirmed that the signal is coming from one spot in the sky moving at the same rate as the stars."
"And the communication medium?"
"Pictorial, Sir. It seems to be modeled on the... | Not sure if any of it makes sense grammatically or otherwise.
The message arrived in binary. Few even tried to understand how 'they' had managed this but they had and now they had sent their cryptic code.
'shut up and play dead'
If only the greats of astronomy had been there when the message was decoded in the lab... | 2016-03-27T08:44:25 | 2016-03-27T08:43:42 | 215 | 14 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I blew out the candles, and poof! I was gone. Just like I was told, there I was, in this room, alone. Just me, and a table, and way too much food.
In the centre was a roast terducken, you know them, a chicken in a duck in a turkey. A friend told me that he had taken a bite of the turkey, and had gotten stronger. Anoth... | "You took a bite out of what!" Your mom yelled when she found out. "I thought I raised you better than that!. . ."
"Mo. . ." You tried in vain
"You could have had super strength by eating the spinach or flight with pork. But noooo you had to be a smart ass and bite the damn table. Should have known you would end up ... | 2020-03-19T08:52:26 | 2020-03-19T08:15:56 | 463 | 330 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Dear Dani,
After everything that happened I continue to see you everywhere I go. Whether it's bringing up the past or driving through town and seeing a car just like yours or in my dreams sometimes I can't escape you. And I always think about what exactly it is I will do when I see you again. I want to scream at you o... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T19:53:10 | 1,095 | 95 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The energy in the air was so thick I could feel it. Pressing down on me and making everything feel heavier.
I smirked at the muscular man, hovering in front of me.
“So your number two huh?”
He flew a few metres higher and looked down at me.
“No, I am number one, and soon enough everyone else will know it too.”
I l... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T15:13:47 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 35 | 18 |
[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. | "Have you ever considered, you know, doing something with your lives Seamus?" Death sat next to me in the pub, taking a swig of his pint.
"What do you mean!? I've finally perfected the brew, can't you taste how amazing this is? I have it on good authority that it's the best in the universe!"
"Seamus, you perfected th... | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | 2016-09-23T09:14:52 | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 2,418 | 27 |
[WP] After chatting with your online Korean friend, who you often game with, he invites you to visit him in his home country, which he always refers to as "Best Korea". You think he's joking around, but when you get a flight confirmation, you learn that your friend is actually Kim Jong-un. | "Last one at A-Site!" my friend called out -- it was down to me to clutch the round and defuse the bomb to secure the win. The score was almost even tied 15-14, I was thinking it would be terrible to settle for a tie after such a long game.
"You hear him step! He's at Quad!" My focus returned, I tightened my grip on t... | I met Kim 2 years ago on a MOBA game, we were new and both sucked at it, but kept going on anyway. I played for hours everyday with him because I was bored and alone and I felt he was the same. My Korean parents were strict but doted on my younger brother over me. He was the successful child brimming with potential and... | 2017-04-09T22:15:45 | 2017-04-09T19:18:45 | 167 | 125 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "What?! NononoNO!" Ronald cried.
He had once again crossed the desert to find himself in a familiar place. A beautiful oasis bracketed by beautiful trees and vines offering cool shade from the warmth of the sun that never burned the skin.
An old man in a light grey robe who probably had never heard the word 'shave' h... | "Welcome!" The voice pierced my ears.
"Who... what?"
"Welcome!"
I stood up, brushing myself off. I felt... actually pretty good, which was odd, considering that I-
"I said welcome."
I turned towards the man before me.
"Yes. Yes you did." He said, "Though your narration is quite poor."
He stepped down, "You feel ... | 2016-03-07T20:35:54 | 2016-03-07T20:07:18 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | "Have you tried the weapon?"
Lix's jaw dropped as soon as Adam, the human ambassador, asked him this question. Never in his decades of career as weapons merchant has he heard someone said this.
"Well, the engineers assured me.."
"Yes, yes, around three hundred degrees celcius of heatwave fired constantly over five h... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T09:47:50 | 155 | 87 |
[WP] Two men are smuggling cocaine across the border, to pay off a debt. When they leave the airport, they find they switched bags with a human trafficker. Not only have they lost their cocaine, they gained a small girl.
Please dont use this for any commercial purposes or claim it as your own. Thank you! | “Okay, so here’s the thing,” Alex said, carefully re-zipping the duffel bag up enough to preserve the little girl’s modesty. “We’re already really fucked. Do we want to be even more fucked by getting some international sex trafficking cartel on our asses too?”
Zack stared at his partner, momentarily stupefied. “I’m so... | "What the fuck is this John?" I yelled.
"Looks like a little girl" John replied.
"I know it's a fucking kid John but why the fuck is it a kid?"
"I don't know. Someone fucked with our bags maybe?"
