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[WP] Nonfiction - Tell Us About Your First kiss.
Or, if you must, tell us about *a* first kiss. Either way, it has to have actually happened.
Edit: You guys are wonderful, keep 'em coming! | I was twenty-one when I gave my first kiss to the guy who would later take my virginity. We met through a mutual friend and sent each other shy glances out of the corners of our eyes for about a month before he requested to be my friend on Facebook. He and I chatted online for a few days before he invited me over to h... | I met the girl in band. It was in seventh grade, she was in eighth. She was one of my best friends and I liked her the whole time. But, I was too afraid to make a move. She went to high school, and I went to eighth. That year passed and I gained a lot of courage. We became best friends. I was a generally annoying guy. ... | 2014-04-01T06:54:39 | 2014-04-01T05:56:59 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] Every doomsday scenario and apocalypse event occur on the same day. The computers gain malevolent sentience, zombies rise from the graves, aliens come down to wage war... Humans end up sitting back and watching these things destroy one other, completely ignored | "No no *NO*!" roared Barry Squidmore, pulling the foil-wrapped burrito out of the cashier's hands and slapping it on the counter. "Look at this! *Look at it*!"
The cashier - a girl, probably no more than 16, with straight black hair and aggressively boxy bangs - gently shoved the lumbering, mumbling corpse aside.
"W... | It's been 12 hours since everything went to hell in a handbasket. Everyone has fled to their homes and the streets are empty.
Well, not quiet.
"Bloody 'ell..." An Australian voice mutters, as the man known only as 'sniper' flicks his eyes from the blue and Silver robots they were sent in to fight to the giant grey ... | 2016-10-20T07:24:48 | 2016-10-20T06:02:42 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a world where people explode into colorful powders when they die. No warning, no body left, just a poof of confetti-like substance. Urns look like sand art. You're a surgeon; a patient just died on your operating table. | The silence filled the room as I felt the bottom of my gut fall out.
I stared at my hands, now covered in manfetti, squinting as the operating lights caught the larger pieces.
This was supposed to be a simple procedure. I had done this hundreds of times before. I had gone over my strategy last night for hours in prep... | "God I hate when that happens." The surgeon tossed the scissors into the antiseptic jar.
The operating room staff were coughing up a storm, despite their surgical masks.
"Weren't his vitals stable?" someone on the team asked.
"Well, blood pressure was a little low, but nothing out of the ordinary," a nurse replied.
... | 2015-01-23T07:27:58 | 2015-01-23T07:25:45 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. |
Watchers log.
Date: Solar year 1, initial insertion.
After 350 years of travel, the probe has finally completed deceleration and insertion into earths orbit. Delay in communication is approx 23 years. Its amazing to think that if launched today, we could have achieved the journey in only 350 years. The planet has... | It had been six months since the R'kari had come to Earth and the sight of them never ceased to amaze Dr. Chatterjee. Her inner biologist was constantly studying them. They were tall, thin, and bipedal. Their planet's gravity was less than Earth which is why they met on the R'kari mother ship. Their heads had two c... | 2020-07-07T07:56:14 | 2020-07-07T07:52:02 | 204 | 94 |
[WP] As magic returns to the world, purchasable drinks actually start having magical effects. Energy colas actually imbue you with energy. Diet drinks actually cause noticeable weight loss. Vitamin drinks heal injuries and disease, and so on. | Dr. Johnson always kept his things in a safe. He had a specific corner in the hospital where it would hide, and only he knew what was inside of it. No matter who the patient was, he insisted to look inside before every operation, and some got suspicious.
The patient Dr. Johnson was helping the day before he was fired w... | My thirst was palpable. I sat under a shaded spot by the lake, hiding from the hot sun. Swiftly, I chugged the drink, no matter the consequences.
Soon, my already calloused skin got tougher, harder, more jagged. My neck stretched out by 10 feet and my body got bigger. As my arms molded into paddles, I lurched my way ... | 2016-09-10T22:16:47 | 2016-09-10T21:13:06 | 104 | 26 |
[WP] After the gate of hell is broken, demons flood the Earth, they soon come to regret this when they realize that humans, on average, are worse than they are. | "...But, right, listen! And then he just...he just, looked at me!"
"He looked at you?"
"Just...right...right at me. And he didn't stop!"
"You are here because the human looked at you? I have that correct? Did it have...burning ember eyes, or perhaps some kind of laser-vision? A medusa infliction?"
"No!"
T'roh... | The first wave pour into cities striding with wraith to find them empty and abandoned. A bright flash is the last thought that crosses millions of demon minds. The others scurry from the pluming cloud and shockwave. Soon their lungs burn like wax strips over a flame. Many drowning in their emulsified innnards. Hundreds... | 2017-03-22T11:31:14 | 2017-03-22T03:08:39 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Will Alice Smith please come to the stand?" I glanced up as the girl in front of me in line stepped forward. She was chained up six ways to Sunday. It was obvious why. A massacre like the one she single-handedly caused would definitely get you locked down tight. "On the charge of 37 counts of murder in the first degre... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T10:15:26 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 120 | 25 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | "Spoon."
"But.. but why??"
He was perplexed. And rightly so. I mean, a person choosing a small and insignificant wooden spoon over a trillion year long vacation at the heavens was indeed perplexing. But this was not the point.
Over the course of his service, which had lasted for who knows how long, he had indeed see... | 100 trillion years is an inconceivably long time to spend in blissful lamentation. Properly spent, one could probably achieve a state of consciousness which makes it unimportant which plane it exists upon. A state of being which transcends small things and base sensations of pleasure or suffering. Upon a return to hell... | 2015-06-07T22:50:03 | 2015-06-07T22:42:03 | 97 | 29 |
[WP] JFK shot first. |
“No.” Jack said. “I will ride alone.”
“Are you crazy? I’m riding with you!” Jackie shouted with indigence.
“No you aren’t. I have a feeling. A feeling that I need to go alone. A feeling that I can’t explain. A feeling like *ka*.”
*Ka? What on God’s green earth made me say “ka”? Never in my life have I heard such a ... | He had been warned. “Your name will always be remembered with Dallas, Jack!”
Normally, the President receives hundreds of threats a month. But this threat wouldn’t go away like most of the others. Most of the others never even reached his desk. This was different. This was personal. There was an internal struggle happ... | 2018-01-02T10:11:54 | 2018-01-02T09:53:29 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Dave is the first human convict to arrive in the intergalactic prison. | This is my first one so it's not the best.
*PRISONER* **#451,** *PLEASE NAVIGATE TO YOUR CELL IN* **G451** "That's your cue, David,"
Dave anxiously stumbled forward. The restraints on his wrists seemed to grow tighter and it became hard to breathe. Monstrous creatures barked from the cells around him. Some had ho... | Dave looked at his cellmate - tall, dark and with five heads - and settled into his bunkbed. It bore some similarities to prison on Earth. Grey, graffiti on the walls, cramped spaces. Except this prison occupied an entire planet. And the graffiti was rather more creative and covered a few more languages.
"So, you're... | 2016-08-23T09:25:33 | 2016-08-23T09:06:18 | 95 | 27 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation remains in shock one day after a baffling State of the Union speech delivered by President Barack Obama that many political experts say will live "in infamy."
For days, it was speculated that President Obama would touch on the recent economic upswing, the country's warmed relations with C... | "Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
We are fifteen years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and the world. ... | 2015-04-30T08:20:30 | 2015-04-30T07:43:09 | 503 | 77 |
[WP] You have long been fascinated by swords, and have mastered every kind of sword fighting technique known to man. No man can defeat you. But you have grown old, and Death has crept up to deliver his final swing, but something happened, something Death had never experienced before, he was parried. | Death was no stranger to games. A game of swordplay, however rarely crossed his mind. The hooded figure stood in a readied stance with scythe behind. He had taken many warriors before but, none had challenged him.
“Do you fear, Death?” The old man asked, a curved blade of his own poised in a confident grip.
Death di... | The sound of metal against metal rang out. Death held the scythe in place against the sword. The man before Death held his sword firm for the moment. “No man,” he panted, grip tightening with the leather of it creaking, “has ever defeated me. You shall not take me either.”
“I AM NO MAN,” Death answered and the scythe ... | 2018-10-29T20:52:53 | 2018-10-29T20:00:27 | 24 | 13 |
[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. | *Right this way, Mr. Muller*
"Right where?"
*Right here, follow my voice*
I'm not sure where I am. My last memory is getting in my car. I must have had an accident. I feel warm, safe and soft. Is this what painkillers feel like? No wonder everyone and their grandmother is addicted to them.
*Mr. Muller, you're not i... | 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... | 2018-07-04T01:42:55 | 2018-07-04T01:11:45 | 49 | 36 |
[WP] Your partner is over for valentines day. The mood is perfect: a sexy soundtrack plays in the background while you light some candles for romantic effect. Suddenly, lines of ethereal light beam from wax to wax and the ground begins to shake. You realize too late that you have formed a pentagon. | "Oh god," one of the humans cried, causing a slight stinging in his ears.
​
"Who has dared to summon the demon prince of vengeance, Azefel?"
​
The couple in the bed screamed as they scrambled to cover themselves. They were ever so lovely and this demon prince was enjoying the moment out of the... | "I am Gil'Tanevius of the Flayed Flames! To have summoned me you must have known the great price you must pay. So tell me, mortal. What do you wish to make of me?" The heavily muscled, large figure rose to its full height in the confines of the shoddy apartment. The dimmed lights flickered, the home assistant speaker i... | 2021-03-21T10:29:08 | 2021-03-21T09:29:06 | 80 | 35 |
[WP] One evening, a portal to hell opens at the foot of your bed. A demon strides through, rips off your covers, and begins to drag you through the portal by your ankles saying “You’re going to help me settle a bet.” | I screamed like a little girl.
If being dragged through a portal by an honest to god demon - horns, red skin, the whole shabang, doesn't call for screaming like a little girl, I don't know what does.
I'd been sleeping on my friend's couch in New York City. Couch is putting it a bit generously in fact, I had to bas... | Part: 1
I sat still at a stone table, in nothing but my boxers. In fear but also amusement at the scene in front of me.
The bird winged man who dragged me through the portal was Mephistopheles, apparently to settle a bet with the the demon I front of me with bat wings.
"Alright, I got this one completely average and... | 2018-03-10T09:23:05 | 2018-03-10T09:18:57 | 3,138 | 99 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Are we going to see the horses again today?" A wide smile flashed across his face as he looked up at his father.
Jeff looked down at his son, smiled and said "Yes, yes we are. We just have to make a quick stop at the bank and get some extra cash before we go."
"Do we have to?" His sons smile vanished and a look of ... | "You lack sufficient credit, sir."
"Wh-why? Am I gonna be dead in a hundred days?"
"You know we can't tell you that, sir. We cannot predict the future, after all."
"Then how do you know I don't have enough time left to trade for a measly thousand? What the hell game you bastards trying to pull?
"There is no reas... | 2014-07-10T10:17:25 | 2014-07-10T09:01:03 | 689 | 50 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | I like Sundays.
It's nice. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but it was kind of a soothing time.
For one whole day, I fall asleep. I dream senseless dreams and I never remember them when I awake.
It was just like any other Sunday. I laid out in my bed and I waited for my dreams to come and take me. It didn't t... | I love my local park - being a big kid adult I can’t help the attraction. It is like everything I need to have a great Sunday is all in one place
Who can resist monkey bars and the weird animal shaped seats on springs and that circle thing with handles that you can spin around on
I learnt a few years ago to avoid the... | 2020-01-31T07:17:02 | 2020-01-31T05:04:17 | 1,701 | 42 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | During a missing persons report for [REDACTED] Draco, a note was found within his household, placed within what is most likely his bedroom. It reads as follows...
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I never thought much of my family name until now. "Draco".
My father told me as a child, that we all descended from a dragon of old. Crimson scales to... | It took me five days to track this beautiful beast down, and there it stands, square in my sights. The last rhino was supposedly dead years ago but here stands one, beautiful though scarred on its back as if wings had formerly sprouted from there. Or was it marked? Tattooed? It’s smaller than a normal rhino, almost ... | 2019-10-09T12:38:47 | 2019-10-09T11:48:05 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | The near hollow chamber echoed with remanence of a time long forgotten. The only light entering was from the cracks as the sun fell in winters, peaking through the wall near what was once an entrance. Now covered in ivy and nearly locked by dirt and dust. In the center sat bound by chains forged from obsidian, a queen.... | The blood runes have long faded in the millenia, but She knew it was still there. Even in Her porcelain prison, She could feel the Master’s grip on her. So long as the seal on the Urn remained intact, She could not even hope to escape. There was some hope, however; the sands of time have since filled Her temple. An... | 2020-12-06T15:17:27 | 2020-12-06T14:55:25 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A wizard accidentally becomes immortal. He has the idea to become the antagonist so that a hero will come along and defeat him, so he can rest in peace. Sadly, the heroes are weak in comparison so the wizard creates a persona as a 'wise teacher' to train these heroes in order to defeat him. | In a lonely corner tower room of a lonely castle, an old man sat in a decrepit throne. A fire blazed in the fireplace before him. A wooden door behind him creaked open, and in stepped a dwarf sized goblin.
"Master Locke, the next Thomas brother has reached the infernal steps."
The old wizard nodded, illuminated by a ... | The warlock stood upon the ruins.
A dead village, gray ash softly falling on blackened bones. All still and all silent, only shadows still flowing, still gnawing at the skulls. His hands ached as fire left his blood. The joy of destruction, so high and clear just moments ago was already fading, guilt and despair raisi... | 2015-07-25T06:29:26 | 2015-07-25T05:58:40 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] "The rulebook forbids it" "Demons have a rulebook" "Yes, filled with oddly specific rules" | Adam did not expect the fiend to appear so calm. The giant sat cross-legged, its one-horned hound-head too wide for the frail body, the four hoofed legs powerful and still. It was almost meditative. Instead of bargaining and trashing to earn its freedom, it exuded a dissonant serenity, like a stoic monk facing the orde... | “Why do you of all people have a rulebook? What could be written in there? I didn’t sell my soul to you to be told no!” I did my best to look intimidating as I stood before the goat headed behemoth of a demon. Growing more frustrated with each passing moment, as they didn’t even bother to look up at me from the leather... | 2021-10-06T07:26:47 | 2021-10-06T06:43:26 | 46 | 33 |
[WP] As a small child, you walked in on Death taking your great grandmother. You unexpectedly became friends and Death began to visit you often for tea and conversation. You're now very, very old and Death has become quite evasive on subject of your ultimate demise. | "Would you like some tea?" She held out an empty cup to the man standing by the bed, which was awkwardly shoehorned into the small home's living room.
He gazed downwards at her and smiled, nodding and taking the cup. "Where's your mother?" He asked her, his voice echoing despite the room's size.
"On the phone. She'... | Me: "I thank you for protecting me old friend, but had I not wanted to know, I wouldn't have asked."
Death: "Thats the thing Otis, people think they want to know, then they find out and wish they hadn't. When you don't know, you think you can handle it. You think you can handle the end of your time."
Me: "I k... | 2016-08-01T10:04:04 | 2016-08-01T09:49:21 | 607 | 59 |
[WP] Humanity has always thought itself very smart for figuring out how to ride a giant explosion into space. Turns out there's a much easier way and the rest of the galaxy thinks we're insane. | The Federation Cruiser sat in orbit around Earth, waiting for the human emissaries to arrive. One each of the tripartite Federation counsel - a Trylixian, a Loloth, and a Hiddrell, each waited in the grand reception hall, eager to begin negotiations.
Humanity was like to be a powerful ally for the Federation and it w... | Humans had always been persistent, from the time they had been spotted on their homeworld, struggling with wars, strife and poverty. They, against all odds had prevailed time and time again. Yet there always seemed to be a more peaceful solution, an easier one.
Humanity had a talent for making things more difficult t... | 2019-01-21T06:11:50 | 2019-01-21T06:09:26 | 256 | 84 |
[WP] You have just found the cure to a virus that is killing millions worldwide, why do you keep it to yourself? | John approached his colleague, and friend, glancing around the sterile room as he did. Most of the other researchers had hit their bunks for their mandatory four hours.
“Stephen, I think I’ve got something…” he said
Looking over his shoulder again, he directed Stephen to the corner of the room, where a microscope sat... | I can't share it, it'd be too risky. There'd be pandemonium. Millions, if not billions of people rushing to get the cure. It doesn't seem fair, but it is right. It won't do anyone much good if they're trampled on in a massive stampede for it.
I was working on a chemistry project. I had the virus and it was slowly, pai... | 2014-05-30T02:32:10 | 2014-05-30T01:50:22 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] Fallen angel is a pretty popular trope in fiction. But I want to hear about Ascended Demons. Demons that were too good/ kind/ pious for the underworld and managed to break out. | I never understood the war. We were immortal. What the point of fighting? You can't kill something that is immortal. You aren't going to convince someone of your opinion with a flaming sword. I don't even know what my opinion was anyway. Duty? I think it was duty. Or maybe just momentum. I was in a rut. Running on auto... | Another day in Hell.