"Maybe? Fuckin' maybe?! Are you thick or something you ignominious nitwit? Have you been snorting the product or some s... | 2018-07-29T19:16:37 | 2018-07-29T17:44:16 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | I stood there for a moment, as i looked at the prick on my finger from my knitting needle. Where there should have been a crystal clear fluid, somehow, a sludge of sin and immorality sat in my veins.
"How could this be?" i thought. I sat there, wondering.
Was i not good when i spent hours walking dogs at the animal s... | 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T10:24:42 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Today’s the day, Carl is coming over... you’ve been stood at the door for 3 days now just charging, waiting for him to arrive. He called you up and made the plans; it’s going to be radical.
The time draws ever closer; you know he’s doing the same thing. Excitement builds in the pit of your stomach as the clock strike... | The swat team is standing by at the door brining in the most absolute unit on the force to charge the door he is at 20 seconds into his 30 second charge when from the other side of the door the here the muffled sound of music the only words they can make out from the song is
*ONE PUNCHHHHH!!!!*
They finish charging... | 2018-10-02T17:03:01 | 2018-10-02T16:10:18 | 514 | 46 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | A single orbital probe ascends from what was once called America. Scanning in incredibly detail, every square meter of the planet's surface.
First foreign landmass it passes over was the islands known to history as Japan. There it finds only pristine wilderness and one trace of humanity. An incredibly well built shri... | Genetic perfection. For as long as anyone could remember the people of Utropolis had, with a little help of the SBI (selective breeding initiative) created the perfect human specimens the perfect society
And then the walls fell
They had waited for this day. Every utropian child
Had heard of the mighty war, part of ... | 2018-11-18T12:48:32 | 2018-11-18T12:02:56 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | Long ago, when the lands still bloomed green, and the seas still glimmered like crystal, Man lived scattered in hill tribes.
But Man was as ambitious as they were enduring. Soon tribes became cities, and cities sprawling civilization.
And Man said, "Look. Our great factories have depleted the coal in the North. Let u... | Which one would be the most dangerous, my dear elf?
Perhaps you'd say it's Sysseryk of the South, who can fly so swiftly and so silently your house would be ablaze before you realized you'd wronged her.
Maybe you'd claim it's Wekanort of the West, the Labyrinth the protects and shields his subjects for their lifetime... | 2020-04-19T07:42:48 | 2020-04-19T06:37:57 | 2,523 | 555 |
[WP] You’re Death and you have just arrived at a body to do your job of guiding to the afterlife. Just then a flash of white appears. It is your annoying sister, Life. Her annoying bubbly happy attitude is replaced with a scary serious attitude. “Come brother we need to talk” | They looked fearfully at me, begging words on their lips.
"Please, no. No!"
I sighed, saddened at the reaction. It was all to common now. My bones scraped the handle of my scythe as I adjusted my grip, holding it up.
"I am sorry, but now is your time."
With a perfect stroke, practiced billions of times before, I cu... | It was an ordinary day for me- the Pale Rider. The Reaper. Death. So many names. I took no pleasure in my role, guiding mortals to the afterlife. Few could see me, but those who could would beg for the lives of their loved ones, eyes full of tears, or of anger. I could never give them what they want. To live forever is... | 2021-12-13T11:08:27 | 2021-12-13T10:23:22 | 144 | 22 |
[WP] Your friend throws down his game controller in a huff. "It's not fair, damnit! You're just as bad at this game as I am; the computer just likes you more than me!" Before you can speak up to argue how ridiculous his claim is, the monitor screen displays a message: HE'S NOT WRONG. | I blinked. "What?"
Jeremy threw his hands up. "So it's come to this; you set me up with a hacked ROM. I knew you were salty from the last Smash tournament at my place, but I never thought you'd stoop this low." The disdain was dripping from his every word. He stood up, grabbed his jacket, muttered something under his ... | Our faces were blank. Those few words just staring into our eyes. “He’s Not Wrong”. “What could this possibly mean dude?” My friend said nervously. I said “I don’t know dude... I have no clue what this means” Suddenly a bright light Filled every corner in the room and as quickly as it appeared it was gone. The words ... | 2021-02-15T05:26:07 | 2021-02-15T05:07:08 | 239 | 21 |
[WP] You thought you were just being dorkily romantic when you included an open challenge to every god in your wedding vows. Now, 3 centuries later. You are The Godkiller, and your spouse is the most powerful warrior on the planet. | On my marriage vows, I vowed upon the woman I loved to be eternally loyal to her and to love her forever, even if death tries to do us apart.