Glaring, fluorescent lights. Loud, ringing phones. Equally loud co-workers.
I gulp as I knock on the door, reading back over the plaque:
SATAN BEELZEBUB LUCIFER, M.B.A.
GENERAL MANAGER
HELL AND AFFILIATES, INC.
"Come in," booms the loud voice in the background.
There he is, enormous ram... | 2019-11-08T10:51:37 | 2019-11-08T09:26:14 | 26 | 18 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | It was maybe 2 meters tall and wore the dead skin of an animal wrapped around the connection between it's legs and torso. It's skin was a very dark and rich shade of brown. My best geust was ot was to withstand the arid heat of this continent. It stared at me in cautious curiosity with it's large white ocular organs. T... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T08:45:18 | 138 | 51 |
[WP] Two hitmen, who have been hired to kill each other, are stuck in an elevator that has broken down, without knowing who the other is the two begin to suspect the other is their target through conversation.
EDIT; ok, so it's come to my attention through Piconeeks that 'revealing' through conversation can be damagin... | I pause in front of the building and pull out my phone again to check the message one last time to see if I'd missed anything.
>Target: Eric Vance
>Payout: $100k
>Priority: High
>Risk: High
The email closed with an ominous warning: "Use caution."
I tucked the phone back into my jacket, did a quick a... | I had to give this woman credit where it was due; she looked *fantastic.*
I always feel strange, being the best dressed man in any given room, like my attire screams for attention. This was Wall Street, though, and the information I'm looking for can only be found here.
So, while I'm wearing a suit, her attire is u... | 2014-12-02T10:13:54 | 2014-12-02T09:19:17 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | Stav paced up and down the ranks of spies. "They will do their very best to spoil your rotten. They will give you the best food, the most luxurious of massages. They will pamper you and do your toenails. And what do you give them?"
"Nothing." The reply was immediate and absolute. They were in the final phase of their ... | I changed it a bit so that it was just one country who use kindness instead of torture.
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I stared out at the group in front of me, they all stared back unflinchingly. It was good, they were the finest of Ekklesia, and they feared nothing. But I wasn’t here to test their fear.
“You’re all he... | 2016-04-13T06:21:45 | 2016-04-13T05:00:03 | 1,406 | 587 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | The message on the screen read "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." as my radio told me. "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." Lucky for me, I fell asleep watching the television the night before which gave me time to cover the windows on both sides and the front before I accidently took in the beautiful morn... | Sam- my dad is like any other normal dad. Except for this one thing. I have seen my dad polish his Gatling gun every now and then. Almost religiously, with a lot of care. I just assumed it was his thing you know. Some alone time...just like how he likes working out in the basement. I assumed his time in the Special OPS... | 2017-01-27T04:05:35 | 2017-01-27T03:08:22 | 53 | 14 |
[WP] One day, you wake up with the ability to see the role that belongs to everyone above their heads. “Background character” over your mom’s, “Love Interest” over your classmate’s. You’ve always been afraid to see your own, until one day, you inadvertently catch sight of it. “Antagonist”, it says. | The update to the aux software came in last night. People had been acting odd around the office all morning, discovering they’d got some plot-line superimposed over their heads, like we were in an even more boring yet frantic version of Zuck’s Metaverse. Just with wind chill and full bladders in meetings. A grand ol’ d... | It was about 2 months ago, when i gained this... Power, of mine. It's weird. I can't explain it. I just woke up. A normal day like usual, when i saw a title above mom's head. It said "Background character". But it looked weird. It looked two-dimensional, i looked around, and the text always pointed at me. I knew this w... | 2022-03-11T23:50:39 | 2022-03-11T23:06:25 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] You are part of a spacefaring species with a lifespan of only a few weeks. You have a human being on your ship who has been with you for dozens of generations. You worry that he may not survive until you reach your next spaceport. | **Cycle 1**
We have brought aboard our first live Who-man. I greeted the Who-man by politely asking his name.
“Who-man?”
To which he replied:
“Yes.”
Who-man Yes! What a wonderful name! Surely we are to have a wonderful time with our new Who-man friend!
**Cycle 2**
Who-man Yes seems to have fallen ill. I inquired ... | I never had a home like Mr.Smith did.
I was born into darkness, staring in the abyss of space as my mothers eyes closed for the last time. I still had a dad, one that looked after me for as long as he could, and while Mr.Smith may have known what a home was like, he never had a family to look after him.
My dad would t... | 2019-11-20T15:42:27 | 2019-11-20T14:25:52 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] You are a freshman in a school where everyone has a unique ability/power, but the school is divided into students who have "good" powers and "evil" powers. You are a powerful necromancer who wishes to do good in the world, but everyone is dead set on you being a "bad guy". | "Thomas," Richard Feynman said, "this treatment is just appalling." The skeleton beside me, overlayed with the features of the long dead physicist in ethereal goo, was carrying my book on elementary physics.
I removed the note on my locker, 'evil beware' it said. "They just don't understand alright?" Necromancy wasn't... | The Grey Tower and the Garden Tower cast faint shadows of equal length over the lichyard. An overcast day, and Omar wore a hooded sweatshirt over jeans. His trainers were already covered in mud: it had rained the night before and the thick, black soil was still damp. In his pockets he carried a stub of chalk and a blea... | 2016-08-28T07:25:57 | 2016-08-28T06:29:02 | 384 | 132 |
[WP] You are a Death-Salesman. You sell death to immortals who are tired of living. Usually, this entails finding that one blessed bullet, or that one specific flower that is this immortal's weakness. However, your most recent client is an extremely difficult case. | "So I'm going to what now?" I ask.
I stare at my client. An old man, who was sitting down on the chair facing against me.
"You heard me. I want you to kill me." The old man said.
Now this was a tricky situation for me. This old man was said to have **NO** weaknesses at all. An immortal in every sense. No magic spell... | ‘So let me get this straight. You want me to find a way to kill you...? You, of all people?’ I say, almost dumbfounded.
My client droned on over the phone, but I was already zoning out and thinking about how to kill the unkillable. Zorifa was a lifelong friend of mine (and considering I myself was immortal, that was ... | 2019-09-24T17:56:42 | 2019-09-24T14:51:34 | 1,290 | 139 |
[WP] Ever since turning 17 you've been hearing a voice saying "Get out of my head". After having had enough, you get an MRI scan revealing what the doctors think is a tumor and they want to remove it. Then you realize, that's you. You're a parasite. | "*Get out of my head,*" the voice repeated, this time more adamantly.
"So, of course, we'll want to schedule the surgery as soon as possible," Dr. Mando said, taking notes while looking at my MRI results.
"Or, maybe we don't have to do it at all?" I shrugged nonchalantly.
Dr. Mando eyed me warily.
"You see the siz... | *Oh right, I've read about myself,* I thought as the revelation dawned. I remember recoiling at the sight of the aftermath of my kind, especially the so called 'zombie ants.' The way their eyes looked so helpless as they succumb to their fate as living shells made me feel ill, as though a great injustice had taken plac... | 2020-05-14T20:42:00 | 2020-05-14T20:30:26 | 257 | 150 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | "Welcome to the afterlife."
Martin looked around, from the overcast and grey clouds to the flat and slightly beige ground. He couldn't see anyone except the elderly lady who had greeted him. She seemed bored.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Since you ended out here, with us non-believers, you're in the atheist afterlife."
... | You know believing in a god is not a hard thing to do, with enough faith any science can be simply explained as the will of the gods. Looking back at it, I only really refused to believe out of pride, in my mind I could not see that a being could exist that was greater than the sum of mankind. I had from a young age se... | 2017-11-21T07:28:42 | 2017-11-21T06:58:29 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear Eyllisa,
I think you know what this letter is going to say, but I'm going to write it anyway. I love you more than I have ever loved any person. You have been through so much and I can't understand how you still manage to pound through life. It's a beautiful thing to see. The past three years have been a privileg... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T13:52:52 | 59 | 40 |
[WP] A massive wall of light, a few feet thick and a few hundred feet high, stretches from the north to south pole. This wall slowly circumnavigates the globe in 1 year. No one knows where it came from and no one knows who created it. All people know is that if you touch the light, you disappear. | Twelve year old Nellie McDonovan lay on the rooftop of her barn, hands behind her head and sneakered foot leaning against a weather vane. Beside her, fourteen year old Thomas Boyd.
"Should we really be up here, Nellie?"
"Shut up, Thomas. Enjoy the view. If you squint real hard, you can see stars."
Thomas squinted,... | We were known as The Runners.
That is, while there was anybody left to call us that.
Nobody knew how the light tsunami began. Some thought there was a malfunction with the LHC, or that God had finally cracked and this was his new idea of a flood. Some people refused to believe in it, standing before it's shimmering... | 2015-04-28T20:51:06 | 2015-04-28T20:46:28 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | In the same place where the Gods are born, they also die. I sat with him while he sobbed, reaching and holding the nape of my neck like it was the last thing holding him up. I guess I was.
"Taylor, the John's Son, please...Make them believe I'm real," he said.
I said nothing.
"My brother is still alive inside of me... | "Over the hills and far away"
The creature caught in your trap seemed afraid at first, but your gentle touch calmed it and sensing no danger began to trill while it idly chewed on the local vegetation, you complete your sampling of its fluids and carefully release it back into its environment, the red star behind you... | 2020-10-25T10:56:55 | 2020-10-25T10:38:56 | 121 | 54 |
[WP] You are a murderer that works as a lawyer and you are tasked with defending a person charged with your crime. | “I didn’t do it.” The woman before him wrung her hands, entire face crumpled with exhaustion. “I swear.”
“It’s really alright, Doctor Brooks,” Mr. Rockland assured, leg bouncing at his side. He brought his gaze, steady and assuring, so unlike the twitching, hyperactive limb under the table, up to match her own and lif... | Matt slides the file over to me. “What’s this?”
“Your new case. She’s the suspect of a murder.”
“Can’t you give the case to Jones? I’m still working on defending that burglar.”
“You can combine the two. There isn’t much to defend in her case, the word guilty is written on her forehead. Homeless, junkie. Scum of the ... | 2021-09-01T11:40:33 | 2021-09-01T09:16:04 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | The look on Natasha's face when I walked into our college algebra 101 class that morning made the whole ordeal of digging myself out of that shallow grave and walking home without any blood worth it. (Have you ever tried to walk without blood? It's super tiring.)
Her expression was a perfect mix of shock, confusion, p... | I couldn't believe it when my crush, Sarah, asked me out on a date after school. I had been crushing on her for ages and never thought she would feel the same way about me. I was so excited that I couldn't concentrate on anything else the entire day.
After school, we met up at a local park and spent the afternoo... | 2022-12-29T18:54:00 | 2022-12-29T15:08:56 | 196 | 67 |
[WP] It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening, it already killed half of the strike team. Please send help | The Captain was startled at the sound of the door sliding open. She hadn’t expected news of the strike team so soon. Was the mission completed already? There might be promotions to assign.
But the messenger did not bring good news. “Captain, the team is requesting help. They’re reporting losses of nearly 60%.”
“What?... | SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AMERICA
“We need backup NOW!”
“It should be on its way.”
“Not on its way, NOW!”
“Guess we’ll just have to survive till then.” Mavin chuckled, but immediately stopped when he saw the creature approaching them.
“Wait now it has THREE legs? I thought it had two?!”
“Idk dude, this morning it had fo... | 2018-08-15T17:33:48 | 2018-08-15T15:02:11 | 111 | 44 |
[WP] A former communications officer sits on his back deck enjoying a beer, the sight of the fireflies, and the sound of the frogs. Until he realizes the fireflies are blinking in unison, in Morse code.
It just occurs to me that the frogs croaking in Morse code in unison as well could add to this. | James sat on his back porch, smoking a cigar as he watched the London skyline in the distance from his small home in the countryside. He had remembered that day with impressive clarity, when the bombs falling were as plentiful as raindrops in the British dry season. That is to say, he was impressed how the germans coul... | I sat there blankly for a minute, the condensation from the cold beer cooling my suddenly clammy hands.
It’s fucking Morse code.
I will be honest- I was panicking. What else can a guy like me do when animals start speaking to you in Morse code? I ain’t no Disney princess.
I took a deep breathe and tried to calm d... | 2018-06-04T01:34:47 | 2018-06-04T01:34:13 | 152 | 21 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | "What? No! Get out of here! Every time you show up my brilliant plan is somehow ruined! Don't even say anything!" I rant in exhaustion and frustration as (shocker) Frost Claw casually strolls into my lair for the- I don't even know at this point how many times he's done it. He just freezes the door, smashes it then wal... | Superhuman pairs have advantages. The general norm is to find a mate who is your opposite. In a dangerous line of work which involves risking your life constantly, this ensures that the person who can kill you won't.
"My love for you is true". This is Mike "Mantle" Menzenta. He's a superhero. Not any superhero either... | 2017-05-30T14:42:52 | 2017-05-30T14:03:23 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Harbinger slowly drifted towards the busy world on the edge of the galaxy. Previous scans showed a promising level of biomass and activity, perfect for an initial pool of pawns for the coming salvation. The rest of the fleet was not far behind and needed to move quickly due to the apparent size of this cycle. Harbinger... | "Ah, yes, 'Reapers'," Guilliman sarcastically said, showing the quotation signs with his fingers while saying the last word. "The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed this claim."
Sly Marbo couldn't believe it. He thought things changed. He thought at least Guilliman, ... | 2017-08-27T08:45:06 | 2017-08-27T08:05:25 | 2,784 | 152 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | I've always been a bit of a smart ass. I thought for sure I'd go to hell when I died. Stole some change from that ASPCA donation cup, gave a mall Santa an out of circulation indian coin pretending it was a quarter, and I made a lot of people around me feel like idiots. With so many people telling me to go to Hell I jus... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T08:31:27 | 960 | 10 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "But I don't see how that's possible! I never *killed* anyone! I never stole, I never even hurt an animal, I lived a simple, boring life. I don't claim to be perfect, but how could I be that evil?"
The man leaned back in his chair. "It doesn't really work that way. People like to imagine that there are big actions tha... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T07:56:17 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 101 | 10 |
[WP] Voyager 2 is found orbiting the Earth. It is exactly the same except with one new addition: a single image of our galaxy taken from outside it. | It was a very normal day across the world. Observatories and space agencies continued to scan the skies. Some were looking for signs of extraterrestrial life whilst others were simply staring into the abyss of space, wondering what else was out there. It was 18:46 EST when the calls began to pour into NASA. Space agenc... | "You found what?"
“An the image of our galaxy, sir, taken from the outside."
“And you're sure that it's the Milky Way?"
“That's what the analysts are telling me."
"How did Voyager two even make it back? It was over one hundred astronomical units out!"
“We . . . we don’t know, sir.”
“Get me a copy of that photo. I... | 2015-03-20T09:01:15 | 2015-03-20T08:50:53 | 39 | 28 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| DO NOT SEND RESCUE
I rubbed my chin as I read the words up on the screen, and then raised my hand. The Captain standing at the front of the room acknowledged me. "Yes Martin?"
I gestured towards the screen. "If the final transmission from Horizon was essentially 'don't come,' explain to me why we're going there?"
... | As he hit the key to send the message back to mission control back on Earth, he wondered what would be the death of him: himself, or the inhabitants of the Red Planet... He pulled on the slide of the handgun he had smuggled in his personal cargo, seeing that glimmer from the brass casing in the chamber. He had at least... | 2019-01-31T05:07:56 | 2019-01-31T05:03:05 | 776 | 180 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | If only we knew then what we know now. The humans claimed historical sovereignty, as is the right of all new applicants into the Galactic Conglomerate. This is usually to hide a soft past in an effort to appear strong. Usually a war-like species is proud of their military capabilities. They flaunt them in a show of str... | It was the first all-out battle we were to ever have against humans. It was also the first battle I'd ever been assigned to.
We weren't too worried. Humans were new to the Galactic Community. They'd finally gotten some of themselves a significant distance away from their little rock, and we welcomed them with open ar... | 2019-11-24T14:11:42 | 2019-11-24T11:57:32 | 426 | 129 |
[WP] The more you talk to something, the more intelligent it gets. Some dogs and cats get a semblance of sapience, though baby talk is less effective. You, on the other hand, have been discussing scientific theory with your houseplant.
I'm assuming people don't know this happens, but whatever you come up with. | It started pretty simply. My mother used to sing to her flowers, claiming it helped the grow. She would practice her solos in front of the windows, letting the air carry her harmonies to the garden.
I liked to sing, but that had never been my gift. Really, I just liked to talk. I could talk the paint off a wall. I li... | "So, to know a flower you first have to cut it into pieces to understand each part?" Said my Ficus in horror after I explained to her how the scientific method worked. "That's just horrible!"