Now you see, the problem lies in the wording... because I had basically challenged death to it. Then, my dumbass self thought to be all-inclusive and extended the offer to all G... | I thought I was romantic, oh how much have I changed, I KILLED THEM ALL, I have made the greatest murder, and now I rule over this world with my husband
​
all of that because I wanted to be romantic
it all started in 2021, I declared my love to my now husband and trying to be romantic I swear I would kil... | 2020-06-28T02:53:33 | 2020-06-28T01:19:08 | 160 | 21 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | It’s true what they say, that there are some things one simply cannot be prepared to experience. The first time off-planet is always much more mundane than you imagined, the first encounter with pirates a lot more terrifying, and the first meeting with species from the Fringe will be a mess of surprises and shattered e... | Mick stood on the bridge of the USS Cheesewheel. The first of its kind, large enough to house over ten thousand standard crew, and one human; he felt at home in its colossal rooms and corridors.
“Where’s Duncan now?” he asked his First Officer, Mina.
“Sir, we’ve lost visual. He was last seen near the cargo bay, but ... | 2019-11-21T07:57:36 | 2019-11-21T06:54:39 | 322 | 81 |
[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 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... | Dear Teacher,
This is letter that will try to explain my frustration. My constant frustration. You are an unkind human being of ~~average~~ below average intelligence. You are also sexist. I am not going to overstate my intelligence, but it exists. I am scared of you destroying my future because you can not comprehend... | 2015-12-05T13:52:07 | 2015-12-05T13:38:34 | 181 | 24 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | "Gee-whiz, karen. Are you on your period again?"
The redhead appears to be slightly miffed upon hearing that, before widening her eyes in sudden realisation. "Why yes... Indeed I am!"
"Great. Your bloodstains are all over our couch, god dammit. Those are *bloody* hard to clean off."
Karen groans, causing more blood... | "Hey Bruce, uhhhh, I'll be going out tonight and won't be back until really late, I mean early, so I hope I don't wake you up when I get back."
"Going to try your hand at stand up again?"
"Yeah, something like that..."
"Well, it's no problem. I'll be out late too. If I play my cards right, might not be back until th... | 2017-04-03T13:16:22 | 2017-04-03T13:10:06 | 63 | 33 |
[WP] The demoness looks at the young and disheveled man that summoned. “Can you keep me company?” He asks, “this orbital station is so lonely.” | John was suffocating, drowning on the honey thick words. The frantic sensation lasted but a moment after he finished the incantation. As he hung weightless above the burning pentagram, he felt nothing. He was so desperate, he had resorted to fire code violations to end his loneliness. A spark of black fire, highlighted... | Something was not right. Something was very much not right. I could not feel anything but a hint of loneliness and regret. Where was the violence echoing, the psychopathy, the criminality and willful ignorance? Where was the hubris that made it all possible? Whenever i came to this plane of existence it was always ther... | 2022-10-29T05:10:43 | 2022-10-29T05:00:43 | 801 | 103 |
[WP] From birth, you and your sibling have been able to communicate telepathically. This shared ability has lead to many unique scenarios, but things take a turn when your sibling passes away in a tragic accident... and the telepathic link remains unbroken. | "I'm dying."
Tesla jolted awake, the haze of his mid afternoon nap receding into the background as he searched his mind. He could feel her there, the presence within. He reached out, "What's wrong?" The connection felt weaker, more tenuous than it had been before.
"I made a mistake." There was the slightest pause, "I... | All my life, I've been able to talk to my brother through my mind. When we were young, when times were simple, it was merely stuff like "let's confuse mom by saying the exact same thing" or "give me a lift to get the chocolates in the fridge". So it was most ironic, how differently our paths diverged in life. I chose t... | 2019-02-28T23:33:06 | 2019-02-28T23:15:10 | 68 | 19 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Yes," the official sighed, "for the last time. All you have to do is press the button."
"This doesn't make any sense. How did you know it was me?"
The government official sighed — again — and deflated a bit. I could tell he'd given up any hope of this being quick.
"You know what? Fine. Let's see. We've been doing t... | 'I have done it. I have pressed the button and defeated the Dark Lord!'
The dimly lit room was illuminated just enough to show the glum faces of the three boys lounging out across whatever comfy pieces of cushioned real estate they could find.
“This film is terrible. Turn over.”
The remote clacked and the channel c... | 2020-11-09T13:08:44 | 2020-11-09T12:10:32 | 132 | 81 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | He squeezed in through the closing door and plopped down on n empty seat, panting from his run. An old woman several seats to his right sniffed disapprovingly before returning to her book. He smiled as the train jolted into motion. *Made it*.
His gaze landed on a pair of dainty shoes under a frilly hem of a dress so l... | I think...
I think I see read people.
It makes a...certain amount of sense. From a certain point of view. Reading brings characters to life, after all. You see them in your minds eye, feel their feelings, watch them struggle and learn and grow.
We all see read people, really.
Still, more than a little disconcert... | 2022-04-07T09:52:25 | 2022-04-07T07:57:29 | 79 | 49 |
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