"I know Fi, but it is the only way to discover new things and understand them"
"But, why not ask them how they work, I mean, I... | 2016-11-29T20:07:07 | 2016-11-29T17:13:28 | 182 | 49 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | The newly minted King Agralin stared at me, eyes red from Kastian ale. Half a goblet of that fine vintage stained the front of his doublet. I grimaced at the dreadful waste, my nose wrinkled at the scent; it had been a while, but my senses were slowly returning.
‘What are you doing here? I kicked you lot of wastrels ... | My thoughts raced, matching the speed of my footsteps as they pounded down the corridor. Was it my perspective that made the hall so dark and dingy? Was it the sense of impending doom, or had the usurper beheaded the housekeepers in his takeover?
Thirty years, I have served this kingdom. I suppose now it's "had," past... | 2021-02-28T04:13:58 | 2021-02-28T03:15:28 | 1,113 | 173 |
[WP] Your father used to be a supervillain who faked his death in order to be with his family, but hid that from you in order to keep you safe. Unfortunately you look almost exactly like him, and this is in fact how you came to find out about his past in the first place | The hero finally caught with his long presumed-dead rival. Atleast, so he thought.
"I grow tired of these games, Zaal! Do you really thing you can pretend NOT to be who you are? We have fought countless battles! A rivalry that would shadow that of even Zeus and Hades. Stop this charade and rise once again as my nemesi... | "Oh my dear!" I thought to myself as I ran past a row of dumpsters, looking for one that I might be able to jump into.
This was happening for the second time this week, and for the twelfth this month. Must be a new record for me. I continued running. Maybe I could jump some fence or something? Right now I needed to es... | 2020-07-16T11:15:01 | 2020-07-16T10:58:17 | 83 | 40 |
[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. | "Just pick another fucking age!" Death said, snarling as he looked at Bobby.
"No, I get to pick, and I pick my 16th birthday."
Death screamed and punched the little shit in his head, and Bobby disappeared. All death had to do was touch his forehead, but he was way to angry for that. He waited for a few minutes, and a... | "Call it" Death said, the coin twirling between his bony fingers.
"Do we really need to keep going through this charade?" I asked.
How long had it been now? 500 lives? The first time I went through, I expected reincarnation, but life... or I guess Death, was not so kind. I got to relive life from the point I cho... | 2016-09-23T10:49:59 | 2016-09-23T08:47:36 | 232 | 15 |
[WP]As the last of your species, pushed to the top of a frozen mountain by creatures that massacred your towns and villages, you have only survived by luck. Now, as you harden your heart and abandon all goodness, you commit vile acts to avenge your people. The monsters below name you---- The Grinch | I'm a foul one, I'm the Grinch. My heart's an empty hole. But was I always like this? Does the Grinch not have a soul? I'll share my tale, of pain and sorrow. To color my acts to come tomorrow.
All the Whos in Whoville were happy and healthy. The fact of it was, they were really quite wealthy. But where did they find... | You’re a sad one, Mr Grinch,
You really are alone.
You’re as sad as a tear, you’re as cold as a stone, Mr. Grinch.
You’re the last one with much to atone.
You’re a survivor, Mr Grinch.
Your heart’s an empty hole.
Your brain is full of anger, you’ve got hate in your soul, Mr Grinch.
From the monsters you’... | 2018-12-21T09:47:16 | 2018-12-21T09:23:31 | 199 | 26 |
[WP] There’s an old saying that in every group of friends, there’s a dumb one. But you don’t believe it. I mean, you’ve been hanging out with these guys for months now, and they’re all really, really smart. | “I guess it’s true what they say. In every group of friends there’s a dumb one.” The girl paid for her drink, flashed me a wink, and went back to her friends.
I stared at the ceiling for a moment trying to figure out what she meant before making my way back to the booth where Sam and Danny sat.
“You strike out?” Sa... | Honors College courses are not for the weak. So many essays and assignments while the deadlines run up on you like they're participating in the Olympics. It's easy to lose your social connections and isolate yourself in your room doing all that you can to keep up your GPA. The only time you really get to make friends i... | 2021-11-14T09:35:29 | 2021-11-14T08:51:42 | 313 | 46 |
[WP] You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?
Edit: Hi, guys! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited or... | I could never lie. It got me into serious trouble growing up, I just used to nod and admit. I learned to be good to a degree but more importantly, I learned as a 10 year old boy that I could see others lying.
It was difficult as a child. You can’t really call bullshit on an adult, but as I got older, I became an inve... | "I'm curious, why bring up a case against someone who's no longer living?"
"For justice, your honor."
'*True. No, it can't be... It's not possible that he would do something like this.*'
Someone at the rear courtroom shouted. "Liar!" The outburst was met with harmonious cheers and applause.
'*Keep these people un... | 2018-05-15T22:42:10 | 2018-05-15T21:38:10 | 97 | 48 |
[WP] There is a creature out there offering gifts in exchange for the recipient's first-born child. You are one of the children who were taken. | Mother traded me for 50 gold ducats. That’s what we say here, anyways, Traded. It sounds better than sold or bargained. Aru says Haggled, but all her old parents got was the lettuce she’s named after, so that’s fair enough really.
I was never scared. Some of the kids are, if Nana loses track of things or ... | "Madame Selene, I don't understand." Looking out through the bars of my cage, I saw my captor pause in her cackling as she danced around the large cauldron.
"*You don't understand, child? It is perfectly simple. Your parents...*"
"...my parents made a deal with you to save my mother from the plague in exchange for ... | 2022-01-29T11:47:46 | 2022-01-29T10:11:14 | 170 | 62 |
[WP] Humans are considered the most dangerous beings in the galaxy due to one thing: Their lack of magic. | "What do you mean it's not working?"
Captain Tellyk was agitated. She was trying to control it, but the tips of her cilia crest were twitching ever so slightly.
Technician Keth smoothed his own crest back in polite deference, spreading both four-fingered hands in a confused expression. "We don't know, sir. Chief... | *Discovery Vessel Calcite*, Head Alchemist's Diary, Time Segment 608. (New Lillian Calendar, Adjusted for Galactic Standard Time Dilation)
*Approximately 20% of the way into this time segment, our ship encountered a spacecraft belonging to a less advanced species in a routine flyby of the far reaches of the Empire. Co... | 2017-09-07T21:59:36 | 2017-09-07T19:11:31 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | I come home and sit down with a sigh. I can't believe I did it again. I let my heart run away and let an ex take advantage of me again. How many times am I going to fall for her lies? How many times will I just do what she wants when she bats her eye lashes at me?
Pouring myself a drink I sit in the dimly lit room. Ho... | NOTE: Sorry about any mistakes. I am working on being a better writer. But I have never been good at punctuation
Any advice welcome.
PART 1
As I lay reading the newest issue of my favorite comic, I began to feel that familiar warmth. The retinal display showed +1,500 EXP. Odd I hadn't killed anything today.
As I p... | 2017-05-15T08:02:42 | 2017-05-15T04:49:15 | 753 | 12 |
[WP] American submarines are never considered lost. The ones missing from WWII are “still on patrol” with their hundreds of sailors. Little do we know the horrors these men defend us from in the deeps. | I was born on this submarine.
As were my parents before me.
But before them, my grandparents- who often told stories of the faraway place above the waters- were born of America.
A fantasy land, from what I’ve heard, that I can barely imagine.
Where the air extended for miles and miles, and an empty ocean hangs a... | I hardly remember anything nowadays. I know my name, I know my rank, I remember Adalia. That’s about it. When I roll out of the bunk in the mornings, I see that my features still tell me I’m 24. Two months from 25, actually. My mind doesn’t feel that young anymore.
The sub is doing the best she can be. Somedays I won... | 2020-08-21T14:26:35 | 2020-08-21T14:05:55 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Earth has been neutral in all intergalactic conflicts for 30 millennia. Not because they never fought, but because no race had survived to remember. People just don't even bother reminding the invading aliens anymore. | "I remembered them when they were young.", said Ko'za the Cabri ambassador to the galactic council.
"The humans, they don't live near as long as we do. I remember when I was first assigned to their watch." "The council decreed that we would not interfere with the war brought to their planet, by the invaders. Their na... | The pale, hunched creature stepped gingerly out of the landing craft. The crunch of dry leaves underfoot sounded gunship-loud in the frosty morning air.
It scanned left, right, up, and down with the heat-sensitive equipment built into its bulbous helmet. Trace signatures - nothing over a kilogram or so.
Still, bett... | 2021-12-01T13:31:47 | 2021-12-01T10:28:48 | 270 | 126 |
[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. | It's hardly a surprise. Although the smell, oh the smell. Quite a smell. Like death running in my veins. I quite like the scent. The blood sticks between my fingertips. All cushy.
It's sad, really. I've always tried to do what's right. Sure, the homeless could have continued to trawl through my fields but then I woul... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:09:44 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 77 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity was placed on earth due to its natural tendency to nullify Magic. Once out of the atmosphere, abilities immediately begin to resurface. Upon learning that humanity is looking to colonize Mars, galactic society begins to worry - humans were the most powerful sorcerers in history. | "Why are they so dangerous?" Malthin asked, piercing the worried silence that had filled the room on his grandfather's announcement.
His grandfather turned to glance sharply at him. The children never knew anything about what really mattered these days, and yet still somehow had the audacity to question senators like... | "Commander Hithro, the humans are planning on colonizing Mars, and the Galactic Society is planning to sabotage their efforts, sir!" Poeiz burst into the commander's room, papers in hand.
The commander dropped the yellow rubber duck they had picked up from Earth a decade ago. Hithro's three eyes blinked, and their win... | 2017-11-29T20:41:29 | 2017-11-29T19:27:58 | 70 | 29 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. | Rubber tires screeching on the pavement, Bloody Mary screaming in futile pursuit. One of my favorite sounds.
I have been doing this once a year for almost a decade. I like to vary it, do it in different places, get that maximum shock value. I've made people puke and shit themselves in terror. Never gets old.
Bloody M... | I pulled to a stop at the red sign, keeping my eyes on the rear-view mirror. This bitch was supernaturally fast. I had left her in my dust and here she was already rounding the curve, her eyes burning with anger.
"COWARD!" she shrieked, and I laughed, but nervously - like laughing past a graveyard.
I tossed a quick g... | 2018-10-01T12:08:53 | 2018-10-01T11:05:06 | 275 | 125 |
[WP] You've had enough, you only did it to fit in, but after 20 years, you decide to quietly retire from the super hero life, and not let your super powered collegues know that you lied about having super powers in the first place. | They know. I suspect they've always known.
But of course our purpose was, *is*, will continue to be, for those who continue the path, to do good wherever good can be done. If good can be done through the advent and proper application of a new technology, or in my case, a host of new technologies, why exclude that? Jus... | I've been living a lie for the past 20 years. When I first joined the ranks of superheroes, I didn't have any powers of my own. I was just a normal person, but I wanted so badly to be a part of the action, to make a difference in the world. So, I lied. I told everyone that I had been granted amazing powers by a mysteri... | 2022-12-06T20:14:51 | 2022-12-06T19:04:31 | 98 | 20 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | The man on the ledge reeked of old booze and stale vomit, enough for me to smell him from ten paces away. Not your typical drunk however, judging by the suit; a week or so ago, it had been a respectable business number, probably complete with a crisp shirt and a smart tie. I could see that the shirt lost a number of bu... | The hardest thing to talk someone into is bettering themselves. People don’t actually want to improve, it’s too much effort. That’s why everyone is stuck day out and day in with the same routines, jobs, and prospects.
People are lazy, that’s the problem. Convincing someone to jump across a cliff is oftentimes easier t... | 2017-06-21T12:23:26 | 2017-06-21T09:41:25 | 1,906 | 921 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | Dana slammed her tray on the table. Not so much out of anger, but from a complete lack of caring. It'd been hard to find the energy to do much -- including being gentle with her lunch -- ever since she arrived here.
It took her half a day to realize what had happened, how she'd been captured and why she'd been dumped ... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:25:34 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]You're suddenly transported to a world so cliche, that you find out within a few minutes you can pretty much predict the future. | "How many times did he shoot?" Jack instantly dismissed that thought. Who cares? Three guys was showering him with bullets for five minutes. Everyone managed to miss even at nearly point black distance. He'll just grab the gun and finish the last two guys across the room.
"Whom do I shoot first?" One of them is hiding... | Something was clearly up.
"Mac, put that stick down. You'll kill the gardenias!"
He turned his head wide-eyed, still chewing his sunflower seeds and splashing sludge as he dropped the branch.
Mrs. Guffins arms were akimbo, "You know a pair of doves built a nest in there, right?"
He stopped himself from rolling his... | 2015-08-15T07:47:31 | 2015-08-15T02:41:22 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to go into “autopilot mode.” In this state, you simply think of a task you want to accomplish, & your body does its best to fulfill it. You’re unconscious until the task is completed. One day you wake up & find that your world domination command was a success. | When I was a child it was very useful.
I’d have all my chores done faster than any of my siblings. Never distracted, never pouting. My mother was baffled. Pleasantly so, but baffled nonetheless, at a 6 year old doing their chores with the vigor and composure of a well paid house maid.
But it was simple, natural to m... | I awoke from the deep darkness that always accompanied "autopilot" my to find myself seated at the head of a polished marble table, overlooking a bank of video screens with no idea of how I had gotten there.
*\*Alright Ben, backtrack backtrack. What is the last thing you remember? Star Trek, Pizza Hut, furiously typ... | 2019-03-11T22:25:05 | 2019-03-11T22:15:01 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | Buses. I see it every day. Picturing it in my head. Why did I wish that? Why was I so vague? Why did it have to come true?!
I'm sitting here, paranoid, in my twelfth floor apartment as far away from the window as I can. My leg wrapped in plaster from the last time and the wound on my shoulder still seeping from where ... | John's eyelids flutter and he slowly comes to. At first the man is groggy and doesn't take notice of his surrounding - the white walls, the smell of medicine and the beeping of a heart rate monitor. But after a few seconds pass, he realizes where and why he is.
*Fuck* he mutters to himself quiet as not to wake up his ... | 2015-03-07T03:10:59 | 2015-03-07T01:52:00 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You're abducted by aliens & soon realize it's more of an adoption than an abduction. You're now a pet for a loving alien family. They can't understand you but they seem to understand your body language & have basic knowledge of what humans need to live and entertain themselves when they're busy | The three aliens smiled and hugged and tossed me an inflatable pool toy.
“Thanks, I guess,” I said. “It’s a flamingo.”
“Gorp, Bulargheraw!” the smallest alien said.
That’s Gorp. From what I gather, He (she?) is the equivalent of a moody, alien teenage girl. He’s got four tentacles the size of elephant trunks and a... | "This specimen comes from a G2V class star. It's an aerobic hominid. Their average life span is about... 1.1 HLGDs. This one's in pretty good shape."
"Only 1.1 HLGDs? Damn... How smart is it?"
"Ugh, we're gonna have to get a home gym for it aren't we?""Well, their species is borderline eusocial. They can't do much on... | 2019-05-09T16:13:20 | 2019-05-09T16:11:50 | 1,916 | 543 |
[WP] You are a twenty something. You wake up to find yourself in your 8 year old body. You are in the time and at the place you were when you were 8, but with all the memories and mannerisms of your twenty something self. | I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.
Last night, after getting off the phone with my wife, I felt a little bit out of sorts. Being a time zone apart for a month will do that to you.
The last thing I remember before turning in was setting my alarm early to take the car in for service. Fucking winter tires.
... | I was 8 again. OMG this was the chance I'd been waiting for. To relive my life over.
To correct all the mistakes I'd made, and to be a better human being. I'd walk across mountains, I'd work selflessly for charities. I'd attend AA meetings and help people to......FUCK IT! I'll just try to remember what the lotto n... | 2016-12-17T05:21:47 | 2016-12-17T02:41:17 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | The man returns home, beaten, bruised, but in good spirits. For individuals with his skill set, any day when one can return home is a good one. A great one in fact. I watch from beneath the gap in the floorboards as he takes his hat off and sheds his thick coat. The man is an exorcist. But if you ask him, he will tell ... | The Priest sighed with relief as he forced his keys out of his pocket on returning home. He took a second to shake off the jitters, and screams of the days work. He found it was better not to take his particular line of work home with him.
A dark shroud turned to greet him. Nothing like family.
“Again?”
“Are you sur... | 2020-10-20T13:52:17 | 2020-10-20T12:59:59 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A rogue wizard started to use her powers to teach muggles the wonders of science, space and history and its up to the ministry of magic to stop her and her magic school bus. | A light mist hung in the air as Dumbledore made his way down the main street of the small English village. He seemed perfectly relaxed, his buckled boots clicking on the damp cobblestones as he entered a small pub. A faded wooden sign above the door read "Octopus and Dog." The barman gave Dumbledore a small nod as he w... | "Salmon bukkake, Frizzle! Do you know how inappropriate that is?!" Shalzor shouted at the cloud of puffy hair before him. He had been searching for this woman for a long time and finally had her at the end of his wand.
"Oh, ho ho!" The woman heartily chuckled "now class, today we're going to learn about the mating hab... | 2016-02-28T07:51:27 | 2016-02-28T07:15:57 | 883 | 35 |
[WP] An armada of alien warships descends upon our planet, only to find a desolate wasteland void of life. A lone android surfaces from an underground bunker with a message for the would-be invaders: his masters are slumbering in the Silicon Dream. Do not disturb, or your annihilation will be swift. | *I call this one* **"Plan A."**
Screaming across the void they came, in vast ships made of material no human could comprehend.
Both sides had dreamed of this day for millennia:
For the Aliens, it was time to build a new home. After searching the endless universe, they had finally found it: an identical twin to the ... | The Overmatron's low growl shifted for the first time in 600,000 Earth years, not that she had any concept of time. Her young felt fear for their first time as they chattered anxiously during their thunderous orbital drops; tens of billions of creatures swarming, turning this seemingly deserted rock into a green, carap... | 2020-06-20T07:11:42 | 2020-06-20T04:04:28 | 354 | 65 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. When you die you get a choice of 3 random animals and/or people. Your options are so horrible you become the first to try to refuse reincarnation. | “Nope.”
“Did you just… did you just *nope* to reincarnation?”
“Yup.”
Death stared at me, incredulous, from across the desk. To be honest, he wasn't what I had expected. Sure, he was dressed in a black shirt, a black tie and, I had to assume, black pants and his jet-black hair, flecked with grey, was smoothed back... | "You're kidding right?"
I stood before my three choices, each image illuminating the darkness with a bright light.
"I'm not doing this." I said out loud, in front of him. The two of us stood in complete darkness. Some might call it limbo, the place between heaven and hell, but to the laymen, it was known as "that s... | 2016-11-22T07:28:56 | 2016-11-22T02:08:40 | 118 | 59 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | John slowly drank his cup of coffee, knowing too well he was too much of an asset to Mr. Petersburg. He did practically nothing all day in this darn car dealership, but he got payed well. John looked up from his corner office and saw the prime target, a rich-looking woman looking at the Ferraris. He got up and continue... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T13:58:16 | 1,962 | 252 |
[WP] an immortal man who cannot be physically injured is a passenger on a jet that's going to crash.
What's he thinking? What's he do? | Jesse dug her fingernails into the armrests. Only after a few seconds did she realize that on one side she was accidentally digging into the fingers of the man in the window seat. She quickly moved her hand, and yelped out a 'Sorry'.
The man turned to her and smiled, a calm gentle smile, a smile that did not fit w... | The world has changed much in the last 100 years. Life's become much easier, and harder, at the same time.
I always enjoyed flying, like i did in World War 2 over the pacific, good times they were. All those kids, my superiors, my wingman, all dead and gone, thinking i was gone too after a 37 millimeter cut my wing cl... | 2013-11-23T11:13:33 | 2013-11-23T10:18:16 | 3,584 | 75 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Mortals are not permitted to foresee their own death.
That was the only truth I'd gleaned from my years of these warnings popping up everywhere. It doesn't work with mirrors or anything - nothing appears when I don't look at a person directly. I can't look up to see my own - nothing's there. It's haunted me. Every tim... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T09:44:20 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] Pyromancer's Last Rule: When there's nothing left to burn, you must set fire to yourself. You survey the battlefield with a grim look, and prepare for the final battle. | *"You're really going to do it, aren't you?"*
We two stood alone on the charred battlefield, naught but death and ash surrounding us in all directions. I did not turn to look at my companion, preferring to memorize the scene around me. It would be only fitting for my last great work to be the last thing I see.
"It's ... | Decimated was an appropriate description for what laid before him. The destruction and chaos that he brought to these plains was greater than he imagined. The fun and excitement he received while burning the men, women, and children, the feeling he had when he made them watch as he reduced everything they knew and love... | 2016-05-12T11:53:15 | 2016-05-12T10:17:14 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] People gain superpowers the day after meeting their soulmate. When a hot young celebrity does so the day after a meet-and-greet, they're desperate to find every person who they even just shook hands with that day. | Beverly McCallister lived life. Parties, cameos in two dozen television shows, a mansion that could have crammed most of the other ninety-nine percent inside--even a fledgling career as a musician, fueled primarily by name recognition as her talent was sorely lacking.
Beverly McCallister had it all. Anything she want... | “God, this stupid fly!” I wasn’t sure how it got in the house, or why it felt the need to be in this room with me when there were quite a few others to choose from, but I was sick of it. I set down my book and got up, prepared to deal with it. After a few seconds of buzzing around the room and me chasing after it like ... | 2020-07-29T07:43:47 | 2020-07-29T06:02:00 | 1,296 | 416 |
[WP] Upon birth, babies are screened and given a random ability based on what their parents had. Your dad had telepathy and your mom could sing any song perfectly, even mimicking the voice. You were given the seemingly useless ability of playing songs into someone else's head. | I sulked at my grandfathers deathbed. He was a master at playing any instrument, a genius in the musical arts. It all started when he lost the ability to hear, then came his sight. Being the amazing man that he is, he would play feeling the vibrations. Even without his senses, he played just as he did on my 9th birthda... | Useless, they said. Useless, they called it. Until you proved otherwise. You proved them _wrong_. Other people had flashier abilities, ones that allowed them to have a life of grandeur and success. They are the ones that go fight the big battles; the ones plastered across every screen. But not you. No, you were given t... | 2021-04-08T10:50:43 | 2021-04-08T10:36:35 | 159 | 27 |
[WP] You are a medieval villager who has been cursed by a witch. She curses you to be live until you are the last human alive. After a 1000 years you try to start the apocalypse. | *Five*
The button in my sweaty hands seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
*Four*
It is 5:29 AM, July 16th, 1945.
*Three*
As the seconds felt like hours, my mind raced back to the laboratory. An old man with white, eccentric looking hair spoke to me.
"Do you really think this is such a good idea?"
Hah, he q... | "Ay niqqa u cursed 2 be the last dude"
"Welp, sh!t"
*1000 years later*
"Damn this be old I wanna die"
*plotting apocalypse*
*200 years later everybody dead*
"Tf everybody dead why am I not ded 2"
*other dude walks by*
"Ay tf i plotted an apocolypse y u not ded bruh"
"Tf u mean i plotted an apocalypse y YOU no... | 2018-09-01T00:16:09 | 2018-08-31T23:50:10 | 243 | 41 |
[WP] At 18 years of age, everyone gets a weapon based on their personality and strengths. All your friends got traditional weapons, but you? Oh, you got something interesting that no one knows how to wield.
Courtesy of [WordPress](https://promptuarium.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/an-interesting-weapon/) | "What the fuck is this?" I held the weapon out to the receptionist at the desk.
"Sir, our process is very thorough. I can assure you there has never been someone who hasn't been correctly matched with a weapon before." Even as she said it, her face showed her uncertainty.
"I can assure you that *this*," I waved the w... | I had hope for a glaive, or flamberge, or maybe an actual weapon, but nope I can't even hope for regular strange I have to get advanced strange. I guess it should be except, after all my whole life has been a bit abnormal. Don't feel bad, I not upset about it, it is simply the truth. Scratch that my whole existence is ... | 2017-12-29T15:03:19 | 2017-12-29T13:49:32 | 219 | 63 |
[WP] There's a machine that shows you all the times in your life you narrowly avoided death. You use it and, to your horror, almost every time it shows is you hanging out with your best friend. | It was that time of year again, the County Fair. A time when all sorts of wacky and crazy people I don't think twice about come together and showcase some weird thing they did. Biggest pig, County's best pie contest, pie eating contest to prove you're the biggest pig. Elementary school dioramas of why our boring place ... | “No, that can’t be right.”
Charlotte stared at the screen. Displayed clearly was the time she and Jimmy were sitting on her bed reading her sister’s diary. They used to do that a lot when they were in high school. If it were a question of Theodora finding them and killing them, she would believe that, but no…
She hit... | 2017-07-02T14:34:38 | 2017-07-02T12:17:54 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | I sat in the smaller office as the rest of command looked at the solar scans. I couldn't see outwards but I just knew that everyone else was just as worried as I was. 5 Generals were praying that this will work.
An entire navy had been flown in and was now encompassing the orbits of Mars to Pluto. It was a damn *mista... | "Private!"
"Yessir! I am ready to call the number!"
Area 51 started disintegrating around them, as the monster from below started tearing apart space itself in an effort to escape the prison, the corridors of the underground complex appearing to bend as time itself tore apart.
"This is only like a level 3 right now... | 2017-03-21T03:32:04 | 2017-03-21T00:59:36 | 64 | 31 |
[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" | June 23rd 2044
The heat of the summer solstice had caused some of my plants to grow thirsty; some of their
leaves having wilted under the intensity of the light through the day. It had been a bright blue sky
without a single cloud to offer its respite to my delicate friends. I dipped my watering can into a
rain barre... | I couldn't believe it when I heard an actual person's actual voice. And not just some stupid recording but an actual voice talking back to me. Actually responding to the words I just said? At first I was skeptical, I thought it might be one of those annoying voicemail messages where they pretend like they actually pick... | 2022-12-21T12:38:09 | 2022-12-21T12:11:16 | 580 | 55 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | # Option Four
The human council has been away for discussion for a disturbingly long time. Humans were not known for thinking things over. They quickly gained a reputation for what their culture called a "shoot first ask questions later" policy. No one could blame them, if any race's First Encounter was a Pholentor c... | Humans loved to write stories about how they were the strongest race. It seemed natural, really, for humans to be this way. For so much of their lives, all they had known was their tiny blue planet in the middle of the “Dead Sector.” It surprised most of the Intergalactic Federation, really, when g’therlak - a head sci... | 2019-12-19T03:08:41 | 2019-12-19T00:24:30 | 2,434 | 1,197 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | "Oh, it's you again." His cold words managed to chill the freezing winter room.
I jumped. He always managed to sneak in at moments I least expected. I loved him for it.
He wasn't much of a talker, so I usually started the conversations. "So, how are things at work?" I asked.
He sighed. "Why must you always ask the s... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T22:19:49 | 110 | 10 |
[WP] The city gets new street lamps, but these lamps are "smart". If a crime (like a robbery) or car crash happens under, or in the vicinity of one, the light will turn red as an indicator to the police. One night, every street lamp in the city turns red. | Everything was silent in the presidents control room. The board of national security held it's breath, watching the live updates on the monitors lining the room.
"Johnson, status report!" the general stormed into the room, still half in his night garments.
"Everything's returning positive! Every lamp in every city!... | Captain George Thompson was running frantically between the several different monitors.
"Officer Valdez, status report!"
"Sir, all lamps on First St have turned positive!"
George wiped a drop of sweat from his eyebrow. All the lamps in San Juan were turning red, and the police station was being overloaded with autom... | 2015-02-01T17:49:48 | 2015-02-01T14:33:38 | 60 | 27 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
Clark had the cellphone held out at arm's length as though he thought it might explode at any moment. Gathered in a circle around him we all began to breathe again, and after a moment the circle broke into s... | "Oh *shit*"
In stillness, I am. The memories of those I cared about matter no more. In the shadows, I am safe. Outside the street lights, I'll live.
The fires glow with a calling; its colors yearn for a soul to ignite. Its a malevolent beckoning many answer. Burn bright; burn a light on this night.. alight our homes,... | 2020-09-12T10:34:09 | 2020-09-12T10:13:16 | 197 | 18 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn’t quite as scandalous as it seemed, which isn’t to say it wasn’t scandalous at all, just not anything jail worthy. As a college professor you might get fired if you were dating a student but a little less likely if they weren’t in your class.
Of course she was though, that bubbly charismatic sorority girl that... | "Two," the voice echoes through my head as awareness finds me, consciousness gurgling slowly up out of sleep with the reluctance of the dead. Takes me a moment to process. A familiar voice. "Two." Shit.
Damp and sticky with sweat I fumble in the dark for my phone beside the pillow, fishing it several disoriented momen... | 2022-12-30T04:01:06 | 2022-12-30T02:28:39 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | "This world is full of Xenos, Inquisitor, the only option can be a complete extermination of this filth.
"Well...hold on now," Inquisitor McConnell said nervously, a bead of sweat trailing down his nose. "They...look sort of human. They must be abhumans."
The adjutant shook his head. "No sir, the data I've received f... | "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!"
The alien took a deep breath.
"We are cute to them."
"What?"
"Yeah, I'm also pretty sure we have a standing army ready to welcome Kizuna AI as their new overlord. My youtube channel is growing, commander."... | 2017-12-19T07:42:03 | 2017-12-19T07:32:24 | 176 | 28 |
[WP] 100 years in the future dank memes are precious artifacts. While scanning your grandpa's PC, you stumble upon the rarest of all... | Memes.
Back in the old days, before the blackout, everyone had 'em. In every PC, in every browser, you'd find Pepes, Advice animals, Rage comics, Montage Parody's and all the inbetween, all the shades of the double-rainbow.
And then, you know, they became a bit harder to find.
It became obvious our society could si... | My grand parents didn't really have a great understand of technology in their old age, like most people's. So when he asked me to have a look at his computer because it was a big sluggish I told him it wasn't a problem.
I did notice when I was checking or any bloat ware I noticed that he had a folder dedicated to meme... | 2015-12-12T10:08:18 | 2015-12-12T10:01:54 | 1,958 | 21 |
[WP] "Death is a gentle thing if you welcome it, like a soft breeze or a bashful kiss." - "Then what's the scythe for?" - "The people who resist." | “Mom, Dad, will I see them again?” David asks as he watches the iconic Blue Winged F-22 rain death upon the Airborne Fortress “Genesis”. Behind him is none other the Grimm Reaper, with his scythe in his hands.
“Possibly,” Reaper responds with no emotion. His empty red eyes looks around to the other Grimm Reapers, tak... | I often find myself thinking about death. What is death, where do we go after death? Who is death? Death is a gentle thing if you welcome it. Like a soft breeze, or a bashful kiss. Why wait for death to start living?
"Momma how do you know Death"
"Deaths waiting for me, my child, I've come to face Death. To fight deat... | 2018-10-25T09:36:17 | 2018-10-25T08:59:20 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] After being possessed, you jokingly tell the demon that if it really wants to stay it’ll have to pay rent. The next morning you wake up to find a pile of cash on your nightstand. | Waking up in a bathtub full of cash usually means one of two things: 1. That drunk-you is an amazing gambler or 2. that you should check that all your organs are still intact.
Some people would argue that the devil had his hand in both of these scenarios, but until last night, I would have thought that they were full... | 'Lily, you don't have to pay me, it was just a joke. I was joking,' I told her, looking straight into her eyes. Her 12 flaming red eyes residing atop her head, and behind her head, and to the sides of her head, and also under her abdomen. I think some of them were looking at me. And some of them were looking at the flo... | 2020-04-25T20:33:41 | 2020-04-25T19:40:09 | 56 | 21 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | *tick*
I wonder if Tom’s gonna swing by tonight? I heard him and Isaac got into a bit of nasty brawl today. Took out a whole building in the scuffle.
*tick*
God Mark’s such a fucking pig, look at him; stuffing his face full of fries like it’s his last meal. Aaaand yep, there goes the burger.
Christ it never c... | "I am under arrest?", the little twit had the nerve to say it out loud and in front of everyone. This was a bummer of a day already and now this. "Under what authority? This is a neutral location. Technically you are breaking the local ordinance by impersonation of an authorized agent of the law here. I am within my ri... | 2020-10-09T18:30:36 | 2020-10-09T16:55:02 | 4,330 | 1,443 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | Why *did* Thor keep all this useless junk. Low-Key observed the collection with curiosity, occasionally picking something up to inspect. Trophies of all his wonderful endeavours, no doubt. Thor had always been one for showing off, for displays of power, wealth, and overcomplicated execution in the name of grandeur. Ri... | "Fuck! Again?!" I screamed as I dropped yet another object. This has been happening for weeks now, every drink spilled, every small crack tripped on, every item I pick up magically slipping from my grasp. I don't get it! One day I'm fine, the next I just can't even. I think I'm going crazy, maybe I'm cursed... Maybe I'... | 2018-01-27T23:20:19 | 2018-01-27T22:18:18 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a superpower. You can either let your ability develop naturally, or you can "force" it to develop whenever you want. If you force it, there's a chance that your power will be mundane and useless. You're on your deathbed and are the only person who never developed a power. | "Sir, are you sure about this? You still have two months to live; if we perform the procedure now, there is no way to tell what may happen."
My doctor was a good man. Despite my condition, he had cared for me, through thick and thin. Even when the government had tried to get me whisked away to some research facility i... | As I lay here, I can't help but think about what my powers could have been if I'd just forced at 20... For some reason, the first thing I imagine is having the ability to see infra-red... Getting annoyed by the TV remote whenever someone presses a button... Kind of an odd though for your deathbed...
Maybe things wou... | 2016-10-14T16:31:00 | 2016-10-14T16:28:33 | 43 | 13 |
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